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One stands in robe of white
Beneath ' he sunshine, in her eyes
A happy, untold secret lies,

Her well spring of delight.

° She holdsa posy in her hand
. 0f roses red, of roses rare,
Lore‘s latest gift fame as _ia'r
I As any in the land.

We lookat her and smile,
And to our hearts we softly say,
Can bliss like hers endure alway.

Or but a little while! ' ~

Will faith c ing close throueh sun and snow,-

, Will love's r so garland keep its red
From bridal couch to graveyard bed?
.Alacki we cannot know!

. One stands alone. apa't,
’ She wears the sign of widowhood: ,
Sharp grief hath drained of all its good
Her hungry, empty heart.
To tend a grave she counteth best;
She turns from us who love her well,
And wears the yellow asphoo el,
Death’s ﬂower, upon her breast.

We look at her and sigh,
And softly to our hearts we say,
Will grit f like hers endure alway,
Or lessen by- and-bye?
Will woe weep on through sun and snow f'
0r w ll the asphodel give place
To ﬂowers about a blusi ing face?
Alackl how shouldwe knowf

One sits with thoughtful eyes
Down-dropped on homely work, a smile
Upon l er tender mouth the while

Ber busy task she plies. ‘

Some blessed‘thonght enchains her mind;
. How wide and deep her run inss are,
' High as the height of topmost star,

And low as humankind!

She wears upon her breast
A milk white lily; God hath given .
To her a f preteste of His heaven,

An earnest of His rest.
She came from out the furnace name
01' sorrow, strong to help the weak,
And gifted with good words to speak

. In time of grief or shame.

We look at her and smile,

And to our hearts we softly say

Good work like hers endures slwty,
Bern. d earth‘s lit: le while;.‘

Be) and earth‘s round of sun and snow. '

Beyond whh‘ e height of tow: 0st star;
e her harvest watts afar.
wGod knoweth and We know

, —4u the Year Round. -

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No epsw'er comes to those who pray.
And idly stand
And wait for stone- to roll away
At- iG rd. 8 Command.
He will not b salt the binding cords
Upon .. lai l '
If we depend on pleading words,
and do nov a
.When hands are idle words are vsin
'i‘o oruove the stone;
An siding mg 1 would uisdam- ‘
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But he who pvavelh, and is strong
it faith and deed. ‘
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CHRISTMAS AFTERMATH.

 

Always, in the leisure interval after
the great festival of the year is past,
we‘ﬂnd among our own or our friends’
gifts many suggestions for another
season, which if not gathered in memory's
treasury . are speedily forgotten, or
which perhaps we would like to use for
our own beneﬁt at once. At the House
of Correction in this city are made arm
chairs, having cane seats and old fash-

ioned backs of perpendicular round slats,"

ﬁnished to imitate cherry, which is now

‘ the fashionable wood in furnishing

which retail for $3 50 each. They are
extremely comfortable, having broad
arms, and quite nice in appearance.
Furnished'with a “slumber pillow,” or
cushion, they become very ornamental
and extremely stylish. With this addi-
tion they sell at the furniture stores at
from $5 50 to $6. A friend of mine gave
her husband a chair of this description
for a Christmas gift, and decorated it
herself. At the upholsterer’s she secured
a remnant of cardinal plush, fourteen
inches deep, and wide enough to cross
the, back of the chair, which cost her ﬁfty
cents. To have had it cut from the
piece would have cost $1 13. ' She bought
a roll of cotton batting and half a yard
of crimson silesia, made the cushion
comfortably plump, and tufted it with

old buttons covered with some bits of.

cardinal satin she happened to have-
She then bordered the seam with a car-
dinal silk cord, and at the upper right
hand corner put afull bow of cardinal
satin ribbon; The chair is as handsome
as any for sale at $7, and it cost her but
a triﬂe over $4 50.

The prettiest sofa pillow of .the year’s
harvest yet seen is of black satin, exactly
the size and shape of half a grain bag.

