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’03 L0 VE’S SAKB'.

 

Sometimes I am tempted to murmur
That life is ﬂitting away;
With only a round of triﬁes
Filling each busy day.
Dusting nooks and corners,
Making the house look fair,
And patiently taking on me
The burden of woman’s care.

Comforting childish sorrows,
And charming the childish heart
With the simple song and story,
Told with a mother’s art;
Setting the dear home table,
And clearing the meal away,
And going on little errands
In the twilight of the day.
One day is just like another,
Sewing and piecing well,
Little jackets and trousers '
So neatl‘y than none can tell
Where are the seams and joinings.
Ah! the seamy side of life
Is kept out of sight by the magic
Of many a mother and wife.

And oft when I’m ready to murmur
That Time is ﬂitting away

With the self-same round of duties
Filling each busy day,

It comes to my spirit sweetly,
With the grace of a thought divine;

Yon are living, toiling for love’s sake
And the loving should never repine.

You are guiding the little footsteps

In the way they ought to walk;
You are dropping a word for Jesus

In the midst of your household talk;
Living your life for love‘s sake

Till the homely cares grow sweet,
And sacred the self denial

That is laid at the Master’s feet.

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NEW SPRING WRAPS.

If Winter does not “linger in the lap of
spring” till we have no occasion for
spring wraps, we shall soon lay aside
heavy fur trimmed and wadded garments
for the lighter and more graceful gar-
ments with which the merchants are ﬁll-
ing their counters. Ladies who have
tailor made suits are provided with an
outside garment, suitable for street wear
at any time; that is the beauty of the
tailor made suits; they can be worn any-
where, at any time, being “ the fashion ’
for everything but full or demi-dress oc-
casions. The jackets this spring have
loose fronts, which are considerably
longer than the tight ﬁtting backs; they
are trimmed with the galloons which come
to match all the new colors. These cost
from 20 to 30 cents per yard, or $2 and $3
per piece of eleven yards, for two and
two and one—half inch widths. The
fancy braids with threads of gilt and

 

silver are much used, especially a basket
braid of gilt with various colors. These
must be used sparingly, as they give a
tawdry, “theatrical ” air to a dress when
used in profusion. Many of these jackets
are simply ﬁnished with machine stitch-
ing, and are very neat and ladylike.
Buttons are small and of silk; metal but-
tons are not desirable for such garments-
Newmarkets for spring wear have tight
ﬁtting backs and loose fronts, with the
edges machine ﬁnished. A new model
has a yoke, to which the skirt 18 box-
pleated, and is worn with a belt. Dress
mantles are short and small, more fre-
quently in colors than in black; many
are made to match the dress with which
they are to be worn. They are quite short
in the back, have three seams which ﬁt
them to the ﬁgure, and the sides and
front are out together to form a small
sleeve; the fronts reach at least half way
to the knee, but are often longer. A
model seen at one of our stores had but
one scam in the back, from which the
sides sloped downward to form a point,
being cut upward again to the sleeve.
A beautiful garment seen at a late open-
ing had very narrow back forms, with
sleeves of jetted grenadine lined with
cardinal surah, and long tab fronts. Only
the sleeves were lined with the colored
surah, the remainder of the garment
being made of velvet ﬁgured black
surah. Trimming, jetted chenille fringe.
Most of the new mantles in serge
tricot, etc., are ﬁgured with velvet,
making very pretty and stylish wraps.
Trimmings are the still popular chenille
fringe, something new in crimped silk
called “moss trimming,” and frills
of French lace with passementerie head-
ings. Galloons are also used on these
mantles, and in silk garments full pinked
ruches of the material. Shoulder capes
are still to be worn; the new style has
fronts which cross like aﬁchu, and fasten
under a knot of ribbon, a very pretty
fashion. All have very high collars about
the neck. Jerseys have taken fast hold
on public favor; almost every lady adds
one to her wardrobe for wear with skirts
to which the basques are worn out. The
plain wool jerseys, or those braided with
ﬁne soutache braid, are more in favor
than the silk or the elaborately jetted
ones, so much worn last season. Avest of
velvet is sometimes set in, and the bottom
trimmed with rows of narrow velvet
ribbon.

