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Griovo not o'or tho wasted day
' Weep no more, nor vigil keep;
' Cry not, lost your sorrows stir
Through the silenco of its sleep.
Meet again tho common tasks;
Draw tho water; hew tho wood;
Qivo tho hours the care they ask,
Face the day and call it good.
Smile with others when they smile;
When they grieve, griovo not tho
less;
In your tender sympathy
'Hide your own great loneliness.
In the hushes of the night,
-' When all other thoughts have lied,
,Tou shall surely And your own
Clasp her, and be comforted.
Mary A. Burt.
lemon and juice, (if lemon flavor is
not liked, It can bo omitted), sugar
to equal weight of fruit and ginger;
cook fruit in very little clear water
just enough to insure tender skins,
before adding the sugar. Cook until
(luito thick and put in jelly tumblers
or small cans."
Mrs. G. would like to know the
best method of getting rid of "buffalo
moths" or bugs. Also, how to treat
a dustless mop, and whether.it can
bo used on a waxed fioor without
staining the floor. Will some one
please answer?
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After tho Visit
When ono has enjoyed the hospi
tality of a friend, it is proper, on re
turning home, to write a note, thank
ing the hostess immediately for her
hospitality, and telling her how
inuch tho visit was enjoyed. When
a lady is Inviting guests for a visit,
It is well to state In the invitation
Just how long a visit is to continue,
as, "from Saturday to Monday," for
a 'week, or two weeks, as is desired
or convenient, and, if the visit is to
bo made by rail, a time-table show
ing when and where Iho trains may
bo mot, or, if on tho car-line, desig
nating an hour to suit the con
venience of both, and also atatincr if
. some ono will meet the comer at tho-
traln; Exact directions should be
givori, as to how to find tho house.
.' Vacation Visits
; Guests should not stay 'over tho
fctated time either their own time,
or that set by the hostess. Do not
make surprise visits; give due notice
as to your time of arrival, and the
limit of your stay. It is better in
all cases to write, asking if it will be
convenient for your friends to have
you at a certain time, or, if not con
venient at mat time, ask when it will
suit the household to receive you.
Many a visit has been spoiled by the
guest "happening" in as a "sur
prise." Remember that one is not
always in a position to entertain or,
that the house may be already full,
with no more room to mm. fnr
guests; or, your friend may bo going
away, herself, on a vacation, or al
ready gone. Don't take too many
trunks, or too much "luggage," for
small houses are the rule, in these
days, and there may not be room to
admit of your "boxes," if too many
are taken. Remember, too, that
oven the most welcome guest may
become a nuisance If she makes un
necessary work for the usually busy
housewife.
of a soup bean, which should be
pulverized; boil twenty minutes;
grate five quinces .and two nice, sour
apples, put into the syrup and boil
twenty minutes. Then strain into a
jar. This should make about a gal
lon of honey.
Putting up Ground Cherries
tars. Clara G, Wisconsin, sends
directions for putting up ground
cherries, as requested "recently. She
Bays:
"I put them up with ginger and
lemon, and they are especially nice
to servo over ice cream. I have never
had any exact formula, but am glad
to give what direction I can. The
preserved ginger is best, but tho dry
ginger root can be used satisfac
torily, and is very much cheaper.
Four boxes of cherries, one-fourth
pound of preserved ginger, or more,
if you like; or three good-sized
pieces of dried ginger root cut into
Uny pieces. Gratod rind'Vof one
Moths in Carpets
If moths are suspected of being in'
tho carpet, around tho edges, wet a
towel and press with a hot iron over
tho place under suspicion. Or, take
up the carpet, clean the floor thor
oughly, look at tho cracks and wash
tho floor with hot water in which a
good supply of carbolic acid is dis
solved; or, if no fire is in the house,
with benzine, and scatter red pepper
over tho floor before re-laying the
carpet. Insect powder sprinkled
plentifully over tho floor and in
cracks is good. Ono of the best
things to use for moths in carpets is
turpentine; mix the turpentine with
clear water in proportion of three
tablespoonfuls of . turpentine to
three quarts of water, then go oyqr
each breadth carefully sponging with
a nearly dry sponge; sponge -well;
change water when dirty; the carpet
will be cleaned, moths kept away and
larva destroyed by this means. The
turpentine will not hurt the carpet.
Requested Recipes
White Puffs Beat a pint of "rich
milk and the whites of four eggs
until very light, and add, slowly,
beating all the while, a cupful of
finely-sifted flour and a scant cupful
of pulverized sugar, with the grated
yellow peel of half a lemon. Bake
In buttered tins in a verv hot nmn
turn out, sift powdered sugar over
them, and serve hot with lemon
sauce.
Sultana Salad Wnnh nuri r
.several tart, juicy apples and slice
in rings just Defore the salad is
wanted. Dip the slices in lemon
juico to prevent discoloring and ar
range two slices in each salad plate.
Have ready some broken walnut
moats and seeded raisins which have
been marinated in French dressing,
iiu iue centers or tne rings with the
sweets and serve at once.
Drying Plums Split ripe plums
before they get soft and mushy,
remove the pits and lay tho plums on
iuaies or sieves to dry, setting in
the sunshine if posssible, but if not,
in a warm oven. If in the sunshine,
tke in at night before tho dew be
gins to fall, and do not put them out
again until the sun can shine on
them; turn the pieces that may be
dried evenly; pack them in jars when
dry, or in paper bags hung in airy
places.
Where berries and fruits have to
be bought, there is little economy in
making fruit juices and beverages,
but if ono can stand the expense, a
great deal better article can be had
if care is taken in the making.
