DETROIT, MARCH 19-, 1892.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

THE COMING MAN. .

 

A pair of very chubby lees
Encased in scarlet hose;

A pair of little stubby boots.
With rather doubtful toes;

A little kilt. a little coat.
Out as a mother can—

And 10! before us stands in state
The future’s "coming man."

' His eyes. perchance. will read the stars.

And search their unknown ways;

Perchance the human heart and soul
Will open to their gaze:

Perchance their keen and flashing glance

' Will be a nation's light—

Those eyes that now are wistful bent
On some “big feilow‘s" kite.

Those hands—those busy little hands—
80 sticky. small and brown:

Those hands whose only mission seems
To pull all order down-

Who knows what hidden strength may be
Secreted in their clasp.

Thou sh now ’tis but a tafly stick
In sturdy hold they grasp?

Ahl blessings on those little handa,
Whose work is yet undone!
And blessings on those little feet.
Whose race is yet unrun!
And blessings on the little brain
That has not learned to plan!
Whate’er the future holds in store,
God bless the “coming man."
-—Somervu£e Journal.

 

SPRING STYLES.

 

A popular style for street dresses for
sprihg wear, and which will be used
for summer traveling dresses, com-
prises a jacket and skirt of cheviot,
homespun, or serge, and a full waist or
blouse of surah. The jacket may be
the old reefer, or blazer, or of the new
shape, with round waist and skirt
sewed on along the belt line, and the
back having a box pleat in the centre.
The skirts are about fourteen inches
deep. The jacket does not meet in
front, and there are revere which nar-
row from the neck to the waist line.
The surah waist can be made as pre-
ferred; one of the prettiest models is
made over a whaleboned lining. with
the fullness laid in pleats, full sleeves
‘ with deep cuflfs, and a high military
collar. This ccostume, made in blue
and white cheviot 'with blue surah

blouse, or of brown and white with‘ '

brown surah, may be relied upon as a
neat and suitable traveling dress for
spring and summer.

' ' The Russian blouse is quite iashion-
able at present and promises to be more

'eflect is given with much less trouble

 

so as the season advances. The same
in fitting, by cutting abell skirt, and
covering it with - the material of the
dress to a point above the knees—if
economy of goods is a necessity. Other-
wise it is well to cover the entire skirt.
Over this is a shorter skirt, shaped
exactly like the lining and coming
about to the knees. This, and the foot
of the skirt are bordered by aruche.
With this is- worn a round full waist
which laps on the left, and which has a
narrow ruche extending down the lap.
A beltis worn. The sleeves are full' at
the shoulders, sloped to nearly fit the
hand. The real Russian blouse should
have a yoke, and the sleeves are
finished with caps, after an almost for-
gotten style.

A grey cheviot made with the in-
evitable bell skirt—which is now more
full than heretofore—has no trimming
at the foot. With it is worn acJat
basque, double breasted and roundly
pointed, with a wide shawl collar of
heavy black silk.

For a young girl, a pretty dress of
blue vicuna cloth has a skirt cut with
a front breadth twenty inches wide at
the bottom and gored to ten inches at
the top, and two back breadths each
forty-seven inches wide and gored to
twenty-four inches at the top, the back
of the skirt being an inch longer than
the frout. With it is worn a full waist
open in iront, belted with a wide rib-
bon with bow at the side, and a turn-
over collar of ribbon. Coat sleeves
made close at the hand.

Another pretty costume for a girl is
cut princess and worn over a pleated
silk guimpe. The entire dress must be
lined. Cut and fit the lining first.
Then cover it with the dress goods.
The guimpe extends from the neck to
the top of the darts in front and to the
under arm point of the armhole in the
back. A pinked, box pleated ruche two
and a half inches wide trims the top of
the princess, and borders the skirt,
which is made below the shoe tops. A
dress of very much the same style is
also suitable for young ladies.