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A common wishes to be told how
to cook cracked wheat,in the best manner.

    

 

MY FLOWER GARDEN.

The faces, fragrance and companion-
ship of Flora’s children are and have
always been very dear to me, though up
to four years ago Iknew but little of their
habits or culture. At that time I resolved
to have a few fair ﬂowers. if not defeated
by my own ignorance. I ordered thirteen
sorts of annuals, mixed varieties, of Vick,
the ﬁrst of May, but it was late in the
afternoon of a day well toward the last
of the last week in May, when Bob an-
nounced “E. L. Nye, your ﬂower beds
are ready to receive that precious posy
seed. I suppose you will soon be stronger
than Mrs. Slack’s winter butter, and
healthier than Dr. Mary Walker.”

This was heartless sarcasm, but I did
not pay him off, because it had been no
fool’s job to make those two good beds,
sixteen feet square, in the front yard.
First the heavy sod had been removed,
and then the clay beneath. so hard that it
must be chopped out with the pick, was
taken out to the depth of twenty inches,
next boards were ﬁtted in to form a neat
frame, making a sort of deep box, which
was ﬁlled, ﬁrst with a deep layer of com-
post from the horse stables, and on this
was placed a generous covering of rich
garden soil, and reallyI was too glad that
they were at last ready to be anything
but highly amused by Bob’s sarcastic
prophecies. Iwas, however very tired,
having “turned off ” one of those enor-
mous forenoons’ works, that have a fash-
ion of “turning up” so promiscuously
in every farm house. A few dolce far
m'ente hours were just What I needed, and
should have enjoyed but for those seeds'
waiting to be sown. So I said to myself,
“It is so healthful! this working in the
dirt! I shall feel a hundred per cent re-
freshed by it.”

So I took the pretty little packets and
began to make little drills, and to sow
the seed in the exact order in which I
wished the plants to appear in the beds,
but had not been engaged in this ex-
tremely healthful diversion 15 minutes
before I became wretchedly conscious
that it was making me most fearfully sick!
I thought of the ridicule in store for me
if I made a ﬁzzle of the ﬁrst step. My
grit came to the front, and I said “Live
or die, sink or swim, survive or perish,
I sow these seeds if I lie down in the dirt
to do the work.” I sowed ’em, every one;
and further, I went to the orchard and
brought brush, and covered the beds to
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marauding bipeds or quadrupeds. Then I
resigned myself to the agonies of a sick
headache, that extended from the apex of
my cranium to the minutest nerve in the
nether side of my pedal extremities. And
when shortly after, Bob came up from the
ﬁeld and found me desperately clinging
to a post on the back stoop, retching and
panting till the old stoop heaved, and
the post shook with sympathy, he laughed
loud and long. and said in areal com-
forting way, “()ut door work and posy
beds are improving your health, ar’n’t
they?” and then he laughed again. And
I answered, ”Oh dear! but you know I
never could endure the smell of—of—l
Oh dear! and I'll bet I won’t have a single
ﬂower. Oh-h-h!” And as I crept off up
stairs to bedIheard Hi and Bob both
laugh and say something about “ healthy
for her.” But ﬁne showers and warm
sunshine soon brought tiny shoots into
view here and there in my little furrows;
soon they were full of shoots, every seed
mus t have germinated. I had many
plants to give away, and ah! how they all
did grow! And what delight I found in
their companionship, and in the pastime
that working among them afforded! The
season was in every way favorable to
them. Sweet Alyssum was the ﬁrst to
bloom, and then there was a succession
of new buds unfolding into the loveliest
of ﬂowers, and “E. L. N ye’s ﬂowers”
became quite famous in alittle local way.
Bouquets were gathered and sent miles
away, and close at home, and the more
the shears snipped off the blossoms the
more blossoms there were waiting to be
gathered. And I gathered from under
the early snows of fall and winter many
beautiful bouquets of the rich velvety
French marigold, and the sweet faced,
fragrant petunia. And last, but not
least, brothers Hi and Bob came to love
the ﬂowers too, and to take an interest
in them second only to my own; so much
so, that I now have ﬁve large beds in the
front yard, and they never make fun of
my ability as a gardener now, but help me
with such parts of the work as I have
not strength to do myself, without so
much teasing as it took to get the ﬁrst beds
made.

