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DETROIT, FEB. 2, 1689.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

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END UR ANOE’.

 

How much the heart may bear,and cannotjbreakl
How much the ﬂesh may suffer and not die!
I question much if any pain or ache
Of soul or body brings our end more nigh .
Death chooses his own time; till that is worn.
All evils may be borne.
We shrink and shudder at the surgeon‘s knife,
Each nerve recoiiing from the cruel steel
Whose edge seems searching for the quivering
life:
Yr; to our sense the bitter pangs reveal
That still. although the trembling ﬂesh be tom,
:3 gill This, also, can be borne.
We see a sorrow riding in our way,
, And try to ﬂee from the approaching 111,
We seek some small escape—we weep and pray,
But when the blow fails, then our hearts are
still-
Not that the pain is of its sharpness shorn.
But that it can be borne.
We wind our life about another life,
We hold it closer, dearer than our own;
Anon it faints and falls in deadly strife,
Leaving us stunned. and strisken and alone.
But ah: We do not die with those we mourn;
This, also, can be borne.
Behold, we live through all things, famine,
thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe an i sorrow; life inﬂicts its worst
On soul and body, but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, a;d faint, and
worn;
Lo: All things can be borne.

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DEI‘ROIT HOUSE OF CORRECTION.

I paid my ﬁrst visit to a penal institution

through the Detroit House of Correction.
To silence invidious insinuations and would-
be witticisms at the outset, I will say that
I did not “ go up ” in the “ Black Maria,”
and that no one made any objections to
my departure when I was ready to leave. I
was quite interested in what I saw and
heard, and as a “newspaper woman” is
always on the alert for whatever will make
readable “cepy,” thought perhaps others
might be entertained by learning something
about this workhouse, as it is often locally
called.

In the ﬁrst place, the House of Correc-
tion is a private institution in that it. belongs
to and is managed for the city of Detroit,
which has about $530,000 invested in the
buildings and “ plant.”

It is the only self~sustaining penal in-
stitution in the State; and chair~making is
the business in which all the convicts are
engaged during their enforced stay. The
great vans piled high with chairs of various
patterns, which the visitor in the city may

‘ residence across the street from the front

the railroad depots or docks, all come from
this manufactory.

The labor of the convicts is not contracted;
the proﬁts of their work accrue to the in-
stitution, and prices are kept up to the
rates at which other manufacturing es-
tablishments sell the same grade of goods.
All the city criminals are here cared for
without expense to the State. Prisoners
from other parts of the State and from
other States are often sent here, especially
women; and their expenses paid by the
locality sending; there are also many of-
fenders who have committed crimes against
the government, such as counterfeiting,
sent here also, the United States paying
for their keeping.

The institution is located in the'eastern
part of the city, which has grown up to and
surrounded it. Its blank, windowless,
whitewashed wells render it noticeable,
and the sentries who night and day patrol
them advertise its character. The Superin—
tendent lives in a large and handsome

of the buildings, and Detroit congratulates
herself that “Captain Joe” Nicholson is
the right man in the right place.

The visitor, entering the grounds, passes
into a large ball, and sees in thevista before
him a strong iron barred gate at the further
end. The parlor, at the time of our visit,
was occupied by a committee from the
Legislature, appointed to look into the
workings and methods of the institution.
Less distinguished guests were ushered into
a comfortable reception room, amply fur-
nished with local proiuct in the way of
House of. Correction chairs, where. we
waited until a party of ten had collected,
paid the small fee reqiired. which goes to
purchase books for the prisoners’ library,
when we were escorted through the parts
accessible to visitors. We went first to the
dining-room, where the smell of dinner
still lingered, and great piles of soup plates
and cups were being put in order for the
next meal. The room is ﬁlled with rows of
“tables,” as close as they can be placed;
each “table” is a hardwood plank about
14 inches wide and long enough to accom~
modate six persons, and the chairs are
hinged so that the seats fold up against the
backs and permit easy entrance into the

against the table of the next row behind.
wooden saltcellars.

seen the etiquette of prison discipline.

