THI BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB 
if well fitted, than the knitted undershirt un¬ 
less it is woven in the form of a Jersey, which 
is self-adjusting. But every woman should 
wear flaunel next her skin in TV inter. Canton 
flannel does not answer the purpose, besides 
being a buugling garment. If flannel is al¬ 
ways washed in hot suds, rinsed immediately 
in hot water, well shaken and quickly dried 
the shrinkage will be almost uone. Put a 
little blue in the rinsing water. 
Blue reminds me that none is so good and so 
economical as indigo in the lump, and tied in 
a piece of white muslin. It is the old-fash¬ 
ioned way, and is the very best one. I never 
invested in any other kind of blueing but I 
wasted my money. 
Do the sleeves of your underwear shove 
up wheu you draw on your dress sleeves 
and constitute a dally I .other t Of course 
they do. If you have lying in the top 
small drawer of your dressing bureau ur else¬ 
where near where you dress, a piece of wrap¬ 
ping yarn, or tape, about a yard long, and 
will hold one eud in your baud aud with the 
other wind the 9tring twice around your arm 
over the ends of rhe sleeves of the 
undergarment, and then put the loose 
end of the string iu the hand with 
the other which will hold both tight as it 
slips through the dress sleeve, you will fird 
the bother overcome perfectly, and iu half a 
minute Teach the children how to do it, as 
their sleeves grow too short to be caught iu 
the fist. Of course the string is slipped oil' at 
the baud readily enough to be used on the 
other arm, 11 you can’t succeed in this oper¬ 
ation from these directions, ask somebody to 
help you, or else ask me to give more ex¬ 
plicit ones for it is something, as mv laddie 
says, which “is most valuable to know.” 
and a piece of the same put in for a vest 
front. This best suit for Willie is entirely 
made of a blue flaunel suit of his father’s. 
You see it has little skills set on the blouse, 
which give it an old Continental look, and at 
the same time it could be cut from smaller 
pieces. Willie’s overcoat is made from the dark 
browu oue his father wore for five years, 
turned. I sent to Butterick’s for a pattern to 
fit him, and looked to see how the coat was 
made when I ripped it up: but still it was a 
great task to try on and press over aud over 
till it suited and looked as if tailor-made. 
Then I made him a skull-cap of the pieces left, 
aud have saved at least $15, for the cloth you 
can see is very fine. 
I cannot afford to wear calico or have my 
children do so; for a gray flannel dress, the 
material of which will not cost over $5, will 
wear for me w ithout changing at least three 
TV inters, aud then can be made over for the 
children. I make all and my brothel's and sis¬ 
ters pay tribute in old clothes; even aunts and 
cousins often give their share, and so by mak¬ 
ing the most of that Cod-given gift to woman, 
kind ingenuity, aud all the half-worn clothes 
I can find. 1 keep my children both warmly 
and stylishly dressed. 
Pi.$ceUan*ou;&’ guUerti.stttg 
CONDUCTED BY EMIT-Y MAPLE. 
PITHS, 
Air the bedding of the guest chamber. 
Serviceable tidies for everyday use are made 
in this wise: Choose a pretty linen towel, tie a 
ribbon arouud the ceuter, idrawing the towel 
up to a bout half its width) and make a bow with 
euds Spread out the cuds aud fasten to a 
chair-back. 
Much of the misery of womeu is due to the 
practice of squeezing a No. 4 foot into a No. 3 
shoe. 
When cooking cabbage or ouious, put a 
small quantity of vinegar iu a cup on the stove. 
This neutralizes in a great measure the dis¬ 
agreeable odor from the cooking vegetable. 
“So much is said now-a-da.vs about milk as 
a vehicle of infection that we are in the habit 
of boiling every particle of milk before using 
it on our table.” Thus writes a friend. 
When the blades of steel knives become 
rustv. let them stand in a vessel containing 
thick lime water from 12 to 24 hours. Then 
take out and clean with sapolio or emery. 
Care must be taken to keep the handles dry. 
Our noblest meu or women are those who 
were taught self-denial, self-reliance /uid un¬ 
selfishness iu their childhood. 
To clean paint without soap: Add « small 
spoonful of powdered borax to half a pailful 
of warm water. Wash the paint with a woolen 
cloth. You will be surprised to see how easily 
the dirt washes off. Borax will not, like 
ammonia, take off the paint. 
Women live too much iu the house, breathe 
too much bad air, aud take too little of out¬ 
door recreation. 
Chopped meats, veal, chicken, ham or 
tongue seasoned with pepper, salt, aud n little 
made mustard are superior to sliced meats for 
sandwiches. A little chopped pickle mixed iu 
with the meat is to our miud, an improve¬ 
ment. 
