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DETROIT, AUGUST 1, 1887.

 

 

 

THE .HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

GOSSIP.

0h! could there in this world be foutrd
Some little spot of happy ground, '
Where village pleasures might go round.

Without the village tattling;
How doubly blest the spot would be.
Where all might dwell at liberty.
Without the bitter misery

Ot' Gossip‘s endless prattling.

If such a spot were really known,

Dame Peace might claimit as her own.

And in it she might fix her throne,
Forever and forever. ,

There like a queen might reign and live.

While every one would soon forgive

The little slights they might receive.
And be offended never.

’Tis mischief makers that remove
Far from our hearts the warmth of love,
And lead us all to disapprove

What gives another pleasure.
They seem to take one’s part—but when
They’ve heard our cares, unkindly then.
They soon retail them all again.

Mixed with their poisoned measure.

And then they‘ve such a cunning way

0f telling ill meant tales—they say

“ Don’t mention what I‘ve said, I pray,
I would not tell it to another.“

Straight to your neighbor's house they go.

Narrating everything they know.

And break the peace of high and low.
Wife, husband, friend and brother.

Ohi that the mischief making crew
Were all reduced to one or two.
And they were painted red or bltre.
That every one might know them.
Then would our villagers forget
To rage and quarrel, fume and fret.
Or fall into an angry pet
With things so much below them.

For ’tis a sad, degrading part

To make another-‘s bosom smart,

And plant a dagger in the heart
We ought to love and cherish.

Then let us evermore be found

In quietness with all around.

While friendship, joy and peace abound.
And angry feelings perish.

 

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IN CASE OF SUNSTROKE.
There was a long list of fatalities in all
the newspapers the day following the climax
of the recent hot weather, when the ther-
mometer showed the unusual temperature of
102 degrees in the shade. Undoubtedly

I there were many cases of prostration and

some deaths due to heat that were not re-
ported. Not all those who suffered can
trace the cause to the direct rays of the sun,
for poorly ventilated rooms, or those ex-
posed to reflected heat, may induce similar
effects. People who do not perspire freely
are most apt to be overcome by the heat.
There is no danger of sunstroke while the
perspiration is copious, for this cools the

 

body and enables it to resist heat, but when
perspiration ceases or greatly diminishes,
there is great danger. Those who perspire
freely can endure much higher temperature,
in health, and anything tending to check
perspiration, which is the natural refrigera
tion of the body, is dangerous.

Great attention should be paid to the diet
during hot weather. Meat should not be
eaten freely; it is too heating, being what
we calla carbonaceous food, carbonizing
the blood and producing higher temperature
of the body. Fish, fruits, vegetable and
cereal foods should compose the diet, anti
we should be careful not to eat too heartily.
No matter how hard one must work, the
diet should be simple, and little meat be
eaten. Ice water should be used with dis-
cretion, if at all; its free. use often proves
fatal.

If a person is stricken down by the heat,
the proper treatment depends somewhat on
the symptoms. If the temperature of the
body is high, “thermic fever” it is called,
cold applications should. be instantly made
and kept up.
should be given, and the patient made
comfortable in a cool place, and by removal
of clothing. A teaspoonful of aromatic
spirits of ammonia is highly recommended,
to be given in halfaglass of water, and
the dose repeated at intervals, as needed.
Where the symptoms are alow heart action,
accompanied by fainting and paralysis of
the circulation, a bath of warm water corr-
taining mustard should be given also. Take
notice that the water applications should
be regulated by the tlrermic condition of
the patient,—ice cold applications if the
temperature of the patient is high; warm

if the heart seems to fail in its action. and
the temperature is low.

