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THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



She I70USBHOLD. 



A GOOD SCAVENGER. 



By Lois. 



'• The town has passed a law that no pigs are to 

 be kept within the corporation limits. It will be 

 a great improvement in some of these back 

 streets, I tliink," said Laura. 



'•I, am not so sure of that," said her cousin. 

 " Though not much of a pork eater, I have a great 

 respect for the pig as a scavenger." 



"Why they are never allowed to run around in 

 a village like this." 



" I know that, but how carefully all the waste 

 about those poor tenement hcjuses iu the back 

 streets is saved for the pigs. Even the dish-water 

 goes Into his trough. Every paring, husk, or 

 decayed apple goes into the same, and is worked 

 over in his laboratory with substantial food, 

 which goes a long ways in supporting these poor 

 families. How industriously many of these peo- 

 ple work to gather supplies from their neighbors ; 

 coming early with their barrels on a wheel- 

 barrow, to take away the trash we are so glad to 

 spare. I shall hardly know what to do when 

 Hans stops coming twice a weelt to take our col- 

 lection. If all this rubbish, which the pigs now 

 eat up, is thrown out .aljout back doors, as it will 

 be in hundred of homes, I think we shall see the 

 efTect in the health of the place. A town in 

 Pennsylvania has Just been sullcring from a fear- 

 ful typhoid scourge, caused, I lie papers state, 

 from just this refuse being thrown out on the 

 ground during the winter, and then festering in 

 the sun the first hot days of spring. I believe it 

 is a good sanitary measure to let the poor people 

 have tlieir pigs, and feed them well with all the 

 supplies they can save and I)eg. He may not be 

 very aesthetic, but he is a u.seful member of the 

 community in his line, and I believe he saves 

 more disease than he causes. Scavengers of any 

 sort, need to be encouraged iu this year of antici- 

 pated pestilence." 



the house carried out to such a pit and thrown 

 in. When it comes to be spread about on the 

 land, there it is, ready to pierce the foot of any 

 poor horse employed to cultivate the land, or any 

 bare-footed boy who trots over the field. 



And while you are teaching the children to be 

 kind and thoughtful to their four-footed friends, 

 make the lesson spread out over all their dealings 

 with them, even to the tones of the voice. Boys 

 who speak to that faithful servant, the horse, in 

 a harsh and brutal way, soon acquire a .similar 

 way of acting and feeling. I see an illustration 

 of it before my window as I write, and it takes 

 all the beauty from the pleasant summer land- 

 scape. 



It seems as if some men had never pondered 

 the te.tt, " blessed are the merciful, for they shall 

 obtain mercy." The converse of this is Just as 

 true, and it should bring solemn reflection to the 

 minds of many I have known. 



I would whisper this counsel to young ladies 

 whose minds are not yet "made up." Never, 

 never, accept a young man who is cruel to his 

 horse or dog, or one who loses temper quickly at 

 anything that crosses him, and vents his spite 

 on them. As surely as you unite your destiny 

 with such a person, you will see many sad and 

 bitter hours, and shed many secret tears. A 

 petty tyrant, even over brutes, can never be a 

 pleasant home-maker. Oh, it is a sad sight to sec 

 little children inheriting such a spirit, and fol- 

 lowing in such ways in spite of all a mother's 

 entreaties and labors. It is hard to make head- 

 way against a father's example. His daily walk 



was washed three hundred times a year, and that 

 I saved three minutes each time, that would 

 surely be worth saving. In the twenty years it 

 would amount to three hundred hours. I could 

 accomplish a good deal in that saved time." 



"Do you go on this plan in all your house- 

 keeping. Aunt Eunice ? " 



"I try to, Emma; but though I have been 

 studying over the problem for so many years, I 

 yet find out some new improvement very often. 

 I get a good hint from a paper, or a neighbor or a 

 visitor, and at once put it in practice. Some- 

 times what suits one does not suit another, so I 

 have to discriminate. I hold that it is a good 

 policy, and a moral duty also, for a woman to 

 save herself all the work she can, by handy con- 

 trivances and forethought. She can find excel- 

 lent use for all the time she can make and save."" 



" Your science must be the reason why your 

 work always seems ' done up ' days ahead. I 

 have often wondered how you accomplished so 

 niuch, and had so much spare time to run around 

 with me, for instance, as you did to-day. I mean 

 to learn the art of saving time, too." 



" You will need to save it piece-meal, as I do, la 

 little things; but by making a study of it, the 

 work will grow pleasant and easy. All the sys- 

 tem you can bring to bear on your work, will b& 

 so much clear gain. I know that much will de- 

 pend on others in this regard, and that even good 

 order should be second to the comfort of a house- 

 hold. (;ast-iron rules seldom add to home happi- 

 ness. But come in with me Emma, and let me 

 show vou a few other time-saving devices I have 



HABITS OF DISORDER IN 



11,1/ Lollir. 



