DETROIT, FEBRUARY 23, 1886.

THE HOUSEHGLDJ===§uppIememm

 

YOUTH AND LOVE.

 

So is our fair youth lost,

The long years drag it to the ground,

01' even we unthinking throw it down;

A bitter fight we have, or have not won;

But, ahl we feel—we know our youth is done,
Sma'l are our years—that is not youth—
Youth is possession ofa heart of truth.

So does a great love fade.

We do not feel it fading. for it goes

8) gradually we do not see

The shade of difference ’tween the days
Which make so smal. a difference. yet
Which ad' ed, make the difference great.

And then one day, with just one final rush,
The cloak of love has fallen from our lives;
And as we view it lying at our feet

We look at it with wondering eyes;

Knowing that we had found it sweet;
Perchance half stoop to pick it up;
Useless—no more the pain, the joy, the doubt;
For as it fell fro 11 us without a sound,

It turned to stone, just as it touched the ground.

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HOUSEKEEPING FOR GIRLS.

 

Paper read by Mrs. H. Dale Adams, of Galesburg,
at the Am ual Institute of the Kalamazoo Hus-
bandmau’s Club, at Climax, Feb. 8—4.

No young lady can be too well instruct
ed in anything pertaining to the house-
hold. Whatever position in society she
occupies, she needs a practical knowledge
of household duties. She may not be
placed in circumstances where it will be
necessary for her to perform much do-
mestic labor, but on this account she
needs 'no less knowledge than if she were
called to preside personally over the
cooking stove and pantry. I have often
thought it was easier to do the work with
my own hands than to direct others. I
think the mothers are often more at fault
than the girls; they do not take the time
to teach them, nor think it important that
their girls learn housekeeping. This is a
great mistake in their management, for
they are often burdened with labor and
need their help.

Children should be taught to make
themselves useful; so taught that they
will consider it a privilege instead of a
task to help their parents. Young ladies
do not realize the importance of a thor-
ough knowledge of housewifery; but those
who have suffered the inconvenience and
mortiflcation of ignorance can. I venture
to assert there is not a girl within the
sound of my voice who does not expect to
be a housekeeper. I judge somewhat
from a conversation I overheard a few
days since between several young ladies
who were saying what they should and
should not do when they were housekeep-
era. The charm of good housekeeping is

in the order, economy and taste displayed,
in giving attention to little things, and
these little things have awonderful influ-
ence.

A nice housekeeper once said to me that
she gave her parlor very little attention,
but that she must have her kitchen clean;
a dirty kitchen and bad cooking have
driven many a one from home to find
comfort and happiness somewhere else.
Domestic labor is by no means a detri-
ment to the highest degree of refinement
and mental culture. Very many of our
most accomplished women look after
their own households, and not only honor
themselves but their husbands by so do—
ing. None of our girls are fit to be mar-
ried until they are well versed in house-
keeping.

I have heard women say that they did
not want their girls to be drudging in the
kitchen; that they would have enough to
to do when they kept their own house. I
don’t believe it is necessary for any one
to be in the kitchen long enough to be-
come a drudge. The kitchen work has
got to be done, and with proper utensils
and modern conveniences it need not be
drudgery. Much depends on order, and
if we commence early with the girls
they will never consider it degrading to
be able to prepare a nicely cooked meal.
Housekeeping is like an endless chain,
and to live in peace with men we must
feed them regularly and with well cooked
food. 80, young ladies, you must learn
to keep house. A lecturer on “ The Model
Wife ” not long since said that to be a
model housekeeper one must be endowed
with gumption; it is a compound word
and covers a large space. Girls, don’t you
wish we might buy it by the bottle, and
lay in a fresh supply each year? If girls
would spend their time and study to be
housekeepers with the same energy that
they do to teach school, we should not be
under the necessity of writing papers
about housekeeping for them to criticize.
Again, we find them giving from four to
twelve months’ time to learn dressmaking
and telegraphy, when the same time spent
learning to cook nice meals and perform
other domestic duties, would make them
capable of managing a house of their own.
There are plenty of young men looking
for such girls; but many cannot afford to
marry and hire a girl to do what every
young lady should (at least know how) to
do. It reminds me of the mother who
was indignant because her son married
an Irish girl who understood housekeep-

 

ing. He replied that he thought he would

 

marry one and then he would not have
to hire one.

