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THE SUNNY SOUTH
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SOUTHERN HOIISHIOID
EDITORIAL CHAT.
Kitchen Talk - Garden Gossip-Home
Doctor - From Charleston-Let
ter from Grandma Love -
Her Five Scrapbooks.
SPEAKS UP FOR SOUTHERN BOYS.
Yankee Lass Once More - Bloom from the
Grape Good Out of Evil Kind Offers
from Mattie A Beautiful Lily.
CHEER THE HOUSEHOLD ON WANTED
Editorial Chat.
The “Household” occupies more space this
week than is strictly permissible; but it is
full of interest—vivacious, sparkling and in
structive.
Eugene Halit defence of “southern boys,”
is eloquent and forceful. His talk to the girls
is good; so is his plea in behalf of keeping up
appearances.
‘•Rjbel Girl” has our sympathy in the sigh
she gives that the bloom of refinement and
chivalry is brushed from the fruit of South
ern social life by the hard exigencies of the
“evil days.”
Grandma is cordially welcome. We see
her in our mind’s eye this moment—placid
brow, gold spectacles, snowy hair, firm, sweet
mouth, white lace ruffl s at dainty wrists,
dignity tempered by loving kindness and
ltrge sympathy. We hope grandma will
give the household the benefit of her rich
garnered experience.
The “Householders” are sure to help out
“little Kittie,” warm-hearted Mattie first
all.
Lilly Bell, you are too hasty in concluding
that “Yankee Lass and Lid,” are editorial
impositions. We have already assured you
that the former was a flesh-and-blood reality
and it is fair to conclude (is we do) that the
latter is also. As for the L isi, assuredly
‘ No myth but a genuine girl is she.”
Not two hours ago, she put her head in at
the sanctum door, looking fresh as a morning
glory at sunrise, a jaunty velvet cap perched
upon her blonde bangs, overswept by a long
shell pink feather. Showing a row of pearl-
teeth (her best charm) in a smile half meek,
half mocking she held out a roll of MS. say
iug: ‘ May I come into the Household—just
once, not t) throw a hot shot agaiH, honor
bright, only to say good bye. I am going
away to-morrow.” So here she is once again
to bear us out in the assertion that the
"Yankee Lass’” letter was no “put up job’
of the Colonel. Poor Colonel! If he ha#
so much as looked into the “Household,” it
more than we imagine. The proprietor of
widely circulated journal has little time for
anything outside the immense business cor
respondence of bis paper.
Garden Gossip
Flower Islands. Vick gives this new
dev ice f T ai ranging cut flowers. Get pie
ces of flit cork, perforate them with boles,
and through these stick the stems of your
fl »wers. The corks will float on the surface
of the water in your gioBU or chiua bowl
and the fl iwers with their stems in the wa
ter will keep fresh and make pretty minia
ture floating gardens. Beiug short of cork
we tried pieces of dried poplar root and
found them answer nicely.
The Flower Folks Who has
douoie pansy f A writer on flowers says
they were < nee quite common. They must
have been very handsome, but we prefer the
single ones. Pansies you know are the only
flowers with bum tn like physiognomies and
to have oilr fairy flower people with double
chins seems out of order somehow. ”
ammonia or common
nd relief.
Pansies
are propagated by not letting them go to
seed and dividing the roots. They are of
both sex*-8 and a florist tells the secret of
how different variet es are produced. Tne
process of “hybridizing” is this: We take
two species clossly allied, and cut out the
anthers of the female plan: before the pol
len dust appears. Tuen we apply to the
stigma the pollen dust of the kind we desire
to use as the male parent. Some delay a
day or so until, as they say, the pistil is
ready. But pollen will keep for years
fresh and good, and it may as well be lyiug
on the pistil as anywhere else till thestigmat
ic surface is ready for if
Mosaic Beds Much pleasure may be
derived from carpet or mosaic beds. Here is
a uesixn for a small, oblong bed of portula
cas. It can be made any time in tne sum
mer months by transplaming after the flow
ers come into bloom, so that you can know
the color of each plant. Remember that the
portulaca likes a sandy soil and hot sunshine,
in the center of the bed place one root ot
yellow; around it in a circle six wh'te ones,
then let the ground -work of the bed be crim
son, with corner pieces of rose-striped with
carmine, and a wide border around all
shaded from purplish ci imson through rose
color to white, and through yellow
and yeilowhh red back to ciimsou
again. Very pretty beds of this kind can
be made of two colors, using any low grow
ing plants such as sweet alyssum and asperu
Is.
For des'gns you can use geometrical fig
ures, small patterns for workiug on perfora
ted card-bosrd, and the like. Mark your
ground off into squares the number of inebes
wide that the plants you use should be set
a pi rt, and the pattern can be easily followed.
Dwarf bonquet astors are lovely for this
purp we. True, a bed of them is in perfec
tion only from two to four weeks, but while
they do last they are pretty enough to repay
one for the trouble.
