WILLAMETTE PARMER: SALEM, OREGON, AUGUST 8, 1884.
he Dfjonte Jircle
MRS. HARRIOT T. CLARKE, Knrroa.
WHILE GIRLS WILL WED.
She rose at the early daybreak,
With sick and aching bead,
Aad she said this cross little woman
"I wonder why girls will wed !
They wouldn't, I am sure, if they reokoned
The things that a woman must bear;
The never-done work of a household,
The never-done Mother care.
"Six dozen pieces to wash to-day,
And the children must go to school,
And every one knows on washing day
Baby is cross as a rule ;
And Bridget is new to the work yet,
(Oh, deir, how my head does achel)
Yet, I shall have the dinner to cook,
Andall of the beds to make."
Bat as soon as breakfast was ready,
Father came in from the yard;
And kissed the sick little mother,
"Was sure that her work was hard,"
He said to the noisy boys: "Be still I
Your mother's not well to-day;"
And when he bids her "good-by,"
He "could kiss the pain away."
And the coffee, or kiss which wns it?
Healed like a magical charm;
The spirit of diligent gladness
Was every where on the farm.
The father worked hard at the plow ing,
The mother forgot her pain,
Bridget did well with the washing,
There wasn't a drop of rain.
The bakiDg and cleaning was over
When the boys came home from school;
Baby forgot it was washday,
And pleasantly broke his rule;
And at night the house was clear and bright
There was not a thing amiss;
" 'Tis only a wire," the father thought,
"Would do so much for a kiss."
And the wife, sitting down in the fire-light,
The baby asleep at her side,
Her husband chatting and watching her
With a husband's loving pride,
Thought much of her full and pleasant home,
Of her children asleep in bed ;
And said with a sweet contented laugh,
"No wonder that girls will wed!"
BY THE FIBE.
She sat and mused by the driftwood fire,
At the leaping flames flashed high and higher,
And the phantoms of youth, so fair and bright,
Grew fur her gace in the ruddy light;
The blossoms she gathered in life's young days
Wreathed and waved in the flickering blaze;
And she laughed through a sunny mist of tears
That rose at the dream of her April years;
And ever and aye the sudden rain
Flashed on the glitterm? window pane.
Sobered and saddened the pictures that
snowed
As the drift wood to a red core glowed,
And the fancied figures of olden time
Passed with the steadied step of their prime;
The daisies and snow drops bloomed and died,
Red roses and lilies stood side by side,
While richer and fuller and deeper grew
The lines the pictures August drew;
And ever and aye the falling rain
Streamed thick and fast on the window-pane.
The driftwood died down into feathery ashes
Where faintly and fitfully shone the flash;
Slowly and sadly her pulses beat,
And sott was the fall, as of vanishing feet;
Aad lush and green as from guarded grave
She saw the grass of the valley wave;
And like the echoes in rnins seemed to sigh,
The ' 'wet west wind" that went wandering by,
And caught the sweep of the sullen rain,
And dashed it against the window pane.
Ail the Year Around,
BESS AND BEDDING.
Editor Home Circle :
I wimt to give some of my ideas on
beds. I have been away from home on
a visit and got stirred up on the subject.
The furniture of the room I slept in was
of the bost, the bed was supplied with a
hair mattrass and no doubt my hostess
thought there was nothing more to be
desired. I was tired and on being shown
to my room, I wished to rest as Boon as
possible. Well there is no telling how
long that bed had been made up as I
found it. But cortainly I found it ery
damp, and I awoko in tho morning with
a sore throat, and aching ell over. Those
quilts I slept under were the ospecial
pride of my friend. Her mother had
had them when she wont to housekeep
ing. They had been washed until in
order to keep one warm it almost re
required weight enough to tire a strong
man. Surely, there lias been enough
written on this subject. A spare bed
should never be kept made up. A spread
nicely tncked over tho matrass, the pil
low shame, look all right Then if you
have company como in damp weather,
air the sheets by the fire before you put
tbem on the bed.
I do not think it of so much import
ance of what a bed ia made, as how it is
made. Every one cannot afford nice
mattraesce, and those who cannot, can
have husks or straw, a go"d cotton mat,
to just cover it, (of two or three pounds
in weight,) theu the sheets, etc., and
you have a better bed than a cheap mat-
trass can make. If you have old quilts
that are not fit to sleep under they will
do for mats, though, of course they will
not be not be as soft as new. My mats
are covered with unbleached muslin.
