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DETROIT, DEC.

   

21., 1889.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

A PRA YER.

I ask not wealth but power to take
And use the things I have aright.

Not years, but wisdom that shall make
My life a profit and delight.

I ask not that for me, the plan
0f good and ill be set aside;
But that the common lot of man

Be nobly borne and glorified.

'1 know I may not always keep

My steps in places green and sweet,
Nor find the pathway of the deep

A path of safety for my feet.

But pray, that when the tempest’s breath
Shall fiercely sweep my way about,

‘1 make not shipwreck of my faith
In the unbottomed sea of doubt;

.And that though it be mine to know
How hard the stoniest pillow seems,

[Good angels still may come and go,
About the places of my dreams.

1 do not ask for love below,

That fr; ends shall never be estranged;
“But for the power of loving, so

My heart may keep its youth unchanged.

Youth, joy, wealth—Fate, I give thee these; _
Leave faith and hope till life is past;
And leave my heart‘s best impulses
Fresh and unfailing to the last.
-Phwbe Cary.

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HOLIDAY GREETINGS.

 

Before the next issue of the FABMEB is in
:the hands of its readers we shall have ob-
.aerved the day which is at once the most
ancient, the most generally observed. the
happiest, tenderest, merrlest, of all holi-
days. There is a heartbreak in Memorial
Day for many, the chastened sorrow of long-
abiding grief among its flags and flowers and
music. We are glad when the Fourth of
July, with its cannon and gasconade and
brass bands and the constant fusiiade of fire-
crackers and stifling fumes of gunpowder, is
over, and quiet reigns again. Thanksgiving
has its pleasures; it is a day on which we
should remember the poor that they may be
thankful with us; but Christmas, with its
'wealth of associations, old customs, legends,
and all its present pleasing excitement, its
secrets and surprises, is dearest and best of
all the days we celebrate, which are. after
all, too few in number.

Christmas is the family holiday~every~
body “ goes home for Ciristmas.” There
is that in the air—it must be —-that moves us
to remembrance of friends, to unwanted
generosity, tounselfish sacrifice. Cold in-
deedis that man or woman whose heart is
not moved bv the wish to make others
happy at Christmas, and into whose home
omes no Christmas cheer.

but there are always the solitary ones and
the strangers among us, who are far from
home, or have few to know or care for them
Should not the overflow from our holiday-
making encircle them and help make them
happy? We may not know what comfort
our thought of them may bring, nor how
pleasant it is to them to be remembered.
Once alonely woman in a great city, far
from friends, with heart darkened by the
shadow of an abiding grief, going from her
work in the early Christmas Eve. looked
through lace draperies into beautiful, bril-
liantly lighted rooms, with children dancing
around the Christmas trees, fair pictures of
home contentment and family happiness.
Within,, all was warmth and beauty and
brightness; without, the starless night and
the cold. " Why should these have every-
thing and i—nothing ?” she enviously
queried as the hot tears burned in her eyes.
“it is unjust! it is cruel!” But the dawn
brought Christmas remembrances from ab-
sent friends, and a belated invitation saying
“You must surely dine with as Christmas
Day;" and all the burdens tumbled into the
pit as did Christian’s in the allegory, and the
heartache was swallowed with the plum
pudding. So let us not forget the sad and
solitary, for though their presence or absence
may matter littleto us in the midst of our
rejoicings, we cannot know how pleasant
our remembrance may be to them.

Above all, make the children happy. It
is their day. A child’s happiness at Christ-
mas is high tide in the year’s pleasures,
something to be remembered for months.

And once more the Editor of the Hons):-
HOLD wishes for all her numerous family a
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY
NEW YEAR.

——...—_—.

A CHRISTMAS DINNER.