Where fruits are to bo had for the
gathering, these should bo put up
by all means. '
Quince Honey This recipe has
been given several times, but is
called for again. Three pints of boil
ing water, six pounds of granulated
sugar, a piece of alum about the size
Maiding Fruit Syrnps
For peach syrup, either the store
extract may be used, or a small
quantity may be prepared at home
by cracking the pits, pounding the
kernels and putting them in an ounce
of fine alcohol; care must.be taken
not to use too many kernels, as the
kernels are , full of prussic acid,
which is a deadly poison one of the
deadliest known to science. A dozen
kernels to the ounce of alcohol is
enough, and it should stand for
about a week. For peach s"yrup, to
each quart of peach juice made by
peeling, pitting and mashing the
fruit (which must be set aside about
thirty-six hours and then pressed),
allow ono gallon of the plain syrup
and half an ounce of peach extract.
The extract should be added when
the syrup is made, cold and ready
for bot'tling.
In preparing fruit syrups, first
boil tho sugar and water in usual
proportions, to a certain point, where
a' drop. taken between the thumb and
finger will snap when pulled apart;
to try this, dip the finger into ice
water, take a drop of syrup from the
edge of the kettle; when the syrup
la rea,dy the fruit juices may .be
added, and only a few minutes more
boiling will be necessary. The
flavoring should bo added when the
syrup is cold.
The syrup is made by using two
pounds of sugar to three tfupfuls of
water. One quart of fruit will
generally yield one pint of juice. .
Only the perfect, ripe fruits
should be used, as imperfect, wilted,
unripe or rotting fruit will be worse
than a waste of everything. Only
the best spirits, or alcohol should be
used, if any; but excellent fruit
syrups can bo made by eliminating
all liquors.
Tho Rest Room
What have you done about it in
your town? If you could only realize
how much such a resting place
means to tho wives and "women
folks" of the rural communities who
come into your town to do their trad
ing, and who have nowhere else to
wait for the husbands who are gos
sipping with their brothers at other
points, unless they "hang 'round"
the stores where they really are not
welcome after their money is spent
you would certainly see to establish
ing such a room. Many women
especially mothers with young chil
dren would rather stay- at home
and do without things than undergo
the fatigue of a day in town where
the little ones, as well as themselves
find nothing but weariness; Think
it over, will you?
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Gleanings '"'""
Recently, some one who seems to
speak with authority said the world
would be benefited if there were
fewer children born for tho next five
hundred years. Another dm a
cording to the constitution of the
United States, wo are all born free
and equal, but according to the laws
of nature, we are frightfully handi
capped from tho start. .
"Suppose thee were a few less
children in the world! Ono who has
taken a" walk through the crowded
tenement districts of a great city
must feel that thero is sufficient
population to last for many cen
turies, at least, without increasing
the birth rate beyond the minimum
required to keep tho present popu
lation. "It is becoming the belief of a
great many thinking people that, if
each married couple should rear but
one or two children properly, edu
cate them well, and place them in
the world so they need not wear out
their young lives struggling for a
foothold or the barest existence, the
world and society would be greatly
better off, as well as the parents and
children. If it is a sin to use intelli
gence to protect the mother, what
shall be said of bringing Into the
world, year after year, children who
are unfitted from the beginning for
the life struggle, and who, through
that unfitness, become hut a burden
and expense to society, and a menace
to good government.
"In all other lines than the human,
the continued effort has been to pro
duce, not the greatest number of tho
species with much benefit to society.
The couple who have just as good
hearts, but lighter purses than their
more favored brothers, should well
think on the problem of numbers,
and it stands to reason that in the
overcrowded homes, it is usually
impossible to develop the highest
qualities of mind and heart. Many
mothers raise their families under
crushing loa'ds of indifference and
mental and moral cruelty with only
the blessing of maternal love to
make life bearable, knowing not
what is to become of her family be
cause of no reasonable .assurance
that they will be even decently pro
vided for as to education and
health."
For tho Toilet ' ,
Where one feels -that it mtfst be
done, there are many simple dyes
to darken graying hair; but the prac
tice is not to be recommended, as it
is in nearly every case unsatisfactory.
The tell-tale 'line closes to the sdalp,
where the continual growth of the
hair will inevitably show the decep
tion, can not be covered, and, once
begun, the practice must be con
tinued. A neglect of one or two days
will "give you away." There is noth
ing disreputable, or to be condemned
in wishing to keep the hair to Its
original color; but nothing has yet
been discovered that will stop tho
graying process. As we are continu
ally written to, on this subject, we
give here some simple formulas
which, if they do no good will cer
tainly do no harm. It is claimed
(but not proven) that an undue pro
portion of lime in the system is the
cause of premature graying of tho
hair, and wo are told that hard water
should not be used for drinking pur
poses, or when converted into tea,
coffee, soup, or other fluids taken in
ternally, as the lime in tho water will
in this wise enter the system. Hard
water may be softened by boiling,
and when cold used as a beverage.
But it is a well-known fact that
people who never use hard water in
any form, always using rain, or
other soft water, become gray just
as the "hard" drinkers do. Naturo
has ways of her own. Below are tho
formulas:
For coloring tho hair black and
not stain tho scalp, this is recom
mended: Ono part of bay rum, threo
parts olive oil, and one part good
brandy, by measure. Wash tho hair
in the well-shaken mixture every
morning, and in a short time the uso
of it will make the hair a beautiful
black without the least injury. In
gredients must be of the best quality,
and well shaken each time before
applying.
A second remedy is, distilled
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