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DETROIT, JULY 1, 1898.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

DOLLY.

 

Dear little Dolly. pink and white.

Plays with her kitten from morn till night.
Over and under the chairs it steals.

Wars with the handkerchief. runs with reels.
Purrs as she fondles its plnmy hair-

Never was seen such a pretty pair.

Dear little Doll. you’re a woman grown
(Listen. and let your kitten alone):
What you are. how you came to be—
That is the puzzle that puzzles me.

Hair the color of blossomed lime

Matches blue eyes like rhyme and rhyme.
Pink little bud of a mouth—’tis choice

For such a sweet little fluty voice:

These are appropriate. l’ll allow:

Then. why should you have that classic brow?
Delicate feet for tripping toes—

But how do you come by a Roman nose?
That profile for a fay like you!

Had Lucretia a kitten too?

How shall I beat express your sweetness?
How shall I render your incompleteness?
What comparison must I fetch?
Shall I say you are just a sketch?

Only a sketch. 1‘0 spoil were crime.
Who shall finish it? Love or Time?

Time. my dear is a painter Dutch.

Owns a very laborious touch.

Very minute eflects he tries.

With a deal of drawing about the eyes.
Not one touch of his work he '11 slur.

And never misses the character.

But he works so slowly that all the bloom
Dies off a peach in the paintingroom.

Love belongs to a different school.
Works regardless of every rule:

But let his critics say what they list.
Love is a grand impressionist;
Handles the sketch. and hour by hour
Glows the canvas with growing power.
The picture's finished within a day—
No sooner finished than given away.

Only. Dolly. when all is told.

And the picture mounted (in black and gold).
When all are praising :fhe flawless face

And quaint precision of dainty grace.

Shall I wish—when wishing is all in vain-
To see the sweet little sketch again?

-———...——__

THE HOME FEATURE OF THE WO-
MAN'S MOVEMENT.

 

Every woman must have read the
article on the “ Woman’s Movement”
in the HOUSEHOLD of June 17th. either
with total indifference or deeply stirred
convictions. It is not the first of similar
import that have appeared in the little
paper.’ All have contained too frank
doubts of the wisdom of the so-called
“movement” and too grave criticisms of
the motives and teachings of its enthu-
siasts not to be candidly considered by
all who look with gladness at this

men.

for prospects from other standpoints.

of her own progress toward or falling

manliness at its height in the home
life.

The thought that this woman’s move-
ment, as a whole, is crushing out the
best of woman’s home-loving nature, is
startling to one whose finest, highest
mental picture of a home has been tint-
ed and touched in by the deft skill and
impassioned words of some of these
“advanced” women,-—-a picture that has
in it, too, all the elements of the true
home as held by the most stringent de-
votee of the “good old times.” The
same outlines, but with a new atmos-
phere, is the picture of home these
“advocates of reform” have painted. I
am sure, on the brains and hearts of
some of their disciples. Their methods
of portraying may sometimes detract
in the eyes of others, but I know it is
the “most holy” of all the sacred lessons
the new age has taught some young
women of to-day. Often they are not
aware of their discipleship. They may
not have followed Miss Willard, for ex-
ample, through all her multiplied “ ad-
vance steps,” but in every one they have
been quick to recognize that always she

9 variety of “progress.” Owning them
helpful in restraining an overbalance
of zeal, and that Beatrix seriously pro-
pounds questions of great moment, I can
but feel that this last article leads to
conclusions entirely foreign to those
held, as I believe. by a large number of
steady, level-headed, stay-at-home wo-
By stating that “ we judge most
things from our individual point of
view,” our Editor leaves the field open

“What is the effect of these woman
queries, as I have seen or experienced
it?” is the question every woman may
ask herself, and her answer makes the
best criterion by which she can judge

away from an ideal that enthrones wo-

ing homes of their own. These things
have fallen deep in some eager soul
soils.

