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HOME.

 

More than building showy mansions,
More than dress or fine array,

More than domes and lofty steeples,
More than station, power and sway;

Make your home both neat and tasteful,
Bright and pleasant, always fair,

Where each heart shah rest contented,
Grateful for each beauty there.

Seek to make your home most lovely,
Let it be a smiling spot,

Where, in sweet contentment resting,
Care and sorrow are forgot.

Where the flowers and trees are waving,
Birds wrll sing their sweetest songs;

Where the purest thoughts will linger,
Confidence and love belong.

There each heart will rest contented,
Seldom wishing far to roam;
Or, if roaming, still will ever
Cherish happy thoughts of home.
Such a home makes man the better,
Sure and lasting the control.
Home with pure and bright surroundings,
Leaves its impress on the soul.

——.0*-—-——
THE FARMER’S WIDO W.

 

When death enters the farmer’s family
and takes awaythe working head, the
one who planned and directed, and aided
in execution, the natural and inevitable
inquiry which presents itself to the
bereaved wife, is “What shall I do?”
Thoughts of a future, for herself and
children, intrude in the midst of her
grief, and often she is required to con-
sider ways and means before the anguish
of bereavement has been in any degree
mitigated by the soothing influence of
time. Altogether too often the little
farm home is sold or rented, and the
family “ move into town,” usually buying
a home and investing the surplus, with
the idea of living upon the income re-
turned. Often it is a straitened income,
too small for comforts, not to speak
of luxuries, and often the woman,
dismayed at the cost of living where
‘ every item of family living requires the
opening of her scanty purse, sighs for
the abundance of the old life on the
farm. Too often the boys idle about the
village stores and saloons and the girls
learn to only care for dress and company.
And if the bank fails or the little income
is swallowed up by a defalcation, actual
poverty follows.

Why must the sale of the farm follow
the death of the owner? Why should the
widow rush to town, as if there only she
could find achance to live? Why cannot
the wife continue her husband’s work, if
she has what George Eliot calls “a

 

headpiece?” Given a sufficient endow-
ment of brains, the great difficulty is to
secure efficient help. If this can be
done, and the widow is competent to give
intelligent direction to farm processes, by
all means let her continue to hold her lit-
tle estate, keep her children about her
till they are able to conduct the business,
and bring them up to feel that there is
work awaiting them as soon as they are
competent to undertake it.

Instances where women thus hold and
profitably manage a property are becom-
ing far more frequent than formerly.
And every such example aids other
women, and makes it easier, if trouble
comes to them, to “go and do likewise.”
It is the capable and energetic ones who
will do it; the weaker sisters will consider
what “they” will say, and the impropriety
of awoman’s knowing all about stock,
and making a bargain with a buyer, or
consulting her hired man about What
fields shallreceive a coating of manure.
It is not at all probable that the way will
be strewed with roses; the man at rest
under the sod found many difficulties in
his path, but many women have walked
in it, and many are doing it to-c ay, and
Where it is possible it 18 far more profita~
ble than to give up and choose a life
cramped by narrow means, even though
it include a rocking-chair. The Owosso
Press recently named a woman who thus
held the management of her husband’s
farm and, with her daughters’ aid, was
able in great'measure to dispense with
hired help. The girls were stout and
rosy under the out door air and exercise;
and a coat of tan and sunburn rendered
them not less comely in the eyes of sensi-
ble people. At the county fair their live
stock and agricultural exhibits won afair
share of blue ribbons, for nature is no
respecter of sex, and corn will grow and
wheat yield as abundantly for a woman
as for a man.

And, in view of the possibility before
every household, the chance that the
grim visitor may call for the husband
and father, it is expedient that every
woman should enter into her husband’s
business, know his plans, learn his
methods, and understand his aims and
the means by which he expects to attain
them. Then if death comes she Will not
be at the mercy of ill-advisers, or rashly
act on counsel given for selfish purposes,
for there are men mean enough to de-
fraud the widow and the fatherless
though their unprotected situation
ought to appeal to every noble in-

 

stinct of humanity. It is sound advice
to all wives to know their husband’s in-
terests and business obligations; the
knowledge regulates expenses during
life, and aids adjustment after death.
But before surrendering the farm, per-
haps atasacrifice, see if it cannot be
held and managed to advantage by a
woman’s hand and brain. It can if me
right sort of a'woman is at the helm.
————<.o
GOOD WORDS FOR RAG CAR-
PETS.

