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.. THOSE pars."

[Poem read before the Webster Farmers’ Insti-
tute, J an. 18-19, by Miss Hallie Osgood, of Ham-

tau-rs 1

Grandfather sits in his easy chair
.With the children gathered near; -
The iii-slight falls on his silvery hair
.And the group of children waiting there
For the tales they love to hear; -

Their constant chatter is silenced quite,“

4nd hushed is their noisy play, ‘ . '
.For they think this heur by the fireside bright .
.When darkness is chasing away the light,

Is the pleasantest part of the day ,

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And each one wonders while sitting there
What the story will be to-night, _

For grandfather‘s face has a thoughtful air

And his eyes the look of remembering wear
Which the children tall with delight!

For they know he is thinking of days gone by,
With their burden of sorrow and joy; . - 7

The days when each moment seemed to fly,

The days he remembers now with a sigh, ’ __ 1
When grandfather was a boy -

But the children are eager to hear each Word,
Be the story merry or sad, ’

;. For surely no fairy tale ever heard

The hearts of its hearers could so ‘have stirred,
Or could have made them so sorry or glad.

They love to hear of the little maid
With curls of gold and cheeks ofred, -

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T 1 And how the child with grandfather 'played

Until Cupid—the rascal—their hearts betrayed

. And these children resolved towed.

And the oft-told story is ever new . '
How they started across the green .

To the minister shouse, thro‘ the morning dew.

This bridegroom of four with his bride of two,
A hopeful young couple, I ween. ' '

How he stubbed his toe and they both fell down
And homeward went with tears, _

For he bruised his head and she tore her gown

And the wedding begun under 'fortune’s frown
“Was delayed for several years,

They always smile when the tale is done
With a thought half grave, half gay,
Of the childish marriage so early begun; 7
But the bride whose promise the grandfather
' - won - _' . , ,. ‘
Was worth the waiting. they say. .

‘ Sometimeshetells how, in other days,

' The spinning-wheel went round and round, '
And the spinner fair, with the deftest grace,
Would guide her thread and suit her pace ’

To its quaint and dronibg sound

The children love to picture it so,

The spinning-wheel by the open door,
The rolls of yarn as white as snow: .
And the maiden walking to and fro

; 0n the sanded kitchen ﬂoor. ' . - , _
V But grandfather always says with a sigh , I '

That spinning is now aforgotten art; .
The spinning wheel has been long laid by
And the maiden who toiled so patiently '

Lives only in his heart. '

hut betterthan'these they love to hear

.Of the home in the forest deep“

. h The humble home of the pioneer,

 

Where the voice'of the wild wolf prowling near
Would waken him from his sleep.

The toil by day and the rest by night

The good and wholesome cheer,
When cheeks Were ruddy and eyes were bright
When arms were strong and hearts were light,
And trouble came never near.

The children listen with eager ears

‘ Lest they lose a single word,

For whether the story bring smiles or tears
They think the tales of those other years
The most wonderful ever heard.

-But the time will very surely be

'(For the hastening years are ﬂying fast)
When children will listen eagerly
To the stories laid up in their memory,

And their lives like his will lie in the past.
And when they are called to that other land
. And they Ila-Dewey frOm the scenes they know
May they leave a record worthy to stand

Side by side with that traced by grandfather‘s
hand,

In “those days " of the long ago. '
PICKING UP CHIPS.

[Paper read at the Webster Farmers Institute,
Jan. 18-19, by MissJuliaA. Ball, of Hamburg. ]
“Close the door, my‘son, and go and

pick up a basket of chips.”

Life is a common journey, which we are
all traveling with conscience for a guide.
She points out to us a straight road that
leads to perfection; ~ but alas, from this
road, which is often uneven and difﬁcult to
tread, there are many smooth turnpikes
that invite one to desert the main line.
Though we may not ﬁnd as many chips
along the main line as on the turnpike, yet
we may ﬁnd some, if we will improve every
oppprtunity in their gathering. I will try
and name a few which we may gather.

