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THE NOBLEST LIFE.

 

Noble life is the life fo God:
To follow the path the saints have trod;
With the bended knee each day begun,
0n the bended knee when the day is done;
With the love and will of a dutiful child,
Maintaining the conscience undeflled.
Trusting His grace to hear me through,
Whate’er be the work I have to do,
Whether my talents be many or few;
My every thought and my every aim
Enkindled at His altar flame.
Careless of riches, honors and fame,
Careful alone of a spotless name; .
Nothing to cause the blush of shame.
Ready to enter the fiery car,
And mount to the place where the sainted are,
To shine still for Christ as a lowly star,
To have fought the fight, the race to have run,
To have heard pronounced His own “well done I"
To have left the earth by the Seraph-road;
In love with man—at peace with God;
Lying calmly'down on the pillow to die,
And waking up in Eternity-

That is the nobles! life.

 

MORE .ANTIC THAN ROMANTIC.

 

In a late Monroe paper is an item
headed “Slightly Romantic,” giving an
account of the arrest of a man on the
charge of abduction. It appears he had
worked for a well-to do farmer, and had
been met half way at least, in his advances
to the silly daughter of his employer; the
father hearing that his hired help had a
wife already, tried to interrupt the flirta-
tion or grands passion, and discharged
the man, who went home; the girl follow-
ed soon after; he met her and took her to
his mother. .The outraged father com-
passed his arrest and imprisonment, but
the precocious maid of 15 went to his
aid, declared she made toe journey to his
arms other own free will, and would do
so again when she saw fit.

This is only one instance of many we
meet with in print, of the fatuity,
ignorance or folly of so many “girls of
the period.”

Eloping with the father’s coachman or

colored servant is common also, but this, '

when followed by immediate honest mar-
riage, is on a high plane when compared
with the insane infatuation that leads a
girl to become the paramour of a man al-
ready married. The fact that he does
not live with his wife makes no difference
in religion, morality or law. While the
marriage tie remains unsevered, it is a
gross insult to any maiden for him to talk
to her of love, and the girl who listens
and accepts such protestations, degrades
her womanhood, and causes pure women

.There are some of these unfortunates
who seem so utterly infatuated as to hem:
lostall sense of right, to have deluded
themselves with specious sophistries.
such as “If two persons love each other,
love is greather than law. love is enough,”
and love’s desires must be gratified, and
no wrong results. 0 shame, that the
divine passion should be thus prostituted!
True love seeks to elevate its idol, instead
of thrusting it down to eternal inf imy.
Applv this sophistical argument to a
practical test. If love is higher than law.
and it is right for a girl to seek her affinity
in a married man, no matter if not living
with his wife, it could not be wrong for
a married man or woman, who happened
to possess roving afiections, to violate
the marriage vow. no matter if family
ties are sundered, children worse than
orphaned, parents’ hearts wrung, hum ini-
ty disgraced and outraged; no harm can
ensue. “Love is higher than law.” and
men and “women of spirit” will not be
held in check by the puny “prejudice of
society.” Poor blind, silly, wicked crea—
tures! Such direful criminal fatuity
causes demons to rejoice, and angels’
pitying tears to fall.

To follow such interpretations of law
and morals would he to set all law at
defiance. Personal desires would brook
no restraint, and “might would make
right.”

In this particular case noticed, no
thought is given of the wife, as to whether
she had any right to the Care and affec-
ti n of her husband. She, for all one
can know, truly loves her recreant hus—
band, who perhaps won her young af
factions. Vowed to love and protect her as
long as life should last; butto him, incap-
able of true love, knowing nothing but the
charm of sensuous animal passion, pos-
session was satiety, and the wronged wife
was deserted or goaded by persecution
and neglect into leaving her unhappy
home.

We will suppose, however, that the wife
might be in the wrong. that her temper
"was high, her failings many, and the
husband, so long as they lived together,
was altogether a model husband.

