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DETROITiJUNE 10, 1884.

 

 

 

 

THE HOU§EHOLDmn§uppllememm

 

 

 

  

COUNTRY GIRLS.

 

Up in the morning early.
Just at the peep of day,
straining the milk in the dairy,
Turning the cows away;
Sweeping the ﬂoor in the kitchen,
Making the beds up-stairs;
Washing the breakfast dishes,
Dusting the parlor chairs.

Brushing crumbs from the pantry,
Hunting for eggs at the barn;
Cleaning turnips for dinner,
Spinning stocking yarn;
Spreading the whitened linen
Down on the bushes below;
Ran sacking every meadow
Where the red strawberries grow.

 

Starching the ﬁxtures for S’nday,
Churning the snowy cream,

Rinsing the pail and strainer,
Down in the limpid stream.

Feeding the geese and turkeys,
Making the pumpkin pies,

Jogging the young or e’s cradle,
Driving away the ﬂies.

Grace in every motion,
Music in every tone,
Beauty in form and feature,
Thousands may covet to own,
Cheeks that rival spring roses,
Teeth the whitest of pearl;
One of these country maids is worth,
A score of your city girls.

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ONE REASON.

 

"Old School Teacher” asks why, if a
mother can train her sons to be good
husbands as easily as she can educate
her girls to\be excellent wives, there are
.not as many good, true husbands as
wives. It seems to me that at least one
great reason is because mothers do exactly
as “ Old School Teacher” says, lose their
inﬂuence over the boys when they go in-
to the ﬁt 1d, and leave the husband to give
the "training ” alongwith instructions in
husbandry. It is very far from my
thought to say that unkind and careless
husbands are such through the mother’s
inﬂuence, but I do say that unthoughtful,
unappreciative husbands are sometimes
such for want of proper training at a
mother’s hands. When the boys go to
the ﬁeld with the men is the time for the
mother to double, not relax, her vigilance,
and strengthen her hold on those boys by
every means in her power. Undoubtedly
in her "boarding round,” " Old School
Teacher” has known, as I have, mothers
who would not exchange a dozen words

with a dozen year old boy in all day, ex-

cept to direct him to geta pail of water or

an armful of wood. ' I call that a practi-
\ odmoral abandonment of the child. It

  

was not that the mother had no affection
for her son, it was simply that he was
“out of her way, ” her many cares had
put him away from her. If he had missed
his dinner, her maternal instincts would
have led her to provide him a nice lunch:
but, present, there was not a question as
to his day’s experiences, no interest in
his employment, not a loving word to
show that he was more toher than one of
the hired men, who came and went with
him, and whose inﬂuence was already
undermining hers. I admit that this is
an exceptional case, yet it is a “picture
from life,” and it goes to prove that the
mother’s inﬂuence is usually lost through
her own fault; the many duties which
press her on every hand conspire to this
neglect.

And, how can a mother reprove or
punish a child for imitating a bad° habit,
in which the father indulges? What is
she to say to the little fellow, when he
brings up that unanswerable argument,
”Papa does so!” especially when she is
not sure it may be a vice to which he is
naturally disposed by thelaw of heredity?
What a lesson to fathers lies in those
youthful ambitions to have boots and
pantaloons and moustache “like papa’s.”
And what a mistake a man makes when
he lets his boys grow up without winning
their conﬁdence? I once heard a gentle-
man say that he never got really acquaint-
ed with his own father, till he (the son)
was about to be married, at the age of
thirty-eight. The conversation in which
he told his father his intention revealed
depths of feeling and sentiment in the
elder man’s heart, which the son had
never suspected. Yet that man’s mother
was very near his heart. Whether be-
cause of more natural talent in that
direction, because she is better ﬁtted for
the task, more patient and painstaking,
certain it is that the mother’s inﬂuence is
in most cases, that which controls and
moulds the child; yet surely “ Old School
Teacher” is right when she says if fathers
were as careful in precept and example as
mothers, we would have better men and
happier women.

