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TRUE W OMAN .
To be a sweetness more desired than spring;
A bodily beauty more acceptable
Than the wild rose tree’s arch that crowns the
fell ;
To be an essence more environing
Than wine's drained juice; a music ravishing
More than the passionate pulse of Philomel—
To be all this ‘neath one soft bosom’s swell,
That is the flower of life; how strange a thing!

How strange a thing to be what man can know
But as a sacred secret! Heaven‘s own screen
Hides her soul’s purest depth and loveliest glow:
Closely withheld, as all things most unseen—

The wave-bewered pearl—the heart—shaped seal
of green
That flecks the snowdrop underneath the snow.
—Rossetli.
———..w———

NOTES ON BACK NUMBERS.

 

In nothing does one so realize the
rapid flight of time as in newspaper work.
All the thought is for the next paper; the
one just out is dismissed from the mind
almost before it is in the hands of the
readers. The “to be,” not the “has
been,” has imperative claims upon the
present; there is little time for retrospect.
Yet I like sometime to take up the file of
the Household which is kept in my desk
drawer, and look the numbers over, noting
the thought and sentiment of the various
writers, and sometimes wish to have “ my
say” on the subject treated.

For instance: I could wish that Evan-
geline’s desire that her children shall re-
member Izome and mother as the happiest,
holiest, dearest thoughts of life, might
find a responsive echo in every mother’s
heart. I do not believe a man or woman
can be hopelessly bad so long as a
mother’s memory is held in loving remem-
brance. Sometimes mention of one
thing will suggest its opposite extreme;
so, as I read her words, memory brought
up an incident which occurred here last
summer. Jupiter Pluvius, not content
with shaking his sieve over a thirsty
world, had apparently turned it upside
down; the rain was falling in torrents.
Somebody at the window descried a boy
of five or six years who had taken shelter
under a tree in the street. Its foliage had
long since ceased to afford him any pro-
tection, yet he stood still, bareheaded,
and with the ram pelting upon him. We

_ watched to see him scamper for home,

but he never stirred. Finally the legal
gentleman of the family declared he was
going to send him home or bring him in
out of the rain. 80 he sallied out under
an umbrella, on benevolent thoughts in-
tent. But the boy would neither go home

 

nor come into the house; even a
bright silver dime offered him if he
would “run home” did not tempt him.
though his eyes brightened at sight of it.
He had not lost his way, he was not
locked out, farther than that he would
only say in response to queries why he
did not go home, that he would “ catch
it.” We learned afterward that for some
childish fault his mother had threatened
to “skin him alive” when she got hold
of him again, and that his experience of
her nearly literal interpretation of the
expression made him prefer the pitiless
downfall of rain to the tender mercies of
his mother; and that when, wet through
and through, he did steal homeward as
the shadows fell, his mother was waiting
to welcome him, which she did by taking
him by the ear and kicking him headlong
into the hall! What memories of home
and mother that child will have as he
grows to manhood! Is it any wonder
that to his elder brothers and sisters home
is a place to eat and sleep in, and to keep
away from as much as possible? Is it a
wonder that the girls are on the street
night and day; and the boys already em-
barked on the downward path? This
woman’s ungovernable temper drives her
children from home. Other women have
other ways of making home unpleasant.
by scolding, fretting, by untidiness, or its
opposite, that excessive cleanliness which
is so depressing. Yet by whatever means
it is compassed the end is the same.
Home is home in name only, with none of
the sacredness which should attach to it.
and one of the most potent influences of
life no longer exists. Home ought to be
the fairest spot on earth, and mother the
magnet to draw all hearts thither.

