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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

"OUR ONE WEE LAM/l."
Our little baby girl.’ our one wee lam b:
With outstretched dimpled lmuds and round—
edcheek.
With eyes of Heaven‘s blue, with breath like
bnlm,
And laughing lips that hard not learned to
speak:

Our one wee lamb! Why are We thus bereft?
Why cradle life. it' it be but to die‘:
Our baby taken and so many left:

Healer of trouble 1 hearts, icon from on high

And by 'l‘hy tout-h that sweet assurance send.
That we once mo e our baby's face will see,

That, though we weep and « aunot comprehend.
37:0 is mo'm’fllrl through (t1!- trier/«fly.

That fleck of sunlight on the carpet there.
This bit of crumpled puper in my hand.
These little leaves stirred by the summer uii :
0h, childless mothers! you will understand
How small a thing our little ones will bring
Into these empty arms, day after day;
Though songs are left unsung u e used to ~ingl
Though doors are locked and treasures hid
away.
0113 mother, with your baby at your breast.
Pray for this other who to night has none:
And clasp it closer, closer to you, lest
it slip from you us our first-born has done.
——~—o.o——i

PUNISHMENTS.

 

Jannette asks “How shall we punish?”
Every mother will have her own convictions
0n the subject. The object of punishment
should be reformation; we reprove that our
little ones may leave (if evil ways and learn
good ones; the question is how can we best
secure the result we desire. The hasty,
quick-tempered woman gives a word and a
blow, the blow ot‘ti—n falling tirst, the weuk
one dreads to ihtlict pain, and lets grave
faults go unreproved; the mother who has
correct ideas of what the welfare of the
children demands studies their disposition
and makes her penalties reformatory.

Punishment does not always imply pliysu
ical pain. True, there are some children
whose inheritance of “Old Adam”
strong that extreme measures are HLCEbrill'y;
but this I believe is rarel y the case, and al-
most always the resultant of a previous
fault in training. There is something of
the savage in the nature of either man or
woman who can persistently inliict physi-
cal pain on a. child; to do so alienates the
child’s affection, and weakens passion and
stubbornness. "You must break his spirit.”
—i. e., subdue his will—were words often
on the lips of. the old-fashioned parent
whose parental persuader to obedience was
a stout hickory withe; but a will cowed
into abji ctness by fear of a flagging is white

is so

down as an axiom that a whipping, except
11 those rare cases where “exceptions point
the rule,” is to be a last resort.

The trouble is, most mothers will not
take time to punish as they ought; there is
so much to do, so many things to attend to,
that the little offender gets more or less
th 11] he deserves. It requires go id judg-
ment to “make the punishment fit the
crime.” It is a good thing, too, to know
what to overlook. and it is a very ba‘l
thing to be always threatening. To say “t’ll
whip you if you do it again” and not make
good the words, invites disobedience; the.
child knows he has escaped once, and cui-
culates on further immunity, and has also
learned that his mother says what she does
not mean.

I think “punishment by deprivation,” as
l have heard it called. is the most judicious;
it reunires patience and careful oversight,
but it seems richest in results. The little
hands that has been in mischief are tied
with a soft ribbon; the feet that strayed
where they were hidden not to go are made
to keep quiet in a corner. Or the bad boy
is tucked up in bed for an hour, or depriv—
ed of some expected privilege. The ways
in which such punishment is received are
sometimes quite mousing. Little ltobert
had spent 9.2», hour in bed one day because
he. had slapped his little brother, whom he
dearly lovvd but who was very exasperating
sometimes. Released, the two played hap—
pily for a tint-3, till again Robert’s patience
gave away. and he gave Charlie’s cheek
anotht—r resounding slap. lle instantly
looked up at his mother, saying “I d ass l‘ll
go to bed again,” mlrched off up stairs and
put himself into his crib with u very
comical air of resignition to the inevitable.

