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DETROIT, AUGUST 22,

1891.

 

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-“Supplement.

 

ABOUT HUSBANDS.

 

Johnson was right. I don’t agree to all

, The solemn dofiaas of the rough old stutter,

But very much approve what one may call
The minor morals of the “Ursa Major.”

Johnson was right. Although some men adore
' Wisdom in woman. and with wisdom cram her,
There isn’t one in ten but thinks far more
Of his own grub than of his spouse‘s grammar.

1 know it is the greatest shame in life;
But who among them (cave. perhaps, myself). ‘
Returning home, but asks his wife.
What beef—not books—she has upon the shelf.

Though Greek and Latin be the lady’s boast.
They’re little valued by her loving mate;
The kind of tongue that husbands relish most.
' Is modern. boiled. and served upon a plate.

Or, if. as fond ambition may command,
Some hom umade verse the happy matron shows
him,
What mortal spouse but from her dainty hand
Would sooner see a pudding than a poem?

Young lady—deep in love with Tom or Harry—
’Tis sad to tell you such a tale as this;

But here’s the moral of it: do not marry,
0r, marrying, take your lover as he is—

A very man-with something of the brute,
(Unless he proves a sentimental noddy),

With passions strong and appetite to boot.
A thirsty soul within a hungry body.

A very man—not one of nature’s clods—
With human failings, whether saint or sinner.
Endowed. perhaps with genius from the gods.
B at apt to take his temper from his dinner.
- ~JOIm 0. Sara. .

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' THE TEACHER AND BER WAGES.

 

In the columns of one of our State
exchanges I recently saw a paper read
before a Farmers’ Association, the sub-
ject being “Our Schools.” The paper
was a good one, full cf uncontroverti ble
truths. Among other reasons given
for the inadequacy of our schools was
the incompetence of teachers, and the
time-worn allegation that girls teach
for two or three terms to earn money
for a trousseau, or while they are wait-
ing for “the coming man,” once more
received the baptism of print.

Well, I suppose it is true that a good
many girls take up teaching as a tem-
porary makeshift, a meanstoearning a
little money, with no liking or natural
adaptability for the work. But so do a
great many young men, who find a.
term of school work a great help in
getting through college. The deter-
mination to secure an education evi-
denced by their endeavor to help them-
selves generally insures their being

 

competent, so far as knowledge is con-

cerned, though not always successful
in government. So the charge of
making ‘ teaching an expedient—a
means to an end—does not attach to
young women only.

But when you are finding fault with
the girls for not putting more heart
into their work, consider, if you please,
for a moment, the outlook for a woman
who determines to make teaching
her life work. She spends, at the least
calculation, from eight to ten years of
her life in school—or eight or ten years
of constant attendance and hard study,
and usually supplements her high-
school course by six months’ or a year’s
training in methods of teaching and
school government. You may say
she would give the time and study any-
way, whether she teaches or not, in the
general task we call “ getting an educa-
tion.” But the girl who has a purpose
in view studies harder and digs nearer
the roots of things than she who goes
to school because she is sent, and barely
keeps her standing high enough to pass
with her class into the next grade. And
this time is money, not to mention
tuition, books, perhaps board away from
home. When the girl has prepared
herself at this expense, and is ready
for work, her want of experience is a
bug-a—boo which compels her to “teach
for nothing and board herself” for a
year at least, until she has made a

.record. Then she is ready for an en-

gagement at such wages as an econom-
ical school board, bound to squeeze her
stipend to the lowest possible figure for
fear of “them taxes,” will allow her. If
she teaches a country school, she may
get from $22 to $26 a month. out of
which she must pay board bills. There
are books she must have, and little aids
in teaching which she pays for herself
for the sake of the help they are to her,
so that when her accounts are balanced
she finds she has not cleared as much as
a servant girl in the city, who gets four
dollars a week and her board.

If she gets a place in a village school
her wages will run from eight to ten
dollars a week. If she can board at
home, she can make much more of this
than if she has to go among strangers.
But at the end of the year she will be
fortunate if she has fifty dollars re-
maining of the' year’s salary, over and
above board, clothes and those et oeteras
which dou’t out much of a figure ex-

 

cept in the summing up of accounts;
and may take that $50 as evidence of
strict economy and diligent looking
after the pennies.