The second year I got my seeds from
Mrs. M. A. Fuller, and have continued to
get them of her every year since. And
every year something new and beautiful,
something that I did not expect, surprises
and delights us and all our friends. in my
little ﬂower garden. Ihave just about
made out my list for this spring, and
shall avail myself of Mrs. F.’s very gen-
erous offer in a late Household; as I have
always found her goods to be exactly
what she claimed for them; and I have
had every season, in spite of drouths and
ﬂoods, a rich reward for all the labor I
have given. Ihave made many ridicu-
lous blunders, the worst one of all being
the planting of six blossoming tuberose
bulbs bottom side up. I have never

made a second trial with such bulbs,
much as I wish for some tuberoses. As
for the healthfulness or unhealthfulness
of the work, it never made me sick but

patent to need explanation; but I have
found much happiness, and happiness is
health~both in care and companionship
of these wonderful, beautiful, growing,
and speedily perishing things. Uncon-
sciously, without effort on our part or
theirs, we are by them carried out of
ourselves and away from the toils and
cares that perplex and burden our lives.
Therefore it is good for me, and for all
women who love ﬂowers, to cultivate a
ﬂower garden in the sweet summer
time. E. L. NYE.

HOME IN-THE-HILLS.
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SEEDS FOR THE FLOWER GAR-
DEN.

 

Although we are enjoying little sun‘
shine for the last of March, and though
no doubt every heart in the country is
longing for a change to brighter weather,
we know the time is not now far distant
when we may enjoy with even greater
zest than usual the - ﬂowers of spring and
the early work in the garden.

There are few perennial or herb seeds that
are not slow to germinate; in fact the most
of the herbs commonly grown are hardy
perennials. All slow-sprouting plants
should be started early, if not sown in
autumn, and just as soon as the soil can
be worked. Any chance freezing will do
no harm; the most of them will come self-
sowed when the plants are established.
Many delay ordering seeds,and delay again
after receiving them, and the weather
becomes warm and the soil dry before
they are planted,'and then it is so long
before they germinate that they are likely
to be hoed up and lost, and the ﬂorist is
blamed and seed condemned as worthless.
There are vegetables that may be planted
very late in spring, and one light shower
will start them. Cucumbers and radishes
will do so, but peas and tomatoes must
be sown early, and so with ﬂowering
plants. While some require little care,
others should have bottom heat to suc-
ceed well, or be started in the house. For
sweet peas, our most charming and fra—
grant climber, there should be a trench dug
twelve inches deep, ﬁll it half full of well
rotted manure, a part from the hen house,
cover with good soil and sow thickly. A
bed should be chosen where there can
no water settle, or the peas may chance to
rot.

Among sweet and medicinal herbs, the
fern-leaved parsley is as beautiful as a
plant, and the leaves the ﬁnest grown for
garnishing. I use them frequently for
ﬂat bouquets. The seed must be sown
early, and where only a few seeds are
sown a glass dish inverted over them will
hasten the germinating process. Penny.
royal is. I think, well known everywhere,
but when cultivated would scarcely be rec-
ognized, it grows so thrifty, and the
ﬂowers are so much more conspicious.
The excellence of this plant as afebrifuge
and emmenagogue may not be quite well
understood.

Most of the herbs of which I have oﬂer-
ed seed are hardy perennials. and the
annuals are not tender. They require

 

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kept clear from weeds, and thinned out if
they are sown too thickly. I will classify
the different varieties in regard to habit.
The perennials are balm, hyssup, laven-
der, rosemary, sage, sweet fennel, sweet
marjorum, thyme, parsley and wormwood;
all others are very hardy, and the most of
them will come self-sown if allowed to
seed.

Mr. Ferry times the sowing of herbs in
April in seed bed, and says transplant in
June. I have usually sowed seeds the
last or middle of April, but the weather
must decide; and it saves labor to sow
where they are to remain, in a small gar-
den. Caraway and dill are raised for the
seed as spices or confections; lavender
for its perfume and distillation. I think
the uses of the others are well known. The
herbs should be cut when in bloom and
allowed to wilt in the sun, then spread on
papers in the shade and thoroughly dried,
when not sold freshly gathered. This
rule will apply to herbs usually saved for
family use, which are too frequently
gathered any time before frost, tied up,
and hung in the garret to “ waste their
fragrance.” Catnip is avery useful herb,
and the time and way to gather it is
when the ﬂowers are faded; strip the
ﬂower heads from the stems and dry them,
as these only are used.