This method of punishment makes the
culprit connect his misdemeanors with their
penalties; the pain of {t blow is soon for-
gotten, though its influence upon the. spirit
remains; but the child who misses some
anticipated pleasure because of naughtiuess,
does not soon forget. Some mothers think
it shows a vindictive spirit to do this;
others are too hurried or too soft-hearted to
carry out a deliberate system; but
since punishments are necessary, this
method commends itself to me at least as
being the best. My mother had very con—
scientious ideas about bringing up her
children; I have been the very unwilling
participant in many a solemn switching,

where she prayed God to forgive us and
make us better children. 1 cannot now re-
call a single offense for which I was pun-
ished by a whipping; but I do remember

 

ashes over red-hot coals. We may set it

very distinctly, the one punishment by de-

 

 

privation. I went to my grandfather’s
after school one night, against orders. and
was not allowed to go again for what seemed
an eternity before it ended. one long, lone-
ly week, and 1 am sure I never ran away
again. ButTutx.

~—- «ow——

RAINY DAY OUTFITS.

It seems almost, a waste of words to tell a
mother she ought to clothe her children
warmly, yet when [see the scores of little
people who trip past to school, very warm
as to cloak and hood and mittens. but very
bare of legs and scant: of skirts, lcztnnot
help feeling there are quite too many
mothers who care more for fashion llmn for
good sense. There are more Women surfer—
ing from the results of inadequate cloth-
ing while gaining an education. than the
doctors wot of. A little girl’s dresses are
altogether too short to afford protrction
to her lower limbs: and the needfnl warmth
must be secured not by more petticoats,
but by warmer drawers, since these afford
the real prottction. There are some chil-
dren whose skin is so delicate that the
it tnnei undergoriiietits which are an
absolute necessity in this climate. irritate it
beyond endurance. Make for such little
ones geirtiients of thin cozton cloth, to be
Worn next the skin, and under the warm,
thick woolen ones, which come. below the
ankle and over which the "sti_ickiiigs-also
of wool. are drawn. There should be two
skirts. both'of ll tune}; and it the. under one
be divided or cut like a wide and s nort pair
of drawers, greater warmth is: secured. The
knittrd or crocheted skirts are ni‘e for
children: they are warm and cling to the
person.

There is no leather thick enough to keep
the feet perfectly dry duringr a long walk in
rainy weather. Therefore provide rubbers,
high but of light weight, and insistthat they
Sil'lli be worn. Wet feet are the beginning
of coughs, colds and consumptions, a trio
avoided by observance of a. few simple laws
of health. Girls of twelve and fourteen are
usually mist impatient of control in such
matters; they care more for appearances;
and the foundation of life-long disease has
often been traced back to a. pair of wet
feet due to girlish obstinacy.

Better than umbrellas are the rubber
waterproofs or ”gossamers ” now so much
worn that one isthought necessary to every-
body’s outfit. They cover the clothing
completely; there are no damp skirts in
which the child must sit during school
hours. Not pretty, certainly, there’s not
much “dress” about them; the little girls

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rainy days; they skip through the streets
with the hoods drawn down to their eye-
brows and the skirts to their heels, and
emerge, dry as the proverbial bone, in the
schoolhouse.

Some foolish misses object to waterproofs
because they are. “ so ugly.” But those so
sensitive ought to recollect that it is gener-
ally esteemed an indication of poverty to
be out in rainy weather, unprovided with
proper rainy day garments. I always feel
sorry for the girl or woman whose dress and
wrap must take the drip from other peo—
ple’s umbrellas, and bear the damaging
contact with wet coats and gossamers in
the democratic street car. The incongruity
is as great as it one were to wear a water-
proof on asuuny day, when no one else
was out in “ storm clothes.” Mothers can
perhaps conquer such prejudices on their
girls’ part by presenting this view of the
matter. For the mothers who must go out
rainy days to market or on business bent,
it is advisable to remodel some dress into
what one may call her “rainy day dress;”
cut short enough to not only escape the
sidewalk but the further danger of “kick-
ing,” which seems to be the lifting the
dress on the heels in the act of walking.
With a pair of stout shoes and light rub—
bers, a gossamer and a good umbrella, it is
possible to thoroughly enjoy a rainy day
promenade. Bn U xnrr LLE.

