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DETROIT, JUNE 28, 1890.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

SOMEHOW OR OTHER.

 

Life has a burden for everyone's shoulder,
None may escape from its troubles and care;
Miss it in youth, and ’twill come when we‘re

older,
And flt us as close as the garments we wear.

Sorrow comes into our homes uninvited,
Bobbing our hearts of its treasures of song.
Lovers grow cold and our friendships are

slighted,
Yet somehow or other we worry along.

'Midst the sweet blossoms that smile in our faces,
Grow the rank weeds that would poison and
blight;
And e’er in the midst of earth‘s beautiful places.
There always is s 7mething that isn't quite
. right.

Somehow or other the pa=hway grows brighter.
Just when we mourn there was none to be-
friend;
Hope in the heart makes the burden grow
lighter,
And somehow or other we get to the end.

—...——_

HOME-IN—THE—HILLS .

 

Ah, how natural! Coming around the
“ bend,” every old familiar tree standing
in its place and wearing a regal crown of
J une’s richest treasures. High towering
over all the stately old elm! My dear old
friend, much converse we have had to-
gether. Once I addressed a little poem to
you. It was just after the lightning
struck you! Dear old treei How grandly
you have survived it, scarcely showing the
the scar now, which then was a wound
that might cause your death. The light-
ning that struck you is not the only sort of
of lightning that strikes, wounds, disables
and kills in this world. Blessed are they,
and well. rooted in the strong soil of a life
that hath foundations who can, like you,
survive the shock and seal the scar, and
sing and smile and be a source of gladness
in the midst of the people still.

And there is my battalion of sumacs!
June has dressed them up oh how daintily.
Will I see them again when they lift their
red lances and call on the autumn winds
to about their victories?

And the house, the home! It looks as
though I left it but yesterday. Four
years have made no changes in the exter-
nal appearance of the farm house whose
every room, window, door, porch and
pathway is replete with remembrances.
But 'the dooryard fence is demoralized, to.
gether with all of my beautiful plants and
flowers. It was very wise in the Creator to
make something beautiful and ornamental,
and have it grow so big and stout that

 

hogs, hens, sheep and cattle can’t kill it
nor mar its beauty. Yes, I thank God for
trees, green grass, blue sky and dandelions!
These are proof against the ravages of
hoofs, toes and noses. These are always
beautiful. Here they are always bounti-
tul, restful to the eye, soothing to the
mind; while the wind sings a perpetual
and ever varying melody in the leaves and
branches of the tall trees, and hosts of
singing birds fly and swing in the ever
resounding air. Elder Rea, the “grand
old man ” as his acquiremen ts caused him
to be denominated, named our place here
the “ Sough of the Winds.” And he used
to sit on the east porch and ga'her inspira-
tion from the converse of the winds and
the trees. Bob used to say “He seems
like some old king.” He has gone to his
long home—dust to dust and spirit to
spirit. Whither?

Well, here we are at the door. Yes,
this is Bob here with me in the carriage,
but he does not step out, let the top down
and assist me to alight. No, there’s a
pair of crutches here in the buggy. They
are Bob's. The accident, you know, three
years it will be the 18th of next month,
which crushed him in the binder, paralyz-
ed the lower half of the trunk and the
lower limbs. But Bob keeps his smiling
face and cheerful spirit through it all.
Will the scar of this “lightning stroke ”
wear away as the years go by and leave
him some day hale and hearty again like
you, old elm? Softly the winds whisper
through the shining leaves, but the ma-
jestic tree locks their answer fast in his
secret heart.

But we are inside now—dining-room,
pantry, kitchen, cellar, parlor, chamber,
the same, and not the same, all over the
house. Ah, too free I am! for that is not
E. L. N ye’s guardian getting dinner. No,
it’s Hi’s wife. She smiles, offers me an
easy chair (yes, ’tis the very same chair)
and asks me to “take 011 my wraps,”
and—well—I begin to realize that I am
“company!” The sensation is a trifle
painful, but I must get used to it; and
then four years have done something in
the “cauterizing ” art. Yes, for you
know nothing short of heroic treatment
will reduce some wounds to scars. To
these the Great Physician applies the hot
iron. Strange, isn’t it, that in physics
and in metaphysics methods in treatment
of disorders and diseases follow the same
lines? Fact, though. '