Seeds of herbs, perennials and climbers
at six packages for 25c; 13 for 50c; 30 for
$1. Packages of mixed varieties, 10c each.
Choice pansy, carnation, stock, verbena,
hollyhock, oxalis, double'portulacca, Gal-
endula meteor and rubectia, 10c per pack-
age, three for 250. Good bulbs of double
Pearl tuberose, 100 each, three for 25c;
house-grown Maderi vine bulbs, 10c each,
four for 250. Send postal note for sums
of 25c or over, smaller sums in one and
two cent stamps. MRS. M. A. FULLER.

Box- 297, Fenton, Mich.

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WHAT ONE FARMER’S WIFE
DOES IN WINTER.

After getting the children off to school,
sweeping, and attending to many other
duties only women know about, I took
up the Household, and what should I see
but the “ wail” from Huldah Perkins,
“What do farmers’ wives do in the win—
ter?” It would be easier for me to say
what we do not do, there is so much less
of it. Do, indeed! why spend two dread-
ful hours every morning thawihg things,
to begin with, where we cool them in warm
weather at ﬁve o’clock. Then the wash-
ing, ironing, mopping, churning, baking,
cooking, and most discouraging of all,
the sewing, which will not stay done; a
woman has no sooner got the family all
comfortable, from the head of the house
down to the baby, than she has to com-
mence over again, for if the garments are
not worn out they are out—grown. Then
there are the social calls, the company,
which comes at unexpech times, like the
measles. A friend who was visiting here
yesterday, with ﬁve others, said: “You
look thin; I guess you work too hard;
with your family of seven, and average
family of seventeen, you ought to have
help.” Perhaps he got the ﬁgures a little

      
     

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high, but the idea. conveyed was correct.
No small care in our family in winter is
sickness, bad colds, croup, worms, burn-
ed and cut ﬁngers; and then the multitude
of wants which no one but mother can
attend to, and none but the mother of a
baby can realize! My cry (unlike that of
the Pioneer lady) is more time or less
work, I would prefer the latter. Couldn’t
we divide up some way to equalize it a
little? Any suggestions looking to that
end will be gratefully received.

ANONYMOUS.
Sourn LYON.

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THE OLD, OLD QUESTION.

 

Among the many subjects now under
discussion, the question how women can
not only earn, but obtain money, in-
terests me. I have puzzled my head, laid
plans and thought for hours on that same
deeply interesting subject. The House-
hold letters have been read with eager-
ness, and I would thank the writers, and
at the same time I would like to point to
the other side of the question. In the
Household of Jan. 13th., Reality makes
this assertion: “ Every wife knows she
is inferior to her hired girl in this respect,
she at least has the privilege of buying
what she pleases, without the accompany-
ing ‘Remember it is hard times,’ ‘Can-
not you get along with less?’,” and adds
we all feel the wrong, but how are we to
help ourselves? Now I would advise all
wives, and especially the farmers’ wives,
to let the matter of earning drop. I used
to think I must ﬁnd some way to earn
money, but the markets are over-run with
eggs, and fruit in its season, and as to
raising chickens, which requires a great
deal of care and trouble, I cannot see how
our already busy farmers’ wives are to
get the time, or capital. Not that I do
not appreciate all that our editor has said,
and think a woman with a little capital
and a small family, where every moment
is not employed. could make a good
proﬁt, but in my own experience Ihave
came to the conclusion that when money
is wanted, the best way is to ask for a
horse and buggy, and state what you
wish to buy. If money is to be had I

generally get it; if not I just get ready
and go to town, and buy what I require,
purchasing only what we need. I have no
trouble to get it charged to the “ gude
mon,” who pays when it is most con-
venient. Men cannot give money any
time of the year to their wives, or to pay

hired help; there are times when the
pocket is empty, though the heart may
be ever so willing. Now in my opinion
this is the better way; of course to be in~

position. I always dislike to say “You
may charge the bill of goods, I have not
the money now,” but that is the only
way. It is the husband’s duty to pay for
the wife’s clothing and other expenses,
and Ithink this trying to support our-
selves, yet do all the work for the family
and receive no money, is not right. I
agree with all that has been said on
dividing the proﬁts, but if that is not
done just buy what is needed and have
the bills charged.

