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THIS LIFE 18 WHAT WE MAKE IT.

Let’s oftener talk of noble deeds
And rarer of the bad ones,

And sing about our happy days,
And not about the sad ones.

We were not made to fret and sigh,
And when grief sleeps to wake it,

Bright happiness is standing by—
This life is what we make it.

Let’s find the sunny side of men,
Or be believers in it;

A light there is in every soul
That takes the pains to win it.

Oh! there’s a slumbering good in all,
And we perchance may wake it;
Our‘hands contain th magic wand;

This life is what make it.
Then here’ato ”103%058 loving hearts
Shed light and joy a out them!
Thanks be to them for countless gems
We ne’er had known without them.
Oh! this should be a happy world
To all who may partake it;
Il'he fault's our own if it is not—
This life is what we make it.

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OUR PROBATE LAWS.

One of our Household contributors seems
"to bring, by implication, the charge of
injustice against our present probate laws
as enunciated by statute; and puts a num-
ber of “whys ” relating to a wife’s rights
in her deceased husband’s property which
might aflord food for thought to our
Lansing legislators. Yet I think that in
the main our probate laws are just and
reasonable. The exceptions are the pro-
viso by which the widow has the use only
of a third of the real estate of which her
husband died possessed, whereas it should
be hers absolutely, to dispose of as she
sees fit; and the further restriction which
permits the husband’s relatives to take
from the childless widow a portion of the
property she has helped accumulate, and
which in simple justice should belting to
her alone.

The widow can claim $250 worth of
household furniture and $200 worth of
personal property, and her husband’s
wearing apparel and ornaments. This she
can claim even if there is more indebted-
ness than the estate can pay. She can
take one-third of the personal property
afterthe debts are paid; and if there be
no children, or but one, she can claim
one-half of it; the other half, if there are
no children, goingto her husband’s rela-
tives; if there are none reverting to her-
self. If the wife owns property in her
own right this ruling is reversed; the
husband takes one-third if there are child-

en; ifthereare none, or but one, he is

entitled to one-half, the remainder falling
to the wife’s relatives. If she owns real
estate it descends tofher children, the hus-
band having no right except to its use till
the children are twenty-one years of age.
The wife can make a will and dispose of
her property as she chooses, whereas
many a modern trial has shown that the
husband is a pretty smart man if he can
make a will leaving her out, or inade-
quately providing for her, which the law
cannot set aside and her legal rights be
granted her.

The property given to the widow by
law, belongs to her alone. She is not
compelled to support her children out of
{her portion of the estate; their mainten-
ance can be charged against the property
they inherit. She can remain on the farm
with her children if she so elects, and re-
ceive one third of the rent or profits. As
I understand the law, her dower right
takes precedence of other claims; and she
may bar the disposal of her dower in
lands jointly mortgaged by herself and
husband. Nor can she be divested of her
dower right even if her husband’s lands
are sold to satisfy a judgment against him.
The injustice done her, as I have said, is
in making hera life pensioner upon her
husband’s estate. Some months ago A.
L. L. gave a practical instance of this in-
justice, where an aged woman holding a
dower right in a small piece of real estate,
the income from which was insuflicient to
support her, was dependent upon private
charity for maintenance, because she
could not sell the land which would bring
her comforts and necessaries in her old
age. I believe the attention of our law-
makers has but to be called to this defect
to have it remedied.

A good many women make a mistake
in the choice of an administrator. On an
ordinary farm, where the business is
neither extensive or complicated, it is for
the widow’s interest to be appointed ad-
ministrator. and guardian of her children
if necessary. In this way she can con-
tinue her husband’s business and keep ad-
ministrator’s fees in the family, and her
familiarity with her husband’s personal
matters renders her the most fitting person
to take charge of them after his death,
always providing she is not one of the
helpless women who can do nothing but
fold their hands and cry in an emergency.
It was under such a supposition that the
initial letter on “Widows” was written,
and the subject was suggested by mention
inaState paper of the sale by adminis-
trator of a nice little farm of eighty acres

 

 

for a trifle more than the value of the
buildings upon it.

