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THE HOUSEH OLD-'"Supplen‘ient.

 

 

GOOD TEMPER.

 

T. erc‘s no: a cheaper thing on earth,
Noriet one half so dear;

’Tis worth more than distinguished birth,
Or thousands gained a war;

It lend: to day a new delight,
'I‘i~ virtue’s firmest shield;

And adds more beauty to the night
'l‘h n all the stars can yield.

1: makttv povuty content,
To s .rrow whispers peace;

It is a gift. from heaven sent,
For mortals to inc-ease.

It meets you wi h asmile at morn,
It lulls you to repose;

A flower for peer and peasant born.
An everlasdng rose.

A charm to banish grief away—
To snatch the brow from care;

Turn tears to smiles, make dullness gay,
Spread gladn ss everywhere.

And yet ’tis sweet as summer dew
That items the lily's breast;

A talisman for love as true
As ever man possessed.

What may this wondr rus spirit be.
With power unheard before—

This charm, this briuht amenity?
Good temper—nothing more.

Good temper—’tis the choicest gift
That woman homeward brings.

And can the poorest peasant lift
To bliss unknown to kings.

———...._._._

TEE MERRY MASKERS.

“ Give mea case to put my visage in:
A visor for a visor—what care I
What curious eyes shal quote deformities?
Here are the beetle nrows shall blush for me.”

—1i‘omeo and Juliet.

All my life I have longed to go to a
masque ball. When I was young and
giddy, I had aspirations to join the revel
as the Witch of Endor, in long black
habiliments, a gutta—percha mask and a
lamp of burning alcohol to give the re-
quisite witch-like, uncanny effect. Since
I became sober-minded and serious, I have
been willing to be “ a looker-on in Venice”
and see others enjoy themselves. My long
cherished wish was gratified recently. The
Harmonie Society of this city—a wealthy
German organization——inaugurated Lent
with their annual masquerade, which has
become one of the social events of the
season, especially among the Germans.
And as the deacon never goes to the circus
because he wants to, but only because his
own or somebody’s small boy wants to
“ see the animals,” so I went to chaperone
a “tall and radiant maiden,” not because
I had any desire for such enjoyments, oh
dear no! certainly not.

Well, it was worth going to, for a new
experience. The great hall, with its
waxed floor reflecting the electric lights,

 

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was beautifully decorated with flags and
frstoons and streamers, and the glitter of
tinsel and gilding. The rows of chairs
reserved for spectators were filled with
elegant ladies and gentlemen in dress
suits; and the floor crowded wéth a restless,
swaying panorama of maskers, which
swept round and round to the crash
of a full orchestra. Here was John China-
man, in his gay flowered holiday robes,
waltzing with a bewitching Gretchen in
short skirt, peasant waist and hair in two
tails, and anon changing her off witha
monk in cowl and hempen girdle for
“ Morning,” in awhite tulle Spangled with
silver stars. The clown, in white canton
flannel and a fool’s cap, with an enormous
nose and a strut that “ gave him away”
to all who knew him, shook his bauble
and capered about alone. McGinty, lurid
as to hair, complexion and whiskers, and
with his clothes showing some of the
vicissitudes of his numerous adventures,
was doing the gallant to a pair of butter-
flies in black tulle skirts, striped black and
white bodices, and gauzy wings that proved
unmanageable and had to be taken off.
The average human being isn’t adapted to
the wearing of wings, not yet—and may
as well give up the attempt. “ Three Old
Maids,” with masks which somehow helped
you to a solution of the character they as-
sumed, clung to each other bravely and
resisted the attempts of ablack domino
and a Spanish cavalier to break up the trio;
each carried a fan with the inscription,
“I’m the Youngest.” The Queen of
Hearts in a cream-tinted dress bordered
with red hearts, swept by on the arm of
the gipsey peddler, whose stock of tin dip-
pcrs. Skimmers, etc., outrattled his tongue
-——which was saying a good deal. An
“ Emigrant Family,” six in number, made
one think an installment from a Michigan
Central transportation train had come up
from the station to join the fun; and when
they united in a double shuflie, the noise
of their wooden shoes was like the voice of
a free-trade agitator, and fairly made the
electric lights quiver. I mistrust one of
the be-skirted members was a boy mas-
querading in his sister’s petticoats; there
was an abandon about his movements, a
recklessness in his pigeon-wings and the
way those sabots came down which con-
vinces me the wearer was accustomed to
dance “ Jim Crow.”

