DETROIT,

   

MARCH
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11, 1898.

 

THE HOUSEH OLD-"Supplement.

 

 

WHAT SHALL WE H \VE FOB DINNER?

 

“ What shall we have for dinner?" Do not ask
me that again.

I am so sick and weary of that merciless refrain.

It's meat. potatoes and dessert—dessert. potatoes.
meat.

Till I think a Chinese diet might be a joy and
treat.

“ What shall Ws- have for dinner?"
times a we 5k.

And now it would be a rzlief to have it asked in
Greek.

Why is it peeple must have food? Housekeeping
would be sweet.

But for that one recurring thought:
I get to eat?”

I hear seven

"What can

If we ware like the fairies, and could thrive on
honey dew.

This world would be 3. Paradise. with pleasures
ev Ir new.

 

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a theme and who have boomed wider
skirts and hoops for want of gray matter
in their craniums. And I want to say
right here that I never saw a woman
“got up” in the styles they describe as
“chic” and which they generally orig-
inate in their own hall bed-rooms;
while their combinations of color are as
loud as a fire alarm and would cause the
venturesome wearer to be “ run in”
by the police. I cannot feel that

. all this talk about “woman's enlarged

 

sphere” means simpl y a hoop-skirt era.
If the oft eulogized educational and in-
tellectual advancement of women dur-
ing the past twenty years is a real pro-
gression in independence of thought
and action and development in sound

E’en Jupiter the pampered dill not bother and sense—if it is to bear fruit in deeds, not

entreat
The goddesses untiringly for “Something good
to eat. ”

0b. is there really no‘hing new that‘s edible?
think

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words; if there is an atom of feminine
faith in the dress reforms so loudly ex-

1 . ploited or any real education in the
' gospel of beauty and utility,

I look to

3dr learned modern scientists. instead of we. st- . see it, manifesmd in the frOWning- down

in; ink
0n “ Survival of the Fittest," and all such themes.
might give

of this attempt to swathe us in‘skirts
six or eight yards 1n circumference dis-

Some hints for the survivors. who indeed must - tended over a wire frame at once incon-

eat and live.

For no :7 not onlv through the day. but in my
dreams at night.

I try to plan some odi menus. the pilate to de-
light,

 

venient, ungraceful and inartistic——not
to mention immodest.

But I do not think there is any im-
mediate danger. We shall not wear

And still my tortured brain can think of nothing h00ps this summer, that is certain.

else to eat
But most. p itatoes and dessert—dessert. pots.
toes. meat.
—Gooi Housekeeping.
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YE CBYNOLYN E.

—-—

Io Crynolyne is lyke to grace

Ye worlds of fashio 1 for a space;
But I woulde counts a lesser yll
Ye broads Elyzabethan fryll

Where wyth to frame ye ladie's face .

Ad is beautie to thy gentyl race.
0r puffs. or paynt. or oourtlie lace;
But fyght. O ladle. wyth a. wyll.
Ye Crynolyne!

For thou art sweets in any “case."
But eurelie thou art outs of place
In such a rounds disguise. untyll
Thou hast a bodie fyt to fyll

Ye Grynolyne ! »

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FASHIONS.

 

The great inquiry in the feminine
mind j net at present seems to be rela-
tive to the proposed revival of heaps.
I “have felt that the idea of crinoline
was being forced upon us by those idle
writers of “syndicate stuff” in the daily
and Sunday newspapers,who must have

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The hoop skirt has not arrived at Paris;
and though a New York house is said
to have it on sale, and the Ypsilanti
Dress Stav Company is legally licensed
to manufacture it, Harper’s Bazar says
decidedly it will not be adopted this
summer for general wear. Probably
some of that class whose business it is
to attract attention will occasionally
accept the innovation, but these need
not set the style for other women.
Worth does not favor the introduction
of hoops; the Princess of Wales re-
cently returned to her dressmaker
several gowns heavily crinolined; and
Mrs. Cleveland still further set our
minds at ease by the conservative style
of costume worn at the Inaugural Ball.