Skirts are made too long. There is no-

 

objection to trailing skirts in the house -
or for carriage wear, but on the street '
they are a nuisance requiring one hand '
to hold them up, and if not held up are '
positively disgusting. What there is '

that is graceful or beautiful about a
quarter of a yard of dress sweeping
along behind a woman and wiping up
the filth of the street it is impossible to
imagine. Rubber facings but slightly
mitigate the nuisance, and I have seen
women with skirts wet with mud and
dirt for six inches wiping up more
mud, while one hand feebly clutched a
small part of the fullness. “ Scavenger
skirts,” sure enough; no woman of any
refinement or neatness will use her
skirts to uSurp the prerogative of the
street-sweeping machines. Worth,
Redfern and English tailors unite in
condemning the trailing skirt for street
wear, but this winter it has been al-
together too prominent with us. An
effort is being made this spring to
shorten street suits, while still making
them just to escape the ground.

A good way to reconstruct an old
dress for spring service is to trim the
skirt with a narrow bias band of velvet
or silk, under which it may be length-
ened if necessary. Or a band of the
same piped on the upper edge with
velvet may be used. A waist with a
deep velvet yoke, or one of pleated
silk, pointed in front, will aid amazing-
ly in helping out a scant pattern, as
will the deep velvet ends for the
sleeves. The waist can be cut round
and worn with a corselet, or pointed
front and back, with tabs of silk or
velvet which start from the under arm
seams and cross front and back.

BEATRIX.

W

IMPRESSIONS OF ~BOBKS.

I am glad that there is a. use for
spiders’ webs. I have heard before
that they were one of the best things
to stop the flow of blood when every-
thing else failed. Perhaps John’s Wife
could tell us how to apply them to
sooth an aroused temper. One could
make her fortune if she could find a
sure remedy for inflamed temper—or
perhaps it would sound better to say
irritated nerves. 1 like to see people a.
little—a very little—sharp, just enough
to be spicy, but not enough to be pun-

gent—bless you, not that! There are

few peOple in this busy. scrambling,
struggling life who haven’t all the
irritants they need to rub off corners
and polish surfaces in their daily round
of labors and contentions with inani-
mate things, without being picked at,

 


 

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tickled or scratched by one who has a
brain to think, a conscience to guide,
and a heart to suggest kind, soothing
words and acts. How contentedly the
cat purrs when she is stroked the right
way! How easy it is to win the love
and confidence of the rudest, most un-
taught child, by bestowing upon him
a kind, affectionate look and a few
pleasant words.

It is harder to win the love of men

and women, but it can be done by per-_

severing in being bling and deaf to
slights and insults, and being one’s
own true self, with the heart overflow-
ing with affection for every one. A
kinl look and word from highest to

' lowest will do the giver no harm, but
real good; and to the recipient it may
do much good in encouraging ,him to
struggle towards higher ground, at
least it will give a few pleasurable
moments which may not be of frequent
occurrence in his life.

"‘89” wishes to know what we are
all reading these long evenings. I
have been reading again two of Dickens’
books, the “Tale of Two Cities,” and
“ Old Curiosity Shop." There is some-
thing fascinating in Dickens for me,
and still I feel a resentment at his treat-
ment in general of the middle and
lower classes; it isn’t that he does not
see anything true or lovable in them,
as that sweetest of all his lovable ones,
“Little Nell," and many others prove,
but the illustrations and much of the
conversations are perfect caricatures;
and who ever saw any one so fiendishly
ugly as “Quilp?” In fact all Dickens’
characters seem overdrawn to me. they
are so immaculately good, fiendishly
ugly or foolishly soft: it seems as if the
“mejum’ people" were very scarce in
his experiences. I will not criticise
his works, but leave that to wiser heads
than mine.

Iam also re-reading Mrs. A. D. T.
Whitney’s works; the one now in hand
is “Sights and Insights.” Patience

' Strong has taken Emery Ann to Europe
for her health. When some of her
friends remonstrated she replied: “If
I was ordered a sea voyage to save
me the use of my sight, don’t you
think I should take it? " For the bene-
fit of those who have not read this
. book, I will tell them a little about it.
Patience Strong was a maiden lady
long past her youth. Emery Ann was
her help, and had been her mother's
before her. Mistress and maid were
companions and friends as well; Miss
Patience writes to a friend all the little
gossip that women talk over together
who are very intimate friends, and
with this the sights they saw; and the
“insights ” were the thoughts sug-
gested or what they read between the
lines. Emery Ann’s quaint wise say-
ings come out in blunt New England
phraseology.

