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with her; the first thing she said to me 
was: 
“ Do you know that Sabrina Green has 
left her husband and little Charlie and gone 
off with a drummer ? ” 
“No, I haven’t heard of it.” 
“Wal, it’s queer you haven’t, fer it’s 
town talk. I don’t see how in the world 
she could leave such a nice looking, nice 
appearing man as Henry is, and one that 
al’as provided well fer her, too, an’ run off 
with a stranger that she didn’t know any¬ 
thing about.” 
“ That doesn’t seem so strange to me,” I 
said, “ as for her to leave her little boy, who 
is but a baby ; I couldn’t have done that for 
any man.” Judge of my feelings when 
Belinda spoke up pertly : 
“ Well, I’ve heard that you’n’ Jeremiah 
didn’t get along any too well together; an’ 
I spose If you should leave ’im you’d take 
the children, perviden’ he’d let ye have 
’em.” 
I felt like giving her a “ piece of my 
mind;” but I answered, as softly as I could, 
that as far as Jeremiah and I wera con¬ 
cerned I guessed we’d got along as well as 
most married folks; that there were no 
two people on earth who were as much as 
half-witted that exactly agreed in every 
thing; and when Jeremiah and I couldn’t 
agree we agreed to disagree, and got along 
without any serious quarreling; as for leav¬ 
ing him, I had never thought of such a 
thing 1 
She seemed to make up her mind that she 
wasn’t going to get much out of me about 
Jeremiah, and changed the subject by ask¬ 
ing how I liked the new minister. 
“ First-rate,” I answered, “ I think he is 
just the right man in the right place.” 
“ Oh, yes, I’ve heard that you’r rather 
struck on ’im.” 
“ I don’t knoar what you mean,” I said, 
sharply; “ I like to hear him preach and go 
to church whenever I can, which I think is 
my duty; but, Belinda, I want you to un¬ 
derstand that I have a husband and he has 
a wife and your slang expression is an in¬ 
sult to us both.” 
“ Oh, I didn’t mean nothin’ by it,” she 
said, simperingly; “an’ I didn’t s’pose you’d 
git mad about it. Have you heard that Mr. 
Rockford was married again ? He’s mar¬ 
ried a young flirt of a thing that was as 
‘ poor as a church mouse.’ They say he had 
to buy her weddin’ clo’s for ’er. But my | 
the way she puts on style now, you’d think 
she’s a millionaire; she’s made ’im furnish 
the hull house all over an’ buy Brussels 
carpet for all the rooms an’ a new set of 
china that cost $50. I don’t see why the 
things that were good enough for his first 
wife weren’t good ’nough for her. But 
that’s the way it goes: a man’s first wife ’ll 
pinch ’n’ save ’n’ work herself to death for 
money to buy things for the next one.” 
“Well, if I were you, Belinda, I’d marry 
a widower; then you’ll be on the safe side 
and get the benefit of what his other wife 
has earned.” 
Talking about getting married seemed to 
send Belinda into a reverie, and she was si¬ 
lent for a few minutes. Then she spoke up : 
“Did you know that they say that Dr. 
Johnson an’ his wife stole that nice set of 
china dishes, that she feels so proud of, 
when they were down in Baltimore ?” 
“No! I haven’t heard any such thing, 
and how do people know it anyway ? Who 
saw them steal the dishes ? and what have 
they to prove it by ?” 
“ Oh, I don’t know, but people will talk. 
They say that the set is valued at $300 
and that Dr. Johnson didn’t have that 
much money with ’im an’ he must have 
stolen ’em.” 
So she ran on about my old neighbors, 
and after she had told me “all the news,” 
she went through the place and told of it 
to every one else. 
The first time I went over to Mrs. Simp¬ 
kins’s after Belinda went away, Mrs. 
Simpkins told me that she had heard that 
Jeremiah and I had parted ; that he had 
taken the property and I had taken the 
Readers of The R. N.-Y. will please the 
advertisers and benefit the paper by always 
mentioning it when writing to advertisers. 
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 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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children ; that it was talked that I intended 
to elope with the minister and that I had 
said that Mr. Rockford had married a 
young flirt of a girl who had stolen a valu¬ 
able set of china dishes in Baltimore. 
GERALDINE GERMANE. 
JELLIED MEATS FOR HOT 
WEATHER. 
T HE first of these recipes is from the 
Ladies’ Home Journal, and is vouch¬ 
ed for as delicious. 
Jellied Meat.— Get four pig’s feet with 
legs to first joint. Soak and scrape until 
thoroughly cleansed. Put in a pot of water 
without salt, and boil until done, when the 
bones will fall out. Lift the meat care¬ 
fully from the liquor and set away to cool. 
Pour the liquor into a jar and when cool re¬ 
move the grease. 
Take a good sized shank of beef, sawed 
and cut so as to go into a kettle. Boil in 
unsalted water until the meat falls into 
pieces. Remove it from its liquor. Next 
day cut the meat of pig’s feet and beef into 
small bits, not mince meat, put the jelly 
left of the feet into a kettle, add all the 
meat, mixing together and heat to the boil¬ 
ing point. Then season with red or white 
pepper and salt. If desired, a little of the 
beef liquor can be added, but the latter can 
always be used for soup-3tock. 
Pour the contents of the pot into molds 
and when cold it will turn out in shapes of 
most delicious jellied meat for tea or lunch¬ 
eon. It is much preferable to chicken or 
tongue. 
The other is in a different style but it 
will perhaps not be less delightful to those 
who relish gelatine dishes. 