The chips of Time must be carefully
picked up, garnered, and saved. We should
so strive that every moment shall be well
and proﬁtably spent, from our childhood
to the grave. While at school it should be

' our aim to learn as much as we can, yet not
' merely how much, but how well; to rank

t in every class that we may enter. in
after life our aim should be the same, to be
the best in every good work in which we
may engage; for our entire life should be
made a school, never graduating until this
life is ended, and we enter that higher
uhiversity than any built on earth.

The chips of Good Thought can be con-
stantly carried about with us; these' we
must gather, but We .should be generous,
and give others the beneﬁt of our labor,
since' it may do them good, and will not
lessen the good we may have derived from
them. . --

We'can scarcely go anywhere but what

 

we may gather the chips of Opportunity;

in fact we need not go at all to ﬁnd them,
as they will come to us; yet many will not
even then pick them up. What presents a
more pitiful picture thanto see a poor, half
clothed, starving child, begging for some?
thing to eat, or the wherewith all to pur-
chase it, at the door of one who daily throws
away more than the child asks for; yet the
lady wraps her costly garments more closely
around her, and sends the child away, to
starve may be, telling her she has nothing
for such as she. This act may seem a little
thing, yet it might be a turningpoint in that
child’s life. _ A word kindly spoken, and a
deed of charity would cost the lady but little,
yet how much it means to the child! It
may now, utterly discouraged, receiving
kindness from no one, lead a life only of
sin and shame.

In the country we may not literally. ﬁnd

‘ this type of uncharitable people, but how

many are there in this community who do
not, when the cast-01f winter clothing
is looked over, ﬁnd much that -well, it's too
good to throw away, so is cut up for carpet
rags, made into rugs, etc., when, if left in
its original state, it might be made over,
mended, and would do good service for
some of the poor, who are always with us?

We are constantly meeting with social
opportunities. The inﬂuence the Faruiers’
Club has had, which has been held month
after month for the past two years at the
different homes of those present, needs not
tobe told here. Look at the gradual in-
crease of membership and the interest
which is taken in the exercises; while
the care which each takes to have
house, barns and farm look neat, speaks
for itself. All, too, receive beneﬁt from
meeting with neighbor and friend. The
capabilities of the Club, too, are manifesr, in
this the second institute which is now in
session.

This Club, together with the Reading Cir-
cle and Musical Society, are . things of
which this community may justly feel proud;
proving also, that such societies do not
necessarily belong to the cities.

There is also another great beneﬁt to be
derived from such sociableness; it has an

inﬂuence for good, which has atendency

to detract from the enjoyment of those
pleasures which are wrong. Give the young
man games, pleasures, etc., at home, and

evenings naturally twill not be spent in the

gambling anddrinkjng saloons, .which are
the ruination of many young men. It is
the duty of parents to supply these pleas-
ures at hd‘lne. One of the preminent men

-of this State on being asked, “How dare '

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you allow your boys to play cards at home,”
replied, “I don’t‘dare not to.”

The chips of Physical Opportunities must
all'be picked up. but there are also the
chips of Christian opportunities which we
should gather. We, who are Christians,
are apt to neglect these apportunities; We
may live in’the same house with those who
are not Christians, years perhaps, yet in all
this time not one word have we ‘spoken to
them in regard to this grandest and noblest
of all subjects; outwardly it could not be
told which was the Christian, and which
was not. Let us then, not neglect to
gather any of these chips, for blessed is he

~ whose eyes and ears are keen in their
gathering.

Fashion and Pride are chips which are
found on one of the turnpikes. They ap-
pear to be good; we may kindle them, and
like the meteor, they ﬂash brightly for an
instant, and like it, have soon disappeared;
leaving only dead ashes to show that they
ever existed. I: is hard to pass them by
without gathering them, even after we
know that many men and women, both, are
often beggared as regards property, by pick-
ing them up. Many after becoming beg-

' gared, prefer to starve inst-‘9 be, provided

they can wrap their gentility about them as ‘

a shroud, and be buried with it. A strik-
ing illustratiOn of this occurred in Philadel-
. phia, some few years since. A woman he-
longing to anarlstocratic family occupied
_ for years a chamber in a fashionable lodg-
., ing house, paying her rent regularly. Lace
curtains hung at the windows; but none
knew what was inside. She was found
dead on the bare ﬂoor one day, without bed
or «ever; dead of starvation, for she had
' never worked, and the costly curtains shut
out her misery to the last from the outside
world. '

