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DETROIT. MAY 1'7, 1890.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

H0 USE C’L DINING.
The melancholy days have come, the saddest of

the year,

Of cleaning paint and scrubbing floors and scour—
ing far, and near.

Heaped in the corner of the room, the ancient
dirt lay quiet,

Nor rose up at the father‘s tread nor at the chil-
dren’s riot;

But now the carpets are all up, and lrom the

staircase top
The mistress calls to man and maid to wield the

broom and mop.

'Where are those rooms, those quiet rooms. the
house but now presented,

'Wherein we dwelt, nor dreamed of dirt, so cosy
and contented?

Alas! they‘re all turned upside down, that quiet
suite of rooms.

‘With slops and suds, and soap and sand, and
tubs and pails and brooms;

‘Chair s, tables. stands are strewed about at sixes

and at sevens,
’While wife and housemaids fly around like

meteors in the heavens.

."And now when comes the master home, as come
he must 0’ nights,

To find all things are “ set to wrongs” that they
have '-‘ set to rights,"

When the sound of driving tacks is heard, the
rooms strange echoes fill,

And the carpet woman‘s on the stairs (that bar
blnger of ill),

He looks for papers, books or bills that all were
there before,

And sighs to find them on the desks and in the
drawers no more.

.And then he grimly thinks of her who set this
fuss afloat,

And wishes she were out at sea in a very leaky
boat ;

.‘He meets her at the parlor door with hair and

- cap awry.

‘With sleeves tucked up and; broom in hand, de-
fiance in her eye;

He feels quite small, and knows full well there's
nothing to be said,

He holds his tongue, and drinks his tea: and
sneaks away to bed.

—«.——-

DISTRICT SCHOOLS.

I am very much' interesth in the'.wel-
fare of our country schools. I have been
both teacher and pupil in them. As
pupil, when I was sent away to school I
found my first business was to unlearn, or
rather learn over again, what I thought I
knew best; as teacher, I am now painfully
conscious that I failed in many of the re-
quisites of a successful instructor. Letters
tfrom a man who was once a small boy

.-under my tuition occasionally come in my
way.‘ It grieves me to find he still writes
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THE above is the first ilTuslration which has appeared in the HOUSEHOLD during
its six years’ existence. It represents one of the booths used at the recent Flower Festival
he‘e—that of the Hebrew Widows’ ani Orphans’ Association—and at the close of the
show was bought by the MICHIGAN FARMER, and will be used as the FARMER’S head-
quarters on the Exposition grounds during the coming fair.
picturesque chalets which serve as summer residences for the Swiss herdsmen who tend
the'r flocks in the valleys of the Alps, is sixteen feet square, and we shall be proud to
receive callers during tne Exposition in our new and commodious quarters.

It is modeled after the

 

 

gotten reproach, for I failed in my duty to
that youngster, or I would have taught
him better or broke his head. But I saw
only cepybook writing, and never found
out this peculiarity, nor that other, of
placing the address on an envelope where
the postage stamp ought to be. In such
points I failed to make due allowance for
the ignorance of those under my tuition; I
could not remember the time when I had
not known these things myself, and thought
other children had been as carefully in-
structed at home.

There are a number of reasons why our:
district schools fail to be as efficient as they
ought. .Several of them have been named
by HOUSEHOLD correspondents; chief
among them we may place the apathy and
indifference of the patrons, and the penny
wise pound foolish policy which hires an
incompetent teacher to save perhaps
twenty or thirty dollars -on the term’s
wages and as many cents on each man’s
assessment. Or the officers say “Our
school is small; anybody can teach it, and
we cannot afford to pay much,” as if the
quality of the instruction should be

