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DETROIT, APRIL 26, 1.890.

 

 

THE HOUSEXHOL_D---Supplement.

 

 

THE INCONVINIEN’T SPRIN/r'.

 

(in, the octoliuk is merry.
And the robin full of glee,
And the bluebird‘s nest is building
In the gnarled old apple tree,
And the air is full of music: yet I ﬁnd on look-
ing back
That the sounds which herald Spring-time
To my dull. prosaic ear
Are the cheerful carpet~beaters,
As they whack both far and near,
And the sharp. staccato movement of a hammer
on a took.

611, the woods are full of wild ﬂowers,
Though the house be full of dust,
And l’d rather far go pick them
Than to ﬁght with “ moth and rust,"
For the world is young and fragrant, and the air
is soft and clear,
But I really am “ too busy,"
‘I‘is the tiresome old refrain, /
And I wish it were convenient,
«Though the wish may be profane),
3'0r the Spring to come at any other season of
the year. ~Advance.

WOMEN AND MEN.

 

A bright, positive little woman said to
me not loiig'ago: “ I like to talk to men
a great deal better than Ido to women.”
With a half-deﬁant glance, as if she dep.
recated yet challenged criticism, she con-
tinued: “ I dare say you think I’m horrid
to own it, butIdo! They talk of what
I’m interested about, whereas the women
look me over and, criticise me, and make
me feel uncomfortable.” I wanted to
pursue the subject; a woman with uncon-
ventional ideas and the courage to express
them is a charmingly new experience, but
the little group of talkers was broken up
and the conversation interrupted.

But the question remained in my mind:
How is it that an intelligent, wide awake
woman confesses to ﬁnding more equal,
agreeable and instructive companionship
with men than women? Then I remem-
bered the remark of another woman—one
who always reminds, me of Thackeray’s
description of Miss Fotheringay, with
whom Arthur Pendennis fell so desperately
in love, "beautiful, calm, stupid and
practical,” who conﬁded to me that a cer-
tain gentleman of our mutual acquaintance
always bored her dreadfully—“ He talks
over my head; half the time I haven’t an
idea what he means.” I suppose it’s the
difference in women, partly.

There isa good deal of genuine good
fellowship, friendliness and companionship
among women, but not as much as there
ought to be. Not all those who talk so

   

eloquently about the wrongs and injustice
done to women in the aggregate are kind,
or even just, to the individual. We all
know the woman who has awful moral
cramps inside when she sees anything
superior to herself; and alas, the cold-
hearted, narrowminded, envious, ma-
licious, correct, well-regulated, pious
women, who are pinks of propriety and
irreproachable in manner, yet talk away a
reputation without winking, are far too
numerous in all circles in society.

I have often envied men the ease and con-
ﬁdence with which they enter into conver~
sation with eacn other. Though strangers,

 

they seem never at a loss for a topic of in-
terest. But introduce two ladies, and
generally, unless their antecedents are
known each to the other, the reserve and
dignity of their manner chill at the outset
any warmth of friendliness. First im‘
pressions count for a great deal with our
sex. How often some mannerism, some
personal peculiarity, decides us against a
new acquaintance! I heard a very fasti-
dious woman say once of a new arrival in
town, “I know I shall not like her; I
never can be friends with anybody who
wears imitation lace.” Howells, in one of
his clever social romances, makes one of his
characters say a woman, if she’s genuine—-
“true bluc”——is more entertaining when
she’s alone with another woman than when
with men; but this presupposes intimate
acquaintance and mutual sympathy; and
the demolition of the barriers of reserve we
erect among ourselves.