Demon.
-——-———-¢o>————

“KISSED AND CARRIED AWA’.”

 

As 1 take up my pen this morning, I am
reminded of an incident which once occurr-
ed on the occasion of a visit to my old
home in Ohio after a long absence. At the
station a faded-looking, bony woman rush-
ed up, and seizing my hand said all in a
single breath, “How-de-do, don’t you re-
member me. I am Roxanna Clark, I am
married.” I‘his opens the way for me to an-
nounce that I am now married and living
in St. Louis, Mo.

I wanted and intended to have written
several letters from Chicago during my stay
there. I wanted to tell you how we moved
from our cunning little flat No. 29 over
into a beautiful seven room flat - with all
the modern conveniences, and went to
housekeeping on a more ample scale.
“Grims” and her sister were two stenog-
raphers in business for themselves, and
we joined interests and took this flat. We
were fortunate in renting two of our rooms
which helped to pay the rent and also gave
“tone” to the house by having a man in it.
A big mouthed literary old fellow with a
probosis like a Stovepipe and very short
legs, who repeatedly assured us that he
would not cause us any trouble or intrude,
upon us. We accepted him as about the best
we could do in the way of a man just at
that time. Our other roomer, a lady phy-
sician of the homeopathic school, we found
notwithstanding our apprehensions, a
most charming and sensible woman whom
we were glad to have with us. Thus with-
in a few weeks we were established secure-
ly as to the finances. We then concluded
to release Vashti from the burden of the
housekeeping and hire a housekeeper and
show the world that four stenographers
could manage a house in first-class style

 

and work away from home every day too.

Alas! “now vain are all things here below.”

She was a pretty little fat woman, this

housekeeper, and came from Michigan.

Sue had a pretty,chubby little girl four years
old. We came home the first evening in high
Spirits. I shall never forget how those spir-
its dropped as we took our places to eat the
dinner prepared for us. In place of our
well cooked food, daintily served, the table
was loaded with promiscuous dishes. A
plate of biscuits at least three inches thick,

occupied one corner of the table and tow-
ered to the ceiling, or very nearly. A tur-
een contained “-mashed” potatoes. “Oh,
my eyes and limbs.” There was enough for
twenty men, and they too looked like a
small mountain. Tomatoes slopped out of
another dish upon the table cloth, which
hung crooked. The meat, a huge round
steak, swam in grease on the platter. The
dessert, an apple pie, unbiked on the bot-

tom and grease on the top. Nothing was
seasoned, nothing was palatable. This
sort of cooking we endured for a week,
with a dead loss of $15 and many hours’
sleep counseling over the situation. Then
Vashtiresumel authority and I hired the
little woman to sew for me. This was a
better investment, but what a chapter I
could write on the incompetence of female
help! I have gained the title of “hustler”
myself and perhaps expect too much of
others. I know there are two sides to this
question of woman’s work or work for wo-
men. It is so vexatious, so harrassing and
yet so pitiful in some phases that I am al-
ways changing my position from one side
to the other. Sometimes my deepest sym-
pathies are with the employed and 1 take
up the cudgel ardently in their defense.
Then there comes some day, to my knowl-
edge or experience, such an array of utter
shiftlessness and madness that 1 want to
starve to death a thousand or two.

The wedding had been set for January
lst, but the Maj or decided that it was not
good zor a man to be alone in St. Louis any
longer. The tronsseau, which was not exten‘
sive or elaborate, was in readiness,the pros-
pective bride was eager to go, so with the
addition of a few flowers, the presence of a
few friends, the sanction of the law and
gospel as pronounced by our new Method-'
ist minister, Sabbath evening, November
27th, the old name was made \VBIGHT. A
diflident young man present stepped
up and wished me many happy re~
turns. Vashti wept abit on maiuma’s shoul-
der, genuine congratulations were offered
by friends \t ho were glad to see me retire
from the ranks of the breadwinners; fare-
wells both sad and sweet, the crunch of
frozen snow under the carriage wheels, a
good whiff of the bracing lake breeze, the
roar of the steam of a railroad train on
the Illinois Central, and the life in
Chicago was in the past.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. DAI'EODILLY.

