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.DETROIT, OCT. 24, 1891.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

GIVING TH ANKS.

 

BY A. E. J.

The children stand beside the coop,
And watch the flufiy brood

Take dainty sin of Water
Or a dainty peck at food.

They try to guess how much of thought,
ls given the creature world.

And strand upon the problem
Where older brains are hurled.

“I‘hey mind their mother every time."
Says Seth. the sturdy boy;

Then. happy o‘er her new idea.
Fond Emma cries with joy:

“And every time they take a sip,
Oh. Fanny, don't you think

They lift their pretty heads to God.
And thank Him for the drink?"

 

NOW AND

THEN.”

 

When you are at a loss for “some-
thing new " in the way of entertain-
ment, give a “muggins party.” They
are very popular in some localities,
where people enjoy a hilarious time and
don’t mind if they appear a little
ridiculous. The game is “muggins”
played with dominoes, and the amuse—
ment is furnished by the decorations
bestowed upon the “mugginsed” in-
dividuals. These are stars, crescents,
circles, triangles, squares and hits like
nothing on earth above or heaven be-
neath cut from black court-plaster,
which are applied where they look
prettiest (l) on the faces of the losers.
Fancy coming in after a lot of people
have been playing muggins for an
hour, and being et’fusively greeted by
one’s friends with their faces decorated
after the style of a South Sea islander in
full dress; say the insignia of Japan in
the centre of the forehead, a straight
strip down the nasal watershed, cres-
cents accenting the natural inclination
of the corners of the mouth, and other
adornments of a similar nature pic-
turesquely bestowed upon the cheeks
and chin! One‘s first impression is that
she is being introduced to a company
of lunatics.

A peanut parade is something a little
more quiet. Buy a peck or a half
bushel of peanuts. according to the
number of guests. The quantity should
be large, to give all an equal chance.
Put them into a large pan, and it upon
a small table. Form the company in
procession, have some one play a lively
tune, and in step to the music the

 

guests march past the peanut:. With-
out an instant’s pause, each must take
as large a handful as can be grasped,
and when all have had a chance the
nuts are counted and the one who has
the most getsalittle prize; a second
prize for the next greatest is also
given. To ensure a prompt movement
and no hesitancy at the peanut stand,
after the procession is formed make
those in .line mark time a minute, then
give the signal to march, and if all re-
spond promptly the march will be in
time and the parade successful.

A “ Brown Supper ” is an innovation
upon pink teas, etc., with a savor of the
old necktie social about it, and is suit-
able for a mixed company or social.
Brown tissue paper neckties are pre-
pared for all; these are numbered and
the man must find the lady whose num-
ber corresponds with his and escort her
to supper. The tablecloth is brown-—
unbleached linen will answer—brown
tissue paper napkins are laid at each
plate and these have one corner turned
over and ornamented with a few dashes
of gold and watercolor .paints, with
date, as a souvenir. Orabright autumn
leaf may be affixed with a pin or a dron
of thick mucilage. The china, so far
as practicable, is brown; and the cat-
ables include brown bread, baked
beans, ginger cookies which are “done
brown,” chocolate cakes, fruit cakes,
anything that will carry out the brown
idea. Such asupper is a pleasant con-
clusion to a literary programme at a
club or s0cial. BEATRIX.

 

HOLIDAY FANCY WORK.

 

A pretty fascinator can be made of
cream white split zephyr or Shetland
wool. One skin of Shetland is suf-
cient. Two sets of needles are required;
one pair of steel needles of medium size
and two large needles of bone, wood or
rubber. The hood is straight on the
front edge and pointed 0n the crown.
The whole thing is knitted in garter
stitch, alternating the bone with the
steel needles; the steel needles give the
effect of gathering and the part knitted
by the bone needles stands out as pulls.
Begin the work with steel needless cast
on twenty stitches and knit six times
across, widening one every other time
across, (the widening to be on one
edge only) knit twenty times across

 

with the bone needles, then six times
with the steel needles. Continue to
alternate in this way until there are
seventeen putts, then narrow one stitch
every other time across (the narrowing
must be on the same side as the widen-
ing) alternating the needles as before
until the number of stitches is reduced
to twenty. Crochet all around the
hood in shell stitch, draw up the ends,
finish with a ball or tassel. Finish the
front with a bow of scarlet, blue or
white ribbon, according to taste.