I do not think it expedient that the
wife should inherit everything when
there are children. True, she has helped
earn the prOpertv, but should she take all
and leave the children unprovided for, or
dependent upon her? There are mothers
Whose unselfish hearts would do justice
and more than justice to the children,and
there are mothers who would not, except
at the law’s behest. And I think that
when the wife dies the. law should re-
cognize the right her children have in the
common property, as it does when death
takes the husband. There are a great
many husbands, however, who would not
like the shoe to fit on that foot.

The Probate Court is, in my estimation,
one of the most dignified and important
of our departments of justice. Yet I have
heard it condemned by very good people,
who consider themselves capable of “ set~
tling up their own business,” without
reflecting that other men’s business
may be athousand times more intricate
and involved than their simple afl'airs,
and that what is law for one must be law
for all. They consider a probate court
unnecessary, and an unjust tax upon
a dead man’s assets; yet it is easy to see
that were there no legal formalities to be
observed the estate might become the
prey of the designing and unscrupulous,
and the widow and the fatherless be de-
frauded. Were there no restraints cred~
itors might take everything, leaving the
survivors penniless; or the heirs might
conspire to cheat the creditors. And how
many families are there in a township
where an estate could be settled harmoni-
ously and satisfactorily to all, without
the intervention of “the law?” People
will quarrel over “ dead men’s shoes ”who
might otherwise have lived in good will
all their days. The advantages of a legal
settlement are that legal justice is done
to all parties concerned; fraudulent claims
against the estate are throw u out, the ra~
pacity of creditors restrained; and the
law, by taking cognizance of a man’s
death and disposing of the claims against
his property, establishes the right of suc-
cession, so that a purchaser obtains that
without which he will not purchase—a
clear title.

Great progress has been made in the
matter of woman’s legal rights withinae
past three-quarters of a century. In old
times husband and wife were one, and
the husband was the one. Everythingwas
his, the wife’s rights existing by sufierance.

 


 

2 THE HOUSEHOLD,

 

She could be put OE With “ the second
best bed,” as was Shakespeare’s wife, or
with no bed at all. More and more the law
recognizes individual rights, and places
the two partners in the marriage relation
more nearly on an equality. And this is
simply justice, for what is law for one
ought to be for the other. Equal rights
and equal responsibllities to the family
before the law, would do justice to all. At
present, in some respects the law favors
man, in others the woman. The wife now
has absolute ownership of property own
ed by her before marriage, or which may
be afterward inherited. She is not re-
sponsible for her husband’s debts, nor can
her property be attached to pay them,
whereas he is legally compelled to pay
debts of her contracting, unless he pub-
lishes to the wprld that he will not. She
has many rights and privileges her fore-
mothers did not enjoy, among which we
may name the right to retain her own
personal belongings. I have read some-
where of a woman who, years ago, work-
ed outas a servant till she had earned
money to buy a set of silver teaspoons,
athen quite a valuable possession, for her
“ setting out,” to use the ancient phrase.
In a few years her husband died, and the
spoons by law passed to her husband’s
heirs. She begged to be allowed to retain
them, proving they were hers before mar-
riage, but only obtained the privilege of
buying them back. She went out to work
until she had enough to pay for them
again. She married the second time and
was soon widowed. Again the husband’s
heirs claimed the silver, and for the third
time this persistent woman earned and
paid for her spoons. History records no
further marriage, so it is fair to suppose
she was at last permitted undisturbed
ownership of the costly teaspoons. Hap-
pily for woman, modern civilization has
brought justice, and law recognizes wo-
man’s individual rights and privileges.
BEATRIX.

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. MARRIAGE.

 

A Weetminister Review of recent date
says the assumption that marriage offers
to woman the highest development is open
to question, and in support of its position
points to the drawbacks that wifehood
and motherhood must exert on industrial,
professional and public life.

