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Judge not thy‘heighbor, all his trial
And care, you may not know;

His face may wear a pleasant smile,
Yet hide a heart of woe.

Grief and pain. temptations great.
Borrow may be his lot,

Such as anether’s heart might break;
That ye be not judged, jurge not.

Judge not thy brother—student, true,
flis tasks may harder be

For him, each day, than yours for you;
And yet you cannot see

That it should be. “ They are not so,"
You say, “ for me,” his lot

Hay different be from yours . Ah, not
That ye be-not judged, judge not.

Judge not thy fellow-traveler, thorns
Unseen may pierce his feet;

And even now, perchante, he mourns
While you have pleasures sweet.
Where you see roses, he sees weeds;

His dwelling is a out
And not a home; your help he needs.
That ye be not judged. judge not.

Judge not thy kin, thy friend or foe.
Their paths may lie up hills,

That steeper and more slippery grow,
No shady trees, no rills,

No flowers, no birds sing or breezes play,
You do not know their lot.

So help them o’er their uncertain way
And love thorn, bntjudge not.

human ‘

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BERENITY OF OHARAOI‘ER.

 

To me, that is a most beautiful and
suggestive thought expressed in these
lines of Edwin Arnold’s:

“ Let us be like the bird, an instant lighted
Upon atwig that swings,
He feels it swa , yet sings on nnaflrighted,
Knowing he in his wings.”

» The serenity and strength .of character
which lift us above the fret and worry

of the accidents of- life, its vexations and
discouragements, and enable us to stand,
conscious of yehsuperior to them, is an
enviable mental altitude. Our spiritual
life is mysteriously associated with the
material; extern'alities must exert an in—
fluence upon our inner, soul-life, yet the
spiritual is in the ascendant when
material circumstances cannot aflect us,
when we can sing, though the thg bends.
Who are the happy, contented women of
our land? Not those most abundantly
blessed with wealth and all creature com-
forts, but those who so possess their own
spirits that they realize they had better
lose money, time, ‘almost anything, rather
than that tranquillity of spirit which lifts
them over the vexations and annoyances

of the day’s duties. Calmness. serenity,
self-poise, double the value of life; that
which would rufile the temper and cloud
the brow of the fretful, impatient woman,
slips harmless past us, as arrows rattle
against chain armor. How many of our
troubles vanish when we look them
squarely in the face! How many times
we brood over imaginary troubles, which
we fear may come to us, letting the little
clouds our ‘ courage should subdue,
darken our spiritual horizon! Should we
not rather assert our belief in the ultimate
good purpose of all life, and set before
us the fair plains of spiritual serenity?

“ What doth the future say? Hope!

Turn thy face sun-ward!
Look wnere the light fringes the far-rising

s ope;
Day comsth onward.”

“ We are ,too ready with complaint in
this fair world of ours;” too ready to
take Care into our hearts to rule us. We
look down, not up; we feel a trembling
beneath our feet and fall prostrate, in—
stead of resting with tranquil courage,
confident in our strength to meet the

. shock. We ought not to let the dust-

clouds of the immediate strife of life
shut from our eyes the grand purpose of
existence, as we are apt to do. The
serenity which is born of a definite pur—
pose in life, lifts us into a region of
spiritual repose, where we can exert a
calm, steady, beneficent influence upon
our fellows. Who is the greatest factor
in social progress and achievement, the
fretful, fussy woman, always " in astew”
about something, always prophesying
failure, or she whose sweet, sunny spirit
is like a gentle benediction from heaven

'upon the turbulent lives of her co-lahor-

era?

Happiness comes to us and ours
through this serene spirit, so beautiful to
think of, so much more beautiful in its
living realization; and happiness is the
centre of spiritual energy and endeavor.
It is the happy whomake life's sunshine,
—and happiness—ah, that we must find
within. No amount of sorrow or mis-
fortune need make a life wretched, or
mocked, or harmful, if we only know we
have our wines. “The worst reality,”
says George Eliot, "is never unendurable
when it comes forth from behind the
clouds which envelop it.” “Soured by
trouble " need not be said of us if we cul«
tivate and Come into possession of that
heritage meant to be ours. Our lives are
completed as the shape grows under the
sculptor’s chisel; we round them into per-

 

fection as our days slip into eternity; the

 

marble wastes, but the statue grows.
Jealousy, envy, bitterness, recrimination,
are all hindrances to this shaping of life
into beauty; calm self~control, tranquil—
lity of temper, acceptance of the means
at our command, guide the chisel in the
flowing lines of symmetry and just pro-
portion. Our strife should be to gain that
noble vantage-ground of humanity from

which with wide charity and pitying '

kindness—not patronizing forbearance,
we can look upon the frailties and faults
of our kind. “He who possesses himself
has the basis for all things,” says Canon
Farrer; in which he corroborates our
own Emerson, who bids us emancipate
ourselve s from the things “which sit in
the saddle and ride mankind;” While
Longfellow says:
“Be not like a stream that brawls
Loud with shallow waterfalls;

But in quiet selfeontrol
Link together soul and soul."

BEA TR IX.
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FALSE AND TRUE PRIDE.

 

Much has been written for the Hausa-
nom) in regard to the position, socially, of
hired girls, or of those doing housework
for a livelihood. It is a question of im-
portance to housekeepers as well as girls.
Is it the work that lowers the girls, oris
it the girls that will not raise themselves
to a higher position? It certainly cannot
be mere housework that takes away all
polish and refinement, for we can point
to many" beautiful, refined ladies and
their daughters who do their own house-
work, and they are not lowered in their
own estimaVion or their social position,
and certainly they do all apaid girl is
expected to do. Ihave thought a good
deal of the repugnance of girls I have
known, who needed much to earn a
livelihood, but would live upon charity
and in idleness rather than go into a
neighbor’s kitchen and show skill and
neatness (but I doubt if they could show
either) in culinary matters, because they
would be looked down upon. This subject
has called to mind two illustrations of
pride, one false, the other true.

