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WOMAN'S VANITY.

 

Though she is old, she thinks she's young— .
And yet there’s no insanity:

What can it be deludes her thus?
’Tis only a woman‘s vanity.

She wears gay clothes, both pink and blue—-
0 weakness of humanity!

And then she tips her cap awry,
Which shows a woman’s vanity.

What’s more she thinks she’s quite a “ blue,”
Although there’s much inanity;

How can she think herself a wit?
Go ask a woman’s vanity.

But, ladies, though her fault we see,
Let’s treat her with urbanity;
For more or less we all have got
A spice of woman's vanity.
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A FALSE POSITION.

What an extraordinary number of
peculiar people there are in the world;
and what remarkable ideas some of them
cherish! And among these peculiar
notions there is none which seem to me
more peculiar than that held by some
very good people, to the effect that if they
once say they will, or will not do a thing,
it is evidence of strength of character and
right principle, to hold to that deter-
mination, no matter how unwise or mis-
taken, foolish or unnecessary, such
persistence may be. They seem to be able
to comprehend no distinction. between
firmness, which is ever founded on and
guided by reason, and obstinacy, which
is in efiect saying “I won’t because I
won’t.” When the wrong or folly of a
course is pointed out, instead of frankly
admitting themselves in error, they de-
fend the old position by the to them con-
vincing argument “I said I would not.”

I wish to cite a case in point, as illustrat—I

ing my exact meaning: Alady became
afironted at a clergyman of this city, for
no matter at all concerning her, (indeed I
am sure she had never even spoken to
him) but because of some difierence of
opinion between him and the pastor of
“her church.” No one would cavil at
her right to uphold the cause of a friend,
but when she declared she would never
enter the church presided over by this
obnoxious divine, nor attend any meeting
at which he presided, she carried her
championship to the point of absurdity.
Occasion came when he was to preside
over a meeting of unusual interest. which
she much desrred to attend. But she
stayed away for this reason, given‘n her
own words, "I said I’d never go where
Mr. Blank preached or presided, and so

won’t.” Well. the meeting reached a

 

successful termination without her; be-
yond a doubt the dignified chairman was
unaware alike of her absence and her
displeasure; the only one who suffered
deprivation was herself. If there had
been a principle at stake, even if her
presence had been a tacit endorsement of
the offender, there would have been some
show of reason in her act; as it was, she
only won pity for her folly and obstinacy.
There is acertain strength and resolute-
ness of purpose which makes us constant
to our ideals, and faithful in execution?
and which is bent toward the doing of
that which is right, which is a tower of
safety in a person’s life. And there is a
clogged persistence which is no evidence
ofstrength of character, but is born of
one of our most ignoble passmns, re-
venge. When two women fall out and
take the essentially feminine revenge of
vowing that they will never speak to each
other again, asI am sorry to say they
sometimes do, when the heat of passion is
over, and the cause of offence looked at
calmly and discriminatingly, which,
think you, is the nobler woman of the
two; she who takes the initiative and
breaks the ice by a cheery greeting, or
she who sullenly turns away in silence
and justifies herself by saying “ I said I
would {not speak to her, and I won’t?”

To take a broader and more compre-
hensive view of the subject, it seems to
be considered, in many instances, evi-
dence of weakness or of ulterior design
to abandon an opinidn once deliberately
formed and expressed, for another radi-
cally dissimilar. “You don’t think as
you used to,” isa charge not infrequent-
ly made, and usually in the way of re-
proach. It is generally fatal to a poli-
tician to change from one party to
another; if he comes up for office he finds
he has dug his political grave, and is
buried under a snowstorm of ballots.
Religiously, a man is considered unstable
if he leaves one body of Christians for an-
other. Stability of character is very de-
sirable; it is only the vacant mind that is
open to every impression. And yet it
seems to me that to alter a cherished be-
lief, after due investigation, exercising
our power of discriminating between
right and wrong, is not only our noblest
right, but an absolute duty. To cling to
an old opinion against our better judg-
ment, because we once believed and ad-
vocated it, is evidence of weakness rather
than strength. It proves us cowards, in
that we dare not admit we have been
wrong. .

