DETROIT, JULY 15,

     

1898.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

COURAGE.

BY CLARA BELLE SOUTHWELL.

 

’What men nsei to-day is more courage.
Not that of the usual kind.

Which nerves them to undertake battle
’Gainst toes and whole world combined;
‘But courage to say “No” when they ought to;

In well doing never to tire.
Courage to gain complete victory
Over self and all selfish desire.

’Not so much in the battle with others.
As to use in a battle with sin;
‘Not so much to gain some 10 sg-prlz ed treasure.
As firmness and calmness to win.
Courage to fight the whole battle
Tho‘ fighting and snflering be long:
Courage for breaking a promise,
When we find that the promise is wrong.

’01:. that the firmnessflwere common.
To do always the thing that we hold

Is the best thing to do. spite of offers
Of honor. position. or gold.

he world is all full of poor creatures.

Go where fancy leads you to seek.

Who had courage ’gainst grim fate to battle.
But with self we’re too lenient and weak.

Manama.

W

BEATRIX MAKES ANSWER.

1 know what to do when I want copy
Jhereafter. I shall only hint that wo-
man, collectively and individually, is
not cast in the angelic mould and dow-
ered with divine graces, that she has
not a right to be and do all that a man
is and does. That will be “pressing the
button;” somebody else “will do the
rest.”

And yet. with all this eloquence—and
Miss Buell, Mrs. Huyette, M. E. H..
and in this issue Mrs. Rockwood. have
written well and forcefully—i have no-
.thing whatever to modify or retract.
What I wrote I still contend is truth,
undeniable and incontrovertible. Even
one of my critics said to me personally.
“Your article is true; I have cut it out
as one of the things I want to keep.”

Unwarranted conclusions have been
drawn from my statements—but that is
not my fault. I said maternity was
going out of fashion .and that the birth
rate is decreasing. Has either assertion
been disproved? I said woman’s public
life is making motherhood still more
unpopular, and somebody infers I think
every wife ought,to have afamily as
numerous as J ohn' Rogers’ of martyr
memory. You will find invariably the
largest families among the poorer
classes—those who can do least for their

 

 

oflspring. What will the world come .

to when educated and intelligent wo-
men despise and evade the bearing of
children and the world is populated by
the children of poverty and depriva-
tion? We cannot have too large a class
who come from good homes; we ‘already
have too many from those homes
Frances Willard justly characterizes as
“diabolical.”

My remarks about woman’s entrance
into business life and the consequent
reversion or readjustment of the econ~
omic relations of the two sexes thus
made necessary, have been interpreted
as indicating my opposition to woman’s
doing any work outside her home. It
seems as if a good answer to that would
be that as I superseded a man on the
staff of the FARMER, I could not well
cavil at other women for doing what I
am myself engaged in.

Statements of fact. dear critics, are
not necessarily statements of opinion.

There are a few points I want to notice
in the arguments of our correspondents.
Miss Buell combats the idea that the
woman’s movement is making woman
less attached to home and its duties;
and asserts that the teachings of its
leaders lie a'lbng the line of investing
our homes with a broader, higher
atmosphere, and the establishment of
purer ideals. Yet with the narrative
of their teaching must be told the story
of individual failure to live up to their
precepts. It was one of those leaders
Miss Buell named whom I quoted as
saying wifehood and motherhood are to
be made accidental to woman through
the woman’s movement. It was the
husband of another she named who
advertised last fall for a housekeeper—
I saw the card myself—while his wife
was “doing good” jon the platform. It
was a prominent advocate of dress re-
form who put her babe out to a hired
nurse while she extolled the merits of
"reformed” clothing. Of a woman prom-
inent in temperance work whose son
had become a hopeless set before he was
twenty a progressive woman said: Mrs.
-——'—- has done good enough to pay for
her son’s ruin.” a view of the law of
compensations which it is to be hoped
will not 'spread far. These are the
things that are true. but that don’t get
into the papers; and when known of we-
men who preach the gospel of home,
must as a matter of. course cause odious
mmparisons. I should not name them

 

here except to illustrate that a woman
can rarely take an active part in public
life and satisfy the claims of her family
at the same time. Let the public wo-
man, like Anna Dickinson, stay single
and devote herself to her “cause.”
Let her pray she meet not Anna Dick-
inson’s lonely, loveless. frieniless old
age.

