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DETROIT, APRIL 8,

1898.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

A WOMAN'S RIGHT.

 

0 women. does it touch you. the sorrow of the
way

Which some perforce must travel betwixt the
night and day;

The sorrow and the struggle ani all the bitter

cost

For having and for holding what must so soon
be lost?

0 women. does it stir you, the thought of all
that‘ s done

Between the rising of the star, the se ting of
life's sun:

Of all that’s done and suffered, the doing that is
vein

To help a heart upon the road or to relieve its
pain?

What can we do to help them. the men who face
the ﬁght.

The ever waging warfare between the wrong and
right?

What can we do to help them? Ah! 'tis the
woman’s part
To stay at home anl ho‘pen so he loving.

heart.

loyal

There are men enough for battle, men who will
form the ﬁght,

Let‘s stay at home to greet them and make their
coming bright.

Their strong. true hearts are for us, their work is
for the world,

What need for us to join them? Our ﬂags are
best unf urled,

Above the quiet ﬁreside. and there we watch and
pray

Success attend the stalwart and speed the victm’ 5
day! 12:.)

And so it stan is the strong. tried truth, from
which ’tis vain to roam.

Woman was made to be the stay, the joy, of some

man’s home.
—Bos(on Telegraph.

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TEE EXPOSI‘I‘ION GOWN.

 

“Wherewithal shall we be clothed?”
is always an interestingly vital question
to femininity. They do say—and with
a good deal of truth too—that a woman
never is invited to go an ywhere,or starts
to do anything. without having the ﬁrst
questiOn which presents itself to her,
“What shall I wear?” So, in planning
for a trip to Chicago next su'mm er the
very ﬁrst subject of interest to the
feminine contingent is that of dress.
Only a woman knows how much more
comfortable women are, and how much
more they enjoy all pleasures, any cir-
cumstances, when fortiﬁed by the con-
sciousness of being suitably and be-
comingly dressed. There was a good
deal of tuman (woman) nature in the
remark of the lady who said she could
not enjoy religion in an old bonnet. So,
in going to the great fair, we want to

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so dress as to get the most comfort-,pleas-
sure and satisfaction out of it.

Among strangers, one is inevitably
judged by clothes and manners. No
matter how much one may be uplifted
by internal consciousness of surpassing
virtues and moral rectitude (and self
conceit), the conductor, the waiter, the
porter, gauge their courtesy by our ap-
parel. Merit has no hall-mark, so the
well-dressed sinner gets ahead of the
shabby saint and is served while Virtue
is striving to catch a waiter’s eye. So,
though the Exposition is no place for a
display of ﬁnery and elegance,we should
dress as well as we are able. It will be
a hard place on clothes; hence material
should be chosen for service. The Ex-
position gown should be able to face
water, dust, sunshine, and be sat upon
with complacency. It should have no
ﬂying ribbons or loose ends to be caught
in things, no trimmings to be ripped.
It should be short enough to clear the
ground by at least an inch, and loose
enough to be perfectly comfortable.
The woman who is obliged to concen-
trate what little intellect she has on
holding up the back breadths of her
gown, or who lets it drag for others to
use as a carpet deserves only our pity-
ing contempt.

A partly new or a made-over gown
will answer for exposition wear if the
material is suitable and it is properly
made, even better than one’s bran new
street suit, sure to be viewed with dis-
may at the end of the trip. If new is to
be bought,an excellent material is water-
proof serge, but it- is expensive—$2.50
p3r yard, but is ﬁfty-four inches wide.
A ﬁne French serge or whipcord at
seventy-ﬁve cents or one dollar; a bril-
liantine in black (colors fade) at ﬁfty
cents; cheviots and changeable dia-
gonals at seventy-ﬁve cents up,are light
weight and to be commended for wear.
China silks and surahs make the most
serviceable cool dresses for the heated
term and will cost, in qualities calcu-
lated to wear, from seventy cents to one
dollar. There is a goods called Lans-
downe, at $1. 2.3 and $1. 50 ayard, 46 inches
wide, which sheds dust delightfully and

iscool and light. It is so wide it would
not be an expensive costume.

