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DETROIT, MARCH 9, 1889.

 

 

THE HOUSEH OLD-"Supplement.

 

 

PATIENO’E WITH THE LIVING.

 

Sweet friend, when thou and I are gone
Beyond earth’s weary labor,

When small shall be our need of grace
From comrade or from neighbor;

Passed all the strife, the toil, the care,
And done with all the sighing,

What tender ruth shall we have gained,
Alas! by simply dying?

Then lips too chary of their praise
Will tell our merits over,

And eyes too swift our faults to see
Shall no defects discover.

Then hands that would not lift a stone
Where stones were thick to cumber
Our steep hill path, will scatter flowers

Above our pillowed slumber.

Sweet friend, perchance both thou and I,
Ere love is past forgiving,
Should take the earnest lesson home-
Be patient with the living.
To-day’s repressed rebuke may save
Our blinding tears to-morrow;
Then patence—e’en when keenest edge
May whet a nameless sorrow.
’Tis easy to be gentle when
Death’s silence shames our clamor,
And easy to discern the best
Through memory‘s mystic glamor;
But wise it were for thee and me,
Ere love is past forgiving,
To take the tender lesson home—
Be patient with the living.
—0hristian Advocate.

-——-—-—.OO—-——-
A wonderful thing is a seed—-
The one thing deathless foreveri
The one thing changeless, utterly true—
Forever old. and forever new,
And fickle and faithless never.

Plant blessings. and blessings will bloom;
Plant hate and hate will grow;

You can sow to-day—to-morrow shall bring

The blossom that proves what sort of a thing
Is the seed, the seed that you sow.

“9.9——

DAFFODILLY’S EXPERIENCES.

There are so many wonderfully helpful
letters in the HOUSEHOLD that I hesitate to
hobble in late in the day with my poor
jumble, yet I want to still be one of the
circle. I’d like, too, to have my “ pictur
took” the next time A. L. L. is getting up
photographs.

When the HOUSEHOLD came today, I
was sitting in my room with a sort of
rheumatic ache in my shoulders and half a
notion to go to bed, but the perusal of its
pages inspired me to write. When my
husband gave me a bright new writing
machine for a Christh present, I vowed
to freight down the mails with letters and
the first should be for these columns. At
but time my mind was crowded with

 

fancies and incidents which might in sea-
son have counted for something, but they
are now all gone—chased off by facts of
common living. Like Thomas Gradgrind,
“ I am a man (or woman) of realities. 0f
Facts and Calculations I am inclined to feel
that all we want in this life is Facts. Stick
to Facts, sir.” Monday morning at seven
o’clock sharp, these facts open upon me.
Sally comes to do the washing. I try to
have the muddy Mississippi water settled
in advance. This “ settling” is accom-
plished by diluting alum in it, which same
curdles in boiling and spots in bluing, so
that the clothes look perfectly beautiful
when landed on the line—a streak of amber
and a stripe of blue. By burning about $1
worth of coal, working hard all day myself
and paying Sally $1.25, I get the washing
and part of the ironing done on Monday.
After Sally is loaded with all the cold
victuals on hand and any old clothes we
happen to have, she removes the shadow
of her dusky face for another week.

Tuesday is the Ladies’ Sewing Society,
held in the church parlors. When Iam
more bilious than common and consequent—
ly more pious, I attend this meeting. We
each contribute to the luncheon and a
nickel for coffee. Sometimes there are as
many as fifty ladies present. The sewing
consists of aprons, dusting caps, fancy
articles, and quilts, an obsolete nuisance
still cherished by a few old fogies, and
comforters. The latter are made to
fill orders. The other articles are usually
bought by the members of the Society at a
rate twice as high as they could be pur-
chased and made for at- home. So far as I
am able to learn there is no profit in the
affair unless it be in a social way, or in the
maddening, brain-destroying atmosphere of
the rooms. There are always a few people
in a company who abhor fresh air. I have
never been an enthusiast about these en-
terprises, but as I belong to the meeting—
house it seems a duty to go occasionally.

Wednesday some baking must be done
and prayer meeting in the evening. Thurs
day and Friday are variegated with sweep-
ing, scrubbing, sewing, receiving calls, ora
trip down town to the stores, which are
now so gaily tempting with all kinds of
goods one can hardly get home with a cent
in her purse.