 

see almost any morning on route to some of

rows; the backs of. each row of chairs are

The only furniture of the tables was the
lemma have liked to
have been present at meal time, to have

From this room we went to the kitchen,

you think pandemonium had brokenj loose.

It was only three convicts running a " hash

machine,” but they were doing it at the

rate of. about sixty revolutions to the

minute. The chief cook, in a big apron and

imposing paper cap, watched the process

with all the dignity attaching to his superior

position. At last they paused long enough

to allow us to “ hear ourselves think,” and

I took note of the great soup and vegetable

kettles, the coffee boiler, which I should

think would hold nearly two-thirds of a

barrel of coffee, and the ranges on which

other cooking is done. In the same tea;

is the bakery, where a table perhaps six

feet square, or larger, was covered with

loaves of bread, which looked very fresh

and appetizing; and where the boss baker

stood by his glowing oven superintending

the baking of another batch. The prison

diet may not be particularly varied, but

it is clean and wholesome, and probably

not a few of those who pil‘i‘dkd of it never

had their meals served with such prompt-
ness and regularity when they were at
liberty. The workmen here were all
prisoners.

Then we made a- tour of the corridors in
which the men’s cells are located. These
impressed me forcibly with the idea that
the convict’s lot is not a happy one. They
seemed like closets. The spice allotted
each is seven feet in length by four or four

and shall: feet in width, aui solid brick

wall; are on all sides except in front, where
the iron door forms a still more impressive
reminder of the restraint imposed. The
beds seemed so narrow that the sleeper
whose uneasy conscience made his dreams
full of unrest would be in great danger of
finding himself on the ﬂoor, which is partly
covered by a strip of rag carpet. There is
room only for this out and a chair; several
of the cells had tiny stands, many more
had two or three hanging shelves in the
corner, containing a few little personal be—
longings. The cells are arranged in two
tiers, access to the upper being by a nar-
row iron balcony, and the cell doors are all
closed and locked at one movement of a
lever at one end of the row.

Next to the workroom, where 180 pris-
oners were weaving the bottoms of cane-
seated chairs. All were clean shaven;
some were young men, some old, perhaps
all seemed younger because of the absence
of beard or moustache. Absolute silence
prevailed; it seemed strange to see so many
men together in such perfect stillness,
knowing as I do what an inexhaustible
fund of conversation—of some sort or other

 

whence proceeded a clatter which made

—every individual of the sex possesses.

  


 

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TI—IE HOUSEHOLD.

  

 

The room is in charge of two inspectors,
who keep constant watch on the prisoners,
pacing back and forth on elevated plat:
forms.

A few of those nearest the door at which
we entered surveyed us with furtive
glances, most paid no attention whatever.
All were working rapidly; they have a
stint for each day, and are paid for what-
ever they do over and above their task.
Some of them make a virtue of necessity
and by their la‘ior provide themselves with
a small sum against their release. Then to
the varnishing room, where chairs were
being painted and varnished. One of the
men who was danbing red paint on a rccker
with great liberdtly, looked as it he might
know how to paint a town the same lurid
hue; he had the hardest face I think I ever
saw, in its brutal ferocity of expression
and repzilsiveness of feature; it was the
face of one who “feared not Hid nor re-
garded man.” * The face of another, who
had lost part of one amp but managed the
brush with consideratige dexterity, worked
into asarxlonic grin as he leered at us. he
had seemingly lost all sense of shame and
self respect.

Then to the women’s ward: through the
laundry. where washing and ironing were
goingzin, some sewing and simiiar work
being performed. The faces oi‘ the Women
here were not good to look upon. Not one
of them looked at us, nor did they seem to
care for our presence. Somehow I could
not help wishing to know the life history
of one woman who sat; sewing. lie-r
abundant gray hair attracted my attention
at ﬁrst, and her face bore the traces of in-
telligence and reﬁnement above her present
position. How many, many tragedies of
life might be told by those whom sins have
led them down until the welfare of the
world demands their retirement from it,
into a prison!

