1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
73 1 
What  Open  Eyes  See. 
About  Biscuits.— Little  bits  of  bis¬ 
cuit  dough  patted  into  shape  are  as  nice 
as  those  cut  with  a  cutter,  and  the  trouble 
is  less.  About  half  as  much  baking 
powder  as  for  making  powder  biscuits, 
added  to  soda  biscuits,  improves  them. 
The  same  material  used  for  biscuits  made 
into  batter,  instead  of  dough,  makes  nice 
gems.  A  little  more  shortening  and  an 
egg  improve  them. 
Mother-savers. — Don’t  set  up  any 
new  furniture  which  must  be  moved  oc¬ 
casionally,  unless  provided  with  casters. 
Bedsteads  and  tables  are  usually  pro¬ 
vided  with  these,  but  we  have  put  them 
on  bureaus,  commodes,  dressing  tables, 
and  movable  sinks.  For  taking  the  rust 
from  an  iron  sink,  kerosene  is  just  the 
thing.  Wipe  the  sink  dry  before  apply¬ 
ing,  and  rub  in  the  kerosene  with  a  rag 
or  piece  of  paper.  A.  c.  w. 
Baby’s  Food. — Let  the  mother  of  that 
14-months-old  baby  boil  oatmeal  well  in 
plenty  of  water  till  it  is  creamy.  Then 
strain  and  mix  with  milk,  half  and  half, 
feeding  it  three  times  a  day,  with  a 
cup  of  milk  between  the  three  meals. 
She  will  find  it  a  very  wholesome,  nour¬ 
ishing  and  bone-forming  food  for  the 
little  one,  greatly  aiding  in  the  develop¬ 
ment  of  its  teeth.  Don’t  give  a  baby  solid 
food  until  it  has  its  teeth,  mrs.  h.  f.  n. 
A  Use  for  Sour  Bread. — If  you  are 
so  unfortunate  as  to  have  a  baking  of 
sour  bread,  you  can  dispose  of  it  thus  : 
Cut  it  into  thin  slices,  toast  it,  din  it  in  a 
dish  of  hot  water,  soda  and  sugar,  in  the 
proportion  of  one  quart  of  water,  a 
half  teaspoonful  of  soda  and  two  table¬ 
spoonfuls  of  sugar.  Have  ready  a  dish 
of  milk  gravy  in  which  to  put  the  toast 
as  soon  as  it  has  been  dipped  into  the 
water.  It  is  good  either  with  or  without 
sugar.  m.  r.  mcc. 
How  to  Poultice  the  Ear.— Poul¬ 
ticing  an  ear  may  seem  to  be  a  simple 
operation,  but  there  is,  nevertheless,  a 
right  and  a  wrong  way  of  doing  it.  Dr. 
Buck  says  that  while  heat  is  one  of  the 
best  remedies  in  painful  inflammations 
of  the  middle  ear,  and  the  poultice 
is  one  of  the  best  methods  of  apply¬ 
ing  heat,  as  usually  put  on  it  has 
little  effect.  What  should  be  done,  he 
says,  is  first  to  fill  the  external  auditory 
canal  with  lukewarm  water,  the  head 
resting  on  the  unaffected  side  upon  the 
pillow.  Then  a  large  flaxseed  poultice 
is  applied  over  the  ear  as  hot  as  can  be 
borne.  The  column  of  water  is  thus  kept 
warm,  and  acts  as  a  conductor  of  heat 
between  the  poultice  and  the  inflamed 
surface. 
Could  She  Pay  the  Seamstress? 
—Cousin  Mary  is  the  bright,  energetic 
wife  of  a  hard-working  farmer.  She  has 
in  the  spring  never  more  than  two  colo¬ 
nies  of  bees.  Allowing  each  to  swarm 
once,  she  doubles  back  to  two  in  the  fall, 
and  preparing  them  carefully,  and  at  the 
right  time  for  cold  weather,  she  has  for 
some  years  carried  them  safely  through 
the  winter.  She  leads  a  busy  life  and 
gives  them  only  the  care  that  insures 
ample  honey  for  the  family  table.  Dick 
and  the  children,  she  tells  me,  never  tire 
of  honey,  and  it  is  far  easier  for  her  to 
care  for  the  bees  than  pick  and  can  berries. 
Every  spring  she  injures  her  eyes  in  her 
efforts  to  do  the  family  sewing  unaided. 
Now,  if  I  were  in  her  place,  I  anj  quite 
positive  that  I  would  bestow  more  care  on 
my  two  colonies,  and  make  them  pay  a 
seamstress  as  well  as  provide  honey  for 
the  family  table.  o.  a.  w. 
