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TWO SIDES OF A SENTIMENT.

When two-year-old May Blossom
Comes down in clear white dress,
And runs to ﬁnd “dear Auntie,”
And claims her sweet caress,
Then Aunt'e takes up Blossom,
And her eyes they glow and shine,
“ Ohl pretty baby Blossom,
If you were only mine!

When Blossom, in the pantry,
High mounted on a chair,
Has nlbbled at the icing
Till half the cake is bare,
Then Auntie puts down Blossom,
And her eyes they glow and shine:
“ Ohl naughty baby Blossom,
If you were only mine!”
—-Shelteri g Arms.
__—.»_——

THE OTHER SIDE.

Among this talk of training our
daughters in domestic arts, and thus pre-
paring them to be good wives and house-
keepers, I have expected some one would
remind us that it is a part of a mother’s
duty to teach her sons to be good hus.
bands. There are a good many things
which go to make a man a thoughtful,
kind husband, or the reverse, which are
learned at home almost unconsciously, by
home example and inﬂuence. A man
needs some domestic virtues as well as a
woman. It is not desirable that he should
be a “tame cat,” forever under foot,
forever “puttering” about the house,
but he should have a just conception of
the worth of awoman’s work, and be able
to appreciate its results. The mother can
train her sons to be good husbands just
as easily as she can educate her girls in
housewifely arts, and it is as truly a duty
to one as to the other. Somebody’s sons
will be husbands to her daughters, and
she certainly feels anxious that these
“coming men” shall be prepared to make
her girl’s lives happy and comfortable.
Her boys must marry some other mother’s
daughters, and she should take pride in
feeling she has helped lay the foundations
of happy lives for all these, so far as her
power and inﬂuence extends.

For her own comfort and convenience
a mother shbuld teach her boys habits of
.neatness and order. There is no more
reason why~ a lad should scatter his be-
longings the whole length of the house,
leaving them for some one to pick up and
put in place for him, than a girl should
do the same thing, something few moth-
ers would tolerate. Yet many a woman
hangs up her son’s clothes for him every
day in the year, collects his soiled gar
ments all over the house, and waits upon

him with the patience of a feminine Job,
regardless of the fact that she is thus
allowing him to form bad habits, and
making herself unnecessary labor. Instead
of thus becoming his servant, as it were,

, _ he should feel it incumbent upon him to

“save steps" for her, to have an eye
upon the woodbox and the water—pail and
keep both ﬁlled, not as boys sometimes
do, wait till the mother has brought in
the fresh water, and then take a drink.

For the sake of the woman who will
one day be his wife, a mother should not
allow her sons to become too ﬁnical and
fussy, over-particular. I have heard of a
young man who, because his shirt front
was not quite stiff and glossy enough to
suit his fastidious taste, twisted the of
fending garment into a wad and ﬂung it

in the corner, oblivious of the fact that

his sister had spent half an hour of a hot
July morning doing it up. A gentleman
of this city whose ,wife is a semi-invalid
and yet does her owmwork for -ecOnomy’s
sake, will not eat bread that ismore than
a day old. Consequently this frail woman,
bent half double with rheumatism, bakes
every day for a family of three, and will
probably be found with her hands in the
dough when the Angel of Death calls for
her. “ J ohn‘s mother baked every day;
he learned it there,” she says. A man
who had been taught in youth’ to be con-
siderate of the rights and feelings and
strength of another, would never be so
unreasonable.

If a boy sees his father dole out a pit-
tance to his mother for her expenses, and
imbibes the idea that a woman is not to
be trusted with more than half adollar at
a time, and that it is the man’s preroga—
tive to carry the purse, it is very apt to
imbue him with similar ideas, to be prac-
ticed in his own household. Every woman

‘ should make it a point to impress upon

her family that her faithful work in the
house is just as essential, and worth just
as much as her husband’s. The two are
reciprocal; each needs and must have the
other. No farm can be successfully
managed without being supplemented by
the work of the house. Teach your sons,
then, the equality of man and wife as
business partners, that none of them may
ever be guilty of rep‘roaching a wife as I
have heard: “You sit around and do
nothing and let me support you, why
don’t you earn something?”

