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DETROIT, OCTOBER 8, 1887.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

LIFE.

 

CLARA B. SOI’THWELL.

 

Our life is a broad ocean.
Each vessel is a soul,

Some are drifting aimlessly,
Some striving for a goal.

Some meet with troubles‘ breaken,
And sorrow‘s waves will run

So high they hide from view the face
Of God, which is the sun.

While some of storms of sorrow
And trial have no less,

Still they always see the light—
The Sun of Righteousness.

Some storms of fate must surely rise
Upon each life's broad sea.

Forif ‘twere smooth, no biliows there.
Poor seamen we would be.

There are two ports where we may stop
On the other side the sea,

And cast our anchors overboard,
Forever there to be.

Whether we would or not, we must
Into one or the other go.
One is called the Haven of Rest.
The other the Harbor of Woe.
MARSHALL.
+

HOME TRAINING.

I wonder why mothers make so great a
difference in the training of their boys and
girls. The latter are taught to be neat and
orderly; tidiness of person and apartment
is insisted upon, while the boys are allowed
the greatest latitude as regards their per-
sonal shelongings. In quite too many
families the boys have been brought up to
consider that “mother and the girls ” are
in duty bound to wait upon them; especially
is this the case if there is but one son and
two or three daughters in the family. This
is following out the idea that woman is the
only one who has anything to do in making
home happy, and that she was created to
wait upon man, especially in the way of
getting up warm meals and picking up
after him.

It is a wrong way to begin, to allow the
boys to become possessed of the idea that
they are superior beings, to whose comfort
everything else must be subservient. They
get into an unpleasant habit of thinking
their own case is of more importance than
other peOple's rights. They generally be-
come domestic tyrants, deferred to because
they can make the house so uncomfortable
if their wishes are resisted. I number
among my acquaintances a family whose
only boy has been brought ‘up to consider
himself the central sun round which his
mother and three sisters revolve as satellites.
Meals must be ordered to suit his con-

venience; and what “Ferd” likes or dis-
likes regulates the bill of fare. If he is
going out it takes the united efforts of his
four faithful servitors to get him ready. He
deliberately walks down stairs from his
own room, and sends his sister up again for
his cuifs and collar. If she thinks to save
herself by bring necktie also, though it be
the newest and freshest of his stock, it is
certain to be the wrong one. He must be
brushed and dusted; and he tosses his soiled
handkerchief on the floor as he takes up a
clean one, and with acareless “ Good morn-
ing,” dashes out the door, leaving it for
some one to close after him. The mother’s
plea always is: “We must make home
pleasant for Ferd, or he will get into evil
ways;” but no such training in self-indul-
gence ever kept a boy out of bad company.

And what a husband such a young man
will make, trained from childhood to regard
himself as one whose whims must be in.
dulged under penalty of sulks and ill-
temper! What girl of Spirit would submit,
even for love’s sake, to such exactions, such
utter disregard of her own individual rights?

A girl has good cause to bless her mother-
in-law, if her husband has been taught not
only to serve himself, but also to be "handy
around the house,” thoughtful of her time
and strength, and considerate in calling on
her. I have seen a man sit in the wagon
while his wife carried from the cellar and
lifted up to him a 20-pound basket of butter
and went back for another tilled with eggs;
and seen the same man call her from her
work to take into the house the baskets of
groceries he had brought from town. No;
the horses were not “ skittisln” he had
merely been accustomed to he waited upon.

