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HOUSEKEEPING A PLEASURE.
As a housekeeper I am not old enough
to go back to the the spinning- wheel and
the homespun products in memory, but
rny recollection covers pretty thoroughly
the period in which many of the many
primi-time methods in housekeeping
handed down from colonial times were
still in vogue, -with all that they implied
of unremitting drudgery. It was literally
true in those times that "woman's work
Was never done." Nor could it be, no
matter how early begun in the morning
or how late carried on into the night.
My back still aches every time I recount
the old vault 'with the daily skimming
and the daily carrying of the pans of
sour milk lip two flights of stairs a task
that in my house has been superseded by
the separator, and a great deal of
slavish, exhausting, back breaking work
thus gotten rid of.
Monday, since time out of mind, has
been set apart as washday and I can
well remember when it was often a day
to be dreaded, especially in the winter,
when, with knuckles rubbed sore on the
wash board I sallied out in the freez-
ing weather to hang the fast stiffening
clothes on the line. How many women
in past generations have contracted con-
sumption by going from the hot, steam-
ing kitchen into a keen January air to
Hiang the clothes on the line, the world
will never know, but the number is no
doubt appalling. It is true that even with
the help of the best modern inventions
•clothes will not wash themselves; but
the washing machine, the wringer, and
the modorn soaps have done much to
lighten the burden of wash-day, and the
end of improvement in this respect is not
yet.
If wash-day was a terror in winter in
my girlhood, ironing day in August was
scarcely less to be dreaded. And even
now there is Jio royal road to laundered
linen; hut the drudgery has been greatly
modified by the relegation of shirts and
collars and cuffs to the village laundry,
while the charcoal iron, and the discovery
that it is not absolutely essential that
Ironing should be put through at one
session, have modified the labor. But
there is a great light just ahead in res-
pect to I he laundry. The electric iron is
one of the most blessed inventions of the
time. To be sure, it is possible only to
those who live on electric lines, but the
snread of these lines will in time make
this device possible in every farmhouse.
It costs hut a cent or two an hour to run
an electric iron. There is no heated stove
nor hot iron handle to make a summer
atmosphere unbearable, but instead,
only a sufficient heat in the bottom of the
iron to allow of its doing its appointed
work, while ail else Is cool and com-
fortable.
Only second to wasli-day in my girl-
hood was balte-day, which by universal
custom was 'relegated to hangman's day
—Friday. The incredible number of
loaves of bread pans of rusks and rows
of pies that were turned out on that day,
S'-omed sufficient to last the household a
month, and yet it was neeessnry to re-
plenish the stock every week. What
troubles with yeast that had lost its
leavening power; what hours spent in
kneading the dough, and in making the
pics! The patent yeast cake and the pa-
trnt bread mixer have, to a large extent,
taken away the labor of hake-day, and
the discovery of the too Intimate connec-
tion between pies and dyspepsia has had
the wholesome effect of cutting out the
pits to a large extent, and thus lighten-
ing the housekeeper's labors.
I will not trespass upon your space
further to tell how the substitution of
rugs and painted floors for heavy carpets
has further lightened the toil of the
housewife; nor how tne shirtwaist and
the ready-made suit have removed a
mountain of dressmaking worry. Be-
cause of these things I have time, while
still being called a good housekeeper, to
read the magazines, to rest myself
whn I am tired, and to fight off crow's
foot and wrinkles, so that* at an age
when my poor overworked grandmother
was in caps, I manage to pass for a well
preserved woman with a real interest in
life.—Housekeeper in Farm Journal.
  TOILET PREPARATIONS.
Because the farm woman's means are
limited, and because she lives far from
a drug store are no reasons why she
should not enjoy the benefit and com-
fort of toilet preparations. On the farm
she can procure far more efficacious
beautiiiers than her city sister.
In the first place she has rain water
the basis of all skin beauty; then next
in importance comes cream, milk, but-
ter milk, eggs, etc. One must go to the
country if she would enjoy these pro-
ducts in their pristine purity.
To apply 'these beautlfier® takes a lit-
tle time morning and night, but it is well
spent in the added self respect and com-
fort enjoyed. We busy women spend too
little time in personal betterment, and
these few hints will show us how easy it
is to make a good appearance, if our gen-
eral health good.
course, if there be any sort of
trouble chronic or otherwise a physician
should be consulted, and his advice fol-
lowed, for it is impossible for any to
expect to have a clear fresh complexion
if there be anything the matter with
the stomach, liver, etc.
