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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

TR UL Y POLITE.

 

‘ Naughty boys," said Johnny’s mother, “ oft
are rude to one another,

But I hope that you’ll remember careless man-
ners are not right;

And whenever and whatever your surroundings,
will endeavor

To be scrupulously, cheerfully and ceaselessly
polite.”

“ That I will,” said Johnny sweetly, and he kept
his word completely,”

And said “ Please,” and “ Beg your pardon,” in
a way that‘s seldom heard,

And “ Allow me,” and “Excuse me"—oh, it
really would confuse me

To enumerate his phrases as they constantly
occurred.

As a youth and as a man he still adhered unto
the plan '

He had so earnestly adopted as his gentle rule
of life.

And was often deferent'al when it wasn’t quite
essential,

As for instance to his servants, and his children
and his wife.

When his business up and bursted, and his
creditors were worsted,

With civility he told them he reg'etted such an
end;

And at his wife’s demising, with a courtesy sur-
prising,

He responded “ Dead, I thank you i” to the ques-
tion of a friend.

’What I write is but a sample [of the daily bright
example ~

Which he set to show how life by proper man-
ners may be greased.

Would that we might see another one so mind-
ful of his brother;

But, alas! he isn’t born, and John, alack! is long
deceased. ‘

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FRIENDSHIP.

 

An ancient proverb says: “It is a mis-
fortune of greatness to have no friends,”
and yet have you not often heard it re-
marked that ?‘ Great individuals seem to be
the only persons who possess friends?” .In
my opinion there is considerable truth in
both assertions. The friendships of great
men are, generally. speaking, stronger and
more deserving of the name of friendship
than the intimacies formed by those who are
inferior to them either in position or intel-
lect. It is Certainly the property of exalted
minds to' attract but few friends, and you
will invariably find where an individual’s
friends are few in number, they are for this
reason strong and lasting. It would be a
decidedly interesting subject to investigate
the causes which have in d uenced individuals

in tli‘e choice of their friends. Chief among -

all causes I would place sympathy, a desire
for‘whlch has led so very,»very many to

fidelity and devotion have sufficed to in-
fluence many intimacies. Indeed some
individuals are so great in their own eyes
and so fond of taking the lead that they
form intimacies rapidly with those who are
willing to submit themselves entirely to
their guidance, and this intimacy very fre-
quently passes for friendship. I think ac-
cidental circumstances lead to the forma-
tion of friendships to a greater extent than
a deliberate choice of the individual. Either
one of the parties, it may be, has been the
means of doing some service or kindness
to the other, thus linking them firmly in
the bonds of gratitude; or possibly some
person whom the other party would not
originally hive chosen f)! a friend may
nevertheless poss 388 such qualities as would,
under certain circumstances, enable him to

For instance, a practical nutter of fact
person very often likes one who is some-
thing of a visionary; and a person of sub-
jective mind will sometimes seek the
society of one the turn of whose mind is
objective.

Confidence is one of the prime objects
for which friendship is sought, and it is es-
sential to the perfection of a friendship. It
will generally be found that where there is
no desire for csnfidence there will be com-
paratively little craving for friendship; and
certainly the reserve which prevents a man
from opening his mind to at least one con-
fidant will also prevent him from forming
friendships in the proper sense of the word.
For mare companionship canmt, strictly
speaking, be termed friendship. There are
two classes of resemd persons, those who

 

render him just the kind of service, or at-
ford just the kind of comfort of which he
stands most in need, thus bringing them
together in close friendship.

Experience shows us that the characters
which seem most to attract one another in
the way of friendship are not such as a
superficial observer would suppose to pos-
sess any charm for one another, because,
perhaps, they have apparently very little in
common. This I think is owing to the
fact that in friendship, as well as in love,
individuals are very often attracted by at-
tributes the opposite of their own, thus
securing qualities in which they are them-
selves dehcient, but this is only natural, as
one of the purposes for which friendship
Was given to us is to supply deficiencies,
both moral and intellectual, in our own
character. One of the great uses of friend-
ship is to furnish us with a second self, and
we naturally do not care to find in that
second self a mere refisction or photograph
of ourselves. Of course the difference
must not be so wide as to destroy mutual
sympathy; there should be enough resem-
blance to produce congeniality of mind.
Now, supposing that this latter condition is
fulfilled, it will often be found that the one
point in which two persons present a strik-
ing contrast is- just the point of attraction
which cements friendship between them.
And yet strange to say, concerning these
very points of diflerence there may exist on
both sides a slighttdegree of contempt for
the sentiments, habits, tastes, or opinions
of the other party which is not only felt but
expressed. This contempt, as I say, must
necessarily be. slight, in fact there may be
all the time. underneath the surface, a secret
feeling of respect or admiration for those
very peculiarities which are made the sub-

