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DETROIT, MAY 31., 1890.

 
THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 
WISHING.

 
“ I wish i had an eagle‘s sight 1”
Said Johnnie, with a radiant look,
As all sat round the evening light,
Each occupied with work or book—
“ Then on far Eiffel tower l’d stand,
And view the wonders of each land."

“But you’ve no ship to cross the sea 1”
Cried little May in quick reply,
“ And if you had—how sick you'd be!
I’d take the eagle‘s wings and ﬂy—
Then on and on, o‘er hill and plain,
Right round the world and home again."

“Pshawl eyes and wings i" sneered sturdy Dan—
“ I‘d choose, if I a choice could make,
A lion’s strength.” “ And i,” said Nan,
“ The lily’s breath and beauty take.”
Then sweet-toothed Nell piped,“For my part,
Give me, from bees, the honey art."

Wishing ran wild. We all were gay,
Mother sat sewing, weary faced:
Small time had she for books or play,
So many stitches must be placed.
Old pussy stretched, lazy and fat,
Close at her feet upon the mat.

“ Mother?" called Dan, “ ’tis your turn now i
What would you take had you the chance?”
She pushed her glasses up her brow
And gave us all a kindly glance—
" Well, if I could, and ’twas no crime,
I'd take,” she said, “the cat‘s spare time."
—Boeton Transcript.
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DISTRICT SCHOOLS.

 
The true teacher, like the poet, is born,
not made. As many try to write poetry
who have not the “divine spark,” so
hundreds try to teach school who have few
or none of the requisite qualiﬁcations.
That may be a wise regulation—for their
schools—of the Boards of Education of
many of our cities and towns which re-
quires applicants for positions to have a
term’s experience in a country school, but
it makes the country schools a sort of
training ground where beginners try their
’prentice hand. But experience must be
gained somewhere, that’s certain. The
conscientious young man or woman who
really essays to do the best possible, will
undoubtedly make some mistak es in man-
agement, which may be condoned because
of the genuine eifort to do well which is at
the bottom. Many students of the Univer-
sity, the Agricultural College. and the
smaller educational institutions throughout
the State, help themselves by teaching
during vacations, and generally, I think,
give fair satisfaction. Most of them know

encugh; the only trouble is the employ-
ment is felt to be but temporary, a mere

stepping-stone; they have no reputation to
make as teachers, not meaning that to be

 
their life work. The State Normal School
is annually furnishing well-equipped,
specially educated teachers, who however
are speedily secured as educators in city
schools. As with ministers, there’s never
an over-supply of good, competent teachers,
especially after they “ get experience.”
The bane of our country schools is the
girl who wants a little money of her own
and thinks she knows enough to teach
school and get it. She does not‘care if
twice two is six or Cape Cod is a river in
Africa. if she only gets her wages at the
end of the term, anything to get through
the requisite number of days. The chil~
dren readily detect her motives and her in-
capacity, and govern themselves accord-
ingly. She’s a cheat and a fraud, because
she takes money she has not fairly earned.
Often she’s a relative of some member of
the Board, and gets the school through
“inﬂuence,” a mild form of that nepotism
which seems to obtain in all appointments
and whose motto is “Look out for your
own i” In a school district I once knew, it
was a cast iron rule that no relative of any
member of the Board was to be employed.
The regulation had its advantages. The
time of the children and the school money
is generally wasted under such teachers,
but there seems to be no known remedy.
Those whose children suﬂer from the in—
competence of the teacher and know it,
dislike to stir up unpleasant feeling among
their neighbors; those who are indiﬁerent
and disposed to let the school run itself,
don’t care enough or know enough to
makeafuss. But don’t be too captious,
nor too zealous of your children’s “rights.”
The teacher is supposed to endeavor to
deal fairly and justly with all. Think a
moment: Does your family government
always go on smoothly, without jar or
friction, or need oi punishment? Are you
never impatient and irritable with your
own, sometime-s smite ﬁrst and investigate
afterward? The teacher has twenty or
thirty restless, mischievous little folks to
control, whereas you have but your two or
three. Be considerate. Shetco is human;
subject to headaches and a disordered digcs~
tion, same as yours. The teacher who
cannot govern her temper has no business

 
The teacher who once loses her temper in
presence of her little kingdom has given
them an advantage of which they are not
slow to avail themselves.

