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DETROIT, MAY 2, 1891.

 

 

TH E H'OU SEHOLD-"Supplem ant...

 

 

A MADBIGAL.

 

Dear. if you knew what tears they shed.
Who live apart from home and friend,
To pass my house, by pity led,
Your steps would tend.

And if you knew what jubilees

Begets, in sad souls, a friend‘s glance,
You’d look up where my window is,

As if by chance !

And if you dreamed how a friend's smile
And nearness sooth a heart that's sore,

You might be moved to stay awhile
Before my door.

Then, if you guessed I loved you, sweet,
And how my love is deep and wide,
Something might tempt your passing feet
To come inside i
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The night has a thousand eyes.
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one :

Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

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COMMENTS ON CORRESPONDENCE.

 

Some time ago a lady wrote the House-
HOLD, inquiring what clothing, etc. , would
be necessary on a short trip to England and
Scotland. For a wonier no replies to this
query have been received; usually, one has
but to ask information on any point, to
have some one answer with a bit of per-
sonal experience.

In the first plac 3, try to travel with just
as little luggage as possible. Every
superfluous garment is a nuisance. Foreign
railways have not adopted our American
system of checking baggage. In no other
country in the world can a traveler check
his baggage in his own house in New York
city, and never see or hear of it again until
he finds it in his hotel at any point in Cali-
fornia, Texas, or Washington he may have
ordered it sent. The traveler abroai has
to look after his “boxes ” himself, see that
they are sent to the station, see that they
are there and are put on board the proper
train, and sometimes it is necessary to see
they are not carelessly transferred to the
wrong train, or left behind at the great
junctions. The advice therefore to take
only hand luggage is sou 1d, because of
the trouble and expense in looking after
trunks and prying porters and cabmen. A
good sized hand‘big to hold the toilet ar-
ticles and nightdress, and a larger valise
for an extra dress and underclothing are
more convenient and get at-able com
pmio us for traveling abroad than a trunk.

“A .A.,__._,_____ 4...-.-» . .

Tne traveling dress should be some-
thing medium in c )lor; not dark, to show
dust; nor light, to reveal stains; should be
plainly made, but irreproachable in fit. A
bonnet or hat minus feathers—which
would soon be ruined by dampness—and
plenty of warm wraps for the ocean voyage
are necessary, also a pair of rubbers, a
waterproof, and a couple of yards of
gauze veiling. Many ladies get a plain
blue serge dress and a soft felt hat for the
week on the ocean and leave them, with
the superfluous wraps, at the steamer’s
oflice on the other side, where they are
in readiness for the return voyage. Then
they put on a neat traveling dress and
bonnet for the tour. Silt water and sea
spray play the mischief with some dress
materials. A steamer trunk—which is a
ll ti. topped, box-like one —is convenient in
the stateroom on shipboard and useful to
pack away the wraps, etc , mentioned
above. ,

Take no more clothing than is necessary.
One dress for table d’hote, a plain but
warm wrapper for one’s own room, no
white skirts, a box of tourist ruching, and
a couple of changes of underclothing are
all that are necessary. Washing is quick,
and it is the easiest thing in the world to
buy a needed garment where you happen
tobe in need of it. The McKinley bill
doesn’t affect articles you have worn, and
you can bring your purchases home with
you. The thin silk and lisle undervests
and hose can be washed out in the bowl
in one’s own room if it seems expedient.
If the traveler stops a few days in one
town, it is cheaper to take furnished
lodgings and get meals wherever he hap-
pens to be at meal-time than to stay at a
hotel.

Take your own toilet articles, of course,
and carry your own soap in a rubber bs g.
Hotel soap is like trying to wash with a
brick. Hive, above all things, a pair of
easy-fitting shoes. I heard of a young
lady of this city who went abroad with a
party and saw next to nothing because her
shoes hurt her so she could not walk with
anv degree of comfort.

The tourist intent on sight-seeing does
not wish to be “ bothered” about clothes.
We do not travel to impress strangers
with our finery, nor need we be solicitous
about our appearance, beyond what we
owe to our own sense of neatness and pro-
priety—always premising that this sense
has been so cultiva‘ed that we always try
to make the best of ourselves. It is a safe

 

rule to follow to have everything you

 

take with you as nice as you can afford
and take as little as possible. Let quality
rule over quantity. Old Polonius was
worldly wise when he gave his famous
advice: “Costly thy habit as thy purse
can buy.”

