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THE HOUSEHOiDh-Supplement.

 

.il‘HE NEW YEAR‘S RESOLUTION.

. Friend, if thou dost bethinx the now _
. ; To lip some earnest pledge or vow.
Search well thy heart. nor idly let
The burden on thy soul be set.
Load not thy faith until it strain
' 'And break. and all be worse than vain:

" " - Measure thy power. and for the rest

Beseech thy God ,to bless the rest.
—0unton Scotlard.

ﬂ.—

Bemember. three things come not back:
“l’he arrow sent upon its track.

it will not swerve, it will not stay

Its speed: it ﬂies to wound or slay.

The spoken word. so soon forgot

' 8y thee : yet it has perished not ;
In other hearts ‘tis living still.
And doing work for good or ill. 0

-And‘the lost opportunif y.
That oometh back no more to thee;
lnyain thou weepest. in vain dost yearn.
Those three will never more return.

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s'roas: accomvrs.

' If’I Were asked to give a suggestion

- {to a. couple about beginning life to-

. .' .gether as to what business principle

5.5. f. 4 theyshouldadopt to enable them to get
i f. onin the world, I would say, run no

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accounts. Pay as you go.
Debt is often an unpleasant necessity

'I alike to the young farmer and the busi-

ness man. A man does business on a bor-
rowed capital, whether he gives a

.h . mortgage on his farm or a stock of

.goods in a store. His ambition is to

V get out of debt. To that end he is in-

- dustrious and economical. His debt is.
'an'incentive to energy and activity,

- -' and often aids - in establishing those

habits of prudence and wise expendi-

' '_ "pan-e which in the end enable him to

‘_. .become rich beyond his wildest am-
bition. Debt is not always a disaster,

. ‘ f - but 1 think a running account at' “the

. store ” should be classed as a family

’1‘: . calamity. It is so easy to buy a thing

when all you have to do. is to say,

.“Charge it, please.” When you pull

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- out your pocket-book and count out the

5. ‘ _‘oash, and see the aching void that is

left, you are apt to reﬂect upon the ex-
pediency of your purchase, and your

‘csober‘mcond thought shows you you.

could, after all, get on very comfortably

' :wfthoutwhat, under the credit system,

you think ,‘you certainly must have,

' ;; especially when the day of. payment is

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AnEnglish paper quoted in 7‘ How-to _ ,

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Co-Operate,” says: “In its demoral-
izing inﬂuence, credit is undoubtedly
next 'to the terrible drinking habit.
Credit does not encourage thrift, which
comes from economy and saving.
Credit degrades the individual by a
consciousness of wearing unpaid-for
clothing, or of owing for food that has
produced the ﬂesh on his bones. Credit
helps to keep the working-man depend-
ent and at the mercy Of his employer.
Credit opens to a large class of unprin-

- cipled persons, achannel for the most

bare-faced robbery.” And it may be
added credit never allows one’s hard
earned money to warm the pocket—book
to a comfortable temperature. Any
sum of money which comes to hand
must immediately be paid out for that
which has already been eaten or worn
out.

Once establish the habit of not buy-
ing a thing till you can pay for it, and
of considering the actual need of the
purchase, and you will be surprised to
see how many of your fancied wants
will be classed with the non-essentials.
Socrates was once invited to the house
of a wealthy Athenian, who showed
him its beautiful and luxurious furnish-
ings, expecting to impress the philoso-
pher. So he did. but hardly as he had
expected. On leaving, Socrates thank-
ed his friend for the courtesy, which he
said had showed him how many things
there were in the world' which he could
do without.

_, When one has a store account, the

“must haves " are almost certain to
dominate the “can do withouts,” and
this, though one’s resolutions in favor
of the strictest economy are actually
ironclad. A sudden temptation over-
comes us; it is so easy to say “Charge
it i ” and think, “I’ll make it up some-
where else !” And the grand aggre-
gate of items on the day of settlement
is always unexpectedly large. You feel
sure you never had all those groceries,
so many yards of calico, so many little
etceteras, yet when you go over the
list memory brings back the circum-
stances, and even if you don‘t remem-
ber you have to pay just the same.