“Prevention is better than cure ” in
every type of disease, but eSpecially so itr
case of sunstroke, for the person who has
been once prostrated by heat, is ever after-
ward peculiarly susceptible to such in—
fluences, and rarely if ever is free from a
sense of oppression or constriction in the
head, especially during hot weather. Iknew
a lady once who was prostrated by the heat
of her kitchen; she said she had a “ stove-
stroke,” and she has ever since been unable
to endure heat without a recurrence of the
same symptoms. Those who suffer most
severely are subject to syncope, sometimes
resulting in loss of reason, the mania most
frequently taking the form of a suicidal or
murderous inclination. ' Examination of
the brain of victims of sunstroke show a
congested state, or a disintegration of the

A few drops of camphor '

 

brain cells, though the most important
changes are inthe lungs and heart. We
ought to take all possible precautions
against being overcome by the heat. and
cease work and find shelter at the first irr-
dications. Better be “hushed” t! an dead
or demented. Brit'r'rux.

OUR MISSING ONES.
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Is it not right to mourn tor those we love?
This question was asked by a friend who
was grieving her life. away. at the loss or" a
t'ear one. Certainly it is both natural and
right to a. certain extent. we could not help
it if we would. All the world is dark with-
out the missing one, there seetns to be no
pleasure in anything for awhile, but it is
wisely ordained that our grief will slowly
lut surely wear away it' we become recon-
ciled to it. While it is DEI'ftCll)’ proper to
give way to our feelings. yet as time goes
on and we know we must give up our
treasure. we should endeavor to keep back
our sorrow as much as possible, that our
own health be not damaged and that others
may not be made sad. We are apt to nurse
our sorrow too much, and thus make all
around us miserable. We should do all we
can for our friends while with us. and if we
are forced to give them up we will have the
consolation of having done our duty toward
them; and although it seems as if we would
rather die with them than take up the
burdens of life without them. yet we must
live and do for those who are left.

1 have known parents who having lost a
child, kept saying that she was the best,

. . ' ' that the other children were not so good,
applications wrth mustard or other excitant l

they would miss her the most; yet when
the next one lay with the death dew on her
face, they found they could not give her up
any easier than they could the first. -tnd
how those unkind words came back to them;
thoughtless. yet unkind, for the children
were heard saying to each other “1 wish it
could have been me: they would not grieve
so much." Old enough to realize the full
extent of their loss, and loving their sister
devotedly, the parents should have shown
them their affection, and let them know
that they were thankful it was only one that
was taken even though the best. We are
fated to lose our loved ones, and in many
cases it seems as if those who are needed
most are taken first. Yet if we were given
a choice we could not choose to spare any
of them. Oh no, we could not say of any,
“We can spare her.” So it is best to sub-
mit to the Higher Power and look to Him
for consolation and strength to bear out

    


 

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trials; and when the first hours of anguish
are over we should say,

“ Be still, sad heart, and cease repiniug,
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining:
Thy fate is the common fate of all.

Into each life some rain must fall;
Some days must be dark and dreary
Yrcxsnt‘ne. C. B. R.

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JOY IS REAL—GRIEF A DELUSION.

 

Two youths just went down the walk.
stepping buoyantlv to the movement of a
iively march, which they musically sang, as
they with such rapid, rhythmical, uncon—
scious ease and grace passed on toward
“down town.” If alchemy ever finds life’s
elixir it will be when her search is bounded
by the confines of Harmony.

Nothing can so give wings to the feet,
dexterity to the hands, prophetical perspec—
tive to the brain, and waken the holiest
affections of the heart, while a blissful puls—
ing joy enchants the life that throbs through
the nerves and veins of our little clay

- house, as can Harmony, and the music and

melody that as surely as the'day follows the
night, follow in her train. I realize more
and more every day how a life defrauded of
its harmonies has no fullness. For these
vary and change to suit the needs and re
quirements of life, as its stages advance and
develop.

.A few days ago we were charmed by‘the
sweet cherubic singing of a little boy, ap-
parently not more than .-" our or five years Of
age, who went down this same walk in the
lovely June morning, singing in one of the
sWeetest, most thrilling and musical childish
voices I have ever heard. one of the beauti-
ful Sabbath school hymns that every child
should know. We watched and listened
till sight and sound were lost in distance.
And I could but think as this dainty drop
in the great surging sea of humanity passsd
on toward “down town,” “Their angels
do always behold the face of my Father
which is in Heaven,” while the tone, air
and movement of child was evidence that
the line of communication between him
and his heavenly guardian was free and
fully harmonious.

