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Office SI'S EAST 28 th STREET, NEW YORK. 
STABLE FITTINGS A SPECIALTY. 
parts of the same town. And we, East or 
West, to whom meat or other markets are in¬ 
accessible or beyond our means, must contrive 
to dispense with such articles in the degree 
that seems necessary. If eggs and butter fail 
to bring good prices and butcher’s supplies are 
high, only those not affected by such circum¬ 
stances feel justified in a constant patronage of 
the butcher. We who are making our way must 
make “one hand wash the other’’ in our house¬ 
hold arrangement, We think it good economy 
to make use of the eggs, milk, cream and but¬ 
ter in the family rather than sell at losing 
prices to meet a regular butcher bill. If t here 
is a surplus, of course one must take the going 
price, wherever sold. 
In our own family, we do not use much pork, 
especially in Summer, and at that season 
fresh meat is seldom seen; but the “speckled 
beauties” of our mountain streams, and the 
delicious sweet cream and milk furnished by 
our one cow, make up in no small degree for 
the absence of butchers and their supplies. 
Eggs are never plentiful with us. so T have 
learned to bake with but few. thinking it bet¬ 
ter to save most of them to eat; and like 
“Anon” in regard to apples, when I find a 
cake, pic or pudding recipe that calls for five, 
six or a dozen eggs, I seldom finish reading, 
but look for something adapted to my means. 
As “Justice” very justly says, all methods of 
cooking are not alike adapted to all sections. 
Perhaps in future “Helps” we may be able to 
benefit the Western as well as Eastern sisters. 
on all occasions. City people, many of them, 
seem so formal—their ‘Happy new year’ has 
no warmth to it, they come and go in a hurry 
as if it was part of their daily business. One 
thing they did was to praise my cake, and I 
think sincerely, and one gentleman said it was 
so seldom they had home-made cake that he 
must take a second slice, I am glad mother 
taught me to make good cake,for Edgar’s taste 
is so fastidious, and it is no use trying to get a 
servant to do faucy cooking; it is far better 
for the mistress to do it herself, then she has no 
one to find fault, with, and it saves a world of 
trouble.” 
Languor, and Loss of Appetite, are cured 
by the use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It re¬ 
moves that terrible sense of Constant 
Weariness, from which so many suffer, 
gives tone and vigor to the. stomach, and 
restores health and strength more surely 
and speedily than any other medicine. 
Three years ago I suffered from Debility 
and Loss of Appetite, the result of Liver 
Disease. After having tried various rem¬ 
edies, and consulted several physicians, 
without benefit, I was induced to take 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. The first bott le pro¬ 
duced a marked change, and the second 
and third accomplished so much that I 
felt like a new man. I have, since that 
time, taken about one bottle every year, 
and had no recurrence of the trouble.— 
William E. Way, East Lempstcr, N. II. 
™ D HARNESS 
SHERWOOD HARNESS CO 
.Syracuse 
, N.Y. 
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CAREFULNESS. 
ZENA CLAYBOURNE. 
A little episode at home to-day suggests 
the importance of being too careful rather than 
a little careless in regard to what we take for 
food or medicine. We three girls were alone, 
and indulging ourselves in a lunch, which 
saved getting up a dinner. Alice has a de¬ 
praved appetite for cold potatoes cutup in bits 
with butter, salt, pepper and vinegar. She 
said “Girls, what ails that vinegar!" Now we 
have been quite proud of our beautiful dark, 
wine-colored vinegar, aud this was light- 
yellowish with a red sediment in the bottom 
of the bottle. Dorcas pleaded guilty to having 
put in some molasses very much diluted; but 
we hardly thought that could produce such 
effect. Alice had her potatoes carefully pre¬ 
pared. She took the vinegar bottle aud 
poured out the usual quantity. Wherever the 
fluid touched the potatoes, they turned as green 
as grass. She half screamed “Just look at 
those potatoes!” Still we wondered and 
watched her while she poured a little into a 
teasjKion and tasted. But that ended our 
lunch. She started up aghast, holdiug her 
mouth and exclaiming "Get something—some 
water, egg, mustard—anything." What a 
scene! Dorcas snatched the Water pail, which 
was empty, of course, and I flew down cellar 
for an egg, which she swallowed raw, and then 
brought warm water from the teakettle. She 
drank a quart, and in answer to my eager 
question "What is it?" said “Washing fluid.” 
I seized the Handy Book and read, potash, 
muriate of ammonia, salts of Tartar, and sent 
Dorcas, who came (lying in with a pail of 
water, for Dr. Hall's Journal of Health. The 
only thing we could find appropriate under 
poisons was muriatic acid, for which warm, 
sweet milk was recommended—also chalk, 
Dorcas brought chalk from the barn and pul 
verized it, while I spilled half a uew package 
of cinnamon looking for mustard, and Alice 
kept <banking warm, sweet milk aud making 
wry faces. 
However, after vomiting a little, she felt 
better, we became more calm, and she ex¬ 
plained how she had asked John to hand out 
to her the white jug, because it was heavy, 
and then being called away, had left him to 
fill the bottle, and he must have taken the 
wrong jug. 
Alice had a pretty sore mouth and throat, 
but we have thankful hearts, and shall never 
forget the lesson. 
EAFNESS 
Its Causes ami Cure, by me 
j pars. Treated 
__who was deaf _ _ __ 
by most of the noted specialists of the dav with 
no benefit. Cured him#?If In three months, and 
since then hundreds of others by same process. A 
plain, simple and successful home treatment. Ad¬ 
dress T. s. PAGE. 12c East 26th St., New York City. 
