1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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WHAT  OPEN  EYES  SEE. 
A  Pretty  Pin  Cushion — Take  a  square  of 
unbleached  cotton  cloth,  any  size  desired. 
Fold  the  edges  together  so  that  it 
will  be  a  half  square.  After  it  is  nearly 
sewed  up  fill  with  sawdust,  then  cover 
with  a  square  of  plush,  the  plush  the 
same  size  as  the  cotton.  Pin  marks  do 
not  show  in  plush  as  they  do  in  silk  and 
some  other  materials.  After  it  is  all 
sewed  on  nicely  sew  the  upper  corners 
together  and  tie  with  a  ribbon.  You  will 
have  a  pretty  as  well  as  a  useful  or¬ 
nament  for  the  bureau.  It  will  be  in  the 
shape  of  a  heart  when  finished.  M.  R.  mcc. 
For  A  Burned  Kettle. — When  by  acci¬ 
dent  the  good  porcelain  kettle  becomes 
burned,  do  not  scrape,  but  set  it  on  the 
back  of  the  stove,  with  a  little  water  in 
it,  into  which  pour  sufficient  potash  to 
make  it  very  strong.  In  a  short  time 
the  scale  will  be  found  all  eaten  away, 
leaving  the  kettle  as  smooth  as  ever. 
Do  not  touch  the  liquid  with  the  hand, 
but  pour  off  and  wash  with  clean  water. 
I  open  a  can  of  concentrated  potash,  pour 
on  water  to  dissolve,  and  set  it  up  in  a 
safe  place;  used  with  care  it  will  save 
much  labor.  e.  s.  d.  b. 
Whipped  Cream. — It  seems  to  be  gen¬ 
erally  understood  that  this  delicacy  is  to 
be  prepared  only  by  the  use  of  an  imple¬ 
ment  specially  designed  for  the  purpose. 
All  that  is  needed  is  a  bowl  of  suitable 
size  and  shape  and  a  good  egg  beater. 
Thick,  firm  cream  must  be  used.  Four 
tablespoonfuls  of  the  whipped  cream 
stirred  thick  with  pulverized  sugar  make 
a  delicate  icing  for  cake  or  cookies  and 
when  eggs  are  scarce  it  is  a  decided  econ¬ 
omy.  If  the  cream  is  wanted  as  a  sauce 
for  puddings,  etc.,  when  it  is  whipped 
stiff  add  sweet  milk  gradually  till  thin 
enough.  sweet  fern. 
The  American  Turkey.— The  Ledger  af¬ 
firms  that  it  is  well  known  to  English 
housekeepers  that  the  American  bronze 
turkey  is  much  better  than  the  English 
turkey.  It  is  larger,  sweeter  and  ten¬ 
derer.  And  so,  when  shopping  for  Sun¬ 
day  dinners,  an  English  housewife  will 
say  :  “  Give  me  an  American  bronze  tur¬ 
key,  if  you  please.”  It  was  a  New  Eng¬ 
land  boy  who  first  thought  of  sending  a 
turkey  to  Europe.  “  My  sister  is  in  Lon¬ 
don,”  reasoned  he,  “  and  I  know  a  Lon¬ 
don  turkey  cannot  be  as  good  as  a  New 
England  one,  so  I  shall  send  one  to  her 
for  Thanksgiving.” 
Cream  Color  for  Mourning.— Helen  Mar¬ 
shall  North’s  notes  “  from  the  world’s 
four  corners,”  mention  that  when  the 
Princess  of  Wales  is  in  Denmark,  she 
wears  a  complete  mourning  costume  of 
cream  color,  which  the  Empress  of  Russia 
has  introduced  into  that  country  as  the 
national  mourning.  There  is,  therefore, 
a  remote  possibility  that  the  princess  may 
see  fit  to  introduce  the  custom  in  England; 
and  at  some  distant  day,  perchance, 
American  women  may  be  free  to  discard 
the  barbarous  black  robes  which  do  not 
properly  find  place  in  a  Christian  coun¬ 
try  and  protect  themselves  during  the 
period  of  mourning  by  a  costume  suggest¬ 
ing  hope  and  trust  rather  than  deepest 
despair. 
