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LEAN HA RD.

 

Clfld of my love, lean hard,

And let me feel the pressure of thy care.

I know thy burden, child, I shaped it;

Poised it in my own hand; made no proportion

In its weight to thine unaided strength;

For even as I 1 id it on I said:

“ I shall be near, and while she leans on me

This burden shall be mine, not hers;

So shall I keep my child within the encircling arms

or mine own love.” Herc lay it down, nor fear

To impose it upon ashoulder which upholds

The government of Worlds. Yet closer come;

Thou art not near enough; I would embrace thy
care,

So I might feel my child reposing on my breast.

Thou lovest me? I know it, doubt not, then,

But, loving me, lean hard.

—-——-«o—-———-

AVOID 1T.”

 

I am always sorry when I see upon our
streets, as I so often do, little boys with
cigars or cigarettes between their lips, or
expectorating tobacco stained saliva upon
an unofiending and long—suffering side-
walk. I am sorry, because I know they
are forming a habit which is injurious to
the health both of mind and body; which
is expensive, stealing away dimes and
nickels which reach a goodly sum in the

hundreds of dollars in alifetime; andone
which is at once the most useless and
most difficult to break off when it has be-
come fixed. I am sorry, too, because I
know that the desire to learn to smoke
and chew is founded on a longing to be
and be thought manly. Since men are
addicted to these habits, alad feels he has
made along step toward that estate of
manhood he so covets when he has so
conquered the instincts of his stomach
that he can take his “chew” or cigar
without qualms. It is too bad that a

 

 

mistaken ambition makes him copy
manhood’s vices instead of its virtues.
The habit is almost always secretly ac-
quired, at the expense of the first quality
of manhood, truth. A boy who has
courage to tell the truth, always, and has
nothing to conceal from his father or
mother, needs no help from tobacco to
make him manly.

cept, forgetting or unable to set the ex-
ample without which precepts are empty
words. At aTobacco Growers’ Conven-
tion, held recently in one of the tobacco
growing States, during an animated dis-
cussion on the opening of new markets
and means of increasing the demand for
their commodity, one man arose and of-
fered a resolution to the effect that the
use of tobacco in our public schools
should be encouraged. Blank silence
followed; and the members looked at one
another in perplexity. This was a new
way of “increasing the consumption.”
The resolution eifected precisely what its
proposer desired. He did not expect it
would be endorsed, but he did wish to
induce a little thought upon what “ open-
ing new markets” means. Instead of
considering the consequences as relating
to their own purses, they were called upon
to view the results to the consumer.

Scientists tell us—and we accept their
teachings as good authority in other
things, why not in this?——that the oil
distilled from tobacco by smoking is an
extremely poisonous one, its effect being
to paralyze the spinal cord and nerves of
motion, while the volatile nicotine affects
the heart, working its mischief through
the brain. The digestive organs are dis-
arranged and their action weakened.
Dr. Pope, an emenent English professor,

 

says nothing can be more pernicious for
boys and growing youths, than the use of

tobacco in any form. It points directly
to physical degeneration, stunting the
growth and dulling the intellect. I once
knew a young man who was an inveterate
chewer. He learned the habit when alad,
and it grew upon him as an intemperate
man’s appetite for liquor grows. I will
not mention the quantity he used daily,
least my veracity be called in question.
Its effect upon him was to make him ap-

pear as if continually in a state of semi-
intoxication. His eyes became bloodshot,

the blue faded and bleared, his tongue
was thick and unruly, and his mind at
last became so affected that he was silly
in conversation, and stupid in appear-
ance. And this lamentable condition
was simply the result of the inordinate

 

The use of tobacco is widespread and
general, yet I believe there are very few
men who would commend it to their sons,
in any form. The fathers ‘who smoke
and chew would have the boys do as they
say, not as they do. They have felt the
firm hold the habit fixes upon its victims,
and though stronger than their courage
to resist it, they give precept upon pre-

quantity of tobacco he used. He still
lives—and chews—a mere mental and
physical wreck when he should be at
the zenith of manhood’s strength and
vigor. This case IS perhaps an extreme
one, yet the like may prove true of any
who surrender to the habit as completely
as he did. And what boy can say he will
not surrender, to an enemy that steals

