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DETROIT, NOV. 26, 1892.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

THANKSGIVING.

 

BY MARTHA E. DIMON.
N0 heart in all the world to-day
More thankful is than mine,
Altho‘ not rich in worldly wealth
Nor fame’s bright light I shine.

I’ve something more than wealth or fame, '
For neither one of them

Can ornament a happy brow
Like love’s pure diadem.

And love is mine—such love-indeed
I scarce had dreamed could be,

It gloriﬁes my daily tasks
And sweetens life to me.

What if my lover is unknown
To fashion, riches, power.

True love's a gem so rich and rare
I’m thankful for this hour.

Let Others give to God their thanks
For prosperous months now past:

I thank Him for the love He‘s sent
To wake my heart at last.

 

THE KEELEY INSTITUTE AT YPSI-
LANTI.

Of course everybody has heard about
Dr. Keeley and his marvelous cure
long ago, and no doubt many a reader
of the HOUSEHOLD will agree with me
that from a practical standpoint he has
wrought a revolution in temperance
work. When it is demonstrated. as he
has shown, that alcoholism or the drink
habit is a disease that submits to treat-
ment like any other disease; and that a
man’s much talked of “will power” has
nothing to do with it, then may the
various temperance societies fold up
their pledges and lay them away as far
as reformatory work is concerned. As
well ask a maniac to promise, during a
rational period, to maintain his reason,
and with as much hope of success.

It was while on a. visit to friends in
Ypsilanti not long ago since that I saw
the beautiful building which is called
the Keeley Institute of Michigan. It
stands back from the street and is sur-
rounded by a beautiful lawn laid out
with walks and ﬂower beds, and shaded
by lofty trees. A wealthy lady of Ypsi-
lanti built the house for a private resi-
dence and furnished it with all that
money combined with refined taste
could procure. The building was pur-
chased ready furnished for its present
use. Beautiful pictures adorn the walls;
the softest and richest of carpets cover
the ﬂoors; rich draperies, and elegant
upholstered furniture meet the eye at

 

every point. On the lower floor are
located the oﬁices of the manager,
physician in charge, book-keeper and
stenogranher; also the rooms for giving
treatment, where the patients are found
“right in line" four times a day for the
hypodermic injection, which is given
in the left arm above the elbow. In
addition to this treatment each patient
is given a bottle of medicine from which
to take a dose every two hours.

At the time of my visit there were
about thirty patients, but twice that
number were expectei after election.

Upon his arrival every m to is given
the injection (supposed to be bi-chloride
of gold), and a small vial of whiskey,
about two ounces. They are allowed to
have all they want of the liquor, the
only stipulation being that they must
go to the doctor for it, not to the saloons.
This is that the amount drank may be
known to the doctor that his remedies
may be gauged accordingly. The usual
length of time a man calls for liquor is
two or three days after beginning treat-
ment; sometimes one will drink longer,
but the end of the ﬁrst week at most
ﬁnds the appetite gone. and the patient
surprised that he can go on day after
day without wanting a drink of lio uor.

That is the best of it. No will power
is required of the poor fellow who has
found out long ago that he has no will
power so far as drink is concerned. It
is not necessary he should even have
faith in the cure. Indeed most of them
are conﬁdent when they go there that
their case is beyond cure. They go to
please their friends, and ﬁnd that the
Keeley cure gets in its work just the
same as if they believed in it from the
first.

While the physicians at the Institute
(10 not claim to permanently cure every
case, yet the figures show that only ﬁve
per cent go back to drinkingma good
showing certainly.

Said the lady where I visited: “iVe
see them in all the different stages.
Most of the patients are more or less
intoxicated when they come. or else
they are weak and trembling from the
effects of a prolonged spree. We see
them as they pass the house on their
way to or from treatment and after a
few days they begin to change in ap-
pearance. The man begins to walk
more erect. He is gaining strength
and new manhood. His step is ﬁrm

 

and elastic, the bleared look leaves his
eyes, his face gradually loses its ﬂushed,
bloated expression, and it seems hardly
possible that it can be the same indi-
vidual who came to the Institute a few
short weeks ago.”