Questionable  Advertisements.— Probably 
there  is  no  class  of  people  that  makes 
use  of  the  various  advertisements  to  be 
found  in  the  papers  of  to-day,  as  much 
as  do  the  farmers.  In  many  instances  it 
is  the  only  chance  the  farmer’s  wife  may 
have  to  get  some  little  needed  article  or 
even  Christmas  gifts  for  her  household. 
In  The  Rural  New-Yorker  we  are  not 
liable  to  find  one  in  a  hundred  adver¬ 
tisements  that  is  not  as  represented,  and 
even  that  one  is  soon  shown  up  by  the 
publisher  in  its  true  light.  Thus  we  may 
write  to  any  of  those  advertising  in  its 
columns  with  no  fear  of  our  money  being 
foolishly  spent.  With  regard  to  the  ad¬ 
vertisements  found  in  the  columns  of 
many  papers,  we  must  use  our  own  judg¬ 
ment.  This  year  the  papers  have  been 
full  of  rebuses  that  show  fraud  on  the 
surface.  They  offer  silk  dresses,  gold 
watches  and  large  sums  of  money,  for 
guessing  a  rebus  already  guessed  for  the 
reader.  It  is  really  a  pleasure  to  answer 
an  honest  advertisment  and  then  wait 
and  see  what  the  mail  will  bring  us.  As 
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 
a  rule,  all  cheap  jewelry  papers,  such  as 
are  published  by  different  companies  in 
Maine  should  be  avoided.  Especially 
should  all  hair  dyes  and  face  washes  be 
shunned,  as  also  cheap  organ  and  piano 
advertisements,  etc.  Those  are  frauds 
every  time.  M.  n.  m. 
Home  Helps. — Some  quiet  satisfaction 
may  be  obtained  by  members  of  a  family 
in  the  selecting  and  arranging  of  scraps 
upon  subjects  that  accord  with  the  taste 
of  each  individual  member.  In  one 
family,  the  son  is  interested  in  violin 
playing,  and  asks  the  others  to  join  with 
him  in  cutting  any  scraps  pertaining  to 
violins  for  his  book.  The  father’s  hobby 
is  the  farm,  and  every  week  something 
is  added  to  his  book,  with  the  exception 
of  reading  matter  contained  in  The  R. 
N.-Y.,  which  is  preserved  entire.  A 
child,  who  is  fond  of  his  garden,  brings 
in  leaves  and  flowers  to  be  pressed  and 
labeled  in  his  scrap-book;  and  the  mother 
has  a  book  whose  contents  vary  accord¬ 
ing  to  what  strikes  her  fancy.  The  work 
of  pasting  is  often  done  by  her,  and  when 
only  a  little  paste  is  needed,  it  is  quickly 
made  by  stirring  a  half-teaspoon  of  flour 
and  a  little  water  in  the  bowl  of  a  large 
iron  spoon,  and  resting  it  on  top  of  the 
stove  to  boil.  mrs.  s.  h.  hammar. 
News  About  an  Old  Problem.— We  clip 
the  following  from  Harper’s  Young  Peo¬ 
ple :  “  Robbing  Peter  to  pay  Paul  ’’was 
first  used  when  Westminster  Abbey  was 
called  St.  Peter’s  Cathedral.  Money  be¬ 
ing  needed  to  settle  the  accounts  of  St. 
