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DETROIT, JULY 28, 1885.

 

 

TIHIE HOUSEEJIOLDaaSuppIememt.

 

 

J[ Y PEA YER.

 

BY E. S. B.

 

“Let me not die before I’ve done for thee
My earthly work, whatexger it may be,
Call me not hence With mission unfulfilled;
Let me not leave my space of ground untilled;
Impress this truth upon rue—that not one
Can do my 1 onion that I leave undone;
For each one in thy vineyard hath a spot
To labor in for life and weary not.”
————-—.u.-————r
“ THE BRIDGE 0F SIGHS."
Dear God, unto Thy pitying heart,

Take this poor one who sleeps to—day;
In all the world she had no part—

In all the world’s wide busy mart

She wa ked alone upon her way,
So, wearied with the endless strife,
So, tired and worn with all of life,

She laid her hand upon Death‘s gate,
And turned to look with one last smile
Upon the world she left behind—

The world, so harsh, and cold and blind,
And meeting naught but scorn and hate,
And finding nothing good and true,

She raised the latch and wandered through !

————+o‘-——

SYMMETRY.

 

No life is rounded fair and strong
Whose grace and beauty but belong
To self alone!
No river-bed, but purer grOWS
As onward far its water flows
To depths unknown!

The soul that higher looks, hath grace
Reflected from the Father’s face !
Divinest ray!
Could one approach the living light
And not grow beautiful and bright
Where angels stay?
__...__
DON’T BE DISCOURAGED.

The MICHIGAN FARMER of the 14th inst.
has just arrived, and I have just read
with a hearty laugh Mrs. W. J. G33
“failure ” in using an alleged recipe of
mine. Although not intended as such,
being merely a suggestion as pertinent to
the offence; yet, if used properly, I still
have faith in the idea.

No matter how good a medicine may be,
it must be used with reference to the
peculiarities or idiosyncracies of the pa-
tient, as well as to the violence and dur-
ation of the disease. Perhaps Nehemiah
got too strong a dose, and Hezekiah
needed the dose repeated.

We must always keep the health of our
little ones in mind, too, and perhaps,—
mindIsay perhaps, and don’t put this
down as recipe-—if Nehemiah had been
undressed and cuddled in a blanket on
mamma’s knees by the fire, while the

 

more robust Hezekiah had been remanded
to bed in a quiet room,0f course properly
undressed, rubbed down, and warmly
Wrapped up, there to ponder in silence
over the relation of cause and effect, the
uture might prove that the discipline was
not without good results to both. Even
Amariah, if made sure thatrnamma would
treat him likewise if he repeated the of-
fence, might hesitate, and pussy escape.

No mother needfeel a doubt as to whether
her children are training her, for they
most certainly are. In the very nature of
things, the dawn of mother love begins
a training school, and happy the mother
who responds to the sweet but difficult
lesson with true motherly love and dis-
cretion.

It is not true that “a child’s mind is a
blank page on which one may write what
they will,” but it is true that a steady
firmness, tempered with gentle, loving
care, will'compel a ready obedience from
any child. It is equally true that some
children will not yield so readily as others
to such discipline, or even “stay minded ”
very long, but the habit once acquired,
both child and mother reap a benefit
which will well repay the time and care
bestowed in teaching. A few rules thor—
oughly established are like the line
fences of the farm, and you may give
large liberty inside the enclosure, while
much of the petty, irritating looking af—
ter and constant admonitions are made
unnecessary. An obedient child is more
likely to be a happy one, because chiding
is less necessary, and the frequent con-
tests of temper are avoided. This happy
state of things will react on the mother
and all around, the whole household sky
will be brighter in consequence. An ex-
acting, turbulent child is sure to be
troublesome, often impertinent; a tor-
ment to the home and a terror to friends,

Exceptions prove rules. I have known
instances where a naturally sweet tem-
pered child was so continually deferred
to, that its instincts of combativeness
never seemed to be aroused, and it was
amiability personified. It spoke only to
be obeyed; its will was law. and there was
no clashing of jurisdiction.

There is little need of “ whipping ”
with the average child, nor yet of austere
severity: constant yet gentle firmness will
usually win, and the parents, in training
the child, get reflex improvement to their
owu benefit as well as to the good of
those around them. But by all means
keep them “honest and truthful.”

A. L. L.
INGLBB}DE.

    

 

LILAC BLO!) .‘lI.

