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Frank A. Blade he advertises a new map of the 
United States and the world ; as W. H. Wiseman 
he sells paper handkerchiefs, and as J>. D. Dlns- 
moreagalnhesells a Treatise on the Horse and 
His Diseases. Mr. £cott, in his Agent’s Guide ad¬ 
vises agents to try Mr. "Hopewell,” the needle 
man, and so on, one of his aliases recommending 
another. 
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PKESibENT-Kr.BCT Gakiikld, when he was a very 
small boy of three years old, went t.o school to a 
lady who In her old age delighted to relate the 
little fellow’s pranks, tie was so persistently mis¬ 
chievous that to keep him still his teacher prom¬ 
ised that he might alt on the larger bench as soon 
as he learned to read. lie went to work with a 
will to learn, and before he had been at school a 
week he could say his letters, and several weeks 
before the end of the term he claimed and re¬ 
ceived bis permission to sit on the high seat with 
the other scholars. 
More health, sunshine and joy In Hop Bitters, 
than In all other remedies. 
Domestic €-tonomji. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
CONCERNING BEDS AND BEDDING. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
A very expensive feature of house furnish¬ 
ing is the bedding, and a nice bed, and a good 
one, should be well taken caro of and protect¬ 
ed from dust. A great many people who 
claim to possess “common sense” still continue 
to have their bed-room floors covered with a 
carpet which is nailed down and not taken up 
and shaken more than twice a j*ear. It follows 
that whenever the carpet is swept, more or 
.ess dmt is put into motion and settles in due 
proportion upon the bed. If, prior to the 
sweeping, the bed be covered with a large 
duster, this difficulty will be avoided. 
For a bed of large size it requires ten yards 
of calico to make a duster—four widths, two 
and a half yards iu length. Very nice calico, 
well Btarched, can be had for from seven 
to eight cents a yard. For ten cents a yard 
beautiful chintzes cau be had, in bright rich 
colors. For a three-quarter bed three widths 
of the calico arc enough, but the length must 
be two and a half yards. If all the bed-rooms in 
the house are swept on the same day, at least 
two dusters aie required for “sweep-day” 
purposes, while a duster each for all beds not 
iu constant use is needed. To keep a spare 
bed ** mude up” is a great piece of extrava¬ 
gance. The bed lineu and bed spread become 
gradually soiled, and when the bed is to be oc¬ 
cupied it needs to be made up afresh iu order 
tu be in proper condition. The best house¬ 
keepers keep all their bedding—pillow-cases, 
sheets, covers, etc.—folded when not in use, 
and the bedding carelnlly protected with a 
chintz cover, which lends a bright and tidy 
appearance to the room. Some have a case 
made of blae-and-white checked cotton for 
protecting the mattress from soil. A pair of 
sheets the size of the top of the mattress, with 
a thin layer of cotton between, and quilted on 
a machine, is very nice for a sandwich between 
the sheet and mattress. If is easily worked, 
adds to the comfort of the bed, and protects 
the mattresB. Whatever will keep bedding 
clean is desirable, for it is undeniably laborious 
work to clean bedding. 
Long sheets wbleh turn down a full half 
yard over the bed covers protect them very 
much from becoming soiled. For warm, heavy 
blankets in coustant use, and which can only 
be eleaued without inj'ury at considerable ex¬ 
pense, a shield of white muslin can be very ef¬ 
fectively used, If the blanket be two and a 
half yards wide, that much in length of muslin 
will be required, with a little allowance at 
each end for a hem. Fold the muslin straight 
through the center the long way, so that one 
half will go on one side of the top end of the 
blaoket and one half on the other side. With 
a needle and thread fasten the muslin to the 
blanket across the top with basting stitches, 
and again at the bottom of the musliu. The 
muslin shield can be removed and washed as 
often as one likes. 
Bed-ticking staiued with blood from nose¬ 
bleeding, wounds or other causes, may be 
cleaned by applying starch, well moistened 
with water, to the spot. Renew the wet starch 
until the stain is extracted, the wet starch ab¬ 
sorbing it. 
A cheap and very comfortable bed, with an 
under-bod of straw, hay or husk, can be made 
by putting on the top a light cotton “ mat¬ 
tress,” which can be made at home. For the 
two sides of the “mattress” bed-ticking is 
best, and they should be somewhat longer and 
wider than the top of the bed, as iu tying the 
size is somewhat reduced. Put two or three 
times as much cotton between the “sides ” as 
are put between those of a “ comfortable,” and 
tie quite closely ; finish by turning m the two 
edges and sewing them overhand, or stitch on 
machine. 
Beds of straw or husk look infinitely better 
and are far more comfortable when the ticks 
are made like those of a mattress, with a 
straight, upright piece sewed in all around. 
The corners should be clipped off, so that the 
tick will be round at the '‘corners,” a6 it fits 
the bedstead better. Do not fill the tick 
through au opening at one end, but through a 
slit cut in the middle of the top " side.” This 
slit should be two feet loug ; one side should 
he faced, and on the other sew a wide piece to 
act as a lappet, which should button over on 
to the faced side. When the. filling of the tick 
becomes disarranged or needs to be stirred np, 
the convenience of the slit will he made mani¬ 
fest. I once supposed that everybody made 
straw ticks in this way, until I found out 
differently, which must be my excuse for giv¬ 
ing this description. 
