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Show THE THE HOME. » Ad im a | AW WESTERN WEEKLY. precedence to the illusory ambitions several spheres of action, and organizing to a good froth, add the juice of one and 3 which we have just now endeavored to classes in any branch of woman’s work a half oranges and the same of one and a_ necessity for improvement a half lemons, and one-fifth of a pint of characterize? The dignity of the house- where through a systematic arrangement hold can be upheld only by character, exists. hock. Beat the whole over a slow coal of their household duties, there which is lost equally in the dishonest Cooking, dressmaking, mending, draw- fire, upwards, like the mass for spongewould be margins of time, which pursuit of gain, and in the vulgar dis- ing, house furnishing, economical pur- cakes. A drachm is one-eighth of an chasing, caring for the sick, the use of ounce. they could devote to thought, re- play of its results. Let husband and wife agree, not only safe and simple domestic remedies, and flection and self culture, and the AumonDd Tart.—One pound of sweet regarding the distribution of the in- a great number of other feminine occuproper training of their children. come, but also upon the state and sur- pations have been taught .in these almonds; thirteen ounces of sugar Tam aware that many of these roundings which properly become them. associations, besides music, painting, (pounded very finely in a stone mortar), twelve or fourteen eggs, one lemon, the achievements were wrought in the. While the extent of the resources should, elocution, bookkeeping, telegraphy, and juice of same, some mace, one and fivemidst of great sacrifice, suffering, in a degree, dethrone these, and while mechanical drawing, the art of teaching, eighths ounces of potato-flour. When and affliction, but the overwhelm- salutary and necessary economy should gymnastics, etc. the sugar and almonds are well pounded Truly it would be good for those who be exercised, the money question ought ing returns amply repaid for all to be asecondary one in the thoughts feel that they need it to belong to an and mixed, the whole is put into a dish, and well beaten with the whole of nine work done, all sacrifices made. improvement association, and affections of both of them. eggs and the yolk of the eggs—the Let each hour have its own Such genuine culture as can be obwhite of five eggs is reserved. Then put work, dividing the time to suit tained, such good companionship as can in the potato-flour, and pass the snow SELECTED RECIPES. your convenience. See to it that be commanded, charity, hospitality, good of the reserved whites of five eggs under feeling, and good taste—these things it. Bake in a pan lined with paper, and, you let nothing but conditions bring honor to the home. Money does Following aresome excellent recipes when done, turn it out on a sieve, take over which you have no control not, in all cases, stand for the same translated from the French. the paper away, and cover with powdered swerve you from your day’s plans. thing. Well employed, it means the opCream Canapss.—Cut little rounds of sugar from a dredger. Be tenacious of the hour you de- portunities of education, and the leisure bread, fry them a pale golden color, curl CorrEE CHARLOTTE Russe.—Line a vote to self-improvement. By this to profit by them. It means the best some boned anchovies or sardines round mould with ladies’-fingers. Take half hygienic conditions, or, at least, the process you will teach your sons power to enforce them. It opens the on them, and pour over each either a pound of freshly roasted coffee. Boil Devonshire or whipped cream. and daughters the true aim of life portals of. art, it seconds and fructifies one quart of cream; put the coffee in it, ToMATO AND SARDINE SANDWICHES.— and let it stand in a warm place for an and they will naturally fall into the impulse of benevolence. And one Bone and pass one dozen _ sardines hour. Put six yolks of eggs in a stewsystematic methods of doing what special truth about it we must not lose |, through a sieve. Place them in a pan, with half a pound of castor sugar. sight of. Weare familiar with the saythey have to do, and will become mortar, and pound with them a piece of Strain in the coffee cream, and stir over ing that time is money; but let us also butter, Nepaul pepper, white pepper, the fire until the eggs begin to thicken. methodic men and women. remember that money is time, and that and salt. Skin six tomatoes; cut them Soak three-quarters of a leaf of gelatine its unequal repartition gives to the. into slices; squeeze lemon-juice over in cold water, drain and add it to the: rich more than they know how to emPURE AIR. each slice, and sprinkle over just a sus- cream, stir till the gelatine is melted, ploy, and takes from the poor the leisure picion of sugar. Place this mixture be- strain through a tammy into a basin, which the very process of thought detween little rounds of bread and butter. and stir the cream on ice till it begins There seems at present an unusual mands. What reason can be shown for Add one quart of wellprevalence of fever of typho form, circumscribing the SaLMon SanpwicHeEs.