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WHEN MOTHER DIED.
'When mother died the poor and tired hands
That for so many years had toiled for us
Were folded ‘cross her cold and silent breast,
And on her brow where ruthless care had
wrought
FDeep furrows, and the hand of cruel Time
Had left his traces, gently we smoothed back
The silver-sprinkled locks. We closed the lips—
Those pallid lips from whence so oft had come
The words of love and wisdom we so soon forgot,
Those cheering words we now would gladly give
The world to hear. Those mild blue eyes that
watched
Our erring footsteps for long weary years
"Pill we were grown, would never see again
’I‘ill she, dear soul, beheld in heaven her God.
Our loss indeed was great; but yet We knew
But naught of what the wide, wide world would
be
Without her. Home and all the name of home
implies,
That day was borne upon her somber bier
Forever ’cross the threshold of our door.
And life seemed but a dreary blank to me——
Ambition gone, and cruel, black Despair
Confronted me at every turn i made.
The rattling clods of dirt that rudely fell '
That day above my mother‘s coiiin-lid,
Such awful harsh and grating echoes had
That Hope had quickly died and only left
its frightful skeleton; and from it came
But jeering, hollow words of mockery.

But mother bravely battled with the world
For half a century. And struggled hard
With many cares that i can never know.
And {altered not: but ever on and up,

:Led by that hand invisible that guides
The faithful ones o‘er life's stormy ways.
She gained at last a haven of sweet rest.

Then taking heart again I brushed away
The cares and troubles of a life alone,
And felt Within me that by mother‘s death
A home in heaven will be the brighter new.
For in that vast and glorious multitude
One face will far outshine them all to me.
And there with welcome outstretched arms will
stand
My angel mother to re: eive her boy.
-Al. Al. Handee.

 

CHAT WITH CORRESPONDENTS.

 

E. B. asks some questions relative to
how a woman should write her name
after marriage which I will try to answer.
In the ﬁrst place, many girls nowdays are
christened with but one Christian name,
in place of the triple-decked, many-syllabled
combination once so universally bestowed,
and after marriage use their family
name as a ”middle name.” Fanny
M. Stone marries Seth Preston and
writes herself Fanny M. Preston, or Fanny
Stone Preston, as she elects. There is
nothing vulgar in the retention of the
maiden name inthis fashion; if vulgarity
obtains anywhere—end mind you I do not

 

 

insinuate that it does in the least—it is in
the use of the hyphen which makes her
Fanny Stone-Preston.

After marriage, she is, legally, Mrs.
Fanny M. 8. Preston, Mrs. Fanny Stone
Preston or Mrs. Fanny 8. Preston, how-
ever she chooses to wr.te her name;
but it is well to decide upon one form of
writing it and adhere to it. Socially, she
is Mrs. Seth Preston. Her calling cards
should be engraved with this name, by

which also she is properly addressed by -

letter. She uses her legal name as a sig-
nature without the preﬁx Mrs., though she
may write it in parenthesis before her
name in addressing a stranger. On some
occasions, where it is needful to identify
herself with her husband, she may give or
write her name Mrs. Seth Preston-on a
hotel register, for instance.

A wife does not preﬁx her husband’s
title or the index of his profession to her
own name; she is not Mrs. Dr. Brown,
nor should shebe thus addressed or spoken
of; she is simply Mrs. Brown. In speak-
ing of both, it is proper to say Dr. and
Mrs. Brown. A number of months ago I
saw in a State paper a card from the wife
of an alleg “ Professor ”--any man who
teaches a public school calls himself “ pro-
fessor” nowdays-in which she wrote of
her husband as “Mr. Prof. Brown ” and
signed herself “Mrs. Prof. Brown.” It
was amusing, to say the least.

I do not know in what phraseoiogy E.
B. introduced her lately married friend to
the acquaintance who had known her or
her family by reputation before, but then
met her for the ﬁrst time, but it seems as
if the husband’s interpolation “ That was,”
was “ bad form ” if not impertinent. Prob.
ably, after the fashion of newly wed hus-
bands, and patterning after the doughty
Achilles who wanted Brieseus entirely to
himself, he was anxious there should be
no misapprehension of the fact that the
young lady now bore his name. Forgive
him; he probably did the best he knew.

