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DETROIT. AUGUST 2. 1590.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

IN FL Y- TIME.

 

There are ﬁends of many kinds who unbidden
on us call,

And make our lives a burden with their perse-
cutions small;

But most of all in ﬂy-time is my patience sorely
trie 1

By the ﬁend who Stands serenely with the screen
door open wide.

Though ubiquitous the others and wearing many
forms,

Stealing on you unawares like the ﬁercest dog
day storms;

They are nothing, you will ﬁnd, when they’re
rated close beside

That ﬁend who stands in ﬁy-time with the screen
door open wide.

Oh, wise inventors, help me! make an automatic
door,

That will open stay ﬁve seconds and not one
second more,

The speed of lazy gossips how it would acce1~
eratei

And the stupid bore, I think, would prefer out-
side to wait.

Oh, the scrambling there would be to get through
that open door,

And feet would dance a breakdown that had
never danced before;

But no more we’d suﬁ’er tortures when the sum-
mer’s at high tide

From the ﬁend who stands serenely with the
screen deor open wide.

'

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I think that moment in a woman’s life

When wreaths her soul in ﬁercest desperation,
And darkest gall and mutiny are rife,

is when, in horse car borne. she grows aware
0f the keen yet respectful ooservation

0f the young man across: no clownish stare,
But a charmed gaze of ﬁne discrimination

And rapt approval—till she feels a glow
Through all her being, a soft, thrilled pulsation.
! think the sharpest anguish she can know

The bitterest despair and desolation,
Is when she looks, in sweet, shy perturbation,

And notes his ﬁne, discerning eyes full bent
'Upon the woman next to her intent,

Absorbed in musing, pleasured con‘emplation.

M—

LIFE IN THE SOUTH.

I have been much interested in the con-
versation of a gentleman w 0 has recently
returned from a three months’ business
trip through the South, and in his opinions
of Southern customs, manners and habits.
“ Why on earth,” he says,” the Michigan
or northern farmer should elect to emigrate
to Dakota, Nebraska or Montana, and en-
dure the rigors of the winters and the
chances of blizzards, when within easy

reach lies as fertile aterritory, as cheape

lands and asdelightful a climate as man need
ask for, I’m sure I cannot tell. The north-
ern farmers wh 0 go South ar‘: uniformly
successful. They have but to apply their

 

northern habits of business application and
industry to their farms in the South, to
double the products of their Southern
neighbors. A Connecticut man who grew
a crop of cotton alongside of a native
farmer, raised two pounds to the latter’s
one without effort beyond deeper plowing
and better cultivation. As good crops of
corn can be raised there, and bring better
prices than at the north. The great trouble
with the South is the shiftlessness of the
people. This in large degree is due not so
much to the enervating effects of a warmer
climate as to the debilitating inﬂuence of
poor food. Southern cookery is vile. ‘Hog
meat ’—as they call pork-com bread and
coffee make up the three daily meals for
the majority of the people. The hotels,
W th rare exceptions are execrable. Decent,
butter is unknown; cream is a luxury for
the rich. What they have in the way of
vegetables and fruits is spoiled in the
cooking. At one hotel the dessert was
dried apple pie, I had taken a paper to the
table, and trying to forget I possessed the
sense of taste, ate without looking at the
uninviting dish. My companions—two
traveling men—pushed back the pie and
one said ‘He's eaten his; don’t tell him.’
Outside the dining-room, I learned the
cause of their abstemi- usness was that one
had found a 05mm lectuam‘s neatly baked
in the pie-crust. At another place where,
for want of a better, travelers were com-
pelled to eat or starve, the landlord was so
accustomed to the kicks of his patrons
that standing on the piazza when the train
whistled for the station he said ‘There
they come! Blank it, they’ve begun to
growl already! ’

“ I candidly believe the people become
listless and unambitious simply because of
the want of nutritious well cooked f4 0d.
The body is not suﬂiciently built up and
energized. I feel this is true in my own
case. I share the general listlessness on a
diet of corn pone and hog meat. Give me
a few days’ good living and I am myself
again. Missionaries are bad-y needed to
introduce the gospel of good food. There
are, of course, private families of the
better class who live as well as we do, and
as a result, they furnish the only energetic
people.

