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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
cream. If you are fond of pears, you will 
pronounce them delightful. 
One autumn when early peaches had been 
plentiful, but there was a dearth of late 
ones, a nervous dyspeptic who had been 
unable to eat anything but peaches and 
cream (strange diet for a dyspeptic) for 
weeks, awoke to the fact that the peaches 
were gODe, her staff of life removed. Cast¬ 
ing about for a substitute, she fell upon 
boiled sweet apples. A saucerful of these, 
cooked until almost mushy, sliced and 
covered with cream and sugar, formed her 
staple diet at each meal for weeks there¬ 
after, and by the time the apples were 
gone the dyspepsia was half cured. No 
medicine was ever more delicious; none 
other might so well tempt the well alike 
with the sick. 
Baked sweet apples, too, may be used in 
the same fashion, although not quite so de¬ 
licious as when well boiled with some 
sugar in the water, and served with cream. 
Apple pie, baked until the fruit is soft, 
may be prepared with cream to be most de¬ 
licious. The crust is removed from the 
cooled pies, and the filling is well mixed 
with thick cream made very sweet. Favor¬ 
ite spices or flavorings added make a des¬ 
sert that the children will remember even 
when they have homes of their own, and if 
boys, they will talk longingly to their wives 
of those apple pies which mother used to 
make. myra v. norys. 
AN ITEM BOOK. 
AKE the large sheets of the straw- 
colored paper that come around dry 
goods, iron and fold them into book form, 
doubling as many times as will make it 
convenient in size. Lay one of these on the 
pantry shelves with a bit of pencil tied to 
it (unless you always have one in your 
pocket), another in your writing box and 
still another in your mending basket. 
When a fresh thought comes into your mind 
that may be of use to yourself or others, 
note it down. You will be surprised at 
the many items of interest you have gath¬ 
ered, that might have gone to the land of 
forgetfulness. We do all our writing that 
we wish to copy on such paper; also make 
books for the “ wee ones ” to write in, as 
well as for the school children to use for 
their compositions, their examples or any 
thiDg they may wish to copy. What a sav¬ 
ing of writing paper, and what a boon It 
would have been to us in our youth chil¬ 
dren cannot realize in this day of privileges. 
There was no waste paper then, except the 
heavy coarse brown paper, of which we 
did not see much as it was too precious to 
be wasted on children. C. R. D. 
Kane Co., Illinois. 
THREE VALUABLE HINTS FOR 
EMERGENCIES. 
To Cool a Bedroom. —If the sleeping- 
room is warm it may be cooled for a time 
by wringing large pieces of cotton out of 
water and hanging them before the open 
windows. Leave the door open, and as the 
air comes through the wet cotton it will be 
cooled. This is a good device for cooling 
a sick room; the cloths can then be wet 
A Cool Cloth Without Ice.—O ne of the 
most useful hints for sick-room attendance 
is very seldom known outside of a hospital 
ward, and not even there in many cases; 
the hint is how to obtain a cold cloth with¬ 
out the use of ice. Every one knows that 
in fevers, or weakness, a cold cloth on the 
forehead or face, or base of brain, is one of 
the most comforting things in the world. 
In the tropical hospitals, and where ice is 
scarce, all that is necessary is to wet a linen 
cloth, wave it to and fro in the air, fold it, 
and place on the patient. Have another 
cloth ready, waving it to and fro, just be¬ 
fore applying it; these cloths have a more 
grateful and lasting coldness than those 
made so by the burning cold produced by 
ice. 
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 
How to Stop a Hiccough.— A very good 
authority gives a simple remedy for hic¬ 
cough ; a lump of sugar saturated with 
vinegar. Out of 10 cases, tried as an experi¬ 
ment, it stopped hiccough in nine. 
All the above are vouched for by The 
Ladies’ Home Journal. An old remedy for 
hiccough which we have never known to 
fail, is purely mechanical in its action. It 
is simply to take, slowly and with exagger¬ 
ated movement of the muscles, nine suc¬ 
cessive swallows of water. This counter 
movement is thus continued long enough 
to overcome the spasmodic action in most 
cases. Sometimes a second series of nine is 
found necessary. 
VISIONS AND COMMENTS OF THE 
MAN IN THE MOON. 
HE man in the moon is a very intelli¬ 
gent person, says Ruth Ashmore in 
the August Ladies’ Home Journal. He sees 
a great many things that he never tells 
about; but. in this gay summer time, won’t 
you be a little careful that when he looks 
down on you he will be able to gossip to the 
stars and the daily newspapers about what 
you are doing, because it is so innocent ? 
