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. to be thrown away, would some reader of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING WHY DO THEY STICK ? Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. I have bought a soapstone griddle, which I have seen recom- We have several contributions for our "Cozy Corner" depart-mended in your columns, but have failed in cooking the griddle ment, 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. SUGAR COOKIES AGAIN. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING : In GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, October 27, a request is made for a recipe for sugar cookies and as I have one I consider good I will send it, and you can use it or not as you please. SUGAR COOKIES.-One cupful of butter,' two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, spice and flour to roll thin. Another with eggs was asked for: One coffee-cupful of sugar, ASKING FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS. 66 If I may take up some of the valuable space in the Cozy Corner" I would like to ask Miss Parloa, if, in her article speaking of soapstone griddles, she means they should be thus washed and cleaned after each time they are used. Why, in raised griddle cakes, are the eggs added in the morning instead of when the cakes are mixed and why should soda be dissolved in water instead of part of the milk to be used? Does it make any difference whether this water is hot or cold? Also how much milk should be used for Corn Bread, page 148, quantity is not given. I have enjoyed this series of Miss Parloa's very much and every recipe I have tried (and that is several) has turned out "just right." MRS. V. H. PHILADELPHIA, PA. CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING : Will some one in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING kindly favor me with the address of any person or persons who can tell me anything about Co-operative Housekeeping. I believe there was an article in one of your recent numbers on this subject. Two families— subscribers to your valuable magazine, driven to try some new plan by the difficulty of getting and keeping good servants, desire to combine, in a small way, and hope that they may succeed so that others will join them. They are next door neighbors, similar in tastes and pecuniary resources, and excellent and familiar friends. Is any co-operative plan feasible under such circumstances? Any advice or address that you can give will greatly oblige them. MRS. F. N. S. ELYRIA, OHIO. MAKING THE HOUSE AND HOME GO BY ITSELF. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING : Will you allow me to call your attention to a statement made in the March, 1888, number of your valuable magazine by "H. I. A.” of Brooklyn, N. Y. The statement is this: "I am a young woman myself... else I would ask you to let me offer the advice I so needed three or four years ago, to let me tell how I learned the lessons that now make my home and house 'go by itself."" If there is no other subscriber who cares to learn "H. I. A.'s" method of systematizing her work, perhaps it would be trespassing on your good nature to call for it on my own account alone. But I scarcely think Minnesota furnishes the only woman who hasn't yet learned how to "make home and house go by itself." I am free to confess that I haven't yet learned that valuable lesson. But if there is any way of making the burden of housekeeping set a little lighter upon shoulders willing but over-anxious, let K. S. S. "stand and deliver" of her knowledge that we may all profit thereby. Meanwhile I must acknowledge many helps and valuable lessons already received from the pages of GOOD HOUSE KEEPING. By the way, why don't experienced housekeepers tell us more of their ways of planning work, division of work between servants, etc., etc. We read less upon that subject than upon almost any department of domestic science. It would be very helpful if Mrs. A. would tell us, "how I do thus and so," while Mrs. B's "thus and so" might be quite different, and yet both furnish hints useful to the rest of us. Pardon the length of this note. I trust that we shall soon hear from K. S. S. NORTHFIELD, MINN. ELECTION CAKE. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: A. P. In GOOD HOUSEKEEPING for November 10, a Minnesota Housekeeper asks for a recipe for Election Cake. As the wife of a Major of the Governor's Foot Guard, who were always on duty at election parades and were treated well to cake, I am in possession of the recipe which I know has been used by four generations and pronounced good, so I give it you for "Minnesota " and other admirers of the cake. FOR THE YEAST.- Boil a small handful of hops in one quart of water and strain. Then pour boiling hot over flour sufficient to make a thin batter. When cool add a half pint of distillery yeast, strain again and let stand until light. This should be made the day before it is to be used. HARTFORD ELECTION CAKE.