 

upon him so imperceptibly, yet so surely.
Abad habit reminds us of the fable in
which Vishnu, the mightiest god of the
Hindoos, knelt at the feet of the king, in
the guise of a poor Brahmin, pleading for
three paces of land on which to build a
hermitage. “Take it,” said the king.
“It is my pleasure to help the weak."
Vishnu rose, and in three paces strode
across the earth and claimed it as his own.
We are more the slaves of habit than we
like to confess, and the indulgence of an
appetite is one of the worstof bad habits.
Give an inch and it takes an ell. and next
compasses a league.

And so,' boys, don’t let the “tobaCCo
habit” master you. You, and your boy .
friends,may think it is manly and evidence .
of “spirit” to puff a cigar and carry a
tobacco box, but the older people whom
you wish should think well of you, are
only sorry to see you beginning life with
such false ideas of what makes a man
worthy respect and imitation. Down in
their hearts they pity you, and most ad-
mire those who resist the temptation of
comrades, and whose lips and teeth are
unstained, and whose breath is not foui
with “ the weed.”

BEATRIX.

HIRED MEN.

 

While no one will deny that God made

_of one blood all the nations of the earth,

or object to the self-evident truth, “All
men have a natural right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness,” the fact
that no two men are equally endowed by
nature,will be as willingly conceded. Men~
tal, moral, social and physical qualities
are of all degrees of force and develop-
ment, besides the dwarfed or precocious
examples that serve as exceptions to
prove a common rule.

Some men are by nature gentlemen, no
matter how rough and uncouth their sur-
roundings; some others, despite birth,
education or refined surroundings, will
be and remain boors. In the one case,
elevating influences will refine gold, in
the other want of them will leave a
ruflian.

Take this showing into the everyday
practice of a farmer’s life, in the matter

 

 

of “hired men,” a question which has
been under discussion in the Household
recently. Farmers cannot always choose
their help. When their work is in season
and help scarce they must often put up.
with very inefficient and undesirable, and
sometimes, positively objectionable pen
sons.

 


 

2

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

Icannot believe that the most ardent
‘stickler for “ doing as you would be done
by,” would favor giving unlimited liberty
in the family to such persons. On the
contrary, I think while they should be
well fed and be comfortably housed, they
should be as much as possible isolated
from the family, lest their pernicious ex-
ample do more harm to young, impres-
sionable minds, than the good the most
kindly care of the united family could do
:to them.

I always feel that home is a sacred
. thing, to be most carefully and prayerful-
ly guarded from all baleful influences;
and, while we should do all we can to in—
fluence all aright, whom circumstances
make time-dwellers with us, it would be
inexzusable in us to jeopardize family
duties and interests, for their possible
good. Their stay is transient, the family
abides. By all means sow good seed in
all seasons, but do not' neglect for such
sowing, the watering and culture of the
tender plants that grow beside you and
for the future of whom you are, under
Providence, responsible.

If your hired man is the son of a neigh-
bor, or any one whom you know is trust-
worthy, !et him feel in every word and
act that you appreciate such manly qualio
ties, and make him truly at home with
you. But prove the stranger, before you
let him become the companion of your
innocent sons. lest you find evrl seed sown
in their tender minds that you may never
eradicate.

To endure rough, uncouth, or unman-
nerly people at the family table, is the
very least 0f the annoyances of such con-
tingencies. It is a sort of independent self‘
assertion with some people that “if they
are not good enough to eat with their
employer, they are too good to work for
him,” and, although without any ground
of reason, the key note is manly and if
the person has self-respect enough to make
himself presentable in appearance and
manners, few farmers at least, would ob-

ject to his company. .

One lady objects to hired men at table,
with their odor of the field and stable,
when she has tony company, and her table
is spread with silver and galore. I should
imagine the hired men would be equally
‘embarrassed,and the more self-respecting,
the more chagrin, because it is utterly
impossible for a hired man to take time
for an elaborate toilet before meals, nor
can the odor of his labor be put off in an
instant.

