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DETROIT, JUNE 83, 1888.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

JUNE DAYS.

 

0h, sweet and rare are days of ‘June.

With Nature‘s voices all atune!

The beauty here of Summer find

With Sp ing’s fresh sweetness all combined.

Old Winter long time held his way

With chilling breath and deathlike sway:

But April came, in me‘ting mood,

From stern embrace of March she wooed
The ice-fette‘ed springtime.

Next, May. the month of promise, came,

And set the evening skies aflame:

Bright tints of green she softly spread

O'er field below and bough o’erhcad,

With flower-decked garment‘s hem did glide

So lightly by the river’s side:

Through woodland dim and o'er the hill;
And brightened all her way.

These 53ft and balmy airs so long

Had been foretold by wild birds” song.

As early dawn amid their brood,

As flowerets late they sweetly wooed:

Till June with smiling face serene

And crowned with roses now is seen,

She adds to Flora’s treasures still,

The choicest fruits, to e’en fulfill
The promises of May.

The perfect days that now come on

Are laden from the early dawn,

With richest t‘rag‘anee from the ilowers:

And sweetest song from happy bowers,

Through bright and glowing n ‘on of peace,

‘To where the daylight finds release;

While glorious pageantry awaits

The faithful sun’s last gleam, thrcugh gates
Of purple and of gold.

Paw Paw. MERI‘IE.

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THE YOUNG FOLKS.

“ The world belongs to the young,”
seems the maxim by which a good many
American mothers regulate their families.
Did you ever notice, in the homes you fre-
quent, how everything seems to gravitate
round the cradle? From the time the first
baby utters its teeble protest against the
conditions of its new existence, until the
last comer is given in marriage, the children,
their concerns, their interests, their wishes,
seem to dominate the home. You hear
mothers excusing themselves for their social
shortcomings, for their neglect of their
privileges, for selfish absorption in their
own families: by the frank statement that
they “only live for the children,” as if
they owed no duties to the world at large,
their only obligation being to the inmates of
their own homes, or the members of their
own families. Mothers go shabby that their
children may be the more richly dressed,
and make a better appearance before the
world, forgetting that the contrast between
their own plain, well-worn raiment and the
girls’ unsuitable finery—for finery thus ob-

to the self-sacrifice of the one and the
thoughtless selfishness of the other—a sel-
fishness for which the girls are hardly ac-
countable since it has been part of their
home education. 1 have known instances
where a whole family has been incom-
moded to serve the convenience of one, and
that one the youngest of its members, living
in a small, badly arranged house that the
daughter might be nearer her school, as if
Missy might not better walk an extra half
mile daily rather than her brother’s bed-
room be a six by nine closet, and the family
eat in a dingy basement because there was
no other available dining-room.

How many of you hard working parents
who will read these words, are denying
yourselves all but the bare necessaries of
life, that you may save money to give your
sons “a start?” Many men, remembering
their own early trials, have said: “ I began
life for myself without a. shilling, but 1
mean my boys shall begin well,” forgetting
that the poverty which made exertion an
absolute necessity, deveIOped character, and
the strength, persistence and determination
without which no young man can expect
to succeed. They forget the truth in the
old darkey’s saying: “Many a nice corn-
stalk winds up wid a nubbin in the fall.”
It is a mistaken kindness which does too
much to make life easy and pleasant for
young folks. What would be thought of
the mother who put her year old child in a
luxurious cradle and kept it there, denying
it liberty to use its feet, and making it a
helpless cripple? And do we not cripple
character in the same way, sometimes?
Better than broad acres and a bank account
is a sturdy self-reliance, good habits, a plain
practical ed uca ion, and a firm belief that
labor is honorable unto all men and all
women. The best legacy for the children
is just a preparation for their life-work,
which will enable them to perform their
part in their appointed place. What wise
men think of riches and their influence
upon the young is illustrated by the words
of Hon. Benjamin Brewster: “ Sometimes
I am in favor of having the amount of
money a man may bequeath to his sons
limited bylaw. Twenty thousand dollars

honors and fame. It is a sad sight to see a
ten cent young man trying to live up to
the responsibilities of a $10,000 fortune.

In any family where the children's pro-
jects, plans, wants and wishes are put first,
as something to be gratified if within the
bounds of possibility. one of two things
must sooner or later occur. Either the
children will “ run the house,” the parents
becoming only ostensible “figure-heads;”
or a conflict ensues, in which the young
people, if defeated, submit with many a
bitter thought and much of outward com-
plaint, or leave home in a fit of ill-temper,
believing themselves abused because their
preferences are no longer the statutes of
the domestic government.

