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WIIJT IS A (IENTLFIJI'A X?

What is e. no rtlemun? Is it a thing

Decked with a soarfpiu, a chain and, a ring,
Dressr‘d in a suit of immucula‘o style,
Snorting an eyeglass. a Hep and ,. smile;
T‘ulkin: of races, of Pours-ts and bolas,
Evening assemblies and a't-=.moo:) ca‘ls.
‘Sunning himself at ‘ at homes“ an l bazars.
Whistling mszurkas said smoking cigars?
What is e gentlemen? S y. is it one
Boasting of coriquests It'd dreds be has done?
One who ufihl'ishingly glories to speak

Things which should callup a ﬂush to his chcek? '

One who, while railing at SLC“.i’)llS unjust.
Robs s me young heart of its pureness and
trust—
Seems to steal money. 0- jewe‘s. or wealth,
Thinks it no wro lg to get honor by stealth?
What is a gentleman? Is it not one
Knowing instinctire‘y what he shou'd shun,
Speaking no wori that couli injure or pain.
Spreading no scandal a ~d deep‘niug no stain?
One who knows how to put escn at his ease,
Striving successfully always to please——
One who can tell by a glance at your cheek
When to be silent and when he should speak?
Whatis a gentleman? Is it not one
Honestly eating the bread he has won,
Walking in uprightness, fearing his God,
Leaving no stain on the path he has trod;
Caring not whether his coat may be old,
Pr'zing sincerltv far above gold,
Recking not whether his hand mav be hard—
Stretching it boldly to grasp its reward?
What is a gentleman? Say. is it birth
Makes a man noble or adds to his worth?
Is there a family tree to be had
Shady enough to conceal what is bad?
Seek out the man who has God for his guide,
Nothing to tremble at, nothing to hide,
Be he a noble, or be he in trade,
He is a gentleman Nature has made.
—The Pilot.
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CHILDREN AND MONEY.

i. believe it is one of parents’ most im-
portant duties to teach their children the
right use and value of money. I am very
much opposed to the idea that children are
never to be trusted with money, for fear
they will waste it. It is a well known fact
speudthritts are mide in two ways, one, bv
allowing too much, so that plenty creates a
host of supeiﬂious wants; the other, by
having had little or none, so that it is
wasted for the pleasure and in the wanton-
ness of spending. A limited sum ought, I
believe, to be given to evx child as soon
as he- 1 use the pronoun to include child-
ren of. both sexes -is old enough; not too
much, but a sum proportional to his parents’
means and out of WhiCh certain small
needs should be required to be supplied. A
better way than giving is to encourage
some work ”which they may earn money;

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they know how it arm‘s then. But this is
no: alwms poSsioie. Hmvewr. the fact
remains the; \‘Vll-“iilt‘l‘ we give or they earn.
it we wish them to MVP: or rpm”. wisely,
Wenlust izvﬂ wncl “run to the:
emlly, in mm at; last. all the commie-i
their way to the candy
"' treats.”

end. Gm-
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stow-I, or go for
I have Wen amused {tinny Ii ales
by to“ import-mew of the Voyeur-old miss
who no annals a tr?) 0‘?
to the. fountain and orders inc—ereum zozia
win 3 gm yn-uo air whim n q the comical,
as is: also the perflct frankness with whinh
they dl‘iCiFS whose turn it 1% to treatmxt.
or the “stingine s” of some mate who is
more ready to accept such obligations than
to discharge them. B it is it not .unV-riﬁe to
indulge this spirit of self-gratiﬁcatitm and
lavisnness? Does it not m rke improvident
men and women, who are ruled by their
momentary desires, and cannot deny them-
selves the satisfaction of small wants? The
early years of a child’s life are those which
form his habits and inclinations, to a large
dagree. First lessons in prudence and self-
denial, not to the extent of deprivation or
absolute renunciation, are likely to be re-
membered.

lngersoll. in one of his lectures, tells how
he would manage the boy’s spending money.
He would put money in adrawer and tell
the lad to help himself; when the supply
was exhausted he would renew it. That
would be the ruin of nine-tenths of our
boys. To spend lavishly the earnings of
another for whatever whim is uppermost
never did any one good. Moreover, I have
seen that plan in practice. The lad I have
in mind grew to the age of sixteen with no
real‘zrtion of the value of money. Mis-
fortunes closed the drawer and be was
obliged to earn. Bit his earnings slipped
through his ﬁngers like water through a
seive. He was always in debt, always
anticipating next month’s income. And
this was largely due to the unwise policy
which permitted him unrestrained expen-
diture of what he had not earned.

