4885 
9 
1 
4 7 
etitches divisible by seven turn and work back 
in d. c , taking up every stitch. Turn; make 
one chain, one d. c. on second stitch, one on 
third, three on fourth, one on fifth, one on 
sixth, one on ninth, one on tenth, three on 
eleventh, one on twelfth, one on thirteenth, 
one on sixteenth, one on seventeenth, three on 
eighteenth, one on nineteenth, one on twenti¬ 
eth, one on twenty third, and so on to the end 
of row. It uow begins to point; turn, one ch , 
one stitch on second stitch of point, one on 
third, five on fourth, one on fifth, one on 
sixth, one on second of uext point, continue 
thus to the end of the row. Turn, one ch , one 
stitch on second one of point, one on third, 
one on fourth, three on the fifth, one on the 
sixth, one on the seventh, one on the eighth, 
one on the second one of next point; repeat 
to the end. Turn, one ch one stitch ou second 
of point, one ou the third, one on fourth, five 
on fifth, one on sixth, one on seventh, one on 
eighth, one on second of next point, and soon. 
The worker will observe that the first stitch 
of every point is on the second stitch of same 
point in previous row, ami that in each alter¬ 
nate row three are worked on the middle 
stitch, while in the other rows five are worked 
on the same stitch; continue thus till the cape 
is long enough to suit, then work the border 
and finish off the neck with some fancy stitch. 
I never made the borders of two capes alike, 
varying them to suit my taste. 
AUNT EM. 
Domestic Ccottomi) 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
KITCHEN TALKS. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
The Amateur Cook had the rolling-pin in 
her baud, and she brought it down with great 
force upon the baking board. “I don't want 
her to come here." she emphasized, speaking 
of a girl who had lately come to the neighbor¬ 
hood. “She is always talking about her pride 
in not knowing how to work; how her mamma 
and her elder sisters always attend to the 
household duties aud uever allow her to soil 
her fingers " “Well, my dear,” I answered, 
“your younger sisters shall never have that to 
say of you, if I live to see them grown up. 
I believe in a family sharing alike the burden 
of the housekeeping, ami not one to be over¬ 
loaded aud another left free of burdens. It is 
no honor for that girl to say she never made 
bread, or washed the dishes. More shame for 
her when her mother has done it for forty 
years, aud her father works hard to keep them 
all comfortable. Don’t you remember when 
Aunt Dorcas was here how pleased she was 
one day when you were so busy and a caller 
came and you only took a few minutes to 
change your dress when you appeared to en¬ 
tertain your company, because your hair was 
tidy aud your face cleau. After they left, 
you went back to your job of house cleaning 
quite cheerfully, aud Aunt Dorcas said, ‘It 
is quite a nice thing to be a lady in the parlor 
aud in the kitchen too.’ A French writer has 
expressed it somewhat differently: 'The dis¬ 
tinctive sign of a high-boni women is shown 
by wliat she knows about the kitchen.’ There 
is no degradation, but everything honorable 
in the knowledge of what is most necessary 
for our Imppy and healthful living, our most 
familiar needs. 
There are none so high in the social scale 
that the fluctuations of wealth, the dishonesty 
of those in business with them, or other 
causes, may not reduce them to abject 
poverty. ‘1 hope they will leave me my fur¬ 
niture, for it is dear to me from long posses¬ 
sion,’ said u lady to me lately, who knew that 
bankruptcy was very near and through no 
fault of her own; and so it is in many cases 
whei*e these changes come, aud if the early 
training of a daughter is properly attended 
to; if she is taught to cook, to bake, to mend 
aud to kuow how washing and irouiug should 
be done, there is no fear of her future. The 
sweet‘uses of adversity’will only recall her 
early days spent in a mother’s kitchen doing 
loving service for those near and dear to her; 
and it will take the bitterness aud the sting 
from her reverses of fortune to remember 
that her mother had prepared her for this, 
instead of leaving her helpless and stranded 
to a life of useless discontent. Perhaps that 
mother uiny not live to see the reward, but 
such a daughter will be saved mauy a trial, 
aud though mother is not there, her influence 
will remain " 
“I feel quite superior to that girl after such 
a pleasant lecture,” smiled the^Cook, quite 
chipper. “Here, marmsie, taste this squash 
pie, made of u choice, dry Hubbard.” And 
tell me if it isn’t richer anil better than 
pumpkin. And so the conversation dropped, 
aud left me wishing that girls could see and 
understand the value of their home training, 
aud not be iullueueed l»y those who affect to 
despise the use of their bauds, always remem- 
THE 
MEW- 
bering the important injunction, “Whatso¬ 
ever thy hands find to do, do it with thy 
might.” _ _ _ 
ECONOMY NOTES. 
I foe one have tried Mrs. Snedeker’s recipe 
for Letnou Cake and met with success. I used, 
however, two-thirds of a cup of sugar as 
sweetening for the dressiug instead of the half 
cup she directed. My family pronounced it 
the best layer cake that I had ever made. By 
the way, that same recipe makes an excellent 
jelly or chocolate cake. 
For years I have been tormented with layer 
cakes sticking to the tins One friend told me 
to grease the tins with lard instead of butter. 
Another said the reason the cake stuck was 
because I kept my tins too bright; while an¬ 
other advised putting a piece of sweet lard or 
suet into the tins, placing them in the oven 
and so allowing them to get heated through 
and through, after which they were to be 
scalded with cleau, hot water, dried aud set 
aside until used. But in my case, all these 
remedies failed, my cakes still stuck and broke 
so badly in getting them out, that I gave up 
making layer cake. Lately, while looking over 
an old recipe book of mother’s, I came upon 
the following: “To Prevent Cake Sticking to 
Jelly Tins. Crease the tins, line with tissue 
paper, sides as well as bottom, put in the bat¬ 
ter, and bake. When done, turn bottom up on¬ 
to a clean cloth or towel, and with a bit of cloth 
dipped in hot water, just wet in every part the 
paper on the bottom of the cake. After a mo¬ 
ment’s waiting.you cau peel off the paper with- 
outa particle of cake sticking to it." I follow¬ 
ed these directions, and they worked bke a 
charm—no more bottomless aud brokeu cakes! 