“I had some peculiar experiences in my
travels. I left the train at one of my stop-
ping places, aud found the railroad eating-
house closed, although it was not yet eight
o’clock in the evening. I sought the best
hotel in the town, but when I signiﬁed
my wish for supper to the superbly in-

 

 

different clerk, he informed me it was after
meal hours, the dining-room closed, and I
could get no supper there. I went out in
search of a restaurant, but found none
open, bought some fruit and went sup-
perless to bed.

“The traveler must shut his eyes :and
‘go it blind.’ In one hotel dining-room
on a hot day, when the thermometer was
above the nineties, the languid waiters had
‘ got a hustle on themselves’ and perspira-
tion was literally pouring off them. I saw
one fat old darkey rub a napkin over his
face and neck with alightning ﬂourish,
then with it polish off the plate he placed
before a man who was waiting for. his
dinner. Somehow it took awav my ap-
petite. I remembered ‘ Where ignorance
is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.’ One wants
to keep his eyes shut or he’ll see a good
deal more than is altogether pleasing.”

BEATRIX.

SAVING WORK-AND PICNICS.

I think we ought to send more letters
to the little paper. I know very well how
hard it is to collect our thoughts in shape
for publication when we are tired with the
work and all the care of a farm house. If
we could write a letter as easily when we
take up our pen, as we can think one out
while sweeping or washing dishes, I am
afraid our queen B— would be wearied
reading the many effusions which would
be pouring in upon her.

I sit here at my table looking into the
throat of two blossoms of the loveliest
Gloxinias, white, with royal purple velvet
throat; I am seeking inspiration, but it is
too hot to inspire worth a cent; it is much
easier to perspire when I leave this cool
sitting room; and this reminds me of a
question that was asked and considerably
discussrd at one of our literary societies.
It was “ How can we econimize work? or
what can we leave undone, and live just
as long, and be just as well off, and just
as happy, and a little less weary each day.”
This is not just as the question was asked,
but it is what was meant, and would it not
be an excellent idea if every housekeeper
would form herself into a committee of
the whole, and discuss this question and
decide it to her own advantage, instead of
allowing what the neighbors would say, if
they knew, to decide the matter for her? I
wish to whisper just one word in your ear,
and it is this: The woman whose body

9 and the bodies of her family are too deli-

cate to rest in unironed sheets or other—

  


 

2 THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

wise use unironed garments, and whose
stomachs must be pampered with three
hot mealsa day, no matter how high the
mercury has the audacity to climb, has the
brownest, skinniest, most wrinkled face
and hands. Just stop and think. Your
whole family will gt to a picnic, take every
thing cold, and think they are having the
best kind of a dinner. Just ﬁx up the
table prettily and cook every thing in the
cool of the morning, then invite them to a
picnic; they will feel much better and
every thing will taste just as good if you
can only get the idea into their heads that
it is the right way to do.

In this section there is no danger of
farmers’ wives killing themselves picking
and canning fruit this season. There are
very few cherries, many families having
none; very few red raspberr‘es and we had
strawberries. Black raspberries are more
plenty. Do not go to worrying and buy
fruit to put up in this hot weather; it is
cheaper to buy it already canned when
you wish it, so take things easy until the
weather moderates, and you will live
longer and be just as happy.

The season of picnics is upon us; and
that of camp meetings approaching. How
many of the HOUSEHOLD band will take
in one or both, or several of one? Ithink
I would like the camping out for a week,
and enjoy being where 1 could drop into
the meetings at any hour the mood was
upon me. I think the hour that mOst
would charm me, would be the earliest
one in the morning; that is the best part of
the day for me. I do not wonder that the
ancients who had benighted ideas of a
Supreme Being worshiped the rising sun;
and that their most beautiful poems were
composed and dedicated to the damn.

I began to say something about picnics,
but got quite far away. All who read
the HOUSEHOLD last summer will perhaps
remember that M. E. H. thought picnics
did not pay. She has not changed her
mind 3 et, but she may before the summer
is over, for she is one of a committee of
three to engineeralarge " farmers’ pionic.”
I think by the time this one is through
with, she will be athorough convert on
one side or the other, then perhaps she
will tell you all about it; the moat im-
portant part is, we’ll have a speaker from
abroad and perhaps hired music, so all the
people will have to do is to furnish oin-
ners and slip their hands softly into their
pockets and pull out a quarter to pay the
expenses.

