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DETROIT, APRIL 19, 1890.

 

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

A MATHEMATICAL PROBLE' ll.

 

Our little maid grows very wise,
In lore of signs and numbers,
And on her slate, with earnest eyes.
She works what she thinks wonders.
Beneath her touch, the magic lines
Will often bring her wishes,
But still refuse to tell the times,
“ Mamma has washed the dishes."

Three times one, and seven times four—
And then the long years follow;
Enough to make the hair grow grey,
And rounded cheek grow hollow.
Among the plates, and cups and things,
The old cloth rubs and swishes;
While back and forth the problem swings,
Of “ mamma and the dishes."

‘Tnomss. A. H. J.

.—————«.—._

SPRING THINGS.

The warm days of last week brought
out a profusion of “spring things,” not
only in shop windows but upon the in-
dividuals who compose the living tide that
surges up and down the avenues and
pauses to study and admire. Two-thirds,
perhaps more, are women; to attract their
attention the window-dresser studies
artistic combinations of color and drapers
and displays the choicest materials. Here
and there Benedict the married man stops
3. minute before some unusually fine Show,
or is dragged to the front by Madame for
a. nearer view of something “ too perfectly
exquisite for anything,” but generally it is
the young ladies who do the raptures. But
everybody uses his eyes. I recall so well
my first visit to New York City, many
years ago, and a promenade down Broad-
way. The windows we passed were dreams
of beauty, glimpses of Aladdin’s palace,
but did I look? No sir! I had heard
visitors to the great city were always dis-
tinguishable by their “ gawping” at every-
thing they saw. I was not going to shame
my relatives and disclose my country
bringing-up by staring, not It So I elevat-
ed my chin, turned out my toes and tried
to think I looked like one “to the manner
born” until my guide steered me up to a
window full of exquisite laces, and called
my attention to them. I soon learned all
these beautiful things were put there to be
looked at, and that everybody looked.

Well, about the spring things. The
favorite wrap for misses and young ladies
seems to be the cape, triple or quadruple
or slightly gathered to a pointed and
braided yoke. These capes are made of
”broadcloth, with pinked or stitched edges.
A very pretty one worn by a tall slender

dy had the fronts cut to form tabs reach-

. ing nearly to the knee; there were three

capes, or folds set on to simulate capes,
finished with a black and white cord.
Another was of tan colored cloth, gathered
to a yoke braided with darker brown. For
older ladies there are jackets with waist-
coats set within revers, and mantles with
sling sleeves, in cloth or silk.

Bonnets are gay, oh, so gay! The sober
minded middle-aged woman of quiet tastes
stands appalled at the giddiness she is ex-
pected to place above her wrinkles and
crows feet. But bless me, “when you’re
in Turkey you must gobble.” So the
woman of sixty tops off her grey hair with
anavy blue bonnet trimmed with copper
colored Chrysanthemums—to typify that
she is in the autumn of life's year, presu-
mably-and “brightened” with a good
deal of gold lace, and grandmother though
she be, defies time, the thief, who stole her
roses years ago. But you know there’s a
difference in women of sixty; some, sallow,
wrinkled, sour, ought to be clad in peni-
tential ashes and sackcloth; others, fresh,
clear-eyed, erect, may coquet with t‘e
pinks and pale blues and lavenders of
youth. Everything is trimmed with
flowers. At Metcalf’s a wide hat com.
posed entirely of lace had for sole ornament
a large cluster of pm; and white English
primroses and foliage, exquisite imitations,
even to the blossom which had apparently
fallen from its stem and lay loosely upon the
brim. Another, awide coaching hat, was of
alternate rows of brown and white leghorn
braid, and trimmed with a magnificent
plume shading from brown to white, and
a large bow of light brown ribbon.