     

 

We ought to outgrow many of our
opinions as we do our garments. With
the varied experiences of life and the wis—
dom which should come with increasing
years, our mental growth and the (levels
opment of intelligence, can it be expected
that we shall hold to the crude beliefs and
prejudices formed through ignorance of
truth, which summed our knowledge in
earlier years? Ought we no: rather to
grow far beyond them in our vigor of
thought and grace of opportunity“? I do
not mean that we shall be “blown about
by every wind of doctrine,” as unstable
as the yielding sand that takes the im‘
press of every passing foot, to lose it as
readily; but rather that when we learn
that truth, though stable as the eternal
hills, like them presents many aspects, we
are not to be afraid or ashamed to receive
the new ideas, test them, and take them
into our hearts when they have borne the
fullest investigation, and been found
pure and true, or even nearer to our
standard than the old.

In life we often meet men, and more
especially women, who are examples of
what might be calledinterrupted develop-
ment. There were possibilities about them
which have not been realized. Many a
boy and girl who gave bright promise in
early life, have never attained mediocrity
in mature years. They stopped growing.
There was neither outward influence nor
inward impulse to push them forward.
They have 'held to their old ideas, admit-
ting no new light. They accept what is,
and harden to its mould, making no en~
deavor for what might be. Life ought to
grow wider and wider with age. like the
circles which ripple depths disturbed,
widening as they go. Growth ought to be
happiness; growth is happiness; but there
can be no growth without new knowledge.

Prejudice is generally the result and
accompaninent of ignorance. “When a
man can't neither read nor write he’s apt
to be extr’or'nary positive,” William
Clark Russell makes one of his characters
say. When we refuse credence, or even
consideration, to new thoughts because
the old ones are “good enough,” ignor-
ance often makes us “extr’or’nary posi-
tive.” When Science asserted and proved
the antiquity of the earth, and that it
whirled through space ages before the
Mosaic account of its creation, Religion
was up in arms. Now, both go hand in
hand, and each proves the eternal truth
of the other. And so it is that we must
change our opinions as new light dawns
on the world. BEATRIX.

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

DIVORCE, AND WHY?

 

The subject of divorce is at present at-
tracting a good deal of attention through
the press, and many changes are being
rung on the topic. Many causes for its
conceded prevalence are assigned; such
as ill advised, hasty and youthful mar-
riages, it even being asserted that the cal-
culation that a divorce is obtainable if
parties tire of their marriage contract, is
complacently considered by parties en-
tering into that holy estate. Another
lays the blame on the laxity of the laws;
another on the rascality of lawyers; while
some, more audacious, claim that the
ermine of the judiciary is sullied by
collusion with the various legal lights
and their hapless clients.

“Extreme cruelty” has come to be one
of the best abused causes of alleged
ground for divorce, and in common with
the advanced position taken by women
in other matters, is as often used by the
male as the female plaintiff.

There is certainly no good reason why
this showing should not be made. One
sample specimen of this extreme cruelty
is offered, where a woman threatened to
leave her husband because he took the
money she had earned to pay for his
drinks, and then came home and “give
her a batin’,” to work off his surplus en-
thusiasm and electricity.

This case of “extreme cruelty ” must
be apparent to the most stupid intellect.
How could he make a living or get even
the necessities of life—whisky and tobac-
co—if his wife carried out her threat of
leaving him? But he became convinced
she meant it, and forthwith he laid in
with a limb of the law to bring suit for
divorce. “ For, ye see, if 01' get the bill,
folks ’ll blame her and Oi kin soon git
anither wan, an she’ll be too glad to get
rid of me to kick.”

High placed ambition anda brilliant
scheme, but “ nothing succeeds like suc-
cess.” But after all, is it not a good thing
that divorce is easy? In the case cited,
the inhuman wife would never have
thought of that way of escape from her
victim, and should she,—forgetting the
lessons of experience—soon unite her fate
with another no better, or perhaps worse
than the first, what escape has she from
her own blunder but the protecting aegis
of divorce?

