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DETROIT, MARCH 15, 1890.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

'DEAL GEN TL Y WITH THE CHILDREN.

 

Deal gently with the children,
But a few short years your own;

The home nest soon is empty,
And the little birds have flown;

And when no more returning,
They leave that home behind,

. The thought will cheer your loneliness,

That you to them were kind.

-J)eal gently with the children
Who gather round your knee;
Check not in sudden anger .
Their merriment and glee;
'The play that is so noisy,
So wearisome today,
'Will seem like sweezest music
When they have gone away.

Deal gently with the children,
Fast changing every hour;
Still strive to make them happy,
While yet within your power.
Bach smile, each word of kindness,
Each joy to childhood given,
Is like a step upon a stair
That lifts us up to heaven;

Deal gently with the children
You too were once a child;
Remember you were happy,
When those about you smiled;
And, oh, remember always
Whatever else you do,
To live as you would have them live
For they will be like you.
—-I. E. Diekenga.
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WOMEN IN ANCIENT EGYPT.

(Concluded)

Queen Hatasu, who lived in the
eighteenth dynasty of the Pharaohs, ruled
in Egypt before the time of Rameses the
Great and before the Hebrews went down
into Egypt. She was a descendant of the
ancient Theban queens, and the woman
Pharaoh of Middle Egypt. To her belongs
the distinguished honor of fitting out and
dispatching the first naval expedition of
which we have record. While yet a child
she was married to her brother, as was the
custom in royal families at that time; at
his death, instead of marrying her younger
brother, as the usage of the country de-
manded, she preferred to reign alone.
Miss Edwards’ lecture was illustrated by
stereoplicon views, and portraits of Queen
Hatasu were thrown upon the screen.
These were obtained from sculptured
busts and reliefs found in the ruins of
ancient temples, and were accompanied by
inscriptions setting forth her name and
titles. This Egyptian queen, dead cen-
turies ago, forgotten till a nineteenth cen-
tury archaeologist resurrected her story
from the dust of the tnmbs and ruins of
3388. had a fine, intelligen‘tgrefined face; in

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one of the sculptures the expression is
piquant and archly bewitching. She wears
the double helmet with the basilisk in the
front—symbol of royal authority. In some
cases the artist, presumably with the desire
to adminster a delicate bit of flattery, has
depicted her with a false beard tied on with
strings.

The most memorable event of Queen
Hatasu's reign was evidently the expedi-
tion referred to above. In the ruins of a
temple at Thebes, which she built, there is
a great central chamber with picture
writing running entirely around its walls
as a frieze, illustrating the departure and
retu'rn of the expedition. This, as ex-
plained by the archaeologist, is a complete
chronicle of the event. A part of the wall
has broken and crumbled away by time,
but the major part remains. Acopy of
this frieze was thrown on the screen, and
shows the five galleys or vessels, with the
captain and crew in their places and sails
set, ready to depart from Thebes, which
was also the point to which the expedition
returned. The objective point was the
Land of Punt (pronounced Poont), on the
east coast of Africa—what is now called
Somauli Land; the object to obtain resins,
odorous gums and woods, ivory, and speci-
mens of the productions of the country.
Now Thebes is on the Nile, and M. De
Lesseps had not then projected the Suez
canal. Naturally, the query presents itself,
What route did the expedition take? To
reach the Land ofPunt by sea from Thebes,
implied the eircumnavigat ion of the entire
African peninsula, an undertaking fraught
with such danzer that it would not be
deemed practicable for a moment. But
Miss Edwards thinks the genius of the
woman who planned the trip equal to the
construction of acanal from the Nile to
the Red Sea, through which ships might
pass. Ruins of a canal—“the canal of the
Pharaohs ”—extending along the Wadi
Tumilat from a point below the delta of the
Nile to the Red Sea, were discovered when
M. De LesSeps built his fresh water canal;
and there is little doubt that an arm of the
sea was canalized and made available for
the passage of the ships by order of the
queen.