The plain tailor gown, and the skirt,
shirt waist and blazer costume so
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tailor gown should have a shirt waist
for wear in hot days: indeed. bat ring
accident, it would be very possible to
“do”the big show with either of the
above costumes and no other,by provid-
ing with the tailor gown a shirt waist
of China silk of its color. The wrap for
the tailor gown would be the cape,fash-
ioned of the material or the light weight
broadcloth sold at $1. 50 ore ”3, but which
is really what we once knew as “press-
ed flannel." These capes are very full,
made to reach to the waist line <.r the
hips, as preferred, have stitched edges
or are handed with satin ribbon; some
are velvet trimmed. The blazer of 1893
has the ever present collarctte; this is
either the “butterfly” collar,box-pleatel
and of even'length all round,and begin-
ning under the revere; or the Derby,
which is pleated to a point back and front
and just reaches the tips of the should-
ers.

The new tailor go avns are made with a
round waist which extends two or three
inches over the hips under the belted
skirt: it has six small meeting pleats
drawn over the ﬁtted lining, and but
one under arm form. The fronts turn
back from a pointed. puffed satin vest
to form triple revers,two of the material
of the gown, the middle one of satin,
and all stitched twice on the edge. The
collar band represents three turned
down folds, also stitched; and the big
drooping sleeves are finished by three
small revers turning back on satin cuffs;
there is a girdle of satin folds to pass
over the waist which is sewed to the
skirt; and the skirt trimming is a satin
band seven inches wide. with a ﬁve
inch fold of the material stitched on
through the centre; this is stitched on
the skirt. The most fashionable color
for the satin is black, no matter what
the color of the gown. This model
could be followed with single instead of
triple revers, and be more simple and
plain.

For the women too stout or too far
past youth to wear round waists are
those sharply pointed back and front;
or another style is pointed in front with
wide rovers to the shoulder, having
square coat tails in the back twelve
inches deep,lapped in the middle,3titch-
ed, and with two buttons deﬁning the
waist. The skirt has four wide gored

breadths and a stiff footlining, through
again for making up these dresses. The ‘

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The ever popular sailor comes again
for the misses and young ladies, but it
is sad to see it perched upon gray hair
or on a fat woman. A small bonnet or
a medium sized round hat, with trim-
ming that can defy dust and damp (no
Ostrich plumes, few ﬂowers) will be
most serviceable. The pretty lace. straws
are very desirable. ’

Heavy dogskin gloves are the most
serviceable and cost about $2 to $2.25 a
pair. For hot weather, there is a Silk-
lisle glove that is comfortable and would
be all we could desire if it didn’t crock
under perspiration. Red, light green
and purple (petunia) gloves are seen.but
oh, don’t buy them, please don’t!

BEATBIX.

 

MISTAKEN DUTY.

 

Uften, as I open the secretary, a half-
written letter for the HOUSEHOLD, one
that is “born to. blush unseen,” stares
me in the face. A sudden but short-
lived inspiratlon gives me a theme but
it is never elaborated into a “truly”
letter.

It seems a difficult matter to decide
as to one’s duty always. A poor woman
came to my door to-day offering for sale
a shabbily constructed brush-broom
holder of purple cotton velvet and half-
polished horns. It was not ornamental
and one would be 10th to take it at any
price, but she would have resented the
gift of money because she was not beg-
ging. I did not buy,and my conscience
troubled me a little, but as she trailed
her brown serge dress along the dirty
sidewalk as far as I could see, not even
lifting it at the crossing, that settled it.
When women need to earn money why
not make something that is wanted by
those who would buy. instead of such
tawdry articles? A neighbor tells me
of her great need of plain stocking
knitting for her boys. Good home-knit
mittens are in demand all winter, for
the sale ones are too thin for children’s
ﬁngers, and the call for plain sewing is
never ﬁlled. A poor washwoman who
has been repeatedly helped by the town
had a ready dollar to 'pay to a traveling
quack last week,so we sometimes won-
der if, in nine cases out of a dozen, it is
not extravagance that keeps people
poor.

