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DETROIT, SEPTEMBER 8, 1884.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLDmmgupplememto

 

 

. CONTENT.

 

On quiet waves, when heaven smiles,
Man rests, on idle oars;

And, dreaming of the Blessed lsles,
Drifts past their magic shores.

On stormy waves, when heaven weeps,
No dream, the’ sweet, beguiles;
To toil he bends, nor rests, nor sleeps,
So gains the Happy Isles.
-——...____

A TALK WITH THE GIRLS.

 

I give due and sufﬁcient notice to all
heads of families and big br thers, and to
those women who have been so unfortu-
nate as to forget they were ever young,
that this talk with the girls of the FARMER
family is to be principally about the
”pomps and vanities.” and that there
fore they need no} waste their valuable
time in considering what will be of no
good to them.

I take it for granted, girls, that you all
like pretty things, and want to dress as
tastefully and becomingly as you can.
This is quite right and proper, only it
must not run away with good sense and
become the only thing thought of. Peo~
ple make a great mistake when they ad-
vocate the “sackcloth theory," abjure
fashion and quote Dr. Watts:

“ Why should our garments, made to hide
Our parents shame, provoke our pride?"

We were created in the image of the
great Originator, we are told, and it
seems proper that we should treat His
likeness respectfully. Besides, it is a
womanly instinct to wish to look well,
and to please by an attractive exterior.
There are very few who would be willing
to be Sir Gswain’s bride, if, like her, we
must seem ill-favored to all others, and
be beautiful only in his eyes.

Some one has said that to be well
dressed 011*. must have either plenty of
money or plenty of time; money to buy
the taste and skill of others, time to
enable us to realize our own ideas of
harmony. Acertain amount of thought
is necessary to enable one to dress in
good taste. Every article should be
bought with reference to every other in
the wardrobe, not hap-hazard, simply be-
cause it catches the eye or takes the
fancy. It is essential we should in a
measure “see ourselves as others are to
see us,” knowing, with a certain instinct
which some girls have, what will be be-
coming, and what will not. Do not buy
a thing merely because it is pretty; it may
be very pretty in itself, and yet be very
much otherwise on you. Consider it with

 

reference to its correspondence with
other articles of your dress, and also in
reference to its becomingness to you.
Consider what color or colors are most
becoming to you, and let your purchases
be principally of that hue for this reason:
There must always be a certain corres-
pondence or harmony in the costume, or
one looks like an animated piece of patch-
work. Dresses of different colors require
change of ribbons, gloves and bonnets,
which cost money. Better choose quiet,
subdued colors, and brighten by the ex-
quisite laces and ribbons so cheap now-
days, than put inharmonious colors to-
geth r. And do not make the mistake of
putting all your money into one hand-
some garment, to be worn with shabby
appointments; a lace-trimmed mantle over
a gingham dress offends one’s sense of the
ﬁtness of things, and a gay bonnet makes
a shabby dress still more dingy.

D.) not buy many cheap wool dresses;
they are very unsatisfactory. It costs as
much for lining and making as fora dress
of better material, and they are unpleas-
antly apt to “cockle,” shrink and wear
rough, doing a small degree of actual
service, and never looking really nice. A
good cashmere, serge or camel’s hair will
outwear enough of them to closely ap-
proximate the ﬁrst cost, with the ad-
vantage of always looking nice. And
shun cheap silks and satins; they are the
most unsatisfactory of purchases. The
silk “loaded" with minerals and dyes
to give it body, cracks and wrinkles, and
the satin crumples and will not be
smoothed out. Make it a rule, then,
whatever you buy, to have it of good
quality. and chosen with reference to
your own style and complexion. if you
are pale, sallow, “drab complexioned,”
avoid all neutral tints, such as light
browns, greys, drab, etc., and choose dark
rich colors, as seal brown, black, dark
red, myrtle green, and the like, but don’t
have your dress match either face or hair.

Ido not know of a greater waste of
money than the purchase of cheap shoes
and gloves. They rarely ﬁt well in the
ﬁrst instance, and do scant service in the
second. It looks like extravagance, per-
haps, to pay $2 50 for a pair of four but-
toned kid gloves, yet one such pair will
outlast four pairs at a dollar each. All the
patent blacking in a shoestore cannot
keep a pair of poor, illy made shoes respec-
table. And tidiuess in these particulars
is evidence of the same virtue in others,
for in no respect is a slovenly woman so
careless as about her feet and hands.