A woman's beliefs and opinions, like her
broom and dust-pan, are always expected
to bein the right place. Her head may be
so empty it can’t help aching, but she has
her set of cut-and-dried ideas, thought out
for her by others and sacred by tradition,
which she is expected to accept as law and
gospel. The “proper”—that is, the con-
ventional—beliefs for women lie between
very narrow and rigid parallels. All
women and most men believe that only
within those lines is moral safety. For in-
stance, men believe women should be re-
ligious; they may not, themselves, have
any religious feeling whatever, yet they
feel there is something radically wrong
about a'woman who has none. Men are
perfectly willing to delegate their social and
religious duties to woman, quoting St.
Paul in justiﬁcation; the only thing in
which they do not want her interference is
politics. She can look after the salvation

 

of men’s souls by proxy; the salvation of
the country, being a matter of greater

moment, they prefer to attend to them-
selves.

Most of us have very decided opinions as
to what other people ought to say and do
and think. These opinions are simply the
measure of our own growth. The illiberal
woman judges according to her prejudices;
the broadminded according to her light,
and both are too much given to the ” in-
humanities of conversation." I hesitate
to say that men are less given to gossip
than women; but certainly when they
are gossips they are inﬁnitely worse than
women, because they will say meaner
things than a woman dare say. It would
be a grand good thing were there more
esprit du corps among women, such as
exists among men. Men are much more
apt to conceal or at least not talk about
each other‘s faults, while women criticise
and condemn from the housetops.

Now there’s enough brain and heart,
knowledge and sound sense among women
to make them even more interesting com.
panions than men. What then is needed?
Only power to break down the barriers of
reserve and diiiidence which keep them
dull and digniﬁed because they fear to be
misjudged if they are natural. Only to get.
rid of feeling that we are under inspection
-—and being mentally measured, judged,
and condemned or accepted byan arbitrary
but unknown standard; which gauges us
by speech, manner and dress rather than by
actual q..a1ities of mind and heart, and
which is far more apt to take cognizance of
faults than virtues. A woman with a
spark ot willfulness in her make-up is cer-
tain to present herself in proﬁle under
such conditions, and to encounter more
than her share of criticism. If she is
bright and witty she is “too free " or
ﬁippant; if original, she is viewed with dis-
.trust as being too unconventional; if well-
informed and ﬂuent in conversation, she is
pedantic and anxious to “show off.”
Women’s lives—most of them at .east—are
made up of small joys, small griefs and
hopes, really important to them, but of
little or no moment to others. They make
the mistake of giving them predominance
in thought and hence in conversation, ex-
pecting everybody else to be equally in-
terested. An interchange of personal eX<
periences is called conversation, and as
Abraham Lincoln once said, diplomatically,
“for those who enjoy that sort of thing,
that is the sort of thing they will enjoy.”
But those with broader mental horizon

 

 

should "be privileged to look for compan-
ionship suited to their needs. There is a

 

 

  


2' THE' HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

moral in the remark of the lady ﬁrst
quotedr "I can wash my dishes, and do
it as well as any one, but I don’t see why I
need talk dishwashingi”

Men, to a certain extent, talk to intelli-
gent, liberal-ideaed women very much as
they talk to each other. And that class of
women like it—like it very much. They
would resent an intellectual mince—ideas
cut over and pared down to suit their cali-
bre. They will prefer men's conversation
for that reason, and because men are more
tolerant of a difference of opinion than
women. Men will differ over politics, busi
ness, or any subject you may name, indulge
in heated discussions, and meet next day
and be as good friends as ever. Women
can’t do that. Look at the lawyers on op-
posing sides in a suit; they’ll call each
other horse thieves and liars, yet shake
hands and chat an hour after, and really
like each other at bottom. Whereas, op-
pose a woman publicly and you have
made her an enemy for life. If you do
not endorse her side in a dispute you are
no friend; if you oppose her candidate,
there is a Boyne Water between you. If
you differ with her privately, the very least
she will do is to regard you as uncongenial,
and one not to be altogether trusted.