One of the great features of the ad-
vancement of woman is the education
and opportunities afforded our young
women, whereby they may become self-
supporting and independent. This is
in many ways one of the greatest of
blessings. It puts the self-supporting
woman upon a higher plane, and gives
her the support of public Opinion. But in
the very nature of things this draws her
away from home and its claims and
duties. Do you know any girls who
have been through college, or schools
of art or music or elocution, who are
content to return to the quiet of home
and interest themselves in its homely
details? Are they not all longing and
planning for a career—anything that
will take them from home? The same
feeling pervades alower class of society.
Girls whose help is needed at home to
relieve overtaxed mothers or help in
the care of younger brothers and sisters
are restive under the obligation and
want to get away. They do get away,
into stores and factories and shops, and
there lose all domestic tendencies.

A young friend who has many ac-
quaintances in the classes of a large
conservatory said to me indignantly.
apropos of this subject: “Why those
girls down there talk as if it were actual-
ly low to know anything about house-
keeping! In their hearts they despise
me because I am housekeeper in our
home, and think I am unambitious and
with no aSpirations above housework;
indeed one of them much as told me so!”

Every morning from half past six
until eight o’clock our streets are filled
with young women and girls on their
way to work. They are “emancipated”
to a degree that enables them to earn
their own living and be respected in
the earning. They work from eight to
six, six days in the week. What do
they. what can they ever know of a
home? When they marry, their pre-
vious life has entirely unfi tted them for
home and its duties its quiet is distaste-
fu‘l its confinement irksome,its dullness

 

 

 

 

  


  
 
 
 
    
  
  
    
 
    
   
  
   
  
      
   
   
   
  
  
 
     
  
   
  
  
   
   
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
   
    
   
   
  
   
 
    
    
    
   
   
  
   
   
  
   
 

w, 4W;H

._ . “I... .

>v-.;a'2mfi3m-- WW“

".3 rx‘?"" 3 “a.

 

    
   
  
 
  
  
  
  
   
     
   
    
  
  
   
  
 
  
 
  

 

The Household.

 

nbearable. To one whom I have met
11 business home life became so intoler-
ble that she hired a nurse to look after
her babies and resumed her old occupa-
tion, saying she “ couldn’t stand the
hildreu.” And the last time I saw her
ttle girl the child’s hair was actually
elted together, it had been uncombed

0 long!

Mrs. Huyette made the point that a
woman may carry on a ' business or a
profession and a home also. Well, some
women may; but it is at the expense of

one or the other or the woman herself.

On this subject Dr. Arabella Kneally, a

physician of considerable repute, says,
and you will note it is a woman, speak-
ng of women):
“Women should not attempt to carry

it a profession after marriage. I mean

he women of the upper and middle

lasses who go into the professions. *

I am confident that the rising gene-
ration would be healthier and stronger
in every way if the mothers would exert
themselves less. I look anxiously at
every babe that comes under my notice
in the hepe that I shall find some im-
provement in the type, some increase
it stamina compared with the genera~
tion that preceded it, but instead of
this there is only steady deterioration
observable. This is particularly no-
ticeable among the children of very
active mothers. The cleverest and most
highly educated women, the women
who take the most active part in public
afiairs, have the most weakly and puny
children. * * * Women must place
before themselves the alternative, to
earn their living, to exercise their
faculties, and to gratify their ambitions
in a professional career or become good
wives or mothers; and if they choose
the domestic life they must recognize
that they must sacrifice their personal
happiness and ambition in the future
happiness and success of their children.”

In these days of competitions and
strifes, no woman can win even a fair
amount of success without giving her
whole soul and all her energy to her
career; she must necessarily be selfish
and consult her own aims and ambitions;
and if not, her generosity is at the ex-
pense of her work or a remorseless draft
upon her vitality.