 

It was only a bunch of lilacs that
Fannie brought home from school; they
filled the room with fragrance, and were
handled over and own and finally ar—
ranged in a boquet and set on the table
in a vase, but they were a great deal
more than sweet and pretty to me. They
carried me back to the days of “Auld
Lang Syne.” I was not a woman at all,
bearing a woman’s burden, doing a
woman’s work in this busy world, but
a merry, light hearted girl, free from care
as those romping, gamboling lambs outin
the clover field, bound to get all the
pleasure out of life there was in it. I
was living it all over again in memory. I
was in my pleasant chamber whose
window looked toward the east, with my
arms on the window seat, leaning out
watching the busy life below. The lilac
bushes, half a dozen or more, are in full
bloom, myriads of bees hum over them,
and such lots of humming birds, how
they spin around,now settling so daintily,
as they suck the honey from the cup-
shaped flowers with their long bills—every
color of the rainbow—blue, green, yel-
low, rose; was ever sight so lovely. How
we hunted for the nests, which we were
told were no larger than black walnuts,
the little birds as large as coflee berries,
but we never found any. Later in the
day we lay on the grass under the
beautiful bloom, and held buttercups
under each other’s chin to see if we liked
butter.

“ Do you like butter! now wait till I see,
Stand just as still as you can be;
Hold up your head now and I will begin,
Holding this buttercup under your chin.
Ah! it turns yellow, and so it does seem,
You do love butter, as kittens love cream,
No use in laughing, I know it right well,
No use denying; the buttercups tell.
Buttercups glisten as brightly today
As when in childhood we plucked them in play,
But the plump fingers are shrunken and old,
Gray are the locks that Were raven and gold,
Short is the time since the gray beards were

young,

Hushed by the lullabys dear mother sang;
Swift have the days of our pilgrimage been
Since we held buitercups under the chin.”

How often we hear the boys and girls
wish they “were grown up men and
women,” and when they have seen the
best of life, how hard they try to make it
seem as if they were not so old after all.
Ah! our beautiful youth comes but once.
Let us drink the foam on the wine as
long as we can, we shall find the dregs
soon enough. Be just as happy as you
can, I would say to all the girls: care
will come sooner or later, but do not

anticipate it. But while you will get the
most careless pleasure

in youth the


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greatest good will come with the rich
mellow experience of middle life. We
are such a bundle of contradictions!
Young people think the older ones do not
behave right or speak correctly, or know
half as much as they, and the old ones
think the young ones behave like geese.
We see through so many colored glasses,
some are clear as water, others are rose
colored, alas! some are green.
EVANGALINE.
BATTLE CREEK.
_____...__._.._
SCRAPS FROM A DIARY.

Through what sorrowful means does
life expand! As we grow into the life
which was so full of mystery and beauty
to our youthful hearts, our enthusiasm
has a tinge of sadness. We enjoy, we
are conscious of life’s fullness and power,
yet every pleasure seems shadowed by a
sorrow. The heartache of separation and
death is folded into the leaves of life’s
book, yet that inexorable “never” un-
veils something of the mystery of the
Beyond to our hearts.

It used to seem true to me that unfold-
ing womanhood would shower upon me
happiness as fully and freely as the white
blossoming trees drop their fragrant
leaves on the June grasses. I could not
feel the necessity of the long winter’s
storms, and the slow growth and unfold-
ment spring must bring. Slowly and
blindly we grasp the great truths which
illuminate life through development of
interior forces. The outer foldings wrap
us closely about, we are weighed down
and burdened by physical cares and
weakness, and the atmosphere of being
rests so heavily upon us, we catch but
misty views of a fairer state. Yet if we
but wait and pray, the hours of twilight
will show through the shadow-lines the
day has traced, here and there gleams of
light; and we shall see that these lessons
of thought,—force, pain and soul-feel.
ing, must needs come into the inward
energy of being to quicken spiritual
growth and consciousness.

Harmony is a great word, a mighty ex.
perience to win, a complex problem to
solve. Liberty, charity, and reciprocity
are essential elements in securing it.
Liberty allows life freedom. which in-
dividuality demands; charity grants dif-
ferences arising from personalities and
individual opinions; and reciprocity en-
riches life. How many happy thoughts
fall back dead and joyless because they
met no response! We cannot grow under
constantly depressing influences. The
atmosphere of life must be glad and joy-
inspiring. Make home the garden of life
full of sunshine and flowers.

