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Show THE will prove to be one of the greatest benefactors, not only of her sex, <a iAU i sa | a — | the success of both there will come an era of “protection” that will be welcomed by all, and all will re- joice and joint Mrs. be grateful for the con- administration of Mr. and Cleveland. <> —— MRS T.B.LEWIS, A -/ Associate Editor SONG. There is ever a song somewhere,my dear; skies are clear, when the The sunshine showers across the grain, And the bluebird trills in the orchard tree; And in and out, when the eaves drip rain, The swallows are twittering ceaselessly. In the midnight black dear, or the midday blue; The robin pipes when the sun is here, And the cricket chirrups the whole night through. The buds may blow and the fruits may grow, And the autumn leaves drop crisp and sere; But whether the sun, or the rain, or the snow, There is ever a song somewhere, my dear. - James Wurrcoms Rixy, in The Young Crusader. <i e- MRS. CLEVELAND. While the conditions that sur- round our American institutions are inspired to develop the highest order of political manhood; we are proud of our country in that her majesty and glory are not complete without the association of a pure and elevated womanhood. We are happy in observing that each year develops greater opportunities than the preceding one for the exercise of woman’s higher activities. Much has been said of Mrs. Cleveland, and we think too many words of praise cannot be spoken of the woman who has exerted so great an influence on society, and exerted it so silently and yet so grandly. The common yeoman has vied with the statesmen in expressions of admiration as he pointed with national pride to that noble type of a true woman, who presides with such queenly presence at the White House, and who sanctifies the name of home in every heart by her model life at Oak View. Her firmness in what she right, social in life the deems in Washington that is, in in her husband for which he has become famous. We hope the ladies of Utah will pattern after Mrs. Cleveland in matters of dress, especially in the “reduction” of the enormous _ bustle. If Mrs. Cleveland should succeed 1 in el the American ladies or happiness. servant, but a good THE merit, a concomitant It is, like of a to few of mine. I have been reading, lately, with great interest the report of the National Council of Women, which has |facts I gleaned, thinking they may be beneficial to others as they have been to me. The advantages gained by woman in the past one hundred years are as surprising as they are gratifying—taking all things into consideration. Take the advantages extended to her educationally today, and compare them to those she enjoyed a century ago at which time it was difficult for her to obtain other than a most ordinary education. Massachusetts took the lead and was the first to open up higher education to the gentler sex, commencing with Bradford Academy in 1804,and continuing in its expansive growth until 1886 there numbered 529 institutions for the higher education of woman with an attendance of 30,976. All the futile argument of female inferiority mentally, and constitutional physical inability have been. bravely met and forever overthrown by the more solid argument of experience. With what love and pride I think of those daring souls that have pioneered the cause, and are still pushing the work of reform. I feel to offer my invocations for the benedictions of Heaven to rest upon them and all who have assisted them. Mrs. Willard,the a petitioner in this country for higher education for women, sent in a petition to the Legislature of New York in 1816, asking it to endow a Female Seminary. The legislature refused to do so. Her earnestness in the cause is shown in her declaration that could she have died a martyr to the cause of female education, she would have blessed the fagot and hugged the stake. There have been many more, men as well as women, who have placed them- selves in the front of the battle, and have borne the ridicule and the misrepresentation that always accompanies innovations upon old ideas, and we reap the benefit. All honor is due them. Would that I had before every future as it the woman rises power in the before my to place land the eyes, as I contemplate the mighty work of reform that is going on in all the world guided by the quick, but potent influence of woman. Let us aid the heaven-inspired work and, give our daughters an equal education with our sons, that they may de- velop those God-given faculties to the fullest extent and become what the Allwise Father designed they should be— helpmates for man. CORRESPONDENT. Mancos, CoLoRADo, Ostober 20, 1888. <i. << MEN, WOMEN No: JULIA WARD HOWE AND happiness. easily grasp anal- ogous to that of wives, let us give a moment’s thought to the practical duties of fathers to daughters. In training helpless and dependent beings to cope successfully with the exigencies of life, men out- MEDICINAL may will between be Mepican and a strawberries, may be classed on best foods and medicines. spending of a what outlays are necessary, which all the take does There They of it, cloths, tacks. are also say the The sugar in * x or * female, x * to the Be My remedy for the evil of financial discord between husband and wife would require, on the woman’s side, a thorough and conscientious training in the use of money, and a worthy estimate of the opportunities it may afford for the ordering of our lives nobly and virtuously; on the man’s side, a respect for the woman as one who is neither disabled or disqualified for earning her own support; one who, relinquishing a career of free activity in order to become his companion for life, carries her own power | Mustarp PLASTER THAT WILL NOT Buister.—Few people know how to apply a mustard plaster so as not to blister the skin. If the mustard be mixed with the white of an egg, instead of water, the plaster will draw thoroughly without blistering the most delicate skin. Hor Water For Sprains.