The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-04-01
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
: MRS. S. 4. NETTLES.

It does the busy housewife good to
forget pots and pans and stockings
full of holes, and mince meat waiting
to be chopped, and the thousand and
cne other cares calling for her atten-
ton, ana just sit down with pretty
piece of fancy work, and dream for
an hour or two. It is the old, COM
mon, never ceasing monotonous grind
that makes so many women look tired
and worn and old before their time.
We all need change Of work. Per-
haps there are lots OF old partly worn
dresses and aprons just longing to be
put cut of the way in some fashion.
Cut them all in fine strips, sew the
colors by themselves in balls, and
braid them together with contrasting
colors. Sew the braided strands in
an oblong or round rug, and you will
have something which will wear long
enough to pay for the trouble, and
they may be very pretty.
A small piece Of wool carpet may be
used for the center, and a border
braided around it. If there are chill
dren in the family, now is good time
to cut down all the last summer hose
for smaller feet. They will dc just as
good as new in the coming summer,
and every mother knows how much
money goes for new hose continually.
Some day when you feel just like
cooking, try this new style of cake,
which will be delightful when ice
cream once more appears. Bake a
dark molasses cake in shallow square
tin. When done and cool, cut it into
two long strips of the same breadth
and thickness. Make a white pound
cake batter and spread thin layer in
a deep TN. Place the two dark strips
diamond-wis in the center and fill
around them with white batter; cover
them from sight. Bake in moderate
oven for about one hour. Ice the top
and sides when cold. When it is cut
there will be two dark diamonds in
each slice of white cake 1t is very
pretty, and every one will wonder how
it was made.
This is good time to make the
kitchen scrap-book, for which recipes
and sketches have been collecting for
some time. Nearly every paper has
some corner which contains little
note worth saving. Paste them all in
a well bound book. Ifthere are some
recipes which are occasionally used,
but are hard to remember, paste them
all upon a piece of cardboard and
place in some old frame. Hang over
the cooking table; if they are placed
under glass, so much the better.
Among these should always berecipes
for steamed and baked brown bread,
graham gems and Johnny cakes. New
er forget that variety is the spice of
life"
This is the time when the very busy
housekeeper can find time to read a
few good books Take time-it pays
to interest and improve the mind, but
oh, how many meet who say sadly:
"Why, I never get any time to read a
book, and there amt any use of sub
scribing for magazine, for I'd never
get a chance to read it"
Dear sisters, wives, mothers, why
will you toll and stagnate and become
mere machines, glad to know that the
end is coming soon, when you can so
easily find pleasure and sympathy and
cheer in good reading matter, which
is so cheap in these days?
Make a change this year, and re-
solve to enjoy a little comfort in your
own way and for yourself. We have
only one life on earth, and we ought
to fill th at just as full of Joy and
culture and pleasure and profitable
good as is possible. Make this year a
happy one, and remember, ga merry
heart doeth good like medicine p
Ladies World.