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DETROIT, NOVEMBER 9, 1886.

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-“Supplement.

 

LITTLE THINGS.

 

The memory of a kindly word
For long gone by.

The fragrance of a fading flower
Sent lovingly,

The gleaming of a sudden smile
Or sudden tear,

The warmer pressure of the hands

The tone of cheer,

The hush that means, “ I cannot speak
But I have heard l"

. The note that only bears a verse

From God’s own Word;

Such tiny things we hardly count
As ministry;

The givers deeming they have shown
Scant sympathy;

But when the heart is overwrought,
0h, who can tell,

The power of such tiny things
To make it well.

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HOUSEWORK AN D GIRLS.

 

How pleasant the words sound in my ear,
and ever will with the knowledge I have of
practical life. I wish to ask the young lady
readers of the HOUSEHOLD if they intend to
marry; if so, let me give you a few friendly
hints. Don’t neglect lessons in the kitchen
if you wish to complete your education. No
wife is fit to become a wife and mother un-
til she knows how to preside at the head of
her establishment. I cannot agree with
Honor Glint that it sinks one in the social
scale and gives no chance for mental culture;
as many of our dear lady friends would be
hopelessly lost to good society, who are
bright and shining stars leading others on
to industry and virtue.

The talented Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin while superin—
tending the baking of pies, cakes, and pud-
dings in her own home, and I listened not
long ago to a poem written by a lady who
does her own work most of the year. The
idea is so impressed upon the girls’ minds
that it is degrading to do general housework
they will manage every way to dodge it. I
believe every girl should be taught certain
branches of housework, no matter what vc-
cation she chances to follow in life. To be
a true woman is to occupy her allotted
sphere with gentleness and intelligence and
grace.

I also beiieve in the adage “ where there’s
a will there’s a way,” that a portion of your
time can be set apart for helping that loving
patient mother who is toiling on every day
with failing strength. Don’t make a drudge
of her, expecting she will always be at your
side to help through the trials of life. I ad-
mire self—reliant women as well as anyone.
but cases have come under my observation

 

many times where those fitted for teaching
common schools, music, painting and draw-
ing, and clerking in stores who, if any mem—
ber of the family were sick, could not make
a decent dish of gruel, but they will marry
and place themselves in a dependant po-
sition at last. Somebody must regulate our
homes and who is the most competent if not
the intelligent lady of refinement and moral
courage who dares defy the popular prejudice
of the day, and never be ashamed to place
herself on equality with that much abused
class called housekeepers. I hope to hear
from others of the girls on this subject.

AUNT POLLY.
MASON.

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HOW SHALL WE MEET?

 

They leave us in the morning—our loved
ones—the husband going to town. or into
the field to begin the day’s work, the little
children with clean faces and neatly combed
hair, with dinner basket and books off for
school, the good father and mother who
have been to see us, and made a good visit
and we stand and watch them as they drive
out of the yard, and up the road, looking
back to wave a “good bye” to us as far as
they can see. Sometimes we part with
bitter words and lowering faces, sisters who
for some imaginary wrong will not visit
each other; husbands and wives who feel,
there is a gulf between, but can scarcely
trace the beginning, mother and son
estranged through business transactions. As
we turn each to go a different way, does the
thought ever come, “How shall we meet?”
The eyes may be closed in death, the voice
forever stilled. We may always mourn
that we had not said one little word
“ forgive,” “ forget!” how easy it is to
say, how hard to do. “ Let not the sun go
down on thy wrath.” It is only a foolish
pride that keeps so many estranged. Life
is all too short to live at variance with our
loved ones. Can we not imitate the Master
who prayed “Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do?”

“ Ah! haw could our spirits e’er hope for the
s 1es
If Heaven refused to forgive and forget.”

We cannot look upon the heart; we judge
people a great deal by their manner, their
words, and, too, we often find we have been
grossley deceived. The flattering tongue,
suave manner, and bland smile are used to
accomplish a purpose, and once attained
the mask is thrown aside, and we see the
real character revealed. Those whom we
love the best often hurt us the most. It
is not best to remember a wrong, to hold a.
grudge. There has an instance of this kind

 

come to my notice recently. It is the act
of a wife whose husband obtained a divorce
from her some fifteen years ago; since that
time he married again and parted from her.
He became very sick and his first wife
came and took the tenderest care of him
and closed his eyes in death. Only those
who know her, and know how she has
been wronged and abused, can understand
what an unselfish, noble woman she is.
Think you when they last saw each other,
that he thought there was such love and
faithfulness, that she could forgive and for-
get, and come back and be with him in his
last sickness—-that her eyes would be the
last ones he would look into? Probably
not. We do not always know who our best
friends are, we often turn from the tried
and true for new ones, and find, when too
late, that we have missed it.