 

i. Fancy my feelings on reading “i write
to tell you i have ——1” It is a never for-

gauged by the size of the school. To get

tainments and pay for what we get. No
girl can afiord to fit herself for a teacher’s
place and work for the pittance offered by
some school boards. The earnest, com-
petent, conscientious teacher always gets a
call to come up higher. Another difficulty
is the irregularity of attendance, in the
summer especially. The tater bug and .
the housework are of more importance
than school; the children get behind in
their classes, lose interest, and soon had
rather stay home than go. Then, far too
many parents interest themselves in the
doings at school in the wrong way. They
don’t care nearly as much what the chil-
dren are learning as what the teacher
does or says, and whether she has an
inclination to “show partiality.” This
“ partiality ” business is always a bug-bear
to the envious and jealous. If children are
permitted—they are Often encouraged—to
repeat every trifling occurrence at school,
colored by their own ideas and their pref-
erences for their mates, whose cause they
invariably champion against the teacher,
and if the parents criticise and condemn
in the hearing of the children, it does not
take long to sow the seeds of insubordina-

 

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I like best the policy of an acquaintance
who says, when her children begin any
complaint about “ teacher,” “There, stop!
I don't want to hear a word. Do as your
teacher tells you and you’ll have no
trouble.” In consequence, the trifling
frictions are soon forgotten and the chil-
dren are taught obedience to rightful
authority. I have always been puzzled to
account for the feeling of antagonism
which so often exists in the pupils toward
their teachers, who are placed over them
to do them the greatest possible good. In-
stead of being willing recipients of these
benefits, it seems often their chief aim to
thwart the purpose of their instructors. If
they can evadea task or escapea lesson,
they seem to think they have in some way
cheated the teacher; they do not seem to
realize they have really cheated themselves.
I doubt if a person ever lived who in
later life did not look back upon his school
days wishing he had made better use of
them. It is not till they are over, and we
get out into the world and become pain-
fully conscious of our deficiencies that we
properly appreciate what we missed.

My remedy for this would be to have
parents impress upon the children’s minds
that it is moreof a prin'lege than a duty to
go to school. I would have the work of
the teachers seconded at home by the con-
versation and example and influence of
the parents, manifested by interest in
school work— not idle, purposeless curiosi-
I ‘Would have
the home surroundings such as would
foster a wish to learn. When I taught
school and “boarded round,” I learned
my brightest and best pupils invariably
came from homes where books and papers
were found, and where the topics treated
therein were discussed at table and around
the fireside;where the almanac and Youatt
on the Horse constituted the family litera-
ture, with perhaps the local paper, the
boys would sooner drop corn and the girls
sew patchwork than go to school. Another
thing, where children were routed out of
bed before they had their sleep out, to a
sunrise breakfast, and kept doing chores
till school time, they were invariably
dull and sleepy and it took a circus pro.
cession or an earthquake to get them
fully wakened. Growing children require
a great deal of sleep, and it is cruelty—yes,
positive cruelty, to deprive them of it. Not
a few stupid boys would be all right in-
tellectually if they were not deprived'of
the sleep they ought to have and that
nature demands, from a mistaken idea that
by getting up before we are rested and
forcing ourselves to keep going all day,
we cheat the old Dame and are 'gaining an
advantage. I always sympathized with
the hired man of a certain is mer who had
the reputation of being a hard master.
Discovered asleep in the fence corner while
Old Doll slumbered in the corn furrow,
and being soundly berated by his “boss,”
he said, “Mr. —, I’ve worked for you two
months, an average of 17 hours a day. I
am kept doing chores till nine o’clock at
night and I’m called regular at four in the
Idling. You’d make a good slave driver,

 

but I aint no nigger,” and after consigning
his employer to a realm Dante made for-
ever famous, he discharged himself and
left Old Doll and the farm forever.

But to return to school matters: I do
not believe in making the teacher a nurse-
maid to take care of the infants of the dis-
trict. Children are better off at home till
they are six years old at the very earliest.
The babies are an element of disorder in
the school, a distraction to the pupils, a
tax on the teacher’s time and patience, both
of which she has need for in her dealings
with larger children.

