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DETROIT, FEBRUARY 10, 1885.

 

THE HOUSEIHIOLDb-an§upplenient.

 

THE STEADFAST LIFE.

 

By thine own soul‘s law learn to live.
And if men thwart thee take no heed,
And if men hate thee have no care;
Sing thou thy song and do thy deed,
Hope thou thy hope and pray thy prayer,
And claim no crown they will not give.
Nor bays they grudge thee for thy hair,

Keep thou thy soul sworn steadfast oath.
And to thy heart be true thy heart;
What thy soul teaches learn to know.
And play out thine appointed part;
And thou shalt reap as thou shalt sow,
Nor helped nor hindered in thy growth,
To thy full stature thou shalt grow.
-Pacl‘enham Beatty.
— -——-..._._

HONEY MAKING FOR WOMEN.

 

Reality, our correspondent from Na
poleon, asks how a woman shall “ avoid
dependence upon her husband’s generosi-
ty in money matters,” and in what way a
woman’s work may be computed, at least
partly, in dollars and cents. In the first
place, I deprecate the idea that a man is
“ generous ” when he supports his family.
There is no generosity about it. It is a
plain dual, a duty he assumes when he
marries, and he has no more business to
consider himself “ generous ” because he
shares the profits of the farm with his
wife, than he has to call the man who
pays him for a load of wheat “ generous "
for giving him the market price for it.
There is no justice nor sense of right in a
man’s heart when he puts into his own
pocket the proceeds of the farm crops,
and expends the surplus in aids to carry
on his work, or deposits it in the bank,
while his .wife never has a dollar for
which she must not account to him. Mar-
riage is a partnership, and one partner
has no right to put the profits of the busi
ness into his pocket, 'to the exclusion of
the other party, nor yet to dictate how
the other shall spend her share. The
wife earns and is entitled to a reasonable
proportion of the husband’s income—it
should not be his but “ ours ”—and what
one is entitled to should be given without
hesitation, reluctance or grumbling. No
farm can be profitably carried on without
woman’s aid and assistance. The idea
that marriage obliges a woman to work
for her husband’s interest and profit and
also earn her own spending money, is
a gross perversion of the relationship; it
is a relic of barbarous days when
woman was not wife, but slave. Is it
nothing, think you, to leave parents and
friends, to give up a happy, care-free
home, to work and economize for a hus-

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band's sake, to go down into the valley of
Suffering, and stand within sight of the
portals of Death, to bear children and
rear and train them, fora husband’s sake?
Shall one who gives so much, so freely
and uncomplainingl y, be grudged a few
dollars of her own earnings, compelled to
ask like a beggar and be perhaps refused
like one, expected to render an account
of pins and postage, tape and darning‘
needles? I tell you it takes all a woman’s
love, all her conscientiousness, all her
courage in duty to God and man, to keep
her steadfast in faith and honor and love
to a husband who has so little respect for
her, and gives so little of love and honor
in return. If indeed self-sacrifice—what
we are willing to surrender or bear for
another—is the measure of love, some
marriage partnerships are terribly one-
sided, since all the selfsurrender is on
the woman’s part.

Iassert that no wife ought to feel, or
be made to feel by her husbnad, that she
is dependent upon him. As cold-blooded
and philosophical a man as John Stuart
Mill does not hesitate to affirm, with all
the strength of logic, that the marital ar-
rangement by which the husband earns
and the wife administers, is an equable
division of labor. Division of the results,
therefore, is not generous, simply just.
And mothers ought to train their sons to
a proper understanding of this thought,
that they may justly appreciate the worth
of the toil of the wives they will one day
marry, and not look upon them as up-
Der servants to whom they are not obliged
to pay wages. '

But while a wife ought to feel that her
work in home making and house-keeping
entitles her to a full share in her husband’s
income, and to that generous legal pro-
vision made for her by which she heirs a
third of his personal property and a life
interest in a third of his real estate, she
may often desire to help her husband to
remove a debt, to pay for a home, to
make some improvement; and have the
ability and disposition to earn if she had
but the way to do so. If a wife wishes
to so aid her husband in his projects, it
is generous and commendable on her part,
if the will and the way and the strength
are there. It is for love’s sake, and brings
a unity of interest and feeling grateful to
both. Then let the husband plan to carry
out the wife’s pet schemes, and the two
shall grow nearer and dearer to each
other, instead of drifting apart with the
yeafs. The man who recognizes his
wife’s rights in their mutual earnings,

