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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

For he Honssnonn.
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP.

 

Love is a torrent rushing on.
lmpetnous in its ﬂow;

Friendship. the gentle stream that glides
Suenely. soft and slow.

Love is the star that brightly glows
Unon the hour of night;

Friendship. the milder orb that shines
With a serener light.

Love is a moving ﬂower whose leaves.
May are the noonday fade:
Whip. a plant that sweetly blooms
Alike in sun and shade.
Levels a beam that dazzles oft,
And sparkle‘in the light;
' Fiendship. a gem whose gentle ray
' new chess-the gloom of night.

Yes. love may wither and decay.
When life's young bloom is past.

May fade. as often roses fade.
Before the chilling blast.

. Bu like the changless sky above,
T hat smileth on us ever.
And like the stars. that gem the night.
Sweet friendship faded: never.

E. S.

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ma: FA'IQEER‘S INFLUENCE UPON
THE CHILDREN.

 

I think the assertion made by some of
our correspondents that the mother’s
inﬂuence over her sons is negatived by
their father’s example, while true in
some cases without doubt. cannot be
considered as expressing a. general. fact
or condition. It is neither true or wise
to talk as if all the love for the
children is vested in the mother, and as
if the father had no cars for their best
interests. He is I am well aware gen-
erally the more undemonstrative parent.
Very likely he does not pet and indulge
the youngsters as the mother does;
nevertheless he is toiling for the money
to support and educate them and to pro-
vide for their future; he is as proud
when they are praised, as glad when
they succeed, as the mother. Doesn’t it
hurt him as much when they stray away
from right paths; doesn’t his heart ache
too over their wrong-doing? Never
while I liVe shall I forget the heart-
breakingagony in a father’s voice as he
cried: “My God! is this my son!" There
is not such a difference between the
sexes that all the love and tenderness
abide with women and all sternness and

Wrath with men.

, Love for his child or children, a desire
.- latte disgrace them or lose their love
. xiii esteem often holds a man more

ﬁrmly to his duty than any other
emotion to which he is susceptible.
We all. know women who give us to
understand, by implication at least, that
marriage has been a failure and that
they are living for their children. I
suppose men may not unreasonably be
presumed to have exactly the same feel-
ing; in fact, I know they do.

It was no doubt the example of a
drunken, proﬁlgat-e father which was
meant as nullifylng a mother’s teach-
ings. Yet what a fearful object lesson
is’ continually before the children of
such. a man, a warning'of what they will
become. if they follow his course! The
mother’s task is diﬁicult and delicate,
for she must not destroy the child's love
for the father, thOugh teaching him to
hate the vices which degrade his man-
hood. Her task is hard, I say, but she
has a powerful lever by which to crush
out imitation by pointing out the sure
results. No doubt a good many of the
failures of really good parents are due to
misunderstandings relative to the ways
and means of arriving at the right train—
ing. Fathers resign the training of the
children to the mothers, believing
them the proper managers. If the
mother’s training doesn‘t train, and the
father in time to come interferes, he is
then regarded as one who meddles with-
out right, and child and mother alike
resent and perhaps unite to resist his
dictation. Herein lies the great advan-
tage of a union of aims and train-
ing—the family discipline is amatter of
mutual union and interest and neither
parent is in any way contradicting or
defying the authority or discipline of
the other.

The father’s inﬂuence is often nega-
tived by the weakly loving mother
whose unmse tender-heartedness inter-
feres to conceal the children’s faults,
help them evade their punishments or
by in judicious sympathy make them
feel themselves victims of a father’s
tyranny. A child should never be taught
to conceal anything from one parent,by
the other; because it will not be very
long before the child will be in the hid-
ing business on its own account.

Men, I think, generally allow more
individual liberty of act and opinion
than do women, and rely more on sense
than sentiment. They realize there are

 

some things children must learn by ex?
perience, dear bought though it prove,

 

and this I believe the real secret of their
better government both as parents and
educators. The eternal "don’ts,” the
constant espionage, the perpetual nag-
ging of some mothers is sufﬁcient to
ruin their inﬂuence over their children.