Never leave home without a kind word;
it may be the last we will ever speak there,
and it will leave a pleasant remembrance.
How hard it is to bear, when the one we
love best, instead of loving words and en-
dearing names and tender caresses shows
perfect indifference, harsh fault finding,
cruel treatment! The view we take of life
depends very much upon our surroundings.

We are doing a great wrong when we,

destroy the harmonious atmosphere of home.
It is here we should bring our fairest,
brightest offerings; a home that is a home
will always be remembered and looked back
to with affection. How eagerly the children
return when school is over; when they
have homes of their own, they love to
come back with their children, going from
room to room to see if anything is differ-
ent, telling over again all the pleasant in-
cidents of childhood. Some children are
cast adrift, with cold, harsh words, and
the expectation of never meeting again;
how terrible to turn away from our own
flesh and blood, sending them out into an
unfriendly world! Husband and wife so
often forget the love they gave each other;
distrust and suspicion creep in; little by
little they grow apart, neither can really
tell just when the coldness began, when a
kind word might mend the whole matter.
They part without a good bye, meet with-
out a word of welcome; but there will
surely come a time when what is dark will
be made plain to us, the shadows will be
lifted and we shall see the light; though
the burden has been heavy, it will roll
from our shoulders easily

"' If we err in human blindness
And forget that we are dust;

If we miss the law of kindness
When we struggle to be just,
Snowy wings of peace shall cover
All the plain that hides away,

When the weary watch is over
And the mists have rolled away.”

BATTLE CREEK. EVANGALINE.

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

 

A MOTHER’S COUNSEL.

 

1 am very much interested in our little
paper, and have intended expressing my
opinions on the various subjects which have
been discussed therein, but I am a very
busy woman, one of the old fashioned sort
who believe in rag carpets, patchwork
quilts and homespun yarn.

I like to do all kinds of fancy work and
to see my daughters interested in such
things too, but they must first learn to knit
their own stockings, and darn them nicely
when they need mending. I have no
patience with mo.hers who bring up their

irls in ignorance of all useful work, as
many do in these days. There are few
girls who can make their own dresses, ,al—
though they make such lovely table scarfs
and banners in embroidery, and paint
panels in Kensington painting as it is
called.

It has got to be the custom to buy every
article ready made that can be bought, and
to hire the rest made. Now this is all
right where there is plenty of money to buy
with, but farmers who have no income but
that derived from their farms find it
hard work to supply the needs of their
families, when all farm produce brings
such low prices as at the present time. It
it a great blessing to the overworked
mother who has every thing to do alone for
afamily of little ones, to be able to buy
ready made garments, but where there are
several girls in the family who are old
enough, they should be taught to do all
kinds of useful work. It is not difficult
with a little practice; the patterns can now
be bought to make one’s own dresses, and
the money saved in this way will pay for
all papers, magazines and good books the
family can read during the year.

I am glad the subject of parents being
interested in their children’s studies has
been brought to our notice. It is aston-
ishing how little interest many take in this
matter. I was spending an afternoon at a
neighbor’s some time ago, and asked her
about the boys’ studies; she has a boy the
age of one of mine, and she made me this
reply: “I don’t know any thing about it;
we furnish books and send our children to
school, and expect the teachers to see that
they learn. I have no time to bother with
them.” Now this lady was ateacher be-
fore she married, and a good one; and I
should have thought she would have known
how much more interest children take in
their studies when they find their parents
know just how far they have worked in
every study, and are ready to help and ex—
plain any question or example they do not
understand. When our oldest boy com-
menced book-keeping it was a study I
knew nothing about, but when he brought
home his books, and would work at making
out the bills and getting them ready to enter
in the blank books, I was always ready to
help him, and when I failed, as I did in
making out the bills of lumber and timber
for houses and sidewalks, his father was
ready to lend a helping hand. I always
teach my children to read and spell before
they are sent to school at all, and when
they get discouraged and begin to cry. say-
ing, “I can’t learn this lesson,” I just

 

throw my work, take them on my lap, kiss
the tears away, and hold them until the
lessons are learned and recited, and then
send them to their play.

