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sery book, but be graven on the walls ot our 
homes and places of business. Certainly it 
ought to be graven on the tablets of our 
memory that: 
“ For every evil under the sun, 
There Is a remedy or there Is none; 
If there be one. try to tlnd It, 
If there be none, never mind it.” 
For if we bore this fact ever in mind, it 
might help us to tide over the ills of life with 
less of peevishness and repining, and to seek 
more perseveringly forthe good gifts which 
fortune holds instore for us. 
The little evils of life are perhaps the ones 
that are hardest to bear, just as pin-pricks 
give us more annoyance in proportion than 
some act of surgery. To the little evils of life, 
then, we should first learn to apply a remedy 
or accord a good-natured indifference; and 
when we are perfect in the art of meeting 
small ills philosophically we shall be very apt 
to meet the larger ones with equal fortitude 
and serenity. 
Aud this discipline should commence in 
childhood. Girls and boys need to learn 
early that they must expect tumbles, and 
bruises and knocks and hurts, and to endure 
them with stoicism. You will never find a child 
develop into greatness which was eternally 
coddled in its youth. Too much sympathy and 
concern expressed about every tiny bruise and 
ill make children babyish and peevish; they 
blame the earth for hurting them, the furni¬ 
ture for knocking them, the sun for making 
them hot; and they grow up into fault-find¬ 
ing men and women, inclined to sulk and 
grieve over every little trifle, instead of seek¬ 
ing their remedies, or taking them as they 
come with a smile. 
How many of us have seen the woman 
whose brow has been clouded for hours at the 
upsetting of a goblet of water, or tracks of 
mud on the carpet, and the man who has 
darkened and flashed like a thunder-storm 
because dinner was a quarter of an hour late, 
or a button was off his shirt? 
I doubt if there is a household to which 
Mother Goose’s admirable lines might not 
teach a lesson, if there is an individual who 
might not profit by a frequent refreshing of 
the memory concerning them. It is an old 
axiom, and a true one, that there is no use in 
crying over spilled milk. If there is any way 
to be devised by which the spilling of milk in 
the future cau be prevented, why set to work 
find devise it. Do all the cross words in the 
dictionary aud all the Downs which the hu¬ 
man countenance is capable of putting on un¬ 
do the evils which befall us ? . 
Do our exclamations aud the ugliness we 
display to all with whom we come in contact, 
sew rents, mend breaks, get the meals on time, 
restore lost articles, or alter the state of the 
case whatever it may be ? 
If they did, there might be some satisfac¬ 
tion in our cross words and ugly looks, but 
how many of us looking back upon the ex¬ 
pressions in which we gave way to our feel¬ 
ings, do hot remember something we wish we 
had left unsaid ? 
Then why not “ never mind ” the little ac¬ 
cidents which are trying but irreparable 
when once they have occurred, and make ef¬ 
forts to guard against their recurrence in 
future? 
Drive in the projecting nail, and it will not 
tear your frock again; hold your delicate 
china more firmly next time; tell your 
wife to begin her preparations for dinner a 
few minutes sooner, etc. As to fretting 
against the weather, we all know that no 
amount of worry or execration is going to 
clear away the clouds one minute sooner; and 
we only succeed in having cloudy weather in¬ 
side as well as outside. Those people who are 
impatient and irritable, who fly into a passion 
or sink into the sulks every time a trifle an¬ 
noys them, resemble nothing so much as 
grown-up babies, and there is no end of 
these grown-up babies in the world, both mas¬ 
culine aud feminine. 
Every life has its evils, both big and little. 
Is it because there is not enough unhappiness 
in the world that we must magnify the small 
ills? Why not try to get the most enjoyment 
instead of the most unhappiness out of life? 
It is “ the little foxes that spoil the vines.” 
