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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

THE LITTLE LAD‘S A NSWER.

Our little lad came in one day
With dusty shoes and tired feet;

His play-time had been hard and long,
Out in the summer’s noontide heat.

“ I‘m glad I’m home," he cried, and hung
His torn straw hat up in the hall,

While in a corner by the door
He put away his bat and ball,

‘* I wonder why," his auntie said.
“ This little lad always comes here,
When thvre are many other homes
As nice as this and quite as near?"
He stood a moment, deep in thought,
Then with the lovelight in his eye,
He pointed where his mother sat.
And said, “She lives here—that is why."

With beaming face the mother heard;
Her mother-heart was very glad,

A true, sweet answer he had given-
The thoughtful, loving little lad.

And Well I know that hosts of lads
Are just as loving, true and dear:

That they would answer as he did,
’Tis home—for mother‘s living here.

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WHAT TO WEAR.

The new models for dress skirts are not
quite as narrow, clinging and sheath-like
as the extreme of the winter’s style, which
was suitable only to young and slender
figures. Otherwise, they show no re-
markable change. There is the same " fan
back,” and plain front and sides, relieved
for stout figures by draping with pleats on
each side. These draping folds are ar—
ranged asnearly perpendicular as possible,
to give the slender effect of straight lines.
Spring dresses of cloth, camels’ hair and
Henrietta will have facings, trimmings,
etc., of bengaline or satin, as a change
from the velvet so much worn, though the
latter is by no means to be banished.

To cut the foundation shirt for one of
these dresses, four widths of lining 20
inches wide at the bottom are required for
a skirt 38 inches long. The back breadth
is straight. The side breadths are sloped
on the edge next the back, and made
fifteen inches wide at the top. The front
breadth is 15 inches wide at the top, the
slope beginning 20 inches fromthe bottom,
and both it and the side breadths are
fitted by small darts. The back is gathered
in a very small space. Over this is hung
the outside of three widths of 50 inch
goods, or six widths of 27 or 30 inch ma—
terial. Sometimes the front and sides are
fitted by darts to the figure, all the fulness
being massed in spreading fan pleats in a
narrow space at the back. Another way is
to gather the back very closely, and lay

 

three backyard turning p‘eats on each
side close to the gathers; these pleats mus
hang well defined to the bottom of the
skirt.

Braiding and embroidery are mu 3h
used on all the spring dresses; cords and
narrow galloons put on straight or in simple
curving lines are also popular: these appear
on the skirt and edges of the bodice, and
on the coat or jtcket fronts which are
again a feature of spring mstumes. Any
ingenious girl who can draw a little, can
make her own designs and by braiding the
bottom of the skirt in front and on the
sides, the sleeves, and the j icket fronts,
the last in a pattern which widens from
the neck down to the pointed curners,
make herself a very stylish c minute. The
vest worn under these jacket bodices is
fastened by small buttons set closely, and
has a close collar inside the wide fltring
one belonging to the jacket.

A return to paniers is indicated in some
of the newer styles; they will be employed
chiefly on dresses of lace and grenadine,
the latter promising to supersede the lace
net so long worn. Bodices worn with
paniers will be cut with moderately long
points back and front, and short on the
sides, every pains bzing taken to give a
long-waisted effect. Many wool dresses
are being male with the coat basques men-
tioned in a former HOUSEHOLD; and an
old basque can be modernized by cutting
off the lower edge in a deep point in front,
a much shorter one on the back and
making the sides quite short; turn up the
edge and face with silk. Under this add
coat skirts—ten or twelve inches deep—-
lined with silk but not stiffened. These
are shaped smoothly to the hips, and
sewed to the lining of the basque just be-
low the curve of the waist.

