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BEST

Blessed iudec-i is the minrlund body
that has learned {he sort-x: of making the
bestof attainable blessings, and also of
misfortunes. To such an one the world is
almost heaven, and the min that falls in-
to her lives only serves to reﬂect the
rainbow of thanksgiving.

If our friend, thus blessed, lives in a
“wee cabin,” she does not make herself
gloomy contrasting her abode with
the imposing farm house. She can
admire and fully appreciate the beauty
and convenience of the great house, but
with no envy in her heart, she sets about
making the best of her surroundings,
often repeating in some simple fabric
ideas gained in “peeps” in some more
pretentious mansion. Dry goods boxes
are metamorphosed into cupboards, book
cases and ottomans; cheese cloth, prints
and muslins provide draperies and hang—
ings that ﬁll her heart with delight to

.MAKE TH?) OF THINGS

 

view them, and when her active hand has


 
     

 

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 
  

 

 

wrought out the schemes of her fertile
brain, and conVenie nce, order and beauty
result, she feels a pleasure and triumph
known only to the genius of creative
talent, revelling in perfected achieve—
ment. Her mind will revert with pity to
her neighbor, whose dwelling is smaller
and poorer than her own, and she will
ﬁnd herself devising ways and means of
improving their more destitute surround-
ings. She will show her small successes
With a justiﬁable pride, and glow and
dimple with satisfaction when their merits
are extolled. She is the person who has
the knack of “making over.” In her
person is fulﬁlled the phrase “ She gars
old cloes leuk amaist as weel as new.”
Difﬁculties challenge her to new efforts;
failure is onlyastepping stone to suc—
cess. But this little woman is modest
withal, and never dreams how “much
better she is building than she knows.”
Her life is a sermon, her efforts an in-
spiration, and her successes a demon-
stration that wakens attention, kindles
enthusiasm, inspires efforts that lift
many a groveling soul from whining
complaint and repining. up into the light
and liberty of self-helping independence.

I am not adv. eating the state of con
tent that would make no effort to rise
higher. It is the one who always makes
the best of everything who is always as-
piring, as well as prepared to seize np<
portunity’s forelock, and rise to better
things.

Trained to habits of observance and in-
dustry, alert, watchful and self-reliant,
she is quick to see and seize all means of
improvement, and withanew meaning
makes the best of them.

If we with hand and mind intent on
making the best of things, put our theory
in practice, there will be little time found
to bewail our hard lot, or complain we
have “no chance in the world.” '

Providence, as a rule, helps those who
help themselves, and human nature yields
reverence to earnest, successful workers;
while the best of us have a feeling of con-
tempt for the idle repiner, who folds her
hands and maunders on the old refrain,
“I never have no luck.” A. L. L.

INGLESIDE.
0.—

HEALTH HINTS.

 

Ican sympathize with Beatrix in her
sufferings from insomnia, and vain en
deavors to obtain that most refreshing of
all our refreshments, a good night’s sleep.
I have been a great sufferer from the same
disease for the last few years. Many,
very many nights have I retired to rest.
after a hard and wearisome day's work,
only to ﬁnd myself tossing restlessly
about to obtain it. I think when I know
asleepless night or two is in my way.
that all cares shall be left in the kitchen,
that I will not go to bed to think and plan
for the next day, but the ﬁrst thing I
know, I am doing the very thing I thought
to avoid, and thus become nervous and
restless, and get no sleeep until the wee
small hours of the morning. In a para-
graph from the Herald of Health, I saw
a statement which startled me not a little;
it was that comparatively few people,

     

after childhood has passed, know what
perfect sleep is by experience. I have
tried all of Beatrix’s methods to obtain
sleep, except the midnight lunch or read-
ing myself to sleep. In imagination I
have gone into the forest and named the
different kinds of wood in an alphabetical
order, naming as many as I could, com—
mencing with A before going to B; gen-
erally that would bring sleep.

