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VOLUME 10, NUMBER 20
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Their Angel
My heart Is lonoly as lioart can bo
And tho cry o liachol goos up from
mo,
For tho tondor faces unforgot
Of littlo children that are not;
Although, I know,
Thoy nro nil In tho land whoro I
shajl go.
i "want them close. In tho dear old
way;
Out llfo goos forward and will not
slay,
And Ho who mado It has mado It
right;
Yot I miss my darlings out of my
sight.
Although, I know,
Thoy nro all In tho land whoro I
shall go.
Onfy ono has dlod. There Is one
Bmall mound,
Vlolot-heapod, In tho sweet grave
ground; Ywonty years thoy have bloomed and
spread
Over tho littlo baby head;
And Oh! I know
JBho Is safe In tho land where I
shall go.
Not dead; only grown and gono
away,
Tho hair of my darling Is turning
gray,
That was golden ortco In the days
so dear,
Ovor for many and many a year.
Yet I know I know
She's a child in tho land whoro I
shall go.
Afy bright bravo boy is a gravo-oyed
xnan'
Facing tho world as a worker can ;
But I think of him now as I had
him then,
And I lay his cheek to my heart
again,
And bo, I know,
1 shall have him thoro whoro wo
both shall go.
Out from tho Father, and into life;
Back to his breast from the ended
strife
And tho finished labor. I hear tho
word
From tho lips of Him who was
Child and Lord,
And I know, that so
it shall bo in tho land whero we
an snail go.
fclven back with tho gain. The
secret this
Of tho blessed Kingdom of Children
Is!
My mother's arms are waiting for
mo;
X shall lay my head on my father's
knoo;
For so, I know,
I'm a child mysolf whero I shall go.
Tho world is troublous and hard and
cold,
And men and women grow gray and
old;
fcut behind tho world is an inner
place
"Whoro yot thoir angels behold God's
face.
And lol we know,
That only tho children can seo Him
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Adeline D. T. Whitney.
Tho Fine Art of Sowing
I wish our girls could realize how
fnuch nicer they could dres3 for tho
lme amount of money by making
their own clothes. Not only could
money bo saved, but money can bo
earned in largor amounts than thoy
think for by learning to do their
work well. It is almost impossible
to got a sowing woman that can be
depended upon to do her work well,
and those who do, are always full
of business at good paying prices.
A few days ago, a lady said that
any ono who could sew a straight
seam in the city could get from
$1.50 to ?2 per day, with dinner
oxtrn. Many women are driven to
wear tho ill-fitting "ready-made"
who would gladly hire a seamstress
if ono could be found. To be sure,
there are many women and girls
who say they can earn nothing with
tho sowing machine; but they are
not tho ones who feel an interest
in their work, or aro skillful with
tho needle and scissors. All work
is hard, if successfully followed, and
I speak from long experienco when
I say sowing is no harder than other
employments followed by women.
Then darning and patching well
pays, and a good business pould soon
bo worked up in that lino by a
woman or girl who hos a sense of
responsibility, and could be depend
ed upon. For the woman who has
littlo children whom she can not
leave, sewing offers a good wage, and
can ue clone at homo, with her chil
dren under her own care. Busy
mothers and hurried business women
aro clamoring all tho time for some
ono to keep garments in repair, and
many of them are both able and
willing to pay good prices reason
able, at any rate. Wo know that
every woman is not a "born seam
stress," but there are many good
dressmakers who do not like to
sew, but do it conscientiously, be
cause thoy can make a good living
at it. Very few of us get the work
wo really think wo want; but the
successful ones take, what they can
get, and make the best of it while
working toward something bettor or
more congenial. Whatever one does
should be done well, for the work's
sake, as well as for tho wage.
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Tho Pest of Ants
These are the bane of the lives
of many housewives, and any exter
minator for them will be welcomed.
What will answer in one household
will fail in another, and wo can not
uuvo too mucn mrormatlon on the
subject. Ono of tho surest reme
dies is to pour boiling brine Into
every hill, wherever found, and to
search under old boards, or other
cast-away nuisances in yard or cellar
and use the boiling brine freely.
Many times they are breeding whole
colonies in the walls and founda
tions of tho house. These colonies
muBt bo reached and destroyed.
xu Liioir mnwn.vn mit a An-
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sponge sprinkled with a1 little sugar,
and when the ants go for tho sugar,
just put the sponge in a pan of boil
ing water, and repeat. A bit of
frQBh meat, bacon rind, bones, laid
in their runways will soon be cov
ered with them, and thiB, too, must
have the hot water cure. The meat
may be used several times, but
fresh is more effective.
One temmoonful of paregoric in a
saucer of water mav h Hmfnirii i
their runways, and it may take sev
eral sprinklings to rout them, but
it is said to be effective. A thin
coating of lard on a dish or piece
of paper, will draw hundreds of
them, and when covered, scald the
Plato, or hum the paper, and net
again. If any one knows a more
effective way, please tell it to our
Homo readers.
For tho Summer Outing
For the friends who enjoy cook
ing for themselves when on their
outing trips, here is a good list of
"the needful," in the way of a
kitchen outfit: A small alcohol
stove, a small teakettle (or the
ubiquitous tin can) to heat water;
covered sauce pan for light cooking,
thin long handled frying pan, tin
salt and pepper shakers, tiny tin
boxes for salt, pepper, spices; a box
of washing powder, some old, soft
clothes for dishwashing, steel knives
and forks, iron (one cent each) cook
and other spoons, wooden plates,
enameled-ware cups and saucers, and
plenty of towels.