What matters it if this disruption of
the family tie makes children worse
than orphaned; the ranks of crime, folly
and poverty must be filled up—for such
sometimes die—or the world would
grow too good and the millenium dawn.

The rumseller says “ If I don’t sell rum
to this fellow, he’ll buy it of ' the other
fellow, and I might just as well have it as
Jones;” and acts of others say: “There
must be paupers, rogues and thieves, and
my children might as well be supported

why the public in some of these positions,
as those of any one else.”

Of course. the wealthy are of the same
blood as the poor, if they do not concede
the truism, and high-toned divorces of-

- ten furnish lessons for the “School for
Scandal,” where money will bind up

broken hearts, cover sullied reputations,
and brighten the blighted prospects of the
innocent sufferers; but, unhappily the
disease seems most prevalent among the
classes that need most to pull “hard and
all together” to make progress in the
world’s march. The argument is fre-
quently heard that prohibitory laws make
free whisky. I wonder if that logic is
good enough to try in this matter; if all
marriage contracts would be kept intact
if divorce was absolutely free. “Man-
kind can be persuaded” says one, “but
will not be driven.” If this is literally
true, I fear men share in the alleged
contrariness of women.

But as man was made a little lower than
the angels, and women are angels,
“minus the wings,” and as the natural
law of nature is to improve by the law of
evolution, we may hope that these things
that at times challenge our faith in the
perfect working together of all things for
good, will slowly but surely disappear,
and that human throats will cease to
c: ave, and human hands cease to manu—
facture “fire water;” that men and
women will respect and keep the marriage
vow, living together in unity; and that
lawyers, finding their occupation gone,
will, with a corrupt judiciary, reform and
becoming respectable and respected
citizens, take place in that grand post-
historic time, when whisky will not exist,
and extreme cruelty and divorce will not
be known. A. L. L.

INGLESIDE.
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THE MARITAL PARTNERSHIP.

When Beatrix turned her pivot gun,
(it must be a. pivot for it will. turn in
all directions) toward the article on
“Widows,” I know she meant to take
good aim, and hit.
not mortally wounded; but as “discretion
is the better part of valor," I decid~
ed to retreat and wait for reinforcements.
They soon came, A. L. L. and Aaron’s
Wife, and very efficient they proved to
be. Then Beatrix, in “Money Making
for Women” advances the very ideas I
believe in. When men are educated to
deal justly with their wives, treating
them as equal partners in the business of
farm and home, then we shall bear no
more of the injustice of the law, or
women asking how they shall earn money
that they may not be dependent upon
their husbands’ generosity.

When a man has a partner in business,
does he consider himself so very gener-
ous because he allows his partner his
share of the profits? Does he ask, or ex-
pect him to give, an account of the man
ner in which he spends what is his own?
If they wish to improve or enlarge their
business, do they not both work together
with that end in view?

What partner can a man have who will
equal his wife? No one else will prove
so unselfish or devoted to his interests.
Then why should a man talk of support-
ing his wife. She is not supported; she
honestly earns her living, and the money
she uses is not a gift, but her very own.

I had no idea of condemning the Pro-

 

bate Court, as I think under existing laws

She did, but I was _

 

it is necessary, and even if the law was
quite to my idea of equity, I should still
consider it necessary, for the benefit of
minors who are left orphans, and of in-
competent persons.

When women no longer look for ways
and means to earn money rather than ask
their husbands for it, then we may expect
the wife to be considered something more
than a dependent upon her husband’s
estate, and have more than the use of one-
third if she is so unfortunate as to be left
a widow.

Many women are doing something to
earn money, such as plain sewing, dress-
making, gardening, raising flowers, or
small fruits. This is commendable if
they have time aside from household
duties and the care of a family, but I
seldom find a farmer’s wife who has time
to do any of those things for money. If
the farmer’s wife does her own sewing
and dressmaking, gathers and cooks the
garden vegetables, picks and cans or
preserves the small fruits, I think she has
saved what many others spend, thus
earning. If she cultivates flowers for the
love of beauty or for recreation from
other duties, perhaps she saves cheerful-
ness and a love of refinement, which to
her is gold; and is not a cheerful wife,
and a refined, beautiful home circle of
incalculable worth to the husband?