The home woman, the sheltered wife
and mother, knows little or nothing of
the struggles, the trials, the rebuffs, or
the temptations incident to the business
or professional woman’s career. Nor
does the “apostle of woman,” who moves
from one admiring coterie to another,
preaching her pretty platitudes about
woman and‘ her mission as she goes, at
all realize into what combats, what dif-
ficulties, her arguments for equality and
emancipation are plunging the rank
and file

Sir Edwin Arnold has written:

"The fruit of labors. in the lives to come,
,I Is threefold for all men— Desirable
And undesirable and mixed of both;
But no fruit is at all where no work was.”

So the woman’s movement, with its
desirable features, its great ameliora-
tion of woman’s condition in many ways,
brings its results that are “undesirable
and mixed of" both.” Time must sift
and settle. When an army is flushed

that may wreak disaster earns the fate
of all who bring unwelcome messages.
Yet the general wins his triumph as
much by foreseeing and averting perils
as by occupying vantage ground. The
results of the woman‘s movement are
far-reaching, and the end is not yet.
To win the most good out of it, we must
not shut our eyes to its attendant evils
and dangers. BEATRIX.

 

EXPOE ITION NOTES.

 

We have seen the Fair! Not all of it,
to be sure, but as much as our limited
time allowed; and perhaps a few words
regarding it may be of interest to the
readers of the HOUSEHOLD. ,

The crowds that flock to the Michigan
building each day about noon testify
that our Sta‘e is already well represent-
ed, and we hope that all will make an
effort to see this grandest of fairs where
all parts of the globe, from Greenland
to the Cape of Good Hope, are repre-
sented.

To those who may have been fright-
ened by the cry of “extortion,” let me
say that the total expense for each one
of our party of four was less than thirty
dollars for the two weeks, and this in-
cluded several unnecessary items. We
occupied a tent at the Temperance En-
campment near Washington Park, and
would not have exchanged it for any
hotel in the city. It was such a com-
fort, on our return from the Fair
grounds, to slip off our shoes and settle
down in the shade of the trees to read,
write, or talk; then, as it grew dark, to
make the camp ring with “Michigan,

my Michigan,” and retire to our cots to
sleep soundly throughly the deliciously
cool nights.

On the lair grounds we carried black
shopping-bags containing note-book,

pencil, handkerchief and purse. If we
had been thoughtful enough to have
added our colored glasses, our outfit
would have been complete.

The first object of interest to us is the
Michigan building. It is of good size,

and nicely furnished and arranged for
the comfort of the Michigan public. A
large painting of Lincoln and Sojourner
Truth which hangs at the entrance to
the gallery is especially worthy of
mention, as is also the collection of ani-
mals from the University.

Do not fail to see the Illinois, Cali-
fornia, Washington, Kansas, and Iowa
State buildings, even if there is not

time to visit all. In many of the build-

ings grains and grasses are used exten-

sively for decorating; and the Iowa

building, especially, gave us a new idea

of what corn and corn-cabs can be made

to do in that line. These, and many of

the other States, have exhibits that are

well worth going to see. The Virginia

building is filled with relics of Wash-

ington and his time. From the other

States we noted the Liberty Bell from

 

with victory he who points out dangers

collection of animals of North America.
from the Kansas State Museum; the.
skeleton of amammoth from Spokane
County, Washington, and the huge
bison from Nebraska.

After leaving the State buildings, a
short time was spent visiting those of
some of the foreign countries. Several
of these were not then completed. The
one which interested me most was the-
East India building. It is filled with
curious things, and the lovers of tea will.
hail with delight the fragrant cups»
which are served without charge. As-
I never drink tea, I can not vouch for
it, but they claim that it is the best in,
the world.

Not far from these is the Fisheries
building. The aquarium, which occupies
the eastern annex, seems to be the
center of attraction. Its two divisions--
contain a fine collection of fresh and
salt-water fish.

From here we pass to the Government
building, which is divided into the de-
partments of War, Treasury, Interior,
etc., with the exhibits appropriate to
each.

South of this is the building of Mann»
factures and Liberal Arts. There is-
too much here that is worthy of note to
attempt to give any description of it.
One could Spend a week there, and then
not feel sure that he had seen it all. A.
few of the attractions in the portion al-
loted to the United States are Tiffany’s
exhibit of silver and diamonds, the
famous “Sapolio” boat, the model of
Brooklyn Bridge made from Kirk’s
soap, and the Arizona exhibit from the—
petrified forest. The foreign exhibits
are all interesting, and by keeping our
eyes and ears Open we learned many
things about the industries, customs,
and costumes of the people of these.
countries.

