THE COZY CORNER. [In this corner we propose to have pleasant gossip with our readers and correspondents, in passing matters of household interest, and that it may be made an instructive and profitable Household Exchange, we invite correspondence of inquiry and information on all subjects of general interest and value to the Homes of the World.]-GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. We have several contributions for our "Cozy Corner " department, every way worthy of publication, which do not appear for the reason that the names and addresses of the writers are not given. Only such contributions will be printed in any department of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING as are accompanied by the name and address of the writer.-Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. “F. H. B.” asks for recipe for Graham bread. I send Mrs. D. A. Lincoln's which I find excellent. "One pint of milk, scalded and cooled, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, onehalf of a compressed yeast cake dissolved in one-half of a cupful of water, two cupfuls of white flour, three or three and one-half cupfuls of Graham flour." Mix in the order given into a dough a little softer than for white bread, let it rise till light, pour into well greased pans, let it rise again, bake a little longer and in a less hot oven than white bread. I mix mine in the morning, and bake a part of the mixture in gem pans. L. A. H. S. SOUTH BOSTON, Mass. MARKING BED LINEN. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING : In No. 84, C. O. A., of Springfield, Mass., inquires for a good method of marking bed linen, so she can tell at a glance new, medium or old. If she tries my way she will have no trouble. With Payson's indelible ink and a steel pen, write on the small hem of the sheets, and the inside of the pillow case hem either her name or initials like this, C. O. A. 1 x, C. O. A. 2 x. That is to know whether her number is correct at a glance. As they get older and she buys new, number them in the same way, commencing with 1, then 2 and so on, and put after each number the single cross (x), then mark another cross on the first lot like this, xx. As they take their turn among the old, number the new ones in the same way. She would know then that C. O. A. 1 x, C. O. A. 2 x means the new one. C. O. A. 1 xx, C. O. A. 2 xx means medium and C. O. A. 1 xxx, C. O. A. 2 xxx means old, the numbers, of course, to increase with each one up to 12 of each kind if she has them. As all are numbered, she can tell at a glance whether any are missing and by the crosses which lot it belongs to. BROOKLYN, N. Y. EMMA KEeler. "C. O. A.," Springfield, Mass., will find this a good way to mark bed linen: Take colored embroidery cotton-red, black and blue. With one color make in cross stitch, or Kensington outline the figure on a pair of sheets and pillow slips, figure 2 on a second set and so on until all of one making are done. When another lot is made up mark the same way with black; still a third lot with the blue. The figures can be small and as much hidden as possible, or more ornamental and to be seen more readily. This is the plan of a very good housekeeper noted for her thrifty Let me say a word from personal experience in regard to children's lunches. In behalf of these little ones let me beg the mothers to be sure their children have right constitutions to stand it before they lay down any iron clad rule of no lunch. I don't believe that children ought to eat "any and every time," but I know that there are some delicate or nervous children who can not wait for regulation meal times. When small my folks were no lunchers. Well, I got up in the morning and had no appetite so did not eat sufficient breakfast. By the middle of the forenoon I was hungry, but must "wait until dinner time." By dinner time I was so hungry and faint that I could not eat; and so it went on until I had typhoid fever and poor health to this day, which I firmly believe was caused by not eating when I needed it. That prominent surgeon was fortunate in his family, perhaps correct in his surmise, nevertheless we cannot lay down the axiom "no lunches make good eaters," or "no tea and coffee make good sleepers." I am not and never was either. I not only never ate luncheons but I never tasted either tea or coffee until after I was married but still I always laid awake two or three hours each night. To bring it a little later. I have two children. The oldest (nearly three,) has never eaten a hearty meal at one time, but I give him a light lunch when he wakes at 5:30 