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away from morning till night among their 
milk-pans and piles of vegetables to prepare 
to feed a group of hungry men. How genteel, 
in comparison, it seems to eit in a room in a 
city house with nothing to do but to run a 
Fewing-uiftchiue, and at meal-times step down 
to a table prepared by other hands. So, too, 
the country teacher of barefooted boys looks 
longingly to a school in the city, and the girl 
in the kitchen despises its poor furnishing, 
and thinks what grandeur it would be to serve 
in a house with a brown-stone front, and 
what wages she could get if only she could 
“go to the city.” But, dear girls, it is all a 
delusion and a snare. If you have the means 
to earn a living in the couutry, “ be there¬ 
with content,” and more than this, be very 
thankful. The demand for teachers to fill any 
vacancy is met by an army of applicants 
already on the ground. The examinations for 
the places are very severe, and but a few can 
pass them, yet the ranks are always full. As 
for a sewing-woman’s life in the city, work 
in your father’s corn-fields before you join 
that sad army. The only market not over¬ 
stocked with really capable American appli¬ 
cants seems to be that of the kitchen. But a 
“servant” in a city mansion and the “help” 
in a farmer’s household are two very different 
people you would judge from the manner in 
which they are treated. In the first she is 
only a machine, wholly outside the pale of 
household sympathies and regards ; in the 
other she is one of the family. The “distance” 
between bee and those whom she serves is 
made to appear in every act and arrangement 
of the house, and to one accustomed to the 
warm atmosphere of even the humblest home 
this is especially irksome. For ordinary 
workers there is but little chance in the city. 
The very superior ones are in too great de¬ 
mand at home to desire a change. 
Make it a rule not to leave home for the 
city unless you have a place assured! and if 
you have a home to which you can return if 
not suited, all the better for you. Olive. 
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CORRESPONDENT’S CORNER. 
How shall I make a white dress? Am tired 
of two flouncei, trimmed with lace, as has 
been worn so long, and desire something new 
if possible. r. s. s. 
Answer. —The prettiest and most simple 
white dress, and something fresh in the way 
of style, we saw a few days ago, which 
we are glad to describe, for it was so easily 
made and yet so lovely. The skirt was 
plain Nainsook trimmed across the front 
up to the waist with embroidery—not 
Hamburg, but Nainsook—about an inch and 
a half in width, put on with a little fullness 
The back of the skirt had three flounces, 
trimmed with the embroidery. A basque cut 
postillion also trimmed down the front, and 
around the bottom with the embroidery 
furnished the costume and a prettier white 
dress, we have never seen, even excelling 
some costing three times as much because 
washing detracts none from its beauty as it does 
the more elaborate suits that are trimmed with 
lace. 
Are saliuou aud pink becoming colors for 
oue to wear who has a dark complexion? 
Subscriber. 
Answer. —If you have a clear skin and 
dark hair, either of these colors can be worn, 
provided they are of a delicate shade. We 
presume you would wear such only for even¬ 
ing dress and made of silk, crepe, nun’s veil¬ 
ing or cashmere, or perhaps on a Summer 
afternoon, a muslin of either color. If your 
complexion is not decidedly clear, you could 
wear pink with impunity but not salmon. 
Dark crimson, or a rich purple would look 
well, for these colors are the sole property of 
brunettes. 
I saw a request In the Rural some time 
ago for a cure for wai ts. 
A simple remedy which we have tried suc¬ 
cessfully for seed warts is saleratus. Wet the 
warts, when convenient, with saleratus and 
water, or bind ou moist saleratus. In a week 
or so the warts will dry aud come out. a. d. 
Monroe Co., Wis. 
Another good recipe is to put an old cop¬ 
per cent in viuegar enough to cover it, and let 
it stand over night, or until it forms a verde* 
gris, over the penny, which cau be removed 
aud the viuegar mixed with the verdegris thus 
made, should be applied to the warts. 
Will “Grandmother” please give more par¬ 
ticulars about washing calico dresses ? Do 
you use any starch ? How much bran do you 
use for u dress for a grown person, and do you 
use soap with the bran-water ? Please answer 
aud oblige o. j. h. 