A woman was left worse than widowed,
with a large family to care for. In her
girlhood she had not been taught any-
thing to fall back upon in such an
emergency, and she found herself help-
less. Friends opened their doors to give
her and her children shelter, but they
were far from able to burden themselves
with their support. Friends and neigh-

    
       
     
      
       
       
       
     
     
     
    
   
    
    
  
  
    
  
   
     
  
  
   
  
  
   
  
    
   
 
 
    
   
   
  
  
  
   
    
   

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as Mirabilt’s longiflora; the flower tubes
are often four to six inches in length.
It is a very good plan to order seed early
and arrange in mind the garden work for
spring, as that season brings with it to
the most of us an abundance of work
that is not to be slighted or avoided, so I
will soon give a list, although there are
but very‘few desirable sorts that I do
not have ready at any seasonabletime

without notice here.
'Mas. M. A. FULLER.

———-—oo.——-
SUCCESS IN THE NEW METHOD
OF FRUIT OANNiNG.

PINTON.

The Editor asked for reports on the
cot-ton batting process of canning fruits.
I tried it with good success. The fruit
Was elderberries for pics. I cooked them,
adding one quart of good vinegar to two
gallons of the berries; put them in the
jar and folded a sheet of wedding four
thicknesses, and a paper over that to keep
OR the dirt; tied them up while hot, same
as in canning, and on opening them a
few days ago, they were good enough to
eat. If all fruit kept as well there would
be no need of cans. I would like to
know if any one tried putting up fruit
early in the season that way. I shall try
more kinds another year. '

I would like to thank E. L. Nye for her
recipe for coffee. We have all fallen in
love with it; several families are using it
around here.

I would say to the lady that had such a
time wetting down her leach, next time
have the husband wet it as he packs the
ashes in, then if the next day be pleasant,
run off your lye; if not, let it stand an-
other day; the lye will be all the stronger.
I could m -t keep house without my soft

soap. I have a’barrel half full of lye in

the fall, run 01!. ready for the butchering.
Put your grease right in as it accumulates
and it keeps sweet, and is no trouble; all
it needs inthe spring is boiling up and
the addition of more lye. I would add
don’t forget to put lime in the bottom of
your leach, about two quarts, to catch the
ultra. -

I would like a recipe for coming beef.

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ELENOR .
Lmsnse.

——v——*OO——-
THE NEW PROCESS OF CAN-
RING.

During the season last past I put up by
. the cotton batting process, strawberries,
currents, red raspberries, black raspber-
ries and grapes. They have all been
opened now; the strawberries, currants
and grapes were eatable after removing

the top, but" the raspberries were not’

good.

I think there is some risk about this
method of keeping fruit, but shall give it
another trial neXt year. Manna.

Paw Paw.

THAT Curran—In answer to an inquiry
"Old school Teacher” says: “I would
gladly answer M. F., of Honeoye. N. Y.,
if I could; but my churn is' one of the
never-wear-outs,‘ and theI name was- was h
ed ofi long ago. I presume they are not
manufactured now. I thought it had

 

given out entirely once, and my husband
bought me a Bentwood; but Idid not like
it, and told him I wis-ued he Would get
the old one repaired. which he did, and it
is good yet, but if it gives 'out_ at any
time, I propose to get one of the revolv-
in g churns without any dasher. I dislike
to churn with a crank, or I might have
had one before this. Mme is a lever
motion, but the handle and dasher turn
on cogs, so as I lift the handle the dasher

revolves half around, and as the handle’

drops the motion is reversed. It does not
cut up the butter and destroy the grain as
many churns do.”

My—

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

WHEN washing windows dissolve a
small quantity of washing soda in the
water, if the glass is dimmed with smoke
or dirt. Do not let the water run on the
sash, but wash each pane with a piece of
flannel; dry quickly with a, soft clean
towel and wipe out the corners carefully,
Polish with a piece of common chamors
skin or newspaper that has been softened
by rubbing between the hands.

CLEANING rags, with which metal may
quickly be polished, consist of a..woolen

rag saturated with soap and tripoli. They ,

are prepared in the following manner:
Four grains cf soap are dissolved in wa—
ter; 20 grains of tripoli are added to "the
solution. A piece of cloth about 24
inches long by four. inches broad is soak-
ed in this and left tolry.

ACCORDING to the Scientific American,
the best remedy for bleeding at the nose,
as given by Dr. Gleason at one of his lec-
tures, is in the vigorous motion of the
jaws as if in the act of chewing. In the
case of a child a Wad of paper should be
inserted to chew it hard. It is the motion
of the jaws that stops the flow of blood.

This remedy is so very simple that many
will feel inclined to laugh at it, but it has
never been known to fail in a single in-
stance, even in the severest cases.

THE New England Farmer gives the
following recipe for hulling corn:

“ Select that which is clean and per-
fectly well ripened. The kind or color is
is wholly a matter of taste or fancy. The
Southern White Dent is very tender and
looks nicely when finished. Put a few
quarts, after picking oVer carefully and
winnowing, in a kettle of cold water over
the fire. To‘three or four quarts of corn
add two heaping tablesfioonfuls of cook—
ing soda or saleratus. at it boil till the
hulls loosen. If the lye is too strong add
more water, if too weak ‘add more soda.

