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DETROIT. TAN. 31., 1891-

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

-?or the Household.
AN IMHORTALL.

 

BY A. 51 J‘.
With strength of heart and strength or brain.
To hear thy own and others' pain.-
‘ A faith sublime
To lead thy feet through darkest hours;
And teach the worth of all thy powers
True Angeline.

Eyes keen to see life's sin and woe.
A heart as pure as drifted snow,
Were ever thine;
And when my need you could not see.
’Thy words were gift of gold to me,-
Wise Angeline.

And looking back thro' all the years,

Of weakness. failure. toil and :ears.
This thought is mine—

‘The weakness might to sin have grown.

And life more drear. had i not knowi
Thee, Angeline.

And on that mound beside the sea.

Where ever waves give moan for thee.
And blooms combine

To make any grave a lovely bower;

‘1 drop irom lips and heart this Sevres:
Dear Angeline.

 

 

HO‘W TO MAKE A. DRESS.

 

Simplicity rules the styles in which dress
skirts are made at present. The founda-
tion skirt. is narrow, scarcely more than
two yards wide, and is fitted smoothly as a
glove across the front and sides by darts
taken at the top, all the fullness being
massed at the back. This foundation is
faced round the bottom with canvas, cut
bias, with a facing of the dress goods; and
three slashes about two and one-half inches
deep, are cut in the bottom of the front
breadth, one slash exactly in the centre
and one each side of it, about an eighth of
a yard from the centre one; these are to
give freedom to the movement of the feet
when walking. Instead of dress braid
skirts are bound with velveteen ; our mer-
chants keep it cut in eighth of yard lengths
ready for use; it must be on the bias and
is put on in the same manner as braid. It
outlasts a braid, and does not wear the
shoes across the instep as does the former.

When the foundation skirt is ready,
having been heated to the waistband—the
inner edge of the band to the skirt, thus
bringing the seam outside and leaving the
outer edge of the band to be turned over
upon the dress when the dress shirt is in
place—comes the most dliiic'ult part, the
hangin g of the skirt upon the lining. The

.centre of the front breadth is bested to

the centre of the foundation shirt. The
fullness of the front breadth having been

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taken up in darts, cutout and pressed
open after being sewed; then all the full-
ness is drawn to the back, leaving the front
and sides perfectly plain and smooth, and
laid in fan pleats meeting in the centre of
the back, great care being exercised to
keep them even and of exact length. This
adjustment can only be made upon the
person for whom the dress is being made.
The skirt being thus pinned to place, it is
removed, bested, the band turned over and
bested, thus finishing the top, and again
tried on ,2 if all right, the waistband is
stitched to place. Three widths of 4.2 inch
goods are an tiicient for a skirt—one consti-
tuting the front and sides, the others
pleated into the back. The Widths are
straight, not gored at all, though new
[’arislan models of house dresses are said
to have a bias seam in the centre of the
back, to'remove the fullness at the waist
line and give a graceful slope to the extra
length now permissible on reception, visit
ing and home dresses. Some of these
shirts are out bias throughout, especially
if the goods is plaided.

A great many such dresses are simply
hemmed at the foot; some have the hem
turned up on the outside and a piping fold
of velvet or silk. set in ; or a narrow band
of for or line of narrow gimp or passamen-
terie makes a heading. A bias band of
velvet, silk or cloth of contras’ing color is
used asa border also. it is about a quarter

of a yard deep, and only extends across the
front and sides of the skirt. lows of

braid and bands of astrachan are also used

for decoration. The newest fancy is for a
scant gathered bias ruffle of velvet or silk,

four or five inches wide when made. set at

the foot of the skirt, with a two-inch head-
ing, ora full pleated ruche of silk or of
the dress material. Some dressmakers are

putting on three or four narrow eat? ered

ruffles, overlapping each other. These

decorations are used only upon the front

and sides, the back being simply hemmed.

'l‘he new basques are longer than they
were early in the season, and nearly all
have the long postilion back and the
roundly pointed fronts, and are made as
longwaisteri as possible. Everything is
done to accentuate the height of the figure,
the long waists, the straight clinging skirts,
the high sleeves, all lengthen the lines of
the figure, and the tall and slender woman

straight. Shoulder seams are very short,
to accommodate the high pulled sleeves, a
fashion which still prevails. in making a
bodice, after fitting, stitch all the seams
but those under the arms and the shoulder
seams ; open them and press ; work the
buttonholes and sew on the buttons and
baste in the sleeves. Try on again. Then
you are ready to sew the other scams, let-
ting out or taking in a little as necessary.