Here is Hi; sick. There’s a baby’s crib
in father’s bed-room, and a two year old

 

baby boy rocking in a little red chair in
the dining-room, Hi’s baby, a sturdy
little fellow fed on Jersey milk, an indus-
trious student of Mother Goose, whose
rhymes are to him a series of delights.
But what he loves best is a rousing old
Methodist hymn, sung in the spirit and
with the understanding also

Here comes the hired man turning out
for dinner, “A fine looking team” I say
to Hi as I note the handsome span of iron
greys to which baby calls out “ Whoa,
Nip ’n Dan!” “Yes,” Hi says, “that’s
Maggie’s son and daughter. And there
never was a better horse than Dan. Dis-
position just like his mother’s; Snipis good
in every way, but more excitable.” And
so in all things we change, and the change
comprises only a continuation of the same.

It seems strange that I shall go down to
the “ Vale " and up to Sand Hill, and fail
to find at the Vale good, kind, gentle,
wise old Elder Moon, or that I shall never
see his familiar form and smiling face here
at home again, and listen to his edifying
and instructive conversation. “ The wind
bloweth where it listeth,” so also is his
spirit fled from amongst us. And the
good friends, they of the iron nerve and
frame. who from the wilderness hewed
wealth, who set their will to do a thing or
accomplish a task and did it—-they too are
“ dust to dust,” and the spirit has gone
“to dwell in another star.” This was
Uncle Mose’s idea of what we call death.
The clayey garment that this planet clothes
the spirit in becomes worn out or dilapi-
dated, and the spirit seeks a newer and
better enrobing in another sphere, or in
some other “star.” And all of these
most familiar friends and neighbors for
years when father and mother and a
rollicking troop of boys and girls were in
this home-in-thehills, and many more
less familiar and more remote too, have
passed forever from mortal sight within
the four short years that are just closed.
And yet the world is‘ as gay, as beautiful
as though we did not know that some-
where, hidden by the growing grass, the
waving boughs or flowing water, Mother
Earth has in her keeping a grave for each
of us. ’Tis nature’s law, the stoutest
must fall therein no less swiftly and surely
than the weakest. Well if Bellamy’s
prophecy is to come to pass, and I trust it
may, I hope it will be just my time to be
a dweller in this same old earth again
about those days.

Yes, I’ve read “Looking Backward,”
and consider it the most wonderful book I

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ever have read. Only two things stand in

the way against its fulfilling—selfishness

and ignorance. E. L. NYE.
Bonn-m-rEE-Brnns.

—_..._._._—

HOW A BUSY LITTLE WOMAN
EARNS MONEY.

I too, have learned how to earn pocket
money, and it is very nice to have money
that you feel is your very own, to do just
as you please with. Though my better
half has always been as liberal as his
means would allow, I never saw money
to spare to buy pictures, books, or any-
thing except the necessaries of our farm
life. But now I can purchase a few of
the luxuries and not feel that I had taken
from our necessaries.

In the fall of 1887, I purchased three
colonies of bees, for $10, of my brother,
who was going away, so he wished to
dispose of them, or he would not have sold
them for that, as they were ltalians. One
of the colonies was robbed before I bror
them home. They wintered nicely
the first swarm “took to the wt.
Then I saw an advertisement in a bee
paper of a drone and queen trap; sent for
a half dozen and have not lost any since.
In the fall of 1888 I only had three
colonies, but sold $11.50 worth of honey,
besides having 75 pounds at least for our
use, which was a liberal reward for my

~ labor. Out of “ my honey money ” I pur-

chased two nice books that I had long
wished for, but thought I could not afford,
but now 1 had some money of my very
own, to do just as I pleased with, and it
did please me to get the books.

My three colonies came through the
winter of 1888 89, and increased to 12. I
sold $18 worth of honey, used and kept as
much more, purchased two more large
books to add to my small library. In
February of 1890 I lost a colony by starva-
tion, for which I take all the blame on
myself, as I knew it was extra strong in
Bees, and would consume a large quantity
of honey, but I did not think they would
consume itso soon. ’

This spring I purchased Hilton’s chaff
hives through a dealer, who purchases
them inthe flat, puts them up, and sells
them; had a swarm the 19th of May, have
had four swarms since, but with the traps
I can handle them as I please, so I took
ofi the queen cells, and let them go back
to the hive they issued from. 1 want them
to make honey now for me; later I will
divide them if they do not swarm. They
are working in the surplus cases now like
well bees.

