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A REMINISCENCI OF THE "FOURTH.”
‘We put him t9 bed in his little night gown.
The worst battered youngster there was in the
town:
Yet he yelled as he opened his only well eye,
”’Bah! ’Bah! for the jolly old Fourth of J ulyl"

Two thumbs and eight fingers with cloths were
tied up. .
On his head was a bump. like an upsidedown
cup:
And he smiled as best he could with his nose all
awry.
“I’ve had just the ‘bossest’ Fourth of J ulyl’ ’

We were glad. for he had been up with the sun.
Bight into the midst of the powder and fun.
Where the cannon's loud boom sent its smoke to
the sky—-
Young- imerica-like was his Fourth of July!

{ said we were glad. All the pieces were there.
So we plastered and bound them with tenderest
care:
But out of the wreck came the words with a sigh
“If to—morrow was only the Fourth of July!”

He will grow kaltogether again, never fear.
And be ready to celebrate freedom next year:
But though it is selfish we are thankful there lies.
A crackerless twelvemonth twixt Fourth of
J ulys.

We kissed him good night on his powder —s packed
face.
We laid his bruised hands softly down in their
place:
And he murmured as sleep closed his one Open
eye.
"I wish every day was the Fourth of July!”

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I have waited a little for some one else

. to discuss the woman’s sufi rage question

0n the opposite side from Beatrix.

We dislike to disagree With Beatrix,
but I must ask if she is not taking too
pessimistic a view of the question. I
cannot think a modest, unassuming wo-
man will change her nature by voting.
I cannot see how walking into the town
hall or other voting place and deposit-
ing abit of paper expressing her pre-
ferences—who shall make the necessary
regulations of the school district and
the corporation in which she lives and
brings up her children, will in any way
be detrimental to her manners or her
morals. All flippancy aside, I believe
it has been conceded by our best edu-
cators that those colleges that admitted
both sexes on equal terms are the most
desirable for both the young men and
the young women. I will not take time
nor space to quote their reasons farther
than to say that the presence of one sex
is 5. restraint upon the other. How

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institution they are, if those of but one
sex were admitted?

We have a practical illustration of
woman’s full sufirage in Wyoming, and
the best men in the State testify it has
been no detriment but in their opinion
an advantage to all; and it seems they
have had time enough for a thorough
test in twenty‘five years.

Most people, both men and women,
whom I have heard talk on .the subject
assert it is woman’s right, and one por-
tion of the people have no right to de-
prive the other portion of their rights.

But this is a side which I do not wish
to discuss; there is this point however,
wnich I wish to consider for a moment.
That women will be more anxious for a
career, for a life which will bring them
before the public, may be tenable in a
degree. But if there are so many more
women than men in the country, as all
statistics of difierent kinds show, why
should not any woman who does not
receive a desirable ofier of marriage
ha re the privilege of taking up any
business that she feels herself capable
of making a success, instead of living in
another woman’s house to be nurse,
seamstress and general help all around,
when she could just as well have a neck
or corner (if she cannot have a whole
house) of her own, where she is "lord of
all she surveys?” Whatever else wo-
men might lose there is one thing they
will gain—many of them—an escape
from an uncongenial partnership which
many women have accepted as seeming
more desirable than a single life in their
circumstances. D.) not misunderstand
me, and think I mean to be understood
that suffrage will do this. No, I mean
that a career might do it.

I feel sure that the natural instinct of
women for husband, home and children
will retain its permanence in the domes-
tic woman’s nature. And many wo-
men who have chosen a “ career,” after
a few years feel that a home and a hus-
band are two very desirable articles, so
much so they are very willing to resign
their positions to accept a desirable
party.

There is one other point I wish to take
up and look at a little. I am not going
to take up the whole of Beatrix’s article,
her article is a sensible and a timely
one, perhaps; but no person is compet-
ent to judge of any subject unless they

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I believe that is the great trouble with
the politics of to-day. Every man forms
his opinions from the utterances of his
leader. Who makes the opinion of his
leader? His own interest or some one’s
interest who pays the largest price.
(Where is the political leader of to-day
who would, like George Washington.
give not one year but eight Without re-
muneration for the good of his country?
Now they vote to double their own
salary.) Let any man who resents the
first assertion calmly look at himself, as
much removed from himself as possible,
and see with what feelings he reads two
separate articles written one by the
leader of his party and the otlier by the
leader of the opposition. and he will at
once see how foolish and how lacking
in good statesmanship is the latter
article.