Ought we to always buy of the needy?
We might feed the ﬂames with the
purchase but that would encourage them
to offer such wares until we should have
no rest because of their constant calls.
A friend, an old lady, has such a tender
heart that she never refuses to purchase
such articles; then she gives them away
to poor children but, as a result, she is
continually being imposed upon. She
furnishes meals at all hours, for some
one is always hungry, and they have
but to speak of being weary when a cup
of tea is hastily brewed from her ever-
boiling tea-kettle on the back of the
coal stove, and a lunch sufﬁcient for a
hungry tramp is placed on a small table

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in the back parlor where, as she says,
they can eat and tell her their troubles
at the same time and many tales of woe
enlist her sympathies. When telling
me of a family that were frequent call-
ers and very troublesome she added:
“But, when the Lord sends them I
must do all I can for them.” I was bold
enough to reply: “The Lord has nothing
to do with those children coming here.
It is. your cookies and pennies and ﬂow-
ers that draw them.” The place is a
paradise for agents,for her tender heart
cannot refuse to purchase whatever is
offered so she is constantly being victim-
ized under a mistaken sense of her
duty.

. One of the many sad things connected
with a bereavement, when one of the
heads of the family is called away, is
that almost before the survivors realize
their loss the “will” is produced and
the household goods. even to the con-
tents of trunks and closets, must be in-
spected by appraisers, until the lonely
widow ﬁnds that the best provision of
the tenderest husband, who died think-
ing that everything was right for her,
does not suffice to shield her from
serious anxiety. He meant to ﬁx things
all right but lawyers are not at all par-
ticular to make them so,because if there
is trouble it usually means money in
their pockets. The wife who has lived
with her husband forty or ﬁfty years,
working and planning equally, or often
doing much more for the house furnish-
ing,ﬁnds herself obliged to “bid in” the
very articles that they accumulated to-
gether, the work of her own hands, her
only consolation being the knowledge
that “he never intended anything to be
changed or interfered with.” It is a
rare thing to ﬁnd children so loyal to
the father’s unexpressed wishes or the
mother’s comfort that they do not want
all that the law allows; so women who
have never known a business care ﬁnd
themselves confronted with problems
where the only way out is to consult law-
yers, with very unsatisfactory ﬁnancial
results. A case of this kind is just now
enlisting my sympathies, and I do wish
that every man could know how to make
a will so that his real wish and inten-
tion could be realized by his survivors.

The subject of greatest interest now-
a-days is the Columbian Exposition,and
I am glad that our Editor can and will
give us much needed information. We
feel sure that for an ordinary stay no
one will need a Saratoga trunk,for those

' who have least baggage will have few-

est trials, and experience teaches us
that one good serviceable outﬁt, of late
design, is enough unless one provides
for a posstble accident of wear and tear;
but of the little accessories, many help-
ful hints .nay be given. Any one who
has visited Chicago even on ordinary
occasions knows of the cinders and
whirling dust that meet one every where
in the Windy City and keeping clean
will be quite impossible, but the know-
ledge of a certain bathroom with its hot

 

water faucet always on tap gives me-
more satisfaction than any other antic-
ipated convenience, although the loca-
tion, one block from the street car line,
insures the ouiet that is worth so much
to a weary sight-seer. Tell us all you
can,for we cannot be too well informed,
and the question of what to wear is an
important one.

ROMEO. EL. SEE.

FUNERALQ.

 

If one can read the sign of the times
aright, the next decade will witness a
radical change in the manner of con-
ducting funerals. The simplicity which
characterized the burial of our loved
ones has been relegated to the past and
a lavish display seems to be the thing
most desired. The richer a man is, the
bigger funeral he will have; the more
ﬂowers, the longer procession, the
larger monument. It is astonishing
how far money goes after a man “passes
in his cheeks.” There is something
very imposing about a swell funeral-it
commands respect. The rich are able.
out of their abundance to have such a
display, but there are instances in middle
life and among the lower classes where
heavy obligations are incurred, just for
the “looks of the thing.” What does it
matter, really, when one comes to take
a common-sense view of the case, how
we bury our dead, if it is done in a re-
spectible manner? Why cater to Mrs.
Grundy in a case that at best affects but
ourselves? The dead is never missed,
only at his own ﬁreside; no matter how
important the position held there is
always some one to ﬁll the vacancy, but
in the home each member of the family
has a place—even the wee baby in the
high chair—~which is forever and for-
ever vacant. If a Congressman dies
during the session a committee is ap--
pointed to escort the remains to his
home; a large amount of money is ap-
propriated for expenses; there is usual-
ly an immense quantity of liquid goods
deemed necessary to keep the feelings
at a proper temperature. There is
considerable of “picnic” about the whole
affair, it really sa vors of a jolly good
time.