’ It is ﬁlled with the softest of cotton

batting, and tied at the open end» with a
cardinal satin ribbon. The satin of the

. bag is turned in below the place where it

is tied, as a facing to the end. One side
is decorated with a rose and buds in
ribbon and arrasene work. It is so lovely
and so much prized by its owner that woe
to the man, woman or child who dares
to touch it save in admiring awe.

A new style of 'pincushion consists of
an eight inch square of “butchers’linen,”
an evenly woven, moderately open goods
much used for “ fancy , ﬁxings.” It is
just hemmed, then threads are drawn in
three rows on each side of the square,
leaving only a plain piece about two

 

inches square in the center. Rows of nar-
row ribbon are then woven in, basket
fashion, among the pulled threads, and
allowed to overlap in‘ loops at the corners.
The effect is novel and pretty.

"Bookcases are expensive furniture.
The plainest and cheapest cost $15 or

$16, and are merely open racks to hold ,

books, with a gilt rod suspending momie
or Madras curtains to protect the, books
from dust, while desirable styles range
from $35 to $150; “ you pays your money
and takes your choice. “Yet a quite
young lady of this city who has sighed
for the impossible, was delighted on
Christmas morning with the “makeshif .”
which an ingenious mother planned and
a“handv” father executed. Aspace be
tween two windows was chosen, and the
wallpaper covered in aspace of about
four and a half feet in height and three
feet in width, with crimson velvet paper.
tacked on with small tacks. Four pair
of iron bracket; from the hardware store
had been gilded with gold paint, and
four black walnut shelves bought at the
cabinet shop, ready oiled and varnished.
The brackets were screwed ﬁrmly in place
on the wall, by long screws which passed
into the studding; the shelves, exactly
the proper length, and slightly rounded
at the corners, were laid in place, and a
screw turned from the under part of the
bracket into the wood held each ﬁrmly.
Three of the shelves were for books, so
the distance between them was nicely
spaced; and the fourth shelf was intended
for small ornamental articles. The

velvet paper rose above this top shelf, ‘

the sides were slanted oﬁ at an angle,
and outlined by narrow gilt moulding,
which cost ten cents. per foot. This
home-made book case is neat, serviceable
and ornamental, and its cost was not half
that of the cheapest which could be
bought at the furniture shops.

A German lady is knitting up a “ wun-
derknaull” or “wonder-ball,” received
on Christmas. It is a large,'irregular,.
weighty ball, which she values because it
conceals many small presents wound
with the yarn, which are brought to
light by the knitting 'of the soft worsted.

This mine of treasures has already yielded

hera couple of yards of pretty ribbon, a
tiny box containing a hammered silver
pin. a pair of kid gloves and a peanut,
and a conﬁdential relative informed me.
that the kernel of thestill bulky ball was
a long coveted gold thimble. The gifts
are wrapped in paper; and ' the recipient
is enjoined from opening them until they

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are fairly released by knitting‘up the ’an expression .of opinion from the HOUSE-

yarn. Such a “w'underknaull” would
be a delight to the grandmother, and
' might make more endurable the “stintf’
of the small girl who loves to play better
than to knit. Bnarmx.
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LOVE IN MAN.

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Is there true love in man; love deep,
true and abiding, not subject to the
slightest change through circumstances,
that can bear the test oftemptation? Not

‘ yet have I found one to exalt to my ideal.
Perhaps others have, and if so it would
be to many “ an assurance most dear ” to
know that the longings of some, womanly
hearts have been met and satisﬁed; it
might compensate our own losses in a
measure, for I admit there is implanted in

‘eyery heart a natural desire for some one
to love, and to be beloved in return. But
may not this desire in man become insati-
able? is not his whole nature subverted

- by his tastes and mode of living, so that

v there are no abiding convictions of right
and wrong? Can virtue, love, purity,
devotion, suffering and patience—all the
virtues combined in the wife, inspire in
the average man a return in kind? I say
no, rather the reverse. I have often ob—

iserved among my friends ﬁdelity on the
wife’s part, unfaithfulness and deceit on
the husband's. The wife gentle and kind,
patient and affectionate. with intense
love for husband and children, never
weary in ministering to their wants, yet
incapable of retaining her husband’s love

and ﬁdelity. I could cite 'many such in-

stances, in which the wife’s devotion is
rejected for the society of proﬂigatesi
now what must woman do to obtain and
retain that coveted love?