And so, mothers, for the sake of your-
selves and the wives your sons will some
day wed, teach your boys to be helpful in
the house, and to wait upon themselves. To
throw back the clothing so the bed may air,
and open the window; to put the towel on
the rack instead of leaving it in a wad on a
chair; to hang up the Sunday suit instead of
throwing it on the ﬂoor or the bed for some
one else to dust and fold; to see that the
wood-box and the water-pails are replen-
ished, are little duties one can perform al-
most instinctively. as pleasant service, not
tasks, if trained from childhood. lwould
have a boy know how to make cones and
cook a plain meal if necessary; it will not
hurt him, and the knowledge may, some
time in his life, be of practical value, es-
pecially in case of sudden illness. it is no
shame to a lad to help his mother in her
work, but rather an honor; it is manly to be

 

helpful, wherever we may be‘put. And how

  

 

grateful such helps, small though they be,
are to the mother who has so many things
to look after; and how delightful to the
newry-made wife to ﬁnd she has not mar-
ried a domestic tyrant! BEATRIX.

THE MOTHER’S JOURNAL.

 

I earnestly second L. B. P.’s suggestion,
that mothers keep a record of the sayings
and doings of their little ones. What can
be of greater interest to them when they
are grown to be men and women? Many
mothers fail to do this just because they
have never thought of it. A few of my
own childish scribblings and sketches
found on the blank leaves of my mother’s
scrap-book suggested the idea to me, and
already the one book in the house most
coaxed for is “mother’s journal.”

The dates of its entries are often far apart
and they contain no attempt at style or to
record extra smart things, just their ﬁrst
words, plays, ideas of things and what
they do from week to week, now and
then jotting down something naughty to
prevent them from getting an impression of
an angelic childhood. The premium page
at present seems to be one bearing the out—
line of three little hands, made nearly two
years ago, by drawing a line around the
outspread model. The name is written on
the wrist of each, while in the palm is
fastened a LUI‘l of his or her first hair.
Then I have copied the drawings upon the
frosty windows and slate, intend to add a
specimen of their first writing, and often
think longingly of what grace and beauty
an artist’s skill would lend to such a task.
My pencil is not equal to the sketching of a
sweet face, which often seems for amoment
ﬁt subject for art’s greatest master. but I
am sure that what I do attempt will be ap-
preciated by my dear ones, and while the
taste of the reading public is cloyed by a
multiplicity of books, the small private
circle for whose beneﬁt 1 write will never
tire of, or harshly criticise the one which
mother made.

1 hope that no one who reads this will
attribute to it any desire to boast of what i
have done. [feel it is little enough. and
crude enough, and that almost any
mother could excell me if she would. I only
wish her to make the attempt, and thought
adescription of mine might suggest some-
thing to help her on the start.

THOMAS. A. H. J.

[F )r those who desire them, there are to
be found in the bookstores lovely books
prepared for just this purpose, beautifully

 

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baby’s date of birth, baptism, name, and
names of sponsors and clergyman, when
the little one ﬁrst began to “take notice,”
date of the ﬁrst tooth, ﬁrst words spokena
etc, a mmutia of detail few would have
time to ﬁll out for anyhut the ﬁrst born, who
is always “really the most remarkable
child you ever saw.” Then other pages are
devoted to the ﬁrst sayings, bright speeches
and special naughtinesses.—ED.]

—————¢o.-——-—

HOME TALKS.

NO. I.

 

Come here, Hefty, and sit by me awhile.
Father has been telling me what Harry said
to him last evening about being married,
and we have talked the matter over and
think that we cannot Spare you until
October. The time will come all too soon
then, my child, for it is May now. While
our preparations will not be as elaborate as
many, it will take time, for we will get
along and not hire any sewing done except
dresses. But as you will assume the
management of a home I feel that a little

. practical experience will enable you to
succeed better: that is what is lacking now-
a-days, Hetty, practical experience. You
may stand by and see some one mix and
stir and cook, but unless you put your own
hands in, the chances are ten to one you
will fail. Cook books are good in their
place, but there are thousands of little
things that the best ones do not contain.
You are twenty, Hetty, but it does not
seem possible; someway I have always
looked on you as a child, and then too, you
have only cleverly ﬁnished your education,
as one might say. You have been four
years away from home, and the vacations
were mostly taken up with company and a
round of pleasures, so I have not required as
much of you as I should, had you been at
home all the time. I have always said,
when you married you should know how to
keep house, for an ill kept, poorly managed
household only brings unhappiness and
misery on the family, and we shall have
not one bit of time to spare. I shall
throw the care and responsibility of the
work on you. Don’t look frightened, child.
Mother will show you, talk to you, and give
you the beneﬁt of all her experience, and
when we sit down to our sewing we can
have home talks, that 1 never want you to
forget, they may be of real value to you in
the years to come.

