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DETROIT, JULY 2, 1892.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

SPEAK NAE ILL.

 

Other people have their faults.
And so have you as wall:

But all ye chance to see or hear
Ye have nae right to tell.

If ye canns speak 0‘ good.
Take care, and see and feel.
Earth has all too much 0’ wt 0.

And not enough 0’ weal.

Be careful that ye make no strife.
Wi’ meddling tongue and brain:
For ye will find enough to do
If ye but look at heme.

If ye canns. speak 0' good.
Oh! dinna speak at all;

For there is grief and woe encugh
On this terrestrial ball.

If ye should feel like picking flaws,
Ye better go. 1 ween.

And read the Book that tells ye all
About the mote and beam.

Dinna lend a ready ear
To gossip or to strife.

Or perhaps ’twill make for ye
Nae sunny things of life.

Oh! dinna and to others‘ woe.
Nor mock it with your mirth;

But give ye kindly sympathy
To suffering on'es of earth.

W
WOMEN‘S WORK AT THE DETROIT
EXPOSITION.

 

The new premium list of the Detroit
Exposition for 1892, just out, presents a
new and improved classification of
articles of women’s handiwork, a laud-
able attempt atasystem of grouping
and arrangement which shall enable
judges to compare the same varieties
of work, and discriminate more justly
in the allotment of awards. A brief
outline of the new scheme will be in-
teresting to those who contemplate
making an exhibit.

Class 112, Etching in Silk, is limited
to girls under eighteen years of age.

Class 113, Silk Embroidery, includes
four divisions-work in short and long
Kensington stitch, solid embroidery,
cut~out embroidery, and solid embroi-
dery in Dresden design.

There are separate classes for art
linen thread work, drawn work, crochet,
and knit work, and a miscellaneous

class for articles not eligible to classes

enumerated above. There is also a
purse of $10 for the best display of
Roman embroidery. A11 textile ex-
hibits must have been made by the ex-
hibitor since January 131:, 1891. This

a.

will outclass some of those needlework
“chestnuts” which have hung-on the
line at fairs time out of memory. The
class for mineral painting (ceramics) is
especially liberal in the matter of pre-
miums. Miscellaneous art work and
household work are also provided for;
but since tissue paper work has had its
little day. why perpetuate it by a sep-
arate class and prizes aggregating $61?

A glass showcase eight feet high
and 145 feet long has been ordered for
the women‘s department, for the dis-
play of those articles which, by reason
of their delicacy and daintiness are ex-
hibited at such risks by the owner and
have been so often irreparably damaged
by dust, handling, or carelessness.
Many have utterly refused to show
choice work at fairs and expositions
on account of the almost inevitable
damage incurred, but Mr. Sotham’s
forethought has provided a method by
which the most fragile china and the
most delicate embroideries may be dis-
played without possibility of being in-
jured.

The culinary division of the VVomen‘s
Department has classes for canned
fruits and preserves; marmalades and
jams; jellies, and pickles.

The entrance is in all cases five per
cent of the purse. In the needlework
classes the purse is divided, 60 per
cent to the first, 40 per cent to the
second; in the culinary department, 50
per cent to first, 30 to second and 20 to
third.

We consider the new arrangement a
decided improvement, and though
there may be alittle friction at first,
believe it will prove to the best in-
terests of exhibitors favoring as it does
intelligent comparison and more ac-
curate judging. It will tend to make
the exhibit of needlework more typical
of the advance of the art, for the beauti-
ful designs and exquisite workmanship
of the present prove that “fancy work”
has become really an “ art,” and bears
no comparison with what was called by
that name ten or even five years ago.

fremium lists will be furnished in-
tending exhibitors by application to the
Manager, '1‘. F. B. Sotham, this city.

 

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LITTLE NELL’S address has been
mislaid. There is a letter for her here
which will be forwarded upon its re-

 

ceipt.

     

 

FLOWER _MISSION DAY.

