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DETROIT, MARCH 25, 1898.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplernent.

 

 

UNCONSCIOUS SERVICE.

 

“The bee"—-she sighed—“that haunts the clover
Has Nature‘s errand to fulﬁll:

The bird that skims the azure over.
Bears living seeds within his bill;

“Without a pause his ﬂight pursuing,
He drops them on a barren strand;

And turns. unconscious of the doing.
The waste into a pasture land.

“I. craving service—willing, choosing

To ﬂing broadcast some golden grain—
Can only sit in silent musing.

And weave my litanies of pain."

1. making answer. softly kissed her:
“All Nature's realm of bees and\birds—
What is such ministry. my dear sister.
Compared with your enchanted words?

“The seed your weakened hand is sowing.
May ripen to a harvest broad,
Which yet may help. without your knowinz.
To ﬁll the granaries of God!"
—Lippincott‘s Magazine.

—_—...—_—

GOING TO THE EXPOSITION.

 

Thousands of HOUSEHOLD readers
'are looking forward with pleasurable
.anticinations to the great Exposition
to be opened at Chicago next May. Not
a few of us are saving most diligently
with that end in view, and wondering
when and where to go, what to wear,
and what to look for as the most inter-
esting features of this—the grandest
of all expositions. We are all interest-
ed in making the trip as inexpensive as
possible, and seeing the most we can
for our money. We want to be econo-
mical, but also we want to be comfort;
able. Sight-seeing is the hardest work
in the world; continued day after day
it wears one out worse than work.
There is so much to see, we want to see
it all. and we do “see” till physically
worn out and till the overtaxed brain
and eyes hold only a confused jumble of
impressions.

How shall we see the fair with the
least fatigue the least money, the most
comfort? By making the most perfect
preparations. To know just where one
is going, what one is going to pay for
accommodations, and to have a little
knowledge of the city and the Exposi-
tlon beforehand are great helps.
Wherever posxible, arrange by all
means for a place to stay'in advance,
that you may have no worry over that.
Several reputable and responsible par-
ties have advertised in the FARMER.and
“Will give 200d accommodations at very

    

 

low rates. There is a regular Bureau
of Information attached to the Exposi-
tion management through which visit-
ors may be directed to lodgings suited
to their means. To go to a hotel will
be expensive—the privilege of the rich.
Where lodging and breakfast can be
obtained in private houses, I think they
will be found most desirable. The
great temporary structures containing
hundreds of rooms designed only for
use during the fair are scantily furnish-
ed; they will be crowded and noisy, and
terrible ﬁre traps in case of accident.
None of them are to be heated; some
of them are so fiimsily constructed
that the builders have had trouble
in getting them insured. And it is as-
serted that not a few have been duped
into paying $5 or $10 for “memberships”
in caravansaries having no existence
except in the circulars sc attered broad-
cast to catch victims. To be near the
grounds is not so necessary as to be
able to sleep well and thus be refresh-
ed for each day’s excursion. No city
has better street car service than Chi~
cago;it is well equipped with means for
rapid transit, and ten miles is but a few
minutes’ journey by cable trains or
elevated railway, while as all roads in
old times “led to Rome” so in the
Columbian year all car lines converge
at Jackson Park. There will be no
diﬁiculty in getting to the grounds
quickly and comfortably.

A guide to the city, giving map, the
location of principal buildings. car
lines. parks, and objects of interest will
be found a help in going about. Such
a guide ought to be procured and stud-
ied beforehand. to familiarize the sub-
ject. If left till the last, we shall learn
too late there were many things we
would liked to have seen but missed be-
cause we did not know of their exist-
ence.

Parties of ten, twenty or more can
unite and rent a furnished house for the
period of their stay, preparing break-
fast and perhaps supper there, and
dining at the restaurants on the grounds.
This will be a cheap way to see the fair,
but the money saved will be earned by
those who do the work. It is a double
tax on the women of such a party to add
to the unusual exertion and excitement
of going about, the further fatigue of
housework. I would avoid it wherever
possible by having one person to per-

 

form suoh duties. Let some one take
her hired girl along. Certain supplies
might be taken ready cooked from
home, but this is troublesome. If it
is done, things should be sent long en~
ough in advance to be on hand when
wanted, for baggage is slew of delivery
in Chicago at best and will be doubly
so when so much will have to be hand-
led. And it would be sad waiting for
“the dinners that never came.”