The honest grocer is ,yet liable to
lapses of memory. Was it Mrs. A. or
Mrs. B. who sent for the gallon of mo-
lasses and three bars of soap ? He
guesses it was Mrs. A. but it was really

Mrs. Bi, so Mrs. A. pays for Mrs. B.’e

 

soap and molasses. Perhaps, being of a' '
frugal turn of mind, he charges the
items on each account, so as to be cer-
tain of his pay if one or the other dis-
putes the charge. The cash customer
can go wherever .he can buy cheapest,
while he who has an account must
trade where it is kept. Thus he often
pays more than he could buy the same
goods for at other places, and must in ad-
dition take what is in stock, whether it
suits him or not. It is an object to the
merchantto have the trade of the man
who will pay ready money; be will put _
himself out of the way to oblige him'

and see that he is well served. He gets
the best every time. ' It is well known
that the responsible customers on a

‘merchant’s books, to a certain extent,

pay the debts of the irresponsible ones.

. the accounts that cannot be collected—

another argument in favor of a cash
business. .

“But,” says the buyer, “I haven’t
the money; I can’t get enough ahead to
pay cash, my ready money must go to
pay the interest on the mortgage.” I
believe it would pay, in such a case, to
let the interest stand for a year, pay in-
terest upon interest if need be, and
establish the cash system. It would be
the truest economy, an actual saving of
money. I never knew a person yet
who, once having abandoned the credit
system for cash payments, would go
back to, the old way. All see its
economy and its independence. It
will pay to practice rigid economy for
one year, to put off building the barn or
putting up the windmill till another
spring, and emancipate yourself from
the tyranny of the “ store account.”

More than one farm in our bonnie
State has been mortgaged and lost
through the agency of a “store ac-
count,” combined with a crop failure.
“ Always taking out and never putting
in soon comes to the bottom.” The
best and most prudent management is
that which sends to the store enough
butter, eggs, fruit, vegetables er‘other
by-products of the land to pay for the
supplies needed in the family. And
you will usually ﬁnd that in the homeof
the prospering and thrifty farmer such
a system obtains.

We are on the threshold of a new
year. It would be wise to do away with
the account and institute the pay-est .
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some—pinching and self-denial is doubt-

less true, but oh! how independent you
will feel to owe no man a dollar!
. , ~ BEATRIX,’

 

“TURNING OVER A. NEW LEAF.”

 

’Twas the day before Christmas, and
it was rapidly nearing a close. The
skies hung dull and leaden; a few scat-
tering snow ﬂakes skurried by; the air
.Was keen and piercing: men instinc-
tively pulled up their coat -collars and
women drew their wraps closer about
them, for the chill northeast wind was
searching. But how happy and bright,
the faces were! No one minded being
jostled; it was evident that the brown
paper parcels, piled high, meant joy
and happiness to loved ones. Occas-
ionally a man swung aldng, carrying a
.huge turkey by the legs; little children
danced and chattered merrily before
the gaily decked Shop windows. If
there/wereany hungry, aching hearts
they were not visible, it was the side
of humanity that is always uppermost
at ‘this glad time of the year. The
electric lights were hanging like stars
all along the streets, bathing every-
thing in a clear white light. Away
from the busy city a little, in a large
Soldiers’ Home, sat a man apparently in
deep thought. He had sat thus for
hours, his thoughts busy with the past.
He .has aged prematurely, this old
soldier, for while he is thin in ﬂesh and
form bent and an air of feebleness

‘ abOut him, his eye is clear and not a

thread of silver streaks the brown hair.
The day has faded into twilight, and
twilight into darkness and still his
thoughts are busy. Again he is a
child—how anxiously he has watched.

‘ for Christmas. His little stockings are

pinned together and hung behind the

‘ big dining-room stove with the rest—

ten pairs in all, for there are four

‘ brothers and four sisters and a father

and mother in this happy, prosperous
heme. ,The ﬁreboard back of the stove
is:loose‘ned and set ajar for the easy
entrance of Santa Claus. He is tucked
into his trundle-bed by his mother’s
loving hands, and he sees the pleasant
smile, ashe bids her “waken him, if
she. hears Santa’s reindeers.”