Oh no; make up your mind your hus-
band loves the boys and girls just as
much as you do—if he isn’t everlasting-
ly “fussing” about them. Don’t feel
injured or grieved if he sees and corrects
faults. Upheld his authority as well as
your own. Don’t threaten in his name;
if the youngsters need the roddon’t
promise to “tell your father and he’ll

whip you,” but administer the correc- .

tion yourself. And above all. make
your children a bond of union and love,
rather than a source of strife and con-
tention, between yourself and your hus-
band. BEATRIX.

 

A POT POURRI.

So that Beatrix can have a good time
in Chicago, and not have the word
Copy suggested, I send a mental pot
pie to the HOUSEHOLD, made up of
scraps from my thought pantry. It Is
to be taken with a good natured sauce,
and thanks to the maker.

Perhaps you have gathered the rose
petals, and have them in a pretty jar.
Now you can put them to a beautiful
use. Instead of throwing rice at the
bride, and getting it into the groom’s
pockets and shoes, and putting his eyes
out, as they leave the house. send your
symbolic congratulations through a
shower of rose leaves.

It is a pretty custom, after gathering
your ﬂower seeds, to put them in neat
paper bags, write the name p1ainly,and
tuck one into a letter to a friend.

Keep a ba' ‘zet handy and put all the
peach stones in it. Throw a handful on
the grate these cool evenings, or in the
stove. They burn with a clear ﬂame,
and send out a pleasant perfume.

Perhaps you are thinking you won’t
bother with house plants this winter,
but there are reasons beside seeing
something green in the windows. They
make the air more healthy for the
family, and help keep the piano and
organ in tune.

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scarce. and more costly every year.
There is no reason why you should not
have the same one season after season.

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The Household.

 

Select a small rooted evergreen, or buy
one of the ﬁorist,and plantit in a butter
tub painted green. If you have casters
on the bottom all the better. It grows
slowly, but will make a pretty plant for
the corner of the sitting room, and be
ready to trim for the holidays. In the
summer put tub and ‘all out doors, and

, see that the children water it. It will

grow for years in this way, and really
be like one of the family.

Don’t insist on washing Monday.
There are reasons why Tuesday or a
later day is preferable. It breaks in on
Sunday’s rest to get ready, and all the
good things are eaten, and cooking has
to go on besides. It’s a good rule not
to let a young girl have a white dress
until she can wash and iron it herself.
She will be more careful in wearing it
when she knows the labor of doing it
up.

One of our neighbors had a delight-
ful birthday gift. To look at, it was a
very pretty chair; sitting down in it
started a spring. and a music box com-
menced to play. If you stood up, the
tune stopped.

Perhaps some of us, frightened to
think our burying fund in the bank may
be lost, have gone and drawn it all out.
If so, the best thing to be done is to
cut a ﬁrm sharp twig, go out in the back
yard and beat ourselves black and blue
for our foolishness and helping to keep
up the tight times. Then .we should
take the money out of the chimney or
the hem of our petticoat, or the old
stocking leg where we have hidden it,
carry it back to the same bank and
humbly ask them to keep it for us.

Drrnor'r. SISTER GBACIOUS.

 

A COMMON FAILING.

 

It is very amusing to listen to the
things jealous persons will say. If one
of their neighbors happens to own
something which they are neither able
or lucky enough to possess, it is this
very article which they attempt by
shallow speeches to belittle and pick
ﬂaws in. Perhaps they imagine that
people don’t “catch on,” but they do,
every time.

Maybe the family across the way has
a neat turn-out, while the jealous per-
son may not pamper his pride in that
direction. He, or she it is, sometimes,
I am sorry to say, soon discovers that
Mr. Jones’ carriage is a very poorly
made concern, and must have been
ridiculously cheap. The nigh horse is
the proud possessor of three sprains and
a ring-bone, while the Oh one is lame
in all four legs, and has the heaves, and
they must both he at the least calcula
tion, sixteen years old.