 

makes her happy by never compelling her
to ask him for what it is his business to
give unasked, and who makes her his
confidant, gains a helper who is of more
service to him than any other in the
world, an aid the unjust, selfish man
never knows, never can know. And I
am glad to believe that most husbands
feel the truth of this, and are him just
and generous. giving what a true wife
values as much as a recognition of her
rights, words of love and commendation,
the meed of praise for work well done.
But I have reached the limit of my
space, and have not helped Reality to
scheme how she shall put her labor into
money. [ will try to give a few hints in

that direction next week.
BEATRIX.

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COFFEE AND TEA MAKING.

 

Among all the talk on coffee-making,
[have not heard anything about patent
coffee pots. Perhaps, like some other
“new-fangled notions,” they are set
down as “ no good " without a trial.
through that quality of our humanity
which leads us to distrust new and un-
tested ideas. City housekeepers find
them convenient, as no eggs are needed.
A friend of mine who is quite a con-
noisseur on coifee, uses a patent cofiee‘pot
and prefers it to any other way of making.
Inside the coffee-pot is a cylinder provid-
ed with a cup or collar on top, a place to
hold the ground coffee, and a fine sieve at
the bottom of the cylinder. The coffee is
put in, boiling water turned on, which.
percolates through the ground coffee,
escaping through the sieve, which strains
it so that no “settling” is necessary, the
whole process taking from five to ten:
minutes, according to quantity. This,
I am told, is the French way of making
coffee, the safe on laz't of the French!
restaurants. Nor need the most econOv
mical housekeeper steep the refuse
grounds, thinking she can detect waste by
this method, for the boiling water in its
downward passage will have extracted
the full strength of the coffee.

Perhaps it is a “notion,” but it always
seems as if coflee settled with an egg is
richer in flavor than without. And I
should consider it doubtful economy to
add warmed-over coffee from a previous
meal to the‘fresh made. If your economv
ical instincts will not allow you to throw
awaya cup of cold coflee, warm it over by
itself, but do not spoil the “whole
brewin’” with it. Tastes difler in coffee
as in other viands. I have known some

 


 

2 THE 'HOUSEHOLD.

 

“ awful slop,” in my estimation, called
“real good coffee” by others. No chic-
ory or cheap Rio for me, but a mixture
of two- thirds Java and one-third
Mocha, bought in the berry and
roasted at home, with hot milk and three
lumps (big ones, please) of cut loaf sugar.
will fill my soul with gratitude. Did you
ever notice how much better coffee tastes
served in a China cup than in a nicked
one so thick you can hardly get your
lips over the edge of it? I have. Pretty
dishes and neat and nice table linen are
great appetizers.

Tea is a beverage as much abused as
coffee. To be first-class. it should be
made in a clean metal or earthen tea pot,
not one set aside at the last meal with
lukewarm tea and the tea-grounds still in
it, but one which was washed, scalded
and dried with the other dishes. Warm
the tea pot, put in a spoonful of tea for
each person “and one for the tea-pot,”
and turn on the water the moment it boils.
This is important;water that has boiled
or is just going to boil, or that has been
boiling for five minutes, will not do;it
should just boil as it is used. Why? Be—
cause water at the boiling point is nec-
essary to extract the strength of the tea,
and water that has boiled has all the air
boiled out of it. If you think there is no
difference, try it. Boil water five or ten
minutes, let it cool so you can drink it;
then take a drink of some that has just
touched the boiling point. Never boil

'tea no matter what the brand. Let it
stand where it will keep just below the
boiling point. Tea should not be made
till just before every one is ready to sit

down to the table. The essential oils-

which give the delicate flavor and aroma

are dissipated in the steam, and the un~
pleasant tannic acid is extracted; in
“ steeping to get the strength” you only

' get tannic acid. From five to ten minutes
is long enough, the latter time for English
breakfast tea, which will stand a longer
period of digest.