Another book I have recently read

is “Japanese Girls and Women,"
which is very interesting; it; gives a

 

review from babyhood to womanhood
of their training and customs.

“Over the Tea Cups,” by O. W.
Holmes, I enjoyed, of course, and
“Around and About South America,”
by F. Vincent. Considering how little
is known, and also the relations which
existed between the United States and
Chile recently, every one is anxious to
know as much of that country as pessi-
ble. “In and Out of Central America”
by the same author, and also a little of
“ Emerson’s Essays,” with now and
thenastory that~I cannot recall suf-
ficiently to make the mention interest-
ing. My next book will be Tolstoi’s
“My Confession” and then “My Re-
ligion.” I know I am way behind for
not reading Tolstoi before, but I enjoy
and get more good from reading any-
thing when I am just ready for it, and
am very anxious to know all about it. I
read half a dozen newspapers, that is,
run over them every week. (I am the
nearest being perfectly happy when all
alone in the house,and a very interesting
book before me, I think.) I have also
read “Science and Health,” by Mary
B. P. Eddy. If I should tell you every-
thing that I have‘ read this winter,
some of you would say, “I do not be-
lieve she does anything else but read.”
but I do—a little.

Since writing the above, I have read
“My Confession,” am now reading
“Life and Letters of Elizabeth Pren-

tiss. ” M. E. H.
‘ ALBION.

 

TEE MODERN YOUNG MAN.

 

What a delightful piace the world
would be if the modern young man
were more like his forefathers! A boy
(if those who were boys themselves
twenty years ago are to be believed)
used to get up early, build the fires,
help his mother get breakfast, dress
the baby; and when the househOld ma-
chinery was in running order depart
for his work. When that was over he
always went straight home and spent
his evenings studying and reading
Young’s “ Night Thoughts. ” His only
recreation was prayer-meetinar. He
was ignorant of the odor of tobacco and
would have been horrified at the sug-
gestion of drinking raspberry-shrub.
He had an Addisonian manner of
speech, and seldom used words of fewer
syllables than three.

There was no exception to this model
twenty years ago.

But the modern young man is so dif-
ferent. His mother calls him' when
breakfast is ready and feels grateful if
he 'condeseends to arise within half an
hour. He is highly indignant if the
coflee is cold and the muflins have lost
their crispness. After breakfast he
smokes a cigar in the drawing-room,
and then wanders down town to his

business—scealled for lack of a better.

name, but which allows, him plenty of
time for countless cigars, and gossip un-

 

limited. He lunches at a restaurant
down town, and spends the afternoon in
front of the largest hotel in the place,
making remarks on the passers-by and
trying, usually in vain, to find a girl
silly enough to flirt with him. As night
approaches he hastens homeward to
make his evening toilette. It takes
him along time, usually two hours, but
the result is overwhelming! He spends
twenty minutes trying on different
neckties and deciding which shade of
red is most becoming. His greatest
difficulty is with his hair; for not being
to the manner born, he does not use the
curling tongs with the dexterity which
should come by such long practice; but
at last he is attired and sallies forth,
usually to the theater. He does not
take a lady because he prefers a seat in
the gallery or bald-head row; and must
go out to see a man after every act. Yet
in spite of his life of restful ease, his
temper is not of the sweetest. The
young woman of today—if she is sensi-
ble—is chary of getting married, es-
pecially if she has money; for she knows
the modern young man would soon
spend it all on cigars, billiards, and
other essentials of his existence, and
then growl because there was no more.

