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THE HOUSEHQLDm§upplememu

 

THE 00 TTA GE HEAR TH.

 

The ruddy blaze shines clear,
Making home faces bright,
And happy smiles appear
Beaming within the light;
And light of love illumines there,
Grave brows touched soft with seams of care.
The father's voice strikes deep
Upon the listening ear;
The mother’s accents keep
A soothing cadence near;
And clearer and more sweet than all,
The tones of childhood softly fall.

0 happy cottage hearth 1
Peace is thy fairest gift,
Though clouds may shadow earth,
Bore gleams a sunny rift—
A glow where all pure joys combine,
Seeming half earth and half divine.
—————...—.__.

BOTANY IN OUR SCHOOLS.

I am glad Mrs. W. J. G. has mentioned
the desirability of including botany
among the studies pursued in our district
schools. It certainly seems as if farmers’
children, growing up among plants and
flowers, might reasonably be expected to
know something of their growth and
structure. Instead, my experience has
been that they are generally very igno-
rant on such subjects. Botany, in the
hands of a competent instructor, becomes
one of the most fascinating of the natural
sciences. Properly taught. it is less a
glossary of technical terms, to be memor-
ized like so many pages of a dictionary,
than a comprehensive study of plant
growth, in which classification is a sec-
ondary matter. Iknow of no other study,
unless indeed it be that of entomology,
of so much aid in forming a habit of
observation, and the habit, once gained,
seems almost to give us a new sense; we
see so much more, with so much keener
vision, objects mean so much more to us,
when our eyes are trained to observe,
and this added power aids us in other
things all through life.

Botany interests most children from
the outset. The phenomena of vegetable
growth are beautiful mysteries to them.
Their curiosity, once roused, is bound-
less; the questions they will ask have no
end. Treating, as the study does, of
what they see on every side, with Nature’s
object lessons ever at hand, it invests the
commonest plant with interest and
beauty. Botany and entomology are two
sciences which are calculated to greatly
aid the farmer in his business. He may

never have occasion to extract a cube
root after he leaves the schoolroom. no

matter how many other roots he may dig,
but he can use his botanical and entom-
ological knowledge all over his farm. He
wages a ceaseless war against weeds and
insects, and often finds them “ too many
for him.” He is handicapped in the con-
test by his ignorance, and this he is be
ginning to feel. Farm journals are filled
with his interrogatories, and he sends his
strange bugs and plants to the Agricul-
tural College for the information he
ought to be able to get for himself. Pro
fessor Beal tells us not one farmer in fifty
knows acodling moth when he sees it,
yet all know how it depletes the pocket-
book. Two-thirds the controversies in
our agricultural and horticultural litera

ture, and nearly all the insect remedies
“discovered” and “boomed” as sure
specifics, are due to the mistakes of those
who, writing in good faith, are yet ignor-
ant of the transformations of the insects
they fight, and ascribe a disappearance
due entirely to their habits to the virtue
of the remedy. Many men consider the
study of insect life as “small business,”
but when we consider the millions of
dollars’ worth of property they annually
destroy, we see how small means may
compass a great end, and we turn grate-
fully to the men who make the study
their life-work, and through their
knowledge devise means to help us. It
seems unnecessary to sum up the ad-
vantages to come to the farming commu-
nity from the general spread of botanical
and entomological information; the
benefits are too obvious to need recapitu-

lation, the main question is, how is the
necessary instruction to be obtained.

Mere text-book recitations are valueless,

if not absolutely harmful; they discipline

the memory, but awaken neither interest

or enthusiasm. Better never make the

attempt than add another to the list of

“studies” to be pursued in the mechani-

cal, listless way in which too much is

already taught.

