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rdlct careless lips declare.

.{1 ‘ uestion why. against the charm
‘9 sfﬁQnIuty. vivid. rich and warm. ,

‘ ' _ slice they deem so cold and dull.

,. . at; him should be so beautiful.

   

"T“Are they too dull to see aright?
.‘ Bath he a quicker. keener sight?
. Or is it that indifference
'l‘han love hath clearer. truer sense?
Now are they right or wrong? now say.
Doth he behold her face; or' they?

“Her eyes into his own eyes shine
With strange iilumining‘; a sign‘
Is on her brow. a palimpset,
Unto his gaze alone confessed.

‘ On him in gravely gracious mood.
She smiles her soul‘s beatitude.

' "This is the face she turns to him.

‘ Oh. say not ’tis a lover’s whim
7 That ﬁnds it fair: nor are they dull
Who say she is not beautiful.

, V For. strongest of all mysteries.
.- They never seethe face he sees.

» The face no artist’s skill can limn.

. The love-fair face she turns to him.”

 

What matter it though life uncertain be
_ To all? What though its goal
. Be never reached? What though
Have we not each a soul?

it fall and use.

‘ A soul that quickly must arise and soar
To regions far more pure—
Arise and dwell where pain can be no more.
And every joy is sure.

Be like the bird that. on a bough too mu
To hear him. gaily swings; .
He carols though the slender branches fail—
kn th t he has wings.
lie of" a - -Victor Hugo .

_.____...——-———

WHITMAN BUMANITY .

 

‘ ‘ The student of the daily paper must
beoiten reminded of that"; line of the
Scotch bard’s, “ Man’s inhumanity
to man makes countless thousands

mourn.”_ Those bare outlines of hap-
" ~ pening‘s all over the country which the

. newspaper chronicles are epitomes of

" 1 ,. the tragedies of human life. He who
’ Jreads with athought of the suffering
" ’ “andwoe involved in them must often
» . {eeiihis heart beat with pity and indigé
:nati'on. Among the casualties and the.

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' tires, the weaknesses and wicked-

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*‘almos convince him at man’s etc

would seem as if the very defenseless-

‘will and tales oi'wife‘beat-
’ ings’, of heartless desertion, and» bleach
6139913319“ to little children as

ness and helplessness of children would
appeal to the tenderer feelings of any
human heart. but sometimes even
beasts are kinder to their young than
human parents. They may prey upon
other animals and devour them; that is
their instinct, but at least they are kind
to their own.' The lioness fondles her
cube and the panther sheathes her claws
while at play, both will defend their
oﬂ'spring with courage and to the death
if need be; but men and women “in the
image of God,” will punish little chil-
dren with cruel stripes, starve and tor-
ture them. abandon them to death or a
possible charity, compel them to tasks
beyond their years and strength, or
dwarf every good impulse in them by
vicious training, in a way that con-
vinces us the race is even yet imper-
fectly civilized and that the' savage
lurks in every breast.

The woman whose husband beats her
can leave him, avoid his presence, or
appeal to the protection of the law.
The child has no such alternatives, but
must suffer alike the insane frenzy of
the momentary passion or the delib-
erate cruelty extended over the entire
childhood. Its very weakness, which
should be its stronghold, compels sub-
mission. One can scarcely take up a
paper without ﬁnding an instance of
brutality to a child. And only the
worst, the most atrocious cases, get
into print. Some of them show a
devilish ingenuity in torture worthy
the Dark. Ages or the Spanish Inquisi-
tion. Down in Arkansas not long ago
a man deliberately undressed his three
year old child and put it into a tub of
ice-water because of some babyish mis-
demeanor; not content with this, he
ﬁnished by whipping the little victim
almost to death. For some little fault,
a woman put her child’s hands on a hot
.stove and held them there till the ﬂesh
was burned to the bones. A man is in
the State prison for torturing his step-
child to death with a red-hot poker;
the little one had not especially offend-
ed him, he only "hated it.” These
are exceptional cases of ﬁendish
atrocity, but ,where is the historian of
the cruel strappings that leave bloody
welts across tender shoulders, the im-
prjsonments in darkclosets and damp
-‘ cellars on bread and water, and all the

wreak their malevolence upon their
little ones?

That is the meanest and lowest type
of cowardice which ﬁnds gratiﬁcation
in torturing the weak and seeing the
helpless suffer. The bully is always
despicable. And he develops into the
ruﬁian, lost to all humane instincts and
promptings. The innate savagery
which prompts the boy to pull off the
legs and wings of ﬂies, put out the eyes
of young birds and beg the privilege
of drowning the superﬂuous kittens, if
not repressed, will make him a young
man cruel to domestic animals and
careless of inﬂicting pain upon them,
and the tyrannical husband and father,
whose wife and children only know
happiness and peace when he is away.

There is another form of inhumanity
not quite as revolting as wife or child
beating, but equally reprehensible,
which is becoming alarmingly preva-
lent. A man marries and obeys the
injunction to increase and multiply
upon the earth. When he has a little
hard luck and his tobacco and beer
money is cut down, or he gets out of
work, he solves the problem of .life by
clearing out and leaving his wife and
children to get along as best they can.
At Port Huron. several weeks ago, a
man of this calibre left town and a wife
and eight children of assorted sizes,
none old enough to be wage earners.
The deserted wife struggled along until
they were positively destitute, having
neither food or ﬁre, ‘then applied to ’ -
the authorities for aid. Lansing has .
six deserted families on its books. Al-
most every town in the State has its
deserted family maintained by private
charity or at public expense. And in
cities like Detroit, hardly a week
passes that some poor woman with a
babe in her arms and three or four at
home, does not report a missing hus-
band and make application for relief.
A large percentage of the poor funds
of every city is expended in aid‘ of such
applicants. The man takes himself
away, apparently perfectly indiﬁerent
as to whether his children starve, or_
freeze to death; his only care seems his
own comfort, which he’secures'byfﬁthe,
abandonment of his most 3 sacred. fee
sponsibilities. He seems utterly devoid
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This ,verdlct careless lips declare,
And question why. against the charm
Of beauty. vivid, rich and warm.

