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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

OUR SERVANT GIRL.

 

We hired her, but she could not cook;
She knew not how to make a bed,
And I will swear upon the book
She could not bake a loaf of bread.

.She into corners swept the dust ;
A dustpan she had never seen;

The range took on a coat of rust;
Pots, pans and kettles were unclean.

Till it was black she boiled the tea;
The pan in which she boiled the ﬁsh
She used uncleaned for fricasse—
At every meal she broke a dish.

Although in splendid health, and strong,
Of work she seemed to be afraid;

She never cleaned the lamps as long
As she could see without their aid.

About her rights she had no doubt,
And did not fear of them to speak:
'She wanted every Sunday out
And three nights also every week.
My wife to her becoming cool,
She left us—sulky, black as ink,
She‘s now instructress in a school
For training servant girls, I think.
—Boston Courier.
—-¢o>———-—

THE HIRED GIRL.

 

A great deal has been written about the
hired man, how he should be managed and
entertained to make him contented, thereby
gaining the greatest proﬁt that can be
obtained. The hired girl has been left to
herself; no one has attempted to ameliorate
her condition. Now they are at work
organizing themselves into working-wo-
men’s societies. The objects of the society
are good; and every just and humane per-
son should wish that the associations may
ﬂourish. One of the many objects of their
co-operating is to found a labor bureau. for
the purpose of facilitating the ex change of
labor between the city and country, and
thus relieving the overcrowded occupations
of women. Mrs. Croly, writing upon this
subject says: “ Under competent direction,
and with acquired experience, there is
nothing to prevent working girls from mak—
ing a society of their own, which the most
fashionable women might be proud to enter,
and from which they could learn much.
There are plenty of working girls who can
perform on musical instruments, who can
sing, who can read and appreciate ﬁne
authors, and talk about what they read.
‘They could easily‘ make their own meetings
interesting by developing their own talents.
Annual meetings, anniversaries, or special
entertainments in behalf of some one whon
the members wish to honor, supply the
occasion for the important festivities of the
society; and at such time working-girls ﬁnd

   

 

that the most distinguished men and
women are proud to be their guests; and
that they can make their gatherings equal
in interest to any in the world; and far
more important than merely languid coming
together of those who have nothing to do in
the world.”

Now one of the hardest things of a work-
ing-girl’s life in the country is its want of
variety, and the difﬁculty which she ﬁnds in
securing opportunities either for recreation
or mental development. Is there not a
great ﬁeld open for work, for the mistress
of. each and every establishment favored
with hired help? Why not aid in educating
the girls by placing before them such books
and papers, and teaching them in such a
manner that they will become interested in
taking a higher plane? Why not aid them
to become competent to form such clubs,
and spend their time there instead of dis-
cussing their grievances on the streets after-
noons, or the evenings spent at aball, which
seem to be their primal idea of er joyment,
which does little but supply a crop of
headaches and regrets the next day? How
much more agreeable, proﬁtable and happy
would every girl become if she could be ap-
preciated, and helped to take a higher plane!
It is not the nature of the Yankee or
Amencan born girls to be treated as slaves.
They desire habitable quarters to rest their
weary bodies at night, for they are made of
the same clay as the mistress, and many
times are superior in intellect, and in keen-
ness of perception.

Who of us cannot instance several cases
within the circle of our acquaintance, who
are aping some rich relative in the city, not
thinking that there cannot be a parallel be-
tween city and country; as the mistress of
the country ho me has for her maid her
neighbor, educated at the same school, who
attends the same church, moves in the same
circle, it may be, with her sons and daugh-
ters. Can she be placed in a cold and bar
ren kitchen with no curtains to the win-
dows, nor ﬂowers, not a picture upon the
wall, nothing for a chair but one too old to
be in the dining room; and if the kitchen
is favored with a maid the year round. no
matter how old and broken the stove.»

I have felt many times that i would like
to take even the plaiuest of the many easy
chairs which are of various kinds, patent
rockers and patent without rockers, which
literally ﬁll the front rooms of the house, to
the kitchen, to surprise the maid’s back with
a little rest, for it gets no rest day or night,
as the duties of the day and evening are
performed in the high hard chair, mending
the old clothes for the men and boys, and

 

socks and stockings for the children. The
children are allowed to be impudent and
saucy to her in various ways, the mother
only seeing the cunning or witty words or
actions of the child. Many times she will
laugh and think the child so smart, while
the girl must endure all without check or
the rebuke which would be for the child’s
good and her own comfort. At night she
reclines upon a bed of straw, with no
springs; the sleeping room may be carpeted,
or it may not; there is usually a small
mirror, if it is whole it is nice, if not it
will do for such a back room in the house;
no wash-bowl or pitcher, she can wash at
the same sink that the men do, but I will
suppose that she has a different washdish
from the men, for whoever does the cook-
ing for a family ought always to have a wash-
dish and towel for herself.

I have heard women say “Oh. that is
good enough for a hired girl to use; she

would not appreciate it if i should get bet-

ter,” which is a mistaken idea.