I am pleased, often, at the way in which
an acquaintance of mine manages her
family of seven children. She is em-
phatically the mistress of the house. Even
the eighteen year old young lady who
somewhat domineers over her younger
brothers and sisters by virtue of her
seniority, acknowledges this, and conforms
as a matter of course to the family routine.
The hours for meals are fixed and regular;
all know them, and are on hand; no one is
kept waiting for delinquents, who when
they come, must take without protest the
portion which has been put upona plate
and set in the warmer for them. No
grumbling about the food is allowed. "If
you do not like it, leave it: you are not
obliged to eat it.” Individual preferences
are consulted to a certain degree; the boy
who wants three lumps of sugar in his
coffee gets them, but he must not complain
that the coffee is too weak, or “cloudy.”
And I confess it is a good deal more
pleasant to sit at the table where the deeds
of the cook are accapted as her best, and the
mistress does the criticising or the fault-
finding in the kitchen, than where the
dinner hour is marred by comments such as:
“ This steak is so tough I can’t eat it.”
“This pie is not sweet enough.” “Sour
bread again.” For boys at least, such con-
trol is excellent as preparatory for their
domestic life in homes of their own, for
the criticisms young husbands make upon
their wives’ failures in cooking are the

 

is an ample inheritance; all above that sum
should escheat to the State.” There is a
lesson for parents in the fact that whereas
the sons of rich men rarely amount to the
proverbial “row of pins,” their special
apitude being the facility with which they
can spend the money their fathers earned
with such toilsome economy, the sons of.
poor men, with nothing but brains and

 

mind is always unsuitable—bears witness

  

hands, have amassed fortunes and won

beginnings of marital dissensions in a great
many instances.

This sensible mother goes as well dressed
as her young lady daughter, who wears
the youtiful, girlish-leoking flannels and
camelettes, and hasn’t a silk dress to her
name. Nor does the young lady represent

her mother in society; Madame Mere goes
to receptions and lunches, and chaperones
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THE HO USEHOLD.

 

mademoiselle is admitted into a social

circle and recognized among people of?

intending, through the mere fact that her
mother has retained her position, and is
able to make entre for her. A woman is
soon forgotten, socially, if she drops out of
her place; and she often feels slighted and
afironttd because. she is thus forgotten,
when she wishes to introduce her daughters
into society. She repeats the mistake she
made, when, in the infancy of her children,
she resigned all else to tend to their per-
sonal needs, for the mother’s relationship
to her children when they are young and
when they are cbming into maturity, differs
in degree and kind. '

There is yet another view of the case:
Let the girl who has all her life been ac-
customed to be the central figure in the
family, marry a young man similarly
brought up, and the result is generally an
“irrepressible conflict” betWeen two un-
trained, selfish natures, neither accustomed
to surrender. It takes a good deal of
genuine love to tide over the perilous time
of adjusting two untrained wills of the “ I
won’t” and “I will” order. So that
parents may be truly said to be preparing
trouble for both themselves and their
children when they give predominance to
what may be called the “imperativelyin-
judicious” demands of young masters
and misses. Not that their desires should
never count, nor their wishes go ungratified,
nor yet undue repression and severity be
practiced, only that "living for the chil-
dren ” should not mean giving up to them
the real government of the home, barring
the privilege of doing its hard work and
paying its expenses. BEATRIX.

—_—...._____

MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS—CAN-
NING STRAWBERRIES.

 

E. C.’s conundrum in the HOUSEHOLD of
March 26th, looks to me very easy of Solu-
tion. Show me the girl who neither
wishes or expects to marry or have a home
of her home, and it would seem like a
waste of time learning housekeeping, look-
ing from one point of view; from another
point it is a very selfish daughter who will
let the mother slave herself to death in the
kitchen, while she sits in the big rocker
with a book, or in the parlor drumming
uselessly on the piano or organ, or making
calls, or walking or riding. The mothers
are often more to blame than the daughters;
they are so anxious to give them advantages
which they did not enjoy; they wish to see
their daughters ladies.

