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THE

HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

H IRE RES 1’.

 

B‘S LOUISE SNOW.

 

I entered the quiet place, where

Beat the worn and the weary,

They who the poorest fared,

And they who the best shared

In life, and bright without care

Found it, and they who dreary,
All here rest:

The rich and the poor. all here,

'The high and the humble. equality

Find. True, tall columns mark where

Lie those who ‘~ mu :1) goods" had

in life, while unmarked. so sad.

You lone corner in sunken graves lie.
Where all rest!

For ’tis kind Ni )the: E 22th a: last

Receives each, when life is past,

And all tenderly with green sod cover,

Wherein springing flowers gently hover.

Daisy, blue violet and clover are found

Luxuriant, on inscribed and nameless mound
Where tnev rest!

An ancient proverb solemn. declares

Who visits the abode of the dead mars

His memory, wnich thereafter will be

Found failing to respond readily;

And. oh! if by touch or some magic wand,

All could, but once, be here led thus, and
Behold how rest

These dwellers, so peacefully abiding!

Without pushing, crowding, trampling or chid-

9
Could wrong, hatred and revenge, thus ei’r‘aeed
be
With envy, jealousy and malice, from memory,
While only the good and kind might remain.
Earth would be Eden, with this glad refrain,
Oh, how biest!

 

THE LINEN CLOSET.

The good housekeeper takes as much
pride in an abundant supply of nice table
linen as she does in her handsome dishes or
sterling silverware. Its fineness and ,qual-
ity are as important to her as its quantity.
The old fashioned woman—the domestic
woman, who spun flax and perhaps herself
understood the “treadling” of certain in-
tricate patterns in the old loom—was espec-
ially proud of her linen chest. In “ The
Mill in the Floss ” George Eliot draws us a
pathetic picture of "Mrs. Tulliver,” after
her husband’s disaster, sitting in the store-
room, one of the great chests open, her
spotted and sprigged linen and her silver
spoons and ladies all about her, sprinkling
her best tablecloths with bitter tears as she
tells her children that “ they’re all to be sold
——and go into strange people’s houses~and
perhaps be cut wi’ the knives and worn
out before I’m dead.”

Such a housekeeper would never be con.
tent with what she would consider the

poverty and “ shiftlessness ” of a latter day
matron of the middle class who only owns
What is absolutely needful for every day,
with a couple extra for the overturned
gravv~boat or the unexpected guest.

Just after the holidays is a good time to
renew the stock of both table and bed
linen. Merchants are holding their annual
closing out sales at that time and many a
bargain is to be picked up by the careful
buyer. Then, generally in February,
comes on the new stock, fresh and white,
in all its bravery of new designs, afiording
a greater variety to choose from.

W. & J. Sparling, Woodward Avenue,

this city, enjoy an enviable reputation for
the variety and excellent quality of their
linen and house furnishing goods. The
Mr. Sparling who has charge of this de-
partment, is a good judge of quality and
has an eye for what is artistic and graceful
—-as well as fashionable—in design. In my
quest for information I happened in while
a portion of the new stock, just arrived,
was still lying upon the counters, ani was
shown a large number of styles at prices
from 85 cents up. The dollar goods were
especially handsome, I thought ; seventy
inches wide, fine and of good quality. The
favorite patterns are small, conventional
designs overlying the whole surface, with
border to match, or in detached figures of
leaf or fruit scattered at intervals. Cubes,
squares, and circles were connected by an
intricate network of radiating lines. The
neverout-of-style birdseye damask, the ivy-
leaf and many other designs afiorded a
wide range of choice, and at 9. dollars. yard
were by no means dear.
Napkins to match are in the three-q uarter
size for dinner napkins at $3 50 per dozen;
and a size smaller, for lunch and tea, at
$2.75.