Fancy openwork straws are favorites in
both bonnets and hats. The bonnets are
lined with a contrasting hue, and the
favorite decoration seems to be a wreath
of fine flowers around the edge. The
popular shape is still low, broad and flat.
Satin-faced velvet ribbon is used quite as
much as grosgrain. Toques, the most ap-
proved round hat, sometimes have the
crowns entirely covered with forward
turning loops of velvet ribbon. Matronly
ladies: wear the toque by adding lace or
velvet strings coming from the back. Lace

bonnets will be again popular. A pretty .

model was of piece lace, Shirred on wires
and arranged so the scalloped edges, unit-
ing in the centre, formed a ruffle down the
middle of the crown. The trimming was
moire ribbon, which is particularly pretty
with lace, and old pink verbeuas in a half-
wreath across the front.

 

“ Don’t be afraid of lace dresses. They’re :

 

 

too becoming to go out,” says a French
fashion journal. Last year the nets were
all the rage; they made pretty, dainty, but
rather unsubstantial dresses. This season
there is a decided revival of flouncings,
which are more substantial and suitable
for general wear. The saleswoman at
Taylor & Woolfenden’s lace counter says
she sells three patterns of floun cings to one
of net. Nets range from $1 up to $2 and
above; flouncings are more expensive but
really better value; they sell, from 38 to 42
inches wide, at from $2 25 upward. Those
at $2 75 and $3 make handsome dresses,
while a beautiful quality of silk run
Chantilly can be had at :34. It takes from
five to seven yards for an “all-over ”
dress. The skirt is of course composed of
the flouncing, the border or edge being
used for the full fronts of the waist and the
plain figured part for back and sleeves.
Ribbons form an appropriate trimming,
and many are brightened by moderate use
of cut jet ornaments.

A rather striking plaid dress had a bias
apron slightly draped across the front, over
which was worna basque with jacket front
and back hanging in two very full box
pleats, defined to the bottom of the dress
shirt and forming its back; these pleats
were not bias. Another was cut on the
bias throughout—justafull round skirt,
slightly caught up to disclose the straight
foundation skirt on one side. What is
called the English skirt is very popular for
wash dresses; this has a six-inch hem at the
bottom, or a bias fold headed by a piping
or a narrow edge of embroidery. Another
way, which requires afoundation skirt, has
five breadths of yard-wide goods laid in
four pleats in front, meeting in the centre,
and gathered elsewhere to the belt, then
lifted at the side on one place only by a
single deep pleat, to show the gathered
flounces on the foundation skirt. The
skirt with a deep Spanish flounce is again
worn; this has a deep flounce on the front
and sides, meeting two straight breadths in
the back; this flounce is set on ten inches
below the belt, with a standing frill or
gathered puff; the space above is only half
as full and is gathered or tucked. The
waists and sleeves of wash dresses carry all
the trimming, whether it he embroidery or
ribbon. Ribbons matching the darkest
color in the dress are much used. They
are two inches wide, of velvet, satin or
grosgrain. A two inch ribbon is folded
through the centre, laid on the high collar,
crossed in front, with four inch long ends.
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and is tied in a little bow on the inside of
the sleeve. The belt ribbon ends in a
rosette on the left side; or is four inches
wide, made the full width in front, nar-
rows on the sides to a point in the back,
where it books under a bow with short
ends. What is called the Elizabethan
waist has full fronts without darts drawn
in folds from the shoulders to a. point at
the waist, with a flat vest of embroidery
in the middle space. The back is pleated
from the neck to a point also. A narrow
side form is necessary under each arm to
fit the waist properly. Collars are high,
and folded over as described in a previous
HOUSEHOLD, or a pleated frill, wide at the
back and narrowing in front, disclosing a

little of the throat takes its place; these'

frills require wiring to keep their place.
Turned over collars are also worn.

In making the straight skirts the fLunda-
tion skirt is omitted, and a sing leback
breadth with aten inch steel crossing it
half way down is sewed down the sides of
the skirt, under a fold on one side and
with a seam of the skirt on the other.