To my mind one of the pleasantest pic-
tures of domestic happiness poet ever
portrayed, is Longfellow’s "Children’s
Hour.” When the “ darkness begins to
lower,” the “ blue-eyed banditti” assault
the arm-chair fortress of the white haired
rhymer, carry it by storm, and established
in the citadel, claim the father from the

 

world, and the twilight. the “ blind man’s
holiday,” is spent in loving converse, in

  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
    
   
   
  
     
  
   
   
 
    
   
    
  
   
  
   
 
   
   
   
 
 
  
   
   
  
   
 
 

story telling. and all that sweet compan-
ionship which makes the young hearts
glad, and the old hearts young again. It
is a pretty custom, that of gathering the
family together at twilight, fora “re-
union” after the day‘s duties are done,
and its inﬂuence tends to strengthen
family ties and home affections. 1m ,
BEATRIX.

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HIT AND MISS.

 

How did people manage to keep hoase
oefore “ Households " came into fashion?
Surely they are and have been of great
service to me. A woman’s life “on the
farm" is such a nunnery like sort of an
affair that she has little chance to gather
any new and helpful ideas as to the hows.
whys and wherefores of the never to be
neglected army of manual labors and
mental cares and tangles that hedge her
about, except as she originates them or
gathers them from consultations held in
these same little useful and attractive
Household conventions. The day seems
near when the family newspaper that
fails to go forth bearing on its forehead
a “With Household” proclamation will
take the back track.

Beatrix asked recently if any one could
not do as good general cookery after a
half dozen lessons as after years of
practice? No one has answered yes or
no; I answer “ No,” not by a good deal of
bad cookery and any amount of dismay
and vexation of spirit. The establish-
ment of scientiﬁc schools of cookery, so
numerous and so liberally conducted as to
give all a chance, would of course go very
far toward making Beatrix’s hypothesis a
sound one. But as things are now—the
most of us getting our lessons in a word
here and a line there, a failure yesterday
and a success to day—it is not possible to
attain even a reasonable degree of the
desired and desirable perfection so swift-
ly.

Example: I have been trying at odd
times for ten years to become mistress of
the cue that turns “yeast” bread out of
the oven in loaves that are perfect speci-
mens of that variety. But there was al-
ways a discouraging fault somewhere in
the bread. N ow ’tis not as ’twas. Thanks
to E. S. B. and the other ladies who have
so patiently written out their “How I
make bread” articles, my yeasty ambition
is satisﬁed. Surely “in multitude of
counsellors there is wisdom.” No one
tells all that should be told to the novice,
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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

the whole story. I have two conveniences
that I use in bread making which the re-
porters have. not reported: they are a
soap-stone On 'which all emptyings, yeasts,
sponges and many (but for lack of size in 3

stone, not all) loaves of bread are raised.
This is a great convenience. as its easily
maintained equable temperature saves
much wa’ehful care. Next I have a a
‘ bread pan.“ which" llzu‘t‘lware“ made to
order tor me. It is a pan holding about
fourteen quarts. made like a dish pan‘
and has a tight ﬁtting cover like :i steamer.
This is also boss, and sures ini.ici1v:tnity .

and vexatipn of spirit. Next I have a
ﬁoursifterzantl tin “stew cups ' which I ‘
also order " llaltlw;:rt,-'_~ “ in i: in V
place of iron kettles. hgnre been a ptrt of 1

my “pet et.'ono:iiies"ii; :hc culinary ile-
- partmen: for tire )‘(‘2‘tl'>. I nerd saw my 1
”ms: they
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till

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one else have ztil)‘. i lingual“
would s :it my "style." Ul-it‘l‘i‘ti
SullLiL. order-til a set»
till lll"_‘§7 Wz’l‘t.‘ (lone for,
months start cm the
V’th’. i call a set is titres.- cups—a: .