“Once upon a time ” a young man of
my acquaintance was much attracted
tOWard a pretty, vivacious young lady,
who was evidently not averse to being
“smiled on.” At a party one night her dress
was swept aside, revealing a pair of worn
boots, guiltless of blacking, and minus
several buttons each. She never knew
the reason of his sudden distaste for her
society, but he argued if she could be so
negligent about what did not show
(dresses were longer in those days). she
would be equally “slack” in other mat-
ters, and the suggestion that she had no
others, or that an accident compelled her
to wear old boots, would not excuse. in
his eyes, the missing buttons.

It is hardly necessary to tell a girl how
much depends upon her choice of a bonnet
or hat, and in no one thing can a reﬁned
taste be better indicated. Do not believe
all the milliner tells you as she tries to
sell you some gaudy thing loaded down
with beads and cheap lace and tawdry
ornaments. Insist on having your hat
for church and street wear quiet, becom-
ing and genteel. Gay bonnets are suit-
able for theatre and reception use, but a
lady wears nothing that will attract at-
tention on the street. If your face 1's
large or full, do not wear a small bonnet,
which will bring out all the “ bad points '
of your face, but choose ratheralarge
hit, whose full trimmings or drooping
plumes suggest the idea of retirement. If
you are dark, or sallow, or havea bad
complexion, choose dark shades fur trim-
mings, with a touch of your most becom-
ing color to brighten them. Or at least
insist that the facings shall be‘ of black
velvet, which goes well with anything,
and do not subject your face to com~
parison with delicate, “trying " tints. such
as only ‘f peaches and cream” complex
ions can bear. Diaphanohs bonnets of
lace and crepe go well with muslins and
grenadines, but not with heavier dresses.

Do not be ashamed to make a study of
your dress; that is, when you have it un-
der consideration, give your thought to
it, and then dismiss the subject. Find
out your own good points and don’t for-
get the defects, then “aid nature” by
making the most of the good, and putting
the bad in the backgrmnd. And, once
dressed, don’t think of your clothes
again, unless you wish to foster an un-
pleasant self-consciousness, which be-
trays itself to others and makes you
ﬁdgety and ill at case. And do not seem to
be taking notes of other people’s clothing.

 

Alady once said of another who had just

 


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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

visibly “ taken in ” her handsome visiting
costume,in response to aremark of a third
person: “ Oh, it’s quite excusable; I pre-
sume she’s been in the business!" Study
rather to have your wardrobe neat and
suitable than varied and showy, and
never forget that in all classes and con-
ditions, among strangers, one is inevitably
judged by the two externals, Dress and
Manners. BEATRIX.

-——-—-—-OOO-—__‘

WASHING BUI‘I‘ER.

I see there are several questions asked
in regard to making butter. Mrs. G.
wishes me to prove that washed butter
will not keep. In the ﬁrst place, I never

' washed any that kept good, and I never
saw any that others washed that kept
good and did not get frowy. I have seen
it get frowy in three days, and again in a
week. Some will keep longer, but sooner
or later it will spoil, and I will endeavor
to explain: Butter does not need washing.
Water is antagon‘stic to butter. In wash
ing butter the water gets all through it,
and if that water is not all worked out, it
will cause it to work and ferment, and
even if the water is worked out, its effects
are there, and it will get frowy, there is
no help for it. There is no earthly reason
for washing butter; it needs no washing,
and there is no woman of sense who once
1e rrns to make butter without washing
who will ever wash butter again. It is
contrary to the laws of Nature to put wa—
ter on butter. I was taught by my mother
at home to wash butter; but when I went
to housekeeping for myself I learned to
make it without washing. I learned of
old experienced butter-makers in North-
ern Ohio, where every farm has all the
cows it will keep, and where I made but-
ter and cheese from twenty to thirty cows
for twenty years before coming to Michi-
gan. [have made one hundred pounds
of butter a week; never washed a pound
of butter in‘ forty years that I took to
market, and never had any get frowy.
My butter always keeps good. Butter
that has no water in itwill not get frowy.
Sinceliving in Michigan,l have sometimes
in the very hottest weather, been obliged
to put cold water on my butter to cool it;
but I never sell such butter, I use it for
cooking and baking at home, because it
will not keep. I do not want to be un
derstood as saying that all butter that is
not washed is good butter; far from it.
But anybody who can and does make
clean, sweet butter when they wash it,
can make it better, and with less trouble
and less work without washing it.