In a later letter Evangeline speaks of
money and what it does for us, and our
proneness to judge worth by wealth,
which brought to mind a story of the
Orient which I once heard. An Indian
prince, mindful of the uncertainty of life,
prepared to settle afortune upon his wife.
To him the princess said “Can wealth
make me immortal?” “No.” “Then
what care I for wealth, since it will not
give me immortality?” “Sit thee here
by my side, wife of my heart, while I ex-
plain it unto thee,” said the prince. “ It
is not the wife that is dear, but the soul
of the wife; therefore is the wife dear. It
is not the husband that is dear, but the
soul of the husband; therefore is the
husband dear. It is not wealth that is
dear, but the soul of the wealth; there-
fore is wealth dear. It is not the gods

 

that are dear, but the soul of the gods;
therefore are the gods dear." In this
fashion the wise Hindoo sought to teach
the lesson that the soul or self—-and in our
earlier language there was but one word
to express the two—~is that to which we
must look for worth and beauty, that
beauty of the soul, or self, is the only
true beauty and beyond comparison with
physical charms; that the use we make of
wealth is what makes it a power for good
or evil to ourselves or others; and that.
in his religion, even the gods themselves
were but symbolic of the soul of purity
and lofty asp'ration, the nobility and
truth which possessed them. There is
not in life a creature more pitiable than a
man given soul and body to the pursuit
of wealth for wealth ’s sake. He is poorer
in soul than the humblest laborer he em-
ploys, his ambition is the most ignoble,
its results upon himself the more deplor-
able. Wise indeed was the prayer of
Agur, “Give me neither poverty nor
riches.”

If all girls held to such thoughts con‘
cerning marriage as does our Strong-
Minded Girl, I have faith to believe there
would be fewer unhappy unions. It is
often jestingly said that girls think too
much about marriage, but it seems to me
that more earnest, sensible thought is
needed. That many, like the “ Alice” of
the narrative, love not the lover as the
man he is, but the man they think he is, is
true. They rear an ideal, which they in
vest with every manly virtue, and will
not see how far short the real self comes.
An awakening under such circumstances
is fatal. In aperfect affection love and
respect must go handin hand. Yet how
often inlife we see women loving Where
respect to us seems impossible! The more
I study the mysterious force which draws
two souls together, and note the myriad
forms in which the feeling is outwardly
manifested, the strange unions it brings
about, the more I am forced to admit
that Love is a “ free lance.”

Theoretically it is true we should let
love stand in abeyauoe till we reflect upon
fitness of circumstances, similarity of:
tastes, habits, opinions, morals and 311
other requisites. Practically, Cupid rules.
The little blind folded cherub shoots Where
he lists. Ninon d’Enclos said a woman
should never take a lover without the
consent of her heart, . nor a husband
without the consent of her j ndgment. I.
would amend this by saying she should
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marriages of life are inevitably and in
variably those where the two are asso-
ciated. Though love is essential, it is not
enough. Yet how few are the girls who
will deliberately scan a lover’s character
and decide as to his husbandly qualifica-
tions, asanaturalist impales an insect
upon a pin and notes its appearance?
They take it to be evidence that they are
cold, not "in love,” if they can make
passion subservient to reason. A happy
wedlock is a long falling in love; it is the
growth and deepening of a passion; a
passion guided and restrained by sense
and sound judgment. Respect and
admiration should precede love; love
should be the outgrowth of friendship;
yet what shall we do with those cases
where a man looks into the depths of a
woman’s eyes for.the first time, and the
thought comes like lightning, “Mine;
mine if I can win her,” and into her
heart, “My king!" Love moulds our
lives to good or evil, nor is its potency
for weal or woe more beautifully ex-
pressed than in these lines, floating about
in the news aper world without a sponsor:

“ Far up the pure white heights of womanhood,
S'le stood 1n starry light, serene and calm;
A lily on her breast, ani in her eyes
A deep, sweet peace; in sun and bloom and
balm,
Her pathway stretched across the cloudless

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‘Oh Love.‘ she smiled, ‘youlled my feet this
way. '

“ Low down in bitter dust, in stat-less night,
A woman with a red rose in her hair.
Told the vain moments ofi in bitterness,
Dazed with the depths of her own dun des-

pal.
Along her pzithway shone no beacon ray-—
‘Oh Love.‘ she cried, ‘you led my feet this

way 1"-
BE ATRIX.
——«o———-

OUR BEAUTIFUL LIFE-WORK

 

Woman must act in her own sphere.
She is not inferior to man, but her pow-
ers, functions and duties are diverse. The
sphere of woman is home—the social
circle. Her mission is to mould character
——the highest mission of mankind—to

. mould herself and others after the model
character of Christ. Her chief instru-
ments are the affections. Gentleness,
sweetness, loveliness and purity are the
elements of her power. She forms the
character of the world and determ’nes the
destiny of her race. “And an angel's
work is not more high than aiding to form
one’s destiny.” She governs her mental
faculties with moral truths, and reserves
her rich experience for the profit of on-
coming generations.