Transplanting. Thorougly wet the soil
arouud tne plants you wish to take up, a few
hours before you are ready to begin the work
and the earth will then adhere to the roots se
that a good sized ball may be raised with
each. Have a cavity ready, deep enough to
rece.veit without crowding, and press the
soil aroui d it firmly as you fill it in ; water,
taking care not to disturb the newly placed
roots, and if the sun is very hot shade for a
day or two with newspapers.
Kitchen I’alk.
Tha French Pot au feu is a combination of
meat an 1 vegetables kept gently stewing un
til tne whole is a juicy, nutritious mass, It
iucludes a generous piece of eorned beef (or
fresh beet that has idin in salt awhile), salt
pork, carrots, cabbages, turnips, beans or
any other vegetable you have on hand,
V our recipe for broiling steak is a goo I
0 e, but mine is slightly different. I cut in
1 u.-h«thick slices, pouud sligotly with a pestle
and broil over good, clear coals. Then
sprinkle with salt and touch with butter and
serve at once. Our folks say it is “juri; splen
did.” Elinor.
peach Marmalade -When I peel peaches
to can, 1 put all sort or broken halves into
cold water to use for jam, which I make as
follow#: With a potato masher I mash the
peach as fine as I can: heat till just scalding
hot., and cool enough to sift through a due
colander. To each pint allow three quarters
of a pound of sugar: put it into the kettle to
gether and stir till tne sugar is melted, Boil
slowly half an hour, s'irnng nearly all the
time. It is very nice to use in cake puddings
in place of the fresh fruit, makes delicious
tarts, and is easily made.
We all want to encourage our brain devel
opment as much as possible, and the wise
ones tell us one w ay to do it is to eat fisn, as
the phosphorus they contain is capital brain-
food. Dell Dare tells ns how to fry a fish.
Salt it over night to make it more firm and
leas liable to break in turning. Fry some
slioee of fat pork and take out the pieces.
Drop your fish in the hot grease, having first
rolled it in Indian meal, and fry crisp and
brown. A fish can be nicely baked by pot
ting it between two thin slices of pork and
setting it in the stove; it can be stuffed if de
sired. But the best and most wholesome
way to cook fish is to broil them in that
splendid domestic invention, the double grid
iron. Then they can be turned without
breaking.
How I Make Mangoes.-I pick out a small,
grean muskmelon, take out a plug an inch
and a half wide, and two inches long from
the side, and clean oat the seeds. Attach the
Ding to the melon with needle and thread.
Poor hot brine over the melon and let it re
main oervered with <t over night and in the
morning renew the hot brine. When it is
cold take out the melon and fill it up inside
with chopped cabbage, tomatoes, small cu
cumbers, small onions, fnasturtion seed, thin
slices of horse radish, cloves, cinnamon bark,
salt, pepper and mustard seed. Sew the plug
back to its place, cover the melon with hot
vinegar, not very strong, leave till morning,
when poor off and cover with strong vinegar
boiling hot. Lucy.
The Home Doctor.
When bitten by any insect—musketo, bed
bug, wasp, etc., apj
soda and you will £
Hiccough effects some people very persist
ently, and where a simpler remedy does not
check it, a half teaspoonful of nitre in a half
tumbler of water is recommended as an in
stantaneous remedy.
A Few weeks ago, a lovely child, near oar
country home, died of lockjaw from sticking
a piece of glass in her little bare foot; and we
have read of several such deaths this sum
mer. They might in all probability have
been prevented had warm turpentine been
noured at mice into the wound. It will sure
1 y prevent lockjaw if applied in time.
Speaks up for Southern Boys.
With all deferenck to your sex and your
age. Aunt Tabby, I beg leave to say that I
disagree with you in several points of your
letter and notably where yon say of our
Southern boys, that, we have a few who are
energetic, but so many who spend their time
on the street as idlers.” Surely your locali
tv. Aunt Tabby, must be exceptional
Our observations in various sections prompt
us to declare that our young men of the South
are on an average industrious, manly anden
ergetic. Many of them lack opportunity to
show what is in them. The avenues of en
terprise are so densely crowded, that many
s ruggle for a livelihood in ignoble and un
congenial paths. But they bear up with
manly fortitude and are kind and helpful
sons, brothers and husbands.
I have often seen boys reared amid aristo
cratic traditions, serve faithfully under the
supervision of their fathers and when suffic
iently initiated to battle for themselves, g -
<>ut from home, leaving vacancies for young
er brothers and so on until all the family
were enabled to earn an honest living. I have
known numbers of cases where, when the old
comesteads and the broad acres had been lost
■h rough misfortune incident to war, the
young son, nurtured in affluence, took the
suppoit of the family upon his slender shoul
ders. built a shanty upon the morsel of land
the law allowed him and with energy and
cheerfulness worked industriously, in sigh'
too, of the noble old homestead where he first
saw the light. I have known young men ol
superior intellect leave college and give up a
career of distinction to take charge of a de
ceased father's family and follow without
complaint the daily humdrum dictates of
duty for their support. I do not know of a
single instance in which “a son is supported
ngi
in idleness by a hardworking father.” And
our Southern girls, God bless then* 1 Often
the very ones who find time to keep up the
various accomplishments learned at school.