My child shou‘d have his allowance—a
certain sum every week, as his own. But
he should account to me for its spending.
This in itself is acheck; no one likes to
confess to having spent money foolishly.
As he grew clier I would increase the al-
lowance, at the same time making him re-
sponsible for certain personal expenses, 9.
part of his clothing, etc: and also make
part of his pleasures dependent upon his
own purse. 1 would help him to earn, and
pay his wages cheerfully. I might, on
occasion, do as I once heard of a father’s
doing; go to the manager of a business,

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tell him if he would make a place for
boy i would my his salary: this gave the
but work, an titers: in it lac lute he was
earning. an’i lent him away from i'iie
Companions and COTHF q'nnt m‘:3chief.

'l‘l‘xeiheanest mm who was ever called
trim: is he who givzs to his r-hilri each.
a c:~.;f. a lamb, lets t is chili tend and pet it
as its own, than cells the animal and puts
the mum-y i l iii-1 own pocket. X) man can
afford to be so dishonest and dishonorable:
heioses his chillreu’s cmﬁlence, respect
and es‘eem, and deserves the low.

Sime children are too generous, others
are inclined to board. The generous must
be taught prudence», the stingy induced to
give. Dispositions must be studied and
trained, for “ as the twig is bent the tree’s
inclined.” BEATRIX.

“MO——

MICHIGAN APPLE BUTTER.

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Yes, Beatrix, there is such a thing as
Michigan apple butter, and a. pretty good
article it is too. I make a few gallons every
year. I prefer sweet apple cider, and nice
sour apples; but if we do not have sweet
apples enough then I use sour apple cider.
and stir in sweet apples. In either case a
little sugar improves the taste of the same.
We have a hand cider press and make our
own cider for apple butter; then we know
it is clean, and besides we know it is made
of good apples, and that is more than can
be said of much of the cider that comes
from the mills. Beatrix is not wrong. nor
altogether right, about its requiring con-
siderable stirring towards the last. 1t cer-
tainly does, and towards the ﬁrst too. It
requires constant stirring after the apples
begin to cook to pieces, which is not long
after it begins to cook. it Beatrix could
sample my apple butter I am sure she would
—well, I think she would ordera few gal-
lons at least, to be shipped to her boarding
house without delay.

I sincerely wish Huldah Perkins could
have a hole in my back yard fence, I would
give her aspeedy opportunity to bestow her
reserved conversation on an appreciative
audience. BUSY HOUSEKEEPER.

DUNDEE.

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A TOPIC suggested by one of our corres-
pondents for discussion in the HOUSEHOLD
is the cause of unhappiness in the marital
relation and the remedy. We invite the
opinions of our readers. Another vital
question is, what can farmers’ wives do to
make our district schools more tﬂi-zlent.
There is great need of improvement; how
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NATURAL SELECTION.

I think Polly must be one of the seeming-

ly sensible people of this enlightened age.
I wonder if she places the human family on
a level with the brute creation. In talking
of colt raising she has lost sight of the fact
that this very act is actuated by the expecta-
tion of compensation—viz" money; stock
being worth more in the market. I have
an idea that Polly must be one of those
estimable persons who are left in the shade
by the sterner sex; and I think she would
be much beneﬁted by reading the following
extract from The Library Magazine of
November 20th, 1886, under the heading of
“Falling in Love:” "What we fall in
love with, then. as a race, is in most cases
efﬁciency and ability. What we each fall
in love with individually is, I believe, our
moral, mental and physical complement.
Not our like, nor our counterpart; quite the
contrary; within healthy limits ourunlike,
and our opposite. That this is so has long
been more or less a commonplace of. ordin-
ary conversation; that it is scientiﬁcally
true. one time with another, when we take
an extended range of cases, may, I think,
he almost demonstrated by sure and certain
warranty of human nature.