I do not think people need expect to
be “plundered” in Chicago unless they
invite it. If a man walks into a restau-
rant and orders everything he wants
without asking its price or consulting
the bill of fare he may swear consider-
ably at the size of his check. Know
what you are doing before you do it.
There will be places where meals will
cost anything you please to pay for
luxuries, and others where you can dine
comfortably for a dollar or less,or lunch
frugally. In dining at a restaurant on
the European plan—where every dish
has a ﬁxed price—two, by ordering to—
gether,can have a more varied and still
sufﬁciently abundant meal. Let one
order a meat. the other vegetables and
bread. Unless one has an enormous ap-
petite (and the steak is a more econom-
ical out than usual) the meat order
will be ample for both. This is worth
remembering.

I have seen it stated that it will be
impossible to get even a glass of water
on the grounds without paying for it.
This is an error. Water will be both
free and abundant. The preprietors of
a. famous spring in Wisconsin have,
however,piped the water to the grounds
and for it (Hygeia water) a cent a glass
is charged. No one is compelled to its
use. '

When is the best time to go? Prob-
ably September and October will see
the lowest railroad rates, but also the

greatest crowds. In August and the
latter part of Ju‘ y it will be hot, and
when Chicago is hot she sizzles. The
ﬁrst of May, things will hardly be ad-
justed in smooth running order, not all
the exhibits in place, perhaps. Nor
will the grounds be fairly beautiful w ith
ﬂowers and sward until the last of May
and June. The latter month will see
the ﬁfty thousand rose bushes in bloom,
and probably everything running with-
out friction. Nor will the crowds be so
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later. June and September will be the
banner months.

In a later letter I shall have some
advice to offer relative to dress. No-
thing in the world is so cheap as good
advice, and the beauty of it is no one is
obliged to follow it unless he or she
rpefers. BEATRIX.

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MARCH LOVELINESS.

 

YJu won’t ﬁnd it outside, in the mu 1,
slush and cold winds, but a few steps up
and we are within the glass walls of one
of Detroit’s large ﬂoral establishments,
and can bid good bye for awhile to
“allies” and the miserable weather.
Here you will actually ﬁnd a large re-
frigerator It has a glass front and
rows of shelves inside made of slats.
Above is the tank for the ice, and tons
are used every year. On the shelves
are hundreds of rose buds, lilies, carna-
tions, jonquils, put in there to keep
them fresh for a large party say ten
days off. The ﬂorist may not have suf-

_ ﬂcient when the time comes, unless he

saves up in this way. Here is another
large box, closed,but curiosity willlead
us to lift the cover a little bit, and we
are greeted with a gush of hot moist
air. Suppose the ﬂorist has an unex-
pected order that must be ﬁlled in a
few hours. He puts hundreds of plants
in thejhot box and forces out the bios-
some.

It is interesting to watch the man
potting slips, a pile of soft rich earth
on one side, his pets on the other, and
a box of tiny slips in front. You and I
think we have done beautifully to go
into the garden and pot a dozen plants
in an afternoon,but the man will tell us
ha easily does two thousand in a day.
Now is the time to see and admire what
will be in hundreds of gardens ,in the
course of the summer, and if we are
wise, we will carry away a few plants to
be enjoyed in the windows for several
weeks.

Perhaps the most sweetly sad sight
is to see a man preparing a funeral de-
sign. Esre is one to be placed by the
cofﬁn of a little child. A pillow of the
choicest rose buds and carnations, and
hovering over it, with outstretched
wings, a pure white dove with a white
rose bad in its mouth. Many funeral
designs are clumsy and express but
little. This must have been a comfort
to the sad mother, for the baby’s soul
was like this dove and had ﬂown to
Heaven. ‘

The ﬂorists are generally very patient
in answering questions, and some of
them are trying. One woman wanted
to buy a slip of the royal Palm,Latania,‘
and asked if she could make it grow in
six months. It takes from three to ten
years to bring one up to good size. If
one likes plant raising you can always
pick up a few hints in a large green-

house and also ﬁnd some new,wonderful
ﬂower that will delight, and perhaps
make you yearn to possess it.