>re also the neatest, most tkdiful little helps
in the world. The very pride that “Aunt
Tabby” denounces so strongly is the backbone
of society.
W e know two families who lived on ad
joining lot a One owned the house thev
cupied; but having met with reverses of for
r.une, found it necessary to go to work
Soured in disposition, they wore themselves
into ill health by continual frettings; they
ceased even making an effort to appear de
cently, and their only pleasure t eemed in ex
aggerating their poverty and parading it be
fore the public, Tbe other family paid rent
for their houss, and having a good share ot
pride as well as good sense, used every legit
mate means to make a good appearance. If
one does not intend asking alms, why work
upon the sympathies of the community!
Toe one who was without pride lost cas'e in
the community. O'd friends of better days
grew tired of their 1 unentations si d the de-
moral zing effect it h id. The pride and self-
respect of the other family enabled them to
their place among tbe best, Tbe lady did a
great deal of her own work, but when she
pinned on her large apron, tied np her head,
and rolled up her sleeves, she did not open all
the front blinds, or do her work in the front
yard. If visitors called at snob times when
she could not make a genteel appearance,
she was merely deaf to the ringing of the
doorbell. Sne asserted, and with good sense
too. that excuses were never acceptable,
i’he tacit “out” gave rise to no comment
whatever,
Bo it is: a great many girls who are not
ashamed to work prefer to do it privately.
When Kate has been preserving all day, as
sisting in house-cleaning or keeping, it is ever
so much nicer in her to bave sufficient pride
to make herself as charming as possible when
her work is over. The old gloves having
neen thrown aside, pretty white hands have
arned the right to thrum on the piano and
guitar and receive gentleman visitors by the
score without being accused of primping or
angling for a rich husband. We have seen
_ rl8 who “didn’t care—couldn’t keep fixed
up and work too”: well, they were good
amiable girls; but thoee girls were never
overmuch admired 1
Girls, we beg of you to held on to your
'del Never thick that because you must
Vork you must not dress and be pretty. Just
as soon as that “silly pride” leaves jou, so
will your own self-respect and a great many
innocent pleasures incident to being a hand
some and stylish girl. We know a lady who.
when she incidentally has to fill the cook’s
place, is sure to make some attractive addi
tion to her toilet. George invariably “kisses
tne cook,” and thinks his dainty little wife a
wonder, while he lightens every duty and
uses every effort to avert any such catastro
phe. Now, girls, if she looked like a cook
and acted like a cook, George would think
she was a cook and act accordingly.
Eugene Hall.
prepared four large mealy Irish potatoes by
rubbing them as fine ss possible, while hot
after boiling, then add two table-spoons of
lard, two small tea-spoons of some good
baking powder (Sea Foam we used) m xed in
flour first with sifter, salt to taste, kneaded
all together, with warm water enough to
make a soft dough, make out with vour hand
in little round biscuits, bake quick in a hot
oven, and to my taste, there is no more de-
ligh ful biscuit known.
For “Slip,” One quart sweet milk, to
which add a teaspoon or more of liquid Ren
net stirring it in briskly as you take the milk
from tbe fire just as it has boiled. When it
is firm, place in yonr ice house or in cool
water in a cool place. Turn out into a pretty
glass dish and have served with yonr “Slip”
upon the same plate, acid jelly or preserves,
ageeche lime preserves are nicest. Or you
can with cochineal color the “Slips,” sweeten
and flavor with vanilla or lemon essence,
making a delicious as well as beautiful dish
either for dessert or tea-time.
Green cheese is the name generally applied
to sapsago cheese sold by the grocers. It is
grated, and when spread on thin slices of but
tered bread is a nice relish. But another
“green cheese” is mode by pressing clabber
as for curd and seasoning it with salt and
black pepper.
But I must stop, for I find myself getting
weak and misty about the eyes as I so rashly
invoke memories of the old home. My
thoughts will not confine themselves to the
edibles that graced tbe family board. One
by one the faces and forms of tbe loved ones
who gathered around that table will coiiie
before my mental gaze. Tbe bright silver
tea-urn I see, but ’tis the memory of the face
behind the urn, the motherly kind face, now
gone forever more, that dims mine eyes, and
makes th h tnd that g tides t .e pen tremble
with the heart’s deep enio ions all stirring
within. I shut my eyes—I can almost smell
the fragrant white and pink oleanders that
bloomed by the door, well-known voices min
gle with the odors and,
“E’en through the mist of yean I hear and see
With heart and soul slight.
How grandly sing * tlantic's ocean waves,
How sparkle the old rocks her waters lave,
Beneath the stars to-night.
When will our sister from Hillsboro, N. C.,
write us ag in? And will she or any other
member of the “Household” tell me how to
make my heliotrope fl iurish and bloom? It
is in a feeble state of health. I put “Scott’s
Gossy pium Phospho” in the j tr with it, which
seemed for a while to help it, but my pet
plant looks droopy to-day and it will not
blossom as my neighbors’ heliotropes are do
ing.
