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 corres

To sum up, bathing is a heaven ordained practice, necessary not only for pleasure, but for health. The sponge bath plays the most important part for purposes of stimulating the integument and equalizing circulation, rendering the person less liable to sudden chills. Tepid water should be used for baths taken for the object of simple cleanliness, and should be reinforced by using some alkali, either soap of best quality or, if the water is hard (containing lime), add a little borax. Hot baths should not be followed to any extent because of their enervating effects. Never take a bath of any kind when over-heated, or very much fatigued, with an overloaded stomach, or just before taking a sleigh ride.

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-Amelia A. Whitfield, M. D.

WISE SAYINGS BY A WISE WRITER.

The carving-knife is mightier than the sword.

Mustard improves a lobster, but ruins a chicken salad.

A good digestion is more to be desired than great riches.

It is brutal to drench an oyster with vinegar or pepper-sauce.

He is a fool who indulges to excess either in eating or drinking. Peace at a dinner-table assists digestion, angry words stir up bile. The tinkle of the dinner-bell is a pleasanter sound than the blare of the trumpet.

Praise your housekeeper for her successful dishes, and regard leniently her failures.

Never accept the invitation of a man to take "pot luck" with him. He degrades the name of dinner, and, also, insults you.

Nature is a great physician. Don't be afraid to trust her; she looks carefully after the interests of her patients' stomachs. Let an invalid have whatever he calls for to eat; it is not he who craves it, but Nature, and she will not permit him to eat to excess. A few spoonfuls of soup, possessing body, taken on an empty stomach, give it tone and prepare it to receive acceptably more substantial fare.

In the progress of civilization the frying-pan disappeared with the advent of the gridiron; which in turn has been superseded by the wire-broiler.

A drop or two of lemon-juice and a dash of cayenne on an oyster may be tolerated, but it is best eaten directly from the shell, flavored with its own juice.

A dyspeptic has no right to dine among civilized beings. He should take a sea voyage or go into the wilderness and live for a while, like John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey.

The Arab in the desert dividing his last handful of dried dates and his few remaining drops of water with a wandering brother, represents the highest type of hospitality.—Barry Gray, in the

Caterer.

WANTED-A LADY HELP.

A lady-help wanted-genteel and refined,
Obliging and cheerful, industrious, kind;

To take charge of six children-the eldest eleven,
The youngest a baby (a little help given).

The requirements are English and music and Latin,
French, German and painting on canvas and satin.
One expert at her needle it's hoped, too, to gain,
In all kinds of work, whether fancy or plain.
An orphan or destitute lady would find,

In return for her services, treatment most kind.
With ten pounds per annum, if equal to fill

The above-mentioned station "with competent skill."
Reply by return, as so many would come

Without any pay,

"A Christian Home."

-London Truth.

value to the Homes of the World.]-GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

AS A WEDDING PRESENT. Wishing to make a wedding present in a few days, and your magazine being in my mind the most useful and appropriate thing to give, I write to ask you what the cost will be for subscription from Whole No. 1 to the last number in 1886. I buy your magazine at the news stand and often take it on the road with me, reading it with great pleasure. J. W. D. BOSTON, MASS.

ARRASENE KNITTING SILK.

In response to an inquiry by Mrs. M. E. Dunn of St. Paul, Minn., as to where Arrasene Knitting Silk may be obtained, Mrs. Eva M. Niles says that for 75 cents a hank of Silk Knitting Arrasene of 60 yards and of Woolen Arrasene 45 cents for 60 yards, may be had, and she gives the address of Mrs. T. G. Farnham, No. 10 West 14th street, New York, and E. J. States, 145 Tremont street, Boston, as parties from whom they may be obtained. Mrs. E. G. Forsyth, of Springfield, Mass., will also find in this announcement of Mrs. Niles, a reply to her inquiry.

LIKE OLIVER TWIST-ASKING FOR MORE. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

It is natural to ask most of those who give most, and on that principle I beg to remind Mrs. Owen that some of her readers are looking impatiently for another article on candy-making. A young girl, who has followed her clear and exact instructions for making fondant, with triumphant success, wished to ask for further information, and especially for the mode of preparing the filling of marsh mallow cream which is just now a favorite with the best confectioners. I beg to add my hearty congratulations and thanks for the admirable serial of "Ten Dollars Enough." REDDING, CONN.

MORE FRESH AIR.

