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cent and amusing games, is not only 

 perfectly harmless but really charming 

 and beautiful. The less the world has 

 of gloomy, unhappy restraint, the better. 

 Never tnrn a flower garden into a grave- 

 yard, but rather graveyards to flower 

 gardens as far as possible. 



To expend money for training man- 

 kind to be fearful, tearful, moaning 

 and groaning, is pitiful and cruel. The 

 object of life is happiness. Therefore, 

 don't be miserable; but jump right 

 straight out of that most foolish feeling 

 at once. What's the use? Be glad you 

 live! Catch the bright warm sunshine 

 of joyous glee. Make the red blood 

 dance in the veins, and the heart and 

 feet to bound with love, afl'ectiou and 

 generous impulse. Call together the 

 young and the old; stir up the stift", 

 frigid and stupid community; melt away 

 all jjersonal animosity and bitterness; 

 tear down prejudice and unsocial divi- 

 sion, and regard every workingman and 

 woman as brother and sister — casting 

 aside immeauing names and distinctions. 

 There is no virtue in them 



Dance! Bance in the family, the 

 grange, the sovereign lodge, the picnic! 

 Cance on the holidays! Shake the peo- 

 ple into closer unity! Organize in 

 brotherly clubs, unions, granges and 

 lodges for social strength and good cheer! 

 Revolutionize! jubilate! hurrah! "Shake 

 them up! shake them down! forward 

 and back! crossover! down the middle! 

 round outside! all hands round! swing 

 six! balance all!" Dance the cotillon, 

 the quadrille, the schottische, the Span- 

 ish. That's it. Now retire; it is twelve 

 o'clock. Get a good rest and sleep; and 

 what's the result? Don't every one feel 

 better? Of course they do; thei-e is no 

 mistake about it. This makes the right 

 sort of Shakers — that is, the viarryinq 

 kind. Just think of it — the workers all 

 becoming Grangers, Sovereigns and 

 "Shakers!" They will capture the whole 

 proud continent, sure. Such a method 

 of life is a 



GKAND PKOTECTION 



Against the blues, sulks, horrors, scan- 

 dals and consequent neighborhood quar- 

 rels, suicides and the insane asylum. It 

 is the power of social sympathy, needed 

 by all. Therefore, let working people 

 everywhere demand more time for 

 thought, less for hard work, better wages, 

 and more recreation and amusement. 

 This is the kind of voice of all true re- 

 ligion, and of workiugmen's politics. 

 Call it the moral of dancing. Be happy, 

 O good people, and leave off the whisky 

 and lager beer. Do these drinks belong 

 to temperance, or to true refinement and 

 civilization? 



Champlin, Minnesota. 



SATURDAY 



EVENING 

 NO- 2. 



B1 M. K. T. 



REVEHY- 



l think I am beginning to love these 

 evening reveries. There seems to creep 

 into them a kind of happy expectation, 

 as though some bright idea would sud- 

 denly present itself and in some myste- 

 rious manner point out a means of de- 

 liverance from our present sad condition. 

 Our manner of living has become so 

 complicated, so formal and exacting, 

 that in order to reach the social stand- 

 point our domestic comfort is made to 

 sufler. I believe that it is Clarence Cook 

 who says that "America is the only land 

 known to geographers where the greater 

 part of the population lives to please its 

 neighbors." This is truly said of this 

 I particular class of people. Everything 

 we do is made subservient to this impor- 

 tant end; and so arduous has this labor 



become that wo no longer find time for ] 

 pleasant or profitable reading. We stint 

 and deny ourselves in the way of books 

 and magazines, while the dimes that 

 would get them go for a new set of china, 

 a new bonnet or some fine lace trim- 

 ming, "just like Mrs. B's." We say to 

 our accusing conscience, "0 well, I 

 never have time to read' nowadays;" but 

 we find time to ruffle and tuck and puff, 

 to the space of two weeks' work on one 

 dress, because our friends in the set to 

 which wo belong expect it, and we must 

 do as they do. We forget that they are 

 able to indulge in these extravagances 

 without discomfort to themselves or 

 injury to any one. Just hero a great 

 error arises from our agonizing efforts to 

 cope with the mighty odds that money 

 brings; but I must beg my readers to 

 wait for another remrt/ in which to im- 

 mortalize my subject, since I suddenly 

 remember a visit to San Jose to be made 

 on Tuesday next, and in the meantime I 

 must finish a new suit, which, in order 

 to be perfect, must have a ruffle and puff 

 on the lower skirt, a puff and ruffle 

 on the overskirts. There are many bias 

 bauds, and six dozen buttons to set on; 

 all this, and only one day in which to 

 get ready. After my visit, and in my 

 next revery, I shall attempt to gather up 

 the tangled thread and proceed with the 

 trials of us " Poor but respectable 

 people." 