I believe there are many young teachers
who would do good work in our country
schools if they felt they had the support of
interested patrons. There is no greater
incentive to eﬁort than friendly encourage-
ment; a few words of praise and commen-
dation are a great stimulus to endeavor.
We all lose heart in a work in which no
one seems to be interested.

The personal feeling which exists be-
tween teacher and pupils is an important
factor in the success of the school. Too
great familiarity is not desirable, nor yet
its opposite, atoo rigid discipline which
keeps pupils and teacher from becoming
acquainted. I don’t know but the real
teacher likes her bright mischievous pupils
better than her dull good ones, but per-
sonal preferences should not be manifested;
both those who are favored and those who
are not are very quick to notice them.
Children are quick observers, and those
who have been well brought up note every
lapse, in manners, speech or dress, in the
teacher. It does no good to teach them to
say ”I saw it” if you say “I seen it "
yourself. I think I mentioned in the
HOUSEHOLD, once, the indignant girls who
voted their teacher “ no lady” because she
always had dirty hands, scratched her
head and cleaned her teeth with her
ﬁngers in their presence, and stood before
her classes with one foot on the round of
her chair.

It takes a genuine, thoroughly interested
person to enthuse children, especially on
such dull subjects as spelling and the mul-
tiplication table. Then do not teach these
all the time. There are so many topics on
which the children can easily be roused to
enthusiasm that one can teach many dull
things by combining with them what is
pleasing. Therein lies the teacher's art.
Singing, light calisthenic exercises, recita-
tions in adding and subtracting in concert
are all helps to break up monotony and
keep them awake in dull days. Unfortu-
nately, too few of our country school-

, houses are equipped with proper aids for
in a schoolroom, that is true. The ﬁrst'
step in controlling othr. rs is to be able to,

teaching. Good black blackboards are in-
dispensable; frames of balls for teaching

control one’s self, not only the tongue, but 1 numbers, outline maps, a good dictionary,

the eyes, the nerves, every muscle. But
how about mothers? If home discipline
were better, school discipline would be

and if possible a globe ought to be pro-
vided. These are the commonest neces‘
series, yet how many of our schoolrooms

easier, and good management at home is- have them?

often nulliﬁed by the want of it in school

There is an immense amount of teaching

 
2 I THE HOUSEHOLD.

 
to be- done outside of text books. For this
reason, it is a mistake to employ “ any-
body” at low wages because the school is
small. “Anybody ” cannot advance the
pupils half as fast or as far as “Some—
body” who knows more and can supple
ment text book lore from her own fund of
general information. The boy may not be
particularly interested in the fact that the
Amazon river is in South America, rises in
Peru, ﬂows east and empties into the
Atlantic; but tell him it is the largest river
on the globe, 2,700 miles long, with over
350 tributaries, that its mouth is ten miles
wide, that the forests along its course are
the most luxuriant, rich in rare woods,
wonderful tropical birds, immense ﬂowers,
and reptiles and animals uncounted. and
he begins to realize the Amazon is a big
river. Rivers and mountains and lakes are
only names to us, until we begin to as-
sociate with them something which de-
scribes them and ﬁxes them in the memory.
That is my idea of teaching, not so much
the mere memorizing of facts as arousing
the intellectual powers to an activity
which prompts independent research.

Nix, I think it was, said teachers often
completed a term and left without having
met half the parents of the children they
had taught. It is true; but it is a pity it
should be true. If every mother would
constitute herself a committee of one on
school improvement, visit the school, get
acquainted with the teacher, sustain her
authority, and work with her for the good
of the children, and byher inﬂuence stir up
the men who are the suppositious trustees
of school affairs, I have faith to believe we
should have schools which would at least
teach the “three R’s” so thoroughly we
need not send the children to the nearest
village school to learn how to work ex.
amples in long division. But as long as
we vent our dissatisfaction in grumbling,
or keep the small people at home, without
making any effort to remedy the evils of
which we complain, we may expect to
have cause for complaint. and that the
school question will “bob up” periodi-
cally. It is one of the abuses that will not
reform itself. BnArnrx.

RULE BY LOVE.

 
I am sorry to have incurred the dis
pleasure of any member of the House-
BOLD, as seems to be the case with “ Con-
stant Reader,” who says she “turns from
Grandpa,”—with lodness, I suppose-
“ who I believe is no Grandpa in truth.”
Let me say, I am not only the grandpa of
seven lively children (the youngest of
whom is the “ apple of my eye,” and is my
constant companion), but also a grand-
father in all else the word ’implies, includ-
ing charity for all who may entertain
honest opinions on any subject diﬁerent
from those I may entertain.

