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THE FARM AND GARDEN, 



©HE r)OUSB HOLD. 



T.V reaitit of economy in the kitchen is often ffreater 

 than the gain on (he farm. 



The women whr, make our homes cheerful, are 

 the mainstay of the nation. 



«tc lu rni n -and a premiimi for- 



$13 m bULUf PRACTICAL HOUSEWIVES. 

 OUR PRtZES FOR RECIPES. 

 For the best set ol" Six Recipes, suitable lor 

 the fariner*HhoaHehnld, aent on eouditioD!* siren 

 below, we oiler S15 in «old:- 



For best wet. - - - $5.00 in «;old. 

 Serond prize. - - - 3-00 



Third prize. - - - '^.00 * 

 And next 5 wet-*, as decided 



by the Judges, - - 1.00 each In gold. 



And for every carefully selected set ol reci- 

 pes—not YTinnine the prize— we will semi a pre- 

 mium bulb or plant, to be selected by u*^. 



CON niTIONS:— l.-The contestanis must 

 either be wubscribers to the paper or have it 

 taken in the family i, or send their subscription 

 with the recipes. ti.-The recipes must be writ- 

 ten on a separate sheet from letter acrompany- 

 inc them, and contain the sender^-i name and 

 acldress. 3, -They may be eitht-r ori«inal or 

 selected; but if selected, credit must be eiven 

 to Che book or paper from which taken. Home 

 recipes preferred. 4.'They must have been 

 tested by tlie sender in the family, and be valua- 

 ble and trust^TOrthy. 



The prizes w^ill be awarded March 15tli. 1S85. 

 and published in April issue. Preference will 

 'be ffiven those sent early. 



more marked than at ihe table. To have good 

 manners set well, the> need to be everj'-tlay, 

 home atTuirs ; and mothrTs greatly err, who allow 

 children to grow up without them. Yet, some 

 who live in "grand houses,'' permit them to rush 

 In and leed like famished bears on whatever they 

 can snatch. 



"I must hurry home," said a lady to me one 

 day, " for Ned is home from school, and he will 

 eat up all the strawberries, and we shall hnvc 

 none for tea." It kept her invention busy totind 

 new places in her large house in which to hide 

 the cookie jar, if she would find one in it, when 

 slie wished a plate for the table. The boy's gen- 

 eral manners are of the same type, and he is not 

 greatly beloved in any social circle. 



BY THE NEW YEAR'S FIRE. 



By J. E. McC. 



RESOLVING AND DOING. 



" Drop down the curtains, fold upon fo 

 Shut out the night wllh its bitter cold. 

 Tt« manv voices of sorrow ; 

 Thp wailins wind and the pitiless rain 

 Shall knock at the door of our hearts in vain, 

 For the New Year comes lo-roorrow." 

 New Year's Eve is apt to be a season for quiet 

 loving converse and pensive thought, rather than 

 for noisy mirth. The mother's heart grows more 

 tender and her voice takes on a softer tone, as slie 

 looks back over the vanished days, and on into 

 those to come ; as she thinks of the '' must be and 

 may be," that they will surely bring for her dear 

 ones. 

 ••The children's face.t are fair to see. 

 Ah they kneel, \vhilt*-robed. hy the mother's knee." 

 But a mist wll! dim her eye, as she recalls a lit- 

 tle fair hand that gleefully patted her cheek last 

 New Year's time, but now is stilled forever. Yes, 

 we think of our loved and lost, with necullar ten- 

 derness, as we pause for a breathing space at 

 these mile-fltones in life's journey. Happy Is tlie 

 mother whose loved ones are all In ihv homffold. 

 or in the fold above. She can well spare a tear of 

 lender sympathy for that mother whose son Is a 

 wanderer, in the saddest sense. In the dreary out- 

 side world this New Years, "rho bitterest tears 

 are not those shed by the coffin side. For there 

 arc sweet and hopeful thoughts for those whose 

 dead are asleep in Jesus, just tis there arc for the 

 world now buried in snows. 



'■ Wtiiit c-are we for the aprlng-tlrae fled. 

 The ro^ea witliered. tli»- violets dead. 

 The wealth of the vuni-'lied summer; 

 Fresh flowers will buil in the April rain, 

 Anil birds In the branches sing uKain 

 To welcome the lllthe new comer." 

 So too. our dead shall arise again to immortal 

 youth and beauty. It is good to cheer our hearts 

 with these bright anticiimtlons, and then go for- 

 ward hopefully into the unknown future opening 

 befoiv tis. Onlv one day at a time of care, of 

 labor or trial. It is not wise to burden the heart 

 by borrowing a. part of the next day's load. Fore- 

 casting trouole never pays, for the trials that 

 have given us the most sorrow, were thosv which 

 never iiappeni'd; they existed only in our appre- 

 hension. There is a strong guide and helper ever 

 readv to take our hand in his. and make the 

 roughest road easy for our feet; lea<ling us surely 

 anil safely to our journey's end. 