A very good imitation of ground glass is 
produced by dissolving three tablespoon fuls of 
Epsotu salts iu a pint of warm water, applying 
to the glass with a common paint brush. This 
answers admirably when a sort of screen is 
wanted. The solution must be applied to that 
side of the glass which is not exposed to the 
weather. 
, VF R ’Q Sarsaparilla is a medicine that, 
1 ,tn ° during nearly 40 years, iu all 
parts of the world, has proved its effi¬ 
cacy as the host blood alterative known 
to medical science. 
ARSAPARILLA 
genuine Honduras Sarsaparilla) is its 
base, and its powers are enhanced by 
the extracts of Yellow Duck and Stil- 
liugia, the Iodides of Potassium and 
Iron, and other potent ingredients. 
J your blood vitiated by derangements 
’ of the digestive ami assiuiilatoiy func¬ 
tions y is it taiuted by Scrofula? or 
does it contain the poison of Mercury 
or Con famous Disease? 
L|C leading physicians of the United 
1 States, who know the composition 
of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, say that 
nothing else so good for the purifica¬ 
tion of the blood is within the range of 
pharmacy. 
Sll Y by the use of this remedy is it 
1 possible for a person who has 
corrupted blood to attain sound health 
and prevent transmission of the de¬ 
structive taint to posterity. 
10 R 0 UGHLY SfthetyS v m« 
include not only the removal of cor¬ 
ruption from the blood, but its enrich¬ 
ment. and the -tlengthening of the 
vital organs, 
■ I I ADI F witnesses, all over the 
-LIMDL.U world, testify that this 
work is better accomplished by Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla than bv any other 
remedy. 
finn ,s corrupted through dis- 
-U UU ease Is made pure, and blood 
weakened through diminution of the 
red corpuscles is made strong, by 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. 
IRirVINP ltie ljlo °d and building 
imr I inu up the System require 
time in serious cases, liut benefit w ill 
be derived from the use of Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla more speedily than 
from anything else, 
mini MC for which like effects are 
-UIOIPIC. falsely claimed, is abun¬ 
dant in the market, under many names, 
but the only preparation that has stood 
the test of time, and proved worthy of 
the world’s confidence, is 
WAYS IN BREAD-MAKING 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
A lady reader writes to me: “Will you 
give us a few recipes for warm bread for 
breakfast; We get tired of the baker’s loaf, 
even toasted, and I think breakfast is the only 
meal at which new bread can be eaten with 
any sort of impunity.” So I give as “ first 
best” the following. 
johnny cakes. 
Oue egg, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, butter 
the size of a walnut, two cups of sour milk, 
one teaspoon ful of soda. Beat well, and add 
enough indiau meal to make a thin batter. 
Bake in a hot oven in gem pans. Next I give, 
as tried and not found wanting, Marian Har- 
land's 
GRAHAM GRIDDLE CAKES. 
One cup of Indiau iueal. scalded aud cov¬ 
ered, one quart of milk, one-half cup of yeast, 
one cup of cold water, one cup of flour, one 
cup of Oraham flour, one large spoonful of 
molasses, one spoonful of lard or butter, one- 
half teaspoonful of soda: salt to taste. Scald 
and strain the meal over-night, thin with 
milk aud make into a sponge with the other 
ingredients. In the morning add salt, white 
flour, soda and lard, and make into a batter. 
These cakes, if made on a soap-stone griddle, 
are very healthful and better than buckwheat 
Very simple cakes, if oue has rnufiin rings, 
are rye muffins: Two cups of rye flour, one- 
half cup of molasses, one cup of flour, oue 
e gg- Salt to taste, add a little soda or pre¬ 
pared veost: bake quickly iu muffin rings. 
A good recipe for plain light rolls is: One 
quart of flour, one tablespoonful of butter, 
oue cup of warm milk; salt to taste. Rub 
the butter and flour together, add milk aud 
yeast. After mixing well, let it rise till light, 
theu make into rolls, and let them stand till 
well raised, aud bake in a steady oven. 
“WHISKEY” PICKLES. 
Pick. wash, and pack your cucumbers as 
closely as you can in your barrel or jar. 
Take six gallons of rain water, if you haveit, 
if not. well or spring water will do; one gal¬ 
lon of good alcohol, uud one-half gallon of 
molasses; thorougnly mix these iu another 
vessel, aud then pour on enough of the 
liquoi to cover your cucumbers, and after 
each pickling is packed add enough of the 
liquor to ©Over them, aud don't fail to keep 
the pickles weighted just heavy enough 
to hold them down. Have a cloth cut out to 
fit iu the barrel. Spread this on the piekles, 
ami a board cover on top of this; then you 
can remove the scum which comes to the top 
with the .cloth when you take it off. When 
about half of your cucumbers are packed, 
tie up red poppers, horseradish, etc., to suit, 
your taste;and for one barrel of pickles use 
four ounces of alum in a bag aud put it iu the 
barrel, and I will assure you that, you will 
have iu a short time fine, solid, crisp and 
-our pickles that will satisfy the most critical 
taste. Iu putting up over 1(H) barrels iu this 
way, I never failed to have pickles t hat would 
bring a better price in market than the 
“store pickles." a reader. 
dresses, a yard of velveteen of good quality, 
which costs $1.95, will do much. It will cut a 
vest front for the waist, collar and cuffs, and 
leave enough to trim the Winter hat. Tie 
your bonnet strings iu a large bow under 
the chin if you wish to be fashionable. 