And now he isn’t a boy any longer;
,he‘ hears the lowing of cattle, the
bleating of ﬂocks; he’s driving them
up the long grassy lane, old Speckle,
Bess and Bountiful; barefooted, brown-
cheeked, healthy and happy. How
sWeet the clover smells, how soft the
air! 'Was ever a pleasanter place than
that old farm? The bees ﬂy lazily
home with, their honey; the robin in
the locust tree sings “Cheer up,” and
there are the two little sisters on
the old' red gate. The years move
slowly ’along and the cry of war rings
through the land. At the ﬁrst roll of
the. drum he takes his place in the
ranks of volunteers and eighteen sum-
mers have not rolled over his head.

He hears again his father‘s. "‘ Godchless
you,” seeshis mother’s tears, the'old
orchard with its drifts of. pink' and
white bloom. ’Twas hard to leave it
all, but duty was stronger and he
marched away while the bugles played
and drums- beat. The long marches,
the battles and skirmishes, the picket
guard, the sentry’s beat, and the dis-
charge and home again; but not the
same innocent boy. who marched away
looking back at the dear old home.
The love oi'th‘at which debases man~
hood and drills his ﬁne nature, held him
with bands of iron. ‘.‘Oh! I’ll stop it
when I get home again—I’ll turn overa
new leaf.” But ’twas so hard it drove
him like a master at times. He is
standing by that mother’s bedside and
she holds his hand and begs a promise
that he will reform.to a noble, upright
man; and he promises that dying
mother he will turn overa new leaf.
The farm is sold, the childhood home
passes into the hands of strangers, and
in another State, miles away, he be-
gins anew.

The scene shifts, he stands before the
man of God with a fair young girl on
his arm and promises “to love, honor
and cherish.” Five years of happiness
follow; he feels the strange thrill in his
heart when his ﬁrst burn is laid in his
arms, and because of the dark eyes
looking into his, the dark hair crown-
ing the little head, says “ I will call
her Caroline, for the sweet sister that I
lost so many years ago.” But this new.
inspiration was denied him; suddenly
she left him for kinder and more tender
arms; he watched the little life go out,
the wife’s desertion followed, and all
alone 'he took up. the burden of life
again, but with an ear deaf to all his
better instincts. Down, lower and
lower; into the gutter sometimes, then
again engaging in business only to
fall, and at last, after many years, with
money, friends, position and health all
gone, he ﬁnds himself in this great
Home, wo'rrying through the monoto-
nous treadmill of life. ’ ,

“ Oh! God!” he moaned,” nothing to
live for, I have wasted my life! Noth-
ing but leaves, nothing but leaves;”
The old soldier crept into .his bed and
pulled the clothes up around him. it
was half past nine. “ Lights out, lights
out!” had been sounded. He could not
explain the impulse, but he' found him-
self repeating the little prayer lisped
so many times at his mother’s knee:

" Now I lay me down to sleei.
I pra the Lqrd my soul to esp;
If I ould die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.”

The morning dawned bright and
beautiful. ’Over the whole earth lay a
ﬂeecy pall, pure and clean. Not a
cloud ﬂecked the sky. The sun rose
higher and higher, his rays crept into
crevices, they slanted across the nar-v
row iron bedstead and lay on the grey‘
blanket and pillow. ‘But the old

 

soldier lay still and cold with a changed
look on his face. a peaceful, childlike

.expr‘essionf :The lights were out, but i
on the Eternal shore he had answered
to the roll-call, he had “ turned over a
new leaf,” its page was clean and fair.»

' “ He had gone home at eveninlz
And found it morning there."

BATTLE CREEK.
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' VALUE OF, LITTLE.

 

“ Do thy little, do it well,” thus runs-
the song. For a long time I have con~
templated contributing my little to the
HOUSEHOLD, and, noticing some time
ago an invitation for each and all to do
their little, I determined to comply;
but being very much averse to a “rush”
I decided to wait until that was over.

Why do we‘not all always do .our
little?, We are all I hope. members of.
some neighborhood, and. many of us ‘
have too many family duties to attend ‘
largely to public welfare; but there is a.
little time, possibly only the Sabbath
day, for personal recreation. This
time is used for various purposes; I
mean after needed rest is taken. Many
of our neighborhood ladies are found
on the Sabbath at church and Sunday
school, some of them church members, .
but do they all do their little there ?"
No, I fear not. They think they cane:
not do it well, but notice the'song says,
ﬁrstly, “ Do thy little,” secondly. “Do
it well,” the latter comes only by prac—
tice. ‘