“A woman’s life is made for her in the
love she accepts.” Love takes the nature
of the loved one as it is. It is a volun-
tary acceptance, and in return is offered
the most beautiful meed of love, the
heart. To love, is to grow gradually
into another’s heart home. When the
soul enters this home, it sits by the hearth,
warmed and fed. It gazes out of the
windows, passes from chamber to

 

chamber, its life touched and wrought
upon by pleasure or pain, according to

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the nature of the possessions in this home

which has become its own. Though its
own, yet not its own, it feels a sacred
reticence in disappointment which can—
not be broken. Impossibility lies in
language before this sorrow. Nothing
can atone. We accept. A grieving
breath is all the heart’s utterance. Love
must ever plant its feet in imperfections.
These but add to its radiancy. Love
must save or destroy, degrade or uplift.
After we have given our heart to an-
other, sometimes we take it again and
look at it. If it is not purer, sweeter, for
the giving, we feel a shadow enfolding
the place of the Infinite within. What
an exquisite thought of the Infinite is ex
pressed in the rose! Vesture at once
beautiful and fragrant.
I saw a woman writing. It was alet-
ter of love, I know. She smiled in happy
content as she finished, and taking a
delicate, half blown rose from the vase
beside her, touched it to her .lips, and
folded it in the letter. Oh, pure trust!
Sweet gift of the woman-heart! Will not
her spirit breathe life immortal upon the
flower? To her spiritual nature, the
rose-beauty is immortal, and she is un-
consciously our Father’s messenger
speaking through her own, His eternal
love to another heart. Grand truth of
the spirit! Through the withered, per-
ishing actual reaching out to spirit, the
beautiful ideal!
A woman’s heart. a woman’s destiny
liesin the rose. She breathed upon it
the hope, the questioning, the wonder,
the blessedness of a woman’s heart.

What, think you, is the rose to him?
s. M. G.

Lawns.

AN ACADIAN LOVE STORYu

 

nardin Saint Pierre.

land, in the Indian Ocean.

de la Tour, who was very poor.

one slave, Mary.

one child, a baby named Paul.

other’s company.

and happiness.

 

should die, wrote once to a wealthy aunt

Paul and Virginia, a well-known love
story, was first written in French by Ber-

The scene of the story is Mauritius Is-
The parents
of Virginia were natives of France. Her
mother, Madame de la Tour, was cast off
by her wealthy and aristocratic relatives,
on account of her marriage with Monsieur
He died
a short time after their arrival on the Is-
land, leaving her with no support except
She retired to the most
unfrequented part of the Island, where
she was assisted by the old man who tells
the story. She became sincerely attached
to a woman named Margaret, who was
situated something like herself, and with
Margaret
had also one slave, Domingo, and, with
some help, he built two cottages, side by
side, so that while Margaret and Madame
de la Tour had each her own house, they
were still near enough to enjoy each

A child was born to Madame de la Tour,
and named Virginia. The two children
grew up together, and the four persons
led a life of more than Acadian simplicity

Madame, moved by the thoughts of
what would become of her child if she

to ask assistance; but was repulsed in a
manner which led her to give up all hopes
of another home than the Island for
either herself or Virginia.

Paul and Virginia were as brother and
sister to each other, and as they grew old-
er the dearest wish of both was to marry.
Virginia was very beautiful, with blue

eyes and light hair, and of an amiable and
affectionate disposition. Neither she nor
Paul knew how to read or write, and they
had very little knowledge of the outside
world.

The whole family attended mass once a
week, and Madame, with Paul and Vir-
ginia, frequently visited the poor, by
whom she was regarded as a good angel
sent to relieve their wants. Domingo
occasionally went to the village to dis-
pose of the few things they raised on the
plantation beyond what was necessary to _
supply their own wants. This was their
sole intercourse with other people. Al-
though both Margaret and Madame de la
Tour gladly consented to the marriage of
Virginia to Paul, it was thought advisable
to wait until they grew older. While
they were discussing the question of the
marriage, a letter came from the aunt who
had so harshly refused assistance to
Madame, desiring Virginia to come to her,
and promising to educate and make her
her heiress. Madame at first refused to
allow Virginia to go, but on being advised
to do so by the priest, she consented.