Another point I wish to notice here
is the inability of young men to marry,
because the young women pushed them-
selves into their places, and the com-
petition has been the means of reducing
wages. This 13 true in some lines of
work; but there are other kinds of work
where the young men are needed, and
if they can be crowded into the places
they will fill well, it will be a good
thing.

In looking around among the young
men of my acquaintance some marry
and some remain single. ' Their earn-
ings are not very difierent. The diflEer-
once is in their savings, or perhaps I
had better say their expenses. Those '
who marry are those who choose tolive
plainly and economically; they did not
form the habit of taking a good cigar
after each meal or a glass of beer be-
fore; they did not think they must take
in every thing that came to the opera
house; they were economical in the
purchase of clothes and in the care of
them. The young man who cannot
afford to marry does the reverse of this,
of course these are not all the diiier-

'ences between them, but this is about

the way it begins; and no matter how
much their wages increase the wants
grow faster until what would be luxury
to one is only the bare necessities of life
to the other, and they have nothing
they can spare from their own wants to
make another comfortable.

Now what are the girls to do if the
young men cannot support wives? Is

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business that will make them independ-
ent of any onc? Their contact with
many people keeps them bright and
young. Who of us who can look back
to the single woman of twenty or thirty
years age can help comparing what a
retired single ‘woman’s life was with
the same class of women of today.
Then the single women of thirty was an
old maid, and in the country village
she knew every misstep that every child
in the village made; she knew every
time they whispered in church, and if
they dared to tiptoe out before the bene-
diction their parents were sure to be
duly informed, beside getting a private
reproof from herself. N ow they are all
jolly girls at that age; the children love
instead of fearing them.

Oh, do not tell me that the women of
a generation ago were better or happier
than now; and goodness and happiness
are the most important things in this or
any other world.

How many years ago was it that the
statistics in “insane asylums” showed
the largest percentage of inmates were
farmers’ wives, women who married,
who had a husband and children, who
ought to have been happy and content-
ed with their families and domestic
duties? Tney probably had a little
more than was good for them of that
kind of bliss. I could write a whole
letter right here, but will refrain‘and
say, let the girls and women follow out
their ideals if it includes goodness and
happiness, and I am not at all tearful
but they will come into port all in good
shape, and very few of them but will
have built an ideal Home more lovely to
them than any career, where they can
nestle down, perfectly womanly wo

men.

ALBION. . M. E. H.

NOT PROUD OF THEM.

Born and bred in the heart of New
England, where the only distinction the
women could attain was through the
amount of work they could turn off in
twenty-four hours, the stories of their

~ achievements have been the wonder of
my girlhood. My great-great-great-
grandmother spun all the cloth that
was used in her large family. We have
as a relic apiece of blue and white linen,
beautiful in its texture; the like never
could be bought now-a-days. She must
have been made of stern stuff, for never
was there a stove of any kind in the
meeting-house where she went for a
service three hours long every Sunday.
It is said that in intensely cold mornings
the~ minister could not be seen, by those
who shivered in the pews, because of
the clouds of breath exhaled by those
stern but religious people. My great-
grandmother scrubbed the rafters in
the garret-and in the cellar, and was as
.often on her knees washing the kitchen
:llopr as she was in her chamber saying
her prayers. She was a large, strong
woman, and her husband was under-
sized. One afternoon he appeared on

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the back steps, and his wife, fearing for
her floor,that smelled of soap and water,
grabbed him up by the waist, swung
him across the room and landed him on
the door mat in the entry. '

My grandmother had a carpet on her
parlor floor. Twice a year it was taken
up, and shaken. But this was not all.
Her daughter with a long pin poked
every atom of dust from the cracks
between the floor boards, and the moth-
er behind her swept it up in the pan,
and then the whole floor was gone over
three times with water before the carpet
was laid. Every piece of fire wood was
dusted before it was carried into the
cellar, and when the neighbors arose at
dawn on Monday morning all her large
wash hung on the line.

Perhaps you think .I. am proud of the
wonderful working smartness of my
foremothers. Far from it. I look upon
them as defrauders, and their sins only
to be excused because of ignorance. In-
stead of giving their descendents strong
vitality so necessary to health, by using
it all themselves they had none to spare.
They probably have learned wisdom in
the high seats they now occupy in the
New J .:rusalem. If not. and are per-
mitted to view their descendents’ house-
keeping, they shed tears of anguish
over the slack shiftlessness, and saving
of backs, legs, and hands that is our con-
stant study.

