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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplément. -

 

 

A IARMER'S WIFE.

 

I knew an old-time farm-house, miles remote
From shriek of steam and dea'ening noise of
streets.
Where one may hear the shy brown thrush’s
note,
And smells the hayﬁeld’s sweets.

Therein were order and tranquillity.
Where all life's jarring discords seemed to
cease;
Far of, the world’s loud current hastened by,
But there was calm and peace.

‘ A soothing power charmed that quiet place

With gentle presence and serene control;
A gracious woman, with a still pale face,
A sweet and silent soul.

Such placid ways were hers, such tender art,
As made her one of love’s own ministers;
She might almost have healed a broken heart

With that soft touch of hers.

Yet if her own heart ached—and all hearts
faint
Ani ache sometime :——she said no murmurlng
word;
No breath of blame, of censure, or complaint
From her still lips was heard.

The farmer and h's men came in at noon,
Full of the open-air’s fresh vigorous life,
And had an hour of rest; a blessed boon
Denied the farmer’s wife.

Ev‘n the strong oxen rested from their yoke
When midday came, and when the sunset
dimmed;
When did she rest? At earliest dawn she woke,
Still tired and weary-limbed,

'I‘o lift once more the burden of the day,
And bear its heavy weight as best she might,
Toiiing not only daylight‘s hours away,
But late into the night.

To-d-ry her patient, uncomplaining breast
Forgets all grief and ra'n; life's golden bow
Is broken; gone at last to needed rest,
That sweet and silent soul.

Year after year she walked her quiet path,
Burdened with care and toils for every day,
And many children gathered round her hearth,
Grew up and went their way.

Calling her “ blessed" as their thoughts went
back
To her mild ministry, and still, pale face,
Which the old home must now forever lack,
And nothing can replace.

Faithful and patient mother. friend and wife!
'i‘hy name shall still be dear while long years
roll;
Thy mission ended not with this poor life,
0 sweet and silent soul!
—Home Maker.
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ZEAL WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE. .

 

In looking over the accounts of the open—
ing sessions of our present Legislature, I
have been pleased to observe corroboration
of a fact I have before observed; namely,
that all knowledge of public aﬁairs is not

 

centered in the persons of the masculine
contingent; in other phrase, that even men
sufﬁciently prominent to get elected as our
representatives and law makers don’t know
a good many things they might—being
men—be supposed to know about legisla-
tive business and State statutes. A wo-
men’s society in this city once expended a
great deal of eloquence on the need of reg-
ulations excluding objectionable literature
from the mails, and its members thought
they were taking up a new reform when
they began to circulate petitions to the
postmastergeneral on the subject, quite
unaware that a rigid censorship is already
exerciwd. They got well laughed at for
their “zeal without knowledge,” a fate
which ought to overtake some of our Scions
at Lansing, judging from the amusing ef-
forts at reform. A representative eager to
be ranked among the economic reformers
produced a bill to do away with the law
providing for the State weather service, ap-
parently ignorant that this is born of Leg-
islative appropriations, not of legal statute.
After the Supreme Court had passed upon
the cumulative voting law and declared it
unconstitutional (which those who enacted
it might have known had they exercised a
little common sense), a bill was introduced
for its repeal. Unconstitutlonal laws are
dead without legislative action. Another
new man who wanted to satisfy his constit-
uents'he was the right man in the right
place introduced a bill for a reform only to
be reached by a constitutional amendment.
The number of laws passed by the late
Legislature which have been declared un-
constitutional proves exclusively that even
men are not always well posted on those
matters which come peculiarly in their
province as exercising the right to vote and
make laws. it quite softens my sense of
inferiority to know this fact.

