DETROIT, OCT. 1, 1892.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

MY Li 1‘ ME DARLING.

 

Once on a time she came to me

As some small star from heaven might flee
To be a mortal’s sole delight;

A love by day. a dream by night.

The sweetest thing on land or see.

My little darling crept to me.

A trembling. tender. fairy thing

Too grave to smile, too shy to sing;
An alien from her native skies.
Aware of earth with grieved surprise;
A baby angel. strange to see.

My little darling came to me.

But love and loving taught her smiles.
And lite and living baby wiles. .
The way to cling. to coax, to kiss.

To fill my soul with deepest bliss;

My heart of hearts, my life, was she.
This little love who came to me.

What words she stammerezl. soft and low.
No other ear than mine could know;
More gentle than a cooing dove.

More fond than any voice of love.

So shy, so sweet. so tenderly.

My little darling spoke to me.

I know not how to tell the grace

That dwelt upon her wistful face;

The tinted skin. the lips‘ pure bloom.
The clearest eyes that knew not gloom.
The hair as soft as moth wings be.

My little darling showed to me.

Alas! I know that all is gone;
That here I sit and grieve alone;

'i but every fair and gracious thing
I loved and lost, is but a sting.
Another thorn thy memory.

My little darling. brings to me.

But kindly night doth pity pain.
In all my dreams she c )mes again.
Her precious head is on my breast,
My happy arms caress her rest.

I hear her sounds of tender glee.
My little darling kisses me.

Ah. night is sweetl—too sweet. too brief!—
When day recalls our bitterest grief:
The hungry heart. the longing dire.
That burns the soul with vain de ire.
' The ancient cry of wild distress.
The Rachel mourning comfortless;
O God. that face once more to see!
My little darling. come to me!
—Rose Terry Cooke.

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OBSERVATIONS.

 

I get a good many ideas on the dress
question through eight of pretty
toilettes on the street, as well as by
models in show windows and dress-
mskers’ parlors. On a. bran new tall
costume in two shades of green seen
the Other day were tWo long velvet
revers, extending theJength of the
skirt on the left side. A fold of the‘

buttons in groups of three held each in
place. The revers were edged with a
green cord and the costume was very
pretty. The corsage had revers fram-
ing a light tan waistcoat, which made a
striking but elegant combination.

A very simple yet stylish dress worn
by a Chicago lady visiting here was of
fine blue cloth. The skirt had no
seam down the centre of the back, but
was stright, the goring being managed
by a bias seam on each side, and the
fullness of the back was arranged in
French gathers instead of pleats. The
corsage had two-fishort, narrow pos-
tilions in the back—mere prolonga-
tions of the centre backs, and was
pointed in front. It1 was cut to lap
from right to left across the chest. the
lap being cut in two rather broad
points; these were lined with silk, and
in the centre of each was set a. large
smoked pearl button, larger even than
a silver dollar. Below athese points
the waist closed in the centre with
steel clasps not unlike those of a corset,
which brought the edges together
closely. and obviated the necessity of
whalebones in front and hooks and
eyes. This is a. new thing, and likely
to be popular.

A pretty dress just ready to be sent
home lay on a chair in Madam’s dress-
rriaking parlors and I “took it in.” It
was of the popular mixed goods, chev-
ron weave, in brown and blue, giving a
sort of changeable effect, with the
brown (which :changed from golden
brown to dark as the light struck it)
predominating. Cost $125.3. yard?
inches wide. The owner had chosen
blue for the trimming: I should have
much preferred brown. The skirt had
a rufiie round the bottom which, com-
pleted, was about an eighth of a. yard
wide. The lower edge was hemmed,
the upper was faced with blue. It was
put on in small pleats, in groups of
three, with space of about an eighth of
ayard between, and stitched on about
an inch from the top to form a heading;
at each group of pleats the heading
was caught down to show the shine
facing. The waist had a. short, sharp
point in the back, and the front was
double-breasted, with two rows of small
silk buttons on the darts; it “was cut
down in front at the throat to show a

 

goods was laid over the lung edge of
the rever, and six large velvet covered .

short, full silk vest, with revers and
collar of same; and jacket fronts which

 

were lined with blue silk were sewed
in at the shoulder and under arm
seams. Sleeves were very full at the
top and close at the wrist, and finished
with a narrow silk cufi’.

