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Hence it rarely happens that these machines are 
used, except by those housekeepers who do their 
own work. A machine of any kind requires a cer¬ 
tain amount of intelligence for its effective use, and 
this applies to washing-machines as well as steam- 
engines. The domestic labor-saving machine that, 
of all others, has been most generally accepted by 
the maid-servants, is the wringer ; the utility of 
this was so manifest, and the contrast between 
turning a crank with ease, and wrenching the mus¬ 
cles of the arms and upper part of the body gen¬ 
erally, in twisting the water out of a large sheet, so 
great, that in most cases prejudice gave way, and 
the wringer tolerated. Perhaps its resemblance to 
a wringer is one reason why the “ Walker Washer” 
has so rapidly become popular, and has been used 
by those who could see no merit in machines of 
other styles. This washer, of which an engraving 
is given, is easily attached to any tub, whether 
square or round ; a couple of sockets are screwed 
to the sides of the tub, on the inside, and the ma¬ 
chine can be put in place or taken out, in an instant, 
to allow the tub to be used for other purposes. The 
base of the washer is so arranged, by means of a 
sliding rod and set screw, that it will fit a tub of 
any size ; this is shown in the engraving, a portion 
of the tub being cut away to allow the whole of the 
machine to be seen. The general construction of 
the washer is much like that of a wringer; the up¬ 
per roller is of wood, and fluted ; this is, by means of 
springs, pressed closely against the lower rolls, of 
which there are two, also of wood, and provided 
with broad rubber rings set about an inch apart. 
The clothes are soaped on the most soiled parts, 
and made up in convenient parcels; thus several 
small articles are laid inside of a larger one. The 
tub being furnished with hot suds, the clothes are 
passed between the large roller and the two smaller 
ones, back and forth, for a few minutes, the time 
being governed by the character of the articles. 
Here we have the principle already spoken of : the 
fabrics are filled with hot suds, this is firmly pressed 
out of them by the rollers, and they pass on the 
other side into suds again, and by the reverse mo¬ 
tion this is again squeezed out, and so on alternate¬ 
ly and rapidly, with the effect of removing the for¬ 
eign matter, and little wear of the clothes. This 
being the structure and action of the washer, we 
have only to add that the writer has tried it for 
some time, and finds it to work in an eminently 
satisfactory manner. It is simple, easily worked, 
and moderate in price. This machine is manu¬ 
factured by the Erie Washer Co., Erie, Pa., who 
give other particulars in our advertising columns. 
Sensible Advice about Egg's, comes 
from a friend, “ J.,” Hartford, Conn., whose ap¬ 
proach to the age of 80, shows that he has paid 
proper attention to his diet. He says : “I suppose 
it is generally admitted, that the best way to cook 
eggs, so far as health is concerned, is to boil them | 
soft, say three minutes. If they are boiled three 
minutes, the white will be cooked hard, and the 
yolk will not be cooked at all. This way, there¬ 
fore, does not allow us to cook eggs so as best tq 
promote health. Eggs should not he boiled at all; they 
should be “coddled’ ’ and perfectly soft when cooked. 
Mo iv to Coddle Eggs.—Put the eggs 
into a vessel of water at a temperature of one hun¬ 
dred and seventy (170°) degrees Fah., and keep the 
water at that temperature from ten to fifteen 
minutes, when the eggs may be taken out, and the 
white will be a fine jelly, and the yolk will be cook¬ 
ed soft. The temperature should be tested by a 
thermometer, not guessed at. The quantity of wa¬ 
ter should be so large, that the introduction of the 
eggs will not materially reduce the temperature. 
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The Tin Pan Nuisance. 
ET M. W. F., BRYN MAWR, NEAR PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
“If I were Duke of this country,” began Anaxi¬ 
mander one evening, as we were enjoying our daily 
drive through a section of country of unusual 
elegance, “I would punish with 
banishment every man or woman who 
threw tin trumpery into the street.”— 
“Amen,” said I, “and send them 
out of the country with a string of 
oyster cans for a necklace.”—His re¬ 
mark was born of no new spectacle— 
we had seen the like a hundred times 
before—but in this instance it was 
especially aggravating. There was a 
large country-house on a noble emi¬ 
nence—a beautiful lawn extending in 
front to a fashionable avenue, and at 
one side to a public road, not fashion¬ 
able, but greatly traveled, and in a 
small ravine that made a gap under 
tbe fence and opened into the road¬ 
side gutter, was tumbled a melange 
of old tin-ware—coffee and tea-pots, 
pans, cups, watering pots, innumer¬ 
able fruit and vegetable cans, and 
broken crockery. It was such an 
ugly blotch on the otherwise fair beauty of the 
place, that one could not but wonder at the sight. 
What to do with such old trumpery, that cannot 
be burnt, seems to be an unsolved riddle with the 
majority of country people. In cities, the house¬ 
maid stuffs it in a barrel, which the ash and gar¬ 
bage-men carry away. In the country, it is com¬ 
monly pitched into some out of the way place, 
under porch floors, into vacant cellars, under cur- | 
rant bushes, etc., but always where in some moment 
it is discovered, and is as unsightly to the eye of 
the lover of nature, as would be an eruption on a 
fair woman’s face to a lover of the human race. 
