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For the household.
FLOWER FANCIES.

 

BY M. A. SUTPIN.

 

When some beloved one falls asleep,
We go where flowers wave,

And. seeking out a pleasant spot,
We make that one a grave.

Then, pansies plant upon the mound,
The lowly spot to grace;

ln after years, in a: me one flower,
We see that lov’d one's face.

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WOMAN.

 

 

Give us that grand word “ woman " once again,
And let’s have done with “lady.”

One‘s a term
Full of fine force—strong, beautiful and firm;
Fit forthe noble:t use of tongue or pen—
And one’s a word for lackeys.

One suggests
The mother, wife, and sister; one the dame
Whose costly robe, nayhap. gave her the name-
One word upon its own strength leans and rests;
The other minces tiptce.

Who would be
The ”perfect woman” must grow brave of heart
And broad of soul, to play her troubled part
Well in life’s drama. While each day we see
The “perfect lady,” skilied in what to do.
And what to say, grace in each tone and act
(’Tis taught in schools, but needs serve native
tact)
Yet narrow in not mind as in her shoe.
Give the first place, then, to the nobler phrase,
Andjeave the lesser word for lesser plaisc.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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WH \1‘ ONE WOMAN DID.

 

The HOUSEHOLD Editor recently had
the pleasure of a call from “Mollie
Moonshine," of Mapleton, Grand Traverse
County, and in the course of a half hour’s
chat, a comment on “ Mollie’s ”sufferings
from “Resorters,” paved the way to a
little talk on flowers, in which she men-
tioned the good success attending her
efforts at awakeningr an interest in flori—
culture among her pupils the past sunr
mer. And to show the good work one
little woman, of slight physique but en-
ergetic disposition, can do in rescuing a
school yard from a “ state of nature ” we
begged permission to tell the story as it was
told to us, in the HOUSEHOLD, since what
she accomplished “shines,” not “like”
butas in very truth, “agood deed in a
naughty world.”

The school yard was filled with stumps,
the stone which had been lett from the
laying of the foundation wall of the
schoolhouse, and the usual debris left
after building where it is no one’s busi-

 

ness to clear away and put in order. The
children’s enthusiasm in the matter of
raising flowers in the yard was easily
awakened, and one of D. M. Ferrv’s
“School Collection ”_ of seeds procured.
But the stumps and stones occupied the
ground. One afternoon Mollie Moonshine
and one or two of her pupils wrote notes
to the patrons of the school. inviting
them to assemble at an appointed time to
work in the school yard, and knowing an

infallible argument with the sex, prom- '

ising them a good supper. The ladies
were then invited, and asked to aid in
keeping this promise. It would doubtless
be amusing were it possible to chronicle
the remarks and criticisms on this novel
“ bee,” we venture the guess that it was
the first invitation of the kind received
by most of the residents of the district.

The appointed afternoon proved cloudy
and somewhat rainy, and Mollie confess—
ed she had her doubts as to the success
of her scheme. But at two o’clock two
men who lived furthest from the school
house arrived, prepared for business. In
a very few moments small Mercurys,
nimble-footed, if not winged, went fly-
ing down the road to tell the others that
Mr. A. and Mr. B. had come; and very
soon the yard Was alive with helpers.
Mollie was called upon to assume the
leadership and tell what she wished done,
but diplomatically shifted the responsi—
bility upon the Director of the district,
under whose supervision the stumps were
extracted. the stones piled into a low
place which needed filling up, the ground
plowed, dragged and graded. The ladies
meanwhile had not been idle. From ca-
pacious baskets they brought forth all
sorts of good things, and. a bountiful sup-
per was spread by lb.“ time the labor out-
side was done; this all, pupils included,
joined in demolishing, and the sun went
down upon a yard cleared, graded and
ready to be beautified.

