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DETROIT, DECEMBER ‘23, 1884.

 

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I‘ll HURBIED, (IHILD.

 

“0h, mother, lookl I've found a butterﬂy

Hanging upon a leaf. Do tell me why

There was no butter! on, do see its wings!

I never, never saw such pretty things—-

All streaked and striped with blue and brown and

gold,

Where is its house when all the days are cold?”

“Yes, yes,” she said, in absent accents mild,
“I’m hurried, childl”

“ Last night my dolly quite forgot her prayers;
An’ when she thought you had gone down stairs,
Then dolly was afraid, an’ so I said,
‘Just don’t you mind, but say ’em in the bed,
Because I think that God is inst as near.’
When dolls are ’fraid do you s’pose He can hear?”
The mother spoke from out the rufﬂes piled,

“ I’m hurried, child!”

" Oh, come and see the ﬂowers in the sky-
The sun has left; and won’t you, by and by,
Dear mother, take me in your arms and tell
Me all about the pussy in the well?
Then tell me of the babies in the wood?
And then, perhaps about Red Riding Hood?"
“ Too much to do! Hush, hush, you drive me
| wild,
I’m hurried, child I"
|lhe little one grew very quiet now,
And grieved and puzzled was the childish brow,
And then it queried: “ Mother, do you know
The reason ’cause you must be hurried so?
I guess the hours are little-er than I.
So I will take my pennies and will buy
A big clock! on, big as it can be,
For you and me i"

The mother now has leisure inﬁnite:
She sits with folded hands, and face as white
As winter. In her heart is winter‘s chill.
She sits at leisure, questioning God’s will.
“My child has ceased to breathe, and all is night!
Is Heaven so dark that Thou dost grudge my
light?
0 life! 0 God! I must discover why
The time drags by."

0 mothers sweet, if cares must ever fail,
Pray do not make them stones to build a wall
Between thee and thine own; and miss thy right
To blessedness, so swift to take its ﬂight!
While answering baby questionings you are
But entertaining angels unaware;
The richest gifts are gathered by the way

For darkest day.

—-Emma Burt.

——h—¢oo—
HOLIDAY GREETINGS.

 

Another twelvemonth has slipped away
and we stand upon the threshold of a
new and untried year. What it may
bring us we know not; we must wait,
thankful that if good or ill come to us we
can live but one day at a time. On swift
wings the old year has ﬂown past us, it
seems but a step from June's roses to
December‘s snowﬂakes. Its trials, its
troubles, its joys and sorrows are alike
overpast; memories alone remain to us.
No sorrow is so great the years do not

 

brlng healing, no happiness so complete
time does not dim its ﬁrst intensity.
Tears and smiles are the blossoms of the
years, the work we do in them the fruit-
age.

In our Household circle wedding bells
have rung merrily, little strangers been
warmly welcomed, and bitter tears have
fallen upon new made graves. In the
world’s great family this story is con-
stantly being told. Yet even to those
who sorrow the angel of Hope lifts a
guiding ﬁnger and points to happiness
and content in coming years, so that our
hearts may be cheered by holiday
greetings, those good wishes we all love
to hear. And therefore, with sincerest
sympathy with those who mourn as well
as those who rejoice, the Household
Editor wishes to all the Household readers
a very Merry Christmas and a very Hap-
py New Year, and “may you all live long
and prosper.”

-———‘oo————r

THE CHILDREN IN WINTER.

 

Children who attend school in winter,
especially in the country, where they
have long distances to walk, need to be
warmly protected from the weather. It
is poor economy to send them out, thinly
clad and poorly shod, to walk a mile or
so in bitter winter weather, or through
the melting snow of amild day. Doctor’s
and undertakers’ bills are heavy. An
Eastern proverb says “Heat is life; cold
is death ;” and certain it is that most of
our illnesses begin with symptoms of
what we call “a cold.” True, nowdays
certain medical men will tell us that the
symptoms are simply those of an attack
of indigestion. and bid us observe they
nearly always follow overeating; while
another set will insist it is not exposure
to cold or wet which gives us “a cold,”
but the return to a warm atmosphere
after such exposure. While the doctors
settle the question between themselves.
for “who shall agree when doctors dis-
agree ?" we will simply argue that safety
lies in observing a few Simple hygienic
rules, keeping the feet dry and warm,
preserving as far as possible an equable
temperature of the body, thus promoting
free and active circulation of the blood,
and partly in not being in great haste
to “get by the ﬁre” and remove our
wrappings after having been outdoors.