SISTER GBACLO US.

 

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WHO KNOWS?

I wish Huldah Perkins could have
heard Joseph Cook's lecture “Does
Death End All?" He gave three argu-
ments from nature that seemed to al-
most prove a future life without the aid
of revelation. At the close he opened
a large Bible, saying that while the
thoughts he had given shed dim rays of
starlight upon the subject, it is in rev-
elation that we have the blaze of sun-
light illuminating the future. One
argument was, that there must be life
before there is growth, because the
minute germ where growth begins is
precisely the same under the most
powerful of microscopes, whether it be
the germ of an oak, corn, fowl, lion or
man;so if there is life before growth be-
gins, before the body is formed, why
should it notcontinue when this earthly
house is dissolved?

Another argument that he dwelt
much upon was the one stated by Huldah
herself—“There is no want in nature
but has something to satisfy it. We
want to live hereafter, therefore we
must be immortal.” All peeple every
where expect and desire a future life,
and most of them recognize the neces-
sity of a future judgment to right the
wrongs of this life. “God makes no
half joints” was his favorite expression.

Where a wing is found there is air
for it to ﬂy in, for the ﬁn of a ﬁsh there
is water, milk for the new born babe
and just the right food to satisfy the
hunger of every sort of creature; so we
have every reason to expect that this
universal desire for more life will be
gratiﬁed. And really this life, with its,
troubles, cares, pain, sorrow and dis-
appointments, would hardly be worth
the living if we do not esteem it a pre-

‘paratory stage ﬁtting us for something

more perfect, more satisfactory.

This third reason I have forgotten,
and I hope somebody who has heard the
lecture remembers and will tell us what
it was. It is surely no more wonder-
ful that we should live again than it is
that we live this time.

AUNT BESSIE.

FOOD FDR INFANTS.

 

Some time ago I was caring for twin
babies for a friend and wrote to the
HOUSEHOLD for information regarding
their proper food, etc. I received many
replies and much 1161:). Since then I
have learned through a physician of a
food for babies to be brought up on a
bottle, which proves to be a very per-
fect nourishment. The twin babies
died, after struggling with all manner
of foods sold, and clear milk as well,but
the new baby, brought up on this food,
is plump and never ill.

The recipe is: Pearl barley, two
ounces; water, one quart. Put over the
ﬁre and when just simmering drain off
and add again one quart of water and a
pinch of salt. Simmer down to a pint;

The Household.

strain and sweeten‘with two tablespOOnv
fuls of sugar.

For a week old infant take three parts
birley-water and two of milk, increas-
ing the quantity of milk gradually. At
ﬁve months old give equal parts of milk
and barley water. DELL.

-—————.O.—-———

OUR BOYS.

[Paper read by Miss R. Anna McCaughna be'ore
the Farmers’ Institute at Vernon, March 3rd.]

What is a boy? One of our poets has
called him “That veriest mystery under
the sun.” We might designate him the
embryo man; our nation’s hope; the
school ma’am’s stereoscopic view of pur-
gatory; mother’s pride.

We might liken him to the young
tree, the tender sapling. It promises
much, yet, perchance, adverse Wind's
may blow against it and incline its up-
right posture; Heaven’s lightning may
blast it ere it matures; the worm may
gnaw away the heart and cause it to
become fruitless; or it may not meet
with any of these opposing elements and

grow into a ﬁne, beautiful tree—the ad-v

miration of all beholders.

Considering the poet’s deﬁnition a
good one, let us for a moment, contem-
plate that “mystery.”