Besides my bees I have an incubator
and brooder which I purchased myself
with money that I borrowed from the

good brother from whom I bought the '

bees. Last year (which was my first
season with it) I sold enough poultry to
pay for it, besides keeping 30 nice Ply-
mouth Rock hens. This year I have over
100 chickens and 34 nice young Bronze
turkeys, with a lot to hatch this week.
I intend to sell for breeding purposes, as
we keep no other kinds of chickens; Last

 

year I sold young turkeys that weighed 22
pounds in November.

I also make lots of butter, as we keep
from five to seven cows. I use the pro-
ceeds from the butter for groceries, dry
goods and other household needs; have a
Mosely 85 Stoddard creamery; get four
cents above market price, from the same
brother, who is a country store keeper and
ships it for me. I practice Mrs. J. M.
West’s way of making butter, which I
thank her very much for telling us about
through the HOUSEHOLD.

Some may doubt one doing all the work
this would seem to be, but I think most
any one with good health could do as
much as I. One of our hired men (we
keep two a good share of the time) said he
did not see how so small a woman as I
could do so much work (weight 95
pounds). My “Bs”—-bab ies, bees, but:
ter and biddies—do keep me busy, so will
sign as Busv BEE.

Hasmes.
—~.——

THE MOTHER’S INFLUENCE.

 

In coking over my pile of FARMERS the
other day for the purpose of selecting the
Hocssnoms to file away for future
reference (which I would advise every one
to do) my eye fell upon an article on the
first page of the April number, by Beatrix,
on the mother’s influence, which touched
a responsive chord in my being, and I can
not resist the temptation to add my ex
perience, that the mother‘s influence in
moulding the character of children is far
superior to any other, if not all others
combined. All of our natural tendencies,
emotions, if not inclinations were undoubt‘
edly given to us by a wise Creator for
good; and on the mother’s watchful care
at first dawn of the characteristics depends
whether they shall be directed into pure
and healthful channels that will flow out
into the great ocean of a useful and honor-
able life, or into morbid. noisome streams
that flow into the great Stygian sea, whose
surface is strewen with the wrecks ‘of
humanity.

How best to use this influence is the great
desideratum. Example will be found to
be far more efficacious than precept. If
we want friends we must show ourselves
friendly. if we want neighbors we must
be neighborly, and it one wants good
children they must be good themselves and
set good examples.

Parents and teachers often fall into the
pernicious habit of threatening certain
punishments for infractions of duty before
any such violations occur, than which
nothing can be more harmful. This
threatening to “lick,” “skin,” “flog,”
“break your back,” etc., if achild does
this or doesn’t do the other thing, inflicts
a double injury, for the child knows the
person making these threats is lying, and
is thus taught to indulge in this same
vicious habit; besides, the child is en-
couraged to persist in wrong doing, know-
ing full well these threats will never be ex-
ecuted. The better way is, make no
threats, but watch carefully the first in-
fraction of duty, and punish mildly at

 

first, but surely. More depends on the
certainty of punishment for the prevention

praise and commend when the child does
well. Lynch law did more towards the
suppression of crime at the west in an
early day, than all the criminal laws ever

swift and sure. Let it be understood that

commission of crime or neglect of duty as
thunder follows lightning, and crime will
cease.

Those who threaten most, punish least,.
and usually have the most unruly children,
just as those who profess the most piety
often fail to practice what they preach.

Musxneox. GRANDPA.

ADVICE T0 BRUNO’S SISTER.

 

from the readers of the HousEEom), I

try living with Bruno and his wife. Re-I
member that two is company and three a
crowd. I think when a couple get mar-
ried they ought to live alone for a few
years at least until they get used to each
other’s ways. They will not be half as
liable to find out each other’s faults as
thoughthere wasathird party to speak
about them. You and Bruno havelived

likes and dislikes. You would be very
apt to advhe Bruno’s wife as to what dishes
she should cook to best please him and
how everything should be done. Now I
don’t think any wife, no matter how much
she loves her husband, likes to be dictated
to by her husband’s sister or mother.
Most wives like to find out for themselves
what their husbands like to eat and how
they like the work done. Then it is a

way.