When they become soiled I take the cov
ering off and wash it and put it back on.
I always find the cotton as snow white
as new. I tie them with twine from
grocers' packages, and as they do not
need to bo tied very closely, I can make
one in an hour and a half. I line all
my quilts with white, and after they arc
all done, face them at the top with
strip about a quarter of a yard wide.
Treated in this way they can be used for
a great many years by people who arc
careful, without needing to bo washed.
I am making a comforter for ray little
boy's bed of nil wool. I piece each
block, cut tho lining tho same rize, turn
and run together all but one side ; turn
again, leaving tho seams inside J lightly
stuff tho block with cotton wool, being
careful to have it smooth and fiat
Make a star in the center or mako a tuft
of zephyr (it's a nice way to use up all
odds and ends of zephyrs). When I
havo blocks enough I sew them together
with strong thread and cross-stitch over
the seam on tho right side. You will
find it pretty work, doing away with the
inconvenience of quilting frames. Each
separate block looks like a little cushion.
I made a bed spread for his bed of un
bleached muslin, tufted with unbleached,
unprepared cotton. I had somo difficul
ty in getting the latter, but they must
both be unbleached when made, so as to
shrink together, else tho tufts will pull
out. Tho muslin must not be too fine,
else tho thread will break in pulling so
much cotton through. To mako it, lay
your cloth on the floor, and with a lead
pencil mark any pattern you choose.
Mine is simply diamonds. I used a
yard stick for a ruler. Then prepare
your cotton (it comes in skeins and will
require 30 or 40 cents' worth for a large
spread), in long needle fulls, fourteen
threads in a needleful ; and with a tuft
ing needle (a large darning needle will
do, though it is much harder to work
with) make a stitch, drawing tho cotton
through to within half an inch of the
end; go on to the place you wish the
next tuft, letting the cotton lie flat with
the cloth, and so on, until the spread is
done ; then cut in the middle of each
stitch, on the right side. Soak a day
and night in suds quite blue with indigo,
and put out to bleach. I hope I have
made tho directions plain enough to fal
low. Spreads made in this manner are
very durable, quite cheap and pretty.
Eunice.
THE WORK BASKET.
Pretty comforts for tho beds in sum
mer are made of the so-called barbette
veilings, which con bo bought for a few
cents a yard. The scarlet makes very
pretty ones if tufted with whito and
button-holed around tho edge with Ger
mnntown or somo similar wool, after be
ing cut in deep and good-sized scallops.
A pretty way to dress up the sofa is to
make a long and narrow scarf. This
may bo of any handsome material, but
it must be long enough to tie in a loose
and graceful knot ; this is to be placed at
tho top and in tho centre of tho back,
and the ends aro to be spread out and
must bo fastened in place to the cushions
of the sofa. If fringe is used to decorate
the onds it should bo soft and silky, and
not bo in balls; if made with tastu this
is a pleasing chango from tidies.
An ornamental and convenient wall-
pocket is made by covering a large palm
leaf fan with silk. If the silk is thin,
put a sheet of white wadding under it,
so that the ribs in the fan will not show
The silk must bo put smoothly over it.
The handle of the fan must, when it is
hung on the wall, bo at the left hand
side, not inclined at all, but pointing
straight toward tho left. A pocket ia to
be shirred on across tho fan ; it is cut
rounding at the bottom and straight
across the top. At the top of the pocket
put a bow of ribbon. Abovo the pocket
on tho plain silk, woik in delicato grey
etching silk, a spider's web, and at one
side pin on a metal spider, which can bo
obtained at a millinery store. This
makes a pretty ornament for tho wall of
any room.
Pretty curtains for the dining room
are mane oi plain coioreu material,
whether Canton flannel, cretonne or sat-
teen ; on the edge put a broad band or
border of flowered cretonne. This
should be worked with crewels and silk,
and a little gilt thread may be used with
excellent effect If the outlines of the
figures alone are worked, and only a few
stitches here and there in the centre of
the flowers, yon will still have without
great labor, a very elegant curtain
These certains are particularly pretty
and appropriate for winter, and working
the border will furnish pleasant employ
ment for odd moments.