DETROIT. SISTER GBAOIOUS.

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He’s through with all the cares of
this life; there are no more doubts and
fears; the real is attained. Such a
checkered life it has been,with far more
clouds than sunshine! Grandfather
knew what hard work was,and endured
hardships and privations,but they were
lightened and brightened by the help
of a true woman, and the comfort of a
family of boys and girls. Troublesome
comforts many times, but he was look-
ing forward to the time when, old and
not of much use, he would make their
homes his home, feeling sure it would
be considered a matter of course, a joy-
ful duty. In the Whirligig of time,
mother got through first, but it was not
until the children were settled in com-
fortable homes. After the return from
the cemetery, it was deemed w1se and
necessary to talk over the matter of the
father’s futurezgplans. It was not ex-
pedient for him to remain in the little
home alone, in fact there was nothing
but the little home; the rest had been
given at various times to the children,
as it was needed, and new mother was
dead they wanted the rest of their shares
and it would leave such a trifle for
father it would be best to sell the'house.

But where would he go? Not one of
the four could conveniently have him.
One’s house was so small; another‘had
no comfortable bedroom below, and it
would be too hard for him to go upstairs
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his wife to live with him and put up
with his peculiarities. It was decided
to sell the place; the old man must de-
pend upon strangers for a home. He:
looked into their faces, they were men
and women now, and it all came back
to him—the thankful prayer he offered
to the Good Father when told his first
born was a boy. Whata comfort to.
think that in old age, in trials and
adversity, he should have a sen to lean
on! And as they came one by one,
flaxen-haired girls, another son,his cup:
was full.

And was it for this he had toiled early
and late. borne with patience the self-
denial incident to rearing a family,.

soothed childish sorrows, borne burdens»

too heavy for their young shoulders,
given freely every farthing he could
spare? No chair at their firesides; no:
bed under their roofs!

But truth is stranger than fiction.
The little home was sold. The old
father entered a stranger’s home, and
for a paltry sum was taken care of; and
strange as it may appear, it was good
care. But the heart hungered for child-
ren’s love; and feelings lacerated by-
treachery and unfaithfulness induced--
disease, and after a little the release 30'
earnestly desired came; the spirit left
the pier old tenement of clay, which:
needed nothing more but burial. I im-
agine that God’s angels bend low, over
such a death bed; that unseen hands
minister softly, tenderly, to the poor"
weary one about entering into rest. The
ear dulled to earth’s sounds catches the
voice so long waited for; the eyes dim
to scenes around, look beyond the veil,
look into eyes for which they have so.
earnestly wished.

Will it be for this that I kiss dim--
pled hands, and rosy lips; look into the
baby face with so much pleasure and
love; watch the faculties unfold like the
petals of a rose; long for the years to
come when baby will grow into man-
hood and womanhood—to be cast off,
when age overtakes me? Better, far
better, to weep over the little white
coffin; better to know that in purity and
innocence baby was taken, without the
terrible sin of forgetting the mother
who bore him, the father who unselfish-
ly worked for his upliftment.

BATTLE CREEK. EVANGELINE'.

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child’s apron with rick-rack braid very
quickly and yet prettily, at the saving
of bastings and bother: Hold the braid
in the right hand, and the edge of the
apron, right side up, in the left; stitch
with white thread on the machine the
extreme edge of the apron down on the
middle of the braid all around; then
turn the braid over and let another row
of stitching catch the points down one
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I am heartily in sympathy with the
idea. of teaching children to say “yes,
thank you" or “no. mama” or papa, as
the case may be, I have known children
who were taught to say “yes,mama” and
“no, mama,” in such a manner that the
reponse become purely mechanical and
answer to question sounded like machine
work; many who are so strenuous about
the matter and insist upon children’s
being taught the good old fashioned
“yes, sir” and no, sir,” seem to lose
sight of the very important fact that
tone, expression, and manner convey
more meaning than mere words. Wno
has not heard a “yes, sir” or ” no, ma’-
am,” that contained more pure impud-
ence than could possibly have been get-
ten into a simple monosyllable?

First of all then, a respectful tone of
voice would seem to be quite as desir-
able to cultivate as respectful words,
and being the most difficult should
receive the most attention. I meet oc-
casionally a certain young and aspiring
physician who says “yes, ma’am” with
just the same tone of voice and inflec-
tion that I am sure he must have been
taught and used when he was a child;
the incongruity is rather amusing.