Make it a rule to wash the face and
hands in warm water, using some good
soap just before retiring; use a stiff nail
brush and plenty of soap and scrub un-
til the hands are as clean as may be.
Always take care to rinse all the soap
away, using cold water for the last ap-
plication. Then take a towel and push
the skin back from tlie nails.
If Clie face is red and rough apply
sweet cream after washing as above. If
tlie skin is chapped use one c  the other
remedy given below for this trouble
Buttermilk is a tan and freckle remcv-
er and ;o are vinegar and cucumber juice
Grated horseradish root soakg^ji in milk,—
two teaspoonful to a cup of sweet milk-
is also excellent. It should be applied
twice a day—morning and evening.
Freckles can also be removed by boaf-
tity of lemon juice and a teaspoonful
of powdered borax to each white of egg.
Apply freely to to the hands and face.
Remember that freckles indicates plen-
ty of iron in the blood, and while cer-
tain agents help to remove them they are
usually back again when the skin is ex-
posed to the sun and wind. So eternal
vigilance is the price of a freckless skin
as well as other things.
Equal parts of soda and table salt
make a good dentrifice, and so does
powdered charcoal.
One part yolk of egg and two parts of
warm water beaten and applied to the
hair as a shampoo is unsurpassed for
cleansing the hair and making it grow,
and when you want a dry shampoo try
an application of the fine table salt. Rub
it into the roots of the hair and then
brush out until every particle of salt has
been removed from the hair.
Buttermilk is a beautifier. and should
i *'ikon inwardly and applied outwardy.
This applies also to sweet and sour milk.
THE UNLOOKED FOR GUESTS.
There is a certain time when the house-
wife is worried and dismayed and has
to hide both emotions, and that is when
unexpected company comes. Often gu';.-ts
aunt after the midday tnill, and the
pjantry is "bare". However, if a little
forethought is usel, and certain tilings
kept on hand in a convenient place, tho
housewife n"ced not be troubled, for it
will not take her long to get up a pal-
atable meal. Of course it is not to bo
cxpected that you furnish unt ivited
efts a bar.-uct O" ven a n-cular din-
ner, and why should you? It is well
enough to do so if you have two or
three servants to do your bidding but
we who depend upon our own two hands
to do everything in the culinary line can-
not do so.
Instead get a quick but substantial
lunch for them. Above all do not show
tnv worry or haste, and if you will
STOP WOMAN
AND CONSIDER
First, that almost every operation
in our hospitals, performed tipon
women, become# necessary because
of neglect of such symptoms as
Backache, Irregularities, Displace-
ments, Pain in the Side, Drag-pin^
Sensations, Dizziness and Sleepless-
ness.
Second, that Lydia E, Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from
native roots and herbs, has cured
more cases of female ills than any
other one medicine known. It reg-
ulates, strengthens and restores women's health and is invaluable in
preparing women for child-birth and during the period of Change
of Life.
Third, the great volume of unsolicited and grateful testimonials on
file at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn, Mass., mauy of which are from
time to time being published by special permission, give absolute evi-
dence of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aud Mrs.
Pinkham's advice.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
For more than 30 years has been curing Female Complaints, such as
Dragging Sensations, Weak Back, Falling and Displacements, In-
flammation and Ulceration, and Organic Diseases, and it dissolves
and expels Tumors at an early stage.
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women
Women suffering from any form of female weakness arc invited to
write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. for advice. She is the Mrs. I'iulcham who
has been advising sick women free of charge for more than twenty
years, and before that she assisted her mother-in-law, Lydia E. Pink-
ham in advising. Thus she is especially well qualified to guide sick
women back to health. Write today, don't wait until too late.
