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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

LITTLE THINGS.
.IA goodébye kiss is a little thing.

With our hand on the door to go.
But it takes the venom out of the sting
01 a thoughtless word or a cruel fling

That you made but an h our ago.

A kiss of greeting is sweet and rare
After the toil of the day.
Audit smooths the furrows plowed by cars.
The lines on the forehead you once called fair.
In the years that have flown away.

' Pie 3 little thing to say. "You are kind;

I love you. my dear." each night.
But it sends a thrill through the heart. I find—
For love is tender as love is blind.—

As we climb life’s rugged height.

We starve each other for love‘s caress.
We take. but we do not give;

it seems so easy some soul to bless.

But we dole the love grudgi ugly, less and less.
Till 'tis bitter and hard to live.

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GOING' TO THE EX POSITION.

Since the visitor to the great fair is
not “going into society” in the Windy
City, will probably breakfast at her
lodging-house and get her dinner and
supper on the Exposition grounds, it
will be policy to reduce her baggage to
“light marching outfit.” As I have
said, it is quite practicable to make the
trip with but one gown and the extra
silk waist for warm days. Unless you
have owned one, you do not know how
very comfortable these shirt waists are.
And if you are not sufiiciently slender
to wear the regulation style, or feel it
would be “too girlish,” just have one
made of China or India silk—a full out-
side on a fitted lining, pointed back and
. front, with a ribbon ruche outlining the
bottom, and full sleeves. It can be worn
with black or any pleasantly harmoniz-
' ing skirt,and gives an agreeable change
.from the bodice belonging-to your gown
—almost equal to the rest and refresh-
ment afforded by changing the dress.

For a short stay.a trunk is a nuisance
to the individual. A medium sized
valise or 8. Gladstone bag that can be
iooked after personally is better and will
hold the essentials for a ten days’ visit.

There are for sale what are called “teles- -

copes” which are very obliging about
accommodating themselves to the am-
ount of luggage you want to take. A
“telescope” consists of two parts like
two boxes, one iorming the, cover and

f fitting over the other. There are straps
. .. _ fgto'buekle the two together,and ahandle.
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please,buckle the straps which encircle
the two, and “there you are.” A “teles-
cope” costs from $1.50 to $2.50, ac-
cording to size. Where three or more
go together a small trunk will be better,
but let it has small one and don’t weight
it with the unnecessary. Most people
who are unused to traveling burden
themselves with things they think they
will want—but never do. The extra
dress it you choose, a night dress and a
loose wrapper of gingham or batiste for
sleeping car wear if needed; three or
four sets of underclothes—for one’s
clothes get dreadfully dirty in a city and
we do not wish to bother with laundries
or washwomen; the necessary toilet
articles, including one’s favorite soap,
for it is much better for the skin to use
one kind of soap only, and the cheap
perfumed cakes usually found in hotels
and lodging-houses are of miserable
quality (the very best is olive oil or
white castile); a jacket or wrap of some
kind; an umbrella which will be para-
sol as well; a pair of light weight rub-
bers or footholds---the latter are much
lighter and easier to walk in than rub-
bers, and except in case of a deluge are
sufficient protection in summer; plenty
of handkerchiefs, and a few yards of
some pretty and durable ruching, for
most of us look better with a thread of
white to break the hard line between
dress and skin, besides, the ruching
saves soil of perspiration on the collar.
Sew your shoe buttons on afresh and
tuck a couple of Turkish wash-cloths in
somewhere;there’s usually an appalling
scarcity of towels everywhere except in
one’s own home. No white skirts-—
make a point of that; black sateen, a1-
‘paoa, silk, anything but white cotton.
Black brilliantine at 48 or 50 cents a
yard makes a nice looking and durable

skirt. and three breadths is a big pat-,

tern. You can trim it with a straight
ruflie,hemmed, and add a row or two of
black satin or moire ribbon for trim-
ming, and never be ashamed of it, or
add silk rufiles and “make believe very
hard” it is all silk. Black hose. of
course, and as these, whether cotton or
lisle. are best washed in cold or luke-
warm water, it is possible to get along
with an extra pair by washing them out
in the washbowl in one’s own room.
And don’t forget your whisk broom. If
you don’t sing "I need thee every hour, ”
you certainly will find ease for it as

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often as you can get hold of it. Then if
you realize any deficiencies, laugh them
oflf and see how easy it is to do without
what you have always thought you must
have.