After reading Beatrix’s new treatment.
I tried that and was successful. I found
it difﬁcult at ﬁrst to keep the eyeballs
turned down; but a determination to do
so brought sleep.

I have experienced the most beneﬁt
from using salt and water as hot as I could
bear it, for weak eyes, or “ blurs ” before
the sight. Cosmoline, applied once or
twice a day, is very strengthening to the
eyes; it has hardly an equal for wounds
and sores; it is a nice dressing for the
hair to remove dandruff.

My remedy for bad burns is sifted corn
meal, made quite moist with gold vine—
gar, laid on a cloth and applied to the
burn, and moistened often with vinegar.
or newly applied; it will stop the smart—
ing and draw out the ﬁre in a short time,

then dress with cos moline.

BE I‘TY.
GRAND BLANC.

—-———...-———

LIFE IS HELPFULNESS.

The grand aim and end of all acquiring
is helpfulness. The accumulation of
wealth is but a ministration to human
need. The mos-:- profound and varied
knowledge makes us wise only as its
many rivulets ﬂow into the great channel
of use. The only true results which can
ever come of science, philosophy, or re-
ligion are light and helpfulness to human
progress; toward this end lead all the
processes of reason and intuition. All
the garnered treasures of life are preserv-
ed only by use, only as they are set in the
diadem of helpfulness. Every person or
thing is limited in its power according to
its ability to minister to necessity. Who
would be great must be useful. Helpful-
ness is the test, the “cleansing ﬁ e” of
life. If you would know its value, lay
your life upon this heaven-built altar.
Should the ﬂames consume all you have
gathered into the years, go forth again
and garner for eternity.

I have known a man, brave, loyal, and
help-loving, comprehensive in mind,
aspiring in spirit, yet the great sorrow of
his life was his limited helpfulness. [see
here a principle,——helpfulness is the con—
dition of happiness, and obedience a
promise of gladness. Here is the great
secret of unhappy living. Action is a
divine force, and must be in harmony
with the great principles of existence.

Helpfulness is an innate desire, yet all
are not helpful. Some lives are like
tangled weeds, always making our path
wearisome;others are stumbling blocks
over which we fall, tearful because of our
very helplessness and bruises. Why islife
thus prostrate and groveling? Heaven
alone knows all the causes; we are
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us.

     

If there be an innate desire, why are
not all helpful? What is helpfulness? It
is ministration, yet how and what will
teach us true ministration? Ah, this is
the problem! We seek, we are in process
of trial, our forces are unknown and un—
tried by us. We are climbing up to the
hope and promise of heaven in our spirit’s
life. -

The cry for help is universal. The little
children plead for it, their misshapen souls
and bodies cry to us from the cradle and
the street. The young crave guidance, as
their wondering hearts pause or hasten,
as they doubt, wander and sometimes
sink. The middle-aged ask light to free
their strong lives from the prejudices and
errors which crush the spirit’s life. The
aged, like the children, plead for guid‘
ance, as their tottering steps grope
towards the gateway of light.

Let us search all the pathways of truth
we are capable of entering; let us gather
the treasures of use, the gems of joy, and
bring them for the relief of the needy.
Where shall we search for these? We
shall ﬁnd them only in the realm of
realities. Sometimes we climb up, un-
knowing as a child, and grasping a shadow
above us seek to stay ourselves by it.
How may we know when our hearts
reach out to grasp the shadows? What
is Reality?

There is a “bleeding heart” by our
door-step. Do you know how the dew
drops lie on the leaves of this plant? Not
as on other leaves, but the drops are
gathered in larger globules, more distinct,
and glow with the clearness and beauty
of the diamond. I can easily brush these
liquid jewels to the earth, yet they con-
tain the spirit of reality. They whisper
a thought beautiful in its helpfulness,
though they are frail as the fabric of a
dream.