In our Sunday school we have a large

Bible class, consisting mostly of mar-

ried ladies, led by one of their own

number. I have often wondered if they

were having what “we girls” call ,
Quaker’s meeting;—if so I think their- ‘.
spirits seldom move. We must not
term these ladies bashful, for they
struggled through that experience long'
ago, but when asked one says : " I am
not accustomed to acting or speaking
in public, therefore please excuse me.”'
Of course “we girls” cannot be rude
and urge farther, but try another and,
another with usually the same result,
and after oft repeated trials we have
learned they are never “prepared.” -
Now let me entreat you of the “ not
prepared” order, as another year opens
to do a little outside of your own home,
not essentially in the church or Sunday
school, for there are various ﬁelds of’
labor, and I will assure you a happier- '
year than these past.

LANSING. KATE.

A New York restaurant which makes

a specialty of pumpkinpies, uses 45-
tons of pumpkins every season. In the ’
architecture of these pies, .400 dozen '
eggs and 4,200 quarts of milk are-con,
sumed daily; the pumpkins are grown

onafarm in Ulster 00., N. Y. Each.-
vine is allowed to produce but one
pumpkin—but it is “a buster.” The. .
three largest pumpkins ever grown '

spe'ctively, and the grower proposes to,

 

next year.

   

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It'is rather late to go back to the
jquestion of “Girls in Men’s Oliices,”
, but I wish to say” I am‘ glad Beatrix
gave you the other side of that im-
portant question;‘for no one can get a
perfect idea of any object or subject
by' viewing one side only; no one’s,
opinion is of very much importance
who can see only one side of a subject.

‘I wish some one could see all sides of
the ”telegraph message” subject. It
seems to me when it takes from tWenty-
four to thirty hours for_a message to be
sent and delivered within less than
7 four hundred miles, it needs view-
ing from both sides, both ends and
through the middle. Of course it is
incompetency and gross negligence,
one or both combined. I do not suppose
, such things can be helped as long as

beginners just learning the business

are left,in,charge. .But it is too bad
nthe helpless public should be. the suf-
ferers.

I was up stairs looking for a pattern
some days ago. On the bureau lay a
small pile of old HOUSEHOLDS, dating
from 1884 to 1886; of course I could not
resist the temptation to glance over
one or two of them, and before I was

aware of \it the number was a dozen.
The signatures seemed like old friends,
and Iawondered and asked mentally,
Where are they? I’ve not seen many
of them in a long time.

One of the letters by E. L. Nye,
“.Which is the Womanly Woman,” set
me thinking. What a change the last
. ﬁve years have made in this question
of “woman’s sphere,” and the next
ﬁve years—who can tell the possibilities
or the advancement or accomplishment
of good in that time? Truly “the
world moves,” and not slowly. . Those
who have had the opportunity to read
about the National W. C. T. U. conven-
tion which was held this fall in Boston
will need no more convincing argu-
ment.

.Thanksgiving has come and gone.
When this letter meets your eye Christ-
mas will have come and gone.
many it is a time of feasting and glad-
ness;-to others a time of loneliness and
sadness. Let no one 10'se hope or faith,
, for this is alife of compensations; those
'who laugh today may weep tomorrow,
and vice versa; the clouds may obscure
the sun today, but he is- still shining,
and when the clouds pass by the light
will again bless us. Let us all turn
over the “new leaf” with the begin-
ning of the new year, and let the most
important thing in our thoughts be to
say’ the kind, thoughtful things every
day to our friends and neighbors in-
stead of Waiting until their ears cannot
hear, or~eyes see, or hearts feel the
' comfort of-them. ‘

My vote is fer Grandpa to stay with
us; ‘There are many persons with

~ ‘ who'm'we donot quite agree in every-:

{ thing, but that is no sign they 'haven’t

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the same right to their place and

8‘ 'opinion as ourselves; and to tell the

truth I agree pretty well with him.
And we do not want our little paper to
die from too much sweetness. “ Variety
is the spice of life.” '
Will El. See tell me if she uses our
common ink in her stylographic pen,
or does she get some special kind?
ALBION. M. E. H.

-—--—.O.—-—.

HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS .

 

I want to have a little talk with the
lady whose husband burned the HOUSE-
HOLDS. Either you do not care much
for domestic peace, or you have not
been married long enough to know how
to attain to it and keep it. All of us
elderly married ladies know, though
we do not spread -it in print much, that
to have your own way in matters that
you have set vour heart on, it is well to
let your husband have his own way in
trifles, things that are unimportant to
you, though, mind you. it is never
necessary to let him know that they are
unimportant. If he wants to think he
owns your wardrobe, let him; it cannot
hurt you so long as he keeps it well
supplied. I should think it would be
far easier to tell him what he needs to
purchase of feminine apparel than to
ask for money for yourself. And don’t
expect too much of him in the way of
being pleasant and yielding. To quote
Samantha Allen: ‘ “Every married
woman will'join me in saying that there'
are moments in married life when
mules seem to be patterns of yieldin’
sweetness compared to lawful partners.”
And then keep your troubles to your-
self, for it does more hurt than good to
tell them to others. But my conscience
smites me for that last sentence.
Shakespeare may have been right when
he says :

" A wretched soul bruised with adversity.
We hid it quiet when we hear it cry;

But were we burdened with like weight of pain.
As much or more we should our nelves complain.”

Since reading Beatrix’s account
of the babies in the Foundlings’
Home I have thought often of

them, but more of the poor mothers.
What terrible, lasting grief must be
theirs, loving their babies as all
mothers must, to give them up. I have
wondered if shame alone compels the
mothers to desert them. Perhaps the
impossibility of earning their living
while keeping a child with them has
much to do with it. Is there any insti-
tution in the country where a deserted
mother can be cared for and keep her
child with her ? If not, there is need
of one. If I were the mother of an
illegitimate child I should never desert
it, even if I had to beg my way from
door to door. I would do the best I
could to care for it, but my baby should
not leave my arms. But my heart
aches for' any mother who has been
compelled to part with her little child.

This fall I did something entirely
new and original. ; I had two small

 

hams that I wanted smoked. We have

a large sitting room stoVe of‘the “Jewel:-
Parlor ” order. I strung those’hams on}
the" poker, let them down into the tops
of the stove, put the cover on,-built the.-
corncob smudge under them, and. in»
due time those hams were smokedgtt)»

perfection. Necessity was the parents!
of this invention.
PIONEER.

HULD .lH PERICINS. ..

 

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TEE ALADDIN oven.

 

The Aladdin oven is a comparativelyirr
new invention, originating with. Mr..-
Edward Atkinson, the student of'poli»
tical economy, also known asithe work-—
ing-man’s friend, and the economic:
statistician. He worked many years:
to perfect it, and has at last achieved a .
success which warrants manufacturersq
against loss in making it, and it will? >
probably soon be available to ordinary:
purchasers. He claims for it econOmy?‘
of time, fuel, food and woman’s.-
strength; but alas, it has to be managed-:33
with'brains, and it remains to be seen...
whether the wives of working-men,~
the classiwhich is to be most beneﬁ tedby:
it, will take hold of it, master its science
and use it intelligently, after having”-
known so long the happy-go-luckyr
methods of food preparation. The oven .7
is an oblong box of sheet-iron, made--
twelve inches deep, eighteen inches~-
wide and fourteen inches high. This. ’
box or oven has three movable shelves--
and is enclosed by a non-conducting-
wood-pulp covering one and one~fourth
inches thick. The even stands upon
legs so high from the ﬂoor that 32.
kerosene lamp may be placed 'beneath.‘
it. A round wick lamp is used, by“
which the heat can be raised to 350 or -'
400 degrees.

All kinds of food may be cooked «ins;
the dishes in which they are to bee
served, without injury to either food-or»
crockery. A pan of water for washing ~
the dishes and plates may be warmed:-
upon. the top of the oven while thew
cooking is going on within. No taint;
or odor of smoke or oil can reach the. .
food; and meats and vegetables, even..
the pungent onion, may be cooked in
the same oven without having the
ﬂavor of -one imparted to -the other.
Bread, pies and cake can be thoroughly-
baked, and will be thoroughly done on.--..
the bottom without being burned on.
top. The bread thus baked is said‘to.
much resemble that baked in the old- ~-
fashioned brick oven. ’

By the use of a lamp with a ﬂat wick;
_which gives a less degree of heat, the
‘breakfast may be cooked durlng the.»
night, and the housekeeper arise to
ﬁnd the morning’s meal ready to» place:
upon the table. A course dinner for-
eight or ten people may be cooked, ins
one oven, and by proper attention to»
putting the articles of food into the-
oven at the right time, everything will
be done at the proper time‘for serving.