I am glad to be able to tell “A Middle
Aged Woman” how to make up her black
silk. Most of our fashions seem designed
for the young and gay people, and ignore
the needs of those who are on the border

land, too old to be young, but yet too 1

young to be old. Make the skirt by
directions already given, only have two
pleats laid on each side, not on but a little
in front of the hips, so as not to increase
their apparent size. Have a coat bodice,
with the skirts of the back out continu.
ously with the centre forms. The fronts
are to be laid in pleats from the shoulder,
leaving a V-shaped space to be filled with
silk muslin or soft silk of any becoming
color. A pointed belt of jet passementerie
crosses the front only; and the cuffs and

 

what are ale) of passementerie. To make
the costume more dressy, add a lace
flounce headed wish jet across the front
and sides of the skirt, and cut the back
with a demi-train. Still another model has
the coat basque, with its seams opened
up on the hips and back, and having a
flat vest inserted. Sleeves are cut with
wide fliring ends The skirt has three
widths shaped by darts at the top, the
three back widths being closely gathered
in the back. Five or six milliners’ folds
border the skirt, while the edges of the
bisque, cuffs and collar are finished with
narrow silk cord.

Capes and coats are the popular spring
wraps. The capes are rather different
from those worn this winter, being cut full
and even all round. They are not as high
on the shoulder. are made of cloth and
lined with silk. Some are fitted front and
back and held in place by belts; collars are
high and flaring. Last summer’s eipes
can he remodeled by adding a collar of
pointed passementerie lined with black
velvet. One of these capes, in black
diagonal with passementerie collar, is
suitable for a lady of 45 or 50 years.

Coats, or jackets, are cut longer than
heretofore; some of them are of those un‘
becoming proportions known as demi-
length. Their style varies from the plain
double breasted English walking coat, al'
ways comfortable and stylish, to the
Louis XV. coat with vests and rovers,
double collars and square pocket flaps.
The former, though not so showy, is a
safer choice. Young ladies will wear the
bfazers and reefers of last season, also
cut-away coats of Cheviot, which have silk-
fac ed collars like those on men’s coats. Long
cloaks for traveling and early spring wear
are worn with or without a circular cape.
They are fitted to the figure, though many
have loose double-breasted fronts, and the
fulness of the skirts is cut in the centre
back forms. Materials are as diverse as
the tastes of the buyers, which is saying a
good deal.

ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN.

For the benefit of the readers of the
HOUSEHOLD who may not have an oppor-
tunity to read Miss Frances E. Willard’l
masterful address before the Woman’s
National Council, I will quote a few of
her most salient sentences, which will also
give Evangeline the “other side " ofthe
lives of women such as " Marion Jones,"
barring the neglect of home duties, which
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much as it is of the incapables with which
every community is afflicted. But what
shall we say of the capables, who having
burst the bonds of the traditional “ wo-
man’s sphere ”—the nursery and the kitchen
-—and who are filling responsible positions
in professorships, the professions and even
the editor's chair, still cry out against the
advancement of women along the lines of
reform in political and social life? Is there
not need of reform, and are not women
equally intrusted with men in every thing
pertaining to society and the state? Con-
servatism is wrong when the thing con-
served is wrong.

But to Miss Willard’s address: In de-
fining the objects of the Woman’s Council
she says: “ Women of the United States,
sincerely believing that the best good of our
homes and nation will be advanced by our
own greater unity of thought, sympathy
and purpose, and that an organized move.
ment of women will best conserve the
highest good of the family and the state,
do hereby band ourselves together in a
confederation of workers committed to the
overthrow of all forms of ignorance and
injustice, and to the application of the
Gclden Rule to society, custom and law.”
Concerning time, there is this exhaustive
classification: “ We either kill, spend or
invest it. Starting in life we have ourselves
plus time; this is our unearned it crement.
Since we sat. here in council a three-year
cycle has swept by in which women have
wrought mere widely and more worthily
than in any ten years before.” Surely
time has neither been killed nor spent,
but blessedly invested by all these shining
ranks of women at work for God and for
humanity. .

" Women have also, and notably within
the last three years, secured laws for the
better protection of their own sex; have
immeasurably in creased the property rights
of married women and their rights to their
children under the law; have obtained ap-
propriations for reformatories for women
and homes for those morally degraded.”

“We have long met to read essays,
make speeches and prepare petitions; let
us hereafter meet, in this great council, to
legislate .ior womanhood, for childhood
and the home. Men have told us solemnly,
have told us often and in good faith no
doubt, that they would grant whatever
the women of the nation asked. Our time
to ask unitedly has waited long, but it is
here at last. The whole rationale in
finance and politics is set forth in the re-
mark of a Knight of Labor who, referring
to an undesirable locality said, ‘ It’s not a
fit place for a woman’ and the quick
reply of a comrade, ‘ Then it’s time for
women to go down there and make it fit.’