There would be times when Bruno
would be going to town and his wife would
like to go along even if she did not have
any errand. You would be of the opinion
that she might find work at home, and
hint as much. Or you would want to go

little tete-a-tete she had been anticipating.
Bruno’s wife would soon get to dislike
you and you her. There might be no
open rupture, but the feeling would be
there. On the other side, it will perhaps
be hard for you to find another home, but
you can do it if you only try. ‘ You seem
to have some good sensible ideas on the
subject and may think me rather severe
in my remarks. But this may perhaps

similar manner who might feel disposed
to act in a very difierent way. I hope you.
will arrange your affairs to the satisos
faction of all. AUNT SILENCE.

———...————

“ Busv BEE,” of Hastings, sends the
latest addition to the HOUSEHOLD Album,
a fine cabinet of her family—husband and,
two handsome boys six and three years of
age. She will soon have help among “ her
bees and biddies,” with two such young.

 

lieutenants coming on.

of crime than on its severity. Be sure to-

enacted, for the reason punishment was»

punishment is just as sure to follow the-

As Bruno’s Sister wants suggestions.

can’t help giving her this advice. Don’t

together some time, and you know all his .

pleasure instead of a duty to do it their ,

too, and that would break up the nice ,

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AN IMPROMPTU AFFAIR.

The description Beatrix gave of her
dreams haunted by imps demanding
"more copy,” made me feel guilty, es-
pecially as I have no housecleaning to
plead as an excuse.

I suppose every one expects to attend at
least one picnic during a season, so I will
describe one which I enjoyed last year;
perhaps somebody may wish to do like-
wise. No day had been set, because the
conventional picnics with the white dresses,
elaborate lunch, melted ice-cream and
thundershowers are aterrible bore; but one
Saturday morning, not too warm, just
warm enough, three girls appeared at the
door with well filled lunch-boxes and big
umbrellas, and announced that I was to
get ready at once, for we were all going
to the Beach for the day. I packed a
shoebox with biscuits and whatever else
came handy, and We were ready just in
time to catch the open street car for
Huronia. In about half an hour we left
the car at the little station where they sell
peppermints, chewingtgum, and “ ice-cold
lemonade, only five cents a glass,” and
made our way through the strip of woods
between the track and the beach There

we camped out under the umbrellas and.

enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. How I
pity people. who live inland! I staid six
weeks once where there was not even a
duck pond, and at the end of that time I
felt that Iwould give anything I possessed
to see some water that was not pumped.
I wonder why it is that the very sight of
water makes one feel a desire for lunch.
We were soon hungry enough to heartily
enjoy the plain lunch we had brought.

On our way back to the car we filled
our empty boxes with ferns of many
varieties, and violets—white, yellow and
blue. We‘had to wait a few minutes for
the car, but when one can sit under a tree
with violets and anemones growing within
reach, it is not quite so tedious as the
usual waiting at the dusty street corners
with the sun beating down on the hot
pavement. When the car came we found
that it was going on up to the Windermere
hotel at the farther end of the beach, and
we accepted the conductor‘s invitation to
go too. ‘ Anyone who saw this part of the
lake shore ten years ago, and had not seen
it since until now, would find very little
to make him think it was the same place.
Tnen it was water, sand and woods, now
it is water, sand, and cottages. Opinions
difler as to whether it is really improved
or not.

I am afraid the other passengers were
shocked at our appearance late in the
afternoon in blue calicoes and sun—hats,
but we had had a good time and didn’t
care just then for criticism. we wound
up by having ice-cream soda just as we
were after we left the car.

When we separated it was with the
agreement to go again on 'a certain day in
the near future. But alas! naming the
day spoiled the charm; it rained and the
north wind blew. So we decided that the

only picnics worth having are impromptu.
Poa'r Huaox. . E. C.

 

SEVERAL THINGS.

 

Like Ella R. Wood, I usually look at the
HOUSEHOLD as soon as I can get it after it
comes to the house, but unlike her I ex-
emplify one of the characteristics of women;
I am quite as likely to begin at the very
last page with the very last recipe and
read “ frontward ” as to read the poem
first.