Five of these ovens are in. constant;

 

use in the New England Kitchen at. a

   

 

 

 


 
 
    

  
 

. 53mm this vast expenditure.

' ’Izm‘the women!

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The Houseliold

 

$30M and the. saving .of fuel and
Elaborwhich they permit is a great help
i311 solving the ﬁnancial problem of the
(“may where soups, chowders. stews,
mdmher foods are prepared and sold
Stat Ivory moderate prices to working
mp1s.
-It' ashvery diﬁicult for many old-school
Mahmoustomed to the kitchen range,
' “the wood-box, and the steam and bub-
Cbie of boiling 'and roasting meat and
‘wegetables, to believe in the possibili-
3108 of the Aladdin oven. It reads like
afairytale. Think of saving all the
Gaboroi washing pots, kettles and stew-
ms, of having one lamp to clean in-
«stead of ashes to empty, fires ‘to light
and wood and coal to bring! . And
”:think whata saving of work and per-
apiration for women! The Aladdin
oven promises to be the coming Queen
<11! the Kitchen.

 

.vwon’r YOU WEAR IT?

 

"The workingmen in America spent
East year for drink alone $1, 280, 000 000.
We won’t consider the suffering and
moverty it brings on.them, for we may
suppose that they get some enjoyment
But think
«Efﬁe tears and real sorrow it brings
They are the ones who

$62r the burden. Yea more, there' 13
:mot a family in the land but what, has
- some one connected with it, near or re-
Inoie, who is a drunkard. Now we
iswomen have no legal voice to protest
naminst this monstrous evil that bids
"ﬂair'to win our homes, but if we unite
:zn‘d are not afraid to express our
terminions in public, it will, it must," do
ﬂamesgood. My plan is, that every
Wan, rich or poor, wear the narrow
Wiserib'bon tied to the buttonhole of
fhernutside garment. A few of the W.
0 CDTS’D. wear it now. All honor to them.
iLet usfjoin the organization if we can.
EBut‘busy women have no time, and I’ve
fheardunany say they could not afford
tit. "Butallcan wear the white ribbon

Imagine what it would he, say on
‘Saturday afternoon when Woodward
«‘Avenue, Detroit, 8 crowded, tosee that
*‘rvast army .of women each with a silent
1rtprOtest,"in the shape of their small
«white '=badge, against the shameful

‘liquoritra’ﬂic that the husbands and
-i?br0t"hers~Seem to consider hopeless to
acontrol. SISTER GRACIOUS.

THE Iaizes’ Home Jour nal for January,
wet athand, starts out with excellent
gmmmise for the new year.
c: zine has attained a remarkable success.

 

 

THE Review of Reviews' 1s a great help
the busy individual who has little

. ' :Reisure for reading, yet wishes to keep
sum Want with the topics of the times.

it seems to be a convenient summary

‘ emf what the magazines are doing. and
{Summons illustrations add to its in-

This maga— »

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

AN oyster can, opened on one of its
ﬂat sides, and the edges turned over
and hammered down, makes a good
soap—dish for the kitchen table.

 

IT is assertéd that if hams. are hung
in smoke while wet with brine they
will acquire a bitter taste. They
should be allowed to dry before being
hung.

 

AFTER you have once used white
oilcloth on your kitchen table, you will
11 ever be resigned to securing it again.
Clean the oilcloth with a little sweet
milk, instead of using soap on it.

 

YOU can stir either way and not spoil
acake or batter, but do not stir and
beat alternately, because the object of
stirring round and round is to mix in-
gredie nts and of beating across the
dish in quick rapid strokes to catch
particles of air in the batter and make
it light.

 

IN measuring, ateaspdonful does not
always mean the same quantity. Salt,
pepper. m ustard and spices are al-
ways measured by level measure, while
sugar, ﬂour and baking powder should
be rounded . A cook is supposed to un-
derstand this difference in measure-
ment but does not always, and rules are
thereby misconstrued.