The time they deem so cold and dull.
To him should be so beautiful.

"Are they too dull to see aright?

Hath he a quicker. keener sight?

Or is it that indiﬁerence

Than love hath clearer. truer sense?
Now are they right or wrong? now say.
Doth he behold her face; or they?

“Her eyes into his own eyes shine
With strange illumining -, a sign
Is on her brow. a palimpsst,
Unto his gaze alone confessed.
On him in gravely gracious mood.
She smiles her soul‘s beatitude.

“This is the face she turns to him,
Oh. say not ’tis a lover‘s whim
That ﬁnds it fair: nor are they dull
Who say she is not beautiful.

‘ For, strangest of all mysteries.
They never see the face he sees.
The face no artist’s skill can limn.
The love-fair face she turns to him.”

—.__...—_

What matter it though life uncertain be
To all? What though its goal

Be never reached? What though it fall and ﬂee,
Have we not each a soul?

A soul that quickly must arise and soar
To regions far more pure—

Arise and dwell where pain can be no more,
And every joy is sure.

Be like the bird that, on a bough too frail
To hear him. gaily swings;
Be carols though the slender branches fail——
He knows that he has wings.
— Victor Hugo.

_—.__...-_—

INEUMAN BUMANITY.

 

The student of the daily paper must
beoften reminded of that line of the
Scotch bard’s, “ Man’s inhumanity
to man makes countless thousands
mourn.” Those bare outlines of hap-
penings all over the country which the
newspaper chronicles are epitomes of
the tragedies of human life. He who
reads with a thought of the suffering
and woe involved in them must often
feel his heart beat with pity and indig-
nation. Among the casualties and the
crimes, the weaknesses and wicked-
nesses, he will ﬁnd tales of wife beat-

. ings, of heartless desertion, and of such

eruelties shown to little children as
will almost convince him of man’s evo-

lution from beasts, and that he still re-

ains their savagery and ferocity. It

 

would seem as if the very defenseless-
ness and helplessness of children would
appeal to the tenderer feelings of any
human heart. but sometimes even
beasts are kinder to their young than
human parents. They may prey upon
other animals and devour them; that is
their instinct, but at least they are kind
to their own. The lioness fondles her
cubs and the panther sheathes her claws
while at play, both will defend their
offspring with courage and to the death
if need be; but men and women “ in the
image of God,” will punish little chil-
dren with cruel stripes, starve and tor‘
ture them. abandon them to death or a
possible charity, compel them to tasks
beyond their years and strength, or
dwarf every good impulse in them by
vicious training, in a way that con-
vinces us the race is even yet imper-
fectly civilized and that the savage
lurks in every breast.

The woman whose husband beats her
can leave him, avoid his presence, or
appeal to the protection of the law.
The child has no such alternatives, but
must suffer alike the insane frenzy of
the momentary passion or the delib-
erate cruelty extended over the entire
childhood. Its very weakness, which
should be its stronghold, compels sub-
mission. One can scarcely take upa
paper without ﬁnding an instance of
brutality to a child. And only the
worst, the most atrocious cases, get
into print. Some of them show a
devilish ingenuity in torture worthy
the Dark Ages or the Spanish Inquisi-
tion. Down in Arkansas not long ago
a man deliberately undressed his three
year old child and put it into a tub of
ice-water because of some babyish mis-
demeanor; not content with this, he
ﬁnished by whipping the little victim
almost to death. For some little fault,
a woman put her child’s hands on a hot
stove and held them there till the ﬂesh
was burned to the bones. A man is in
the State prison for torturing his step-
child to death with a red-hot poker;
the little one had not especially cﬁend-
ed him, he only “hated it.” These
are exceptional cases of ﬁendish
atrocity, but where is the historian of
the cruel strappings that leave bloody
welts across tender shoulders, the im-
prisonments in dark closets and damp
cellars on bread and water, and all the
other ways inhuman parents ﬁnd to

 

wreak their malevolence upon their
little ones?

That is the meanest and lowest type
of cowardice which ﬁnds gratiﬁcation
in torturing the weak and seeing the
helpless suffer. The bully is always
despicable. And he develops into the
ruﬂian, lost to all humane instincts and
promptings. The innate savagery
which prompts the boy to pull off the
legs and wings of ﬂies, put out the eyes
of young birds and beg the privilege
of drowning the superfluous kittens, if
not repressed, will make him a young
man cruel to domestic animals and
careless of inflicting pain upon them,
and the tyrannical husband and father,
whose wife and children only know
happiness and peace when he is away.

There is another form of inhumanity
not quite as revolting as wife or child
beating, but equally reprehensible.
which is becoming alarmingly preva-
lent. A man marries and obeys the
injunction to increase and multiply
upon the earth. When he has a little
hard luck and his tobacco and beer
money is cut down, or he gets out of
work, he solves the problem of .life by
clearing out and leaving his wife and
children to get along as best they can.
At Port Huron. several weeks ago, a
man of this calibre lett town and a wife
and eight children of assorted sizes,
none old enough to be wage earners.
The deserted wife struggled along until
they were positively destitute, having
neither food or ﬁre, then applied to
the authorities for aid. Lansing has
six deserted families on its books. Al-
most every town in the State has its
deserted family maintained by private
charity or at (public expense. And in
cities like Detroit, hardly a week
passes that some poor woman with a
babe in her arms and three or four at
home, does not report a missing hus-
band aud make application for relief.
A large percentage of the poor funds
of every city is expended in aid of such
applicants. The man takes himself
away, apparently perfectly indifferent
as towhether his children starve or
freeze to death; his only care seems his
own comfort, which he secures by the
abandonment of his most sacred re-
sponsibilities. He seems utterly devoid
of natural affection and paternal in-
stincts. Huldah Perkins wondered how
the girls who ﬁnd refuge at the

 


 

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Foundlings’ Home can abandon their
.babes,.‘relinquishing all claim to them,
ignorantof their fate. But I can un-
derstand how a girl can part with the
evidence of her disgrace much more
readily than ' I can comprehend how
either man or woman can abandon the
oﬁspring of legitimate union, leaving
it to life or death as happens. Yet we
. read veryrecently of a woman at Kala-
mazoo who deserted her husband and
three weeks’ old baby, her ﬁrst born,
because of a disagreement with the
former.

