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DETROIT, MAY 9, 1887.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

I. /) VE ‘ 3’ DISSENSIONS.

 

Alas. how light a. cause may move
Hearts that the world has vainly tried.
And sorrow but more closely tied:

That stood the storm when waves were
Yet in a sunny hour fall oti‘.

Like ships that have gone down at sea.
When heaven was all tranquillityf

A something light as air—a look.

rough.

A word unkind or wrongly taken—

Oh. love that tcmpests never shook,
A breath. a touch like this has shaken!
And ruder words Will soon rush in
To spread the breach that Words begin:
And eyes forget the gentle ray
They wore in courtship‘s smiling day:
And voices lose the tone that shed
A tenderness round all they said:
Till fast declining. one by one.
The sweetnesses of love a re gone.
And hearts so lately mingled. seem
Like broken clouds, or like the stream
That smiling left the mountain's brow
As though its waters ne‘er could sever.
Yet, ere it reach the plain below
Breaks into floods that part forever.
—-.i100re.
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A FEW REASONS.

“ Why is it,” asked a friend the other
day, “ that so many young people who
begin married life with such seemingly
boundless affection, after a few years grow
so indifferent to each other, or are found
seeking a separation through the courts?”

In casting about for the reasons of con-
ditions which are far too frequent for the
happiness of humanity, several at once pre-
sent themselves. Infatuation is sometimes
mistaken for that clearer, purer sentiment
we call Love, and when the passing passion
has burned itself out, dissensions follow
speedily. Marriages are not infrequently
what might be styled commercial transac-
tions; a girl sells herself for an establish-
tnent, or a man wants a housekeeper who
will not demand wages. Swift says, “ The
reason why so many marriages are unhappy
is because young ladies spend their time in
making nets, not in making cages.” Nets,
to catch, not cages, to keep. It is safe to
say that if the parties to a marriage con-
tract Spent hllf as much time and thought
in making themselves agreeable each to the
other, after marriage as before, there would
be less fretting and chafing under the bond.

Talmage says it. is a mistake to believe
that marriage is the ultimate destination of
the race. He says also: “ There are mul—
titudes who will never marry, and still

 

greater multitudes who are not fit to marry.
There are thousands of men who are so cor—
rupt in character that their offer of marriage
is an insult to any good woman.”

This is

 

only too true; yet everywhere we see women
accepting such men, and then wonder-
ing why they are not happy. why marriage
does not change their husbands into what
they would have them. And there are
women who are too thoroughly selfish and
wedded to their own inherited or acquired
peculiarities, ever to make a home happy.
And one thing both man and woman should
remember is that there is no alchemy
in marriage to change dispositions, alter
habits or smooth away incompatibilities.
There is no sense in marrying a man who
has habits of which you do not not approve,
and expecting that a few words before a
minister will effect their relinquisinnent.

The trouble lies in the fact that girls are
trained to believe marriage is the ultimate
destination of all womankind at least. They
look toward to 1t as a means of escape
from present surroundings which may not
be to their liking, oras offering them a home
of their own in which they will ﬁnd greater
liberty and independence. Their thoughts
rarely stray beyond th3- trousseau and the
honeymoon; nor do they soberly contem-
plate the new duties and conditions which
they must accept: and a false and mistaken
delicacy prevents mothers from entering
upon the subject. One of the objections to
woman‘s being educated to any business by
which she becomes self-supporting. is that
as soon as she learns it she gives it all up
to get married. That is the fault of the
education of the past, by which she was
taught to look forward to marriage as the
end ofthe feminine existence. Conditions
will be reversed when she is educated to
consider herself an independent being,
capable of caring for herself. instead of a
matrimonial aspirant. Then she will have
less need to “ marry for a home ” as we say,
but will wait Love’s leading, and it is this
only which can assure a happy, harmonious
future. In any case, to marry without due
comprehension of conditions is to invite
misery.

Respect for each other’s individuality
must be the basis of marital happiness.
Some men seem to be under the impression
that women were not created for themselves
but only for the comfort and well—being of
mankind; and some women appear to be-
lieve a husband’s chief aim should be to
cater to their whims. Unseltishness nmst
exist on both sides. If one is called upon
for sacrifice and self-abnegation, while the
other takes all and gives nothing the
inequality is too great;
whelms both justice and affection.

The young girl, unaccustomed to respon—

 

selﬁshness over- .

sibility. brought up amid the abundance 111‘
her father’s house. and used to the luxuries
which are the fruits of a lifetime of toll.

chafes at the economies she must practictn
the privations and self-«:lenial of a more
limited income: and: grumbling at the hard
work, wishes she had " stayed at home. ‘
These are bitter, bitter u otds for the young
husband: he does not soon forgive them.
I doubt if he ever forgets. Anger and sor-
row are rouse-l in his heart. he may tell her
he too wishes she had stayed there, and
that hurts her. When the wife looks upon
her burdens as hardships. quarrels come
quickly, and Love tiles in dismay from
angry words. Toquote Tom Hood. "There
are words that occasion silence. and heat
that brings about coldness.“ And these
quarrels! They so degrade and lower us.
As the biting acid eats into the polished
metal and corrodes and defaces it, so their
continued irritation ruins the character. The
husband, too, quite as undisciplined and
unused to sacrifice his individual pre-
ferences for another. clings to his old
habits, and does not take kindly to the
economies made needful by his own re—
sponsibility as “ head of the family." and
“ Love is hurt with jar and fret."