Now, girls. did you know that it is be-
coming fashionable to learn housekeep—
ing? Clubs are being organized in cities
for this very purpose, but as there is one
already in every farmer’s house, our girls
have the advantage. I hope those who
don’t know how will learn, and not be
like the one the young man asked if she
knew how to bake bread. She said no,
but that she could skate. I could not help
but wonder which would sustain life the
longest, bread or skates.

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SOCIAL DISI‘INCI‘IONS.

 

There is one thing I very much wish to
know, and that is why there is such a
dividing line drawn between girls who
do housework and other hired girls; for
the girls who do housework, operate a
type writer ortelegraph instrument, work
in a factory, or telephone office, or in a
store, teach music, or wait on the public
in a postoflice, are all hired girls. Some
may say it seems menial to minister to
the wants of people in their homes, but I
can’t see any difference between waiting
on people at home and waiting on them
in public. I would think more of a girl
who did housework and whose aspirations
were to something higher and nobler than
merely painting and dancing and music.
It is true that there are some hired girls
who think of nothing but silk dresses and
sealskin sacques and their beaux, and
these are in my estimation no better than
the millionaire’s daughter whose thoughts
are of the same things, but who does not
have to work for her money.

There are girls, too, who work for
wages, who, in literature, and music and
the like, are just as accomplished as the
rich girls, and in my opinion are far
ahead of them in the way of womanly ac-
complishments, because the working girl
can take care of herself and earn her liv-
ing, and the rich girl can not.

In my Opinion a young man who de-
serves a good wife and can appreciate one,
will think more of a girl who aspires to
something higher and better than fashion
and fancy work, than he will of one who
thinks it menial to do housework, cook a
good “ square mea ” make up a nice soft
bed, and noblest of all bring up a family of
bright, intelligent children, for taking
care of babies is not a minor item in a

 

mother’s life work. Fifty years from now
the condition of the nation will depend

 

  


 

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THE H 0 US EH OLD.

 

on the way our girls of the present bring
up their children.

But I don’t want to put authe blame on
the girls, for their mothers are of course
responsible for their training; so we must
bring up our children as we would have

them bring up theirs. FIREFLY.

anrroan.
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THE

MONEY generics—HUS-
Baal) AM) wuss.

 

The money question between husband
and wife is often one of much annoyance
to the parties themselves, and sometimes
to others. It is difficult to lay down in
general rules what is just right and
equitable, for every case is modified by
circumstances—the situation and dis—
position of parties, etc.

It may be stated generally that the
matrimonial condition is a partnership,
in which each partner is supposed to be
equally intt rested. Our Michigan laws
are especially liberal as to the legal and
property rights of a married woman,
giving her the absolute control of her
property held at the time of marriage or
afterward acquired by her own labor or
otherwise. She can sue and be sued alone
in the courts, and she is not responsible
for her husband's debts. But it is not as
a legal question I would now discuss it,
but better, as one of fairness and intrinsic
justice. A contention for legal rights, a
continuous lawsuit in the family, would
not be conducive to peace and good will.
The husband is usually recognized as the
head of the family—though not always
really so—and with that responsibility
has become the financial officer and
director-general of the corporation. He
is expected to take the lead in providing
a home and the ways and means of living,
and is personally responsible for all debts
of the firm, unless contracted especially
in the wife’s name; and it is but just, or-
dinarily, that he should have the greater
control of the means with which to meet
those responsibilities, and to buy such
property as may be needed in his business.
When the relations are harmonious, es-
pecially among farmers and the middle
classes generally, the wife is more or
less consulted in all these arrangements,
and her wishes to some extent deferred
to. And in many cases her labor in

, household work and care of children,
and in some cases in money-producing
labor that goes toward joint expenses, is
quite as imrortant as her husband’s. Her
work never ceases from day to day, and
from year to year; in all seasons and in
all weather it goes on forever, except in
case of sickness—and sometimes even
then. It is but just, then. that she should
have the personal control and benefit of
some of the joint earnings and income.

The husband usually considers himself
atliberty to expend what he chooses for
his own clothing and personal expenses.
He may or may not, as he pleases, consult
his wife’s judgment as to some of those.
Why, then, should not the wife have the
same privilege. Any man’s pride would
rebel were he required to explain to his
wife and obtain her consent before he
could expend a dollar for; his own per—

 

his wife to ask him when she wants a
little money to use. (I may have adopted
or stolen some of these ideas, but can’t
stop to give credit for everything in a
topic so often discussed.)