Next morning Mollie’s husband and a
neighbor or two planted a number of
trees and sowed grass seen for alawu.
The flowers grew fairly well, and the
children’s interest in their culture never
flagged during the term. School closed
with a picnic, at which we may well im-
agine many compliments were paid the
“first cause” of the pleasant change in
school surroundings, and at which Mol-
lie suggested the propriety of still fur—
ther improvement, a coat of paint for the
schoolhouse, a recommendation which
has since been carried out.

which the school yard is the bleakest and
most desolate spot ithin its confines.
there is needed only the simple but ef-
fectual means employed in this instance
—the awakening an interest in the chil-
dren first, then a direct appeal to the par-
ents for help; not deprecatingly as if ex—
pecting a rebuff. but boldly, confidently.
as if sure of a hearty response when once
the desirability of the chance is pointed
out—to bring about equally satisfactory
results. There is satisfactionin the minds
of those who wrought the work, tho sat~
isfaction that always follows work welI
done. The patrons of the school have a
sense of preprietorshir in. the schoof
property; they helped make it pleasant
and inviting. and. euchancec ETS value both
acmazly and ‘ mitotic-ally; tlwy will take a
new interest in sch .nnl matters from hencd
forth became their persmni attention has
been caller? responsibilities.
Mollie Moonshine‘s ‘ bee ” will
long hr remembered LL. .nltdistrict, and
we hope the story of wna. she did and
how she did it, will he kept in memory
by other teachers. and. many times repeat

ed in practice.

As regards the cu.ture of tlowers in
school yards. we believe that as the
school terms are now arranged, the plant‘
in}: of perennials, bulbs and hardy shrubs
will afford more satisfaction and pleasure
than the attempt to grow annuals, which
generally blossom must abundantly after
the summer term of school is closed.
Children are eager to see the results of
their work, and from seed to bloom is a
long time tothem. Bulbs would bloom
during~ the early part of the term, and he
succeeded by the early and late per-
ennials. There would be enough to do to
keep the borders from weeds and supplied
with fertilizers; and the growing ofa few
annuals could be added as a lesson in.
“ how plants grow” With bulbs and a.
Will chosen list “5 pcrennia? timers a
suscession of bloom mighthe s-a-cureddur-
ing most if no' '22; the term.

to their

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LAST J sue the liousnuonn E-litor took
the liberty to appoint Pansy. Prudence.
Merrie, L. B. P. and Mrs. ' Bale a com—-
mttiee to test the “corps ‘ qztting pro-<-
cess of fruit canning. Pansy ..."terwart'i
stated she could not comply with the
Editor’s request, as she was not keeping
house. But we would like a report from
the others, with full paliii‘ulars of suc—
cess orfailure. And, if any Lner of our

 

. readers tried this method. we would be

In many a Michigan school district in i glad to hear the result.

    


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OUR READING CIRCLE.

 

Ihave wanted for a long time to tell
the readers of some Household of the
benefits derived, and of the great pleasure
given each and every member of our
Reading Circle since its organization.
But I had thought of giving it to some
frontier State paper or Household, for I
cannot realize that our State is not a vast
school or association; as almost every
community is filled with societies of dif—
ferent form and tone, having for an ob-
ject the improvement of all who will par-
ticipate. However, as Beatrix has called
me out, I will give a brief history of what
we have done:

Two years ago last summer we met at
the house of a neighbor, living in the
central part of the neighborhood, and or-
ganized with thirteen members; and, by
the way, we invited every lady in the
vicinity to join with us. The distance
between the extreme members is four
miles. We appointed a president, and
made out a programme for the year. We
were to meet at half-past one o’clock on
Thursday of each week. One hour was
to be devoted to the reading of Macaulav’s
History of England; one hour to the
reading of Shakespeare; one hour to rec—
itations and select readings; each mem-
ber being requested to furnish one or the
other.

As regards the supper, our rules re—
stricted each member to a limited bill of
fare; and before leaving the table the
President would call upon each one to
recite some beautiful gem of thought,
and after each one had recited, if no one
in the class could give the author’s name,
the one reciting would tell—Which we
enjoyed very much. My husband and I
have practiced that way in reading the
poems of the standard authors in the dif-
ferent papers; the one who read the
poem first would have the other give the
author’siname; by so doing we soon learn
ed to distinguish the style of the different
authors.

We passed the supper around once and
erased it from the programme, as we soon
saw that it took up too much valuable
time. The lady who entertained lost the
last hour of the literary work in prepar—
ing tea. as, with but one exception, none
of us keep girls to do the work. It also
made us late home, and our husbands
and hired men were waiting for their
suppers. After dropping this unnecessary
append age, we closed at half>past four.

