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HIDDEN.

BY OLABA BEILB BOUTHWELL

If we could only brush away the snow

From some low spot. which winter storm-clouds
fling,

I think we oft would find there grasses grow.

And small green twigs are waiting for the spring.

If we could only part the outer life

Of man with kindly touch, and see the heart.
We'd often find what caused the anxious strife
To be a wound. with bitter, rankling smart.

We'd often find a sorrow there and deep—-
80 very deep it ne‘er could find relief

In tears. so low and sad 'twill over sleep.
And wear a life out with its inner grief.

We’d find that smiles are very often v eils
To hide lhe real feelings from our view;
And often where the cheek and red lip Dales.
It is because of grief we never knew.

Into the inner heart and life and min 1

0f man, no man can see and it is l est:

E‘en though to others’ woes we oft are blind

Who would be kind, it any woe were guessed.
Kansans.

 

WOMAN.

Women in the days of old were con-
sidered appendages to men. The great
past of the world’s history is the history
of men. But women in all ages have
been as much the equal of men as they
are now. In quantity man has always
been considered superior, in quality
woman. ,

The discipline that education gives to
the common mind is as well adapted to
w0man as to man. Already it is proved
that woman can be educated as well as
man, and is as much improved by it.
Educate an army of women teachers,put
them in charge of our graded schools
and colleges and they will honor all the
places entrusted to them. Women are
already graduating from many of our
colleges with equal honors with men;
are in all the learned professions, are
journalists, authors, writers of poetry,
romance, philosophy, history and in
general literature, and are on the plat-
form as lecturers. ,

Indeed, in nearly every field of labor,
are women to be found honoring their
sex and humanity, showing even in the
short time these higher intellectual

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.‘ghable they are of doing honorable and

' grand work in the highest ranges of ; the boast ’of the bloody field of war. 5
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great are the changes coming into the
life of women, such Wide fields are open
for self improvement, and so multiplied
are the means of livelihood oflfered to
them, that this may almost be cal‘ed
woman’s era. 'Give women their entire
freedom, educate,honor and trust them,
and the great body of them will choose
the home as the sphere of their best
life. Can not girls be trusted as far as
bovs? Give them good chances of im-
provement, and will they not use them
as well as the ‘0on Are they not as
easy to govern,as quick to learn as boys?
Then why not educate, honor and trust
them as well as the boys?

There is not a single sensible reason
for withholding from our girls any
good we confer upon our boys.

Then,woman is a civilizsr. A good ex-
ample of this is when men leave home
and go to the far west and to the field
of battle, where they remain for a year
or two and they are kept from the com-
panionship of women;they are astonish-
ed to find how little of the salt of civili-
zation they have left, and how soon
they do and say the most uncivilized
things. Therefore there is no doubt
but the civilizing force is most largely
in woman. Dirt is unciviliziug, and
woman is the enemy ofdirt. The aver-
age woman’s life from late to early is a
crusade against it. Then, she is alover
of art. She is in love and league with
the beautiful. always adorning her
home and person with that which is
beautiful, and beyond all this are the
religious tendencies of woman. Go to
our churches, to the sick room, and see
who visits both the most; always ready
to help the sick and nppresse d. we have
a good example of this in our own vil-
lage.

Then women are brave; some perhaps
will question where and say they have
never seen any of it; one for example is
Florence Nightingale, another is Joan
of Arc.

These cases are however not numer‘
ous. Woman’s heroism is not so often of
that showy kind which exhibits itself
in public places and on fields of battle,
as that more private and noble sort
which enriches her life and the lives of
those she lives for. In the toil amid

want from the door, to keep the fami‘y
respectably clothed, to care for the
sick, to do a noble part in private and
public interests, is a heroic and noble
one.

The heroism of woman is mestly of
that genuine unselfish sort that the
world takes little pains to parade.