The old barbarian idea that the woman
was the “weaker vessel,” the inferior and
servant of man, is pretty much exploded
in this age and country, though occas—
ionally we see a trace of it left. It has
given place to the broader and truer
doctrine of equal rights; that the wife,
who has her share of the duties and
burdens of life to bear, should be en~
titled to a fair share of its privileges and
blessings.

The average wife is as much devoted
to the interests of the family, is more
saving and economical, and in most cases
has quite as good or better judgment as
to the proper outlay for expenses as her
husband. If she wishes to contribute a
few dollars to some benevolent or re-
ligious purpose, and have due credit for
the same as her own personal act, she
should have the same unquestioned right
to do so, within the limit of their means. as
the husband to make such contributions.
If she wants a few ribbons, or a bonnet
trimmed, or even a new one, or a dress,
why should she not have the same right
to buy one out of the partnership fund,
without asking him. as the husband has
to buy a hat. or a pair of boots or sus—
penders without asking his wife? Or if
she wishes to treat herself to an ice-
cream or some fruits, why not the same
right to do so as her husband has to ex-
pend ten times as much for tobacco and
cigars, to say nothing of drinks? In fact
the tobacco and cigars alone usually cost
a man more than all the little trifles his
wife would be disposed to allow herself.
The wrong is often not so much in the
actual denial to the wife of the little
money needed, as in the humiliation and
annoyance of being obliged to ask for it,
and explain what it is wanted for, gnd
often to feel that it is grudgingly be—
stowed. What the wife wants and gen—
erally should have, is the free and un-
questioned control of a reasonable por—
tion of the joint income, to use according
to her own judgment and wishes.

There may be times in the husband’s
experience when he is sorely pressed for
money, and cannot well afford what his
wife needs. But the true wife who is
made acquainted with her husband’s em-
barrassments, will not be unreasonable
at such times. She may generally be
trusted to keep her expenditures within
reasonable limits, at all times.

The old doctrine was that the husband
and wife are one, and the husband is that
one. The later and better doctrine is that
the wife is at least half that one, and
sometimes the better half, in marital and
moral qualities,—and occasionally in
avoirdupois. There are some women who
are unreasonable and selfish spendthrifts;
women who would impoverish and ruin
their husbands if they had the free use
of his purse. But there are quite as
many men equally selfish and extrava-

 

 

gant—or avaricious misers, about as bad.

sonal use, just as many a man expects 1

 

I know of no remedy for these domestic
wrongs. except through a higher develop-
ment of the law oflove and conscientious
sense of justice. As the true mission of
love and marriage becomes better under-
stood, and more intelligently and faith—
full y carried out, such evils will gradually
disappear. The world moves. Compare
the condition of woman now with that of
a few centuries past, and we find a won—
derful progress.

There are thousands of naturally kind-
hearted husbands whose sinning is more
through inconsiderateness than any con ,5
scious wrong-doing, and who only need
to have their attention called to it, and
convinced of their wrong to effect their
reform. There is room in this field for
skillful missionary work, for preaching
and teaching the right in such a manner
as not to appear to be oflicious inter—
meddlers with others’ affairs.

My pen is not aready one on this topic.
It has been with me, as with many others,
a too little considered one, and its dis-
cussion involves the self conviction and
confession of some past delinquencies.
But none of us can live our lives over, or
mend all the errors of the past. We can
only strive to live better and more perfect
lives hereafter. PAUL JOHNSTON.

Hour.

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CHAT FROM THE NORTH.

In regard to the secret societies, let me
remind Beatrix that the lodge dues are
the smallest of the expenses of masons.
Suppers for the visiting brethren after
lodge hours, car fare and hotel bills when
away to meetings, funerals and festive
occasions generally are ” incidental ex—
penses” which count. The relief to
widows and orphans must come from
the pocketbooks of masons, and with
many of them that charity had f ar better
begin at home. Do you think a good
wife and mother could be selfish enough
to really enjoy an amusement from which
her husband and children must be ex-
cluded? And is any amusement right
which encroaches on the hours for sleep,
even the protracted meetings of young
people?