When Virginia was gone, Paul was

nearly wild with grief, but at last partly
consoled himself by learning to read and
write so that he could carry on a corres-
pondence with her. She remained away
two years. During this time she wrote
very seldom, her few letters bearing the
mark of unhappiness and her longing to
be with them. At the end of the two years
she wrote that on account of her refusal
to marry a wealthy nobleman, her aunt
had decided to disinherit and send her
home. She would arrive, she said, on the
first vessel. They were all too much de-
lighted at the prospect of seeing her so
soon again to think of the loss of the for-
tune, and when it was time for the ship to
arrive Paul went to meet Virginia. But
a violent storm arose, and when the ship
was within a short distance of the landing,
it was partly wrecked. Paul tied a rope
around his waist and attempted to swim
to the ship. He was, of course, thrown
ashore at once, bleeding and almost un-
conscious. He had hardly recovered
when they beheld Virginia on the deck
of the ship. She waved her hand in
token of farewell, and soon after every
thing was swallowed up by the ocean.
The shock afiected Paul so that he died
two months afterward; Margaret followed
him in eight days; Madame survived them
onlyla month. The slaves, Domingo and
Mary, lived only a short time. The cruel
aunt died in an insane asylum. Thus
ended a story which will probably never
be equaled in stupidity.

fl[We are indebted to Miss Elsie E.

Cooper, of Port Huron, for the above

synopsis of the story of Paul and Vir-
ginia, which appears in response to
“Aunt Nell’s ”request. Miss Elsie votes

 

  


   

 

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the story “stupid,” as perhaps it is by
the side of the highly seasoned romances of
the day. It is an old fashioned love story,
ranking with “Alonzo and Melissa ” and
the “ Children of the Abbey,” and its
charm is more 1n the purity and simplicity
of its literary style, and the picture of a
life of Acadian simplicity, untroublcd
by social ambitions and struggles for
wealth or supremacy, than in incident or
delineation of character. Just the lives
of two children, unworldly, ignorant, yet
living in a world of supreme content in
love for each other and their parents.
Paul and Virginia will always stand as
emblems of idyllic, unselfish, innocent af-
fection.]

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'BANGS 1N HOT WEATHER.

 

Girls, if your hair is “straight as an
'Indian’s,” and your bangs refuse to stay
curled, try wetting them with a mucilage
made from flax seed, roll them up in pa-
pers and let stay till dry; it is not so
sticky and does not sour so quickly in
warm weather as some other preparations
do.

I see Beatrix again speaks of the unin-
habited air of the parlor; but I think a
parlor is a good place to put the pretty
nick-naeks and fancy articles that your
friends give you; also very useful in case
of a large company.

I think one lady of my acquaintance
has solved the perplexing question why
so many farmers’ wives and daughters are
invalids. She said to me: “ Every year
just about such a time in June I became
tired out and down sick, and could do
nothing more the rest of the season; but
this year I thought I would take care of
my health. so I hired a girl for the busy
season, and now I am able to work and
visit.” But she was more fortunate than
some of her neighbors in having the
means and opportunity to hire a girl; yet
often help for a few days will ward off a
.fit of sickness. LEONE.

BIG BEAVER.

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TUBEROSES AND AURAI‘UMS.

 

I surmise the tuberose bulb was an ex-
hausted one when purchased; had bloom-
ed once, or the blossom germ been injur-
ed by cold or rough handling; in either
cases it will never bloom, as after flower-
ing once ‘it is only in rare cases that they
produce flowers a second season. The
bulb may not have been matured suffici-
ently for blooming. All doubts may be
set at rest in this way. Choose the sun—
niest spot in the garden, and there take
out two or three quarts of soil and re-
place with some that is very rich, and
plant the bulb, or rather the ball of earth
with the bulb in it; fill the pot with dry
manure and sink beside the bulb, and fill
the pot as often as dry with tepid water; if
you reéeive no return in flowers it will
be_evident the bulb is worthless for bloom_
ing. Plant the bulblets separately next
year in rich soil, and the next the largest
of them may bloom, and if properly cared
for, tuberoses will, although as sweet as
ever, be no rarity to L. J. C.