If a bedstead has become infested with the 
small insect that the English call a “ Norfolk 
Howard/’ and is difficult to be kept free from 
the pest, give a good coat of paint to every 
part of it that is not varnished, and you will 
have no further trouble with bugs. 
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ONE WEEK FROM MRS. CLAY’S JOURNAL. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
Monday.— We do not follow that law of all 
good housewives that says ‘Thon ahalt always 
wash on Monday,” for to do so does not suit 
our convenience. So, when the morning work 
is done tip. we sort over the clothes and soak 
them, I often taking the opportunity to mend 
a rent in a curtain, or some fine fabric, that 
will irou the better for being repaired before 
washing. But 1 often say l can mend clean 
garments without any trouble, but always pro¬ 
test against having to patch any dirty tbiug. 
I have seen men bring in a pile of bags from 
their granary, damp them on the kitchen floor, 
with dust and refuse of all sorts iu them, and 
call upon the women-folk to mend them at 
once; I should always object unless allowed 
to put them through the washing-machine first. 
While we were busy at this sorting for the 
wash, I talked to the little girls of their lessons 
that are still recited at home, after they have 
taken their share of household duties. This 
is easy work for my afternoons when knitting 
or sewing, and I enjoy having them with me 
and watching the development of their ideas. 
We have no text books in horticulture, but in 
the study of botany take every day tbe name 
of a plaut or llowcr and give the methods of 
cultivation and uses, culled from our varied 
reading. To day we were talking of fruits, 
Karen saying that she would like best to live 
where oranges grow, and 1 told her if she were 
there awhile she would give them all for a 
rosy apple, and how wise it was of the Creator 
to suit the growth of the fruits to the needs of 
the people of different climates, and the fruits 
of every climate to the seasons wheu we seem 
to require them, aud how wonderful was this 
provision when we remembered that these 
varied fruits contained the elements ueeded to 
keep the system in health and to purify and 
correct the action of the blood. Sometimes 
Alex, is very tiresome during lesson hours 
when he cannot go out of doors. I find nothing 
amuses him better than a lead pencil and a 
piece of paper, or a volume of bound maga¬ 
zines, of which wc have plen ty. True, they 
get thumbed a little, but so long as a child, 
does not destroy a book, 1 consider it is a very 
good kindergarten, and it educates the senses. 
Wc bought our “St. Nicholas" and “ Wide 
Awake” in order that the children might gain 
all possible good from them, and that cannot 
be done by keeping them in the book-case. I 
find by taking one or two studies a day, each 
day in the week, I can teach all the children 
need, and on Saturday they have extra house¬ 
hold duties and extra musical practice, so that 
evert day is folk So together we work, aDd 
hope and endeavor to “ act in the living pres¬ 
ent.” 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
An Alabaster Effect. 
Common plaster-of-Paris figures may be 
made to look like alabaster by simply dipping 
them into a strong solution of alum water. 
Ink Stains from Paper. 
First wash the paper with tepid water, using 
a camel’s hair brush for the purpose. Next, 
wet the stains with a solution of oxalic acid- 
one dunce to a piut of water—and finally wash 
the spots with clean water aud dry with white 
blotting paper. 
To Cook a Pie Melon. 
Peel, cut into small piecos aud stew until 
tender. To every pint of cooked melon add 
one teaspoonful of tartaric acid. Sweeten to 
taste; seasou with butter, allspice or nutmeg, 
and bake same as green apple pies, which they 
resemble. 
Pork Apple Pie, 
Make crusts same as for any pie. For fill¬ 
ing : First a thin layer of soar sliced apples, 
then sprinkle over little bits of salt pork- 
chopped fine and rinsed in cold water—with 
plenty of sugar and cinnamon or nutmeg. Put; 
in two layers each, of apples and pork ; add a 
very little water; dust over flour ; put in crust 
and bake three-quarters of an hour in a mod¬ 
erate oven. Eaten warm, Mary B. 
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Keeping Muxkmelons, Tomatoes, etc. 
II- J). V.. liobcaygeon, Onl., Can., asks, 1, 
how to keep muskmelons and tomatoes until 
the Fall shows; 2, how to keep cabbage and 
mangels so as to have seeds for next year's 
planting. 
Ans. —1 Tbe best method to keep early 
muskmelons, tomatoes or apples so as to be 
shown at the fairs later in the season, is to 
place them in a dry box and put it in the ice¬ 
house or refrigerator—tbe former is preferable. 
By keeping a journal of “when planted” 
and “ when ripe" one can judge in the Spring 
about what time it is best to sow or plant to 
suit the Fall shows. 2. Cabbages, if only a few 
choice heads are chosen for seed, can be pulled 
up and bung in a dry, cool cellar heads down- 
ward, with whatever earth clings to the roots. 
If many are to be kept, pit them and keep 
them covered with snow. Mangels are easily 
kept in a good dry cellar. 
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Suffer on, Groan on. Sicken on, Die on, if you 
will not use. Hop Bitters and be cured. 
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