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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

WHAT DO THEY THINK.

Oh, what do the hungry people think
As they walk in the streets of the town at
night,
And the hearth-fires glimmer and gleam and
blink
Through many a window. warm and bright?
For they drift in the dusk like the flecks of foam
On the tossing waves of the turbulent sea,
With never a heaven and never a home—
The luckless watts of humanity.

And many a mansion tall and fair,
Is lifting its head to the wintery skies,
A-blossom with all that is rich and rare,
That wealth can purchase or art devise;
And out through the portals come bursts of
light,
' And murmurs of music and laughter sweet-
.Ah, what do they say to the hcmeless wight
Who is wandering part with his weary feet?

‘Did he ever think, when the winds are cold,
And the hunger causes a ceaseless pain,
And the storm is beating his garments old,
And chilling his heart with its dull refrain-—
Does he ask how it is that in many a life
The roses are always in sweetest bloom,
White his are the longings, the endless strife,
The days of sorrow, the nights of gloom?

You may say they are idle, and weak and bad,
That pity is wasted on such as they. .

Ah, many a vagrant, worn and sad,
Could tell you a tale, if he would to-day—

A story of failure, of hopes that fled,
Of toil and hardship and boundless woe-

Of wrongs that embittered. of wounds that bled,
And dreams that were lost in the long ago.

W

MRS. FRANK LESLIE.

When “Frank Leslie" died, some eight,
nine or ten years ago, as the case may be
--I’m sure I don’t remember when it was
-—he left a periodical bearing his name and
a business on the verge of bankruptcy. His
wife, of French and English parentage and

,-born in New Orleans, instead of giving

the custody of affairs into an administra-
tor’s hands to be wound up ataloss of
"what was left, assumed the management,
and by her business ability retrieved the
property, enhanced its value, and finally
sold Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Magazine
for a large amount, which, with sums re-
ceived from other enterprises, made her
independently healthy and able to in-
dulge a quite feminine fondness for dia-
monds and fine clothes.

Mrs. Leslie was one of the few women
who, a decade ago, dared undertake sucha
herculean task—as it seems to women
ignorant of business methods—and had
the ability and foresight to carry it through
successfully. She has been and is yet

-often referred to as an example of what

woman may do; and her success has un-

 

doubtedly emboldened many of her sex to
make similar efforts, and has made their
path more easy through the precedent es-
tablished. She has been held up as a
model of business promptness and regu-
larity, being always at the office at nine
o‘clock in the morning, and attending
carefully to every detail connected with
her several enterprises. She succeeded in
establishing herself in one of the circles of
New York’s much stratified society, not
the highest or most exclusive, to be sure;
but sufficiently elevated to indicate that
even a business woman, if she is sufficient-
ly successful to order her dresses from
Paris and buy an Empress’s jewels, may
yet be socially welcome among fashion-
able idlers. She traveled in Europe, and
after the fashion of American heiresses in
the Old World, was fervently entreated by
a French marquis to bestow herself and
her handsome income upon his somewhat
impecunious self. He encountered the
perils of seasickness for her sake, and pur-
sued her to New York, but in vain. The
vkeenness and hardness of character which
made her a good financier, perhaps en-
abled her to estimate the depth of his
alleged passion. At all events, he went
away discomfited and she remains plain
Mrs. Leslie. The average newspaper re-
porter is as I well know, an impertinent
fellow. He asks heart-searching questions,
and no ground is too sacred for his intru-
sion. Yet it seems as if no woman of real
refinement could parade her loyalty to her
dead husband as a reason for remaining a
widow, even to an inquisitive reporter,
or quote his last words to her, to so casual
and indifferent an auditor, as Mrs. Leslie
is said to have done when interviewed in
his city.