“ Brothers and sisters have more in com-
mon, mentally and physically, than any
other members of the same race can pos-
sibly have with one another. But nobody
falls in love with his sister. Aprofound
instinct has taught even the lower races of
men (for the most part) to avoid such
union of all-tut identical characteristics.
In the higher races the idea never so much
as occurs to us. In minor matters, it is of
course universally ac mitted that short men,
as a rule prefer tall “then, while tall men
admire little wonen. Dark pairs by pref-
erence with fair; the commonplace often
run alter the original.

“People have ltng noticed that this at-
traction towards one’s opposite tends to
keep true the standard of the race; they
have not, perhaps, so generally observed
that it also indicates roughly the existence
in either individual of a desire for its own
natural complement. It is difﬁcult here to
give deﬁnite exa mple, but everybody knows
how in the subtle psychology of ‘falling in
love,’ there are involvcdinnumerable minor
elements, physical and mental, which strike
us exactly because of their absolute adapta-
tion to form with ourselves an adequate
union. or course we do not deﬁnitely seek
out and discover such qualities; instinct
works far more intuitively than that; but
we ﬁnd at last, by subsequent observation,
how true and how trustworthy were its
immediate indications. That is to say,
those men do so who were wise enough or
fortunate enough to follow the earliest
prompting of their own hearts, and not to
be ashamed of that divinest and deepest of
human intuitions. love at ﬁrst sight.”

Pm; MOLLY.

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MBs. En, of Oxbow. wasa welcome caller
upon the HOUSEHOLD Editor last week. She
came, she saw, she survived, and promised

to come again. She brought asturdy, blue-
eyed boy with her, too; and has promised
us a picture for the HOUSEHOLD Album.

A LIBRARY OF FICTION.

I have been requested to make up for pub-
lication in the HOUSEHOLD a. list of ﬁfty
volumes of ﬁction, which my correspondent
asks shall be “ Beatrix’s personal choice,”
and “books Beatrix has read and knows
are good.” Since the list is to be simply
my individual preference in ﬁction, I have
much less reluctance in furnishing it than I
should have under certain differing condi-
tions. For our tastes dtﬁer in the matter of
reading quite as much as in appetite for
other things—food for example; and a book
one person would ad mire might be tiresome
to another of more or less acquaintance with
standard literature. But here is my list:

Titles. Authors.
Shakespeare.

The Newcomes ........... 1
Vanity Fair ..............
Pendennis ................
Henry Esmond ...........
David Copperﬁeld ........
Our Mutual Friend .......
Pickwick Papers .........
Nicholas Nickleby ........
The Mill on the Floss .....
Homola ................... %

Adam Bede .............. George Eliot.
Middlemaroh .............

Felix Holt ...............

Ivanhoe ..................

Kenilworth .............. l

The Heart of Mid-Lothiari chott.

Thackeray.

Dickens.

The Bride of Lam me rm00r
Quentin Durward ........
Les Miserables ...........
Lorna Doone .............
Cristowell .................
0n the Heights ...........
’lhe Moonstone ...........
The New Magdalen .......

Victor Hugo.
Blackmore.
Auerbach.
Wilkie Collins.

A Princess of. Thule ...... }Black.

John Halifax ............. .

King Arthur. ........... M1“ Mul°°k'
Last Da s of Pompeii. . ..

Rienzi . 'y ................. Bulwer.

Hypatia .................. }Chas. Kingsley.
Unknrwn to History ..... Charlotte 1" onge.
Bert Hur ................. ;Wallace.

The Scarlet Letter ........

House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne.
Ramona; ................. Helen Hunt.

E sie Venner ............. 0. W. Holmes.
Anne ..................... Miss Woolson.
Guenn ................ .. .. Blanche Howard.
Nicholas Minturn ........ gHolland.
Reveries of a Bachelor. . . Mitchell.

lndian Summer .......... >W. D Howells.

L ttle Lord Fauntleroy. . .