Our correspondent will please excuse the 
delay in publishing her inquiry, but it was 
overlooked. However, we trust that the 
answer will not be untimely, as the fashion 
of wearing calico dresses is on the increase, 
and “Grandmother” will be as willing to 
give the direction now as at any time in the 
past. 
Domestic (Cconomq 
conducted m emily maple 
EXPERIENCE NOTES. 
Sunshine is one of the very best remedies 
for nervou-ness. 
Ox-gall is excellent for removing grease- 
spots from carpets and silk or woolen goods. 
The prepared gall can be generally found at 
drug stores. 
Parents should see that their childrens’shoes 
are large enough to allow of the natural 
growth of their feet during the growing 
years. 
Never torment children while at play with 
clothes that are too nice for them to be any¬ 
thing but wretched in. 
Too long boiling of fruit juice causes it to 
lose its power to form jelly, and no manner of 
after doctoring will ever make it firm. 
Parents whose children speak disrespectful¬ 
ly to them should have the sense to know that 
they have brought it upon themselves. They 
must treat their children with respect if they 
want respect from them. 
It has been our practice for years to dig pits 
in some out-of-the-way place of our garden, 
wherein we could bury broken crockery, worn- 
out shoes, rusty tin cans, pans, etc., and we 
have yet to learn of a better plan of dispos¬ 
ing of unburnable rubbish. 
Give the children plenty of sleep. It is a 
mistaken notion that some mothers have of 
compelling their children to get up in the 
morning before they have finished their 
natural sleep for the sole purpose of eating 
their breakfast with the rest of the family, 
Better set their breakfast aside aud serve it to 
them later. No healthy child will take more 
sleep than he needs, and it will be better for 
him and the mother when he does get up, if 
he has had a thoroughly refreshing sleep and 
plenty of it. 
At a time of year when eggs are scarce and 
consequently high-priced, one does not always 
feel like using an egg every morning to settle 
coffee with. At such times we have tied the 
ground coffee loosely in a thin bag (a salt bag 
washed and boiled answers perfectly) poured 
boiling water over it, allowing it to stand on 
the back of the stove, where it would not boil, 
for some time and so obtained quite clear cof¬ 
fee. The white of an egg alone settles the 
coffee—binding the grounds together—and it 
were better to beat the yelk and add to the 
boiled milk for the coffee (just after it is taken 
from the fire) than to throw it away in the 
coffee-pot. 
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SUMMER BOARDERS. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
“ It is the last time I shall go to the coun¬ 
try to board. I am tired and uncomforta¬ 
ble beyond measure. The bedrooms are in¬ 
tolerable from heat; the mosquitoes enough 
to eat one alive, and I have not seen a bit of 
fresh fruit and hardly a vegetable since I 
came.” So complained a “city boarder” 
from the village near by as she sank content¬ 
edly into a seat under the trees that surround 
Every-day House. I could hardly sympa¬ 
thize with her fully, for my own home is al¬ 
ways cool and pleasant, while we revel in all 
the fruits of the climate iu their various sea¬ 
son. But I thought can it be possible that 
country people will undertake to keep board¬ 
ers without a supply of fruit and vegetables? 
The family mentioned by the lady iu question 
had a little farm and were industrious and 
thrifty. The mother of the family spins her 
own wool, and makes cloth aud yarn; but 
they live on pork all the year round, and 
are content with the potato as their chief 
vegetable, with no fruit till Autumn brings 
an over-plus of apples. It is certaiuly a 
much mistaken thrift that economizes in such 
a left-handed way apart from any sanitary 
ideas. The pork, if sold at present prices, 
would buy lamb aud green peas. The mouey 
invested in strawberry aud raspberry plants 
would bring rich returns, and city people 
would soon learn to appreciate a Summer 
home where such things abound. Given a 
garden, a cow, some hens and a few hives 
of bees there is no reason why couutry 
board cannot be made attractive and the 
produce would thus be better sold than if 
taken to the distant market. 
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WOOL WORK. 
MRS. B. 