I have already observed that a man
whose ignorance is colossal is invariably
the loudest in declaiming against education,
schools, and “ high toned fellers” who
don’t dig ditches and clean stables. There
is a war perpetually on between ignorance
and ‘ knowledge. To give ignorance a
chance to make laws is to defeat the best
intents of legislation. The attack upon
our school system is the work of ignorance,
" zeal without wisdom.” Asaspecimen of
the intelligence and educational standing of
those making it, the following is submitted
—-an exact copy of a resolution Offered by a
supervisor of Gratiot County, a candidate
for the nomination to the Legislature from
his district and chairman of the “Indus

 

trial Committee ” of the county, and which
was passed unanimously by the board of
county supervisors. I clip it from the
Lansing Republican:

“ Resolved that the office of county
school Superintendent is unnecessary and
burdenson to the people taking from the tax
payers of gratiot C). 12.00 dollars A year
for which the people Get no recompence.

“resolved that the ofﬁcers of the township
bord of review is unnecessary and burden-
son and give the people no recompence
therefor be it resolved that it is the wish of
the bord of Supervisors now assembled in
the Court house at Ithaca Gratiot Co and
the wish of the tax payers of Gratiot Co at
large that those others be Discontinued.

“resolved that a Coppy of these resiiu-
tions be sent the hon hugh Chisholm Gratiot
Co representative with the request that he
use all Diligence to secure the repeal of the
law which Makes those ofﬁces possible.”

Evidently what’s the matter up there is
not too much school system, but not
enough. The schoolmaster should be
abroad in Gratiot County.

That the “ eternal ﬁtness of things” does
not obtain in Legislative assignments more
than in other affairs of life, this anecdote,
from the Caro Advertiser, seems to demon-
strate:

“While one of our State senators, who
is chairman of the committee on education
and public schools, was looking over the
appropriation bill for an educational insti-
tution yesterday he came across a large-
sized item for the department of technol-
ogy.
‘ hat under heavens is technology,
now?‘ he demanded impatiently.

‘It’s some new fangled kind of iron
fence,’ responded a colleague promptly.
The agriculturisi’s blue pencil ﬂashed
across the item.

“‘ You don’t catch me voting $10,000
for any frills of that kind,’ he asserted in-
dignantly.” BRUNEFILLE.

INFLUENCE OF WOMEN.

 

My wife and I are very much interested
in the HOUSEHOLD and eagerly peruse it
each week. An article in the issue of
March 14th I think calls for a refutation
and I wish to give my views on the other
side of the question. I refer to the paper
read by Mr. Baker before the Grand Blane
Farmers’ Club, “Who has been produc-
tive of the most proﬁt on the farm—man
or woman?” I think the writer hits the
nail squarely on the head when he says,
“ The settling of this question requires an
abler tongue than mine.” In most cases a
woman does have a hand in the most im-
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and many times it is through her good
advice and counsel that success is attained.
She is not much versed in horse trading,
and usually the farmer who makes a
practice of trading horses loses in the end.
If the newspapers are reliable I think the
male population is more than equally per-
forming its part in “raising cain.” Fur-

thermore, I think the writer would ﬁnd it.

difﬁcult to prove that ninety-nine out of
every one hundred cases of crime com-
mitted in the past were caused by women.
What are $8,000,000 for cosmetics com-
pared to the millions expended for tobacco
and cigars, and the untold miseries and
anguish caused by the liquor traiilc? All
this is allowed and more or less used only
by the men. Are these unnecessary ex-
penses any proﬁt to the farm?

I do not expect my wife to make shirts
and overalls; besides it is more economical
to buy them ready made. It was cus-
tomary for our grandmothers, in their
time, to do all these things; and I think
they should receive due credit for the im~
portant part they took in the development
of our country.

Again, it is perfectly right for a woman
to have help in washing ari'd cleaning
house, and she should demand it the
same as a man does in haying and harvest-
ing. But how many tired and worn out
women are denied this privilege because
the man thinks he can not afford it? On
which side is the proﬁt in this case?