" John Bright said that agitation is but
‘ the marshallin g of a nation’s conscience to
right its laws,’ and in this large view
every patriotic woman must perceive her
duty to be made willing to vote, if she is
not so already. The United States Senator
from Kansas put the point pithily in a re-
cent speech. He said: ‘ At the dawn of the
twentieth century, the United States will
be governed by the people that live in

 

them; when that good time comes women
will vote and men quit drinking.’

“ It has been wisely remarked by one of
our college bred women ‘that in no par-
ticular has the average woman failed more
signally than in keeping her own little
ones alive. Four hundred thousand babies
annually breathe their first and last in the
United States. One third of all the children
born depart this life before they reach five
years of age. Old fashioned New England
mothers are often extolled as an ideal type
of motherhood. Yet statistics show that
the mortality among native New England
stc ck exceeds that of any other part in the
United States, and the proportion of deaths
to births is constantly increasing; while
among the ridiculed college women nine-
tenths of their children survive infar: cy. I
assert that a woman scientifically educated
can in three hours he taught more about
the care of infants than another intellec-
tually untrained can learn from personal
experience in a life time.’ This college
bred mother supports her theory by oifer-
ing for inspection a healthy, happy speci-
men of scientific babyhood, who raptur-
ously greets this scientific woman as
mamma.” The afore mentioned college
bred woman is a trustee of Barnard, a con-
tributor to the press, a public speaker on
various educational and scientific subjects;
a woman of place in society, and as has
been declared already, a model home-
maker. What would you more? It is
supremely true of the true mother that
the inefiable greatness of her character
lends a dignity to the smallest of her deeds,
and so magnifies the sacredness of home
and country in her children’s eyes, that
they cannot fail to be supremely loyal to
God and home and native land.

Ioma. ‘ LILLA LEE.

W

“THE SUMMER CITY.”

 

Pctoskey, as every one knows, is the great
summer city. Situated as it is on the shore
of Traverse Bay, it is both healthful and
beautiful. It you like boating, fishing or
almost any kind of recreation, where can
you spend a summer more pleasantly than
at Petoskey. Bay View, the well known
resort, is a beautiful place and is growing
more so every year. It has the advantage
of a good school which is continually
growing better. In all my travels I have
seen no place that I would rather live
than here.

I am a farmer’s daughter, and we live
about eight miles from Petoskey. We are
always ready to welcome resorters, because
they buy our produce and pay us a good
price. Our farm has a nice location, with
beautiful scenery on all sides. Our crops
are always good and bring good prices.
Some people say this is no corn country,
but our own crop is one of the best; grain
and potatoes couldn’t be better than that
raised here. Father raises a good deal of
stock (cattle and sheep) and always finds
ready market for them.

To any one just starting in life and who
wants a good farm in a nice country, I
advise them to come to northern Michigan.
T here is always plenty for those todo who

 

are willing to work. Lumbering is the
principal occupation of the farmers in the
winter, and they find it both a paying and
profitable business; the greatest trouble is
that there isn’t help enough to do the work
they would like to do. Young men need
not be idle for the want of work in this
country. '

My father, as 1 have said, is a Michigan
farmer, who enjoys reading the MICHIGAN}
FARMER, and as Ihave become very much
interested in the HOUSEHOLD I thought I
would like to join the circle. If I do not
fall into the chasm, viz :—-the waste basket
“ Scat” spoke of, I may come again with
something more interesting.

Nonrusas Mrcuroas. A. E. L.

HOUSEHOLD CON VENIENCES.

 

I would like to make some suggestions
to Elizabeth about house fixing that I have
learned by experience—a dear school we
all know, and especially so in this line, as
changes if they can be made at all are very
expensive.

I would have the pantry made with
closed cup-boards on the side that shows
from the dining-room or kitchen and open
shelves on the other side. Open shelves
are more convenient for milk, but do not
look as well to the guest who takes a pass-
ing glimpse of your pantry.

