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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

MY DARLI N GS.

 

When steps are hurrying homeward.
And night the world o'erspreads,
And I see at the open windows
The shining of little heads,
I think of you, my darlings,
In your low and lonesome bed.

And when the latch is lifted.
And I hear the voices glad,

I feel my arms more empty,
My heart more widely sad;

For we measure dearth of blessings
By the blessings we have bad.

But sometimes in sweet visions
My faith to sight expands,

And with my babes in His bosom,
My Lord before me stands,

And I feel on my head bowed lowly
The touches of little hands.

Then pain is lost in patience,
And tears no longer flow,
They are only dead to the sorrow
And sin of life, I know,
For if they were not immortal
My love would make them so.
—Alice Cary.

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UP-HILL.

 

 

In looking over the plans for a week’s
campaign, one of my neighbors says to an-
other, “But, how about your ironing?” and
receives the laughing reply that it is to be
done A. H. J.’s fashion; viz.; half of it not
done at all. When this is repeated to the
undersigned, she laughs again to think how
many ways we help people, and runs over
the Prayer Book in regard to the things we
have done. and “left undone,” to see if she
can not give the allusion a practical turn.
But an hourly repetition of “ Shut the
screens; put up your hat; let the flowers alone;
keep out of that water,” etc., etc., does not
whet one’s wit over-much; so she sits down
to a little sober thinking, and concludes that
if her housework slights are foot—prints
which perhaps another “ seeing, may take
heart again,” she is only too glad to give up
the race for shining neatness and cooked
completeness to others; for she knows that
she is not the only woman who, with little
children, not much strength, and all one’s
work to do, is traveling at present “ up-
hill,” and needs to travel slowly. The
tasteful, orderly homes, the stylish costumes
and air of liberty which others bask in, of-

_ ten cause a momentary regret and a more

lasting feeling of shabbiness, for we, too,
like order and neatness, and once in a while
a little bit of style; and we are to bear in
mind that no one can have all the good
things of life. Somewhere in a book an

what we want in this world, but we ‘- git.
sumthin’” and when that "sumthin’i’

chances to be three or four small children,
we find very little time for anything else.

“ You must have lots of aprons to wash
and iron,” I once said to the sensible moth-
er of four girls, and she quietly replied:
“Not so very many, I only allow each of
them two a week; after they get about so
dirty they can’t get any worse.” She dis-
closed several more of those self-protective
economies, and later on in our visit, told
me how ambitious she felt to improve her-
self in music, and that she would glance
over the newspapers and add an occasional
batch of gems to her scrap-book; and I am
sure those aprons were distributed on a wise
principle, though they must have been pretty
dirty at times.

It often becomes necessary for a woman
to stop and consider whether it will pay to
leave her children motherless for the sake
of keeping up with somebody else in house-
keeping or stylish dress, or of saving the ex-
pense of a servant’s wages. An over-worked
mother is apt to be a cross one. Little
children have many wants which call for
patience to supply, and we had better neg—
lect their clothing than train them injudi-
ciously. Life is brief, and justahead we will
come to smoother traveling, when neatness,
orderly rooms, and freedom of hands will be
ours—if we are alive to enjoy them. For
the sake of self-preservation, we should cut
off every unnecessary task now. Let the
swift pass us, and bear in mind, as I said
before, that we are traveling “up—hill,” and
must travel slowly. A. H. J.

THOMAS.
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OUR HIRED HELP.

 

I have read with some interest the many
complaints about our hired help. I feel
proud to acknowledge that I was once a
servant, and classed among "our hired
help;” it taught me the ways of life, how
to work and manage for myself. When I
was sent from home to be a page boy, it was
the main—spring of my life. For seven years
I was in one place, six thousand miles away,
forty years ago, treated by masterand fellow
servants as one of the family. I had a duty
to perform and knew that I must do it well;
when company came and caused me extra
trouble, something would be quickly placed
in my hand, with perhaps only two kind
words spoken, “Here, George.” Do you
suppose I forgot such acts of kindness? I

 

have been hired help in this country, and al-
ways tried to do my duty, and have gener-