Sometimes the jealous person allows
so small a thing as an article of Jewelry
to disturb his or her peace of mind, and
the ﬁrst victim that happens along gets
a piece of this identical disturbed mind.
This extremely happy and much to-be-
envied personage—the jealous person,

 

has made up his mind that that piece
of jewelry is not good gold, he is
ready to take his oath on “Fox’s Book of
Martyrs” that the diamonds are paste,
the rubies stained glass and the whole
affair a brass fraud gotten up for the
express purpose of fooling just such
unsuspecting people as this fortunate
neighbor.

If he, himself, happened to possess
the abused article it would straight-
way assume a character nearest per-
fection of anything “on this terrestrial
ball.”

We all know some jealous people and
feel an excusable aversion to them.
But they are to be pitied for they
must know the deepest pangs of dis
content, even though their trouble come
through no other source than a “selﬁsh
heart. .

There is real misery enough in life so
that most peeple have all they can con.
tend with, without borrowing more
trouble simply because some one
possesses something they can not
afford. It is an inexcusable failing and
one that ﬁnds out little sympathy.

We probably have all we deserve—
most people do and if Others have more
perhaps they deserve more.

Making the best of what we have and
striving to ﬁnd the best things of life
in our own lot, many bring peace un-
speakable.

A blessed been is coutent and brings
a wealth of comfort to the heart.

Even if we have comparatively little,
yet if our lives he “wisely and rightly
ordered," out of that little may rise
blessings so sweet that we may be
enabled to forget all about Mrs. Smith’s
jewelry and Mr. Jones’ turn-out.

MARSHALL. CLARA BELLE.

 

TEE TRAINING OF CHILDREN.

 

[Paper read by Mrs. Charles Baker before the
Grand Blanc Farmers’ Club, May, 1891.]

I do not wish anyone to think that I know
everything about training children. I know
very little; and son etimes the knowledge of
my inefﬁciency in this particular and the
thought of what might have been in years to
come had a different course been taken
comes upon me with almost overwhelminz
force. The other day Charlie found me
having a little private weep, as we women
will sometimes, and of course he wanted to
know what was the matter. I told him
I never was meant to train children. I
knew Inever could get through with it dc-
oently. He laughed a minute and said.
“Umph‘. You do the best you can, don’t
you?” “Yes," said I, “but not the best I
might do with the help I might have did I
oftener crave it.” You will excuse my using
the ﬁrst person singular, but it does seem
that the father, although a most important
factor. has very little to do with a child from
one to ten years of age. It was suggested on
the givmg of this subject that we notice the
diﬂerence in training of English and Ameri-
can children and which we consider the bet-
ter way. One of the greatest differences to
be noticed 18 that children of the old country
are more diﬁdent, do not rely on themselves
so much, nor are they so self assertive as

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our children; this comes from the fact that
parental authority is much more strictly on
forced there than here. Children pay much
more deference and respect to parents there.
Here you see a mother and daughter enter a
store; the daughter takes precedence in
everything, even sometimes seems to think
her mother is not up to the times, is her own
authority for what she wants and how she
wants it.

In England a mother would pay even if
her daughter was twenty-ﬁve years of age:
"While you are under my roof you will do
as I wish. When you have a home of your
own you can do as you please.” Children
in England are taught to respect their elders,
to speak when spoken to and are quite a
secondary consideration; here they are all

important and seem to take ﬁrst place.:

Whether it be better for a child to be re-
pressed. swear soft to itself. wring up its
ﬁst in its pocket and think what it will do
bye and bye. or be able to do and" say just
what it likes. I leave you to decide; but I do
think the happy medium is best and that we
parents should try to govern with that
authority which is needful to the comfort of
all concerned. I never hear a child or one
of larger growth be saucy to a parent, but I
feel if I had the strength and dared, I could
knock him down were he as big as Goliah.