To those who believe in woman’s public
life, we will say many are equal to the
emergencies arising from the demands of
civilization. Her mind is subtler. Eve
was created after Adam, therefore she
was an improvement on him. Adam was
merely an eXperiment. Adam's deform-
ities were corrected in Eve, so of the
two woman is the more perfect. What
her brain lacks in quantity it makes up in
quality. As for her inventive powers,
when the noise of the trains first running
on theelevated road was setting all New
York crazy, and men—even the great
Edison—were busy experimenting to find
some preventive for the nuisance, a we
man brought forth the remedy; it was the

invention of a woman’s brain. An ex-
amination of the report of the Patent 0f-
fice for the past year show that more than
seventy patents were granted to women.
Most of them are for household articles,
with which they are familiar. The fem-
inine mind is, as a rule, quicker than the
masculine mind; it takes hints and sees

man’s attention. The beginning of every-
thing is an idea; but those who have ideas
are often incapable of giving them mate-
rial form. Women often carry the germs
of patents in their heads, and have some
rude machines containing them construct
ed, which serve their purpose. They do
not apply for patents, as they seldom
think of obtaining any pecuniary profit
from the ideas resulting from their ordin-
ary labors. Their simple desire is to lessen
the friction of their work.

Woman takes a prominent place in the
field of literature. Recall Madame de
Stael, Anne Aikin-Barbauld, Lady
Jane Grey, George Eliot, Mrs. Brown-
ing, Hannah More, Constance Faunt

1e Roy Runcie, Charlotte Saever,
Mrs. Mary Clemmer, not forgetting
Myrtis, Sappho and Corinne. Of trage-

dians who can excel Rachel. Mrs Siddons,
Modjeska? in the musical world Marie
Rose and Patti? Who does not read
Madame de Remusat’s history? Who
With greater success than Isabella of Gas
tile, Maria Theresa, Elizabeth and Vic-
toria has ever governed a kingdom? Will
men now accept woman as a fellow labor-
er in the domain of intellect, literature
and art? Even in political fields she has
exerted influence. Certainly Disraeli had
good reason for; insisting that woman has
the power to make a man's success in life,
for without Lady Blessington, Mrs. Nor-
ton and Mrs. Wyndam Lewis, he might
have been perched on a three legged stool

The reserve power of woman’s nature
is infinite in its results. Of course we are
speaking of the true woman. Resistance
to evil gives her moral muscle, and the
delicate, subtle influence, which is the
outgrowth of that, is the chisel in the
hand of the sculptor, breaking oflf the
rough pieces, softening the lineaments,
forming and polishing the character of
the home inmates, and from thence the
world’s inhabitants, like the ripple that
spreads its circle until it reaches from
shore to shore.

When from the observatory of Retro-
spection we look back on the changes
which so constantly beset the personal
and commercial world, we realize the
ruling Providence in the lives and deaths.
Inevitable crises come to cure great per-
sonal evils which threaten disaster to so-
ciety. Time will add to the greatness of
the rebuke administered to this over~
worked, over-excited,over-grasping peo-
ple. As a nation we are addicted to
money-getting. We place false estimate
on the uses and power of gold. Do we
who are not in the great maelstrom of
commercial life realize it?

0 woman, spread abroad a love for art,
for the true and beautiful in life, in sense
and in being. Encourage a pure litera-

 

 

defects which would escape the average ‘ ‘

in the old Jewry at the time of his death.

ture. Propagate principles of daily living
that are pure, charitable, ennobling; then
will come the reform for which you pray;
then will our people become as nobly and
morally great as they now are powerful
and progressive. J. S.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.

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CHARITABLE JUDGMENTS.

 

I have been reading in my Bible, “God

is your'Father, and all ye are brothers."