. ally been used well; but sometime I have

old lady tells us that we don‘t always get i felt. hurt at ditterent places, when 1 would

ask the question, Who is that? at receiving
the reply: “0, that’s my hired man,” or

“Well, that’s our hired girl.” (Mind you,
they had no other name.) And I often
thought that some of our hired help possess-
ed more noble, generous hearts than the‘
master or mistress. It is true servants are
hirelings, but if they do their duty well,

there is as much honor to their names as to»
our President, who is also an hireling. noth-
ingmore, nothing less. Mr. Cleveland will;
be “the people’s” servant four years, and:
if he does his duty well, perhaps we may

hire him again.

I would have some good books and news.-
papers, and would have my sons and
daughters generous enough to let the hired-
help read a little, too; it would keep their.
minds from planning to go “cooning,” and
other acts of deviltry; they would be work-—
ing and thinking of something good. Others 7
of cause have their notions about hired
help, but this is just simply the opinion of.
ANTLOVER.

HEALTH.

PLAINWELL.

 

"Keep the head cool. the feet warm, and
the body free.” The dress of the feet is.
particularly important. Coldness or damp-
ness of the feet causes headache. weakness-
and inflammation of the eyes. coughs, con—7
sumption and fevers. Keeping ’the feet
warm and dry serves as one of the safest
guards against consumption. Many of our
most eminent physicians trace the preval-
ence of this dreaded disease to the universal
custom of wearing insufficient clothing on.
our feet.

A headache is often cured by sitting a.-
long time with the feet near a fire.

Teachers and clergymen have a pernicious
habit of dressing the neck too warmly when
they go out. Having to speak often, they
guard their throats particularly. Hence-
comforter, muffler, or silk handkerchief at
least, is worn around the neck. The parts»
thus thickly covered become too warm. and
the neck becomes very sweaty. When,
therefore, the wraps are removed. a very
rapid evaporation takes place, and a severe
cold is the consequence. In this way a cold
is renewed every day. Very soon the
teacher or clergyman breaks down With
bronchitis or lung difficulty. I lay it to the
heavy and tight dressing of the throat.

WlLD ROSE.
Baum CREEK.

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“In childhood's morn, in youth‘s unclouded'

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We gaze on Friendship as a lovely flower,
And win it for our pleasures and our pride:
But when the stern realities of life do rack
The cordage of the heart, it breathes a healing
Influence o‘er us—next to the hope of
Heaven.”

There is no connection in life which bears
so much sweetness and satisfaction as
friendship. There is no condition of heart
or mind but is notably affected by it. If
we know we have a good friend, how
natural to go to him with both hopes and
fears. Our cares are lightened by sympathy,
our fears are allayed, our hopes are raised.
Humanity is varied in its wants. Friend-
ship has a language for all. The timid
need words of encouragement; a helping
hand for the weak, words of caution for the
venturesome; the sorrowing heart needs
sympathy. There are very few people who
are so organized that they can live without
friendship, the hearts that so isolate them-
selves from these sweet and refining in-
fluences soon harden—become calloused.
It gives strength and courage for the weary
struggles of life.

There was never a human heart con-
stituted that did not at some hour yearn for
sympathy and friendship. Such feelings
should never be smothered or crushed out.
Only the experience of time can mold true
friendship. The union of hearts needs a
more permanent test than a pretty face or a
smooth tongue. We have nearly all of us,
found gold dross, and idols clay. If we are
on the high wave of prosperity we can
count our friends by the score; but once let
us lose our position and how soon we see
them scatter. “Flies leave the kitchen
when the dishes are empty. The parasites
that gather around the favorites of fortune
for gifts and aid linger with the sunshine,
but scatter at the approach of a storm, as
the leaves clingto atree in summer weather,
but drop off at the first breath of winter.”
'If you have a good trusty friend cling to
him; you are blessed above the majority of
human beings, for a true friend is arare
'thing. But there is no such thing as true
friendship without sincerity—the bitterest
draught in the cup of life is betrayed
friendship. To find that the ones in whom
we have trusted and confided have betrayed

.us, makes us distrustful of others. Oh!
there is a wonderful magic in the word
friend. What pleasant reveries we have had
.when the long weary years pass before us
.in rapid succession, and we see old
familiar faces dim and shadowy as the
graves in which they have lain. We are
indeed dull if we are not better men and
women after these fancied communications
with old friends.