Flannel undergarments are a necessity
for the children, because of their greater
warmth. The slight irritation they may
produce induces healthy action of the

 

skin and promotes circulation. A Ger-
man physician would have us put away
all cotton and linen fabrics and wear
only woolen goods, because, as he claims,
all vegetable fabrics retain the eman at ions
from the skin, even after washing,
whereas woolen or animal materials favor
the dispersion of waste matter by evap-
oration and ventilation. Without going
to such extremes—for he would have us
abandon all other materials in favor
of WOOL—it 1s a truism that ﬂannel
should form the principal part of the
child’s clothing in wmter. The “merino”
undergarments are so convenient and
cheap that one could wish they were not
so innocent of wool; in most of them cot-
ton has been carded with the ostensible
material till asheep would hardly con-
descend to smell of them. Mothers
should remember that the quality of
white and red ﬂannels is superior to other
colors; it is only the ﬁner and better
grades of wool that can be manufactured
into white ﬂannel, or will take the dye to
produce a good red.

A girl’s undergarments are really her
greatest protection against cold; better
more and warmer clothing of this kind
than a multiplicity of skirts, which, as
abbreviated by present fashion, aﬁord but ‘
slight protection to the limbs. These
garments should reach to the ancles, and
the stockings, pulled up over them, meet
the shorter ﬂannel overdrawers, which
hardly show at all, and which may
be edged with crocheted or knitted
woolen lace. Many mothers crochet
skirts of Germantown yarn, which are
both warm and pretty. The stitch is
simple and rapidly done, and the expense
not large. It is claimed they are warmer
than piece ﬂannel, as they cling to the
form.

Now wool is so cheap, we can aﬁord to
make the “Japanese skirts” instead of
wearing felt, or quilted cotton skirts.
Any lady who has an old silk skirt to
sacriﬁce can make a cheap, pretty, dur-
able, warm and light skirt, by quilting it
over a thin layer of wool: it will not
weigh half as much as one quilted with
sufﬁcient cotton to give the same warmth

The manufacture of cloth has reached a
point now where a fabric is manufactured
which has all the appearance of warmth
on the right side, but which, when
turned on the other side is seen to be
“backed” with a shoddy refuse, which
has no evidence 'of woof or warp. Low
priced ready-made garments of this class
look well and warm on the outside, but

 


 

TI—IE HOUSEHOLD.

 

need lining to be comfortable. In buying,
get the garment large enough to allow
you to add a lining. If money is plenty
you can buy the farmers’ satin which is
already quilted; otherwise, lay a sheet of
wadding on pieces of cashmere or other
wool goods you may chance to have, and
quilt it on the sewing machine. Cut a
paper pattern of the garment to be lined,
and block out your lining by this, allow-
ing for seams, haste up, sew the seams,
open and crossstitch them back, then ﬁt
the completed lining to the garment and
secure it in place by sewing its seams to
those of the garment. This is some
trouble, but it adds greatly to the warmth.
See to it that the feet are kept dry.
Do not trust shoes, but insist that rub—
bers or overshoes, as the weather indi-
cates, shall be worn. This advice sounds
like “carrying coals to Newcastle ” to
many, perhaps, yet one not} infrequently
sees children tramping through melting
snow or mud, with only a pair of thin,
light soled boots on. This is dangerous.
The foundation of disease which on]
minates in youth in death, or what is al-
most worse, chronic invalidism, is often
laid in childhood by neglect and impru-
dence. Mothers cannot be too careful
of the health of their children; and wet
feet and a neglected cold have sent many
a bright, promising girl into consump-
tion. Leggings are a necessity in snowy
weather, and not uncomfortable at any
time. The knitted ones are nice, and
some economical mothers make them of
worn out stockings, cutting out the feet
and binding off the cut edges, adding a
strap to hold them over. the shoe. Cloth
ones which button at the s1de are quite
“ tony,” and can be made from a discard-
ed pair of pantaloons, using a’ stocking
for apattern; there is aseam down the
front which joins the lap, which buttons
over and is scalloped and bound with
dress braid. Flannel nightdresses. warm
and long, are nicest for children, and
if the feet are warmed and if necessary
rubbed till the blood circulates freely,
sleep will be quiet and restful.