Do I believe all this? Most emphati-
cally I do not. But it is just as true as
the article entitled “The Modern
Girl,” in a recent HOUSEHOLD. What
an “Old Bach” writes is undoubtedly
true of a certain class of girls, and was
true of the same class twenty, forty or
a hundred years ago. Only every
year the class of sentimental idiots is
growing smaller. For proof contrast
the heroine of the old-fashioned novel
with one of the bright, energetic, help-
ful women who appear in the fiction of
today.

There are twenty girls earning their
living today where there was one in the
good old days of twenty years ago. As
for the time spent in arranging the
hair and dressing, I wish with all my
heart that that might be true. But the
modern girl is only too apt to spend
what little time she has in the morning
making beds, dusting, and trying to
put the house in order for the day; and
then have to rush of! to office, school-
room, store, or sewing-room, feeling
uncomfortable as only a woman can
when she knows that there is a rip in
her glove, that her hair is not curled
carefully, and that she has not washed
yesterday’s mud from her rubbers.

The society girl’s duties lie in a dif-
ferent direction, but are as a rule quite
as hard in their way, She must learn

to overlook the servants’ work, must .

not only paint the china which graces
the table, but must take care of it; for
it is too fragile to entrust to the tender
mercies of Bridget. She must be able
to play in order that she may entertain
others, and must read that she may
talk intelligently. She must be her
mother’s right hand in dispensing
hospitality, and try hard to he agree:

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able to “ all sorts and .conditions of
men.” In short, the duties of the
. modern girl are innumerable, and
whatever maybe her station in life she
almost always perform them admirably.
“ Old Bach,” did you never hear the
fable of the fox and the sour (?) grapes?
Because the modern girl is beyond you,
and in the language of the time, has no
use for back numbers, do not try to be
sarcastic at her expense. E. 0.
Pour HURON.
.___....__._
TEE MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR
THE DEAF AND DUMB.

 

Probably few persons have any idea

' of the great proportion of deaf mutes
the pOpulation of our State contains,
or of the manner in which they are
educated.

Toe Michigan School for the Deaf,
located on an eminence just inside the
limits of the city of Flint, was estab-
lished by special act of the Legislature
in the year 1854. The buildings as they
now appear do not bear any resem-
blance to the structure of thirty-eight
years ago. As it is, the buildings have
been considerably enlarged from time
to time, and new cover with all appur-
tenances about two acres of ground.

A visit to this institution is well
worth one’s time, but as it does not fall
to every one to see it for themselves a
short description of the building as it
first impresses the stranger may not
be out of place. Arriving at the main
entrance one is conducted into a pleas-
ant and commodious hall, the walls of
which are hung with portraits of for-
mer governors of Michigan, those of
Grape, Baldwin, Alger and Bagley
being the first to attract the eye. The
state parlors, beautiful rooms in de-
sign and finish, occupy one side of the
hall, while on the other the private
office and trustees’ room are situated.
The latter is one of the pleasantest
«rooms the whole Institution affords,
and is adorned with pictures, repre-
senting some of the best work executed

' by the students of the Art class. By
the way, it may not be out of place to
add right here that the pupils of the
school seem to display an aptness for
the pencil truly surprising and cer-
tainly very creditable to themselves.

The library is in close proximity. In
the matter of literature the State has
not provided as bountifully as one
might wish, only between three and
four thousand volumes of standard

.works of all classes are to be found
here. However, the Central Board of

' Control has authorized the purchase
of about-$500 worth of new publications,
to be procured at the earliest oppor-
tunity, or as quickly as satisfactory
terms may be agreed upon.

But let us not linger here longer,
the schoolrooms claim. our attention
and thither we will repair. “ How are
they taught? ” u Why, by finger-spell-
ing, of course,” you answer, whiCh is

