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BADYLAND.

_ Have you heard of the. Valley of Babyland, . '
The realm where the dear little darlings stay
Till the kind storks go, as all men know, ‘ , .1
And 0! so tenderly bring them away? .
The paths are winding, and past aliﬂnding
. By all, save the storks, who understand .
The gates and the highways, .and intricate by-
ways —‘ .
That lead.to_Babyland.

The path to the Valley of Babyland, ,
Only the kingly white storks know, ,
’ If they ﬂy over mountains or wade through
fountains; .
No man sees them come and go, ' .
But an angel maybe who guards some baby,
Or a fairy perhaps with her magic wand,-
Brings them straightway to the wonderful gate-

way
That leads to BabyISEd.

All over the Valley 0 abyland»
Sweet ﬂowers bloom in soft green moss,

And under the ferns fair, and under the leaves
. there,
Lie little hepds like spools of ﬂoss.

With a soothing murmur the river of Slumber
Flows 0 er a bed of silver sand;

And angels are keeping watch o’er the sleeping

.. Babe: of B'abyland.

And there in the Valley of Babyland, ’
' Under the mosses and leaves and ferns, ; '
Like an unﬂedged starling they ﬁnd the darling
For whom the heart of a mother yearns,
And they lift him lightly and tuck him tightly
In feathers soft as a lady‘ 8 hand, ‘
‘ And off with a rock-a a-way step they walk away
Out of Babyland.

‘ .As they go frOm the Valley of Babyland -
_ Forth into the world of great unrest,
Sometimes weeping he wakes from sleeping,
Befére he reaches his mother‘s breasta
. Ah! how she blesses him, how she caresseshiml
Bonniest bird in the bright home band, .
That o‘er land and water, the kind stork brought
' her .
From far—oﬁ' Babyland.

—-E'lla Wheeler Wilcox. ,jf

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THE DIGNITY OF HOUSEWORK

_ Our new contributor from Fenton'seems
to think the special hardships of a hired
girl’s lot lie in the fact that she must get up
in the morning and build ﬁres and bake
" cakes while her employer’s family eat them.
I wonder how many wives 'in Michigan per-
‘form these very duties, and many more
onerous, without the satisfaction of being
paid, either in money or affection, for so
doingl- 'But somebody must bake cakes and

build ﬁres, else humanity‘must go cold and ‘

hungry. The trouble is nowdays everybody
wishes to live by their wits; few are willing
to perform so-called “menial” labor. Yet
if you take away the results achieved by them
hand workers, what becomes of the brain
workers? The two are interdependent; one

cannot exist absolutely without the other.
Brains must be nourished by food, and food
,without mental power makesman a mere
animal. Is it not as noble to prepare the

health maintained, asto paint the semblance
of a rose to delight the eye, or evoke har-
mony to please the ear? Is it not a more
honorable ofﬁce to cook-a dinner than to
merely eat it? “The cook, before every meal,
has a half dozen articles. of food, no two of
which are prepared ,or cooked in the same

, manner, with the same degree of heat or in

the same length of time. Yet every one
must be prepared for its baptism of ﬁre at
the proper moment and held in mind while
cooking; and all these various kinds brought
out at the right moment, neither under or
overdone, but ready to be served at just the
right time.” — Pray, is not this a labor of in-
telligence, an achievement of generalship,

. a triumph to be proud of? .

-Which would “Cultivated John” prefer
in a wife, the ability to supply in ﬁtting
formand season these needs common to
humanity, or the disdain of “menial tasks”

warm meals while she makes dresses or
“clerks” in a store? If he says he would
have both the cultivated mind and the
house- keeping talent, as any sensible man
will, he has robbed his own argument of its
point.

It is true that most farmers’ daughters,
as well as other gi1ls, will do anything
rather than go out as hired girls. But this
is simply due to an unworthy pride of social
caste, a servilg submission to “they say.”
Nor does it alter the fact. before alluded to,
that some might do much better work
forﬁankind by baking pancakes than trying
410 mould character.