- When the hulls will slip ofif freely from

the corn, put into a colander or a large
pan with holes in the bottom, and wash
in cold water. The corn must boil until
soft enough to suit the taste, and during
the process several washings and change
of water will be required, to remove toe
lye which-the corn takes up from the first
water. The kernels wrll double in size
during the cooking and the kettle must
be large enough to hold plenty of water.
If “the corn rests too heavy on the bottom
of the kettle because of too little water,
it will be in dancer ,nf scorching. Both
hominy and boiled corn are excellent
articles of food, and may be served in
various ways, in milk, with syrup, or with
sugar and cream."

 

THERE is always a great desire to know
how to furnish cheaply. A Chicago
paper says abedroom can be very prettily
“ fixed up” by using blue jean, the cheap
cotton goods whose peculiar hue is just
now very stylish. Some time since we
notified our readers that this material
could be used for draperies for windows,
and for portieres, especially if decorated

'with needlework. Now its use seems-

more general; it is used for carpet, re-
lieved by pretty rugs of various sizes and
colors, and for dados, being tacked to
the wall in broad, shallow pleats, undera
cheap but effective gilt moulding. The
wall above should be covered with a.
paler blue figured paper, and for a frieze
a broad band of blue, painted on the
wall, with a narrow line of gilt defining-
the union with the paper. This finishes
the Wall in a very beautiful and unique

manner, which is also comparatively in— -

expensive.

SALT PORK Por-Pm.—Wash two pounds
of salt pork in plenty of cold water, cut
it in inch pieces, put it over‘the fire in
two quarts of cold water, and let the
water reach the boiling point; when the
water boils pour it off the pork, add two
quarts more of boiling water, and-boil the
pork in it for half an hour; meantime peel
a quart of potatoes, slice them half an
inch thick and put them with the pork;
season the pot-pie palatably with salt and
pepper and cook it gently; after putting -
in the potatoes sift together a pint of
flour, a heaping tea-spoonful of any good
baking powder, a level tea-spoonful of
salt and quarter of a salt-spoonful of pep~

A per; beat one egg to a foam, mix it with
the sifted flour and add enough cold water

to make a soft dough, working quickly;
dip a dessert spoon into the pot pie to
heat and wet it, and then put the dough
into the pot-pie by the spoonful, wetting
the spoon each time a dumpling is put in-
to the pot-pie; after all the dumpling are
put into the pot-pie cover the saucepan
containing it, and continue the boiling
for about twenty minutes, or until the
dumplings are entirely cooked.

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Contributed Recipes.

Fm Cum-One cup sugar, half cup butter,
half cup cold water, with a small teaspoonful
of soda dissolved in it; one and a half cups of.
raisins. chopped a little (not fine); two tea-
spoonfuls cinnamon, one of nutmeg; two eggs,
half pound of figs, and a little more than two
cups of flour. Bake in two layers. Put a
layer 'of figs in.the middle of each layer of
dough; place frosting between the layers, and
cut with'a sharp knife to keep from crum-
bling. Mas. J. A. M.

Moor: Sausaoa .——Soak dry bread in sweet‘
milk. Chop tine cold meat of any kind, and
mix with the bread in equal quantities. Season
with salt, pepper and sage, with alittle butter;
make into small cakes and fry in hot butter or
pork drippings. - a. M. s.

Po'r'rnnénnr.—Boii the beef and cut 03 all
the fat. Chop fine and season with salt,
pepper and a suggestion of sage. Melt butter
enough to hold it well together. Pack tightly
in bowls or jars, and pour melted butter over
it audit will keep a week. ,

CORNED Basin—To one hundred pounds of
beef allow four quarts of coarse salt, four
pounds of sugar. and four ounces of pulverized
saltpeter. Mix well and spread between the
layers of meat. Keep under aweight. z. 0.

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JUDGE NOT.
cams n. sourman.

Judge not tby'heighbor, all his trial
And care, you may not know;

His face may wear a pleasant smile,
Yet hide a heart of woe.

Grief and pain, temptations great,
Borrow may be his lot,

Such as another's heart might break;
That ye be not judged, jnrge not.

Judge not thy brother—student, true,
Bis tasks may harder be

For him, eacu day, than yours for you;
And yet you cannot see

That it should be. “ They are not so,"
You say, “ for me,” his lot

flay difierent be from yours . Ah, no,
That ye be not judged, judge not.

Judge not thy fellow—traveler, thorns
Unseen may pierce his feet;

And even now, perchance, he mourns
While you have pleasures sweet.

Where you see roses, he sees weeds;
His dwelling is a out

And not a home; your help he needs.
That ye be not judged, judge not.

Judge not thy kin, thy friend or foe,
Their paths may lie up hills,

That steeper and more slippery grow.
No shady trees, no rills.

No flowers, no birds sing or breezes play,
You do not know their lot.

80 help them o’er their uncertain way
And love them, butjudge not.

human.
__——...__

BERENITY OF CHARACTER

To me, that is a most beautiful and
suggestive thought expressed in these
lines of Edwin Arnold’s:

" Let us be like the bird. an instant lighted
Upon atwig that swings,
He feels it sway, yet sings on unafirighted,
Knowing he hath his wings.”

