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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

WOMAN ’8 WORK.

 

BY A. H. J.

 

To wash and bake, to mend and make,
And weary steps of toil to take;

To cook and scour, to dust and sweep,
And all the house in order keep.

To rise at morn and o’er and o’er

Do duties done the day before;

And know that in to-morrow’s train
Will come the same things o’er again,
And often to herself to say,

The old, old lines, in weary way'

“ From dawn of day till setting sun
Woman’s work is never done."

To watch and pray, to gladly take
Love’s crosses for Love’s crowning’s sake,
To joy and grieve, to smile and weep;
Her deepest thought in silence keep.
To teach and lead; to hope and trust;
Have hope betrayed as woman must,
To gently chide, to cheer and bless
And bear with patient tenderness
Her burdens all; nor shrink away,
But bravely look ahead and say:

“ From dawn of life till setting sun,
Woman‘s work is never done.”

Tnonss.
-——-—¢o¢-—-—-—
A BUSINESS EDUCATION FOR
GIRLS.

 

Miss Mary Booth, editor of Harper’s
Baza'r, says very truly that it has been a
theory with most of us that education
in books, and according to precedents,
must be obtained, regardless of circum-
stances of life or peculiar aptitude. She
calls this “an unfortunate education,”
and further observes that the fitness of
things is as much to be considered in
education as elsewhere. We are compelled
to admit that a wrong idea of education
still prevails, though the world at large is
gradually being awakened to a truer appre-
hension. Too much reliance is placed
upon books and schools. Parents who
were deprived of educational advantages
during their own youth and have felt their
deficiencies, naturally desire to educate
their children. Unfortunately, their idea
is only of a “book learning,” which a
practical world is now convinced is only
one means to the great end. Just as young
men are finding out that a college educa-
tion is not the best preparation for that
labor which brings in bread—and-butter,
young women are deciding the salvation of
the sex liesin acollegiate course, and with
characteristic “grit,” are hurrying to
obtain it, regardless of what they will do
with it when obtained.

Now, I am not decrying education, its
need or its benefits. Get as much as we
may, we have none too much, and the
more knowledge we have the more deeply

 

is our real ignorance impressed upon us.
But I do wish to say something about one
branch of practical education. The paths
of learning are infinite in number; we can-
not travel them all. We need most those
that will help us best. There is one thing
in which the training of girls, especially. is
sadly neglected, and that is in what might
be called a “business education.” I believe
one of the essential parts of a girl’s educa-
tion is a knowledge of the value of money,
and of the common forms of business law,
by which its circulation is governed. “The
use or abuse of money, its right or wrong
use, is the utmost test of character, and the
root of happiness or misery throughout our
lives,” says a modern writer, a woman
whose experience of life enables her to
speak with precision. Money is a trust, a
great responsibility, yet whatever else we
shirk we are all of us quite ready to assume
its obligations. We never have quite
enough of it, because our desires continually
outstrip our resources. Yet how much of
what we have we spend unwisely!

But how are girls to be taught to expend
money wisely, when they never get it to
handle? asks somebody. “Aye, the're’s the
rub!” The opposite sex have for so long
been the purse-bearer that it seems a
hazardous experiment to most of them, to
unloose the purse strings. The writer
quoted in the preceding paragraph says:
“Was it not intended, in the distribution
of duties between the sexes, that the man
should earn, the woman spend; he accumu-
late, she expend, especially as women
generally have by nature a quality in which
men are often fatally deficient—‘the infinite
capacity for taking trouble.’ ” ‘The
average woman, if she has been taught the
value of money, is more economical than
man, more prudent and saving. I know
more than one home in this city, which is
managed on this principle; the husband’s
earnings are turned over to the wife, who
provides for the needs of the family, and
by her prudent management puts by a little
against the proverbial “rainy day.” But
the women who thus wisely expend the in-
come have learned, by experience, the pos-
sibilities and limitations of money; an
education only to be gained by experience.
To that end, I would, had I daughters, give
them an allowance, a certain stated sum, to
be ,paid weekly or monthly, to be expended
as they saw fit, but requiring of them a
statement of what they had done with it.
To be allowed too great license in the mat—
ter of expenditure, is as bad as to be al-
lowed none at all. Then, as they grew
older, I should accustom them to buying

their own clothing, believing that mother is
in error who makes grown-up babies of her
daughters by always choosing and planning
their wardrobes herself. I should exercise
a slight supervision over their purchases, to
prevent any imposition on their ignorance,
and perhaps advise against a foolish bar-
gain, yet allowing them to feel they alone
were responsible. It is only by practice in
selection, a study of her needs. with
courage to give up what is beautiful but un-
suitable or incongruous, that a girl learns
to spend wisely. She had better learn this
lesson while young, for learn it she must

