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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1888. Beecher Stowe, George Elliot and Rose Cleve-and. That women may become able and talented lecturers, will not be denied by any who Fasten with dark pearl buttons and buttonholes in the hem. Embroider a spray of red poppies with crewels of linen floss. The pillow may be made longer and tied around the top or end MRS.

A. E. WHITAKEB, Editor. garnet one on each side of the afghan, and trim with edging all around. EDGING.

Take the gray wool and cast on 9 stitches, knit across plain. 1st row plain knitting. 2d row: si, k2, 2, k6 (lists.) 3d row plain make 2 sts. of the 2 In this pattern. (Knit and purl.) 4th and 5th rows plain.

(U sts.) 6th row 1, 2, 2, 2, 6. (14 sts.) 7th row: plain. (14 sts.) 8th row plain. 9th row cast off 5 stitches, S. (9 sts Repeat from 2d to 9th rows inclusive, until the required length is reached.

TT 1 she give some attention to correcting this, she asked in astonishment if I considered it ladylike to read a daily paper. I hope there are very few like her. A young lady ought to know something of Stanley, Gladstone, Parnell, Emperor Frederick, Ameriean politics, and the school agitation, as well as any young man. And no culture is broad and well balanced which omits these. The best writers and specialists are writing for the weekly press and one may get almost an education by careful, thoughtful reading of some of the best newspapers.

This kind of reading, however, should be wisely directed by some mature person. In connection with newspapers, scrap books are a means of learning and saving much that would not otherwise be gained. A girl's scrap books are a sort of key to her tastes, and parents are sometimes surprised to find in what directions their children are developing. The importance of considering what our girls should not read was forcibly brought to mind by recent incidents. As the ten-year old daughter of the house was coming home from school a flashy paper was laid upon her book as she passed a man distributing them upon the street.

While there was nothing in the paper that would condemn it legally, it would vitiate the taste of the reader and the query rose in my mind as to how many of the papers thus distributed were as promptly thrust into the waste basket as this one, for not all children or young people have all they would like to read, and the paper full of crime and sensation is treasured for careful reading. A parent must be ever vigilant to keep from young readers these vicious publications which are offered for sale and thrown in at our doors without hindrance from the law. The sight of young girls studying the pictures of the police news publications in periodical store windows, carries these thoughts to another stage and suggests that the strong arm of the law might be invoked to help on this important work of deciding what our girls shall read. CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Comforts for the Invalids.

AN INVALIDS' THAT CLOTH. This is a useful article to give one who is ill. Take a piece of white linen the size required fringe or hem all around. If it is fringed, then overcast the edge to keep from ravelling. On one end, or else through the center, make In outline work the following: "It will please thee Eat of it invalid's crocheted sock.

The materials required are one skein of Germantown wool and 1J yds. of ribbon. For a foot wealing a No. 3 boot, make a ch of 83 stitches turn and make one in the 3d loop of the ch, crochet in to the middle of the ch, then widen by putting 2 stitches in one loop of the ch, and finish the other half in dc. Now double the ch and sew together with some of the same wool, and then continue to crochet around the beginning of a sole, plain at the sides, and widening at the ends sufficient to keep the sole in proper shape.

After 3 rounds crochet 3 times around without widening, then narrow at the toe by passing one loop at a time three times in each of the three successive rows. When the 9th row is completed make a row of holes through which to draw the ribbon. To make the holes ch 3 and work 1 in the 3d loop of the foundation ch 1 and 1 4 in 5th loop, and so around. Abov this make a row of shells. Fasten with between the first 2 bars, and ch 1 work a between the next 2 bars, ch one ch one the 3 time between these two bars and fasten with in the next.

Repeat around the ankle. Draw the ribbons through the holes and tie with a bow in front. A PKI0T10N MITTEN. This is for nse after the bath and is knit of coarse wrapping cord such as is used by grocers for tying up parcels. The cord should be taken double, and the knitting done on medium-sized needles.