Good bye, kind friends.
“Charleston.”
A Very Peaceful “Lily.”
Seeing in the last issue of the SUNNY SOUTH
a few words addressed by “Oae of tne Pro-
p'e” to the “Lily that toileth not” and not
wishing to be misapprehended, said “Lily
begs leave to corns forward once more—not
with hostile intent however—a dtflint tiger
lily—but as peaceful as any white robed fily
of the va.lsy.
Without intending to revive the Yankee
f->ud it must still be referred to by way of tx
planation.
Tne sunny SOUTH took us all in I suspect as
regards tne authorship of tbe two letters, i
for one really believed that two Y. n ees had
w itfea the pieces, in q lestion, and by way
f fain. s ircasm at the slur cast on us of
'toilug not” signed myself Lily. It made
<ne smile to read of tbe daiuty robes and the
“happy cared for life,” which are among the
many “might bave beens,” of most of us
If to 1 constitutes happiness, then I ought to
be happy; as indeed I am and as are all those
to whom labor .8 sweet when laboring for
chose we love. L-t none of the Household
view me as that white-robed idler whom Si- -
■non did not envy and whom I most cer
tainly do not.
Yes, sister of th9 Household, as regard
worn, "Lily” is also ‘ Oae of wie
And please tell me why she should
> our entrance mote then
nan,!’ “Comfort Mmull' 1 W Mkkf the
other members? C ane again ana let ns
■-ampere notee. I have in Jest been cal lad
‘ Liciricity ’’ on account of my working pow
ers.
A word now to some of the other members.
W bere is pretty little falsely-named “Crush
ed?” Co ue Mndmoiselle take me as e
mother-confessor aud let me shrive you of at
'east one of your sins. Did not you have a
Auger in our “Lasses” pie? You will have a
sin to answer for if you did as the heat of tbe
contest has sent off our lamented Editor to
i he happy hunting grounds.
C >me back to your sunny south, Colonel
and all shall be forgiven you. VV e will let
you off this time provided you give us no
more such “put up jobs.”
“Daugh er of the South,” in your capital
answer to “Helen Campbell,’ you unaware
smote a sister member sorely. Those “slat
bonnets,” do you remem er ? Well I posses#
a “slat” or “cracker bonnet” (as we rail them
in some portions of the state) aud what is
worse have worn the same style since child
hood. So you see Daughter, jour guess at
Helen’s age is rather wila if yon intend count
ing it by tbe slats of a cracker bonnet. I
kuow many others of ail ages who wear thi-
same style t > preserve their “waxy pallor.’
One that I knew even said her prayers with
it on and another was accused laughingly of
takiog her morning nap w.th hers n; aud as
a chiitl mine was often tied round at the
back of tbe head by a nig brother who had a
holy horror cf freckles, visions of a face
“speckled like a turkey egg,” being held up
with dreadful vividness to my childish im
agination. I never knew among all my
friends one that “painted” the face and do
not suppose that there are many ladies that
do.
And dow one and all farewell. If any
member desires it I will come again. May
the odors of
“The pure lilies of eternal peace,”
forever haunt the dreams of all well wishers
of their namesake, Lily Bell.
(Who toils though she does not spin.)
I have so ms pretty black roues, and a
climbing lemon-tinted rose, which I a ill
gives cuttings of to Texas, Anita, Pansy,
Comfort, Marshall and any one else wno
may wish them.
Mattie E. Seward.
The Bloom From the Grape.
Yonr kindly notices of “Dixie,” dear
Household friend-, embolden her to come
again. Oar little brash with "Yankee Lass”
is consigned to the limbo of bygone things, I
see. Well, I hope nobody misunderstood tbe
Household’s impulsive defence of Southern
women or took its jesting allusions (-inch as
that of the Yankee nose) for dead earnest
Some folks, you know, can never see a j st
Under no circumstance, I think, would a
Southern lady to be rude to any one, though
be or she hailed from the land of wooien
nutmegs. It would be contrary to the rtflue-
ment which is proverbially an attribute of
Southern women.
Yet, let me whisper it to you softly,do you
know that I fear this refinement has deteri
orated site 3 the war? Taere is to ne subMe
change in tbe tone ot onr society— n ih
manner and ways of our household . Has
the hard struggle for su siste ice and toe con
tact with rough or sordid natures together
with tbe sense of being misjudged and mis
treated bv the^government, worn off the fine
polish of character—brushed the bloom from
the grape—though the fruit remains intaci ?
I don’t mean that there is no innate refine
ment,but that the character o it has changed.
‘A change has passed over the spirit” of our
nea -and we look in vain for tbe almost ro
mantic chivalry of the “olden days and gold
”n,” as we look —almost in vain for the * x
qirsite delicacy and gentleness of tbe ante
bellum household queens. Instead, there is s
keen, active, bru#h-along, thrusting spirit,
determined to get the most and best of what i-
going.and to be“foremost with the firsP’in the
race for fortune nr preferment, illustrating
< he old saying. “Every man for himself and
ile’il take tbe hindmost.”
