California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal 



The names were all 80 pretty 

 Before little bister came. 



My sister 'e a little darling, 



She is so sweet and good. 

 And she looks so very cunning 



"When she has on her little hood. 



For anything in this world 

 I'd not pari with little sister; 



One day she was away, 

 And ohi how much I missed her. 



After much huuting, we have found 

 a name. It is Rose, the queen of the 

 Posie. We are all happy -when sister is 

 near. 



LITTLE BABIES. 

 Little babes are the pride of tlie households, 



Always laughing away care: 

 See their eyes are bright as sunshine. 



And their little face so fair. 



Every one should have a birdling. 

 To creep or trip about the floor. 



And every morning sec a bright face 

 Peeping at the chamber door. 



Dear Aunt Polly, I suppose this will 

 fill up Our Corner, so I guess this will 

 be enough for this time. 

 Your Neice, 



Yetta Feldman, 



San Jose. 



Aunt Polly has some more poetry of 

 Yetta's, but will save it for another 

 time. 



Here is a square puzzle, 

 ones to find out: 



for curious 



hot blooded, or warmly clad themselves. 

 My experience is that in toughening 

 children by carelessdressiug and feeding, 

 only the naturally tough ones live. The 

 delicate arc sure to die in the process, 

 and many a delicate, frail little baby, by 

 judicious dressing and feeding, have 

 made robust men and women. 



I must say a word about the flannel 

 band that most infants wear the lirst six 

 or eight months of their lives. After 

 the first month I put them aside forever, 

 because my warm flannel shirt and waist 

 keep baby's bowels perfectly warm, and 

 I claim that no child needs b.andaging 

 anywiiere to keep it in shape, as most 

 people seem to think. Give children 

 loose, warm clothing, to grow in, and 

 they will repay your care by growing 

 lusty, fat and active limbed. Should 

 any desire patterns of my baby's shirt 

 and waist, I should be most happy to 

 supply them. 



WOOD 

 JOHN 



MASS. 



It is said that this letter fouud its way 

 through the mails to its proper destina- 

 tion and owner. 



Iggiemc, 



HOW I DRESS MY BABY. 



BY "JEWELL**' 



'N the first place, warmth being the 

 life of young infants, I keep one or 

 two coverings of flannel over the 

 entire surface of the body, except- 

 ing, of course, head and hands. 

 The shirt I make high necked, long 

 sleeved, and long enough to cover the 

 bowels, to the thighs, opened down the 

 front, and buttoned, which I find most 

 convenient to put on and take off. A 

 flannel waist with buttons around the 

 lower part, on which I fasten a flannel 

 and white skirt, over which is a white 

 slip, long sleeved and high necked. The 

 stockings I have of white woolen, which 

 reach up to the diaper, above the knee, 

 and if I cannot buy such I make them 

 out of old stocking legs. Over these I 

 have white cotton ones, which I fasten 

 to narrow elastic straps at the side, which 

 in turn fasten to the waist by a loop, the 

 buttons being on th'e elastic. When 

 baby was in long clothes I omitted the 

 ■white stockings and shoes. 



In this way the child is kept warm, 

 the clothing equally distributed over the 

 body, and perfectly comfortable, and the 

 whole body is loosely yet warmly dressed ; 

 four very essential points towards the 

 health of children. Also, the simple 

 way of making and putting on and oft' 

 greatly helps us overworked mothers. 



At night I put on two flannel night- 

 dresses, one not being warm enough — 

 nothing else, but the diaper, which, by 

 the way, I have of heavy flannel for the 

 night, as it keeps warm when wet, and 

 is not so disagreeable to the child to 

 sleep in. 



This idea of toughening our children 

 by half dressing, I don't believe in. 

 The very people who talk it are either 



i0m^^tic. 



FAMILIAR TALKS— No. 14. 



which will soon droop over the moss. 

 This ivy is a delicate plant, and is suita- 

 ble for hanging baskets and rockeries. 

 One silver fern, two golden ferns, a vio- i 

 let root and a Calla lily arc all I have in I 

 the box at present. I intend to try and 

 make a smilax run over the legs of the 

 stand, — there being some twelve or thir- 

 teen of said legs. I am a little doubtful 

 about it, however, as the smilax will be 

 obliged to grow without much light. I 

 will report in the future. , 



Utilizing the wild feed upon the ' 

 great plains is a money-making business. ! 

 Says the Colorado Farmer: 



Stock raising, the most important pur- 

 suit m Colorado, next to mining, has al- 

 ready attained mammoth proportions 

 and is undoubtedly one of the most 

 profitable. In this business the returns 

 are large with comparatively small risks, 

 and it does not require much capital to 

 be invested in labor or machinery, kc, 

 thai almost any pursuit necessitates. By 

 an investment of $.j,000 to $10,000 in 

 common or Texas cows, and a comple- 

 ment of grade or blooded bulls, a man is 

 sure of a fortune in ten years. Tc^xas 

 yearling heifers can be bought for $7 to 

 $10, and two-year-olds for $12 to $15, 

 and good grade bulls for $G0 per head. 





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jH, these Editors! Wasn't it the 

 height of impudence to make my 

 receipt for mince-pies utterly unin- 

 telligible, and then ask me how I 

 liked Thanksgiving and Christmas 

 ' I had alw.ays heard that editors 

 were very meek and submissive, and en- 

 dure everything without talking back, 

 but I dvn't believe it any more. Well, I 

 will try it over again, and hope for bet- 

 ter success. Here is the receipt I at- 

 tempted to give to the readers of the Ag- 

 KicDLTDRisT last mouth. One pound 

 finely chopped beef — roasted or boiled; 

 three pounds of apples, chopped; one 

 pound of raisins; one-fourth pound of 

 currants; one nutmeg; two tablespoon- 

 fuls of ground cinnamon; one table- 

 sppnful of ground cloves; the grated 

 rinds and the juice of two lemons; one 

 pound of sugar; moisten with sweet ci- 

 der. Let it seand all night. When us- 

 ing add two ounces of citron, cut in very 

 thin strips. The original receipt calls 

 for half a pound of suet, but if it^s used 

 another pound of apples will have to be 

 added, and the pies will need to be served 

 hot. 



I see mention made of moss frames in 

 the November Agriculturist. Our lit- 

 tle girl has just finished one that looks 

 very neat and quite pretty. We s(,me- 

 times find whole trees covered with moss 

 suitable for such purposes. The moss 

 does not vary much in color, but some 

 of it is nearly as fine as the most delicate 

 seaweed, and again it is more like lich- 

 ens. If one can get dift'erent colored 

 mosses, I think such frames could be 

 made very attractive. Not long since I 

 saw, at a friend's, a small box painted 

 green placed upon a stool, and set by the 

 window, and tilled with plants. I liked 

 the appearance of it very much, but I 

 thought I could improve the looks a lit- 

 tle. So with aid from a friend I have 

 a piece of rustic work that elicits praise 

 from all who see it. The supports for 

 the box are made of manzanite. The 

 limbs of this tree gi'ow in such varied 

 shapes, and the bark is red and so 

 smooth, that it only requires to be cut in 

 the woods and nailed together. The box 

 is of a size suitable for the window, and 

 about a foot deep, and covered with 

 twigs of moss, or, rather, with twigs of 

 trees covered with moss. These twigs 

 are fastened on with tacks and twine. 

 I have Colisium, or Kenilworth ivy 

 planted around the edge of the box. 



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