Then, too, what shall the wife do when
children or step-children come between
her and her husband. and are preferred
before her, and allowed to. usurp her
rights and privileges while she is forced

'. to stand one side, unable to resist? What
if her husband, in her presence, says to
the son who has ill-treated her, “You
have a home with me as long as you live,
and if eithergoes. she shall!”

. If those who have promised to love and
cherish us can be so unfaithful, so cruelly
unkind after all their sacred pledges.
why were we educated by parents and
teachers to regard love as a reality? Is
it not rather a fable, afairy illusion never
to be realized? As the babe‘s ﬁngers try
to. grasp the sunbeams ﬂitting across the
room, so we reach out expectantly for
love, only to ﬁnd our hearts as empty as
the little hand;

My heart aches for the many victims
of man’s inﬁdelity. Is there no remedy
for this terrible evil, which is breaking
hearts and destroying homes all over our
land? What can we women do to stay
this downward, demoralizing tendency?
Will forbearance and silence remedy it?
Love is the balance-wheel of our existence,
but I fear the spokes are fast dropping
out. ~ .

. The subject is one which lies close to
every woman's heart; she does not know

how soon she may suffer. I should lik

HOLD readers as to the means women
should take to preserve the purity and
sancity of home, and hold their husbands’
affection. ' MR8. J. A. M.
Kanuazoo. '
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MORE “FASHION.”

 

Not long ago I. heard a ‘good mother
express herself on the subject of modern
“ bangs,” i. e., those worn on ladies’ fore-
heads. She described the wearers as
looking -like “eegeots.”' ‘I wondered if
some who have such intellectual foreheads
would not look as curious to our eyes if
they wore their hair a la Pompadour.

We are creatures of habit, and any
change must meet with stern criticism
from some, but the fashion once estab—
lished, the general public will take kindly
to it. An illustrative incident may be
apropos: When hoops were worn by
feminines a few years ago, a conservative
husband insisted that “his wife should
not make a fool of herself wearing those
blamed things.” But, alas. for marital
authority, she did purchase a set of
hoops, and occasionally wore them. One
day the good man, looking from the win-
dow, espied his rich aunt from the city
driving into the yard. Looking at his
Wife, who was tall and thin, he muttered:
“A beep pole, egad,” then louder, “Run,
Marier, and get them hoops on, or Aunt
Ann’ll think ye’er a scare-crow. The
wide, tilting hoops were a nuisance, tight
tie-backs ditto; but there was in e h case
a point of moderation, comfortable and
not offensive to modesty and good man-
ners.

A trained dress properly adjus—
ted and managed, is one _‘ of
the most , graceful garments , a

lady can wear, with proper surroundings
and place; but, when the train is used as
street-swe eper, or kitchen—mop; all. its
beauty and grace is lost, and disgust takes
the place of admiration.

Some ladies who‘ make such an outcry
against 'the present fashions thought
themselves quite handsome in a suit that
made human funnels - of them, not so
very many years ago. Let me describe it:
Wide hoops, short "waists, further defac-
ing the lines by adding a loose sack with

a narrow-,brimmed steeple—crowned hat,
with trimming mostly on the top. Sec!
‘.‘But a century ago," they say,
“no such~ fat late were worn."- I
remember a silk dress belonging to
one of my grandmothers: shoulder
seams, three inches long; under-arm
seams, six inches; across the shoulders,
maybe ten inches; the arm size being so
huge as to take in the rest of_ the width;
the sleeve gathered in full and propped
up and out with cushions, that made the
shoulders so wide you would think they
would have to go sidewise through a
common door; then the sleeve sunk ig—
nnminiously down to the size of the Wrist,
the skirt being so narrow that no more

sible. Ohl horrible! some will say; yet I

 

do not doubt that belles thought the ecs-

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ﬂowing sleeves, and placing on the head .

exciting dance than the minuet was pos- '

tume charming, and bean: were of the
same opinion.

