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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
put  the  tapioca  in  a  quart  of  boiling-  milk 
in  a  pail  and  set  in  a  kettle  of  boiling 
water) ;  boil  10  minutes.  Beat  the  yolks 
of  three  eggs  with  one  cupful  sugar;  add 
to  it  three  tablespoonfuls  of  prepared 
cocoanut;  stir  this  in  and  boil  with  the 
above  five  minutes  longer;  add  one  table¬ 
spoonful  corn  starch  and  one  of  flour, 
moistened.  Beat  whites  of  eggs  to  a  stiff 
froth  with  three  tablespoonfuls  of  sugar, 
and  put  over  the  pudding;  flavor  both 
pudding  and  frosting,  sprinkle  with 
cocoanut  and  put  in  oven  to  brown:  this 
makes  enough  for  nine  persons,  provided 
they  don't  call  for  the  second  dish. 
I  agree  with  Grace  Hamilton  about 
Graham  gems.  I  had  the  same  experi¬ 
ence  she  had.  I  tried  Ermentine  Young's 
recipe  for  ginger  cookies  and  found  them 
excellent.  mrs.  lewis  j.  clifton. 
Potato  Salad. — Place  layers  of  cold 
sliced  potatoes  and  onions  alternately  in 
a  dish,  seasoning  with  salt  and  pepper. 
Slice  one  or  two  hard-boiled  eggs  over 
the  top.  Boil  some  vinegar,  beat  one 
egg,  stir  the  two  together,  and  pour  over 
the  salad. 
A  Good,  Cheap  Cake. — One  egg,  one 
cupful  of  sugar,  one  of  water,  or  milk, 
one  tablespoonful  of  butter,  two  tea¬ 
spoonfuls  of  baking  powder,  two  cupfuls 
of  flour.  Flavor,  and  bake  in  two  layers, 
using  jelly  or  frosting  between. 
Molasses  Cake. — One  cupful  of  brown 
sugar,  two-thirds  of  a  cupful  of  molasses, 
one  of  lard,  two  of  buttermilk  and  one 
teaspoonful  of  soda ;  flour  to  make  it 
rather  stiff. 
To  Mend  Stockings. — If  there  are 
large  holes  on  knee  or  heel,  cover  with 
mosquito  netting  on  the  wrong  side,  and 
darn  on  the  right  side.  This  keeps  the 
shape  well,  and  makes  the  work  far 
easier.  mrs.  c.  e.  V. 
The  Needle  as  a  Means  of 
Support. 
WHEN  an  inexperienced  woman  is 
obliged  to  face  the  world  in  quest 
of  a  living  she  surely  “  takes  her  life  in 
her  hand.”  The  old  saying  about  “  love 
in  a  cot  ”  is  all  very  well  if  you  have  the 
cot;  but  it  is  nearly  as  true,  if  not  so  trite 
to  say:  “  no  cot,  no  love.”  The  following 
is  a  brief  summary  of  how  one  woman 
with  no  capital  except  two  children  won 
her  way.  When  first  thrown  on  her  own 
resources  she  maintained  herself  for  a 
short  time  crocheting  for  a  firm.  The 
needle  flew,  and  the  eyes  grew  dim,  but 
all  too  dim  to  proceed  further.  “  New 
fields  must  be  sought,  new  victories 
won.” 
A  partner  was  decided  on,  and  a  friend 
in  distress  was  soon  secured.  The  latter 
also  being  blessed  with  two  children,  no 
jealousy  about  numbers  could  exist. 
They  decided  to  take  an  article  to  sell, 
and  to  canvass  by  turns;  while  one  was 
away  the  other  was  to  care  for  the 
quartette.  But  neither  of  our  ladies 
liked  her  occupation,  so  they  concluded 
to  change  for  sewing;  “  Easier  said  than 
done;”  how  to  obtain  the  sewing  was  the 
question?  One  first  offered  to  sew  for 
skimmilk,  but  ah  no,  my  dear  lady!  you 
reckon  without  your  host  when  you  run 
after  your  customers  ;  you  must  make 
them  run  after  you.  Then  she  sallied 
forth  to  borrow  a  chart,  but  as  this  (like 
many  others)  was  without  merit,  it  was 
soon  returned.  More  people  were  ap¬ 
plied  to  for  work,  but  all  to  no  purpose. 