Parents expect teachers to take great
interest in their children, and so they
ought, and I would suggest that parents
take a little more interest in the teacher.
When a teacher comes into your district, if
she is a stranger call on her, and invite her
to come and spend the night with you. It
is not customary for teachers to board
around any more. Sometimes we have
teachers who try to have the children
“write compositions and speak pieces,” as
it is commonly called in country schools,
and in this they get but little support from
many parents. They do not seem to see
any need of the practice, and will make no

effort to encourage and help their children-

to find suitable pieces to learn, or subjects
to write about. I always am interested in
this, and hear my children’s recitations
over and over again until they have them
perfectly. I was proud of my eight-year-
old boy when he stood before me and
recited “Paul Revere’s Ride” and at an-
other time “Barbara Freitchie.” The
study of such poems leaves an impression
on a child’s mind, different .from a silly
little scraps picked up anywhere. Children
should not be allowed to read any book they
please. I think the “Dotty Dimple”
books and “Little Prudy” series are ex-
cellent reading for children. I have read
them over time and again to my restless
little ones before they could read for them-
selves, and after them Louisa M. Alcott’s
books. Children never tire of them, they
are always new, and I getjust as interested
in them as the children do. Who that loves
boys would ever tire of “ Little Men?”
ROMEO. MRS H. A.

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PU PI LS AN D PARENTS.

 

Only this morning I thought “I wish
Beatrix would tell us something about
cloaks,” and when I opened the HOUSE-
HOLD ” I saw the desired article. There
was only one point more that I wanted to
know, and that was, where shall a stranger
in Detroit look for cloaks?

I, too, am a teacher and can sympathize
with “Wild Rose.” The good students
almost invariably come from the educated
familes. If father and mother are well
bred, the children usually will do fair or
good work in school.

I often have occasion to wonder why it
is that parents do not teach their children
that politeness is just as essential in school
as at home. I often see children, or rather
young ladies and gentlemen behave very
rudely in school, who I know have had
good training, 2'. 6., they know how to be—
have, but the training does not go so far as
to include their conduct at school. It is a
common experience to a teacher to have a
boy or girl whisper, or make other dis-
turbance while she is talking, when they
would not be guilty of such rudeness any-
where else. If parents took more interest
in the education of their children, I am
sure they would be rewarded by better re-
sults.

I wish parents could realize‘how desir-
able it is to cultivate the reading habit in

 

their children. I believe one who has a
taste for good reading, has one of the
greatest safeguards against temptation.
The spirit of unrest seems to be growing
more and more prevalent. How many
boys and girls can be content if they have
to remain home during the week? They
must have in View a social here, a party
there, a prayer meeting one night, and a
social time with friends another. It mat-
ters little where they go, but go they must.
I do not advocate keeping children in too
closely, but I do think they should learn
the pleasure of a quiet evening at home,
and learn to have some resources within
themselves, and not depend entirely on
outside amusements.

Here is a recipe for potato yeast, which
we have found satisfactory. Grate five
large potatoes, add two tablespoons of salt,
three of flour and half a cup of sugar. Turn
on this a quart of boiling water in which
has been boileda handful of hops. Put on
the stove and stir constantly till very thick.
When lukewarm add a cupful of yeast or
a little sponge made from yeast cakes.
This will keep three or four weeks.

I wish Beatrix would tell us about pretty
things for Christmas early enough so that
we, who have very little time, could make
a few things at least, for Christmas.

LAPEER. M.

[The principal and most reliable dealers
in ready-made cloaks in this city are
Taylor & Woolfenden, Newcomb & Endi-
cott, Heyn’s and Mabley’s Bazars, and
Metcalf & CO. John R. Campbell & Co.
also carry a good line of such garments
this season. If one wishes an elegant
cloak, or fine furs, we can recommend
Newland & Co; as carrying the finest goods
and being perfectly l‘ellable.—HOUSEHOLD
ED.

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FROM A NEW COMER.