To keep up with educational progress,
she must subscribe for educational pub~
lications and somehow get hold of the
new books, that her patrons may not
find her wanting in knowledge of what
is going on in the world. She must
always appear well dressed—isn’t she a.
teacher! Much is expected of her on
account of her position. She must
board in a “nice place,” and have a
good standing socially. And when she
has done her best, there will always be
the grumblers, who are dissatisfied be«
cause their children do not get on
faster, because others are promoted
above them, because she is too strict or
too lax, requires too much or not
enough, or who want her to furnish
brains for stupid ones. And there are
always those who think she only half
earns her salary and has “ a. snap,” and
wish they had “nothing to do but
teach school.” Only she herself, as she
fingers the meagre remnant of her
salary at the end of the year, knows
how dearly it has cost her in strength
and health and wear and tear of brain
and nerves.

I have had the pleasure of knowing,
quite well, some half dozen of the
teachers in the Detroit public schools.
They are the hardest worked women I
know. They show in their faces the
nervous strain under which they live.
One who has spent her life in teaching,
gets $70 a month-$700 a year. Unless
she should happen to get the princi-
palship of a school, this is the most she
can ever earn. And her years of ser~
vice have left her a bundle of nerves,
shrined in a frail physique. The long
summer vacation, which she makesa
period of absolute rest, recuperates her
so that she begins the school year in
September with a fair amount of vitality
and ambition. Then, like awound-up
clock, begins the preccss of “running
down.”

The salaries here in Detroit range
from $35 per month to $70 and $100, the
latter for those who are fortunate
enough to get principals’ places. The
principals of the larger schools—espec-
ially if men—get salaries above the $100
limit. The principal of the Normal
training school gets $150 per month.

 


2 . The Household.

 

The great number of teachers are paid
from .345 to $55 per month. The
schedule of wages paid in the Flint
schools, aspublished in the Globe of that
city, show there is but one place in the
ward schools which is worth $45 per
month; from this, salaries range from
840 to $32. Better wages are paid in
the High School; the principal a‘ets
8100; the French and German teacher
$60; the remainder, a uniform rate of
855. How much of acompetence can
one amass on such wages, especially
when out of employment one-sixth of
the year, during which time she must
go on living and paying bills just the
same, though not earning?

I do not know and never heard of a
person who ever became rich or even
comfortably well off through teaching
alone. Couldn‘t do it. Investments in
real estate or bonds have made some in
fairly good circumstances, but those
_ who are “well fixed ” owe their com-
. fbrtable position to other causes than

the profits of teaching per se.

The rank and file in the teacher’s
profession give more and get less than
any class of toilers. They are like the
privates in the army, they do the work,
get the hard knocks and stand the as—
saults, while the principals, like the
commanding officers, get the creditand
the salaries. A principal is powerless
if he has a corps of incompetent
teachers under him, whereas in this
city a force of good instructors has more
than once successfully carried on a

school in spite of a principal. with no
executive ability worth mentioning.

I do not wonder that girls get out of
the business, preferring to please one
man and govern their own children to
the task of satisfying a district and
governing and also instructing a large
and varied assortment of youngsters.
The bright, capable women see other
and more remunerative employment:
opening for them, and we never shall
have better schools, especially in the
country, until school boards adopt a
more liberal policy toward teachers. It
is the most egregious folly to think
“anybody” can teach a school because
it is small and the children young; it is
the peerest kind of economy to save $50
to the taxpayers in a district as the
difierence between a good school and a
poor one, and waste a year of school

life to the children, with the more"

serious result of weakening their ambi-
tion and allowing them to farm idle,
careless habits. If you do not want
half-hearted service, be willing to pay
for good work. In the school room, if
anywhere, “the laborer is worthy of
his hire.” Apply the maxims which
govern your business, your buying
when you are laying a foundation for
aherd of cattle 'or sheep, your policy
when making a permanent investment
which you mean shall pay in the end.
Yen choose good material and you do
notgrudgea fair price for it. Every
year your children waste without

 

progress is irretrievably lost. Time is
money, but money cannot bring back
lost time. Time is more than money, it
is opportunity, it brings advantages. If
we miss them, they never come again.