Conversation is dull where no one dares
anything, but the one who dares is in the
midst of a thousand shoals and quicksands
with no danger signals up. Hence we talk
about people and their peculiarities, ac-
cepting Pope’s saying that

“ The proper study of mankind is man,"

because we fe r to talk aboutbcliefs, or lay
bare our hearts, knowing ourselves subject
to misapprehension, criticism, condemns»
tion. We can talk with men on impersonal
subjects, or creeds and doctrines, and differ
without being censured. Men are out in
the world, travel more, see more, meet
more people and learn more of life than
women, ordinarily; hence they ought to be
more entertaining companions.

Of all pleasant friendships there is none
more enjoyable and more mutually pro-
ﬁtable than that which may exist between
man and woman where sentiment is en-
tirely left out and the tie is friendship,
pure and simple. Such friendships are
rare, for the woman is apt tobe looking
for the ” attention " which leads to mat~
rimony, and the man to misunderstand her
interest in him. But where “the spoon
with nothing in it ” does not enter into the
case at all; where the man can understand
without a fatal wound to his self-love that
the woman simply desires to be treated
like a sensible being, asking neither ﬂattery
or compliment; and if she can ‘meet him
on his own level on all matters which in-
tereSt him, discussing them tolerantly and
dispassionately, the friendship is a blessing
to both. He brings, from the men’s world
of strife and business, the ideas of other
men, the events, the humor, the pathos of
life. She gives him sympathy in his
pursuits, an interest which stimulates, and
the support of her ﬁner moral perceptions
—-he would not wish to lower himself in
her estimation. Both grow more earnest,

mutual. And each has a greater respect
for the other sex, as typiﬁed by the repre-

sentative each knows best.
BE armx.

 

THE MENTAL TOUJH.
Nothing educates us more than pain,
and no one can be sick long without learn-
ing that thsre is a wondrous difference in
the presence of people; and many who are
all right everywhere else are an evil in the
sick room. You may have two friends,
equally dear, but when they come to you
in the capacity of nurse, the one divines
your needs, touches you just right every
time, soothes and rests you; while the
other asks a dozen. questions before she
does anything, then does it wrong and
makes you “want to ﬂy." The one tells
you some cheering bit of news, and with-
out putting it into words, assures you you
will soon be well again and everybody will
rejoice; the other details some funeral or
death agony. gives a list of those who have
died from the very malady you are suffer-
ing from; perhaps repeats some ill-natured
gossip about you, and manages within a
few minutes to make you feel that the
world, the ﬂesh and the third agent also
are decidedly against you. To any one
who thinks at all about the matter, it is
often a puzzle to know what topics to
bring up during a call upon the sick, and
about all the wisest can do is to carefully
take his cue from the invalid. One will
enjoy giving all the details of her pains and
aches, while another wishes to ignore even
the fact of being sick, and talk about other
people and other matters, and it is positive
cruelty for a caller to insist upon reversing
the order of those wishes.

Little attentions never fail to please.
Dishes the sick one may not partake of,
flowers she has never cared for before, all
are welcome as a token that she is not for
gotten by the world she is shut away from.
We are all aware of one mistake always
made in the country. Somebody is re-
ported dangerously sick, sympathy is
roused, and everybody hastens in to see
her, and is usually allowed to see her,
too, when every breath is an effort and
every moment is a battle with pain. After-
wards, when danger is past and the long
days of convalescence and enforced idle-
ness follow, they are too busy to make the
call which would really give pleasure.