And another trouble is that the average
young woman feels too much as if she had
accomplished the purpose of her
when she is safely married,
need to make herself agreeable, or interest-
ing, or pleasing. She‘s got a husband.
and he's got a wife, and she ceases all the
little ways by which she won him. She
would have been shocked if, as lover, he
had seen her in curl-papers and disordered
attire. But when it is “only my hus-
band,” curl-papers don‘t crunt. Now
every man has his ideal, just as much as a
woman. and the woman he marries is
generally speaking. more or less his ideal:
at least during courtship. As long as shé
represents that ideal, she is beloved; when
she ceases to come up to that standard.
she is tolerated or despised. (And the
same is true on the other side.) It is there.
fore the wife’s part to be, as wife, as nearly
as possible what she was when she was
Won. Was she neat, pleasant, amusing.
musical, intellectual: had she a voice “ ever
Soft, gentle and low that most excellent
thing in woman,” asweet sunny tetnper
that made her patience gracious, let her be-
ware how she pexmits herself to become
dull, uninteresting and shrewish complain-
ing and faulttinding. It is much moiea
woman’s duty, and a man’s too, to be
pleasant, sweet- -tempered and well dressed

being
and has no

    


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put away their school-books after they have
“ﬁnished their education,” and think no
more about their studies! As I pick up my
old botany sometimes for reference, and
look it over, I ﬁnd “lots ” of new things in
it; I see new relevance to its teachings, new
ﬁtness to its terms; a new meaning in it all.
Things that seemed sohard when as a pupil
I was studying them, are so simple now
that I wonder they ever perplexed me. I
have often thought what a grave error we
make that these studies, which we enter
upon in our school—days, are ‘not pursued
when we leave school, or taken up again
and reviewed in the light of more matured
experience and mental expansion. If we
spent less time in gossip, and over this
fancy work which seems the womanly craze
.of the era, and more in making ourselves
women of cultured minds and broader
knowledge, how much better it would be
for us and our little world! How few wo-
men in farm homes are observant of the
wonderful natural processes going on about
them in every recurring season 1 With
every opportunity for observation, country
people are usually very ignorant of all such
things, and it ought not so to be.

 

THE interesting little stories publisl e1 in
certain of our exchanges, about girls who

these small rooms are for private bedrooms,

for those who are able to pay for having a

roOm to themselves. The four corner

octagons are bedrooms a180;,the beds are
all single iron be'dsteads, with springs and
mattresses, a pillow, blanket, and counter-

pane white as snow. There are two bath
rooms, two sitting-rooms and a dining-room.

The building is of plank, laid one above
the other and nailed, all planed smooth
and painted inside and out. There are
windows on four sides of each of the six
outside octagons. The center ones are
taller than the outside ones, and have eight
windows on each side. The house is one
story high with a basement, the latter is
divided the 'same as the upper story, but the
rooms areuwd for different purposes. There
is a kitchen, washroom, two drying-rooms,
a coal-room, storerooms, pantries, a room

have brought the water and sewer up from
the city. There are three small cottages
on the grounds, occupied by the family who
has charge of. the place. The building is
situated on Crawford St., about one mile
north of the Boulevard and about twenty
rods bmk from the street. -
Woonsmn. TEMPERANCE.

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for the furnace, and a room where they .
make the gas that lights the building. They .

ﬁrst in a sclution of alum, rinse them well,

pass them through the tin mordant, rinse
again, and then put into the Brazil bath.

Silk and wool are even. more easily dyed,
these goods needing no tin mordant, as the
alum bath is sufﬁcient to ﬁx the color. The
Brazil bath should be lukOWarm for silk and
boiling hot for wool goods. The shades of
color may be modiﬁed on these materials by
varying the strength of the bath, the
mordant, etc. The addition of more alum
gives a purplish tinge. A little alkali added
to the bath gives a magenta shade. A rich
dark crimson is obtained by adding a little
logwood tothe Brazil wood solution.”

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DID Bess, of Plainwell, receive an en-
closure from the HOUSEHOLD Editor, in
rOSponse to a wish expressed some time ago
in a private note?

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A. C. G. notiﬁes us that the paper
“How to be a Good Husband,” in the
HOUSEHOLD of April 18th, was written by
Mrs. C. B. Whitcomb, of Hartford, Van

Buren Co.

' Do nor forget the HOUSEHOLD this .
spring, in the midst of all the home duties.
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go into fruit-farming, market, gardening,
cake-making, etc., to support themselves
and a small but interesting family accus-
tomed to every luxury, and reach the maxi-
mum of success with the minimum of dis-
couragement, “make me tired.” They are
very pleasant ﬁction to read, but I am sorry
for the woman who hopes to realize them in
fact. They may do some good, in ”arousing
an interest in such ways of making money
for. women, but she who expects to make
the bright visions her own will have ob-
stacles to encounter and difﬁculties to sur-
mount ‘not “down in 'the books”. And
these stories, like all other ﬁctitious yarns,
invariably lead to marriage. The minute
success is obtained, we hear the peal of
wedding bells. , Cannot we ever have any-
thing for women without a man in it? Why
should a woman who sees that she has laid-
the foundations of an independent, self-
supporting existence, abandon the fruit of
her toil as it hangs ready to her hand, to
marry and “ settle down?” I want to read
one of these pleasing tales in which the
heroine goes calmly on, a nice, quiet, pleas-
ant maiden lady, minus the “cat and cup
0’ tea” which are her usual accessories,
ﬁnding happiness, health and proﬁt in her
business, and not taking a husband for
either protection or revenue. 1 shall have
towrite the story myself, I fear, since the
ending I wantis so unconventional, but per-
haps I have not a a sufﬁciently vivid imagin-
ation. Bnarnrx.
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WHAT A PEST-HOUSE IS LIKE.

 

Easter Mbnday, the weather being very
ﬁne, I started out with some friends to visit
the new pest-house, which is just ﬁnished.

is two large octagons, with a square room

dyes that will color linen and cotton suc-

It is a very odd-looking building; the center

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

Loon out for the carpet beetle this spring.
This insect was quite fully descriMd in the

HousnnoLD last spring.-
To CLEAN paint, dip a ﬂannel cloth in
whiting and rub the paint, wash oﬁf with
clear water and wipe with a soft dry cloth.
Paint—even of the most delicate color—will
not be injured in the least, will look equal
to new, and the work is more easily done
than if soap is used.