One of a mother’s manifest duties is to
teach her sons respect for all other
women, and never to speak lightly,

 
neeringly or disrespectfully of the girls

 
he meets. If he has nothing good to say,
at least he can keep silence. The very
meanest thing a young man can do is to
speak lightly of a girl, merely because
she does not please his fancy, or does not
desire his company. Sometimes criticisms
are passed unthinkingly, sometimes there
is a deliberate intent to injure; in either
case a great wrong is done, for a girl’s
character is a priceless jewel to her.
Many a young man who would order
coffee and cofﬁns for two if any one dare
saya word that would hurt his sister,
will yet among his companions, to pass
as a gay Lothario in their eyes, speak un-
true words of some one else’s sister, with
slight compunctions of conscience. Let
the mothers, and fathers too, strive to
strangle this vile propensity by teaching
a reverence and respect for all women, of
whatever social station, never speaking
ill of others themselves, and promptly
leproving innuendoes from others.

A fair idea of the sort of husband a
young man will make, may be gained
from his treatment of his mother and
sisters. If he is kind, considerate, gentle
and good to them, it is safe to infer that
the wife will ﬁnd him equally attentive
and thoughtful of her. Ido not think
the young man who practically ignores
the existence of his sisters, and is never
seen out with them, affords the best
material for a husband. Nor is he who
is off to town every night or two, calcu-
lated to make a wife very happy, unless
solitude has charms for her.

The moral training of boys and girls
ought not to be so different. A man will
take his son, or suffer him to go unre-
proved, into places where he w’Ould shud-
der to even think of seeing his daughter.
The excuse is given “boys will be. boys,”
as if, because they are boys, it is expected
they will be wild, if not actually “ fast”
and bad. Naturally a boy will know
more of the wickedness of the world, be-
cause there is no attempt made to keep
him from it. He listens to the coarse
and vulger chat around the stove in the
village grocery, at ﬁrst not half compre
hending it, and the surroundings and in-
ﬂuences carry weight. Why should it not
be as repellant and distasteful to him as
it would be t.) his sister? If it only
was not thought manly to drink, and
smoke and chew, so that the boy seems
to copy the vices of humanity wi:h
out acquiring the virtues, which some-
how seem of slo ver growth. Is a man by
nature more inclined to vice than a
woman? Not a bit of it, the difference,
my good friends, is in the dilferenttr tin-
ing you give the boy and girl.

BEATRIX.

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DETROIT, MAY 20, 1884.

 
THE H©U§EHOLDmuSupplememftc

 
TWO SIDES OF A SENTIMENT.

When two-year-old May BIOssom
Comes down in clear white dress,
And runs to ﬁnd “dear Auntie,"
And claims her sweet caress,
Then Aunt'e takes up Blossom,
And her eyes they glow and shine,
“ Ohl pretty baby Blossom,
If you were only mine!

When Blossom, in the pantry,
High mounted on a chair,
Has nibbled at the icing
I'l‘ill half the cake is bare,
Then Auntie puts dOWn Blossom,
And her eyes they glow and shine:
“ Ohl naughty baby Blossom,
If you were only mine !”
~Shelteri g Arms.
—-——-—ooo-————

THE OTHER SIDE.

Among this talk of training our
daughters in domestic arts, and thus pre-
paring them to be good wives and house-
keepers, I have expected some one would
remind us that it is a part of a mother’s
duty to teach her sons to be good hus-
bands. There are a good many things
which go to make a man a thoughtful,
kind husband, or the reverse, which are
learned at home almost unconsciously, by
home example and inﬂuence. A man
needs some domestic virtues as well as a
woman. It is not desirable that he should
be a “tame cat,” forever under foot,
forever “puttering” about the house,
but he should have a just conception of
the worth of awoman’s work, and be able
to appreciate its results. The mother can
train her sons to be good husbands just
as easily as she can educate her girls in
housewifely arts, and it is as truly a duty
to one as to the other. Somebody’s sons
will be husbands to her daughters, and
she certainly feels anxious that these
“coming men ” shall be prepared to make
her girl’s llves happy and comfortable.
Her boys must marry some other mother’s
daughters, and she should take pride in
feeling she has helped lay the foundations
of happy lives for all these, so far as her
power and inﬂuence extends.