Goethe makes his brother to exclaim. “ lf
you become not like one of these!" 5*
“Great God! from the height of thy
heaven thou beholdest great children and
little children, and no others; and thy Son
has long since declared which attords Thee
greatest pleasure." And again he says:
“We should deal with children as God
deals with us—we are happiest under in-
nocent delusions.” What then‘.’ If the
child whose heart and brain and voice

responded in such exalted sympathy to the ;

tuneful touch of its angel. anon meets one t

l

of the world’s beasts of discord by which it E

is temporarily overmastered and made mis-
erable, does that prove the ecstasy just
preceding to have been a delusion? Not
at all. And if within one hour or one day,
one week, month or year. the same beasts
of discord, only of more mature and fiercer
growth, meet and so assault, tear and
tyrannize over the two happy youths who
just passed down the street in such purely
happy and exalted mood, will that then
prove the excessive and unanalyzed joy,
that swelling up from life’s mysterious
fountains filled to overfldwing their own

 

existence, and contributed much to the
sum of general cheer and good will. to have
been a delusion? No indeed! The delu-
sion is all on the other hand. It is in the
discord, the darkness, the dismay. deceit
and treachery that were devised to entangle
and enslave us in the day in which “good
and evil created He them.” And I hold
that from the cradle to the grave, be the
journey long or short——and that is not nec-
essarily the longest life that foots up the
greatest number of years, it is this quality
of the human soul, this power of the
spirit to enter into and be maintained in
such states and periods of exaltation, of an
ecstasy begotten of perfect harmony with
the good, with the undying principle of re-
peated existence, that is our one trusted
key to the door of a mysterious immortality.
How sWeet is the memory of the moment
in which we have thus been carried out of
and beyond ourselves, our temporal ex~
istence lost or rather found in a rapture
divine! E. L. NYE.

FLINT.
”—49%— ——

SERENA STEW’S EXPERIENCES.

 

A little slip through the mail tells me I
have read the Household) a year; that is, I
have been helped, comforted and enter-
tained all this time without returning the
favor. Yes, and I have been thoroughly
discouraged, too. So many women seem to
get everything done, even to fancy work,
while I can scarcely compass the essentials
in the simplest manner possible, and then
often lack time to read the HoL’sEIIOLD,
but my husband reads it to me and many
more things, while I “sew on the buttons.”
1 live in no fairy castle. The ten who sit
around my table get hungry, confusion gets
into my sitting-room and sometimesinto my
bureau drawers. and if I should tell more it
would not sound like most others write for
the papers. But just here let me comfort
John, grieved because he was called the
“hired man.” My good sir. the name of
the ottice attaches to theoccupant, from the
king to the, groom. In some countries it
constitutes a titled nobility: in this, lawyer,
doctor, preacher, blacksmith, schoolma’am.
Then for thirty years I have been in close
contact with the “help” question, in the
house, and yet feel prepared only to ask
questions. It' girls are to be wives and
mothers, is it wise for them to be employed
where they will be away from every thing
they will need to know when they are mar-
ried? If all the positions of public trust
which men could till, were filled by them,
and the women free, would there not be a
better chance to have done some of the
mountains of undone woman’s work,
which now cast a shadow over the land?
Of course men can wash dishes and cook,
but it seems that in some cases of sickness
women might do better than men, for in-
stance to dress little babies. In this
change wouldn’t there be fewer tramps?
But it would take pages to write fully of
the help question.