 

June 9th is the day set apart by the
W. C.'T. U. as Flower Mission Day,
when the inmates of jails. prisons,
almshouses and hospitals are remem-
bered with abouquet of flowers to which
is attached by a. white ribbon a Scrip-
ture text card. This especial day is
selected in honor of Miss Jennie Cas-
sady’s birthday, as she is the one who
first instituted this branch of the work;
and who, although an invalid. nearly
helpless, unable to walk for nearly
thirty years, has been made the
National Superintendent of Flower
Missions. The texts are of her own
selection, and on the reverse side bear
this inscription: “ A message for you."
And many times I have known them to
be very appropriate to their especial
case. It is my purpose to give a short
sketch of our visit at the Infirmary,
where sixty-eight unfortunate ones are
cared for at the expense of the county.

On arriving at the. farm about two
and a half miles from town, we were
kindly greeted by the overseer and his
wife. who have held this position for
about twenty-five years. We found the
inmates seated in one end of the long
dining-room, and after our company
were all assembled a short programme
was given, opened with Scripture read-
ing, song and prayer, and such a prayer
as that good woman offered. it seemed
io hear us all upward! After the ex-
ercises the bouquets were passed, also
oranges and candy, papers, etc, the
visitors mingled with the inmates,
reading and talking to them. Ah. so
many sad cases! Elizabeth B, April
30th, says “More. terrible far it is,
when people grow old, to have their
own children treat them with perfect
forgetfulness.” I saw there a nice
looking old lady who has two daughters
married, who have good homes with
every comfort, but the old mother’s
mind is not just right at times. and so
she is in the county house. A fine. sad
looking man, whose daughter Ihave
met, and who is always stylishly
dressed, has epileptic (its, and so he is
in the county house. One poor old
lady told me she could not walk, but
said: “ I’m going home in a. few days,
they’ll come and get me, I think.” Poor
old soul, vhow weary the waiting for the
children who will . never come! A


 

2

The Household.

 

 

poor blind w0man was feeling of the
flowers, and as I took her hand and
read “the message” for her: “The
Lord knoweth them that are His,”
“ Oh yes," said she, “that is for me. its
sc good, isn't it?” In alittle cottage
v" are three or four foolish young men,
one of whom chatters ceaselessly to all
who would stop to listen. Nor would
we forget Eva, with her singing and
story of the population of the Rapids-—
Grand ltipids. Eaton Rapids, Cedar
Rapids, etc, etc. Poor child, while
her funny talk would cause a smile we
pitied the poor girl greatly; but among
among the sad cases none seemed so
hard as those of the young girls who
with life's prospects marred and a baby
in their arms. were spending their
days here. Truly

“ The world is fn‘l of sighs.
Fullof sad and weepingeyes."

Shall we not “ help our fallen brother
rise, while the days are going by?”
Sometimes we who live in pleasant
homes with our dear ones all about us
murmur and complain and forget that
many, many are so much worse ofif
than we are. I believe a look into a
County HOuse occasionally is good for
us. FIDUS ACHATUS.

 

HOW TO BE APPREGIATED.

.l have just been reading the HOUSE-
HOLD. Not that that is anything new,
I always read it. But having more
leisure than common, my thoughts
have been wondering all over and
around the subject of unappreciated
wives and their troubles.

Now when I read of such an one in
the HOUSEHOLD my mental comment
is “it is more than likely the fault is
her own,” but when I think of some of
my own friends who seem to me worthy
of far more appreciation than they re-
ceive, Iam inclined to lay the blame
on the husbands. . Yet, after consider-
ing the subject in all lights I am per-
snarled that if not the blame at least
the remedy lies with the wives them-
selves. Too much self pity and not
enough self esteem makes havoc of a
woman's happiness. Idon’t believes.
man ever pitics himself because his
wife fails to manifestadue apprecia-
tion of his good. qualities, for most of
them are so immensely conceited that
they cannot conceive the possibility of
their not being appreciated.