That Lass 0’ Lowrie's. . .. 3 Mrs. Burnett.
Little Women ............ >Louisa. Alcott.
The Maid of Athens ...... Justin McCarthy.
Sketch Book .............

History of New York. . . . Irving.
The Late Mrs. Null ....... Stockton.
Looking Backward ....... Bellamy.

I have endeavored to include in this list
no books which will not pay for perusal; for
books are goods which must be paid for
twice, ﬁrst in money, then in the equally
precious coin of time. There is a great
multiplicity of books nowdays, many of
which are not worth the dignity of covers,
and the destruction of which would be the
gain of the world at large. Those I have
named will I think he found interesting.
and in many cases proﬁtable, sometimes.
what is almost as good. amusing. Wilkie
Collins said once that it was much easier to
select 1300 books than three; that is un—
doubtedly true. So many books have good
qualities which recommended them for a
particular reason, thus McCarthy’s “ Maid
of Athens ” is said to give very accurate as
well as ﬁnely written descriptions of the
famous Atheman ruins, while Bulwer’s
"Last Days of Pompeii” has become al-
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the blind girl has been immortalized by

Randolph Rogers in his exquisite statue of'
Nydia.

Afew good books, which we ﬁnd pleasure
in reading again and again. are those from

which we gain the most. A book is worth
little when one reading satisﬁes us. I have
for some time made this a test of merit.

There are some books I can pick up in an
idle moment, open at random, and read on,

becoming almost as interested as at ﬁrst;
others are like a squeezed orange, one
reading takes the goodness-all there is of
it, and leaves what might be blank paper so
far as further interest is concerned.

To the list I have given above I should
add “Anna Karenina,” by Tolstoi, for its
pictures of Russian life and customs, which
I found very fascinating; Frank Stockton’s
“Rudder Grange ” for the number of laughs
there is in it, and B. F. Taylor’s “ Summer
Savory” for the same reason. Both these
are nice to read aloud. Wallace’s “The
Fair God” is an interesting account of the
occupation of the City of Mexico by Cortc—z,
which agrees in most particulars with that
given in Robertson’s History of America,
which I pored over while a child. “A.
Little Journey in the World,” Charles
Dudley Warner’s novelette concluded in the
November Harper, I have enjoyed very
much and mean to include in my little
library. It deals with matters which have
often occupied my thought—how circum-
stances change people, modify and alter
their opinions. their modes of thought, their
aims and ambitions, the whole mental and
moral attitude; and how it comes about
that the woman who was thoughtful.
earnest, high-minded in one sphere of life,
can be transformed by the agency of wealth
intoa fashionable butterﬂy. whose aim is
only to outshine her ccmpeers. and whose
moral views are so perverted that what
seemed formerly wrong and unscrupulous.
to her, is, to her new perceptions. nothing
to be lamented.

There are many other books which might
be included in the list above. Some will
ﬁnd their favorites left out and wonder
why they were not included. The omission
must be charged to the limit set, or to dif—
ference in literary ideals. BEATRIX.

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STRAY GLEANINGS.

Here is a bit of life’s best and truest
philosophy: “The people who, not being
able to do as they like, determine to like
what they can do, have the best times of
any I know.”

There’s one thing about an English
breakfast which I am sure i should like. It
is the butter, churned fresh every morning,
in time for that meal.

Take this item of wisdom for a winter
day’s consideration: “ In ninety-nine cases
out of one hundred, all that people want
of advice is that it may conﬁrm them in
their own already established mental posi-
tion. They feel the need of moral support,
and seek in that fashion to obtain it. Or,
they long to cast out an anchor to wind-

ward by securing some one to share the
blame in case the chosen course turns out
badly.”

“' Mother’s room’ should have a door
that swings both ways. Open to all who-
need help. it shuts out the idle and gar-

 

   

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

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CHEAP COOKING.