A little case of simple remedies, cam-
phor, arnica, glycerine and rose-water.
Pond’s Extract, such as was described
in the HOUSEHOLD last fall, may be
put in if you’ve room for it; though
drug stores are numerous in Chicago
when you want anything of the kind
you don’t want to go after it.

A pair of good but partially worn,
therefore easy shoes will prove a friend.
Don’t wear new shoes unless you expect
to be murdered by fractions of an inch.
Those unaccustomed to pavements often
think thin-soled shoes will be easier on
the feet; that is a mistake, the thick
soles are really much more comfortable
because they keep the feet from the hot
walks. There will be plenty of sore,
blistered, aching feet at the Exposition
through not knowing gust this one
little thing. Leave your jewelry at
home. Chicago will be no place
for diamonds or silk dresses. Don’t
carry money in your dress pocket, nor
much in your purse, but find a safe hid-
ing place somewhere about yourself;
then don’t forget where you hid it and
alarm yourself thinking ' you’ve lost it.
I’ll confess to an essentially womanish
way of carrying surplus funds, myself;
and shall not care if you laugh, because
though I have often traveled with con-
siderable money about me I have never
lost any. I put it in a stout, good-sized
envelop.and-with a safety pin secure the
envelop either to my dress waist or un-
der vest. Then I am able to dismiss it
entirely from mind. Enough only for
the day’s expenses should be carried in
the purse.

If one is possessed of field or opera
glasses it would be well to take them
along. From the galleries and balconies
of the building, both exterior and in-
terior,sorne fine views will be obtained,
and the observer will be greatly aided
by a good glass.

I looked over, recently, the list of
houses and flats to rent in Chicago,with
especial note of those located near the
E xposition grounds. For an eleven room
house on Garfield boulevard, furnished,
. $400 per month is wanted; a ten room
, house six blocks from the grounds,
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the fair is open. A two story frame.
eight rooms, $200 per month; for an
eight room house nearer the grounds,
$300. Flats on the South Side,the “Ex-
position side,” of six and seven rooms,
rent for $125 to $165 per month. To
pay these rents, run the houses, and
make a fortune enabling the renter to
enjoy the remainder of his days in af-
fluence-which is the moderate ambi-
tion of the average Chicagoan engaged
in the business of accommodating visit-
ors to the Exposition, will require some
of the victims to be reduced to that con-
dition known as “skinned alive.” It will
be wisest in all cases where one’s funds
are limited to secure a return ticket
and hang on to it, for one might get
hopelessly in debt while waiting a re-
mittance from home. BEATRIX.

 

MISERIES 0F MOVING.

This is the time of year when we see
people gathering up their household
goods for their annual spring circuit;
and we cannot help wondering if they
really enjoy it. Our sympathy is ex-
tended to that class of people who own
no houses of their own; living itinerant
lives, moving into different houses, and
cleaning out dirt that their predecessors
neglected to remove.

Some people think it is cheaper to pay
rent, as taxes, insurance, interest and
repairs swallow up about all a laboring
man can make; but there is one advant-
age about owning your own house and
that is nobody can inform you that the
rent_is to be raised, or the house about
to be sold—you can stay or go as you
please. /

It seems as though some pe0ple have
a perfect mania for moving, or else
cultivate a love for it.

When they move into a house their
goods stand promiscuously around
rooms, carpets partially tacked,pictures
all awry, and in fact everything looks
disorderly, for they deem it useless to
settle, as they expect “to move in the
spring.” Almost the moment these
transient people move into a house,they
begin to look around for some excuse to
move out of it. The chimney leaks;
they shake the windows to hear them
rattle;they dig the dirt out of the cracks

in the floor to see the wind lift the
carpets on windy days; and if there be
a suspicion of any thing alive under the
wall-paper,they declare, with emphasis,
that they will not remain in such a
place any longer than it will take to
secure another.