A “cute " little memorandum book,
which can also be used for a needle-
book by substituting flannel leaves for
the paper ones, is made as follows:
Take a piece of pasteboard four inches
square, fold it diagnonally from opposite
corners, first cutting half through the
board with a penknife so it will fold
easily. Cut apiece of stiff paper the
same size. Baste the material you wish
to use for the cover on one side of
the pasteboard, and the lining on the
paper; overhand them neatly together,
slipping a steel head on each stitch.
Cut several squares of unruled paper a
trifle smaller than the pasteboard
square used for cover and fasten them
inside with a long stitch of silk. Sew a
couple of loops of No. l ribbon on the
fold on the back and slip a small pen-
cil through them. Sew a small bow on
the point, or sew ribbons to each point
and tie. _

A wood basket for use by the parlor
grate, or for quasi—ornamental pur-
poses in the sitting-room when it is
“tidied up,” is made of a pine box ten
inches high, two feet long and afoot
wide. Take the box to pieces and plane
bottom and long side pieces smoothly
and rub them with sandpaper. Nail
together again, paint with two coats of
black paint to which you have added a
little Japan varnish. and put brass
casters on the bottom. Wind a section
of abarrel hoop with twine and nail it
on securely for a handle. Out of yel-
low macrame twine crochet a strip
large enough to tack on the outside of
the side pieces, and fasten it to place
with brass-headed tacks, set close to-
gether, then give the crochet work a
couple of coats of shellac. You have
then a very pretty, useful and inex-
pensive wood basket which possesses
the merit of being strong and durable
and looks nicer than it is.

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The Household.

 

TEE ORIGIN OF MINCE PIES.

 

‘There was an old woman lived under the bill;
If she's not moved away. she lives there still:
Good matches she sold and dried apple pies:
and she’s the old woman who never told lies.”

From time immemorial this little
rhyme has been crooned to the babies;
and not a child, and probably not one-
half of the mothers know that this old
woman has moved away. Yes, moved
away a long time ago, changed her
business and was alive and well ac-
cording to the last cablegram. It
would! seem that Hepzibah—that was
the old woman’s name—was living all
alone, contented and happy in her little
ham under the hill, when an old man
with a hand-organ and a monkey by the
name of Nick, came along, stopped and
played some time, and Nick took off his
cap and passed it for a penny and did
so many cute things that Hepzibah
was completely carried away with the
whole business and offered to. trade her
house for the organ and monkey. The
trade was made, and off she started for
the Allspice Islands—Nick’s home.
Wherever she went there was a troop
of children, and even the men and
women came out to see the old woman
with a mop cap, big glasses, a funny

monkey doing funny tricks and the
big banal-organ. The dogs ran yelping,
itwasmuch like circus day. At last they
reached: the Allspice Islands, but the
climate was so warm no fires were
needed and she could not sell matches;
so, she opened a store where she sold
bananas, citron, raisins, curl-ants,
spices of all kinds, lemons, oranges,
dried apples and dried apple pies. But
pies went off slow or spoiled on her
hands, and she had a hard time to make
a living. One day she had just got the
crusts rolled out, and the pi e tins lined
needy for the apples, when a messenger
came running in saying that the oldest
son of‘Ifis Exceedingly Royal Highness
the Grand Admiral of the Allspice
Hands, was in a precarious condition,
having eaten two quarts of dried apples,
and Hepzibah was to come imme-
diately to do something to relieve him,
as there was great danger of his burst-
i'ng. She hurried right off, first bid-
ding Nick be good, locked him safely
in and betook herself to the Palace.
Now Nick was enraged at being left at
home and locked up like a criminal,
when he was nearly always allowed to
go along. 80 he commenced tearing
around at a fearful rate; he found an
empty-barrel and into this he turned the
jar of soaked dried apples and rolled it
up and down over the floor until he be-
came good natured and the apples were
minced fine. Then he was sorry he
hadacted soand thought he had spoiled
all the pie filling, so he cast about to
find aremedy. There was a big pan of
finely. chopped beef that was originally
intended for hash; this was turned into
the barrel, then followed citron, cur-
nants, raisins, cinnamon, allspice,