I have a little word of sympathy for
Huldah Perkins. (I am sure I should
like to know her.) Her confession that
she doesn't care to mention a certain
subject so sure is she of being snubbed,
puts her in touch I’ve no doubt with
many who have had a similar experi-
ence; and yet there are multitudes of
human hearts longing and search-
ing too for some tangible proof of that
same “iiivisible communication.” Such
proof once established beyond any doubt
a: cavil, would change the whole cur-
rent of human existence; who will dare
say the world at large is ready or would
be the better for it? And yet so intense
is the longing of such natures to know
something of a future (about which we
really do not know any thing) that it
would seem for them (if such a thing
were possible), the veil must be lifted
for these thirsty, hungry souls, eager for
more light, wholly out of touch with
the material things of this life!

Curious speculative natures there are
who can hold fast to and enjoy any of
the good things of earth, and at the
same time reach forward and search for
the intangible; many such of both are
in the world, and yet th ey are not of the
multitude.

I firmly believe that if heaven is any-
thing or anywhere, it must be “con-
genial companionship,” and it does
seem as though there might be more of
that on earth.

I have often wondered how it is that
so many people appear to enjoy all the
pleasure they get, as they go along
through life, alone! It seems like pure
selfishness. A work of art, beautiful
scenery, enchanting sunsets, anything
that moves the soul to a deeper feeling

  

 

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of sympathy with the grand and myster-
ious—isn’t the pleasure of it all en-
hanced tenfold if seen and enjoyed. with
another?

And yet there are many who will take
themselves off to, and “do” the “biggest
show on earth,” and go all alone, with-
out apparently, the least feeling of in-
terest in any other human being in the
whole caravansary. Such a nature must
be a purely selfish one, and I believe
that whoever builds a character on a
purely selfish foundation, will sometime
have to tear down the whole structure
and build over again.

Tnere are degrees in selfishness. A
man may give freely of his money and
still be at heart a very selfish person
and very unpleasant in his own family.
How many men there are who seem to
find plenty of pleasure any where and
everywhere except with the members
of their own family! Courteous, sociable
and good natured outside; at home, a
man is often churlish, reticent, even
positively ill-natured, until wife and
children almost dread toapproach him,
not knowing what mood they are like,-
ly to meet. Is it selfishness that is the
ruling spirit of such a nature? Christ
taught the doctrine of self renuncia-
tive; not merely the “giving of alms,”
but the sacrificing of one’s own self, the
giving up of persoual desires and pleas-
ures. I don’t believe it is necessary
for one, always, to “prefer another” un-
less the sacrifice is mutual. There are
many little things a person in one posi-
tion can do for another less favored and
at the same time just as deserving,with
no expenditure except a little friendly
interest. Just a kindly word of sympa-
Dathy, help along a poor soul in trouble,
does the giver no harm, and is much
more cheering than perfect indifference.
Have you never noticed how much more
sympathy the afliiction of an utter
stranger will call forth from some,
than would severer trials to those near-
er home? But be it far or near, the
cultivation of a truly generous and
sympathetic nature harms no one, and
surely if God has any cause in this
world, it is that of humanity and to that
we all belong. GLEANER.

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ADVLCE ASKED.

Barenron. Mich" June 26th, 1893.
To the Editress of the Household.

I am a farmer boy and think 01 com-
ing to the city to get work. Will you
please give me all the advice you can
what steps to take. Will I have any
trouble to get work, if I come now?

A FARMER BOY.

My advice to the writer of the above
is to stay at his home, if he is fortunate
enough to possess one; and if not, to find
employment in work to which he is ac-
customed rather than come to the city,
especially -at this season of the year,
which is, in many occupations, a time
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too, the financial outlook is making
manufacturers and employers very anx-
ious, and more inclined to reduce ex-
penses and shorten output than take on
more men. Also, the closing down of
mines, factories, and shops—some inde-
finitely, some to take stock—is making
labor very plenty. The manager of a
large factory here says that he turns
away a hundred applicants for work
every day; and this is but one man’s ex-
perience out of many.

I meet every day on my way down
town dozens of young lads, boys from
sixteen to twenty years old, loafing
about the streets. idle of hand and head,
who would, presumablypwork if they
could find anything to do. At least I
see them scanning the Free Press “want”
page, pasted on a prominent corner in
“Newspaper Row,” and then either
rushing off in a great hurry or settling
down to another day’s loaf. Every busi-
ness man will say he has a hundred ap -
plications for every vacancy, and on
day passes but some searcher is turned
away.