 

AUNT ADDIE, in the Country Gentleman, .
gives these directions for preparing rubber
cement: “ Procure a piece of native rubber
at any large store where rubber goods are
sold, and cut it into very thin slices with a
wet knife, and then with a shears divide
these into strips as ﬁne as can be. Fill a
wide-mouthed bottle about one-tenth full of
these strips and ﬁll it three-quarters full of
benzine, which must be pure. The rubber
will swell up almost immediately, and in a
few days, if often shaken, get to be of the
consistency of honey. If it does not dis-
solve, add more benzine, but if too watery
add more rubber. The cement dries in a
few minutes, and by using three coats, it
will unite the broken places on shoes and
the backs of books, etc, very ﬁrmly.

 

BRAZIL wood is said to be one of the few

cessfully. The chips are boiled for several
hours, and the decoction' kept till it begins
to ferment, as'it ghee more permanent
colors than when fresh. To dye cotton or
linen, an exchange recommends the follow-
ing method: “ Boil them ﬁrst in a bath of
sumac, next work them through a weak

between, standing one east and one west
of the square room; then on each side, north
and south, there are three more octagons

mordant of'solution of tin, and then put
them through the Brazil dye while it is
lukewarm. This gives a bright Turkey red.

many who have not written for some time,
but are remembered by the HOUsEHOLD
Editor, who would be glad to hear from

them again.
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Contributed Recipes.

 

SPICE Chum—Three pounds seededraislns
one and a half pounds oltron; one pound of
butter; two and a half coﬂeecups sugar; two
cups sweet milk; four of ﬂour: six eggs; two
large teaspoonst baking powder; Lthree of
cinnamon; two of mace.
TILDEN Carin—One cup‘ butter; two cups
powdered sugar; one of sweet milk: three
cups iiour; half a cup corn-starch; four
eggs; two teaspoonfuls baking powder .
Flavor with lemon extract. '
PHIL. SHERIDAN CAKE—Four cups powder
ed sugar; one of butter; ﬁve of ﬂour; one
and a half cups sweet milk; whites of sixteen
eggs; three teaspoonfuls baking powder.
Rose ﬂavoring. '
Cursors POUND Cane—One pound of sugar;
one of ﬂour; three-fourths pound butter; ten
eggs; one and a quarter pounds citron, sliced
ﬁne. Bake one and a half hours. A nice
rich cake.
PYRAMID POUND CAKE—One pound sugar;
one pound of ﬂour; one pound of butter:
ten eggS; ﬂavor with rose; pour batter
in pans, one inch in depth. When
done out in slices—after it is cold—three and
a half inches long and two inches wide; front
top, sides and ends; before the icing is quite
dry pile On a cake stand, ﬁve pieces in a
circle, with spaces between, over the spaces
ﬁve pieces more,land so on; draw in the top
and put on a bouquet of ﬂowers. _
EVANGALINE.
BATTLE CREEK. '

 

 

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and spray your Orchards, Gardens, Grapevines‘
etc., with insecticides, and clear our
houses of m1tes._ Cheap but reliab e.
Sent by express If desired. Address

sass. M. A. FULLER (DILL),

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nly $2.

 

 

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DETROIT, MAY 9, 1887.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

L0 VE‘S DISSENSIONS.

 

Alas, how light a cause may move
Hearts that the world has vainly tried,
.And sorrow but more closely tied;

’That stood the storm when waves were rough.

Yet in a sunny hour fall off.

Like ships that have gone down at sea,
When heaven was all tranquillity!
Asomething light as air—a look.

A word unkind or wrongly taken«
Oh, love that tempests never shook,

A breath, a touch like this has shaken!
And ruder Words will soon rush in

’To spread the breach that words begin;

And eyes forget the gentle ray
They wore in courtship's smiling day:
And voices lose the tone that shed

A tenderness round all they said;

’Till fast declining, one by one.

The sweetnesses of love are gone.
And hearts so lately mingled, seem
Like broken clouds, or like the stream
That smiling left the mountain's brow
As though its waters ne‘er could sever,
Yet, are it reach the plain below
Breaks into ﬂoods that part forever.
-—Moore.

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A FEW REASONS.

 

“Why is it,” asked a friend the other
day, “that so many young people who
begin married life with such seemingly
boundless affection, after a few years grow
so indifferent to each other, or are found
seeking a separation through the courts?”

In casting about for the reasons of con-
ditions which are far too frequent for the
happiness of humanity, several at once pre-
sent themselves. Infatuation is sometimes
mistaken for that clearer, purer sentiment
we call Love, and when the passing passion
«has burned itself out, dissensions follow
speedily. Marriages are not infrequently
what might be styled commercial transac-
tions; a girl sells herself for an establish-
ment, or a man wants a housekeeper who
will not demand wages. Swift says, “ The
reason why so many marriages are unhappy
is because young ladies spend their time in
making nets, not in making cages.” Nets,
to catch, not cages, to keep. It is safe to
say that if the parties to a marriage con-
tract spent hzlf as much time and thought
in making themselves agreeable each to the
other, after marriage as before, there would
be less fretting and chaﬁng under the bond.

