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Thr' focial season" is upon us. and
few of us but feel that we should like
to open our houses and our hearts to
tho entertainment of our friends and
neighbors, were It not that we fear
the added expense and la.bor which an
erroneous conception of what hospi
tality, jeally is leads to feel is an ab
solute necessity. Many of us would
be glad to ask our friends to little in
formal dinners, luncheons or teas but
for the supposed inroads upon our al
ready badly strained incomes which
such" entertaining Would inevitably
make, ifwo set out to "do the right
thing." bo wo shut out of our lives
somo of the sweetest moments, and try
the risky experiment of "living unto
ourselves," which the Good Book ex
plicitly tells us we cannot do with any
degree of safety. In living alone, we
grow narrow, sordid embittered, pes
simistic, and altogether withered in
soul and sensibilities. By this means.
we lose countless opportunities of do-
"e tsuvui uui juiy miiu otnera, out
unto ourselves.
For those of us who are really so
cially inclined and there are few of
us who are not the oxpense" of hos
pitality is largely a matter of the re-sourcefulneL-
of the hostess. True hos
piatality does not consist in burden
ing ourselves with expenses which an
illy be met, nd there is a large lesson
in the "dinner of herbs" story for
those who read arlg , A letter lies
before me from one of those who has,
to her own satisfaction at least, solved
the problem of entertaining very gra
ciously on a very small Income. She
tells me thati In her village are some
ten-to twenty ladies of a literary turn,
but not nearly all of them "writers.''
v Until about a year ago, they hardly
-knew each other and were all of them
"starving 'for companionship." one
afternoon two of them taet in a public
place and decided thejr would at least
try to be sociable and draw others into
their plan a'- tUey could. They decided
to spend an afternoon each week at
the house of some one of the band,
asking others . to meet with them for
social, musical and literary entertain
ment. ' As none of them were Durdened
with 'this world's goods and none of
thgnf kept help in the house, while
some of them were wage earners, they
resolved, to eliminate tno "refresh
ment" feature, either entirely, or to
confine It to the simplest and plainest
possible, thus incurringTio expense and
making no extra work lor the hostess.
Tfiey 'were to attend the meetings
slmrtiv clad and In no sense to make
of them "dress" occasions. Any of
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them might bring in a frlond, but tho
entire meeting must bo freo from
formality, or exponsc. If. at an Anni
versary, or other occasion calling for
lwdtmiy, mere snouia bo attempts at
dinner or luncheon getting, there
should bo a general burden-bearing,
and tho burden should bo of tho
simplest.
Thus, for a year, theso women have
met, Interchanged thought, and bene
fitted each other in many ways, with
out embarrassment or burden. They
have endeavored to bo mentally and
socially at their best, have enjoyed to
their fill their comradeship, with no
fret and worry over a deficient larder
or a depleted pocket book.
And when I read her lotter, I felt I
should wrong our Homo readers if I
withheld its contonts. Many of us
might, to our great advantage, go and
do likewise.
V Odds and Ends
Odds and endswe all have them
scraps of dress goods of various kinds,
which wo can not quite decide to throw
away as somo day wo mav need them,
and yet which accumulate until we
often need almost a separate room to
hold them. Some rainy day, or per
haps, some Idle hour, when that
"nameless unrest" which you can not
account for, comes over you, pull out
your bundles, or your boxes, or your
bureau drawers, or your closet, or your
attic of scraps, and dolvo into the
history of your wearing apparel for
the past ten years (it may represent
your life time) and work your imagi
nation along the line of a few house
hold conveniences, which those who
live in flats find to bo actual common
necessities. For every wearable gar
ment in the wardrobe (and tho up-to-date
housekeeper does not tolerate any
other) reserve a few patches, as ne
cessity may arise for their use. If you
have two or three good-sized rolls of
dainty organdie, cut the necessary sizes
for bureau drawer and chiffonier draw
er pads, using one layer of thin wad
ding, a sprinkling of sachet powder,
basting neatly and firmly until all
edges are nicely turned in and sewed,
and each pad Is tufted at regular In
tervals with baby ribbon, If found
among the scraps. Thin lawns or siiKs
may also be used in this way. A piece
of doubje-faced cotton flannel, which
had been partly used for lining four-in-hand
ties, was fitted into the buffet
drawer, as a nice resting place for the
every-day silver. For souvenir spoons,
a piece of white eiderdown made a
pretty case, lined with pink wash rib
bon, with ties of thr same. For best
silver, cases of single faced cotton
flannel, or outing flannel of the wooly
kind, were easily planned. Thin white
lawns, left from various gowns, make
pretty ties or tucked stocks, with the
addition of lace or embroidery scraps.