Just at present the popular fad is hem‘
stitching; pillow slips, pillow shame, hems
of sheets, towels, are subject to the hem-
stitching process which has, so great the
rage for hand work, extended even to
tablecloths and napkins. Sets already thus
finished are sold at $12 to $13 per set, and it
is much cheaper, if the craze has attacked
you, to buy the damask and hemstitch your
own cloth and napkins. You can buy the
material at Sparling’s for $1.25 per yard,
either the plain damask or that with a
Greek key border with sufficient depth be-
low it to allow of a hem, and the cost of
your set will depend upon the length of
your cloth and the size of your napkins.
The hemetitched towel is also “ the

 

proper thing.” It is one and one-fourth

 

yards long, with an inch and a half hem,
and the plain huckaback of which it is
made costs 45 cents 3. yards. The “ cover
towel,” which is thrown over the several
towels in use on the rack, or hung in front
of them, is elaborately embellished with
drawn work, bands of cross-stitch em-
broidery in colors, or a large initial letter.
Other towels, with knotted fringe and
colored stripes on each end, are sold as
low as 25 and 35 cents, and a good quality
of damask for 50 cents. A preference for
an all white towel is observed, on which, if
a decoration is desired, a large inl.ial letter
is embroidered.

There is a great variety of tray cloths,
table centres, carvers’ cloths, dnylvlys, etc”
which come ready stamped with conVen~
tional or fi)wer designs, the preference
being for the former, or for leaf patterns
irregularly scattered over the surface.

Lunch cloths are made of the plain
damask, or of wide linen of medium fine-
ness; they are hemstitched, with boriers
of drawn work, or with leaf patterns or
conventional figures as decorati us; these
are done in outline stitch with Wash silks.

Pillow shams are large and square, with
hemstitched edges, and corners heavily em-
broidered, leaving space in the centre for
an initial. In spite of all the talk about
their beingout of fashion, they are too use«
ful and ornamental to be abandoned by
the housekeeper who cannot dress her
pillows in fresh slips every day. A new
way to make pillowslips is to finish the
end that is sewed together with a row of
torchon insertion, sewing it along the edge
to be folded and sewed together, then sew-
ing the edges of the insertion together to
form the end of the slip. This necessi-
tates either lining the lace with ribbon or
surah, or making a fancy slip to cover the
ordinary ticking over which the pillow

slip is drawn.
'9“...—

OUR RECIPROCAL DUTIES.

 

I have been waiting for some time to hear
what replies would be made to the inquiry
of Beatrix in her “ Among the B)0k8" in
the HOUSEHOLD of January 3:d, “ What
is the limit of the reciprocal duties of
parents and children? ” How far filial
affection will take us and just how far it is
our duty to go, depends so largely on cir-
cumstances that it is impossible for any
one to make a rule for anather’s guidance.
No two families are situated alike or see
things from the same standpoint. There

 

is a right in all cases that need wrong no

  


 

 

. one to do so.

2 THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

one. It seems that in the case of Louisa
I. Alcott there was no one else in the
family who had the gift to plan and the
will to do for the family as she did. Even
the father, whom they all had the right to
look to, would probably not admit the ex-
treme selfishness of his way, would not
admit that he threw the whole burden of
the support Of the family upon one weak
woman’s shoulders and sacrificed her life
by the heavy load she had to carry. We all
have certain duties towards each other, but
no one has a right to the mental any more
than the physical life of another, be the
other son or daughter, friend or companion.
Just so surely as every individual has to
see and hr at for herself or himself, just so
sure do they have to make or mar their
own happiness and fill out and broaden
their own lives, circumstances and sur-
roundings always having due influence.

Let us look at the devotion of one wife
to the interests of her husband, Mrs.
Thomas Carlyle. It was she alone who
made it possible for him to achieve such
great results, as far as was possible for any
She kept at a distance every

thing that could annoy him in any way;
and learned to do for his sake many things
distasteful to herself and to which she had
never been accustomed. It is no wonder
that her mother was almost crushed by her
marriage to the unsympathetic peasant,
but Jeannie Welsh could see many bright
things about her future husband that her
mother could not believe were there. She
herself was a genius of no mean order, and
looked forward to the union as help and
encouragement to herself, and to a happy
life among books and pleasant people with
some one in sympathy with her, as well
as to be the chosen companion of him who
in future she was sure would be the great
Scottish author. And she was right as re-
gards her prophecies, for he went far be-
yond her greatest hopes and made a name
that will be remembered as long as the
world stands, or German Literature, The
French Revolution and Oliver Cromwell
are sought for and read as they are now.
She herself very plainly says “Imarried
for ambition. I am more than satisfied,
butI am miserable.” Look at her when
they lived amid the bogs and wild moor at
Craigenputtock for seven years without
companionship, “where we saw no one,
not even a beggar;" compelled by their
poverty to do all the work of the house
and many things outside as well, so the
fires might be kept bright and “ the pot
boiling,” all of which was much too hard
for one so delicately reared as she was and
from which heavy toil she never recovered.
.Her life for many of her later years was
one of constant sufiering. They lived
their lives separately, largely, in the same
house, seeing each other perhaps at the
evening meal—she silent, unless he, led in
the conversation. When a great book was
finished he took himself of! alone, perhaps
for months, to recuperate and to gather
new ideas and strength for the next
volume.

