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DETROIT, AUG. 12, 1893.

 

 

THE HOU'SBHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

SWEE 1' AND TWENT Y.

Sweet and twenty. and fair as the day:

Plenty of lovers are bound this way.

Sweet an! twenty, with eyes that shine .

And lissome curves that are rare and fine.

Dimples that play at hide—and-seek

On the tender mouth and the rounded cheek.

Never had maiden a lily-white hand

Softer and queenlier to command.

Never had maiden a foot more light

To dance a measure at mom or night.

Sweet and twenty can row and ride,

Over the rippling wavelets glide;

Harness and drive and climb and fish;

Make you many a dainty dish;

Talkin English and French and German,

Which the sWeetest. you’ll not determine.

Sweet and twenty has. life before her,

And all who meet will of course adore he r.

But what shall come to her after all—-

Queen to reign, or to serve. a thrall?

Only the stars above can tell.

Dumb stars that hide their secrets well.
—Harper‘s Bazar.

-———.._...°._——.

ABOUT THE EXPOSITION.

 

A great deal of interest is felt among
intending visitors to the Exposition,
relative to expenses. The attempted
extortions of the concessionaires at the
opening and rumors of high rates out-
side have alarmed many, and they are
hesitating about going fearing the
expense will be more than they can af—
ford.

I have taken considerable pains to
make inquiries relative to prices and ac-
commodations of a number of my ac-
quaintances who have returned, and I
do not think any one need stay away,
fearing to be robbed. A friend who
returned a week ago reported World’s
fair hotels half ten snted and thou-
sands of empty rooms at $1 for two
and 75 cents single,—good rooms, neat-
ly furnished, with good beds and clean
bedding. These prices are certainly
very low. She bought 21 meal tickets
for $3.50, and though she could not
recommend the meals, she endured
them for convenience and economy’s
sake. Runners for these hotels are at
every station on the arrival of trains,

‘ and bargains made with them are honor-
\ ed at the hotels, so one may know what

prices are to be paid before going to
' them.

' ‘ ‘ Street car fares are uniformly five
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’ €38,818 on the grounds are more ex-
pensivetm outside, but one may order‘

as economically as he pleases, as meals
are more frequently served by‘jorder
from bills of fare than otherwise. If
one goes prepared to put up with the
inevitable discomforts and not to kick
at everything not quite to his liking or
to live better than at home,it is possible
to get along on a moderate expense per
diem, not to exceed $2.50 or $3 per in-
dividual,or less according to the degree
of economy practiced. Fifty- '_cents a
day for a room, twenty-five cents for
breakfast, fifty cents for admission to
the grounds, thirty-five cents for lunch
on the grounds and “a fillin’ supper" at
fifty cents, with ten cents for car fare,
may cover the actual expense for each,
where two go together, adding ofcourse
railroad fare, which varies according to
location.

One ma ' spend as little or as much on
“attractiohs” as he pleases. If yOu take
a ride on the greatFerris wheel you need
not pay to go into the “Streets of Cairo,”
or Old Vienna because from your lofty
perch you can look right down into this
attractive side-she w. “America,” the
great spectacular show at the Auditor-
ium, is fine, and worth seeing, though
some proper people profess it is one of
those spectacles which should be view-
ed through smoked glasses.

Everyone who has attended, whom I
have met, professes entire satisfaction
with what is to be seen on the grounds,
and all say it is the most magnificent
display of marvelous and interesting
things ever got together; all wish they
could go again or could have stayed
longer. It is worth making a special
effort for, for such an opportunity will
never come to us again; and the cost is
really small, considering that living is
always expensive in a city. If one can
go but for a week it pays well.

There are plenty of places where the
tired woman may rest quietly and with-
out paying for the privilege. There
are two buildings “for public comfort,”
where one may find comfortable rock-
ing chairs and couches, have a button
sewed on or a tear mended, or take a
nap. ‘ ,

But everybody says wear comfortable
shoes, short, loose dresses, never mind
how you look but be comfortable and
see all you can. Overlook the discom-
forts or make fun of them; and when

you get home you’ll be prepared to de
clare it was the hardest week’s work

ALAS! THE DRESS!