Woman as a wile is in her most real,
beautiful and influential position. She
keeps man enchanted,keeps him dream-
ing of something better,keeps him look~
mg upward,keeps him pressing toward a
goal; that inspires his courage. He if left
to himself inclines more to the gross and
sensuahto the coarscr things which his
hands can take up and weigh and meas»
ure, but she leads him to see in the finer
things of thought at] character, that
which is worthy of being lived for. The
world is acknowledging more and more
the need of woman‘s influence in its af«
fairs. It feels that whatever is done with-
out her influence is coarsely and pooro
ly done. All these things have come
about from the growing conviction
among men that they can do nothing
well without their wives.

Woman is not inferior to man. Where
is the man who does not honor his moth-
er, wife, sister or chiid. The man who
says his mother is lower than himself,is
not a man. When his mother, his wife,
has said the farewell words and her
arms are folded in death, the first
thought is—the light of the home has
faded. The woman binds the heart of
man to home. and whata desolate earth
this would be without the cheering,
gladdening influence of home!

That we may see woman is not in-
ferior to man, notice briefly the reign
of Queen Elizabeth. She reigned forty-
five years and the records of history tell
us “that her reign is noted for ora-
dence, vigor and ability unsurpassed by
any sovereign thatever reigned.” The
experience of the human race has been.
that wherever woman has had free
exercise of her Gr )d-given p)wers, she
has shown herself more than equal to
fill a grand and glorious part in God’s
great world of life. And as experience
teaches the truest lessons, we can pre~
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privation of many humble women there .
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A PARTING SEC 1'. ,

Poor, simple-minded, ignorant, dc-
luded, old Back N umber was‘ so com-
pletely crushed, and so nearly annihi-
lated by E. C.’s last article that it has
taken some time for her to revive suf-
ficiently to make one last feeble wail.
Elderly people are quite apt to be a
little obtuse, and somewhat obstinate in
their views, and, although I have made
a great effort to hold myself open to
conviction,and keep pace with the rising
generation, it is quite evident that its
rapid strides have left me sadly in the
rear, for I am too slow to grasp the ad-
vanced ideas of this progressive age. It
is painfully apparent to me that I am
either very much behind the times, or
that my education was very deficient,
for when I was young, it would not
have been con sidered proper for a teach-
er to make use of such expressions as
E. C. favored us with in her last article.
Such languag a is certainly very expres-
sive, and it :rieves me that my old-
fashioned ideas will not permit me to
fully appreciate its beauty and elegance.
’ ‘1‘0 jump upon one‘s collar,”and like ex-
pressions would formerly have been
considered slang. At the present time
they are, probably, terse and emphatic.
I wonder if it is too late to remedy
such defects in my education!

My heart goes out in tender sympa~
thy toward E. C. that her lot has been
cast among a class of people who are
guilty of such impertinence as she
speaks of receiving from the patrons of
her school. It rejoices me that I live
ina community where teachers are
treated with the consideration and re-
spectto which their position entitles
,them. Iam confident that I do know

- something of the real feelings of the

teachers of my acquaintance in regard
to parents visiting the set 001, and I

‘ firmly believe that I know whereof I
~ speak when I affirm that they are not

xenly courtec us and polite, but sincere
“and truthful in their reception of visi-
tors, and I have good reason for my be-
lief, for, during several years that Iwas
a teacher, I was intimately associated
with teachers in various ways; and since
I left the ranks of the profession, I
have always had a strong interest in
schools, have numbered scores of teach.
ers among my warm personal friends,
have had a chance to know something
of their sentiments in regard to matters
pertaining to their vocation, and Ihave
never yet heard a single expression of
disapproval of the custom of parents
visiting the school. But, on the con-
trary, I have many, many times heard
teachers express the opinion that it
would be a benefit both to teachers and
pupils if parents would show their in-
terest by visiting the schools more fre-
quently; and I still insist that it is an
encouragement to children to know that
it is quite possible that their parents
may, at any time, drop in and see what
is going on in the school room. As long

as my own children attend school I
shall certainly continue my practice of
visiting the schzols, whether it pleases
the teachers or not. A wise and discreet
teacher will work in conjunction with,