 

 

As “rag carpets" seem to be the topic
under discussion, I wish to say a Its-w
words in favor of them. Ithink they pay,
unless one has plenty of money where-
With to buy carpets. I do not think it
necessary to make such hard Work of
making them as many do. In a large
family there are necessarily many 4 27'-
ments worn out that have much in them
that can be utilized in making neat, dur-
able carpets. It is waste to use garments
that could be worn, and I do not think it
necessary unless the rags give out, as “’13
the case with E. L. Nye. It is also
false economy to use the parts of gear
merits too much worn to be strong. I do
not let rags accumulate until the carpet
becomes a ecessity; but when a garment
becomes too much worn for use, I cu“ out
the parts fit only for paper rags and mt
in the rag bag, the rest tear up if I have
time, if not roll up and put away where
I will be kept inmind of it, and lam sure
to findaspare moment to tear it up. I
keep a box to put the rags in as they are
torn, and sew them before a great many
accumulate. After winding into balls I
put them away in a large bag kept pur-
posely for carpet rag balls, and store in
the storeroom. In this way my rags do
not accumulate until they become a
nuisance, and when I want to make a
carpet I find I have a nice store of balls
in readiness, and the makingis not such
a “bug hear.”

I would not advise using Diamond
dyes, but use the good old‘fashioned
coloring recipes; not the ones of our
grandmothers, which called for all kinds
of barks and walnut husks, but those of
our mothers, which they used before the
Diamond dyes were known. I prefer to
color the rags after they are sewed, as
then you color no waste, and can weigh
the rags, and calculate the amount of each
color to better advantage; and I dislike
to tear and sew the rags after they are
c010red on account of the disagreeable,

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poisonous dust. I prefer cotton rags. as
they wear much better than woolen. If
you wish some black in the carpet, wool-
en rags are nicest for that. as cotton will
not take as durable a color.

Now for the economy: One pound of
warp at twenty-five cents per pound is
calculated to make three yards of carpet
a yard wide; the weaving is generally
sixteen cents per yard, for a yard wide; if
over, the weaver charges one cent extra
for every inch over a yard wide; but cal-
culating a yard wide, thirty yards would
take eleven pounds of wrap, “ allowing
for hems and the thrums,” costing $2.75,
the weaving $4.80; and the coloring can
be done at a cost of shilling per yard,
making a total of $11.30. This amount
is generally furnished by the wife, from
the sale of butter and eggs, and when it
is all finished and tacked down, and she
realizes it is all her own and her daugh-
ter’s work, I think she is fully as proud of
it as of the pretty ingrain in the parlor
which her husband paid for, costing $24,
if a good one. Of course a woman’s time
is not calculated in makinga rag carpet,
but neither do I think her time spent in
a year washing dishes is computed in
dollars and cents.

I forgot to say,when tearing white rags,
I always remember to save some of the
best for the necessary roll of 'cloths to be
us: d in case of cuts, bruises, burns, 850.
Last year when we moved .into our new
house, I had sixty-five yards of new rag
car let to put down; thirty for the dining
rovm, twenty-five for my son’s room, and
the remaining ten for the back stairs and
hail. They all look nice yet, except the
dining-room carpet, which begins to look
soiled, as I think any carpet would be
likely to do where there was an average
family of ten and six of them men and
boys. There are many commencing
housekeeping on farms, who are not able
to buy carpets, and for such I think rag
carpets are economical and much to be
prefered to a bare floor or hemp or cotton
carpeting.

To wealthy farmers, who have gained a
competence, and can afford what they
like I would not recommend the economy
of making rag carpets, for ingrains and
brussels are certainly much handsomer
and they are cheap enough to be econom-
ical for them; still I know many wealthy
farmers’ wives who prefer rag carpets for
dining rooms.