 

cling closely together in friendship. Simple

jhct of banter between the two friends,

open their mindsand hearts to a certain ex-
tent to every one alike, but beyond that
particular point they :1) n): penetrate.
Such iu’lividails hm in genuine friends.
Those of the other class are very silent and
reserved towards the greater portion of the
world, but to the feiv to w'nm they do
open their minis they com the u entirely.
Persons of this ch tracker mrka very few
friendships. but those whic‘i they do make
are firm and abiding.

Another p llllli on which individuals differ
mrterially is concerning the particular kind
of persons to Wham they can open their
minds. There are some men who can do
this much more readily to one of their own
sex than to a woman; while with others the
reverse is the case. Those who are the most
sympathetic may not always be the safest
confi .lants; and on the other hand, we can-
not alway: rely on the sympathy of those
friends who are in other respects to be most
relied on. In short friendship is subject to
all the impirfections, both positive and
negative, which attach themselves to every-
thing else.

0 : some future occasion (Beatrix and
Lilla Lee kindly permitting) I may have
something to say on the causes which lead to
the dissolution of friendships. '

. Dn-raor'r. OUTIS.

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

TRAINING THE CHILDREN.

I sometimes see the word “dude” ap-
plied indiscriminately to the young men of
the city; and clerks called “counter-
jompers.” I have no idea how that last
name originated; I never saw a clerk j imp
over a counter. And these persons will
make excuses for the farmer’s boy because
he is not polite. And there is that discus-

, sion of who are gentlemen.

The dude may be a gentleman, but a
gentleman is not necessarily a dude. The
word “dude” is of recent origin, I could
not find it in my Webster’s Unabridged; but
he (1 .fines a gentleman as “ A. man of good
family; one who is well born; one of gentle,
refined manners; a well bred man.” It says
nothing of clothes, yet a gentleman wears
his clothes easily, whether new or thread-
bare; no matter how closely oscupied by his
work his manners are not forgotten. It
takes no more time for him to be polite than
for some others to be boors.

If country people were a little better
acquainted with city people and their ways,
it would be an advantage to them in more
ways than one.

I have been letting my mind run up and
down “Main street,” in our little city;
and I find the largest per cent of clerks
were country boys, raised on the farm, and
many of the merchants hive been farmers
as boys or men.

I will show you a specimen or two of our
country boys and these are not exceptions,
we have many such.

In our large new Methodist church there
are quite a number of ush rs; one is a
“counter-1n nper,” a C iristian young gentle-
man; one is a farmer boy, or young man,
who works with his father on the farm in
summer, and attends the college here in
winter. If you walk into the church on
Sunday morning, and both came forward
to escort you to a seat (which of cousse two
would not do), you could not tell from
their manners or their clothes or the way
they walked, which was the clerk or which
was the farmer; both look and appear per-
fect gentlemen.

One day last spring I was visiting a
friend (farmer); after tea, the son, a young
man, brought outa very beautiful microscope
costing $40, and entertained us a long time,
showing us mounted specimens, his ‘own

work.
There are plenty of educated, gentlemanly

young farmers in this section. It never ap-
pears to take any ex‘ra time to practice
their good manners. I expect they were
learners, when they learned to talk, and
when they learned their letters, in fact all
the way up. Now why cannot all country
boys learn good manners? Whose fault is
it? I am very much afraid we should not
have to go away from farm homes to find
the cause. I wonder if any of my readers
ever saw the mother and sisters laugh at
the boy or lad when he attempted to prac-
tice the manners of a gentleman! But few
can endure ridicule.

How many mothers in the country ever
taught their little sons to lift their hats to
ladies, or to take ofl their hats when they
entered a room where ladies are, and saw
that she was obeyed? And so with many
other of the distinguishing characteristics

 

of a gentleman! If children were thus
taught, the city snobs—not gentlemen-
would not have occasion to make fun of,
and call their boys “ mossback,” "hay-
seed.” “gawkey,” and “ greeny,” and
other opprobrious names, quite as well
merited as some of the scurrilous names
country people apply to city people.