Our “Farmer Boy,” if he came to
town, could offer only unskilled labor .
There is too much of that here now.
My advice would be to stay in the coun-
try, where help is always needed, and
where he has his beard furnished
and his wages clear; do faithful work,
save his earnings and invest them,eith-
Esr in bank or property that will return
a dividend, and go to school winters.
The boy who can spell correctly, write
a good plain hand and is quick at figures
has made a good beginning toward any—
thing he may want to do later. Many
a college graduate can translate Latin
but spells suppose with one p.

The city is the Mecca of the country
boy. He thinks if he could only get a
chance in town, the rest would be easy.
The city is fed by the new blood from
the country. but it is a Moloch that for
every one who gets to the front and is
successful crushes a hundred. We take
note of the successes; but the failures are
never heard of. It is as hard astruggle
to climb up in town as in country. and
lots of young men who once meant to
stand high are content to measure calico
at $10 or $12 a week as the summit of
their earthly ambition. They can’t get
any higher.

Farming isn’t such a bad business if
you put your brains into it. And you
can’t succeed anywhere if you don’t do
that. Industry and econOmy will give
a boy as good a start on a farm as in
town, and he can save more moneyfas a.
farm hand than he can realize from his.
unskilled labor in the city market.

BEATBIX.
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RADICAL HEASURES FOR TEMPER-l
ANCE. '

There is a prevailing idea among
temperance advocates and especially
radical prohibitionists, that alcohol is
a poison. This has been a popular argu-
ment of the large class who do not
analyze the effects of astrong stimulant.
Alcohol is the life or force principle of
the grain, and when eliminated by dis-
tillation and taken into the system is a
pure stimulant. It accelerates the action
of the heart, stimulates the nervous
system, and excites the brain by throw-
ing the blood too forcibly to that organ.
We notice an increased amount of heat,
and heat is a stimulant. There are no
symptoms like the effects of poisons as
seen from taking other substances we
call poison into the stomach.

The late Dr. Crosby, of New York
Medical Institute, took the ground that
if alcohol was not adulterated with dead-
ly poisons we should have no such eflects
from the intemperate use of it as we
see so commonly at present.

It is only through adulteration of the
pure alcohol that saloon-keepers and
liquor dealers can make any money.

"The revenue tax on a gallon of alcohol is

ninety cents. The practice of saloon-

- keepers is to take a small portion of the

pure article, say half a tumblerful to a
gallon of water; then to make it proof

. add Indiana—a deadly West India drug

--arsenic and strychnine; these give

“the tone and flavor, destroyed by so

x-much water to the small amount of
~alcohol, 'and cost only about fifteen cents
to the gallon.

It is readily seen that there is no
money to be made in selling liquor, ex-
cept through adulteration of the pure
alcohol. ‘

If our W. C. T. U. workers would
labor as hard to get legislation against
this adulteration as they do for prohib-
itory laws that cannot be enforced, we
should have the temperance question in
a “nut shell.” When there is no money
in selling liquor the saloon-keepers will
seek other employments; and when we
legislate to stop this Wholesale poison-
ing of our people with deadly drugs,
then will our people come to reason’ and
sound‘ sense on the temperance ques-
tion. ' 7

Another foolish practice common to
temperance workers, and especially ‘wo-
men, is to codd 1c the drunkard; to make

a fuss over and pity him till he expects 7 .

to be noticed and helped; and have his
family helped till he has got over his
spree and spent all the money he'can
lay hands on, had aspell of the delirium
tremens and abused all about him to

, the extent of his infernal disposition,

while suffering the torments of hell
himself. I would have every inebrlat‘e
shut up in a safe prison for one month
after the first drunk; for the second
oflense shut him up two months. By
the time he has had two spells of en-
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when he has had enough and find he is
able to leave the rest and keep sober. I
would have.him work while in confine-
ment,“ and use the proceeds to support
his family. It seems to me some plan
of this kind would be wise to pre-
vent a few of the ills of intemperance,
till we can by education thoroughly
eradicate the disease from its strong-
hold among our people.
EBNESI‘INE.

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COMMENTS.

 

Some years ago some One sent me a
lot of green grapes for jelly. I tried
my best but could not make jelly. Some
thing like a thick molasses I had, not
good for much but to put in mince
meat. Will some one tell just how it is
done? [See fourth page third column
of current issue for directions—ED ]

I must thank Mrs. Fuller for the letter
about lilies-of-the-valley. I have been
wishing. some one would tell me “how,”
and the HOUSEHOLD comes with just
the instruction I needed; thanks for the
same.