' And while we are talking about tea and
coffee, let me say don’t drink too much of
either Coffee is injurious to those of a
bilioug temperament, so much so that
physicians of ten forbid it. Too much
tea, is bad for ihe nerves and the diges-
tion. The practice of some women who
keep the teapot on the stove in order to
take a cup two or three times bet ween
meals, is a very bad one. The tea re-
freshes and rests for a few moments, but
the efiect soon passes off, to be followed by
a corresponding reaction. Such might be
appropriately called “tea drunksrdsfi
The tannic acid which blackens and cor»
rodes the inside of the long used teapot,
exerts as deleterious an effect upon the
delicate lining membrane ofthe stomach.
Therefore take the Yorkshireman’s ad-
vice, and “dra’ it mild.”

Whenever i see a' mother putting her
teacup to her baby’s lips, or serving her
little children with a cup of the Chinese
herb, I want to say “Don’t.” Pure milk
and pure water are the best drinks for
children. Many unwise mothers give
their five and seven year old children as

strong tea. and coffee as they drink them-

selves, only adding a little more milk.
The effect upon nerves and digestion is
ruinous. A physician of Waterbury,
Conn, relates an instance where tea
killed a five year old child. It died of
dyspepsia and nervous exhaustion, in-
duced by the tea its mother had given it.
If country mothers knew the pains city
women take to secure pure and healthy
milk for their children, they would prize
more highly the rich beverage yielded by
“cows knee keep in clover,” which
never knew brewers’ grains or glucose
meal as food. A glass of hot milk is not
a bad substitute for tea or coffee at break-
fast for either child or grown person, and
is much more healthy, especially for
those who have little appetite for the
morning meal. Chocolate, too, though
rarely seen on 'farmers’ tables, is an
excellent drink for at breakfast. Miss
Corson says tea ought not to be taken at
breakfast, as it retards the assimilation of
food at a time when immediate refresh-

ment is needed. BRUNEFILLE.
DETROIT.
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ECONOMICAL FURNISHING.

 

“ A Farmer’s Girl ” writes to the House-
hold for advice in the matter of furnish-
ing a bedroom cheaply and prettily. She
says: “ I want to ask a school friend to
make me a visit this summer, but we have
no room we can give up to her. There is
a room upstairs which we have used as a
store-room which mother says I can have,
but it is entirely unfurnished, no carpet
nor bedstead, and the walls are rough
finished. It is about twelve feet square,
with two windows with pleasant outlook,
andwould be nice if I could furnish it.
I have only a little money to spare for it,
and I want it to be pretty, for my friend
lives in good style and I do not want her
to think farmers never have anything
decent. Can you give me a little inform.
ation asto what to do about furnishing
it?”

With time and patience, and a little
money, we think you can manage so you
will not be ashamed of your handiwork
as an amateur furnisher. The walls and
wood work will first demand your atten-
tion. The more novel and unique your
furnishing, the more charming the result.
Do not paper your walls, but sweep them
down, to get off the dust and loose bits of
plaster. Cut afigure, a star, clover leaf,
Maltese cross, or any fancy shape, out of
stiff pasteboard, and with this stencil go
over your side walls, painting the figure
with a mixture of white lead and carriage
varnish, which will make a sticky com-
position. On this, before it is dry,
throw sifted white sand, Ewhich
will adhere and outline the figure.
Dust off the loose sand, and paint
the wall, figures and all, a very light
tint of the color you have chosen for the
furnishing, blue, for instance. Paint a
deep blue band at the top, like the border
of a papered wall. If you choose pink as
the color, the border will be handsome in
dark ruby or cardinal. Stain the floor
and varnish it; or if it is laid in narrow

 

matched strips, you can paint it in two

 

colors, blue and grey, or blue or wood
brown, for instance.