Wash silks are shown in abundant sup-
ply and in exquisitely dainty colorings, in
stripes. These, and the China silks, though
they make lovely dresses, are imitated so
closely in coloring in cheaper cotton
material that it is often difficult to tell
which is silk at a dollar and which satteen
at thirty cents.

THIS WORLD IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.

Dear friends, do not think I come to this
little paper always to upbraid the corres-
pondents for what they have written, but
I am grieved when I read the sad letters
that have occupied a portion of our paper.

Mothers, of course your little ones are
very dear to you; you love them as only a
mother can. They have your undivided
attention to make them happy, comfort-
able, guide their feet in the path of right
and prepare them for what they will meet
in this cold, fickle, changeful world; there
is a wide zap when they are called to that
place of endless comfort and happiness,
where sorrow, sickness, and death never
enter. You realized that when the tiny
coffin lid was placed upon the little casket
you would not see that face again until you
met it in heaven, but did you realize the
full meaning of your words when you said
that without that little child, life seemed a
burden, or that you could . ever be happy
again? Where is your husband? Did
you forget him, he who was once your
joy and comfort? Was there not once a
time when in his presence you were per-
fectly happy; once when with him the
darkest day was bright? Once he was
a first consideration. Then do not let any~
thing, no matter what, come between you
now. Do not let the death of a child
darken and sadden your life forever; turn
to him for comfort. “Self judgment is
righteous.” Think how you would feel if
he said the very same thin gs! Would they
not make you feel badly and perhaps start
the first cold wave between you? Once
you loved him best, so let nothing come
between you now that can claim more of

your affection than he; think him perfect
and that with him you can always be hap-
py. Neither the words you say nor the
warm tears of affection can bring your
darling child hack to you, so do not wound
another life. Be cheerful and do what you
can to make home happy and retain your
husband’s affection. Love him best, your
children next. Undoubtedly all was done
that was in your power to do for your
child, when it was with you, and heaven
is the only place for your pure innocent
babe, so now give your attention to those
remaining, and remember “As you sow,
so shall you reap.”

In response to aletter by Fid us Achatus,
on the “ Two Kinds of Schools,” I think
if the majority of young people looked
upon marriage as the most important step
of their lives, would study more carefully
their plans, and if girls were less afraid of
being old maids there would be more hap-
piness in this world. Now I’m not selfish,
I like to see others have, do for them, and
see them happy, for I value my happiness
and'think more of a happy home than I’m
afraid the average world gives a girl of my
age credit for. Who had not rather be an
old maid than an unhappy wife? I see
nothing so bad about remaining single that
should cause a girl to wreck her whole
life and be forever unhappy. So let us
look upon an unmarried woman as a
favored being in this world. Now remem-
ber I do not speak from experience of what
I have written here; I do not say what
I will do and what I will not, for I find
out it’s the easiest thing in this world to
be mistaken. I have heard people make
those, same brags, and if they got the
straightest stick after traveling through
the woods, I’ll take my old “ Dame Rathe ”
(a name given to a cane I found when a
child) and be “ an ould maid.”

Wu 1133 LAKE.
——-—-ooo———-

NETTIE.

GOVERNING CHILDREN.

I have been a constant reader of the
HOUSEHOLD for three years, and woman-
like, can keep still no longer and let the
rest of you do all the talking. One of the
topics now under discussion I am, and I
think every mother ought to be, interested
in—that of governing the children. I do
not believe in governing by love alone. I
think it very seldom you find all the chil-
dren in a family can be governed entirely
by love. For the first five years at least
they mind because they are obliged to, not
because they like to. I think there are no
two children who can be governed alike.

I wondered as I read Ruth’s a-ticle what

to put in order the room he and his little
sister turned upside down while his
mother was reading.

Would he do it to the best of his ability,
showing that he was in the habit of doing
as he was told, or would he say (or act at
least) “ I don’t have to ” and stick to it?
Ruth would have to do it herself; she
would not want to use force for fear of
making an ill-natured, sulky child of him.