But Mrs. Leslie lectured in Detroit last
Monday evening, and as I always like to
see and hear the notables, I invested half a
dollar ina ticket. I’m quite sure I did
not get fifty cents’ worth of satisfaction
out of the sight of an elegantly dressed
woman, glittering with diamonds, and
there was little else to interest one. The
theme of the lecture was “The Royal
Leaders of Society;” it embraced refer-
ences to the hinge and queens of the 0d
World whose courts have been socially
famous, “ srcially” meaning, in the
leoturer’s definition of the term, famed for
lavish display in dress and entertainment.
These allusions were principally in regard
to the attire and jewels of royal personages.
A brief account of present European
courts, which somehow sounded some-

 

what like a bulletin of health, and the
statlment that the Prince of Wales is the
acknowledged social leader of Europe at
this period, and that wit and beauty rather
than virtue and morality are passports to
his favor, closed the foreign list; and we
were told that the Father of his Country
and Chester A. Arthur were the only
presidents of our Republic to whom place
can be given as social leaders. A few
well worn anecdotes. including Beau
Brummel’s hackneycd reference to George
IV. as “ your fat friend,” were sandwiched
in, and then the lady abandoned her
theme (to my disappointment; I wanted to
hear her opinion of New York’s select
Feur Hundred) and took up that of “to
wed or not to wed.” She deplored the
present inclination of young men to avoid
the responsibilities of matrimony and
establish themselves in what are called
“ Benedict chambers ” in New York, rather
than in homes of their own, One reason
of this, she said, was the fact that the
dowerless daughter of the rich man ex«
pected her husband, who had yet his for-
tune to make, to support her in a style
equal to that to which she had been. ac-
customed in her father’s house. Three
years ago some disrespectful youth would
have rung a “chestnut bell” during this
period of the lecture, for it embraced
nothing at all original or which has not
been many times and much better said.
Mrs. Leslie may be an excellent manager
and good financier, but she is not asuccess
as a lecturer, either as to the matter or the
manner of her discourse.

As there was not much to claim one’s
aural attention, I “took it out " in
gazing at her costume, which was of
black embroidered with gold, demi-train,
decolette, with “ real lace” sleeves banded
with velvet. Considered as adisplay of
jewelry the lecture was certainly a brilliant
success. I never saw so many diamonds to—
gether in my life; she outshone F. G.
Smith’s exhibit at the Exposition. She wore
the famous necklace composed of nineteen
diamonds, each as large as a silver dime,
with a diamond pendent, and the edge of
the low corsage was a mass of jeweled
sprays, brooches and medallions, the
centre being the diamond-set medallion
presented her by the Republic of Vene-
zuela. A chain of glittering gems fell
from this medallion to the waist line where
was still another ornament in the shape of
a bejeweled arrow. Three bracelets on
each arm and rings innumerable on both
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indiamr'nds, completed an outfit which
flashed and sparkled and scintillated at
every movement. The wearer is, I believe,
accounted “ a beautiful woman,” but her
admirers shall not judge beauty for me.
She has a homely mouth and a nose of
Hebraic cast, and her eyes, which she
used in many arch and “bewitching”
glances at the small audience, were sur-
mounted by a pair of heavily pencilled
eyebrows. And oh horror! she said
“wimming” for “women”-—-not once
only, but twice! and more than once
inserted a jeweled finger into her
hair, an actien unmistakably like that
of the country school-boy under certain
circumstances impossible to the social
leader. Mrs. Leslie may be, as I have
said, a good business woman, and hold
a high social position, but these do
not give literary ability, and I quite ac~
quiesced in the opinion of the lady in the
street-car on the way home, who announced
that it was “an insult to an audience to
offer such a string of platitudes and call it
a lecture.” BEATRIX.

BULBS ’IN THE HOUSE.

When we make the first venture with
plants, bulbs, seeds, or whatever is new to
us so far as planting and cultivation goes,
let us study the natural requirements of

those in hard. For instance, hyacinths in
the house bloom while yet the ground is
,cold, and peep through the earth while
stiffened with frost. So observing this we
infer in forcing them for winter they re-
quire no heat, but after potting and a
thorough wetting, a cool dark place is re-
quisite to gently form feeders or rootlets
and strength for their season of bloom.
All hardy bulbs—those that live in beds in
the garden fer out door bloom—require
about the same method for forcing; that is,
following as nearly as possible their habits
out of doors. And as one unusually hot
sunny day in spring will shrivel and ruin
whole beds of bloom if not shaded in
some way, or gathered and placed in
water, so our potted treasures may be
spoiled by rushing into close dry atmos-
phere, or a hot window. I have kept
those delightfully fragrant flowers from
two to four weeks, lilies included, by
gmply giving a cool room when in full
bloom.