My practice in such cases is to get
“company meals ” either earlier or later
than usual, and the meal for the men at
the usual hour. It adds a little to my
work, but pleases all around much better.
The “gude mon” can be advised, and
govern himself accordingly. I do not
consider it such a horrible breach of
etiquette for hired men, or even the
“ gude mon,” to come to the table without
coats on. The etiquette of formal
parties, or of people of “elegant
leisure ” should not be used by farmers in
their busy, hurried seasons of labor.
Work is rushing, the sun is torrid, willing

hands bustling, perspiration running

from every pore, the men, wearied, nearly
exhausted, hear the dinner call, hurry to
the house, take a cool wash and drink,
and with no time to cool off, are seated at
table, swallowing the hot viands and
steaming fluids; and are complained of
for not adding another cause of discom-
fort. Men should be required to leave as
much of the soil and dirt as possible out
doors, both to save labor to the women
folk, and to keep the air of the house
pure and pleasant, but my hired men can
come to the table without coats on in hot
weather, without protest from me. If
they will scrape their boots, and be clean
in person and tongue. I will readily do
all I can for their comfort, even though
they do not practice the latest rules of
decorum.

Iwant to add my mite in defense of
the rag carpet for the use of farmers’ liv~
ing-rooms. No other carpet is so suitable
or durable in my experience and by
“timing one’s turns” may be made without
any terrible worriment to brain or hand
or feeling the cost. A. L. L.

INGLESIDE.
————«.__—._.

A MUSICAL EDUCATION.

“When Music, heavenly maid, was
young," was she, l’wonder, compelled to
practice scales and fivefinger exerc1ses,
trills and arpeggios, from two to four hours
daily? If so, how many times did she
rebel and threaten to resign her seat
among the Muses, and be no more a
daughter of the gods? I have thought
“the torture of the innocents” many
times the past summer as I have heard
the monotonous “ one, two, three, four”
and da Capo, mingled with the tinkle of
the piano, while on my way to breakfast,
and percha ce caught a glimpse of a
wistful face looking into the sun-lighted
street. The little victim, for such I felt
inclined to consider her, had been roused
from her last nap to “practice.” She
would practice till school time, and on
her return, instead of amerry romp as
relaxation after a day at the desk, would
be tied to the music stool for another
hour’s thrumming of scales. This has
been going on for over a year. The re-
,sult, in this instance, has not been com-
mensurate with the outlay of vitality.
The girl has no more music in her than a
kettledru‘m; she will never make a
musiciam. She grows pale and thin
under the incessant practising, and the
effort to keep up with her class at school,
coupled with a rapid physical develop-
ment. What a mistake it is to crowd so
much “education” into the children’s lives
at a time when they are physically and
mentally immature. How many graves
the practice fills, yearly! And who
wonders that some stubborn souls rebel!
A year ago the papers told of a fourteen
year old girl, child of well-to-do parents,
who ran away from home and was finally
found doing laundry work in an asylum.
When asked why she deserted a comfort
able if not luxurious home, to do ascr-
vant’s work, she declared she had rather
be thus employed than practice five hours
daily on the piano.

 

But my sympathies are most excited for
alassie whom I shall call Mary Ann, be-
cause that is not her name. Her mother
takes in washing to pay for piano rent
and lessons, and Mary Ann has worked
assiduously, impelled thereto by her
mother’s persuasions, often couched, I
regret to say, in no gentle terms: “Keep
that there pianner a goin’, will ye?”
floated out upon the morning air- during
an interlude of silence. Mary Ann, who
takes far more interest in natural history
than in music, was watching a family
of sparrows just beginning housekeeping.
She is always examining insects “to see
how funny they’re made,” and would be
zealous in studying them if she had a
chance. But Mary Ann is pretty, and
her mother is “going to make a lady of
her;” and besides her cousin, who has a
quick eye and a flexibility of finger which
stand her in stead of decided talent,
plays quite prettily, and “Sure, Mary
Ann is as smart as that Katy!” So Mary
Ann bedews the piano with tears, and
her mother virtuously belabors the wash
board, believing that by forcing her
daughter to do what nature never meant
she should do, she is fitting her for that
rank in life to which she hopes her pretty
face may lift her. Ah me, how full the
world seems to be of mistaken ambitions!