The young wife generally starts out
in life with an ideal husband; one who
is loving and loyal; who will always be
tender and kind; who will watch to see
that she does not overdo; who will al-
ways prefer her society to that of his
former chums, and will urge her to use
all the money she needs for her comfort
and happiness. I am afraid too the
young wife generally gets left, and as
burdens multiply and care robs her of
her bloom and freshness she is apt to
become morbid and fancy that her hus«
band has ceased to care for her. She

 

waits for him to suggest that she needs
help, and because he does not, her self
love is wounded and she resolves to
suffer on rather than humble herself by
asking for what she thinks should
come without asking, did her husband
care for her as he ought. Now the bus-
band gets into the way of thinking that
his wife rather enjoys working all the
time; and if she ever asks for a girl,
very likely she enumerates all of her
pent-up grievances and gives him the
impression that she is mad because he
keepsa man or two, and he mentally
resolves that he won’t be hen-peeked
and goes off up town to emphasize the
fact that he is his own boss, of course
never offering to look up a girl.

Nowin my opinion every woman who
is a wife and mother with a home to
preside over is a very queen. A writer
says “ It pays to be the most attractive
woman your husband and children ever
meet.”

I have noticed that the men who em-
ploy other men instead of doing what
they can themselves and letting the rest
go undone, are the men who make the
most money. Why shouldn’t it be the
same with the wives? Couldn’t any
woman with agood stout girl to help,
so that her hands need not be everlast-
ingly in the dishwater, and with some
one occasionally to help with the sew-
ing, so that she might see the bottom
of the basket once in a while, he a
better manager as well as a better wife
and mother? Wouldn‘t she find time
to make more and better butter, raise
more poultry; pick and market the
early apples that always go to waste
because the men are too busy with the
more important harvesting? She
might keep bees or raise small fruits.
There are many ways on a farm in
which a woman could pay the expense
of a girl and have something left over
for pin money, and she would have
time to improve her home, her chil-
dren and herself, and keep herself look-
ing so neat and pretty that her husband
would really get to thinking that she
was such good company he would like
to have her go to the ball play or the
horse races with him. I tell you it
pays to esteem yourself, but it doesn’t
pay to sit down and weep because some
one else doesn’t seem to.

It is perfectly right and proper that
you should have a hired girl, and don’t
be abashed because your husband
doesn’t think so. You don’t think he
needs two or three hired men, but that
doesn’t trouble him in the least. He
thinks he does.

It is late in the day to resent what
“Old Bach” said, but I know ' 'he
would come out here I could ma 6 him
ashamed of having slandercd the,
modern girl. I could introduce him to

more than ascore of sweet—faced,bright-
eyed, wide awake young girls who help
their mothers, take care of their
younger brothers and sisters, and make
life brighter for all around them.
ABMADA. L. B, P.

 

A DEFENSE.

 

It is a. long time since I made my first
(and last) call on the HOUSEHOLD, but
E. L. Nye’s last communication has
roused me, in spite of the state of the
thermorneter, to make a fresh attempt.
It seems to me the writer of that article .
must either be an inhabitant of some
“backwoods settlement,” or have had
a bad attack of the “ blues.” I will ad-
mit that perhaps a teacher may occas-
ionally be found who will use such ex-
pressions as those she mentions, but of
one thing I am sure, you will not find
them in this county; nor do I believe
many can be found in any other county.
Of course very few of them are always
perfect in their speech, but in all my
intercourse with teachers I have never
heard one use such expressions as those
mentioned. As to the pupils them.
selves and their parents, I have taught
both in district and in city schools, and
I can not see that they are any worse
in the country than in the city. I
know that they are careless enough in
either place, but I know, too, that
teachers all over the country are doing
much to correct the evil. However, I
think it must be admitted that it is
“up hill work,” when we must not only
educate the children but the parents
as well, and the latter at “long range ”
at that. There! I feel better now.

It does not seem to me that any sensi-
ble woman would make a work-dress
with a long skirt. There is nothing
immodest in showing one’s feet and
ankles, if they are neatly dressed, and
the short skirt, barely reaching the
shoe tops, will do much towards saving
the wearer’s temper and health.

Will “One of the Boys ” please tell
us how to play dominoes "auction
fashion,” and also how to play “ lh? ”
I never heard of it before.

BATTLE Carma. E HERALD.