In the HOUSEHOLD for March 2ist Fay
asks about the relative merits of halls, etc.
By all means have a hall in your house; a
house without a hall is as incomplete as if
it were without a kitchen. Aside from
the cotd it keeps out of the living ap art-
ments, and the dust and dirt it keeps on
the threshold, it is the proper place for
hats and overcoats; here you look for your
umbrella or walking stick (but you leave
your dripping parachute in the big recep-
tacle in the vestibule). Through it is the
proper approach to the inner sanctuary of
the home; here the casual. guest leaves his
outer wraps or his package, and the caller
finds the tray for her csrds. The hall is
the thoroughfare of the house. Here is
the way to the rooms on the second floor;
and the closet un'ler the stairs is just the
place for the children's wraps and over-
shoes.

Many modern houses are built with what
is called a “ reception hall,” a roocn used
as a sitting-room, from which a handsome,
uninclosed stairway leads ab ove. This
room is entered through a vestibule, which
partly serves the purpose of a hall. This
plan works all right in a large house
where there are plenty of rooms and the
“ reception hall ” becomes more a place of
meeting or of rendezvous than a family
sitting-room. But for myself I much pre-
fer the hall proper, not a narrow entry
with stairs squeezed in against the front
door, but one generously prop )rtioned to
the size of the house, six or eight feet wide
at the least. The house with the reception
hall should have a furnace, other wise the
open stair way and the hall above form a
fine for the warm air and the lower floor
is uncomfortably cold in winter, But the
modern house always has a furnace, for
we have learned what an immense economy
of labor, time and fuel it is, not to mention
the cost of stoves and the toil of the Re-
cording Angel when the man of the house
is called upon to take them down and put
them up again. oA g and furnace will, c3st
no more than a couple of 2001 b iseburners,
and though it may consume somewhat
more fuel, the house is more 00mpletely
warmed. I will give to intending builders
a secret told me by a man who knows all
about heating and ventilating devices. He
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satisfaction, in nine cases out of ten it is
too small for the size of the house. The
larger furnace gives more heat with the
same amount of fuel. A good furnace
will cost anywhere between $75 and $100,
but its cost is not to be named in the same
day with the work and the dirt it saves.
No bringing in wood and consequent
litter, no tugging of coal, no taking up of
ashes and a fine veil of “ the bloom of
time ” over every thing in consequence, all
the muss is confined to the furnace room
while, if that furnace is properly put in,
you breathe pure, warmed, out door air.
And safe! There’s not a bit more danger
of fire than with stoves. BEATBIX.

 

LIFE ON A FARM.

Yesterday the FARMER came, accom-
panied with the bright little HOUSEHOLD.
Husband and myself greatly enjoyed the
paper read at the Farmers’ Institute by
Mr. Goodrich. I mentioned it and as soon
as breakfast was over I was called upon
to read Old Genesee’s views aloud, and we
felt encouraged very much. Farm life to
me is very pleasant. I can sit by our
pleasant window and look out over our
farm (or the part we have cleared) and
know it is our own and my home.

The grass is growing nicely; the clover
is a mass of green over the ground, the
birds are singing so sweetly, the children
are gathering large bouquets of delicate
May flowers. We of the country have
fresh air and freedom which people of
cities can never know by experience.
There is great happiness in a quiet, peace-
able home life where one is independent
of the city market men and the milk ven-
ders; the strong old butter of the corner
grocery holds no terror for the prospering
farmers’ families. If there is industry
mingled with frugality the farm .lii'e
is truly the happiest, and I think the
farm the best place by far to bring
up our little ones. I believe the most
enjoyable childhood is that of the
farmers’ boys and girls. There are
opportunities of training them uno
molested by the evils of the many places of
temptation and allurements of a city life.
Not that there are not many pleasant as-
sociations connected with life in town, and
many privileges not accessible in the
country. But for the poorer class, those
with small means and plenty of muscle, it
seems folly to stay in the town where it is
impossible to ever accumulate anything
beyond the daily necessities of life, while
there is open such a field of labor; and if
courage and constant vigilance is practiced
people can and will succeed, providing
good health is given by a kind Providence.