 

Certain articles of food have become as-
sociated with certain holidays, so that the
housekeeper knows pretty nearly what the
piece du resistance of her state dinner is to
be. Thus we expect eggs at Easter; roast
lamb, green peas and cherry pie on the
Fourth of July, roast turkey with cranberry
sauce and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving;
and for Christmas we should, according to
all traditions, eat roast beef, plum pudding
and .minc° *" )nr national fowl. the
lordly turk, is generally a feature of the
American holiday menu, but the English,
from whom we take many of our customs
for the day, have roast beef and ale, and
the plum pudding with its spray of holly

 

Christmas is the home holiday, it is true;

burnt wedding cake,” as an irreverent
youth styled it.

There are a good many things in this
world better than roast turkey—allowing
me to be the judge. Chicken pie discounts
it, so does a shoulder of veal, stufled, in my
estimation. Besides, one likes to surprise
her guests by something new and unex-
pected. The following seems to me to be a
very good “ spread " foraChristmas dinner:
and the man or woman wno does full
justice to it will probably feel, when he
comes to the toothpick course, that he
wants nothing further here on earth—just

at present.
Raw Oysters.
Celery Soup.

Chicken Pie. Roast Beef.
Potato snow. Fried Parsnips. Boiled Beets
Cranberry Jelly.

Mince Pie. Plum Pudding.
Apples. Nuts. Raisins.

Coffee.

Or, if the axe has been laid at the neck of
the big gobbler, in honor of the occasion.

try this:
Celery Soup.

Escalloped Oysters. Cabbage Salad.
R nast Turkey with Cranberry ~auce.
Mashed Potatoes Boiled Beets.
Mince Pie. Plum Puddlnz
Coffee. Nuts. Raisins.
The housekeeper will see that a gmd be-
ginning on her dinner can be made the day
before the feast. -The stock for the soup
must be made the previous day, as it should
stand over night to allow every particle of
grease to be removed, and than requires
only to be heated and seasoned. The dress-
ing for the salad is as good the second day
it is made it put where it will be cold.
but not freeze, and the cabbage may be
chopped also. The mince pie and the
plum pudding are out of the way.
and the chicken pie can be baked
and warmed over, though it will
hardly be as nice as if eaten the day it is
baked. Never make a chicken or meat pie
without cutting a slit in the top crust for the
steam to escape. especially if it is to be eaten
next day. Cases of mysterious poisoning
have been traced to this neglect, and we are
told the gases from the to Hi generated dur-
ing the baking permeate and render noxious
the crust of the pie. '

Do not overload the table with pickles.
jams. canned fruit, etc., giving the idea you
have put on a sample of everything you have
in reserve. Nothing spoils the appearance
of the table so much as a crowded look. Af-
ter the meats and vegetables have been dis—
cussed, remove the vegetable dishes. side
dishes, and the like-in short. clear the
table pretty thoroughly before the dessert is
brought on. The daughter of the house can
do this, if no help is kept, or the mistress

 

and its blaz‘ng baptismpf flame. " like hot

herself may leave her place at the head of


 

 

. as l cou.d, then baked and frosted.

the table it there is no one else to do it. No
one-except tho-e accustomed to faultless
service—knows how moon the pleasure of
dining‘is enhanced by the way in watch me
meal is served. 11' you bake your chicken
pie or your oysters in a tin pan or a basin,
or even in granite ware, fold Infiltklll on the
bias the width or the oish. and fold around
it. This helps keep the pie warm and makes
the dish more tightly. And " may digestion
wait on appetite and health on both.”

