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as a pleasure, they would be more anxious 
than ever to learn. 
I have heard people tell of how, when they 
were young, they would be given a piece of 
work to do, and wnen it was finished would 
be told that it was all wrong, that the stitches 
were “ dreadful,” and then, after receiving a 
good slapping for their “slatternly ways” 
were told to rip it all out and do it all over 
again. Instead of being encouraged aud 
helped, they were set at the task like a galley 
slave. Now these same old-fashioned people 
shake their heads when they see some of the 
girls of to-day playing lawn tennis and other 
such games. But although the liberal ten¬ 
dency of many mothers in this direction is in¬ 
creasing, we want still more of it. 
There never was a race known where the 
men and women attained a higher physical 
aud mental culture than they did in Greece. 
The women, many of them, were as learned as 
the men. Take Hypatia for instance. They at¬ 
tained such mental hights because of their 
almost perfect physical bodies. They raced 
and had their games, the men and women to¬ 
gether. They represent the age of the great¬ 
est beauty, refinement and poetry, and yet 
the women stepped into the arena and raced 
with the men. One reason of the high cul¬ 
ture they attained, was, as 1 said, on account 
of tbeir physical condition. Who can learn, 
and enjoy what he is learning, who can do his 
best, while suffering physical pain? We have 
instances where great poets or writers were 
sick and miserable, but think what they 
would have been bad they had health and 
strength? 
Mothers, think over what l have said, even 
if I’ve done it in a bungling fashion. See 
that your little girls get a chauce to develop 
their bodies as well as their minds. Let them 
have plenty of exercise, and all of God’s fresh 
air and sunshine that you can give them. 
DORA HARVEY VROOMAN. 
T HE prettiest hats for young girls, that 
we have seen are broad-brimmed and 
low-crowned. For every-day wear these are 
trimmed with light weight surah silk, quite 
broad, and held in place around the crown 
with small fancy pins. Those for best wear 
are trimmed with wreaths of flowers to the 
•xclusion of silk or ribbon. 
SOUND. 
in'disb-washing from the smaller variety is an 
item larger than would be supposed. Count¬ 
ing the dishes after an ordinary three-course 
dinner, for four people there were 75 articles 
to handle. Here is where our grandmothers, 
so often held up to us as models of good house¬ 
keeping, bad the advantage of us. Would 
they not want to go back to the old days of 
spinning and weaving after a trial in the 
homes of some of their descendants? Yet let 
us not go back one step! Only drop unneces¬ 
sary work rather than spend lives in a vain 
endeavor to make one pair of hands do the 
work of two or more. Plain living and high 
thinking is still a good motto. Simple meals, 
slowly eaten, accompanied with the sauce of 
cheerful conversation, are not likely to pro¬ 
duce evil results. a. r. d. 
H ARPER’S BAZAR says that the salu¬ 
tation which meets one in the morn¬ 
ing is the key-note of the day. if a woman is 
met with “Good-morning, my dear 1 what a 
pretty gown you have on ! you look as fresh 
as a peach blossom,” she will go about her du¬ 
ties gayly. If she is met with a husky “What 
is all this noise ?” “Whose bill is this ?—How 
much too large it is ?” “How wretchedly 
sallow you look !” she is appalled, cowed, dis¬ 
couraged; the day is ruined. 
BRIMSTONE FUMIGATION FOR MOLD 
AND DRY-ROT IN CELLARS. 
R EADING the various directions and sug¬ 
gestions as to preparing meals and 
lousekeepmg generally in these days of much 
writing and much cooking, is almost discour¬ 
sing. It may be all very well when there is 
plenty of household help or in small families, 
jven with less help, to make a point of having 
jinnors with courses—even the three which 
so long ago the Autocrat assured us were as 
good as ten! But how can any house-mother, 
with even oue baby to care for, find time for 
one course carefully prepared and daintily 
served with the spotless napery and shining 
glass and silver so strenuously insisted upon 
as making the plainest fare appetizing! By 
the time the breakfast things are done aud the 
baby settled for bis morning nap—if indeed 
he is a well regulated one who has naps—there 
may be two hours left before the noon meal. 