For her own comfort and convenience
a mother shbuld teach her boys habits of
lneatness and order. There is no more
reason why. a lad should scatter his be-
longings the whole length of the house,
leaving them for some one to pick up and
put in place for him, than a girl should
do the same thing, something few moth-
ers would tolerate. Yet many a woman
hangs up her son’s clothes for him every
day in the year, collects his soiled gar
ments all over the house, and waits upon

him with the patience of a feminine Job,
regardless of the fact that she is thus
allowing him to form bad habits, and
making herself unnecessary labor. Instead
of thus becoming his servant, as it were,

. . he should feel it incumbent upon him to

“save steps” for her, to have an eye
upon the woodbox and the water-pail and
keep both ﬁlled, not as boys sometimes»
do, wait till the mother has brought in
the fresh water, and then take a drink.

For the sake of the woman who will
one day be his wife, a mother should not
allow her sons to become too ﬁnical and
fussy, over-particular. I have heard of a
young man who, because his shirt front
was not quite stiff and glossy enough to
suit his fastidious taste, twisted the of

in the corner, oblivious of the fact that
his sister had spent half an hour of a hot
July morning doing it up. A gentleman
of this city whose .wife is a semi-invalid
and yet does her own: work for economy’s
sake, will not eat bread that ismore than
a day old. Consequently this frail woman,
bent half double with rheumatism, bakes
every day for a family of three, and will
probably be found with her hands in the
dough when the Angel of Death calls for
her. “ J ohn's mother baked every day;
he learned it there,” she says. A man
who had been taught in youth to be con-
siderate of the rights and feelings and
strength of another, would never be so
unreasonable.

If a boy sees his father dole out a pit-
tance to his mother for her expenses, and
imbibes the idea that a woman is not to
be trusted with more than half adollar at
a time, and that it is the man’s preroga-
tive to carry the purse, it is very apt to
imbue him with similar ideas, to be prac~
ticed in his own household. Every woman

’ should make it a point to impress upon

her family that her faithful work in the
house is just as essential, and worth just
as much as her husband’s. The two are
reciprocal; each needs and must have the
other. No farm can be successfully
managed without being supplemented by
the work of the house. Teach your sons,
then, the equality of man and wife as
business partners, that none of them may
ever be guilty of rep‘roaching a wife as I
have heard: “You sit around and do
nothing and let me support you, why
don’t you earn something?”

One of a mother’s manifest duties is to
teach her sons respect for all other
women, and never to speak lightly,

 
neeringly or disrespectfully of the girls

fending garment into a wad and ﬂung it ,

 
he meets. If he has nothing good to say,
at least he can keep silence. The very
meanest thing a young man can do is to
speak lightly of a girl, merely because
she does not please his fancy, or does not
desire his company. Sometimes criticisms
are passed unthinkingly, sometimes there
is a deliberate intent to injure; in either
case a great wrong is done, for a girl’s
character is a priceless jewel to her.
Many a young man who would order
coffee and cofﬁns for two if any one dare
saya word that would hurt his sister,
will yet among his companions, to pass
as a gay Lothario in their eyes, speak un-
true words of some one else’s sister, with
slight Compunctions of conscience. Let
the mothers, and fathers too, strive to
strangle this vile propensity by teaching
a reverence and respect for all women, of
whatever social station, never speaking
ill of others themselves, and promptly
ieproving innuendoes from others.

A fair idea of the sort of husband a
young man will make, may be gained
from his treatment of his mother and
sisters. If he is kind, considerate, gentle
and good to them, it is safe to infer that
the wife will ﬁnd him equally attentive
and thoughtful of her. Ido not think
the young man who practically ignores
the existence of his sisters, and is never
seen out with them, affords the best
material for a husband. Nor is he who
is off to town every night or two, calcu-
lated to make a wife very happy, unless
solitude has charms for her.

The moral training of boys and girls
ought not to be so different. A man will
take his son, or suffer him to go unre-
proved, into places where he w'Ould shud-
der to even think of seeing his daughter.
The excuse is given “boys will be boys,”
as if, because they are boys, it is expected
they will be Wild, if not actually “ fast”
and bad. Naturally a boy will know
more of the wickedness of the world, be—
cause there is no attempt made to keep
him from it. He listens to the coarse
and vulger chat around the stove in the
village grocery, at ﬁrst not half compre
bending it, and the surroundings and in—
ﬂuences carry weight. Why should it not
be as repellant and distasteful to him as
it would be t.) his sister? If it only
was not thought manly to drink, and
smoke and chew, so that the boy seems
to copy the vices of humanity will
out acquiring the virtues, which some—
how seem of slo yer growth. Is a man by
nature more inclined to vice than a
woman? Not a bit of it, the difference,
my good friends, is in the differenttrlin-
ing you give the boy and girl.