Sleeves are long, well covering the wrist;

ultra fashionables make them to come well
down upon the hand; they are finished
without ends, with a piping of velvet and
a row of small velvet buttons set upon the
inner arm seam to the elbow.

Corsages are still much trimmed with
revere. folds, passementerie, etc. Many
are made double-breasted, with a seam in
the centre of the front. A. pretty style. is
to make the front of velvet, buttoned over
on both edges in double-breasted shape. A.
pretty dress seen at the theatre lately had
a front of cream silk laid in narrow pleats,
each pleat outlined with a narrow gilt
braid; silk anal braicl extendwl upon the
collar. The bottom of a. basque is faced
and pressed, or a. piping fold of velvet set
in as a finish. A row of finybuttrms is set
on each half of the postlliou back, or two
larger buttons at the waist line. Whale-
bones should be served in so‘ they extend
to within a quarter of an inch of "the bottom
of the basque. Every seam except the '
centre side back form seams is bonei,
a whalebone being put in the centre of the
front on the “eye" side. it is rare to see a
basque buttoned all the way up, so univer:
sal the fashion of trimming the front.
Collars are still straight and high, after
the military style which has prevailed so
long ; or are high in the back and curved
in front to show the throat. To make a
collar fit nicely it musz be cut on the bias,
straight on the upper edge and curving on
the lower to make it fit around the throat, .
and large enough to fit the neck of the
dress. (Of course the curved edge is to go
on the neck of the. (irons) To make it stiff
enough two or three thicknesses of canvass
are stitched together on the machine. The
collar is not sewed to the. dress , the neck
is bound with narrow ribbon and the collar
finished by itself, set on over and. sewed to
place.

A pretty camel's hair costume seen. here

 

is the representative of the “style” of the
moment. i

The darts are taken very deeply, the '.

 

second dart being so deep and so nearly
bias that the under arm seam Ls nearly

     

was made with the straight skirt described,
with trimming of green velvet ribbon.
This ribbon was set on in graduated rows,
perpendicularly, on the skirt, beginning
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reached half way to the waist; on each
side the rows shortened gradually to the
back breadth. The same scheme of deco-
ration prevailed on the corsage, rows of the
ribbon extending from the bottom of the
basque to form a pretty shaped corselet;
and the puffs on the sleeves and the wrists
were similarly decorated.

Azalia puts these queries: “1 have a
black cashmere to make over. How shall
I make it and what shallI trim it with?
I have a heavy brown twilled cloth shirt I
want to make up for a dress or wrap, but
do not know how to do it. Please tell me
what to get for an evening dress and how
to make it. I want something for even-
ing in winter and all times in summer."

It is very difiicult to tell how to recon-I
struct a dress without knowing what. shape
it is in. Perhaps our correspondent can
remcdel her cashmere according to direc-
tions just given, using black, or black‘and
white plaid silk for trimming. Silk sleeves,
a full pleated vest of silk framed in folds
of cashmere, and a silk ruche at the foot
of the skirt would make it new again, if it
is in shape so the requisite length and
width for the skirt can be secured. The
skirt can be. pieced under the mobs. Old
silk can be cut up to make the ruche,
which must be very full; two and ahalf
yards are rrqnired tor it. Or, the silk can
be pleated and set in as a panel on one or
both sides; no foot trimming will then
be needed. The brown dress will be pretty
made up with brown velvet. Double.
brtasted ironts of velvet, a velvet V at the
tops of the sleeves, lots of little buttons to
match— small tutton moulds or even shirt
buttons covered with velvet can be used-
will quite change its looks. Or a velvet
corsetst would be more girlish—looking.
This is a piece of velvet, pointed top and
bottom in the centre and sloping toward
the sides; it is sewed in in one under arm
seam and hooked over on the other, and
must be made on canvas and whaleboned
to make it keep its shape. Brown as-
trachan would also be suitable trirr ming.