The picture-writing shows the presents
prepared for the Prince of Punt, bracelets,
necklets, rings and strings of heads;
the prince, his wife, two sons and
daughter receiving them—and oh what
a figure the old lady isl—the trees, the
cattle (which were evidently Shorthorns
of an early and unimproved type), the

 

houses of the country—which were huts
built upon piles and accessible by ladders,
like the Swiss lacustrine dwellings; and
men digging up trees, presumably those
yielding the odorous resins they sought,
which are placed in receptacles prepared
for the roots and earth, slung to poles, and
carried on the shoulders of men after the
manner of the grapes of Eschol. Thisis
the earliest record we have of the trans-
planting of trees, and makes horticulture
of venerable antiquity. The return gifts
to Queen Hatasu are also depicted—piles
of resins, cattle, baboons, and ornaments
of silver and gold. Then we see the
triumphal procession in honor of the re-
turn, in which the cattle, the baboons, the
transplanted trees reappear; Queen Hatasu’s
guard, the crews of the galleys, the dwell-
ers in the temples, and Queen Hatasu her-
self, in the royal robes of a Pharaoh, a
kilted skirt with an apronshaped front of
embroidery. These pictures were alldrawn
in outline, no attempt at shading. The
Nile is represented by a series of wavy
lines, painted blue to indicate fresh water,
and the fishes native to its waters are
drawn at regular intervals. Ancient
Egyptians were ignorant of perspective; the
river is a straight hand, which I thought
was a border on which the ships rested.

Queen Hatasu built a grand temple at
Thebes, the approach to which was by a
grand staircase between two rows of
sphinxes, not one of which remains. Only
parts of the walls are left; the staircase is
an inclined plane of rubbish, but the
arched gateway to the temple, with its
hieroglyphic inscription commemorating
her reign, still stands. Her throne chair
and sceptre are now inthe British museum;
the former is of a wood not indigenous
to Egypt, but undoubtedly a trophy of
this voyage.

The following evening, Miss Edwards
lectured on “ The Buried Cities of ancient
Egypt.” Lower Egypt, she said,.contains
the oldest and most perfect remains of
early ages, and it is not possible to pred-
icate how far back its civilization and
history extends. We can trace its story
for 5,970 years, and have records of its
dynasties from almost prehistoric times to
the days when Cleopatra’s galley fled be-
fore the forces that defeated Mark Anthony,
and Egypt became a vassal of Rome. The
olde st named portrait yet found is that of
she whose second husband was Cheops I.,
who built the great pyramid of Gaza.

The first explorer sent out by the society

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2 THE HOUSEHOLD.

cities and rescuing some at least of their‘
valuable relics from the lime kilns of the
Arabs and the vandalism of the tourist,
selected as the site for his operations a
mound near the Wadi Tumilat which
students of Egyptology had decided to be
Rameses, one of the twin “ treasure cities ”
built by the Hebrews during the great op-
pression under R-tmeses the Great, the
Pharaoh of the Bible, and mentioned in
Exodus 1., 11. The excavations showed
it not to be Rameses, as was supposed, but
the other or twin city, Pithom. The
treasure cities of the Pharaohs were walled
fortificuions or magazines, designed as
storehouses for grain; this was surrounded
by a wall twenty-four feet high. W'ithi
were chambers designed for the reception
of grain, built without doors, access being

in the front of the mummy-cases.

These
were portraits of the dead. on wooden
panels, some of them exquisitely drawn.
The material was wax, into which pig-
ments were mixed, for the Egyptians pos-
sessed the art of mixing colors at this time.
Complexion, hair and eyes were colored as
in life, and the ornaments gilded with gold
leaf. Some are carefully executed, others
show marks of haste and poor workman-
ship. The pictures taken from these
panels and reproduced by the stereoptican
show faces purely Greek, or Roman, or
Egyptian, easily recognizable by the like-
ness to the types of the present day; and
others show a mingling of races. Some are
fine-looking and intelligent, others brutal
and forbidding. The manner in which
the hair of some of these portraits was