Wives and mothers, do not for a mo-
ment think you are dependent upon your
husbands, but work cheerfully at your
home duties and take according to your
income. Rest assured your husband will
respect you more for showing a little in-

dependence.
OLD SCHOOL TEACHER.
Tnouxsnn.

_—_—.w—__

EQUAL RIGHTS.

For some time I have contemplated a
call on the Household, at least since the
discussion of a woman's rights com-
menced; and now please let me introduce
myself as an advocate of the elective
franchise being extended to women.
The day has gone by, inthis land of ours
atleast, when woman's talents are con-
sidered inferior to man's, then why, when
we consider the principle involved, should
she be denied a vorce in the laws of her
country as well as her husband, father or
brother?

Having taught school for some time,

.I have had an excellent opportunity of

studying the intellectual and moral
nature of the two sexes; and never, in any
school in which I have taught, have I
noticed the greater intelligence in the
boys; but the girls generally stand first
every time.

When we consider which has the
greater influence for good, generally
speaking,I mean, the father or the mother,
we do not hesitate to say the mother; but
how often is that sweet and tender in-
struction counteracted by the wickedness
and profanity of the father. In my
mind’s eye, where I can find one man
who is temperate, who keeps sacred the
name of his Maker, in fact, isagood,
moral'father, I can pick out twenty
mothers. Then, if it is the mother who
exerts the greater influence for good in

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THE HOUSEHOLD 3

 

her own household, why could she not, if
she had the opportunity, exert the same
influence in the government, and thereby
extend the talents with which she is en-
dowed? '

I hope you will give me a kindly
welcome, and not consider me a grouty
little antagonist, for Ihave only spoken
my honest convictions.

I have lately exchanged my girlhood
for wifehood, and find the sugges-
tions, etc., in the Household very valu-
able. I notice some familiar names oc-
casionally, and perhaps they will recog-
nize me. EDITH GRAY.

NORTH BRANCH.

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A WONDERING WOMAN’S QUES-
TIONS.

 

Why is it, now that there are so many
different societies and schemes for the
“elevation of women ;” so many plans to
add some of the “ poetry of life” to the
exceedingly prosy “prose” that consti-
tutes the greater share of the life of the
average housewife and mother, that some
one doesn’t hit on some way that is really
practical? It is like the offering of a
Tantalus cup to be told that we must
“read more,” take walks in the beautiful
fields and woods, ride in spring time to
commune with nature in her gentlest
moods, &c., 850. Who, I wonder, would
keep the house in order and set forth
three times each day good meals for “ye
lord of the manor ” and his hungry help,
the guests within the gates, and the little
children, whose care and clothes are an
ever-recurring problem, never Wholly
solved? Yes, those ladies who never had
a child to care for, or those whose families
have grown up and gone from their care
so long ago that they have entirely forgot-
ten what they used to have to do, will
now tell us to take the time for reading
anl social duties; to let the house work
go undone, or at least, a part of it, and
use the time to dress a little better and
care more for ourselves, our health, and
appearance generally. But woe betide
the busy woman who attempts to follow
such advice, for these are the first to say,
“ She is a dreadful slack housekeeper; if
I were in her place I’d get up an hour
earlier in the morning and clean up my
house and dooryard a little.” Perhaps
one, a shade more practical, may say——
.employ help for these many duties. That
might do perhaps except for the reason
that help in the house is so scarce that it
is hardly to be had at any price, especial-
ly in the farm house; and with Wheat at
65 or 70 cents per bush :1, and hired men
to pay at $18 or $20 a month, the margin
will not cover a great deal of help for the
wife, even if help could be found. And
then these same ones who know it all,
would wonder “ what in the world she
wants of a hired girl! they never had one
when they were young and lived on a
farm.” And right here is another wonder,
that help in the farm house should be so
scarce! Surely sewing girls in the dress-
making shops, “salesladies”in the stores,
would-be-teachers hunting for schools,
were never so plenty, and they are will-