Saturday, more baking and cooking and
cleaning. We prepare as nearly as possible
everything for Sunday dinner, so that
when we get home from church an hour
will answer for the preparation of the meal

 

     

and the dishwashing. There are four of
us; three girls and a man. \Ve girls all get
through work and are off to Sunday school
at 9:30. By the time my class of boys has
assembled I am tolerably composed and
have about forgotten how I rushed up
stairs and down and declared in a passion
that some of us would have to give up going
to Sunday school, and of course it would be
me, etc., etc. The hour’s talk, with the
boys, and we talk about everything, asI do
not try to make more than one or two prac-
tical applications of the lesson, refreshes
me, and we all agree, with a hand shake, to
be there on time next Sunday.

Boys are so funny. Last Sunday one
boy went out for a drink after the lesson.
He reported on his return that there was a
boy in the vestibule who would not come
in because it was late. He had also in~
quired if a certain girl were in the room,
and being told that she sat near my class,
he said if he should see that girl he would
faint. I sent Ferd out to “ fetch ” him and
risk the faint. He came along, a pale, tidily
dressed youth of about thirteen, who evi-
dently thinks more about marriage than
keeping his teeth clean. On his neck-tie he
worn an immense red glass bug which
looked as if it might nab his chin at any in"
stant. He giggled and cast sheep’s eyes at
the girls until school closed. I could not keep
from wondering if our Savior in his human
experience passed through this phase of
boyhood. This case is not hopeless, for
three of the class were in the same condition
when I took charge of them three menths
ago, and they are now interesting and in-
terested. I do love a nice, smart boy.

Since writing the above, which was cut
short by what I do not remember, I have
added nursing measles to my experiences,
One is not expected to finish letters or be
very imaginative while shut up in a dark
room anointing with hot lard a measly
patient incessantly calling for water. I
had some charming theories about cold
water and fresh air treatment for measles,
but when the bright eyes were pained by
the light, the fever-scorched body chilled by
the gentlest breath of cool air and the
throat almost closed, I gladly turned back
to the old fashioned remedies, darkness, hot
drinks and grease. Blessed be some things
of the past, especially a sure cure for the
measles, which in many points are hardly
less loathsome than smallpox.

With good wishes and much love for the
HOUSEHOLD. DAFFODILLY.
8r. Lours, Mo.


 

THE HOUSEHOLD. '

 

 

AN ANSWER TO EL SEE.

 

I am astonished at the position El See
takes at this critical crisis of our national
life. She says she wonders where Mrs.
Bidwell gets her information. It is really
astonishing how people will wonder, and
never exert themselves to do anything but
wonder. I would advise her to cease won-
dering and go to reading; search the statis-
tics of our government. She has a right to
know these things. She says it is a waste
of words to say our asylums are filled with
inebriates. It is a statement I never made.
Idid not say there is now or ever was an
inebriate in our asylums. But I do believe
there are many poor unfortunate fellow-
beings with their reason dethroned through
intemperance. Our highest medical au-
thorities pronounce it a brain destroyer. I
believe there are children born with their
minds impaired, caused by intemperate
parents, with only a matter of time between
them and the asylum. Does not El See
censider there is any other traffic but that
in liquor that is licensed by law, that is
wrong, that is debasing and wicked?
There are many unholy institutions that
are destructive to both mind and body
which are lawful. How can she come be-
fore the noble women of this nineteenth
century and claim that we are not sinking
lower every day! Will she give. me a
record, even from the dark ages of the
world, when there was practiced such
shameful abuse of innocence, unmolested
by the law? She says if it be true we are
sinking lower we are at fault. I say we
are, and will be, until woman herself raises
her standard higher. until she is willing to
be counted something higher than a doll,
pet, slave, booby, drudge, and be looked
upon as a necessary evil, until she allows her
mind to expand to a greater capacity than
the Chickadee. I do not consider wealth or
luxury as advancement in civilization with-
out purity. She says are not our criminals
largely men who are studying to get some-
thing for nothing? I will agree with her,
“ that there is a vast amount of studying to
get something for nothing,” with a grand
success. How a lady can look upon in-
temperance with any degree of allowance I
cannot imagine.