It was our duty to look over our read—
ing during the week, and come as well
prepared as our time from our home du—
ties would permit, which was all too
short. One is very much surprised
at the amount of pleasure it gives in
looking up gems of thought, pieces to
read or recite, and authorities on history
and Shakespeare—for we are criticised by
every member of the class as soon as we
have read or recited, or done whatever
we have to do. We have at every meet-
ing an encyclopedia and dictionary and
look up, at the time, the errors as they
occur. We are astonished at the amount

'all of which is retained in memory for
future use. I knowit has helped us all
in many ways, too numerous to mention
here.

After running about six months we
gave an entertainment, and invited our
husbands and families, also a few other
friends. We met in the afternoon and
rehearsed; at six o’clock the friends gath-
ered and partook of a picnic supper. The
entertainment inthe evening consisted
of papers upon some of the kingsand
queens of England, and nations or tribes
—over which we had passed in our his-
tory; recitations and select readings, with
plenty of music interspersed. Our hus-
bands gave us manv compliments, and
said they must have more such.

One year ago this month I thought it
would be nice to take a vacation, and all
go to town and take a term or two in elo-
cution lessons, as we have a very excel-
lent teacher there. Oonsequently, I
started out one pleasant afternoon to see
our members. and was agreeably surprised
to find them all perfectly delighted with
the idea. We commenced immediately, and
procured Hamill’s Science of Elocution,
and you never saw a class of children
manifest more pleasure than this class of
—I might say old married ladies. Two
or three fell out, by the way, who did not
dare to try, come to take the second
thought; then we filled the class with two
or three ready friends from town. We
took lessons Etwo terms, and learned a
great many things that we did not have
the opportunity to learn when we were
young.

Last spring when we resumed our work
as a circle we took Dickens’ works instead
Shakespeare. Every one must under—
stand that it is necessary to success to
have one or more in the neighborhood
who are full of the work in hand, or it
will die sooner or later; but if you can
keep running with some degree of en—
thusiasm for a year at least, I do not
think the members would be content
without something of the kind in their
midst thereafter. MRS. A. C. G.

Paw Paw.

 

 

COMMENTS.

Old School Teacher’s letter reminds
me of ashort conversation I overheard
between three ladies last summer in a
greenhouse (all the wives of well-to-do
farmers). There were smal; plants for
sale for five cents; each wanted one, bug
one had forgotten her pocket-book, one
left hers at home because there was noth-
ing in it, while the third confessed that
was something she never owned. They
then fell to wondering what they would
do if the excursion train should go and
leave them one hundred miles from home
without five cents, and their husbands no
where to be found.
I cannot agree with “Bonnie Scotland”
in thinking it economy to do without
well or cistern. Time is money, and I
am sure the men must spend time enough
in a year to build a large cistern, to say
nothing about the inconvenience of doing
without plenty of water; as I never yet saw

 

necessity without well or cistern. or both,
close at hand. I think it economy where
there are hired men not to have them

spend their time bringing water.
BESS.
Homa-on-rrrn -HILLSIDE.

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CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
A very pretty handkerchief case is
made by taking two heavy pieces of
pasteboard, eight by ten inches, covering
them first with white silesia. then .with a
basket work of ribbon in two colors, ar-
ranged diagonally upon them. By basket
work is meant weaving the ribbonsin
and out, so that the color appears in
squares. like a chequer board. Pale blue
and maroon, cardinal and cream, dark
blue and silver grey, make lovely combi-
nations for this purpose. The outside
being covered, line With plain satin, over
a layer of wadding sprinkled with
powdered orris root, which can be bought
for five cents at any drug store. Fasten
the two pieces together loosely, and
ornament the upper side with a bow of
the two colors at the lower right hand
corner.

The common willow work baskets s )ld
for fifteen and twenty-five cents, can be
much improved in appearance by an ap-
plication of gold or bronze paint, and
when fitted with a satin lining, are very
dainty and pretty. A shallow basket,
thus gilded, may have a strip of satin
sewed round the inside, near the top, and
with casing and drawing strings makes a
basket-workbag which is very pretty and
convenient.

