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A NEW YORK MOTHER’S INCEN¬ 
TIVES TO ECONOMY. 
T O economize time and strength our 
five girls, varying in age from five to 
eighteen years, are taught, first, to help 
themselves; after that, to help about 
work suitable to their strength. We have 
a dairy farm. My husband has poor health, 
and is obliged to keep one man by the year 
and another one during the summer 
months. Their wages and bo^ird take so 
much of the profits, I found it necessary to 
do our own work, sewing included. 
The oldest girl taught school in our own 
district this winter, and boarded at home, 
thus saving all of her wages and assisting 
me. The four younger girls are never kept 
from school" except for sickness in the fam¬ 
ily. Upon rising, each girl is taught to open 
the window and put her bed to air. This 
enables all to make five beds before school. 
They also wash the dishes, prepare the 
vegetables for dinner, and sweep the floors. 
Enveloped in the skirts of discarded ging¬ 
ham dresses, cambric sweeping caps and 
half sleeves, they perform their work with¬ 
out injury to their school dresses, which, 
although not expensive, I insist shall be 
tidy. 
The girls take the entire care of 60 hens, 
and have the proceeds to buy their clothing, 
which I choose with a view to durability 
rather than to show. The cheapest goods 
are not always those bought for the least 
money. All-wool flannels will make over 
nicely and give the wearer a much better 
appearance than do the le.-s durable half 
cotton dress goods. The girl aged 11, and 
the twins two years older, do nearly all 
their own sewing during vacations. I 
teach them to do all difficult parts with 
great care. They love their work, what¬ 
ever it is, for they know that I need their 
help, and love lightens labor. The oldest 
daughter does all of her own sewing, 
besides a great deal for me. She gives her 
three sisters each one music lesson a week, 
and has two music pupils besides. 
To prove that I have not neglected my 
children’s education, I may say that our 
oldest girl taught In our village academy 
before she was 16 years of age, and 
received her college entrance diploma when 
but 17. To do this required strict economy 
of time, for three of the girls were so 
nearly of the same age that they required 
much care and labor, and we did not keep 
help in the house. To save time, pastry 
was almost excluded from our tables, and 
fruit, vegetables, oatmeal, and plenty of 
milk, with good bread and butter, and 
honey, which our own bees furnished, 
made up our simple bill-of-fare. One good 
result of this is that the children are 
healthy and happy. 
The five-year-old girl prefers to make her 
toilet alone each morning, and is proud 
that she can wipe the knives, forks and 
spoons. During a month’s work in haying, 
the twins do all the raking, with a wheel 
rake, saving $2 per day for a man’s work 
equal to theirs. 
To economize material nothing is wasted. 
No fair food is put in the waste basket. The 
broken or dry bits of bread make various 
appetizing dishes: so also do fragments of 
meat; vegetables are warmed over ; bits of 
fat meat are tried out with drippings, and 
make a nice addition to the supplies for 
shortening. In winter, eggs are used more 
sparingly than in summer. We kill our 
own beef, which furnishes fresh and dried 
and corned beef much cheaper than the 
butcher could sell it. We aim to furnish as 
much as possible of our own living from 
the farm, constantly watching the small 
leaks. The sweet crackers and pieces of 
sweet-cake that I saw recently in a neigh¬ 
bor’s chicken feed, would, with a little milk 
and an egg, have made a nice dessert for my 
family of eight persons. True economy 
does not stint comforts, but forbids waste. 
To economize in friction, I seek by divine 
grace, to control self and to teach my chil¬ 
dren to follow my example. Divine love 
will help us to bear and forbear, but when 
forbearance ceases to be a virtue, a plain 
statement of the difficulty with the one 
concerned, has often been a help to me. 
Trials and difficulties there must be while 
we are in the flesh; but as we know they 
are the discipline of a loving Father to 
bring us nearer Him, may we not patiently 
endure them t . Beatrice. 
Now fill the box with very rich soil, and 
plant whatever vines you may like best, 
and that are of quick, thrifty growth in 
your section. Here in Canada Madeira 
Vine, Cinnamon Vine or running roses are 
usually chosen, though I have seen one 
window, a perfect bower of perfume and 
beauty with strong-growing double petu¬ 
nias used in the box. 
If you wish to make a cheap, orna¬ 
mental little fence to border a walk, or 
run vines over, collect all the old barrel 
hoops you can find, open them in such a 
way as to leave them as long as possible, 
and stick in the ground so they will over¬ 
lap each other about half. When covered 
with vines they are very pretty. Remove 
the soil from a deep and large hole under 
some window where the sun strikes its 
fiercest rays, or from the side of a porch 
which you would like to shade ; fill the 
hole with rich soil and plant some good 
variety of grape vine. They are, when 
well grown, much handsomer than many 
vines esteemed solely for their beauty, and 
they make a dense shade. For an arbor, 
pretty, simple and cheap, have four posts 
driven in the ground the height you wish 
the body of your structure to be. They 
are all the better and more rustic looking 
if the bark is left on. Four pieces of light 
scantling nailed to the tops of the posts in 
such a way as to come together in the 
center, will complete the frame. Any one 
can lattice this up with laths, leaving a 
space for a door. When the vines get 
firmly established, it is as pretty as many 
more costly affairs, for the beauty of any 
of them depends upon the thrift of the 
climbing greenery. A high screen or fence 
made in the same way, by latticing, when 
overgrown with vines, makes a splendid 
background for tall-growing plants. 
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FLOWER FASHIONS IN CANADA. 
T HERE are many pretty devices so 
cheap as to be within the reach of 
every one if only one would think of them ; 
below are a few hints. One of the preti iest 
ways, and the very best way I ever saw of 
growing begonias or ferns successfully, is 
to have a case made the exact size of some 
north or east window, and fastened to the 
window case on the room side in such a 
way as to widen the sill. A door hung with 
hinges is made to exactly fit this case. Of 
course, the panels are of glass, giving the 
effect of a case glass on both sides. The 
case may be fastened at the top by small 
hooks which fit into screw-eyes in the wall, 
and supported beneath by brackets. Swing¬ 
ing brackets inside add much to the effect 
of the plants when arranged. They are 
thus keptentirely free from the great enemy 
of such plants, dust, aDd also in the moist 
atmosphere they like so well. 
Another pretty fashion for a south win¬ 
dow in summer when shade is desirable, is 
to have a large box fastened under the 
sill, outside (as long as the window is wide); 
on the outside corners nail upright pieces 
slanting outward slightly, so that the top 
ends will be as high as the top of the win¬ 
dow case and about two feet out from it. 
One piece nailed across the tops of these 
uprights, from one to the other, and two 
more from t em to the top of the window 
case on the house, complete the frame. 
Smooth fence wire, or even good, stout 
strings will form a lattice work sufficiently 
strong to hold the growth of one summer. 
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