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DETROIT, JUNE 8, 1898.

 

 

THE H OUSBH OLD-"Supplement.

 

 

CONSEQUENCES.

 

BY MARTHA E. DIMON.

 

SHE SAID:
Youfstole a kiss. you daring boy,
And punished you shall be.
I know you thought it blissful joy.
Nor cared how much you did annoy
My blushing modesty.

I hereby make a stern decree
Which you perforce must meet.
That you shall straight restore to me
That which you took so brazenlly.
And ne‘er the deed repeat.
. I: SAID 2
I stole a kiss. my darling girl,
The truth I will admit;
But rosy lips and teeth like pearls.
Bewitching locks. coquettish curls,
Shall plead excuse for it.

A part of your decree is just.

And now by hook or crook .
Return to you at once I must
The stolen kiss ; to love I trust

To give me what I took.

THE WORLD SAID.

Another wedding set for May,

Young Thompson and Miss Rose,
A true love match. the gossips say.
Where Cupid has his own sweet way.

And bright the future glows.

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SUMMER GOWNS.

 

Cotton gowns are very much the mode
this season. The fashion journals give
us wonderfully elaborate models for
miking them up, models which makes
the dress fully as costly (or even more
costly) as a wool costume. But there’s
one mercy about it. we can follow them
Or not, at our option.

Old-fashioned organdy muslins are in
vogue again, and very dainty and pretty
they are. too, with their flower-strewn
surfaces. D)tted Swiss muslins, French
lawns, dimities, cotton cheviots, linen
duck—which is a sort of pique, anl
batistes are the favorite materials.

Many of these are made up on linings
of batiste, or of the same goods, largely
increasing the cost of the dress. The
round full waist is almost invariably
used for these goods, made on a fitted
lining, and woe and wrath are in the
laundress’ heart as she struggles to “do
them up.” Be ruled by sense. and
choose either simple models forlight
colors, or dark tints that will not need
to see the wash-tub in a season.

You will make your skirt of four
straight widths of organdy, batiste or
lawn, gathering at top and cording to
the waist, with the fulness of the front

 

breadth disposed of by goring it in the
usual style. Make the hem eight inches
deep; tuck it if the spirit moves you, or
trim with lace of two or three rows of
graduated width, each coming from
under a wide tuck. The round full
waist has afolded girdle and stock collar
of bias satin, or ribbon or velvet ribbon

 

may be employed instead. Sleeves are
puffed twice above the elbow and are
made on a fitted lining of the same; if
you have pretty arms, finish with a
deep fall of lace from the elbow, or a
deep will 3 edged with lace.

Spanish fiounces are much worn; this
is a deep flounce set on with a heading
at the knee, the flJunce forming the
lower portion of the skirt.

0 Striped Iawns and organdies are made
with three deep flounces which cover
the entire skirt and are edged with lace
or embroidery; these are mounted on a
gored skirt and consist of straight
breadths, four for the two lower flounces,
three for the upper, which is gathered
to the waist. The waist laps in surplice
style and has a gathered back. A fichu
of the goods forms a point in the
back, crosses in front, passes under the
arms, and laps at the waist line in the

 

back; it is edged with a ruiile or gather-

' ed lace. On a dark dress, cotton gui-

pure lace insertion laid flat on the edges
of flounces, fichu, etc., makes a showy
trimming. Bind the neck, and makes.
very full ruche of lace, letting it extend
down the front.