In the Agricultural Hall the different
‘State exhibits are, of course, much
alike, varying only with the section of‘
the country from which they come, yet
they show great variety of arrangement
and decoration.

Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, and Nebraska
rather carry off the palm for artistic
work. The agricultural implements are
in the annex.

Southwest of this building is the stock-
pavilon. The National Grange head~
quarters are in the southeastern por-
tion.

The only colored building among the
large ones is the one devoted to Trans-
portation. Here we see illustrated all
the various means of conveying people
by land or water. There is a model of
the first self-moving carriage, or loco-
motive, and near by are the large new
ones with their trains of palace cars.
There are models of boats of every des-
cription. but none of them interested
me as did the boat in which Grace
Darling performed her heroic act.
There are carriages of all kinds, from

 

Pennsylvania; the work of the blind
pupils of the Illinois school; the fine

the Turkish kraba drawn by cattle to.
the most stylish of American v ehicles

 

  

 


 

 

 

  

The Household.

 

and the blue and gold dress coach of the
Lord-Mayors of London.

The Horticultural building is a con-
stant delight to lovers of flowers and
fruits, but these are not the only attrac-
tions. Not far from the north entrance
is a beautiful model of the building it
self made of filagree silver by A. Vi.
Endweiss, of Monterey, Mexico. It is
eleven feet and two inches in length
and coutains one hundred pounds of
silver.

One of the 111 )st interesting things, to
me, is the Clifi Dwellers’ village. It
is well worth double the twenty-five
cents which they charge for admission.
A small portion of Cliff Canon, in south-
western Colorado, is represented, show-
ing the ruins of many of the dwellings
of this ancient race, which has been
extinct for at least six thousand, and
possibly ten thousand years. In another
room are shown their rude implements
of stone and hone; their curious pottery;
and, at the farther end so that you need
not look at them unless you wish,
several of the mummies which have
been found among the ruins, the best
one of which they designate as “She.”

Fear of the Editor’s frown induces me
to stop my rambling pen, but if any of
the readers wish to ask rny questions, I
will do my best to answer them.

EMER ALD.

[The Editor never frowns on such
letters as the above, but rather smiles
and asks for “more.”]

 

BOOKS.

 

The discussion concerning literature
in the district schools is very interest-
ing to me, for experience has taught me
the necessity of bringing more and
better books within the reach of the
children. So many have practical1 y no-
thing at home to read, and the Sunday
school libraries which exist in most
districts are so filled up with trash that
they are worse than useless. I would
unhesitatingly condemn the Sunday
school novel as far more injurious than
the so-called dime novel. The former
receives the sanction of those whose
opinion the children have been taught
to respect. Everyone knows how much
harder it is to fight a vice which is dis-
guised as a virtue, and the wishy-washy

trash smoothed over by a moral and a
' few religious platitudes cannot be so
summarily disposed of as “Deadwood
Dick ” or “ Daring Dave.” The in-
sipidity of the conventional Sunday
School books would disgust any sensible
boy or girl with the very principles
they are supposed to inculcate.

If I were to furnish a Sunday school lib-
rary I would try to have in it books that
the children would read over and over
again and always remember as old
friends. For example,all of Miss Alcott’s,
Jules Verne’s, lrving’s, Mrs. Burnett’s,
Aldrich’s “Story of a Bad Boy,” How-
ells’ “A Boy’s Town,” Warner’s “Being

of other true, strong books which show
us sensible, honest, fun-loving boys and
girls who try to be good and usually
fail; but whose failures are so like our
own that when we see them trying again
we are moved to do likewise. I am
truly sorry for any girl who does not
count among her most intimate friends
“Polly,” “Jo.” and "R )se;” and for any
boy who has never gotten into scrapes
with “Tom Brown” and "Harry East.”
These books prepare them to enjoy a
little later the literature which will
make them cultivated and scholarly
men and women. In this age of the
world. when Hawthorne’s books 1n pretty
bindings and excellent print may be
bought for twenty cents each, there is
no excuse for anyone’s being ignorant of
the masterpieces in our own and Eng-
lish literature. ,

Most of us feel that very “solid” books
and hot weather are not in harmony
with each other, and prefer to seek
something which shall not make too
great a demand on our attention. There
are so many bright and entertaining
books this summer.that the only dif-
ficulty is to choose among them. But if
we select those whose authors are al-
ready known to us we seldom make a
mistake.