English children too are healthier and
rosier; motherhood is not considered so
much of a burden, and it is a saying there
that a woman at forty is fat and fair,
though perhaps the mother of seven, eight,
nine or ten children. The climate may
have something to do with this, but I think
it is largely owing to the fact that nature is
allowed to take its course in the reproduc-
tion of the species.

The training of a child naturally implies
fJur divisions, via. physical, mental, moral
and religious. The physical training and
development is of the utmost importance for
it is the basis of everything that is desired;
aswell try to erect a noble building on an
unstable foundation as to raise swell round-
ed or perfect man from a diseased, sickly
child. I think you will all agree with me in
saying that people with consumption or any
known hereditary disease, have no business
having children, bringing innocents into the
world to suffer; a sorrow to themselves, a
constant source of pain and anxiety to those
who love them. When the blessing of a good.
stout healthy child is ours, let us see to it
that we try to retain and develop this gift.

Many a mother ruins the constitution of
her babe by needless indulgence. Some
people are devoted to soothing syrup. which
if habitually .given weakens the brain, mak-
ing the child dull and stupid. As soon as be
can toddle he runs around with a cookie or
fried cake in his hand as many times a day
as he chooses to call for it. interspersed with
frequent additions of candy and sugar, when
dinner and tea time arrive there is no up.
petite, ths child is cross and peevish. The
same programme is carried out the rest of
that day and the days following. I have
been where children we allowed to remain

up until the older folks retire, thus robbing ’

the active brain of childhood of its hours of
rest and also taking from the parents two
or three hours of evening quiet which is so
needful after the fatigue of the day.

To keep a child healthy and happy is easy
if we only have the ﬁrmness to do so. Deny
him lunches between meals, and though
hard at ﬁrst you will soon be delighted to see
the pleasure and zest with which your little
ones despatch these meals. Any amount of

 

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milk and oatmeal, good graham bread. fresh
fruit in abundance, and plenty of fresh air
and exercise, with good sweets thrown in ac
casionally, will constitute a diet on which
any healthy child will grow happy and con—
tented. I know some people are averse to
giving their children much fruit but more
harm is done by having too little than too
much. It comes in the time of year when
the system requires it, and the little ones
crave it, so let us give them all they want,
only at correct times. Children I think re.
quire very little medicine, some are doctored
to death. of course they are bound to have
measles, chicken pox. etc, that is natural,
but with a little spring and fall physic they
will usually come out right, for nature and
dieting are with little ones great restorers.

I think it a great mistake in mothers to
make their daughters believe they are not
strong. Somet'mes you hear one say,
“Ncwdon’t do that, dear; you are not strong
enough,” "Don’t you feel terribly tired after
so much exertion,” or “I don’t want you to
listen to that, you will be so nervous.”
Don't let them imagine, if you can help it,
that they have a nervous or any other sys-
tem; they will ﬁnd that out quickly enough.
A little girl came to me once and said: “Oh
my, I’m so nervous!” “Pshaw,” I said.
“little girls baVen’t any nerves. When you
are an old like me. it will be time for you to
be nervous”, I think to this day she
imagines she is without those necessary
articles, but I know if I had told her she had
one she would have imagined she had a mil-
lion and they were all bothering her at once.
I allow you must watch children and see they
do not overdo, but they will usually work
twice as hard playing as working. Why
should not a good healthy girl, all other
things being equal, be ab'e to take as much
exercise as boys '3 Let them go out of doors,
play ball. hitch up their horse and Jump

over afive—barred’gate if' they ’wan’t to, with?

out being unladylike 0r imagining it will
hurt them in the least.

