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On Selfishness and Hobbies. 
X an effort to prove the husband is not 
selfish when he buys improved ma¬ 
chinery for himself and lets the wife go 
without, an editorial in a farm paper 
contains the following: 
“The home produces nothing. It con¬ 
sumes. The production of the farm is 
ail for the support of the home and while 
it is the duty of every husband to make 
the wife’s labor as easy and pleasant 
as possible, the patent washer or broad- 
mixer will not bring in a penny, while 
the new horse-rake or mower will.” 
The writer lias snubbed up against 
men who held similar opinions and has 
reached some conclusions which may bo 
helpful to other women. The sooner it 
is realized that it is waste of energy to 
attempt to alter the opinion of such men 
the better, but there is always a chance 
to do something with yourself and when 
selves there are few of us who cannot 
find some unprofitable hobby to dismount. 
If women would devote the energy they 
waste on their particular hobby toward 
acquiring the labor-saving articles there 
need not be a bread-maker without a 
bread-mixer or a washing done without 
a machine and wringer. And these are 
but a beginning. Onee started you push 
on and on, seeking other worlds to con¬ 
quer, and then, some day. you become 
aware that the other fellow has changed 
his opinion, and looking back you wonder 
if he wasn't half right after all. c. 
Kitchen Tools; Household Conven¬ 
iences. 
Part I. 
AVING TIME.—While shopping in 
the house-furnishing department of 
one of Now York’s stores I happened to 
think of Mrs. 15. I,. C.'s article about 
once fairly interested in that undertak¬ 
ing the wonder will be that there was 
ever any time for bothering about the 
other fellow. 
First of all take stock of yourself. 
What do you amount to anyway? Do 
you take any intelligent thought as to 
whether you are doing your work in the 
best way, or whether you are doing what 
might well be left undone, or leaving un¬ 
done something essential? Many women 
ride a hobby, without bit or curb but 
with whip and spur. 
There is the woman that irons every¬ 
thing, even the socks; another sweeps 
and dusts in season and out. One such 
woman got broom and dust pan and 
swept up a trifling hit of litter a caller 
made, to the latter’s discomfiture, al¬ 
though later she laughed and said: “It’s 
just her hobby.” Still another woman 
mends long after the garment ceases to 
be worth the time spent on it. I counted 
nine patches on one side of the front of a 
man's work shirt. I laughingly told the 
wearer he looked like an animated rag¬ 
bag. lie smiled sheepishly and said he 
wanted to see how far she would go. 
There is the woman who waits on her 
children when they might better be wait¬ 
ing on her. A four-year-old girl who 
could dress herself except a few buttons 
at the middle of her back—even to lac¬ 
ing her shoes and tying the strings in 
a double bow-knot, an achievement which 
cost her many patient trials and many 
an earnest “show me,” looked on with 
disapproval while a visiting aunt dressed 
two cousins near her own age. A house¬ 
wife caring night and day for a member 
of the family through a long and serious 
illness engaged a girl of 10 to do the 
house work. The girl said she could bake* 
and cook, but when she came to try, it 
turned out that her mother had made 
the baking fire, had seen that the bread 
was light enough, and so on. So in ad¬ 
dition to her duties in the sick room the 
nurse had to teach the girl to work in¬ 
dependently. The mother had made the 
all too common mistake of doing half the 
work herself and letting the child take 
all the credit. It is quite likely that 
the men who so lightly esteem the home 
as a producer had such mothers. What¬ 
ever the home contributes toward bring¬ 
ing in the penny they take the credit for 
themselves. If we are honest with our¬ 
simplifying housekeeping, so kept my 
eyes open with a view to seeing things 
that would be helpful to the farm 
housekeeper and would urge all those 
who can to buy as many as possible of 
the things I am going to describe, for 
there isn’t one but what would save both 
time and labor. The first thing that met 
my eye was perhaps the best of all, for it 
would save more in time and effort than 
any other one thing in housekeeping. 