 

AN Ohio lady who baked a cake and
had it “fall,” broke it up, mashed it
perfectly fine and smooth, added a cup
of milk and a teaspoonful of soda with
a little more ﬂour, and re-baked it.
The result was a success, acake she
was not ashamed to give to' “the com-
mittee” for a church entertainment.

shape of a cup of fruit added at the last
baking, which would account for the
“ oii color” of the resurrected article.

 

FOR an oyster pie, bake your crust,
then add the oysters. Line a. pudding
dish with nice puff paste. Fill it ’with
dry crusts'or crackers, then put on the
top crust, buttering its edges so it can
be removed. Make the top crust twice
as thick as the bottom. When baked,
have ready your oysters, stewed, and
thickened with two beaten eggs and
ﬁne cracker crumbs. Lift the top
crust, take out the crusts and pour in
the oysters.

 

~,IF you have prunes to cook, you can
have “stewed prunes ” or “prune sass,”
whichever you elect. Perhaps you
think there is no diﬂerence, but there
is. For stewed prunes, wash the fruit
well, put it in a porcelain pan, cover
with water and simmer slowly on the
back of the stove for three hours.
Sweeten and serve cold. The prunes
will be whole and plump, and the

 

liquid in which they ﬂoat a clear‘dark

She suggests an improvement in the '

amber.

boiled to. pieces, and a black. disreput-

 

for the turkey, don’t add milk or water
to the bread-crumbs until the result
is like a poultice. A good way is to
fry the bread-crumbs in butterto begin
with, using butter enough to moisten
them sufﬁciently—a generous cup-full

besuﬂicient for an ordinary sized turk.
Season with salt, pepper and the herb
preferred, but don’t be‘so generous of
the latter that the eater thinks the
dressing has been soaked in sage tea.
Beat an egg well, and stir into the
crumbs, then they are ready for use.

 

IT is the different treatment of the
tea leaves that makes the difference
between green tea and black. After
picking, the leaves used in making

air, during which time it is carefully
watched by the workmen, and at the
proper time (indicated by the odor)
they are put in iron roasting kettles,
after which they are rolled with the
hands to press out the juice. The
roasting and rolling is repeated until
no juice can be expressed, and they are
dried in sieves placed over charcoal
ﬁres. It is in this last stage of the
process that the tea turns black. The
leaves to be used for green tea are
roasted as soon as gathered. They are

due to the rapid drying of the fresh
leaves; but the green tea sent out of
China is almost invariably glazed with
a mixture of gypsum and Prussian blue.

 

GOOD Housekeeping is one of our most
valued exchanges. It is always bright,
original and helpful, and an eﬂicient
aid to good housekeeping.

Contributed Recipes.

 

Mmon PIES. --Two cups of chapped moat;
ﬁve cups of chopped apple; one cup of mo-
lasses; three cups of brown sugar; one cup
of boiled cider; one 'cup of the liquid in
which the meat was boiled; one cup of vine-.
gar; 'ons cup of water; half cup of snot
(chopped) or butter. Season, with two

cloves, allspice and nutmeg, and the juice
and grated rind of a lemon; three table-

spoonfuls of salt. Two cups of chopped

raisins; two cups of Zante currents; one cup
of chopped citrcn; half cup of candied
orange peal (if liked). Mix thoroughly}
cook slowly two hours, and keep where it
will not freeze. Mince meat improves with
age, and can be canned to keep indeﬁnitely.
Mas. Gum.

 

four cups of apple; two cups of brown
sugar; one cup of raisins; one’ cup at gur-

toaspoonfnls each of‘ salt, cinnamo

 

Vallspice. Cook till the apply is soft. ‘

When you cook‘ them half an
hour over a hot ﬁre, till they are all " *‘

able looking mess,— they’re just “sass.” ‘ .'

To make a nice dressing or stuﬂing -‘

to a scant quart of crumbs, which will«

black tea are exposed to the sun and ‘

rolled and dried the same as black tea. ‘ ,_
The color cf genuine green tea is

teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one each of-

Pnsm Mme: Myan—Two cups of meat; I

rants, two cups of sweet pickle vinegar; 3w ~ " — '

 

 

  
    
     
       
    
  
  
 
    
  
  
   
   
   
   
  
  
   
   
  
   
   
   
  
  
   
    
  
   
   
   
   
   
  
    
   
    
  
  
  
   
 
  
    
     
       
    
      
      
       
      
   
    
    
  

   
 

   
    
    

