used I prefer bran or middlings; then I never 
have any trouble.” I shall try that this year 
and see how it works. I try all the eggs I 
pack, to make sure they are good to begin 
with. Roll up a newspaper so that an egg 
will just fit in one end of the roll, and hold it 
up towards the liglit, and the veriest novice 
cau tell at once a good, fresh egg from a poor 
one. Eggs put away for Winter are better if 
laid after the hottest weather is passed—savin 
September. Once on the recommendation of 
a friend l packed a quantity of eggs in ashes; 
but when I attempted to use them they were 
completely cooked. T have also tried lime- 
water with similar results. A cool, dry room 
is best for keeping them well. Most cellars 
arc too damp. A friend says she has succeed¬ 
ed well in keeping eggs in salt, if they were 
put down in stone jars. She thinks such jars 
are more nearly air-tight than wooden vessels. 
ENGLISH CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING. 
Two pounds of raisins, two pounds of cur¬ 
rants, one-fourth of a pound of citron, or 
lemon-peel; one teacup of sugar, two thick 
slices of bread crumbled Hue, seven eggs, a 
teaspoouful each of cloves, cinnamon aud 
nutmeg grated; two pounds of beef suet, a 
piece of butter the size of an orange: about 
two pounds of flour. Mix it all with milk or 
water and bod four horn's in a bag. This 
quantity makes two Large puddings, and may 
be kept a month. Steam slices as it is wanted 
and eat with a sauce. 
HICKORY-NUT CAKE. 
Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three 
cups of flour, one-aud-a-half cup of milk, one 
coffee -cup of nut meats, t he whites of six eggs, 
one-aud-a-half teaspoonful of baking powder 
mixed in the flour. 
LEMON CAKE. 
Two cups of sugar, one of butter, four of 
flour, three eggs well beaten, one cup sweet 
milk, one grated lemon, three teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder. Beat butter and sugar to¬ 
gether first, then add other ingredients. 
AUNT RACHEL. 
for kitchen floors that she approved of in one 
of her housekeeping serials. She replies: 
“The paint I alluded to was specific in nothing 
but color—as near the hue of dried mud as 
black anil white can be mixed—a dust-gray. 
So many kitchen floor paints in yellows and 
browns, show every spot so readily that I 
thought the exact shade that, least shows ‘dirt,” 
ought to be put up in cans and labeled, 
‘Kitchen Floor Paint. 1 Some manufacturer 
of paints ought to act, upon this suggestion. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER.” 
scattering corn-meal or salt over it and giv¬ 
ing a second sweeping. Itshould be thorough¬ 
ly swept first, however. It will also look 
clean much longer if a tablespoonful of pearl¬ 
ine he dissolved in a pail of warm water, and 
the carpet be wiped with a flaunel cloth wrung 
out of this. Change the water as often as it 
gets much soiled. 
If oil-cloth be occasionally rubbed with a 
mixture of beeswax and turpentine, it will last 
longer. 
China that has become stained with tea or 
coffee can be made to look as good as new by 
scouring with brick-dust. 
A pine floor can be stained oak-color by 
washing it with a solution of one pound cf 
copperas dissolved in a gallon of strong lye. 
Clean irons are one of the marks of a good 
housekeeper. If your irons trouble you by 
dropping black species from the top or sides 
when ironing, put them into a pan of warm 
soap-suds and give them a thorough scrubbing. 
Dry them quickly or they will rust. 
Blacking the kitchen stove is the bote noire 
of many a tidy housewife. Au ingenious 
friend of mine saves all her paper bags from 
the grocery, and when this troublesome task 
lias to be performed, she slips her baud into 
one of these bags. The hand is not at all soiled, 
the bags are much more easily put on than 
gloves, and cau be dropped into the stove 
when you are through with them. 
EXPERIENCE. 
;pi.o'ccUitneou,$ 3Uvcvti,$infl 
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 Li ver 
Disease. After having tried various rem¬ 
edies, and consulted several physicians. 
Without benefit, I was induced to take 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. r i,'hc* first bottle pro¬ 
duced a marked change, and the second 
and third acconiplislwii 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 Lempster, X. II. 
HOUSEKEEPING RE IJUS. 