If one has a quantity of peacock
feathers, With a little ingenuityavery
pretty hand screen may be made of them:
Take apalm leaf fan, one of the finer
grades, and cut it in a wide triangle.
Geometrically speaking,” this couldn’t
be did,” but an idea of the shape can be
gained from the expression, the upper or
top edge of the fan being cut rounding
to meet the sides, which are cut diagonally
from the handle. Cover with fine white
cloth and mount a rim of cardboard or
stiff paper around the edge. On this paste
the eyes of the peacock feathers, one row
close together, on both sides. Make a
plush panel to fill the space left vacant in
the centre of the fan, and this panel can
be embroidered, painted, or left plain. A
space below the panel, (which conforms
to the shape ofthe fan before the feathers
are put on) is covered with shirred satin.
set on the lower edge of the panel with a
frill; the panel and the frill,~ which ex-
tends a'bonttwo inches on each side of
the handle, are edged with a large silk
cord. which is wound round the satin
covered handle. Apufi of satin is around
the handle next the fan, being tied about
it with the cord.

Key holders are made of two wooden
keys crossed, covered with the finest
pearl barley or with millet seed, and
then gilded. They are suspended by a
loop and bow of ribbon. The keys,
which are made by the scroll saw, are
dipped in gum or glue water, and then

 

 

of information gleaned in a year’s time,

 
 

 

the family that had an abundance of this

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seed. . When perfectly dry they are
gilded or bronzed with paint liquid.

A correspondent of the Christian
Union tells how she made aframe for an
oil painting: “I ordered a pine frame,
three inches wide, from a carpenter for
thirty cents; a picture-frame maker asked
seventy-five cents for the same. I then
bought from a painters’ supply store, ten
cents worth of ‘sizing,’ and gave the
frame athick coat of it. When dry in
two hours, 1 applied a thick coat of
Spaulding’s prepared glue-(cost, sixteen
cents), and at once sprinkled thickly with
fine sifted sawdust (cost, nothing) from
the carpenter’s shop. I dried this for
twenty-four hours; and then, having
brushed ofi all loose sawdust, and re—
moved the few irregularities with my
palette knife, I applied a coat of liquid
gilding (cost, forty cents). My frame was
then complete, and I had expended only
ninety-six cents, and found I had mater—
ials enough left to ‘treat’ another frame.”

Pretty easels to hold cabinet photo-
graphs or panels, may be made at home by
cutting two lengths of coarse wire, wind-
ing them with white woolen yarn, and
securing the two cross-pieces, also of wire
covered with yarn, in the proper posi—
tion, then immersing the whole in a
saturated solution of alum which will
cover it with a coat of glittering crystals-
To support the easel, a wire must be
twisted at the back, and if not wound,
will not be crystallized. With the aid
of the pincers and a strong wrist, the
upper ends of the upright pieces may be
twisted into loops. Instead of alum,
sealing wax, or a mixture of resin, wax
and vermillion, may be used to coat the
wires, making a very fair imitation of
coral. Sometimes search among the
branches of a tree will discover twigs of
pretty shape to form an easel by a little
shaping; these when bound together can
be covered with the sealing wax com-
pound.

A butterfly needlebook is made by
cutting two pieces of thin cardboard
into the shape of a butterfly with the
wings extended. The butterfly should
measure about six inches from tip to tip
of its wings, and about four inches the
other way. Cover these on one side with
old’gold plush, and with arrasene and
tinsel thread, mark imitations of the lines
or spots on a butterfly’s wings. Line
with satin. Cut several smaller shapes
out of white flannel, and buttonhole the
edges regularly but in wide stitches with
various colors of embroidery silk, one
with blue, another with yellow, 3 third
with red, etc. Put the flannel leaves
between the two covers and tack securely
through the centre. Make aroll of soft
cloth five inches long, as large around as
your forefinger; cover with plush, and
wind a thread of silk and tinsel around it
the whole length, the threads to be
about one-fourth of an inch apart. A
couple of black beads do duty for eyes,
and barbs from an old ostrich plume
make antennae no butterfly need be
ashamed to acknowledge. Sew the
body of - the butterfly to the centre
of the wings, and dispose of a paper

 

of Milward’s best “fives to tens”
on the leaves. The needle book is
very pretty if the body of the butterfly is
omitted, and both covers marked alike;
the “wings” are then folded together
and a bow of inch wide ribbon sewed
where the body would be.

