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the BUNNY south; ATlaTLANTAOKGIA'SEPTEMBER 30 If 9*.
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EDITOR'S WIFE.
' with enteel of^is seedy clothes,
Of tne and hi9 calm repose,
have you heard of th t editor ’ 8 wife?
got say- b “® y , co partner, who,
« ft0 *K. idliuro* sentiment, beauty, skill,
W> a derate knowledge, tact ana wlU,
"SwSoftiia labor can do?
hn ombroiders the erarments worn
lt |« she wb har( i 0 id chair,
By toe ed |. with cushions, soft and neat
>-u» nn with tidies aed ribbons sweet,
5S. « poor bare.
If tne efi£*•££» more baste,
,D , n , e irfh s wrappers so they can be read
8be „ d his leaders right out of her head,
A £,d willingly ^ K09 bis paste.
B he reads the magazines, papers and books,
»«thecradle she softly rocks;
“‘ha H( ntor sits in ms easy-chair,
Si hi* fingers thrust in his tangled hair,
W 8be Tuletiy mends his socks.
Then she reads the ads with the editor,
Inst LO tilld Wb&t 0&Ctl pftld#
"But the column ad. of tne jeweler, there,'*
an hflsars ‘ the harness, the human hair
S Must oe ta^n out in trade 1”
Rn She wears the corsets he gets for ads.,
Ynd rattles his sewiug machine;
She uses the butter and eggs, and things
The country subscriber so faithfully brings,
With a cheeifulness seldom seen,
Bn t her life, so full of merry delight,
Has one dark cloud, a!as!
Though she shares his tickets to the circns and
play,
To lecture and negro minstrels gay,
rihe can’t use his railroad pass!
When time hangs h«*avv on his hands
She beguiles toe hours away
Witn joke and laughter, music and song,
And pleasant talk, and thus ripples along
The whole of each leisure day.
Ob. who would exchange this sweet content,
This simple and trusting life,
For that or a queen of royal birth?
For the happiest woman <-<n all this earth
Is the country editor’s wife.
—Margaret Andrews Oldham, in New
York Sun.
A Flower Talk.
could have gone with you to the insti
tutes of Madison and Jefferson, which
met at Aucilla on the 17th inst.
Doubtless I would have met there a
once very dear friend, but from the
memory of whom I long since have
drifted. I wonder if my name will
recall the past! I have not forgotten.
Householders, all of you who have
been absent so long, come back soon
with your cheering words and smiles
of happiness.
Earnest Willie, I wish there were
more hearts like yours—so good, and
true, and patient.
Dear Mother Hubbard, have I made
my visit too long?
May happiness and a bright future
be yours, and each members. Also,
good wishes and success to our kind
editor. Lovingly,
Eula Faye.
Dkak Mother Hubbard :
1 wonder if you will receive another
stranger into your happy Household.
You seem to give such a kind welcome
to all your visitors, that I am con
strained to come.
1 have been a silent reader of the dear
Sunny South—the best paper in the
land—ever since last December, and
enjoyed the Household so much that
can no longer resist the temptation to
visit you.
"Hope,” your thoughts have struck
a responsive chord in my heart.
These is nothing so beautiful as
flowers and sunshine.
Sunshine is beautiful and joy-inspir
ing always. All things animate and
inanimate take on a new life in its
presence.
Not a flower but gratefully lecog-
nizes it, not a song-bird bat carols the
sweeter under its touch. How the lit
tle rivulets flash, and the broad waters
6himmer to its glance, the trees and
everything are all aflame with its
kisses.
The lovely flowers are God’s mes
sengers and missionaries. There is
not a flower in existence that is unfit
ted to give a charm or a tinge of
splendor to the eye and scenes recep
tive of it.
God has implanted within the
hearts of His earthly children an in
stinctive love for the beautiful, and in
anticipation of this divinely implant
ed pa*sion, He has decked the bosom
of "Mother Earth” with thd most
beautiful flowers. God has sent out
these little messengers of hope and
love as missionaries to teach us the
great lesson of patience and trust in
our Heavenly Father.