Married life has its ups and downs—it isn’t
all sunshine nor ﬂowers; but with lots of
love and patience and forbearance, you will
succeed. Father and 1 have said so many
times, by just studying each other’s tastes
and likes and dislikes, we grow harmonious,
and though we don’t think alike every
time, we never quarrel about it. That poem
of Will Carleton’s about “ Betsy and I are
Out” is just as real as can be. Once let a
couple begin to disagree, the neighbors will
lend them assistance, and serious trouble is
the result. You are older than I was when
your father and Iwere married, I was six-
teen, then there were ﬁve younger than I.
How bad mother felt when I told her John
and I were going to be married! She laid
the baby down and put her arms right

 

around me and we both cried, for I knew I
was like her right hand, looking after the
baby and doing all the heavy work, wash—
ing, ironing and churning; but it is the way
of the world, IIetty, it’s the way I did, the
way you are doing, it is born in 11s, the de-
sire to be for ourselves; and when the right
one comes along, we’ll leave the home nest
and go, no matter if it is to the ends of the
earth. Your grandfather wasn’t very fore-
handed, our farm was small, and between
poor crops and low prices—and our family
numbered eight, you know—it was all we
could do to live. The last summer I was at
home I taught the district school. I had
twenty shillings a week and boarded
myself. I never drew one cent until the
term was ended, and if ever I was proud in
my life it was when I had all that'money in
my hand and knew I had earned it myself.
That’s another thing, Hetty, that’s born in
woman, the desire to earn money, to be in-
dependent. It will do for single women,
but when married women try it, it proves
oftener a failure than a success; not ﬁnan-
cially perhaps, but if you look at it sensibly
her time should be given to her house and
family. The trouble all grows out of the
pocketbook. Every woman should con-
sider from the beginning that they are ac-
cumulating property together; they have con-
solidated interests, and both are entitled to
the income. always using common sense
and prudence. If a woman is a true
woman, she knows what debts there are to
pay, where the money should be used, and
it would be unreasonable in her to insist
upon having things that are not necessary.
There is lots more comfort and satisfaction
in knowing that you do not owe anybody a
cent, than feeling that you have had every
foolish caprice gratiﬁed. Every woman has
a liking for good clothes, nice gloves, laces,
shoes, little nick-hacks for the toilet, but
she should consider well whether it is wise
or not to buy them. What sometimes seems
as it morally impossible, we can succumb to
if we only will it so.

Your grandfather Vincent was called a
rich man; he lived in the village and John
was the only child; his mother had been
dead a good many years, and there had
been a housekeeper, a real motherly woman;
but no matter how nice everything is kept,
or how well every duty is performed, there’s
a something lacking, acertain atmosphere
which only pervades the house when
mother’s there. John always pictured in
glowing colors our new life, and dear, he
never drew it too bright, for I have had ,a
truly happy life, and it all came from our
being so thoroughly determined to make our
married life a success rather than a ship-
wreck. We’ve always pulled the same
way; it’s with a married couple just as it is
with a span of horses—if .they are not
mated as to disposition and habits, one will
pull one way, one another——when one is
ready to go the other wants to stand still.
It is like music, too, there must be harmony
or the effect is spoiled, the piece should not
be all pianissimo, or all staccato, but by
having a little of both the melody is perfect.
Ifwe only have the desire, and have the
right heart, we can succeed at any thing.