Still the case remains the same, to far
as his duty is concerned, and the sin on
his part, or on that of the girl who ac-
cepts unlawful love. She cannot be his
wife; and both in their inmost hearts
know their conduct is unlawful, sinful,
and degrading to their own souls; to say

If, unfortunately, agirl contracts an
unlawful passion for a man held by mar-
riage and, turning in disgust from his
lawful caresses, he in time finds his
soul’s mate in another, that other would
fail entirely in love’s highest instinct, did
she permit that noble soul to be lost for
her. Religion, morality and law all
would join in love’s self—sacrificing ex—
hortatioh: “Go my love, go. Be true
to yourself; pure as my love for thee, I
also will walk in purity all the days of
my life, all for love’s sweet sake.”

Girls. when aman is married respect

the rights of the w fe, as when married
you would wish your rights respected.
Flirting is a dangerous practice to in-
dulge in with young men, and many in-
nocent girls have found their fair fame
compromised by its indulgence, but a
married flirt of either sex is a contempti—
blecharacter, that should be shown no
quarter. When aman and woman have
chosen each other from all humanity,

and in matrimony dedicated their lives to

each other, respect for themselves and
each other, should preclude all silly pre-
ten 5e of lover~like attention to others. It
is certainly not necessary for married
people to make a ridiculous public
demonstration of affection, but the af-
fected disregard and depreciation publicly
put on, 18 in quite as bad taste. A quiet
deference to each other’s wishes, and

readiness to minister to their com

fort, with respectful attention to requests,

will elevate married people in the good
graces of their associates much more
than a‘ contrary course of conduct.
Toward young people they may consist-
ently display an earnest friendship and
friendly manner that may often prove of
great advantage to both. But when it
comes to love-making, real or pretended,
it is all wrong. This evil, like many
others, has its roots iuthe fateful mistake
of too great freedom given immature
youth. Thrown upon their own re-
sources, without counsel or check, with-
out knowledge of the world or its people,
with an exaggerated idea of their own
powers of brain and mind, the young are
drawn into the vortex of pleasure, and
blindly adopt any fashion; if it borders
on impropriety, the danger gives an
added zest and piquancy to the act.
Many, strong in their own ideas of power
of resistance to real wrong doing, are led
to venture, step by step, until the

 

nothing of the contaminating influence

 

to blush for her weakness and folly.

t

that results from all defiance of moral or

maelstrom of evil engulfs them. Parents,
while giving your sons and daughters all

 

legal restraints. ,

reasonable liberty, look well to the com-


2 THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

pany they keep; instill respect for your
authority and opinions from earliest
childhood, and by your own observance
of propriety enforce your lessons. Fore-
warned is forest-med. Teach them the
perils they must meet, and how to over—
come them. A. r. L.
Ixenssrnn.

THOSE CONUN DRUMS.

 

 

I have been watching with some inter-
est the answers to the conundrums given
by Beatrix for our consideration. I con?
clude most of the members have model
husbands, or they think with Mrs. R. D.
P., that it is unwifely “to show them up.”
Now, I do not propose to advise any one
what to do if they have such a thought—
less or stingy, unkind husband, but will
tell what I would do if I did not have a
just proportion of tools and conveniences
to lighten my labor. A man who will
buy all improvements to lighten or im-
prove his labor and not buy any for his
wife, or even suggest that they would be
a convenience, would not be likely to buy
them with a good grace if his wife asks
for them; but on the contrary, if she
should allude to his improved machines or
discarded old ones, would reply, “Well,
it is my money that buys them, and be—
sides, ynu need not think I am going to
work without tools.” The manly way
would be to reply in the same manly
spirit; but the womanly way is generally
to have a good cry, give it up, and Work
on, patiently or impatiently, in the same
old way. If I want a new convenience
I expect to get it as much as my husband
expects to get a new binder when the old
one does not work to suit him. If I did
not get it by asking in a reasonable time,
I should go to town, buy it, have it
charged, (and have a row with my hug-
band. I expect you think; not a bit of it)
but I should take every bit of the butter
and egg money and pay toward it until
the debt was cancelled, and my husband

could say nothing, for it was my money
that bought it.

Every woman who does her own work
should have plenty of tubs, a pounder,
and (if she does not want a washing ma-
chine) a good clothes-wringer, and an
ironing board with legs to fold up, a good
clothes-line, and plenty of clothes-pins;
This much for washing and ironing.