HOW TO PREVENT CHOLERA. IN~
FANTUM.

 

 

The New York Board of Health re-
cently issued a circular, printed in
English. Italian. Hebrew and Russian,
in regard to cholera infantum. After
stating that the disease is caused by
bad milk, the circular states the milk
must be kept fresh and that this can be
doue as follows:

As soon as the milk comes put it in
a glass bottle; put the bottle in a kettle
with a block of wood under it to prevent
the bottom from coming in contact with
the kettle; put water enough in the
kettle to come half way up the side of
the bottle; heat the water as hot as
possible without boiling; then take the
kettle from the fire and cork the bottle;
let the bottle remain in the kettle for
half an hour; then put the bottle in a
cold place. This makes the milk safe
without boiling. If possible use a rub-
ber stopple instead of a cork. The
bottle and stopple must be cleansed
every day with boiling water.

 


 

The Household. 8

 

 

TEE FINALE OF THE CARD QUES-
TION.

 

Nine unpublished letters (two of
which are anonymous and hence don’t
count) on the subject of card-playing,
all saying the same thing in a little
different way, make the HOUSEHOLD
Editor feel- that she has “ pretty near a
plenty " on that topic. It is not possible
to give room to all, but we give a few
extracts from the best of these letters.

ELLA J., of Quincy, in a letter on
home amusements, says:

“ Dr. Trumbull, speaking on this sub-
ject says that to successfully solve this
problem, how to keep children at home,
the parents, one or both, must furnish
entertainment that the children can
not find elsewhere. Not simply those
amusements that are different, but
whatever it is let them feel that it’s
better at home than anywhere else, it’s
more fun. The trouble is most parents
are too lazy to entertain their children.
It takes time, strength, real nervous
force to plan and execute. But what of
that? Is there anything more im-
portant? A friend once said to me:
“You are naturally so ingenious you
can entertain children.’ Ingenious, in-
deed. If she had employed one-quarter
of the ingenuity on the amusement of
her children that she did on her
wardrobe and in keeping her house
adorned with as little expense as pos-
sible, her children would have pre-
ferred her company to any other. But
such is human nature. ‘Spend labor
for that which satisfieth not.’ let the
mind and heart become dwarfed, when
we can have the very highest enjoy-
ment, the most inspiring occupation,
that which glorifies the most common
toil, without money and without price.’

 

BECKY, of Partello, writes:

“ I know of a man who, though a
professing Christian, used always to
keep a barrel of hard cider in his
cellar and permitted his boy to drink
whenever he pleased, saying that it
would not hurt him. That son is now in
State prison .for a murder committed
while drunk. No one hesitates to
blame the father for fostering in his
child an appetite that led him astray.
Is it not the same in regard to playing
cards? If parents teach their children
to abhor card playing and whiskey
drinking, and explain to them the
terrible consequences that so often
follow these habits. I think that in nine
cases out of ten they willhave no desire
to indulge in them in after life: but if
after trying to guide your boy in the
right path, he should at last he led
away by evil influences, you could not
then reproach yourself by the thought,
‘I myself taught my child that which
has ended in his ruin.’ There are
some people who would never play
cards or drink to excess themselves,
but their influence on other weaker
ones may be such as to wreck their
lives forever."

 

MOLLIE MAGEE, of Brighton, says:

“I have been much interested in the
card question. It is a hard matter to
decide. Some children could be taught
the evil of it and would let cards alone,
while others would play; any way it
very largely depends on the associa-
tion they are thrown into. If with card
playing people they will learn any
way; if otherwise the temptation is not
before them; so it behooves us as Chris-
tian people not to throw this tempta-

 

tion in their way. I find our little
paper quite ahelp and wish the copy
would come in so we could have a
double sheet every week.”