The m ther who says “ I'll be glad when
school begins, so I can 'get you young ones
out of the house” is under a mistaken
impression as to the relative relation of
school and home. A school is not a house
of refuge for disorderly children, nor an
asylum for those whose mothers do not
wish to be bothered with them. To say
such things before the little folks is to
give them the idea that school is only a new
playground, where they will have more
playmates and a little more license.

When new text books are asked for the
requirement should be viewed as an
evidence of advancement and cause for
congratulation, not from a financial stand-
point as an additional expense. I have
seen the light of honest pride fade out of a
boy’sface when in response to “ Pa, teacher
says I may go into the Fourth Reader and
I’ll have to have a new book,” the father
without looking up‘growled out, “ Well, I
guess it won’t hurt you to read the old one
through again; I ain’t got no money to
fool away on books. Use them you’ve
got.” The refusal took away all the boy’s
lately awakened ambition, and when the
teacher, the next Monday morning, brought
him a reader she had borrowed of her sister
for his use, he said, ungrammatically but
emphatically, “I aint a-going to use that.
Pa’s able to buy my books, and if he
won't do it I don’t care whether I have
any or not.” And ifthe teacher had dared
free her mind, when, the next time he
went to town, this mean, stingy father
brought home twice the worth of the new
reader in tobacco for his own consumption!

I believe it a misfortune for parents to be
compelled to send their children away
from home to school while they are still
very young. For that reason, it is to every
parent’s interest to have a good home
school where the boys and girls may learn
those elementary branches which are the
foundation of all education and which can
just as well be acquired there as at far
greater expense away from home. ' But
this cannot be had without some exertion
en the part of those who are to be bene-
fited; we cannot sit down and expect
schools to run themselves without atten-
tion. How many men would entrust the
management of their farms to a hired
hand without exercising individual super-
vision? How many hired men could be
thus trusted? The housekeeper hardly
dares leave her house for three days for
fear something will go wrong. So we
pay a great deal more attention to the care

i and preservation of our property than to

 

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the surroundings and influences about opr
children at school. We make the mistake
of supposing that a few terms at some
really excellent school will remedy the
faults of early education, without reflect-
ing how much more beneficial these later‘
advantages would be, were the pupil but
prepared to profit by them. I can excuse»
the country schools for not teaching alge-
bra and natural philosophy, but I cannot
so readily forgive them for not sending out
good spellers, intelligible readers and
legible writers. If the schools would do-
just this one thing well, they would be
worth more than they cost. and they
might be made to do a great deal more.
BEATRIX.

SPEAK THE KIND WORDS NOW.

If there is any good that you can do, do—
it. If you have any knowledge that would
be a benefit to the world give it, and wish
it well.

Many of us here in Michigan are sleepy to
many facts; we do not mean to be, but it is»
for want of thought. We feel a sympathy
for one another, but how often do we ex-
press it? We do not let them know it,
when perhaps they are dying for want of
a kind word.
offer help or to go and visit the afliicted. If
it is not ours I should like to ask whose it is
then? We say “ Well, I don’t exactly
know, but it is not my duty; no, not
minet” Perhaps we all say the same, and"
the deed of charity remained undone. We
all have our cares and perplexities, and
often a kind word sweetly spoken will give
rest to a weary soul; but “,much evil is
wrought by want of thought.”

I may be mistaken, though I think not,
in saying that more people suffer mentally
for want of a kind word, or a little appre-
ciation, than physically. Will it not bea
benefit to ourselves as well as to others, if ”
when we feel sympathy for some one we
would let them know it by word _or deed?‘

E. A. A.
——-—O00———-

FROH THE LITTLE GIRLS.

 

I thought I would write to the HOUSE-r
HOLD. 1 am a little girl and live on a
farm. I have five pet lambs. I go to school
every day, and am also taking music
lessons; I like it very much. I like to read
the FARMER too. I expect to go to the»
Exposition this fall, and if Ihave time I
would like to call on Beatrix and see the
photograph album.

Will somebody please send me direc-
tions for apretty crochet edging, to be
crocheted out of silk, suitable for a skirt.

szrna. TOPSY.