This Was a round, heavy wire dish drain¬ 
ing basket, just the size to fit into the 
ordinary dishpan. In the centre was a 
fine-meshed wire cup for putting knives, 
forks and spoons. This is intended for 
the inside of the rinsing pan and after 
the dishes are scalded the basket is lifted 
out and the dishes left to drain and dry. 
The price is 29 cents, so that if there 
was a large family, two could be used 
instead of one. When you think of sav¬ 
ing the time it takes to wipe dishes— 
let alone washing and ironing dish tow¬ 
els—three times a day. year in year out 
is certainly is worth the effort to get one. 
Right alongside of this was a wire 
dishcloth attached to the handle of 
a metal dish scraper. Think how con¬ 
venient that would be when you had a 
kettle which had had the food burned 
a little, thus necessitating scraping it 
off. Price 10 cents. 
Potato Ricer. —For a little thing 
a ricer is really about the most use¬ 
ful. Primarily it is supposed to bo used 
for potatoes. After the potatoes are 
boiled they are sprinkled with pepper, 
salt and butter, then put them in this 
ricer, which makes them look like rice— 
hence the name. There is a heavy tin 
perforated bowl held in an iron frame 
which has a long straight handle and 
above this is another iron bar with a 
disk at the end of a rod in the middle 
which is pressed down on to the potatoes, 
thus forcing the potatoes through the 
holes in the howl. The bowl can be 
taken out of the frame to wash it. It is 
just the thing for taking the skins from 
the cranberry sauce, or apple sauce (do 
you make your apple sauce that way? If 
not, try it—wash the apples and cut out 
any wormy or rotten spots and then 
stew; when done press through the 
ricer and sweeten to taste. It is much 
quicker to do it this way). When mak¬ 
ing grape jelly or jam. if you have not 
got a fruit press it is just the thing 
to use. When cooking Summer squash 
wash and cut up in small pieces and 
cook; when done remove seeds and skins 
by putting through the ricer. After 
cooking pumpkin put through ricer so as 
to remove lumps and strings. It seems 
as if there was no limit to the number 
of things daily coming up in the cook¬ 
ing line where the ricer saves time and 
work. The price is only 25 or 35 cents, 
according to size. 
The Little Churn. —For the woman 
who makes her own butter there is a 
little glass jar with wooden paddle in¬ 
side that will make three pounds of but¬ 
ter in from four to 10 minutes. Per¬ 
sonally I have never used one of these 
hut have friends who have, and they are 
very enthusiastic over them. 
Egg Beaters. —The rotary egg beater j 
is another saver of time, and I do not 
think you would find many city house¬ 
keepers without one; but I have known ' 
several country housekeepers who would I 
only use a fork to boat eggs and cream, 
saying it was so much better. But that 
is only a notion, and when there are 
four or six blades to do the work of one 
fork there can be no question of the 
time saved. Price 15 cents up. 
Food Choppers. —These cost from 98 
cents up and are certainly a very great 
saving of time. If you want hash for 
breakfast it only takes about three min¬ 
utes to put onion, meat and potatoes 
through the chopper and you can have 
it just as fiue or as coarse as you wish, 
for there are three different-sized cutters 
that go with even the cheapest of these 
choppers. And think of how many things 
you ordinarily chop. While on the sub¬ 
ject of hash let me pass along something 
I learned just a short time ago. We 
always liked onion in our hash, but in¬ 
variably the taste of the onions would 
come up in my throat and the children 
complained of the same thing. A short 
time ago a woman told me to fry the 
onions until brown before I put the po¬ 
tatoes and meat in, and that I would 
have no further trouble, as the onions 
needed more cooking than the other 
things. This I found to be true, and I 
do the same thing when I make Lyon- 
naise potatoes which are fried potatoes 
with onions and chopped parsley. 
_ MRS. FL ORENCE BELLE. 
Mr. Brown : “I wish I lived where the 
styles in dress never change.” Mrs. 
Brown : “Try the penitentiary.”—Credit 
Lost. 
▼vxiisn yvu wme auverusers mention 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
"square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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i 
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