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ALWAYS A RIVER T0 CROSS.

 

There‘s always a river to cross;
Always an eﬂort to make
If there’s anything good to win,
Any rich prize to take;
Yonder‘s the fruit we crave;
Yonder the charming scene;
But deep and wide, with a troubled tide,
Is the river that lies between.

For the treasures of precious worth
We must patiently dig and dive;
For the places we long to ﬁll
We must push, and st-uggle, and drive;
And always and everywhere
We’ll ﬁnd in our onward course,
Thorns for the feet, and trials to meet,
And a difﬁcult river to cross.

The rougher the way we take,

The stouter the heart and the 1 erve;
The stones in our path we break,

Nor e’er from our impulse swerve;
For the glory we hope to win

Our labors we count no loss;
’I‘is folly to pause and murmur because
, Of the river we have to cross,

So, ready to do and to dare,
Should we in our places s:and,
Fulﬁlling the Master’s will,
Fulﬁlling the soul’s c emand;
For though as the mountains high
The billows may rear and toss,
They‘ll not overwhelm if the Lord’s at the helm
When the difﬁcult river we cross!
Josephine Pollard.

“—40,——
SYMPATHY B ET WE EN YOUNG
AND OLD.

 

Every mother has a prior right to be her
daughter’s best friend. Conﬁdence
should be hers by divine inheritance.
The tie between mother and daughter is
second only to that between husband and
wife, and not less sacred. To the credit of
our womanhood be it said that the bond
is usually of the most enduring nature.
Even the wayward, headstrong girl who
disdains advice and acorns restraint.
comes at last, when her own daughters
stand about her, to understand and
sympathize with her mother, with a new
and keen sense of that mother’s trials.
And every mother exerts an inﬂuence not
only upon her own daughters, but upon
some other mother’s daughters who are
her child’s friends. For no matter how
close the tie between child and parent,
youth craves the society of its kind, and
every girl has some companim of her
own age to whom she conﬁdes those
mysterious and important secrets con-
cerning what “ he said,” and with whom
she indulges in the gay chatter and fun so
natural to girlhood. In any friendship
the stronger mind has the ascendency

 

and moulds, to a greater or less degree,
the weaker and more yielding. Do
mothers, I wonder, consider with suf-
ﬁcient seriousness what inﬂuence these
friendships may exert upon their daugh-
ters’ character? or conversely, what
weight their daughter’s example may
have upon some other mother’s girl? Do
they take into account the nature of their
own inﬂuence exerted upon the young
people with whom they come in contact?

Is it not wonderful that what we are
should make its impress upon what others
are? Is it not a fearful thought that our
mistakes, our errors, may all unknow
ingly to us lead other souls astray? That
even our secret thoughts, which un-
consciously mould and inﬂuence our in—
dividual characters, may still more un~
consciously but not less directly inﬂuence
the moral and spiritual part of another
individuality? [know of nothing more
beautiful, and at the same time more
terrible in its responsibility, than this
power of impressing ourselves upon the
lives of others. We are continually and
necessarily reaching out and touching
other lives. Society reminds us of the
linked chain armor in which every steel
ring is so interlaced that the breaking of
one link loosens many others.

Next to the mother’s inﬂuence there is
no more potent power for good on the
young girl‘s life than her friendship for
some faithful, great-hearted woman, who
shall with velvet touch restrain too great
license, encourage or repress. by her
gentle tact divert from the undesirable
and lead toward the good, without per-
mitting the wayward spirit to know that
it is leashed. A mother’s love often
makes her blind to a child’s faults; with
the clearer prescienca of friendship others
may judge more wisely. And young
people will not infrequently give heed to
the admonitions of afriend when parental
advice would be unheeded; the friend
represents society, voices outside opinion,
while the parent represents the imme-

. diate home circle; and many who ignore

what is thought of them in their own
homes have not courage to defy public
opinion.