[The HOUSEHOLD Editor, on her own
behalf and that- of the Ilousiziiom) people,
begs to extend congratulations to our val-
ed correspondence “Daifodillly,” and wish
her happiness and prosperity in the new
life. We hope "the Major's” gain will
not beour loss, but that we iliall hear
from her more frequently in the future. J

 

HOME TALKS.

1'0. XIV.

 

While I am getting the pantry in order,
Iletty, you can throw all the beds open.
so they will be airing, and then we will do
the chamber work together. Take all the
covers olf in order and lay them over a
chair, open the blinds so the air can cir-
culate well, and shake up the beds some.
We will make my bed first, for that was
taken apart after I dressed. While the
most of people like a soft bed, I want just
the reverse; no matter how hard it suits me.
This wool mattress has grown softer from
use, it was packed hard and solid when I
bought it, we will turn it over. A good
spring bed and a mattress is one of the
cleanest and easiest made beds in the
world—now this thin comfort over—then
the sheet, tuck this in nicely all around.
This is too wide sheeting altogether, it
nearly touches the floor on both sides, and
my bed is wide too. Ithink this is seventy-
two inches; the upper sheet and comforter
tuck in together, then the spread, now the
sheet Shams: stand the pillows up on end
against the head of the bed, a little slanting,
then the shame. I am a little old-fashioned
about my bed. When I get the bolster
done I shall change my tactics a little.

Now for the next room; here is a straw
tick and feather bed; lay ed the feather
tick, we will stir the straw thoroughly by
taking hold of the tick each side and
giving it a shake, first at the head then the
foot, this throws all the straw out of place,
and it is not in hummocks. So many beds
are like a trench in the middle, or higher at
the foot than at the head, so you are either
all rolling together or tumbling out of bed
entirely, or your head too low and feet too
high. Turn over the feather bed, now pat
it until it is as flat as a mattress, smooth it
all off, put on the sheets and covers as be-
fore. Here is a husk mattress with a cot—
ton batting mattress; this makes a clean
bed, no husk or straw scattering from it.
Your bed next, This is a curled hair mat-
tress; this is made right on the springs, a
great clumsy, unhandy thing; these straps
at each corner are to lift it with. It
was considered quite an elephant, when
your grandfather bought it, and I certainly
assented that it was when I tried to lift one
end alone the first time.

There have been improvements in beds
as well as everything else. [saw a rather
complicated affair the other day at the
furniture store. It was a bedstead, wash-
stand and dressing bureau, all combined,
in one piece. It was intended for light
housekeeping, and when inclosed was a
handsome bureau, a full length glass, and
the drawers at one side, and under it. When
wanted to make up the bed, it was turned
around, square, and a spring let down the
bed from the back; the wash stand pulled
out from under. It was seventy dollars,
but looked to be very substantial. I see
you are thorough and orderly about your
washstand, keeping the pitcher and bowl
washed out clean; the slop pail you have
taken excellent care of, the blue paint has
not changed at all. How pretty this Queen
Anne style is. Now I am going to look
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crowd your dresses on one hook or to hang
some heavy garment over them; it will
crush and wrinkle a dress ten times more
than wearing it. Do not turn your skirts
wrong side out when you hang them up,
drapery gets so mussed if you do. Your
CIOSet is in quite good order, but aside from
keeping it so, every few weeks take all the
boxes off the shelves. dust them, look the
contents over, and take down all the cloth-
ing, brush down the corners and wipe the
carpet of! with a damp cloth, then no dust
will rise. The bureau drawers do not look
quite as straight as they ought, looks as if
when you ran up in a hurry for a clean
collar and cuffs you turned everything bot-
tom side up. 1t is not so much putting
things to rights as keeping them so. I’ve
known women, and girls too for that mat-
ter, to have a general “ clarin’ out” every
new moon, and in the intervals trying to
get everything back again by the next
change, so they could do it again. They
would toss the tins into the cupboard,
round ones among the square ones, basins
in pans, spoons, knives and forks jumbled
togethez, letting the corners get round;
throw their dirt in the woodbox, and when
it got half full spend a whole forenoon
burning it up; have a dozen or more
rags for dishes, tins, lamps, staim, sink,
and when they got so they could not be told
apart, or in other words had lost their in‘
dividuality, they were either consigned to
the rag-bag or the flames. What’s “bred
in the bone will come out in the flesh,” but
I do not care how slack and slovenly a habit
one may have it can be uprooted by steady
and persistent effort. It does not call for
an occasional good resolve, it wants a steady
warfare waged against it. Many girls are
careless about their underclothes, buttons
off, holes torn out, holes in their stockings,
shoes slip-shod, dress skirt fringed out. It
is truly refreshing to see a neat, orderly
girl who knows how to do everything, and
when to do it, and there are lots of such
girls, Betty; girls who have a ready intuition
and quick perception and a good stock of
common sense.

