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Show the bowl inclosed in tin and with a tin handle and reflector. The other lamp was of the light-spreading kind that grocers hang from their ceilings, a.id the card attached to its tin shade said, "There cannot be too much light in the kitchen ; suspend this so that its rays will fall most directly on your stove." In a satin-lined box of their own lay a Christy set a bread-knife, a cake-knife, cake-knife, a parer. "These are things I have found it impossible to keep house without," ran the. aunt'-s comment, "and, niece, in addition to using the large knife for hot or cold bread, you may slice a ham or a beef roast, even though warm, with it with expedition, or you may carve a fowl more advantageously with it than with a carving-knife." A sharp twenty-inch butcher's saw and a small butcher's cleaver were tied together and on the beribboned card this message was traced, "When I was young, the only butcher's cleaver I knew was that mentioned in "Dixie" that I used to sing "''01' missus marry Will D. Weaber; His face was sharp like a butcher's cleaber, ' . But dat did not seem to greab 'er.' But now I am old I realize its worth in the kitchen. When there are ham bones and spare ribs to get in two in some way you will realize the worth of the saw." A tidy little household scale with a tin scoop and a brass dial that would weigh an ounce of soda , and twenty pounds of sugar equally well, and a wooden peck measure, a pint and a quart measure of tin. were placarded thus, "These, niece, will save you guesswork guess-work in cooking and preserving and will defend you from the 'false balance that is an abomination.' " "That you may be relieved of the inconvenience in-convenience of washing your one cook spoon every time you mix another food, I send you six, and that you may keep them in place I send a half-dozen iron hooks for your kitchen wall," was aunt's message with the large long-handled long-handled iron spoons. "A husband's love may ward it off for a while, but, my dear Juritha, you'll come to driving nails and tacks and - s O HUNT f g JURITHfl'S f GIFT. f r & By Sarah Bell Hackley. We were all eager to see the present Aunt Juritha (pronounced with a long i) would give to our bonny bride not that we expected a princely gift, for aunt, father's oldest sister, was not immensely im-mensely wealthy but she had what most people were pleased to call peculiarly pecu-liarly sensible notions; so when the day (before the wedding her black servant idrove up to the tack door and with the aid of our man set in the shadow of the crimson rambler that glorified our back porch an enormous pine box addressed in aunt's prim, regular writing to "Miss Juritha Jasper Castleton," we could hardly wait to open it. Closely packed with excelsior were a number of thick brown paper-covered parcels, a few of which were very large. On top of all lay a letter. "Dear Niece and Namesake Juritha," it read, "in making my selection of a present I have taken into consideration two facts. First, that your husband-to-be, though 'a rising lawyer in a stirring country town,' has not yet risen high enough to enable his wife to keep a servant; second, that you have been employed as teacher in a high school since your graduation three years ago, a condition not conducive to the acquisi-. acquisi-. tion of much kitchen knowledge. s "Your kitchen will be your workshop for a time at least, and my present shall be something to make work easier in that shop. My 'first intention was to buy you a kitchen stove with the twenty-five dollars I felt I could put into a gift, but after mature reflection, I concluded con-cluded that your husband would purchase pur-chase what you deem the essentials, and it would be better out of my age and experience ex-perience t-J select and supply you with " some things that a ycung housekeeper might not think of classing among the absolute necessaries, or might through inexperience forget to purchase until the money saved for household furnishings furnish-ings was gone. "I trust, niece, that you will be sensible sensi-ble enough to feel no mortification in placing my present beside your more aesthetic gifts, since it is my wish that it be displayed. "Affectionately, your aunt, "Juritha Jasper Castleton." Wonderingly we unwrapped the parcels par-cels and read the words of advice or explanation ex-planation written on the cards tied with i narrow white satin ribbons to each arti- turning screws sooner or later, and here are your tools," was the prophetic writing writ-ing on the hatchet and screw-driver. The card on the heavy cotton umbrella um-brella said, "Niece, keep your gold-' handled umbrella upstairs with your best dress, but keep this in plain view in the kitchen it will gladden your heart on a rainy day." The oaken stool twenty-four inches high, like those used in dry goods stores, had written on it, "Rest will help to keep the roses in your cheeks, dear niece. Never stand at any work when you can sit as well. Whether paring apples, pr:oaring vegetables or mixing cake at the kitchen table, be seated on this stool." Down in the bottom of the great box were an ice-cream freezer of the latest and most approved pattern, a tinned ice shredder, a butter-mold, a glass dairy thermometer, a kitchen sandstone for sharpening knives, a pot chain, dishcloth, dish-cloth, a can-opener, a steak-pounder, a mouse trap, a wire soap bracket and a tiny wire soap shaker for saving bits of soap. Last of all there was a thick book, a manuscript cook book, full of all manner man-ner of recipes and sage advice in the realm of housekeeping and cookery. The dear old woman must have spent days in making it, and she had written on the flyleaf, "Herein are written the tested recipes of a lifetime. Fpllow them in detail as I have written them, Juritha, and through the stomach bring delight to the heart of the husband." Within the leaves of a copy of a household magazine was a gilt-edged card which said, "I have found a good table magazine a household necessity. You will receive this one one year as . part of my gift." Rita (we softened our girl's somewhat some-what harsh-sounding name thus) was as happy as one of the birds in the rosevine over aunt's gift, and gave it the place of honor an entire corner in the room in which the presents were displayed. Of all her beautiful gifts, none attracted so much attention as aunt's homely one, which proved as interesting in-teresting to the guests as it afterward proved useful to the bride. Farmers' Home Journal. cle. A plain little octagon walnut-cased clock with a hook for hanging on the wall, bore a card which said, "Punctuality "Punctu-ality is the politeness of kings, and of cooks. This timekeper, niece, will help you to get the rising young lawyer's meals on time, and thereby aid materially mate-rially in keeping peace in the family." A hand-woven bushel ;basket was labeled, la-beled, "For chips and kindling," and two smaller baskets, "Useful receptacles in the kitchen." A card tied to a hearth broom and a curved-back stove brush read, "When ashes settle on the baking-top of your stove and biscuits refuse re-fuse to brown, use the broom ; when rust crawls over its sides, use polish and the brush." A slate with a pencil tied to it had written on its face, "Hang this on the kitchen wall, my dear, and when a needed purchase occurs to you, write it down and copy when you start to market. mar-ket. It will save forgetting and incidentally inci-dentally help keep the family life smooth." The words on the placard on the mighty and sharp shears were, "You will find numberless uses for these in the kitchen, niece. Use them instead of a knife in dressing a fowl, for they will cut bones like a knife will butter, and you. will escape cut fingers." "Keep the salt dry," spoke from the hard wood salt-box, and "Keep your sugar from ants" from the polished sugar cabinet. A pasteboard box held a polished hard wood comb case, two wire combs and a walnut-framed mirror, with wire ready for hanging, and the card tucked in the mirror frame said, "My clear, when the door bell rings and finds you in the kitchen, these articles will be useful, in that they will tell you whether wheth-er there is flour on your cheeks, and enable you to straighten your hair before be-fore facing your guest." There were two lamps and a lantern in the great box. One of the lamps j was a flat-bottomed glass lamp with |