El See is possibly the wife of a millionaire,
or it may be she was fortunate enough to
have a few bushels of wheat to sell when
the famous Hutchinson wheat deal sent up
the price. But I say “ Blessed be the few
among the thousands.” How many day
laborers were there, especially in our large
cities, who could not buy a bushel at such
prices? Does she know that our people
are getting immensely rich or intensely
poor? Is she willing that the millionaire,
holding his interest bearing bonds, use
money from the government treasury free,
and loan it torus at such a sinking rate of
interest? How many farms can be counted
in a whole county that are not mortgaged,
bearing such heavy interest that the owners
can never redeem them?

El See says the insinuation that all
women who are satisfied with our existing
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all, and she for one resents it. Inever made
such a statement, or even insinuated such
an idea, neither do I believe it. It is untrue
in every sense of the word. I do not think
she means to make a false statement; I
think she is “still wondering.” Again, she
cannot see how a true wife can assert that
the mother is the child’s best friend. I
claim that a true mother is the child’s best
friend, it is in nature. We may love our
husbands devotedly, yet it is not with a
leve like the mother-love. We may love
our husbands better than our children love
us, but not better than we love our chil-
dren. How many divorces do we see re—
corded between husband and wife, and
how few are the records of the alienation
of a mother’s love for her child! I hold
the marriage relation sacred, and I honor
El See for the same belief, but because we
are wives we should not silence our ambi-
tion; we have but just commenced life in

earnest. There is a greater work for us to
do. M. B.
LIBERTY Mums.

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TEE APHIS ON HOUSE PLANTS.

 

An old customer asks how to destroy the
aphides on her Solanum Jasz'mz'noz’des, and
asks an answer in the HOUSEHOLD, as she
saves them all for future reference. As the
Solanum is so badly “loaded down ” it
would be well to burn it and so save other
and more valuable plants, or as “ a sickly
sheep infects the flock ” it may send forth
an army that will quietly and rapidly
multiply, and leech-like suck the life-juices
from every tender portion of the plants they
attack. There are many remedies recom-
mended for the destruction of aphis, many
of which would do the work well no doubt,

but as surely destroy the plants also.-

Pyrethrum is always safe and as sure as
tobacco, and far more pleasant to. use.
If plants are kept well sprayed and the air
not too warm or close, and moistened by
steam, they will be little troubled with in-
sects of any kind. Solanums are given to
breeding insects, and as there are so many
other and more satisfactory plants and
climbers that are free from insects as a
rule, I would never recommend them as
house plants. Weedy plants with rough
foliage are fine harbors for aphis.

It is a very good plan to ascertain the
habits and origin of plants that are new to
us before investing in them; or in seeds or
bulbs of tender tropical plants, frequently
unadapted to our climate, or at least not
acclimated as yet. Let the introducers
test them faithfully, and then candidly and
without flourish or exaggeration place
them before the public with full descrip-
tions of their qualities and origin, and in
colors that will wash paint their attractions;
and let us also know their requirements in
cultivation. This last is usually treated
lightly, as they all grow so readily, and
many die readily, too. Not that new things
are not to be desired, but be not hasty in
choosing highly rated and highly priced
plants in preference to the grand old flowers
in their improved forms, given them by
scientific flower-loving workers. Although
I delight in the old-fashioned flowers, I

    

 

cordially welcome them in their fringed
and fluffy draperies, their multiplied and
commingled coloring; though often so en-
larged and improved we fail to recognize
them as our old familiar friends at first
glance. But all really worthy accessions
to our floral treasures are highly prized.
stron. MRS. M. A. FULLER.

_——...———_

TREATMENT OF THE CACI‘US.

As I keep a number of cactus plants
myself I will venture to answer A. B. C.’s
conundrum. I think if she will withhold
water from them through the winter, and
keep in a cool place, then after about four
months of such treatment water freely with
warm water, she will soon see buds for
bloom. From her description I think I
have a plant of the same variety, and it gives
me abundance of bloom. Have kept it in
an old pail for three years, and it will do
well for three more by adding a little
manure occasionally. We have a plant in
half of a large paint keg, put there nine
years ago, and only a very small portion of
the earth has ever been changed, as the
roots completely fill the tub. We add the
manure in summer while the tub is in the
yard. The main trunk measures twenty—
two inches, and is over five feet high. We
also have another in a crock holding about
a pailful, on a stand supported by three
broom handles, the branches droop to the
floor; this blossoms twice a year, fall and
spring, and has not had the soil changed
for eight years. It is not so much the quan-
tity of earth as in treatment.