The chips of Industry and Perseverence‘

are usually found side .by side. What is

there that amounts to anything, that has

been accomplished other than. by industry

- and perseverence? What was it that laid
the Atlantic cable?». Cyrus W. .Field’s in-

dustry and perseverence; not for one year

only, but after many attempts and failures;

it was ﬁnally accomplished after twelve

years of labor and waiting.
What has built the Statute of Liberty

. Enlightening the World? The perseverence’

and industry of Barthoidi and his family;
and now after many years, eighteen hun-
- dred and eighty-six saw the unveiling of
that grand and wonderful structure: The
pedestal which was built by this country,
cost about two hundred and ﬁfty thousand
dollars. How was this amount raised?
By large donations? No; by private sub-
scriptions, many of not more than a dollar
a.piece The gathering of these chips is
what has made all of our great men what
they have been and are. Let us all search
diligently, then, for them, for surely the
world is no man’s debtor, until he has done
something. '
What presents a greater variety of chips
than the literature that is constantly
' brought’before us? We must look well and
long to be sure and use nothing but the
good. The bad is usually pictured out in
'gay, brilliant colors, both inside and? out, to
' tempt the unlearned youth, and some older

ones. Why not, when" we wish to read,
read something that will be a beneﬁt to us,
and that which is worth remembering, in-
stead of merely ‘_‘ passing away the time?”
The cost is no excuse ‘ for not reading
good literature, when reading matter is as
cheap as it is at the present time. When
well bound books, by good standard authors,
’such as Scott, Dickens, Eliot, etc., may be
purchased for ﬁfty and thirty-ﬁve cents a
volume, why need we purchase the trashy
novels you may ﬁnd anywhere, or read the
silly love stories which are found in nearly
all the newspapers? both of which are
worse than no reading at all, and do more
harm than good. '

When we read, we should read with
some object in view‘; to receive some beneﬁt
from our labor; to remember what we’read,
and be able to discuss our reading with
others. When we read the newspapers,
read with the same aim as in other reading;
those articles which might be of beneﬁt at
some future time, clip out, purchase a Mark
Twain scrap book, which is always ready
for use, and put them in it. _

Many will, year after year, purchase ex-
pensive magazines, the reading of which
is hardly worth the paper it is printed upon.
If you wish to take such expensiVe litera-
ture, why not take one of the standards, as
Harper’s, The Century, etc. _

I know by experience that the kind of
reading we enjoy,' depends upon what we
read. If we read nothing but trashy,
sensational reading, we have no "liking for
anything good; and vice versa, if we read
only good healthy literature, we will have
no desire for the other. Those of you who

form, not only to read 'good literature
for the beneﬁt you derive therefrom, but

‘ for the example you set before your chil-
Fdren by reading and placing before them,

only such reading as you are willing they
should read. .

Difﬁculty. Necessity and Adversity
might well be called hardwood chips, but
the shadow of the mountain only falls upon
one side at the same time; and these chips
are often needed as cleansing ﬁres; “for
as gold is tried by ﬁre, so the heart must be
tried by pain.”

The gathering of the chips we have men-
tioned, and many others, all help to build
up a character which will -be more or less
nearly perfect, accordingly as our chips
have been picked up on the main road, or
from the turnpikes.

Let us select only those from the main
road, so that We may be as nearly perfect
as possible; not that we can hope to be per-
fect, neither would we wish to ﬁnd such
beings in this world, for if we did,

“ We could not give
T God the reverence due, if while we live,
. in all others did not fail to ﬁnd
The good the Trinit _tg alene combine.
Let God be God, an human creature human !
Let man be man, and woman truly woman f"

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FOR THE GIRLS.

There is a pretty and dressy fashion prev-
alent of ﬁnishing the neck and sleeves
Of a basque with ribbons. Those with
looped or feathered edges are used, and are
folded over not quite double, so,‘ that both

 

the fancy edgeswill show; above the collar

are parents, then, have a double duty to per--

 

of the dress. Atiny bow is added in front
or at the left side, and similar bows are on
the back seams of the sleeve, just inside
the cuff! ‘ "

Tan colored gloves have hitherto been 5

worn almost exclusively with quite light
dresses for parties and receptions. But
pearl and gray shades are coming into uni-
versal wear at the east, and it will not be
long before we shall all “follow suit.”
Tan-color is still the preference for evening
wear with black costumes.