thing else that was conveniently near;
after stirring it up it was found al-
together too dry for practical use, so in
went a jug of cider, a basin of molasses,
a can of brown sugar 'and a. bottle of
brandy that Hepzibah had intended 'for
medicinal use. Stirring it vigorously
he ladled it into the tins, laid on the
upper crusts, a little bit crooked to be
sure, but exceedingly well done never-
theless for a first attempt. and twelve
pies were quickly set into the oven, a
brisk fire started, and then hearing
some one fumbling at the door he
dashed precipitately under the bed.
After a while Hepzibah came in and
smelling something delightfully agree-
able to the senses, she jerked open the
oven door and lo! there were twelve
pics with crispy, flaky, golden crusts
done to a turn. In a jiffy they were
out on the table, when it slowly dawned
on her benighted vision that she had
not made the pies, only rolled out the
crusts. Spying Nick she said, “Oh!
Nick, you prince of monkeys, it is one
of your tricks I know!” Now the Ad-
miral was so overjoyed at the cure of his

had sent along a deaf mute to carry
them back. It hardly seemed possible
that he had had time to get home with
the pies, when he came dashing back and
said His Exceedingly Royal Highness

-wanted one hundred more, and would

like to know-of what they were com-
posed. Hepzibah Seized a ‘knife and
cut a piece out of one of the remaining
pies, and after eating it she fell upon
Nick and hugged him almost to death,
exclaiming, “You priceless prince of
monkeys, your last trick was aclever
one! ” She examined the little that was
left in the barrel, and it is needless to
say that she improved on N ick’s recipe
and so successfully that it was an impos-
sibility to supply all who ordered the
toothsome pies. In course of time she
sold out her shop and married His Ex-
ceedingly Royal Highness the Ad-
miral of the Allspice Islands; and Nick
always wore a gold collar and had a
comfortable seat in the corner.

And this, dear children, is the way
that mince pies originated, those nice,
sugary, spicy. gingery, mince turn-
overs that your mammas bake you every
week when the general baking is done

p. EVANGELINE.
BATTLE CREEK.

 

A MAN'S DUTY.

 

I read “ Antioover’s ” article entitled
“Man’s Duty to His Family.” and at
once “fell to wondering." Man’s duty
as well as woman’s runs in so many dif-
ferent channels—would it be possible
for any one person to lay down rules for
another? We only know that, as far
asonr experience goes, there are times
in every life when it is next to im-
possible to tell what is our duty.» We
live, we have a being, we are called
upon to “ act, act, in the living present”

 

doves, extract, lemon peel and every-

~bdt how to perform our duty, and our

son that he had ordered ten pies and ,

whole duty, to our family is a question
that in many instances requires the
wisdom of a Solomon. It is indeed a
“long and a broad question.” But
I believe every well balanced man
can, if he wills, do his duty, and his
whole duty to his family. He alone
knows that “life is real, life is earnest,”
and his wife and his children are his
charge for life. Yes, for life; and he
and he alone is responsible for their
maintainance, their comfort, in a
measure that is not limited. He knows
too that their welfare and their hap-
piness are at his disposal in a great
measure: he also knows that they (his
wife and children) owe him a certain
amount of reverence and sympathy;
but does he always get what is his just
due? I fear not. But his duty is
nevertheless the duty of a man of a
family, he must look the world in the
face, and be a man for a‘ that.

" Then let us pray that come it may.
As come it will for a’ that.

That sense and worth o‘er all the earth,
May bear the gree, and a' that.”

AUNI‘ SABRA.

 

GUI BOND?