Washed butter must be worked with
the paddle all through in each water, and
you don’t have to. work it at all to get the
buttermilk out, as I told you once before.
Churn your butter in the buttermilk un-
til it is all gathered together in solid
chunks; then have your butter bowl
scalded and cooled, take the butter from
the churn into it; then with the ladle in
one hand, tip the bowl on one side with
the other, press out the buttermilk; that
is, press the butter together and the but-
termilk will run out; salt it and set away

twenty- four hours; be careful not to work

the buttermilk in instead of out. Just

 

 

poach it up until the buttermilk begins to
start good; then commence pressing the
butter together and the buttermilk out
until you have it solid; then make it into
balls, rolls or pack it.

Always do your butter making in the
morning while the air is cool; never in
the heat of. the day. I have known some
t ) work alittle pulverized saltpetre in the
butter they packed for their winter’s use,
but b)rax never; that would be like
putting in saleratus. It makes no dif—
ference to the butter what kind of achurn
it is churned in, so long as it is clean and
sweet. Never put milk in any but new
bright pans.

Butter is better, and will keep better if
made from sweet cream; but when we
have only a few cows we must let the
milk stand until we get all the cream out
of it, or we waste the milk, and the but-
ter will keep well enough made from sour
cream, if made as I have directed.

If you tip your pan; bottom side up in
the sun to dry they need not be wiped;

 

 

 

 

but if dried around the stove, wipe them
ﬁrst. If your pans have had sour milk in
them wash them through three different
waters; then set them together in your
empty dish-pan, and turn boiling water
all through them; take out one at a time
and tip into another pan to drain, wipe
and set around the stove to dry, so they
will not sweat when put together. If you
want some good wiping cloths, take an
old sheet that is too thin to use on the
beds any more, and rip apart in the mid—
dle; out each half in two, hem, and you
h we four of the best wiping cloths you
ever used, just right to wipe those pans
with.

Beatrix says all this gilt edged butter is.

washed. I did not know how it was
made. She. says a great many merchants
spoil butter after they get it, by not
knowing how to take care of it. That is
true in ameasure. I have neighbors who
make butter that will just keep long
enough to get it to the store, and then it
spoils on the merchant's hauls, and the
merchant does not know where the fault
lies, but that butter is washed. Those
gilt-edged butter-makers probably sell
their butter where it is used up the same
day it is made, and don’t have to keep it a
week. It would be better and keep longer
if washed. Mas. R. S.
HUBBAaDsrnN.

——-—-—.O.—'—"'—

WESTERN GLIMPSES.

In Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska, a
city of ﬁfteen years’ growth, and number-
ing 20,000 people, are located most of the
State institutions. The wings of the cap
itol buildings are ﬁnished and in use, the
corner stone of the main building was
laid recently. The grey stone of which
it is built is obtained in the immediate
vicinity, the work of quarrying and cut
ting being performed by the State prison-
ers.

Lincoln and the region thereabout is
1,700 feet‘ higher than Chicago and the
surrounding country; the winters are usu-
ally mild, with little or no snow—the
thermometer seldom reaching below zero.

 

 

Up to Christmas the weather continues

w.

 

 

pleasant, then the real cold begins. Dur-
ing the hottest weather the nights are
cool, and one can sleep comfortably un‘
der covers during most of the heated
term.

From Lincoln west to York, the county
seat of York County, is a ride of a few
hours only. The thrifty little town boasts
half a dozen churches and three banks,
doing a good business—the banks,not the
churches—though without doubt they are
equally ﬂourishing, for there are, as my
informant facetiously put it, “a wagon
load of Methodist ministers in the place."
Who could resist the pressure these able
advocates of the cause might bring to
hear? The worst elements of society
have not yet gravitated to this Eden in
the West, and people sleep unmolested
without the precaution, so necessary in
older and better settled regions, of bolting
and barring doors and windows. As a
result of the presence of so many breth-
ren of the Methodist persuasion, there
was a noticeable scarcity of yellowlegged
chickens on the east hill; where is located
the college of over 300 students, over
which some of our Methodist friends pre-
side, and where one also sees the ﬁner resi-
dences of the town; village lots on this
hill bring $200 and over.

