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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

 

RAPID TRANSIT. -

 

The ﬁrst train leaves at six p. m.

For the land where the poppy bloWs:
The mother dear is the engineer.

And the passenger laughs and crows.

The palace car is the mother’s arms.
The whistle. a low, sweet strain:

The passenger winks and node and blinks
And goes to 51930 in the train.

At eight p. m. the next train starts
To the poppy land afar,

The summons clear falls on the car,
“All aboard for the sleeping car."

But what is the fare to peppy land?
I hepe it is not too dear,

The fare is this. a hug and a kiss,
And it's paid to the engineer.

So I ask of Him who children took
On His knee in kindness great.

"Take charge. I pray, of the train each dim,
That leaves at six and eigh ”

“Keep watch of the passengers. thus I pray.
For to me they are very dear.
And special ward. 0 gracious Lord. .
O'er the gentle engineer.”
—:dgar Wade Abbott.

 

LITERATURE IN DISTRICT SGEOOLS.

 

Every district school teacher having
the i_ telligence and purity of his ad-
ministratibh at heart,- is at once sensi-
ble of the possible power to this end of
proper literature, and y of the utter
dearth of literature of the required class,
both in the homes and in the school of
, his district. Therefore, if he be at all
spirited in the matter, he sets about an
eﬁort to form a club among his pupils
for some one of the many excellent
youths’ and children’s papers or maga-
zines now published at a price that
brings the very best within the reach,
I had almost said of the very poorest.
and I will say no less, for there is no
family in any country place of which I
am informed, so poor that they would
not be richer in more ways than one at
the end of a year ‘by having at its outset
paid $1.75 for a year’s nﬁmber of the
Youth’s CompaniOn, and what is thus
true of this is equally true of several
others. But what success has our
philanthropic teacher? Two, three,
four or ﬁve subscribers at the outside,
and they invariably from the families
best supplied with Wholesome literature.

The excuses made are ﬂimsy and pitiful-

enough, and no amount of presenting
the, question in its true light will in-
duce these close-ﬁsted brain starvers,

a dollar in any such “nonsense for their
young ones.” It is all they “can do to
get school books for ’em. Let ’em
study and learn the books they’ve got!”
And the teacher is disheartened and
discouraged that they who should care
most, really care not at all for that cul-
ture and mind growth so necessary, but
which is not attainable through the
unaided channel of mere text books, as
commonly handled in common schools,
or indeed in any school.

But he reﬂects, “Unless I can in a
measure at least lowerthis mountain
and raise up this valley, my work will
bein a great measure a failure.” And
so‘ out of his own resources and by dint
of manipulations worthy of a political
wire-puller he secures a showing of
good literature to place in the hands
and before the minds of his pupils.

But all this should be changed. Our
State apnortions a library fund, very
unjustly, too, inasmuch as only those
districts having an enrollment of 200
pupils or over are entitled to a share of
it. Now, this is radically wrong, and
runs counter to the spirit and temper of
our institutions. The child whose name
stands enrolled in the district where

just as much entitled to, and generally
much more in need of, his share of this
library fund than the child who is
“one” of the 200 or over, from the very
fact that the latter may readily have
access to other libraries and to various

the isolated child knows nothing of.

this "war cry” and demand their rights,

purposes.

offence.

thing real, earnest, honest, true, funny
witty, wise, historical, biographical

 

body-breaking mind orampers, toinvest

only a half dozen pupils are found is.

means of general information which

It is high time that districts take up

and when once they are obtained let it be
made a crime punishable by heavy ﬁne
for any ofﬁcer or set of ofﬁcers to use
this money for any other than library
Also let the buying of any
but wholesome literature be a ﬁnable
Let a large percentage of the
wishy-washy trash that goes to make
up the average Sunday school library
be tabooed. Give the children some-

travels, books of nature, oh, there is a
world of healthful literature calculated
to develop by .well directed gy muastics
,the‘meutal muscle and nerve ﬁbre of
the growing mind, and there is a strong
effort on foot to‘secure for‘th‘e children
in the common schools their share of it,

whether the natural guardians and prey
tectors see the need of these things or
not. Let some live, intelligent, go-
ahead woman in every school district
in our fair State set the library ball
rolling in behalf of her own school and
neighborhood.