- not independent of, the parents, for the

~ advancement of her pupils. If,by chance,
I should ever meet a teacher whom I
have any reason to believe considers
me “a bore and a crank.” I shall en-
deavor, even at great personal incon-
venience, to devote, at least, one half
day each week to the inspection of her
work in the school-room. I am perfect-
ly willing to sacrifice mv own comfort
if, by so doing, I shall be the means of
discipline to the young and inexperi-
enced. I am very sure I should be a
martyr in agood cause.

Very timidly and with great “ ’umble-
ness” I would ask E. C. if she does not
think that she gave me Just the least
bit of a chance to be personal, when she
gave her unnecessary and unwomanly
fling at her own sex “in discussing a
purely business matter.” ‘ Possibly it
may be a relief to the readers of the
HOUSEHOLD to know that I am so com-
pletely vanquished by E. C.’s pointed
and conclusive arguments that I shall
return at once to obscurity, and noth-
ing more will be heard from

“ BACK NUMBER.

W

ADyICE T9 THEOPOLUS.

I would like to say a few words to
Theopoius in the way of sympathy and
encouragement. It is painfully appar-
ent that he is in the “slough of des-
pond,” in the “throes of agony,”evi-
dencing a wonderfully charitable dis-
position and an inclination to look on
the bright side no matter how low the
clouds hang. This is quite an item in
a man’s favor—that he is cheerful and
full of fun and jokes—there has been
such a wail about cross, fault-finding
husbands. I am confident Theopolus
might look the world over and be
unable to find many women who would
turn a deaf ear to a polite invitation
to a cutter ride, and remain quietly at
home pressing out a blue calico gown.
Does it not speak volumes for her desire
to appear beautifully neat and attractive
in his eyes? The flame of love is not
dying out on his hearth, I don’t care
who builds the fire.

You see, Theopolus, it’s the tendency
of the times for women to ignore home
and everything pertaining thereto.
They like rather to attend conventions,
act as chairmen on committees, belong
to clubs; it’s evolution; it’s progression
on the rapid transit basis. Women
change and men change. Things are
not exactly as they used to be when we
were young. Men built the fire without
haggling over it. It was a legacy that
came down to them from their fore-
fathers. I find that it tickles a man’s
self-esteem quite a little to think he is
exercising a right as head of the family.

 

It was his right to rise up early in the

 

morning, light the fire and go out to
the barn about his business and attend
to the stock. I’d just as soon have a
pack of dogs or a half dozen or ts under
my feet as a man stuck around when I
am cooking a meal. They appear to
much better advantage posing as
“swifts.”

And about that "wad 1” Oh TheOpolusi
do not, let me beg of you. speak
disparagingly of that last relic of
femininism, the last “tie” that binds
them. Have you not noticed the increas-
ing desire to appear “mannish,” the
shirt fronts and collars, the derbys, the
cutaways? Do you not notice how
“small and beautifully less” the force
of dish-washers, bread-bakers and dress-
pressers is becoming? Cast your eye
about the town, among the teachers
emplOyed in our public schools, all are
women with one exception; they are
book-keepers, cashiers, telegraph oper-
ators, clerks, stenographers, type-
writers. The desire to make home
that “haven of rest” for husbands to
turn toward at the close of the day is
dying out. Let me conjure Theopolus
to step around lively these cold'morn-
ings, have his lamp trimmed and burn-
ing and oil can full, for it’s coming! Men
are being crowded out, pinned to the
wall. “In the sweet bye and bye” men
will resolve themselves into clubs.
meeting about the fire evenings in the
corner grocery, standing in groups~
about the streets, discussing two ques-
tions of vital importance: “Where do
men belong?’ “What work is there for
us to do?” I speak of the corner store
and the street as being congenial places
wherein questions of Vital importance
will be discussed. Theopolus, strive to
make your home bright and cheery so
that little woman will love to remain
in it, for she may get a taste of news-
paper work or something of that sort,
and fly to ills she knows not of rather
than endure those she has.

