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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



DOINO HOUSEWORK BV MACHINERY. 



Tn preparing- ihe Home Papers for publication, I 

 was quite stirred up again by rending my own writ- 

 ings of a few ycirs ago. in regard to economy in the 

 use cf fonds of different kinds. Well, the expense of 

 preparing is often quite an item, as well as the first 

 cost of the raw materials. After a good deal of 

 study, and asking God to help too, I became satisfied 

 that our daily f ood c:>uld be cooked and served much 

 on the same short-cut idea that has been devel >ped 

 in the counter store. One < f our girls agreed to un- 

 dertake it, and the room formerly occupied by the 

 counter store, before it grew too 1 irge for it, was 

 christened "Home of the Honey Bees Lunch Room." 

 Kight near the counter, where people are served, 

 rises a steam-pipe, connected with the boiler of our 

 engine. The pipe curves d iwnward just over an 

 iron sink. When any article is to be cooked or 

 boiled, a jet of steam is simply turned on or into it. 

 By this means a cup of coffee may be made fresh, al- 

 most while you are giving the order, and a dish of 

 oysters may be served almost as quickly. When the 

 customer is gone, all dishes are cleaned by th>s same 

 jet of steam in a twinkling, and go into the cupboard 

 of the counter out of sight in about the same time. 

 Perhaps you would like to see our bill of fare. Here 

 it is: 



HOME OF THE HONEY BEES 



•LUNCH ROOM.— 





H Clover Honey in Comb, re §. 



g Clover Liquid Honey or P~ 



t- Clover Honey Candied, 5? 



* rt Basswood Liquid Honey or ®g 



•«•- Basswood Candied Honev. er-% 



p:3 Either of the above, with Biscuit and Butter - - 5e. a u> 



tuj Boston Baked Beans, per dish 5c. % g 1 



.Sw Class of Milk (large) - 5c. tt£ 



|s | Hot Coffee 5c. » 3- 



° k! The Celebrated Boston Codfish Balls, per dish - - 5c. 5 ft 



a? Boiled Eggs and Picadilly Sauce .... 53. ~<s 



■o § Oranges - 6c. o S 



§.s Ginger Snaps, Lemon Crackers, Oat-Meal Crackers, CD' 



-" or Cream Soda Crackers, per % lb. - . - Be. § £• 



* Comb Honey by the lb. 20c. eg. 



P Liquid or Candied Honey per lb. - ... ]-,,. ', 



c Oysters, per dish - 10c. *-■% 



The public are always welcome. -« 



Nov. 6, 1880 A. I. ROOT. "&& 



How can it all be done at the prices? Well, for 5c 

 we give VA oz. of honey, l A oz. butter, and a biscuit; 

 the net cost of which, at the b iker's and grocer's, is 

 3c, and we have lc profit, and lc for cleaning up the 

 dishes for the next customer. Our 10c dish of oys- 

 ters is 1 gill of the bivalves, 3c; J4 lb crackers, 2c; 

 % pint of milk, %c; l A oz. of butter, %c. Total, 6'/£c. 

 You will observe, that with these small lunches we 

 insure havinsr it all eaten up, so that nothing is left 

 for the— shall I say swill tub? We don't have any 

 such thing here, and no occasion for any. If any- 

 body wants more, why, they can have just as many 

 lunches as they choose. I often take my meal3 in 

 the lunch-room when hurried, and 10c gives me a 

 full meal— all I want, and perhaps more than 1 need 

 The very cheapest that anybody can get board in 

 Medina is $3.00 per week, without 1 idirins-, and if you 

 wanted to get a girl to d > ordinary housework, you 

 might ride all day and not find one; and if you 

 should try to hire one of the trirls in our factory, 

 whew! they wouldn't tro; and the worst of it is, my 

 story is too long. Girls are coming tome all the 

 time for pi \ces, and I hardly think any of them 

 would object to cooking f »od in our little lunch- 

 room any more th in they would tt folding bee jour- 

 nals if they were treated is th >u rh they had souls 

 to s ive M vy G >d bls33 the gin te of our nation, as 

 woU aa the boys I 



A CAUTION IN RKGVRD TO FIRES, AND 

 THE II SE OF OIL- L. ViTlPS. 