Dr. Keeley has done much for the
good of mankind. If our national
government permits the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic drinks, surely
Something should be done to offset as
far as pissible the evil which comes
from its use.

The Institute at Ypsilanti is under
the management of men who have the
nrofoundest sympathy for the unfortu-
nate ones who come to them: and no
matter whether they are rich or poor,
millionaire or bootblack, all are treat-
ed alike kindly. and in such a way that
they soon feel that they are among
brothers.

A Keeley league of the “graduates,“
has been formed. and. a fund established
for the beneﬁt of those who are unable
ﬁnancially to pay their own way at the
Institute.

The Care and the client it has noon
the patients has been likened to a “pro-
tracted," or revival meenug, where as
fast as one becomes converted he speed-
ily uses al his powers of persuasion to
get others converted. Use man who
has been cured wants every other man
who is in alike conditirn; to so also and
be cured.

Will the cure "‘33 permanent? Dr.
Keeley has been treat'ng the disease
successfully, as well as the opium and
morphine habit. for years: and if it
were not worthy of conﬁdence would
the present mammoth proportions of
his practice. have been attained? No
State in the Union to-day but has its
Keeley Institute, and our 0 ya State has
two, one recently having been opened
at Alma. ‘

The price of treatment is uniform——
twenty-ﬁve dollars a week. board and
lodging additional. Four weeks gen-
erally completes the cure, exceptional
cases requiring sometimes a week more.

The company intend in the near
future to built a lodging house on the
grounds where the patients can be ac-
commodated.

There is a club house already which I
neglected to mention, ‘ where the
patients meet between treatments to
read, play games, or amuse themseIV'es

  


 

The Household.

    

 

as they please. The club rooms are
provided with a piano and other musi-
cal instruments, library, etc. A club
meeting is held every morning at nine
o’clock, presided over by the doctor,
where letters are read from former
patients, speeches made, and any busi-
ness that would properly come before
such a meeting attended to. ‘

cI have said nothing about the treat-
ment in connection with the morphine
habit, but it is only because the other
is of so much wider proportions that it
received ﬁrst mention. Patients are
as successfully treated for that as for
the liquor habit, and a goodly propor—
tion of the patients at Ypsilanti are
there for that treatment. These, when
cured, are also loud in praise of the In»
stitute and many of them send or bring
friends similarly afﬂicted upon their re-
turn to their homes.

Altogether, it is a blessing untold toa
class of unfortunate victims who have
heretofore received only sneers and
jeers from those not similarly afﬂicted,
who have felt- that they might curs
themselves if they would only try,

FLINT. ELLA ROCKWOOD.

_......_-........_.._._
“ NEVER TO OLD 1m LEARN "

If there is anything on earth I detest
it is salt pork. and when you listen to
my tale of woo, you will extend your
heartfelt sympathy to me in those hours
of trial. For the beneﬁtof young house-
wives (of whom I am one). I will relate
an experience:

When I became chief cook of my own
little house, I had a certain idea that l
was quite thoroughly versed in the dif-
ferent branches of housework. But I
had only been married a short time
before that conceit was taken all out of
me, and I am frank in admitting that I
shall never be too old to learn.

My husband made only one request in
his bill of fare, and that was he desired
salt pork twice a day, unless alternated
by an occasional steak. I felt perfectly
competent to fry pork, so started in
cheerfully to perform that part of the
menu, thinking what an appetizing dish
I could present. _

When the potatoes and othe r vegetables
were prepared for dinner that salt pork
was sliced (not very thin) and freshened;
then a bowl half full of grease was taken
from the pantry shelf and conveyed to
the spider; I then dipped the pork in
ﬂour, and when the grease was sulci-
ently hot it was laid in it; the meat would
sputter and boil, spatter the stove and
wall paper, and sometimes my hands and
face narrowly escaped the sauciness of
that ill-tempered greace; the meat would
never be brown, nor have a particle of
crispness : it would cook three-quarters
of an hour, and at the end of that time
look about the same as it did when I
took it from the barrel.