Paul’s  Cathedral,  it  was  taken  by  those 
in  authority  from  St.  Peter’s,  quite  to  the 
dissatisfaction  of  the  people,  who  asked, 
“  Why  rob  St.  Peter  to  pay  St.  Paul  ?  ” 
Over  200  years  afterward,  the  saying  was 
again  used  in  regard  to  the  same  churches 
at  the  death  of  the  Earl  of  Chatham,  the 
city  of  London  declaring  that  so  great  a 
statesman  should  be  buried  in  St.  Paul’s, 
while  Parliament  insisted  that  one  so 
noble  in  every  way  would  be  more  prop¬ 
erly  placed  amid  the  dust  of  kings  in 
Westminster  Abbey,  and  that  no’,  to  bury 
him  there  would  be  for  the  second  time 
“  robbing  St.  Peter  to  pay  St.  Paul.”  The 
Abbey  very  justly  carried  the  day. 
A  Common  Sense  Idea  for  Mothers.— 
I  would  put  in  a  plea  for  the  children 
against  their  masters,  says  Dr.  Julia 
Smith,  in  the  Ledger.  Do  not  give 
the  little  ones  too  many  people  whom 
they  must  obey.  If  your  family  is  a 
large  one  have  a  nursery,  and  keep 
the  little  ones  in  it  under  the  care  of  a 
nurse  or  under  your  own  watchful  eye. 
Do  not  let  your  children  be  subjected  to 
the  whims  of  a  houseful  of  people.  You 
can  never  tell  what  injustice  may  be 
done  and  injustice  rankles  long  in  a 
childish  mind.  If  a  child  learns  to  obey 
father,  mother  and  nurse,  it  is  enough. 
Nothing  is  gained  by  teaching  him  that 
he  alone  of  a  houseful  of  people  can  have 
no  will,  no  liberty,  no  rights.  During 
the  nursery  age  it  is  well  enough  that 
children  should  believe  their  parents  in¬ 
fallible— omnipotent.  Do  not  let  hasty 
words  set  them  wondering  if  mamma  is 
not  often  wrong  after  all. 
Jackets  for  Babies. — The  newest  baby 
jackets  are  cut  from  fine  flannel  or  cash- 
mere  and  embroidered.  One  of  those 
that  I  lately  saw  was  made  of  cream- 
white  flannel  with  polka  dots  of  blue 
silk.  This  little  jacket  was  round  in 
shape,  with  a  plain,  round  collar.  There 
was  no  cuff  in  the  sleeve.  The  edges 
were  simply  scalloped,  in  a  round  pat¬ 
tern  with  three  divisions,  and  button¬ 
holed  with  wash  embroidery  silk  of  the 
same  shade  as  the  dots.  It  was  fastened 
at  the  neck  with  dainty  blue  ribbons. 
This  was  for  a  child  of  about  1)4  year. 
Two  others  made  for  an  infant  were  cut 
and  finished  in  the  same  way,  but  the 
flannel  was  plain  cream  color  and  twilled. 
The  scallops  on  the  edges  of  both  were 
sharp  and  pointed,  not  round.  One  of 
these  tiny  jackets  was  embroidered  in 
pale-yellow  wash-silk,  and  had  three  lit¬ 
tle  dots  of  the  same  worked  just  inside 
of  each  sharp  scallop,  and  was  tied  with 
pale-yellow  ribbon.  The  other  jacket, 
the  prettiest  of  the  three,  was  worked 
entirely  in  cream  silk,  and  had  a  running 
vine  of  forget-me-nots  daintily  worked 
in  addition  to  the  scallop.  i.  c. 