We need more sympathy between
young and old, more womanly sympathy
for the girls. An old Roman philosopher
said "God divided man into men, that
they might help one another.” Those of
us who have come to womanhood should
be lenient to the faults and follies of the
younger, and instead of condemning,
endeavor to amend them. A woman

 

ought to be ashamed to speak or think
evil of a girl simply because her excess of
vitality leads her beyond the bounds of
conventionality. There are girls in every
community whose feelings are outraged,
whose innocence is questioned. and
whose young lives are blighted by the
unkind and unjust criticism of older
women who misconstrue their words and
acts, making them suffer from “the lie
that is half the truth,” which the poet
tells us “is ever the hardest to meet.” We
never know how far an evil word will
spread, nor can we measure its effect upon
another’s life. It is no light thing, I
assure you, to speak ill of a girl, standing
at the gateway of womanhood, with her
life yet to live.

George Eliot says: “ The middle-aged,
who have lived through their strongest
emotions, but are yet in the time when
memory is still half-passionate and not
wholly contemplative, should be a sort of
natural priesthood, whom life has dis~
ciplined to be the refuge and rescue of
early stumblers and victims of self-
despair.” Women who are beginning to
be conscious that they are “ growing old”
can do no better work for womanhood
than to interest themselves in the young
girlsjust coming into society, strive to
win their conﬁdence, and make them
feel that they stand, not as censors watch-
ing for faults, ready to blame with bitter
words, but as interested friends, anxious
for their welfare, full of sympathy for all
their little troubles, ready to help or ad-
vise. With such friends, “our girls”
might be spared much that in later years
makes them ﬂush with shame that they
“didn’t know better.” Tnat there are so
few such friendships is the fault of both,
want of sympathy and mutual under-
derstanding, which the older, as wiser and
more experienced, should carefully cul-
tivate. The essentials to success are to
make the girls feel that we can under-
stand both their joys and sorrows, that
we are to be trusted implicitly, that we
have a tender, real, loving interest in
them. Our own hearts must be full of
love and sympathy; we cannot reach the
heart or inﬂuence the acts of another
unless our hearts throb with pity and the
wish to beneﬁt. Our own lives must be
pure and noble, ﬁlled with unselﬁsh en-
deavor; we must never “ preach ;” maxims
quickly chill the tender plant of con-
ﬁdence.

And the older woman must ﬁght the
desire to withdraw into herself, and live
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pulse to conceal what is deepest and
strongest in our natures, inherent in
humanity, which is the greatest obstacle
in the way of our friendships. We stand
side by side, yet with an impenetrable
wall of reserve between us. We watch
our friendships least we give too much of
friendly feeling; we fear to be misunder-
stood; we crush back the impulses that
would take us into other lives. We give
husks of conventionality rather than
heartfelt friendliness which would beget
its kind. We may never know what
comes of our irresponsiveness to others’
needs. Who that has read Adam Bede
fails to see that the delicacy which re-
strained the kindly, wise old Rector from
inviting “Arthur Donnithorne’s” half-
hinted conﬁdence, is responsible at least
indirectly for the disasters that followed.
Had Arthur’s weakness been strengthened
by the good Rector’s counsel, he might
have withstood temptation. How can we
know how many young hearts, broken by
anguish, or hesitating between two ways,
have half instinctively turned to us for
help, and gone away disapp Jinted?
BEATRIX.

DIFFER ENCES.

 

I have often wondered why it is thatso
many good people, even professed Chris-
tians, are so often at variance with rela-
tive, friend or neighbor. Many a time we
see people who have lived near each other
for years, and in intimate intercourse,
neighborly interchange of courtesies and
little helps, apparently giving and receiv-
ing happiness, suddenly change. N o
more visiting, no more merry chats over
the fence in resting time, no more neigh-
borly exchanges. What is the matter?
Some busy body has told Mrs. Longtongue
that Mrs. A—’s hen had stolen her nest
over the fence in Mrs. B——-’s garden,
that Mrs. B——- has used the eggs and
“ never let on to the owner.” Of course,
Mrs. Longtongue tells Mrs. A———-, having
previously exacted a promise that “she
won’t let on who told her.” It is often
added, “that Mrs. B——— has boasted of it,
and Mrs. B—— is duly informed that Mrs.
A—-— has said Mrs. B——- had stolen the
said eggs.