Talmage says it is a mistake to believe
that marriageis the ultimate destination of
the race. He says also: “ There are mul-
titudes who will never marry, and still
greater multitudes who are not ﬁt to marry.
There are thousands of men who are so cor-
rupt in character that their oﬁer of marriage
is an insult to any good woman.” This is

 

only too true; yet everywhere we see women
accepting such men, and then wonder-
ing why they are not happy, why marriage
does not change their husbands into what
they would have them. And there are
women who are too thoroughly selﬁsh and
wedded to their own inherited or acquired
peculiarities, ever to make a home happy.
And one thing both man and woman should
remember is that there is no alchemy
in marriage to change dispositions, alter
habits or smooth away incompatibilities.
There is no sense in marrying a man who
has habits of which you do not not approve,
and expecting that a few words before a
minister will effect their relinquishment.

The trouble lies in the fact that girls are
trained to believe marriage is the ultimate
destination of all womankind at least. They
look fozward to it as a means of escape
from present surroundings which may not
be to their liking, oras offering them a home
of their own in which they will ﬁnd greater
liberty and independence. Their thoughts
rarely stray beyond th3~ trousseau and the
honeymoon; nor do they soberly contem-
plate the new duties and conditions which
they must accept; and a false and mistaken
delicacy prevents mothers from entering
upon the subject. One of the objections to
woman’s being educated to any business by
which she becomes self—supporting, is that
as soon as she learns it she gives it all up
to get married. That is the fault of the
education of the past, by which she was
taught to look forward to marriage as the
end of the feminine existence. Conditions
will be reversed when she is educated to
consider herself an independent being,
capable of caring for herself, instead of a
matrimonial aspirant. Then she will have
less need to “ marry for a home ” as we say,
but will wait Love’s leading, and it is this
only which can assure a happy, harmonious
future. In any case, to marry without due
comprehension of conditions is to invite
misery.

Respect for each other’s individuality
must be the basis of marital happiness.
Some men seem to be under the impressiori
that women were not created for themselves
but only for the comfort and well-being of
mankind; and some women appear to be-
lieve a husband’s chief aim should be to
cater to their whims. Unseltishness must
exist on both sides. If one is called upon
for sacriﬁce and self-abnegation, while the
other takes all and gives nothing, the
inequality is too great; selﬁshness over-
whelms both justice and affection.

, The young girl, unaccustomed to respon-

 

 

sibility, brought up amid the abundance of
her father’s house, and u red to the luxuries
which are the fruits of a lifetime of toil,

chafes at the economies she must practice.
the privations and self-denial of a more
limited income; and grumbling at the hard
work, wishesshe had “stayed at home.”
These are bitter, bitter words for the young
husband: he does not soon forgive them,
I doubt if he ever forgets. Anger and sor-
row are roused in his heart, he may tell her
he too wishes she had stayed there, and
that hurts her. When the wife looks upon
her burdens as hardships, quarrels come
quickly, and Love flies in dismay from
angry words. To quote Tom Hood, “There
are words that occasion silence, and heat
that brings about coldness.” And these
quarrels! They so degrade and lower us.
As the biting acid eats into the polished
metal and corrodes and defaces it, so their
continued irritation ruins the character. The
husband, too, quite as undisciplined and
unused to sacriﬁce his individual pre-
ferences for another, clings to his old
habits, and does not take kindly to the
economies made needful by his own re
sponsibility as “ head of the family.” and
“ Love is hurt with jar and fret.”

And another trouble is that the average
young woman feels too much as if she had
accomplished the purpose of her being
when she is safely married, and has no
need to make herself agreeable, or interest-
ing, or pleasing. ”She’s got a husband,
and he’s got a wife, and she ceases all the
little ways by which she won him. She
would have been shocked if, as lover, he
had seen her in curl—papers and disordered
attire. But when it is “only my hus—
band,” curl—papers don’t count. Now
every man has his ideal, just as much as a
woman, and the woman he marries is,
generally speaking, more or less his ideal,
at least during courtship. As longas she
represents that ideal, she is beloved; when
she ceases to come up to that standard,
she is tolerated or despised. (And the
same is true on the other side.) It is there-
fore the wife’s part to be, as wife, as nearly
as possible what she was when she was
won. Was she neat, pleasant, amusing
musical, intellectual; had she a. voice “ ever
soft, gentle and low, that most excellent
thing in woman,” asweet sunnv temper
that made her patience gracious, let her be-
ware how she permits herself to become
dull, uninteresting and shrewish, complain-
ing and faulttinding. It is much morea.
woman’s duty, and a man’s too, to be
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at home than abroad, or in presence of others,
but

“ We have careful thoughts for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest-—
But oft for our own
The bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.“

A husband will contrast his wife with
other women, just as naturally as a woman
measures other men by her husband. It
should be the study of each not to appear at
a disadvantage. I knew a gentleman once
whose wife had not a single redeeming
feature personally; she was short and fat,
'with a brick-dust complexion and hair to
match, a mole and a mouth ample enough
for two, yet he thought her beautiful. She
had never allowed him to become “dis-
illusioned.” He had been attracted by her
goodness and lovable character, and she
took care he should never ﬁnd her to be
other than he thought her.

Some may say the women are getting the
major share of my lecture, and that “the
party of the other part” need it quite as
much. But our HOUSEHOLD is for women.
more than men, and all the world over it is
the woman who bears and condones,—and
is blamed. Ella Wheeler Wilcox some-
where says: “God Almighty ought to
have been a woman, since He has so much
to forgive.” And i think it'is harder for
woman to adapt herself to the altered con-
ditions than for man. All through the
wooing she was sought, her wishes were
paramount. As lover, he came to her; as
wife, she must go to him. Sometimes the

“company manners” of courtship have
masked real coarseness and want of princi-
ple, and the awakening is bitter; sometimes
the subserviant lover becomes the tyrannical
husband: or the complaisant girl a Xantippe
whose tart retorts are not borne with Socratic
philosophy. Always there is something to
bear, for God never meant us to be per.
fectly happy in this life: but with love as
the basis, and unselﬁshness, good temper,
tact and right reason as aids, we may not
need to study that lately issued book whose
suggestive title is “How to be Happy,
though Married.” BEA’l‘RlX.