It is evident that "re rsweat difficulty in

introducing those was res of science

will be found in the fact “first there are so

few who are qualified to teach them; or

who, being competert. w’il give the time

they require. Both arv “sum'ner studies.”

and generally, however goat] a teacher

a district may provic’, in r. inter there is

a feeling that in “.1113 nor 'l'e may say

“Lord, anybody: L .d ug'tsna‘eiy, most

farmersseem to believe that arithmetic

is the one thing necessary to educational

salvation, and measure ability by the

 

zles are solved. Had I my way about it,
I would cut out all arithmetical super-
fiuities, like Compound Fractions, Re-
peating Decimals, the intricate commer-
cial puzzles which concern only bankers,
merchants and commission men, and ex-
pend the time and study on something
more useful. It seems to me as if civili-
zation, at present, can get on without
”grindstone puzzles” where three or
four men buy a grindstone in partnership
and each is so stingy he is afraid his
neighbor will get one grind the most,
and so they sit down to “cipher out”
each man’s share. I don’t believe in en-
couraging miserliness, and would urge
wearing out the grindstnne without
arithmetic or a fuss. It will be said,
perhaps, that to solve such problems
tends to strengthen the mental
powers and develop the reasoning
faculties, but there is enough to learn
that will be of use hereafter, enough
that will be left unlearned, to develop
any mind without these useless and per-
plexing puzzles. Education educates to
the best purpose when it is useful.
Scholarship in country schools has been
measured by an arithmetical gauge too
long.

To elevate our schools to a plane where
they will be worth the money they cost,
and where something more than the
“three R’s” can be profitably taught in
them, I would do away entirely with
“third grade” teachers’ certificates. It
is a shame to those who teach, a damage
to those who are taught, that the list of
third grade teachers as published in
county papers, outnumbers by ten or more
times, the number of those of the first and
second grade. Or, make it a rule that a
teacher once recorded as having a third
grade certificate, cannot enter for examin -
ation in that grade again,’ but must
“ step up higher." It does not speak well
for the sincerity, the enterprise, ambition
or scholarship of teachers to see the same
names year after year in the lowest grade.
The result Ibelieve would be twofold.
A number of incompetent teachers would
be crowded out, or forced to bring them-
selves up to the standard. The ambitious
and energetic would do this, the lazy and
indifferent—these our schools can spare
better than not—would drop out. Second~
1y, those who appreciate the dignity and
responsibility of their calling would be

encouraged to do. better work and more
of it. There 18 little incentive to strive

for first place when those standing third
are entitled to the same privileges and

 

readiness with which mathematical puz-

 

emoluments.

 


 

2 THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

l
Our district schools' have improved"
since the days when the alphabet was
ripped into young heads at the end of a

brass thimble. but have not betteredl
in the same ratio as other schools.)

For this farmers alone are in fault:
they manage the schools and must
shoulder the responsibility It is their
right to say what they wish their
children to be taught; it is their privilege
to insist teachers shall be competent. It
is a grave error to neglect the home
school, and then because of its inefficiency
send the children away from home at
the most critical age. when they most
need parental guidance and restraint. It
is difficult to institute reform when those
most bcnefitted are not alive to their own
interests. The great reason, the only
reason, why farmers are not intellectually
at the front. is through their want of
education. Look through your own
school district and count up the children
who will have no other educational
privileges than those afforded by the dis
trict school, reflect on what that school
teaches, and how, and then answer if it is
any wonder so many men are mere
machines to raise crops.

If a farmer has a son who shows a taste
for law, medicine, or theology he sends-
him to college; he educates him in busi
ness at a commercial college. If the son
is to be a farmer he is sent to the Agri-
cultural College—perhaps. Yet it seems to
me that there is the place for farmers’
sons and daughters to be practically
educated to their business. That is the
farmer’s school where prominence is
given to what will best aid and ennoble
his work; that is emphatically the farm
er’s school which instead of teaching
him to look down upon his calling,
opens his eyes to its dignity. The great
agricultural want of the day is more
education and intelligence on the farm.
To obtain these requisites we must use
the means at hand, improve our common
schools, and avail ourselves of the ad-
vantages ofiered by orr farmers‘ college.

BEA PRIX.

 

SOUND REASON ING.