—Cut slices of to thicken. woman’s share in where not actually typhoid. Much has these great goods? None surely in boiled salmon, and place on each slice whipped cream, fill the mould, and let been said upon sanitation, and some ex- morals, none in economics. two thin slices of cucumber. Place it remain in ice for an hour. cellent advice has been given in the them between bread and butter, and <-> Re Weekly; but we wish to call the attenroll them up in a lettuce-leaf soaked in tion of our readers to a very simple fact. [Correspondence of the Western Weekly.] vinegar for an hour. Then take them Two Kinds of Girls, Why is it that these fevers appear, genout of the lettuce-leaf, and cut them ONE OF THOSE DESERT “FLOWERS.”’ erally, about this season of the year? into shape. Or they can be made with There are girls and girls, says a writer There may be many causes. We wish ‘a little salad dressing laid on the cucum- in Golden Days. One is the girl who to offer one only. We think one cause Epirors WksSTERN WEEKLY: _| ber, instead of rolling them in lettuce- appears best at home, who helps her is due toa want of proper ventilation. I have been watching your columns leaves. mother, and takes unfinished tasks from It is said that ventilation is perfect when carefully since your first issue,expecting, Neapouiran Lemonabde.—Take two the tired hands that falter at their work. the air in the room isas pure as it is out as one number after another came along, dozen lemons, pare them very thin, and She is a cheerful and congenial comof doors. to observe some special mention of Manpress out all the juice. Pour the juice panion, and all her friends and relatives All summer we have had our windows cos. My expectations becoming at last on the peel, and allow it to remain learn to regard her as a saint and comopen, our doors open, because the hopeless, I have resolved upon seizing forter. The other girl is the one who weather was warm. Now that the the inspired quill myself and asserting twelve hours; then add two pounds of loaf sugar, a quart of white wine (sherry), lets others work for her. “I just hate weather is getting cooler, when we come our claims upon your consideration. I boiling water. housework,” she says, “and I let ma do in and sit down we feel a little chilly, on am not inelined to have my native town, and three quarts of most of it.” “You make your own bed, looking around we observe the window the jewel of my fairest delight, remain Lastly add a quart of boiling milk. of course?” says her friend. ‘Well, no; Clarify by passing it through a jelly-bag. is up, or the upper sash is lowered. we. to eternity as the flower that was “born ma makes the beds generally. I haven’t It is very rich. get up and close the window, and thus to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness the strength.” “Don’t you dust the shut out the pure air. All of which is on the desert air.” VANILLA-CakE.— Five ounces white parlor?” “Oh, no! ma says I break¥the wrong. When we feel a chilly sensation ‘We cannot claim for our greatness the almonds are pounded with three eggs, ornaments when I dust, so she prefers to in the commencement of autumn on sit- population of our state metropolis, but then mixed with five ounces sugar, the do it herself.” ‘‘Who washes the dishes?” ting down in the house, we should make to make up for want of numbers we yolks of eight eggs, and a little vanilla, “Ma does, or sister Jenny, it makes my a fire at once and raise the temperature pride ourselves in a very rare selection. and the whole stirred to a foam. To hands red, and red hands look so horrid of the room, but let the window alone, Our society is the elite of the elite— this mass is added the snow of the white when you are playing the piano.” “And unless the opening is too great in which with a few exceptions— and our schools of four eggs, two