 

Daffodilly didn‘t {Visit Oakland 00.,
I am sure of that: for here nearly every
farm has a water-tank in the kitchen as
well as at the barn, while the lady of
the establishment has silk. plush, and
a gold watch with which to adorn her-
self, and very seldom rides in a wagon.
But it takes more thin silk, plush and
carriages to make a woman happy, for
it often happens that she who has the
most of them feels as cramped in spirit
as “Nance” did in reality. A woman
of sense and tact would not have re-
mained among such environments, and
one without- those two mental jewels
would find the same trouble in some
shape in any place in life. Nothing
short of total blindness would prevent
one who loved Nature from enjoying
the sunset, while to one without that
love all beauty of earth, air and sky
would appeal'in vain.

“Then a young couple starts poor in
the country and by hard work and close
economy reach a point where they are
able to better their condition and style
of living, in nine cases out of ten the
woman opposes it. ‘ She will not use
her best rooms because it makes work,
and she will not keep a girl to help do
the work; and when "he” asserts his
right to improvements in the fields, she
draws the lines in the house all the
closer to make up. and insists upon
making rag—carpets while he smokes
high-priced cigars in town. She can
not have a- new wash-tub, because “ he ”
will have a self-binder. Besides. what
would she do without a grievance, to
so many a woman her dearest treasure?
“The kingdom of God is within you."

'Our outward surroundings cannot make

us pure or impure, refined or coarse,
happy or unhappy. This must all
spring from our inner life.

 

After all, what good did Dafiodilly

    


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do “Nance?” Did she not go on in the
old paths, with perhaps a heavier dis-
content? We all know the “Why
don’t you do as I do” guest. We know
how shabby she makes everything
seem, and how her words grate upon
our vanity. And the burdens are
heavier than before, and we always

feel like blaming somebody besides Ours

selves for everything. Her ways are not
ours, perhaps we have no desire to make
them so. A quiet heart to heart talk
will sometimes change one’s views of
life, but usually the things which work
a change have to be thought out within
~ our own mental world. And—well,
what good did it do “Nance,” anyhow?
THOMAS. A. H. J .

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MY STYLOGRAPHIC PEN.

So many people have borrowed and
admired and inquired about my stylo-
graphic pen in the year that I have
owned it that I think they are not com-
mon and it is so wonderfully convenient
that I am constrained to tell the
HOUSEHOLD writers about it, although
I have no monetary interest in the
matter and write only in the interests
of writers. I do not use a pencil now
for all my scribbling, and for “taking
notes” it is unsurpassed.

I have seen but one beside my own,

but I never had better returns for one
dollar than for that thus invested, for it
is always ready, never gets out of order,
never blots nor scratches nor has
“spells” of any kind. It is a simple
hard rubber cylinder about two thirds
the length of a lead pencil and has a
point just like a well-sharpened pencil,
carrying sufficient ink for ten or twelve
hours’ steady writing. It is“ accom-
panied by a filler like a fountain pen,
but for continuous, .rapid work I very
much prefer it, as no matter what the
position or how it is turned in the hand,
it is always right side up.

I loaned it several times at Bay View
and answered several questions like
this: “ May I ask what kind of a pen
or pencil that is? I never saw anything
like it, but would like to get one if you
can tell me where they are tobe found.”
I always wear it slipped between the
buttons or hooks of my waist and find it
an ever convenient convenience. If I
had all the money for subscriptions that
has been signed with this pen, in
church and elsewhere, I could “ pay
the preacher” and have some left for
the heathen; and it is not uncommon to
be out and hear some one say: “I wish
I could sign my name or draw up
this resolution with ink,” then I whisk
out my pen and their wish is gratified.
It had been one of my trials to be al-
ways sharpening a pencil or dipping
my small gold pen in the ink so often,
but now all my troubles of that kind are
at an end, for when this is worn out I
shall, of acertainty, invest in another.