All those who have read and laughed
over Stocktou’s “Rudder Grange” will
be delighted to meet their old friends
again in “Rudder Grangers Abroad.”
They will gladly go with Pomona to
meet a “real live earl,” and will sympa-
thize with her in her search for her lost
daughter whom she was sureto find,
because before' crossing the ocean she
had with wise forethought stamped
both heels with “Perkins’ Indelible
Dib.” His “Squirrel Inn” introduc s
us to new. people and we are glad to
know them; especially Ida Mayhe w, who
is a graduate of Bryn Mawr, but is fill-
ing the post of nurse girl during the
vacation. No danger of her making
mistakes, because having once dissect-
ed a baby she naturally knows all about
the species.

Another with whose books I have
only recently become familiar and who
has for me therefore all the charm of
freshness, is J. M. Barrie. Every body
should read his “Little Minister” and
having once become acquainted with
Thrums and the dwellers therein, he
will not be satisfied until he has met
them again and again in “When a Man’s
Single,” “A Window in Thrums,” and

“Auld Licht Idyls.”
Ponr HURON.
—¢O.—-—

ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW.

E. C.

 

Beatrix’s article, “What of the W0-
man’s Movement?” has evidently ac-
complished just what she intended it
to, in that it has brought out a flood of
responses, and thereby abundant “copy”
to her desk.

If, as she thinks, the whole train of
ills described in the article are due to

 

a Boy,” “Tom Brown.” and hundreds

 

as well go to the root of the matter and
lay the blame upon the improved educa-
tional advantages women are enjoying
to-day, for were it not for tha-
there would be no "woman’s move
ment.”

That maternity is going out of fashion
I do not deny; but I do not think the
cause is the one ascribed. There are
several reasons in my opinion for the
growing dislike on the part of wives for '
motherhood. Selfishness is largely to
blame for it. Womenrlike best to have
more freedom than the mothers of large
families can possibly have. Years well
spent they may be, yet the years of a
young wife’s life are unavoidably de-
barred from much of social enjoyment
and even of home comfort where there
is one babe in arms, another clinging:
to her skirts, and still another soon :to '
come upon the scene. Sentiment, my
dear Beatrix, has it that a large family
of children is charming; Realityvmakes
it sometimes quite another thing.

Another thing I have noticed is that
it is not only the wives who object to
large families but the husband of to-day
does not care about having a large
family any more than his wife does;and
and if any one is to be censured let him
have his share of it. The care of the.
little children of course devolves upon
the mother, but the father has them to
support, and although the old saying is
that an old hen will bring up a dozen
chickens just as well as one, with child---
ren it seems to be different.

And what does it matter after all?
The world will soon be full of people;
You and I will be dead and gone and’
the world will still move on. If Mr.
and Mrs. A. have a housefull and Mr.
and Mrs. B. have none that is their own
business.

“One swallow does not make a sum-
mer,” and if I were to have a dozen as
my grandmother did that would not
make much difference in the population,
but it would make a great deal of dif-
ference to me. If every American
family followed the foreign rule and .,,
sized their families according to. the '
mother’s "capacity,” the world would '
be so overrun in a few years that we
would have to have a war ora pestilence
to kill some of them off.

uLet the women alone, Beatrix. If the-
American race dies out let it die. All“
other will come in its place, and if it is
a foreign one you and I can not help it.
Women will do as they have a mind to.
any way.

And let the “public”'woman continue
On her way,say I. She has doneagreat
deal of work for good. Jennie Buell and =
Mrs. Hnyette voice my sentiments ex-.
actly. Let there be women doctors and I
lawyers, yes, and editors tool Let w0r -~
mfiuearn their own living in any way'
they choose; they are none the worse
for it, and may better do that than t
marry some man for the sake of being.