Among the best and most noticeable of
the costumes were those of two Bedouins,
man and woman, faithful in detail, and
though neither were masks, the disguise

 

was complete. he absence of conven-
tional neckwear and the shadowing folds
of the cafran, and the peculiar headgear
worn by the lady, which included a cover-
ing concealing the lower part of the face,
so changed their appearance that their
friends could not “ place " them. Then that
peripzitetic tourist known as the tram;
made his appearance, tr e to life and as
natural as hundreds of himself; acoupl's
of idiotic looking policemen sanntercd by ,
Yankee Doodle polka-ed with Pocahontas,
and the homeliest Bridget you ever saw,
red-faced, wide-mouthed and freckied,
coyly repelled the advancei of a soldier, a
regular “ Champagne Charlie.” Another
full grown individual was inconceivably
grotesque under the face of a chubby,
round-checked baby. A pretty costume
intended to represent a pack of cards was
black, bordered with cards, with ahigh
Elizabethan collar of the same material,
another dress was profusely ornamented
with bits of pasteboard cut and marked to
imitate dominoes. There were three
“Topseys,” black as the proverbial ace of
spades, and dressed in regular TOpsey
fashion in “plain red and yaller,” ands. .
wealth of flowers bunched on their rakish
straw hats. They seemed to know every
body, and enjoyed mystifying their ac-
quaintances by cordial greetings which~
were somewhat coldly received. Must.
give one a queer sensation to be accosted .
in afriendly, intimate fashion in familiarizs
tones which for the life of you you cannot I
assign to anybody in particular, in the
absence of other means of identification. I
thought once or twice the trio were about
to claim acquaintance with me, and] an. ~
certain I should have said “Get out, i.
don’t know you!” in sheer desperation.

The pretty eirandiere, in her suit of;
scarlet and silver, whose feet were tireless-
and who flashed through the dance like
some rich-hued tropical bird, dropped.
breathlessly into a chair near us and was-
immediately besieged by a crowd of ad-
mirers each begging the favor of a dance.
The lucky man who secured the “next," '
amused me immensely. He filled his:
dress suit pretty well, but there seemed a
chasm where his brains ought to have
been. He was begging for one of the-
ornamcnts of the lady’s page sleeve as b».-
souvenir. “ Oh, now, I all-«such you, I do. »
think you might give me one, just a little ..
one! Now reah-ly, I ah-snah you I should .
prize it very much, I should indeed. Ga
an’t you be peh-suadud? Iah-suah you
i want it very much, I do rcah-ly.” But it,


IRREGULAR PAGINATION

9

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

' suspect the gay dress was hired of 9. cos-
tumer, and not one of the shining pendants
would the obdurate maid bestow, even
though thus besought by the oldest son of
one of Michigan’s best known men.

80 the gay throng tripped on, now
dancinglto the promenade music, now a
sort of animated crazy patchwork, till the
signal was given for the tableaux, which
represented vintage scenes, and were en-
livened by the songs and dances of the
countries represented; these over the music
played faster, and tripping feet followed
for a time, till the order was given “ Un-
masken!” Some merely loosened and re-
‘moved the mask overt‘e face, others re-
"tired to the dressing-rooms and left their
costumes, appearing in dress suits and
'r-conventional dresses; and it was amusing
‘to watch the little tableaux, not down on
the programme, when eyes looked rtcogni-
tion at friends or surprise at strangers.
Again the music and the dance, but eyes
and head were tired with glare and glitter
and the kaleidoscope scene, and through
silent streets, past watchful policemen on
their “ beats,” we went home at a couple
o’clock in the morning, not half as weary
asthose who danced till the lights palcd
at day-dawn, but quite tired enough and
inclined to say “ Had a great plenty, thank
you i” BEA'rnrx.

_.______...._____.
LMANNERS FOR FARMERS.

