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might fully accomplish what they pray God 
to do. The most self-compacent critic may 
sit in his easy-chair and say “Ah! pity the 
poor—God forgive them and alleviate their 
sufferings.” But is God going to listen to this 
lazy prayer and to set down credit marks for 
words that cost nothing? There is no good¬ 
ness or heroism in the eyes of God, that costs 
neither effort nor sacrifice. The lazy good 
may well be likened to the dog who proposes 
to keep up his courage by barking. But you 
can not satisfy the heart or keep danger 
away by any such a show. 
* H= * 
Why do people seek to do what is right? 
There may be cases of total depravity—per¬ 
sons who would rather reverse the golden 
rule than to act it out. We see plenty of in¬ 
stances of mean people, hypocrites, liars or 
time-servers, who seem {to have little trouble 
in arguing themselves into almost any view 
of a subject they wish to get. Yet, I like to 
believe that a great majority of the people in 
this world want to do what is called “the 
square thing.” In other words, I believe that 
what we call the golden rule—“Do unto others 
as you would that they should do unto you,” 
is a part of what we call human nature. 
Some have a better conception of it than 
others; but we all have an inborn sense of 
justice which prompts us to treat others fair¬ 
ly and justly. 
* * * 
It is very fortunate that the great majority 
of thinking men and women recognize the 
fact that “whipping the devil”, as it is called) 
out of their children is very poor business. 
In nine cases out of ten, when the “devil” gets 
into the children, the parents put him there 
by a bad example, by indulgence, or by wrong 
training, and the more they whip, the further 
they drive him in, for the child has sense 
enough to see that he is whipped for doing 
things that his parents allow themselves to 
do. 
* * * 
I thoroughly believe in meutal punish¬ 
ment. It is the duty of every member of a 
family—the older and stronger members par¬ 
ticularly—to endeavor to conduct themselves 
with !-o much justice, kindness and consider¬ 
ation for those with whom they come in con¬ 
tact, that a breach of politeness or a breach of 
fairness will make such a contrast to i he usual 
order of things that it will appear black as 
night aud startle the offender as a whipping 
never could. It is easy enough for a strong 
man to take a whip aud beat a boy for 
some misdemeanor. A man might be the 
veriest scamp that ever lived and still be able 
to whip the boy. A man to make his son 
really feel the pains of mental punishment 
has to have self-denial enough so to conduct 
himself that the boy will be sad to think he 
has not acted as his father would have done. 
The best way to punish those we really love, 
then, is to so conduct ourselves that our friends 
will be sad to think they have not always 
acted towards us as we have towards them. 
* * * 
Here are two neighbors. The premises of 
one show thrift, order, forehandedness, sys¬ 
tem. These good people are always a little 
ahead instead of behind—work drives neither 
master nor mistress. Their stock are sleek 
and well cared for; their children happy and 
well because properly treated, clothed and 
fed. They “make hay while the sun shines” 
aud they are ready aud, what is more, willing 
to make the personal sacrifices necessary to 
bring about these comfortable conditions. 
They are happy and thank God for their 
blessings, and though firm believers in the 
saw that “Heaven helps those who help them¬ 
selves, ” they are ever ready to lend a helping 
hand to those in need. On the other hand, 
the neighbor over the way leads a dog’s life. 
Tbi iftlessness is stamped everywhere. The 
family has never known that forehandedness 
that has served their neighbors so well. Debt 
is claiming its pound of flesh; sickness and 
death have entered and desolation reigueth. 
No diligent hand has here stayed the destroy¬ 
ing slack hand. Tney curse their “luck” but 
not their own improvidence. 
BREAD AND “THINGS.” 
MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
The various ways in which bread may be 
used, enables the cook not only to utilize every 
piece to the last scrap, but also to furnish va¬ 
riety for the table. Some people are averse 
to toast, but I have never known one, child or 
adult, who did not like bread twice baked, 
what the Germans call ziveibach. It is pre¬ 
pared by cutting into slices moderately or 
quite stale biead and placing it in the oven 
aud leaving it there until each slice is nicely 
browned on noth sides. It may be put loosely 
in a bake tin, the slices being made to stand 
no one edge or side. Of course, the baking 
requires attention, to secure uniformity of 
color and to prevent burning. If more is 
prepared than is required for immediate eat¬ 
ing, it may be crushed fine with a rolling-pin 
and put in a covered jar—an empty fruit can 
will do When cold it is used to roll oysters, 
etc., in, for frying. Some people like it, when 
rolled fine, for eating in milk. Odds and ends 
of bread may be so treated, and if cut into small 
squares before browning, they are nice for 
soup, particular! / for bean soup. Slices of 
stale bread toasted and laid hot on the meat 
platter, and the roast laid on top of them, ab¬ 
sorb the juices as they ooze out in the carving 
and form a very relishable a companiment to 
the meat on occasions. 
Pulled bread is a very good substitute for 
cake, or for dessert, with a bit of cheese and 
coffee. Take the inside of a loaf freshly baked 
and pull it into bits not smaller than the end 
of your thumb, lay them in a tin and gently 
brown them in the oven, taking care that the 
points of the bits are not scorched. There is 
never auv difficulty in disposing of the crust 
of fresh bread where there are youngsters in 
the family, and some oldsters are equally 
fond of it. The pulled bread should be served 
warm. 
While spending my summer “outing” 
in New England, I heard a Boston hospital 
physician say that the ailments of a very 
large majority of the working women in Bos¬ 
ton who came for treatment were directly 
traceable to the tea-pot which stood on the 
stove from morning until night, of which 
they drank the boiled and re-boiled contents. 
While it is better not to drink tea at all, still 
the beverage is less harmful when freshly 
made and not boiled. Have the pot hot, then 
pour boiling water on the leaves. This process 
brings out of the tea every quality that is 
valuable and fit to be swallowed. It is now 
quite the fashion for the hostess to make the 
tea at the table, and small tin canisters and 
chests are decorated with brocaded or em¬ 
broidered silk covers. 
A very pretty design for the ends of a tea 
cloth consists of the print and leaves of the 
strawberry embroidered in silk of the color 
required by the design. A branch of cherries 
with the leaves is also pretty. Still prettier 
for, say, a bureau scarf, is the ampelopis with 
its berries—the native five-fingered ivy. This 
ampi h'pis, sometimes called Virginia Creeper, 
is, in fact, a prettier climber than the Japan 
ivy. It sways in the wind, while the closer 
habit of the other renders it stiff in appear¬ 
ance. The native creeper when trained to the 
top of a piazza, and there furnished with a 
lattice of wire about a foot wide, running 
quite around forms in a short time a foliage 
border of exceeding grace and beauty. It 
shuts out no view and is very decorative as a 
house trimming. I have seen this ivy trained 
on wire, form festoons from tree to tree as 
grape vines do in Italy. It is so pretty, gor¬ 
geous after the leaves turn in the fall, so easily 
obtained, growing wild nearly everywhere, 
that it is only from blindness and sluggishness, 
tnat any unsightly pile about the home is not 
covered with its graceful drapery. There are 
many leaves that are very artistic in shape 
and form fine designs for outline embroidery. 
They can be laid flat on paper and outlined 
and even one unskilled in drawing can dash 
in the ribs. Maple leaves so outlined, scat¬ 
tered over a sofa cushion or a tidy, are pretty 
enough. The leaves of the running blackberry 
sumach, oak, and branches from nut trees are 
all good. 1 have a great distaste for designs 
or pictures of anything dead in the dining¬ 
room, fish, fowl, or larger things, or such 
designs etched or embroidered on platter 
cloths for the table. Fora meat cloth, grains 
and grasses, such as cattle and sheep feed 
upon, form good designs, and for a fish cloth 
sea mosses and shells. 
One of the sights I saw in New England 
was a family of three small children, who had 
young, handsome, educated and rich pareuts. 