There should be laws punishing with
severity this class of crimes—for de-
sertion of responsibilities voluntarily
assumed is a crime. But what can we
expect so long as men and women will
marry on nothing and try to live on
their income! A man who hasn’t
money enough to pay the preacher will
marry a girl of equal fortune, and
heaven only knows how they expect to
live. Do they ever think how they are
to live? Girls are often called merce-
nary and accused of undue partiality

for young men of means, but that 15 a
wise girl who takes thought of what
and where her life will be after mar-
riage, and what prospects her intended
husband has for maintaining her and
those hostages to Fate we call children.

When a young man applies for a
license to wed I would have one of the
questions in the catechism, “ What
means of support have you?” And if
he said “ None,” I would have the wed-
ding postponed sine die. But this, they
tell us, would not conduce to public

_._morality. Marriage must be made
easy for public welfare, even if the
consequences are paupers and imbe-
ciles and costly State institutions for
their care. Human nature, with its
strong tincture of the animal, makes
social problems difﬁcult 'of solution,
. and- selﬁsh, undisciplined, passionate
natures make the sin and suffering of
' the world. BEATRIX.

A “llnousmaonn'r saonrooume

 

 

The days. and weeks slip along so
rapidly during this season of short
days, that it is no wonder so many good
resolutions are broken, especially if
they in anyway require time for their
fulfillment. For although, as some one
says, we have all the time there is, it is
so filled with the cares and pleasures
of the world that if we take up the duty
that lies nearest us, the HOUSEHOLD
letters are quite likely to wait for the

' more convenient season that is slow in
;coming.

A friend has a happy faculty of
selecting from papers just such bits of
poetry as will be helpful to her corres-
pendants; and slipping one in a letter is
a pleasant way of making one feel that
'their own particular loves and hopes
and sorrows are remembered by the
Leander- and instinctively the heart
_, vﬁrows fonder. What comfort there is

 

in the thought that a dear one- is re-
minded of us at other times than just
when writing the letter that proves her
aﬂection, and the little things of life

count for so much with those who

know how to appreciate them.

I had thought that our little paper
was simply perfect in its ‘ way and
wholly reliable in all that might be-
long to it, but was wofully disappointed
recently. One day “ my stomach called
for doughnuts," not of the baker’s
manufacture, but the real homemade
sort, light and sweet and toothsome. I
knew not how to compound them, but
said to myself “There’ll be lots of
good recipes in the HOUSEHOLD, so I
patiently looked over the ﬁle for two
or three years, and there was every-
thing else that an epicure might want;
but the doughnuts, or fried cakes, or
crullers, such as my mother used to
make, were not there and we took our'

coffee with cookies as usual. One tried .

recipe is sufﬁcient for me, but I would
appreciate one that requires sweet
milk or cream, with cream of tartar
and soda. Perhaps the sender would
supply a long felt want for others who
are too timid to ask, and surely our
cuisine should include doughnuts with
all the good things numbered there.

M. E. H. inquired about the ink
used in my stylographic pen. Some-
times the bottled ink is too thick to
flow well, but I have used it much, al-
though it should never be taken from

an uncorked bottle. EL. SEE.

Bonito.
-——-—-.O.—-—-—-

CHRISTMAS AT THE CHILDREN‘S
FREE HOSPITAL.

 

Ever since our “fresh air” guests of
the summer told us about the Christ-
mas tree at the Children’s Free Hos-
pital, we felt that it would pay to see it;
so it came to pass on the morning of the
30th of December that we entered the
unpretentious sunny-looking. building
an Fort St. which shelters this noble,
tender charity—a hand reaching out
to all sick little ones of whatever race
or religion, who need its care.

We enter a wide hall.’ Asmall re-
ception room opens from .one side,
while on the other a doorway, with a
gate across the lower part, gives us a
glimpse of the play-room where boys
in blue print blouses, girls in white
aprons, some with frames about their
feet, some on crutches, and all bearing
trace of disease and pain, are evidently
well awake to the importance of the
day.

We are cordially welcomed by Miss
Parker, the superintendent, and ascend
to the wards on the second ﬂoor. The
ﬁrst we see is the baby ward. Half a
dozen babies, some very pretty, are
here and respond with due grace to the
petting and fondling of the visitors.

None are extremely sick except a black

boy about ayea'n-old. who is suffering

from convulsions. .‘_ The white cots with

 

their white furnishings look just like
drifts of snow, and he looks so strange
lying in one. Our sympathy goes out
to the poor little sufferer and we feel

thankful to see him so well cared for. '

We often hear the remark, “How
little we realize the homes they came
from!” As the workhouse robes as-
signed poo ver Twist to his prOper
station in society, so the bath. clean
clothes and hi if?! rroundings make

 

these children 11me 7‘5 and lovable as .

0111' 0WD.

 

In the next ward ‘ ~ .
little girl who has been there several
months having her limbs straightened
They feel quite conﬁdent of ng her
the use of them. Willie, whoeame in
with typhoid, is pointed out b L ' '
as one brought back from the very
gates of death. Another, convalescing
from fever, is from an Orphans' Home.
A kind, intelligentappearing boy, he
seems worthy of home and friends; but

 

such blessings are not always given to ..

the worthiest, .

At noon those in the playroom go up
to the bathroom where each uses his own
washcloth and towel and passes on to

the dining-room, where they are served '
with plain and wholesome fare and
After that,

taught to eat it properly.
the former patients who have been

“ sent for” begin to arrive, with shin~ 7.7
They are.

ing and expectant faces.
shown into the play-room, where they;

exchange greetings with those theyjét r

chance to know and join the rows on”?
the benches.