Four widths, skirt length, of nice
goods, composed the material out of
which an economical woman sought
to evolve her fall dress. And she
did it, too. Two widths went into the
bell skirt, but there was “ a shortage ’
at the bottom which required trim-
ming to conceal. A bias band five
inches wide, applied With patience and
skill, covered this defect. and was
cut from the third breadth; it was
lined with crinoline and headed by a
velvet cord. By stretching the lower
edge. and by dint of much basting, it
was made to fit smoothly. Out of the
remainder of the third breadth, and
the fourth, she cut a- short corsage, with
pointed back and double-breasted front,
and fashionably full sleeves. From
the bottom of the waist to a. point just
above the darts the right front lapped
over to the first dart; above this it
widened and was out in three deep
pointed scallOps, on each of which she
set a big velvet button; the bottom of
the waist was corded with velvet, the
double-breasted portion and the high
military collar were bound with velvet,
and narrow velvet cults finished the
sleeves; a row of small velvet buttons
was set along the edge of the lap and
on the first dart, and in groups of three
on the three seams in the back. And
when it was done, it was a “great suc-
cess.”

A good. simple yet stylish model for
a cloth dress is a. bell skirt made with-
out trimming, with a corsage cut with
a moderate point and to lap low to the
left in front, under two large buttons;
the lap is added by aseam up the front.
Revers of velvet start from the shoulder
and are wide enough to extend back to
the sleeve; the right rever crosses
over the left, just below the top of the
darts and is continued in a narrow
point acr ss the lap. The back of the
corsage is cut in square slashes, the
centre ones-continuations of the centre
back forms—being the longer. Sleeve
are moderately high on the shoulder
and finished with a narrow pointed
velvet cuff. p

The most popular way of dressing
the hair is to have the fringe cu

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moderately short and pointed over the
forehead; the back hair is then waved
and drawn loosely back into a coil or
twist, carefully adjusted in' the most
becoming position and secured by fancy
pins or a comb. BEATRIX.

_———...———-—-

FROM THE AGRICULTURAL COL-
LEGE.

 

What you saw at the State Fair is
still fresh in your mind. I wonder how
many HOUSEHOLD readers visited the

capital city or places of interest there- '

by? It was gratifying to one’s idle
curiosity to spend an hour at one of the
principal depots as the long excursion
trains drew in, the windows passing
you like a succession of tableaux. That
place could show up a fairly represen-
tative crowd in the State. On the long
platform, turning and re-turning,
groups breaking up and re-forming, are
Michiganites from many counties and
nearly every occupation; stockmen,
business men, farmers, lawyers, all
classes from the smooth tongued poli-
ician to the swaggering cow-boy sort
of a lad who is not particular whether
night finds him at home or on a bench
at the police station—in fact all the
patterns it .takes to make up a State.
Counting'heads would only be making
a mental assortment of hats, and in
spite of the proverb that clothes don’t
make the man, most of us incline to the
belief that his hat helps to show him up.

But the question I would ask is, how
many of the fathers and mothers who
have aspirations for their sons availed
themselves of the nearness to and

visited the Agricultural College farm? '