In many families bathing is neglected
in the winter. A bath oncea week, or
once in two weeks, even, is made to
answer, and sometimes from a prejudice
equal to that of the old man who being
ordered a bath by his physician declared
he would take his “death 0’ cold,” for he
had not “ washed all over in forty years.”
A sponge bath ought to be a daily neces-
sity; it rarely is, however. Quickly taken
and followed by rapid friction, it leaves
one “in a glow” which in its action on
the skin and nerves is as good as a tonic.
Do not let the children intermit their
bath in winter; they will not ‘f take
cold,” but be hardened against it.

Let the children who are too young to
go to school play out doors every day, un-
less the weather is too inclement, taking
care that they are warmly clad, wearing
rubbers when necessary, and thick boots
at all times. If you begin by housing
them up, you may expect they will come
out in the spring very like the potato
sprouts in the cellar, thin, pale, and
spinning. Bundle them up warmly, and

send them out for a little exercise, but not
to stay too long, till they are chilled. Study
their temperaments, to see how long and
in what weather it is safe for them to be
out. Even if it snows it will not hurt
them, nor will it hurt you, either, to go
out with them for alittle fresh air. When
they come in, accustom them to take oﬁ
their wraps gradually, not to ﬁing them
off all at once and rush to the ﬁre, there
is less danger of taking cold. If you in-
sist on keeping them in warm, close
rooms, which hardly get an airing from
one week’s end to another, you may ex-
pect them to take cold at the slightest
change in the oven-like temperature to
which you have accustomed them; and to
put in your time nursing them through
croup, congestion and sore threat. The
onus of the blame should rest on the im-
pure air of the house. Even the babies
ought to be taken out every day not too
unpleasant. The rosy-checked “babies
in our block ” get their airing daily.
______..._____
WOMAN’S MISSION.

The ﬁrst we hear of woman’s works—
in history—we ﬁnd her governing man.
Adam’s mind must have been inferior to
Eve’s, or she could not have wielded the
inﬂuence over him that she did; and Sa~
tan, in the form of a serpent, was wise
enough to know that if he had tempted
Adam ﬁrst, the woman, seeing his sin,
never would have tasted the forbidden
fruit. The woman was deceived; the
serpent persuaded her by lying to her.
But Adam partook without any hesita-
tion, and then laid all the blame on the
woman; and it looks to me as if he blamed
God for giving him the woman. With
some men it is just so to-day. But take.
the women out of society, and what do
men care for nice things or good manners?
Allowing that in Adam’s fall, woman
brought the curse, in Christ,woman brings
the blessing; God has honored her by
causing her to be the mother of Jesus,
and to minister unto Him through a help-
less infancy. Her mission since Christ
has come is not to drag man down, but
rather to elevate him. When you hear
man ﬁnding fault with womenhind with-
out good reason for so doing, you may be
sure that he is a fallen man, and he will
soon drive himself out of the garden of
Eden. Woman’s mission in this life ought
to be something more than to sweep and
dust, make and mend, and make a good
cook. She is to be a companion to man.
This life has many dreary places in it,
and man needs a companion to go with.
him all through life. He needs woman’s
councils in time of trouble, and her sym-
pathy through storms and sunshine, con-
ﬂict and victory;-and to so fulﬁll her mis-
sion, she needs to be his equal. Ignorance
will destroy woman’s usefulness, in a
measure. Knowledge is power; faculties
and power are of little value until they
are exercised. If our hands are so busy,
and we can only snatch a moment here
and there for study, let us improve that
little. A woman really in earnest will
often accomplish more than a man. But