The Y. P. R. C form a goon nucleus
for a library, and may be purchased for
$3.75, eight volumes that children,
young and old, literally devour, and
grow mentally and morally healthier
and stronger every day. E. L. NYE.

 

THAT SCHOOL PROBLEM.

 

As E. C. has Opened anew subject, 31
will just make a few remarks before it
is dropped. It seems to me there is a
great deal of truth in her argument.
although I know all teachers do not
think as she does for in my family of.
brothers and sisters there are six teach-
ers and I have heard nearly all express
their opinions upon the subject, and.
they are very different from hers. They
say parents do not visit the schools as
much as they ought, and that if they
would visit more and take more interest
in them and the progress of their child-

ers to take more interest. 7

The ﬁrst term our little boy went is
school his teacher came home with hm
one night, from school.stayed all night,
and went to school with him next day.
As she took her leave she urged me to
come to school some day; said she al-
ways liked to have the parents visit her
sshool; it seemed as if they cared some-
thing about how the school was con-
ducted, and did not think it was just a
place to send the children to get rid of
them for the day. So I went one morn-
ing and stayed all day. She seemed.
pleased to have me come and I enjoyed
the visit, and thought that schools had
improved very much since I went to
school some eighteen or twenty years
before. Now here is a question: Did
she ask me to come because she wished
. it, or did she act a part, and much pre-
, fer I had stayed at home? I declare I
almost wish I had not gone now sinhe
E. C. has let us “in it.” That same
teacher has given up teaching and has
gone to Chicago to take a full course in
nursing and caring for sick people, per-

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and liked teaching, but nurses can tell
visitors that their patients are not well
enough to admit them and no one would
take oﬁense. But I really do think that
visitors in the school-room break the
usual order of the school, as the dull
ones are embarrassed,the restless made
more restless, and the curious are more
so than common and are reprimanded
by the teacher, so perhaps the bright
ones only are not disturbed.

A. G. S. is to be pitied, but still her
trouble is as nothing compared to Mrs.
A. Do’s; that is to be taken to heart.
indeed. At the same time it would be
harder for A. G. S. to care for her hus-
band’s brother, for there is not the ten-
der feeling for him there is for a little
helpless child, especially her own. She
should be so thankful that her own dear
ones are not thus aﬁ‘licted and try to
bear it with a patient Spirit, for “It ye
have done it unto the least of these ye
have done it unto me.”

To be thought to be perfectly I appy
and contented in my home has helped
me to stand this cold weather in our
little, cold house; and try to stow away
the foot wear—a half dozen pairs to each
one of a family of ﬁve. If we were to
put up shelves to set them on it would
make our dwelling look like a boot and
shoe store. But I try to be contented
while waiting ior the new house.

Do any of the HOUSEHOLDERS try
sprinkling light snow on the carpets,
sweeping it around and taking up be-
fore it melts? I think it a nice way to
take up the dust and brighten the car-
pet. BUSY BEE.

Has'rmes.

 

THEOPOLUS AND HIS TRIALS.

The thermometer at our house—on
the outside—has been way down below
zero and southwest breezes blew but
brought no balm, for still the question
as to who or which shall build the morn—

ing ﬁres remains unsettled, butI feel
so grateful to those members of the

HOUSEHOLD who have taken a right
View (my view) of this question. Little
Nan, especially, receives my intensest
gratitude for saying right out “Let the
husband build them if he wants to."
That’ll do.

A. L. L. started on the right track
when she followed Scripture and asked
her husband for information regarding
certain domestic questions andpro blems,
but switched into the wrong track,
when she ceased to advise with him
and offered such woefully unsafe advice
as “Let the wtfe decide who shall build
the ﬁres.” T’wont do—like "Samantha,”
I dasn’t.

Bess is right in advising “Let the
husband lie in bed and sleep. instead of
growling around the kitchen.” Yes,
the morning is such a good time to
sleep (while the breakfast is cooking)
and the growling can be done later on.