 

I have long been a reader of the HOUSE-
HOLD, but likefiome others a silent one. I
am eleven years old; I cannot bake but I
am going to learn this summer. Ma reads

the Housnnom) also, but she has so much.

to do she can’t write. I did think of
writing before but did not have the~
courage until I saw the letter the other
girl wrote; that gave me new courage. 'Us .
little girls will not write very often and so -

we won’t take up much room.

Oman“. Fame. .

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THE FARMER’S WIFE.

 

[Papbr read before the Newaygo County Farm—
ers' and Bee-Keepers‘ Association, in March,
1890, by Mrs. N. L. Lewis, of Fremont]

The subject assigned me is; “ The
Farmer’s Wife—a machine to do general
housework, and belongs to the farmer.” I
will try to be unbiased in dealing with
the subject, although i may be hard to do
so, as I belong to the class which we are
discussing. Poets of all ages have sung
about the beauty and independence of the
farmer’s life; and recently I read an article
in which the writer embellished in glowing
terms the independence of the farmer’s
wife. We will diagnose t e case and sec
wherein her independence lies. It sound-
ed very romantic and poetical, but his ideal
was far from the real. To be sure, the
position of the farmer's wife today is far
in advance of what it was years ago, and
there is chance for much improvement
yet. The improved machinery the farmer
uses somewhat lessens the labor in the
house as well as lightens his own, still vhere
is the same unceasing. monotonous round
of duties to perform, such as to bake, cook,
wash dishes, sweep, scrub, mop, dust,
churn, mend, sew, knit, wash, iron, attend
to the children, and much more I will not
mention. Herein must lie her indepen-
dence, as many times she has all this labor
to perform independent of any assistance.
Her work is like a mountain covered with
mist—you cannot discern the top of it.
Now if any can see poetry in that they
will have to look through double lens.
To cook meals and wash dishes three
times a day, three hundred and sixty-five
days ina year, takes all the romance and
poetry out of life, and leaves stern realities,
especially when one has to study to make
one dollar go as far as two or three should.
And what is her compensation? Her board
and clothes! Is this as it should be? From
the beginning it was not so ordained. God
ordains everything wisely and does His
work well; and any perversions or contor-
tions are due to human agencies. He found
it was not good for man to be alone, so He
created for him a helpmata. The farmer’s
wife was placed lere to fill out the full
measure of her days, to be a helpmate and
companion for the farmer, not a machine
to be kept constantly in motion till she is
wornout.

Much might be done to ameliorate the
labors of the housewife and allow her
more time for mental improvement. The
wives of farmers are intellectually equal
with their husbands, and are striving to
improve, and with all this wealth of in-
telligence how can any one wonder why
they are not contented to be mere house-
keeping machines, and their world within
the narrow confines of the four walls of
the kitchen. Yet there are those that
completely ignore the right of the farmer’s
wife to be anything else. When women
are recognized as equals with men they can
better work out the great problem of life,
and a nobler and better state of Civilization
Shall come to the waiting future. The
best interests of this mighty republic
wouldfie enhanced by the recognition of

that equality. As it is now they live in
separate worlds of thought and feeling.
Homes are the strongholds of the nation.
Union and harmony in the home are the
powers which drive the matrimonial ship
surely and triumphantly over the sea of
life and anchor it safely in the harbor of
prosperity and happiness. It is said every-
thing gravitates to its proper level, and the
time is not far distant when woman will
take her proper place. There has been too
much advancement in that direction to
ever think of retrogression; the cause has
too many strong advocates, and they are
like Banquo’s ghost, they will not “down.”
Progress has been somewhat slow, but all
great reforms are made slowly. No
wonder that the farmers’ wives have been
designated machines. They have no more
legal right to a share of the products of
the farm than the machine with which the
farmer does his work. The-e are husbands
whose inherent sense of justice allows the
wife unquestioned disposal of funds for
the family, yet in these cases they are
better than the law, for it is a gift and not
alegal right. I would that the order of
things could be reversed and the farmers
change places with their wives for a time;
work hard with no legal right to reason-
able share of the mutual earnings; just get
their board and clothes (and not very good
ones at that sometimes); how long would
they put up with it? Not long, they
would soon throw up the situation and go
where wages were higher.