People whom we have known for years
often seem to change beneath the touch of
pain and bear it with either more or less
of fortitude than we expected; the good
natured, bustling body may grow irritable
and impatient; the irritable, haughty spirit
change to one of unselﬁsh endurance. We
usually think the sick must be indulged in
every wish, but this is often carried too far,
and much trouble may be spared both
parties if the attendant enforces what he
knows to be best, instead of indulging
every whim of the weak, nervous patient.
It is often very difﬁcult to know how much
is due to nervousness; and in many cases,
especially like that of a young girl with
nothing to call her thoughts from herself, a

 

more liberal, more tolerant; t c beneﬁt is,

state of invalidism is kept up by the con-

 

stant watching and tender solicitude of a
mother more loving than wise. Hysteria is
said to be “ the greatest actress known to
the medical profession,” and is accused of
impersonating almost any known disease
with such skill as to bathe. detection.
Wherever any tendency to nervousness is
seen in our sick, the stronger ones about
him should try to develop the will power
and teach it to Control the nerves. Many
times what appears like harsh and unfeel-
ing treatment is far better than the petting
and indulgence of every whim, and the
right sort of management. by the right
person will do more to restore health than
any amount of drugs. a. 2r .r.

1‘!!0)I-\S.
-——-—-—-0~OO—-—~—

SOCIAL PURITY.

Social purity means so much! It means
talking about pure things; on pure, elevated
subjects; ﬁlling the mind so full of pure
thoughts and ideas that there is no room for
the weeds of evil to take root. It means
not to put a double meaning to sentiments
others may express, and to associate with
those who are modest and chaste in :onver—
sation; and also to keep a watch upon our
hearts and tongues; striving for the charity
that “ suifereth long and is kind, thinketh
no evil, is not easily provoked; hopeth all
things, endureth all things." It metns
constantly looking for the good, not the
evil, in the lives of those with whom we
associate; and holding to the doctrine that
the moral code is as binding upon men as
upon women, and discouraging the mar—
riage of virtuous young women with men
of impure habits.

Mothers need to be awake and )n the
alert to increase the safeguards of virtue
around their children. Blindness to moral
danger often invites disaster. Whether we

our little ones, like ourselves, inherit cor—
rupt, fallen natures; and it depends toa
great extent on the training given in the
home what shall predominate—that which
is evil and corrupt or that which is noble
and pure. A great responsibility rests
upon the mothers of the land; and when
we consider how many women in these
days assume the care and responsibility
though utterly unﬁtted for motherhood,
with no preparation for its duties, the
wonder is not that so many youth fall, but
that so many escape. ignorance is not
always innocence. Prevention is better
than reformation, but true prevention must
be brought about by correct education.

I believe there is no one thing which
will exert so great an inﬂuence in the pro—
motion of purity in‘the home as monthly
“mothers’ meetings " in town or village.
Get the mothers together to talk over the
different ways and means for the proper
training of children. morally and physi-

cally. If women would reads books of
physiology and hygiene, and stud the
nature of each child in its home, an sur-»
round them with nnswerving love, truth-
fulness and carefulness, knowing with
whom they associate, the places they fre-
quent, the books they read, how often the
children would escape the pitfalls which
are spread for their unwary entrance!
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ABOUT THE GARDEN.

The Wiegelias are among the very best
of all our garden shrubs, as they are ex-
tremely hardy and remain in bloom much
longer than other spring ﬂowers. The
white variety is so puse and its ﬂowers so
like miniature lily-cups it is quite satisfy-
ing to the lover of white ﬂowers. The
rosecolored variety, shaded from softest
pale rose to carmine, set among other
spring bloomers—the majority of which
are white—makes a delightful contrast
and one not willingly dispensed with. No
shrub is easier to propagate than Wiegelia.
Cuttings may be taken in April. Cut
back the tops and press into the soil a few
inches, making the earth ﬁrm around
them, and they will strike root readily. I
always save all the straggling branches
when pruning in spring and bury a few
inches in the soil, leaving only the tips out,
and am sure of a good supply of plants
the next spring. Another way when this
is delayed somewhat, is to take a low and
slender branch, notch slightly on the
under side, next the main shrub, bend to
the earth, peg down ﬁrmly, and cover with
soil, and roots will form and a good plant
be secured for the coming spring. If these,
like many other ﬂowering shrubs, are left
to their own sweet will they grow unsightly
brush, but can easily be trained while
growing into symmetrical tree-like form
and made far more desirable.