The serenity and strength of character
which lift us above the fret and worry
of the accidents of life, its vexations and
discouragements, and enable us to stand,
conscious of yet.superior to them, is an
enviable mental altitude. Our spiritual
life is mysteriously associated with the
material; externalities must exert an in-
fluence upon our inner, soul-life, yet the
spiritual is in the ascendant when
material circumstances cannot affect us,
” when we can sing, though the twrg bends.
Who are the happy, contented women of
our land? Not those most abundantly
blessed with wealth and all creature com-
forts, but those who so possess their own
spirits that they realize they had better
lose money, time, 'almost anything, rather
than that tranquillity of spirit which lifts
them over the vexations and annoyances

 

of the day’s duties. Calmness, serenity,
self-poise, double the value of life; that
which would ruflle the temper and cloud
the brow of the fretful, impatient woman,
slips harmless past us, as arrows rattle
against chain armor. How many of our
troubles vanish when we look them
squarely in the face! How many times
we brood over imaginary troubles, which
we fear may come to us, letting the little
clouds our courage should subdue,
darken our spiritual horizon! Should we
not rather assert our belief in the ultimate
good purpose of all life, and set before
us the fair plains of spiritual serenity?
“ What doth the future say? Hope!
Turn thy face sun-ward 1
Look wnere the light fringes the far-thing

slope;
Day cometh onward."

“We are too ready with complaint in
this fair world of ours;" too ready to
take Care into our hearts to rule us. We
look down, not up; we feel a trembling
beneath our feet and fall prostrate, in-
stead of resting with tranquil courage,
confident in our strength to meet the
shock. We ought not to let the dust-
clouds of the immediate strife of life
shut from our eyes the grand purpose of
existence, as we are apt to do. The
serenity which is born of a definite pur-
pose in life, lifts us into a region of
spiritual repose, where we can exert a
calm, steady, beneficent influence upon
our fellows. Who is the greatest factor
in social progress and achievement, the
fretful, fussy woman, always “in astew”
about something, always prophesying
failure, or she whose sweet, sunny spirit
is like a gentle benediction from heaven
upon the turbulent lives of her co-labor~
ers?

Happiness comes to us and ours
through this serene spirit, so beautiful to
think of, so much more beautiful in its
living realization; and happiness is the
centre of spiritual energy and endeavor.
It is the happy who make life’s sunshine,
—and happiness—ah, that we must find
within. No amount of sorrow or mis-
fortune need make a life wretched, or
wrecked, or harmful, if we only know we
have our wines. “The worst reality,”
says George Eliot, “is never unendurable
when it comes forth from behind the
clouds which envelop it.” “Soured by
trouble ” need not be said of us if we cul-
tivate and come into possession of that
heritage meant to be ours. Our lives are
completed as the shape grows under the
sculptor’s chisel; we round them into per-
fection as our days slip into eternity; the

 

marble wastes, but the statue grows.
Jealousy, envy, bitterness, recrimination,
are all hindrances to this shaping of life
into beauty;calm self-control, tranquil—
lity of temper, acceptance of the means
at our command, guide the chisel in the
flowing lines of symmetry and just pro-
portion. Our strife should be to gain that
noble vantage—ground of humanity from
which with Wide charity and pitying '
kindness—not patronizing forbearance,
we can look upon the frailties and faults
of our kind. “He who possesses himself
has the basis for all things,” says Canon
Farrer; in which he corroborates our
own Emerson, who bids us emancipate
ourselvi s from the things “which sit in
the saddle and ride mankind;” while
Longfellow says:
“Be not like a stream that brawls
Loud will] shallow waterfalls;

But In quiet self-control
Lurk together soul and soul.”

BEA TRlX.

FALSE AND TRUE PRIDE.

Much has been written for the Hons]:-
nom) in regard to the position, socially, of
hired girls, or of those doing housework
for a livelihood. It is a question of im-
portance to housekeepers as well as girls.
In it the work that lowers the girls, or is
it the girls that will not raise themselves
to a higher position? It certainly cannot
be mere housework that takes away all
polish and refinement, for we can point
to many beautiful, refined ladies and
their daughters who do their own house-
work, and they are not lowered in their
own estimation or their social position,
and certainly they do all a paid girl is
expected to do. I have thought a good
deal of the repugnance of girls I have
known, who needed much to earn a
livelihood, but would live upon charity
and in idleness rather than go into a
neighbor’s kitchen and show skill and
neatness (but I doubt if they could show
either) in culinary matters, because they
would be looked down upon. This subject
has called to mind two illustrations of
pride, one false, the other true.

A woman was left worse than widowed,
With a large family to care for. In her
girlhood she had not been taught any-
thing to fall back upon in such an
emergency, and she found herself help-
less. Friends opened their doors to give
her and her children shelter, but they
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bors sympathized with them in their mis-
fortunes, but soon sympathy grew cold
when it was found they would not help
themselves. A number of ladies were
greatly in need of help during the sum-
mer season, (during the vacation of
schools) and they went to see if they
could not get help from the girls. They
were ladies with hearts, and would
gladly have treated the girls as members
of their families. Did the girls go? No,
they would lose social caste and be
looked down upon. What kind of pride
is it that is ashamed to earn an honest
dollar, or do a kindness when one needs
both, yet is not ashamed to eat the bread
of charity? I think it false and “dirty
too.”

Here isabrighter picture, and one I
love to look upon, for the young woman
was once a pupil of mine. She was born
of parents in humble circumstances, but
by strict economy they managed to care
for their. children until the boys were
large enough to earn their living, when
they cared for themselves as best they
could, but my heroine was the youngest
and the idol of their hearts. They gave
her the advantages of a common school
education, but she early determined to
teach, and improved to the utmost what
advantages she had. She began teach-
ing when quite young, but tried to con—
fine her labors near home. as her parents
were growing decrepid and old. In the
meantime a brother had gone west, and
as her father had become very feeble,
and required more care than she and her
mother were able to give him, she de-
termined to take her father and mother
and go where her brother was, be having
invited them to come. Accordingly
they sold their little effects and went.
They found her brother glad to help her
in the care of her father, but not able to
support them all.