There is no shaping required, only care must be exercised, in narrowing off, not to get it too pointed; there is no thumb. a wrapper. For one who is long confined to the bed a light print wrapper, to be worn through the day instead of a nightdress Is a convenience. It enables ono to put the arms outside the bedclotbs, or step from the bed to the chair, without hav ing any of that undressed feeling that a nightdress gives. To Insure its being comfortable and in no way burdensome, it should be cut by the nightdress pattern.

In cold weather it may be worn over the nightdress. A BAND BAG. For cold feet there is nothing like a sand bag. Get some clean fine sand and dry it perfectly on the stove in a pan, and when dry put It into a bag of stroig unbleached cotton about a foot square. Sew up the opening well, and then make another bag out of flannel.

The bag can be easily heated by laying It on the back part of the stovo or In the oven when the fire is low. For a sick person this sand bag is better than a hot brick or jug of water. COVERED BOTTLHS. These are convenient to take in a travelling bag or trunk. Select bottles square or flat.wlth as short necks as can be fuund; about four inches In height is a convenient size.

Commencing at the top, crochet a cover in singlo crochet stitch to fit over the bottle snugly when the bottom is reached, the bottle will have to be inserted and the work finished over it. Straw-colored cord for the crochet Is effective. If white cord is used, the cover Bhould be painted or gilded. The cork must fit tightly. These bottles look well on a toilet table too, In which case a fancy stopper can be used.

A FLANNEL WASHCLOTH. One of the luxuries of Invalid life is a flannel washcloth. To a sensitive person who dreads and shrinks from the touch of wet linen or cotton cloth, the substitution of a washcloth of soft baby flannel will oftentimes serve to render the bath agreeable, If not positively enjoyable. It should be made of two or three thicknesses of the flannel lightly tacked together, and should, not be larger than the nurse's hand can bold. LINEN MLL0W 001 EH.

Make It ot brown linon shaped like an ordinary pillow case with hem at the open end. are acquainted with the public life of Frances Willard. There are scores of women, who are en gaged as physicians, artists, lecturers and minis ters of the gospel, and in every instance they have been as successful as their brothers. My answer is, educate a woman in the same college with her brother: give her an equal chance with him, and she will show you that she has as much natural genius, and as much talent for business as her brother. To the other class of inquirers I would say do not be content to settle down to a life of toil and comparative ignorance, accepting your lot as the fate of womankind.

It is not our fate, or if it is we will not accept it. Woman was created for a nobler purpose than simply to be a household drudge. Many girls receive but a scanty common school education, while their brothers are sent to college, because their parents think that a girl has no need of a higher education, as she will be employed through life with her household cares, while ths boys are to go out in the world. Because a woman is to become a wife and a mother, is it an indication that she should not be educated Certainly not. There is certainly no other way to make the coming generation strong, both morally, and mentally, than by proper education ot the mothers.

STUDENTS OF SHORT-HAND. The Christian Register sounds a note of warning to the many girls who are taking up short-hand, expecting to fit themselves for amanuenses. The trouble is, it says, that too many girls unfitted by education attempt this work. The business schools are careless about the standard which they require of their pupils. It is cruel to a girl to allow her to come to the city, spend the winter there, paying board and tuition, only to have her find at the end of the season that she is not and can never be a good short-hand clerk.

It is almost a daily experience to hear about such girls, and often to meet them, discouraged, unhappy, and forlorn. It would be unfair to say that all, or perhaps even the majority, of the young women who begin short-hand make such a dismal failure, for there are some wonderfully bright and intelligent girls who have achieved great success; but what we do insist on is that uneducated girls should not be encouraged to try. No one need hope to succeed who has not the equivalent of a high school education. Though it is now almost necessary for a shorthand clerk to use the type-writer, she should also be able to write a clear, handsome hand. But a frequent sin of the ordinary stenographer is ignorance of spelling.

The simplest words are slaughtered unmercifully, and those a little out of the common range would hardly be detected in the new combination given. They literally "multiply words without knowledge Oi.D. FASHIONED 'COOKERY. A correspondent writes I think if we could go back to the days of our grandmothers in cooking we should be healthier, happier, and in mnch better condition to raise up healthy sons and daughters. Still we have taken not a step but a stride in the right direction in bread making.