Material for an evening dress depends a
good deal upon the society in which one
belongs. What would be very plain evenv
ing dress in one place might be full dress
or over dress in another. There are very
beautiful gauzes in pale pink and blue, red
and white, with threads of gold running
through them, which must be made up
over silk and make lovely ball-dresses; and
which can be bought for 90 cents up.
There are exquisite designs in embroidered
momlr'm do safe at $1.75, and upward,
and plain wool albatros and batistes at 65,
75 and 85 cents a yard. Probably what
would be best for Azalia would be a China
silk, plain or figured, which would cost
from 75 cents to $1.10. according to quali-
ty, and is 27 inches wide. These in
light shades make very pretty and durable
dresses for all round wear, and are not
very expensive. A yellow or a pale pink
we should think would suit her com~
plexinn nicely, or an old rose or crushed
raspberry. Crepe do chine is a lovely
goods, worth $125 in evening shades.
Such a drt as needs tobe made very simply.

 

A full skirt of six straight widths, with a
pinked rocks at the foot; and a full waist
and sleeves with no trimming except lace
at the V—shaped neck and sleeve, would
be very stylish if made to fit and hang
just right. An ostrich leather band round
the neck, or one of the new fluffy silk
ruches, would give a finishing touch of
style. Bna'rnrx.

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FREE ENTERTAINMENT.

Owen Meredith encouragingly says:

" Lean not on one mind constantly,
Lest where one stood before two fall l
Something God hath to say to thee.
Worth hearing from the lips of all.”

With these lines as an inspiration I have
decided to continue the subject of my last
previous letter on visiting. under the head
of “ free entertainment." 1 mean by this,
the wholesale housing and feeding of
strangers who come professedly to attend
conventions and other public meetings held
in towns and cities, in the guise of au-
thoriztd delegates or representatives. I
dislike to connect the idea of “frauds"
and “sponges” with the W. C. T. U.,
Sunday school conventions and other
moral and religious organizations, but even
so it. is that when these bodies hold their
periodical sessions they have a train of
attendants whom the city authorities, if
they had to deal with them, would pro:
nounce vagrants and treat accordingly.
Let a strange man, no matter how well
dressed, attempt- to get a week’s lodging
without paying for it and see how soon he
would be taking a ride to the Four Courts.
The same individual however may appro-
priate a badge in some way, crowd in
amongst those who are entitled to the
hospitality of generous citizens, and boldly
claim the privileges of an honest represen-
tative. The ” sponges” never miss a train;
they are without exception on hand with
the first arrivals. They get in early and
tarry late. Should delegates proper take
advantage of a late train to proceed home
after business, the ”sponge” decides to
remain over for another breakfast, pos-
sibly dinner and supper, and it he or she
does not stay over Sunday you may be
thankful. To illustrate after the style of
Spoopendyke one might say all these
“ sponges” need is to drive all on a fire
engine to make you feel asif there had
been a “dod-gasted” conflagration on
your premises. I shall never forget a one-
eyed woman with a black valise which my
husband carried ten squares to get her
home, who thrust herself upon us as a
“ delegate” to a W. C. T. U. Convention,
crowded out those who had a right to en-
tertainment, and then ingenuoualv told me
that she had taken advantage of the low
railroad rates and "free entertainment”
to come to the city to do some shopping.
This was not an isolated case upon the
same occasion.

I judge this species of imposition
accounts for the reluctance of most
persons to receive strangers, even to help
along a good cause. It should hardly,
however, cause one to revoke a promise to
entertain at the last moment; and it can

tainly does not excuse a woman for closing

the docr-abruptly-inthe face of an inquirr

ing stranger. During the past summer a

Sunday school convention was held at

Sedalia, Mo. With a young lady 1 went

as adelcgate. We arrived at the station at

3 p. m. of a very hot day. No committee
awaited us, and we went to the church-

wherc the meetings were to be held. There
were about 200 persons from St. Louis.