A dumb waiter is a great convenience
and should be put near the dining-room
table. Mine is a small cupboard balanced
over a pulley by weights. The food from
the table can all be placed in it and sent
into the cellar without taking a dozen
steps.

Use hard oil on the wood work in the
kitchen. It looks better at the first. It
can be cleaned easier when soiled or
made as good as new if scratched, by
the application of a little varnish. These
are strong points in favor of hard oil finish.

A conservatory door made of glass like
a window, that can be pushed up into the
wall and held by weights, the bottom of
the door closing the aperture, is found to
be perfection itself. There is no door in
the way when open, but if you wishto
sweep in the adjoining room or smoke
your plants, down comes the door, and
they are shut in though you can enjoy
the sight of them through the glass all the
time.

Will Mrs. Fuller tell me What is the
matter with my begonias. They drop their
leaves sometimes when half grown.

BEHIND TIME.

-——-OO.-—-——-

BUTTER. PACKAGES.

 

A correspondent at Portland inquires
where butter pails can be bought, prices,
etc. A search through the advertising
columns of the MrcurGAN FARMEB con-
vinces us that though undoubtedly such
goods are manufactured in this State, the
makers are carefully concealing the fact
by neglecting to inform the dairying public

through the press. We refer our cor-
respondent to Porter Blanchard’s Sons
Nashua, N. 11., whose advertisement will
be found in the Fauna, who will cheer-
full furnish the desired information on
app cation.

 

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WHICH IS THE MORE BENEFICIAL

—MONEY OR AN EDUCATION?

This fee question which I do not recollect

ever seeing discussed in your paper, but
it is one of great interest to me, and I
thought perhaps it would be to other
readers of your paper, and I would like to
have some of them give their opinion. I
have not had much experience in either,
but if I were to take my choice, it would
be an “education.” Of course if one has
abundance of money he is very fortunate,
but there are a great many unfortunate ones
it this world. It seems very strange that
some should have millions of dollars, while
others are starving.

There are a great many people who have
to depend on a day’s work for aliving, and
are obliged to submit to abuses, because
they have no education; and I suppose
there are a great many perple who cannot
write their names, read a newspaper, or
even cipher out a simple problem in ad-
dition, because they had to stay at home
and work on the farm, or possibly, they
were too lazy to go to school. This seems
very strange but it is very often the case. I
think such children will grow into people
who are always complaining about hard
times, and would rather sit around town
on an old dry goods’ box than to go to
school or do any work. There are a great
many people in town and even in the
country, who would be glad to take some
good boy or girl to board and let him (I
her go to school. Let us refer to President
Garfield, who did janitor work to help
himself through college, and his mother
lived on one meal a day, that her son might
have two. How many of the young min
of today would make a practice of study-
Mg till twelve o’clock at night after work-
ing hard all day? I think not many. Few
of us know what poverty is; and with as
many good schools as we have now, I
think there is a chance for every boy or
girl to get an education. that is considering
those who are not lazy, and are not afraid
of so ling their hands.

But let us not be discouraged, no matter
how old we are, or how backward in our
studies. ”He who s udies will succeed.”
Let us not forget Daniel Webster, who
when he first entered school, was made the
laughing stock, because of the homespun
clothes he wore, but i do not think they
laughed so heartily when the teacher bade
him take his books and go into ahigher
grade. He studied hard, and I think he
was well repaid, as he is now called the
greatest orator of his day.

Our schools are improving every year,
and how thankful we ought to be to think
we have so much better opportunities to
get an education than our forefathers, and
how much we ought to appreciate it! How
mange it seems that some parents seem so
negligent, and do not like their children
to have any better chance to get an educa-
tion than they had. I heard it remarked
not long ago, that an education was no
good to a boy or girl unless he or she
wanted to teach school. What an idea!

It was not many months ago that I was
aired if Florida was in Michigan! I dare

 

say that there are a good many people who
do not know where they live, and then
they will ask what good is an education to
a farmer! I presu me the merchants would
be pleased to get the chance to cheat a
farmer out of his produce, and if the far-
mer is fool enough to let them do it why
he is only cheating himself. But he will
take his wife along with him, and if she
knows enough (I presume she would, for
women are generally smarter than men),
she will sign his name to a note, and he
will have to take her to the barn with him
when he trades horses to see that he doesn't
get cheated.