To make a hanging scrap basket take
a silver, gilt, or gayly colored folding
Japanese fau; remove the iiet; also cut
tho stiff end-sticks off; join tho two
paper ends together, and fasten with
mucilage. As soon as this is dry gather
the sticks at the bottom to a point, and
run through them a wire, twisting the
ends together to h"ld the sticks in place.
Weave a bright satin ribbon, about an
inch wide, in and out of the sticks, and
tio through tho point a bow of the samo
satin ribbon, with ends hanging from it.
around the inside of the paper part of
tho fan, which is at the top of the bosket,
paito a narrow piece of still" paper to hold
the basket out. Make a loop of ribbon
three-eighths of a yard long, the onds of
which aro to bo fastened to cither side
of tho basket Finish where tho joining
is, by a bow of ribbon, and two bows to
hide the seam on the paper pait of the
fan. The baskets are convenient to
hang besido the dressing table as re
ceptacles for scraps, or for holding
articles of usefulness.
CHOICE RECIPES.
Baked Tomatoes. rut six large, ripo
tomatoes, with their stalks cut off, into
u well buttered pie dish ; sprmklo pep
per nnd salt over them and cover with
finely grated bread crumbs ; bake from
half to threo-qnartors of an hour in a
moderately hot oven. Slico the toma
toes before baking.
Plain Tomatoes Sliced. If tho taste
of garlic is not disliked, rub a dish slight
ly with cut garlic, slico tho tomatoes
into very thin slices, lay these slices on
the dish, sprinklo well with pepper and
pour somo vinegar over just before
served, but do not let tho tomatoes stand
in tho vinegar.
Tomatoes and Onions. Pare six to
matoes, peel and cut two small onions
into little pieces, put them into a lined
saucepan with a little water and allow
them to boil until quite tender; then
add tho tomatoes, season well with pep
per and salt, and simmer altogether for
twenty minutes ; then add two eggs well
beaten, only after the eggs are added the
mixture must not boil, but simmer very
gently; serve on toast, and then hot.
N. B. Eight" button mushrooms may bo
substituted for the onions in this recipe ;
they should be stewed instead of boiled,
a little milk being used and the eggs put
in with them instead of being added af
terward, the yolks being well beaten up ;
a dash of lemon juico or vinegar should
be addefl beforo serving.
Blackberry Cordial. Blackberry cor
dial is a home-made medicine of much
value during August as a remedy for
diarrhoea : To ono quart of blackberry
juice add one pound of whito sugar, one
tablespoonful each, of cloves, cinnamon,
nutmeg and allspice Boil all together
for fifteen or twenty minutes, take from
the fire and add a wino-glass full of
brandy or Jamaica rum. Whilo still
hot put in bottles with stout corks, and
seal if not intended for immediato uso.
A tablespoonful three or four times a
day is the usual dose, though in sevoro
cases it may be increased to a small wino
glass full.
Layering a Rose Bush. A writer in
ono of tho agricultural newspapers says
that a rose bush may bo layered with
littlo trouble, and then tells how to do
it. Make a narrow trench, threo or four
inches deep where a good, well grown
shoot can bo boiit into it. After bloom
ing, in Juno cut a slit in tho shoot se
lected at tho point whero it will touch
tho soil into tho cut, bend tho cane down
to tho bottom of the trench and fasten it
there with some pegs, and cover it well
with soil. By fall it will bo a rooted
plant, and can bo cut away and trans
planted. Castor Beano for Moles. A corre
spondent of tho Gardener's Monthly at
tests that tho old remedy, dropping cas
tor oil beans in tho runs of moles is ad
equate. A pint will rid an acre of land
from them. Thrust tho forefinger into
the mole hole, put in a single bean and
cover up tho fiuger hole with a bit of
earth, chip, stouo, or clod to keep out
tho light. The molo will bo hiuc to eat
tho bean and it is death to him. Also in
planting corn in fields whero this pest
abounds, if a seed is dropped o c.ibiunul
ly in a hill, tho mole will cut it in pre
fcionce to tho corn.
His Success.