The universal interest exalted by
the crinoline question is very amusing.
Men as well as women seem concerned.
Quite a dignified gentleman sought my
opinion on the subject the other day; I
surmised a joke, but found the inquiry
was made in good faith. Both men and
women disapprove—I haven’t heard a

 

animously disapprove is to beforced
upon us? The downfall of hoops when
last worn was due to Cruikshanks’
clever caricatures; let us hope Nast or
some other cartoonist will have a keen
pencil ready to circumvent them this
time before thev circumvent us.

A tour of our cit-v stores in search of
indications of spring modes shows very
beautiful fabrics on hand for early wear.
All the new suit goods are in very light
tints, very soft in tone; and mixed,ovcr-
shot and brocaded patterns—those in
which the warp is one color and the
cross-threads another, and wrought by
the loom into figures—are seen in the
novelty goods which form the first offer-
ing. Diagonals,poplinettes,whip-cords
and serges are standard goods and make
durable dresses that are available on
cool days in summer. For light weight
summer dresses, the challis, crepons
and China silks come again; lansdowne
is coming into greater favor as its
merits become known but it is more ex-
pensive though of greater width. China
silks, they say, have had their run; the
cheap grades now made have ruined
the reputation of the goods, though for
coolness and comfort and wearing qual-
ity they have no rival. Avoid the
cheap stuff; silk from seventy-f1 ve cents
to one dollar a yard will outwear two
low-priced patterns. Challis come in
beautiful flower designs sprinkled thick-
lv on delicate ground tints. and made
up with liberal use of ribbons give satis-
faction all summer. The French chal-
lis never go below sixty-five cents, but
they are all wool and do not fade where-
as the cheaper qualities get streaked
and speckled with wear. Green and
violet are favorite colors; navy blue,the
coolest dark color we have, is always in
fashion.

But it makes less difierence what the
material of a gown is, so that it is be-
coming to the style and complexion of
the wearer. than how it is made, so we
will proceed to consider that portion of
the question. The new skirts are cut
wider,that is the most noticeable thing;

they are also shorter; a street gown

that touches the walk proclaims itself a
back number. Eight yards of 40-inch
goods or seven of 50-inch, are now re"
quired for a dress. A new bell skirt
described by the Bazar is 5! yards

good word for the new mode yet—and round the bottom and without fullness
can it be possible that a fashion we un- , at the top. It is simply a great circle,

   

 

 

 


 

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with a seam down the centre of the
back. Eight and nine gored skirts are
said to be made in the exclusive dress-
making parlors of New York and Paris,
but as yet the bell skirt and its modifi-
cations are most prevalent, though out
wider than last season,and often stiffen-
ed with crinoline. There is more ful-
ness in front, yet the fulness is not per-
ceptible as folds or gathers. To out
these gored skirts,which are well adapt-
ed to narrow goods,these directions are
given: The front breadth is twenty
inches wide at the bottom and fourteen
at top, where it can be narrowed still
more by darts if necessary; the side
breadths are just wide enough to carry
the skirt beyond the hips, about twenty
inches at bottom and ten at too and gored
on both edges. The back has six widths,
eighteen inches at the bottom and three
at the top,sloped equally on both edges;
the fulness at the top is arranged in six
even gathers. or pleats which expand
with the breadths. This skirt is lined
throughout, lining being out exactly
like the outside, and is usually untrim-
med unless of light weight material,
when it may have a narrow ruche, or
rows of braid or galloon.

Bell skirts that are too narrow and
close in front may be widened by in-
serting a panel either in, front or on the
sides. A width of lace over silk may be
used, the front edge being slooed; or
any material which hat monizes with
the costume may be employed and
should enter as sleeve puffs, revers or
jacket on the waist. But usually last
season’s skirts if shortened to the pre~
sent comfortable walking length are all
right, at least for demi-season wear.
New ngowns should be cut decidedly

' wider.