many of them I knew had not been ap»
pointed by their schools but were going

for a pleasure trip—for an outing from the
city. We two felt quite comfortable in
representing one of the largest and finest
schoolsin the city. In fact we supposed the
name of our church would open the door
of any inhabitant of Sedalia. We gawked
about for two hours listening for our
names, watching the- diiferent persons
going out, and hearing with dismay their
reports of having been rejec‘ed as they

filed back. Finally we were sent out: to
seek “ free entertainment. " We were
sent out twice in different directions. We
were informed from behind halt opened
doors that they had changed their minds
and could not take delegates. As women
usually do. we. had taken an extra dress in
a shawl strap, so with these parcels we
paraded the streets hunting a place to stop.
The Farmers’ Alliance was in session and
there were no rooms to be had at the hotels.
Tramplng about the streets of a strange
city asking for lodging was a new ex-
perience. We were tired, we were hun‘
gry, we were vexed, and were setting out
to the station to wait for a midnight
train to take us home, when some one
gave us another number and urged us to
make one more trial. In company with a
minister from our city who had been
snubbed at six different places, we dragged
our new aching limbs and our luggage out
several squares to tackle another poor
woman for ” free entertainment.” A small
white cottage inside a small yard on a quiet
street, contained a store of hospitality that
ought to have made some others far more
pretentious, blush. Kindly Mrs. Brown
greeted us in the most friendly manner,
assuring us of a welcome to such as she
could give us. We did not fall upon her
neck and weep, but we did try to not in
crease her cares or add to her work. With
returning faith in human benevolence we
attended the convention and joined heartily
in the opening chorus, “ Blessed be,
blessed be, blessed be the name of the
Lord.” When the benediction was pro-
nounced on Sunday night most of us took
a late train for home, but those who had
gone for the pleasure of the trip remained
until Monday evening. One woman I es
pecially recall. She had been rejected at
several places and finally taken in by a
clever family in the suburbs who brought
her in to the meetings in their carriage, and

that she remained over until Tuesday. She
was one who had no authority to go at all
and could not possibly have been invited to
remain except as she reo nested it herself,

This is but a glimpse of what occurs on
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spirit, but calmly, in my right mind (I
think), that in future I shall under no cir-
cumstances accept entertainment from
strangers except on the basis of hard cash.
I shall also vehemently oppose sending out
any one at any time as a pauper. A
society had far better defray the expense
of one or two persons than to take the
chance of a score of stragglers swooping
down upon the hospitably Inclined. I do
not say that I shall forever refuse to en—
tertain if the majority so elect. No one
shall everbe turned rudely from my door—-
not even the black valise, but I hope the
day of individual independenceis dawning.
I hope to see the time when conventions
and “ quarterly meetings ” shall not strike
a town like a hurricane, demoralizing the
domestic arrangements of half the house-
keepers, leaving blight and ill-temper
brooding over the hearthstone. If all con
cerned would contribute as much money
as it costs to entertain an extra guest, the
“ delegates” and preachers might be taken
care of where it is made a matter of busi-
ness, for so much a day or week.

8!. Lotus. DAFI’ODILLY.
W

THE STORY OF A COUCH.

 

On my first introduction to this family
I was called a couch. At that time I was
very beautiful, at least the children all
said I was beautiful. My robe of cover-
ing being of Brussels carpet, was all over-
run with roses in several shades each of
violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange,
red, also brown and black; my brightness
further accentuated by an all around row
of dark green braid, thickly studded with
tacks having large white porcelain heads.

Such was 1 in my youthful days, but
that was Some fifteen years ago, and the
admiring children have all gone to homes
of their own now, all but Mary, the
youngest; she is here yet as I have reason
to know.

My! what a friend i. have been to them
all! The boys romped and tumbled over
me till two of my springs went down to
rise no more; here the young ladies and
their beans whispered soft nothings (and
pretty soft they were sometimes tOD); here
father or mother took after-dinner naps,
and indeed I think to me the whole
family, without exception, brought their
griefs and cares, and toothaches and head-
aches. One of them, I remember him yet,
who needed me most of any fora long,
long time, was carried away one day and
will never come back any more.

Well, I couldn’t always be young, and
so like lots of people I’ve seen, I grew to
look old and faded, and kind of “set
down on,” but never realized it till one
day Mary said right before me: “On
mat I’m so sick of that old lounge; such
glaring colors and great staring white but
tone, it spoils everything in the room. I
do wish we could have things a little more
like other folks, nobody else has such
looking things as that; it's so dirty too, the
more you pound and brush the more the
dial: comes out. I’m just going to take

THE HOUSEHOLD.

thing else. I know I can. can’t I. ma?"
Here she stopped to giw her tongue a
holiday, and you can imagine my feelings.
“ Well, if you think so, but you must ask
pa first; it will be a great trouble and i'm
afraid vou can’t.”