80, while in‘ the olden time ladies made
towers of their powdered hair, and .more
modern belles Wore close braids and coils,
or hung “waterfalls” down their necks,
let thepresent generation of girls wear
their hangs in peace, remembering that
each age will, have its wisdom and its fol—
lies, and' nothing so much adds to, or de-
tracts from the happiness .of youth as to
be like or unlike the fashion of the day.

But counsel moderation. A. L. L..
Iuennsron.
.—
A GREETING TO THE HOUSE-
HOLD.

 

Dear ,Beatrgia: and all the Household
Members: —I give you greeting. May the
coming yearbring you health and added
happiness and prosperity, is my sincere ‘
wish. How glad I would be to meet you
all personally, and grasp your hands, and
feel that I knew you. Yet I do feel as
thoughIknow many of you, for your
writings have become so familiar that
when tho“little paper " arrives I always
look it through to see “‘who” is there.‘ If
I see Evangeline, A. L. L., E. L. Nye,
‘ Mrs. M. A. Fuller, J annette, S. M. G.
and Bonnie Scotland, I feel that they
are old friends and I am sure of a good
time. Beatrix I always expect to ﬁnd,
and with her to introduce the new mem—
bers I know there is a pleasant chat in
store, even if I am disappointed in not
ﬁnding the older friends. Our ”chief"
says we'have had “too much Beatrix "
lately. I do notthink so, but'I think we
have been all too‘willing she should bear
the greater burden. Isuppose we have
“ each ani all ” been very busy preparing
Christmas gifts for our loved ones, and
in our thoughtfulness of them, forgot
that she might be'glad of alittle leisure
for the glad Christmas time. '

I am quite sure weare all busy women,
with many duties to perform, and many

times feel it quite a task to take our pen
l and wrjte, and are inclined to think,
. “Beatrix 'will undoubtedly have plenty
of letters this week, I am tired and have
nothing interesting to write,” so we let
it go, when perhaps our; letter might be
just what she wanted to ﬁll a little space.
I would like to' say some good words for
Beatrix, butI know she would scratch
them out, and as I do not like to do any-
thing in vain I forbear.

I I should like'to tell Bonnie Scotland
what I bought for my husband’s Christ—
mas present "with my money,” but I
think she hardly believes I love my hus-
band as she does here, so I won’t tell her
or you, ’We had a happyhmerry time ,
Christmas at the home of 'our parents.
with father and mother, brothers and
sisters and their ‘families. on these
happy Christmas days‘. what golden days
they are! but they are days that forcibly
remind us that our circle must soon be
broken, for we see the silvered heads of
our parents grow whiter, and the once
erect, strong frames grow bent and feeble.
Ere this reaches you the holidays will be
past and we will have begun the work of
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‘- “ Oh dearl. / I thought he’d meer go!"
4 Such were the words on a young lady’ s

ps as she closed the door on a caller
ho had lingered, loth to “tear' himself
way,”_till near to “ midnight’s. Witching
our.” “loan entertain and be enter-
ined for a couple of hours; when -it

mebody round who is particularly
brilliant. I wish he knew enough to go
home when he had talked, himself out.”
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I sometimes think it would be a good

Q:' idea if Japanese etiquette in the matter
.: of calls could prevail' in America.

In the
Mikado’s empire, the lady dismisses the

make up his mind that it is time for him
It seems that some young
men ﬁnd “ parting such sweet pain ” that
they bannot make up their minds to
endure the agony much before midnight.

would be a mercy to some bright,

when they had “ talked themselves out, ”
without giving offense.