The cells (ccupied by the women are
similar in all respects to those of the men,
except that nearly or quite every one had
made some poor little attempt at decoration
Ore had a cheap fan tacked against the
wall, pictures and cards adorned others;
in one I Saw a prettily bound breviary, in
another a large doll was fastened over the
head of the cot; several had small mirrors
or bits of looking glass on the walls, show-
ing woman’s vanity is not crushed out by
even a prison life. The taciturn guide said
there were between 85 and 90 women in the
institution at present, but we saw only
those in the laundry and workroom. Like.
the men, they work at chair-making.

Life in a prisop must develop the quality
of watchfulness to an abnormal extent. I
could not help but notice the eyes of our
guide; their expression was that of one
constantly on the alert, nothing seemed to
escape his observation, yet he saw without
seeming to see. I wonder if those eyes can
ever close in restful, forgetful sleep! Some-
how it does not seem quite possible. Being
of an inquiring turn of mind I asked:
“Suppose a few of the men in that large
room should overpower those two who are
on guard over them, and the rest join in an
attempt to escape, what are the chances of
success? “None whatever,” was the an-
swer. “The only egress is through a door

into the yard surrounded on all sides by
walls,.and commanded by guards who with
their Winchester repeating riﬂes could shoot
down every person who attempted to scale
them. Should any gain the hall, the iron
gate would bar their way as eifectually.”
The answer was conclusive.

While we were waiting in the reception
room, two women whocame in were. after a
brief interval, conducted to another part of
the building. We “sized them up” as
mother and daughter who had come to see
some relative under durance. And in our
tour we saw the interview in progress. In
a small room divided oil by glass partitions,
sat the two women, who were well dressed
and looked respectable, and a young man,
the son. probably, of the older woman, and
between them sat a blue-coated prison of-
iiciai. it is his duty to be present at all
such riccasions. and he sits between the,
prisoner and his visitor to prevent the
passage of any aricle or communication
from the visitor to the visited, without.
proper investigation and inSpection. And
while we stood a moment in the hall, but-
toning wraps and adjusting veils, the two
women passed out, their painful visit over,
their faces sad and tear-stained.

There were many questions 1 should have
asked but for the. taciturnity of our escort,
who replied to every inquiry politely but in
the fewest possible words, and the tran-
quilfzing inﬂuence of the prevailing silence,
in which the sentient being: about me
seemed almost like automate, moving with-
out volition or direction. 1 think that when
we had made the grand tour I would have
been glad to hear that hash machine again.

I have made up my mind to be a good
cit'zen and not get “sent up.” It’s too
quiet up there, the work is too monotonous,
and 1 never did like mush. And yet, do
you know, it seems as if the houseless,
homeless, moneyless tramp, too low down
to get work, often cold and always hungry,
might think the House of Correction, and
its warmth and food, the best place earth
holds for him. BEATRIX.

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OUR ECONOMIES.

Our experiences seem to differ somewhat;
some seem to be able to economize in one
way, others in another. I too sometimes
laugh at the experiences of others, and this
time Huldah Perkins has stirred me up.

I have‘kept house only a few years, but
my ﬁrst year I tried many of the recipes in
the HOUSEHOLD, and my experiments we re
in most cases pronounced successes; but
when repeated many times, these econo-
mies soon became an old story. And when
I have to use an extra allowance of butter
and eggs to use up a little stale bread or
bite of fried pork, then have onlya small
portion eaten, and the rest go to the pigs
and chickens, or our one dog feast on the
fruits of my exertion, I become disheartened
and concluded it is better economy to save
the eggs and butter, for they are cash.

I ﬁnd too that my John and the others
whom I serve like best meat. potatoes,
vegetables, steamed corn bread, ‘wheat
bread, fried cakes and pics, with fruit to
help along. Such food gives us better sat-

 

isfaction than “ﬁxed-up” dishes; and an

occasional new departure does not rufﬂe
the even tenor of our way, but frequent
ones do not please.