It is the women who have never had the
handling of money who are recklessly ex-
travagant or improvident if they come into
its possession. 1 have heard of a grown
woman who having earned a. small sum of
money, went to town to make some pur-
chases. She needed shoes, gloves, under-
clothing, and bought—a gold brooch. The
desire to possess the ornament obscured her
pressing needs; had she been accustomed to
expentfing money, she would have chosen
more judiciously.

The second and not less important point
I consider instruction in ordinary business
forms, such as how to write a receipt, make
out a bill, draw a note or check, keep ac—
counts, etc. I waited ten minutes one day
for a woman,——a bright, intelligent little
woman, too—to make out a receipted bill
of several items. After several failures she
pettishly tore up her last attempt, and
said, “Do make it out yourself and I’ll
sign it!” In the postoffice the other day a
young woman asked me to show her how to
fill out a money order blank, after carpet-
ing the floor with her failures, and really,
she required as much instruction as a child
of ten years ought. I would have girls
taught all such things, for that is indeed a.
secure, sheltered life, into which the need
of such knowledge does not at some time
enter. ,

How much more competent is a girl
brought up to know the uses of money, and
the forms governing the ordinary business
transactions of life, to become the intelli-
gent manager of the family income when
she marries! She is competent to make a
given sum “go further” than a man pos-
sibly can, because of her “infinite capacity
for taking trouble,” whereas a man usually
disdains to practice the small economies;
he deals with larger interests and sums
seem relatively less to him than to her.
The young girl, just married, assumes her
new right to her husband’s pocket—book
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“mine” nor “thine,” but only “ours,"
she must exercise her trust judiciously, and
convince her husband that his earnings
will not be frittered away for whatever she
happens to fancy at the moment, regardless
of present necessities and future needs.
And let me tell you, girls, a great deal of
your future happiness and prosperity, not
to speak of convenience, will depend on
how you begin in this very important par-
ticular. Assume your right without hesi-
tancy or reluctance; regard‘ it as a. trust you
are to discharge to your mutual advantage
for the common good, convince him of
your ability and good judgment, and the
“money question” will be solved, unless
he is “tight as the bark to a tree,” in
which case you should have discovered it
and declined his proposal. .

You fathers, with girls growing up around
you, do not expect them to work hard for
their food and shelter, and feel you do your
duty by “giving them a home.” They
work for your interests, and deserve a share
of your income. Be just to them; trust
them with what they have rightfullyearned,
and teach them, as well as your sons, how
to take care of property. There would be
fewer extravagant, wasteful women, fewer
unhappy homes, if girls could have the
same advantages in training and business
habits that men have. BEATRIX.

 

MOTHERLESS GIRLS.

 

Motherless Girls! Do we ever stop to
think of the full import of these words?
Many girls and many women know only
too well. To those who have not been
bereft of a mother, the words have but a
slight significance compared with those who
have suffered the loss. When a girl loses
her mother she loses her most faithful
friend, the one who loves her with a love
akin to the Divine; she loses affection,
sympathy, guidance, and companionship
which can never be supplied. When a girl
loses her mother during childhood, she
grows up without the tender caresses and
uncounted endearments that make child-
hood bright and happy. She may fall
among kind friends, be kindly cared for
and grow up a happy girl, and become a
brave, self-reliant woman; her friends may
be kind and true, still she does not receive
the same heartfelt love that a mother gives.
I have seen amother seemingly very near the
gates of death; her sufferings were so great
that it seemed it would be merciful to let
her “pass through,” but the mother-love

' was so strong that she clung to life for her

children’s sake. Between the paroxysms
of pain and suffering, she would call for
her little ones, and would not be satisfied
until every one was brought to her bedside,
where she could see them. The little girls
would stand beside her with tears running
down their faces and say “Mamma, are you
better?” and during her spasms of pain
they would be terrified and constantly ex-
claim to the attendants, “Will mamma die?”
It carried me back to my own lonely child-
hood, to the time when I stood by the bed-
side and saw my dearest earthly friend die.