Children always waited upon and never
obliged to do what they do not like, become
selfish and disagreeable, they spoil the com-
fort of every one with whom they are as-
sociated, and take from them services for
which they render no equivalent. A large
part of the mother’s services are given for
love’s sake, but very many times she is
obliged to do vchat she does not like to do,
and is not able physically to do. The sel-
fish habit grows and grows until like the
apes tree it is harmful and disagreeable in
all the relations of life.

The mother who makes a slave of herself
to make a lady of her daughter, can always
occupy that position'in her daughter’s feel-

ings.’ The daughter will grow more and
more ashmed of her mother’s coarse red
hands and face, with hair and clothes to
correspond. She has not time to take any
pains with herself. While the daughter is
gaining book knowledgejhe mother, having
no time to read, has gone backwards; then
the daughter is as much ashamed when
she opens her mouth as of her looks. Of
course I have refeence to those mothers
who are not able to hire their work done,
but the principle is the same in all ranks.

E. C. says the daughter may be fitting
herself for a position commanding a high
salary; then she can hire a g‘rl to help her
mother. That is one of the things that
sound well in theory, but unfortunately is
seldom seen or heard of in practice. The
daughter who has always considered her
own needs and feelings first, will not forget
it when she gets older. “As the twig is
bent the tree is inclined.”

Mothers, keep beside your daughters!
One of the first and best lessons to teach
the children is to consider other people’s
rights as well as their own; they are always
wanting mother’s help, make them un-
derstand they should help what they can;
he little they do will give you that much
time for your own benefit, beside teaching
them to be useful. A little reading of the
right kind, association with cultured peo-
ple, and keen observation, will keep you
abreast with the times, and your daughter
will be proud of you. Young ladv, if God
had thought it best for you to have no labors
of this kind, or household cares, he would
not have given you to poor people! Mrs. A.
D. T. Whitney says: “ Where’er God put
and keepeth thee, He hath no other thing
for thee to do.” Every position in life has its
duties, anl we have no right to shirk our
work on. to some one else’s hands; for God
gives every one their own work, and that is
all they can do and do well.

There are two things which I consider in-
dispensable in the kitchen, which 1 have not
seen mentioned in the HOUSEHOLD; one
is a tooth brush to brush the grater... You
all know how the lemon rind sticks to the
grater; a little brush puts it where you
want it, a thorough brushing cleans the
grater ready to put away without wetting;
it is also useful to clean the milk strainer;
with ever so good washing the very fine
strainers get clogged occasionally. (This
too h brush is not used to clean the teeth
with.) The other article is a mop dishcloth;
when the water is very hot it saves the
hands and finger nails, and is good to wash
out the style of pitchers that has been in use
the last few years, and also fruit cans; there
are many times and places where they are
indispensable.

I do not know but I had better send the
HOUSEHOLD my method of canning straw-
berries, no one thrt [know of ever goes
back to the old way of cooking them after
they have tried my way. I wash them.
then hull them (the same day they are
picked) then cover them thickly with
granulated sugar. Taking a large spoon,
I lift the berries from the bottom, letting
the sugar fall all through and over them. I
do not weigh the sugar, but put on enough
so every berry has all that will stick to it

 

and Some beside, then set down cellar

where they will keep cool and stand until
the next morning. Then I turn all the
juice off into the pan I am going to cook
them in; boil the juice from twenty to thirty
minutes, then add the berries, let them boi1
just so I am sure each berry is boiling hot
clear through, then can immediately. If
the fruit is cooked just enough it will rise a
solid mass in the top of the can, as long as
it stays there it is a sure sign there is no air
there. When you open one of these cans
the aroma from the berries can be plainly
smelled all through the room. By this way
of canning every berry is whole, the juice
is perfectly clear, and looks go a great
ways in making things taste good.

There seems to be another M. E. H. in
the band of contributors; had her place of
residence been given we should each keep
our own individuality.

ALBION. M. E. H.

w—

MODERN CONVERSATION.

 

[Paper read before the Manchester Farmers
Club, by Miss Annette M. Englisn.]

Modern conversation is pro-eminently
American, for we as a nation are proverbial
for the startling rapidity with which we
rush through even the gravest of subjects,
and then dash into the next one that is
brought forward. Our fathers treated
every subject with more consideration, be—
cause their list of topics was much less ex-
tensive than is ours to-day. They did not
roam the entire realm of science, known and
unknown, nor seek to fathom the mystic
study of politics, not only that pertaining
to our own country, which is engrossing
enough evidently from the attention it re-
ceives, beside that of other governments as
well. The cable, telegraphic and telephonic
dispatches did not then convey all possible
intelligence as they do now. They did not
receive the daily newspaper moist from the
press and crammed with a heterogeneous
mass of mattd gathered from every region-
on the globe, and after its perusal forget it
all before the next day’s edition was afloat.