 

the advanced ideas of women, we may

taken care of. a.
,5: All honor to the- noble women wh

 

 

   

». . gldwl -

.2,» AW‘

    
  
    
   
   
   
 
  
  
   
    
   
    
    
    
  
   
  


    

    
      
   
   
   
 

“2.: sag-3r”; .32” ’

" ‘r. . 'w
:T.‘."..‘.:....‘ -;.:

A ”"13”,...

l
in
l

 

 
    
      
      
     
    
    
    
    
     
     
     
    
   
    
      
    
        
      
    
     
  
   

O

 

. The Household.

 

“have borne the large families of the
past (and by the way they are not all
‘extinct even in civilized communities
yet), but houor also the woman who
earns her own living, whether it be as

. ~-c lerk, as maid of all work,or as aprofes-

$101131 woman. ,

As to the servant girl questiou, I do
.'not blame girls for choosing other oc-
. cupations in preference to doing house-
work. Public opinion has made it what
'it is. The clerk behind the counter
may be no more of a lady, .. and not half
‘so well educated as the-girl who does
kitchen work, yet she is-looked upon as
following a more genteel callingand is
recognized in society where the-other
would not be. You and I may know
her real worth, may see the true‘nobil-
ity of her character, yet she must wear
ithe mob cap and white apron, badges of
*servility; and while the girl-who clerks
wmay not have half the leisure of the
other, may not get half the pay, may be
~ all that Beatrix describes,flI think itis
largely owing to the fact that by doing
kitchen work she loses her identity in
public Opinion by becoming u“some-
'body’s hired girl,” that: girls .shun

., domestic service.

\ FLINT. ELLA ROCKWOOD.

 

THE OLD STORY.

 

‘It is only the old story. A man who
had never raised a finger to assist in
bringing up my daughter—never lost an
hour’s sleep on account of her infant
ailments, nor felt any of the burden of
‘her education and other needs, came
-- one day last December and carried her
more than a thousand miles away from
me. There had of course been “preli-
minaries.” My approval and blessing
had been given,because she wanted to go
with him more than she wanted to stay
with me. This in short accounts for
my two months’ visit this summer in the
‘Black Hills of South Dakota.
Sturgis is situated in a valley of. the
foot-hills and is perhaps better known

because it is about two miles from Fort —many Of them, 1001‘ 80 "warty!” The

‘i Meade, a military post where several
troops of cavalry are stationed, among

them a company of Indian soldiers with rocks and dry looking grass suits me

their squaws and pappooses quartered
near by.
I have visited the town of Deadwood,

2the terminus of the railroad, and wan- the daylight commences about three

“‘dered shivering through the streets,

where it is said many crimes and mur-
ders have been committed,all for gold or the high winds meaner and more 0°“
horse stealing or for a musement, and felt
every step I made that a huge boulder Missouri is good enough for me.
“might topple over upon me frorn the
’hills above. This town is built in a
gulch sure enough, houses planted ‘on
“the hillsides to reach which one must -
climb long flights of wooden steps. The New York Times gives some
Whitewood Creek—a mountain stream directions for making screens for doors
the color of red brick, cauwd by the and windows which those who cannot
waste from the smelting works up the obtain or afford the more expensive
mountain farther—rushes in a vicious wire screens will find valuable. The

fashion through the town,under houses

and being a dump for all garbage, sends

out a smell that is about as bad as any-

thing around Chicago.

There were pleasant looking, pretty

homes piled on terraces one above an-
other, but there was too much back-ache
plain to me, to think for a minute that
I_ could be happy up there. The people
were all so very clever and appeared so

glad to see us, I was sorry I thought so

little of the town. A handsome man-
mlllioner had all his wonderfully artis-
tic goods displayed for us, and I know
there is no larger or more artistic lot
of made-up millinery in St. Louis than

we saw in that establishment, and the

gentleman has no time to waste—he is
dr iven with orders.

I visited Whitewood, a very small
and beautifully located town. and a1 0
Rapid City—another Black Hills town.
Both are flourishing and full of clever
people, all glad to greet and welcome
strangers.

