TOE BUBAL MEW-TORKEV. 
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ougbly through another suds, put to boil in 
cold suds and rinse in—I don’t know how many 
waters. The woman who follows this pro¬ 
cess, and lives to bring the clothes in from the 
line, may be assured of beautifully white 
clothes. “What’s to hinder?” as the man said 
to his friend, who ex -laimed upon seeing 
Niagara Falls for the first time, “By gar! how 
she do come down!” 
As to the different ways ot washing, I have 
been pretty well around “ Robin Hood’s 
barn,” and from my experimenting I have 
extracted these conclusions: The machine, 
soap, fluid, powder or process is yet to be in¬ 
vented applicable to family washings, that will 
extract dirt from bleached muslin bands, 
worn and sweated in dirt, v. ithout rubbing by 
hand or on a wash-board. With good suds, a 
powder will accomplish as much as most 
machines. Clothes will wash as easily after 
thirty minutes’ soaking in warm suds as after 
pounding. Clothes put in strong, cold suds, 
with or without borax or fluid, and brought 
slowly to or near the boiling point will part 
company with more stains and dirt than is 
possible by pounding or soaking. Soaking 
clothes in good suds over-night or for a time 
in the morning, is a great help. White soap 
is better than dark soap. Borax is the best 
agent in connection with any soap for winter 
washings containing choice flannels. Flannels 
washed in lukewarm suds, rinsed in lukewarm 
water, left in hot water till cold and dried 
without freezing, will be wholesome and not 
shrink. A good fluid does not injure clothes 
more than hard rubbing, and will take hold of 
stains and all kinds of dirt better than soap. 
Any indication of bluing shows poor taste and 
may be injurious to adults the same as to 
infants Clothes should be thoroughly rinsed, 
the last water being as nearly hot as possible, 
if cold, stiff fingers are to be avoided while 
hanging them out. The washing should never 
be “ the event of the day ” to the neglect of 
every other duty, especially personal appear¬ 
ance. A process allowing sufficient time for 
the usual morning’s work is worthy of the 
consult ra'b 11 of every progressive house¬ 
keeper. There is a satisfaction in converting 
the valuable yet worthless contents of a 
clothes-basket into clean, sweet usefulness, 
and all will agree that the easiest way to do 
it, is sufficiently hard to satisfy every one. 
The two following ways of washing 1 have 
found to be satisfactory in every respect, and 
as variations are admissible, they may prove 
the same to others. The fluid is composed of 
one can (pound) of Babbitt’s potash, one 
ounce, each, of the muriate of ammonia, and 
salts of tartar, and one gallon of water. A 
gallon jug is the best thing in which to make 
aud keep it. But little of the water is added 
at first; cover, and when dissolved add the 
remainder and cork. It can be made in a 
crock aud kept in bottles or glass cans. 
Put the clothes to soak over-night in warm 
water (cold will do in summer) containing 
one half the soap, dissolved, and two table- 
spoonfuls of powdered borax or one-half tea¬ 
cupful of fluid. lu the morning wring the 
clothes out, put them iu a second tub and 
pour over them the remaiuing soap, dissolved 
iu sufficient water to cover. Fill the boiler 
and while the water is heating, do up the 
morning’s work and make all possible prepa 
rations for dinner; then wring the clothes 
out and put them iu the boiler to scald, either 
before or after looking over the wearing ap¬ 
parel, wash flannels, calicoes, etc., empty the 
tub; remove the clothes from the boiler to 
the tub. add water to cool, where needed rub 
articles not already rubbed, having rinsed 
the flannels m this water at the beginning 
and emptied the boiler aud refilled it, to warm 
the next rinsing water and ti scald the flan¬ 
nels. Empty this second tub, prepare the 
last water iu the other, slightly blued, and in¬ 
stead of putting the clothes all in together be¬ 
fore wringing them out, turu them in the 
adj lining tub and take one article at a time. 