To move properly requires about three
women, besides those belonging to your
own family; a number of small boys (to
hang around), a dog or two, and two
dray-men thoroughly versed in the art

of swearing, and likewise experienced
in the mode of smashing things up
generally.

Do you people who move ever suffer
apprehension for the safety of your
household effects? Do you dread the

 

time when you unpack,only to find some
idolized treasure broken? Your mirror
so carefully wrapped in an old quilt,
and thought “perfectly safe,” when
brought to light reveals a cracked
face; and you entertain foreboding fears
lest ill-luck will come to you for seven
years. The carpets do not fit; they are
too short one way and to lo'ng another.
The window shades must be cut down,
and made to fit, and you can thank your
iucky stars if you do not have to throw
them away and purchase new ones.

How do you ever manage to get your
first meal? Do you get out a sheet and
spread on the taole, under the illusive
idea it is a table cloth? Will the nap-
kins make an appearance? Where is
the salt, the butter, and where is the
meat that was left from yesterday? By
the time your meal is ready,1’ll venture
to say the children are all crying for
something, and you know not where
that something is, and if they do not
get an attack of cholera morbus or
croup, you are again lucky.

I wonder if the man of the house real-
ly enjoys seeing things in confusion? If
so he is an exceptional man, and he will
not survive his allotted time. Do you
suppose he controls his temper, and
sings the “Sweet Bye and Bye” while
endeavoring to connect that inevitable
stove-pipe?

My husband declares, at each spring
cleaning, that the next spring he will
surely apply for a divorce, but I do not
entertain any fears concerning it, and
we are only to happy to think we have
a home of our own, and are not control-
led by a landlord.

I have questioned in my mind,wheth-
er peo ple who are constantly “on the
move” are really in misery, or if they
enjoy it; and have come to the conclu-
sion that they would not be anchored to
one spot for a life-time, if they could.

“Such a rov1ng, restless, changing
life—to-day here and perhaps to-morrow
in some other place, typifies well the
transient, fleeting nature of our earth-
ly life. We all sojourn on earth,having
here no continuing city. Our abiding
home is above. Well for us if we ‘Pitch
our moving tent. a day’s march nearer

home.’ ”
M'r. CLEMENS. LITTLE NAN.

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HOUSE-OLE ANING.

 

"I‘he melancholy days have come.
The saddest of the year.”

How do I know it? Well, by the lines
around back yards filled with bedding
of various kinds, chamber windows
raised to their highest altitude, the
anxious expression on the feminine face
and a little conversation I overheard
on the corner as I passed. These parties
felt life becoming a burden for they had
been turned out in the cold, leftto shirk
for themselves, tb buflet the winds of
adversity—in other words, tosum the
matter up, their better halves were
cleaning house. “Gad!” says No. 1, “I
wish there had never such a diabolical

 

thing been invented as house-cleaning.
I verily believe it was Connected by

Old Nick himself. Our house looks as.

if some one had been around with a
pitch-fork. I am going to get my meals
at the Club. We ate breakfast this
morning in the pantry—victuals spread
out on top of the flour barrel and shelves.
I vow I won’t go home again until I
know this foolishness is at an end.”

“I feel sure my wife just enjoys such
a confusion at this season of the year,
says No. 2. “It is a chronic affair with
her. She sails around with her head tied
up in a towel, an old ragged dress on,
and her feet in a pair of my slippers;
the children do just as they are a mind
to, she is as serene as a June morning
and there isn’t a single room in the
house one can sit down in. I’m going
to follow your example and go to the
Club.”

Not one woman in ten knows how to
commence house-cleaning properly.
Once a year is often enough to take up
carpets, and it always appeared to me
Spring was the proper time. The ground
has a new covering, the new leaves ap—
pear on the bare brown branches: there
is new life apparent in all nature. First
and foremost get into the cellar; corral
two of the men and superintend the
removal of all vegetables that have duid
up or rotted. Sprout the potatoes. sort
them; go through the apple barrels;
look over the canned fruit and pickle
jars; sweep down the walls and corners;
don’t leave a spot untouched. Wash
the swing shelf and paper it new; open
the windows and get in the screens. If'
one is very thorough, cleaning cellar
need not be such a dreaded task. Each
week it is necessary to do a little work
in the cellar; if managed rightly there
never need be an accumulation of filth
under our living rooms. Eternal vigil-
ance is the secret of success.