 

Perhaps one who has never been a
mother will not be deemed competent to
write on the bringing up of 'girls, yet a
few thoughts which were suggested by
reading those of Daisy and Faith in late
numbers of the Household impel me to
enter for the first time, since it assumed
its present form. I believe there is a
medium course which mothers should
pursue in regard to the attire of their lit-
tle daughters, which will keep their minds
freer from vanity than the extreme one
advocated by Faith. It is not natural for
a little girl to be satisfied when dressed so
plainly as to form a marked contrast to
her playmates, and is liable to produce a
discontented longing for pretty things to
wear, which to my mind instead of being
wrong belongs to the God-given attribute
of “ love of beauty,” which finds a place
in every well-balanced mind. “When I
am grown up I shall have a red dress, a
blue paruol and lots of posies in my hat, "

 

said a discontented child in plain, dull
colors, looking at a more fortunate little
one in pretty attire, busy at play with ap-
parently no thought of what she had on.
It is not necessary to load them with
chains, rings and ornaments, without
which many grown up girls would look
better, but dress them as neatly as pos-
sible, so that with a little of mother‘s
judicious teaching impressed on their
susceptible minds, they will not he think-
ing of their clothes, and it seems to me
the happy medium is reached. Often
parents are unable to spend for dress
what their richer neighbors can, but if a
print is the best that they can afford for
Sunday oehool wear, it can at least be
made of some pretty color andin prevail-
ing styles, unless the style is something
ridiculous, like the short dresses Daisy
speaks of.

Then how easy if the right course is
taken, to learn them to have a care for
parents. Commence while they are yet
toddling around; give them the little
basket to pick up chips for mother—find
little tasks to help about each day. Do
not become slack in teaching them as
they grow older because (as I have heard
mothers say) it is more work than to go
on and do it yourselves, but be patient
and cheerful, and above all don’t forget
the word of appreciation that they crave
and prize so highly, and in your old age I
think you can say withadear. grey-haired
old lady whom‘I have known and loved
for years: “I never asked anything of
my children that they refused to do.”
One omission only can I remember this
hard-worked,weary mother of a large fam-
ily ever made of showing her apprecia
tion of the task performed. When her
little boy and girl came in to announce
to “ma'” that the yard was all cleaned.
she yielded to the hurry of work, and
turning to her eldest daughter said (aside):
“You go out and praise them up a little.”
Childish ears are sharp, however, and I
can testify to a little pang of disappoint-
ment that shot through one little heart,
proving that what mother thinks is best.

I am much interested in the butter-mak—
ing discussion; I do not know anything
about its manufacture on a large scale,
but think where'farmers make but a little
more than is used for home consump-
tion and sell as they make what surplus
there is, it is best not to wash‘ it.

If some one can furnish me with a recipe
for apple dumplings, steamed or boiled,
which will be sure to be light, they will
oblige. ONE WOMAN.

Wrnntaxsrox.

_...___—

MER’I‘IE AT THE STATE FAIR.

 

During the week just past the State
Fair has been a scene of interest to a
large number of our people, and its
pleasures and discomforts, its beauties
and defects, will furnish a subject for
conversation for some time to come. Up.
on enteringwthe grounds the first morning
of my attendance, I hastened to inquire
if our Household Editor was to be in at-
tendance, and much to my disappoint-

 

ment, received a negative reply. The

 

first thing to claim attention would be
classed with the discomforts, viz., the fine
light sand through which one must liter.

ally wade in passing from one building .

to another, while every breeze and rolling
wheel sent a cloud of it into the air to
fill face and eyes, and at last to settle with
satisfaction in every fold and crease of
one's clothing. At the outset I noticed
some care would be taken in moving
about and protecting clothing; but after a
time, finding it to be useless, and seeing
each neighbor as badly oil as themselves,
all endeavored to take no further notice
of this feature, but devote their time to
pleasure. There was a great deal to in‘
terest one. I was told at the close of the
fair by one of the managers that they
considered it a success in all ways. even
financially. I was much interested in
looking over the cattle; a finer display of
the kind I never saw, in all sizes, ranging
from almost elephantine proportions to a
tiny, bright-eyed calf, whose days I could
number upon the fingers of one hand.

The horses were many and very fine to
look upon, and some of them had been
trained to a great degree of perfection.