The tendency toward frivolity in general
conversation is no doubt chargeable upon
our variety of diversions, for when these
exist in such profusion the mind very
naturally wanders, in turn, from one to-
another, as the butterfly Hits from one bril-
liant blossom to another in diligent search
for some sweeter flower.

Among gatherings of young people,
popular amusements consisting of games.
music, etc., secure the most prominent
place, interspersed occasionally with con—
versation, or more properly, chitchat. I do
not know but this is as well when we con-
sider how often we hear the Queen’s or
Dean’s English perverted, and our Anglo-
Saxon language desecrated in its use, and
when we think how many foreign words
bordering upon the slang, noticeably from.
the Spanish, have gradually crept into
prominenze.

I was reading not long ago an interest-
ing conversation supposed to have taken
place between two society people. I do
not know of either Howells or James hav-
ing as yet incorporated it into any of their
recent works however. The place is a
modern parlor, and the dialogue takes place

 

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person to second person: “ I’m so glad you
have come.” Second person in reply, “I’m
glad you are glad I'm here.” First person
again. " 1 am glad you are glad I am glad
you are here.” Perhaps this may seem to
be, and it may have been just slightly ex-
aggerated, but you andI will not have to
search our memory to any great extent to
recall scraps we have heard that were
uttered in fully as exalted a strain.
Absorption of ideas in one line ofthought
often renders a person uninteresdng or
prosaic, though usually those whom we
term specialists prove wonderfully instruc-
tive conversationalists if they be in a mood
to impart information, and we possess an
attraction toward their particuar hobby.

It has been said that no one could stand
under the shelter of a door-way, during a
storm, with Edmund Burke, without his
giving them a thought of value. And he,
in turn, said he never met a person from
whom he could not glean some new idea or
learn something of benefit to himself.
Still every one has an instinctive dread of
being thought pedantic, and that inclines us
to err in the opposite extreme.

Several years ago two friends were dining
at our home, and' one of them had just
finished the classical course of study. He
was dignified and scholarly, and was en-
gaged in elucidating an intricate point con-
nected with English history, and we were
much interested with his views thereupon,
when the other gentleman, who had been
discussing a niece of one of my mother’s
pies, found an opportunity to inquire, “ Is
this this year’s pie plant?” I believe the
older ones did not smile, but the younger
members of the company with difficulty
subdued their feelings. 1 now understands
I think, the fact of each of those guests rep-
resenting a remarkable, but still an appar-
ent extreme. Nearly always the practical
overrules the poetic in human nature.

Thus we find four s‘yles of conversation
to be avoided: The frivolous, the prosaic,
the pedantic and the fault-finding; the lat-
ter is too common for we meet with it way
day, we might say almost every hour. One
instance of this always comes to my mind if
I feel inclined to think the weather is not
just as I should like it. to be; you know that
is the first subject that ever engages the at-
tention or the remarks of new acquaint-
ances.

Once we had as near neighbors ayoung
couple who were industrious and frugal,
and they might have been happy; for they
had a nice home with pleasant surround-
ings, but they did not seem so. Never a
harvest season drew near but we heard our
neighbor complaining that as the wheat
headed, the heads were not filling, but
blighting, or if they did till the grain weevil
was destroying the kernels; and his wife
was always saying that the little fruit the
birds left them was so poor it could not be
used, and as for her cabbages, the millers
were so bad it hardly paid to try to cultivate
them. How glad I felt after hearing them
talk that they, the world’s burden-bearers
who like ancient Atlas supported the uni-
verse upon their shoulders, did not goVern
it; but that ahigher Power, an omnipotent
Arm, governed and controlled even the most

existed in Pharaoh’s day still sent the years
of scarcity and those of plenty and increase.

We are much like the travelers upon the
sand blown-desert, who meet upon it oases
where the grass grows green, where palm
trees extend their cooling fronds over the
wells of refreshing water; so we pause now
and then to exchange cordial greeting ere we
take up once more the toil of life. It is for
so short a time, this diverting recreation,
that we seem like the ship upon the ocean,
as Longfellow writes of it:

“ Shipsthat pass in the night and sperk each

other in paying.

