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ECONOMY FOR THE GIRLS. 
CLEANING. 
BY AUNT BETH. 
LEANING is one of 
Economy’s servants, 
who is continually at 
work He calls the sun, 
the air, the earth, and 
the water to his aid,and 
is busy at all hours of 
night and day without 
any aid from you or me, 
doing such a marvel¬ 
lous amount of work 
that it is more than 
we can comprehend. 
The running water, the 
stirring air, the sunshine and the earth are 
used by Cleaning to change evil to good. But 
there is left much for us to do, and the things 
we use at the work are the same—water, air, 
earth and sun; and, beside these, brooms, soap, 
towels, brushes and fires. 
The first time Cleaning begins to bother 
little girls (for I must say they often think this 
good worker a great bother) is when their 
mammas, with soap and watoraud usuft. cloth, 
help him to make their faces clean. How the 
little girls cry, and how they hate the good 
Cleaning! Thun be annoys them again when 
their aprons and dresses get soiled and dirty; 
but. after a while, they begin to work with 
this sprite, even while they think they still 
dislike him very much: and with water and 
towels they wash and wipe the dishes, scour 
the knives with soft brick, and think, perhaps, 
thoy arc the mot abused little girls fn a dozen 
States, and never dream that they are work¬ 
ing with one of the wisest and most useful of 
Economy’s invisible troop; and they do not 
see his face in the bubbles, on the suds in the 
dish pan, nor hear him laugh as the clear, hot 
rinse-water is poured over the dishes. 
I would like to tell you how he almost forgot 
to come to my pan of dish water sometimes, 
because I was careless, and let the fire go out 
before the water was hot; and how I some¬ 
times left. my towels in a wet heap in the kitchen 
instead of washing them out and taking them 
into the sun for Cleaning to take care of 
until 1 wanted them again. But, of course, 
you don’t want to hear of the times when 1 
treated Cleaning unfairly, so I will only toll 
you how ho will aid you, for we find out quite 
too often, how easy it is to leave our share 
undone. When you learn to like this sprite, 
you will enjoy making clean, shining dishes, 
washing the kitchen table until it will not 
attract a fly, sweeping every corner of the 
floor as carefully as the center, and brushing 
down all the nets the spiders have spread to 
catch the flies for their meals. Iti preparing 
vegetables for cooking, Cleaning must lend a 
hand, or the potatoes, onions, beets, parsnips, 
beans and cabbage would not look tempting 
on the table; when potatoes are to be cooked 
in their “jackets,” rubbing them with a cloth 
will clean them easily and perfectly, though 
some spots may need to be cut out with a knife 
if the potatoes are not very smooth. lu clean¬ 
ing beets, a cloth is good to rub them with, 
as, if the skin is broken, the color will boil out 
and leave them looking very dull. Crying 
over your work does not make it easier; so 
when onions must bo cleaned put on a lint or 
hood, so you will not. catch cold, and go to a 
window wheru there is a breeze, to peel them, 
or hold them under water, and you can avoid 
crying. 
Washing windows is work Cleaning likes 
to see well done, so the suu can come in 
through shining panes without dust and specks 
to interrupt it, and he likes to see it done 
without slopping the floor. To do it easily, 
wet the glass and window-frame all over and 
let them soak a little, and if there arc fly- 
specks on thu glass and wood work, they will 
come off easily when washed after soaking; if 
any specks still refuse to come off, wet them 
again and let them stand a little while longer. 
Win n the window is all washed quite clean, 
wring out the cloth as dry as possible and 
with it wipe the frame and the glass; then 
polish the glass with soft paper—old news¬ 
papers are good. Perhaps washing windows 
is too hard for the little girls, but some of the 
older ones have already tried this part of 
housework. The little girls often have the 
lamp chimneys to wash, because they can put 
their hands inside of them, and, oh how they 
wish sometimes that they wore bigger so their 
hands would not go into the chimneys and the 
hated work could bo avoided; but if you could 
make the chimneys shine, so bright that every 
one who saw them would notice how clean 
they were, you w r ould feel that the trouble 
paid; there is a great difference between a 
half-washed chimney and a really shining one. 
To make very nice work of it, a basin of hot 
soap-suds and a good cloth are the first things; 
rub the chimneys inside aud out with the cloth 
until all dust, smoko and grease from the oil 
are washed off; then rinse them in clear 
water, and let them drain until nearly dry; 
they will then polish much more easily than if 
rubbed with a dry cloth or soft paper as soon 
as rinsed. Fill and wash the lamps, and when 
all are cleaned, and they are set on the shelf 
together, the shining chimneys will be a credit 
to the little hands that polished them. 