Cheboygan County is noted for being
very healthy; here we have an abundant
supply of black huckleberries and red
raspberries, also wild plums in some
places. So it is a self evident fact that
people can have luxuries if only economy
and judgment are used, accompanied with
industry. There is no reason why each
and every family should not possess a
home. To be sure, a piece of new land
with only enough buildings to start with

 

may not seem anything very desirable, or
that one could take much pride in, but one
must exercise great patience and good
judgment and leave the rest for time to
bring about. And just as sure as con-
stant economy is practiced and a. firm re«
solve to make a farm and home is made,
the result will be satisfactory. Those fine
old farms of southern Michigan were all
once wild, undeveloped lands. A friend
said to me yesterday, “ There are a good
many people who would like to come here
if we could only make them believe we
can raise anything.” “ Aye, there’s the
rub,” we cannot describe the merits of
Northern Michigan accurately enough to
convince our many friends who would
like to own a farm of theirown. They are
sure the cold, frosty climate (as they be-
lieve it to be) we have here will ruin the
crops and bring them to want. Well, we
have lived here three years this spring and
I can truly and conscientiously say we
never enjoyed as fine vegetables in our
lives aswe raise here. We have the finest
kind of everything in that line except
watermelons and muskmelons, but why
continue? The prejudiced are not to be
convinced and will go on working the old
farms for a share only sufficient to keep
their families, when if they would do as
the first owners of those good old farms
did, they would have good farms and be
comfortably situated.

I send sympathy and regards to El. See,
she has indeed drank from the cup of sor-
row.

I agree with Huldah as regards scrap
books; am making one and think will not
feel ashamed to have the moat fastidious
read it.

Here are a few lines worthy of our at-
tention and respect:

“ A sacred burden in this'life ye bear,
Look on it. lift it. bear it solemnly:
Stand up and walk beneath 1t steadfastly;
Fail not for sorrow. falter not for sin.
But onward. upward, till the goal ye win.”
WOLVEBINE. MAYBELLE.

W.

IN THE FLOWER GARDEN.

 

If any one has ever grown flowers suc
cessfully by starting seeds the middle of
April, I do not know that lucky individual.
Planted in the ground at that time with
few exceptions they will rot, and if in
boxes will grow long-legged and feeble, do
as we will with them, for the earth is cold
in the border and they would not survive
the “change of base.” A little patience
in waiting for the earth to warm and get
into suitable condition to receive seeds or
young plants, and we are welirewarded by
seeing our endeavors crowned with good
strong plants and seed sprouting as if by
magic. A garden begun in this manner
will bring flowers rich in color and sub-
stance. The transplanting and dividing
of roots and planting new shrubs, trees and
any hardy perennials will usually make
enough to do in the early springtime; and
it is important that such work be done in
season.

I notice about the first early work done
by many is to transfer the Oleander from
the cellar or sitting-room to the front yard,
and sowapan ofdirt with tomatoseed

 

The Oleander is likely to be pruned backin
consequence of too great haste, and plants
are procured at a green house or gardener’s
at a more suitable time. Sweet peas
should be sown early; and later, when
the ground is warm, all hardy annuals and
perennials are just as well planted in the

open ground. Verbenas, stocks, port- .

ulacca and like seeds slow in germinating
can be started in boxes or hot-beds and
transplanted when well up. Stocks are
now considered among our best flowers and
are sold by florists along with roses, lilies
and carnations, and well deserve the es-
timate. I could never leave them out of
my garden. There is a satisfaction in
raising flowers that I hope will be enjoyed
by all who can have a garden.

I think if vines and climbers are left out
of the garden it will have been robbed of
one principal attraction, and climbers
raised from seed are among the best.
What more graceful than the Adlumia or
showy than the Tropeoleum Major, or
couvolvulus. Don’t fail to plant them.
Get a packet of seeds of climbers-mixed,
so as to have a variety.

FENTON. MRS. M. A. F ULLER.

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STARCHING AND IRONING.

 

A correspondent of an exchange tells
how she makes starch, after a fashion.
which enables her to do up collars and
shirts very nicely: “ Several hours before
you are ready to iron take the usual
amount of starch and divide it, and make
one part into rather thin, well boiled starch
and while it is boiling add a piece of'
spermaceti, about the size of a chestnut
unless the ironing is a very large one, in
which case add more spermaceti. When
I say well boiled starch I mean that it
must boil until it has a clear appearance—-
white of course, but not a milky white.
Ten minutes’ boiling is enough. Let it by
until lukewarm and then dissolve the other
half of the raw starch in plenty of water-
and stir it into the cooked starch. Strain
it through a cloth or bag. Have the
clothes dry, starch in this, rubbing it well
into them, and lay aside for a few hours.
Always use the best starch.