Financially an 1 socitlly are duo to hisejed
lent health If his system were clogged ami
feverish, no doubt he would fail as many
others do. Bat why cot enjoy good health
when one cau please the palate at the ume
time? Syrup of figi is not only pleaiant to
the taste, Itabocleantes the system thoroaj li
ly, yet painlessly; it is barmltss in its nature,
and strengthens the organs on which it acU
so thtt regular habit may be formed, and
the aoffrrer permanently restored to health
and nappinew. Sample bottles free and
large bottle for salo by J. J, Bnggs,
THE BIRD PARLIAMENT.
One day the birds all met together
To have a talk about the weather
The crow, the daw, the dove, the jty,
The lark, the linnet?, brown and gray,
The sparrow from the cottage eaves,
The finch and wheat-ears from the sheaves,
The thrush nud blackbirds from the brake,
The Bwan and heron from the like,
The snipe and woodcock from the sedpes,
The wren snd robbin from the dedges,
The hawk and eagle from the rock,
And from the farm the turkey cock,
And many others great and small
So many I can't name them all.
(The bat and owl both stayed at home,
For only in the night they roam,)
0, such a cackling, screening, shrieking,
Whistling, and at y noise but speaking,
Till it was time to go to bed,
That not a single thing was said.
OUR LETTER BOX.
It is so thoughtful in our little friends
to keep on writing this nice summer
time. Last week there was not ono let
tor left to commence on for this week.
It had always been a rulo not to uso tho
very last one, but wo havo confidence
now that somo ono will romomber tho
Circle.
Lizzies sends a letter she has written
to Grace Buford to the Letter Box, so
that wo may all havo tho benefit of read
ing it. It is a good idea, for wo all have
tho pleasure of seeing it, and Graco loses
nothing by letting us havo it first. Per
haps Graco will send the answer in the
same way. Just think of living soven
miles from school ; it seems ns if in an
as old settled region as ''Foster's" there
might have been school houses built
convenient to every one.
Martha sends a letter too, enclosed
her sister's. Tho letter is so nicely
written and so well expressed that we
should not think it was soven miles to
a school house. Aunt Hetty would like
so much to see thoso littlo girls and soo
the chickens, turkeys and other pets
they have to take care of. There is a
great deal of pleasure in tho caro of an
imals, and if they are well treated they
will develop a great deal of intelligence,
they soon learn that a kind hand minis
ters to their wants. Aunt Hetty has a
pet just now in a goblet, a funny sort of
one, too. We let a man put some young
trees in a corner of our nursery, just for
accommodation ; it seems now that those
young trcos woro infected with an in
sect called "borers," and these insects
got into our own young trees, so wo had
to dig about the roots of every ono of
tho troes to find thom so much for be
ing accommodating. Well, Aunt Hetty
put somo of tho "crysalis," or cocoons in
some dirt in a goblet and covered it over
to sco what sort of a millor it was. Ono
has hatched out, and every day wo put
in fresh plum leaves for it to feed on.
Tho miller is almost black and lina long
pretty wings. Tho timo is coming when
we shall all have to fight for what fruit
wo get, just as thoy do in California and
tho Eastern Statos. But if every ono
would watch and kill thoy could not in
crease so fast. Ono lady told mo last
week that a largo fiold of corn and beans
that they had planted was entirely oaten
up by cut worms, and sho was euro it
was becauso many robbins died lust
spring in tho cold weathor. Tho birds
aro our best friends, and wo must sco
that they aro protected. Tho same lady
Baid that boys como from town and shot
everything thoy could find and then
threw them away, thoy just seemed to
kill for tlm lovo of destruction. Every
ono ought to put up a trespass notice,
and then punish any ono who shot on
their promises.
Allio writes for tho first timo, and a
very good letter, too ; not many could do
so well at nino years old.
Dclmau has been camping ; thoso Sil
ver creek falls aro lovoly, ono of tho most
charming spots in Oregon. By next
year Dclman will bo nblo to help more
in the fiolds; yet it is a great help to get
cool, fresh water, and it is no littlo thing
to carry water through tho hot sun. Bo
faithful in small things, it is a good pre
paration for greater things. Then
there is no greater help to mother
than to know somo ono is taking caro (J
baby, somo one that rbo can trust nud
can bo sure thut ho will bo kind and
faithful.
Fostkh, Or., July 18, 1881.