If “ single blessedness ” is such an ideal
life as the writer pictures it, why is it that
men marry at all? And if one wife is no
proﬁt to a farmer why does he so generally
and eagerly search for a second one? We
admit that farmers sometimes fail through
their wives’ extravagance, but think of the
thousands who owe all their success
ﬁnancially to the wise counsel and economi-
cal management of their wives in house-
hold aifairs; also of the thousands who
deny themselves every luxury and a great
many conveniences to help pay off a farm
mortgage! After the debts are all paid,-
who has been the more proﬁtable toward
saving the home?

In conclusion, I would say that nearly
all of our most inﬂuential men were reared
on the farm, and they have often remarked
in their writings and public speeches that
they owned all their success and popularity
to the early training, good counsel and
sound advice of a noble, self-sacriﬁcing

nzolhcr. E. B. M.
JACKSON.
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DISH ‘VASHINGu

It has a “prelude” like all ”sympho-
nies,” and it begins with the ending of the
meal be it breakfast, dinner or tea. The
dishes are all cleared of their contents,
“ sized ," and set conveniently near to the
dishpan. The reservoir and tea kettle are
full of water hot enough for all practical
purposes; dish cloth and towels are clean
and dry, and soap of the desired quality at
hand. If the time of year is summer, with
the mercury playing somewhere up in the
“ nineties,” the ﬁre has either ceased to ex-
ist or is just hovering on the brink ready to
” launch away.” The screens are so ad-

 

justed as to allow the slight breeze' full
play through the morning glory vine or
climbing rose at the easement, and over the

porch it is the faintest whispering lullaby,-

so soothing and grateful to nerves slightly
ajar. The big golden robin in the top of
the cherry tree is coaxingly calling to the
canary singing in his golden cage, the
quails are calling “more wet, more wet;"
and there is a low rumbling sound like dis-
tant thunder. The bees hurry about the
hive laden with honey and half a score of
big bumble trees in gaudy “ jelly weskits”
are buzzing pompously about the roses.
The glasses ﬁrst, please. You say your
mother washes them in hot suds, and wipes
them Without rinsing! It does make them
shine! Well, we will try the clear water;
wipe them on the linen towel then, they
will be free from lint. Don’t pile them as
fast as you wipe them, set them out singly
or they will steam and be streaked. Next
the teaspoons-clear water for them also—
then the glass bread plate. Yet, it is pretty
and I have used it so many years; I bought
it with rags too, it cost seventy-ﬁve cents.
“ Give us this day our daily bread ” it says
about the edge and it has certainly fulﬁlled
its mission. Many and many a loaf has
been sliced and served on that dish. Now
we’ll have some soap in the water. You do
admire these dishes! They were my moth-
er’s; real china. no imitation about them.
You will notice that there are no two dish-
es alike, hand painted and such ﬁne glaz-

ing. One at a time—cups ﬁrst, saucers,

cup plates, cleanest ﬁrst, then the greasy
ones, knives and forks and large spoons—
so many dishes are nicked by piling the
pan full. I’ve seen girls take a half dozen
little butter plates in one hand and give
them a rub, slip the top one to the bottom,
another rub and so on through the pile.
They will be greasy when they are rinsed
and dull and sticky when they are wiped.
Every thing dirty as dishes should be
washed off. I will rinse them in moder-
ately hot water. There is nothing gained
by having the water boiling; the dishes are
so hot one cannot handle them without
burning the hands, and then too it will
crack the glazing. So many women cam-
plain that they have been cheated in their
dishes when it is improper care that causes
them to look so badly and give out so soon.
New pass me that cloth; we've come to the
tin ware, and I always believe in letting
each grade have its own cloth sacred to its
use alone. So many tell about cooking in
basins, I donﬁt take much stock in it unless
it’s over a gasoline stove, then tin is the best.
This “ never break” ware is good enough,
and no house should be without a steam
cooker; this tube with holes near the top is
a little diﬂicult to keep clean but it is light
to handle. I don’t like to have tins or
basins or pans scraped and dug up with a
knife. Everything can be soaked oﬂ in a
short time.

