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fruits, canned peaches, jam, marmalade, or 
whatever is preferred, spread ever it, is very 
nice indeed. 
VANITY CAKE. 
Yelks of eight eggs and one cup of sugar. 
Knead with flour, and frv in hot fat. Ro.l 
them and cut in fancy shapes before frying. 
CRACKER PIE. 
To a common-sized tin, allow one cup of 
cracker crumbs, one-half pint of water, oue 
teas-poonfui of tartaric acid, one cup of sugar, 
and spice to suit the taste. Bake with two 
crusts. 
FROSTED APPLE PIE. 
Line a pie tin with puff paste. Slice in 
apples, sugar them and add a little butter, i o 
water, and a little lemon essenc** or juice. 
Bake and when done spread a thi k fronting 
of beaten egg and sugar over it. return to the 
oven till the frosting is warmed through 
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the girl with them when they are paying a 
visit to a friend and always introduce her to 
their friends. I think if girls had more that 
was pleasant around them, they would be 
more agreeable and obliging. I hear many 
say, “do you think I would have a hired girl 
of mine come into my parlor when I had 
company? No indeed, not I. she would do 
all the talking.” There are I know a very 
few that would; but many more that would 
not enter your parlor when you had guests. 
There is nothing that hurts the feelings of a 
sensitive girl so much as the thought that she 
has been slighted. Let your hired girls have 
a pleasant room, not in the attic but near the 
kitchen: let it be of good size furnished 
neatly and comfortably. Above all, give them 
a pleasant good morning (as the “Irish ser¬ 
vant said) and a good night too: it won’t hurt 
you and it will do them a world of good, I 
am speaking more particularly of American 
girls, but I think those of all nationalities 
would do as well under the same treatment. 
M. B. B. 
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• Ik a wife should not dress up for her hus¬ 
band, for whom should she dress? 
writing in one of Marion Harland’s cook 
books, and I am sure the appreciation that 
was shown made the labor light and compen¬ 
sated for the suffering. 
“May I make this digression longer by tell¬ 
ing you what I overheard a husband say to 
his wife the other day when be thought no 
one was near enough to overhear him? He 
was no gourmand but very partial to a cer¬ 
tain kind of cruller that nobody else makes as 
well as his wife. It chanced that in frying 
them she scalded her hand badly. After it. 
was bandaged she brought up a plate of the 
cakes for luncheon. He looked at them, then 
at her with a loving, mournful smile, ‘I can 
understand now,’ ho said. *how David felt 
when his men of war brought him the water 
from the well of Bethlehem.’ Then he stooped 
and kissed the injured lingers. Yet lie hod 
been married nearly 20 years,” And this 
little kitchen talk with its “finger” text is only 
to say that either as girls or wives, as far as 
my judgment goes of women, we are content 
to do our duty in whatever sphere it “has 
pleased God to call its,” so long as love guides 
and comforts us and we know our efforts are 
appreciated. And yet in so many rt ally nice 
families this very lack of acknowledgment, 
casts a gloom over the temper and heart, of 
the inmates of the very pleasantest home. 
Sisters and brothers, as well as parents and 
husbands, take too much for granted and 
show less consideration for each otlnr than 
.they do for a stranger, though often thought¬ 
lessly. Most girls of fair average faculty can 
earn a living, so many new avenues of work 
being open for them. But all honor to t ose 
who stay at home from a sense <_ f duty, and 
not to await the coming man who may never 
come, or if he does may not suit (heir taste, 
and often, as I have quoted dear old George 
Herbert’s hackneyed phrase, and know the 
“action flue,” I have wondered what be did 
when the cook deserted, or if he was superior 
to all these smaller troubles, and if the “ser¬ 
vants coukl but “sweep a room” according to 
God’s laws, then we might expect the golden 
rule to do to others as we would they should 
do unto us and other of the Divine laws and 
commands that are too last becoming obsolete. 
And as the grind of every-day life goes on, 
the splendid and oft quoted peroration has 
ni" ded to be supplemented with a warm ap¬ 
preciative love-light, else 1 fear that the “ser¬ 
vant.” or other household fairy will not find 
“drudgery divine.” And sometimes when I 
quote poetry on a practical subject, I recall a 
valent ire I hat a naughty boy sent me in my 
youthful days. It explains itself: 
"In rhyming I< vo and dove, 
Iu coupling tree and tree. 
You spend your days, my dearest girl, 
Among your poetry. 