Many girls do not have kindred to care
for them, but are thrown among strangers,
and grow up without any care except to get

   

as much work out of them as possible.
When they are young they are taken to take

care of children smaller than themselves,

and as they grow older they are made useful

doing housework. These girls have many

opportunities'of comparing their lives with

those of girls having homes and tender,

loving mothers. If girls with mothers some-

times go astray, what pity and charity

should Christian women show to the erring
motherless ones! Christian mothers, when
you look upon your bright, happy girls,

safely sheltered in your homes and sur-
rounded by your love and protection, give
kind words and true friendship to the
motherless ones. I believe many girls
might be saved from a life of shame if they
were made to feel that they had some true
friend who really, truly cared for them. I
find by inquiry that the majority of the girls
at the Industrial School at Adrian are
those who have lost their mothers.

It is not only in childhood and young
womanhood that a mother is missed, but all
through life. When a girl marries and
makes a home of her own, how blest is she
if she has a true mother to visit her, and
encourage and advise her in her new re-
lations! I believe many girls have died
young, of home-sickness and longing for
mother’s love, when they have gone away
so far, and adverse circumstances have pre-
vented the mothers from going to them, or
their return to the old home. If girls
who have mothers miss them so much when
they go from home, how dreary is the lot of
those who have lost them, and know that
the heart longing can never be satisfied.

OLD SCHOOL TEACHER.

'I‘ncuxsau. -—-—«o———

A MAN’S IDEA OF A WOMANLY
WOMAN.

 

I have thought for some time that I would
like to thank the different contributors to
the HOUSEHOLD for the pleasure I have
derived from their articles, and as they
have invited the men to take part in the
discussions, I will send my ideal of a
womanly woman. .

One beautiful morning in early summer
there came to teach our school a girl of
sixteen years. After seating us and looking
over our books, she said to us little ones:
“Now you may go to your play till I call
you.” The next day, as the morning wore
away, she did not invite us togo out to play
and we began to whisper among ourselves,
who should go and ask permission. Being
urged by my playmates I tiptoed up to her
and made our wishes known. She smiled, -
and said, “ Why, I supposed little boys
came to school to learn.” “ Yes," said I,
“but we would rather play.” “ Well, I’ll
tell you what we will do; if you will give
me a kiss you may go, and your playmates
also; and I will ask your folks, and if they
are willng you shall play every day after
your lessons are done.” It is needless to
say she got the kiss, and we had many
happy play-times. Subsequently a warm
friendship grew up between us and our
teacher, and with our own family, a friend-
ship of years. That summer was the one of
the most pleasant of my childhood. Years
passed by and she married a manly young
man, athletic and handsome, but for some

 

strange reason, after they had a nice little
family growing up around them, he spent
far too much of his time at the saloons, and
finally they lost their home. Although
sorely tried, not one word of complaint did
she utter, no reproach to or of him she
loved. They have started to build a home
again, and I believe they will do it. And if
not, she’ll be a noble woman still.

ALMON'I‘. GEORGE.

SAVING THE MOMENT-S.

 

Some one did this work before I was
born; some one will do it after I am dead;
is there no way to secure at least a part of
my small span of life from its iron grip?
Is there no way to secure bodily comfort to
my children without sacrificing every atten-
tion to their mental needs? Is there no
way to aid my husband in his efforts to
secure a competency, and retain for himthe
quiet and pleasure of a well ordered home,
without erasing all trace of culture in my-
self, and crushing every need of my higher
nature? Not that I despise these homely
duties; I like them and enjoy doing them,

and only complain because they monopolize ‘

allthe time. Like Brutus of old, while I
love them no less, I love “ Rome more,”
and make my moan because the oft recurr—
ing dishes and meals, shut out the fresh air,
sunshine, music and books. This wail of
mine is not a solo, but a chorus which goes
up from the hearts of thousands of women,
some of whom can not afford the expense
of help, others who can not find it, and
many who from the habit of years cling to
their own ways and that privacy of home
which we all know suffers such a breach
when a stranger enters it. With all these
the question of lightening the inevitable
tasks is an all important one, and they must
not wait for any great gain, but secure a
little here, a little there, and keep their
eyes open for more. ,