 

In last week’s papers were the sad ac-
counts of Miss Hudel’s death, while try-
ing to stop her runaway horse. She
would probably have done it, but her
skirts became entangled in the horse’s
feet; she was thrown down, trampled
upon, and dead when taken up. She
was a successful market gardener, and
was selling her home-grown products
when the accident occured. Mrs. Geo.
Johnson, of New York City, recovering
from a severe attack of grippe, was ad‘
vised to ride a bicycle. On one of her
trips, her skirt caught in the sprocket
wheel; she was dragged from the saddle,
fell heavily on her side, and dislocated
her shoulder. Again, a young lady in
a store was obliged to get something on
an upper shelf. She thought nothing
of climbing the step-ladder, but her
lt‘ng skirts wound around her feet, she
tripped, fell, sprained her ankle, and
was laid up for days, her dress causing
loss of time, money, and a doctor’s bill
thrown in.

Workers in the garden know how
hard it is to get around with bedraggled
skirts, and how often one catches cold,
not from being out in the rain, but from
ankles kept damp from long petticoats.
Working women feel this, but are un-
usually sensitive to public Opinion.
They have not been long enough out-
side the bars that have shut them in so
closely from independent work to strike
out for a business woman’s dress. Just
imagine, O, my sisters! the freedom of
limb in a skirt that comes to the knee.
with loose trousers fastened at the
ankle! Can anything be more modest?
What can the society ladies say against
it, with their bare shoulders and arms?

I suggest one way of introducing a
business woman’s dress. Let the house-
keepers and mothers each make one, as
pretty as possible. Let them find out,
while within doors, how comfortable it
is to sweep a room, go down the cellar
stairs with a platten of meat for the re-
frigerator; and especially let the young
mother see how easily she can skip up
stairs with baby on one arm, and carry‘
ing his milk. Housework will be shorn

of its tiresomeness. Then we shall step
over to the grocer’s for a few eggs in our
short skirts. It will no longer be con-
sidered singular. Women willbe more
healthy and happy, and “there will be
no complaining in our streets.”

 

 

you ever did—but also the most enjoy-
able. BEATRIX.

, SISTER GBiCIOUS.

    


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2 I The Household.

 

HOW WE WENT TO THE FAIR.

 

One bright morning in June we left
Michigan’s Queen City for atwo weeks’
visit to the great Expositiou. As a
slight preparation for the trials that
were before us, we stood up till we
reached Kalamazoo, where extra coach-
es were added, and we secured seats.

We took up our abode in Chicago at
the Temperance Camp on Indiana Ave.,
and it very soon became like home to
us. After a tiresome day on the fair-
grounds, the peaceful quiet and com-
parative coolness of the Camp were
very acceptable. Besides, it had the
added virtues of being cheap and per-
fectly safe; one had no fears about mak-
ing the acquaintance of neighboring
campers.

Of the great, wonderful Fair itself, I
can give very little idea. It is like
Niagara—indescribable.

The first day on the grounds made an
impression on at least one member of
our party, that I think will take some-
thing more than time to efiace.

Having great opinions of our own
powers of endurance, we scorned such
things as railroads, or conveyances of
any kind, and took a delightful stroll
across Washington Park,to the western
entrance to the Midway Plaisance. (I
may as well confess now, that the next
morning, we all, meekly and with one
accord, set our faces toward the nearest
station on the elevated road.)

Of the few exhibits which we visited
on the Midway, the German village was
the best. In this was a reproduction
of an old German castle, with a moat
and draw-bridge, and looking as much
at home as though on its native soil.

l :California, I think, carries off the palm
among the State buildings. (It wouldn’t
be safe to say that in Illinois, however.)

The building itself is not so well
finished and attractive, the architecture
being that of the old Spanish Mission
churches of early California, and the
walls artificially seamed and darkened
to represent old masonry.

Such quantities of fruit and flowers!
It is perfectly bewildering. The ex-
hibits of are are, of course, very exten-
sive and fine. One large collection of
specimens of gold quartz is surmounted
by a statue of James W. Marshall, dis-
coverer of gold in California.