In order to controvert or substantiate
the position taken, the first requisite is a

definition of ‘ “highest development”.

Woman is capable of development in
many directions. If the position to be
taken is that such relations are hindrances
to the highest development of woman in
industrial, professional or public life, that
might be granted, and yet the gravamen
of the article be seriously questioned.
For it might be asserted that the highest
development of woman that could possi-
bly be reached in those matters might
work to her and the human race incal-
culable injury. There are certain em-
ployments and studies that are by all
thinking persons admitted to be disas-
trous to the finer feelings and instincts
of humanity. And say who will to the

contrary, it is difficult, if not impossible
to conceive of anything purer, higher,
nobler, than the instincts and sentiment,
principles and action of true wifehood
and motherhood.

It is assumed by the author of the
Review article that the highest develop-
ment of which woman is capable, lies in
either or all of the following phases:
Art, philanthrophy, professional, public
or industrial life. May there not be a
development more worthy of her highest
efforts than either or all of them? Let it
first be shown that her development needs
or necessitates either, or a majority of
them, understanding those terms in their
usual sense.

Woman’s development must bend to the
universal law that only in accord with
the nature of the material is there, or can
there be, any true development at all.
Not only is this true, but when there are
many possibilities and leanings in dif-
ferent directions, and some appear to be
contrary, one to the other, that is the true
development that seizes on the more
natural and most numerous of those pos-
sibilities and leads them to their best uses.
So it may be safely asserted that any
development that omits what is prima
facia the most material facts in woman’s
nature, viz., that without wifehood, no
motherhood ought to exist, and that
without motherhood no humanity is
poSsible; and the further facts that her
best and purest relationship, her noblest
sentiments and tenderest instincts all are
found clustering round those two primal
conditions of her existence; it may be
safely asserted of any scheme. that emits,
or denies, or ignores, or makes possible
even a general condition of abandonment
of those fundamental facts, that it is
utterly unworthy of consideration, much
less of adoption.

Unless creative power so misunder-
stood the dual nature of humanity as to
make the correlative duties of the sexes
interchangeable, ambiguous, or contra-
dictory, their highest development may
be in entirely difierent and uninterchange-
able planes, and yet be entirely and
exactly complementary. To assume that
they are in the same plane, and then to
argue that only in woman does marriage
demand that every thought, talent and
project be subordinated to its overwhelm-
ing duties, while in man marriage may
confer gain and impetus that makes his
development to ahigher plane an irresisti-
ble conclusion, may be rhetorical, but
certainly is not a logical course. Nor is
it logical to assume that married life does
not alford woman elements of health
equally with unmarried life. In the present
plan of social economies this is aquestion
of vital statistics, unsolved. The cor-
rect statement of the question is, “What
would woman be if from childhood her
physical development was properly
directed in the way of her future wifely
and motherly character?” Is it not the
experience of every practical physician,
that his female patients have been
studiously developed away from, and
kept ignorant of, the simplest and most

 

universal features of their future woman-

hood? Again, to assume that unwifehood
and unmotherhood enables a woman to
command for herself conditions of
healthy development superior to those of
her married sisters, is to accuse the
Creator of ordering an unjustifiable in-
stitution; giving the disobedient the re-
wards of obedience, and making the per-
petuity of humanity a curse to her who
obeys the injunction of both her nature
and her God. “Multiply and replenish
the earth,” was God’s first command.
That too many act as though it was the
only one, could scarcely be fairly charged
to our present American civilization.
That the number of unmarried women
increases voluntarily is no more an
argument against wife and motherhood,
than that criminals increase in the same
manner is against good morals and up-
rightness. The argument against 1m-
moralitv and crime drawn from the rights
and necessities of society can never be so
strong as the argument against unwife-
hood and unmotherhood, drawn from
the very existence of that society. That
the duties and trammels of marriage are
gain and impetus to a man, but necessitate
injury and restriction to woman. is
in the highest degree fallacious. It is
only the lawful obedience to the Creator’s
behests that brings peace, happiness, and
the conditions where upward develop-
ment is possible.