two and 2‘: three quart i)‘:li3-—lllrttl!: ot' the ‘
very nest. tin. with irtnrlles and tight»;
ﬁtting covers. :1 gener '
ous chap. and allows Scriptural Elull'l’i. -
In thesc and my porcelain kettle I cook '
everything that otherwise would have. to
be cooked in the “‘01) kclitCS except "boil
ed dinners“ and now and then when an
extra big cooking of something is requir- ‘
ed. Uh, but they’re neat. ladies, try ’em, L
and give the old pots and kettles a rest!
We fancy that food is better cooked in
them than in the heavy. black iron ket-
tles, t0). When the ” tin " is oil too much
to suit your ideas of what is the proper
thing in " tin." the men folks appropriate
them, and ﬁnd them as handy around the
the barns and sheds as we rind them at
the house in the days of their savory
brightness. Who is it that is sorry for.
the woman whomikes bread every day:
because "John's mother did 'r" Poor
thing‘ Has she no spirit? Why don't she
say: “John, my father was a man. and I ‘

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" 11 21rd ware

can’t help thinking what a blessed good ‘
thing i: would have been for me if either
you or your mother could have been one
too?"

Inever hear of, or run across such a .
sample of the masculine biped of the
genus homo as is th at same " .lohn " with
out thinking of that dry old joke that the '
Lord perpetrated when he had ﬁnished
his work on the ﬁrst specimen. We are ‘3
told, you know, that he made man in his '
own image, and pronounced his work‘
"good." but his opinion of the character 1
of the work that the man would do is
facetionslv implied in the name he gart-
him— " A-dam. "

A. L. I... you have given " our girls"
some sound advice. I haw tward some
boys praising.r it, too: but I must beg ,
, leave to differ somewhat with. Beatrix}.
_ opinions on "our b 'ys" side of the ques

tion. She says, "Wheel a mother's mani-
fest- duties is to teach her sons respect for I
all other women.” Now I would as soon i
say “ It is one of a father‘s manifest du- 1
ties to teach his danghters rt spect for all
other men." The statements fairly gauged l

, r'dlllij.

' lit .n‘

. Frames '-u

', thought i

t such little

measure exactly the same. No; rather
teach the boys and girls alike to respect
real merit in men and women the same.

1 It will be a better day for the world when

women are entitled to and receive “re-

? speet” because their worth and works

command it,and not for the mawkishpiti-

, ful reason that they did not happen to be

men.
No; on this poin: teach the boys and

1girls alike to discriminate between the
;trne and false. the noble and the base
; and then. after all, "Moses” and "Ma-

tilda." too. Will make plenty of “mis-
talks.” 13. L. NYE.
llHHb-IN-THE~IIIL1,i-. June 2.1884.

i". S. The bread confahhas not only
been of proﬁt to me, but also to many of
my itczpmintances, who do not write for
the Household. but who are carefully 1 re-
:e v31): it~ numbers for binding. all the
And now Who will lczlvd off in a
lime; l link-e Bum-r" Let

crusade? us

' fruit " therarncry."

l5.

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MORE PICTURE FRAMES.
After readingthe article on “Picture
week’s llmsehold. I
\r-luid, like to tell how I once

ids”.
a,

? made it novel andpretty rustic frame for
; an engraving. whi h was much admired,
and drew
3 "what is

out a goon many queries as to
it made 0:. anyhow?”

In one of my country rambles “nought
back a quantity of the grey and brown
lichens which are found on trees and
fence-rails, I had no purpose in gathering
them, then, but afterward the thought
occurred that I might perhaps utilize
them. I made a rough pine frame about

three inches wide, to ﬁt my engraving.-

and arranged the lichens on it, ﬁlling the
interstices with the grey moss which
grew in tufts among them, and then gave

‘ it a coat of varnish, a thick sort which i
i We had in the house, and which I believe
; had been bought to varnish our "One
hoss shay."

The frame was really pretty,

" it i do say it as shouldn’t,” and hung in

my sittingeroom till the lichens, which

iwere fastened on with ﬂour-and water
‘, paste instead of glue, which would have
L been preferable, dropped off. I think gold

powder might be applied to such a frame

with very good effect.

