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homes in our land pervaded by the same spirit 
of beauty and cheer, and there can never be 
too many of them. 
KITCHEN TALKS. 
ANNIE L. .JACK. 
Is there anything in life lovelier than a day 
in June? And yet bow few of us have time 
really to enjoy it. I think the boys and men 
who are out planting and hoeing have a much 
better time than the rest of us, for they stop 
now and then to watch a bird on the wing, 
and sometimes keep the gun beside them for a 
shot, and they study the habits of an insect or 
plant. The fresh air of heaven blows over 
them, and they are free to rest awhile now 
and then. But in the house the dinner hour 
is approaching, the cooking stove is intense 
in its heat, a dozen things at once come up to 
be done, and so the June days pass. Then 
when evening comes, and belated men and 
boys straggle in and can spend the evening 
in needed leisure, there are the tea things to 
be cleared away and washed, and many other 
duties to be attended to that cannot be left 
undone. 
Life is a many-sided affair, and it should be 
our duty to fit ourselves for its various phases: 
but no niche is so hard to fill as that of an im¬ 
prisoned human bird on a perfect June day, 
trammeled and beaten down by many cares, 
and I do not wonder that children love best 
to be out in the fields and garden even if the 
work seems heavier than that indoors. It is 
the freedom and freshness that prove so at¬ 
tractive. Next to large, wide windows I 
would have an out-door table where many 
things can be done outof the kitchen heat. The 
preparation of vegetables and fruit is easy 
here, and knife-cleaning or scouring of pans 
will be as well done as if beside the kitchen 
fire. June is the time for strawberries, and 
with a cold pudding made at breakfast-time 
they aro a specially fine dessert. Lettice with 
cream dressing (cream, mustard end vinegar 
judiciously mingled) takes the place of some 
of the vegetables with cold meat. The roses 
are a feast for the eyes and soul, and if pleas¬ 
ant conversation forms part of the daily bread, 
which should be sweet and wholesome, there 
is less necessity for elaborate cooking. 
A dear old lady where I lately visited, not 
satisfied with setting before us her choicest 
veal pot-pie, actually had a large dish of pork 
and beans, though I gravely informed her 
that I did not think any stomach could assimi¬ 
late such food, and said, “How happy I’d be 
with either were th’ other away.” 
No farmer with a good range of yard need 
be short of poultry and eggs, and that is the 
best food that can be cooked at this season of 
the year. Plenty of asparagus, too, is a neces¬ 
sity, and lasts in market or garden after the 
dandelions have become rank and overgrown. 
To think of dinner with breakfast in the early 
morning hours makes the work lighter by 
using the fire before the heat of the day comes 
on. 
A dear friend, speaking of the personal sac¬ 
rifices she had to make to enable her to give 
something toward the support of a minister, 
said: “And yesterday we drove to Aurora to 
call upon Mr. A.—the minister, and his bride. 
The latter we found dusting the parlor with a 
fine lace handkerchief. Our friend feeling 
justly aggrieved at this lack of economy on 
the young wife’s part, concluded that it was 
not her duty to deny herself the necessaries 
of life that she might thereby contribute to 
wards the support of this reckless young 
woman. This little incident occurred when the 
writer was a child, but it made an impression 
upon her that has never been effaced. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
The pie-eating discussion has been spicy 
and amusing. Here in New England pie-eat- 
iug is regarded as a duty, perhaps it would 
not be stating it too strongly to say akin to a 
religious duty, for the Sunday lunch is always 
provided for by baking a great quantity of 
pies on Saturday. It would be considered 
“queer,” unorthodox, to substitute for them 
rolls, rusks, cakes and fresh fruits. One who 
would suggest such an innovation would very 
likely be dubbed a “crank.” Fruit, in order 
to be generally relished, must be baked in a 
pie like the four and twenty black birds in the 
nursery rhymes. Undoubtedly some Rural 
correspondents would make pi of Mrs. Fish¬ 
er’s letters on farm life, if they could have 
had access to the forms, for one of them boasts 
of having eaten over 20,000 pies, and with such 
moderation as to consume only one piece per 
day for three score years! If the effect 
of pie is cumulative, as we say of certain 
medicines — but we will not pursue this 
further but tender our sympathy. In¬ 
stances are cited of octogenarian ancestors, 
who freely ate pie and without pie might 
have passed away in their prime or perhaps 
have celebrated their centennial. Who 
can tell? A long time since I read a very 
interesting article concerning a careful in¬ 
vestigation of the habits of a number of very 
aged people who attained a remarkable age. 
I regret that the article was not preserved, I 
do not now recall the agency of pie in their 
cases, but do remember that there was no 
similarity in their habits of life, that in any 
way threw light upon their longevity. One 
was temperate, another intemperate, another 
indolent, another active, and no two pursued 
the same course of life, while some disre¬ 
garded all sanitary laws, and as I now recall, 
the summing up of their records they used to¬ 
bacco and whisky to such on excess that they 
removed the pipe from the lips only to substi¬ 
tute for it the whisky flask. What are we to 
infer from such examples, such testimony— 
that tastes differ, and there are some “iron¬ 
clads.” Yet sanitary laws are not to be dis¬ 
regarded or lightly broken. How we live is 
more important than how long we live, “That 
life is long that answers life’s great end. 
c. J. s. 
WHY JENNIE’S GLOVES LASTED. 