As I am a reader of the HOUSEHOLD and
FARMER, and have received a great many
helps from both, I am glad to be able to
aid others a little. Mus. J. D.

FANCY FIXINGS.

 

 

I have just seen a novel way for using the
double fringed and shaped cards that are
accumulating and lying around in every
house nowadays. This was a large
branch from a tree, think it was a maple,
but anything having a profusion of small
twigs would do. Carefully bronze it over
and fasten high up in the corner of the
room, or, if very high walls it can be sus-
pended over a center table and when the
cards are hung about on the branches it
makes the airiest kind of an air-castle and
apretty ornament. Another way is to use
the fringed cards for mats. A scarlet b0r~
dered one holds an amberina vase, another
a small easel, and still another a fancy shell
or piece of fungus work.

A five-year-old niece made a hairpin ball
for a present; that is something that the
little folks can do. It is about five inches
in diameter, made of odds and ends of
zephyr in all colors, two circles of paste-
board being cut with a large hole in the
center which she could draw the yarn
through. A yard of narrow blue ribbon
was fastened in when the tying was done,
to hang it by, and of course her mamma
did the clipping, but it was a pretty and
useful way to busy the little fingers and
very acceptable to En SEE.

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THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
OF OUR STATE.

 

[Paper read by Mrs. E. O. Ladd, of Old Mission,
$83] meeting of Mapleton Grange, Feb. 9th.,

Thinking it may interest some of our
number I have gathered a few facts re-
garding the above subject. At the head,
as a matter of course, stands the State Uni-
versity at Ann Arbor. It was established
during the years intervening between 1837
and .1841. You will see therefore that it
is the oldest institution in the State; as old
in fact as the State itself, as Michigan be-
came a State in 1837. The University has
a permanent endowment fund, received
from the sales of lands set apart for that
purpose by the State government, amount-
ing to about $543,000. In addition to the
interest on the endowment fund, it receives
one-twentieth of a mill tax on all taxable
property of the State, and its other sources
of revenue are an annual appropriation
from the State and the fees of students.
The total amount received for its support
in an average year is at least $200,000. Its
general management is under the control of
a Board of Regents.
agement is in the hands of the President of
the University and an able corps of instruc‘
tors. In this school are taught the higher
branches of mathematics, English litera-
ture, the languages, and actual practice in
the professions of law and of medicine. It
is noted for the thoroughness of its work in
bestowing a liberal and practical education
upon all who enter its halls as earnest
students. It has a. fine museum and art
gallery. Among the most interesting
objects in the museum is the Chinese col-
lection, presented to the University when
President Angell was American minister to
China. This collection comprises speci-
mens of every kind of Chinese handicraft,
which you all know is very extensive, in‘
cluding wax figures or plaster casts repre
senting all stations of life in China, fromthe
grand mogul down to the small boy play—
ing in the street, each attired in its ap-
propriate costume. There is also an ex-
tensive library, the building containing it
being entirely fire- proof. The walls are of
solid masonry, the supporting beams and
doors of iron, and the floors of glass.

Next in order is the State Normal School,
established in 1851-52 at Ypsilanti. It is
under the control of the State Board of
Education. This important school is for
the purpose of training the students in the
theory and art of teaching, and in all the
branches taught in the public schools of
the State. Like the University, it has an
endowment fund from the sale of lands, an
annual appropriation, and students are re—
quired to pay a small tuition fee.

Next in order and importance is the
Agricultural College, located three miles
east of Lansing. It was established in 1855
for the purpose of teaching young men the
science of agric lture, and such branches
as relate to the calling of the farmer.
Michigan was the first State to establish an
agricultural school. Students are required
to work three hours a day on school days.
There are 676 acres in the college farm.