But while we see that friendship is al~
most an actual necessity, I have read that
“Love was the weapon that Omnipotence
reserved to conquer noble man when all the
rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear
he answers blow for blow, future interests
he meets with present pleasure; but Love,
that sun against whose melting beams
winter cannot stand, that soft subduing
slumber which brings down the giant, there
is not one human soul in a million, not a
thousand men in all earth’s domain whose
hearts are hardened against Love.”

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Life without love! oh it would be a world
without a sun,

Cold as the snow capped mountain, dark as
myriad nights in one:

A barren scene without one spot amidst the
waste,

Without one blossom of delight, of feeling or
of taste.”

With most of us we “love but once and
love forever.” We can have friendship for
many, but love few. Men and women
cannot be judged by the same rules.
Man’s nature leads_him out into the busy
world; great wealth, high position, will
satisfy him. But a woman’s heart is her
world, she hates to lose the love she has
gained. How cruel it is to throw aside so
carelessly, such a precious gem as love. We
can often win others fromevil ways through
love—it will work for good and, evil. The
law of heaven is Love, and though its name
has been usurped by passion, and profaned
to its unholy uses through all time, still the
eternal principle is pure. As we pass from
childhood to middle life and on to old age,
how pleasant the retrospect of faces and
scenes that we have loved! It may be a
flower given us by a schoolmate—some tree
in whose shade we have stood and talked—
a glance of the eye that told us we were
loved, a pressure of the hand. All these
little things never grow dim, are never
eifaced from our memory, because we
loved. “The memories that make home
beautiful, spring from the love that formed
the sunlight of our earlier years. They
beam gratefully along the pathway of our
mature years, and their radiance lingers
’til the shadows of death darken them al-
together.” There are fortunate ones in
this world who have love lavished upon
them—who live constantly in its atmos-
phere, they hardly know what a precious
gift is theirs. Others pass through life
knowing nothing whatever of its beautiful
influence; their hearts are like the parched
flower dying for. raindrop and dew. God
has given us the power to love; instead of
crushing thisheavenly instinct, let us cul-
tivate it. Let us give to our fellow beings
as abundantly as we can. Love for our
fellow beings means a great deal; it means
charity, moral purity, integrity, forbearance,
faith in our friends, unselfishness. We
must put self aside. How often those we
love so much, hurt and grieve us; but we
still cling to them and love the good quali-
ties and blind our eyes to the bad. We can
often reclaim the erring in this way. The
heart must have food as well as the body.
We read of cases where people die of
“broken hearts." ‘

“Oh! the heart that has truly loved never
forgets
But as fondly loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns on her God when he

sets
The same look that she gave when he rose.”
BATTLE CREEK. EVANGALINE.

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CABINETS AND SILK-WORMS.

 

Were it not for the well-known sweet
temper of our HOUSEHOLD Chief, I might
credit her with “nerve irritation” in her
urgent call for “copy" and “cabinets.”
Wait awhile, Beatrix, I have been to visit
the dentist, and I could tell of an “aching
void, a weary waste of space” resulting,
but if all goes well, in time, with impaired
beauty repaired, my pictured semblance

 

shall beam from a page of our HOUSEHOLD

album, to the delight of your eyes and the
up—building of your pride. Yes, I, too, took
a look one day at the “first cause of silk
dresses,” and was not enamored of the
business. I would not so much mind the
“worms,” as such, but to be tied to their
company and their odor, believe me, I would
rather dress in the discarded clothes of the
sheep. A. L. 1..

INGLESIDE.
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GLOVES.