The report of F. H. Underwood, United
States Consul at Giasgow, Scotland, to the
Department of State at Washington in-
cludes an account of a school established in
that city three years ago by a charitable
lady, for the purpose of educating the
wives and daughters of. worLingmen in the
preparation of cheap and nutritious food.
The school is taught by a sensible, practi-
cal woman; and there are two classes, for
mothers and unmarried women over twenty
years of age, and girls of twenty and under.
Each class meets twice a week for lessons
in cooking, and oncea week for sewing,
with occasional instruction in washing and
ironing. The attendance is about 350, rep-
resenting 200 families; and the pupils are
the wives and daughters of mechanics and
laborers. men who earn from $3.75 to $6.25
per week and whose house rent, taxes and
water rates amount tofrom $40 to $50 an-
nually for two rooms in an apartment house.
It is easy to see how very small a margin is
left for food and clothing, and the necessity
for the most rigid economy.

In the teachings of the school, therefore,
expense is the ﬁrst consideration, for, as
Consul Underwood says, it is easy enough
to cook gcol dinners where there is an
unlimited larder. A dinner for six per-
sons can be prepared from materials costing
twenty-four cents—a palatable, nutritious
meal. Of course the cheapest meats, and
cheapest pieces of these, must be bought;
butter is not used in the preparation of any
of the dishes, which consist largely of
soups, stews and meat pies. Potatoes,
onions, carrots and turnips are the vege-
tables used—they are the cheapest. Suet
and lard are used for shortening, and
“drippings” ﬁgure largely. The only
fruit mentioned—aside from dried fruits,
such as ﬁgs, raisins and currants, is the
apple; rhubarb, or what- we call pieplant, is
occasionally used. Fruits and the more
delicate vegetables are high-priced in Great
Britain, and quite beyond the purchasing
power of the average working man; they
are luxuries for the rich, instead of being,
as in America, the food of all classes in
their season. The usual breakfast is oat-
meal—“porridge”—-and milk, with tea—
one teaspoonlul of tea to one-half pint of
water—or coffee, made in the proportion of
one teaspoonful of ground coffee to a break-
fast cup.

Consul Underwood speaks particularly of
the ﬁne physical condition of the Scotch,
their ruddy, healthy complexions. ﬁrm
muscles and power of endurance. This he
attributes partly to inherited qualities,
partly to out-door life and exercise, and
largely to the daily use of oatmeal. Es-
pecially is oatmeal valuable for young
children, containing, as it does, more bone
and muscle producing constituents than
wheat ﬂour. Its larger proportion of nitro-
genous substance and fat—15.50 of the
former and 6.11 of the latter to the hundred,
compared with 8.91 of the ﬁrst and 1.11 of
the second in line wheat ﬂour—renders it a
more perfectly balanced food, as well as a
more economical one. In the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries, a Scotch soldier’s
rations on aforay wereabag of oatmeal.

 

But Consul Underwood says that in cities,
Glasgow especially, the use of oatmeal has
been practically abandoned for ﬁne wheat
ﬂour, bread from which, with weak tea.
forms the chief food of the poorer classes.
In consequence of this abandonment of the
more complete food, in favor of one which
is poorer in bone and muscle-forming
constituents, the children of the poorer
classes, under the combined inﬂuence of
innutritious food and impure air, are terribly
aﬂiicted with the disease known as racha'tis
or rickets, which is due to the want of
suﬁicient phosphate of lime to give stability
to the bones. The disease does not appear
among children in the country, or those of
the better classes in cities, but the deformi-
ty resulting from it in Glasgow among the
very poor is appalling.

Plenty of milk and oatmeal is an excellent
diet for children; there is none better.
and these two should form their principal
breakfast. Fortunately, the number of
homes in which oatmeal is astaple article of
consumption is constantly increasing.

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WHO SHALL LEAD?

1 am not going to let Polly do all the
scolding: I wish to have my say about a few
things. Just like a woman, did you say?
Of course it is, why not?

This way of showing up people’s eccentric-
ities (we’ll call it that) is the only “ giftie
gi’ us to see oursel's as ithers see us.”

Many women who have lived quite re-
tired lives for a number of years get the
habit of laying down the law with much
decision in their own families, and in some
instances with such vehemence that they
are punctiliously obeyed. Therefore, when
they emerge from their seclusion into any of
the local societies of the day, it is not long
before they are imbued with the idea that
their judgment on all matters under con-
sideration is indispensable; they soon com-
mence dictating and directing in all matters,
great or small; instead of keeping a discreet
silence and a modest stand-back-ative-ness,
they rush to the front with offers of assist-
ance and advice. Here is where the saying
applies, “ Fools rush in where angels fear
to tread.”