D. H. R. Goodale.

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: Being interested in "Percy" and her struggles for fresh air and having passed through very much the same experience, let me give her a little advice gathered from taking care of six small children. Let "Percy" study her thermometer more. Keep night have pure but warm air. By all means keep the register open, at temperature of rooms nearer the day temperature. If possible night and window closed at bottom. It would be better to have cold night air coming into an adjoining room, with door open between, rather than directly into the sleeping apartment. But if that be impossible let the room be aired thoroughly at 10 p. m., by leaving windows wide open a few moments, (after covering over the children) then the air will keep fresh enough with a very small opening only at top of window. At four or five in the morning this should be closed. These directions of course are only for cold, winter weather. Heavy bed clothing, needed for sleeping in cold rooms, makes children often too warm and restless. Of course they throw aside the clothes and take cold. When they are old enough to pull the coverings over themselves, if chilly in the night, say seven years old, then it is time to let them sleep in rooms with low temperature. I know all about croupy coughs and mothers sleeping with one eye open, and hope Percy may benefit by my experience of our Berkshire winters.

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POLYGLOT MANTEL.

AT ONCE USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL.

E hardly know whether to call the design given on opposite page, a mantel, a parlor organ, a French clock, or signal service station, or a bric-a-brac cabinet. As a matter of fact it is an interesting, ingenious and artistic combination of them all; "which" as Captain Cuttle would say "why not?" The following description explains its construction, and will help to give a clear idea of its actual appearance: This design for a fireplace and mantel is intended to be made of some wood capable of taking a high polish. The main shelf is supported. by two pairs of brackets that rest on columns reaching to the floor, the space between the brackets of each pair forming a recess for bric-a-brac.

Directly under the main shelf is an indicator arranged to show the direction of the wind, by being connected with a vane on the outside of the house. The fire is in a wrought iron fire basket suspended by chains. In front of this is an open-work screen made of brass and studded with glass.

Above the mantel is a clock set in a brass lattice and surrounded by a beveled plate mirror. Behind the clock and lattice is a music-box so contrived as to be started and stopped at pleasure, or connected with the clock in such a manner as to play at regular intervals. At each side of the center mirror are two smaller ones over which are shelves that are supported by small columns. Between these columns is lattice work made of small wooded balls connected by brass rods. The frames to the mirrors are of wood carved in

low relief.

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A VERY SIMPLE STORY.
WITH A TWO-STORY MORAL.
When John and Angeline were wed,
The good old portly parson said,
While pocketing, complacently,
The customary marriage fee,
"Now, John and Angeline, this tie
Will hold, unbroken, till you die,
If you are true, as you should be,
And to its binding chain agree.
It holds you both to bear, together,
All fates, in fair or stormy weather;
Each one to lend a willing hand
To aid the other on demand,
To pull together in the strife,
And share the good and ill of life.
Bless you, my children, in your lot,
Made one by the hymenial knot."
And then the parson took his hat,-
Feeling not wanted after that.

A hackman waited at the door,
To take them on their wedding tour
Part of the way-not very far-
And leave them in a Pullman car;

-E. C. Gardner.

To check their trunk, all bright and new, Full big enough, at least, for two.

Then off they went, with blessings cast, And old shoes showered around them fast,

Reaching in time the railroad train,
Where, bidding friends good-bye again,
They on their journey gaily rolled,
Blest in each other manifold.
And now Chicago's precinct won,-
(The greatest town beneath the sun,
As the Chicago people claim,
And if it isn't all the same;
But, spite of all invidious jokes,
Chicago holds some glorious folks.)-
To the old Sherman John directs
The hackman to take his effects,
Consisting of his trunk and wife,
Feeling with proud importance rife;
And then, with what a rapturous pride
He wrote the line, "John Smith and bride!"
Not quite well writ, but to his eye
The triumph of chirography.

Led by a darky boy polite,

Their aspiration took a flight,
Perhaps took two,-that as it may,-
And soon found quarters where to stay:
Richly bedight, with fixings rare,
Wearing a quite patrician air,
The carpets, gorgeous with their dies,
And lambrequins and rugs likewise;
John deemed it a bright, fairy bower;
His Angy, Its "consummate flower."
Thus as they sat in love's romance,
With joy upon each countenance,
Day became night, and blest content
Was with their fair surroundings blent,--
Beneath a spell; when, broke the charm
As fire-bells thundered forth alarm,
And on the dark the fiery glow
Betokened far-extended woe.