To the best of my knowledge, the term
“ married to ” does not belong exclusively
to either of the two who are wed. The
man marries the wife, perhaps, but not
more than the wife marries the husband.
If a distinction obtains, it is in favor of the
ﬁrst formula, for the reason that the man
does the asking and hence is the active
member. But the terms seem everywhere

used interchangeably.
Theatrical people have an etiquette of

heir own in the matter of names, and their
tandards are not society's.

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may have been married as many times as
a Mormon elder and retain her maiden

' name and the preﬁx Miss as a stage name.

It's like an author's mm do plume in that
respect. Everybody knows who is meant
by Miss Emma Abbott or Margaret Mather,
while few not conversant with theatres and
plays Would know the ﬁrst as Mrs. Eugene
Wetherell, or the latter as plain Mrs.
Haberkorn.

Information about leagowns was re-
quested in. last week’s HOUSEHOLD. They

till form an important adjunct to one's
stock of house dresses, though perhaps
there is not‘as much said about them as
when ”they were newer. "And possibly
they are less fashionable attire for dressy
wear at home, because they are not sus-
wotible of the variation and changes prac«
ticable with more elaborate costumes. I
saw two very pretty ones in process of
making at a dressmakcr’s recently. One
was of ruby cashmere combined with a
dark blue silk plaided with a red which
just matched the cashmere; the other an
olive-greenFrench ﬂannel, combined with
silk of aligbter color. Both. were made-
peml-train, with full fronts framed in.
rovers. The revere of the green robe were
of a fancy plaid silk in shades of green in
which olive predominated: those of the
red were of the blue plaid silk. The
latter was ﬁnished at the ion: by a. full
ruche, hemmed, and had a Medicis collar.

I would endorse what E. C. says on the
subject of personal cleanliness. Only a
few weeks ago a young lady remarked of
he grand-daughter of a mutu tl acquaint-
ance, "She’d be sucha pretty girl ifshe
were Only cleanl But I never saw her
when her neck, ears and. hands were not
dirty; and the removal of the accumula-
tions under her ﬁnger nails could be justly
classed under the head of transactions in
real estate!” A woman who sat nextto
me in the street car the other day were
earrings—and a rim of dirt all round her
ear lobe—but what better could you ex~
pect of one who would wear mock
diamonds with a ragged. dress! And once
at a picnic I saw a young girl in a beauti-r
fully embroidered white dress, who in
rubbing the perspiration from her neck
had wiped up great rolls of pure dirt which
showed off to great advantage.

There are occasionally men and women
who always seem to be ” well lgroomed,“
as the English say. they always Blook so
fresh and wholesome. Part ofithis un-
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healthy skin, which has never been allowed
tobecome thick and muddy; part is due to
frequent ablutions and care of the cloth-
ing. Such persons always look clean;
their clothes are well brushed and aired
and their linen immaculate. And there
are other women, just as pure in heart
presumably, but whose personal appear-
ance repels the fastidious; nothing about
them seems to have the odor of cleanli-
ness; you feel sure they wear liver pads
and porous plasters and as if you’d enjoy
hanging them over the clothes-line. And
there are others who bear about them the
scent of stale tobacco smoke, the odors of
departed dinners of boiled cabbage and
fried onions, so vague but yet unmistaka-
ble that you know they are reminiscences
of last week, and which are due to unaired
closets and unventilated bedrooms. I don’t
know of anything more repulsive to a per-
son aiiiected with a ” nose for smells” un-
less it be one of the wagons of the Detroit
Garbage Company.

I do notknow of anything that’s cheaper
in this world than fresh air, water, and
soap. And it is difﬁcult to understand
how a self-respecting individual can con-
sent to be dirty when it is so cheap and
easy to be clean. It is the dirt of poverty
that repels us, not its privations; and it is
the careless untidlness of those who ought
to be and might beclean which affects both
eyes andnostrils. ermx.

 

A CONVENIENT KITCHEN.