She was fortunate in securing a school
immediately, as they went in the spring,
and she determined to secure a home for
herself and parents. She preempted, if I
remember rightly, 160 acres, and hired a
man and team to break it, and she deter-
mined to pay for it. Her school earn—
ings must pay for her farm, and how do
you suppose she earned her clothing?

She worked for her board, while teach-
ing, to save that, and during vacation she
worked at housework for pay.

Did she lose caste? No. She has con-
tinually raised her social standing, and
has been an honored teacher in the pub-
lic schools of one of our large western
cities, and I have been told she is con
templating taking a course of study to fit
herself for a higher position. I have not
seen her for some years, but I am told
she has a polish and refinement of mind
and manner that would grace any draw-
ing room in the land. She will secure
herself a fine home by her own honest
efiorts, and a good position in society by
her “true pride,” she will not need to
look for the “ coming man," but I imagine
the "coming man ” will have to woo her
long and well before she gives up her in-
dependence.

OLD SCHOOL TEACHER.
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WOMANLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

The following incident was told me by
a young lady who spent a couple of
months last summer among the
lovely lakes and streams of north-
ern Michigan. where sne met
many strangers, and made many
friends: “Mrs. —-, from Chicago, was
there. She paints beautifully and made
many sketches to elaborate later. I was
with her one afternoon on the shore,
where she was sketching the bay, watch-
ing her as she worked, when she said:
‘Do you paint, Miss ———?‘ ‘NJ,’ I re—
plied, ‘I know nothing of the art.’ A
pause. ‘Do you sing, Miss ?‘ I
laughed. ‘My friends would be “sad-
dest when I sing ” if I did.’ Another
pause. ‘ Then you play, of course, Miss
?' ‘ I am not musical at all; do not
know one note from another, though I
enjoy music very much.’ A longer
pause. ‘Well, excuse me, Miss ,
but what are your accomplishments?
‘Really, Mrs. , I don’t think I have
any.’ ‘ Oh!’ " After narrating the above
conversation the young lady said: “I
would have giVen anything to have been
able to say Icould play, or sing, or even
recite, that ‘Ohi‘ was so expressivel It
made me feel so small, as if I had nothing
to show for my years.”

Well, in'the first place, a true lady
would not have pushed her investiga—
tions to that final question, nor have
uttered that supercilious “Oh!" because
she would have reflected that though one
may not have an eye for color and form,
an ear for instrumentation, nor a voice
for singing, these accomplishments,
desirable though they may be, may be
over balanced by others, more vital to
humanity’s needs. In my estimation this
young lady, so mortified because she had
gained none of the fashionable attain—
ments of young women, possesses a good
many more valuable ones. She is the
“grown-up daughter” in her home, and
quite as familiar with the kitchen as with
the parlor. She can set a table so that the
very sight of its snowy linen, shining
silver and sparkling glass makes you
hungry, and can satisfy that hunger
with abeefsteak “done to a turn,” de-
licious biscuit, cakes that melt in your
mouth. She can take an old dress and
so transform it that her friends con-
gratulate her on her new one, and if that
is not as much of an “ accomplishment ”
in a woman of limited means as to be able
to daub paint into travesties upon nature,
then I admit myself no judge.“ She is
never too tired or too busy to- make her
younger brother’s friends welcome, to go
with him if he wishes company, or listen
ifhe feels inclined to talk about his plans
and hopes. All through her home she
goes, a help and comfort to all, “putting
the best foot forward,” draping the cur—
tains so the holes not intended in the,
pattern will not show, hiding the worn
places in the carpet by a skillful dis?
position of the furniture; and whether
entertaining guests in the parlor or mak-
ing a pudding in the kitchen, always
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complishments which go to make a hap—
DY. cheerful, harmonious home, if she
has none of those which redound to her
own personal credit and ambition.

It has often been a question in my
mind whether this promiscuous educa-
tion of girls in so-called accomplishments
calculated merely to “show them ofl,"
regardless of natural talent and ability, is
really worth what it costs. A girl, now-
days, must have a piano and “play,”
while her mother may be working herself
to death in the kitchen; she may have no
more musical talent than a Hottentot, yet
she must spend years trying to develop
what she has not. The music or paint.-
ing often serve to excuse her from par—
ticipation in the labor of the home; I
know a young miss who is very much
engrossed in “ practicing " till her mother
has washed the dishes; when this task is
finished so is her practicing. Even if the
girl has talent enough to enable her to
become a mediocre player or artist, as
most of our amateurs are, does it pay, es-
pecially since, after marriage, in ninety-
nine cases out of one hundred. the ac-
complishments are neglected, and for—
gotten far more quickly than they were
acq tired.

True, the discipline of study in any
line is valuable, yet I sometimes think
that if girls would devote half the time
they spend in the purely mechanical
work of music and pain ting to the art of
conversation, to the storing the mind
with the treasures of literature, to the
social improvement of the family and the
community, a wonderful impetus would
be given to society.

The trouble is, most people mistake a
taste for, or more properly, enjoyment of
music, for musical talent. If a child
listens attentively to music, or can catch
an air quickly, it is at once taken as
evidence of ability to excel. Many a girl

fretting over “ napkined talents,” would

be amazed, could some fairy god-mother
show her the true relation, to find how
very much was napkin, how little talent.
Yet we are always mourning over the
“might have beens," and believing we
might have done better things if the op-
portunity had been given us. Opportu-
nity has been represented by a figure
with veiled face, and wings attached to
the feet. The veil shows how seldom we
recognize it; the wings how quickly
it is gone. The symbol is beautiful
and appropriate, and the very elusive—
ness, the “winged feet,” makes us look
longingly after these vanishing occasions.
Yet genius and talent ascend in spite of
lack of opportunities.