 

A. CHRISTMAS TREE.

Last year. a few days before Christmas
I said to Will, “If we had three or four
children 1 would havea Christmas tree, but
it won’t pay just for one child.” “ Why,”
said he, “ y« u might ask in the neighbors,”
and we did. ’

The tree was a medium sized pine
fitted irto abox for a base about twelve
or fourteen inches square. it was placed
in the bay window of the front parlor.
The decorations consisted of pop corn
strung on thrtads and Lung from the
branches, bright colored apples and apples
covered with tin foil l-ltsptlidtd by cord.
The smaller gifts were hung from the
branches, the latgtr ones placed around
the be: e oi the tire. Er mt relatiVes having
children in the family were asked to come
and bring their gllit: for each other and the
little out»; alto a LeipLLm' whose family
consists of scveral children. We had it
Christmas Eve. 'lhe children were kept
from the room until all was finished.
“11th filled with toys, books, candies
(which were plaud in bright colored
mosquito-mt bags), and the Various aseort~
ment of handkerchitfs, glows, mittens,
limiter, dolls and other things which go to
make up the list of average Christmas
giits, the tree presented a Very pretty ap-
pearance. After the gifts had been dis-
tributed and duly pasSed around for ex—
amination, a lunch of sandwiches, cake
and edits was served, after which the
tired but happy little ones dispersed, and
we older ( ms enjt-ytd it. not one whit less
than the children. That is the way it al~
ways is when we give pleasure to others,
we are sure to receive pleasure in the
giving. ,

I forgot to say that not least amusing to
the children was the appearance among,
the branches of the Christmas tree of
gingerbread dons, rabbits, men, etc., which
I had cut out. of the dough, as well shaped
These
were hung by Cords to the branches. It
elicited the following from our eight-year-
old youngster:

“ Oh! oh! I see a gingerbread man!
1'11 eat him up as he. as I can."

I have been making some needle books
and emery halls for Christmas gifts, and
although rather late in the day it may be
time for some one to make “just one in
more” Christm.s present. I took an old
wedding, card, one of those that fold in
the center like shock. The dimensions
are about three by four inches when
closed. It is covered outside and in with

' blue t-urah silk (of course satin, velvet or any
' such material would have been as well. but

 

I happened to have the silk). Two leaves
of white flannel the size of the book are
pinked around the edges, and fastened by
the centers to the foundation. A cord of
orange embroidery silk is put around the
edge of the book, and . orange colored
baby ribbon is fastened through the mid-
die to hang it. up by. Use plenty of rib-
bon; three yards is none too much for the
set. The word “Needles” may be out—
lined on the outside.

The emery ball is made of a circular
piece of the silk, five inches in diameter,
raveled at the edges, drawn up with linen
thread and filled with emery powder. Tie
with the narrow ribbon, leaving ends long
enough to suspend with the needle book.
Added to these is a bag of silk for paper
of needles or thimble. It is four inches
long and two and a half inches wide,’ with
a sbirring about an inch from the top
through which is passed the narrow rib~
bon to draw it up by. Have the ribbons of
different length for each, with that for the
needle book the longest. It makes a very
pretty cluster to hang near the work has-

ket. Other colors may be used according
to taste. ELLA R. Woon.
ELI“.

W

CHRISTMAS KIN TS.

 

Lest I be accused of forgetting the chil-
dren 1 will tell how to make a few pretty
articles suitable for their use. A glance
into any of our fancy or toy stores will
assure us that the children are amply pro-
vided for. ' Every purse can be accommo-
dated also. Very nicely bound books are
very cheap, toys and games too numerous
to mention. Do not forget to renew your
subscription for a good child’s paper or
magazine. There are many that will give
a‘. great deal of pleasure and profit as well.

Then the games for the long winter
evenings should be selected with the view
to gain as much information as possible.
One of the grandest games I know of is
called “The World’s Educator," and is
suitable for any child who can read readily.
It consists of very heavy cardboard sheets
upon which are printed questions and
a swers. Directions for playing the game
come with each box. Grown people can
engage in this game and feel when they are
through that they have learned something,
and that be time spent has not. been wasted.

A very suitable gift for school children
is a school~bag made of dark blue or green
cloth. Make this double and large enough
to hold books and. slate. The shape is
like a silk money purse. Embroider a
spray of flowers upon one end and initials
upon the other. Finish with two brass
rings connected by a stout chain.