 

some women 1111 so small a space in this

 

world that they could drop out of exist~
ence and hardly be missed; the world has
gained nothing for their having lived.
But who is in fault? Of some women
who are not quite so timid as others, who
will dare to do a little public writing or
speaking, I have heard this remark: “I
think she has done just as well as aman.”
Why should she not? Do you think she
was onlyintended for a servant? '
Some men think the wife should have
no ﬁnancial rights, and are not expected
to have many individual wants. Much
unhappiness and dissension is caused by
the tenacity in which the husband grasps
the pocket-book, in which he thinks his
wife has no partner’s share. Woman’s ,
usefulness has increased very rapidly for
the last twenty years. More thought has
been given to the consideration of her
views; more pains have been taken for
the cultivation of her intellect, and the
result begins to show that she is not in-
ferior to man, and in her morality she is
superior. It is well that it is so, for upon
the morality of woman depends the moral
standard of the world. Then how essen-
tial it is that she should have true Chris-
tian morality. The mother and the
schoolmistress mold the child during its
early and sensrtive years, and this inﬂu-
ence woman holds over children is the
highest and holiest that can be held on
earth. Nearly all men, in speaking of
the good that is in their character, are
ready to ascribe it to the early teachings
of a mother. The public career of men,
as well as their domestic life, depends up-
on the training of mothers, the example
of sisters, and the instructions of teach
ers. Women do not always work for
money, but for the best interests of those
they love; the result has been to make bet-
ter homes, better schools, better charities

’ And why shall she not help to make bet- '

ter laws? And she is not done, for she
must help wipe out this curse of intem;
perance. When a mother has been care-
ful to bring up her child in the way he
should go, and sees the pitfalls in his path
when he is beyond her care, she is not
fulﬁlling her mission as the mother of our
nation if she does not ask a voice at the
ballot-box, that she may help choose the
men who make our laws. I know the
right to vote carries with it a share of the
responsibility of the kind of government
we have; but she may better stop making
crazy quilts and the like, while we put
forth every effort to drive intemperance
from our free America, as she is called,
though she is in chains and bondage to
the liquor traﬁic.

Some say what is the use of woman’s
voting? She will vote just as her hus-
band does. That will be all right if her
husband votes for the right man; if he
does not they had better differ. If no
liquor was made or imported into the
United States, other nations would take
care of their own low drinking class, and
we would get a better class of working
people. I am not talking about woman’s '
rights, but about woman’s duty; and duty
sometimes compels us to do things that
are not pleasant. In our political'aﬁairs
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the trouble is they have left women out:
rGive woman her proper place in helping
make our laws, and everything will be
changed. In her presence men will not
dare to do things which they do now. It
is often said woman will do more good by
her prayers than men at the ballot. But
if one is really in earnest she will work as
well as pray. ,

We hear frequently of some drinking
husband’s cruelty to his wife. I saw once
with my own eyes a man who had been
drinking, drag his wife twenty rods by
the hair of the head. Is it woman’s mis
sion to submit? I say no. Every man
who is led into crime and disgrace was
once some mother’s darling. Shall we
mothers fold our hands and think we can
do nothing to save ourselves from this
curse? Intemperance is a tyrant that kills
both soul and body. Now what can wo-
man do? Some men say work quietly at
home, that is her place. Others say make
it unpopular for men to drink, and that
if women would not associate with men
that were intemperate, they would be dif-
ferent. It is the same old story of Adam:
“ She did give me. and I did eat.” So

, in her despair she goes to God in prayer

for her lost sons who are ﬁlling drunk-
ard’s graves, and the answer comes: “Work

as well as pray." Mas. R. D. P.
BRookLYn.

PRIDE VS. WELL-DOING.

 

I ﬁnd thoughts, here and there, in the
columns of the Household, touching upon
Christian principles as sometimes not
practically demonstrated by avowed fol-
lowers of Christianity ;whi1e quite as often

. the real Christian act is performed outside
of creeds and organizations. When
humanity will have become imbued
with the true Christ-like spirit, and thus
strive to, obey, then they will have learned
that “I saint,” and “thou sinner,” never
yet opened the avenues of approach to
the better nature of any erring man,
woman, or youth. All along life’s path-
way I have sorrowfully observed that a
large class of our so esteemed “best peo-
ple” envelope themselves in an atmos-
phere of superiority and reserve, that bars
all approach to their sympathies and at-
tention, unless they are approached
through secure channels, whereby their
pride remains unsacriﬁced and unharmed.
Irealize, dear Household, I could easily
sermonize at length upon this subject,
in its various forms of assertion, but I
will content myself by relating one
instance, as illustrative of these almost
impassible barriers, so ﬁrmly established
that many suffering hearts sink still
lower in the scale of being, for the very
need of encouragement those in more
fortunate conditions of life are withhold-
ing from them, through the scorn of
“old Mother Grundy’s” vicious tongue,
and cruel demeanor. Were the tyranical
obstructions of pride overcome, and the