Some of the new dresses show a panel
of the goods at the side, which is crossed
by horizontal bands of ribbon velvet an
inch and a half in width, and separated by
a space of about the same width. These
are called. “ladders,” and are duplicated
across the front of the basdue as trimming.
‘ The very prettiest ﬁnish possible for a
black silk dress, is a narrow V-shaped vest
of jetted net, with a similar V in the back.
This net is $5 per yard, but an eighth of a
yard, or at the most, three-sixteenths,‘ is

sufﬁcient. ,
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. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.

The girls and women of. these days cer-
tainly do not lack for advice; one can
hardly take up a paper without ﬁnding'an
article addressed to wivé, mothers, or
daughtersl on the unﬁtness of girls to'be
housekeepers. Most of these articles presup-
pose a general ignorance of every branch of
domestic economy 0n the part of girls; but
while there are undoubtedly many girls
who needinstruction in such matters, it is
hardly fair to class the majority‘of farmers’

daughters in this category, for. there are .

few of them who are not 'competent to per-
form all the necessary work of the family.

'I have thought I would keep silent, and
say nothing on the matter, but when I

hear those like “Young-Man-Afraid~of—the- ,

Girls” ' express such poor opinions of
womanldnd I am inclined to ,.whisper,
“Young man, take care;"’~ it ,is those who
are so hard 'to please who get" just such
wives as he describes. No .doubt. he has
heard the storny the young man who went
through‘the woods only to take up with a
crooked stick» at last. .But I agree that

young men are justiﬁed in being careful,

what suit of girls they choose. Above all.
they should be careful not to choose a wife
who has no? other recommendation than a
pretty face or white hands, or a high-dyer
at fashion. Too many now-days select a
wife as they would a piece of furniture;
alas, we all know too well the result of
such marriages; we 'see all around us mis-

erable homes caused by hasty marriages,. ‘

yet if these yOung people had been told the
probable result 'oftheir union, they would

‘ have requested their advisers to mind their

   

own business. I ,
Young man, when you go into ladies’ so-
ciety keep your eyes open, and you may ﬁnd

them not altogether disagreeable; some of
them may be better than they look. In my ,
opinion a scolding wife is close kin to a ~

fault-ﬁnding husband. . - . .

I think Anti-over’s remarks are rather
severe. ‘ Ilbelieve it a man’s duty to respect
woman, until she forfeits her right to' re-
spect; not because one errs, judge all the

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weak than to oppress them.
- less of censure and more of encouragement,

- Possibly some of _our readers may be glad
:to.know ' something about the, style _for

THE HOUSEHOLD. _ - ' 3

 

‘ cause one man steals a horSe, all _men' are

horse thieves, or because one w0mar1 is

'- insane all should be conﬁned in a lunatic
. asylum. Anti-Over Speaks of the wife’s
. mean actions driving the husband to the

saloon. I am sorry he is so uncharitable.
Kind words and loving attention may seem
small things, but they sink into a woman’s
heart and rivet her aﬁection; She doubtless
has faults, for - none .are perfect, but her

. faults are of the head, not'of the heart; and
._ when her love and devotion a1 placed in”
' the scale, how greatly they outweigh the

. faults.‘

1 side with Uncle Bott, and wish that all
might feel that it is far nobler to protect the
If there Were

_how much; more pleasant life would’be..
OLD HUNDRED.
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g MOURNING" DRESSES.“

~mourning costumes, . that sober garb into
which nearly all women, at Some time in
their lives, haveoccasion to _robe‘ themselves.

Henrietta cloth remains} the material

most-in’ favor for ﬁrst mourning dresses;"

but Frdhch bombaziue, camel’s ,hair, ,im-

‘ perial serge and jet black cashmere are also
‘ suitable ~and appropriate.