A  Quilt  Not  Quilted. — A  very  pretty 
quilt  can  be  made  of  half-bleached  mus¬ 
lin  cut  into  blocks  eight  inches  square. 
Put  two  together  with  one  thickness  of 
sheet  wadding  between,  cut  the  latter  a 
little  smaller  than  the  cotton,  and  baste 
firmly  together  ;  then  on  each  block  out¬ 
line  a  figure,  no  two  alike — flowers,  birds, 
scrolls,  anything  you  like.  When  all  are 
outlined,  join  the  blocks  all  together 
with  edges  all  turned  neatly,  and  then 
feather-stitch  each  seam,  sew  the  edges 
together  over  and  over,  then  feather¬ 
stitch  around  the  outside  edge.  Worked 
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 
in  either  red  or  yellow  cotton,  they 
are  very  pretty.  Outlining  the  blocks 
after  the  lining  and  outside  have  been 
put  together,  serves  as  quilting.  Either 
for  a  child’s  bed,  or  a  large  one,  or 
simply  as  a  slumber  robe,  such  a  quilt 
is  useful  and  so  light  that  it  is  easily 
laundered.  mrs.  e.  e.  s. 
Not  A  Fashion  Article. —  We  often 
read  some  such  note  as  this  :  “  The 
proper  robe  de  nuit  is  of  cream  satin 
trimmed  with  point  lace,  and  with  pink 
gros-grain  ribbon  garniture.”  Humph! 
— my  best  one  is — well  that  belongs  to 
another  story,  as  Kipling  says.  What 
I  have  found  very  useful  is — an  old  calico 
princess.  When  my  sister’s  children  had 
the  whooping  cough  she  made  for  her¬ 
self  a  neat  wrapper  of  drab  calico — ’twas 
in  the  days  when  calicos  had  borders  and 
she  put  the  border  of  “delicious  ”  red 
roses,  around  the  foot  and  up  the  fronts. 
She  could  hop  out  of  bed  and  trot  “  up 
stairs  and  down  and  through  my  lady’s 
chamber,”  without  that  disagreeable  un¬ 
dressed  feeling  one  has  when  obliged  to 
hurry  from  one  room  to  another  in  a 
white  night  dress.  belle  farmer. 
Reading  the  Papers. — Nearly  every 
man  reads  the  newspapers,  but  do  our 
mothers  and  grown  daughters  take  the 
time  from  their  other  duties  to  read 
them  ?  We  are  living  in  the  greatest 
country  of  the  globe,  and  in  the  most 
progressive  of  all  ages.  Do  the  mothers 
and  daughters  keep  up  with  the  times  ? 
Have  they  read  thoroughly  about  the 
cholera  ravages  in  Asia  and  Europe  as 
well  as  in  our  own  country  ?  Do  they 
know  the  general  means  used  for  the 
prevention  of  its  spread,  and  do  they 
know  of  the  glorious  work  done  by  our 
New  York  Health  Board  ?  Can  our  girls 
tell  about  the  Chilian  troubles — the  Home¬ 
stead  strikes.  There  is  much  trash  in 
our  papers,  but  that  can  be  easily  skipped. 
My  father  is  a  hard-working  farmer,  but 
he  and  his  wife  will  find  time  to  read 
their  daily  paper.  Subscribe  for  a  paper, 
a  daily  if  possible,  read  it  conscientiously, 
and  you’ll  be  surprised  to  find  how  eager¬ 
ly  you  watch  for  the  new  issue.  m.  p. 
Seventy  Years  Young.— “Years  will 
not  be  taken  in  place  of  discretion.  The 
two  must  go  together,”  says  L.  B.  E.  in 
the  Housekeepers’  Weekly.  “  It  hurts  a 
boy  of  20  just  as  much  to  be  called  “a 
snip,’  a  ‘whipper-snapper,’  or  a  ‘raw 
youngster,’  as  it  does  his  grandfather  to 
be  called  an  ‘old  jay,’  or  ‘  old  fogy,’  and 
the  unkindness  is  just  as  uncalled-for. 
For  there  are  old  fogies  :  I  say  so  with 
less  hesitation  because  I  believe  with 
Holmes  that  ‘  a  man  has  no  right  to  let 
his  heart  grow  old.’  We  cannot  prevent 
the  decay  of  our  bodies  ;  but  not  to  keep 
the  mind  and  the  sympathies  fresh  and 
young  is  a  moral  shortcoming.  Age  can 
be  made  so  beautiful  that  when  I  see 
men  and  women  who  have  settled  into  a 
complacent  mental  idleness,  refusing  to 
keep  alive  their  interest  in  the  younger 
generation  at  whom  they  continually 
carp,  I  cannot  render  them  the  same  re¬ 
spect  that  I  accord  to  several  old  people 
of  my  acquaintance,  who  are  as  welcome 
at  a  social  gathering  as  is  the  veriest 
‘queen  of  the  rosebud  garden  of  girls.’ 