 

The immediate man-‘

 

  

Vacation is during the winter months.
This institution has a permanent endow-
ment fund derived from the sale of public
lands given by Congress. It has received
the proceeds of more than 235,000 acres of
land. Up to 1882, more than 104,000 acres
had been sold, from which was realized
$339,000. It also receives an annual ap-
propriation from the State. Tuition is
free to students from all parts of the world.
It is controlled by the State Board of Agri-
culture, which consists of six members be-
sides the Governor of the State and the
President of the college. I would earnestly
recommend the institution to all farmers
who wish their sons to be well educated
either in a general sense, or in the special,
practical methods of farming. It is a safe
place to send boys who have never been
away from home. Its moral influences are
among the best, and no young man who
ever entered its halls of learning, left with-
out being made better as well as wiser.
The labor system enables the student to de-
fray a part of his expenses. It also pre—
serves habits of manual labor and fosters a
taste for agricultural pursuits. The daily
labor of each one being performed at one
time does not occupy him longer than is
requisite for preserving health and a robust
constitution.

Next are our high schools and academics.
which are preparatory schools. Next our
public schools—common schools, so-called.
From the common schools of the United
States great and good men and women have
gone forth to meet life’s battles and to
triumph at last by reason of strength of
manhood and womanhood implanted in
their hearts and minds in youth by faithful
teachers.

Last but by no means least is the Grange.
It is a school where all may learn, learn to
do business well, learn to put their thoughts
into language; and above all learn to “be
honest, be just and fear not, with malice
toward none and charity for all."

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SOME EXCEPTIONS TAKEN.

I‘m wondering how large a family A. II.
J. has, when she says the washing will not
be much larger if each one has a separate
towel. As for our fzunily we use a roller
towel, and if I hang up a. clean towel every
day and twice on Sunday, I won‘t have as
many as I would if we each used a separate
one. we don’t keep boarding-house, and
have no hired help, but we are “all to
home” and I can image what a washing
we would have if such a plan were followed.
If you live in town and hire your washing
done it might do; but you would need a
larger house than we have to do it. Just
imagine a room which already has hooks
for hats, coats, etc., and other necessary
articles enough to fill it, then add ten or
more towel racks and comb cases; I don’t
think any one would be able to see whether
the wall is dirty or clean.

I wonder if we ever catch diseases from
washing all the dishes with the same dish-
cloth? Wouldn’t it be better to have a
separate dishpan and dishcloth for each
person’s dishes? Seriously, I do think

 

 

people are sometimes careless, or rather
thoughtless about a great many things, but
I don’t think that asa general thing, the
towel is the spot where the danger lurks.
Of course when a person is sick, no matter
what ails them, it isn’t best for them to use
the family towel, and I think as a general
thing you will find they do not.

One lady speaks of a family feeding her
canned beef instead of nice sweet pork.
Is she sure they had the pork? Many peo-
ple, city people especially, have the idea
that farmers have pork if they don’t have
anything else—pork anyhow and always—
but to my mind that is a false idea. In
my own home the pork barrel is a thing I
never remember having seen. lVe some-
times buy a piece of pork for a change, but
we never keep it on hand, and I don’t think
the average farmer keeps it always, in the
way they used to in early times. Beef is
used more commonly. In this neighbor-
hood beef is used almost altogether in
winter, and much is'used during the whole
year.

I was surprised when I read the “ Farm-
ers’ Bill of Fare.” I had read in some other
paper that it was a very elaborate affair and
contained many things which farmers,
generally, could not readily supply. But
when the FARMER came and I read the bill,
I thought; Mrs. Sutton is a farmer’s wife
and knows what she is talking about.

YPSILANTL MAY B.

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A MOTHER’S LOVE.

 

I have been an interested reader of the
Runner. and the IIOUsEHOLD in both forms
for many years, and among the various
opinions expressed therein sometimes find
those that conflict with my own views. El
See’s emphatic denial that a mother may
be “ the best friend we may, or ever can
have,” is a statement with which I cannot
agree. With all due appreciation of the
marriage tie, and reverence for the fulfill-
ment of its sacred duties, which afford the
light and blessing of our homes, I still
hold that none but Omnipotent love can
bestow a more true and enduring affection
and kindness than a mother for her 0&—
spring, and I think few but childless
women would hold such opinions. Mother
love is without passion or flaw. Mind, I
do not underrate the precious love of a true
wife, only I do not place it one whit above
a mother’s love for her child.

I am well assured of the great differences
in dispositions and temperaments which
have bearing upon one case as well as the
other, and in love is the light of the soul;
or in the lack of it a benighted life, and
one need not, should not, extinguish or con-
flict with the other.

" I gave my maiden-love, tender and shy:
And yet I was sad—why, oh! why?