. . .The' simple
tailor designs are used in making“ up such
goods. The foundation skirt"is two. and a

’5 . half yards wide, and has a deep ﬂounce or

fall, which is trimmed with a crape fold

set on three inchesabove the’edge; and

which may vary in width according to "the
depth of the aﬂiiction'experienced. The
very long overskirt has ,a deep, apron
bunched upon the Sides; with lengthwise
pleats at the back after being caught up in
folds near the top. The basque is _a plain
postilion, the pleats. in" the back forming a
narrow ‘square,- and narrow crape vest,
revers, high crape collar and narrow crape
culls complete it. A bias piping fold of
crape is sometimes used as a ﬁnish" to the
edge of the basque. The wrap is either a‘
jacket or mantle of» the dress goods, with
trimmings ”of crape and border of fur; for

, elderly ladies the long cloaks with square
1 sleeves, made of camel’s hair, with wadded
. ._F lining and fur borders, are elegant. Ladies,

in mourning wear on dress occasions cos-.
tumes of dull dead black k, trimmed

'with cord gimps or ”dull jet passementéries.

‘ For light ‘mourning, that moderate, de-
gree of grief for death of distant relatives
we express in our clothing, all black Suits

4 " 'without crape _are worn, and these lﬁi‘ve

sometimes a vest, cuffs and collar of white
Wool goods, which are ornamented with
feather-stitching in black silk. _ ‘
Bonnets are of doubled English crape,
with ‘a crape veil whiCh nearly‘reaches the
feet in front, and half that length. in the
back. Craps bonnets worn without veils

L - are trimmed in front with high loops of

crapemixed with loops of gios -grain rib-

“ -. bon. Better than crape, and coming into,

more general use through its wearing quali-

~ ties, and the ease with which it drapes,‘ is
{the very ﬁne Sheer nun’s veiling, 'u'Sed now
_ a great deal for veils, and also for bonnets.

It is lighter and mere wholesome than the

.crape stiffened ‘with' poisonous"dye_s,_ and

night. ‘
_ boiling water as above directed and dry. .
The second day dip the fruit into a syrup of

 

which also requires constant care to keep it
in presentable condition.

’ About the neck are worn black lisse and
crape ruches, but even widbws are now per-
mitted to wear the paid white crape. A
black ribbon is sometimes tied about the
throat, the ends forming a bow at the left.
New ribbons in black and black-and-white
are very pretty,_in stripes, diamonds, dots,
etc., and make a pretty ﬁnish to a severely
plain dress. BEATRIX.

CANDIED FRUITS.
-, The favorite confections, which bring

the highest prices and are most delicious
bonne bou‘chu,‘are the fruits preserved in

_sugar, so they seem like bits of translucent

jelly, morsels of sweetness with ever so
slight a rest of fruit ﬂavo‘ They are pre-
paredin the following manner: Take the
ﬁrm whole halves of preserved peaches, or

drain om the syrup a'few moments on _a
plate, en pass them quickly through boil-
ing water, lay on a cloth and with a napkin
gently “dab” them dry, then lay them in a
sieve, on a napkin covered with powdered
sugar, and place in a warm oven. To pr'e-
pare from the fresh ‘fruit, boil it in a syrup
made of one pint of sugar to a quart of
water, till you can run a straw through it.
Take out the fruit, add a pint of sugar to

. pears, Enemies, or strawberries; let- them

the syrup and boil till it is thick; skimming

well; put the fruit back and boil till very
rich and clear, but be careful not to let it
begin to break, let stand in the syrup over
Drain the fruit and pass through

one pint of sugar to a gill of water, boiled
to a thread, stir till.it begins to look milky,
dip the fruit in it, drain, and put to dry on
a sieve, on a napkin thickly covered with
powdered sugar, turning often. When dry
the fruit is equal ‘to the best French con~
factions. _
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A SANDWICH ISLAND DELICACY.

Iam now living in the “Golden State”
—-California—and as I used to write a little

for the HOUSEHOLD when Ivlived in Michi-

gan, I thought I would come from my new,
far away home. Now, J an. 19, it seems
just like summer here; ﬂowers are bloom-

ing, birds are singing, and the weather' is

beautiful.