Keep your children's confidence by all

 

means, and do not expect them to be like

 

Master Six-year-old would do if requested‘

 

gr ~wn up folks but be sure that they obey
you. I think love and respect will surely
follow in the path of strict obedience. If
we will notice we usually tini the children
that make the teacher the most trouble in
school are those who are governed by love
——or I will say not governed at all, at home.
Th.ir parents did not believe in the use of
the rod.

No, Beatrix; I do not think any new
translation of the word rod in Scripture is
necessary; peach sprout is good enough.
Right along with the list of gentle, loving

natures that have been spoiled by the use

of the rod, I would like to place a list of
bad dispositions that have become worse
because the rod had not been used. What
hurt would t e rod have done that little
“Chicago terror ” that Beatrix described ,
about a year ago?

I would like some one’s idea of children
helping to do the work of the home.

MAPLE RAPIDS. GRANDMA.

_—*.._

CARING FOR THE SICK.

An inexperienced woman is apt to be
afraid to do much for a sick person least
she do harm instead of good; but asthe-
main point is to spare the patient’s strength,
anything which rests and soothes him will
help. When there is much fever and
restlessness frequent sponging of the hands
and face and brushing of the hair is needed;
a cold wet cloth should be kept upon the
forehead, and sometimes the patient will
like to hold one in his hands.

When a chill occurs the bottles (men-
tioned in a previous article) should be
filled with hot water and placed around
the body, while hot drinks are given fre—
quently. Hot dinner plates may be placed
around the body, with a quilt intervening;
a two quart can fits better under the knees;
and when a hot application is needed in
haste, a stove cover wrapped in a news-
paper answers very well. When a chill is.
feared, the bottles and cans should be kept.
somewhere about the stove, filled and ready
to apply without amoment’s delay. When.
hot cloths are applied for the relief of
pain they should be changed every few
moments, and it is much easier to heat
them in a steamer than to wring them out
of water every time.

Flaxseed meal is considered the best.
material for a poultice, but wheat bran or
corn meal is afair substitute. The poultice
should be generous in size and an inch or
more in thickness, and have sprinkled over
its surface enough mustard to cause an.
irritation. As some persons blister more»
easily than others, no rule can be given for
this, but it should be carefully watched, as.
ablister is too cruel a thing to be raised
unintentionally. When a “sinking spell ”‘
occurs the patient should be given brandy
every few moments, as much as can be
borne without producing nausea; while the-
hands, arms and as much of the body as
can be reached without causing chilliness,
should be vigorously rubbed with hot
liquor of some sort. As it evaporates-
rapidly it is best to heat but a small
quantity at a time. If the patient com.

 

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fuse perspiration, the body may be wiped
with a warm soft towel, taking care that
the Cold air is not allowed to touch it.
When the patient lies upon his back and is
unable to change position, much rest may
begiven by kneeling by the bed and slip-
ping both hands under the spine for a few
moments at a time; the shoulders may
often be rested in the same way; while to
one perfectly helpless, slight and frequent
changes in the position of limbs and head
are usually restful. They must be made
however, ina quiet, not fussy way and
the patient watched to see if they suit or
not. If the medicine is bitter, a little
strong cold tea is the best of anything we
have found to take away the taste.

When disagreeable tasks fall to the
volunteer nurse, there should be no show
of shrinking oi- distaste; but a ready per-
formance of them in amatter of course
manner. The perceptions and sensitive
feelings are apt to be keener in sickness
than in health, and the patient - should be
spared, so far as possible, the pain of feel-
ing himself a burden to his friends. For
the same reason we should be careful of
What is said in the sick room, even when
the patient is in a semi-conscious state,
and hide any alarm, or even knowledge of a
change for the worse. Indeed, one of the
greatest necessities in extreme sickness is
self-control. A. H. J.

Tamas.
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BRINGING UP THE CHILDREN.