There exists, in the large cities, an
Insurance Company which relates en-
tirely to the burial of the dead among
the poorest classes. Each family by the
payment of a small sum yearly, is as-
sured of a very decent‘funeral—hearse,
ﬂowers and a certain number of car-
riages, for members of their family who
may chance to die. If nine-tenths of
the beautiful ﬂowers which are pur-
chased and contributed for funerals——
would be distributed among the sick and
poor it would not only be a source of
much happiness, but would look far
more sensible. Why heap the cofﬁn
with costly roses and callas, when the
occupant never cared for them when
living? There is an eternal ﬁtness of

things, and while lilies of the valley


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and daisies and white doves are symbol-
ical of the dead baby’s innocence—how
like a farce it seems to wreathe them
about the face which has grown hard
and wrinkled and unlovely in the sole
ambition of accumulating alarge for-
tune, to heap the grave of one who
never did a good act, never thought a
good thOught, or benefited mankind an
atom with these choice blossoms! Min-
isters and undertakers are making a
vigorous protest against the uncovering
of heads at the grave in cold inclement
weather, thus jeopardizing life. Be-
forms are good in their place, but it
would seem that there is a large field
of labor open in this direction, and
while it is well to cater to public opin-
ion in many things, in the matter of
burying our dead let us make it a
personal matter and mourn rather in
spirit than in superﬁcial display.
BATTLE CREEK. EVANGELINE.

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INJ USTICE.

 

To many of us it seems that the old
world has not used us rightly, and we
harbor in our minds and hearts a sense
of injustice much too keen to be de-
scribed unless the hearer has shared in
the same feeling. We feel that we have
never been given any “show,” and the
opportunities we have needed and de-
sired, to make of -ourselves all that was
possible. have never been ours. Con-
sequently our empty life as we hold it
to -day is all the fault of circumstances
and never the fault of ourselves; and
that, alone, it seems to us, cries out
against our usage and denounces our
treatment at the hands of the world, as
a burning sha‘ne.

We think we have never received the
praise or the reward due us for the
little good we have done. Some people
want too much reward and too many
praises for doing only a very little good.

The world uses people pretty much
all alike. Man has often not only to
make a name and ja future for himself,
but also to make the opportunities for
reaching his prize.

Never blame your opportunities. Man
is each and every one in just the place
in all the world he is best suited for,and
most capable of ﬁlling.

The world does not recognize this
lame excuse of “no chance;” it looks at
the man and at his life and judges by
what he is, and not by what he might
have been under different circum-
stances.

As to the injustice of the world, it is
as just to us as to anyone else. We
might all complain, perhaps, that the
world does not use us rightly, and no
one’s plaint would be entirely without
cause—but where all suffer under a
common injustice, as it seems'to us,
some have no more right or cause for
complaint than others.

If we ﬁll the positions in which we are
placed to the best of our ability, we are
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rightlv blame us for not doing more.
The injustice of the world should occupy
as small a place in our thoughts as pos-
sible, and our hearts will be in a much
better condition to battle with whatever
we need to overcome in order to make
a perfect life. _
Since we are so much opposed to the
injustice of the world at large, Surely
we are consistent enough to let no in-
justice from us ever wound another.
As we want and demand that the world
be so very kind to us, we certainly
should show much kindness to all €56
come in reach of our words and deeds.
MARSHALL. CL ARA BELLE.

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CHILDREN’S CLOTHES.

 

Fashions for girls follow in line with
those of their elder sisters. Materials
are much the same except that the
every day frocks are more frequently of
cottOn. For spring wear, plain serges
and whipcords, basket woven wools of
two colors, cheviots and crepons are
chosen. Plaids are out,and dots,zigzag
lines and shot effects are liked. Challi
is a favorite goods and surah and glace
silks will replace the China and India
where mothers are so foolish as to put
their little girls into silk frocks. Ging-
ham, percale. muslin, dimity and pique
are chosen among wash goods, and are
liked best in very narrow lines, sprigs
or dots. Embroidery, lace and ribbon
are employed as trimming.