Is it not an absurd idea that every girl
must be taught music as a part of htr
education, whether she has any natural
qualifications to aid her in mastering the
accomplishment or not? There is not
one girl out of'one hundred who is not
eager to “take lessons;” and admiring
the skill with which a trained hand can
evolve “ a concord of sweet sounds,”
thinks nothing can weary her till she has
attained equal proficiency. But there is
no royal road to musical lore, and spirit
and flesh both weary before a beginning
is fairly made. There can be no excellence
in music not won by the patient and
continued work of months and years.
Not one out of fifty who “ takes
music” ever attain to more than
mediocrity. Why spend so much of
youth’s seedtime to acquire a single
accomplishment, one for which apeculiar
talent and fitness is especially required,
and without which no great success is
possible? Take almost any girl, musi-
cally educated at great expense of time
and labor, and how quickly her skill
deserts her unless kept up by steady prac-
tice. When she meets the fate for which
all girls are said to sigh, and marries,
how long before she cannot play a single
selection without errors? Life’s path
must lead through smooth places, or the
accomplishment must stand as apossible
resource to aid the family income if she
advances at all, or even retains what is
already acquired. Skill depends entirely
upon practice; in nothing else does the
hand so quickly forget its cunning. The
time spent in gaining proficiency does not
expand and broaden the mind as a more
liberal education might, so much must be
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Yet it is no great wonder everybody
feels it necessary to have some one
in the family who can “play.” Think
how many are engaged in ministering to
this “craze.” Boston alone has 2,400
music teachers; it is appalling to con-
jecture how many there must be in the
whole country. Then there is the army
of manufacturers of musical instruments,
and the agents and dealers all the way
down, whose bread-and-butter depends
upon the continuance of this musical
madness. The “agent” invades the
farmer’s home and persuades him into
buying “an instrument” when he is un-
able to bear the expense, and perhaps be
'fore his wife, who very likely joins her
arguments to those of the dealer, owns a
clothes Wringer or acreamery. He fondly
fancies the organ or piano, once bought,
ends all the expense, but lessons and
music and tuning are continual assess-
ments upon the money invested, while he
takes hlS dividends in poorly executed
music.

It is not to music per se that I object;
it is to this senseless idea that it is oblig-
atory to study it, whether one has taste or
talent or not. A little simple music, well
played, a few songs in the twilight, those
old fashioned songs that are not ashamed
to be melodious, make home pleasant.
Butspare those whom Shakespeare says
are “fit for treasons, stratagems and
spoils” because they have “no music in
their souls.” Do not attempt to force
energy into unnatural channels; to make
an indifferent performer on the piano,
you may spoil a fine student in other and
quite as important things. Do not let a
smooth-tongued agent beguile you into
buying a musical instrument at from $75
to $300, till you know it will not be a
piece of useless furniture in a year’s
time, because no one can play even

“Auld Lang Syne” on it.
BEATRIX.

GIFTS FOR OUR FRIENDS.

 

If you want to make a pretty present
for a friend, try manufacturing a hand-
.kerchief box. I sawa avery pretty one
the other day which was made out of a
cigar box. The box was covered on ends
and side by a strip of cardinal plush,
wide enough to turn over the edge both
top and bottom, andgummed to place
with thick mucilage. The cover was
.padded with a couple of layers of wad

(ding and covered with plush. To fit the

inside, cuta paper pattern just a trifle

:smaller than each end and side,~then cut

pasteboard to the same size, lay on one
thickness of wadding, cover with satin

-or silk quite loosely, then with a stout

needle tack through and through at in-
tervals, with silk the same color, leaving
acouple of gilt beads on each stitch if
you choose. When all the parts are cov-
ered, have ready some hot glue and

.quickly brush over the back, then slip

them to place in the box, holding them
for a minute or two firmly till the glue
takes hold. You have now a neatly cov~

.ered box, which is pretty left plain or can

be decorated in any fashion you choose

‘The edges can be finished by a quilling

 

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of satin ribbon, or edged with lace sewed

on under a chenille cord, with loops at
the corners. If you “do” ribbon em
broidery, a rosebud in ribbon with che-
nille or arrasene leaves makes a lovely
cover.