A meal can be prepared without having
every dish in the house called into requisi-
tion. A little managing and common sense
will accomplish miracles. I’ve seen women
leave all their bake things until the dinner
work was done—ﬂour and dough and cus-
tard mixed in—it makes every thing rough,

 

 

There isn’t any iron ware this noon.
Rinse the towels and spread them‘ out on
the clean grass.

Why sure enough, it is clouding up, how.
limp the clover looks and every thing seems
fairly thirsty for a shower. I hadn’t
thought hardly it was so hot, it’s cool and
nice in here, I hadn’t. even felt sweaty;
we’re been visiting so doing the dishes.
There’s all the difference in the world doing
work. Most of folks say dish washing is the
dirtiest, most drudging work that there is
done about the house. It’s just as it’s done,
I tell ’em. A slack, slatternly person will
muss every thing up, spatter dish water
over everything and when she is through
there is not a dish ﬁt for the pigs to eat off
of ; the dish cloth looks like an old mop rag;
towels sour as the swili barrel. I tell you
What it is, any one can infuse a little poetry
into every day life and it acts much like oil
on machinery. There is more or less fric-
tion in all domestic work and when it is
given a slight here and a slight there then
of course it wont move oﬂ? smoothly.

Where there is one girl taught to do a
mess of dishes properly there are ninety-
nine who will eye the dish water with nose
tip tilted like a rose, and just use the ends
of their ﬁngers. Men talk about using
brains as fertilizers on-their farms; women
better mix a little into their housework.
Above all learn the girls to wash dishes
and wash them clean and handle them care-
fully. Who wants to set out the table with
plates whose edges look like saw teeth,
cups minus handles and hits out all around
the tops, saucers cracked? .Let’s have a
survival of the ﬁttest. Begin anew, and
when we want to play ball get a base ball
and bat and coax the little boy out in the-
back yard. “ Cleanliness is next to god-
liness.” Don’t forget it when you are
squeezing out your dish cloth in the wash
dish or wiping up spilt milk with the dish
towel. EVANGELINE.

BATTLE Cnszx.

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BEGONIAS.

Begonias are now among the most
popular plants for house or garden we
have in cultivation. The tuberous—rooted.
for rockery or border, are magniﬁcent in
foliage and ﬂower. They require partial
shade and good drainage wherever they
are planted in or out of doors. Tubers
may be lifted in autumn and stored in
safety from frost and will keep as well
as Madiera or other tender tubers. The
class called “constant bloomers” is more
delicate in habit, usually, than the tuberous
sorts, but any begonia I have ever known
could be managed as easily as a geranium
or a poppy when their needs are under-
stood. Give good light soii—a mixture of
wood soil and sharp sand is just right—be-
cause always porous and rich wtth vegeta-
ble instead ofanimal matter. With this
soil the begonias will never fail to grow
and bl'oom well.

“Behind Time” does not tell me what
variety of begonia she has, but I think the
trouble is soil sour or sodden and per-
haps too cold. Although partial shade
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'with cold, wet roots, and too large pots.
There are some of the “ house kinds” that

- after blooming profusely a long time will,

like the Fuchsia, show signs of weariness
and should be set aside to recuperate.

If my description of my conservatory
windows was not plain I Will add that the
panes were set double with about a quarter
inch space between, that no frost should
enter through the windows. I hope
Elizabeth may have a satisfactory house
and conservatory and give us a full des-
cription of them in the HousEHOLn.

strox. MRS. M. A. FULLER.

A CITY GIRL‘S PET.