I have been much interested in reading
the memoirs and letters of Mrs. Carlyle,
and will let Bessie Chandler tellyou what I

 

 

think of the letters in The Century, Novem-
ber, 1883..

“ I have read your glorious letters,
When you threw aside all fetters,
Spoke your thoughts and mind out freely, in
your own delightful style.
And I fear my state‘s alarming:
For these pages are so chn rming.
That my heartl lay before you,—take it. Jeannie
Welsh Carlyle."

There are several verses more, equally
charming, but I have already used too
much space.

Does Beatrix or the HOUSEHOLD sisters
think Mrs. Carlyle did only her duty or her
whole duty? I have been much enter-
tained by the talk about books by Beatrix.
and I wish to say to her for myself, thank
you, and continue to hold up the glass so
that we may see by reflected light the
many things that it is impossible for many
of us to see otherwise, including wearing
materials, styles, etc.

I was much interested in A. L. L.’s des-
cription of her western trip last summer.
and in fact in all the letters of the little
HOUSEHOLD. MARGARET.

Cannons.
.———’.*——-————

THE CONSERVATIVES.

I suppose that, in the universal economy
of nature, conservative people, those who
seeonly ruin in any departure from old
customs, are just as necessary as those to
whomalarge amount of light has been
given. They are drags on the wheels of
progress, but sometimes the drag chain on
the wheel serves a useful purpose. Thus
let us endeavor to keep our tempers with
the woman who comes right up with the
two aged questions concerning woman suf-
frage, “What’s the use?” and "Hasn’t
she too many rights now? ” when it has all
been patiently explained to her time and
again. As to the use, perhaps the fifteen
hundred women and girls, emploves of the
government, who were turned out of their
positions on the eve of a presidential
election that I remember, to make room
for men who could by their votes help the
administration that gave them their places
to keep in power, might have considered
a vote useful. And the opponents are not
anxious? Do you remember the 50,000
women who sent a memorial to Congress
praying that the burden of suifrage might
not be laid on them? Poor things!

But to think that our Beatrix should be
on that side, and that she fears the respect
and consideration which men pay to us
willbe put in jeopardy by our putting
apiece of paper ins. box once in two or
four yearsl No, no, Beatrix; nature has
placed the deference that is paid us by
men on a surer foundation than that. I
do not think the right, to vote is going to
bring about all good to woman. The
very foundations of our whole government
and social systems are wrong and must be
righted first. Still the right of sufirage
to all who are amenable to the laws is a
step in the right direction. It seems a
little singular that the colored women of
the South are the strongest opponents of
suffrage. They were a perfect unit in
their vote against the admission of women
as delegates to the conferences of the
Methodist church. It seems strange, with

their centuries of slavery behind them, but
perhaps their intolerant narrow-minded-
ness is only the outcome of those years.

And now I move we drop this subject
from our Honsunonu, Arguments are
useless to people already convinced, and I
know I shall have to grab hold of my
temper with both hands when the next
woman inquires “What good will it do”
and “ Haven't we too many rights now?”

Pious-nu. HULD IE1 PERKINS.

[0h fie, liuldahl Having seized the
opportunity for the last word, you want to
shut the conservatives off with their refuta-
tion in their teeth! And if your temper is
more unmanageable than the E litor’s has
proved in meeting again and again those
other chestnuts, “ Women are governed by
laws they have no voice in making” and
“ Don’t I know as much as a man! ” why
all the more need of putting the drag
chain on it. The conservatives are cer-
tainly not the fanatics, who rush ahead re»
gardless of consequences, nor the soulless
clods without brains who oppose every ad»
vancement, but they are rcall y to the world
and society what that useful bit of me-
chanism, the “ governor," is to the steam
engine, preserving a balance between the
steam which, unrestrained, would destroy
everything. and the inaction and inertia
of inert machinery. The conservative
may be slow but he is sure; he is not
Opposed to progress. but is determined to
weigh consequences, to canvas conditions,
to look at the matter under consideration
from many points of view, to take no action
rashly.-—ED.]