Dear (Iracio Buford ;
I think it is a nico plan to correspond
with oncanother and get acquainted
better. I live away out hero so far fioni
any of tho other children that I write to
the Homo Circle. There aro somo that
write from Ccntorvillo, but I do not
know them ; wo live 80 miles from Cen
tervillo, wo came through there moving
out here it is a pretty littlo town.
Grace, havo you any chickens and tur
keys? I love to raise chickens and tur
keys and take caro of "them. I liko the
children's corner in tho Faumkh the best
of all. My father has gone to tho moun
tains; I would like to go to tho moun
tains berry-picking, I think it would be
nice. Thoy aro talking of building a
school-houso around hoie beforo long,
and then I will bo glad, for I can go to
school then, wo live seven miles from
any school-house. "Wo havo a canary
bird, his namo is Harry, ho is a beautiful
singer ; wo have threo pet calvos and two
colts, ono of tho colts is black and tho
other bay; wo are milking throe cows.
Well, Grace, I think you arc a nice girl,
and I would liko to soo you. Grape, let
us hear from you. How many others
aro going to keop up a correspondence
with each other. From your friend,
Lizzie Paukkk.
Fostkh, Or., July 10, 1884.
Editor Homo Circle:
I am a girl 11 years old; my father
has gono to the mountains and I havo
to herd tho cows whilo ho is gone. As
others ore telling what pets thoy havo I
will tell what mino are, I have got a calf
and his name is Chorry ; I havo a colt,
her name is Daisy ; I havo a hen and
chickens. I havo a sister, her namo is
Myrtle, and sho is ns swoct ns sho can
be. From your friond,
Maktha A. Pakkihu
Haumony, Or., July 17, 1881.
Editor Home Circle :
As I have never written tothoFAiiMEU
I thought I would, us all tho other littlo
boys and girls are. I am nino years old.
Threo of my aunlB and ono of my uncles
havo gono to tho mountains ; ono of my
uncles nnd grandpa arc building a woll
house ; I go to tchool, my studies aro
third render, mental arithmetic and spoi
ler, but our school is out now; I got a
card the last day. Ai.mi: D. Phillips.
Wheatland, Or., July 20, 1884.
Editor Home Circle:
I have been having such n nico time
lately that I almost forgot tho Circle
Since I wrote beforo wo havo all been to
Silver creek falls and Mohama ; the falls
are grand, tho water pours down over
the rocks into a very deop holo and falls
in a light mist that looks liko snow ;
papa thinks the water falls at least one
hundred and fifty feet. Wo had a fino
timo camping, cnught some splendid
trout, gotfa fow blackberries, it was too
early for many to be ripo ; sinco wo came
homo 'wo nil wont to the river bottom
and gathered a nico lot mamma has
about fifteen gallons put up. Tho grain
is getting ripo very fast ; tho rain last
week did somo damage but if it don't
rain any moro pnpn can save most of
ours. I can't help in tho field so I take
caro of baby and carry water to tho mon.
Dei-van Pettyjohn.
Houcy for Boje and Girls.
Children would rather oat hi end and
honey than bread and butter. Ono
pound of honey will go as far as two
pounds of butter, and has, besidos, tho
advantage of being fur moro healthy
and pleasant tasting. It always remains
good, whilo butter soon becomes rancid,
and sometimes produces cr.imp and di
arrhoea. Honey eaten on wheat broad
is very beneficial to hc.ilth. It is a com
mon cxprcHsion that honey is a luxury,
huving nothing to do with the lifc-giv-ing-principle.
This is an oiror honey
is food in ono of its most concentrated
forms. Truo, it doos not add so much
to tho growth of muscle ns does boef
hteak, but it docs impart other propor
tion no less necessary to health and phys
ical and intellectual action.
Infants and Children '
Without Morphine or Nnrootlnc.
What ulics our Children rosy cheeks.
What cures their fevers, nmVi them sleep;
Tl 'tirla.
When Babies fret, and err hy turns, J
What cure their colic, kills Ihclr worms,
lint flimturlq.
What qulolilr cures Constipation, .,
Bour Stomach, ColAt, ludigHHtlon i 1
Hut Cattorlaw
Farewell then to Morphine Byrupa,
CatUir Oil and l'arecuric, and
HKllOxtnrla.
Contour Llnlmont.-An D.
aolnto caro for Rheumatism,
Sprains, Barns, Glls, etc., akd aa
Instantaneous PalnreIlTr.
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