 

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THE CHILDREN.

 

The letter from Beatrix on “ Children at
School” contains just the advice so need-
ful at the present time. It is a common
thing, tut no less absurd, to see toddling
babies sent off to school with older ones, to
“get them out of the way, and have the
house quiet,” as if at er all the coddling we
see infants treated to, as soon as they can
talk their room is better than their com—
pany. How much better for them to be at
home, where free from all compulsion to
learn, they can pick up the crumbs their
minds may crave by asking questions of
those who should freely respond! I read of
a woman recently who locked her little girl
in a distant room while she was making
cake, as the child annoyed her with ques-
tions about the ingredients used. It
showed a bright intelligence in the child to
wish to know, and she should have been
answered after the weighing and measuring
was over, and if properly trained she
would have waited the few moments quietly,
to be gratiﬁed with simpliﬁed descriptions
of the sunny climes where the fruit and

the spices and sweets the cake contained
were raised, ending with questioning her
in regard to the wheat and mills where it

was ground. A very pleasant little 'confab

between mother and child. and an item in
the education of a child not to be despised,
much better than a solitary hour of grief,
or a tiresome day at school. I do not ap-
prove of children being given the lead in all
things, but they ought to be treated. with
kindly attention to their needs, without
over-indulgence, which cultivates a selﬁsh-
ness which will increase with their years,
crowding out all tender respect for parents
and friends. Give them their dues in full
measure. but do not teach them by constant
yielding to their wishes to forget to respect
you as a parent and superior in age. Many
a parent who now knows “ how sharper
than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thank-
less child,” has made the child selﬁsh and
ungrateful by over-indulgence.
ROCHESTER. INCLE BOT'I‘.

HOW TO BE COMPANIONABLE.

In every society we ﬁnd that the persons
who are most loved, and most sought after,
are those who have a knack of making
light of their troubles and vexations, who
do not entertain their acquaintances with a
recital of a bad baking, a leaky tub. the
children’s measles or the shortcomings of
their help. They know how to keep
their melancholy out of sight: their nerves
do not furnish them with material for a
call; nor are they always on the outlook for
a slight or a change of weather. They do
not lament their poverty and make us feel
uncomfortable amidst our plenty (if we
have it): nor make us dissatisﬁed with our-
selves, but talk about things we like to
hear; they are silent on the subjects upon
which we disagree, nor differ with us for
the sake of differing. They do not an-
nounce their opinions as if there was no
appeal from them. They do not talk you
blind, nor offend by their silence; they do
not catechise us about our affairs, tut show
a genuine interest in all we may say or do;
in fact they have a knack of putting them-
selves out of sight. We feel beneﬁted and
are made happier by having been with
them, even for a short time.

How shall we who are fast growing old,
and are in aineasure losing our power of
pleasing others, remain companionable,
still make ourselves lovable. and have
others like to have us with them?

I am fast growing old, yet I have not lost
the child that Iwas. I am both old and
young. I have the same ready impulses,
the quick desire to please, the power to be
easily pleased, the same eager sympathy,
and the eager craving for the same? I have
read somewhere that if you do not wish to
lose your faculties as you advance in years
you must resist with unfailing persistence
any tendency to mental stagnation, by
forcing the mind to take an interest in
the events happening in the home circle,
among friends, or in the world at large.
After all it is a pleasant thing to be grow-
ing old, it is a grand thing to be a
noble old man or a noble old woman, to
have lived bravely, striven honestly,
loved faithfully; to feel life’s warfare al-

 

most over, to have the past with all its

memories and friendships, treasures with
which we would not part, and to have the-
future so near at hand that we are but
waiting for the full glory of sunset. We
must learn that wisdom itself will not die
when we do; according to the laws of
nature we are like pods in which the germs
of life are ripening, and which grow sere
and yellow as their day of usefulness de-
clines. yet they have lived to some purpose.
The heart and spirit can be kept young
and companionable, by going out of one’s
self for subjects of thought and interest.
It is not age nor sorrow that makes us old,
but selﬁsh cares.
PAW Paw. MRS. S. CONSALL’S.
____...___

TYROTOXICON AND CHOLERA IN-
FANTUM.

 

We give Prof. V. C. Vaughn’s opinion
on the possible connection of the poison
which he discovered in cheese as a ferment-
ive product of milk, and cholera infantum.
the Herod among children. The lesson to
be learned is the' importance of having
healthy cows, using the freshest and purest
milk for the children’s diet, and the impera-
tive necessity of the utmost care and clean-
liness of every article used in the dairy:

“I desire to call attention to the great
similarity between symptoms of poisoning
by tyrotoxicon, and those of cholera infan-
tum. I am aware of the fact that the term
‘cholera infantum’ is used by many in, re-
ferring to almost any summer diarrliu‘a of
children; but restricting the temi to the
violent choleraic diarrhoea, as is done by
Smith and other best authorities on the sub-
ject, we shall ﬁnd its similarity to poison—
ing by tyrotoxicon very marked.

