Household Help Column.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, 29 October 1898, Page 5

Household Help Column.

We have to thank H.E. for the following recipe in answer to Agnes. Rhcjbarb Jam.

Take sticks of rhubarb and cut them into 2-inch longths, bufc do not peel them. To each 6 pounds of rhubarb, add the peel and juice of one lemon and 4£ pounds of lump sugar. Boil briskly for twenty-five minutes. " Edith " asks for recipe for Sultana cake.

"It ain't everybody I'd trust my little gal to," said the old farmer to the lovelorn swain who had become enamoured of Miss Sally, and wished to carry her from the loving care and shelter of the homenest. The • little gal,' who was sft. llin. tall in her bare feet, hid her happy, blushing face on the dear, fond old father's shoulder, and wept happy tears as he said to Sally's deeply-moved and sympathetic young lover : " You must take keor o' my wee birdling, Jack. Ricollect that she's been raised kind o' tender like. Two acres a day is all I ever asked her to plough, and an acre of turnip? a day is all she's usod to pick up, She can do light work, such as diggin' post-holes, makin' fences, and burnin 1 gorse, and all that, but >n't usedjto regular f arm-work, and you "mustn't ask too much of her. It'a hard for her old dad to give up his little bit o' sunshine. He'll have to chop'-hia own firewodd and dighia 6wri tktettriioTSf* But go, birdie, and be happy."