There are several other questions
that are bothering me some, viz.: “Is

 

it right for the wife to rouse her hus-
band from his evening reverie, and
make ‘swifts’ of him when she wants to
wind askein of yarn to complete her
fascinator?” And while holding the
yarn on my aching arms I thought of
the days agone, when my “fascinator”
wore curls (instead of awad) and was no
“yarn aﬁair” either, but the question
Wlll present itself,—at times—(tire build-
ing times), Have I really, after all,
been “wooled” by my fascinator? (Oh
dear! how I do dread those ﬁres—-—before
they‘re built).

But wife says I make good swifts—
slow swifts—and the next thing I expect
she’ll be using me for tongs to ﬁx the
ﬁre with, and between the fear of this
and the dread of building the morning
ﬁres, I’m suffering ever so much.

Another thing: How long ought it to
take to iron a dress—just an every day
blue dress? You see, I asked wife to
take a ride in the cutter with me. She
said "Yes, just as soon as I ﬁnish iron-
ing this dress.” So of course I waited,
and she “went for” that dress with four
ﬂat-irons, and punched it, pulled it,
spatter! it, ironed it, lengthwise, cross-
wise, cornerwise, and all ways. I
surely began to fear that she would iron
it always. And I saw, while waiting,
why “woman’s work is never done.”

And now about buttons: When I was
a boy, the buttons were always put on
my shirt in a nice, straight row, down
the front side. In a few years fashion
said the buttons must be put up and
down the back, and I learned to’go
around there to button up the garment.
I’d just got used to that arrangement so
I could button my shirt without spoil-
ing my countenance, when fashion took
another ﬂop, and the buttons came up
on the shoulder,almost necessitating my
getting “up on my ear” when those
button are to be placed, and now my
wife has got a new kink on the buttoning
business. If I break my back button-
ing my shirt,who’ll be to blame? That’s
what I want to know!

One more: The present style adopt-
ed by the ladies of “doing” their “back
hair”-—-it grieves me sore—in a little
wad without beauty or adornment; no-
thing but hair, and, in many cases,very
little of that, right on the back end of
the head and it looks so lonely and
friendless. Can’t a style he adopted
that may justly lay claim to somewhat
of ﬁtness rather than a claim to “ﬁts”
or fashion? THEOPOLUS.

A BL ACKBIRD PIE.

There is always a call for anything
new and novel that will draw a crowd
and charm the silver out of close-but-
toned pockets in aid of charity or church
work. The Boston Globe recently de-
scribed a rather taking departure trom
old lines in this direction, framed on
one of Mother Goose’s melodies. First
four or ﬁve large “pies” were prepared,
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paper “crust.” The inside of the pies
was ﬁlled with triﬂing gifts nicely
wrapped in tinted tissue paper and tied
with baby riobon,leaving oneach along
end to pass through the brown paper
crust. “Four and twenty blackbirds"
were four and twenty little girls dressed
in black paper muslin Mother Hubbards
with big sashes of coarse black tarleton
caught up like wings to the shoulders,
long black stockings, and black caps
with a tiny‘ twist of red. These “black-
birds” sold “a piece of pie” for twenty-
ﬁve cents. When all were sold the pur-
chasers gathered round the pie and each
secured a ribbon end. The children,
joining hands around the pie and its
buyers, marched singing
"Sing a song 0’ Sixpence

Pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds

Baked in a pie.”
and all the rest of it, and at the words
“nipped off her nose” the paper top was
broken open and the gifts drawn out by
the ribbons. The entertainment was
very successful.

 

SARATOGA CHIPS.