"' The suddenness and violence of the at-
tack, the nausea and vomiting without
marked tenderness of the abdomen, the
character of the stools, the great thirst, the
severe pain in the back of the head, the ner-
vous prostration, and the tendency to deep
sleep are all observed in both. Again, the
white soggy appearance of the mucous mem-
brane of the stomach of the cat corresponds
exactly with observations in children after
death from cholera infantum. Cholera in-
fantnm, as is stated by Smith, ‘ is a disease
of the summer months, and, with excep-
tional cases, of the cities.’ I‘hus the dis-
ease occurs at a time when decomposition
of milk takes place most readily. It occurs
at places where absolutely fresh milk often
cannot be obtained. lt is most prevalent
among classes of people whose surroundings
are most favorable to fermentative changes.
It is most certainly fatal at an age when
there is the greatest susceptibility to the
action of an irritant poison, and where irri-
tative and nervous fevers are most easily
induced. If all these facts be taken into
consideration, along with the experiments
which have been detailed, and which show
the readiness with which the poison canbe
generated, it will certainly seem at least
probable toany one that tyrotoxicon may
be a cause of cholera infantum. A little
dried milk formed along the seam of a tin
pail, or a. rubber nipple, tube or nursing
bottle not thoroughly cleansed, may be' the
means of generating, in a large quantity of
milk, enough of the poison to render it

 

highly harmful to children. The high

  

 

   

 


 

 

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temperature observed in children with cho—
lera infantum, and which has not been obo
served in adults poisoned by tyrotoxicon,
may be caused by the continued production
of the poison in the child’s intestine, by the
continued administration of milk, and by
the greater susceptibility of the sympathetic
nervous system in children.

“If this casual relation does exist be-
tween tyrotoxicon and cholera infantum,
a knowledge of it will aid us, not only in
the preventive, but in the curative, treat-
ment of the disease. The first thing to do
in the treatment of the disease is to abso-
lutely prohibit the further administration of
milk, either good or bad, because the fer-
mentation going on in the intestine would
simply be fed by the giving of more milk,
even if that milk be of unquestionable pur-
ity. I would suggest that some meat or

' rice preparation be used for food, though
experience will soon give us valuable in-
formation on this point.

“ A germ which forms a poisonous pto-
maine by its growth in milk may be wholly
harmless when placed in a meat or rice pre-
paration.

“ Secondly, mild antacids should be ad-
ministered, because the poison, so far as
our information goes, is produced only in
acid solutions. The great value of the
chalk mixture in the treatment of the dis-
ease is well known.

“Thirdly, theoretically at least, the em-
ployment of small doses of some disinfect-

, ant would be of beneﬁt. I ﬁnd that there
is considerable difference of opinion in the
profession as to the use of small doses of
calomel in this disease.

“ Fourthly, the use of opium in some
form is consistent with the theory.

“ And lastly, the administration of stim-
ulants, brandy and ammonia, to counteract
the depressing effects of the poison, already
formed and absorbed, should be practiced.

“ All of these, save the ﬁrst recommenda-
tion, have been practiced in the treatment
of the disease empirically; but the ﬁrst—ab-
solute discontinuance of the use of milk—I
regard as of prime importance.

“Of course, it will be understood that
attention to securing fresh air, and to other
hygienic measures, is also desirable.

“ it is altogether probable that an amount
of the poison which would escape chemical

. detection, might be sufﬁcient to produce
poisonous effects in children.”

————.O.———-‘

MODERN MAGIC.

 

The well known magician, Keller, rival
of the renowned Hermann, gave an exhibi-
tion of his skill in this city recently, and
some of his performances were wonderful
indeed. In the Dark Ages such powers
would have doimed their possessor to the
rack as a disciple of the “ black art.” if he
escaped immediate death as being in league
with the Evil One. Nowdays no one even
hints at anything supernatural, or at the in-
tervention of other than human or mechani-
'cal agencies, yet the tricks are none the
less surprising.

At one of his entertainments he took two
clear glass bottles, empty, placing them on
small stands or pedestals thirty feet apart,

He then took a red silk handkerchief, un-

folded and shook it out to show there was

nothing in it, and that it was what it pur-

ported to be. Then with a rod he poked it

into one of the bottles, where it showed

very plainly through the thin glass. Stand-

ing in the center of the stage, at least ﬁf-

teen feet from either of the bottles, he

said “One, two, three!” and quick as

thought the handkerchief was gone from

the bottle in which it had been placed, and
was inside the other, which had been empty.

lIe borrowed a half dozen ﬁnger rings
from persons in the audience, and loaded

them intoapistol, bending and twisting
them to get them into the barrel. A box
perhaps ﬁfteen inches square had- been
noticed, fastened to a frame somewhat re—
sembling an ease], in the orchestra, quite re-
moved from the stage and magician, and in
full sight of the audience. After the pistol
had been loaded with the rings, Keller dis-
charged it at the box. Then he took down
the box, unlocked it, took out another box
which he also unlocked, and so on until he
came to the sixth box, in which were found
ﬁve of the rings, each tied to a tiny button-
hole bouquet. He appeared much discon-
certed at the loss of the sixth ring, but ex-
pressed a hope it might yet be found. Then
he took a bottle, apparently empty, and
offered to give any person present a drink
of whatever liquid he preferred, whether
milk, beer, gin, wine, whiskey or water.
Several of the curious sampled the bev-
erages, and one, who tested the whiskey,
was asked by an acquaintance in the crowd
if it really was whiskey which was given
him. “ Yes, it was,” he replied, “and
mighty good whiskey it was too.” Then
then the magician said, “ Now l’ll show
you gentlemen what you’ve been drinking,”
and breaking the bottle he took out a live
guinea pig, and about its neck was tied the
missing ring of the pistol performance.

Another feat was to take two common
ﬂower-pots, partly ﬁlled with sand, and
pass them about among the audience, that
they might see the pots contained absolute-
ly nothing but the sand. They were then
placed each on a covered table, on a small
board raised on three legs so we could see
under it, and be sure there was no connec-
tion with the table underneath. 0n the
sand in each ﬂower pot he then strewed
seed, saying ﬂowers could not grow with-
out seed. A big pasteboard cone was
handed him, which he showed was per-
fectly empty. only a cone of ordinary paste:
board. Approaching one of the pots he
placed the cone over it, not however to
touch the table, but only the raised board,
and, waiting amoment, lifted the cone to
disclose a beautiful rose tree in full bloom:
he cut the roses and distributed them among
the ladies present.