Brunefille, put on your sunbonnet and
come over, “ misery loves company.” you
know. I am glad to find disagreeable
things do not fall to my lot alone. May-
belle reminds us we have many blessings.
I know it, and see them when I am not
cross; but I think we need some “ bitter
with the sweet," only we are inclined to
make a very wry face whenever we take
the bitter dose. OLD SCHOOL TEACHER.

Tncunsan .
——————‘.>———-——

IRON rust may be removed from white
muslin in this manner: Spread the goods
on an earthen dish, rub salt on the stain,
squeeze lemon juice on it and put it in
the sun. Keep the salt moist with the
juice till the stain is gone. Mildew can
be removed in the same way.

 

 

   

THE CHURCH CONGRESS.

 

One of the notable events of the current
month in this city was the Church Con-
gress which convened here on the
7th inst., continuing in session four
days. It was a gathering of clergymen of
“High,” “Low” and “Broad” proclivi-
ties, and its members came from all parts
of the United States, from Maryland, and
Georgia, and far off Dakota. It was a
congress of representative men, such as
Rev. Phillips Brooks, Rev. Heber New-
ton, C. 0. Tiffany and Prof. Armstrong,
of Georgia, coming together less to dis-
cuss strictly theological and polemical
subjects than those every day problems
of life and living which lie seemingly
outside the study. Truth is ever the
same, but many-sided; and humanity
from various standpoints sees various
phases. To discuss differing views, and
see how all tend to the same end, as “ all
ways lead to Rome,” was the end and
aim of the assemblage.

I was particularly interested in the
question “Is Civilization Just to Work-
ingmen ?” which was discussed Thursday
evening. It is significant of the trend of
public thought, and the importance of the
topic, when scholarly, learned divines
turn from theology to discuss such a
question at such a time. It shows us that
the agitation of the labor question, the
relation of labor to capital, employe to
employer, are felt to be matters of vital
import, even to the clergyman in his
study. The opera house was packed,
even the aisles were filled on Thursday
evening, when this question was an-
nounced, and while the rich, the elegant,
the cultured and refined were there, there
came also the plainly dressed working-
man and his wife. '

Henry George, “the workingman’s
apostle,” as he has been called, opened
the discussion. Tried by whatever test
you will, he said, civilization is bitterly
and unceasingly unjust to workingmen.
The earth was made for workers; only by
labor can its resources be developed; it
gives us only 1‘an materials to be
elaborated by labor, and to the laborer
belongs the reward. Adam, the first
worker, if set upon the earth to-day,
would expect to find the homes of the
world’s workers the best in the land, and
the squalid dwellings the abode of the
lazy who will not work. As we all know,
the reverse is true. The laborer has been
divorced from his reward. His home is
the poorest, his clothes the coarsest; his
stores deal in the cheapest goods, his
seat is humblest in the house of God. The
workingman is he who produces that
which satisfies the needs of the body or
the intellect; the gambler and speculator
may work, ,but are not workingmen; they
take, not make. To get rich a man must
appropriate the work of others; it is im-
possible to earn a million dollars by hand
work. The injustice of our civilization
deprives the laborer of the opportunity
to get an education; every efiort goes to
the struggle for sustenance. As he is he

must remain. Nine-tenths of the girls
who lead evil lives in our cities are driven
to shame by poverty. Heaven is wealth,

 

hell poverty. Our children are taught
to get money—honestly if they can, dis—
honestly if they must, at any event get it.
Six centuries ago men worked eight
hours per day and pauperism was
unknown; now they work- ten and
twelve and fourteen hours, and with
all our mechanical appliances cannot
keep from becoming paupers. To‘ say
that over-production is the cause, is to
say that because there is too much food
men must go hungry, and naked because
there is too much cloth. The speaker
accounted for the evils which oppress the
workingmen by saying they had been de
prived of their birthright. The land,
which God designed as the common pro-
perty of all, had been taken away by a
few, giving opportunities for oppression
and injustice.