A skate-bag is made of dark green
cloth and is very easily as well as showily
decorated with tinsel cord. The initials on
the flap should be outlined with the tinsel.
For an ordinary pair of skates make the
bag fifteen inches long and eight inches
wide; the length of the flap must be
allowed on the back. After the front is
embroidered baste chamois on the inside
or it. and also on the hack piece. Cut an
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and width as the front fora partition; bind».

the top of it and also the ‘flaps with dark.
green braid. Now lay the back, front

and middle pieces togesher and stitch 0n:
the machine. Stitch two pieces of braid.“
together on each edge for astrap by which.
to carry it; it should be long enough to go -
over the shoulder and reach to the waist..
Use a button and buttonhole to close.

Another bag suitable for girls’ skates is»
made in the same manner, only finished
with a shirr at the top which is made of
dark red braid. The bag is made of dark
red cloth embroidered with gold tinsel.
The design is a spray of golden rod.

A very pretty penwiper is made in the-
shape of a pond lily. The leaf is made of’
(bronze green felt, the petals of white felt,.
the centre of yellow crews] and the stem of‘
rubber tubing. The leaves on which the
pen is wiped are under the leaf. This may
be made of green and white plush and.
embroidery silk, but will be of more ser—
vice if made of felt.

Another very pretty penwiper is made in
the shape of alarge pen. Mine is about
five inches long and nearly two inches-
wtde in the widest part. Cut two pieces
of dark red leather of the size designated.
Line each piece with flannel or felt of any
preferred color. Fasten to the leather
with mucilage. Cut two pieces of felt the
same shape but of different colors. These
are the leaves; or you can use chamois in-
stead. Catch the leaves to the flannel
lining in about the middle of the pen so it
will open both ways. Gild the point of the-
outside of pen for about three-fourths of
an inch. Take gold colored ink and write
the name on top of pen. Name to be
written across the width. This makes a...
very neat little gift.

The latest fancy is for the use of leather
to make ornamental articles. Rough
grained and fine moroccos and colored
leathers as well as chamois and kid are
used. The decorations of the morocco and
colored leather are chiefly couching in
gold thread associated with embroidery,
such as Queen Anne weaving stitch or
darning.

A useful little ornament to stand on‘the
toilet table isa pin-tray, made by cutting
four pieces of stout cardboard three inches
deep and six and a half inches long at the~
top, sloped to five inches at the bottom;
these are for the two sides. The ends are
three and a half inches at the top and two .
at the bottom. Cover the outside with
olive plush worked with an arabesque de-
sign. Line the inside with a piece of silk
or satin of a pretty contrasting color, and
sew the four pieces to a bottom piece-
lined and covered in the same way. Mcunt
on four legs secured in place by three
cross pieces, all covered with plush.

A pretty way to decorate a small almanac
is to take a square piece of cardboard any
desired size and cover with plush or velvet;
paint or embroider a spray of flowers on ‘
the upper part, then take the almanac,
open it and tack the covers to the cardboard
below the embroidery, turn a leaf over and
press it open at the beginning of each
month; now take a ribbon to match than


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plush to hang it -up 'by, making a pretty
how at one corner.

{A sunflower'pincushion‘ is very odd and
pretty. The petals are of yellow satin, the
calyx and stem of dark brown velvet and
the leaves of green velvet. For the centre
'or foundation of the sunflower, cut two
circles of thin cardboard two and ahalf
inches in diameter. The circle for the
upper side should first receive slayer of