A long time ago 1 read in a paper about
afavorite dish of the natives of . the Sand-
wich Islands, called poi, _(pronounced poy),
and what an werican who went there and
ate of it, thought about it. Now, here on
Senator Miller’s ranche, where I am en-

gaged, is 11. Sandwich Islander, who told

me how to make it and I took down the
recipe for, the beneﬁt of the readers of the
HOUSEHOLD:

Take a quart of boiling water, and stir

into it while it is Still boiling on the stove,'

as much wheat ﬂour as it will take; then set
it back on the stove where it will not burn,
and stir in ﬂour'uutil it is dry; then add
boiling water and keep stirring all the time
with a wooden ladle, until it is of the con.
sistency of good paste; cover half an inch

[deep with boiling water, and let it stand.

overnight, in the morning Stir in the cold

 

water until it is a good paste. Then you
may eat it. clear, or with salt, or sugar, or
sugar and milk, or any way you’prefer. 1
like it best with plenty of sugar. -

It is cheap, easy to make, will keep
good; and is a hearty food, easy to digest
and good for a lunch; in short is good for
every one and everything. .

lused to sign my name Fireﬂy, but now it

is B. K. KitAPP.
Nara Cm, Cal.

FARMERS’ CLUBS.

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Mrs. C. S. King, of Thornton, St. Clair
Co.-, asks the addresses ‘of one or more of
the, secretaries’ of Michigan’s Farmers’
Clubs, saying the Kimball and Waies Farm-
ers’ Club, organized in September last,
desires to establish fraternal relations with
other clubs, certainly a most commendable»
purpose. The secretary of the Webster
Farmers’ ,Club is Mr.,C. M. Starks, .whose
postoﬁice address we believe is Dexter;
L. H. Ives is secretary of the Ingham
County Club, with headquarters at Mason;
Mrs. C. R. Woodin, of Burton, is we be.
iieve secretary of the Burton Farmers"
Club, while if A. C. Glidden is not still the
scribe of the Antwerp and Paw Paw Farm-
ers’ Association, a letter addressedto him at
Paw Paw will reach the present secretary.
The ofﬁcers of the Kimball and Wales Club
are C. S. King, president; S. Caswell, vice
president, J. Terney, secretary; Mrs. M.
Caswell, treasurer, Mrs. _.C S. King, cor-
responding secretary.

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“ STAR ” STITCH.

For the benefit of the lady who wished
information about the “star” stitch used
in toboggan caps, I enclose a sample of the
work, and will try to describe .it, although
like many other things, it Would be much
easier to show one how it is done, than to -

write a description of it. .Perhaps by

raveling a part of a sample which I enclose,

she can get the idea more clearly. Make a-
chain the required length and join. First
round: Make a chain of one, put the book
through the same loop and draw the yarn
up, making two stitches on the hook, put
the hook through the back of the next
stitch, and draw the yarn through as be-
fore, making the third stitch, then two
stitches in the next two of the chain. Now

you have ﬁve stitches on your book, throw

the yarn over the hook, and draw it through
the entire ﬁve stitches, leaving one on the
hook; then make a chain of one and pro-
ceed "-as before. Second round: Make
chain of one, draw yarn through the same
loop for second stitch, through the back of
next for the third stitch, through the centre
of the star for fourth stitch, in the next
stitch for the ﬁfth, draw the yarn through
the entire ﬁve stitches, leaving one on the
hook, chain of one and repeat.

I wonder if some of the writers for the
HOUSEHOLD can tell me how to treata
Eupaton'um so that it will not grow quite
so tall. Ours is in blossom but the space
between the leaves is so great, that it mars
the beauty of the plant. Perhaps Mrs. M.
A. Fuller can tell me how to make it grow

more like a shrub.

PINCKNEY. . AUNT FAN NE.

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_-A éiwaam HOUSE.

We think the furnace question has been
thoroughly discussed, but would advise L.
M. , R. to build a good warm house, if it is
of wood. Sheet upon both sides of the stud-
ding, and then put on sheeting paper under
the siding, and it will not require twenty
cords of, wood to heat it, unless an un«
usually large house. We use about twelve
cords. Some furnaces send a good deal of
heat up the chimney; our smoke pipe is
neverso warm but you» can put your hand
on it." ' We use one of Fuller & Warren’s
furnaces. .