-Four pounds of flour, two pounds of sugar, one pound of butter, one pound of lard, two pounds of raisins, one pound of citron, four eggs, one quart of new milk, two heaping teaspoonfuls of mace, four nutmegs, a half of a tumblerful each of wine and brandy, and one pint of home-made yeast. In the morning cream the butter and lard and add the sugar, mixing thoroughly. Then take a little less than half of it and rub into the flour, which has been well warmed. Have the milk warmed, but not hot, add the yeast and mix this with the flour, butter and sugar. Mix it very thoroughly and let it stand where it will keep warm until it becomes very light, which should be by 9 or 10 o'clock at night. I have known of the best cake-makers getting up in the night to care for their cake, but I think it can be made without such a proceeding. It must not be disturbed while rising. Beat the eggs separately and mix with the remainder of the shortening and sugar reserved, adding the spice and wine. Then mix all together and let rise the second time. Next morning when light fill pans twothirds full, putting in a little at a time, and dropping the fruit in thickly in layers, to prevent its setting. Bake in a slow oven and eat with thankfulness to Connecticut. SOUPS, CHARLOTTE RUSSE AND SALAD DRESSING. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: Knowing how hard it is in winter to have a variety of good soups that are not much trouble, I send you the two following which I have found very good; having no stock in them and being made out of vegetables that one has all winter, they are very easy to make and can be used the same day as made. POTATO SOUP.-Three carrots, three big onions, about six or nine potatoes put to boil all together in about three pints of water. When boiled soft mash through a colander until you have enough to make it as thick as cream. Then add a good lump of butter, pepper and salt to taste. Add a pint of boiling milk or more if necessary, and serve. VEGETABLE OYSTER SOUP.-Wash and scrape about a quart of salsify, put it to boil immediately in boiling water without salt. Keep closely covered in a large quart of water. This will boil away, then at the last add a pint of milk or cream. If milk is used put in a teaspoonful of butter rolled smooth in a little flour. Pepper and salt to taste. Then take a piece of codfish the size of your hand, freshen it in cold water and pound very fine with a potato pounder. Stir this into the soup to give it the taste of oysters. Put in also a part of the salsify pressed through a colander to thicken the soup. VERY GOOD CHARLOTTE RUSSE.-One-fourth of a box of gelatine dissolved in cold water and set on the back of the stove, one pint of cream, three-fourths of a teacupful of sugar, vanilla to taste. Strain in the gelatine, then whip with egg beater. Put into dish lined with sponge cake and set on the ice. VERY GOOD SALAD DRESSING WITHOUT OIL.-One egg beaten up, one small teaspoonful of mustard, one tablespoonful of vinegar, pepper and salt to taste, two tablespoonfuls of butter. Cook over hot water till thick (take the lid off the teakettle and set the bowl in) then put into a cold bowl and stir in half a bowlful of cream, add more vinegar if necessary. Set on the ice to cool. QUIET HOURS WITH THE QUICK WITTED. FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND THR CHILDREN OF A LARGER GROWTH AS WELL. [Contributions for this department are always in order, the only proviso being that everything submitted shall be fresh and entertaining.] 112.-HIDDEN POETS. THE SEARCH FOR THEM WAS BEGUN IN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING No. 83. The (6) North wind softly blows, As though 'twould a tale disclose; A message to some fond (12) Lover, And he knelt and (17) Praed in the (18) Still, night air, And the drops of (21) Brine o'er his cheeks rolled down A (27) Rich young (28) Mann reclined at ease Whose (29) Lyte footsteps he yearned to hear, At last, across some rising (31) Knowles, As fair and bright as a light winged (34) Fay; And her hair, like a (36) Crowne of shining gold, The moonbeams seem to (37) Gilder locks With the touch of a (38) Goldsmith's art; At last they meet 'neath the (41) Abbey walls, And said in (44) Wordsworth gems and gold, Than oft is found in (47) Story; They kissed and parted near the (49) Trench A (50) Marvell, quite, of sluggishness. The moral of this (51) Taylor rhyme ; EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO. SPRINGFIELD, MASS., DECEMBER 8, 1888. Registered at Springfield Post-Office as second-class mail matter. All communications for the Editorial Department should be addressed to the Editor of GOOD HousekeepinG, Springfield, Mass. Postage stamps must accompany all contributions sent for editorial consideration, when the writers desire the return of their MSS., if not accepted. The number opposite a subscriber's name, on the address label attached to each issue of GOOD HousekeepinG, shows to what number the subscription has been paid. This issue of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING is copyrighted, but our exchanges are fighting the battles of life. Her earthly idols were gathered around the fireside of her home, where a son and two daughters have been carefully trained for the duties of life and well prepared by her practical teachings to follow in her footsteps. The deeper currents of her