Any suggestions of a nice picnic dish or
easy way of serving the dinner (only not
on the ground) are in order. M. E. H.

ALBION.

.____....._._—

IT is said silk and lisle thread gloves
may be washed on the hands in soft water,
using a little borax and castile soap. Do
not rub or twist them any more than you
canhelp. Leave them on the hands till
they are partially dry, then take off care-
fully, pull them straight, fold the ﬁngers
as when they were new, and lay them be-
tween clean cloth with a weight on them,
to dry.

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MANNERLY CHILDREN.

-....—.

I read with much interest M. E. H.’s
remarks about polite children, and the
difference between city and country chil-
dren in that respect, but I cannot remem-
ber that any invidious comparisons between
the two have been made in the HOUSE-
HOLD, as suggested by the lady she quotes
as thinking the country children hare been
unjustly trea‘ed. For myself, I have
lived in both city and country, and long
ago made up my mind it is not locality
but training, that is responsible for the ill
behavior of children. And as M. E. H.
suggests, there are all gradations in in-
telligence, education and opportunity
among bothfcity and country peop e.

Lads and misses in the city are apt to
have' more conﬁdence in themselves and
hence suffer less from self-consciousness
and the resultant embarrassment than
country children of the same social grade,
btcause they meet more frequently, see
more people, and are not so diﬂ‘ident and
stiff.

One great trouble is, as soon as the boys
and girlsjbegin to go out ‘in company, the
fathers and mothers, especially in the
country stay athome, feeling because their
children are ﬁfteen, sixteen and eighteen
they need not look after them so closely as
when they were ﬁve, six and eight years of
age. So far as manners go, they need in-
struction in the etiquette of good society
more at just this period than at any other
in their lives. The young people are
thoughtless, heedless, and let me whisper
it softly, often atriﬂe conceited, not easy
to teach. They do many awkward things
and make many blunders which cause
them to blush for their own ignorance in
later years.

The city girl and boy are restrained by
a stricter etiquette than prevails in country
society and are taught more careful obser-
vance of it. Even if they are not taught
at home, they pick up ideas from their
associates, and study to practice what they
know and learn more. City society is not
so tolerant of bad-mannered people; it does
nut credit them with the best of intentions
or a goodness of heart which palliatts
brusque or rude behavior; and a person
soon learns the necessity of cultivating the
social graces, if he or she would retain the '
favor of those they meet. The ease which
comes with habitual practice of polite
manners and association with reﬁned
people cannot be gained in aday, nor is it

 

to be expected of lads and misses.

families—and those who haven’t too—
open their doors more frequently to
gat herings of young people, invitinga few
0 lder ones, so the party will not rest mble
an orphan asylum, nor degenerate into a
ho ydenish romp. And if older people
would kindly tell some of the boys atd
girls of their shortcomings, privately, with
tact and friendliness, not in the way of re- .
proof or reprimand I am sure in would ’
often do good. There are several ways of
administering instruction. You can say,
“ Why did you do this? You shoud.

 

have done that,” and destroy by tone and
manner, all the beneﬁt of your teaching.
Or you can, without any seeming refer-
ence to the sensitive little body to be in’
structed, incidentally refer to some omiso
sion or mistake, and let the idea take root
in the receptive mind.

When Oscar Wild was in this country
he made the remark that American chil-
dren were “unrestrained savages.” He
met only city children. I don’t know.
whether he was a judge or not, but there's;
his opinion. The trouble in a good many
cases is “the children ” monopolize every-
thing, Everything must be done for
them, their wants, their wishes, their in-
terests, often their whims, must be con-
sulted in everything, and they actually in
eerct “ run the house,” the elders meekly
acquiescing in the arrangements made for
the convenience and pleasure of the young
folks. And there, town or country, you
ﬁnd your ill mannered youngsters.

Pretty manners in children are built
upon thoughtfulness and respect for older
people and kindness and affection for each

‘other. Selﬁsh children are nearly always

rude; though some of them put on pleasant
manners toward strangers, the real dis-
position shows out toward parents and
mates. Moreover, if parents allow their
children to be rude and impolite to them,
all the instruction they can give in the-
courtesies of life will fall on unfruitful
soil. Politeness, like charity, begins at
home.