No end of pretty and useful articles
may be fashioned from linen pieces,
both white and colored stocks, belts,
doilies of all descriptions, handbags,
etc., all more or le.s heavily orna
mented with cross-stitch work, or solid
or open-work white, or colored em
broidery. Of outing flannel, make
scks for wearing over the night dress
lit extreme cold weather, as the sleep
ing room 'should bo well aired and use
various odd scraps for cleaning gloves
(with paste) and for polishing shoes
and furniture. Wooly outing cloth also
makes a nice broom bag, for slipping
over the broom to be used on polished
floors, df old woven underwear, but
away the ragged portions, saving the
smaller good parts for patching, and
putting aside the larger parts for dust
ers, house cloths etc. The bugbear of
old stockings may become a blessing
by cutting off the feet, slitting up the
leg portion opposite the seam, and
jnrminjr up the two nieces on tho ma
chine, laying the top of one piece to
tho bottom of tho other, thus making
the cloth more uniform ,in shape. Of
pieces; of denim, mako bags. of ail
descriptions, using also cretonne, silk'
olino, satinc,- etc., for sofa cushions,
chair backs and so on. At tho back
of tho hall closet tack a bag of green
denim, fitting exactly the width of the
closet, with receptacles for rubber
shoes. On the- Inst !c of that same
closet door is a good place for a bag
Of Dink fttrinnit tlnMiwr f l,nI.IU..
dusters. Theso are flat wall pocket
bags, of course. In my bedroom closet
are cases for shoes, dusters, etc. Se
lected. Cooking For Two ,
Cooking for two is really more tlift
flcult than cooking for ten, and even
an experienced cook finds difficulty In
managing food in such small quanti
ties so as to avoid waste and too much
warming over. But two healthy peo
ple will inanago to consume a good
del of food, and with careful selec
tion as to keeping qualities, and dainty
memoes oi doing over dishes, thoro
need bo little, if any waste of broknn
victuals.
Cooking for two need not necessarily
ho a continual ro-hashing and warming-over.
Tho housowifo should study
to cook just enough, and no more of
many dishes, and experience will teacn
her both the quantity and tho kind to
use. Many things may- bo cookdd In
(small) quantities, and their use be
varied with other "small quantities,"
so that no one kind shall he placed
upon the table on several consecutive
occasions. Tho cook books and maga
zines are full of excellent suggestions
and directions for making all sorts of
dishes, and for warming over such as
the re-heating will rot spoil, and with
due attention to the daintiness of the
table service, tho diminutive dishes
may be made very attractive.
Thorns
There is no pathway, however shel
tered, that has not its thorns; thorns
that tear the garments of the soul at
every turn; that plorco the tired feet,
however lightly one may step; that
s.ing our hands as we grasp some cov
eted joy; that wound us in a thousand
cruel ways, leaving burning scars and
disfigurements wherever they touch.
However short the journey, tho thorns
are there; sometimes the journey is
long long, and over and about it may
lie, blanket-wise, tho shadow which
wo, only, can see; wo can not escape
them.
Go to your neighborlTflrcsldC; you
will find tho thorns, even as at your
own. Tho wail of the littlo traveler,
just beginning life's journey the piti
ful sob of the one nearing the jour
neys end do you not hear them? The
aged parents are 'bowed with pain;
the thorns pierce deeply. Daughter,
the darling of their fading years, has
gone out of their homo; over the
hill, out of the sight jof the fading
eyes. She does not come back; lost,
somewhere in the great world; their
hands may not touch her; their cry
is unanswered. Or it may be the boy
that has wandered off into a far coun
try; poor prodigal; poor mother. The
deep ravines the tears have washed
in fading cheeks tell how the thorns
enter the soul; tho bowed head of the
broken father show their cruel scars.
In the cemetery 'is tho grave new,
or covered with the mantle Nature
kindly bestows with years. Baby Is
asleep ther ; husband's arms may be
folded under this mound; wife, the
light of thr hbme-hearth, lies under
that one. Father, mother, brother, sis
ter, friend they are 11 there, and
the earth Is studded with thorns we
can not weed out 3ut the cruel
thorns do not grow out of the grave
covering. There are living sorrows
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harder to bear than those the gravo
hides from sight.
But the thorns should not grow
alone. There should no flowers and
foliage, and these will often blunt tho
sharp stirfg, If only we use them
aright. The human heart, filled with
sympathy and fraternal love is a flow
er that may shed Its perfume over che
darkest pathway, and the thickest
clouds can not eclipse the light of a
soul filled with faith and love. "I
know that my Redeemer liveth," is
salve for tho deepest wjund; a healing
fcr the4 crudest hurt. In Vie midnight,
it relieves the darkness; In the morn
ing, it tempers tho glare of the sun;
in tho heat of noontide it is like the
"shadow of a great rock In a weary
land." O, thou, whose feet must walic
upon the thorns, whose hands must
bleed from the keen piercings; whoso
heart must bo torn and whose trust
must be betrayed, over all the wretch
edness of loss and pain may grow the
blossoms of the love that fails not
the light that will never grow dim. Ho,
whose brow bled beneath their cruel
peircings, has opened the way has
shown you how to triumph over their
tortures. Ho has offered you the
grace to bear" your anguish even
He has borne his own.
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