Ialso saw a pretty pincushion, which
though not large was very tasteful. It
was just a square cushion covered with
pink satin, in the center of which the in-
ital of the owner was embroidered in car-
dinal silk. Across each corner were trian-
gular pieces of cardinal plush, and a nar-
row lace edge projected from the plush
upon the satin. A fall of lace surround-
ed the cushion, with bows of pink ribbon
at the corner.

You can make quite a pretty frame for
a cheap picture by covering a framework
of wood or thick pasteboard with sand-
paper, and then gilding it with gold paints
or bronze powders, to be bought {almost
everywhere. The sandpaper makes a
pretty rough effect quite popular at

present.
———ooo———

BOYS’ CLOTHES.

Boys’ clothes, says Aunt Jane in Wide
Awake, being mostly woolen, absorb
dust and odors to that extent that you
can smell a boy across the room by his
dusty jacket. At Aunt Jane’s house all
the boy’s suits have a thorough airing
once a week. On a sunny day you will
see the back porch strung with lines of
trousers and jackets turned inside out
and swinging in the wind from break—
fast time till four o’clock in the afternoon.
First they are whipped and shaken till
the dust is out, grease and mud stains
taken out with a stiff Manilla scrubbing
brush, hot water and soap—any part of
the lining that is smled is scrubbed in the
same way, rinsed in hot water—some-
times she saysit takes a dip in very weak
copperas water to cleanse and sweeten
them to suit her—sun and wind all day
doing the rest. Then the closets have the
floors washed often, and the doors left
wide open every day while the rooms are
airing, and by this care the boys’ ward-
robe is kept as neat and sweet as any
girl’s. One rule is that no boots and
shoes are kept in the closets with cloth-
ing, for leather and woolen suits together
get upasmell of their own, that is, to
say the least, extraordinary.

The same notable housekeeper keeps
the “bags” out of the knees of the boys’
pants, and the wrinkles from the elbows
of their jackets in this way: After they
have been brushed, dampen the knees of
the trousers and press them with a heavy
iron, or leave them all night under a
smooth board and heavy weight, the way
soldiers keep their uniforms smooth.
When a jacket is worn rough, lay it on a
table, scrub with a stiff brush, hot water
and soap, using as little water as possible,
rub with a dry crash towel, put a thin
cloth over and press the garment well.
A shabby coat often comes out as good as
new from the treatment. Coats must not
be hung by the loop on the collar for any
length of time, but be put away on the
wire shoulder forms, which cost ten

 

cents apiece. Trousers and vests should
be laid away in presses to keep them in
shape.

————...——-m_.

RHUBARB CORDIAL.

 

In response to requests I send recipe
for making the rhubarb cordial mentioned
in a previous Household. 4

If made according to directions it will
keep an indefinite length of time. Ithink
it is an excellent medicine for adults to
take in the spring, when they get up in
the morning with that “all gone ” feeling.
A tablespoonful taken before breakfast
often gives relief, and is much better than
to dose with a patent medicine that is a
“ cure all” for all diseases:

Cassia, rhubarb (best), bicarbonate
potash, of each one ounce; water, three
pints. Bruise the cassia and rhubarb,
digest with moderate heat one hour, then
add the ‘potash and let the mixture stand
twelve hours. Then strain and add
water to make three pints; now add three
pounds granulated sugar. Bring to the
boiling point and strain; when cool add
twenty drops oil of peppermint, five drops
011 of cinnamon, one pint brandy.

A good way to pack eggs for winter
use is to take a box or nail keg, (I prefer
the latter if I am going to pack many);
put two or three inches of salt in the bot-
tom, then a layer of eggs (small end
down), cover with another inch or two of
salt, then another layer of eggs; proceed
in like manner until the keg is full, leav-
ing room to cover the last layer. Fresh
eggs packed in this way will keep until
spring.