The reform to earlier hours in this
case must come from the young men
themselves. It is impossible, with any re-
gard to the sacred laws of hospitality,
tell a gentleman that it is time for him to
take his leave—trebly the difficult if he is
the favored one. Young man, please re-
member that while your sweetheart is en-
tertaining you she is inwardly quaking at
the thought of the maternal reproaches
in the morning;and she does wish you
could be thoughtful enough not to
subject her to them. And mother, be
cautious what you say to your daughter.
You cannot offer her young womanhood
a greater insult than to hint the possibility
of wrong doing, for she cannot under—
stand your anxiety for her until she has
grown daughters of her own. The re-
form must be with young men.

I have discovered a relief for neuralgia,
faceache or toothache. Sit with the back
to the stove, so as to heat the spinal

 

 

 

column with all the heat you can bear.

 

 


 

 

 

Itis more efficacious than heat applied
directly to the seat of pain.

.It is not a HOUSEHOLD subject, but I do
want to express myself in print on the
folly of advertisers of patent medicines
who beguile the public into reading their
advertisements by attractive titles, and
then think the deluded, injured reader
will want to buy their medicines. No
salesman of any other class of goods
would expect to do anything but offend
and drive away customers by such a
course. I myself have missed reading
many interesting looking items for fear
of the pill that might be hidden in the
sugar coat, and then in all confidence I
have read—well, never mind! But ifI
was dying of kidney disease I know of
one patent medicine I never would buy

or take. HULDAH PERKINS.
Pronun .
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“OUR MARY” AS GALATEA.

 

I had the pleasure of hearing Mary
Anderson in “ Pygmalion and Galatea"
on the occasion of her recent visit to this
city, and as there has been so much said
of her as Galatea, I thought our readers
might be interested in a brief description
of the play in which she appeared, and
the personalls of the “ Fair Kentuckian,”
and would kindly refrain from saying
“chestnuts” even if they know the event
I am chronicling occurred nearly two
weeks ago.

The play is founded on the story of the
hold Greek sculptor Pygmalion, who
carved a statue of ivory so exquisitely
beautiful that he fell desperately in love
with it. His prayers to the gods were
answered, and the statue became a
beautiful woman, whom he married.
But the playwright has taken great
liberties with this simple text. Pygmalion
has carved the statue, and worships its
beauty. He is married to Cynisca, whom
he loves, and whose features, refined
and made more exquisite by his artistic
imagination, served as model for his
great work. The rising curtain discloses
the interior of the studio. Heavy dull
brown draperies conceal the statue in its
niche. Cynisca, the wife, Myrine, the
sister, and Leucippe, the valiant soldier
and lover of Myrine, enter, speak their
lines and retire, while the audience waits
expectantly for the curtains to be swept
apart and disclose the statue. When at
last they are drawn there is a breathless
hush, a murmur of admiration, followed
by a round of applause, which seems al—
most sacrilegious in presence of that
beautiful figure, so white, so motionless,
which stands sharply defined against the
dark background. The arms are bare to

the shoulder, the brown hair entirely
concealed by a white wig, while plentiful
applications of powder have so changed
the rosy flesh to the similitude of marble
that only a faint rose tinge betrays the
cheat. The drapery falls in statuesque
lines from the loose girdle which con-
flnes it; it is of white crape, and the secret
of these folds which look so like the solid
stone, is that the robe is washed, drawn
through a wringer and left to dry un-

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little, and it is ready to wear. I have
rarely seen anything more beautiful than
this counterfeit Galatea, standing grace-
fully erect, with head slightly inclined
and one hand gathering the folds of her
drapery, as immovable as if in very truth
cut from the insensate rock.

Cynisca, leaving Pygmalion in the
studio, bids him in her absence pay his
vows to the fair semblance of herself
which he has created. Pygmalion, alone,
deplores his inability to animate the
forms he create with life. He asserts he
can improve upon the handiwork of the
gods; his women are all beautiful, none
of his men have crooked legs, they are
gods and goddesses, all that is needed is
life. Thus lamenting, he hears a voice
call “Pygmalion,” softly, entreatingly.
He looks, and listens, and wonders, but
not till the call is thrice repeated does he
sweep aside the draperies and stand in
presence of the statue, in which is
wrought to his astonished eyes, awon-
dcrful transformation. The arms and
face are tinted with the flush of life, the
brown hair ripples away from the brow,
the rosy lips are half apart, and as he
looks the lids unclose and Galatea’s eyes
look into his.