As the kitchen must necessarily be in th e
rear part of the house, where the passers-by
in the street cannot be seen, and as it is the
room where she must spend the greatest
portion of her time, it seems a pity that her
drudgery cannot be alleviated at least by
a cheerful prospect. If the mistress would
show an interest in making both kitchen
and sleeping room just ascomtortable, cosy,
and attractive as her means and the object
for which it is used will permit, the girl
will speedily catch the spirit in nearly every
case, and lend a hand in preserving order
and prettiness; and in nine cases out of ten
there would be money enough saved to the
master and mistress of one such establish-
ment to furnish three or more such apart-
ments, with a nice easy rocker, a couch, a
few ﬂowers in the windows, a sweet singer
among the ﬂowers, a comfortable bed, and
many other things that would be exceeding-
ly proper and proﬁtable in any ' / =
sleeping room. — .

You can readily see that it is ,
more than human nature that the girl with
such surroundings would have a greater in-
terest in doing all things well, for all con-
cerned. There would not be so much
burned or sour bread, or so much pie, cake,
bread and meat thrown into the swill-pail
that might be made into palatable dishes
for company even; and the pail might be
secured too, instead of being slopped all
over the outside with sour milk and greasy
dishwater, as well as rich gravies and nice
pudding sauce. 1 think that the mistress
who can inspire her maid with affection will
lend savor to her cooking, for no girl or

   
 

 


   

 

INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

4:

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 
 

 

of the necessity of preserving what may be
called the unities of mourning. ‘A crape
veil over a silk dress is out of harmony.
Black ostrich plumes are inadmissible on
a hat to be worn as mourning; only stiif
black wings are permitted. Lace also is
barred. either for trimmings or for neck-
wear. Little jewelry of any kind should be
worn; the widow wears a. jet or onyx brooch;
along gold chain meandering over a crape
trimmed basque—or even a piainer mourn-
ing suit-is out of harmony with the toilette;
substitute a plain black ribbon if a jet
chain is not at hand.

Handkerchiefs have borders of ﬁne lines
of black, in preference to the wide black
bands once worn. Linen collars and
cuffs are edged with the same sombre hue,
but a line of black a quarter of an inch from
the edge is much more becoming than the
black band next the skin. Gloves are black
kid or silk, with heavily stitched backs.

While on this sombre subject 1 want to
say that here in the city the custom of
watching with the dead has quite fallen into
disreputv. The undertaker prepares the
dead for .nterment, so that no further at-
tendance is necessary; the windows are left
open a little way and the blinds closed, a
light burns dimly in the silent chamber 1 f
death, and the house is hushed in silence
almost as profound. When we remember
that all our elli3es for our beloved one are,
performed, save that of committing dust to
its kindred dust, we see how unnecessary
and uncalled for is the “sitting-up” which
A. H. J. so justly C(illtli'lilllS, mud which
among the young and unthoughtlui, loses
its solemn significance and becomes a ser-
ious annoyance to the bereaved mourners.
I knew an instance once where one mem-
ber of a bereaved family entered the room
where the watchers sat, and found them
playing cards. “It were all one” to the
rigid form awaiting burial, but it was a
decided shock to her nervous, sensitive
temperament, already wrought to a high
tension by days and nights of watchingaud
anxiety. Let no one tear to adopt this in‘
novation, which is sanctioned both by usage,
good sense and propriety.

lii'l x'l‘lth.

———¢oo————

LOUISA M. ALCOT'I‘.

 

It is with no ordinary sensation of regret
that the book-loving public hears that Miss
Alcott is dead. Everybody has read her
books, and laughed at the adventures or
sympathized with the misfortunes of the
“real live” boys and girls who ligured in
them. And everybody will agree with the
young miss who said, the evening her death
was announced: “ is it not sad! Miss Ai-
cott is dead and we shall have no more or"
her lovely books!”

Miss Alcott began to write stories when
she was but sixteen years old, and for the
next ﬁfteen years wrote short stories.
sketches and letters, with no particular
success in a literary sense. During the
war she worked in the Washington hospi-
tals as avolunteer nurse, and when the close
of the war released her, she visited Europe
in search of health, which had been impaired
by her arduous labors as nurse. Then she
wrote “ Little Women,” the book that won
her fame; published in 1867, 100,000 copies

  

 

were sold within three years. Her stories
had heretofore been about boys, and it was
at the suggestion of her publisher—or rather
on his daring her to write astory about girls
and intimating she couii not do it, that she
wrote “Little Women.” Friends of the
family recognize in it the members of the
Alcott family, and in “Jo”—-the jolly, good-
humored, scribbling girl, with no nonsense
about her—the authoress herself. Her lit-
erary work was performed very much as
was “Jo‘s.” When “genius burned” she
shut herself up, in an attic perhaps, any-
where where she could be undisturbed, and
wrote almost uninterruptedly until her book
was done. Then she came out of her se—
clusion, as she says herself, “tired, cross,
and hungry as a bear,” to resume her social
and domestic duties. “ An Old Fashioned
Girl " made hosts of friends, and those who
reat ” Little Women ” wanted to know how
“ Jo’s boys” grew up to be “ Little Men.”
These are probably her best known works,
though “ Eight Cousins ” and " lose in
Bloom ” were in her best vein.

Miss Alcott was in her titty—sixth year at
the time of her death, being born in Ger-
mantown in 15:32. She was the daughter of
Bronson Alcott, often called “the sage of
Concord,” and regarded as the apostle of
the 'l‘ranscendental school; he was scholarly
and a deep—thinker, and contributed largely
to the philosophical literature of the period.
He died at iloston on the ~tth inst., in his
eighty-ninth year; and it was in visiting
him (-11 the, 1st that Miss Alcott contracted
the cold which developed spinal nieningit's
and caused her death two days after his
paSsing away. She had been sutfering from
nervous prostration for a long time, but was
thought to be improving.