Elizabeth wants some help about plan-
ning her kitchen. I would advise her to
study to save steps and extra work, and
when she thinks her plan perfect, go over
it again and again, and see if she cannot
save another step somewhere. We ﬁxed

over'an old farm-house a” few years ago; a‘

house that had been built over forty years
and was inconvenient as a house could pos-
sibly be. I think we worked and planned
what improvements we could make for two
years before commencing operations; and
I will give you the results as far as the
kitchen is concerned:

The stove stands at the north side of the
room, about in the center east and west.
At the left of the stove is a small sink; at
the west end of this is the cistern pump; at
the other stands the pail for well water
directly under a faucet, the turning of
which is all that is necessary for a supply
01 fresh Water. A short tin pipe, one end
of which ﬁts over the spout of the cistern
pump, is made just long enough to reach
to the water :ank at the back of the stove,
and also to ﬁll the wash boiler when put
on the stove; this little convenience does
away with lifting all water that is to be
heated, and the well water can be dipped
into kettles on the stove without taking a
step. At the end oi the sink is a door
opening into a small store-room where the
ﬂour chest, churn, clothes bars and a dozen
other things are kept. This room was par-
titioned oﬁ from the wood house and did
not have a place in our ﬁrst plans. At the
right of the stove is a very large wood box
but it only comes just far enough into the

 

kitchen to take out the wood conveniently,
and has a lid; the rest of it goes through
the partition into the wood house and is
ﬁlled from that side, doing away with car-
rying wood through the kitchen. At the
end of the wood box is the door opening
into the wood house. The east side of the
room is taken up with one window and the
stairways leading to the cellar and to rooms
above the kitchen and wood house. On
the west side next the store room is a door
opening on a long broad porch, a very
comfortable place to work on hot days, and
just across the end of this porch is a lever
connected with the windmill by a long
wire and short rope running over a pulley,
and by this lever the mill is thrown into
gear and out again without going out to
uhe well, a great advantage in bad weather.
A refrigerator and creamery stand on this
porch, and when necessary to change the
water in the creamery it is done by attaching
along piece of hose to the pump at the well
and putting the other end in the creamery;
the water after passing through it runs all
through a long trough. Next in the
kitchen comes a long broad shelf where the
dishes are washed and all mixing is done.
In front of one end is a window, and over
the other is a cupboard high enough to be
out of the way and reaching to the ceiling.
On the lower shelves spices, extracts, bak-
ing powder, soda, starch, etc., are kept;
and on the upper shelves medicines. At
the end of the shelf is a long deep cupboard
which holds as much as a common sized
pantry and this takes up the rest of that
side of the room. Next comes the dining-
room door, and it takes but a few steps to
place dishes and food on the table from the
cupboard. In one corner of the dining-
room is a corner cupboard, taking up but
little room and holding a full set of dishes,
glass and silverware not in use every day.
There is a door from the dining-room open-
ing on the back porch, so every thing kept
in the refrigerator in hot weather is right
at hand. The stairway in the front part of
the house goes up in such a way that by
cutting a doorway through the partition on
the south side of the kitchen, we could use
the space under the stairs for a closet.
This was done, and by driving nails in the
back of the steps made a capital place to
hang kettles, pails, frying pans, etc., and
on the side where the steps were the high-
est a row of shelves were put in for tin
ware. it has taken me longer to get around
my kitchen on paper than it would to do a
day’s work in it.

I am also interested in making a plant
room by using a south porch for it, and
will give my ideas on the subject if no one

else responds. A. P. H.
Lnonann.
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OUR little Honsnnonn was seven years
old last week—quite a healthy banding.
Though it has not increased in size, it has
grown, we trust, in the estimationof its
readers, and its family of correspondents is
certainly much larger than at ﬁrst. We
hope to make it still more pleasing and
proﬁtable to our readers during the year it
is just entering.

 

 

_ DIS’I'RKIT SCHOOLS.

There are several things in Stella May’s,
article in the Housnnonn of January 31st,
to which I take exception.

In the ﬁrst place, her idea that a teacher
in a district school of an average of twenty
pupils has unlimited time at her disposal,

is decidedly amusing. Perhaps it would‘ '

be true if teachers nowadays followed the
example of their predecessors and were
content to ask the questions, hear the an»
aware in the exact language of the book,.
assign the lesson for the next day, and dis—
miss the class. But the method has chang-
ed, and it takes as long to hear a class of
two, properly, as it does a class of a dozen.

The school of twenty, of which she
speaks so slightingiy, usually contains
pupils of all ages, from six to sixteen. The
fewest grades into which it can be classiﬁed
are ﬁve. The number of recitations, in-
spite of all combinations and alternations,
reaches twenty. Indeed most schools have
more. The longest time apportioned to one
class cannot exceed twenty-ﬁve minutes.
If Stella May will compare this with the
eight or ten recitations in the city schools
—only six in the high school—she will see
that there is some reason for not adding
Greek, Latin, geometry, etc, to the com
mon school branches.