Previous to getting this I was some-
what troubled with “ writer’s cramp ”

 

from using a very small pearl-handled
pen, but this being larger has remedied
or cured that tendency. This pen is
also a superior one for drafting, as a
line can be drawn close to a rule, or
other instrument, without blotting.
The other one that I have seen was
purchased at a Detroit stationer’s for

a lady whose hand was so crippled with~

rheumatism that she could not hold a
common pen because it would turn from
the proper angle, but this kind was a
success. My purchase was by mail
direct from the manufacturers, and
their address is: “J. Ullrich & Co., 106
and 103 Liberty Street, New York.
Manufacturers Independent Stylograph-
ic Pen.” A postal sent to them would
bring a catalogue of styles and prices.
Rouse. EL. SEE.

FASHIONS FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.

 

"Our girls” are wearing dresses
made very much like those of their
young lady sisters, with the favorite
waist the jacket bodice with a shirt
front which is so becoming to immature
figures. Next in favor is the shallow
round yoke, with which is often worn
the pointed girdle, usually made in
velvet and fastened at the side under a
how. The peasant corselet, which is
simply an enlarged form of the girdle,
is often seen; its upper outline suggests
that of the corset, while below it is
pointed in front and behind and curved
over the hips, and is laced both front
and back, or may be made to hook in-
visibly on the left side. It furnishes a
convenient model for reconstructing an
old gown, as the part which appears
above the corselet may be of the dress
material or of silk of any harmonious
color, while the sleeves should be like
the bell ‘skirt; which, for a fourteen
year old girl should reach to the shoe-
tons and for one of sixteen to the ankles.
The skirt is from three to three and a
half yards wide.

Very many plaids are worn by young
girls and are very popular in the
novelty goods chosen for school and
every day wear. Not much trimming
is required for them, a bit of velvet
ribbon or a band of astrachan being em-
ployed. They are made with slightly
gathered waists, and trimmed with
three pointed bands of velvet, coming
from the side seams diagonally; mut-
ton-leg sleeves only moderately high
on the shoulders, with diagonal bands
on the wrists. Plain cashmere gowns
have full waists fastened under a fly in
front, gathered and corded at the waist,
worn with a six inch waistband, well
stiffened, and nearly covered with rows
of gimp or braid.

In colors, chestnut brown, green,
tan, cadet blue, and wine shades are
favorite selections, in Bedford cords,
cashmeres and serges. Where Astra«
chan is employed for trimming a three-
inch strip is applied to the skirt, and
small revers on the waist, or the As-

 

trachan appears as a narrow border on
all edges.

For cloaks, long ulsters, demi-length
capes and blue reefer jackets are all
popular. Most of the new ulsters have
deep capes and are belted. The new
jackets are of rough-faced cloth, lap to
the left, closing under a row of frogs,
with revers collar faced with fur or
Astrachan and having a narrow line of
the same edging the lapped front.
There are two pockets set in diagon-
ally. The Vassar sailor is very popular
with the girls, and simply trimmed
with a full pleated silk ruche br a
velvet band around the crown and stiff
wings or pompon at the back. Soft
looking turbans of cloth folded over a
stiff frame and ornamented with wings
and upright loops are often made to
match street dresses. And new felts
which rival the Vassar have the brims
cut in points which are then turned
back upon the crown and held in place
by fancy buttons, the trimming being
a silk scarf folded round the crown,
and showing between the turned back
points.

Little girls wear cloaks of Bedford
cord, ladies‘ cloth or the fleecy warm-
looking novelty goods. which have
lined skirts boxpleated to short round
waists which are covered by triple
capes which make the little wearer
look like an apple-dumpling. Along
coat has a deep cape edged with a nar-
row border of fur; the cape is lined
with silk, and this style is prettiest in
cashmere or other soft material. Hats
are large. with low crowns and wide
brims arched in front and turned up in
the back, their only trimming an enor-
mous'bow of wide ribbon or velvet set
in front. Sometimes a ruche of two-
inch satin ribbon edges the brim, with
three rosettes, each of different colors,
to take the place of the how. The hat
should match the cloak in color.

“0.—

UNCONSCIOUS CRUELTY TO CEIL-
DREN.