While few if any would think of taking
hyacinths, narcissus or tulips from the
garden for potting, but procure fine im-
ported bulbs for the purpose, in potting
lily of the valley they hope for success by
taking clumps from the garden. This is a
mistake. The pips are not expensive and
can be had from any reliable florist. When
potted as our Editor advises— given a good
freeze and then the cool, dark retirement
preparatory and necessary to success, they
will repay all care.

Bulbs for forcing should be in a dormant
state and are kept so by importers. While
we may not succeed in forcing bulbs that
have done us service in the garden, we
may bestow our forced ones upon the
border with certainty of seeing theirj
bright faces again every spring as long as

THE ' HOUSEHOLD.

they are properly fed and protected from
injury.

In visiting Belle Isle recently, it was
like seeing the faces of old friends to enjoy
the beauty of the hardy annuals in such
profusion. During many years of my
life such beauty has surrounded my home.
So very many of my old favorites were there
and among them one that for some untold
reason is seldom green. I refer to the
Gailardz'w. Here in some of those gor-
geous beds I recognized my old pet in per-
fection, and resolved then when I next
called on the HOUSEHOLD to recommend
its flower lovers to include the Gailardz‘a
in their orders for seeds next spring.

FENTON. MRS. M. A. FULLER.

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FOR APPEARANCE SAKE.

 

“ I care more for comfort than style and
dress accordingly,” was the brief apology
of a lady where I called one day and,
knowing it to be her way, I was not at all
surprised to find her with a loose dress,
no corset, waist unfastened at the neck,
with no sort of collar or hit of ribbon,
skirt very short and large slippers, all sug-
gestive of ease but not of good taste, al-
though she was engaged with dainty fancy
work, and I wondered if we really have a
right to be so selfish as to remember only
ourselves in matters of dress? Her hus-
band is a prominent man in business and
social circles, and I cannot but wonder if
with all his love for her there is nota tinge
of regret that she never cares to make her-
self more presentable. When he comes
home from the store, where he has seen
nicely dressed ladies all day, does not the
wife sitting across the table from him suf-
fer a little in the comparison? Would he
not be better suited with a little less time
spent over the dinner and a little more de-
voted to arranging her hair in some be-
coming style? I often think so, but no
word of complaint is ever uttered, for he
loves her truly, devotedly; yet I know
they are not as happy together as though
she would go out to evening entertainments
with him dressed like other ladies in their
circle. The nearest he ever came to
making complaint was: “Mary never
cares to go, and it makes a fellow feel so to
be alone when other men have their wives
with them.”

Then her two boys, just reaching man-
hoodl Young lovers they are now, but
will they not some day feel ashamed of
their dowdy mother? They are just going
away to college, going out into the world
that lays great stress on style. Will they
come back just such rollicking, mother-
loving, kissing boys as now? When the
morhers of their chums go to their recep-
tions and are proudly presented, how will
it be with this one, who might look as well
as any of them if she only would?

In another family the wife told me,
confidentially, that her one great and al-
most unbearable trouble was her husband’s
lack of pride. “ Oh if he would only get
a new suit, brush up, put on collar and
cuffs and look like other men how happy
I could bet” I tried to convince her that

 

if she had only onetrouble she was favored

 

 

 

above most women, but she said: “This
is so needless. If he had no money, or
time, I would call it one of my crosses and
bear it like a mart yr; but the re is no earthly
reason, so it is a constant aggravation.”
If that man really loved his wife as he
ought would he not do this for her sake,
simply to please her, if he cared not at all
for himself or for others? '

We depend on each other so much can
any one stand independently and say “ It
is no one’s business what I do, so long as I
do no wrong?”

This matter of dress is really important.

It is not necessarily because she is proud
that a lady devotes some time to her mirror
before she goes on the street. One never
knows whom she may meet. and the
feeling that some one might be ashamed
of me or hesitate to introduce me to their
friends is greater than the personal care for
appearance.

Teach the boys and girls to take pride in
their dress. Not to be vain and giddy but
particular to always look tidy and fash-
Ionable, as far as is consistent; not follow-
ing every freak and change of the change-
ful times, but so dressed that there is a
hint that they know the latest but do not
choose to wholly adopt it. Do not tell
them that a shoe with some buttons ofl’,
gloves ripped or none at all, is “ well
enough.” Teach them to look after such
things themselves and that they are of

can take care of their wardrobe as well as
girls. There is no reason why an over-
worked mother should sew on all the but~
tons for her sons more than her daughters.