All three of the children bad convulsions, 
with frightful frequency—the oldest of the 
little things was already a mental wreck. 
The father was an inveterate cigarette smok¬ 
er, one of those creatures who can’t even dress 
himself without a cigar or cigarette in his 
mouth, and who will twitch his mouth side¬ 
ways, and all ways to keep the fire from being 
knocked out with his toilette manipulations. 
His wife told me that he was exceedingly ner¬ 
vous—he looked the picture of health,—and 
she seemed to have a suspicion that the cigar¬ 
ettes might be tne father of the convulsions, 
as they undoubtedly were. What a heritage 
for children and what a sin to be visited upon 
them even to the third and fourth generation. 
That men addicted to such habits, should be 
prohibited by law from marrying, would be 
but fair legislation, and even as society is now 
influenced, the marriage of persons domina'ed 
by a vicious habit shjuld be as much frowned 
upou, as of persons with pronounced heredi¬ 
tary taint of cancer or insanity. 
“In some houses, family discipline, domestic 
life, and the whole end of liviug seem to be to 
avoid dirt and secure neatness. Is there any¬ 
thing so tormenting as ecstatic neatness? O 
for a morsel of dirt as a luxury! How good 
dust looks! A plowed field with endless dirt 
—all hail! The great sentence itself, which 
consigns man finally to dust again, becomes a 
consolation.” henry ward beecher. 
KITCHEN TALKS. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
Apples being so plentiful, it is a good time 
to make up the fritters—aud to cook them in 
the numerous wajs that give variety. 
Apple fritters are very nice made with some 
milk, flour and eggs. The apples are chopped 
up fine and put in the batter, which is then 
fried like doughnuts. j are so often 
baked carelessly that this dish does not count 
as much as it ought on the tea table. 
If the cores are cut out and the cavities 
filled with brown sugar and a bit of butter is 
put on the top of each they make a nice dish 
served hot. There are few things more appetiz¬ 
ing than apples properly cooked,and they ought 
to be freely used. We have been experiment¬ 
ing with one of Mr. Gibbs’ Russian crabs—or 
rather little apples, for such the Transcend¬ 
ent is. It makes beautiful jelly, and does up 
whole to perfection, having the “tang” of 
the old Siberian, while at the same time 
it is not all skin aud core. We were well 
pleased with the rich color of the new con¬ 
serve. Made up with eggs, sugar and a little 
nutmeg, stewed apples take the place of but¬ 
ter for children, while they prove quite a cor¬ 
rection when eaten, fried with fat meat. It 
is noticeable in our household that the child¬ 
ren all improve in flesh during the apple sea¬ 
son, and I consider it a bad sign of health 
when any-one says “I can’t eat apples.” We 
often think it a pity that our choice Northern 
fruit cannot be fully circulated where it 
does not grow, for nowhere has the flavor of 
the Fameuse apple come to such perfection as 
in this cold climate. 
TuoREAUsaid: “If you have built castles 
in the air your work need not be lost; that is 
where they should be. Now put the founda¬ 
tions under them.” 
To keep the hands from chapping: Just 
before retiring wash thoroughly, rub with a 
piece of lemon and dry on a soft towel. Then 
rub in a few drops of oil of sweet almonds, 
draw on a pair of large kid gloves, which you 
have previously smeared with mutton tallow. 
This faithfully followed at night together 
with reasonable care of the bands during the 
day in windy, cold weather will ensure a 
smooth skin for most persons. 
Black is very much worn. 
Plaids are fashionable. 
Draperies, unhemmed, the selvage form¬ 
ing the edge, are now rarely seen. 
Hudson Bay sable and miuk furs are said 
to be coming to the fore. 
The fashion during the past sea c onof wear¬ 
ing a wa'st differing in material or color from 
the skirt, is gaining in popularity. 
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The best remedy is Ayer's Sarsaparilla. A 
powerful alterative, this medicine cleanses 
the blood through the natural channels, and 
speedily effects a cure. 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
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