Then the dress-making! I will console
Bruneﬁfle by telling her there are women
who could not make a dress ﬁt with a new
lining. new goods and aperfect pattern;
they are not “bnilt that way.” i advise
them to patronize the dressmaker, and
hope they m 9.) always get a perfect tit, but
I have known dressmakers to fail. indeed,
Ihave as good iiztingadress of my own
work as any I ever hired made; and l have
used old linings for calico and gingham
dresses, with good success.

I suppose we all have our pet ccti-l‘unniesl
andl try 11.? spread mine out until it costs
two cents :0 save one; then I mean to stop.
But I feel Bike crying out in defense of not
two dogs, on: one good dog, that tells when
stock are on: {it place, helps put them back
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the leavi: - of; .he’ table that th»: pigs would

otherwise- gvi. i wonder if ﬂuid-"5n. ever

saw a goo-1i. (3:01;! the“. dogs don’: go my! .
Vie’ron. litﬁ’ﬁl'l’h.

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ANOTHER FASHION

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AN a»..“.TD.

 

if you have at: old ingrain carpet. which
is post- puzting down again, the best use
you can make of it is to convert 2‘. into a
rug. Wish it. rip it apart. cut ino length-
wise strips. ioilcwing the chain as a guide,
sew the rags together and have their: woven
like carpet. You will need three. hoards of
the rags 'éo intake 3. yard of carpet. The
chain should he “laid” in the loom in; the
wearer, not 5 close as for rag Chiller, and
three-q tartere of a yard is wide e;_:::*~.‘..;:i tor
a rug.

To make a. hardsomer one, cut the strips
in the same way, an inch or a little more in
width, and revel both edges, leaving just
enough threads in the centre of each strip to
hold it while being woven. This makes a
very nice looking rug, but requires more
rags and considerably more work.

DETROIT. L. C.
K'W

THE LATEST STYLE IN Piss.

“ Ring out the old! Ring in the new
And when you m:ke an apple pie.
Bring out your chopper too.

Chop the apples ﬁne, stir in sugar, spice,
and perhapsalittle boiled cider, until it
tastes good. Then you can have half a
dozen pies ready for the oven in less time
than it takes to arrange the center of two
in the old style; and they will seldom try
your temper by running over. The ﬁlling
for pieplant and cherry pie may be chopped
in the same way, adding ﬂ iur for these.

If the lady who covers her sad irons with
a boiler cover, will take the bottom out of
an old pan, and use the rim instead. she
will ﬁnd it. an improvement; as the cold air
will be kept from the base of the irons,
while the handles receive no extra heat.

TEOIAS. A. H. J.
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A READER of the HOUSEHOLD, referring
to the directions for preparing oyster stutt-
ing for turkeys in “ The Christmas Din-
ner,” issue of December 15th, 1333, wants
to know how to remove the liver. What is
known to cooks as the liver of an oyster is
the “ blue bunch ” observable in the centre,
which contains the simple digestive appara-

 

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

    

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ONE WEEK’S BILL OF FARE FOR
A. FARMER’S FAMILY.

[Paper read by Mrs A. J. Sutton, oi Sen ma. .1
the Farm-313‘ Institute 111 Adllan, .lmi'..1lzy "

secretary, and thought upon the magm to ie

of the subject, I thought I could not ~39 .y2

anything that would be at all interesting,
much less instructive, and 1 think so 31211.
Again. i ll;.-,-,;
with any o:h«1'—
one, but as i don‘ t
in such wr-rir 2.9.5
can.

In the ﬁrst place i want you to 111115.19:-
stand that ltlilnk the farmers are 111-:
peers ot‘ iliis country; and if any ma:- :_-:22.:'

like to see any shirkin;

live on 1119.12.1- or the land, it is 11123. 1111-1191:. ; '
. til :1-

1 have ii roll 11: the city and on 1he
and the farm is my choice.