Everybody has heard of Saratoga
chips and almost everybody has tried
the hard,dry, tasteless, salty things, and
like olives, made believe very hard at
being fond of them. The keeper ot a
fashionable resort at Saratoga, N. Y.,
originated them and it became “the
proper thing” to eat and praise. They
are manufactured by the barrel, and
sold at a low price, but if you wish to
make your own, the New York flrz‘bmw
tells how to do it. A quantity can be
made and kept on hand for use:

Cut the potatoes ﬁrst in the thinnest
possible slices with a vegetable slicer
and soak for at least six hours to draw
the starch out of them. These two
things are essential to success. When
you are ready to fry them, drain them
out of the water and use a cloth to ab-
sorb all moisture. Have a large pot of
fat—at least three quarts—over the ﬁre,
heated very hot. It must be hotter for
this purpose than for any other frying
done by the cook, unless it be for potato
croquettes. Do not attempt to fry more
than a pint of sliced potatoes at once.
If more are put in they cool the fat too
much to cook them properly. The
kettle containing the fat should be rath-
er deep, otherwise it is liable to boil
over when the potatoes are ﬁrst put in.
There is at that time a violent ebullition
in the fat, caused by the moisture in the
potatoes. The moment this boiling
ceases, in about two minutes, lift the
kettle on top of the stove, where it is
not so hot, and let the potatoes fry for
ﬁve or six minutes longer.

They should be crisp and a yellowish
white, but not brown. Drain them out
of the fat as soon as they are done, on
to brown paper, to absorb all grease.
Dredge them with salt, and serve them
On a hot platter

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SOME PEOULIAR CALIFORNIAN PRO-
DUCTIONS.

It is a year ago to-day, Jan 27th..since
I ﬁrst came into the beautiful City of
the Angels. We never visit a place
but once, because our consciousness of
it is us ver twice alike. I have tried to
see and feel again as I did when I ﬁrst
knew the lovely days of January in this
summer land, but they are always as a
dream picture. The deep, pure sky
and the brilliant sunshine have never
seemed as marvellous; the roses and
purple heliotrope have never touched
me as they did a year ago to-day when
a friend gathered me a bouquet of them
on the lawn. And I do not wish it. I
rejoice in the inﬁnity of life. I love
the earth-beauty here better to-day than
.a year ago, because I have lived here
and know it is the common, every day
blessing and bounty of nature. It is
the peaceful way between extremes. In
the east it is bitterly cold, many are
suffering from cold and hunger. Here
none freeze or starve.

In looking over a letter written here
ayear ago, I ﬁnd this statement of a
fact surprising to me then: “Roses are
in bloom—great rose-trees here big
around as a broom-stick and bigger!” I
have since ceased to wonder at rose-
trees ten inches in diameter, and have
often. seen them climbing over the
porches of the houses, sometimes even
on the roof to the chimney. Why should
they not be large when every day in
the year is a growing day? As many
as three hundred varieties are found in
a single garden where the owner loves
and cultivates the rose.

Some varieties are not fragrant. but
none is sweeter than the California rose.
A French perfumer has tested these
roses and found that they contain
twenty per cent. more of the volatile
oil than those of the French rose-gar-
dens. This means in time a new indus-
try for California. English violets
grew profusely here. It is now decreed
that no ﬂowers may be worn but violets.
Often on the street cars a lady wearing
a bunch of these radiates the sweet
odor like a sphere of bloom. The ideal
becomes the real here. What could be
more delightful than in mid-winter to
sit upon the sunny porch, looking afar
over heavenly hills and valleys, breath-
ing the perfumed air wafted off a bank
of violets,and dreaming the heart away
into the distant mOuntain-zone and
wondrous tinted cloud-world? It is not
vain to dream, for

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"Dreams are but the light of clearer skies
Too dazzling for our naked eyes,

And when we catch their ﬂashlng beams
We turn aside and call them dreams.

0h! trust me. every thought that yet

In greatness rose or sorrow set.

That time to ripenlng glory nurst

Was called an ‘idle dream’ at ﬁrst."

Ameng local aﬁairs one has to in-
vestigate the tamale. Early in my stay
here a friend spoke of them as some-
thing peculiar in the eatable line and
that he liked them. One sees every

 

 

evening the carts on the streets, “Mex-
ican and Texas Tamales.”