a. m., breakfast about nine, lunch when he wakes from his nap at 12: 30 p. m., and | dinner about two, and lunch half an hour before he goes to bed. He is the picture of health, and, barring croup is never sick. Neither is baby, but he is very different. He eats a hearty breakfast at six, dinner at 12:30, and supper at 5:30. He rarely needs a lunch, but that is the difference. I have trespassed a good deal on your time but I wanted to ask each mother to study well her children and make no rule to govern her babes either one way or the other until by experiment she knows which is the right one. Let us hear again from the mothers. It does us good. MRS. C. A. B. ROXBURY, MASS. 1. Take of u one, two, n one, o two, i one, ¿ one; 3. Of o three, c two, w one, k one, done; 4. Of e three, f one, t one, k one, b one, s one, a one ; 5. Of h one, b one, d one, a three, g one, r two, m one, e one; 6. Ofr one, s two, a one, p two, n one, e or i one ; 7. Of c two, o one, m one, r one, a three, n two, s one, e three, d one, h one, i one; 8. Of o two, t two, p one, s one, e one, a one; 9. Of u one, c two, s two, o one, h one, t one, a one; 10. Of i one, e two, l one, m one, p one, o one, n one; 11. Of three, a one, c one, s one, b one, n one, i one, e two; 12. Of a two, p two, d two, g one, u one, c one, o one, t one, i two, 128.-CHARADE. My first contained the substance But ah! the cook had wrought too well,- And many a second 'scaped their lips, 129.-BEHEADINGS. 1. Behead a metal, and leave not out. 2. Behead a breakfast dish, and leave a tree. 3. Behead a holy day, and leave a flower. 4. Behead a quadraped, and leave a part of the body. 5. Behead a species of antelope, and leave to disembark. 6. Behead to stagger, and leave a fish. 7. Behead to slay, and leave unfortunate. 8. Behead an odor, and leave a coin. 9. Behead a stag, and leave dexterity. 10. Behead a model of perfection, and leave to distribute. 11. Behead to send back, and leave to send forth. 12. Behead a caustic, and leave a gnawing animal. 13. Behead an elevation, and leave disordered. 14. Behead a mineral, and leave a religious ceremony. T. 15. Behead to wash by percolation, and leave a distributive adjective. 16 Behead to gain knowledge, and leave to acquire by labor. 17. Behead rigid, and leave a fit of anger. The initial letters form the name of a locality famous for its summer resorts. M. C. F. ANSWERS TO QUERIES, ANAGRAMS, ETC., 116.-CHARADE. Answer.-First, Gem; second, Ma (title); third, Tion (pronounced shun; total, Gem-ma-tion (budding of trees and plants). 117.-METAGRAM. Answer.-1. Preach. 2. Reach. 3. Each. 4. Beach. 5. Peach. 118.-A G. H. SKELETON LADDER. Take one word from each of the following proverbs and form another proverb of the eliminated words: 1. Three removes are as bad as a fire. 2. He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. 3. When in Rome you should do as the Romans do. Answer. 127.-A MONUMENT. XOX XOX XOX XOX XOX XOX X XO X X X X XO X X X X X XO X X X HATTIE WHITNEY CAROLINE HAYDEN 119.-TRANSPOSITION. The first sure symptom of a mind in health, Is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.-Young. 120.-SYNCOPATION. Answers.-1. Cor-o-net, Cornet. 2. Char-ac-ter, Charter. 3. Cara-mel, Carmel. 4. Po-si-tion, Potion. 5. Com-mun-ing, Coming. 6. Me-ni-al, Meal. 121.-NUMERICAL PUZZLE. Answer.-MILD. 122.-NUMERICAL ENIGMA. Answer.-Novelists-Dickens, Thackeray. Actors-Murdock, Southern. Poets-Beattie, Donne, Tupper, Pope. PhilologistThorpe. Author - Howitt. Judge - Goffe. Jurist - Stowell. Knights. "Four things come not back,-the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity."-Hazlitt. HONORABLE MENTION. Correct answers to Nos. 113 and 115 were received from S. F. Shannon, Sewickley, Pa. He sends " Garfield as an answer to No. 114. EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., AUGUST 18, 1888. Registered at Springfield Post-Office as second-class mail matter. 