\ true relation of man to man, and more

especially 'WOman to woman, fully realiz-
ed, the heart of the world would be set
right. With “Phillis,” woman would
secure a strong, sweet, womanly inﬂuence
over all degrees of age, and the many

  

 

now blindly groping and wayward,
would be uplifted and strengthened and
not “go down to the bad,” for lack of
wiser instruction and purer sympathy.
An elderly woman, whose hair was
silvered with many years, and one whom
time’s impress should have marked with
devout love and sympathy for the human
race, recently spent a few days here
among us from a distant city. She was
an occupant of one of the pews in one of
the most aristocratic churches. and drift-
ed with the popular element there. At
the same time, ayounger woman from
the same city chanced to spend the same
days also, here. During their conversa-
tion lady No. 1 learned that the younger
woman belonged to a society of relig-
ionists to which she was averse, because
to her, unpopular. Their teachings she

'knew nothing of, and would not allow

herself to become familiar with. Back
home went this venerable representative
of pride’s holy aversion, and very soon the
message reached our ears, from her,
“that Mrs. So and So was not all right.”
How our minds rebelled at such injustice,
and it took time for pity to gain the
ascendancy over indignation. We were
alike acquainted with the life-work of
each. This elderly woman’s husband has
followed a life that would not bear close
scrutiny, while her son leads an immoral,
though to him a genteel and popular
career. He came very near dying in a
distant land this past summer, and when
he returned to her sick, penniless and
wretched, did she question if he was “all
right?” No. Pride had no foothold
then; a something deeper, and more en-
nobling—a mother’s never-dying love—
had driven the silly thing away. But her
sister woman. about whom she so eagerly
caught the ﬁrst report, and then stigma-
tized, cutting all farther acquaintance,
what of her? We know that her life is
being spent in the amelioration of suf
fering, irrespective of pride. She is
found alike by the death bed of the fallen
sister and the sinning brother, a meek
and loving spirit going down among the
lowly, those in need of a physician.
Again with “ Phillis,” we recognize that
woman saves far more by her inﬂuence
than ministers or theology; and by her
saving grace may she yet learn to guide
and strengthen. MERCY.
Fanmnn’s CREEK.

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INNOCENCE AND IGNORANCE.

 

There is so much said about wishing to
keep the children in “innocence and ignor-
ance.” I think it apity that they are not
better instructed concerning the world in
which they are to live, and the natural
laws that govern their being. Taking it
for granted that it would be best to keep
them in ignorance, how is it to be done?
Certainly no one would wish to keep
their children from all human intercourse.
My plan is always to make the best of
what can not be helped. With that end
in view,‘ I would have mothers tell their
children of the bad as well as the good
thee is in the world, and how best to
avoid evil. We are so apt to put off

 

telling the children what we realize they
must know; and in the meantime they get
a wrong idea from some one else, or
ﬁnd out from bitter experience. Children
will hear from those of their own age
what their mother has never spoken of
to them; so they think it would be safest
not to tell her, and thus their conﬁdence
is lost. Try and draw out your children's
ideas, and if wrong correct them. Don’t
leave the children in ignorance and then
call it providence if they get into trouble.
Their minds as well as hands must be
kept busy, and if you do not give them
food for thought some one else will.

As regards what would best to wear in
New Orleans, I think the safer way would
be to wear just what you are wearing
here;when you ﬁnd that too much will
be tlme enough for a change. I under-
stand the houses in the south are not
built as warm as they are here, and very
little provision made for ﬁres. Then,
when one goes to a warm climate they
are always having “a spell of unusual
weather,” about the time you are there.
To one who is not used to them, the
damp winds from the ocean are often as
chilling as our more severe weather. If
one ﬁnds it a little warm in walking, they
can discard their outer wrap and have
less to carry around, but don’t go back on
such good old friends as fiannels. It is
hardly safe to discard them here even in
the summer, as the climate is so change—

able; and I for one do not.