Personally, Miss Alcott while not beauti-
i'ul was yet attractive; she was tail and
stately, with blue-grey eyes, dark hair which
had a ripple in it and was always simply
dresSed in tint coils at the back of her large,
shapely head, and a pleasant face full of
character and expression. it will be long
ere she will be forgotten, either by those
who knew her personally or that far larger
contingent who admired her through her
pure, healthful, charming books.

BEATRIX.

~—-—-——¢o

PATJHING MEN‘S CLOTHES.

 

I certainly think one of the most dis—
agreeable tasks a woman has to undertake
is the renovation of men’s clothing, es-
pecially on a farm, where clothes are worn
more closely than in cities. “A rent is the
accident of the day; a patch is premeditated
poverty,” some one has said, but most of us
prefer the latter—at least “our folks” do—
aud the great thing is to make the patch as
unobtrusive as possible. A little good
judgment expended in planning, and an
eti‘ort to make the work creditable, pays.
Generally, if one has a pair of trowsers to
mend, if the knees are worn through, it is
better to set a piece in, rather than put a
patch under and cut out and fell down the
edges of the rent. Rip the seams of the leg,
cut out the worn part, taking pains to keep
the edges straight; use this for a pattern,
and out of new or partly worn pieces, cut a
piece just like it, allowing for seams. When
this is sewed in place and the seams

 

pressed, if the result is not “as good as
new” at least there is the satisfaction of
feeling one has done the best possible with
the material. So with worn coat-sleeves: set
in a new underpart, bind the edges with
coat binding (dress braid is sometimes used
in lieu of anything better but is not very
durable) and the result is quite satisfactory.

A tailor will take a partly worn suit, and
by brushing, sponging, pressing and mend-
ng, make it quite presentable. If a patch
is necessary, the edges are carefully cut by
a thread and the piece inserted “ without a
pucker.” The buttonholes are worked over,
and the worn binding renewed. I have
thought more than once I would like to see
how they manage the buttonholes.

Cannot some one give us some hints on
the subject of making over and mending
old clothes? L. c.

Dnrnorr.
-—-————oo.————

Mns. M. A. FULLER, of Fenton, Genesw
County, well known to our readers through
her contributions on tloricultural subjects‘
is prepared to furnish seeds of annuals, per—
ennials, and herbs, also bulbs, plants and
cuttings for the garden and greenhouse.
Write to her for what you want. She has
been sending out seeds and plants to our
lIot‘sEnoLo people for the past five years.
and we have yet to hear of the first con-.-
piaint.

-—————ooo——-—

in you have to buy lard, remember that
though the expense seems greater at ti.-
outset, it is really better economy to btx.
leaf and and try it on: at home, than to pu; <
chase the rendered lard of commerce. Ti»-
lattcr is almost invariably adulterated, and
has beside a large per cent of water boiiul
into it. The home rendered leaf lard llit.‘
the advantage in several ways.

 

Till-l chief cook of Deltnonico‘s safe at
New York gets a salary of (50.000 annually.
and his commissions and p .‘quisites amount
to about 54,000 more. \V. w is the W011)?"
cook who gets more than $255 per mont:,,
and " why is this thus?”

MOO.—

Somethrng for Breakfast.

 

CODFISH ox To.\sr.——Pick up a bowi-ful or
codllsh, cover it with cold water, let come to
a boil, drain in a colander, put into the basin
again with a half pint 01 cold milk, sensor-
with pepper and salt; stir it tablespoonfui of
flour into a generous lump of butter, stir inns
the codﬂsh, and pour over slices of buttered
toast. This dish has the Incrit of being app. -
tizing and euSily prepared.

 

BAKED MACKERls—Soak the ﬁsh over
night. In the morning turn on boiling watt r
enough to cox'er it, let stand a few moments.
drain, and lay the fish skin side down in n.
well—buttered pan. Turn over it half area:-
cupful of sweet cream, set in the oven ' »
brown a little, and serve smoking hot.

 

STEAMED Boos—Break the eggs on a but-
tered tin plate, set in a steamer over boiling,r
water and steam until the whites are cooked.
In this way the whites of the eggs are tender
and light, and can be eaten by invalids with
impunity.

 

RICE Caries—Take a cupful of cold boiled
rice, thin with milk to the consistency of
buckwheat batter, salt slightly, beat in one
egg and a handful of ﬂour, and bake like,
pancakes on a griddle.

 


  

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DETROIT, MARCH 1'7, 188$.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

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We hired her, hut she could not hook:
She knew not how to multe a bed,

And I will swear upon the hcoit
She could not. bake a loaf of bread

She into corners swept the dust :
A dustpan she had never seen;

'l‘nc range took on a coat of rust:
Pots. pans and kettles were unclean.

'I‘ill it was black she hailed the ten:
The pan in which she boiled the ﬁsh
She used vineleitned for fricasse—
At every meal she broke a dish.

Although in splendid health. :tnd strong.

0t” work she seemed to he afraid;
She new: cleaned th lumps as 1011:;

As- she could see without their iiid.
Altodt her Fizilts she hul ll-J Gould.