There is little change to note in bo-
dices as yet; though the effects are in-
finitely varied by the trimming the
foundation remains the same round-
waisted, girdled style which we have
worn all winter, sometimes slightly
pointed front and back. Girdles are as
popular as ever; they are of over-lap-
ping, upwardoturning velvet folds, or
soft silk crushed over a still? boned lin-
ing. Jacket fronts are still in favor;
many handsome boleros and Etons are
seen in passementerie,guipure and gold
braid in the stores. Sleeves are larger
and more puffy than ever. It is safest
to cut the sleeves first and put what is
left into the dress. The mutton-leg,
close at the wrist and very wide and
full at top, and the plain close-fitting
forearm crowned with a drooping elbow
puff or the shorter Empire puff, are the
Only styles as yet, aside from the varia-
tions to suit individual taste, such as
banding the upper arm to make two
puffs,or making an elbow frill. Shoulder
seams are cut a trifle longer and the
sleeve, instead of standing up from the
shoulder,stands out; the upper part of a
sleeve and also the puffs are to be lined

with crinoline or book muslin to make-

them keep their shape.

 

The efforts to introduce wide skirt
trimmings seems to have failed, and
narrow borders, ruffles, ruches and
folds, galloons and braids are seen.
Whether the attempt to spread these
decorations all over the skirt, like
hoops round a barrel, will have better
success is yet to be seen. Trimming
with no apparent cxecuse for existence,
in horizontal lines at intervals breaking
the pleasure of the eye in the graceful
flow of t ie skirt, is against our artistic
perceptions. At least the fuller skirts
would seem to preclude the use of seven
rows of two inch trimming set at grad-
uated spaces from bottom to top of a
skirt. To modernize a scant skirt and
give the effect of greater amplitude,
wider, full trimmings can be added,and
frills set inside the skirt are an aid to
that end.

For spring wraps, the cape takes pre-
cedence, made most convenient by the
immense sleeves which a jacket crush-
es so dreadfully. The new styles come
well below the waist line—are long
enough to fall to the wrist when the
arm hangs by the side, and have very
voluminous pleated collarettes,or three
or five superi-nposed capes. it would
be hard to tell which is the most favor-
ed. A beautiful brown velvet cape with
pleated collarette seen at Hudson‘s was
lined with two toned surah and marked
twenty-five dollars; ‘the style would be
handsome in cloth and could be gotten
up more cheaply. In fact, one element
which will make the cape a season’s
fancy is the ease with which a tasteful
woman may make one at home. Jackets
are about 40 inches in length, but with

wider skirts to accommodate greater ,

breadth of dress-skirts, and either a
series of shoulder capes or a collarette
is often added and serves to modernize
an otherwise old style garment. But
more capes than Jackets are shown in
the new spring arrivals, though the
latter are more to be relied upon for
comfort in our variable spring weather.

The shirt and blouse waists so popu-
lar last year will be worn again this
year,but made up more often on a fitted
lining which gives a trim appearance.
In China or India silk they are comfort-
able on a hot day, and useful with part-
ly-worn skirts. I must tell the mothers
of the four year old girls of a pretty
gingham dress easily cepied at home.
A straight skirt of pretty plaid gingham
was finished with a deep hem and three
tucks. A plain round waist was sewed
to the skirt with a white cording be-
tween. Doubled bretelles of the ging-
ham were overlaid with white Open
work embroidery,pleated full like epau~
lettes on the shoulder and narrowed to
a point front and back. The full shirt
sleeves were gathered to a gingham
cuff overlaid with embroidery, and the
half low square neck finished with a
white cording. BEATRIX.

W

“To do good and contribute (to the

HOUSEHOLD) forget not 1”

 

TEE TEACHERS DUTY.

I have been interested in what the
HOUSEHOLD correspondents have said
about teachers looking after the man-
ners of their pupils, because though not
now engaged in the work I have been
a teacher and had practical experience
with children from all sort of homes.

And I want to say most emphatically
that no mother should seek to evade
her own responsibility toward her '
children by turning it off upon that al-
ready overworked person—the teacher.

Is there to be anything left in the
way of training not to be delegated to
the teacher? Manners, morals, person-
8.1 cleanliness, hygiene, respect—all
these as well as instruction in “book
learning” are expected of that patient
pack-horse—the teacher. Where is the
demand to stop, and what is there tobe
left for parents to do?

It is the home training that tells. What
the teacher can do in her six hours of
authority five days in a week, for a few
months only, is negatived by home in-
fluences during the entire year—the
unconscious in fluence of example over-
bearing the instruction by precept in
the school-room.