BEATRIX.

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

    
OUR. GIRLS.

 
I am afraid “One of the Girls " will
think her questions ignored as of little
value, or of so difficult a nature that no
answers can be found. Her question,
“What shall we do?" confronts each girl
when she enters society. or in any way
meets the great world, depending on her
own resources.

But the mothers before them have had
to tread the same path, meet with similar
experiences, and “gang the same gate."
History repeats itSelf, and generations
following each other ﬁnd the same prob-
lems of life to solve. Some will be
wrecked on the rocks of temptation, and
some will have fair winds all the voyage.
But there are charts that will aid. and a
compass that will guide, if only the one
be studied and the other consulted and
heeded. The human nature of the aver-
age girl- shone out in the oft quoted con-
versation between a mother and daugh-
ter: “Mother, did not you attend par—
ties, have beaux to wait on you, and have
a good time when you were young?”
" Yes, of course, but I have seen the folly
of it." “ Well, I want to see the folly of
it, too." And the necessary experience
they le have, in some way.

If a mother will win and hold the con-
ﬁdence of her daughter, her inﬂuence for
good is almost illimitable; then from her
own knowledge of the world she can
teach, direct, advise and console her
child. No detail of the happenings to
the daughter when away from home
should be deemed too trivial for recital;
the girls should be encouraged to repeat
incident. circumstance and conversation,
and in this way a very correct idea of the
character of their associates can be form-
ed, and counsel given suited to their
needs.

Young people must have social privi«
leges, and if parents are unable or indis-
posed to chaperone their girls, and broth.
ers are not available, “ some other fellow”
will surely enter the lists. To entirely
forbid girls “ going ” with young men is
a pretty sure way to induce rebellion or
clandestine meetings, with results most
unfortunate. ' .

I would say, let the girls go into com-
pany when of suitable age. If they have
brothers, try to teach them proper respect
for themselves and their sisters, and they
will certainly sometimes escort them, and
inform themselves of the true character
of gentlemen who aspire to escort their
sisters. Girls, be kind and patient with
your brothers, and listen to their counsel
in regard to accepting attention from
gentlemen. A man who is most un-
worthy maybe a perfect gentleman in
the company of ladies, who can only
judge by his appearance and be woefully
misled, while the brother mingling in
company where he is off his guard, may
easily penetrate his disguise and know
him for what he is.

This proneness to judge by appearances,
and turn a deaf ear to advice or represen
tations adverse to such judgment, is one
of the greatest dangers that beset girls in

 
call love supplements the favorable decis~
sion.
In too many cases the girls invests her
hero with every manly quality of mind
and heart, resents all interference, and
will listen to no reason or offered proof
to his disadvantage.
If parents think a person who offers
is unsuitable company for their girl, it is
their duty to object, but they should give
her good reasons, ard a good way to
reconcile her to the disappointment is to
grow young and take her yourself a few
times. But if this is impossible, procure
her some other innocent amusement, that
will convince her that your refusal was
not given to arbitrarily deprive her of
pleasure.
What are the girls to do? They must
do as their mothers did before them, go
into society with their own brothers, or
those of some other girl, trust to the ad
vice of parents and friends, look before
taking a leap, respect themselves and al-
low no undue familiarity from young
men, go only to proper places at proper
times, and never indulge in acts or words
that they would blush to have their moth-
ers witness or hear.
Keep a level head, exercise sound com-
mon-sense, be true to womanhood, send
the young men home early—if they need
sending,——don’t go with a man who has a
bad reputation, who drinks, is vulgar or
profane. Such men are not “nice;” they
will compromise the good name of any
girl. Finally, don’t “marry a man to
save him,” for his weakness will shackle
your strength, and you will sink together.
May “ our girls” all do well. A. L. L.

Gnsasrmnn, May 8th.

H.—
A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE.