 

We have only taken the FARMER this
year, but I am quite attached to the HOUSE-
HOLD already. The only articles I do not
read are those relating to fashion, still I do
not wish they were left out, forI know
there are others who enjoy them. I take
great pleasure in reading such pieces as
“A Mother’s Influence,” “Parental Ex-
ample,” etc., and hope to hear from “ One
of the Mothers” again. How I wish the
HOUSEHOLD went to every home in the
land, and every mother would read what
Dafiodilly wrote about “ Air and Water ”
and if need be profit by it. In some cases
where people are so poor that no help can
ever be hired, I pity the mother who (half
sick perhaps herself) iscompelled to neglect
her children, but when people are well to
do, have money to build ‘nice houses and
wear fine clothes, it is quite different.
Under the latter circumstances if any
mother neglects to do all in her power to
make her children well so they can enjoy
the blessings of good health she does
Wrong; and how anybody can be happy in
continual wrong doing is a mystery to me;
and a still greater mystery is how they can
expect to inherit eternal happiness in the
life to come. I think they feel too sure of
gaining heaven, rely too much on their faith
in Christ to save them.

I wish we could all more fully realize
our need of careful thought and study
upon the question of right and wrong, so
that we can rely on our judgment and
feel sure it will not fail us; or in other
words know just what is right and then
dare to do it, no matter whether we are
going to gain favor or not. I do not mean

THE HOUSEHOLD.

to say that careful thought and study upon
the questions of right and. wrong, that is,
the exercise of our reasoning faculties,
will render our judgment absolutely per-
fect, but am sure it will improve it won-
derfully. As parents, it is our duty to
make good men and women of the chil-
dren given to us; of course there are ex—
ceptions to all rules; and some eople are
born of such wicked parents and brought
up under such evil influences that they try
to see how much harm they cm do, and
how far responsible they are is a problem I
cannot solve. Yet Istill claim that p treats
that are born and brought up under at all
favorable circumstances, should consider
it our duty to make good men and women
of our children, and feel sure we can if we
will but make this subject of mere im
portance to us than anything else; and
then begin our work where we ought to,
and that is with ourselves. It is not
enough for us to know that we should not
lie, cheat, steal, or in any way wrong our
neighbors. With whom do we deal most?
Isit not our children? Then let us be sure
that we do not wrong them. Let us not
lose our patience and get mad at them, for
we all knowa person is not likely to do
right while angry.

Some parents say, “ Well, I will bring
up my children as well as I know how, and
then if they don’t do right I’ll not be to
blame.” Let those same parents ask them»
selves these questions: “How well do I
know how?” “ How much time and
thought have I given this important sub-
ject?” And if the answer comes to them
like this: “I have given this subject com-
paratively no thought, my mind has been
filled with thoughts of money, popularity,
fashion, etc,” can they still say “ I am not
to blame?” When they stand before the
impartial J udge. will He say to them “ Pass
on through the pearly gates into everlast-
ing bliss;” and then when the wayward
son or daughter comes along will He say:
“Stop! ye can not follow after thy good
Christian parmts, ye must go the other
way and suffer eternal punishment? ”

MELORA.

__..._—_

“ HOUSEHOLD “

HOW THE HELPS.

Seeing that my first literary effort was
accepted, encourages me to try again, and
who knows but that like Byron, I may
“ wake up and find myself famous ” also?
But while waiting for my star of fame (‘1)
to rise, I would like to tell how much com-
fort and benefit the HOUSEHOLD has been
to me. Three years ago I was called home
from my work by the illness of my mother.
She became an invalid, and the whole care
and responsibility of the house fell on my
shoulders. My knowledge of cooking, in
fact any form of housework, was as scant
as Flora McFlimsy’s, but mother’s stock
was unfailing and infallible; and to her I
went for instructions and with questions
about everything I did. But we laid her
to rest a few months ago, and while I have
learned much in the few short years of ex-
perience I have had, there are many things
I do not know, and there is no “ little

 

mother” to tell me. Then came the

 

 

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HOUSEHOLD, truly a messenger of-peace.