Not long ago a new idea popped into my
brain while making up my beds, and since
then, instead of wearing the fancy pillow
and sheet shams of anti-children days, the
coverings are left nicely turned down so
that their sleepy tenants can creep in alone,
and a nightly journey to open the beds is
saved. A stranger seldom enters my room,
and should one do so, surely good sense
would spare criticism, or the lack of it
would render her remarks of no weight.
There really seems to be but one wayto
save washing and that is to wear dirty
clothes, but the labor may be lightened very
much by the use of machines, good soap,
and the purchasing of a light grade of cot-
ton—unbleached as A. L. L. recommended,
wears longer and washes easier than the
bleached, and even here the law of gain
and loss appears, for I find that heavy
sheets are heavier to wash but easier to
iron than light. With a young babe I can-
cel the item of a daily towel by using a
clean soft diaper in its place; and find that
print aprons starched slightly and ironed
on the wrong side can be turned off more
rapidly than gingham, and sometimes
murmur, when I see how well they wear
and hold color—“What do the wild waves
say? Indigo blue for children always at
play.”

 

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creeping babes hereabouts, but find that it
fades badly and does not wear as well as
calico. In an extreme case of “tomboyism”
I think I should make up denim to save
patching. Well fitted and perhaps trimmed
a little it would look neat enough. A
friend of mine, who was an incorrigible,
was called in one day to put on a new
apron of this material. It had been made
up with some misgivings over its reception,
but once buttoned on, she felt of its texture
and exclaimed joyously, “ Oh, now I won’t
have to stop to unhitch.” So far as chil-
dren’s skirts and underclothes are con-
cerned, I think a woman liberally educated
when she can look upon a garment which is
clean and whole as sufficiently trimmed; for
I know she can not reach that point with-
out considerable effort to restrain a native
love of embroidery and ruffles.

Time can be gained in cooking sufficient
vegetables for two meals; potatoes, string
beans, dried corn, cabbage when chopped
and, stewed, and several other things, are
just as good if not better when “warmed
over.” By all these mentioned slights, one
will not gain much time; at first glance the
fewmoments hardly look worth saving, but
if putting all together, one gains enough to
read a story or two from Babyland to her
hungry-minded, bright-faced little ones, to
stroll idly out into the woods or orchard
with them, to gossip a little harmless gossip
with her neighbor, or to lie on her couch in
perfect rest for half an hour, that very
break may give her a world of pleasure and
perhaps—who knows—keep her out of a
state of invalidism or our crowded insane

asylnms. A. H. J.

Tnoxas.
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THE RIGHTS OF SOCIETY.

 

The question, What has Society—with a
cap 8, good Mr. Compositor, if you please—
a right to expect of us, has been suggested
to me by the talk about “ Womenly Wo-
men” in previous issues, and by Old
Schoolteacher’s and Evangalme’s letters in
the HOUSEHOLD of Aug 24. We are taught our
duty to God and our neighbor in the cate-
chism, but what do we owe that great en-
tirety we call Society, which includes not
alone our neighbors and acquaintances,
strictly speaking, but also those whom we
meet casually, those who know of us but
whom we may not know personally, who
are strangers yet nevertheless giving and re-
ceiving impressions ? What do we owe So-
ciety, and how shall we pay the debt ?

That a pure and upright life is the first
great demand, “ goes without saying.” We
all know and acknowledge that. And the
next great virtue is, in my estimation, toler-
ance of the opinions and sincere convictions
of others. Two‘thirds of the trouble in the
world is due to the pig-headed—that’s not
an elegant word, but it is very expressive
—obstinacy which leads us to assume our
opinions must be right, and persecute others
because they differ with IS. It is said no
one persons sees material objects ex-
.actly as another sees them; so difier-
ing mental and psychological condi-
tions inevitably cause a divergence of
opinion on psychical matters. Naturally,
those of similar views will find themselves

.most in sympathy, but why attack others

 

whose views may be the outcome of as earn-
est thought, as good logic, as truea purpose,
as our own ? We do not relish assult on our
own convictions; opposition, ridicule,
assault, only intensify our allegiance; every
argument brings a rebuttal. Cannot we re-
cognize this peculiarity of human nature in
others, and act upon it? We must all agree
upon the great laws of right and wrong;
they are so plain that none can fail to com-
prehend them: why must we quarrel so per-
sistently about the particulars, the minor de-
tails ? I think Macauley pays as high a
tribute of praise as the historian can bestow,
when the Jacobite bishop, Ken,deposed from
his bishopric because of his refusal to take
the oath of fealty to the Prince of Orange, is
mentioned as passing “ a happy and honored
old age, after his deposition, during which
he never regretted the sacrifices he had made
to what he thought his duty, and yet con-
stantly became more and more indulgent to
those whose views of duty differed from his.’ ’
No arrogant assumption that his opinions
were right, all others wrong, but a generous
acknowledgment that though he had acted
as he believed he ought, others, from their
point of view and reasoning, might see
their duty in another way, and be justified
in following that way.