FURTHER FROM "GRANDPA" ON 

 THE "SUPREWIACY " QUESTION. 



Grandpa is glad to have drawn this 

 expression from "Girls' Rights" pen: 

 "Yes, that is right." The legitimate 

 boundary to which it alludes is lorn, 

 pure, holy love. There is also a legal 

 boundary which Grandpa is not so able 

 to define, but he would point "Girls' 

 Rights" to a case now on hand, where 

 the masculine is at present, and has been 

 near, if not quite, two years confined in 

 the San Jose jail, all through that mas- 

 culine supremacy not having been exer- 

 cised as it should have been. (The case 



is that of Mr. A ys. ) Who does the 



law regard as the supreme head, the re- 

 sponsible party? Who does it take hold 

 of and incarcerate in prison if not sub- 

 missive to its dictates, as in the case 

 mentioned? True enough, husbauds are 

 liable to err, by which fortunes are lost, 

 wives broirght to poverty, etc. But, 

 dear " Girls' Bights," would the world 

 be saved from these disasters by revers- 

 ing this "supremacy" question? No 

 danger, where love is kept, as it should 

 and ought to be: but mutual nghta AnA 

 concessions will be had also. As a usual 

 thing, it is "the husband's home and 

 business the wife comes to, and he only 

 is competent to judge, &c., viz: whether 

 as farmer he shall live on his farm or in 

 the city; as blacksmith, near his shop or 

 in a fine Louse in the suburbs. If these 

 are extreme cases, they have their paral- 

 lelisms on a small scale. Grandpa, in 

 the course of a long life, cannot call half 

 a dozen cases to mind whore it has been 

 the other way, i. e., whore the wife has 

 taken the hus'band to her home and busi- 

 ness, &c. One case of this kind is on 

 his mind, and worthy of mention be- 

 cause of its happy results. Dear "Girls' 

 Rights," go do likewise. This was a 

 case of a lady conducting a prosperous 

 private seminary, owning the house and 

 home where she lived. She married the 

 gospel minister of the place, and he 

 came to her home and surroundings, she 

 retaining precisely the su; remacy she 

 had always held; and a very happy 

 union it was till death severed the tie. 

 This, so unusual a case, is neither a rule 

 nor a criterion. Thanks to "Girls 



Bights" for another sentence: "Why, 

 then you need not ask any more." Just 

 so; and that is what the darling Augie 

 comes to if we can only keep up the love 

 principle where it ouijhl to be and has a 

 righl to be— on both, the masculine and 

 feminine side. Then, with judicious 

 care and discretion, the financial affairs 

 will be known; the comfortable house 

 and buggy come in due season, and all 

 jars and discords bo now and forever 

 avoided. 



P. S.— The feminine supremacy was 

 also acknowledged. Will not "Girls' 

 Rights" give us Bomething on that part 

 of the subject? Grandpa. 



Jlomcotic, 



ecj 



The XMCaiden's Choice. 



Oh give mo the life of a fnrmcr's wife, 



In tho flelds ami v/onis no bright, 

 •MouK tbo siii((iii« birds and tho lowing herds, 



Aud tho clover bloBBoms white; 

 The note of tho nioruing'b heavenward lark 



Is the music sweet tor ine. 

 And the dowy Uowers in the early hours 



Tbo gems I love to see. 



Ohl give me the breeze from the waying trees, 



Tho murmur of summer leaves. 

 And the swullow's song as he skips along, 



Or twitters beneath tho eaves; 

 Tho plowman's shout, as he'8 taming out 



His team at Betting sun. 

 Or his merrj- i;(>od-ni;;ht by the flre-fly 8 light 



When his daily work is done. 



And give me the root and tho luscious fruit 



My own hands rear for food. 

 And the bread so light and boncy-white. 



And the milk so pure and good; 

 For sweet the bread of labor is, 



When tbo heart is strong and true. 

 And ablesKiug will come to the hearth and home. 



If our best we bravely do. 



this necessitates having the pies hot 

 when eaten, and all do not like them so. 



WHITE MOCSTAIN CAKK. 



Four eggs, well beaten with '2^^ cups 

 of white sugar; 1 large cup of butter; 1 

 cup of sour milk; 1 teaspoonful of soda; 

 i 5 cups of flour; 1 teaspoonful of vanilla; 

 1 of lemon; 1 heaping cap of raisins 

 (whole without stoning); ^^ cup of can- 

 died orange peel and citron sliced; J/^ 

 cup of almond meats sliced. This amount 

 will make two common-sized cakes. 



OBAN'GB CAKE. 