But one thing is certain, an education is
something that no one can take from us,
and which will always be with us. We
cannot say that about money; there are
thousands who lose their life for that cause
every year.

I think if one has an education he is in-
dependent, and can certainly do something
to get a living. BLANCHE.

Games.

W
TEE CPINIONS OF THE WEBSTER
FARMERS CLUB ON TEE SUBJECT
OF WOMAN'S INTELLECT.

 

The March meeting of the Webster
Farmers’ Club was held at Henry Queal’s,
in the township of Hamburg. The day
was bad and the roads worse, and pre-
vented a large attendance. About twenty-
five persons were present, and quite an
interesting meeting was held.

0. M. Starks gave a reading of his own
selection relating to the farmer. Of the
two questions on the programme only one
was taken up, tecause of the absence of
those who were to open the discussion.
"Is woman’s intellect capable of grasping
the questions and problems of the day ? ”

Miss Mar y Starks opened the discussion
with a paper, but her mode 51 y or fear that
some not present might be benefited by‘ it,
preventh its appearance here.

Mrs. William Ball followed with a
paper: a

“ The propeunders of this important
question seem to admit that women are
possessed of some intellect. Now whether
they have enough to ‘ graspthe intellectual
problems of the day,‘ cannot be demon-
strated by the ability of the present
speaker. 1 have no conception why
amongst all this talented body I should
have been selected, unless to prove' that
one at least is not capable of grasping the
intellectual problems of the day.

” I think the high positions some women
have attained in the scientific, literary and
medical world are abundant proof that
same are capable of attaining any position.

” I might cite a few instances, one,
Laura Bassi, who occupied the chair of
professor of physics at Bologna University
for thirty years,'being called to it when
only twenty-one years of age. She mar-
ried, reared a family; yet her home, where
she carried on many scientificexperiments,
it is said was beautiful in its orderliness.

“ Maria Mitchell, astronomer, at the age
of eighteen was appointed librarian of the

Nantucket Athemeum, which place she
held for twenty years; this appointment
gave her much time for astronomical
study. She discovered seven comets, and
was awarded the gold medal offered by
the King of Denmark. for the discovery
of a telescopic comet. In 1865 she was
called to the chair of Astronomy at Vassar
College, which place, with that of director
of the college observatory, she held until
failing health compelled her to resign in
1888.

“Mary Louise Booth, editor, was a
teacher in her father’s school at the age of
fourteen, learned French, German and
Latin, and began translating from those
languages at an early age.

Mary Ann Brigham, educator, educated
at Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, taught
in that institution and others of like
character, and finally resigned the position
of assistant in Prof. West's Brooklyn
Heights Seminary, where she taught from
1863 to 1889, to accept the presidency of
Mt. Holyoke Seminary. She declined
many tempting offers, including the presi‘
dency of Wellesley College, but was killed
in a railway accident soon after, never
cccupying the position at Mt. Holyoke.

“ Numerous instances might be cited of
the intellectual capability of women, but
enough has been said to show what heights
of knowledge women may attain.

“I do not wish to be understood as ignor«
ing the culinary art, for eating is a neceSn
sity of our being, and really I cannot see
how the human race could exist unless
some of us attended to that part of the
work, and ecokery may be considered an
art as much as many other things.

“ All women can not hope or expect to
attain great intellectual positions any more
than all men. There have always been
hewers of wood and drawers of water, and
probably always willbe; but where women
have exceptional ability in any line of
science, art or literature, I think they
should follow that line of work. Too
many are trying to do something they are
not fitted to do, and have no capacity for,
and by that means are making a failure of
their work. Each should try to fill the
position in which she is placed in the best
possible manner.”

Mrs. A. Olsaver expressed herself as fol-
lows: “ The mind of the average woman
is, or would be with proper training, able to
cope with the questions which are now
agitating the mind of the public, quite as
well as the mind of the average man.
When the question under consideration
mentions the questions of the day, it ems
braces a large territory for thought to say
the least. Take for instance the tariff and
free trade controversy. If left. to her
natural bent, we being women, would un~
doubtedly incline to protection. I make
no reference to the ‘ oak and ivy’ style, for
woman is able now to support herself. It
free euinage of silver would furnish us
more pocket money than if left in the
shape of bullion, we would wish for tree
coinage.