Abler pens than miue must inquire into 'he
cause of this and apply the remedy. Perbap-
it is the natural and inevitable sequence of
the change of condition which Houtbernen-
bave undergone Perhaps the old time court
ly elegance and fastidiousness partook too
much < f the in-'eui”. “fi-ie-ladyisr" and inef
ficiency” chit hrs ba-n clawed ipnour
women. Pei naps bum rough j oakling ann
uprooting of old dainty habits and traditions
may be for the briter in the hard work-a-day
world which sudd-31 ly closed around us at tbe
end of tbe war. Bat after all is said, there
was a charm and beauty about tbe old life
tbat many a heart looks back upon with a
tender sigh.
I nous not ramble on so, however, or my
letter! will consigned to the cf preferred
to w. b. Thanks for your hope about my
restored health, but alas I I am still sick
This » why l have not before arisen to tx
plain.!
D > all of yon smart people who wield yonr
pens with so much facility, bestir yourselves
and make our Household as bright and at
'motive a feature of the S.B.as that of tbe De
tio t Free. Press B. W i h kind, g regal ds to all
Uie members,aud to “R;bel Giri” in esueciai.
“Dixie,” of N. C.
The “Household” Acquiree
G ru nil m other.
You have been visited by many of the
young and pcssil ly, middle-aged in a few in
stances, but considering no household com
i-lete without a grandmother to whom to gi
for sympathy and advice when t oubled or
worried by (be perplexities of life—particu
larly, a household in its early existence, as
i ours is, I will venture to c 11 at the d«or and
seud in my card, offering wbat aid and com
fort may be derived from my long and event
ual experience. I am p&iufally aware of the
growing tendency of the age, to snob the old
—store them away in unfr quented corner#
»s useless Detnfications of a former age; and
.h u^h readily confessing that 1 have bu<
tie patience with many of the present fol
of voutb, jet 1 shall endeavor not to be
‘v officious.
There nave been such radicalchanges' (ufiniT ‘luey ias»'ysG«5U-gaort fo*V
More Suggestions aud kind oft
fers from “ iMaltie.”
Front ‘"Charleston.”
My friends of Tne Household will pardon
me that 1 have not sooner fulfilled my prom
iee voluntarily made ’tis true, of giving them
some little recipes for dishes at tea-time;
tee very important meal to us in our Charles
ton home. The gentlemen of the home circle
taking only a noon lunch on tbe Bay, where
their business matters kept them sill day,
s emed to enjoy the evening hour of seven,
when throwing off the “cares tbat infested
the day,” they felt free to enjoy leisurely the
dainty repast which they knew always await
ed them. Then for the broad piazza, woere,
either reclining in a hammock or resting in
arm chairs, thev smoked their fragrant
Havannas, and eujoyed with the lady mem
bers of the family the delightful sea breeze
which always comes after sun-down to our
coast cities.
“Slip” was a favorite dish, also Aunt
Chloe’s “Debbel Crab,” shrimps either pickled
or simply boiled. Green cheese, or delicate
slices of pink ham surrounded by a frill of
parsley flanking them while a big covered
dish containing water crackers, (a large thin
round biscuit made there by tbe bakers) that
had been soaked in boiling water, salted, and
most generously buttered, was a general fa
vorite. Then there were mother’s tea-bis
cuits. Recipe as follows:
For one large plateful of biscuits, take a _ .
quart of flour, having however previously j fresh green leaves.
I will tell Texas how to make mats and
tidies without crocheting them. Take a
frame—an old slate frame will do, and cut
notches ail arouud it, m both edges, cutting
the notches about an inen apart, and taking
care to have the notches at the top ia a
straight line with those at the bottom, and
those on one side to be in a straight line with
those on the other side. Then wind the ma
terial of which the mate are to be made, if
coarse, twelve timds, if fins, and the mats
are to be thick, oftener. or rather a greater
number of times, over the frame, taking
care to keep the thread in corresponding
notches; and when a sufficient number of
strands has been wound, tie the thread se
curely and cut the thread. If the* frame is
tbe sizs ot the mat to be made, wind thread
over all the notches, lengthwise and cross
wise; if it is larger, cover only as many
notches as will make a mat of the desired
size. Then thread a bodkin, and working in
a diagonal direction, tie the strands wnere
they cross one another, not cutting the
thread, and using one strand as long as it
lasts After all the crossing strands are tied
cut them where they pass over the frame,
as near the centre as possible, and the ends
will make a fringe to the mat. I am afraid
my description is not very lucid, and if
Texas would like me to do so, and will send
me her address, I will send her a sample, so
that she can better understand how tbe mate
and tidies are made. Mate made in this man
ner, of white cotton thread are ri^e for
covering fruit, etc., and for placing under
dishes and pla'es. Mode of colored cotton
or worsted, all of one color, or of conirast-
colois are pretty for lamps, tidies, etc., and
cotton mats, either white or colored are
pretty for toilet purposes. I have some very
prtt;/ mats, made of white, tied with a
colored thread. Besides being pretty and
cheap, these mats possess the desirable quali
ty of being easily and quickly made.;
My father has just come from the planta
tion and has brought me something beauti
ful. It is a young sassafras tree, over which
a wild grape vine has grown, from which
are hanging many bunches of ripened
grapes, contrasting beautifully with the
you 1 do not say improvement#) in parlor
etiq lette since my girlhood, that f >r tbe
peuoe of mind of many of tbe young mem
bers of the household, I will caution them
uot to consult me on this subject. But I have
not journeyed through life with eyes and
ears c-osed, and bave some decided views rel
ative to household duties generally, the re
sults of individual experience and close ob
servation.