First, it is a power endowed with all
the qualities of other human beings; it
has a will, which under proper care
may be moulded at pleasure; it is cap.
able of affection, pure and deep; of rev-
erence of the truest kind; of a power to

discern shams as no other is capable;

and a conscience which when appealed
to in the right spirit never fails to re—
s pond. It has also inherent weaknesses;
often the deep imprints of improoer
home training’ and perhaps some traces
of imperfect school discipline.

Thus far I have made this theme a

general one, but my subject reads "Our ~

Boys.”

This being a farmers’ meeting I am
to infer that it is their boys I am to treat
in this article.

Wherein do they differ from boys in»
general? I might say in no respect.yet
their natural surroundings render their
circumstances much different. And
even allowing that there is no difference
the speciﬁc would have more of interest-
to us than the generic. '

For time immemorial the farmer boy
has borne the brunt of allthe fun of the
fun loving sarcastics. Both in prose and

poetry his “greenness” and “hayseed”"

qualities have been heralded; while an.

the other hand poets represent him as .

the soul of romance.

We w0uld not go to either extreme.
We believe that of all classes of boys
the romance of purity and innocence
is the most prominent in the farmer
boy. And why should it not be? His sur-

roundings are of such a nature that he

is brought in continuous contact with
the elements of-human happiness. The—

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in contact with Nature’s laws, thereby
creating in him a love for something
substantial and good.

Some one has said that the p 'osperity
of any people lies in this principle:
“Make labor fashionable at home by
means of the powerful inﬂuence of early
home education.”

How shall we educate our boy is a
question that interests us much. To
what degree? Shall we give him as
little as we can in order to keep him on
the farm? (1 aminclined to think that
is the belief of some.) ' Is that the kind
of farmers the times demand?—farmers
because they are incapable of doing any
other work?

No. The tiller of the soil hasa right,
and ought to be, the wisest, most chari-
table, happiest and noblest of his race.

There are none who so much need
common sense, or need so much of it, as
the farmers; they, of all people, should
be highly educated for they are, of ne-
cessity, much alone, many times with-
out society only What is around their
own ﬁreside.

If the farmer and his sons have no-
thing to think of above the work in their
hands labor loses some of the “dignity”
that many can see in it; if uneducated
they can never escape ignorant com-
pany, but if with cultivated tastes they
can take a book and travel the world
with its author; cull the richest gems of
thought or be a hero among heroes.

Froebel says: “The end of education
is the growth of the whole being.”

Physical training should not be neg-
lected. The training and improving of
the physical, intellectual, social, and
moral powers and sentiments of the boys
of our country should not be left entire-
ly to the school. The young mind
should receive careful training in the
ﬁeld, in the garden, in the barn, in the
parlor,in the kitchen, in a word,around
the hearth-stone, on the farm.

Let fathers and mothers look to it
that their boys are supplied with good,
healthy literature. B we will be satis-
ﬁed on the farm providing they are al-
lowed those things a well directed fancy
indicates. Let fathers understand that
strong desires in his boys.disap pointedat
home, will seek gratiﬁcation elsewhere
and the chances are that bad associates
will cause an intemperate indulgence in
those pastimes and recreations that
would otherwise have been harmless;
not Only so, but beneﬁcial.

Books-should be selected with as much
forethought and care as personal friends
and when chosen in regard to their
pleasure, helpfulness, integrity, they
become friends in letter and in spirit.

Americans as aclass read much, but
too often it is the case that fashion
notes, the base ball game, a great crime
which has been committed, the latest
movements of John L.Sullivan and Cori
bett, Nancy Hanks’ record - or some
bicodcurdling story cover our entire
literary knowledge. I do not argue
that we should not know what is going,

 

on, yet should these things take the
place of substantial reading?

~ If we wish our boys to become learn-
ed, intelligent boys we must place in
their hands good books. Our State re-
cognizes this fact and has engaged itself
in a grand movement—a movement
which parents and teachers should wel-
come with their hearty support. l refer
to the “State Pupils’ Reading Circle.”