Cleaning needs your help in the yard too; 
before cold weather fastens the leaves and 
weeds to the earth, they should be raked up 
and changed to asheft, smoke, and Invisible 
gasses. If you do not do it this Fall, Cleaning 
will work all Winter at them, and the rain, 
snow and frost willdo the work as fast, as they 
can, but only purt of each leaf and plant will 
be changed, the rest will still be there in the 
Spring waiting for your rake to gather them 
for a bonfire. 
Do you see why eleauing is Economy’s ser¬ 
vant? Have you »evcr noticed how fast 
clothes wear out when they get very dirty? 
they must bo rubbed so hard on wash days 
that they are soon old and worn. A dirty 
house will be full of flies all summer, and they 
spoil woodwork and walls, making white¬ 
wash and fresh paint necessary oftener than 
need l>e, if the flies were few. Economy 
would not have you clean more than neces¬ 
sary, though he wishes you to like and enjoy 
the work of cleaning, 
NOTES BY UNCLE MARK. 
How did your pop-corn yield this year ? 
Were your squashes extra nice? I saw a very 
large squash last week, each half almost big 
enough for a boat. Don’t forget your promises 
to report failures or successes in Fall crops. 
WnAT did you learn in your experiences 
with bees this seasou? Was it a good honey 
year in your locality ? What did you learn of 
the habits of the bees? We want to hear about 
the honey crop as well as other crops. 
Now is the time to learn the names of the 
apples, and what varieties are best for mar¬ 
ket, what are best for keepers, and—hut I 
need not tell you to learn which kind you like 
to eat best. Wbatistheuse of learning the 
names? When you read what the Rural has 
to say of an apple, if you have seen and eaten 
it, you will appreciate what you read, and 
recognize it by the name. 
Dm your seedling geraniums bloom this 
summer? if they did tell us what colors you 
had aud whether any were double. Are you 
going to keep plants in the house this Winter ? 
If you cannot keep tender plants, there are 
some that are hardy that will do well in the 
house. English ivy will bear a low tempera¬ 
ture; pansies und daisies will also. 
Are you getting comfortable quarters ready 
for the chickens this winter? Let us hear 
from the chicken crop; some of the cousins 1 
think are interested in poultry, write us how 
you succeeded this year. Have any of the 
cousins raised turkeys? Tell us what they 
weigh when you kill them; aud we will be 
glad to hear about any other fowls you have 
raised. 
Don’t hull your walnuts and hickory nuts at 
the back door and leave the hulls there. Wal¬ 
nut hulls are said to tie good as a fertilizer; 
put them on a plot of ground and notice 
whether there is any effect from them next 
year. Don’t leave nut shells all about the 
yard; have a box or barrel to throw them 
into, then burn them; there is an oil in the 
kernels that makes them burn readily. 
When you go nutting keep your eyes open 
all the way; there are flowers aud fruitsaloug 
the roadside and in the fence comers that are 
very pretty. The insects, too, are getting 
ready for Winter, aud as they are near neigh¬ 
bors, try to learn how they look, so you will 
recognize them when you meet again. 
Do the. boys haul the winter supply of wood, 
saw and split it? Can you tell by the appear¬ 
ance of the wood what kind it is? Notice the 
moss aud lichens on the logs; all those tiny 
things have names and relationships, as larger 
growths do, aud have been carefully studied 
by thinking men. 
Some of the girls have learned to take care 
of the cream and butter this Summer; tell us 
what plans you find the best for the work, 
how touch salt you use, how warm the cream 
is when you chum it, how long it is in “com¬ 
ing” and whether you wash the butter. Do 
your little brothers and sisters stand with a 
glass waiting for a drink of buttermilk as 
soon as the butter separates? 
Dou’t forget that trees can be transplanted 
from the woods this Fall, nor to pnt away 
seeds for Spring planting; the Pawpaw will 
grow from seed, and the bright red Dogwood 
bemes will grow; if you mean to plant a few 
seeds don’t forget it. 
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LETTER8 FROM COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark:— We tried your water¬ 
melon seeds this season and found the melons 
good, especially the ice-cream melon, grandpa 
pronounced them delicious and made us put 
away seed from them for next year’s plant¬ 
ing. Grandpa planted ten acres of rough 
proof oats they yielded very well: he is now 
picking peas, hut I cannot tell you how many 
he has. I received a letter from Brownie, and 
was to glad to hear from her. I am going to 
the convent near Mobile, and will be ten 
months away from home. I shall not be able 
to write to you while I am there, for I shall be 
permitted to w rite only to mother and nearest 
relatives, however, when I come home for 
vacation I will write to you again. My flow¬ 
ers are all dead; I saved as much seed as I 
could. Please tell the cousins good-by for 
me. 1 am so busy these days that I have not 
time to write longer. Your loving niece, 
MARY SANDLIN. 