Many sit quietly, while others are
restless and impatient. The gate is,
often opened and the liberty of the
hall gained for a few moments, when a
white-capped nurse puts them back
withouta word. Simon, an Italian as
handsome as a prince, is under treat-
ment for deafness, and seems quite a
pirate—regardless of rules he can not
hear. One boywho comes in tells me
he was cured of blindness there, and I

judgefrom his appearance that he was ,-

well‘ worth saving from helpless
pauperism, and of course it meant just
that in his case. Meanwhile, in . a
room Opening off the hall further down,
the “tree” has grown to the very
ceiling, and beneath the touch of three-
lovely young ladies 1s ‘bearing such
bloom as tree never bore beneath the

kisses ofIMay, or the magic wand‘of '

the Frost King. Some of the children
are .told by their nurse that if. they

come up promptly for their medicine,

the tree will soon follow, and the jbeﬁ
gin to apply for the bitter dose— inn-I
mediately without regard to time. , N o
doubt the moments seem long, and no
wonder that one little girl “ peeked.”
The curiosity, of Mother Eve abides
with us still. . The tree is ready at last.
Mrs. Ledyard, the lovely. and beloved

Patron Saint of the institution, .has as. ff.
rived. The room is- darkened, :.the__ w

candles-on the tree lighted, ﬁnds-the“
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. distribution of gifts begins and we

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anything. — The ladies and
nurses have brought down the helpless

and goodness. It would be hard to say
which is the happiest—those who re-
ceive or those who -have given. The

would have gladly watched it through; .
but we have already overstayed our
allotted time, and we hurry away feel-
ing that memory has gained another
treasure, for we shall always like to
remember our “Christmas at the C. F
H.” , a. H. J.
THOMAI.

THE CREDII' SYSTEH .

 

I would like to give Beatrix a vote of
thanks for her article on “ Store ‘Ac-

counts,” and feel that many others will
say she has uttered their sentiments
exactly. I have watched the credit
system for several years and ﬁnd it
resulting in evil many times. Money
gives one such a sense of freedom and
independence. Many a woman would
gladly do without things she would
like and enjoy if the store account

think farmers are fully awake to the
evil of credit.

- One of our ex-merchants says if he
had three customers all equally good,_
two of them pay as they go along, the
other having credit, the one is worth
more to him than the other two. I
hope, with Sister Gracious, that there
may be more “ pay as you go ”’in 1892.

Gum Bun. B. W. P.

W

GOSSIP 'WITH THE BOUSEHOLDERS.

 

I 'have just been reading the HOUSE-
HOLD and agree with Beatrix in re-
gard tethe good resolutions which we
ought to make and keep.

' Longfellow is my favorite post. How

2 true: ‘5 Home happiness is dearest and
best. Cherish it if it is yours; if not
make it so.” I think the advice about
‘5‘ Sto're Accounts” just right, but some-
times '. one cannot do otherwise than
make them. ,We keep them as small as
possible.

' “ Huldah, ”0 our old friend, asks, “ Is

‘ there a home for a girl where she may
fkee pher. child with her? If not'there
should be. ” ' Perhaps she is right, but
in my opinion it "savers too much of

.- putting a premium on crime of the
lowest and worst kind. I desire to pity
and forgive all unfortunates, but for our

State'to furnish a“ Home,” or place of *

refuge where all might go and be cared
for in their dishonor, I think it Would
be wrong.
, -I am glad to know E1. See is no

vfuturebe .bright with sunshine. .The
article -_ by H; N. P. I liked very much,
I'should love to see all girls like the
last one mentioned. It is of the

_ respect for herself soon others will have

none for her. Better be called proud

and cold than bold and free.

I like Sister Gracious’- letters, they

have'aring of earnestness. Where is

our “Brue?” She agreed to tell us

more of her history in the future. I

would like to welcome her back again.

We have sleighing here with us; the

bells go_ ringing. though we had a
green Christmas, just a few patches of

snow. Husband and I laughed at the
poverty-stricken picture El. See drew
for us of Petoskey and vicinity, and
were glad to read 'Farmerine’s defense.

True, El. See found things dried and

parched, with a poor outlook for vega-
tation, but our cellars are fuliof pota-
toes and other things as necessary. A
drouth is ararity here and we may not
have another in twenty years. We
hope for the best. We think this
country well worthy of settlement.
But those who have good farms and
richly furnished homes in southern
Michigan will not care for this.

There is one subject I think we ought
to discuss more, that is the feelings of
our children. We ought to try to not
pain them by restricting them in their
noisy play. We should remember the
poem beginning

“ If we knew the res: ﬁngers pressed against the
window pane

Would be 00 d and still tomorrow, never
trouble us again. ”

Its sentiment would often. keep us
from hasty words and deeds,
Wonvanmn. MAYBELLE.

____..._————

“I WILL PEEP.”

 

That is what a hen-peeked husband
said to his wife, who used to put him
under the bed whenever she had com-
pany, to keep him out of sight. One
day she 'hada large company, and as
usual put her husband under the bed.
cautioning him not to peep out; but
disregarding the oft shaking of the
head and stamping of the foot, he be-

man left in me I will peepl ” So, after
a six weeks’ siege of a second edition of
la grippe, enlarged but not improved
from the ﬁrst, a year ago—heaven
spare me from althird inﬂiction—I ﬁnd
myself sufficiently recovered to once
more peep into the HOUSEHOLD, as I
still consider myself a member thereof.

sion and one vote for my retention, for
which I am very grateful.

For six long weeks I have been under
the powder of the gripne, supplement-

HOUSEHOLDS.
' Peeping is a natural propensity of

by either mental or audible criticisms,

came impatient and piped out, “ I tell
you, as long as I have the spirit of a

I have noticed one vote for my expul-

ed byaparalysis of my left side, but
have managed to read most of the

the human race, especially of children
and of women; is usually accompanied

and does no particular harm when
conﬁned to mere mental criticisms,

criticisms do no harm except to the
one indulging in them, for. I hold that
our motives, intentions, designs. are

as much or more than what we say or
do. Man looks at outward actions; but
God looks at the heart.
Notwithstanding I have been a suf-
ferer for six long weeks it’s all right,
for what is beyond the control of man
is right. GRANDPA.
PLYMOUTH.

1 cameras. on CAKE-MAKING.

 

 

-A church fair or a picnic always

brings out a large and varied assort-

ment of cake. Every woman is pre-

pared to swear that her own is the best

of the lot. It is a matter of personal

pride to be represented by a plump,

well shaped loaf, with icing as white

and smooth as the driven snow. Often

that spotless icing covers defects
quickly detected by the palate, Even

in this day and generation there are

women who will make cake of lard and

coffee sugar, though most 'of them, I
trust reserve it for home consumption.