We’ll make an estimate of how much
money we will want. for I intend your

 

“setting out” shall be complete. As Harry
is a clerk in town, there are many things
you will not need, that you would if you
were going on to a farm. We won’t talk over
the dresses yet, but get the table linen,
sheets, towels, and all these things ﬁrst.
They say everybody has a hobby, and 1
am sure mine is nice china and silver,
table linen and bedding, and we will decide
what we want and go to the city and make
our purchases, so we can get right to sew-
ing. The housecleaning is all over and we
shall try the capacity of that new Singer
that your father bought the other day. The
sheeting we will buy double fold, so there
will be no long seams to sew over-andoover.
I am glad you are such a nice hand with a
needle; think how nice embroidered letters
will look on the linen—monograms you
call them. eh‘.’ Well, we will 'look ahead to
abusy, agreeable, profitable sum ner, won’t
we, Hetty‘.’ W'nen l was hurried I had
nothing but my school money to use, and
my purchfses were necessarily small.
BATTLE CREEK. EVANGELIXE.

HAPPINESS.

 

[Paper read by Mrs. E liott T. Sprague, at the
meeting of the sthens, Calhoun 00., Farmers"
Club, Sept. ad]

Our social life would be much happier in-
its results if we had less affectation and
artiﬁce, if we showed more goodness of
heart. Nature, in her lavish gifts to man,
shows no partiality to station or rank, and
in no case has she denied her greatest,
highest boon—to the high or low, the rich
or poor—a great heart; all the good there is
about us, all the kindly courtesies—the good
deeds—are wellsprings of the heart. No
man can be a gentleman, no woman can
be a lady, without a good heart. No matter
about the clothes; it can lie under the
hodden grey of the peasant, as well as the
broadcloth of the nobleman. It is told of
Burns that walking along the streets of
Edinburgh with a gentleman of noble
lineage, meeting an honest farmer, he recog-
nized and spoke to him. Upon being up~
braided by his companion for speak'mg to
so rough a man Burns exclaimed “Why,
you fantastic gomerel! it was not the great
coat, scone bonnet and saunders beot hose
that 1 spoke to, but the man that was in
them, and the man, sir, for true worth
would weigh down you and me, and ten
more such, any day.” That there is home-
liness in externals, we know, and to the
casual observer, it may savor of vulgarity,
because we cannot discern the heart, but to
the clever minded, sensible person “ char-
acter will always bear its insignia.” Our
deepest and most lasting impressions are
learned through the eye, for what we see
we are quite apt to believe, for our ears
quite often deceive us.

Our homes, our schools, our society are
moulding the characters of the future gen-
eration. There is not sufﬁcient importance
attached to home training. “For what-
ever may be the efﬁciency of our schools,
the examples set in our homes must al-
ways be of vastly greater inﬂuence in form-
ing the character of our future men and
women.” The home is the crystal of so-
ciety, the very nucleus of national char-