I was much interested in a model of
San Francisco, in clay, with a panora-
ma of surrounding scenery for more
than twenty miles around.

There were many fine views of scenery,
one which I liked particularly being a
scene from Passadena county in mid-
winter, sunshine and flowers in San
Gabriel Valley; and snow on the Sierra
Madre Mts.

Illinois is; justly proud of her State
building, but of the large number of ex-
hibits there. the one I liked best was a
statue-Illinois Welcoming the Nations
of the Earth—by Miss Julia Bracken,of

Chicago. ._

A ride around the grounds on the in-
tramural railway, from which elevated
position one can obtain a very good
view of nearly all the buildings in the
Park proper, furnished a pleasant end—
ing to the first day in fairy land; and at
seven o’clock four tired, bewildered,
but enthusiastic wanderers gathered at
camp to discuss affairs generally, relate
thrilling experiences, and compare
notes, for we had scattered in every
direction during the day.

I had a presentiment that Machinery
Hall would possess very little attraction
for me, but have since lost all faith in
presentiments. I was most agreeably
disappointed. A sudden inspiration
prompted me to request my brother’s
company that morning, so that I might
know something when the investigation
was over, whereas, if 1‘18’1 gone alone,
the knowledge acquired would have
been of a doubtful character.

People who jump at the sound of a
toy pistol or a firecracker would do well
to keep out of here. Such a din! Flour
mills, paper mills, printing presses,
weaving machines, everything in the
shape of a- machine, from the appara-
tus used in making tafiy to the largest
engine in the world, manufactured by
the E P. Allis Co. for the OhicagoHemld.
The driving wheel of this engine is
about fifty feet in diameter,and seventv-
two inches wide. I took a promenade
through the seventy-two inch cast iron
water pipe made in Philadelrfiia.

There are a number of curiosities in
the way of, transnartation, that I ex-
amined quite carefully. The much-
talked-about J im-rik-sha is a funny
little carriage with an over-hanging
top, two big wheels, a seat wide enough
for one, and thills about four feet long,
cOnnected at the outer end by a cross
bar. A Mexican ox-cart has wheels
made of three solid pieces of wood,about
eight inches thick, the hubs widening
to nearly two feet.

President Polk’s family carriage,
heavy, dusty, minus all signs of paint,
and with the hangings torn to rags, re-
ceived a decided snubbing from one
lady who passed, and expressed her
Opinion that it was “nothing but asham,
got up for the occasion.” Why is it
some people cannot believe in anything?
Is it because they are “shame” them-
selves?

A somewhat similar case was that of a
lady in the Manufactures building.
We were reveling in a collection of the
famous Delft ware,and overheard sever-
al contemptuous remarks about “that
old blue stufi;” we concluded her educa-
tion, in certain directions, had been
neglected.

0n the roof of this building is a half-
mile promenade, and elevators will
carry you up for a quarter, but prome~
nading was such a common occupation
we couldn’t afford to lower our dignity
by indulging unnecessarily.

Being true and loyal Patrons, we of

 

course registered at the National Grange

headquarters. and received our badges,
which are simple, but pretty. Not far
from here is situated the French Bakery,
which I most heartily recommendto all
lovers of good lunches at low rates,
with extreme politeness in serving
thrown in. Go one day, and you will.
be sure to go the next.

In the center of the Horticultural:
Hall. seven rooms of the great crystal
cave near Deadwood, S. D., have been
reproduced,using 300,000 lbs. of crystals.
Don’t miss this.

I nearly forgot to mention that we
went to see Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West”
one evening. Now, don’t turn up your
aristocratic noses at our plebeian tastes.
Several ministers from the camp went,
and pronounced it very fine. So did
we. If clergyman could enjoy it, sure-
ly it should possess great charms for-
miserable sinners.

“Finally, and in conclusion,my breth-
ren,” let me suggest that when you
visit the Exposition, you will carry a
good map of the grounds if you want
to economize time. There may be
people whose bumps of location are so
highly developed that they know just
where they are, where they want to go
next, and how to get there, but they
are rare.