All are born free and equal and should
have an equal chance in the pursuit of
life, liberty and happiness. At a recent
farmers’ meeting the choir sang songs with
beautiful words and sentiments, some of
them were these: “Justice and Freedom
for the Farmer,” but not a word for the
farmer’s wife. The individuality of the
wife has been merged into that of the
husband, hence the common and trite
saying, “Husband and wife are both one
and that one the husband.” Tney are and
should be as distinctly individual as the
sun and moon, but lending aid and
sympathy to each other, as the stars lend
their brightness. The time is not many
years in the future when it can be more
appropriately said husband and wife are
both one, and that one husband and wife.
Laws and customs are changing to meet
these new conditions, and the old statute
that gives the man power to whip his wife,
providing the stick he uses is not larger
than his finger, is a dead letter; it will not
do for modern times. A reverend gentle-
man writes: “ Men and women are fitted
to be companions, everywhere in the
world’s work and in the world's life.
Society suffers and the individual suffers
when either sexis excluded from any great
human interests." When women are
politically superior to criminals and idiots
there will be many new provisions in the
law. Innocent childhood will be better
protected. Wives and mothers should
stand equal with men as ci-workers in
the extirpation of the many evils of this
world, and when that time comes, as'come
it must, you may be sure they will not

 

vote for a person who will dig pitfalls for
the feet of their innocent children. Now
the opposers of such equality of husband
and wife will ask you questions which
they think you cannot answer, and almost
expect to annihilate you with their magni-
tude. Who will cook the meals and rock.
the baby while women go to vote? The
farmer and his wife often go to town to
get their mail and do the trading; it need
not take them longer, but if it shouldthere
will be some one. Every demand has a»
supply in God’s economy. And asto the
latter I can best answer by quoting the
following:

“ When woman goes to cast her vote
Some miles away it may be,
Who ther, you ask, will stay at home
To rock and tend the baby.

“ Well, since the question seems to turn
On this as on its axis,
Just get the one who rocked it when
She went to pay her taxes.”

Now I have demonstrated to you that a;
farmer‘s wife is something besides a
machine to do housework. That she be:
longs to the farmer we will admit.

——...____
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HOW CAN we; MAKE MEN MORE‘.
MINDFUL or THEIR BLESSINGS.

“What in the world are you spending
your time for reading that twaddie?
There is nothing in it to interest any one
of common sense-all that bosh about how
to bring up children, woman’s influence»
and paste for wall paper—but then (sneer-
ingly) it takes so little to interest a woman!”
The above remark was made by one of the
lords of creation, for no reason other than
because I was looking over the HOUSE-.
HOLDS of the last two or three months.

“ How about Miss Edwards," I ventured/
to ask. -

“ Oh, she is cne of those strong-minded,
would-be conspicuous creatures of femin-
ine gender. I would not like to live in,
the house with such as she.”

I merely answered, “ Sour grapes.”

Now, ladies of the HOUSEHOLD, can any
of you give me a rec'pe how to please the
male members of one’s family? I know-
of no way but to be made over and enter .
the world as men. I have often tried to -~
imagine aworld of all men. What glorious
housekeepers they would be! Napkins
would be of no earthly use; knives and
forks would be dispensed with as too much
trouble to keep track of; the dogs would
be the dishwashers, but what jolly good
times they would have smoking and how
profoundly the question of whocould raise
the most smoke would be discussed!
Cuspidors would be an unknown article;
carpets superfluous; while a thousand
other things that are indispensable to
women would be piled as high as the
tower of Babel and set fire to. While they
were burning, the inhabitants would “ all
hands round and circle to the left,” kicking
up their heels and whooping like Coman-
ches on a war dance at their deliverance
from civilization and so much “blamed
fool nonsense."