So too, do you not think young wo-
men see in Mrs. Livermore, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and “Mother” Wallace,
not the platform aspirant, alone. if at
all, but the women who, before their
wider known work. had faithfully cared
for their families and kept all the home '
ties, and then when, released from
these. they found in their hearts mes-
sages for other women in the larger
circle of sisters of the world, they went
bravely out to give them to them. And.
let me confess that when we saw Mrs.
Livermore at Bay View once, day after
day among us, we called her “ mother-
1y.” as the dearest name for her, and
loved to hear her speak of her relations
as grandmother!

The thought that these women who
have often braved insult added to in-
jury aim to preach us all into pulpits
has not yet come to some of us. We no
more interpret them to mean us all to
take the road and lecture than we sup-
pose a teacher of mathematics purposes
to make all his pupils to be professors
of Euclid. It seems no more strange
that a woman, who has found that her
lungs must inhale air for all the other
organs of her body and that belts and
bands impede that action, should tell
her sisters of her discovery, than that
the farmer’s wife should stand up in the
quarterly club and tell other women
that Sapolio is a good substitute for
scouring sand. if she believes it to be
so; or, that the woman who sees in-
justice done her race should plead on a
platform for fairness than that those of
us who can use a pen easier than a
tongue should baptize our exhortations,
now and then, with printers’ ink.

But to return to the question, wheth-
er we are drifting in this “advance

 

 

holds the world as a larger home and i1-
. lustrates and draws conclusions from.I
' scenes and principles taken out of the 9
:early days of her childhood’s chaste ,
': home. In all her wanderings, her v0- 9
' cabulary,so full of praise words, is freest i
. bestowed in behalf of the pure homes

' that have entertained her; and seldom if

, does she speak in public but that she '

refers to Rest Cottage; while the glimp-

. see of high ldealed home life that her -

autobiography gives are not to be caught ’
and let go by thousands of women mak-

. movement” from the love of home. N o.

and yes. in the sense of home as “ four
square walls ” enclosing a legally mar-
ried couple. No, in that the love for
home. with all its deepest meanings, is
not cut off by the present progress of
women. Isolated cases may be so affect-
ed, but with the more that greatest
stronghold of sweetness and hape will
in the end he strengthened,—-and that,
by a cleansed idea of marriage and of
the equal responsibility and sacredness
of fatherhood and motherhood—a realm

 
 

 

 

 

   


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in which the spiritual must be taken
into account with the physical and dom-
inate it;—a realm in which immortal
souls, not mere animals, are to be the
subjects and where number, pf rchance,
may be sacrificed for quality. "The
woman’s cause is the man’s cause,” and
when the lower nature is slave to the
higher. when, indeed, women are wo-
manly before they hold those holiest
offices of wives and mothers, then it
matters little if “ advanced ”women are
given credit for the pioneer work or
not, only so that both men and women
be advanced to higher conceptions of
the gifts that are theirs.

Herein lies the “emancipation” which
Beatrix doubts, but why not an actual

. emancipation? Has not much been done
by this unrest of women to break the
bonds of that hatefullest epithet, “ old
maid?—-hateful only because in times
past so cruelly applied. Higher educa-
tion alone did not do it. That only
metamorphosed her into a “blue stock-
ing.” Now she may be neither, and un-
married at that. But beneath the term
“ old maid” was the real shackle, the
inherited belief that women must marry,
whether or no; while now all about us
are many who are going on alone be-
cause their ideals of what a true home
should be did not seem possible of reali-
zation with the candidates who present-
ed themselves for favor. For no saying
is truer than that one of asad-faced
wife: " Every girl can marry if she
will; though they may never own it if
they can’t.