Probably there are not very many of the 
readers of our Domestic columns, who follow 
the old custom of using the wool from their 
own sheep, most of people now-a-days pre¬ 
ferring to sell the wool and buy yarn or 
stockings. Yet it is almost impossible to find 
factory yarn or stockings of as good quality 
as the old fashioned home-knit ones. Some 
one may be glad to get the advice given by 
an old lady to a farmer’s young wife. 
She exclaimed against “ the extravagance 
of selling good wool at such low rates and 
then buying high-priced, thin and sleazy 
stockings.” She said, “ Go to the barn when 
the sheep shearer is at work and have him 
select one of the best fleeces for you of me¬ 
dium quality—ueither too coarse nor too fine 
wool. 
Have him clip off the roughest and poorest 
parts; then take the best to the house and 
wash it thoroughly in hot soap-suds (in a bar¬ 
rel or tub with a clothes-pounder is a good 
way,) rinse in hot water, and spread in the 
sun to dry. When dry look it all over care¬ 
fully, removing every bit of burr, etc., and 
pulling all the matted parts until your fleece 
of wool looks like a snow-drift, as it will if 
you have done your work well. Never send 
it to the carding mill without greasing; if 
you do your wool will be very apt to come 
back with a strong, offensive odor as the mill 
hands are not particular as to the quality of 
the grease they use. One pound of nice, 
sweet lard to ten pounds of wool is the old 
rule. You need only to melt it and mix it in 
but slightly, as the rest will be done at the 
mill. Always sew a card with your name on 
it on the package so that there may be no 
mistake in getting your own again. 
If you cannot spin, which is very probable, 
you can most likely find some needy woman 
amongst your neighbors who will gladly do 
your spinning (perhaps knitting also) for a 
share of the rolls.” 
WHY NOT? 
ADELINE E. STORY. 
Now that we have cooking-schools—and 
the kitchen of every home where there is a 
daughter over twelve years of age should be 
tbe seat of a cooking-school for a certain 
length of time every day—why not build 
kitchens on our fair-grounds and offer suit¬ 
able prizes for the best cooking ?—the cook¬ 
ing to be done wholly on the ground and by 
girls, say under sixteen years of age. Of 
the kitchens—they need not be large, though 
they should be conveniently arranged—there 
might he a score or core, all under one roof, 
and furnished by the society, to be kept 
from year to year, just as the other buildings 
are kept. 
What dainty dinners we might have cooked 
there ! And how daintily might they be pre¬ 
sided over by the proud little ladies who 
would have the honor of competing for the 
prizes—more honorable in the giviug and far 
more honorable iu the receiving than many 
now so commonly bestowed at our fairs! I, 
for one, would like to see it tried. 
[This article was sent in for the Fair Num¬ 
ber but was over looked by the foreman of 
the composing room. Eds.l 
PARSLEY FOR WINTER USE. 
Those of our lady frieuds who have suc¬ 
ceeded in establishing a bed of the Fern¬ 
leaved Parsley will do well to take up a few 
of the roots and transplant to a box for use 
the coming Winter, The box can be kept iu 
fc he kitchen, or if that be not convenient, 
place by a window in the cellar when it will 
get light. It will be as well to cover the out¬ 
door bed with leaves, straw or evergreen 
boughs before freezing weather sets in, al¬ 
though a bed of the Feru Parsley at the Rural 
Farm L. I., lived through last Winter with¬ 
out any protection. 
domestic recipes. 
GATHERING BUTTER 
At this time of the year it is often hard to 
gather butter. After the butter is well bro¬ 
ken I pour a little warm instead of cold 
water into the churn which makes the butter 
gather easily. 
TO PRESERVE RIPE TOMATOES FOR USING IN 
WINTER. 
Pick the fruit when not very ripe, leaving 
on one-half inch of stem, and pack in crocks. 
Make a pickle with one teacupful of salt to 
every gallon of water and pour over. Keep 
under with a light weight. 
HOME-MADE JELLY GLASSES. 
Select good-sized bottles. Take a strip of 
old musliu or a piece of caudle wick dip it in¬ 
to lamp oil, wrap it arouud the bottle where 
you want it to break, set it on fire and the 
glass will crack just above the cloth. I have 
used a spoon holder for years made in this 
way. E. MC.M. 
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