Please bear in mind that I have men-
tioned only a few little things in regard-
to the fair. Many peOple, when they
return, say, “I can’t tell you anything
about it!” I haven’t been guilty of
making that remark yet, but oh, how
often have I felt it!

In my mind’s eye, I see that special
editorial “smile” which is kept for Fair
notes, growing “grimmer and more.
grim,” and finally fading away, there-
fore I take my finger from the button
—and the circuit breaks.

Burn Cam.

—-—.O.-_

V. I. M.

AN AQUATIC BOUQUET.

 

An aquatic bouquet is a thing of
beauty, and to those who have never-
seen one, quite a curiosity. A glass
shade like those used to cover wax
flowers is nice, but a plain glass fruit
dish and cover will answer. Make a
bouquet of suitable size and shape to
fill the dish used, using fine, bright and
pretty flowers fasten; this with fine
thread into a small vase or flat glass
dish, then taking the large plate, or
whatever you use for the bottom. with
the smaller dish on it containing the
bouquet in one hand plunge it beneath

water, and carefully cover the flowers,
taking care that it is filled with water
and all air excluded. Remove careful-
ly, holding the cover firmly on, that no
air gets in or water gets out. It willbe
a pretty ornament for the center table
for two days at least, as in a shert time

air bubbles. Try it.

 

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_, V The Household.

A COMPARISON OF METHODS IN
HOUSEKEEPIN G.

 

It is a good thing perhaps, taking all
things into consideration, that house-
keepers as a class are not viewed from
one stand-point. While it is a settled
fact that housekeeping in the main is
much the same the world over, the
same duties day after day, the methods
of performing them are as varied as the
landscape.

Every woman has an individuality of
her own. What is “bred in the bone
will come out in the flesh,” and as a
sequence we find both thorough and
easy-going housekeepers. One may
greatly admire the manner in which
the next door neighbor manages her
house,and practices certain little econo-
mics, and yet be 10th to change the
modus operandi that has stood in good
stead this many a year. I have been in
houses when I was troubled to find a
seat, in such dire confusion was the
room, with every available receptacle
piled with wearing apparel and head-
gear, and still greatly enjoyed my call
upon the motherly,self-possessed house-
wife. The magical manner of compass‘
ing impossibilities which we so greatly
admire in the thorough, systematic
housekeeper is not acquired through
long years of discipline and persistent
effort; it is a God-given faculty, and
consequently its possessor is not de-
serving the many eulogies lavished up-
on her; but it is a duty to pity and over-
look the inherited failing of slack, slat-
ternly housekeepers.

While order to one is second nature,
requiring no effort whatever, to another
it is a moral impossibility. That there
is a dim idea of something better is
shown in occasional “spurts” of slick-
ing up the house and belongings;throw-
ing away old dish cloths and lamp rags;
blacking the cook stove and securing
out the “round corners,” but it is only
spasmodic; habit has its tentacles so
firmly fastened that it requires no effort
to settle into the old rut and go on in a
slip-shod manner.

The progressive housekeeper becomes
familiar with all the labor-saving de-
vices and gives her husband to under-
stand that she is as much entitled to
their use as he to all the latest improve-
ments about his farm. She studies the
health of the family in the daily meals
—the menu for each meal and its pre-

, paration, in the style of dress adopted

for the little ones, comfort and dura~
billty; economy of steps and strength
in her round of duties,so that her health
is not impaired, during the years that
her children need her the most. In this
way she gains constantly on the woman
Who cansiders herself a machine, only;
her first and last thought upon her
Work, with no classification so that one
duty fellows another naturally, but a

. ‘sort of pen-mall. hap-hazard style that

gigworrisome and crowding} and will

strongest nervous system. The easy-
going housekeeper is, as a rule, long-
lived, good natured and centented. She
is in blissful ignorance of that constant
friction her more particular neighbor
is enduring; and may be pardoned if she
occasionally wonders why she ages so
fast, Why the fine wrinkles come and
the head silvers over, the voice gets
querulous and manners not composed, a
sort of expectancy—half listening to the
conversation going on about her.

