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eggs were few I used a little flour, beaten to 
a smooth paste, to thicken the milk, before 
putting iu the eggs; for the boys came from 
school with healthy appetites and our dishes 
wore few at each meal, so 1 always tried to 
have plenty. Just before Thanksgiving the 
boys canto in from school one day running 
over with anticipations of a Thanksgiving 
feast, and both talking so fast that I could not 
understand either. 
But finally T learned that they were trying 
to tell me what they wanted for the Thanks¬ 
giving dinner, and my heart sank to think of 
the disappointment iu store for them as I 
thought helplessly of oar limited purse. But 
their anticipations were so eager, and their 
faith iu Cousin Anne so abiding, that T felt I 
must do something to meet them. 
Onk way to economize in light—buy kero¬ 
sene by the barrel. 
HIRED MEN ON THE FARM. 
Mbs. F. N. D. writes us that she would earn¬ 
estly urge all farmers’ wives to protest against 
the boarding of farm hands. She considers 
that the average hired man is the most vexa¬ 
tions element that the housewife has to con¬ 
tend with, and that a home cannot be a home 
where he exists. She thinks that the extra 
cooking, washing and ironing that his presence 
necessitates furnish the lust straw to the al¬ 
ready over-burdened wife. But our corres¬ 
pondent’s grievance reaches the climax when 
she tells of the selfish, inconsiderate actions of 
the man on Sunday. He is invariably late to 
breakfast on that morning thereby prevent- 
in the mistress from attending church while 
the rest of the day is spent in loafing around 
the house and making as much noise as possi¬ 
ble. While we sympathize with our corres¬ 
pondent’s trials we lieg to be permitted to state 
that we should be mistress in more than name 
in such a situation,ami that it is in our humble 
opinion more the master's fault than the 
man’s, when the latter is allowed to increase 
instead of lighten the wife’s work. 
OIL FOR DOMESTIC MACHINERY. 
Much time and worry can be saved by busy 
housekeepers, by “having things handy by,” 
as my Yankee neighbors say. If the pantry 
is across the room from the cook-stove, a shelf 
or table beside the stove having on it at least 
salt, pepper, knife, fork and spoon needed in 
cooking, will save miles of steps in a year, 
Sugar, Hour, spices—plainly labeled—baking- 
powders, flavoring extracts, etc., kept in one 
place, and molding-board, rolling-pin, cake- 
cutters and baking-dishes iu another group, 
rob baking day of half its trials. Broom, dust¬ 
pan, duster and floor-cloths hung side by side, 
help sweeping day to “start fair.” If at some 
distance from a store, a slate hanging in the 
pantry, with pencil tied to it, on which to jot 
down needed supplies as soon as exhausted, is 
a real help. An emergency corner iu u closet, 
where rolls of worn linen and muslin, sticking 
salve, sweet oil for burns, ammonia for bee¬ 
stings, arnica for sprains, etc., are kept, and 
another corner where paper bags, wrapping 
paper and strings can always be fouud, prove 
treasures iudoed. Mrs. Fisher one© said that 
“every room iu the house ought to contain 
needles, thread and scissors.” A scrap-bag 
hung on the sowing-machine—fancy or plain— 
will save a deal of sweeping threads and bits 
of doth from the carpet. Last, tho’ not least, 
a cushioned chair kept “handy by” in the 
kitchen to rest in, if only for five minutes, 
when one is so tired, aud a good book or pa¬ 
per—U. N.-Y, for instance—within reach to 
pick up at oiid minutes will refresh both 
body and mind. Many Other tliiugs will sug¬ 
gest themselves to quick-witted housewives 
intent on making the most of everything, 
themselves included. HOUSEKEEPER. 
Rubber gloves are a boon to women whose 
hands chap easily, They can be had of any 
dealer in rubber goods, aud cost $1.35. Get 
them a size larger than the hand. 
A DISHWASHING machine has been invented. 
The dishes are placed on a rack and a light 
cover is fitted over them. Below is an arrange¬ 
ment something like a turbine water wheel. 
This is fitted with hot water aud rapidly 
turned by means of a crank. The hot water 
is dashed violently against the dishes aud 
washes them. 
According to Harper’s Bazar frank peo¬ 
ple are interesting in certain aspects. They 
IftteceUaueoii 3 Umtisiop. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, sho clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, sho gave tliem Castorla. 
have a pleasant knack of letting us know all 
their opinions; they never mince the matter. 