There is a cultivation like that practised
by Chinese horticulturists, that dwarfs
and mimifies, and alters the courses of
nature; but whoever wants a development
like that, or would even dignify it by that
name? The oak or the pine that grows
toweringly above our heads is developed;
the stunted twisted growth that is but a
stumbling block, a snare to the feet, is a
dWarfed and blastd specimen of a noble
relationship. If nature did not intend
that wifehood and motherhood should be
the primal order and fact of woman’s life,
it did make all life hinge upon that fact
and order.

Can it be possible that obedience to the
law of her womanhood, to the supremest
instincts of a noble motherhood, can do
her a wrong by hindering her highest
development? Society may pet that per-
verted, dwarfed, hardened, unwomanly
nature that has smothered her instincts,
hardened her heart, crushed the hopes of
her early life, changed herselfasmuch as
possible into the likeness of the “man
around town,” and call that childless
dwarf, that from choice and education is
out of God’s order, a developed woman.
The lover of his kind will call her a
monstrosity. Such things occur in nature,
but to what end? It may be that there is
a moral beauty to me unseen in the child-
less arms of a loveless old maid, or the
lonesome life of a withered old bachelor.
If unmarried womanhood is brought into
fashion, bachelorhood, its twin monstrosi-
ty, must keep pace with it. Admit that the
tastes ' of the single woman are various
and refined, and superior opportunities
for culture are hers above her married
sister, then let all, like good sensible

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one half century. Let every woman-
--child from this first of January be
thus developed into a higher. free, un-
trammeled life, a society life, an art life,
public life, professional life, industrial
life or any other life you please but the

wife and mother life, and then what?
The final argument of the writer
of the article is that such a being
developed out of her sex, into a lover of
art and philanthrophy, of trade and
public life, of professional success and
industrial achievements might protect
the weak and defend the poor; and
from the stronghold of her own hap-
piness fill the empty place in the world’s
history, of a loving and tender woman,
armed with official power to redress the
wrongs of women and the injuries in—
inflicted upon children. Having manu—
factured his nondescript, for no woman
ever made her, and put it into official
place and power, let us see how now the
case stands. Axioms are not confined to
the pure mathematics. “ He who would
do good must himself be good.” “Who
keeps fat oxen should himself he fat,” is
only a parody on an admitted fact. She
who would make good wives of others
should herself be wed. He who in his
actions and teaching brought to man the
greatest remedial power, the purest light
and the grandest example, whose presence
blessed the marriage rites and confirmed
the institution by his decree “what God
has joined 'together let no man put
asunder,” is represented to us as able to
succor and help suffering man, because
“He himself was tempted in all points
like unto themselves.” But here is a
woman educated to ahigher plane, un-
blessed with children, who feels the
anxieties and care of maternal love, a
spinster who knows nothing of the joys
or sorrow of wifehood, who is to be the
adjuster of wifely wrongs. Like the
protection the poor get from the selfishly
rich, would be the guardianship wife-
hood and childhood might expect from a

sister developed so highly above them.

E.

ansveo .
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A HOUSEKEEPIN G REFORM
NEEDED.

 

Aunt Bessie asks: “ Shall I treat my
friends with apparent coldness, or urge
2them to visit me when I know that I can-
not have my house in order, or the desired
amount of pie and cake in my cupboard?"
If they are friends they will probably en
joy their visit, even though the cook~stove
is unblacked, the zinc unwashed, and the
baby’s playthings are scattered over the
floor. They will relish their simple meal,
if it is well cooked, with never a sigh for
mince-pie or fruitcake; much preferring
the meal gotten up with the least possible
break in the conversation, to the one
that would keep their hostess all the tinge
rushing around to cook something extra
for the occasion. If instead of friends
they are merely acquaintances, who come
more to “ spy out the land,” and see how
you keep your house and how much of a
meal you are capable of preparing on short
notice, they will probably go away saying

 