NOW all the encouragement Iii-try ever
needs is to be told ”I am afraid you
cm’t.” So I knew it was settled; and
when she just mentioned her scheme to
pa (for appearance sake), the first thing he
said was, “ Oh you couldn’t take it apart,
Marv, its a man’s work. Up'mlsterin’ is a
trade by itself. better let the lounge alon",
you’ll only spoil it."

“ Spoil that old white butt on lounael'
As Isaid before 1 pm well acquainted with
Mary, and was not surprised when she
came in several days later with some
beautiful dark red cloth over her arm
which she shook out and laid carefully
over me, measuring with the tape measure
and writing down figures in a book. This
cloth is mostly cotton, she explained to her
mother, mixed with wool and silk, the
cotton is dyed like turkey red calico and
will not fade. that is a great consideration,
aside from the fact of being inexpensive.
Then she fell to cutting paper patterns,
and after lots of talking it was agreed that
the first time it was convenient Mary
should begin the task of rejuvenating my
much abused self. Well, it happened to
be convenient the first time her father was
away from home, and when I saw her
come in, armed with triumph, determina-
tion and the tack hammer, I knew the hour
had come, and i couldn’t help feeling a
little sad and sorrv-—for Marv.

She worked very carefully, but notwith
standing the porcelain heads would break
off, leaving the long tack still there firmly
driven in the hard wood, but she brought
the clinchers from the carriage barn, and
after patient effort my chief ornament
and Mary’s “eye sores ” lay all over the
floor; the braid came off, and that revealed
an all round row of tacks so large they
were almost nails, very close together and
very much rusted. Mary sat dawn in the
nearest rocking chair and. surveyed the
scene, just as her ma came in to see how
she got on.

“ He said it was a man’s work," she
cried out, rocking violently, ”indeed it
looks like it. What woman would be
idiot enough to put fifty thousand tacks
where two dozen would be enough! ”

However, in "a minute she was up and
at it again. All day she toiled, and that
night the sun went down on a very tired,
hand blistered but well contented Mary,
withabox full of tacks in every shape
and size and length manufactured.

I cannot explain the process by which
next day she restored me to my former
size and estate, but she said that "was the
easiest part of it. When my new red dress
was finally on, the edges were neatly
trimmed and finished with narrow gold
colored gimp fastened with small brass
headed tacks. Now I don’t wish to be
thought vain, but the visitors all say I
look very young and handsome. So Mary

 

that car pet (if and recover it with some

  

“WHO SHALL JUDGE?“

 

() vet the body of her dead bent the fall
young bride. whose wedded bliss had been
thus rudely broken, and cried in her agony,
“I never can bear it: it is wicked, it is
cruel; he was so good and noble, life was
Opening before him, so fair and promising,
why was be taken and so many left who
were of no me in the world?” And the
world looked on and said: “ Poor thing,
her grief is fe lrful; it is so much worse be-
cause they were in the honeymoon, all in
all to each other, it. is like separating
lovers; she will never rally."

into a little room, bare and meagre, with
scarcelv a comfort, the dead body of the
man was borne; he luui fallen from a shaft
in the mine and been killed instantly.
Almost crazed with her sudden bereavee
ment the poor widow could only moan and
smihe the half dozen little ones who were
clinging to her skirts. The body had been
made ready for burial, the kind neighbors
had gone home, and the man of God had
told that “ He who fed the raven would
care for the fatherless and the widowed."
But well she knew “the rod had been
broken, the beautiful reed," and thathence
forth her two hands must furnish their
sustenance; and she was only a woman.

It was such a hoxnc‘like house, beauti-
ficd with books and pictures and every
thing that would add to its attractions.
but into the. earthly ll} ien grim Death came
uninvited, and the wife and mother lay
cold and lifeless. There were flowers
everywhere, massed in bouquets, twined
in designs, strewn over the casket; and
the many friends who had gathered for
the burial said it was so beautiful death
was robbed of its horrors. But to the bus-
band and father who sat there with his
three little ones, scarcely more. than babies,
it came wi’h full force, and he Wondered
how he could ever bear to come back to
the home and leave her, the choice of his
heart. in the lonely graveyard. There was
never sorrow like this, how could he bear
it?