Then come out in the morning with
me, and see our newly opened pansies.
Oh, the wonder, passion, and glory of the
ﬂ )wers! Pansies, pansies, I can but cry,
you hide in your blue and gold hearts a
mystery! Whisper it to my spirit. The
delicate fragrance speaks with divine
sweetness of Reality. I feel a growing
consciousness of the beautiful Real, as
felt in the powers lying unseen, silent,
latent. Back of all we may speak, there
is in the heart something so sweet, so
subtle, yet enduring, —the Reality of life
lies there stretched in eternal repose,
Storms of passion, blight of pain, thrill
of pleasure’s brief chords,—nothing dis—
turbs the calm, chaste Reality of being.
Yet how can I bring these inﬂuences into
use? They are building up my compre-
hension of realities, and reality means
victory.

But must there not be aplan? I cannot
tell, I know there must be a purpose, and
perhaps a plan, method, is the extension
and elucidation of a purpose. Our pur'
pose is for our individual life, our plans
for those we would help.

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Editor the other day, she said, speaking
of our little paper, “I have been con—
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it up to my standard.” Here is a helpful
thought. How grand to have a standard,
intelligible, real to the soul, pure, clear!
Helpfulness follows, for the object of all
plan is aid. But what is a standard. and
what renders it valuable? The degree of
power it has to uplift measures its value,
and the quality of our desire to be help-
ful gives it clearness to us. The standard
itself is the soul-power and capacity of
.the individual life, and is as varied as the
experiences gathered into life and the use
made of them. With many it is like a
block, cut just the width and height of
the individual to whom it belongs. This
is applied to all; if it fails to ﬁt, being
either too short or too high, too broad or
too narrow, of course it is easy to see
where a fellow being’s imperfections lie
and we can compute them to the fraction
of an inch!

The goal of life is truth. Any standard
of worth must embody the elements of
truth, and a comprehension of its univer-
sal principles. It must be wide enough
and free enough for many minds to ﬁnd
in it use and beauty. Above their
illusions, clearer than all their prejudices,
must shine a light which will make lu-
minous the everlasting word truth, which
gilds the standard of helpfulness.

Yet still my heart questions, for all the
philosophy of my brain. For it was my
heart which yearned to help when a
young wife said to me, “When I have
done all my work, many times I fold my
hands, and here alone I feel, my life is a
failure!” Oh, saddest cry of human heart!
What does the spirit of true ministration
here suggest? Wnat gem of use shall the
heart offer?

Ambition, desire to acquire, can have
no limit in the face of needs like this.
One must have power to discover, and
wisdom to select the true word of
guidance for which the weary heart waits.
Ohl rich meed of lOve, I thought, have
not you crowned life for her? Labor,
action, cannot you send the glad pulse of
your life into her brain and heart?
Thought, surely you have power to drop
the seed which shall thrill all the latent
forces into germination. You are crea-
tive. I need not to lighten her labor, nor
can I fulﬁll to her her hope of love, but
thoughts there are which gladden all our
being. They come to us as revelations,
we feel as though we were discoverers
of spiritual wealth, but we are not. All
truth is in the eternal existence, and from
our full heritage the drop for which we
thirst falls upon the soul, evolving new
energy of being. Shall not the weary
pray? By prayer, I mean not alone
petition, but the preparation of life to
receive; and if the soil be well prepared,
God will grant a fruitful seed.

But the children who cry for help,
what shall we give them? Let us redeem
them oy giving them fairer forms, clearer
minds, and purer souls! Let us bless
their opening lives through a diviner
parenthood and more tender, patient
teaching. The young, who haste with
eager feet, what shall we do for them?
Let ,us take them to our hearts, teach

always. The middle~aged, strong in
brain and sinew, who will yield not a
straw of their burdens though sometimes
falling beneath them in silent pain 0:
heart. how can we reach them? Shallnot
the chil-iren lead them, and make clearer
life’s beautiful meaning?
And the aged, let us gladden their
hearts by loving always. We will smile
upon them, for does not the child-like
heart of age love the shining of the spirit?
This only is a smile. We will guide their
trembling steps, and wreathe the grave
in ﬂowers. The feeble life will inhale a
breath of heavenly fragrance, and glide
more gently into the arms of sleep from
which the waking is light, and a clearer
unfoldment of the laws of life.