:1 am glad that Beatrix has the goodness
and courage to instruct those in need of it
on table etiquette as she does. Farmers’
sons and daughters should be ashamed to
have to appear at a discount before their
city cousins on a score like this, that costs
so little and means so must. I know it is
too much a fact and no less a shame that
farmers, because they are farmers, the
“ Lords of Creation,” allow themselves
either through thoughtlessness or else in-
ex-usable ignorance to be called “boors,”
“ignoramuses,” “clod hoppers,” “old bay

seed” and many‘ other expressive titles
that contain more truth than elegance, and
this thing will continue as long as they
give the same reason for such appellations
as have been enumerated by Bess and S. M.
.It is the putting together of such small

things that makes the man over the beast.
To some the manner in which a person
feeds himself may appear trivial, whether
with the fork or knife, just as there was a
time when the kind of cloth a person wore,
or the cut of a person’s suit, or whether he
were any at all, mattered little. It is no
less important that a person attend to these
details of table etiquette, and I think all will
readily concede that in no way can one so
thorOughly give themselves away, and their

. manner of living, than by the non-obser-
vance of these minor details. Beatrix is
deserving of credit for her instructions, all
she gets, I think. But Michigan farmers,
their sons and daughters, ought to be
above needing them, and when given
readily apply to their own cases if needed
and the less said the better. Because a
man is a farmer is it any less a reason that
he be a gentleman? COUNTRY.
HOWELL.

 

THE HOUSEKEEPER-BORN, NOT
MADE.

Very small and tame I looked in editorial
costume, I can assure you. but feeling
grateful that I was not consigned to the
waste-basket, it has given me renewed
courage. I think a good housekeeper is
born, not made. I believe the gift of
order and neatness comes to some just as
it is natural for some to learn music, others
painting; but though 0 der and system can
be cultivated to a certain extent, still there
is a great difference between the natural
and cultivated. Sometimes children at a
very early age will show signs of order and
neatness. I believe these qualities are
hereditary. Ialways notice that the natural
housekeeper wears out her broom in a dif-
ferent way than others. I have seen
brooms worn to a very stth and yet be as
straight across the bottom as when new.

Think for a moment how much easier it
seems for some to keep house than for
others. One does the work for a family of
four, has everything in order and has
leisure to spare, while another works from
morning until night, her work never done
though she has taken more steps than the
first. Housework is drudgery to the last,
while the good housekeeper enjoys her
work. I have noticed what people do
well is the work they enjoy.

ltoo speak in behalf of the girls. Do
not confine their work to dish-washin g. I
detest dish-washing to this day because 1
did so much of it at home.

I saw quite a pretty carpet the other day
it was blue denim sewed up so the wrong
side of the denim was for the right side of
the carpet. The other furniture of the
room and, the spread and shams were lined
with pale blue, but if you have shams
throw them away, for now the long slim
old fashioned pillows laid flat on the bed
are the style. RUTH.

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ETI QUETTE FOR FARMERS.

The spirit moves me to speak, and speak
I must. Three cheers for Beatrixl Ido
not always approve of the sentiments ex-
pressed in the HOUSEHOLD, but when we
receive such encouragement and good
advice, in regard to methods of improve-
ment, as are given us in the article 0n
table. manners, I think it is displaying a
decided lack of ambition and, culture to
criticise them with the sweeping remarks
used by some of the correspondents.

Ihave always held the view that the
women of the farmer’s household were
more ready to accept improvements, and
were more zealous in lifting the oppr0~
brium attached to a farmer’s calling, in
general, than the men. I fearI must re-
cant. Perhrps I think, as the small boy
said, that right thinking people are the
ones who “think just as we do,” but as
long as there is a chance to think, why not
be climbing as well as slipping hack into
the mud? Be sure your husband and chil-
dren will not be more refined than you;
teach them and set the example.

Bess refers to an invasibn of threshers as

i a conclusive argument that napkins and

 

forks are suitable only for city tables.
Does she not think if each individual
thresher had been brought up at home to
eat with his fork, he could manage to
satisfy the inner man in the same way at
her table? In regard to napkins the
argumentis weak. A tableful of threshers
is an entirely different thing from one’s
own family table, and if I understood‘
Beatrix she did not treat of the “ Etiquette
of a Spread for Farm Hands.”

I wonder if the adverse critics have
never seen a. family in the country who
used the methods of polite society and
survived them? I could mention twenty
cases of farmers’ families who do their
work and all the drudgery of a farm, and
use napkins, eat with their forks and
serve dessert in a separate course. Per-
hapsI am radical upon the subject, but
I can see no good reason why a farmer,
simply because he is a farmer, need be
less refined than his city cousin.

“Straws show w ich way the wind
blows,” and where a family have intellec-
tual culture and broad views, they gener-
ally reach as far as the home table. Let
us hear from Evangeline upon this subject.