It is natural and inevitable that the
best schools shall be in the cities where
there are great accumulations of wealth
and population. But it is not entirely a
case of wealth against poverty. Where
many children can be gathered into one
school, the burden of its support is
divided among many patrons, and the
best teachers can be obtained. But
farms are scattered, and children few,
and it is really a question of dense vs.
spare population. The expense of sup-
porting the country schools, despite the
liberal aid of the primary school fund
shows itself in the tax roll, and pros-
perous men often grumble at having to
support schools they do not patronize
and which they say do them no good.~
The schools do benefit them, largely
too, by making better citizens, better
communities, and wealthier ones, bet-
ter places-.to live in. Whatever uplifts
the tone of a community benefits the
taxpayers and raises the value of the
farms. I am coming to heartily des-
pise the man who complains of his taxes,
anyway, and especially he who growls
over his school, tax. Any one who is
not willing to pay his share toward sup‘
porting our institutions ought to emi-
grate where they are unknown. He
should try living without them for
awhile. .

I wish something I have said might
induce school officers to pursue a'more
liberal policy toward teachers in our
district schools. and make public
opinion uphold them in the innovation.
The only hope ofacountry governed
by the people is in the intelligence and
uplifting of the masses. And in every
farming community the district school
is the initial step to educational ad-
vancement. Only when it does its
work well is it performing its duty in
laying the superstructure to be com‘
pleted by high school, college and
university, institutions which may sup-
plement its work but can never take its
place. BEATRIX.

_—_..._—_

ONE OF NATURE’S WONDERS.

 

I find within the covers of a choice
work of great and good men recently
sent me by a dear friend, many articles
pertaining to the noted places of our
beautiful earth, and thought perhaps
the young readers of the HOUSEHOLD
might enjoy a brief description of a
few of them. There are so many good
things found all the way through, I
hardly know which to select. In de—
scribing one of the wonders of the
Yosemite Valley, which is attracting
sightseers from all parts of the world
the author says: "This valley, as
every one knows, is in Central Califor-
nia. It is a wonderfully secluded valley,

 

shut in on all side by high mountains'

 

When the stage coach reaches “In"-
spiration Point" the view that breaks
upon the tourist is superb. The water
fall of “The Bridal Vail” full on the
right; the huge rock nearly perpen-

‘dicular, up wards of three thousand feet

high (think of it!) called “El Capitau ”
on the left; and the mass of pictures-
quely shaped heights clustered bet ween,
domes, cathedral spires, sentinel rocks
and what not, rising out of the pine
forests, reaching to their very sum-
mits, form a combination of singular
magnificence. As you explore the
valley you come upon new beauties in
every direction.” There is alsoa picture
of the Cathedral Spires which makes it
doubly interesting, portraying rough,
jagged, sharp, slender spires of very
curious formation. '

A description of the Colorado River
is also pleasant to read and think upou.
The writer tells us: “There is per—
haps no river in the world which pre-
sents a greater variety of scenes of.
rugged and strange beauty than the
Colorado, or as it was sometimes called,
particularly in the early days of our
knowledge of it, ‘The River of the
West.’ Its headwaters are among the
snow-capped Rocky Mountains; its gen-
eral course is southwest, until after
traveling something like two thousand
miles, now falling in pretty mountain
cascades, now 'flowing through the
quiet valley, and now almost lost in the
depths of some immense canon, it
finally reaches the Gulf of California.
The canons of the Colorado River and
of several of its tributaries are the
especial feature of which all travelers
tell us. The word, ‘canon’ comes
from a Spanish one which means ‘ tube'
or ‘channel.’ When we remember
that the Spanish language is largely
spoken by the dwellers, of Mexico and
the southwestern part of the United
States, it will not seem strange that they
use the word to designate the deep de-
files through which the waters of these
rivers have forced their way.” The
Grand Canon is the largest of all. It

is three hundred miles long, and its

walls rise almost perpendicularly from
the water’s edge to a height of from
four to seven thousand feet (almost be-
yond our comprehension, isn’t it chil-
dren?). There are others which, were
we to see them, we would think them
very wonderful, but which can scarcely
claim distinction after these figures
have been given. This is a wonderful
open page in God’s book of nature, for
it shows to the eye of a scholar the
geological formation from the solid
granite, which we might almost call the
foundation stone of our earth, to the
recent strata of later days. This river
is navigable for about five hundred
miles from its mouth.