One word of advice just here:—Let the cakes 
remain top down until they' are almost, or 
quite cold. You can then handle them with¬ 
out danger of breaking. 
Although one corner of a small drawer in 
my dressing table was supposed to be the 
place for our button hooks, it was the excep¬ 
tion, aud not the rule, to find one there. At 
last, in desperation, I fastened a button-hook 
and a small pair of scissors to black tapes and 
tied the other euds to a drawer knob, Mamma 
is no longer asked where these necessary and 
heretofore truant articles are. The children 
now can’t mislay them, and I am saved a deal 
of trouble. 
What is to be done with the pretty Christ¬ 
mas and New Year’s cards that many of us 
have received? Better put them carefully 
away in a box, to be brought out and looked 
over at pleasure than to cheapen our rooms by 
scattering them promiscuously around. No 
one objects to three or four pretty cards iu a 
room, but when they cover walls, mantels, 
tallies, etc., they become positively unsightly, 
aud are no longer pleasing mementoes of past 
holidays. mrs. economy . 
TO LADIES WHO PLAY AND SING. 
An English gentleman who has suffered 
many things from the fingers aud voices of 
musical women, gives them the following 
bit of advice through the Queen: If yoa play, 
do not pride yourself ou having had so very 
few lessons and never practicing; so much 
the worse for your hearer. 
Do not boast of being able to plav by ear, and 
do not get into the habit of playing without 
music,unless you frequently refresh your mem¬ 
ory, and thus make sure that you are not palm¬ 
ing off your own slovenly inventions under the 
great names of Schumaun or Chopin. 
Do not go on playing when no one wants to 
hear you, aud do not ofl’er to perform in the 
presence of artists superior to yourself. 
Do not suppose you cau keep up your music 
without practising, or your playing without 
listening to the best pianists. 
Do not learu to sing if you have no voice, 
or an essentially unpleasant one. 
Do not leave off playing the piano because 
you have a good voice. 
Do not think that any dabbliug ou the piauo 
will do by way of accompaniment so long as 
you sing the right notes, and do not learn 
music at all unless you have a good ear to 
start with.___ 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
BOSTON BAKED BEANS. 
One^piart of beans. Souk them over-night, 
iu the morning drain, then cover with warm 
water, and add one pound of pork Boil 
gently half au hour, then turn them iu a colan¬ 
der, ami rinse with three quarts of cold water, 
then put half of them iu the bean-pot, then 
the pork, then the rest of the beans. Pour 
over them oue teaspoonful of mustard, a table¬ 
spoonful of salt, and a tablespoon ful of mo¬ 
lasses mixed iu a cup of water, then cover 
with boiling water. Bake slowly for 10 hours, 
adding a little water, as it cooks off. 
LILLIE MAY. 
MILK IN THE WINTER. 
To those who dry off their cows aud go 
without milk for weeks at a time in Winter 
I would say that if you can spare a part of 
your milk now, mn if, and thus have a supply 
for your tea, coffee, and cooking at that time. 
Heat it to the boiling point in a pail set into a 
kettle of hot water, aud make air-tight, as 
you would fruit, in large bottles, jugs, or fruit 
cans. Thin, sweet cream can be preserved iu 
the same way. mbs. jennte watson. 
WILD TURNIP FOR FELONS. 
Mrs. Parsons, in answer to our question as 
to what she means by “Wild Turnip,” replies 
that “the plant is botanieally known as Ar- 
isaema triphyllum, and familiarly as Dragon- 
root, Indian Turnip, or Jack-in-the-Pulpit.” 
By the last name the plant is well known to 
every country child. Mrs. Parsons also states 
that she sent the felon cure to four papers at 
the same time. Supposing that the item was 
sent to us in the usual manner, we claimed it, 
and, as a result, thought our contemporaries 
had appropriated it without credit. 
SODA CRACKERS. 
Mre. S. E. Watcher asks how to make soda 
crackers such as are sold in the stores. Who 
can tell her ? 
-- 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
MEDICAL BOTANY. 
What work on the above would you sug¬ 
gest for country readers? N. v. c. 
Ans. —The latest edition of United States 
Dispensatory, by Wood and Bache. See ans¬ 
wer to other question under felon cure. 
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Cattle, Horses, Calves, Sheep and Hogs. 
This Meal la the product of pure sound Flaxseed, 
Lluseed helUir Its other name. 
The reason why Linseed Meal Is the most nutrlt 
Ions of all foods Is because It contains the largest pro 
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The effect' of NUrOtfvnqus Foods, such as Lissked 
Mt.iL, tuny be briefly summed up its follows: 
1. Fed with straw or other coarse fodder they ac- 
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2. They add n ureal value to the dairy. 
3. They lay on flesh and fnt rapidly. 
4. They promote a healthy activity In all the orcans. 
5. They Increase the fertility of the soil by enrich¬ 
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li. They prevent disease bv keeping tile organs In a 
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Please give direction for making and bak¬ 
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—and a tea spoon ful of salt. Beat the yelks 
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Before you make this batter, cut a small end 
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which will thu3 be enriched and crisped. Cut 
in square or narrow strips, aud place around 
the large roast in serving. 
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Dr. C. A. Fernald Boston, Mass., says: “I 
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Prof. Horsford^s Bakina: Powder 
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