life's thought were drawn into the same channels of action which had been marked out for the conduct of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, at its inception and establishment, "In the Interests of the Higher Life of the Household." Her sympathy with and commendations of the aims and objects had in view by the management of this journal, resulted in giving our readers, from time to time, some of the best efforts of her pen, while her contributions have also graced the pages of other publications of high character and eminent consideration. The every-day duties of her home life having her first invited to extract from its columns-due credit being given as they may desire, consideration, necessarily prevented her from becoming a volumi save the contributions of Miss MARIA PARLOA, all rights in these being especially reserved to the writer. The special papers which appear in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING will be written expressly for its pages by our selected contributors, and,-with rare exceptions,the entire Table of Contents will be served up from our own larder. Whenever we borrow from a neighbor a bit of this or a bite of that, we shall say where such bit or bite came from, and to whom it belongs. TO ALL NEWSDEALERS. 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DARKENED DOORWAYS. Another home has been darkened by the drooping folds of mourning emblems; loved ones living again mourn for a loved one dead; a familiar face, once full of sunshine has lost its brightness; a heart that beat responsively with its surrounding world of joys and griefs, is pulseless and still; sorrow has come to a household where smiles and gladness reigned supreme, sadness to the domestic life of a pleasant village, and the readers of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING will henceforth miss from its pages the helpful words and bright thoughts of one of its frequent and favorite contributors. Mrs. Ellen Bliss Hooker, after an illness of a few days only, died at her home in Longmeadow, Mass., November 19, and was laid to rest in the village cemetery near her home, the formal offices of sepulture being tenderly rendered under the sweeping arch of a cloudless November sky-“ Earth to earth, dust to dust, ashes to ashes, looking to a grand Resurrection at the last day and the life of the world to come." Mrs. Hooker was formerly a much-esteemed resident of Springfield, but has of late years made her home in the quiet village of her birth-place, and though living an uneventful and unostentatious life, magnified her place, in turn as a daughter, wife and mother, modestly and yet effectively, and was, though perhaps all unconsciously, a recognized leader and guide in connection with works and ways of utility and beauty, not only in the little community where her pleasant and hospitable home altars were reared, but she drew around her from a wide circle of acquaintances in larger fields, much esteem and firm friendship. Though reared in a home of plenty, educated liberally and living generously, her heart was ever warm and sympathetic and her hands ready to help those who were less fortunate than herself in nous writer, although possessed of marked and well-trained literary abilities. She wrote for a purpose, not alone for the pecuniary returns that her writings might bring, having something to say worth saying whenever she wrote and always saying it well, vigorously, pointedly, courageously and convincingly. Hers was one of the brightest pens whose tracings were transferred to these pages, and it is to such aids that GOOD HOUSEKEEPING is indebted for much of its success. Lofty in sentiment, pure in diction, earnest of purpose, yet modest of expression, her writings have been widely read, greatly admired and of large influence for good among her fellow men and women. The most prominent figure in an affectionate and well-ordered home, surrounded by a large circle of loving friends and acquaintances, while in the prime of life and in full possession of all the. vigor and usefulness of a well-ripened womanhood, the dread summons came, "God's finger touched her and she slept," and many there are, knowing her intimately, who "Fain would twine a wreath of bay, And gently lay it down, Where sleeps in death the form of one Who wears a well-earned crown." In connection with this writing of the death of Mrs. Hooker, it is both fitting and proper that GOOD HOUSEKEEPING should briefly refer to the loss it has sustained, within the last few months, in the death of three others of its valued contributors,-Grace Nye Steiger of Laurel, Md., Anne Aldworth, "Rhoda Lander" (Rhode Islander) of Bristol, R. I., and Mary F. Smith, “Mary Winchester" of Winchester, Mass. These have left pleasant and abiding records on these pages of good words and good works. All of them were deeply interested in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and its mission, and all lent their aid, by valuable contributions, which they now and then brought with them, to our family table, where it has always been a pleasure to meet them. They wrote of their experiences, of their knowledge and their convictions, thus