The Tartarian honeysuckle is a shrub,
and eventually a small tree of much the
same habit as the Wiegelia; and admits of
the same methods of propagation. The
colors are the same, the ﬂowers smaller,
but so profuse as to present a perfect mass
of color. The spire-as, shrubby and her
baceous sorts, deutzias in variety, snow-
balls and lilacs—white, Persian and old
style purple, altheas, mock orange
(syringa) and Greek valerian, delphiniums,
rosy beds of tulips, narcissus, hyacinth,
crocus, peOnies, blue bell -, aquilegia, lily-oi-
the valley, hesperus and iris in varieties,
and more than 1 can now remember of my
garden glories will bloom in turn in lavish
luxuriance. I shall not see them this year,
unless I make a pilgrimage on purpose, for
my business at my old home will precede
the season of bloom. Let no one doubt
the efﬁcacy of ﬂowers to endearahome
to the heart of any one not insensible to
nature's beauty. Each living thing we
have fondly tended, each tendril of climb-
ing vine, are so many ties to unite our
hearts, like the recollection of past scenes
and dear departed friends, to the memories
of the past.

Speaking of vines and climbers reminds
me I am to answer this question “ Can
Clematis J ackmanii be propagated by
layering?" No doubt that is the usual
way, but accompanied by gentle heat; no
amateur ﬁnds it an easy matter, and m .ny
are imported. The ﬁrst season after
planting out they must be shaded slightly
and at. the same time given air, and the
ﬁrst winter given slight protection. After
this they require no care, only food and

are well worth the slight trouble required.
I raised Clematis coccim‘a from seed, as I
have many times Wisteria, trumpet vine.
passion vine. but I had plants already
and the waiting was not tedious. When
plants of ampelopsis are set, or cuttings,
they should be watered occasionally in
very dry weather; and covered only three
or four inches with dirt, and nothing
grows more readily. They have no bloom
to recommend them, but their clean beauti-
ful foliagt is all that can be desired. For
shade or to clothe and beautify unsightly
walls or other objects the Ampdopsis
Veitchz‘z‘ and A. quinguc «712's. are just right.
DETRor'r. MRS. hi. A... FULLER.
-—-——9¢o—————-

PLANNING.

Doiyou know my friend? I think she
lives in your neighborhood. She is a wife
and mother; most people would say a good
wife and mother. She is a very neat house-
keeper; looks well to the ways of her house,
her husband and children. She is a great
manager, or rather she has a great penchant
for planning. She does so much of that
particular work that perforce many
failures result in the performance of her
schemes, which makes more work for her,
as she at once proceeds to concoct new
plans, which she generally prepares a long
way in advance; and this may be one ele-
ment that causes so many to miscarry.

The “unexpected happens” every day,
and several “unexpecteds” often happen
before her plans are ripe, and of course
often upset them. She generally plans
her husband’s work as well as her own.
She knows how many acres of this or that
grain, this or the other vegetable, should
be grown; how much seed is needed, how
many men should be hired, the. amount of
wages to be paid, and generally, what man
will best earn his wages.

When she informs her husband of her
perfected plans he often informs ,her he
“ can’t see it " that Way, and indifferent. to
the “grey matter” wasted, pursues the
even tenor of his own way: Entirely con-
ﬁdent that little sort of ruin will result
in consequence of his obstiuacy, she at
once “ falls to " to get her will in Spite of
him, or tailing that, to do what she may to
make his work afailure. She plans for the
hired man, in the kindness of her heart,
until the ungrateful being often leaves in a
“ huff.” Her plans for her children com-
mence with their birth—maybe earlier—
this one is to be a lawyer, the other a
divine, another an M. D.; generally any-
thing but a farmer. The girls must be
brought up “ladies,” so that they may
marry well, or at the worst, if they have to
work, it must be at something “ away up.”
Sometimes her philanthropy widens enough
to take in her relatives’ families, and 03’
casionally a neighborhood. And what a
worry the poor creature is in who has so
many irons in the ﬁre! Some must burn
and others cool. Yet I fancy such aperson
must be at a white heat of anxiety all the
time.