“We like to have Will call at our
house,” said one of those bright eyed
misses who are always making remarks

and quoting a big sister; “ Belle says he

never stays so long she gets tired of him. ”
Now boys, look on this picture, then on
the other, and judge what the girls think
about late calls.

I was present recently at a small
gathering, where the company broke into
little knots and groups for conversational
During'a pause, the words of

through the unexpected silence, partly
because Of her very decided voice. She
was speaking of an absent .one, in rather
unkindly terms,--=that fashion some very
good people-have of making vague but
unfavorable remarks about persons-whom
they do not happen to like- I was pleased
and amused at the tact and address ,of a
young lady present, a friend of the
absent. The remarks were not addressed
to her; there was nothing tangible which
she could take up and resent, nothing
necessary to be said in defence. But she
did what was quite as .eﬂfectual,ind‘eed
better, since the person speaking was
one whose years entitled her to deference
from younger women. With ready wit
she addressed a relevant remark to the
speaker, continuing the subject, yet
diverting the talk from the personalities
to wh1ch 1t was tending, “Smart girl, ”
thought I “ To have taken up what had
been said by an injudicious defense
would have been like ﬁre to tow, and the
company would have. probably been
ediﬁed by a battle royal between the two,
in which hard knocks would have been
given. and received, and .undue im-
portance would have been attachedf‘to

gentleman, instead of waiting for him to .

pretty, popular girls I know if custom
' permitted them to dismiss their callers

 

and must gather it, ‘as Dr.

mere rumors which if not. fanned into
activity, would die of themselves.
Smart girl!” ' '

Come to think about it, it is a good

. rule to take into society, never to pursue

a conversation which threate to entrap
us into speaking ill of others, or to com-
pel us to listen to defamation, but
quickly change the subject. It is rarely
indeed that a little tact cannot ac-
complish this, without the other party
becoming aware that it is purposely done.
Take advantage of a side issue; generally
the association of ideas which leads us in
so many channels from a central thought,
will allow us to do this in an easy,
seemingly unintent1onal manner. How
much of evil'speakin‘g and ‘uncharitable
comment could be avoided by acting
upon this simple rule to “ change the
subject” when conversation approaches
personalities, especially those which
treat of the foibles and follies of our
acquaintances.

‘ His ﬁrst wife was a Smith, cousin of
old Squire Smith who bought the Brown
farm out at Whiteville, and married
Jenny Green for his second wife, her
sister married into the Blue family, and
old Mrs. Blue was a second cousin of
Judge Gray, she didn’t have but one
brother and he married one of the
Whites of Whiteville, Lu White, she was,
and they had six children, and one of
them had tits and never knew much, and
the old lady lived with them and I guesg
she was pretty trying, she was a Scarlett,
and'her sister married the man that run
that big mill and failed, and it broke
her down, so she never held her head up
after. As I was saying his ﬁrst wife was
.” Here the dropping of words
ceased to make impress upon my con-
sciousness, and‘ my thoughts wandered
in some such fashion as this:' His ﬁrst
wife, his second Wife and “he ” himself
are strangers to me; I never saw them.
and hope to be forgiven for admitting
hat I do not consider that fact a special
deprivation of Providence. Why should
I be bored with the recital of the family
pedigree? What is it all about anyhow?
Was it “old Mis’ Blue ” (strange that
even well bred people in the eagerness of
these genealogical narratives will make
Mrs. into Mis’) or the ﬁrst wife who had
the six children, and supposing they did,
six children are not phenomenal unless
they are "sextolets.” And was the old
lady who lived with them “Old Mis’ Blue"
or , and here I lose myself again,
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and turn to the Booker Numbers, and

read over the sum of the congregation of
the children of Israel, reﬂecting that
though heretofore mighty dry reading to
me, it had at least the merit of con tinu-
ous narrative beside this disjointed
hash of “he married," etc. Then I fell
to wondering why people should burden
themselves with such inconseq uent de—
tails, such useless‘ information as these
family relationships .of people to whom
they are not connected by either blood or
friendship; and ,why, even if they have
an idlosyncracy for that sort 0 f knowledge
'Jnlinson

 

touched the ' hitching-posts along the
street, through some abnormal mental
condition, why inﬂict the unmeaning
tale upon an unhappy auditor, whom
politeness compels to pay at least the
semblance of attention, but who cannot
help comparing the relator to Gratiano.
“who loved to talk an inﬁnite deal of
nothing, more than any man in Venice,"
and wishing she would let .