Lnsnrn.

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THE OTHER SIDE.

 

It is said there are two sides to every
question, and in regard to the one of
health may it not be possible that some
of us are trying too hard to keep well?
Strange idea to advance, I hear a member
say; but this seems to be an age of
strange ideas. I don’t think cleanliness
or sanitary laws ever hurt any one; but if
there is an all-saving grace in the laws
of health, why does not a closer attention
to such matters decrease sickness?

When we start out to follow the laws
of health religiously, we are soon at sea;
for one says you must never take a cold
bath, while another remarks that a hot
one is very injurious; one says never eat
meat, still another declares it a necessity;
some claim one meal to be sufﬁcient for
health, while others will advocate fohr.
“What is meat for one is another’s poi-
son;” so if a person has any inherent com-
mon sense they had better use it, while if
they have not, it is useless to argue with
them.

To get happiness for ourselves, we are
taught to try and make it for others. I
think that rule will apply in a great meas-
ure to health. When you begin to feel
aches here and there, instead of going to
a doctor’s book to see what may come of
it, go to a sick or tired neighbor and see
if you-can’t lighten her load. A recital
of your own pains will never help her or
you. Do not begin by telling her how
bad she looks, or that a friend of yours,
who was taken in the same way, suffered
for years. Have not you heard of well
people being made sick by simply bein g
told they looked bad? Medical students
have brought disease uoon themselves by
reading it up and becoming very much
interested.

Does not this all go to show our mind
has a great, if not controlling inﬂuence
over our body? If it is necessary for us
to know all about the workings of our
bodies, could God be good and make them
so intricate? Why are not doctors’ fam-
ilies exempt from sickness, if a knowledge
of medicine is such a desirable thing?
We are told that certain diseases are con-
tagious, but some who have been exposed
do not contract them, while others who
have not, do. Taking thought of these

 

them, hips in them, love, trust "them

while undue thought will bring on a dis- ‘
case; so letus try to go about our duties
with no expectation of calamity. In my V,
opinion, the person who eats a piece of 9
pie with a contented spirit and kind word
for the cook, helps his own digestion
more than the one who eats graham bread
with a fear that it isn't made just to suit _
his stomach. My experience has been "
that what I expect to hurt me does; while 3
what I do with a consciousness of its not '-
being morally wrong, and without even
a passing thought, does not prove injuri—
ous. A sick mind makes asick body.

In a recent Household I was asked to try
the cotton batting process of canning
fruit, which I would be very glad to do if
I was keeping house. No wonder a
farmer’s wife who doesn't keep house can
have theories! Pmsr.

Scuooncnxrr.
-—-—...___—.

THE MANNERS OF “RESORTERS.”

 

To-day, as I sat preparing fruit for
pickling, a party of “resorters” drove
past. They went into raptures over the
beauties of my ﬂower garden, which, I
must say is worthy of it, and ﬁnally per—
suaded the driVer to stop and let them get
some ﬂowers, which they did in a manner
not at all pleasing to me. Instead of
coming to the door and asking for a
bouquet, which, of course, would have
been cheerfully granted them, they forth-
with began araid upon the choice st plants,
pulling here and there, without regard to
right or privilege. I stood it as long as
possible, then, armed with a pair of scis‘
sets, I “swooped down upon them.”
They were not at all abashed by my
formidable appearance, but coolly in-
formed me that the ﬂowers were “ just too
lovely for anything,” and they had “t~.ken
the liberty to pick just afew.” I told
them that as I was saving seed from dif—
ferent varieties, I preferred to out the
ﬂowers myself. They kept on picking;
and if they had been contented with that,
perhaps I should not have been tempted
to “give them away.” One of the ladies
(f) informed me with great pomposity
that she was Mrs. Dr. S -—, of D——-, and

' a moment later, stooped, and in trying to

pick, pulled one of my choicest pansies
up by the roots. Such impudence! I was
-—yes, I was glad to see them mount into
their vehicle and drive away.