 

 

A lady is known by her gloves and shoes
quite as much or more than by any .other
item of her toilette. Nothing makes a
woman look poorly dressed so much as a
worn glove or shabby shoe; nothing so de-
tracts from the style or elegance of a
costume as the want of suitability in these
points. Gloves are expensive items, for it
only pays to buy good grades, unless in-
deed in the very light shades, which how-
ever are now very little worn. Gloves are
now worn to fit the hand; there is no
beauty in a hand squeezed into a glove a
size too small for it. If you get a pair
which prove too small for you, change
them rather than try to wear them. Pull
them off, if you are convinced they are too
small, by turning them over the hand—
wrong side out—rather than by pulling
them by the tips of the fingers. Then
smooth them carefully into shape again,
folding in the original creases in the
fingers, and they can be returned unin-
jured. For summer wear silk gloves and
mitts, and those of silk and wool mixed,
called taffeta, are more worn than kid, and
are far more comfortable andless expensive.
They come to fit any hand, and can be
obtained in shades to match any color; the
tafieta wear best. No matter what is the
“latest” edict of the fickle goddess who
prescribes our raiment, the gloves nearly
always match or harmonize with the general
color of the suit. Mitts show 01f a pretty
white hand, with shapely finger-nails, and
also make very conspicuous the shortcom-
ings of a brown, ill-shaped one. Silly
women and girls wear them to show off a
lot of cheap rings. They are very slight
protection to the hands, so far as repelling
the caresses of the sun and wind is con—
cerned, and they are not considered “full
dress.” Yet Mrs. Cleveland wore them at
her first reception, tied far above the elbow
with white ribbons. Probably what was
suitable for “the first lady in the land”
will answer for any lesser social luminaries.
There is one occasion on which mitts are a
“graceful medium” between kid gloves
and bare hands, and that is with the muslin
gowns and ribbons of our girl graduates on
that great occasion, Commencement Day.
Colored gloves are worn with black and
white dresses, but with a suit, the gloves
should correspond. For winter wear the
Castor gloves in dark shades are very
serviceable, and may be cleaned. with a
bit of flannel and white curd soap. They
cost $1 75 per pair. Dogskin gloves were
very popular last winter; they are heavier
and warmer than -kid, wear excellently, but
cost $2 25. When you buy cashmere gloves
never accept those which have been kept in
stock from a previous season, nor try to
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'reason, the ingredients of the dye, probably,
.they all pull to pieces.

Mend kid gloves as soon as a stitch
"breaks, with fine thread of the same color,
never with silk. The gloves are stitched
“with thread and the mending is more notice—
able if done with silk. If you get your
dogskin gloves wet, rub them with a very
*lz’ttle dilute glycerine on a bit of flannel.
Silk gloves wear out first at the finger-ends.
‘Stuff a tiny wad of cotton in the end of
‘each finger and you will find they will wear
much longer. Take up a dropped stitch or
a break in a lace mitt or glove. the moment
you notice it; if you do not once wearing
will make an unsightly hole. B .

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NOTES ON BACK NUMBERS.

 

I think perhaps Old School Teacher would
hold different views on the subject of unex-
pected visits, were it not for the young lady
daughters in her house who can share with
.her the cares as well as the pleasures of en-
tertaining. In the case of the woman with
.a family of small children, without help, an
unexpected visit often means added work
instead of pleasure. Company comes when
she has some unusual task on hand, which
must be put aside, to her great inconveni-
ence; or the much needed rest she has earn-
ed by a big forenoon’s work must be sur-
rendered to try and make herself agreeable
.to her guests, when she is really too fatigued
.to feel equal to it. Suppose you take the
’baby and go for an afternoon visit, only to
find your friend’s children down with the
.mumps or measles, or in the preliminary
stages of scarlet fever. Visitor and visited

.are apt to wish a “ declaration of intention ”

had preceded the inopportune arrival. Sup-
- pose you visit a friend only to find herhome
full of stranger guests, who are not “your
kind,” and with whom you cannot frater-
nize, you feel yourself the proverbial “wet
~blanke .” If you happen to have such a
{thing as a “dearest foe,” how uncomfort-
able to find her installed in the best patent-
rocker!

