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For Woman’s Work.
BESSIE’S SECRET.
•‘I know the nicest secret,”
Cries bonny little Bess,
Her golden curlsail flying,
“You’ll never, never guess,--
There’s something up at our house
That cries and cries and cries ;
Its head is smooth as Grandpa’s,
And has such little eyes!
“Its face is red—just awful,
With such a funny nose,
It has such little fingers.
And such a lot of toes !
It isn’t very pretty—
Not half so nice as me—
But Mamma calls it ‘darling’.
And ‘sweet as -sweet can be.’
“It isn’t a new dolly,
For dolls can’t breathe, you know,
Its—O, I almost told you
Good-bye, I’ve got to go,
I want to run and kiss it,”—
Away flew little Bess,
And never told the secret—
I leave you all to guess.
Florence A. Jones.
For Woman’s Work.
“FOGY HILL” PAPERS.
BY AUNT ALTHEA.
INNER had been over two hours;
| I had had my afternoun nap, and
thought I would go out on the front
piazza and read the papers until
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time to set the rolls to rise for supper. It
was a pleasant place to sit on a summer
day, with the scent of roses in the air,
with humming birds and butter-flies
flitting among the flowers, and every
thing looking so peaceful and contented—
from the Jersey calf, grazing on the lawn,
to the little white kitten asleep on the
doorstep. I had just settled my glasses
and opened the paper, when I heard wheels
on the dusty road, and a moment later a
gentleman entered the front gate. I didn’t
know him at first, and then I saw it was
Jake—Jake West, who used to live in the
little cottage half a mile from Fogy Hill
(our place), and who moved with his
family to the city last fall. 1 had nursed
Jake when he was a baby, and you may
know I was glad to see him.
• “Well, well,” said I, “so you have
thought of old friends at last! It is time
you were coming to see me. And how are
Mary and the children ?”
“Pretty well, Aunt Althea, though Ma
ry isn’t quite so strong as usual, and the
children are rather ‘ cross”, said Jake, as he
took ofl his hat and wiped the perspira
tion from his face. “And what’s the mat
ter with you?” said I, taking a good look
at him.
“Oh,” replied he, lightly, “I guess I am
not as sunburnt as I was on the farm.”
“You do look pale,” said I, “and—hun
gry.”
Jake laughed.
“You’ve hit it, as usual, Aunt Althea ;
I am hungry—the fact is, I believe I have
been so ever since I was last at Fogy
Hill.”
“Come right along,” said I, jumping up,
“you shan’t say that in my house. Go
right in my room and bathe your sac
you will find fresh water and towels there
—and then you know the way to the din
ing-room.”
In the meantime I put a lunch on the
table. There was a remnant of chicken
pie, some of our boiled, home-cured ham,
plenty of light, sweet, bread, made from
home-raised flour, a bit of mashed potato,
and I sliced some tomatoes while I sent
Rilda to the dairy for a pitcher of cool,
fresh buttermilk. He did have an appe
tite, to be sure! It did me good to see him
eat, as I sat and chatted with him.”
“And how is Mary fixed up for house
keeping?” asked I.
“ Well, you know we just have apart
ments, ’’replied he, hesitatingly.
“I hope Mary has a nice, convenient
kitchen,” said I.
“No, she hasn’t, Aunt Althea. Not a
real kitchen —but she has a can-opener!”
“Mercy! what is that?” exclaimed I.
“She doesn’t cook with one of those things,
does she ?”
“Oh, no,” said Jake, with a sigh, as he
poured another glass of buttermilk. “But
somehow it seems to do away with a kitch
en. You see Mrs. Smart advised Mary
not to be bothered with domestic work, so
she would have more time for the “Wo
man’s Improvement Club” and reform and
charitable work. So we got a can-opener.”
“Dear me,” said I, rather dumbfounded.
“Don’t you have a stove, and cook what you
eat, like anybody else? How’s a can-open
er to make bread and waffles, chicken pie,
or anything else?”
“Oh, we buy bread at the 'maker’s, and
we don’t have waffles or chicken pie, or
anything else—much.”