Ann Elza wishes a receipt for making
ligntbread. The household furnished one a
few weeks ago, but as tbat was something
after tbe style of “Bus -nuah’s receipt for bai
tercahe#’ 1 will give one more accurately in
my next communication, as it would r#nde>
this article too leng hy; also, my way of
canning fruit, which has proved untxcep-
tionally successful in my han-’s.
Permit me to dissent from ./erusha’s idea of
tbe best book on southern cookery. Having
res'ed five, I unhesitatingly pronounce
“Housekeeping in old Virginia” to be the
best in my cscimation; "'Southern cookery,
by Mrs. Versatille,” second best, and “B ue
Gras#” third. Such reasoning—forsooth 1 be
cause Kentucky is noted for lovely women
and tail men, it necessarily follows she must
excel in the culinary art.
Will Jerusba please explain by what pro
cess the beauty of tne coon’s face or bight ot
the busbaud, effects tbe viands upon a lady’s
table? In recommending tbe book of my
choice, I can say, the richness the elegance,
and healthful sunpl city of Virginia fare has
become proverbial, and helped to render her
hi spitality lar famed. Obildien, pardon
iny bnn-quenesa Be assured there ia none
but tbe kindest feeling for yon in tbe bosom
of old Grandma Love.
Scrap.
Tells about her Five
Moolis.
I believe I promised to tell something about
my scrap-books. I bave a very handsome
one, a real scrap-book, but I don’t prize it
half as much as tbe ones I make myself. J
get a copy of tbe “House Documents” out
of tbe book-case and convert it into a scrap
book. I bave five; one is used f >r Ulustra
tions, one for pictured faces, one for poetry
and two for clippings. 1 have tbe pictures of
kiigs, emperors, piesidente, senators, law
yers, actresses, pugilists and murderers
And I have a splend d collection of poetry
by the first and most famous authors of the
world. 1 have spent much time in collecting
mat er for my books but when the end of
my years draw nigh, I can but say with the
g fvid Hattie Creesey:
'• To whom will I give my old scrap-book bye
•nd byt?
Who’ll care for that, or care fer me when I die?”
I am glad to see so many South Carolina
girls writing for the “Household” and 1
want them to show them is still some life in
the dear old State- I have not seen any
thing of Mrs. Reynolds’ “chatty letters” fi r
some time. I was really amused at the way
Betsy Hamilton illustrated brother Cole#
sermon. Betsy is a brick and I hope she and
George Washington Higgins will undestand
each other better eie long. Our old friend
SI in Jim don’t write now-a-days. I think his
ureaded mother-in-law must have him under
her control at last.
Reading “ Don Joaquin ” has re-called a
“ Pirate song ” which has a free, wild rhymth
I ke tbat of sea waves and winds.
To the mast nail our fl.g—it is dork as the grave.
Or tne death which it bears while it sweeps o'er
the wave-
Let our deck clear for action—our guns he pre-
poied,
Bel tbe boarding axe sharpened, the cimeter
bared;
Get the cannisters ready, and then bring to me
For tbe last of my duties, the powder-room key
It shall never be lowered—tbe black flag we besr,
If tbe sea be denied us, we sweep through the
. *lr.
No, I did not mean I wished a catalogue of
the books read by “Gnol Eillss.” I only
wished the number. I see you bave tbe let
ters of your name reversed, (instead of “GdoI
Eillaa ” it is “Sallie Ling.) I wish the man
ager would please give the name of the < ne
he thinks the winner of the book. And girls
write often, I like so much to reed the
“Household letters, ’’particularly those of
“Comfott,” “Marchell,” “ Southland Wo
man,” and “Eugene Hall.”
Southern Lassie.
Yukee lias* Once More.
“Some griefs gnaw deep, some woes are
hard to bear,” the poet tells us,and truly. In
addition to all the hard thi'gsy ou have raid
of me, at tne, and to me, and all because of a
uttie fun, the great Sunny South itself has
arisen in its might and sat down upon me,
until I feel like a “jammed little bunch of
nothing,” "only this and nothing more.’ *
My! bat what do you Southerners sharpen
your pen on? Ob, yes, "Sukey Blueskin,”
Sal Attienm ia a “Yankee nostrum,” but
Southlanders use it—shall I say even more
advantageously than wa Northerners?