For white cotton dresses, Swiss lawn
with pinhead dots is a favorite goods,
and like organdy, is a revival of an old
fashioned weave known to our grand-
mothers. These are made without lin-
ing (cut them with ample allowance for
shrinkage), and the seams are managed
by stitching them on the right side,
then turning and stitching again on the
wrong side, thus entirely concealing the
raw edges. Four breadths make the
skirt. and all are sloped slightly; sew
the skirt to a stiffened muslin band,
and cover with another belt of satin
ribbon, two inches wide, faStened with
a rosette on the left. Sleeves are very
large at the top and finish with a mill:
or ruche at the wrist. This simple
model is desirable in almost any of the

 

summer cottons. The fancy is for white
l ribbons, or white silk or satin trim-
mings with white gowns. A set which

 

made of rose pink, apple green or yel-
low satin, cut bias, and made into fold-
ed girdles meeting under rosettes of the
same, with collars to match, and shoul-
der rosettes also, two for each shoulder
placed about four inches apart (in the

'line of the armhole. Or, one white

gown can be varied by having several
sets of these accessories in different

. colors. The preference is for rosettes

on everything, from hats to slippers.
To make them, double the material,
gather it close, arrange the folds in
proper style and sew firmly into shape.

Of course there are more elaborate
styles having shirred and puffed yokes,
and sleeves which are miracles of mak~
ing, but for the home dressmaker and
the home laundress the simpler fashions
given above are much more available
and serviceable. For to most of us the
beauty and delight of a cotton gown is
the impunity with which it can be sent
to the wash-tub.

 

TEE DUI‘Y OF HELPFULNEiS.

 

As I look out, this beautiful May
morning, the most harmonious scene
meets my eye. The fruit trees are a
mass of pink and white bloom; the green
grass is dotted with dandelions; the

 

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shower of yesterday washed the dust
from the leaves; the birds are filling
the air with melody: not one discordant
note can I detect in my surroundings.
In each home the members of the fami-
ly are taking up the duties of the day.
The school children are on their way
with books and dinner baskets; happy
they are, we know, with rosy cheeks,
bright eyes. and elastic step, not a care
in the world. D) I occasionally find
myself envying them their freedom.
wishing, ah! how vainly, that I were a
girl again,treading the worn path to the
old school-house, conning the homely
lessons, dreaming dreams, and building
castles? The rosy, happy days of child-
hood! Let us make them as bright and
joyous as we can; they come but once
and always hang like a lovely picture in
memory’s gallery.

In the farm homes the duties which
are never light will now increase.
There will be butter to make; more
« men to cook for; the weather will grow

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2 The Household.

 

ing. It is not a wise plan to crowd too
much work into one day; let each day
bring its duties, allowing the housewife
perfect liberty each afternoon. I am
greatly in favor of a nap after dinner, if
it can be limited to only fifteen minutes;
it is restful, it is refreshing, it keeps up
the strength, it relaxes the nerves. I
know it seems like one of the impos-
sibilities, when one pair of hands and
one pair of feet perform all the work,
take all the steps, but remember the
hands will work more swiftly after a
rest, the feet will not lag on their way
if rested awhile. Perhaps house clean-
ing is not half over, the baby has been
sick—oh! what a house it makes when
baby is sick! The sunshine is clouded.
the light has gone out,onl y anxious days
and nights. Does it seem possible that
the little new life so closely connected
with ours can so influence us for sorrow
or happinzss! Maybe the aged mother
whose home is with us is slowly failing;
she is a care, a burden, but her life is
ebbing away; it will be but a few days
before her sufferings will be ended;
there will be a hush in the house, the
worn and wrinkled bands will be folded
over the stilled breast, the faded eyes
into 'which we have gazed so many
years, in wondering babyhood, in trust-
ing childhood, in happy womanhood,
give back no answering glance. The
voice which taught us “Our Father,”
at even-tide, sung for us the hymns and
pretty songs, praised us, censured us,
gave us kindly council, is now silent.
Mother may seem like a burden some-
times, out down deep in our heart we
find she is a comfort; she is mother
still. And after it is all over, how
COmforting the thought that as she
cared for us all through our trouble-
some childhood, sufiered many and
many a heartache for our little disobe-
diences, we were able and willing and
glad to care for her through declining

years! Our duties confront us on either

hand, and the life is rounded and made
more symmetrical because of them. The
busy life crowds out selfishness; it puts
aside self; it is a constant self-denial.