As we aim to develop part of the child we
must not forget its mind, which is constantly
asserting itself. As soon as a child is six
months old, he knows a great deal, feels who
he loves and who he does not. who he must
mind and who he need not; and now com-
menses the parents’ inﬂuence over him. He
can be taught many things before he goes to
school. The art of observing is a very help-
ful one, to show a child the why and where—
fore of a thing lifts him out of himself, and
encourages him to look ahead and think for
himself. A parent can do much towards de-
veloping a child’s mind by interesting him-
self in his work, whatever it is. the books he
reads and by trying to keep ahead of him in
his studies, although in these busy days
manv parents feel that if they can satisfac-
torily provide for their backs and stomachs
it is almost all they can do, and yet far from
all they. ought to do. English children are
ahead of ours in this respect, there labor is
cheap and a father who is tolerably well off
can provide a nurse for his young children,
besides a general servant, thus leaving his
wife time forthat companionship with her
elder children which is so enjoyable.

Parents should gain the conﬁdence of their
children and learn if possible all their men-
tal aspirations for all young people have
them, if correct. do their best to encourage
and assist. Your son, although his father is
a farmerJnay wish to be a physician,lawyer,
uchilect or merchant; you may think it
Mugshot I heartily agree with Pat when
humid, itien’t because the cat had kittens

 

in the oven that they should be loaves of
bread; it isn’t because a boy has the good
fortune to be born on a farm that he must of
necessity be a farmer. If his mind turns to
something else a good farmer he will never
make, and as we have poor ones enough
help him all ma can to be a successful man
in some other direction. Show him that

firmness, endurance, good principles, per-

sev. rance. neatness, and dispatch are used-
ful to the completion of an education which
will ﬁt him for any calling in life.

We should train our children for times of
sickness as well as of health. There is no
sadder sight than a sick child who is cross,
selﬁsh and unfeeling, keeping those around
him on the constant jump to do his bidding.
when With a little ﬁrmness the parent.though
loving his little one just as fondly. requires
from him self-forgetfulness and considera-
tion for others in times of sickness. Be-
lieve me this will help on their recovery as
much as doctor’s medicine. But at the
same time the nurse must be cheerful and
never let her charge think he is very sick
while there is hope of recovery.

With regard to punishments, children
differ. You can accomplish wonders with
some by moral suasion, while on others it
has no sites . They are a good deal like
young colts. With one you have much
trouble and have to use a sharp bit and whip
while you can hitch up another with very
little training and it will always be docile
‘ affectionate. I think most youngsters
ache for a spanking two or three times in
their youth. And let me whisper to you,
sisters, don’t be forever giving a little out!
here and a little spat there, but just make a
business of it, although you most break your
heart in the doing. Two or three applications
are usually effectual.

lou may save yourself much trouble by
teaching your children, both by precept and
practice the'valuable lesson of presence of
mind. It is usually acquired, natural to very
few. If seated in a boat and it rocks violent-
ly show them that they must sit still and not
jump from side to side; if the horse is run»
ning away. to retain their seats and not
scream; if a wind comes up to shut all doors
and windows. I once knew a little girl who
seemed naturally afraid of a thunder storm
and would scream and dance with fright at
the ﬁrst peal. Her mother tried to quiet her
unsuccessfully, but at last told her that God
caused the storm.that it was one of His ways
of purifying the atmosphere. took her out
after it was over and let her realize how
sweet and fresh it was; she also told her
when people got hurt by lightning t’was fre -
quently through carelessness. and had her
put out of sight scissors, needles, knives and
anything that would attract it. and now she
is the bravest little girl in a thunder storm,
and never jumps on a feather bed or goes in
a dark cupboard and cries when it storms.
In a thousand ways a child can be taught to
be agreat help in times of danger instead of
an additional care.