Only a signal given and a distant voice in the
d rkneSs;

So on the coeau'of life we pass and speak
to each other,

Only a 100 and a voice, then darkness again
and silenee.”

We may not possess the rare ability
which drew a charmed circle about Mes-
dames Recamier and DeStael, to listen to
their intelligent, interesting conversation
upon a thousand themes; but we can speak
with candor and thoughtfulness, scorning
every idle word, thus conveying to the
lstener in plain, well chosen language an
impression that we value converse for its
worth in the exchange of ideas, not mere
words. The true beauty of conversation is
sinct rity, and while we reserve our highest,
best expressions of thought and feeling for
the inmates of our own homes, we should
never give our voices liberty with gossip nor
depreciate in any way that wondrous gift of
larg rage -the cherished medium of commu-
nication between fr.end and friend.

-————Q.-.———_

THE NEW HOUSE.

 

Under the head of “Some Things to be
Thr ught of in Building a House,” arper’s
Buzur calls attention to a few points
usually overlooked, but upon which nota
little of the comfort of house-dwellers de-
pends. In the first place, provide plenty of
room. A house put up on a city lot is
often necessarily restricted in space; in the
country houses are too often built as if the
land they occupy had to be bought by the
inch.

Narrow doors, especially narrow front
doors, are to be avoided. They make a.
house look stingy, and are inconvenient in
the extreme. No outside door should be less
than four and a half feet wide, which gives
space for the double doors now universally
seen. No single door should be less than
three feet ten inches wide, as will be found
when the am mpt is made to carry furniture
through it; and the stairs, if a fine effect is
desired, Should be set well back from the
front door. Do not build a. house without a
hall; and do not make it merely a narrow
entry. With proper treatment it can be
made a very handsome feature; it is, in ef-
fect, the key of the house, in that it gives
tone to the whole. Handsome parlors are
dwarfed by asmall, cramped hall.

Windows are apt to be made too small.
Three feet four inches is the smallest size
allowable; and then get iarge panes of glass
if possible, one pane each for upper and
lower sashes. Plate glass is expensive, but
o. c race it rarely break%, is after all econom-
ical. Hive the sashes hung with weights
that they maybe raised and lowered without

 

minute affairs; that the same God who

the trouble of a support. Do not have the

   

bottom of the window more than twenty-
two inches from the floor, if you wish them
a convenient height to sit by. Do not ar-
range the windows with a view to the ap-
pearance of the outside of the house solely.
Plan the windows and doors with reference
to the furnishings of the room, so that the
piano will not have to back up against a
window, or be placed against an outer wall.
In the bedrooms, arrange the space so the
bed need not be placed facing a window; the
light w-rkens the sleeper, and in the case
of an invalid, is often very disagreeable
and annoying. if there are two windows.
have the space between them sufficient so
the head of the bed can be placed there; it
but one window, arrange to have six or
seven feet at one side for the head of the
bed. Or, if the bed is to be placed in an
alcove, the space between the windows is
excellent for the dressing bureau or mirror.
as the light from the window falls full on
the person using it.

The doors should be hung so as not to in-
terfere with each other in opening or shut-
ting. Most of us know how unpleasant it
is to open one door “slam” against an-
other.

Have plenty of closets. Have them fitted
with drawers and shelves, and hooks; a
dozen of the latter can be bought for fif-
teen cents. Have the bar on which the
hooks are put, at a convenient distance
from the floor, so garments can be hung
up and taken down without exertion. A
house in this city has the hooks in its closets
placed so high that the inmates—though
they are all fairly tall, must get a. chair, or

.keep a box on each, to enable them to use

the hooks.

Don’t put: all your floor space into hand-
some parlors and have contracted kitchen
and seven by nine bedrooms in conse-
quence. The house in which I am living at
present has very fine parlors, requiring over
100 yards of Brnssds carpet to cover them:
but there is no dining-room, and meals
must either be served in the kitchen, or the
back parlor, whose legitimate use is a. sit-
ting-room, must be converted into a dining-
room. A more judicious division of space
would have spo._ d the grand reception
rooms for show, but made the every day
home life of the family much more com.
fortable and cosy.