A lady in this city has a large fungus
growth—“toadstool." as they are com-

monly called-“which is very much like a. ‘

bracket in size and shape. and which. af-

ter drawing an outline‘ sketch of a rustic :
scene on it in crayons, she nailed to the .

wall. where it supports a small iiiajolica

I pitcher full of pressed ferns and autumn
3 leaves. Generallyspeakingldon’t go much
Z on cheap adornments, but think a few :
things make a room look V

‘ ' homey."
Calling on a friend the: other day, I no
ticed her canary, just taking a hemp-seed

i lunch, scattered seeds and husks all over ;
= her clean ﬂoor and windov-sill.

A piece
of coarse muslin, long enough to sur~
round the cage, With a strong stringrun
in the top edge, and gathered and tied
with a ribbon under the bottom of the
cage, will keep the litter within due

bounds and save work with broom and
dust-pan.

Not being one of those who had “no‘,
ticed the frequent occurrence of wine or
brandy in Miss Parloa’s cooking school
recipes," as commented upon by some of
our Household writers, and wondering if
I hadindeed carelessly overlooked them,
I got out my " ﬁle” of Households—4 am
keeping them all, and mean to have them
bound——and looked them over. I found

 

one recipe, that for Imperial Pudding, in

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wine in its proportions. none which re
quire brandy. In the cookery for the sick,
iwhich embraces food we would not set
i before our families under any conditions
‘ except thoSe of sickness, there are three
dishes, out of directions lor thirteen. in
which Nine is used, none where branly is
used, One of these three dishes is a jelly
i‘( commended for patients who are too
feeblemew-allow. Eggnogund Wine whey
are ordered by phys clans for those who
are unable to e-lt suilieient fOod to recruit.
their strength, but both arcdishes no sane
woman would some as family food. I
believe in temperance; temperance in
matters of belief and opinion, and state
ment, tee. is Well as in abstinence from
intoxicants. nnonnrrrmn
lirz'rnorr, .l lint‘ 4131.

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ONE PHASE OF [NTESTATE LAW.

In a late issue of the Farmer. the in.
quiry was made of the Law Editor.
whether real estate could be sold for the.
support of a widow. she being old and
helpless. the personal property having
been used up, and the income of the real
estate being insufﬁcient to pay for her
care and maintenance. It was stated that
the property had been acquired by herself
‘and husband. jointly. Ibelieve. and the
answer was, thatthe real estate could not
be sold. and it was added: “The heirs
ought to take care of her.“ But if they
do not choose to do as they ought, what.
is the result? Must the aged and inﬁrm
lady be sent to the county house, while
her unnatural children enjoy the fruits
of her hard earned toil‘.l This phase of
law is certainly not justice. If a woman
dies the law gives to the man in fee, the
whole product of their joint earnings,
with no delay or expense of probate, or
fear that the children will be defrauded.
Ru: in its tender care of the children, its
i fear th u the mother may wrong them by
a foolish marriage. or bad bargains, the
. property for which she has jointly labor-
. ed with the father goes to them in fee, (a
two—thirds share) on their becoming of ,
age. while she can only have the. use or
rental of one-third, with no power to sell
it, no matter how sore her need, or how
j great the inconvenience, should she from
any cause Wish to change her residence.
It may be said that she has the use of all
until the youngest child comes of age.
ébut until that time she is charged with
3 their maintenance, and it is then she is
most able to help herself. Itis when age
makes her helpless that she most needs
the avails of the labor of earlier BUi-
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need. If a father is not bound by law to
divide his property with his children,
neither should a mother be. A change in
thelaw that would vest the title of pro
:perty acquired together,. solely in the
survivor, would be only manifest justice.
There are many who are reaching this
point by holding their property by joint
deeds. but a just law would make such
forethought unnecsesSary. .x. 1.. 1..
GREENFIELB. June ill:

 

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SCHOOL.