But poeiry won't boil the pot, 
And 1 shall st <-k a wife 
Whose poetry will render sweet 
The sober prose of life." 
And he did—sensible fellow! 
AN ECONOMICAL HINT FROM HAR¬ 
PER’S BAZAR. 
Economical girls can make pretty hats of 
their felt sailor hats left over from the summer 
by putting a soft crown of velvet folds over 
the low felt crown, confining it. by a band of 
watered nhbou. Tbestiif brim widely bound, 
may remain intact, or be turned up belaud 
and strapped there with black watered ribbon, 
adding some loops up tie buck of the crown, 
and thrusting two quills or small wings into 
the folds ou the leftside, making thempiiut 
forward. 
HOW ONE WOMAN WOULD WORK A 
REFORM. 
It is often said that “American girls will 
uot do” house-work. My opiuicn is that if 
people would treat their girls with dtte con¬ 
sideration they could find American girls as 
ready and willing to do house-work as girls of 
any other nation. In our good old Grand¬ 
mothers’ days the girls lmd a seat at the table 
with the rest of the family. They could sit 
down in the family sitting-room, and were 
even iuvited into the parlor when there was 
company. Bat now- how different I They are 
expected to remain in the kitchen or in their 
own room as a general rule, and to eat apart 
from the family. Now why not. give your 
girl a scut at the table at meal time and let 
her partake of the same food that you do and 
enjoy the friendly chat that is going around? 
(or ought to at any rate) Why uot give her a 
place at your fireside, nud the benefit of the 
reading that, is in the house. 1 know a family 
that keep there girls u long time, one re¬ 
mained with them lt> anil another five years. 
The oue they have now has been with them 
three years, nud l don’t think she has a thought 
of going away. Now the seeret of all this is 
that they treat their girls like members of the 
family. If the girls want a little plot for 
flowers i hey have it and tend it too without 
neglecting their housework. Often they take 
I tried an experiment a while ago, and it 
has proved so successful that I must tell it to 
the Rural. I had a tiu slop-pail, the bottom 
of which was so worn out that I could not use 
it. I cut two round pieces from strong mauil- 
la paper, just the size of the bottom on the 
inside. I tbeu gave the bottom a good coat of 
paint, and while wet pressed in one of the 
rounds of paper, smoothing it well. After it 
had dried a little, I painted the paper and 
sides of the pail, fhen put in the second round, 
smoothing it in as I did the first. When it 
was dry I gave it another coat of paint all 
over the inside, and dried it in the sun for sev¬ 
eral days. Now I can use it as well as ever. 
I mended an ash pail iu about the same man¬ 
ner, using instead of the paper, one round of 
l hiu tin. I assure you I feel proud of them. 
Much is said, nowadays, about the selfish¬ 
ness aud laziness of daughters. Oh! mothers 
and critics, blame uot the daughters alone for 
it. When you meet with such girls, strive to 
learn how they have been brought up before 
you unjustly condemn them. Are not the 
mothers in a. great measure responsible for 
tbeir faults? Many mothers ha.e the bother 
of children around when working, and when 
the little ones would like to help they say, 
“Oh go away! 1 would rather do it alone than 
have you around ” I have heard mothers talk 
this way, yet they are generally the loudest to 
complain of the selfishness aud inability of 
their children, Should they expect- them when 
they are older to love work or feel an interest 
'in helping, when they have been thus re ared? 
No; a child will love to work only wheu al¬ 
lowed to work with its parents, particularly 
its mother, and then only win n its blun¬ 
ders are kindly and patiently corrected and it 
feels it Is helping. A word of praise, wheu a 
thing is well done, is cheering to the heart of 
a child, and if the mother would sometimes 
thank a child for some service ottered, per 
haps with much self-denial, it would only 
make the little (nr big) oue more eager to help 
in future. 
Don’t scold if there is an accidental break¬ 
age of some choice article; scolding eanuot 
mend your treasure, and it only wounds and 
hardens your child’s heart. Mothers recall 
some incidents in your own childhood where 
you have felt what a wrong course had been 
pursued. Put yourself in your children’s 
place, aud asking God’s help, endeavor to 
hriug them up so that the memories of child¬ 
hood and mother may he sweet and pleasant 
to dwell ou; let them work with and for you 
and I t>< liove you will have no cause to com¬ 
plain of ungrateful children. 
So says “Aunt Em,” who has long been a 
mother, and is now a grandma. 
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