One evening I was out so late the
dining-room at the hotel was closed on
my return. I concluded that must be
the occasion for the tamale, went down,
and ﬁnding one of the carts near asked
the man if I could carry away one of
those things he had for sale. “Yes.”
he said, and ﬂopped up a cover and ﬁsh-
ed out a queer-looking,steaming article,
rolled it in paper and with it I proceed-
ed to the hotel to unravel the tamale.
It was rather a suspicious-looking
bundle,hot,soft, and wet. I commenced
by untying the strings of corn-husks
around the ends; three little bundles
were done up in husks separately, then
all three together in an outer husk
covering. Unrolling all the husks, the
substance of the tamale is reached, a
layer of corn-meal containing within it
some bashed beef all warm with pepper.
“Quite an institution” for ﬁve cents,the
boys say. To be more digniﬁed, the
tamale is multum in parvo. I have not
learned how generally they are eaten,
have often seen people buy and eat them
on the spot. I used to like one occasional-
ly and ate without much inquiry into the
manner or place of their make-up, till
one evening at a church fair, I saw a
glaring board saying, “Drake’s Tamales
the Cleanest in Town.” Fatal announce-
ment! That advertisement was match-
ed by another ﬁrm which said, “We
sell at a little lower price a little better
article than any other house in the city.”
The sagacity of advertisers!

They say that California has the big-
gest liars and the smallest matches in
the United States. I want to speak of
the latter; to the former I could not do
justice. On my ﬁrst arrival here, one
day I found in my room a bunch of the
tiniest possible matches. I thought I
must have met the “boarding-house”
match, and wondered if Puck had pic-
tured the felicities of its delicate com—
position. It is bound up almost insepar-
ably with a good many other minute
fellow-matches, as though there were
in the grain of the wood a strong bond
of affection rendering isolation painful.
Having broken off one, it is so trail in
its aloneness. so delicate and uncertain
is its individual capacity you have an
uneasy feeling of having sundered a
needful tie. and that the prOper thing
to have done was to ignite the whole
bunch. This however suggests itself
as being extravagant, but I don’t know,
——I counted nine extinct and decapitated
bodies that ﬁrst morning as the result
of lighting the grate! That number of
eastern matches would have given out
perceptible heat in this climate, but
after the wholesale burning of nine of
these I could still see my breath in the
room.

I have since come to prefer the
“Chinese matches” as they are called;
and natives of the west are unwilling to
be cumbered with so much wood and so
little match as eastern matches contain.

 

I recall once reading an estimate of the
immense forests which are being con-
sumed in matches, so this minimum of
material is wise economy of our wood‘

land. HATTIE L. HALL.
Los ANGELES.

 

 

LIES, AND LIES .

 

This world is not nearly as bad a
world as many of the people who live in
it would have us think. In fact, the
more I know of it, and the better I be«
come acquainted with the people in it—
good-hearted souls some of them are—-
the more I think the place is as good as
the most of the inhabitants. The only
bad things abOut the world are the
things that the people in it do. If the
people were only as good as the world
itself, we would never need to look
for a better place. One of the worst
things in it is the unkindness that the
people do each other in some ways. Un-
kind words and looks are unpardonable.
but it seems to me that even worse than
these, because more hypocritical and
secret, not allowing open encounter, is
the unkindness done by talking against
the absent. No one will do it but
a coward, who is ashamed or afraid
to say to a person’s face what he de~
lights in saying behind his back.

More than half the smaller trials of
life have this very source. No vice or
failing or shortcoming, whether real
or imaginary, escapes the back-biter’s
terrible tongue, though he ought to
know, and he is often glad in the know-
ledge, that the person attacked will
hear of his unkind words. He has often
an accomplice who feels it to be his
very solemn and not-to-be-neglected
duty to inform the person of the back~
biter‘s every word. Talking to others
against people is the way some have of
“getting even” for some real or fancied
injury.

The speeches of the back-biter are not
all false. Oh dear, no! There is more
often than not just truth enough in them
to prevent a ﬂat denial.

“A lie that is wholly a lie may be met and fought
with outright. .

But a lie that is half the truth is a harder matter
to ﬁght."

If one would tell a lie made entirely
out of whole cloth, it might be denied
and silenced at once, but one of those
horrible black lies wrapped up in a
garment of truth will not admit of a
denial without an explanation, which
at the best is exceedingly tiresome to
both speaker and listener.