Cake-making is the poetry of baking

days. There is a virtuous satisfaction

in putting away in the Cake boxa de-
licious layer cake, abrunette fruit cake
or a delicate cake in its ﬂawless armor,

not to mention those sugar, cookies
which melt in your mouth and the
patty-cakes which please you by re-
minding you of the days when the cook
let you scrape the dish in which she
had stirred the batter, and baked the
residue “for your very own.”

. There are some rules for obtaining
the best and surest results in cake-
making which we may observe with
proﬁt, and lessen the chances of having
a cake “ fall” just when we are short
of eggs or there isn’t another cup -of
sugar in the house. The ﬁrst-thing
to think about is the ﬁre. Experience
is a great aid here. A moderate, steady
heat is necessary. If the oven is too
hot, the cake will brown over before it
has risen sufﬁciently and is almost
sure to break in the center and run out,
making an ill-shaped loaf; if too cool,
the texture will be coarse and full of
holes. See to the ﬁre ﬁrst, before you
begin the mixing. If too hot when
your cake is ready, a‘dish of cold water
in the oven will lower the temperature,
or you may lift the lids that are over
the oven. Next, line the baking-pans
with clean writing paper, brush over
with melted butter and dredge with
flour, shaking cut all that does not
adhere. For angel cake, the pan need
not be buttered if it is used only for
this purpose and has never been
buttered.

Me asure all the ingredients before
you begin. Use pastry ﬁOur; it makes
the most tender cake, as it contains less
gluten than the bread ﬂour. -- Sift the
ﬂour before measuring it}? -add the

 

 

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audible expression.

but may result in much injury if given
I mean mental

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INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

2 The'Household.

 

 

Foundlings’ Home can abandon their
babes, relinquishing all claim to them,
ignorant of their fate. But I can un-
derstand how a girl can part with the
evidence of her disgrace much more
readily than I can comprehend how
either man or woman can abandon the
offspring of legitimate union, leaving
it to life or death as happens. Yet we
read very recently of a woman at Kala-
mazoo who deserted her husband and
three weeks’ old baby, her ﬁrst born,
because of a disagreement with the
former.

There should be laws punishing with
severity this class of crimes—for de-
sertion of responsibilities voluntarily
assumed is a crime. But what can we
expect so long as men and women will
marry on nothing and try to live on
their income! A man who hasn’t
money enough to pay the preacher will
marry a girl of equal fortune, and
heaven only kno vs how they expect to
live. Do they ever think ho w they are
to live? Girls are often called 1nerce~
nary and accused of undue partiality
for young men of means, but that is a
wise girl who. takes thought of what
and where hr-r life will be after mar-
riage, and V\".fii prospects her intended
husband has for maintaining her and
those hostages to Fate we call children.

When :1 young man applies for a
license to wed I would have one of the
questions in the catechism, “\Vhat
means of support have you?” And if
he said “ None,” I would have the wed-
ding postponed sine die. But this, they
tell us, would not cmduce to public
morality. Marriage must be made
easy for public welfare, even if the
consequences are paupers and imbe-
ciles and costly State institutions for
their care. Human nature, with its
strong tincture of the animal, makes
social problems difﬁcult of solution,
and selﬁsh, undisciplined, passionate
natures make the sin and suffering of
the World. BEATRIX.

A “ HOUSEHOLD" SHORTCOMING

 

 

The days. and weeks slip along so
rapidly during this season of short
days, that it is no wonder so many good
resolutions are broken, especially if
they in any way require time for their
fulﬁllment. For although, as some one
says, we have all the time there is, it is
so ﬁlled with the cares and pleasures
of the world that if we take up the duty
that lies nearest us, the HOUSEHOLD
letters are quite likely to wait for the

‘ more convenient season that is slow in
coming.

A friend has a happy faculty of
selecting from papers just such bits of
poetry as will be helpful to her corres-
pondents; and slipping one in a letter is
a pleasant way of making one feel that

- their own particular loves and hopes
and sorrows are remembered by the
sender and instinctively the heart

. grows fender. What comfort there is

 

in the thought that a dear one is re-
minded of us at other times than just
when writing the letter that proves her
affection, and the little things of life
count for so much with those who
know how to appreciate them.

I had thought that our little paper
was simply perfect in its way and
wholly reliable in all that might be-
long to it, but was wofully disappointed
recently. One day “ my stomach called
for doughnuts,” not of the baker’s
manufacture, but the real homemade
sort, light and sweet and toothsome. I
knew not how to compound them, but
said to myself “There’ll be lots of
good recipes in the HOUSEHOLD, so I
patiently looked over the ﬁle for two
or three years, and there was every-
thing else that an epicure might want;
but the doughnuts, or fried cakes, or
crullers, such as my mother used to
make, were not there and we took our
coffee with cookies as usual. One tried
recipe is sufﬁcient for me, but I would
appreciate one that requires sweet
milk or cream, with cream of tartar
and soda. Perhaps the sender would
supply a long felt want for others who
are too timid to ask, and surely our
cuisine should include doughnuts with
all the good things numbered there.

M. E. H. inquired about the ink
used in my stylographic pen. Some-
times the bottled ink is too thick to
ﬂow well, but I have used it much, al-
though it should never be taken from
an uncorked bottle. EL. SEE.

Rom so.
-———.o._

CHRIETMAS AT THE CHILDREN‘S
FREE HOSPITAL.

 

Ever since our “fresh air ” guests of
the summer told us about the Christ-
mas tree at the Children’s Free Hos-
pital, we felt that it would pay to see it;
so it came to pass on the morning of the
30th of December that we entered the
unpretentious sunny-looking building
on Fort St. which shelters this noble,
tender charity—a hand reaching out
to all sick little ones of whatever race
or religion, who need its care.

We enterawide hall. Asmall re-
ception room opens from .one side,
while on the other a doorway, with a
gate across the lower part, gives us a
glimpse of the play-room where boys
in blue print blouses, girls in white
aprons, some with frames about their
feet, some on crutches, and all bearing
trace of disease and pain, are evidently
well awake to the importance of the
day.