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C.; Newark News Co., Newark; St. Louis News Co., St. Louis; New Orleans News Co., New Orleans; San Francisco News Co., San Francisco; Rhode Island News Co., Providence; Albany News Co., Albany; Northern News Co., Troy; Detroit News Co., Detroit; Montreal News Co. Montreal; Toronto News Co., Toronto and Clifton, Canada. GOOD THINGS IN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. The continuation of "The Philosophy of Living," by Hester M. Poole, treats of "Happy Marriages," opening with the question "Why is it that the world hears so much about Unhappy Marriages and so little about the Happy?" The author gives many illustrations of happy marriages among notable people, which is pleasant reading, as compared with the other side of the question. "Our Babies and Their Mothers "-particularly the mothers, will find useful information in an article on "Teething" from the pen of Amelia A. Whitfield, M. D. Mrs. H. Annette Poole, who is authority on the subject of flowers, tells how we may have "Wild Flowers in the Home Garden," by the aid of the right kind of a boy. A number of varieties of wild flowers are described which can be successfully transplanted and cultivated. "Getting Ready to Go Away," is a timely subject to those taking vacations, and Dinah Sturgis gives some good suggestions on picking up, packing and other preparations for summer's outing. The wonderful things done by the use of a kerosene lamp by two young ladies anxious to set up housekeeping, is well told in a short sketch, "The story of a Household Lamp," by Anna Barrows. A few more recipes and instructions for preparing Salads are given by Glin Burton, which are guaranteed to be good enough to invite your friends to partake of. The chapter of "Family Fashions and Fancies," by Helena Rowe is devoted to "Summer Needle Work," as applied to artistic table linen, decorative hangings, pincushions and sundry articles. The canning and preserving of fruits is a subject which is of interest to every housekeeper about this time. A few general rules on this subject, by Hettie Griffin will be found useful. Have you ever tried a breakfast party? The author of a "Sum mer Breakfast Party " inquires "Do you know how pretty and dainty and appetizing everything about it can be done," and proceeds to tell how to easily accomplish one of these novel little feasts. Rebecca Cameron, gives some tried recipes for using blackberries in various ways, both for eating and drinking. In "The Man's Part in Good Housekeeping" H. H. Ballard discusses his subject in a manner favorable to the housekeeper, and no doubt many wives will wish the man's part was done in their homes as provided for in this article. The “ man of the house" is invited to carefully study what is said of him. "Household Pests" receive another dose of extermination, and it begins to look as though all the Carpet Bugs, Bed Bugs, Flies and Fleas would soon be swept from the land, if the "Sure Deaths" which have been published are only partially used. The "Cozy Corner," "Quiet Hours with the Quick Witted" and "Library" departments are complete and interesting, and the usual amount of miscellaneous reading is scattered through the pages. The Poetry: "Crowded Out," by Mabel Potter Tallman; "The Silent Land," by Olivia Lovell Wilson; "Writing," by L. Eugenie Eldridge; "A Mother's Lullaby," by E. B. Lowe; "Good Night and Good Morning," by A. H.; "The Summer Night," by Elizabeth Cole, and a Page of Fugitive Verse." OUR "HOUSEHOLD PESTS" PAPERS. The responses to our offer of prizes of $25 each, for the best Buffalo Bug Extinguisher, Bed Bug Finisher, Moth Eradicator and Fly and Flea Exterminator, have been so voluminous that we have been obliged to add materially to the space in our pages that we originally intended to devote to this subject. Many of the papers are valuable discussions of the Household Pest question, and many others contain but little new light or useful information, being simply relations of experiences, without anything satisfactory as to permanent results. Of these we have given four instalments, instead of three as first announced, and the varied and desultory manner in which the papers have been prepared, will make the matter of deciding as to who may be entitled to receive the offered awards so difficult, that the whole correspondence will be turned over to a competent entomologist for decision in this regard, and the discussions of the Household Pests question closes with what we give in this issue. STILL IN HIDING. Several of "The Hidden Poets" which were announced in Good HOUSEKEEPING for July 7, No. 83, as being on the border lands of individual undiscovered countries, still remain in hiding, notwithstanding the fact that diligent search has been made for them by interested parties far and near. It is to be hoped that they may yet be found and the prizes offered for their discovery claimed. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING has offered prizes of twenty-five dollars for the best Buffalo Bug Extinguisher, Bed Bug Finisher, Moth Eradicator, Fly and Flea Exterminator. Among the entries in this magazine, one lady says that the most effective thing she has used is naphtha, but that probably the only certainly sure way is to "burn your house down;" another has been most successful with the "Liquid Exterminator; a third that the best recipe known is to chop up an onion very fine, mix with it powdered borax, and put on bits of bread, the onion attracting the foe and the borax killing them; a Malden lady advises corrosive sublimate as a sure thing; whereupon an Arlington lady says that will eat holes in the carpet. Many women, many minds !—Andover (Mass.) Townsman. he A PAGE OF FUGITIVE VERSE. GATHERED HERE AND THERE. A WOMAN'S COMPLAINT. I know that deep within your heart of hearts You hold me shrined apart from common things, And that my step, my voice, can bring to you My heart is crying like a tired child For one fond look, one gentle, loving word. It may be when your eyes look into mine You only say, "How dear she is to me!" Oh, could I read it in your softened glance, How radiant this plain old world would be! Perhaps, sometimes, you breathe a secret prayer That choicest blessings unto me be given; But if you said aloud, "God bless thee dear!" I should not ask a greater boon from heaven. I weary sometimes of the rugged way; But should you say, "Through thee my life is sweet," The dreariest desert that our path could cross Would suddenly grow green beneath my feet. 'Tis not the boundless waters ocean holds That give refreshment to the thirsty flowers, But just the drops that, rising to the skies, From thence descend in softly falling showers. What matter that our granaries are filled With all the richest harvest's golden stores, If we who own them cannot enter in, But famished stand below the close-barred doors. And so 'tis said that those who should be rich [RE-PUBLISHED BY REQUEST.] THE BABY'S DRAWER. There's a little drawer in my chamber, Guarded with tend'rest care, Where the dainty clothes are lying That my darling shall never wear, And there while the hours are waning, Till the house is all at rest, I sit and fancy a baby Close to my aching breast. My darling's pretty garments, I wrought them sitting apart I finished the dainty wardrobe, I folded them altogether, Smiling and saying, "Gem fragrant, My beautiful new born boy! -Mrs. J. T. Betts. HAPPY DREAMS OF HOME. I sleep and dream of home! I wander through each pleasant grove, I seek the well-known trysting tree, O, happy dreams of home! And, though I wake, afar to roam, To sleep and dream of home! NIGHT AMONG THE HILLS. So still! So still! The night comes down on vale and hill! So dark! So dark! Save here and there a flittering spark, So near! So near ! Those solemn mountains, grand and drear, I hear a sound, A chirping, faint, low on the ground: No fear! No fear! "CLOVER." As I sit by my open window, In the radiant morning's glow, In a chain of memories, While the curtain of time folds backward Soundings from the spirits' sight; Not a link in the chain is broken; Ah, the deep, soulful eyes of my lost ones, Fill my soul with a heavenly brightness That doth linger, linger there. Sweet, ay, sweet is the breath of clover, -Chicago Inter-Ocean. GLORIFY THE HOUSE. They take the rainbow bloom? Glad are the tidings that they bring From wood, and field, and hill, They banish thoughts of gloom; With them comes health-upon the weak And touch pale cheeks with red; TO A CHILD'S MEMORY. Little white blossom, so faintly flushed, Delicate petals, so lightly crushed, Leaves of a laughter so quickly hushed;--Little white sail on an endless sea, Passed from the ken of the eyes that be, Straining ashore, for a glimpse of thee;Little white star on the night's blue strand, Into bowed souls of this lower land Shine thou forever from God's right hand. -F. Herbert Trench. A FORTNIGHTLY JOURNAL. Conducted in the Interests of the Higher Life of the Household. Title Copyright 1884. Contents Copyright 1888. VOLUME 7, No. 9. Original in GoOD HOUSEKEEPING. SPRINGFIELD, MASS., SEPTEMBER 1, 1888. HOUSEKEEPING IN AND AMONG THE PLANETS. THE MAN IN THE MOON AT HOME. What He Has to Say About GOOD HOUSEKEEPING in Its Chosen Field in the Homes of the World, and also of Good and Poor Housekeeping Everywhere. CHAPTER VII. T is not necessary to give farther details of the exact methods by which this correspondence has been carried on. Enough and more than enough has been said to convince the most skeptical of its genuineness and accuracy; to prove beyond a doubt that there never has been and never can be a more complete, reliable and altogether unimpeachable account of present and past events in the moon and other celestial orbs than this which is now being given to the world through the pages