She should have a good se wing machine,
a work table to fold up, or lap-board, for
cutting out and basting work. She should
have a stove with reservoir and warming
oven; asink to wash dishes in; a good
cistern, and the well as convenient as
possible to the kitchen; then a good churn
and acreamery (if her husband has a riding
plow and cultivator).

Those who use gasoline stoves think
them a great economy and comfort. I
have never been able to think 1 could
make one pay in our large family, but
when I do I shall expect to have it. Now
all of these conveniences that lighten
woman’s labor would not cost as much as
one binder, and would last many times as
long; and the man who will not buy them
willingly for his wife is a-but I will not

call hard names.

Conundrum No. 2: The father should
have sent the boy to bed appleless at
least, and the next time he had an apple
he should have been required to divire
with his older brother; and the father
should have tried to teach him the pleas—
ure of sha.ing his pleasures with others,
and the sinfulness of selfishness. What
the father did, depends upon whether he
was a selfish man himself. or whether he
was a passionate man, or was a gOod
father, and had the highest good of his
child in mind rather than immediate pun-

ishment. OLD SCHOOL TEACHER.

Facunssn.
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HINTS TO HOME DRESSMAKERS.

It is not always possible to secure a
competent dressmaker, and for the bene-
fit of those who from necessity or choice
make their own dresses, we give a few
hints on making up new fall and winter
costumes:

The foundation skirts of dresses must
be narrow in order to be stylish; the mis-
take of amateur dressmakers is to make
the back of this foundation skirt as wide
as the outside, which gives a most un—
graceful efiect; two yards and a fourth of
a yard is the greatest width of short
walking dresses, but these must not have
drawing strings too low down, or the
back fullness will be tossed from side to
side as the wearer walks. It is only the
dressmaker who is mistress of her busi—
ness who can cut a skirt which hangs so
perfectly as not to require tying back
slightly. Use silesia for the foundation
skirts of heavy dresses; alpaca is much
better if you choose to afford it. Face
this lower skirt and bind it; on this sew
the narrow pleating which is still used,
though often omitted. The Iowa skirt,
proper, is adjusted on the foundation
skirt likes. very deep, straight fiounce,
and falls loose upon it, except where
sewed to it at the top. The drapery is
then added.

A pretty way to make a dress in which
velvet, either plain or brocaded, is to be
used, is to arrange a wide box
pleat of velvet from belt to
foot in front, with four breadths
three-eighths of a yard deep around the
bottom of the remainder of the skirt.
Line these breadths with thin crinoline
and hem the velvet up on the crinoline at
the bottom. Baste the velvet flounoe
thus made on the foundation skirt, and
sew in place. Then arrange the wool
goods on each side of the box pleat,.lay-
ing three or four spreading kilt pleats to
come next the velvet pleat, and raise on
the sides to show all possible of the velvet
skirt. The back drapery is made of long
straight widths, shirred to the belt at the
top. The basque has a velvet vest, with
cuffs and collar of velvet. The velvet
pleat can be stylishly set at the side, and
the wool drapery extend across the front,
if desired.

Polonaises are popular, but bear little
resemblance to the garment usually
known by that name. One very pretty
style is very much like a plain pointed
basque in front, which is lengthened be—

 

hind by a length of the goods which is

tied in two broad loops with long ends
Which fall to the foot of the skirt and
form the only drmery. This is a good
model for combination dresses, as three
materials can be used. The basque may
be of plain velvet, the sash of striped
velvet and the skirt of woolen goods. If
made entirely of W001 goods, an apron
front is usually an addition.

A pretty way to arrange revers on a
basque is to turn back the front edges of
the dress goods at the neck,
to the top of the darts or to the
waist line. face with the dress goods,
stitch the edges, and then cover the lining
with velvet or plush, or whatever is used
for trimming. Make a bow of the velvet
to set on the point of the revers. Make
the collar of velvet, or the trimming
goods. Of course in turning back the
goods for these revers youdo not cut out
the neck, except in the lining.