How often, when our hearts are
howed and crushed with sorrow,
would we receive a sweet lesson on
faith in God if we would only lend an
attentive ear and heed these silent
preachers? How trustingly do these
i] ttle missionaries spring up around
os, seeming to say,“Our Father careth
tor us,' putting to shame our spirit of
aiscontent and faithlessness in God
who created us for his own glory.
Our Savior said: “Consider the
Hies of the held, how they grow, they
toil not, neither do they spin, and yet
unt0 you e ^en Solomon in
an his glory, was not arrayed like one
of these.”
..I ™ us t reiterate “Hope’s” words,
inat i he Sunny South is the bright
est paper in our land. We may read,
and read, and read again, and still
hnd something new, something to
E-ease, and something to instruct.
And we have just the kindest Editor;
ae never scolds, but seems to enjoy
and takes an interest in the House
hold. And Mother Hubbard! What
a dear, sweet soul she must be! I
'vish l had the pleasure of being ac
quainted with her.
J .? I , a J-O VilS0n ’ Ha PPy Mother, Earn-
" <llie, Hoy Rob and a host of
tners, how glad it would make my
Heart to see you. *
Dear Mother Hubbard, I wish I
IBT TBS KlTCHKX-OAKDEN.
About Onlom—They Appeal to Our light,
Taito and Smell.
Popploa for Plaque*.
The pattern may be stamped, using
black powder on soft white paper and
then with blue or yellow transfer pa
per laid next the plaque, using a hard,
sharp pointed pencil, the design may
be traced on the plaque, or by holding
very carefully, the pattern may be
stamped directly on the plaque. To
paint the red poppies, mix the follow
ing colors:
Vermillion, madder lake, white, a
little yellow ochre and a very little
ivory black.
This will give the general tone on
shade. For the shadow tints, mix the
same shades, adding burnt sienna, and
omitting the yellow ochre. The tones
at the base of each petal are very dark.
For these tones or shades use ivory
black, a little permanent blue, a very
little white, madder lake and burnt
sienna. Use the same colors for the
stamens.
For the leaves and stems mix per
manent blue, white, light cadmium,
light red and a little ivory black. In
the shadows use the following colors
mixed:
Permanent blue, white, light cad
mium, a little more ivory black, raw
umber, burnt sienna, madder lake. Use
very little cadmium. Rectified tur
pentine can be used for mixing your
colors.
SOUVENIR BOOK-COVERS.
It is very easy to trace off designs
through this transparent celluloid,
which may be laid directly over what
ever you wish to copy and with an
outline brush dipped in white to
which a very little ivory black has
been added and mixed rather thin,
you may trace off your design.
Pansies, small, scattered irregularly
over the cover would be very pretty.
U*e brushes, sable, Nos. 1, 3 and 5, and
pale drying oil as a “mixer” for the
paints. The color must be mixed
very smooth and applied in delicate,
even strokes. Light yellow and
mauve pansies are pretty on a cover
of this kind. For the yellow one mix
white, light cadmium and a little yel
low ochre, in the shadows work in a
very light touch of burnt sienna. For
the markings and “spots” use brown
madder to which a very little madder
lake has been added. For leaves and
stems if you prefer to copy some
“spray” design instead of the small
pansies, loosely scattered, use Ant
werp blue, a little each of light cadmi
um and white, shade with sap green
to which a little cadmium has been
added.
For the “mauve” pansies, mix white,
a very little each of rose madder and
cobalt bine; shade these with carmine
No. 1 mixed with a very little each of
white and cobalt blue. For fastening
cover together at baok, make holes
with an eyelet punch and tie with
narrow ribbon.
A pretty quality of drawing paper,
or heavy satin finished unruled letter
paper may be used for inside leaves.
Selected or original verses may be
written on these.
Thtlr Heal Naati.
Our Amateur Gardener has been ex
perimenting with .onions, and has
come to the conclusion that the most
surprising thing about them is their
desire to grow on top of the ground.
Like beans, and the ghost in Hamlet,
they “will not down,” at least for any
length of time, but oome cheerfully to
the surface after every attempt to
plant them where things ought to
grow. One comfort about this is, that
it allows them to grow very closely to
gether, and one appreciates this com
fort most when they are “weeding
out” the onion bed.
