®re<s(, £te&a, 35?Iatit* &c 
wiped in the dining-room, and the rest of the 
table service is banded through to the kitchen. 
Luncheon is at one o’clock and dinner at a 
quarter past six. The youugster of the house¬ 
hold sujis on bread and milk at half-past five 
o’clock and is in bed at seven. On Sunday 
morning breakfast is at eight o’clock and there 
are griddle cakes, muffins or waffles. Dinner 
is at one o’clock: at six a light tea is served. 
In regard to the details of work, it is im¬ 
possible to give definite rules, as there is such 
a variety of circumstances. It is best to have 
the chamber work done before noon and the 
rooms in order, if the rooms aud bedding have 
been thoroughly aired. Much time can be 
saved if there are two to do the chamber work 
particularly in bed-making. With a person 
at each side of the bed it can be made in much 
less than half the time employed by one. So 
in sweeping, if one sweeps and another dusts 
a good many rooms cau be put in order in a 
few hours. For dusting use a large, soft 
cloth instead of a brush, and frequently give 
it a shake out of the window. Wben a brush 
is used the dust is simply knocked ell one 
thing to fall on another. In dusting pictures, 
hold the frame steadily with one corner of 
the duster and with the other hand wipe oil’ 
the frame and glass. Most picture-frames are 
injured by being handled with bare haDds. 
In a room where there are books, mantel or¬ 
naments and bric-a-bric, dust these off before 
sweeping and pile on a thoroughly dusted 
table, over which spread a calico duster, or, if 
there is a closet handy, put them in that. 
After all, the genius of “ turning off” work 
rapidly and making it move like clock-work, 
lies largely in being methodical and in having 
your tools of work at hand. All work of a 
kind is more quickly and easily done when 
done at one time. To do work in ‘‘dabs 1 ’—a lit¬ 
tle washing and cleaning two or three times a 
week—uses up a deal of time. If one can save 
her time from being broken up there is great 
gain made. I always try to manage to have 
everything done on its own day—the washing 
of every description, including the dish-tow- 
.els, done ou Monday. And 1 think it is better 
to suffer some inconvenience than to interfere 
with stated regulations. 
One thing a bout “ managing help." I think 
many people suffer from, and that is “ inter¬ 
ference.” The servant in the kitchen must 
have a good degree of liberty of action, and if 
she only gets her work done and done fairly 
well, it is much better to let her do her own 
managing. I don’t much like to tell how I do, 
because I do very badly 1 know; but in some 
things I might do worse, perhaps I never go 
into my kitchen with the air of overseeing 
things. If I ibink it uecessary to put in an 
appearance, I make it a point to have an 
errand, and of course I see everything at a 
glance, and if anything is wrong I allude to it 
incidentally. To have the mistress of the 
house “poking” around in tbo kitchen I can 
well understand is a “nuisance” to a servant, 
and if the mistress has the management well 
in hand there is nothing adequate gained by 
it. Neither do I allow anybody to use the 
kitchen as a place to “stand around in.” 
When I find things going wrong or being 
wasted, I scatter the blame as much as possi¬ 
ble, but point the moral of the bad business 
with “desperate keenness.” 
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ORANGE SHORTCAKE. 
One quart of flour, two rpoonfuls of butter, 
a teaspoonful and-a half of baking powder, a 
little salt and sweet milk to mix. Sift the 
baking powder with the flour and rub the 
butter through it. Mix as soft as possible. 
Roll into two thin sheets and bake in a quick 
oven. Tiie oranges should be peeled, cut 
into small pieces, freed from seeds nnd 
sugared at least an hour before wonted. 
When the pastry is done, put the oranges 
between the layers and serve with sweetened 
cream. A Southern Housekeeper. 
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SPICED APPLES. 
At this season of the year many varieties 
of apples are decaying The following is one 
of our way9 of saving the fruit: Four pounds 
of juicy, good cooking apples peeled but left 
whole; two pounds of light brown sugar; 
baJfan ounce of stick cinnamon; an ounce of 
whole cloves and a pint of vinegar, Put the 
vinegar, sugar and spice into a preserving 
kettle aud let come to a boil, put in the apples 
and nook gently until the fruit is tender. 
Turn into a Btone pot and cover tightly 
Mary B. 
FRIED CABBAGE. 
The cabbage should be boiled, drained and 
cold. Chop, add pepper, salt, two spoonfuls 
of melted butter and two of sweet cream. 
Turn into a frying-pan aud cook until 
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Seed 1883 Catalogue 
educated and r metical growers now- assent to our 
motto “• That I hr liii tlier \ni tliM <-iis are 
grown the earlier their product will be.” 
Vv.'otter this v-i a full line ,>i stan.lanl Potatoes, 
i ue to name, gr vvnon dry uvl;in-t; S^ ii iyto iind 
Stem V\ It WmteRussianOats tun <;*Cab 
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N*»cth SL»r Vi-lkny lXt;t (Vru »tilLt-.io.Pb The lc.nu nnd 
forfSadci i.so.iuMl to Mryi of onion tv** '!, toiuutoes, 
o-ir-nu. 1 vYu.s ket . :i t'vd. ue • id ij i»? crop, ail 
Small Fruits In Texas. 
On Nov. 10, I had ripe and green fruit on a 
Cuthbert Raspberry bush, received from a 
New Jersey nursery, on April 80. and set out 
on the 22d. Freni May 28, until the last night 
of August, not even a gu< d shower fell on uiy 
premis s. With me, raspberrl *s tlds year suf¬ 
fered less than bluckberrlea, or even native 
dewberries, or Mustang g»ape-vines within 
100 feet of them, aud l am delighted with my 
success thus far. p. b. 
Travis Co., Texas. 
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As a Refrigerant Drink In Fevers. 
Dr C H. H. DAVIS, Meriden, Couu., says* 
“1 have used it as a pleasaut aud cooling 
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pleased with it.”— Adv. 
For Home Gardens. Our It- 
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