When I wrote the article on “Invitations,”
:the case of an acquaintance of mine in town
here was in my mind. She is the victim of
visitors, who are slowly but surely killing
"her. She is unfortunate enough to live
.down town, within easy reach of a horde of
.relatives and acquaintances who drop in at
all hours of the day and night and make
themselves very much at home. Any of the
family relatives who come into the city to
spend a few days always make headquarters
at “ Anna’s,” because it is so convenient to
.depots, street-cars, shops, etc. ‘They never
xherald their coming by even a postal-card.
When dinner for two is on the table it
makes a sight of difference if there'are four
'to eat it. Her health is poor, she is hardly
.able to do her own work, very unable to wait
.upon the constant succession of visitors
who claim her hospitality. Her husband’s
.salary is small; it is hard work to make ends
meet, and the “free boarding-house” she is
compelled to keep, necessitates table expend—
itures which must be balanced by doing
-Without in other items. Perhaps this is an
extreme case of visiting without invitations,
inasmuch as these friends make their friend-

 

ship a matter of commerce to save hotel
bills. Yet I often think we never know
where the pinch comes on others, what plans
we disarrange, what pleasures are resigned
without a word. when we make our unher-
alded visits.

Old School Teacher would find calling in
the city has its drawbacks, unless one can
afford to order a coupe and make a business
of it, which to those who have little time
and many acquaintances, is really an econo—
my. One’s friends have a trick of living
“ all over” town, some are not readily ac-
cessible by car, to reach others one must per-
haps take two lines. Three or four calls in
the regulation hours are as many as one can
comfortably compass in an afternoon, with-
out a carriage. .

I saw a suggestion recently, somewhere,
that struck me as being practicable; it was
simply to apply a city- fashion to country
living, that of having an “ at home” day,
once a week, or once in two weeks, when
one would be at home and prepared to see
company. Somebody will probably rise to
remark this is too much “style" for the
country, but I notice that a good many of
our “stylish” customs are pretty good ideas
in their way, after all. I think such a cus-
tom, once established, in a populous neigh-
borhood, would be very pleasant and en-
joyable, without formality, and tend very
greatly to general sociability and good
feeling.

Here’s Huldah Perkins scares me so I
nearly tumble from the editorial perch by
threatening me with “ correction,” then
dismisses me with a “rod in pickle ” over
my head till a “ more convenient season!”
I suppose I may cling to my heresies in
regard to homemade rugs and patchwork a
week or two longer. There was an .excuse
for patchwork when prints were scarce and
costly, there is none now, unless indeed for
a very aged grandmother, who yet, if able to
sew at all, could “put in her time” else-
where to greater profit. No, Huldah, on
these two topics I belong to that class of
women whose minds are like a spare bed——
always made up beforehand; I may be
“corrected ” but Icannot be convinced.

And since Huldah avers it no longer
makes her sick to hear wives advised to
culture themselves to their husbands’ level,
and since there is nothing under heaven so
cheap as good advice, which, happily—or
otherwise—we can generally obtain in
abundance without even the trouble of ask-
ing for it, I dare venture to express a hope
that all our busy housekeepers will yet find
time to do just that very thing. Every-
where I see wives and husbands drifting
apart for want of sympathy, a common in-
terest in each other’s inner life. I am by
no means inferring that the wife’s intellec-
tual level is not, usually, on a par with her
husband’s, but I cannot help seeing that a
great many women allow the family cares,
——the dinners and the buttons and the
babies—to absorb them to the exclusion of
the deeper significance of the marital rela—
tionship. Then we soon have a husband
spending his evenings away from home be-
cause his wife has nothing to say to him
beyond the day’s annoyances, and a wife
complaining her husband is always taciturn
or sleepy. One is apt to feel there is no

 

particular need of being conversationally
brilliant when a husband constitutes one’5
entire audience, yet it is by no means a
waste of wit, unless the husband chances to
be what in popular parlance is termed “ a
stick.”

