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The Reaping
I lived my life for you; from that first
hour
When yet you lay unseen and all un
known Save to myself nnd God; my thoughts,
my power,
My very life blood wore for you
alone.
I took- my cares, and on my shoulders
laid
Your every burden; every pain and
smart
I kept from you, and all that could
degrade .
Or bring an evil knowledge to your
heart.
I guided you from sorrow and from
strife '
Until ycfur manhood. What has all
availed?
I thought your life had been the per
fect life
And when the trial came, you
failed
you failed!
, . Harper's Weekly.
this can be substituted for that which
would otherwise have been ordered,
yet which would not have made the
meal half so satisfactory. One of the
smallest things a man can be capable
of is to show this open contempt for
his wife's judgment in matters of
which she is supposed to be far bet
ter informed than he possibly can be,
and it does not increase her respect
for him to have him treat her as an
irresponsible child. One man excuses
his smallness by saying that he "al
ways bought just what his wife told
him to;" but it 'would have brought
much more satisfactory results had he
placed the money in her hands to use
as she saw fit, in looking over the
variety on the market stand.
Every housewife can readily ascer
tain what amount is needed to satisfy
the demands of the family appetite,
whether for a single or an elaborate
menu. Every husband can and should
"know just what amount of money he
can spare from his business or salary
and save what is left (there always
is some left, no matter how little you
buy); serve it up as cold meat for
luncheon, and make salad of the re
maining scraps for the next meal.
Then, there are plenty of second-class
fruits and vegetables stale, wilted,
over-ripe, or of otherwise inferior
quality, and these are always cheaper
than the fresh, crisp kinds. Milk
may be substituted for cream, and
"inferior grades" in other lines, but
ter, lard, sugar, etc. Where, quality
is of secondary importance, one can
get a goodly quantity of eatables of
some kind for a little money.
While doing this, always be sure
that your husband sees the bills, and
knows just what things cost, that he
may know how you are laying out
"his" money. It might be a good plan
to keep a price list of the better qual
ity of material at hand that he may
occasionally figure out how much the
difference is saving him. It may be
that he will not care so much, as he
the years that counted most?" Delineator.
Wisdom
for this purpose, and having settled may indulge in expensive dinners or
tins 10 tne saustaction or, ootn, ne lunches awav from home to enable
Like doves our strong-winged hopes
go out
To speed their flight through un
known space;
Like tired doves they curve about
- And find no safe abiding place,
'Til Wisdom's window open swings
In some sweet ark of lowly things.
Qur science weighs tho suns and fills
The patient earth with wordy strife;
But Wisdom slowly climbs the hills
And leads the halting steps to life.
Though knowledge scurries wide and
fast
'Tis Wisdom finds the trail at last.
God gives the soul to learn in time
That wisdom haunts the lowly ways,
That simple things are most sublime,
And strength is found in thoughtful
days;
That close to heaven, at sorest need,
The quiet peace of earth may lead.
Book-Lover's Magazine.
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Our Social Chat
, ..Not o -fw complaints are heard
from housewives whose husbands, oth
erwise sensible men, insist on doing
the marketing for tho family supplies,
or else that tho wife "order" what
is needed, having the bills sent to
them for payment. In such cases
(and there are not a few of them),
there is sure to be either a wasteful
abundance or a discouraging short
age, as there will always be too much
of some things and too little or none
at all of others. Many times, much
economy can bo practiced In serving
up the inevitable "left-overs," or
dishes not particularly liked, by com
binations with other materials, or by
cooking i".- another manner with some
thing which will entirely change the
flavor; yet, if tho other substance be
not at hand or immediately obtain
able, the viands must go to the gar
bage pail.
Often, too, when doing the market
ing herself, the housewife 'comes
across some delicacy she had not be
fore thought of, or something which
will combine well with what she has,
which would otherwise be wasted, and
should ungrudgingly hand over the
amount to her for disbursement. If
she was such a fool that she could
not be trusted in such matters, he
should not have married her. It, hav
ing married her, he finds she is an
"incapable," he has still a duty to
ward her to perform, and he can not
remedy matters by treating her with
distrust or contempt.
1 "Runnincr ?m fioonunt" -with tho va
rious trades people is a ' very poor
way to do business. One can get far
better treatment by paying cash, and
can often do much better by buying
what is wanted at different places,
and this can only be done when the
money is in hand. Any . woman of
spirit detests to acknowledge the fact
that her husband can not, or does not,
trust her even with so small a sum of
money, and there is a sense of humil
iation in the fact that the tradesman
is expected to trust her when her
husband will not. Some women be
come reckless under ouch circum
stances, and do not try to save, as
everything goes in the bill, any way,
and It will have to be paid. Of
course, there may be a "fuss over it,"
but she is generally used to fusses
of that kind. And I really do not find
it in my heart to blame her. Do you?
Not one woman in a thousand will
fail her husband if he trusts her. If
he don't !
