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STRENG TH FOR TO—DA Y.

 

Strength for to day is all that we need,
As there will never be a to-morrow;

For tomorrow will prove but another to-day,
With its measure of joy and sorrow

Then why forecast the trials of life
With such sad and grave persistence,

And watch and wait for a crowd of ills
That as yet have no existence?

’ Strength for to—day—in house and home,
To practice forbearance sweetly—
To scatter kin-d wards and loving deeds,
Still trusting in God completely.

Strength 1 or to-day—what a precious boon
For the earnest souls who labor,

For the willing hands that minister
To the needy friend or neighbor.

--—-—-—“———

GIFT-GIVING.

 

The bestowal of gifts as tokens of af-
fection, of respect, or of submission, has
been acustom of the race since the ear
liest days of which we have a record.
“Giving” and “gift" are words as old
as language itself. It might be interest-
ing to trace, through history, some of the
notable gifts which have been made in
past centuries, by king to subject, or serf
to suzerain. Among them all I know of
none which seems so abundant in loyalty
and love as that of the newly knighted
Richard Whittingtou, “ thrice Lord
Mayor of London town,” whose name is
assomated with the legendary cat which
made his fortune, and who, when his
king returned from a long campaign in
France, debt burdened and with an
empty treasury, laid upon the open ﬁre-
place or the audience chamber the king’s
bonds for many thousands of pounds
sterling. and lovingly restrained his royal
master from pulling them out of the ﬁre
with his trusty Damascus blade. So the
story runs; and the deed seems the type
of the true spirit of gift-giving, combin~
ing as it does the deep, devoted affection

time of need; a giving with no expecta-
tion of reward, but from love and loyalty.
and true patriotic feeling.

Giving of gifts, at the present moment,
has become a fashion so prevalent as to
be almost meaningless. What is one
tomary by very commonness loses some-
what in signiﬁcance. A gift, to come
under the real meaning of the word,
must be voluntary, not extorted by cus—
tom, nor prompted by desire to receive in
return. It’s worth should lie in its
animus, not in its pecuniary value.

it is expected of them, not because of any
special love or respect for the recipient.
“An invitation to a wedding" says a
cynical sinner of the male persuasion,
“is an invitation to contribute to the out—
ﬁt of the couple. Your. friendship is
assessed atacertain per cent in direct
ratio to the intimacy; and you lose your
friend if you do not honor the assess-
ment.” Such a feeling is incompatible
with the true spirit of giving; better
ignore the “assessment of friendship,”
that is, the social obligation, than en-
courage so ignoble a sentiment. But
what shall we say of the society belle who
when her lover’s betrothal ring was not a
diamond to her liking, burst into a ﬂood
of angry tears, and declared she was
ashamed to show it to her companions?
So well have young men come to under-
stand what “society” expects of them,
that many an aspiring but impecunious
youth saddles himself with a heavy debt
that his ﬁancee may ﬂash 9. soltaire in the
eyes of her admiring friends, who shall
praise his generosity and estimate his af-
fection by the worth of the gem. This
we may call ostentatious giving, under
pressure of “ social obligations.”

There are many who never receive

in secret, its value in dollars and cents.
They put their presents on apar with
other matters of barter, and presently
propose to return an equivalent. To
such persons a gift is merely a tacit invi-
tation to “return the compliment.” l‘uey
will tell you they do not wish to be “an-
der obligations,” that is, indebted to an
other. But it seems to me that an ex-
pression of esteem or affection, given for
love or remembrance’s sake, ought not to
carry with it a sense of obligation. The
idea of the repayment of beneﬁts is in-
herent in us all, to a greater or less ex-
tent; it is quite consistent with a generous
nature to desire to return favors and
kindnesses shown us in kind. But all gen-
erous hearts give without expectation
or desire of return, and it is ungenerous
to feel that we must repay. It is far
wisest to give without expecting and re-
ceive without returning.

“It is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive.” To give of that which costs us
nothing, to part with that of which we
havea superabundance. may bring less
of blessing to us, yet carry in its
train pleasure and comfort, and timely
relief and help to recipients. The
manner of our giving, too, is part of the

 

People, nowdays, make presents because

    
  

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g p g p y ' give the half worn garments, or part of

{ Who cares for a gift thrown at. us as we
throw a bone to a dog. with a “There,
you can have that if you want it ‘2"

Now in this beautiful Christmas time,
when our hearts are ﬁlled with loving
remembrance of friends as we prepare
our Christmas olferings. let us take heed
to the spirit of our giving. The sordid
soul who reckons values knows nothing
of the blessing of giving. Let us be
especially careful how we inculcate this
spirit of calculation into the children’s
hearts, for I believe it a feeling which is
generally foreign to the open, generous
child-nature. And in our giving, let us
not always give to "him that ha‘h,” but
rather remember those less blessed with
good things. the poor, whom we have al-
ways with us. The Christmas season
gives us ample excuse, for pride and
poverty are often twins, and we some-
times need to plead our feeling of “good
will to men ” to soothe proud minds. If.
in this winter of “ hard times,” with tens
of thousands of men out of work. and
hundreds of. thousands of women and
children cold and hungry, good fairies in
great coats and top boots would leave
wood and provisxous at some poor family’s
door, and mother-1y ones with wrinkled
cheeks but warm. tender hearts would

the Christmas abundance to the widow
and the fatherless, no small part of the
world’s poor would feel that Christmas,
the “ loving and giving ” season. is truly
the coming of the Christ-like spirit to

them. BEATRIX.
Qovwm— .._-

LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.