 

 

The Editor’s call for “more copy” has
been ringing in my mind all the morning.
Could I see any of the HOUSEHOLD read-
ers and talk with them, I could tell them a
good many of my plans; but the idea of
writing them out makes them seem of little
value to me, and I think I had better not
undertake it. But if all the readers thought
so, and acted accordingly, what would be—
come of our little visitor, that we all think
so much of? I have been a constant
reader of it since its existence, and would
dislike to do without it very much.

To—day I have raked and cleaned the
yards, the back yard as well as the front, in
addition to the housework. I have a place
where I can throw the refuse, such as
feathers, old boards, boots, shoes and hats
too, briers, anything that will cremate, for
I do dislike to see a yard strewn with such
rubbish, and as soon as there is any of
account I set fire to it, and all there is left
of itis a pile of ashes the rains will wash
hard, or if dry make a nice place for hens
to work in.

I would ask the ladies if they ever used
pieces of cotton flannel, left of garments,
not good for anything else, for lamp wicks.
Fold them the width of the burner and run
together just to hold to place; they are very
good. AUNT LOA.

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CHAT.

 

I wonder if the lady who writes from
Northern Michigan is not lonely? Perhaps
she does not live six miles from the post-
office and two miles from a neighbor, as
my sister did when I visited her. We
were only three-quarters of a mile from
Lake Huron, though, and I used to enjoy
listening to the music of the waves when
all the rest were asleep. Those who have
been at Petoskey will agree with me when I
say that a sunset on Little Traverse or
Petoskey Bay (as it is often called) is just
grand! I saw Mrs. Fuller’s flowers at the
Fenton fair; they were lovely. I, like Wild
Rose, was a teacher myself, but my health
Will not permit now. I am glad to hear
Old Hundred preach on the other side.
This continual preaching at the girls “makes
me sick at my stomach,” as afriend says. I
for one do not see why all girls should be
expected to do housework, any more than
all boys are expected to be farmers. If
they like something eise better and can
make more money at it, why should they
not? We are not all cast in the same
mold. I hate housework, but that is not
sayingIcannot do it. I have the reputa-
tion of being a good cook; still that does
not make me enjoy the work.

FLINT. MAE.

I‘he nom—de—plume chosen by Mac hav-
been claimed by a young lady who
sometimes writes us from Howell, we
ventured to discard it and give another to
avoid confusion of identity. In reply to
Mae’s inquiry. the Editor of the HOUSE-
HOLD is “Beatrix,” and “Beatrix” is
Mrs. R. F. J ohnstone, widow of the former
Editor of the FARMER]
-~—-—-—.99———_
MOSS MATS.

 

To make moss mats Iuse from five to eight
shades of wool. This fall I wished to make
three mats, so bought one pound of zephyr
(it only weighed nine ounces). Out of the
darkest shades I crocheted a plain mat the
size of my lamp, then I crocheted four rows
of holes around that in very coarse crocket-
ing. Take the next shade and break off a
little more than one quarter of it, the re-
mainder divide in three parts for con-
venience, to keep from snarling. I roll in
a ball holding the three ends together, then
thread a worsted needle with a needleful of
the quarter sorrel, tie it to the tree ends,
and tie or work a double buttonhole stitch,
(or two single tatting stitches) every one
half or five eighths of an inch apart, then cut
the three strands between each knot, it
will leave three short ends of worsted on
each side of the knot. Sew it in loops two
or three inches in length around the edge
of the mat; then tie the next shade in the
same way and sew it inside of that, and so
on till the lightest shade comes in the center
next the plain crocheting. I hope this
is plain and that it will help some one as
much as I get helped from some letters in
our paper.

I could tell Wild Rose of children who
say, “Oh mother, please explain this rule;
I can understand you better than I do the
teacher!”

When I commenced housekeeping many

 

years ago, my husband thought a woman
had enough to do without bothering about a
man’s business, but he is converted to the
idea that a wife needs to know as much
as he himself does about the business.
Although I had nothing to do with chang-
ing his ideas, Iam pleased to think he has
changed, for I enjoy talking and planning
with him. Perhaps if any one cares to
know I will tell them some time what
changed him so much.

I'TICA. N. E. V. P.