by ladders from the top, and separated by
brick walls. All were evidently designed
iand begun at the same time. There are
three distinct kinds or qualities of brick
'used in their construction. The lower
third—the foundations of all the apart-
ments—are laid up with brick made of
Nile mud or alluvium, the binding material
being chopped straw. The bricks of that
period were made as -the fellaheen of the
Nile makes them to this day—of clay
pressed in wooden moulds and dried in the
sun; and were usually laid up without
mortar. But these storehouse walls were
laid in mortar; this was simply the Nile
mud which, drying quickly, united the
bricks firmly. The Second third of the
walls was laid with bricks made with
rushes, the “stubble” of the Scripture
narrative, of a species which then grew,
and'still grows, in surrounding waters.
The last or top section of the walls is of
clay bricks wi'hout either straw or rushes.
Here is the corroboration of the Scripture
story of the brickmakers under Pharaoh’s
cruel taskmasters, who when the straw
gave out scoured the country for rushes,
and then with bare and bleeding hands
delivered up the tale of bricks without the
aid of either straw or stubble. Thus,
thousands of years afterward, the Bible
narrative is confirmed by the evidence of
these walls and storehouses, truly a “ser-
mon in stones.”
The ruins of these ancient temples are of
astonishing magnitude and proportions.
The remains of the temple at Tanis show
colossal stones, heaped upon each other,
remnants of columns with obelisks and
architraves, many‘with inscriptions, and
weighing from ten to thirty tons. They
are of red sandstone and the granite of
Assouan, and represent uncalculable
amounts of human energy and toil.
Excavations on the site of a cemetery

Vcotcmporaneous with Jewish history of a
more recent date though of venerable an-
eveal curious burial customs. The

tiquity r
receptacle for the dead was a terra cotta

case, w

gripped, the lid replaced, and entombment

followed.
races had become mixed and Greek and

ide at the shoulders and narrowing
to the feet, with arctnovable front pieCt my
or opening through which the mummy was

At. a later period, when the

dressed was startlingly modern.
Not the least interesting was the picture
of the set of miniature models of Masonic
ceremonial vessels, tools, and materials,
found under the gateway of a ruined
temple, and which, now explorers know
where to look for them, are found with
but few exceptions under the foundation
of the gates of the edifices, thus proving

the great antiquity of the Masonic order.
BE .LTRIX.

_______....__
THE CHRISTMAS ROSE.
The Christmas rose—Heleborus niger—is
a native of Europe, and somewhat rare in
gardens in our Northern States, as its time
of blooming is in winter about Christmas.
I know of specimens blooming freely
through the snow in the State of New
York, the plants living and thriving for
years in the flower garden. The plant dies
down to the ground through the heat of
summer, but springs up again each autumn
in a manner similar to the pansy. The
flowers are produced each individual one
on its own stem. Buds begin to form in
October and November, and the plant
blooms all winter. It has not a bulbus
roots, but Ithiuk fibrous. It is evident
from its habit that spring is the proper
season to plant it, and in fact Iknow of
its being offered by a New York firm at
that season, also the seed. The name m'ger
(black) is in reference to the color of the
roots. I think E. C. would enjoy the plant
and flowers, and I trust will be so
“ happy” in its p0s3cssion and cultivation
that she will report it to her t'riiends in the
Honsnuonn. I Would mulch the plant
lightly with well rotted manure and wood
mould, and plant in partial shade from
noonuay sun.
Perhaps I might well explain that Hala-
borus m‘ger is not the American plant
called by that name, which is in reality
Vera-tram, oirt‘de, also called Indian Poke;

States, in low swampy places usually. I
replied to much to Same questions asked

floral department in a. mtgazine pub-
lished in anoth r State about three years

surely

 

by E. C. in regard to the Christmas rose in

ago, and I received a number of notes of
correction, some of which reminded me
that the rose was white, others it was
Veratrum that Ihad mistaken the

Myer; but they found publisher and.
all were the mistaken ones.

To prevent,
another overhauling I have made this ex-
planation. Plants are given many names,.
descriptive or fanciful, that tend to mis-
lead usually like the aliases of an outlaw;.
many give their favorite pet names, and so
they are chri tcned and re-christt-ned by
each new admirer, until it one wished to
order of a florist it would be impossible to
send a name that he would recognize.
Several years ago a lady in Ohio Sent me a.
plant she called Christmas tree, as it bore
be utiful yellow blossmns at that time, and
was a great favorites with her and became
one of my own as well, but it was Lz'ltum
Trz'gynum, 01‘ yellow flax, anative of India,
differing from the other Linetms with
slender swaying stalks and simple leaves,
in being of shrubby habit with large
elliptical leaves. “ A rose by another
name may smell as sweet,” but when
ordered would not be acknowledged by the
flattering pet names often given flowers.
FENTON. MRS. M. A. FULLER.

