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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Mr. Depew, Russell Harrison, and even 
the cadaverous Bill Nye helped to auction 
off the dolls at the late doll show, which 
caused so much talk in New York. The 
doll dressed by Mrs. Harrison was sold 
for $100, the one by Mrs. Cleveland for 
$115, and the gingham-clad doll, the work 
of Ellen Terry, brought $175. The show was 
for the benefit of the Children’s Hospital. 
* * * 
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is said to 
be handsomer now than at any previous 
time of her life. The portraits given us 
show her to be as sweet and motherly 
looking as the “ motherliest ” woman 
whom any of us know. She lives much in 
the past, in the early times when she and 
“ Henry ” were struggling to get along. 
Her chief topic of conversation is her 
famous husband, and she talks of him with 
lover-like devotion. She has evidently 
treasured, as pearls beyond price, every 
memory of him. She lives in a pretty, 
modest, little house in Brooklyn. Reports 
of her liteiary work vary greatly. One 
prominent woman’s paper states that 
every publishing firm in the country has 
asked her to write a life of her husband, 
but that she has refused them all for lack 
of time and strength. At the same time 
another publication, still more prominent, 
advertises that it has secured her to do 
this very thing for it during the coming 
year. _ 
SUET FOR WINTER. 
QUANTITY of suet can be prepared 
at one time and kept all through the 
winter months, by the following process: 
Chop the suet very fine, carefully remov¬ 
one cupful of fruit, 2% cupfuls of flour, one 
teaspoonful of cream of-tartar, half tea¬ 
spoonful of soda, a little salt. Steam three 
hours. 
Suet Pudding, No. 2.— One large cupful 
of sour milk, half cupful of sugar, half 
cupful of molasses, one cupful of suet, one 
cupful of raisins, one teaspoonful of saler- 
atus, half teaspoonful of salt, flour enough 
for a stiff batter. Steam three hours. 
Pudding Sauce.— One large cupful of 
boiling water, half cupful of sugar. Thicken 
with corn starch to the consistency of 
gravy. Boil all three minutes ; add a small 
lump of butter and flavor with vanilla. 
FANNY FLETCHER. 
HANDSOME AND STYLISH DRESS 
TRIMMINGS. 
T may with truth be said of hand em¬ 
broidery and crochet trimmings that 
they are more popular at the present time 
than ever before, and they are likely to be¬ 
come still more so. Crochet trimmings 
for gowns may be made to imitate pas¬ 
sementerie very closely. They are quite as 
handsome as the purchased trimmings and 
are much more durable than any but those 
that sell far above the possibilities of the 
ordinary purse. 
An extremely simple form of this work, 
which may be arranged in an almost in¬ 
definite number of patterns, has for its 
base the single medallion shown in Fig. 4(5. 
Numbers of these medallions may be ar¬ 
ranged in modified Vandykes as in the first 
cut, to be used either side up, fringed for 
an outlining trimming, or simply as a pas¬ 
sementerie. Again, they may form a 
Fig. 4 6. 
ing all skin and stringy pieces. Then pack 
it firmly in a gallon crock, pounding it 
down, a little at a time, with a wooden 
potato masher. When all is packed evenly 
and smoothly, pour over it a cupful of 
molasses and set it in a cool place. When 
wanted for use, take a sufficient quantity 
from the top (molasses and all), and then 
pour on another cupful for the next time. 
Of course, this molasses is used instead of 
the cupful mentioned in the recipes, which 
I give below. These puddings are nice to 
keep on hand for emergencies, being just 
as good warmed over as when first made. 
Cut in suitable pieces and place in a steamer 
a short time before dinner is ready; then 
put upon plates ready to be served, and 
pour freshly made sauce over. By the way, 
I find a tin syrup can just the thing in 
which to cook these puddings. Hold one 
over the fire until the top melts off. To 
steam the pudding, set the can with the 
batter in a deep kettle partly filled with 
boiling water. Turn a pie-tin over the can 
and also place a close cover on the kettle. 
Suet Pudding, No. 1.—One cupful of 
finely chopped suet, one cupful of sweet 
milk, one cupful of molasses (maple is best), 
Please mention The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. 
diamond-shaped ornament, as in the second 
cut. The pendents are of the silk, each 
being tipped with a large bead, held in 
place by a smaller one. Without the pen¬ 
dents it may be applied wherever an orna¬ 
ment is needed. The work may also be 
beaded, if so desired. 