Sponge  Cake,  Cheap  and  Delicious.— The 
sponge  cake  recipe  given  in  The  Rural, 
for  August  6th,  seems  quite  elaborate  for 
every-day  use.  We  have  at  least  once  a 
week,  sponge  cake  at  our  house,  and 
after  trying  a  dozen  different  recipes, 
have  taken  to  using  the  following,  for  all 
occasions.  It  is  simple,  easily  made, 
economical,  and,  last  but  not  least,  if  per¬ 
fectly  made,  delicious.  Two  eggs  ;  sepa¬ 
rate  the  whites  and  yolks,  beat  the  whites 
with  half  a  cupful  of  sugar  and  a  pinch  of 
salt;  beat  the  yolks  also  with  half  a  cup¬ 
ful  of  sugar  and  a  pinch  of  salt.  ^'When 
the  two  are  well  beaten  separately,  put 
them  together  and  give  them  another 
thorough  beating.  Now  add  slowly 
three  tablespoonfuls  of  boiling-hot 
water  ;  lastly,  one  rather  heaped  cupful 
of  flour,  with  a  teaspoonful  of  baking 
powder,  and  one  teaspoonful  of  lemon 
extract.  Beat  well,  put  in  a  moderate 
oven,  and  do  not  open  the  oven  door  for 
at  least  ten  minutes,  when  you  do  open 
the  door,  do  so  carefully,  let  as  little  air 
in  as  possible,  shut  quickly,  butcarefully, 
and  do  not  open  again  until  you  think 
the  cake  nearly  cooked;  do  not  put  any¬ 
thing  else  in  the  oven  with  the  cake. 
This  recipe  answers  for  two  meals  for 
our  family  of  seven. 
N.B. — Never  slam  the  oven  door  shut 
when  you  have  a  sponge  cake  in  the 
oven.  m.  c.  b. 
Flannel  Shirts. —  These  are  the  best 
for  farmers’  use  the  year  round ;  gray 
for  summer  and  blue  for  winter.  To 
iron  or  press  them  in  the  best  manner, 
spread  a  thin  bit  of  old  muslin  wrung 
out  of  water,  over  the  dry  flannel,  and 
use  an  ordinary  hot  iron,  always  keeping 
the  damp  cloth  between  the  iron  and  the 
flannel.  If  the  shirts  have  thickened  up 
in  washing,  a  good  pull  while  damp 
under  the  iron  will  bring  them  into  shape 
again  ;  but  if  washed  quickly,  pressed 
very  dry  in  the  wringer  and  dried  quick¬ 
ly,  they  will  shrink  very  little.  A  few 
drops  of  potash  in  the  water;  just  enough 
to  feel  soft  to  the  hand — not  enough  to 
bite — are  better  than  soap  for  flannel  that 
has  been  worn  next  the  person,  and  has 
absorbed  perspiration  ;  the  natural  oil  in 
the  article  combines  with  the  potash 
for  instant  cleansing  without  rubbing. 
Merely  press  and  squeeze,  and  it  will 
come  out  pure  and  sweet  if  it  is  rinsed  un¬ 
til  the  water  comes  off  clear,  e.  s.  d.  b. 
A  Modern  Infant’s  Outfit.— I  had  the 
pleasure  of  seeing  a  set  of  “reform”  gar¬ 
ments  for  infant’s  wear  a  short  time  ago. 
The  first  garment  was  made  of  silk  flan¬ 
nel  at  a  cost  of  $1  per  yard,  but  there 
were  only  two  of  these  in  the  outfit,  and 
as  baby’s  mamma  washes  these  herself 
the  expense  is  not  so  very  great.  This 
first  garment  then  is  made  just  like  a 
little  plain  night-dress  with  long  sleeves, 
and  fastens  in  the  back,  as  do  all  of  the 
garments.  The  next  garment  worn  was 
a  Lonsdale  skirt  with  a  low  waist  and  no 
sleeves.  The  third  is  the  dress,  made  in 
the  ordinary  fashion,  a  tiny  yoke  with 
full  front  and  back.  When  mamma  is 
ready  to  dress  her  baby  she  slips  these 
garments  one  over  the  other  on  her  hand, 
then  puts  all  three  at  once  over  baby’s 
head  ;  lays  the  child  a  moment  over  her 
knee,  fastens  the  little  garments,  turns 
baby  again  and  the  operation  is  com¬ 
plete.  Simple  !  is  it  not  ?  The  old-fash¬ 
ioned  bandage  is  worn  but  a  few  weeks. 
Miss  Baby — and  mamma — must  learn 
that  her  own  muscles  are  better  than 
artificial  support.  I.  c. 
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