I have on several occasions attended
the farmers’ clubs where the question
“ Does the Agricultural College pay? ”
was freely discussed, and may I say
that almost invariably the majority de-
cided that it was instituted to drain
them through taxation and in itself
was “a bit of ’tam‘d nonsense.”
Having never visited the place my-
self I came to the conclusion it was an in—
stitution of about twenty-five boys from
the wealthy farm homes, half as many
instructors living on the fat salaries
the hard working farmer’s purse sup-
plied, and a board of control faring
equally well. As a child I used to
silently wonder why farmers would put
up with it, anyway. Today I am sitting
by a window overlooking the well kept
and beautifully laid out campus. Be-
hold what the Agricultural College is
in reality; and how I do wish it were
11 my power to tell grumbling stay-at-
home farmers what I see here. Ten
imes as many boys as I expected. per-
haps adozen girls. And the students
are from all classes, both from city and
farm. A little observation shows me
that each man on the pay roll earns
every dotlar he gets; and further, that
all are working in unison for one com-
mon end—the advancement of knowl-
edge where most needed and where the

 

present age demands it among the far-
ers. Without any disrespect to the
farming classes I ask my reader if it is
not a fact that the farmer whose corn is
hidden with rag weed and potatoes un-
cultivated, blames the government. and
listens attentively to the propounder
of partizan politics or any other un-
sound theory? A good farmer should
be a good citizen, and though the agri-
cultural department of this College is
in the lead, enough of the other good
things are mixed in with the thorough
knowledge of scientific and practical
farming to turn out the ambitious youth
a practical man, as well as a practical
farmer.

It is to be regretted the opportunity
afforded here is by so many unheeded.
I would ask the mothers who entertain
the HOUSEHOLD to arouse in their
sons an interest in this institution.
Don’t say you have not the means, for
there are numberless chances here
for a boy to work his way through.
Seize the first opportunity permitting
you to visit the College and you will
feel repaid. The entrance road very
naturally takes you to the library build-
ing. At the right as you go in is the
President’s office. In the man him-
self you will find a very gracious person
and one ever ready to chat with you.
From thence you may visit any depart-
ment and you will find each professor
or instructor anxious to explain the
work of his particular department.

AGEIOULTUR\L COLLEGE. LOIS.

—-—--——*O.———_

A MAN‘S VIEW OF THE MONEY
PROBLEM.

 

I had hardly hoped ever to rise from
the dust and clouds of an ordinary
farm life to the exalted privilege of
expressing views on any subject
through the medium of the HOUSE-
HOLD, especially when the subject
turns upon the relation of money to
married lile. But as I have been a
reader of the HOUSEHOLD some years
and have had my ears and hair (in
common with all men) pulled through
its columns upon most all the phases of
life, at last personal pride in manhood,
coupled with a desire to see fair play,
leads me to knock at the door and as it
swings open taken advantage of the
opportunity to air my opinion on
Greenie.

Now, plainly and to the point. I
can but feel after carefully reading
her article on “Our Rights” that she
must belong to those of the gentler
sex who are always and forever being
robbed of their rights and are too much
circumscribed by their unhappy sur-
roundings; that she longs continually
to be freed from the thralld om of skirts,
etc., and fain would leave her prison
to step into the liberties enjoyed by
pants and suspenders.

It may appear an assumption on my
part, having had but few years’ ex-
perience in married life as the usurper
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to offer any suggestion, but what little
exper1ence I have I freely contribute for
the alleviating of the condition of the
downtrodden and oppressed. When
we (mind you I didn‘t say I) began the
struggle of life we started with the idea
of a whole lifetime of enjoyment to-
gether. And some of our first ex-
periences led us t ) the firm conclusion
that two pocketbooks in one family
were better than one, even with but
little in one, and so we have two.
When either comes to an end as to con-
tents what a relief to feel that the
other is at the service of- both while
anything remains! Now as I say,
we didn’t begin in luxury and have
plenty of money to spend, but felt the
necessity of close economy on an unim-
proved small farm, with a little old 109:
house, so low at the door that the lord
of the manor had to stoop alittle to
get in, but he was always welcome, even
if the floor was being mapped at the
time and boots were muddy.