Now the plot is ripe for mischief.
Neither of the ladies will lower her dig—
nity to inquire of the other the truth of
the matter. They meet with scornful
looks, averted faces,or haughty insolence,
ant “ nurse their wrath to keep it warm.”
Past instances, of too little account to
excite anything but a moment’s annoy-
ance, come to the help of disturbed feel-
ing, and with newly awakened fancy,
grow in importance until the person
wonders they Were not sooner impressed
with their heinous enormity. Husband
and children on both sides are generally
drawn into the maelstrom of passion, and
take sides with vicious earnestness. Each
one feels so badly used that they cannot
refrain from talking it up with other
cronies, and as, unfortunately, each of us
have faults, the crony can generally con-
tribute something from her own knowl-
edge of the person accused that will tend

to give aid and comfort to the other’s esti-
mate.

If, by some fortunate happening, the
matter is dropped for a season, it is too
sweet 8. morsel to lose, and some friend

fuel, and a feud is engendered that may
last for years, or a lifetime.

It is customary to lay all the blame in
such cases on the gossiping meddler, but
I aver this is rank injustice. Such a
character should be severely condemned,
but if friend were true to friend and
themseIVes, “ Othello’s occupation” would
be crippled, if not gone. I

If Mrs. A—-—, when told what Mrs. B
——- had done, had replied, “I have
known her for a long time, and in that
time have never known her to do any-
thing dishonest, and even if this is true,
I have had too many favors to make a fuss
about a few eggs,and thus lose my friend,”
the gossip would have been silenced.
If Mrs. B-——- had replied to her inform-
ant, when told of Mrs. A—’s accusation:
“ [think you are mistaken. It is notlike
my friend to make such an assertion; I
will step over with you and see what she
says aboutit,” I think the slander would
be shortlived.

If no one would listen to a gossip, and
at once declare their intention of inform-
ing the accused person of the story, and
do so, gossip would lose its charm, and
scandal-mongers disappear. Especially
should this be the rule between friends
when meddlers would set them at vari:
ance. There are few, even of the best of
friends, who cannot see faults in the other
which,if spoken of unguardedly to a third
party, and the comments passed round
returning authenticated as the spoken
word of a friend, would not wound cruel‘
ly, for, unfortunately, we cannot “see
ourselves as others see us.” Now if in'
stead of getting angry and hurling sting
ing words in return, we calmly think the
matter over, and take into account the
known exaggeration of the most care-
ful, we may conclude it was not so very
bad after all, and if we will listen to con-
science, we may ﬁnd we have been guilty
of as great injustice to this friend, or
some other, and putting it to the account
of debit and credit, conclude to keep our
friend despite her faults. If, however,
the case is too ﬂagrant to pass over in
silence (usually the proper course), be
silent to the gossip and seek your friend,
never condemning without giving an op-
portunity for explanation. Are we any
of us so perfect that we can afford to lose
a friend because of one, or even many
faults? Be careful that in arraigning a
friend we do not place ourselves under
greater condemnation.

These matters gain greater force if it is
a relative that is concerned. How much
ought we to hear from and forgive one of
ourfamily rather than let the demon of
discord enter our family circle? Son,
daughter, brother, sister, friend, pause
and think: “ Forgive us our trespasses as
we forgive those that trespass against
us." a. L. L.

 

Gunman).

rakes open the cooling coals, adds fresh.

 

A PLEASANT PICTURE.

 

When I read the article in a late House-
hold, by “Sister Slack," it called to mind
a pleasant picture, and I determined to
tell the members in general, and Sister
Slack in particular about it:

One day a lady and myself took dinner
with a mutual friend unexpectedly to the
hostess. We went home with her hus-
band as he was going to his dinner.
When we went in. dinner was waiting,
but we were warmly greeted and made
very welcome; asmile and pleasant word
was given to the young husband;the baby
of eight months in the mother’s arms,
reached out its chubby arms to papa, ex-
pecting a play spell. While we were re-
moving our wraps baby and its papa had
a boisterous play, then we sat down for
the noon-day meal.

There were no excuses made in regard
to the meal, or allusions to the unexpect-
edness of our visit, no remarks regarding
the appearance of the rooms or children,
and ' here were two little fellows besides
baby. The meal passed pleasantly with-
out any frown or reprimand to the chil-
dren. I speak of this because they are
not model children, but simply natural.
healthy, wide-awake boys, with number-
less questions to ask and many things to
tell, but they were left quietly alone and
did not 1nterfere at all with our cheerful
conversation. Some mothers would have
been constantly on the alert for some-
thing amiss, thus irritating the children,
become nervous themselves and been
annoying to the guests, making them
feel that their unexpected visit was in-
opportune.