I have a couple of friends who are twin sis¬ 
ters. They have the same allowance for dress 
—a limited one in both cases. Jennie Mark¬ 
ham is always daintily gloved and booted, 
aud tastefully dressed, while her sister Olive 
complains that her gloves are always shabby. 
I find gloves a considerable item in a woman’s 
wardrobe, and asked Jennie to give me her 
secret oue evening when I noticed how fault¬ 
lessly she was gantte. 
“There is no secret” said Jennie, “or at 
least it is all comprised in one word—care. 
In the first place, I never buy cheap gloves. I 
do not mean that I never buy low-priced 
gloves, for when I find gloves that have been 
reduced in price for any reason, I always take 
advantage of the opportunity to buy if I know 
them to be of good quality, aud of a make 
which fits my hand. For street wear in win 
ter I buy what is called a coaching glove, 
costing from a dollar to a dollar and a quar 
ter. It is of excellent quality, but of stout 
kid, and one pair will last me four or five 
months for steady every-day wear. In a 
dress glove, I buy a dressed kid for wear, but 
for looks a suede —if the latter I am careful 
to get what is called the whole aud not the 
split skin. The first time I button a glove I 
begin with the third button, aud continue to 
the lowest, then return to the top one. By 
so-doing the strain does not come on the kid 
at the upper part of the wrist, which 
should fit nicely. Then when I take it off I 
do not pull it by the finger tips, I peel it off, 
turning all the fingers inside out. If the 
gloves are moist they will dry better this way. 
aud keep in better shape. After awhile 1 turn 
them right side out, pull the baud and fingers 
in shape, and lay them away in a long box. 
Glove boxes are expensive: long gloves, and 
in fact no kid glove, should ever be rolled, so 
I covered a common corset box with pretty 
cretonne. For evening wear I always buy 
suede gloves, aud never choose those with 
heavy stitching on the back. Then, too, if 
you would make your gloves last, the stitch 
in time that saves nine is a most important 
item. Never suffer even the tiniest rip to 
grow larger. Mend with silk to match the 
shade of the glove, turning the part ripped 
wrong side out, and overhanding neatly with 
close stitches.” So this was why Jennie’s 
gloves lasted so long a time. M. B. 
Anent summer trips, Mrs. Kedzie in the 
College Industrialist says that with planning 
and getting ready for the trip, packing and 
unpacking, oue does about as much real 
work as would be done at regular employment 
—and gets no pay for it. When, for this trip 
one can go entirely away from the cares of the 
year, can hear a new kind of talk, meetdiffer- 
ent people, aud throw off all cares, rest is the 
result; and the vacation, whatever time it 
comes, will have recreated the worker, and he 
will begin the coming year with renewed 
strength. 
When, however, the vacation is a short one, 
aud, in order to take a trip somewhere, the 
comforts of the whole year have been only 
half comforts, so as to save money, while the 
purse has been called upon only for absolute 
necessities, and then with a half sigh for the 
lessening of next summer’s journey, the trip 
happiness an equivalent for the money we 
have spent during these trips. 
TO USE SMALL NEW POTATOES. 
Select the very tiniest potatoes, scrape and 
simmer in water until almost tender: pour 
off the water, cover with milk, and stew until 
done. Season with pepper, salt, and bits of 
butter rolled in flour; sprinkle chopped pars¬ 
ley over the dish. 
BROWN RAGOUT OF CHICKEN. 
Cut a chicken in pieces as for fricassee. Fry 
lightly in a little pork fat; cover with hot 
water and simmer slowly until tender. Lay 
on a hot dish, thicken the gravy—skimming it 
if necessary—season it, and pour over the 
chicken around which you have laid points of 
toast. 
APPLE FRITTERS. 
Peel and chop fine three or four large apples. 
There should be a pint bowlful in all. Let 
them stand for an hour with cinnamon and 
sugar between the layers Make an egg bat¬ 
ter with one egg, four tablespoonfuls of milk, 
salt aud flour and baking powder to make a 
batter as for pancake fritters. Stir in the 
chopped apples until as thick as a fruit cake 
batter; fry in plenty of boiling hot fat, and 
serve with a sweet sauce. A. G. 
RASPBERRY VINEG AR. 
Look over, wash if necessary, put into an 
earthenware crock, just cover with cider vin 
egar (not too strong) and let stand over 
night. In the morning mash, press through a 
sieve, then strain through a bag; measure the 
juice, allow three-quarters of a pound of su¬ 
gar to a pint of juice, boil 10 minuses, bottle 
and seal. Two spoonfuls of this to a glass of 
ice water with a little sugar, will be found a 
most pleasant and refresh ing summer drink. 
MRS. ECONOMY. 
MOCK SWEETBREADS. 
This is a very nice way to use cold meat: 
chop fine a pint bowlful of cold mutton or veal 
if that happens to be the remnant on hand, aud 
half the quantity of chopped oysters (ours were 
canned, but the fresh would be infinitely bet 
ter), a tablespoonful of finely chopped beef 
suet, a teaspoonful of very finely minced on¬ 
ion, aud a seasoning of mace, salt, and cay¬ 
enne pepper, Mix all together with a beaten 
egg, form into small, flat pieces resembling ten 
derloin steak, aud fry quickly in a little hot 
butter. Serve with a tomato sauce poured 
around them. cook. 
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