Mothers will say “ Oh, but there’s such
a difference! Some need restraining while
others require urging and even pushing.”
Ah, yes! and that is where the mother is
needed by her children. A teacher can
give them general instruction, but not just
that part suited to their varied tempera-
ments.

One woman said to me: “ I don’t mean
that my children shall grow up to be
ashamed .f their mother. Whatever
studies they take I take the same; not de-
voting the time that they do, but enough
to talk understandingly with them about
their lessons, and it is so in politics. I
really havn’t much interest, but husband

terested in anything that he cares to talk
about.” A man will hardly devote his
evenings to a wife whose only reply to
such things may be " Oh I can’t see any
sense in it.” It is so much more pleasant,
it proves the love on both sides, to do
things that we do not care for just to please
the other. True, sometimes it is not ap-
preciated, but in a majority of cases it will
be, and is always worthy of the experi-

ment. EL. SEE.
R0 rum .

 

ETHEL, of West Groton, Mass, asks if
some of the HOUSEHOLD readers can give
her a recipe for buckwheat pancakes
which will be light and puffy without
milk, as it seems impossible for her to ob-
tain that article, either sweet or sour. She

 

also wishes directions for making wheat
bread with water.

great importance. Boys who have leisure,

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“WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT.

The above quotation from Pope’s Essay
on Man, which I used to read sixty years
ago in the old English Reader, seemed
strange and unreasonable to me at that
time, no explanation being given of its
significance;but later in life, when I be-
gan to reflect upon the matter, and under
stood it to mean that whatever is of divine
origin, whatever is beyond human agency
and control, must of necessity be right,
even though this includes sin and death,
the meaning of the saying became clear to
me. Because an All Wise Creator permits
sin to be in the world, and is the creator of
evil, as He expressly "declares when He
says “I form the light and create dark-
ness, I make peace and create evil, I the
Lord do all these things,” it by no means
follows that it is right to sin, nor that we
are justified in doing evil.

These things are in the world that we may
be free moral agents to choose the good
from the bad. 0f nee: ssity must they be
in the world, but it is not necessary that
we should indulge in them; and woe be to
him who does so indulge. Because a
loathsome quagmire impedes our progress
to some desired object, it does not follow
we must plunge into it; we can and ought

to go around it. GRANDPA.
licensees.

 

AFFAIRS UP NORTH.

 

Yes, the canning, preserving and pickl-
ing is over, but the visitor from the south
for the hunting season is just beginning to
get numerous. There is a strange uni-
formity about him. He praises every-
thing; the pure air, the clear water, the
beautiful scenery, the wonderful root
crops. “ Never saw such potatoes and
’bagas grown in my life before.” E e takes
home with him six barrels of the latter and
is never seen here again. Nothing earthly
would ever induce him to live here.

When I read of the scarcity of fruit else
where I wish that the thousands of bushels
of berries I saw go to waste this summer
and fall .could have been used by those
who need them. First the red raspberries,
we used all we could of them, but there
are only a few families here, and all of the
wild land that is not woods naturally
grows up to some kind of wild fruit, and
what we do not use there are no other
bands to pick. We are too far from mar-
ket to make a business of selling them,
and besides have not time from our own
farm work to pick other than for our own
use. “Why don’t you make a couple of
barrels of wine,” remarks our hunting
season visitor, a very useless suggestion to
a W. C. T. U. woman.

In all our talks of the training of chil-
dren I have never dared write a word, be
cause I can look back on so many mis-
takes of my own. I applied all the rules
to the bringing up of my first baby, and
that she is now a good wife and mother in
her own pleasant home, and a credit to me,
I attribute entirely to good luck, not to
her training. Once when she was little I
whipped her, merely because some one else

 

thought I ought to. I shall carry the
marks of those blows on my own heart
while I live. Then I made dlflt rent,
though just as bad mistakes with my two
little boys. Then after ten years my third
little boy was laid on my arm, a little
bundle with only the top of his bald head
and his eyes and nose showing over his
flannel blanket. From the first moment
his brown eyes looked in mine, my boy
and I have understood each other entirely.
There has never been any trouble. about his
wanting to go with me, for I have always
taken him except on very rare occasions.
Then I have talked it over with him, some
times the day before, and we have both
been sorry for the necessity, but when the
time came there has not been a murmur
from him, for he knows I am as sorry to
leave him as he is to be left. There is also
a baby girl in the family “ just free years
old,” and much to my astonishment she is
a new conundrum in family government,
and makes me think in extreme cases
where a fault if not corrected is going to
spoil the child’s happiness, perhaps a
spanking might be the correct thing. But
if we mothers talk about our children, we
shall soon overflow our little paper. My

space is filled. HULDAH PERKINS.