Taking two slates, he washed them clean,
then tied them ﬁrmly together. with a bit of
slate pencil between them. Then he asked
a man in the audience to hold them, which
he did, holding them at arms’ length above
his head, where everybody could see them,
and so holding them while the magician
distributed a dozen copies of a medium
sized dictionary in the audience. Then he
asked one man to open the dictionary which

word at the top of the page, and read the-
deﬁnition. The man who was chosen could!

not read, it seemed, and the person next

him pronounced the word, which was
"stoicism” gave the page, 417, and read

the deﬁnition. The slates, all the time
held in plain sight, were untied, and

“Stoicism,” was found written in large
clear letters, clear across the slate, and the
deﬁnition under it, exactly as it had been

read from the book.

Psycho, the wonderful, was the head,
shoulders and waist of a human being, ap-
parently, mounted on a piece of wood not
over two inches thick, and standing on a
cylinder of glass, so clear that the magician
could be plainly seen when he passed be-
hind it. This Psycho. human, mechanical.
or whatever it was. picked out dates,
counted, answered questions, in a surpris-
ing fashion. Keller, standing among the
audience, would borrow a coin of some per-
son, asking him to note the date. Then he
would say, “Now Psycho, tell me the date
of this coin in my ham ,” and Psycho was
“equal to the occasion” every time.

As ﬁnale, he performed many of the
tricks commonly known as “spiritual
manifestations.” While everything was in
total darkness in the theatre, tambourines-
were rung, faintly luminous guitars ﬂoated
through the air, "' spirit hands” were wav-
ing voiceless signals; and last, askeleton.
outlined in phosphorescent ﬁre. danced a
very merry can-can, ﬂinging off now a leg
and now an arm, which cavorted a bit on
its own account and then returned to its
place with an audible click; but the climax
was reached when the grinning skull made
a break for the parquette, to the dismay of
the women seated there, one of whom gave
vent to ablood-curdling “ E—e-e—ch!”
And in the midst of it all, when he said
"Light!” and the full head of gas was
turned on as quick as thought, all over the
house, the magician stood quiet and com-
posed in the centre of the stage, as tranquil
as if he had had no connection with the
uncanny performances of a moment before,
which he explained were due to ingenious
mechanical devices. “But his deeds were
wonderful.” 1.. C.

Ds'rnoir.
—-——-4oo——-—-—

ITEMS ABOUT THE STYLES.

Heliotrope, in all its shades, is the most
fashionable color at the moment. Mer-
chants and milliners complain they cannot
get enough of dress goods, ribbons and
flowers of this hue to satisfy the demand.
It is a beautiful and showy color, but very
trying to the complexion, bringing out. all
the yellow tints. And some of the com--
binations m which it is seen are "perfectly
paralyzing,” as for instance a blue dress-
with cardinal facings With which is worn-
an ecru bonnet with mauve ribbons and a
red plume ! But when a color becomes “the-
rage,” it seems to matter little whether it is
becoming to the wearer or correspondent to
her other clothing.

The new styles of gloves are quite heavily
stitched in black or colors across the backs.
Silk gloves will be worn as much as ever
this summer.

“ I’ve seen nothing but points since I’ve

 

 

on the stage, in full view of the audience.

 

  

he held and tell aloud the page and the ﬁrst

 

been in the city,” said a young lady who-


 

 

 

 

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

 

always keeps her eyes open on her visits to
'this city. “All Detroit seems draped in a
.point.” And truly, nine-tenths ot' the
dresses one sees on the streets have the

.long, full, pointed drapery in the back,
which has been described in the Horse-
HOLD.

The new parasols are large, generally
striped in two colors. with very long han-
dles. They are very snowy and conspicu—
.ous. Lace parasols are cheaper, sure sign
they are going out of favor. Silk umbrellas
.are of double-faced silk. in two colors: very
«elegant and serviceable ones, of Windsor
silk, with fancy silver or gold-plated
handles can be had for $3.50. and the in-
:vestment is a good one.

If you have an old silk dress, brocade,
’Irish poplin, ~etc., “ now‘s the day and
now’s the hour” to utilize it. Do not try
:to patch out a costume. but make the old
.goods into a pleated or plain skirt, arrang:
ing it so the sides will be covered nearly to
:the waist line. Then buy some light-
weight wool goods, camelette, nun’s veil-
;ing, crape cloth, or something of the kind;
:and of it make a basque with soft gathered
«vest of silk like the skirt, or with silk re-

3 'vers, and arrange on the lower skirt a deep
:apron raised high at the sides. and a full-
\pleated back drapery. Of goods forty
inches wide from three to four widths will
be required for drapery, for everything is
(very full nowdays.

—____..'...————

“‘FOR AS HE THINKETH IN HIS
HEART SO IS HE."

 

{Paper read by Mrs. Chas. Rogers before the
K ebster Farmers‘ Club, April 12th, 1887.

We have had given us minds with which
we are capable of thinking, and the use we
make of these thoughts, decides for us what
we shall accomplish in any profession we
may follow. True, some may toil diligent-
_rly in the same calling ‘with others, and
rthat calling be the one for which thev are
vboth best ﬁtted, and while doing the same
:amount of hard work, may not accomplish
the same results. But this should not dis-
.courage us, for the cultivation of the
faculties of mind we. do possess, is all that
.is required of us. But after all, I don’t be—
lieve there is as much difference between
human beings as is generally supposed,
.either intellectually, spiritually, or morally.
After making due allowance for traits
which we may have inherited, and in-
ﬂuences which may surround us, especially
in early life, many of our failures could be
2 traced to the fact that we have not used as
we might what we do know. That there
.are minds far above and also far below the
.average there is no question; but these are
the exception, not the rule. I have heard it
:remarked that a few leading minds govern-
ed the whole world. Be this as it may,
there seems to be some in the human
family who have been given especial talent
in certain directions; among these are
the poet, the pai'nter and the musician.
-Such men as Shakespeare, Raphael, and
Mozart must have been inspired, to have
been able to leave such a heritage to the
world. Think you such beings as these
were “created a little lower than the
angels,” or were they the oi‘fSpring of the

ape and the ape’s great grandfather? It is
bad enough to have descended from
Adam: “In Adam's fall wesinned all,” is
a proverb which though no better for our
present condition and future prospects. is
more consoling to our self-respect than
having descended from lower animals.

