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SMILES ANO FROWNS. 
If I knew the box where the smiles are kept, 
No matter how large the key 
Or strong the bolt, I would try so hard— 
’Twould open, I know, for me. 
Then over the land and the sea broadcast 
I’d scatter the smiles to play, 
That the children’s faces might hold them fast 
For many and many a day. 
If I knew a box that was large enough 
To hold all the frowns I meet, 
I would like to gather them, every one, 
From nursery, school and street. 
Then folding, and holding, I’d pack them in, 
And turning the monster key, 
I’d hire a giant to drop the box 
To the depths of the deep, deep sea. 
—American Jewess. 
Here is a good suggestion : “Keep 
a teacup of the proper measuring size in 
the sugar box and another in the flour ; 
you will find that it is not only very 
convenient, but it reduces the number 
of dishes to be washed after baking.” 
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We have a request for a recipe for 
hickory nut macaroons. We do not find 
any mention of them in the cook books, 
and must again appeal to our readers 
for information, knowing that there is 
always some one capable of helping, and 
willing to respond. 
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We are told that tight sleeves are 
surely coming back, and that, by fall, 
they will begin to reign. It is only 
when we don jackets that we can be 
persuaded to give up the generous 
sleeves, for then we realize their only 
disadvantages. No doubt small sleeves 
will gain favor, for the summer shirt¬ 
waist, with its patent sleeve extenders 
resembling miniature hoopskirts, has 
rather disgusted us with that phase of 
the fashions._ 
WESTERN WAYS AND MEANS. 
HAT my family considers a very 
nice salad, is made as follows: 
For a family of six, cut up enough 
cold boiled potatoes to make about three 
cupfuls; put into a pan or dish large 
enough to admit of tossing and shaking 
them to mix them with the salt (one tea¬ 
spoonful) and the pepper, dusted on 
until there is enough to give a good 
flavor. When thoroughly mixed, let 
stand a little while, so that the salt will 
dissolve, and be absorbed by the potato; 
then add a cupful of rich cream. As I 
am not so fortunate as to have ice, I set 
the dish in a pan of cold water. Then 
clean and cut up enough onions to make 
a cupful. If young onions be used, 
they may be cut clear into the tops, and 
still be sweet and tender. Season with 
a level teaspoonful of salt, a heaping 
teaspoonful of sugar, a speck of Cayenne, 
a dusting of black pepper, and enough 
vinegar to cover. It should stand long 
enough for the onions to absorb the 
taste of the seasoning. Just before the 
meal is served, mix onions and dress¬ 
ing with potatoes and cream, very 
thoroughly. 
I have not seen the method of making 
pot cheese that I use, in print. I read 
in a paper some years ago, that to scald 
clabber and drain, made a substance 
very indigestible for a delicate stomach; 
that the proper way was to turn a pan 
of clabbered milk into a large piece of 
strainer cloth, and let it drip for 14 
or even 24 hours. This was recom¬ 
mended as being very good for the 
stomach, and also very palatable ; 
but I did not find it so. The benefit 
may have been there, but the relish was 
lacking. I found, however, that to 
place the clabber in a warm—not hot— 
oven for two hours and then drain, 
gives a cheese that is not tough, and is 
well tasting. I tried the buttermilk 
cheese and find that it is very nice. 
In our good State (Oregon), everything 
comes in sacks, some of which may be 
used for clothing and other purposes. 
The flour sacks are lettered with paint, 
but this can all be removed by boiling 
in weak lye. A gallon jar, half filled 
with hard wood ashes, should have boil¬ 
ing water turned in until full. If this 
be done at night, the next morning, it 
will be clear. Pour off all that will 
come perfectly clean, into one-half bciler 
of water. Add one-quarter pound of 
soap and boil hard. Put in the sacks 
and keep boiling for two hours, when 
most of the paint will have disappeared. 
If any should remain, it will come out 
in one or two ordinary launderings. 
Sugar sacks make nice summer under¬ 
wear for children. Salt sacks make 
good towels in the absence of better 
material, while old potato sacks do well 
for mops. _ MAY JUNE. 
FOR THE BABY’S WARDROBE. 
HE little luxuries of the baby’s 
outfit are quite expensive if 
they are bought ready-made, so that 
the economical mother usually prefers 
to make them at home. Then there is 
such a satisfaction in fashioning the 
dainty garments, that very few are will¬ 
ing to allow any one else to do it. Caps 
are among the necessities, and as they 
are soon outgrown it is better to make 
two or three of different sizes, so that 
he will have a succession of them. A 
closely crocheted silk cap is best to use 
before the baby is old enough to sit up. 
Two spools of B and A whip cord twist 
crochet silk will be required. Use any 
pattern preferred, finish with full scal¬ 
lops, and place a rosette of baby ribbon 
on the top in front. After he outgrows 
this, use caps made of China silk, 
Victoria lawn or any of the sheer white 
goods suitable for them. 