Rev. Wm. Kirkus, who followed, com-
batted the position of his predecessor in a
very ingenious but rather sophistical
argument. I am under the impression
that the reverend gentleman, assigned a.
position in the controversy with which
he was not in sympathy, resolved to make
the best of it. His address was witty
and humorous, and “ brought down the
house.” When the little bell rang its
signal “time’s up,” cries of “Go on! go
on!” came from all over the house, and
the audience could hardly 'be quieted.
Holding strictly to the definition of terms,
he held that justice does not require that
rich men should give work to anybody.
Society is not responsible for crimes or
pauperism. Laborers assert they have
aclaim against capital, but did capital
ask them to be born? A man with noth-
ing a year marries a woman with nothing
a year, and they bring into the world six
more paupers among whom to divide
their assets. What claim can they bring
in justice against society? The best point
the writer made was when he traced the
wrongs of the workingman back to him—
self. He is responsible for the evils of
legislation, because his vote elects the
legislators. If he sells his vote he suf-
fers the consequences. There is no in~
justice in the accumulation of property,
nor the holding of large estates. Under
the division advocated by the preceding
speaker, the 11ttle homes of honest and
industrious laborers must be swept into
the grand total, to help provide for the
vicious, the improvident, and the lazy.

Rev. R. Heber Newton, the famous
New York divine, who followed, made
the speech of the evening. He is tall.
fine-looking, with a magnificent voice,
which sent his rapid sentences distinctly
to every part of the auditorium. He
hurled his arguments at us so rapidly
that before the full force of one was
grasped, another claimed consideration.
Labor’s complaint is its poverty, he said,
and if we can prove this poverty is the
fault of labor or of nature, the question
is discharged. But legislation is unjust
and detrimental to labor. Monoplies are
crimes against man and sins against God.
Unjust taxation allows millionaries to

evade the collector, while the poor man
pays to the uttermost farthing. “ N 0 class
legislation ” is the cry when bills for the

 

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cry is revolutionizing processes; and
making a man no longer a workman, but
an automaton to do certain bits of work
which leave him in helpless ignorance of
complete processes. Congress has given
200,000,000 acres of land to corporations,
and only 5,000,000 acres are left as the
workingmen’s inheritance. He spoke of
the combinations by which the price of
coal was forced from $5 to $6 50, as rob-
bery under form of law in which the poor
shivered with cold, that railroad kings
and mine owners might make a profit of
33 per cent. Co-operation is the remedy
for existing ills. Labor must consolidate
and combine. The 800,000 Knights of
Labor will yet make themselves felt.

Rev. Henry Mottet thought all the
woes of the workingmen do not lie at the
door of the rich. His greatest enemy is
intemperance. There would be less of
conflict between capital and labor if each
were not so ignorant of the other.

One great means of ameliorating the
condition of the poor, was by establish-
ing technical schools to thoroughly
teach them. The great demand was for
skilled labor, and it could always demand
good wages; if sober and industrious all
the better. The speaker frankly admit-
ted that the church today pays more at—
tention to the rich than to the poor, but
reminded his audience, clerical as well as
lay, that The Master came to earth to
befriend the poor, and that His friends
and companions were chosen from the
humblest and most lowly.

Father Osborne, of Boston, thought
what the working classes most needed
was knowledge of God. They had been
taught to depend upon themselves, and
to teach them that The Master was a
working man, would lead them to be
more regardful of Him. I could not help
thinking, however, while the reverend
father was speaking, that however much
a knowledge of the lowly life of Christ
might help a man bear poverty, it would
not fill an empty stomach, nor interpose a
warm woolen blanket between a shiver
ing mortal and the storms of winter.
Religion and legislation may go hand in
hand in the work of improving the con-
dition of the poor, indeed moral teach-
ings must be relied upon to combat
ignorance and vice, but after all we are
notto forget that “God helps him who
helps himself,” by which I mean that the
wrongs which an infinite and overruling
power permits are often with intention
left for man’s might and sense of justice
to right.

But I have already given too much
space to this theme, and have no room
left for whatIhad meant to say upon
“Moral Education in Our Public
Schools,” and “Agnosticism" also sub-
jects of discussion. But there .were so
many valuable truths and sound argu-
ments given that I find it impossible to
reproduce, even at this length, but a frac—
tion of them.