 

BERTIE, of Enron, says:

“ Shiftless may have reason to com-
plain of being neglected by her hus-
band, and she may have plenty of com-
pany I fear, even in this State; but I am
happy to believe such cases are rare,
and that there are a majority of ‘hen-
peeked husbands” over ‘neglected
wives.’ Learning to play cards is like
learning to drink intoxicants, and tell
me if you will, if playing cards is not
intoxicating? The habitual drunkard
had a first start, and the first glass was
probably taken ‘for fun,’ just a simple
glass of pop or wine; after he became
an adept at this, one day the brandy and
gin hada trial and filled its mission
only too well. Just so with card play-
ing. First asimple game of cards at
home, and then away from home; then
had company and evil associations.
Don’t think that you can overcome the
temptation any more than thousands of
others who first played a simple game
of cards.”

 

C EAT.

 

L. H., of Plainfield, comes to tell
Shiftless how to feed young turkeys:

“ Do not feed them at all until they
are about twenty-four hOurs old. Then
I give them curd five times a day, and
occasionally ahard boiled egg chopped
fine, until they are three weeks old.
Then I make johnny cake for them,
which I prepare in this way: I‘ake
sour milk, add a little salt and soda and
thicken with unbolted meal, and bake
it. I soak the hard crusts and feed
them to the chicks. Turkeys must
always have cooked food. though once
in a while if I get out of the johnny
cake I pour boiling water on meal and
stir it until thoroughly cooked, taking
care not to have it sloppy. A meal of
bread and milk is good occasionally, but
not too much wet food. I give my
turkeys a little sweet milk to drink
with a little pinch of soda in it once in
three or four days until they are two
weeks old. I always season my turkeys’
food about the same as I do my own.
I cook the curd the same as for Dutch
cheese and season it with a little pinch
of salt and pepper.”

 

DISCOURAGED says;

"I want to ask the readers of the
HOUSEHOLD if any of them ever had
such a set back in trying to be saving
as I had recently. We have just com-
menced farming and have a large
mortgage on our place so we have to
save in every possible way. When
husband packed the pork last fall he
got it so salt I have to freshen it in two
waters, and boiling it so much wasted
lots of shortening, so I poured each
water in a gallon crock, pouring the
water off when it got cold, until I had
grease half an inch thick. I put the
grease in apint basin to fry it down,
setting it on the stone; I went to wash-
ing a small tin to put over it, when it
boiled over and took lire, blazing
nearly to the ceiling. I sprang fora
dipper of water and threw over it, but
the water only spread it and the top of
the stove was a solid blaze; this time I
took the pail of water and soon had it
out, then threw the remainder of the
shortening in the swill pail. Taking
my four year old child in my lap, who
was crying with fright, I breathed a
silent prayer of thankfulness that the

house did not catch fire; and I will say
right here for the benefit of the men
that I was very glad my husband was
at the barn, for he would have flown
around like ahen with her head off,
doing everything but the right one;
getting in my way so I could do noth-
ing.”

When such an accident occurs, or
when oil or any kind of grease takes
fire, it is dangerous to try to put it out
with water which only, as “Dis-
cont-aged” says, scatters the burning
grease. Smother the flames with a
piece of old carpet. a rug, blanket, or if
nothing else is handy flour will do.
And then don’t mourn over the damage
to the bit of carpet or the waste of
flour; you might have lost your house
instead.

 

“89,” who hails from Genesee Co.
says, relative to business dress for
business women:

“I agree with Beatrix in thinking
that few women would care to adver-
tise their calling in public by their
dress. But why need this be? Are
there not enough sensible ways for any
sensible woman to make her clothes so
that they can be suited to her business
and come near enough fashion’s forms
not to be odd? What is to hinder the
woman clerk or typewriter wearing a
dress of any out that is comfortable and
long enough to be ladylike and not
brush the street? or the woman Sister
Gracious mentions having her house
dress short enough to go up stairs with-
out stepping on it; or the one on the
farm who goes into the garden to
gather or plant fruit and vegetables,
from pinning her dress skirt up with a
couple of safety pins, so that it will
come a few inches above a dark skirt or
petticoat, which if it gets wet and
soiled on the bottom can be changed
for another in a moment: No! We do
not want trowsers, but any woman who
raises poultry should have rubber boots
to wear in the poultry yard, and they
are also handy in the garden. To sum
it all up: Dress according to your
work. No woman is well dressed in
silk at the washtub or dishpan, or in a
torn and soiled Mother Hubbard at the
picnic.”