We have been asked which is best, to
buy one kind of goods for a suit. or two
for a combination suit. Itis more econo-
mical to make the combination suit out
of an old dress which needs remaking.
and buy new for a full suit. Bur. silk
dresses generally have front or panels of
velvet, either plain,- brocaded or beaded,
which with vest, 850., requires from two
and a half to three yards of velvet. The
trimmings of wool dresses are velvet and
gay striped and broche goods, which are
snmetim~s mixed with tinsel. If you
covet the beaded velvets which cost $5 per
yard, let me whisper that you can gratify
your longing by buyinga brocade in small
figures at $2, and Sewing small jet. beads
in the figures to suit yourself. “It can-
not be distinguished from the genuine."

B.

 

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‘MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN.”

 

 

I have just read Mollie Moonshine’s ex-
perience with “resorters;” my heartfelt
sympathy went out at once toward her.
I'm sure I could not have controlled my-
self as well as she did, and see ladies (7)
appropriating my treasures as she de-
scribes. I said to myself, how glad I am
We live so far “from D—,” that “Mrs.
Dr. S.” will not drive by and dis-
cover the beauties of my yard. These
so-called “ladies and gentlemen " may
help themselves to my pears, peaches at d
grapes, but when they ruthlessly pluck or
pull up. root and all, my beautiful flow—

is always a pleasure for me to accompany
a friend through my flower garden, giving
the names, explaining characteristics and
extolling the beauties of each variety, and
presenting the flower-lover with a
bouquet.

My garden is very beautiful this year,
particularly my pansies and dahlias,
which are very fine. This spring I learned
something which has been quite valuable
to me, and Iam not going to be selfish and
keep it all to myself. If you wish to
multiply your dahlias, and if you have a
choice one you surely want all you can
raise, the tubers must all be left attached
to the stalk cut six inches above ground.
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separate with part of the stalk, plant in a

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box; as fast as the sprouts get large
enough—I wait till three or four leaves
have grown—break oflr', insert in a potato
or piece of one, and if frosts are over
plant in the open ground. I tried it this
spring and they blossomed nearly as soon
I had only
one white dahlia. I sprouted two in po—
tatoes; now I have three very large white
ones in bloom. I sprouted a maroon and
have two in bloom. Some seed I bought

as those left on the tubers.

for single dahlias, but many prove to be
double, in beautiful colors.
I have not been able to work much this
summer. My daughter arranged and
planted the flowers, and when it became
warm I sat on a box and dug in the earth,
weeding and working amopg them. I
was so thin my friends hardly knew me,
and could neither eat nor sleep suflicient
forhealth. I know the being out of doors
and working among the flowers helped
me. I had to begin very gradually; now
Ican be out hours at a time. I would
like to interest farmers’ wives in the cul-
tivation of flowers, which I am sure will
elevate the mind and furnish a topic for
conversation in place of so much gossip
and meddlesome talk, which make
trouble and wound sensitive hearts. My
flowers have been a never-failing source
of health and happiness and interest to
me, and I hope my talk of them will in-
duce others to try “ the flower-remedy.”
Mas. Many E. HALL.

Lnsmn.

 

THE CENTRAL MICHIGAN FAIR.

 

Wishing to attend the Central Michigan
Fair at Lansing, we started Tuesday
morning that we might be in advance of
the crowd. 0n the way the Salvation
Army boarded the train, and I trust I may
never again hear the "‘ Song‘of Victory "
sung in-a crowded car.

Arriving at the grounds, we first entered
Art Hall, the youth’s department arresting
our attention. The liberal policy pursued
by the managers of the fair towards the
children have made their exhibit one of
the most interesting features of the fair.
The quantity, quality and variety of the

work excited our warmest admiration;
the artistic work, as painting, fancy
needle work, scroll drawing, fancy whittl-
ing, &c., was highly creditable, as also
plain sewing and knitting. Judging by
the culinaryexhibit, there are yet some
mothers left who believe little girls should
learn to cook. There was also a good
exhibit of native woods, insects, seeds,
vegetables and flowers.

Passing to the other departments crazy
patchwork seemed to predominate in
quilts, table, scarfs, and sofa pillows;
some of them very “ mad ” indeed, others
with some method in their madness, while
a few were genuine works of art, so beau-
tiful was the needlework and so harmo-
nious the coloring. To me this constitutes
the whole beauty of this work.