The part which women play in this con-
flict of money and muscle was touched
upon slightly. Rev. C. R. Baker told us

one sad fact, that among the children of

the laboring classes of England, one ouh

 

of every two died before it was five years
old. This was because the mother could
give but a few days to the new born child,
before it was given to the care-taker, and
she resumed the struggle for bread. When
a child died no tears were shed, but the
parents were congratulated that they
had one less to feed and clothe. The
water worm, one of the lowest forms of
animal life. ties itself about its eggs to
protect them, and if separated will tie
and retie itself till it dies of exhaustion,
showing a love for it's offspring greater
than that of the human mother whose
life is bounded by factory walls. Is not,
he asked, civilization unjust when it
makes a mother forget her child, and her

love less than that of a worm?
BEATRIX.

NOTES ON THE FARMINGTON
FAIR.

 

The fair of the Union Agricultural So-
ciety of Oakland and Wayne Counties,
was held at Farmington last week, and
was a very good show of the kind. The
art building was well filled, the handi-
work‘of the ladies showing their enter-
prise and industry to decided advantage.
About a dozen quilts of varied material
and fabric, from the “crazy” silk patch-
work with its gay embroidery, represent-
ing figures of things seen and unseen, to
the comfortable worsted “log cabin”
and the less pretentious cotton patch-
work and applique of gorgeous flowers
unknown to botanist, were shown.

A white quilt, elaborately quilted into
labored design of vine, flower and fruit,
represented so much labor that I grew
very tired in contemplating its chaste
beauty. Tidies, rugs, afghans, cushions,
lace, embroidery, braiding and etching
samples overwhelmed the observer by
their numbers, nor were the less pre
tentious but more useful arts neglected.
Canned fruxt, golden butter, bread of
various kinds, cakes and pies, the very
sight of which provoked appetite, show-
ed that farmers’ wives and daughters are
adepts at culinary arts. There were few
pictures, but those shown were of real
merit. The display of fruit was good and
varied, but no peaches were exhibited.

The show of grain, seeds and vegetables
was also very good, the exhibit of pota-
toes, especially, would challenge compe
tition with the State Fair exhibit.

There were also the inevitable side
shows, but we were pleased to observe
that but little patronage was bestowed on
them; despite the frantic efforts made by
the showmen to attract attention. One
young lady, admiring the fine products of
Agricultural Hall, wished aloud that
“she could take all the contents home
with her,” (I fear her father does not
raise much “ garden sass ”) while her com-
panion wished for nothing but one of the
mammoth premium cabbages. The gal-
lant owner, being present, heard the
wish, and at once tendered the coveted
article. The young lady, though some-
what abashed by the unexpected fulfill-
ment of her wish, soon recovered herself
and thanked the donor very prettily,
while graciously accepting the gift. While

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she stepped out to get her carriage her
false friend carried off and hid the
prize, but the fair recipient proved her
sagacity by discovering her property and
carrying it off. in triumph. A sad draw-
back to my personal enjoyment was the
fact that despite the goodies displayed, I
was only able to procure an awfully dry
sandwich with which to allay my hunger.
“Post hay” was all that was procurable
for our steed, but, luckily oats formed
part of our cargo, so he fared sumptu-
ously.

I saw no spirituous or malt liquors on
sale, but “cider right from the barrel”
was volubly advertised.

The horse racing was said to be good.
I am no admirer of such sport, but I wit—
nessed the ten mile bicycle race with in—
terest. The whole distance Was run in ‘
about forty minutes.

The grounds are much improved since
last year and will be still further beauti-
fied. The attendance on the second day
of the fair was dishearteningly small be-
cause of rain, but as the time was extend-
ed to include Saturday, it seems that the
fair must have proved an unqualified suc-
cess in all respects. A. L. L.

Manama.

___...._.

WHY TEACHERS SHOULD IM-
PROVE.

 

When I mentioned the subject of hot-
any I did not intend to suggest the addi—
tion of another text book; the children
are already crowded with them. But is it
too much to ask that our teachers shall .
have some knowledge of the natural
sciences, at least enough of botany and
geology to interest the scholars, so that
when the air of the schoolroom becomes
so oppressive that little heads begin to
nod and use for a pillow the softest side
of a grammer or arthmetic, she may take
them for half an hour under the shade
of the nearest tree, taking for her text
book one of the stones from the play
houses or a few of the Wild flowers growing
everywhere; and thus teach lessons which
will never be forgotten? I am sure the
questions the children will ask will
broaden her own mind and teach her many
a lesson.