So it is the constant worrying over little 
things that spoils our lives, that robs us of 
half the enjoyment that, I believe, we were 
intended to draw from life; for I don’t believe 
God put us here to be miserable, except 
through our own wrong doiug, Adam and 
Eve notwithstanding. Instead of making 
ourselves, and everybody arouud us, uncom¬ 
fortable whenever we tear our clothes, break 
our china, get a reduction in salary, see our 
neighbor wear a better suit thau we can af¬ 
ford, or are beset with any similar evils, we 
will just call to mind that bit of wisdom : 
“it is the little foxes that spoil the vines,” 
and resolve with heroic philosophy to " never 
mind,” 
T ALKING of the various ways in which 
different people affect us, a guest made 
the remark that after the visit of a certain 
friend she always felt as tired as if she had 
worked from six o’clock in the morning until 
nine at night. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
B EAUTIFUL and artistic portieres for 
doorways (or curtains for windows) are 
made from silk rags, woven in the same 
manner as ordinary rag carpets. If regular 
stripes are desired, the rags may be sewed to 
give that effect, but if they are put together 
“ hit-or-miss,” or just as they come, they will 
produce a sort of Turkish or Persian effect. 
To my mind, th's is far prettier than any set 
pattern could be. 
The best salad dressing is, to my taste, a 
French Mayonnaise, pronounced Mab-you- 
naze. This is said to have been named in 
compliment to a French noble, the Due de 
Mahon, and was first called Mahonnaise. 
The following is according to J. W. Parkin¬ 
son, the celebrated authority on such matters. 
Take the following ingredients: One pint of 
olive oil; the yelks of three eggs; one pinch of 
powdered bay leaves; one pinch of white 
pepper; two table-spoonfuls of vinegar; two 
table-spoonfuls of lemon juice. 
The eggs must be freshly laid , and every 
drop of the white carefully separated trom 
the yelks. Put the latter into a soup plate or 
shallow bowl and set on a large dish contain¬ 
ing ice; add the spices and stir steadily round 
in one direction until the paste is entirely 
smooth and ceases to thicken, using a box¬ 
wood fork for the purpose. Then add, very 
slowly, in a fine stream, half a pint of olive 
oil, then the lemon juice, another half-pint of 
oil, and, lastly, the vinegar, stirring steadily 
and briskly in one direction, during the latter 
process until the sauce thickens no longer. 
Then set into the ice-box till wanted. 
If all the materials are of the best quality 
and skillfully worked, the sauce should re¬ 
semble in body and color, a rich, boiled cus¬ 
tard, and fall from the spoon in a thick mass. 
More oil can be worked into it, but it would 
be too rich for many tastes. This result will 
vary somewhat with the temperature, aud 
the quality of the ingredients; but the propor¬ 
tions named are as nearly correct as possible. 
Mrs Mead, a California woman, prefers 
plowing to housework, so last fall she hired a 
girl to do the indoors work, while she herselt 
took charge of a four-horse-plow. She and 
her husband between them put in 230 acres of 
wheat, and they are mutually delighted with 
the experiment. 
The following is a cooling ointment for 
sun-burns, etc. : Elder flowers, two pounds ; 
lard, two pounds; simmer till crisp and strain. 
Apply on retiring, or several tim es during the 
day if you cau do so. This will be found to 
greatly benefit the complexion during the 
summer months. Now is the time to gather the 
elder flowers, as they are in bloom. You need 
not make the full quantity as above, but half 
or a quarter of the amount. But the flowers 
can be obtained only once a year, so I think it 
best to make enough to last for some time. 
Elder flowers also make dainty fritters. 
Gather a quantity of pure,white, full clusters 
of the blossoms, shake them free from possible 
dust or insects, have your batter (made like 
ordinary fritter or cake batter) ready, drop a 
fritter into the pan, which must be hot and 
covered with melted butter, then dip the flow¬ 
ers into the fritter aud cut the stems off. As 
soon Us brown turn. You may sweeten the 
batter if you prefer. Serve with sugar and 
cream, or eat with butter alone. There is not 
much stability about these, but they are ex¬ 
ceedingly dainty, aud make a nice little deli¬ 
cacy for a meal. d. h. v. 
