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THE HOUSEHOLDmaSupleememt.

 

 

HELPERS.

 

In Childhood’s days our girlish joys

Increase when shared with brothers—boys—

On many a cowted plain we stand

Unreached, save by their helping hand, .

And many a high-prized pleasure gain,

Without their aid we would ask in vain.

Tno’ they plague and tease ’till the “ girlies ” cry,
With protecting love their hearts beat high;

O’er life’s rough places they help along

Because we are weak, and they so strong.

But when women grown, we often ﬁnd

Changes occur in each youthful mind;

If my brother from my side has strayed

To play cavalier to some ether maid,

Accept fate’s ﬁat, with good grace

Give some other girl’s brother the vacant place.

Although I may like this change of plan

I’ll cling to my brother while I can.

My advice might dissuade him from paths that
are wrong,

For one who is weak sometimes leads the strong.

Youth passed, its j Jys, fears and unrest;
Love’s vows by Hymen sweetly blessed,

N o nee d to shiver, sigh or moan

That I must bear my grief alone;

A husband‘s love, his strength and pride,
Ready to help is by my side.

He has sympathy ready if you will impart
Your troubles of body, of mind or of heart;
it is his pleasure to help you along
Because you, are weak, while he is strong.

In limes of trouble I have found

The test of help from friends around;

When pain and sickness l have known

They then the kindest care have shown;

If cast down by misfortune’s blow

They tenderest sympathy bestow;

In health and in prosperity,

In sickness and adversity,

Our gratitude to friends belong,

When we were weak they have proved strong.

Those we akin body or in mind
Considerate help from friends will ﬁnd;
If moral weakness sounds alarms

Tt en boastful strength will fold its arms,
Indifferent to their rise or fall.

But few will heed the sinner’s call,

0r sympathy or help bestow,

Though it might save a soul from woe;
But rather join the happy throng

Who jeer the weak, while they are strong.

Some there are, like the Pharisee,
Who boast superior degree,
Whom venial trespasses appall;
Tempted, they’d be the ﬁrst to fali.
For mortals it is well there’s One
Who will see ever ju-tice done;
Who knows the tempter’s power alone
And what resistance hath been shown;
Who can distinguish ’mid the throng,
Who are the weak and who the strong.

INGLESIDE. A. L. L.
-——-¢oo———-—
They talk about a woman’s sphere,

As though it had a limit;
There‘s not a place,in earth or heaven,
There’s not a task of mankind given,
There’s not a blessing or a woe,
There’s not a whisr er, yes or no.
There s not a life, or death, or birth,
That has a feather’s weight of worth,
Without a woman in it.

OUR QUARRELS.

 

I read with interest A. L. L.’s letter on
“Differences,” am glad she has opened
the subject, and hope those who have
misunderstandings with neighbors or rel-
atives will reﬂect on her words, and be
led to see' how foolish and wrong such
differences are. Yet I much fear that those
who most need to take the moral to their
own hearts will ﬁt the coat to a neigh-
bor's shoulders, ignoring its application
to themselves. These “differences,”
were they but differences in the sense
which implies want of uniformity of
opinion, would be less harmful, for
humanity would be a stupid study were
all minds framed in one pattern; but un-
happily, they are far more often open
quarrels, marked by cessation of inter-
course, retaliation, slander and “ all un-
charitableness.” For when we have once
opened our hearts to unfriendly feelings,
a train of evil impulses and thoughts fol-
low fast and thick, and the demons of
pride and hatred take possession of us
and crowd out the remembrance of
former kindnesses.

What sort of friendship is it that can-
not survive a mischief-maker’s innuen-
does, or that lends a willing ear to de-
tr ction of afriend? Are years of happy
companionship and friendly acts and
conﬁdence to go for nothing before a
slandering tongue? Knowing as we all
must the almost inevitable exaggeration
of every tale that comes to our ears, are
we still to believe it, and let it break off
our friendship? We should have no mis-
chief-makers if people would but do as
A. L. L. has counseled, go to a friend and
either ask or explain the cause of offense,
for tattlers never attack those whom they
know will investigate the truth of their
tales before giving them credence.