“ When ready to iron take a cloth and
rub the bosoms, etc., well. Also spread a
cloth over them until nearly dry while
ironing. Remove the cloth and iron until
dry. If not stiff enough rub some more
starch over until dampened, rub with cloth
again and iron until dry.

“If not now glossy enough have a
bosom board without any cloth over it,
and slip it under the bosom. Have a
damp cloth and rub part of the bosom at
a time and polish with a polishing iron.
In the absence of a polishing iron a good
job can be done-by running the ordinary
iron rapidly over the part dampened, until
it is quite dry . Finish the bosom, part at
a time, in this way, and if not glossy
enough repeat until it is.

“A little practice will soon enable the
poorest ironer to do enviable work with
starch so maie, but remember to have the
articles perfectly dry before trying to
polish.” ‘

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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WOMAN’S WORK AT HOME.

[Paper read at the State Farmers’ Institute at
Union City. J an. 27 th. by Mrs. Marion Watkins,
of Sherwood]

The subject assigned me is “ Woman’s
Work at Home.” I dil not eat: the com-
mittee if they tintended I should write on
her physical work only, or on the work of
the brain, heart and soul. Woman’s work
at home includes all of these. Her
grandest, noblest and best work is to
make her home the dearest spot on earth;
to make each member of her household
better, wiser and happier for her presence
there, and for this purpose she needs
strength and wisdom, patience and per-
severance, cheerfulness and tenderness,
amiability and goodness, love and afiec-
tion.

Woman needs strength to perform the
labor that necessarily falls to her share,
and which no one but a woman can do,
and do well. Farmers’ wives have more of
the labor requiring strength than other
classes of women, and yet they seem well
fitted for their burdens, and best of all,
look happy and contented.

Woman’s work may be seen in every
room of her home, showing she looketh
well to the ways of her household and
eateth not the bread of idleness. As you
look into the parlor everything there pre-
sents an appearance of grace and beauty.
The furniture is tastefully arranged, the
walls are beautifully decorated. the center
table and brackets are filled with choice
books, pictures, keepsakes and toys; and
everywhere are seen pretty designs
fashioned by her hands. The sitting room
is generally arranged more for the comfort,
pleasure and convenience of the family,
with the easiest chairs, the most homellke
pictures, music, books, papers, work-
baskets and numberiess other things ac-
cording to the size and taste of the family.
The work basket if it could talk could
give you quite a history of some of
woman’s work at home. The sewing,
knitting, crocheting, mending, darning, all
take time and require strength, patience
and perseverance to perform. As you
look into the cozy bedrooms and see the
soft downy beds with their warm cover-
ings you 'will not wonder that children
like to sleep so long mornings, and that it
is often with reluctance older people leave
their couch of rest. Many hours’ work has
been done by women to prepare an outfit
for each bed and they must be seen to each
day to be ready for the coming night.

Next is the dining room; it is something
of a task to keep that in order and makeit
look cheerful and inviting. Three times
each day the table has to be spread and
cleared away. But the hardest work for
the table is done in the kitchen, and the
work is cooking.

I Would like to say a few words to the
ladies. If you wish to be long remember-
ed by the male members of your family,
and have your name eulogized and handed
down to posterity be sure and be a good
cook, for [think man’s memory is located
in his stomach. There is nothing that
stirs the memory so quick and sets its
chords to vibrating as pies, puddings,

 

dumplings, cakes, custards, etc. i have
often heard old gray haired men tell their
children and their grandchildren how well
their wives and mothers used to cook. Men
always seem to appreciate good cooking.
I have often wondered. if that was not the
reason that some men give expression to
their appreciation of their servant girls by
kissing them in the kitchen when their
wives did not do the cooking. But if
their wives find it out they are generally
unreasonable enough to be angry, dis-
charge the servant girl immediately and
go to cooking themselves, expecting their
husbands will give them just such ex-
pressions of their appreciation—but they
scarcely ever do.