A. L. Ls ideas on fixing up and em~
': ellishing the school grounds are excel-

)ent. If those who read them Would
(nly .ractirc We should soon scedii’t'cr
en? surrauludingi about our country‘

school houses, which are too often oases,

 

learn. An education which teaches
habits of observation and thought dis-
counts the alleged simon-pure article,
which seems to principal‘y consist in
training the memory. If a teacher can
reuse the children’s enthusiasm and in-
terest by her talk. and enlist their aid
and support, she has engaged a force of
“suppers and miners" who will under-

, mine the old prejudice, sooner or later,

or at least be amenahh to argument 1n

ol h trrenncssamong fertiletieids and tree 1

innit-red highway.» Thanks to the work
:-i war Slate lloiiit ultural Society and its
;iil“lll:eizt:$~. through the persistent efforts
..f the secretary. Mr. (T. W. Garfield,
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making the. school property an ornament '

the district. Where new St hool houses
are being built, more ample grounds are

secured, more commodious and finer
buildings are put up, growing trees are
spired and others are planted. The

movement is slow, hut sure. The plant-
ing of tree s is the ﬁrst step. We 88k how
dear'sunlight must have been to the ﬁrst
settlers of a heavrly timbertd region, by
the remorselessness with which they cut
down every tree in (nearing up. The
pioneers dethroned the old woodland
kings. and planted aliens about their
houses. (like the ‘p‘ American Acacia,”
under which grandiloquent name the
common locust first was introduced into
Michigan). The school grounds were
neglected, on the theory that young
plants are beneﬁted by the sun.

In very conservative neighborhoods.
where new ideas take root slowly, and are
yet more tardy in bearing fruit, the pro-
position to plant trees and ﬂowers in the
school yard would be considered
evident-e of a deep laid scheme to waste
the people’s money. Here eloquence
would be wasted; works, not words, are
wanted. Can the teacher, coming for a few
months and then drifting to new ﬁelds of
labor, do anything in the interests of pro-
gression? That many think so is evident
from the fact that our Teachers Asso-
ciations are discussing the subject, and
are already beginning to work with tor
ticultural societies toward the beautify
ing of barren places.

The teacher can at least sow the little
seed smaller than a mustard seed." and
leave it to be smothered by indifference.

or bear ﬂu” abundantly. as Fat“ and set of rules, and lam sure there is more

Circumstance will have it. She has the

means at her hund,,and it is through her "

influence it )on - ‘ 1 - . . . 1 - . -
I the ('hlh'r‘n ”‘8‘ thé work i lessons right at her hand: she can teach

is to be begun. The low of beauty exists
1n all children. llOWCVUX‘ it may have
been dulled by unlovely surroundings
and I would not give much for the child
who cannot be interested in talk about
the wonderful things in nature. Her
processes are wonderful mysteries to

childish eyes, which thr y are glad to

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1 the latte 1' is no.1: ~

3 older years by it"i'i‘ti of early training.

It is not an encouraging prospect to
the tenth r as sin: surveys her desolate

dominion, U‘t‘L‘it‘SS

 

unt'eru'cd, with the f

t'w/l/‘z’soi‘ lasr \\’int«:1":: xvanst’lpilc and r--~ ;

suiting ash iit‘HLI littering the yard.

._-.:(i. ~hz- can do little

it?

or nothing that n Ill :1 1’. lie (il:~‘-it':>_\’t‘ti by

but by her own enthusiasm, her own in-
telligent talk of them, by the informa‘
tion she gives about how other plants in

,far olf countries grow, she is to rouse in-

terest and enthusiasm in these small peo
ple. and thrill through them the slow
pulse of the fathers and mothers. It takes
time; great bodies move deliberately, but
it is being done all around us: everywhere
we see how a “ little leav<-n works to
great results. And the :eac‘ncr, who gave
of her strength and \ itality to help com-
pass. it, shall long be remeinbcrml as
”that, dear Miss Blank, who had the ﬂow
{’«}'~ and kept such a. good school."
BEA'l‘lUX.

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BUFFER-MAKING.