But above all things let our lives he
lives of patience and forbearance; let us
not mourn over the seeming faults of our
husbands and friends, but try to be con-
tent, then try to remember that to each
of us

“ Life is too brief for triﬂing,
There is work for each and all
Let us ‘be up and doing,’
Heeding our Master’s call.

“ For duties grave and earnest,
Each opening year must bring,
A s each one brings us nearer
To the ‘eternal spring.’

“ Then, when these annual seasons
Have ceased their earthly round,
May we among the reapers
With precious sheaves be found.”

MAYBELLE.
Barnenwarnn.

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MORE ABOUT CHICKENS.

I am not ashamed to own I love chick-
ens while growing. and on the table, too.
It has always been apleasure for me to
care for them, andI would like to raise
turkeys, too, were it not for the opposi-
tion I meet from my better-half. I have
always had good success, and feel well
paid for all my trouble; besides, the work
takes my mind from the cares of the
kitchen. I have spent hours watching
my little chicks, and admiring their beau-
tiful heads, the way they run around
searching for food, and how freely the
mother hen gives to her pets before she
will partake herself, showing a mother’s
love and care.

It is impossible for me to have good luck
in keeping my chickens unless I have the
coops near the house, where I can attend
to feeding them regularly, coop them at
night, and feed them before the dew is
off in the morning. My husband has al-
ways wanted me to let my chicks take
care of themselves at the barn. I set two
hens in a manger and each hatched twelve
strong chickens. I fed them several days,
as long as I thought best to leave them
without getting to the ground, and then
took them out; they were a pretty ﬂock,
and I felt sorry to‘leave them at the barn,
becauseI realized what the result would
be. In a few days they began to drop off;
a cow stepped on three in one day. I
went out one night to see if I could see
them; there sat one hen on the manger.
and her little ones huddled together in
one corner on the ground. I pushed the
hen off and went to the house disgusted,
saying I never would have anything to do
with chickens at the barn, such work as
that would make me nervous and give me
dyspepsia.

I attended to those I had in coops, and
in the fall had some nice chickens to sell;
they were the Plymouth Rocks. I believe
in feeding them three times a day as long
as they are shut up, but when they are let
out, twice a day will do. I always keep
their meal wet so it will swell; and if it
gets sour it does not hurt, they will grow
nicely. I give them a change often, and
plenty of water or milk. Last year I fed
screenings, and had good luck. When
large enough to leave their coops I feed
them in my park, which I made by driving
lath into the ground, but I always feed
the hens, too. I am satisﬁed there is as

 

much money in raising chickens and

selling eggs as there is in anything else
on afarm, according to the capital in-
vested, and both should be used on the

table more freely. Mas. EDWARDS.

HORTON.
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SOME USEFUL HINTS.

 

If any one wants a cloth steaming hot
to relieve neuralgia or other pains, do not
blister your hands by wringing it out of
hot water. Wring the cloth out of cold
or warm water and lay it in an empty tin
pan or wash basin, set the dish on a hot
stove; in three or ﬁve minutes the cloth
will be as hot as the patient can bear it.

Did you ever make arag carpet without
coloring the warp and rags? The doc-
tor’s wife made one that way, and it
looked clean and nice. The stripes were
made of old brown calico dresses and
green gingham aprons. Each color was
sewed by itself, and a narrow stripe of
white. Only cotton rags were used, as a
cotton carpet will wear longer than one
made of cotton and wool rags. The
woolen rags are nice to work up into mats
for the bedrooms.

The White Vienna Kohl Rabi is a nice
early vegetable that comes soon after as-
paragus. Start the seeds in the hot-bed,
the same as tomatoes; when about three
or four inches high, transplant in the
garden, about one foot apart. When the
balls are from one-third to one-half the
size of a teacup they are large enough to
cook.