EVANGELINE

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PARENTB VISITING THE SCHOOLS.

 

Should parents and other patrons visit
the schools where their children or
wards are being trained and educated to
become valuable citizens? Most certain-
lv they should, and are sadly neglect-
ing a most important duty if they fail
to do so. If they had a sick pig, or
mule, or fowl, a. visit would most likely
be paid every day to see how it was
getting along: but frequently a whole
term will pass without a visit to the
school-room,where their little immortal
treasures are being trained.

During an experience of over a quar-
ter of a century in teaching I never
found anything more encouraging to
both pupils and myself. than visits from
patrous of the school. Pupils and
teacher see that interest is being taken
in their work, and thus are encouraged
to renewed energy and vigilance. These
visits will correct many wrong reports


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about the condition and management of
the school; and many valuable sugges-
tions may be obtainedfrom the visitors,
for none of us are too wise to learn;
while many are so ignorant and bigoted
they will not learn.

While performing the duties of steward
of the boarding-hall of the Michigan
Agricultural College, once, a son of
wealthy parents complained to them of
the scanty furnishings and begged to be
taken home. Un-beknown to us the
parents came and stayed all night, eat—
ing two meals at the table with us all;
and on their departure said they wished
they could be served as well at home.
The President of the College said the
same when he sat with us at meal time,
no announcement being made of his
coming.

The school house is public property;
the teacher’s services are public pro-
perty; the education of the children is
public property; and all ought to be
open to the inspection and criticisms of
the public. Let visits be frequent and
unannounced to be the most efiectual.

PLYMOUTH. J. S. TIBB 1T8.

 

SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS AND
TEACHERS.

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In a former HOUSEHOLD Cassandra
tell us of what she saw in the school-
room. During a half day’s visit she
failed to see one child attempt to sit,
walk, or stand properly. I have not
come to tell what I have seen there, but
to ask why manners should not be
taught in our district schools as well as
knowledge. It seems to me that man-
ners should be taught at school as well
as at home, and that we should keep re-
minding our children till good manners
became habitual; then they would not
forget. We have singing, writing and
dancing schools. and I sometimes think
we need a school where manners are
taught. I hear so many children say
yes and no to a question asked them,and
I am pretty sure they say the same
blunt monosyllables to their teacher.
If there is anything I admire in child-
ren it is to hear them say “yes ma’am”
or “no ma’am,” “please” for whatever
they wish,and to see a little boy re move
his hat when he enters the house. I
knew a mother who exhausted a good
stock of patience in trying to teach her
boy to remove his hat when he came in
the house. One day, coming in where
his father sat reading with his hat on,
the little fellow took his hat ofl.’ and turn-
ing to his mother said, “Papa doesn’t

' take his hat off in the house!” “ No,”

she replied, “that is because he does
not know any better; we will have to
teach him. ” He looked up from his
paper and smiled. and I am glad to say
removed his hat.

If there is anything makes my blood
run cold is to hear a little boy use pro-
fane words. A mother heard her little
four year old using profane language
one day. She called him in, talked to

 

him and tried to make him understand
how wrong it was; he looked up at her
through his tears and said, “ Papa must
not, then.” A father who heard his
little son using such language took up
a whip and said: “Shall I whip you
for using such words?” His mother,
who was near, said, “When he gets
through whipping you, take the whip
and whip him.” The father put down
the whip and went out doors looking
rather sheepish. As soon as little boys
can talk they take their father for an
example. What can a mother do? She
can talk to her husband and if he has a
tender place in his heart for his boy and
wants him to grow up a gentleman, he
will quit the habit. Swearing ought be
strictly forbidden on the school-ground.
It is strange how fast children learn
naughty ways when they begin to go to
school; they will learn slang a great
deal quicker than manners. I ask our
teachers to help as.