 

 

It is a good idea to pause and ask our—
selves “ why we live?” Life means some-
thing, and there is very little child’s play
about it, it is terribly real. A thousand
and one things show us that life is for a
purpose; very few study its meaning.
Let us look for a moment at that class of
people who live because life is in them
and remains there; they have no settled
aim, take no thought of the morrow, but
live in to-day. While seemingly indus—
trious, they accomplish nothing, and the
close of the year ﬁnds no farther advance
ment than the preceding one; while
walking about much as others do, they
leave no tracks; bustling and noisy, no
one cares for them only to get out of the
way; with no ﬁxed purpose they are like
the willo-the-wisp, ﬁrst here, then there;
or like the ﬂeecy thistle down, blown
wherever a capricious wind wills. Such

 

gift; graciousness enhances its value.

people lack character, the formation


 

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INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE .

 

4. THE HO'USEHOLD.

 

being made in society circles a good deal,
asthere is no cooking to be done and is
very easy. and clean work. A dollar’s
worth of all the in edients will make
many pounds of can y.”

 

WALL DECORATIONS.
O
. A correspondent says her daughter
wishes to know how to arrange a bunch of
peacock feathers for a wall ornament.
We have seen them sewed upon a fan-
shaped piece of pasteboard, the joining
at the handle concealed under a bow of
ribbon, and fastened to the wall. But
perhaps the prettiest ornament of the
kind we have seen was the simplest. A
few ﬁne feathers were selected, the stems
gilded with gold paint. and then arranged
at a graceful angle over a little bracket.
A bow of ribbon was fastened where the
stems crossed. A few very long ones ar-
ranged over a door in this fashion, might,
we think, make a very showy and at-
tractive decoration, especially if the wall
paper was of a color adapted to show them
oﬂ. Most people make the mistake of
massing too many 1n one bunch for really
ﬁne eifect. They go on the principle
“ If a little is good a good deal is better,”
which is seldom safe doctrine.

At Mabley’s Banar we saw not long ago
avery pretty hand screen made of pea-
cock’s plumage. The “eyes" of the
feathers were glued to a circular founda-
tion, both sides being covered. One row
only was used; then some of the long
barbs from the stems were curled a little,
and put on to ﬁll in around the circle.

 

"The center was of fowls’ feathers colored

bright red, and the wooden handle was
gilded with the convenient gold paint. It
was a pretty and convenient toy, and any
deft-ﬁngered girl can duplicate it if she
has the feathers, we are quite certain.

And now, will that daughter please tell
how the tidy was made which the mother
interrupted her writing to inspect? We
want to hear from our girls. about the
pretty things they are making for Christ-
mas, and other matters of interest to
them. The girls, who very soon will be
our women, are part of the household,
and ought to be better represented in our
Fauna Household.

___—¢.*—_.——

GLYCERINE OINTMENT.

.—

The Prairie Farmer gives a recipe for

' a glycerine ointment, which it says is

excellent for rough or chapped hands, for
softening scabs, burns or sores, corns or
callouses. The directions are as follows:

Take two ounces of oil of almonds, half
an ounce of spermaceti, and a drachm (or
one-eighth of an ounce) of white wax and
gently warm them together in any earth-
en vessel, or even in a tin cup. Heat
only enough to have the spermaceti and
wax dissolved; making it too hot injures
the’quality. As soon as melted, remove
from the ﬁre, and stir in two ounces of
good glycerine, continuing the stirring
until cool, when it should be of the con
sistency of good lard, or even stiffer. For
hot weather a larger proportion of wax
may be used. When about cold stir in a
drop or two, or more, of oil of roses.
which will give it a very pleasant odor.
Half the above quantities may be used if
for a sin is person or family. Keep it in
well cor ed vials; those with necks large

 

enough to admit the ﬁnger are most con-'

venient for use, as well as for etting it
into them. If these are kept we corked,
the ointment will remain good and sweet
for six months to a year. If much ex-
posed, it will become a little rancid after
a time, especially in hot weather, when it
is less agreeable, though still good to use.

HO—

INFORMATION WANTED.

 

Will some of the readers of the House-
hold tell me through its columns if they
use the sewing machine advertised by the
Farm and how they like it? Is it a new
Singer or is it the old Singer machine im~
proved? I have never seen one.

YPSILANTI .

[Mrs. T. Cross, and Mrs. R. E. Gorton,
of Ypsilanti, have sewing machines order-
ed through the FARMEB. We presume
our correspondent can examine the ma-
chine by calling on either of these ladies.
The machine furnished by the FARMER is
what is called the Family Singer Machine,
and its parts are interchangeable with
those of the Singer sold by agents. It has
the latest improvements and attachments,
and has given perfect satisfaction wher-
ever sold. Of the many sold only one
has been complained of, and in this in-
stance it was found on investigation that
the point of the needle had broken off,
and the force employed to put a pointless
needle through several thicknesses of cloth
made the machine run very hard. A new
needle being set, the machine was all
right—Housnnom) En]

———...—————

A FEW QUESTIONS.

 

* Would it not be a good plan to have
the address of the Household Editor on
every copy of the Household?

I w0uld like to ask E. M. A., of Gen-
terville, how the preparation for moth is
to be used.

I do not ﬁnd it necessary to at once put
all articles made of baking powder into
the oven, as I have made enough batter
for four loaves of layer cake at once, and
the last one seemed as nice as the ﬁrst.
I make my own baking powder, which
may make a diiference. I like the House-
hold very much, hope it may continue to
ﬁOurish. LALLIE.

TncunsEn.

[Any communication addressed to the
Household Editor, care of the MICHIGAN
FARMEB, reaches her safely and prompt-

ly.]