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all Druggists. Price $1; six bottles, $5. 
Closed, its first year with 10.000 subscribers. It closes 
its fourteenth year with 
A WEEK’S WORK AT MRS. HOMES- 
SPUN’S. 
The paper has grown steadily and rapidly in popular favor until it 
has a reading constituency of 
MONDAY. 
At seven o’clock, breakfast being over, the 
active housekeeper introduced the wash-bench 
into the kitchen and began work at the weekly 
washing. The clothes basket was first over¬ 
hauled, aud everything sorted to be at hand 
when its turn came; the white clothes were 
put soaking in one tub, while the flannels and 
calicoes were rubbed out in another. As fast 
as a colored garment was finished, it was 
plunged into a pail of cold water and the 
stockings and knit underwear were scalded 
and wrung out as soon as they were coed enough 
to be put through the wringer without dam¬ 
age to it.. They wen- immediately hung out 
by the ready assistant (the grown-up young 
lady of the house), for it was one of the kitch¬ 
en rules that no one actively engaged at the 
wash-tub should go out-of-doors to hang up 
any of the clean clothes. 
Such was the power of head and hand work, 
with the help of a passable washing machine, 
that by ten o’clock everything was swinging 
on the line: the tubs had been returned to the 
cellar that they might not get too dry, the floor 
wiped up. and Mrs. Homespun in a clean 
apron was leaning back in a cushioned rocker, 
feeling if tired, quite contented, for her work 
had been accomplished to her satisfaction. In 
the meantime the young housekeeper had not 
been idle; she had washed the milk pails and 
pans; the breakfast dishes and made the beds; 
filled the lamps and lanterns needed for use at 
milking time, and with soft paper polished the 
lamp chimneys, and had set them all in a 
shining row on the shelf, in their accustomed 
place. Potatoes had been prepared for dinner, 
and cabbage chopped for cold-slaw, as no ex¬ 
tras in the shape of pies or puddings were 
prepared on Monday on account of the burden 
of the forenoon’s work, and the tidy dinner 
table as the family gathered around it seemed 
to lack nothing. 
After dinner, while the young housekeeper 
washed the dishes, Mrs. H. made a cream cake 
to bake for supper, putting in the oven at the 
same time a tin full of sweet apples. “It al¬ 
ways seems shiftless,” she remarked as she 
closed the oven door, “to lie baking in the 
afternoon, any day but Monday. I do all such 
work in the fore part of the day, aud let the 
stove rest in the afternoon.” 
Then she brought out a basket of carpet 
rags and began work sewing them, while she 
watched the lire and her cake. The young 
lady brought out a paste-board box of cuttings 
from the newspapers, short pieces of poetry 
aud prose; and spreading out her materials on 
the table, began to work at a scrap-book, 
which she was making for a Christmas present 
to some of her friends. 
Quiet reigned, until the clock striking four, 
Mrs. Homespun, putting in the basket a large 
ball of carpet rags she had just finished wind¬ 
ing, rose to prepare supper for the hungry 
school boys, whose coming might t>e expected 
in the course of an hour, while the daughter 
repaired to the clothes line to see the condition 
of things there. An hour and a half more saw 
all the kitchen work finished and t he family m 
the cosy sitting-room, some reading the week¬ 
ly papers, the school boys preparing lessons for 
the next day, and Mrs. H. darning mittens for 
them. IRENE. 
Notk. Ehin was the writers name of Uu- article "Some 
nice quilts" which appeared In last week’s tU 1 tt.vt., page 
. 11. E. M. 
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GLADDYS WAYNE, 
“A SOFT answer turneth away wrath, hut 
grevious words stir up anger,” repeated a dear 
little four-year-old, in charming babyish fash¬ 
ion, at. our Sunday lessons. This is but one of 
many instances where forbearance and kindli¬ 
ness and charity are portrayed in all their 
divine beauty, as enjoined upon us. Oh. let 
us engrave these gems of spiritual truth on our 
hearts and so assiinulate them with our 
thoughts and affections that our whole lives 
may be imbued with the spirit of a love 
divine. 
As members of one great sisterhood, whose 
common joys and sorrows should bind us to¬ 
gether in tendorest. sympathy; we should en¬ 
tertain for one another naught but kindly 
sentiments. Differing as we do in mind and 
person, it cannot be expected that nil should 
think or see alike; but we may avoid all un¬ 
kind or ungenerous expressions of our various 
opinions, and in forbearance, in kindness and 
love seek to benefit each other. 
It pains us to see any “root of bitterness 
springing up” to mar our department of the 
paper. Dear “Justice” and “A. C. C.,” let us 
all clasp hands in a circle where the electric 
thrill of sympathy, “peace and good will" 
shall have unbroken sway. 
Let us remember that “circumstances alter 
cases.” Aud circumstances are often beyond 
our control. A rule that holds good for one, 
or in one place, often proves impracticable for 
others in different sections. Even with ns in 
the East, country market prices greatly vary 
at different places, aud what is easily attain¬ 
able iu one town may be exceedingly difficult 
to obtain in adjoining towns or in different 
We will guarantee the “LOVELL” W.- .HER tc 
a do better work and do it easier and ir es» time 
q than any older machine in the world. Warranted lot 
J five years, and if it don't wash the clothes clean witn- 
f out rubbing, we will refund the money. 
ITCIITC UmiTCn m every county .We car. 
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- — ..re making from $75 to ?150 per month. Farmert 
make $204) to 5500 during the winter. Ladies have 
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