I believe almost all newly married
peonle begin life with a desire to suc-
ceed and the great cause of failure is
lack of denying self for the comfort and-
pleasure of the other. Let it become
apparent to the husband that the wife
simply endures him with all his foibles,
that she may be able to extract from
his pocketbook something to buy
pleasures with and satisfy a “natural
like to be pretty,” and could you con-
ceive a more potent cause for the
tightening of his purse strings? Human
nature has in its composition much that
resembles the porcine family. And
who of us has not derived a great deal
more genuine satisfaction by pleading
rather than pounding our way through
the world. , ‘

As I sit by the window writing I see
a vine-covered tree in the yard. When
we came here, early in our married
life. the tree was strong and healthy
while the vine was young and tender.
But today the branches of both are so-
closel-y interwoven, and each so much
conceals the dark spots and broken
limbs of the other that they twain are
a thing of beauty, and a beautiful type
of what married life ought to be in all
its relations.

Now Greenie, haven’t you been just
as mean and stingy in giving of your
wealth, which is not always money, as
that selfish being called man whom you
so much depreciate for the woes he has
brought upon your sex? Have you
both been mutually working for the
comfort of each other? ,Don’t you know
the pleasure it gives one to possess
wealth to bestow on another at the
asking, and haven’t you experienced
the pleasure of receiving after having
asked? It is not best to demand more

than we are willing to give in return.
I would like to say a lot on this sub-
ject, but for fear of that dreaded basket
will stop; though I will say the Lord
forgive the man mean enough to sell-
the eggs and pocket the money.

VERNON. UNCLE CHARLIE.

 


 

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SUMMER BOARDERS.

 

I made the acquaintance of the
HOUSEHOLD while a “summer board-
er” in the country the past season;
and I thought it might perhaps in-
terest its readers should I tell them
our experiences, and how our enter-
tainers managed. Possibly somebody
who means to act upon Beatrix’s sug-
gestion next year may gain a few helpv
ful hints.

I had not been very well during the
spring; the children looked pale and
tired at the close of school, that awful
hot weather came on, and our good
doctor voiced my heart’s desire when
he advised us to go to some quiet place
in the country and just rest and live
out of doors. Of course the first thing,
and the most difficult, was to find a
place to go. But a neighbor recom-
mended a locality, my husband went to
investigate, liked it, and arranged for
board at a place which we found to be
nearly all we had desired.

The farm consisted of eighty acres of
well-cared for and managed land, a
mile and a half from a pleasant village.
The house was a two story brick, with
a wide, well shaded veranda on the
south and east sides. We just lived on
that veranda. There were plenty of
comfortable cushioned rockers, not too
nice to use, a hammock or two, a table,
and here we read and sewed and
talked all day and often far into the
night. There was a big yard, with one
magnificent tree in the centre, protect-
ed on the west by an evergreen wind-
break, and here the children romped.
The house was about forty rods from a
little lake, with a nice beach for bath-
ing, but alas, no boats we could
manage. The children being strictly
forbidden to go to the lake unless ac-
companied by older people. we rested
perfectly secure even if they were out
of sight for half ,an hour.

There were thirteen boarders, all
women and children. Two girls were
kept, and there were two or three hired
men. The family and help had asix
o’clock breakfast; we had our own table
and breakfasted between eight and
nine o’clock; usually we were all really
to sit down at eight. Our landlady‘s
daughter waited upon the table. We
had our dinner and supper at twelve
and six, and after we had eaten the
table was cleared, reset, and the
family and help ate. Everything
worked with the utmost smoothness.
and all was so well managed there was
no apparent worry, haste, or discom-
fort.

Our fare was good and abundant but
might have been more varied. For
breakfast we invariably had oatmeal,
boiled eggs, toast or muffins, coffee,
and cakes or cookies of some kind. I
did get dreadfully tired of boiled eggs,
and longed for an omelet, or even a
poached egg. One lady pettishly ex-
claimed that she was ashamed to look a

 

hen in the face she’d eaten so many
eggs. They had plenty of berries, but
we never had any for breakfast, just
the time when one most wants fruit in
hot weather. For dinner we had fresh
meat, the nicest of potatoes, one or
two vegetables and a salad, lettuce,
cucumbers, or something of that kind,
with a generous help of pie or pudding,
and often fruit in addition. For tea,
biscuit, pancakes or Johnny cake, fruit,
cream cheese which was perfectly dc-
licious and of which we never tired,
warmed-up potatoes (sometimes baked),
usually cold meat and cake. And al-
ways all the milk we wanted. A hun-
gry child could have a piece of bread-
and-butter-and-sugar or a cookie, and
no cross looks over it.
well cooked and abundant, and nicely
served; and the table linen always spot-
less; the dishes were not nicked and
broken, and though we had steel knives
the forks and spoons were silver-plated.