5 ^pOU will remember the friend who sent 



2[l us the little brushes (see p. 376, Aug. 

 J No.) Well, that this poor friend and 

 his wife may have our prayers in their 

 great trouble, I give you the following:— 



1 1( Id you a short time ago, I would send you a re- 

 port of my bees and honey when I trot done making 

 honey; hut 1 shall have to deter it for awhile, as I do 

 not feel like writing Hiiythiiur about it now. I have 

 told you th'it my back No's of Gluaninqs were de- 

 stroyed by fire. I don't know as it is risrht to bur- 

 den other people's minds with our own grief, but to 

 us it is too unbearable. On Oct. 22d our bou-=e took 

 fire and burned down, with every article ot cl ahinsr 

 and furniture in it. The fact that my wife and »• If 

 saved onlv what we had on (air backs is of but little 

 consequence, for our four children (our all) could 

 not be saved from the tin mes. They were in bed. We 

 went out onlv a few Rteps from home, and left the 

 lamp on the maiule. turned down to half its volume. 

 It exploded, and in an instant the whole interior of 

 the bouse was in fNnv s. Although the first Hash 

 wasseen.no one could get there quick enough to 

 rescue even one child. In the minutes the whole 

 building had fallen in. Our youngest a darling lit- 

 tle boy, was about 2 years and 3 months old; the 

 other three were jfiils— the oldest 1VA years oil, — 

 deep and mature in thought as a woman,— alwa\s at 

 the head of her cl iss in school. But I wll not say 

 more. My dear « ife is still confined to her bed, and 

 it will require a 1 ntr time for her to recover from 

 th^ suock. But we fullv expect to meet them again 

 in the future. Yours in grief, Chas. Bridges. 



S*n Fernando. Los Antrt les Co . Cal. 



This is indeed a terrible blow, my friends, 

 and it is hard, I know, to say, tk Thy will, 

 not oms, be done." I thank God. friend B.,' 

 for your concluding sentence. Hold on to 

 that, and you will be sustained. We can not 

 fathom, as to why God permits such events 

 in life; but if we trust him, we may be able 

 to see in it a call to us, not only to that 

 heaven where these four innocent darlings 

 have gone, but to some work he especially 

 wishes us to do for him and for our fellow- 

 men. Many a great mission worker has been 

 led to his or her field through great trials 

 and tribulations. I would suggest, that we 

 all take this as a lesson ; and while we ap- 

 preciate the blessing of having these little 

 ones by our side, as we have not done be- 

 fore, we lake especial care of our lamps and 

 the oil we burn. In our State, the explosive 

 oils are prohibited by law. When you leave 

 the house, a small brass lam)) is safer than 

 the large glass ones ; and even a small glass 

 lamp may be made safe by placing it in a 

 wash-bowl, or even a wash-basin. If the 

 lamp then breaks, the dangerous oil can not 

 saturate the cloth and furniture. A little 

 child was recently burned to death in our 

 own town ; and, years ago, I was once awak- 

 ened in the night by the crowing of the baby. 

 I rubbed my eyes and looked, and it was 

 caused by the blazing up of the bed clothes, 

 caused by an exploded or broken lamp. I 

 put the fire out with my hands, without 

 waking my wife, until it was about all over; 

 but it gave me some blistered fingers. After 

 that we used a small night-lamp, and set it 

 in a wash-bowl. Of late, the letters coming 

 saying some friend has been burned out, 

 are getting quite frequent; and although it 

 may be very small consolation, friend B., to 

 tell you th it you may, by your letters, have 

 saved many another home, yet I offer it, 

 such as it is. May the peace, such as the 

 world can not give, but that only Jesus gives, 

 come into your silent household! 