It is not unusual for Auratum lilies to
remain dormant after planting one or
even two years; of all lilies they are the
most “ freaky.” While other varieties
improve in bloom and increase rapidly,
Auratums may or may not do either,
but they are so beautiful we plant and
hope. Deep planting and good drainage
are the essentials for them or other lilies.
In choosing the bulbs, select the most
compact and fair ones, as some may have
a rough, dry rot, which will further de-
velop and destroy them after planting. It
would be an excellent way to learn from a
reliable source the best modes of treating
bulbs and plants before purchasing such
expensive sorts.
A year ago last fall I planted three au—
ratum bulbs in the same beds last J uly,0ne
only blossomed, (and grandly too), and
not even a leaf appeared to prove the ex-
istence of the others. Now a second one
is in bloom, and as fine as was the other
at this time last season, while the first is
just budding. The third has never ap~
peared; it may another year. but I shall
not expect it. The bulbs were alike fine
and sound. Candidums in the same gar—
den have bloomed every year and increas~
ed rapidly, as have many other varieties
of lilies. For Mrs. R. N, of Paw Paw.
E. L. Nye, your white lily is Uanvlidum,
and the yellow is IIemerncallz's flaw, or
Golden lily. Mus. M. A. Fl‘lillilt.

anros.
-———«—M.—.———.—

CURE FOR GAPES.

Tell “Subscriber’s Wife ” to give her
chickens nothing but dry food. Begin
giving them wheat or screenings when
about a week old, feeding that until they
can swallow corn, then she may consider
them safe. Put a little copperas in their
drinking water (in fact give that to all
the old fowls), excluding soft food en-
tirely. I had one hundred Aprilchickens
that had the gapes badly, but by feeding
as above, only lost eight, and those I
killed by the feather and tobacco system.
You may be successful and dislodge the
worm once in fifty times, but will find the
chicken dislodged the remaining forty-
nine.

Turkeys may be managed much the
same way, only they will not eat the dry
food until several weeks old, but they are
not as apt to get the disease as chickens.

I have now nearly three hundred
chicks of all ages, with not a single case
of the gapes, and give the dry food and
copperas water all the credit.

MRS. E. M. B.
ADDrsox.
Q...“
AN INTERCHANGE OF IDEAS.

 

It is always pleasant to learn how
others overcome difiiculties, and that i3
the particular use we find for the House—
hold, a medium for an interchange of
ideas that we may help each other. If I
told you Ihad trouble in a certain de-
partment of housekeeping, I know it is in
woman’s helpful nature to give me the
benefit of any experience that may lead to
an easier method. And if there is nothing

 

   

else we can do.well,we can set an example

 

of cheerful submission. No matter what
our duties may be, there are others who
have heavier cares and greater trials.
Let us be thankful, therefore, and if our
lines are cast in pleasant places we can
all the better help those whose way is
rough. and thorny. It is not over-work
that kills; it is not the'round of daily toil,
so much as the constant fretting against
work that is distasteful, not even en-
deavoring to take comfort in or enjoy the
present. Let us all try to see, and accept
the joy of the hour, and make the best of
life. M. 1:. c.

Hl’llsON.
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CORNED BEEF.

Some months ago a lady inquired how
corned beef could be packed, so as to keep
through the hot weather. It seemed a
conundrum to our Householders, and as
there has been no reply, every body is
supposed to have tacitly said “Give it
up.” A correspondent of the Western
Rural, who says she always puts down a
barrel of beef, keeping it sometimes into
August, gives her method as follows:

“Cut the beef up in nice shape, pack
as tightly as possible, putting a little
salt in the bottom of the barrel.
always putting the thickest pieces
in the bottom, using bony pieces first.
Then I put the boiler, well cleaned.
on the stove, and fill with sufficient water
to well cover the meat. When boiling
hot add all the salt it will dissolve, or
until it will bear up an egg: then to every
100 pounds of meat add to the hot brine
either one quart of best molaSSes or two
pounds of sugar, two ounces of salipetre.
one ounce of soda. Bring to a boil and
pour over the meat boiling hot, cover up
tight, putting in a broad and heavy stone
to keep it under brine, and keep it in a
cool place. F.eshen over night before
boiling. and you who liked corned beef
will pronounce it good and a nice change
from pork and hams.”

_———§.§.~_———
A Home-made Refrigerator.