There was some beautiful knitting,
such as bed spreads, and one full size
skirt was very pretty, the cotton being
. quite fine; the only objection would be
its weight. I also noticed a pretty woolen
rug knit by a lady of seventy years. It

is impossible to speak of the many beau-
tiful things in the way of lambrequins,
toilet sets, paintings and the like.

Down stairs we found an incubator
busy superceding the hen; also a large
brood of chickens three days old. The
old gentleman in charge of them inform-
ed me they did not miss the hen at all,
but every time I passed them I would find
myself reciting:

"' Little Dutch Gretchen came over the sea.
With an aunt in place of a mother.“

We next noticed a taxidermic display;
a black bear in particular appeared so
lifelike the children were afraid he would
step down and out. Nexta sewing ma-
chine agent showed us some beautiful
work in arrasene and chenille on toilet
sets, portieres, and curtains. all done by
a new attachment. I saw also a new rag
carpet loom, which is small and portable;
a great advantage, I should think.

In Pomological Hall the fruit interests
were represented chiefly by a nice display
of apples. Butter and cheese occupied
the center of this hall; flowers, vegetables
and fruit the sides. The flowers were
choice and beautiful, and well arranged;
a large vase tilled with wild flowers pleas-
ed me very much.

I learned there was ‘a very fine show of
live stock. but the heat was so intense,
and the dust so intolerable that we saw
very little outside the halls.

On our return to the city we made a
visit to the Ctpitol. The children were
much interested in the museum, especial-
ly so in the relics of the war. To us it
seems but yesterday that we were picking
lint and scanning the newspapers so
eagerly for the latest newsirom the front,
while to-day our children ask: “Now,
tell us all about the war. and what they

 

killed each other for.” Mus. W. J. G.
HowsLL.
MW.«._.
THE OTHER SIDE.

 

I read so much about women spending
all their precious lives doing housework,
keeping their houses so neat, neglecting
their minds, and thereby making their
families miserable, I am almost led to
believe there can be only one side to this
question. I would like to ask the ladies '
of the Household if they do not think
there are nearly or quite as many men
made wretched by untidy homes, as by
those which are kept too neat. Is it es-
sential to man’s happiness that the dust
and cobwebs be allowed to accumulate in
the corners? I do not think it right or
necessary for us to scrub and scour all
the time, but keep slicked up by always
putting articles in their places. It takes
but a trifle if any longer to do anything
well, if we educate ourselves and children
to do so.

We must of necessity perform a certain
rout1nejof labor, but by doing it punc—
tually anl in a systematic manner, we
may find time for rest, and to brush the
dust and cobwebs from our minds as well
as our houses.

If this findsa resting place in the waste-
basket, you will never hear a murmur
from Sums.

Camus.

 

INVENTIONS FOR WOMEN.

The lady who so earnestly desires new
inventions for the household, I fear does
not yet “understand the situation." A
good doctor once told me that he was
using his knowledge in compounding a
specific for a disease prevaient among
men, as he found they would buy for
themselves when they were not able to
buy for their wives. Is not this the
case with inventors? They turn their
attention to those inventions which will
bring them the most profit, and they
know if they invent anything to simplify
men's work, men are going to buy it.

Anew washing machine has recently
been put on the market here which would
perhaps come up to your expectations.
It is in the form of a barrel, elevated on
two posts so it will revolve with slight
exertion, thus churning the clothes and
doing away with rubbing.

MRS. J. A. M.

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A WOOL MATTRESS.

Kaunaaoo.

 

Here is the exact modus operandi of
making a wool mattress:

" Select and wash the long coarse wool-
ed fleeces, and pull the wool after drying.
Make a tick as near as you can like the
one on a hair mattress or an excelsior,
leaving open one side the whole length.
Turning it wrong side out. thread a darn-
ing needle with coarse wrapping wine,
and tie with this twine strings of about
ten inches in length, ten inches apart,
in rows the same distance. on both sides
of the tick. -—not inside and outside, but
top and bottom. Turn the tick right side
out and begin to fill at the farther side,
putting in enough wool to fill up to the
first row of strings, which you now lie to
strings directly underneath; thus making
this row and all the others stand out like
well raised light biscuit. The wool had
best be crowded in rather lightly, as it
will thus keep in Shape for a longer time.
After filling egos row and tying as in the
first, sew up the side Itfl. open. This is
next best to a hair mattress, and if at any
time you desire to wash the tick you can
rip it open, uniie the strings, and lake out
the wool, pick it once more, wash the
tick. and fill as before. Oncein two years
is often enough, with ordinary care.”