—Hot water is the best thing that can be used to heal a sprain or bruise. The wounded part should be placed in water as hot as can be borne, for fifteen or twenty minutes; and in all ordinary cases the pain will gradually disappear. Hot water applied by means of cloths isa sovereign remedy for neuralgia and pleurisy pain. For into the governance of his ‘burns or scalds, apply cloths well satand is entitled to all that and value household, may render that service honorable and happy. But it is most of all to be de|. sired that both parties should agree in enthroning in their household an ideal worthy to be maintained and followed so long as they both shall live. Many circumstances may combine to prevent this, and no influence will be more inimical to it than the contagion of worldly ambition, and the belief commonly en- next, interfering with is about average woman cares to underin oneday; especially when she her work without assistance. is no sense in any woman attempt- wondering why it makes her feel so dull all the rest of the week. Many housekeepers when‘doing their ironing on Tuesday do their baking also. I prefer to do my ironing and breadmaking on the same day, as it saves fuel (which is quite anitem), and heating the house so often, especially in the hot weather; it takes but a few minutes to mold the bread and put itinto the tins, even if one is busy ironing. Karly Wednesday morning the baking of cake, cookies and pies can be done in the cool of the morning. The cakes can use useful, which demanded by charity, which superfluous. The Scripture saySore THroat.—Everybody has a cure ing is, that “Every wise woman buildeth for this trouble, but simple remedies apher house,” while “the foolish plucketh pear to be most effectual. Salt and it down with her hands.” It is a serious water is used by many as a gargle, but thought that the little girls on the a little alum and honey dissolved in sage school bench, using or misusing their tea is better. An application of cloths weekly allowance, are learning to either wrung out of hot water and applied to build their future house, or to pluck it the neck, changing as often as they begin | down. And I pause sadly here to reflect to cool, has the most potency for removhow these little girls who are preparing ing inflamation of anything we ever to pull the family down will also pull tried. It should be kept up for a numthe state down with it. For this no evil ber of hours: during the evening it is intention is necessary, only an ignorance, usually the most convenient time for apcommon enough, of the true relation of plying this remedy. the individual, male race and to the state. and everything be baked while the fruit for the pies is | being prepared, and the crusts made and forehead with filled ; remembering every few moments | avert such at- to look into the oven to see that every- that a prompt applied to the will very often manage ing to do two days’ work in one, and then Hot Water in Syncopn.—Writers in the London Lancelet call attention to the great value of hot-water applications to the head in cases of faintness or syncope. morning this, with the usual housework, tive. allowance, and in this all children should receive the needed guidance, they should also, as they become able, be associated in such of the household expenditures as may be safely intrusted to them. Children should be taught to consider to can usually other plans, if it can possibly be avoided. When the washing is done on Monday, them is nutritious, the acid is cooling and purifying, and the seeds are laxa- proper the run over into the FRuirs.— among attempt done before dinner. There is nothing like having a day for each particular kind of work, and never allowing it to The small seed-fruits, such as blackberries, figs, raspberries, currants, and in given be done in NOTES. VALUE OF SmaLL ever in any other way-the work i= eanlon was distinction the experimental urated with cool alum-water, keeping the injured parts covered from the air. thing is baking nicely, not too fast or too slow. The fire should be ina proper condition, of course, before the cakes were put into the oven, as by putting in wood to hurry a slow coal fire, one is almost sure to have ascorched cake or (the other extreme), it will dry done before the oven heats. Many housekeepers when baking do not realize the importance of an oven properly heated until they see the results arising from such neglect. Itis a comparatively easy matter to have an oven “just right,” if the stove and fire is freed from ashes, and fresh fuel put on the five and allowed to get nicely started before beginning to bake; then by regulating the heat from time to time and adding a very small quantity of coal, so as not to cool the fire too much—if tte. * comes necessary before the baking is finished—the pies, cake, etc., will come from the oven delicately brown and light if the cook possess even ordinary skill in the preparation of the various pastry. Thursday, the general picking up can be done; different pieces of clothing mended and buttons sewed on ; closets where the children keep their clothes put in papers order, silverware polished, clean put on the pantry shelves if needed. The table linen too should occasionally be looked over, and any spots which have become thin by constant use repaired with fine linen; if taken in time the cloth or napkins may be made to wear much longer than if allowed to Regard for the appearance and dignity of a household is eminently commendable. The dress of parents and children, UNDUE PERSPIRATION OF THE Hanps. —A mixture which is said to be a cure become broken through and then mendWhen the linen does wear for undue perspiration of the hands is ing begun. made of a quarter of an ounce of through, lay it aside and replace it with powdered alum, the white of one egg, new; the old linen may be thoroughly and enough bran to make a thick paste. looked over and the best part cut out After washing the hands, apply this; let and made intonapkins for the children’s it remain on the hands two or three use in fruit season; thus saving stains minutes, and then wipe off with a dry, on fine ones by their careless little finsoft towel. Lukewarm water is better gers. If the cloth was of plain or dotted than hot or cold if the skin is tender or linen they will look nice either fringed inclined to chap.