I like a busy life, but not so busy that
I feel crowded and fretted. The hours
are made up of golden moments; no one
can afford to throw them away in idle-
ness. Each night we should look back
to some good deed done, some helpful
word spoken; a smile of encouragement
given. It has been said that we must
count that day lost in which we have
made no human creature better, light-
ened no burden, healed no sorrow. How
freely does Nature give us of her beau-
ties, should we be chary of helping
those worse off than ourselves. “Oh!”
you say, “I don’t know of any one worse
off than myself. My health is poor; I
have a large family, my means are
limited, my husband is very unkind to
me, what can I do?” Just a little way
off, there’s a sister woman who Decora-
tion Day will place flowers upon the
graves of her husband, four little child.

 

ren, father and mother; and yet she
never for a moment forgets that she is
one in God’s great family. She has two
little ones clinging to her skirts and no
money but what her two slender hands
earn; but sick rooms are brightened by
her presence, discouraged ones take
fresh courage and press on because of
her exemplary life and helpful words.
We look around our comfortable homes;
out into the beautiful world; our life
flows along harmoniously, uneventfully,
but let us never lose sight of the fact
that we can reach out our hand and lift
up some despondent creature; our voice
can reach some ear in helpful words;
just outside our half acre is much untill-
ed land. We are all God’s creatures, in-
dependent, yet mutually dependent.
Bamu CREEK. EVANGELINE.

 

THE COLUMBIAN BXPOSITION.

 

We left Birmingham for the “Windy
City,” May 20th, arriving at our rooms
that evening. We found very pleasant
quarters, and the next morning took a
car for the famous Lincoln park. It is
a most enchanting place, with its flow-
ers, lakes, statues, walks and shade. It
boasts a fine menagerie and aviary also,
and we spent several pleasant hours
there. We next chartered a park
phaeton and took a drive of 15 or 20
miles through South and Washington
parks and adjoining boulevards, the
charge being 25 cents for each passen-
ger.

The next morning .we started for the
great Exposition, and in due time were
among its wonders. I do not purpose
to describe its wonders or what we saw
of them. My purpose is to give a little
personal experience among its beau-
teous scenes. There are said to be forty
State buildings. Only one (Illinois) is
entirely completed. There are about
twenty foreign buildings, not more than
one or two of these are completed.
There are large sections in all the large
buildings yet incomplete, and car loads
of exhibits yet to unload.

But do not think this means there is
nothing to see. Do not wait on that
account, if circumstances are favorable
for a present visit. There are rooms
finished in all State buildings that will
make them pleasant headquarters, and
many finished sections in any and all
of other buildings that will give you all
the sight-seeing you can profitably at«
tend to for a reasonable time, and every
day makes great showing of improved
affairs. Only look at finished work; let
chaos alone and you will do as well now
as later.

In our experience the rumors of ex-
tortion are greatly exaggerated. It is
said if you go to the foreign cafes and
restaurants you find piratlcal prices. I
cannot speak from experience. There
are restaurants at the Woman’s build-
ing, and at several other buildings
where coffee, sand WIOheS, etc., can be
procured at ten cents each, and other

  

 

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things proportionate. One can get a
lunch at a reasonable price, or goas
high as is desired.

I had heard stories of extortionate
prices charged at the “White Horse
Inn,” “so English you know.” I saw
the hostelry but had no opportunity of
learning its prices.

I discovered that it was very fashion-
able for visitors to carry lunch baskets;
many checked them at their State
building and made this their head-
quarters : a very pleasant way of doing
as we proved by putting in practice.

The result of experience and obser-
vation summed up is this: Let every
one go to the fair who can. It is werthy
of patronage and is well worth the cost,
if care and common sense be practiced.
Opportunities for extravagance are
everywhere, but economy can be prac-
ticed. But let no young girl venture alone.

FAIBEOLM. A. L. L.
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KEEP OUI‘ OF THE PAST.

