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piece sew a pocket nine inches long and 
wide enough to full on, rounding the low¬ 
er edges to fit the rounded edge of the 
paste-board. Hem the top and run an 
elastic in. This is to hold balls of yarn. 
Gather the long strip of cretonne, and set 
it around the covered paste-boards. The 
straight ends of the paste-boards and the 
ends of the gathered piece will form the 
top of the bag. Sew two brass rings on the 
upper corners of the paste-boards and two 
on each end of the gathered strip. Run 
braid through these to close the bag. Sew 
flannel leaves between the double paste¬ 
boards for darning needles, notch the edges 
of the leaves and on the outside one em¬ 
broider in outline stitch in straggling let¬ 
ters, “A stitch in time saves nine.” 
Frames for cabinet pictures can be made 
of scraps of velvet or plush : they must be 
of different shades of the same color, how¬ 
ever. Different colors would savor too 
much of crazy patch-work. After your 
pieces are neatly joined together work the 
seams with some fancy stitch with silk 
that matches your pieces; that is, of the 
same color as one of the shades. Then 
stretch over your frame of mill-board or 
heavy paste board, placing a little wadding 
between. The one I saw was of different 
shades of brown, and did not look home¬ 
made in the least. 
Make a few fancy holders of unbleached 
linen, with red marking cotton outline, 
*• Polly put the kettle on ” or, if you can 
draw a tea-kettle, it is prettier to put the 
kettle in place of the word, and write “ on ” 
at the lower right-hand corner. It is best 
to mark your pattern on tissue paper, baste 
it on the work, work through ir, and 
then tear out the paper. Bind the edges 
with red braid. Of course the same idea 
can be carried out in silk or velvet. 
White check aprons can be worked in 
cross-stitch with red or black the same as 
check gingham, and are very effective. 
If you get new skates for the boys make 
nice bags to hold them. Make them of 
Holland or Java canvas, line with colored 
flannel doubled above the draw-string, em¬ 
broider the initials on the side. 
FANNY FLETCHER. 
(We regret that the above directions 
came too late for timely publication.— Ed.) 
OLD FOLKS, OLD-FASHIONED FARE, 
AND FREEDOM. 
D UTY and pleasure do not always go 
“hand in hand;” but in the duty 
of studying to please the various tastes of 
her household the housewife often finds a 
real pleasure, and where there are old 
people in our homes, it is especially our 
duty to minister to their preferences, and 
in all available ways to seek to make life 
seem to them bright and desirable. Let 
them feel themselves “a burden” and “in 
the way,” and they will droop and wither 
like the plant within the window perishing 
for lack of water ; show them that they are 
appreciated and necessary to our well-be¬ 
ing, our homes and our happiness, aud 
they will respond as the drooping flower 
revives beneath the grateful dew or the 
gentle summer rain. As in the case of 
children, small things make or mar their 
happiness. I once knew a good old man, 
who, living with a sou, was made uncom¬ 
fortable and really unhappy because the 
daughter-in-law, among other small tyr¬ 
annies, banished from their home the 
“boiled dinner” to which he had all his 
life occasionally been accustomed, it not 
being to her taste, or “in fashion.” 
This principle is all wrong. Let us w r ho 
are so fortunate as to have at our fireside 
aud our board, the dear face of father or 
mother, grandfather or grandmother, spare 
no pains to make them comfortable aud 
happy; let us never allow them to feel that 
they have “ outlived their usefulness;” and 
let us teiich our little ones to be most ten¬ 
der of the dear grandparents, to honor and 
obey, love and cherish them, and to look 
upon them as a peculiar and a priceless 
blessing. GLADDYS WAYNE. 
DINAH’S CROUP REMEDY. 
* * AT' ES, Missis : it’s the croup sure 
I enough I’m afeard; jest let me 
listen agin’,” and Dinah bent her anxious 
sable face over the baby boy of two sum¬ 
mers lying in my lap. 
It was some years previous to the “ shoul¬ 
der blanket ” episode and Dinah was com¬ 
paratively a new-comer in our family. 
“There is no mistakin’ the sound,” she 
said after a moment's listening that seemed 
an hour to me. 
“What shall I do?” I moaned in my 
helplessness. “Fred away, and tl>§ PUOW 
so deep, my boy must ilie,”' 
“ Don’t take on so missis,” said the cheer¬ 
ful voice. “Have you any alum in the 
house ?” 
“ Plenty,” I answered. “ But what good 
is alum for croup ? ” 
“ Don’t talk missis; but jest tell me 
where it is.” and the good woman’s 
fingers were lifting the lid off the 
box almost before my words of direction 
were uttered. With rapid footsteps she 
disappeared into my kitchen, and a mo¬ 
notonous sound of scrapipg issued from it 
mingling with baby’s choked breathing; 
then more hurried footsteps, a rattling of 
spoons in their holder, and Dinah reap¬ 
peared carefully carrying a well-filled tea¬ 
spoon, 
“ We will give him but half at once,” she 
said, and turning part of the contents into 
a sauce-plate from the table, hurried to my 
side, the half-filled spoon and a glass of 
water in either hand. Great beads of per¬ 
spiration stood on her brow seamed with 
its anxious wrinkles. 
“ Hold him up ’most straight if you can,” 
was the direction she half whispered, “ an’ 
he won’t be so apt to choke.” I did so, and 
firmly but with the utmost tenderness she 
coaxed the mixture into the little mouth 
and down his throat, following it with two 
or three tea-spoonfuls of the water. 