I admit that teachers should—and i
know they almost always do—supple-
ment home training in manners by re-
quiring observance of the more common
forms of etiquette. But I deprecate the
idea of expecting anything more than
supplementary work in that line. it
weakens a teacher’s authority in great
things to be continually compelled to
exercise it in little ways.

As I have said, it is the home train-
ing that tells. It should be begun be-
fore the children are sent to school;
then it will become habitual -second
nature—to lift the hat, to offer a chair,
to open a door, to say prettily, “Yes,
Miss Blank” and “No, thank you.” A
teacher by dint of much reminding may
make a boy take off his hat when he
meets her, by association of ideas, but
he’ll forget to extend the courtesy to.
others if his father dofis his hat only
when he goes to bed.

In my own experience I have had my
attempts at manners-teaching negativo
ed by a beer who sent me word he didn’t
want “no (1—— nonsense” taught his
boy, and suggesting I pay “more at-
tention to ’rithmetic and less to polite-
ness.” Such cases,I am glad to say, are
rare, and usually some attempts at in-
culcating good manners are made even
in the homes of the most ignorant and
careless.

Too much is expected of our teachers.
They are but mortal though supposed
to he possessed of superhuman patience
and tact, and to be models of deport-
ment. A woman who would herself
severely‘ punish a child for a misde~
meanor, is roused to wrath if the teach-
er reprimands or punishes by depriva—
tion for the same offense. And did
you ever see a dull boy who “if he had

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the right kind of a teacher” would not
tprn out a second Daniel Webster? Or
a “terror" in school who was not a per-
fect lamb for meekness and docility at
home?

Teachers are much more patient with
children than are their own mothers.
They are obliged to govern themselves
as the first essential toward governing
their pupils; while not infrequently a
mother’s “discipline” consists only of
scolding or “nagging” or a peremptory
order enforced by a blow. The child-
ren that are hardest to govern in school
and that make the trouble are invari-
ably those not governed at home. Yet
the woman who cannot control her own
youngsters expects a teacher with from
twenty-five to fortv- fi ve to both govern
and instruct and also make them over
into “little ladies and gentlemen!”

There is no work so exhaustive to the
vitality as teaching. And the exhaus-
tion of strength and energy comes less
from the actual work of imparting in~
struction than from the necessity of
exerting authority and maintaining
discipline. Time after time have dis-
couraged teachers said to me, “If the
children would behave themselves
teaching would be a pleasure.” It is
the strain on nerves and temper and
tact that wears.

I would suggest to mothers that in-
stead of requiring more of teachers,
they themselves attend to the training
of the children in manners, in cleanli-
ness, in correct language, in morals;
and thus leave to the teacher more
time and strength and energy to devote
to training them in the wisdom of
books. I believe the results would be
early apparent in the higher tone of the
schools, the more easy government and
hence the better work. I am sure they
could thus earn the eternal gratitude
of a class of hard werked, poorly paid,
seldom appreciated women—our pri-
mary school teachers.

EX—TEACHE R.

 

FROM EL. SEE.

 

It is such an unusual occurrence to be
all alone, as I find myself this eve, that
I am constrained to spend the time in
writing to the HOUSEHOLD between
my coughing spells. The truth is that
I am a prisoner with a heavy cold and
sore throat, and in a general state. of
unfitness for appearing in public.

The long snowy winter has reached
its last month and we are all glad to
think that the grass and swelling buds
will soon be with us again. Of course
that means additional work for all, but
who does not feel the inspiration of the
season and enjoy the general renova-
tion and renewal of mother Nature’s
great house-cleaning time?

I never before knew what pleasure
one could get from a window garden.
Nearly every one keeps a few plants but
I could never enjoy them standing in
every window and even holding the

 

fort on the “broad shelf” in the pantry,
but in their own place they are a con-
stant delight. Not tall stalks with a
clump of pale leaves at the top, but
short and stocky with the leaves crowd-
ed so thickly that they overlap each
other like a well shingled roof. I do
not want any plants turned about, but
growing with the same side to the win-
dow they face beautifully when wanted
for decoration in the parlors. I have a
fine array of blooms, and the ornament
al-leaved plants are quite as beautiful
as those in blossom. It is my first ex-
perience with so large a number, but
have had such success that I shall give
them the same treatment another year.
In the first place, I commenced differ-
ently from my neighbors, because while
they left their’s out of doors just as long
as possible, I filled my window early in
September while yet the doors and win-
dows were open all day, and long before
the furnace was started, and the change
was so gradual that they never seemed
to know it and did not shed their leaves
nor cease their blossoming. An old
kettle was partly filled from the hen
house and a liberal supply of soot added,
boiling water poured over it and closely
covered to retain the ammonia. Once
a week some of this decoction is added
to the water for the plants, and they
have all the tea left from meals, but
bes1de these only clean, warm water is
used and none could be more thrifty or’
beautiful.