A bedstead and springs will cost hard
cash, but if you are near a furniture fac-
tory, or even near a large furniture store,
you can perhaps ‘obtain a bedstead—or a
whole set, if that indefinite amount of
money is sufficient—before it is finished
off, and paint it yourself. If you are
artist enough to paint a trailing spray of
wild roses or apple blossoms across the
headboard, after having given the wood a
coating of paint, you need not envy any-
body’s black walnut. If you cannot do
this, try to paint it tastefully in two col-
ors, or two shades of your chosen color,
having the greater part of the lighter
shade. If you cannot get the unfinished
furniture, you will have to try the “handy
woman’s make-shift,” packing boxes con-
verted into dressing case and wash stand_
How to do this has been so often told that
we do not think it necessary to repeat
directions. But instead of using tarleton
and paper cambric for covering, as gen-
erally recommended, but which somehow
suggests the Goddess of Liberty in a
Fourth of July procession, be sensible and
get a cheap lawn, or even a pretty print,
white, with a tiny figure, which can be
freshened when soiled. You can dress out
this improvised furniture _ with whatever
bravery of toilet mats, splashers, pincush~
ions, etc., you please. Half afiour barrel
head nailed to the wall and decked with
a seine twine lambrequin, gives a pretty
and convenient bracket, and so prosaic a
thing as a soap or starch box can be con-
verted into a tasteful cabinet or bookshelf.
If you must buy a looking-glass, get a
straight one, if it is not larger than a pie
plate. There’s nothing so depressing to a
pretty girl engaged in getting herself up
“regardless of expense,” as to look in the
glass only to see her face as much distort-
ed as if she were viewing it on the brill
iant surface of a new tin pan. If you can-
not buy a full toilet set, call on your
nearest tinner and buy a large block tin
basin. as near washbowl size and shape as
you can find, also a tin water carrier.
You’ll be laughed at, perhaps, but after
you have painted both a dainty cream
white with bands of blue, or a spray of
flowers in just the right place, it will be
your turn to laugh. There are plenty of
fancy mugs and trays which will answer
for soap dish, etc.

Drape your windows with cheese cloth
at six cents per yard. If you choose,
these can be made very pretty, almost as
handsome as the Madras draperies, by
embroidering autumn leaves in various
shades of green, red, yellow and brown
on them, scattering the leaves irregularly
over the length. Done in Kensington
stitch the work grows fast under nimble
fingers, and if crewels are used the ex~
pense is not great. Or threads may be
pulled for a border of drawn work; or a
ribbon run through the threads; or an
edge of coarse lace be added. For plain
shades inside these—next the glass, heavy
unbleached cotton is better than paper or
cheap shades of any kind.

Try to make a mg of some kind to
spread at the side of the bed, and another

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THE HOUSEHOLD. 3

 

 

for the dressing case. What are called
chenille rugs are much in favor among
home-made articles of this kind. They
are made entirely of worsted rags, about
as wide as carpet rags, and frayed as
much as possible in cutting and handling.
Run a stout thread through the center,
drawing up each length about half; string
them along hap-hazard, then have the
weaver weave them for you, not beating
up quite as much as for a carpet. If the
weaver will take pains to make the frayed
edges show as much as possible, she can
adda good deal to the appearance of the
rug. The fabric should look “ fuzzy,”
which is supposed to indicate the resem-
blance to chenille. An ottoman or two,
of home manufacture, which may also do
duty as a shoe box and receptacle for
stockings, etc., will fitly furnish forth the
room, which being small requires less of
furniture.

This method of furnishing takes more
time, ingenuity and patience than to or-
der and pay for what is necessary. Yet
very pretty and satisfactory results may
be obtained, if taste and patience unite in
the work. And, if your friend comes to
see you, receives a cordial welcome, and
has a “real good time,” as town girls al-
most always do in the country, depend
upon it she will not count the cost of
your furnishing, or remember it otherwise

than as dainty and appropriate.

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HOUSE-KEEPING VS. HOME-MAK-
ING .

 

In studying how to make home beauti-
ful we must not forget, first of all, there
must be a home; and that in a true home
the household and net the house is of
primary importance. A great many en-
tertain the mistaken idea that a structure
of brick, wood or stone, decorated and
embellished with all that is elegant in art,
filled with furniture and bric-a-brac, sur-
rounded with cultivated grounds, is a
home. We have all seen careful house
keepers whose first and last thought was
to keep their domains with absolute neat-
ness, and whose domestic law was of
Median and Persian inflexibility. There

. wasa place for everything and everything

in its place Overshoes must be left
here, slippers must be put there; the front
stair carpet must be trodden only by the
visitor’s foot; the front door latch must
never be lifted bythe children’s hands;
curtains must be drawn close to keep the
carpets from fading; and autumn fires
remain unlighted, lest ashes fly. These
were housekeepers,not home-makers. The
virtue of carefulness is a housewife’s
glory; but when carried to an excess, be-
comes a woman’s shame, leading her to
imagine that meat is more than life, rai-
ment more than body, and house than
man. Of the virtuous woman, we read
first, “She openeth her mouth with wis-
dom, and in her tongue is the law of
kindness;” then that “she looketh well to
the ways of the household, and eateth not
the bread of idleness.” After which it
follows naturally that “her children rise
up and call her blessed, her husband also,
and he praiseth her. ” But when the devi