Meanwhile the dining-room must be brushed 
a little and dusted; the front entry and steps 
swept, the beds made and things picked up aud 
put in order in the sleeping-rooms, besides 
half a dozen or more other things for which 
one may as well allow, as they are sure to 
come as interruptions of any regular pro¬ 
gram. Aud this is supposed to be an off day 
when neither washing, ironing nor baking is 
to be done. 
Probably at least half the housekeepers who 
read the Rural do all their,work, except as 
older girls, and boys, too, if well trained, are 
helpers. And how can all these extra nice 
touches so often described, be given? Indeed 
who can wonder that a feather duster is 
whisked over the furniture instead of the cloth 
so carefully u-ed aud shaken out of window 
or door? Yet even with all the effort possi¬ 
ble to save work, the time left to get the din¬ 
ner is quite too short for more than the plain¬ 
est meal with one course. And, after all, who 
is the worse off for the plainer fare? Good 
bread and meat with oue vegetable are cer¬ 
tainly enough so far as health is concerned, 
and it is always admitted that keener relish 
goes with the smaller variety. 
To be sure, it isn’t very much to put togeth¬ 
er a simple pudding or even the much abused 
pie, but it is well to remember that neither is 
essential. And if it should occur that there 
was only time to prepare beefsteak and pota 
toes, with neither soup, nor pastry at either end 
of the meal, a plate of crackers and cheese 
with a dish of apples will auswer very well 
and save the tired mother's strength fop better 
vr(?rk ttm waking 4ai«ties, ffeg 
spoils good starching. Clean your flat-irons, 
sides and bottoms, with fine emery paoer, 
wash well with soap-suds and put immediate¬ 
ly over a good fire to dry. Have the articles 
dry. To every pint of luke-warm water add 
one and a-half table-spoonful of starch ; mix 
thoroughly and add a little good bluing. 
Starch them the usual way, bosoms on both 
wrong and right sides, dipping and wringing 
five or six times to make them stiff; fold and 
iron after ten minutes. After the linen is 
ironed, moisten with a damp cloth, not too 
wet, then by rubbing the heel of a smooth 
flat-iron cross-wise of the article, it will pro. 
duce a fine polish. Or you may use the point 
of the flat-iron by ironing one way with a 
heavy pressure. After the article is ironed, 
take the sharp edge of the iron and press it all 
along upon the stitching of the shirt and the 
same upon the collars aud cuffs. After the 
cuffs are ironed, press a hot flat iron over the 
wrong side a few times, quickly bend the 
ends together and pin or tie to hold them; and 
insert the others in the one so secured. Or 
put in a round box to retain the shape. 
MRS. J. D. CLARK. 
Sfl? 
H AVE I opened a new field of investiga¬ 
tion ? The past summer was extreme¬ 
ly wet and cold, my cellar very moldy and 
my strength not up to the mark of such white¬ 
washing as would free it from all mildew 
spots. Sulphur fumigation seemed the one 
thing to try, so I emptied the cellar and sent 
to the nearest druggist for two pounds of 
brimstone. But, to my dismay, John dug the 
potatoes, poured them on the damp cellar 
floor in great heaps, five feet high, heap join¬ 
ing heap, before the brimstone got here, even 
forgetting that an early freeze had chilled a 
few of them in the hill. By the middle of 
November our potatoes were “goiDg” pretty 
fast with wet and dry rot; it was the first 
time in 20 odd years that we had potatoes rot¬ 
ting in the cellar, except when they had been 
frozen. I had not doctored diphtheria all 
these years without learning that unless the 
cellar was at once made right the rooms 
above it would not be fit to live in. 
True, it was so far better than the average 
cellar that it had a four-inch tin pice running 
from a little above the floor into the kitchen 
stove-pipe above. Since it was put in, the 
place has been reasonably dry. Well, John 
promptly picked over those potatoes, spend¬ 
ing several weeks at the job, and he is the 
quickest man at such work that l ever saw. 