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aster; and from that source, be it pure or
tainted, issue the habits, principles and
maxims which govern public as well as
private life. The nation comes from the
nursery: public opinion itself, is for the
most part the outgrowth of the home. and
the best philanthropy comes from the ﬁre-
side. To love the little platoon we belong
to in society is the germ of all public affec—
tions. From this little central spot the
human sympathies may extend, in an ever-
widening circle, until the world is embraced:
for though true philanthropy, like ,charity,
begins at home, assuredly it does not end
there. That we all have our individual
ideas of happiness, is true. While some
ﬁnd happiness in ministering to their own
wants, others will be equally happy in
allevating suti'ering and want and woe
Wherever it may be found. W. W. Cor-
coran, of Washington. seems to be a true
philanthropist. The “Home for Old
Ladies” called the “ Louisa Home,”
named after his only daughter, is a lasting
monument to his name. He it was who
brought back the remains of John Howard
Payne, the author of “ Home, Sweet Home”
from Tunis, and erectinga monument over
him is another act thatfgave him happiness.
1 am sure there is no fancy in saying that
there will come a time when honor will be
done to whom honor is due, and many who
have done their deeds beforeamen, for the
sake of the reward, will be passed by, and
those who have worked for Him who said
“Inasmuch as ye have done it_unto one of
the least of these, ye have done it unto Me,”
will not only deserve but receive. There
are seeds sown that do not yield tares,
there are deeds done that are not engraved
on marble, that are known only to Him,
“who suffers not even a sparrow to fall un-
noticsd.” There are innumerable sources
of happiness if we will only see them. It
does not lie in the future, it is not some
thing that we must strive hard to attain. It
does not necessarily mean riches, or power
or position; the more simple andmatural our
lives, I think the happier we are. We can
make our homes neat and attractive, and
pleasant, and in them with our little
family growing up around us, watching
their growth and development and im-
provement, not striving for the unattainable,
not waiting year after year for better times,
better prices, more means; but living just
as well as we can as we go along. There
are little ones all over our land, homeless,
hungry and ill-clad, who are being gathered
unto Asylums, Homes and Schools. “The
Fresh Air Fund,” a society of philanthropic
men and women, send them every summer
into the country for a few weeks at a time,
the blue sky, green grass, fresh fruit and
ﬂowers are beauties and blessings to which
they have always been strangers. Let us
cultivate the heart; “It will yield sweet

fragrance, but still we must toil and cherish
the blossoms and cultivate the soil.” We
are none of us free from sorrows and cares,
but they are harder to hear if we keep them
constantly before our eyes, and brood over
them. Bury your sorrow as much as you can.

“ There is many a rest on the road of life
If we only would stop to take it;
And many atone from the better land
If the querulous heart would wake it.
To the sunny soul that is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust me ’er faileth,
The grass is green and the ﬂowers are bright
Though the wintry storm prevaileth.”

 

A STUDY /OF FOREIGN MODES OF
LIFE.

We have been accustomed to believe that
similarity of environment would produce
similar results upon people, but we some-
times lind exceptions both curious and
mystifying. An interesting illustration of
this may be. observed by a brief study of the
Innnits and Fuegians, together with their
mode of life. The few things in which
they resemble each other is shortness of
stature, banged hair, utter disuse of the
bath and extreme love of their country, the
last mentioned appearing very curious to
us, as Greenland and T ierra del Fuego both
possess a climate of extreme cold which is
almost unendurable to a European. some
even having been frozen to death during
summer months in both countries. In-
tellectually they are as widely separated as
they are geographically. The lnnuits or
Esquimaux have a fair amount of brain,
capable of some cultivation; while the
Fuegians are very lowin the scale of human
life. Of course there are several reasons
for this, but in their dress and habitations
vve would expect to find them as near in
accord as the clinnte of their respective
lands. Here we are disappointed. The
Esquimau loads himself with the warmest
of fur, builds circular houses of ice blocks
which afford excellent shelter, and in travel-
ing protects himself very carefully from the
cold.

The Fuegian wears no clothing except a
piece of seal skin—or other easily obtained
fur—about eighteen inches square. This
is thrown over one shoulder or the other,
according to the direction of the wind.
But while indifferent to clothing he has a
savage love of ornament, decorating him-
self with paint and charcoal, and wearing
necklaces made of the teeth of ﬁshes and
seals, or of pieces of bone; wrists and
ankles are bedecked in the same way. A
house to suit their requirements can be
made by a boy in half an hour. He has
only to cut a number of long branches,
sharpen the thicker ends and stick them
into the ground, so as to occupy about
seven-eighth: of a circle. When the sticks
are tied together at the top the frame-
work is comple'ed. The walls and roof
are made by twisting smallerboughs among
the uprights and throwing long coarse grass
on them. and the entire furniture of the
hut is comprised in a few armfuls of the
same grass thrown on the ground. There
is no attempt at a door.