The sheep and swine received much
attention—but not from me; my interest
in sheep waned long ago, when I learned
that the worst looking were the most
valuable; and I never saw any beauty in a
hog.

Among the poultry were some speci-
mens that attracted fully as much atten-
tion for their oddity, as did others for
size.

For those interested in machinery,
there was opportunity for long inspec-
tion. .

Among the flowers were some pretty
arrangements, but the display did not
equal that made twelve years ago at the
same place.

The fruits were very attractive, and I
had a great desire (as I presume did many
another) to make more intimate acquaint‘

ance with some of the fairest specimens

Some of the vegetables were the largest I
ever saw. Whether the flavor of such
,would be equal to those of medium size
is aquestionin my mind, but as the dis-
play was only for the eye, the object was
attained.

Bee products in various forms were.

here in immense quantities, and together
with some cases of the little workers
themselves. proved of much interest to
those engaged in the business, and of
much curiosity to others.

In the building devoted to manufac-
tures was the .usual variety in unusual
qu intity.

I will only mention two departments in
which I was most interested, and where
the greatest injustice was done on ac-
count of limited space—the Art Gallery
and Fancy Work Department. In the
latter things, were so piled upon .each
other as to injure very much the effect of
many of the. beautiful pieces which were
sent there to beadisplayed. I found that
the passion for making crazy quilts had
been quite furious in some places the past
year. In some I noticed a little method
in the madness, which to my mind was

 

 


 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD.

3

 

 

an improvement. If the making of crazy ‘
quilts is misdirected energy, as some
think, what could be said of the manufac-
ture of rag curtains? Something infin-
itely worse, I should think. Among the
pictures one could spend enjoyably a
much larger time than was possible in the
crowd which for a great portion of the
time was surging past this portion of
the building. Some pieces were very
showy, and some very valuable. There
were some large historical pictures which

attractedagreat deal of attention from ‘

the crowd, but received no premium from
the committee. Upon inquiryI learned
that it was not lack of merit, but a mis-
take madc in their entry which shut them
out.

Doubtless many Household writers
were present at this fair, and I for one
would like to have them write their im-
pressions, for all do not see the same
things, or, seeing the same, see with dif-
ferent eyes. I know it to be the wish of
the Editor of our little paper to receive
more letters for its columns, and feel sure
that it is likewise desired by its readers,
a large number of whom I hope will
make early contributions upon any sub-
ject which may be of interest to them,
and so compel the enlargement of the

sheet. MERTIE.

PAW Paw.
_—‘OO—— -—-—

THE NEW LAMB KNITFER.

As we are publishing an advertisement
of this machine, we took Occasion on a
recent visit to call at the office of the New
Lamb Knitter Company at Jackson, and
we unhesitatingly pronounce it a machine
that any woman of average ingenuity
who may be looking for an opportunity
for earning an independent livelihood
may well desire to own. -

The range of work which the machine
will produce is almost incredible. Mr.
Lamb assures us that something like
one hundred different kinds of fabrics
can be made on asingle machine, and
any of these can be made in any form
desired.

We were especially interested in the full
shaped ladies’ and children’s stockings,
having a wide hem at the top, and nar-
rowed down the back of the legs, with
perfect, round heels,‘ (or with the old
fashioned square heels as preferred) and
the feet completely narrowed off at the
toe. These stockings are wholly finished
in the machine except to fasten the yarn
at the end of the toe. If the square heel
is made, then the bottom of the heel
needs to be bound off after it leaves the
machine. These stockings are worth on
the market, at retail, from fifty to seventy-
five cents per pair, and an average
operator will be able to make six pairs
per day aftera week’s practice, and an
expert operator will make two dozen
pairs per day.

Of common socks an ordinary operator
can finish a dozen pairs per day after a
week’s practice, and an expert can finish
three dozen pairs per day.

Ordinary mittens are produced just
about as rapidly as common socks.

 

Then we were shown a beautifulfifancy
rib mitten for ladies, which we are in—
formed can be knit at the rate of two to
four dozen pairs per day. Scarfs are
produced at the rate of a yard in length
in ten minutes. Ladies’ and gentlemen’s
jackets, caps, hoods, underwear of all
kinds, balmorel skirts, leggings, wristlets,
gloves, collars and innumerable fancy
articles, can be made very rapidly, and
these articles are in use in every family
in our land.