I think it a positive disgrace that so
many of our teachers return year after
year with third grade certificates. I know
the threadbare excuse always is that
wages are so low that they are unable
to go to school; now this at first seems
plausible, but is really no excuse at all.
An intelligent, inquiring mind will find
opportunity for progress under the most
adverse circumstances. There is always
room at the top, and intelligence has its
own reward, pecuniary or otherwise. The
great trouble with our lady teachers,many
of them, is that they do not expect to re-
main teachers, and so do not strive to ex-
cel in their profession. This is a very
great mistake; they will never feel the
need of a good education more than when
wives and mothers. With so many du-
ties devolving upon them there will be
less time for self cultivation, but with a
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duties being purely mechanical they may
keep their minds from rusting: and find
both pleasure and profit in “ digesting”
what was already supposed to be learned.
MRS. W. J G.
HOWELL.

A GLIMPSE OF THE STATE FAIR.

 

As Mertie has given her impressions
of the State Fair, and asks for others to do
likewise I will give just a little of my ex-
perience.

After several weeks of pleasant antici-
pation we arose at dawn, prepared our
morning meal, attended to other neces-
sary work, and hastened to the nearest
railway station. After waiting an hour
and a half. with a pufi and a swish, we
were landed safe in Kalamazoo. Then a
ride on the street car, and we found the
Fair.

Entering at the straight gate we ask:
What is this? A mammoth circus, hippo-
drome and menagerie combined? No.
This is the‘State Fair. The first thing
that greets our eyes is a woman with a
necklace of snakes, and similar attrac-
tions (1) are seen on every hand. We
wished to see the fruit,flowers, and every-
thing nice, so we started for Floral Hall,
and found a great display of both useful
and ornamental articles. We did our
best to see all we could, but soOn began
to think the main object to be gained was
to get out alive, which we succeeded in
doing, only to find the wind blowing a
perfect gale, dirt and dust flying in every
direction outside. The fruit certainly
looked good enough to eat. The honey
was tempting and the bees too busy. So
we hurried out. We found the poultry
house locked, but they do say they had
hand painted chickens therein! Mertie
says it was a success financially; if not I
am sure it was no fault of the managers.
And some even helped themselves to one’s
pocket book without as much as by your
leave. About four o’clock we left the
fair grounds, had another good time
waiting for the train, in which we only
found standing room. And when at ten
P. M. we laid our tired heads on the pi]
low, we mentally pronounced the State
Fair a delusion and a snare.

AUNT NELL.

PLAINW‘ELL.—...__-_

CREAMERY BUTTER.

 

For the benefit Of those who are not
wedded to the primitive pan I Will say a
word about the keeping qualities of
creamery butter. There is a marked dif-
ference in favor of the creamery, which it
has neverlost with me. I have sent but-
ter to customers when it would be over 24
hours on the road, and they report that
it was perfectly fresh when received. I
packed a jar the first of September last
year by way of experiment, and used it
the last of June and found that it had
kept perfectly sweet. I have never seen
a speck of what dairymen call unchurned
cream in creamery butter, and all will ad-
mit they are liable to see such specks in
butter made by the old way. I
have made, between the let of
April and the let Of October, 805 lbs.

 

of butter from the milk of four cows; has
any one a better record from pan-setting?
I cannot call to mind a single instance
when we have made a journey to town
expressly to send butter; it can wait our
convenience without fear of spoiling. If
creamery butter is at a discount in E. L.
Nye’s neighborhood it is the first and
only place I have ever heard of. Why
should we not avail ourselves of any arti-
cle which lightens our labor and does our
work better? The farmer is not slow in
placing improved and labor-saving ma-
chines in his fields, and I for one am not
averse to seeing wom an’s labor lightened

even by a patented article. - A. L. C.

PARMA .

INFORMATION WANTED.

 

Minnie wishes to know what will re-
move moth from the face; liver spots
some call them.