Hoping this letter may please some of
our youthful members, and thankingall
for the many interesting, encouraging
articles. MAYB‘ELLB.

Woman“. ,

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

The Household. 8

 

 

AT BAY VIEW.

 

Not all the attractions of this north-
ern country are literary, and- the As-
sembly programme would make many
a tired brain were it not for the excur-
sions that give a delightful change.

We (a party of thirteen) decided to- go
fishing, and it would be a long story to
tell of all the fun and frolic of that long
day, for we were up at 4:30 to cptch the
early train that would take us to Oden,
nine miles away. The four boats fur-
nished to our party rode the water like
ducks and were dry and clean. It is
cruel, but a sport nevertheless, to
sleepily dangle a pole and line in the
deep green water, and when hope is
long deferred to feel a little premoni-
tory nibble and then a strong jerk and
straightway draw in a shining pickerel.

On one side of the lake the stony bot-
tom was plainly visible, tall ferns and
aquatic plants, grasses, and clams in
their slightly opened shells, with the
fish darting about until we almost for-
got our piscatorial mission in our ad-
miration of the beauties beneath the
smooth, mirror-like water. On the
other side we were obliged to fish by
faith and not by sight, for the murky
green water gave no hint of what was
hidingfihere. The fiercely burning
forest added to the weird scene, send—
ing up clouds of smoke and tongues of
flame, and occasionally a roar and crash
told us of the fall of some large tree
burned away at the bottom. We landed
for our picnic dinner, one of the men
wading ashore and drawing our beat
up to the little pole dock belonging
to alone old bachelor settler who was
fighting the fires, then the other boats
coming up to ours made a.pontoon
bridge that carried us safely to land.

Another morning we were up betimes

to catch an early boat, but sat on the
dock in a blazing sun until nine o‘clock
before its arrival. That day we went
to Harbor Point and Harbor Springs,
the two lying side by side, or end to
end, for the resort at the Point presents
both sides to the water, the narrow
wooded strip of land jutting far out be-
tween Lake Michigan and Little
Traverse Bay, one side being a quiet,
safe harbor dotted everywhere with
pleasure boats. The cottages are very
pretty there and at the Springs—the
latter being a town and not merely a
summer resort. While there we visited
the old- Catholic church with its pro-
fusion of images, paintings, cheap
pictures, paper flowers and evergreen
wreathing, with the desolate-looking
cemetery adjoining, where the graves
are only marked by a rude unpainted
wooden cross; then we went to the
home of Aunt Margaret, supposed to
be the oldest Indian inhabitant, then
toiled laboriously up the bluff for the
beautiful view oflake and bay and far-
reaching wooded shores.

Petc'sliey, with its many fantastic
bazars and its wonder-fin flowing well is

 

only a mile away from Bay View, with
car connection every twenty minutes,
boats ever and anon, and a good side-
walk all the way for those who prefer
that slower mode of travel, so the over-
flow from these two places is constantly
exchanging. During the Assembly
season there are few entertainments at
Petoskey, so the residents from there
fill cars or boats after every evening at-
traction here.

On one day of every week there is an
excursion to Mackinac Island, about
forty miles away, the fare by boat or
rail being one dollar for the round trip,
and these are always well patronized.

East Jordan and Charlevoix, with
the Chicago and Kalamazoo resorts on
opposite sides of the small lakes, are of
convenient access and are therefore
popular excursion routes.

A pleasant walk back from here and
where every one wishes to go, is to visit
the big cedar, the largest in the country,
being probably fifteen feet in circum-
ference, but it cannot be measured for,
as a protection from vandal hands, the
authorities have set a circle of strong

posts about ten feet away and woven

them closely with barbed wire. From
there we continued our line of ascent
up the rugged side to Pisgah’s height
and felt rewarded for so doing by the
views afforded.