Anti dill not fear of them '1) speatt‘
D110 wanted every Sundny (hit

And three nights also every week.
)i y wire to her ir‘.'(‘()!.'ii7l‘_! will.

She it it :zs—sul‘nya Link as ink.
She‘s now iiisti'!ir!i'rss in a still-vol

For tru’idng serum: girls, l think.

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occasion for the important festivities ot‘ the
society; and at such tiane working-girls tind

the members wish to honor, supply tl“:

  

 

that the most distinguished men and
women are proud to be their guests: and
that they can make their gatherings eiual
in interest to my in the world: and far
more important than merely languid Comm:r
together of those who have nothing to do in
the world."

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ing-qirl‘s lite in the country is its want of
variety. and the diliiculty which she tinds in
securing opportunities either for recreation
or mental development. is there not a
great field open for work, for the mistress
of each and every establishme.1t favored
with hired help‘.’ Why not aid in educating
the girls by placing before them such books
and papers, and teaching them in such :1
manner that they will become interested in
iﬂiiiii}; a higher piiitlt‘l, Why not aid them
to become competent to r-irm such clubs,
and spendtheir time there instead of dis
cussing their griertuu'es on the streets after“
nouns, or the evenings spent ittdbiii. whi :h
St‘t‘lll to he their primal i;l1':). ol' erj :ynii-nt.
which does, little but supply :t
headaches and regrets t‘.

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socks and Stot'iiiiltzs tor the children.
L‘hiltiren are allowed
saucy to

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to he impudent and
various ways, the mother
only seeing the cunnin: or witty words or
actions or the child. Many times r~il" will
laugh and think 1hr: child sosmztrt. while
the girl must endure all without check or
the rebuke which would he tor the child's
good and her own comfort. At night she
reelines upon a l); d straw. with no
springs: the sleeping room may he czu‘petml.
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woman can ever become a ,good cook un-
less she loves the work, or loves the one
for whom she performs it.

The inihekitchen sits all alone,
In er work worn, faded clothes;

With only the night to call her own,
Wlth Only the wind to voice her woes.

The kitchen girl, like a pinioned dove,
Has a heart grown heavy and slow;
For a father‘s kiss and a mother‘s love

Are the shadowy visions of long ago.

The kitchen girl has love as true
As the maid in the drawing—room;
And her poor heart aches as her thoughts pur-

sue.
Their faded fancies athwart the gloom.

But the Christ who lay in the manger straw
Will ﬁnd in the kitchen even His own;

A girl as pure as the saints who draw
In a reverent circle about His throne.
Paw PAW. AURORA.

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CHILDREN’S FASHIONS.

 

Young girls’ fashions are, happily, no
longer copies in miniature of the styles
adopted by their elders. The models are
simpler and more suited to their years.
This spring the popular material for dresses
for girls from three to ten years of age
seems to be ﬁgured challi, in wool, and
sateen and gingham in cotton goods. The
challi dresses are made very simply; there
are three breadths of the double-fold goods
for a skirt, and these have neither tuck nor
ruﬁie, but are simply hemmed. The fronts
of the waist and skirt are in continuous
pieces laid in long pleats; the sides are ﬂat
and plain, and the back of the waist is
round and the skirt gathered to it. To
make it more dressy, a ribbon or surah
sash is draped on the back over the joining
of skirt and waist. Other challi dresses
have velvet yokes and belts, with straight
round skirts; sometimes the yoke is cut out
low in the neck to show a guimpe of muslin
or pique, in which case the armholes are
corded with velvet and sleeves of the muslin
or pique are worn. Another variation is to
prolong the yoke down the front to the belt
and lace it together with No. I ribbon.

Plaid ginghams are liked for little girls’
dresses, and trimmed with white embroidery
or plain gingham. A full skirt of three
widths of gingham is gathered to a round
waist, which is trimmed front and back,
with three perpendicular tabs of embroi-
dery, an inch and a half wide, the middle
one being the longest. Then again
some of the new dresses have yokes to which
are attached sailor collars. Such a
collar has points which come down in front
to the end of the yoke. Bias waists of
plaid gingham have two folds beginning on
each shoulder and meeting in front. at the
waist line; these folds are stitched, and
, 'gbe perfectly bias or they give much
tro‘uble in ironing.

A pretty dress for a nine year old girl
which can be made up in any desired com-
bination has a skirt which is perfectly plain
and moderately full at the sides and back.
This is attached to a plain nnderwaist, and
the front of this covered with pleats ex-
tending to the foot of the skirt, widening a
little and forming the front of the skirt and
also of the waist. These pleats on the skirt
are framed in revers of velvet, narrowing to
the waist, where they stop. Over this skirt
and Waist is worn a jacket, pointed in

front, with ‘a 'rolledcollar of velvet, cen-
tinuing in rovers to the bottom of the jacket;

theSe revers narrow at the waist line and

widen out again below, giving a slender

effect. The jacket does not meet in front,

but two loops of cord under large buttons.

one at the waist line and the other near the

bottom of the jacket, hold it together;

sleeves plain, with deep velvet cuffs, and a

high plain velvet band fora collar. For a

younger girl, whose dresses are buttoned at
the back, the same idea could be employed,

by making jacket and dress all in one piece.