wadoing. The velvet must be drawn over

this and caught down on the under side.
The piece for the under part. is covered
plainly, and the two circles are overhanded
together with ”brown silk. The stem is
made of a narrow pliable steel. This is
icoyered with a narrow piece of brown
‘velvet which is drawn tightly around it,
and overhanded the length of the stem and
[neatly finished at each end. Turn over one
endthalf an inch and sew the flattened part
to the under sides of the circles, so placing
it that the stem shall come directly from
the centre. Cut four leaves of the card-
‘ltoard, shaped like the small green leaves
of the sunflower; cover each onewith green
velvet and overhand each pair together
‘with green silk. These are to be sewed to
'-the stern about half way down from the
“flower and a little below the other, and
should be bent back or outward from it.
’The petals are of cardboard, and enou 1h
"should be made to fit around the circle,
nearly touching each other. Two -a':e re—
*‘quired for each petal, each covered with
"satin and overhanded together with silk
the same shade. The base of each petal is
' square, and this part is sewed ti.) the velvet
«circle, placing the petals so, they nearly
touch each other. The pins .are stuck
- round the edge of the petals, allowing the
,heads to slightly project beyond the edge
not the flower. There are exceedingly
,pretty.

To make a shell needlebook take two
clam shells and binge the shells together by
means of a strip of cotton cloth which must

ibe strongly gummed to the back, to hold
the halves together. When perfectly dry
gild the shells both inside and out with gold
,_paint. Take several pieces of different
colored fl'annel or felt, cut the same shape
as the shell, pink the edges and sew to the
cotter. cloth which serves as a hinge.
Plate a bow of ribbon where the shells are
jOi’ned. You can paint a dainty little

‘ [Itcture onupper shell if you desire. Take

» this same shell prepared as above, cut the
leaves of chamois and pink the edges and
you have a pretty penwiper with very little
variation.

For a pretty apron get the white goods

‘that comes in small checks, and work with
.Bcotch embroidery flow in a simple old-
‘ fashioned crossstitch pattern. About
twelve stitches deep will make quite a
wide border. Turn up ahem at the bot-
tom and fasten down with cross-stitch
work. Work the strings in same manner,
make them of ribbon to match embroidery
If any of the "hints” here written are
. {of any use I shall be much pleased.

4‘ Merry Christmas” to ah.
i Ions-r Loner. - MILL‘MINNIE.

 

 

FROM THE PACIFIC COAST.

The door of the HOUSEHOLD is knocked
at with fear and trembling, btit at last I
have plucked up courage and concluded
to try my luck.

The Housnnonn 'has come to us for
nearly three years anil we have enjoyed it
very much. Last July our home was
changed from the Michigan Agricultural
Collegeto Oregon Agricultural College,
and being so far Irmn our old friends the
little paper seemli eVen dearer than before.

The Oregon Agricultural College was in
connection with the South Methodist school
until last year, when the connection was
severed and they builtatwenty thousand
dollar building which is no» the main
building. ITheir grounds are on the west
side of Corvallis, which, as the name in-
dicates, is in the heart of the Willamette
Valley. The foot-hills of the Coast. Range
seem to 'be only a short distance from the
grounds but are two or three miles away.
This 'year a farm of one hundred and
fortv~five acres was added to the forty
acres upon which they have put their
buildings. A dormitory, mechanical
’ouilding andbarn have been built this
year. The grounds lack the beautiful
trees of which the Michigan grounds can
boast, but this deficiency will be supplied
in time.

Both boys and girls attend this school,
and now there is an attendance of about
one hundred and'fifty. They have a lady
to teach the young ladies cooking and
sewing. .

The boys dress in military suits of grey,
while the girls have suits of navy blue
flannel, plain full skirt, waist with wide
belt and several rows of white braid on
the belt, sleeves tucked with wide cuffs
finished to matcn the belt. The girls
make their own dresses under the instruc-
tion of Miss Snell, their teacher.

If I am allowed to enter perhaps I will
try again and give you some idea of the
Willamette Valley, climate, mountains,

people, their peculiar phrases and so torth.
Conunus, Oregon. 0. M. F.

 

RAISING MONEY FOR CHURCH
WORK.