No parent has done his duty to his child in
a moral sense until he has made him thor-
oughly acquainted with himself in all the re-
lations of life, and the time to do this is as
soon as he can read, or reﬂect upon any sub
ject whatever. I know this is a delicate sub
iect; but an all—imrortant one, and it is
usually a false modesty which prevents it
from being fully discussed between parent
and child. Crime might be lessened, our
prisons, insane asylums and county houses
depopulated were men and women only
faithful to this God- given duty. Who so

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ﬁtted to reveal life in all its phaseebo a git

as the one whom God has given herto beher
helper and guide? It is a cruel awakening
for any mother to ﬁnd that her carefully

guarded daughter has been initiated into the

mysteries of her nature by a vulgar compan-
ion whose impure ideas she can never wholly

eradicate. I think ii. no other way can she
gain and retain .the conﬁdence of her child—
ren than by being open with them in these
matters; and they will come to her withtheir'
perplexities and mysteries as naturally as-

they otherwise would have shunned her Ind ~.

she not pursued such a course.
“train up a child in the way he should go-

and when he is old he will not departimm v
it,” is God's promise. Should wenot teach s
him to live for eternity as well as for time -
that only as he tries to live unto God will he -
develop into a perfect man. with the promise»

of this life and of that which is toeome.

The child to-day is in our hands aselay to A
mould it or to mar it at our will. or idly to A
leave it in the son, an uncouth lump to hard- . ,
en. The Bible teaches us that children ought f
to be a blessing, and that they are the herit- A

age of the Lord. It almost seems in these
days that by some they are considered course. .
1 was once introduced to the wife of a
minister and in the course of conversationit

was said I had eight children. The good .
woman raised her hand in holy horror (1 .

believe she had none).and said ‘ ‘My gracious

I should place a placard marked ‘small pox’
over the door and never go out!" I was ﬁll-
ed with silent indignation, but thought
"You poor, silly fool! ’ and these words came
into my mind, “When you speak contempt.
ously of the vocation of maternity you die.
honor not only the mother who bore you,
but the Lord J esus himself, who chose to be

born of woman and to be ministered diatom

her through a helpless infancy."

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CLEANING CEENILLE CURTAINS.

 

Professional cleaners charge rather '

high ﬁgures for cleaning chenille por-

tieres, spreads, etc, whereas those who ‘-

have facilities may do the work them-

selves by following Iable Yale’s in- .

structions.

Purchase seven or eight gallons of
gasoline. If you have a washingma-
chine, put in enough of the gasoline to

cover one-half of a pair of curtains:

wash aboutll) minutes, and then wring
with the hands and shake thoroughly
and hang on the line to dry. Inhalf or
three-quarters of an hour they will be
ready to hang up in the house. Should
you not be the possessor of a good
washer, put the gasoline in ah ordinary
tub and shake the goods up and down
until well cleaned. The gasoline may
feel cold to the hands, but it will not
injure them.

Clean all light-colored articles ﬁrst ., ~

The gasoline may look black after
cleaning heavy curtains. but put it in a
vessel, and after it settles, hour of! and
remove the sediment. One great ad-
vantage in the use of gasoline is that it

will not destroy the color of anything, ..

even the most delicate coloring. You

can clean white silk, white shoes or C
gloves and make them look almost like A ,,

new.

Gasoline is very explosive and must .,
not be used mar a ﬁre or in a closed room. .

DJ the work on the porch or in the.
yard rather than in the house.

    
 
  
 
 
 
    
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
   
 
   
   
  
   
  
  
   
  
   
   
  
  
   
  
   
  
  
   
 
  
  
    
   
 
   
    
 
   
   
     
  
 
    
  
  
 
 
    
   
    
   
  
   
  
  
   
   
    
   
   
  
  
   
   
   
    
      


  

    
  
   
   
   
  
   
  
   
   
  
    
  
  
   
  
   
  
    
 
   
   
   
  
  
  
  
    
  
   
  
   
   
  
   
  
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
    
  
    
  
   
  
  
   
   
  
    
  
 
   
   
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

   

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TWO DAYS IN ERIE.