Meantime, I pasted several thicknesses of 
paper on the floors above the cellar, nailed 
heavy building paste-board tightly over that, 
and then replaced the carpet. To fumigate, 
set an iron kettle “bottomed” with ashes on 
the floor, poured into it a shovelful ot live 
ccals aud put nearly a quarter of a pound of 
brims’one on them Then I made haste to 
get out and close it up air-tight. Squashes, 
pumpkins and garden vegetables generally 
had to be left in the cellars durirg the fumi¬ 
gation, and I supposed the brimstone smoke 
would flavor them. They were spoiling fast 
any way, so it did not matter. We kept up 
the smoking for about two weeks, off aud od, 
but did not keep the ventilating pipe closed 
all the time. 
Then I remembered that both green and 
dried fruits were bleached by means of such 
fumes, aud I cooked some potatoes. They 
were all right. The few squashes left sound 
at the time of smoking kept quite sound until 
eaten. The pumpkins and potatoes have not 
rotted any since. The family are unusually 
well. Of course, we burned all decayed and 
decaying tubers for fear of infecting the 
ground if we buried them,—I mean the few 
that escaped the picker. The bulk of bad 
ones were carted off to a sandy ravine and 
put out of reach of cattle. I will put some to 
sprout tc-day, to see if fumigation has de¬ 
stroyed the germinating power. I hope it has. 
E. S. LINCOLN. 
STARCHING AND IRONING. 
TOO LATE FOR THE SPECIAL. 
O UR young men do not like to be out¬ 
shone by their city brothers and there¬ 
fore send their linen to the city laundry—an 
unnecessary expense if mother or sister would 
learn the right way to “do up collars and 
shirts.” To be successful in doing them up 
one must be sure the washing has been well 
done, then, before drying, starch in boiled 
starch. Pour boiling water on the starch 
that has been moistened with cold water, 
stirring it rapidly—it is quite unnecessary to 
place it on the range. Add a little bluing 
after the articles have become perfectly dry, 
(this last condition is very important) dip in 
thin cold starch, wring and roll in a dry cloth. 
They will be ready for the ironing process in 
a half hour. Be sure the irons as well as the 
ironing cloth are very clean. Iron 
the collars slightly on the wrong side; then 
turn and finish on the right side; do Dot use 
a very hot iron, but, instead, use all the 
strength you can exert, and they will shine. 
Do not call the collars finished until they are 
quite dry or at least seemingly so, and place 
them on a plate in the sun, or over the range 
fora short time. Iron the shirt-bands first, 
then sleeves and body,.the front last, using a 
sheet folded ihe size of the shirt front. This 
is so much better than a board—try it. A 
young bouse wife can well be proud when she 
can accomplish this branch of home making 
well. MRS. S. B. DOUGLASS. 
I N doing up shirts and col'ars I starch in 
thoroughly cooked starch as soon as 
riused, I find that thin starch is as good as 
thick and put nothing in it to keep from 
sticking, as there will be no need if well cook¬ 
ed. Thoroughly dry, then dip in cold starch 
ma<ie of one tea-spoonful of powdered oorax, 
one of starch dissolved in a little cold water, 
then pour in enough cold water to make a 
pint. Spread out collars and cuffs on clean 
cloth and roll up tight, iron in an hour. 
Have the irons very hot and bear heavily on 
the irons and I think the polish will satisfy 
the average man. MRS. w. a. k. 
M Y husband has bad three years’ expe¬ 
rience with the Chinese laundries and 
considers mv work superior to theirs. My 
brother, who is very fastidious, also considers 
my lauudring superior to that of the Chinese. 
I use Elastic Starch. Bogue’s Chinese Liuu 
dry Starch is also very good. The following 
rules mast bo observed to insure success : Be 
sura your liiieu i» cloivu vareloss wtwbij+g 
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