‘As for the argument that all parents
cannot aiford to send their children to
higher schools, and so there should be the
same advantages in the country schools, we;
might with as sound reasoning say that
since all parents cannot afford to send their
children to college. the high schools of our
cities should furnish the same course of
study as that of the university curriculum.

J ust'as the high school leads to the uni.
varsity, so the common schools lead to the.

high school. Each has its own work to do:

in the system of education.

If I understood School Girl rightly, it.
was not of the meager number of branches.
in the country schools that she complained,
but of the lack of thoroughness and pro-
gressive work. In that I agree with her,
but think she would ﬁnd a change for the;
better since the grading of the schools has
been undertaken.

The word "experience” makes me weary...
No doubt an experienced teacher is best,
but the question arises where one is to get
the required experience. I know a case
where a girl graduated from a high school
with good standing, and during the next
year ﬁlled all the temporary vacancies in
the high school and grammar rooms. At
the end of the year she was informed that
(n account of her lack of experience
she could not obtain a permanent position
in the city schools, so turned her attention to
getting one out of town. In reply to a‘l
applications the ﬁrst question was, “ What
experience have you had ‘3” At ﬁrst she
answered frankly. “About two months, at
diiierent times, in the city schools ;” but as
that always ended the matter, she at last
evaded the dreaded question by stating
that she had had plenty of experience, and
the director, being in a hurry, forgot to ask

her where, but hired her on the spot.
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satisfaction as some who have been teach-
ing district schools for the last ﬁfteen or
twenty years, in spite of her lack of experi-
ence.

Finally, if Stella May will investigate the
matter a little, she will ﬁnd that any dis-
trict school that will pay from twenty eight
to thirty-ﬁve dollars a month can always
employ a teacher with a second grade cer-
tiﬁcate, who is obliged to leach algebra,
philosophy and other branches of the high-
er class. E. 0.

Porn- Horton.

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CONVENIENCES FOR THE HOUSE.

In answer to Elizabeth’s inquiries I
would say by all means have your buttery
arranged with cupboards instead of open
shelves, with one that can be lowered into
the cellar if convenient with the other ar-
rangements. Ithink it is much better to
have not only the kitchen but the whole
house, oiled instead of painted; besides the
difference in the looks, it is so much easier
to clean. I very much prefer a table or
broad shelf to a sink for washing dishes.
Be sure and have drawers or cupboards in
every available space.

I have two things in my house that I
think “ just right.” First, a tank for
water (be sure it is made of the best
material) in the buttery, ﬁlled by the
windmill, with a partition through the
center, with one side for creamery. All the
water for the barns passes through these.
The cost is so slight compared with the
convenience, do not fail to have one in
your house. Next to this is the furnace.
We are using ours the third winter and
ﬁnd it much better and cheaper than to
warm with stoves; but do not try to get
along without a cook stove in the house.
We have a gasolene stove in the buttery,
but in cool or damp weather in spring and
fall there are a great many days when we
do not want a ﬁre in the furnace, and the
cook stove is all that is necessary. Remem-
ber also to have closets opening from every
bedroom is the advice cf

Paw Paw. MRS. NOMER.

 

“WHEREWITHAL SHALL WE BE
CLOTEED?”

The display of fresh crisp ginghams,
India linens and summer challis in the
shop windows reminds me that it is time to
speak “the word in season” which shall
help remodel the old dresses or fashion the
new, in aid of those who are wise enough
to do as much of the spring sewing as pos-
sible in the quiet days before house cleaning-

For wool dresses for spring wear, are
cheviots, tweeds, light weight serges and
fancy plaids. In colors, beige and tan are
popular, while many new goods come in
exquisite shades of gray. The tan shades
are of the palest, and are made up
with pale green accessories, while deeper
shades of green are used on the greys. All
ecru shades are also stylish. Plaids seem
to hold their ground to an unexpected de-
gree; they are very handsome in their shit

blendings of colors. A new spring cos“

    

tume in gray has a skirt of the plaid, cut
bias; the front is slightly draped; on the
left side are two revers of plain gray, which
meet at the waist line and are separated by
a narrow line of plaid which widens to the
bottom. The waist is of the plain goods,
of moderate length, and a full postilion
back. Sleeves and vest are of the stripe.
This costume is made elegant enough fora
reception dress by bordering one edge of
each rever, the vest, the bottom of the
basque in front and the collar with black
feather trimming.