But husband never murmured, so I
supposed it was just as “mother did it,”
until one day about the close of the year,

  

my mother remarked she was actually
hungry for some salt pork, so I invited
her out. By this time that duty had
become a burden which was almost as
large as was Christian’s in Bunyan’s

Pilgrim’s Progress. She came, and
when I lifted the cover from the barrel
and took out a large side piece, I could
not refrain from singing that “Sweet
Bye-and-Bve” (my father-in-law’s favor-

ite lullaby when his temper is not even- .

ly balanced). My mother, I saw, was
watching me, and when she saw me
empty the contents of that bowl into the
spider how she laughed, and it was not
until that day that i found out my
blunder.

By this time my husband’s appetite
for salt pork was on the decline, and
kept getting more so, and from that
time to this, which is three years,
nothing has been said about a pork
barrel.

It has been oft repeated that what
you learn by experience you never for-
get; this experience, together with
some others, I will never be allowed to
forge L. MTTLE NAN.

MT. CLEMENS.

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JUR COLUMBUS DAY.

i wonder how many country schools
celebrated Columbus Day in an indi»
vidual way; that is, without becoming
an adjunct of some city or village pro-
gramme? I know of but one. That
one my own, in District No. 9, Hadley,
Mich. And this is how we did it:

At the close of the spring term I dis
tributed among the pupils about 100
Youth‘s Companion ﬂag certiﬁcates, by
the sale of which, during the summer
vacation, they raised money enough to
pip-chase a fine school flag, which was
flung to the breeze from the head of a
non- partisan pole October 7. This, be-
cause in the ofﬁcial programme as one
enthusiastic patriot remarked, “Every-
thing circles around that pole with the
ﬂag floating at its too,” and the "oﬂi-
cial programme” was what we intended
to execute with our little band of 20
scholars, supplemented with their
grandfathers and grandmothers,
fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters,
uncles, aunts and cousins. We were
invited of course to join with adjacent
village schools in celebrating, but de-
cided to see what could be done at
home, believing it would be more bene-
ficial and satisfactory. Accordingly
the district board arranged for a picnic
dinner at the school house, sent for
ﬁfty oﬂicial programmes and ﬁfty
badges, and all parties proceeded to get
ready for the day which was to lead all
other days in the majesty of the "one-
ness” of its inspiring powers in the
minds and hearts of the free school,
liberty-loving population of our coun-
try.

The pupils were drilled in the pre-
scribed soags, and many others: the

 

adult singers practiced them so that

all could join in this part of the exer-

cises. The grandfathers acted as vete-

rans, and were escorted to the grounds

by the children, where the hollow

square was formed, the proclamations
read by the Director, J. L. Algoe, the

flag raised by the veterans, and three

cheers for “ 1d Glory” given, and the

flag saluted by the school. This part of

the ceremony over, we returned to the

school room, where, accompanied by the

organ, we sang “America” most patriot-

ically. Reading of Scripture and

prayer by E. B. 'Webster followed.

Then “Song of Columbus Day.” Read-

ing of the Address by A. L. Taylor.

Recitation of Edna Dean Proctor’s Ode

by Mary L. Taylor, one of my pupils,

aged twelve years, andl am proud to
say that she recited this diﬂicult ode
without a flaw, and with ﬁne elocutlon-
ary eﬁeet. Declamation of the simpli-
ﬁed address by Barlow Webster, aged
nine years. Of this too I am justly

proud, for it was delivered with an
understanding and intelligence that re-
vealed its power. We then sang “Red,

White and Blue,” concluding the ﬁrst
part of the exercises. But as a long
programme of exercises by all the-
pupils was to be rendered we took a
vote as to whether we proceed with the
programme or have dinner. The vote
to proceed was unanimous, and then fol-
lowed miscellaneous speaking and sing-
ing by the children, amongst which was
the declamation of Mrs. Hemans’
“Landing of the Pilgrims" and of the:
Youth’s Companion's “ Acceptance of the
Flag,” bv Bennie Scott, aged six years,
and the declamation of a ﬁne poem
“Our Flag.” by Lloyd Algoe, aged
seven years. Mr. E. B. Webster, who
has “been around the world” and knows
how our ﬂag is loved and honored in
other la'nds, also gave us a very inter-
esting talk about the flag. You see we
combined our ﬂag raising exercises
with those of Columbus Day in this
way, as we could not make a success of
two gala days in such close succession.
To particularize each exercise further
would make my letter too lengthy, but
I must say, each and every one acquitt-
ed themselves most creditably, while
the strong current of patriotism and de-
votion to God and righteousness per-
meating and binding all together could
not fail to strengthen and steady the
mental and moral ﬁber of the weakest
or most wavering. It was about half
past'one in the afternoon when these
exercises were ended. Then, as the
school house was to be thoroughly re-
paired and renovated (a new ﬂoor being
one of the items), the seats were quickly
unscrewed from the ﬂoor, stacked, and
extension tables which had been
brought or gathered up from families
living nearest the school house were set
in rows and loaded with such a feast of
good victuals and dainties as only farm—
ers’ wives can bring together at a pic-
nic, and about a hundred men, women.