The worst part of the business seems to
be the feeling of personal injury that

 

water, and are so beautiful in bloom they

  

deepens the regret at the failure of her

 
  

 

THE HOUSEHOLD. 3

plans. She is sure if they had harkened
to her all would have been well; and if
other plans prove a success she is as deeply
injured as when her plans were not accept-
ed. In the home the same visionary scheme
prevails. She is planning the next year’s
wardrobes while this year’s is unmade;
plans trousers for the hey baby in long
clothes; sums up the recdpts from the
next. year’s dairy; counts the chickens be-
fore the eggs are laid; talks to her girls of
sweethearts and husbands before they are in
their “ teens," and has their trousseaux and
“setting out " arranged in her mind before -
they get a bean. Is it any wonder that she
staggers under such a load of responsibili-
ty, and is crushed by age while she is yet
young?

Atlas, carrying the world on his shoul-
ders, had a light load compared with hers.
He had only the eorporoslty to sustain.
She has its woes, cares, rcsponsibilities,.
acts and consequences to provide for,
without the power to compel acquiescence-
in her schemes. In addition, she has to
prepare a way of escape for all from the
consequences of their stupid blunders and
obstinate p'g-headedness. Besides, she has
to condole with that much abused woman
—herself—and invent ways to get even with .
the ingrates.

As a friend, she is “shaky,” as you are
likely to arouse her feelings at any time by
independent action; as a neighbor she is
tiresome and unpleasant, but in her own
home she is at her worst. She may mean
well, but she is dictatorially peevish, re-
proachful and sarcastic; enveloping her
family, her home and herself in that atmos—
phere of discomfort described as a wet
blanket. ' ' A. L. L.

Martsrnonre.

 

THE CHICKEN BUSINESS.

What is a Fannrzn HOUSEHOLD with-
out poultryt One year ago this spring I
decided to keep a record of the doings of
my hens, between forty and ﬁfty in num-
ber, for aterm of one year. After sum-
mingr up it does not look very big, but per-
haps, as a friend of mine said in regard to
sending in a record of his dairy business,
if I get itin the paper ﬁrst, it will not look
so very bad. Be‘Tiuniug with March, I
kept a. record of all the eggs gathered,
which in the three ensuing months amount-
ed to 136 dozen. In that time I set 26-
hens (I did not count the chickens hatched),
four of the number failed to materialize,
the hawks conﬁscated at least ﬁfty; a few
died natural deaths, one got drowned in a
tea cup, another trapped under a pint
basin. In the fall and winter I sold $22
worth, disposed of 22 in number other‘

wise, atea goodly number, and have on
hand at present a ﬂock of ﬁfty-ﬁve towls,.
and 18 little chickens. I also received ﬁrst
and second premiums on both fowls and
chicks at the Union Fair last fall.

My fowls are of the White Plymouth.
Rock variety. But that is not all the work
done by the hens; they kept a patch of‘
potatoes planted conveniently near, en
tirely free from bugs. Let us hear from.
others who raise poultry.

Thanks to Evangeline and is. L. Nye;
they came just in the nick of time to the»
rescue of Brass.

 

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COOKING FOR ONE.

 

‘ 'El. See. asks for help to make bread for
"“0n2." Ibake for two, and one is just
~shelf of two. I use three teacupfuls of wet-
‘ting; this includes yeast and water, and
makes a large. loaf and a small one baked
in a pint basin, to cut warm for dinner. I
use two cups of milk or water for baking
powder biscuit, or two cups of buttermilk
for soda biscuit. In making soda biscuit
mix the soda thoroughly with the ﬂour in-
stead of the buttermilk.