This is one of the reasons why men al-
ways prophesy when women start any kind
of a society by themselves, especially in the
country, “It’ll not run long; women can’t
agree well enough;” and when the breach
appears, they say, “ Well, it has run now
longer than I expected.”

Why is this state of things so nearly cor-
rect? I have been thinking, and this is the
way it shows up: The aggresscrs are gen-
erally ignorant persons who have learned a
little, and exemplify the saying. “A little
knowledge is a dangerous thing.” They
show by their aggressive manner of speech,
with the “ I” very prominent. with bold
accusations and reiterations, that they are
very ill bred. The old generation is set
one side; the present is being improved
mostly by their children’s contact with the
improved conditions about them at school,
at church and the associations which these
induce.

Now when the above class is bound to
rule, what is the wisest course for the better

 

bred and educated person? Is it to submit
or withdraw? Can they submit without
harm to themselves? Associations have
much to do with the molding of character.
N o person’s character is so ﬁrm but it is im-
pressed for better or worse by associations.
No one can associate with educated. re-
ﬁned people wrthout being much improved,
and vice versa.

If an ignorant, ill bred person is ina
position where her inﬂuence is personally
felt by the society, how many of that society
must retrograde? No leaders can take their
followers any farther than they them-
selves have gone (upwards). Hiw neces-
sary then that the leaders should be the
most reﬁned and best educated, not merely
in school books, but in experience and the
wisdom that comes with years of assrrcia—
tion with books from master minds; and
with the association of cultured people, if
the societies are to do their best work.

With Polly’s permission I'll sign myself

POLLY’S SECOND COUSIN.
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APPLE. BUTTER.

 

1 am not ready to offer apple butter in the
market, but can tell the readers of the
HOUSEHOLD how I supply my own family.
lprefer the Northern Spy apple to any I
have used. I put the quarters to cook in
clear water in porcelain and granite ware
kettles, and continue stewing until the
sauce ﬁlls two, holding each about twelve
quarts. These kettles are supported by
short legs and the sauce simmers down
with very little stirring. When lowered in
the kettle an inch and a half mine is as thick
as I want it. Other apples require more
boiling. Then I add a colieeeupful of
apple jrlly, two or three pounds of sugar
and a little cinnamon; increase the heat and
boil halfan hour, stirring constantly. From
this I ﬁll any empty cans I may have and
put by for next summer. I have kept it
until quite warm by waiting two or three
days for the top of it to dry, then pouring
over it the hot jelly. For present use store
in any large jar.

I am two days making this, but as I am
not obliged to lift the kettles from the
range prefer that way to standing over it to
stir it. trge quantities of the jelly are
now made at the cider mill, and I have
bought it from grocers. It is a ﬁne tart in
mince pies. It costs me four cents per
pound at the mill. This apple butter lacks
the ﬂavor imparted to that in the good old
times by the brass kettles, but that we
think an improvement. Some would like
more jelly in it.

As 1 write the wind rises after rain and

the chickadees come for nuts and crumbs.
Ilaid one end of a board about two feet
long on the window sill and raised "the
other end with a prop until it could be easily
seen by the little ones within, then nailed
to it a bushy branch of an apple tree. The
birds become very tame and give much
pleasure. MRS. J. N. W.

Famann.

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LOOK over your Housnnonns for 1839, if
you propose to have tLem bound. If you
have missed any copies, and will notify the
HOUSEHOLD Elitor, she will supplyﬂthem,
if possible. We have a limited number on
hand and “ﬁrstcome. ﬁrst served.” Send
a one-cent stamp for postage.

 


  

,A DIAGNOSIS FOR POLLY’S DISEASE.

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

[wish to thank G. F. 0., of Ann Arbor,
for a painting lesson, as it was. j'lSt what I
had been wanting a long time.