With life there has been given to
Galatea one absorbing passion, love for
Pygmalion. He is married. and this
gives the key to the complications which
follow. Galatea, innocent, ignorant,
knowing nothing whatever of conven—
tionalities. makes mischief everywhere.
She is as one might fancy one might be,
set, a woman grown but ignorant of life
and its ways, in the world as mankind
has made it. She loves Pygmalion, and
sees no reason why she should not; told
he is married, she does not understand
why she cannot still love him. Her naive
delight at seeing herself in a mirror for
the first time, her fright at Leucippe, who
enters in armor. loud and noisy, so great
a contrast to the quiet and gentle Pygma~
lion, the only man she has as yet seen,
were bits of realistic acting. Chrysos,
“a patron of the arts," who as Pygma—
lion contemptuously says “ estimates the
value of a statue by its weight,” fur-
nishes, with Daphne, his wife, the comic
element. He comes to buy the statue of
which he has heard so much; offers a
thousand drachmes, Daphne saying they
had paid but fifteen hundred “for an
Apollo twice as large ;” Pygmalion le ives
the room in anger, saying as he goes
“The statne’s not for sale!" and after
Daphne has gone, Gaiateaeutsrs. Chrysos
isa new specimen, totally unlike any-
thing she has seen before; she looks him
over curiously, and tells him she likes
him, he makes her laugh, he is “ so round
and red and queer." Life came to her so
mysteriously that she holds ah life sacred,
hence Leucippe, as a soldier whose trade
is to destroy, is horrible to her. He
enters while she is alone, bringing a
fawn he has just killed by a chance shot
which he describes, while her eyes dilate
with horror at his cruelty. She satisfies
herself the fawn is dead, then indignantly
orders him from her presence. When

 

disturbed, the folds are then pulled out a

  

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Leucippe’s slaughter and by use of the
pronoun “she”—which Leucippe used
in his description,—Myrine is led to be-
lieve her lover has murdered a woman,
and that Galatea had seen the victim.
The misunderstanding results in the
separation of the lovers, for Leucippe
cannot understand why Myrine should
be shocked,nor Myrine how her betrothed
could so heartlessly boast of his sup-
posed crime.

Cynisca, in the meantime, has become
jealous of the lovely woman who so
openly adores her husband, and Pygma-
lion’s admiration of her but increases her
anger. Artemis, the Greek Diana, the
“ great mother of Nature,” her protector,
at her marriage with Pygmalion promised
that should her husband become even for
a moment, even in thought, untrue to
the marriage vow, he should be stricken
with blindness at her prayer. This doom
she now invokes upon the unhappy
Pygmalion, whose eyes instantly become
sightless. Cynisca disappears, and her
husband, in grief at her loss and his
punishment, cares not to live. Myrine
persuades Galatea to personate Cynisca,
in the hope of winning him to hope in
life again, which she does, and listens in
anguish to his vows that though he
worshiped Galatea’s beauty, his love for
his wife had never wavered. Cynisca,
returning penitent for her hasty prayer
in jealous rage, overhears his avowal,
and in her joy finds time to pity the
heart-broken Galatea for the first time.
Artemis, in answer to her enrreaty, re~
stOres Pygmalion’s sight; and Galatea,
refused the love which gave her life, feels
the tide of life within her veins chilling
to stony coldness again. While the re—
united twain are engrossed in each
other, she slowly, as if mastered by some
power invisible, goes to ward her old
niche, disappearing in its recess. Again
Pygmalion hears that sweet, deep voice
calling him; and throwing aside the cur-
tain, sees the statue in its old place, the
flesh tints faded, the figure once more
immovable, only, as he looks, the eyes
open full upon him, and with one long
glance, slowly, still as if by some irresis~
tible power, close forever. And then the
great curtain fell, and the loud applause
broke the hush, and bade us remember
it was “ only a play.” BEATRIX.

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FAITH IN MANKIND.