My eye was caught by the caption, “ M’
Husband” and I read it at once; then I
re-read portions of it and finally turned to
my adjunct and said “ Have you read ‘ M’
Husband?’ ” “ Yes,” was the reply; “and
it is not nice.”

Now I may as well own, at the outset, that
“ M’ Husband” is as yet rather ethereal
and quite ideal, but I am quite as willingto
give you the benefit of my experience and
opinions as if the former were more ex-
tensive and it is possible that my opinions
are quite as firmly fixed as would be the
case if I had more of the former article.

Now dear friends, does it not seem that
it awoman is determined to take a man
even if she knows that he is one of the
“boys;” that she should use all the tact
possible to win him from them, if she
does not approve, shows her good sense?
It is usually conceded that a man who
has been .u one :of. the boys” is not fond of
being driven about at the end of anything,
be- it club or tongue of the woman he has
promised to love and cherish; he is quite
likely to remember at that time that she is
the one who was to obey. If one is sure
that one can’t be happy if a man does cer-
tain things, has certain habits, is it not
better to be sure before you marry him
that he has renounced them, lost his taste
for them, or else make up one’s mind to
live in single blessedhess until the ideal
man comes? '

It is a great deal nicer and more satis-
factory to get your own way by seeming
to yield and yet carrying the point than to
insist that your way is the only right one
and drive your husband or wife into doing
what at first they had no intention of
doing.

If you marry a spoiled child you must
make up your mind to take him as he is,
or if you are going to change him you must
be wise and wary. I have seen wives that
I have no doubt would have been much
better women if the men they married
could have brought them up, but that was
impossible; the only thing was to give
them all the help possible in the kindest
and most tactful way and be thankful for
any improvement, however small; so with
husbands.

I reiterated the old statement not long
ago, that I believed if there was any
manhood in a boy or young man it would
be brought out by his love for wife or
sweetheart, and that the fact that he had
some one to care for would be of great
help. “ Yes,” said my .auditor, “on the
same principle that you would give him a
calf to care for.” I laughed of course, but
I believe it just as much as I did before.
I only regret that the calf does not answer
the purpose longer, and so save both man
and woman from some bitter disappoint.

 

ments. I wonder if our friend is so unlike"
most women that she does not like to have:-
the man or woman or child that is so near
and dear close beside her.

Can’t you, dear sister of Bruno, raise:
sufficient funds to build a nice little house:
of two or three rooms, just large enough:
for yen and the cat, not'too near and yet-2
near enough so that you can call for help '-
if needed or can respond to such call; .'
with your flower beds and your gardenv
"sass ” and the chickens and perhaps the-
calf that no one else could raise, to look
after and keep you busy and furnish pin
money? I am sure you will like it better
than any other life if you are attached to
the farm and its life. If you try it let us
know how it works, for many another
will do likewise if some one will only say,
“I know it can be done.”

Beatrixis cry for copy is responsible for
this effort, and then the opportunity to give ,
Bruno’s Sister the benefit of my favorite. .-
plan for farmers’ daughters who have no ---...
special training or liking for any other life... .-
and yet find that theymust make for them. . .
selves a home, was a temptation too strong ‘7
to be resisted. JEANNE ALLIsorI..-

——Q.9—_—.

ITEMS mom HY EXPERIENCE:

 

The boa way to hang. up a broom is by'
means ofa hole bored with‘a half inch bit‘?
in the end of the handle, so the broom will ‘
hang flat against the wall. Buy brooms by v
the dozen,” or half dozen, and get themr
cheaper.

If your little turkeys or chicks have;
gapes, put a little kerosene in the feed fo‘r.’
a day or two. It has proved a subcess;
with me. The only food for young turkss‘
or ducks should be bread dipped in milk;
then squeezed dry as possible; with 06- _-
ca‘sionally a good sprinkling of , cayenne..-
pepper—or black pepper will do.