The Mayor of New York city, in an inter-
view reported for publication, puts the
whole matte? in a nutshell when he says
that the great reasons why women will not
engage indomestic service, lie in the neces—
sity of‘receiving commands from a mistress
and the sense of inferiority which accom-
panies it. But I have yet to learn of any
work in which wageeamers‘ can engage in
which they are not under orders from those
entrusted with the completed work. Nor
can I see that the question of equality need
enter. Here is a commercial transaction,
so much work for' so much money; why
should the maid in the kitchen, engaged to
perform certain speciﬁed tasks for a certain
consideration, grumble and feel abused be-
cause she is not desired to aid her employer
to entertain guests in- the parlor? Does she,

 

herself, desire her mistress’ s presence when

food without which life cannot be sustained,or .

which leaves him to skirmish round for '

 

she receives her own friends? Seems to me
this is merely a sensible view of the matter,
and we are often hidden to take “business
views” of women’s work and place.

The assertion was recently made in my
hearing, by a lady whose experience with
help qualiﬁes her to speak from the depths
of personal knowledge, that the servant
girls in the kitchens of Detroit waste, abso-
lute waste, one-half of the ‘ living expenses.
of their employers’ families. In lavish use .
of materials,’ in waste of what is left over,
in poor cooking, half the expense of the
table is wasted. Is not, then, “the girl” a' ‘
factor in the nation’s prosperity? ’ '

Taking another View, the servant girl
builds ﬁres for her employer and-bakes
cakes while they eat. The saleswoman in
the store is compelled to be at the store
often before her employer is up, and she is
ﬁned if she is not there. His wife would no
sooner think of sitting at table with one of:
the employes of her husband’s store than»
with her own hired girl; if either, the do»,
mestic would be preferred, as more of the'
family. Here is a hardship which militates
against the saleswoman, whose “proper
pride” should lead her to demand social
recognition of her employer.

But 1 believe that I, too, am entitled to a
grievance. I am obliged to work in an
extremely dingy oﬁice—at this "moment-—
whether I am in the humor or not, stormy
days or sunny ones, thermometer 10 degrees '
below zero or. up to 95, to get up this
HOUSEHOLD, which those who subscribe
for the FARMER can read at their leisure, in
their easy chairs, while I am industriously
engaged in preparing copy and reading
proof for another one. The readers have
all the pleasure, and I have all the work.
True, 1 am paid for doing it, and our read-
ers pay for the paper, nevertheless the fact
remains that I have a good deal of hard
work to do to prepare something disposed
of as easily as hot cakes at a farmer’s table.
Am I justiﬁed, therefore, in considering the
work degrading and in mounting the ex-
change table, and with hands grimed by the
soil of printers’ ink, a “reviSe” twisted in
my bangs, and With blue pencil in one hand
and copy-hook in the other, inveighing bit-
terly against the providence which made
me, not a Bancroft, a Holland or a Howells,
but only Bnarnrx?

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MAX, of Plymouth, wishes some ex-
perienced housekeeper would‘tell her what
makes her cucumber pickles turn black
when put into the vinegar, and give a
remedy. -" -

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“ Sometimes when I'm sitting alone. ~
D 3 alone in the night . ‘
There ﬂoats with the scent got thhe ﬂowers
0n moonbeams weird and wh i,te
The thrill of a well known voice,
That I thought to be silent for aye,

With the cadence I loved to hear . Ag most ﬁnished.”

In the years that have rolled away."

, All-fancy, do you say? all pure imagina-
tion, the dead 11 never return to us! Then
many,many are laboring under an illusion.

" Some say we live after death, others that
this life is all: there is no future life. 'There
is a second life in Nature; die‘bare brown
branches, the lifeless ﬂower stalks, the

~ fallen leaves, show that there is death in
Nature. But with the returning sun in
spring, the warm showers and dew, the
leaf buds and'ﬂower buds burst into new
life. Then why, may We not/ :asonably
think and hope that there is 231 its beyond
the tomb? We very often war the dying
speak of attendant angels severing about
them. I do not doubt but that they are
seen; as earth recedes from view, the eye
sees more clearly the things that are spirit-
ual. They may attend us all through life,