Eister is a pleasant season. If Easter
Sunday should be cloudy and rainy, as
thisone has been in our city, it does not
prevent people from attending religious
services, as moist weather does generally.
in our Sabbath school we have an average
attendance of 400. The festive pro-
grammes are always ﬁne, the music of a
high order and many outsiders come to
hear and see, so that our school room was
crowded this morning. The three super
intendents read in turn the life, the death
and the resurrection of Christas given in
the Gospels. Singers of different degrees
of fame sang solos, and the primary class,
numbering over 100 “favored us” with a
chorus that sounded very sweet. Then a
number of young gentlemen were asked to
step up in front and distribute the ﬂowers
that formed a large cross standing on the
rostrum. . This cross was covered with red
pinks and ferns, and could be taken off in
pieces. Every person in the room was
given a ﬂower and leaf fastened with a bit
of wire for a boutoniere. It seemed to me
alovely thought, for I know a number,
both young and old, who have not touched
a ti )wer all winter. Seeing all the ﬂ )wers
and wishing for spring is why I think I
took out “ Chip’s” new book that I wish
I could send to all the HOUSEHOLD as a
little token of my regard. Sne paid only
$51.98 for it, and it is aregular treasure
just to have in the house. It is “Wild
Flowers of the “ Paciﬁc Qoast,” by Emma
Him-1n Thayer, with 25 plates chromo-
lithographed from the original water-color
sketches. It is ten by twelve inches in
size, printed on nice paper and bound in
cloth and gilt, and contains two pages to
each plate descriptive of the place the
tl more were found, with incidents hu mor-
011s and pathetic which occurred. I do
not know of a book that. would be more
pleasing as a present. This particular
book was purchased with the ﬁrst milk
money, and I mean by that, that we have
now become owners of live stock—that is,
“ Caip” owns, manages and controls the
“stock." Last August we purchased a
“ suburban villa,” a new house with
modern conveniences, alittle land about it
and trees growing upon it, thirty minutes
ride by electricity from business. “ Chip”
was in search of health and eyesight, so
Vashti made here birthday present of a
Jersey cow two years old which was
named Winifred Louise; and a neighbor
added a puffy little white puppy that was

 

nursed on a bottle for weeks and called
Horace Greeley. She built a stable her-
self. About four weeks ago Winifred
Louise presented a pure Jersey calf which
was immediately called Josiah Allen and
sold as soon as possible. He too was placed
“on a bottle” and kept in the laundry
until his own mother kicked at him on
being introduced, thus saving all grief at
parting. We have ten quarts of milk a
day, and such cream. The neighbors are
very glad to be supplied. “Chip” does
the milking and delivers the milk to her
customers. Horace Greeley, now grown
to be a great coarse-looking fellow with
brown Spots and long ears and intelligent
yellow eyes, accompanies her, carrying
an empty bucket in his mouth, being yet
in training. S'ie washes and brushes
Winifred every morning, scrubs and airs
the stable and takes the cow out when
the weather is fair, and enj iys returning
vigor. I must also state that Greeley
stands up for his food, jumps through a
hoop and shakes hands.

Should any of our HOUSEHOLD think
this asilly sort of letter, I want to say
that I have had in mind mostly the boys
and girls who will be amused and maybe
encouraged in their work, knowing that a
city girl within reach of many gayeties and
follies prefers this homely occupation. I
imagine too that some older ones who love
animals and their ways will not disdain
my tale, especially the one who asked for
directions for polishing the old cow’s horns.
“Chip” spent a considerable portion of
one forenoon sandpapering Winnie’s, and
she might be able to give some hints.

Sr. Lours. DAFFODILLY.

LIVE NOT TO THYSELF.