PANSY.
Scnooncnsrr.

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CANNING FRUIT.

DEAR NIECE SUSANz—I hear that you
were married in October. So was I; but
that lovely October day is so far back in
the years that I am thinking of asilver
wedding now. I am glad that you are
already housekeeping. and I want to tell
you about canning fruit, and perhaps
save you from some of the vexations that
tried my soul in my early housekeeping
many years ago. No doubt your mother’s
cans will supply your table this winter.
When you empty a can wash it immediate-
ly in clean water, scald thoroughly, cover
and all, with soda water if the fruit that
was in it showed any signs of working.
Place the can on a stove pipe shelf or
some such place, and when dry and hot
put on the cover, with the rubber in its
proper place on the outside. Keep the
can away from dust and damp. I pack
mine ina dry goods box up stairs, and the
plan works well.

Apples are better cooked now than in
the spring, so if your supply of fruit is
not ample, just pare afew more when
you make sauce for tea and ﬁll a can at a
time. Your cans will only need rinsing
in quite hot water to exclude the canned
up air, and to prevent all danger of break-
ing. Next spring when strawberries
come (they usually demand attention
ﬁrst), do .not try the wash boiler plan un -
less you have a great amount of time,
patience and strength that needs using
up. I have tried it, and when I had
put on the boiler with several pails

 

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bottom, built a big ﬁre, ﬁlled my house
with steam, burned my ﬁngers taking OE
and putting on hot covers, to ﬁll up with
sauce cooked in another kettle, and broken
a can or two, I declared canning fruit to
be a terrible task.

Try my plan; cook about two quarts at
a time in a small kettle, (granite ware is
probably the best,) ever a small ﬁre, stir
as little as possible, cook slowly so that
the sugar and fruit will supply the juice,
for you cannot afford to can water. As
soon as they boil thoroughly ﬁll the can.
Allow a little time for air bubbles to es-
cape, ﬁll again and put on the cover.
Keep your strawberries in a dark place,
and if a can begins to fade eat it up, for
the delicate ﬂavor is departing.

A gasoline stove is a good thing to have
at canning time, for you can put up a
few cans at any hour of the day, without
heating up the house. A canning funnel
and ladle saves much time.

Let us hear how you succeed, and no
doubt other Aunties will tell you many
things that I do not think of.

AUNT BESSIE.
Funrucnn, Lenawee Co.

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A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE.

 

Maybelle, of Bridgewater. after ex-
pressing her pleasure in reading the con-
tributions of Evangeline, El See, A. L. L.
and others, and admonishing‘ all our
readers that it should be a pleasure as
well as a duty to contribute to this de-
partment, says:

“I endorse what has been said about
the habit of using tobacco, I too am its
enemy. No w ords are strong enough to
express the repulsion any lady feels on
witnessing a mere boy, or some great
strapping fellow with more money than
brains and less pride than either, pull out
a tobacco box, and partake of its con-
tents. Then comes the saturating the
ﬁoor or whatever comes in the way, with
the ﬁlthy contents of the once pure, un.
stained mouth. Oh, it is too awful the
way the youth of our land are becoming
so diiferent from what the mothers would
wish them. I think tobacco and whiskey
are two evils that walk hand in hand,
and whoever partakes of either is sure to
receive injury from them. Let us watch
over the boys as well as the girls, keeping
them with us, and doing our best to
make them love the good and hate the
bad. Mothers, let us watch our children
and teach them temperance and pureness.
Mothers should watch the boys close; it
makes my heart ache to see them enter a
saloon. May the day come, and that
soon, when the doors of the saloons shall
be closed and the dollars and dimes there
spent for what debases and brutalizes, be
used in making the family comfortable
and happy. What rejoicing there will be
when that day comes.”

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

IF you use hard soap for domestic pur-
poses it pays to buy it by the box, and to
keep a year’s supply on hand. Put it in
the storeroom, where it will dry out and
become hard, and it does not waste nearly
to much in using.

 

“AuN'r ADDm” says, in the Country
Gentleman, that old coﬁee and tea pets
that begin to impart a disagreeable ﬂavor
to their contents, may be made as sweet
as new by putting water in them, and
then dropping some live coals into the
water.

