1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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to  be  found.  Then  having  possessed 
herself  of  such  a  treasure,  she  need  not 
tire  her  already  exhausted  brain,  trying 
to  evolve  new  dishes  herself,  or  work 
out  problems  of  economical  cooking, 
while  she  rests  in  the  evening,  and  darns 
the  family  stockings. 
There  are  recipes  which  are  both 
“  simple  and  easy,”  and  do  give  good  re¬ 
sults,  and  they  do  not  necessarily  increase 
expenses.  A  great  many  things  are 
called  “fancy  dishes”  by  some  people 
that  are  not  fancy  dishes  at  all ;  they  are 
simply  dishes  that  are  unusual  in  that 
family,  and  they  cost  no  more  time  and 
labor,  and  very  little,  if  any,  more  ex¬ 
pense,  than  those  of  the  every-day  rou¬ 
tine.  One  ought  to  be  willing,  for  the 
sake  of  an  occasional  far  more. palat¬ 
able  dish,  to  add  now  and  then  a  trifle  of 
extra  expense ;  but  these  dishes  need 
not  appear  too  often.  Any  ordinary 
farmer’s  family,  with  eggs,  milk  and 
butter,  and  a  little  cream  sometimes  to 
spare,  need  not  have  the  same  old  story 
over  and  over  again.  But,  first,  the  good 
cook-book.  It  will  pay  for  itself  in  one 
month  ;  yes,  it  will ! 
Again,  in  every  busy  family  it  is  a 
great  help  to  the  housekeeper  to  have 
certain  days  for  certain  things.  That  of 
itself  insures  variety,  and  assists  the 
tired  brain.  To  devise  and  prepare  three 
meals  a  day,  365  days  in  a  year,  is  not  a 
joke  by  any  means ;  if  it  appears  so  to 
any  musculine  mind,  a  short  trial,  and 
without  a  cook-book  too,  will  soon  con¬ 
vince  such  a  one  to  the  contrary. 
Beginning  with  soups,  what  a  great 
variety  of  cheap,  substantial  kinds  can 
be  made  with  such  little  trouble,  and 
good  ones,  too.  Some  excellent,  hearty 
soups  can  be  made  without  any  meat  at 
all.  I  am  not  referring  to  fancy  kinds 
as  a  first  course,  but  hearty,  wholesome, 
nose-delighting  kinds  that  one  hopes 
will  soon  come  again.  I  do  not  think 
the  farmer  would  object  to  having  soup 
-on  the  table  twice  a  week  in  winter. 
Again,  if  the  family  is  not  too  large,  or 
the  hen  house  too  small,  in  what  a  variety 
of  ways  can  eggs  be  prepared  and  made 
into  delightful  and  nourishing  dishes. 
Some  might  object  to  using  eggs  when 
they  could  be  sold.  But,  my  dear,  you 
must  eat  something  ;  and,  if  the  farmer 
cannot  use  a  few  of  his  own  eggs  occa¬ 
sionally,  he  may  as  well  give  up ;  for 
everything  edible  might  be  excluded  on 
the  same  plea.  Whence,  then,  would  come 
the  material  for  the  improved  cooking  ? 
But  I  am  not  talking  to  that  kind  of  peo¬ 
ple,  but  to  those  who  desire  the  health 
of  their  families  to  be,  and  continue  good, 
and  who  consider  this  of  more  value 
than  the  saving  of  a  few  pennies.  Then 
again,  take  just  one  vegetable,  the 
potato  ;  into  how  many  forms  can  it  be 
manipulated  to  appear  each  day  in  a 
new  guise.  Hard  work,  time-consuming 
work  ?  Not  at  all.  And  if  you  love 
your  family,  you  will  not  give  them 
boiled  potatoes  every  day,  will  you  ?  If 
you  mean  to  have  them  healthy  and 
happy,  try  to  give  them  a  change,  and 
watch  the  result.  You  may  have  to  let 
some  little  thing  go,  for  you  cannot  work 
miracles ;  then  let  it  go,  and  be  happy 
over  it. 
I  know  one  housewife,  who  has  to  be 
very  economical,  who  made  four  meals 
for  six  persons  out  of  a  30-cent  soup  bone. 