There is not a house keeper who is willing 
to say that housekeeping is not an advancing 
art, but there are not wanting women who do 
not practice in accord with this belief. Why 
can we not lay down the antiquated thingsaud 
cease from retrogression? Why use the iron 
tea-kettle when the neat tin one is lighter anil 
better? Why wring the clothes by hand when 
there are a score of wringers? Why boil your 
coffee when you well know it should never 
boil ? W by maintain a yeast jug when for two 
cents you can buy a cake of the compressed 
yeast? Why-sweeten cake with molasses when 
sugar is equally as cheap. Why buy flour by 
the sack and pay fib, when f 7 will pay for a 
barrel of the same flour? I cannot answer. It 
is not because women are ignorant of the su¬ 
periority of wringers, compressed yeast, tin 
tea-kettles, and the best sugar. It my be be¬ 
cause we are thoughtless, and content to be 
behind the times in some things. Who can 
tell? MRS. M. 
Prepared by Dr. ,T. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all’Druggisu. Price $1; six bottles, $6. 
S HERIDAN A CONDITION POVTV'ER is absolute¬ 
ly pure and nimbly concentrated. It Is strictly 
a. medicine to be given with food. Nothing on_earth 
Will make hen* lay like it. It cures chickenchol- 
era and all diseases of hens. Illustrated book by 
mail free Sold everywhtce, or sent by mail for 
35 cts. in stamps. 2.q-lb. tin cans. $1: by mail, 
$1.20. Six cans by express, prepaid, for $5. 
I. S. Joboeon & Co.. P. O. Box 2118. Boston, Mass. 
BUSY HANDS 
A cou ntry-rred woman living in a large 
city gave lessons in cooking to half-a-dozen 
working-girls. She found them ignorant of 
the simplest details of work, because they had 
never seen it done. It' they had grown up in 
country homes she would have found them al¬ 
ready familiar with the theory of cooking and 
only in need of practice. 
Washington Gladden believed that country 
boys marie the most successful men. so he 
sent letters to ino successful men in all ranks 
of city life, asking them where their boyhood 
had been spent, and how their time, out of 
school hours, was used. The replies showed 
that most of them were from couutrv homes 
where, out-of-school duties trained their 
hands and gave them habits of industry. In 
many large cities there are now schools where 
little city girls can learn to cook, set a table 
neatly, sew, darn, mend, sweep and dust, and 
their brothers are taught to use earpeutor’s 
tools, and to model in wood such things as 
houses, fences, aud furniture, and as their les¬ 
sons advance, to make many things of value 
and beauty, of suitable sires tor use. The Chil¬ 
dren's Industrial Exhibition, held last Spring 
in New York City, showed the work from such 
schools (and some work done out of schools) 
by children all over the country. And there 
is a stir, aud a flutter of little hands in the 
cities as they busy themselves with these new 
lessons. The country children already know 
many things these little folks are studying out 
with active lingers; why can they not be 
helped t > learn still more ? Are there not pos¬ 
sibilities for cooking, sewing and carpenter¬ 
ing classes in the country? 
A class of six or more little girls might meet 
once a week under the guidance of a grown-up 
sister, auntie, or mother, and cook the meal 
they eat together, each one bringing a share 
of uncooked materials aud doing a share of the 
work, the teacher watching aud directing all 
the work, but doing none. Setting the table and 
table manners would come in for a share of 
her care. A work-shop for the boys might be or¬ 
ganized during the season when there is the 
least farm-work, and some farmer, handy 
with tools, could greatly benefit the Itoysof 
the neighborhood by giving them lessons in 
simple work with hammer, saws and nails. 
Studying books is good; training the hands to 
make the study practical is better. 
The advantages of such classes would be 
many; first of all, the children would feci that 
good work is Important, aud It would become 
interesting, and, instead of hurrying through 
their nut-of-seliool duties in the most careless 
way, they would find a pleasure in doing them 
well. Then, in a class, if only of throe or four, 
the souse of companionship aud the efforts 
made by each one to work as well as the rest 
would add a charm for the children. Try 
something of this kind and report the results. 
ALICE BROWN. 
tv vor AUK IN ANY WAY INTERESTED IX 
Happiness may not be the aim aud end of 
existence, but it should he cultivated in every 
lawful way; for the happy child doesn’t whine 
and fret; the happy woman doesn’t scold, and 
the happy man doesn’t darken his home when 
h j enters the door. 
Wr will with plnasti; e send yon n sample onnv of the 
*eini..Monthly Gtenuiturs In Bee-Culture, 
with a descriptive price-list of the latest Improvements 
lu llives. Honey Extractors, Comb Founda¬ 
tion, .-eotinn Honey Boxes, nil bonks and jour 
nal>, iind everything pertaining to Bee Culture. No 
niixo patented, simply send vour address, written 
PLAIN Ll. lu A. 1 . ROOT. MEDINA. OHIO. 