Jellied Chicken. —Clean and cut up a 
four-pound chicken as for fricassee, and sim¬ 
mer until very tender with a sliced onion, a 
bay leaf, a bit of msca, pepper and three 
cloves; lift the meat from the broth and, 
rejecting the skin and gristle, cut it from 
the bones in nice pieces; return bones, skin 
and gristle to the pot and simmer another 
hour: add a quarter of a box of gelatine 
that has soaked for half an hour in a little 
cold water, stir for a minute, finish the 
seasoning and strain through a very fine 
sieve. There should be about three cups of 
this liquor. Stand it and the dice of chicken 
away until the next day, when, take the fat 
from the top of the jelly and place the latter 
over the fire until it warms enough to melt, 
but do not let it get any hotter than is 
necessary; pour one-third of it in a mould, 
and stand on the ice to harden ; when 
hard, put a layer of dice of chicken and 
one of sliced hard-boiled eggs on top, seas¬ 
oning with salt and pepper; pour on an¬ 
other third of the liquor, which should be 
melted but cold, let it harden, and repeat 
until all are used. Stand in a cold place 
until hard, and when wanted turn out 
and garnish with parsley, sliced beets or 
stoned olives. 
ITEMS OF INTEREST. 
Berry Wines.—“A subscriber,” who 
asks for recipes for blackberry and elder¬ 
berry wines, is informed that any of the un¬ 
fermented wines may be made by simply 
expressing the juice, letting it come to a 
boil that it may be skimmed, then adding 
sugar, and boiling up once more. It is 
then to be sealed, thesameas canned sauce. 
Three tablespoonfuls of sugar to a quart is 
the proportion given with some recipes. 
The kind of fruit and the liking for a 
sweet drink must govern this. 
A Cucumber Lunch.— A new style of 
serving an old favorite, which may seem 
good to follow to those who are fond of 
cucumbers, is the cucumber lunch. In the 
center of the table stands a large bowl con¬ 
taining a handsome block of ice, neatly hid¬ 
den by ferns and trailing ends of the cucum¬ 
ber vine, flanked by the dishes of the first 
course. This consists of triangular sand¬ 
wiches (?) of bread and butter only in con¬ 
junction with plates of thinly-sliced, cold, 
boiled ham garnished with parsley; also 
cucumbers pared and cut lengthwise into 
from four to eight slices. These are 
neatly arranged in low glass dishes, with 
lettuce leaves and small pieces of ice, and 
are taken in the fingers and dipped in salt, 
when eaten, just as our grandmothers used 
to do, and as the school children have done 
with their “ cucumber lunches ” ever since, 
even to this day. If a formal course lunch 
is served, a salad, garnished with cucum¬ 
bers, may form the second course ; while the 
third may consist of a lemon Ice and maca¬ 
roons. Lettuce sandwiches are also used 
in the first course, if desired. These are 
formed by lajing fringed leaves between 
the slices of bread, so that the pretty edges 
show, and spreading with mayonnaise 
dressing. They are considered quite deli¬ 
cious. _ 
Beautiful Blue Denim— This is what 
a writer in a popular household paper says: 
“ Denim is used for a great many things 
nowadays; but the brightest idea I have 
yet encountered in reference to it was 
making it into summer trousers for little 
boys of seven or eight—that clothes-destroy- 
ing age, when their despairing mothers 
threaten to dress them in rubber cloth 
sewed with wire. I saw a seven-year-old 
youngster the other day, arrayed in as neat 
a pair of knickerbockers as ever were made 
—of dark blue denim. There was nothing 
conspicuous in them, as they looked like 
ordinary cloth; they were light, comfort¬ 
able and washable, and will probably wear 
longer than all his other trousers put to¬ 
gether.” 
Perhaps some mothers who have “al¬ 
ways” used denim for over-trousers, and 
have found that the little lads did not take 
at all kindly to it for even common school 
wear, may not grasp the full effect of this 
new (?) idea. It is quite true, however, 
that this serviceable material could be 
made up into very attractive looking gar¬ 
ments, if made up as carefully as other 
materials which are reckoned to be more 
aristocratic. A city mother would not hesi¬ 
tate to make use of this brilliant new idea, 
and the knickerbockers for her boy. 
Plum Jelly of very good quality may be 
made by using equal quantities of fruit and 
sugar, if one will avoid a common fault of 
jelly-makers, the putting of the sugar in be¬ 
fore the juice is reduced to nearly the jelly¬ 
ing point. This neglect to follow direc¬ 
tions sometimes results in a sticky syrup 
instead of a jelly. The best jelly-makers 
boil the juice until it begins to form a jelly- 
like skin over the top, then add the sugar, 
heated, that the boiling may not be delayed. 
A common form of direction is “ boil 20 
minutes before adding the hot sugar,” but 
this will not be found always reliable, as 
sometimes there is more water in the juice 
than at other times. 
Of Miss Jeannette L. Gilder, who is now 
editor of the New York Critic, and is 
also a sister of the editor of the Century 
Magazine, a city paper tells the following : 
“Among her first journalistic efforts was 
the furnishing of the Newark, N. J., news, 
murders and fires to the New York Tribune. 
Mr. Greeley died during her connection 
with that paper. She worked under the 
city editor and drew her weekly stipend for 
three years, and then, Miss Gilder says: 
‘Mr. Reid learned that his “Newark man” 
was a woman, and I was allowed to resign, 
as there might arise an occasion when the 
work could not be done so satisfactorily by 
one of my sex.’ ” 
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The Erie is the only railway running 
solid trains over its own tracks between 
New York and Chicago. No change of cars 
for any class of passengers. Rates lower 
than via any other first-class line.— Adv. 
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