A light ﬂannel dress for a girl seven years
old has a plain round skirt, over which is
worn a little princess slip, with the edges

pinked at the bottom. A short broad sash
is draped across the front and tied in a
single bow knot behind. A little cape,

deeply poxnted behind, and nearly reaching
the waist line, is worn over this, and com-
pletes a wry pretty suit for street wear in
early spring.

The little people of both sexes just going
into short clothes wear yoke slips till they are
a year old, when they are promoted to “ baby
waists.” The yokes of these little slips are
made of ﬁne tucking with feather-stitching
or a bit of embroidery between; the sleeves
are full and gathered to a band, and the
full skirt—which is quite long—is hemmed
and tucked, thrn gathered to the yoke.
The baby waists have deep yokes and nar-
row belts, and sashes of the same material
are added to tie behind in a large bow. (A
little Detroit miss, just beginning to strug-
gle with Ian guage, calls this big how “her
bussie,” which is baby dialect for bustle.)
Sleeves are sometimes made half long, with
corded edge, and a pointed cap of em-
broidery at the top. The neck is corded also.

Boys two and a half years old wear one-
piece dresses with round pleated waists, and
skirt with a large box pleat in the front,
the remainder laid in kilt pleats. The
waist has a box pleat down the front, with
six small side pleats on each side of it. A
turn-down collar, open in front and back, is
added. These suits are made of any ma-
terial desired, and are often trimmed with
rows of braid; the waists are quite long and
loose belts worn to conceal the union of
skirt and waist. _Sailor suits are worn by
boys and girls alike. A kilt skirt is sewed
to an nnderwaist covered in front with
pique to look like a shirt, and over this is
worn the sailor blouse, cut in a point low in
the throat, with a collar which is square be-
hind, pointed in front, and fastened under a
knot of. blue ribbon.

Another style for ﬁve-year—old boys has a
kilt skirt attached to an nnderwaist which
has a full puffed front of embroidered
muslin; over this is worn a jacket with a
broad, short back, and a front curving away
to show the embroidered front beneath and
also curved up the under arm seams. A
square collar is added, and the whole
trimmed with curled braid, or straight rows
of white linen braid.

The sailor blouse and yoke waists, mothers
shOuld remember, are most becoming to the
un formed, angular ﬁgures of girls of twelve
or thirteen. Bnararx.

Two bright New Jersey women, dissatis-
ﬁed with the money they made teaching,
invested ﬁfty dollars in poultry. The ﬁrst
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a HOUSEKEEPER’S EXPERIENCE.

 

I think the readers of the HOUSEHOLD
should give Evangeline a vote of thanks for
keeping its pages full; the only fault—to
my mind—being that the articles might
have been more seasonable. Good cook
books are now so cheap that we are not
very apt to take time six months hence to
look over a ﬁle of papers should we wish
to use her recipes or ideas. -
Let us ﬁrst of all things make the HOUSE-
HOLD practical.

At this season—March 1st——I always can
up my mince meat; never use any form of
alcohol and have never lost a spoonful.
After canning, if the meat shrinks, as it
nearly always does, I ﬁll up each can with
good vinegar; this prevents mold and may
be poured off when the can is or ened.

I use tin pails holding a gallon each to
put up my lard, and think it keeps nicer in
them than crooks.

Pails are more easily cleaned. Should
you paint your house this spring you will
get a supply of pails for the cleaning, which
is no work at all after you learn how.
Take a pail as soon as emptied, and half
ﬁll with road dust; scrub round a few times
and the job is done; the pail only needs
washing like any other dish.

As our sweet apples were spoiling, I
made them all into cider apple sauce the
other day, putting it in tightly corked gal-
lon jugs, and I think we shall enjoy it
when apple sauce is not so common as now.
I also ﬁll every can as fast as emptied with
green apple sauce. I think a good supply
of such things makes life easier when house
cleaning time arrives.

Now will some of our good ladies answer
a few questions:

What colors of carpet warp will best with-
stand the sun?

How shall I proceed to make wool mat-
tresses after I have cleaned the wool?

I have a hens’ feather bed which has be-
come dusty, and as I saved the the feathers
very carefully, am sorry to throw them
away. If I empty them into a pounding
barrel and wash, will the dirt settle to the
bottom, leaving the feathers clean?

Will pink and blue cheese cloth fade if
used for comforters under a white spread?

Convenient kitchen utensils are so com-
mon nowadays, it is very difﬁcult to name
the one we prize the most. but I think the
one I should have missed this winter would
have been my small meat saw. I do so dis-
like to have the men come with an ax when
I want a roast or steak from a quarter of
beef. MRS. W. J. G.

HOWELL.

”age——

The Medical Press says the common
wart, which is so common on the hands
and the faces of children, can be cured by
small doses of sulphate of magnesia taken
internally. Several children were cured by
three grain doses of Epsom salts, taken
morning and evening. A lady whose face
was sadly disﬁgured, was also cured by
taking 1% drams of sulphate magnesia
daily for a month.

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

    

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KITCHEN CONVENIENCES.