Some of the “ perfect terrors ” I have
known among children have been country
children, and some of them born and
brought up in cities, where they had “ line
upon line and precept upon precept "
which were shot from them like water off
a duck’s back. B.

_.—...__—_—

SPEAK KINDLY TO THE CHILD REN»

“Like begets like” is an old and true
saying, and in nothing is it more surely
proven, than in the habits of speech and"
action formed by our children. Note the
child whose mother is a low voiced, sweet-
spoken won'an, slow to anger, eventem-
pered and kind. The child will, nine
times out of ten, reﬂect these characteris»
tics, which have been his example through
infancy, and grow up possessing them.

On the other hand, a mother whose tone
is a harsh one; who seldom speaks withou t
a snarl to her children, even though it is
unintentional; who ﬂies into apassion at

; every triﬂing annoyance; who is fretful
As a means to an end, I would suggest i
that people in the country who have young '

and irratable, imparts to her children the
same spirit. Overworked tired mothers
often times make fretful mothers. It is
so easy when things go wrong—one irritat-
ing occurrence after another --to soold and
fret over it, and the children are pretty
sure to come in for their share. It is a sort
of escape valve, lettir g off the surplus-
steam.

But happy is the woman, who, under
exasperatin g circumstances, still mainains
selfcontrol. And thrice happy she, who,
when sorely tried and tempted to give way
to angry words, can lift her soul to the
ever-willing Helper for strength, and so

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come off victorious. “Each vict’ry will
' help you some other to win,” will make
the conﬂict lighter and success more cer-
tain. Mother‘s words, mother’s prayers,
mother's wishes have inﬂuenced many a
tempted 5 him do right. .
Oh mothers! I. beseech you be ever
watchful of your words and actions! Let
the children see in you nothing that you
would not be willin g to have them do. De-
pend upon it that although it may 3((‘111 to
ycu a little thing, to a child, mother’s
slightest deeds or most careless words are
quickly copied. So let kind words and
gentle manner be their example.
ONE OF THE MOTHERS.

W

DISHWASHING.

 

I expect that everyone will sigh and say,
“What can one ﬁnd inttrtsting in dish-
washing? "

Some people are odd enough to consider
it a pretty sight when the sleeves are rolled
high on the white arms and the hands are
deftly washing dishes in the hot soapsuds.
It is also true that few men who will not
say they like to wash dishes if asked by
wife or sweetheart, We all admire the
pretty deftness with which the girl with
the true house“ ifely spirit dusts the bric-
a~brac and washes the dishes, because we

, realize that she is being trained in the ways
that will help her to manage wisely and
well the affairs of her household when she
is a mistress, instead of mother's right
hand.

I confess that I like to wash dishes, and
though often laughed at and disbelieved,
I do; but I want plenty of hot water, soap,
clean towels, and only a few tins and
kettles if hurried for time. If not very
busy I don‘t care how many pots and tins
there are but take matters philosophically.

Some of the mothers who are Willin g to
furnish all these requisites, but don’t
ﬁndzany fondness for dishwashing among
the girls may wish to know what caused
me to like it. I shall be obliged to frankly
confess that I don't know, but I can
tell of some of the ways we used to
while away the time. When quite a little
girl I used to amuse myself and sister who
always helped me by. playing that the
plates, clips and saucers were different
families come to the seaside for their health
and we were the women in charge of the
bath houses. You may be sure the dishes
were clean, and although a very heedless
child very few dis‘ es were broken while
that play lasted. Some advocate the com-
mitting to memory of poetry. It may do
very well for women, but many a dish did
I break and much time waste trying to
see what was on the paper on the shelf just
over the table, when my head was full of
girlish fancies. Interest them in china
and see how careful they will be, and if
possible gratify them occasionally by the
purchase of a piece.

I believe in a mop for dishwashing my-
self. Some people think them a sign of a
greater fondness for white hands than a
housekeeper should have, but I can’t un-

derstand whys woman should not keep

to use a knife or iron dishcloth instead of
her nails for scraping pots and tins, though
better than either is a clam shell.