We like to see a well-ordered house,
an air of comfort pervading the rooms,
an every day, not-to-good-to-use-style,
but does it pay if it requires a woman’s
entire thoughts and time, three hun-
dred sixty-five days in the year? Will it
make any difference a hundred years
from now whether or not you were the
best housekeeper in your neighborhood?
This body of ours is flesh and blood and
bone and nerve and sinew, and for the
abuse given it, has a revenge; it comes
in various forms, and is always painful-
ly apparent. The fortunes accumulated
often go to sanitariums and health re-
sorts; we grow crabbed and cross; our
own children refuse outright to live
with us and bear with our peculiarities
and peceadillos; for the life we live
leaves its impression; the face is but a
mirror of the thoughts; every word and
deed spring spontaneously from the
heart.

“Our hearts are the gardens, thoughts are the
roots: h
Words are t

The methodical, particular house-
keeper who never goes to rest at night
until the dipper is hung up on a nail
sacred to its use, milk pails turned bot-
tom side up and cloths thoroughly rins-
ed out, would do well to consider the
matter; and though she may have been
ahead with her inflexible rules on the
first quarter and half mile, need not be
astonished if the happy-go-lucky house-
keeper comes in ahead on the home

stretch, while she lies by for repairs.
BATTLE CREEK. EVANGELINE.

_—-—..._-——

SOMETHING FOR GIRLS.

e flowers, deals are the fruits.”

It has been said: ”A girl who is well
versed in English grammar and mathe-
matics, who has a good practical know-
ledge of geography and chemistry, and
a taste for biographical, astronomical,
geological—in fact, all kinds of instruc-
tive miscellaneous reading, is far better
fitted for any sphere of life she may
enter, than many of the graduates of
our fashionable seminaries.” It is true.
She will gain the respect of all sensible,
true, and well educated people, and be
better appreciated than the rattle-
brainsd, chattering, empty-headed
misses whose chief aim is to “shine in
society;” who live in the song and the
dance; or revel in r0mance and dream
away their time in sentimental reverles,
when they should be intent on storing
their minds with useful knowledge; or

 

performing some useful work, and in

learning to turn their attainmeah to
good account.

A showy girl, who can dance, stag; s

little, thrum a piano accompanium.
prattle some foreign language, fishnet
being able to speak or write he: «in.
tongue, is a lamentable counarrfieii.
She is disposed to magnify the m
elegancies of education ab we the mt-
ful and practical tendencies; and fl
do much toward making society stal-
dry sham.
Mere accomplis hments are poor tricks;
unless they are the polish of substmtbl
knowledge, good sense. and sound fittin—
ment. Our girls are not altogether in
blame for such a flimsv excuse its: as
education.

Some parents think that if they semi
their daughters to a school when they
will study the various branches of imma-
edge for a time, they will be edecahfl,
and yet they may not have been disci-
plined to think, but just studied hm n
aimless fashion, and forgotten it the
next day.

For the want of thoroughness in has
intellectual training, she is inch-latent,
and entertains incorrect and overrated
ideas of her attainments.

If a girl really wishesto cultivate liar.
mind, she must avoid the idea thatsm
has “finished” her education apes m
ing school. Too many cast asidet‘hefis-
books, scarcely referring to them for
months and years after, and even thei-
parents are apt to form the mm
idea that with the few months‘i school-
ing, their girls know enough, anemi-
ly “quite smart.” How little they
know of the real merits of educafiau!

The discipline of seminaries onlym
pares the mind to think, and in: m-
looking this fact many young yeah
consider their education finished with
their school days are over. The sun
is, it has but just commenced. m
minds ought to continue unimproved
expand daily thereafter, and “B, hya-
little close thinking every day, a“
subjects they have studied or real.

be self—educated?

They can if they will but think. All
such men are thinking men. M
education consists mostly of horrific
gained by observation and this“
and here we have a fact that m In
militate against the female m in
general; scarcely one out of ten. our
thinks of anything of much import”.
Upon leaving school they turn their lt-
tention to the solving of the problem,—
“How can I pass my time most a!”
1y?” They stop not tothink-ufiol'mgr
I spend my life most profitably}

perverted ideas of 'what cont!“ 3

their ambition, and so selfish do they
become in this aim, they new to
cultivate those noble virtues of the
heart and mind that only those Ill-53

 

Why can not women. as well as men, .