 

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Old neighbors met, and as one said,
“It is a good thing for us thus to eat to-
gether, ‘A feast of reason and a flow of
soul’ followed by that which meets the
requirements of the body.” And I well
know that it was one happy, well spent
day in the history of this district.

Now I have been thus explicit because
country schools think they can’t do, or
be, or have anything of this sort with-
out tying themselves to the tail of some
town programme. And in this way
they lose nine-tenths of all the good
they might get, and of the moral, civil,
social and political growth and strength
to which they might attain. Here was
a little band of 20 pupils, not one G. A.
R., not one minister of the gespel, not
one “great gun” of any sort, and yet
through the unanimity, intelligence
and ardor of the people we had a “grand
success," with tobacco, whiskey, and all
those things miles away. My fellow
teachers, “go and do likewise.”

E. L. NYE.

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SUCCESS WITH POULTRY.

I think i promised to tell of my suc‘
cess with hens this time. It is nothing
very grand, perhaps you will say after
reading this. but yet it enables me to
buy a great many things I need, which
I would have to do without or call on
my husband for the money, and I know
that he has plenty of ways for all he
gets. Little Nan should not be dis-
couraged at one failure. Begin this
fall with 25 good laying hens, and give
them a warm place and good care, and
see if they don’t pay for care and kind.
ness in eggs this winter. I prefer
Plymouth Rock and Brown Leghorns.
I have all the butter, eggs, and poultry
money, so you see I have something to
encourage me, and after buying the
groceries I have the rest to do as I
please with. One year I sold enough
to buy a Domestic sewing machine,
which was $40; another year a center
table and cane-seated chairs ; this year
from 35 hens I sold $24 worth of poultry
and $35 worth of eggs. With good care
and management 25 hens will average
$2 apiece in one year. I had 27 hens
one year which brought $51. I am very
fond of fowls and like to take care of
them. How they sing over their warm
breakfast these cold mornings! It pays
to have them lay in the winter when
cg gs are high. Hens need water in the
winter, if they don’t have it they will
eat snow, if it is to be had, and that
only serves to chill them. Make them
work for what they eat, that keeps them
warm. Scorch the corn on the cob and
let them pick it off. A neighbor has
raised turkeys enough to buy an organ.
I saw her turkeys the other day when
passing; I should judge there were 50
at least, and they were nice birds and
will ﬁnish paying for her organ. She
buys all the feed for them. I don't try
to raise turkeys, the neighbors are so
close.

I am an interested reader of our little

paper and sympathize with Honey Bee
for I know what a mother’s trials are.
I have only two children, but one of
them, the youngest, has been sick ever
since he was three months old and he
was four years old in October. 1 was
very much amused on the pants ques-
tion a short time ago, but don’t think I
should care to wear them, I prefer
dresses. MRS. A. DO.
.._-__...._

A TRIP TO TENNESSEE.

 

Never take an acquaintance for what
he appears to be. Never locate a home
on the map; take in the town and
country with open eyes; breathe their
atmosphere ; take personal observa-
tion of the people and surroundings,
and then go home and make a sketch of
your thoughts before you make a move.

The weather was lowery, with sheets
of gray clouds hanging overhead that
looked as though they might drop rain
at any moment, when one enthusiastic
body took passage on the cast-bound
train for a trip to the Sunny South. 0n
arriving at Cincinnati there was a break
in the gray sky, and the sun poured
forth a ﬂood of shining sunbeams, that
warmed the heart as well as the body.
On arriving at. Columbia, Tennessee,
the air was as balmy, the foliage of the
woods and the grass carpet as green and
the roses as red and blooming as they
were during the month of August in
Michigan.

