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porceliiin  pastry  board,  instead  of  wood. 
A  good  recipe  calls  for  one-half  pound 
flour,  six  ounces  butter,  one  small  cupful 
iced  water.  Put  the  flour  into  a  chilled 
bowl,  and  chop  the  butter  into  it  with  a 
knife  until  it  is  like  a  coarse  powder. 
Never  rub  the  butter  in  with  the  hands. 
When  it  is  chopped  to  powder,  wet  with 
the  iced  water.  Stir  to  a  paste,  turn  on 
a  chilled  hoard,  then  roll  out  quickly  and 
lightly,  handling  as  little  as  possible. 
Fold  over  and  roll  out  three  times',  then 
set  on  ice  for  several  hours  before  using. 
each  side  of  the  back  part  of  crown  and 
tail-  flow  we  would  look  at  one  now! 
Linsey  dresses,  homespun,  home-woven, 
homo-dyed  and  home-sewed,  were  more 
common  as  church  attire  than  silk,  velvet 
and  poplin  now,  and  with  their  plain  at¬ 
tire  and  whole-hearted  religious  worship 
there  was  something  real  in  the  way  they 
served  God.  hrs.  D.  n.  p. 
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Ranges. 
Old-fashinned  Lemon  Pie 
Maybe  some  of  ?-nir  readers  can  furn¬ 
ish  the  recipe  for  old-fashioned  1  mum 
pie,  two  crusts/  As  near  as  the  write t 
cau  recall  the  lemons  are  peeled  d  then 
sliced  and  the  slices  laid  on  the  bottom 
crust;  over  this  is  placed  milk  and  beaten 
eggs  as  for  custard.  w.  E.  j. 
Me  have  not  met  with  this  sort 
lemon  {tie  with  a  custard  filling, 
made  as  follows:  Liue  pie-plate  with 
paste.  Peel  a  lemon,  slice  very  thin,  and 
lay  on  paste,  adding  half  the  yellow  rind, 
chopped  fine.  Mix  together  one  cup  of 
sugar  with  one-third  cup  of  flour,  cover 
the  lemon  with  this  and  then  pour  over 
it  cold  water  (about  a  cupful).  Cover 
the  pie  with  paste,  and  bake  in  a  mod¬ 
erate  oven  for  4."i  minutes.  The  cooking 
makes  the  filling  a  firm  jelly,  and  the 
pie  is  very  nice  in  flavor.  Some  slice 
the  lemon  without  peeling,  but  the  peel 
always  remains  rather  tough. 
My  Neglected  Garden 
Part  II. 
What  my  garden  had  to  show  me  after 
15  weeks  absence  last  Summer  can  be 
summed  up  in  one  word — weeds.  There 
seemed  not  a  plant  left,  at  first  glance, 
though  the  late  September  sunshine  next, 
morning  did  discover  to  me  Dahlias 
enough  for  bouquets*  and  some  nastur¬ 
tiums  trailing  all  about  and  the  Coreopsis 
and  Gailhmlias  still  offering  their  cheer¬ 
ful  yellow  disks.  Further  search  revealed 
Chrysanthemums,  six  sorts,  still  objects 
of  hope.  It  was  not  so  bad.  I  had  other 
duties  and  interests  than  my  flower  beds, 
but  could  always  pull  a  few  weeds  every 
time  I  went  there.  Ilow  anyone  had 
lived  within  sight,  of  those  weeds  and  not 
pulled  some  of  them  passed  my  under¬ 
stand  in g.  P.idens,  for  instance,  with  its 
hateful  “beggar  lice”  seeds  (“devil’s  pitch- 
forks"  seems  a  well-earned  name) 
pulls  the  easiest  of  all  tall  weeds,  and 
there  is  really  no  excuse  for  ever  letting 
it  ripen  seeds  to  embroider  themselves 
over  skirts  and  stockings.  The  ml  roots 
and  pigweeds  I  took  a  stout  knife  to, 
chick  weed  is.  of  course,  easily  gathered 
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dish  and  fill  centers  with  sugar  and  cin¬ 