I am interested in gardening and would
like to know how to raise cauliﬂowers. I
am going to set out an acre and a half of
blackberry plants this spring, six by eight
feet apart. Would it be all right to grow
the cauliﬂowers between the berry plants?
The land was plowed and harrowed last
fall. I have doubts about the soil being
rich enough to raise cauliﬂowers. Is it a
good plan to use fertilizers in the hill? If
so, what kind? J USTINA.

[We see no reason why the cauliﬂower
and blackberry should not ﬂourish side by
side during the infancy of the latter, if
the soil is rich enough to support both.
The cauliﬂower requires much the same
soil and treatment as the cabbage, which
needsa deep, fertile, moist soil. Read A,
C. G. on the use of fertilizers in the hill
in a late FABMER. We believe it would
be much better to thoroughly enrich all
the soil, since the blackberry plantation
will need plant food for several successive
seasons. HOUSEHOLD En]

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QUESTIONS TO ANSWER.

 

I have a suggestion for Farmer John:
Buy a large scrap book, and use it for
preserving things of value found in the
FARMER from time to time; my word for
it you will ﬁnd it much more convenient
than looking over a large ﬁle of papers,
even as small as the Household. I am
sure the wife or daughter will take‘pride
in arranging and pasting them in.

I would like to ask a question: When
entertaining company over night, whose

. place is it to mention going to bed, the

host’s or hostess’s or the visitor’s? I think

 

the former, and have always done thar

  


 
 

 
  

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way; but a friend of mine visiting friends,
after riding forty miles had to sit up un-
til twelve o’clock before anything was
said about 'going to bed; but when the
visit was returned the gentleman spoke
of going to bed at early bed tinge. As
they were quite stylish people she would
like to know if that is the proper way to
do.

'Will the Editor please give us her
opinion of the modern skating rink. '

What has become of our correspondent
at Wessington, Dakota?

        
    
  
 
     
    
 
  
  
   
  
   
   
     
 
  
   
   
   
     
  
  
     
  
  
  
   
     
  
  
  
   
   
   
   
   
  
  
   
 
  
 
  
  
 
   
 
 
   
   
    
   
  
         
     

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_ HINTS T0 HOUSEIEEPERS.

 

If the juice boils out of your pies, wet
a cloth an inch wide in warm water, and
put around the edge. For chicken pies
it must be wide enough to come well over
the edge of the pan.

Try sifted coal ashes for cleaning your
knives and forks. If you do not burn
coal, beg a pailful of a friend who does,
sift it and put it away in a cracked can, or
some other old dish and have it ready for
future use.

Will somebody tell me why my scarlet
lily does not bloom. I have two, one I
let new sprouts grow around, and the
other I do not. They are both quite old,
but have never had a blossom.

ALICE R.
BROOKLYN.
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CHAT FROM A NEW MEMBER.

 

When our Household Editor 1; short
ago inquired for such a number of
absent contributors, and wished for more
new ones, I concluded to try my pen,
and have my say in a few words.

I see in last week’s Household that how
women can earn money, has come up

do for herself, when she has by the
strictest economy and self denial, laid by
a few dollars towards purchasing some
long coveted article of furniture, or a new
cloak to replace the old rusty one of
which she has long been ashamed, when
her husband comes in “ smiling,” and
asks for two or three dollars to pay a
hired man, or tells her he lacks so much
to pay his taxes, and she, like a faithful
and helping wife gives it to him, but he
forgets to pay it back; and if his wife
dares, trembling, to ask for it, is met by
the response, “How come you by that
money? I guess it was mine, and I will
keep it.” All Will agree with me. that
he belongs to the class of men who says
“What is my wife’s is mine, and what is
mine is my own.” Iknow aman who,
when one of his sons works out and earns
a few shillings, has the money paid over
to him; he says there can be but one purse
in his family.

Pansy’s thoughts on visiting and visit-
ors, are mine precisely. I think short
visits (unless among relatives) are enjoyed
most by both parties.