“ Baker’s bread I” exclaimed I, “and how
do you and Mary like that, when you have
been used to fresh bread three times a day,
all your lives?”
“Well, it isn’t much like this," said
Jake, as he took another slice. “And we
do miss the hot corn muffins and waffles and
batter-cakes. Oh, we have several kinds of
crackers, and canned beef and potted ham,
and all that, until I loathe the sight of
a tin can, and wish such a thing as a can
opener had never been invented.”
“And don’t you have any vegetables ?”
“Oh, yes! canned corn and canned to
matoes, and sometimes Mary gets what
they call fresh vegetables, and cooks them
in a little boiler on a little oil stove-- but
somehow they don’t taste like vegetables
did in the country; and we have soup,
sometimes, made of canned stuff and a
wonderful extract of beef.”
“Poor boy,” said I, almost tearfully,
“no wonder you look thin! And how
can Mary and the children stand it?”
“The children do get tired of condensed
milk—they are not thriving, I fear. Os
course Mary doesn’t have much ‘domestic
drudgery,’ as Mrs. Smart calls it, but some
how she doesn’t look as well as she did on
the farm, when she made bread and but
ter with her own hands. She has plenty
of time to go out with Mrs. Smart to see
about charity work.”
“Charity work, indeed!” exclaimed I.
“But I won’t keep you here if you are done
eating; go out on the piazza, where it is
cool, and when I put these things up, 1
will tell you what I think of all this fool
ishness.”
Jake obeyed and I soon joined him.
“Now, Jake,” said I, “I mean to give
you a plain piece of my mind.”
“Yes, ma’am,” replied he, cheerfully.
“It is not the first time I have been favor
ed that way, you know.”
“Nor the last, I reckon, for you need
somebody to keep you straight, and who
can do it if I can’t—who nursed you
through the measles and whooping cough,
and have done the same for your children?
I boiled milk for you when you were a
baby, and baked your wedding cake, and
since vou lost your own mother, no one
has taken more interest in you than I have.
Now, Jake West, let me tell you what is
my firm conviction; these Mrs. Smarts
and can-openers spoil about as many homes
as anything I know. These new-fangled
women are very much afraid of a little do
mestic drudgery. They want more time
for clubs and all that. I reckon they get
it, and nearly starve their folks to death
on canned things! Oh, I haven’t a thing
to say against the clubs—they are all right
in their way; the world needs reform bad
enough, goodness knows—but nothing
ought to interfere with a woman’s duty to
her family. One duty is to see that they
are provided with good, wholesome food;
she must not only have the right kind, but
it must be properly cooked. It is a wo
man’s first business to keep house and tend
her children, and it is a sin for her to
trust it to anyone else. Let her nurse her
own babies and make her own bread, I
say,—bless you, it won’t hurt her! I hear
a lot about physical culture these days. I
reckon your Mrs. Smart attends her
physical culture class with its Indian clubs
and dumb-bells. Now, let me tell you, as
good physical culture as there is in the
world, is sweeping, making beds, churn
ing, and kneading dough; it’s the kind
my mother had, and she didn’t lack
development. It’s the kind I get, and I
don’t want to join any classes; I take about
as many movements as there are in the
Delsarte system, or any other system, be
fore I get through with my house-work
every day. It’s the kind of exercise Na
ture intended for women, and that is just
what ails Mary now—she needs the healthy,
natural life she used to have.
“Can-openers, indeed I
“Time for reform work! Jake West,
you’ve got a good wife, but she is just as
wrong as if she wasn’t. Os course, it is
that Mrs. Smart. Let her keep house with
a can-opener if she wants to; I want Mary
to keep her’s in the old-fashioned way, and
to raise her children like her mother raised
her. Whatever time she finds outside of
that, for charity work, she is welcome to—
and I think she will do about as much
good in the world as your Mrs. Smarts.
“Now, I have a proposition to make you;
go right back to those apartments and
bring Mary and those children here to
me!”