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A PROTEST.
Like Mrs. E. \V. C., I aru moved to
speak, but whether the spirit moves me or
not, I can not say. I hate to bring up a
tabocd subject, but I Would like to know
why the question of social etiquette and
manners is of so much more importance
than the question of the proper observance
of the Sabbath?
I think I never t'ead anywhere in the
Bible, “Thou shall ala’ays eat with the
fork,” “Remember to lift the hat to the
ladies, “ Thou shalt have napkins for
LllySt‘lf, for thy husband, and for all thy
neighbors and threshets.” I would much
rather my lover, my husband or my son
(and l have naythur sure) would “ Remun-
ber the S xbbath day to keep it holy,” than
to have all the polish and elegance of man-
ners of a Lord Chesterfield. Now I would
not have you understand that I think good
manners are of no consequence, but think
all should be courteous and refined every-
where, and adapt themselves to the cir-
cumstances surrounding them; but the
Sabbath question was ruled out long ago,
and I am sure this “ etiquette question ”
has run twice as long, and I hare not heard
one cry “quit” yet. I think if, the one
had grown threadbare, this certainly is
getting ragged at the knees. If the rising
generation cannot improve on the amount
of advice already given, their case is hope-
less in that direction and we won d better
try them on Some other point.

are much to blame for permitting such
epithets ’rS she quo‘es, and many others,

and it grows in many parts of the United being applied to them, for to be respected

one must respect themScchs; and if you
honor your calling, your calling will honor
you. BIDDEE.

GRAND RAPIDS.
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Mus. H. S. Bouron. of Mt. Pleasant,
wishes to ask Esq, of Plainwell, where
Cushing’s Perfection Dyes can be obtained.
None are to be found at the local drug

 

 

 

Roman and Nubian mingled with the
native Egyptians, paintings were inserted

Christmas rose for when I called it H

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THE HOUSEHOLD. 3

DOES IT PAY?

 

[Paper read at the Ciinton County Stock Breed-
er«‘ I -stitute a St Jo Ins, March 5th and 6th,
by hrs. Wu. Bird, of Duplain]

In thisintensely busy, practical, pushing

age of ours, the trend of every question of
a business character is, “Does it pay?”
The statesman in the whirl of political ex-
citement, the merchant at his desk, the
mechanic in the shop, the farmer at his
plow, and busy housewife at her task, all
ask the same question. I admit that the
question is broad in its meaning, and may
apply to many subjects, from the affairs of
a nation to that of the individual. Does it
pay the nation to open wide its doors and
admit the great clamoring crowd of various
nationalities that are ever knocking there?
True, many of them are opening up and
developing the newer parts of our country,
and proving themselves possessed of all the
principles that go to make up honest
citizenship; but is there not also an ele-
ment coming with them, which if fostered
and encouraged will sap the foundation of
our national government? Does it pay the
State to dally with the great questions of
the day, especially those pertaining to
education and reform? Does it pay the
mechanic to become familiar only with
'the general outlines of his business, and
not with the details; would he be success-
ful if he did not thoroughly master all the
details of any piece of work he might be
called upon to perform? Does it pay the
merchant not to become so well versed in
all the lines of his trade that he can dis-
course el<~quentlv on the merits of all
goods, from needles and pins to silks and
laces? Does it pay the farmer then to be
any the less thorough in all matters per-
taining to his business than the merchant
or mechanic, or indeed those of any other
occupation? Does not farming pay as
well as any other occupation when carried
on as thoroughly and systematically as
many other kinds of business are? It is
said the farmers or laboring class are the
bone and sincw of the land; if such then is
the case, are they not the peer of any in
the land? Does it p iy them not to fit them-
selves to take such a position? The means
of irnproVement are about us on every
hand; there are many men of great natural
talent among us, who have only toimprove
the opportunities, to gracefully perform
any duty in their line of life, only I warn
you do not be content with a narrow view
of life and the world at large.

But as this is a farmers’ organization, I
Wish to speak more particularly of the
many things of farm life which we are apt
to ignore as not paying. Does it pays.
good farmer to allow weeds to accumulate
in the fence corners, old rubbish around

the barn and outbuildings, until the place

acquires a generally forsaken and forlbrn
air; to buy gold tools and let them stand
exposed to wind and weather; to limit the
farmer’s wife to Mad, meat and potatoes
as the rations for three meals a day for