 

 

“ If what shone afar so grand.
Turn to nothing in thy hand,
On again; the virtue lies
In the struggle, no‘ the prize! "

How much of the philosophy of moral
health and happiness is involved in the in-
junction, “Whatsoever thy hand ﬁndeth
to do, do it with all thy might!" What-
ever our position in life may be, if we do
the best we can to the utmost of our intelr
lectual capacity, we surely must be on
the road of advancement; but what an in-
numerable amount our hands ﬁnd to do!
If one were to go through this world with
an averted head, an ear deafened to the

_ walls of human suffering; an eye, as it

were, wholly incapable of seeing little acts
of bencvnlcnco that might be done so easily,
possibly our lu'iuds might present a more
beautiful appearance and their toll be
la“leviatc-d. I31; when I come in contact
with those of the: above type, I ask myself,
of what material are they composed. Are
their hearts stone structures securely for-
tiﬁed against sympathy? Thus do Ipon-
der, but the problem seems inex plicible.
Then there are those who are negligent
and withhold the tender caress, the cheer
ing word or loving service until death has-
forever removed love’s opportunity. It
seems that no tears mortal eyes might shed
would blister and corrode like those which
fall when remembering “ hasty words and
actions strewn along our backward track,”

 

and no " might have been ” in life’s history

 

half so sad. Ah! these little trivial deeds
exhibit our real character more than vague
phrases. While in after years the frame:
mould ers and disappears, a kind deed leaves
an indelible stamp. Better far the silent
tongue and the eloquent deed, for the
latter will be as legible on the hearts we
leave behind as the srars on the brow of
evening.

The great Niagara excites our wonder.
This grand work of the Creator is amazing,
but one Niagara is enough for a continent,
while we need millions of silver [fountains
and gentle rivulets to water our farms,
gardens, etc, that shall ﬂow incsss mtly in
their quiet, lovely way. So with the acts
of our lives; We cannot all achieve great
popularity and be gazrd at with awe on
account of conspicuous power, but we
can, like the tiny brooklet, in an unob-
strusive manner, be very useful. It is by
the daily and quiet virtues of life—the meek
forbearance, the spirit of forgiveness, that
good is to be done.

On the other hand, we should try and
show due appreciation when benignant
acts are rendered us. Love for one another
actuates us to an indeﬁnite extent. - An in-
cident of my experience is evidence. A
dear old school friend possessing those rare
qualities suggestive of a Lucile, assisted us
in the preparation for nuptial festivities.
Words seemed inadequate to express my
gratitude. I ventured to return thanks,
even in a feeble way. A response soon
reached me from which I extract these
words: “My reward came in knowing
that I was doing something to please you.
For do you not know our greatest hap-
piness lies in making those we love happy?
What assistance a living heart and willing
hands could do, to insure all a success, was
willingly given and proves to me the words
‘ ’tis more blessed to give than to receive. ’ ”
Rich are they who possess such friends.
Love in its purity, its loftlness, its un-
selﬁ-ahness is not merely a consequence, but
a proof of our moral excellenca, it is also
the perpetual melody of humanity; it
gloriﬁes the present by the light it casts
backward; it lightens the future by the
beams it casts forward. Then live for the
noble end of living. not to ourselves, but
for others.

Boss, you are a j twel. That “Farmers‘
Cake” was pronounced excellent, by an
epicure, too; and there was an unanimous
vote for a resolution of thanks to you for
that contributed recipe.

How many are reading Dr. Talmtge’s
series of sermons entitled “The ten
plagues!” By all means reidfthe third
one, “Pcrnicious Literature.”

Will some HOCSEHOLDER send a tried
recipe for marble cake for my beneﬁt?

Wonder if Bruno has committed matri—
mony yet? I-Iope Brue will not keep us
in suspense as to her intentions for the

future. Matrimony is epidemic, Brue, it
has affected many in our vicinity, some
even having the second attack. Like " La
Grippe ” it's a universal disease. But right
here my “better two-thirds” interrupts
me by giving vent to the following meta-
phor, “I'd rather have the ‘grip’ bya
durn sight!" But of course he don’t mean

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COUNTRY V3. CITY LIFE.

 

The declaration that “ God made the
country and man made the city,” does not
seem to "have a very great restraining in-
ﬂuence on a vast number of persons who
are annually deserting their pleasant, in-
dependent country homes for a residence
in the city, where the temptations to vice
and prodigality are tenfold greater than in
the country.