Another bewildering thing is to be
sure what will be the outcome of your
planting; if you plant seed, you will
raise little clusters of small onions on
the tops of the stems; these small on
ions must be planted to raise large
ores as they will never grow large
themselves like most small things do
if given time, and the large onions
produce the clusters which contain
the seeds.
After one season’s experience, the
Amateur is convinced that it requires
a considerable knowledge even to raise
onions. However, they are a very
profitable crop to raise, ranging from
300 to 500 bushels to the acre, depend
ing upon the soil which should be
very rich. Onions either raw or
cooked are very wholesome, the only
objection to them being their strong
and lasting odor.
STUFFED ONIONS.
Boil 6 large onions without peeling
for one hour, then remove the skins,
and with a sharp pointed knife cut
out the center of each. Fill the on
ions with a mixture of 2 tablespoon
fuls of finely chopped ham or tongue;
Uo cupful of bread crumbs, 1 table
spoonful of melted butter, one table
spoonful of cream or new milk, and a
little salt and pepper. Put them in a
baking pan; pour over them some
melted butter; cover with grated
bread crumbs, and bake in a slow oven
1 hour. Serve with cream sauce.
“Alan St. Aubyn” is Miss Francis
Marshall, of Cambridge, England;
“Miss M. E. Braddon” is Mrs. Max
well; “Lance Falconer” is Miss Mary
Hawker; “Mrs. Alexander” is Mrs.
Annie Alexander Hector the “Author
of ‘ The Danvers Jewels’ ” is Miss
Cbolmendeley; “The Girl in the Car
pathians” is Mrs. Henry Gormon;
“Gyp” is Comtesse de Mirabeau-Mar-
tel * “Graham R. Tomson” is Mrs. Tom-
son; “Frank Pope Humphrey” is an
American lady living abroad;“Julian
Gordon” is Mrs. Tan Renssalaer Cru
der • “Octave Thanet” is A. French;
“Lucas Malet” is Mrs. Harrison,
daughter of the Rev. Charles Kings
ley and “John Oliver Hobbs” is Mrs.
Cralgie.—New York Independent.
T HE Leading Specialise of Atlanta In -OI«
YT— oecuUar to men and women, are Dr
14 South Broad St ..Atlanta
bS5 tor Question Blank..
ONION SAUCE.
Peel and slice three large onions,
and simmer with 2 tablespoonfuls of
butter till they are tender and of a
delicate brown color. Stir into them
one tablespoonful of flour and rub all
through a colander. Add to this one
gill of stoeg and one gill of cream;
stir continually till it boils; add salt
and pepper and serve very hot.
ONION VINEGAR.
This is very nice for salads, or
where a delicate flavor of onion is de
sired in a Mayonnaise dressing. Peel
and grate four ordinary sized onions,
and mix with them 2 teaspoonfuls of
sugar and 1 teaspoonful of salt. Let
it stand 2 hours; then cover with 1
quart of cider vinegar; put it into a
large bottle, and shake well every day
for two weeks. Strain through cheese
cloth, bottle and cork tight. Keep in
a cool, dark place.
Cream Bomboa*.
These are made in two ways—one
with boiled, the other with unboiled
sugar; the latter is much less trouble,
and for some candies does jnst as well.
Bonbons are usually made of two
kinds of cream, the outer flavored and
colored differently from the inner.
These candies are delicious, and may
be made as one wishes. To make the
cream of boiled sugar, take one pint of
sugar and a small cup of water, plaoe
in a saucepan, and stir until the sngar
is dissolved; then set the saucepan
over a hot fire, but do not stir again;
when it has boiled fifteen minutes,
try in ice-water— if it can be made in
to a soft ball, it is done. Remove
quickly from the fire, and set the
saucepan on snow or ice if possible—
if not, in cold water. When cool
enough to bear your hand in, begin to
beat it, at first with a spoon, and as it
stiffens, with the hands, working as if
it were bread-dough. When smooth
and shining it is ready for use.
To make the unboiled cream, break
into a bowl the white of one or more
eggs, as is required by the quantity
you wish to make, and add to it an
equal quantity of cold water; then
stir in the finest powdered or confec
tioner’s sugar until it is stiff enough
to mould into shape with the fingers.
Candies made without cooking are
not so good the first day.