With our foundation all right, the
work above moves along smoothly. A
great many begin on the first floor and
work up,leaving the upstairs rooms and
attic for the last. It is better to get the
attic or storeroom overhauled. If you
have improved the long winter even-
ings and dreary days of March,the piece
basket is emptied;the best have been con--
verted into comforts and quilts, carpet
rags sewed; and the dresses and under
clothes for the little ones are well out of
the way. You haven’t done any such
thing, you say? Well then, you have
an elephant on your hands.

Some take one room at a time. Make
calculations as to the number of rooms
and amount of work you can manage in
one day, and do not overestimate. By
doing this there is a certain satisfaction
in having something entirely finished
each night. Above all, try and have
regular meals; good palatable food. No
great variety is expected at this time.
The women cleaning need good sub-
stantial food, for it’s hard work and no
mistake. Don’t wear ragged dresses or
go slips'aal; and anus all, Cu;

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your head up in a towel. Little cambric
caps are easily made. Pink the edges
and run an elastic in, and choose your
most becoming color.

It is pleasant to have something fresh
and new for spring. We cannot all have
new drapes and curtains,but anew chair
or lounge. fresh paper, or a new carpet,
works quite a change in our r00ms; so
do new covers on the chair cushions
and bolsters or a new picture. Chang-
ing furniture around in a room has a
good effect. We are so apt to become
tired of our things, the rooms cease to
look pleasant.

Sick people especially hail a change
of any kind. For myself, I most hearti-
ly concur with the male portion of
humanity in disliking house-cleaning.
The only general time I have at it is
when it becomes necessary to take up
carpets, but I study to make it as easy
as possible so Philander will not be in-
convenienced. It would be a new ex-
perience to me when he unwillingly
turned his face homewai d at meal
time. EVANGELINE.

 

SPRING MILLINERY.

 

The spring hat this season is nothing
if not gorgeous. It dominates and
quite eclipses the individuality of the
wearer. It is impressive, imposing. A
view of Woodward Avenue from a
second floor Window on a bright after-
noon reminds one of the Promenade of
the Flowers. Perambulating rose gar-
dens, tulip beds, violet banks, lilac
bushes, seem passing and repassing on
the pavement.

The merchants’ windows are filled
with wonderful creations; within doors,
in those private rooms where only the
privileged few are taken, the results
are still more astonishing. Colors that
have always sworn at each other before
are laid in loving juxtapOsition and the
artiste (we have no milliners nowdays),
as she poises the hat upon her extend—
ed fingers, surveys red roses upon
purple and green ribbons through
ecstatic eyes and tells you it’s “so sweet-
ly stylish!”

Hats are quite large; crowns are low,
and brims are wide and “gently undu-
lating ’——to use an agricultural simile.
B rims of one material and crowns of
a nother are seen, so are hats that are
all rim and no crown; and those that
are pancakes with waved edges,and full
g rown and blown roses planted erect
u pon them. A brim of cream white
Neapolitan braid had a crown of lemon
yellow velvet, one wide forward turn-
1 ng loop of black velvet was caught
it nder a large oblong jet buckle, placed
a little at the side; from this buckle a
close twist of black velvet was continu-
ed round the crown and lost under three
black ostrich tips set on diagonally
across from the loop, one turning to the
front, one to the lack, while a third
stood erect and drooped over a little.

_ Another which we call “very chic” was

 

a lace-covered frame overlaid with
green Bourdon lace; the crown was
black lace, the flowers, roses and their
abundant foliage. Still another, a car-
dinal chip trimmed with great bows of
six inch moire ribbon, through the
twists of which were thrust broad leaves
of grass, in very dark green. A very
pretty white chip was adorned with
loops of transparent silk muslin, among
them set a marabout aigrette, and a
raffle of white lace threaded with gold
around the crown. Another model was
a very broad brimmed open work straw
with chip crown surrounded by lace just
full enough to lie in regular fiutings,
with loops of green ribbon sustaining a
full-sized American Beauty rose.

