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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

.il CHILD’S PIEA YER.

 

A little maiden lineeled beside her bed—-

A downy couch, with snowy covering spread——

Clasping her tiny hands with reverent mien,

Her head, with golden ringlets, bowed betwe on

'-‘ Dear God," she said, “my mamma says that you

Know everything we think, or say, or do;

When we are naughty you are very sad.

And then when we are good it makes you glad,

And when we pray, whatever we request

You’ll surely grant it if you think it best.“

There came a little sob and then she said:

“ Please God, my dolly needs another head.

I was so frightened that I had to run,

(l‘hough mamma says the dog wasjust in fun)

But then I slipped and fell, and such a crash

And my poor Rosa‘s head broke all to smash.

I picked the pieces up and cried and cried,

For mamma is so poor since papa died;

And then I thought I‘d tell you all, to-night,

For I was very sure you’d make it right;

And when you thought how lonely I would be

You’d surely help a little girl like me.

I have no brothers now. or sister dear,

Just poor mamma and l are all that‘s here;

The rest are with you up in heaven, you know

And sometime momma says that we shall go,

So, if you‘ll ﬁx my dolly up ’till then

I‘ll try still harder to be good. Amen."
Wasnixnrox. EL SE E.

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LESSONS IN DISHONESTY.

 

The list of the heavy defalcations in this
State for the past year, published in one of
our city papers, ought to provoke some
serious thought on the subject of commer-
cial honesty. Every neWSpaper that comes
to hand has its story of violated trust, and
the business man must often question within
himself, “In whom can I place conﬁdence?
Who among my employes dare I trust?” It
would seem that the cynic is almost justi—
ﬁed in his assertion that all men have their
price, and that the temptation need only be
great enough, and in the line of the in-
dividual’s especial weakness, to overcome
his right principle and integrity. Instances
have come to light, within a few months,
where men who have spent a lifetime in the
service of business ﬁrms, have conducted
carefully devised schemes for defrauding
them, so systematically that the peculations
were undiscovered for more than twenty
years. Business cannot be conducted un-
less men can trust each other, yet the man
who does put faith in his brother man too
frequently mourns that conﬁdence betrayed;
and a certain popular preacher says the
crying evil of the day is the lack of busi-
ness integrity.

The law of our land proceeds upon the
assumption that a. man is innocent of
whatever crime is charged against him un-
til he is proved guilty; but in business

circles the safer way would seem to be to

 

consider all men dishonest until thev are
proven honest, and that even then they will
“ bear watching.” I ﬁnd a reason for this
in the manner in which so many commer-
cial houses compel their employes to carry
on their business. Salesmen are taught
that it is their imperative duty to sell goods,
by fair means if possible; if not by any mis-
representations which will achieve a trade.
Their value to the ﬁrm, and consequently
their salaries, are measured by their
ability to “do business” under any cir-
cumstances. A young gentleman of my
acquaintance, who has been in the employ
of several business houses of established
reputation, tells me he has never yet worked
fora ﬁrm that did not expect him to do
something not quite honest, not quite hon-
orable by a correct standard of right; if
nothing more, he was expected to take any
advantage possible of a purchaser’s ignor—
ance and inexperience. It even the most
scrupulous are so, what can we expect of
houses of less integrity? I hear business
men say boldly that “it don’t pay to be too
honest,” and ifreproached fora bit of sharp
practice whereby another is overreached
they laugh and say, “Oh, that’s business!”
Now, is it possible to have honest em—
pioyes when they are thus educated in dis-
honesty by the very men who expect of
them the utmost rectitude? Is it not a ﬁne
line to draw between defrauding a customer
in the interest of your employer. and de_
frauding your employer in your own in~
terest? Ilowlong before the young man,
under such tuition, will be trying his newly
acquired knowledge on his employers?

Is it not a fact that the education young
men get in commercial circles tends to cor—
rupt their ideas of right and wrong and
level every standard of integrity? They
see men whom the world esteems for
probity, who are prominent in church and
philanthropic work, tacitly conniving at
the adulteration of goods, selling by mis—
representations, exacting the uttermost
farthing from their debtors, practicing all
“the trickscf the trade,” augmenting their
fortunes by all means in their power, and
giving to the Lord or to charity, publicly,
with one hand, what they have accumulated
in devious and secret ways with the other,
What marvel that young men openly deride
the piety which bears such fruits of
hypocrisy. What mother’s teaching, what
father’s counsel, can stand against the ex-
ample of such men, who are what the world
calls “successful business men?”

