THE WOMAN'S MONEY. 
SHA1{K K0 1{ WIFK Oli DAUGHTKK. 
“ Ilow can the farmer's wife or daxi^hter best supply 
herself with the rn mey needed for her own wants ?” 
Paut II. 
ARNESTLY desiring' “ the best gifts” for her 
children, this mother sought strength and wis¬ 
dom from Him “who giveth to all men liberally.” To 
her, every life is filled with possibilities; and she 
believes that golden opportunities are given to all. 
8 he was watchful that no opportunity for honest 
endeavor to gain the object she sought eluded her 
grasp. During these years of enforced retirement 
with her children, in her home, she carefully trained 
their young minds, hearts and hands with a view to 
their present and future well-being. To the habits 
formed by this early training, the mother attributes 
much of the present usefulness of her children. 
When the eldest daughter, now, largely through her 
own efforts, a senior in a leading woman’s college, 
was 11 years of age, the family removed to a home in 
the suburbs of the little town, one mile distant from 
the farm. The husband had become a successful 
apiarist, and finding this work better adapted to his 
strength, decided to rent his farm. When about nine 
years of age, the eldest daughter became a very 
efficient helper—the work she did requiring great 
accuracy. The second year after leaving the farm, 
there was an unusual flow of honey, and the father’s and 
daughter’s united efforts could hardly provide room for 
storage as fast as needed. The result was 4,000 pounds 
of finest honey for this busy season’s work; and this 
girl, who had prepared nearly all of the sections, was 
glad to know that she had been so useful. As a 
recompense for her labor, so cheerfully performed, she 
was permitted to attend school at the academy and to 
take lessons in instrumental music. She made rapid 
progress in all of her studies, meanwhile performing 
light household tasks out of school hours. While a 
very little girl, she had become quite proficient in the 
use of the needle. As the mother’s cares permitted 
her very little time in which to do the family sewing, 
the eldest daughter’s assistance in this work was of 
much value. The mother planned the more necessary 
sewing to be done during vacations, aiming to simplify 
all of their labor as much as was consistent with 
health and comfort. The only expense incurred for 
dress-making was for the fitting of the dresses. Each 
year the daughter became more proficient, until at the 
age of 16 she was capable of making her own dresses 
alone. 
Possibly, you are thinking that your work of this 
kind must be done by skilled fingers. If so, why not 
make your own, and your children’s labor, skilled, 
and thus save needless expense. Five years ago this 
spring the family returned to the farm. The twin 
sisters were then 11 years of age. They, with their 
younger sister, soon managed to harness their gentle 
horses, and to drive them, double or single. During 
the first season after their return to the farm, these 
three sisters learned to use the horse-rake. Protected 
from the sun by broad-brim hats and old gloves they 
did considerable raking. After that season, as their 
strength increased, they did all of that work Last 
season they raked about 100 tons of hay. At that time 
labor was worth $2 per day, so it is easy to estimate 
the pecuniary value of these girls’ labor. Possibly 
some would shrink from such toil, because it seems 
unwomanly. These girls are sweet, refined, and 
womanly. They have been taught to take up the 
duty lying next to them, ever remembering to pre¬ 
serve their own self-respect. 
As their father conducts the apiary in connection 
with farming, the younger girls have taken up the 
work which their elder sister did formerly. Although 
they have their hours for recreation in reading, music, 
etc., they are altogether a very busy, progressive 
family; each year is expected to mark true progress 
in desirable attainments. Two years ago, the twin 
sisters attended the village school, for the first time 
since leaving their home in town. As the distance, 
not long, but hilly, was too great for them to walk 
daily, they took provisions from home, and found ac¬ 
commodation in an excellent family. As the district 
schoolhouse was situated within five minutes’ walk of 
the farmhouse it was convenient for the teacher to 
seek board and lodging there. This plan the mother 
readily accepted, as the board bill would enable her 
to pay the bills for the other school. Another little 
income that was very helpful, too, was that obtained 
by keeping poultry. The mother and children were 
given the profits for taking the entire care of the 
- poultry. During the autumn, when nuts were plenti¬ 
ful, the girls gathered them in large quantities and 
sold them, reserving a portion for their own enjoy¬ 
ment. It is the custom on this farm, early in spring 
and summer, 'to have peas sowed successively. This 
affords a continous abundance of green peas. One 
season the supply was so much in excess of what was 
needed by the family, that the girls picked 13 bushels 
and sold them for $1 per bushel. 
Last spring the eldest sister wrote them that she 
was one of a committee appointed to decorate the din¬ 
ner table at college in honor of one of their number. 
It is customary to pay a reasonable amount for the 
fiowers. The committee desired to have something 
rare and original. This elder sister bethought herself 
of the fragrant arbutus, which grows abundantly 
near her home, and asked if the girls would gather 
enough to fill a large box, to be sent by express. One 
morning, after doing a portion of the housework, 
two of the girls went to the woods to gather the 
coveted arbutus blossoms. In two hours’ time they 
obtained an abundance of these lovely wild blossoms. 
_ BKATKICK. 
KEROSENE OIL FOR CLEANING. 
THE CHEMISTRY OF ITS WORK. 
