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faces are so red that they almost justify the 
suspicion that they are painted. 
earnest prayers over the subject will not cure 
you as long as you keep up the practice of eat¬ 
ing so often of even a crumb. Many good 
cooks cannot eat the products of their own 
industry for just this reason. They form the 
habit of tasting this and that all through the 
day, until the stomach, utterly overworked, 
refuses to call for more food at meal times to 
add to its miseries.” J. e. mc. 
any one can offer. The kind word and look 
will be remembered when the dollar going 
with them is forgotten.” 
“In marrying, men show better judgment 
than women. In other things women are 
ahead. Maybe women should be educated In 
the art of marrying. Idle curiosity fills the 
time of many,and the great majority of people 
never ask why they are iu the world.” 
“Wisdom will never recommend men to re¬ 
tire from any business that will benefit man¬ 
kind. He who withdraws from the active 
business of everyday affairs, and crawls into 
the slum of idleness or conceals himself in a 
hermit’s cave, makes a sad blunder. No man 
is strong enough to resist the moth of sloth." 
“Sometimes when a man is tumble to pro¬ 
vide financially for bis own family, he seeks 
an office where he can handle the people’s 
money. This is why our towns, counties, 
cities, states and the nation are overwhelmed 
with debt.” 
“Unearned dollars are not desirable wealth. 
They usually fly away quickly, leaving their 
late owner poorer for having bad them.” 
“Waiting for something to turn up, or for 
a rich relative to turn down, is a very painful 
longing in a man’s soul. To turn something 
up myself, or to turn myself into a rich rela¬ 
tive is much wiser and better.” 
“The voice of the Press, in influence and 
power, is next to the presence of God. It 
lengthens out man’s voice to the uttermost 
parts of the earth and gives him an audience 
wherever the language is known. Its rays, 
like those of the sun, reach all eyes and heads 
and hearts. May the Press ever be free, true 
and manly in its utterances.” 
“It is thought,and not bustle and noise,that 
does the best work of life. The lightning and 
not the thunder rends the oak.” c. 
CONDUCTED BY MISC RAY CLARK. 
OUTINGS 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
HOUSEKEEPING ON PUGET SOUND. 
MARY WAGER FISHER.—II. 
As our “culinary studio, 1 'as Dr. O. Wendell 
Hobues calls the kitchen, was also our dining¬ 
room, the business of cooking at once became 
an affair of family interest, and the mascu¬ 
line members Ihereof soon became so puffed 
up with conceit as to their skill in the fine art 
of cooking, rhat I was quite thrown into the 
background, and only seemed to be an author¬ 
ity when their own experiments resulted in 
failure. Anaximander went off with a friend 
on several “camping expeditions,” where 
they lodged in rude cabins, carried their own 
supplies and did their own cooking, and when¬ 
ever bo returned he had tall tales to tell of 
the success of their cooking, their delicious 
mushes, their odorous coffee, the mealiness of 
their baked potatoes and the tenderness of 
their steaks! to all of which I would add, 
“and your sauce of hunger.” Upon inquiry, 
I would learn that they stirred their corn 
meal into cold water and then let it come to a 
boil and boil until done, and that they made 
coffee in the same way! And according to 
scientific principles, it was the right way to 
do! Anaximander, who is a connoisseur as 
to coffee—and most gentlemen have a weak¬ 
ness for this beverage—experimented in vari¬ 
ous ways as to making it, but finally settled 
upon putting it into a bag, which I made of 
the squares of cheese cloth that came wrapped 
around the butter, and boiling it for two or 
three minutes; it proved to be most conven¬ 
ient, as our coffee pot was of the simple, old- 
fashioned pattern with no filter. He boiled 
the water in the coffee pot and then put in 
the hag, saying with a laugh, “The reason ray 
coffee is so good is because of the peculiar 
way in which I ‘sling’ the bag in!” 
Another of bis self-claimed superiorities 
was in making corn meal mush aud frying it, 
which accomplishment he had perfected in 
bis “camping.” Whenever the slices of mush 
came out of the frying pan light, nicely 
browned on both sides and dry in the middle, 
he regarded it as a success—it tasted as 
“mother’s used to”—and as “mother made it” 
came to be bis standard, to the iudignation of 
the laddie, who stoutly contended that 
“mamma was just a ‘daisy’ cook”—in the pic¬ 
turesque vernacular of the coast. “The mush 
Chair for Library or Hall. 
A WORD HERE AND THERE, 
When we cannot leave our home, its duties, 
cares and pleasures, for a trip to some city or 
country we have longed to visit, how pleasant 
to read some interesting book on the subject up¬ 
permost in our thoughts! Just now I am taking 
fancy flights along the Rhine, in company 
with Paul Flemming, whom Longfellow in his 
Hyperion describes as drooping beneath a 
great sorrow and “went abroad, that the sea 
might be between him and her grave—alas! 
between him and his sorrow there could be 
no sea, but that of time.” 
I have visited every castle, “grim and hoar, 
that had taken root as it were on the cliffs;” 
have seen the sun wade through vapory 
dawniugs, over that most beautiful of all 
rivers, the ever-moving, royal Rhine, whose 
temples are hung with grapes as it reels, like 
Bacchus, crowned and drunken, to its lowly 
grave in the sands of Holland; have gazed on 
those dizzy bights of mountain summits, list¬ 
ened to the story of the Christ of Andernacb, 
aud the story of the Liobenstein—ind enjoyed 
it immensely. 