Either of. these batches of biscuit will
make us three meals; after the ﬁrst one I
turn warm water over them and set them
in the oven to heir through (but only just
what I think willbe eaten that time). Once
warming over does not. hurt them, but
.twice warming does not improve them.

d’ve just been making tapioca cream.
"snail ltell you how I make it? I take a
little less than half a cup of tapioca, put it
soaking several hours before I want to
cook it, sometimes the night before; in the
morning turn off the water, and add a
quart of new milk, set iton the back of the
range where it will keep pretty warm until
the other morning‘s work is done; then add
a pint or more of milk (1 do not measure it
but guess at the quantity), set it into a
spiderful of boiling water. When it is
soft and clear beat the yolks of four eggs
.and one half cup of sugar and a pinch of
salt, stir slowly into the milk, keep stirring
until it thickens; have the whites beaten
itiﬂf and lay on top or stir in, as you
dike; season with vanilla. If not sweet
enough add more sugar while cooking;
serve cold. This or any other custard laid
over a slice of cake makes a nice dessert.
Angel food cake is nicest for this; if the
cake is fresh put together when wanted; if
dry long enough before that the cake may
have time to moisten through. I like this
way much better than putting the cake and
custard intoa pudding dish and baking
together. M. E. H.

Amman.
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LOVE LIGET'ENS LABOR.

 

[Paper read before the North Liberty Farmers’
Club by Mrs. G. M. Shafer.)

Perhaps no class of people have a fuller
realization of the meaning of the word
labor than the farmer and his family; not
only the husband but the wife and chil-
dren take an active part in the farm work.
Not many, if any, occupations employ the
whole family. A printer once remarked,
could behave his wife and children work-
ing with him he could do well.

Unless there is an incentive, labor be-
comes monotonous and mere drudgery.
How easy to work for those‘welovemo hill
too steep to try to climb, no task too dif-
ﬁcult to undertake, no matter how weary,
always ready to do anything that will con-
tribute lo their comfort. Why the toil,

care, anxiety and sacriﬁce of so many
parents, often depriving themselvts of the
luxuries and many times comforts of life,
'ihat their children may obtain an educa-
dion?

What woman would be willing to un-

wife in some other household than her
own for the pecuniary compensation she
receives? Many times she puts less than
half the amount on her own wardrobe she
must pay good help, who would have only
the work and nothing of the care and
responsibility while she must have all. Yet

she enjoys it. She is working for the dear
ones, and knows that were it not for their
presence this would be a lonely world to
her. People say let the children enjoy
themselves while young, for they will all
too soon have to take up the burdens of a
life ﬁlled with labor, care, sorrow, anxiety
etc., forgetting to mention the pleasures
these same duties bring.

Talmage says: “If we live aright, the
older the happier. As we advanCe in life,
as we come out into the world and have
our heads and hearts all full of good,
honest, practical Christian work, then we
will know what it is to begin to be happy.”
What are the joys of childhood compared
with the richer blessings of after years!
How little is required to make our tasks
lighter? To know our efforts are ap-
preciated removes much of the burden.

A good wife arose one morn with aching
head and thinking of the many things to
be done that day said:

“ If maidens but knew what good wives know,
They would not be in haste to wed."

A few words of praise and love from the
husband and children enabled her to see
the silver lining there is to every cloud.

“ As the night came down the good wife smiled
'l‘o herself as she softly said,
‘Tis sweet to labor for those we love.
Its not strange that maids will wed.‘ “

*—

CHAT.

—....

POLLY inquires: “Isn't it about time
the country pathmasters were out with
their road scrapers? One half day’s work
now will do more good than two days’
work in June. Do not forget it, path-
masters." -

MR. 0. tells how to dry rubber boots:
“At night put some pieces of an old coat or
old woolen cloth in the oven and heat
them good and hot, then ﬁll the boots with
them; in the morning on removing the
cloth the boots will be found to be nice
and dry."