Mother had nearly all of them on file
since 1885, and I have read and re-read
them, gleaning, gaining and treasuring up.

There were words Of sympathy from the
“Old Teachet;” she too had stood with
aching heart and stifled sob by the bedside
of her, whom we loved so dearly, and

skill and prayers alike had failed to stay
the weary feet from passing over “the
dark river,” and our cry “ 0 mother,
mother!” fell on ears that never failed to
answer to our call before. There were
helpful words from Evangeline; wise, in-
structive, practical talks from Beatrix,
useful chats, hints, suggestions and recipes
from all the members; so I was encouraged
and cheered by that blessed influence that
one true loving heart always has upon
another, even by kindred thoughts, for it
is not always the depth or the novelty of a
thoughtwhich constitutes its value to our-
selves, but the fitness of its application to,
our circumstances.

Our influence can never be measured
until “ finis” is written across the last page
of the Book of Life, and thelast soul stands
to receive its reward; for, as you (each

member of the HOUSEHOLD) have in-
fluenced me, I through your thoughts wilt
influence others.

And though many times your “bread
cast upon the waters ” is so many days re-
turning that we do not live to see its fruits,
the reward will be yours none the less
though you receive it not till God shall say
Well done thou good and faithful servant.

GBAIN‘D RAPIDS. BIDDEE.

-—-—-—.-O.———

EASTER THOUGHTS.

 

Easter morning! What a sermon is in
those words! What thoughts throng the
mind! Vague and undefined though they
are, they crowd out all unworthy subjects,
leaving only a feeling of peace and joy at
this glad season. Immortality becomes a
realized truth, not the uncertainty that it
seems to us at other times in our busy lives.

The spirit of universal love and good-
will possesses mankind, destroying the
prejudices that mar ourlives, and elevating
and broadening the whole course of our
existence.

My heart went out to M. E. H. as I read
her letter in' the HOUSEHOLD for April
5th, for an experience had lately come to
me that it seems now as if I should always
remember, and never forget to guard well
my thoughts lest I should unintentionally
cause others to suffer. Only one innocent
but thoughtless action, caught up by a
well-meaning but fun loving acquaintance,
and given an unlooked~for meaning, thus
placing me in a false position before a dear
friend, caused many, many hours of un»
happiness.

Yet when my eyes unclosed to the
beauties of the Easter morn, all resent.
ment vanished in afiood of joyful thoughts.
On picking up the latest paper, the first
words that greeted my eyes were these:

“ Before the dawn of the Easter sun.

Hide deep in the mold the dearest sin;
The unnoxedlie. or the wrong begun,

Let the shadeless right once more begin:
Bury the pr de that has sprung from naught,

The envy and hate of a blackened hour;
Arise to the Christ-life. purely fraught

With love as white as the Easter flower."

Baum: Casnx. BARBIE.

  


 

4 'I‘I-IE HQUSEHOLD.

 

AN AN XIOUS INQUIRY.

 

Some time ago one of the HOUSEHOLD
correspondents, I thinkit was A. L. L., told
us how to wash linen, and avery good
way it was, but why does she not tell us
how to iron it? Now I amawoman of
many weaknesses, and one of my especial
ones is for a dainty looking table. I very
much prefer a red tablecloth to none at all
or an oil cloth, but want, oh! so much to
use white ones. Yet where there are hired
men and many little children, it seems as
though the washings are about as large as
can be gotten through with, yet that is
comparatively nothing by the side of the
ironing.

I believe it was Mrs. Garfield who gave
us this lovely example: She found herself
obliged to make the bread for her family
one summer, and right away set herself
about trying to see what nice bread she
could make, and before the summer was
over found herself taking much pride and
enjoyment out of her forced employment.
Now Ihave tried to profit by Mrs. G.’s
example, and tried to think he :ause I had
in use red table linen I would try and like
it, and took especial pains with glass and
silverware and other little accessories or the
table (napkins are a necessary fixture with
us) but all to no purpose; that red table-
cloth, like our national emblem, was “ still
there.”