The Christian Union gives the follow-
ing directions for this article: “Obtain
two common dry goods boxes, of such
sizes as that the smaller one will be large
enough to hold the ice and food you wish
to keep within it, and the other will be
about four inches larger around. The
smaller one must be lined with zinc, or it
will absorb the moisture from the ice,
and soon make trouble. Near one
corner of the bottom of the smaller box
bore a hole an inch in diameter; and,
when the box is lined with zinc, have a
tube about seven inches long securely
fastened into this hole. There must be
no crevice into which the water can soak.
A cover, which also should be zinc-
lined, must be fitted to the box. Then
procure some charcoal. broken finely,
and fill the larger box (in which first a
hole has been bored to receive the tube
from the inner box) w1th the powdered
charcoal to a depth of nearly four inches.
Place the smaller box in the charcoal,
and fill all the space between the sides of
the two boxes with the charcoal up even
with the inner box, and cover the space
with a neat strip of board. This will give
you a box with double bottom and sides

 

filled with charcoal which is the best of


 

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THE HOUSEIiE-IiOiLD.

 

non-conductors. With an outer cover
the size of the large box, and four blocks
to raise the whole from the floor, so that
apan may be placed under the tube to
catch the water which comes from the
melted ice, the whole will be done, ex-
cept that shelves can be added as de-
sired.”

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

A PINEAPPLE Shortcake is the latest
culinary surprise. Remove the outside
of the pineapple, chop fine and sweeten,
then use as strawberries are used. No
cream is needed.

 

IT is a good plan to wrap cans of fruit
in newspapers and put them away in a
dark. cool place. The wrapping in
paper and keeping dark is said to pre-
vent the bleaching of the fruit.

 

GLASS cans are rather more expensive
than tin in the first buying, but are more
economical in the end. A tin can should
not be used a second time, as the acid of
the fruit corrodes the tin and a poisonous
oxide is formed. Glass cans can be used
a number of years with care and are per—
fectly safe.

 

A GOOD housekeeper says, in the In-
diana Farmer: “The plan I have for
keeping a whole crock of butter good and
fresh till the last, is to pack it in a
straight gallon crock and tip it bottom
side up in a wide flat crock half full of
salt brine to which is added a little lump
of saltpeter. That is my plan for keep-
ing winter butter likewise.”

 

A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says a very comfortable and
healthful bed may be made by filling two
cheap cotton ticks with clean oat straw,
and spreading over them a large com—
forter, made by tacking eight or ten
pounds of cotton between two old sheets.
Spread the batting more thinly on the
edges, where the comforter will fold over
the ticks. This makes a comfortable and

cheap bed.

 

MRS. SCOULL, an experienced nurse.
gives the following directions for the
treatment of burns: “ Cut the clothes off
the injured parts; do not attempt to re-
move them in any other way; if the skin
is not much broken, mix in a bowl a
athick paste of common cooking soda,
spread it thickly on linen and lay it on
the burns; as it begins to dry, wet by
squeezing water on it without removing
it; if it is kept thoroughly damp, there is
usually little pain. When there is a
large raw surface, cover with a thick
layer of cosmoline, oiled rags, or simply
wet cloths; if the air can be excluded,
the smarting will cease. A burn is
dangerous in proportion to its extent
rather than its depth. In all severe cases,
send for a doetor at once. Very nourish-
ing food must be given to sustain the
system while the tissue that was lost is

being replaced.”

 

Horticultural society of Colorado that the
put up Siberian crabs in the following
fashion: “ I procured stone jars holding
a gallon, small at the top with a flange to
hold the cover. I use a granite iron
sauce pan having a cover, for cooking
fruits. Into thisI put a sufficient number
of crab apples to fill onejar, with as little
water as would suffice to cook the fruit
tender. As soon as they could be pierced
by abroom straw I filled the warm jar
nearly full of fruit; the sugar syrup being
previously prepared and boiling hot, was
poured over the fruit till the jar was
filled, the cover placed on and the jar
sealed up by tying over it a paper dipped
in the white of an egg, and over this two
or three thicknesses of paper. The
syrup was ‘made as you would make
sugar syrup for eating on griddle cakes.
The fruit kept beautifully, was tart and
of fine flavor. The water in which the
apples were cooked was strained, mixed
with an equal measure Of granulated
syrup and boiled for a short time, making
a fine jelly.”