[We hope N. E. V. P. will come soon to
tell us the cause of her husband’s con—
version “to sound doctrine.” Possibly
some other wife’s life might be made hap-
pier and more in unison with her husband’s
by the story—HOUSEHOLD ED.]

_..*_- ._.

FOR A. L. L.

 

 

My inability to comply immediately with
A. L. L.’s urgent invitation to visit the
HOUSEHOLD again, was caused by the
severe shock I received from one of her
random shots. At first I thought 1 was
“kilt intirely” but I finally rallied and
have now so far regained my equilibrium
as to be able to sharpen my quill; in fact
am numbered among the convalescents.
My worthy opponent’s last effort was re-
plete with logical reasoning. It was a
forcible illustration of a case in which the
pen is mightier than the sword. Girls, my
arguments are as naught when compared
with A. L. L.’s.

0 had the gift been given me

(before I appeared in these columns,)
To have seen myself as others see me,
It would from this great error freed me.

Had I but the wings of a bird I would
fly tothis fair author, this disturber of my
dreams, and entreat her to smoke with me
the pipe of peace, and if she listens to my
entreaty, my slumbers would evermore be
calm, peaceful, and side by side we would
wander “where gentlest breezes stray,”
and together would sing (not whistle)
“When the mists have cleared away.”

WEBSTER. H. A. B. R.

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A VISIT AND A SUGGESTION.

I have just returned from a month’s visit-
ing amongst the scenes and friends of my
“Home-in-the—Hills.” Surely nature has
fairly outdone herself in making the
October of 1886 the most glorious, gentle
and tender of all the Oetobers that she has
laid away with her choicest jewels of the
year’s twelve gemmed crowns. Many were
the pleasant drives with the dear friends
whom I have known so long and well, (ah,
there are no friends like the old friends!)
that I had about the well known highways
with their wealth of hills and stones,
springs, brooks and rivers, their happy
prosperous homes in the villages, and on
the rich productive farms, where the farm-
house is a thing of beauty. If farmers
only knew and appreciated their privileges,
chances for self culture and social enjoy-
ment better, they might soon become a
crowd of veritable kings and queens! Of
all the drives—and I enjoyed an uncounted
number—I must make especial mention of
one taken one incomparable day in early
October. The woods were the loveliest I

 

ever saw them. No storms or high
winds had torn their foliage, and “un-
timely frosts and snows” had not scared
them with rough coloring, but on every
tree we saw in unmistakable letters “leaves
have their time to fall.” Beautiful, tender
and touching beyond degree was the Sig ht.
and deep the lesson of. life and death it
taught. One thing I missed. It was the gay,
blithesome squirrels. The hunters have
hunted the pretty creatures almost out of
existence in that region. As the dews
and the twilight fell on the earth, the sweet
fruity smell of orchards laden with luscious
ripened wealth filled the air with a per-
fume that no distiller can duplicate, and
as my friend and I passed through all these
graceful, glowing and fragrant beauties of
earth, and viewed the skies which Italy
may equal, but possibly cannot excel, we
said “Truly it is good to live.”

I took in Hadley fair as naturally as
ever, even to filling my customary place
“on committee,” and this brings me to
my suggestion. It is this: It is almost
impossible for any committee in Floral
Hall to do exact justice in awards, because
of the faulty entering of so many articles,
committees have no liberty to correct such
errors. For instance, a piece work quilt
will be entered as a patchwork, a pair of
knitted pillow shams as embroidered; an
ottoman as a footstool, and so on ad in-
finitum and vice versa. This makes very
bad work for the committee, as it throws
articles into and out of legitimate or any
other sort of competition, when if prop-
erly entered they would have won what
their owners wished them to. Now the
proper way and the way that will straighten
all this apparent crookedness, is for each
exhibitor to procure a premium list, and
study it. Find out the correct significance
of its terms, and carefully discriminate as
to which is the proper class and name of
the intended exhibit. Then carefully
label in accordance with this intelligent
knowledge of what you are doing. Do
this if it must be done at the expense of a
dozen inquiries, bespeaking your ignorance
of what some one may think you might
have known yourself. And so save the
committee many beratings, and yourselves
some considerable chagrin.

FLINT. E. L. NYE.
——-———‘o.—~—.
THE REWARD OF THE FAITH-
FUL.

 

[Essay read by Mrs. J. G. Palmer before the
Brooklyn Farmers” Club, Oct. 29, 1886.]

