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less he agreed to do whatever I might ask of 
him. Of course, I should exercise discretion. 
My husband always gives his men orders to 
do whatever I want doue, and there has neve 7 - 
been any complaint about two bosses. The 
hired man would make his own tied and take 
care of his own room. He can always do that, 
without interfering with his out-of-door work, 
and it is, in the long run, a great relief to the 
farmer’s wife. As to milking in the morning 
there is no necessity for a farmer’s wife to do 
that, even in the harvest time. It sometimes 
happens that crops may be saved from the 
rain, by having the milking doue cit night, by 
the ‘'women folks’’—but the woman who has 
breakfast to prepare and babies to dress, has 
no business to be in the cow-yard in the morn¬ 
ing. If she is it is her own fault, and a lack 
of good management. 
‘‘If the water for the use of the house had 
to be pumped. I would have enough pumped 
at morning aud noon by the hired man to 
serve my purpose 1 would do without table 
cloths to sa re my strength in the way of wash¬ 
ing. ju fact, if I found that my strength was 
too much taxed, 1 would neatly fold sheets, 
pillow cases, coarse shirts, aprons and the like, 
aud not iron them at all, 
“As to cookiug, I would make no pies, or 
elaborate dishes of any kind. Fruit would be 
served abundantly but plain. 1 would use oat¬ 
meal, cracked or uncracked wheat, hominy 
and graham mushes largely for breakfast— 
whichever was best liked, with rich milk, aud 
they muko excellent dessert for dinner. I 
should vary my salt pork with picked cod¬ 
fish aud salt mackerel, both of which are easily 
prepared. I would have on the table once a 
day at least, molasses, sirup, corn-bread— 
Johnny-cake once or twice a week forms 
a nice change as most workmen like it. 
Plain boiled rice is always a good 
dish, easily prepared and cheap. Corn¬ 
starch and sago puddings are easily made. 
All these dishes for dinner I would set going 
with my breakfast, aud finish off while 
washing tlio dishes. I should be sure to do 
one thing,—tax my brains as well as my 
Intnds—learn to place my work to the best 
possible advantage, and never take two steps 
where one would do. But one difficulty with 
people who call themselves poor farmers, is 
to lie, to do, aud to have like rich people. The 
childrens’ garments are tucked aud rutiled, 
ami the wife’s cashmere or alpaca frock is 
made with an elaborateness that is comical. 
Thero would be precious few worked-to-death 
women, if they only had sufficient common 
souse to live simply, aud s.j long as poor, aim 
to live in the simplest possible way. I don’t 
know a woman, whose husband is not simpler 
in his tastes than is she. The wants, the 
ministering to which kills so many wom¬ 
en ure for the most part created wants, 
and not such as are necessitated by nature. 
There is always one remedy for restricted 
circumstances, and that lies m restricting one’s 
condition. Uue can be just as much of a lady 
in an utterly unfurnished room as in the 
modern boudoir, and children can be taught 
as good manners at an uncovered pine table 
as at one made elegant with felt and damask. 
Beyond wholesome, nutritious food, tidiness 
of person aud pure air, the Bummer season de¬ 
mands little. But there’s uothing lady¬ 
like m a worn-out,, brokeu-down woman. 
She is simply a disgrace. It is not ‘loving 
service’ for a wife and mother to make u 
slave of herself—it is foolhardiness, pure aud 
simple. It often happens too, that these 
worked -to-death women could avail them¬ 
selves of help if they would. There is nearly 
always a hoy or girl in the neighborhood who 
cnu bo hired for a trifling consideration, and 
who will save enormously in stops which so 
sap a woman's strength. Then too, when no 
help can be had, when there is money to pay 
for it even, the money Ls not used to make the 
house more convenient, and so lighten the 
work. Neither the fuel nor the water is 
brought near at hand. Knives are poor and 
dull, sauec-pans are scarce, the garden and 
small fruits are too far away, there is no 
‘lift' to send and firing things from the 
cellar, there are no board walks to save the 
house from mud and dirt, nor wire screens for 
doprs and windows to keep out the flies, nor a 
large firm table under the large tree by the 
kitchen door, to dine at the Summer through 
aud save a deal of iudoor cleaning. All these 
labor-saving contrivances are ignored for the 
sake of saving a fow dollars. No, I’ve not 
much sympathy for these women who work 
themselves to death for such paltry reasons. 