S. M. G. asserts she discovered a type of
femininity “down South” which over-
threw all her cherished ideas of the
gentler sex. Idid not have to journey to
Dixie, but encountered a lame naturm
nearer home, who is a constant and ever '
unsolved enigma. Thrown by circumstances
into propinquity, I can find nothing to
love, respect or admirein her character. I
have never yet heard her speak other than
disparagingly of any acquaintance. If
others Speak well of a person, her voice fol-
lows closely with the inevitable “Yes.
but—,” always derogatory, always over-
looking the good qualities to point out the
bad. If nothing else is possible, sneering.
sarcastic comment on personal points, a
peculiarity of complexion. a defect of
figure, or criticism on dress or manner is
sure to follow. Dogs, cats, canary birds.
receive abundant care and affection, and
sundry neglected waifs are fed and sent
away rejoicing. But for the children of the
neighborhood she has only cross looks and
crosser words; “little nuisances” is the
mildest epithet applied to , them. She
snubs husband and children in public, al-
ways addressing the former by his surname.
without the prefix Mr. Always complain-
ing herself, narrating her “symptoms"
and claiming sympathy and attention, she
has no compassion for another in illness.
Her husband was quite sick for a few days.
and showed by his bleached and emaciated
face that the illness had been really severe.
Yet, to him and to those who enquired after
him, she spoke as if he were feigning sick-
ness to get rid of work and annoy her by
“upsetting” her plans. So far as one can
judge, during a year’s observation, love is
usurped by calculation, charity and all
other womanly virtues by the most intense
selfishness. She isa standing conundrum
to me. I would like to give her credit for
her good qualities, could I but discover

them. BEATRIX.

FRUITS AS AN ARTICLE OF
FOOD.

 

Mrs. G. H. La Fleur, of Allegan, read a
paper on the above subject before the West
Michigan Fruit Growers’ Society, at the
June meeting, which we give below, omit-
ting the introduction and finale for want of
space:

Apples stand at the head as the most use-
ful of all fruits. They are excellent in many
ways and all ways. They are lovely, fresh,
on our dinner tables for dessert. We can
them, pickle, jelly, make into vinegar, and
make apple butter. We all,know how de-
lightful'is a well-made apple pie—it is the
queen of pies. Good sweet ones are excel—
lent baked; tart ones are delicate and deli-
cious halved, the core removed, the cavity
filled with white sugar, and baked. Stewed
ones are much improved by being spread on
tins, sprinkled with sugar, and baked. Ap-
ples, as well as all fruits as far as practicable.
should be cooked in their own juices. The
ways are almost legion in which we can util-
ize this excellent fruit.

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have all we want if we can get them. We

    

  

    
 


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are not so sure of them as of the apple.
They are delightful. Everyone is fond of
peaches, or ought to be. If one were to say
he was not fond of this lovely fruit we
should be afraid of him; we would naturally
conclude he was destitute of a cultivated
taste. This delicate fruit is so perishable
that we resort to various ways of preserving,
such as canning, spicing, pickling, jelling,
etc. In each they are delicious if carefully
and properly done. Many persons, I think,
make a great mistake in canning peaches.
They sacrifice too much for looks. Canned
peaches are often lovely to the eye, but ut-
terly flat and insipid to the taste. I believe
in a due regard for looks, and admit that
food which is pleasing to the eye is often
more gratifying to the taste, but this should
not be carried too far. Peaches are often
put up in a too unripe state—too hard—that
they may come through the process retain-
ing their form in an unbroken condition.
This is a great mistake. To have this love-
1y fruit perfect we should allow it to remain
on the tree until fully ripe, until by taking
it in hand it yields readily to the pressure.
They should then be prepared, placed in a
steamer, and steamed until the pieces are
thoroughly cooked, which may be known by
their settling down in the dish. They
should then he slipped out carefully into a
bright pan and allowed to become perfectly
cold. Then add three-fourths pound of
White sugar. Put over the fire and bring to
a boiling point, or allow them just to boil
up, then remove and can immediately. If
carefully done the fruit will not be broken,
you will have all the delicious aroma of a
peach ripened and colored on the tree, and
the syrup will be beautifully clear, almost
white. By this process the natural flavor of
the fruit is retained to a much greater de-
gree than by any other method I have ever
tried. It is also economical, as the long
boiling of sugar with acid fruit converts cane
into grape sugar, and we lose one-fifth of its
sweetening qualities.