I am going home to-marrow, bat hardly
with a sore heart for all vour Lu flint's; and
if 1 sing on my way, “My heart goes back
while I go on,” it isn’t because “Tne House
hold” h.K made me cor-fortable.'hrugh the'—
a-e nan of >oi love Jdca ly; b %
because a am a Yau a ^-Southerner since i
came Sooth last winter.
Now, this “Pegasus” who twitted us even
more caustically than 1 you, and nothing
was said, We just thought,we Yankees,—for
don’t think your paper ia n.,t read by us for
it is, and that from alpha to omega—ihis
“Pegasus” was going 'o bave a little crow a>)
by h m tif —a veebi o fun—and we laug al
merruy with him while he puked fun at uui
“proudest bump of Yankeedom,’ the mono
lith, to say nothing of a job at onr small-pox
contagion, which we couldn’t possibly he p it
the sanitary agents could.
“Were they all women, or were they all men,
I'll swear by the gods was beyond mortal ken—’
At' 1 “Pegasus” in the words of Dona d
M icbell, “you are a sad fellow.”
Oo, 1 haven’t the shadow of an idea that
your editor will let me in, for hasn’t he said
os much? But perhaps when he reads this,
ne’ll understand tbat I meant no offence be
fore and tell me so. You’ve ‘spitted me be
fore your fire until I am thoroughly s zxied
and brown, but for all tbat I love you.
Since I come in a contrite spirit this time,
and the very name “Yankee Lias” is hateful
to you, I’m going to change my nom if you
lon’t mind, and waving my hat with a rous
ing “three cheers and a tiger” for tbe bonny
‘ S mthern Household,” Southern lassies and
he glorious S iuthern laud, I’m off—‘Over
tbe mils and far awav.”
* •'YankoSouthebner. ”
Wesleyan Female College,
MACON, GEORGIA,
W ILL begtu Forty-fourth Annual Session
8ept. 21. A full Faculty of experienced
t' acherx. advanced course of study. The
best #dvantagen in Mnsle, Art, Literature
and Science. Careful attention to all the
wants of the people. Prices moderate. Ap
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312 st
REV. W. C. BASS, D.D., Pree’t.
WARDS SEMINARY,
NASHVILLE, TENNENIEE,
C LOSED lte 16th year with 2S0 young ladies
and 32 graduates. Parents wanting a
school.of.Progress,.*Experience, CaretuI Ma-
'rouage, aud Tnorouru Drilling in Its many
Departments. Inc'udTngCutting and Flttl g
Cloihes, will s-nd for a new Catalogue. Next
year opens Sept. 1. Address
3124t DR. W. E. WARD.
Cheers the Household On.
I see a fresh call for contributions and I
■iave just put my head in at tbe Household
door to implore its good inmates to -'keep
the bull rolliDg.” Pleasedon’l let the House-
nold “fall by the way.” Some of you do
write splendidly, and prove yourselves “te
the manner born.” Don’t consign your pens
to tbe rust, and me to tbe fetters of ennui for
the lack of something nice to read. I enj >y
'•he Household heartily. 1 think it is tne
warmest, c z ! »st corner in the very best pa
per in these United States—our own home
paper full of life, light and love. I liks Bill
Arp—in fact I think he knows just ixictly
what to say. I seldom feel inclined to take
issue with him on any point whatever. Slim
Jim says some real funny things sometiints,
• nd Betsy Hamilton is a perfect type ot
Backwoods idiosyncrasies. But when 1
want something real good I turn to Mr.
Ve#.zey’s double stars, and Mrs. Bryan’#
Random Tilks” and her short star editor!
alg, though I see she has abolished the star
sign over her ai t cles n f vt l.fin 1 good things
-hired in every corner of The bunny South
unless it is the serial department. 1 don’t
admire the long stories so “mighty much.”
Tbe Earls and Fnz mghs was really Sue, but
Jitquin bas lost its interest to me since the
■enter killed off those good girls and started
Joaquin on a new ami dreadful career where
it gives me tne shivers to follow him. Thei
there was B-liadair; I was delighted with
thoee Burwell8 and was getting on so nicely
when tbe next thing I knew they had killed
my man (Mr. Mey) and made a widow of my
favorite (Phenie). I was on'done. 1 bad no
heart to go any further, except to see her
through her troubles. But 1 repeat tbe
Household is all n ee. ' Southern Lad” and
“B tch” come again. I’m sure the Household
ladies woujd appreciate a few gentlemen.
University of Mississippi.
OXFORD, HISS.
VfEXT 8ES8ION opens September 29, 1881.
1” Tuition still free toall students from any
State, except ISO to Law students. Expenses
per session of 9 months: Board 8106; washing
*13.50; fuel fee *10; lights $3: matriculation
and incidental fee S2 50—total 8137, Many
students board on ihe mess system lor about
six debars per month. The University is In
all re#pec s prosperous. The Board meet at
Oxford on 2d Monday in September to elect
three additional prolessors—one In Modern
Languages, one of Natural History, and one
of Metaphysics. Apply for catalogues and
iniormatio j to God. A. P. Stewart.Cnai cellor.