I would do as your friend proposed to do—eat 
my food out of the vessels in which it was 
prepared, and make everybody around me 
proportionately frugal of kitchen utensils, 
sooner than over-tax my strength. Now how 
would you do ? ” 
-- 
EUNICE BROWN’S BAKING POWDER 
‘Where is the saleratus?” asked the new 
girl, id iii,t fri®rtd'« ^itched; when* I aul oh * 
visit just now. I answered,“Exploded.” The 
girl started and moved from the table, but 
seemed reassured by my hearty laugh. “I 
mean the idea of saleratus,” I said, aud then 
we talked of soda and cream-of-tartar, and of 
the various baking powders and self-raising 
flour. Our hostess upheld the “Cook's Friend’’ 
and the girl liked to use soda, while I praised 
up Horsford’s Baking Powder as the best we 
bad ever tried. If used according to direc¬ 
tions and six oimces of the powder are sifted 
into 12 pounds of the flour it makes the very 
best bread or biscuits. I And these items make 
a great deal of difference in cooking such 
bread. The pan must be hot; the dough must 
not bo kneaded, but worked up as lightly as 
possible, and be put at once into a hot oven. 
But the “greenery yellery” saleratus biscuit is 
a thing of the past, let us hope, and while 
such a good article can be purchased so 
cheaply, indorsed by medical men and well 
tried by good housekeepers, there is no need 
for the soapy and disagreeable taste that an 
atom too much saleratus was sure to impart. 
A BACHELOR’S HOUSEKEEPING. 
EUNICE BROWN. 
August 6th —I have hit upon a good plan 
in dish-washing, though I don’t suppose it 
would answer for a large family. I put the 
dirty dishes into the sink, aud only wash them 
once a day. The washerwoman came this 
morning and the first remark she made was: 
“What is the matter with the bird?" I looked 
and it was all huddled in a corner of the cage, 
its wings drooping; I had forgotten it. The 
woman cleaned the cage, gave it sand and 
fresh water, and it looks a little better. I gave 
her a basketful of bread to take home with 
her, for it ami other things are spoiling. The 
hens have make quite a spurt aud are laying, 
every one (if them. I wonder how people 
make custards—I don't care for boiling the 
eggs all the time. 
7th.—Have done all the chores, attended to 
the bird and cats, and washed up all yester¬ 
day's dishes, for 1 was too busy last night with 
my essay to bother with them, and tlxis morn¬ 
ing, wherever they came from, the house was 
full of flies. Mv porridge was a grand suc¬ 
cess, though I forgot the salt till it was done, 
and had to stir it in. 1 had half a pot of wa¬ 
ter and a bowlful of oatmeal and was sur¬ 
prised to And what a large quantity it made. 
Washed my dishes in hot water—poured it out 
of the kettle aud cracked my tumbler. I 
boiled my eggs in the pot thinking that would 
clean it, but had to put my hands in after all 
and scrape it. How do women do these 
things? A tramp came to the door this a. m., 
a tough-looking customer. “Think a fellow 
can get anything to eat here?" he asked. “No, 
nothing," I said. He laughed sardonically. 
“That’s just the way—‘no, nothing,’ ” he said. 
Blackberries are thick, but they scratch like 
the dickens, and stain one’s hands. I never 
thought of this wheu Eunice picked them, and 
1 have found out that soap net .s the stain. It 
is best to wash the hands in cold, soft water 
without soap, till the stain disappears, aud for 
the scratches—well, endure them. 
8th.—I left the butter in the pantry and it 
turned to oil—and when I hardened it again 
with ice it had a rancid taste. The knives 
have attained quite a dingy appearance, and 
l did not know before that vinegar was so bad 
for discoloring them. I tried Bath brick, but 
the rubbing on the board was tiresome, and 
set my teeth on edge, so I took a piece of po¬ 
tato and rubbed them with the out side. They 
are cloau, but not polished. And dust gathers 
everywhere. I take a feather brush and rub it 
off now and then, but there are so many 
things to move I get imjiatient. I liegin to 
think women are angels after all. and deserve 
more credit than they get for keeping things 
neat. 
fith.—That tiresome bird died this morning. 
Now there will be grief when Eunice comes 
Well, I don’t know what was the matter unless 
it was greedy and took too much water after 
being short of it the other day. I found auts 
iu Alio sugar this morning. How did they 
know she was away? I bunted for a cure and 
found that they would be attracted to a bone 
—but they didn’t leave the sugar for it, and I 
hacl to kill them by a game of hide-and-seek. 
A neighbor (Mrs. Vloet) brought iu a pie. It 
tasted good, it's so loug since 1 had one, and 
fruit aud milk pa LI on the palate. I wish Eu¬ 
nice was home—that pie makes me lonesome* 
(To be Continued.) 