Now, I am not to be understood as
opposing the education of our girls in
ornamental arts, given favoring condi-
tions and sufficient ability to justify
satisfactory results. But I do oppose
this learning to paint or play, or recite
merely because it is fashionable, or be-

cause some one else does. I object to

the making housewifely, home-keeping,
domestic acquirements subservient to
tunes and plaques. There are many,
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endeavor. There are others who gain
the ornamental and are instances of one-
sided development. One thing we may
assume as certain, those who have been
able through ample leisure, plenty of
means or natural talent, to grin what the
world is pleased to term “accomplish

ments,”have no occasion to under-estimate
those whose circumstances have been
less fortunate, but who may possess far
more of those qualifications which make
happy’and harmonious that which lies
at the foundation of our prosperity, in-
dividual and national, the home.

BE ATBIX.
———-—4.

HOME AND MOTHER.
What is home? Webster defines it as
“one’s dwelling place.” In one sense
this is true, in another not. A true and
perfect home is a place where the heart
is, where affections center: and where

. the standard of domestic life is so perfect

that the strongest ties of the human
heart find their sure resting place.

From the sacred precincts of home we
glean the many lessons and precepts that
mould our minds and character, fitting
us for the stern realities of life. As our
bodies are composed of atoms so arrang-
ed as to form a perfect whole, so our
home life is made up oflittle things; little
acts of kindness; thoughtful appreciation
of the happiness of others; words of love
fitly spoken, or their opposite; hence the
importance of so ordering our daily lives
as to bring the light of love into our
homes, making it the dearest spot on
earth.

Associated with the word home is an-
other still dearer, that of mother. A re-
cent writer calls them the “two sweetest
words in the English language."

Home and mother! what pleasant mem-
ories they awaken; what a train of
thought they bring to mind! Who does
not look back to” the days of childhood
with vain longings and regret; longing
for the days gone never to return, and
regret that their pleasures and advant-
ages were not better appreciated. One
cannot always remain a child, and soon
the home where the love of father and
mother encircles us, like angels' wings, is
outgrown. And as we launch our boats
upon the ocean of life our hearts still
cling to the home of our childhood; anl
if storms of adversity overtake us, it is
there that we seek shelter, sure of finding
a safe harbor, with love and pity as bea-
con lights to warn us from off the rocks
that threaten to shipwreck us, and start-
ing us anew. The weary wanderer turns
with a sigh as thoughts of home flit across
his vision, and he puts forth every effort
to‘ succeed in his enterprise that the time
may be shortened when he may again be
at home.

If we are anchored in homes of our
own what greater pleasure than a visitto
the old home! Blest indeed are they who
have a home; a father to give counsel and
advice; a mother with her prayers and
sympathy. Then let each one cherish
their home, and honor their father and
mother while life lasts, for when the time
comes, as come it will, when the tired

 

hands are folded upon the pulseless
breast, the dear eyes closed forever, and
the silent forms borne to their last rest-
ing place, the home will be bereft of all
that was held mostdear and precrous, and
all that remains Will be a sacred m emory.
MRS. L. R.

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EXTRACTS.

According to a truthful Philadelphia
paper a woman in that town wears a
bustle so big, that when she 18 promenad~
ing on a sunny day, the shadow it casts
frightens nervous people into bellevmg
the houses are falling down, and scares
horses into running away.—-1)etroz't
Tribune. .

No matter if a woman hasn’t but three
lines to write on a page of letter paper,
she can’t resist the temptation to write
two of them on the side margin, and then
sign her name upside down over the date.
-Detroit Tribune.

Woman was made after man, and she
has been after him ever since-Detroit
Tribune.

You are paying your interest in advance
of time, yet the lady who holds the mort.
gage was here to see about it several days
ago; but that's the woman of atl—Detrott
Lawyer.

Woman: without her, man is a savage.

.Woman without her man, is a savage.—
Oid Toast.

A shadow flitting in a ghostly manner
about the backyard of Wm. Batterlee,
caused a great sensation among the deni-
zens of that quarter. and stories of the
place being haunted were quite rife,
while a mob of people gathered as near
as they dare to witness the strange phe-
nomenon. At last, a bold spirit volun—
teered to corral the ghost, when it was
found to be Mrs. Sitter-lee herself. minus
her hoops, hustle and pads—Anonymous.

The woman Thou gavest to be with me.
she tempted me, and I did eat—Ancient
Book.

There never was any mischief brewed
yet, but a woman was at the bottom of
it.-—Ezchange.

The hope of the State is in her sons of
the rising generation; and that they may
grow up true, manly, public~spirited,
with broad, comprehensive and statesman
like views, it is necessary that the ener-
getic mothers should, in their early youth,
he often at the bottom of them—George
Francis Train.

Let two or three old women get to-
gether, and you‘ll soon have a “school
for scandal.”— id Saw.

A woman’s tongue has sent more. men
to the devil than the total depravrty of
his nature ever did—01d Saw.

0 Frailty! thy name is woman. A wo-
man cannot keep a secret. When a wo—
man will, she will, you may depend on’t;
but when she won’t, she won’t, and there’s
an end on’t.

And this is the way our sex is slander-
ed, did you say? Well, if it is all true,
the men who will admire, love and trust
such creatures, spending life and fortune
in their service, can’t be so very much
better; so don't get angry and rufiie your
plumes, sister woman, but, doing your
duty as your conscience may approve,
show your little world that rules have
exceptions, or that assertions are of little
worth when confronted with stubborn
facts. 80 west hoops or bustles if you
will, wear little bonncts or big hats, tie-
backs or full skirts; if you are true to
yourself and to womanhood, you will win
the admiration of some noble specimen

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of the genus home, who would blister his
tongue ere he would speak detractinglv
of women. There are many wise men
and women, and, alas! many foolish ones.