We are cordially welcomed by Miss
Parker, the superintendent, and ascend
to the wards on the second ﬂoor. The
ﬁrst we see is the baby ward. Half a
dozen babies, some very pretty, are
here and respond with due grace to the
petting and fondling of the visitors.
None are extremely sick except a black
boy about a yea'r old who is suffering
from convulsions. The white cots with

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their white furnishings look just like
drifts of snow, and he looks so strange
lying in one. Our sympathy goes out
to the poor little sufferer and we feel
thankful to see him so well cared for.

We often hear the remark, “How
little we realize the homes they came
from!" As the workhouse robes as-

signed poor Oliver Twist to his proper

station in society, so the bath, clean
clothes and nice surroundings make
these children as pure and lovable as
our own. 3 ‘

In the next ward We ﬁnd Louise, a
little girl who has been there several
months having her limbs straightened.
They feel quite conﬁdent of giving her
the use of them. Willie, whoacame in
with typhoid, is pointed out by several
as one brought back from the very
gates of death. Another, convalesclng
from fever, is from an Orphans’ Home.
A kind, intelligent-appearing boy, he
seems worthy of home and friends; but
such blessings are not always given to
the worthiest,

At noon those in the playroom go up
to the bathrOOm where each uses his own
washcloth and towel and passes on to
the dining-room, wherelthey are served
with plain and wholesome fare and
taught to eat it properly. After that
the former patients who have been
“sent for ” begin to arrive, with shin-
ing and eXpectant faces. They are
shown into the play—room, where they
exchange greetings with those they
chance to know and join the rows on
the benches.

Many sit quietly, while others are
restless and impatient. The gate is
often opened and the liberty of the
hall gained for a few moments, when a
white-capped nurse puts them back
without a word. Simon, an Italian as
handsome as a prince, is under treat-
ment for deafness, and seems quite a
pirate~regardless of rules he can not
hear. One boy who comes in tells me
he was cured of blindness there, and I

judge from his appearance that he was ‘

well worth saving from helpless
pauperism, and of course it meant just
that in his case. Meanwhile, in a
room opening off the hall further down,
the “tree” has grown to the very
ceiling, and beneath the touch of three
lovely young ladies 18 hearing such
bloom as tree never bore beneath the
kisses of May, or the magic wand of
the Frost King. Some of the children
are told by their nurse that if they
come up promptly for their medicine
the tree will soon follow, and the be-
gin to apply for the bitter dose im-
mediately without regard to time. N o
doubt the moments seem long, and no
wonder that one little girl “ peeked.”
The curiosity of Mother Eve abides
with us still. The tree is ready at last.
Mrs. Ledyard, the lovely and beloved
Patron Saint of the institution, has ar-
rived. The room is darkened, the
candles on the tree lighted, and the
children admitted. All are there ex

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The Household. ' 3

 

cept the black baby, who is too sick to
notice anything. The ladies and
nurses have brought down the helpless
and the babies, and it is a scene of joy
and goodness. It would be hard to say
which is the happiest—those who re-
ceive or those whohave given. The

. distribution of gifts begins and we

would have gladly watched it through;
but we have already overstayed our
allotted time, and we hurry away feel-
ing that memory has gained another
treasure, for we shall always like to
remember our “Christmas at the C. F.

H.” a. H. J.
THOMAS.

———-———-..._-—

THE CREDI 1‘ SY STEM .

 

I would like to give Beatrix a vote of
thanks for her article on “Store Ac-
counts,” and feel that many others will
say she has uttered their sentiments
exactly. I have watched the credit
system for several years and ﬁnd it
resulting in evil many times. Money
gives one such a sense of freedom and
independence. Many a woman would
gladly do without things she would
like and enjoy if the store account
could be done away with. I do not
think farmers are fully awake to the
evil of credit.

One of our ex-merchants says if he
had three customers all equally good,
two of them pay as they go along, the
other having credit, the one is worth
more to him than the other two. I
hope, with Sister Gracious, that there
may be more “pay as you go” in 1892.

GRAND BLANO. B. W. P.

#4.“.

GOSSIP WITH THE EOUSEHOLDERS.

 

I have just been reading the HOUSE-
HOLD and agree with Beatrix in re-
gard to the good resolutions which we
ought to make and keep.

Longfellow is my favorite post. How
true: “Home happiness is dearest and
be st. Cherish it if it is yours; if not
make it so.” I think the advice about
“ Store Accounts” just right, but some-
times one cannot do otherwise than
make them. We keep them as small as
possible.

“ Huldah,” our old friend, asks, “Is
there a home for a girl where she may
keep her child with her? If not there
should be.” Perhaps she is right, but
in my opinion it savors too much 'of
putting a premium on crime of the
lowest and worst kind. I desire to pity
and forgive all unfortunates, but for our
State to furnish a “ Home ” or place of
refuge where all might go and be cared
for in their dishonor, I think it would
be wrong. '

I am glad to know El. See is no
longer alone and lonely. May her
future be bright with sunshine. The
article by H. N. P. I liked very much.
I should love to see all girls like the
last one mentioned. It is of the

greatest importance that a girl be

taught to reapect herself; if she has no

 

respect for herself soon others will have
none for her. Better be called proud
and cold than bold and free.

Ilike Sister Gracious’ letters, they
have'aring of earnestness. Where is
our “Brue?” She agreed to tell us
more of her history in the future. I
would like to welcome her back again.

We have sleighing here with us; the
bells go ringing, though we had a
green Christmas, just a few patches of
snow. Husband andl laughed at the
poverty-stricken picture El. See drew
for us of Petoskey and vicinity, and
were glad to read Farmerine's detense.
True, El. See found things dried and
parched, with a poor outlook for vega-
tation, but our cellars are full of pota-
toes and other things as necessary. A
drouth is ararity here and we may not
have another in twenty years. We
hope for the best. We think this
country well worthy of settlement.
But those who have good farms and
richly furnished homes in southern
Michigan will not care for this.