 

If there is anything in the world that
people generally seem determined not
to do, it is to let the past alone, and
give their attention to to-day. If we
have set out to improve our lives and
hearts and better our thoughts, it is a
great mistake to send our mind roam«
ing through the past, calling up all our
old sorrows to gaz: at and our old sins
to trouble us over again. Nothing is
gained and very much lost.

l’ast errors should be remembered
Only enough to correct them in our life
to-day; then let them go. The very
mission of the past is to hide all un-
sightly things from our view.

There may have been pleasures that
we enjoyed once. but if they have been
ours, that is sufficient. Let us seek
new ones for to-day. We do not want
them second-hand anyway.

If we have done good, let it rest, it
may be treasured up for us some-
where. The good we may do to-day
demands all attention.

“There were old sorrows!” Oh, yes,
I know; if you want to be perfectly
miserable, call them all back to mind;
look at them ; live them again. Is there
not care enough in your heart to-day?
Keep out of the past! Sin and dark-
ness and terror are there. In the
golden to-day there is hope and love,
and joy and happiness, better than the
world have ever seen before, and we
would not change our to-day with a.
century of the past.

What will this moment be when it
joins the past? We may make today a
very bright one to beam out in memory,
if we only do the “duty ‘lylng nearest”
and seek out the best things to enjoy
and love.

D.) you regret sozne wasted oppor-
tunity? See that you let none slip by
now. Every hour holds them. Oh,
make the best of them and let the past
die unregretted.

ansnam. CLARA BELLE,

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HOUSE OLE ANING.

 

The great topic of the feminine mind
is house cleaning, in all its details, from
how to save strength and keep the
family good-natured until order is final-
ly restored, to turning and mending
and calculating how to make the bed-
room carpet and sitting-room curtains
last one more year. Happy are they
who have only to make a trip to the
city and select whatever suits their
taste. but still I believe they miss the
satisfaction we feel when we have
made old things look almost as good as
new. There is plenty for us to do.
The young poultry claims our atten-
tion,for if left to run at their own pleas-
ure, they grow beautifully less. The
vegetable garden must needs be looked
after, for by and by the bill of fare must
be replenished by good things from the
garden. If we expect to have flowers,
we must spend some time and thought
upon our plants and sow the seeds to
cheer the autumn months.

Berries and small fruit must be cared
for; and by the way, I wonder if Eliza-
beth E. has got her “patch” looked
after? How many times, when discour-
aged, I have thought of her!

The spring dresses and bonnets and
other spring fixings demand the atten-
tion of the average woman, and we find
it is no small afiair either.

Outside of our own homes there are
bank failures, which come close to many
Lansing people; the World’s Fair, a
national affair, and “ Children Day ”
which has become an established Sab-
bath School holiday.

Yes; many things to think of, but no
subject to write about which J oy Bell
feels able to do justice to. Perhaps
you may accept my little offering as a
plate of hash among the daintier viands
provided for us in our little HOUSE‘
HOLD,

As usual, we have seen the various
ways of cleaning house. The woman
who tore up in March and kept right at
it, regardless of weather or anything
else, and now has a house nearly as
dusty as ever; then we have at least one
woman who will be all summer clean-
ing. She will wait till everything is to
her mind; till “John ” can help her
paper, until the hired man leaves, so he
will not track in the dirt, until she feels
like it, and all with a deliberation
which drives most of us wild; and some
time before winter she will have her

‘house cleaned. But then, she will not
need to have a fall cleaning, and bless
her,she will be “fair and fat at forty ” and
psrhaps at eighty. Then we have lots
of women who are “ medium ”—wait
until the weather is favorable and the
rains over; who work slow, with lots of
time to fix up and to see the opening
leaves and flowers. If the weather
should be cold or rainy, or they feel
"used up,” they do not hesitate to step
for a day and rest. We can always find
little jobs to do and next day go at the

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heavier work with renewed energy.
Well, each one will do her work as she
chooses and each one thinks her way
the best.

Now, I will tell a way to clean house
which I think would be fine, if one
could afford it. (There is the rub.) G.)
off for a month’s visit somewhere: hire
a good woman to clean while you are
gone. Then go back to a clean house.
Well, it is easy to talk and after all this
letter seems to have a subject. It com-
menced and ended with “house clean-
ing.” and no wonder; it is the main oc-
cupation, just now, of

LANSING. JOY BE LL.