Well, we must look out for dinner now;
it is nine o’clock exactly. Build up a good
fire and set on the dinner pot; fill it half
full of water and get that ham to boil.
There is enough of it for dinner and to
slice cold for supper and mince the rest to
put on toast for breakfast; put in a teacup
of vinegar and half a dozen allspice and
For the vegetables get carrots to
fry, a head of cabbage, sweet potatoes,
stewed tomatoes and peach meringue. The
carrots boil in salted water until tender,
then slice them lengthwise and fry brown
in hot butter; the cabbage boil fifteen
minutes in salted water, then change the
water and boil until tender, after draining
mince fine, add two beaten eggs, pepper
and three tableSpoonfuls butter and three
of thick sweet cream, mix well, and bake
in a pudding dish until brown, serve hot.
Boil the sweet potatoes, and cook enough
to fry for breakfast, as they are Jerseys
they will be mealy. For the dessert, into
one quart of boiling milk stir three heaping
tablespoonfuls of corn starch, previously
moistened; add one tablespoonful of butter,
set away to cool, then add the yolks of

three eggs which have been beaten into one
-teacupful of sugar. Fill the pudding dish
half full of peaches pared and halved;
sprinkle with fine sugar, then pour in the
mixture, bake twenty minutes. then spread
over the three beaten whites—sweetened;
brown slightly, eat with sweetened cream.
The cabbage and pudding can be baked one
after the other and set aside. Pick a bas-
ket of peaches and grapes and arrange
them nicely, then set them in the lower part
of the refrigerator; there will be a lovely
bloom on them by dinner time. The ham
should be done by half past eleven—it is not
avery large piece—then peel the skin off
and trim the most of the fat off too, then
pepper it in spots all over and set away to
cool. It isn’t so good to come directly
from the kettle to the table.

BATTLE Cur-zen. EVANGELINE.

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STRAY PAGES.

The publisher of the Grass Lake News
sends us two pages of Miss Nelly Sawyer’s
essay on " Little Things,” published in the
HOUSEHOLD of the 2nd inst., which were
overlooked at the time of forwarding the
essay, but which are now printed because of
the good suggestions contained therein:

DJ the ladies know that sprinkling the
table with water before laying the ironing
cloth on it will keep the cloth in place, and
save considerable annoyance by not having
it slip off the opposite side of the table.

A teaspoonful of vinegar put in the syrup
for boiled frosting greatly improves it, and
does away with the danger of having it
grain.

A very good way to dispose of old calico
dresses is to take out the least worn
breadths, and make into kitchen aprons,
of which no housekeeper can have too
many.

A very nice way to mend a carpet that is
alittle the worse for wear, is to cut the
patch, so as to match as near as possible
the figure of the carpet, then make a paste
of flour and water and spread around the
edge of the piece; put in place and cook
thoroughly with moderately hot irons. This
makes a very durable patch and looks much
nicer than one stitched on. lflhad my
way I would repair brother‘s socks and
trousers in the same fashion.