/_ but our eyes are dim and we cannot see

'“ them. Haven’t you sometimes started from
your slumbers, and thought mother had
. been with you, had held communication
with you, and you catch the word mother
on your lips, awake and ﬁnd yourself alone.
Sometimes clasp the darling that left your
arms long, long ago, clasp it close and hear
the cooingvoice, kiss the dimpled cheek,
feel the thrill of Ihappiness as you did
in life; sometimes feel the strong arm
that was your stay and support but
left you to battle with life alone, ken
and ﬁnd it all fancy? Oh! I do not know.
.If we are a family here, an? will be a
family there in the great Beyond, there can
be no separation. , I have been told of an
instance wherea young girl dying raised her
hands and murmured “Mother,” seeming
to clasp the hands of a mother who had left
her some years before. Could it be fancy, or
do our loved ones meet us as we leave this
life. God never created a soul to destroy
it.- Our life is not a bubble\¢ast up by the
ocean of eternity, to ﬂoat for a moment
upon its surface, and then sink into nothing-
ness and darkness forever. Every heart
has its hopes and aspirations. It would be
a dull nature indeed that had not. We-
llook upon the rainbow, the gloriously
_ tinted clouds, only for a moment, they fade
away and leave'us musing on their ﬂeet-
ing beauties. The myriad stars revolving
round a "midnight throne” far above our
grasp, as daylight comes. on, grow dim to
» our sight..- 'Forms of the fairest and bright-
est beauty are given to us and then taken
away, leaving us with empty hearthstones
and aching hearts. Man has a higher
destiny.~ "fThere is a realm where the
rainbownever fades, where" the stars will
be spread out before us like the islands-on
the bosom of- the ocean, and where m
beautifnlbeingsthat here pus before us
like visions. will remain with us forever.”
Rare you are; wondered what the
Wilts of. the. MRI were; with what
William mind must live over again the
whole life, what has been done, What
“might have been,”_ standing where earth

~cmlsand Heaven begins? 1 read awhile

’-~t‘~,"l:_.‘ ‘

ago of a great. msn who consulted a
physician regarding his health, and was
told that he had but a certain number of
months to live. “_Why,’.’ he said, “how
much I shall have to do! I never realized
how much ,I have to do in life until it is al-
One writer telisus' ffWe

would have.” But we hurry and worry,
and fret and' stew and lay up for a rainy
day, and when we are all ready for it, 'we
don’t want any money, nor ﬁne clothes nor
books. It 'will matter little whether we
were surrounded with wealthier struggled
with poverty, for-in death all are 'eduai.
Theré’ is the same entrance into the harbor,
the same peaceful rest within; and it seems
to me that the ear deaf to our cries must be
attuned to heavenly sounds; the, eye blind
to earth must look with rapture upon
heavenly glories, else why is it that faces
seamed with care and sorrow in life, old
and grey with trouble, after death lose all
this, and grow youthful, the lines seem
smoothed away, and such a peaceful ex-
pression replaces the one that told of suf-
fering. It must be that they hear the
voices of loved ones; it is such a narrow
line that divides us, it may be in songs of
rapture and praise, it may be in words of
welcome. .

“ There’ s not a song that stirs the gloom,

With its enchanting strain ,

Nor yet a ﬂower of sweet perfume,
But dies to live a sin;

The song of love. t e blossom rare.
Will burst upon the fragrant air,

And youth an beauty ever more,
Will live upon that golden shore. "

Bum: CREEK. EVANGALINE.
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A LONG LOOK AHEAD. "

 

How many of us who read this little sheet
entertain a daily thought of our old age!
This’ or that luxury is passed, tasks per-
formed, economies practiced with—the hope
of securing competence and ease for our
declining ye . . To provide an income is an
excellent t 11g; but when .we make no other
provision we make a great mistake. Old
age needs more than dollars and cents to
render it happy. If we bring to it none of
that softness of characterwhich is the fruit
of self-discipline; none of the sympathy born
of, deep trials and. sorrows; none of the

the best side of life and human nature; then,
whatever our outward. surroundings, we
must always dwell in internal poverty.