It would seem then, that there is a tie of
brotherhood between the poor tramp,

who scours the country begging. lying,

and stealing; the thousands of children,
having neither father nor mother, but
who like Topsy, “only growed,” cared
for by the Sisters of Charity and benevo-
lent institutions, and the millionaire and

those who have along line of ancestry
to' fall back on. Ilook out into God’s
bright sunshine over. level fields, on a
country where it seems Plenty has strewn
with a liberal hand, and wonder if we are
forgetting it. We talk a great deal about
the dignity of labor, at the same time
there is a slow but sure process of educa-
tion going on, which sermons and
catechisms will never be able entirely to
destroy, which prompts us to treat mere
wealth with more respect than honest
poverty; to show more deference to a man
who has only his great grandfather’s name.
than the fathful laborer who ditches our
meadows. It is bred 1n the bone and will
come out 1n the flesh, that one is better
than another, simply because he has more
money. The wife of the baronet can not
call upon the queen; the banker or mer-
chant’s wife is excluded from the
baronet’s social circle; the mechanic or
farmer’s wife is a little lower in the social
scale than the banker’s; they in turn feel
above the day laborer, and will not in~
vite him or his family to their parties;
and the day laborer, though he were an
ignoramus and drunkard, would feel
an horized to treat with contempt any
intelligent and excellent man whose com-
pletion happened to be black or brown.
I once heard of a grocer’s wife who with
infinite condescension of manner, said to
the wife of her neighbor the cobbler:
“Why don’t you come and see me some-
times? You need not keep away because
my house is carpeted all over.” A man
with a fortune will have a position;
money insures one. Those who lack this
have got to hammer it out, blow by blow.
It is not the men who are borne along on
the tide of prosperity that hold out al-
ways. We have an instance of the kind
in our Gen. Grant. No American ever
received such honors abroad as he; his
presents were magnificent, and to-day
they are liable to be sold at auction for
liabilities. Of course his friends will raise
money, and he will receive them back. He
failed in judgment—Wall Street had too
many attractions for him. When any com

mon person loses his property there are
no influential people to help him; as a
general thing, some one stands ready to
give him another roll to the bottom of
the hill; so you see position means a good

 

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the world over; rejoicing in another’s
misfortunes, seeing faults in others that

we cannot in ourselves. Suppose we
hear a little scandal about an acquaint—
ance, do we keep silent? Oh! no, we re-
tail it without inquiring as to the truth of
it; such idle talk will sometimes ruin a
man’s whole life.

“‘ Jud e not; the workings of his heart
An of his brain, thou canst not see;
\Vhat looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God‘s pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.“

We would all get along better, if once
in a while we could hear of a good word
spoken about us. If a man has only one
redeeming quality, let us give him credit
for it. A man with an iron' will, stout
heart, and resolute energy, will scale
anything, no matter how unfavorable the
circumstances surrounding him. All are
not so; some want a helping hand, and
encouraging words, and a little praise.

Because we fail once, it is no sign we.

shall always fail, but so many will alw’rays
censure for one mistake. We pray
your Heavenly Father for forgive-
.giveness. can we reasonably expect more
from Heaven than we are willing to give
our fellow men? We would all be better
men and women if once in a while we
forgot ourselves entirely. There are
many times when our labor would ac-
complish more than money; instead of
.giving for foreign missions, we could do
a little good in our own neighborhood;
though we need not take tracts and go
from house, our influence might be ex-
erted for much good.
EVANGELINE.

BATTLE CREEK.

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OPINIONS.

I think a good plan would be to treat
our friends when visiting us, as we wish
to be treated at their homes. If all we
.think of in visiting them, is how much
we can get to eat, then it would be well
enough to suppose that that is the object
of their visit. I do not think there are
many of the ladies who read the House
hold, who will not say that they enjoy
visiting the most where they are made to
feel at home, and know that all the
household arrangements are not being
changed on their account. Any woman
who will partake of a meal at another’s
table, and then go away telling how
scantily it was set, will talk about you
any way; so it is not just to judge others
by her.