Are the “ advance” guard not touch:
ing home tapics that help home women?
What of Mrs. Rorer’s daily cooking
class, so p0pular at the Woman’s build-
ing at Jackson Park ‘? What of like
classes on every Chautauqua assembly
programme of the land; the lectures by
Prof. Lucv M. Salmon, of Vassar, on
Domestic Economy before prominent
women of Detroit and Ann Arbor a few
weeks ago; the session on Household
Economics at the Woman’s Congress in
Chicago last month? What means the
wide sale of such a work as Tokology
by Dr. Alice B. Stockham, whose name
appeared on the Congress’ lists and
makes her “representative? ” What
means it that the laws of nearly every
State and territory require scientific
temperance teaching? What that such
institutions as our industrial school for
girls have been established for fallen
women by “ public” women’s efforts?
What the woman’s journals and house-
hold departments galore in newspapers,
dealing with every conceivable topic
touching woman’s life, from routing red
ants from pantry shelves to the ethics
of the woman’s movement? What
signify those “mother’s meetings” in
every hamlet for the study of the effect
of food and stimulants on the human
system, the principles of heredity and
the training of children? What the
eager interest in how to reduce the
number and weight of garments and

 

still retain grace and add comfort for
children ‘and ladies’ clothing?

Do the adoption of these teachings,
more or less consciously, by our person-
al friends stand for nothing and do they
tin-woman them or - take them out of
their sphere of usefulness? is a we-
man less womanly that her home’s hori-
son is widened, that she is equipped to
meet its further demands?

The question of what motive brought
these leaders among women into pub-
licity is with them and God.

While some may seek notoriety, it is
hard to conceive of such women as Rev.
Anna Shaw and Mary T. Lathrop but-
toning their ulsters about them, year in
and year out, going up and down the
length and breadth of the land for the
“glory ” there is in it. Hard won
“ glory ” must that be which crowns
Clara Barton if that is the paltry pit-
tance she labored for! Or what calls
such women as Lady Somerset and Mrs.
Laura Ormiston Chant from their Eng-
lish homes of luxury and loved ones!
A more interior motive force would
seem necessary to withstand weather,
separation from friends and to endure
modern railway travel.

Fortunately we are not similarly af-
fected by passing events, but we may
all hold in common the hope and firm
belief that out of chaos and extremes
shall come a peaceful, orderly evening-
u p, a better equilibrium toward which
all factions have contributed their use.

ANN Anson. J ERNIE BUELL.

 

WHAT WOMAN MAY BE.

 

In a recent issue of the HOUSEHOLD
appeared an article from Beatrix on one
of the great question of the times, i. e.
women.

We must acknowledge many women,
young and old, are longing for fresh
fields and unexplored regions and there
are those who say they want anything
but domestic life. We are not all born
with a fondness for the cook-book and
broom, for the scrubbing-brush and
duster, and why should we wonder if a
girl prefers her independence and to
earn her own liv ing rather than do as
many a girl has done before,——make a
hap-hazard selection of a life compan-
ion and live a life of discontent, or
worse—seek relief in the divorce courts.

I agree with Beatrix that “a woman’s
children are a crown of glory and
honor,” provided the pedigree is clean
and they have been pronerly trained,
for a thoroughbred is as desirable in
children as horses.

One of the results I look for in this
woman’s question is abroadening of the
life and experience of many who other—
wise would live over and over again the
same routine. When such women grow
from their new experiences, who can
predict the results in the home life,
which is the true source of character
for the coming men and women?

The American girl is regarded by the

 

girls of other countries as the most
favored of any nation. Her position has
been developed by circumstances of
broad education, and possibly the co-
education in our universities has had
an influence. Many a girl has met her
brother student in class room,and where
before she thought man only a little
lower than the angels, she has found he
was actually quite human and perhaps
with no greater intellect than her-
own.

It is an established fact that woman
is coming to the front very rapidly, but
it does not follow that the wife and
mother must neglect her home and
family because she steps outside her
household to take a turn at the cleans-
ing of the Augean stables of municipal
circles. For my part I have no desire
to mix in politics and public life would
be distasteful to me, but I believe the
women have been brought forward to
accomplish good work.

I know the opinion of many politicians
is that women will soon be as much of a
political schemer as her brother man
has proven himself to be. Possibly she
will. when she has served as many gene-e
rations; but 1 h0pe for better things
from the new movement and I believe
they will come.

There are women who have found
society flat and unsatisfactory, and if
such woman have chosen professions
formerly occupied by men and have-
proven that they are as scholarly and
skillful in their work, why not grant
them the same honor and comme ndav
tion?