With both, or either, of these creams,
and a supply of flavoring and color
ing, any of the following cream can
dies may be made. The unboiled
cream is the foundation of all the
French-creams.
WALNUT CREAMS.
Take a small sauoepan into which
you can fit a bowl, fill the saucepan
half full of boiling water; put two or
three spoonfuls of boiled cream into
the bowl, mashing and stirring with a
fork as it warms; do not neglect this
stirring, or it will go back to clear
syrup.
When about like thick cream, move
to the back part of the stove, drop one
or two of the unbroken halves ox the
walnuts at a time, turn over, in the
cream, and with a fork lift out on a
waxed or buttered paper.
Should the candy run off the nuts,
it is either too hot, or the cream is not
boiled enough; if the former it will
soon cool—if the latter, add a little
confectioner’s sugar.
Vanilla, lemon, rose, or any flavor
ing may be used; if rose flavoring is
used, it is nice to color the cream a
pink or rose color, which may be done
by working into the cream, while
melting, enough prepared cochineal
to color.
Orange and lemon cream walnuts
are nice colored yellow, with a few
drops of saffron. Almonds, hickory-
nuts, butternuts, or any nuts may he
creamed in the same way.
NUT CREAM.
Chop almonds, hickory-nnts, butter
nuts, or English walnuts, quite fine.
Make the French or unboiled cream,
and before adding all the sugar—
while the cream is still quite soft-
stir into it the nuts, and then form in
to balls, bars or squares. Three or
four kinds of nuts may be mixed to
gether. Or the nuts may be prepared
in halves. Take a little of the cream
and join two halves together, using
enough cream to show well all aronnd;
the pink cream is pretty for this.
MAPLE SUGAR CREAMS.
Grate maple sugar, mix it in quan
tities, to suit the taste, with the
whites of eggs and the water as for
unboiled cream, adding enough con
fectioner’s sugar to mold into any
shape desired. Walnut creams are
excellent made with this.
Miscellaneous.
TO TAKE MILDEW OUT OF LINEN.
Take soap and rub it well on the
mildew; then scrape some fine chalk
and rub that also in the linen; lay it
on the grass; as it dries wet it a little
and it Will come out at twice doing.
TO WASH FLANNELS.
Flannels should be washed in soft
water, soap and much blue. The wa
ter should be as hot as the hands will
bear; wring as dry as possible, shake
and hang out, but do not rinse the
flannels after the lather.
A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST MOTHS.
Soak a piece of paper or rag in some
spirits of turpentine and plaoe it for a
day in your drawers. Two or three
times a year will be quite sufficient.
More than this would cause the draw
ers and their contents to smell un
pleasantly.
TO CLEAN WHITE FEATHERS.
Make a lather«of curd-soap, boiling
water and pearl-ash; when it is a lit
tle cool wash the feather in it, gently
squeezing it; wash it again with less
lather and then rinse it in cold water,
shaking it well before the fire, but not
too near. Curl it by drawing each
fiber over the blunt end of a fruit
knife. If the color is not good, use a
little bine in the rinsing water.
TO CLEAN BLACK LACE.
A black lace shawl or mantle, or any
other lace if black, may be easily and
effectually cleaned thus:
With a soft handkerchief of silk or
linen carefully take the dust from the
lace, or it may be shaken gently.
Brushing must not be resorted to, or
it will render the lace rough looking.
Then pin it out on a board or table,
putting pins into the points of the
lace. Wash all over with a soft sponge
with table beer, and when quite dry
remove the pins, when it will look al
most new.
CEMENT FOR CHINA.
To quarter ounce gummastic add as
much spirits of wine as will dissolve
it. Soak quarter ounce isinglass in
water till it is quite soft; then dis
solve it in rum or brandy till of the
consistency of glue. To this add one
drachm of gum-ammoniac, well rubbed
and mixed. Put now the two mix
tures together in a vessel over a gen
tle heat till properly united, and the
cement is ready for ose. It should be
kept in a phial well corked, and when
about to be used to be set in boiling
water to soften.
TO REMOVE THE TASTE OF NEW WOOD.