We each have some leading fault, which,
as Miss Mulock says, “Like a scar on the
bark of a tree, grows larger‘and uglier every
year,” and we should open our eyes to it
and seek to master it in .the prime of life,
lest in the decline of our strength it masters
us. The leopard cannot change his spots,

is no easy task to uproot traits or tricks
which are the result of birth or breeding-
but we can learn to subdue and keep them
partly out of sight for the beneﬁt of our
friends as well as ourselves. This fault

ours may be aggressiveness. melancho y,
fault-ﬁnding, quickness of temper or per-
sonal slovenliness. Ntithim'r renders an aged
person more repulsive than this last. The
'dlrt of play lyihg ever so thick over the

 

causes dliferent feelings from the grimy

should live as if this were the last day we_

cheeriness'won from the habit of looking on'

and we may not be able to change ours—it-

apron, face and hands ofa fair. from child E

darkness which ﬁlls up wrinkles and settles
on bald heads;j while if 80ft, rich tints and
fabrics ever ﬁll their noblest mission it is
when their beauty softens and reﬁnes the
angles and furrows of our “three score and
ten. ” “I will not wear a faded dress; I am
fadeds enough myself, ” said a sensible,
cheery grand-dame, one of the sweetest
old ladies I ever knew, Her memory is an
encouragement to all who knew her. She
“had hungered, struggled, kissed the check
of death, and ranged the scale of passion
till her Soul was deep, and wide, and soft
with sympathy;Z’—and, like Kathrina, had
also found, “Peace like a river on 'whose
waveless tide she ﬂoated.”

It is‘ it trying time when a woman acchs’
tomed all her life to household work and

onjthe hands once so busy, her energies
stagnate, and her mind becomes depressed.
With this trial in view we should gradually
'drop the burden of the house to other
shoulders, and try to develOp eyery mental
resource; never thinking ourselves too old
.to learn this or that, but feeling that we
shall need them all. If we do not enjoy
reading we must turn, to quilts, rugs, fancy
work~ or . perhaps
These failing us, we may ﬁnd the needed
stimulant in correspondence -in writing and
receivingvletters from distant friends. I
~knqvvan old gentleman who, in this way,
wins an interest for each day. and keeps
his'mind active and cheerful. Another, a
lady of eighty, was devoted to a huge pile
of manuscript known as her “novel.” It
was of doubtful merit and never appeared
in print, but it served a good purpose in
giving her something to think of beside her
achesand the changes of the thermometer

"It must require courage (more than we'who
are young-can imagine) '* for a woman to
standalone at seventy;' to carry graves in"
her heart, the weakness of age in her limbs,
the prOSpect of death- before her, and still
assume an interest in the bustling life
about her; to school her lips to pleasant
words and shed her tears in solitude—yet
this is often done.

.The greatest need of old age is love; and
this we must secure pretty much as we do

guarding it carefully when it is won. If
weare'blest with children, we naturally look

.sare'. If we have ‘no children the more
necessary it is that we seek to form other
ties, knit other hearts and lives to our Own.

as walk-we must bear in mind that, while
conscientious persons .will give esteem,
gratitudeor duty when due, (one is purchas-
adonly by. ions; that anoma'foodfzand—
clothing .without sympathy fend. affectiOn
will do' but little. An old. age.- mellow
with all past sunshine and tears; rich in
allthe-lesso'ns of- joy and sorrow.- drifting
plaeldiy along below the rocks and rapids of
life! What canbefalrer, Whateanbe
mart Wevwishitforoneandallafour
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In securing. these, and with our own family . — ~

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FARMERS AND THEIR INSTITUTES

 

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[Paper read by Mrs, L. R.
Farmers’ Institute, J an 18—21

.All arts and organizations have their ses-
sions and are known; by different names
according to their importance and the work
to be accomplished; from the club few in

ul‘eal at the Webster

number to the convention of. magniﬁcent

proportions. As the farmers are providers
for the World, it is pro-eminently ﬁtting they
should have their institutes, where they may
discuss the best manner of doing ,their work;
where all branches are represented, from
the] specialist to the representative of the
most extensive mixed farming; where they
meet with those who, having advanced
ideas, have stepped, aside from the beaten
path studied, experimented and tested, and
are ready to give a reason for the faith with-
in them. i

We should provide the best bread, mutton
and beef for our legislators and all who dis-

. _ pense justice, then" may we hope for better
‘ laws and better men to enforce them,

“Evolution,” some may say. Granted; if

we feed a man on green, watery potatoes,
‘ Jblack and heavy bread, tough stringy beef, '

there will be evolved a complaining, cranky
dyspeptic who looks through a blue medium
and cannot discern clearly the right thing
to be done.