 

Not long ago, at amuddy street cross-
ing a lady was in front of me leading a
small child by the hand. As she
stepped off the curb she yanked the
child up and it hung suspended by one
arm like a pendulum, and thus she ran
across to the other side. Now if a tall
giant could only have pulled her up in
the air and let her hang by one arm
she would have found the sensation far
from agreeable. Another morning I
was on a side street and saw several
children around the front steps of a
house, very interested lockers on while
a woman was 'whipping her child. I
don’t know what the little one had been
doing, but her face, distorted by rage,
pain and shame, was like that of a
small devil. Nothing can excuse that
mother for whippingr her child before
that grinning crowd of children. and
for all the good it did the child, she
will probably lay it up, if she lives to be

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an Old woman. Again, a conductor
came along in the street car to collect,
fares. The mother of a six or seven
year old child hands up a nickel. “ You
must pay for the child,” said the man.
“But she is under five,” said the
woman. Her little girl heard her
mother tell a deliberate lie, and took a
long lesson in deceit. Again, babies are
sent out to ride in their cabs pushed by
careless children. I’ve seen them tear
along the pavement, the baby’s eyes in
a full glare of sun. And one time the
wagon jerked along over astone, tipped
over, and out rolled the little innocent
over the curb, and under the horse‘s
legs that stood there. The horse held
up one foreleg and would not put it
down, but turned his head and looked
at his master, who came running, and
said as plainly as a horse could say it,
“Come get this young one,” while I
thought, what are mothers thinking of
to be so careless?

DETROIT. SISTER (iRACIOUS.

 

MAKING APPLE BUTTER.

A correspondent of an eastern ex-
change gives the following directions
for making apple butter, which is a
favorite breakfast dish on a good many
farmers’ tables. Apples and cider are
plenty this year, and a few gallons Of
apple butter will vary the usual apple
sauce and baked apples quite accept-
ably: “ The process consists'jn boiling
down cider fresh from the press to
about half of its original quantity; then
pare and quarter, or divide into
eighths, good, well-flavored, sound
apples; windfalls are as good as any if
the bruised spots are cut out, and, if
used for this purpose, quite an amount
of excellent fall apples may be utilized
in this way that otherwise would soon
decay. The cider having been boiled
down to the proper consistency, place
the fruit in it and boil it slowly for
hours, stirring it constantly to prevent
its scorching or burning on the sides or
bottom Of the kettle. In this operation
the fire must be kept steady and low,
simply heat enough to keep upa slow
boiling, and the stirring is best done
with a wooden paddle or blade set at
right angles on the end of a stick long
enough for the one 'using it to stand
back from the fire, and with the blade
long enough to scrape the bottom of the
kettle. If the cider is from sweet
apples then the fruit should be rather
acid, but excellent apple-butter can be
made by using such cider as is com-
monly madevin the fall by putting into
it any pleasant-flavored fall apples. A
little cinnamon, allspice and cloves
should be put in, and a few quinces
added to a kettleful will impart their
flavor to the butter. Where it is not
convenient to use sweet cider a sub-
> stitute equally as good can be made by
boiling sweet apples in water until they
are soft and pulpy; then dip them out
. into a bag and strain out the juice by

  

pressing the pulp. Then boil this
apple water all down to the same con-
sistency you would cider, and if made
from sweet apples it will be fully as
good for this purpose. Should fer—
mentation occur, apple butter can easily
be restored to sweetness by scalding it
slightly, and without injuring its
quality.”

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HOME-MADE BUGS .

 

Most home-made rugs are made of
rags, knit or braided and sewed to-
gether, and sometimes “hooked” with
a coarse crochet hook. They are ser-
viceable, and the material for making
them is usually to be had in the house,
especially where rag carpets are not
made. One convenient way is to get
the weaver to weave a piece about a
yard and a quarter long, of hit—or-miss
rag carpet, and then border it with a
fringe made of inch wide strips of
heavy black cloth; two rows of the strips
make a sufficiently heavy fringe. Sew
them to the edge of the carpet, then
line it with sacking or burlaps, tacking
it several times through the centre to
hold lining and outside together.

For a knit rug, it is more convenient
to knit squares about a foot in size—or
they may be made oblong if preferred-
and sew them together. Knit half the
blocks of dark goods, alike if possible;
the other half of hit-or-miss or a bright
or light material. Sew together to
form a basket pattern and border with
a fringe as above.