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WHAT WILL RESULT?

 

The other day I went into the lib-
rary, and found dear old Uncle Amos
with his head in his hand, looking
utterly dejected and miserable, while
the morning paper lay on the floor.

“ Don’t you feel well”? said I.

“In body, yes; in mind, no. The
news is that the bill for municipal
suffrage for women has passed the
Legislature and now ‘All Hell will be
let -loose upon us.’ ”

“ O! m,” said I, inwardly chuckling,
but with a face as grave as an owl‘s, for
the dear old man needed a little com-
fort. "It won’t be so bad as that.”

“Think of the wrangling and jangling
between men and their wives,” he went
on, “and how the divorces and im-
morality will increase.

“ Many will vote for the same man,”
said I, “and be more closely united. It
can’t be much worse for those who
differ. A man and his wife will quarrel
now over religious matters. Not long
ago, a husband was arrested for beating
his wife because she wouldn’t go to
mass with him.”

“Will the best women vote ? ”

“ Every mother’s daughter of us, you
may be assured.”

“ But, who will tend the baby and
make the bread?” said Uncle Amos,
sighing.

“ It isn’t going to take all day just to
put your ticket in the box. Ten minutes
to half an hour will do it, and the wo-
men may relieve one another. A man’s
business does not go to smash when he
leaves it for a short time to go to the
polls.”

“But they are such dirty places, not
fit for you, my dear. I should hate to
have you mixed up, as you certainly
would be, with the swearing. spitting,
drinking crowd that always hang around
the polls and get to fighting before the
day is out.

“ We shall change all that,” said I,
airily. “ Let me tell you what you
may see a very long time from now.
The voting place will be in a grand
cathedral like a church, with stained
glass windows and carpeted aisles.
Early in the morning of voting day
there will be a service of song and
praise, with earnest prayers for guid-

 

ance. And all day long the men and
women will come singly, or in pairs,
quietly put their ballots in the box, and
silently withdrav. Won’t that be nice,
Uncle Amos ‘9 ”
“ Perhaps,” he mused.
SISTER GRiGIOU-S.
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A LONG LQOK AHEAD.

 

 

What is to be the future of woman?
This question must often present itself
to the mind of the attentive watcher of
woman’s progress during the past forty
years; and especially must it have oc-
curred to those in attendance upon the
women’s congresses at Chicago in May.
To what does the woman’s movement
tend? What will it mean to the race?
Where will it stop?

Woman’s encroachments upon what
have been man’s special prerogatives
have been so far quietly received, at
least they have met with no very deter-
mined opposition. There is hardly a
trade or occupation which women
have not entered, while some employ-
ments they have entirely usurp 3d, forc-
ing men to abandon them because of the
lowering of wages by competition.
Laws placing women’s property rights
on a parity with men’s; laws favoring
them above men in some cases, have
been passed, with or without women’s
solicitation, and women are not satisfied
but_demand more.

It is well for us to remember when
our strong-minded sisters wail over
“down-trodden womanhood.” that all
the advantages women of the present
era enjoy, over and above those enjoyed-
by their foremothers, have been ac-
corded them by men, who have held
the power to give or withhold. Men
opened college and university doors“
the first woman’s college was built and
endowed by a man, Matthew Vassar”
cranky old bachelor though he was;
men are the financial mainstay of fami-
lies; men are the lawmakers; and men
are the employers in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred where woman enters
business; though his willingness to
accept her services may be selfish (be-
cause she will work for less) yet we
must not forget there is among men a
class spirit, a spirit of helpfulness
which operates to hold them together,
a certain loyalty to each other which
woman has overcome.

The cause of the sui’fragists, once so
despised and ridiculed, is gainingr
ground. It is by no means impossible,
in fact it is highly probable, that some
of us will live to see women invested
with every political right exercised by
men. Men themselves are beginning-
to announce their readiness to give it »
“when a majority of women say they
want it.” And the minority is crowd-
ing the majority pretty hard. What.
then!