There is something very attractive
about this country. Mr. F. Baldwin,
formerly of Sandwich‘llu who has large
land and banking interests here, said he
came several successive years, drawn ir—
resistibly by the beauty, fertility, climatic
and commercial advantages which he felt
sure this section held for those who
should lead the way, and be willing to
suffer some social disadvantages in the
outset, for the sake of the ultimate good.
When once the eye has measured those
elevated table lands, where we seem to be
on the very top of the earth as it were,
and where the vision is bounded only by
the line of the earth and sky,one is not eas-
ily contented between brick walls, or even
shut in by hills. There seems to be more
room for every one and every thing. It
is the “sense of space” which Ruskin so
well describes as ﬁlling his mind, when a
child, on seeing the distant sky at eVen-
ing over the downs of England, the trees
and intervening objects set off against a
rosy ground, only this is on a grander
scale than anything that greeted his child-
ish vision. Between the rolling sweeps
are low spots called in the vernacular of
the country “ draws;” these have been in
times past the wallowing places of the
buﬁalo.

I witnessed the results of one of the
severe storms of hail and rain which
sometimes visit this otherwise favored
State. One entering York County on the
northwest and passing through it to the
southeast, completely devastating the
country along its course, was from one to
three miles in width, and represented one
eighth or one-tenth of the entire area of
the county, cutting down cornﬁelds,
stripping the leaves entirely away, and
leaving short stalks either prone upon the
earth or swaying, broken and ragged.
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were utterly ruined; the leaves and fruit
beaten oi, the bark torn away on the side
from which the storm came; they were
as perfectly denuded and left more bar-
ren-looking by this Tuly storm than it
would seem the most pitiless storm in
winter could cause them to appear. To
kens of its ravages might be seen on
broken windows, on newly laid founda-
tion walls, and where it had beaten
against weather boards, the latter looked
as if peppered by a hundred bullets.
Stock suffered severely; the frightened
animals, pelted by the great hail stones
and blown about by the winds, rushed
hither and thither, tearing and lacerating
themselves on the barbed wire fencing—
the only kind in use here. Some persons
who have suffered most from these severe
wind storms have constructed caves or
cellars, half above and half beneath the
ground, into which they retreat at the
ﬁrst sign of. any unusual disturbance in
the air; this disturbance, if of a serious
nature, is sometimes heralded by a tre-
mendous rushing sound, as of mighty
winds and waves contending. One house
which Iobserved in process of erection
had iron rods fastened into the founda-
tion stones and designed to extend into
the ﬂooring, and there be bolted, and was
thus supposed to resist the force of the
blasts and remain ﬁrm in its place instead
of hopping in an undigniﬁevl manner from
its sandstone base, or performing an un-
cermonious jig some ﬁne morning when
the worthy occupants were about to par-
take of their breakfast. The particular
storm of which I write was of greater
severity than is often experienced even in
this windy west. To afew individuals it
would prove a real calamity; but most of
the farmers are well-to—do, their cribs are
ﬁlled with old corn—the staple crop—they
have money at interest and will soon re-
cover from the temporary losses. The
county is a wealthy one; ready hands,
impelled by willing hearts, will go down
into well-ﬁlled pockets to make goo l the
losses of the few left destitute. It will
prove only abrief break in the prosper-
ous history of the county.

The ﬂowers of the west remind one of
those of Michigan. There is an abund
ance of golden rod of a low growth, not
tall and stately like that of Son hern
Ohio, a pink daisy-like ﬂower with dark
center, and a wealth of yello v coreopsis
and sunﬂowers, the former making patches
of the ground rich gold in color, fairly
dazzling the eye in the intense sunshine.
Many choice garden beauties of the East
are ﬂung with lavish hand all over the
prairies. From the midst of these mam-
moth ﬂower beds “ that not nice art has
laid” springs up the beautiful blue-jay,
that screamer and presager of stormy
weather, or a thrush perhaps, with cinna-
mon brown back and delicately mottled
breast. In the cornﬁelds one hears "Bob
White’s” familiar call, and often the
triumphant note of the meadow lark. It
is the harvest time. In the vast grain
ﬁelds the reapers and binders are busy;
so'close and, clean are the workings of
these machines that a Ruth gleaming in
these ﬁelds would surely need the friend