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TI-IE \VET SHEET PACK.
Phoebe Parmelee, in the Kansas Farmer,
tells us how she would manage a wet sheet
pack for a patient suffering from typhoid
fever, a remedial agent much more bene-
ficial than the drugs so often given in the
treatment of this disease. First, the room
should be warmer than usual, and drafts of
air carefully excluded. Then she says:

“ Ihve ready a bed covered with blankets
or quilts spread out evenly, with a pillow
at the head and a hot-Water bottle or stone
or iron (heated) at the foot. When the
patient is ready, spread a wet sheet out
smoothly and quickly upon the blankets.
Let the patient lie in a comfortable posi-
tion, only his feet mast touch the warmed
surfaceat the foot; then quickly lay one-
half, then the other half of the sheet, lap~

 

ping each other over him. In the same

    

manner cover him with the blankets. I
often use three comfortables for the same
purpose, and then I sometimes throw others
—one or more-over the lapped ones. I
wring the sheet out of the hot water, be-
cause I cannot. see the necessity of shocking
the patient in the old way, namely, with
the cold wet sheet. A half hour or longer
in the pack will do the work of drugs. No!
lam mistaken; it will do a much better
work than a whole army of doctors and
their drugs.

“ This process is such an old story to me
that I wonder so many allow themselves to
come down with fever when so simple a
preventive is at hand. Often a patient drops
asleep from the soothing effects of this treat-
ment. In such cases let him sleep. When
taken ’from this pack, rub the surface
of the skin dry, even until there is a
warm glow over the body. Then when
he is safely tucked in bed or properly
clothed, let there be light and air.
Not a subdued light through a quilt
and curtain, as I have seen, nor a small
chink at the top of a window to let in a
mere excuSe for fresh air; but so long as
the patient is not in a draft. he need not be
stinted in this heaven-sent cure-all. I knew
of one family who aired the sick room
where lay two or‘ three patients with
typhoid fever, through the living room
where other members of the family spent
most of the time. If the sick ones were
any better off, the well ones certainly were
not. The use of carbolic acid, copperas, or
chloride of lime set in the sick room is
necessary as adisinfectant.”

HH—

A NEW YEAR’S GREETING.

 

()ld friends, old songs, old places, old
years, do other words wake memories more
deep and tender? Ah those words! I do not
know whether any one else feels like my-
self, but it seems a dreadful thing to me to
let the years slip by and all unimproved;
though each year brings us something new
and beautiful, yet it takes away that which
were sweet to keep. Old ’87 is dead,and we
knowthere has been both joy and sorrow.
sunshine and shadow, and we know that
“Acother leaf in life's large book is read, and
folde by;

Another message from this world sent to eter-
nity'

Another bookis written, sealed and handed up
to Heaven,

Another like it ne‘er will be to struggling mor-
als given.

Another feather from the wing of passing time

is torn,
Another and adeepcr rut upon life’s road is

worn ,

Another year has vanished with its weight of
weal an woe,

Another year has fiittcd to the land of long ago."

As this is the first time 1 have written to
the HOI‘SEH‘OLD since the New Year show-
ed us his fresh, clean, bright face, I should
like to give its readers a greeting to carry
with them through the rest of the year. I
have been looking back upon the past
year, upon the good resolutions made when
the page was turned fair and clear to my
view, and like a child who has made a bad
copy, I would gladly erase all that is blurr-
ed and inky if it were in my power to do
so. I stir the fire, and as the flames dance
and flicker on the wall. Hope whispers “Try
again.” So let us one and all make new

 

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how we have kept'them, that when the ins
day comes we need not say the old year
has been a poor friend to us, or that we
have made poor use of it.

Are we spinners of good in the life web, say?
Do we furnish the weaver a thread each day?
It were better. 0, my friend, to spin

A beautiful thread than a thread of sin.

OLD HUNDRED.
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A HOME-MADE CARPET.