After dinner each little boy had a favor
to-ask of papa, or something to tell him.
All was listened to pleasantly and patient-
ly, and each little heart made glad by
pleasant replies, for this man enters into
sympathy with his little children, and
they are not afraid to talk to him.

After dinner our host returned to his
work, and our hostess let her table re-
main uncleared, while she sat down and
visited with us, as we could not remain
long. We stayed an hour, and went away
feeling that we had enjoyed our im-
promptu visit very much. The particular
beauty about this home is the home-like
air that pervades it.

There is no frown upon the face of the
young wife whenE her husband brings home
a friend or acquaintance unexpectedly.
She is no sloven, neither is she “more
neat than wise,” but a happy medium;
and is not miserable if her husband or
friends come in and ﬁnd her room in dis-
order with chairs or playthings that do

.duty as imaginary horses, plows or rail-

road cars, for the busy, restless little fel-
lows who call her by the sacred name of
mother.

This woman has little time to give to
society, as she keeps no help, but she
does not let her mind become dull and
rusty that she may keep her children and
house immaculately neat.

She says after the children are safely in
bed at night she reads, as that is the only

    

 

 


 

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uninterrupted time she has, and she will
read come.

This woman makes a happy home for
husband and children; she makes her
friends feel at home and comfortable
when they call, and she is independent
enough not to care what “Mrs. Grundy ”

says. OLD SCHOOL TEACHER.
Tncuxsnn .

THE NEW HOUSEHOLD BABY.

 

 

Some little time ago A. L. L. moved
that the little grandson and namesake of
'the late Editor of the FARMER. R. F.
Johnstone, be adopted into the House-
hold family, and her motion was promptly
seconded, and a description of the new
honorary member has been asked for by
several. “All babies are pretty much
alike, aren‘t they?" I asked once of a
young mother, to be promptly crushed by
the swift and positive answer “Indeed
they’re not.” If I fail in giving a correct
description of the small laddie who will
some day pretty soon be taught to say
“Grandmamma Beatrix,” I expect there
will be trouble with the proud parents;
but I’ll try to describe him, as well as my
limited knowledge of baby perfections
will permit. He has seen fourteen
months of life in this queer old world of
ours, and though he has met and con-
quered the measles and chicken pox, and
divers and sundry colds and colics, seems
to enjoy the new existence. He rsa blue-
eyed baby, with fair 'hair, and skin like
milk, with a shade or two stolen from the
rose leaf in cheek and chin. He bites
with seven small pearl, “and more a
ciming,” and pulls his father’s moustache
with a dimpled ﬁst which has the cus-
tomary predilection for being slightly
"off color." Being of an aspiring and
ambitious mind, he disdained to creep,
but walks about, somewhat uncertainly,
sitting down unexpectedly sometimes,
but always thinking it very funny when
that happens. Hi: has good sound lungs;
to this I cheerfully testify from personal
knowledge, though he has the reputation
of being very good natured and seldom
exerting his voice to its full range. We
judge him to be of rather an iconoclastic
turn; he loves to make ajourney round
the room, pulling everything within reach
to the ﬂoor, and will make the grand
circuit in remarkable time for so young a
“kid” To scatter the contents of his
mother’s work basket is a piece of de-
lightful mischief. Told “not to touch”
the other day, he smilingly overturned it
just the same, looking up with a roguish
glance as if to say “Just see things ﬂy;
isn’t it fun!” He was made to pick up the
scattered spools and put them into the
basket again, which he did soberly but
obediently; when the last one was put in
he expressed his ideas of such proceed-
ings toward a youth of his tender age by
hiding his face in his mother’s lap and
sobbing as if his heart was broken. Of
course he said “pa” and “ma” at a
phenomenally early age; all babies do.
At present he converses ﬂuently in a
dialect of his own which only his mother
pretends to at all comprehend. He tells

funny, enphasizing it by pointing his
ﬁnger at you in what is really a very per-
sonal manner, and turning suddenly,
hides his face in his mother’s neck as if
quite overcome with the comicality of
the joke he has just been getting off.
From this early development of story
telling proclivities we expect he will turn
naturally to the newspaper business as
he grows up. He is healthy, happy and
hearty, sunny-tempered and sweet; his
admiring parents consider him the most
remarkable infant of the nineteenth
century, while the hope of his grand-
mamma-by brevet is that he may grow
up to be as good and true and noble as
was the man Whose honored name he

bears. BEATRIX.
H—————~—

GAMES FOR CHILDREN.