If coffee at thirty or thirty five cents a ‘
pound seems a rather expensive item in the
family grocery bill, try this: Take two
quarts of clean bran, one of corn meal (if
you have not the meal add another quart
of bran in place of the meal), one half or '
alittle more of molasses, and three or four ,‘
eggs. Stir all together until well mixed,
then brown in a dripping pan in the oven.”
as you would coffee. When brewned‘
evenly add half apound (less if you choose)...
of ground chickory. Incorporate thor-
oughly and it is ready to use. It makes a
pleasant drink by itself, with a liberal ad-~
dition of cream, but we use it half and,
half with Java cofiee, an d the coffee bill is.
less this summer than it has ever been, .
with no detriment to those who drink it.

For little boys who wear short pants,
buy blue denim for every day wear in sum- -
mer. It wears well, looks well, is cheap .
and cool, four very desirable items. Make
to fit neatly; not loose and baggy like over-. _
alls. A blouse of the same makes every ‘
neat, durable suit, much liked by many
mothers. ,

If you want the dooryard mowed, or
any other job done that you can not do
yourself, and husband or the hired man 3 ‘
are too busy to do it, don’t waitalt summer

 


 

 

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ffor them to get around to it, but hire a
m to do it for you, and pay him too;
:there is no reason why you should not.
Many a woman to whom an unmcwn door-
:yasd is a source of annoyance keeps silence,
gpatiently waiting her husband’s leisure to
snow it, which leisure on many farms never
comes. Have the dooryard mowed, you
{an rake it yourself.
FLINT. ELLA R. WOOD.

MOO——

’ ' AN INVITATION ro BRUE. ‘

Permit me to introduce myself as Mr.
Punch. This lady with me-is my friend
Judy. We have come over to‘see Bruno’s
Sister. ‘ ,

Brue, when Bruno “brings his wife
home on a wheelbarrow," you come and
live with us, and we will try to make it
pleasant for you, Judy can keep house,
(she’s a splendid cook) you may attend
yOur flower beds and I will raise chickens.
Then Judy can test all the cake and bread
recipes sent by the HOUSEHOLD sisters,
cousins and" aunts. Won’t we have a
jolly time! I wish you would give us an
invite to the wedding. It would just
tickle me to see you “ give Bruno away.”
Boys like to be “ given away” so well,
you know, especially by a sister.

,I wanted to tell about my “ Michigan
girl Cake,” but will save it'for next time.
I promise not to come oftener than three
times a week. PUNCH.

——...-—__

CHAT ABOUT BACK NUMBERS.

 

,I have often thought when some par-
ticular subjects were being discussed in our
little paper, how much I would like to
have my say on some of them, but never
dared cherish the thought more than two
minutes.

_ Not long ago I saw our Editress and she
had such a kind lookinher face, I thought
I might venture to send a short letter, feel-
ing if consigned to the waste basket it
would be done with all sympathy toward
the writer. I have the HOUSEHOLDS since
1885, with a few out; was looking them
OVer this morning and found so much good
reading and so many useful recipes that
the spirit moved me as never before to add
just a mite to its columns.

In the way back numbers there is so
much said about woman’s sphere. I
wonder if she has found her true sphere
_yet? 'And then whistling girls are quite
freely discussed. I did not read all the
articles so cannot tell which come out
ahead, whistlers or non-whistlers. Then
there are those “ Weeks." Well, Beatrix
had to call a halt on them. _

I often thought when reading of Evange-
line’s work in learning Hetty to cook be
fore she was married, how nice it was to
he taught how to do so much and do it so
«nicely, by a good, gentle mother.

District schools have had their turn, the
teachers also. A good school depends
snore on the fathers and mothers who send
their children to them, than on the teachers

mowadpys, at least I think so.

Then I saw several articles inthose old

 

papers telling how to be a good wife and
how to be a good husband. I' felt very
much interested in the former subject as I
belong to that class and have a great desire
to be a good wife to that good husband.
I cannot see how a husband can be other-
wise than good who has such a good wife
as the HOUSEHOLD of June 7th tells about.

I would like to see a few who were willing.

to grant their wives what they claim from
them. CHARITY.

 

CHAT.

Our good Editress calls for letters, but
these June days are almost too perfect to
permit us to spend the time with pen and
ink. All nature seems to be calling us to
witness her beauties. I have long been a
reader of the HOUSEHOLD and have
wanted many times to put in a word in the
discussions going on among the contribu-
tors. Don’t it strike you that some of the
things said about husbands, napkins, etc.,
are a little silly? Let common sense reign.
Timidity forbids my saying more at
present. ALOE.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

BEFORE you begin putting up fruit, see
that you have good rubbers for your cans.
Those that are hard or worn are “ no

_good;” it is a waste to try to use them.