Columbia is an old and quaint town,
ﬁfty years behind the times ; it is a
desirable place to rest and forget care ;
nobody is ever in a hurry; labor has no
allurement; rest is a satisfying satisfac-
tion, and every one is contented. The
scenery is beautiful, the climate health~
ful, and the people interesting. I think
I would like to go there next summer
and rest. =The colored element pre-
dominates on the streets ; the white
people of the better class are very cour-
teous to strangers, and reﬁned and
polished in their ways. There are some
ﬁne residences on high rises of ground
on one side of a road, rocks and squalid
negro cabins on the other, with fat
negro children and fat hogs wallowing
in filth and rolling in the dust together,
their black skins shining through their
scant clothing. Swine and mules crowd
the streets ; hogs roll and grunt across
the hotel steps, are stretched sunning
across the walks ; no one molests them,
no one lifts a stick or says “whay” to
them. Hogs and corn are the town‘s

(staple products. hogs and hominy the

stali of life. Among the poorer classes
once a week they get up a ﬁlling meal,
which means an abundance of every
good thing that can be brought together.
Some of the women you meet on the
street look as though they had been put
through a drying proness, so parched
and withered is their skin; it may be
that too tree use of tobacco does the
tanning.

 

A small negro boy peddling chestnuts

0n tnestreets was asked if the were
3/

raised around there, " Naw,
grew,” was the reply, with an exnrew
slon of disgust at “white tr;i<h's" ignorr
EDGE.

All kinds and styles; of rigs. are SEW;
on the street, from the ﬁne carriaar
and horses of the well twin to the
greater number of ancient, ramshackle
wabble-wheeled vehicles f rom the hack
country; an occasional farm team wiii
be an old “boss" and a mule hitched to-
gether, or {our mule team. a colorw‘.
boy on the rear mule as driver. whr
guides the front mules with a jerk line

A group of negroes stood on the corner
Sunday morning discussing the merits
of different stores for cheapness. “Whnr
you trade,” interrogated one mamwhme
woolly head streaked with grey indi-
cated he had gaine'wi worldly wisdom
with years.

“Over dar.” was the reply,

“Dal. no place, why don’t y‘n go tea?
my store?"

“Whar dat‘f‘”

"Tree mile; I save

“Tew far.”

"Navr. i‘d go ten mild to save it:
cents, 11a: is the way to make moni-
dat is how (in white folks get rich.“

A ramble in the old burying ground:
brings to mind how time brings negle'ii
of our dead. The place was overgrown
with bushes, grass, “stick-tights” and.
“pitch-forks;” all these weeds are com
mon in Michigan, butour “pitch-forks“
have two tines, while those grown r:c
southern soil are longer, with three
tines, and long, slim handles. Tie.
graves are inclosed with granite slats
stood on edge, to form the shape of dry,-
goods boxes, the top slab and cover 1.13.5
a lengthy inscription: some. of the“:
had the corners carved. but most were
plain; few were in good preservatimi,
they were tumbling down and sinking:
in the ground. One showed the date of
death 1802, but most of them were not
to be deciphered; one grave not for-
gotten had a border of shells around it
and a monument of shells piled over the
grave, with a bouquet of fresh flowers-
placed in the center.

Rollinsr hack in the distance are the
hills, wooded with oak, hickory, cedar
and chestnut, the blending together of
the lighter and darker shades of green
makings beautiful landscape. On one.
hill is Fort Neagley, from which are
charming views. Among those bills
are the ancestral homes of the planters:
the ivy has crept over the walls of the.
old mansions until it covers every spacer,
clinging roses have wound themselves
around the verandas, and reaching out
for a quarter of a mile toward the road
is the spreading green of the lawns.
Great trees of natural growth are scat—
tered thickly here and there, and wind-
ing between them is the carriage drive.
while sweet rose gardens are fenced by
themselves. The- southerner doesa‘t
scrimp his door yard, but one fault dis-

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loose and lets them do the lawn—mowing
promiscuously. Other farm houses are
not so pretentious, but every home has
its kitchen with its inseparable brick
even isolated from the main building.
One wealthy farmer, worth his hundred
thousand dollars, will not grow any
crops on his ﬁne farm except enough to
supply his table, his land is overgrown
with weeds and brush, a paradise for
rabbits.