Gnass LAKE. MRS E. W. 0.

.——.—-°..———_.

WOOL COMFORTERS.

I would like to ask if any of the farmers‘
wives know how much nicer wool is than
cotton for comforters? Take eight or ten
pounds of wool (tags will do, but require
more washing), wash them thoroughly in
suds, rinse and spread out in the sun to
dry, leave it out for a month perhaps, to
get the woolly smell out, then pick it apart
by hand; this is nice work for children.
When you make it up sift ten cents worth
of any agreeable sachet powder on it. I
always use worsted for the outside cover.
If one has time or a piecing grandma they
can use the remnants of dresses, and the
new pieces always left over. I have just
made a pretty one by making four squares
for the centre, of log cabin, around this
four strips eight inches wide of brick work.
Cut the pieces about the size and shape of
a brick and sew them on a foundation, one
overlapping the next strip. I made of crazy
work, thereby using all the small pieces.
It was now square, and to make the desired
size I put another strip of the brick work
on each end. I thought I had started in
for an all winter job, but with the help of
another pair of hands we accomplished it
in a couple of weeks, only working after-
noons when nothing else was at hand.

This balmy weather makes us think of
gr tting our flower beds in shape, but where
oh where will our next summer’s ice come
from? City people may possibly use the
imported, but Iam afraid the farmer won’t.
If this is aspecirnen of Florida winters with
Miclri Ian roads, I guess the old fashioned
winter is good enough for me.

What is the matur of our bread this
year? Sincethe new flour came to hand
we have had no nice bread. Our process
heretofore turned out nice sweet white
loaves; r ow it is coarse and dark. Would
like to inquire if any one else has the same
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FARMERS’ CLUBS .

 

[Paper read at the February meeting of the
Liberty r‘armers’ Club, by Mrs. Maria L.
Crispell.] ‘

It seems to me that no organziation has
ever existed among farmers, which may re-
sult in so much good to them generally as
the farmers’ clubs. And it seems as if
something ought to be said, some induce-
ment offered, which will result in clubs
being more generally organized through-
out the State and nation.

I am not vain enough to think I can do
much towards inducing others to organize.
Yet even a mite sometimes helps, and
with the hope that even my mite may be
instrumental in inducing others to see some
of the advantages to be derived frOm the
clubs, I have written this.

The greatest benefit I have ever been
able to see, arising from these meetings,
lies in the education which farmers get
from them. They exchange ideas; each
says what he or she thinks upon any sub-
ject which may be brought before the
Club, and I think no subject is excluded.
One great want among farmers is the
ability to express their ideas. As a class
they have Very many ideas, and valuable
ones too. But they have never been in the
habit of getting up in public and express-
ing these ideas. Hence they are easily em-
barrassed, and but few comparatively will
try to express themselves. When in the
club some one advances a thought which
spurs some diifidcnt one up to reply, he is
by replying helping to gain confidence in
himSelf, and by continuing to reply
when he thinks of something to say, he
gradually gains enough confidence to
speak in some other place. I have fre-
quently heard farmers say “ I can think of
enough to say while sitting, but cannot get
up and say it.” HenceI think the clubs
are an excellent school for farmers, and
others also who will attend them. An-
other advantage is they have no closed
doors to any one. All are invited to attend,
and all have an equal chance to participate
in the discussions. There may be other
institutions from which the members ex-
pect . to derive greater financial benefit
than we expect to gain through the clubs,
yet I cannot se why any benefit which
might accrue financially from any other
organization among farmers, may not
come from the clubs equally as well, if
clubs are organized generally throughout
the State, and will cooperate with each
other.

Education is an excellent thing for any
one; we cannot have too much, providing
we make a good use of it. Study disciplines
and enlarges the mind, and fits it to receive
and relain.things learned. It tnakcslittle
difference how much we study, if we do
not think of the things we are studying
enough to retain them in our minds and
make use of them afterward. To awaken
thought is of the first importance. lfwe
can spend only a few minutes each day in
study or reading, and think upon what we
have read while about our Various tasks,
we shall be surprised at the amount of in-
telligence we will gain. I do not see why
farmers when at work in the fields may not

 

think upon the various subjects presented
to their minds by reading or discourse, as
well as any one in other departments of
life. It is not necessary that people should
sit down with idle hands to think; our
minds can keep pace with our hands at the
same time, and in a direction entirely dif-
ferent. It is the habit we need to culti-
vate which will enable us to become useful
citizens in many ways.