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keep the fo .owing articles of fovl tn
yjur pa 'try or ciiboard you will l*  f.lle
to £,et the'" a IT.ff.ll willingly an 1 quit li-
ly and have plenty of time to spend in
their company and enjoy their visit.
nam, bacon and chipped beef should bo
standbys on the farm. Oysters too, as
fliey can be quickly made into soup;
sa'mon can be eaten as it comes from
the cin or a salad dresjing a'd.:; cab-
bage for slaw, eggs in var.v.y, cheese,
crackers, canned beans, tomatoes and
corn are quickly prepared; canned fruit
with crackers or cookies may form the
dessert. It is well to have a bottle of sal-
ad dressing, pickles, preserves, jelly and
the like in the pantry for these vevy
emergencies. It Is well also to have a
fecond best table cloth and napkins re-
served for these very tim'es.
Farm and Stock 
BROILING AND ROASTING.
If .housewives understood more fully
the pro'cet--scs of broiling, roasting and
boiling, there would be less complalnt*of
tough tasteless meat. The principles un-
derlying all three methods is identical;
the difference liqs in the medium employ-
ed. In all, the object to be attained is to
first quickly sear the exferior of the meat,
thus-coagulating the surface albumen and
effectually sealing the juices. The cook-
ing then proceeds more slowly to a finish,
the time required hinging, as a matter of
course, upon the size of the cut.
In broiling and in roasting, which are
in reality the same, the name depending
upon the nature of the place of meat, this
hardening of the exterior is accomplished
by exposing the meat to the direct action
of the heat, wTiich must be intense enough
to sear the surface at once. When it is
not, the juices seep out, leaving the meat
tasteless and. sacrificing its nutritive
qualities.
In boiling meat, surface coagulation is
attained by immersing the meat in poll-
ing water and keeping up the tempera-
ture for a minute. One of the prelimin-
ary rules of boiling, one which should
he indelibly ifnpressed upon every coot-,
Is that water cannot be heated to ihc
proper temperature for boiling (212 de-
grees) in an open vessel nor in one
With an indifferently fitting cover. An-
other point, equal in importance to the
first, is that when water begins to boil
a quicker fire is absolutely necessary
to keep it boiling results merely Jn wast-
ing the water in the form of steam and
so hardens the exterior of the meat as
to prevent the heat penetrating to the
interior.
—The February Housekeeper.
NEWS OF INTEREST.
Many farmers do not realize the
immense advantages and labor-saving
possibilities in the telephone. By its
use, one may learn from city or vil-
lage the state of the market, the prob-
able demand, any shortage that
exists, and be prepared to take ad-
vantage of it pljmptiy, while Mr.
Slowpoke is finding out too late that
there was a brisk demand for the
very goods ho had to sell. Market
reports in weekly papers are ancient
history when received these days.
What we want is advance informa-
tion. The telephone was certainly
the most valuable invention of the
last half century, and none have ben-
efitted more by it than farmers. They
cant now sell their stuff in whole or
in part before leaving home and do
not, as formerly, have to take the
risk of driving to town with a load
only to find the market glutted. There
is no excuse now for making such
mistakes as this and it is safe to say
that no farmer who understands his
business is ever caught in such a
trap.
A remarkable feature of last year's
crop yields was the showing for the
sugar beet. The production was
about 450,000 long tons, valued at
$40,000,000, an increase of about $33,-
000,000 in seven years.
The rich Indiana farmer who is
vfng his automobile to pump water
and run his corn slieller may not have
a poetic soul, but isn't he intensely
practical?
Sulphate of copper is said to be one
of the longest used and most effective
remedies for round worms in horses.
It also gives good results in the treat-
ment of stomach worms in sheep and
tapeworms in calves, lambs and kids.
During experiments in drenching ani-
mals with a solution of sulphate of
copper it was found that goats were
more resistant to this drug than
sheep. Goats were given as much as
forty grains of sulphate of copper and
four ounces of water without harm,
no inflammation being caused in the
mucous membranes of the stomach.
In the preliminary experiments with
sulphate of copper in treating lambs,
however numerous cases of the pois-
onous effects of this substances won
seen and many deaths were caused.
Woman's
' Bad
Days
Cardui Relieves Pain
caused by curable female diseases. It acts directly on woman's delicate
organs, and restores their natural activity. By making the organs work
normally, pain disappears, strength returns to the system, roses'to the
cheeks, and the frowns and wrinkles of suffering are seen no more. Mrs.
Lucinda Johnson, of Walworth, Wis., writes: "I suffered agonies at
every monthly period.
zd me un- WINE
Nothing helped me
til I took Cardui. Now
I can truly say I am
cured." Try it.
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