 

ing to take wages that barely cover the
cost of board and clothes; but nobody
will be a hired girl if they can possibly
help it. Why? Because there is a class
in cities and towns, not respected because
they are not worthy of respect, whose
character and education both forbid as-
sociatiop with intelligent people. Is that
any valid reason it should be considered a
disgrace for an intelligent girl, or woman
whose help can be spared at home to as
sist a neighbor,or stranger if shehhooses,
in her house work, anl receive in return
a fair remuneration for her services, and
at the same time retain her own self—
respect and the respect of all who know
her? Not one.perhaps, of all the girls
one counts among their acquaintances,
who elevate their noses so high at the idea
of their working in anybody’s kitchen,
who will not marry almost the first man
who asks them, and “do housework for
a living ” all the days of their life, or un-
til a divorce court sets them free, (which
now—a-days is the fashionable ending,)
and never dream it is any disgrace to enter
so thoughtlessly and carelessly a state
where angels might be excused for tread-
ing lightly in these days of delusion.

The Household enters many homes, and
greets a host of thinkers upon many Sllbr
jects. Will some one explain some of
these “Why’s?” Until then I will have

to remain I WONDER.

Paw Paw.
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UNFINISHED “’ORK.

 

In the history of human life and love
there is always a beginning before the
beginning. Somewhere in the interwoven
mystery of existence we break in and
live out our brief day of labor, love, and
heart-ache, then slip upon a calm in the
fevered strife, our tired hands are folded,
and others take up our unfinished tasks.
Slow and deep-working is the preparation
for life’s partings; slow grows the majestic
p ittern held by our uncertain hands. We
look back and smile through our tears
because of the tender helpfulness shining
through the plan wrought out with aching
hearts. .

There are few homes without a “va-
cant chair,” few homes without a voice
calling gently from the Beyond, and it is
best so. Have you entered a home-circle
where, after years of life together, the
first change has been wrought; that
change by which life’s shell is cast aside,
and a dear one arisen to the spirit life?
Is it a white-haired father who is at rest,
or amother’s gentle hands folded over
the still heart? Ah! no, for the father
gazes upon the white face with a grief
and longing which find no outward ex-
pression, and it is the mother’s breaking
heart that cries as she kisses the fore-
head and clasps the cold hands, “My
darling, I cannot warm them!” The
peaceful face is fair and young; the rich
dark hair curls carelessly about the brow,
yet there is a terrible silence there. The
sweet flowers blushing against the white
face tell no secret of the still heart. You
pity the sisters that stand by the loved
form. Yet some strength seems thrown
about them like a garment, bringing calm

 

and the sweet assurance of the young
sister’s presence. Would you tell
them she does not know of their love and
grief? Is then the spiritual world at
some infinite distance from our own?

What is this bit of crumpled paper at
your feet? Open it. Ah, it is the swift
message telling of the absent one’s sick-
ness, and here is another all crushed by a
sister’s hand as the cup of darkness was
held to her trembling lips. It is sweet to
soothe the last pain, to catch the last word
of love, to watch the gentle breathing till
the dear one falls asleep, to hold the fail-
ing hands, but this was granted to one
only of all who loved the absent one. Is
not love, like life. immortal? No fare-
well word or touch, life gone out in aday,
and is this all?

* * * * -X- * * *

The white-winged storm sweeps by-
The cold is cruel. The drifted track is
untrodden, yet we expect a guest to-
night. We have made the little prepara-
tions which were always pleasing to our
sister. You think she cannot come? or
that she is so glad and happy in the ’Bet-
ter Land she will not care to see us? You
say she would be sorrowful if she knew
our troubles and grief. I can answer all
your questionings, all my doubts, by one
word eternal as the heavens,——love. The
love which binds our severed lives unites
our hearts in hope and peace. Death is
the entrance into light. We are glad for
our dear one,though our tearful eyes peer
through shadows for the path o’er which
she left us.

Heaven seems, to me, to do, to be,
achieve, conquer, love. Will not our
Father, who has blessed the eternal life
with love, send his angels to minister to
the sorrow laden?