I read Mrs Blauk’s letter, ‘ Kisses
vs. Tobacco,” with a great deal of' 1n-
terest. I will go farther, and tell the
young ladies that if they would say to
the young men who indulge in a glass
now and then, and who are thinking
seriously of asking them to go into
partnership for life with them, that
“lips that touch liquo'r shall never
touch mine,” they might pause on their
downward course, if they are to be de-
nied that privilege,and think that there
is not so much in a glass of liquor after
all. Then perhaps in the future we
should not need the Keeley cure as
much as we do at the present time.

MRS. A. DO.
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A NEW COMER.

 

I have read the comments of our va-
rious sisters, aunts,and uncles and have
often felt inclined to add my mite to
help cheer and comfort 'those whose
burdens are greater than mine.

I want to say a word for the mother-
in-law. When I was married we went
for a two weeks’ visit among friends at
a distance, and excepting this time I
lived a little over a year with my moth-
er-inlaw, and I can truthfully say if I
had been her own daughter I could not
have been treated any better. I always
had a horse and carriage, and I could
go when I pleased, come when I liked.
My friends were always well treated and
requested to come again.

If Theopolus’s morning fires were as
easy a task as mine, there would have
been no cause for him to have asked the
question he did. We have a coal stove
in which fire is kept night and day (for
I keep house plants) and as the door is
always open between this’room and the
kitchen. the rooms are warm in the
morning.

While doing my supper work I let
the fire in my cock stove die down, and
then I take my fire shovel and careful-
ly scrape all the coals and ashes out of
the fire bed back under the stove hearth

 

and putting in the shavings, pieces of
kindling and then filling with dry wood,
my morning fire is built by striking a
match and setting fire to the shavings.

It seems to me that our column of re-
cipes is getting small. Is it from lack
of them or are they unwelcome? [Lack.
——ED] If not, I will send some that I
know are good ones.

YPSIIA‘S’I‘I. BOSE HAWTHORNE,

 

SOME FLORAL QUESTIONS ANSWEEb-
ED.

 

The age of acactus or other plant
does not always determine the time for
blooming, but rather the condition and
size resulting from the treatment it has
received. Plants of the same family
treated precisely alike will not always
respond in a satisfactory manner, and
mature simultaneously. We usually
count the age of a plant from the time
we have possessed it. whether a slip,
seedling,or a small plant, but the family
it belongs to, and habits, treatment and
growth, not age alone, determine the
time for blooming. These remarks an-
swer many a heretofore puzzled inquiry,
not merely the one at hand. fter a
C'. grandflora has once bloomed, if a well
conditioned plant, it will continue to do
so annually, even oftener in rare cases,
for years. A Hoya carnosa‘ should be
disturbed as seldom as poss1ble and un-
less the pot is crowded with roots and
becoming pot bound,remove occasional-
ly a portion of the soil carefully and re-
place with rich compost. If really ne-
cessary to remove to a larger pot loosen
the roots and soil carefully with a knife
and lift into another asize or two larger
and fill the space with rich soil. As
the plant is not at present in bloom it
would be well to do this now.

“A Country Girl ” does not inform us
whether her tuberose bulbs flowered
last season. If a tuberose blooms once
that is all about it there is of it; its mis-
sion is fulfilled; they never repeat the
kindness. If they did not bloom and
are wished as early as possible start in
pots or boxes in the house in April or
May, and remove to the border the first
of June, no earlier, in a warm sunny
place, and when a “dry spell ” comes
water frequently by pouring into holes
made in the soil. Occasionally give a
treat of liquid fertilizer. It will reward
you by giving larger do were and better
substance. The bulblets mentioned will
if planted and well cared for bloom about
the third year from the first after plant-
ing. We usually store tuberose bulbs
in dry moss or cotton in paper bags or
boxes, and keep in the dryest, warm
place possible, as they cannot hear cold
or dampness.