Give her all the conveniences you can
and even then be careful lest she say as
did one girl, “ I wish mother didn’t think
dishwashing was the only kind of house-
workagirl could do.” Train her in all
the departments of the home work and
she will not be so anxious to creep out of
the home nest.

Mothers, give the girls What they need,
a variety of work, cheerful conversation,
plenty of quiet to think of the deeper
things to which it is your duty and
privilege to, lead them, that they may
realize that life has'a serious side, a side
that may be very sad and sober if they
are not prepared to bravely meet life’s
duties as they come.

What is more beautiful than a mother
sitting among her daughters, talking with
them of the thoughts that come as they
read or sew, telling mayhap of her own
experiences? The sewing may be very
coarse, but the thoughts may beas pure
as those that come to my lady as she does
her dainty embroidtry. A daughter led
in this way to see the true and deep ex-
periences of life are not apt to marry the
ﬁrst man that offers for the sake of having
a home where she can do as she likes, for
she shares with mother the responsibilities
and joys of mother’s housekeeping, and is
content to wait until the man comes who
is nearest the ideal which, thank God,
most girls still cherish.

After considerable observation I am led
to believe that the reason we have no more
of these girls and the boys who could
worthily stand as their ideals is because, to
put it bluntly, mothers are too lazy to
spend the time to make such men and
women of their children. I used to have
faith in the plea that the child was so be-
loved by the mother that she could refuse
nothing to it. My present belief is that it
is a poor excuse, andthe real reason is that
she loves her own case too much to see that
the child does its duties at the pruper
time and place, or she does not wish a
scene because she refuses the child some
desired pleasure. I have much sympathy
with mothers who have many duties, but I
can’t but think that it Would be better if
there was less work in the house for the
childrens’ bodies and more for their souls.
We forget we are responsible for the im-
mortal as well as the mortal, and that
injurytoit must last always. We need
more of the divine love which the true
mother has who is wislin g to sacriﬁce any-
thing to attain the good of the beloved
object.

Henry Clay’s name is recalled with af-
fectionate admiration for that one sentence,
“I would rather be right than be Presi-
dent.” We hold him up as an example to
our sons and daughters. This is well, but
there are lives about us animated by the
same spirit and who sacriﬁce as much as
he and as cheerfully and patiently and
without the reward of the admiration of

 

her hands as nice as possible no matter

what her work. So teach your daughter l

  

T'HE HOUSFJHOLD. 3

you and if you see any such give them the
full measure of praise, and teach our boys
and girls to respect, honor and emulate
their example. ‘

If you do this and teach the children
that faithfulness in little things entitles to
great things and let the rewards of faith-
fulness in the little things be in responsl
bility for some of the great ones, I think
you will ﬁnd the yard as well cared for as
the pet horse which is going to 'the fair
this fall, and that the dishes wil‘: receive at
much attention as the cake that is baked.
for the picnic. JEANNE ALLISON.

_—-——...————.._

SUMMER FURNISHING.

We all make a point of suiting cur gar
ments to the season. In spring the heavy
cloaks and dresses, {he furs and the over
coats, are packed away till they are needed
again and we bring out the light clothing
which has been in retirement during the
winter. Why do we not do the same by
our houses, I wonder, and put away our
heavy wool carpets and hot upholstered
furniture, in favor of straw matting and
willow chairs?

How cool and summery a parlor would
appear, the ﬂoor covered with a blue-ard-
white matting, which comes, a yard wide
at ﬁfty cents a y ard. with muslin or linen
scrim curtains at the windows, tied back
with blue ribbons, and idly swaying in the
June breeze, with willow rockers—without
even a headrest upon them—and tables
covered with cool-looking Madras spreads.
Penty of cushions lying about, a few
coolvtinted scarfs over the pictures—which
should be few in number, and water-colon:
or engravings and a general effect of sum--
mery lightness and daintiness. It would
save half a year's wear of the carpets,
packed away in the storeroom, and of the
heavy furniture. Down with the portions, ‘
too, which make a room seem so close and
stuﬁy in hot weather, and which are hid~
ing places for dust and moths. If draperies
there must be, make them of common blue
denim, the lighter side for the right side,
and decorated with outline embroidery, or
with a band of darker blue silk or satin
across the top. There is then nothing that
will fade, nothing to spoil, and sun and air
can have free entry and the parlor be used
every dav. The matting needs no sewing,
except at the ends of the breadths, and is
put down with double—pointed tacks. it
is easily cleaned by being wiped with a
cloth dipped in salt and water. which pre-
serves the color. One of these common
red rockers transformed into something
really pretty -—I shall not say easily, be-
cause it re quires time and work. Tire

red paint, sandpapered off, is replaced by
a couple of coats of white enamel paint, to
be found at any art store, and the chair is
vastly improved in appearance.