This day, Aug. 12th, closed the pro.
gramme here, the last three evenings
having been very pleasantly spent in
traveling with Mr. Roberts Harper, of
London. “A Holiday Trip to Europe,”
“ Paris and the South of France” and
"Switzerland Mountains and Valleys,”
with the finest stereontican illustra-

tions that have been given and a fault-
less lecturer to whom it was a positive
delight to listen.

Many remain for a few weeks’ rest
after all this excitement is over, for the
bracing air is a tonic to the weak and
wear and they are loth to leave it and
“ go low.” EL. SEE.

BAY VIEW.
—-Q..—-——

MORE QUERIES.

 

About a year ago, I read in the
HOUSEHOLD that asparagus dried while
tender, made an excellent dish in the
winter if soaked over night in salted
water. As we are very fond of this
vegetable I tried it. I soaked it for
forty-eight hours, but it refused to
soften, and continued totaste and smell
likeso much hay from the mow. Did
any one else try it? and if so with what
success? ,

Will some one tell me how to make
good fritters.
stay up, but as soon as taken from the
fat, subside into a rich, indigestible
pancake.

Have you ever tried escalloped pota»
toes? They are splendid. Grease a
small pan or pudding dish, in the bot-
tom put a generous layer of cracker
crumbs, then a layer of cold boiled
potatoes very thinly sliced; butter, salt
and pepper them; another layer of
cracker crumbs, more potatoes, and so

Somehow mine will not ‘

 

on until the dish is full, being sure to
have crackers on the tep. It needs to
be highly seasoued. Then pour on milk
until you can just see it at the sides of
the dish. Bake in a moderately hot
oven three-quarters of an hour. _ .
What could be more appropriate for
a farmer’s daughter than the. clover
wedding Beatrix described? I

Lnsnm. J ULY.

 

A NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT.

 

There is always a demand for some-
thing “new” in the way of entertain-
ments, whether intended for home
amusement solely, or to coax the re-
luctant dollar from the public’s pockets
in aid of some worthy cause. The
novelty draws best, always, for human
nature is still very much as it used to
be when the Athenians of old spent
their days in “hearing and telling.
some new thing.”

A “Conundrum Banquet" is de-
scribed in the August number of
Good Housekeeping. The bill Of fare was
published in the papers accu‘ple of days
previous, and was as follows: ' I

New England Brains. '
What Asthmatic People'Are.
Intoxicated Bovine. .
What Most People Need.
Food of the Sninning Wheel.
Women of Grit. -
Boston's Over-throw.
Spring’s Offerings.
urmzm.

9. Salmao‘nndi.
10. Labor’s Stronghold. ,
11. W hat a Bw Calls His Sweetheart.
12. Unrnly Member.
13. Fruit of the Vine.
14. Tabby’s Party.

1323512313.
15. Musical Confection. '
16. What I Do When I Mash My Finger.
17. Delight of the Orient.
18. Ivory Mnninnlstors.
l9. Changeable Politicians.
20. A Wise Beverage.

Orders were taken by number, choice:
of six for twenty-five cents. Extra
dishes five cents. Little tables were
arranged at which the guests were
seated: a printed bill of fare was pre-
sented to each, with a slip of paper on
which to write the order. Suppose a
young man ordered 5, 8. 10, 14, 18 and
20; he would be served to rolls, a glass
of water, cheese, catsup, toothpicks and
a cup of sage tea, and naturally would
have to supplement his order by a few
extras to make out a meal. If he then
ordered 11 and 19 he got adish of honey
and a turnover. A great deal of amuse-
ment was furnished by the odd melange-
obtained by the orders. The key to the
conundrum is as follows.

99.“???9’5"?

1. Pork and Beans. 5. Rolls.
2. Coffee. 6. Sandwiches.
3. Corned Beef. 7. Tea.
4. Bread. 8. Cold Water.
Arrnrxznas.
9. Salads. 12. Tongue.
10. Cheese. 13. Pickles.
11. Honey. 14. Catsup.
onssnn'r.
15. Cakes. . Toothpick: .
16. Ice Cream. 19. Turnovers.
17. Sherbet. 20. Sage Tea.