“ Silence like a ponltire come
To heal the blows of sound.”

“Things said inerely for conversation
are chalk eggs,” says Emerson, and these ‘
family interm irriages and pedigrees are
decidedly calcareous spheroids in‘which

no interest is felt by listeners. ' .
* EATRIX.

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A FLORAL LEI‘I‘ER.

The name‘Pyrethrum-is from pyr (ﬁre,)
as the roots have a‘peppery taste. There <
be me; the old European variety, with
single or semi- double ﬂowers, classed
among medicinal herbs, and called fever-
few and featherfew, and also varieties
from France so greatly improved, I found
that those who have not kept track have
become a little confused on the different
sorts of pyrethrums. The double white.-_
ﬂowered has now become a great favorite
as a garden plant, as it is a constant
bloomer, and hardy enough to withstand
the cold of our winters by giving slight
protection of leaves, and brush to pre—
vent the wind carrying them away. This
variety has been used extensively as a
pot plant, and by many called mills ﬂour.
I have another variety, double-ﬂowered,
quilled petals like small German asters
and the ﬂowers are much admired.
Golden-feather is another, / and differs
from theothers in having, as the name
indicates, golden colored foliage, very
beautiful for bordering beds in the
garden, as it as low and compact in
growth until it runs up-to seed, which is
n it until the second year; the ﬂowers are
single. There are afew of later intro-
duction; Little Gem is one and very
desirable. I ﬁnd no difﬁculty in raising
any of these from seed, and- when I ﬂnda
single ﬂowered one among seedlings I re«‘-
move it. They are easily propagated by
cuttings. I shall oﬂ’er seed of all the
double-ﬂOWered sorts, and Golden
Feather, the coming spring. ‘ - -

In offering seed of Linamia some' have
supposed I refered to Linars’a or
“Honesty," as it is usually called, which
is a perennial, the seed pods of which are
very useful’ 111 making up with everlasting
ﬂowers, but the Linarza Moroccana 1s a
hardy annual, with small snap dragon-
like ﬂowers in various shades of red,
rose and violet, the inferior petal being
usually white. It is a constant bloomer .
if not allowed to ripen too much seed, as
is the case with many other plants.
Linart'a Cymbalaria is yell known as a
very desirable basket vine. ‘

There is one variety of Mirabz'lis, (Four
o’clock) that I ﬁnd in some sou hern
States is known as “jockey club," no
doubt from its peculiar and exquisite
odor. I have raised it and sent the seed to
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as Hirabilz's longiﬁora; the ﬂower tubes
are often four to six inches in length.
It is a very good plan to order seed early
and arrange in mind the garden work for
spring, as that season brings with it to
the most of us an abundance of work
that is not to be slighted or avoided, so I
will soon give a list, although there are
but very-few desirable sorts that I do
not haveready at any seasonabletime

without notice here. .
“MRS. M. a. FULLER.

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BUCOESS IN THE NEW METHOD
OF FRUIT OANNING.

hares.

