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  2. POETRY. LIFE'S TRIUMPH.

    Each life has one grand day; the clouds may lie Along the hill, and storm-winds fiercely blow— ...

    Article : 127 words
  3. Housewife's Column, HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS

    Green tea will revive rusty black lace and render it as good as new. The tone of the piano is improved when the instrument is removed from the wall of the ...

    Article : 126 words
  4. MINT—ITS CULTIVATION AND USES.

    There are three species of mint, all hardy perennials, cultivated more or less in gardens, for the use of their tops or leaves in the preparation of sauces, or for other culinary ...

    Article : 358 words
  5. SEASONABLE SALADS.

    The salad season is upon us, and vegetable salads are better than those made of fish and fowl. To make a delicious string bean salad, string boil and cool the beans. Slice them ...

    Article : 208 words
  6. REFINED TASTES.

    A rather pointed story is told of Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, and the late Senator Beck, which we give without varnish. ...

    Article : 178 words
  7. FISH CHOWDER NO. 1.

    Fry chopped onions in a spoonful of lard, add sifted flour, stirring until brown. Add one quart or more of water, one can tomatoes, and alternate layers of chopped ...

    Article : 51 words
  8. THOUGHTS.

    Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt In soft adoption of another's sorrow. The drying up a angle tear has more ...

    Article : 134 words
  9. FISH CHOWDER NO. 2.

    Fry slices or onion with bacon and add a quart of water, after putting in alternate layers of two chopped potatoes and two or three pounds of fish well seasoned with salt, ...

    Article : 81 words
  10. Vanity Fair.

    To accommodate the fashion in serving, new styles of butter bowls are seen. They are round and flat with sides of open work silver two inches high. The silver shape is ...

    Article : 380 words
  11. RIPE CUCUMBER PICKLES.

    Peel the cucumbers, taking out the soft centre, cut in slices lengthwise about an inch thick. Stand in salt and water twenty-four hours. Use at the rate of three pounds of ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. THE GENIUS CROP.

    One man after another has risen to fame with a rush since Haggard first introduced the South African tactics. There was Hugh Conway with 'Called ...

    Article : 356 words
  13. CREAM PIE.

    One cup sugar, one cup cream, one cup milk, two teaspoons cornstarch, four eggs. Bake in puff paste, without top crust. ...

    Article : 23 words
  14. SHELTER THE STOCK.

    Driving through the farming districts in autumn and seeing so many sheep, cattle and other stock exposed to the inclement weather, leads the observer to believe that the kind ...

    Article : 295 words
  15. GOOD BOILED ICING.

    One heaping cup of sugar, add a little water and pat on to boil. Do not stir. When syrup drops in tiny threads of candy it is done. Pour it slowly over the whites ...

    Article : 46 words
  16. NOVEL,

    Mrs. Romney again! It was too provoking! The reiteration was almost offensive; it was becoming intolerable; it was really more than feminine ...

    Article : 2,871 words
  17. Agriculturalist. WEIGHT OF WATER.

    One gallon of pure distilled water weighs ten pounds, but the same quantity of sea water weighs 10.22 pounds, the increase in weight being due to the salt and other ...

    Article : 98 words
  18. CHILE VERDE.

    Take three onions, chop fine and put in a hot spider to fry, with a little batter or drip pings. Roast two pods of chile by covering with hot coals for a minute or two. Lay in ...

    Article : 87 words
  19. MEASURE CAKE SPICED,

    One cup butter, two sugar, three and one-half flour, four eggs, one cup milk, one teaspoon baking powder, a teaspoon each of cloves, spice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake ...

    Article : 39 words
  20. MULCHING.

    Mulching is the process of applying various substances as a covering for soil above the roots of trees and plants, in order to pre vent evaporation, and so preferve a uniform ...

    Article : 144 words
  21. FEATHER CAKE.

    One tablespoon butter, one cup sugar, two eggs, half cup milk, one teaspoon baking powder. Use two yolks and one whole egg for the cake and save two whites for frosting ...