Not until business men reform their
business methods can they expect honest
service. Men often make it a point of

    

honor to be honest with a firm while in its
employ; such “honor ” is not proof against
opportunity. I can picture the struggles of
an honest you ig man, one who ﬁrmly be-
lieves in that now out-of—date maxim
“Honesty is the best policy,” when he
enters the employ of a great grocery house.
Where he must sell terra alba for baking
powder, chiccory for coffee and venetian
red for cayenne pepper, or a dry goods
business where his thumb must be as proﬁt-
able as was “ Bob Jakin’s ” in his memor-
able trade with “Aunt Giegg;” conscience
assaults him, the blush sutfuses his cheek as
he chokes over the falsehood, but it is easy
to sooth his moral sense by reflecting that
if he does not do it some one else will, that
he must live, and that since his employer
expects it of him, perhaps on that em-
ployer’s head will lie the blame; and about
the time his chief concludes that “ Young
—————- is taking up his work in good
shape.” the sweet angel of Truth has veiled
her sorrowful face and left his]. Sometimes
we hear of instances where the defaulter is
not prosecuted, through the leniency of the
ﬁrm, and always the question rises in my
mind whether strict justice would not per-
mit the defaulter to prosecute his employers
for the education in “business methods ”
which corrupted his morals.

N o reform is possible except through em—
ployers themselves. And they say no man
can do a perfectly “straight” business and
make money. And that remark goes right
to the root of the whole matter. The curse
of the age is the mad haste to get rich.
“Put money in thy purse” is the watch-
word of the day. And it is true that the
man who sells honest goods, in an honest
fashion, cannot make money as can his
competitor who resorts to all the devices of
business; he is not sure of even the patron-
age of those who approve his principles;
nine-tenths of humanity would deal with
Beelzebub himself to save half a cent a
pound on its sugar. “We must go where
we can buy cheapest.” BEATIHX.

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USEFUL KITCHEN UTENSIL.

 

I have for three years been a silent
reader of the HOUSEHOLD, but as I have
had a number of valuable recipes and helps
from our little paper, I thought I ought to
do my share too. One of the most useful
things in my kitchen has not been men-g
tioned by any one else; it is a wire dish-
cloth, composed of numerous rings linked
together; it is to be used in scraping iron—
ware, but I use it for plates or anything that
is “stuck up.” If you have not got one,

 

      


THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

last leave, thus shutting out the gaze of the
curious.

Another inﬂiction is the sermon ; not so
in this vicinity. 1f the minister cannot say
anything good“ rest assured he will say
nothing had, always ready to speak of the
virtues and let the vices rest with the dead.

I have noticed the custom growing strong-
er year .by year of sparing no expense in
burying our dead. The expensive shroud
and costly casket are none too good for the

poor, over-worked, tired wife and mother
.ow that she sleeps her last sleep, who in
ife scarcely had a pleasure or heard a kind
70rd.

Let us bury our dead according to our cir-

umstances and dress them as they were in
the habit of dressing while in life.
“Let none lay a rose on my bosom.
W ho has planted my life with a thorn.“
Brass.
PLAlNWi-ZLL.

'VVHAT’S IN A NAME ‘?

 

While waiting for my dinner at a hotel
table the other day, l occupied the interval
by quiet observation of a couple of young
dudes, who in all the glory of eyeglasses,
Picadilly collars and nioustaéhes which re-
sembled a base ball game in having “nine
on a side,” had arrived at dessert and were
concentrating the force of their gigantic in-
tellects upon the order for which the obseqni-
ous waiter tarried. “ ‘Floating island’!
What’s ‘ﬂoating island,’Cholly?” questioned
one as he scanned the bill of fare. “Blamed
if 1 know; never heard of it before, ’pon
honor,” replied the other. “Must be a new
dish; suppose we see what it is, you know.”
So both of them ordered “ﬂoating island,”
and the mild scintillations of wit bestowed
upon the saucers of custard and frosting
brought them, gave me a headrche. But I
began to think of the queer names bestowed
upon some of our dishes, and a summary is
an odd collection if not an amusing one.

“Brown Betty” isa simple apple pudding,

'sort of baked apple dumpling. “Birds’

zests” are tart apples with the cores taken

alt, ﬁlled with sugar and spice, a custard
toured over them and baked. “Angels’
good” is only a very white and light cake,
principally whites of eggs, and if angels
must feed on such unsatisfactory stuff, I’m
in no hurry to be one. “Kisses” are as un-
substantial in the culinary department as in
practice ; “they’re good but they ain’t
ﬁllin’;” just morsels of egg and sugar, with
ever so slight a zest of ﬂavoring. If any lady
ever had such flat, broad ﬁngers as the cakes
that are called “lady lingers,” kindness to
her deformity would seem to indicate that
the kindly Veil of oblivion should be drawn
over them. “Sea-foam” is another name
for a confection of whites ofeggs and sugar;
“ bachelors’ buttons ” only a pseudonym
for the little cakes full of chopped almonds
known as macaroons.