When not convenient to soak clothes over¬ 
night, put them in the boiler with cold water, 
the whole amount of soap, dissolved, and two 
table-spoonfuls of borax or one-half tea-cupful 
of fluid Put unbleached pieces, if any, a-soak 
in a little cold water or t>uds from the boiler. 
While the clothes are coming to a boil, aud 
the longer it takes the better, attend to the 
usual house-work; then remove to a tub, put 
the hot suds in the tub containing the other 
pieces, refill the boiler, throw a little water 
over the boiled clothes from time to time, to 
get them through the wringer with comfort, 
and in the water left, wash flannels, calicoes, 
etc., and empty the tub; add the first clothes 
aud enough water in which to riuse aud look 
them over, having rinsed the rtannels first, 
and calicoes afterwards in the hot suds. Now 
put everything through one or two waters 
accordiug to the size of the washing. When 
a wastring is large aud but few if any gar¬ 
ments cun go iu the first boiler, put the others 
to soak in warm suds, and then in the boiler 
while rubbing the Haunels, etc., after which 
proceed as above. The borax or fluid may be 
omitted from noth processes. 
MEDORA CORBETT. 
A FARMER’S DAUGHTER’S DOMES¬ 
TIC REVERIES. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
44 ~\7NTU girls do nothing but sit all after- 
Y c 
noon and gossip.” So said Burt, 
when Delia Crane and Alice Barber came to 
spend the day with me. We each had a sock 
for a brother to knit, and worked at it faith¬ 
fully, while our conversation was chiefly of 
the missionary society, and how to raise 
money for a library, and the approaching 
church festival, as I remembered afterwards. 
But I thought how unjust it was to make such 
an assertion, and especially wnen I know 
that if there is a bit of real gossip going in 
the village, you may trust Burt for having it 
first, and telling it over to the first crowd 
of boys that happen to get their heads to¬ 
gether. “I heard in the store”—or “in the 
blacksmith’s shop”—and sometimes “at the 
church,” are expressions that show me there 
is gossip among the men who profess to think 
it is something that is common only among 
women. And yet, as far as I see, girls do not 
trouble themselves abcut their neighbors’ 
affairs, but are rather given to thinking of 
themselves. Poor Burt means well; but is 
like a good many careless people—always 
ready to put the blame on some one else when 
brought up for neglect of duty—so few 
people are willing to shoulder the blame when 
they have done anything wrong! On the 
contrary, they are sure to fly into a passion if 
any one hints that they are not right. “En- 
dureth all things” seems to be no part of daily 
living nowadays. 
f have, this year, a lot of hyacinths, that 
gave me great pleasure, watching the opening 
buds. One bulb has greatly interested me, 
for 1 had by mistake planted it nearly upside 
down; but the shoot came up, aud grew to¬ 
ward the light, and bent out forward to the 
window, so that when its white flowers opened 
it was almost straight. I told Delia Crane 
about it the day we talked “ gossip” and how 
it had seemed to me a hopeful sign for any 
crooked nature, and she was very much 
amus'd and said, “Why, Charity, you’ve 
made quite a little sermon out of it.” And so 
whether it is Burt or I who is the crooked 
hyacinth here, I don’t doubt but some day 
we shall be straight enough, even if our grow¬ 
ing has been upside down. 
CHARITY NOT BLAMELESS. 
N O W 1 have often wondered, and my won¬ 
der has always increased after reading 
anything from the pen of Charity Sweetheart, 
how she (if there is really such a person,) 
dares to write such fault-finding letters con¬ 
cerning her father and brother. I, for one, 
would not care to see the expression on their 
faces, if they should chance upon certain 
passages in the household, that do not give 
much of a shine to their characters. Do you 
suppose their love for her would be increased 
or diminished? In my opinion it would fall 
considerably below the zero mark. And if 
she, a daughter and sister, can write such 
things, I do not believe her home conversa¬ 
tion aud ways are such as would be likely to 
inspire consideration should she see a 
chance for mending matters. I believe 
“Burt,” to be a good boy, although he may be 
heedless; but with the right management such 
boys grow iuto good-hearted, thoughtful men. 