My mode of llundrying linen is to take
it from the last rinsing water to the iron-
ing board and there iron till thoroughly
dry. Ofcourse the more it is ironed the
glossier it becomes. Take only one thick-
ness until all ironed and ready to fold. I
do not think it any more work than the
old way of drying and sprinkling for it
must be thorottghly dampened anyhow,
and it has two things to recommend it;
first the linen is stiller and will lit-1p clean
longer; second it saves the wear and tear
on the line, which is no inconsiderable
item and in small articles it saves time and
in cold weather stinging fingers. If I
have time and feel so disposed (which I
seldom do after washing)'l iron them the
same day, but if not I let them stand in
same brass or earthen utensil till wanted.
Iknowliuen will keep beautifully white
until worn out if properly washed, and
think it could not be made to look nicer,
but is there not some way that is easier and
just as good? DrLr. A. TORY.

___...____,
CARPET RAGS AND BAKING
POWDER.

My threatened rag carpet is nearly ready
for the weaver, and I wish I could exhibit.
to the HOUSEHOLD that shingle wound
with the stripe. I used the Cushing Per—
fection dyes, and they are very good. I do
not like to do any free adVertising, but it
is important to know how to Color bright
turkey rod that will not fade on cotton; and
this dye fills the want. After coloring red,
anything dipped in the same dye will
be a pretty shade of pink. The dyes are
ten cents per package. One good of a rag
carpet is the using up of the rags that ac-
cumulate. It is a perpetual surprise to me

 

that while we do not buy any new clothing
—hardly, to speak of—yet the carpet rags
accumulate at an astonishing rate. I am a
convert to Beatr‘ix’s idea of cremating most
old things there is no use for, instead of
keeping them seven years in hopes.

I suppose I am the only one of this
HOUSEHOLD who ever bought a pound of
baking powder with a beautiful set of
glassware attached. I know I am the only

one that will own up to it in print. Still,
as that glassware .does not try to imitate
cut glass, looks like pressed glass and
actually is, I do not see anything dreadful
in using it. As for the baking powder, I
tried this experiment, in making biscuit.
I made one half the quantity with my
prize powder, the other half with the kind
no prize comes with, and that describes its
own purity, in its advertisement, bya very
short black mark. Both were baked at the
same time and were precisely alike. I
believe most baking powders are made on
exactly the same formula, and could be sold
at half the price, and still give a fortune to
the manufacturer. It is nonsense to speak
of any particular kind as the “ purest,”
when we do not know what they are made
of. I do not believe any of them are very
wholesome to use much of, and we farm-
ers’ wives, with plenty of buttermilk and
cream to use, can dispense with them. This
is said to be a good baking powder'recipe:
Soda, nine ounces; cream of tartar and
tartaric acid, of each four ounces; wheat
flour, ten ounces; mix thoroughly.

In regard to dependent relatives, it may
not be pleasant to have some one in the
family and not of it, but it must be much
harder to be dependent and homeless, and
to eat the bitter bread of charity grudgingly
bestowed. Let pity help you to patience.
If you need an example of how you should
treat an alien in your family read Josiah
Allen’s Wife’s account of her trials with
the Widder Doodle. It actually helped me
once in a somewhat similar place.

PIONEER. HULDAII PERKINS.