 

Bass says; “ My friend Mrs. H. tells me

there is nothing so good for chopping pota—
toes when warming them over as a tin bis-

cuit cutter; If you have a good deep one
all right, if not a tin mustard or spice box,
by making two or three holes in the top——
or bottom rather, answers every purpose.
Let us have more recipes for cooking.
What is the harm if they have appeared
once; there are lots of new subscribers, or
(nght to be, and the old ones forget.”
Pormv, the irrepressible, extendsa wel-
come to a new correspondent in the follow-
ing terms: “ Welcome, Theopilus, come
again! It is said a good laugh is as good
for a torpid liver as a blue pill. It is the
right time of year to doctor for bilious-
ness; and you might tell of some more of
the diﬁicult things you (being a man) con-

 

dertake the manifold duties of the farmer’s

ing work or time. You did not say whether
you ate on the same dishes, like a certain
man I know, or took clean ones."

 

CROCHETED SHAWL.
To begin, work a chain that is long
enough to go around the neck quite loose;
then work two meshes in ﬁrst stitch, one in
the next, and two in the next until you are
just half way across, then work four chain
and proceed as before to the end. Go
across six times in this way, then two
meshes and two chains clear across, then
twice plain, then another row of holes as
before. When you get to the center ﬁll in
every other line with eight meshes, and pro-
ceed as before until you have twenty rows
of holes. Then take the color you wish
for the border and work one inch around
plain; then make 1‘ our meshes in one stitch,
and fasten together with the hook to the
ﬁrst in wrong side. Do this with every
other stitch until you have twenty rows,
then go around twenty times plain; then
make a row of holes around for the fringe.
For the holes make two chains between
each mesh; cut your wool ten inches in
length, and tie four strands in every hole.
This is a pretty shawl with a raised border.
It requires ﬁve skeins of Germantown wool
for shawl and three for border. Make the

fringe of both colors.
Former Loner. MILL MINNIE.

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INSTEAD of having the quilts worn out
as cushions for the farm wagon, or using
an old comforter, make a cushion of the
right size and shape, piecing it out of the
remnants of heavy woolen cloths, or the
best parts of men’s cast-01f clothing. Make
two pieces the length and width of the seat
and “ box" the cushion, .using a strip six
inches wide. Fill with corn husks, shredd-
ed ﬁne, or hens’ feathers. To keep the
latter from working through, turn the
cushion wrong side out, and spread the
wrong side with thick ﬂour paste. Let dry
thoroughly before putting in the feathers.

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CoOking fOr Invalids.

 

Bane Tam—One pound of lean best out Into
small bits, with every par-tic e of {at removed.
Put in a wide mouthed to tie. cork tight‘y,
and set in a kettle of cold wa‘er. Boil these
hours. 'Ihero wil be a rmall oupfnl of the
lube; sea on will a saiispoonfu‘. of salt, and
give a few spoonfuls at a time.

CHICKEN BRo'rn.—-'Ihe bones and a pour d
of meat from a chicken should be simmered
three hours in thrte pints of water. Put into
cold water. skim thoroughly when it courts to
boil and add a teaspoonfnl of saft. Strain. It
de:ired. a tablespoonful of bol‘cd rice or soak-
ed tapioca may be added, in which case the
broth should boil 3 half hour longer.

 

EGG-Noo.—One e88: one tab'erpoonl'ul
sugar; half cup milk: one tab'espoonful wine.
Best sugar and yr-lk to a cream, add the wine,
then the milk. lastly the whi‘e of an egg,
beaten to a stlﬂ froth. The milk may to
(mitted. '

 

Bur JUICI —Brotl a thlrk piece of steak
three minutes. Squeeze out the juice with a
lemon-squeezor: salt very tightly. Nico when

 

qugred; and tell us more ways of economiz-

    

nourlshmont in required in haste.

     