It is only too true, I believe, that the
words of Henry Ward Beecher quoted by
E. L. Nye in the Housnirom) of Oct. 19th
are rapidly coming to pass; but this pre-
diction is of more ancient as well as more
honorable authority, for more than 1800
years ago St. Paul spoke of those perilous
times which were to come when “men
would be lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God.” Those laws given by God
to the Israelities I believe are no less bind.
ing upon us “ Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it. holy',” means something, al-
though we of this nineteenth century
may choose to interpret it very loosely,
forgetting that His word says, “ Woe to
them that call evil good, and good evil.”

I don’t believe God has changed His
mind in regard tothese things; howthr
we. his children, may let his laws “fade
out ” of our hearts and lives. Sin is sin,

3

and our feelings or wishes or thoughts
cannot change sin o'ne’iota, and . we read
He cannot look upon sin with the leastde-
gree of allowance. “Puritanical notions”
fading out? Why yes, what would the
Christians of fifty or one hundred years
ago have thought of the means now used
to raise money in support the gospel? God
required the Israelites to give one-tenth,
and St. Paul commanded the Corinthians
on the first day of the week to. each lay by
in store asthe Lord had prospered him; buts,
with comparatively few of His children is
this now practiced.

We have the socials, the suppers and
the fairs, where often four dollars are
spent to get five; indeed I’ve. often thought
if the labor was counted of .any'worth it
would be five spent to get 'four. 'I do be-
lieve if Christian people would give their
money right out to the Lord’s .work it
would be just as acceptable to Him and do
just as good service as after it was con-
secreted in this manner.

Not long since I attended “an old-
fashioned deestrict skule” where men and
women, dressed in the styles of the chil-
dren of thirty years ago, acted the
awkward schoolboy and the: silly school-
girl to perfection, one man taking the part
of a stuttering boy and .even taking the
names of an old man who died in that
vicinity less than a year ago, who was thus
afflicted, and over $40.was raised by this
means for church work. Do you suppose
God was well pleased ~with.;the.manage-
ment? 1 am wondering .to-what means

~God’s people will resort-five or six gen-

erations hence, to raise money-to support
the gospel. Then a few years .ago His
children didn’t play cards or- attend the
theater, but now we hear of the "1 pillars"
of the church being found ins-the play-
house. Well, welll perhaps those sup-
ports are getting weak, and down into the
sands each building will surely fall which
is not founded upon the rock.
FIDUS 1A0 H ATUS.

w.

CHAT.

 

A true gentleman inmy opinion is one
who when he meets and addresses alady
does it in a quiet, unobtrusive way,
whether it is in the lifting of the'hat or in
the friendly how. I do not agree with
Jessie that a gentleman can be. told by
the lit ting of the hat any more than I be-
lieve a lady can be t old by the fine clothes
she has on. Some of the most gentle-
manly men I ever knew never thought of
lifting the hat. Jessie also says: “ 'lfcountry
boys would cultivate their manners they
would not complain about the girls ad-
miring city boys.” Now why is this so?
Is it not because they ere more .for style
and show than they do for true merit?
Many a country girl has spurned the at-
tentions of a true, manly country young
man, and accepted those of the city bred
chap, only to find too late that all is not

gold that glitters. Uncut Jon.
Mmunn.

 

Ir was kind of Polly to answer mein'so

 

thoughtful a manner, although my ‘best

 


 

4.: T'HE H\OUSEHOLD.

 

:friend says “ she avoided the question."
I hope a number Of the ladies of the
HOUSEHOLD will saysomething in regard
to Mrs. Serena Stew’s query, “ Are we tO
be governed by dress? " It seems to me I
should be more troubled at the prospect Of
a call from Simon's Wife (or such a person
as she professes to be) than a cultured lady
who would courteously make me feel at
case. One easy way to raise money
at socials is to vote for the prettiest lady
present. It makes considerable talk and
fun. If you want your choice elected you
can vote several times—if you pay for it.
ANNA.