They watched, dismayed, the rushing flame
That in fierce surges went and came;
And, as more near its roaring boomed,
They knew the Sherman House was doomed.
To flee for life, and lose their traps,
Was their fatality, perhaps.

But Angeline, with hopeful mien,-
The like of which John ne'er had seen,-
Said quick: "The parson didn't joke,
His word was true as e'er was spoke,
And now no better time could be
To 'pull together,' don't you see?
So take right hold, without ado,

And we will pull the trunk right through."

Then, seizing each a handle tight,

They bore their burden by the light

Of the red heavens that round them lay
With love and pluck to lead the way,
Until they stood on Safety's ground,
Beyond the conflagrations bound.

"There, John," said Angy, as they sat
Upon the trunk, "just think of that:
The parson's counsel we have tried."
"Tried as by fire," her spouse replied.
Then from their tour they soon returned,
Their love confirmed, their traps unburned,
And ne'er a fonder pair was seen
Than John and his fair Angeline.
Their neighbors held them very high,

And told that story of the try,
Averring they would fain have seen 'em
Dragging that heavy trunk between 'em.
-B. P. Shillaber.

EVERY life of sweet-souled, sunny goodness, of patient, earnest service, of honest, faithful toil for truth, counts for its full weight in the momentum of humanity's progress. It does not go out, it goes in upon the race. Have within you a strong

and simple soul, bent on noble deeds, and the work will come in which you too shall live on, an imperishable force upon the earth. -Rev. R. Heber Newton.

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BE EXACT.

AN INTERESTING SEARCH FOR A RECIPE.

OLLY tells Marta to be exact in following her recipes or success will not be assured. This bit of advice came to me with startling force recently in trying to get a recipe for an old-fashioned dish, and I thought the advice might be amended. First have an exact recipe and then follow with exactness. But, if I am to tell a story, I must begin at the beginning. One of our neighbors had been ill for a long time, and an old nurse was called in to render aid to the wearied family. She called one day, ostensibly to return a dish but really to gratify her curious desire for going into other people's houses -and after inquiries about the invalid "how is her appetite?" I asked.

"Wal, that beats all," she answered. "She et a hearty breakfast of brown bread and baked beans. I allays must have baked beans once a week, and I found they'e ben gitting their'n of the baker, so I went to work and baked some. She et 'em as if they tasted good, and they was good too, and then she et a hull sarser full of whit-pot."

"Whit-pot?" I exclaimed, "What is that?" "Never et whit-pot? Wal I guess your farther has et lots of it. You never hearn of it afore? Wal, I never!"

"But what is it?" I persisted. "How do you make it. All those old-fashioned dishes have a charm for me and I want to learn how to make them. Tell me just how you make it. I'll write it down and try it some day."

"Wal, you take some milk-"

"How much milk?" I interrupted.

"As much as you happen to hev. Of course you don't keep a cow here in town. I guess I had a quart-no, there must 'a been more'n a quart, for you see her sister lives on a farm and sends milk to her every day. She drinks it, the doctor sez it's good for her. So I took what there was, for its sech good milk, more'n half cream it seems to me, and I didn't want it to spile, so I sez I'll make some whip-pot. Yes, there must ha' ben more'n a quart."

"How much more than a quart?"

"O, I dunno, a pint mebbe, mebbe there was two quarts, 'twas in a big pitcher. I didn't measure it; then I put in some meal-yaller meal--"

"How much meal?"

"Why, nuff to make it thick nuff."

"How thick ought it to be?" I asked despairingly. "Lor, child, just thick 'nuff to be good, some meal thickens more'n other. Then I broke in some eggs."

"How many eggs?"

"Wal, I had three this morning. You see her sister brings fresh eggs from the farm and I thought I might as well use some up, two might do, I suppose, or four if you had 'em plenty. Then I put in some sugar, some folks put in merlasses, but I like sugar; but if you ain't got sugar, why merlasses will do. How much sugar? Why, till 'twas sweet nuff. I like things pretty sweet. Some folks does and then some folks don't. Then I let it cook till 'twas done. How long? Why, till 'twas done I tell you. Sometimes it cooks quicker than others."

"Well," I said, determined to get one definite piece of information. "What was it when it was done? How do you

eat it?"