It is hard to understand how two who
have been friends for years can be es-
tranged in a day by the insinuations of a
third person who may never have been
really admitted into friendship with
either. This often happens, yet I do not
believe it possible where the truest friend-
ship, that which seeks ever the highest
good of the other rather than of self, has
existed. When estrangement follows, is
it not because the fullest love and con-

stories, nor let the evil genii of Pan-
dora’s box possess us.

The man who has a “hard row to hoe ”
is a little jealous of his neighbor who has
an easier let; the mistress of the humble
home envies in secret the ﬁne house
and furniture of aricher friend. Often
the feeling is hidden or repressed, seem-
ing hardly to exist, till some mischief—
maker's malicious tongue insinuates
somebody “feels above us” and then
how quickly triﬂes range themselves as
evidence. How jealous we are of our
poor dignity, and what a very poor ar-
ticle is is when it cannot enable us to
hold our own in our friendships, though
our friends be rich as Dives! It is only a
noble nature that can trust another, equal
or unequal in station or circumstances,
with the true faith of friendship.

These differences are saddest of all
when they occur between those bound by
ties of blood to each other, yet, generally,
there are more contentions between rel-
atives than between those not akin; and
jealousy and envy more frequently lie at
the root of the difference, and property
more often than either. I have
known an antiquated feather bed to
alienate sisters. and a sour apple tree on
a line fence breed a feud between neigh-
bors. And so it goes, till we think the
saddest thing in life is its quarrels.
Brothers and sisters pass with averted
face; children ignore the duty and grati-
tude they owe their parents, and forget
the sacred name of mother; and parents
banish son or daughter from the home
hearth, on account of differences which
are so trivial that the very angels must
weep to see how little matter “stirreth
up strife.” When the heart is full of
resentment its ﬁrst impulse is to ignore
the ties of blood and kinship. The elder
son, displeased at the merry-making,
would not call the repentant prodigal
brother, but said “This, thy son,” but
the father returned the relationship to
his conscience by saying “thy brother.”

Reconciliation implies a willingness to
be just. The ﬁrst step to ward amity is to
admit the possibility that we are not en-
tirely right and the other entirely wrong.
The momentwe do not expect all for—
bearance and submission to come from
the other, and realize there may be some-

 

ﬁdence has been wanting, and because,
too, of the suspicion which lurks in our

 

hearts, bidding us ever beware of those

thing for him to forgive us, that moment
we lift the latch of the shut door of
friendship. Unw111inguess to forgive is

 

we would love and trust most? If there
were not already a little envy and jealousy
in our hearts we would pay no heed to

a sad ﬂaw in the character. The Great
Teacher fouuds His gospel on the law of
love. Even Buddha, whose followers we

    


 

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call pagans, taught this divme doctrine of
forgiveness long before Christ came. An
unforgiving Christian is far from the true
Christianity. BEATRIX.
—_—“.——-——

VVOMAN’S HEALTH .

 

A short time ago our Editress spoke of
her experience in receiving very discour-
aging answers as to the state of health
prevailing among farmers’ wives, in re-
ply to questions as to some old time
friends, and on this state of affairs bases
the question: Why is it that farmers’
wives are so frail, since presumably their
surroundings favor a different state of
things?

I am not able to present any philosoph~
ical reason for it, but would rather en-
quire if the statement is correct; that is.
if farmers’ wives as a class are more. deli-
cate, or in aworse state of health than
their sisters of any other class. Ihave
mentally looked over my acquaintances
in city and country, and while I ﬁnd in
all ages and conditions many whose ap-
pearance indicates a lack of robust
health, and many more whose "com-
plainins” and appearance are at variance,
(I mean no want of sympathy with the
latter class. many of whom are sufferers,)
Iﬁnd the proportions average about the
same, without reference to locality or
conditions of life.

The experience of others may be en-
tirely different, and the subject is one
worthy of study; yet to seek a solution
of the why is premature, until the what is
established. I hope correspondents will
agitate the question.