Sweeping by Electricity
Since we are admonished that tho
old way of sweeping "kicking up a
dust" with the broom is an outrage
ous proceeding, the next thing to be
considered will be a vacuum cleaner,
by which, with a few puffs of an elec
tric motor, all dust that has accumu
lated during the day may be removed
not stirred up to settle in some. oth
er part of the house. At present,
these cleaners are hauled about in
wagons, and are used but once oi
twice a year, at a goodly charge for
the service; but electric sweeping is
bound to become a necessity, and
some one will invent an apparatus
that will not only be within the reach
of the family pocket book, but of a
size and mechanise available for the
daily managing of the housewife, and
they will be installed in the private
houses. Broom, dust rags and sweep
ing days will be done away with,
along with other effete customs, and
house cleaning will no longer be a bi
yearly menace to the stability of the
home.
him to endure the cost of his economy
in family affairs such things have
happened.
If, as in some cases, he not only re
stricts the purchases, but insists on
doing the purchasing, himself, cook
what he brings in as best you may,
but see to it that there is no favor
shown he must share as the rest of
you do. He may get tired of it, and
see the folly of such a practice, and
he may not. It will depend on the
quantity of commonsense he may pos
sess. A woman wlro has a "home
and children" Is admonished that she
has enough to do to attend to the
home wants, but one can not blame
such a woman if she has to neglect
those primary interests and .seek out
side employment to satisfy the needs
of herself and children in the matter
of food and raiment.
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"Evening Up"
Some of our friends ask me to
solve the problem as to how to "make
brick without straw," or, in other
words, how to supply the table with
foods when the head of the house
curtails the allowance money to sucb
a degree that it seems impossible to
meet the demands of the family ap
petite from the amount given. If the
husband is not amenable to reason,
there seems but one way and that is,
immediately the shortage become ap
parent, the housewife should take
stock of things and buy according to
the allowance. The amount of foods
necessary being known, she should
carefully buy a sufficient quantity,
leaving quality to take care of itself.
There is plenty of cheap meats to be
had; to be sure, they are generally
the tough, bony, undesirable pieces,
but they don't cost much, and may be
made into soups, stews, etc., while
a few of the best of these may "be
braised, or boiled until tender, then
baked. Cook these the best you can,
Fatherhood
"We heartily believe that men and
women are growing better but how
much better they would be if the
fathers were more faithful in their
responsibilities to their children? In
this age of universal publicity, inno
cence goes too soon, and the knowl
edge that comes Is not always best
because fathers do not give the young
the benefit of their knowledge. Too
many of them let their boys find out
things for themselves and being in
a wilderness they do not always take
the right paths. When we look square
ly at conditions, we wonder why there
are not more tragedies of character,
so near and universal are the tempta
tions and so rare and broken -the pat
ernal guardianship. Not only are the
boys to be piloted and protected, but
the girls need from their fathers
much that the mothers can not give.
If fathers would be more particular,
more careful, more positive, many a
daughter would be saved from un
worthy associations and from wretched
marriages. So long as there are fath
ers who inquire less closely into the
cnaracters or tueir future sons-in-law
than they do into the habits of
their clerks, they are going to make
sorrow for themselves, sorrow for
their daughters, sorrow for the world.
We do not mean to underesti
mate the marvellous influence of the
mother. But isn't there a
conviction down deep in our souls
that we should have done much bet
ter if our fathers had Taken time and
Cooking Lessons
While the lessons of the cooking
school may be all right, and it is. ac
knowledged that we may learn many
things in such a course that can be
turned to good account in the practi
cal, every-day life of the home kitch
en, yet it is true that there is much
taUght in them that is of no value
in real housekeeping. It is easily dem
onstrated that such cooking is un
necessarily expensive, and much bet
ter results may be had for much less
money by following the methods
taUght by real experience. Orderli
ness and neatness are strongly com
mended in the home kitchen, as in
the cooking school course, and many
scraps of food material can be turned
to good account in following the rules
given; but, after all, more depends
upon the natural ability of the cook
herself than upon any lessons she
may have thrust upon, her. Not every
woman can be a really successful
cook, even with the best of utensils
and abundance, of material. Personal
preference counts for much, in all
trades and professions. Insofar as it
is possible, every girl should be taught
to be a good, practical cook and house
wife, as nearly every woman, at some
time in her life, is forced to depend
on her own skill in getting up a meal.
If. she does npt have to follow cookery
for her living or for the comfort of
her family, she will yet know how to
instruct others in their duties.
Danger In the Schools
In almost every school there is
some one boy or girl, or both, who
should be in a reformatory. These
children may be bright and pleasant,
and sprung from families of social
prominence, or they may come from
the middle class, as often as from the
ignorant and indigent. Outwardly,
they may be all one could desire, and
with tact enough to so veil theif
moral turpitude as to readily deceive;
but they say wicked things, utter
words with thinly veiled meanings,
make suggestive gestures and give
expressive glances, and there are so
many weak and morally wavering,
that one such child may be a serious
menace to the moral health of the
other children. It is a hard matter
for the teacher to catch such an of
fender, and one hesitates to make a
charge, lest they awaken harmful
BETTER THAN SPANKING
Fpanklng does not' euro children of bod wetting.
If it did there wonld bo few children that wouldao
It. ' Thoro is a constitutional cause for this. Mrs.
M. Snmxnors, Bor 118, Notre Damo, Ind wlU bend
her homo troatmont to any mother. 8ho asks no
money. Wrltohor today if your child ron troObi
trouble to share our confidences in' KanceBnarTcknaSitmamo ine cmm iM
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