Like  the  Autocrat  himself,  they  are  ‘sev¬ 
enty  years  young,’  and  no  one  is  more 
respectfully  treated  than  they  by  the 
young  folks  whose  friendship  they  have 
never  forfeited  by 
‘The  hardening  of  the  heart,  that  brings 
Irreverence  for  the  dreams  of  youth.’ 
Indeed,  I  think  that  to  bridge  over  the 
difference  the  elders  must  go  half  way.” 
Medicinal  Value  of  Fruits. — The 
notes  from  a  contributor  in  last  week's 
issue  regarding  the  medicinal  value  of 
vegetables,  are  well  supplemented  by 
some  remarks  of  Good  Housekeeping  con¬ 
cerning  fruits.  “It  should  not  be  under¬ 
stood  that  edible  fruits  exert  direct 
medicinal  effects.  They  simply  encour¬ 
age  the  natural  processes.  Under  laxa¬ 
tives,  oranges,  figs,  tamarinds,  prunes, 
mulberries,  dates,  nectarines  and  plums 
may  be  included.  Grapes,  peaches,  straw¬ 
berries,  whortleberries,  prickly  pears, 
black  currants  and  melon  seeds  are 
diureties.  Taken  in  the  morning,  an 
orange  acts  very  decidedly  as  a  laxative, 
sometimes  amounting  to  a  purgative, 
and  may  generally  be  relied  on  ;  figs! 
split  open,  form  excellent  poultices  for 
boils  and  small  abscesses.  Strawberries 
and  lemons,  locally  applied,  are  of  some 
service  in  the  removal  of  tartar  from  the 
teeth.  Apples  are  corrective,  useful  in 
nausea,  and  even  sea-sickness  and  the 
vomiting  of  pregnancy.  The  oil  of  cocoa- 
nut  has  been  recommended  as  a  substi¬ 
tute  for  cod  liver  oil,  and  is  much  used  in 
Germany  for  phthisis.  Barberries  are 
very  agreeable  to  fever  patients  in  the 
form  of  a  drink.  Grapes  and  raisins  are 
nutritive  and  demulcent,  and  very  grate¬ 
ful  in  the  sick  chamber.  A  so-called 
“grape  cure”  has  been  much  lauded  for 
the  treatment  of  congestions  of  the  liver 
and  stomach,  tuberculosis,  etc.  Quince 
seeds  boiled  in  water  make  an  excellent 
soothing  and  sedative  lotion  in  inflam¬ 
matory  diseases  of  the  eyes  and  eyelids. 
A  Bicycle  Suit. — Very  conservative 
is  the  Household  Monthly  on  some  points. 
It  says  that  despite  the  remarks  excited 
by  young  ladies  of  good  family  venturing 
to  appear  on  velocipedes,  it  must  now  be 
confessed  that  this  apparently  unfemin¬ 
ine  exercise  has  more  followers  than 
people  are  aware  of.  Fathers,  husbands 
and  brothers  are  responsible  for  this.  It 
is  they  who  encourage  their  wives  and 
daughters  to  try  their  skill  on  the  tempt¬ 
ing  bicycle.  To  satisfy  this  class  of 
readers  the  necessary  equipment  for  a 
bicycle  tour  is  described.  Great  simplic¬ 
ity  should  be  its  leading  feature,  use, 
not  show,  being  the  desideratum  in  view. 
The  short,  plain  skirt,  by  no  means 
gored,  and  only  reaching  to  the  ankles, 
should  be  made  of  thick,  but  not  heavy, 
woolen  material,  and  the  costume  is  com¬ 
pleted  by  a  long  blouse  drawn  in  by  a 
belt  at  the  waist.  The  pantaloons  ought, 
perhaps,  to  be  made  of  the  same  stuff  as 
the  dress,  but  readers  are  advised  to 
make  them  of  thinner  texture.  They 
should  be  very  wide,  short,  and  buckled 
below  the  knees.  Some  advocate  shoes 
with  cloth  gaiters,  as  leaving  the  feet 
most  supple;  others  prefer  soft  boots  with 
cloth  tops  as  a  better  protection  against 
dust  and  dirt.  For  a  long  ride  a  peaked 
cap  is  preferable  to  a  large  hat,  as  it  sits 
close  on  the  head,  and  is  not  subject  to 
any  freaks  of  the  wind. 
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