Some time ago there appeared in the
columns of this excellent little paper, an
article calling the attention of farmers
to our schoolhouses and school grounds.
It was very good and directly to the point,
but I think that generally farmers
throughout the country pay but little at-
tention to this subject. They may notice
the grounds as they pass along, or think
perhaps the schoolhouse needs a fresh
coat of paint to preserve it, but what do
they know of the interior; of the smoky,
dingy walls that have not felt a brush
since they were plastered many years ago,
of the creaking seats. or the rusty stove?
No, the average farmer does not trouble
himself about such triﬂing things. He
pays his school tax,-—cheerfully, if he has
children, grudgingly if he has not—and
then the subject is dismissed from his
mind.

We will have to stand it, I suppose, but
I think the farmers’ wives might do some-
thing to make the schoolroom brighter if
they would only try. Who ever saw a
child who did not love ﬂowers? Why
the babies of the ﬂock come to me these
days with hands full of buttercups, call—
ing on me to admire the “ pretty posies!"
Now many of these women have a va-
riety of house plants which they prim
very highly. If Mrs. A. would give her

repaid by the surprise and delight of the
child, so proud of “mamma’s present.”
And to the teacher, I know it would seem
like a gleam of sunshine. It only needs
some one to make a beginning; others
would surely follow, and the schoolroom
would soon present quite a different ap-
pearance. Then they are good teachers.
too, these living plants, especially to the
wee ones, who learn so little’ from books

the ﬁrst few years of school, when

“ In their hearts are birds and sunshine,
In their thoughts the brooklets ﬂow.“

Try the experiment, mothers, and if
you can ﬁnd time to visit the school this
summer and note the results, you will be
glad, I think, that you have done your
best, and we will trust to the distant fu~
ture for the men to perform their part as

creditably as you have yours.
BONNIE DOJN.
HADLEY. May 10th.

—.._Q..___——

HIT AND MISS.

 
Suggestive of rag carpet? Well, no
wander. The merchants and weavers say
there was never such 8. making of this
loiterer on the line of home-made luxuries
as there is this spring. But there will be
no hit and miss in the 60 odd yards that I
took to the weaver last week. “ Despise
not the day of small things," saith the
proverb; but when that day takes in hit
and miss carpet rags, piecing bed quilts.
“ and sich,” I do despise it most heartily,
and I cry, “Aye, let me dye and lie com
fortably!"

Our new Household! The blossoming
of a wish plant that I have cultivated for
years. Ladies, let‘s toast it, thus: “Our
new Household! Long may it wave! To
the wants of the fair bend the wills of the
brave!”

And now where is she? The woman
that cleans house in fancy dress ball cos
.tume, armed with a toothbrush dipped in
spirits of ammonia, sees company comin g
without one internal groan, and feeds the
knights of the pitchfork and plow~handle
on Miss Parloa’s fancy dishes through all
these halcyon days! Where is she? I
want to put an end to her! Pen and ink
talk can’t clean house. It takes grit and
gumption, elbow grease and soap suds
duly admixed with disorder and dirt to do
that little job. But after these comes
“calm.” A rest that remaineth—till next
housecleaning time. For the members of
this family that calm and “ those rest ” is
still a week or ten days in the future
(local time). _ ‘

If the housekeeping question is th
closed I would like to throw in my testi-
mony, which is, that a practical knowl-
edge of the arts and sciences of general
housework is to a girl’s education what
thorough bass is to a practical knowledge
of music. Therefore a woman to be in
any degree independent and self~helpful
in the many and oft recurring trying
emergencies that she must meet in her al-
most inevitable ofﬁce of “ house mother "
has need to be familiarly acquainted with
the laws that should govern the steady tide
of demand and supply in a household; of
which the art of cooking and of ordering

 
little daughter a pretty plant of some

 
society. esneciallyif an Infatuation they

kind to take to school, she would be well

the right things at the right time to cook,
is but the she. These laws, though lik

  
THE HOUSEHOLD.

   
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in form, are varied in application. This
the girls should also learn, and how to
vary them to suit the needs of circum-
stance as well.

For instance: The light diet and dainty
bits and morsels of frozen froth, that it is
perfectly proper to feed people of seden~
tary or lack—a-daisical habits on, would be
entirely out of place when set before a
bona ﬁde farmer. What he Wants is a
" square meal,” of wholesome, unfrozen,
well cooked food. And what’s more, he
must have it, or he Will not be a success
as a farmer. And there is a correspond-
ing difference as to the quality of every-
day clothing, house furnishing, etc, but
mind you, my lassies, this "difference”
is not the ﬂag of vulgarity on the one
hand and of reﬁnement on the other. It
is simply common-sense, applying the
salve of the eternal ﬁtness! "A man’s 8.
mar. for. a’ that an’ a’ that,” whether his
coat be ﬁnest broadcloth or cottonade;
whether his carpets be of velvet or “rag;”
whether his supper be composed of tidbits
of frozen nothings, or of some of E. S.
B.’s biscuit with maple syrup, poached
eggs, dried beef, cheese, and a “ big
piece” of fresh, soft gingerbread.