 

ly hand of a Boaz to scatter some sheaves
in her pathway

Turning reluctantly from these pleas-
ant scenes, saying farewell to new found
friends, we ride along the Platte River by
the C., B. & Q. to Omaha. which, by the
way, is much the prettier ride than to the
same point by the Union Paciﬁc. We re-
cross by daylight the gardens and farms
of Iowa; then comes night, and “ the old
man Sleep, with his box out of which he
brings his dream puppets,” and the morn
ing ﬁnds us in the midst of the bustle of
the great metropolis of the West; in our
ears the shrill whistle of the Chicago
streetcar conductor, and the call of the
newsboy instead of the pipe of the quail,
or the sweet note of the wild bird.

DELIA BENTON.
CHICAGO, Ill , August 26.

.____,.,_____
A GOOD WORD FOR CREAM-
ERIES. ~

For E. L. Nye’s beneﬁt I will give my
experience with a Moseley cabinet cream-
ery. I have made butter over twenty
years and have no trouble in getting more
than the market price; have supplied one
family over twelve years. I wash the
butter in brine or cold water; think it
better than working it too much to get
the milk out. Commenced using a
creamery in July, 1883; the week before
using it we weighed the butter made in
seven days, it weighed twenty—two
pounds. First week we used the cream-
ery we made thirty-two pounds. In
seven months I sold seven hundred and
twenty seven pounds, and supplied a
family of eight, from the milk of four
cows.

We are now milking ﬁve cows, three of
them Jerseys, and have made in the last
seven days fortyfour pounds of butter,
for which I get twenty~ﬁve cents per
pound. Their pasture is a clover and
timothy meadow, from which a crop of
hay has been taken and one quart of meal
per day. I use ice; and think I make
nearly or quite a third more, and far bet»
ter butter, and with half the labor than
in the old way, besides having sweet
milk for calves; to which we add a little
oil meal and obtain excellent results in

the way of growth. A. L. c.

PARMA.
———-—Q.§.——.—

HOME LIFE FOR WOMEN.

“ Over and over again,
No matter which way I turn,
Ever I ﬁnd in the Book of Life,
Some lesson I have to learn.
I must take my place at the wheel,
I must grind out the golden grain,
I must Work at my task with a resolute will,
Over and over again.”

How much I like the little poem con-
taining those lines; and how many times
through the week I ﬁnd myself singing
them while at my work! It never seems
to me that the duties I perform are
monotonous, or drudging, or conﬁning.
Every day ﬁnds my hands busy at some-
thing, and while I am working the
hardest I feel repaid, knowing that I have
a home and dear ones to work for. How
blessed it is to have a home, and it seems
to me that here is woman’s throne. It is
here that men learn to appreciate her, true

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worth, and recognize the sweet in-
ﬂuences she throws around her; the ex-
cellence of her character is exhibited, and
here she ﬁlls the sphere Providence called
her to. Why not be contented here?
Why be dissatisﬁed and cry “woman’s
rights,” and want to vote, and to be in
public oﬂ‘ice, and preach and lecture and
various other things? We hear of that
low sweet voice in woman which is the
thing to be desired, so it would seem that
she has not that natural faculty which
would render her ﬁtted for a public ofﬁce
in the debates of men. We admire Joan
of Arc and Charlotte Corday, but who
of us would buckle on the armor and
lead an army, and as a reward be burned
at the stake, and our ashes cast to the
waters? We may congratulate ourselves
that we live in an enlightened world
where it is a recognized fact that we are
physically organized for indoor labor;
we are not called upon to labor in the
ﬁelds, as our sex are in some of the old
countries of Europe, while the husbands
look on unconcerned. This is an entire
re-arrangement of the whole order of
nature; an entire perversion of the whole
purpose for which woman was brought
into being. That woman, more than
man, should live without work, I do
not contend. Labor is a condition of life,
and woman, as well as man, is subject to
it. But the kind of work which should
be assigned to woman, is written in her
very nature. The value of all social life,
the beauty of all domestic intercourse,
depends upon the maintenance of the
position of woman at home. Uniting on
their marriage day, the husband and wife
have each duties to perform—she in the
household, and he in the ﬁeld or work-
shop, at the pen or in the pulpit.
“ When the man wants weight, the woman takes
Andlttdlgples down the scale;
Man for the ﬁelds, and woman for the hearth;
Man for the sword, and for the needle she;
Man with the head, and woman with the heart.