 

FEWER articles of glassware would be
broken, if housekeepers would temper
them before using. Put them in cold
water and gradually heat them up to the
boiling point. Anything hot can then be
poured into them without danger of
breakage.

 

Do not put vaseline on a burn that has
blistered. The water which oozes from
the blisters contains an acid which forms
with the vaseline an irritant poison, caus-
ing inflammation. Where the skin is not
blistered, vaseline is a very good applica-

tion, though there are some delicate skins ,

that cannot bear it.

THE simplest way of setting the color in
navy or indigo blue cotton dresses, so it
will not run into the white trimming, is to
rinse them thoroughly in a solution of
weak salt and water. Use about two table—
spoonfuls of salt to every gallon of water.
Be careful to wring out the garments from
the salt rinsing water as dry as possible and
hang them up at once.

 

IF possible, buy your new towels and
table linen, especially the unbleached if
you use it, in the winter, that they may be
wet and hung out of doors to freeze, which
softens them wonderfully. Don’t try to
use cotton towels; the lint they leave he—
hind is very exasperating to the tidy house-
‘wife who dislikes to see it on her glass and
china. Use the half worn roller towels
for dishtowels, cutting in proper length.

 

Do not use ammonia or borax in the
water in which you wash your head. Yes,
of course it takes oif the dust and dirt, but

 

 

it dries the hair bulbs and will make the
hair itself harsh and wiry. Moreover, it
fades the hair, unless a copious rinsing is

given. A well-known hair dresser of this
city strongly discourages her patrons from

using anything but soap and water on the
hair.

 

A USEFUL attribute of paper not gener-
ally known is ior preserving ice in apitcher
of water. Fill the pitcher With ice and
water and place in the center of a piece of
paper; then gather the paper up together
at the top and twist the ends tightly to-
gether, placing a strong rubber _band
around the coil to hold it close so as to

exclude the air. A pitcher of ice water '

treated in this manner has been known to
stand over night with scarcely a percepti-
ble melting of the ice.

A VERY nice way to serve strawberries—
especially at breakfast—is to put them on
the table with the hulls on; and pass
powdered sugar in which those who do not
relish the delicious tartness of a well
grown berry may dip it for the needful
sparkle and sweetness. The berries must
of course be large, fine, well-grown
specimens to be thus presented “ on their
merits,” so to speak; and only those who
can grow their own or afford to buy the
best and freshest fruit should venture on'
this style of serving.

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SEVERAL letters addressed to “Bruno's
Sister " have been received and forwarded.
In reply to a request for the addresses of
two of our HOUSEHOLD contributors, we
would say letters may be sent to the
HOUSEHOLD Editor to be forwarded, but
no addresses are ever furnished. This
leaves the correspondent at liberty to dis-
close or reveal her identity, as she chooses,
to reply or be silent, as seems good in her
sight.

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Usofui Recipes.

Pnssnnvnn Sraawnnsms -—Weigh the
hul.ed berries, put them in the preserving
kettle. add as mzny pounds of granulatei
sugar as there are pounds 0? s‘rswberries.
Stir together and place over the tire, stirring
oocasio~.al'y until it begins to toil. Cook ten
minutes after it begins to boil. Pour into
deep putters, having it about two inches
deep and let it stand in the sun t;n hours.
No water is used. and the fruit is put int) the
cans cold. This makes a very rich and deli-
cious preserve.

 

S'rnawsnnnv Tamed—Soak hat a cup or
tapioca ov.r night in a pint and a half of wa-
ter. Take a pint of nice fresh strawberries.
sprink'e halt a cup of sugar over them, turn
on the tapioca, after s"ghtly salting it, and
bake an hour in a slow oven. Serve with
cream and sugar. You can make delicious
desserts of almost any fruits, fresh or ca sued,
in the above fashion. Whipped cream is the
nicest.

 

CANNED Tonrons.-Pour on boiling water
to rem .ve the skins. Fill the preserving ket-
tle but add no w..ter. Boil iive minutes and
can. Add no seasoning of any k‘nd.

    

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