 

To the lady at Kalamazoo who so do—
spairingly asks “ Is there true love in
mankind?” I. oo, Would say Yes, oh yes.
Many a man is more true and faithful than
the wife, some are so unevenly mated in
this life; and although it is poor consola-
tion to offer those who sorrow, I think
womankind are much to blame in this
matter. Take for example the fast young
man of the age. No matter what he does
most of the young ladies call him a good
fellow, and are ready enough to give hi' -
their company, while their fallen sister,
fallen through that same young man, only
receives the cold and sneering look, as
unworthy their slightest notice. “These

 

Myrine returns, Galatea tells the story of

things ought not to be.” Oh mothers, let
us teach our children, boys and girls

    

   
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
   
  
  
  
 
  


 

 

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alike, that vice is vice wherever found. I
would not refrain from giving pity to the
desolate heart. for we know that every
heart hath its own bitterness, and only
the Blessed One can truly help in each
and every sorrow. Human help is so
weak and insuflicient, but there is One
who is mighty. A. n.

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SERVED HIM RIGHT.

 

This saying is one of the most common
in use, and is applied justly, or the re-
verse, with little discrimination.

If a child falls into disgrace at home or
school, and is subjected to punishment,
there will always be some to emphasize
the penalty with “ Served him right,” and
this verdict is too often the outcome of a
feeling of prejudice, rather than a sense
of justice.

A man may be engaged in business
many years, always conducting it in an
upright, honest way; straightforward in
his dealings; all have a good word for
him. But he is good natured; it is hard
for him to say no to a friend, and by and
by he fails, through the treachery or mis-
takes of others, and many will exclaim:
“ Served him right. He shouldn’t have
been such a fool.”

A man meets a friend on the street, and
having a little business to talk over, they
step into a saloon near by. They meet
others, and follow the “ American fash-
ion” of treating all around, and our friend
finds his head unsteady when he again is
on the street. Tanglefoot trips him, too;
the street gamins cheer him with, “ GO it,
Blowsy—head; yer wife’s got a rod in
pickle for ye.” He angrily dashes after
them, falls against and upsets a dignified
Solon, imagines him his persecutor, as-
saults him, and ends with being arrested
and arraigned in the police court as

“drunk and disorderly.” Hear the
chorus. “ Served him right; he ought to
be sent up I”

A young girl, innocent and pure, but
headstrong and inexperienced, meets with
a man plausible, courteous and flattering,
who pays her the most devoted attention,
pretends the most intense love and deep
affection, wins her confidence and love,
oflfers her honorable marriage. works
every art Of fascination until her infatua-
tion is complete, another “American fash-
ion,” that of midnight courtship, giving
unlimited opportunity for importunity,
and the old, old story of woman’s shame
and man’s infamy is on the record.
Whose the voice to cry out “ Served her
right?”

It has been sadly proven that wrong
can not be changed in its nature, because
it has been handed down from past ages.

No practice or fashion that has unlimited

possibilities of evil, crime or degradation,

can find moral support from the fact that
it has been practiced or prevailed in times
past; nor will it strengthen the case to
demonstrate than in cited instances, no
matter how numerous, no harm has fol-

lowed such allowances.

It is not safe to set a fire in the forest
in a dry time. because such things have
been done and no great injury resulted.

cages and prowled about for a time with-
out doing much damage, but it is better
to keep your doors closed while they are
at large.

But the fire of the saloon and the "hu-
man hyena lie in wait to destroy at every
turn, with a mask of fashion so complete-
ly hiding their hideous deformity from
their guileless victims that their true
character is only appreciated when their
victims are totally in their toils. Shall we
say of these unfortunates in their despair,
“Served them right i” . a. L. 1..

Inannsms .
W

FLOWER SEEDS FOR 1886.

 