I thi k those who try this plan of sum
mer furnishing will like it immensely.
The sweeping and dusting is reduced toa
minimum, “moth and rust do not cor-
rupt.” andthe work of house-chrmingin
not particularly increaSed. I c-nmot forget
the daintiness cf the roomsl have Seen
thus furnished; I am sure they are ten
degrees cooler on a hot day than the or-

 

great men and a great nation. Look about

dinary parlor. L. 0.
Damon.

   


 

TEE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

VARIOUS THINGS.

Soon we shall be enj tying apples again,
and I wonder‘how many as they eat them
will think of all the historical, romantic
and mythical interest of the fruit. We
are so used to ap.»les that I am afraid we
regard them as rather commonplace, yet
in anciett times they played an important
part in more scenes than the one where
Eve prov»d herself so greedy, or in the
well-known tale of Atalanta. Neither
jewels or ﬂowers were considered so ap-
propriate love gifts as apples. Then in
modern times the apple is the typical
Americm fruit. Like the people, its
varieties are innumerable and are put to
innumerable uses, and the best specimens
are fair, crisp, and sufﬁciently tart. So
let us regard apples with respect, while
putting them to practical use.

I was much amused at reading the other
day in a magazine which certainly ought
to know, that Edward Bellamy intended
“Looking Backward ” to be a satire on
socialism and the questions of the day; and
that he was much amazed when it was
taken in earnest by the world. If this is
true, Mr. Bellamy ought to label his books
in the future, or, like the annotators of
Cicero, put in the notes, “ This is ironical.”

What a relief it is to go back to a really
good novel after reading some of the trash
—-called popular ﬁction—with which we
are deluged every year! The real test of a
book is the amount of pleasure one has in
reading it a second time; and surely not
man. people would care to read “ Robert
Elsmere,” “ John Ward, Preacher,”
“Looking Backward,” etc., twice. But
books like “ Middlemarc ” or “ Ben-Hut”
one cannot begin to appreciate at the ﬁrst
reading.»

I think Beatrix forgot one thing is tell-
ing us how to keep cool, and that is how
to keep the house cool. So many people
seem to have the idea that they must keep
doors and windows open, regardless of the
fact that the air outside is hotter than that
in the house. After a good airing early in
the morning, let the doors and windows
and blinds be closed and shades drawn
until“ nearly sunset. During the hottest
weather a house may be kept comfortable
in this way.

Is not Br'tno’s Sister be vildered among
such a multitude of advisers? But pro-
bably she knows already what she is going
to do; nearly every one does know, whether
consciously or not, and then if the advice
ﬁts in with the resolve already taken; it is
good; if not, it is worthless.

Why doesn't every farm where there are
young people have a tennis court? The
expense is not very great. and it would
help keep the boys ant girls at home far
more than the old-fashioned “ slow ”
aoquet. '

In the discussions about district schools
Ehave seen nothing from the pupils, yet
their side of the question is quite as im-
portant as any other. I went to a country
uhool for a good many years, and believe
Oat district schools will never be efﬁcient
until they are graded. There are so many

 

classes that the teacher has only a few
minutes for each one, and some must be
neglected. Then another difﬁculty is t‘e
lick of suitable examination. I remember
looking longingly at the last pages of my
books, and wishing that I could ﬁnish
them; but as soon as I had gone about so
fir, the term would be ended, and when
school began again with a new teacher,
there was nothing to show what kind of
work I had done; and the ﬁrst part, which
was already known by heart, had to be re-
viewed. A great deal of harm is done by
sending the older boys and girls to school
after they have really learned all that can
be learned in the narrow and inefﬁcient
course provided. There is nothing new to
arouse their interest, and so they mike
life miserable for the teacher. I speak
from experience, for I attended a district
school one year after I had been over all
the required work; and without blaming
the teachers I can say that I learned ab-
solutely nothing in that time. E. 0,
Pour HURON.
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MORE ADVICE .