DESK ORNAMENTS, 
Take three penholders with pens in them, 
and paint them red or gild them; then tie to¬ 
gether with narrow ribbon and arrange so 
that they will stand uprightlike an easel. At¬ 
tach to this for holding pens one of the little 
silver or gilt buckets that can be bought at, 
any store where materials for fancy-work are 
sold. It may also Ik* used to suspend a photo¬ 
graph or birthday card from. 
letter pocket. 
A pretty letter pocket to hang by the side of 
a desk is made from a palm-leaf fan, which 
may bo covered with silk, satin, velvet or 
plush, or even with handsome cretonne. Put 
a pocket, lined with pasteboard to make it 
keep in shape, on the front of the fan for bold¬ 
ing letters. Suspend with a handsome bow of 
contrasting ribbon. 
LOVER OF FANCY-WORK. 
• -j.-ri.-y • r "bus.ness in bar locality. Salary <$50 
iii. s. L..I..I i .hnson, Manager, it Barclay Sr NY. 
EGG TOAST FOR INVALIDS. 
Beat, the yelks of four eggs and the whites 
of two thoroughly, and mix them with two 
tablespoonfuls of butter; put this in a small 
sauce-pan and set it over the fire, stirring in 
one direction until thoroughly hot. Have 
ready some thin slices of bread delicately 
toasted, and spread with the mixture of egg, 
aud serve very hot. 
Or. put three ounces of butter into a bowl, 
and stand the latter in boiling water until it 
becomes liquid. Now add four xvell-beaten 
eggs to this, pour into a sauce-pan. and set it 
over a slow fire, moviug it around in one di¬ 
rection until heated; it must not be allowed to 
boil. .As soon as warm pour it back and forth 
from thesuuee-pnn t.o the bowl until thorough¬ 
ly hot. Have ready some nicely toasted 
bread, and spread this over while hot. 
NURSE. 
“i ururoi” 
NtVtn ! Uiu'of giv¬ 
ing Premiums for the (Liming ’ t Tea Clnbs- 
V n is. it.r lime to get up orders for our 
• ■* I'T.nil- -l TEASii to COFFEES. Teas 
a . i -LI kinds, from At to 75 cts. 
per pound. AW defy the 
world on price and 
quality. No house can 
give the same quality 
of goods and premi¬ 
ums a« we do. We have 
* host of useful Ami orna¬ 
mental art leb . to select fiom. 
audit s:. Intention this pobltastlohi and we 
•or Illustrated Price unit ITvninmi T.ist.and 
- \ Dress NATION Al. TK V A COF- 
AVn-diiusiton St.. Boston, Mass. 
ELEGANT SHAPE, t 
HEALTH and j 
COMFORT! 
Perfectly Combined in wry! ; lfl jl[ I (Jib 
MADAME F 0 Y S\. f| *V 
Skirt Supporting y 
CORSET.! 
It U one of the most '■ ■ IjpSBrt 
popular and 
lory In the market C 
For sale by all lead -< \ * 
La* dealers. 
lHec ('.v mall *1.30. | 
FOY. HARMON & « 3 ^ 
CHADWICK, New Haven. Conr.** 
CHILD’S BOOK SATCHEL, 
A durable ami inexpensive book satchel is 
made from a common coffee sack, hut itshould 
be a fine one. Cut it of the required width, 
and about three-quarters of a yard long. 
Work a border in cross-stitch, iu red German¬ 
town wool, about an lueh and u half from the 
edge, so that when it is doubled the border 
mil ho all around both sides. Cut a piece nine 
inches long and three wide, and double it to¬ 
gether until it is half an Inch wide. Whip the 
edges together with the yarn. Cut another 
piece aud do the same with it, and fasten these 
pieces on the top for handles. Line the satchel 
smoothly with red calico. 
WALL-SPLASHER. 
A pretty one is made of deep gray crash, 
worked in seaweed design, with toilet set aud 
cover stand to match. The edges of the 
splasher are fringed, and it is fastened to the 
wall with four bows of light aud dark ribbon 
to match the embroidery. 
RAG MATS. 
Old stocking legs make very good mats. 