Do  you  think  that  old  bone  came  on  each 
day  alike?  One  day  it  appeared  as  soup, 
rich,  brown  and  appetizing,  with  all  the 
fat  removed,  and  an  aroma  that  was 
simply  soulful.  Next  day  it  appeared  as 
a  good  hash,  with  potatoes  and  minced 
onions,  and  well  seasoned.  Then  as  beef 
croquettes,  simple  and  easy;  and  fourth, 
When  Baby  was  sick,  we  gave  her  Castorla, 
When  she  was  a  Child,  she  cried  for  Castorla, 
When  she  became  Miss,  she  clung  to  Castorla, 
When  she  had  Children,  she  gave  them  Castorla 
as  potato  hash  once  more,  and  good  hash 
too.  Could  one  begrudge  30  cents  for 
the  principal  dish  at  four  meals?  Is  that 
extravagance,  even  for  the  very  poor  ? 
Then  as  to  little  made  dishes,  so-called  ; 
the  variety  of  cheap  ones  is  unending  ; 
made  almost  from  nothing  too,  and  good, 
and  greatly  enjoyed  by  all,  both  big  and 
little.  Every  one  needs  and  must  have  a 
change.  This  stale,  unprofitable  sort  of 
eating,  that  you’ve  got  to  worry  down 
somehow,  is  a  disgrace  to  our  Ninteentli 
Century  kitchens. 
Then  there  are  the  cheap  puddings. 
John  and  the  children  will  appreciate  a 
pudding  three  or  four  times  a  week  I 
know.  And  the  pudding  can  be  steaming 
itself  to  luscious  perfection  on  the  top  of 
the  big  pot,  in  which  the  potatoes  are 
busy  bubbling  themselves  into  readiness 
for  the  new  dress  they  are  to  appear  in 
shortly.  Or  try  a  baked  pudding;  far 
more  wholesome  are  these  puddings  than 
pies,  and  they  take  very  little,  if  any 
more  time  to  make.  Baked  Indian,  rice 
and  baked  flour  pudding  are  good, 
simple,  easy  to  make  and  cheap.  But  I 
think  I  have  proved  that  the  farmer’s 
wife,  can  have,  a  good,  appetizing  table, 
if  she  will,  and  one,  too,  that  can  boast 
a  new  dish  every  day,  at  very  little  ex¬ 
pense.  MBS.  C.  F.  EASTMAN. 
A  Profitable  “Cooker.” 
“TXT'IDL  you  please  to  come  here, 
V  V  mum,  and  tell  me  what  this 
thing  is?”  Following  Lizzie  to  the 
kitchen,  I  found  that  the  “  thing  ”  she 
referred  to  was  a  “  Royal  roasting  and 
baking  pan,”  which  had  just  arrived  from 
The  Rubai,  office. 
The  difficulty  we  had  experienced  in 
cooking  small  roasts  in  the  ordinary  bak¬ 
ing  pan,  without  drying  them  all  up,  had 
caused  us  to  send  for  this  R.  N.-Y.  pre¬ 
mium. 
Our  first  experiment  was  in  cooking  a 
chicken  (?)  which  gave  all  the  evidences 
of  having  seen  numerous  springs.  Pre¬ 
paring  it  as  ordinarily  for  roasting,  we 
placed  it  in  the  new  pan,  following  the 
simple  printed  directions.  The  result 
was  a  most  deliciously  tender,  juicy 
chicken,  that  made  us  think  we  had  mis¬ 
taken  the  age  of  that  bird;  but  repeated 
trials  have  shown  that  even  an  aged 
fowl,  cooked  in  this  way,  will  be  quite 
juicy  and  tender. 
Roasts  of  all  kinds,  so  treated,  have 
been  delicious  beyond  all  previous  ex¬ 
perience.  Beef,  lamb,  veal,  in  fact, 
everything  we  have  tried  has  proved 
much  better  than  when  cooked  in  the  or¬ 
dinary  pan.  Being  of  an  experimental 
turn  of  mind,  I  thought  I  would  try 
cooking  a  “pot-roast” — which  is  generally 
so  dry  and  hard  when  roasted  otherwise. 
Cutting  gashes  several  inches  deep  in  the 
meat,  I  inserted  thin  slices  of  fat  pork, 
seasoned  and  baked  in  the  new  cooker  in 
a  moderately  hot  oven  for  a  few  hours. 
The  result  was  a  most  satisfactory  tender 
“  roast.” 