Do I hear some one saying farmers can‘t
find time to read? I think there are many
who spend their evenings and leisure time
at the corner store, smoking and telling
stories which can never do them any good,
and who go home with their breaths and
clothes so filled with tobacco smoke as to
make them objects of disgust to their wives,
daughters and sisters, who might devote
the time so spent in self improvement.
Do any of the tobacco users stop to think
how much nicotine tobacco contains?
How many valuable lives are lost to the
world, by cancer and other diseases which
nicotine poison causes? Cancers are in-
creasing in extent, and scientific men do
clare that tobacco causes many of them.
I am thankful to be able to say there is no
“open bar” in Liberty now, where boys
or men can spend their time drinking, and
Ihope the good people of the town will
see to it that the fair name of Liberty is
never again disgraced by anything of the
kind. I believe the farmers’ clubs in the
town can and ought to do much towards
preventing anything of the kind ever being
allowed here again. I do not see why
farmers’ clubs may not help in any and all
good works of whatever kind. Are we
not all helping ourselves by helping others
toa better life? Is there anything more
degrading than a dram shop, whether
licensed or not? We are members of one
great whole, and the degradation of a part
affects the whole. The influence of a good
life, or a good institution, reaches much
farther than we are apt to think. We
were created with capacities for social en-
joyment, if we neglect to culzivate cur
social natures, Selfishness and many chel
undesirable traits of character are develop-
ed, which are likely to make us a burden
to ourselves and others with whom we are
associated.

I know of no place which offers better
opportunities for developing our social
natures than the farmers’ club. The good
dinner always served adds much to the
social enjoyment. We can also do much
towards educming the moral nature. We
should encourage our young people to at-
tend, and seek to impress upon their minds
the evils of tobacco, alcohol and other
vices they are apt to fall into. There is
much they can do towards making the
meetings enjoyable for all. They can
furnish music. recitations, essays and assist
in the discussions, and receive as much
benefit in that direction as older ones; and
the probability is they have mo:e years of
life before them in which to enjoy the
benefits gained than the older members.

There was a suggestion made at our
union meeting by a member of the Coltra-
biit Club which impressed me as cXCellcnt,
namely, that when a paper was read at

 

 

any club, which contained merit, that it be
passed fr -m one club to another, so that
several can be benefited by it. The thought
comes, would it not be better to have such
papers published in the MICHIGAN FARMER
and in our county papers, and thus reach a
larger number.

It. seems to me that the mission of farm -
ers’ clubs is to assist in bringing out the
latent qualities farmers possess and educat-
ing them to think, and express their
thoughts intelligently, in impressing upon
their minds the importance of keeping
order, and learning the proper ways of
doing business, even according to parlia~
mentary rules.

..___..._.___.
A CAUSE OF HOME UNHAPPINESS.

On the subject of “marital misery ” I
have been raking up memories and sifting
my observations preparatory to giving my
version. Possibly Ihave been associated
with a peculiar class, but I am prepared to
make an affidavit that up to this time four-
thirds of the unhappiness I have known
in married life is traceable to relatives of
various degrees of nearness and distance.
We look mournful and occasionally allude
to the inevitable “skeleton.” I’shaw! I
know the old skeleton that does not dwell
in the closet, but sits by the fireside and at
the table, and has the coziest places all
round. Ihave felt the touch of the old
bony fingers and dwelt in the shadows
and been haunted by the gloom upon
occasions when otherwise life would have
been joyous. Sometimes it is “his folks,”
sometimes it is “her folks.” It may be a
man but it is oftener a. Woman, who is de~
pcnde..-t for shelter and protection upon
those for whom she waits with a wet.
blanket to flop over all tender moods, with
an accurate record of all failures and mis~
takes ready to be trotted out singly or in
pairs, three times aday, with triplets for
rainy mornings or days when the whole
universe seems to go wrong. It is not
quite forty years ago that I first remember
one of the e breeders of misunderstanding
who tried to sow the seeds of “ incompati-
bility” and open the way for divorce. I
have stood on the wood pile and Watched
her ride off on horseback and wished she
would fall off and get killed. This old
Aunt Polly always brought insinuations
and slanderous tales, and left my mother in
tears and tilled with suspicions. Things
ran smoothly enough. between her visits,
and the visits were tolerated by a generous
husband through regard for the wife.
Possibly an early death saved worse
things. There was another. Still a sister.
My father’s sister. She came once a year
with a green crapc veil over her face and a
red silk hindkerchief constantly in hind
to hold the melancholy tears. She always
Came unannounced, and duringa visita-
tion of a month spent most of the time in
the graveyard and talked [lay and night of
the doll-fol things on earth and in heaven.
She never brought money to pay her fare
home, and never failed to make Consider-
able purcbascs at the stores and charge
them to my lather, who remained in
ignorance of them until abill came in.