To make a pretty tidy, take three strips
of satin ribbon of any desired color, and
paint or embroider any design upon each
which pleases your fancy. Make two
strips of rick-rack out of ﬁne braid, and
sew between the strips of ribbon. Point
the ends of both rick-rack and ribbon,
and ﬁnish with plush balls.

WHEN the glazing of an earthen pie-
plate gets cracked and broken, so that the
dish imparts an unpleasant taste to the
pie baked in it, it is high time, or some-
what past the time, to relieve that pie
plate from active service. Seek some
other use for it, where it cannot spoil
food baked in it. The peculiar taste im-
parted to food is prejudicial to health, as
well as unpleasing to the palate.

 

WHY waste strength and Bath brick in
scouring the baking pans to keep them
ready to use as reﬂectors when a black
iron. with a smooth dead ﬁnish, which is
good conductor of heat, is so much better
to bake in? If you do not believe the old
or blackened tins are best, try a new one
with one of your old tins and be con-
vinced. The bright surface is a non-con-
ductor of heat, the dull - one a good con-
ductor.

 

THE Farmera’ Advocate says: ‘ A pret-
ty ornament for a centre table is a photo-
graph case. These are made in shape
like a photograph, but large enough to
held from six to a dozen photographs. A
lovely one we saw was made on the up
per side of light peacock blue sateen,
embroidered with a small spray of pink
apple blossoms. The underside was of
wine colored velvet. It was lined with
cream-colored lining silk. The edge was
ﬁnished with a small silk cord. The up-
per side is along inch shorter than the
under side, and this deﬁciency is ﬁlled at
the bottom by a band of velvet like the
back of the case. One corner at the top
is turned back and the word photograph
is worked in scrip letters, using a ﬁne out.
line stitch. These cases are also pretty
made of embossed velvet.”

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Nor content with wearing hangs on the
forehead, Detroit belles are now banging
the hair at the back of the neck, when
the coils are piled high on top of the

head.

Mns. E. C. 8., of Tecumseh, wishes to
inquire whether corned beef can be kept
through the summer. If so she will be
grateful for the recipe for curing it.

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A MICHIGAN lady, Mrs. L. G. McVean,
of Greenville, Montcalm 00., competed
for a prize of $25, offered by J. M. Blair,
of Richmond, Va., for the best essay on
“Self-supporting Employment for the
Women of the South,” and the choice of

 

the committee lay between her essay, and'

one by Henry Stewart, of New York, a
noted writer on agricultural topics. The
latter was ﬁnally chosen as best, but a

second premium of $10 was oﬁered,
donated by agentleman present when the

decision was made, and this was awarded:
to Mrs. McV ean.

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Contributed Recipes.

 

BAKING Pownnn Fnrnn Cans—One quart
ﬂour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, little
salt, teacupful sugar, one egg; mix soft thh~
sweet milk.

ORANGE Tapioca—Prepare the tapioca as-
usual, by soaking and cooking it thoroughly.
Prepare the oranges by removing seeds and
the tough white skin, so that only the juice
and pulp remain. Stir this into the tapioca
and bake. Eat with cream and sugar. Nice
for sick peeple. AUNT Lovrsn.

‘ PORT HURON.

 

Snow PUDDINo.—Soak one-third of a pack—~
age of Cox’s gelatine in one cup of warm wa-
ter for one hour. Add one cup of boiling
water and one-half cup sugar; stir until dis--
solved. Strain, and when cool add the beaten
whites of four eggs, and set in a cool place to
harden. Make a custard of the four yolks
beaten with one-half cup sugar and stirredinto-
one pint boiling milk. Stir until it thickens,
when cool ﬂavor and pour upon the gelatine

previously prepared. Lemon gelatine is made

in the same way without the custard,by addin t

the juice of two lemons for hardenmg, an

is quite an addition to the tea-table, bein

liked by almost every one. Mns. G. S. C.
Wnssme-rox, D. '1‘.

IF YOU WANT
Proﬁtable Employment

BIND A'!‘ 01“)! 1'0

IHE NEW [MAB KNITTEB 00.,

For Full Information.

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

100 Varieties of Fabric on Same locum.

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

The New Lamb Knitter 00.,
117 and 119 Main St... west. Jacxson, M101.

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