Such a deplorable lack of manners as is
shown by those who wish to be known as
persons of importance, we often witness
here. They seem to think that because
this is a comparatively new place the
people do not know what manners and
politeness are, so they are left at home to
be donned on their return to society. My
idea of true politeness is not by any means
realized by the manners which some of
these resorters exhibit.

I have just read the questions or co-
undrums so solemnly propounded by
Beatrix in the Household of September
lst. I smile audibly when I contrast the
pounding barrel which entered into ac
tive service in our kitchen today, with
an extremely convenient washing machine
which was left here on trial a few Weeks

 

things does not seemto prevent them,

ago, and which, because of the “ hard"


   

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THE HOI‘USEHOLD.

 

times” and prospective low prices of
hops, we of the kitchen were duly in-
formed could not he bought at present
To-day an agent left a new " patent cast-
ii‘on harness’ (tha: is: what one of our
hired men ca -lled it), price, $15 If that
agent leave; th. harness ‘neie fn’ good,
washing.r machine will l1 aunt the ears of ye
gude 1mm on :5. it appears.

To the second conundrum I Would an-

. I

swor, a sound spanking would he a good
remedy. What: the father did do, de-
pends.

I have
they are

One word more and ’1 close.
Seen )Iis. W J. G iivhli- ‘s and

simply 1311211167180.
MOLLl E MOONSH iNE.

 

MAPLETON.
“.1... ..-.-_.
THE SOFT SOAP QUKS “ON.
I see that E L. Nye placer: v.1 very 11

estimate on soft soap. in (ioziiparing it
with the Worth of the l'il‘t‘1t‘.‘!ll or the tea
kettle N ‘w, acre. 13111;: to 11):; way of
thinking the so 1.0 p l {.11 very well

    

dis .‘ense w :11, .L-. ‘lv 111.. and 11—“. »
kettle 1 could not ‘1)I"v~'~‘,v::. (lo '.~‘- :thoii'v
unless as in the. czr‘w of tin-- ”grow“, a bet—

I remember
“ttfl’lc, sore. -

levieli ‘

ter sti. ‘1stitutt was pmv‘vlv‘
well the-1:14 4:111. soap ti: :1. l
8.1 year.“ Alta-1‘ ream: :1
up,” (“wish llS'i'i ‘1 hes a god while if
the mm folks on,» 112,231), I heated ‘.‘\':l.'=v_Z-‘l‘
and came-d wine rl‘sﬁivnc‘. 1-1 the
every half hour fem two 112i «‘8; :11". l unwed
over = o (lugs

lye ‘nrl ‘- orhv-‘l

m01‘e,.1nd xhtni 2'25; :1 poor
quality of 5.21;; 11:: 1;". 1111111: ‘1 .LL which
lasted a lone illl‘l'f. . 1.1.1 days,
when ‘11 no soap tilts n'o'
tainul out the lame ‘ 31.91111: soap,
whiel1,lthin'r;. pe‘r hair, per—
haps it o as it :moury to .n 5 $1,121.. soap to
use in part. I .1 1v ‘ 13 1:11 " 0 ‘t 11 fingers
and thesirol‘t‘riv ,2; too many

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times to 11Vti‘l‘ 11>.1i1‘ :1. use it rain; it is
destructive to cm lors .an3. 2‘2. S White
clothes yellow In fies..- den, 5. when there
are so many kind 3. at nice 3.;- zps in‘v.‘
and so‘; i so (1“9‘1n1‘ it 11121:: 31.. 1,11.-

 

makc so it so 113 8: tier us.‘ 1:1,: 25129 for
fertilizing the soil, ant their. the grease»

scraps to the c.icl§ens for 1—4;: turd. wit-l1
the proceeds buy hurt}, soap, and save

your strength for bettv: r purposes. A hox of
Bahbitt’s sevp, containing 100 cars, costs
$4.50, and Will last me. with a. family of
four, a year and a half; and use all that. is
necessary. I like Babbitt’s best of any I
have used. 5. A. e.