But the feature of the new spring dresses
is to be the coat skirted basque—and it is
likely to make a good many amateur dress-
makers have ﬁts because they cannot ﬁt it,
too. First, a round or pointed bodice is cut,
with the back forms cut twelve inches
long below the waist line, and the coat
skirt sewed to the bottom of the bodice,
meeting the continuous forms in the back
and being of the same length. It is in
effect, as name implies, modeled after the
skirts of a man‘s coat, except that the out-
line of the bodice is pointed or rounded
instead of being straight, and that the
shirts do not quite meet in front.

The skirts worn with these coat basques
are straight, plain, and have the fan pleat-
ing in the back and the trimming of bands
or braiding across the foot described in a
late article in the Housnnonn. The
sleeves are moderately puffed on the
shoulder, and everything about the cos—
tume must be taut, trim, and "shipshape,”
for on the ﬁt and ﬁnish depend the style.

Lace dresses which are made with short
basques may be modernized by adding to
the bodice a frill of lace ﬂouncing twelve
inches deep; and a graceful adjunct is a
folded ribbon of moire, laid around the
edge of the bodice, with long loops and
ends at the back. A silk dress may be
rejuvenated in the same way, with the
addition bf a lace ﬂounce around the
bottom.

Scotch ginghams have “the call” over
all other cotton goods for this spring, and
some of the newer styles, which have ﬂower
stripes alternating with stripes of solid
colors, are more expensive than quite nice
wool goods. Cotton batistes, percales and
satteens come next. Fashionable dress-
makers make these up over ﬁtted linings,
and with velvet, silk and lace accessories,
so they cannot be washed but must be sent
to the professional scourer. But the most
sensible way is to make them suhje ct to the
wash board, with unlined belted waists, or
shirt waists with box pleats front and be-
hind. Yoke waists are also liked. A new
departure is to set a narrow ruffle down
each side of a box pleat down the center of
the front, which is fastened with three stud
buttons. Full straight sleeves gathered to
a wrist-band or with turned back cuffs are
liked for wash dresses. A turn-over collar
made of the goods doubled, is worn, and
for very informal wear, a bow of the goods
fastens this at the threat. All gingham
waists must be made with an allowance
for shrinkage; and should also bestayed
round the armhole. Skirts of such dresses

 

are four yards wide at the foot, and

straight, except the front breadth, which is
slightly sloped at the top.

Waists of China silk for wear with skirts
——silk, lace or wool—are made with the
coat skirt described and the belt of ribbon
around the edge of the bodice. Such 13.
waist is made over a ﬁtted lining; the silk
gathered on the shoulders and lapped to
the waist line front and back alike. The V
spaces are overlaid with piece lace. Slack
surah waists are made in the same patterns

Harper‘s Basar figures 8. very handsome
waist of this kind. The fronts are gathered
with a narrow heading toapointed. tucked.
yoke with rows of featherstitching be—
tween the tucks. At the waist line the
fullness is drawn on cords, and made long
enough for a frill six inches deep, which is
double. The back is a little longer; it has
pleats down the centre and is ﬁtted by side
forms. The sleeves are full and high on
the shoulder and the collar is cut ﬂaring in
front. These fancy silk waists are very
popular just now, and besides being very
pretty are economical, saving the dress
waists which, as every woman knows. ai-
show the ﬁrst signs of wear.

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INGENUITY DID IT.

Many years ago when one of Michigan’s
best mechanics Vi as a small boy, he made
a water-wheel and hung it by the side of
the flume of his father’s mill. He had
made everything ready for the waterto
carry it and was taking an auger out of
the toolchest when his father thus accosted
him:

“Son, what are you going to do with
that auger ? ”

“Bore a hole through the ﬁume to let:
water on my water-wheel.”

“No sir, don’t you bore any holes,
through the ﬂume.” I '

The auger was replaced. and the boy
began tothink deeply. He did not like to
be balked in his plans, but still he would
not disobey his father.