Vegetation, animal and insect life is
equally rare in both countries. While the
food of the Innuit consists mostly of the fat
of reindeer and seal, the Fuegians live
largely upon ﬁsh, mussels and limpets. The
ﬁsh are sometimes caught by tying the bait
upon the end of a line, and coaxing the ﬁsh
to the surface; when one bites he jerks it
out of the water with his right hand, and
with his left strikes it into the canoe.
When caught he bites apiece from the under
side and draws. Usually however he takes
ﬁsh by means of dogs which are trained for
the purpose. When a school of ﬁsh ap-
proaches the land the dogs swim out and
enclose them, splashing and diving until
they drive them into a net or some shallow

 

place where they can be taken by spear or
arm v. If their food fails and the weather
is too tempestuous for emigration to some
other point, they select some old woman,
and piling green boughs upon a fire hold
her head in the dense smoke that arises
until She is suffocated. Tue women eat the
upper part of the body and the men the
lower, while the trunk is thrown into the
sea. lfa whale becomes stranded on the
shore a great feast at once takes place. All
the people within reach llock to the spot,
while canoes surround the monster. and its
body is covered with little copper colored
men, carving away with their shell knives.
iia-h cuts as much as he can get. and when
he has 0 irved and torn off a large piece. he
makes a hole in the. middle. puts his head
through the aperture. . ml thus leaves his
hands free to carry more of the dainty
food.

l'pon a stunted evergreen beech grows
large clusters of globular fungus of a
bright orange color; this is also eaten with
avidity.

The Fuegians do not seem to have any
form of government, they live in small
communities not worthy the name of tribes,
and having no particular leader, except that
the oldest man among them, so long as he
retains his strength, is looked up to as asort
of authority. Their ideas of religion ap-
pear to be as ill-deﬁned as those of govern-
ment, the representative of religion being
the conjuror, who, however, exercises but
very slight inﬂuence upon his countrymen.
It might be repugnant to the feelings of one
unaccustomed to the diet to eat with the
Esquimaux a piece of raw meat that had
been carefully licked by a woman, in order
to free it from hairs and other extraneous
matter; fresh seals’ blood just drawn from
the animal would seem rather a strange
kind of soup, and the still warm entrails a
remarkable sort of after-dinner delicacy; or
to partake with the Fuegians of their old
women and fungus, so I conclude that the
study of the uncivilized tribes is more
pleasantly pursued atadistance from the
subiects themselves. There is interest
and fascination in learning of the many
curious things and beings upon our globe,
but there are parts of the subject of which
a knowledge is best taken second hand.

PAW PAW. MERTIE.

INFORMATION WANTED.

 

Will Mill Mimie tell us whether there
should be the same number of stitches all
the way through as in the beginning, in the
pattern for lily of the valley lace given last ’
February.

1 should be glad if some of the House-
HOLD readers would send me a copy of the
inter—state commerce bill, and also the
words of the answer to “The Gipsey’s
Warning.”

Beatrix told us how to keep cool; will
not some one tell us how to keep warm the
coming winter without wearing so many
clothes we can scarcely move?

Can any one tell me how to prepare and
color sheep pelts for floor-mats? I have
seen some very pretty ones but do not know
how they are made. '

I quite agree with Mary B., of Ypsilanti,
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forming young men and keeping them free
from vices, but the boys must help. Not
long ago a young lady of my acquaintance
married a bartender. If girls and boys
would think more about the facts on which
A. L. L.’s letter, “ Divorce, and Why,” is
based, and be more careful in making
choice of a life companion, there would be
less work for the lawyers. AZALIA.

[We will answer several of Azalia’s
questions without referring them to the
HOUSEHOLD. The star in the knitting
pattern mentioned answers somewhat the
purpose of a parenthesis, indicating that
the directions between stars or from a star,
are to be repeated. We will try to give
the directions for crocheted shoulder cape
soon, for the beneﬁt of several who have
asked for them. When an error is made
in sending the HOUSEHOLD, or a copy lost
in the mail as sometimes happens, we will
send another if notiﬁed at once. If the
matter is left to the end of the year, we are
sometimes unable to supply the missing
numbers—HOUSEHOLD En.