Small, close-ftttiug bonnets, with very little 
trimming, rosettes of velvet or chenille in 
stead of feathers, are most fashionable, and 
for tV inter most comfortable. A bat that 
catches the wind and is blown about bv every 
gale, is a trial. Crocheted caps or turbans of 
red yarn, which any girl can knit, continue 
fashionable for boys and girls, and are as 
serviceable as they are pretty. Scarlet yarn 
for oue cap costs 25 cents—two ounces. Wrist¬ 
lets, or pulse warmers, may be made of the 
tops of children’s woolen stockings, which are 
worn out bejoud service elsewhere. Old 
stocking-legs may be used to advantage also, 
by turning ihetn around backside to the front, 
and wearing the.u under other stockings. 
The two should be pulled on together in order 
to iusure smoothness. Odds and ends of flan¬ 
nel serve excellently for iuterliuings, but if a 
garment is to bo drawn over one of wool, it 
should not be liued with flannel, on accountof 
the diffic ilty of pulling it on and off this, 
when it has sleeves. 
In buying overcoats it is well to bear iu 
miud that those of very heav y cloth made up 
without linings are much harder to wearupon 
the under coat than the lined ones. 
If you want entire rest from “doing up” 
collars aud cuffs, wear those of celluloid 
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WHAT TO DO WITH THINGS. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
If you have a worn-out ingrain carpet, cut 
it in carpet rag strips, cutting the long way 
of the carpet, sew, wind into balls, aud take 
it to the carpet-weaver to weave into as wide 
a length of carpeting ns his loom will admit 
of, and into such lengtlis as you may desire 
for a rug. Finish the end with carpet bind¬ 
ing or a woolen fringe and you wall have a 
most beautiful aud stylish rug, or rugs. In 
the locality where I live weavers furnish the 
war P a »'i weave rag-carpets for 85 cents per 
yard. Two or more widths of the carpet may 
be sewed together for a very large rug. 
If you have old silks, or pieces of new silk 
for that matter, cut into strips on the bias 
three-quarters of au inch wide, sew “hit or 
miss."and with large wooden and boue needles 
knit for your table a cover: or if you have 
enough knit a curtain for a window or door. 
If you have not seen these things you have 
small idea how pretty they are. 
Cardigan jackets that the meu have worn 
out may l>e cut down for smaller wearers. 
First wash and dry, then put on the prospec¬ 
tive wearer and fit with pins; this will bring 
the seams, arm, ride aud one back seam, on 
the right side of the jacket, hut as it is laded 
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I had often wondered how it was possible 
for our minister’s wife to keep her children so 
neatly clothed iu flannel and make ends 
meet generally, on the small salary her 
husband received. To-day she solved the 
problem for me. She was just putting the 
finishing touches to a navy blue flannel ter 
her little girl of five. It was made with a 
loug pleated waist sewed to a pleated skirt, 
the seam being covered by a wide pleated 
belt of the same material, aud all the edges 
trimmed with three rows of stitching done 
with cardinal silk. “ Did you find the flannel 
iu town r” isaid. She laughed. “ Why, it is the 
2> uf the latest and ru oat Popular sons.- 
sent free by mall for one 3-oent stamp 
then before cutting a stroke, stitch all the 
seams twice on the machine. Trim the seams, 
try on again uud cut out the neck, and find 
length of sleeves, which may lie raveled from 
the wrists up so far as needed, aud the stitches 
knitted around with a crochet hook; use the 
yaru pulled out for darniug holes; bind the 
neck and front with a piece of silk or of rib¬ 
bon, and you have a very respectable garment 
to keep somebody warm. 
If you are a devotee to tluuuel petticoats it 
may be useless to assure you that flannel 
drawers worn next the skin yield twice the 
warmth and comfort. You should have two 
kinds, one of flannel of light quality coming 
just below the knee for mild weather, aud the 
other of heavy flannel reaching to the ankles, 
over which the stockings are to be drawn 
1 hey should be well cut, so as to lit smooth 
aud flat about the wuist, the way in which 
men’s knitted drawers ure finished at the top, 
is a good guide to follow. Bodies, or waists, 
cut long over the hips and made of flaunel, 
are upon the whole rather more satisfactory 
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