It is an excellent plan to make a cover
for a mattress, to protect it from injury.
Make it of cheap ticking, or heavy coarse
cotton, and “ box " it like the mattress. It
can be washed and ironed at convenience,
and will prove a good investment.
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THA'I‘ SHOULDER CAPE.

Is anybody trying to knit a shoulder
cape by my directions in the Household
of September 15th? Because if so I know
they are in trouble unless they are ex-
perienced with the crochet hook. I did
not discover thatI had made a mistake
until I commenced my second cape. I
said: “Remember always to skip the
stitch just before the stitch skipped in the
previous row." Ins'ead, skip the stitch
after; knit to the skipped stitch, then put

the hook into the third loop. This keeps
the number of stitches on each side of the
point even. My list attempt is crocheted
in ribs by rutting the hook into the under
loop of the stitch taken up; I find it is
much prettier than the first. in Which

 

both loops were taken up. Baum.

  

 

 


 

THE HOUSEHOLD.

  

 

SCRAPS.

 

IN the domestic department of one of
our exchanges I recently saw a letter
from ahousekeeper who says she gets up
at half-past three Monday mornings to
wash! Well, “there’s no law agin it,” I
suppose, but I think I would not tell of
it. I should be ashamed to admit that I
had not executive ability to get my work
done in daylight hours, without taking
time provided by nature for rest and re-
cuperation for that purpose. This we-
man does not keep a hired girl. I should
think not! What hired girl or other girl
with good roundabout common sense,
would live where she was expected to
get up at half-past three to begin a day’s
work? She also says she does not “enjoy
housewor .” This is truly remarkable!
Perhaps she would find it more enjoyable
if she would do her work by daylight. I
confess I have no patience with women
who work in this fashion, and plume
themselves on the slow suicide. I do not
recognize the necessity for any such ex-
cessive labor; it makes a woman a mere
beast of burden. For what is life given
us, to drudge eighteen hours out of twen-
ty—four to accomplish a task as endless
as the one Merlin set for Satan? Do you
suppose children are going to stay con-
tent where they must take part in such
slavish subjection to " work?” It seems
to me a mighty poor compliment when
all that can be said at one’s death is ” She
was a good worker.” It is a fitting epitaph
for a horse, not for a sentient being.
Temper labor with reason and judgment,
and remember it is more a sin against self
and society to neglect the immortal part
of the individual than to omit the scour-
ing of the kitchen floor.

 

WHO talks about oppressed, down-
trodden women, who can find nothing
men will let them do but fancy work and
fine arts? Last summer we were all
talking of a woman who applied for a
license to run her husband’s steamboat,
and the Secretary of the Interior, or who-

often arrive at a decision through many
doubts and much hesitancy, giving up the
less for the greater good, and striving to
look beyond the present to ascertain re-
sults both to ourselves and to others.
Sometimes we see, later, that our choice
was unwise; sometimes we are happy in
feeling the happiness that comes from
the fruition of our hopes. But happily
for us, most of our decisions are in the
minor matters, where we can (like the
man at the restaurant who when the
the waiter asked, “Ros’ beef beefsteak
ros’ lamb leg 0’ mutton ribs 0’ pork pork
chops veal cutlets ros’ duck n’ chicken
pie,” replied, I’ll take a little of both,
p1ease,”) combine some goOd thing from
each way, to our own profit. So I believe,
as I have more than once said in the
Household, that the ability to combine
good housekeeping with self-deVelopment,
lies in a just perception of values, in the
ability to decide what to do and what to
leave undone. We can neglect everything
else to cook and scrub and win the title
of good housekeeper; or neglect the home
and its duties in search of culture and be
known as intellectually well developed.
But we fail in something if we adopt
either exclusively. Exclusive devotion
to culture makes us unmindful of the
physical comfort and well being of those
who depend on us for such things; too
much housekeeping means not enough
home-keeping and neglect of the spirit—
ual and mental growth of husband and
children. Safety lies in combining self—
culture and domestic duties and preserv-
ing a just balance between the two. B.