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out frienos, he can Eive
books, but 2:51:11. 9.1210; n no ' 3111-
out cooks.“ .1'1. 1

 

live ﬁi'ﬁug’f‘
house 1-w-

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lit I could do vastly 01:21:; _
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this, 1 will do the hes-f. l ‘2 _ ..
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of silver every day. It is more work to care
for it when put away for dust and steam to
tarnish than to clean it when used eyery
day. There will be silverware when you are

:_ laid to rest, an! the memory of “ Mother’s
While 1 considered the request or you r 1

table” will be precious to our children.

i." .‘ e keep our table highly set for our
family, there will be no greet flutter and
distur‘ :unce if a. friend siioul -'rl app on to 13111
1911! time, but rather it. sho ul 1 be to
911:9. to seat them as: the
.1 the sum) as we do our iiznliy.
’i‘ne gates: and the fa'nll zoo will toe-1 .mp9

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L was very c‘irsiislly
nospitnbly entertained

house. clo ssl 1."..9. 11"-.1-r wzn
1.1:): iill‘li the Lizniiy were done our i113.

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2.22113; raw. material in .11.;- [1.9.51 i

duty to' .
possible 1'29 n.51) ords'r to 032111;: :ixs9‘
best r19.:-.11 « =23 is just a ti111et:1‘;22.r- T

 
   

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a. prom-11:31.;
in the 1111+:
tables .111;- '41-:
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healthy.
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solaninc in g1-..1:.'.,o1\s.
poisonous. '1? dog
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condition. Undies-7&9

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of wholes-15.9.- {-15
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"this esculent 1.1.51
before maturi’y.
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start a second : it is no better. on

2 12121-11 wish the family.

gg-aoxr el‘ough for

g puny:
2 zizne as possible with a gues

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long exposed to light after being dug. as 9

worse than no potato at all. And
the case with many vegetables and 111
they are neglected after ripening until a
are untit- for food. And the wife may :1.-
ever so good a cook, ever so skillful in 21-12:

  

L :?"“'i" - ',; '1' v i", , 'y
'-:'-l'1;~il;'ooking or MINE!“ . 4.....- 1. 1Lry great mistike 11

‘ grc Li

J,“ ‘ or every day life,
E sorry for my hostess and wished i had
' stayed at home.

2 prefaced long enough to come to the bill 01'

  

=. nay 1» t5 treated to my dinner. 11112.92: .111
3.1.19. 11111311 :roubie it would have say ii i" is
21191.1 site to have let me 5111- doe-'1'. :11.
i would
thought that what was
her family, was good
torn guest. ligre is where we
mining a
szir and going to extremes ferrom-
onr aim should be to have 11-1 good a
Ii, at the least
sauce to our general rule o-‘f daily
g i think all wiii led the better for
l have been highest many times when 1

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.l1e had but

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and then 11;”; :11 zoo :z'o: 11d and 1‘11" owm 2:2;- 2 ‘ a ‘ l 1 ab " J) hh

c.:12,1:‘.9.nr worry and fret n.- to have any-
1'11919. sonice, so beyond t-1e general tenor
that 1 h 11': tel: really

 

lot you will think 1 have

: tare. and this you can any to suit yourself.

culinary art. but she cannot make a substan- '

tial meal 1mm 1.15 inferior food.

And in the 1 ex: place, we would 2111's .1.
good cook stove and good wood. loo:
wood has Lie-cu the-bone at many contentions
in farm households.

And now let us see hit our table
trim order, neatly and tastefully arrang-
the cloth well
necessity a w his one. out a good red table-
cloth is in 111:; ostinntlon just the thing luv

u

is in i . .
' shezn that which they can relish.
. 3 :‘9' i would furnish m ' ' ' 1

ironed and folded, n0 5 of' 111 uch r1pe fruit, but 11
- Wll‘llﬁl‘ we must depend on canned fruit; l

a farmer’s table; will; either towels or extra. ;
pieces ot the red cloth to put under the;

plates of those who 9 113 their sleeves. these
to be replaced with clean ones as often as
soiled. 01', what is better, furnish each
laborer with a clean
while eating. 111v: every dish scrupulously
clean; and the cuator and silver free from
spot or dust. Some may say 1 am going to
extremes, bu:- remember I did not say
that silverware was indispensable or even
necessary. I believe i: to be the duty 01’ all
to live within their means; but it" you have
silverware, for the love you hear your family,
don’t keep it just to use for company and
on state occasions, but treat your family as
if they were the best company you ever ex-
pected to have, and give them a liberal dose

linen coat to slip 0:1,
1 1.1101 Will to All.’