  


    

3 THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

Too proud to expose the aggravation, it ran
on for years and great forbearance alone
kept down discontent or strife.

I have in mind a second marriage where
the first wife’s sister is “tolerated ” be-
cause, neV« r having been independent
enough to try to do anything for herself,
she lived with Mary Ann. Never having
so much as made herself a dress—never
having earned a penny in her life—~one of
the altogether incapable women, she prides
herself on her ability to make No. 2 “ feel
her position.” She calls and requests
private interviews with the husband,
whispers in his ear‘ in the church aisle.
talks low on the opposite side on the way
home, brings letters to be read by him only,
and in a thousand ways that cannot be re-
sented makes life uncomfortable for the
wife.

Another case comes to my mind. A hus-
band has his aged father to support. The
old gentleman is trying to train the wife.
\Vheu she leaves the kitchen a few minutes
he washt s the dishes in the scrubbing pail
and scolds when she uses soap. He also
prefers to do his own cooking at odd times
of day, with the grease and dirt thrown in.

I could enumerate scores of cases of dif-

ferent shades. Intemperate brothers, un-
grateful sisters, desolate old women not so
near, who subsist on the charity or gen-
erosity of perhaps the last one to whom
they can make any claim of blood, yet
whose bounty is received with no show of
gratitude. There is no telling the annoy-
ances endured, the joys broken in upon,
the plans frustrated, the coolness brought
between husbands and wives-«the estrange-
ments made through this endeavor to
shelter superannuated relatives. When
home ceases to be cheerful and all merri-
ment is frowned down and fault finding
reigns, affection takes wings. If there is
anything worse than becoming a dismal
old skeleton dangling round the hearth of
one's friends, what is it? And what shall
be done with these skeletons to whom
hundreds of poor wives are yoked? Let
us dispose of this cause of discord before
we tackle some others, for I am persuaded
that it is quite as serious as any.

Sr. Lonrs,Mo. DAFFODILLY.

————'...—_—

WE have received a letter from a cor-
reSpondent who wishes to review and
further explain the cause of the recent split
in the W. C. T. U., alluded to in the
Housnnom) of Feb. 15th. As the writer
says that the purpose of the organization
“ has been long ago declared to follow the
white banner of prohibition wherever it
may be displayed ;” and - as the Iowa dele-
gation, according to Associated Press des-
patches—which are non partizan and re-
liable—withdrew on the grounds stated by
the HOUSEHOLD, our correspondent and
the press—i. e., the proposal to pledge the
organization to the support of the third
party, we do not see the necessity of a dis-
cussion of the matter.

have the right to withdraw from it if they

feel it no longer represents their sentiments;
and there should be no bitterness or hard

Any members of
an organization of any nature whatever

CHAT .

 

M. E. H., of Albion, asks: “Will Mrs,
Ray, of Concord, or Mrs. J. M. West, of
Fairfield, tell me what kind of salt they
use in butter. I have for many years
used the Ashton dairy salt, but the last I
purchased and that bought once before was
far from being clean.”

M. L., of Dexter, says: “Personally I
know nothing of the culture of the Christ-
mas rosc, but I find in H. W. Buckbee’s
catalogue of seeds and plants for 1890, a
good description and method of culture
plainly given. If Mrs. E. C. will send to
H. \V. Buckbee, Rockford, 111., she wil
obtain a copy of the catalogue free." ‘

 

DOMA, of Wetzell, Antrim Co., after
narrating her disappointment at finding
her copy of the HOUSEHOLD of Feb. 15th
blank on the inside pages—an accident
which sometimes happens, and which we
are always glad to remedy, as in this in-
stance, by sending a perfect copy—says
she feels as if all the HOUSEHOLD people
were her friends, and wants to hear from
Daflodilly, El. See and Bonnie Scotland
again. She also promises to tell us of the
beauties of her northern home, where
she made acquaintance with the trailing
arbutus for the first time last spring, and
thinks it one of the loveliest of flowers.