One  of  the  chief  charms  of  this  baking 
pan  is  that  no  basting  is  necessary  and 
the  house  is  not  filled  with  odor  from 
the  roasting  meat.  We  now  “  wouldn’t 
know  how  to  get  along  without  it.” 
MBS.  i.. 
Marion  Harland’s  Views  of 
John. 
*  4  '’T'  HE  most  loyal  wife  admits  to  her 
A  inmost  self  in  the  most  confi¬ 
dential  season  of  self-communion  that 
she  could  have  brought  up  her  husband 
better  than  did  his  mother  or  whatever 
feminine  relative  had  the  training  of  him, 
an  opinion,  I  remark,  which  is  not  shared 
by  the  relative  in  question.  The  mother 
of  a  growing  son  will  know  how  to  sym¬ 
pathize  with  her  mamma-in-law  when  her 
own  son 
Will  a-woolng  go, 
Whether  his  mother  will  let  him  or  no. 
“  Taking  into  consideration  the  incon¬ 
trovertible  truth  that  nobody  but  a 
woman  ever  understood  another  woman 
the  situation  is  serious  enough;  so  des¬ 
perate,  in  fact,  that  every  mother’s 
daughter  of  the  missionary  sex  is  fired 
with  zealous  desire  to  mend  it  and 
chooses  for  a  subject  her  own  especial 
John — in  esse,  or  in  posse. 
“  This  may  sound  like  badinage,  but  it 
is  uttered  in  sad  earnestness.  The  wife’s 
irrational  longing  for  absolute  sympathy 
of  taste,  opinion  and  feeling  from  her 
wedded  lord  is  a  baneful  growth,  which 
is  as  sure  to  spring  up  about  the  domestic 
hearth  as  pursley — named  by  the  Indian, 
‘  the  white  man’s  foot  ’ — to  show  itself 
about  the  squatter’s  door.  Once  rooted, 
it  is  as  hard  to  eradicate  as  plantain  and 
red  sorrel.  I  brand  it  as  ‘  irrational  ’  be¬ 
cause  common  sense  shows  the  extreme 
improbability  that  two  people — born  of 
different  stocks,  and  brought  up  in  differ¬ 
ent  households;  the  man  sometimes  in  no 
household  at  all — should  each  be  the 
exact  counterpart  of  the  other;  should 
come  provided  respectively  with  the  very 
qualities,  likes  and  dislikes,  that  the 
partner  needs  and  prefers.  Add  to  the 
improbability  aforesaid,  the  inevitable 
variance  of  views  upon  divers  important 
subjects  consequent  upon  the  standpoint 
masculine,  and  the  standpoint  feminine, 
the  wonder  is  not  that  some  marriages 
are  unhappy,  but  that  a  large  percentage 
of  wedded  couples  jog  on  comfortably, 
and  if  not  without  a  jar,  without  open 
scandal. 
“Conjugal  quarrels  are  so  constantly 
the  theme  of  ridicule  and  the  text  of 
warnings  to  the  un wedded,  that  we  lose 
sight  of  the  plain  truth  that  husbands 
and  wives  bicker  no  more  than  parents 
and  children,  brothers  and  sisters.  In 
every  community  there  are  more  blood 
relations  who  do  not  speak  to  one  an¬ 
other  than  divorced  couples.  Wars  and 
fighting  come  upon  us  not  through  matri¬ 
mony  so  much  as  through  the  manifold 
infirmities  of  moral  nature. 
“  Most  women  take  to  married  life  and 
home  easily.  John’s  liking  for  domes¬ 
ticity  is  usually  an  acquired  taste,  like 
that  for  olives  and  caviare,  and  to  gain 
aptitude  for  the  duties  it  involves  re¬ 
quires  patience.  He  needs  filing  down, 
and  chinking,  and  rounding  off,  and  sand¬ 
papering  before  he  fits  decorously  into 
the  chimney  corner.  A  stock  story  of 
my  girlish  days  was  of  a  careless,  happy- 
go-lucky  housewife,  who,  upon  the  arri¬ 
val  of  unexpected  guests,  told  her  maid 
‘  not  to  bother  about  changing  the  cloth, 
but  to  set  plates  and  dishes  so  as  to 
humor  the  spots.’ 