 

A correspondent of the Indiana Farmer
says:

“A carpet which was made last fall, and
which looks really very pretty on the floor
is made as follows: Cotton rags were out
fine and dyed brown and bright cherry.
The chain was dyed the same colors. The
carpet was then woven in checks about
four inches square.

. “To color the rags brown I used logwood

mixed with a little Diamond dye. It made
a brown that harmonized beautifully With
the bright cherry red. The recipe for dye-
ing red was obtained from a. professional
Swiss dyer. l‘he carpet has been on the
floor for several months in the strong sun-
light and the colors are as bright as when
it was first tacked down.

“Here is the recepe for ten pounds of
rags: Take two pounds of ground sumac,
pour on it suflieient warm water to entirely
cover the rags when pressed in the vessel.“
Let the rags stand in this over night; then
wring out as dry as you can. Dissolve
four ounces of tin crystals in cold water
enough to cover the rags; then put them
in and let them remain for fifteen or twen—
ty minutes; then wring out and rinse
through two waters. Dissolve one and
one-half ounces of Fusclline in boiling
water, then add a sufliciency of
warm water to cover rags. Have it milk-
Warm when you put in the rags. And let
them remain ill this until dark enougl.
Stir while in the color. if not dark enough
add more dye.”

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TnnoUGlr a mistake of the binder's, the
Editor finds herself withouta file of the
HOUSEHOLD for 1886. Any lady having a
complete file, in good order, no numbers
missing, bound or unbound—the latter pre-
ferred, who is willing to sell it, may ad-
dress the HoUsnnoLl) Editor of the .MICIII-
GAN FARMER, naming the prize she will
take for it.

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THOMAS CLOVEllliALE, of Fostoria,asks:
“Can 1 get any information through the
HOUSEHOLD as to which is the best heater
fora dwemng—house, simplicity 22d econ~
omy considered, a hot air furnace or a hot
water heater. Any information Will be
gladly received.”

 

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HERE is a question for some of our prac-
tical housekeepers to answer: Which pays
best, to make butter or sell cream? If some
of those who have had experience will kind-
ly answer they will confer a favor upon an
inquirer.

W-

Now is the time to look over your file of
the HOUSEHOLD for 1887 if you mean to
bind them, and see what copies, if any, are
missing. We can supply back numbers

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

A LADY who has frequently contributed
recipes to the HOUSEHOLD recently set be-
fore some guests a dish of delicious crab-
apple jelly of rather unusual flavor. This
she accounted for by saying that when she
canned strawberries in July she saved a can
of the juice which she had in great abun.
dance, and when she made up her “ crabs,”
she added this and proceeded as usual. She
is pleased with the result and will pursue
the same plan next year. Raspberry juice
would do as well as strawberry.

MRS. EMMA P. EWING says that stufling
for a turkey that is to be roasted, should be
soaked in neither cold or boiling water. It
ought to have no water whatever used about
it, but should be prepared in the following
manner: tub to crumbs a loaf of stale
bread from which the crust has been pared
or removed. Season sharply with salt and
pepper, and moisten, until sufficiently rich,

with melted butter. This will make
a light, dry, digestible stutiing, ac-
ceptable to a nlayorlty of tastes.
But oysters, celery, sage, thyme,

basil, or other flavoring, if desired, can be
added with the salt and pepper. It“ the
bread crumbs are wet with either hot or cold
water the stutiing will be quite heavy and
“soggy.”

A IIOMliJlAlll-l table, bracket, or book—
shelves may be prettily ornamented, at the
expense of some trouble, in the following
manner: If the article has been painted or
varnished, it must be scrubbed with soap
and a brush till the paint and varnish are
removed. Then sandpaper till it is as
smooth as you can get it. Put half a pint
of turpentine into a tin can and break up a
piece ot'aSphaltum gum as fine as you can
make it and put into the turpentine. Set it
where it will keep warm, but not get hot;
let it stand four days, stirring it frequently,
and it is ready to use. Give the article
three coats of this, at intervals of an hour,
or long enough for it to dry. Arrange some
tine, small pressed ferns tastefully, a clus-
ter on the center of the table, or on the
sides of the bookcase, and attach them with
mucilage; when dry and firm, gild the terns
with gold paint applied carefully with a
camels’ hair brush. 'l‘he tinest, most deli-
cate ferns give most beautiful results.
When the ferns are dry,. give a coat of
cOpal varnish, and you have something you
can afford to be proud of.