Is there a more unpleasant and dis-
agreeable smell than that of cabbage
throughout the house, caused by prepar-
ing a dinner of the Austrian Empress,
favorite vegetable? “No pent up Utica
conﬁnes” its smell, closed doors are no
barriers, the whole house smells like a
sauer kraut factory, and the oddr only can
be got rid of by continued and thorough
ventilation. We Once knew a young lady
who while looking for a boarding place
was directed to a place which promised to
be everything she desired. But the day
she called to make arrangements the
whole house was redolent of cabbage and
the fastidious miss lingered only
long enough to say she had decided not to
take board there, and continued her
search for a place where the smell of din-
ner did not permeate the house at 4 P. u.

—...———-—-—

 

Either red pepper pods or a few pieces of
charcoal iu the water used for cooking
will greatly lessen, if not entirely banis ,
the objectionable smell, and this is worth
remembering.

——-———¢oo———..—

Contributed Recipes.

 

Fm Curls—One eg, one and one-half
cups of sugar, one cup sour cream, two cups
buttermilk, three even teasponnfuls soda. one
teaspoonful cloves, a little, salt. Mix loft.
They are splendid. Lam

Truman.

 

Wunrne Enema—Soak the clothes in cold
water; put three pails of water in the boiler.
When the water is hot put one tablespoonful
ofkerosene oil into one quart of soap, and put
it in the boiler. Then put in the clothes, and
let the- boil ten or ﬁfteen mkmtes; take them
out into lukewarm water, rub them, rinse, and

hang out. Lnoxn.
Bra anxn.

 

BLEACHING.——A bleaching ﬂuid commended
by a good housekeeper, as saying much labor,
and also as whitening the clothes without
making them tender. is made as follows: Put
one pound of line into a pailful of boiling wa-
ter. Stir it up well and let stand till the water
is perfectly clear. Dissolve two pounds of sal
soda in two gallons of hot water. Strain the
lime water into the soda water, stir, and turn
into jugs or bottles. Use one teacupful of the-
ﬂuid to three pailfuls of water, in the boiling
suds. Wring the clothes out of the boiling
suds, and they do not need “ sudsiﬁg,” but
only to be put through a rinsing water. It is-
not necessary to use the bleaching ﬂuid every
week. ' Mus. S.

Dn'rnorr.

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For Full Information. '

An ordinary operator can earn from one to three
dollars per day in any community in the Northern.
States on our New Lamb Knitter.

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You can wholly ﬁnish twelve pairs ladies’ full-
shaped stockings or twenty pairs socks or mittens-
in a day! Skilled operators can double this ro-
duction. Capacity and range of work double hat
of the old Lamb knitting machine. Address

The New Lamb tter 00.,
117 and 119 Main St., west, Jncxsou, Mien,

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STRENG TH F OR TO-DA. Y.

 

Strength for to day is all that we need,
As there will never be a to-morrow;

For to-morrow will prove but another to-day,
With its measure of joy and sorrow

Then why forecast the trials of life
With such sad and grave persistence,

And watch and wait for a crowd of ills
That as yet have no existence?

‘ Strength for to—day—in house and home.
To practice forbearance sweetly—
Toscatter kind wards and loving deeds,
Still trusting in God completely.

Itupgth 1 or to-day—what a precious boon
For the earnest souls who labor,

For the willing hands that minister
To the needy friend or neighbor.

—-—-—«O—-—————

GIFT-GIVING.

The bestowal of gifts as tokens of af-
fection, of respect, or of submission, has
been acustom of the race since the ear
liest days of which we. have ‘a record.
“Giving” and “ gift" are words as old
as language itself. ~It might be interest
ing to trace, through history, some of the
notable gifts which have been made in
past centuries, by king to subject, or serf
to suzerain. Among them all ‘I know of
none which seems so abundant in loyalty

and love as that of the newly knighted

Richard Whittington, “thrice Lord
Mayor of London town,” whose name is
assocrated with the legendary cat which
made his fortune, and who, when his
king returned from along campaign in
France, debt burdened and with an
empty treasury, laid upon the open ﬁre
place of the audience chamber the king’s
bonds for many thousands of pounds
sterling, and lovingly restrained his royal
master from pulling them out of the ﬁre
with his trusty Damascus blade. So the
story runs; and the deed seems the type
of the true spirit of gift-giving, combin-
ing as it does the deep, devoted affection

which prompts sacriﬁce,and timely aid in

time of need; a giving with no expecta-
tion of reward, but from love and loyalty.
and true patriotic feeling.

Giving of gifts, at the present moment,

has become a fashion so prevalent 'as to'

be almost meaningless. What is cus-
tomary by very commonness loses some-
what in signiﬁcance. A gift, to come
under the real meaning of the word,
must be voluntary, not extorted by cus—
tom, nor prompted by desire to receive in
return. It’s worth should lie in its
animus, not in its pecuniary value.

, People, nowdays, make presents because

it is expected of them, not because of any
special love or respect for the recipient.
“An invitation to a wedding” says a
cynical sinner of the male persuasion,
“is an invitation to contribute to the out-
ﬁt of the couple. Your. friendship is
assessed at a certain per cent in direct
‘ ratio to the intimacy; and you lose your
friend if you do not honor the assess-
ment.” Such a feeling is incompatible
with the true spirit of giving; better
ignore the “assessment of friendship,”
that is, the social obligation, than en-
courage so ignoble a sentiment. But
what shall we say of the society belle who
when her lover’s betrothal ring was not a
diamond to her liking, burst into a ﬂood
of angry tears, and declared she was
ashamed to show it to her companions?
Sowell have young men come to under-
stand what “society” expects of them,

that many an aspiring but impecunious

youth saddles himself with a heavy debt

that his ﬁancee may ﬂash a soltaire in the

eyes of her admiring friends, who shall
praise his generosity and estimate his af-

fection by the worth of the gem. This
we may call ostentatious giving, under

pressure of “ social obligations.”