There was a long shank auger in the
mill, and with this he bored holes length~
wise through two straight sticks and
joined them at one end in the shape of the
letter V, with one arm a few inches the
longest. This he ﬁlled with water and
hung it over the top of the ﬂume with the
longer arm on the .‘utside. This siphon
worked complete! A stream of water
poured out on his wheel and kept it whirl»
ing around to his entire satisfaction.

This shows what thought can do. Many
lads would have been discouraged at the
prohibition and given up the water-wheel.
Not so this one. He used his thinking
powers, and by alittle exercise of ingenuity
and his mechanical knowledge accomplish
ed his purpose. No wonder he became
excellent in his chosen profession. There
is little use in knowing the great principles
of mechanics or science, unless the
knowledge is directed into useful channels
by practical application. A “handy man"
to have round the house is he who is al-
ways contriving some labor-saving device.
for the comfort of “ the women folks.”

 

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CARE OF FUCKSIAS, ETC.

Nearly all lovers of house-plants have
fuchsias, and in their blooming season. de-
light in their beauty, but when that time
of ﬂoral display is 'over not one in ten
gives them their well-earned rest; but con-
tinues watering them and ﬁnally resorts to
stimulants and all other forcing applica-
tions to drive them into bloom again. “ It
goes without saying ” they do not succeed.
While if they had set the plants in a cool
corner or on a cellar shelf and let them en-
foy their " sweet repose” for a few weeks
and then brought them into warmth and
light, giving mildly warm libations—not in
excess, however—all would have been dif-
ferent. Leaves, buds and blossoms would
have been in order in two or three weeks.
it is a good way to set the pot containing a
plant in the window at this season, and not
turn it around only when display is desired,
for the bright side of the plant is near the
glass; but where there is no other than a
side light plants bloom better without
turning, so it is a choice of abundant
blooming or symmetry of form. I have
never seen or possessed a fuchsia that came
as near to being a perpetual bloomer as the
Speciosa, but taro months of rest is better
for even that.

I wonder why the Stock is not used as a
house-plant more than it is—at least so far
nsI have seen. It is so deliciously fragrant,
like nothing so much as the spiciness of the
Carnation; and excellent for designs and
bouquetmaking. No plant will produce
more ﬂowers than the Stock. or more
continuously. A few seeds sown in early
autumn will produce plants for winter, or
some of the belated ones of the spring
sowing can be. kept for winter bloom.
‘ Transplanted in spring or fall the smaller
plants among the seedlings will invariably
prove to be double-ﬂowered. It is a very
good plan to set them in pairs, the
double and single ones together, a plan I
never practice with other plants. The
Stock does not deteriorate with this manage-
ment, but yields a good supply of seed
that will have a fair percentage of doubles.

Inmatz’em Salient is a balsam, as its
name indicates, and is deserving of more
general cultivation for the house in winter,
as it is an ever-blooming plant, having
white or carmine ﬂowers; but desirable as
it is for summer border or winter collection
we seldom see it outside the city.

' Farrow. MRS. M. 'A. FULLER.

 

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KNEE PADS.

Rue Campbell, in the American Gultiw-
tor, says: “ What a struggle it is to keep
the knees in the long stockings of the little
ones. Yet this trouble can be overcome
by purchasing the knee pads now for sale
in the large cities at thirty cents a pair; but
they can be made at no cost by one who
has the time. With knee pads one
pair of stockings can be made to wear
as long as three. Take a small piece of
cloth; either of the color of the
trousers or the stockings, and cut one side
two inches long and the opposite side
should bercund and 4 1-2 inches from point

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to point. The two remaining sides connect-
ing the ends of the round side with the
ends of the ﬁrst should be three inches
eich. Two such pads should be cut out,
and seamed together at the round end.
Hem the pad thus made all around, and
fasten strings to tie around the legs above
and below the knees. If properly made,
these pads ﬁt to the knees snugly, and do
not make a bad appearance. They may be
put on when the children are playing
around the house, and they will save a
great deal of wear and tear on the trousers
and the stockings."

_ grunt-Mow... w

m AMERICAN HOG.

 

Not infrequently one reads an item
headed as above which refers to bog prod-
ucts. Then we read of “the ﬁend of the
dressing-ram," which refers to a lady
traveler who monopolizesthe dressing room
of asleeping car for a length of time, ex-
asperating and causing discomfort to other
1a iy occupants of the same car.