Not many years ago the woman doctor
was almost a byeword and reproach in
the opinions of some men in the profes-
sion; but gradually they have compell-
ed admiration. In foreign countries
they have gone into places where no
man could be received, particularly in
India, China and all countries where
women are kept away from the outside
world; and in the Zenanas the woman
doctor has been an angel of healing to
many a sufferer, whom no one else
could reach with remedies.

I need not go to foreign lands to show
what women have done—we have evi-
dence right at home. Many a woman
not only has her professional work to
keep up, but unlike her brother she
must also regulate and order the ways
of her home, for she likes home life and
comforts. i can tell you of one of the
most successful of these, who beside her
outside work cares for. a mother in fail-
ing health and Opened her arms and
heart to a brother’s motherless little
ones and to the care of the ailing, help-
less baby as she snatched a few winks
of sleep by its side or divided her night
with some mother as she went through
the agonies of motherhood, returhing
to the little one at home, until the angel
of death entered the home and carried
hence the little soul to its mother’s
home. Is such a woman less womanly
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which has been monopolized by man
for'so many centuries?

What results must we expect from
the clubs all over the country but a
broadening of woman’s life? Charles
Dudley Warner in a recent letter says:
“I think I can see already that these
clubs everywhere are making our society
more interesting than it used to be.”

The able paper of Miss Julia Ball in
a late HOUSEHOLD, read before one of
these slubs, gave evidence of much
study and research, and she brought
forward the names of many prominent
in different professions who have made
lasting names for themselves.

Woman is making history in these
years, and who can tell what benefits
the twentieth century may receive as
she develops.

She will study to improve the race in
pedigree, and mentally and morally the
pe0p1e of the world will be better for

her advancement.

Dn'rnorr. MRS. C. E. BUYEITE.

 

STOP AND THINK.

 

[Paper read by Mrs. Benita Crispell befiore the
Liberty Farmers‘ Club. June 8rd. 1893.]

What wonderful works have been ac-
complished through thought! It has
made this country what it is, and the
improvements that are every day being
made are its product. There is nothing
which thought can not accomplish in
time, either for good or evil. This is a
time of haste and speed, every one try-
ing to reach the twentieth century first,
but it will take a great deal of thought
to reach it safely. When we study a
subject we must think on it or the study
is of little account. Time is too valu-
able to waste on trashy novels. There
are novels which are historical and will
teach us good lessons, but a large per-
cent of the books read to-day are useless
novels. When we form the habit of
reading such books we have no taste
for good sound reading.

We are writing our history daily. If
we are doing good acts we are writing
a good history; if we are doing wrong
acts we are writing a poor one. The
thought to which we give expression,
and the acts of. our lives, will leave an
impression On more generations follow-
ing after us than we are apt to think.

Just stop and think, and conscience
will tell what is right or wrong, but if
we do not heed the voice of conscience
it will cease to tell us. Do we stop to
think how far habit goes to make up
our lives? Habits formed in youth will
last through life. “As the twig is bent
the tree is inclined.” The world is just
what people make it. If society is cor-
rupt, the nation is corrupt; the govern.
ment is just what society makes it.

It took thought to learn the uses of
steam and electricity; to invent the
watch, sewing machine, binder, musical
instruments, printing press, telegraph,
and the numberless other inventions
now in use.

How much trouble might be saved if

 

we would only stop and think what will
be the consequences before we commit
an act! The thought must precede the
act, but often the thought only goes far