To be a lady (how many havevur-

lady) and be admired, is the big“ of.

of the appellation possess; viz , rel-ea» A

   


  

The Household.

 

ment and taste, prOpriety, grace of ex-

pression and manners, and a proper re-

gard for the rights -and feelings of
others.

Girls, if you would be refined, cultured
in the truest sense of the word, read.
:Read good, instructive books. Use
wisdom in the selection of what you
read, for in this age there is no excuse
for reading trashy, senseless story
papers, when there are so many good
books and journals to be had. :1 "—

"Bead for mental and moral profit;
:read the lives of noble men and women;
read about the stars above you, and the
stones beneath your feet, and after you
have read—think; by such a course the
enind is improved, and gradually but
surelv it becomes awakened to a sense
of how much profit and pleasure there
is in the pursuit. Reading is a means
0i self-culture now within the means-5f
nearly every girl in America. ReadiFg
will set her to thinking, and the more
she knows the more she will wish to
knowgher mind will become more active
and intelligent thereby; her manners
more gentle and refined; for intelligefie
is a bright though modest garb, admir-
ed by all, disparaged by none,and grows
brighter by the polishing process—Bf
profitable reading and reflection. L:
‘ Such a course will go far toward re-
moving the prevalent- ideas about the
“modern girl,” for a well educated,
thinking woman is a sensible one; and
not afraid or ashamed to do honest

 

 

work. MRS. E. E. MILLER "
FLUTED KNIT LACE.
Cast on 18 stitches. M‘

First row.——*Knit across plain-"l???"
2nd row—Purl 14, this leaves four
stitches on the left needle; turn the work
as if to begin at the end of the needle.-

3rd row—Slip the first of the 14 stitch-
es from the left needle on to the right,
knit nine, narrow. throw thread over
the needle once; knit two. ‘-

4th row—Purl 14, turn the work as
in second rOW. " - _...__-_-_. '

5th row —Slip the first of the 14 stitch-
es as in third row, knit 13.

This ends the first quill or fluting.
Now begin the second.

,lst row—Knit plain.

25d row.—~Knit four, purl 14. :~

3rd row.——Knit one, narrow, throw
tit-"sad over the needle once,knit eleven,
turn.

4th row. --Slip the first of the 14 stitch-
es and knit 13. ...

5th row.—Knit 18 plain. *

Repeat from * to *, thus making two
quills. This lace can be made of shy
width desired. The addition must’B‘e
made in the plain work, the edges re-
maining as above.

Knitted Twist Pattern—Count six
stitches for each pattern.

‘ First six rounds plain.

7th round—Slip three stitches on to
a spare needle. leave them and knitt’lfi

 

next three stitches, then knit the three
stitches on the spare needle.
Repeat from lst round.
This is pretty for back of mittens.
Z. E. B. 0.

 

MAKING SAUR-KR AU'I'.

The Prairie Farnter_—furnishes the fol-
lowing in regard to the preparation of
this German dish, for which not a few
Yankees have a liking, in spite of its
being one of those articles of food re-
specting which you fed as if you could
make an ample meal off the smell:

“Select solid heads free from rot, get
a good cutter having two or three
knives—sharp and set fine. Cut and
fill wash tubs or other large vessels,
sprinkle over the cabbage j uit enough
salt to season for cooking. then with
the hands work the salt through the
mass until all is salted; taste to see if
right. Have a barrel ready, and as the
cabbage is salted, turn in, and with a

flat pounder (we use an iron post ham-.

mer) pound carefully until the juice
rises over the top, then make a hole or
depression in the center, and with acup
dip out all the juice. This removes the
substance emitting the odor ofiensive to
many people. Proceed in the same
manner with each tubful until the barrel
is filled. Put in the cellar, cover the
top with large cabbage leaves, a light
stone weight, and tie a thin cloth on
the top to keep flies out. In a week it
will ferment, then remove the leaves,
spread a cloth on the cabbage under the
weight, which once a week remove,
wash clean, and replace to keep out
mould. If at any time the brine does
not cover it, a pail of water may be add-
ed. Follow these directions, and you
will have kraut that will keep until
next July. Do not use cider or vinegar
barrels; an oil barrel is best. To clean
one for use, build a fire in a kettle or
pan, place bricks each side to set the
barrel on to admit air, turn the barrel
over, let it heat for three or four days,
scraping it occasionally to remove the
charred oil, then fill the barrel with
water for several days, and finish by
scrubbing with brush and ashes.”