They tell you exactly what they think of you 
and of all the world, and what everybody else 
thinks, as far as they know. There is natural¬ 
ly little reserve about them; if your nose is 
not to their mind, they feel it their duty to 
enlighten you; if your gown is not becoming, 
they do not spare your feelings, from the 
kindest motives; otherwise you might be go¬ 
ing about the world iu the belief that they ap¬ 
proved of you. 
Fancy muds will be fashionably worn, and 
will be even more popular than fur ones, for 
the reason that they admit of greater change, 
and can be easily made to match the costume. 
The prettiest that we have seen are made in 
both velvet and plush, and are in the form of 
a bag gathered at the top, aud much trimmed 
with bows and long loops of narrow ribbon. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
GOOD COOKIES. 
Rub together two cups of white sugar and 
one cup (six ounces) of butter, add nutmeg or 
whatever flavoring preferred, also three- 
fourths cup of sweet milk and two cups of 
flour with which has been mixed and sifted 
twotcaspocmfuls of eream-of-tartar. Mix,then 
add one-fourth teacupful of sweet milk in 
which is dissolved one teaspoonful of saleratus, 
beat well, pour all into the center of the pan 
of sifted flour, mix to roll out, as soft as possi¬ 
ble, roll somewhat thin aud bake in a quick 
oven. 
EUREKA COOKIES. 
Tw o cups of sugar, one cup of butter, scant, 
three eggs, one teaspoonful of saleratus dis¬ 
solved in half cup of water, nutmeg, and flour 
merely enough to roll. Beat the butter and 
sugar together, add the eggs and beat well, 
then the other ingredients, pour into flour and 
mix : roll thin. 
TOMATO SO CP. 
This is a most excellent dish for those who 
are fond of the tomato. Take five or six 
large, ripe tomatoes: pour boiling water over 
them, after which the skins are easily re¬ 
moved; cut the tomatoes up fine, put them in 
a suitable dish, add water, two quarts or less 
as you like; seasou to taste with suit and 
pepper, add a small piece of butter, boil until 
the tomato is well cooked to pieces, now stir a 
scant xablespoonful of flour, smooth with a 
gill or so of rich, sweet milk; stir this iu, let 
it boil a few minutes and serve it hot. Rightly 
seasoned this soup is very nice. Canned to¬ 
matoes may be used instead. 
A NICE WAY TO UOOK PARTRIDGE. 
Dress, joint and wash the bird, -slashing the 
breast through the outside layer lengthwise, 
on each side: put to cook in water to will 
cover it, adding, presently, some salt and pep¬ 
per aud a small piece of butter. When tender 
pour off nearly all the broth, and set it aside 
for the gravy; there should be a bowlful. Now 
add to that remaining in the kettle an ounce 
or so of butter, cover and let it boil up briskly 
until the broth boils away nearly to roasting, 
then remove the meat, cover and keep warm. 
Four the broth saved back into the kettle aud 
when it boils thicken with a spoonful of flour 
mixed smooth with some butter and perhaps a 
little water. When done and rightly seasoned 
to taste, it should lie immediately served. Pour 
over the partridge or serve separately. 
GLADDYS WAYNE. 
MOLD OF CHICKEN. 
Boil a chicken or chickens in as little water 
as possible until very tender, pick the meat 
from the bones, rejecting skin, and chop or 
cut into small pieces—not mince, Seasou with 
pepper and salt. Boil until hard a half dozen 
eggs aud rut into slices. Put into the bottom 
of a mold soin » slices of egg, cover with chick¬ 
en. then arraugo.some slices of egg around I lie 
sides of the mold pressing iu the chicken 
against the pieces to keep in place. In this 
way fill up the dish. Boil down t he broth so 
that there will he about a cupful for each 
chicken; season aud to each cupful add a tea 
spoonful of gelatine, which you have first 
soaked in a very litt le cold water. Pour over 
the chicken while warm, not hot and set aside 
for a day or night. Turn onto a platter aud 
garnish with celery leaves or parsley. 
MRS ECONOMY. 
POTATO YEAST. 
The compressed yeast, now in general use is 
so convenient for housekeepers, it appears 
hardly worth while to give recipes for mak¬ 
ing yeast. Yet foi those who cannot avail 
themselves of it 1 give the following 
directions for making excellent yeast. 
Place upon the fire a sauce-pan of 
boiling water, add one-half teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt to a quart of water. Pare 
three large potatoes, use a coarse t in grater 
aud standing by t he range grate the potatoes 
rapidly into the boiling water, stirring occa¬ 
sionally and let remain a few minutes over the 
fire until very thoroughly cooked. On this 
depends the keeping qualities pi’ the veast. On 
the manner of grating depends the snowy white¬ 
ness of the yeast. We for a long time grated 
the potatoes into a bowl and added to the boil¬ 
ing water. Even one moment’s exposure to 
the air gave the grated potato a dark color. 