There is one subject I think we ought
to discuss more, that is the feelings of
our children. We ought to try to not
pain them by restricting them in their
noisy play. We should remember the
poem beginning

“ If we Knew the rosy ﬁngers pressed against the
window ans
Would be 00 d and still tomorrow, never
trouble us again."

Its sentiment would often keep us
from hasty words and deeds,
Wonvsama. MAYBELLE.

.____.w_———.

“ I WILL PEEP.“

 

That is what a hen-peeked husband
said to his wife, who used to put him
under the bed whenever she had com-
pany, to keep him out of sight. One
day she hadalarge company, and as
usual put her husband under the bed.
cautioning him not to peep out; but
disregarding the oft shaking of the
head and stamping of the foot, he be-
came impatient and piped out, “I tell
you, as long as I have the spirit of a
man left in me I will peepl ” So, after
a six weeks’ siege of a second edition of
1a grippe, enlarged but not improved
from the ﬁrst, a year ago—heaven
spare me from a-third infliction—I ﬁnd
myself sufﬁciently recovered to once
more peep into the HOUSEHOLD, as I
still consider myself a member thereof.
Ihave noticed one vote for my expul-
sion and one vote for my retention, for
which I am very grateful.

For six long weeks I have been under
the powder of the grippe, supplement-
ed by aparalysis of my left side, but
have managed to read most of the
HOUSEHOLDS.

Peeping is a natural propensity of
the human race, especially of children
and of women; is usually accompanied
by either mental or audible criticisms,
and does no particular harm when
conﬁned to mere mental criticisms,
but may result in much injury if given
audible expression. I mean mental

 

 

 

criticisms do no harm except to the

one indulging in them, for I hold that
our motives, intentions, designs. are
what creates guilt in the sight of God
as much or more than what we say or
do. Man looks at outward actions: but
God looks at the heart.
Notwithstanding I have been a suf-
ferer for six long weeks We all right,
for what is beyond the control of man

is right. GRANDPA.
PLYMOUTH.

 

A CHAPTER ON CAKE-MAKING.

 

A church fair or a picnic always
brings out a large and varied assort-
ment of cake. Every woman is pre-
pared to swear that her own is the best
of the lot. It is a matter of personal
pride to be represented by a plump,
well shaped loaf, with icing as white
and smooth as the driven snow. Often
that spotless icing covers defects
quickly detected by the palate. Even
in this day and generation there are
women who will make cake of lard and
coffee sugar, though most of them I
trust reserve it for home consumption.
Cake~making is the poetry of baking
days. There is a virtuous satisfaction
in putting away in the cake box a de-
licious layer cake, abrunette fruit cake
or a delicate cake in its flawless armor,
not to mention those sugar. cookies
which melt in your mouth and the
patty-cakes which please you by re-
minding you of the days when the cook
let you scrape the dish in which she
had stirred the batter, and baked the
residue “for your very own.”

There are some rules for obtaining
the best and surest results in cake-
making which we may observe with
proﬁt, and lessen the chances of having
a cake “ fall” just when we are short
of eggs or there isn't another cup of
sugar in the house. The first thing
to think about is the ﬁre. Experience
is a great aid here. A moderate, steady
heat is necessary. If the oven is too
hot, the cake will brown over before it
has risen sufﬁciently and is almost
sure to break in the center and run out,
making an ill-shaped loaf; if too cool,
the texture will be coarse and full of
holes. See to the ﬁre first, before you
begin the mixing. If too hot when
your cake is ready, a dish of cold water
in the oven will lower the temperature,
or you may lift the lids that are over
the oven. Next, line the baking-pans
with clean writing paper, brush over
with melted butter and dredge with
ﬂour, shaking out all that does not
adhere. For angel cake, the pan need
not be buttered if it is used only for
this purpose and has never been
buttered.

Mr asure all the ingredients before
yen begin. Use pastry flour; it makes
the most tender cake, as it contains less
gluten than the bread flour. Sift the
ﬂour before measuring it; add the
baking powder and mix it thoroughly
through the flour; this is best done by

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, sifting it. Never measure ﬂour by
dipping the cup into it; this packs it too
solidly; use a spoon and ﬁll the cup
lightly. And by the way, a graduated
tin cup measuring half a pint and
marked in quarters, is a great con-
venience in cake-making. Use‘ ﬁne
granulated sugar unless some ether
kind is speciﬁed, and‘cups even full.

,Greater care is requisite in measur-
ing the butter than any other ingre-
dient. Too much will make the cake
settle; too little will make it tough.
Winter butter is more solid than sum-
mer butter and the measure can be
made a triﬂe scant. Break it into bits
and press into the measure; don’t guess
at the quantity or “lump it off,” or
“ use your judgment;” measure - it.
Where the butter is to be creamed—as
it should always for nice cake—warm
the earthen'bowl by turning hot water
into and out of it. Don’t let it stand to
heat the bowl through or the butter
will melt and the cake will be yellow.
Many cake-makers will put butter and
sugar together and then stir to a cream;
it is a saving of strength to cream the
butter and add' the sugar gradually,
and the quality of the cake is superior.
Use a silver or wooden spoon; the latter
is preferable. Never use an iron spoon
to stir cake, or a tin or iron dish to
mix it in; your cake will be dark.

Do not beat the whites of eggs and

> let them stand; they will partly liquefy
and cannot be made ﬁrm again; it will
'not hurt the batter—before the ﬂour is
in—to stand while the eggs are beaten.
Add milk gradually; it saves time and
beating out lumps. For any cake that
is to be baked in a loaf, cream tartar
"and soda give best results; for layer
cakes, baking powder. When a rule
calls for a teaspoenful of cream-tartar
and half as much soda, and you prefer
to use baking powder, use two tea-
spoonfuls. So much starch is used in
adulterating baking powder that this
allowance is necessary. Alwayggpread
the batter evenly in the cake‘fpans,
. especially for layer cakes.

And after you have taken all possible
precautions, the “ total depravity of
inanimate things” will often be illus-
trated by failure, due to a little too
much butter or not quite enough ﬂour,

' so that you will consider cake making
anything but an exact science, and more
like a lottery than is altogether proﬁt-

able; but by observing these “ cooking
school directions” you ' reduce the

- chances of failure to a minimum.