We do not use corn and rye meal enough for actual health and vigor. Oatmeal has in a measure taken the place of both, and its effects are seen in the sturdy limbs and rosy cheeks ot cur little ones. How to hang a thermometer. A recent writer on hanging a thermometer gives the following practical suggestions. A thermometer should always be hung by a cord on the north side of the building at least one foot from all surrounding objects.

The proper way is to hang it In a high wood frame, covered with slots like shutter work, and roofed over. This will protect the thermometer from the direct rays of the sun, from wind and reflected heat. Run a slight bar of wood across the centre of your shelter and attach the thermometer to that. WE CHALLENGE Tlie worltl to produce a remcily Hood's to purily, vitalize, snnl eiinehihf blood, to restore, rt'iio vat and invigorate ttie whole system, nr in miring any diseases arising from an impure mato or low condition of tlio blood. C.I.Hood in Lowell, itass.

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The cover can be washed if only fine white soap is used, and as little of it as possible should be put Into the water. WHITE PILLOW COVER. A pair of white linen or white cotton slips for a lounge pillow is a pretty gilt. Make the pillow case only the width of the hem longer than the pillow. Let the hem be about four inches wide, and fasten one half with button-boles, and the other half with three small pearl buttons.

Edge with a broad lace on the edge ot the hem above the hem a double row of hemstitching; above that an initial embroidered in white. These pillow covers are to put on over a lounge pillow to keep it neat. A SLUMBER PILLOW may be added to the back ot any chair, and should come at just the right point to lean one's head on It comfortably. It is composed of two small oblong pillows about 12 inches long by 8 or 9 wide. The pillow may be made of anything one likes, feathers, down, fir, etc but the best perhaps are cut from thicknesses of cotton wool batting or wool wadding, because this keeps in place very well, besides being very soft.

It may be perfumed with sachet powder. If you are sure that the perfume selected is not disagreeable to the recipient of the gift. The covers are decorated in any way one fancies, and the two pillows, tied together in three places at the top, are hung over the back of a chair, one in front and one at the back, of course. A SHOULDER CAPE. These crocheted capes have been worn for several years, but are yet popular for house wear and are very warm.

The materials are uermantowD, single zephry or Saxony yarn. Directions 1. Make a chain of eighty-four stitches; turn and make treble crochet in two stitches, beginning with the third from the needle in each row, five trebles in one stitch, treble crochet in two stitches, skip two stitches, repeat crochet together the last two stitches in each row. 2. Two chain, treble- crochet in three stitches, three treble in one stitch, treble crochet in three stitches, skip two stitches, repeat except two chain do not repeat that in any row.

3. Two chain, treble chrochet in three stitches, five trebles in one stitch, treble crochet in three stitches, skip two stitches, repeat. 4. Two chain, treble crochet in four stitches, three trebles in one stich, treble crochet in four stitches, skip two stitches, repeat. 5.

Two chain, treble crochet in four stitches, five treble in one stitch, treble crochet in four stitches, skip two stitches, repeat. 6. Two chain, treble crochet in five stitches, three trebles in one stitch, treble crochet in five stitches, skip two stitches, repeat. 7. Two chain, treble crochet in Ave stitches, five trebles in one stitch, treble crochet in five stitches, skip two stitches, repeat.

8. Two chain, treble crochet in six stitches, three trebles in one stitch, treble crochet in six stitches, skip two stitches, repeat. 9. Two chain, treble crochet in six stitches, five trebles in one stitch, treble crochet in six stitches, skip two stitches, repeat. 10.

Two chain, treble crochet in seven stitches, three treble in one stitch, treble ciochet in seven stitches, skip two stitches repeat. Repeat this row until the cape is of the desired length. Mine has nineteen rows in it. 1. Tie fringe across the bottom.

Now fasten your join in the first stitch at the top; make four chain, skip two stitches, treble crochet in the third, repeat. 2. Four chain, three trebles In the first hole of first row, two chain, repeat. Repeat second row. 4.