 

of neatness enters into awoman, he defies
comfort, and banishes the angel of peace
from the house. And yet comfort, im~
portant though its place may be in the
home economy, is not to be the first aim.
A wise critic says. “Every house should
have in it that which tells of strength,
and seems to favor self-sacrifice, sim-
plicity, self control. Nothing is finer in
a house than a kind of subtle, ubiquitous
spirit, which asserts the superiority of
the household, and tells you that they
fear neither hunger nor cold, toil or dan'
ger. and do not bow down night and
morning to the vulgar divinity, Comfort."
Not the house we live in, but the life we
live in it, is that on which the real beauty
of home depends. In the House-Beauti-
ful, not Mr. Cook’s nor Mr. Allen’s, but
the incomparable House-Beautiful which
Bunyan has described for us, even there
the boy Matthew fell sick, from tamper-
ing with the fruit of Beelzebub’s garden.
Compared with this soundness of inner
life in the house, these questions of outer
adornment,, of taste, or expediency, or
expense. are unimportant matters, since
no home can be truly beautiful that is
tarnished by an unworthy life within its
walls.

In fhe refined paganism of these days
there seems to be a mania for magnifying
the house we live in, and the highest re-
ligion of many a family is simply to
make their home beautiful and attractive.
This is commendable in a certain way,
and to acertain extent, but a higher re-
ligion would teach us to make the homes
,of the poor comfortable also, for Christ
tells us “ The poor ye have with you al‘
ways.” We buy a great deal with our
money that only clutters up the house,
and instead of addinga home-look, gives
it the appearance of a bazar. The chairs
are dressed up with tidies, the tables with
scarfs, the corners filled w1th card-receiv-
ers and wall pockets, the pillows sham-
med with “Sleep, Gentle Sleep, ” “Good
Night " and ”Rock a Bye Baby,” all
showing great proficiency with the needle
—a thorough knowledge of Kensington
stitch and etching; showing also num-
berless days frittered away over—nothing.
A Webster 3 Unabridged in a convenient
corner. an Encyclopedia. books of travel
and interest, games and newspapers, will
benefit all the members of the household,

nd it is astonishing how the children
will become conversant with the current
topics of the day. Whittier tells us
“Life is hard and colorless without an
atmosphere." We are not mere machines.
Life is hard and colorless indeed, if the
mind is filled constantly with tasks to be
performed; the mind tires sooner I think
than the body, that is the way we become
fretful and cross. Nature will rebel when
over-tasked; the eye wants a little, and
quite a little of beauty, to vary the plain
and prosaic. While we have seen that
too immaculate cleanliness is not favor-
able to home comfort and attractiveness,
there is another demon—slovenliness--who
conspires to make all miserable. Wise,
indeed, is the woman who possesses dis-
crimination, and avoiding either extreme,
strikes the happy medium. The woman

 

who has mastered the science of house-
keeping in all its details, scaled the
heights and compassed the possibilities,
has shown as much strategy and skill as
ever general did in army tactics; but
unless she possesses the tact to combine
house-keeping and home-makin g, she has
made a shipwreck of home. We who have
chosen our lot as wife and mother must
not blind our eyes to the fact that al-
though our shoulders are weak, much
depends upon us; we are the prime factor,
the balance wheel in the household, and
it is for us to make an Eden of our home,
so that husband and children will turn
toward it gladly, eagerly, not merely as
place to sleep and eat in, but as the deer
est spot on earth. I have my ideal home;
it is possible to exist anywhere within
four bare walls; but it is a home where
love fans the flame on the hearthstone;
such a love as God gave Adam and Eve in
Paradise, 8. love that rises above bickering
and quarreling; the wishes of one are
anticipated by the other. “Joy is duty,
love is law,” and while it permeates every
fibre, and envelops the loved with a rose-
hued halo,it does not hide the proclivities
for sin, but because of. its great abund-
ance, can forgive. Our earthly home is
but a type of our heavenly one; only we
drop the load of care which seems some-
times so like a burden, and leave the
shadows far behind us. Life can not be
perfect without shadows. “ We must have
the discipline of winter here, to have

eternal summer there.” EVANGALINE.
BATTLE Cnnx.
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MINT AN D CUMMIN.