While plantiog a bed of Garden Treasures 
(now up), 1 thought how we could liken flowers 
to persons. The petunia lops around like one 
who is always on the fence-no mind of its own. 
Geraniums, phlox and coleus belong to a 
fashionable family. Pansies are leal hearted; 
and the delicate waxen bells of the Lily-of- 
the-Valley hide modestly from show and 
painted beauty. 
Last, but not least by any means, is a new 
remedy for the rascally bugs which insist on 
living upon a diet of squash vines. Does this 
subject chord with books and flowers? No 
matter, this world and its doiugs are a hash at 
the best. Dip rags—cotton batting is better— 
in kerosene, and put around the plants. 
Every night, lay shingles arouud the plants, 
aud go early in the morning to find the bugs 
hiding under them; then kill them without 
any qualms. These rags among the cucumber 
plauts will dispel the clouds of little black 
flies, who eat the leaves. Think of the delicious 
dish of mealy squash next Winter, aud try 
this. The plau is successful with us. e. a. 
See Me and my Kittie! 
TASTING 
A little grieved face disappeared as the 
door closed, aud the mother turned with a 
flushed cheek to her friend as she said: 
“I know I should not have snoken that way 
to Robbie, but. I get so nervousand miserable, 
that the words slip from my lips before I 
think. I am ready to cry over them after¬ 
wards. StiJl, Robbie tries me a good deal.” 
“Have you never tried to get at the root of 
the nervousness?” 
“Oh! Mary. 1 have prayed over it aud 
fought against it, and sometimes I think I will 
rise an hour earlier and have more time for 
Bible reading and prayer; but I seem to need 
t,he time for sleep.” 
“You certainly do; all you can get. Does 
it ever strike you as a moral duty to look after 
your health? That it is a sin to do anything 
needlessly that, will impair it? Bleep is aduty 
just as much as reading your Bible. By the 
way, how is your appetite? I see you have 
laid a cookie beside you there on the sewing 
machine, so I judge it is pretty good, as it is 
so short a time since breakfast.” 
“There you are mistaken, Mary. It is 
wretchedly poor. I never care for my meals. 
Often a cup of coffee aud bit of bread is my 
whole breakfast." 
“Btill you eat between meals I see. Perhaps 
that accounts for your ‘no appetite. 111 
“O merely a trifle like this or an apple or a 
slice of peach, when lam preparing them for 
tea.” 
“Or a raisin or two when you are picking 
them over,” continued her friend. “Or a bit 
of spice aud a biscuit to try the new made 
butter aud so on. But my friend, just these 
‘nips,’ as you call them, keep your stomach iu 
constant turmoil. Instead of a fair meal that 
it eau digest, and then have a time for resting, 
it gets no rest. A thimbleful of milk has to 
be churned and turned aud digested, as we 
call it, just as truly as a plateful of pork and 
cabbage. If you keep up this habit, you will 
wear out this good friend so that it cannot 
serve you if it would. All manner of nervous 
troubles come iu with this habit, and you will 
find iu a little while if you thoroughly break 
it up, that your hearty old appetite at meal 
times will come back, and with it good diges¬ 
tion and a more even mind. Make a rigid rule 
that no morsel shall cross your lips between 
meals, no matter how tempting the crumb. If 
need be, go without one meal aud see if you 
are not glad when the next one comes around. 
Of course, it will take a little time, now the 
old habit has been indulged in so long.; but 
all the medicine in the world aud the most 
PteccUanmi.s Advertising, 
“There is no gain 
“so certain as saving 
“what you have.” 
Why then destroy val¬ 
uable garments by 
using common and im- 
pure soaps upon them? 
Prof.Genth ofthe Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylva¬ 
nia, says: “1 find the 
“Ivory to be a very 
“superior soap. It 
“gives a fine lather, 
“and it can safely be 
“used upon anv fab- 
Rich arc the thus of the Jacqueminots, 
Lovely are rose9 all. 
But (rive to me the sweet wild rose 
That tdouuxs by the old stone wall; 
So the city belle eau ne’er compare, 
If her charms to art are owing, 
With the rustle maid whose beauties rare 
Are Nature’s own bestowing. 
It is said that 055 farms in Iowa are owned 
by women, and that 20 dairy farms are man¬ 
aged by women. There are 125 women phy¬ 
sicians aud five woman attorneys-at law in 
the State, 
There are already 300,000 subscribers to 
Gen. Grant’s book. He has given it to Mrs. 
Grant with the remark: “It is the only legacy 
I can leave you.” 
The beauty of Montreal women is said to 
consist of healthfulness and vivacity. Their 
SELECTIONS FROM “GLEANINGS.” 
“Good judgment,like the grace of God, is a 
priceless jewel.” 
“ Good words are food and clothing, and 
shelter aud inspiration, to the thoughtlul- 
The poor may bo charitable in gentle words 
and good wishes, and these are the richest gifts 
Free of charge. A full size cake of Ivory Snap 
will be sent to any one who can not get it of their 
grocer, 1 f six two-con t stamps, to pay postage, are 
sent to Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, l’lcaso 
mention this paper. 