And now a word about our country
schools. They should receive the atten-
tion of the best minds in the country
and the earnest support of every farmer.
Never have they been in a better con-
dition than they are today. Yet we
hope the time is near at hand when
they shall be made of more practical
value to the farmer boy; when the
natural sciences, botany and agri-
cultural chemistry, particularly, shall
be presented to him that thereby labor
may be stripped of its terrors and while
the hands are busy the mind may be
pleasantly and proﬁtably occupied;
when vocal music as a study will have
a place On the school programme; when
book-keeping and arithmetic, and in
fact all studies shall be made strictly
practical.

Who is responsible for our boy’s mor-
al training? In ancient Egypt a boy’s
education was considered to be of such
great importance that it was entrust-
ed entirely to the priesthood; in other
countries a “pedagogue” was his con-
stant attendant up to his sixteenth year.

Some one has said “that the founda-
tion of a boy’s character .is laid at home
and at school before his twelfth year.”
Recognizing this as a fact, then parents
and teachers are the responsible parties;
and they have no right to be ignorant
of this truth. When so much is at
stake ignorance is a crime. Ours is a
God-given charge and to Him we are re -
sponsﬁle for our boy’s future.

"0 woe to those who trample on the mind.
That deathless thing! They know not what they

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The ﬂower his step hath bruised; or light anew
Tue torch he quenches; or to music Wind

Again the lyre-string from his touch that ﬂew;—
But for the soul. 0, tremble and beware

To lay rude hands upon God’s mysteries there!”

When an eminent writer said: “God
be thanked. for the gifts of mothers and
school-teachers ” he expressed the com-
mon sentiment of the human heart.

The name of parent is, and should be
sacred to the heart of every boy. The
name of mother is a holy one. Nothing
on earth should be allowed to claim the
gratitude which is justly due judicious
parents. But the faithful, devoted
teacher, the framer of youthful char-
acter, and the guide of youthful study,
will be sure to have the next place in
the heart of a grateful boy.

How in after years, he will love to re.
call his school-days,—-the old school
houseﬂits well remembered incidents,
its joys and its sorrowsﬁts trials and its
triumphs, and sincerely thank Gad for
alfaithful, self-denying, patient teacher!

How often it is afﬁrmed that “boys

 

make men,” when if we would stop and

consider carefully we would see that the

re verse of the afﬁrmation is true in a

stronger sense. Boy is an imitative
creature and will take and make as a

part of himself the characteristics and '
habits of those with whom he is in con“

tinuous contact.

I have magniﬁed the influence of the
parent and the teacher, yet I think we
cannot make it too impressive. Too
many of us think we are playing in the
shifting sands,making traces which the
wind and the waves will soon erase; but
this is a terrible mistake; we are mak‘
ing marks which no time can efface,and‘
which God himself cannot recall. Our"
boys are using us as models. Let it be
our aim to be as nearly perfect ones as:
we can.

Let parents stop one moment in 'the'
whirl of business and ask themselves, is
there any calling so high as the culture‘
and training of immortal souls that God‘
has entrusted to their care, and for
which they must give an account. we
have the command from the .great God
himself that if a child is trained in the
way he should go, when he is old he'
will not depart from it. The Eternal is‘
back of that command with its unaltere-
able promise. What does this place"
upon us? We cannot walk circumspect-
1y ourselves and call our work done.
There is teaching to be given and a
careful watchfuiness all the time on our‘
part, yet we should be happy with such-
precious charges committed to our care
-—it should be considered a privilege—a?
joy.

Make home pleasant for the boys. If"
you do not “call your boy home by its:
brightness” he will soon ﬁnd to your
sorrow and his destruction that there
are attractive places open to him. In-
culcate a love for home which natural-
ly will breed a love of country. Give
him means of acquiring knowledge,that ’
he may thereby ﬁt himself for any posi-
tion,socially and politically. Give him
means of enjoyment, and you will have
no trouble in keeping the boys on the.
farm.

Teach him from your heart the truth
of the following beautiful lines:

"Would you be strong. go follow up the plow;
Would you be thoughtful.stndy ﬁeld and ﬂower;

Would you be wise. take on yourselves a vow
To go to school in nature’s sunny bower.

Fly from.the City—nothing there can charm—
Seek wrsdom.strangth.and virtue on the farm.”

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A CURE FOR EARACHE.