Were all possessed of the lovely, amiable,
angelic natures that Ruth and Constant
Reader seem to have, then ruling by love
alone would be an easy task, but human
nature is “prone to evil as the sparks are
to ﬂy upward,” and it must be dealt with
as it is, and not as it ought to be, or rather

 
as some think it ought to be, for the writer
contends with Pope that “ Whatever
is, is right,” that is, whatever is of divine
origin, must of necessity be right. What
a tame, spiritless, monotonous world this
would be if there was no evil in it to cor-
rect, and no transgressions to punish, not
to say unruly children to whip! If the
order of things was otherwise than it is,
how could the justice and mercy of an All
wise Creator be manifest? (r the love and
compassion of the blessed Redeemer ever
have been exempliﬁed? Or how could
these wise sayings of Solomon, “ He that
spareth the rod hateth his son; but he that
loveth him chasteneth him betimes;”
“ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and
let not thy soul spare for his crying; “ The
rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child
left to himself bringeth his mother to
shame,” ever have been uttered?

Order and discipline must be established
and maintained, and the laws of God and
man authorize at times severe penalties for
trangressions. Because one may advocate
the use of the rod in certain cases, it is
hardly fair to impute to him a brutal,
tyrannical nature. The writer, in an ex-
perience of twenty-ﬁve winters’ teaching
district schools, “boarding round ” most
of the time, and bringing up a family of
ﬁve children, has had occasion to use the
red at times when an effort to rule by love
or by moral suasion alone would have been
like casting—I mean “ wasting sweetness
on the desert air;” and yet the writer
claims he has a heart as tender as a lamb’s,
that can weep over the woes of others, and
sympathize with the afﬂicted. Because
one is so fortunate as to be endowed with
an amiable disposition, and has oﬁ’spring
inheriting the same lovely traits, who can
be ruled by love, or who may not require
any ruling to speak of, it does not follow by
any means that all can thus be governed;
and it is taking rather a contracted view to
say this principle should be of universal
application. What is one man’s meat may
be another man’s poison. Because certain
drugs are sovereign remedies for certain of
my ailments, I have no right to insist they
would be equally beneﬁcial to another’s
afﬂiction. A thing may be right viewed
from our standpoint, but wholly ur suitable
when applied to others. GRANDPA.

 
‘THE BOYS IN SCHOOL.

 
Perhaps enough has already been said in
regard to the district schools, but as the
question is still open for discussion, I
would like to have my say on the subject.
In the ﬁrst placeI think the patrons should
take enough interest in the schools to co-
casionally visit the schoolroom, not only to
ascertain if the pupils are advancing; but
to become acquainted with the persons
who have charge of the children. I will
venture to say there is not a farmer in the
town that would think of hiring a piece of
work done without overlooking it to see if
it was performed according to contract.
Neither would he hire an incompetent
person to oversee his stock. If a ﬁne colt
was being broken to harness or ﬁtted for
the track, his interest would be aroused

 
enough to seethat it was properly handled.
A business transactim, you=say. Yes, but
of far greater worth is the handling of
your children. We know the tea~hers of
the district schools even, must bequaliﬁed
as regards certain branches of learning,
but there are other qualiﬁcations that far
outweigh these. Are they always as well
qualiﬁed in the way of management,
temper and moral training? It is a delicate
matter, this training of young minds, and
our schools should progress evenly with
other things. We have known of children
who disliked to go to school because they
were badly treated there. A child should
never be sent anywhere to be treated worse
than he is at home. Mothers, never whip
your boy off to school, for a child that is
whipped to school never gets his lessons
well; and if he has a dislike toward the
teacher no doubt he has a reason, or thinks
he has, which amounts to the same thing
with him, and his dislikes affect him in the
same way that yours do you. Never whip
your child simply to gratify somebody
else; never mind if some are worried as to
your child’s future, they are only envious
for fear he will turn out better than
theirs. Respect your boy if you would
have him respect you. A teacher who
enters the schoolroom without respect
enough for the pupils to treat them as she
herself would wish to be treated, had better
wash dishes for a living.