How long shall a woman suffer? Only
just till she can turn the thumbs-crews on
the old man and make him cry “ quits.”

E. L. NYE.
annom. May 13th.
-—-—-—ooo————
'l‘tiE COOKING SCHOOL.

 
The closing lecture of Miss Parloa’s
course of lessons on cooking, was devoted
to the preparation of nourishing food for
the sick. There are few who have tried
in vain tc tempt the capricious appetite
of an invalid, or themselves turned away
nauseated by lumpy gruel and the inevit-
able toast-and-tea of the sick room, who
would not be glad to learn how to make
something sick people can relish.

Miss Parloa said gruels should be boiled
at least twenty minutes, and many of the
best physicians recommend cooking them
an hour or longer. She preferred white
meal to yellow, for Indian meal gruel.
Mix one tablespoonful of ﬂour and two
of meal with a little cold water, and stir
into one quart of boiling water, boil
twenty minutes, then season with salt and
boil ﬁve minutes more. Less sugar and
more salt is recommended for cooking for
invalida. She made oatmeal gruel by
sprinkling two tablespoonfuls of coarse
oatmeal (if ﬁne is used, it must be ﬁrst
mixed with cold water) into a quart of
boiling water, boil forty minutes, salt,
strain and serve. Milk may be substitut
ed for water if the patient can bear it.

The lecturer made plum porridge by
stirring two 5 tablcsp )onfuls of ﬂour,
mined in cold milk, into a quart of borling
milk, put in a handful of raisins and a
little grated nutmeg; boil half an hour;
season with salt and szrain. Arrowroot
gruel is made by stirring a tablespoonful
of arrowroot mixed with cold milk into a
pint of” boiling milk, and seasoning to
taste Boil ten minutes. The double
boiler is almost indispensable in cooking
for the sick, as a slight burn or scorch
renders: the whole unpalatable.

 
Blane-mange for the sick Miss Parloa
made by using one half-pint of milk, one
teaspoonful of arrowroot, one teaspoon-
ful of sugar, an atom of salt; cook as for

gruel, and cool in a tiny mould. She
prepared a mutton broth by cutting all
the fat from a pound of the neck of mut-
ton, and cutting the meat in small pieces,
put it into a quart of cold water, add one
tablespoonful of barley or rice, let the
water come to the boiling point, skim,
cover, and let it just simmer for three
hours, then add pepper and salt to taste,
and let boil ten minutes. Strain and
serve.

A very nutritive jelly for patients too
feeble to swallow liquids, is made of one-
half box of gelatine, one half pound
powdered gum arabic, a half-pint of port
wine, brandy or essence, three tablespoon-
fuls sugar, two cloves. Soak all together
for two hours, then place the dish in boil-
ing water and stir over the ﬁre till the
mixture is melted; strain and cool. The
jelly. may be given to the patient on the
tongue, being allowed to gradually melt
in the mouth.

Nice whey is made by letting a cup of
new milk come to a boil, and stirring into
it a half wine-glassful of sherry. Let
boil up and strain when curdled. Egg
nog is made by beating the white of an
egg to a stiff froth, beat in a tablespoon-
ful of sugar, then the yolk of the egg,
next a tablespoonful each of milk, wine
and water, in the order named. Make a
white custard by beating together the
whites of three eggs, a quarter of a tea-
spoonful of salt, and two tablespoonfuls
of sugar. Measure out a pint of milk;
turn a little of it with the egg, sugar, etc.
beat well, then add the rest of the milk;
ﬂavor with ever so slight a zest of nut—
meg. Bake in custard cups in a pan of
water in a slow oven.

Beef sandwiches were prepared by
scraping thin slices of raw beef till only
the sinews and ﬁbre were left. The meat
was then mixed with salt and pepper and
spread between thin slices of stale home
made bread. For croquettes, meat simil-
arly prepared was rounded into small
cakes and cooked in a frying-pan for a
couple of minutes. For beef juice, a
piece of beef was browned on a gridiron
over a quick ﬁre, out in pieces and squeeze
juice into a cup; add a little salt and keep
on ice or in a cool place.