 

Many children are troubied' with"
earache. My husband suffered over'
three years with it. At ‘last we were"
told to use the plant called “Old-hen-
andchickens” (Eclzz'veria) in. this way:
Take three of the largest; boil them, in
three or four tablespoonfuls of fresh
butter and make a salveu Use it in the
ears. My husband used it last Novem-
ber for the ﬁrst time and he has not
been troubled since. The salve will
also cure a burn or old sore-

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EARLY SEEDS AND ROSES.

 

The spring-like showers and the
swiftly vanishing snowdrifts set us
thinking of bedded bulbs and planting
sweet peas and' pansies, and the third
P., portulacca, that require early atten-
tion. The ﬁrst makes a good start in
cool spring weather and gives early
bloom (and might well have been
planted in autumn). Portulacca must
have its “six weeks for sprouting;” and
a few plants of glaucium are a ﬁne con-
trast with plants of dark green or bronze
foliage in the border and must be given
thelsame time-to geminate as portulacca.
While these hardy things delight in
early spring weather to get a foothold
it is vain to try to hasten the sewing of
the most of our other ﬂower seeds. Let
beginners make a study of the habits of
the plants they choose the coming sea-
son. A few well-gro wn, well-fed plants
are better than an abundance poorly
.attended.

There is sometimes great disappoint-
ment in roses,especially hybrids. They

.are too frequently left to themselves, or
\nearly so, after the ﬁrst year or two.
Roses should be gathered generously
and they will bloom more abundantly.
We often see great clusters of seed pods
hanging on dead-looking branches all
through autumn and winter,exhausting
the vitality of the bush uselessly; while
«surprise and disappointment arefelt that
hybrids never bloom except in early
spring. The branches that have pro-
duced bloom, if the ﬂowers are not
. gathered; should be pruned away as the

petals fade and fall; then there will be a
. recurrence of bloom at-diﬁerent periods
.. all through the season.

Trim out all old neglected bushes
early this spring and fork in lots of
manure. They are gross feeders and
will assimilate anything in the line of
fertilizer,then when there are too many
sprouts from the roots peg down a few,
-. FENTON. MRS. M. A. FULLER.

M“—
.ALL SOR 1'9.

A few weeks ago our Editor said “To
do good and contribute (to the HOUSE-
HOLD) forget not.” It is not so much
the forgetting as the putting off until a
more convenient season. This is one of
the besetting sins of our time. The ten-
dency of the age is to get all the pleasure
out of life we can, and if a known duty
is a little unpleasant put it off till to-
morrow. When the nextday comes we
feel less like doing it than did we at
ﬁrst;so the best way is to try to do every
duty when ﬁrst made known to us.

I am fond of house plants; the farm
would be a dreary place to me in winter
if it were not for my plants; but they
will not do well and give us beautiful
blossoms and luxuriant leaves unless
we give them proper care. Some plants
need more water than others. I water
mine every day; on wash day give
them plenty of good suds, then on:

casionally take a large nail and loosen
all the dirt around them; this I call
cultivating them. Once in about four
months, after a rain, I go to the barn
yard,get some of the water that has run
from the manure pile. heat it and put
around my plants. Let us say no more
about the mothers -in-law. The mother-
in-law is human like the rest of us, and
the daughter-in-law expects to be a
mother-in-law some time, so let us
throw no more stones in that direction.
In my opinion there are more little
children suffering under a hard-hearted
step-mother‘s rule than daughters-in-
law from the tyranny of their mothers-
in-law. The little children are helpless,
hungry for a mother’s love that is denied
them. I do not wish to be understood
that I think all new mothers unkind.
Oh no; some are very good to the little
ones whose care they have assumed by
marriage. But wouldn’t it be better for
us mothers to take better care of our-
selves, that our lives may be spared to
take care of our own children? You
know the old adage:

“A mother is a mother all the days of her life,
But father‘s a father till he g :ts a new wife."

In the HOUSEHOLD of March 4th.
Beatrix has expressed my sentiments
under the heading, “Remains mv
Widow.” It is a pity husbands cannot
have more conﬁdence in their wives.