 

CANDIED lemon peel, to be used in cake
and mince pie instead of citron, is made
according to an old English recipe which
requires the peel to be soaked five or six
days in a strong brine. After taking it
from the brine, soak in fresh water for
an hour, then put it in the preserving
kettle. cover with fresh cold water and
boil it until perfectly tender, which may
be ascertained by sticking a silver fork
into it. Take the peel out of the water
and let it drain dry. Boil sugar and
water together—a pound of sugar to a
quart of water to make a thin syrup.
Put in the lemon peel and boil it until it
is clear. It will take probably half an
hour. Another syrup should now be
made‘with sugar and a very little water,
andthe peel put into it and boiled till the
syrup begins to candy. The pieces of lemon
peel may then be taken out and allowed
to drain. Just before they get entirely
dry place them on platters and sprinkle
with powdered sugar. Then set the plat-
ters in a warm place to complete the dry-
ing process. Great care must be taken to
prevent the syrup from burning. It should
be stirred constantly, preferably with a
wooden spoon; and it is well to use a
double boiler or to set the preserving pan
into another containing boiling water.”

 

Now that the picnic and excursion
season is upon us, the question of an ap-
petizing lunch assumes considerable im-
portance. Cake is usually in too great
supply, while of cold meats, sandwiches
and relishes there is seldom too much. A
hearty lunch on cake produces heaviness
and headache next day. Good bread and
butter and cold meat may not look so
nice as frosted cake on apic-nic table,
but is best relished. especially by the
men. Here is a short list of good things
from which to make selections for a
luncheon in the woods: Buttered thin
bread, buttered rolls, pressed chicken,
broiled chicken, ham, pressed corned
beef, sardines, stuffed eggs, hard-boiled

olives, crackers and cheese, orange
marmalade, hard ginger-bread. Lemon
juice for lemonade should be extracted at
home and carried to the pic-nic grounds
in bottles. The sugar may be put with it
or added with the water when the lem-
onade is wanted. Tea at a picnic is
usually smoky; take along a spirit lamp,
or a small kerosene stove and the oil can,
and you can enjoy as refreshing a cup as
at your own table. ‘

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Contributed Recipes.

SUPERIOR CUCUMBEI’. Prcm.ns.—-To every
five gallons of strong vinegar add a pint of
pure alcohol, a lump of alum the size of a small
walnut, and a handful each of ground or
pounded pepper, cloves, cinnamon and allspice.
The spices can be omitted if preferred: but the
alum must not be, as it hardens the pckles .
Put the cucumbers right in the vessel contain-
ing the prepared vinegar, and allow no scum
to form. Cucumbers should be cut early in
the morning, or late in the evening. M. B. C.
HUDSON.

BREAKFAST Mnrrrxs.—-Two tablespoonfuls
of sugar: two tablespooufuls butter; two eggs;
one cup milk; one scanty quart of flour; one
teaspoonful soda; two of cream tartar. Bake
in gem pans. Eat hot. Good.

NICE PUDDING Savant—One cup granulated
sugar; one dessert spoonful butter; one tea"
spoonful flour stirred together; then turn on
21/,3 cups of boiling water. Set it on the stove
and let it boil until it begins to thicken a little;
it should run ofl the spoon almost as readily as
water, generally five minutes is long enough.
Have ready the beaten white of one egg, to
which has been added three teaspoonfuls Oi
granulated sugar. When the sauce has boiled
enough remove it from the stove and while still
hot stir in the beaten egg, and one teaspoonful
Ofextract of vanilla. It will foam up light and
nice if “ just right.” An ordinary sponge cake
is a good “ pudding” to eat with this sauce,
which is good cold or hot, and with fruit as.

' well as cake or pudding. If desired to eat it

cold, do not stir in the egg until it is Wanted
for the table. LYD.
Pom HURON.
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LEMON CHEESE Carina—Grate the rind of
three large lemons on a coarse grater, beine‘
careful to save as much as possible of the rind
which will adhere to the grater. Add ten
ounces of fine white sugar, and the juice of
two of the lemons. Beat the yolks of eight
eggs thoroughly, and stir well into the lemon
mixture, and add eight ounces Of fresh butter.
Put in an earthen dish and set in a saucepan
of boiling water, stirring till it becomes of the
thickness of honey, (a wooden spoon is best to
stir with). This “lemon butter” will keep a
long time in a dry, cool place, if tightly cover-
ed. To use, line patty-pans with nice paste,
half fill with the lemon butter. bake fifteur:
minutes, and you have “real English lemon
cheese cakes.”

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