EARLY YEARS. 



and conversation will be an object lesson which 1 not yet patented. I am sure you will like them 



all her words cannot gainsay. 



"Dear me, Addie, do gather up these apple- 

 cores and pariUKs. and throw tlieiii out. They 

 Just draw a swarm of flies. Alc.\. should have 

 known better than to leave them here. But that 

 is just the way with all of you. It keeps mc 

 cleaning up the whole time, and the door-yard 

 looks like a fright. I was so ashamed yesterday 

 when Miss Irving walked out to see the flowers. 

 Old papers blowing about, and caught in the 

 rose bushes, and an old shoe, or two, and 1 don't 

 know what else. I cannot see why you children 

 do not take more pride in fixing up tlie place 

 and making it look like other folks'. I am sure 

 I have not the time; but you girls might, if the 

 boys will not." 



The reason of the disorder was not far to seek. 

 The children had not Leen trained to neat ways 

 from the cradle up. They had never Ijeen taught 

 when they had fruit or nuts to eat, to take a plate 

 and lay the parings or shells on it, and then dis- 

 pose of them properl.v when through. They had 

 not been called back the first timr they had left 

 such trash on the window-sill, to come at onci' 

 and clear it away, and the same the second time 

 and the third. It takes "line upon line '' to fix a 

 good habit, but once " set," it is there to sta.v. 



This .same habit of untidiness, is very general, 

 as one may see by the appearance of our public 

 halls, cars and waiting-rooms. I have seen a 

 well-dressed woman eat a paper of peanuts in a 

 ferry-house, and drop the shells down one by one 

 on the floor beside her, as calmly as if she were 

 dropping them into the bay. Hut it showed ill- 

 breeding in the view of man.v wlio looked on. A 

 true lady, Is one everywhere, and her manners 

 will correspond. 



If children were taught little tidy ways, we 

 should see a vast improvement in the appear- 

 ances of our towns and villages, and also in, and 

 about the homes of our land. Unsiglitly banana 

 and orange peels would cease to disfigure the 

 sidewalks, and a better resting place than the 

 street would be found for old cans and tins and 

 those weary wayfarers, old boots and shoes. 



md perhaps they will be of service in your new 

 home." 



The iarmer's trade is one ot worth. 

 He's partner with the sky and earth. 

 He's partner with llie sun and rain, 

 And no man loses for his gain, 

 And men may rise or men may fall. 

 But the farmer he must feed them all. 



The farmer dares his mind to speak. 

 He has no Kift or place to seek. 

 To no man living need he bow. 

 The man wlio walks beliind the plow 

 Is his own master— what'er befall. 

 And king or beggar, he feeds us all. 



• TAKING A PLA Y-SPELL. 



Bi/ J. R Met'. 



'• I should say you had enough to do, Mrs. I-evy, 

 without digging in a flower-bed. When you get 

 the spare time, I would rest if I were you." 



"That isexactly what I am doing. Mrs. Hodge," 

 said her neighbor, cheerily. "This is my i>lay- 

 spell. While the irons are heating and the kettle 

 boiling. I run <iut lure to refresh myself over 

 these beautiful pinks and pansies. Did you ever 

 see anything so lovely?" and she stepped back 

 on the gravel walk and surveyed them with 

 enthusiasm. 



"Oil, they arc well enough," said the other, in- 

 dillerently, "but I should enjoy myself a great 

 deal better sitting in a good roeking-diair and 

 piecing patch-work for a play-spell. Like you, I 

 can't be satisficil doing nothing, but I like to see 

 some fruits of my labor that will last. A parcel 

 of flowers die in a diiy, or two, and there are no 

 fruits to follow them. It seems just a waste to 

 mc." 



"We see things in ditTerent lights," said the 



other, pleasantly. "I confess that patch-work 



seems a waste to me, when vou look at it from a . , , i, , . - j ... i,, - a 



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merely economical pmnt of view; hut « hen ills,, _y sifting, 1 teasimonful butter, 1 teaspoonful 



RECIPES. 



Confectionery i'akk.— 2 cups sugar, 3 eggs 

 (whites beaten seijaratelyi, beat sugar and but- 

 ter together, r><; cups butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 

 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 of cream tartar, 3'^ cups 

 flour.u Take one-half of dough, and add i table- 

 spoonfuls molasses, 1 tahlespoonful cinnamon, I 

 teaspoonful cloves, 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 nut- 

 meg; this will make two layers of light and two 

 of dark. Chocol.^te Filling : 1 cake of choco- 

 late, I cup sugar, one-half cup water. Boil until 

 thick. 