Of course this menu can be changed
by the substitution of other “conun-
drums,” and promises plenty of amuseé
ment for its originators and their
victims. ~ :2

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The Hbusehold.

   

 

GOOD LITERATURE FOR THE CHIL-
DREN.

 

The subject of supplying our chil-
dren with good books is so important
that I feel impelled to have my say
about it, believing that many a mother
hesitates in this matter because she
does not know what to get for them.
I have found that good, first class
magazines, to be bound at the end
of the year are a great help to a
child, giving him an interest, some-
thing to look, forward to. When my
little boy took Babyland, a five cent
monthly for the wee ones, he used to
say “Mine Harper’s ’tum, Mamma?”
about once a week, and he looks for-
ward to having that peerless magazine
St. Nicholas as eagerlyas he ever looked
for his first pair of pants. Then there
is Wide Awake, Homer’s Young People,
and for children not quite old enough
for these, a very good publication, Our
Little Men and Woman, 3. dollar a year
and second to none. By giving. our
children the best and reading for them
until the read for themselves (don’t
wait but gin as soon as you begin to
tell them stories) a taste will be formed
which‘ will not be satisfied with “milk
and water” or sensational books. They
will probably read some objectionable
ones in after life, but the nfichi‘ef will
not be as great, nor will the children
be so likely to care for them, as if they
had never known anything better.

Miss Alcott’s “ Little Women” and
the sequel, “Little Men,” should be
read by every child, aye, and every
mother, too. Consider the difference
in tone between er books and those of
Mrs. Holmes, for instance, and decide
which girl would be more likely to
prove auseful woman; the one with the
Marches for her heroines, or the one
with any of the love-sick damsels of
the author of “Lena Rivers.” For the
books we read do influence us all, es-
pecially young girls, and the love of
good books is a comfort and solace
known only tothose who have made

90d books their friends. As Saxe says:

" I call them friends, these quiet books,
,And well the this they may claim.
Who alWa)’H give me cheerful looks,
What llvmg friend has done the same?
And for companionship, how few
Save these, my cronies ever-present,
Of all the friends 1 ever know,
Have been so useful or so pleasant!"

But they will not need to usurp the
places of our living friends, only to sup-
plement them. And now, I beseech you,
mothers, don’t say, “ We can’t afford
these magazines and books.” You can
if you will regard them as a necessity,
as they truly are and should be. I
know by experience whereof I speak,
and sometimes when money is scarce
you may think, “ Well, we must give it
up,” but regard it as a paying invest-
ment; and you will not regret it.

Wm'rnnm. .- JAY, ‘

 

WE recently saw quite a pretty crumb
cloth made of blue denim, with a bor-
der of blue and] white striped bed-

‘wash it, rubbing it' between the hands

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

ICING for cake may be prevented
from cracking when out, says an ex-
change, by adding one tablespoonful of
sweet cream to each unbeaten egg. Stir
all together, then add sugar tiD-as stiff
a can be stirred.

 

AN economical western woman had a
dingy, faded rag carpet which she was
ashamed of. She was a woman of ex-
pedients. She obtained a quantity of
patent dyes, prepared them, and with
a couple of brushes, one wide, one nar-
row, went over the stripes with the
colors, brightening them so the carpet
looked “ almost as good as new.”

 

SOAP should never be applied direct-
ly to black dress goods of any kind.
Shave the soap and dissolve it in boiling.
water. Wash black lawn very quickly
in hot suds, rinse in deeply blued water
and dry in the shade. Iron on the
wrong side while still damp. If starch
is desired, make it. Hue and very thin;
dry' the dress, dip-it in :the starch, hang
in the open air and iron when nearly
‘dry.