The long vacation is here, the streets
are nearly empty and most of the stud-
ents are going to Chicago. One little
girl said. “Oh, it will be like heaven, for
every one will be there!” Perhaps some
of the HOUSEHOLD will see and speak
“but not know.” I would like to say
something about the children and the
money question, but will not try any
one’s patience this warm weather. -

ANN Anson. S. F.

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A CORRESPONDENT inquires the
proper pronunciation of Eulalie, name
of the Spanish princess who has just
left us. Eu-la-lee-yah, long sound of a
in second syllable; in fourth syllable a
as in ah, accent on third syllable.
The meaning and pronunciation of
.fin-de-siecle are also wanted. This is
a French phrase meaning, as nearly
as can be conveyed by atranslation, “to
the end of the century.” Afindesiecle
girl is one belonging to the period—to
the end of the century. It is diflicult
to indicate the pronunciation. Say
fan (1’ seeak ’1, third sound of a; put the
ac cent on air, and follow with the very
slightest indication of the l, which must
be hardly noticeable and on no account
be permitted to make another syllable
or be pronounced ul.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

FEW people know the virtues of a glass
of hot milk when one is tired and ner-
vously exhausted. The milk should be
hot, but not allowed to boil. Sipped
slowly, it rests and refreshes more than
anything that can be offered, without
the deleterious effects of tea and cofl'ee.
In the country, where fresh milk is
plenty, its use in this manner is hardly
knewn, "but. in town it is fast becoming
popular. For children it is excellent.

 

 

neither hot or cold milk should be taken
in great draughts, swallowed hastily,
as it forms an indigestible curd in the
stomach when thus swallowed. Sipped,
slowly, the digestion is not interfered
with.

 

A GERMAN paper publishes two
recipes for dressing for the russet shoe
so popular this season. One consists of:
Oil of turpentine, 20 parts; yellow wax,
nine parts; common bar soap, one part:
boiling water, 20 parts. -Dissolve the
wax in the turpentine with the aid of a
water bath and the soap in the hot
water. Mix in a hot mortar and stir
till cold. The other is much more
simple, consisting of three parts of
vaseline and one part of yellow wax,
which must be mixed by aid of a water
bath. Still another method is to brush
the shoes till perfectly clean, then cut
a lemon in two and rub the juice over
the surface of the leather. When you
have done that rub the shoes vigorously
with a dry piece of flannel and the
leather will shine like a mirror. The
acid of the lemon will do no harm, and
if the leather is well rubbed its color
will not be made lighter.

 

Contributed Recipes.

 

Gram GRAPE J sum—Put the grapes in
a preserving kettle with only sufficient water
to keep them from burning; cook till per-
fectly soft, turn into the jelly bag and let
drain over night. Allow three-quarters of a
pound of granulated sugar to a pound of
juice. Boil the juice twenty minutes, add
the sugar, which you have heated in the oven;
let boil five minutes. if you think it is get-
ting too thick test it by dropping a little
into cold water. It is not to be understood
that the grapes are to be green in color for
the jelly; they are to be used aftey they have
turned red or purple but before they are fit
to eat.

 

RASPBERRY J ALL—One third currents and
two thirds raspberries. Boil 20 minutes;
weigh and allow three- quarters of a pound
of sugar to every pound of fruit. Boil till
the sugar is well dissolved, try a little and
see how it is when cool. then put into cans
or jars. .

 

CURRANT Janna—Strip the currents and
cook them thoroughly, mashing them as
they get hot. Turn into the jelly bag and
let drip all night. Allow a pound of sugar
to a pint of juice. Boil the juice, alone, 20
minutes, rapidly. then turn in the sugar
which you have heated in the oven, stir as
it dissolves, let it boil eight minutes, and it
is usually ready to set. ‘

In making jellies and jams, and in fact in
most ways of putting up fruits, the idea is
to boil the fruit or the juice without the
sugar until nearly all the water is evaporated
or the fruit is soft. A good way to test for
jelly after the sugar is in and “time’s, up” is
to dip the skimmer'in and out and hold it
sideways over the jelly; if it runs 03 only in
one place, it is not cooked enough; it it runs
round the edge of the skimmer and drops at
in two or three places in thick, wide" drops
remove it ' at once. 133mm;