"What was it? Why 'twas whit-pot and I et it out of a sarser with a spoon. You make some some day and you'll

say 'tis good. Got it all down? I must be going. You jest try that whit-pot." And so she took her departure and I looked over my recipe, which read thus:

Milk-One quart or more. Meal. Eggs-Two, three or four. Sugar-If you hain't got any, molasses; to make it sweet. Time to cook; till it is done.

It is needless to say that I didn't try to follow those directions, but "whit-pot" had taken full possession of my brain and wouldn't let me rest. So, according to my custom, "if you don't know how to do a thing, ask until you find some one who can tell you," I began to inquire of all my housekeeping friends with regard to the dainty, but strange to say found them as ignorant as myself. But each one promises to "ask everybody" until the coveted information was obtained.

Last week a messenger came to my door bearing a glass dish-not a "sarser"-containing something which had the appearance of boiled custard. A note was also handed to me which read thus:

DEAR MADAM:-I hear you have been making inquiries about "whit-pot." I take the liberty to send you some, and the recipe with it. The dish is a great favorite with my mother, who remembers when her grandmother used to make it more than seventy years ago. Trusting you will find the old-time dish palatable, I am, yours truly,

JANE SMITH.

To say that I was astonished would be no more than true, for the note was from a stranger and I was not aware how far my persistence had carried me. Surely my perseverance had brought success. I found "whit-pot" "palatable," though I confess these grandmother recipes are always rather disappointing to me, and I don't "hanker" after the dainty as I did when I first learned of its existence.

As you've seen the inexact rule, I'll add the correct one so that all the readers of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING may try for themselves our "fore mothers" dessert.

WHIT-POT.-Two quarts milk, one cup of Indian meal, two-thirds of a cup of molasses, two eggs and a pinch of salt. Put the milk on to boil, leaving out enough to stir the meal as a thickening. Then put it all together on the milk when hot, but not boiling. Rub the molasses and eggs together and add to the milk. Allow it all to come to the boiling point and take it up carefully.

Selected Expressly for GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

-Rhoda Lander.

ROSE LEAVES FOR THE JAR OF MEMORY. Do not pray for crutches, but for wings!-Phillips Brooks. Our discontent must be the proof of something in us meant for better things.-Ouida.

There are a hundred kinds of religion, but only one kind of piety.-H. W. Shaw.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.-Dinah Mulock-Craik.

Keep your conduct abreast of your conscience, and very soon your conscience will be illuminated by the radiance of God.J. S. B.

There is power in patience. It saves us from despair when victory is postponed. It makes it impossible for disappointment to crush us. Petulance is a quality of the weak. Patience enables us to endure and persevere, and endurance and perseverance lead to triumph.-Western Christian Advocate.

There are two things for live men and women to do: to receive without the other. No fruit, without the drinking of the sunshine. from God, and to give out to their fellows. One can not be done No true tasting of the sunshine that is not gathering itself towards the ripening of fruit.-Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.

The smallest kind deed will return with tender light upon some darkened day. * There will come a time when the only enjoyment to be obtained is from within; then the refreshment that comes from such stores is most satisfying. The invalid, the aged, then has happiness near at hand.-M. H. W. W.

EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.

HOLYOKE, MASS., and NEW YORK CITY, MAY 1, 1886.

All communications for the Editorial Department should be addressed to the Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Holyoke, Mass.

Postage stamps must accompany all contributions sent for editorial consideration, when the writers desire the return of their MSS., if not accepted.

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.

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AT THE OPENING OF A NEW YEAR. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING TO ITS SUBSCRIBERS AND FRIENDS. In the first issue of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, with the date of May 2d, 1885, we built the following platform of our plan and purpose for future guidance and conduct. The experience of the first year of existence has proved it to be so well framed and so serviceable that we reproduce it, with the added remark that we have neither a word to erase or a line to add at the now-at-hand parting of the ways,--at the closing of the second volume and the first year of the publication of GooD HOUSEKEEPING, and the auspicious entering upon the third volume and the second year of issue. This is what we said one year ago:

FOR THE HOMES OF THE WORLD.

With the plain, yet pleasant looking, easily signaled and readily comprehended flag of "GOOD HOUSEKEEPING" at its mast head, a new candidate for public favor and-hoped for-private fortune, is herewith launched on the uncertain sea of human endeavor. The enterprise is the outcome of grave thought, of much careful consideration, and is undertaken with the well fixed conviction that it has a mission of its own to fulfill, compounded of about equal proportions of public duty and private interest.