I have climbed to the top of Bear Butte
Mountain, which is one of the highest
in the range and seems in the distance
to be a monster pile of sand, but is real-
ly composed largely of loose rocks.
There was nothing up there to capture
except some very ugly cactus, some of
which I am going to carry home as a
memento. A more matter-of-fact person
could tell about the millions of acres of
land in view from the mountain top and
invest it all with great beauty. It im-
pressed me chiefly as lacking in trees
and as a place where 'a multitude of
Chinamen might come and live ard
yet not crowd out the honest Ameli-
can.

After all I have seen and heard—after
all the courteous welcome extended me
and all the hospitality I have enjoyed
among the people here, I must say that
if I were coming west to locate it would
not be in the Black Hills.

All these little towns have water
works—water brought from the springs
in the mountains—the air is pure and
canned goods plenty, but I like Agri-
culture and Horticulture. These hills,

scraggy pine trees cast no shadows.
What may lie concealed underneath the

better after it comes from the mint
with the American eagle stamped upon
it. The twilights are very lengthy and

o’clock. The moonlight is brighter
than anywhere I have ever lived, and

tinuous. I shall return feeling that
Smers, S. D. DAFFODILLY.

W

FLY AND MOSQUITO SCREENS.

 

. Times says: '

 

the lower sash is raised, will fit closely
under it and into the window casing.
If you cannot get black mosquito net-
ting do not, upon an y consideration, use
the crude, ugly blue, green, or red
colors in which this fabric comes, but
get white and dye it black or leave it
white if preferred. The former, how-
ever, closely resembles wire screens
and is less conspicuous. Stain the
screens with raw sienna or paint them
to harmonize with the color of the
house. Cut the netting to fit the frames,
allowing for a half-inch hem on all
sides, and after basting on the latter,
tack the squares securely to the frames
with small tacks. Give a thorough
sizing on both sides with size made by
soaking half a pound of glue in one pint
of cold water over night and adding
four quarts of boiling water the next
morning, and when this is dry give
both the frames and netting two
coats of elastica or other water-proof
varnish.

“If well made—and a woman who
can use a saw and hammer can easily
do it—housed during the winter, and
given a coat of varnish every spring,
such screens will last a surprising
length of time.

“For the upper half of the window a
frame is not desirable. Cut the netting
to fit the window casing outside the
sash, and deep enough to reach two
inches below the centre joining of the
two sashes, allowing for a double half-
inch-wide hem all round. When the
latter has been basted in tack the sides
and top to position, leaving the bottom
free, but taut, and ' the upper sash
can then be lowered to any point de-
sired.” :13
A still better plan would be to fit
the screens with hinges at one side so
they can be sw lug outward. This would
occasion but slight additional expense

or labor.

Contributed Recipes.

 

Momssns Gina—One-half cup molasses;
oneehalf cup sugar; one-fourth cup butter;
one egg; 3. little ginger; one and half cups
flour; one half cup boiling water poured on
one teaspoonful soda and stirred in last
thing. Buapoox.

To CAN Comm—Select the corn when in the
milk, before too ripe. Put the {ears in a
colander, and let a little hot water run over
it for about a minute; then out the corn of!
the cob, scraping as much milk as possible,
but don’t mix any of the cob with the corn.
Fill your jars compactly with corn; every
time you get two or three ears of corn off the
cob in a jar, work down as tight as possible.
until the can is filled to within onehalf inch
from the tap; then dissolve one teaspoonful
‘of salt to one and a half tablespoonfnls of
sugar, with three-quarters of a pint of warm
water for each quart jar, and pour to over-
flowing over the corn; then adjust the lids.
without the rubber,part way on and steam in
a boiler of water two hours, the water cover
ing the jars three. quarters. Take out the
jars, work down the corn and fill up with
some liquid kept boiling for the purpose;
put on the rubber and screw the lid slowly
air tight. put back in the boiler, and let the
water in the boiler completely cover the jars
and steam two hours more. Take out the
jars. allow them to cool, screw lids tighter if
possible and put in a dark place. For lima
beans and peas do the same, orly do not pack
them down or use the sugar in the liquid.

 

“ Make a plain pine frame that, when

summarise, ’
s