“Observer” in the “ Hearth and Hall”
of the Post, quotes “Beatrix of the
FARMER,” accepts the matter as fact, and
ﬁnds the solution in the overworked con-
dition of the average farmer’s wife. But
I meet this difﬁculty. I ﬁnd many ladies,
equally frail in appearance and of equal
vitality; one will manage a family during
the same time and under the same condi—
tions as the other, and will come up
smiling and fresh, if tired; while the
other is moping, tired to death, bewailing
her woeful lot, making discords in every
symphony of life; and yet her work will
never be ﬁnished, always doing—never
done, while the other ﬁnds time for rest,

perhaps for recreation.

The words of Life are written for us by
circumstances largely beyond our con-
trol, but the music to which we sing them,
we largely write ourselves. More of the
success of our endeavors is due to the
spirit in which we approach them than
to anything else; secondly, proper
management holds the key.

One person makes her work a labor of
love, or, if she cannot quite reach that

to be evaded, and through it all carries a
sense of personal injustice and misery
that makes a martyr of herself, as she
sees and feels it; and alas, she makes
martyrs of all who may come in contact
with her. Work done under protest of
this kind is ill done,in a hap-hazard style
that leaves all in turmoil and confusion,
addlng to the discomfc rt of the worker.
and in reality adding as much to her
physical as to her mental burden. I
verily believe worry injures more women
than work does, and I think that locality

has little control of the case.

A. L. L.
INGLESIDE.
—-———‘.._.__

THE ETHICS OF BORROVVING.

We have had some comment by A. C. G.
on borrowing, as practiced in rural neigh-
borhoods, but nothing concerning its re-
lation to the household. “ He who goes a
borrowing goes a sorrowing,” quoth Poor
Richard; I think the sage was somewhat
in error, for sorrow comes more frequent-
ly to the lender than to the borrower. The
worst possible nuisance in the world is
the chronic borrower, the woman who is
everlastingly slipping in the back door to
borrow a “drawing” of tea, a bowl of
sugar, or “pinch of sody,” articles of
every-day use which adecent forethought
would keep constantly on hand. One
might endure with a modicum of patience
the continued assault upon the groceries
were this all, but the chronic borrower
continues the assault all along the house-
keeping line till every portable article.
from ﬁatirons to the parlor chairs, has
made a pilgrimage to the borrower’s
home, on one pretext or another. Even
one’s wardrobe is not always safe, though
such loans are, for obvious reasons, less
frequently requested. Yet I have heard
of a case where an embroidered white
crape shawl, treasured by its owner as the
gift of a dead sister, was borrowed to add
splendor to a trip to “the city,” and re-
turned soiled by perspiration where it
had been drawn about the neck and torn
where it had been pinned, with profuse
thanks, but not one word in regard to the
damage that had been done.

However indefatiguable the chronic
borrower may be in levying contribu‘
tions upon her acquaintances, it is foreign
to her character to make due returns. A
poor memory invariably accompanies the
borrowing habit, resulting in gain to the
one party and loss to the other. The
chronic borrower’s code of ethics
is elastic enough to permit her
to return an equivalent in
quantity but not in quality. To borrow
loaf sugar and return whitey-brown, to

replace good tea with an inferior article,

are old and well-known tricks of the bor-

 

altitude, she makes it a matter of con-
scientious duty, and "from such stand-
point surveys the ground, gives care and
thought to plan and detail, faithfully
carries out such arrangements, and with-
out fuss or hurry reaches the end.
Another, disgusted with the idea of the

rower’s trade. Those who have suffered
under such impositions till patience ceas-
ed to be a virtue have rid themselves of
the annoyance by keeping on hand the
brown sugar and cheap tea till the next
call for a loan, when the dish was ﬁlled
with the borrower’s goods. Soon the re-

labor, ﬁlled with the degradation it im- mark was made, “Seems as if you don’t
poses, grumblingly attacks it as a de- use as good teaas you used to!” The an-

 

basing task, only to be home because not swer was ready: “ Well, that was some

 

you returned t ) me, and as I had not used
it, I let you have it again.” To borrow
her own groceries did not seem to suit
well, and for a short time at least there
was a “ cessation of friendliness ” not un-
grateful to the victim. A story is told of
a Quaker woman who lived up to ,the
Scripture injunction “From him that
would borrow of thee turn not thou
away,” and was preyed upon by one who
took advantage of this amiable doctrine.
Even her pious soul was at last vexed into
action. Sugar was high priced and the
borrowing ﬁend had a sweet tooth.
Whenever the borrowed bowlful was re-
turned it fell short of full measure. and
being kept by itself rapidly diminished.
When the box was about empty the good
lady ventured to point the moral by say'
ing her “lendin’ sugar ” was exhausted,
and explaining why.