All cakes made without eggs require

to be stiffer .than if eggs are used. Soft

gingerbread requires a “ right hot ”

. ' . even, but not sufﬁciently so to scorch.

.Hard and. soft gingerbread, ginger and
drep cakes and snaps can be made with-

,;. . 011558533 The latter require patience

2pinhole to roll the stiff dough thin

' hetoemake them crisp, and a

attendant at the oven door. A
bread may be made without

gs «milk, the rule beingcne ,

 

cup of N. O. molasses, half acup of

fried meat drippings, teaspoonful of-

ginger, one of soda, half a cup of hot
water and ﬂour to make a 3th batter.
The only trouble with this rule isto get
the batter stiff enough and bake it just
right, in a hot oven. Cookies may be
made by the same rule, making them
very stiﬂ. For drop cakes substitute
cloves and cinnamon for the ginger and
make soft enough to drOp from the
spoon.

A recipe for I‘White Mountain
cake ” gives a batter which may be
varied in a good many ways, is easy to
make and not too rich. It is very good
for layercakes, as it does not get stale
quickly. The rule is: One half pound
of butter, creamed; add a pound of
ﬁne white sugar; six eggs, whites and
yolks beaten separately; one cup sweet
milk, and one pound of flour, through
which you have sifted three teaspoon-
fuls of baking powder. Bake in layers.
Use jelly or cream ﬁlling if you like; or
into the beaten yolks 'of four eggs, stir
a pound of powdered sugar; ﬂavor to
taste. With this as a basis, you can
make lemon, orange, chocolate,cocoanut
or walnut cake, literally the old lady’s
“seven kinds of cake cut of one dough.”
The juice of the‘ orange and lemon
added to the icing with a little more
sugar, gives cake of those ﬂavors. Two-
thirds of a cup of desecated cocoanut
stirred in, makes your cocoanut cake;
a cupful of nut meats chopped ﬁne,
with a few whole meats pressed into
the plain icing on top, results in wal-
nut cake, and a little melted chocolate
gives the daintybeloved by most girls.

BEATBIX.

nonsmnom ﬁns-rs.

THE Toledo Jowmal tells a new way
for clarifying suet, fat from steaks,
chickens, etc., for use as shortening:
“ Put your beef suet or whatever you
have, in a kettle, and when beginning
to melt, pour in the milk. To such a
quantity as you would get from one
large steak, or the superﬂuous fat from
a roast, you would put about a cup of
milk. Let this 0011 until the milk is
all blended into the fat, and you will
have shortening which has nearly the
taste of butter.”

THE New York ﬂﬁbum advises us
that the best way to clean currants is
to rub a cup of, ﬂour into every pound
of currants. The ﬂour must be rubbed
into the currants thoroughly so as to
separate the individual currants. The
currants must then be rubbed through
a coarse sieve. This last sifting will
carry with it most of the ﬁne stems.
Pick out any stones or' larger stems
and immerse the currants in the col-
ander in plentyof cold water, rubbing
them well under the water. This will

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cause any small stems to ﬂoats:;~Take_"
out the. currants, handful by handful,

theme—em. towel. eliminate
:ixrﬁhe .,thu;;.of‘ ‘ ‘

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dripping pans and set them in the
closet of the stove under the oven to
dry. '

Gobi) Housekwping- says: The worst;
beefsteaks are found in private families;'"
often in those where other food is above:
reproach. The trouble is, sometimes,
that in buying. for a small table the.
housekeeper falls into the‘mistaken
economy Of ordering a thin . steak.
This can always be avoided by a little
thought. Most butchers will cut‘ its
two a large sirloin or round steak, and
a short porterhouse is hardly more than
enough to serve two people; but if the
marketman is obdurate, buy the whole
steak. .It will keep a couple of days,
and can be used for breakfast, dinner
or luncheon; and it is better to have
two good beefsteak meals, with a short.
interval between them, than two poor
ones at more convenient seasons.

DEAR READERS, you who profess
your pleasure in the HOUSEHOLD, and.
enjoy its weekly visits, your Editor
asks with no uncertain ‘voice, for
“More copy.” More, more, still more
letters are wanted-fletters about all
sorts of things, your thoughts, your
observations, your economies, your e'x-.
periments. not forgetting your failures,

out of which often come success. Your

Editor longs to be buried beneath an
avalanche of letters, literally “ snowed
under” by them. It is impossible to
have too many, the great trouble is too
few. We want the charm of variety,
the spice of differing opinions, 'the
ﬂavor of varying personality. All are
welcome, men as well as women (if
the women do not want the men to
come they must crowd them' out
b their own abundant letters), the
gfrls as well as those at mature years-

Please accept this heartfelt invitation-

_——*—

Useful Bec1pes.

Douenuu'rs.—One cup of sugar; two eggs;
two tablespoonfuls of melted butter; two-
thirds cup of milk; two even teaspoonfula
of cream tartar; one even teaspoonfnl of
soda; salt and nutmeg; ﬂour to roll;

Faun) Ghana—One cup of sugar; two
eggs; half cup of shortening; one cup of
sour milk; one teaspoonful of soda; salt.
spoonful of salt and half a nutmeg. Flour
to roll. Out in rings.

Cam—Four eggs; four tablespoon-
fnls of lard; ditto sugar; salt-spoonful cc
salt and half a nutmeg: teaspoonful 0:
lemon extract. Work in ﬂour enough for
a nice dough; roll an eighth of an inch thick
and fry in hot lard. [The rule we used with
success called for four teaspoonfnls of sweet . ,
milk—Em]. From “The Every Day (loot '
Book.’.’ ‘ ' '

Burma’s Ferny Cans—One cones cup ..
of sugar; two eggs; one cup of cream, put in;
a pint bowl and ﬁll up with nice 'rlch ha 2;;
termilk, one teaspoonful of soda ' dissolved'
in a little milk and stirred into fthegcreapl‘r
andbuttermilk' half a nutmeg; S301 , " "
ful'of’ salt. Flour enoughjg; ,. ‘~

. oo-qnartors‘of‘sn.insh;. ,. . .
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