Sincerity—“a character which corres-'

ponds to the appearance”—we own
to Society, also. In our intercourse
with our friends, we need not pro-
fess more regard for them than we feel,
because we think our cordiality will please;
yet we may say all we feel, if it will make
our friends happier; and best of all, we can
be silent if what we would say would offend
or wound. It is one thing to feel what you
say, quite another to say what you feel.
The latter is often not demanded of us.
Frankness and sincerity are synonyms in
the dictionary, yet I think the former is
often, in some people’s lexicons, only an-
other name for rudeness, a cloak to enable
them to say spiteful and ill-tempered things
which they expect will not be resented, be-
cause they have established a reputation for
saying them, 2'. e. “being frank.” Polite-
ness may be “conventional,” insincere, a
“mask for hypocrisy” but it is preferable
to such “sincerity.” It is the “bumper”
which keeps the atoms of humanity from
jarring against each other; it is the cushion
which makes the world comfortable, it dis-
tinguishes civilization from savagery, it is
the foundation of all social amenities; and
ought to be cultivated as a virtue, and as
another of our duties to Society.

I believe Society has a right to demand
that a man shall not eat pie with his knife;
on the principle that he has no moral right
to commit any deed which disturbs, dis-
tresses or alarms his neighbors. In other
words, we owe to Society that observance
of her forms and ceremonies which we call
good manners.

I also affirm that Society has a right to
expect us to dress as well as circumstances
and position demand, in a manner suitable
to our years and occupation at the time
being. We. owe it not less to the public
than to ourselves to make ourselves attrac-
tive, outwardly as well as inwardly, as the
sparkle of a gem is evidence of its intrinsic
merit. We should be what we seem, and

 

always seem to be the best we can. A man
may be just as good inadirty shirt as a
clean one, but he don’t look it. A woman’s
heart may be as pure and true under a ‘
ragged dress, but it need not beat less
nobly under a better one if she can get it.
And it may be justly demanded of us all
that we be “womanly women.” And what
is awomanly woman? One whose law of
life is love. That includes it all. Under
that law she is patient, gentle, kind, un-
selfish, charitable to humanity’s failures as
well as its physical needs, self-reliant, but
not self-assertive unless needs be; forgiv-
ing, yet not condoning the sin for the sin-
ner’s sake, with lips that never carry
slander, and a heart too noble for malice; a
woman “whose soul leadeth us upward
and on.” Such an one can be safely
trusted to decide for herself, from con-
science and right judgment, how much
she will endure, how much she will for.
bear, before calling upon the courts to re-
lease her from vows she feels sacred, and
not less sacred because another has broken
them; and whether she asks her freedom
or patiently endures, she is ever the same,

the truly womanly woman.
BEATRIX.

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A HOUSEKEEPER’S EX PERIENCB

 

IfA. H. J. will have aload of coarseclean
gravel deposited within sight of her kitchen
door, and furnish the little ones with some
old iron spoons, she will find it a great help
in taking care of the children; they never
tire of it and do not get their aprons very
dirty. I find that the cover of a superannu-
ated butter-tub makes the nicest kind of a
tray for cutting bread upon, leaving no
crumbs to be cleaned up; they are also nice
for meats.

We have such a nice flower bed this dry
summer, due to kitchen slops. Everything
that does not belong to the pigs goes to the
flowers; thus we dispose of a nuisance and
the flower bed is a veritable thing of beauty.

I find it an improvement in childrens’
underwaists to have stays lengthwise in-
stead of a belt; they wear better and admit
of several rows of buttons. ,

Will some one suggest a good receptacle
for keeping the table salt from the changes
of the atmosphere.

Perhaps Old School Teacher can tell me
what to do with plug hats. My better half
has got beyond such follies; they are not
suitable for the poor; our dray men are sup-
plied—besides they wear white ones—now,
as John B. Gough said, “they are not like
unto anything in heaven or earth.” If
some one will tell me how I will decorate
them and set them up for household gods a
little while. These many years have I kept
them and never used them but once, and
that was when a hard storm came up while
the men had the roof off the house; in my
hurry to save my own best bib and tucker,
I reversed them—the hats—and they did
good service holding water for a time.