Bonnets, on the contrary, are the
merest scraps of lace and jet, and flow-
ers. Some have no crowns; but if nature
has been an economist with you, the
trimmer will disguise your poverty in
the matter of tresses by lining the open-
ing with muslin de 5016 or crape. Other-
wise, she will circle the opening with a
twist of velvet, put a flamboyant butter-
fly bow in front, add the biggest rose or
orchid she has in stock and charge you
fifteen dollars.

A great deal of fancy straw braid is
used,both for making hats and for trim-
ming. Ribbon is edged with inch wide
braid and folded into loops. Two rows
of braid will form the edge of a hat,and
the remainder of the brim be made of
lace. These braids are in mixed colors,
from twenty to fifty cents a yard, but
the piece you take a fancy to is apt to
prove to be the exception that is seventy-
five cents.

As remarked, flowers, and very large
and showy ones, are the most fashion-
able adornment. Roses so faithfully
imitated that they WOuld deceive a
florist so perfect are they in tint and
form are the favorite; fieur de lis,tulips
and jonquils in yellow, in blue almost
the only blossom is the corn-flower; and
especially popular are the flowers in
shades and tints of purple (which is a
very much worn color this year) such
as violets, heliotrope, Wisteria, lilac and
cyclamen. Violets are seen in all tints
from the deepest of purple to the dainty
ones that are more lilac than violet.
These flowers are put with everything,
green,brown,gray,black,cream, “every-
thing goes.” The result is happy some-
times, sometimes quite otherwise. It is
to he wished middle-aged women with
sallow complexions who wear black
wouldn’t ofl'end our eyes by "lighting
it upa little” with purple. The tones of
purple are the most trying of all colors
to any but the freshest and most del-
icate of complexions; purple or mauve,
violet or heliotrope with black are
the hardest of all combinations; it is
sacrilege for the dark skinned, middle-
aged woman to attempt them (except in
a few rare instances where a well pre-
served face can bear the test) unless upon
an all lace bonnet whose semi-transpar-
ency softens the violence of the contrast.

Some pretty open-work straws are
shown, at rates ranging from 75 cents
to $1.75 according to quality. The soft-
er and more pliable the better the grade.
Chip hats are seen in great variety;
some of them have inch wide colored
bands a half inch from the edge of the
rims, which are wide, lifted in front
and drooping at the side, but usually
bent by the trimmer into the shape
most becoming. Through the centre of
this colored band is often laid a narrow
velvet fold of contrasting hue; narrow
velvet folds also overlay the wires of
the framework of lace covered hats. A
pretty openwork straw bonnet was like
an oblong saucer, fitting low and flat on
the head, the front raised by a bandeau.
A brilliant toque was edged with a roll
of cardinal velvet, against this was laid
a wreath of fine cardinal velvet flowers
the open crown was partially coveret
by an atom of lace, and upright velve'
loops trimmed the right side, pretty
well to the front. It was for spring
wear, though it seemed more suited tc
winter. Red is very popular,especially
in the new dark rose shades.

An “1830” bonnet which everybody
gazed at—the young women covetously,
the elder ones despairingly—was a
genuine poke, in chip of an exquisite
shade of lilac, trimmed with ribbon and
plumes of the same color. It was very
quaint and old-fashioned in a new way,
and designed to be worn with an “1830”
costume. BEATRIX.

CLIPPIN G S.

 

E11 See’s letter on window gardening
made me wonder if any of you who have
babies ever thought, as I do, that babies
and house plants never agree? I am
a lover of flowers and every winter man-
age to keep four or five pots of choice
ones, but this winter has been hard on
them. AmOng my collection this season
was an Impatiens Sultaml w hich a friend
gave me as a very small sliplast spring.
It is a profuse bloomer with wax-like
leaves, very rare but very beautiful;
and hardly a day passed that there
would not be new blossoms which will
last for two or three days. If you
haven’t any and are fond of flowers you
certainly ought to have one of these
plants; they are very hardy and grow
very fast. They are not to be found in
all the catalogues, but I remember see-
ing a description in Dingee & Conard’s
catalogue of 1892.