“ Just as I told you! school-teachers don’t
make very good housekeepers.” Or, as
a neighbor of mine said to me once: “No
woman who reads any ever makes a good
housekeeper.” This is her honest opin—
ion, as it is that of many women whose
aim in life is to be called “housekeepers.”
This name covers more sins than charity
in their estimation, and indeed they use
little charity in their judgment of others,
and condemn all who are found wanting
in house or larder. But because of my
neighbor’s freely expressed opinion, it
does not follow that I should give up my
books and papers that I may have time to
clean up my paint just so often, or keep
pie and cake in my cupboard. So long as
I supply my family with plain, whole
some food, and keep things clean enough
to make them comfortable, I decline to
enter the list of model housekeepers.
“It takes all sorts of people to make up
the world,” so I may as well be of the
class that suits me best. I think house-
keeping is something in which there is
much room for reform. Women wear out
their bodies. and starve and dwarf their
minds in the endless struggle with dirt
and the desire to set as good a table as
their neighbors, and what is gained? Are
their husbands more comfortable, or their
children as healthy as if they sat down to
a dinner of well cooked meat and vege
tables, good bread and butter, a very sim’
ple puddding or, better still, fruit, fresh
or canned? I think all would enjoy such
meals, especially as they would be more
likely to have the wife and mother
in good spirits and good temper.
The woman does far better who keeps
herself fresh and strong, who takes the
time for the full enjoyment of home and
family, even though her sheets are never
ironed, or her paint not washed oftener
than once in three months; better than
she who cultivates an “ eye for dirt ” and
spends her life fighting it.

We have had reform movements of
many kinds; cannot some in the ranks of
intelligent women start a table reform?
Let us have such a reform that we may
venture to invite a friend or two to tea,
or to spend the day, without feeling it
necessary to spend all the time we can
get for two days beforehand in cooking.
As things now are, we are usually so tired
and worn out by the time our visitor ar-
rives, as to wish her safely at home while
we retire to a lounge or easy chair to
read and knit instead of trying to be po-
lite and entertaining. But the editor
Will consign me to oblivion and the waste
basket if I talk longer, so I will close with
the hope of hearing the opinion of others
on this subject. Mar.

Klwmil, Illinois.

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REMEDY FOR CATARRH.

 

I have been a silent listener in the
Household for a long time, gleaning the
good things that have appeared from week
to week, and being strengthened and en-
couraged by “ words in season." I now
come to the front to respond to Angeline,
as I have been a sufferer from catarrh for
nearly thirty years, and tried remedies

, preferred; I like it better without.

 

recommended by kind and sympathizing
friends, but have recently decided that
for me there is no lasting benefit except in
a strict diet. For breakfast and dinner
eat sparingly of bread, or toast and butter
and vegetables (I would except onions
and cab pages.) and little or no animal
food; drink very little or nothing. Omit
the supper entirely, and just before going
to bed drink copiously of hot water, a cup
or more if you can without producing
nausea. The water may be sweetened if
Please
try this one week, and if it relieves you
perhaps you may be encouraged to per-
severe until a permanent cure is effected.
You may use local remedies, but they only
afford a temporary relief; they do not
strike at the “ root of the matter.”

In regard to the education of our girls,
a paragraph in a recent number of the
Youth’s Companion attracted my atten-
tion, and I thought it worth repeating in
the Household for fear that it might es-
cape the notice of many good mothers
“ How many of our girl readers of fifteen
can make bread or cake which anybody
could eat? Do they know how to make
their own beds, or lay a table properly?”

Here is food for thought. HOPE.
HILLSDALE.

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IN FAVOR OF RAG CARPETS.

 

The quest-ion of rag carpets has been
discussed some time, and I do not like to
have them abused. A. H. J. thinks it is
time and toil thrown away to make one.
but I do not agree with her. If we tear
up a garment when worn out, and sew
the rags, put the ball away in a bag hung
in the garret, and keep doing so until we
wish to make a carpet, we will be
astonished to see how many rags we
have, and wonder when we sewed them.
As. for the dyeing of rags, we can get
good dyes at any drug store that will not
be much trouble, if the directions which
are printed on the wrapper are followed
to the letter.