I am among those who are obliged to
use rag carpets for my family sitting-

room, because I do not feel able to buy,

   

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and also because I believe them the most
desirable, where there are men with
heavy boots, such as farmers generally
wear. In selecting prints and ginghams,
for everyday wear, I purchase bright and
durable colors, use care in washing and
drying. and when I sew and wind them,
am careful to have the right side out, by
being thus careful I save much dyeing.
I never dye much but white rags. I can
say without boasting that my carpets are
called handsome. As I have to make one
this spring, I would like some one to give
arecipe for coloring a good brown on cot

ton. Bum.
Gnnm Bnuc.

[We will be glad to have the tried
recipes you mention. Sister Mary’s col-
oring recipes in the last Household will
supply your want.

____...___

“ M.,” of Lapeer, says: “I will venture
to suggest. that the reason the lady’s taﬂy
grained was because of stirring when
nearly done. Iused granulated sugar as
the recipe said,and had no trouble with it.
It should be pulled with the tips of the
ﬁngers only, most people use the whole
hand and spoil it, I think.”

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WE are compelled to condense some of
our correspondents’ letters somewhat
this week, owing to an unusual supply of
“copy.” Will try to ﬁnd room to
answer several queries next week.

—_...._.—.

J OHN’s WIFE gives housekeepersa hint
that to dampen a cloth, dip in soda, and
rub on tinware will brighten it nicely.
Zinc lined sinks are quickly cleansed
with a little kerosene. She suggests Hul-
dah Perkins can spend spare time in
making a crazy quilt. She has had ex-
cellent luck with chickens, prefers Ply-
mouth Rocks, and advises making them
very tame. In setting the hens, mark the
eggs with a pencil, then keep watch for
unmarked eggs and remove them. If the
hens are tame this can be done without
disturbing them. She also warns house
keepers not to be too ambitious in clean-
ing house, saying it is best to take one
room at a time, and settle that before pro~
ceeding to the next.

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Contributed Recipes.

SPONGE CAKE—Beat one cup of sugar and
two; eggs thoroughly. Add one heaping cup
of sugar, with three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder well stirred in. Stir it thoroughly,
then add 12 teaspoonfuls of sweet milk. Bake
in a long shallow pie tin. If you wish it extra
nice, make icing in the following manner:

Boil one cup of granulated sugar and ﬁve
tablespoonfuls of sweet milk ﬁve minutes;
then remove from the stove and stir constantly
till it begins to thicken; then apply to the
cake as soon as possible. If it does not thicken,
it has not boiled long enough. For Rose Mary.

ALICE R.

 

Cnannom Russia—Whites of four eggs
beaten to a stiff froth; one pint of thick sweet
cream whipped to a froth; two and a half cups
sugar; quarter box of Cox’s gelatine. Put the
gelatine in half a cup sweet milk and boil until
dissolved; cool; stir into the above and ﬂavor
with lemon. Set the whole on ice, or the

 

 

coolest place you have until ready for use;
This has been tested and found good.

CREAM Commas—One and a half cups sour
cream; one and a half cups sugar; one egg, not
beaten; one teaspoonful saleratus; half a tea-
spoonful cream tartar; a little salt; ﬂavor to
taste. Put the sugar,cream tartar and saleratus
into the ﬂour; mix well before adding the
other ingredients. Sprinkle granulated sugar
on top, roll lightly and bake. not too slowly.

X. Y. I.
BATTLD Gnanx.

 

Rncrrn roa Conn Baum—Mrs. Edwards
of Horton, furnishes us the following rhyming
recipe for corn bread, which she says is taken
from her scrap book:

One cup sour milk, one cu sweet;
One good egg, that you w' beat;

H a cup molasses, too,

Half cup sugar add thereto;

With one spoon of butter new,

Salt and soda each a spoon,

Mix up quickly and bake it soon .
Then you have corn bread complete,
Best of all corn bread you meet.

It will make your boy 3 face shine,

If he is like that boy of mine.

If you have a dozen boys,

To increase your household joys,
Double then this rule I should,

And you’ll have two corn cakes good.
When you’ve nothing nice for tea,
This the very thing will be.

All the men that I have seen,

Say it is of all cakes queen;

Good enough for any king,

That a husband home can bring;
Warming up the human stove,
Cheering up the hearts you love;

And only Tyndall can explain .
The links between corn bread and brain.
Get a husband what he likes,

And save a hundred household strikes.

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