FENTON. MRS. M. A. FULLER.

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WE have, the Editor thinks, had
quite enough on Theopolus’s fires and
E. C. ’s heresy. The discussion of those
two topics is therefore “called off, ” and
the field is open for some new departure.

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GLOBE QUARTERS.

 

Speaking about those “good old
days,”—=—the happiness and comforts our
ancestors possessed in the mode of liv-
ing,one room being the compass of every
individual, whether awake or asleep,re-
minds me that under circumstances
when the thermometer registers from
ten to twelve degrees below zero, I
could very comfortably get along in the
same bounds (space included) should our
family not increase. ‘

I have kept rooms closed that are not
particularly needed, moving the piano
into the sitting-room, where we have
lived, in connection with a bed-room
and kitchen, since Christmas, right in
a “huddle.”

Husband thinks it is so cozy, living
within a small compass, but I have
questioned in my mind if the “coal
bill” hadn’t something to do with this
oosiness; and a twinkle in his eye al-
most betrays him when the subject of
close quarters is discussed.

I feel so “copped upl” And shOuld
you peep into our little home,you would
actually have a smothered feeling, and
look around for some place to breathe
freeiy; as the furniture and bric-a—bric
continue in a routine, seemingly never
ending. I could not invite you to re-
main over nightfor horrors! that “spare
bed” has not been “thawed out,” and
you would prefer lying right out on the
snow than to even entertain the thought
of sleeping beneath its covers.

But strange as it seems, under any
circumstance. there is always some-
thing to be thankful for; and the pre-
vailing and most consoling thought I
have is the fact that I am not over bur-
dened with avoirdupois, for I have to
squeeze through this door,go slant-wise
through that, dodge around the stove,
and almost climb over articles; and I
poaitively need sympathy when the al-
lotted time for sweeping draws near;
even the pet dog, “Yank,” hasn’t a
place "to rest the sole of his foot,” and
with head and tail down he manages by
much maneuvering to dodge the broom,
and make his escape.

Happily our kinsfolk did not have as
much to contend with as the present
generation, and “close quarters” pre-
vailed in nearly every household.

How the old man weeps as he en-
deavors to picture to you those glori-
ous days spent within the boundary of
that “one rooml” What a hidden
sweetness the panorama unfolds! The
old log house with its huge fire-place
could tell of many happy scenes.

But after all I think we enjoy our-
selves just as well now-a-days; and 1f
love predominates in each heart, being
ina “huddle” only draws us nearer;
and as long as husband enjoys it, al-
though I may occasionally “bump”
against him, I will try and enjoy it
too. ,

. And when spring-time comes with its
bright sunny days, those closed rooms

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can be thrown open, and you willbe
surprised tosee how new and bright
everything will look, and when house
cleaning time arrives, things can be
changed around, and the house, and
even those “cluttered rooms” will seem
larger,——and don’t you think that our
hearts will in some way seem larger
also? LITTLE NAN.
MT. CLEMENS.

 

STR AY THOUGHTS.

 

An elderly gentleman enjoys winter
radishes, which he cannot properly
chew, by cutting one length-wise,sprink-
ling on a little salt, and scraping as he
did turnips forty years ago.

This winter is likely to long be fa-
mous for the scarcity of vegetables and
fruit, and the puzzled housekeeper will
find a supply of various kinds of flour
and meal a great help about providing
avariety of food for the table. Pan-
cakes of graham, corn meal and buck-
wheat; corn meal or graham mush.with
milk or fried; graham bread and rolled
cats are all relished in nearly every
family. Graham gems are favorites
here. I use two teacups full of butter-
milk, two level ‘teaspoonfuls of soda, 8.
little salt, one large spoonful of sugar
or molasses and the same of shortening
--butter, lard or suet; stir thick and
bake in gem irons. The same batter
stirred thinner and baked as pancakes
is good.