There are many who never receive a
gift without comp’uting, either openly or
in secret, its value in dollars and cents.
They put their presents on apar with
other matters of barter, and presently
propose to return an equivalent. To
such persons a gift is merely a tacit invi-
tation to “return the compliment.” They
will tell you they do not wish to be “un-
der obligations,” that is, indebted to an-
other. But it seems to me that an ex-
pression of esteem or affection, given for
love or remembrance’s sake, ought not to
carry with it a sense of obligation. The
idea of the repayment of beneﬁts is in-V
herent in us all, to a greater or less ex-
tent; it is quite consistent with agenerous
nature to desire to return favors and
kindnesses shown us in kind. But all gen-
erous hearts give without expectation
or desire of return, and it is ungenerous
to feel that we must repay. It is far
wisest to give without expecting and re-
ceive without returning.

“It is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive.” To give of that which costs us
nothing, to part with that of which we
have a superabundance, may bring less
of blessing to us, yet carry in its
train pleasure and comfort, and timely
relief and help to recipients. The
manner of our giving, too, is part of the

 

gift; graciousness enhances its value.

Who cares for a gift thrown at us as we
throw a bone to a dog, with a “There,
you can have that if you want it?”

Now in this beautiful Christmas time,
when our hearts are ﬁlled with loving
remembrance of friends as we prepare
our Christmas offerings, let us take heed
to the spirit of our giving. The sordid
soul who reckons values knows nothing
of the blessing of giving. Let us be
especially careful how we inculcate this
spirit of calculation into the children’s
hearts, for I believe it a feeling which is
generally foreign to the open, generous
child-nature. And in our giving, let us
not always give to “ him that haih,” but
rather remember those less blessed with
good things. the poor, whom we have al—
ways with us. The Christmas season
gives us ample excuse, for pride and
poverty are often twins, and we some-
times need to plead our feeling of “good
will to men ” to soothe proud minds. If,
in this winter of “ hard times,” with tens
of thousands of men out of work, and
hundreds of thousands of women and
children cold and hungry, good fairies in
great coats and top boots would leave
wood and provisions at some poor family’s
door, and motherly ones with wrinkled
cheeks but warm, tender hearts would
give the half worn garments, or part of
the Christmas abundance to the widow
and the fatherless, no small part of the
world’s poor would feel that Christmas,
the “loving and giving ” season, is truly
the coming of the Christ-like spirit to
them. BEATRIX.

W“ __

LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.

 

It is a good idea to pause and ask our-
selves “ why we live?” Life means some-
thing, and there is very little child’s play
about it, it is terribly real. A thousand
and one things show us that life is for a
purpose; very few study its meaning.
Let us look for a moment at that class of
people who live because life is in them
and remains there; they have no settled
aim, take no thought of the morrow, but
live in today. While seemingly indus-
trious, they accomplish nothing, and the
close of the year ﬁnds no farther advance-
ment than the preceding one; while
walking about much as others do, they
leave no tracks; bustling and noisy, no
one cares for them only to get out of the
way; with no ﬁxed purpose they are like
the willo-the-wisp. ﬁrst here, then there;
or like the ﬂeecy thistle down, blown
wherever a capricious wind wills. Such

 

people lack character, the formation

  


 

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

of which is the real purpose of life. A
man may have the reputation of being

that which he is not; a knave may easily -

pass for an honest man. a hypocrite may
have the reputation of being what be ap-
pears to be. Character is what a man is
in his own soul. in his own home; reputa-
tion what he is abrOad. Character is his
real worth; reputation is his market
price. There are men who from early
manhood strive to have a splendid reputa
tion, their honpr, like Caesar’s wife, must
be abovereproaeh. Suchmcncan “smile
in villainy, and pray with a hand on the
dagger hilt;” like beggars, they ask that
which they ought to possess, at the
hands of others. They live for the
shadow, and not the reality. A man’s
character is what he makes for himself:
it our be dwarfed and stunted, mean and
low, or hold in its outline, grand or noble.
The child soul is without character; one
writer tells us that the mind of the new
born child is like: a blank sheet of paper,
it is the t'l‘uﬁ‘t of a man vet. to be ﬁlled
with alu- elements of a character. God
nukes» the soul and man the ehzarivcter.
Another writer “ (-ircumst :mce-i
make character.” Cii't-mnstances do con—
thousands, but it is not
necessarily so: they yield bccziause they
do not try to oppose, (ll‘i‘ﬁng' sign-,2; with
the tide, satisﬁed to anchor somewhere,
~11 ywhere. “ They are. purposeless. pow
erless, enervated automatons; playing
second ﬁddle to chance. One brave will
to resist' evil, and hold fast to good, is
worth a million of these.” A man’s face
is an index to his character. Have you
ever noticed how a little child will look
into your face, into your eyes, ' as if he
would know- if you were honest and to
be trusted? There are some people who
cannot induce that baby to come to them,
and why? They are not what they ap-
pear to be, they are lsimulating. Just as
one miserable, black nature will pollute
a: whole community, one noble, true
character will impress itself on all
around. There is no shutting it up in a
secret chamber, it will shine and make
itself known. Character is “ catching;”
like murder,, it will out. When we meet
a stranger we areimmediately impressed,
there is an intuition, (it is shOWn in the
little child, we feel it as we reach maturer
years.) that tells us if he can be trusted.
It is best to so live that we would not be
ashamed if our secret doings were known;
we may dissemble for a while, but it only
reacts on ourselves.

says

trol crutchesfs

“ Oh what a tangled net we weave,
When ﬁrst we practice to deceive."