One single crochet, three trebles, one single crochet in the first hole of third row repeat this across the top and dowu fronts of cape. Run ribbon through open work at the neck. A PHOTOGRAPH CASE. This makes a neat gift for an invalid who likes to have some treasured pictures near at hand Take a piece of plush, any shade liked, about thirteen inches long and five inches wide. Line with a contrasting shade of satin, then fold each end in toward the center, forming two pockets large enough for the pictures.

Fasten the edges neatly together and fold one pocket over the other. A SEA BAG. The woman who has gone to sea without one has missed a convenience that she should not djny herself on the second trip. It is simply a large bag made of strong linen or canvas, divided into pockets of graduated sizes made to contain every Imaginable article of a woman's toilet, from the nightgown to a hair brush. The bag Is hung upon the wall of the stateroom within easy reach of the owner's hand who, when Buffering from seasickness Is in no condition to hunt around for missing hairpins or slippers.

A AFGHAN. This utilizes odds and ends of wool and is at present a popular way of making an afghan. Crochet a small circle of bright yellow or white and aroind this several rows of contrasting colors, finishing with a row of black, and widening at the corners to make the circle a square. Sow the squares together with black wool. If a more delicate color for the prevailing one is liked, white or some pale tint may be used for the ground.

The border may be a fringe or crocheted edge of shaded rr prettily blended wools, and the whole may be lined with the double-faced Canton flannel which comes in so many desirable shades. The effect is very bright and pretty, something like conventionalized flowers on a black or pale ground, if the colors are well managed. A LOl'NOE AFGHAN. Take single Germantown wool, garnet and steel gray, and two small Ivory or wooden Seven or nine stripes are knitted for this afghan, according to the width required For the garnet stripe, cast on 27 stitches and knit across plain. 1st row: a 1, p3, 8, 4.

(27 sts 2strow: 1, 3, 8, 3, 8, 4. (27 sts.) 3d row like 1st row. 4th row: like 2d row. Mb. row: like 1st row.

6th row like 2d row. 7th row: si, () now slip the next four stitches on an extra needle; hold it In front of the work and then knit four stitches from the left needle on to the right drop the left needle aad knit the stitches on the extra needle; repeat from () once and 4. (27 sts.) Repeat from 2d row to the 7th row, Inclusive, until the desired length of stripe Is reached. For the steel gray stripe: cast on flfteon stitches. 1st to 10th row (inclusive) plain.

Ulh to 22d row () 1, 1, as if about to pnrl; repeat from () to end of row. 12th row and every even or alternate row knit together the i.ver and the slipped stitches and slip the knitted. Repeat from the first to the 22d row until the required length of the gray stripe is worked. Crochet or sew the stripes together with a In the abstract from an essay which is presented in another column are used, the words household drudge, an expression that has almost synonymous for housekeeper, but which i9 applicable only to the overworked woman. Isolation is the worst feature of housework which is not necessarily drudging, but I have heard so many women express their distaste for housework.both in city and country homes, that I begin to wonder if in time the care of homes will not pass entirely into the hands of men.

It is not that women are indolent, for they will work long hours in factories, stand up all day in shops, and wear themselves out to keep situations in offices and places of business in which no trivial ex cuse allows absence from iuty. The women who call their sweeping and baking monotonous drudgery should try for a few weeks the duties of the business woman whose work is as monotonous and exacting, or venture upon the uucer-tain living of a teacher or the irregular lar hours of a reporter. The elasticity of home duties would be apparent to one who could step temporarily into the shoes of these outside workers. If women would carry a little more brains into houpework and men would be a little more liberal in a wife's or daughter's wages, there would be less growling about drudgery. No honest woman, other than an heiress, expects to live without working some, but there is much that is harder than housework.

OUR GIRLS' BEADING. Some time ago a letter was received which said, "Am I asking too much by requesting information about reading for girls I live within reach of a town library and. a circulating library, but I do not know the best books to read to gain general information." It is impossible to lay down iron-clad rules, for tastes differ, and if a young person is compelled to read distasteful books, be they ever so valuable, all love of reading may be extinguished. Find what the natural taste is and then develop and cultivate it. Remembering that the librarian of the Southbridge, public library took great and broad interest in her work, and had long watched over the reading of many young people, I asked her for a suggestion.