Our bedrooms were small and had no
closets, but were comfortably furnished.
I could have dispensed with the elab-
orate lambrequins if the windows could
only have been lowered from the top.
I would find fault with only one thing
about the accommodations, and that——
the beds. Mine was so hard I couldn’t
dint it, and positively I was lame and
my flesh sore all over the first few
nights, till I became somewhat ac-
customed to its stony qualities. And I
never regarded ahair mattress so af-
fectionately as I did my own when I
returned to its luxurious embrace once
more. I missed several little con-
veniencies such as towel rack, slop jar,
etc, but had brought a number of
necessaries with me which "bridged
the gaps.”

There were seven children on the
premises, including the three belong-
ing the family, and it wasacoznfort
that they got along so nicely together.
The boys had to be “called down " oc-
casioually for teasing the girls, but
usually they played together very har-
moniously. They had ample range, but
were not at liberty to frequent the berry
patches, the garden or the orchard~
the last was an especial privation after
harvest apples began to ripen. I really
think the children might have had

some of the apples instead of the pigs

having all; butI dare say it saved us
mothers some anxiety and Jamaica
ginger.

Our pleasant experience in country
boarding was quite an antithesis to
that of a neighbor who on our return,
sunbrowned and freckled, but stout and
hearty, said: “ You don’t mean to tell
me you’ve been on a farm all these
weeks! Mr. B— insisted we should
go into the country on the children’s
account, but I couldn't stand it. I
never was so homesick in my life. It
was so stupidly dull, nowhere to go.
And we had to eat with the men, who

came to the table smelling so of the
stable or reeking with perspiration that

The food was '

 

it took away my appetite. And when
I saw one of them lick his knife and
then help himself to butter, I packed
up and went home the next day. Talk
about country living! We had fried
pork and ham one day and ham and
boiled pork the next; not a taste of
chicken: no fruit or vegetables; and we
couldn’t have milk because it all went
to the cheese factory. I've had all the
‘country’ Iwant!”

The family where we were has taken
city boarders for a number of years, the
old habitues returning season after
season. The business has proved so
satisfactory that the owner thinks
seriously of putting up a summer hotel,
and would do so but for the opposition
of the women of his family, who do not
wish to increase their cares and re-
sponsibilities. He will in any event
put up an addition which will enable
them to accommodate perhaps a dozen
pe0ple more. I wanted to advise him
to “let well enough alone.” The
charm of “ Mapiecroft” lies in its free-
dom from fashion’s restraint (we wore
our cambric wrappers till teatime if we
chose, and didn't bother ourselves
about curl-papers). its home cooking
and servme, and the way in which the
hostess looked after our comfort, per-
sonally, making it so hone-like. A
larger house means more peeple, more
noise, less comfort and restfulness,

.m)re dress aqi style, more friction in

housekeeping; in short, with the com-
ing of the Philistines will go all the
charm and retirement of the place; it
will lose its individuality and become
like hundreds of other “hotels”—-a
place where you nemr w wt to go the
second time. When city people turn.
away from the sum nor hotel and its
accompanying amusements and divers
sions anl seek afarrnh use, it is be-
cause they really waut in st and quiet
home cooking and home 4: 7 nforts.
‘- its. 0. C. B.

W

ONE OF OUR LE580NS.