 

IRON ING TABLECLOTHS.

 

As a stranger in a strange land I come to
the HOUSEHOLD today, and with your per-
mission 1 will make a short call and get so
quainted. I have enjoyed the Housnnonn
very much during the one year that I have
known it, and have derived much useful
knowledge therefrom. Have always found
its pages filled with the true. pure senti~
ments of noble minds. Aunt Yorke’s way
of making pie crust just suits me; that is
my way, and I have often wondered why
so many of us housekeepers will always
choose the longest and hardest process for
performing our daily tasks, thereby becom-
ing veritable slaves to work. instead of its
master. Why not choose the easier and
quicker methods, get our work out of the
way sooner and have more time for intel~
lectual improvement, and for society 7 We
starve our minds that we may fill our stom—
achs with unnecessary food that will be the
ruination of digestion and cost us the read-
ing of some good book that our souls are
hungering for.

I have waited all summer for some one
to tell Dill A. Tory how to iron white linen
table-cloths, but as no one has responded to
the inquiry, I naturally conclude that every
body irons them the same way—wringing
wet. But as I do not, and as I use white
tablecloths entirelv, I would say to her if
she would wash them in the usual way, then
put them through a very thin starch water,
dry and sprinkle just the same as any ordi.

 

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of the time and they willlook just as nicely
too. I have tried both ways and can see
no difference only in the amount of valu-
able time wasted on the former meth—
od. 1 usually make one do service for a
week by always putting it on the same way
and by putting on patches of oil cloth for
the children and perhaps a doylie for the
host and hostess. And it does not get very
badly soiled during the whole time.
Baa-on Rance. SlLENE.

_..... ~>‘M -“Mvnucm

CAPABLE.

Marion Jones was a very capable woman.
Every man within a radius of twenty miles
would have taken his oath to it ; in fact she
was often held up as an example to largard
housewives. Her ways were considered the
very best ways; her methods the most prac-
tical; and it was a perfect enigma to the
woman who found night coming on and the
day’s work not half completed ho N she
managed. For Marion did not confine her
labors to the four walls of home-~not by any
max 218. She belonged to at least half a
dozen societies; there ear the W. C. T. U.,
she was corresponding secre‘ary of that;
the W. R. 0., the Good Template, the
King’s Daughter", the Literary Society, the
Farmers’ Club, and the Chautauqua Circle.
Then there was the weekly prayer meeting,
and the Bible class and all the little extras
connected with this line of Wl rk, and Saint-
dayevening was the only evening out of the
seven that home saw her. Her family was
not inordinately large. The husband, five
children and the good Phyllis. Some of the
near neighbors thought Phyllis must have a
fairy god-mother to help her with those
multitudlnous cares, but Marion said it was
head work. Diplomacy was essential in the
home as welias elsewhere. She attended to
the bills of fare, made the cakes and pies,
kept the front part of the house in order,
and received the visitors, put the finishing
touches to the table nor—l did the marketing,
bought the groceries, sold the butter or d
eggs. The children, sweet ulcers 1 thrre
was something delightfully uncertain about
the care of them, for five most ignite swelled
the contents of the mending hat-kit immense-
ly; and the delegates who ol’eu came to the
various societies, and found entertainment
at her home must have made extra cooking
and baking. It sometimes happened that
urgent mature made 1' necessary for her
presence at State [Hid National meetings,
and an absence of three weeks was no on-
common thing. The members of the orders
knew what to expect—a sound berating be-
cause they had been absent. So much work
undone, duties neglected. And good, faith-
ful John. when asked how she managed
home and public duties, smiled grimly ; and
it was only when he was alone that he an-
swered the question, and then it was men-
tally. There was before his mind the comely,
industrious girl he married, selected from
all others for her quiet, home ways, her
kindness to her little brothers and sisters
the many womanly attributes he saw in her.
She made a good, kind wife, a famous man-
ager ; and the farm increased in acreage, the
children were gladly welcomed. But there
came a change. There came along a woman
lecturer at the reboot-house, and she told