DEABBOBN.
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WAN T8.

The correspondent who suggests in a
recent issue of the Household that invent-
ors direct their attention to the needs of
housekeepers,voices my sentiments exact-
ly. I am not, however, as modest as she
in my demands.

In the ﬁrst place I want a mop. Do you
think if men had ﬂoors to clean they
would still be slapping around with a rag
on the end of a stick?

Also I want a machine to, mix cake and
knead bread.

My Colby washer, set in a rectangular

 

box, is a great help, but I still ﬁnd it

necessary to rub nearly everything. I
want a washer that will do its work as
perfectly as (1‘94 John’s hinder. A man-
gle, in whic‘i sheets, pillow—cases, table
linen towels , (to . could be pressed,
out, ut not it stems 0 me, to be beyond
achievement. Nor yet a llI‘YHI that could
he used with an ordinary cook stove.

The only " mitigating circumstance” in
the tiresome round of dish-washing is the
little. cluster of iron rings which some
man evolved from his giant intellect as a
puzzle. Hts Wife. solved it forliiin by up-
[in pri :‘Ltingit tool can hei pots andkettles,
and it. travels the world over as an‘ iron
dish cloih.”

Now it' some inventive genius Will turn
his attention {0 nouse‘nv'ild needs, and
ieii'v‘inv: its in peace With our DoVer egg-—
l,‘1(;::t(“l’.‘>‘ and Whatever inconvenience we
may (’li‘l’l'f'f to ll't‘v'f.‘ in thew-13‘ of a churn,
my I p Sml‘f «if. the 212211.112. amide sug-
;.«. sinus. I 21111 e .‘nﬁdent there. will accrue
profit 11111-111 .‘Lll’l iaen.:t‘1t t. 1 us. CHAT.

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HINTS.

Canadian
Genomi-
cool
hing

A c.1iiiiissrounr‘11‘r oi 1.;1e
Farmers’ 111% 10011155 Says the; the 5:
(ill way to 0:111 fruit i~ tv‘: let it 1.72211.
before trading liter 511.
in the 51.11.11 ie'. 911121-12 luxurienszer, neat.
to the boiling point avg-1311 and can. A
still 1) 11211‘ way. however. to use the
sugar 5;} mp for 021.;1'1‘1'1114.

Slat) “.11: 11‘.

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1;

Hum: is SOm1_‘lhl:2g i‘or our mmhers to
take note ot: A lzit‘v: girl 21‘. Wuterto on
N. ‘1’.. ill. of sinirio‘: fever. Her
mother W218 wrung to érzend whoa:
little-d‘ixightvr was a lielov d platm " cite of
the line girl Who ‘ The latter

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wisned to send :1 his»: to .19: ‘fi".ie fr‘eml,
and kissed a. spot on ‘he letter. The

littlta'E‘i‘l who received the letter Vrry
11111111‘1:.ély. in her turn. iiiriéL-Li the s time
spot, l'tll‘ellt‘il ‘t’tkisv,’ 12.151; the leVer,

   

and died. We 111% .‘c v.1" example of
the coniagious character \ 1.112s disease,
1 iiiclis “1011111 corn! with it i!:s own lesson.

THE heal‘ my, happy country lassies
who ll'ch won without wish theireekies
which the city e111: cult-imies so .‘lSSldll
011st to show that. she has been to the
seashore or the mountains for the sum:
mer, may like to know that. one of our ex-
changes Suy‘é' that grated horseradish, left
to stand a couple of hours in buttermilk,
then strained, and the wash u<ed nights
and mornings, will remove these “kisses
of thbus.” Yet the freckles do no
harm, whereas the wash is a vile-smelling
compound, whose odor is strong enough
to “stop a clock,” very disagreeable to
use.