 

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form a partnership, of which as far

    


 

 

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as business is concerned, the wife is
usually a ‘siient partner.’ But if that
husband is a millionaire, and that wife’s
mind ccould grasp the situation; and
the had the privilege, she would work
unwashgiy for the ‘two per cent loan,’
(or that would be an example where it
would count. Foreign immigration is a
question upon which my mind dislikes to
dwell. if we could grasp it by the throat
and trettle it as it were, i believe we
would all pull together. The bare idea of
the refuse of other nations being shipped
here to help run this government, more
Qhan four millions in the last sixteen years,
more than one-half illiterate, others sent by
*people there to compete with American
laborers that they may work at starvation
prices, is not pleasant information to those
‘who believe in America for Americans
You may say this is a chestnut, so I will
not say any more; but ladies, if you wish
for a good deal of information in a nut-
shell, I would refer you to the January
number of the North American Review.

“ Then comes the allabsorbin g question
with some of our sex—female suifrage. I
dare speak of this even here, for the reason
that though we cannot vote we are privi-
leged characters. But as soon as the
ballot is given us, if it ever is, we may ex-
pect the kicks and cuffs our brothers are
subject to, for then we will be free and
equal, you know. That we are misused,
downtrodden by ‘horrid man ’ and have no
rights—that is all nonsense.

" Why do we not know enough of human
mature to understand that if we need care,
sympathy or help in any way, man, if
he is a man, is the one to plead the cause in
our behalf? I think if I was ever illtreated
in my life it was by a woman. Who of
the ladies of the Club would take the
place of that female cyclone of Kansas who
took the Woman’s Congress at Washington
by storm recently, and made Senator Ingalls
quake in his boots? Probably if she has a
husband and children at home, and they
were taken sick in her absence, stranger
hands would have to apply plasters and
poultices, and administer vermifuge, while
she and all others of her stamp are going
up and down our country with venom on
their tongues, to let the public know what
stuif womanis made of, what power she
can wield, just give her the ballot! What

- a. womanly woman!

“ If we have an influence for good, let
us try and first use it at home. Do that
which lies nearest. Let us try to bring up
our sons and daughters in a pure home
atmosphere, instll into their minds pure
principles. Then when our sons go out to
do work they will probably have to do,
they may do it conscientiously and hon-
orably. If by woman’s vote we c0uld sup-
- «press evils which stare us in the—face, es-
pecially intemperance, I would wish to
vote often, but would the result he so much
difierent from the present? Here where
we are the vote would no doubt be cast on
the right side. But what of our cities? Of
the larger ones, i meant A considerable
portion of the population are of filth, filthy,
degraded, dissolute; and each person there
. had the same legal right to cast a vote

 

  

 

as we, and one such person could have
more influence than we are aware.

“It would be well to ponder the ques-
tion well before we become fanatics on the
subject of voting. If evils are to be fought,
let us use the means at hand until we can
have that which would suit us better. Who
of us if we saw a human being drowning
would wait to get a boat by the right name,
with color perfect and cars of the la’est
style, and then go out where we saw him
go down and try to grasp him cautiously
with our gloves on? Questions of morality
must first be treated by people being
civilized, Christianized in the broad sense
of the word, and then educated.

“ Plenty of work is afforded for the
most ambitious. I think our minds can
grasp this. It is a question which lies near

our hearts.”
E. N. BALL, Sec.

[Want of space compels us to omit the
remainder of this repart.—-ED.

————.Q._
A TEMPERANCE TALE.