Again, the back-biter may not tell
lies at all, and still be more unkind and
just as wicked as in the other way. He
may ask questions, throw out hints, or
smile a meaning smile in just the right
place, and really tell nothing untrue,
but succeed in leaving an untruthful
impression upon the mind of his listener.

These ﬁner diﬁerences between lies
and lies are too often conscience-silen-
cers for those who refuse to recognize a
lie with a new gown on.

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people on earth seem determined to do,
and that is to have a suspicion of another
person, and not keep it to themselves.
They may know nothing wrong of them,
but knowing of some circumstance, and
realizing that under the same'conditions
they themselves might be led to do
wr mg, they immediately come to the
conclusion that something is wrong,
and act and talk accordingly. These
are the kind of people who help to make
the world bad and then endeavor to
make us think it is even worse than it
is. CLARA BELLE.
MARSHALL.

 

A PROPOSED RENOVATION.

 

I am glad Mrs.A.Do.has one bright spot
ahead. My bright spot is not as large as
a new house, but is only the papering
and rearranging of the old, and this
explains my call. I want some advice
relative to the matter. I know there
should be a color scheme in all the fur-
nishing and that the color should be de-
cided by the exposure of the room, and
its woodwork. My sitting-room and
parlor combined is 13x15 feet, faces
north, has two doors and a double win-
dow. There is an objectionable wain-
scotting of the usual height, so there is
not much wall space to cover. We have
a few ﬁne pictures to be framed. Are
no frames but expensive gilt ones suit-
able for oil paintings? The woodwork
is ﬁnished in oil and varnished. I hope
for a new carpet, to be in browns with
a little yellow. I have olive shades and
a golden olive table spread I want to
continue to use. Economy is the ﬁrst
consideration; please bear this in mind,
yet I want the room to be in harmony
and good taste. I have a natural ability
in the way of making the best of things,

can paint, have plenty of patience and

like to do fancy work. My south win-
dow has a rather undesirable outlook.

Sash curtains are not liked, but I have

read somewhere ot a solution of salts

used for frosting glass. Does any one

know anything about it? MRS. M. E.

Sr. LOUIS.

 

Since Mrs. M. E. wishes ‘to use her
shades and spread and also since her
room has a northern exposure that prob-
ably requires light, glowing tints it
might be as well to let the olive tone
prevail in the color scheme. Get the
carpet in shades of green, olives pre-
dominatingdnstead ofbro wn and yellow;
very pretty patterns are found in those
hues. For the walls, choose a small
patterned paper, a large pattern de-
creases the apparent size of the room.
Do not select from samples, for it is not
possible to judge of the effect of a large
surface of color by a small piece. Have
the salesman unroll several pieces and
place them side by side, to give you an
idea of the general effect, otherwise you
may be surprised at the result. A cream

cream for ceiling, also with aslight
tracery in small pattern would be in
good taste. Or you may use a per-
fectly plain paper for the side walls,
but it would be more expensive. As
the wall is broken by a wainscotting,
a narrow border or freize is desirable;
avoid anything showy or in strong con-
trast to the paper.

Gilt frames are most suitable for oil
paintings. We should advise framing
one or two pictures, well, and waiting
till able to frame more, rather than
framing them all at once and cheaply
and unsuitably.

Directions for frosting glass with a
solution of salts in stale beer were given
in the HOUSEHOLD of Dec. 17th, 1892.

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CURE FOR CANCER.

 

A lady aged about seventy-ﬁve, living
near me, has lately cured a cancer with
poke root, (Phytolcwca decandra), and
thinking it may be a beneﬁt to some
one with similar addiction, I send the
method. She ﬁrst went to a. cancer
institute and had one removed from her
forehead. Before that was entirely
healed another very much like it ap-
peared on the back of her hand. It was
examined and pronounced cancer at the
institute, and forty dollars named as
the price for its removal. She could
not afford to pay it, and chancing to
hear of. others who had tried poke root
with success, she came home and began
the trial.
She cleaned quite a quantity of the
root and boiled it until very tender, put
it into a cloth and squeezed out
all the juice, boiled that down to a jelly
and dried to a paste in the sun on a
pewter plate. (In the absence of pewter
copper is said to answer the purpose.)
A plaster of this paste was applied dur-
ing the day, but as it was painful was
laid off at night for the sake of rest.
In two or three days a thick, dry scale
was removed from the sore, and the
plaster renewed. This was repeated
until, in a short time, the cancer was
quite gone and the hand healed.