The thing we refer to has escaped public
indignation because it is a he~one of. the
lords of creation—to be found in every
sleeping-car; usually it leaves its section of
the car clad in shoes, pants~with suspen-
ders hanging down—«and an under-shirt
more or less decollette, with toilet case,
shirt and other paraphernalia in its arms,
and marches to the dressing-room with
looks of scam at others who for the sake of
common decency wear shirts stuffed in
their trousers.

When it can get to a lavatory it must
wash out its ncstrah, brush its teeth, gargle
its throat, depositing results in part in the
bowl, and end up the performance with an
h-i-o-u-c-k-sh of a kind sufﬁcient to turn a
shining metal cuspidor inside out.

Test is the kind of hog we had in mind.
if we had been consulted when the accident
of our birth happened, had we possessed
fore-knowledge of sleeping-car develop-
ments, we would have asked to be built six
feet tall, two feet wide, two hundred and
twenty pounds weight, with muscles a—la
Sullivan; if we were built that way less
time would be required for some of thaw
hogs to get their clothes on to hide the
bristles. A man never. fails to show him-
self a gentleman, the semblance of a man
under like adverse conditions manifests

many of the characteristics or a hog.
Damon. M. C. H.
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'WOMAN‘S RIGHTS.

 

There has been so much said in our little
paper about women‘s rights that I have
felt for a‘ long time I wanted to ask the
ladies why they don’t use the rights they
have to better purpose.

I think women have j not as many as the
men, and such sacred ones tool

The laws of our county would be much
better than they are now, if woman would
use their rights to form noble characters
and good habits in their sons and daughters.
They have a right there the men will
never take from them.

The laws which govern the boys and
girls in the homes of our country are made

 

by the mother.
this land thought more of instilling ﬁrm
staunch principles and forming characters
which would abhor all the vile institutions
with which our land is infested, there
would be no need to ask for rights they do
not have. For one generation of such men
and women as mothers have the right to
train and ,ﬁt for the work of making laws
to govern our country would right all the
wrongs which so many of the women of
to day think they are suffering.

Sums. CHARITY.

W

A. BEREAVED FAMILY.

 

On the 8th of February, 1891, it was my
sad duty to bury my dear wife, who has
been a light and guide to me since our
marriage; a woman without a blot upon
her fair record; without an enemy; with a
heart full of ambition; one who nobly per-
formed her part in the hardships and cares
which every woman must experience who
cares for a home and children. She left a
disconsolate husband and three sorrowmg
children, two boys and a daughter twelve
years of age.

Ever since the Housnnonn was added to
your paper she could hardly wait for its
arrival each week. She saved every one,
laying them away carefully as if each was
a treasure, as indeed it was to her.

We mourn her loss as only those can
mourn who see daily the vacant chair and
miss the countless ministrations and loving

, care of a faithful wife and mother.

Harmon. A. J. McMiLLEY.

A. P. H. has given us the description of
a very conveniently arranged kitchen. We
especially approve the arrangements for a
water sup ply which do away with so much
lifting; often a pailful of water to be lifted
arms high is the last straw to the tired
washwoman’s back. And that woodbox
saves lots of dirt and dust, not to speak of
muddy footprints. We hope to have a
description of that plant room; do not wait
for others to speak up. -

 

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Contributed Recrpes.

1’10an FOB Hans—For one hundred
pounds of meat, nine pounds salt, two pounds
brown sugar, two ounces saltpeter. one-half
ounce cayenne pepper. Let all come to a
boil: skim well: then pour on boiling bot.

Sauna. MARY.

 

Planner Yawn—Boil six potatoes in three
pints of water; mash and pass through a
sieve. Add one teaspoonful each of sugar
and salt, and one yeast cake. but no ﬂour.
When light use one cup for three loaves of
bread. M. A. F.

Fan'ron.

 

CHERRY Brans‘ Nas'r. —Make a rich biscuit
dough: roll out about an inch thick. Cut
out twice as many circles as you need. Take a
small baking powder can and out the centres
out of half of them. Lay the rings _th us made
on top 0: the whole ones, after wetting the
under side. Fall this with rich cherry. [or
other sauce and bake. Serve with cream and
sugar. Very nice. Diana I.

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