“ Now give him to me, missis,” she said, 
as the little head fell back on my arm, and 
I held him closer to my frightened heart. 
“ You are tired all out, an’ no wonder a-hold- 
in’ an’ a-tendin’ him all these hours. I’m 
sort of used to croup a-bringin’ up my 10, 
you know.” The cheerful voice, and the 
kindly face bending over me, inspired me 
with a ray of hope and I gave the little one 
into the strong, motherly arms and stood by 
waiting in my turn to^help, and noting 
(even with a mother’s eye) how much more 
tenderly she aided my baby in its struggle 
for life than I (inexperienced young thing 
that I was) could have done myself. Ten, 
15, 20 minutes passed, then Dinah’s eyes 
that had not before left baby’s face were 
lifted to mine, and she nodded towards the 
medicine left on the table. I hastily brought 
it, and to my surprise the little one took it 
with much less difficulty than it had the 
first. Then Dinah nodded towards the lit¬ 
tle crib. 
“ He’ll be more comferable like in his own 
bed now,” she said, “the stuff’s beginnin’ 
to help him, sure: ” Tucking the warm 
blanket around his little throat after lay¬ 
ing him on his pillow, Dinah took her sta¬ 
tion close beside the crib while I too nerv¬ 
ous to remain quiet, paced to and fro be¬ 
tween it and the window, outside of which 
the storm raged with increasing fury. 
It might have been 20 minutes,certainly not 
longer when Dinah beckoned me closer to 
her side. “ Lean down close, missis,” she 
said, “ an’ listen to him now. His breath is 
coinin’real easy like, an’ he’s goin’ off to 
sleep sure.” I bent close over my boy; 
his hands and brow were moist and his 
breathing quiet—almost natural. My baby 
was safe. Truly God was very good to me. 
“ What was it you gave him, Dinah?” I 
asked as a little later she came to me, in 
the kitchen, busy making supper for the 
“good man’s” home-coming. 
“Only jest alum an’ sugar, missis.” she 
replied. “ I scraped a good half a tea-spoon¬ 
ful off that lump of alum, an’ filled the 
spoon up with sugar. Some use burnt 
alum, but 1 don’t: an’ you must be careful 
to scrape it very fine (like flour ’most) an’ 
only give half at once unless the little one 
is over four years. It’s powerful good medi¬ 
cine, missis. Now I’m a goin’ back agin’ 
to sit right by him till you come, an’ then 
I’ll be gittin’ home. He won’t have no 
more spells to-night sure.” 
So back she went good, faithful soul, 
and I passing back and forth, before the 
half-closed door, could hear her singing 
(more to herself than the baby I fancied), in 
the plantive tone peculiar to the race. 
We’s goin - back to Glory, 
We’s goin’ back to Glory, 
We’s a gittin’ nearer eb e ry tlay. 
TABLE NOTES. 
B UCKWHEAT cakes are best when 
mixed up over-night into a rather 
thick batter and thinned down in the 
morning with a little sweet milk. When 
flour is stirred into the batter just before 
baking it seems to make them tough. 
There need be no greater luxury for the 
farmer’s breakfast than light, tender, deli- 
cately-bi’owned buckwheat cakes with 
sweet, golden butter aud comb honey that 
the “ business pets” have gathered from 
the farm blossoms. 
Rancid lard and strong butter may be 
improved for cooking purposes by heating 
ftUd frying a handful qf sliced raw potatoes 
that have been previously prepared and 
wiped so that no drops of water may cause 
the hot grease to spatter; let them fry till 
they are quite brown then skim out. The 
lard will then be as sweet as ever. The 
butter will be especially nice for frying 
cakes, crullers, etc. 
“ How I wish I had a cover for that jar ” 
said Mrs. H. who has no more plates than 
she needs fbr table use. Well that would 
make a nice job for the little girl who does 
not know what to do next. There are us¬ 
ually plenty of old boxes, both great and 
small, in the closet and these can be made 
useful aud ornamental too, if one chooses. 
Get one large enough to set the jar upon | 
bottom upward and mark out a circle, cut 
this circular piece out and sew a band of 
the pasteboard around it, fastening the ends 
of the band well together. The narrow 
pieces torn from the sides of the box will 
do very well for these bands, though they 
may need piecing. Paste pretty paper over 
the outside, and there you have a nice-fit¬ 
ting cover for the jar. Others can be made 
for the tin cans which can thus be made 
useful for a host of things. 
A GOOD, roomy “hamper,” for the corner 
of a kitchen, sleeping-room, or nursery may 
be made of a barrel. Line the inside by past¬ 
ing clean papers across the bottom and 
around the sides. The outside must also 
be covered with paper or cloth. Then cut 
pictures from papers and magazines, ad¬ 
vertising cards, etc., and completely cover 
the outside of the barrel with them, mak¬ 
ing a beautiful medley : only be sure that 
the pictures are worthy the gaze of every 
pure-minded, innocent child. The cover 
should be tight-fitting and finished with a 
gray silesia or satteen that can be easily 
dusted, or it maybe stained and varnished. 
This makes a good receptacle for soiled 
clothing if placed in the sleeping-room. If 
in the kitchen it is a very handy catch-all 
for the papers that do accumulate and that 
will not “stay put.” In the nursery it 
may be a source of many pleasant sur¬ 
prises, besides being always outwardly at¬ 
tractive to picture-loving children. 
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