As farmers we Ought to understand the

‘ best methods as well as the most remunera-

tive. Theopinions of representative farm-
ersshould not be withheld' from those who
are ready to enter upon their life work, -but

. are still undecided what course to pursue.

Whether the farmer receives much or. little
depends upon what he decides for himself.‘
There is a fortune in a small piece of land,
yet not all use the key that unlocks it; ﬁre
cannot devour nor cyclones destroy..

The motto of the Connecticut Household
is, “On man at the plow and woman in the
house depend the prosperity of the nation.”
Washington, the farmer, warrior, states-
man, president, and revered citizen, afﬁrm-
ed that “Agriculture is themost noble, the
most healthful and the most independent Of
all pursuits,” and the truth has fairly dawn-
edeupon the coming men. Boys who once
thought a peanut stand or a cake-and-candy.

' shop Would lead to distinction, now eagerly

look forward to the time when they may
possess a few acres of land. “Straws de-
note the course of the wind. ” We see the

,‘boy looking with pride and affection upon

his few pet lambs, or nursing with care an
unfortunate colt, and soon the father must
diSpose of his to make room for the son’s.
He gathers the fairest balls; from the potato

.plant, sows the , seeds, watches with care

and saves the results, till by and‘bfa new
varietyis ready for shipment. So with the

. cereals; he experiments, and with fancy cul-

ture brings to perfection a more desirable
It has been said that some time in- life

' we reach that for which we have aimed and

worked: so let the boys hope andrworlr for
a home of their own where they may sow

and reap, whore thermay plant and games!

and it they have ethe will, entity; persever-

' ‘ anee and skill they may manila allther ‘
‘ could reasonably ask for, Eat the pan or
"I boy who loves his work there is an inspira-

.of ease.
.the hungering for the luxuries and reﬁne-

. Future.”

 

THE B 0“ U 8 EH 0 L D,’

tiOn in Watching ‘the, contented ﬂocks, and
herds, the growing grass and grain, the
waving corn with its rich verdure. From
the turning of the ﬁrst furrow to the last
work in’ autumn there is a. lesson for the
thoughtful. A noble work! yet the moist-
ened brow, the tired limbs, the almost dis-
couraged heart, all attest that it is not a life
Economyhas been a stern adviser;

ments of life was, for a while, all to be set
aside; costly books and adornments must
not be indulged in,—but hoping and work-
ing and waiting, the last debt is lifted and
there is a promise of all that has been so
much desired. -

And when the autumn of life shall come,

as it will to all, when all praise and glory.

and fame shall be as a beautiful ﬂower
which pleased for a day then withered on
its stem, then may he turn to a well-earned
repose and quietly wait for the garnering.
“.0,—
“ NO SMOKING ALLOWED. "

 

Seeing arequest ina late number of the
HOUSEHOLD for “a good way to make a
cigar case,” I felt impelled to .reply. I
would, my dear friend, make it to corres-
pond with the use it is to be put to, as re-
pulsive and abhorrentas it is possible to
conceive. I think that any one who uses
tobacco in any form, in this enlightened

"day, is sinning against a great deal of light

and knowledge, for any good household
paper and every temperance lecturer give
us in a broad and glaring light the great
evils resulting from its use, both directly to
the consumer and indirectly to those in
proximity to him. In the HOUSEHOLD of
Dec. 23d, 1884, Maybelle has a good article
on this subject, entitled “A‘ Hope for the
I wish ail who have the HOUSE-
HOLD would hunt it up and read it, .for it is
worth your while. I will give a few sen-
tences. She says: “No words are strong
enough to express the repulsion any lady
feels on witnessing a mere boy, or some

great strapping fellow with more money

thaa brains and less pride than either, pull

, out a tobacco box and partake of its contents.