 

the farmers’ wives that they must soar
above the dishpan and dust-brush; they
most elevate themselves, improve their
minds, get out of that old rut, take their
places in the world as leaders The bait
was tempting. A few ninbled at it. Marion
was caught. She poured over books and
newstapers; she let the baby scream and
cry, because she was so interested in self—
improvement that she was deaf and blind
to her surroundings. The breakfast table
stood on the floor from morning until noon ;
dirty dishes were piled behind the pantry
door. But Marion came out of this chrysilis
state. She was a new being, henceforth
life meant something more for her. Paylilsl
played ball with the china while she or; an-
lzsd societies the children came up in a.
happy—go—lucky fashion. John couldn't re-
member when he had worn a pair of socks
with heels and toes in them. Marion be-
longed to the Sawing Society that sewed for
the poor heathen. She wasn’t expected to
mend for that great fmily. Fred brought
his books borne from school for mother to
help him; she was brsy “making out re-
ports,” so he went skating. The ice was
thin ; it was the old sir ry, picked out of the
water dead-ranted home. Marion here it
with fortitude-4‘ All for the best, taken to
avoid some future ill.” The two oldest
girls married young. Ore got a drunken,
worthless fellow, but she hoped to reclaim
him through the it fluence of the W. C. ’i‘.
U.: the other married a strck-l uyer, a big,
br riy fellow, of no refinement : but Marion
said “there was r o accounting for the tickle
fancies of girls nowadays.” The two little
ones haven’t matured yet: no one knows
how they will turn out. Marion stands bc~
fore the world a capable woman. She has
done a great deal for humanity. But John
—good, honest John—has solved to his sat-
isfaction the problem “Can a woman suc-
cessfully combine home and public life?”

BATTLE CREFK- EVANGELINE.

WW-

HOUSEEOLD CON VENIENCES.

 

in answer to Elizabeth I would say that
we have several arrangements in our house
that i think very convenient. One is a
cupl‘osrd to lower into the cellar. i will try
to tell how it is made. it is two feet wide
and two feet eight inches in height. The
shelves are thirteen inches wide; the both in
shelf is put two inches from the end of the
side pieces. and the first space is thirteen
inches, the second ten and the third or top
one six inches. There is a hack to this cup-
board but no front, but a door in the cellar
artsched to the frame, in which the cup-
board slides, also one lu the dining-room
about two and one halt feet from the floor.
Narrow strips of wood are united to the
sides of the cupboard for tongues which fit
into grooves for sliding up and down. A
half inch rope is securely fastened to the
top of cupboard at the centre; this rope
goes up and or or a fourteen inch well wheel,
fitted in awooden frame. A sixty pound
weight is fastened to the other end of the
rope. The weight has a suitable place to go
up and down. similar to those for sash
weights. It saves many trips up and down
the cellar stairs, but would be mors.con

 

venient it between kitchen and dining«
room. We have cupboards there which are a.
great saving of steps in clearing and setting
the table.

I think my wood-box very nice too: it is
a plank shelf on which to lay the wood end-
wise between the plants which support the
chimney in the woodshed; just back of the
stove and forty inrhss from the floor, is
asmall door which runs up and down by
weights. I can throw it up, take wood and
put into the stove from either side without
movinga step. it is very convenient for
ventilation also. There is another ventila-
tor in the ceilingover the stove, and a north
andasouth window that can be lowered
from a. fraction of an inch to thirty inches,
so i can keep fresh air in the upper part of
the room, without opening doors.

Water is also very handy. Over the sink
in the northeast corner of the kitchen is a
tank holding forty gallons of rain water.
There is a pipe from the born to of the tank
with a lever faucet. I have a two inch
pipe that I can attach to this, when I wish
to fill the boiler on the stove or the reservoir,
and turn the lever and wait while they are
being filled, or do some other chore. The
pump for the cistern is below the platform
in the well, about th‘rzy feet distant, from
which it dnws the rainwater, forces it into
the house and up into the tank. The
cistern pump can be set in motion, when
the windmill is in gear, by pulling a string
that is ty the tank, and when full 9. weight
shuts it oil“. The well water tank is in the
northwest corner of the woodshed and
close by the kitchen door, so I have only to.
open the door and dip out the wa'er, as the.
floors are on the same level. Our house is.
warmed by a furnace, in whic'r we burn
wood. We like that very much; and the
house is also mt use proof, as the little ani-
mals can only come in the same doors
through which we enter. l. n. A.

La errors.
_.a._.__._....