That friend of A. H. J.’s, who went
visiting without her wash-rag, had better
put her thinking cap on next time and
take one with her.

The ingrain carpet she speaks of must
have been made of better material than
the most of them, or else laid in the
spare room, to last twenty years and be
“ good for many more.” I can find none
that wear like it.

I am much pleased with the Household
and find many things that help.

Will some one please send the House-
hold a lace pattern that will be nice to
trim a cambric dress, as I should like one.
If this does not find the waste basket I
will come again. ZIP.

SAan .
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SUNDRY ITEMS.

 

It seems that the “ Household Baby,”
is of an inquiring turn of mind, and can
already ask questions very difficult to an-
swer. Is the later comer, who has dis-
jointed her nose, of the same persuasion,
and is this one, too, donated to the House-
hold? There is a little “Robert John-

 


 

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stone,” grandson of the late lamented
chief editor, whom I propose for member-
ship. Who will say “ aye?” No “ noes ”
will be counted. If received, as of course
he will be, we will call upon Beatrix for
a word painting of the darling, and in-
struct her to keep us all posted on his ad-
vancement and achievements.

I have pleasant out—door parlors; we
sometimes serve lunch there, but when it
comes to tea we surrender to the preda-
tory fly and retire behind the friendly
screen. The “ gude mon ” sometimes es—
says a nap there on a fine summer day,
but it generally ends in a sneeze, as some
adventurous insect undertakes to explore
the nasal cavity or aural orifice.

If my little boy should “ dip the kitty
clear to the tip of his tail” in a pail of
water, I think if I was near, he would
have the experience to the tip of his toes,
if it caused him a sob in place of a laugh.
I think such good-natured but practical
teachings of “ how good it feels,” would
improve his manners and teach him duty
in a manner he would not soon forget.
Practice, I find, is better than precept.
Obedience is the first and best lesson,
taught with love. A. L. L.

Ixemtsrnn.

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POOR SCHOOL WORK.

I

 

Said a teacher in one of our schools not
long since of a new pupil from out of town
who had just entered her classes: “I
asked her how far advanced she was in
arithmetic; and she said she had been
'clean through’ ’8 arithmetic; in
grammar, and she had been ‘clean
through’ ’s grammar; in spelling,
and she had been ‘clean through ’ the
speller.’ Yet when I came to examine
her in respect to actual attainments, I
found it necessary to send her to a far low-
er grade than she had expected to enter,
much to her disappointment. She had
been over the ground times enough, but
with such want of thoroughness that it
must all be gone over again.” This is the
one serious charge brought against our
district schools. They are not thorough.
Educational progress in any direction is
barred without due understanding of
fundamental principles. As well build
a house on shifting sands as get an edu-
cation without thorough knowledge of
primary principles. Most of our country
schools attempt only elementary branches;
it really seems as if proflcency and thor-
oughness might be attained. Great good
might be secured if teachers of country
schools were informed of the methods and
requirements of higher schools, and here-
in lies one great advantage of securing
teachers, who have been educated for
their work. It is wofully disheartening to
pupils who go away from home to
school, expecting to take up new and
advanced studies, to be obliged to go over
the old text-books, in which they believed
themselves proficient, because they have
not been well and thoroughly taught. It
is discouraging to parents who are mak-
ing sacrifices and practicing self denial,
if not going into debt, to give their
children an education, to pay a round

 

 

 

sum for board and tuition while ”the
children are being taught what they
should by right have learned in the little
old schoolhouse at home. There is no
royal road in learning, and ambitious
young people are reminded that when
they enter a foreign school their examin-
ation will begin at the simple elementary
branches, and that correct spelling and
grammar and legible penmanship, with
ready and accurate knowledge of first
principles will set them further up in per
cent of scholarship that to have been
“clean through ” many textbooks, with
but inaccurate knowledge of their “ true
inwardness.” B.