Then comes the saturating of the ﬂoor or
whatever comes in the way, with the ﬁlthy
contents of the once pure, unstained mouth..-
Oh, it is too awful, the way the youths of
our land are becoming so different from

.what the mothers would wish them. I

think tobacco and whiskey are two evils
that walk hand in hand, and whoever par-
takes of either is sure to receive injury
from them.” How much more might be
said, did time and space allow,’ against
cigars and cigarettes! It is too appalling,
the sights that meet us on every street
corner and almost every step and turn we
take. Youths, striplings, mere . boys, with
the loathsome things in their mouths, tothe
great annoyance and inconvenience of
friends, strangers, all who come within
range of their whiﬁs. Now let us be
faithful. to our trusty Mothers, sisters, it is
ours to watch, ﬁght, pray until these terrible

eurees'ereannihllated. To agitate these‘sub?

jeets, keep them before the mind of the
people, it seems to. are. is the way a reform»
tion is to be brought about. M. M.

   

  

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OPEN TO CRITICISM.

 

Several weeks ago two verses appeared
at the head of the HOUSEHOLD, on ‘f Find-
ing Fault” and the words would touch the
conscience of many a reader, and cause us
to think, with Addison, that the best way .
to live is to be “ easy here and happy here-
after.” Did all mankind accept this pro-A
cept, how strange all things would be. Were
the readers and the writers of the HOUSE-
HOLD all smooth and oily, how tame, and
how little we would learn thereby! Had
I never been instructed and found fault
with in a measure, I might think I should
have known more, but experience tells me 7
I should not; for our best friends are al-
ways those who have courage enough to
tell us of our faults, if we are wrong. There
are some who are always right in their own '
eyes. If Uncle Bott showed me a point-
wherein I was Wrong, it no doubt did me

than I am. I am not too old or conceited
to learn. This much 1 do know, that all
that is good and enjoyable,‘ is not wholly
on one side of the fence, and that,

“ If our duty and our wishes

Walked together lovingly,

Any one could be a Christian
Just as easy—don’ t you see?

We would count our present blessings
Worth more than we really do,

And secure more true enjoyment
For ourselves and others too. "

PLAINWELn. ANTIVOVER.
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CARE OF THE EUPATORIUM.

 

It is very easy to give woody'stemmed
plants like Eupatorium as compact a form
as desirable. This is done by pinching in
all straggling branches as they put forth,
and while yet tender, ﬁnishing before bud-
ding begins, as with the Chryanthemum.
Eupatom‘ums do well in summer set in the
Open ground, requiring less care than
chrysanthemums, though they enjoy favor-
able conditions as well as any plant. The
Riparian variety is the one that‘ blOoms in
.midwinter, when ﬂowers are most prized; it
comes as readily from seed as Ageratum.
E. E. Rexford, a well known writer on

,ﬂoricultural topics, recommends it as a

drooping basket plant, but..I confess that
after giving it a trial I can not agree with
him, nor does the plant bloomas freely. I
make a stocky shrub of it, and let it‘ grow
till it gets too“ large, which will be in two
or three years.

, There are a dozen or more varieties of
this class of plants which are natives of the
United States; one is boneset, another the
white snake-root; but Eupatorz'um glacia-
onophyllum is from Chili, as are also the
other two greenhouse plants 17).. elegam,
blooming in the spring, and E. Salim:-
folz‘a, in autumn.

I have had hyacinths in bloom since
Christmas, beginning with the dainty
Roman hyacinths, and now for the larger
varieties following. These, with Chinese
primroses, begonias and cinerarlas, have
brighthened the outlook in a rather sorry
looking garden just at this season." I have
a plant which has been in blossom since
the ﬁrstof December: it is Dream Mpg/mun,
a native of India, an easily cultivahd

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bread-making articles. This winter I have
done as never before, set away in the
cellar a quart of the sponge from each
baking to start the next batch, and have
had excellent bread. The sponge was

forgotten at one time and a small loaf riser.

used, whichanswered the purpose as well.
I have madefnew but once since November,
and never saw more lively rising sponge or
bread, or more sweet and tender.

Fax'rox. MRS. I. A. FULLER (DILL).

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AN ABSENT MEMBER COMES
~ AGAIN. ‘

 

It has been a long time since I last wrote
to the HousEHOLD; but I'have been so busy
this winter; seemed as if Ihave had scarcely
.time to think. ‘ ‘

In my ﬁrst letter to the HOUSEHOLD, I

‘ said that inorder; to save expense, and to

aid us in getting out of debt, 1 have done
Without’what a good many would call the
necessaries of life, among them being a
well and cistern; so I did.