“He that is faithful in little will be
faithful in much.” This thought was sug-
gested at our last meeting, and as the con-
clusion of the subject at that time seemed
to be that it is according to the capacity of
the man whether success is to be attained,
I refer to my subject which has been veri-
fled from time immemorial, has been rung
in our cars from past generations, and will
still be handed down to posterity. Have
you not already in mind the faithful toiler
of husbandry who begun life in an early
day, when convenience was not thought of
but all work was done by the most laborious
process? Yet the noble heart thought not
of discouragement, but ambition and in-
dependence actuated every stroke of the
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brought to the earth which was soon to
repay the labor by bearing precious seed.
The log cabin was reared and a home made
in the wilderness with as much care as in
after years when the mansion replaced the
cabin, and the wilderness blossomed as the
rose.

Perseverance and energy made a home
then, and he who was faithful over a few
things became ruler over many. The per-
son who keeps one acre of ground in good
condition, corners free from weeds and
rubbish, lawn nicely arranged, buildings
painted and well kept, exhibits a trait in
character which will not be crushed if
fortune should favor him and give him
more. Although added cares will come
with the gift, yet the one who was faith-
ful in little will be faithful in much; traits
of character will be made manifest; some-
times in adversity they will be almost
crushed to earth, yet will they rise again
and shine forth as the sun. How many of
our farmers have seen this exemplified in
their hired help; you were careful at first,
trusted them with little, but as their capa-
bilities were made known to you, and their
faithful performance of work satisfactory
you trusted them further, and they grew in
your confidence and esteem.

I have noticed this characteristic also in
our homes. The careful housewife was
just as painstaking in the interior of her
cabin home, as when in after years she
hung the gilded pictures upon decorated
walls and sweeps carefully the tapestry
covering of the floor thinking of the time
when she began housekeeping in the
cabin home, how cheerful the fire in that
old-fashioned fire place, how neat the
hearth, how she polished the andirons to a
golden brightness, and a stranger in cross—
ing the threshold would gaze in admiration,

in letters of snowy whiteness, and every-
thing showed the careful hand—work of the
wife and mother. As she passed from the
old home into the new, she did not leave
the old life and its ways behind, and the re-
ward was hers.

I do not wish to be understood that a
person must be a slave to farm or house for
fear everything will not be just as you
would like; there are extremes in both
ways; let us find the happy medium be-
tween the two, and practice it. I believe
many things, both indoors and out, can be
trustedto hired help, but let your eye be
over all; never let your work drive you, but
you be master. Forethought and arrange-
ment make half, and you take that half,
and as order was heaven’s first law, let
that be also a fixed law with you, for with-
out it the farmer on a small farm will not
be successful, and on a large farm will lose
in the same proportion. One of the earliest
lessons of chil ihood should be order. Find
a place for toys, and little bands will soon
learn to place them there, and as children’s
habits are formed when young, we should
teach them to be faithful in little things.
We see in our children traits of character
daily developing, and we are astonished at

e rapidity of. growth. A bad habit is a

y rant from which it is hard to be released,
a nd we cannot be too careful in choosing

should be such that they will be the dearest
spot on earth; and the faithful mother is
one who combines in her domestic relations
these two qualities, house-keeping and
home-making. Then, in years to come
there will be no regrets, for great will be
the reward of faithfulness.
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BURTON FARMERS’ CLUB AGAIN

 

Although the day for the regular meeting
of the Burton Farmers’ Club, October 28th,

was rainy and disagreeable, it found twen-
ty of us, besides visitors, assembled at Mr.

E. B. Simpson’s in good time for dinner.

I believe no one insisted on being “ merely
a spectator” of this part of the programme
at least.