PIONEER.
W

SOMETHING ABOUT THE FASHIONS.

Although November is usually reckoned
among the fall months, we find furs and
heavy cloaks by no means uncomfortable
even before what the little boy called
“ Thank You Day,” and if one must buy
before the holidays it is perhaps as well to
buy early and have the use of the gar-
ment. Money is often saved, especially in
the purchase of ready made wear, if one
can wait for the marked down sales which
take place after New Year’s, merchants
preferring to make a reduction in prices
rather than carry the goods over.

Jackets and shoulder capes have been
the leading styles for autumn and bid fair
to continue such during the winter. They
enable ladies to display the pretty dresses
which are invisible under the long cloaks.
Some very elegant carriage cloaks of bro-
cade and plush and sealskin are shown,
beautifully trimmed either with embroi-
dery, passementerie or costly fur. But
the great mass who travel on foot, prin-
cipally, wear the convenient and com-
fortable jackets, which may be as simple
or as elaborate as taste and means will per-
mit. Middle-aged and elderly ladies pre-
fer long cloaks which are made in Direc-
torie styles with edgings of fur down the
fronts and with fur revers or vests.
Double breasted cloaks are popular among
the plainer styles, and have large buttons
to close, and to ornament the long straight
back seams.

Jackets of smooth faced or diagonal
twill are made longer than heretofore,
curving over the hips and fitting closely to
the figure; they have very high curved
collars, copying the Medici styleso popular
on shoulder capes, and the high sleeves.
The sleeves and collar are often of Astra-
chan, which is much used on dresses also.
Velvet sleeves, collar, and deep coat-er

 

revers are also need on cloths, and braid:
ing has by no means gone out. The en—
tire body of a jacket is braided, and the
sleeves, etc, made of plain velvet; or the
cloth sleeves are braided heavily, a work
easily done on a machine. Jackets to
match suits have rolling rovers faced with
velvet of the same color, or of black, and
vest fronts closed with tiny buttons; they
are very stylish.

Shoulder capes are “dreadfully com--
mon,” so say the exclusivrs, who take
their revenge on thtir more impecunious
sisters by ordering those of the costly Rus-
sian sable, black bear, seal with Persian
lamb collar, etc. Many mink capes are
worn by ladies neither young nor yet
hopelessly middle-aged, this fur having
been restored to fashionable favor.
Younger ladies wear astrachan, Persian
lamb, seal and gray krimmer, with muffs
to match. The muffs are a little larger
this season. Long fur boas are worn, and
also collarettes, the latter being newer, the
former more graceful and dressy. Feather
boas are beautiful, as also the ruches or
tours dc can of ostrich feathers which sur-
round the neck and are tied with ribbon
bows with long ends.

Camel’s hair or other soft wool dresses
are stylishly made with bodices which are
slightly pointed, with folds coming from
the shoulders, filling the V thus left with a
silk vest which hooks on the left side under
the folds. Put two rows of gimp from the
under arm seams pointing diagonally
down the front. Cover the high collar
with passrmenterie and put a row round
the bottom of the sleeves, which may be
of silk to match the vest, and are close-
fitting on the lower arm, loose and full
above the elbow and puffed into the arm-
hole. In cutting these high sleeves the
lining is cut as for a close sleeve, and the
dress material cut enough longer and with
fullness enough to form the pull’. The
skirt has the usual foundation, on which
is set a bias silk ruflle. Over this is hung
the straight skirt, which has a five-inch
hem turned up on the outside, and an
edge of the gimp, or a piping fold of silk
or velvet may be set in; catch up the skirt
on the hips to show the silk ruflle below.