 

Great was our disappointment when

we found that the Uganda, on which we
were passengers, would merely unload
at Buffalo, N. Y.. and return to Eric,
iPa. to load again. We had conﬁdent-
.ly counted on a day or two in the for-
mer clty,where we had friends; and felt
{rather dismaved at the prospect of
spending the time in Erie. But we had
"to resign ourselves to the inevitable,and
enjoyed every moment of our ﬁve hours’
~stay in Buﬁalo. It was hard to go back
to the boat knowing that we might
“have been having a good time at the
«opera; and we “turned in” early, wonder-
ing what we would do with ourselves
will the next day in a place where we
xknew not a soul.

The next morning we were awakened
'by the confusion incident to landing at
Erie, and as soon as breakfast was over

awe-started out on a tour of discovery.
’I have known things I would rather do

“than climb down a ladder to a coal dock.
and dodge buckets which seemed about

std-deluge us with their contents of soft

anal, but we escaped with no greater
"injuries than dirty faces. and a few
‘ minutes’ walk brought us to the foot of
"-‘State Street. One of the men from the
heat kindly piloted us to a livery stable.
vwhere we obtained a horse and car-

rings. That horse was a most sagacious
animal; kept. I verily believe, for the
use of strangers like ourselves. There
"was absolutely no chance of being lost,

for whatever street we took or however
‘ man-y turns we made we were sure to

ﬁnd ourselves back in the vicinity of

” the stable every ﬁfteen minutes.

Erie is a city of about forty thousand
inhabitants and is a very pretty place.

’ We explored it very thoroughly and

found many beautiful residences and
charming grounds.

The Soldiers’ Home, a little out of
the city, is an immense brick building.
or rather collection of buildings, cover-
ed with ivy and surrounded by exten-
sive, well kept grcunds. At the rear
of the buildings and looking over the
"Bay is an old watch tower erected to
'the memory of General AnthonyWayne,
who died there. As we drove slowly
through the grounds and noted the care
which eterything received we thought
we would not mind being old soldiers
ourselves. At the entrance 3. group had
collected under a big tree, and the frag-
~ments of their conversation which
remhed us showed that they were ﬁght-
‘ing over again in memory a battle of
long ago. Probably their chief happi-

‘rness nowconsists in recalling the dangers
and hardships which at the time seem-

ed almost unendurable.

After leaving the Home we caught a
glimpse of twin spires of so peculiar a
form that we decided to ﬁnd them and
see to what kind of a building they be-
longed. But it was a rash decision.
Eric is hilly and the trees thick,; and
those spires proved to be nerfecsf’ will

 

 

’o the wisps. In pursuing them we
forgot to notice where we went, and
but for our Bucephalus’ propensity for
returning to his home there is no know-
ing what might have become of us. But
patience, perseverance, and many turns
brought us at last to our goal, a Catho-
lic church and academy.

By the time our curiosity was satis-
ﬁed hunger convinced us that it was
dinner time, so we allowed Bueepna-
lus to take us once more and for the
last time to the stable.

After dinner and a short rest in that
most depressing of all rooms—a hotel
parlor, we visited several of the stores
and then returned to the boat. too tired
and warm and dusty to do anything but
read novels for the rest of the day.

The next morning we were ready to
start out again, and having ascertained
that there was no danger of the boat’s
leaving before the middle of the after-
noon. we again descended the ladder.
The ﬁrst place which we desired to ﬁnd
was the post-ofﬁce and we inquired the
way of the ﬁrst man we met. He was
an exceedingly nice old man, for he was
not satisﬁed with verbal directions, but
insisted on taking us there. It took a
long time to mail that letter, the multi-
plicity of directions was so perplexing.
North, south, east, and west had each a
separate box; and we were by no means
sure that we started the letter in the
right direction when we ﬁnally put it
in the box marked “west.”

As we went on up State Street we
ound that it was market day and the
manner of conducting it was entirely
novel to us. and seemed quite foreign.
Along one side of the street for a dis-
tance of ﬁve blocks temporary counters
had been erected; and the whole popu-
lation seemed to have turned out,basket
on arm, to buy its Sunday dinner. It
was really much more picturesque than
having a regular market building or
square,and we enjoyed it greatly. How-
ever we iound afterward that the people
of Erie are rather ashamed of this in-
stitution and regard it as altogether
too primitive for their progressive city.