I want to pity Dot, and blame her mother,
and every other mother who is so foolish as
to suppose she is making life easy for her
daughter, by not having her learn to do all
kinds of housework; instead, she is bring-
ing upon her a load she must carry through

 

life. I’m not imagining. For fourteen
years I was the mother of but one daughter,
and I know the instincts of mother love.
If girls all received practical training would
there not be fewer cases of domestic
trouble? I should shorten the school days to
give time for work, neither should I send
them very young. And here I come to an-
other big subject, our district schools. I

read in an old paper the other day that ours. .

is the banner county in the State, but re-
cently when I visited the school in our
“district,” I saw nothing but what was
familiar in my early school days, and after
spending two or three days in reading the
answers given to questions asked by the
State superintendent, by two hundred
teachers, I said, “Where is the fault in our
schools that the would-be-teachers have not
mastered the rudiments of an education ‘9”
And when I see certificates granted to
those who have attended only district
schools, who have never attended an 1n-
stitute, and have pursued ,no course of read-
ing, I ask will our schools improve? Dear,
fond parents, with the noisylittle ones gone
six or eight hours a day,‘ you had better
find out what they are accomplishing. Ask
your twelve-year-olds how many times they
have been to fractions. Don’t rest un-
concerned in regard to your school, for
possibly it may have been sleeping with
tip Van Winkle for twenty years. Life
is very full and has many sides, but if we
can continually put away from us the things
for which our dear Saviour said “take no
thought,” and train ourselves and our
children in the things which make for our
eternal peace, happy are we. Some one
asks about my name. Well, do as you like,
call it a characteristic one, that has come to
me like a Bible name, or simply one of the
incongruities of married life.
headache with which 1 did not get up this
morning is wearing away, baby has rolled
from me asleep, and the question from the
kitchen, “How shall I salt the beans,”
brings me back from my pleasafit hour with
my pencil to active duties, and thanks to
the Horrsrznom) for the way in ‘which it
helps us to bear one another’s burdens.

Since writing the above I have seen the
question of Old Hundred: Why build
at all? Get a creamery. This can stand
in the shade anywhere. if you use ice. The
Champion has refrigerator combined where
cream can be stored and some butter. Use
the brine process of salting described in the
FARMER a few weeks since. and your
labor is reduced to the minimum. with most
satisfactory results. We pack directly
from the churn, the butterworker is packed
away up garret, and our butter satisfies the
most fastidious Detroit buyers. I will give
more explicit directions if desired.

MRS. sERENA STEW.
AN INSPIRATION.

Mrs. W. J. (L, in a brief note says: “A
bright thought came to me yesterday: Why
not kill the flies before they come in? Per-
haps I may seem very stupid, but my pre-
vious efforts had been directed to getting
rid of them after they were inside the
screens. Now I shall keep the fly poison
handy for them outside; perhaps I might
put up a sign, Free Lunch; this however

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might make them suspect me of being too
generous.”

That is really getting at the root of the
matter, isn’t it? But the real way to di-
minish the flies is to be careful not to fur-
nish them “fly food” out doors. Atable-
spoonful of stagnant water in a drain will
nourish more flies than a yard of “sticky
fly paper” will make way with.

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PROPERTY RIGHTS.

The article in the Housmrom) of the
18th inst., by Mrs. R. D. P., affords much
food for thought. I think if a woman is
lucky enough to inherit money, that in nine
cases out of ten she is just as capable of
taking care of it as a man. But if she
wishes her husband, whom she loves, to
take charge of her money, I think it
would be well for the loving husband to
give the wife a'note for the amount that he
is to handle; so that in case the husband is
removed by death, the widow may have
something that need not pass through the
probate court, some one thing that she
may do with as she pleases without a guar-
dian to look after her. If our laws treated
the woman as it does the man, that would
be one of the circumstances that alter
cases. Mrs. it. I). 1’. says if a woman
earns the money she is competent to take
care of it herself: but there is where Mrs.
R. D. P. and the law differ. Does not the
woman who labors by the side of her hus-
band 25 or 30 years, working more hours
than the husband, does she not earn the
money as well as he? [say most em-
phatically, yes. Then why is it if the wife
is left alone, that the property has to go
through such a process, while on the other
hand if the husband is left alone he can
glide along just as he pleases, no one to
molest or make him afraid? The only way
I can account, for the difference that is
made betwee' 'the two is that men make

. the laws and they make them to suit them—

selves.
" Let us now be up and doing.
Let us labor and not wait.
Still achieving. still pursuing
Some way to avoid this fate.”
MAs-ox. b‘. B. W.