 

WILL not Lilla Lee soften her expres-
sions concerning people of middle age,
who have not the rounded rosy checks, the
ruby lips and fair complexions Of the
young and who seem to be so repulsive to
her? Our faces in middle age are covered
with hair, but God gave us this to cover
the furrows in our checks that care and
time have worn. When in youth, attend-
ing on the “pet stock in the parlor,” we
had no need of them, but the great shaggy
whiskers so repulsive in the average man of
middle age are a necessity, if not Of beauty,
then of health. When were husbands “ too
dull” to appreciate the self sacrifice of
their gentle. obedient wives? It must have
been in the Garden Of Eden, when Adam
was never sufficiently grateful to Eve for
saving him trouble about picking apples.
I have agreat admiration for the beautiful;
however, tastes differ; the bud or blossom
never held the power over me that a good
apple does. Lilla wants a general awaken-
ing Of husbands and fathers, and so-called
heads Of families. Dear me, I wonder if a
franchise for women would change the
habiliments of the “heads ” from coats to
crinolinel n. A. B.

 

CRANKS.

 

This is a queer old world. Queer people
in it. "Ah. yes,” says some hair-splitter,
“ but you know the world is the people, and
the queerness is caused largely by the fact
that they, individually, want the earth. and
by the motives by which they are moved
and the measures they adopt in their efforts
to secure a warrantee deed of the progressive
little planet.” '

Now, this is all very correct, indeed we
see the point and stand corrected. That is,
we are somewhat corrected. Corrected up
to the argumentative point, which is about
as far as some sorts of minds ever can be
corrected. I don’t say that these are the
most delightful people in the world to live
with. cepecrally they are not delightful to
those who delight in having it all their own
way. but to those who like some variety
they afiord what passes for entertainment.
Then, too. they not unfrequently develop
into hobby riders; and decry them as you
may. say what you please against them in
scorn. .derision or disgust. the hobby riders

~ are the world’s best benefactors. I respect.
'honor, reverence them more and more.
They are made Of material that repels the
attacks of ridicule and doubt as Gibralter
repels an assault of musketry. Q zser peo-
ple—these so called “ cranks,” and as a rule

 

they do not want .the earth. but seem to have
been “foreordained"-yes, I believe in
that, too, foreordinntion—and fully equipped
for working out, under Providence, some
law or acme principle involved in a law Of
science either social, domestic, religious or
ethical. Rebuilt only makes them more reso-
lute. They “get lighting mad,” make
enemies amongst the conservatives. lose
caste among their townsmen, are dubbed
disagreeable, oneoidead, old nuisances,
whom nine out of ten “hate to see coming.”
and yet through it all they persistently per-
sist in publishing by word of mouth or
printed document their pet doctrines,

theories, plans, inventions or revelations. '

scattering whether the worla‘ will or not,
seed that is bound to find root, to grow and
bear fruit—fruit that in time the wayward
world consumes with the keenest relish,
crying “ OJ, luscious and fair, i‘eustenance
Of my very soul art then i”

Q leer again, isn’t it? The deadly poison
of yesterday is the health potion of \tO-day i
When I contemplate the wonderful we rks of
Wizird Edison, I often seem to see, it may
be in the near, it may be in the far future,
the secret chambers that conceal the foun-
tain Of life and its mighty mystery ran-
sacked, ravished, robbed of all the charm
of. uncertainty that lies about “whence
cometh our life?” and the darkness that
fills all space beyond the door of death
lighted with some ghostly glare which will
make wooden spectacles necessary to’peace
of mind among men. Now no one would
for one moment he so base as to assert that
Edison wants the earth. But whewl isn’t
he getting it though? Well, I hope he’ll
make good use of it, and not keep it all in
the family. I’ve just been reading a new
magazine, yes, new, for on the title page is
Vol. 2, No. 1, and 'twas published only a
few days ago in a metropolis of Uncle Sam’s.
It is superfine in make up materially, paper,
type, illustrations, etc. At a cursory glance
it is “good.” On a studious tour of in-
vestigation it is published in the interests of
a family that wantthe earth. A family that
evidently have drank so deeply Of the cup
Of public flattery—duly seasoned at the out-
set with honest praise and heartfelt sym-
pathy—that they seem finally to have fully
concluded in their own minds that they
constitute the centre of the system round
which the earth travels in its orbit. Heroes
and heroines, noble men and noble women,
gem the history and the hearthst'ones of our
nation as thickly as the stars gem the firms-
ment, but when any one of them puts the
trumpet of the press to his or her own lips.
shouting through it round and round the
world, “ Behold in me and in my posterity
the grandest, the brightest, the noblest and
best of human kind 1” we simply say “rats!
bah!" and turn away in disgust.