Why is it so many country boys leave the
farm and go to town to clerk, or do any-
thing they can get to do? Is it not in many
cases for the advantage of refined sur-
roundings? This is a question which re-
quires a goodly amount of consideration.

ALBION. M. E. H.

.——...___

TEE BREEDING OF THE HUMAN
FAMILY.

0 .e of the conundrums of this life is, that
the seemingly sensible people of this en-
lightened age are so particular about the
breed of their horses, cattle, sheep and
swine; and are so indifisrent about the
breed of their own offspring.

If they wish to raise a colt they know
what breed they want, whether a heavy
draft horse, alight weight roads‘er, or a
medium betw.’en the two. They are very
particular that the animals chosen from
which to raise the colts shall not be ring-
boned or spavined, or have any other
serious blemish: because the colt will be
sure to inherit a weakness in that same
place.

But these same persons will choose weak,
diseased individuals for the other parent for
their own children, and also allow their
sons and daughters to marry into families
whose members have cancers, pulmonary
consumption, heart disease, granulated sore
eyes, or insanity; or where there are weak-
minded members through inheritance, not
by sickness; and will marry persons af-
flicted with goitre. Is it any wonder one
can scarcely find a perfectly healthy man,
woman or child?

Is it any wonder that such a vast army of
doctors live, thrive and often get wealthy at
the expense of the masses, beside the
colossal fortunes made by the thousands
who are constantly employed concocting,
bottling and shipping to all parts of the
country, to every city, town and hamlet,
their wonderful “cure-ails,” which are
guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir
to?

How much more is a thoroughbred animal
worth than a native? Every one knows the
value is several times greater. All our
most practical people are breeding toward
the best, to make their animals more per-
fect physically, and I think it is conceded
that the best bred are the most intelligent.

Newis it not high time that intelligent
people began to think about improving the
breed of their own families, the physical as
well as the mental? One has only to look
around him with discerning eyes to see the
need of improvement. How many—I’ll
not say perfect forms. but good forms are to
be seen in a crowd of a thousand persons?
There is no animal, however native, that
can show such a percentage of deformity or
ill-formity as we see all about us in mankind.
And are not minds also equally ill-balanced?
What causes so much insanity, murder,
robbery, intemperance, or any of the im

 

moralities which fill our prisons, reforma-
tories and asylums? Isn’t it because of
humanity’s ill-balanced minds?

This is not a new idea, though but little
considered in the present age. It was one
the theories of Plato, one of the ancient
Greek philosoghers, who taught that mar-
riages should be regulated by the State, be-
tween persons of such characteristics as,
blended, would be best for the succeeding
generation. Though I do not endorse»
Plato's method, Ithink there might be a
great improvement upon the methods of
today, where if a man has wealth, no-
matter about his age or the number of his
blemishes or infirmities, he can find plenty
of young, pretty, healthy ladies who will
take him for better or for worse, to love and
cherish, and all the rest of it.

We (103. great deal of bragging of our
“American indepeudancef’ if we are not
the slaves of a king, we are slaves of a
:nsaner thing—money. POLLY.

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MANNERLY BOYS.

 

I think Nettie must be laboring under a.
delusion. I did not say anything in my
letter to indicate that farmer boys are not
gentlemen. On the contrary, some of the
most polite gentlemen of my acquaintance
are farmers, but they are rare. And some
of the worst rowdies I know of are farmers’
boys, and they are not rare, at least in this
neighborhood. Let me tell of a boy of
thirteen or fourteen years (i. farmer’s son
too) who is a gentleman. lie always seats
his mother and sisters in church, and helps-
them or any other lady he chances to see
and be near out of the carriage, and many-
other little acts of courtesy, yet he is not
considered a “ dude” or is he liked less for '
being polite. I also have a cousin who was
brought up on the farm but whose mother
was a city girl, and he is one of the most
polished gentlemen Ilknow.

Such instances are not common. It is
generally conceded that city boys are more
polite than country boys. I cannot see any
reason why they should be. It does not
take long to be courteous,jso they need not
complain of the timejspent, and after they
have practised being polite awhile it be-
comes natural and easy :for them and they
are liked and respected a great deal more
by my lady acquaintances andIthink by
nearly every one.