Burns’ “Cotter's Saturday Night,”
ought to be in every household, and his
assertion that

"In fair virtue‘s heavenly road.
The cottage leaves the palace far behind."

needs no further proof of its correctness
than the experience of those who have
spent portions of their lives in the country
and in the city.

The writer having spent portions of his
long and somewhat eventful life amid
rural scenes, and also in the whirl and ex-
citement of city life, has no hesitancy
now in saying the former is far to be pre-
ferred to the latter. At the advanced age
ofthree score and ten, in feeble health and
surrounded by all the comforts and priv
ﬁeges of city life, nothing would delight
him more than to spend the remnant‘ of
his days amid rural scenes, where he could
hear the crowing of the cock, the lowing
of kine, and the hum of rural occupations.

A craze seems to have seized upon a
ﬁrge class of the rural population to
abandon their country homes and rush to
the city, expecting thus to enj 1y greater
social advantages, and be relieved of the
toil incident to their former lives. The
social advantages offered by a city are
more than counterbalanced by temptations
to vice in the gilde‘l saloon, the brothel
and the gaming hells, which lead thousands
of giddy youths to destruction.

This abandoning the country for the
city fosters a feverish anxiety in the minds
of the youth of the land to forsake their
paternal homes, and try their fortunes
in the city, where they, are too often
swallowed up in the great vortex of vice
and misery.

How can Christian parents consistently
pray, “ Lead us not into temptation,” and
then rush right into temptation in cities?

It cannot be denied that cities more
than the country tend to corrupt morals,
and promote eﬂeminacy and ex ravagance,
the very causes that overthrew ancient
Greece and R we, and :that will surely

cause the downfall of this republic.
Husxneox. GRANDPA.

 

' FANCY WORK.

 

For a scrap basket, paint four berry bas-
kets on the outside with any colored paint
preferred; cut pasteboard ,gto ﬁt the sides
and bottom, cover neatly with any material
and color you like best and slip inside the
basket; fasten together with a large bow of
ribbonin the center.

For a bureau scarf, cover the top :offthe
bureau with red cotton ﬂ innel. 5 [Make a
scarf as much longer than the bureau as
you like of dotted mull With quite: large
data Then with colored linen ﬂ )ss work
the dots in the ends and hemstitch the

 

scarf all around; ﬁnish the ends with lace.
Or make a scarf of plain goods and work a
vine in outline stitch on each end. The
beauty of such a scarf is it can be washed
and made as good as new.

To make a pretty tidy use one-fourth
yard of light green felt. Work a spray on
each end (apple blossoms are very pretty)
and pink the ends; use only one half the
length of the felt.

Cover a circle of pasteboard with satin
and cambric; pad it well on one side.
Take two colors of satin and make little
bags enough to set around the circle; ﬁll
them with cotton and fray the tops, tie
with baby ribbon; j )in together, and you
have a very dainty card case.

For a necktie case, take a piece of plush
ﬁfteen by twelve inches for the outside.
Quilt satin and wadding for the lining of
the same size; join the edges and cover the
seam with a cord; put two pieces of wide
ribbon diagonally across the inside, work
initials on one and “ neckties ” on the
other and fold like the cover to a book.

Take a piece of chamois skin seven
inches long and two and a half or three
inches wide. Cut the ends rounding and
buttonhole stitch around it with any
colored embroidery silk; tie in the middle
with a small bow of ribbon and print on
one side

H The world will never look just right
Unless you keep your glasses bright."

Take a piece of pink satin the size you
admire the most for a banner and line it;
put a cluster of peacock feathers on it;
tie their ends with a small bow, and hang
up with ribbon.

If Bess will take those horns and boil
them in ashes and water and scrape with
glass, she will ﬁnd them polished nicely;
they will look still better if given a liberal

coat of varnish. HILDA.
WATERFORD.

