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dozen people, and listen to a crying baby, the most
gorgeous sunset will not appeal to her.
The people who have to get their feet wet in the
dew are not the ones who can find diamonds in the
dew-drops. The beauties of nature are least ap
preciated by the very people nearest to it; and it is
due both to ignorance and lack of time.
It is asserted that a large percentage of the in
mates of the lunatic asylum are farmers’ wives,
which is not to be wondered at, if the matter is given
serious consideration by any one familiar with the
situation.
M. S. M
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ANSWER TO QUESTIONS.
Please tell me what is meant by pin money. My
grand-mother uses the expression all the time, when
referring to her allowance of spending money, but
she does not know where it originated.
Pins were invented in the fourteenth century.
They were scarce and expensive and they could be
bought only on the first and second days of January.
Ladies were given money on their marriage, or their
birthdays, with which to buy pins, and on the first
of the year they flocked to the stores and spent their
money for pins.
J. Ivy asks, “What was Belial? In reading the
Bible, I find this sentence in 1 Samuel, twelfth verse:
‘Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial.’ ”
Belial was the grossest and most worthless of the
evil spirits or devils, according to Hebrew tradition.
Milton says of him:
“Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd
Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love vice
for itself.”
The sons of Eli were evidently pretty bad fellows,
what we would call degenerate, today.
S. T. H. asks “Why do people say, ‘He had a fine
windfall,’ when going to tell about some one having
a fortune left them or being appointed to a good
office 7 ”
The expression is handed down from the days of
William the Conqueror, when it was a criminal of
fense to cut timber in the forests. The only wood
that was procurable was what had blown down,
therefore, a strong wind was hailed as a blessing.
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TRIP WITH A “BAD LUCK” ENGINE.
Friends of the Household, will you be interested
in hearing how I mis ed my Thanksgiving supper?
It was expedient for me to take a trip to Natchez,
on 'thanksgiving Day, and at six o’clock in the morn
ing cf that bright, balmy day, , I took passage on the
Mississippi Central, a new and prosperous railroad.
My little boy accompanied me. Mj wife declined to
go and was not willing that I and the boy should
make the little journey, her reason being that recent
ly there have been a number cf accidents and wrecks
cn this read. 1 confess that I felt some misgivings
when I saw our engine and recognized it as one that
had been in previous wrecks, and indeed was only a
few days out cf the repa r shop.
All went smoothly on the way to Natchez. The
engine behaved beautifully and we arrived in the
historic city of lefty bluffs and picturesque views, on
time, and spent an hour or so very enjoyably in
sight-seeing ard other ways. Cur return was on the
same train that brought us. The ill luck engine be
haved well at first, and I had dismissed all appre
hensions, when suddenly the cars shook with a heavy
jar and a grating sound came to our ears. I jumped
up and made my way to the platform. Looking out
I saw a startling sight. The baggage car had turned
completely over across a trestle that spanned a ra
vine, the trucks of the car being in a pile on the
trestle. The engine tender was half off the track,
one side high in the air with the water and coal
sliding out of the lower side. The baggage man had
made his escape out of the car. He stood outside,
pale with fright, his mouth covered with blood. The
front, trucks of the smoking car were off the track,
the engine was just beyond the trestle, only a few
feet. The engineer was at his post but the fireman
had jumped when he saw the tender was off the
track. It was certainly the work of Providence that
the entire train had not crashed to is ruin in he ra
vine below. As it was, only one passenger was
slightly hurt and the baggagemaster had his mouth
cut, when his car rolled over. There were between
seventy-five and a hundred passengers on the train.
We went with the conductor to the next station
where he obtained another engine, one box car and a
caboose. Returning with these to the wreck, the
passengers were all bundled into the two makeshift
cars —I found a seat on the top of the caboose —and
we started running backwards until we met the train
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from Hattiesburg, bound for Natchez, but not able
to proceed because of the wreck. The passengers
weie transferred to this train, which returned to
Hattiesburg, arriving half a nhour after mid
night. I had missed the pleasure of eating my
Thanksgiving supper, while it was hot, but I was
unmindful of that in my gratitude for the narrow
escape cf my dear little boy and myself. My wife
was so glad and thankful that she quite forgot to
use that feminine reproach, “I told you so.”
GEO. W. WHEELER.
Hattiesburg, Miss.
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IN THE PANTRY.
It seems to me that modern house-builders are not
as particular about having a pantry adjoin the
kitchen, as they were in old times. In my young
days the pantry was a very important adjunct.
Here my mother made cake and pies; here were
kept raisins, nuts, spices and other things that
gave the pantry—always spotlessly clean —a frag
rant smell. Behind the pantry door hung my
mother’s apron, and a large long towel on a roller.
The pantry is simply a large closet containing a
small screened window and many white poplar
shelves on which are ranged enameled pie pans and
cake pans, a sifter, a large yellow mixing bowl and
all the dishes and crockeryware in daily use. The
nice ware and glass was in the china closet in the
dining room. On one side of the pantry is the cup
board, with wire sides and door and two deep
drawers. Here is kept the cold left-over food, the
pies. etc. Spices and packages of fruit are kept in
one drawer, and knives, forks and spoons in another.
In large tinned boxes ranged under the rows of
shelves on one side of the pantry are the japan tin
boxes containing bread and cake, and other boxes
for f ’our, meal and pieces of cured meat.
The pantry has a table on which biscuit or cake
may be made. On this or in a deep drawer, is the
rolling pin. the wooden tray, tin dough cutters, etc.
It is nicer to make biscuit, pies and cake in the
pantry than in the kitchen, al o more comfortable
and convenient, everything being at hand. Often
preserves and jellies are kept in (he pantry, which
should always be delicately clean and cool.
MRS. JENNIE BATES.
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