I think it would be well for every
woman to learn to be a good cook and
learn her daughters also, even if they do
not have the labor to perform. It is con-
sidered by most people quite an acc3m-
plishment to be a good cook. Besides,
they can better superintend the work of
others if they know how themselves. it
is quite an evident fact civilized men can-
not live without cooks, we would much
rather have the praise given to us from
those we love than have it bestowed on
others.

Cooking isonly a small part of woman’s
work in the kitchen, there is washing,
ironing and so many other things it would
take a long time just to mention them
over, and a much longer time to perform
the labor. One aim of the “ L-idies’ Club ”
has been to help each other by giving in
formation how to lighten labor, best ways

of doing work, and what ptrt might be.

dispensed with, thus giving more time for
rest, education and recreation. Woman
needs cheerfulness and tenderness in her
home work. What furniture can better
finish a room than the cheerful face of a
woman? It imparts cheer to each one in
the room. It adds as much beauty to the
kitchen as to the parlor. A home that is
presided over by such a woman needs not
the word “ Welcome” hung in the most
conspicuous placa in the room to tell the
visitors they are welcome. This beauti-
ful motto shines on the face of the woman
as she meets you at the door and greets
you with smiles and kind words. if you
have not cheerfulness in your disposition
try and plant it there, and cultivate it and
nourish it as you would a choice rose, that
it may bloom in beauty on your face and
impart its fragrance to all who know you.

When I say woman needs goodness in
her home work, I do not mean that kind
that Samantha Allen describes in Deacon
Cofiin: “ Oh! he was so good, so awfully
good, he had not smiled in over thirty
years, nor laughed out loud in over forty
years; he never had any games played in
hishouse, nor allowed the family to in-
dulge in any amusements there, it was so
wicked.” He says just set a good ex-
ample, and if your children do not turn
out well it will be no fault of yours, your
skirts will be clear. Oh what a comforting
feeling is a clear conscience! Ladies, do
not be so good as that; it is not required of
woman, neither is it becoming in her to be
so. She should smile at least three times

 

a day and oftener if convenient, and laugh
out loud as often as the occasiou calls, and
encourage the occasion. It has a physical
benefit on the system. An eminent
physician once said if each person would
laugh hard enough to turn his liver over
three times each day he would have no
use for a dcctor.

If mothers would enter more into the
sports and amusements of their children
they would make themselves nearer and
dearer to them. For children like best
those who give them the most happiness
and try hardest to please them in return.
Make your children so love you that it will
please them to give you pleasure and grieve
them to give you pain.

Agood example alone is not all that is
needed to bring up children well, or else
why have so many ministers, deacons and
other church members who are examples
of goodness and propriety themselves,
sons and daughters who turn out badly!
It is harder work than just merely being
goed one’s self to bring up children well.
It is a constant care. You must tenderly
watch over their health, wisely guard their
habits, earnestly work for their elucstion,
instill into their minds common sense views
of life in all of its surroundings and
duties, environ them with good companions
and a happy home; all of this requires
strength and wisdom, patience and per«
severance, love and affection.

Yes, woman needs love and affection'ia
her home work, no home would be a dear
place without it, all work would be dreary
tasks. She might better lose her strength
than her love and affection in her family.
I have seen theinvalid mother who was a
power in her home. She governed her
household, trained her children, brightened
her home, cheered and encouraged all of
its inmates by the magic influence of love
and affection.

“Be the mime what it may, whether lofty at
The 1113:1301]. the cottage, the plain little
’Tis thgolligart-beat of true love shall make the

place hol

5'.
Tie the outlook to heaven shall keep it from
gloom.

' For the heart of the home in each place is the

same;
In the hall. in the but there is over one name
That kinetics the torch of the swrft leaping

flame.
As we bow to the mother whose gentle corn“

man
Is the scepter that sways in our beautifdl
land.”

These tokens of love and aflfection are
admired wherever seen.

After President Garfield had delivered
his inaugural address and amidst the ap»
plause and cheers of the multitude, he
turned and kissed his beloved wife and.
dear old mother. That little act of love
and affection made him more famous and
enshrined him more in the hearts of the
people than his grand inaugural address.
How the hearts of that wife and mother
must have thrilled with pride and joy that
amidst such honors they were not forgot-
ten! A noble, loving mother must have
trained such a son. That little act in part
paid that mother for the tender, watchful,
loving care she had given him so many
years.