I have tried the cotton batting process
with fruit with perfect success in cold
weather. This summer I determined to try
it during the heated term. June 26 I put up a
lot of cherries, some in Mason cans, sealing
as usual, others in cans sealed with cotton
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side by side in the cellar. July 26 those in
self-sealing cans were perfect; the others
were spoiled. The fruit did not ferment,
however, but formed such a very nasty
mould which spoiled the contents Of the
can.
I tried pickling small ears of corn, as re-
commended in the HOUSEHOLD; they are
just beautiful. The recipe for cucumber
pickle, given Aug. 3rd, is very nice indeed.
The recipe for hard soap given by Aunt
Lucy June 15, gives excellent soap, as
white as Ivory if the grease is\clean.
HOWELL. Mas. W. J. G.

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LITTLE THINGS.

 

It is the little things in this world that
are of the greatest importance, and yet the
most neglected. What meaning in the
words “Little-drops of water; little grains
of sand,” as applied to training the child
in his youth, and mastering the little weeds
while they are young and tender! But our
eyes are large, our minds grasping; it is the
big apple the boy wants, the big farm the
man must have; it is the big elephant we
rush to see, the wide world over. To save
the pennies is too small a business in these
days of style and splendor. How.often
are the children of well-todo parents
brought up with their every want supplied,
their minds tutored for things that are
great; and when the old folks pass away,
and they are left to themselves, how soon
they are “down at the heel,” because
economy was despised and little things
allowed to take care of themselves. The
little things are the best; they grow larger,
they give more pleasure in the end; the
little nuts are the sweetest, the little flowers
the brightest; and our little children we
love more than all the world beside. Let
us try to know how to love them.

PLAINWELL. ANTI-OVER.
—-———“—____.
OLD SCHOOL TEACHER’S CONUN-
DRUM.

 

Many times dining the two years that I
have been a reader of our excellent HOUSE-
HOLD, I have been tempted to take part in
the discussions, which have been of vital
interest to me as well as to all the wives
and mothers of our great State. But Old
School Teacher’s last question has proved
too much for me to resist. What should a
womanly woman do whose husband refuses
to pay the extra twenty-five cents for the
HOUSEHOLD? Why, she should say “Hus-
band, if you take the FARMER we must have
the Supplement.” If she has not strength
of will or persuasive power enough to induce
him to change his decision, then she
should write the order herself and enclose
the required amount, even if she is obliged
to extract it from her husband’s pocket. It
would be no more stealing than it is to eat
from her own cupboard when she is hungry.

Oh, how my heart cries out against the
slavery that is going on all over this
blessed free country! I have a neighbor
who is a miserable slave to a beastly man
she calls husband. But that is not the
worst of it. She has a family of children
who are growing up in an atmosphere that is
fairly blue with profanity, vulgarity and

Christian parents toward such families? We
do not like toteach our little ones that neigh-
bor ’5 children are desperately wicked
and not fit play fellows for them; nor do
we like to hear from our own darlings’ lips
the coarse or perhaps profane expressions
which they learn so readily from their com-

panions. AUNT SUE.
MASON.

 

Until I heard of the instance Old School
Teacher mentions, I did not suppose there
was a man in the State of Michigan so
stingy that he would refuse his wife so
small a sum as twenty-five cents for any
purpose whatever, least of all to enable her
to share with him in the benefits received
from a good newspaper. I cannot conceive
how a man with a soul as large as a grain
of mustard seed could deny so slight a
pleasure to the mother of his children, the
faithful partner in his business. Nor do I
understand how a woman could submit to
such gross injustice, such selfish disregard
of her rights and privileges as wife. Should
she submit? No! Let her tell him her
right to the HOUSEHOLD is as good as his
to the FARMEB, and that she proposes to
have it. If he still refuses, let her “strike;”

“no work till the bosses surrender.”
DETROIT. L. C.

 

HOUSEHO LD HINTS.

 

NEARLY every patent washing fluid con-
tains turpentine as one of the chief detur-
gents. But the constant use of such fluids
affects the joints Of the washwoman as
rheumatism does, the pains being the same.
It is safest to avoid the use of such pre-
parations unless you are informed of what
they are composed.