Man to command, and woman to obey;
All else confusion.”

Every wife is bound so to live that she
bring no disgrace on her husband. It
ought to be equally true of the husband,
but we often see the wife cling to the
husband through disgrace, bearing scorn
and reproach for his sake, when for one
miss-step of hers a lifetime of loneliness
and misery is the result. I contend that
no man’s love will be as lasting, enduring,
and forgiving as woman’s. The world
pays homage to the Sisters of Charity,
who visit prisons, missionaries who visit
foreign countries and publicly do good,
but the “home angels,” who cares to bless
them? Yet they of ten show noble traits
of character, and develop higher excel-
lences than are demanded on the part of
public actors. Iknow personally women
who from early womanhood have toiled
for husband and children, helped to make
property, and raise a large family, and
in old age were cast aside, and a divorce
severed the bonds which had united two
lives for years. I can never believe that
divorce is right; and it seems to me that
if two can live together twenty years and
thirty years harmoniously, they could the
rest of their natural lifetime. We know
that old age does not always beautify the

 


 

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face or form, the cheek loses its roundness,
the hair will silver, so why not cultivate
those lovely traits of character which
will never decay, or lose their lustre. but
shine the brighter as we near the other
shore; which will show such beauty that
it will not be said “how she has faded,
she is growing old.” How we hate to
think we are outliving our usefulness,
we never want that time to come. Taere
is no need; we must live in our children.
When the heat and burden of the day are
over, and our tired hands are folded, the
tired heart still, is that the end? Is there
nothing that we have accomplished that
will live after us? If it is so, one life
was nothalf lived, we did not fulﬁll the
destiny God accorded us. We want to
give character to our children; there are
many whom we meet every day whom we
can encourage by kind words, they cost
nothing—in this way our memory will
live.

We can perform our household labor
faithfully, but we are not called upon to
dwarf the mind and better feelings in
order to do so. There are better records
to leave than being ” a good housekeep-
er.” I love to work, and I love to read
and write, and by combining the two, I
ﬁnd no fault with the world; it uses me
well enough. EVANGELINE.

BATTLE CREEK.
-——-—OOO-—-———

DUTIFUL CHRISTIANS.

Daisy’s words in the last Household
about the girls are good, but does her life
agree with her profession? Is she one of
the few who are “in the world, but not
of the world?”

Who shall give us a remedy for the
follies and vanities of the day, when even
those who profess to be followers of our
Lord, dress and live in the same manner
as those who make no profession of
religion whatever? Certainly this Is the
time the Apostle Paul foretold when he
said that “in the last days, men should
be lovers of pleasure more than lovers
of God, having aform of godliness but
denying the power thereof. ” The only
remedy for fashion and folly is godli
ness, and that of the Bible kind. No
wonder that there is so much skepticism
and inﬁdelity, when professing Christians
attend the theatre, dance,.and all sorts of
worldly amusements, spending more
time in making one dress for these oc-
casions, than they do in reading their
Bible and prayer in Si}: months.

Godliness does not consist in going to
church and taking interest in church af.
fairs. and being a member of a mission-

ary society, but it is the spirit of God in '

our hearts, and that power which saves us
from worldly desires. Some Christians
live as though. He had told them that He
would save them in their sins, instead of
saying that they should be separate from
the world, and live holy lives. He says
“ be not conformed to the world." It
takes more will power than most people
inherit to discard the fashions and dress
plainly, and it is only God’s grace that
enables us to see how feelish they are.
I

Drmn.

 

HOUSE HOLD HINTS.

 

A PRACTICAL housekeeper recommends
oiling kitchen ﬂoors with boiled linseed
oil, to be applied boiling hot with a large
paint brush, and in a few moment rub-
bed in and off with woolen cloths. Grease
spots do not show.

 

MATTING will last for years if it is
given a thin coat of varnish when it is
ﬁrst put down. and if the varnish is re-
newed about every six months. The
varnish preserves it, and besides gives it
quite a handsome look. Matting is
growing in popularity as a ﬂoor covering,
and the patterns are much prettier than
they used to be, and there is greater
variety among them.