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lineups you will some of you think my
evening meal too elaborate; it certainly
would be: for myself, as I never drink tea,
unduever take meat or potatoes for sup.
per, but we have men help on the farm that

‘ demand this substantial food aft-er a hard

I

11.1;"5 work, consequently we must furnish
in solu-

lnve made this bill of fare for this season
of, the year.

si'xonv.
loci/Ajax; 9199-11-11 gems; butter: maple
s;.:11;-;l'01l_1' 111iL-d mikes, and " Smiles ofA1'-

fcr'iion.”

{Jinnah—Pork and beans or cold rib, baked
on 51.;llriluygplL-kle chow chow: bread; butler:
pie. temperance mince 01' pumpkin; peat'heS;
'- lerJ: tea. Gurnlshthis mealw'lth' Fame and

[£95215].ng .ileul— Bread and milk or mush and
milk, \Vith ' Love to )elghbors.’
n0\DAr.

!h~.aAjast-—Potatoes, fried; pork fried crisp;
fried n:11sh;syrup; bread; butter: v'otlee;
Sy stern and Order.

[)imzcr —Potatoes, baked; onions, boiled, W th
L- ream; sausage; mince pie, seasoned with Hai-
mony, GoodCheerand Encouragement; pickled
cucumbers: apple butter; bread, butter; celery
:11 111mg Heal—Potatoes: mashed; pickled pigs’
feel; onions, raw; raspberries; Cake; 0 lery;
lLu.

TUESDAY.

[’1 ml fast—Cakes made of dry bread' butter;
maple syrup; coffee; crackers; cookie.

11.1le been '

Dinner—Potatoes mashed and seasoned withJ

 

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Good
and
peaches:
butter;

11 spoonf'il each of Perseverence and
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PANSY GLULT RE.

Grace 1. reouests advice 11:11. sing-uroge-
intent in 1'1gard tog rowing panels-.9. Birst
of all, get good seed; u paper oi the mixed
varieties will borounilthe most ~ :.':: sfactory,

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as you secuiea lovely and va'i-9 assort-
ment for .1 slnalloutiay. As 9.21 ’~eedling
plants, poppies ex 'ep ed,‘ 1 1 ink, irre' better

for transplanting as soon as real leaves are
formed, the seed may be sown in the house
in early span—j in shallow boxes or pans,
keeping the surt‘uc e of the soil moderately
warm and .1.ois1 with damp pap-'1": until the
plants appear; then transplant int) good
rich mellow soil out doors if not too early,
so the ground is too sodden and cold for
seedling plane: but if so put into other
boxes, having not more than :ix or eight;
inches of soil, and not more than an inch of
rim above to prevent the fresh air from
reaching the plants, or they will damp cit
and never become healthy and stocky.
There is agreat ditl‘erence in Lizgrees of
success with pansies, and man; another
ﬂowering pl: 21:, made by a thoughtful care
of them in their tender babyhoml. When
they have attained strength and good roots,
plant into good rich beds; for pansies " feed
well” and seem to appropriate all they get
of fertility and moisture and make returns
accordingly. The very best situation for
a bed is where they can get a morning
sun-bath until about eight o’clock, then a.
shadow gently steals between until the last
half of the afternoon. I have had just such
a bed and such huge pansies, but the sub-
stance of the shadow passed from sight in a
lurid glow painful to witness, last Novem-
ber. But I can still have ﬂowers to comfort

me, and I think them the most tender and
faithful messengers of hope, and an every
day and hourly relief from weariness and

care. Mus. M. A. FULLER.
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THE HOUSEHOLD.

    

 

 

 

THE GOLDEN-ROD.

 

The subject of adopting a national ﬂower
is now being agitated, and the National As-
sociation of Florists is to adopt a set of
resolutions thereupon and submit them to
Congress. But, before doing so, they wish
a generad expression from the people, so
they may know what ﬂower to select.