 

" ir‘.tt‘1nei’;~5 ‘iVil‘e " suggested the butter
mtqzi-‘g. but I do not know; whether she
(namedt11e¢i1~zni~~iun as we tliii not re

mire our l“.\1m1~:n--t‘.‘vl,;ty lilzh. It is a

stray arimli- or the ‘.\:ll1it)llllt~}> ot'
tramps. it It‘ll‘ﬂt‘d. she can d1.- a little.
lly d1nt oi." hard work she e in nudge :t i

tlower bed or two. 1 plant a [rt-e. which
shall stand it} a iiiel’ltnl‘iztl of "her term.”
It inning. yet

 

is imi 'rl. lice " work

1 begun is half thine"

 

The average spring term in our country
Schools is so arranged that it is not easy
to grow annuals out of doors with reason
to expect blossoms before school closes.
Perennials, which bloom in May and
June, are better and more ornamental
for the school yard. and poss1ss the added
merit of requiring less care and atten-
tion. In almost any neighborhood
enough such plants may be gleaned
from somebody‘s garden to ﬁll a bed or
border. The window culture of plants
still remains, a dernier resort. Any
man who can drive a nail (believed to be
a purely masculine prerogativel,can make
window boxes. which, ﬁlled with fertile
soil and securely fastened to the windows,
afford room for slips and seeds to develop
into blossoming plants. (Anda man who
won't do such a little thing as that for a
cheery, pleasant faced school ma’am, who
asks as a favor what she assumes it will
bea pleasure to him to do because she
asks it, deserves the epithet of “cross old
bean”) A zonal geranium, a fuchsia,
heliotrope, a rose or. two, or a carnation,
with seeds of afew annuals, as candy-
tuft, rocket, petuniahageratum. an ivy
and a. morning glory vine, all to be
bought for a very small sum, will trans-
form a dull, dingy educational battle
ﬁeld into a cheerful school room, with a
bright spot around which are eager
questioncrs and quick eyes alert for
every change.

I believe it. will "pay" every teacher
who has a. difﬁcult school to manage, to
divert the inherent antagonism of the
children into ﬂoricultural channels. I
would make a window box rather than a

educational beneﬁt in the first. It gived
the teacher material for a series of object

the chillren what they want to know
what they ought to know. and what is of
much more value to them than lists of
adverbs and prepositions or the intermin
able “cases" of fractions. She need
not expect the ﬂowers to exert the sub-

duing inﬂuence of Mr. Simon Tappertit’s
eye: it is not enough that they are there,

i should in: it‘litrl‘cStt‘ti.
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wci'y farmer‘s Wife
as no ore likes to
think she sells below her neighbor. 'We
keep from time to eight cows. and use the
cabinet ereamcry live cans; let the
milk set twenty—four hours, then draw
oii': I let the crcrm become sour, then
churn itmnediately. When the butter
becomes granulated I stop churnin‘r,
take up and wash. salt with Ashton’s
dairy salt, and work only enough to mix
the salt. I let it stand about twelve
hours, and ﬁnish working, unless it is
too warm weather, when I partly work it
and let it stand until morning to ﬁnish,
as too much working when soft will ruin
it, and I think many are inclined to work
too much. It only wants working enough
to press out the buttermilk.

{get a good price for my butter, but I
hardly know whether my husband is
proud to take it to market, asI do not
think he takes it twice a year. He seems
to relish it Very much. butI use the
money as I like, and he thinks I can sell
it. I supply two families in Detroit. the
rest i sell at our local market.

OLD SPHI’ML TEACHER.

Tmmrssn, May 29th.

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EGG-EATING FO“’LS.

Will the people who are troubled with
egg-eating fowls, give them vinegar three
timesa week, for two weeks. and report
success to Household? One quart for 50
fowls given in water or mixed with bran-
mash; or anything they will eat. Onions
are nice for chicks mixed withtheir fdod.
Please do not ﬁnd fault about advertise-
ments in the'Household: but let each one
send something to beneﬁt her “ fellow
woman." H.

PORT].me May 28th.

 

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SCRAPS.