I noticed the other day an item stating
that there were but 17 architects in the
United States who were women. And yet
the profession seems to me one better
adapted to women than some in which
many more have engaged. Does it not
seem as if it were eminently proper women
should plan artistic and well designed
homes for other women? Who can under-
stand so well the needs of the family and
arrange the kitchen and pantries and other
rooms in a house with such reference to the
convenient performance of work, as a
woman who has performed those duties, or
knows how easy it is to make them doubly
laborious through lack of convenient ar-
rangement? It requires careful study and
planning to so model a house as to utilize
its space to the best advantage, and
simplify and save work. The location
of every cupboard, of the stove, the sink,

 

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4: THE HOUSEHOLD.

ought all to be matters of thought, and ar-
ranged in the house plan, not left to chance.
The cellar stairs ought not to be tucked in
a corner where they must be steep and nar-
row, and more or less dangerous to the
elderly woman; if there is no dumb waiter
(which is a great labor-saving contrivance)
the woman mustclimb these stairs from two
to shalt-dozen times daily. and generally
with her hands full. M rke them wide
enough to afford a firm foothold, and with
slant enough so the housekeeper does not
feel as if she were ascending a ladder; and
it is well to add ahand-rail. BEATRIX.

____—.w———-—-

A SUFFRAGE CONVENTION.

Don’t be alarmed, sisters! A little
politics now and then will not harm the
Housnnorn. What are politics? Policies
by which the government of a nation or
state is guided.

We as individuals, as families, as com-
mnnities, as social centers, are part and par-
cel of one of the world’s greatest, mos
rapidly growing commonwealths, its politics
building up a government which claims to
be for, of and by the people; although in
framing and defining those policies one-
half, and a not at all unimportant half of
those subject to the laws, have no voice in
deciding either upon the justice or injustice.
the treachery or truthfulness of any law
which the politics of the other half may see
fit toframe for their government. No, all
they have to do, is to obey, pay, in short
“toe the mark” and keep their mouths
shut

When I was asked last spring if i would
go to the. polling place in this ward and”
vote for school trustee, I said “No! When
i can go to the polls and vote like an in-
telligent, honest citizen, having the best in-
terest of all concerned at heart, when I
can go and vote independently, vote for any
candidate or measure that my judgment
favors most—in short, vote like a Christian
in a free country, then I’ll go and vote. But
as long as a part of the masculine power
says to me you may vote for just one man—
a school trustee! and another part of the
same element stands at the polling place
ready to challenge my vote, and by all man-
ner of subterfuge try to browbeat me out of
the free exercise of the right so grudgingly
granted, I’ll—well, they’ll never get a
chance to brow-beat me at the polls until I
have a bicking that will insure me against

defeat.”

And now to the Convention. which was
presided over by Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of

Indiana, a woman of weight in avoirdupois

as well as words, and withal most agree-

able to look upon as well as to listen to.

Through her writings and what I have read

of her work in the different States and

territories, she has been as an acq maintance
to me for several years. So of course I was
anxious to attend the Convention. Ican
only say that in temper, tone and teachings
it was simply perfect, and exceeded my most
definite dreams of such things, for be it
hereby known to all present that this is the
first real, live, working woman suifragist
that I ever saw or heard speak.

panions, the burden of the helplessness of
our womanhood, or as Byron puts it, of our

And my

“ she condition ” would soon be lifted.
Personally Mrs. Gougar is stout, of
medium weight, with fair complexion, and
gray hair, stylishly coiifured, tastefully
dressed in some of the green-grey goods
so much worn, having a very full and
pleasing voice which she understands how
to modulate to meet the requirements of her
hall and audience. Altogether she impressed
me as one richly endowed in physical force
and vital energy, and possessing a fund of
mental and Spiritual power, of resistance
and persistence equal to the years, the
work and the warfare that stand between
the present day and the enfranchisement of
women in the United States. I wish to
mention just one very little thing that Mrs.
G. told during the convention. I think she
said it was eighteen years ago that her wash-
woman’s drunken husband collected his
wife’s wages and used them as all drunk-
ards do, in one way or another, use that
which should go for the sustenance and
comfort of home life, paid it into the hands
of the liquor seller for that which made him
as a wild beast in his house. Then she re-
fused to pay to him what his wife had so
toilsomely earned. He was furious, threat-
ening prosecution and coll»ction by law.
She was incredulous, but soon found that
the drunken, worthless man had the law all
on his side. that he could collect his wife’s
wash bills and use the money as he chose.
and the wife and the one who employed
her bad no redress. Therenpon Mrs. G. set
herself to the task of getting that law
stricken from the statutes of Indiana, rest-
ing not from her labor of love until it was
done. And this it was that first made a
suifragist of her. Michigan has the same
law, and heaven knows how many more
States.
Well, as Rip Van Winkle says, “Here’s
to Mrs. G )ugar and all her family, may they

live long and prosper.” E. L. NYE.
mer.
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CREAMERIES