A remnant Of carpet can be made into
a good rug by' hemming and lining it,
and finishing it with a fringe made of
ravelled carpet, used double. Or it
may be bound with awide strip of black
or dark brown goods.

Another way of making a knitted
rug is to cut cloth into strips about two
inches long and one-fourth inch wide.
Then take carpet chain and set up
about twenty-three stitches on coarse
steel needles. This makes a nice width
for a strip. Take off the first stitch
Without knitting it, then lay in one of
the little strips cross-wise, knit the
next stitch and then put in another,
bringing it over as before. This is the
same as “thumbing” mittens. Be sure
to set up an odd number of stitches, for
if not, there will be one extra stitch at
the end. Also do not put in rags every

time across, but knit every other row
across plain. Sew the knitted strips
together when of sufficient length.

It is not worth while to put a great
deal of labor on rag rugs by construct-
ing flowers, birds, etc., on them. The
more inconspicuous and inoffensive
they are the more are they in conson-
ance with good taste.

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THE wild frost grape makes a piquant
jelly. Don’t forget this when the
children rob the vines of the sour, foxy
fruit, but make it up into jelly. The
“squeezings” of the jelly-bag make a
cloudy jelly that is just the thing to put

 

into the mince-meat.

“PANSY,” who hails from Carson"
City, sends a recipe for “ delicious.
ginger cookies” which will be found in
the proper column. She also says:
“I have been a reader of the HOUSE?-
HOLD five years, and hardly know how-
to keep house Without it. I find many
helps and a great deal of sympathy in.
its pages; especially did the article by
Evangeline, ‘Mothers” Difiiculties,’ fit.
my case.”

IT is said to be an excellent idea to\
keep a small pan of water in the oven,
as it prevents the bread or cake from
burning, even with a very hot fire,
saves much watching 0f the contents of
the oven. and prevents a thick, hard
crust. The pan should be shallow in--
stead of deep, and asoldered pan will
not answer as the solder melts and the
dish leaks. If the oven is too hot, take
out the pan and fill with cold water,
but be careful about turning water into»
a hot pan or you’ll get a burn.

 

THE Midland Republican says two
young misses, daughters of farmers
living in the vicinity, made exhibits of
bread, cake, and farm products at the
fair and each received a nice sum in
premiums, One of them, Edith Sias,
capturing prizes amounting to nine
dollars. Miss Ethel McReavy was the. .
other exhibitor. At the Milford fair
little Miss Elsie Morrison, eleven years
old, wona special premium in gold coin
for her bread, cake and pies. This is
as it should be. Give the girls a chance.
Encourage them to believe they can
win on something besides knit lace and
patchwork. The girl who can make a
loaf of. good bread is a more valuable
member of society than she whose
achievement is represented by a crazy,-
quilt. -

Contributed Recipes.

 

ESCALLOPED Porno—The potato should“
be raw and sliced thin. Into a basin or pud-r
ding dish put a layer of potato, add salt,
pepper and bits of butter. then more potato-
and so on until the dish is nearly full, then.
pour on cream until the dish is two-thirds
full, remembering to use a liberal amount
of butter all the way through; cover and set
in a hot oven and bake one hour, taking off ‘
the cover toward the last, so the potato can
brown. Serve in the dish in which it is-
baked. Nice for supper.

 

POTATO “A LA CREME.”—Put into a sauce-
pan three tablespoonfuls of butter; a small
handful of parsley: salt and pepper to taste.
When hot add a teacup of rich sweet cream;
when hot add one tablespoonful of flour; when.
it boils and cold boiled potatoes chopped
fine; let beat well; boil up once and serve.

BATTLE CREEK. EVANGELINE.

 

DELICIOUS GINGER Coonms.—~One—half
cup of sugar; one-half cup of sour milk; one-
cup shortening; one cup of molasses; one
half teaspoonful of grated alum; one team
spoonful of ginger; one teaspoonful of soda..

 

CARSON CITY. PANSY.