It was eleven o'clock and Maud still lingered 

 over her writing desk, with her hair in crimping 

 pins, and room all in disorder. She looked up 

 with abstracted gaze as Lucy came in. rosy and 

 brisk, with a iidy sweeping-cap over her neatly 

 brushed hair, and a broom in her hand. 



"Why Maud, what a room, and how the boys 

 will admire your style with that old wrapper on, 

 when they come home to dinner. What have 

 you been about all the morning?" 



** Writing down my New Year's resolutions," 

 said lier sister with a satisfied air. "Seel have 

 more than four pages foolscap. Some I have 

 changed and re-written. That is what took me 

 so long. Are they not neatly done? After all. 

 I have about concluded to ask father for a nice 

 blank book, and copy them in that, and I think 

 I will have it lar^e enough for a journal also. I 

 should take great comfort In writing down the 

 day's doings. I wonder you do not write out a 

 list of resolutions, Lucy. It is a great help to 

 one,'^ she added, quite patronizingly. 



Lucy laughed a little as she tossed up the bed 

 and snook out the pillows, but remarked that she 

 had so much " real doing to take up her time, she 

 had not much left for mere resolving." 



Maud appreciated the intimation, and replied: 

 "But I am going to begin fair to-morrow morn- 

 ing, and carry out strictly this programme, a 

 whole page full, you see." 



"I shoiild feel more sure of you if you began 

 this minute and set yourself and your r(K»m to 

 rights. Mother would also be glad of your help 

 down st;iJrs, and this bureau drawer full of un- 

 mended clothes, would be thankful for attention. 

 You will surely have to begin darning stockings 

 soon, or buy more, I think you must have 

 reached the limits of your stock. ' 



"Darning stoi-kings is such a bother,' said 

 Maud, pettishly. 



'•rut them into a resolution, Maud, that will 

 make them easy." 



" You have such a way, Lucy, of dlscrmracing 

 one about making good resolutions. I shouhl 

 think you woiild be glad to lu-lp me." 



** Incie*^d I should, Maud, if I knew any way to 

 Induce you to put one into practice. But smoke 

 without lire will never hot! a kettle. You may 

 resolve and resolve, the whole year through, but 

 unless you get up and go to work It will amount 

 to nothing. Resolutions are cheap and eiu<y. hut 

 it Is the real work that costs. I am not sure but 

 you would do better to burn up your long Hsi and 

 take up the work that comes (Irst to hand, and do 

 It, then take the next thing. That Is the only 

 way I can manage. I do make lists often In tlie 

 evening, of things I wish to do next day, and 

 about the order I wish to take them up. When 

 one is done, I cross It off, but I never lay down 

 unbending rules. A housekeeper'splans must be 

 of a ver>' flexible kind, or she will find every-dny 

 life sadly Jarring. Come, Maud, try my plan and 

 lock up your resolutions for a while, and actually 

 dosome'uscAil work. I know you will feel hap- 



Eler for It, and be able to see at night that you 

 ave made real progress." 



add to our stores of knowledge, and next, to 

 strengthen our mental powers. Sometimes we 

 may read for mere recreation, but one who makes 

 amusement the end and aim of his reading, will 

 grow neither wiser nor better, but the reverse. 



A reading that is positively hurtful cannot be 

 denounced too strongly. No effort is too great to 

 use if one may break up such a deadly habit in a 

 young person. Parents err who see their lads 

 devouring the current dime literature and con- 

 tent themselves with old Eli's remonstrance:— 

 "Do not so, my sons. ■ They should he interdic- 

 ted most kiiidly, but decidedlyj and something 

 interesting and safe substituted m their place. A 

 reading boy will not content himself , with last 

 year's farmer's almanac, and the local paper. If 

 the poison of bad literature has worked into his 

 veins, you have a task before you to work it out, 

 and harsh commands will only convince him 

 that he is one of the " heroes " of his books, and 

 you one of the parental tyrants. 



If any one gives your boy that deplorable 

 humorous work. "Peck's Bad Boy," remember 

 that cremation is the oivly safe course. No mat- 

 ter how laughable the scenes depicted, they are 

 demoralizing to all that is manly, honorable, 

 and truthful in his nature. The moral standard 

 will be materially lowered long before he has fin- 

 ished it. Hundreds of youths nave been induced 

 to try his experiments and improve ui>on them. 

 One young incendiary in a city, arrested for his 

 crime, told the policeman defiantly, "I am Peck's 

 Bad Boy." Another frightened an invalid sister 

 Into convulsions by tying two bullfrogs in her 

 bed. Depend upon it, these things are much 

 jnore amusing in print than when they are acted 

 over in real life, especially if the house where 

 they happen is your house. 



NEIGHBORLY^ ADVICE. 



Chappkd Hands.— One of the best remedies for 

 this trouble, is the simplest and ea-siest to procure. 