Samples of work done on the machine
are in our office, and we shall take
pleasure in showing the same to any who

. may call on us.

Mr. Lamb informs us that the average
production of the new machines in the
hands of an ordinary operator at home is
just about twice that of the old machine.
The company informs us that persons of
good intelligence and mechanical ability
will be able to handle the machine suc-
cessfully, without any personal instruc-
tions, the printed directions being suf-
ficient; and yet they much prefer that
purchasers should come to their office
and spend one or two days in operating
t 19 machine; and they are willing to
allow apart or all the expense of the trip
on the purchase price. It would seem as if
some of the women who are looking about
for a lucrative employment might, after
due investigation, purchase and profit-
ably use one of these knitting machines.

—-—¢w—-——

WHAT TO READ.

 

One of the most interesting books I
have read for some time is “Ben-Hur; A
Tale of the Christ,” by Gen. Lew Wallace,
of Indiana. As might be inferred, it is a
Jewish romance, Ben-Hur, the here,
being of- princely lineage;the time from
the birth to the crucifixion of Christ. The
story opens with the journeyings of the
three wise men, the Magi, representatives
of thethree great religions of the East,
the Hindoo, Egyptian and Greek.
Divinely~ guided, they journey each
from his recluse home toward aspring in
the desert where they meet, strangers
and yet friends, and together pursue their
way, led by the Star, to Bethlehem of
Judea. The descriptions of life among
the Jews are graphic and interesting; we
are shown how, chafing under the iron
yoke of Roman despotism, they were ever
looking for the promised king who was
to break their chains and fulfill their
idea of kingship by founding a splendid
earthly sovereignty. Possessed by this
thought, they were naturally unready to
receive one who promised no royal court,
and who had grown up among them,
poor and obscure. We see how tyran-
nous was the grasp of the Roman eagles.
and how the slightest occasion served as
excuse to grind down the “dog of a J ew.”
By an untoward accident, the falling of
atile from the roof of 'Ben-Hui’s house
upon the commander of the Roman
garrison, which resulted in a collision
between the Romans and Jews, Ben-
Hur is arrested, condemned to perpetual
slavery at the our in a Roman galley,

 

his mother and fair young sister Tirzah
s3nt into captivity, his estate con-
fiscated, and the great seal of Rome set
upon his palace gates. Of his further
adventures, his long search for his
mother and sister, the rivalry betWeen
the beautiful Iras, daughter of the Nile.

and the pure, pale Esther, the Jewish
maid, Iwill not speak, for part of the
pleasure of reading lies in the surprises,
we do not like to be anticipated. The
story is striking. interesting, “itgrows”
upon us. The battle at sea and the
chariot race are described With a vivid-
ness that makes them actual; and the
book will bear reading more than once.
There is an interesting item told in
reference to the authorship, to the effect
that Gen. Wallace and Robert Ingersoll,
friends, and both unbelievers, agreed to
each write a book which should treat of
Christianity. Ingersoll wrote ”The
Mistakes of Moses ” and remained an in—
fidel, but Wallace, while searching for
data for his work, become convinced of
the truth of Christian doctrines. Among
the good and wise sayings strung like
pearls along the pages, I have room for
but one extract, which struck me as
quaint and beautiful: " Perfect lives are
the treasures of God; on great days He
wears them on the ring finger of His
heart hand.”