THOMAS. A. H. J.

m

WE refer those of our readers who
'purpose visiting Chicago the coming
summer and have not yet made arrange-
ments for a stopping place to the adver-
tisement of Mrs. A. E. Chadwick which
appears in the FARMER this week. Mrs.
Chadwick is personallv known to the
HOUSEHOLD Editor, and those who go
to her may be sure they will obtain fair
treatment,moderate prices,and comfort-
able accommodations.
________.-,..___._.
GOOD Housekeeping for February is as
full of good things as ever. A new de-
partment has been added—a piece of
music being given. All the matter be-
ing original in this magazine its depart-

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

A simple way of marking stockings
where there is a large family is to assign

to each member a certain color and tie

a bit of yarn of that color in the tops of
the hose belonging to that individual.

 

A CORRESPONDENT of an exchange
says that in using compressed yeast one
quarter of a cake is enough for a mix-
ing. Place the rest, with three cups of
water,in a Mason jar and keep in a cool
place. Use one cupful to a mixing.

 

MIX a tablespoonful of vinegar with
the half pint or more of mixed plaster
of Paris you are going to use to mend
holes and cracks in plastered walls. It
will keep the plaster from “setting”
until you can use it without uncomfort-
able haste.

IN preparing dried fruit for the table,

far better results are obtained by long

soaking and slow cooking than by hasty,
preparation. Wash the fruit and then

put it asoak in warm water over night.

In the morning let it stew (in the water
in which it was soaked) two or three
hours, just simmering on the back of
the stove. Add sugar the last thing,
just before removing from the stove,

and you will ﬁnd that you will need con-
siderablv less than if the fruit had not
been soaked. Dried peaches, cherries,
apricots, nectarines, and even the des~
pised dried apple, are much more ac-
ceptable when thus prepared. Always
cook dried or any other fruit in granite
or agate ware,or porcelain,never in tin.
The dried apricots, which sell at eigh-
teen or twenty cents a pound, are more
economical in helping out a scant supply
of canned fruit than the tinned fruits.

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Useful Recipes.

 

 

Porno Soon—One quart of milk; six large
potatoes; one stalk of celery; one onion; one
tablespoonful of butter; two tablespoonfule
of salt,pepper. When the potatoes are put on
to boil, put the celery, onion and milk in a
double boiler over the ﬁre. When the pota-
toes are done mash them at once, add the
seasoned milk gradually. put through a ﬁne
sieve, return to the stove, add the butter,salt
and pepper. The addition of cream greatly
improves this soup.

SOALLOPED Overture—For a dish that holds
three pints, allow one solid quart of oysters,
one-half pint of cracker or bread crumbs
(the bread should be dried and grated if
used), three and a half tablespoonfuls of
butter, measured with a generous hand, one
and a half teaspoonfuls of salt and athird
of ateaspoonful of pepper. Put one-third
of the ovsters in the dish; sprinkle with salt,
pepper, and dot with one-third of the butter.
Spread with half cup of crumbs. Put on
the rest of the oysters, using the remainder
of the salt and pepper. and half the butter
remaining. Cover With the cracker crumbs,
dot with the butter and sprinkle with the
oyster liquor. Bake in a hot oven half an

ments are full Of ”68h suggestions and hour.or, if in a shallow dish,ﬁfteen minutes.

 

 

ground with small ﬁgure not too distinct
for the side walls, and that of a lighter

00., Springﬁeld, Mass.

“unthreshed straw.” C. W. Bryan & overcookine spans them. These are Miss

Parloa’s recipes.

ME.

 

 

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