It is ﬁtting we should have such a
ﬂower to represent the national sentiment.
Other countries have a chosen emblem,
usually one selected from its having sus-
tained some part in a historical scene, or
because of its supposed connection with
the legendary lore of the country.

The royal arms of England support the
union rose, shamrock and thistle engrat‘ted
upon one stem. The rose indicates the
union of the red rose of Lancaster with
the white rose of York. The shamrock
owes its place there, not from the glamour
of a historical past, but to the legend of
St. Patrick’s using it as an apt illustration
of the existence of the Holy Trinity—the
trefoil leaf being all one. The thistle is
dear to Scotland because upon the occasion
of the Danes invading the country, as they
were noiselessly approaching the Scottish
camp, 3 Dane stepping with his bare
feet upon a spiny thistle was so startled
that he exclaimed, and thus alarmed the
whole camp. They were saved, so the
story runs, by this very incident. But peo—
ple tell us that Scotland is no longer the
home of the Scotch thistle, but it is found
here in much greater abundance than there.
The farmers have been more active in ex-
terminatir-g it, while here our law is being
constantly evaded and it is steadily increas-
ing in numbers.

Why the leek, the emblem of Wales, was
left off the royal arms of England, I do not
know.

There are several ﬂiwers that are spoken
of as appropriate for this purpose. common
in the United States, among them the wild
aster and. the golden-rod. The latter has
been called a purely American genus, but
erroneously. Investigation has proved the
existence of several E gropean varieties,
and one is found in Engl ind. But we have
the largest interest in this beautiful genus,
because there are a great number of varie~
ties found here, over ﬁfty growing in the
eastern half of the United States.

They are wonderfully attractive, blossom-
ing as they do when other foliage is already
indicating the near approach of the death of
the year. The color is just the one to bar
monize best with its surrounding tints and
brighten the landscape. It is found on the
high dry mountains of the South, on the
long stretches of marsh land in the East, on
the prairies of the West, on the shores of
Lake Superior, on barrens, in swamps; in
fact, there is not a condition of soil or tem-
perature which is seemingly unﬁt for its
growth.

I have seen its dense heads of lovely,
sunshine-like bloom along the dusty high-
way and wondered how it could ﬂourish
amid such vicissitudes. But its mission is
to afford color in the most unexpected of
places, to make glad the deserts and wilder-
nesses of earth.

When frost has changedjts golden tints,

the heads still lift their daily gray to the
sky and thus defy the wintry storm.

I am sure many will, with me, wish and
hope to see it- adopted as the national em-
blem, and no doubt, ere long, some gifted
American poet will sing its beauties in
words and measures which will warrant

them a place among national lyrics.
MAscnns'rnn.
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AN INQUIRY.

A. L.

 

Ella R. Wood, in her article on “Butter—
Making ” in the HOUSEHOLD of Dec. 22nd,
1888, says she draws the buttermilk from
butter when it is the size of small shot.
New 1 would like her to explain in the
HOUSEHOLD how she does it. I think
several besides myself would be instructed
by her doing so. I follow her plan in butter-
making until it comes to that; having a
Wilson creamery and barrel churn; but can-
not draw oii‘ milk without butter going with
it, until it is gathered in lumps too large to
go out of the cork-hole. SUBSCRIBER.

Mum-01m .
*—

AN ENERGETIC PROTEST.

I cannot help wondering where Mrs. Bid-
weli gets her information. Can the simple
right of franchise given to women work the
wonders that she promises? We all know
that intemperance, although a. great evil,
is not responsible for all that she charges it
with. Our asylums for the insane are not
ﬁlled with iuepriates, and it is a waste of
word: to make such a statement. My home
is not for distant from the Eistern Asylum,
and I have personally known many who
have been take-n there for treatment, but.

temperate iivmsclves or had their ancestors
been addicted to such habits. As well
might she condemn religion, for, in my ex—
perience, some of the saddest cases were
" thete whi- lost their raison during religious
excitement, in: no ins will say that pure
and undei‘ileii religion is at fault. Hos: can
she come before the noble women of this
nineteenth century, claiming that “ We are
sinking lower every day?” If that were
true it would be our own fault and the ballot
would never redeem us, but we can thank
Gsd heartily that it is not so.