We may receive the respect of a com»
munity, our name be on the church roll,
but if we are not worthy, in our own in-
most heart there is no satisfaction, for
we know we are not what we seem, but
playing the hypocrite, deceiving those
who are loving and trusting us. A good
character is everything; once attained
there is no taking it away; fortune may
deceive us, but as long as character re-
mains we have a foothold. It is good
through all time and for eternity. There
are no good results from building castles

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in the air,” there is aﬁeld of labor; if
you want it, you can find it anywhere.

"‘ Be not like dumb, driven cattle,
Be a hero in the strife."

EVANGALINE.
BATTLE CREEK.

A GOOD TIME.

 

Housecleaning ﬁnished, the coal stove
burnished, and its bright ﬁre glowing,
we sighed for other worlds to conquer.
Not ﬁnding these, and restless at having
“nothing to do,” we decided to go “a
visiting.” So we hurried off to a neigh
her and borrowed some knitting for “vis-
iting work,” donned our best dress, and
were off. Taking the cars at Greenﬁeld,
on the D., L. & N. road, we were soon
leaving the level lands of that locality for
i the more rolling country to the westward.
l When the call to change cars at Ply-
i mouth Junction for the F. d: P. M. was

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she h.:-.d to “ shenge." As she was ticket
‘ es‘. to Scull; Lyon, she was made happy by
i hciz-gj assured that she was on the right
1 train. Br the way, when she left the
i cars at lcr destination, she seemed more
« disconsclﬁe than ever, as no one seemed
3 Waiting for her. though she looked eager-
‘ 13' round. No more lonely place can be
found than in a. crowd, unable to speak
their language.

But on we go, through wood and clear-
ing, hill and dale, deep cut and level in-=
tervale, and are in a short time landed at
Brighton, Livingston County, where we
tarry for awhile. Brighton has about one
thousand inhabitants, is decidedly a vil-
lage of churches, there being six—two
Methodist, Wesleyan and3Methodist Epis-
copal, Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyte-
rian and Baptist. I;fancy that the minis-
ters need to be good ﬁnanciers and their
wives practical economists; as it hardly
seems likely that they individually get as
large salaries as is paid the principal of
the Union School there—$800 per year.

The priest in charge of the Catholic
Church is highly esteemed by all the com-
munity as an earnest temperance man,
and his practical example has a powerful
inﬂuence on his people. The pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal Church is an
avowed Prohibitionist, and “votes as he
prays,” regardless of the effect such un-
worldiness may have upon the question
of “bread and butter.” The “highway
cow” is not allowed to stray in the classic
precincts of the village, and the dulcet
tinkle of her bell mingles not in the con-
cord of sweet sounds.

For a railroad town, Brighton is very
quiet. A large proportion of her leading
citizens seem to be people of “means on
which to live,” who live quiet lives devoid
of business ambition, enjoying the native
beauty of the place and the advantages
of church, school, stores, postoﬂice and
railroad privileges, and many natural
business advantages are in consequence
unimproved. A ﬁne water power, already
‘.‘ dammed,” which is said to be quite
equal to one now utilized, is unused. Two
or three parties buy wool and farm pro-

 

 

ducts for shipment, and there is quite 3

showed her ticket. hz'ckenly inquiring if ’

ocal trade in stock, various kinds having
their special market days. The village
fair grounds are extensive and nicely im-
proved, and their fairs are said to be ex—
ceptionally good. Residence property,
both improved and unimproved, is for
sale very low, and the “ means of living ’
are said to be very cheap. The cemetery
is beautifully located, but neglected.

From Brighton we passed by successive
stages through North Brighton, Hartland,
' Highland and Rose townships, and found
some most lovely country. The scenery
was ever varying; low rolling land sud-
denly gave place to majestic hills, lovely
lakes lay hidden in mystic recesses, large
areas of cultivated ﬁelds were broken by
patches of woodland, ﬁne farm houses
nestled in vales or crowned the sloping
hills, huge “Jumbos” of barns attested
the prosperity of the farmer; and occas.
ionally we caught sight of some of the
ﬁne stock for which this region is fa-
mous.

At some points we seemed to have come

 

upon the place where stone was unloaded
in huge masses; great piles were heaped
in every direction; in some places it had
‘ been used in making a neat, substantial
fence, yet there was enough left to “oc-
cupy the land.” Where room could be
found for a crop to grow was a problem
too hard for a passer-by to solve. In
Rose we saw tracts of land that were of
considerable extent so full of marshy
spots and continuous chains we would
want a warranty deed for eighty acres to
be stretched to cover twice that quantity
at least. Taking the train at Rose Centre,
we were soon at Plymouth Junction, and
after a. delay of half an hour boarded the
cars for home. The station house at the
Junction was made attractive by a large
number of thrifty growing plants, which
with the gay pictures on the walls gave
the place quite a festive appearance.

We arrived at home, tired but happy,
and ﬁnd that in our absence some work
has turned up, so with the cobwebs of
our brain brushed aside, and some new
ideas gathered on which to ponder and
speculate, we take up the threads of do-
mestic responsibilities and labor, and day
by day weave the web of abusv, content-
ed and useful life. What can be more
satisfying or ennobling? A.'I:. L.

INGLnsrnn.

ANOTHER CONTRITE MEMBER.

 

How is it that since the bread
and butter questions have been so
thoroughly discussed, and I might say
devoured, the various contributors are
dropping off? Can not we ﬁnd other just
as interesting and instructive subjects?
A meal of just bread and butter alone
would be a poor meal for me; and it
seems as though we ought to come to the
help of Beatrix, lest she faint under her
load. I enjoy her letters, and read them
ﬁrst, often ﬁnding just the thought I
needed, or my own opinions endorsed.
Yet I think she needs a little encourage-
ment now and then, and to be
made to feel that she is appreciated
and remembered. I often ask myself
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some writers can. Where is the secret?
I may read an article which wall produce
new thoughts upon that subject, but am
unable to put those thoughts in proper
shape for the Household. '

I will give afew recipes. sure that I can
write them out at least. and quietly with-
draw, fearing that I have made you twice

glad. SABACENECE.
COUBTLAND CENTRE.