Remove from the fire and when nearly cold 
add one cake of dissolved dry or compressed 
yeast to raise it. Set aside in a warm place 
and iu about six hours it is ready for use. 
Keep afterwards in a very cool place. To 
this may be added cooked grated potato as 
often as is desired to make new yeast, and you 
will always have a good article with little 
trouble. 
POTATO EREAD. 
At this season with potatoes at their best, it 
is well to use them in the bread as well as 
yeast. Set the sponge at night. At dinner¬ 
time boil a half-dozen extra potatoes for the 
bread sponge. We use Snowflakes now as 
white as flour and nearly as dry. When 
cooked take them into a pan with about one 
pint of flour. Mash them fine and pour over 
them aud the flour the water in which they 
were boiled, if clear, but if cooked in an irou 
kettle do not use it, but taka boiling water 
from the teakettle. Work together in a smooth 
paste, thoroughly scalding the flour. When 
nearly cold add one cupful of the potato 
yeast, beat well together and set aside until 
evening. It will then be of feathery lightness. 
Add to this one pint of warm milk and fl mr to 
make a thick batter, indeed all the flour you 
can stir in. Let stand over-night in a warm 
place, and in the morning sift three quarts of 
flour with one even teaspoouful of soda. Four 
the sponge on tojlie moulding board aud work 
it long aud well, resting the bauds from time 
to time by using a chopping knife to chop the 
dough. This will give a very fine, light grain 
aud is easier than t he t iresome motion of knead¬ 
ing. Very moist, white, light bread will be 
the result. 
BUTTER-MAKING IN WINTER. 
As cold weather approaches the difficulty 
of churning is increased, especially where one 
cow only is kept, and the cream is a long time 
iu gathering enough for a churning. As you 
skim the cream, salt and stir it every day. 
Churn it every week if you have but little. 
When you put it into the churn add an equal 
quantity of very warm, sweet milk. Let the 
milk be almost scalding, not quite, for, of 
course, that would turn the cream to oil. 
Turn the crank of the churn slowly as you 
pour iu the milk to mingle it with the cold 
cream. Many of us have no thermometers 
for determining the exact temperature. Our 
experience is that this will help to bring the 
butter in a very short time, aud good, sweet 
butter too, if you do not let the cream staud 
too long. Sometimes neglecting to salt the 
cows makes the churning very tedious, and 
allowing the cream to staud in a very cold 
place will cause it to “swell"—that is, rise up 
in its wrath, and remain v.rathy till one’s 
patience is exhausted. Try the warm milk to 
appease said wrath. 0. J. s. 
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I make mv plain corn-starch pudding as fol¬ 
lows: One pint of rich, new milk, two table- 
spoonfuls of com starch, ft scant half cupful 
of sugar, the whites of four eggs and a little 
suit. Put the milk over the fire, when boi'ing- 
hot add the sugar, then the corn starch which 
should be dissolved in a little cokl milk. Stir 
constantly until smooth, then add the whites 
beaten to'a stiff froth. Stir a few moments 
on the back of the stove aud turn into a mold. 
Dip the mold into cold water before turning 
iu the corn starch Turn out when cold and 
eat with a soft custard niadeof a piut of milk, 
a half cup of sugar and the beaten yelks of the 
eggs. Put these ingredients together > Id into 
a small tin dish, and set into a dish of boiling 
water. Stir until it thickens. When cold 
flavor with vanilla. One change of this pud¬ 
ding that we enjoy very much is this: When 
that part of th>- pudding I turn into the mold 
is done, stir iu a cupful of grated coeoanut.aud 
then turn out. This is delicious. Vuother 
pretty variation is to take out a third of the 
white cornstarch while hot,and add to it three 
spoonfuls of grated chocolate TJielted in a very 
small quantity of milk, Now nut into the 
mold a layer of the white, tlieu the chocolate 
and cover with the white. Again you may 
vary the plain pudding by dropping seeded 
raisins or small pieces of citron into the corn 
starch as you turn it into the mold. 
MRS. E. G. 
•-«-»*- 
It is time to think of Christmas presents. 
You can keep lemons fresh for some time if 
they are put into a glass jar or stone crock 
ana covered with cold water. Change the 
water twice a week aud keep iu a cool place. 
We have kept them good iu this way for three 
weeks. 
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