We would second Old School Teacher’s
advice'in regard to a creamer. We have
usedo'ne of the Cooley creamers for over
seven years; we use it summer and winter,
and it saves half or three-quarters of the

labor in butter dairy. You have sweet milk

to feed to.calves,and they grow ﬁnely; ours
this winter made from one and a half to
two and a half pounds per day each, and
your butter won’tgo begging fora customer.
Would like to know what is the matter
with M. E. F.’s Cooley creamer that it is
not used in winter. ' ‘
Moxnrrn. , A. B. & Co.
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HOUSEHOLD S UGGESTIONS.

' A neat apron for holding clothespins may
be made of linen, or any stout’cloth, bound
with a contrasting color{ it will be pretty
too. Cut a small round apron double, cut
out a circular piece on each side at the top
and bind around for the hands; fasten to a
belt or strings to tie around you. Keep
your pins in it and they will always be
handy. - '

A few drops of sulphuric acid in your
wash water, will remore blacking or any
stains from the hands.

/ While there are plenty of apples in the
caller ﬁll your empty cans with apple sauce,
which will relish next summer.

When you butcher the winter’s beef,
make up a lot of mince meat while you
have apples, andcanfor future use.

To be economical is to buy the best and
pay the cash. Debts and interest make us

‘ poor. These are my sentiments, but then
we all have different ideas of economy;_as
for instance, a neighborhood woman said
she always ashed’ her dishes in as little

~ water as posgtne, so as to have the swill
good and rich or the pigs.

Vicxsnuao.

C. B. B.

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FOR LOVERS OF FANCY WORK.

Here is a pretty lily of the valley pattern
for tidies, bags. etc.: Use macrame cord,
linen thread or Saxony yarn, needles to suit
materials of course. If thread is. used you

'willpeed 126 stitches on a needle; if cord.

is used, _1108 stitches will be plenty, or cast
on any number of stitches divisible ‘by '18.
.Ist row: Seam one, slip one, knit one,
pull slipped stitch over, knit three, thread
over, narrow, over, knit three, over, slip one,
knit one, puli‘ slipped. stitch over, over,
knit three, narrow; repeat.

ad, 4th; 6th and 8th rows seamed or
puried.

3d row: Purl one, slip one, k I. pull

‘ slip over,,k 2, o_, 1: 2, o, k -1, slip 1, narrow,

 

pull slip over, k1, 0', k 2, ’o,jk 2, 11: repeat;

‘5th row: Purl 1, s 1, k 1,'pull slip over,
k 1,0, k 3,0, k1, slip 1, n, pull slip over,
kl, o,k3, o,k1, 11; repeat. . S

7th row: Purl 1. slip 1, k. 1, pull slip
over, 0, k 2, n, 6, k 1. o, slip 1, n, pull slip
over, 0, k 1, o, slip 1, k 1, pull 3111) over, k
2,0, 11; repeat. - .

8th row: Purl.

Abieviations: P means purl or seam;
k, knit; s, slip; n, narrow; 0, over, etc.

Knit long as required and ﬁnish with any
pretty edge, or knitted is extremely pretty.

I prefer to put the tidy over a piece of
blue or red cambric, or silesia, as it brings
out the; work better. The ”above pattern
makes lovely Afghans for baby * cabs, if
made of white eider down wool. ‘ Crochet
an edge to run ribbon through and ﬁnish
with a bow on corner.

Former Lonen. MILL MIMIE.

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' BAKED SALT Peak.

. When milk is abundant, cover a piece of
meat with it and soak. over' night. Three

hours before dinner time, drain the“ pork;,

cut the rind in opposite directions, so the
surface is covered with scores ltlf an inch
square; run a sharp knife into the piece
here and there; moisten some stale bread
with some of the milk in which the meat
was soaked, season with 'pepper and sage
and stuff i:ito the cuts made by the knife
in the pork. Bake in a pan wit%;tﬂe
milk—that in which it was W’ii’d—and
plenty of pepper; bake slowly, haste oc-
casionally and dredge with ﬂour. Pare some
potatoes .and put them in the pan with
the pork to bake. JULIET Consort.
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, HOUSEHOLD. HINTS.