A new keg, churn, bucket, or other
vessel will generally communicate a
disagreeable taste to anything that is
put into it. To prevent this |incon-
venience first scald the vessel with
boiling water, letting the water re
main in it until cold. Then dissolve
some pearl-ash or soda in lnkewarm
water, adding a little bit of lime to it,
and wash the inside of the vessel well
with this solution. Afterwards scald
it well with plain hot water, and rinse
it with cold before you use it.
HOW TO REPAIR OLD HATS.
Use straw from a discarded hat of
the same color. It is well to have one
each of black, brown, green and white
preserved for the purpose. Use No.
40 black thread, such as milliners use.
If the straw is dampened it will not
break while being sewed. A ragged
brim is treated by having the outside
row of braid ripped off and replaoed
by a plain or fancy braid.
To darn rents in wool goods always
nse ravelings of the material, even if
these can oDly be obtained in short
pieces; and do the work finely, even
and closely, no matter how often the
needle has to be threaded. If any dif
ficulty is experienced in threading
the needle with a soft woolen thread,
touch the latter at the end with a lit
tle beeswax to stiffen it and bring it
to a point. This darning should be
done on the wrong side of a grment,
so the ends of the threads and the
edges of the rents will be invisible.
By usings the ravelings an exact
match in color and fineness of the
threads is secured, and both trouble
and expense are saved.
TO PURIFY THE BREATH.
The freshest of fresh eggs, and lem
on juice, sugar, almond oil and rose
water, mixed with the utmost oare
and oleanliness, stirred and beaten tor
hours upon hours, smelling delicately
as though a rose had been dipped into
it, should make a tempting cosmetic
to create beauty or restore it to itself.
We all feel the charm of “balmy breath
that doth almost persuade justice to
sheath her sword,” and a few drops of
this clear, red liquid, poured into a
glass of water, will so purify the
breath and all within the lips, that
one need not mind how closely the
hearer’s attention hangs upon them.
The same liquid is sovereign for dys
pepsia, and reduces the interior to an
amiable state very quickly.
To Ford a Hirer on Horiebaek.
The necessity does arise at times to
make the shortest way round, by the
long way of a deep and perhaps swift
flowing river, and then it is the wo
man on horseback is puzzled and not
a little fearful to know how she may
proceed in safety. She need have no
doubts as to her steed’s ability to
swim, provided the current is not too
strong and unless the opDOsite bank
is very steep, he will land in good
order, but she must resign herself to
a partial ducking. A horse when
swimming is submerged all but the
back and head, therefore the best his
rider can do to protect herself is to
draw her left knee completely over
the saddle’s pommel, sit square and
steady, holding firmly by the up pom
mel in order not to be unseated when
he makes his effort on regaining
ground.
A horse is a beautiful swimmer, and
when in the water he needs only to
have plenty of rein paid out in order
that he may stretch his neck to bal
ance his body easily. Never should
his rider give him full rein, or in
fright or doubt let the reins slip from
her hands, for then the great danger
arises of his thrusting a fore foot
through the leather loop and critically
hampering his stroke.
There are one or two maxims, sam
ple rules that a tide lover of horses
desirous of establishing yet closer
bonds of sympathy and understand
ing between the animal and his rider,
offers to whoever may choose to ac
cept them.
1st. .When properly, comfortably,
bitted even the most fretful, nervous,
ill tempered horse, is least inclined to
display bad qualities.
2nd. Never jerk a horse’s head up, a
woman should ride always with mar
tingales and strive to hold her* steed’s
head steady or draw it down as far as
she can bring it. The rude jerk of
the rein sets the animal’s nerves danc
ing, hardens his mouth, jars his tem
per and lifts his eyes out of the range
of easy vision when he is as disabled
as though for the instant blinded, and
so plunges about in pitiful fear.
3rd. When riding through flood
and field, marsh and forest, stick on
your horse’s back until he puts you
off by violence. If when fording a
river he shows signs of alarm, the sin
gle safe spet for the rider is his back,
for unless the odds are very heavy, a
horse is the best guide in dangerous
times. When he offers to run away
stick to him. When he has acted wil
fully and is brought under control,
ride him for a half an hour into a good
temper. Abroad in a storm hold to
the saddle, fearful as he Is of the light
ning and thunder, he feels safest and
surest with his familiar burden.
'DR,*
BAKING
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MOST PERFECT MADE.
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from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant
40 YEARS THE STANDARD.