All winter I have felt that my care of
the plants has, in an indirect way, been
a blessing to others, for the bay-window
is so near the street that they are much
admired by passers-by and seem to send
out a cheery greeting to all across the
drifted snow.

ROMEO. EL. SEE.

UP OR DOWN, WHICH SHALL IT BE?

 

[Essay read by Mrs. N. Cowles before the Essex
' Farmers’ Glnb, Feb. 11th, 18 v3.1

This is the question that meets us at
the threshold of life, and is usually’de—
cided instinctively. In childhood and
youth all our efforts are to excel. Oft
we stumble and fall. Our spelling book
is stained and worn as if some hard
lesson had been diligently studied and
mastered, ere a new leaf is turned.
Each day brings new trials of muscles
and brain, and tears, while fighting the
battle of life which commences at the
cradle. Each day leaves its mark,
whether up or down. Associations and
circumstances have much to do with it,
“For just as the twig is bent the tree is
inclined,” but we often see this saying
contradicted. Many rise above their sur-
roundings; some fall below. The desire
of every youth of ordinary intelligence
is for improvement, however futile his
efforts may be. This latitude of thought
and action has its danger as well as its
inspiration, and we can only judge by
the success or failure that has been
achieved. But the car of prOgress
moves onward; we may stumble and

 

fall and we think but little of it while-
we are active and strong. We endure
hard toil until our muscles become.»
hardened and our hands skillful; we are:
thankful as the blessings of life surround
us; we endure all ills flesh is heir to and.
press upward and onward. But there
comes a time when we have reached
the summit of physical achievement.
Is there then no more "up" for us?

Nay, my friends, the “up” was worth.
striving for and now is worth holding ..
As there is no standstill in this world
we must use our accumulated powers and
press upward. Nor have we reached
the summit of our usefulness. Those
trials that trained the muscles.subdueci
the passions, cleared the perceptions,
strengthened the judgment and chasten-
ed the spirit, only fitted us to fully do
life’s work. One year of our life now is
worth more than any of the preceding
for usefulness. Constant toil was not
the only thing for which manwas in-
tended. “For thou hast made him a
little lower than the angels and hast
crowned him with glory and honor.” At
no time in the world‘s history has there
been so much for the enjoyment of its
people, so much choice literature at a
trifling cost, so many societies, so many
public resorts with a good programme.
for entertainment suited to the capabil~
ities of all. It is better than medicine
for our ills to meet and mingle with the
throng. We soon find out we are hear-
ing heavy imaginary burdens. Not
in the history of the world have the
sympathies of man so quickly respond-
ed to the suffering of hum tnity. All
seem to urge us on to good words and.
deeds.

If we look at the lovely plants at our -'
feet we find they cannot grow wi’he‘ut .
growing up or without light; or if we
look to the heavens, the sun, moon and
stars are all moving on. If we would .
imitate nature we must be active; em-
ployment takes our thoughts from self,‘ .
and many ills fly before active habits .
and a cheerful disposition. “Employ-
ment, which Galen calls ‘Nature’s .
physician,’ is so essential to human .
happiness that Indolence is justly styled
the mother of Misery.” Who that has.

spent a busy, aetive life, does.
not endo'se this sentiment? Will

power has much to do in holding us in

our proper places. We must not only

keep in sympathy with our surround-

ings, but we must help elevate them,
not content ourselves with past honors
but use nature’s powers and our acquir--
ed powers to help on in life’s good work:
Caroline Herschell was reading the-
hand of God and demonstrating Hie,
law in the heavens even while awaiting-
the “hoatman to row her over the dark
waters.” England’s Premier Gladstone

stands forth a living example of will»
power, pushing a noble purpose for all‘v
the present times demand. Barbara.
Freitche, though bowed with imm-~
score years and ten, has engraved her-
name On the heart of every lover of his

country’s flag; and so may we, if-hold

firmly to the right, do more good and.
enjoy more of life’s blessings than we
ever have in the same length of- time in.
the past.