enough to commit the act. If men and-

boys could only see the consequences
before they took the first drink, it would
seem they never would take it. They
think they can stop whenever they
choose. but when they once start down
the grade they lack the will power to
turn back. Public opinion is not as
yet strong enough against them. Think
Of a woman going along the street with
a cigar in one corner of her mouth, and
a whiff of smoke coming out of the
other! Every one would shun and re-
proach her in the most shameful
manner; yet how many men will we
see every day doing this same thing,
and nothing is ever said about it! Why
is the same act in a woman worse than in
a man,or why is vice worse in a but than
in a palace? Just stop and think of the
money that is spent annually for tobacco
in the United States. If money was all
it would not be so bad. It is a dirty
habit; what smells worse than the breath
of a smoker, or his tobacco soaked
clothes, or rank pipe? It leads to loss
of property, goods, and lives, by the
fires which originate from lighted ashes
falling from pines, by lighted cigar
ends or matches used by smokers.
Statistics of temperance societies show
that smokers break away from their
pledges in greater numbers than non-
smokers. It is going to take a great
deal of thought as well as work to put
down this terrible curse, intemperanee,
which, if it is not put down, will over-
throw this nation just as it did that of
Rome.

--—--.O.——-—-

ASKED AND ANSWERED.

 

In looking over a few late numbers to
find something to write about I was
much impressed with A. H. .J .’s letter,
“ Give Out,” and Evangeline’s “ Our
HOUSEHOLD.” I think all readers
should take notice and profit thereby.

I would like to ask Mrs. Fuller if she
can tell me the nature of the Calceolaria,
or “ money purse.” I have a plant now
in full bloom for the second time. Some
tell me that is all I need expect, as they
never blcom but twice. I would like to
know if that is true; if not, what treat-
ment should be given after blooming.

And it is said there is nothing new
under the sun, but something new, to
me at least, has come in what are called
California or vinegar bees. I have them
in a quart can filled with water and two
tablespoonfuls of sugar and one of molas-
ses where they work and ferment, to be
emptied and refilled every third day,
this water making the vinegar. What I
want to know is from whence they came,
of what are they composed, and is the
vinegar of good keeping quality.

What disposition is best made of cats,
dogs and agents where they are more

 

numerous and troublesome than dollars?
[Chloroform them—En]

I have a Manetta vine from a slip
taken from a very free bloomer. It now
covers a frame over two feet high and
yet has never shown as much as one
little bud. I have seen some in bloom»
not over three inches high. It grows
very thrifty. What can the matter be?

The Editor tells us to split our short-
cake with a cord, never use a knife-
Don’t do it; divide your dough and roll
in two pieces, spreading lightly with
butter or lard between. and see how
nicely they will separate without use of
knife or cord.

PLAmwnLL.
———..._

BESS.

A BRAVE GIRL.

A HOUSEHOLD correspondent once
wrote that her ability to recognize the
humorous side of all her trials and
annovances had been worth a fortuneto
her. Our Sally Waters, who is the-
“farmeress” of our family,seems similar-
ly favored if one may judge from a re-
cently received letter. A good laugh is
certainly an excellent safety-valve—
clears the mental atmosphere as a clap:
of thunder does the air, and blessed in~
deed is the woman who can see "the
funny side” of those domestic perplexi-
ties that are much more apt to bring
sighs if not tears to most of us. Under
“her way of putting it ” a sympathetic-
heart can feel a touch of pathos in the
bearing of these pin-pricks which Sally
Waters tosses off with a laugh. She-
says:

The world wags rather unevenly with
me this spring and summer. Did you
ever see more provoking weather?
When it isn’t too wet it’s too dry. My
cats are On flat land, and regularly once
a week we have a flood and the poor
things just get dried off when under
they go again. “ What can’t be cured
must be endured ” so I try to be resign-
ed to the condition of things—together
with the neuralgia. I’ve one great con.»
solation, sister has about one hundred
and fifty hens and chickens that divert
my mind by digging up everything I
plant on the upland. I got mad at them
the other morning (that’s heredity, not
originality) and in chasing them .fell
down‘ and almost broke my knee. Since.
then they have “ held the fort.” Then
we gave our dog quinine pills and he’s
very sick; I don’t know as I wonder.
My favorite road mare is relegated to
the back lot till fall, and I have to drive
such a lazy horse that my patience is .
worn threadbare, quite to rags. Then
the roof leaks. I went for a load of
shingles, couldn’t get any, and must.
either make another trip with that slow'
horse or continue to shingle the roof
w1th pots, dishes and pans. I like a
big yard till I have to mow it. I mow-
ed ours yesterday morning; there is a
quarter of an acre in it. The scythe -.
wouldn’t hold an edge and the grass ,
was high and tough. I mowed 0113 my
favorite rose bush and got scratched on.
an osage orange. As if that wasn’t en-
ough, a man whom I wanted to see came;
while I was away. He took it UDOIix
himself to fix our pump. remarking that'
it “needed a man around here to fix
things!” He roiled the well so we have:
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and dropped the spout down the well,
where it will lie in the oblivion. “When
the last trumpet sounds t’will be there.”
Don’t think I allow such trims to triumph
over me! No indeed! I “bob up serene-
ly” every time; do the next best I can
and nobody has a better laugh over it
than I. I don’t calculate to waste my
strength warring against the unavoid-
able; I’ve other uses for it, and anyway