What shall I do for my hair, which comes
out badly. There are white bulbs on the
ends of many of the hairs which come
out. A hair-dresser told me the difliculty
was “hair eaters;” a physician said
it was an unhealthy condition of the Oil
glands that caused the white bulbs and
falling hair. Have any of the ladies of
the Household had similar experience,
and can they tell me what will relieve me?
I think very highly of the Household.

SUSIE McG.
ALLEN’s HILL, Ont»

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

WHEN frying cakes, instead of laying
the hot cakes on a plate, lay them on a
colander; set that on a plate, so that any
fat which drips from them will drop
through the holes in the colander, and

not be soaked up into the cakes to render.

them unfit for use.

THAT plush may be cleaned is a fact of
interest; children’s plush coats that have
become soiled on the front can be softly
and delicately sponged with a little borax
and water without injury; a teaspoonful
of powdered borax to nearly a quart of
water is the proper proportion; use avery
soft sponge; and, by the way, a sponge
may be softened by boiling it in clear wa.
ter; then‘take it out and rinse it in several
waters; if not softened sufficiently repeat
the boiling and heating process.

SOME ladies may have plaster of Paris
statuettes which they desire to bronze,and
which may be done as follows: “ First
give to the figure a coat of oil or size var-
nish, and when nearly dry, apply with a
dabber of cotton or camel’s-hair pencil,
any of the metallic bronze powders; or
the powder may be placed in a little bag
of muslin, and dusted over the surface,
and afterwards finished ofi with a wad 0f
linen. The surface must be afterward
varnished.

 

There are a good many uses for Oil-
cloth _in the kitchen. To cover the
kitchen table with it saves much labor in
scouring and scrubbing. It is cheap, and
easily removed. You can cover your

 

 

 

pantry shelves with it, and find them
easy to keep clean, avoiding the trouble
of changing papers. A square of Oil-
cloth tacked against the wall back of the
kitchen table and the washstand, will
save the disfigurement of white walls or
clean paper by untidy splashes. Another
square fastened behind the woodbox will
prevent accidental marks, perhaps breaks
in the wall there. Cover a few pieces.
of thin board with oilcloth, to stand pots

and kettles on, and keep apiece handy
to put down whenever you need to put

down anything which may soil table or

shelf.

 

It is unpleasant to scour knives when
the fingers are soft and tender from
dishwashing. I saw not long ago a simple
contrivance used by a friend, which she
reckons among the things she “can’t
keep house without. ” She covered one

side of two pieces of inch board, about
eight inches long and four inches wide,
With Brussels carpet, tacking the edge of
the carpet closely on the thickness of the
board, thus covering the edges. The two
pieces were then joined by a leather
hinge at one end, making them so one
could fold over on the other. She had a
short strip of leather she used to fasten
them together, then with one hand she
held the “machine ” firm, and with the
other rubbed the knife between the car-
pet covered boards, which were liberally
sprinkled with powdered Bath brick.
Both sides of the knife were brightened
at once, and very quickly and efficiently.
Every day or two the strap was undone
and the boards opened to dry; and w hen
desired, fresh brick dust was added. It
was a “ great institution.’ B.

IF YOU WANT“
Profitable Employment

SEND AT ONCE TO

THE NEW lAMB KNITTER 80.,

For Full Information.

An ordinary operator can earn from one to three
dollars per day in any community' in the Northern
States on our New Lamb Knitter.

100 Var: ettes of Fubrtc on Same Macht/ 6

You can wholly finish twelve pairs ladies full-
shaped stockings or twenty pairs socks or mittens
in a day. ' Skilled operators can double this pro-
duction Capacity and range of work double that
of the Old Lamb Nkidtting machine. Address

TheN ew Lamb Knitter 00.,
117 and 119 Main St., west, JACKSON, MICK,

JAM rs P1113

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PELINE

THE BEST THING KJVOWN

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In Hard or Soft. Hot or Coir! Water.

EgVES LABOR, '1‘! MIL and SOAI AMEAZ-
QLY, and gives universal satisfaction. .‘lc
family , rich or poor, should be without it.

a b all Grocers. BEWARE of imitation.
.zefi‘designed to mislead. PE EARLINE is the
UN LY SAFE labor—saving compound, and I"
ma bears the above symbol, and name of

JAMES PYLE. NEW YORK.