 


 

 

 

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SPECULATIONS.

 

We read Hattie L. Hall’s descriptions
of the land of flowers and then look out
over our fields of snow. The tops of
the fences disappeared some time in
January. I never saw so much snow in
Northern Micl igln as there is this
winter. Sometim .s for more than a
week at a time the mail could not get
through from Lake City. I am afflicted
with chronic ionisomeness all winter
here, but when the mail doesn’t come
all symptoms are aggravated.

How surely the blotting out of Nature
with snow in the cold, cruel winter,
turns our thoughts to problems of life
that we do not think of in the bright, ,
b usy summer! Discussions of relig-
ious questions, revival meetings, etc,
have an interest new that they never
have in dog days. First is the old ques-
tion that underlies all religion,all value
and hope of life here and hereafter,
Are we. immortal? Aside from Revela-
tion the arguments on both sides are
very few. Our consciousness has a be-
ginning, so it must have an end. A
blow on the head will obliterate con-
sciousness entirely: then what does
death do? On the other hand our iden-
tity, our memory remains though every
particle of our brain is changed every
seven years. Then there is no want in
nature but has something to satisfy it.
We want to live hereafter, therefore
we must be immortal. though Iques-
tion much whether we want immortali-
ty half as much as we do continued life
in this world. I do not mention the
possibility of communication between
this and the invisible world, for I get
.snubbed when I speak of it. Ah, well;
we shall all know some time how it is—
if we know anything when this life

.. shall fail us.
The newspapers seem horrified over
' the possibility of hoop skirts being
: again worn. I remember reading ex-
-actly the same remarks just before they
‘were in style the other time, before the
war. I haVe worn them when they re-
‘quired seven breadths of yard wide ma-
terial to cover them. They are very
comfortable, particularly in summer.
How ideas of modesty change! In those
days we felt just as much shocked to be
seen without a hoop-skirt as without a'
dress. By the way, how dreadfully old
one feels to remember all about the war
and even before it.

PIOFEEB. HULDAH PERKINS.

 

CHAT.

 

UNO, of Genesee County,comes to the
front with a hearty amen to Sister
Gracious’ appeal to us to crush in its
infancy the attempted revival of hoops,
and wishes. long skirts included in the
condemnation. She says: ._..

“Why must we be slaves to such
miserable fashions? Do you think if a
. ‘few rich ladies should get together and

 

say' the men must have a change in» the
fashion of their clothu, they must have

y

the legs of their trousers a yard across
and a steel sewed in the bottom so they
will set out, and have them so long
they would drag on the ground to take
up all the filth they could possibly re-
tain; or if these women should say men
must wear a dead bird or butterfly
perched on the top of their hats, do you
think the men would tamely submit to
such miserable fashions? No indeed;
they would say ‘We will wear what is
the most comfortable and the most be-
coming to us.’ Then why cannot wo-
men do the same? I do not want to
vote, but I do want the privilege of
wearing what is becoming and decent,
without being called a crank or guy,and
I think we all do. Then, readers of the
HOUSEHOLD, let us rise as one woman
and assert our rights in a matter that
so vitally concerns our comfort and con«
venience. Let us, even as Dafiodilly
says, “get right up and bowl” (if need be)
so loud that we shall be heard all over
the land, and see if we can not turn the
tide in the right direction.”

 

MRS. A. D.) extends her sympathy to
B )nnie Scotland, saying:

“My mother was taken from us when
I was but thirteen years old, just when
I needed her most, and I felt I could not
possibly hear her loss. But I found
many kind friends to share my sorrow
and I had their deepest sympathy. As
years passed away I found one kind
friend, who stood by me in sickness and
trouble, and who has done so much for
me that I feel I never can repay her.
There are many such friends, who will
be kind and helpful in sickness and
sorrow although they can never take a
mother’s place, for .

No one like a mother, can charm away pain
From the sick soul and the world weary brain.
No other worship abides and endure. '
Faithful, unselfish. and patient like hers."