 

During the three so we anl ten years
alloted, we suppose, to woman as well
as man, she finds many a lesson thrust
upon her, which unlike those in school
textbooks alloy of no shirking, no
copying the results of others’ work,
but must be be analyzed from first to
last through her own struggles and
her own pain. Some of these lessons
are bitter; some are sad; others bear
the character of a sharp, keen agony;
but for real metalllc hardness I think
none compare with the one whose steel-
like lines and paragraphs constantly
run through my mind today. It is that
law of nature which decrees that in
love a woman (must ever give more
than she receives.

This looks impossible as she listens
to the lover whose fate seems to hang
upon her slightest word, and his
passionate devotion makes the best and
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cold, but no matter how happy the
marriage, nor how kind and true the
iusband, as a rule, the truth comes to
her in time that, while she loves him
hr him-self alone, he loves her for
what she is to him. This need not mar
happiness and she may go on content;
Eat the really hard feature is still to
some and never comes to any but a
mother. She thinks nothing of it
while her little ones cling helplessly to
Ider and." make such constant demands
awn a.love which knows no limit; asks
fer-no‘return, but gives with a very
delight. of self-sacrifice. But little by
little, as they become independent of
her care, and gird themselves for the
Battle- of life, she, wearied with its
snuggle, begins to realize that While
flieyare and must ever be dearer to
Bentham her own breath, she can only
Ib-seeondary with them. It is de-
creed that the young life make root for
half and reach forward to another
generation just as she has done. The
one old story over and over again.
Sheean look back and see how slight
fielove she gave her parents compared
hthat which she gives her children,
ad they will, in turn pass through the
we experience, and realize her pain
only through their own.

My sympathy goes out to the mother
when she first sees this lesson before
her, for that is the most trying time.
Once she recognizes it as inevitable, as
one learned by all who have lived and
fired as she has done, she can reconcile
Ber hungry heart to live upon and re-
iiiee over its moiety and cease those
weary “Whysg” but after all, the
bravest of us must always think of it as
-—a hard. hard lesson. A. H. J.

W

AMI-OVER IN THE RING.

 

With all their cutting remarks I am
still interested in the HOUSEHOLD. I
did not intend to tread on the ladies’
toes any more, but like a little boy
please permit=me “just once more.”
The money and work question has been
openly discussed'in the HOUSEHOLD;
the money part-does not trouble me
rery much, because What is mine is my
wife’s and what is my wife’s is mine,
figure it which way you will; and if any

dispute it 007113 0V6? and PM on the face or faces of one or of many chil-

gloves, but the work part, that part so
many dread, is what I am after.
. The Editor lately gave us a full de-

seription 0f Labor day in DetrO-lt, and which thg pleased, pure, happy heart of

minarked that all but one “overbear-

331g Englishman.” gave their men their but one rival in gift or grace, an
time and the day, intimating tthat angel’s song.
Emerica was the paradise of the work-
“ring man. In my life of nearly 60 years I

Have had about‘ec ual experience in both
bread, and in Genesee County, are moving in the

countries as a laborer for my

where will you find ahappier or more matter of organizing w

contented lot of working people- than
! having for its motive the study of the vinegar, quarter teaspoonful of cayenne

various countries which will exhibit at pepper, one teaspoonful of 33",, two heaping
the Columbian EXPOSitiOD and their tablespoonfuls of grated horseradish; mix

fl the rural districts of old England

True the wages are low, but the rich

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have their day of pleasure once in a
while, and often mix in with them.
While I was a “hired man” for over
seven years there, it was the most
pleasurable seven years in my life. Of
course their manufacturing and min-
ing districts are some different, but it
makes a poor foreigner sometimes feel
disgusted to see a Yankee, with per-
haps one hundred dollars of borrowed
money in his pocket, wanting to hire
(with a swag and manner more im-
portant than the Duke of Devonshire),
who knows not how to use a good man
when he hasvone. I have seen this in
both countries, and if we consider the
newness and the largeness of this
country, why it ought naturally to be
better for the laborer. It was, twenty
and thirty years ago, but look around
and where are we steering? Evident-
ly toward a division of the population
into two classes, rich and poor.