 

A CONSTANT READER fsays not cure for
chilblains is to soak the feet in warm water
and apply origanum to the afiected parts.
Do this two or three times a week. She
also says that turkey red on cotton. colored
with Perfection Dyes, will fade out in one
season, but is perfect at first. And then
pays us a compliment we highly appreciate :
“The HOUSEHOLD is my favorite, but we
all like both FABMER and HOUSEHOLD. It
is srcond to none, and the cheapest paper
we take. We wish you long life and plenty
of subscribers.”

“0*—

Frnus Acnarns, who has been a long
time absent, comes with a hint to one who
asked advice, saying: "If I may advise
D. E. about those children, I should tell her
if she has the necessary grit and grace. talk
the matter over with the mother, and if she
is a sensible woman she will look at the
matter as she ought and keep her children.
at home. Its too bad that people will let
t‘elr children bother other people coutin»
ually, as some do; they seem to think;
no matter where they are, so long as they
are not troubling them ; and it does no good
to set such persons the example of keeping
your children at home: they will not take c
hint.”

 


 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

LETTERS.

”I realize that I’m getting weaned from
my children—I mean the two who went
west. They’ve been gone five years and
they hardly ever write.” So said a mother
tame afew days since. She had loved and
watched over and cared for that son and
brighter until they were grown, then they
started out to seek their fortunes. The
mother heart yearns for them but they
“hardly ever write.” so those who are yet
with her seem much nearer. How true it
is that the frequent interchange of letters
keeps the love warm in our hearts ? Those
who write every week seem nearer and dear-
er than those who write but once a year.

Uncle S am’s mail agents may be overwork-
ed now out I would make the burden heavier.
or rather. increase the number of assistants
and keep those write-winged messengers al-
wrys in transit. some people find it hard
work to write a letter, but it is only because
they are quite unaccustomed to such labors
of love or duty. business or pleasure. It is
much easier to answer a letter immediately
than to wait a week or a month, and we
never need to think “ what to write about ”
intone to whom we write often. True we
cannot take the time to write long letters.

letter. As you are able. give to those who
need, and there is a need of the mind or
soul which is as great, yes, greater th in the
needs of the bidy. D) you need to be told
to write to the friend who is in trouble?
Though you may disregard every rule given
before do not fail in this. Grief is so hard
to bear even when friends show their love
and sympathy for us. but what is it to one
who hears it alone ? Lit no trifling excuse
keep you from saying. ‘ I minrn with you.’
it is easier, perhaps, to write the letter of
congratulation when oue’s friends choose
their life partner, or when proud parents an-
nounce the birth of a little one. Send good
wishes to start the new life. It is very
sweet to send a note to persons on their
birth-days. All humanity likes to be loved.
and feels kindly towmd the one who re-
gards others. Briefly, the proper time for
iezter writing is When you can help some
one, or make some one happier or thank
some one for having made you happier. The
golden rule will cover this topic. as it does

every other.” EL Sen.

Romeo.
”—4.”—

SUGGESTIONS.

The tearinl task of prep iriog horseradish
is made easy at our house by putting it

'9 going or sending to the office every day pare mince-meat in that way, and any other

willie. heart yearning for even a few lines,
we may surely write otten. When there is

thing that needs chopping, such as suet.
potatoes. apples &3.

indeath,.a wedding or a birth we are duly Now ”I.“ eggs are plenty again and

‘ notified, but in somi families the letter writ-
ing is limited to such occasions.

The Ohnut suqucm has given some good

kin itself may be acceptable. Carrots boiled

advice as to the how and when of letter bill" very well.

writing. and as all the Housnuonnnns do
not read that excellent magazine m iy I not

.mote therefro n?

“Talking with a pen is largely a matter

of habit and like all other things grows my“.

easier the more it is done. A let or is not

aitttle thing. It is a bit of cheer to a home is prepared? a.