A CALL FROM THE KITCHEN, 
Might not much of the dread and dislike of 
kitchen work be overcome by simplifying the 
unnecessary portion of it? Could wo not learu 
to do with a less number of dishes for one 
meal, and prepare those we do have in a plain¬ 
er manner than is usually the case? How 
wikuv t>t' t-h* W uflAtj sirteif who are making 
burnt offerings of themselves over the kitchen 
stove, endeavoring to get up elaborate dinners 
would be willing to place a vase of handsome¬ 
ly-arranged flowers in the center of the din¬ 
ner table instead of the richly-frosted and 
highly-flavored cake that has cost so much in 
time and labor; but is much better for one’s 
health and stomach to look at than to eat; or 
substitute a dish of ripe and richly-colored 
fruit in place of that ever-to-be-dreaded yet 
never-to-be-omitted pie? 
I wish farmers’ wives could and would mus¬ 
ter up courage enough to place more of their 
fruit upon the table just as Nature has pre¬ 
pared it, without concocting it into so many 
unwholesome and uunecessary dishes, the 
making of which consumes valuable time that 
would make their homes and lives happier if 
given to their children or themselves. It re¬ 
quires so much thought as well as time to pre¬ 
pare these sumptuous meals, and the house¬ 
wives have peeped into the oven, rushed down 
cellar into the pantry, the wood-house, the 
garden, and jumped from one thing to an¬ 
other amid dish-pans aud spoons, egg-whips 
and stove-kettles, meal after meal and month 
after month, keeping themselves in such an 
over-heat of harry and worry that all that 
was once sweet in their dispositions is in dan¬ 
ger of becoming soured. The dear, unselfish 
souls! They mean it only for good: but is it 
the best? 
Then, some imagine their husbands would 
be displeased if their favorite dishes did not 
make their regular appearance. Men are 
generally the most reasonable creatures in the 
world, and would rather go without any din¬ 
ner at all thau make a daily demand for their 
much-loved pudding, did they know how 
mauy extra steps and tired moments it made. 
And then, either we or their mothers taught 
them to like cakes and crullers, and they will 
as readily unlearn if we reason with them in 
a kindly manner. 
Will not some one tell us how to set a more 
simple yet sensible table; how to prepare a 
plain meal that will be pleasant to our “liege 
lords," ami that we can all partake of without 
being too tired to enjoy? Lora. 
CARE OF CANARIES. 
If you have a large cage you will have less 
music, for the canary will be taken up with 
the amusement of hopping about and forget 
his song. Supply plenty of water for a good, 
clean splash fresh every morning. A break¬ 
fast saucer makes a good bath-tub. Painted 
or brass wire cages are bad for canaries, as 
the verdegris from the latter and paint from 
the former are sure to be picked off and slowly 
poison the bird. Let the food be as true to 
nature as possible, ripe seed for the staple, and 
now and then a bit of apple, hard-boiled egg, 
or a lump alternately of sugar and rock salt. 
Let the seed be put in fresh, for the bird is 
like any other caged creature ;or uncaged, for 
that matter) aud does not like its food after 
it has been picked over. When moulting 
keep a rusty nail in the water he drinks. If 
he becomes dull, and the feathers hang loosely 
from the bod}', be sure the little creature has 
either been frightened or hanging in a draught 
aud caught cold, or been over-feeding. A 
little magnesia in his drinking water will 
protiably remedy the evil. If he has worse 
symptoms give two drops of castor oil. Iu 
pairing time it is necessary to watch closely if 
the mate agrees with your bird, as canaries 
have been known to kill an intruder, and 
really have preferences. If happily mated, 
there is much more likelihood of rearing their 
young, and they must have separate baths 
aud feeding cups in case of a quarrel, or the 
weaker bird may be starved, for it is an ex¬ 
ploded idea that “birds in their little uests 
agree ” 
If the canary takes a fit, the best cure is to 
plunge him in cold water. Sweets are not 
natural food for birds and must be given 
sparingly, iu fact adhere as closely as possible 
to the natural food, and keep the cage clean— 
washing occasionally with carbolic soap to 
keep clear of vermin. A Bird Fancier. 
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Two tablespoonfuls of thick, sour cream, one 
tablespoonful of brown sugar, one-half tea- 
spoonful of mustard,; beat till very light and 
frothy, then add a tnblespoouful of sharp 
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cream biscuit. 
One pint, sour cream, three eggs beaten very 
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