There is less excuse for borrowing in
the house than on; the farm, and little can
be said in extenuation of the latter, except
in the case of accident. The thought that
either man or woman ought to give to the
interests under their charge, should pre-
clude the necessity of asking such favors.
If it is likely to be a busy time on the
farm, the supply of groceries should be
increased so as to last through it; the
ﬂour barrel should be replenished, and all
probable needs provided for. Nor will it
hurt any one to intermit tea or coffee for
a meal or two, if the supply runs out, till
some one can go to town. Such self-
denial is better than acknowledging neg-
ligence, and asking a favor which may
incommode others, and a little discipline
of that sort aids the memory. And if we
borrow something which is of better
quality than we are in the habit of using,
it is no excuse for returning a cheaper
article that it is “good enough for us."
Rather purchase suﬁicient of the same to
pay our just debts honorably. Careless-
ness and negligence make us do mean
things sometimes; it is idiosyncratic with
others to be honest in certain large ways
and dealings, and close and meanjin lesser
ones.

The book borrower is the type that
most offends me. People who never by
any chance buy a book are the most per-
sistent borrowers of those who do buy.
They have never a dollar to spare for such
a purpose, but sponge their intellectual
food from those whose self denial in other
ways enables them to indulge in a new
volume now and then. Since the only
return they can make is the return
of the book after reading it, it is
safe to call them the most selﬁsh of a sel-
ﬁsh class. Often the book is never re-
turned, often it bears traces of ill-usage in
the shape of grease spots and ﬁnger-
marks. Often too the borrower lends the
book, “and the friend hath a friend and the
friend’s friend hath a friend,” and when

 

 

it reaches the owner again it rivals in
dogs’ ears and general dilapidation a
volume of ﬁction in the Detroit Public
Library. Only the owner has a right to
loan a book; only the owner should prof-
fer a loan of that character.

“ Few favors make fast friends.” This

is true, for it is a curious peculiarity o

  

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humanity that if the hundredth favor is
refused, the ninety-nine previously grant-
ed are as if they never had been. And
so, while it is undoubtedly a fortunate
circumstance to live among good neigh
bors, on whom we may feel at liberty to
call in the hour of our greatest need, it is
best to keep them good neighbors by sel-
dom requesting favors at their hands, for
the differences of which A. L. L. has told
us not unfrequently arise from the bor-
rowing habit. BEATRIX.
.._.__*..___
FOR THE GIRLS.

 

The bead collarettes which were so
fashionable a decade or more ago have
returned to fashionable favor, not quite,
however, in the same form. A band is
now entirely covered with beads of one
size upon which are set larger ones at in-
tervals. From this band are looped fes-
toons of beads, widening to ﬁt the shoul-
ders, about three-sixteenths of a yard
deep. Sometimes the bands only are worn
close about the neck, fastened at the side
with a bow of watered ribbon. The up-
per and lower edges of the band are out-
lined by the large beads. Another fancy
is to cover a band with folds of thin silk,
crepe du chine or gauze ribbon, and then
add several rows of points of the material
used, which are like half squares gathered
on the bias edge, and the point ornament-
ed with a cluster of beads.

One of the prettiest ways we have seen
for transforming a dark silk into a dressy
toilette is by a full cascade of lace down
the front of the basque, abundantly dec-
orated with loops and sharply pointed
ends of bright ribbon.

The full chemisettes of white wool
goods noticed in “ What to Wear ” recent-
ly, are fast growing in favor. The goods
is gathered to a band about the neck, in-
side which is,worn:a make or collar, while
the basque buttons over the chemisette
at apoint about half the length of the
waist from belt to throat. They are very
pretty and becoming.

A modiﬁcation of the old~fashioned
Spanish girdle is worn now. This is of
black velvet, pointed both in front and
behind, the points stiffened with whale-
bone. On a slender waist, over a white
or ecru dress, especially if the dress has
velvet bows, this girdle is a pretty addi-
tion to a toilette. Some young ladies
make basques of the gay striped silks to
wear with white dresses. The sleeves
suit the skirt, the neck is V shaped, and
there is a sash drapery of the silk behind.
The waist is pointed in front and round

behind.
INFORMATION \VANTED.