 

I should like to ask a few questions in
regard to games for young people, and
have replies made through our little
Household. Is there any harm in playing
authors’ cards, dominoes, and checkers,
and if so, in what does it consist? I be-
lieve there is no more harm in the above
games than in croquet or marbles; to my
way of thinking, there is more harm in
marbles, because of the winning and
losing, but my boys, new young men, were
never harmed by playing marbles.

There are three of us, who teach in the
same Sabbath school, who are interested
in this subject. One asked my opinion,
and I said I believed it far better to allow
these games than forbid them; for if not
allowed, and the young folks are kept
from all amusements they will turn to
dime novds, sly away to read them and
receive more harm. The other of the
three ladies mentioned does not believe
in allowing any such amusements. I
told my friends I would ﬁnd out the
opinions of older and wiser people than
we. I think that to give the youn; peo-
ple amusements at home, or at their
social gatherings, will draw them away
from low company; but if refused home
pleasures, they will be driven away from
home to pass their evenings. The young
and rising genera’ion must be looked
after, and that is what our Mission is

trying to do. OLD KNITTER.

Daraor'r.
——-.OO‘-—

WASH DRESSES.

 

The newest fashions for making wash
dresses vary little from those in vogue last
season. The old fashioned “Garibaldi
waists” which everybody wore twenty
years ago, are much used for inexpensive
dresses; the bands on the shoulder are
omitted. The high collar and narrow
cuﬁs are ﬁnished with several rows of
narrow linen braid. Other dresses made
over a lining have a cluster of gathers at
the top of the front just below the collar
and also at the waist, while the back is
in fan shape, with fullness extending to
the shoulders from the waist line. There

are side forms added. The narrowest of
tucks are used in the perpendicularly
tucked waists. The surplice waist. lapped
to one side, is the prettiest of styles, es-

 

you along story which seems immensely

are tucked or edged with lace, and
gathered to the back at the top. Yoke
waists are tucked or embroidered, the
yokes being tucked horizontally or per-
pendicularly as preferred. Yokes dif-
fering in color from the rest of the dress
are no longer worn. All these styles are
belted down, the waist being cut one-
eighth of a yard below the waist line and
a shir string run in, the skirt to comes up
over this. Plain gingham and sat-teen
dresses are cut en basque, but without
linings. The scams must not be left un-
made, but sewed as if the garment was
being made up wrong side out, then the
right side turned together and by another
scam the edges are covered.
BORAX FOR ANTS.

I saw in the last Household an article
concerning exterminating ants by the use
of kerosene. The writer thinks he will
use the same remedy in the house if
needed; but I have used borax in the
pantry, and think it answers cycry pur—
pose. Ithink it was in one of the ﬁrst
Households that a correspondent wrote
“If you are troubled with ants try horax.
Laya few lumps around the places they
frequei t.” As I was troubled with both
the large black ants and the little red ones
in the pantry, I thought I could but try
it, so I laid a few small lumps of borax
on the shelves, and have scarcely seen an
ant there since, though they used to run

over everything. LEONE.
Bra BEAVER.

—'—"—.OO——-—

woon FOR QUILrs.

 

My mother, a lady eighty years old,
says the best way Wool, of Onondaga, N.
Y., can prepare her wool for quilts is to
sell it and buy nice batting.

I like our liztle Household very much,
Ihave mine all sewed together in book

form for ready reference. Long may it
live is the wish of Mass. 0. F.
YPSILANTL
——-———-—‘O*———

AN INQUIRY.

 

Will the Editor, or some of the readers
of the Household, please inform me how
to can sweet corn, peas and beans. Can
they be canned in glass fruit cans the
same as fruit? Also, how isjelly made

without the use of sugar.