giving to their writings a practical value which the theories of the purely professional penny-a-liner never attains unto, writing from the standpoint of actuality rather than that of fiction, striving to be useful rather than famous, strengthening the weak, cheering the faint-hearted, inciting by word and deed, by precept and example, to nobler deeds and better lives. They will be missed in many a quiet home, where they have been known, in connection with their writings in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, where their words will be long preserved and their names fondly cherished. With them "The day is done; and slowly from the scene GOOD HOUSEKEEPING FOR CHRISTMAS. The Thanksgiving number of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING has had wide commendation, from our readers and the press, the latter having extracted freely from its Table of Contents and commented flatteringly on the excellence of its Bill of Fare. Now and then a representative of the editorial fraternity has slyly slipped the "Menu" into his pocket, and appropriated one or more of the Thanksgiving Goodies, without saying where they found them, but the rule of the respectable portion of the fraternity has been proper credit, the exceptions being quite generally those whose sweetest morsels for rolling under the tongue are those prepared from stolen brains by shameless cooks. On the other hand the Good Words for GOOD HOUSEKEEPING in general, and for our Thanksgiving number in particular, have been numerous and hearty, and are fully appreciated. The Hudson, N. Y., Republican says: "A leading feature of this issue of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING is a Thanksgiving Bill of Fare with complete directions for its preparation and serving. It contains also a capital Thanksgiving story-two or three of them, for that matter while an abundance of extra good material, including many valuable recipes, adds greatly to its value. Its contributors are the best known and the ablest that money can procure, and hence it has a phenomenal prosperity and success." This extract is the same in sentiment and expression as that of hundreds of others, all agreeing that those who get GOOD HOUSEKEEPING "Get the best," and that its Thanksgiving number ought to find a place in every household where Thanksgiving tables are laid by busy hands, in observance of "the day we celebrate." Now for the Christmas GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, for which there will also be a special Bill of Fare prepared, more varied and richer, perhaps, than that of the Thanksgiving Number. The opening page will have an illustrated poem, "Christmas Chimes," one of Helen Chase's choicest and best, having a "Merry Christmas" ring to both poem and picture. A page of original Christmas verse, with miniature initial illustrations. A touching and tenderly rendered Christmas story, Seeking for Myths on Christmas Eve, and Finding a Real Presence." "Dick's Christmas Gift," a happy recital of an unfortunate domestic episode. "Christmas Genius and Goodies; Notions and Nuts." "Baskets for Christmas." "Christmas Dinner Ornaments One Hundred Years Ago." "A Little Girl's Christmas Box," with a half dozen illustrations of what was in it. "Christmas in Germany"-being No. XIII of our Housekeeping in Foreign Lands Series. "A Few Christmas Dainties." "Christmas Cheer." GOOD THINGS IN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. An old glee has it, "There's pleasure in sorrow by contrast of joy." Hattie Whitney has discovered the "Winter Cheer that shines against the background of wind and snow, and her charming verses are set off with one of our artist's best efforts. Christmas comes nearer and nearer, and "What shall I make for presents?" is the cry in many a household. To all such Ada Marie Peck offers an abundance of helpful suggestion in the way of preparing suitable tokens, the work of one's own hands. Miss Parloa's new series of papers, "From Soup Tureen to Pudding Dish," begins with copious and careful instruction for the preparation of the principal meal of the day-Dinner. There is as much "how" as "what" in a good dinner and Miss Parloa illuminates both. Hostesses have received great store of advice how to behave in entertaining guests. It is high time for guests to be admonished that they also have obligations. The nine rules for visitors laid down by Rebecca Hart ought to be pasted in the hat and carefully memorized. They are right to the point. Clarissa Potter's appeal for the night lamp is based on commonsense, and mothers of infants should give heed to it. The first of Mrs. Candee's series on "Amateur Entertainments" outlines a taking attraction for a church or benefit entertainment, "The French Market." Try it. It will prove a decided novelty in very many sections. Another charming letter from Aunt Rachel Macy. The dear old lady has a strong fund of sensible knowledge and shrewd humor. Anna Laurens Dawes presents a searching and logically arranged argument on the duty of the citizen to sustain the church. "That Pew in Church" may be an index of your sagacity as well as a measure of your faith. Read it and see what you think. Dr. Amelia A. Whitfield furnishes another useful chapter on the care of the baby's health. "Pacific Coast" tells how nice real pure California olive oil is, and incites a desire to try the genuine article. All about furs is the burden of Helena Rowe's fashion article. Sealskin wraps are always in fashion and the genuine fur is not so extravagant as some believe. The Cozy Corner is well occupied and the other departments are full of good things. Our Bill of Fare is seasonable and good. Look out for the Christmas number. LITERARY "PROTECTION." Miss Parloa, the cooking teacher, is writing now for GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and warns all exchanges that her copyright forbids them to make extracts from her papers, even with credit.