 

THE texture of the lamp-wick has not a
little to do with the cleamess, evenness and
brilliancy of the flame. Examine the wicks,
and choose those of firm, even texture, well
woven, and with the threads of uniform
fineness. With such wicks, and a clean
burner and chimney, your kerosene lamp
will give you a clear uniform light, worth
the trouble you take, for a bright light in
the sitting—room at evening tends to make
everybody comfortable.

 

A Pm that is properly baked will slip from
the tin with careful handling, and if placed
on a Wire frame where the air has access to
the bottom it will cool without becoming
moist, and when ready to be served it can
be transferred to a plate. One of the wire
frames on which meat is Often placed in the
roasting—pan will answer very well and the
cost is trifling.

 

BLEMISHES on Velvet that will result from
the falling of a rain-drop may be removed
by steaming the goods and passing it over
hot iron. Then with a delicate brush touch
the nap. Moistened by the vapor the pile
can be raised and the smooth appearance of
the nap restored. This is the method used
by milliners in restoring ladies’ bonnets. It
can be equally well done at home.

 

A GOOD many times we have seen the
following remedy for summer complaint,

 

tobacco smoke. Now what is the duty of

and always with the endorsement of some
mother who had tried it and found it bene-
ficial. We are inclined to believe there
must be “something in it.” Tie a quantity
of dry flour tightly in a bag and boil it for a
long time. When it has become a hard
lump, let it cool, scrape it fine, and thicken
the milk with it. Dilute the milk with a
little lime water. Raw arrow-root is some-
times recommended for the same purpose. a
teaspoonful in a wine-glass of sweetened
water. '

 

THE cheapest and best way of drying
fruit, says an exchange, is to lay it on
lengths of cheese cloth, suspended in a
frame out of doors, in full sun, with white
mosquito netting over to keep off shreds and
insects. This allows the air to reach both
sides of the fruit at once, and when you
want to tin'n it the whole can be swung over
on another cloth, leaving the first ready for
a new batch. Apples should be pared.
cored and cut in eight pieces. Peaches
should not, be pared, for the richest flavor is
lost with the skin. They should have the
fur removed by dipping baskets of them a
moment into weak, boiling lye of wood
ashes or common potash and wipping with
coarse towels. Common peaches only need
to be cut in halves to dry. We had
peaches dried in this way last winter, which,
when cooked, would be hard to tell from
the 'best canned peaches in looks, with
richer flavor.

_._..._____

Useful Recipes.

 

BAKED TOMATOES.—-Take whole tomatoes,
cut out the stem end, and place in a pan with
this'side up; set in an oven and bake an hour.
and season with butter, salt and pepper mixed
together; put a piece the size of a chestnut in
each tomato, after dishing them, leaving all
the juice that may have cooked out of them

. in the pans, as there is always enough left in

the tomatoes. These are excellent for any
meal.

 

TOMATO JELLY.—Add the grated peel of a
lemon to each pound of tomatoes; cook slow«
ly till they cook to pieces and strain through
a jelly bag. Add the juice of one lemon and
a pound of sugar for each pound of juice.
Boil to a thick jelly and put up in glasses.

 

RED CABBAGE PICKLE.-—A pickle which will
keep a few weeks, and which is very appetiz-
ing, and will help to save the other more ex-
pensive pickles, is made of red cabbage-
Choose firm heads, cut them into quarters.
and after removing the stalk cut the cabbage
across into very thin slices; spread it on large
platters, scatter salt with a liberal hand over
it. The next day drain through a colander.
Then put the cabbage into a jar, and pour
vinegar heated to the boiling point over it;
some whole black pepper, and if you choose, a
little cayenne pepper or curry powder or gin-
ger may be put into the vinegar and be heat-
ed with it.

 

GRAPE JELLY.—~TO every eight pounds of
partially ripe grapes allow a coffee-cupful of
water. Put the grapes into a porcelain-lined
kettle and cook till soft. Strain through a
jelly-bag; measure the juice and allow an
equal quantity of sugar. Boil the juice half
an hour; add the sugar and let boil five or

 

the malady so fatal to very young children,

eight minutes.

  
  
   
  
  
   
   
  
   
 
  
   
   
   
   
  
 
 
  
 
  
   
    
   
   
  
   
 
 
   
   
 
  
  
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
   
   
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
    
   
   
    
  
  
  
   
  
 
  
  
     
  
  
 

 

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