Girls six to twelve years old wear
straight skirts of four widths, plain or
trimmed as preferred. A gingham
skirt would have a four inch hem with
three rows of insertion above, four
inches apart. On wool goods, rows of
velvet would be applied in the same
way. The waist would have a square
yoke, cut bias, outlined with insertion,
and made over a lining. The lower
part is shirred to the yoke, pleated be-
low and the skirt is sewed to the belt
and put on over the waist, which con-
tinues below and under the belt; sleeves
have a bias puff to the elbow and ﬁt
close below; and belt,'collar and wrists
are overlaid with a band of insertion.
A rosette of the goods conceals the join-
ing of the belt in the back.

For unlined waists the shirt model is
chosen, having a yoke across the back
and a blouse front with box pleat down
the centre. A turn over collar and full
sleeves with deep square cuffs; skirt
sewed to the belt, and cuffs, collar and
belt trimmed with rows of braid, ﬁnish
a pretty yet simple dress.

More elaborate frocks have bretelles of
embroidery, wide lace, or the material
trimmed with braid or embroidery which
are narrow front and back and wider and
pleated over the shoulders. Or a round
yoke is outlined with a rufﬂe made full
over the shoulders. Other dresses have
jacket fronts opening over full gather-
ed and belted cambric or silk fronts.
Pretty light colored crepons have skirts
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ruche of pink, or blue (or whatever
color is most harmonious) silk or satin
set on the inside. The wais. is gather~
ed very slightly at the neck and drawn
into p‘eats over the ﬁtted lining; at the
belt a band of ecru lace, scallops up-
turned, and over this a folded ribbon
bclt fastened with a square bow. Should -
er bows of ribbon 'have ends extending
to the belt like suSpenders and are set
upon epaulettesof the corn lace, which
also forms the deep cults.

For the little ones, are frocks with
tucked round waists,plain skirts—which
are made shorter, even a little above
the shoeztops—full; shirt sleeves, and
sashes of the‘material set in at the under
arm seams and tied in big bows behind .
Rsund the neck are t vo deep rufﬂ :s or
collarettes : trimmed with embroidered
edge or; feather-stitched ban is. The
feather-stitched beading or ﬁnishing
braid used on underwear trims cotton
frocks prettily, especially if it can be
found with threads the color of the
dress :in it. ' Skirts of these little dresses
are very full,three breadths of gingham
beingcused in skirts for four year olds.

Challi dresses Lfor girls from ten to
fourteen have high bias seamless waists
made on ﬁtted linings, and trimmzd
with bias = bretelles ' very wide on the
shoulders and bordered with three rows
of No. l. satinjriobon. The sleeves are
puffed and ail-ill of lace added at the
elbow, or a doubled trill of the goods
trimmedwith' ribbon may be used in-
stead. -_:.The skirt, of four breadths, has
three bias rufﬂ .saset far apart, and has
either a riban belt, or one made of
folds of the goods on a lining and shir-
red , in two" little: frills at the back.
Velvet ribbon may be used instead of
the rulﬂ :s,and a narrow width of velvet
instead of the satin ribbon,as trimming.
gThe reefers and blazers so much worn
last year are worn again, and also short
capes,which just fall over the shoulders
and are of- the dress material. Cape
and derby collars are added to the blaz-
ers sometimes. ,BEATRIX.

 

THE FEW WHO STAY.