To make nice stove polish wet the
blacking with cold coffee, vinegar or soap
suds. The only objection to us1ng vine-
gar is a stove will rust if not used daily; in
using soap suds the dust will not fly so
badly when rubbing the stove. Either of
the foregoing will make a fine polish.

AUNT RUSHA.
BRooxs, Nov. 3d.

“900——

REMEDIES FOR BURNS.

 

It is always well to know what to do
in an emergency. Artemas Ward said of
the late President Lincoln, that whenever
an emergency arose he at once “busted
it,” an excellent thing to do if one only
knows how. And it is an “emergency”
when some is badly burned or scalded,
and no one knows the best step to be
taken to obtain relief. A good remedy
for slight burns is to cover them quickly
with flour, or better yet, with damp soda.
An ointment of limewater and sweet oil
is good for scalds. “ May Maple ” recom-
mends covering the burn with glue or
mucilage; also a salve made of the yolk
of an egg, a tablespoonful each of tur-
pentine, sweet oil or fresh lard, and flour
enough to make a thick paste, she says
will soon relieve the smarting sensation,
and, in a very short time, remove the
soreness froma very deep burn. A new
use, or rather an old use revived, is found
for the aesthetic cat-tail flag, so frequent
in marshes and swamps, aside from its
decorative worth. Its large roots, if fried
in fresh butter after being bruised, yield
an element which is excellent to heal up
burns.

 


 

4 ' THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

INFORMATION NEEDED.

 

Can any of the readers of the House-
hold tell me a pretty way to knit a bed
spread out of white knitting cotton; one
that can be knit in strips and then sewed
together.

Would like to ask Aunt Nell why she
did not tell us about the poetry that was
handed her during her visit at the State
Fair. STRANGER.

PLAINWELL.
_————...—-———

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

AN exchange says roasted potatoes will
be more mealy and will make a lighter
wonge in bread-making than boiled
ones.

 

Do you know that an old housekeeper
avows that squashwill be finer flavored
and drier and also cook more quickly if it
is steamed instead of being put into wa-
ter to cook? She is very positive in her
opinion.

 

A PHYSICIAN says a pumpkin poultice
is one of the most valuable remedies for
inflammatory complaints. The worst
cases of inflammation of the bowels have
been cured by such applications, he tells
us. This is worth remembering.

 

THE Utica (N. Y.) Observer kindly in-
forms us that when we pour milk into a
cup of tea or coffee the albumen of the
milk and the tannin of the tea or coffee
instantly unite and form leather, or
minute flakes of the very same com-
pound which is produced in the texture
of the tanned hide, and which makes it
leather, as distinguished from the origin-
al skin. In the course of a year an aver-
age tea-drinker will have drank enough
leather to make a pair of shoes.

FOR sizing a Brussels rug so that it
will keep down well, The Carpet Review
gives the following directions: Apply to
the back of the rug a flour paste, well
salted to prevent molding, and then press
down snugly into a linen baclfi The edge
of the rug and linen are then hemmed,
and the miters of the border of the rug
are always bound on the back. The rug
and back are also sewed together, here
and there, as in a mattress. Sometimes
glue is used for size instead of paste. Be-
fore the size is apphed the rug should be
tacked face down on the floor and al
lowed to remain there undisturbed sever-
al days until perfectly dry.

 

THE heat of an oven should be some-
what proportioned to the size of the
loaves to be baked in it. The heat of the
oven very quickly penetrates the small
loaf and checks the growth of the yeast
plant; it takes longer to penetrate a large
loaf. The time of rising should there-
fore be in proportion to the size of the
loaves; small loaves being let rise longer
than larger ones. Bread bakes best at a
temperature of from 400 to 550 degs. F.,
or when a teaspoonful of flour will brown
in two minutes if spread on a small tin

minute ” oven is what you want for rolls;
a “ four-minute ” oven is better when
loaves only are to be baked. Practice
will very soon enable the bread-maker to
feel when the heat of her oven is right.
—-—-——§OO—— .—

How THEY WENT TO EUROPE. By Margaret
Sidney. D. Lothrop & Co. , Boston. J. Macfar-
lan,Detroit. 81.