When such people visit me they will be
'treated well, but not urged to come
again, nor will their visits be returned.
It is always well enough to say “come
again,” but do not do as I have known
some to do; urge company to keep stay-
ing longer and longer, and then after
they have broken away, scold because
they did not know enough to go home
after they had made a reasonable visit.
Friends are appreciated 8. good deal more
where they go a day too soon rather than

stay a day too long: but don’t blame
them for yourrown insincerity. ‘

The very same food we have at home
is apt to taste better away from home, if
well cooked. A person can eat only

  

 

about so much any way, and is apt to en-
joy plenty of two or three varieties of
food. rather than just ataste of half a
dozen kinds; and the stomach will show
its appreciation by not rising in revolt.

In the best regulated households, com-
pany will sometimes come when the
pantry seems comparatively empty. If
you must prepare something, let it be that
which will take the least possible time
and trouble. A hungry person doesn’t
care to wait an hour or two beyond the
regular dinner hour, for something to be
prepared of which they never were par-
ticularly fond.

If your house is in unusual disorder,
merely mention the cause; but do not
keep making excuses upon excuses, as
much as to say, “You couldn’t have
chosen a worse time for your visit.”

Educate the girls to be good, true,
sensible women, and then we need have
no fears about the position they are to
occupy. Who can imagine a really good,
intelligent woman making a poor wife,
mother, or even a poor stepmother or
mother in-law. Women who choose a
professional life are quite as apt to marry
when they get good chance, as girls
who never left their homes; so educate
them in the start for home life, and I
warrant you it will never come amiss.
If they never have a home of their own,
they will be obliged to live in some one’s
home, and agood understanding of'its
duties will make them more agreeable
and thoughtful of others’ rights.

PANSY.
Scuoownarr.

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SOMETHING FOR THE YOUNG.

 

After reading the poem “ Poor Tired
Mother,” published in the Household of
August 26th, I could not help thinking
how many poor tired mothers there. are,
who would be glad to lie down in their
graves and rest, were it not for the afl'ec-
tion they have for the dear ones who de-
pend on them for all the care and love
they get in this world.

What is there that a mother’s love will
not do? Just stop and think, you careless
ones, and find out if your mother is not
tired. Put away that book or fancy work
and see where mother 1s, and what she
has to do; help wash dishes, or churn,
iron, sweep; take some of her tasks on
yourself, and give her a chance to rest.
There is always enough to be done where
there is a family of children, and each one
can and ought to do something to help
lighten the burden for their mother.
Don’t wait for her to ask you to do things;
look around yourself and see what there
is to do, or ask her what you shall do; and
don’t act as if you were afraid she would
find something. I hope each one who
reads this will not say, “ It don’t mean
me.” If you are so happy as to have a
mother, look at her, see if she is not tired.
and just notice how few spare moments
she has for rest. .

Who keeps the work going on when
some one comes in for a call? Is it you,
or your mother? Don’t let her time for
rest be when she is laid in the grave, but
let it be here, and I know that grave will

 

not be made as soon, and you will have a
mother longer for council and a guide.
Best of all, you will have it to think of
when she is gone, and you have only the
grave to look at, that it was not from
overwork for you that it was made.

L. J. C.
GoastrLLE.

H—

HOW TO BROWN COFFEE.

 

‘For the benefit of those who would like
a good cup of coffee, I would advise buy
your coffee green, and do your own
browning. We are getting better satis-
faction from cofiee at fourteen cents per
pound than from that costing double.
browned. To brown, take a corn-popper
that will shut tight so as not to scatter.
Into the large size put a bowlful of coffee.
Have the stove hot, but not red; shake it
llvely to keep it turning; don’t let it burn
nor brown too much; a light brown is the
right color. Grind pretty fine; pour on
boiling water and set it where it will boi 1
moderately for three or four minutes. An
egg is not required.

I will also recommend the following to
those who are not wedded to salt-rising
bread: At noon take three medium sized
potatoes, mash fine with a fork, add two
teaspoonfuls of sugar. Soak one yeast
cake in lukewarm water enough to cover
it in a teacup; when soft mix well together
in a bowl, keep moderately warm, and by
night you will have a half bowlful of
lively yeast with which to make your
sponge. I buy yeast cakes, have no more
bother making yeast and have good bread
every time. COOK Coo.

BATTLE CREEK.

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QUESTIONS TO ANSWER.