Only a fair young girl brought up so
tenderly, shielded from all chill winds,
and she stood it; her wild agony wringing
her hands. and .‘ne tears streaming over he!
pale cheeks. Out of the debris of a terri-
ble railroad accident the father and mother
had been taken, dead, mangled almost be-
yond recognition. What could she do
without their care and protection! Reason
seemed trembling in the balance. The
good preacher whispered that “God temr
pered the wind to the shorn lamb ” and
“ He chasteneth whom He lovet-h,” but she
failed to see it in that way. The world
said she did not show proper submission
and sweet trust and confidence in the
Lord’s workings.

He was brought into his home, dead,
killed in a drunken carousel in a drinking
den in one of the large cities; brought into
the presence of his father and mother, the
boy of nineteen summers. The dark curls
clustered about the forehead, and a sweet,
childish expression was on the face, and

 

 

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the mother pressed kiss after kiss on the

 

  


 

4 _ THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

cold lips, beautiful in loath. She de-
plored the fate that had caused this young
life to go out thus early. He would have
been their support in old age. The world
looked on and said it was a dispensation of
Providence; he would probably have died
in the gutter in time.

She was picked out of the river, this
poor unfortunate creature. bloated beyond
recognition, and the men who took her to
the morgue said she was better dead than
alive, there were plenty more like her. No
12218 lifted her up tenderly. for his mother’s
sake, but with jeers and curses she was
laid away in a lonely grave in the Potters’
Field.

The beautiful little babe of five months
lay in the snowy casket, lilies of the valley
and daisies and tuberoses and callas all
around, filling the tiny hands. and the
young mother would not be comforted.
She gave herself up in abandon to her
grief; all she had, her one cherished darling,
andshe must put him away in the cold
ground. One whispered that the Father
took him in his innocence. he was sale
from the cares of the weary years. But
she would not beiieve it, she would not be
reconciled.

Ah! who can judge; every heart knoweth
itsown sorrow, and the Father looks with
compassion on each one.

Bar-rm: Cnnzx. EV’ANGELINE.

 

THE QUESTION BOX.

 

Here are a number of questions to which
answers are desired. It you can solve any
of them, please consider yourself a com-
mittee of one to report immediately;

Azalia wants to know how the cucum-
bers are prepared that we find in half bar~
rels at the grocers. What will remove
berry stains from table cloths? How can
the ink be removed from. the children’s
handkerchiefs? What will cure chill—
“plains?

Mm. J. T. D., of Union Home, says:
Will Mrs. Fuller tell me, through the
HOUSEHOLD, what to do with my Chinese
lily? It has blossomed in water. Will it
bloom again? How shall i care for it
through the coming months 1'

A subscriber wishes to inquire what
will remove yellow stains from’marble.

Another would like to learn something
about the “passion vine.” What condi-
tions and treatment are needed to secure
its lovely blossoms?

A third asks that some one tell us about
the difierent life insurance societies for
women, and of their advantages.

 

A WICKER clothes-hamper is a conven-
ience about the house, but it costs money.
One which will look very tidy in the back
hall is made by cleaning a small barrel
having a cover, and lining it inside with
old calico. Let the lining be long enough
to turn over the edge of the barrel on the
outside. Cover the outside with cheap
cretonne, gathered or pleated on. Cover
the top also, having nailed the several
plows together with a cleat on the inside.
Insert a peg to lift the cover by

 

SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.

As there was a call frrm Beatrix to
sharpen our pencils and put. on our think-
ing caps I thought I would respond and
write upon a subject that I am deeply in-
terested in, namely, our district schools. 1
think that children living in the country
should have as many advantages for school
education as those living in the town; and
instead of young inexperienced teachers
that know nothing of teachingor of gov-
erning children, older and more experi'
enced ones should take their places. Now-
adays pupils in the district schools can not
take studies beyond the eighth grade, be-
cause the teachers are not obliged to teach
them unless they choose tod.o so, and they
do not teach any more than they have to
very often. It is not very profitable business
to spend several dollars buying school
books and then not be able to study them
because the teacher is not compelled to
hear the children recite only in certain
branches. It is placrng the pupils in
country schools at a great disadvantage,
because many parents are not able to send
their children to the public schools. I can
not understand why branches that are
taught in the town schools should not be
taught in the country also. Surely they
can not have for an excuse that the teachers
do not have time to hear the scholars re-
cite in so many different branches, as the
largest schools do not have an average of
over twenty pupils. and sometimes not that
many. lheartily agree with School Girl
and wish to hear from her again on this

 

subject. STELLA MAY.
PORTLA s; o.
W...
SUGGESTIONS.