" I gave my Wife-love, pure and true;
And yet—and yet I was longing, too!

“ God gave me mother-love. warm and strong,
And my sadness was lost in my lullaby song."

ASHTABULA, O. UNCLE BOTT.

CREAKING doors are a nuisance that even
a feather dipped in oil will not always
abate. Try a little soap on the hinges, or
even a bit of No. 2 lead pencil.

    

 

  


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BREAKFAST ON THE FARM.

I wish to say a few words in regard to
breakfast on the farm. I have lived on a
farm nearly all my days and never yet saw
the time, unless help was hired, to prepare
a very elaborate breakfast, especially in the
summer, even if I was up before the fire
was built. Ialways get everything ready
over night as nearly as I can, then in the
morning put things to cooking and go down
cellar and skim the milk; for this must be
done if you don’t want to feed the calves
yourself, and I do not, for I find enough
work in the house, and if not, I would
rather take exercise some other way than
wading through the wet grass and lifting a
pail of milk over the fence to have it hunted
out of my hand perhaps. But I have
strayed from the original theme. By the
time the milk is skimmed the children are
generally ready to be dressed, and by the
time this is done and the breakfast taken up
the men are ready, for their chores are
light. While John milks and feeds the
hogs the man has the horses 11p and har-
nessed. Now it is my experience that the
oven will not be hot enough to bake the
hot rolls and gems before we are ready to
sit down to the table. What we do cook
we can cook good and healthy, for no one
has more to do with than the farmer’s wife
if she has a mind to use it. In my opinion
warmed-up potatoes are generally cooked
in the poorest way of any thing that comes
on the table. I have seen women put some
water in the spider and alittle grease or
perhaps butter, slice potatoes in this and
then chop and spat and stir until the whole
was one sticky, indigestible mass, not fit

for a human stomach. I think that that
which forms the principle article of food,
can not have too much pains taken in pre-
paring it. A nice way to warm potatoes is
to chop them in the chopping bowl; it can
be done much quicker and better than in
the spider, and the salt and pepper well
stirred in; have the spider hot, then melt a
generous piece of butter, put in the pota-
toes and pour over them some milk, with
as much cream as your conscience will
allow, cover tightly, and in five minutes
take off the cover, stir lightly and take up
in a warm dish and I think no one will say
that a warmed potato is not fit to eat.

Why is it that all the eggs must be sold?

You will say that they have to buy gro-
Better do without the fried cakes
for breakfast and cook eggs; the eggs would
not pay for the material you would use in
I consider them the most ex-
pensive cake there is at the present prices
of lard. A good many women will use
plenty of butter in their cooking, but think
it extravagant to use cream—where is the polished wooden rings and four yards wide

ceries.

fried cakes.

difference? For my part I prefer cream
where it can be used. I know some farm-
ers who sell their hams; it seems such poor
economy to sell the best and keep the fat
side pork, when that same side pork in the
middle of the summer brings more per
pound than the hams did. Often the beef
man is glad to get it in exchange for beef,
and what a pleasant change!

I take the hams, before warm weather

jars (do not cook), and cover with melted
lard, to be returned each time after taking
out a mess. It is so nice for breakfast
through haying and harvest, when we eat so
early that we have no appetite. Who can
do a satisfactory day’s work on a poorly
cooked breakfast? Some people think any-
thing good enough for the hired man, and
the husband can come in and get a piece
if he gets hungry, but this does not always
work, for men will not do the work well if
treated in this way. Take the question
home—would you like your son to be
treated in this manner if he were some one’s
hired man?

BATTLE CREEK .
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THE INAUGURAL BALL DRESSES.

X. Y. Z.

 