I do not think Nettie would have a very
high opinion of the boy behind the counter
if he'was not polite and ready to show the
goods he is hired to sell: andl think he
would not stay there long, because the em—
ployer would not want a silent, moody,
ungentiemanly clerk :who keeps away cus-
tomers.

I am not an admirer’of “dudes.” I de-
test them as heartly as Nettie does, but I
am an admirer of true, polite, gantlemanly,
courteous boys and men. JESSIE.

—_—...__.

THE last addition to the HOUSEHOLD-
Album is a fine picture of “Mercy,” of
Metamira, now a resident of this city, for
which she will please accept sincere thanks.
We wish others of our contributors would
remember us in a similar fashion.


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THE HOUSEHOLD. 3:

 

A PHOTOGRAPH CASE.

 

I am not a housekeeper as yet, although I
think I enjoy reading the HOUSEHOLD as
well as any of the housekeepers do (13 we
have had it in our family for some time).
The fancy-work department interests me
most, as Iam'a lover of fancy-work, and I
think it is just as nice in our country homes
as in any.

A pretty photograph case or cibinet holder
is made of one-fourth of a yard of plush, the
same of satin, (which can be got for fifty
cents per yard that is nice for fancy work),
three-fourths yard of ribbon and one and
one-half yards of tinsel rope cord (out if
not easily gotten is pretty without) Get
plush and satin of corresponding colors. as
red plush and old gold SMi'l, old gold push
and blue or red Satin, blue plush and pink
or cream satin. Double tissue paper, basis
it on the back of satin, and stitch on the
machine with silk the color of the plush in
Squares or diam )lldS. Put the right sides
of the plush and satin together and sew
both sides and one end, turn and blind stitch
the other end. PM this end two-thirds of
the way up over the satin, and sew the
sides, satin for the lining forming a pocket,
which is long enough for either cabinet
pictures or panels. S w the cord all around.
Let-the other end fall over the front. Turn
back one corner and fasten with the bow of
ribbon. If one wishes to hang up, sew rib-
bons on each end and tie at the top.

I like Mill Minuie’s patterns very much;
hope she will send some more.

LAINGSBURG. FLOSSE.

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INSESTS ON HOUSE PLANTS.

 

A sure indication of the presence of red
spider among plants is the webs attached to
the under side of thelesves, often so fine as
to not be noticed at first. But take a pencil,
pass it in and out among the leaves and
branches, after placing the plant in strong
light, and they are quickly detected, while
the destructive spinner is not visible with-
out the aid of a glass; with one the sight is
surprising and immense numbers usually
seen on failing. faded plants. Every leaf
in this condition should be burned, and
also every "nearly killed” plant, every
pot scrubbed, and the shelf and easing near,
for this is the only way to destroy them.
Milder treatment only retards their work
until the atmosphere is again in a dry and
favorable state for their purpose. Their
presence indicates an atmosphere too dry
for the health of humanity, and only per-
sistent and vigorous treatment will answer
in dealing with this most destructive and
tough little foe.

Florists use a trifle of sulphur in fumiga-
tion, but it is unsafe for the inexperienced
ones as it will destroy foliage and plants
as well.

I use wood soot principally for roses, in-
doors and out, as it acts as an unequalled
fertilizer. As to using the condensed
smoke, or soot of hard cos], I rather doubt
its efli :iency as the fumes are certainly un-
healthful, but if others have tried it success-
fully let us hear of it, please. When house
plants are potted in clean pots in autumn
in suitable sell and given air and water'-

 

the water in the air more especially—there
will be no call for stimulants as long as
they keep in thrifty, growing condition.
It is not well to anticipate failure until it
threatens, and usually a removal of a part
of the soil or a spraying or two will set
them right.

. Many plant growers are too lavish in
watering the roots and neglect the foliage.
When this is the case the soil becomes sour
and white worms breed in the pots and
prey upon the roots, especially of the suc-
culent kinds, and soon enfeeble and finally
destroy the plants.

When the gr en fly or thrips is trouble-
some fumigating with tobaccr as prescribed
hyBe-a‘rix is available unless the remedy is
too disagreeable to use. Tobacco 1:. obnox-
ious to some persons. I wish i: might be to
all. Then pyrethrum powder used as for
files. or tobacco stems or black snuff azeeped
will do as well to spray with until entirely
free. A few healthy plants with fresh clean
foliage are far more satisfactory to the
grower than acrowded collection piled to-
gether without room or air according to
their needs, or the attention requisite for
health; and this condition favors the attacks
ofinsect enemies. Plenty of room is one
of the essentials in plant growing.