This volume, designed especially for
the young, tells how several bright girls
who are “dying,” girl fashion, to go to
Europe, but unable to do so, finally form
a club for the purpose of studying the
proper preparations to make for the
voyage, the routes generally taken by
travelers, and the minor but needful in-
formation concerning foreign customs
which renders travel agreeable. Though
they may never see the beauties of other
lands they desire to know of them. From
small beginnings the club grows to goodly
proportions; lectures and stereopticon
views are added, and the members greatly
encouraged by the interest and aid of
their elders. At last, through the kind-
ness of a wealthy lady who learned of
their self-denying study, the club have
the pleasure of an actual voyage to
Europe, and since the last chapter leaves
them on the deck of the outward bound
steamer, it is fair to conclude we shall
hear more of them anon. We can com-
end the book as pleasant and instructive
reading for the young people.
W
OF the poem on the first page of this
issue, sent us for republication by F. E.
W., of Chelsea, she says: “This beauti-
ful little poem was suggested to the mind
of aChristian lady, by hearing a lady
missionary speak of the earnest manner
in which she was invited to lean hard
against those heathen women for sup-
port during her ill health, as she was
telling them the story of Jesus’s love,
Should it prove as great a comfort to an-
other in affliction as it has to me it will
repay the trouble of publishing.”
_____..,_.__.

Useful Recipes.

 

Quinces and citrons are the only fruits left
for the housekeeper to add to her stores.
Here are some excellent recipes for putting
up quinces:

PRESERVED QUINCES.—-Use the orange
quinces. Wipe, pare, quarter and remove all
the core. Take an equal weight of sugar.
Cover the quinces with cold water. Let them
come slowly to a boil. Skim, and when nearly
soft put one-quarter of the sugar on top, but
do not stir. When this boils add another part
of the sugar, and continue until all the sugar
is in the kettle. Let them boil slowly until the
color you like, either light or dark.

QUINCE JELLY.—Wipe the fruit carefully,
and remove all the stems, and parts not fair
and sound. Use the best parts of the fruit
for canning or preserving, and the skin, cores,
and hard parts for jelly. The seeds contain
a large portion of gelatinous substance. Boil
all together in enough water to cover, till the
pulp is soft. Mash and drain. Use the juice
only, and when boiling use an equal weight of
hot sugar, heated in the oven, and boil till it
jellies in the spoon.

 

Qumcns and sweet apples preserved to-

two-thirds apples is a good proportion. Cook
the fruit much the same as for marmalade,
only be sure to preserve the form. This is
sometimes most effectually done by steaming
the fruit, using the water under the steamer
to make the syrup with. It is a good plan to
can a quart or two of the clear quinces, for it
may be used to flavor apple sauce and apple-
pies when apples are almost without flavor in
the spring. Quinces baked and eaten with
butter and sugar, or with cream and sugar,
make an excellent relish at dinner.

 

QUINCE MARMALAnn.—Pare, quarter, and:
core the quinces, cut them into little pieces,
measure them, and allow an equal quantity of
sugar; place the fruit in a porcelain kettle:
with just enough water to cover it; let this
boil, or better still, simmer until the fruit is.
tender; then skim it out and add the sugar to
the water, and let it come to the boiling point;
skim it thoroughly, as the clearncss of the
syrup depends on this; after skimming, drop
the fruit into it; do this carefully to preserve
the shape of the fruit; let this boil gently fif-
teen minutes, then put it into jelly moulds or
glasses. The syrup is like jelly, and the fruit,
if it has been cooked with care, will not be too-
much broken to be distinguished.

 

CANNED QUixcns.——Prepare the quinces by
paring, quartering and coring them. Steam.
them till tender. Make a sugar syrup, using,
one and a half cups of sugar to a can, with the
Water in the steaming kettle, or sufficient for
the purpose. Turn the syrup over the quinces
and let them simmer in it for ten minutes.

They should not be allowed to cook to pieces.
Can as other fruit.

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