is no satisfaction in it. Some-
times I think I’ll stop working, though.
There’s only a penny’s difference be-
tween the person who works hard and
the one who doesn’t work at all—and
the one who doesn’t work gets the
penny! -'

That’s our undaunted Sally, who is as
bright and pretty as she is persistent
tad industrious—and that’s saying not
a little. And here’s hoping the oats
will get a show, the water settle, the
horse get well, quick, and in short, a
“happy issue out of all her perplexi-
ties."

fl..—

WOMAN LY BLESS INGS.

 

The Editor spoke in a recent issue of
' the HOUSEHOLD of the growing tend-
ucy among women of the present day
t) evade family cares and strive to
secure positions of trust and honor in
the world hitherto occupied by men.
lathe main I think it a sad truth. I
“know it to be a fact in cities and large
towns where so much is continually
occurring to consume a woman’s time
and strength that oftimes she shrinks
from the care of even one little immor-
tal, so wrapped up is she in the follies
and sheer emptiness of the society in
which she lives and moves and has her
being. There are others in the more
belated - country districts who possess
families as large as those of “the olden
times” when they lived in their little
log cabin in the clearing with only one
more below and an attic where they
watered their numerous progeny.
It has been a woman’s God-given
“mission since the time of Adam to
inter and endure, and in some instan-
ces she fulfills her mission and has the
strength and will power to live and
enjoy her robust sons and bonny daugh-
ters. But it is more often the case that
she is ready to fold her hands and take
that rest which she has been a lifetime
expecting. Though her “children may
rise up and call her blessed” they will
'never know the care and heart-ache of-
“ times experienced until they have fami-
' lies of their own to work and plan for.
"This God-given mission often becomes
'ahollow mockery,and a woman wonders,
“while cum‘ bered with household cares
and increasing family, if her children

the time to enjoy life with them and in-

tend to be their campanion; and asthey
grow older I shall strive to keep up with
them in their onward progress so that
they may not think their mother is “a
back number,” but one who sympathizes
ln-their little trials-and encourages them
to things holier and better. The woman
is to be pitied who is always so driven
with work that she never has the time

and read to them and enjoy their inter-
ested questions.

Talk about woman’s rights! She has
too many now. You come in contact
with her as a teacher; you enter a store
or a bank and she greets you; you be-
hold her on the platform politically or
advocating her rights. If you are sick
she will minister to you and cool your
fevered brow. while if you are at vari-
ance with mankind she will seek to
adjust all wrongs. In truth you meet
her everywhere. When a woman thinks
her home of less consequence than the
world there must be something wrong
in her make-up; for she who happily
controls a home rules a kingdom; her
crown is content and her children her
loving subjects. Though we weary at
times of the daily routine and wish only
to be somewhere—away from the petty
cares which vex us so, yet if we were
given the opportunity to travel through
every clime we would return satisfied,

"For whate’er the knowledge, fame or f.
Not one will eh ange his neighbor with mself.”