The  case  was  now  getting  desperate, 
finances  were  reduced  to  pence;  however, 
the  greater  the  need,  the  deeper  the 
scheme.  It  was  plain  that  the  work  could 
not  be  begged,  borrowed  nor  stolen  ;  it 
must  be  earned.  One  would  now  stay 
home  as  at  first,  while  the  other  with  her 
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 
canvassing  article  went  out  to  advertise 
the  sewing,  or  simply  to  advise  the  public 
of  the  change  of  business.  This  was  the 
dawn  of  plenty  of  work.  The  coveted 
skim-milk  customer  was  obliged  to  look 
further  to  get  her  first  calico  made,  on 
account  of  the  rush,  although  “  the  rush’’ 
was  barely  enough  to  keep  my  ladies 
busy  ;  but  this  was  one  way  of  advertis¬ 
ing,  apparently  no  zeal  about  any  more 
to  do.  Let  people  beg  a  little  to  get  their 
work  done. 
But  I  hear  you  say,  “  How  could  you 
make  dresses  without  experience  ?  ” 
How  can  an  artisan  begin  business  with¬ 
out  learning  a  trade  ;  he  cannot,  unless 
he  be  brave  as  a  woman  !  An  old  (out  of 
date)  chart  served  in  part  for  a  show,  a 
pattern  was  used  (afterwards  patterns  ; ) 
but  the  fit  came  out  of  the  brain  ;  and 
sometimes  it  was  equal  to  fits.  Some  talk 
of  cutting  and  fitting  as  an  art ;  but  the 
art  of  these  ladies  was  cutting  and  rip¬ 
ping.  As  to  draping,  while  one  was  pa¬ 
tiently  draping  up  one  side,  the  other 
was  zealously  undoing  the  other.  The 
wonder  was  that  the  garment  was  ever 
finished,  but  it  had  to  go  out  sooner  or 
later,  done  or  undone,  as  the  pay  (some¬ 
times  cord  wood  and  apple-butter)  must 
come. 
As  the  first  customers  seldom  returned, 
it  was  sometimes  necessary  to  do  as  the 
miller  of  Dee  :  “  Go  out  for  a  walk,  a 
nice  cool  walk,”  (to  gain  a  few  new  vic¬ 
tims.)  The  fits  and  misfits  were  not  a 
pleasure,  but  to  keep  the  heart  from 
drooping,  they  sometimes  caused  not  a 
little  pleasantry,  and  often  a  great  deal 
of  prayer.  If  money  and  time  had  been 
at  our  ladies’  service,  there  might  have 
been  some  practice  outside  of  the  pa¬ 
tients  ;  but  as  time  passed  in  the  work, 
experience  proved  a  very  good  and  com¬ 
petent  teacher.  You  have  all  heard  of 
the  Knights  of  Labor,  but  our  heroines 
belonged  to  the  days  and  nights  of  labor. 
A  few  apparently  good  folks  came  (out 
of  pity  for  themselves)  to  get  their  work 
done  cheaply ;  from  some  of  them  came 
the  withering  remarks  that  make  people 
feel  small.  One  never-to-be-forgotten 
expression  was  from  a  good  sister  who 
remarked,  on  a  Saturday  evening,  that 
to-morrow  would  be  a  day  of  rest  for  all 
the  oxen  and  asses,  etc.  Whereupon  one 
of  my  kind  hearted  dressmakers  asked 
her  if  she  was  tired. 
A  bit  of  advice  :  Don’t  let  people  pity 
you.  Don't  expect  help  from  any  one  ; 
don’t  hint  that  it  would  be  acceptable. 
Keep  your  own  counsel.  Don’t  go 
looking  sad  and  melancholy.  Gold¬ 
smith  says  the  very  elocuence  of  a  poor 
man  is  disgusting  ;  to  ward  off  the  gripe 
of  poverty,  you  must  pretend  to  be 
a  stranger  to  her.  “  Friendship  and  pity 
are  passions  incompatible  with  each 
other.”  MARY  ANN. 
The  Sitting-Room  and 
Children. 
