Farmer's Journal and Household Magazine from Emporia, Kansas • 5

a FARMERS' JOURNAL tle pcarline added to half a bowlful of warm rainwater will make a good cleansing suds. The brushes and combs should be worked quickly through this water by dipping the bristles in and out, then rinsed in cold water and well shaken. a level with the man who loves her, or perchance a little above him. "One thing imperatively demanded in the make-up of the ideal woman is sympathy that all-divining, all-forgiving- quality which makes the whole world akin. Sympathy is one of the prime factors of charm.

So is humor. A man is fearfully lonesome when his wife cannot see his jokes. She could hardly offer him a more deadly affront than to laugh in the wrong place at ene of his pet stories. The ideal woman is religious has the wise sweet, JANUARY. January, bleak and drear, First arrival of the year, Named for Janus Janus who, Fab le say an aces wo Pray, Is lhat the reason why Yours is such a fickle sky? First you smile, and to us brlni? Dreams of the returning' spring; Then, without a sijrn, you frown, And the snowtlakes hurry down, Making all the landscape white, Just as If it blanched with right.

You obey no word or law; Now you freeze, and then you thaw, Teasing all the brooks that run With a hope of constant sun. Chaining all their feet at last Firm lu icy fetters fast. Month of all months most contrary. Sweet and bitter January Selected. Remember that corn meal is quite easily contaminated by strong odors.

It should not be kept near salt' fish, onions, ground coffee, or mustard pickles'. Southern housewives say that it should never be kept in a metal or earthen vessel; rather a bag or a well-ventilated wooden receptacle. If shut up too tight it is likely to acquire a musty flavor. Not every. American cook g-ets the best results from our National cereal, but southern people, who make varied use of corn meal, say that the kiln-dried, bolted, and finely-ground meal of commerce, cannot possibly approach, in flavor, the coarser meal made in small mills.

It seems that with corn, as with wheat, we are losing- the life of the grain throug-h over-fine preparation. Rural New-Yorker. old-fashioned notions about right and wrong. A man is quite capable of making merry over his wife's scruples of conscience, but I think he would be rather disappointed if she had no scruples if in his worldly way she was guided chiefly by expedience. He may not say many prayers himself, but he likes to know that his children pray at their mother's knee.

Perhaps he sometimes reflects that the nightly petition from innocent lips, 'God bless father, may not be quite empty" of meaning. Home Making. THE WISE WEATHER GLEBE. The Fuunylaud clerk of the weather Doesn't waste his time finding out weather To-morrow Ml be blowy, Or sunny or snowy, Oh! he's wiser than that altogether. He carefully studies the past, And runs up a flag on the mast, So that people can see If there's going to be A thunderstorm week before last.

And when yesterday promises fair When the sun will be hot aud aglarc, People hitch a balloon To the edge of the moon And drive off and swim round in the air, For they never get drowned in the air. Albert W. Smith, in Ladies' Home Journal. Courting Oom Paul's Nieces. The Boer girl of the country districts of the South African Republic "is able to go to town only once or twice a year, and then it is to attend the Nachtniaal, or communion, which is the chief festival of these deeply religious people," writes Howard C.

Hilleg-as, of "The Boer Girl of South Africa," in the January Ladies' Home Journal. "The journey to the town is made by ox-teams, and may require a week's or a month's time, but it is always an epoch in a Boer girl's life, especially if she is about sixteen, when she is supposed to have attained the matrimonial age. Then some tall, robust Boer youth, whom she has met at former Nachtmaals, may summon enough courage to ask her whether he may call at her home and have an which is a sort of ultimatum before an ultimatum. If she consent the young Boer will shortly afterward ride on horseback many miles across Che plain to the girl's home, and will prove that he is worthy of her love by 'sitting-up' and talking with her from sundown until break of day. For two young Boers to arrive at this period of courtship is equivalent to announce the engagement, and then the prospective bride begins preparation for the wedding." Iowa Homestead.

For toilet purposes fill a good sized, large necked bottle two-thirds full of soft water, add borax until some remains in the bottom of the bottle undissolved, cork the bottle, keep it on the washstand, and add a very little to the water with which the hands and face are washed. If a stove has been neglected until it has become rusty, or if the blacking has all burned off, leaving it red, it is difficult to obtain a permanent By lightly rubbing its surface over with a cloth, dipped in vinegar, and applying the blacking immediately, it will take a better polish, and last much longer; than if the vinegar is not used. During the winter, while fowl is in season, there are often scraps left over which by themselves are not sufficient for a meal; one nice way of using these remnants is in rice sausage made as follows: Mince one cup cold ch icken or turkey quite fine, add one cup cooked rice, a pinch of salt, one teaspoon-ful minced onions, one tablespoon soft butter, and the beaten yolks of two eggs. Form into small cakes or sausages, roll in powdered crackers, and cook in boiling fat to a golden brown. A great many women who are other- wise neat do not give the care necessary to keep their toilet belongings in good condition.

The brushes and combs are possibly the most neglected in this line. All hair brushes should His Ideal. 'Man has a number of fixed, old-fashioned notions about the ideal woman which are quite apart from questions of complexion and dress," writes Carrie E. Garrett in the Woman's Home Companion. "The sober truth is that while men may seek diversion with the more showy, flippant type of girl, and are often caught by mere' glitter, they have an ideal far, far above this cheap type which is imperishable.

JV man does not picture a completely limp and characterless creature as his soul's ideal, however Yet the woman as she appears in his dream is not two clever. It is a pleasure to him to be a little superior to his mate to be 'looked up to' and as the true woman desires to 'look it is clear that Nature's arrangements in these matters are not without design. The most charming- woman of all is she who has the consummate wit to seem to 'look up' when really she stands on Madg-e "I always select trag-ic stories for hot weather reading." Mabel "On what principle, Madge "They make my blood run cold." be well washed every week, and the work should be carefully done. A lit.