Please tell us what curtains would be
suitable for the windows of an unpreten-
tious parlor. Are lace lambrequins the
thing, or should there be curtains; and
what kind of shades?

I would like to know what to do with
my tulip bed. The bulbs have been un-
disturbed for a number of years and are
dying out. How and when should they
be re-set and at what time in the spring
will it do to clear away the tops? Can it

 

 

be before they die down, so I can fol-
low the suggestion given in the House
hold to set in, and cover them with
verbenas? The trouble is to ﬁnd room
for all the beautiful ﬂowers we want to
cultivate. I can add my testimony to: the
excellence of Mrs. N. H. Bangs’ method
of canning corn. I am hoping some one
will tell us how to can peas and any other
garden vegetable that we have found by
experience it is difﬁcult to keep by the
ordinary methods. E. B.
OCEOLA CENTRE.
____..._____

SCRAPS.

WORK is the normal condition of
humanity. No one can live ahealthy,
happy life without employment. Unhap
piness is born of indolence and inactivity,
while Madame de Stael deﬁnes happiness
as “ a state of constant occupation upon
some desirable object, with a continual
sense of progress toward its attainment.”
Yet nothing so drags a woman from her
normal level as overwork. Hence it is
important to her never to confound the
proper relations of things, to discriminate
wisely between essentials and non-essen-
tials, and then have the moral courage to
let the latter go undone. Increase of
style means increase of labor. We must
be content to live simply. How much of
woman’s work is done as concessions to
custom, to society. to what “they say!”
We must “have things as our neighbors
do,” no matter how much added work it
entails. In spite of the multiplicity of
household conveniencres, work has out-
stripped them. Contrast a washing of
the present day, with its consequent
ironing, with the family laundry work
before the sewing machine enabled us to
indulge in such luxury of plaitings and
puﬂings! Where are the women who
will dress their children plainly, to save
their aching feet and lame backs? “The
children” must be as well dressed as the
neighbors’, because of the comments and
comparisons that will be made. Some
one has said “ The greatest insult we can
offer to narrow-minded individuals is to
differ with them in manners and cusv
toms. Verbal differences they can en-
dure; a difference in mode of life excites
condemnation.” We must wash on Mon-
day, convenient or the reverse, if our
neighbors consecrate that day to soap-
suds; we must have pie for breakfast, or
expect doubts as to the integrity of our
motives; in other words, we must try to

do as others do, not because
their ways are better than ours,
or suited to our circumstances,

but simply because their ways are sanc—
tioned by custom. Hence it is that so
many frail women, in town and country
alike, are overworked, less by the needs
of their families and the necessities of
housekeeping, than by the fear of the
criticisms of the community. The
woman who dares order her housekeeping
with strict regard to her own strength,
her own growth, the true welfare of her
children and the purse of her husband,
ignoring all ouside comments. is needed
everywhere. We want fewer of those

 

who, as Henry James says, when they die
will leave nothing but their clothes.

 

THE most foolish thing a young girl
can possibly do is to consent to a secret
marriage, which is to be kept from her
friends. If there is one reason why the
marriage should take place at all, there
are many more why, if performed, it
should be openly and at once ac-
knowledged. Never let a lover, however
dear, however plausible his reasons, per-
suade you into asecret marriage, girls,
for grief and regret will surely follow.
Distrust the lover who would thus
tempt you from your duty to your
parents. There may be reasons for that
secrecy which you in your innocence do
not suspecs, and ere the honeymoon h: s
waned you may ﬁnd yourself “wedded
but no wife.” If friends oppose, and
marry you will in spite of prayers and
protestations. at least do it openly,
acknowledging the act at the time. The
secret must come out sometime and busy
tongues will wag, and scandal will not
be still if you try to hide it. You will
suffer in reputation in the opinion of many
who judge, as the world will always do,
according to their own evil thought. The re
will be inunendoes “ though you be pure
as ice and chaste as snow,” and the less
your thought of ev1l the more acutely will
you feel them. There is never a good
reason why a marriage should not be im-
mediately acknowledged; it is not
“ smart” nor “cute” to conceal it, and to
do so may be the beginning of trouble,
and will always serve as a handle to
enemies or those who are prepared to dis-
cover evil everywhere. We ’must be
mindful of public opinion, since it is far
stronger than we, and must be careful
not to put ourselves in a false position,
since any evil disposed person can soila
reputation by suspicions which enemies
will believe and friends never hear of to
deny.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

THE great cause of spoiled canned fruit
is putting up that which is not entirely
fresh.

