know the laws that govern health and dige 
tion, what to use and what to avoid under 
certain conditions, which is likely to be of 
more advantage to them through life than the 
brain work that is often given to memorizing 
the population of Hindoostan or the square 
miles of New Zealand, All these things are 
good and useful knowledge, but too often the 
study of mankind embraces everything else 
but man. 
CHATS WITH OUR GIRLS WHO EX¬ 
PECT TO BECOME HOUSEKEEPERS. 
MAY MAPLE. 
I have just finished darning and repairing 
the weekly bundle of socks and stockings for 
the family. Jennie asks if I like to do that 
kind of work. I cannotsay that I am passion¬ 
ately fond of it; but it is one of the duties 
which brings the pleasant thought that I am 
making those whom I love and delight to 
honor, comfortable at least. Small rents are 
more easily repaired than large ones, so it is a 
good plaD, if the wearers can be induced to 
make a change of foot wraps, to attend to 
them as soon as there is the “appearance of 
evil” in the way of a hole or thin place. These 
must be filled in with yarn, like “warp and 
filling,” making a neat, smooth web; and this, 
you know, is real embroidery, butit should all 
be done ou the wrong side, and care must be 
taken uot to draw the thread too tight. To 
daru a rent handsomely, is an accomplish¬ 
ment that but few girls understand. More’s 
the pity, for there are but few housekeepers, 
who do not, at some time m their lives, need 
to practice this homely art. 
Willie 8., who is a young farmer, says that 
any girl who goes with her shoes buttonless or 
unbuttoned, and allows the dirt to gather 
under her finger nails, is a slouch, and is uot 
fit to oe any man’s wife. Is that a sweeping 
assertion ! “Our young men” have some high 
ideas of the fituess of things. Long ago, I 
heard a dear old auntie tell of a young man, 
who was anxious to get as good a wife as his 
father had before him. So he weut from 
house to house, calling upon his young lady 
friends. As opportunity offered, he managed 
to drop the broom across the doorway, for the 
fair one to pick up or step over as she chose. 
Now he cbaueod to visit a dozen young ladies, 
and ouly one deiguedto pick up the fallen 
broom. Of course, she was the chosen one, 
not for her fair face alone, nor for her musical 
talent, or «?iy of the m o- Med modern nneom 
plishments, but because she exhibited the 
“bump of order,” 
Another young uuu, looking longingly 
towards a suuuy spot that he desired to call 
home, took to peddling tin, that he might 
find the maiden after his own heart, to pre¬ 
side over the cosy cottage. His means were 
limited, aud he had the sense to kuow that an 
extravagaut or wasteful wife could not be 
well supplied ou the number of acres he pos¬ 
sessed. At every bouse where he saw bright¬ 
eyed, rosy-cheeked girls, he would call for 
scrapings from the bread-tray aud moldiug 
board. He said his horse was sick, aud dried 
dough was the best tnodieiue. Half a pint 
every night was thu dose prescribed; and not 
a few maidens supplied the invalid horse with 
his evening prescription. But one night he 
stopped at Farmer Barton's, and Miss Lizzie 
told him, when he begged the dried dough, 
that she had other use for the Hour than to 
leave it to dry upon the bread pan for sick 
horses, or pigs either for that matter. 
Strange to say, the horse could thrive ou 
hay and oats. But Johu hud found that 
Lizzie Bartou was shrewd aud economical, 
anil when he asked her to share his fortune, 
be it great or small, she did not refuse. And 
as her economy reached uot only the bread- 
trav, but throughout the variousdepurtments 
of the household, the twain with one miud be¬ 
came thriving aud prosperous. They did uot 
become leaders in fashionable society, but 
they never came to want, aud many u forlorn 
one was helped to take the first steps up the 
ladder of comfort aud comparative happiness, 
while being sheltered beneath their hospitable 
roof. 
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RAM BUNGS. 
How 1 am longing for Spring! According 
to the calendar, it is April 11, but the weather 
reminds one more of February; even as I 
write it is suowing hard. Last year we plant¬ 
ed pens on April fid; now the ground, when 
not frozen, is so wet as to render any working 
of it out of the question. 