“ Nix” says the teacher goes her way,
happy in the though that she has escaped
the rude boys. Now, Nix, are you quite
sure they are the bad boys of the district,
and would it not be better to deal kindly
with the erring? A kind word sometimes
will do more toward encouraging and re-
formingr a wayward youth than all the oil
of hickory you can use.

There are people who seem to think that-
boys have no right to anything in the world
except kicks and cuffs, and should make
themselves scarce except when there is
some unpleasant job to perform; then they
must appear and disappear at We word, in
fact they must remain unheard and un-
seen except when in use; that is a mistake.
They have a right in the world; we all
have a niche to ﬁll. It is just as wrong to
use insulting words to a boy as it would be
to use the same language to his father, for
in one sense he is as much a man at ten as
he will be at ﬁfty. It is not the stature that
makes the man but the principle, the manv
hood that is in him; remember, boys, that
“A man ish a man if he ish no bigger ash
your dum,” (A man is a man if he is no
bigger than your thumb). A man who
cannot remember that he was ever a boy is
entirely tooripe for earth, yet hardly ﬁt
for heaven.

There sure different ways to look at this
matter, but one step toward reform would

be to elect men to ﬁll the important oﬁice
of director who have intelligence enough

.to employ the right kind of teacher, for a

good district school is something each dis-
trict may justly feel proud of.
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THE HOUSEHOLD. 3

 
POWER OF HABI 1‘.

Pa er read at the April meeting of the Liberty
[Fgrmes Club, by Mrs. L. B. Kenyon, of
Liberty] ,

Habit is something which will bind a
man or woman to that sphere in life which
will enable them to be pure, noble and
useful, as well as an ornament to the
society in which they move, or they may
form such habits as will degrade them, not
only in their own eyes, but will bring them
lower and still lower in the eyes of cultured
society, and lead at last to ruin.

Habit consists a great deal in the will
power of the individual. ‘We often hear
one make the remark, “ I can refrain from
this or that if I will;” thus we let habits
grow on us which we might overcome and
form better ones. Habit becomes a power
over us, arid if our habits are formed for
good, we may become a power for good in
the world. There is not a moment in our
lives in which the opportunity does not
occur for exhibiting good habits; in the
workshop, in the street, and at home. It
is not merely the pleasure a man gives to
another by being kind; he receives tenfold
more pleasure himself. The man who
gets up and offers his chair to a woman or
an old man, trivial though the act may
seem, is rewarded in his own heart, and a
thrill of pleasure runs through him the
moment he has performed the act. A true
character compels us to act rightly,
whether in secret or in the sight of men.
That boy was well trained, who when
asked why he did not pocket some pears,
for nobody was there to see, replied, ‘ Yes
there was; I was there to see myself, and I
don’t intend ever to see myself do a dis-
honest thing.” This is a simple but not
inappropriate illustration of principle of
conscience, dominating in the character
and habit of a person, exercising a noble
protectorate over it, thus forming an active
power regulating the life.

And here it maybeobserved l ow greatly
the character may be strengthened and
supported by the cultivation of good
habits. Man, it has been said, is a bundle
of habits, and habit is second nature.
Metastasio entertained so strong an opinion
as to the power of repetition in act and
thought, that he said, “ All is habit in
mankind, even virtue itself.” Butler, in
his Analogy, impresses the importance of
careful self-discipline and ﬁrm resistance
to temptation, as tending to make virtue
habitual, so that at length it may become
more easy to do good than to give way to
sin. “As habits belonging to the body are
produced by external acts, so habits of the
mind are produeal by the execution of in-
ward practical purposes, 1. e., carrying
them into act or acting upon them, the
principles of obedience, veracity, justice
and charity.” Lord Brougham says: “I
trust everything, under God, to habit, on
which, in all ages, the law-giver as well as
the school-master has mainly placed his
reliance. Habit, which makes everything
easy and casts the difficulties upon the de-
viation—from a wonted course; thus, make
sobriety “tab“, and intemperance will be
hateful; make prudence a habit, and reck-

 
less proﬂigacy will become revolting to
every principle of conduct which regulates
the life of the individual. Hence the
necessity for the greatest care and watch-
fulness against the inroad of any evil habit;
for the character is always weakest at that
point at which it has once given way, and
it is long before a principle restored can
become so ﬁrm as one that has never been
moved.” That is a ﬁne remark of a Rus-
sian writer: “Habits are a necklace of
pearls; untie the knot and the whole un-
thread.”