AUNT ADDIE recommends the following
harmless application to whiten and soften
the skin. It is absolutely harmless, but
must be persisted in if once adopted for
any length of time: “Take one cupful
of oatmeal and ﬁve cupfuls of water; stir
several times during the day, let it stand
over night and then pour of all the water
and the coarser part of the meal. Strain
though a ﬁne sieve and add bay rum to it

 

 

until it is of the consistency of cream.
Bathe the hands freely With it and draw
on an old pair of kivi gloves, and you Will
be delighted with the effect. This is
equally good for a. chapped face. Bathe
the skin with it, letting it dry in.”

A CORRESPONDENT of the Western Rural
makes a home nude ﬂy paper which she
highly recommends. Take equal parts of
melted resin and castor oil. Into the
melt-rd sit the oil thoroughly.
While still warm spread thinly and even-
ly with :1 l.:ro«.d-hladed knife, upon any
paper that is not porous, as writing
pant-r, catalogue 00"81‘5, etc. Lay the
piper wh rever ﬂiev do most- congrvvg ite
antlyou Jwill soon ﬁnd it covered With
them. Therciv no odor to attract, 110
dead hi “4 lronrﬂjnv‘ rounrl. for when the

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“SSH!

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ELENOR says her method of making

s‘iltrisins: tireritl is newly ”the same. as
Mm. Fuller’s and she always has her
bro 1d baked in the fort-noon " splendid

.11‘1.-‘:1..1'. too.” 'o ‘11 thinks f Hold-in Pi-r~
kins will try it she will. have no need. of a

new invention.

-.._.__- a,” -.,.-___

Mus. FULLER 3 address living lzno W11 to
o. ‘1‘ r xtney will please prefer their
requests forpricvs of plants, bulbs. in—
formation as to w'L‘1..t colors of varieties
she has. to her {ll Rr‘oiiests for in—
formatiszvn as to cuiiure, etc , sent to the
Ho 1911111116, raid answered in its

columns.

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iontributed Recipes.

 

Wasnixo Vt (101111‘ Vs. —l‘o wash woolen goods
so tin“- they wil- not shiink, put three or four
p;.il:11fer.3d,soit ‘i‘attr in the was‘ntuh; tlien
11211915..)1.2.1.1134.“ (1‘1 ful s 11 bornx and one half
pint oi soft soap, down to in wont one quart
of not. W350i; when thoroughly dissolved stir
into. the tube? water. Putin the goods and
lot {and an hour or two before washing.
Rinse in and I“;tlll"~'v'zticl‘. Bright. colors should
stand but. :1 short time. ELLA MAY.

 

Stucco P11111115 ‘-.“.lttl{'. a syrup of three
pounds of sugar to one pint of good cider

vinegar; :nld half an ounce each of stick cin—
namon and whole c‘oves done. up in a muslin
bag Pritk three pounds or plums. Turn the
hot syrup over the plums, let them stand tllx
cool, heat the syrup again, and again turn it
over the plums. When cold, put over the
ﬁre and cook carefully till the plums are done.

B.
Dn‘rnom‘.

CANNING Conn. -——Am I too late with my
method of preserving green corn for winter
use? It is this: Boil the corn on the cob
same as for table; then cut off and pack in
stone jars. Cover the bottom with athin layer
of salt, then a. layer of corn three or four inches
deep, press down tightly, and continue alter-
nating salt and corn until the jar is full. Covu
tightly and keep in a cool place. Be careful
and not use too much salt. When wanted for
the table, wash and soak in clean water over
night, cook slightly, seasoning with pepper and
butter, also adda small teaspoonful of sugar.
I have prepared it this way for several years,
and we all relish it very much . Hope some or
the ladies will try it and report their succeaaﬂ

MOLLIE KO )NSH 1N].

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