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are full of the various recipes for pickling 
and keeping salt pork by every conceivable 
method except dry-curing, which, it seems 
to me, gives far more satisfactory results 
with the least possible trouble and danger. 
Sometimes I think it is because in many 
instances the housekeeping is done on such 
a small scale that the owner does not feel 
justified in building a smoke-house; but 
when the family is small the year’s supply 
of bacon is also small in proportion, and in 
this country our farm hands frequently 
dry enough of their pork for a year’s supply 
of bacon over their cooking-stoves or wood 
fire-places. But, then, wood fires are not so 
universal in all parts of the country as in 
Kentucky; though it is probably the heat 
from the wood fire as much as the smoke 
which proves so efficacious, and I suppose 
that if by any other means the meat be 
dried sufficiently to form a crust on the 
outside, the bacon will be pretty sure to 
keep if stored in a moderately cool place 
and protected from insects. 
T HE following little poem was written 
by Senator Coggeshall of the New 
York legislature. He had been asked many 
times to explain why he invariably refused 
to drink liquor. The “ little lass ” referred 
to is his daughter. 
“ What makes me refuse a social glass? Well. I’ll tell 
you the the reason why. 
Because a bonny blue-eyed lass is ever standing 
by. 
And I hear her, boys, above the noise of the Jest 
and merry glee. 
As with baby grace she klss«s my face and says, 
‘ Papa, be true to me." 
Then, what can I do my lass to be true, better, 
than let It pass by, 
I know you’ll not think my refusal to drink a 
breach of your courtesy : 
For I hear her repeat In accent sweet, and her dear 
little form I see. 
As with loving embrace she kisses my face and 
says, “ Papa, be true to me.” 
Let me offer a toast, to the one I love most, whose 
dear little will I obey, 
Whose Influence sweet la guiding my feet over 
life’s toilsome way : 
May the tun ever shine on this lassie of mine, from 
sorrow may she be free. 
For with a baby grace she hath kissed my face 
and said, ‘Papa, be true tome.’ ” 
CREAM PUFFS : A CULINARY 
STRUGGLE. 
O BUT didn’t I have a time with 
y them? It was some years ago, 
when these toothsome dainties were known 
only to confectioners and fancy cooks ; but 
I had eaten some somewhere, and had posi¬ 
tively “ fallen in love ” with them, so when 
I happened upon a recipe for making them, 
I was in a state of bliss unspeakable—al¬ 
most. But, mind you, mv recipe for those 
delicious Eclairs de la erdme was not of 
the kind that an amateur cook can tie to, 
and my bliss was short. It merely gave in¬ 
gredients and spoke nothing of the pitfalls 
in the manufacture of those depraved— 
totally so—articles, which, when made to 
perfection are so well calculated to make 
the head of the family listen with fond 
indulgence to the feminine hints regard¬ 
ing pocket-money, head-gear, etc. 
I stirred the flour into the hot water and 
butter, and took from the stove a lumpy 
mass seemingly a very near relative of the 
“ minute-pudding ” of our venerated 
grandmothers. But when I broke in 
the eggs, and began to stir—ye stars, 
what a mixture! Mixture, did I 
say? But it wasn’t a mixture, and it 
wouldn’t mix. That was just it! The 
eggs slipped around between islands of 
pasty dough, and there was no least sign 
of affinity between these opposing elements. 
As well try to mix oil and water. The 
islands gradually became more in number, 
but they were islands still, in a small, 
slimy ocean of egg that grew momentarily 
“more so.” But at last, just as patience 
was exhausted, the stuff became a homo¬ 
geneous mass, though still somewhat 
lumpy. 
The next step was simplicity itself. Just 
to drop the batter in spoonfuls on a butter¬ 
ed pan, put it in the oyen, and take out the 
puffy balls at the proper time. Yes, to be 
sure: the first time I opened the oven door, 
they were rising beautifully, but needed 
turning and I twitched them around on the 
oven floor, and shut the door with a 
slam, in order to have it catch. Next 
time I looked in, my beautiful puffs were 
like rich, brown pancakes, and the holes 
that were to be filled with cream were no¬ 
where. My surprise and wrath, and won¬ 
derment as to the cause of the fall are not 
to be lightly mentioned I 
Another day, after recovering slightly 
from the effects of the first damper, I made 
another effort. I certainly improved. This 
time the rich, yellow balls came forth, evi¬ 
dently all right. I took them gleefully 
from the pan and turned my back for a 
moment to get a clean towel to put over 
them, when a horrified glance over my 
shoulder showed only cream flats !! witches 
work ; the holes were gone again ! Do you 
think I gave up ? Not a bit of it; my great 
grand-mother Pocahontas’s blood was up, 
and I kept at it, in spite of my mother’s 
gentle hints that my experiments were too 
expensive for farmers. The hens laid well, 
and in time I came out from a stormy crisis 
completely victorious, so that the construc¬ 
tion of eclairs has no more terrors for me, and 
I thoroughly enjoy the eager questioning of 
my girl-friends as to how I make the holes, 
etc. 
And this is the way I do it: I stir the 
flour, butter and boiling water till the 
mass dines together in a ball, entirely 
clear from the sides of the sauce-pan. 
Then I take it from the fire and stir till 
smooth, then add the eggs, one or two at a 
time, and stir till smooth again. Then I 
am very careful to lift the pan from the 
oven floor without turning, and to shut 
the door quickly but gently, to avoid jar¬ 
ring, and I am very careful not to get the 
oven scorching hot, as the puffs will surely 
fail if not cooked sufficiently long. And I 
don’t make the holes at all. They make 
themselves. These are the only secrets in 
the manufacture of this desirable addition 
to our company tea-table; but the puffs 
must be eaten while fresh, as a few hours 
destroy their delicate, melting quality and 
their fine flavor. LINA HADLEY. 
WASHING MACHINES. 
We have used the Becker Washing Ma¬ 
chine for the last three years and think it 
invaluable, and would not sell ours at any 
price if we could not replace it with the 
same kind. As a labor-saving device it 
can’t be beaten. Two weeks’ washing for 
a family of four is easily done in less than 
two hours. Buy one and make the men do 
the washing on rainy days. F. E. s. 
I have been using a washing machine 
for about eight years and with much satis¬ 
faction. It resembles the rub and rinse of 
a tub and board. A concave corrugated 
surface presses against a corrugated convex 
one, while the latter moves as far in a cir¬ 
cle as the former does in approaching it, 
which causes a squeezing rub, the return 
causing a rinse. I can wash a set of bed 
linen or three or four shirts in- a minute 
or two, except where there are extra- 
dirty streaks which are easily washed be¬ 
tween the hands. Mine has been in nearly 
steady use eight years, it is now sound and 
has never needed any repairs. As would 
be expected, it works harder on several 
pieces than on a single one in the tub ; yet 
one is doing several times the work. W ith 
a stout boy a delicate woman can manage a 
large wash without fatigue. The Becker 
Washer is worthy a berth in Mrs. Terry’s 
“ToolHouse.” L. R. H. 
Cloud, Pa. 
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