But these persons I have just mentioned
as seeming to have especial talent, do not
possess one more faculty of mind than we
do. The difference, if any. is in degree, not
in kind. 0f how much these minds of ours
are capable we shall never know, unless we
use them to the best of our knowledge.
Those who are of a decided turn usually
strive to achieve success in some particu-
lar work. and so marked is this generally,
that they or those best acquainted with
them have no difﬁculty in seeing it. Such
do not yield easily to circumstances, but
make circumstances yield to them. And if
their pursuit be a worthy one they will
thereby accomplish much good. Our minds,
like our bodies, require proper exercise or
they will become weak and feeble. I be-
lieve we all have more or less undeveloped
powers of mind; and in this enlightened
age, few are so ignorant as not to be some-
what to blame for it. There is something
within us which tells us we should use what
we know; that we and others may be
beneﬁted for our having lived in the world.
If it is happiness we are all seeking for
ourselves both here and hereafter, t.iis is
the sure road which leads to it, but we
should not always be thinking of our own
happiness when we do a good act; as it
tends to make us more selﬁsh. I have
heard some people talk as though their hap-
piness here depended entirely upon outside
sources, and with them, the very things
which they did not possess were all
they lacked of making their bliss com-
plete; usually the things they covet would
require money to obtain. If the person
having this disposition be a gentleman, a
ﬁne horse may be the one thing needful; if
alady, her wants may not be easily sup-
plied, nothinz short of a ﬁne mansion with
all the modern improvements, folding
doors, bay windows and acoal stove; or
perhaps a library of gilt-edged books, just.
to look at, upon who 3e pages no thumb has
ever left a mark. Or her sufferings may be
caused by her excessive love of dress; which
her limited means are not sufﬁcient to
gratify. But however desirable all of these
things may seem to us, they alone will
not secure for us the results which we
should seek. There is many a ﬁne
mansion which is notahome in the real
sense of the word; however perfect it may
be in architectural design and ﬁnish, it
may not be the abode of kindred spirits or
hearts that beat as one. The parents may
not look upward and within for light with
which to guide their household. In the
home, as elsewhere, much of our trouble is
the result of selﬁshness; but how few there
are who can excuse their selﬁshness so
aptly as the husband, whom the poet de-
scribes:

“ My dear, what makes you always yawn?”
The wife exclaimed, her temper gone.
“ Is home so dull and dreary?”
“ Not so,” he said, “ my love, not so;
But man and wife are one, you know,
And when alone I’m weary.”

 

Neither do fine garments always cover a
careworn heart, for we cannot if we would,

-hide from the world the lives we live. for

they leave their impress upon our features.
Hear Goldsmith, after all of his wander-
ings. when he says, “Vain, very vain, I
seek to ﬁnd the bliss which only centers in
the mind.” '

But if all of our faculties were fully de-
veloped we would not all choose the s ame
pursuits; for we are so constituted that we
do not all think alike. Then as now,
while one Would choose the life of the public
teacher, another might prefer to dwell in
green pastures by the side of still waters.
Thus from all of the positions offered us,
we may ﬁnd if we will some one in which
we can do a good work. However humble
the position, we can honor it by intelligent.
conscientious labor. The heights are sel-
dom reached by brilliant strokes, but rathi r
by persistent effort. As the huge drifts are
formed from the falling of tiny snowﬂakes:
so little by little are desired results reached
by individuals.

( To be Continued.)
_.__.....__..

Contributed Recipes.

YULE Gama—This is the German Christmas
cake and is made as follows: One pound
butter; one of sugar; one and a half pounds
ﬂour; two pounds currants; one pound raisins
and citron, chopped together; two ounces
sweet almonds, pounded in a mortar; ts n
eggs; quarter of an ounce allspice and cinna-
mon. Melt the butter and pour in the sugar:
add allspice and cinna non; in a quarter of
an hour work in the yolks of the eggs two or
three at a time; beat whites to a stiff snow
and work in the paste. It must not stand to
chill the butter, or it will be heavy. Work in
the whites; then add citron, raisins, cur-rants
and almonds, mixed together; bake in a hot
oven three hours; put twelve sheets. of paper
under to prevent burning. Although trouble-
some to make, it well repays the work by its
delicious ﬂavor, and its capacity for being
fresh and delicate. AZALIA.

 

OATMEAL Guns—Soak one cup oatmeal
over night in one cup of water; in the morn-
ing add one cup of milk, either sweet or sour,
one teaspoonful baking powder, one cup
Graham ﬂour, a little salt. Bake in warm
gem pans in a quick oven.

, BREAKFAST Canes—One egg, one cup

sweet milk, one cup ﬂour, a bit of salt. Drop

the well-beaten batter into hot gem pans,

bake in a hot oven and eat as quick as ever

you can. H. H.
BATTLE CREEK.

 

FEATHER CAKE—One tablespoonful butter;
one cup sugar; one and ahalf cups ﬂour; half
cup milk; two eggs; half teaspoonful cream—
tartar; quarter teaspoonful soda. Dissolve
the soda in the least bit of boiling water, sift
the cream-tartar through the ﬂour, and beat
the butter, sugar and eggs thoroughly.

MOLLIE.

 

 

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