 

When Beatrix asked each to mention her
greatest kitchen conveniences, she of
course meant anything used within those
four walls, whether stationary or otherwise,
and if the returns are not all in I would
like to add a few words about one that has
not been mentioned by any. All ,honor to
the egg-beater, sitter, lardpress, woodbox
and even A. L. L.’s dishcloth, but my can-
didate for household honors is my sink. It
is an ordinary iron one, located four feet
from the cook stove; the drippings from the
well- pump run into it at one end and from
the cistern pump at the other; and best of
all, there’s a large waste pipe from it, set at
such an angle that it cannot clog, and this
in turn empties into just such an open drain
as Beatrix described once upon a time,
this one being sunk just its own depth in
the hillside on which the house stands, so
everything goes down it as if it were a
toboggan slide. The sink is in the south-
east corner of the kitchen, so none of our
severe west or north winds can affect it,
but to guard against free zing, the spaces be
tween the studding and all around the
Waste-pipe were ﬁlled solid with mortar, and
there has been no trouble even in the
coldest weather. I mention the location
because in our other home we had just such
arrangements, except that from necessity it
was in the northwest corner, and all this
precaution would not there prevent freezing.

But to return to this particular one:
There was a “trap” with the sink, but
that was promptly discarded, so the one and
a half inch pipe is entirely open, and how
nice it seems in all this zero weather that I
need not even open the door to get or dis-
pose of water. All the wash water, dish-
water, tea and coffee grounds, in fact every-
thing to be poured out, is so quickly dis-
posed of, and brushing out with a whisk
broom now and then keeps it all clean. If
any dish needs soaking it is put in the sink
where there can be plenty of water used in-
side and out. A large cork ﬁts the pipe for
cold nights, or if as in warm weather, I
want to cool a pudding or anything I’ve
only to put in the cork, pump the sink half
full of water and set the pan into it. I
think I could spans anything from my
kitchen better than my sink, but I know
very well that every one cannot have just
this convenience because of the difference in
location. My sister spent some time with
me last fall and she often said: “ There’s
nothing here that I covet so much as this
sink. We are on adead level and every
drop of slops has to be carried off in pails.
It seems like the hardest part of my wash-
ing to dispose of the water.” Living as
they do on a corner lot on a village main
street. they could not “throw it out” in
any direction, and all must be carried into
the garden; but there is usually some way
out of such difﬁculties if there is only a
will. Many think it necessary to have the
water handy to get, but never seem to re”-
member that just as much has to be car-
ried out as is carried in.

Another great convenience that seems to
belong with the sink is a sponge. Mine

cost twenty cents four years ago and has
never been dry for a half day in all that

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time. Its chief mission was to wash the
washbowl, but it is pressed into service every
way and is always satisfactory. It does
not retain either stain or scent, no matter
what it is used for; and is never unsightly
like a ragged cloth. If the looking-glass
over the sink needs washing, or the iron
pump, the lamp chimneys, the zinc under
the stove or whatever is wanted, it lies there
by the cistern pump always ready. If any-
thing is spilled on the carpet throw the
sponge into the washbowl, squeeze dry and
it is as hungry as a district school boy, then
drop into the milk or water and it is
quickly sucked up without rubbing or leav-
ing a wet spot as a cloth wouli do. Soap
makes a lather with it better than with a
cloth, and it has seemed so much super-
ior in every place that I think it may prove
to be the Iong-sought-for ideal dishcloth, al—
though I have not yet tried it for table ware.

WASHINGTON. EL SEE.

—.—.——§...____

WHAT CHEBOYGAN COUNTY IS
LIKE.

I have ﬁnished reading the article on
Michigan Wild Flowers, by Frances, of
West Branch; and as I intend to make the
woods of Northern Michigan my home in a
few weeks, I thought why not tell the
HOUSEHOLD people a few facts about the
north. Now I am not in the least interested
n the sale of any land out there, but would
advise those who are in need of a home,
with only a few hundred dollars wherewith
to purchase, instead of the mad scramble
after farms to rent, or work on shares,
(where the whole proﬁts are swallowed up
in the wages of hired help, the moving
about from place to place every spring, with
the unsettled feeling 'of “no home of our
own ”) why not resolve to be a pioneer in
one respect? The life of those seeking
homes in a new country is far different
from what it was in the days of our fore-
fathers.

Last August I resolved to see some of the
rev land of Northern Michigan, believing
that if one went beyond the pine belt, bet-
ter timber and better soil would be reached.
So while the mercury stood at 100 degrees
in the shade, myself and the two little ones
took the northbound train for Petoskey;
before reaching there however we passed
through some forsaken-looking pine country.
I will not stop to expatiate on the beauty to
be seen at all sides in the lovely health
resort of thousands, for probably many of
you have visited Petoskey, but tell you of
the many pleasant homes 1 found out in the
country, or woods, as some are in clearings
of not over four or ﬁve families. As
Frances says, the woods are very beautiful
in summer. Now I do not say his is the
nicest place in the world to live, but we
meet w1th blizzards in the west, and many
other unpleasant things.

The land near Petoskey, ten to ﬁfteen
miles east, is diversiﬁed, some rolling, some
nice smooth, level tracts, covered‘ with
timber, and such ﬁne straight timber too;
but it is the soil that I was after. I took

. the potato pail and away I went to get a

pail of potatoes in spite of my friends’ ob-
jection; Iwanted to see the soil for myself
and get the potatoes as they grew. I dug my

pail full of large, nice, fair skinned potatoes;-

    

 

some were small, but what we poor
Southern Michiganders would call good
sized, they boiled for the hogs. Then I
proceeded to investigate the soil. I dug down
a foot and a half in the ground and found
it rich black mellow soil; in several places
I looked for poor soil, sand, but found
none.