She writes The surged to which you refer is one tha' deeply interests me, and I only wish I had time and strength to write all the ideas that have grcwn out of my observation and experience. The one thing that seems to me of more importance than anything else in reading, is to read slowly and thoughtfully. When a book is hastily read or simply for passing away time or that one may bo able to say they have read certain workc, it seems to me the mind is only weakened by the process. I have endeavored to impress upon those to whom I dared make suggestions, the importance of careful reading, often remarking that a book worth reading once was worth twice reading. As girls have outgrown the juvenile works, I have found Miss Alcott's works the best to suggest; after those Mrs.

Whitney's, and later Mrs. Craik's, and still later Geo. Macdonald's works. All of these I regard as healthful reading for young girls, books from which they will receive im. petus in the right direction.

In some cases I have from them been able to lead otf to travels, biography, and history. In biography the "Famous Women Series" is worth the attention of every young girl, and cannot fail I think to arouse and stimulate to a nobler life. The "English Men of Letters Series" is equally interesting. If librarians might make more suggestions the young patrons of a library would receive more benefit from their reading. In a few cases this has been done, but these instances were where the parents were themselves intelligent and well read.

Another point that has tried me, is the lack of elfort on the part of teachers to guide the choice and direct the manner of reading. In my own experience as a teacher, I found much could be accomplished by insisting that there should be a thorough knowledge of every sentence read, and much by awakening an interest in special topics. More Is dune in this way than there was a few years since, but I feel that even more might be done, if teachers were left to more independent action. The Chatauqua courses of reading and study are highly recommended and are of special value if followed in company of others. The periodicals published in the interest of young people contain much that is instructive and improving, and they are carefully edited fo exclude any thing which would appeal to any but the highest taste.

St. Nicholas, Wide Awake, Harper's Young People, and the Youth's Companion can safely, and to advantage, be placed in any young person's hands. For still further advice we sent a note to Miss Leeds, national superintendent of the Women's Christian Temperance Union department for suppression of impure literature, who sent in reply a printed list of juvenile periodical literature, which is recommended. It even criticises some publications that have long been considered free from objectionable features. The list may be obtained by applying to Miss Deborah Leeds, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

In addition to the abovn I would recommend good newspapers, for many girls lack what is comprehended by the term "general information" used by our correspondent. The condensed news of the world found in a good weekly newspaper should be carefully read by all girls and women. I once met a joung lady whose school advantages had been good, but to whom the great outside world was an utter blank. In response to a euggestion that UeilLUnilttgt'S, Lungs, Stomach, Nose, or from any cause, is speedily con trolled and stopped. Sores, Ulcers, Wounds, Sprains and Bruises, It is cooling, cleansing and Healing.

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A lew vacancies In tows and F. Johnson long Main St-, Richmond, Va 4di PUDDINGS. From a paper read before the Methuen grange by Miss R. Puddings are taking the place of pies more and more every year and have become an article of necessity, although I do not think they will take the place of pies entirely, especially on the farmer's table. There are so many different kinds and so many different ways of making them that one might have a new one every day in the year.

Now I will tell how to make a snow pudding First put a pint of water in a kettle on the stove and when it boils beat in four tablespoonfuls of corn starch which has been dissolved in a little water; as soon as it thickens remove from the stove. Beat the whites of two eggs veiy stiff and beat them into the corn starch. Add a large half cupful of sugar, salt and fUvor to your taste, and pour Into a mould. A very nice dish is made by putting in a lay. er of snow and then a layer of bananas sliced very thin, or crush the bananas through a sieve and mix it with the snow.

sauce is made the same as a soft custard a pint of milk, the yolks of two eggs and one whole egg. Let it just come to a boil, but not boil, then add half a cupful of sugar, salt and flavoring. It is to be eaten cold. This pudding is often made cf gelatine instead of corn starch. Have any of you ever tried a layer of plums prepared the same as for sauce on the top of a queen pudding Another pudding which is liked very much is called apple slump, and is similar to apple dump -ling Fare and slice one quart of sour apples, put them in a pudding dish with a little water.