Last fall we sold our place and bought
another. There are good buildings on' our
‘new place; the house I would not alter very
much if we were to build new; the kitchen

' is very handy, with cistern pump and sink

close by the stove, and well just outside of
the‘ door. Then there are cupboards on
two sides, reaching from the ceiling to the
ﬂoor, one with closing glass doors. I think
the kitchen perfection. The dining-room
and sitting-room are our main living rooms;
the parlor-we will not furnish at present
(ecopomy again).- I like our new home
very much, and I think we shall be very
happy in it. Now any one who has ever

,move'd—and let mesay right here, moving

is no - fun—will net think I exaggerated
when 1 said I had been very busy.

New I want to add my mite to strengthen
the side of those who favor blacking stoves.
I always keep my stoves polished, and by
being careful I can make the cook stove
look nice by polishing every other day.
Mr. Scotland once said to me that there
was no'article of furniture he admired any
more than a nicely blacked stove; if he is
in the hOuse, he does not hesitate to lend a
helping hand at polishing. Stoves look
nicer and I think they last longer. ‘

To Bess I would say i have a potato ball
started from yeast cakes after directions
given in the HOUSEHOLD, and I have used
it since last June. ‘

Mason. BONNIE SCOTLAND.

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GASOLINE OR KEROSENE STOVES

 

I hope our readers are not forgetting that

H ,E. M. P. wished some information about
'gasoline stoves, their relative cheapness.

safety, efﬁciency, etc. compared with those

.in which kerosene is used. I have never

- cording to . circumstances.

used either, but think for safety’s sake I
should prefer kerosene; though in careful
hands, managed by those who “never
forget,”'gasolin‘e is said to be as harmless
as kerosene. , Were I to use either in a
good-sized family, I should buy the fuel by
the barrel. Agasoline stove will consume
about a gallon daily, one day with,another;
the consumption of kerosene is somewhat
less, varying in both cases,_- of course. ac-
The gasoline

 

stove will do the most cooking, and seems
to me to be more convenient in a large

Jamily; there is less odor perceptible from

gasoline than kerosene. I would- be glad
if some one who has tried both will give her
experiences, as'what I know about either is
from questioning those who have used
them. BnA'rnrx. '

A PROTEST.

 

I should like to ask “ Cultivated John”
if it is in his home that the servant girl is

the last one to take her bed, and the ﬁrst

one to leave it in the morning, if so, shame
on him for not building the ﬁres himself.
If he thinks girls who do housework have
their hair covered with ﬂour and paper
rags, a mop in one hand anda rolling pin

in the other, he is .very much mistaken.‘

Farmers’ girls do not leave home to get rid
of work, but after a thorough knowledge in
books, return to graduate from the kitchen.
Hired girls are generally the ﬁrst to bed,
and very seldom the ﬁrst out in the morn-
ing. If Cultivated John will take tea with
me some afternoon, I will give him more
information.

Cozette’s recipe- for potato yeast bread
in the HOUSEHOLD of Nov. 16, is Splendid,
and needs no ball to start with.

Io nu. AZ ALIA.

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

TEE coarse stalks of celery which are not
nice for the table, are excellent to ﬂavor
soups. Shred them up, boil with the soup,
and remove before serving.

REMEMBER that if there is a prospectyou’
will be without milk to use for the table,
you can bridge over the interval by can-
ning a suﬂiciexit quantity. Have good can‘s,
with new porcelain lined’tops. Heat the new
milk boiling hot, and can as fruit.

 

THE secret of the “laundry polish” on
cuifs, shirts and collars, issaid to be in dip-
ping a cloth in a weak solution of gum ara—
bic water, and, after the article is ironed
dry, washing over the starched surface
lightly with it, just dampening it, and then
rub with a polishing iron till dry.

 

' A PAN of. mincemeat mixed ready for
pies, may receive with beneﬁt the spoonful
or two of dried or canned fruit left from
tea. the extra juice in the bottom of the
can, the spiced v1negar from sweet pickles.
Chop a part of the raisins you use, that they
may impart their ﬂavor to the meat.