I think manners should be taught
children at school as well as at heme.
It would be a preti y place to send our
young children, almost babies, if there
were no manners;

I think "Cassandra” will find if she
looks it up that children should be
taught to say ”yes, mama” or “no papa,”

I “Mr. -—-—” or “auntie” (unless it
may be to a stranger) as the case migft
be, rather than "no "mom” or :‘zt‘algfli'w
—whic_l_iw1‘s oftener “mom” than ma’am.
Bad manners are bad enough anywhere,
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word now and then at each meal will
set that all right if a mother keeps her
eyes and ears open, for a child will
learn more of such things when small
and remember them too.

I was interested in the pantaloon
question. As for me, I think a woman
would look about as graceful in panta-

loans as she would barefooted.
MAPLE Bums. ABN‘S WIFE.

-——-.O._

A “HOUSEHOLD" CONVENTION.

 

The sun is shining brightly and all
nature seems bursting forth in beauty
asI board the morning train. "Just
starting on a tour of pleasure,” I hear
some one say as she glances at my

beaming countenance: “Yes! pleasure

indeed,” I answer, “if my enjoyment
comes upto my expectations.” What
adelightful ride! Now I see a space
covered with a carpet of beautiful
green; now, a farmer plowing ,his
fields (what could appear nobler): now,
a flock of sheep with lambs frolicking
’here and there; and later a group of
happy-faced children on their way
to school. After enjoying these and
many other scenes, we find ourselves
nearing our destination—the City of
the Straits.

The object of my trip is to visit the
Editor of the HOUSEHOLD. By follow-
ing my directions I soon arrive at the
sought for place.

What’s this! What a cluttering of
tongues I hear! Can it be possible our
Editor is making all this noise? No, it
must be she is not alone as I had
hoped. for I find the latch-string out.
I’ll not ring, but opening the door what
a sight greets my eyes! I enter un-
noticed and find myself in a cosy sitting
—-room furnished in a pleasant, homelike
style.

But who are all these bright, intelli-
gent-faced people? Seems to me they
look familiar. Oh! The thought dawns
upon me—they are the whole army of
HOUSEHOLDE RS. But where is Beatrix?
Is she here? Yes, she is telling one
how to lessen her cares; another, how
to solve the pin-money question; an-
other, what to wear to Chicago; not all
at once of course. but in a short time
she is ready to advise others on equally
important questions. Yes, it’s surely
her. No one else so understands the
wants of the HOUSEHOLDERS.

The two schoolma’ams, E. C. and E.
L. Nye, are discussing important school
questions. I do hope E. L. can con-
vince E. C. that she is wrong on certain
points. I think if she continues her
talk with E. L. she will be told that it
is not only a benefit to the school and
children but also to the teacher to have

. parents call occasionally.

‘ I see Mrs. Fuller, tdo! Whatalovely

bouquet she wears! of her own growing

I hear her telling Evangeline who sits
. they look well enough if acne is not too

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from being disappointed when I gaze on
the face of our faithful writer.

I hear a terrible buzzing. I wonder
what it is? It’s our Bees! It is fortu-
nate that Hmey Bee changed her name
because I should not have recognized
her as “S hiftless.” And as for Busy
Bee, she is all her name implies.

I see Frank’s Wife, A. L. L., A.H.J.,
Bees, and all seem as interesting in talk
as on paper. John’s Wife carries a large
purse to show that one family at least
has more than one pocket-book. She
doesn’t look like a person who would
squander her money, either.

But I am disappointed in "0 ur
Sisters” and Greenie. I expected to see
tall, dark, somber creatures with never
a place for a smile, as the boys say, but
am surprised to see cheerful, smiling
faces and eyes fairly dancing with
pleasure. Greenie is just the opposlte
of what her name implies.

I remembered El See’s “Lack of Ap-
preciation” when I beheld her. and I
saw that she was one who could not
fail to be appreciated.