 

Hearth and Home gives the following
remedy for toothache: Melt white wax
or spermaceti, two parts, and when melt~
ed add carbolic acid crystals, two, parts;
stir well till dissolved. While still liquid
immerse thin layers of carbolized absorb-
ent cotton wool, and allow them to dry.
When required for use a small piece may
be snipped off and slightly warmed, when
it can be inserted into the hollow of the
tooth, where it will solidify. The ease
produced by this simple method is really
very great. Another remedy, which fre-
quently gives relief and is recommended
by a physician, is equal parts of chlor0‘
form and spirits of camphor.

 

A CORRESPONDENT of Rural Home
says: “A nice way to mike a base for
any custard, or even for salted dressing,
is to take one tablespoonful of milk to one
yolk of egg. Put the milk on the stove
to boil while you beat the yolks in a
bowl. Then set the bowl in hot water
and stir in the boiling milk gradually.
This mixture will be so thick that it will
pile up. It can be thinned with cream for
custard sauce and ﬂavored to taste, or it
can be thinned with milk for a baked
custard. It will make a perfectly smooth
mixture, and can be made of any con-
sistency desired. It will save time and
trouble and the irritability of temper
which comes from standing over a hot
stove to stir custard and not have it come
out right, as it is apt to do in nine cases
out of ten.”

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Coptributed Recipes. ‘

 

“ AUNT NELL ” notes an error in her recipe
for tomato chowder, given inthe Household - f
the 19th ult. Use one half bushel of tomatoes,
instead of a bushel, as directed. “

 

A LADY recently requested a recipe for that
aggregation of ingredients known as

Cnow Cuow.—-0ne peek of green tomatoes,
four very small, solid cabbages, six onions and
six green bell peppers, all chopped ﬁne a: (1
mixed. Sprinkle a cupful of salt over the
mixture and let it stand over night. In the
morning drain of! the juice and add two pounds
of brown sugar, one cupful of mustard-seed
and one gallon of vinegar to the chopped mix-
ture. Boil until itlooks clear and tender and
put in jars. This is declared to be “ way up.”

 

Hoax Oren as. -Grate six large ears of sweet

 

corn, raw; beat one egg, stirring in one table-
spoonful of ﬂour and one of milk; season with
salt and pepper; drop in hot butter; turn so
as to brown. Serve hot.

CUCUMBER SOUR—Peel and slice green cu—
cumbers, put in water enough to cover, and
let boil until done. Season with salt, pepper
and butter , put in sweet cream enough to
make as much soup as you wish.

Perhaps Aunt ’Rusha would like some dump -
lings some day when she is not making bread,
so I will give her my way of making the m. I
never had heavy ones, unless I left them in
the kettle a little too long: Take one egg, one
teacupful sour milk, one teaspoonful soda and
a little salt; stir as thick as you can with ﬂour;
drop in and let boil, leaving the cover off.
When done take out on a platter, breaking
each one open. Serve immediately.

YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER.

PABBHALLVILLE.

 

SALT PORK MADE PALATABLE.—Slice salt
pork rather thin, freshen in water and fry
nicely. Make a batter of one beaten egg. two
tablespooniuls milk, and ﬂour enough to
thicken moderately. Dip a spoonful of this
batter into your frying pan, place upon it a
slice of the cooked pork and cover With ana
other spoonful of batter; fry until nicely
browned and turn. If your frying pan is of
suﬁ‘icient beat this will be light, and prove an
agreeable dish for the table, if placed upon a
hot, dry platter.

DUMPLINGS non CHICKEN POT—PIE on Sours.
—One cup of buttermilk, one teaspoonful of
soda and a pinch of salt, thickened with ﬂour,
moulded, cut and placed in a tin as for baking.
Then place some small article of about one
inch in thickness inside a steamer; upon this
place the tin of biscuits and steam twenty or
twenty-ﬁve minutes over the kettle of soup.
When served the dumplings can be placed in
the soup or pot~pie, and they will not fall, as
so many boiled dumplings persist in doing.

VINEGAR WITHOUT Oman—Molasses, one
quart; yeast, one pint; warm rain water, three
gallons; Put all into a jug or keg, and tie a
a piece of gauze over the bung to keep out
ﬂies and let in air. In hot weather set in the
sun; in cold weather set it by the stove, and
three weeks you will have good vinegar. When
part of this has been used ﬁll up with the same
preparation, and in this way a supply of good
vinegar can be kept constantly on hand.

MERTIE.
Paw Paw.

 

 

 

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