How can she look around on our steadily
increasing prosperity, and assert that "’ Our
nation is fast becoming a nation of poverty
and crime,” when even the smallest farmer
and the day laborer has, and can pay for,
the comforts that are newconsidered neces-
siiies but were, in the days of our own
parents, almost unattainable-luxuries?

Will crime be stamped out by giving the
ballot to women? Are not our criminals
largely men who are studying to get
”something for nothing,” to live without
work, who rob and murder, wreck trains
and explode bombs to get money without
earning it by the sweat of their brow? They
will do anything for money, and they do
not even sell whisky except for that pur-
pose, and will giving the ballot to women
change this mad haste to be rich? She says
we “toil for the millionaire,” but when
millionaire Hutchinson sent the price of

 

wheat up was not every small farmer with

not One of all the number were either in-r

 

his one hundred bushels or less for sale,
proportionately beneﬁted?

The only'women that I have ever known
wo really cared to vote were thus who
were anxious to vote for prohibition, and I
feel that the brothers are wise in with-
holding the ballot until women can look
the matter squarely in the face, and not, in
their over-anxiety, make a bad matter worse.
The insinuation that the women who are
satisﬁed with the existing laws are “bad
ones.” is really “ the unkindest cut of all,”
and l for one resent it. Again, how a true
wife can assert that a mother, he she ever
so loving and noble and good, is the best
friend that “they have or ever can have,”
is something that I cannot understand.

It is the dawning of a grander life:
Another name you have—the name of wife.
There’s no relation in this wor‘n‘ so near,
There's not a station that is half so dear;
There’s not an ofﬁce, seek it where you will,
Higher or holler than the one you fill.

Wasuxxorox. EL SEE.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

Hor bread is not, per se, injurious; the
trouble is it is good and we eat too much of
it; it is fresh, and soft, and we do not mas-
ticate it thoroughly. It is not more un-
healthful than any other article of food,
properly eaten.

 

PHYSICIANS now argue th it most of the
ills connected with a baby‘s second sum-
mer arises from the fact tn rt he has j iii. at-
tained the age when he begins to have a
greater variety of diet than has heretofore
been given. The simple food before given
him is now supplemented by {seizes of food
prepared for his elder», he part the; with a
relish which induces in: re and mire to be
given him, and suffers in consequence.
When achild is doing well and growing
strong on a simple diet of mud and milk,
there is no sense in giving him meat, p)ta-
toes, eggs, simply because his teeth have
come. His intestines are undergoing
changes during the teething periol that
render experiments in diet extremely

hazardous.
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Contributed Recipes.

 

Gmunn Snaps—Ono cup New Orleans
molasses and one cup pale brown sugar, boil
together gently for ﬁve minutes; cool and
add two tablespooni‘uls of good vinegar; one
cup butter and lard mixed; one-half cup cold
water; heaping teaspoonful soda, same each
of ginger and cinnamon. Mix hard; roll
thin; bake quick. Ican endorse Beatrix’s

I recipe for fried-cakes, for I have often used

the same rule to the satisfaction of myself
and family. M. A. F.
Fnurox.

 

Smoke-One cup of scalded milk; one-
fourth cup butter; one tablespoonful sugar:
one-half teaspoonful salt; one-fourth yeast
cake dissolved in three tablespoonfuls water;
white of one egg, and about four cups ﬂour.
Mix and knead; then roll out long and slen-
der, about the size of your little ﬁnger; using
as little ﬂour as possible; put them an inch
apart in the pan, let rise. Much depends on
baking these. Bake twenty minutes in a
slow oven, then quicken the heat and brown
them. At Mallory’s, a “tony ” caterer's in
this city, these crisp “sticks" are served
with oysters instead of crackers, and are
voted an improvement. Bum.

  

 