 

COMMON hard soap may be used to ﬁll
up cracks in the ﬂoor, or the crevices be-
tween it and the washboards. N o insects
will venture to push through it.

 

SOMETIMES it is desirable to remove the
odor of kerosene from cans or vessels
in which it has been kept. A little
chloride of lime, dissolved in warm
water, and left in such dishes, will
deodorize them very soon.

 

IT is recommended that those who pack
eggs in salt for use during the winter
months, turn the eggs two or three times
a week. This is done by' turning the
boxes. If the eggs are left in one posi-
tion the contents settle and adhere to the
shells. Keep the boxes of eggs in a cool
place.

 

OFTEN the tops of fruit cans become
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which looks like a deposit of lime. This
should be removed before the cans are
used again, and to do so it is only neces
sary to ﬁll the tops with strong vinegar,
let them stand half an hour or longer if
necessary, and the deposit can be re-
moved by washing.

 

A CORRESPONDENT of The Husbandman
gives a simple remedy for alleviating
bronchial troubles, which if it does not
eﬁect a cure is at least perfectly harmless,
and may aﬂford relief for a time. It is
simply inhaling steam. She places a wire
screen (such as is used to cover dishes)
over the face, then wets a ﬂannel cloth
in just as hot water as possible, lays it
over the screen, then a dry one over that,
and lets the patient inhale the steam. It
will relieve hoarseness and soreness in a
very short time, she says.

 

DON’T forget that one of the cheapest
and best disinfectants you can use is the
common copperas which you can buy at
four or ﬁve cents per pound, and don’t
forget to use it freely. Dissolve a pound
of copperas in a quart of hot water and
sprinkle it freely wherever and whenever
there is a bad smell. Do not wait for the
smell to intensify itself, saying “ I
really must attend to this,” and then put
it oﬁ till another season, but keep the
copperas in the house and attend to its
use at the proper ti me.

 

PROF. COOK says: “We have found
pyrethrum very excellent to destroy the
house ﬂies. It is so easily done that my
wife for the past season has not only
killed these pests in our own house, but
has done the same for several of our
neighbors. To kill the house ﬂies it must
be thrown into the room in the form of
ﬁne dust. There are kept in the drug
stores all over the country, little dust-
blowers that serve admirably for this
purpose. We have but to blow the dust
out of the little dust-bellows four or ﬁve
times and leave the room, which had bet-
ter be tightly closed. We usually do this
just as we are about to retire. In the
morning the ﬂies are all lying on the ﬂoor,
dead or helpless. As this ﬁrst paralyzes
the insects, causing them to fall to the
ﬂoor, and as some will after hours recover,
it is well to sweep them all up and throw
them into the ﬁre. This need not be done
till morning. I have found that pyrethrum
may be used in the same way to destroy
the annoying mosquitos.”

 

IF, instead of taking all sorts of
nauseous drugs and patent medicines in
the spring to cure “biliousness,” which
is simply an impaired condition of the
blood caused by imperfect digestion of
the hearty, heavy diet of winter, people
would eat lemons freely, they would ﬁnd
the health restored, the sallow com-
plexion cleared and the blood puriﬁed,
without the deleterious effects of the
drugs. Take the juice of‘two or three or
more lemons daily, an hour before meals;
it is a good plan to take the juice of one
at least half an hour before breakfast.