A. L. L.
INGLEGIDE .

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CHAT WITH THE MEMBERS.

 

 

I wish to say to the lady who was en-
quiring about churns, that if she will get
a Davis swing churn. she will be sure to
like it; that is the kind I have, and I find
that my churning is far from being, as
before, one of my most dreaded tasks.

I am very much interested in the talk
about reading circles, and would like to
ask how they can be made interesting and
instructive, where there ”is quite a large
number of members. In order to take a
regular course of reading and keep up the
interest, it is necessary for the members.
to be present every time, and that is
hardly possible, when the circle is large.

Why can we not have a little chat
about our favorite authors. It is time to
hear from Evangeline again; I will nomi~
nate her first speaker, and let all the
others follow; perhaps Susan will “ bring
up the rear" with 'a eulogy on—but
never mind, will wait until my turn
comes.

Was it one of the HOUSEHOLD members
who said that soat tea was good for the
little white worms that feed upon the
roots of plants? Well I think it must be
good for them, for I have given my plants
soot tea. quite often all summer, and
never saw those little worms thrive as
they have this fall and winter, so far.
I have tried several of those “sure
remedies," and the surest one (to kill the
plants) was removing them from the
pots. washing the dirt from the roots,
and putting them in fresh soil. I have
this morning been treating the surviving
plants to a strong dose of tobacco tea.
“While there is life there is hope."

Oh, Chat, if you want those mopping
and dishwashing machines, do please go
to thinking and invent them yourself,
and not acknowledge the inferiority of
our sex by calling upon the men. I am
really ashamed of you, but as there ls _l_
not room for an extended lecture here, I
will resist the temptation to say more,
and close by propounding—with our
Editor's permission—conundrum num- '5
her three. What shall a man, who is ,i
working hard to get out of debt, do with

an extravagant wife? 6. J. 3.
Bones.

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[We fear 8. J. B. has put the “finish-
ing touches ” to her plants by her tobacco
tea. Soot tea is an excellent fertilizer for
plants, making the foliage dark and
healthy, but we do not remember that it
is fatal to the little white worms whose
mission it is to feed on the bark of the
tiny rootlets which are the feeders of the
plants. In our own experience lime
water, a tablespoonful applied now and
then, has been found effectual. For
elrthworms, (angleworms) which are
often so troublesome,. there is nothing
equal to spirits of ammonia, diluted at . j
the ratio of about half a teaspoonfnl to a f
teacupful of warm water. The ammonia .

 
    
       
       
       
   
  


 

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ilabenefit to the plants, and sends the
worms out of the earth in short order.
We see no reason why it should not be
equally beneficial in the case of white
worms. We should like to hear from
Mrs. Fuller on this subject. None of the
works on fioriculture in the Fame
library make any reference to this pest,
and the practical experience ofa practi-
cal grower would be valuable—House
new En]

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MAKIN G POULTICES.

 

A trained nurse says in the Country
Gentleman:

”Flaxseed meal is the best material for
apoultice;it is not always at hand in a
country house, and then a substitute must
he found for it. If many poultices are
likelyto be required, as in peritonitis, or
inflammation of the bowels. it is well to
buy a few pounds, for nothing can satis-
factorily replace it. if it has not been
applied to an open surface where there is
a discharge of matter, the fiaxseed can be
scraped from the cotton and heated again,
adding a little water if too stifl, or meal
if there is not enough. To make it, have
ready a sufiicient quantity of boiling wa-
ter in a sauce pan (two teacupfuls will
make a good sized poultice), and into this
stir enough of the meal to make a soft,
thick paste. By stirring in one direction
and putting in the meal gradually there
will be no lumps. It need not boil after
~ the flaxseed is in. Have ready a piece of

old cotton, about two inches larger each
way than the poultice is to be when ap
plied, and a small piece of thin muslin.
ip a spoon in boiling water and spread
the flaxseed evenly on the cotton. leaving
at least two inches of margin on all sides;
lay the muslin on top of the poultice and
fold the margin neatly over it. This pre-
vents the possibility of the fiaxseed ooz—
ing out. No poultice or plas'er shou (1
ever be applied directly to the skin; there
should always be a layer of muslin, old
linen, fine cambric, or some thin fabric,
between, to prevent the skin from being
boiled. and to make it more easy to re.
move the application. '
“Carrots, boiled soft and smoothly
mashed, make a good poultice, and tur-
nips prepared in the same way are some-
times used. These must be spread gickly
or they will cool too rapidly. nions
boiled in water to which a little vinegar
has been added, make an excellent poul-
tice; they should be crushed with a spoon
when spreading them on the cotton. In-
dian meal makes a tolerable substitute for
fiaxseed. and is improved by the addition
of a third part of slippery elm. Bread is
a good material for a small poultice; it
should be stale and only the crumbs used.
Crumble it between the fingers, and pour
over it enough boiling milk or water to
moisten it thoroughly. When a poultice
is intended to relieve pain, a small quan-
tity of laudanum is sprinkled on the sur—
face. If it is applied when there is an
offensive discharge, powdered charcoal is
used in the same way, or a tablespoonful
of carbolic acid solution is put into the
water with which it is made. A poultice
ought to be removed eyery two hours at
least, and covered with a piece of oiled
silk, India rubber cloth, or several thick—
nesses of flannel to retain the heat. Be—
fore applying it test it with the finger; if
it feels uncomfortably warm, it is cer-
tainly too hot to lay on a sick person.
When a gentle stimulant is required, a
mustard plaster is generally used.- Equal
. parts of mustard and wheat flour is a
good proportion. They should be mixed
to a smooth paste with warm water—
boiling Water destroys the essential oilof
the mustard and renders it less efficacious
--and then spread as thinly as possible
on a piece of stout cotton, covered with