Pleasant reading of a totally difierent
character is “From Ponkapog to Pesth,"
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, a rather im-
posing title for a series of sketches of
travel, the intent of which the author
makes plain in his prologue, when he
tells us that what is newest in foreign
countries is not always the people but
their surroundings, and the little details
of life and circumstance. By no license of
fact can the .book be termed a volume of
travels; the impression the reader obtains
is more as if he were looking at a series
of pictures, disconnected, but interesting
and delightful. The text is deliciously
funny, with that subdued but most charm-
ing humor which eludes you when you
would examine it, which steals upon you
subtly and provokes sudden mirth. Of
all dreary books, one that tries to be
funny all the way through is the worst.
Mr. Aldrich impresses you as not being
half as funny as he could be if he
liked. He speaks of the Escorial,
where “Spanish port-mortem etiquette
excludes Mercedes from the under~
ground library of gilded coffins—a
library of royal octavos, since none but
Spanish kings and queens are shelved
there.” Commenting on the way in
which some of the poorer Neapolitans
live, principally on the sidewalks, he says
of the Strada Santa Lucia: “ Glancing up
the sunny street at some particularly
fretful moment of the day, you may
chance to catch an instantaneous glimpse
of the whole neighborhood spanking its
child.” But humor is too delicate and
evanescent a thing to be extracted from a
book like plums from apudding. The
book is just the reading for an Indian
summer day, with its hazy skies, soft air
and gorgeous coloring; book and day are
n harmony. Baarmx.

 


 

4: THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

CORN RUSK MATBESSES.

 

While making my beds this morning, I
wondered how many readers of the
Household know how nice and clean a
corn husk mattress is. I have four in all,
and would not do without them for any-
thing. Thinking perhaps some of the
ladies would like to make some, I will
tell them how I made mine. When the
men began to husk corn seven years ago,
I asked them to take off the brown husks
on the outside of the ear and leave the
white ones on. They did so, and drew a
load to the barn; then we picked off the
white husks and spread them out to dry.
When dried we stripped them up quite
fine, and they were ready for the bed. I
then made my ticks in mattress form, and
filled them quite full of the husks, being
careful to have them even, and the cor
ners full; then tied them as we do comfort-
ables, with stout cord. I wish some of
the ladies who are using straw in their
beds would make one or more of these
beds, as I am sure they will not be sorry.
An iron brace from an old parasol makes
a splendid mattress needle. One load of
corn with the husks on will not be enough
for four beds, of course, but enough to

begin with. an’s WIFE.
Far-01.2011 .
———OOO—-—-—
SCRAPS.

 

WHY should we educate our girls? If
for no other reason, for this one: Be-
cause, aside from hereditary influences,
the mother has more to do in shaping the
child’s character and determining its
position in life, than all else combined.
The home life leaves an impress never to
be efiaced. A. child’s culture cannot be
neglected till fifteen or sixteen years have
passed, and then be commenced, or lost
time be made up. The preceding years
have left an indelible mark upon the
young life. To the education of women,
to their enlightenment and cultivation,
the age owes its supremacy.

 

Tm: Christian Union pays a tribute to
that useful member of every family who
stands between its members and ‘so many
of the little annoyances Of life, bearing
burdens for them, denying herself for
them, always stepping to the front and
taking the heat and worry of the day,
whom that journal likens to the “ wheel
horse ” who takes the poorest track and
the major part of the load. “However
willing her sacrifice, it is one, and noth-
ing but the devoted love and gratitude of
the households whose fires she has helped
to kindle, will reward her for what she
has given.”

IWATCHED from my window a rather
pretty picture the other morning. A lit-
tle girl, eight or ten years old, had estab-
lished herself on a bit of green turf in a
shady corner between the bay window
and front porch of the house, whose brick
walls formed aterra cotta background for
demure brown bangs and a very domestic
pinafore. Her doll lay beside her in a
bran new cradle, and the little miss was

 