New, people of this stripe are queer, not
because they were ft'reordained thus to be,
but because by whipping out on some side
track, short cut or materializing ethereal
dodge, they are figuring to come in on the
home‘stretch way ahead of the good old un-
bustable boilered engine, Foreordination.
Well. let ’em blow and put! and crowd on
steam. Crack Of doomsday will be sure to
find their trumpet worse for wear, their wind
uncertain as to points of compass and their

 

 

engine in the predicament Oi H limes “ One
floss Shay" on its hundredth birthday.
And now if I have not demonstrated the
truth of the assertion with which I set out,
show wherein I have failed. for this is a queer
world; queer people are in it; also the
world is the people and the people are the
world. Taken altogether it is a queer com-
pound. A compound which only a wise
philosopher can take as a daily tonic for
forty or fifty years without occasional gripes.
grumblings and good-fellowships.
Dmaorr. E. L. NYE.

W

‘ CHURCH AND STATE.

 

I also am interested in the Sabbath ques‘
tion, and with Mrs. Sexton would say “it
is fraught with terrible issues;” terrible if
the church shall so far lose its hold on Gad
as to place its vital interests in the hands of
earthly governments. Let this be done,
and the church will (as in the days of
Constantine) be filled with offiss seekers
who know nothing of true religion. and
only join the church to be in favor with the
people; and thus the standard Of true re-
ligion will be lowered to the dust.

God has established civic governments for
the rule of nations, but neoer for the rule of
the church. The spirit and the word of God
is the only government the church needs.

Our children must be taught at home
reverence for God’s holy day, and all His
holy precepts. “Train up a child in the
way its should go, and when he is old he
will not depart from it.” No amount Of
religious legislation will make Christians of
our children; our faithful training must do
this work. Men reared under that infie-

euee will go forth to bless the world. Let
us labor to chi istlanize the homes. and let
our constitution remain as 011' fathers found—
ed it, with free religious rights to all men.
Oar civil rights are‘ already amply protected.
and our religious assemblies are by law pro-
tected from disturbance. Our homes are in
our own hands.
AUNT ANNE.

———ooo
A PHYSICIAN cautious against night-
dresses which are too tight-fitting. or which
button. too closely about the throat, saying
the constriction caused by certain uncon-
scious movements of the head during sleep
is very apt to result in mechanical constric-
tion of the brain, productive at sudden
cries, sleeplessness, etc.. in children...
——-.O.—-—-——

THE HOUSEHOLD cannot give space \9 a
discussion respecting which day Of the wean
the first or the seventh, should be Observed
as the day of rest, or the Christian holy day.
The subject is not within the province of
our little paper. This will explain to
“Winkle” why his letter is not published.
We have had about enough of the Sunday
question, too, and will consider the subject
“barred” hereafter. Farmers, and especial-
ly that class who take the MIcmaax
FARMER. do not, as a rule, number irrever-
ence or disrespect for the Sabbath among
their sins.

 

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Contributed Recrpes.

 

ENGLISH Pnrnr Penman—One pound bread
soaked in milk; two pounds sugar; one pound
each of raisins. currents and suet: half pound
flour; quarter pound citron; halt pint mo-
lasses: quarter pint wine: five eggs; spices.

HOPKINS. ' Ana.

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