Put cracked nuts (the shucks the
children leave will do), corn, wheat,
cheese rinds, bits of fat meat, or bones
on your window sills or some shelf out
of reach of the cats, or tie the bones,
cheese rinds or meat to the limbs of the
trees near the house, and you will soon
have the pleasantest of callers, winter
birds.

Blue jays and chick-a-dees are our
most friendly callers, but sometimes a
nut-hatch or woodpecker come to Our
table. This practice is especially pleas-
ant for an invalid or small children
who must needs be in one room the
most of the time, but no one in this
house is too busy to spend some time
watching these entertaining guests.

FAIBFIELD. AUN i‘ BES SI E.

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HOUSE HOLD HIN rs.

 

COAL oil will take out iron rust and
fruit stains from almost every kind of
goods without injury, if the oil is used
before the spots have been wet with
soap and water. Wash the spot in the
oil as you would in water.

 

A NUMBER of housekeepers have had
their canned fruit frozen this winter.
A correspondent of the Mason Democrat
tells what she did with her stock of
fruit: “1 loosened the tops and took off

 

heating), then heated the water to a

boiling heat, let boil_13 minutes,.and
fastened the tops as usual in canning.

You cannot detect any difference in the
fruit from that which has not been
frozen, with the exception of pears,
which I think become a little mealy.”

 

YOU are going to have canned fruit.
for tea. Very well. Open the can and
turn its contents into the fruit dish at
noon. Or, anyway, at least an hour be-
fore vou intend to serve it. Why? Be-
cause it is much better, tastes fresher
and has more flavor after an exposure
to the air, from which it absorbs oxya
gen.

 

MRS. S. L.Ba11entine, of Port Huron,
has received a patent for placing glass
in oven doors and thus obviating the
necessity of opening the doors to watch
the process of baking. This device is
intended to effect a saving of heat, in-
sure better results in baking delicate
cakes, etc, by not exposing them to a
draft of cold air by opening the doors,
and will conduce to the comfort of the
cook, in hot weather especially.

A MAN who has traveled extensively
in Texas and Mexico says: “The mes-
quite bean, that grows so rank in Mex»
ico, Texas and New Mexico, is a ‘dead
ringer’ for coffee when parched and
ground. I have a friend who has gone
down on the Rio Grande and is flooding
the market with this spurious coffee. It
looks and smells exactly like genuine
Java befOre it is boiled, and the most
experienced coffee buyer is liable to be
deceived in it. I am, told that coffee
dealers are buying this stuff and mix-
ing it with their ground coffee, as some
grocers sand their sugar. The surest
way to get pure coffee is to buy it un-
parched and unground.” Nothing else
in such common use is so adulterated in
dealers’ hands and so abused by cooks
as coffee. To get a cup of really ex-
cellent coffee is as difficult as to find a
white blackbird. Yet every woman
makes “ hrst class:cofiee” according to
her own ideas-just as every woman
makes the “best butter you ever ate.”

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Useful Recipes.

 

Onocons'ru Cookies—Two cups sugar; one
cup butter; four eggs; three cups flour; one
cup grated chocolate; one and shelf tea-l
spoonfuls baking powder. Mix lightly and
roll thin. Butter the pans and bake in a
quick oven.

SPICE Cooxm=. —One cup sugar; one cup
butter; half cup molasses; teaspoonful soda;
and for spice one teaspoonfuljeach of ginger,
cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix with flour to
roll very thin.

 

SUGAR COOKIES.-O ne egg; one cup sugar;
one cup rich cream or if the cream is thin

the rubbers, then set the cans in 3’ -. all a piece of butter; 9. little grated nutmegl
boiler of cold water up to about an inch 9 half teasposnful soda. Roll thin, sprinkle

of the top (as the water will rise by

with sugar. bake quickly.