[Beatrix trusts Saracenece will pardon
the liberty taken with the above manu-
sCript in leaving out the very kind and
ﬂattering words relating to her person-
ally. Such expressions of appreciation
and esteem are very grateful to her, but
her “ native modesty ” forbids her to print
them in a paper which she herself edits.
In'regard to the difﬁculty our correspond—
ent ﬁnds in clothing her thoughts in
written language, and which many others
have mentioned heretofore, we believe it
one of those things best conquered
by continued practice. If our corres-
pondents who thus complain will only
try and keep trying, we are sure the men
tal strength which brings the thoughts
will conquer the inability of expression.
But this will never happen without
effort, persistent and continued. Come
again, Saracenece, and allothers who feel
the same restraint, and see if your
thoughts do not please you better after
the “baptism of print” than you had
thought possible; and if it does not grow
more and more easy to write]

—-—————ooo———-—

THE FARMER’S FRONT YARD.

As I was sitting by the ﬁre this even-
ing reading from a ﬂoral magazine, I
thought I would like to speak with the
members of the Household about the dif-
ference between peoplein the city and in
the country in regard to making their
front yards or lawns attractive. In the
city you have to pay several hundred dol-

lars for a small lot, and the owner almost ‘

always has a little grass plot which is
trimmed and kept neat and nice, and they
will make use of a space a foot wide and
four feet long, ﬁlling it with bright,pretty
.ﬂowers and lovely vines. If the yard is
large enough you will see beautiful orna-
mental trees and shrubs. City people try
to improveev ery little bit oflground, and
how much more attractive their homes are
than a large, handsome house with ill-
kept grounds!

In the country, where any one can have

' aslargeafront yard as they want, it is

very seldom you see a really beautiful
lawn. A great many farm houses are
placed very close to the road, Without a
tree even for shade. You can ﬁnd a good
many houses in the country which stand
year after year with the earth that was
taken out of the cellar, merely leveled a
little, and no pains taken to have it even
covered with grass, because the “head of
the house” has so much to do on the
farm. But if some man should come
along and ask him to spend the day with
him in a neighboring town, where he has
no business to atttend to, he would be
right on hand to go, and would say the
work would be all right on the farm for

 

one day. If the farmer would take a few
days in the spring or fall, not in the
“busy season," and plow up his front
yard and have it covered with good, well-
rotted manure thoroughly dragged in,
rollcd’until the ground is smooth and ﬁrm,
he walks laid out, and about eight inches
of the soil removed from the walks and
ﬁlled in with good gravel, which would

‘ soon pack down ﬁrm. and would then

sow his ground with a mixture prepared
on purpose by seedsmen, it would not
take long to have a beautiful lawn about
his house. He could also set out a few
good shade and ornamental trees and
shrubs.

The only trouble in planting trees seems
to be that we do not seem to think how
the trees will look when they have had a
number of years" growth, nor how they
may obstruct the view, and so the trees
are set in the wrong places. Some will
even place a tree close up to the windows.
The expense to a farmer of carrying out
such an improvement would be very
small, for he has horses, plows and all
other implements necessary, and the
gravel costs him nothing; while in the
city every thing must be paid for. City
folks have to hire some one to plow. drag
and sod for them; but still, though every
move they make to have their yard ﬁtted
so they can sow it with grass seed, costs
much more than farmers realize, the city
yards are handsome to look at. I do not
mean every yard in the city, for there are
slack, lazy men there as well as in the
country; but most of the yards are well
kept, so that the passer-by lingers to look
at them. In the country, where lots of
land goes to waste, and time too, it seems
as if there might be a grand improvement
inlthe farmers’_front yards. What say you,
farme rs’ wives? HONOR GLINT.

 

~————-—.Q’—

MAKING OVER.

 

That group of girls I passed this after-
noon were, no doubt, in animated dis-
cussion over some party, beau, or dress;
farther on I saw a knot of men gesticu-
lating and talking in tones of excitement,
and I knew that their topic was politics.
So, when I went in Mrs. A.’s and found
Mrs. B. and 0. both there, I knew that
our conversation would just as naturally
turn upon the care of children, house-
work and economies. I do not consider
this fact belittling, either, for the woman
who gets the most good out of anything,
from a cast-off garment to the richest
work of art, is happily wise; and in talk-
in g over our work we often learn a great
deal. This afternoon the topic most
dwelt upon was the making over for
children’s winter wear, and some sugges-
tions were so good that I thought them
quite ﬁtting for that rear end of our
Household which I expect to continue to
occupy so long as I have a baby crying in
one ear, and a four—year-old asking in the
other such questions as, “When things

get cool where does the hot go to?” “ Are‘

the ants the bugs’ aunts?” etc., etc.

They all made over knit underwear for
their children and thought it paid if new
was cheap, for a wrapper or pair of

 

 

drawers were soon run up on a machine.
Mrs. C. used. stocking tops to ﬁnish the
legs of underdrawt-rs, and though it was
at ﬁrst suggested ln/ necessity, she found
they ﬁtted nicely n ud liked the plan. She
also stitched a strung stay down to the
waist line over tht- under arm seams, and
the center of the front where she placed
buttons for the drawers. She preferred
this to the “Union ” shape or having so
many things fastened to the waist. Mrs.
B. had made some strong warm stockings
for her baby from an old colored under-
shirt, the seams were fastened open and
she said they ﬁtted the little fat members
better, and kept them just as warm as the
cheap ones within her reach. Then they
had been making dresses for their little
girls to wear under aprons, and these
they made of anything strong and warm,
as they did not show at all except at the
bottom of the skirt, where a rufﬂe or two
of some good material was placed.