KATIE.
HUBLOCK, Md.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
A STRIP of tarred paper, such as reefers
use, placed under the em“ ge of a carpet, is
said to be a sure preventive of moths.

 

Tim following is a list of abbreviations
known in knitting lace or other fancy
patterns: k, knit plain; n. narrow; p,
purl or seam; t, twice; to, together; tto,
thread thrown over; s, slip; s and b, slip
and bind; st, stitch.

 

Tm: husband or son who is handy with
tools can make a great many useful and
labor-saving appliances, not only in aid of

 

pecialiy in lawn or batiste. The front:

  

his own work but for the house. Some.

     

 


4: THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

thing very desirable is a hat rack for the
,front hall or for the kitchen, which may
be made on a rainy day, instead of "' go-
ing to town.” Make it in the form of a
harrow, about three feet square, of wood-
en bars crossing each other at right an
gles. Then put in wooden pins at the
crossings, on which to hang hats and
scarfs. A piece of mirror may be fastened
in. the centre. Fasten ﬁrmly to the wall.
It looks best when the bars are crossed so
as to make the spaces diamond shaped.

 

A MASSACHUSETTS man who has a choice
herd of Guernseys, sells the butter product
in the Boston market at 70 cents per lb.
He buys the milk of grade cows from ad
jacent farmers, makes it into butter by
the same process, and retails it at 45 cents
in the same market. It is said almost every
parcel of “gilt edged ” butter sold in
Boston is from the dairy of some wealthy
owner who makes the work a recreation,
and with whose methods the average
farmer cannot hope to compete. Yet,
nevertheless, the cry comes from town for
better butter, and from farmers for better
prices. Is no adjustment possible?

DR. R. C. KEDZIE advocates the prepar
ation of sugar syrup for table use at home;
by using just the relative proportions of
sugar and water to form a saturated so-
lution at the ordinary temperature. This
is easily done by dissolving six pounds of
sugar in one quart of water. He says a
syrup prepared in this way from pure
sugar and clean water, is obv1ously the
purest syrup that can be made, and con-
tains nothing unwholesome or injurious.
It is the syrup used in his family for many
years. The taste at ﬁrst is somewhat in-
sipid, and lacks the rank taste of molasses
and of syrups made from unreﬁned sugar,
but after a time the palate becomes ac-
customed to this pure sweet and prefers
it to all others. By the aid of heat, a
much larger quantity may be dissolved in
the same water, but when the solution
cools the sugar will crystallize out after a
time, and form a crust on the Sides of the

vessel.
——....———

MAYMIE, of Saline, must remember our
“cast-iron rule” not to publish anony-
mous communications.

—_“._

A. H. J. recently complained she could
not make the chocolate melt, so that she
could coat her “ creams ” with it. Shave
it up quite ﬁne, as you would maple
sugar to be melted. Set the bowl in the
top of the teakettle, not letting the water
touch the bowl. Guess ’t’will melt then;
have to, you know.

 

THE Household Editor desires to call
attention to the inquiry of our Maryland
correspondent, Katie, respecting the
canning of vegetables. Usually the sup-
ply of vegetables for winter use is limited
to canned tomatoes and dried sweet corn.
If peas, beans and corn can be put up at
home, in a satisfactory manner, we all
want to know it, and our housekeepers
who have experimented in this line will
confer a favor upon Household readers,
if they will give their experience. Even

 

if they have failed, the detail of the
method tried may bring out new ideas
and perhaps point out the way to sue-

CCSS.
————Qoo—-—-——

CONSTANT readers of the MICHIGAN
FARMER will remember that last summer
a new process of canning fruit was men-
tioned in the Household, and that several
ladies tried it and reported success. The
new method is called the “ cotton batting
process,” and is simp'y to cook the fruit
as usual for canning in glass cans, put it,
while hot, into bowls, cups, or any open
dish, lay a piece of white paper cut to
ﬁt upon it, and then cover the dish with
a couple of layers of ordinary cotton
batting securely tied on. Apaper may
be tied over the batting to keep off the
dust, etc. We would be glad to have our
readers try this plan, which h .s been
widely published. Will Pansy, Prudence,
Mrs. J. Bale, Mertie and L. B. P. please
consider themselves a committee ap-
pointed by the Household Editor to test
this plan of canning during the coming
fruit season, and report to the Household
next January, perhaps?