ounces and a half flour you don’t do anything?” “Oh, yes I do. case it should be lessened. and churches are our especial vanity. and lastly a cup of milk. The mould is I do the shopping. That’s such a help Again, too little care is taken to ven- We have stores, hotels, restaurants, feed lined with puff paste, the above mass to ma, you can’t think! Then I receive tilate our school-rooms and halls for stables, and all the rest of city parapher- poured into it and baked very slowly. all the company, because ma is so tired public meetings. These rooms should nalia. We have, too, our flouring mills Afterwards it is glazed with vanilla she wants to go to bed right after supper, be kept ventilated thoroughly while oc- and saw mills, and plenty of material, glaze. and it would be real cruel to keep her cupied. - And when unoccupied, windows the product of our broad acres and our ANGEL-CaKES.—These cakes are ex- up. Ma says I am lots of help to her.” and doors should be thrown wide open mountain domain, to keep them humThere is not much trouble in choosing and the rooms freed from all impurities ming. Our cattle feed upon a thousand ceedingly light and good, but they must between these two samples, if the girls through the process of airing. If those hills whose green slopes are rolling in a be eaten whilst perfectly fresh. Take will only stop to think.—Ea. the whites of six fresh eggs, and beat who have charge of these classes. of rich abundance of allthat is delightsome them toa froth; then add six ounces of buildings will see to this matter, their to the horned tribe. best white powdered sugar and a teaaudiences will attend with a better will In brief we are rural, rich and respectspoonful of vanilla flavoring. Into this and will return home free from head- able, besides being intelligent, happy Fuchsias in the White-House Gardens. stir lightly four ounces and a half of the aches and the other evil influences of and appreciative of good things, in evifinest white flour, which must be perA correspondent of the American bad air. dence of which we subscribe for and read fectly dry; in fact, it is much better Florist says that the fuchsias are adthe WESTERN WEEKLY. Pour at once into a tin (about mirably grown in the conservatory beOne oF THEM. warmed. half filling it), and instantly transfer to longing to the White House in WashingMancos, Cotn., October, 1888. but they were methodic in all that they did, and they saw to it, that ~ | i <i. —_ MRST.B.LEWIS, GLAD -_ Associate AUTUMN Editor DAYS. The magic voice of spring is gone, Her emerald blades are turning brown, The Dandelion ball of lace Has given place to Thistle-down, The Violets that caught the dew To hide beneath their bonnets blue, And orchard blossoms, pure and sweet, <i. ——_ Have long since withered in the heat. The sickle, sharp and keen, has reaped The meadow flowers, rows on rows. The barley lies in winnowed heaps, And aftermath luxuriant grows; The Sumachs tall, all touched with change, ~ awe orm crimson hedge around the grange, And floating, now, my path across, On gauzy wings, is Milkweed’s floss. O Maples, all in scarlet dressed; © spike of fiery Golden Rod; O purple Asters, everywhere Upspringing from the sere-grown sod; O blue-fringed Gentian, growing tall, Thou comest when the leaflets fall, Sweet flowers to bloom ’neath golden haze That glorify glad autumn days. be Vick’s Magazine. <i <i LEISURE The AND MARGINS. best good guaranteed the posessor of greatest: and wealth is the leisure it affords. - To have control of one’s time is a glorious privilege. To be surrounded with a sufficiency of this world’s goods to satisfy all the démands of our natures when in a normal condition, and not to be compelled to devote our whole time to the mere matter of “making a living,” is a condition earnestly desired by all who seek the development of their higher natures. The life spent in developing the intellectual and the moral ties, is the highest life. facul- The man or woman who has naught else to do but to labor to satisfy the appetite, vies with the ox which roams over the fields seeking food ithat he may live. To the great majority of man- | i. <P eoes ~<a Ww a MEN, margins you Remember, must mothers, have method. you are not only to look after the meals, mendings, the darnings and the the other ten thousand ings, but you have greater and higher responsibil- ities in that you are mothers. history of the world influence of mothers records The the in forming the character of their children. Scarcely without exception every great and good man owes his greatness and goodness to the wise training of an intelligent mother. ‘Many of those mothers were poor, Xi San WOMEN JULIA WARD ——---——- AND No. kind this blessed boon of possessing a superabundance does not come, and they are compelled to devote almost their entire time to ‘making “ends meet.” To such, especially the wives of such, we have a suggestion to offer: Work upon margins. To have tem MONEY. 