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THE BEST WAY TO CAN STRAW-
BERRIES.

As soon after picking as you can get
the berries wash them thoroughly, be-
fore hulling, by pouring cold water over
them. Hull them, putting them into
a good bright milk pan, not a new one,
but one that is whitish like worn silver,
if you have nothing large enough in
earthen. Cover them thickly with
granulated sugar; slip a spoon down the
sides of the pan and lift the berries so
the sugar will run down through and
over them all. Be sure there is more
sugar that will stick to them. Set
them do Nn cellar until the next morn-
ing; pour off all the juice and boil it
down about one~third, then put the
-berries in and cook until they rise to
the top; can immediately. The berries
remain wholeiand the lovely straw-
berry flavor is retained. Do not be
anxious because the berries rise to the
tap of the can; as long as they stay
there your fruit is in proper condition.

 

 

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VIOLA'S PANBY BED.

 

I come to tell Viola how to have a
pansy bed next spring, at least it is the
way I managed one: Select a partially
shaded situation and spade the earth
up thoroughly and put on a goodly
quantity of hen manure, spading it in
thoroughly. Do this any time before
the middle of August and sow your
seed. I bought mine at the village
store and I had lovely large pansies. It
take the seed along time to germinate
and you will not get your pansies be-
fore another Summer.

BRIGHTON. MOLLIE MAG EE.

 

Here is another letter on the same
subject:

Although I am not Sally Waters I
write in answer to Viola’s question
about a pansy bed. We have one
which we all enjoy very much. The
bed should be made in ashady place
on the north or east side of the house.
W. Atlee Burpee & 00., Philadelphia.
Pa., is an old reliable firm. ”We sow
the seeds in the house in a pan and
placeapiece of brown paper the size
of the pan over it. Put water on the
paper often enough to keep it moist all
the time. The bed should be com-
posed of very rich soil. The lovely
blossoms will more than repay you for
your time and labor. We usually sow
the seed some time in March when we
sow in pans, and then transplant when
the plants have about four or five leaves
on. Now do not think me an old maid
for I am only fourteen.

BAnnoN LAKE. BLUE EYES

—-—-——-”--——‘

A CONSIDERATE HUSBAND.

 

Victory wishes to hear from some one
whose husband thinks the work in the
house is anything to do, so I will give
my experience. My health has'been
poor for years, but unusually so the last
two years. We kept a hired girl until
the house was like a pigpen and there
were not dishes enough in the house to
set the table. Then I made up my
mind that if I could find some one to do
my washingl could get us enough to
eat; the heuse couldn’t look any worse
than it did. and I would save two dol-
lars a week, so we took the girl home.
The first few weeks were very hard
owing to everything being out of place;
but after I once put things straight I
got better, for I did not worry so much.
Now husband gets up before five
o’clock, builds the fire, puts the tea-
kettle, potatoes and meat over (I always
get them ready the night before):
sweeps the floor around the stove and
fills the reservoir and hard water pail.
I do not think he has failed to do this
six times in as many years. Yesterday
forenoon I had an unuSual amount of
work to do and he came in and swept
my kitchen all over as nicely as one
could wish while I laid down and rested
my tired back.

My husband always gives me the

 

money to take care of. When he gets
out he asks me for some. Of course I
am just as saving as I know how to be.
I am sure the confidence he has in my
ability to keep money makes me more
saving than I would be if I did not
know how much we had; and I think
other women would be the same if their
husbands would trust them. There are
so many who know no more about their
husband’s business, his expenses or
gains than a stranger, and often Spend
more by having things “charged” at
the store. than they would if they un-
derstood better how much he was really
worth.

As for card playing, if children are
allowed to play at home while quite
young they will tire of it and you will
not have to worry about their going
away from home to play.

__ LILLII‘H.

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TO SOFTEN STIFF AND HAREH HAIR.