 

" “I shall go! if we have to live on oat-
m-e‘al porridge for six months!!” 8:)
said a staid and middle-aged housekeep-
er, after reading some of the glowing
accounts of what the World’s F .ir pr‘O'
mised. I am not talking, now, to the
owners of fat pocket-books, who can
travel in Pullman cars and besneak
their quarters in elegant hotels weeks
before they start,but to the vast middle
class that form the “eating part of the
pie,” as it were; the bone and sinews of
the earth, that have to plan for any
coveted pleasure,and sternly count their
pennies o’er and o‘er. Nine out of ten
of these will go to Chicago this summer;
and now I honestly ask, even with all
that’s offered, Is it worth while! Think
of the pinching economy that may re-
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ideathl” Then consider the absence

from home of the mother and elder
children; the worry over leaving the
house to run itself, or the thousand and
one things that may happen to the little
ones. Then comes the bearing of the
heat,and Chicago’s hot weather is some-
thing awful; the ﬂies; the ill cooked and
unusual food; the sleeping on straw or
shavings with a handful of feathers for
a pillow; the rush and roar and crowd
in steam and horse cars, the jostling,
noise, excitement; the feeling for the
purse, and ﬁnding it gone; the nickel
here and the ten cents there besides
the regular expenses, until the sum we
calculated was sufﬁcient has to be
doubled. or trebled. And then coming
home, worn out, only to fall a victim to
malarial fever with weeks of misery—
and a doctor’s bill on top of that!

No! The exclusive few who stay at
home need not p'ace their faces in the
dust, but be thankful that they are
obliged to choose the better part. I
propose that Beatrix pack her grip and
betake herself to Chicago, and our
prayers will follow that she mav be
spared to us. Also. that the greater
part of the HOUSEHOLD pages be de-
voted to her bright letters,while we, in
Our cool wrappers, and with apalm leaf,
will sit on our piazzas, and under our
shade trees,and in ecstatic comfort enjoy
reading about what she sees and hears
at that most wonderful Columbian Ex-
position. SISTER GRACIOUS.

 

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COUNTRY SCHOOL WORK.

 

'There is nOthing of so great import-
ance that is more neglected than our
country school work. It certainly de-
serves more attention from parents and
ofﬁcers. How easily we can detect the
abilities of the teacher by observance
through the pupil! There is a vast dif-
ference between keeping and teaching
school. The teacher who expects

“success must have a comprehensive

knowledge of the general objects of
education; He must correct his own
language to be justiﬁed in requiring the
same of his pupil. Early habits in the
use of language are seeds that germinate
too easily. It has been said that arith-
metic is the best taught branch because
it demands accuracy and nothing short
of it will be accepted. It is a sad sight
to see teachers studying for an examin-
ation. it is an acknowledgement on
their part of an inefﬁciency for that
work which is beyond the examination

One great advantage to be observed
is teaching the young child to speak
correctly when learning to read; it is
much better than waiting to form habits
which have onlv to be corrected at a

‘ loss of time to both teacher and pupil.

There is nothing that speaks better
for a child than to hear him speak in
praise of his teacher. Little differences
will always arise among school child-
ren, which when left for them to settle
usually are soon forgotten but when

carried beyond that, and parents at-
tempt to interfere, the trouble becomes
magniﬁed and often very unpleasant for
teacher and all concerned. Old heads
shosld let school children’s differences
alone, because no two ever quarreled
without both being in fault to some
degree. The teacher’s work is tedious
at best, although it can be made much
lighter by the pupils uniting with the
teacher and each other—in fact a unit.
What a pleasant sightto see a band of
merry,happy, well-behaved school child -
ren! Such are teacher’s pride.
PERSIS.

 

A THOUGHT FOR THE GIRLS.

School girls, young ladies, and those
who are about to leave their old homes
to set up home-building for themselves
ﬁnd a “memory counterpane” an aid to
the recollection of old friends, and also
a pretty piece of fancy work. The girl
who wishes to make a “memory counter-
pane” sends to each of the friends whom
she wishes represented, a square of
linen of the size desired,say nine inches
by nine, or ten by ten,asking the friend
to work some emblem or design on it,
adding her initials. These the owner
sets together either with lace insertion
or by feather-stitching the seams with
silk, and when lace-edged, the result is
a very pretty spread.

Another mode is to have the friends
write each her name and an appropriate
quotation in indelible ink on linen
squares which have been hemstitched
and are then set together with lace in~
sertion. Old friends are thus kept in
mind, and the spread becomes a valu-
able souvenir.

 

HOOPS.