Tea BiSCtllT.— To 1 quart of flour add 2 heaping 



recreation, as in your c;vsc, I cim see that it is 

 really valuable. The flowers are a rest to me, 

 and ii Joy forever. Charley likes them as well as 

 I do. I pinned a carnation on the breiist of his 

 ehecke<l shirt this morning before he went out to 

 the flcid, and told him it was to make a better 

 man of hiui. He said 'he had nodoul)t it would.' 

 I heard the men laughing over his ■ posey ' when 

 he wi'iit to hitch up the team, and he replied that 

 'his girl gave it to him.' These flowers help to 

 keep us old folks young. Mrs. Hodge, and are 

 worth having, if only for that." 



Mrs. Hodge could not but think how it would 

 seem for "her old man " and he'rself to be trifling 

 in that style But with all her dissatisfacMon 

 with her friend's choice of amusements, she 

 could not help the uneasy conviction that she cream tarta 

 had the best of her. It was a far plcasanter 4 eggs, 

 home than she possessed, and the very faces of 

 the children showed it. It is a good thing to he 

 industrious and have one's mind on her work; 

 but it is good at times to utterly lose sight of the 

 cares, worries, and frets of life for a few blessed 

 moments, and let the soul draw near to nature's 

 heart in the beautiful works she has spread out 

 before us. 



OUR FOUR-FOOTED FRIENDS. 



/(;/ Ell, III. 



Children cannot be trained too carefully to take 

 most scrupulous care about throwing away 

 broketi needles, bits of glass or china, where no 

 possible danger can come from them to man or 

 beast. Man.v valuable horses in New York, are 

 every year obliged to be killed because of nails 

 or pieces of glass which have worked into their 

 feet. The compost heap is the last place to throw 

 such things, though I have .seen all the refuse of 



TIME-SAVERS. 



BilArlfy. 



Emma was purchasing her tin-ware in com- 

 pany with good, practical .\unt Eunice, and she 

 found her assistance very useful. 



"But why were you so particular, auntie," she 

 asked afterwards, " to have me take those oval- 

 shaped dripping pans, instead of those with 

 square corners? I see but little dilTerence." 



"Because tlic> are so much easier to clean. 

 You know how much quicker you can wash a 

 round basin than you can a square one. It would 



lard, rub shortning in tlie flour; 1 pint sweet 

 milk, one-half teasjioonful salt; make a soft 

 dough. Knead as little as possible. Rollout 

 one-half inch thick. 



Cke.^m Cookies.— 1 cup butter, 1 cup sour 

 cream, 2J^ cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful 

 saleratus. 



Charlotte Rus.se.— 1 quart cream, whipped 

 stitt', 2 tablespoonluls gelatine, dissolved in a 

 little warm milk; two-thirds cup sugar; flavor. 

 C*i*e— common spoHge cake cut in pieces to fit 

 a round dish. Cream whipped, gelatine put in a 

 dish on stove with milk, gelatine stirred until It 

 cools, then put with cream. 



Delicate Cake.— 1 cup white sugar, one-half 



cup butter, one-half cup sweet cream, I cup 



flour ^heaping), 2 tablespoonfuls corn starch, 2 of 



1 of lemon extract, the whites of 



Soft Ginger Bread.— 2 cups molasses, 1 cup 

 sugar. 1 cup shortning, 1 cup buttermilk, or sour 

 milk, 2 teaspoonfuls saleratus, 1 egg, stir the 

 egg in the last thing; it is an improvement to 

 the cake. Flour enough to make quite stilT. 



SIRS. M. H. B., Marengo, N. Y. 



Cold Slaw,- Chop or shave cabbage very fine, 

 and season with salt and pepper. Make a dress- 

 ing of 4 teaspoonfuls sweet cream, 2 of sugar, and 

 4 of vinegar. Beat well and pour over the cab- 

 bage. 



Oyster Pie.— Line a deep pie-dish with a rich 

 biscuit dough, rolled thin; dredge with flour, 

 pour in a pint of oysters, fill up with the oyster 

 liquor, and season with pepper, salt, and bits of 

 butter. Cover with a crust having an opening 

 in the lid, and bake in a quick oven. 



Le.mon Pudding.— The Juice and grated rind 

 ef 1 lemon, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoon- 



take you some minutes longer to clean one of , fuls flour, and 1 pint of milk. Line a dish with 

 those square-cornered dripping pans after you I paste, pour in the custard, and bake until done, 

 had roasted a piece of beef in it. I have used one j Whip tlie whites of 2 eggs to a froth, add 4 table- 

 like yours almost daily for twenty years. Say it | spoonfuls sugar, spread on top and brown. 