“  The  masculine  nature  has  spots  to  be 
humored.  One  of  the  spots  is  the  manly 
duty  of  some  Johns  to  discourage  at  first 
hearing  any  plan  that  originates  with  a 
woman.  Wives  there  are  who  have 
learned  the  knack  of  insinuating  a  scheme 
upon  a  husband’s  attention  until  the 
logical  spouses  find  themselves  proposing 
of  their  own  free  will  the  very  designs 
born  of  their  partners’  brains.  This  is 
genius. 
“The  more  henpecked  a  man  is  the 
less  he  knows  it,  and  vice  versa.  He  jests 
at  scars  who  never  felt  a  wound.  She 
who  has  John  well  in  hand  has  broken 
him  in  too  thoroughly  to  allow  him  to 
resent  the  curb  or  to  play  with  the  bit.” 
Mrs.  Terhune  closed  with  a  loyal 
tribute  to  John. 
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The  Superior 
MEDICINE 
for  all  forms  of 
blood  disease, 
AyER’S 
Sarsaparilla 
the  health 
restorer,  and  health 
maintainer. 
Cures  Others 
will  cure  you. 
FROM  THE  “P  aCIFIC  JOURNAL.” 
“A  great  invention  lias  been  made  by  Ur. 
Tutt.  Tliat  eminent  chemist  lias  produced 
Tutt’s  Hair  Dye 
which  imitates  nature  to  perfection;  It  acts 
Instantaneously  and  is  perfectly  harmless.” 
Price,  Wl.  Office,  31>  &  4 1  Park  Place,  N.  Y. 
45  sold  in  ’88 
2,288  sold  in  ’89 
6,268  sold  in  ’90 
20,049  sold  in  ’9 1 
60,000  will  be  sold  In  ’92 
"  ^  A  Steel  Windmill  and  Steel 
Tower  every  3  minutes. 
(XT' These  figures  tell  the 
story  of  the  ever-growl  ng, 
ever -going,  everlasting 
Steel  Aermoter.  Where 
one  goes  others  follow, 
and  we  “Take  the  Country.” 
Though  sold,  we  were  unable  to  make  all  of 
the  20,049  Aermotors  in  ’91.  Orders  often 
waited  8  weeks  to  be  filled,  but  now  we  have 
vastly  increased  our  plant  and  arc  prepared 
promptly  to  plant  our  increase  in  every 
habitable  portion  of  the  globe. 
Are  you  curious  to  know  how  the  Aer- 
motor  Co.  in  the  4th  year  of  its  exist¬ 
ence,  came  to  make  many  times  as 
many  windmills  as  all  other 
makers  combined?  How  wo 
came  to  originate  the  Steel  Wheel, 
.  the  Steel  Fixed  Tower, the  Steel  TJ  -4 
1  Tilting  Tower?  ^  3- 
1st.  We  commenced  in  a  field  in  $  ® 
which  there  had  been  no  improve-  <  ^ 
i  ment  for  25  years,  and  in  which  <D  ^ 
1  there  seemed  no  talent  or  ambl  ^  -t 
I  tion.and  none  has  yet  been  shown  3 
except  in  feeble  imitation  o 
of  our  Inventions.  i  g 
2d.  Before  commencing  the  -t 
manufacture, exhaustive  scien-  O  -g 
tifio  investigation  and  cxperl  3 
ments  were  made  by  a  skilled  q  fl> 
mechanical  engineer, in  which  £  C 
over  5,000  dynamometric  t  3 
tests  were  made  on  01  differ-  jy 
ent  forms  of  wheels,  propel-  q  rf 
led  by  artificialand  therefore  £  q 
uniform  wind,  which  settled  on  ^ 
_ definitely  many  questions  CD  < 
1  ■  11  lull'd*''  relating  to  the  proper  speed  ^ 
of  wheel,  the  best  form,  angle,  curvature  ami  amount  of  suil  3.  rt 
surface,  the  resistance  of  air  to  rotation,  obstructions  in  the  Z+  ® 
wheel,  such  as  heavy  wooden  arms,  obstructions  before  the  ^ 
wheel,  as  in  the  vaneless  mill,  and  many  other  more  ab-  ^ 
ntruse,  though  not  less  important  questions.  These  0)  -3 
Investigations  proved  that  the  power  of  go 
the  best  wind  wheels  could  be  doubled,  -S  c- 
and  the  AER MOTOR  dally  demonstrates  <  m 
It  has  been  done. 