 

both a right and a wrong version of the
matter. In the first place, it is right
as regards teaching in the higher
branches, and the use of anything else
is strictly forbidden; but how could
you expect the young, person to ex-
press his thoughts in English before he
had yet attained a full command of that
indispensable acquisition? It would
be like expecting - thejunior of our
common schools to read are he could
speak. Here it is that the sign lan-
guage is called into use. The Editor of
the HOUSEHOLD and those contribu-
tors who live in Detroit may have
observed its use among the deaf of that
city. The teachers in this school are
non deaf mutes, as might be expected,
Only four out of a corps of twenty being
deficient of hearing. The tide of
public opinion is almost unanimously
in favor of instructors who are able to
hear, and consequently a great majority
of hearing persons have taken an in-
terest in the deaf and their education.
and many have adopted the profession
as theirlife-work. Especially is this
true of Dr. Alexander Mahone Bell, of
Washington, D. C., and Dr. P. G. Gil-
lett, of Jacksonville. Illinois. Such an
enterprise on their part is undoubtedly
very commendable and worthy of
special mention. Were it not for the
efforts of Dr. Bell, the deaf might en-
joy fewer advantages.

In connection with the school are
several shops in which work of diflerent
grades is assigned the older pupils.
Here also is established a printing
office, one of the compositors being
your youthful scribe, who enjoys set-
ting type, but when a “ pi” is made the
business does not always prove one of
unalloyed bliss after all. However I
have not yet distinguished myself as a
veteran “ pi-maker.” and pride myself
on my knowledge of the “art of arts
preservative” despite the fact that all
my instruction has been gleaned from
about nine months’ service.

Leaving the mechanical industries,
the visitor may, if he chooses, inspect
the kitchen and other departments,
and nearly every one does avail him-
self of ' the privilege; the engine rooms
are not Open to the public. Cooking is
here done by modern conveniences and
it is interesting to watch the prepara-
tions for dinner goingon. I can think
of nothing similar unless it be the
kitchen of some of the large hotels of
the city of Detroit, especially on days
when the public happens to have a
very sharp appetite.

And now let me close, although my de-
scription may be inadequate, and every
little detail not closely depicted here.
Come and see for yourselves; you will
be welcomed. The State urges your
inspection, and when you have seen it

all, surely you will admit that Michi-
gan, with her desire to excel in educa-
tional matters, has not been outdone in

any way, as regards the education of
he}; deaf children. 8. M. G.
rm.

8

A REMEDY FOR “A WOMAN'S
GREEVANCE."

It has been currently reported that
the masculine part of the human
family contains numerous specimens
that might be much improved upon,
but I certainly did not believe any were
so bad as that desperately bad man
who won’t clean out the berry patch
and henhouse, tracks mud into the
house, and worst of all, spends a whole
day each month at the Farmers’ Club!

Well, it seems to me, Elizabeth E.,
that you must have “grabbed in the
dark ” and' made a mighty poor grab
when you got such a man; but now that
you’ve got him and he’s got you, the I
only way seems to be to make the best
of it, and while I truly believe that not
all substances are suitable to make
good whistles, yet there is surely a
chance here for improvement, and cer-
tainly it is needed.

Now, asastarter, get him some of
those good dinners you speak of. (The
way to a man's heart is via his
stomach.) Then when he is in good
and pliable mind, convince him by kind,
wifely persuasion, that he ought to turn
over a new leaf. and if he can‘t make
the turn just “ lend a hand" and help
him to turn. Persuade him to enter
the hen house to gather the eggs,
fasten the door on him and let him re-
main till he becomes fully acquainted
with the nature of hen-lice, and can
tell the number of teeth in a full grown
one. Take him from the hen-house to
the berry patch and induce him to
prune and dress it up; tell him the
briers may scratch and tear him, but
they will surely scratch off some of the
hen lice. Then, when he comes into
the house with muddy boots make him
take off his boots at the door, and allow
him to wear only bare feet while in the
house, and as often as you get a good
chance step on his toes, to remind him
that he’s at home. A good plan is to
spill some boiling water on his feet; it
will not only help to clean them and
kill hen lice, but will strengthen, won-
derfully, his growing resolve to ever
after clean his boots before entering the
house; and he’ll soon find this so much
trouble he will sod or gravel the yard.