the clear juice without unpleasant sensa-
tions, the acid is so strong; therefore
mix a couple of teaspoonfuls of sugar
with it and add two or three tablespoon-
fuls of water. Thus prepared it is much
more palatable and eﬂicacious than
medicines. The Household Editor has
tried this till she “knows it’s so.” A
good many attacks of “bilious” and
“ malarial” fever might be averted by the
free use of lemons for a couple of months
in the spring. Lemons are also good for
rheumatic people; and a sick headache
may often be cured by‘the juice of a
lemon in half a cup of strong coffee,
without sugar. Try this simple remedy
for biliousness or indigestion, and be con-

vinced.
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T HE Household Editor hopes our con:
tributors will not forget the little paper
even though domestic duties are multi-
plied these long, warm days. If each
waits for another there will be a dearth of
letters. We hope to hear soon from
many of our members who have not
written for some time, but whom we
know are full of good ideas for the help-
ing of their sister women.
_____..._—.——
BERTHA, of Saline, says: “ I am an in-
terested reader of the Household, and ﬁnd
very many thingszwhich help me greatly
as a young housekeeper. I read them
through, then put them away carefully
for safe keeping. I have tried some of
the recipes, and not one has failed. The
recipe for pot-pie which I send with this
is excellent and never fails.” .
___...____

WOOL’s inquiry about the method of
preparing wool for quilts seems to have
been Quite completely answered. “Super-
ior,” of Ypsilanti, suggests that the wool
be sent to a woolen factory, after being
washed and the burs, if any, picked out,
and there put through the “picking ma-
chine,” which will make it very light and
easy to handle. Mrs. N. Cone, of F.int,
puts the wool into a suds as hot as the
hands will bear, pressing it out into an-
other tub of clean suds and repeating the
process till the oil and dirt are out. She
then sends it to the carding machine to
be carded into bats. A correspondent of
the Colorado Farmer reports she made
both wool mattresses and comfortables by
pulling the wool by hand, after it had

been thoroughly washed and dried, until
it was soft and light. Her mattrasses she
packed tight as possible, while in the
comforts the wool was spread lightly and
loosely quilted. Unless some of our read-
ers can give new information on this sub-
ject, we will consider the question closed
for the present.
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Contributed Recipes.

 

POT-PIE.—-One pint sweet milk; four tea-
spoonfuls cream of tartar , two teaspoonfuls
soda; one egg; a pinch of salt. Stir stiff with
a spoon and drop in the kettle, a spoonful at a
time. ,

Monassss CAKE—Half cup molasses; half
cup sugar; half cup warm water; one and a
half cups ﬂour; one teaspoonful soda; one tea.
spoonful of ginger; one egg; butter the size of
an egg. Ban'rna.

_ Useful Recipes.

 

STawsD LAME—Take the neck or breast,
cut into small pieces, and put in a stewpan
with some thinly sliced salt pork and enough
water to cover it; cover closely and stew until
tender, skim off all the seam, and add a quart
of green peas, adding more water if necessary;
when the peas are tender, season with pepper
and butter rolled with ﬂour.

 

Genus or COLD MUTTON.—Cut the re-
mains of cold loin or neck of mutton into cut-

lets, trim them and take away a portion of the
fat should there be too much. Dip them in
beaten egg, sprinkle with bread crumbs and
fry them a nice brown in hot dripping. Arrange
them on a dish and pour round them either a
good gravy or hot tomato sauce.

 

MUTTON Pun—Cold mutton may be made
into very good pies, if well seasoned and mixed
with a few herbs. If the leg is used cut it into
very thin slices; if the loin or neck, into thin
cutlets. Place some at the bottom of the dish,

season well with pepper, salt, mace,parsley and

herbs; then put a layer of potatoes sliced, then

more mutton and so on till the dish is full; add

the gravy, cover with a crust and bake for one
our.

 

AN ECONOMICAL Dram—Wash a calf’s liver;
remove the skin and cut off the white fat from
the under side. Lard the upper side with fat
salt pork. Brown in a baking pan two table-
spoonfuls of ﬂour in hot butter or drippings;
p ace the liver in the pan and let it brown on
both sides. Add one carrot cut in halves, one
onion in which six cloves have been stuck, one
bay-leaf and the rind of a lemon. Pour three
cu s of water or broth in the pan and bake for
h f an hour, basting often. Then add one
teaspoonful of vinegar and one of lemon juice,
and salt and pepper; haste two or three times.
Strain the gra over the liver, garnish with
round slices of emon and serve.

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