An old correspondent writes: “ I’ve
meant to send a bit of my experience to
the HOUSEHOLD, thinking it might
benefit some one else. When I was
younger my hair was soft and curly,
but the frosts of a few winters turned it
prematurely grey, and later it became
harsh and straight. For a time Ire-
sorted to artificial crimpers, all the
time believing that if -I could find the
right dressing to simply soften it, my
hair would need no assistance to be
nice and even pretty, but all in vain I
used petroleum jelly, vaseline, coleo,
cosmoline, ko-ko, etc. I consulted
hair dressers, and one recommended
glycerine and bay rum, which made it
straighter than ever before, and I was
shy of trying many of the solutions,
fearing they would give my hair that
dingy yellow cast that I dislike to see.

I wrote to a well known firm that I
would gladly pay one dollar per bottle
if they could furnish what I wanted, and
consulted druggists, but all to no avail.
I only mention this as proof of my be-
lief that there was a something if I
could only find it, and so I was per-
sistent in spite of all discouragements.
In my extremity I wrote to Beatrix as
one who would surely know. but the
remedy given in the HOUSEHOLD did
not answer to my needs. I did not
wish to restore the color, only to make
the white hair soft and wavy.

“The remedy is found and is so simple
that I want to publish it abroad, for the
great specific is only fried meat fat, the
pure grease from well browned salt
pork. Don’t be shocked or think it
will smell ‘porky,’ or even greasy, for
there is positively no odor and it does
not become rancid. Lard would not
answer the purpose at all, although I
cannot understand the difference except
that the fat is salt and that is an ad-
vantage. My hair is worn pompadour
and covers my head with soft, natural
waves and ‘it is all due to this peculiar
dressing, and having used it for several
months I feel sure that it is reliable.

 

As to the amount used, once or twice a
week I thoroughly rub in a quarter of a
teaspoonful. or less, and the result is
perfectly satisfactory, and I can recom-
mend it to those who simply wish to
soften the hair.”

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

A LADY who writes of canning fruits
in the Country Gentleman says: “ Straw-
berries preserve their flavor beauti-
fully, but will go to juice so much. I
have made some very successful jelly
during the past week by just boiling
down the juice in the cans, after taking
the berries out, until it jellied. It may
have been an accident, but I did not
even strain it, and I never saw nicer or
clearer jelly; the color is beautiful, such
a clear bright red.”

KEEP an old straw hat of each of the
ordinary colors—black, brown and
white—to supply material for repairing
the children’s hats. Black thread No.
40 is used for sewing straw by “the
trade.” The straw should be wet or
dampened as it is sewed, as this will
prevent its breaking. When a brim is
ragged, rip off the torn braid, and
taking a braid that matches. deftly
weave the ends together, and sew
around the hat’s edge as many rows as
are wished. The brim can be made to
turn down by stretching the upper
edge of the braid tightly as it is sewed,
or made to roll up by holding the upper
edge of the braid loosely. the mender
guiding the results by her taste and
judgment, as she sews. Torn crowns
are replaced in the same way. Braids
that do not match can be utilized
wherever the trimming will hide the
patch, and unfashionable low crowns
may thus be transformed into those of
any desired height.

Contributed Becmes.

 

STRAWBERRY TAPmos.«-—Soak a cupful of
tapioca in one cupful of water over night.
Add one cupful of sugar; a small piece of
butter; one tablespoonful of cornstarch dis.
solved in halfacup of water. Boil till it
thickens, turn over one quart of ripe straw-
berries, serve with whipped cream prepared
as follows: Two-thirds cup of granulated
sugar; one oupful of thick sweet cream;
whip with egg beater.

 

LETTUCE Swan—Fill a quart bowl two‘
thirds full of sweet cream; sweeten ralhzt
sweet; turn in enough good cider vinegar to
give a pleasant-flavor. Stir the cream while
turning the vinegar slowly into it. Serve by
putting a few spoonfuls on each dish of fresh
leltuee.

 

BANANA Cum—Any good layer cake
spread with the Whipped cream given above;
first a thin layer of cream, then a layer of
bananas sliced lengthways; then a little
more cream over them, then alayer of cake.
0n the top put cream, then a layer of.
bananas cut round. “ 89."