-New York Graphic. Miss Parloa is writing for GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and has written for its pages ever since its establishment, always sensibly, conscientiously and practically, and as is her custom with all her writings, over the copyright formal announcement of "All No. XXIV of Mrs. Rowe's popular "Fashions and Fancies," rights reserved." Whatever Miss Parloa does or says in connecseasonably prepared. Ruth Hall's " Every Day Desserts." A Page of Fugitive Verse, appropriate to Christmas. Cozy Corner. Home Correspondence. Quiet Hours with the Quick Witted. Editorials. And when the book is opened, Our readers all will say, "Oh, isn't this a dainty dish For Merry Christmas Day." tion with the subjects she deals with or treats, is publicly recognized as "authority" and good authority, and the genius and industry which have secured for her and her writings such favorable recognition have a property value, which she takes pains to protect by copyright, in the same manner, and under the same form that all works of value are protected,-" only this and nothing more." "IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE?" No, if the two hearts wedded beat as one. Yes, if the two beat as two. Questionable, if either of the beating hearts is a dead beat. HOME CORRESPONDENCE. GOOD MISSIONARY WORK. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: "Aunt Rachel's " articles in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING promise to be of such great value and interest that I am going to ask her to give a list of things, such as bed-linen, table-linen, dust-cloths, dishcloths, etc., required for a beginner, and then the best way of using and arranging them. I have a young friend whose mother is preparing an outfit for housekeeping and it is deplorable to see her wasting her substance in useless furbelowing, when perhaps a sensible suggestion may enlighten. You cannot imagine the untidy, careless, foolish extravagance of a young Western girl brought up without any intelligent purpose in her domestic life. Do please be a missionary and reform us. ST. LOUIS, MO. THE BUFFALO BUG AGAIN. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: M. My subscription, I think, closed with the last number and I am very glad to enclose the amount for another year's subscription: I look forward to each number with delight, and when it comes I sit right down and read it from beginning to end before I can lay it down! I could not keep house without it. While I was away in the summer I did not see the numbers which came to my home and so did not know of the contest for the best remedy for household pests, offered by you. When I reached home and read over the back numbers I find that not one has given my remedy for the Buffalo bug, which I found as near perfect as anything can be for the pest. Perhaps your readers would still like another to add to the number of good recipes. I took equal parts of camphor, saltpeter and borax powdered finely and laid it thickly about the edges of the room under the carpet, laying it from the base-board out about the distance of six inches, and laid the carpets back over the powder and tacked them down. Before hearing of this remedy I had tried gallons of naphtha, pouring it on from a large watering can; had used oil of cedar and everything else recommended to me by friends similarly afflicted. Before using this powder I could count hundreds of these bugs under every carpet in the house, and since that time I have never had one! At house-cleaning time I have the powder prepared freshly and keep it under the edges of carpets all the time. It is perfectly cleanly, there is no odor after the first day and it will not harm anything with which it may come in contact. With cordial wishes for the continued welfare of GoOD HOUSEKEEPING, I am yours, MRS. C. A. M. WORCESTER, MASS. A GOOD SUGGESTION. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: Several times I have seen high chairs or stools advised as desirable for tired persons' use when ironing small articles, such as handkerchiefs, etc. May I make another, and what seems to be a better, suggestion? A low table, strong and steady, would be found much less tiring, as the feet could rest on the floor if the person is seated on an ordinary chair, which could not be the case if a high stool were used; besides, any one unaccustomed to sit on the latter finds it a little difficult to preserve her balance when leaning forward or to either side. The ordinary folding table, such as is used for cutting out, would be about the right hight, but is more fun to sit at the low than at the "grown-up" table. To get it the required hight, it will be better to cut off too little than too much at first. The knees, when sitting, should slip easily under the top, and it will make a difference whether one is in a low or high chair. W. P. P. CINCINNATI, OHIO. LIBRARY LEAFLETS. For Young People. Three volumes of the "Little Jacket Series" make a library charming enough to set the boys and girls crazy with delight. One contains Ruskin's delightful German fairy tale "The King of the Golden River," with illustrations by Richard Doyle, and the others are "The Last of the Huggermuggers" and Kobboltozo," its sequel, by Christopher Pearse Cranch, charmingly illustrated. From the same publishers comes a fine story by J. T. Trowbridge (did he ever write any other kind?) "A Start in Life," in which the fortunes of a brave boy who set out to seek his own forinteresting and wholesome style. All the boys will want it and entune in the world are related in Mr. Trowbridge's exceedingly joy it and it will do them good. There is still a great demand for war stories, and especially for those written by Oliver Optic, and the young people will rejoice to know that he has started a new Series to be known as "The Blue and the Gray Series." He has been fairly forced to do this by the pressure of entreaty from the readers of his popular "Army and Navy" Series. The first volume is "Taken by the Enemy," which needs no outline description to make prospective readers understand that it is good. The years have given the author fresh vigor and power rather than weakened his hold, and these new books will be in quick demand. All these books are from Lee & Shepard, Boston. From English Writers. Cassell & Co. have added to their Rainbow series of original novels "The Astonishing History of Troy Town," by Q., author of "Dead Man's Rack." It is a fresh, humorous, satirical story, with two plots running side by side, but having no essential relation to each other. The humor is somewhat after the Dickensy order, but less refined, and is crisp, relishable, rollicking, with a rapid succession of comical and absurd situations and funny catastrophes. Without being distinctly original the humor is given a new and fresh flavor by the author's easy style and choice of dialect, and light as the book is, some of the characters are pleasing studies. The story would have been much improved by the omission of the tedious and coarse yarns of “Caleb Trotter" about the glass eye and the setting hen, but these are the only dull features in the book. The same publishers have issued in their Sunshine series Frank Barrett's romantic story of "The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane," a tale of plots and seafaring and pirates such as current story writers are hardly able to construct. New York: Cassell & Co. Paper, 50 cents each. For the Evening of Life. Margaret E. White has made a collection of short extracts from varied sources with the somewhat unusual motive of "presenting a cheerful view of the afternoon of life, by bringing forward its pleasures, possibilities and hopes." A glance through the pages shows a rather somber than cheerful aspect, such as impresses one on a bright day in late autumn, but a more careful reading of the extracts brings one into fitter harmony with their spirit and purpose. They are selected with taste and wise judgment. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. A Visit to Jerusalem. not firm enough to offer proper resistance to the movement of ironing. If an article suitable cannot be bought ready-made, or if one does not wish to order one from the carpenter, a small-sized deal kitchen table will serve the purpose perfectly if the legs are cut off to the required hight. Twenty-four inches would suit most persons, I think. It is much better to have the shortening done by a carpenter who will know better than an amateur just how to get the four legs even; one, the least bit shorter than the others, will prove a constant trial of patience. Such a table will prove so useful to the busy, tired woman who gets it, for moulding biscuits, for cutting cookies, in fact for such a number of things besides ironing, that she will wonder how she did without it so long. Then let her try, by way of variety, having a children's tea party, all her own, some wet night, or with some of the neighbors' added on a fine one, and see if she will not find that they will vote it ever so much❘ Company. Price $1.25. A very desirable book to give to a boy or girl is "Ned Harwood's Visit to Jerusalem." It is the story of a boy who made a visit to the famous sacred city and other places in the Holy Land, and is written by Susan G. Knight, whose personal knowledge of the region visited qualifies her to make such a book trustworthy as to its facts and pleasing in its treatment. The book is printed in large type, plentifully illustrated and bound in covers gayly decorated and ornamented with original designs. Boston: D. Lothrop |