T he chemistry of washing dishes with kerosene 
oil is undoubtedly explained by the property 
which kerosene oil has of dissolving grease. As cold, 
or, better, hot water, is a solvent for sugar, so is kero¬ 
sene oil a solvent for fat, oil and grease. Since a great 
“Amend by Prefixing the Word ‘ Fe.’” Fig. 89. 
[From the New York Herald.] 
many things that need to be washed, are more or less 
smeared with sugar or grease, or both, it is evident 
that the two solvents, water and kerosene oil, will 
form a more efficient cleaner than either one alone. 
Hot water does not dissolve grease, it only melts it 
into a liquid form, which will drain off in drops of oil, 
if sufficient heat be kept up. Kerosene oil will dis¬ 
solve even cold grease, and this makes it valuable to 
use with hot water in washing clothes or dishes. 
Kerosene emulsion would be a good thing to use in 
washing dishes, but kerosene oil and water would be 
just as good, if not better, and save the trouble of 
making the emulsion for this purpose. Not every one 
knows that it is a good plan to put a piece of waste 
cloth under the grease spot which one is trying to re¬ 
move from cloth by sponging with kerosene or ben¬ 
zine. If a grease spot in cloth be simply rubbed with 
benzine or kerosene oil, the grease is dissolved and 
spread out into the cloth as far as the cloth is wet by 
the solvent, so that instead of removing the grease 
spot it is enlarged. This can be obviated by putting a 
piece of waste cloth under the grease spot in the cloth 
which one wishes to cleanse; then pour the benzine or 
kerosene oil on the grease spot, and the grease is dis¬ 
solved and soaked up or transferred to toe piece of 
waste cloth underneath, [prof.] e. h. fabbington. 
Champaign, Ill. 
AT HOME WITH THE CHILDREN. 
S we lived in a country district where the people 
were careless in regard to the teachers they em¬ 
ployed, and the schools were never good, I deter¬ 
mined to teach my children at home. Home teaching 
is so different from that of the school room. The 
teacher of a public school has charge of the children 
for only a few hours each day, and is not responsible 
for them outside of that time. The mother has not 
only the mental growth of her child to watch, but the 
physical as well. In isolated places where there is 
rarely a sermon preached, or a Sunday school to at¬ 
tend, the religious training also, falls upon the should¬ 
ers of the conscientious mother. Children will under¬ 
stand a great many things while very young, if only 
the mother will have patience to explain them. 
I have my children taught to respect the rights of 
property. Each one has something all his or all her 
own, and they are never to take anything from another 
without first asking permission. I have always told 
them that, no matter what they did, to tell me first— 
never,-»3nder any circumstances, to tell me an untruth. 
I have found that I can always believe what they tell 
me. One day I was lying in bed very sick; my room 
joined the kitchen, and, of course, I could hear every¬ 
thing that was being said or done there. The girl was 
washing the dishes and my oldest daughter was help¬ 
ing her ; in wiping off the kitchen table she brushed 
a saucer off on the floor and broke it. “You would 
better not tell your mamma or she will whip you,” I 
heard the girl say to her. Quick as a flash came the 
answer; “ No, my mamma won’t whip me 1 She never 
whips me for anything I cannot help, and I will go 
right straight and tell her all about it.” Which she 
did, and was forgiven and told to be more careful next 
time. I firmly believe that many a child has been 
whipped into being a liar. Indeed, a friend told me 
once that she had been whipped so much when she 
was a child for carelessness, and for trying to conceal 
it, that she often told a story when the truth would 
have answered her purpose better. experience. 
THE UNTRAINED GIRL. 
A GREAT writer has said : “There is no mind so 
weak and powerless as not to have its inclina¬ 
tions.” So, there is no head or hand so untrained that 
there is not some work which it can profitably accom¬ 
plish. God never created a human being, with any 
mind at all, without some gift or talent that could be 
used for its support; either with or without culture. 
Better with culture, no one can doubt, but without, 
in case of necessity. Once a group of wealthy, cul¬ 
tured ladies, living in luxury and leisure, were telling 
what they could do, if they had to provide for them¬ 
selves, and one of them declared that the best thing 
she could do would be to scrub. She knew she had 
strength and ability for that. There is one thing a 
strong, untrained girl can do; she can scrub and 
clean. 1 have known many girls who were trained to 
do nothing, to make an honest and comfortable living 
by cleaning vegetables and washing dishes in board¬ 
ing-houses and hotels. Why do not some of the 
untrained and unemployed relieve the over-worked 
farmers’ wives by doing this work for them, especially 
during the busy seasons ? 
I know a woman who was never trained to do any¬ 
thing in particular, but who possessed a bit of land and 
a love for poultry, who gets her living by raising 
chickens for a hotel in a town three miles distant. She 
keeps them until they are six weeks old, then delivers 
them to the proprietor at 37 cents each. 
I have an acquaintance whose life had been one of 
ease and comparative uselessness. Her husband left 
her with only a house and lot in the suburbs of a 
small town. What could she do ? The house had a 
conservatory well supplied with ferns, palms, lilies, 
roses, carnations and other plants of easy culture. 
She increased them by means of seeds and cuttings, 
mostly from the white varieties; advertised to fur¬ 
nish plants and flowers for weddings and funerals, 
and has secured a patronage which brings her a good 
living, and enables her to hire a man to do the hard¬ 
est and roughest part of the work. She had had no 
training either in plant or flower culture, but only a 
love for them and good taste in arranging them. 
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