As to going to the Farmers’ Club,
when he begins to get ready to go you
get ready too, and go. and you’ll like it
so well and enjoy so much the meeting
with neighbors and friends, and the
exercises of the Club, the music, essays,
papers, recitations, earnest discussions
of the many troublesome agricultural
and domestic problems (including no
doubt “how to manage a husband”);
then to all this add the good dinner
and pleasant conversation, and you’ll
go home feeling so much better and
happier that you’ll join the Club too,
and receive so much good therefrom
that you’ll forgive your husband for
attending without you (and that is
much to forgive and requires a lot of

 

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grace). And almost before y0u are
aware of it those long' neglected duties
which you mention are being per-
formed; home begins to look brighter,
and you both find your hearts singing
in unison as they were wont to sing of
yore, “Home, Sweet Home.” . But let
me whisper to you, be careful and don’t
break the spell at housecleaning time,
for that is the whirlpool in which many
a good husband, after losing sails and
reckoning, is driven by the storm out to
sea and his goodness is lost.
THEOPOLUS. '

 

A COSY CH AT.

 

Sister Sensible. how could you so
misapprehend Sister Gracious in her
spicy little article, “False Guides? ” We
all laughed heartily at the ludicrous
way she set out the absurdities of con-
siderable of this paper housekeeping
and managing. But she dues not once
insinuate that these are the rule, but
rather the exception. See, she tells us,
“ I looked up my old tried recipes " etc.,
quite likely taken from some “ House-
hold ”—probably ours. Oh dear, no, not
foolishly written, not the least little
mite wicked, but altogether rich—cute.
Imagine her posing so bewitchingly,
beaming and smiling Lydia Pinkham-
like, for instance, which husband too
quickly interprets “money wantedl”~
Often when reading the numerous
discoveries of “improved methods,”
columns of which are found in the
average newspaper, I say to myself
that was put in to fill up, and nothing
is so apparent as the impossibility.
Here is an instance: To economize
fuel a writer eagerly advises the in-
experienced housekeeper to “bake
your cookies while doing your ironing.”
Who does not know that feet as well as
hands would have to be quadrupled for
such an attempt, for, with replenishing
the fire, either alone is “quantum
sufllcit” for the well drilled housewife.
Asto cookies, I find it requires the
neetest of movements to bake them
properly, that is quickly, rolling and
cutting out while the oven is doing its

work. Imagine ironing in the bargain! '

No, poor little struggling housewife,
do not attempt it. Better “one thing
at a time, and that done well.”

I wonder if Zeila rightly digested
that worthy article “ When?” I
heartily subscribe to Beatrix’s explana-
tion. But admitting for a moment—-
which I do not—that A. H. J. should
trip a little in an opinion, it is abund-
antly atoned for by the lasting benefit
she has conferred by kindly sending us
her recipe for cabbage salad in HOUSE:-
HOLD (Nov. 28th). Sister Gracious
will not class that with " False Guides,”
I venture; with that for a .relish for
dinner and Beatrix’s fried cakes for
breakfast we cannot but feel that “Life
is worth the struggle," at least so con-
sidered in this little domicile._

Yes, we do most heartily. sympathize

 

with our amicted Evangeline—we miss
her cheery pen. Charity’s modest little
article reads nicely. Rutabagas in
lieu of apples for mince pies! whewl
heroic truly.

Last, but not least, witness all ye
HOUSEHOLDERS these words of our
Editor’s: “We all like to know how
people look.”—HOUSEHOLD Feb. 20th,
(fourth page). Now, on the strength
of that I will venture to suggest what
has long been in my heart as well as in
many others, that we rise en masse and
beg for her own portrait to grace a
page of the HOUSEHOLD very soon.
Surely she will not refuse us, when the
request is so unanimous. META.

Gnrr’rown.

[The HOUSEHOLD Editor is always on
exhibition at the FARMER office. Come
in and see us any day, Meta]

 

WE GIRLS.

 

Now, Old Bach, did it never occur to
to you that the modern mother difiers
somewhat from the old-fashioned one?
Some mothers are nothing but frivolous
butterflies. They teach their daughters
that cooking and household duties are
degrading and should be left to ser-
vants; that they must have hands as
soft and white as ababy’s; small feet,
small waists, must dance well and flirt
well. Admiration is all these poor
creatures thrive on. It is the height
of their ambition. This style of girl
seldom if ever makes her way through
college.