We make a pansy needlebook by cut-
ting pieces of thick paper into the form
of pansy petals, taking a pansy for pat-
tern, but considerably increasing the
size. Cover two of them with purple
velvet and the others with yellow silk.
Cut other pieces and cover to match for
the back of the pansy. Cut leaves out of
white flannel to place between the purple
petals, cutting them with a deep scallop
instead of in two pieces, and buttonhole
the edges as directed above. Put the
back and front together, with the leaves
between, and fasten 1n the center under
a very small button covered with purple
velvet. The yellow petals may be shaded
with lines of purple embroidery silk, and
increase the resemblance to a pansy.
This may be converted into a pansy
penwiper by sewing several pieces of
flannel, cut to conform to the outline of
the pansy, on its under side.

Little fingers can manage a “star”
pincushion, for the father or big brother
to carry in his vest pocket. Cut twelve
diamond shaped pieces of card board, six
for the front and six for the back, and
cover with satin, velvet or plush, covering
six with light and SH: with dark. Sew
them together over and over, alternating
the colors, then overhand the two stars
together, and stick bright new pins
round the edge. For a sunflower pen-
wiper out a cardboard circle the size of a
silver dollar, cover with brown plush or
velvet, and cross with lines of gold
colored silk in diamonds. Cut ovals out
of yellow flannel, lay a small pleat in
each, and sew two rows of these
ovals round the centre already made.
Cover a circle of thin pasteboard, a trifle
larger than 1the centre, with brown
cambric, and fasten to the wrong side of

the sunflower to conceal the raw edges of
the flannel. Cut several circles of various
colored flannel, pink the edges, and sew
at the center to the sunflower.

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FORCE OF EXAMPLE.

 

Whenever this subject is broached, we
readily admit that practice is a valuable
adjunct of preaching, but do we carry
the remembrance of it into our daily
lives?

Do we take the thought to our firesides,
entertain it amid social life, and give it
consideration in connection with the
higher or spiritual life?

No teaching can have its fullest and
best effect without the accompaniment of
fitting example.

The effect of example is felt first in the
household. Here confidence is easily
gained or lost. Children are not easily
deceived, and none need hone for a suc—
cessful administration among them who
adopt the guideboard principle of
“ directing the way but never themselves
traveling therein.”

A child will not be truthful if it de—

 

tects those around it in equivocation or
deception. It will not be honest if fraud
is practiced before its eyes. It will not
be pure if it listens to vile language, and
can you have faith in the temperance of
it’s after years if the favorite family
remedy be whiskey sling; and if a mug
of cider has place upon the evening
board? The downfall of many ayouth
is traceable to the cider barrel in his
father’s cellar.

In neighborhood intercourse how
quickly we detect in others what we deem
incongruous. Are we as watchful to
avoid the same in our own conduct? Do
we talk of kindness, forbearance and
compassion, then sharply criticize a
friend, thereby setting an example for
him to follow when he hears of it, as
sooner or later he surely will? Thus
back and forth flies the shuttle, it may be
of hate, it might be of love. As the
circle of our intercourse widens the
same law holds ever good.

We are prone, I think, to a certain in-
dependence of feeling, deeming ourselves
accountable to no one for the exemplifies.-
tion of our life’s creeds. But no man
lives to self alone. Some one conscious—
ly or unconsciously is being moulded by
his life’s methods. if they be not what
his judgment would approve in others,
then does he miss golden opportunities
for good, and prepares for himself a har-
vest of bitterness. But if on the other
hand he seeks to live up to the highest
convictions of his own soul, he may,
somewhere on the ocean of life, give im—
pulse to a ripple of good whose widening
circles he may not trace. The Golden
Rule we oft repeat, but in our living have
we crystalized the beauty of its thought?

MERI‘IE.
PAW PAW.

 

FOREIGN FASHIONS.