Little Nan’s clear, brilliant complex-
ion and rosy cheeks would almost prove
that abstaining from pork would insure
a beautiful skin. I espy a lady dressed
in the latest style, looking very neat
and “tony.” I assure you. But who can
she be, I am asking myself. Hark! I
hear our Editor and several others ask-
ing about her success keeping summer
boarders,and she says it was even better
than she anticipated. It must be Mrs.
Germain,and from appearances we may
conclude than she lost nothing by her
ventures in that line.

But glancing from one to the other I
can not help thinking what an intel-
ligent company they appear to be and
how very different from what some
might expect to see in a company of
farmers’ wives and daughters.

Strange as it may seem everyone had
apparently forgotten their cares and
troubles, if I am to judge from their
pleasant conversation. It seems queer
no one has noticed me standing near
the door “taking it all in,” but I think
I’ll summon courage and ask Beatrix to
introduce me to E. L. Nye and others.

I step towards her and am just making
my best bow and saying: “My dear
Editor” when 10! I awake, and see not
HOUSEHOLDERS but the familiar objects
of my own room. So I found I had seen
the correspondents and Editor of the

HOUSEHOLD only in a dream.
A DBEAMEB.

 

ALL SORTS.

 

Have any of the HOUSEHOLD readers
an ironing press? I have one, and I
find it a great help. It will irOn table-
cloths and towels just as nicely as they
can be ironed by hand; sheets and pil-
low cases do not look quite as well, but

particular. A press does not cost very

well as of wood. I have done a two
weeks’ ironing for a family of four in
two hours,which includes ironing in the
usual way starched clothes, etc.

I want to tell Aunt Bessie that if she
would get a soldering iron she would
find it much more convenient to do her
mending of tin ware with it than with
the poker. We gave thirty cents for
ours, and buy the solder by the pound.
Five cents’ worth of muriatic acid will
last for years, and it is easily prepared
for use by adding some scraps of zinc.
Doing one’s own soldering saves quite
a little during the year, besides you
don’t have to wait till you go to town to
have a much needed article mended.

I agree with our Editor that women
should have every convenience there
is to helplighten their work; that is, as
far as they are able.to buy them. Some
men will get tools to make their work
easier but never think a woman needs
anything to lighten her labor, but I am
thankful all men are not that way.
Farmers’ wives have to work hard
enough even though they have all mod-
ern conveniences.

I greatly appreciate Mrs. M. A.
Fuller’s suggestions on flowers, for I
have always loved them very much.

In looking over the back numbers of
the HOUSEHOLD and reading Mrs. A.
Do’s letter of January 14th, my heart
goes out in sympathy to her. for I know
what it is to care for a sick baby. Ours
only lived eleven months, and was as
helpless the entire ti me as the day he
was born. It is hard to see our dear
ones suffering, but oh! so hard to give
them up! But our Heavenly Father
knows best, and we ought to try to hear
our burdens patiently and be submissive
to His will. CADDY.
Oannrs.

 

Contributed Recipes.

 

limos Pun—Make a rich crust and bake.
pricking well with a fork to keep it from
putting up. Make a custard of the grated
rind and juice of one lemon; one cup white
sugar; three eggs, reserving" the whites of
two; and one cup boiling water. Cook in
double boiler and add four teaspoonfnls of
flour stirred free from lumps with a little
water. When done add piece of butter size
of an egg; fill crust and put on the top a
frosting made of the whites of two eggs
beaten to a stiff froth and half teacupfnl of
sugar; spread. return to the oven and brown
slightly. '

 

Man CAKE—Light part: One and oni-

one half cup sweet milk, two and oin-
third cups of flour; one half teaspoon“

mixed with flour; whites of four eggs beaton
to stiff froth; flavor w. th lemon. Dark part:
One cup sugar; one-half cup coflee; one half
cup butter; one half cup spur milk; two and
one-third cups flour; one tablespoonful
molasses; one- half teaspoonful soda; one-

half cup currents.

 

 

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Inn! Bums. ARES WIPE

half cups white sugar; one half cup butter; .

soda and one teaspoonfui cream of tank! .

 

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