3d.  To  the  liberal  policy  of  the  Aermotor  Co.,  thatguaran-  5  0> 
toes  Its  goods  satisfactory  or  pays  freight  both  ways,  and  o  (J 
to  theenormous  oulputof  its  factory  which  enables  it  to  fur-  c  3 
nish  the  best  article  at  less  than  the  poorest  is  sold  for.  For  •*  3 
•92  we  furnish  tho  most  perfect  bearings  ever  P)  ® 
put  in  a  windmill,  and  havn  made  an  exhaustive  re-  3  "* 
vision  of  the  Aermotor  and  Towers. 
w 
m  E 
If  you  want  a  strong,  stiff,  Steel  Fixed  Tower — or  if  you 
want  the  tower  you  don't  have  10  climb  (the  Steel  TlltlnJS  ®  2 
Tower)  and  tho  Wheel  that  runs  when  all  others  stand  still,  5* 
that  costs  you  less  than  wood  and  lasts  ten  times  as  long  q 
(The  Steel  Aermotor)  or  if  you  want  a  Geared  Aermotor  to  (D  £ 
churn,  grind,  cut  feed,  pump  water,  turn  grindstone  and  CL  ^ 
saw  wood,  that  does  the  work  of  4  horses  at  tho  cost  of  *  O 
one  ($100),  write  for  copiously  illustrated  printed  matter,  Z!  m 
showing  every  conceivable  phase  of  windmill  construction  £,  c 
and  work,  to  tho  AERMOTOR 
well  Sts.,  Chicago,  or  27  and  29  Beale 
£Og  12th  and  Rook  jz'O 
San  Francisco. 
MttSToHfc 
HAY 
ER 
Is  a  marvel.  Saves  Time — Labor — Hay. 
An  economical  remedy  for  scarce  help. 
Will  Load  a  Ton  of  Hay  in  5  minutes. 
Gathers  the  Hay  clean.  Loads  loose  Grain. 
Loads  Green  Clover  for  Silo  use. 
Strong,  Light,  Easily  Hitched  to  Wagon. 
— Over  14,000  in  use. — 
Send  for  circular  “  What  Farmers  Say.” 
KEYSTONE  MFG.  CO.,  sterling.  111. 
- asa 
Branches: 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Council  Bluffs,  la.] 
Columbus,  O. 
aEMF»IR.E  MOWEF 
Tha  lightest  draft  and  HKS’P  —  ,,  _ - 
iiiacliine  in  existence. 
We  also  manufacture  S ten  in  (/  •cataloau 
It 11 K 1 11  CM  3  to  16  H.  P.  on  base  \  d  Free 
plate  or  mounted  on  4- wheel  ^  * 
truck.  Grain  Threshers  and 
Separators,  Sweep  Powers \  1,  2  &  3-  Horse  Tread 
Powers %  with  governor,  either  level  or  regular  tread ;  ham 
and  power  Corn  Shelters ,  hand  and  power  Feed  Cutters 
With  or  without  Crusher;  Feed  Mills ,  Steel  J/ind  Pollers 
Chilled  Plows ;  all  sizes;  Cultivators.  Hay  Rakes .  Woot 
Saw»,  Ac.  3.  S.  MESSINGER  &  SON.  TATAMV,  PA 
MANN’S  BONE  GUTTER 
POULTRY  FOOD 
Warranted  to  _  cut  green 
bones,  meat,  gristle,  and  all 
without  clog  or  difficulty,  or 
Monkv  Rrfunded. 
It  has  been  proved 
CREEN  CUT  BONl 
is  the  most  economical  egg 
producing  food  in  the  world. 
It  will  double  the  num¬ 
ber  of  eggs, and  make 
them  25  per  cent,  more  fer- 
tile.  Send  stamp  for  Cala¬ 
is  logue.  Name  this  paper. 
F.  W.  MANN, 
I'at. June  15, ’80.  Aug. 20, ’89.  Milford,  iTIuss. 
HANG  YOUR  DOORS 
on  the  Barn,  or  on  any  other  Building,  with  Stun- 
ley  h  ('orr  limited  Steel  Hinges,  as  they  are 
much  si  longer  and  lianriHoiiiei-  than  the  old 
style  and  cost  no  more. 
slight  additional  cost,  thus  preventing  rust.  If 
no  hardware  dealer  in  your  vicinity  keeps  them, 
write  us. 
THE  STANLEY  WORKS,  New  Britain,  Conn. 