It seems eminently fitting that Mrs. Har-
rison and Mrs. Morton, wives of the Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United
States, should have chosen for their cos-
tumes for the inaugural ball material made
in this country and purely American in
every detail. It is faille silk, made up
with brocade on a satin ground. Mrs. Har-
rison chose for the pattern of her dress the
leaf of the burr-oak, which is beautiful in
outline and endeared by association, as the
tree grows abundantly in Indiana. The
design was drawn by Miss VViliiamson, of
Indiana, the fabric woven at the Logan silk
mills at Auburn, N. Y., the dress designed
and made in New York. The goods is said
to be exquisite in softness and richness.
The panels have a brocade design of burr-
oak leaves and acorns, on a ground of gray
satin; and the remainder of the costume is
composed of gray faille; it is en trainee,
corsage cut V-shaped front and back, and
finished to the throat with a closely fitted
passementerie of gold and silver beads. A
magnificent lace flounce was used to orna-
ment the flowing train. The material for
Mrs. Morton’s dress was made at the Logan
mills also. In color it is a golden cream,
with front and corsage of white satin liter-
ally covered with embroidery of gold and
silver beads. The figure of the brocade is
the Scotch thistle. It also was made in
New York, and entirely by hand. Mrs.
McKee, Mrs. Harrison’s daughter, also wore
a dress of American design and workman-
ship, the pattern being the graceful golden~
rod, a species peculiar to Indiana being
selected. The figure appears on a cream
groundwork, and the material is combined
with grape-green velvet. All three cos-
tumes are described as being very elegant
in every detail of workmanship and design.

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FANCY WORK.

For a novelty towel rack buy three large

satin ribbon. Tie two rings together side

by side, and fasten with a bow. Tie the
third ring to the other two, in two places,
and fasten with bows in such a way that
the third ring will be directly underneath
the first two rings. A ribbonis put through It not soft enough add more warm water; if
each of the upper rings to suspend it by,
also fastened with a how. This makes a
pretty Christmas gift. By using gilt rings

you have a pretty and very acceptable wed-
ding present.

A very pretty covering for a small bam-
boo or cane chair that may be somewhat
Worn, is made of Chamois skin. You may
decorate it by painting a strip through the
centre with gilt and bronze lustra paints,
or work tiny stars all over its surface with
gold thread. Make a fringe of the' Chamois
by clipping it in narrow strips. Tack this
on with brass headed tacks. Quite a pretty
cover for a tiny round stand may be made
in the same manner. MILL MINNIE.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

THE pieces of old merino underwear
make excellent cloths to use for cleaning
windows, paint, wiping up the carpet, zinc,
and for many similar purposes. They
serve a better purpose there than in the
carpet rags.

 

WHEN flat-irons become rusty, says an
exchange, black them with stove polish
and rub well with a dry brush. Well, that
may take the rust off, but how about the
clothes that are to be smoothed with these
polished irons? Make this the subject of
experiments, cautiously conducted.

 

Babyhood says: \Vhen the baby stretches
and wriggles, and finally, perhaps, cries
out, try turning him on his other side, or
almost on his back, and see if he does not
relapse into another sound nap without
further efi'ort on your part. Do not forget
to turn the pillow over also sometimes.
The one or two—year-old who wakes in the
night and sits up in bed, rubbing his little
fists into his sleepy eyes, feels, perhaps,
hot and uncomfortable. Try turning the
pillow. If he is like some children the
writer knows of, he will wait for the sound
of the turning pillow, and then drop back
on it into arenewed sleep. Remember also
to keep a child’s clothes smooth under him.
Drawing down the rumpled night clothes
and smoothing the cover has much to do
with quieting the restless tossings of the
little sleeper.

Contributed Reelpes.

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GRAHAM PANCAKES.—TWO even cups of gra-
ham flour. and the same of buttermilk: 9.
heaping teaspoonfnl salt; two scant level
teaspoonfuls of seda. dissolved in a gill of
water; if the buttermilk is very thick 8. little
more water may be needed; this will make
twelve or fourteen cakes. We have eaten
these nearly everyjmorniug since early fall,
with fresh meat gravy, or butter and syrup
as we preferred. and have not grown tired of
them. We have always bread or bisc nit, but
it is never touched. M. E. H.

ALBION.

 

Gnannnorann‘s INDIAN BnnAn.—-In the
morning take two quarts sifted Indian meal:
scald with boiling water till a little thicker
than mush; let stand until cool enough to not
scald the yeast. Then add a pint of canaille
or white flour. half cup molasses. one table-
spoonful salt. one cup good yeast. Stir well.

too soft, more flour. Set to rise in the pan it
is mixed in until very light. Then stir down.
and one even teaspoonful of soda. stir well.
Let it rise again until very light, then bake.

and cream White ribbon, and P‘mmg one An iron basin is best to bake it in.

 

 

and flies come, slice and pack tightly in

  

or more fancy towels through each ring,

MRS. E. 0. L,

Manama.