A sand bag isa convenience to those who
drive much in winter. Pack a canvas
bag full of sand. '1‘. is may be warmed in
the. oven at any time. Make a cover of
plush, of heavy cloth, or any convenient
material, and when the sand is hot, slip the
bag into this cover. It will keep the feet
nice and warm during a long drive.

The old rubber gossamer can be made
useful in its old age as follows: Out from
it a rectangle, eight inches by twelve,
lining it with the same. On each corner
sew astout tape long enough to tie about
the person of an adult, and when colic,
or neuralgia, or cramp, or rheumatism, or
sprains, or inflammation of any kind call
for hot, wet flannels and poultices, this
little waterproof garment, snugly tied
about the patient, over the pack of wet
cloths on bowels, or stomach, or back,
protects the clothing and bedding from
dampness.

A correspondent of ‘the Ladies Home
Journal gives the following directions for
binding magazines: First, take good care
to keep them smooth, and never double
them up. As you read them lay them
away flat. When you have a full volume,
place them in order, clamp them to a work-
bench or table; take a broad awl and bore
holes about half an inch from back edge.
Take any stout string and sew them well
together as close as you can. Take paste
board for covers (or, if you can’t get paste

 

board, get stiif paper) and sew with the
book. Get apiece of heavy ducking'or
drilling; paste on the back with edges well
lapped over sides of book, weight and let
dry. Then cover with cloth or soft black
oil~clot-h; paste one of fly leaves inside of
cover and you will have a good, stout book.

 

WE cannot furnish copies of the House-
HOLD tor Sep. 20 and 27, 1890. The sup-
ply is entirely exhausted.

 

A coanasroxnnsr inquires the proper
pronunciation of ” Beatrix.” In three
syllables, Be-a trix, with the accent on the
first syllable.

A NEW member, A. M. 0., of Romeo,
writes: If every one takes as much
pleasure in reading the House-now as I
do, there would be no trouble in writing
for it. For fear of the waste basket I
dared not venture before, although there
were many subjects I would like to have
written on. I am a farmer’s wife, and
from experience of other occupations think
there is none other more contented. I re‘
member the first autograph written in my
album by my father: “ Acontented mind
is a continual feast.” It is appreciated
now that I am older. and is very true.
[Come again, A. M. C., and make a longer
call.-—ED.]

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THE nicest ham sandwiches we ever ate
were made of bread out very thin, the crust
removed with a sharp knife, spread with
the nicest of butter, and then with a ham
paste made of boiled ham chopped fine.
then pounded to a paste and seasoned with
a wry little cayenne pepper, ditto mustard.
and several drops only of vinegar. These
flavorings must be added with the greatest
discretion—too much, or a preponderence
of any one of the three will spoil all. Exact
proportions cannot be given, so much de-
pends on the quantity of ham, the strength
of vinegar, pepper, etc; and the best way
of arriving at. a satisfactory conclusion is
to try the cook‘s t«.st»—-—tasting. The barn
should be cooled in the water in which it
was boiled, then the paste will not be dry.

______..._..._.
Useful Recipes.

 

Tunas EGG SPONGE CAKE—0118 and a halt
cups sugar: three eggs: ha‘f cup cold water;
half teaspoonfui soda; two even cups flour,
and one teaspronful cream tartar; flavor-with
lemon. ’l‘h's is very;nice, and it keeps moist
quite a while.

 

liaisannmns ~—Malre a chopped paste with
two cups flour, one cup butter, half teaspoon-
ful salt and ice water to moisten, chill, roll,
and fill with the following mixture: One cup
chopped raisins. one cup sugar, one egg, one
pounded cracker and grated rind and Juice of
one lemon. Cut the paste into rounds about
four inches in diameter, moisten one round
about the edge and on it put a b;t of the till-
ing. Take a second round, gash it to allow
the Mr to escape and put it over the first

rcund, pressing it tr gethrr about the edges.
Cut a square of the paste again, put in some
of the filling and fold it upon itself, thus
varying the form of the branbr rries, which
are like turnovers, as much as one pleases.
Bake abcut twenty minutes in a moderately
hot oven. These are something new, devised
by the Boston Cooking School.

 
  

 

 

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