sick soul, the tie which unites absent friends.
lit is asking too much of your friends to love
mtenderly waen you excuse your neglect
ntthem only with ‘ You know how hard it is
form to write.’ You can tell the bits 0:
news, the funny things you have heard or
am. the thousand little things which coma
comedy to the lips and which make a letter
a part of one’s personality. Make your
letters of friendship full. Put in them a
wt of every day. Have you a business
shelter to write? Get it short. In matters
afibnsiuess time is literally money. D.) you
purpose paying a visit ? Never do it until
asuhave written a letter and early enough
“arenable a reply to reach you that you may
not go at an inconvenient season. When
your visit is ended and you are hick again
the not fail to write immediately to your
W. saying you reached home safe and
giving such bits of news as occur to you. If
mares enough for you to send you any
token of thought, however small, do not let
a day pass before you say on paper the
"thank you ’ which you would teach a child
to» give for any courtesy. One feels little
inclined to repeat kindnesses which do not
win a word from the recipient. If one
writes to ask you about any subject in which
genus proficient, or if one asks the kindly
and which you can extend then you may

pumpkins scsrce, a substitute for the pump-

and mashed through a colander “fill the

 

Ada’s views in regard to novel reading
But we need to discrimi-
nate betwcem them, as in many other
things where both good and evil can be
Methinks I see yawning be-
fore me a huge chasm—the waste-basket—
lnto which I shall be hurled unless in-
stant retreat is made.

are excellent.

W

ADVICE TO A MOTHER.

 

meriy feel that this is the time to write a

 

 

ly but expressive phrase) “ grin and bear
it," and remember, if you are sick with
nervous prostration in consequence thereof,
your neighbors’ children will not be
blamed, but the cause laid somewhere else.
I have often wondered, when attending
to the one hundred and one household
duties of the morning, with a crying baby
clinging to my dress, an older child asking
how to pronounce some unpronounceable
word in geography, and a third wanting a
problem solved, what a man would do
under such trying circumstances. Would
he be patient? More likely he would
snatch his hat from the peg, ism it down
over his ears, and rush to the barn in a
frenzy of despair. I think, as a class,
mothers are the most patient of human be-
ings. Their endurance and forbearance
are beyond everything.

Pie timber seems to be a scarce commod.
ity in our house this season. Will some of
the good cooks oi the Housnnono furnish
me .vith recipes for prune and orange pies?
Hem. 183.

m.

Mus Emu P. Ewrxe, in an address
delivered at Chautauqua last July. said
that the drink question lies contiguous
to the food question: “0: the 50,000
drunkards who die in the United States
every year, a large proportion have the
appetite for intoxicating drinks aggraw
voted, if not implanted, by the food which
cmstitutes their daily diet. When I think
of the abominaile messes on which all
classes or society feed daily, I am not
surprised that the world gets on so slowly
in reformatory movements: and when pious

 

And do you all know that a quarter of women come and tell me they are so
beef can be kept hanging in the shed these actively engaged in benevolent work that
mild winters? It dries and moulds on the they have no time to attend to the kitchen,
outside. but the inside is as good as it I say to them as I say to you. No church

work, no temperance work, no missionary

Can some one tell us how French mustard work can be done efiectively without the

aid of good food; and nut until you have the
most perfect union or cookery and Chris-
tiauity can the noblest win: of Girlstian

A BRIEF VENTURE AND A QUICK effirt be obtained in this world or in the

world to cone.” There should be a good
do ll of court if": in the ahove tor the women

After reading the many cordial welcomes who conscientiously sets her table with
extended to new comers, I come hoping

. good, well cooked food.
for admittance within the charmed circle.
There are so many good things in our
little paper each week, but it seemed es-
pecially good last week, though I missed

 

 

Mas. E. B. T.. of Winfield, asks if Per—
fection Dyes will color everything, and if
they are all colors. Yes, these dyes will
color everything which is usually colorable,
and are in many diiferent hues. The carpet
she mentions as part wool and part cotton
would prob ibly give two shades of the color.
It would be rather difficult. we should think.
to e do: a large carpet and keep the tint the
came through it all. Cotton will fade;
there’s no use claiming it will not. Fading
is only a question of lime.

W

Tunas: is a great deal oi! difference in

toilet soaps. The best is without doubt the

I WWI to say a word to D- E- It makes pure white castrle. which is made with olive
no difference if your nerves are unstruug, oil. Always avoid a highly scented soap.
and you feel as if you were “fit SUblPCi for Not only is the odor leit on the hands die-
the insane asylum, you must not send one agreeable to a fastidious person. but the
of those children home. if you do you soap isaptto be caustic in its action on the
will be ca‘led a disagreeable, fussy woman, skin, because of the strength of the alkali,
and you will soon be out of favor in the and the strong perfume is used to disguise
neighborhood. You must (to use a home- the putrid fat used by the manufacturers.