Mrs. C.’s husband had a rubber coat
which had hem accidentally torn in the
back, and from that she had just made
her cigar—:t'ear-old daughter a good sub-
stitute for a gossamer. From a felt skirt,
of a. light grey color, Mrs. A. had ﬁnished
two hoods for school wear, they were
quilted, ﬁnished with double box pleated
ruﬂles, pinked; and some bows of ribbon
brightened up in strong blueing, and
they looked not only comfortable, but
really pretty. Then the cloaks: The
creations in this line were wonderful.
Mrs. B. had made one from an old coat
which had been suspected of being an
extravagance from the city, while for
her little two-year-old Mrs. 0. had made
one fromapair of light colored pants;
she hadwashed, pressed and turned the
cloth, and trimmed with a little bright
velvet; and we all pronounced it as “cute
as could be.”

We agreed that the main thing about a
garment is its ﬁt. If that is only perfect,
the eye of the casual observer is blinded
to much.

Under the roof of that Wide porch,
where in summer Beatrix serves her ideal
tea and swings in a hammock with the
latest novel, are there no ﬂies to bite her
nose every other moment, and drop into
butter and tea between times? Since
screens shut them out of the house, I ﬁnd
them under every porch by thousands,
and prefer looking and breathing through

wires to a continuous battle.

A. H. .J.
THOMAS.
--__..,

THE PREMIUM BUTTER.
The premium list of the State Agricul.
tural Society, as published in the Hun
GAN FARMER, show ed that. Mrs. Lucy
McClary, of Galesburg, received the first
premium of $15 for the best twentytive
pounds of domestic butter made in June.
The Household Editor therefore wrote to
Mrs. McClary, requesting information in
regard to the processes of manufacture
for the beneﬁt of the Household readers.
We received aprompt and ready response,
in which Mrs. McClary says:
“ Our cows are a cross of Devons and
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[Beatrix trusts Saran-1.1mm will pardon
the liberty taken with the above manu-
scriptin leaving- out the verykinii and
ﬂattering- words relating to her person-
ally. Such expressions of appreciation
and esteem are very grateful to her but
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FARMER’S FRONT

'I‘HE YAl-i I) .

As 1 was sitting by the ﬁre this even-
ing reading from a ﬂoral magazine, I
though; 1 would like to speak with the
members of the Household about the dif-
ference between people in the city and in
the country in regard to making their
front yards or lawns attractive. In the
city you have to pay several hundred doi—
lars for a small lot, and the owner almost
always has a little grass plot which i...
trimmed and kept neat and nice, and. the},
will make use of a spam. a. foot wid .-:1.1..:l
four fuel. 10113.1, ﬁllingit :1. 1th brightmrrrttgr
ﬂowers and lovely vines If the yard is
large enough you will see heautzé'ql ornw
mental. trees and shrubs. City 5.11.9111:
to llan‘OVCCV'h ery ‘ ittle hit of 33,1».
how much 1111112 e - 1rnut1vetl1eir 8.
than a. large. 11111115111113
kept grounds!

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as large 21. front yard as they Want. it is
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taken out of the cellar, merely Bird-gel
little, and no pain: 1.1114161) to 11 V2; 2:
covered with grass, because the
the house ” has so much to do on
farm. But it' some man simuld come
along and ask him. to spe ml the :lay w: ‘i‘

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soon pack down 111221.
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take long to lle'lV
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goal shade

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4: THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

of clover'and timothy, and they’had free
access to the river. The cream was'set in
pans, was skimmed as soon as the milk

_ was thick, and churned every other day in

a rectangular churn. The milk was drawn
oil when the butter was gathered, and the
butter washed, in the churn, with sweet
skim-milk. The butter was then taken
into the tray, and salted at. the rate of two
ounces of salt to one pound of butter. It
Was then allowed to stand twelve hours,
then the milk and brine were thoroughly
work‘ed out, and the butter packed in a
crock and tightly covered.”

'80 it seems that the butter which cap-
tured the cash was made by the simple,
old-fashioned method which our grand-
mothers and great-grandm others practic-
ed, and without any help from the “ new
tangled” contrivances of modern dairy-
ing! No cabinet creamery, no sweet
cream butter. Note, however, that the
cream was churned every other day; it was
not allowed to get so acid that fermenta-
tion had begun. In this instance old pro:
cesses proved satisfactory, yet we confess
to alively curiosity to know whether butter
made in a cabinet creamery was entered
in competition. The value of the dairy
exhibits shown at our fairs would be
greatly enhanced if with the list of
awards could be given some idea of the
manner of manufacture.~ We hope to hear

in what manner the “bast- butter made. magazines and newspapers, and “save ,

at any time,” which took ﬁrst premium
was made. 1 -‘ ‘; ~ ~‘

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IS THIS TRHE? i 1’
.. _ . .1

In the Christian Herdldyinl théiﬁﬁiihg
department, afew m'dnths ago, 1335119511
that “butter washed in water3 arid than
salted lost half an ounce- to the poﬁhglr
but that butter washed in sweet-briineand
then salted, remained the. ﬂamers?!)
weight.” Can any one explain: whythin
is! 3111101311.. :-

Bis Bravim. _ I

[Before we look for an explanation of
that which seems unreasenable, or im-
probable, let us be sure that the facts
agree with the statement. Suppose Leone
should by actual experiment ascertain
whether such a loss takes place or not. If
the manner of salting makes a diﬁerence
in weight equal to that mentioned, we
will look about for the reason. We
incline to the opinion, however, that the
statement itself should be taken cum
gram salts]

____._...—_—.

SCRAPS.