We felt that we had “done” Erie
pretty thoroughly the day before, so
took a trolley out to The Head, a sum-
mer resort about four miles from the
city. The ride was delightful, partic-
ularly the latter part, as we were ap-
proaching The Head. There the track
passed through a ravine with beautiful
wooded banks rising almost perpendi-
cularly on either side. But I did want
to massacre a certain boot and shoe ﬁrm
for so mercilessly disﬁguring the ﬁnest
trees and most picturesque stumps with
their signs. When we left the car we
climbed a long ﬂight of steps (encour-
aged all the way by a fat man who kept
pufﬁng outz—“Just keep going and you
will get to the top,” and found our-
selves in a beautiful grove. From that
we followed a path which led us down
to the beach, where the hotel, pavilion,

and bowling alley ape built. It is a re-

 

markably pretty place.—the bay in
front, the beach, the level lawn dotted
with rustic seats; and in the back ground
the woods in abruptly rising terraces.
i think one might spend a month there
very en joyabiv. Our time was all too
limited, and we were obliged to return
to Erie on the next car.

We Spent most of our remaining time
in the Central Park which lies right in
the heart of the city, and is evidently a
haven of rest for "all sorts and condi-
tions of men"—-and women. In fact we
were so comfortable there and so inter-
ested in the passers by that we stay-
ed longer than we intended, and reach-
ed the boat so exactly On time that it
rather scared us to think how near we
had come to being left.

So our two days in a strange town
proved to be a very pleasant part of our
trip. and doubtless we enjoyed it much
more because our anticipations were

not of the brightest.
Pon'r Honor. E. C.

 

Goon HOUSEKEEPING tells how to
iron a shirt: Take well boiled starch

in which has been mixed a tablespoon- ,

ful of liquid glue, and rub it thorough-
lv into bosom and euﬁs. When the
fabric will hold no more. roll the gar-
ment up tightly and leave it for ﬁfteen
minutes. Then unroll and quickly iron
the nnstarched parts. Iron the back on
the bosom board so as not to dry the
front. Then smooth out the wrist-
bands. wipe with a dry cloth, and iron
quickly, drying on the underside and
polishing on the right. Spread the
nosom on the board, cover with a damp
cloth and go over with a hot iron.
Then take the polishing iron and bold-

ly ﬁnish the work. If pronerly done .

there will be no sticking; the secret is
to move the iron so quickly that it
doesn‘t remain in any spot long enough
to stick.

 

Useful Recipes.

 

Cum on Gnnas Conn Sous—Cut the ker-
nels lengthwise and scrape out the pulp with
a knife. Add nearly as much boiling water as
there is corn; cook half an hour, or until it
boils up thin. Season and thin with cream.

 

Qumx Plasma—Take small cucumbers,
and put in a porcelain kettle. covering with
cold water. and adding a little salt. Let
them heat gradually and boil ﬁve minutes;
then drain off all the water, and add good
vinegar. To one gallon of vinegar add one
cup molasses. one teaspoonful each of cloves
and cinnamon; let boil ﬁve minutes: remove
to an earthen or stone dish; pour over them
the hot vinegar. Then cover light, and when
0001 they are ready for use.

Damn SWEET Coma—Cut off the corn be-
fore oooking. and put it in a pan over a
kettle of hot water until the milk is set.
stirring frequently, then dry on plates in the
oven as'quickly as possible. without scorching.
To seek. put it to soak in warm water into
mediately after breakfast, or the night be-

fore. and cook from ﬁfteen to twenty
minutes. seasoning as when green; ltd! ,
tender and delicious. Do not make ‘
mistake of thinking corn too old for
table Is good enough to dry.

 

 

     

  
     
     
     
   
   
    
     
  
 