—Popular Science out about an inch around the edge or neatly hemmed. The remainder cut in Monthly. squares are nice to cover over bread CoLD IN THE CuHEsT.— Boiled or which has just been taken from the roasted onions are a specific for colds on oven. the chest. They may not agree with A half-hour spent inthe garden among every. one, but to persons with good the buds and blossoms, will prove a digestion they will not only be found to pleasant change from the daily routine be a most excellent remedy for a cough, at home and the clogging of the bronchial tertained in the omnipotence of money. The importance of the position usually conceded to the possessor of great wealth is certainly a tempting bribe to human- ity, whether male or female. mon like The com- error regarding this has its source, most errors, in an exaggerated truth. and abroad, the choice of furni- and decoration, the service of the appointments table, all these But one’s regard for these degenerate into a love desire to be looked upon should of display, as one indulge every costly whim, every Nor small or can able not TO BE SEN PO freely at the outset of a SS _ ORDER IN THE HOUSEHOLD, splen- income, CONTINUED. eaten a the common emulation of the doings of those to whom the careful measuring penses is not a necessity. if cold, they will break up what promised, from the severity of the attack, to have been a serious one.—Good Housekeeping. to it excuse, in peo- moderate tubes which is usually the cause of the cough, but aesthetic concernments of the household are important enough to deserve serious consideration. ple of respects, to this point the daughters of the household should share equally with the sons. A part of this instruction will consist in did caprice. many the the instruction which household in desire noble and ignoble use of money; We shall give our readers the pleasure of reading the remaining paragraphs of Julia Ward Howe’s fine article without editorial comment or interpolation: “As the position of daughters in the is, The attempt to do so by outward and IN THE “FORUM.” place. simply considered mean. The teachable mind of childhood ture MONEY. 22: a housekeepers The tall trees sighed in the chilling blast, Some dead leaves fluttered awhile, and fell, And I felt a pang for the vanished past As I thought again of our last farewell. The cold stars gleamed out one by one, My heart was sad—but you did not know— And our bright dream died with the setting sun That wild March evening so long ago. LAUREL. Its legitimate use is not to exaggerate the inequalities of human condition, but to correct and harmonize them. In the training which was familiar to my youth the religious aspect of this idea was not shine others was held to be unworthy,the = _|go wrong in.the daily routine; company ? may come unexpectedly or a caller interrupt the morning’s work and then the time lost cannot be regained even if she © does hurry the remainder of the morning, to accomplish the usual amount of labor for that particular day. In a household where the work is done in a systematic manner—and I hope that few FAREWELL. You thought me cruel and proud, I know, As you walked alone down the silent street; But my heart stood still, when I saw you go, And knew we never again. should meet. And I lingered there in the twilight cold Till the light all fled from the evening sky, For the play was ended, the tale was told, And we had spoken our last good bye. It is an instrument of power, an adjunct of LAST As we too stood and talked that night, The wind blew cold and the sun went down; We watched from the window the fading light, Through the tall tree branches bare and brown, I saw your dark cheek flush and pale, I could almost hear your beating heart; But I left your side when you told your tale, For I knew it was better that we should part. a bad master. without very midst of high degree, not less than power, merit fire, Epitor’s WESTERN WEEKLY: As you have opened your columns There is ever a pone re sings alway, caused me so much pleasure that I feel There’s the song of the lark when the desirous of communicating afew of the There is ever a song somewhere,my [Original in the Western Weekly: ] should have in view the processes which will most surely lead them to the attainment of self-helpfulness and independence. Essential to this training will be a reasonable comprehension of the use of money. A clear understanding of these would do much to dissipate the craze which so widely afflicts our community, and indeed in most communities. I feel much impressed, almost [Correspondence of the Western Weekly.| woman’s thoughts I will give you And the song of the thrush skies are gray. WEEKLY. but of all mankind, and will accomplish a reformation in importance not far beneath the reformation sought to be worked out startled, when I contemplate the change by her husband on the question of which a right understanding of. the nature and office of money would bring “tariff.” We are induced to think that in about in the world. Money is neither We Z We = 5S to accept a moderate style of dress —one more in keeping with the laws of proportion, we think she i"m®,ND A Ao— Se = THE HOME. WESTERN of ex- One riet B. morning of each week, says HarJordan, in Woman and Home, ought to be devoted to the general “picking up” of different things about the house which have been neglected. The housekeeper may be thorough in all her work, but occasionally things will of -household cares, if one is fond of flowers, and most people are. I might enumerate dozens of different things to be done, but any energetic housewife can find plenty to occupy the morning if she only looks about in search of it. Friday the general sweeping may be done in the morning and the baking as well if there is not too much of it to be done; if so, let a part of the cleaning go until Saturday and then finish everything up neatly to last until Monday. - T If a few moment’s time was given each day, to the planning out of the work, much needless worry and hard work re- sulting from bad management, might be, spared the busy housekeeper. |