But friends will do all they can to
help us in trouble. Although it has been
fourteen years this winter since I saw
my mother laid away at rest,I have not
forgotten her, and should Gad deem it
best to take Bonnie Scotland’s mother
from her, years may pass away but the

mother’s gentle influence will be ever,

around her, and her kinditeachings will
never be forgotte l. I know it will be
hard to bear but we can only feel that
God knows best.”

 

SLAN G.

 

In the HOUSEHOLD of February 18th,
Back Number speaks of slang, ’which
I think is becoming fearfully common
and coarse. It is the outgrowth of illy-
poised minds. Let a timid child be a
little while in the company of strangers
where he is too timid to speak and if
there is a new slang word used he will
carry it away, and a day or two after-
ward he will be trying it. It was a new
word and he could not help getting it.
Young people use slang a great deal for
lack of sense and self-respect, and more
yet out of lack of respect for those they
are with; but most of all for a lack of
that self-possession which would make
them masters of better language. Slang
is for the most part the tongue fruit of
disturbed and illwpoised minds. Slang
is vulgar, intensely, basely vulgar; and
the wonder of all wonders is that people
of common sense who know good lan-
guage and have good taste, should dis-
grace their speech with it It can be

accounted for only on the ground that

 

being feebly self-possessed they are
easily disturbed, and in this disturbed
state slang words come before propar

ones. The way to conquer the habit of
using slang is to gain a self-possession
which shall keep us masters of what
we say.

Real self-possession is not to be upset
by a word, or hurried into foolish
action by another, or turned sour be-
cause somebody is not sweet, nor ill-
mannered because some one is not
polite. It does not propose to be a beer
to its own hurt and the scandal of the
neighborhood, just because some one
else has been self’forgetful. It con-
siders the laws of right, the rules of
propriety, the etiquette of good breed-
ing, the dignity of self-respect, the
Christian obligation to others, and then,
by the help of them all, considerately
determines how to act. GREENIE.

-u--. _....q.._ ___. ..._.

PROF. KEDZIE‘S formula for the best
and purest baking-powder for home use.
is: “Eight ounces of pure cream of
tartar, four ounces of soda and four
ounces of corn starch. Sift the mixture
several times to thoroughly incorporate
the compound before using.” Most of
the commeréial powders contain alum,
which is deleterious.

__.._...._
Contributed Recipes.

 

 

RIBBON CAKE.—-Three eggs; one and one-
half cups of sugar: two thirds cup of melted
butter; one cup sweet milk: three teaspoon-
fuls of baking powder; three cups of flour.
Flavor with lemon. Put one-half of the
above into layers and bake. Add to the re-
mainder one tablespoonful molasses; one
large cupzof raisins. seeded and chopped;
one teaspoonful cinnamon; one-half tea-

:spoonful each of cloves and allspice; one

tablespoonfui of flour; one half teaspoonful
otsods dissolved in a little boiling water.
Bake in layers. Pat first a light layer than
a dark one, and spread with soft filling.

 

Snow Gillan—Two scant cups of white
sugar. and one-half cup of melted butter
beaten to a cream; one cup of sweet milk;
two cups of flour; add the whites of four eggs
beaten to a stiff froth, and last of all one cup
of flour and two heaping teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder. Flavor and bake in layers or
loaves. This makes two cakes.

 

Pom: Gun—Take one pound of fat pork
entirely free from lean or rind, chop very
fine, so fine as to be almost lard: pour one-
half pint boiling water upon it and run
through a colander; add one pound of raisins
seeded and chopped; one-fourth pound
citrcn shaved fine; two cups of sugar; one
cup of molasses. Mix all these together and
stir in enough sifted flour to make it the con-
sistency of the usual cake mixture. Then
stir in cloves and allspice finely ground, one-
half ounce of each, and cinnamon one ounce.
Bake slowly.

 

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Fnurr Carin—One cup of sugar; one cup
of sour milk; one cup of raisins or hickory
nut meats; two cups of flour, one—half cup of
butter (scant); one teaspoonful of soda and
one of mice.

These last two recipes requiring no eggs
are useful in winter when they are scarce.

Yrsxmmr. Roan Hansen“.

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