of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. In the message following that given in my last report, Mr. Moon acknowledged the justice of my wife's desire that he should "go into particulars" and describe more fully the ways and means by which some of the most desirable results in the way of simpler housekeeping had been reached. "It is," said he, "one of the conspicuous faults of reformers and teachers everywhere, of all kinds and of every degree, that they seem to find it easier, or at least pleasanter, to discuss what they call 'great' questions than to describe the precise methods by which these grand principles can be made practically helpful to those whom they profess to teach. You do well to question the wisdom of any one who attempts to tell you what to do, without telling you how to do it. Permit me to make one more general observation, which I trust will not be taken as a personal reproof, even if I do repeat your own phrase; people who wait for a good thing to be popular before they are willing to work for it, who steadily and stupidly pursue what they confess to be wrong ways lest any change should be thought 'inexpedient' or 'impracticable in the present state of affairs,' are simply dead weights in society; they can only swim with the current; what they think, or say, or do, is not of the slightest consequence to anybody. 66 As a matter of fact there are but very few 'particulars' WHOLE No 87. that can be given in the matter of simplifying your household affairs. The way to adopt the customs and methods that common sense and common honesty would dictate, is to adopt them. Stand where you are and begin now. Do not wait till the next lot of company has gone, till you can get the furniture and fixtures that will seem to be more in harmony with your purpose, or a servant who will enter intelligently into it and make it a success; begin to-night, not to-morrow morning; make your evening meal (I see you still dine at noon) of bread and cake if you have been accustomed to bread, cake and pie; of bread alone, if you have been accustomed to bread and cake. And from this time forth have fewer kinds and better quality of food at each meal. You will soon find that one good dish is worth half a dozen poor ones. Indeed, you know that already and in the majority of cases it is simply your foolish fancy for imitating one another's follies and surpassing them if you can, that leads you into such wasteful and unhealthful modes of eating and drinking. I know there is a theory among your philosophers that intellectual culture and high civilization are necessarily accompanied by, if not actually dependant upon, the most artificial combinations of edible materials; that as you advance beyond the condition of the lower animals who take their food and drink as nature prepares it, so must you depart from the simplicity of their diet and regimen. Have you forgotten your Latin Reader, wherein it is related that 'the Scythians,' most warlike people, live wholly upon milk?' Have you forgotten that a large proportion of the earth's inhabitants, some authorities say nearly two-thirds, are nourished chiefly upon rice? Is not the vigor of mind and body that distinguishes the people of Scotland attributed to their devotion to oats as an article of food for man and beast? Do soldiers, sailors and people old and young who are members of schools and other institutions where a rigid simplicity and regularity of food is obligatory, ever suffer in health and vigor, mental or physical, on that account? If you have not enough instances of individual pre-eminence of mind, body and morals, accompanied by abstemiousness, to prove that this habit is indispensable to such greatness, you have at least enough to show that the two are not incompatible. "You may think me inclined to harp upon one string, but I must say over and over again, and then you will fail to perceive it, that the chief reason why the vast majority of your fellow men are sick and poor and over-worked, oppressed with worry and burdened with cares, is because every identical one of you, except the abjectly poor who have literally nothing to lose, waste of your time, substance and labor, far more than you save; often through ignorance and carelessness, but chiefly through vanity and cowardice. If you dared to make and wear clothing that would serve the legitimate purpose of clothing, that is to say protect your bodies when they need protection and ornament them in a truly artistic manner at all times, without the slightest regard to changing fashions (I use the word fashion because you will understand |