I would like to have some wiser head;

 

than mine give an opinion. A. B. B.

 


 

 

ASSISTANCE WANTED

I have been planning this intrusion on
the HOUSEHOLD circle for several years.
You all look surprised that I have delayed
so long, but I am generous and hitherto
have been able to refrain from inflicting
such suffering on my fellow creatures, but
just now I am not in a mood to practice
self denial. I should like to shake hands
with M. E. H.; of Albion. I .can endorse
every word she has said on “ Sunday
Observances.” I think if we would all
take “ Judge not, that ye be not judged ”
for our text, and live up to it, we and
every one around us would be the better
and happier. I want Evangeline to know
how much I appreciate her recipes. They
are always so plain that even so stupid a
cook as I am making quitea reputation
for good cookery (in my own opiniOn). A
recipe that says “ enough flour to make it
Of the proper consistency ” or other equally
vague directions I usually skip. There
is nothing quite so discouraging as to have
a friend, in giving me directions to cook,

 

tell meI must use my own judgment. An _

old gentleman once remarked of a friend,
that “Helen had lots of judgment.” No
one? aver solid that of me. We receive our
mail about four o’clock, and the first thing
I do when the FARMER arrives, is to turn
to the last page of the HOUSEHOLD to see
if it contains anything “ good for tea.”
Will any of the readers kindly tell me
how to make fried apple turn-overs. There
are two of my relatives who are clamorous
for some, such as grandmother used to
make. All attempts to gratify their de-
mand have proved failures. Another re-
quest I have to make is just how to make
charlotte russe, and what kind of a mould
to use. I prefer to use sponge cake, as we
aret‘oo far from the city to obtain lady
fingers just when I want them. What
shaped tin is the best to bake the cake in
and how shall I proceed to fix the cake in
the mould, etc. I never make it look nice
but it tastes all right.

Wxs'r BAY Cr-rY. MARTHA JANE.

_—-—_...—_

GOVERNMENT.

 

There is one thing about the government
of children which I think we sometimes
overlook. The object of our government
is not so much to make our children do
what we think is right for them to do now
—at the moment, as it is to govern them so
that they learn to govern themselves,
“Government must be by consent of the
governed.” We should so rule that they
see our teachings are best, most produc-
tive of happiness and comfort to them.
We must have obedience; I think that is
one of the principal, if not indeed the most
necessary point, but we must be careful
how we require it. “ Mamma says so”
will do for young children; for older ones,
we should give a reason why they should
obey, when our will and theirs conflict. It
is an insult to a child’s intelligence not to
give a reason beyond the arbitrary exercise
of our power to forbid or allow, for any

abstract obedience we may demand. 0f

things in which the parents require and
the children render obedience, but where
they wish to pursue one course and we
desire them to take another.

'I‘HE HOUSEHOLD. -

I have known some children whose

parents always did their thinking for them.

They were failures when they grew up.

We must cultivate self-reliance, and ahabit
of considering the consequences of acts
and conduct.

No two children can be governed and
managed alike, and the mother’s noblest,
most engrossing study should be her chil-
dren’s temperaments and characters. If she
knows their weak points she can strengthen
them. Building character is somewhat
like pruning a tree. You cannot greatly
affect its nature, its hereditary tendencies,
but you can train and trim it into sym-
metry, develop it, cultivate and strengthen
it, cut away deformities and “black knots,”
and make it shapely and healthy so that it
can hear and blossom after its kind in best

perfection. LUCIE.
SPRING Anson.
__.—...————
HANDLE THE LITTLE ONES CARE-
FULLY.