Then there. is another mother who
makes a drudge of herself to save her
daughters. Many girls accept this
state of aflairs without a twinge of
conscience. Others wish they could
become as good a cock as mother. But
when they ask to make bread or cake
mother will say: “Oh, nol go and
practice. I can make it in half the time
it would take you. And then you might
have poor luck, you know.” I have in
mind a lady who always did this.
daughter married and went into ahome
of her own. What wretched times she
had! The jelly burned, bread was
sour and the coffee not at all “ like
mother’s.", '

One day John wanted a johnny cake.
“Oh dear,” sighed. the poor girl, “ I
haven’t the least idea how to make
one.” “Don’t know how to make a
johnny cake? Well, I’d learn how to
make something fit to eat if I were
you,” and John closed the door with a
bang, while Jennie sought refuge in
tears. Afternoon found her at mother’s
learning to make John’s favorite cake.

Of course while a girl is getting her
education she has no time for cooking.
But when she has completed the college
course she should spend one year at
least in the home nest; take the burden
off mother’sshoulders; care for the
little ones. if therebe any, and learn
to. manage a home properly. .Every
girl, rich or poor, should do this.

Her ,

 

Right here, so many make a mistake;
They attend college, 'come engaged
while there, perhaps, and upon gradua-
tion marry and assume household re-
sponsibilities.

I think the more education a girl ac- L
quires the less she thinks of home
duties and matrimony. Her thoughts
are turned in another channel. She
has high hopes for the future. To be
sure she enjoys an occasional chat with
sensible men, bachelors especially. Ah,
well! girls, we can sit before the
grate watching the glowing embers
while we build our castles .of future
greatness, with never a wish that the
modern young man, faulty as he is,
were different. FANNY.

EAS'r Lanov.

 

GOOD Housekeeping for March is an
issue which will be specially helpful to
the cook through the abundance of its
recipes and its information relative to '
properties of certain cereals and veg-
etables. The story, “Breaking in a
Husband,” shows how a wife got the
start of a stingy, browbsating husband;
Miss Parloa gives a menu for dinner,
and Frances Spalding tells how to set
the table and serve the meal in ap-
proved style. There is always some-
thing good in Good Housekeeping.

THE initial number of Histofia, an
illustrated magazine of- historical-stories
for young people, published by the
Historia Company of Chicago, has
found its way to our table. In its
salutatory, its purpose is announced-
to present history so interestingly that
it will be more acceptable than the
overdrawn and impossible tales of ad-
venture most boys and girls find so
fascinating, and in this 'way afford
valuable infortnation and stimulate a
love for good and useful literature.
No doubt there is room for a magazine
of this character, if well and carefully
edited. Whether Historia will fill the

place to. which it aspires is as yet of
course an indeterminate problem. The
first number promises well. G. L.
MoultOn, Harold Bernard, Lieut. J.
Harman, J. Q. Chancred and A. T.
Sawyer contribute articles illustrative
of episodes during the Revolution,
Cortez‘s invasion ongexico, the Mexi-
can war of 1846, and an incident of
English history.

W
' Contributed Recipes.

 

 

Goonmmn-Wsramé'l‘wo cups sugar;.
two eggs; a mixing spoonful of vinegar;
one level tablespoonfnl of ginger; one
teaspoonfnl of salt; these to be well beaten
before going farther. Two cups of molasses
should at this stage he boiling. Into it stir
two heaping teaspoonfhls of soda. Boil the
molasses in alarge dish. When well' dis~
solved in the molasses. stir into the other
ingredients. Add flour as long as it will
"take.” Roll thin. The oven must not be
too hot. Do not think the shortening for-
gotten.

 

Cum Uoomm—One cup of sour cream;
one cup of sugar; soda to sweeten cream; salt.
Mix soft as possible. Sprinkle with sugar.
Nutmeg or lemon flavor. Good.

Hons. J0me.