If people would give more expression to

 


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kind words and kind acts, they could
lighten up many of the burdens of life,
many of our heart ills might be cured or
helped by them.

This subject is a vast one, and [have
been able to only touch lightly on each
topic, and leave the imagination of the
hearers to finish the rest. But I think all
will conclude that worn \n’s work at home
hno light talk, when she performs the
work of laundress, c)ok, dining room girl,
chamber-maid, nurse, teacher and hostess,
and is expec'ed to soo‘h, comfort, counsel,
«slicer, enc )urage, instruct and inspire all
at its inmates, you will plainly see why

Woman needs strength all her duties to do.

And wisdom to direct her the best course to
pursue,

mid patience to bear all the burdens of life,

And perseverance enough not to fail in the strife.

Woman needs cheerfulness. to drive away gloom,

Toli hten each heart. and brighten each room,

Amie. ility and goodness her pure life to show.

a: eiample worth following, by all who her

now.

Sic needs love and affection, a priceless dower,

To govern her home with the magic power;

Her home will then be a haven of rest,

She will bless others, and herself will be blest,

And each one of her household can say when she’s

gone, _
“ Thy home work was wreely and nobly done."

 

AN OPEN LETTER TO THEOPOLUS
—-AND OTElER MEN.

Come right here and sit down by me,
Theop )1113, till I talk some sense into your
head on this house cleaning question, for
E'm sure Mrs. Theopolus will be glad to
have you silenced on that topic, on which
you seem decidedly cranky. House clean-
ing is an invention of the adversity for the
especial purpose of testing masculine
character. A man may pose as a moral
member of society, good deac )n, sort of an
all round solid Christian for fifty one
weeks in the year, and get so he really be-
lieves he’s an irreproachably pious man.
'Bwo or three years sp :nt in this unshaken
faith would so develop his conceit-rec
foster his congenital hydrocephalousness,
toput itin B )stonese—that there would be
no living with him were it not for the
business of the fifty‘second week. 8) to
remind him he’s only a poor worm of the
dust, prone to evil, and not amounting to
much anyhow, housecleaning was in-
vented to demonstrate to him his weakness
and bid him who standeth take heed least
he fall. When he gets such a grip on the
old Adam that he can beat acarpet with
auction and not feel embarrassed should

he learn later that the minister was on the
blind side of it, and knock a refractory
stovepipe into submission without swear-
ing out loud—when he can eat a cold din-
ner oh the fl )ur-barrel in the wood house
and not feel as if he were forever out oil
from religious privileges by his own sin-
iulness, he’s about as good a man as he'll
ever get to be, but even then he doesn’t
want to be too sure of himself.

Men seem to think women enj )y the
confusion and discomfort of house clean-
ing, “else why.” say they, “ should women
insist on doing it.” Partly, as I said, to

let their husbands understand their own
weakness; partly because if they did not
clean, the men would growl and grumble
about dirt and make mean insinuations

women who do clean house and tell how
thay’re fixed up. It’s simply a matter of
self-defense.

THE HOUSEHOLD.

D) women enj )y the riot?

Well, A. L. L says she (1 ‘es, but most of

usfeel it’s aduty we owe our husbands and

families, especiallythe former. Contrasts

are wholesome. The quiet and order

seem doubly clear after the period of chaos.

We go through it calmly, systematically,

philosophically, with awell defined plan

in mind. Men sputter and stew, and scold

if they’re asked to lend a hand, when all

the while we are working with their best

interests in view. All our toll is for them
——to make home bright and attractive so
they will not prefer to Whittle pine shingles
at the corner grocery rather than sit by
their own base-burners.

Suppose Mrs. Theopolus allowed her
husband’s idea of “ the plaguey house
cleaning mania” to prevail and omitted
that rite in deference to his prejudices. A
pretty-looking mansion it would become!
Smoky ceilings, dirty, torn wallpaper,
carpets ground into the dust, finger marks
allover the woodwork! How proud he’d
be to introduce his friends to his home!
How the cockroaches would revel in the
dirt, and how the bugs would banquet on
Theopolus! And all that amiable wife
of his would say would be, “ Well, help
me clean house then.” And he’d be glad
enough to do it, too.