I will repeat my request to correspondents
to name the county (G inesee) in my ad-
dress, as my letters otherwise are apt to be
delayed by going to Trenton.

FENTON. MRS. .‘.I. A FULLER.

-—r-—-—.O.————

LONESOME.

I have always “stood up” for Northern
Michigan, and have praised pioneer life in a
new country about all it would stand. If I
had the ulterior idea of beguiling somebody
into purchasing our farm, so that we could go
back to civilizrtion and a city, 1 viii never
tell. But many of our HOUSEHOLD are not
appreciating the blessings they have, and
need to see the contrast; I wondered a
little at Brunefille on “ Talkative Women ”
a few months ago. 1 only wish that talka-
tive woman would visit me. And how can
Jannette by at. loss for something to talk
about? I have nine years of reserved con-
versation on hand and nobody to besto av it
on. 1 did out-talk an insurance man the
other day, and I made a young book agent so
welcome he was frightened out. But web at I
want is to have my dearest frienrkwho lives
five miles away, live next door to me on a
city lot, with a hole in the back fence. L‘fe
would then take on a brighter color to us
both. Not but that I have neighbors, but
the farms are all large and it makes the
houses far apart. The first settlers seemed
to think that a section was about the
amount of land one man could clear and
work to advantage.

E. L. Nye, don’t complain of the noise of
the city. If I could only have again the
scent of the mingled coal smoke and gas of
a city, thoug'i perhaps the electric light has
displaced gas by this time! I never saw an
electric light. I will let that sentence
culimate my faultfinding with the circum-
stances wherein Providence has placed me,
and I am just a little ashamed of it when I
know I have a pleasant, comfortable home,
and many of the dearest blessings of life.

 

But my spirits depend on the weather, audf=
the sun has not shone for many melancholy
days, and nobody has “ been visitin’” here.

Let me recommend to Ortis the new
patent button that is highly popular in the;
lumber camps. It is like a stout safety-
pin with a button soldered on it. You just -
pin it on and there you are, with no sign!
over your “outraged helplessness.”

Why should mm be so helpless? How'
little there is that an old man past active
life can do! When his eyes fail to.) much
to read, tobacco is the only resource left hisn,
while his wife cm still fill up the busy
hours with sewing. knitting and mending.
Work, something to do, is the best possible
prevention of morbid, dismal condition,
like “lousssmeness,” for instance. I am .
going to make a rag carpet.

Proxnnu. III‘LDAII PERKIXS.

___..._____

EVENING ENTERTAINMEN I‘S.

 

Ashort time ago I read in the HOUSE‘
IIOLI) Bluebelle’s letterreiuestiug some one
to suggest an interesting eutertaiummt for
these long winter evenings. We live in the
country, and as thingi were quite dull a feW'
of the neighbors have combined together
and hold what we Call our W. L L. E;
(White Like Literary E itertainmcnt).
It is not exactly a literary enter‘ainment,
but yet it is half in a name. The interested
ones meet once a week at the different
houses and each comes prepared with apart:
to perform of. some kind. S the one favors
us with a song, while another prefers an in-
strumental piece, a third a select reading.
and a fourth a recitation, etc.

I do not see any harm that can come
from these pastimes, but- believe them to be
a benefit to the people and the community.

All take part incur work, the older ones as .

well as the young.

I Wish Biuebelle sue: 33 in wh i-‘ever Sbe’
uniertakes, and if she should try my sug-r
gestion will she please let us know how she
succeeds. NETTIE.

Whirl: LAKE
~M‘.——.

A PRETTY FANCY BAG.

 

Make a bag of yellow satin eleven inches“-
long and eight inches wide. Gather it two
inches from the top, and run drawstrings of

narrow yellow ribbon through the gathers. .

S:t up on wooden or rubber knitting needles

as many stitches as will reach across the

width of the bag (twenty or twenty-two)

using “ kismet” which you can buy for ten"
cents a ball. Knit in plain stitch until you

have a piece large enough to cover seven
inches on each side of the y allow silk bag.

This should take just two balls of kismet,

but as your knitting may be tighter or per-
haps looser, i: is better to give the length in

inches. Bind off your stitches; fold the
piece together and sew up the sides. Put
the bag inside and sew them both together.