Man does not love a manly woman. as
she loses some of her sweet woman-
liness when she comes in contact
with humanity in general and becomes
more like his sterner self, which is dis-
tasteful to him. Dear sisters, let us be
content to be helpmates in deed and
thought, “for as we sow so shall we
reap,” and happy is she who in her sow-

ing shall reap a a bountiful harvest.
Fm Ham FARM. ELMA.

 

A PRETTY lDEA.—Most of us have a
favorite poet. Something new in a
combination of poetry and flowers is the
idea of making a flower-bed which shall
contain all the flowers mentioned by
our most admired poet, and naming it
after him. It is really, as you see, a
poetical thought, a bit of grateful hom-
age alike tobloom and brain. The idea
was Originated by Lady Burke, who
started with a “Shakespeare bed,” to
contain all the flowers mentioned in the
great dramatist’s writings. It is too
late this season, of course, to begin
such a pleasant task, unless by setting
perennials this fall, but in reading it

 

will live to pass through such deep

‘waters, and prays that they may bel

~spared what she is destined to endure
until she finishes her life’s journey and
~mses the bridge of twilight which
spans her earthly pilgrimage to that
which is eternal. I love my little ones
with all a mother’s devotion, and enjoy
"their quaint sayings and cunning ways,

will be an aid to make a memorandum
of plants named, for guidance another
year.

 

“ BESS,” of Plainwell, says: “ At
last, by lending my file of the HOUSE-
BOLD, I have succeeded in interesting
one of my neighbors to such an extent
that she handed me a dollar to pay for

 

that with my sons and daughter I'have

   

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to visit, or take up a magazine or paper

we can talk HOUSEHOLD.” This is a
practical evidence of appreciation, the
best possible recognition of the merits
of our little paper—that one likes it so
well that she is anxious her friends
shall join in “knowing a good thing.”
And if all who enjoy the HOUSEHOLD
and find it beneficial would follow
“Bess’” example, how much its field
would be widened and how many new
and good contributors would be visitors
to our circle! And usually it takes so
few words, so little trouble, to induce a
friend to show her confidence in your
knowledge of what she will enjoy.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

IN the hot days that are at hand it
will be well to remember an easy way
of lowering the temperature of water,
keeping butter cool, and getting the
cream in the churn somewhere near the
proper temperature if you have no ice.
Wrap the churn, the pitcher of water
or cream, or the butter jar in a large
cloth you have wrung out of cold water
and set in the shade in a current of air.
The evaporation which results will
lower the temperature several degrees.

 

CRETONNE draperies, as a rule, are
either sent to the professional cleaner
or else ruined by home washing. A
sample of the cretonne should first be
washed in salt water or in oxgall and
water, to set the color, and then be
dried in a dark room. None of the
ordinary grades of soap should be used:
The greatest risk in fading lies in the
drying, and a dark room should always
be used for this if possible. If the colors
are not too bright, this method will in-
sure fair satisfaction.

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Contributed Recipes.

 

Srmwnnaar Pm.-—Make a rich crust as
for lemon pie. bake and let it get cold; then
sprinkle in a little flour and fill with fresh
berries slightly crushed; put on a little melted
butter and sprinkle on a little flour, then
powdered sugar enough to sweeten; cover
the top with the beaten whites of two eggs,
sweetened. and set in the oven a minute to
brown slightly. ~Whipped cream may be
substituted for this meringue. in which case
do not set in the oven. Mum MULLER.

 

Pmrmnr Punnmo.——For a family of four
or six persons take a two-quart basin, fill
half or two thirds full of sliced pieplant;
sprinkle over a pinch of soda and add a gen-
erous amount of sugar. then cover with bat-
ter made as follows: One tablespoonful of
bulter; four tablespoonfuls of sugar; two
eggs; two thirds cup of sweet milk; two
heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder; flour
enough to make quite stiff. Make as you
would a cake. Put in a steamer and steam
40to 50 minutes, turn out on a plate and
serve hot, either plain or with sauce made of
sugar and butter creamed together. Equally
good made with other fruits. Hone you‘ll

 

a year’s subscription to the Famous, so

try this and like it; it’s good.
SALLY WATERS.