A more elegant dress is of wool goods,
with a straight skirt having as its only
decoration an inch and a half wide band of
velvet straight round it, about five inches
from the bottom of the skirt. Above this
on one side five large velvet-covered but-
tonmoulds are set, and again on the same
line, just below the waist, five more. The
bodice is cut with jacket fronts having a
wide velvet collar which is continued to
the bottom of the fronts, narrowing below
the bust to a mere fold or piping which
extends round to the back, where the skirt
is set upon the bodice under a couple of
velvet-covered buttons. A waistcoat of
figured silk, green and gold in the model,
hooks under the left front, and over a
pleated vest of soft silk, of which the high
close collar is also made. The sleeves
have velvet cuffs, with two silk buttons on
the outer seam, and a velvet covered but~
ton is on each corner of the fronts at the

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ed the old-fashioned dress braid, and use
instead a two-inch facing of velveteen,
stitched on like a braid, then felled neatly
to place on the wrong side. This, they
say, while it protects the skirt quite as
as well as the braid does not wear out so
soon, nor does it wear the shoes across the
instep so badly.

: A pretty dress for a young miss is of
plaid goods, with a skirt cut bias, and
arranged with all the fullness at the back,
where it is pleated into a narrow space to
give a fan shaped effect. The pointed
bodice hooks in the front; over this a full
front fastening with hooks and eyes on the
side and shoulder is arranged; the back is
plain, slightly pointed, with a large rosette
of folded loops of the goods on the point.

Young ladies are wearing velvet col-
larettes separate from the dress, for street
costumes. They are two ruffles of bias
velvet, doubled, each four inches wide
when finished, sewed on each edge of an
inch wide silk hand, which is concealed by
narrow ostrich plumage. They are usually
worn in black.

To make one’s best plain wool gown
dressy enough for alittle party, a trellis
pattern of black velvet ribbon 'is made for
aborder across the front of the skirt; a
pointed velvet yoke and cuffs, and corselet
if suitable, for the waist, and epaulette
bows of velvet ribbon for the shoulders.
Such a trimming is easily tacked on the
skirt and waist when desired, and will
completer change the appearance of the
dress.

 

ASSISTANCE WANTED.

 

Another reader of the brightlittle paper,
the HOUSEHOLD, wishes to become a mem-
ber of the band. I too, like Rebecca, have
often intended to write but have deferred
doing so for some reason or other. I can-
not express how much I enjoy reading
the various letters of the many contribu-
tors. I especially was pleased with the
description Beatrix gave us of her eastern
trip during her vacation the past summer,
also A. L. L.’s tour to Alaska; it was next
best to going one’s self to read her account
of the many pleasant incidents of her
journey. I think it very kind of them to
make us in a way sharers of their vacations.

I wish some of the readers who do
painting would give us some of their ideas
on the subject; also tell of some of their
copies. My first attempt at painting came
from reading a letter telling how to com-
mence, also what paints and brushes to
use. I procured the paint and brushes
and have been quite successful as an
amateur. MARIE.

Kananazoo.

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CORRECTIONS.

In looking back over my “ Notes of
Travel,” I find some mistakes, but they are
generally of little importance. There is
one occuring in the last installment that re-
quires correction. It is stated that “ Mary’s
mountain in the park is 18,500 feet high.”
Please omit the first figure and it will be
correct. I will not charge the mistake to
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sponsible, but it is too much of an increase
to leave undisputed.

In the description of our Alaskan ex-
periences, I spoke of a “prospector ”
being put off the steamer in his own boat
at a most desolate spot, “ where mountain
and water comprised the landscape.” I
said “two or three huts were visible at the
mountain base,” but when I saw it in
print “ two other huts were visible,” etc.
I thought perhaps I had better explain,
that our readers might know that I had
not intended to convey the idea that the
prospector was a “ hut,” even if he did in-
cline to visit a desolate shoe. Some did
say he was a “chump.” but this did not
agree with the definition of this word given
by a lady we met in our travels. She said
a “ chump ” was a person who would pay
fare on a railroad, when a free pass could
be procured that would give 'equivalent
service. A. L. L.

MAPLETHORPE .

“MW

HELP FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

The holiday season will soon be here.
Those who have many gifts to make are
already considering ways and the not less
important adjunct of means. Where one’s
own ingenuity must supply the place of
money, things we can make are necessary,
and hints as to what can be made with
reasonable expenditure of time and money
are helpful. Ahangin g case for umbrellas,
canes or parasols is a convenience. Make
of an oblong piece of heavy linen, canvas
or cretonne, lined with something stiff to
make it hold its shape. Cut three pockets
long and large enough for your um-
brellas, bind them with bright braid and
stitch them on the back, turning the bot-
toms to make them pointed. Bind the
back with the braid, and provide heavy
cords at the upper corners to hang it up by,
which are fastened on under ribbon bows.