If you please, where did we all
spring from? There are two sides
to everything, there is to me and
my wife also. I like the best side in-
side. but many like an outside show,
and they are welcome to all there is in
it so far as concerns AjNTI OVER.

W—

A SMILE.

 

I have just read in the Youth‘s Com-
panion a little sketch, or rather a few
thoughts on the art of smiling, which
closes with this most pertinent sketch:
“You look very much pleased about
something,” said a gentleman on a
suburban train to the conductor, who
was ordinarily a somewhat grim and
stern faced man.
“I presume so,” said the conductor.
"'I've just seen a little girl who takes
this train to go in to school every
morning, and she always smiles up at
me when I punch her ticket. I declare
it makes me good natured for the rest
of the trip.”

Yet all she did was to smile!
Ah, the smile and the laugh of a
child! What magic, what music they
are to the toil-worn, care encumbered
mind and disappointed, anxious heart
of the mature, battle-scarred man or

woman!
Who among us cannot call up the

dren beaming smiles up into our own,
that warm and cheer our lives to the
very core and centre? The smile

a child telegraplis to its face can have

E. L. NYE.
OBTONVILLE.

THE ladies of Atlas, a small village

hat they will
probably call the “Columbian Club,”

one that should be taken up by com-
munities all over our State during the
winter which is close at hand, especially
by those who hips to visit Chicago
during the Exposition. Such previous
study will aid wonderfully in seeing the
fair intelligently and with profit, and
be a help in knowing where to look
for what we most desire to see. There
is so much “Columbian literature”
afloat now that materials for reference
will be plenty. Our magazine contri-
butions relative to Columbus, notable
among which are Emilio Castelar’s ar-
ticles in PM Century, make a good
place to begin; and a winter may be
most profitably spent in studying up,
first the story of Columbus and his
famous voyage, and then the foreign
countries which will be represented.
No idea of the interest and fascination
of such study will be entertained until
one is fairly embarked in it. Start a
“Columbian Club,” by all means, and
prepare to see the world’s greatest
exposition with intelligent, compre-
hensive vision.
W

IT is said borax will remove the
“ fur” which gathers in the teakettle,
deposited there by hard water.

W

A CHAPTER ON CATSUPS.

 

PLUM Carson—Boil the plums, skins and
all, with a little water and when soft. strain
through a colander, pressing the pulp
through. To five pounds of pulp and juice
add three pounds of light brown sugar, one
pint of best cider vinegar, one salt-spoon'
ful‘ of black pepper (or cayenne if pre-
ferred) one tablespoonful each of salt,
ground cinnamon, allspice, and mace. two
teaspoonfuls of ground cloves. Boil twenty
minutes.

 

GREEN GRAPE Carson—Wash and stem
the green grapes. then to five pounds add
sufficient water to keep them from burning
and stew them gently until they can be
rubbed through a sieve with a potato masher
to extract the seeds. Return the pulp thus
made to the preserving kettle and add as
seasoning one tablespoonfnl each of ground
cinnamon, cloves, auspice, pepper and salt,
a pint of vinegar and two pounds of brown
sugar. Boil the catsup until it is thick
enough for use, then bottle and sell.

 

Tomuo (Ensues-Take three quarts of
best tomatoes, and put them into a porce-
lain kettle with one pound of brown sugar,
one pint of vinegar, one tablespoonful of
ground black pepper. :1 tablespoonful of
salt, two onions chopped very fine. a table~
spoonful of celery seed bruised, and a tea-
spoonful of pov dared cloves. Boil for'
three hours very slowly, then strain through
a fine sieve, bottle, and it is ready for use.

 

CUOUMBEB Carson—Choose large, partly
ripe cucumbers, pare, remove the seeds and
grate the pulp. Put this in a colander to
drain; when thoroughly drained measure
and toeach pint allow half a pint of cider

 

 

re more generous, sympathizing Tand
Ind, and like their work morals to p

roducts. This is an excellent idea,

all the ingredients together, bottle and seal.