Soon after we left the dining room our-
president called the meeting to order, the
minutes were read, necessary business gone
through with, and were ready for the sub.
ject for discussion: “ Winter Evening
Amusements,” which was opened with a
paper by R. W. Park, followed by another
by Mrs. L. M. Woodin. Perhaps this will
be considered a “ new departure,” but as
the long winter evenings are so near, and
our evening entertainments or socials com-
mence soon, it was thought advisable to let
farm topics rest for one day and take up
this subject, for, although it was interesting
and, I think, profitable to us, the subject
has been so thoroughly discussed in the
HOUSEHOLD it would only be the same old
story, and there would be just as many dif-
ferent opinions as ever. Even we did not
go to our homes all converted to one opin-
ion. Some advocated such games as authors,
dominoes and checkers to keep young
people interested at home, and for social
parties; others thought that all such
games had a tendency to lead to cheating.
Dancing was not generally approved, and
the kissing games were voted even worse.
One member thought that if children were
allowed to play cards and other games at
home, and to dance in select companies,
they would not be apt to be tempted away
from home to find such amusements; said
he had been brought up to consider dancing
as wrong. His mother said she had danced
till she had seen the folly of it, and he had
always felt as though he would like to dance
till he saw the folly of it, too. Another
member, one who has had succesful ex-
perience, said that parents should begin
when the children are very young, to cul-
tivate in them a taste for the right kind of
amusements, play with them, talk with
them, read to them and with them as they
get older. Gain their confidence, and there
will be little fear of their seeking amuse-
ments, in places not approved by such
parents.

Among the other good suggestions, was
one which should be thought of, and
practiced more than it is, reading the Bible.
We should read it, not as a duty, but as a
pleasures read it with the children, and
talk about it, and study the Sunday school
lesson. The Bible is a book for all,
children and old people, even those who
have no especial interest in it as the word
of God, will find it an interesting study,
especially if two or more read it together,
and not only read, but study it; it can

In regard to the social circle for young
people. I believe all were in favor of such
entertainmet, as reading, recitation and
music. Debating was recommended, also;
it encourages study, and young people will
easily learn to express their thoughts in
this way.

The merits of the Chautauqua Circle
were talked over, and soon after four
o’clock we adjourned.

The next regular meeting was appointed
at the residence of Mr. G. T. Mason. The
subject is “Winter Care of Stock,” and
for us women “Household Pets,” including
birds and flowers, and one of the gentle-
men snggested, “husbands.” That is all
right, but we do not care to have them re-
turn the compliment, even if we wives are
left out in the cold, and uncared for.
BURTON. S. J. B.

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

DID you ever try picking up codfish in
large—very large—flakes, freshening it
thoroughly, rolling the pieces in flour, and
frying them in butter?

 

PLACE your butter bowl in a milk pan
while working butter. Slide it on the pan
at a proper angle to let the brine flow into
the pan, which you will find much easier
than lifting the bowl from the table and
holdingit each time. LUCY.
WEBSTER.

 

THE copper boiler or teakettle can b
kept by rubbing once a week with a solu-
tion of oxalic acid. Put five cents’ worth
of the acid into a bottle and pour on a pint
of warm water, ‘ cork tightly, label it
“poison” in big letters, and put it where
the children cannot get it. Pour a little on
aflannel rag and rub the boiler or kettle.

 

Contributed Recipes.

 

FRIED POTAToas.—Pare and slice some raw
potatoes; have some butter hot in the frying
pan, put them in with a good seasoning of
salt: cover them and fry them brown, stirring
them so they will not burn.

CREAM COOKIES.—One cup of thick sour
cream; one cup sugar; one egg; a little salt;
half a teaspoonfu‘l soda. Scatter sugar over
the top before baking.

JOHNNY CAKE.—One and a half cups butter-
milk; half a cup sweet milk; one egg; three
tablespoonfuls flour; one and a half cups
corn meal; salt; one teaspoonful of saleratus.

ONE OF THE WORKERS.
FLINT.

 

POTATO YEAST.—In two quarts of water
boil six potatoes, a handful of hops in a bag,
and a half teacupful of salt. When the pots.-
toes are done, mash fine and add to this liquid
8 teacupful of sugar, a teaspoonful ginger,
and when milk warm add a teacupful of yeast;
set where it is warm and let it ferment. I use
one teacupful of yeast for five loaves; set my
sponge at night and add three potatoes. If
you wish for more potatoes and not so much
hops, take mashed potatoes and add water to
make it of the consistency of common yeast,
and while warm add a tablespoonful of sugar
and two of yeast, keep where warm, and let
it ferment, when it will be fit for use. If Bess
will forgive us for this omission, we will give
her more directions for yeast than she can
test. Mas. R. D. P.

 

 

associates for our children. Our homes

hardly fail to do them good.

BROOKLYN.

 

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