\

THE rubber ring is the weak point, in
canning fruit. Wax is better than rubber,

and is the most perfect means of sealing

yet discovered. Putty can be used instead

of wax, and fruit thus sealed has been kept '

1»

three years. . . 1

T111: wasbwomen of Holland, who are

famous for their beautiftu white linen, use

borax plentifully, a large handful of the
powder to ten gallons of water.
neutral salt and cannot injure the most
delicate fabric. '

EVERY housekeeper knows .how . un-‘

pleasant it is to use cistern-water after it

begins to smell bad. ‘To prevent, keep as3

free from leaves or any kind of vegetable

. matter as possible; to remedy, dissolve

two ounces of saltpetre in a quart of boil-
ing water and stir into tbe,water.

Warm you are coloring (ﬁton carpet
rags with aniline dyes, it is a good plan to
arrange to letthem remain in the dye over
night. If you wish to color purple, add a
lump of indigo to the red aniline dye,

and it will make good fast color. If you
use copperas, be careful to rinse the rage or

warp, whichever, it may be, very thoroughly,-_

or the strong acid will rat the materials.___

a

:WHEN you planl'ydurmouse, be sureto

provide a room, which if‘not reserved for
the purpose, can beif necessary, set apart, :

Borax is a‘

for a 3in room.

and down stairs will be saved- It should

. have window that let down from the tep,‘

and an outside door, and it is well to ar-
range for a grate, which is a wonderful aid
to ventilation. Let the outlook from its
windows be a pleasant one, and the interior
furnishings simple but pretty. j ,

. Mas. _M\ S. TRIKE, of Adrian, read a
paper on breadrmaking before the January
meetingof the. ~Lenawee County Horticul-
tural Society, in whiai 'she said the im-
portant element in making good bread was
good yeast. She makes hers by using two
cups of 'ﬂour, the same quantity of
potato, a tablespoonful each of sugar and
salt. Wet up quite soft mm the water the
potatoes were boiled in, using it boiling hot,
and when sanieiently cool put in a cake of

little . warm: water.
believe in using sour milk, soda and
molasses in Graham bread, “making- a
mongrel, half pudding, half cake;” she uses
no sugar _or sweetening of any kind, and
makes raised ,Graham bread with a thin
batter of fine ﬂour raised with quiclr yeast,
into which "she stirs Graham ﬂour enough
to handle, puts into pans, and lets rise and
bakes like other bread. '
7- ..‘; . . W

1 .Mount: MOONSHINE desires the address
of some reliable dyeing establishment in
this city}
Randolph St., does good work and is re

sponsible.
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A NEW SUBSCRIBER, of Bloomingdale,

.' forgot, or perhaps was not aware of, our
' rule Which requires all articles designed for

publication to be accompanied by the name
as well as nom-de-plume of the author.
Names are‘never published unless by per-

quire them.
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temper and eyes, than to write with a hard

the pape . Such copy must almost always
thecompositor, and is pretty apt to get
tossed into the waste-basket on this account.
No'objection to articles written in pencil if
they are legibly written with a bi kpencil.
Remember the compositor must . his

feet from his eyes, and that printers are not.

owls. ~ if .
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' - , Contributed Recipes

Add one quart white bread sponge, % pt. warm
water, teaspoonful of soda, if molasses or
sorghum are used. Stir quite still with wheat

110111111111: 11'1 deep baking tins; let rise; bak ‘ '

as other bread.. ' t

HroxoaY-Nu'r CAKE—One cup sugar; one '

eggt tablespoonful butter: three-fourths cup
111111;; two cups ﬂour: two teaspoonfuls bak-

hickory-.nutpmeats. Boil until it hairs; let

 

It should be on' the ' '
ground floor, for thus many weary trips up

dry yeast which. has been dissolved in a '
Mrs. Trine does not‘

L. Brossey’ 3 French dye-house, '

mission, but it is our invariable rule to re-.

. seat _of, our contributbrs' should have
-'more'consideration for the Editor’s time,

lead pencil which leaves barelya mark upon _ '

be entirely re-Written before it can go to

copydn hiscase at adistance of nearly three .

Conn;’BanAD. -—'1‘horoughly scald one quart I
of line sifted meal, salt and sweeten to taste ?

,ing powder. , Bake 111 layers-doing: —-0ne -
. cup sour cream, one of sugar, one of chopped .

cool; spre between layers” and overthe top . ' L

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