 

VIOLET forgets the newspaper rule to
write on but one side of the paper. Hence
her letter is somewhat abridged. She
agrees with Euphemia that farmers should
be as mannerly at the table as any class of
people, even .if they are hungry and in a
hurry. “ There are sons and daughters
who must go to college. How would they
act at the table in company if etiquette
was not observed at home? They would
appear awkward and rude. and it would
certainly be thought they had come from
the back woods, for there are few families
now who do not know and practice the
rulés of the table. I wish to ask a ques-
tion: Should the host, hostess or the com-

leaving the tab'e by rising first.

 

reading.
phia.

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to the women of the United Statts to com

tury old.”

pany rise first when the meal is finished.”
The hostess always gives the signal for

THE Ladies’ Home Journal for March is
on our table, and full of information about
fancy work, housekeeping, topics concern-
ing dress, and other matters of interest to
women. 'Tnere are two continued stories,
one by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, the other
by Maud Howe, both of which are pleasant
Curtis Publishing Co., Philadel-

THE Editor of the Home-Mdker, in the
February number, makes a stirring appeal

plate the monument to the memory of the
mother of Washington, which was begun
in 1833, and is still unfinished——a circum‘
stance characterized as “ a disgrace a cen-
When the monument was be-
gun, the burial spot of this noble woman

Lugs of right to women; it is the fulfill-
ment of along neglected duty. The Home-
Maker will receive contributions to this-
cnd, and its own donation will be seventy-
five cents out of every two dollar subscrip-
tion sent in for the next six months if ac-
companied by the words “ For the Mary
Washington monument.” So, if you sub-
scribe for the Home—Maker within the
specified time, you will receive full value
in the magazine, and help a worthy cause.
Home Maker Company, 19 West 22nd St.,
New York. ..__..
“WE want three ‘sticks’ and a half
more copy to fill the Ilousnnonn,” were
the words spoken over the Editor's left
shoulder, at ten A. M. of Wednesday last,
and whichjstartled her from a “scissors
reverie” into a frant‘c search for some-
thing just long enough to fill the void.
Not a thing available. Everything on
hand too long—too long by many “ sticks,”
for “ three sticks ain’t much,” unless you
happen to want it in a hurry. Under such
conditions, “ A Proverb of Solomon’s”
was hastily scribbled and sent into the.
composing room; and it was not until even-
ing, too late for correction,‘,that a sudden
thought came, “ ‘Spare the rod and spoil
thechild’ was not Solomon’s saying! What
was it Solomon aid? Who :said the other
thing?” “Spare the rod and spoil the
child ” is a saying of Butler's, in Hudz'bras,
and evidently adapted from Proverbs,
XXIII, 13, or XX“, 15. But the savant’s-
more exact translation applies as in the
"prover ” quoted, and the beating of
the rod means the correction of discipline
and training. And mistakes, you know,
will happen in the best regulated House—
HOLDs—like ours!

 

DON'T put salt in the whites of the eggs
you are going to beat for frosting, fancy—

ing they will froth quicker. The deliques--

cent salt spoils the beauty of the frosting.

Keep the eggs in a cold place, and beat in

a cool room, if you want perfect results.

—————.O.——_—

RAW potatoes, sliced thin and to be
fried “done” and brown in hot fat, and
the sliced raw potatoes used in the making-
of the dish known as scalloped potatoes,
are better if allowed to lie in cold water an.
hour or so before being used.

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Contributed Recipes.

CABBAGE SALAn.-—-Yoiks of three eggs;
half p-‘nt SWeet cream: three tablespoontuls
mustard; two teaspoonfuls salt: half cup
butter; half cup strong vinegar; Juice of one
lemon; mix eggs and cream. and when boiling
hot stir in the ingredients. previously well
mixed. Stir constantly until it thickens; pour
_ over the finely chopped cabbage when cold.
moving all the' pith without breaking the
pulp. Divide each into five pieces. Dip
each piece in a batter made ofthree eggs: two-
thirds cup sweet milk: teaspooniul bak-
ing powder: two tablespoonfuis white sugar;
salt; flour for a. rather stiff hatte ‘. Fry in hot
lard: eat with powdered sugar or syrup.

 

 

feeling on either side.

 

had been unmarked for forty-four years.
The task of completion is one which be-

EVANGALIN

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