A centre piece for a dining table is a
suitable and acceptable gift for a house-
keeper. Hemstitch a piece of linen,
making it 27 inches square after a two
inch hem has been taken off. Select a
small, well shaped grape, maple or ivy
leaf. and with this as a pattern draw
leaves irregularly over the surface,
grouping them somewhat in two opposite
corners, and putting in the principal veins
after you have drawn the outline. Work
these in white silk, or if preferred in colors
in wash silk; yellow is beautiful on white,
and is very fashionable at the moment.
Make doileys to match nine inches square,
fringing the edges and drawing threads for
a row of hemstitching an inch frOm the
edge, and vary them by arranging the
leaves differently.

Good Housekeeping tells how to make
something very elegant in this line. To
make a centre piece and doileys to match,
cut the linen in a square the size wished
for acentre piece, or in an oblong scarf-
shaped piece, if that is preferred. Gather
grape leaves, rather small sized ones, and
lay them about the edge of the centre-
piece, the leaves always touching, and
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leaves, and add a few graceful tendrils,
curling inward, here and there. Find a
leaf large enough to serve as a doiley under
a dinner-plate, and trace its outline upon
twelve pieces of linen, somewhat larger
than the leaf. Buttonhole white purl
cord, No. 6, around the outlines of the
leaves, with dark olive embroidery silk.
Take a very much lighter shade of silk
and fill in the leaves with fancy stitches,
until they are almost solid. Work the
veins in outline stitch with the darker
shade. With a sharp pair of scissors cut
out the leaves, so that each dolly looks like
a grape leaf lying upon the tablecloth,
and cut the outside edges of the leaves in
the centre-piece. The effect of this set
will be very satisfactory. If having the
set stamped at a designer’s is preferable,
there are more elaborate designs, with
very much more work. A very beautiful
centre-piece, of recent introduction, con-
sisted of grape leaves artistically arranged
to cover the entire piece of linen, with the
exception of a small circle in the middle,
which was outlined by the vine itself,
coiled in a graceful circle. The leaves
were filled in with a great variety of
stitches, and the general effect was that of
solid work. The stems were button holed
over purl cord, and when the work was
done, all the rest ofthe linen was cut away
with a sharp pair of scissors, leaving only
a wreath of grape leaves, with their stems
and tendrils, to lie upon the white table-
cloth. Not the least charm of this beauti-
ful piece of work was the exquisite neat-
ness and regularity of the stitches. An-
other pretty design has grapes mingled
with the leaves. The leaves are filled in
with iancy stitches, and the grapes are out-
lined by close buttonholing over the purl
cord.

A case for the pillow of the couch,
which is in constant use and hence should
not be too dainty and delicate, and which
needs to be frequently freshened, is made
of two pieces of unbleached linen. This
case is not meant to entirely cover the
pillow, but to show some of it at each end.

A good size for a pillow is 23 inches in
length and 18 inches wide; for that size
the protector should be 15 inches long and
of course the same width as the pillow.
Hem the sides of the two pieces of linen;
out each end of each piece in three large
scallops and buttonhole them with linen
floss, choosing a. color which matches or
contrasts with the covering of the pillow.
Cut a slit an inch and a half long in each
scallop and buttonhole it. Embroider or
outline a vine or any desired design on the
cover. The two pieces of the protector or
case, are joined by passing ribbons through
the slits and tying them in small bows,
thus making three bows on each side of the
pillow. These are easily removed when it
is necessary to laundry the case.
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Useful Recipes.

 

TOMATO Pun—A pie only emailed for
richnc as by one made out of mlncemeat is
made of tomato: 3. The crust should be rich
and flair y. Line a deep pie tin with the crust
not rol'cd too thin: fill with thin slices of tc-
mato; plenty of sugar, about three table-
spoonfuls; a lump of butter as big as a hick-
ory nut: and spice with nutmeg and cinna—
mon. Bake three-quarters of an hour in a
moderate oven. and serve perfectly cold.

    

      

    
 
  
 

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