[If we understand our correspondent cor-

' rectly, she is under somewhat of a misap—

prehension as regards the rights of wife
and husband to property after decease. 1f
the wife ownsfiroperty in her own right
the husband cannot legally assume control
of it without proper process of law, though
this is sometimes done, we are aware. So
also, we have known instances where the.
sons, on the death of the father intestate.
assumed entire control of the farm aid
personal property. allowing the mother and
daughters to understand that they had no
right to anything, except as the sons gen.
erously permitted them to have a home on
the old place. In another case, a son, on
on the death of both parents, took charge
of everything, and the two daughters, his
sisters, managed the house till he married;
when the new wife and the sisters not get-
ting on well together, the brother attempted
to turn them out with nothing but their
clothing, telling them they had no right
there. He would have succeeded, had not
the real circumstances come to the knowl-

 

edge of the lawyer of the little country
town ten miles away, who informed the
girls of their real interest, and made the
brother give them their just inheritance.
Such injustice would be impossible were
women better informed: it would probably
be impossible now unless in some place
very remote from the world, for it hap-
pened nearly fifteen years ago. Women
know.their true position in legal matters
much better now.——-En.]

PRETTY KNITTED INSERTION.

 

Cast on ‘34 stitches and knit twice across
plain. '

3d row—Slip 1. narrow, over 1, narrow.
knit 1i, narrow, over 1, narrow, knit 1.

3th row—Make 1 and seam l in the made
stitches, rest plain.

5th row—Plain.

6th row—Like 3d row.

7th row—Like 4th row.

Sth row—Like 5th row.

9th row—Slip, narrow, over, narrow,
knit 5, narrow, over. narrow, knit .3, nar
row. over, narrow, knit 1.

10th row-~.\Iake one plain and seam one
of the madc stitches. rest plain.

11th row—Slip 1, knit seven, narrow,
over, narrow twice, over. narrow. knit S.

173th row—Slip 1. narrow, over, narrow,
knit l. knit 1, seam one in nude stitch,
knit '2, knit 1, seam one in the made stitch,
knit 4, narrow, over. narrow. knit 1. (This
means that the made or “over” stitches
should be made two of by simply knitting
one and seam the same loop.)

13th row—Slip 1, knit 1. knit l and seam
one in the made stitch, knit '3, narrow.
over, narrow, narrow, over, narrow, nar-
row. over, narrow, knit 2, knit 1 and seam
1 in the made stitch, knit '3.

11th row—Knit l. and seam in the made
made stitches, rest plain.

15th row—Slip 1, narrow, over. narrow,
knit 2}, narrow, over, narrow. narrow. over,
narrow, knit 3. narrow, over. narrow, knit 1.

10th row—Knit 1 and seam 1 in the
made stitches. rest plain.

17th row Slip 1, knit 9, narrow. orer,
narrow. knit 10.

ls‘th row~l{uit 1. and seam l. in the
made stitches, rest plain.

llepeat from ilzl row.

Fontsr Loom-2.
Moo——

A \VORD OF \V’ARNING.

 

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In a recent article on the children’s table.
Beatrix mentions milk as their most natural
and healthful food, and recommends that
it be given to them freely.