A lady of this city, who will make
Leipsic, Germany, her home for the next
year, writes to a friend in this city re—
garding German cookery and German
women. “Such messes!” she says, “the
dishes are full of surprises, generally th
reverse of pleasant. Soups and stews are
served in dishes garnished with pink an
white pastry, pretty to look at, but a
awful combination to think of eatin
Everything, even to cauliflower, is sea-
soned with nutmeg. have always the
same thing for supper, meats and bread
and butter, but no cake or sauce.
think Annie would starve but for t
bake shops, which she patronizes liber
ally. -
“The women are perfect drudges; the
do all the work, the men are all in th
army. They work in the fields, carry th
heaviest burdens, toil from morning t
night without rest, and get only $2 per
month as wages.

“Our room is furnished in German
fashion, no carpet rugs instead, with a
funny high stove, built into the wall, i
which it takes the servant about an hou
to build a fire. In everything pertaining
to domestic convenience the people her ‘
are two hundred years behind the times.”

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reason for thankfulness that their lot is
cast in pleasanter paths than their foreign
sisters? Our American conveniences and
labor-saving contrivances are wholly un—

known in most foreign countries, and all

women’s tasks are performed in the most
laborious manner. A lady who desired a
hot bath at a foreign hotel created wide-
spread consternation through the whole
establishment by the expression of her
wish, and she was no less confounded
when the major demo of the hotel came
to her room with two men bearing a large
cask, which they filled with hot water
from the kitchen, bringing it up by the
pailful!

The wages of the German servant
seem absurdly small to her American
compeer, who receives for one week’s
service as much as the other for a month’s.
It is acompliment to the " spirt of our
institutions” that the rawest German
girl “just over,” who can manage but a
few words of our language, easily com-
prehends that her services have a greatly
enhanced value in the new world to
which she has come, and though her only
culinary achievement may be to make
" saner kraut,” she wants the highest
wages for spoiling good material in an
American kitchen.

In this country the wages of domestics
have more than doubled within the last
half century, while the necessaries of life
have in every instance been diminished
in value. Domestic service is better paid
and the opportunities to “ rise from the
ranks” are more numerous than in any
other country. Here we know little of
the class distinctions, those lines of caste,
which in foreign lands keep the servant
or the child of scr vants always a servant.
Across the seas if a man marries in a
rank below his own, the result is social
ostracism; in America, the husband lifts
his wife to his own rank.

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NEW STYLES IN APRONS.

 

A pretty apron for a child is made of
two straight widths of yard wide lawn,
one cut in two for the backs. Sewto-
gether, and out half armholes at the top
of the seams; and lawn strings are sewed
on each side of the armhole to be tied
above it. Ribbons tied in a full how are
very pretty.

The spaces between front and back are
then shirred in three rows of gathers
held by a facing underneath, and a ruffle
an inch wide is left anove the shining;
a single button and buttonhole in the
shirring fastens the apron at the top.
Many mothers prefer to sew strings of
the goods on the under arm seams to tie
in a bow at the back or" the waist. The
bottom of the apron is finished by a three
inch hem and acluster of tucks. This
style is pretty in other goods than lawn.

Muslin and satteen aprons are much
worn at home by misses of all ages, and
are such dainty and dressy additions
to a home toilette that they may be safely
catalogued among Christmas gifts. The

newest way of making is to takea length
of cream colored muslin, covered with
dots or small figures (these figures can be

 

worked over with colored embroidery
silks with very good effect) and run
seven tucks for the bottom of the apron.
Then the sides are edged with embroidery
a finger deep. The top is Shirred into a
space of sever. and a half inches, and be-
l-‘w the shirring the fullness is pressed
into side pleats. The bib is six inches
square, tucked at the top, and with
bretelles of embroidery narrowed at the
end which joins the belt, and ending on
the shoulder under full ribbon bows.
The belt is of ribbon.

A plains: apror. is of blue satteen,
trimmed across the bottom with bands of
red embroidery. and edged with the
same. The bib is also edged with em-
broidery. The apron is shirred at the
belt, which is of cardinal ribbon, with a
full bow and ends at the side. Any of
these aprons make pretty holiday gifts.

I -———¢o¢—————~
AN EXPERIMENT IN SETTING
MILK.