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THE FARMER SEWING MACHINE.

 

One more Christmas has come and
gone. How rapidly time flies! Looking
back to the last Christmas it seems but
such a short time. What changes the
year has brought to many; what changes
there may be to us before another year
comes is hard to tell. What a blessing
that we are ignorant of the future; our
troubles come fast enough without our
being warned beforehand; or meeting
them part way.

I have seen one answer to L. F.’s in-
quiry about the FARMER sewing machine.
have one; got it one year ago, (a New
Year’s present from my husband,) and I’m
happy to say it has given the best of satis-
faction. Every one who has seen it, (some
have tried it,) thinks it such a bargain. To
all wanting a sewing machine, I do say I
don’t think they can do better; and as
for the MICHIGAN FABMEB, I know they
can’t. We have taken it for many years,
in fact, ever since the Western Rural left
Detroit, so I know of what I speak.

MINNIE M.
Warn Lax: .

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

A LADY writes to the Gardeners’
Monthly that having a large quantity of
small onions to prepare for pickling, she
avoided the pain and discomfort arising
from their pungent odor, by peeling them
under water. She filled her dishpan
with water, took one onion at a time into
it, leaving the debris in the water till in-
commoded by its quantity, and found
what is usually most unpleasant work, no
trouble at all.

 

THERE are many ladies who are troubled
with corns, bunions and chillblains to an
extent which makes it almost impossible
for them to bear the restraint of a leather
boot. When they sit down to rest it is
not rest unless the boots can be slipped off
and then some is sure to want some-
thing that only mother can get “right
away, quick,” and she goes in stocking
feet and likely enough catches cold. A
pair of cloth moccasins are a great com-
fort in such cases. Take some pieces of
heavy, strong cloth, cut a sole the size
and shape of the shoe sole, a “front”
modeled after the front part of the shoe,
cut to come well up across the instep, the
back of the moccasin being a straight

 

strip. Bind the top with a bit of braid-
They cost only the trouble of making,
and are very easy on the feet; not par
ticularly handsome, but comfortable.

~90+————-

Contributed Recipes.

 

 

Faun Cums—Two cups sugar, two eggs,

two cups buttermilk, one cup sour cream,
two teaspoonfuls soda, a pinch of salt, halfa

teaspoonful of allspice. Mix soft. They are

splendid. ZIP.
Sums.

 

FRIED Carina—One cup sugar, one cup
cream, one cup buttermilk, three eggs, one
teaspoonful of soda, aliitle salt; fry in hot
lard. If you have no cream, use another cup of
buttermilk and five tablespoonfuls of melted
butter or lard. Mas. R. D. P.

BROOKLYN.

 

Sorr GINGER Gama—One large cup molas-
ses, one egg, about two—thirds of a cup sour
cream (not too thick,) one even teaspoonful
of soda and same quantity Of ginger. Stir a
little stifler than for sponge cake. Bake quick.
The same cake with cloves, allspice, cinnamon
and nutmeg if you wish makes a good dark
part for “ marble cake,” and the light part is

called
SNOWBALL CAKE—One cup white sugar,

whites of three egg, half cup butter, half cup

sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, and

one of soda, or the same amount of baking.

powder, flour to make just right. Home.
HILLIDALE.

 

 

NE W AD VER TIBEMENTS.

IF YOU WANT:
Profitable Employment

BIND AT 0N0] TO

THE NEW lflMB KNITTEB 00.,

For Full Information.

An ordinary operator can earn from one to thee-
dollars per dajlyqin any community in the Northern
States on our ew Lamb Knitter.

100 Varieties of Fabric on Same Machine.

You can wholly finish twelve pairs ladies‘ ful-
shaped stockings or twenty pairs socks or mitten
in a day! Skilled operators can double this gm.
duetion. Capacity and range of work double
of the old Lamb knitting machine. Address

The New Lamb Knitter 00.,
117 and 119 Main St., west, Jacxsox, M10].

 

 

 

 

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