Wherever formed, habit acts involun-
tarily and without effort, and it is only
when you oppose it that you ﬁnd how
pgwerful it has become. What is done
once and again eron gives facility and
proneness. T e habit at ﬁrst may seem to
have no more strength than a spider's web,
but once formed, it binds as with a chain
of iron. The small events of life taken
singly may seem exceed ingly unimportant,
like snow that falls silently ﬂake by ﬂake,
yet accumulated, these snow-ﬂakes form
the avalanche.

Coming to home life, do we form the
habits of home in all the little details of
life that will make home the most pleasant
and edifying to those around us? Habit
should become a power for good in the
home, in doing all we can to please and
make happy those around us. If we do
this then the course of our home life
will ﬂow so naturally and easily, as we
move in society, that there will be no effort
on our part to perform the part of a true
lady or gentleman in any circle of society.

Good habits have been supposed to be a
peculiar mark of gentility, and to indicate
that the individual exhibiting them has
been born in some upper class of society.
But the poorest classes may exhibit good
habits and good manners toward each
other, as well 'as the richest. Nothing
looks more beautiful to me than to see an
old gentleman or lady whose locks are
silvered with gray, with that mark of
gentility about them, which shows that
this has been habituated and inculcated
in their very lives from early youth. How
very beautiful our lives might be if in
youth we would all form such habits as
would cause us to live pure, noble and
useful as well as beautiful lives! But in
order to do this we must refrain from
everything that is evil, such as keeping
bad company, taking the name of God in
vain, taking the ﬁrst glass of anything in‘
toxicating, reading vile books or those
books which will not elevate the mind to
higher and nobler aims in life. And we
must cleave to that which is good. First
of all let us cleave to God our Creator who
doeth all things well, and cling around the
good things which He has provided for us,
thus ﬁxing such habits as will prove not
only a power to us here in this life, but
win for us an untold blessing throughout
alleternity.

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MAKE paste for papering with rye ﬂour.
It sticks better than wheat. The cheap
starch to be bought in bulk is also a good
medium.

 
WHY SOME MEN DO NOT LIKE
THE “HOUSEHOLD.”

I promised the Editor to keep still for a
long (or short) time, but I really must give
A. B B. an Opinion of her men folks, either
wise or otherwise. In my six years’ ac-
quaintance with the HOUSEHOLD I am con-
vinced that it is not men of superior in-
tellect that sneer at the HOUSEHOLD and its
contents, calling it insipid, twaddle, bosh,
nonsense, etc. No; a man of good sound
sense, who has ability to apprecia’e a good
thing when he sees it, knows there is a
great deal of good in its pages. ,

It is these so-called lords of creation that
are so puffed up with self conceit that they
think themselves altogether too bright to
read anything written by a woman any
way, when all the time their lack of
ability to comprehend a great deal that is
in the HOUSEHOLD is the only reason they
see no sense in it. But of course it is not
expected the men will be as interested in
its columns as ourselves, it is not intended
for their especial beneﬁt. For instance,
when the FARMER arrives I always reach
out for the HOUSEHOLD, while my hus-
band seats himself in the armchair, com~
placently adjusts his glasses, unfolds the,
paper, and I soon hear a muttering and
wondering what has become of the wool
market, but he never says anything against
the little paper, and well for him he does
not. Again, last winter he bought the
American Review, containing speeches be-
tween Mr. Gladstone and Blaine relating
to the tariﬁ question. Well now, if he
didn’t enjoy reading it, so I thought I
would read it too, but after looking it
over, reading a little here and there, I
decided it was beyond my comprehension,
so gave it up, but did not pronounce it
foolish and senseless because I lacked
ability to understand it. Now if A. B. B.
can convince her men that it is the same
with them in regard to the HOUSEHOLD,
she has done a good thing, and I am sure
the world will be the better for her having
lived in it.

Years ago a friend of mine made fried
turnovers, using dried apple sauce, of
course sweetened as for pics, putting it in
the crust hot and dropping each one in the
hot lard as soon as ﬁlled. She made the

crust as for pics; they were nice. They
will not cook good if the sauce is put in
cold. This mention of fried turnovers
carries me back nearly forty years, when
we went to the old Center school house to
school. To compensate in part for my
broken promise, I will send a recipe for
cookies of my own make.

Pumwnnn. BESS.