ONCE  heard  an  able  speaker  say  that 
what  he  liked  most  to  see  growing  on 
the  farm  was  a  family  of  healthy,  happy 
children.  Surely  G.  A.  H.  It.,  writing  in 
The  Rural  of  February  20,  does  not  live 
on  the  farm  and  is  not  surrounded  by  chil¬ 
dren,  or  that  sitting-room  of  hers  would 
have  to  be  thoroughly  swept  oftener  than 
once  in  six  weeks. 
In  our  family  of  12—10  at  home— the 
sitting-room  has  to  be  thoroughly  cleaned 
every  morning  and  is  brushed  up  two  or 
three  times  during  the  day.  Of  evenings 
the  children  are  busy  making  pop-guns, 
corn-stalk  fiddles,  etc.  Lessons  and  read¬ 
ing  do  not  take  up  the  whole  evening  and 
the  young  people  must  be  occupied. 
Sometimes  private  theatricals  are  held 
in  one  corner. 
Only  the  one  who  cleans  the  room  the 
next  morning  knows  how  many  of  the 
pop-guns  made  were  failures,  how  many 
of  the  ram-rods  broke  before  they  had 
sent  the  well  chewed  wads  whizzing  to 
the  mark. 
No  tongue  is  needed  to  tell  the  dis¬ 
appointment  of  the  boy  whose  corn-stalk 
fiddle  wouldn’t  play,  although  he  used 
the  rosin  freely.  There  it  lies  in  the 
corner,  a  discarded  plaything  ;  but  the 
making  of  it  formed  an  evening’s  employ¬ 
ment. 
Shall  we  deprive  them  of  their  pleas¬ 
ures  just  to  save  cleaning  a  room  ?  Must 
we  have  them  sit  still  like  grown  folks 
and  thus  keep  the  sitting-room  tidy  ? 
It  will  be  but  a  short  time  when  the 
children  will  be  grow  n  and  will  leave 
the  home  roof ;  but  if  thc.y  cannot  look 
back  on  the  tidiest  and  neatest  of  sitting- 
rooms  their  momories  will  ever  recall 
the  happy,  contented  evenings  spent 
there. 
We  wear  out  a  strong  rag  carpet  every 
two  years  on  our  sitting-room.  In  the 
spring  a  new  carpet  is  put  down  ;  in  the 
fall  it  is  taken  up,  cleaned,  turned  and 
again  put  down.  The  next  spring  it  is 
again  taken  up,  washed,  and  relaid.  In 
the  fall  it  is  again  turned  and  put  down 
and  lasts  until  spring  when  it  is  banished 
to  the  kitchen  or,  more  often,  cut  in 
pieces  to  be  used  as  “  lay  down  strips” 
to  wipe  muddy  feet  on,  etc.  Its  place  is 
taken  by  a  new  carpet.  We  can  make  a 
rag  carpet  at  a  cost  of  $5.12  for  twenty- 
five  yards.  farmer’s  girl. 
*  *  * 
Bedroom  Carpets. — There  is  an  excel¬ 
lent  way  of  laying  bedroom  carpets  in 
houses  where  rugs  are  not  the  rule. 
Fasten  small,  strong  hooks  in  the  base¬ 
board,  close  to  the  floor,  and  on  the 
edge  of  the  carpet  sew  corresponding 
rings.  Slip  the  rings  over  the  hooks  and 
the  carpet  is  securely  laid.  Of  course  a 
few  tacks  must  be  put  where  the  carpet 
crosses  a  doorway,  but  these  are  quickly 
removed.  By  this  method,  wliicji  is  em¬ 
ployed  in  the  sleeping-rooms  j> f  many 
hotels,  a  carpet  may  frequently-,  oe  taken 
up,  thoroughly  shaken  and  replaced, 
without  much  more  labor  than  would  be 
required  to  sweep  it  while  on  the  floor. 
So  says  Good  Housekeeping. 
We  see  no  reason  why  this  method 
should  not  be  used  for  laying  any  carpet 
that  needs  to  be  relaid  often.  The  only 
palpable  objection  is  that  the  floor  cov¬ 
ering  may  not  thus  fit  closely  enough  to 
the  bases  to  suit  the  ideas  of  the  particu¬ 
lar  housewife.  The  hooks  and  rings 
come  for  this  special  purpose,  although 
it  may  be  that  small  stores  would  not 
have  them  in  stock.  The  merchant  would, 
no  doubt,  send  for  them  on  application 
from  a  customer. 
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