I believe with Mrs. A. Do that much
good would be done in this fast age if
young ladies would take a ﬁrm stand on
the side of right and say, that “lips that
touch liquor, shall never touch mine.”

MAPLE Gnevn. MRS. F.

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THE BABY‘S OUTFIT.

 

Mrs. 0. EB, of Flint, inquires where
patterns can be obtained for the little
garments described in the HOUSEHOLD
of Dec. 24th, 1892, under title “The
New Uutﬁt for Baby.” We do not think
these patterns are on sale at the pat-
tern stores but it would not be at all
difﬁcult to cut the garments from the
usual guides. The garment concern
ing which Mrs. C. E. B. particularly
asked is the skirt and shirt combined,
which is like a long-sleeved nightdress
and may be made by lengthening the
shirt and adding long sleeves. It would
be, we fancy, more trouble to get the
soft silk ﬂannel of which it is made.
Nothing can be too ﬁne and soft for the
tender skin of a babe, and the rough-
ness of and irritation produced by the
softest wool ﬂannel procurable is some
times the source of the child’s uneasi-
ness and fretting.

Baby baskets can be bought at any
price you choose to pay. The untrim~
med ones, on standards, cost from $1.50
upward; without standards from sixty
cents up. A pretty one, with standard,
untrimmed, can be obtained for $2 or
$2.50. The trimmed baskets begin at
$6 50, and end at $25. It is cheaper to
buy the basket and material and do the

 

work one’s self. The basket is ﬁrst

 

 

padded with cotton, over which is
stretched a colored lining, which may
be silk, satin, satteen or silesia, covered
with 13.08.111.111, or ﬁne dotted Swiss. A
pretty basket is made by covering with
the preferred color-pink, yellow, and
violet are prettiest -overlaid with white
dotted net, with a deep frill of lace to
fall over the basket, and a quilling of
satin ribbon on the basket’s edge. A
pincushion covered to match is fastened
in the corner and the basket is ready
for the accessories of baby’s toilette.

The standing baskets have a second
and smaller basket below, to be covered
also, which is useful for holding little
socks. shirts, etc.

W

WANTED—A recipe for lemon pie in
which -neither cornstarch or ﬂour is
used.

 

WE cannot make the HOUSEHOLD a
medium of exchange for anything but
information and thought. This will
explain to “Aunt Louise," of Vassar,
why her offer to exchange is not printed.

 

DON'T let us borrow an umbrella till
it rains. We shall not wear hoops this
summer and individual expressions of
determination not to don them are “too
previous.” 1f the hoop-skirt triumphs,
we shall all “follow the -fashion,” or be
more conspicuous by not doing so than
it we adopted it in moderation. So
don’t write to tell us you “won’t wear
hoops.” You think so now—but you
will!

A CORRECTION—V. I. M. writes: “I
am sorry to ask you to make a correc-
tion for me. I sent a recipe for cocoa-
nut cake which was published in the
last HOUSEHOLD, and I ﬁnd that I
omitted a part of the ﬁlling, which
should be, ‘after cooking add the beaten
white of an egg.”

 

Contributed Recipes.

 

Asraaseus on Taken—Wash and cut the
stalks into inch lengths; cook thirty minutes
in water enough to cover. When done add
one iablespoonful of butter, salt, pepper.
and one quart of cream. thicken with a small
tablespoonfnl of ﬂour wet in a little water.
Have ready six slices of nicely toasted bread
in a hot dish. Turn the asparagus over the
toast and serve.

 

Serums—Put four slices of salt meat in a
kettle to boil. Twenty minutes before the
meat is done add well washed spinach.
When done take up in a hot dish and slice
hard boiled eggs over it.

 

Pussies—Slice parsnip: and potatoes
and boil twenty minutes with a little salt
pork cut in slices. Pepper and salt.

 

SALSII‘Yr-Scr'lpe and cut in half inch
slices. Boil thirty minutes; serve with cream
sauce same as asparaguz. or without toast.

Always have the water boil before putting

 

in the vegetables and keep boilng until
done. “89.”

 