Now Theopolus, if you want to get in
sympathy with the house'cleaning move-
ment and avoid friction and jars, just
move in line with it. Enter into its spirit
of regeneration. D) a little fixing up on
your own account. Extend the good
work to the barns and yards and stables,
and see if there is not a virtuous satisfac-
tion in viewing the results, a satisfaction
which makes you in sympathy with your
wife. Perhaps you already are a model
farmer, and do not need this advice, but if
so, you certainly ought not to dge your
assistance to your wife in keep ng her part
of your mutual bslongings in “ apple-pie
order.” Bnkrnrx.

 

ORANGE MARMALLDE.

 

One of our correspondents recently
asked for a recipe for orange marmalade.
We find the following in the Rural Cali-
fornian, and, as it comes from the land of
oranges, it ought to be “ all righ :”

Choose the largest oranges, with clear
skins, as the skins form the largest part of
the marmalade. Weigh the oranges, and
weigh also anequal quantity of loaf sugar.
Peel them, dividing the peels into quarters,
and put them into a preserving pan, cover
them well with water, and set them on the
fire to boil; in the meantime prepare your
oranges; divide them in‘o gores, then
scrape witha teaspoon all the pulp from
the white skin; or, instead of peeling the
oranges, cut a hole in them and scoop out
the pulp, removing carefully all the pips.
Have a large basin near with some cold
water in it, to throw the pips and peels
into-a pint is sufficient for a dozen
oranges. A great deal of glutinous mat-
ter adheres to them, which, when strained
through a sieve, should be boiled with the
other parts. When the peels have boiled

a fork being stuck easily into them, strain

them; scrape clean all the pith, or inside,

fronthem; lay them in folds, and cut
them into thin slices about an inch long.
Clarify your sugar; then throw the psels
and pulp into it, stir it well, and let it
boil for about half an hour. Put in' jars
and tie down with bladders. This is an
excellent English formula, and should be
made use of when oranges become plenti-
ful and cheap.

 

SOFT SOAP.

 

I think I can tell Mac what ails the soap.~
The lye is too strong, causing the grease to
aspirate from it. The more it is boiled
the worse it would become. If Mac will
add water (thoroughly stirring it in) it will
become thick, and give no further trouble.
I have made very good hard soap with
the Lewis lye that comes put up in tin
cans, full directions for making with each
can. I use more water than the directions

call for. FABMER'S WIFE.
PLAINWELL.

If Mac will boil up her soap just as it is
and then add rain water she will find it
will be all right. She can find out just
how much water to use by taking a little
soap out ina pail and then adding water
until it is thick on )ugh. I can not tell
how to make hard soap. P. A. 'r.
FINDLEY.

 

Did Mac put lime at the bottom of the
leach-tub on top of the straw before filling
with ashes? Without this no good soap
can be made. Add salt to the soft soap

while cooling off if hard soap is wanted.
Mnsxs‘oozr. GBANDPA.

 

A SALAD.

 

I thought when reading the House HOLD

I would like to write something for it. I

am fourteen years old and live on a farm.

My father takes the Farmers, and I always
look .for the Honsnnom). Will some one
please tell me how long to let a bed air. I
go to school a distance of two and one half
miles, and so have to go quite early. We
arise about half past four or five o’clock.
Should the beds be made about half past
seven? Have any of the readers of. the
Housnnom) tried young dandelions as a

salad. If not try them and see if you
don’t think them a good substitute for
lettuce. Take the leaves, wash clean,
chop fine in a chopping bowl, put on
some vinegar and sprinkle with pepper
and salt and also add sugar if you like.
OTATSIE.

Mum.
— W

U semi Recipes.

 

Son Momssns CAKE—TWO cups sour
milk; one cup molasses; one cup brown
sugar; half cup lard or butter; teaspoonfni
salt; tablespoonfnl ginger; two tablespoon-
fuls soda, dissolved in a tablespoonful cold
water, and flour enough to make the dough
pour with moderate slowness.

 

Gnmnmornnn’s INDIAN PUDDING.——Sonid
one pint and a half of milk, stir in two
tablespoonfnls of Indian meal; when cold
stir in half a pint of milk, one small cup of
molasses. half a teaspoonfnl of cinnamon,
one scant teaspoonfui salt, one cup raisins.

 

 

about slack housekeepers, and quote other

  

till they are sufliciently tender to admit of

Bake in a slow oven two hours.