Corn is a generous crop, it grows
without much care; it is picked with the
husk on, thrown into a wagon, weighed
and sold for less money than we can
raise it. Southerners are a labor-saving
people; everything is done with a mind
to economize strength. The main
traveled roads are picked and kept in
repair by toll, and fibm them roads run
across ﬁelds in many directions. A few
years ago the town suffered from two
bank failures, a loss of over a million of
dollars to some of its reSIdents, leaving
them as poor as blue skim milk. which
possibly accounts for the funereal look-
ing countenances you meet now and
then. The failure of the great races,
which so many ﬂocked there to see, has
been another great calamity to them.

WIND-BLOWN LEAVES.

COLDWATIR.

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PLANNING FOR CHRISTMAS.

 

A nice prese it for a housekeeping
friend is a set of hemstitched linen nap-
kins With a border of drawn work, with
her initial embroidered in satin stitch
on one corner. Or linen damask can
be used, the hemming done by hand.

A pretty pincushion you will make by
stufﬁng a soft, rather ﬂat cushion, and
surrounding it by two lace frills, one up-
right the other failing, the lace two in-
ches wide. Over the centre lay a small
square doyley, fastening the corners
over the frills and puffing the lace be-
tween the doyley’s points. The doyley
you can embroider in Dresden design
or ornament with a drawn work border.

For a plaything to amuse the baby
wind an embroidery hoop with bright
ribbon. Stretch a ribbon across the
hoop and back and tie two tiny sleigh
bells where the ribbons cross, or fasten
the bells by narrow loops to the side of
the hoop. The music and the bright
colors make this very attractive to
baby.

Whisk-broom holders are always ac-
ceptable. Cut pasteboard for the back,
making it diamond, shield, fan or heart
shaped, and cover With plush or velvet.
Cut from celluloid a large maple or
grape leaf, and tint and vein it with oil
paints; or if you have not these use gold
paint. Fasten this across the back to
form a pocket for the brush. A pretty
one is cream plush for the back and a
big grape leaf tinted in autumn colors.

Such a pretty pincushion is made by
preparing a cushion about six inches
square, stuffing it solid. Cut a strip of
silk—surah or china silk—about 21} in-
ches wide and four inches long. Gather

 

it to ﬁt the cushion, and sew to it, mak-
ing the most fullness on the corners.
Tack a little embroidered doyley diag-
nally on the center and you have some-
thing quite too pretty to stick pins into.

For a knitted fascinator use German-
town single or double or zephyr, as pre-
ferred. Cast 93 stitches on bone 0r
wooden needles, not too ﬁne. Cut a
long triangular-shaped piece of paper
measuring 47 inches across the front or
longest edge apd 12 inches from the
centre to a point, sloping the sides regu-
larly from the centre point to the ends.
Knit back and forth in plain knitting
for four rows or two ribs without de-
creasing. Continue to knit plain ; nar-
row once or twice at the end of each
row to keep the shape of the paper pat-
tern until you reach the centre point.
There should be about 25 ribs or 50 rows
across. Now make a fringe around the
edge by crochcting very loosely a chain
of nine stitches, catching them along
the edge at intervals that will give a
full ﬂuffy fringe. Be sure to crochet
loosely.

 

A. HOME-MADE LOUNGE.

Margaret Ryder, in the Country Gen-
tleman, describes a homemade divan or
lounge which could be made up by any
ingenious woman at slight cost, and
would be at once comfortable and a
good-looking piece of furniture. The
foundation is such acot as is used by
campers, and which may be bought at
almost any furniture store. (Price in
Detroit from $2 to $2.50—ED.) But we
will let Miss Ryder tell her own story:

The out is twelve inches high, two
feet and four inches wide and six feet
long. It is perfectly ﬁrm. durable and
comfortable and cost at a general fur-
niture store $1.50.