The houses are comfortable, and I could
make one (that is if it were built to my
notions) even luxurious; for isn’t it a luxury
to have a good substantial log house, well
hewed and plastered, on a ﬁne eighty or
one hundred acres of good land of your very
own? I think so; even if the land must be
cleared; when it is done it is ours. The
lot may seem hard, but it is no more than
our grandfathers have done. The land is
held at six dollars an acre; good homes
with some clearings and improvements, can
be bought for $800 to 31,000. How much
better than renting and living here and
there, only earning a living. The people
are poor but comfortable, reﬁned, intelli-
gent, and very kind hearted.

BRIDGEWATER. MAYBE LLE.

____...._.__.
AT HOME.

“ I don’t care how I look at home;” and
the young lady, with a merry laugh, drew
together some long rents in her faded dress;
one of which extended from neck to waist
and disclosed a ragged, shapeless corset
and soiled under-wear. I did not doubt her
words, but when I met her in the afternoon,
looking as dainty as a lily in her dress of
white muslin, with a bunch of Marguerites
at her belt, [queried if it would not be as
well for her to understand something m: re
of the laws of equalization.

It is nothing strange, in making a call, to
hear our ring at the door followed by a
sound of ﬂying feet and be admitted to a
disturbed atmosphere. If we chance to be
formal, the young ladies of the house ap-
pear after a time, in costume, and try to give
us the impression that they are always thus.
If on familiar terms, after our voice is
recognized, they peep from behind doors
and down stairways, and repeat our open-
ing phrase, or what is worse because it is a
lie, “ Oh dear, you'll be frightened to death,
I never looked so had before,” etc., etc.
Meanwhile, in either case, the mother is
left to face the music and cover up and ex-
cuse the appeararce of things, in a way that
is disgusting to one fond of living on a
solid and genuine basis. It is a nice thing
to honor our vocation, to have a dress suit-
able to it; and no matter who sees us, to
feel no need of excusing either. This is
such a nice thing that it would pay to teach
it to our children and even to practice our-
selves.

As a rule those men and women who ap~
pear in the ﬁnest style abroad, appear in
the worst at home. I have seen men bare-
footed, with no clothing except apair of
overalls and a shirt, and the lower half of
the sleeves cut off the latter, who, when
they “go out” can hardly ﬁnd collars too
high, or trowsers too tight; while women
whose costumes are sufﬁcient to rouse envy
when “dressed up,” are the very epitome
of diet and slovenliness within the precincts
of their own kitchens. I have known an old
water-proof garment, devoid of buttons, to


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take the place of a wrapper a whole sum-
mer, and the efforts made to keep the fact
secret took time enough to have made a
dozen dresses, and warped the nature of
the wearer more than her store of silks,
velvets and muslins could ever beautify.
There is a great deal of work which one can
not do in nice, even good clothes, without
ruining them. So if a farmer hauls
manure, or his wife makes soap, white-
washes her rooms, or a dozen other tasks
which demand it, let them don their poorest
suit, and feel no shame about it becauie it
is suitable. But when their daughter be-
gins to keep all her ﬁnery for a show and all
her shabby clothes, and manners to match,
for home; it is time, and rather late, that she
be taughtto deduct a print dress and apron
from her new walking suit, and pay some
attention to her appearance at home.
THOMAS. A. II. J.
_._,.._._

THAT DISH-CLOTH.

 

I enjoy the HOUSEHOLD department very
much indeed; and I do think the FARMEB
one of the best of papers, and would often
like to speak right out in meeting while I
am reading, but it makes me feel bashful or
something when I think of writing. I
wanted to tell you what was my most con-
venient article about the kitchen. I own
up that the dish-cloth that A. L. L. writes
about “takes the cake,” in fact “the whole
bakery.” I do not use mine in that way.
A great many things are useful, but they
all sink into insigniﬁcauce compared to
that dish-cloth.

lhave thought the swill pail stood ﬁrst,
set in an-out-of-sight place; while the
dishes are being washed it saves one’s hands
not to expose them to the cold air, if they
tre liable to chap, to empty slops. Again, I
ike a goof strong basket that does not leak
iirt for wood, better than a box. It can be
taken to the pile to ﬁll and the dirt emptied
every time; when not wanted by the kitchen
stove, it can be put in the woodhuuse out of
the way.

I ﬁnd it very convenient to have a small
wooden box covered with paper like that on
the wall, hung with stout cord back of the
stove; it is very handy for every day slip-
pers, gloves and mittens. They are always
warm and dry, and out of the way.

1am just like “ Aunt Sue ” about E vange
line; who has a better right to live well
than the farmer if he can afford it?

BATTLE CREEK. TAB. B.

..————«.————
A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE.

Mrs. A. W. S., of Grant, inquires: “Is
it proper for a lady to bow to a strange
gentleman when they meet in tie street, in
the city or country.” Certainly not. It is
the lady’s place to bow to her acquaintances
only. In the city—and I presume in tie
country as well—only two interpretations
can be put upon the recognition of a
stranger on the street. Either it is a case
of mistaken identity, or the woman who
thus attracts a gentleman’s attention is of
questionable reputation. No young lady,
especially, can venture upon such a recogni‘
tion without gravely compromising herself
in the eyes of the stranger.

 

MENDING.

 

Two things were taught us when we were
little girls that we have always been glad to
know, one was darning and one was
making button-holes.