3. HOWE <i> —— IN THE “FORUM.” ACTION. Many persons indulge in a display It is not the thought that you possess, which they can ill afford, and in which that is going to work wonders in bringthey have little pleasure, thinking that ing about the grand results you wish it will commend them to the notice of for, but itis the thought put into action. social magnates, and, later on, win for It was not the thought of some philanthem admission to the charmed circle of thropic soul who wished that something fashionable life. | might be done for the benefit of workIndeed, lavish expenditure for the ing women that brought into activity Women’s Guild” in sake of display is not unfrequently re- “The Working garded as a business investment, justi- Philadelphia, but thought vitalized by an oven with a good regular heat, neither too hot nor too cold. When baked, do ton. not put it in acold place at once, but let it gradually cool. gardener, Kine’s Cake.—Of three ounces and a drachm and a half of almonds, half a pound of sugar, and some candied lemon- Fuchsia cuttings are put in during November and December, potted off as soon as well rooted, and shifted on from time to time until they are in 8 or 9 inch pots. Mr. P. prefers the latter size for decorative purposes; some few, however, he grows in 6-inch pots. In order to get plants of different sizes, some are pinched back, the others being allowed to grow ahead; these latter make fine pyramidal plants, those grown by Mr. peel, a macaroon paste, not too stiff, is made, and spread on paper and baked. Now make a sheet of almond paste, consisting of three ounces and a drachm and a half of sugar, three ounces and a drachm and a half of almonds, the yolks of six eggs, a lemon, one ounce and nine some 300 or 400 plants gives the Mr. Pfister, the following as _ his method of culture: saying that nothing energetic action, and persevered in until drachms have a membership limited to one thou- same. Ina certain number of cases, no doubt,the appearance of wealth becomes seventy-two occupations. The benefit of such an organization cannot be over estimated. A number of subscribers have addressed us upon this subject, expressing a wish that some such organization ex- four eggs. Pour the mass into aring, and bake. The sheet of macaroon paste is cut lengthways in two, and orange creme (see below) put between the two halves. On the macaroon bottom a from four to seven feet in height, according to variety, and covered with flowers from the pot to the top of the plant. They are kept in a temperature of 45 to 55 de- layer grees, with plenty of the stepping-stone to wealth. In other instances, the effort ends in melancholy failure and discredit. In either event, the integrity of the household has been wagered against the chance of profit, and its tone has been. correspondingly lowered. In view of these things, is it not unreasonable to demand that selfrespect and the ordinary common family sense shall life, rule yielding in no sand the Guild represents isted in their vicinity. needs activity to make no less than The desire only it answer the “strong demand let it be so.” Surely there is no formidable barrier against women meeting together in suitable places and discussing the needs of their two of put glazed apricot together. with any snow of the white of are succeeds like success. The results of such a course as this are not always the fied by the common flour, the There in about fifty varieties. jam is spread, and the This glaze, cake and may it be is sur- rounded with round macaroons before drying. To make orange creme, mix the yellow of an orange rasped on sugar, seven ounces and six drachms sugar, and the yellow of twelve eggs; beat this together Pfister being perfect beauties, ranging airand room. For potting soil Mr. Pfister uses a compost consisting of two parts well-rotted sod and one part rotted leaf-n.old with sufficient sand to lighten the soil. :‘To an ordinary wheel-barrow full of this compost a 10-inch pot full of crushed charcoal is added, with a view to keeping the soil sweet and pure. pee) wey ae ett on |