‘three hundred and sixty-five days in the

year? I admit that there is a change for
the better in this direction, but there are
many farmers even in Clinton County who

do not think it pays to spend much time
in the cultivation of garden or fruit, when
no one ought to have a more generous sup—
ply of such articles. Then there are papers
and periodicals of all kinds with which
the farmer’s home should be supplied; not
only that we may converse intelligently
with those with whom we come in contact,
but that we may be better company for
ourselves. Our lives are largely made up
of routine, and we need these whiffs of
air from the outside to keep our pulses
moving, and enable us to take broader
views of life and its duties. Does it pay
for the farmer to ignore the conventionali-
ties of society, both in dress and manners?
It is not necessary to remind people always
that we are from W’ayback, but to c n-
form somewhat to the prevailing mode
should be the duty of all. Does it pay to
be always thrusting our 'sharp corners in
people’s way because we wish to seem in-
dependent? Finally, (1098 it pay not to
make the most of ourselves that we can,
mentally, morally and physically, to give
our children liberal educations, believing

that thereby they are made better citizens,
and more capable of enjoying their sur-
roundings?

 

TWO KINDS OF SCHOOLS.

 

Well, just like a woman, here I come.
I must have my say on those two import-
ant subjects given us for discussion, viz.,
the cause of unhappiness in the marriage
relation and what can farmers’ wives do to
make our district schools more efficient.
These are subjects which touch the dearest
interests of our homes and hearts, our
obligations to each other as husband and
wife, and to the children whom God hath
given us. It seems to me that the world
is filled with false ideas of the marriage re-
lation; instead of its being a compact for
life, it is too often regarded as a light
matter, something which may easily be set
aside, when tired of the novelty. Many
young people rush into matrimony before
they are old enough to know their own
minds, seemingly filled with the idea that
the chief end of life is to get married.
Older friends, sometimes the mother, are
often to blame. How many times we hear
the term “ old maid,” applied with a tone
of contempt to an unmarried lady a few
years out of her teens by thoughtless
mothers, who are thus giving their young
girls the impression that it is a disgrace to
remain single! Young girls and boys are
rushed into society, spend much time in
parties, flirtation, and in seeking to capti-
vate the opposite sex, which might be far
better spent in school or at home in sleep. I
have known instances where mothers talked
with their little girls of nine or ten on the
desirability of a match between them and
acertain young gentleman of about the
same age, giving as a reason therefor the
advantage of his being an only son, the
Wtallh of the father, the beautiful home,
etc.; of mothers who told their little boys
of still more tender years, that Nellie or
Susie was to be their little sweetheart. Oh!
keep your children little boys and girls as
long as possible.

 

I would not have you think I utterly:

condemn youthful marriages, for [know of
many which have resultel haopily. What~
ever our age, we should consider the mar-
riage tie a sacred, solemn thing, not to be
lightly broken, and only deep and abiding
love should ever be the motive which
unites two lives until death shall part.
True, as Ella R. Wood has said, “ Cases
are very rare in which our tastes are en~
tirely alike,” but love can Sr.) qualify and
unite existing differences of opinions that
there will be no serious outbreak. \Ve all
need to take into our family circle those
two creatures whose names are “ Bear and
Forbear.” NowI presume some of you
will say, “Well, she’s across old maid,”
but bless you, I’ve been married along,
long time, and know whereof I speak.
The chief thing for us to do to help our
district schools is to become interested in
them; to feel that as wives and mothers
they are our schools; to feel that upon us,
in part, rests the responsibility of their
success or failure. Let us become interest-
ed in our children’s studies; teach them
obedience at home, then it will be easier
for them to obey the rules of school. Visit
the school and thus show our interest. Let
us give the teacher our earnest sympathy
and help. When Bertha or Johnny comes
home with a grievous tale of the severity
or crossness of the teacher, the long lessons
she gives or the favoritism shown some
other boy or girl, don’t let us fly off on a
tangent and sharply criticise the teacher
before our children, .for We can thought-
lessly bring to naught the earnest work of
a faithful teacher by this very means. Mrs.
Swift says whatever else we may neglect,
“do not fail to be at the annual school
meeting.” Good advice; would that every
mother in Michigan would heed it, but
it’s rather hard advice to follow when
only two or three women in the district are
interested enough in the matter to care to
attend and brave the cool reception given
them. I have actually known men to
utterly ignore the presence of ladies at a
school meeting, not even extending the
common salutation of good evening. The
ladies voted, but yet I have never known
them to attend since, but may good come
of this discussion in our HOUSEHOLD.
FIDUS ACHATUS.
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FOR THE SICK AND THE SAD.