The inquiry is a serious one. With
woman plunged in the demoralizing
vortex of politics—and she will tak.e

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that dangerous leap the moment she is
permitted—what will be the effect not
alone upon the body politic as a unit,
but upon the integers, the individual
homes? Is the relative position of the
sexes to be reversed, and woman to be-
come the dominant power, as she was
in the days of the Egyptian queen H at-
asu, four thousand years before the
Oh ristian era?

We see what our country has become
under the rule of men. But every
nation must rise, flourish—and fall. It
is inevitable. Every government is built
upon the ruins of its predecessors. And
the inquiry suggests itseli--will the wo-
man’s movement become a great tidal
wave sweeping aside barriers and pre-
cedents and making the feminine the
dominant sex? Or, will her rule char-
acterize the decadence of our republic;
or, yet again, is a model republic. free
from abuses and corruptions, to grow
under woman’s influence and “live a
thousand years ? ”

The woman’s question, and the we-
man’s movement, are becoming the vital
questions of the hour.

BRUNEFILLE.

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LITERATURE FOR OUR. SCHOOLS.

 

I am glad to see E. L. Nye take up
her old hobby again. I wish more of
our readers would show some interest
in it.

It seems very important to me that
our district schools should have read-
ing matter of a good kind. The more
I think and talk to others about it the
more apparent it becomes that it is the
opinion of a limited number in a great
many localities. I also find that money
is being raised in various ways in a
certain few of these pla;es,and earnest-
ly hope that there are many more.

Last August, before I had talked with
any one or thought or read about this
matter, my sister and I contrived a
plan for such an advancement in our
own district. The result was that dur-
ing the winter we had a club (The
Library Club) consisting of fifteen
members. We met every Wednesday
evening and all worked very hard for

. the success of the work

. We gave two entertainments at the
schoolhouse and three socials at private
houses. These were all very well at-
tended even on stormy nights, and the
entertainments were highly spoken of.
Of course we had many little difficulties
but always oversame them in some way.

At these five entertainments we ob-
tained about thirty dollars. I think.
Our expenses, including Reading Circle
books, reduced it to twenty-two dollars
and eighty~five cents.

This is what one district is doing for
“Literature in District Schools,” and
as I am very deeply interested in the
promotion of this work and am willing
to work hard for it, I hope we may hear

peared under “Higher Education for
our Farmer Lads,” and if Grandpa is
still a reader of this little paper, I must
tell him that I did not mean for all
country boys to go through college, but
to have a good, decent education, ex-
tending at least through the eighth
grade. I think very few boys would

study much at home now.
Asstnu. TBUDIE HUNTER.

 

CHAT.

 

” BESSIE BLUSTER” comments as
follows on a womanly foible, as she calls
it:

It amuses me to see the anxiety mani-
fested by the sisterhood not to let their
husbands know they are cleaning house.
Wherefore? Is it any worse for the
man to eat his dinner in a muss than
for a woman to do the hard, back-break-
ing work necessary to produce that con-
dition—and the dinner? I don’t believe
in going out of my way to make my
husband believe house cleaning is an
enjoyable recreation which we take up
for the pleasure of it. Nine men out of
ten think their wives’ work doesn’t
make any special draft on time or
strength, and that if they had it to do
they could get it out of the way in an
hour or two, and this is because women
take so much pains to keep things in
order and tidy when the men are
around. When they have a big job on
hand they choose a day when the men
are off the farm, and congratulate
themselves on getting it out of the way
without rufliing the serenity of their
spouses. “Bear ye one another’s bur-
dens ” is a good enough motto for me.
and I calculate to get a good deal of
solid help out of Mr. Blaster during the
upheaval. If I am willing to hold bags
or turn fanning-mill, feed the calves
and run the hay rake on occasion, ‘I do
not see why he cannot be reasonably ex-
pected to aid me in work that is beyond
my strength. I think half the wives
who have inconsiderate husbands spoil-
ed them by waiting on them the first
few years.