 

A GENTLEMAN for many years con-
nected with a large shoe house in this
city gave the Editor of the HOUSEHOLD
a trade secret the other day, to the
effect that the injury done by the
patent liquid shoe-polish to the leather
.of the shoes may be prevented by rub-
bing them first with a little castor oil.
He says any polish which gives a lustre
will rot the leather; the only way to
prevent injury is to fill the pores with
oil before applying it. He recommend-
ed Brown’s Dressing as the best polish
he knew.

 

A CORRESPONDENT of Good House-
keeping says her own experience and
that of several of her friends has plainly
demonstrated that the clearest, =most
transparent and finely colored jellies
are made by preparing the juice in the
usual way, turning it into earthen
vessels and letting it stand at least
over night-on the ice if possible, then
adding the sugar and making up as
usual. The juice must be carefully
poured off the sediment which will be
left in the bottom of the pitcher or
preserving pan, and the absence of this
sediment is what makes the jelly so
beautifully clear.

 

THE Ohio meer tells how to make
hulled wheat. Pick over two or three
quarts of good wheat; wash it; put it in
a porcelain kettle, and with it a pint of
clean wood ashes tied in a coarse cloth.
Cover with water and set on the fire
and let it boil one to two hours. Drain
the water off, put the wheat into alarge
pan, or pail, pour on cold water and

to get the hulls off. If these come off

 

ticking.

right they will leave each a kernel as

white and about the size of a kernel of
rice. But if they do not all come off it
will do no especial harm, as the bran is
so softened by the alkali that the wheat
will cook with it on. Now the wheat
must be washed over and over. then
put on and boiled, then washed again.
This mustbe done until all the hulls
that will come off are removed and it
is ent't ly free from the lye formed by
the as‘lgs. We put ours over and scald.
it twice and wash it in ten waters.
Then put it over the fire with hot water
enough to cover, salt well and boil four
or five hours. The two quarts of wheat
will make eight or ten quarts when

done. .
I—I...-_

Contributed Recipes.

 

CANNED Enema—Prick the plums to pre-
vent bursting. For every three quarts of
fruit prepare a syrup of one pound of sugar
and one pint of hot water. When it comes
to a boil add the plums. let them boil slowly
five minutes, then fill into the cans. Green
gages and damsons are nice prep ared as
above.

 

Bnmnrrn Presence—Eight pounds of
peaches pared and cut in halves; eight
pounds of granulated sugar; one quart of
best brandy. Make a syrup of the sugar and
enough not water to dissolve nicely. Let it
come to a boil, skim and add the peaches,
boil fifteen minutes. Remove the fruit. boil
the syrup fifteen minutes, add the brandy,
put back the fruit and can immediately.
Pears and plums can be prepared in a like
manner.

 

GREEN TOMATO Pnnsnnvns.-Eight pounds
of small green tomatoes; pierce each with a
fork. Seven pounds of white sugar; the
juice of five lemons; one ounce of ginger
and mace mixed and tied in a thin muslin
bag. Heat all together slowly and cook un-
til the tomatoes are clear; take out with a.
perforated skimmer and boil the syrup
thick, then add the fruit, fill into cans hot
and seal. Very nice indeed.

 

CRAB APPLE JELLY.-—Cut the apples to
pieces, but do not pare or remove the seeds.~ ‘
Put into a stone jar, set the jar into a kettle
of hot water and let it boil half a day or
more, then turn into a muslin bag. Hang it
so it will drip; do not squeeze it. Allow one
pound of white sugar for one pound of
juice.

 

BLACKBERRY GOBDIAL.———One quart of
blackberry juice; one pound of leaf sugar;
one-half ounce of grated nutmeg; one-half
ounce of cinnamon; one-quarter ounce of all—
spice; one‘quarter ounce of cloves; one pint
of best brandy. Tie the spices in a thin
muslin bag. Boil the juice, sugar and spices
fifteen minutes, skimming well, then add
the brandy; set aside to cool. When thor-
oughly cold skim out the spices. bottle, and
seal the corks.

 

RASPBERRY JAM.—-TO each four pounds of
mashed berries add ' one pint of entrant
juice and three pounds of granulated sugar.
Cook the berries and juice one-half hour,
then add the sugar and cook twenty minutes
longer. Blackberries can be made the same
way, omitting the current juice.

 

 

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