W

CHILDREN'S” FASHIONS.

 

Cashmere—which has come into style
again for ladies’ dresses—is a favorite
material for little girls’ suits this season.
Fancy plaids in twill and the sleazy “ blan-
ket goods” are also used, but the plain soft
cashmere is preferred. And at the outset it
may be well to speak of the matter of the
length of skirts. Girls of live years wear
skirts of medium length, half way between
knee and ankle; those olderwear them
shorter, just below the knees, while for
those under ﬁve years, the regulation
length is almost to the ankle. Skirts are
very full, often measuring three yards, and
are untrimmed, unless a simple desrgn in
braiding is used as an ornamentation. The
fullness is laid in side pleats in front and
gathered behind; and a velvet cord is
sewed in with the seam which unites the
waist and skirt. Dresses of ladies’ cloth
are made up for small girls, and the bot-
tom of the skirt is pin ked in scallops, with
two other pinked bands set on beneath, so
as to show three scalloped edges. The
waist has a deep pointed yoke or vest of
velvet, and where the waist comes up over
the yoke the edges are also pinked. The
back has also the deep point of velvet, and
is closed with tiny buttons covered with
velvet, or with bullet-shaped pearl buttons.
This is made more dressy by cutting out
the velvet at the neck to make it half high,
and wearing the dress over a. cambric or
mull guimpe with a high standing collar.
This style makes a very pretty and dressy
suit for a little girl, and is simple and
easily made. If there is fear that the mull
guimpe may not be sufﬁcient protection,
surah silk in white, or of the color of the
dress may be substituted, and the high
Silesia lining not cut out. The surah is
gathered or laid in soft loose pleats. The
dress sleeves are full and gathered slightly
to a deep cuff of velvet; or short, and the
silk or mull of the guimpe forms the sleeve,
which is full and gathered to a band.

Another pretty way is to cut the neck of
the dress half high, square in the back and
rounding in front, and trim with a band of

 

 

ribbon velvet 1% inches wide, which fol-
lows the ontline of the neck, passes down
the front in two rows, and around the waist
as abelt; the fronts are open between the
rows of velvet, and small eyelet-holes
worked, and then laced with cord. The
skirt has two widths of cashmere simply
hemmed, and gathered or shirred in two
or three rows at the top. We should have
said that the waist buttons at the back, the
lacing being purely ornamental. Braiding
is in fashion again, the Greek key and snail
patterns being quite popular.

For plainer dresses, and for older girls,
high-necked dresses with the same straight
skirts are worn. The front of the waist is
pointed slightly, the back round. just
coming to the waist line, and the edge is
corded with velvet. The sleeves are coat-
shaped, with little velvet cuﬁs, and small
puffs at the top—these puffs extend only
across the top of the sleeve. not round the
entire armhole. For school dresses girls
from nine to thirteen will wear serge, home-
spun or gay plaid wools made with belted
waists gathered to a yoke, and the usual
straight gathered skirts. Jacket waists
with vests and revers are made for more
dressy wear, and skirts are pleated instead
of being gathered.

That these styles will seem strange to
some mothers who have made their small
girls’ dresses copies in miniature of their
own so long, we can well believe. Yet we
give the fashions as we ﬁnd them on our
streets: and really think them far more
sensible and pretty than the very short
skirts, rufﬂed and frilled and puffed, with
overdrapery, which prevailed so long and
marked the era of Fussiness, now, happily,
on the wane.

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WORK.