“That sounds more like a command than
a proposition,” said Jake, laughing.
“Well, I mean it,” said I.
“Auut Althea,” said Jake, soberly, “1
am not sc blind to facts as you may think.
I am tired of that way of living, and so is
Mary. The truth is, I have sold out the
business in the city, and if you can take
charge of Mary and the children awhile,
until the renters are out of the cottage, we
will fix it up this fall and start over again.”
“And live like rational beings!” ex
claimed I, “and Mary will be well and
happy again, the children will have
fresh milk and butter and eggs, and plen
ty of sunshine, and green grass to play on.
Jake, when people have children to raise
WOMAN’S WORK.
it won’t do to stay in apartments —they
need a real home to live in. lam glad
you and Mary have got some sense be
tween you. Now, I will go and set the
rolls to rise for supper, and then you can
go in the garden with me to gather some
raspberries. I believe you like raspber
ries and cream for supper, and you can’t
get them with a can-opener, 1 reckon!
You come out in the kitchen directly and
I’ll be ready—it may do you good to see a
real, sure enough kitchen again. A can
opener, indeed! Don’t you ever bring
one of those things to Fogy Hill, Jake
West 1”
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1 Complete Alphabet.
1 Design Love Lies Bleeding6x7 in.
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. 2 Braiding Patterns.
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. 1 Sunflower 6 indies high.
1 Design Buttercup.
1 Braiding Pattern 5 in. wd.
1 Design Four Leaf Clover.
1 Spray Daisies 6 in. high.
1 Yacht 7 indies high.
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2 Designs for Pen Wipers. I x? —/I ’
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1 Design Nasturtium 9 inches high.
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1 Cluster of Buttercups 6 indies high.
1 Outline Design Girl Going to School
1 Design Daisies. [lO inches high.
1 Design Swallow on Bough 3x5 in.
1 Design of Pitcher for tray cloth.
1 Outline Design Boy with Bouquet 8
1 Clover Design. [indies high.
1 Outline Design for tidy 6x7 indies.
1 Spray Golden Rod 5-tnclies Ngb.
1 Outline Design of < Jiri 8 indies high.
1 Outline Design Girl 5 indies high.
1 Corner Design Daisies and Bachelor
1 Bunch Grapes. [Buttons Bxß indies.
1 Spray Forget-me-nots 7 indies high.
1 Design Rose Buds and Leaves.
1 Design Forget-me-nots and Lilies of
1 Frog. [tlie Valley 4x5 indies.
1 Design Rosea with Buds and Leaves
1 Spray Wheat. [5 inches high.
1 Cluster Apple Blossoms 4x5 indies.
1 Spray Daisies 4)4 inches high.
1 Outline Design Girl 6 indies high.
1 Design Wild Roses 5 Inches higli.
1 Girl Rolling Hoop 4 inches high.
1 Half Wreath Daisies Bxß indies.
11 Pretty Little Miss 7 inches high.
(1 Design Tiger Lily 6 incheshigh.
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outfit contains all the patterns named.
3 Designs of Roses and Buds.
1 Design of Lily 5 inches high.
1 Scallop Design with Corner.
I 2 Designs Forget-me-nots.
1 Wheat Design.
1 Carrier Pigeon 4x4 inches.
1 Star.
1 Spray Jonquil 5 inches high.
1 Spray Violet.
1 Design if or Glove Case.
1 Design Tulips 3 inches high.
1 Rabbit’s Head.
1 Design Snowball.
1 Design for Silk Embroidery
1 Design Violet. [2 in. wide.
1 Cluster Strawberries.
1 Spray Sumac 4 inches high.
1 Peacock’s Feather. ,
1 Bunch Cherries.
11 Calla Lily 4 inches high.
1 Design Pansy 3 inches high.
1 Design Leaf.
2 Discs 4 inches across.
1 Design May Flowers 3x4 in.
1 Design Horse.
1 Dromedary’s Head.
1 Cluster leaves 4x5 inches.
I Clover Design 4 inches high.
1 Tiger’s Head, etc., etc., etc.
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