Cut them in strips liner than for carpet rags, 
and sew and wind into balls. Crochet with a 
very coarse hook, in single crochet stitch 
either round or oblong. If you have enough 
of any particular color, you can make a cen¬ 
ter of it and then work hit. or miss. They are 
durable and look very well in country bed, 
rooms. elsik. 
RICE TOAST WITH POACHED EGG. 
Boil some rice the day before aud set away 
in a flat dish until morning. Cut it iu slices, 
brush each slice over with melted butter, 
slightly grease the broiler, aud broil over a 
rather slow tire. Butter the slices aud drop a 
poached egg ou each. 
cream potato balls. 
Mix two tablespoonfuls of melted butter aud 
the whites of t wo eggs well-beaten with a pint 
of finely mashed potatoes, season to taste and 
roll into little balls. Dip each ball iu cream, 
roll iu cracker dust, place iu a buttered dish, 
and bake until a delicate brown. cook. 
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. 
BAKER'S 
e Warranted absolutely pure 
Cocoa, from which the excess of 
Oil has been removed. It has f ‘ ~:e 
times ike strength of Cocoa mixed 
with 8lurch. Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and la therefore iur more economi¬ 
cal, .•opting less than one cent a 
cup. It is delicious, nourishing, 
strengthening, easily digested, and 
I admirably adaptixl for invalids a» 
well as for persons in health. 
Sold by Grocers erorywhere. 
Q l ’ E ST IONS ANSWER ED, 
TO REDRESS MAHOGANY; A MAHOGANY STAIN 
Mr. A. H. asks how to clean and varnish 
mahogany furniture, also how to stain wood 
in imitation of mahogany. 
Ans. —Remove every particle of the old var¬ 
nish with sim la water and fine sand-paper. 
Next rub well with powdered pumice stone 
aud raw linseed oil. using as little oil as pos¬ 
sible. Several thicknesses of flannel tacked 
toa block of wood of convenient size for hand¬ 
ling will bo found to expedite this part of the 
work.* Next wash the furniture with warm 
water and Castile soap After the wood has 
become thoroughly dry. given coat of the best 
furniture varnish. Use a fine varnish brush 
for the purpose. The varnishing should ho 
done iu a warm room free from dust, and by 
a jiersou who understands laying it on. For 
the stain, boil one-half pound of madder and 
two ounces of logwood in a gallon of water. 
To be applied with a brush while hot. When 
dry go over the whole with a solution of two 
drams of pear lash in a quart of water. Var¬ 
nish after the wood is thoroughly dried. 
When buying dress goods that are not to be 
worn out at once, for a growing girl, it is 
economy to buy a yard or two extra for re¬ 
modeling the dress for another season. 
Wash window glass m clear, warm water 
not soap-suds. Add a little ammonia, borax 
or baking soda to the water. 
Why shouldn't the boys have as pretty and 
cozy a room as their sisters i 
. After hall a century 
j] is etill without an 
I equal, AS A SHAV- 
j IMS SOAP. 
Sits rich, mild 
■ and lusting lather 
L leaves nothing tube 
| desired. All Drjg- 
3 gists keep it. Avoid 
I Imitations. Trial 
B Samples by J fail, 
I for 12 cts. 
' Tta J. S. Williams Co, 
(SlnnloittMirj, I'oun., 
'MtUKhvsVr, 1S40* 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
S GENUINE N 
YANKEE SOAP, 
MANCHESTER CON?*, 
WILLIAMS £ BROTHERS 
Cll£UIS T 5 «*> Af-Jttceums, 
PAINT FOR KITCHEN FLOORS, 
RACKING EGGS FUR WINTER. 
Last year I found the eggs l had carefully 
packed in salt, according to my usual custom, 
were a great disappointment. The yelks had 
either become hardened ormlhorcd to the shell, 
and not half of my store proved available for 
cooking purposes. Mentioning this to ft friend 
who is an exceedingly good housekeeper, she 
said, “ Your mistake was in using salt at ull, 
to pack them iu. It always has a tendency to 
make the whites of the eggs watery and the 
yelks solid. Of all the materials 1 have ever 
For the'beneflt of several inquiring women, 
we wrote to Mrs. Fisher asking as to the paint 
#U0ceUattcat»» $th , rrtl.ainn 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla. 
Scrap Pictures and Lg- ut's Sample Case fora 
cent statue. HILL C.\ kD Co., Cadiz Ohio. 
ruin. Mlid Climate, dump Homes 
tr. A. O.BLISS*. L’euli'nHa, Va, 
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