Homo Made Perfumes
The following methods are given
for extracting fragrance from roses
and violets:
For attar of roses, gather a full
quart of rose petals when most frag
rant, and place at the bottom of a
wide-mouthed bottle a layer of
petals; sprinkle with fine salt, and
cover with a sheet of absorbent cot
ton dipped in pure olive oil. Fill
the bottle with alternate layers of
petals and cotton until. all are used,
or the bottle filled, then tie over
the top of the bottle a piece of oiled
silk, doubled, and set the bottle
where it will be in the sunshine for
two weeks. Then uncover and ex
tract the oil from the cotton and
rose petals, put into a bottle and
cork tightly.
Violet perfume: Place a layer of
sweet violets at the bottom of a
bowl and cover them with a piece
of cotton dipped in olive oil, filling
the bowl with alternate layers of
violets and cotton; tie oiled silk over
the top, as for roses, and cover the
bowl; let stand for twenty-four
hours, then remove the violets and
put in fresh ones! oh an v. ,.
lets every day until the oil is per
fumed as strongly as wanted. Put
the oil and cotton In a bottle with
P,x LPPer Pour into it a little
spirits of wine, shake well and set
In the sun for a week. Extract the
tightly.0m Ctt0n' and cork
These recipes have been asked for
and aro given as obtained.
Women and Home
An exchange gays: ""it is all well
?angV Bay that a soman's place
is in the home, and down deep in
every woman's heart is a recognition
of the fact and a longing tS have
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and many women are forced out Into
the business world because of the
shortage. A living must be made
somehow, and in thousands of cases
the woman must make her own
home, and too often, the home for
others, by her work in the wider
in the thickest starch first, then in
the thin starch, just as you would
with suds, and several garments, if
the colors do not "run," may be
washed in the same starch. When
clean, rinse in clear tepid water and
dry in the shade. Sprinkle and iron
on the wrong side after letting lie
as customary. Blue goods may look
faded after, ironing, but in a. few
hours the color returns.
Linen suits may be renewed or
freshened for further use or to make
over for children, in this wise: Fill
a wash boiler half full of nice, clean
hay, boil for one hour in water suffi
cient to wash suit. Strain through
a coarse cloth into a vessel that will
allow the submerging of the goods
in the water. Wash as you .would
in suds (using flour starch instead
of soap), rinse well, then put the
garments to soak in the hay tea for
twenty-four hours, being careful to
have the material covered with the
tea, even if you must weight it down;
then rinse in .cold water and dry in
the shade. Iron it rather damp, and
iron until it is dry, and you will
have a desirable shade of green
linen. The stain of grass is dur
able. Colored embroideries should be
washed in bran water (made by
boiling bran in water, straining, and
using in place of soap, thinning as
necessary), rinsed in plenty of clear
water; dry them, dampen between
muslin, and iron on the wrong side
under muslin.
For the Laundry
Colored summer fabrics may be
laundered to look as good as new
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a gallon of flour starch as for any
other use in the laundry. Put three
quarts of this into a tub or pail, add
two gallons of tepid water, and the
same in. another vessel tovlthe re
maining quart; wash the garment
Washing Blankets or Woolens
For Mrs. W. E. H. Have, tho
temperature of the water the same
throughout the process. Warm wa
ter is preferable to hot or cold, and
it may be quite warm for best re
sults; but each water must be the
same temperature. Prepare two
tubs of warm soapsuds, using a
white soap preferably, as there is no
resin in the white, and it is about
as cheap as the yellow, or common
laundry soapv If possible, the wa
ter should be' rain water, but water
may be softened by the addition of
borax or ammonia. Into one of tho
tubs put the blankets, having enough
water not to crowd them, and punch,
pound, knead and squeeze the wool
ens, but do not rub on a board. If
spots, rub them between the hands
until clean. Use no more soap than
is in the suds. When they look
clean, wring out, either with the
hands or with a wringer, and put
into the second tub, having the wa
ter warm as the first water, and go
through the process as with the first;
wring out of this second water, when
they should be clean; then rinse in
clear, soft water to which a little
bluing has been added. Wring as
before, and pin the blanket on tho
line, along the lengthwise edge,
using plenty of pins. As they dry
pull into shane. and -wTimi "Ha nrmr
half Is dry, turn the other length
wise, eage, pm to the line, letting
the dry edge be at the bottom. A'
clear, sunny day should be chosen,
and the blankets should get perfect
ly dry on the line. No pressing or
ironing is required. Hot soap suds
will usually yellow white woolens,
but some woolens are benefited by
dipping in clear hot water, then
wringing out immediately. Do not
forget the few drops of bluing.
When you buy castor oil, always
J01 it all into a sauce pan and
boil for a few minutes, then return
to the bottle. This will do away,
with the usual stomach pains which
follow its use.
Canning Soft Berries
nrJ r? JasPberries, blackberries
and huckleberries, this method has
proven satisfactory: Put a boiler
with plenty of water over the fire:
Into a preserving kettle put ope cup
ful of water and a cupful and a half
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