    Article : 120 words
  22. HOT WEATHER FASHIONS IN LONDON.

    It has become admissible to wear a straw hat, brown boots, and to discard a waistcoat in London, and if it please men to wear a black scarf to substitute for a waistcoat, no ...

    Article : 49 words
  23. PAINT AND OIL AS PRESERVATIVES.

    One of the best known and cheapest preparations for the preservation of both timber and metal exposed to the elements is linseed and other oils, alone, or combined with ...

    Article : 345 words
  24. ADMIRABLE CRICHTON.

    James Crichton was born in Scotland in 1560. He took the degree of bachelor of arts when he was only fourteen. At the age of 17, while in Paris, he challenged all th[?] ...

    Article : 240 words
  25. A PRETTY KNOT.

    It is so extremely difficult for one to make a pretty knot of one's own loosely twisted hair that a hint to work upon may not be amiss. Coil the back hair around the head ...

    Article : 72 words
  26. DISEASES FROM PIGEONS.

    The pigeon, as is well known, will feed at all the poultry yards in a neighborhood, and is po respecter of owners. A flock of pigeons will soon learn to know the feeding hours, ...

    Article : 141 words
  27. TOMATO PRESERVES.

    Scald small tomatoes in hot water until the skin will peel off readily. Peel and put them into cold lime water for an hour, or until they seem firm, then wash them in cold water ...

    Article : 102 words
  28. DISTANCE TRAVELLED IN DANGING.

    An average waltz takes a dancer over about three quarters of a mile, a square dance makes him cover half a mile. A girl with a well filled programme travels thus in ...

    Article : 89 words
  29. CANNED STRAWBERRIES.

    Allow two quarts of berries for a one-quart can. Add one cup of sugar to them and let stand twenty minutes. Will need no water. Let boil five or ten minutes. If your can ...

    Article : 58 words
  30. WHOLESOME FOOD.

    Food should be wholesome. Unhealthy food should be no more fed to an animal than to a man. Of course, its nature is coarser, and its requirements different; but, allowing ...

    Article : 180 words
  31. FINGER NAILS.

    A prominent uptown manicure who has devoted many years to the study of the subject, states as the result of his observations, that the finger nails of the human species ...

    Article : 333 words
  32. TO KEEP PRESERVES FROM MOLDING.

    Take white writing paper and cut it the size of the inside of your can or jar, wet it well with brandy or alcohol. Lay this on your fruit before sealing it up and it will ...

    Article : 47 words
  33. MASCAGNI.

    Pietro Mascagni, the author of the 'Cavalleria Rusticana,' was born the 7th of December, 1863 at Leghorn, as it is generally said. His family belonged to the humbler ...

    Article : 308 words
  34. POTATO YEAST.

    One cup of flour, one tablespoon of sugar, one tablespoon of salt and six or eight large potatoes. Cut up and boil potatoes in two quarts of water, then pour off all the water ...

    Article : 89 words
  35. Notabilities. A PEN PORTRAIT OF PASTEUR.

    The great master does not look to be 70 years of age as he sits behind his desk, his elbows on the table, his hand supporting his head. His hair and beard are still iron-gray; ...

    Article : 158 words
  36. AN INEXPENSIVE GREEN-HOUSE.

    An authority on the subject sends us the following instructions for constructing a heap greenhouse: Mine is a very simple affair, sixteen feet ...

    Article : 250 words
  37. LEMON PIE WITHOUT LEMONS.

    Take seven eggs, and if you want frosting on top keep out four whites and break the rest in a bowl: beat until light and add two cups of white sugar and two heaping ...

    Article : 98 words
  38. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

    To clean the woodwork in your halls and rooms do not wash it. Soap destroys the looks of woodwork that is finished in natural colors. Wring a flannel cloth out of hot ...

    Article : 134 words
  39. THE CARE OF PROVIDENCE.

    When Whitelock, Cromwell's ambassador, was on his way to Sweden, in 1663, he was greatly troubled in mind as he thought of the distracted state of the nation, so much ...

    Article : 223 words
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