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Useful Recipes.

COOKING MEATS.

We append some methods of cooking meats,
which have been tested by good housekeepers
and found economical and palatable. Beef is
almost always baked, mutton boiled and
chickens fried, by inexperienced or careless
housekeepers who are ignorant of better
methods. The following may be “ new depar-
tures,” but are worth trying: .

BEEF A LA Moon—Six or eight pounds of
beef from the round, out thick . Take out
bone, rub the meat well with the following
spices mixed together: One teaspoonful each
of pepper and groundcloves; one-fourth cup of
brovVn sugar, three teaspoonfuls salt; rub
thoroughly into beef, which must stand over
night. Next morning make a stuﬂing of one
pint of bread crumbs, one smallonion chopped
ﬁne, a spoonful of sweet marjoram or thyme,
one-half teaspoonful each of pepper and ground
cloves and salt; add alarge cup hot water in
which has been melted aheapingtablespoonful
of butter and stir into crumbs. Beat one egg
light and mix with it, press this into the hole
in the beef; if there is more than needed, make
gashes in meat and stuff with the remainder.
Now bring into shape with a strip of cotton
cloth, sewing it ﬁrmly. Put beef into the pot
and half cover it with cold water; put in one
onion stuck with cloves, a large teaspoonful of
salt, and one-halfteaspoonful of pepper, and
stew very slowly, turning while cooking; cook
as much as ﬁve or six hours or till the meat is
tender. The water in the pot should have
been reduced to about a pint. Skim off every

particle of fat; thicken with heaping table--

spoonful of ﬂour smothered with water; stir
in a tablespoonful of catsup and pour over the
meat when served The thick part of a leg of
veal may be treated in the sme manner. What
is left makes good hashes or croquettes.

MOCK DUCK.-—Get about 3% pounds of a
good rump steak, cut pretty thick so as to be
juicy. Make a stuﬂing as for duck, that is,
mix with bread crumbs a very little ﬁnely
chopped onion, butter, pepper, summer savory
and salt, and the yolk of an egg, and milk
enough to moisten the whole. Spread the
dressing over the steak, except the ends, roll
up, tuck in the ends, and fasten with a needle
and thread. Thus prepared, it is laid in a
deep, small pan, with a close ﬁtting cover. A

 

little stock is then poured upon it, and it is
simmered slowly about two hours, after which
remove it, put it in oven and bake an hour,
basting frequently to keep it moist.

VEAL OUTLETS—Veal is a meat particularly
suited for warm weather, but it needs to be
highly seasoned. Cutlets taken from the leg,
and cut in a thick slice, can be made into a
delicious relish. Wipe the meat with _a dry
cloth, and cut out the bones and skin, and
divide into pieces four inches square. Beat
them almost into shreds with a meat pounder.
Fry several slices of pork until crisped. Dip
the cutlets, after scattering a little salt and
pepper over them,into cracker or bread crumbs.
Place them in the hot fat and frya nice brown.
Then add a tablespoonful of ﬂour, stirred thin
with cold water, and half a ch0pped onion, or
a cupful of canned tomato, and a cupful of
boiling hot water. Mix all together, and
simmer slowly on the back of the stove for
three-quarters of an hour, stirring it occasion-
ally, so it shall not become scorched. Have a
hot platter ready, and place the cutlets upon
it, and strain the gravy over them, and garnish
the platter with thin slices of lemon and sprig,3
of parsley.

BACON AND Eons—Cut some bacon into
small, thin squares, put them into a saucepan
and set over a gentle ﬁre that they may lose
some of the fat. Place the dice on a warm
dish and put a ladle of melted bacon fat into

the saucepan. Set it on the stove and put in

a dozen of the squares of bacon. Tilt the
saucepan to one side and break an egg in it;
manage this very carefully and the egg will
soon be cooked. It should be very round and
the little pieces of bacon will stick to it. Keep
the egg on a hot plate while you cook as many
more as are required. This is a nice breakfast
dish.

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