 

A merchant and prominent agent of R—
has been going from bad to worse, until
his best friends were forced to admit that
he must, from necessity, give up one or
the other--his business or his drink——for
they could no longer be successfully
united. The merchant, in his sober mo-
ments, realized the situation and bravely
resolved to be free once more. Many
times he has tried, but the old story of
temptation, sneers, and worse than all else,
“treating,” has each time carried him
back into the maelstrom. This time he
said ” I will not try todo this thing alone,”
so he went to some of the leading ladies
of the W. C. T. U, but they could not
receive him as a member there. Then he
co‘nsulzed his pastor, and with sorrow he
admitted that there was no organization in
the place where he could take a pledge
that would help him to be firm, with a
band of brothers to stand by him, so be
accompanied the merchant to the ofiice of
a lawyer who drew up an ironclad pledge
which was signed by the anxious man, with
the minister as witness. So far all was
well, but then the saloon-keepers and the
boon companions came and the snares and
temp'ations that are thrown around him
require all the strength, backed by his
pledge, that he can summon, for his ap-
petite is all the time tempting him to yield.
They said: “ We have patronized you
because you did the same by us, but you
will lose all our trade if you fail us.”
“ We want you! We are your friends and
we’ve planned many things for good times
together.” “If you object to going into
our salo ins-don’t want to be seen-«we’ll
fix that all right, we’ll bring whatever you
want here to you, but if you go back on
us you’ll be sorry for it.”

Are all the hard battles fought in open

war? Are not these single—handed soldiers
fighting as bravely, nobiy and with

greater courage? It is along pull, requir-
ing more nerve than a sudden dash when
surrounded by regiments of others work-
ing for the same purpose. The battle is
on now. Time only can tell whether the
result will be for good or ill. _
Ron». ‘ IL. sue.

 

THE CHINESE LILY.

 

Not long ago a lady inquired how she
should handle her Chinese lily bulb, and if
it would blossom the second time. In the
Canadian Horticulturist for March we find
the answer to a similar query, given by a
prominent florist of Toronto, who says:

“ The bulbs of the Chinese Sacred Lily
after blooming, should be allowed. to con-
tinue growing as much as they will, and,
when apparently quite completed, (which
will be noticed by the foliage beginning to
become slightly withered at the tips of the
long leaves), the bulbs should be taken
out of the water in which they have
bloomed, and placed in a moderately warm
room until the foliage has dried off, then
place the bulbs in a pot of earth to remain
there till the weather is quite mild, say in
the month of May, when they should be
planted in the open ground to ‘ rest,’ as we
term it. In the early fall the bulbs must
be taken up and those which are sound
and appear healthy, by planting indoors as
usual, will in mostcases give a nice display
of bloom.

“We have lost quite a number of our
bulbs by leaving them too long in the open
ground in the fall, which should be ob-
served by others. They should be brought
in as soon as weather is approaching the
frosty night season.”

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REFORMING A CAKE.

 

I had been too generous of butter and
sugar and it was brought from the oven a
flat, sticky mass. I thought mournfully
of the good miterial it contained, and a
bright idea popped into my head. I put
the “stuif ” into an earthen dish; stirred
into it a cup of buttermilk and put it away
for a day or two. Then I added soda and
some flour, heating it as smoothly as I
could, and baked in a square tin. It was a
success! Oi courseI had to boast of it,
but no one would have suspected the cake
of anything unusual—unless it were of
unusual goodness—in a place where fine
pastry is not made one or the arts.

A. H. J .

——‘O.————

U seful Recipes.

 

BAKIFG POWDER Roms—Una quart flour;
three teaspooniuis baking powder; one scant
teaspoo :lful salt: 0' e large tablespoonfur lard:
milk enough to moisten. Mix ii -ur-. baking
powder and salt together, rub in ihe lard and
mix w;th milk into a dour-h that can be handi-
ed; roll it thin, out into rnunds'rhe 8 he or a
small saucer. spread with softened butter,
fold over and press the edges together; put
them some distance apart in a baking pan. let
them rlse half an hour. brush over with milk
and sugar and bake in a h )i. even.

Smarter) Conn Hanan —Pnt two cups of
cornmeal into a bowl. add a ieaspocntul salt.
Dissolve half teaspoonful soda in a vanis-
spoonfu‘. warm Water, and add to it half «up
molasses. Add this to the cornmeal. and then
add sufficient sour milk. no- quite a pint, to
make a bartar so it will drop from a spoon.
Put this into a well greased mr-uio. Put on

the lid and steam it for four hours: then re-
move the lid and bake it for thirty minutel.
This recipe is given by Mrs. Borer, author of
“ Row to Cook Vegetables.”