 

ZANTE currants are the dirtiest things
ever put into food. Wash them yourself if
you do not believe this.' Even copious
ablutions are ha’rdlysuﬂicient to remove
the grit, stems, etc. They should be
washed the day before using, dried on an
old linen towel in a sieve, and rolled 1n
ﬂour before being put into cake.

... — 4..— .

A YOUNG lady says she often meets the
word rococo in print, as applied to certain

articles or bric a brave, and would be glad to ‘
know its meaning. The term is applied to'
any article of bric abrac which was valuable,
but which had passed out of fashion, to'

 

“come in” again under the appreciative \

taste_ of modern collectors. ‘ ,
,. 1
LILLIE W., of Metamora, wishes to know
where “Rose Clark, " by Fanny Fern, can
be obtained! also the words of the‘ old bal-
lad “Lily Dale.” 1f Lillie W. has any of
Fanny .Fern’s books she can obtain the

address of the publishers by reference to the '

title page, and write them for the 'particuc
lar volume she. desires. We will publish
the words of “Lily Dale,” if any one of
our readers can furnish them.
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Mas. VOLNEr A. GUNNING, of Ply-o
mouth, submits'the. followings statistics of
her labor in the culinary line for the year
ending Feb. 1, 1887: “Bread, 21? leaves;

.biscuit, 649; pies. 161, fried cakes, 171°,

cakes, 102; cookies, 658; besides meat,
vegetables, etc. , and pancakes once a day
for four months of the time. There were
three in the family nine months, and the
remainder of the year-there were but- two.”
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Coritributed Recipes.

 

' Man J nLLY r011. Tanner—Take the water
in which chickens have been boiled, let it get
cold; then take off all the fat, strain into a
kettle; add two ounces of gelatine, three eggs
with the shells crushed, also a wine glass of
any kind of wine , stir well; when it comes to
a boil skim; after carefully straining it, add

alittlaturmeric or curry-powder; then sim-I

mer ten or ﬁfteen minutes; turn into a mold.
JELLIED CHICKENS. —Cook six chickens in a
small quantity of water until the meat drops
from the bones easily; season to taste with
salt and pepper. When cold enough to handle
remove the bones and place in a pan or mold,

' just as it comes from the bones, using gizzard,

liver and heart, until the mold is nearly full,
mixing butter among the meat. To the water
left in the kettle. add three-fourths of a box
of Cox's gelatine and a little lemon juice;
boil until it is reduced to a quart: pour over
the chicken in the mold; leave to cool; cut
with a very sharp knife, and serve. The
slices will not break easily, if directions are
followed closely.

CHICKEN SALAD. —Boil one chicken tender;
chop moderately ﬁne; also chop the whites of
twelve hard- boiled eggs; add the same quan-
tity of chopped celery; mash the yolks fine;
add two tablespoonfuis butter, two of sugar,
one teaspoonful mustard; pepper and salt to
taste; lastly, one teacupful of good strong
vinegar; turn it Over the salad and mix thor-
oughly. This will keep weeks in a cool
place.

HALF-HOUR PUDDING.—Beat four table-
spoonfuls of butter to a cream, with half a
pint of powdered sugar; add the yolks of
three eggs, beating thoroughly, then a round.

ed half-pint of corn meal, and the whites of '

the eggs beaten to a stilt froth. Mix well and
bake. Eat with sauce. '

Dmomco PUDDING.—One quart milk;
threé tablespoonfuls corn-starch: the yolks of
five eggs; six tablespoonsful sugar; boil three
or ﬁve minutes, pour into a pudding dish and
bake half an hour: beat the whites with three
tablespoonfuls of sugar; return to the oven
and brown delicately.

FIG PUDDING. eHalf pound figs: ' quarter ,

pound bread crumbs, two and a half ounces

powdered sugar; three ounces butter; two.

eggs; one cup milk. Butter a mold, turn in

thébatter; boil, or steam- three hours; serve

with lemon sauce. ,Evauemzm.
Bums: CREEK. ' - ' '

  
 
    
     
    
     
     
      
         
    
    
   
  
    
    

        
      
     
  

 

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