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industriously hemming what looked to
be a sheet. There was a great deal of
deliberation about the setting of the
stitches, a deep solicitude about the ap-
pearance of the “right side," and fre
quent measurements of progress. There
was much trouble in tying knots, and
great vexation over frequent unthreadings
of the needle, but the little worker
patiently sewed on till “Vreeda” joined
her with another remarkable infant of
the doll kind, and the two evidently re-
solved themselves into a “ sewin’ ’ciety,”
and spent a very pleasant morning. How
few little girls, nowdays, I thought, ever
are taught to sew! Music,—piano, violin,
banjo, guitar, zither—crochet, macrame,
lace, all the ologies in all the books, but
no science of the needle. A broom has
been called a “ woman’s weapon ;” it is a
mistake, her proper implement is the
swift flying, shining, gold- eyed needle
sent on its mission of making and repair-
ing. It 1s no credit to a girl to say she
“ can’t sew;” it' 1s one thing which for her
own comfort and convenience she ought.
to know how to do. And in these days
of sewing machines, when even the doll
babies are dressed by machinery, it was
really a pleasure to see a little “old-
fashioned girl” with awkward fingers
but ambitious mind, dressing her own
doll. B.
INFORMATION Wanna—I wish to ask
Mrs. Fuller to give her treatment of rose
geraniums, in the house. Ours grow
rapidly, but spindling. They grow very
thrifty out doors, but our treatment in-
doors is wrong, but whereinIam unable

to tell. OLD SCHOOL TEACHER.

Tncunsnn.
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Br an oversight in “making up ” the
Household last week, Mrs. Edwards was
made responsible for all the Household
Hints of that issue, instead of the first
two, which she kindly furnished. The
Editor notes an error in the article on
"‘ Washing Machines” by the same lady,
in the recipe for soap. Two pounds of
sal-soda and one of borax would be heroic
proportions to a pound of soap. By
reference to a former letter in the House-
hold of July 15th, it will be seen that
these proportions are there given for a
barrel of soap.

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Useful Recipes.

 

CITRON Pansnnvns.-—Slice and pare the
citrons, take out the seeds, and then take a
gallon of pure, cold water in a preserving
kettle, and add a tablespoonful of pulverized
alum. Put in the sliced fruit and boil till you
can pierce it with a straw; take it out and
drain well. Then, if it is for table use, cut it
up into small squares, weigh it, and allow
three-quarters of a pound of sugar to a pound
of citron. Slice up a lemon quite thin. T181
up the lemon and a spoonful of pulverized
ginger in a bit of thin muslin and put into the
sugar. Bring the syrup to a boil, put in the
citron, and cook slowly for fifteen minutes
taking care not to break or mash it. Skim it
out into glass or stone jars, boil the syrup
fifteen minutes longer and pour it over the
fruit. Thisnreserve will keep a long time if

 

the air is excluded, and has the perfect flavor
of West India sweetmeats.

 

Crraox roa Cm on Pins—After taking
the citron from the alum water, as mentioned
above, take half a pound of brown sugar and
melt it. Putin the slices or end pieces and
boil till very soft; skim them out and spread
them upon enthen platters. Boil down the
syrup as thick as molasses and pour it over the
fruit. Set it in a moderately warm oven and-
let it dry. Pack it in a tight jar and you will
have the very nicest fruit for cake or pies that
you ever used. It will keep any length of
time and is a very convenient thing to have on
hand.

 

Srrcnn Touarons.-—Peel and slice seven
pounds of ripe tomatoes; put them into a
porcelain—lined preserving kettle, with half
their weight in sugar, 9. pint of vinegar and a
tablespoonful each of whole cloves, allspice,
pepper-coma and salt; set them over the fire
and boil slowly for two hours, stirring them
often enough to prevent burning; then cool
them in the kettle, and put them up in air-
tight jars of glass or earthen ware; keep them
in a cool, dark place.

 

PICKLED MusquON.-—Peel and slice two
large melons and weigh them; scald enough
vinegar to cover them, pour it over them and
let it stand over night; then pour off the vine-
gar, scald it and again pour it over the melon
Repeat the operation on the third day. On the
fourth day allow half the weight of the melon

in granulated sugar, boil it with enough fresh
vinegar to cover the melon, add a cupful of
mixed whole spices, and cover the melon with
the vinegar and spices. Keep the pickled
melon in glass or earthen jars, well closed.

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'For Full Information.

An ordinary Operator can earn from one to three
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100 Varieties of Fabric on Same Machine.

You can wholly finish twelve pairs ladies full-
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in a day! Skilled operators can double this pro
duction. Capacity and range of work double that
of the old Lamb knitting machine. Address

The New Lamb Knitter 00.,
117 and 119 Main St., west, Jamison, Mica.

 

 

 

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