 

AT the flower festival which opens at
the Detroit Rink on the 22d and which
doubtless many of our re iders will visit,
the ladies of Fairbanks Relief Corps, of
this city, will have charge of the Mexican
booth, and will offer for sale specimens of
Mexican handiwork and curiosities from
that country. It is perhaps not generally
known that Mexican wares are quite rare
in the United States, especially at the
north. Goods from France, Italy, Switzer-
land, China, Japan and other far away
foreign lands are plentiful in the great
markets of New York, Chicago and San
Francisco, but Mexican wares are rarely
attainable short of Texas or along the
border. Specimens of the famous feather
painting of the natives, who make pictures
using as colors the fine plumage of birds,
Mexican pottery, jewelry, and other articles
adapted for souvenirs will be on exhibi-
tion and for sale, and also specimens of the
curious Resurrection Plant, so often men-
tioned in floricultural literature. The
ladies are to dress in an adaptation of Mexi-
can costume, and the booth will be hand-

 

somely decorated, conspicuous among its
decorations being real Mexican blankets
given by Gen. Logan to Gen. Alger, of

this city.
—-—-—-é,-Q.——__.

A. H. E., of Saranac, wishes to know if
there is anything silkworms can be fed
upon, except osage orange and mulberry
leaves. The worms can, it is said, eat let-
tuce leaves without injury, but only a diet
of mulberry and osage orange leaves will
enable them to produce silk of fine quality,
and which will command the highest price

in market.
————-oo.——.

MRS. FULLER wishes to say she will fill
orders for plants and roots about the 2lst.
She has roots of Clematis Jaokmam’z' and
Ampelopsis Vetokz'i for sale at one dollar

each.
———'.O.————

THE stout paper flour sacks are excel
lent to keep smoked hams in. Put astring
in the meat to hang it up by, slip the sack
over the ham, tie the mouth securely, and
no bug or fly can get in.

.___...____
Useful Recipes.

 

Son GINGERBREAD.—On8 cup butter and
one cup sugar, mixed well together. Three
te ten eggs; one cup milk; two tab'e‘poon-
fuls ginger; one cup New Orleans molasses,
in which dissolve ore teaspoont’ul saieratus.
Mix well; fl ur hit a. moderately _thin batter.
Bake half an hour in a quick oven.

IMITATION BUCKWHEAT Canes—Ore quart
trown flour; half pint white flour; one gill
commeal. two gills yeast. About nine o'clock
in the evening m'x these ingredients in’o a
very thick batter. using milk and warm wa'er.
Set the batter where it will keep warm. In
the mornirg when about to fry the Crk s, stir
into the batter a level tesspooniul of salt,
half a teaspsoni’ul of soda, and thin with
tweet milk to the proper constituency. Use
the brown flour of which lrown bread is
made.

 

ICE CREAM Cums—Beat thorough‘y to a
cream half a cup of sweet, fresh butter with
a cup of fine white sugar. Arid the wellheateu
yolks of two eggs, and beat again to asmooth,
light cream. Whip the whites of the eggs
perfectly sniff: sift a pint of flour, with a tea-
sporn'ul of cream of tartar in it, twice
thrcugh the sitter. Grease some round pans,
and are that your oven is hot—not to the
scorching po'nt. but “ a quick oven.” Then.
all being ready, dissove ha‘f a tea spoonful of
soda in a tablesroonfui of warm wattr; add
as much milk; then put it to the mixture,
putting In it .ur and white of egg alternately,
and stirring the whole su oothly a d lightly
together. Even in mixing -cahe,the:e is an
art, or at least a “knark” of qu'c‘snets and
dexterity, by which it is kept soft and even.
Lumps when formed it is almost impossible to
git rid of. It is well to put the flour into a
shallow wooden bowl: then when the cake is
a stiff batter, pour it into the flour: sit down
and take it in your lap if you like to do your
work easily. ard knead the r'ch, crumbling
paste tog-ether my 1 it adheres in a. smooth,
flrm mass. It w:li hardly tai e as long to do
it as it does to tell how. When pert’tc 1y
smooth but soft. you may use a little more
flour it‘ recessary—nreak ofl' pieces as large
as an English walnut, roll them round and
slightly flatten letwcen the hands and put

them far enough apart on the p n to bake
Without runnil 3‘ '09 ther. Th y Will spread
and maize a cake ablut tre shed a rnv'oaroon.
but amfly thitk r. Country Gentleman.

 

 

 

 

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