As for her father, who has probably been a 
llkrd-working farmer, and who must now be 
quite advanced in life and somewhat thought¬ 
less, she ought to be especially kind; for 
what may seem a small thing to her may not 
seem so to him,and what may seem a few steps 
to her, will look a long way off to him. The eyes 
of age and youth look at things differently. 
SIS. 
skin on. In most places it costs 25 cents. 
Have the butcher saw it in two. Remove the 
brains and wash it in several waters. Cover 
it with three quarts of cold water, season 
with pepper, salt, and mace, and simmer 
gently until the flesh is tender. The tongue 
when tender can be removed, and makes a 
nice supper dish, sliced cold and served on a 
bed of parsley with slices of lemon. The 
flesh of the head should be removed, and the 
bones returned to the soup-kettle to simmer 
another hour. Then strain, and set aside the 
broth, half of which will make an excellent 
mock-turtle soup, while the other half will be 
needed in preparing various dishes from the 
flesh. 
A LA ROULETTE 
is one of the nicest of these. Cut a quan¬ 
tity of the flesh into dice, and make a sauce 
by melting two ounces of butter in a stew-pan, 
and stirring in smoothly a table-spoonful of 
flour; add a pint of hot milk and when quite 
smooth, the beaten yelks of two eggs. Set 
the saucepan inside of another containing 
water, while you add the meat to heat through. 
If it boils it will curdle. Season with salt, 
pepper and mace, or grated nutmeg. At the 
last add a trifle of Cayenne and a tea-spoonful 
of lemon juice, and sprinkle chopped parsley 
over the top. 
SCALLOPED. 
Make the above sauce, omitting the eggs, 
and using the liquor in which the head was 
boiled instead of milk. Put a layer of meat 
in a buttered pudding-dish, moisten with this 
sauce, and so contiuue'until the dish is three- 
quarters fuli. Dot with bits of butter, and 
sprinkle with bread crumbs on the top, and 
bake half an hour. It may be varied by 
mashing the brains (after having thoroughly 
washed them and removed all the membranes) 
to a smooth paste with pepper, salt and a 
beaten egg, and spreading this paste over the 
top of,the scallop. The brains are also deli¬ 
cious if breaded and fried, and served with 
tomato sauce. 
calf’s head, terrapin style. 
Cut a pound of cold, boiled calf’s head, and 
half a pound of calf’s liver that has been 
boiled until tender, into small squares. Make 
a sauce of a cupful of the liquor in which it 
was boiled, seasoning it with herbs and fried, 
minced onions, and thickening with browned 
flour. Heat the meat in this, aud when ready 
to dish it mingle with a half pint of the sauce 
made as directed in calf’s head d la poulette 
Season rather highly, using a little mushroom 
or walnut catsup if you have it. Work the 
yelks of two hard-boiled eggs to a paste with 
a little melted butter, make into small balls, 
and roll in flour. Make also a dozen force¬ 
meat balls of the ears chopped fine, mixed 
with a few very fine crumbs, half a beaten 
egg, and a tea-spoonful of melted butter, and 
seasoned to taste; roll into balls of the same 
size, and drop for two minutes, with egg 
balls, into a little of the boiling liquor. Lift 
out the meat with a skimmer; lay the egg 
and force-meat balls around it, and pour the 
gravy over it. minnie gray. 
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of attempting to teach them new dishes. 
Miss Corson says that her most successful 
efforts among the lower aud middle classes 
have been iu teaching children and young 
girls, but that she finds women over 80, as a 
general thing, very unteachable aud set in 
their ways. 
A call’s head is one of the economical dishes 
of the Grey family. We call it a luxurious 
economy, so closely does it resemble terrapin. 
Be careful to get a fresh, white oue with the 
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