A remedy for Diii’s difﬁculty where
breast milk is out of the question is to use
goats’ milk. There will be no more risk to
run than when children are raised at the
breast. The main thing is to get the goats.

Polly has asked foruname and remedy
for the disease she describes. 11 1re is. my
“‘d'agnosisz" Nama of the disease is
scandal. The symp’oms in the second
stage are a violent itching of the li'ngue
and roof of the moulh, w‘icb invariably
takes placa when you are in comps: y with
a Species of ani nal called gossip. The
remeoy I would recommend is this: Take
of good nature, one ounce: of an herb called
by the indium. mimi-yonr-own-business,
one (once; mix this Will a li?t‘.c charity
for others, and t 2m or three sprigs of keep-
your-tomz u “betwsen-yimr-zeerh. S‘ mmer
these irlzrz‘lileu‘s together in. a vessel called
circumspeciicn for a short lime and it will
be ﬁtfor lZS-‘. When you feel a h: of the
disorder coming on take a teaspoonfnl oi‘
the m’xﬁnre, hell it in 3.0 it invllh, which
you will keep c'lsu'y shut till you get home,
and you will ﬁnd a comma-re cur-e. Should
you aprr-“wud a r«;-iap:e keep a small but-
tleful about you, and on the slightes:
symptom repeat the dose. Tue beau‘y of
the remedy you will ﬁnd is that the ingre-
dients used will all grow in our own dour.
yards with very little home cultiva'ioa.

PLAINWELL. OLD HUNDRED.

W

FARMERS AND FASHIONS.

"The South J lckson Farmers’ Club recent-
‘ly discussed the question, “ Is it best, and
can farmers’ wives and daughters aﬁord to
follow the fashions in dress, household af-
fairs and social relations.” Mrs. Wm.
aButchins read the following sensible, prac-
tical paper on the suhj act:

“This is a broad question. It really
takes in the whole of a woman’s life; for
even if her dress be plain, her household
small and her social relations limited, it is
her world—be she farmer’s wife or daughter
or millionaire’s. I take the afﬁrmative and
say it is best, and that farmers’ wives can
afford to follow the fashions of the day, and
can no more ignore everything pertaining
*to style and custom than can any other class
,of women.
“ The ﬁrst point of our question is dress:
"We must dress in some style~why not in
the style of the day, and try to look like the
rest of the World? Nothing is gained by
doing otherwise. We may conform to
.fashions without following the extremes,
thus awiding oddity and remark. There is
always some style we can sift-rd, and a
woman with any tact or good taste can tell
at a. glance a style that will be the thing for
her. To be in fashion does not mean to
follow to the letter the dictation of designers
and origoators—it means to dress in good
taste. What farmer would like to see his
wife or daughter in good and fashionable
society, dressed without the slightest re-
gard to prevailing styles? It costs no more

 

does to buy goods that are out of date,
neither does it cost any more to have our
apparel made with an expression of style
than otherwise. It farmers’ business is such
a poor one that they cannot afford to dress
their families something as men in other
busines=es do, they had better abandon it for
some other and set us at liberty that we may
be able to appear like other women. Farm-
ers’ wives and daughters are entitled to all
the improvements of the age, and it is their
privilege and their duty to do all they can
to bring up the. farming society to a standard
to compare favorably with that of the cities.
it to he a farmer’s wile means that a
woman must lay aside everything that her
good taste (:esires and evrrything that
makes a pleasant home and life for her—
thcn the outlook must be dark to a young
lady who expects to wed a farmer. By all
means pay a reasonable amount of attention
in dire-s our: personal appearance. Aim for
a happy medium, and having found if,
assert your. rights and cling to it. Same
iarmcrs are unable to distinguish the dif-
ference between fashion and exir .vagance,
imagining anything approaching style to be
extravagance, and deeming it wholly un-
necessary; but when the newspapers are
booming a new country, do they not give
glowing accounts of the fashionably dressed
ladies of their cities as proof positive of their
rapid advmcement, knowing the suscepti-
hilityt) the inﬂuence 0? fashion that en-
dvlwg the cultivated people of the world?
"Next, we have fashion in household
affairs. There is some fashion in every
family for the arrangement of the house-
hold. 0 I! aim should be to have our fashion
so arranged that in the receiving and en-
tertaining ot company and friends, we ma y
not embarrass or incommode our own
family or ourselves. These fashions do not
require us to leave our customary duties un-
done; do not call us from the bedside of our
sick. neither do they interfere with our
hours of devotion or infringe upon our time
for mental improvement. Last, but not
least, can farmers’ wives and daughters
afford to follow the fashion in their social
relations. These, in a measure, unite with
our household aﬁairs and call for our con-
sideration, for we have social relations at
home as well as abroad, that leave an im-
press upon onr lives and make or mar our
happiness, and which cannot be neglected
without serious consequences. Our duty to
society calls for an understanding of the
rules of good breeding and reﬁned manners.
These are only the outgrowth or result of
civiliz ttion, and are the silent proclaimers
of our ascendancy over the heathen. It is
to be deplored that the farming community
does not give this question more serious
consideration, for if there is any place in
which we fall. it is here. If we would pay
more attention to this matter and teach our
sons and daughters to follow the fashion of
polite society regarding manners, conversa-
tion, etc, there would be no need of their
ever appearing uncouth or ill at ease in
fashionable society away from home; and
this is of more importance than some of us
are willing to admit. We have no right to use
impolite language or actions to each other.
We are bound to conform to the set rules of