 

FOR THE YOUNGSTERS.

 

A correspondent asks information relative
to dresses for baby girls of one and two
years of age. Dress your babies simp'y,
good mother; it will be better for them and
for you, and for once, simplicity is stylish.

For early spring wear, dresses of soft
ﬂannel and cashmere are made up very sim-
ply with straight skirts which are Ornav
mented with feather stitching,and have little
pointed yokes,to which the waist is gathered .
The gathered skirt and full waist are sewed
together with a cord. The edge of the yoke,
a small collar round the neck, the narrow
cuffs on the sleeves, are all feather-stitched
with silk. More elaborate dresses are made
of chambery, gingham, challi or China
silk, with low round waists, no sleeves, and
short skirts with one or two very narrow,
scant ruﬁi_:s, gathered on. A three inch
frill is gathered around the low neck and
may be edged with lace or embroidery, or
feather-stitched, according to the material.
These dresses are worn over guimpes of
nainsook, plain or tucked, or very gorgeous
with puﬁings and insertions.

If a guimpe is not desired, gingham and
challi dresses are made with high waists
tucked down the centre of the back and
front. Coming from the shoulders to the

 

 

tucks a yoke is outlined by braid or em-
broidery stitched on. Alittle round collar,
edged with embroidery, ﬁnishes the neck.
Skirts are long, but not sufficiently so to
impede locomotion. Sashes of soft China
silk are worn with some of these dresses,
they are three-eighths of a yard wide and,
folded widely across the front, are tied' in
large loops at the back. Choose soft, deli-
cate colors, rather than pronounced shades
of red, blue, etc.

The approved head gear for these small
people is the large poke bonnets with full
crowns and shirred brims. They wear
little lawn sunbonnets .and wide large
crowned hats in warm weather.

Few black dresses are seen on very young
children, though black China silks or surah
dresses worn over colored guimpes are
sometimes seen. But the preference is for
ﬁgured goods. A black China silk with
yellow polka dots would have a yellow silk
guimpe, or be cut with a low waist to be
ﬁlled in with plain yellow silk and have
long sleeves of the dress material. Velvet
ribbon is applied as bretelles, with ends at
the back. The China silks are not ex-
pensive in the cheap qualities; 27 inches
wide, they can be bought as low as 65 and
70 cents per yard, are washable, and are
much worn by everybody, though the
cheap grades are not desirable for “ grown
ups.”

THE lady who inquired where and at
what price a parrot could be bought is in-
formed that a young bird—about eight
months old—can be bought at R)yca’s
bird store, Wo‘odward Ave., this city,
for $10. The birds are uneducated-that
is, they can’t swear yet.

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ONE of the luxuries of invalid life is a
ﬂannel washcloth. To a sensitive person
who dreads and shrinks from the touch of
a wet linen or cotton cloth, the substitution
of a washcloth of soft baby ﬂannel will
oftentimes serve to render the bath agree-
able, if not positively enjoyable. It should
be made of two or three thicknesses of the
ﬂannel lightly tacked together, and should
not be larger than the nurse’s hand can
hold.

 

A VERY easy way to provide the growing
girls with the set of solid silver teaspoons
which every well-born young woman
should have at her marriage is to buy one
spoon at each birthday, having it marked
with date and initials. We used to feel
an odd teaspoon was in the nature of a
family disgrace, whereas now it is the
fashion to have every spoon of a different
pattern. Teaspoons, dessert spoons, and
the after dinner coﬂee sp mm are all suit-
able for gifts on any occasion.

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Centributed. Recipes.

 

Son Gmana CAKE—0.10 cup New Orleans
molasses; one egg; three tablespoonfuls melt-
ed butter: one teaspoonful ginger; three
scant cups of sifted ﬁour. Stir thoroughly:
then add one scene teaspoonful soda (dissolv-
ed) and one cup boiling water. When prop- ‘
erly baked it is very nice.

Bonito. In. San.