A mat the exact size of the top of the
cot is made of print and the cotton from
two comfortables. the covers of which
were worn out. This is covered with
cretonne. A ﬂounce reaching to the
floor Turkish fashion and headed with
a puff the depth of the mat is added.

Two large pillows are covered with
the same kind of cretonne. They have
a rufﬁe of the same all around, the edge
of which is worked in buttonhole stitch
with dark red linen rope twist.

The small pillow is covered with
smooth gray linen and ﬁnished with a
rufiie of the material made double. It
is ornamented by a vine embroidered in
shades of red and brown crossing diag-
onally from corner to corner.

As this couch had to stand against a
long, straight wall, the pillows were
arranged to make a back. But when it
is possible to place the couch so that an
end will be in a corner of the room. a
more graceful arrangement can be
made. The cretonne used is of an all-
over pattern in small ﬁgures of shades of
brown with here and there a dash of
red.

Twelve yards of cretonne were used
and one yard of linen. The pillows
were ﬁlled with feathers from a discard-
ed bed. The whole cost of materials
was $3.65 and the work did not take
Over three hours. excepting the button-
holing of the rufﬂes and the embroider-
ing of the linen pillow, which was done
as “pick up” work in odd minutes of
leisure.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

BY taking a good deal of pains, it is
possible to wash a corset with fairly
good results. Use tepid water, wash
quickly and starch in thick boiled
starch, taking pains to rub the starch
in well. Dry quickly also, that the
steels may not rust. When dry, starch
again in‘ thinner boiled starch made
quite blue. If you have a dress form
dry the corset on it; if not, model it as
nearly as possible into the original

shape ; iron before quite dry and keep
the shape as well as you can. Corsets
stiffened with bone or horn launder bet-
ter than those stiffened with tampico.

 

A SOUTHERN woman has in vented a
griddle-greaser which ﬁlls a long-felt
want and will eventually retire the piece
of salt pork with a fork stuck into
it, to inglorious solitude with the tallow
candle and the snufiers. The little in-
strument she invented is of heavy wire.
It has a handle about eight inches long
and spreads at one end into a double

clasp, through which a wide lamp wick
is run twice, so thata broad, thick sur-
face is presented. With one quick mo-
tion a griddle may be thoroughly greas-
ed without soiling or burning a ﬁnger,

and the wick may be changed in a twink-
ling when desirable.

Do not go to the cellar for and wash
potatoes for every meal, but bring up a
large panful and wash enough for sever-
al meals at once. By taking thought a
woman may not add cubits to her stat-
ure, but may save herself many steps.
Put the potatoes into an old pan that
has been punched full of holes, kept
for that purpose. If the pan has be-
come rusty from continual use. coat the

bottom over with resin and lard. Not
enough lard should be used in the restn
to make it stickv, but just enough to
prevent its cracking off. The potatoes
will need two washings, and should be
left in the pan to drain over an old pail
until done dripping.

 

Contributed Recmes.
I II. “I;

CARROT PIE.——Wash. scrape or pare six
good-sized carrots. slice and boil till very
tender (perhaps two hours). Mesh and
press through a sieve. This nu must- of car-
rots will make three or four pies. Prepare
by putting in sugar, ginger and a little cin-
namon to taste, also a heaping tablespoon-
ful of ﬂour to each pie, to thicken. This
takes the place of eggs, and I think is better.
especially when eggs are 19 to 230 per dozen.
Add a little salt. and thin the mixture with
milk as you would for pumpkin pie, only
not quite as thin, as the carrot does not
thicken like pumpkin. A little experience
will aid no doubt in toe manufacture of the
article. and practice makes perfect. The
Ladies’ Aid Society met at our house re-
cently. To get the opinion of the members,
I passed my pie, and they all pronounced it

“good pumpkin pie.”

0.\KWOOD. MRS. J. G. ADAMS.

GINGERBREAD—One can each of brown
sugar, molasses, butter and buttermilk; one
teaspoonful of soda, and two of ginger.
Mix soft; knead lightly; roll nearly an inch
thick, place on pic tins, sprinkle with white ‘

 

sugar. crease with a fork and bake
PLAINWELL. ~ BESS.

   

 

 

   