Darning is the only fancy work we ever
indulge in, for between ourselves and the
washwoman there are so many holes to be
mended there is no time for anything else.
We like a neatly mended stocking and
always darn with precision as long as there
is anything to dam to, and it-is our custom
to mend at once all places beginning to
look thin. Never wait for a hole to come
through; run the yarn along the line of
stitches whenever you can see your mending
ball plainer in one place than another. The
patch is easier done and when it begins to
wear oif again, which it will not so soon.
the threads can be easily crossed so as to
make new cloth. Finally, when too far
gone to darn or when the darned places are
themselves worn, cut out a square and knit
it in with yarn as nearly like the original as
you can ﬁnd. Balbriggan stockings, ecru
tint, do not look badly heeled with white of
a very ﬁne quality, knitted in on ﬁne steel
needles. Any color can be matched, either
in wool, cotton or silk, and the old stocking
takes on new life by means of this patch.
The knees of children’s stockings can be
well mended in this way.

N ow about button-holes. We like to
make button-holes and like to own nice ones,
and we like to have them look in good re-
pair all the time.

This is the way we do it: Keep a quantity
of button—hole twist on hand and occasion-
ally look over the garments, and wherever
there is a sign of giving out, make new
right over the old; have the ﬁnished edge
come exactly over the tailor’s or dress-
maker’s ﬁnish—a little pains will do it—
and the button-hole will do its work again
as nice as new. Never let bindings, or
hems, or edges, wear clear through without
ﬁrst attempting to lengthen their term of
usefulness by a little bit of button-hole
stitching here and there where the most wear
comes. A very little labor will often put off
for a long time the worst days of a garment.

What applies to outside garments applies
equally to inner or to cotton garments.

For silks, nothing mends nicer than a bit
of court-plaster on the wrong side of the

garment ; a rent or crack is especially well .

repaired in this way.

Patches can also be gummed upon certain
garments, as wearing knees and elbows,
putting the patch on before the garment is
worn through. ANON.

LANSING.
+

DAISY Canes—Make any kind of rich
cookies, and cut them out with a. scalloped
cookie-cutter. Make a stiff frosting of the
white of one egg and powdered sugar. Put
some of this into a little roll of stiff white pa-
per with the point out off, or use a confec-
tlouer‘s syringe if you have one; with this
put petals of the white frosting on each
cookie, like the petals of a daisy. Do not let
the petals quite come together at the centre.
Make another frosting of yolk of egg and
sugar, and make the centre of this, a
spot about as large as a cepper cent. These
are pretty ornaments for the table for a
child‘s birthday party.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

ONE who knows how it is himself strong-
ly recommends bathing cnilblains with pep-
permint extract, saying almost instant r'e-
lief is experienced. Menthol—the active
principle of peppermint—is the agent which
relieves, and is the basis of many alleged
remedies. But the peppermint extract is
just as good and less expensive.

 

IN making pie-crust, getting it too moist
and handling it too much makes it tough.
It should be handled as little and as lightly
as possible. Fruit pies generally require a
longer time to bake than other varieties; an
apple pie is much better to be baked an
hour slowly, than twenty minutes rapidly.

 

1T passes the courage of many lovers of
fruit to attack an orange at the table, when
it is not prepared in any way for eating
conveniently. They sympathize with the
maiden ladies in “ Cranford,” who used
each to take an orange on rising from the
table, and with it retire to her own room
and in its strict seclusion, proceed to eat it
by that very palatable but inelegant method
known as sucking it. One way of con-
quering the diﬂiculty is to cut off the end
with a knife and with a spoon dig out the
pulp. A manner of serving which obviates
all difﬁculties is as follows: Cut each
orange evenly in two, remove the pulp,
separate it into sections, taking out the
seed, but breaking the inside pulp as little
as may be. With ﬁne wire make a handle
to each half of the rind, thus forming little
baskets, and wind the handle with ribbon.
Fill each basket with sugared sections of
orange and arrange them all on a fancy
dish or platter with sprays of ﬂowers or of
pretty green foliage interspersed if that
can be had.

PAINT can be removed without tte
laborious rubbing with sandpaper once
thought necessary, it can be removed
with perfect ease by one or more applica—
tions of naptha. Chloroform in spirits of

ammonia will also remove it readily.
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Useful Recipes.'

 

BEEF Loan—Three pounds of chopped
beef; two well-beaten eggs; two cups rolled
crackers or bread crumbs; ore cup sweet
milk; half cup butter; half tablespoonful of
salt; half teaspoonful pepper; one pint water.
Mix thoroughly, mould into a loaf, and bake
two and one-half hours, basting often.

 

CORNED BEER—T0 every hundred pounds
of meat allow six ounces of pure saltpetre;
six pounds of coarse salt; two pounds brown
sugar. Dissolve the salt in ﬁve gallons of
water, and the sugar and saltpetre with hot
Water; skim, after mixing, and turn over the
meat. It the meat is to be kept after warm
weather in the spring, it must be taken up
and the brine scalded and a little more salt
added.

 

MOCK Tonnes—Take a leg of pork, re move
the outer skin and the bone, roll out a thin
pie-crust and envelope the meat in it, cover-
ing every portion of it. Put into the oven
and bake in a moderate heat. Remove the
crust before serving; the meat will be found
delicious—white, tender, and tasting like a
well-fattened turkey.

 

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