A ' collnnsroxnnxr of the Indiana.
Farmer says: Lard will always keep sweet
if it is cooked until it is free from water,
which can be known by the foam disappear-
ing from it, or nearly so, when it has been
cooked enough. But the fear of scorching
deters many from more than half cooking
their lard, and this is more often the case
now than formerly, as the lard presses take

he place of the cooking that Was required a
ew years ago. It is the easiest and simplest
matter in the world to prevent lard from be-
coming too hot, if you will keep out a small
quantity of the lard, when placed in the
kettle, and add it when you see any indica—

ten or fifteen minutes of the cooking. It is

a very simple thing to add a little cold ‘or
uncooked lard to the burning kettle of lard,
but thousands of pounds have been ruined
while the operator stood in awe before it,
not knowing what to do. The writer re-
members an experience of cooling down a
kettle by setting it in the snow and watch-
ing it for an hour or two, when it could have
been done in a minute, and. no unpleasant
flavor left on the lard. ’

To SET the black in home-colored goods
so it will not smut, says an exchange, soak
the colored gooos or wool over night in
sweet milk, ring it out and dry, then rinse
well through water, and the color will be
as fast as it can be.

A SPECIFIC for whooping cough is a tea
made out of the dried blossoms of the red
clover. They should be dried in the shade.
Take a handful and steep ill a pint of
water, and drink a wineglassful three times _
a day.

Tun presence of sewer gas in a room may
be detected as follows: Sat-urate unglazed
paper with a solution of one Troy ounce of
pure acetate of lead in eight fluid ounces of
rain water; let it partially dry, then expose
in the room suspected of containing sewer
gas. The presence of this gas in any con-
siderable quantity soon blackens the test
paper.

To make oiled papers pour a little sweet
oil into a shallow dish, and with a small
brush, dipped in the oil, paint one side only
of a sheet of the paper intended to be used
in wrapping candy. Lay it between unoiled
sheets of the same paper and let it remain
several hours before using. The oil will not
come off upon the hands, yet the candy will
not stick to the paper if it is properly pre-

pared .
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Contributed Recipes.

 

Clxnluiox Burning—Take a piece of light.
risen bread dough, weighing about two
pounds, and into it work a quarter of a poun-rll
of butter. half a pint of warm sweet milk and
three well-beaten eggs, and half a teaspoonfn;
of soda, dissolved. Let it stand till lie ht, after
moulding it into a loaf. Make the cinnamon
paste by working one cup of brown sugar
and three heaping tablespoonfuls of powder-
ed cinnamon to a stiff paste with butter.
Make cuts in the loaf and fill in this paste,
closing thtul again to inclose it. Bake in a
moderate oven. Children like this.

PUREE or Pi)‘1‘.\TUES.-— ’are, boil and mash
three large potatoes; heat into them two
tablespoonluls of butter, salt. and add, grad-
ually, a pint of boiling milk. Spread this on
a hot dish, and lay on it slices of cold roast
beef. Put one tablespoonful of gravy on
each slice and set the dish in a hot oven for
five minutes. Nice for a breakfast dish.

MINCED MUTTON.-—Cut cold mutton very
fine: melt one ounce of butter in a frying-
pan, out a slice of onion into the butter, and
fry it, then remove; add the meat, salt and.
pepper, and enough hot water to moisten it:
when thoroughly heated dip the mince on
slices of buttered toast, and if liked, lay a
poached egg on each piece, on top of the
mince. T. M.

 

 

now, but may not be able to do so later.

tions of its becoming too hot during the last

DETROIT.