I would like to ask what ails my taify.
I tried to make some after the recipe for
lightning tafiy and fussed with it all the
forenoon. If I boiled it till it would hair
then it would sugar when cold, and if I
didn’t boil it as much, it was soft; in fact,
it wouldn’t taffy at all. Finally, I put in a
cup of molasses and boiled it a little; set
it away to cool, then pulled till white and
the small boy said it was good; but it
wasn’t tafly.

If I color my frizzes to make them
darker,will it take the curl out? They
curl naturally; I have only to wet them
and comb them out and they curl nicely_

We think coffee is much improved and
is healthier by the addition of a little
chicory. For six or seven cofiee cups we
take two tablespoonfuls of ground coffee
(never grind until ready to use.) one
tablespoonful of chicory, wet it up with
an egg, and put into a little cold water; or

better still, a bowl of cold coffee left over.
When it comes to a boil fill up with boil-
ing water; let it stand a few minutes to
settle, and your coffee is ready.

MRS. J. H. K.

Cnnusco.

IN most of the recipes for cake given
in our cook books, fully one-third less
butter than the rule calls for, can be
used to advantage wherever the whites
of eggs only are used. The cake will be
lighter and more delicate. Try it if you
do not believe it.

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CAUGHT BY THE SCISSORS.

 

AUNT ADDIE tells us that very beauti-
ful bureau-covers, table scarfs, tidies and
sofa cushions can be made out of bed
ticking. Any of the fancy stitches now
so universally in use can be worked on
the white space, with scarlet or any other
gay colored silk or worsted.

 

ONE of the ways to amuse and interest
children at home is to make ablackboard
for them to draw pictures on. Buy a
square yard of the thick paper called
sheathing and used by builders, and give
it a couple of coats of black paint. Tack
it up against the wall in the kitchen, and
give the children a chance at it.

 

A WRITER in Harper tells us that the
baby’s garments should be loose. Babies
no more require to be pinned up in
‘ ‘bands” than do little kittens. Many a baby
cries simply because its clothing is too
tight. Undress it and it stops crying, be
cause it is no longer uncomfortable.
Change baby’s garments frequently; the
best material for under-clothing is fine,
soft flannel. Do not let the baby sleep
with you, but put him in his little crib by
your side. It is wicked to make a baby
sleep in the bed with two grown up peo-
ple. Teach him to go to sleep without
being rocked. Rocking induces slumber
by congesting the delicate blood vessels
of the brain. It is only ahabit to think
babies must be rocked, and they will
sleep better without than with it. Bathe
the baby at least once a day.

SPEAKING of scarlet fever, that dread of
mothers, with its terrible results to the
little victims, the Bazar urges upon all
inmates of a house where the disease pre-
vails, the necessity of extreme careful.
ness in the matter of spreading the dis-
ease, which is one of the most contagious
known to physicians; and says the mos;
malignant form can be developed from
the contagion of a slight case of scarle-
tina. The members of the family, whether
they are in attendance in the sick room or
not, should forego all social pleasures.
since with the utmost care the germs of
the disease will spread through the house,
and be carried abroad by its inmates, who
are thus unintentionally bringing the dis-
ease to the doors of their friends. Grown
people are seldom in danger of receiving
the contagion, but they can carry it in
their clothing. There is nothing heroic
in the courage of those who visit where
this fever is existing, since one may carry
away death in her garments, not for her-
self, but for the little children of others.
For three weeks after the patient is con
valescing a process called desquamation,
a shedding of the scarf skin, goes on, and
every flake of that cuticle is an inocula-
tion of the disease wherever received.

 

OUR correspondents will greatly oblige
the Editor. and be able to see their letters
in print as they send them to the ofiice.
if they will not incorporate the recipes
they furnish with other matters. We

 

by itself, for convenience of reference.
and this often necessitates the re-writing
of a whole letter. Please bear this in

mind.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

THE American Cultivator tells us that
peach and cherry gum, dissolved in good
vinegar, make excellent mucilage. It is
well to remember this, now gum Arabic
is forty cents a pound.