My experience Contradicts this, as it does
many another theory. and of late. when our
children have access to fruit. I. keep the
milk away from them. The wisest view
we get of life is the one we "ast backward,
and [see plainly now that several sudden
and alarming illnesses in our family have
been directly due to the taking of fruit and
milk together. Once, .a sixteen months
child lay at the verge of convulsions for
hours, and 1 am quite certain that the
cause was a drink of milk followed by a
raw tomato—a fruit of which she was ex-
tremely fond and could help herself to from
the garden. A neighbor’s child died last

 

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summer of peritonitis, brought on by eating
cherries and drinking milk. Since I have
wakened to this danger, our little band sel<
dom suffer from those high fevers and de-
ranged digestion which used to be so com-
mon. I have no idea that all children
would be affected alike by this combination,
but write my lines of warning in hopi S
they may help some other m lthE‘l‘.

When a child is recoveri l . from sickness
and still too weak to hold a book, a box .of
scrap pictures is a real pleasure. It nny be
placed at the invalid’s- side and its contents
examined easily. Those who have no chil-
dren could make a nice gift of this kind to
others, or perhaps to a hospital.

Nothing affords more pleasure in the
plant window 111 tn apot of morning glories.
The seels should be sown late in the fall.
They will grow three or four feet long, and
be a profusion of blossoms, beginning
about mid-winter. _

Carpet rags may be sown more rapidly
and just as firmly on the machine as by
hand. Fold them the same as for hand
sewing and run them in and out of the
machine, outlining a section of rail fence,
then put in an another without cutting the
thread', clipping the threads is delightful
work for a child.

The most of our farmers plant their gar-
dens in rows and use the cultivator. The
row or part of the two rows nearest the
house is a fine place to raise Ilovvers. The
cultivator leaves but little weeding or hoe-
ing, and if the farmer is fond of either wife
or flowers, he will be apt to finish the work.

Don’t put sulphur on young fowls to kill
lice. It may do it. but it will kill the fowl
too, as some of my neighbors have learned
to their sorrow, .\. n. .1.

'l‘ilo\l.\~.
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POVVER OF FASHION.

What will not people do if it is only “ the
fashion?” The most absurd fashion just at
present is wearing the bustle, I think; and.
some of those very girls who wear those
hideous looking things, Were they deformed
in that manner would be mortilied nearly to
death: but it’s the, IRSAIOH, so never mind
the looks. _

When I made my summer dress I asked a
friend how she likedit. lIer reply was: “ It
is splendid, tits you perfectly; if you would
only wear a little bustle now you would be
all right.” "What difference would a
bustle make?” I asked. 11 it would make
it look a little better, that’s all.” How it
Would look better she did not say, and could
she‘.’ I have never \vorn a bustle and never
will: and [thought the other day when I
heard that a friend had said " Mary is such
a little bit of a thing," - that if a good many
girls who are much larger than I were less
artificially made up we would be surprised.
My strength is not all spent carrying the
artificial part of myself around. I think if
girls heard more of the remarks that are
made about them and their bustles, they

would not wear them. At least I know I
have heard remarks about other girls that I
should hate to have made about me.
-' Fashion. though a tickle goddess.

ISSUES SiCI‘ll commands:

()hangeful as the cut of bodice.

strict accord demands:

\ eering like a weather vane,

Blnds her slaves with iron chains.”

YPSIIAXTI. MARY B.

 


 

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

 

“Should a note to be personally delivered
be sealed when itis handed to the person
who is to deliver it?” asks a young lady. It
is perfectly proper to seal it. Tire person
who is to deliver it may seal it, in presence
of the writer, if it is unsealed. An excep-
tion to this is the letter of introduction,
which should not be sealed.

“ What shall I get for a school dress for
my sixteen year old daughter, who is to enter
college this fall?” asks a mother. Some
wool goods which is durable and does not
muss easily, as serge, camel’s hair or diag-
onal twill, in navy blue, brown or dark
green, to suit complexion, will make a
very serviceable and suitable school dress,
and will be found cheaper in the end than
goods at a lower price. You don’t want
anything that will look shabby in two
months or less. Make such a dress simply,
with a plain or pleated skirt. long apron
drapery in front and back widths full and
draped in a point, and narrow velvet revers
and wide cults on a plain postilion basiluc.
The Norfolk jicket is a rather pretty style;
it has two box pleats two inches
widedowu the b’tCk, which with the ex-
ception of these pleats on the middle
forms, is out like any basque, and one on
each side of the front. The waist is the
same. leiigth all round, and is belted. It is
a good plan in making school dresses, to
lay a piece of the dress goods on the. lower
half of the sleeve betWeen outside and
lining. so that when the elbows begin to
“come through” the wearis not so evident.