 

muslin and applied. In ten minutes a
corner should be raised, the state of the
skin inspected, and, if red. the plaster
removed. It is not desirable to raise a
blister, as one made by mustard is more
painful than any other. It is said that
when mixed with the white of an egg, it
will not blister. Flannel dipped in vine—
gar, and thickly sprinkled with red pep-
per, makes a stimulating application that
is also free from this objection. An ad-
mirable plaster for a swelled breast is
made by melting togethera piece of resin
the size of an egg and a lump of mutton
tallow as large as a nutmeg; let them re-
main on the stove for an hour, and when
taken from the fire, stir in the yolk of an
egg. Have ready a piece of cotton the
proper size, cut round and with a hole in
the middle, spread the mixture on it,
cover with part ef an old handkerchief
shaped like the cotton, and apply warm
to the breast. It usually gives great re-
lief, and may be left on three or four
days."

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EA GOOD SUGGESTION.

 

DEAR Enmnz—Your article on sweep-
ing and dusting was timely and sen-
sible. Yet you have put on your
neck a yoke grievous to be borne.
Why break your back to carry out the
books and bookcase in order to sweep
and dust? If the bookcase rests on the
floor no appreciable amount of dust can
accumulate monthly below it, and hence
no need of moving. ,

Books should be kept from dust at all
times. This may be done by the tight-
fitting glass doors, but they are expensive
and generally in the way when you want
a book. If the shelves are placed so that
only one inch space is between the top of
the book and the next shelf, and then a
narrow curtain of dark colored glazed
cambric (three inches wide) is tacked on
the front of the shelf and extending one
and a half inches below the top of the
books below, dust will be kept from the
top and sides of the books, and only the
backs exposed. These light curtains are
not in the way in removing or replacing
a book, and allow full view of the titles
of the books. R. 0. Karma.

Agricultural College, Lansing.

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WE have several times been reminded
that if the Honsnnom) was paged contin-
uously and an index furnished, it would
add to the convenience of those who de-
sire to refer to letters or recipes published
therein. But the Editor has not been
willing to take upon herself the further
task—and it would be no slight one—of
preparing such an index, which would
necessarily be quite voluminous. We
suggest, however, a way in which any of
our readers who keep a file of the Honsn-
HOLD may readily refer to any matter
which has once engage their attention as
being likely to be wanted again. Procure
a sheet of blank printing paper and fold
it the size of the Romanian). Down the

center of the page rule two
heavy double lines, dividing the
page into two columns. Rule ofi a

space two inches wide at the right of
each of these columns, and, if you like,
use one column for recipes and house~
hold hints, the other for letters and sug-
gestions for making various articles.
Whenever you see a recipe you think you

 

will try “ some day,” or anything towhich
you may desire to refer, enter the title
on the wide space and put the date of the
paper in the ruled column. You have ,
thus an index of such subjects as are
most valuable to you, personally, which
it is but very little trouble to keep up.
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“Manor,” of Metamora, whom we have
missed from the Housnrrom) for some
time, writes us of a long illness ending in
the loss of a beloved one, and of her own
ill-health and many duties, which have
caused her silence. She says: “With
this thought in view, that silence never
expresses the good will and interest which
we may feel, be they ever so gratifying,
and also knowing full well it is an encourg
agement and a satisfaction to you, to have
expressed the good feeling which may
arise in kindred minds as the results of
the labors of the Housnrrom) and its
members, I write you to speak the inter-
est I have felt in the success of our little
paper.”

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Mns. L. R., of Wacousta, says the
Housnnonn is a “ perfect treasure," and
adds: “ As I am a young housekeeper it
is a great help to me; there is so much
that is good and useful to be found in it,
I should hate to be without it.” We take
the liberty of omitting the nom de-plume
chosen by our new correspondent, as it
has been appropriated by one who has
written for the HOUSEHOLD within the
past year. We shall be glad to receive
the recipes mentioned; and to hear from
L. R. frequently.

___...___

M. J. H. says she has tried Mrs. For-
rester’s directions for knitting infants’
shoes and “can’t make head or tail of

'them.” She would be grateful if some

one would send more simple instruc-

tions.
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Uaeful Recipes.

 

How r0 Susan Per-Comt—Put in an iron
kettle one tablespoonful of butter, three of
water, and one teacupful of white sugar. Boil
until ready to candy, then throw in three
quarts of corn, nicely popped; stir briskly
until the sugar is evenly distributed over the
corn, then set the kettle from' the fire and stir
until it has cooled a little, and you have every
grain separate and crystallized with the sugar.

POP-CORN Bums—Chop flne about two
quarts of pop corn, boil together One cup of
molasses, half cup bro ND sugar, small piece of
butter. When it hardens in water add a pinch
of soda; stir in the chopped corn, spread on
large pans about half an inch thick, and when
nearly cold make into squares. Balls can be
made in the same way, using whole instead of
chopped corn, and rolling in powdered sugar
or fresh corn. Or, put into a kettle n
tablespoonful of butter, three of water, ?
teacupful white sugar; boil until nearly re y

to candy by dropping a little into cold water.
Then throw in three quarts of corn nicely
popped. Stir briskly until the candy is evenly
distributed over the corn. Set the kettle from
the fire, stir until it has cooled a little, grease
the hands and press into balls. The halls can
be. colored pink, which is harmless, and can be
made with one ounce of powdered cochlneal, ,
one ounce cream tartar, two drachms of alum,
and half a pint of water. Boil the cochineal,
water, and cream of tartar till reduced one
half ; then add the alum. Put in small bottles-
to use.