How often we hear these words quoted:_
“ It is better to go to the house of mourn- ‘
ing than to the house of feasting.” As I
listened to the elucidation of these words
by the Rev. Dr. Fisk (of Albion College)
at a funeral not long since, their import
seemed to strike me more understandingly _,
and more forcibly than ever before. There
is so much severe sickness and so many
deaths all around us, that one’s heart is
saddened even if no near kindred have been
called to pass over the river; many are»

friends and acquaintances.

I have been thinking how many homes
this little paper enters to cheer and bless,

 

and how many of these homes have been
enveloped in sadness. I hope none. But
is it possible or at all probable that the
angel of death haspassed by all these

 


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“homes? I have been thinking of those
homes where the mother perhaps is the
«me who with folded hands and quiet feet
(has gone to her last rest—perhaps the first
nest for years, leaving husband and child-
wen to miss her ministrations, and the
presence of the one on whom all depended
to make home the most comfortable place
on earth for those of her own household.
in another home it is the husband and
father who has been borne over the thresh-
old never to return, leaving the wife deso-
late and unprotected from rude contact with
the world, and to stand as father and
mother both, as far as possible, to the
~children. In another home it is a loved
«child that has finished the race of life early.
In all these homes the bereaved sit by
their firesides sad and solitary, their hearts
aching with bitter grief, and eyes swollen
with excessive weeping, and a feeling that
nothing matters now, their sun has gone
down forever—they can see nothing in the
future but a weary struggle to get to the
end. There is a wrenching of the heart-
strings every time they look at the empty
chair where the loved one usually sat, and
at the vacant seat at table—at the gar-
merits they used to wear—the book they
loved to read, or the little toy of the child.
I am not writing this letter to harrow up
thesensibilities, but to show you there is
are, and no doubt many, who has not for-
gotten you in your sorrow, and who
sympathizm with the stricken ones, even
JHour little paper has heretofore received
only the cheerful letters. That is its mis-
sion—to cheer and encourage the weary
members of the many households where it

enters

I feel sure a word of sympathy for the

”sick ones, as well as the bereaved ones,

’ showing them they are not forgotten, will
--help them to bear their burdens as patiently
as may be. Who in all the world can dis-

pense with sympathy or with kind, en-
couraging words?

With my love and earnest sympathy

r” "—:“ r‘wn.».___.._.. .

SALT FOR BUTTER .

 

The difficulty that M. E. H. finds will

occur with any salt in sacks. Our test of

salt is its freedom from foreign substances

and from lumps. Put a tablespoonful in

aglass of water and it will determine the

first two, and time will soon decide about
the lumps. We use the Higgins, to which
many object on the account of price, but
the sacks of every size are of good material
and useful, and all in all we think that salt
the best. The Genesce we pronounced
good after several months’ trial, but I
should not like to recommend any other
we have tried. We have not used the
Ashton.

I saw the plea for help to finish
the Mary Washington monument. The
building of monuments in memory of the
dead is no doubt as old as history, but in
these days, when there is so much to be
done for the elevation of mankind or for
the alleviation of suffering, why not raise
the sum and with it endow achair in some
college to teach young women what they
need to know to become intelligent mothers;
or strengthen some institution for aged
women? Why pile up the cold, massive
marble to please an occasional visitor,
when her noble example could be impress-
ed upon the hearts of many, the contact
being made possible by the gifts of those
who honor and cherish the memory of
Mary Washington?
If you please, leave the napkins on the
table and continue to say, “ if you pious,”
“thank you,” and “please excuse me;”
but if there is no one but motherto take
steps, try to enjoy your pic on the plate
from which you ate the rest of your dinner.

tions. J. M. w.

Finns rELD .
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AN EXPLANATION.

Thanks to Beatrix for her helpful sugges-

I do not wish to be understood as not ad-
vocating good manners, free use of the

song which “ made a hit,” and by one of
those queer freaks of our nature sct eVery
one to quoting and alluding to McGinty
and his adventures. It’s all over now.
McGinty is a “ chestnut."]

M

DETROIT’S FLOWER FESTIVAL.