Miss Parloa insisted upon the necessi-
ty of daintiness in all cookery intended
for the sick; and especially cautioned
against serving too much food of any
kind. Better give too little and let the
patient think you stingy, or ask for more,
than take away aﬁckle appetite by the
sight of a large quantity of food.

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HOW TO COOK POTATOES.

 
The wire potato masher is a great im»
provement on the old style pounder, still
I think a fork is better. Pare, wash, and

throw into boiling water to cook as usual;
as soon as done drain and dry out, then
add salt and a generous lump of butter,
and after breaking ﬁne with the fork,
whisk and stir them a moment and the
mass will become light, I might say

l

 
, foamy. If not quite as moist as desirable

add a little sweet cream and whisk up
again and they will be very different from
being pounded into solidity. If there is
some left to warm over for another meal.
beat an egg or two and stir into the potato
and have some hot gravy and butter in
a frying-pan and form the potato into
pats and brown, turn and brown, and
serve.

To prevent ﬁsh from falling to pieces
while frying, have the lard very hot when
the pieces are laid in. I have seen many '
a ﬁne ﬁsh reduced to mere crumbs by not
taking the precaution to have a good ﬁre
with hot lard to begin with. Frog quark
ters are nice dipped in beaten egg. then
in ﬁne cracker crumbs and fried in hot
butter. AARON'S WIPE.

FENTONVILLE.

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SCRAPS.

 
It was a very tasteful costume of brown
cashmere and velvet, and worn by a blue-
eyed, fair-skinned woman, who had
chosen a shade dark enough to bring
out all the golden tints in her hair. The
middle of the front breadth, a space of
perhaps eighteen inches, was left plain.
save for the three horizontal bands of vel-
vet which crossed it, the lower band being
about six inches wide, the second ﬁve
inches and the third still an inch nar-
rower. A deep kilt pleating on the sides
and back was lost under very full back
drapery, and a short and full apron over‘
skirt, with a velvet revere. The basque
was a postilion, with very full back, laid
in triple box pleats, cut medium length in
front, and with a velvet vest, narrow at
the throat and gradually widening to the
bottom of the basque. This, with the
edge of the turn-over collar, the narrow
r :lling cuffs, and the edges of the oven
skirt, was ﬁnished with a velvet cord.
The hat worn with the costume was of
brown straw, in the popular Henri Trois
shape, velvet lined, and trimmed with, a
twist of velvet and two long brown
plumes. A gilt shepherd’s crook was
thrust through the velvet. Brown gloves,
and acluster of Gloire d’Dijon roses at
the throat, a neat linen collar and cuffs
completed a very quiet, lady-like walking
dress, which any of our Householders can
copy in their favorite color.

 
I SOMETIMES wonder whether the slat-
ternly women, with hair twisted into a
“ washwoman’s pug." dirty and ragged
wrapper, and slippers down at the heel,
whom I sometimes see washing down the
front steps or polishing up the door-knob
as I skip by to an early breakfast, are any
relation to the nicely dressed ladies who
cluster on those clean steps in the twir
light of a May evening to gossip and com
ment on the passers-by. There is a re.
semblance in feature and coloring, in
height and size, but that only. Can it be
dress makes such a difference? It seems
to me that even if I took the “hired girl's"
place and had to clean my own doorsteps.
I would not assume her livery also. With
print at ﬁve cents per yard, there is no
excuse for wearing an old dress which
has descended from its high estate till it

   
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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 
~ is only ﬁt for the rag-bag, and whose su-
perﬂuous length is weighted with dirt. A
calico dress, short enough to be out of the
way__,of slops and which, though plain,
may be clean and whole, is within the
reach of anybody. Idon’t think I could
enjoy breakfast if the dispenser of the
matutinal coffee was the disheveled hero-
ine of the steps above mentioned. It
costs so little either in time or money to
be neat and clean in personal appearance,
and it aids one’s own self respect so
much, and is so pleasing to the members
of the family, above all it is setting such
a good example, that the effort ought to
be made by us all.