Here is a piece which I wlll not recom-
mend. I have tried it, and it is—to use an
expressive expression—“ no good:” When
you are feeling unhappy and dissatisﬁed
with your lot in life, go forth and visit
those more unfortunate than yourself, and
you will come back contented.” I have
gone, have seen them, and have come home
with the burden of their troubles in addi-
tion to my own. I don’t see how any one
can feel complacent and satisﬁed after
seeing the miseries that are possible in
this world, especially of those who are
helpless--the women and children. The
keenest edge of all suffering seems to be
in the thought of what bright happy lives
we might have from beginning to end.
Every one likes the arrangement of human
affairs that “ Looking Btckwards" tells us
of. Nobody knows why we don’t have it.
I think that the men we send to Washing-
ton to legislate for the good of the trusts,
are the grand obstacle.

Here is another: Never ask any one to
do anything for you which you could and
should do yourself. I knew a family once
where the “company” did the housework,
while the lady of the house took her case,
though I couldn’t tell just how she manag-
ed it. That indeed was “making her head
save her heels.”

If you are building a rag carpet don’t
consider it necessary to tear each rag off
and sew it on to the next. Turning them
and rounding off the corners will make the
carpet look just as well and save an im-
mense amount of sewing. Our Ladies Aid
Society here spends the hours of meeting
in sewing for the lady at whose house we
meet. Sometimes one runs the machine
while the others haste ard ﬁnish up gar~
ments. One lady had us sew carpet rags,
and when I had sewed these wretched
little three inch long rags for about four
hours and made a ball abou' as big as my
ﬁs (and my ﬁst is nothing uncommon
either) it suddenly occurred to me with the

 

force of a bran new idea, that maybe,
after all, there were women that didn’t
know enough to vote.

Don’t be too anxious to be loved by the
members of your household. L we
blesses both giver and reciver, but wanting
to be Eoved may be the very quintessence
of selﬁshness. Never fear but that if you
love you will receive love in return.

If you are sick do not take medicine.
Do not interfere Wit nature. Let her use
the wonderful power towards health and
life that is in your frame and you will get
well. If you can aid her in any way do
so, but remember you never can by taking
drugs into your stomach.

I have not passed around all my advice

yet. Much remains.

PIONEER. HU LDAH PE RKIN S.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

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GREASE may be taken out of carpets by
co rering the spot with powdered French
chalk, laying a soft brown paper over the
chalk and covering with a warm iron.

 

THE silk underwear now so much worn
should not be rubbed on the washboard,
nor have so~p rubbed on it, unless on
specially soiled spots. It should be gently
sqeezed in the hands in a lather of tepid
water.

 

THE stains of ink on books and engrav-
ings may be removed by applying a solu-
tlan of oxalic acid, citric acid, or tartaric
acid upon the paper without fear of
damage. These acids take out writing
ink, but do not interfere with the printing.

KEEP celery fresh by rolling it in brown
paper sprinkled with water. then in adamp
cloth, and put it in a cool, dark place.
Before preparing it for the table, sub-
merge it in cold water and let it stand for
an hour. It will be found very crisp.

HAVE your dresses bound with velvet
or velveteen instead of dress braid if you
would prevent your shoes from receiving
the purple blemish on the instep caused by’
the rubbing of the skirts when walking.
The velvet should be the narrowest line
possible on the right side of the skirt.

You don’t know—unless you have oneé
how convenient are the little folding tables
three feet long by two feet wide, which are
now to be found at any store dealing in
household supplies, at from one and a half
to three dollars each, according to quall!y.
The legs fold up against the top, so that
when not in use the table takes up little
more room than a piece of straight board
of the same size. The tables are furnished
with castors, are light, easily moved, low
enough so one can sit down and work at it
handily. It can be taken on the porch or
lawn for lunch or tea, and is in many ways
a household convenience. Next best is a
lap-board, 40 inches long and 24 inches
wide with a place hollowed out on one
side to admit of its being held in the lap,
This too is handy in cutting and basting,
but the table is to be preferred, even at the
additional price.