The Editor asked for reports on the

cotton batting process of canning fruits.
' I tried it with good success. The fruit
was elderberries for pies. I cooked them,
.adding one quart of good vinegar to two
gallons of the berries; put them in the
jar and folded a sheet of wadding four
thicknesses, and a paper over that to keep
off the dirt; tied them up while hot, same
as in canning, and on opening them a
few days ago, they were good enough to
eat. If all fruit kept as well there would
be no need of cans. I would like to
know if any one tried putting up fruit
early iii the season that way. I shall try
more kinds another year. '

I would like to thank E. L. Nye for her
recipe for coﬁee. We have all fallen in
love with it; several families are using it
around here. ‘

I would say to the lady that had such a
time wetting down her leach, next time
have the husband wet it as he packs the
ashes in, then if the next day be pleasant,

run 03 your lye; if not, let it stand an-
other day; the lye will be all the stronger.
I could not keep house without my soft

soap. I have a'barrel half full of lye in -

the fall, run off, ready for the butchering.
Put your grease right in as it accumulates
and it keeps sweet, and is no trouble; all
it needs inthe spring is boiling up and
the-addition of more lye. I would add
don’t forget to put lime in the bottom of
your leach, about two quarts, to catch the
nitre. '

I would like a recipe for coming beef.

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ELENOR.
Laxsrse.

THE NEW PROCESS on CAN-
" . NING.

During the season last past I put up by
. the cotton batting process, strawberries,
currants, red raspberries, black raspber-
ries and grapes. They have all been
opened new; the strawberries, . currants
and grapes were eatable after removing

the top, but the raspberries were not’

good. ‘ _

I think there is some risk abdut this
method of keeping fruit, but shall give it
another trial next year. Manna.

Paw Paw .
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Tna'r Cumin—In answer to an inquiry
‘-‘ Old School Teacher" says: “ I would
gladly answer M. F., of Honeoye. N. Y.,
if I could; but my churn is' one of the
never-wear-outs,‘ and the name was- was h
ed oﬂ long ago. I presume they are not
manufactured now. I thought it had

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given out entirely once. and my husband
bought me a Bentwood; but Idid not like
it, and told him I wisued he Would get
the old one repaired. which he did, and it
is good yet, but if it gives ‘out.at any
time, I propose to get one of the revolv-
ing churns without any dasher. I dislike
to churn with a crank, or I might have
had one before this. Mine is a lever-
motion, but the handle and dasher turn
on cogs. so as I lift the handle the dasher
revolves half around, and as the handle'

drops the motion is reversed. It does not ‘

cut up the butter and destroy the grain as
many churns do.”
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

WHEN washing windows dissolve a
small quantity of washing soda in the
water, if the glass is dimmed with smoke
or dirt. Do not let the water run on the
sash, but wash each pane with a piece of
ﬂannel; dry quickly with a, soft clean
towel and wipe out the corners careful ly,
Polish with a piece of common chamels
skin or newspaper that has been softened
by rubbing between the hands.

CLEANING rags, with which metal may

quickly be polished, consist of Lwoolen ,

rag saturated with soap and tripoli. They
are prepared in- the following manner:
Four grains of soap are dissolved in wa—
ter; 20 grains of tripoli are added to the
solution. A piece of cloth about 24
inches long by four. inches broad is soak-
ed in this and left tolry.

AcconmNe to the Scientiﬁc American,
the best remedy for bleeding at the nose,
as given by Dr. Gleason at one of his lec—
tures, is in the vigorous motion of the
jaws as if in the act in! chewing. In the
case of a child a Wad of paper should be
inserted to chew it hard, It is the motion
of the jaws that stops the ﬂow of blood.
This remedy is so very simple that many

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will feel inclined to laugh at it, but it has '

never been known to fail in a single in-
stance, even in the severest cases.

.Tmr. New England Farmer gives the
following recipe for hulling corn: ‘

“ Select that which is clean and per—
fectly well ripened. The kind or color is
is wholly a matter of taste or fancy. The
Southern White Dent is very tender and
looks nicely when ﬁnished. Put a few
quarts, after picking over carefully and
winnowing. in a kettle of cold water over
the ﬁre. To-three or four quarts of corn
add two heaping tables nfuls of cock—
ing soda or saleratus. at it boil till the
hulls loosen. If the lye is too strong add
more .water, if too weak ‘add more 'soda.