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THE American Humane Education So
ciety publishes a cheap edition of “ Black
Beauty, his Grooms and Companions,” by
Miss Anne Sewall. It purports to be the
autobiography of “ Black Beauty,” a thor-
oughbred English horse, narrating the
vicissitudes of his life. It is a very read“
able book; the children will enjoy it, and
it may help make some boys grow into
men who will be kind to the dumb animals
in their care. Itwill be sent by mail for
18 cents, by addressing George T. Angeli,
President A. H. E. 8., mm St., Mn,
Mass.

 
TEE HOUSEHOLD.

    
FROM EL. SEE.

When contemplating a visit to the ﬂower
show I thought “ I know Beatrix will be
there, so I’ll just look in every woman’s
face hoping to know her by intuition,” but
it would have been worse than hunting for
its traditional needle in the haymow, be.
cause one would at least know the needle
when they found it, and I could not recog-
nize our Editor, knowing nothing of her
“-liniments," as the old lady said. So a
Bright thought struck me, that was helped
along by her own statement that the
FOUSEHOLD Album “ﬁlls all too slowly,”
the brilliant idea being to ask her to please
exchange with those who have sent to the
Album. Now if there are but a limited
number she would not be bankrupted and
we would so much appreciate the gift and
then we could “ know as we are known.”
Don’t all you who have sent photographs
second the motion?

When I last wrote you there was a wait~
ing with bated breath and noiseless toot-
steps for the coming of the destroying
angel, but in spite of all our watching it
came instantly, “ as a thief in the night,”
and our loved Belle was gone without a
struggle. Heart failure at the last, but it
was better so because there was no suffer.
ing. Then the marble-like form in a beau-
tiful white satin robe was enshrined in a
snow-white casket. There was white crepe
and ribbon on the door, a profusion of
ﬂowers, her chair was draped with white
sﬂk crepe and the grave was lined with
white, so everything that loving hearts
and hands could do was done, but behind
and beneath it all was the sad reality. It
was death, a lonely home and hearts left

desolate.

“ Console if on will, I can bear it,
’Tis a we i meant aims of breath,
Be not all the preaching since Adam
Has made Death other than Death.”

Rono. EL. SEE.

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GRADUATING DRESSES.

The great question with the school girls
at this season is, What shall I have for a
graduating dress? Commencement Day is
the day of days in the girl‘s career, and you
know the men say woman’s one absorb-
ing query on all occasions is, What shall
I wear? White-not the dead white—but
soft ivory white, cream, magnolia—which
has a faint pinkish tinge, is almost invari-
ably selected; the material is a matter of
choice. An ideal graduating dress is
white China silk, made absolutely without
trimming, except the knots of white ribbon
on the shoulders and the ribbon girdle or
sash; or worn with a yellow China crapc
sash with fringe-netted ends. But the
China silk isadollar a yard, narrow in
width, and the sum total, with gloves and
slippers to match. mounts up to more than
most mothers care to put into such a dress.
Then we come to the soft wool goods,
batistes, nun’s veiling, cashmere, which
are suitable and low priced, and drape in
graceful, clinging folds. No stiff material
should be chosen. If a cotton weave is

worn, let it be a mull or nainsook, guiltless
of starch. The embroidered muslins are

sometimes selected, but after all, a wool
fabric is liked best. This season there is a
fancy for making mull and nainsook
dresses over a color. Choose a very faint
tint of pink silk, satin, or even cotton
satteen will answer, for a slip, over which
hang a perfectly plain round full skirt,
simply hemmed. Make the two skirts
separately, but attach them to the belt
together. The waist is round, is made
full on the shoulders and gathered at the
waist; or a lace yoke is inserted through
which the pink of the lining shows faintly;
sleeves are full. The only ornament is a
sashof soft pink silk, four yards long,
looped in loops and long ends at the back.
If you cannot buy fringe, pull out the
threads to make a fringe at the ends.