 

IF you want a wholesome, palatable
crust for chicken or meat pies, make it of
short-biscuit dough, rolled half an inch
thick. You can line the entire baking
dish, or leave the bottom without crust.
The crust will be light, and delicious
with the gravy, far superior to the
regular pastry which many use.

 

A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman recommends saving a jar half
full of strong lye at the time of the an-
nual soap-making, and putting into it
any bits of refuse grease which would
otherwise be thrown away. When soap
is made again, add the lye, and you will
have several gallons of soap extra.

 

THERE are few farm houses which are
supplied with closets off the sleeping
rooms. Every housekeeper knows how
unpleasant it is to be obliged to cross a
cold hall or room for another dress, or
some article of clothing needed at once,
which would be kept handy in a closet,
if there only was one. The Floral
Cabinet recently advised ladies to have a
board made to fit in one corner of the
room like a large bracket, from which
could be hung curtains, under which
dresses and other necessary apparel could
be kept safe from dust. The Household
Editor recently saw an improvement on
this plan. The bracket shelf, a triangle
filling in the corner of the room, and
measuring from the corner outward
about forty inches, was securely fastened
about six feet from the floor. To this
dressed pine boards formed a front, with
a narrow door, opening outward. The
front and top of the closet thus im-
provised were painted to match the wood-
work of the room. Inside, a row of
hooks on which to hang clothing, was
screwed to cleats which support the top;
these cleats must be firmly fastened,
since they support the weight of the top,
and the clothing hung on the books. The
whole affair only cost $3 50, at city prices,
but a farmer handy with tools could
make such a convenience at the cost of
the lumber and paint, which would be
trifling.

M. B. C., of Hudson, says she has tried
A. H. J.’s directions for crocheting
baby’s shoes, and is much pleased with

them.
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FOR a faded switch Mrs. F. M. G., of
Traverse City, thinks a preparation good
for the hair would be good for that
too. She recommends a cup of strong
sage tea, strained, addingalump of borax

desire to keep the recipes in a department , the siz: of a large bean. When cool put

 

in a bottle and put in two or three rusty
nails; use daily.
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Some Good Cake Recipes.

 

Lam! CAKE.—-One-half cupbutter, two cups-
sug’ar, whites of ten eggs, half cup of milk,
four cups of flour, three teaspoonfuls baking
powder. Cream the butter and sugar, add the‘
milk, then half the flour and the whites of the
eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Stir well, addthe
rest of the flour and beat smooth.

CITRON CAKE.— Use above proportions, add-
ing one-half pound of citron out fine and two-
teaspoonfuls of flour to dust over the Citron.

ALMOND Gama—Use the proportions given
above for Lady cake. Blanch one cup of al-
mond meats by leaving them in boiling water
till the brown skin will slip off in the hand;
out, and stir in with two extra teaspoonfuls of
flour. '

LAYER Gama—Two cups sugar; one~half
cup butter; one cup milk; whites of four eggs ;.
four cups flour, and three teaspoonfuls baking
powder. This makes a good batter for jelly,
chocolate or custard cake, but is not good.
baked in a loaf.

LEMON CAKE—TWO cups sugar, half cup of
butter, yolks of six eggs, half cup milk, three-
cups flour, juice and grated rind of one large
lemon, three teaspoonfuls baking powder. Put
together as directed for Lady Cake.

DELICATE Carina—One cup butter, two and
one half cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, four
cups flour, six eggs, three teaspoonfuls baking
powder. Cream the butter and sugar, add the
milk, etc. This makes a good raisin cake, if
two cups of seeded and chopped raisins and a
half cup more flour are added.

IF YOU WANT
Profitable Employment

BEND AT ONCE TO

THE NEW lAMB KNITTER 00.,

For Full Information.

 

 

'An ordinary operator can earn from one to three

dollars per day in any community in the Northern
States on our New Lamb Knitter.

100 Varieties of Fabric on Same Machine.

You can wholly finish twelve pairs ladies’ full-
shaped stockings or twenty pairs socks or mitten.
in a day! Skilled operators can double this pro-
duction. Capacity and range of work double that
of the Old Lamb knitting machine. Address

The New Lamb Knitter (30..
117 and 119 Main St., west, JACKSON, Mica,

 

 

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