. If Reality does not consider her work
properly compensated in dollars and
cents, why does she not try gardening?
If she will try I think she will find it
health-giving, pleasant work; and also
remunerative. I do not mean to try
raising celery, potatoes, turnips or beets,
they require too much labor. But an old
fashioned garden of herbs does not re-
quire so much attention. Have the
ground plowed in autumn, and in April
sowthe seeds in rows, about 12 inches
apart. It is hoed lightly when the first
weeds begin to germinate, and is very
easily kept clean if taken in time. The
plants are thinned and bear transplanting
well In September cut out every alter-
nate row, and that allows the rest more
room. Ican get children to tie up the
bunches; and there is a good demand for
thyme, sage, savory and marjoram as long
as the fowl season is in. Then if your
stock is not all marketed it will keep
well. The other herbs, such as lavender,
anise, basil and rue, are not in such good
demand, though I generally manage to
dispose of them without trouble. Now
I hear you ask what was the profit; ours
was fifty dollars from a quarter of an
acre; of course not all the money we
needed during the year, but it was suf-
ficient for postage stamps. Now I have
given you my mode of gathering pin
money, can not some one furnish me

with some better ideas? as. B. c.
Hunsox.

 


 

4' THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

WASHING BLACK CALICO.

 

A~correspondent asks how to wash
black calico so it will not fade. In the
first place, when you buy black calico
select a piece that is well stamped, by
whichis meant that the wrong side of
the calico shall be pretty black, as if the
dye had “struck throng ” the goods.
Such print will not fade so badly as that
which seems to have the color all on the
right side. This rule holds in buying any
printed black cotton goods. Dissolve an
ounce of sugar of lead in a pailful of
water; put the dress in this and let it
stand half an hour—it will do no harm if
it stands a little longer. Then wash,
using very little or no soap. Either use
potato starch or no starch at all; rinse the
last time in water made very blue with
indigo, hang in the shade and iron on the
wrong side. The calico will fade some,
in spite of everything, but will look bet-
ter washed in this way than in the usual

fashion.
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CURE FOR OORNS.

 

My husband takes the Fawn, so 1
count myself a member of the Household
family. I am now in my seventieth year
and never wrote one word for a paper;
but seeing the question, “What is good
for some?” I thought I would tell you
what cured mine. Let me tell you a little
how bad my feet were: The halls and
under side of my toes were very sore,
and there were corns on nearly every
joint of my toes; they were very painful.
The remedies I tried were too numerous
to mention, and of no real use.

One year ago last fall I had a large pair
of shoes bought, fours in length and fours
in width; had the heels taken off so that
they were very low; then got a pair of
cork soles and laid them in the shoes. I
have worn these shoes nearly ever since,
and my some are perfectly well.

SALLY s. RANDALL.

Cuannorrn. ___‘..___

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

WE are told by an experienced butter-
maker that crooks of butter to be kept
for several months should never be placed
upou the cellar bottom. This causes two
degrees of temperature in the crock,
which will be at the expense of the
quality of the butter near the top. The
erocks will keep their contents far better
if placed at least a foot from the cellar
bottom upon a bench and a thick woolen
cloth thrown over them.

 

WHEN roasting a chicken or small fowl
there is danger of the legs and wings
browning or becoming too hard to be
eaten. To avoid this take strips of cloth,
dip them into a little melted lard, or even
just rub them over with lard, and wind
them around the legs. Remove them in
time to allow the chicken to brown
delicately.

 

IF you would have your rice, tapioca
and sage puddings come to your table at
their best estate, remember it is neces-
sary to bake them very slowly, in a slow

oven. It is not necessary to use so many
eggs when these farinacious foods are
given plenty of time to soften slowly un-
der heat. Most rice puddings are made in
less than an hour. Cook the rice slowly
for two hours, then bake the rice custard
slowly for another hour. If rice is used
without previous cooking, let it bake for
three hours in a gentle oven.