I don’t kuow that 1 over kuew of a more 
dreary time than the past four weeks buve 
been; they seem worse than the loug, hard 
Winter which preceded them; but perhaps 
my being ill with an old-fashioued influenza, 
and the fact that my sewiug aud other work 
were sadly behind has something to do with 
the dreariness of the weather. 
But “seed time and harvest” will surely 
come, and hot weather too. The work wil 
Pi^UaMCouS 
RYE BREAKFAST CAKES. 
Two cups of rye flour, one cup of wheat 
flour, two well beaten eggs, yelks aud whites 
separately, one pint of sweet milk aud a little 
salt. Bake iu a hot oven for half an hour. 
Be sure they are done before taking from the 
cups, or they will he heavy. 
mother’s corn-bread. 
One cup of corn meal, one cup of flour, one 
cup of cream, half a cup of sugar, one egg. 
Dissolve a teaspoonful of soda in hot water 
with two teaspoonfuls of cream of-tartar, a 
little salt. Beat together lightly and bake iu 
a steady oven. a. l. j. 
vinegar pies. 
Take three eggs and beat the yelks until 
light; one cupful of sugar, half a cupful of 
vinegar, one tablespooufut of flour, a piece of 
butter the size of a walnut; put all together 
aud boil three minutes, keeping it well stirred. 
Have your puslry ready baked to put it in 
when doue. Beat the whites of the eggs very 
light, sweeten to taste and spread over the 
tops of the pies, put them in the oven and 
brown lightly. I will also send my sister’s 
recipe for batter pudding with strawberry 
sauce: 
Take six teaspoonfuls of flour and the yelks 
of live eggs, with a pinch of salt. Beat to¬ 
gether thoroughly aud add a pint of milk, 
aud, last, the whites of the eggs beaten to a 
stiff froth. Boil in a greased mold for one 
hour. To make the sauce, take one-fourth of 
a cup of butter or sweet cream, one cup of 
sugar and two-thirds of a cup of straw berries. 
Mash the fruit aud stir all until it forms a 
smooth paste. Serve while warm This is 
very good. subscriber. 
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ms 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
CANNING FRUIT AND FRUIT JARS. 
I notice that some of the Rural sisters 
complain that their canued fruit, especially 
tomatoes, fad to keep well after repeated 
trials, in self-sealing glass jars (Mason's), and 
some of my neighbors have the same difficulty. 
Until two years ago, such a thing as mold on 
my canned fruit or tomatoes was not known, 
except in two instances, where the glass had 
received a blow and was cracked a little. 
But about that time 1 bought IS new jars— 
Mason’s improved, porcelain liued covers— 
and of the whole lot but six were perfect. 
There was a little prominent seam on each 
side, which kept them from being perfectly 
airtight. This prominence had to be filed 
down smooth, aud the tops of some of them 
had to be treated in the same way, which was 
a tedious task. I had trouble enough with 
them, as they were apparently all right, aud 
could be tested only by inverting the jar after 
the coutents hail become cold. 
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be accomplished somehow, and when I can see 
my flowers blooming out-of-doors I hope I 
will feel better. My bay-window looks cheer¬ 
ful, for the flowers in the window-box are 
blooming prettily—dark purple, sweet-scented 
verbenas, rose geraniums, petunias and sweet 
alyssum; while iu the window above it are, 
white aud red oxalis, dew-plants, mignonette, 
crimson verbenas and white begonias, aud at 
another window some pots of musk are 
springing up after a good rest, aud they fill 
the room at times with their delicate per¬ 
fume. 
Then my two canaries, which I raised, are 
also in the bay window and gladden our 
hearts all day long with their music. 
We have other pets in the form of chickens, 
a dog, a cat, and a turtle which we have 
had over two-and-a-half years. It has been 
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some sunny day I expect it to show itself 
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I really have not forgotten “Domestic 
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for a while, but with a large, hungry family 
to feed and think of changes for three meals 
each day, 1 do not have a chauce to. 
In my last I gave my method of making 
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them tightly for a moment or so, and they 
are nicely done on top. Sometimes I serve 
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Can any one tell me anything which will 
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any good. They are a regular nuisance, get¬ 
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corner of my pantries, aud I would be glad to 
know of a remedy. aunt em. 
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