Pears should be grown in abundance.
They are very delicate when they are ripe
—I mean the best varieties. Flemish Beauty
and Bartlett are nice for canning. Too
much cannot be said in favor of canned
pears. Some fruit is greatly injured by
cooking, but this lovely fruit bears cooking
very well. Baked in light puff paste,
with no flavoring but their own, canned
pears make a delicate and delicious pie.
Cooked in spiced syrup, made of best vine-
gar, one pint, and three pounds good sugar,
they make an appetizing pickle for the tea-
table. They can bedried as readily as ap-
ples, and this is a good way of saving a
surplus.

The quince has always been esteemed a
very choice fruit. This is because it can
only be grown in certain localities, and also
on account of its high and peculiar flavor and
rich and lovely looks. Qainces canned by
the process named for peaches would require
longer cooking, and a little water to the
sugar to make sufficient syrup. Quinces
make one of the loveliest jellies, as we all
know.

Plums and cherries are always prized as
delicious, and are nice in any and every
wa . -

131,1 the warm June days comes the straw-
berry, that prince of berries, with its de-
licious coolness, to refresh us. I would
particularly recommend the process named
for canning peaches, only more sugar should
be added—one—half pound to one pound
makes them about right. This process I
think eminently desirable for all kinds of
small fruits. ~

The currants with their nutritious and
medicinal qualities are just what we need
during the heated term. The red currant is
unequaled for jelly—it seems designed for
that; ' The black currant makes a very de-
li itfiis‘eanned fruit. Few persons, I think,
a& awafe’howentirely delightful they are
'iit’tflis‘ ,‘ior they would be more exten-
fiwwgi‘fi, aha 'u'séd.’_ They lose in cook-
’ trig ‘ t‘h’e‘ ’ milsky ' areas so, disagreeable to
many. Wash them wellfin‘tepid‘water be-
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natural aroma undergoes an entire change,
and when done they are simply perfect.

Gooseberries are excellent, canned with
plenty of white sugar. When done a bean—
tiful, clear jelly is formed among the ber-
ries, whichis quite as delightful to the eye
as to the taste.

Blackberries, raspberries, whortleberries,
cranberries—indeed all of the edible berry
family—are greatly relished and are very
healthful.

Last but not least, I mention the fruit of
the vine. Superior to all of the small fruits

is the grape in healthful qualities and nutrir

tion. I have read that one might subsist on
grapes alone—that they contain all of the
qualities necessary to sustain human life.
Be that as it may, we all know that they

wiil allay hunger and thirst. We only Wish.

we could preserve them in a fresh state at
least half of the year, that we might have all
we wish to eat. Yet we are thankful we
can save this useful fruit by cooking, that
we may have it the entire year. For can-
ning grapes have two dishes—slip them out
of the skins, drop the pulp containing the
seeds into one dish and the skins into the
other. After this is done put the pulp-into
a preserving pan and boil until the seeds are

set free. They will then drop to the bottom-

of the pan. Pour the pulp from the seeds,.
add to the skins and boil until tender, add-
ing one-half pound of sugar just before re-
moving from the fire—then can. Grapes
put up in this way are unsurpassed for.
sauce. This also makes one of the most de-
licious pies imaginable.

A good supply of fruit jellies is greatly

appreciated. They are essential in sickness
and we enjoy them in health. The juices of
the fruits for jelly-making shouldbe reduced
nearly to proper consistency by boiling 20
or 30 minutes, removing the scum; then add

the sugar, boil a few minutes more, and it is»

done. Threefourths pound of sugar to one
pint of juice is enough for most fruits, ex.-
cepting the red currant, which requires one
pound. By this process you do not lose
sugar by skimming it away, the jelly willbe
clearer, lighter colored, and finer flavored.

I would recommend the putting up of
fruit syrups. A few bottles of blackberry,
raspberry, strawberry or other fruit syrups
are very useful and add greatly to the com—
fort of a family. The juice of any good fruit
boiled down, with sufficient sugar to make
it rich enough to keep, is useful in many
ways. It is nice for flavoring sauces and
creams. A tablespoonful in a glass of cold
water makes a delightful beverage when the
mercury is at 96. Such syrups are useful in
preparing relishes for invalids.