 Whenever you take your hands out ol water, 

 wipe dry, and while yet damp, rub well with com 

 starch or clear starch powdered. 



A Poem of Burns.— Burn's poem. " The Auld 

 Farmer's New Years Salutation to his Auld Mare 

 Maggie," has been printed and circulated In the 

 form of a tract amongst the Glasgow carters and 

 cabmen, in the hope that the kindly feeling so 

 beautifully expressed, may make them more 

 thoughtful and humane towards their old Mag- 

 gies, 



Always Hanoy.— Melt a teacup full of lard and 

 a bit of beeswax the size of a hickory nut, in u 

 tin cup. and then i>our into a tin box wbicli has 

 a lid, and keep covered. It will be useful for i:ny 

 purpose where a salve is needed. As It is ver> 

 healing and soothing and cost but a trltle. I have 

 kept it in the hctuse for twenty years, and would 

 not be without it. It is especially useful In the 

 winter time. 



Wasiiin<5 Fi,ni>.— One pound of washing soda, 

 liuarter pound of unslacked lime, (or a tea-cup 

 lull of good whitewash), 1 gallon of water. Boil 

 ui) and then set aside to settle. Use 1 tea-t^up full 

 to each boiler of cNthes, and It will take out dirt 

 and stains with almost no rubbing; and I have 

 never thought that it li>Jured clothes in the least, 

 I have never found any machine or soap equal to 

 it for lightening the labor of washing. 



Coal Ashes.— "W^hat shall we do with the coal 

 ashes is a problem with many. Madf Into an 

 unsightly pile in the back yard, they are disfig- 

 uring, and a trial ever>- time one 1oi)Ks that way, 

 I make them into garden walks. Have the coal- 

 sifter taken out to a path and the cinders sifted 

 there each morning. No one walks In a garden 

 much In the winter, and by spring you will have 

 fine hard paths, well settled by frost and snow, 

 which are never muddy or grass-grown. 



THE WINTER'S READINO. 



GOOD MANNERS AT TABLE. 



E:at without noise and the lips nearly closed. 

 To make any sound with the mouth In eating or 

 drinking is disgusting. Do not lean the elbows 

 or lay the hand-i or arms on the table, and piny 

 with knives or forks or glasses, or lounge or till 

 back the chair. Do not srrape your plate, or 

 lilt it up to get the last drop, or wipe it dry with 

 a piece of bread. It is bad taste to mix the food , 

 on your plate: it shows a coarse appetite and | 

 want of a nice appreciation of flavor of each par- 

 ticular dish. The mouth should not go to the 

 food but the food to the mouth. It Is very un- 

 couth to take up chlcktMi bones in the Angers 

 when eating the meat from them. 



When dining at your friend's house. It Is not 

 considered reflned to talk much about the food, 

 or to watc'a dishes as they are uncovered, or blow 

 soup to cool it, or soak u(> gravy with Itread. A 

 loud voice and uproarious laugh are extremely 

 out of pi. I' -.in the dining room ; as Is also any con- 

 versation that could possibly he offensive to the 

 most refined taste. It is no place to talk of dis- 

 tempers, or mediral treatment, though some 

 obtuse people dra^ i'l such, topics wholly regard- 

 less ol Uie fe^'llngs of others. 



NeviT sncc/.i^ at thf table. It can always be 

 prevented by prrsslni; the finger firmly against 

 the upper lip. under the nose. Talk in a low, but 

 perfectly distinct tone to your neighbor, but, 

 avoid anything that might seem like private 

 conversation. 



Whatever renders a person disagreeable, should 

 in common charity be avoided. Nowhere Is the 

 distinction Ijftween the gentleman and the boor 



By Olii-c. 



Two good months of long winter evenings yet, 

 and they may be made golden harvest time to 

 our boys and girls if wisely spent. Reading with- 

 out thought, IS like pouring water Into a sieve. 

 But reading which we nuike our very own by 

 turning it over and over in our minds, and which 

 starts new trains of valuable thought, Is the kind 

 to make us strong intellectually. Always keep 

 in view the two great ends of reading; first, to 



"Thev talk about a wtmian's sphere 



As though it had a limit ; 

 There's not a place in earth or heaven, 

 There's not a task to mankind given, 

 There's not a blessing or a woe. 

 There's not a wlxlspered yes or no. 

 There's not a life, or death, or birth. 

 That has a feather's weight of worth, 



Without a woman In it.'' 



Wr K-noir the vafiw of the kitchrn of the hoxisehotd and 

 the Fain/ icho prrsidex owT it, W'f try to aid /i/r aU we 

 run, and give ait t/if. pood advice to tulp her lee knout, and 

 are pleajted to do so. IH// tvA the f\i{ry rrnu^mUr xts too, 

 aiufi'md iM a club of jour (more if ilie choox- x) and grt one 

 of our preiniunist 



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