A FARMER’S WIFE who adds to that
title the suggestive words “in trouble,”
says:

We have taken the FARMER for six-
teen years and I have thought every
week I would write to the HOUSEHOLD
and cast in my mite, but have been
afraid of that great bug-bear the waste
basket. Each week I hail the little
paper and my first thought is: Will
there be anything new for dinner? It
is so hard to cook for seven or eight
men and have a change each day. We
read bills of fare for each day. but if one
lives four miles from town and cannot
get what the bill calls for, they are of
no special help; so send us something
that farmers wives can make.

JThe pocket-book question does not
bother me, nor women’s rights, for I
have all the rights I want; and if there
is any money in the house I have my
share without asking for it. What
bothers me is to find something to eat.
I guess I will stop for the first time for
the more I say the more I want to.

 

“ PANSY,” of Carson City, remarks:

The baby is asleep and the work bas-
ket is waiting, but I must write while
the “spirit moves.” I want to tell tired
mothers how to manage the little ones
so there will be no worry about their

drawers together, and long enough to
reach down over the feet. 1 use canton
flannel for winter and pink calico for
summer; then if the children do kick
thiadclothes off they are not apt to take
00 .

While reading Arn’s Wife’s article,
the suggestion that babies and house
plants never agree startled me. I have
but a few plants but our baby has been
very sick this winter, and I would like
to know if they had anything to do with

it.

I would like to say to 013. that her
puzzle can be solved if she begins in the
right room. I changed eyery carpet in
my house to a different room this
spring and had but one room torn up at
a time. It took a great deal of study
and planning, though, to do it. Have

complain no more than he does wash
day.

Will some one tell me how to care for
lilies-of-the-valley?

Cansox CITY. P lNSY .

 

Pansy need not be alarmed; her
house-plants had nothing to do with
her baby’s sickness. Recent investiga-
tions have proven that plants are not at
all detrimental to the health though the
opinion once prevailed they were. Why
should they be unhealthfui in our homes
where the world is filled with them and
the healthiest place in the world is “all
out doors?” Good healthy plants in a
home are usually an index of the good
health of its inmates; for they require
pure air, moisture, and a not too high
temperature and absence of dust, and
these are conditions favorable to human
health. They should not be allowed to
monopolize the sunshine. however.

 

YOU may take a grease spot out of
your silk gown by covering it with dry
magnesia; and those unsightly spots
left on black wool goods after mud has
been rubbed ofi may be made to vanish
by rubbing with a raw potato.

 

Contributed Recipes.

 

MEAT Loan-Take of beef or veal three
pounds. chop fine; add one teacnpinl of sweet
milk: six large crackers, rolled; two eggs;
two tablespoonfnls of melted butter; one
tablespoonful of salt; one teaspoonfnl of
black pepper; one teaspoonfnl of sage or
summer savory. Mix well together and
make into a. loaf. Bake two hours in a
moderate oven. Nice to slice cold.

Lennon SALAD—Mash the yolks of one
half dozen hard boiled eggs to a. paste; add
an'eqnal quantity of finely ch )pped beef’s
tongue or chicken; one teaspoonful of melted
butter; two tablespoonfuls of thick sweet
cream; salt and pepper to taste. Form into
little balls. and slice the whites in rings.
Fill the salad dish with lettuce, arrange the
eggs on the leaves and over all pour a French
dressing. Evmennmn.

BREAD Popping—Pour boiling water on
two cupfuls stale bread; cover and let stand
till it can be mashed into a paste. Let come
to a boil one quart of sweat milk, put with
the paste; add one tesspoonful cinnamon,
one of grated nutmeg, a little salt, butter,
and one fourth spoonful soda. The last

 

 

something more about it.
It is over a year since my name ap-

getting uncovered in the night.
Make combination suits, waist and

thing put in three eggs, well beaten. Bake.
PANSY.

plenty cooked up, and husband will '