 

 

. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
A LADY recently asked how to re move
mildew from her muslin dress. The wear-
ing of muslin is now postponed to the
“ sweet by and bye,” but here is a recipe.
clipped from the N. Y. Tribune, which
will keep over: “ Put on soft soap (hard
soap dissolved in water will do) then
scrape on chalk and lay in sun; repeat if

 

ever he was, thought a woman had as
good a right to run a steamboat as any-
hddy, providing she knew enough. Last
winter we were called upon to admire the
courage and independence of the young
woman, daughter of the owner of a large
manufacturing establishment at the East,
who runs the engine that furnishes the
power, does it as well, and earns the same
salary, as a male engineer. Now, here’s
pretty Mrs. Walter Leighton, of Marlboro,
Mass. who has entered her favorite horse
in a trotting race for- a purse of $500, and
will drive him herself, before the usual
trotting sulky afiected by jockeys. She
says she is going to drive to win, too, and
that she can get as much speed out of her
horse as any one. What next, I wonder?

 

THERE are many times in life when we
are forcedto choose which of two things,
both seemingly equally necessary and
desirable, we will have for our own. We
stand often, mentally, “ where two ways

meet,” looking about us undecided what
course to pursue. Needless to say we

necessary.”

 

TEE cheese cloth which has been so
popular as inexpensive drapery for win-
dows, etc., now comes in colors. Red,
pink and blue can now be bought at the
low price of ten cents per yard. When
you do up your cheese-cloth curtains do
not starch them; they will drape much
more prettily and more artistically to
simply iron smooth and hang without
stiffening.

 

THE wood box is a necessary but not
very ornamental bit of furnishing to the
sitting-room. Many cover the box with
paper like that on the walls of the room,
but it will hardly do more than last
through the season except with great care,
especially if little fingers are fond of dis-
covering the broken places and tearing
them larger. But if you get a piece of oil—
cloth, sufficient to cover sides and back,
and tack it firmly in place, you have some-
thing whichwill last a long time and not
get broken. “Select a dark marbled piece,

WE heartily agree with a correspondent
of the Rural New Yorker, who says: “It.
is a great mistake of a mother to place
one of the children to sleep With an aged
person, no matter how crowded the home
nest. A straw pallet on the floor even is
far preferable. In almost every case the
vitality of the child is imparted to the
aged person, but at a fearful cost to the
little one.” It is also a very bad practice
to have the baby sleep in the bed with its-
parents. Sometimes children sleep with
the parents till they are three or four
years old. This is very bad for the little
people. A very young child can sleep»
in a crib drawn by the side of the bed,
and there is not one half the danger that.
it will take cold, that there is in exhaust-
ing its vitality by absorption. And we
would again counsel parents to buy single-
bedstcads for' the children’s sleeping
apartments, even if two are placed in the
same. room. It makes a little more
washing, but the children sleep enough
better to pay. We have known two- '
children of very opposite tem peraments
who were always restless and wakeful
by night, nervous, irritable and ailing by
day while they shared the same bed.
Separated, both slept soundly, awakened
reffreshed, and improved in temper. This
is act.

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Contributed Recipes.

PICKLED Dismiss—Use the small, silver-
skinned onions; remove all the outer skins.
To a two gallon crock of onions put two
teacupfnls of salt and cover with boiling water;
let stand over night; pour ofi’. the next day;
pour on more boiling water and let stand
another night; then drain out and put in a
kettle with white wine vinegar, two large red
peppers, half cup mustard seed, and a small
half cup of mace. Let boil a few minutes;
then skim out and pour boiling hot vinegar on
them and cover up tight. Mas. J. B.
Dnrnorr.

 

Crrnon Pennants—Pare the citron and
remove the seeds. Cut into small pieces in
any fancy shape, (diamonds and triangles are
pretty). Weigh the fruit and then cook it till
it is clear, and drain. Allow half a pound of
sugar to every pound of fruit, and just enough
water to wet the sugar so it will not burn.
Boil till clear. When partly boiled put in two
large lemons sliced and a piece of ginger root.
Add the citron, and let boil about twenty
minutes. For Mrs. L. C.

 

 

 

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