THE prettiest dresses for girls of eleven
to fourteen years of. age which I see upon
our streets, are those with round twists
and full skirts with ample draperies; but
they are invariably worn over a hustle,
and often With small hoops. The signs
of the times” seem to in-licate that we
will soon all be wearing crinoline, and in
spite of all that is said against it. the small

  
   

 


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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

  

 

hoop is far preferable to the many skirts
necessary to give the same eﬁect. The
round waists mentioned above are some-
times plain, oftener shirred or puﬁ‘ed in
light wool goods, tucked or gathered in
wash materials. The fullness thus given
is very becoming to the slender, unform-
ed ﬁgures of growing girls. The skirt is
sometimes perfectly plain and straight,
quite full, with bouﬁant apron draperies,
or again is laid in kilt or box pleats. For
younger girls the princesse dress seems to
serve as a foundation, on which is laid a
kilted .or box—pleated skirt. with full
blouse-like waist pleated, shirred or gath-
ered, cut long enough to fall in a puff
over the seams which unite it to the skirt.
No sash is necessary. This style is varied
in many ways. Little girls’ hats are of
all conceivable shapes, and simply trim-
med with a band and ends of ribbon.
There are quaint “ Mother Goose ” shapes
copied in pique, edged with embroidery,
with crown buttoned to the front, under
which tousled yellow “ bangs ”are plainly
to be seen.

 

‘ Fasmonanm young ladies of the city
no longer wear the symbol of betrothal on
Engagement rings ,are voted
irls do not like to
“ give themselves away” by showing by
the suggestive circle upon the foreﬁnger

their ﬁnger.

out of fashion. The

that they are “particularly interested” in
any young man. They say it gives them
no chance to ﬂirt, as the other young men

of their acquaintance are shy of atten' ions
when warned that they are interfering
So
a bracelet which can he slipped under the
sleeve 1s preferred, and many of them are
The fashion at ﬁrst was
to have the bracelet lock"with a tiny gold
key which the gentleman wore on his
watch-chain, but now a chain circles the
wrist so securely that to remove it it is

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with “some other fellers schemes.

very beautiful.

necessary to open a link.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

HELEN CAMPBELL, in her
washing greasy pots and kettles.

washing these dishes.

 

“Atmr ADDIE,” in the Country Gentle-

man, says to rid the house of cockroaches,

the best thing is aregular cockroach trap;
the next best contrivance is a common tin
basin. Put a little molasses in the bot-

tom, and a piece of board for the in
sects to walk up on, when they will slide

down the slippery sides of the basin in-
They
will be unable to crawl up and get out of
the sides of the basin, and they can then
be destroyed by emptying them into the
ﬁre. If you have a sufﬁcient quantity of
An-

their eagerness to get at the sweet.

molasses, they will smother in it.
other correspondent says cucumber par-

ings, scattered about their haunts, will

rid the house of them.

AVERY vile decoction of some bitter
herb is seemingly often substituted for

“Easiest
Way in Cooking and Housekeeping,”
recommends a few drops of ammonia in
She
says the bottle of ammonia should always
behandy, asit saves half the work of

 

 

the poet’s “cup that cheers.” A really
good cup of tea is a rarity. Either it is
black and bitter, or too weak to have
sufﬁcient grounds for existence. Never
use a tin teapot if you can get any other.
The tannic acid of the tea acts upon the
tin, making a chemical compound which
is unpleasant to the taste and injurious to
the stomach. Never boil tea. Scald the
teapot with boiling water and pour it out.
Putin one even teaspoonful of dry tea
for each person, if you desire the tea
“ strong.” Pour in a teacupful of boiling
water and let stand a minute for the
leaves to swell; then ﬁll up with boiling
water. Let stand, covered closely, ﬁve
minutes. English breakfast tea requires
ten minutes. Taken in reasonable
amounts, and not boiled till it is a slow
poison, tea is not hurtful. It acts partly

asa sedative, partly as a stimulant, invig—~

orating the nervous system.

 

IF we ﬁnd that our time passes slowly
and heavily, we may be sure there is
somethin g wrong within. Either we have
not enough to do or we work mechanical-
ly, without heart or energy. prast time
looks short or empty, it is because it lacks
a distinct record of noble aims, deﬁnite
resolves, worthy endeavors; if the imme-
diate future looks tedious and uninterest-
ing, it is because we are not living full,
rich and earnest lives.

