Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-12-04
HOUSEHOLD.

STORE Room SHELvEs.-One OF the
great measures which the fall brings
With II in its evident will, IL not always
it5 rover to COMPENSATE Us Tor the loss
of summers Joys, is through the oppor-
tunity il gives us to add to our store
rooms treasures. A sordit sort Of
conversation it may be, truly; but new
ertheless when one has not the rose to
rife for honey, one must do the best one
can with the wayside weed, and II one
cannot deck the parlor mantel with
flowers. content ores self, in homely
fact, with freighting the pantry shelves
with bottles and pots as richly colored
as Rosamond's jar. There are few OF
the lesser things of life affordinS that
satisfaction with which the well regu-
lated housekeeper adds these jars of
hers together, half dozen at time,
now tine white pears, now the golden
peaches, now the deep, ruddy dye of the
lucious plums, now the brilliant ounce,
the somber grape, the weirdly green to-
matoes made oriental with ginger root
and lemon slices.
In the summer she started with her
strawberries, and raspberries and goose
berries, and currant jelly; IN the WIN
ter, when the oranges are at their spi-
looking like concentrated sunshine.
But in the fall the wealth or fruits
pours in so rapidly, that she must be-
stir herself TO keep above it and see
over it.
And then, too, fortunate woman, is
the time for her picking; and no mis-
counting his gold will ever be as rich as
she is when she surveys the results of
her labors in that line. She takes her
little gherkins out of the salt where
they have been lying, and the house Is
redolent of scalded vinegar and alispice
and cloves and garlic; and onions and
cabbages and mustard seed and toma-
toes lend their combined savoriness 10
her chow-chow; and the catchup SIM
mering away on the range makes every
Granny far and near smell like spice
garden; she has her pearl onions, as she
calls them, put away in transparent
vessels; her artichokes would make the
mouth water il uncovered; her walnuts
that will not be eaten till three winters
hence; her little melons stuffed with
smaller pickles yet; and all the rest OF
her tart and puckering and appetiZing
hoard.
Then, too, as soon a. she gets round
to II, she will be powdering and sitting
the sage llidl HAS DctI III NlllP IOI NtthS
IN the sun, her summer-savory and
sweet-marjoram, and tying up her
punches of balm and mint and catnip
and pennyroyal. Even if our house
keeper cannot ill her shelves with all
these tempting sweets and sours, un-
able to command fruits and sugar and
time sufficiently, yet she can usually
procure cranberries full of crimson
gorgeousness barbeTries from the wild
waysides, and apples which in blanched
quarters stuck full of cloves, or in deep
rich jellies unrivaIed by any but the
guava jelly, will always be an accept
able substitute for better things. Ger
tain it is that woman who is any sort
of housekeeper never takes such
pleasure in her shelves and cupboards
at any other season of the year as she
docs when the autumn fruit has made
her feel what DIR. johnson used to call
''the potentiality # riches beyond the
dreams of avarice.''