 
“Kissing the baby" is in most house-
holls as much a part of the greeting of
every visitor as the hand shakmg war-
ranted by custom, and the caller who
should omit this ceremony would be con-
sidered by the mother as having tacitly
implied her children were unattractive.
Especially are the helpless infants in long
clothes subjected to rapturous and oft-
repeated osculation; their very helpless
ne'ss seems to provoke attack. Not long
ago a Philadelphia physician of high
standing came out with an earnest pro
test against this indiscriminate kissing of
children, and several newspapers “ caught
on ” to the idea and republished the arti-
cle, substituting the name of their own
town for that of the Quaker City. This
physician said that the habit of allowing
every one to kiss the children, especially
very young and delicate ones, was ex-
tremely pernicious; that the little victim
was thus obliged to take the impure
breath of those having poor teeth, foul
stomachs, diseased lungs, and other
chronic diseases, to its great detriment.
To this list might be added, since many
men wish to curry favor with proud par-
ents by caressing and admiring the
babies, tobacco chewers and beer drink-
ers. Not really pleasant to think of, is
it? The children of a few years’ growth,
whose pure instincts rebel at such pro-
miscuous kisses, are often urged or com-
pelled to submit in obedience to acom-
mand to “ go kiss” the visitor, and one
can ﬁnd 1t in his heart to sympathize with
the three-year-old who reluctantly sub-
mitted" to be kissed by a descendant of
Esau, and afterward buried her face' in
her mother’s apron, sobbing “it was a
nas’y kiss.” I think that only the most
intimate friends and relatives of a family
sh0uld feel themselves at liberty to kiss
the children, and they should not be over
free in availing themselves of the privi
lege; while the mother should dare re-
quest callers to refrain from kisses for the
good of the innocent sufferers. B.

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

The “correct thing” in table napkins
is twenty-four inches square. This is for
dinner. For breakfast and tea we may
make the pretty little serviettes of Russian
crush, which are cut a little smaller,
fringed out on the edges, ornamented
with a spray of ﬂowers, an initial letter or
o Lcr device done in colored working
cotton. They are pretty and inexpensive,

 
and go prettily with the tea-cloths- em-
broidered in colors, now so popular.

 
A correspondent of the Rural World
says he keeps potatoes for table use
through the spring months Without hav-
ing them sprout, by immersing them in
very strong, cold brine for two minutes.

Then dry them and store in a dark, dry

place. They will keep hard and sound.
This might be worth trying.

 
The new way of boiling eggs in the
shell, which is gaining in favor among
those who appreciate good living, is as
follows: Have the water boiling hard.
Turn enough into the dish in which you
are to cook the eggs to heat itthoroughly;
turn it out, put in the eggs and cover
quickly with the boiling water; cover
closely and let stand on the back of the
stove for ten minutes. The egg will be
found delicious, the yolks cocked without
being hardened, the whites coagulated
into a jelly-like substance as different
from the usual “boiled egg” as possible.
Don’t try to cook too many in one dish,
however.

At a late meeting of the Grand River
Valley Horticultural Society, Mr. H. H.
Hayes gave the following plan of can
ning sweet corn, which had proved very
successful in his family: Shave the corn
from the cob and pack in glass cans close-
ly by pounding it down; ﬁll the jars as
full as possible and screw down the top.
Be sure and have the rubber circles per-
fect. Then place the cans in a boiler,
having cloth under and between them so
they shall not touch each other or the
metal, and boil in water three hours.
After taking from the water give the tops
another turn so as to have them tight as
possible, and the product will keep per-
fectly until used.

 
You can convert the old rocking chair
which is so shabby that you are contem-
plating its retirement to the asylum for
disabled furniture, the garret, into a very
creditable affair, by ebonizing the wood,
and covering the back and seat with a
cushion in the popular “crazy work,”
which may be of silk pieces, featherstitch-
ed with gay silks, or of bits of cashmere
and ﬂannel, with ornamentation of bright
crewels, as the contents of your “piece
bag” permit. The pieces should not be
very large, unless you mean to embroider
upon them, which hardly pays on any-
thing which gets as much wear as a cush
ion, and the pretty fancy stitches over
the joining seams will make the whole
very gay and bright.

OWING to the absence of the Household
Editor last week, copy for the “little
paper” was given out earlier than usual.
For this reason “White Glover’s” and
“0’s" letters, although received in time
for this issue, are unavoidably held over

until next week.
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