 

ONE of our correspondents told us how
to make a crocheted work-basket. Per
haps all do not know that quite unique
paper racks can be made in the same way.
Crochet the back and front pieces sep~
arately, starch them very stiff, and let
them dry under a heavy weight, or iron
them dry, varnish and put together, run
ning narrow ribbons through the open
work, and tying a pretty bow on the front.

 

A LADY correspondent of the Husband.
man says she tried several kinds of lye
and potash in the manufacture of soap,
but found none which suited her, till she
tried Lewis’s 98 per cent lye, made by the
Pennsylvania Salt manufacturing com-
pany, which she recommends, saying:
“Every can will make ten pounds of ex-
cellent hard soap in twenty minutes with»
out boiling, if the directions which come
with each can are followed. So a half
dozen cans of the lye were bought, and as
many as were needed used to make the
drippings into beautiful white, hard soap,
and a can which was left is kept standing
near the sink to be used in softening
water, whenever hard water has to be
used, as a very small quantity is sufficient
for this purpose. The hard soap keeps
the clothes from the weekly wash much
whiter than does soft soap. and they re-
quire less rubbing—so that although the
soft soap is sometimes missed when there
is something very greasy to be cleansed,
the excellent hard soap takes its place very
well, and in many places is much to be

preferred.”
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MERTIE, of Paw Paw. thinks it quite
likely that Mrs. J. H. K., of Ceresco, will
sacrifice’curl to color unless she rolls her
frizzes over something before putting
them in the dye. She recommends rol-
ling them up (as if to make them curl if
they were straight) over bits of black or
brown cambric, and then color. This is
her personal experience. The Household
Editor would say that the best way to
manage a faded hair switch is to take it to
ahair store and have it colored there. It
will be made to match any desired ' color,
will be soft and natural in texture, fre e
from any odor of dye, and only cost fifty
cents. It is worth more than that to fuss

with it at home, and much more if the
home dyeing is not satisfactory.

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Useful Recipes.

 

Hons-r CAKE—A Cincinnati bakery is fam_
ous for its honey cakes, which are sent to many
of our large cities as delicacies. We give the
recipe, which though for a larger quantity
than most people would desire to make at one
time, can be cut down by taking a half or
quarter of the ingredients: Fifteen pounds
dark honey, 15 eggs, 1% ounces baking soda,

 

two ounces hartshorn, two pounds almonds

 

 

chopped tine, two pounds citron, four ounces
cinnamon, two ounces cloves,two ounces mace,
18 pounds flour. Let the honey come almost
to the boiling point, then cool off again and
add the ingredients. Cut out and bake. The
cakes are iced afterward with sugar and whites
of eggs.

 

BOUILLON.—~Thls clear soup, which is a ver
fashionable refreshment, being served at near-
ly all social entertainments, and which is drank
from small cups, is made as follows: ChOp
two pounds of lean beef as fine as for hash;
put in a quart of cold water in aclosely cover-
ed saucepan and let it simmer three or four
hours. Then strain of! the fluid part, and
when cool add the beaten white of an egg. Set
it over the fire and stir till it begins to boil,
skimming till it is clear: then strain through a
cloth and season with salt.

 

RAILROAD Boxnnn HALL—For a ham of 11
pounds weight take three coffee cups of cider
and enough boiling water to cover the ham.
Put the kettle where the contents can simmer
steadily for five hours, or till the bones are
quite loose. Then set the kettle off till the
next day, and in the morning lift the ham from
the water, take off the skin, and if the fat is
very thick, shave some of it of! smoothly. Put
the ham in a slow oven for three—quarters of
an hour. Just before taking it out put half a
cup of cider and a cup of brown sugar in a
small frying-Dan and cook till the cider nearly
boils away and the sugar burns toa very dark
brown. Spread this caramel frosting half an
inch thick all over the top of the. hot ham; it

will harden atonce into a beautiful olished
crust. The ham must not be out till t is en-
tirely cold.

IF YOU WANT
Profitable Employment

SEND AT'ONCB TO

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For Full Information.

An Ordinary operator can earn from one to three
dollars per dayqin 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 10-
duction. Capacity and range of work double glut
of the old Lamb knitting machine. Address

 

 

The New Lamb Knitter 00.,
117 and 119 Main St., west, J acxsox. Mien,

BALI.’

 

   

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