Life may be perfect in short measures,
yet as I held the dear cold hands, which
seemed so young and strong to lay aside
life’s work, I questioned if the immortal
life had not been more complete could
she have lived longer here. She had but
turned a few pages in life’s great book,
ere she wearied and fell asleep,to wake on
the shining side of the shadow—gates.
Her purified life will be to us a heavenly
story, full of glad surprises, coming chap-
ter by chapter. Love is the eternal builder,
the foundation of that “ City of God,” for
which we all look. The casket of clay
seems to fade from our clinging love,
while we wait for her spiritual approach.
Her love grows clearer to our hearts as
we are uplifted to that spiritual plane
upon which she meets us. And think
you not she feels heaven grow brighter as
she knows our tender love for her, and
sees all the shadows of misunderstanding
lifted from the pathway? Truly earth is
part of Heaven. There is no limit to the
“ Kingdom of Realities.”

Today we have unpacked her trunk.
She will love to have us say of her little
belongings, “This is ‘Mary’s.” Here is
her work box. This is her lace~work. It
is unfinished. These plants are hers
but other bands will tend them now
Here are some little paintings. How she
loved the beautiful in art and nature!
One of these is but half finished. She had

 


 

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said, “I will finish it ,some other day.”
Yes, but the unfinished labors are renew-
ed with swifter, unwearied hands and
clearer brain. A richer development
awaits her, and the determination and
high aim which characterized her will
still aid her unfoldment in the after life.
All the beauty and delicacy for which she
longed are no longer imprisoned by mor-
tal conditions. Freedom is the highest

law, progression the grandest aim.
STRONG-MINDED GIRL.

. LESLIE .
———...—-——~_—

THE NATIONAL TABLE.

Mention made in the Household of
some of the floral decorations at a recent
White House dinner, reminded me
of a letter received about a year ago,
wherein a friend gave adescription of the
President’s table set for “ company,” and
as we all help pay for those things, per-
haps some of our readers may like to read
about them, and may add the query “ Did
not the seven wine glasses so muddle the
brains of the grani moguls, that the
beauty of the flowers was wasted, and
while some blushed, others paled with
fear at the flushed faces about them?”
My friend writes:

“The President gave a dinner to the
Justices of the Supreme Court one even-

 

ing, and the gardener, whom we know,
to d

us to come down and he would get
us in to see the table before the dinner
began. We went, and when we got there
the President was in the dining room
snperintending things. We, with a lot of
other common people, stood back in one
of the halls waiting for him to.go, and as
he passed us he said to some one with
him, ‘ Who are all these?’ I thought that
sounded more like a hateful woman than
the President of the great United States.
In spite of this little bit of sarcasm we
staid and saw the table, and it was just
lovely. I think there were fifty plates
laid, and on each was acard with the
name of the one who was to sit there,
and at each lady’s plate was a lovely
bouquet of about a half dozen roses tied
with long satin ribbons; each gentleman
was given a single rose with a geranium
leaf. There were seven different wine
glasses at each plate. In the centre of
the table was a large mirror, and on that
was placed the principal floral pieces, a
large Temple of Justice about three feet
high and six feet long, and two open
parasols made entirely of lilies of the
valley and their leaves; the were the
lovliest, daintiest things that ever saw;
then there were baskets of flowers and
pots of flowers, flowers in every conceiv-
able place.” A. H. J.

Tnoxas.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Anexchange says wax fio wers can be
cleaned by putting them under a stream
of water.

 

IT is not policy to buy‘drugget to cover
a carpet to save it. It is a better plan to
put plenty of papers or the best of carpet
lining under it, as the wear comes from
grinding in the floor.

THE mica in the' coal stove often gets
smoky, and prevents the cheerful glow of
the fire from illuminating the room; it
also makes the stove unsightly. Take it
out and wash in vinegar diluted with a
little water. If the smoke does not come
of readily, let it soak awhile.

 

AN economical housekeeper who does
not like to have her nice comfortables get
ragged and dirty by use in the sleigh or
wagon in place of’bufialo robes, makes a
covering for the purpose out of the best
parts of old coats and trowsers, lining
them with the unworn parts of worn out
overalls, using for batting any old quilt
which is too worn to be of any service.
She does not make them as large as bed-
quilts; and every summer rips them apart,
washes and re-makes them ready for the
winter. She makes cushions for the
wagon seats in the same way.