 

We should he very careful in handling a
young child. How many-careless mothers
and nurse- girls do we see who lift or drag
about by one arm, little children whose
tender flesh and immature joints must be
severely strained by rough usage. I remem‘
her once seeing a mother passing along the
street, leading by the hand a little child
two or three years of age. The little one
had to take two or three steps to one of its
mother’s, but that fact' did not deter her
from walking very briskly; she was evident-
ly in a hurry, and half dragged the child
along by her side.
How often we see a grown person lift a
child over an obstruction in the pathway
if walking, or perhaps upon the lap by
taking hold of one hand, then with a strong
pull lift the child entirely 011' its feet, its
whole weight resting, or depending from
that arm! Such a practice is very harmful
to a child, as well as dangerous; for the
soft bones and muscles are liable to give
way and a dislocation of the arm be the re-
sult. Then there is the practice so com-
mon with some parents. of boxing a child’s
ears. Very disastrous results have some-
times been been brought about by it.
Punish the children if they need correction,
as all children sometimes do, but do it in a
loving spirit, never while angry, and let
the child understand that while it grieves
you to do it, it is for his good, and above
all let your punishment not be so severe as
to be a cause of regret afterward.

ONE OF THE MOTHERS.

H..—

RULE BY LOVE.

 

My heart warmed toward Ruth when I
read her plea for kindness and love to the
children; and turned from Grandpa, who
I believe is no Grandpa in truth. When
our six year old boy began to use profane
words, his grandpa, who was a Methodist
clergyman—alas, we have him with us no
more in this world—said, “ Do not punish

pass through those things, and when I one

day took a little switch intending to strike
where it would not hurt much, missed

aim, through his struggles, and left an

ugly red welt on his dear little face, with
what shame did I view it, and how he
fought back! Never since have I treated
my boy so disrespectfully. Not long
since that same boy, now the age 'mothers
dread, (thirteen) came to me in grief be
cause he had lost his temper while plowing.
What woman has not shuddered to see
an angry man beating his horse? How
much more terrible to see a helpless child
under a man or woman’s whip!
Shall we not right our own hearts and
teach our children kindness and love for
every living thing?
If we knew the baby fingers,

Pressed against the window pane,
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow,

F ever trouble us a; ain, .
Wou d the bright eyes of our darl‘ng

Catch the frown upon our b ows?
Would the print of rosy fingers

Vex us then as they do now?
Ah ! those little ice cold fingers,

How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions

Strewn along our backward track!
How those little hands remind us,

As in tnowy grate they lie,

Not to scatter thorns, but roses
For our reaping by and by.

CONS I‘AN I‘ READER.
H.—

SCRAPS.

 

CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK thinks
the fashion of beginning breakfast with a
first course of fruit is a source of number-
less headaches, brought on by the intro-
duction of an arid into the empty stomach.
Fruit is an excellent adjunct at the break-
fast table, but the individual should eat it
before or after the meal, as seems to suit
best. kWhen served last, it acts as a pleas-
ant neutralizer of the solid or greasy food
consumed, and leaves a pleasant taste in
the mouth.

A NEW beverage, designed to take the

place of lemonade as a summer drink for

parties and receptions, is known as am.

brosia. Ambrosia, you know, was the
food of the gods, and this drink is said to
be quite as delicious as its pagan namesake.
And this is the recipe: One pineapple,
five pounds of granulated sugar, two
quarts of strawberries or raspberries, one
dozen of oranges, one and a half dozen of
lemons. Chop the pineapple, put with
half the sugar and enough water to cover,
on the stove and cook. Mash the berries
with the remainder of the sugar, cover this
with water and let it stand. Squeeze all

the juice of the lemons and oranges into a
three gallon crock, pour over this one
and one—half gallons of water. Strain the
strawberries and add them to the juice.
Add the pineapple, mix well and strain.
Serve with ice.

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Contributed Recipes.

 

SPONGE CAKE.- One cup com e srgar: ore
cup flour: three eggs: two tablespoonfuls
WLt‘fl‘: one heap'ng teaspoonful baking pow-
der. Flavor to'a'ste. Bate quickly.

JOHNNY CAKE-0e teacup sweet milk;
one teacup sour milk; two cups flour: two
cups cornmeal; three tablespoonfuls Crip-
pings: one egg; large spoonful sugar; one
teaspoonful soda. MARTHA Jm.

 

 

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