H. M. SULLIVAN,
313 4t Secretary Board Trustees.
TABOR ACADEMY.
MARION, MASS.
^ FIRST-CLASS 8CHOqL-f|t8 for college
Ookla J, Miss. Interested Spectator.
Good rat of Evil.
Well-beloved “Hous>-hold,” 1 congratulate
you on having settled that “little unpleasant.-
□ees” with “Yankee Lass ” She shouldn’t
have touched ou tbe “Inst causa” Toat
wound is too newly cicatriz.-d for the scar to
be pressed by an alieD finger. But I believe
in looking on the bright side. Our reverse
was bitter, but it brought us good. It takes
suffering to develop strength. And if our
hands are kept so busy with unaccustomed
work, with sweeping and baking, scraping
and pinching, to make both ends meet—that
we have no time for inditing sparkling sto
ries and sonnets why we can pur. our “inner
music” into our lives and make them harmo
nious. Th# p >etry, though unt xpressed, may
freshen and sweeten our daily thoughts.
Con.fort Marshall,” I clasp hands with
you. Yi.u are a sister after my own heart.
Mr. Greyson, may a little bit of feminity
remind you that you are too cynical by half,
and surely never culled your pbil.isophy from
that golden wreath of wisdom—the Sermon
on the Mount.
Louisville, Miss. Trailing Arbutus
Beat Jelly Cake.
I admire “ One of the people.” and want
her to visit our •• Housebol 1 ” often. I give
a recipe for "Orange j-llyceke.” Two cups
sugar, two of fl mr. y oiks of five eggs, and
whites of three, two teaspoons baking pow
der, half cup warm water. Frosting—tbe
whites of two eggs, eighteen tables hoods
ugar and the juice and grated rind of one
orange. W ben the cake is cool, spread frost
ing between layers and on top.
Do not let the “ Household " die for atten
tion since tbe Yankee “boom” is over. Let
us have something new and entertaining to
say to each other every week. It will bene
fit us to exchange ideas, and will make ns
many and lasting friends. 1 hav„ a warm
pot in my heart for our dear Sunny South
and ail wfio write for it. Tell “Busy Bee”
to come again and let’s bave another big
' buzz.” Enough for the present from
Ann Eliza.
_ _ and gives a thorough English education.
The Principal w-11 receive a few students Into
hi fauii'y: a home, and not a boarding bouse.
Reference#: Pror. F. B. Dexter, Secretary Yale
College; Hon. R. R. Bishop, President Massa
chusetts • enate; N. J. Morrison, D.D., Presi
dent Drury College. Send for information to
C. P. HOWLAND, Principal, East °.i:Uhfleld,
Penn., until September 1/ afterward*, Marion,
Mass. 318 4t
BAYAHD TAYLOR, Poet& Traveller,
Said: “I take great pleasure In recommend
ing tn parents the Academy ol Mr. Bwilhln C.
Sbortlidge.”
Hon. FERN INDO WOOD, M. C.*
Said (1880): “I cheerfully consent to the use of
myi.ameas reference. My boys will return
to you (for their fourth year) sftei their vaca
tion.”
For new Illustrated Catalogue address
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Philadelphia. 313 8t
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The Marietta Paper Mill Company manu
factures and keepB on hand all kinds, sizes,
-tnd qualities of Paper at tbe lowest cash
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Wanted.
We have began a flower yard. It is de
rided by a walk from the house to the gate
Brother and myself have the right, and pa
and ma the left. We are very at X’ous to ex
cel pa and ma’a. Will not th -Sunny South,
give little Katie, tbe name of a tew cnoice
flowers &c., &c., to put in. We have some
beantirul roees, hybrid, tea, and tube. Will
not some of the Household, who have the
oleanders, rhododendron, or olea fragrans.
ll have been told tbey are beautiful aDd so
swee*,) send me some of the cuttings in
Oc Ooer or Novembei ? Of course I wid pay
oil charges. Katie H. F.
Duck Creek, Onslow County N V.
Millinery!
DRESS* MAKING;
M rs. A. K. NAVE wishes to Inform tbe Ls#
dies that she has s handsome stock of Milli
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For more than a third of a cen
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the
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Mustang Liniment is without an equal.
It penetrates flesh and mnecle to
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“I believe it to be all wrung and even
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believing they have no equal for f *mily use.
I will not be without them.”—Rev. ,
Washington, D. C.
The press are speaking in uigu praise of J.
P Fort’s success in artesian wells in South
Go rgia. Augusta tried it before tbe war
and failed.
Tke Power of the Preen.
In no way is the power of the press more
surely shown than in the universal knowl
edge that has ia less than a year b»ea dif
fused throughout fifty millions of people of
the wonderful curative properties of that
splendid remedy K dney-Wort. And the
people from tbe Atlantic to the Pacific have
shown their intelligence and their knowledge
of what is in the papers by already making . ,
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Old Sores, Poll BvU, Film open
the Sight and every other ailment
k tbe oeenpants of
Stable and Stock Tard are liable.
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