BLACK CURRANT JELLY FOR SORE 
THROATS. 
A RECENT guest spoke highly of the 
soothing qualities of black currant 
jelly for throat diseases. Put a small quanti¬ 
ty of the jelly into the mouth and let it dis¬ 
solve slowly. Our guest mentioned several 
instances in which, if a cure was not effected, 
at least great relief was obtained from this 
simple remedy. For her own use she cuts the 
firm jelly into small tablets, rolls them m 
sugar and lets them harden. 
ered, plane and cut off the corners so that it 
will be less liable to be in the way; then on 
the under side put a smaller piece of the same 
shape or just a long or square piece as most 
convenient, only small enough to go inside of 
the jar, and you will have a cover that will 
be in no danger of breaking, and one easily 
cleaned. We have used them 10 or 15 years 
and they are just as good as when first made, 
and if we happen to want an extra supply of 
pie-plates we do not have to ransack the 
cellar for them. It is well to make smaller 
ones for the gallon jars as they take up less 
room. c. R. DAVIS. 
DINING-ROOM NOTES. 
U r I xHERE are so many ways to use 
cream,” said Mr. Smith as we sat 
around the dinner table, “besides the prime 
one of butter making.” It is often an ingred¬ 
ient for all kinds of pastries, and during the 
small fruit season it is occasionally pressed 
into service, but more often milk is used and 
that is what curdles In the stomach and so 
often causes distress. Next to peaches, there 
is no more delicious dish thau mellow, juicy 
apples, chopped tine and well buried in thick, 
sweet cream and sugar. If the apples are 
sweet only a little, if any, sugar is needed. 
Ham, nicely fried, is greatly Improved by 
pouring sweet cream over it and setting the 
dish in the hot oven a few minutes. Prepared 
in this way, it is very appetizing and the 
gravy makes a delicious dressing for potatoes 
ana bread. 
Crisp lettuce with cream and vinegar is 
very fine. Pure cream does not curdle in the 
vinegar. Creamy milk may do very well for 
tea and coffee, but does not till the bill, to mix 
with acids. 
A Teacupful of cream improves the flavor 
of asparagus, peas, beans, etc. It is also a 
good addition to chicken gravy, and, used 
with sugar, makes an excellent dressing for 
puddings. 
A Cow may eat her head off twice through 
the winter for aught I know; but, compara¬ 
tively speaking it is a very slim living a farm¬ 
er has without at least one or two good cows 
on the farm. The surplus hay might be 
sola perhaps for more money than the cows 
would brmg in market. But it would never 
be used to buy cream, whatever else it might 
get, and cream and milk are luxuries fit for 
a king, and none too good for the kings of 
agriculture. 
The farmer who does not know the taste of 
cream, has got to learn that it is far more to 
be prized than honey in the honey comb. 
So don’t put all the c^eam in the churn, to be 
made into butter to be packed away, to be 
sold next winter when it has, in all probabili¬ 
ty, become “ just a little strong;” but enjoy 
the delicious flavor of it now while it is in its 
prime. 
Old potatoes are wonderfully improved in 
flavor and appearance by having them pared 
and thrown iuto cold water several hours be¬ 
fore cooking. Then, if they are put into boil¬ 
ing water and kept boiling till just “done,” 
and then drained immediately, tiny will be as 
white and “ mealy,” as when first dug in the 
autumn. may maple. 
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Who need help ia 
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AYER’S 
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“ One vear ago I was 
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ordered in every way. I commenced using 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla and began to improve 
at once, gaining in strength and soon recov¬ 
ering my usual health. I cannot say too 
much in praise of this well-known medicine.” 
— Mrs. L. A. Stark, Nashua. N. II. 
Ask your druggist for 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co.. I.owell, Mass. 
Price 81 ; six, S"-. Worth S3 a bottle. 
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A VERY conveuieut cover for a jar, pail 
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