-When the hulls will slip of! freely‘from'

the corn, put into a colander or a large
pan with holes in the bottom, and wash
in cold water. The corn must boil until
soft enough to suit the taste, and during
the process several washings and change
of water will be required, to remove tue
lye whieh~the corn takes up from the ﬁrst
water. The kernels wrll double in size
during the cooking and the kettle must
be large enough to hold plenty of water.
It'gthe corn rests too heavy on the bottom
of the kettle because of ten little water,
it will be in danacr of searching. Both
hominy and hulled corn are excellent
articles of food, and may be served in

various ways, in milk, with syrup, or with

sugar and cream."

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Train is always a great desire to know
how 'to furnish cheaply. A Chicago-
paper says abedroom can be very prettily.

“ ﬁxed up” by using blue jean, the cheap .. 1' .'
cotton goods whose peculiar hue. is just . ‘

now very stylish. Some time since we
notiﬁed our readers that this material
could be used for draperies for windows,
and for portieres, especially if decorated
with needlework. Now its use seems
more general; it is used for carpet, re-
lieved by pretty rugs of various sizes and

colors, and for dados, being tacked to p _

the wall in' broad, shallow pleats, undera

cheap but eﬁective gilt moulding. The '
wall above should be covered with a “

paler blue ﬁgured paper, and for a frieze
a broad band of blue, painted on the

,wall, with a narrow line of gilt deﬁning

the union with the paper. This ﬁnishes
the Wall in a very beautiful and unique

manner, which is also comparatively in- ~

expensive.

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San-r Pom: Por-Pm.—Wash two pounds
of salt pork in plenty of cold water, out
it in ’inch pieces, put it over the ﬁre in
two quarts of cold water, and let the
water reach the boiling point; when the
water boils pour it oi! the pork, add two
quarts more of boiling water, and.boil the
pork in it for half an hour; meantime peel
a” quart of potatoes, slice them half an

’ inch thick and put them with the pork;

season the poigpie palatably with salt and
pepper and cook it gently; [after puttin
in the potatoes sift together a pint o
flour, a heaping tea—spoonful of any good
baking powder, a, level tea-spoonful of
salt and quarter of a salt-spoonful of pep-

. per; beat one egg to a foam, mix it with ‘
the sifted ﬂour and add enough cold water

to make a soft dough, working quickly;
dip a dessert spoon into the pot pie to
he at and wet it, and then put the dough
into the pot-pie by the spoonful, wetting
the spoon each times dumpling is put in-
to the pot-pie; after all the dumpling are
put into the pot- pie cover the saucepan
containing it, and continue the boiling
for about twenty minutes, or until the
dumplings are entirely cooked.

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Contributed Recipes.

Fm Cm.- One cup sugar. half cup butter,

I half cup cold water, with a small teaspoonful

of soda dissolved in it; one and a half cups of
raisins. chopped a little (not ﬁne);two tea-
spoonfuls cinnamon, one of nutmeg; two eggs,
half pound of ﬁgs, and a little more than two
cups of ﬂour. Bake in two lay ers. Put a
layer ‘of ﬁgs in_the middle of each layer of
dough; place frosting between the layers, and
cut with'a sharp knife to keep from crum-
bling. ' Mas. J. A. M.
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Mock Banshee .—Soak ,dry bread in sweet‘
milk. Chop ﬁne cold meat of any kind, and
mix with the bread in equal quantities. Season
with salt, pepper and sage, withalittle butter;
make into small cakes and fry in hot butter or
pork drippings. - I. u. s.

Porrmﬁnr.—Boil the beef and cut oi! all
the, fat. Chop ﬁne and season with salt,
pepper and a suggestion of sage. Melt butter
enough to hold it well togéther. . Pack tightly
in bowls or jars, and pour melted butter over
it audit will keep a week. _

COBNBD Basia—To one hundred pounds of
beef allow four quarts of coarse salt, four
pounds of sugar. and four ounces of pulverized
saltpeter. Mix well and spread between the
layers of meat. Keep under aweight. I. o.

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