 

To test the value of my substitute for
a creamery, mentionedin the HOUSEHOLD
of September 15th, I have since tned set-
ting the milk in pans, five milkings, then
five in the cans, four times in succession.
I had nearly one and a half pounds more
butter from the pans each time. I had
four pans of milk to a milking. I let all
the milk stand the same length of time
(forty-eight hours); I kept the pans in a
cool cellar, so the milk did not sour; and
the weather was cool. I fail to see where-
in my treatment difiers from the genuine
creamery. I think it worked splendidly
while the weather was warm. and made
much less work.

Will the owner of a creamery experi‘
ment, and give us the result? and oblige

AUNT SELL.
PLAINWELL.

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

 

Wmnvnn a farmer gets a laborsaving
implement for himself, let him think if
something to save his wife from kitchen
labor cannot also be secured.

IT is said that the yellow stains made by
sewingmachine 011 can be removed by
rubbing them with a cloth wet in am-
monia before putting the garment in the
water.

 

IF you are having a new pork barrel
made this fall, have it made larger at the
bottom than at the top, thus doing away
with the necessity of a heavy weight to
keep the meat under the brine, and the
consequent trouble and labor of lifting it
of.r whenever meat is needed.

 

ls you have trouble 2n keeping your
bread sponge warm over night in winter,
have a shallow box made, with slats
across the top, and open at one end. Into
this slip a couple of bricks that have been
heated in the oven or on top of the stove,
and set the bread pan on the slats. Cover
box and all with a woolen blanket, and
your bread will be “light as a feather”
by morning.

 

 

 

STocxmos which have had the feet
worn out can be converted into the most
perfect little jerseys for boyswith a small
amount oftrouble. The footis cut ofl’,
and only the leg part is used. This is
carefully opened up the back and forms
the front of the jersey, the second stock—
ing forming the back, with a neat scam up!
the sides. A space of about four inches
is left open near the top, and the edges
turned over and herring-boned. This is
for fittingin each sleeve, which is com-
posed of a piece taken from the foot,
three inches Wlde. The top, forming the
neck, is curved, as a small boy’s jersey al-
ways is, turned over and herring—boned.
Out of one pair of ribbed Merino stock—
ings there comes a jersey about four-
teen inches long, seventeen inches round,
as neat and warm as could possibly be
wished.

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A SKATE BAG ——B. M. wishes to know
howto make a skate bag. According to
the information we are able to glean from
various sources, a skate bag is pretty
much like any other bag. A young lady
in this city has a very pretty one, made
of dark green velvet, with her initial,
encircled by a wreath of rosebuds, painted
on one side, and lined with silesia. It
was made the length and width of the
skates, and finished with silk cord and
chenille tassels. One made for her
brother was of dark blue double-faced
canton flannel. Another, made of can-
vas, was embroidered in crewels, and
made square, like a school bag; but
the preference seems to be for those in
regular bag shape, gathered at the bottom
and ornamented by a tassel or ribbon
bow, and with drawing strings at the top.

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SEVERAL communications which would
ordinarily have been in time for this
issue, are held over until next week.
Thanksgiving, you know.

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Useful Recipes.

APPLE TAPIOCA PUDDING.——Pare and core
enough apples to fill dish; put into each apple
a bit of lemon peel. Soak half a pint of tapioca
in one quart of lukewarm water one hour; add
a little salt; flavor with lemon; pour over

apples. Bake until apples are tender. Eat
when cold with cream and sugar.

CREAMED Formosa—Cut cold, borled
potatoes into cubes or thin slices. Put

them into a shallow pan, cover with milk, and
cook until the potatoes have absorbed nearly
all the milk. To one pint of potatoes add a
tanlespoonful of butter. half a teaspoonful of
salt, half a saltrspoonful of pepper and a little
chopped parsley.

 

St‘ALLorED TURKsY.—-Butter a. deep dish.
line it witl. bread crumbs, and put in the bot
tom a layer of bread crumbs seasoned with
butter, pepper, and salt, then a layer of cold
turkey chopped line, and so on until the dish
is full, adding the stuffing and gravy of the
turkey; then beat together two eggs, add to
them two tablespoonfuls of milk, butter, salt,
pepper and rolled cracker crumbs; spread
thickly over the top of the turkey; bake half
an hour, keeping it covered for twenty min-

utes; then remove the cover and brown. A
ood way to dispose of the remains of the
Thanksgiving turkey.