“(irecnhornfl who says she is going to
take a trip away from home this sunnner,
wishes some hints on table etiquette, and
asks several questions which we answer
without repeating. it is “ good manners ”
to begin to eat as soon as you are served,
without waiting for others to be helped; this
rule obtains at the private as well as the
hotel table. Holding the spoon in the
right hand, dip the soup from the plate
with an outward motion, and eat it from
the side of the spoon. Do not break crack~
crs or bread into the soup: nobody does that
nowdays. It is more “stylish” to eat bread
with soup than crackers. Never tip» the
plate to secure the lastspoont‘ul. Lima and
string beans are to be eaten with a fork;
green peas with a spoon. Where meats and
vegetables are served on individual dishes,
as at hotels, transfer the kind of meat you
prefer to eat first. if you have ordered more
than one kind, to your plate. with its ap-
propriate vegetable; eat the other from the
palte on which it is brought you. if fish
and meat are brought you at the same time,
as sometimes is done, eat the fish first from
its platter with bread alone; then transfer
the meat to your plate. Where cut or cube
sugar is passed with éotfee, it is proper to
pick up alump in the fingers and drop it
into the coffee cup, but it should be daintily
done, without touching any other than the
piece chosen. It is quite allowable to eat
green corn from the cob. but the ear should
be broken into bits two or three inches
long, and the piece held in one hand only;
to hold the ear in both hands and eat the
while length at a mouthful is a trifle too
“backwoodsy” in style. Ifourcorrespond-

 

cut will remember to use her knife to cut
her food, her fork to convey it to her mouth,
to eat slowly and quietly. to break bread
into small pieces, instead of buttering a
whole piece and biting from it, and not
think everybody must be noticing her, she
will make no bad breaks. I once heard a
lady of my acquaintance say she would not
marry the best man she ever knew till she
had seen him at the table, and indeed one’s
table manners are a good index of retine-
ment and good breeding, and social posi-
tion. And there is no home training which
so tends to beget confidence among stran-
gers as the consciousness that one knows
how to do the right thing at the right time
and place at the table. “I should like him
if 1 had never seen him ‘feed’,” said a
young lady of a mutual acquaintance the
other day, “but at meals he is perfectly
disgusting.” And, poor fellow, he did
wish so much to .iind favor in the little
lady’s eyes! Almost everybody has accept-
ed the fork as the proper implement for
conveying the food to the mouth, but there
is aright way and a wrong way to use it.
Some hold it as a child does, with an
awkward way of bringing the whole hand
over and upon the handle; others take what
might be called an “ underhand ” hold as
if it were a spoon, while both make its busi-
ness that of a spoon rather than a fork, by
lifting food upon the tines, instead of on or
against the back of thetines. It should be
held easily, with the forefinger extending
down the shank, the other fingers support-
ing it, and used fork-fashion. Mothers
would do well to see that the little people
are instructed how to use fork, knife and
spoon properly, when these are firstallowed
them, for a bad habit of this kind is hard to

correct.
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FLY-PAPE R .

 

V\'. K. llose, of Atlas. wishes to enquiie
through the lioi'siciror.i> for a recipe to
make the "sticky Ily—paper” of the day; also
an eii‘ective remedy to drive away ants.