 

Having bought some experience during
our three years of butter-making, I venture
a few suggestions to Mrs. If. H. J., of Paw
Paw. The secret of success in the deep set-
ting process of raising cream lies in the
rapid cooling of the milk. It must be
strained soon after milking and put into
cold water. Water at 48 deg. to 50 deg. is
immediately warmed, and unless constantly
changed by a current will not raise all the
cream. The most satisfactory result is
obtained where a suflicient quantity of ice
is put into the water just before milking,
so that the temperature will not run above
50 deg. in ten hours. At least this is our con-
clusion. This process is claimed to be labor
saving for women, and so it is. It not only
requires less labor to manufacture the but-
ter, but puts much of the hard work upon
stronger shoulders. With the same condi-
tions of setting cream will rise in any cans.
The conveniences and economy are the
points to make, and so long as there are
stationary cans from which the milk is
drawn from the bottom and then the cream,
I can discover no advantage in having one

  

the cream can be perfectly saved at the bot—
tom, 1 see no use of the waste necessarily oc-

casioned by dipping the cream from the top.

I know of several kinds of homemade
creameries, but considering the expense,
the disadvantages and the unsatisfactory
results, I see no economy in using one.
We use the Champion; but whatever kind
you buy avoid long tubes, square corners,
or any inaccessible places; and there should
be room in the tank to put the hand on
every part of the cans, for they often need
washing with a cloth on the outside. With
stationary cans the men strain the milk “ in
aminute,” and children can draw the milk
and wash them. Our boys, aged ten and
twelve, regularly empty and wash the cans
for the milk of thirty cows, while they are
being driven into the stables and the first
two pails filled with milk.

I should put no part of butter-ma king in
the cellar.

Too much pains cannot be taken in all
arrangements to have things handy. The
advantage of the creamery is a uniform
quali yof the butter; but cream raising in
this way requires different treatment from
shallow setting; but this is all too “big” a
subj act for a letter to the HOUSEHOLD. To
know its size read a few dairy papers each
week. However, I will answer any question
I can, if desired.

Has any one used the Worden churn for

churning sweet milk and making ice cream?
MRS. J. M. WEST.
CHERRY IltLL Canninm', Farartann.

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U seful Recipes.

 

PRESERVED Srrmwnnnarns—Hull the fruit
and wash carefully, letting the berries drain
in a colander. Prepare a syrup with two
pounds of white sugar and half a cup of wa-
ter, drop the berries into it and let them cook
rapidly for twenty minutes. removing the
scum that rises but not stirring the fruit.
Dip the fruit into tumblers or cans, cook the
juice and syrup till it will almost jelly, and
fill up with it.

 

CURRANT JELLY.—-Stl‘lp the fruit from the
stems and put them in a preserving kettle,
cook them half an hour, turn into a jelly-bag
and let the juice drip through. Do not squeeze
the bag. Return the juice to the kettle, boil
ten minutes, put in the sugar, which has been
heated in the oven, allowing a pound of sugar
to a pint of juice, stir up, and your jelly will
set as soon as the sugar—every bit of it—ls
dissolved.

SPICED CHERRIES.-—Nine pounds of cher.
ries; four pounds sugar; half an ounce each
of cinnamon and cloves. Cook the fruit until
the skins break, take it out, boil the syrup
half an hour and pour over the fruit. A
better conserve is made by stoning the cher-
ries and using seven pounds of fruit- to the
former proportion.

 

Srrcnn CURRAN'rs.-—Seven poun ds of fruit;
four pounds sugar; one pint best cider vine-
gar; one ounce ground cinnamon; half an
ounce ground cloves. 1f preferred, the whole
spices can be put into muslin bags and boiled
in the vinegar until the strength is exhausted.

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RASPBERRY Jan—Allow threequarters of
a pound of sugar to each pound of fruit.
Cook till when you take a little out on a plate
no juice gathers around it; then put into jelly
glasses or small stone jars. The nicest jam
or jelly is made by using one-third curt-ants

 

 

opinion is that if I could meet such an one

every day, if such were our frequent com-

  

that must be lifted every time; and while

to two thirds raspberries either red or black-