So far as my own experience goes, I know of no 
better way to dispose of broken and worn out 
wares, than to put them into a well dug for the 
purpose—one which has a cover, and which, when 
full, can be earthed and grassed over. Such a re¬ 
ceptacle has its advantages—one always knows 
where to look for old basins and pans, if they are 
needed, for broken pottery when pieces are required 
for drainage, while bits of glass are thus put for¬ 
ever out of the way of the children’s feet. If any 
body knows of a better way, let him make his 
method known in these columns, from philan¬ 
thropic motives. 
I must think, too, that the sight of old tin “ lying 
around loose,” has a charm for some people, judg¬ 
ing from the way they distribute it in their back¬ 
yards and front ditches. A man’s back-yard is his 
private property, and if he chooses to make and to 
keep it a hideous looking place, it is an affair be¬ 
tween himself and his conscience ; but the man 
who makes a public highway the receptacle of his 
trumpery, should be prosecuted by the Commis¬ 
sioner of Roads, or some other apostle of public 
weal and public decency, and punished as a polluter 
of public morals. To be brought face to face with 
such unsightliness, is like an “ evil communica¬ 
tion ” which corrupts good manners. There is a 
manifest indelicacy, as well, in allowing such broken 
and worn out domestic utensils to remain exposed 
to public view, and belongs to the same strain of 
untidiness and vulgarity that throws old shoes and 
crinoline in the street. So we advise, that every 
farm-house have its well or pit for unsalable and 
unburnable trumpery, and thus bury so much of 
ugliness from the face of the earth. 
]B©YS & (BHIM’ CTMIISo 
Aunt Scae’s Chats. 
AN INTERESTING GAME.—WORD MAKING. 
S. F. Bennitt.—T he most fascinating "game” that I 
have seen for a long time, is played with letters, and is 
called “ word making; ” or, if you prefer a more classical 
name, “ Logomachy.” Provide yourself with a box of let¬ 
ters. These may be had at the book and stationery stores, 
and contain several alphabets, each letter upon a separate 
small card. Any number of persons can play, but it is 
most enjoyable with three or four. To begin the game, 
let one person-draw one letter from the box without look¬ 
ing at it; he places it right side up upon the table, in 
front of him ; if it be A, O, or I, he can keep it ns a word. 
The next person draws (say) Y, and not being able to 
make a word of it with the O (face up) by the first player, 
he places it in the pool on the centerof the table. Num¬ 
ber 3 draws (say) R, takes No. l’s 0, and makes “ OR.” 
No. 4 draws E. He might then take the Y from the pool, 
and make “YE,” but he prefers to take No. 3’s “ OR,” 
and make “ORE.” No. 1 draws again, (we are suppos¬ 
ing that four persons are playing), and draws the letter 
B; he takes Y from the pool, and makes “BY.” The 
words made, are placed in front of those making them, 
face up upon the table, and kept there until some one, by 
adding one or more letters, to form another word, takes 
one from its previous possessor. Who ever first gets ten 
words, wins the game, provided all the other players have 
played without being able to deprive him of one of the ten. 
To make it plainer, let’s use a diagram, and suppose 
that four persons are playing. Before them on the table 
are the words seen in the diagram. No. 4 draws the let¬ 
ter Tj , looks round the table to see what he can do with 
it, as it is generally preferable to take a word from some 
one of the other players, rather than to make a new word 
from the pool. He might make “ BUD ” by drawing from 
the pool, but he prefers to take No. 2’s “ HOG," and 
by adding to it the U, just drawn, and the C from the pool, 
he can make “ COUGH; ” then he takes the D from the 
pool, and adds it to his own “ OFF,” making “DOFF,” 
and laughs at No. 3 for not having seen it. No. 1 then 
laughs at No. 4, the latter’having finished, for not taking 
his “ BE,” adding the B from the pool, and making 
“EBB,” which he proceeds to do himself before he uses 
the E that he has just drawn. With that he might make 
“FEZ ” with the F and Z from the pool, but he prefers 
to take No. 2’s “FROG” and make “FORGE” with it. 
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The foregoing illustration will show you that you can 
make a word at any time before drawing, if you happen 
to see a letter in the pool that you can weave into a word 
of your own, or some one else’s. The right to use the 
letter drawn from the box, is not forfeited by forming a 
word from the pool. No part of a word can be taken 
from any player; the whole word must be taken, or none. 
You can not take one word from a player, and add it to a 
whole word of your own by merely adding a letter or 
two. For instance, if No. 1 has A, and No. 2 has I, No. 
3 can not take the two, article and pronoun, by merely 
addinga D to them, (“ AID ”); if they were merely letters 
in the pool he could do so, or if No. 1 had A, and I were 
in the pool, then No. 3 could take the A for his “AID.” 
No word can be taken by simply changing it from a 
singular to a plural noun. If No. 1 had MITE, you could 
not make it MITES, and take it. but you could appropriate 
it by transposing it into “ TIMES,” or “ ITEMS; ” some¬ 
body’s S could turn that again into SMITES. You may 
add an S when you turn a noun into a verb, e. g.— 
DANCE, DANCES; JUMP, .TUMPS; CUFF, CUFFS ; 
etc. You may add an S ,o pluralize one of your own 
nouns at any time. Proper names, geographical names, 
or foreign words, are not allowed. The dictionary must 
decide a question when the players are in doubt. 
Before beginning the game, it is well to discuss the 
THE WALKER WASHER. 