The kismet part is like open work, and the

yellow silk shows through. But you need.
not use yellow silk; any color that looks
well with the kismet will answer, and as-

nat comes in a great many varieties you.»
have quite a choice. This would be nice for-
little fingers that are busy at Christmas
gifts for their loved ones.

Fonss’r Lanes. MILL MINNIE... ’

 

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A PAINTING LESSON.

 

For the benefit of E. C., of Port Huron,
who wishes that some one would write about:
presents which those who do not paint can
”make, I will give my list of paints and
:some :gord rules to follow so I think she
'will-ha-ve little trouble in teaching herself to
arse them. For all kinds of decorative
work grey greens are the best. U~e bone
thrown and Schonfeldt’s zirc yellow; for
lighter parts add more zinc yellow and
white. For dark green use burnt sienna
and permanent blue. The light zinnobar
green, of which there are two shades, can
housed without mixing with other colors
for difie rent‘shades. For purple flo sets, as
pansies, use permanent blue and rose mad-
ader; add white for pale lavender, and bone
thrown for the shadows. For wild roses use
more madder, china white and a trifle of
mine yellow; for shadows use raw umber.
lFor white flowers use white, a trifle zinc yel—
iowiand bone brown; for the shadows use
thone brown. A good background for flow-
are is made by using bone brown, white,
yellow ochre, a tr he of permanent blue.
My list of colors includes china white,
Windsor and Minton’s yellow ochre, per-
manent blue, burnt sienna, raw sienna, raw
umber, bone brown, crimson lake and
vermiliion, rose madder, and Schonfeldt’s
zinc yellow, which is much less expensive
than lemon yellow and eiractly the same
shade. All of the above mentioned paints
are eight cents, with the exception of rose
cmadder and vermillion, which are both
twenty-five cents. One sable brush No. 8,
and bristle brush one-fourth inch wide will
{be all that is required to begin with. Use a

little unboilid linseed oil to thin the paint
it necessary. 9. F. 0.

Arm Anson.

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WISCONSIN D AIRYING.

 

"1 wonder if any one has missed Bess!
Probably not, but I have missed the HOUSE-
HOLD not having seen its familiar face for
three weeks. Am writing this warm rainy
day from the fine dairying state of Wiscon-
sin, and as I am now staying at a da1ry
farm I will tell the HOUSEHOLD readers
something about butter-making' 1n Jr fierson

v‘Count-y.

.lFirst, on this farm is kept a herd of
“ thirty cows, grade Holsteins and J :rseys.
"The butter-making is managed by the pro-
prietor. in a room built for the purpose. The
cream is raised by the Cooley system of
setting in cans. The churning is done by
horse power in a barrel churn; the butter is
thoroughly wasned in cold water after the
buttermilk is drawn oil, then left in the
water a short time, the water drawn ofi',
then salted in the churn, one and a fourth
ounces to the pound, gently turned a few

times, then placed on the worker and
.pressed and turned until sure the salt pene-
trates every part. The butter is then packed
in small wooden pails, lined with perch-3
vmeut paper, that hold eight pounds. After
being filled more than full the surplus 1s re-
moved ty drawing a small cord across the
top, then a piece of paper cov. rs the top,
the cover is placed on and it is ready for
the Chicago market, 'where it brings at

 

present 28 cents per pound. An accurate
account is kept of the number of pounds of
milkdaily, also the number of pounds of
butter made and sold, receipts, etc. The
average price for the year is 24 cents.

Here is where they use the. silo, well
filled with ensilage, out fine so they carry
it tothe cows in a basket, which is a new
thing to me. The water for the stock is
warmed by a heater placed in the tank, so
that the cows are never chilled by drinking
ice cold water. A regular system is carried
on both in feeding and milking: the milking
is done at a set time, and in regular rota-
tion; one dairyman insists the milker, if he
sings while m‘lking, shall always sing the
same tune to the same cow, and not sing
Old Hundred to the Yankee Doodle cow.

I omitted to say that it is evident the
farmers in this State do not believe that
milk and butter spring from the horns, as
it. is quite the style to have the cows de-
horned. There are men who are experts at
the business, and who travel around from
place to place dehorning for ten cents per
head. They claim the cattle are much
more quiet and docile when deprived of
their weapons of war, flocking together
like a drove of sheep. Bass.