Cover it with a crust or veiy stiff batter, made of one pint of flour, one tablespoonful of butter or lard, halt a tenspoonful of soda, same of salt, one teaspoon! ul of cream of tartar mix with milk as stiff as can be stirred with a spoon or as stiff as soda biscuit. When nearly done remove the cover and let it brown. It requires three-quarters of an hour to bake. Sauce One pint of water, three tablespoonfuls of corn starch. Add the yolk of one egg just before taking from the stove, one cupful of sugar, salt and flavoring add the last thing the white of the egg beaten stiff; this nmkes it light.

"Jjook next that your kitchen fire be bright, And your hands be neat and skilled. For the love of man oft takes its flight If his stomach be not well FOB THE COOK8 HOLIDAY CAKE. One and a half cups of granulated sugar, half cup of butter stirred to a cream, whites of six eggs, or three whole eggs, two teaspoons cream tartar stirred in two heaping cups sifted flour, one teaspoon soda in half cup sweet milk bake in three layers. For filling, take a teacup sugar and a little water boiled together until it is brittle when dropped in cold water remove from stove and stir quickly into the well beaten white of an egg add to this a cup of stoned raisins chopped fine, or a cup of chopped hickory nut meats and placed between layers and over the top. WELSH RAREBIT.

Cut one-half pound of good, rich cheese in small thin pieces, add a dust of pepper and salt and then pour over the cheese one-halt or two-thirds of a cup of milk, and let the cheese slowly melt until it comes to a boll. Have an egg beaten up light, and when the cheese is all melted and boiling take it otf the fire and immediately add the beaten egg. The rarebit will be ciumbly and delicious. Then have slices of bread nicely browned and cover each slice with the mixture and send to the table while hot. A NEW DISH.

During our rambles recently at one table, a dish was set before us for tea, in lieu of oatmeal, that was certainly "lit for a king." It was served in a shallow figured china bowl placed in a figured saucer, and beside it a china pitcher of cream to match, the dish itself being a steaming portion of golden corn meal mush. Whether it was the delicate chinaware, or the rich golden yellow of the mush that made it so appetizing in appearance, was a matter ot doubt until the combination of cream and maize had been tasted. Then the full realization of the deliclousness was experienced, and we questioned the maid who served It as to where such a preparation of corn meal had been obtained, or what special mode of treatment had produced such a result. We learned, to our surprise, that only common yellow meal had been used, but it had been thoroughly cooked for hours iu an oat meal cooker, which prevents all possibility of burning and destroying the rich maize flavor. 0.

R. Dodge, in New York Press. BROWNED HASH. Mince and season the quantity of hash required. Do not turn it in a saucepan at once, bnt add the seasoning and the liquid required while in the chopping bowl.

A savory well-seasoned bash should be quite moist. Place an iron spider over the fire and, when it Is very hot, add a tablespoonful of butter. When the melted buttor covors the bottom of the pan pour in the hash carefully spreading it in a thin cake. Place the spidor over a lid where it will brown slowly, but will not burn. Let It cook In this way for half an hour.

At the end of this time loosen It from the bottom with a pancake turner and fold it over like an omelet. It should be entirely covered by a rich brown crust. CINNAMON CAKE. When making yeast bread and the sponge is ready to knead, take a sufficient portion and roll out three-fourths of an inch thick, put thin slices of butter on the top, sprinkle with cinnamon, and then with sugar, let It rise well and bake for breakfast. It is a fine coffee cake.

WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO. From an essay read at Thompson, Conn, grange by Mrs. S. J. This question is asked by some In a sneering way, as if a woman could do but little, others ask It In a spirit of Inquiry, really desiring to know what sphere of life Is open to women.

To the first I would reply In most ot the civilized countries of the world, woman Is now recognized as the equal of her brotbor, In moral and Intellectual worth, and it has boen proved conclusively that, a woman can do something besides cook and wash dishes. In the literary world womankind Is represented by such women as, Mrs. Ilemans, Harriet.