It would seem superfluous for me to
spend much time in recommending my
seeds to my old friends and customers,
but the FARMER finds many new readers
every year, and I will simply say to those,
that althoughl still offer seeds and plants
at extremely low rates, there is nothing
poor or second rate about them; they are
raised from the most expensive and im-
proved sorts to be had from our best
seedsmen. As I find that most purchas-
ers prefer the varieties of each kind
mixed in packets I offer them thus, al—
though I can furnish separately black or
white pansy, red or white Sweet W11-
liam, Delphinum etc.,in distinct colors if
desired. All plants that are considered
improved when double, are so without
deterioration from growing with single
ones, for they are removed. Asl am sure
the readers of the HousEHOLD keep the
little paper I need not say preserve the
list. I give below a list of those most in
demand usually; I can furnish many
others:
Animus—Alyssum, Ageratum, An-
tirrhinum, Asters, Argemone, Balsam,
10c, Brachycome 100, Candytuft, Cacalia,
Canna, 100, Calendula meteor, 10c,
Oalliopsis, Catchfly, Convolvulus minor,
Datura, Euphorbia, Eschscholtzia, Gilia,
Linaria, Lobelia, Mignonette, Marigold,
Medicago, Myosotis, 10c, Mirabilis,
Nigella, Poppy. Pinks, 10c, Pansy, 15c,
Perilla, Phlox Drummondi, Petunia, 10c,
Tropeolum, Verbena, 10c, Zinnia.
Organise—Hyacinth Bean, Scarlet
Runner, Morning Glory, Ipomea, Balloon
vine, Sweet Pea, Thunbergia 10c, Canary
flower 10c, Adlumia, Lathyrus, Perennial
pea.
PERENNIALS.-—-A.lyssum, gold dust,
Aquilegia, yellow. white, blue, etc., Cam-
panula, Digitalis, Delphinum, Hollyhock
10c, Honesty.Cypress, Linum,Pyrethrum,
Rocket, Sweet William, Wallflower 100.
Sweet and medicinal herbs, over 20
varieties separate or mixed; everlasting
flowers and grasses, best sorts. Prices,

except where marked, six packets 25c, 13
for 50c, or 30 for $1. marked packets 3 for
25c (except pansies) 13 for $1. Mixed
sorts of either annuals, perennials, herbs,

packet, or 3 packets 25c.
mention the FARMER.

MR8. M. A. FULLER.

Box 297.

anroxvrnnn. Mich.
W

VIOLET, of Okemos, who says she is a
little girl, wishes some lady would give
directions for knitting lace; also for gin-

or climbers 15c, or everlastings 10c per
In ordering

THE gentleman from Eaton Rapids who
wants a situation to take charge of some
woman’s property as husband, is interm-
ed the HousEHOLD is not a matrimonial

agency.

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TEMPERANCE, of Woodside, says’that in
her directions for knitting a silk pursetw.
means “twist stitch,” that is, insert the
needle in the back of the stitch, and knit
as usual. Four needles, No. 16, are used.
Dark blue or drab are nice colors.

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Mas. E. S. CUSHIMAN, of Delhi Mills,
christened her essay before the Webster-
Farmers’ Institute, “Zig-zag Papers,’
which she felt to be a more fitting title to
her series of descriptions of different
agricultural conditions in foreign coun—
tries than that bestowed upon it in the
programme, and given in the HOUSEHOLD.

BETTY, of Grand Blanc, extends her

heartfelt sympathy to our little invalid,

Temperance, and hopes for her ultimate

recovery. Betty, in common with many

others, is hoping to hear again from Miss

Benton, whose letter from abroad she

greatly enjoyed, and whose promise to

write has not been forgotten. The “ case ,
of identity ” which Betty thinks she has

discovered arises from a duplication of
nom-de-plumes.

W—

811er BROWN. of Marshall, says: “ If
the lady from Ionia who has such a seri-
ous time making cake with granulated
sugar, will use two-thirds of a cup of
sugar, and stir the cake with her hand,
(if she would do such a thing) until the
sugar is all dissolved, I know she will
have nice cake. It was the sugar, and
not the baking powder that made the
cake heavy. Have had the same exp eri-
ence. Thanks to Mrs. F. for her ginger
snap recipe.”

W
AFTER a stove has been blackened, it
can be kept looking very well for a long
time by rubbing it with paper every
morning. Rubbing with paper is a much
nicer way of keeping a tea-kettle, coffee-
pot, and tea-pot bright and clean than in
the Old way of washing them in suds.
Rubbing with paper is also the best way
Of polishing knives, tinware, and spoons;
they shine like new silver. For polishing
mirrors, windows, lamp chimneys, etc.,
paper is better than dry cloth. Preserves
and pickles keep much better if
brown paper, instead of cloth, is
tied over the jar. Preserved fruit is
not so apt to mold if a piece of writing
paper, out to fit the jar, is laid directly on
the fruit. Paper is much better to put
under a carpetthan straw. It is warmer,
thinner, and makes less noise when one
walks over it.

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ONE of our exchanges puts the butter
question thus: “ One woman makes but-
ter and sells it for what it will bring, an-
other makes it and it will not go far
enough to supply those who want it at the-
best market price. This is the result of

 

 

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intelligence.