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MATTIE C asks if she shall put “no
presents” on the invitations to her wed-
ding, adding that she feels the fashion
which exacts gifts under such conditions
one better annulled than followed.
Well, Mollie, don’t you think it “a little
previous.” to say the least, to refuse
what hasn’t been offered? If you pre-
fer not to be placed under obligations of
that nature, you will, with tact and
courtesy, take an apropos'occasion to
express your views on the subject, in a
manner which can offend no one. Then,
if presents are given you, you may be
sure that they are not of “the socially
levied contribution” order and may be
taken as evidence of love and sincere
affection.

 

A SUBSCRIBER wants Z. E R O. to
specify the quantity of flour used in her
recipe for graham cake in HOUSEHOLD
of July 22. The right proportion of
flour is as important a factor in the
success of a recipe as any other ingre-

dient, and should not be overlooked in
writing out directions. "Use your
judgment” isn’t a safe rule, for “judg-
ments” vary even more than flour does.

 

A CORRESPONDENT writes us she has
rented her farm, on which there are a
few acres of huckleberry swamp, and
inquires who has a right to the fruit,
there being no mention of it in the
contract. It would have been better
to have stated the conditions of the cou-
tract—i. 6., whether the land is leased
on shares or money rent. It may be
stated, however, that the tenant has a
right to whatever is not specially re-
served by terms of the lease, and the
swamp would therefore be under his
control. If the farm is worked on shares,
both parties would have equal right. in
the fruit and either might exclude out-
siders or require a fee for permission to
pick berries. But no mention being
made in the contract, the tenant’s right
prevails against the owner’s, and he
may exclude or admit the public, at his
pleasure.

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C. A. C., of Howell, asks information
as to the uses of the vegetable peach
and also parsley, wishing to be told just
how to use them. We don’t know what
is meant by “the 'vegetable peach;”
never saw it, never heard of it before.
The old-fashioned peach that grows on
a tree is good enough for us and all we
want with it is plenty of Jersey cream
and quaint. suf. of sugar. Perhaps some
one can aid our correspondent. As for
parsley, its chief use is as a garnish for
meats. Its fins crisp dark-green foliage
“sets off” the ruddy hue of beef or the
paleness of cold veal and pork very
prettily. It is sometimes used to aid in
flavoring soups such as bean, pea, or
pctato, a small sprig being dropped in
and skimmed out before the soup is
served.

 

Wonrmoron's Magazine,publishsd by the
well known firm of A. D. Worthington St 00.
Hartford,Oonn.. is a magazine we can heart-
ily co nmend as a mist excellent publica-
tion, one well deserving success. We are
sure it will be popular wherever its acquain-
tance is made. The August number is a
particularly interesting one, showing the
publishers are bound to keep its standard up
to the best. Its low price and the variety
and interest of its contents should make it
a favorite visitor in the hams and we are
glad to recommend it as a good thing.

W

Useful Recipes .

 

Wnonrnnnnnnr CAKE—One cup of sugar,a
rounding tablespoonful of butter; beat these
together until light, then add two eggs and
beat again. Add two-thirds cup of milk and
two cups of fin: in which have been sifted
one teaspocnful of cream tartar and half as
much soda or two scant teaspoonfuis of bak-
ing powder. Stir in a cup of berries and it
is ready to bake. -

Wnoarnnnnnar Ponpmo.—Sift together a
pint and a half of fl )D'.‘ and a heaping tea-

spoonful of baking powder; stir in one pint "‘

of milk, one well beaten egg, 8. saltspoonful
of salt and three-fourths of a quart of her"-

ries. Steam two hours in a buttered mould. ,

Serve with hard or liquid saunas-fl. E.
Farmer. - - '