allow, and it is as easy for farmers’ wives
and daughters to follow the fashion in social
relations as it is for any one else, and
should be imperative with them. Who has
not at some time felt the charm 0! good
manners? After all, what are good man-
ners, but the putting into practice of the
Golden Rule, ‘D) to others as you would
have others do to you?’ A truly good
woman will always be polite, for it is one
of the Christian graces.”

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

Tt'nx boiling water on the raisins and let
them stand ﬁfteen minutes. the: seed them.
The seeds will come out easily and without
waste. Don’t you remember how easily
you can separate the seeds from a raisin
also: is», (-l naked inamince pie ora
custard pudding?

A GOOD rzmedy for croup is said to be
half a toasnoonfui of alum, scraped cc, and
mixcd wiih an equal quaryiz‘y of sugar.
G've half a teaspcozgful to a child under
four years of age. a little more to one
older. live alsoa lime water to help it
down. Prompt action is necessary when-
ever one heart the pa‘culiar cough which
accompanies this disea-‘r, and a simple
remedy, given at once. will often avert the
threatened danger.

THE children will enjoy atreat of candied
pop-corn, prepared as follows»: Put into an
iron kettle one tablespwonful butter, three
tablespoonfuls water, one cupful white pul-
verized sugar. Bil] until ready to candy,
then throw in three quarts of nicely popped
corn. Stir briskly until the candy is evenly
distributed over the corn. Take the kettle
from the ﬁre, stir until it has cooled alittle,
and you have each grain separated and
crystallizl d with sugar. Take care that the
corn does not burn.

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U seful Recipes.

 

SEED CAKE—One pound ﬂour: half pouu d
butter; three eggs; one cup milk; teaspoon-
ful baking powder: two spoonfuls caraway
seeds. Use milk enough to make a stiﬂ bat-
ter. Stir the butter to a cream, add yolks of
eggs, sugar and ﬂour, then stir in the well—
beaten whites of the eggs. Bake slowly a
long time.

 

FRENCH Toasm—Beat an egg well, add a
saltspoonful of salt and a gill of milk. Dip
the slices of stale bread in this, wetting both
sides. Have hot butter or drippings in your
frying-pan, and fry the bread a light brown.

MEAT PIE —Cut up the remnants of a beef
roast, ora cold beefsteak; removing carefully
all bits of bone, etc. Put over the fire in a.
pan with sufﬁcient water, or the left over
gravy. Season with salt and pepper. Make
a crust as for short biscuit, rolling- it moder-
ately thin, line a basin with it, put in the
meat and gravy, and a lump of butter or half
acupo! cream, if you desire: cover with a
thicker crust, and bake from half to three-
quarters of an hour, according to size of pie.
Slit the top crust to permit the steam to es-

 

 

lto buy goods that are in fashion than it

society as far as our circumstances will

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