“Sally Lunn” is a variety of raised cake
or sweet bread that took its name from the
woman who “discovered” it, and peddled
it, smoking hot, in the streets of an
English city. The origin of the term “Palac
Sint,” as applied to a modiﬁcation of a fruit
roll, would puzzle the wisest etymologist.
“Shall I help you to the Palac Sint ?”would
probably cause Young Americans to rise up

us?” And if the answer should still be
“Palac Sint,” who can tell what might hap-
pen! There ,is certainly nothing in the
dictionary to help one out. “Peach cobbler”
is a very eatable dish for dessert, though why
“cobbler ‘3'” “Welsh rare-bit " has de-
generated by careless pronunciation into
“ Welsh rabbits,” 3. queer term enough for
an aggregation of milk, cheese and toasted
bread. “Tipsy parson ” is not an in-
toxicated clergyman, as its name might in-
dicate, only a loaf of stale sponge cake
stuck full of blanched almonds, a glass of
wine turned over it and served with arich
custard. “Toad-in—the-hole” is a sort of
meat pie or meat dumpling, which it is to
be hoped “eats better” than its un-
euphonic name. You cut a pound of beef-
steak into bits, put it into’ an earthen dish
and season it nicely; then pour over it a
batter made of one egg, one cup of ﬂour, a
little salt and a pint of milk. It is an old
English dish, much esteemed in the country.
"Little pigs in blankets” are nice fat
oysters, rolled in thin slices of bacon
fastened with wooden pins, fried a crisp
brown and served on toast. And then
arises the conundrum, why should a short-
handled frying-pan be called a “spider?”
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WHO \VROTE THEM?

 

E. C. 1)., of Tecumseh, would be glad to
know who are the authors of the following
poetical extracts. The poem from which
the ﬁrst is taken was published in the
HOUSEHOLD of the 6th inst., being sent us,
we think, by Mrs. G. W. Judson, of School-
craft. Perhaps she can give the author’s
name.

'- We have 0 treful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest;
- But oft for our own
The bit'er tone,
Though We love our own the best."

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- Wise, noble. loved and loving wife,
These heart-born songs. a gift, I bring
'l‘o thee, whOsc deeds, thy muses, sing
The poem of a pcrfcct life."
“I carve the marble Of pure thought until
the thought takes form,
Until it gleams hel‘orcmy soul and makes the
world grow warm;
['ntil there comes the glorious voice and
words that seem divine,
And the music reaches all men‘s hearts and
draws them into mine.“

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THINKS IT IS “ MIXED."

Being a farmer‘s daughter and unmar-
ried, I have read Evangeline’s Home Talks
very closely, that I too, might learn how to
keep house; but would like to have her tell
Hetty, and speak up very loud so we girls
may all hear, how to take care of that pork.
1 for one would not know how to, keep it
sweet till it was all used, having so much
at the time of year when we can plums and
make peach pickles. And also how she
raises sweet potatoes to have them so early
-when Astrachan apples are in their prime.
We have been raising sweet potatoes for a.
number of years, but never succeeded in
having them so early as that in our Michi-
gan climate. FARMER’S DAUGHTER.

HUBBARDSTON.

W

A LADY who has woven and also helped
to wear out many yards of rag carpet, says
the less you color the better your carpet

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
IT is said that common hard soap used to
stop up mouse holes, willetfectnally exclude
the mice.

 

1F aperson is choking, break an egg and
turn the white into a cup; give this to the
choking person, and it will in all proba-
bility relieve him. If not, give another.

Babyhood tells how to fasten a child’s
nightdress so as to keep the feet uniformly
covered at night: Cut the back of the night:
dress several inches longer than the front,
lap it up over and button 'on. This is bet-
ter than pinning together with safety pins
or fastening the even edges with buttons.

 

Tin-1 Farmers” Advocate says: In buy-
iiga new wooden bowl, it is well to re-
member that if you grease it well on the in-
side, and stand it near the ﬁre, where it
will soak in, it will thereby be prevented
from cracking. '

Mn. POWERS, of Northville, the well
known manufacturer of ﬁne cheese, says
if housekeepers will wrap the piece of
cheese cut from in a damp cloth and keep
it in acool place, it will not dry up as it
will if not thus cared for. It may be well
to remind our cooks that the harder, dry
cheese next the rind, too dry to be palatable,
may be utilized by grating it to use with
macaroni, Welsh rarebit, etc.

 

Tun Editor of the Rural New Yorker
says: “ Last week we ate a piece of beef
that had been packed in snow for more
than a month. The ﬂavor was delicious.
The beef was packed during a comparative-
ly warm spell. The only snow to be ob-
tained was the remains of a drift under a
shady hank. A quantity of this snow was
placed at the bottom of a barrel and well
pounded down. A piece of the meat was
placed upon the snow and then more snow
ﬁumly packed around it. The barrel stood
in the barn and the meat has kept in perfect
condition. If the snow had melted the
meat would have been placed at once in

brine. ’ ’
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Contributed Recipes.

 

LEMON Commas—Two cups ' granulated
sugar; one heaping cup butter; two eggs
well beaten: quarter cup water: one heaping
teaspoonful baking powder: one teaspoonful
lemon extract. Mix soft. These are splen-
did.

BUTTER Commas—One cup sugar: one cup
butter; two eggs; one and a half teaspoonfuls
cream of tartar; one teaspoonful of can-away
seed or lemon extract. These will keep for
months and get better all the time.

COCOANUT CAKES.--TWO cups light brown
sugar; two eggs; one cup butter and lard;
two tablespoonfuls boiling water; heaping
teaspoonful baking powder. When these are
mixed soft and rolled out, sprinkle them with
cocoanut and pass the roller over them lightly
before you cut them out. They are good
enough to set before your best friend or
worst enemy. MRS. ED.

Oxnow.

 

 

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will hold out, both in wear and color.

 
    

 

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