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

PLASTER of Paris oraments may be-clean-
ed by covering them with a thick layer of
starch, letting it dry thoroughly, and then
brushing with a stiff brush.

 

SOME of our housekeepers prevent the
formation of mould on jellies by covering
'them as soon as they are cool, with a half-
inch layer of fine dry sugar.

 

To wash a rag carpet, free from dust and

lay on the grass. With a stilf broom scrub-

it well with hot soapsuds: then scrub» it well
with clean hot water, after which: rinse it off
with clear cold water; hang up and. dry.

 

MUCH unnecessary suffering is caused by
allowing the skin of a sick person to become
so tender by constant lying in bed that at
length it breaks, or is literally worn through.

If there is the least redness, or even before

that, if there is fear that the skin may be
tender, touch the places with the white of an
egg beaten to a stiff froth, in which is mixed
two teaspoonfuls of Spirits of wine.

 

THE cleamess of jelly depends upon the-
absolute separation of the pulp from the‘

juice by straining; if the jelly bag of flannel

is dipped in hot water, then Wl‘mlg as dry as :

possible, less juice will be wasted than if
the bag must first become saturated with:
the juice before it can begin to run through.

 

MISS Consort says the simplest preven-
tive of mould on jellies, jams, etc., is a
circle of white paper dipped in brandy, and
an air—tight covering of paper brushed with;
White of egg. Fruits containing many small
seeds are most apt to ferment; the seeds'

being, coated with a silicious substance

which seems to defy the preservative action.
of heat.

 

To PUT a permanent shine—that is one
that will last two or three weeks—011 a cop--

per tank, the New England Farmer ad-»

Vises: Sift through aflour sieve some coal
ashes in which you are sure there are no»
wood ashes mixed. Take a half cup. of sour
milk and dip a cloth in it, and then into the-
sifted ashes, and rub the copper all over,
being sure to touch every part. Wash it
off 'in clear water and wipe dry witlra clean
cloth. Rub the galvanized iron lid W'ithz:
Bristol brick before beginning to rub the
other part, which must not be touched by'
soap at the risk of making spots. This is.
an easy and lasting .way to clean copper.”

 

WE :would be glad to receive tested recipes .

for pickles, catsups, sauces, etc., in time to»
be of value to our housekeepers during the-

season for. putting up such articles.
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A CORRESPONDENT desires to be told the
difference between tapestry and body Brus—-
sels- carpet. In tapestry Brussels the de»
signs are not woven threugh the foundation,
as in body Brussels, and will wear off,.
leaving an unsightly, ugly gray surface. It
is good economy to pay the difference, and.
buy the better quality.

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Useful Recipes.

 

SWEET CRACKERS.—F0ur pounds flour, half
a pound each of loaf sugar and butter, and a
pint and a half of water; add soda and cream.
of tartar, and make as you do soda crackers.

 

BUTTER CRACKERS.—One cup butter, two~
quarts flour, teaspoonful salt. Rub the but--
fer into the flour,wet up with cold water. knead,
thoroughly; pinch off bits of the dough, and.
roll each cracker separately.

 

SODA CRACKERS.—Nine cups flour, one cup-

lard or butter, two teaspoonfuls salt, one of‘
soda, and two of cream of tartar; rub all-.-
thoroughly in the flour, then add two cups of
cold water; mix well and roll thin; prick each.
with a fork and bake quickly. '

 

OATMEAL Cinemas—Sift three cups of oat-
meal and mix it with two cups of rich milk.
Set it in a cool place for six hours. Sift a
cupful of Graham flour with a teaspoonful of

salt and one of baking powder. Work this

into the oatmeal. Roll the dough to the;
thickness of a quarter of an inch and cut into-
squares. Then lay them on a greased tin,
wash the surface of the crackers with
milk, and bake in a moderate oven for about
fifteen minutes, being careful not to let them.
burn.

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