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intervals  with  the  syrup.  Some  authori¬ 
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"vii  mm  me  soil  to  hud  the  creeping  ,•  v, 
roots,  especially  if  crab-grass  must  he 
fought.  A  chicken-foot  grass  has  long  No.  C34  !.«  11  design  for  tray  cloth  and  doylies 
Contended  for  a  place  in  that  flower  nlot  Tll,‘  pattern  Includes  tray  cloth  ir>  inches  ii 
lo,e,„,  *  vn-  ,  1  -  1  ’  length  mid  four  tumbler  doylies.  Embroider  tin 
l)Ut. was  liot -  difficult  to  keep  from  mereas-  <T«»Ik  cither  solid  or  eyelets.  If  made  Solid,  pne 
in*.  What  a  grand  time  it  had  last  Sum- 
mer!  The  honesty  I  had  been  hoping  tri-end  around  the  eyelet,  punch  through  tin 
.  •  ,  j  .  ,  .  ,  „  center  with  a  Stiletto,  then  sew  over  nnd  ovei 
Blight  j  H  Id  me  an  enduring  bouquet  of  with  the  Stitches  very  close  together.  Tin 
satin  white  seed  pods  for  Winter  was  ‘”n  |HI,  embroidered  solid  or  ‘builioi 
...  ,  ,  ‘  .  iiii.ei  was  8tiu.h.  coronation  brnld  may  ul«o  be  used  E01 
completely  subdued  by  it,  but  now  seems  the  bullion  Ktlt.di,  bring  the  thread  lip  at  the 
decided  to  prove  itself  a  triennial  .,,,,1  ot’  *,l''U  'be  wheat.  Insert  tin 
1  it.  (  ir  a  11  lennial  aud  needle  at  the  apex  nmx  bring  the  point  out  at 
make  another  effort.  the  base  again.  Wrap  the  thread  around  the 
needle  a  number  of  limes  and  <Tra\v  through,  ther 
As  T  cleared  my  garden  an  occasional  c?I,‘y  ,lo'vn  at  a  pax.  Coronation  braid  is  slinplj 
.  .  .  ,  ‘  ,  *  1  '•"»  apart  at  the  narrow  places  and  the  pieces 
spader  11I  ot  good  honest  grass  was  trans-  80wn  lo  the  linen  to  form  the  wheat  kernels 
planted  to  some  bare  spot  on  the  lawn,  or  ontlinp  Price' n 
where  turf  was  needed.  And  I  discovered  t,euts' 
that  tin  soft,  low  glass  that  was  making  . . uImiiihmJuu, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . „„„ 
the  walk  beneath  the  grape  arbor  so  un¬ 
tidy  had  correspond i ugly  unambitious  woven.  The  gray,  colored  with  buckeye 
roots  and  could  be  transplanted  with  a  hark  and  copperas,  is  still  gray.  The  reds, 
trowel.  Whether  it  will  grow  on  the  produced  from  the  bamboo  brier  roots  aud 
shaded  side  of  the  house  where  I  put  it,  set  with  alum,  are  unfaded.  Black,  green 
time  will  tell.  The  cool  Autumn  skies  and  white  oak  bark,  with  a  lump  of  alum, 
and  showers  made  these  experiments  iu  produced  the  lilac  coloring  that  holds 
grass  planting  seem  a  hopeful  proposition,  good  yet.  The  deeper  purple  was  made 
and  I  would  remind  any  farmer's  dangh-  by  boiling  maple  hark  and  using  a  lump 
ter  who  laments  the  untidy  appearance  of  of  copperas.  Copperas  and  alum  were 
things  about  the  hack  floor  that  nothing  used  in  nearly  all  coloring  matters  to  set 
is  SO  clean  as  grass  and  that  late  Sum-  the  colors.  Cottou  materials  were  boiled 
mer,  after  the  hurry  of  work  is  a  little  iu  the  dye;  wool  materials  dipped  in  the 
past,  is  an  excellent  time  for  sodding  or  hot  dye,  raised  up  and  dipped  until  of 
for  sowing  grass  seed.  If  there  is  little  the  desired  shade. 