A pretty style for a cloak is a simple 
circular with one cape and collar, lined 
throughout with China silk. Get the 
material of any desired color, if a color 
be preferred to white, and patterns for 
them can be obtained from any dealer 
in patterns. One of the handsomest 
cloaks shown in the art department of a 
drygoods store, is of creamy white cash- 
mere, lined with white flannel of the 
best quality. There was a round yoke 
to which was gathered a full skirt of the 
cashmere, and a short, full cape was 
joined in the seam at the neck. Just 
above the hem at the bottom of the 
cloak and cape, was embroidered a spray 
of forget-me-nots and leaves done with 
Asiatic twisted embroidery silk in cream 
color. Satin ribbon strings were fastened 
at the throat to tie it with. A cloak 
made in this way, can be dyed and made 
into a dress when it is no longer needed 
for a cloak, and as that will only be a 
few months, it is quite an advantage. It 
is also warm and light, which are two 
important items to be considered. 
Little square flannel shawls are quite 
useful, and may be as plain or elaborate 
as desired. Sometimes the edges are 
bound with ribbon, others have scallops 
embroidered around the edge. Very 
handsome ones have a border of silk 
embroidery all around them. 
Bibs may be made of almost any kind 
of white goods cut in various shapes and 
nicely quilted. The edges are often 
finished with lace or embroidery. Bibs 
are often made of piqu6 or marseilles 
and not quilted. 
Chamois moccasins are much better 
for babies than stiff shoes. A good pat¬ 
tern may be cut from the pieces of a 
low shoe that has been taken apart. 
Finish the tiny toe piece by working a 
small design with Asiatic filo silk upon 
it. Line them throughout with China 
silk, satin, or soft cashmere, and bind 
the edges with narrow ribbon. If the 
strings that are used to tie them on are 
fastened in front, and tied in the back, 
the baby is not as likely to untie them 
as if the bow is in front. 
WESTERN HOUSEKEEPER. 
A PLEA FOR THE OLDEST SON. 
ET me speak for our sons—our oldest 
son—that grand, noble, modest one 
who is always doing for others, yet, like 
John Alden, he will not “speak for 
himself.” I do not mean the little boy 
who rejoices in his own calf or flock of 
chickens, but that same boy after he 
has grown to the stature of a man—the 
stay of his father, the comfort of his 
mother. The product of his cow or his 
sheep has helped them over many a 
pinch when taxes must be met or in¬ 
terest paid. No word of complaint will 
you ever hear from him ; he gladly helps 
to keep the home machinery running. 
Perhaps he has stopped going to school 
sooner than he ought, but no one is 
more eager than he to see the younger 
ones kept in school. His presence be¬ 
comes as indispensable to every one in 
the house as the sunshine itself, yet, 
when he sees the younger ones rejoicing 
in school advancement, or going away 
to positions of trust, think you, he has 
no longing to go out into the world to 
do for himself ? If he have, no one will 
know it but the mother, neither will 
she, unless she is possessed of more than 
usual cheerful tact and ready sympathy. 
If he see her worn with cares and 
anxieties of her own, he will not be 
likely to burden her with his troubles 
or aspirations. 
Oh, you mothers ! careful for many 
things ; let us stop a minute and think, 
which of our many duties is the most 
important ! Perhaps, sometimes, the 
sympathy of the heart is better than the 
labor of the hands. Let us step aside a 
little while and watch the others ; if any 
appear restive, we may be able to put 
ourselves in their places and, feeling as 
they feel, be able to lend a helping 
hand to bear them over a hard place, 
for the young, with their inexperienced 
intensity of feeling, often suffer from 
the thoughtlessness of others more than 
we ever know. If he wish to go away ; 
if the farm have grown tiresome, find 
it out and help him to go. Promote an¬ 
other boy to his place in the farm busi¬ 
ness. Because so much has been said 
and written about boys staying on the 
farm, is no reason to think that they 
must. 
In the history of Garfield, there is 
nothing more pathetic to me than the 
quiet work of that older brother who 
kept the family from want, while the 
embryo President was making up his 
mind whether he would go to school, or 
be a canal driver. MARY burwell. 
A WORD TO THE TALL AND 
ROUND-SHOULDERED. 
ACKETS and blazers that reach but 
to the belt, need to be worn by peo¬ 
ple who stand very erect, never allow¬ 
ing the spine to depart from the line of 
beauty that requires an inward curve at 
the waist. Hound shoulders and slouch¬ 
ing attitudes are bad enough at any 
time, but in a garment of this pattern, 
they become doubly ungraceful. It is a 
wonder that every girl does not recog¬ 
nize that nothing adds more to her 
appearance than an erect carriage, and 
that the taller she is, the greater the 
need that she hold her head up. It will 
not do to straighten up when the best 
clothes are put on; unless standing erect 
is a habit, it is sure to make one look 
stiff and awkward. 
How much better the stout girls 
usually carry themselves than the tall 
ones do ! Yet when the tall girl is 
straight as the Indian of poetry, the 
short ones may well stretch themselves 
to their best height beside her, for they 
are very much at a disadvantage when 
comparisons are drawn. The girl who 
feels herself a very “ shitepoke ” for 
height may console herself of her fate 
by noticing that, though the petite 
among her girl friends have charms she 
sighs in vain to possess, there surely 
comes a day when the bloom of youth 
departs, and then the tall woman keeps 
clear of the “ little old-womanish” look 
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