 

 

A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie Far-
mer says that she made a very nice liquid
blacking for shoes by adding the white
of one egg and a tablespoonful of glycer-
ine to a ten cent bottle of black ink di-
luted with half its bulk of water. Put in
a bottle, shake well, and apply with a
sponge.

 

IF the conversations of the modern “so-
ciety ” novel are to be taken as fair indices
of the intellectual calibre of modern “so—
ciety,” may a merciful Heaven have pity
upon the “upper ten thousand .” The person

 

Crawford, Howells, James, Mrs Burnett,
and others put in the mouths of their
alleged characters 1s enough to make us
answer the question‘ Is life worth liv-t
ing ?” with a sweeping negative, “Not ii"
it is to be lived in company with suclr

smallest of small talk through iiiter-i'
minable pages.’

 

WITHOUT doubt many of our leaders
are casting about as to how they 'han
economize a little, now all kinds of farm
produce are so low in price. When wheat
is low farmers “ feel poor;” it is the

“money crop ” to many, and they rely
upon it to pay debts arid settle with that
creditor who can'notﬁe put off—the tax»
gatherer. Econtpy becomes the family
watchword. Without attempting to dis-
cuss the question whether a bushel of
wheat at present prices will not buy as
much or more of the necessaries of life as
would a bushel at higher priﬁes all round
ﬁve years ago, I‘ wauth-to say a word
about what economies *to prac‘ti'c‘b More
than one misguided man will try to
" save’ ’by cutting down the supply of
greading matter for his family he thinks
they “ can get alon' without ” books and

something.” That this is poor econ y
a little reﬂection will eb'iitince us. en
a man s mental development has not kept2t
pace with his physical wth‘ we callhim
an idiot or imbecile. gsidbiihow mu
Of our mental growth is e ’53! “What we
ﬁnd, and reﬂect, if you asevzfthat by
thking away or lessening the supply of
{reading matterayou lessen the develop-
ment of the mind. The farmer needs his
papers. He needs them when prices are
low and times “hard” more than when
money is abundant. Under pressure of

crops at less cost. When he drops his papers
because his crops bring low prices, he'«is
as unwise as the workman who puts ‘his
tools in pledge because his wages are low.
He deprives himself of the power of bet-
tering his condition. By his papers he

world, the supply and demand of cereals,
what crops are being raised in excess; he
learns better methods, and hears of new
and more productive varieties, and is set
to thinking in what way he can lessen
labor and expense and increase returns.
Not the least value of a paper lies in the

mer. The educational value of newspa~
pers to the family is also to be considered.
Cut down expenses by plainer living; less
cake and pie, more milk and vegetables.
Miss Willard, in commenting on social
conditions, gives as a rule of life “ plain
living and high thinking,” and tell us that.
high living induces very plain thinking.
If it‘comes to a choice between mental
and physical sustenance surely we shall-
not hesitate to cherish the nobler part 'of
ourselves especially when in so doing
we win health to our bodies by a sound
digestion

 

who is out of the charmed circle may , “
thank his lucky stars thathe is out. The ‘
twaddle which modern novelists like -

vapid, inane semi idiots as drivel “th‘e ‘

necessity he must raise more and better '

keeps track of the great markets of- the 1

fact that it makes a man a think: ng far- .

 

contributed, Recipes}

FRIED CAKES. —-On"é large cup sugar, two

 

eggs, one large teaspoonful soda, one half cup“

cream, ﬁlled up with Ebuttezinilk; pinch of
salt. Nutmeg to taste.

Douéimu‘r's. —.Takea pint of bread sponge
in the moi‘ning and add it to one cup of sweet
cream, warm'é’d; one cup sugar; one egg ggé

5 ice to the taste. Keep in awarm plaCe unt ‘

uite xifIight,l and then roll out on the board;
t £61113 and set to rise again until quite light;

g §g§ net; lard, ' - ‘ Dona.“

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Fnurr CAKE. ——Une coﬁee cup eachttif sugar,

~buttermilk and raisins; one teaspoonful of

soda, dissolved in_boiling water;.ene‘tea'sp00n—
ful of cinnamon; 2. smaller quantity of cloves»
and allspice , one- -half a nutmeg; piece of
shortening the size of an egg; ﬂonr Wien‘t
tomake a stiﬁ batter.’ .1116an
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Fain) Cans —-One egg, three tablgSpoom
fuls shortening, one.half clip sugar, one cup
buttermilk,‘ digs teaspoonful soda, one tear-
spoonful cinnamon; Mix rather soft. ‘

Pichii r013 HauaJSeven pounds of‘ com
mon barrel salt; three ounces mtﬁéae; six
red peppers, outage heapug teaspoontul car-
enne pepper; Ioar‘gallonslof said water. Cover
hams accordinguto the above compound and
let remain just six weeks. If it is desirable to
let the hams remain in pickle longer, it can be
done, as they will never become any salter.

, ,1 SARACENECE.
Coun'rnmm CENTRE.

 

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For- Full Information.

An ordinary operator can earn from one to three-
dollars per day in any cominunity' in the North'gm
States on our New Lamb Knitter.

100 Varieties of Fabric on Same Machine.

You can wholly ﬁnish twelve pairs ladies’qim-
shaped stockings or twenty pairs socks or mittens
in a day! Skilled operators can double this pro-

 

 

duction. Capacity and range or work double “1" '

3mm old Lamb knitting machine. Address '
. The New Lamb Knltt 00., Q
' 117 and 119 Main St., west, Jacksgﬁ ,Mion.

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