[It seems like a long time to wait until next. 
Summer to hear from you again please don’t 
forget us,when vacation comes, uncle mark.] 
Dear Uncle M ark The weather has been 
clear and pleasant. Haying began here the 
first of August, and a great deal lias been 
put up since then. Father has a mowing 
machine, and so did not begin to put up his 
own hay until the second of September. He 
cut hay nearly all day, and the next day I 
raked while my father and oldest brother 
stacked. Father lias cut about fiO acres of 
hay besides bis own. When he is through I 
think he will have cut about 100 acres this 
season. Our flower seeds did not come up 
very well, but what did grow are in bloom, 
and they are very pretty. Mother and I have 
three or four jieony roots, and the little black 
uuts eat the blossom budsevery Spring. Will 
Uncle Mark be kind enough to tell me what 
will keep them off, as we have tried several 
things, but. none of thorn did any good? I 
would have written sooner but 1 nave been 
going to school, and night and morning I had 
to tend my flowers aud help my little brother 
herd cattle, and 1 bad to play some. We have 
been taking the Rural for three years, aud 
like it very much. We live about five miles 
from town, and it has been two weeks since 
we were in town, until day before yesterday, 
when my brother went in after five o’clock, 
and I did not know he was going until he had 
gone. Your niece, 
HESTER S. E. YOUNG. 
[I do not think the ante eat the peony blos¬ 
soms, something else is the mischief-maker; 
watch the blossoms closely next Spriug, and 
discover what it is if you can, aud what the 
anus do go for. uncle mark.] 
Dear Uncle Mark:— We have been so 
busy going to school and helping mamma that 
we have had no time to write until now. We 
have had a splendid school, taught this sum¬ 
mer by a youug girl who was us pretty 
as her school was good, mamma thinks we 
have made good use of our time, mamma does 
all her own work and has taken off the nest 
1500 chickens and fiO turkeys, but the hogs have 
eaten some aud the weasels have taken more, 
so we have not more than !200 left, we have 
had plenty of straw ben Lea, raspberries and 
blackberries, and a good garden. We buve 
beautiful flowers, although we ought to have 
a great maDV more, the weather was so dry in 
the Spring, that they did not come up. Our 
grape vines are not doing well, Papa feels dis¬ 
couraged over them, we are saving flower 
seeds uow, mamma is a botanist. Uncle Mark 
did you ever hear of the Cherokee Magnetic 
Spring? Well if you are sick just pay us a 
visit and driuk aud bathe in its waters. Your 
Little friends, Willie and Ella. 
Cherokee Co , Iowa. 
[Accept my thanks for your invitation to 
visit the Springs I thtuk I will try to keep 
well though as that is better than medicinal 
waters. Do you enjoy gathering the odd little 
flower seeds?’ Be careful to put them away 
safely where you can fiud them when planting 
time comes. uncle mark.] 
Uncle Mark:— This is my second letter to 
the Youths’ Horticultural Club. Pa planted 
the seeds you sent him; he planted the corn on 
the 14th day of May, aud it is almost ma¬ 
tured. He thinks it is of fine quality. His 
oats came up nicely, but the field mice ate 
most all of them as soon as they begun to 
ripen. The tomato seeds came up spleudidly. 
VVe had all the plauts we wanted, and gave 
some to our neighbors; we think they are the 
largest aud smoothest tomatoes we ever saw. 
We intended to weigh the largest, but the 
chickens ate it before it ripened. We planted 
the R. N.-Y. peas on the lath of April, aud 
they were ready for the table just five weeks 
from the time they were planted; the Hors- 
ford’s Garden Pea came on about three w eeks 
later. I planted the flower seeds you were so 
kind as to send me; there was balsam, snap¬ 
dragon, mignonette, phlox, zinnias, aud 
Quaking grass. 1 tbiuk more of the grass 
than I do of the flowers; it is so nice to place 
among my everlastings 1 will send you a 
wreath of everlastings and some of my draw¬ 
ings. Your niece, 
Macoupin Co., Ill. dor a ricks. 
[The wreath and drawings came safely. I 
prize them very much; accept my thanks. 
UNCLE MARK.] 
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