Graduating dresses should be simple and
girlish; let me repeat, simple and girlish.
No jewelry, no overplus of trimming, no
elaborate hair dressing. A white wool
dress, made with a. round full skirt, simply
hemmed, a full bodice, gathered on the
shoulder or with surplice folds set in to
cross low on the bust under the sash, and
with sleeves puffed high on the shoulders,
is eminently suitable for Commencement
Day or for a party dress for a young girl.
A skirt of white nainsook or very ﬁne
cambn'c, with lace sewed round the bot-
tom, should be made up and sewed to the
belt with the dress skirt, which is unlined,
of course. The fullness on the shoulders is
obtained by cutting the lining of the sleeves
as usual, and the outside longer and more
full on the upper part above the elbow,
gathering it to the lining. An invisible
stitch or two will hold the puff in place.
The present fashion of dressing the neck
is very pretty for the girls, a little edge of

lace is the only ﬁnish required. Some

dressmakers are ﬁnishing the necks of
bodices without collars and making
separate collars, which can be basted over
the made neck, when a high dress is de-
sired. If the styles which have been des-
cribed are not thought desirable the regu-
lation foundation skirt may be made, on
which is hung a slightly draped front
and a straight back. A short bodice
roundly pointed in front, with back out in
short blocks or rounded points, maybe
chosen, but after all, the simple girlish
models are much preferred.

A pretty white c ushmere or Henrietta
dress may be made by any of these simple
styles and have for trimming two bands of
white satin or moire ribbon three inches
wide across the front and sides of the
skirt and ending under bows or rosettes.
The ribbon is also used to trim waist and
sleeves, being simply crossed on the latter
and put on in two rows outlining the low,
pointed neck. A band of the same ribbon
encircles the waist and is arranged in long
loops and ends at the back.

Sleeves for graduating dresses should be
long. The sleeveless dress is suitable only
for full dress wear.

For hints on gloves and slippers see
HOUSEHOLD of May 10th.

The custom which for a season or two
has obtained in some towns and even

 
gained a foothold in the University, of

    
publicly presenting gifts from relatives
and friends to the graduates upon Com-
mencement Day, is not to be commended.
It savors too much of ostentation; it is not _
“ good form.” Give the presents at home,
and let the public offerings of the day
consist of ﬂowers alone. There are many
reasons, which commend themselvestoo'ur
good sense, for not making private gifts in
public.

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HOUSEHOLD mrrrs.

A LOCAL application for neuralgia is
made by boiling a handful of lobelia in
half a pint of water and adding a teaspoon-
ful of ﬁne salt. Wring cloths out of this
and apply hot, changing when necessary.

 
WHEN you clean house, after the carpet
and straw have been removed, before at-
tempting to sweep up the dust, scatter a
good allowance of damp sand over the
ﬂoor; and you will ﬁnd that it can be
thoroughly cleaned without raising dust.
This is a vast improvement on the old
method of ﬁlling the house and the lungs
with dust every time a carpet had to be
taken up. Sawdust will answer the same
purpose.

 
ABOUT the only way in which the dried
or evaporated apples can be made palata-
ble is to stew them slowly for a long time.
When thoroughly done, so there will be no
lumps, pass through a colander, making a
homogenous mass about the color and
thickness of apple-butter. Add the juice
of a lemon; cinnamon and cloves with
discretion, sugar with a liberal heart, re-
gardless of tariff, and by “ making believe
very hard” after the fashion of Dickens‘
" Marchioness ” you have a very fair sub-
stitute for apple-butter.

 
WE have received from Dr. Louis Bar-
kan, the author, a copy of “ How to Pre-
serve Health,” amanual of hygiene which
treats brieﬂy of the conditions most neces-
sary to health and the causes of disease,
which pr.ceeds on the assumption that
every person is the master of his own health,
to a great extent. The initial‘proposition
is that it is easier to prevent disease than to
cure it. Those uninformed on hygienic
subjects will ﬁnd much that will be of
value to them if put in practice, but those
who expect a “ doctor book” will be dis-
appointed, as no prescriptions are given.
The idea is to prevent the necessity of
“doctoring,” but that when disease is
present, a physician should be called.
Price $1. American News Go.

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Contributed Recipes.

COOKIES No 1.—0re at d ahalf cups sugar:
half cup buttcr; halt‘ (up buttermilk; one egg;
ha‘f teaspoonful soda; nutmeg. In this rule
I use a Cl. tree-cup for measuring. ‘

COOKIES No. 2.—Two and ahalf cups sugar;
Ote cup butter; half cup sour cream: three
e ggs. Soda and nutmeg.

GINGER Snaps—One cup butter; one cup
Porto Rica molasses; one cup sugar; two
eggs; one teaspoonful soda; two of ginger.

For all t‘cese rules I mix soft, uslr-g just
ﬂour enough to roll smooth. Knsad part of
the dough at a time; roll thin and silt on
granulated sugar: cut out and bake in a rather
stow oven. Bliss.