The following, from Harper’s Bctzar
of April lst will, we trust, dispel all
terror regarding the threatened advent
of hoop skirts,and that mythical factory
located at J ackson,at Hillsdale,at Grand
Rapids, or wherever convenient, which
is “turning out 150 skirts a dav” better
shut off its untimely production. The
Baz‘ar says:

“The Bozar has not wasted words or
space in idle conjecture as to the re-
vival of hoop-skirts, because it believed
the excitement on the subject to be en-
tirely useless. This belief is conﬁrmed
by the report of fashionable modistes
who have just returned from Paris with
their Easter novelties. They say the
hoop-skirt is not worn in Paris,nor will
it be worn this season either there or
here by women of fashion. Practically
it does not exist in Paris,and is regard-
ed by French couturieres as the sensa-
tional suggestion of ultra Americans
and of English dealers not of the best
class. They speak of it mostsarcastical-
ly as destructive of all grace in dress,
and they suggest a return to clinging
skirts, or at least to those without ful-
ness at the top by way of contravening
it. There is already a reaction agalnst
stiff and heavy hair-cloth interlining
for supple and transparent fabrics of

 

spring and summer gowns. In its place
the most pliable crinoline lawn or foun-

 

dation muslin is used and this extends
only to the knee. There is a tendency
to revive the foundation skirt for bold-
ing this slight interlining, then attach-
ing the outside skirt to the same belt
and leaving it free to fall in natural
ﬂowing folds to the foot, where it is
ﬁnished with soft silk facing. And
these foundation skirts are sufficient
without the aid of reeds or steels.”

The country is safe! We breathe
more freely. Hoops no longer threaten
us. We will make the skirts of our
spring gowns four yards wide,use crino-
line lawn for interlining and snap dis-
dainful ﬁngers at steel springs.

-———.Q.-————

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING for April
comes in the closing days of March, as
bright and interesting as usual. One of
the most unique articles in it is on the
culinary uses of ﬂowers. We cordially
commend the articles on bedding and
beds and disinfectants; they are full of
sound sense.

—-...———

Contributed Recipes.

We have received a number of recipes for
lemon pie without cornstarch or ﬂour. in
reply to the request made, most of which are
duplicates or at least essentially the same.
From them we have selected three which
vary slightly, one using milk. the other
water, and one for a lemon pie with two
crusts in which one important omission is
made, the number of lemons required not
being stated. We have some doubts about
how that recipe would “turn out,” as
written. One cup of sugar would hardly
sufﬁce for more than one lemon, yet one
large lemon as “ﬁlling" for an ordinary
pie-plate would make a pie with upper and
under crusts pretty close neighbors. Two
lemons, two cups sugar, a scant half cup of
sifted cracker crumbs and a small pie-plate
would we think make a better combination.
But here are the recipes:

LEMON Pin—Pare the lemons and grate
the peel; take off the white skin (for that
makes the pie bitter); slice the lemons into
a pie plate. Put in about one cup of white
sugar, then the slices of lemon until as full
as wanted, scatter over it the grated peel and
afew bits of butter, and it will be better
with a little ﬂour, then cover with an upper
crust and bake, after sprinkling the crust
with granulated sugar.

SHIAWASSEE. MRS. CARRIE DAVIS.

 

LEMON Pun—One grated lemon; even cup
of sugar: yolks of three eggs; four crackers,
rolled; two-thirds teacupful of water. Bake
in a deep plate. After it is done spread over
it for icing the whites of three eggs well
beaten with four tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Brown slightly. This Ithink the best lemon
pic I ever ate. Mas. C. F. K.

PONTIAC.

LEMON Pun—The grated rind and juice of
one large lemon, or two small ones; one
coffee cup sugar; three eggs, leavmg out the
whites of two; four crackers rolled ﬁne; one
coffee cup of sweet milk; a little salt. Bake
without an upper crust. After it is baked
take the whites of the two eggs, beat to a
stiff froth, stir into them two tablespoonfuls
of sugar, turn over the pie, set back into the
oven to brown.

PORT HURON. GERTRUDE NI. HOPKINS.

       
 
     
         
    
   
  
  
   
   
 
  
  
 
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
  
    
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
   
   
   
  
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
  
    
  
 
  
  
  
  
   
     
 
  
     
 
 
   
  
 
 
  
   
    
  
    
    
      