 

“' In this big world of ours, my boy.
There's work for all to do.“

How often we hear the expression by
men and boys, “ If I had plenty of money I
would never do any work!” And I wonder
sometimes if these same men and boys ever
houghtwhere they would have got their
living if their father or mother never
worked. Cannot they remember if their
own mother had not constantly worked,
they would not be able to enjoy a good
meal nor have a good bed to lie upon, nor a
clean shirt to put on their backs. And are
there any of them so much better than their
mothers, that they must waste their lives,
and “sponge” on the generosity of those
who will work? Why work is so despisable
I fail to see, only as the “ duty of pleasure”
hides the “pleasure of duty.” I know of
no prosperous merchant, or rich gentleman,
but who loves to have some daily occupation.
How often will men and boys take a gun,
and tramp a swamp 15 or 20 miles per day
for a paltry squirrel; and should we ask
such to take a horse and cultivate our corn—
ﬁeld for 75 cents and good meals, they
would think “That’s too hard a task for
me.” I am thinking to myself that I
would enjoy the cognomen of thief, better
than to be called a lazy man. Some friends
think that 1 am a “quarter off,” but i still
keep “scratching ” for that “happiness”
where there is “something for children to
do,” and write my thoughts between meals.

PLAINWELL . ANTI-OVER.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

To CLEAN nickel on stoves, wet soda with
ammonia, apply with an old tooth brush
and rub off with a woolen cloth.

 

IT is said that the red tomato is best
when treated as a vegetable, and the yellow
sorts are best eaten with sugar or preserved.
Both make excellent catsup, but that
from the yellow requires less spice.

Twopunces of soda dissolved in a quart
of hot water will make a ready and useful
solution for cleaning old painted wood work
preparatory to repainting. This mixture, in
the above proportion, should be applied
when warm, and the woodwork afterward
washed with water to remove all traces of
soda.

1']: is said that a slice of raw fat salt
pork, bound on a wound made by a rusty
nail, will draw out the poison, reduce the
inﬂammation, and heal the injury more
quickly than any other application. The
same meat, chopped with raw onions,
makes an excellent remedy for bites of
animals, as dogs, cats, etc.; wounds which
are not only dangerous but also painful.

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ONE of the most serviceable kind of wash-
stand splashers, and also one of the cheap-
est, is made from a yard of fancy matting
bound with a wide braid or a piece of silk
or merino, matching the prevailing color in
the room, and fastened up with four tacks,
each tack covered with a colored ribbon.
Where the room is small and there is no
dressing case, pockets of the matting may
be fastened each side of the silasher to
hold the comb and brush.

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Contributed Recipes.

 

Sprcnn Pmcnns.—-Eight pounds of fruit,
pared but not stoned. One quart vinegar:
four pounds sugar; half an ounce cloves, one
of cinnamon: tie the spices in bags to boil
with the vinegar and sugar. Heat the latter
boiling hot; put the peaches in a stone jar
and pour the boiling vinegar over them.
Pour this off next day; heat and return: do
this ﬁve days in succession. Some use the
same proportions, but boilthe fruit with the
vinegar and sugar till done.

PRESERVED TOMATOES.——Sca.ld and peel
small, smooth, pear-shaped tomatoes, prick
with a large needle and put their weight of
sugar over them. Let stand over night, pour
off the juice and boil till it is a thick syrup,
skimming carefully. Put in the tomatoes and
cook till they are translucent. A sliced lemon
cooked in the syrup improves the ﬂavor.

SPICED GRAPE Janna—Choose half ripe
grapes, scald without adding water, and
strain. Equal quantities of juice and sugar.
Cook twenty minutes, or till it will je‘ly, and
boil with it a quarter of an ounce of whole
cloves and three-quarters of an ounce of cin-
namon to each quart. Nice for cold meats.

Srrcsn ToMA'rons.—Choose small pear-
shaped tomatoes. prick with a fork: sprinkle
with salt and let lie over night, then drain.
Pack in a jar. and cover with one pint vine-
gar to which has been added one tablespoon-
ful of sugar, and one teaspoonful each of
pepper, allspice, cinnamon and cloves. Let
the vinegar come to a boil, turn over the to-
matoes and when cold seal securely. ‘

S'runcrs. J. H. C.

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