Size common manllla paper by brushing
one side of it with liquid glue; let dry.
Then to this sized side apply a coating of
resin, boiled with castor oil. This must be
applied hot. l'se enough resin to make the
oil stifi'; not too stilt or the tiles will not
stick to it; equal parts by measure will be
about right. This is the way the “fly-paper
of commerce” is made. but our correSpon-
dent will find it cheaper and a great deal less
trouble to buy it out and out. insect pow-
der will drive ants away. It is also said
that powdered borax scattered on the pant] y
shelves, where they run, will cause them to
leave. To trap them, take a piece of sponge,
di p in sweetened water; lay where they are
most plenty, and when they have congre—
gated in its interstices dip it into boiling
water. A colony can be exterminated by a
few such baths.

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If you have a white or light straw hat or
bonnet which you desire to make of a dif-
ferent color, take one-quarter of a tube of
paint, of the color you want your hat, and
add to it enough drying oil to make a
thick liquid, and apply with a sable brush.
Hang in the air to dry. The cost is very
trifling.

 

' HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

Dinnn pieplant is the last thing the
woman who lives by eating has experiment-
ed with. After stripping as for pics, it is
put on earthen plates and dried rapidly in a
warm place. It is said to be “not half
bad” for a change when soaked. stewed
and made into pics in midwinter.

 

IT is said that if soap, sapolio, scourinc,
or any other elbow grease economizer be
used to clean paint, it should be rubbed on
aflannel clot-11 dipped in hot water. If the
ordinary cotton rag be used, the paint is apt
to come off. with the dirt. An “ oil finish”
is very quickly impaired by alkalies, and
soap, ammonia or other cleansing agentS
aside from clear water should be employed
as little as possible.

PEOPLE who keep birds will appreciate
the new style of bird-cage, which has, on
one side of the floor, a. roll of thick water-
proof paper which crosses the bottom of the
cage and is creased in squares the size of
the floor. The soiled paper can be'pulled
through and torn otf in the crease, ready to
be thrown into the tire. and the fresh paper,
by the act of pulling otf the soiled, has
taken its place without further trouble.

 

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Contributed Recipes.

 

HL'CKLEBERR Y Pr'i)n1sG.~Thrce slices stale
bread; three cups berries; one cup white
sugar; one teaspoonful each of mace, cinna-
mon, cloves; one and a half pints sweet milk;
thrcc eggs: a little salt: two tcaspoonl’uls
baking powder; a small lump of butter.
Bake forty minutes: serve with a boiled
sauce flavored with a spice of some kind.

CABINET Priming—Half pound stale
sponge cake; half cup raisins; six peaches cut
in halves; four eggs; one and a half pints
sweet milk. Make a custard of the eggs and
milk. Linethc pudding mold with slices of
cake; then raisins and some peaches; make
three layers; pour over the custard and steam
three—quarters of an hour. Serve with boiled
sauce flavored with peach or almond.

WINE SAUCn.—Thrce-fourths pint water;
one cup sugar; half cup butter; two talle-
spoonfuls cornstarch, cream, butter, sugar
and starch: turn over the boiling water until
it thickens; add one wineglassl‘ul of wine or
brandy.

Goosnnnnnv Pin—Stew the berries with
plenty of sugar until they are thick and jelly-
like. Line a deep pie dish with rich crust and
fill with the berries; cut out some of the crust
in tart pieces, and, with a thimblc, cut it full
of little holes: lay those over the pie: bake
until nicely browned; sift fine sugar over
while hot; turn a pan over them until cold.
Delicious.

HUCKLEBERRY CAKE. —One cup buttt r; two
cups sugar; four eggs; one and a half pints
flour; two tcaspoonfnls baking powder: two
cups hucklebcrrics, well floured; one cup
sweet milk; teaspoonful each of cinnamon,
cloves, mace. allspice. Bake fifty minutes;
must be eaten fresh. Very nice.

ELECTION CAKE—TWO cups sugar; one cup
butter: three eggs; three cups flour; two tea-
spoonfuls baking powder; two cups seeded
raisins; two cups currants; one cup citron,
out fine: one cup bauched almonds: one cup
milk; cinnamon and vanilla. Bake one and a.
half hours. Ice when nearly cold.

BATTLE CREEK. Evauonnmn.

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