“.99...-"

CHAT.

 

PERI-[ADS ii the lady whose ch1ld is
troubled with sleeplessness were to take
him outin the fresh air for about fifteen
minutes before his usual time for taking a
nap, it might help him; at least that is the
way I do with my baby, and it usually acts

like a charm. IVY GIBBS.
BIG BEAVER.

HERE is a bit of economy I hit upon the
other day. My little boy had adark blue,
double, knit cap, just a plain round one
without a front piece. After the first
winter’s wear it looked faded so I turned it
inside out. He wore it one winter in that
way. This winter I ripped the crown, in
the place where it was sewed together, and
turned the whole thing wrong side out,
sewed it up again, made a new ball for the
top out of yarn to match, and you would
not know it was not a new cap.

FLINT. ELLA R. WOOD.

 

I T00 am a reader of the HOU$EHOLD,
and wish to join with Nettie in defending
the boys. We have farmer boys elf here,
and some of them lift their hats to ladies.
I am a farmer’s daughter, and proud of the
name. 1don’t wish to say that our boys
can put on as much style as city boys with
their derby hats and gold headed canes, but
when we stop and think of the old saying
“A‘l is not gold that glitters;” we think
our boys with their appletree sauce and the
cap-52 that mother made are just as good as
the city dudes. My little brother wants to
know how a fellow is going to stop in cold
weather, untie his ear-larpe‘s and lift his
old cap to a lady. Some ladies would not
speak to a little boy. but I believe it is right
to speak to the young as well as the old.
I hope Bea trix will not form a poor opinion
of me, for 1 know 1 have been benefitted by
some of her advice, and would sooner give
ten cents to see her than to go into any side
show. N. E. B.

KENDALL.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

' Pnasrnn of Paris will stop a leak of 31-1
most any kind. It will mend tin-ware—so
will putty-ebroken lamps, holes in plaster,
and comes handy in many ways.

No matter how large the spot of oil, any
carpet or woolen stufi can be cleaned by ap-
plying buckwheat fl )ur plentifully, and care-
fully brushing it into a dustpan alter a short
time, and putting on fresh until the oil has
all disappeared.

THE Battle Creek Sanitarium recently
graduated five members. Baking powder
and soda are never used at the Sanitarium,
and the delicate shortcakes, layer cakes,
etc, exhibited as samples of the skill of the
graduates, were raised by yeast.

 

THE Nun of Kenmare, who lectured in
this city recently, says: “I believe if.
workingmen were properly fed at home
they would not go to saioons and drink. It
more money were spent in teaching girls
how to make good homes there would be
less liquor drinking.” There is a very
great deal of. truth in this statement. It
comes near being the temperance question
in a nutshell.

LAMP wicks can be made of canton flau-
nel. When cutting out garments save all
the strips that have a selvcdge for that pur-
pose. A strip that is wide enough to fit the
burner when doubled into two or three
thicknesses, with the raw edge inside, is
just right; then sew up the ether edges over
and over, flannel side in, with the nap
down. Biste and try them before sewing,
and if too large trim elf a paring.

11‘ is better to butter the cake-tin and
then dredge it thickiy with flour, than to
line the pan with paper. Fine granulated
sugar is better for cake-making than pul-
verized sugar, which is too largely adulterat-
ed with corn and potato starch. Make a
note of one item: Poor butter will not
make good cake. The best cakemakers say
they get more uniform results with cream of
tartar and baking-powder than with baking-
powder. '

ABOUT VINEGAB.-—A correspondent of
the Country Gentleman, who seems to
have studied the peculiarities of cider vine-
gar, which by the way, is the only kind fit
to use, says if we add nothing to cider
vinegar and take nothing from it, it will
die. Fresh cider will spoil vinegar it much
is put in at a time. Draw a pailful of cider,
let it stand in the air twenty-four hours, or
until it becomes dead, then add it to the
vinegar. When the vinegar “dies” the
“mother” becomes worthless also. This
correspondent says, “I took the dead
‘mother,’ washed it clean, dipped it in
molasses, put it back in the cask with a

gallon of good vinegar, filled it up a little at ‘

a time with good cider, deadened, and in a
short time we had good vinegar. Do not
put the ‘mother’ into a large quantity of
cider at once. Cider that has lost its life
and is dull, flat and tasteless, will not make

vinegar unless new cider or molasses is'

mixed with 1t.”

 

 

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