Our homes are what we make them-good, bad or indifferent - and their precepts and practices are necessarily more or less sharply defined, intensified and demonstrated in our own individual lives. They are the fortresses from which the battles of live are really fought-the embrasures from which are fired "the shot heard round the world," with more telling effect for weal or woe than any other worldly actions known. to humanity.

Good housekeeping makes good homes, speaking after the manner of men. Tolerably good housekeeping makes tolerably--and never more than tolerably-good homes. Poor housekeeping produces only poor homes. Grapes are never gathered from thorns, nor figs from thistles, along the highways and byways of mankind's domestic heritage.

When our homes are strongly and firmly built on good foundations, finished carefully, furnished completely, provisioned fully and well maintained throughout, the best possible means are provided for a successful resistance of any siege that may be set up against them, from whatever source it may come, and for meeting with a bold front any untoward emergency that may arise in any of the varied walks of life.

The long lines of the irregularly drawn up armies which file into the business marts of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco, and thousands of places of lesser population, each

week day morning of the year, and file back again at night, in turn, obtain their daily strength and life-blood, the ammunition for fighting each day's battle-without which their field guns would be feeble if not powerless-at their homes.

Nor do these populous towns stand alone in this regard. The resi dents of the hill towns of New England, of the fertile fields of the sunny South, and of the broad prairies of the great West, each, according to their own manners and customs, exhibit the same features of worldly action to a greater or less degree. From these also go out and return, at rise and set of sun, millions, yea, many millions of the human race, to fight for dear life daily, and for those who are dearer even than life itself. How desirable, nay, how vitally important, then, that these vast armies of men and women and children should endeavor, by every known means or attainable methods, to make their homes those of economy, comfort and good cheer, fully abreast with the foremost spirit of the age in which they live, in all the details that help to make life worth the living.

To produce and perpetuate perfection-or as near unto perfection as may be attained in the Household - is the purpose and mission of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

THE WORK OF ONE YEAR.

The cordial reception which GOOD HOUSEKEEPING has had since its first issue, from the reading public and from the press, as well, has won for our enterprise an established and phenomenal success, most gratifying for its promptness and promised permanency. We have not attempted to give it a forced growth, nor to use the well worn machinery too often adopted with a view to securing an ephemeral "circulation" only, at the expense of merit, usefulness and permanency. It has gone to the public on its merits, as a journal "conducted in the interests of the Higher Life of the Household in the Homes of the World," and the success already achieved has demonstrated the wisdom of our position in this regard. We have been slow to speak of the excellent progress made, trusting to the better instincts of an appreciative public to see and judge of this for itself.

The enterprise was not the fleeting thought of a moment, but the result of a well considered and carefully prepared plan of operation. We saw the field lying fallow, choosing our own time of "entering in to dwell there" and our measurably well developed means of cultivating it. The determination was fixed to bring the hand-maids of industry, patience and perseverance to the performance of the above work, and to sow only the best of seed. The field had been tilled "around the edges," but its heart was untouched, and the virgin soil unbroken. Our aids and assistants were chosen with care, and with the view of "doing the greatest good to the greatest number," not forgetting the matter of a fair pecuniary reward for our labors. And a fruitful field of great promise has opened before us, from the day that our plough-share of effort turned the first sod of endeavor. The soil had been enriched by the decaying elements of blighted homes and the mouldering ruins of disappointments, trials and crosses that had long settled into the arenas of Household Life. Our harvests of the past year have been abundant and satisfying to those who have "borne the burden and heat of the day," and the voluminous correspondence and the voice of a commending press, which come from both near and far, Homes of the World, give a gratifying illustration of the fact that our labors have not been in vain.

In other words, our subscription books, in the closing days of the first year of the publication of GooD HOUSEKEEPING, have a larger number of actual cash paid subscribers-we venture the assertion-than were ever before accorded to a similar magazine, conducted in the interests of the life of the Home, and that, too, from those who have sent us their subscriptions for the simple reason that they wanted GOOD HOUSEKEEPING for what it is and is to be, and not because of being hired to take it by an offer of something else purporting to be worth more than the subscription price itself. We have carefully avoided this plan of operations for securing "circulation," and the subscription renewals for the second year of publication, which have already come to hand, even before the first year had expired, assure us that our hope of securing a subscription list that will be valuable as well as permanent, will be fully realized.