Two cups of sugar; 2 cups flour; 1 

 small cup of butter; Y, cup of water; 

 yolks of 5 eggs; whites of 3 eggs; 1 tea- 

 spoonful of cream-tartar; % teaspoonful 

 of soda; the juice and grated rind of one 

 orange (or of a lemon). Beat the yolks 

 and sugar together, and add the whites 

 beaten to a stiff froth; then the other in- 

 gredients. Bake in jelly-pans. Add the 

 juice and grated rind of an orange to the 

 whites of two eggs; add white sugar to 

 make sufficiently stiff" to put between tho 

 cakes when they are cold. 



WASHING FLANNELS. 



FAMILIAR TALKS— No. 13. 



iW that the heated, busy term of 

 the year is past, I hope the Do- 

 mestic Department of the .\gkicjji.- 

 TDBisT will bo better patronized by 

 correspondents than it has for 

 some time back. Has "Ansie" despaired 

 of hearing from me? I hope she has not 

 kept (/io.« doughnuts waiting till now, not 

 knowing what to do with them. Well, 

 my dear "Ausic," I must plead ignor- 

 ance of the "black art" that would 

 enable me to cook without flour. Gladly 

 would I impart to others the knowledge 

 did I but possess such a secret. Not 

 only would it lessen household expenses, 

 but were there only one-half the amount 

 of flour consumed that now is, there 

 might be moredivcrsiti/mjnrmmq. There 

 would bo fewer men who would put in a 

 great quantity of wheat, and then hang 

 aiouud the saloons, living on the inter- 

 est of the money they " expect to get" 

 for their crop. But to return to those 

 unfortunate doughnuts. I seldom 

 measure flour for doughnuts, and 

 never for cookies — using for both just 

 enough to make them roll out. 



As tho season for mince-pies and fruit- 

 cake is drawing near, perhaps a receipt 

 or two will not be amiss. This receipt 



FOK MINXE-PIES 



Is good, though if any ingredient is 

 objectionable it can be oicitted : 1 pound 

 of roasted or boiled beef; ,'* peck of 

 apples; 1 pound raisins; U pound cur- 

 rants; 1 nutmeg; 1 tablcspoonful of 

 ground cloves; 2 of cinnamon; 1 pound 

 sugar; the grated rind and the juice of 2 

 lemons. Moisten with cider and let it 

 stand over night, or longer if you wish. 

 When su d, put in two ounces of citron, 



y thin strips. Th 



s for half a pound 



I have had some experience in wash- 

 ing flannels, and observed one or two 

 important facts that most people seem to 

 overlook. I think it better to wash them 

 in cool water, as they will shrink just 

 the same from being hung out in the 

 cold air after washing in hot water, as 

 they mil from being put from cold to 

 hot water, or from hot to cold water. 

 The object is to secure a unifonn kmper- 

 aiare from the time they are wet until 

 dry, and also each time they are washed. 

 Washing in cold water one week and the 

 next week in hot water also causes 

 shrinkage. White flannels and merinos 

 look better if a Uttle ammonia is added 

 to the wash-water. I have never tried 

 borox water, excepting for black silks. 

 It is good for sUks. Silks also are very 

 much improved if ammonia is added to 

 the water they are washed in. Both 

 silks and flannels should be washed in 

 water that has not been nsed for wash- 

 ing other clothing. 



[Following we append severol recipes 

 upon this subject, selected from various 

 sources. — Ed.] 



Washinc. Woolens. — The secret of 

 washing woplen goods successfully lies 

 in avoiding rubbing, which shrinks or 

 fulls the fabric. Many washers advo- 

 cate scalding water for white flannels; 

 others are equally enthusiastic over the 

 advantages of cold water, but all agree 

 that rubbing is detrimental. The rinsing 

 water should be of the same temperature 

 as the suds, whether that be hot or cold, 

 and the viTinging should leave as little 

 water as possible in the goods. Colored 

 flannel should not be scalded, but washed 

 in suds as hot as the hands can bear and 

 rinsed in clear water. The garments 

 should be wrung as dry a.s possible with 

 the hands, then wrung again in a dry 

 towel and dried quickly by the fire to 

 preserve the color. Small articles maj' 

 often be ironed ^vithout previous drying. 



Washiso Fike Tjxdebclothisg. — A 

 leading firm, importers and retailers of 

 hosiery goods in Philadelphia, gives the 

 Oerniantown Tekgraph the following direc- 

 tions for washing merino lamb's wool 

 and silk underclothing, and that paper 

 bears vs-itness to its excellence: "Use 

 one pound of dissolved soap in four gal- 

 lons of warm water, in which well rinse 

 the articles to be washed, drawing them 

 repeatedly through the hand; wring them 

 as dry as possible to remove the soap ; 