Purse silk is used in the construction of 
the medallions, worked with a medium-fine 
steel crochet hook. The foundation may 
be a chain of 15 firm stitches—or, better, a 
small brass ring, or a ring formed by wind¬ 
ing coarse cotton around the tip of the 
little finger perhaps 15 times. The ring is 
then closely covered with double crochet 
(dc) stiches, after which it is turned over 
and the picots or little loops are made dur¬ 
ing the next round by working one sc, 
four chain, one sc in every third chain 
stitch of the ring; at the same time, between 
each two picots, one sc is worked in each of 
two successive ch; this completes the medal¬ 
lion. The arrangement in points as shown, 
forms a trimming over three inches wide, 
without fringe. 
The other pattern, which shows scallops 
around the central medallion, is first work¬ 
ed as above, and would better have either 
eight or twelve picots, that they may 
divide evenly between the scallops. After 
completing the medallion work a firm 
chain of enough stitches to loop past two 
picots (if you have eight) and join between 
the second and third; repeat to the place of 
beginning. These four chain loops, which 
take the form of four scallops are then 
covered precisely as was the center ring. 
This pattern is possibly more pleasing than 
the other, but it is not so rapidly worked 
in proportion to the amount of trimming 
which it makes. These patterns may also be 
worked in linen thread, and the trimming 
used for aprons or for fancy work. 
MYRA V. NORYS. 
RECIPES AND NOTES. 
Soft Molasses Gingerbread.— One cup 
of molasses, one teaspoonful of soda, two 
teaspoonfuls of ginger, one tablespoonful 
of butter or lard, a pinch of salt if you use 
lard. Stir together the lard, soda, ginger 
and salt, then add the molasses and one 
pint of sifted flour. Then pour in one-half 
a cup of boiling water. Bake about one 
inch deep in a sheet. This is very nice if 
the water is boiling and the cake well 
beaten as it is added. 
Baked Celery. —Take a quart of veal 
stock, and having parboiled a proper 
amount of the stalks, put them into a bak¬ 
ing dish. Rub together two spoonfuls of 
butter and two of flour smoothly ; then 
beat in the yolks of three eggs, and stir 
these into the veal broth, and pour all over 
the celery. Lastly, cover the top with fine¬ 
ly grated bread crumbs, and then with 
grated cheese. Bake 10 minutes in a quick 
oven. This is delicious. k. a. 
I have FOUND a way by which a little 
Kaffir Corn can be put to very good use 
during the long winter evenings. That is, 
pop it just as you would pop-corn. It does 
not increase in bulk as does pop-corn, but 
is just as tender. h. g. mosher. 
A SIMPLE HASTY DESSERT, which Is “not 
bad to take,” may be made from crackers. 
Split them and lay on each half a bit of 
Fig. 47. 
jelly. Grate nutmeg over them, and just 
before serving pour over the whole scald¬ 
ing milk, flavored with vanilla powder. 
C. V. 
Mustard Oil.—Do any readers of The 
R. N.-Y. know anything about mustard 
oil ? I confess I did not until two years 
ago, although I am over 60 years old. It is 
so much quicker and handier to use than 
paste. Fill a four-ounce bottle nearly full of 
alcohol, to which add 20 drops of mustard 
oil; cork tightly and shake it up. Put it 
out of the way of children, as it is very 
strong, and breathing it might suffocate 
them. Rub It on wherever there is pain or 
congestion. If it is desirable to have it 
draw more strongly, wet a cloth with the 
oil, and as it dries sprinkle now and then 
with warm water to keep it damp. For 
rubbing on children mix equal parts of the 
mustard oil with sweet oil. c. R. D. 
Two Beautiful Gowns.— The Princess 
Victoria of Prussia’s trousseau contained, 
among other elegant gowns, a handsome 
walking dress of gray cloth, having the 
sleeves, the Medici collar, and the band 
around the foot of the skirt, of dark helio¬ 
trope velvet. Any one who can wear 
heliotrope can easily duplicate this. 
An evening dress of cream-colored China 
silk was cut half-high, with a round waist 
of strawberry-colored silk with puffed 
sleeves. The skirt was plaited, and was 
further beautified by a lace flounce at the 
bottom. Our American princesses are 
wearing just such gowns. 
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