 

A CORRESPONDENT of the Husbandman
says ham can be kept through the hot
weather by cutting it as for frying, pack—
ing closely in jars and covering with melt-
ed lard. If desirable to keep a part of
the ham in ‘shape convenient for boiling,
cut from the bone such pieces as you pre-
fer, leave the rind on, put some lard in
the place where the bone was, close it up,
pack in jars, cover well with lard; when
taken out it will be found all right.

 

JUST at this season of the year, the
housekeeper is at her wits’ ends to
think up new dishes to please jaded
palates. Rice, which is too frequently
boiled in water, and served with syrup or
molasses, or serves as the basis of a
watery pudding, can be better treated bya
good cook. It may make amost accep-
table relish at the supper table, eaten
with cream and sugar, or appear on the
breakfast tablea la “ Spanish eggs,” after
Miss Parloa’s recipe, or with apple and
tapioca as dessert at dinner. The South-
ern method of preparation is as follows:
Wash through two waters. then put the
rice into an ordinary two-quart saucepan,
cover it to the depth of a half inch with
cold water, stirr in a little salt, ﬁt on the
top carefully, and put the saucepan over
a quick ﬁre for twenty minutes. The
rice will then be done, but not ready for
the table. Pour off the water which is
left, stir thoroughly from the bottom, lay
atin plate lightly on top, and set the
saucepan where it will keep hot and
steam very slowly for one or perhaps two
hours. It will then be so dry that you
can eat it with your ﬁngers, but at the
same time thoroughly done, and soft
through and through.

    

 

 

    

Useful Recipes.

 

PINE-APPLES, now in season, very plenty and
quite cheap, make a delicious preserve, far
ahead of the tasteless citron in ﬂavor, and as
beautiful in appearance. Juliet Corson, a well
known “ professicnal ” cook, gives the follow-
ing methods of putting them up:

PINE-APPLE JELLY.—Choose perfectly ripe
pine-apples, pare them thinly, remove the eyes
and grate them; to each pound of fruit add a
half a pound of white sugar, and let them stand
two or three hours; then put them over the ﬁre
in a porcelain lined preserving kettle, and let
them slowly approach the boiling point, and
boil gently until the fruit is tender; hang a
jelly bag over an earthen bowl, pour the hot
pine-apple and syrup into it, and let the syrup
run through‘the bag without pressing it; do
not squeeze the bag, and let the pineapple re-
main in it until every particle of the juice or
syrup has drained from it; it is well to let it
drain over night. To each pint of the juice add
half apound of sugar, and boil it gently and
steadily, removing all scum as fast as it rises;
after the jelly has boiled about ﬁfteen minutes,
take up alittle on asaucer and cool it, to seeif
it will harden; if it does not harden, continue '
the boiling afew moments, and then test again:
when the jelly hardens upon cooling remove it
from the ﬁre, cool it until it is lukewarm, then
pour it into glasses and let it get quite cold;
when the jelly is quite cold and ﬁrm, cover
each glass with a piece of white paper dipped
in brandy, and then paste over the tops of the
glasses pieces of white paper dipped. in the
white of egg, slightly beaten, taking care to
completely exclude the air from the glasses.
Keep the jelly in a cool, dark, dry closet.

PINE-APPLE PRESERVES. —Pee1 ripe pine—
apples, remove the eyes, and slice them in en
tire slices or in pieces. Put the fruit into a
preserving-kettle, atter weighing 1t, and for
every pound add half a pint of cold water. Set
the kettle over the tire, cover it, and, after the
pine-apple begins to boil, let it cook very slow-
1y until tender. When the fruit 1s tender, take
it out of the water with a skimmer, and lay it
in a bowl, add to the water as many pounds of
sugar as there are fruit, and then stir over the
ﬁre until the sugar is dissolved; then put the
pine- apple back into the syrup thus made and
continue the boiling at a moderate rate until
the fruit looks clear and semi-transparent.
When the pine-applo has boiled until it is clear,
remove the kettle from the ﬁre and let the

reserves cool' in it, keeping the cover on the

ettle. When the preserves are quite cold put
them in jars, put over the top of the preserves
a piece of white paper (11 §ped in brandy, and
close the jars air-tight. eep the preserves in
a cool, dark, dry closet.

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