Those who attended the floral festival

given in tnis city last April and managed -
by the Detroit Journal, will be pleased to
heat that the festival is to be repeated in a
yet larger and more imposing fashion, in
April of the current year. A m i-ical pro-
gramme is to be an additional attraction.
The festival is for the benefit of twenty-
three Detroit charities. for which there
will be twentythree booths, built in the
architecture of twenty-three different
countries, each having its chosen floral
emblem. Ten special premiums are offered
for orchids, which will bring out a grand
exhibition of these rare and beautiful
plants. The festival opens at. noon on
Tuesday, April 22nd, and continues day
and evening until midnight of Friday,
April 25th. Half-fare round trip tickets
will be sold by all the raierads centering
in Detroit. Last year’s festival was a
splendid success; and as this seasrm’s fete is
under the same energetic and cflicient
management, it is safe to predict an equal
if not greater triumph.

 

 

 

HOUSE HOLD HINTS.

IF you use coal to cook by. remember
that a shallow, lively tire is needed to give
the best results with hard cOal. There
should not be so deep a bed of coils that
the air cannot circulate through the fire.
Alight bed of liVely burning coal kept
free of ashes undernta'h, by an orcwsional
poking betWt'efl the grate bars (shaking the
grate packs the coal too clue-:ly), with the
occasional addition ofa thin layer, scrn'cely
more than a. sprinkling of coal on top of
the fire, will give the housekeeper an ideal
cooking or baking heat.

  
 

going out to the sick and the bereaved ones
I dedicate this letter to them.

ALBION. M. E. H.

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CHAT.

 

Iwish to give thanks to “ One of the
Mothers” for her article in the issue of
:Feb. 8th. Would that every word of it
i might be impressed upon the heart of every
another in our land. If we all thus under-
stood our duty and fulfilled our obliga-
tions, the happiness and prosperity of our

. nation would soon be secured.
~lI cannot imagine why Huldah Perkins

'* =should have an impression that I do not
.know when a thing is funny, can not enjoy

= :a joke, or think anything comical neces«
'sarily displeasingto God. Why, you are
'mistaken. If that hole in the fence was
‘ibetween our door yards, I imagine we
should present a comical appearance; at

_.

least I’d be neighborly if you would. Per-

haps on closer acquaintance you would

know me better. But I cannot think that

God looks with approval upon some of the
antics of His children to win money
for His cause. lf so He is a different being

..stran ge

fork, napkins, etc., oh dear no! I think
good manners sit just as gracefully on the
farmer and his family as any class of peo-
ple living. But the sentences about having
come from Wayback (wherever that may
be) and in regard to eating entirely with
the fork— a relic of barbarism—with the
sweeping assertion that the napkin had be-
come as essential as the plate or spoon, ap-
peared to me to cover all conditions and
circumstances. But perhaps the article in
question was slightly tinged with symp-
toms of 1a grippe that were hovering over
my head at the time. However, that letter
created quite a commotion in the HOUSE-
HOLD, and no doubt placed several extra
sticks on the editorial table, and if some of
thwse did hit Bess prgtty hard never mind.
The HOUSEHOLD has just told us there is
nothing like good temper to help us over
the rough places.
I have asked several persons the question,

did not know.
McGinty is and oblige

Pumwsnn.

Brass.

Who is McGinty? and they were like me,
Will some one tell us who

To decide whether the cheese which you
have bought is perfectly Safe, press against
the freshly out side a strip oi blue litmus
paper, which cm be obtained at any drug
store for a cent or two. If the paper is
reddened instantly and intensely, the
cheese is not. to be regarded as above
suspicion. The paper will be I'ctltlt‘llt‘d a
little, and slowly, by any green cheese,
but the rapidity indicates the presence of
an unusual quantity of acid, in which may
have been developed the poisonous princi-
ple, tyrotoxicon. ‘
”mm—o”
Contributed Recipes.

 

 

Manson FAKE —D-rra p trt: One cup brown
sugar: half cup molasseu half cup sour mils:
one teaspoont‘ul soda: three and a half cup:
flour; one cup chapped seeded raisins: and
yolks of five eggs. Light part: The whites
or five eggs: two cups white sugar: one cup
butter: half cup sweet milk; three and half
cups flour: three teaspgout‘uls halting powder.
This makes two lame-loaves.

CREAM $.90on CAKE —'1‘wo eggs: half cup
sweet cream, not too thick; one cup sugar:
one and a half cups 6 tur: two teaspoontuis

 

 

from what I have always thought Him.
FIDUS ACHA'I‘US.

[The Editor “rises to explain.” “Mc-
Ginty” is the hero of a popular comic

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