rain  it  may  he  necessary  to  water  some,  Walnut  bark,  or  the  hulls  of  the  wal- 
but  even  then  the  cool  nights  and  waning  nuts,  or  sumach  leaves  boiled  and  the 
tijr^tunl  " ?  ’  -T1  gr'T  rtS  glW  ,lye  s,,t  with  copperas,  give  a  good  black, 
till  ..Dually  frozen  into  quietude.  though  indigo  and  logwood,  with  the  ad- 
The.ro  was  no  burdock  and  but  little  dition  of  copperas,  was  more  used  for 
dock  in  my  garden,  but  wild  carrot  had  producing  a  black.  For  a  bright  orange- 
made  some  green  nnd  luxurious  stands,  yellow  copperas  dissolved  iu  weak  lye 
For  these  three  foes  no  weapon  serves  me  from  the  ash  hopper  gave  the  desired 
as  well  as  a  stout  knife.  You  cannot  pull  color.  The  smooth-barked  hickory  tree 
them  without  strain,  but  if  cut  below  the  was  peeled  aud  the  hark  boiled,  then  a 
crown  they  are  among  the  slain.  An  old  lump  of  alum  added  to  the  dye,  for  a 
ax  or  hatchet  is  not  a  bad  battle-ax  when  pretty  shade  of  green.  Another  shade 
arming  to  attack  them,  and  if  the  kero-  of  red  was  produced  by  crushing  ripe 
sene  can  he  taken  along  aud  a  spoonful  poke  berries  and  adding  one-half  pint  of 
poun  d  in  where  the  leaves  were  pulled  out  vinegar  to  each  gallon  of  crushed  berries, 
you  can  soon  free  the  home  surroundings  This  color  was  not  so  permanent,  as  it 
of  even  the  pestiferous  burdocks  though  was  not  heated,  but  for  feathers,  braids 
rooted  iu  the  grass,  and  the  house  dog  and  or  goods  not  washed  it  gave  a  brilliant 
the  children’s  stockings  and  your  own  color. 
skirts  will  gain  thereby.  This  is,  of  A  dear  old  dame  was  telling  me  re¬ 
course,  good  work  for  the  children,  aud  if  ccntly  that  the  first  calico  bonnet  she 
they  are  slow  to  acknowledge  it  a  prom-  owned  after  the  war  was  gray  ground 
lsed  treat  of  some  sort  will  perhaps  stir  and  lilac  flowers,  and  cost  her’  two  bits 
then:  to  industry.  When  working  in  the  per  yard;  it  required  21/,  yards  to  cut 
garden  I  often  find  it  a  help  to  have  a  the  bonnet,  with  a  long,  sloping  tail, 
piece  of  folded  tip  burlap  or  carpet  upon  smooth  crown  and  split-cane  headpiece, 
which  to  kneel  if  stooping  becomes  tire-  There  was  a  narrow  double  ruffle  around 
SOme*  AUGUSTA  ROSE.  the  eiltit’C  bonnet  alld  till  the  seams  mi 
.W/AV/. 
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vv.’.’.’/r 
— “woman’s  work  is  never  done” 
Especially  on  the  farm.  Busy  from  morn  till  night— cooking,  churn¬ 
ing,  feeding  the  chickens,  getting  the  youngsters  off  to  school,  washing 
dishes  and  a  thousand  and  one  odd  jobs. 
When  the  day  is  done  and  the  lights  are  lit,  out  comes  the  darning 
basket.  It  isn’t  fair  to  mother.  Let  the  whole  family  wear 
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Different  weights  for  different  purposes — a  hose  for 
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