 

THE softest and finest all-wool flannels
may be washed an indefinite number of
times without becoming yellow, or shrink-
ing in the least, iftbe following method is
pursued: Dissolve a small quantity of
good soap in hot water. Add suflicient
cold water to form as much suds as de
sired. Put the flannels in the cold suds,
and let them soak several hours, and un-
less they are very much soiled they can
be cleansed perfectly with very little of
the rubbing which fuils and shrinks them.
Rinse in cold water, softened witha little
borax. Do not rub any soap on the flan-
nels, but if they are very much soiled
change the suds in which they are soaked
two or three times. It is best to iron
flannels before they are quite dry. Borax
softens and whitens them; blueing ren-
ders them harsh and unsightly. If the
washing water to be used is at all hard,
dissolve and add alittle borax, but never
put in any blueing.

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Mas. J. W. P., who has furnished so
many excellent recipes for this depart -
ment, would like a good, tested recipe for
Charlotte russe.

fiw

SOME little time ago a lady complained
that the candy she made after a House-
hold recipe did not “ taffy,” and asked
the reason. It should have been men~
tioned in the article on candy—makin g that
confectioners’ sugar is always to be used.
Perhaps this is the reason for the fail-
ure. A young lady of this city says the
chocolate creams made by the Household
recipe are “ better than Sanders’ best.”

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The Household Editor has seen nothing
which seems to fill that condition de-
scribed as a “long felt want” so well as
“ Babyhood,” a new magazine devoted to
matters pertaining to the care of infants
and young children. To the young and
inexperienced mother, anxious to do
everything possible for the welfare of the
little life entrusted to her, and who real-
izes that future health and life itself de-
pend upon the care given in infancy. the

magazine will prove invaluable. There
are articles on hygiene in the nursery, in-
fant foods, sanitation, infants’ clothing,
etc., plain and practical in their nature.
It is especially a periodical for mothers,
and promises to help bring about better
understandinfiaof the needs of youn
children. L. . Gale, M. D., is medic
editor, and Marion Harland, well known
through her contributions to domestic
science, has change of the nursery de-
partment. Price $1 50 per annum;
monthly. Address Babyhood Magazine,
18 Spruce St., New York City.

 

Useful Recipes.

 

ORANGE PunnrNG.—Make a custard of the
yolks of three eggs, one tablespoonful corn-
starch, one cup sugar, one pint sweet milk.
While this custard is boiling, peel and slice
five oranges and put them into a pudding-dish
with sugar sprinkled over each layer; when

the custard is done, and while hot pour it over.

the oranges. Make a. meringue of the whites
of the eggs, and two tablespoonfuls even, not
heaping full, of sugar.

 

ORANGE SHORTCAKE.—-Prepai‘e a shortcake
as for strawberry or other fruit shortcake.
Have ready seven large oranges with rind,
seeds and white skin removed. Slice them
very thin and place between the layers of
shortcake. Sift white Sugar over the slices.

 

ORANGE CUSTARD.——This is a dainty and de-
licious dish, to be served in cups. The juice of
ten large oranges, the yolks of ten eggs, a
heaping teacupful of powdered sugar, and one
pint of cream ;put the sugar and orange juice to-
gether in a porcelain-lined saucepan, and set it
on the stove; stir it constantly until it bubbles:
then skim it, and set it where it will cool; beat
the yolks of the eggs very light and add them
to the orange and sugar, then stirin the cream;
let this cook very slowly until it is of the dc.
sired thickness, then pour it into cups. The
whites of the eggs should be beaten very dili-
gently, and a teacupful of powdered sugar be
beaten with them; put a large spoonful of this
on the top of each cup.

 

To 0001: TURNIPS.——Ch0p them fine; then
put in just enough water to boil them tender.
Season with salt, pepper, butter and vinegar.
Serve hot. AUNT NELL.

PLAINWELL.

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