Won’t you just remember that while the 
moon looks down on you sailing at night 
alone with some favored admirer, he is 
thinking to himself all the time “ How 
foolish that girl is to go out with just that 
one man! He cannot talk to her and man¬ 
age the boat too; and there is certain to be 
trouble. Why in the world did she not 
have a whole party come out with her ? ” 
Now, that is a very wise thought of the 
gentleman who lives up In the moon. Then 
he sees you strolling through the woods a 
mile from home, and only one of the most 
charming fellows in the world with you ; 
sees you hunting for wild flowers under his 
dim light, and notices the immense amount 
of interest you take in each other, he ap¬ 
parently shrugs his shoulders and thinks 
out loud, “ Well, well! What a lot of fool¬ 
ishness there is in girls, anyway. She will 
catch cold out in the night air with nothing 
around her, she won’t find half as many 
flowers as she would if my friend, the sun, 
was shining bright, and she will probably 
trip over a stone or a fallen branch. Even 
if she wanted to come out just to talk 
to the young man she is very foolish, 
because he would think she was a great 
deal more desirable if she insisted on stay¬ 
ing at home and sitting on the veranda 
where all the rest of the people are. He 
could talk to her quietly, and he would 
think how much nicer it was for her to be 
there than to bs out rambling in the woods 
even with him, for, if she went with him, it 
is just possible she might go with any other 
man who asked her.” The man in the 
moon is very, very wise. He has looked 
down upon millions and billions of girls, 
and he knows what he is talking about; 
and if you take his advice and mine the 
little bit of sweethearting that goes on un¬ 
der the moonlight will be where all the rest 
of the people a r e. 
PRUDENCE PRIMROSE S DIARY. 
the top of 
the couch in my room this mo,n- 
lng and invited my friend to sit down with 
me for a symposium upon last year’s 
dresses, rolls of trimming and old treas¬ 
ures, Bhe expressed great surprise at find¬ 
ing a commodious interior to what she had 
supposed to be merely a lounge. What 
could I do with dresses and wraps waiting 
to be made over if it were merely a lounge? 
A gown will lie there at full length and 
sate from moths, and the two trays that 
rest upon cleats near the top hold all sorts 
of small rolls and bundles. 
“Yes. le pere made it and I upholstered 
it.” 
“ And it is a real cedar chest I” My friend 
took a delighted sniff of the fragrant gar¬ 
ment we were examining. 
“ Ok no, it is only pine.” And I exhib¬ 
ited several bags full of cedar chips. “ Le 
pere was boring the holes in some cedar 
bar posts last spring, and kindly saved a 
peck or two of the chips. They are some¬ 
what bulky but there Is plenty of room for 
them. I made the bags from an old mus¬ 
lin gown.” 
“ I must have just such a couch, and I 
must have bags of cedar chips in it, but 
my grandmother has left me no linen of 
her own spinning all marked with her 
name in blue cross-stitch to keep in my 
chest. Let me find a rule and measure 
this deceptive chest that pretends to be 
only a lounge.” 
So we laid away the precious old pillow 
cases that I am some day—ah, that fleeting 
again and again. Keep the gas turned low a UGUST 4 —When I lifted 
during the process of undressing, and sleep A ‘ 
without a light, unless It is a tiny night- 
lamp. 
some day—going to rip open and decorate 
with drawn work for use as pillow shams 
or small spreads. (Ma sceur wants one for 
her 5 o’clock tea table.) We folded away 
with its sachet of sweet clover the fine 
needle work done by la mdre when she was 
a young school teacher, long before the 
days of husband and babies and house 
work ; we put aside the rolls that were not 
quite enough to make one thing and too 
much to make another, the trimmings 
waiting for fashion to come around to them, 
and all the things just too good to throw 
away. We found a rule and began to com¬ 
pute and measure. 
“ First a long box 14 Inches high, 26 wide, 
and five feet six Inches long, or long enough 
to fit my corner,” said my friend, writing 
in her note-book. “Now, how many yards 
did you buy of this pretty blue cretonne ? 
Yon made a valance five breadths full and 
hemmed the lower edge. It is tacked in 
wide, shallow pleats along the upper edge 
of the boards that make the side and ends. 
That is so much better than having it fas¬ 
tened to the lid, and when the lid Is down 
the tacks are hidden. These two flat pil¬ 
lows that make a back for your lounge are 
28 by 20 inches. And this padded top ? ” 
“ I ordered a mattress made to fit and 
tacked It to the cover. A few tacks along 
the lower edge of the ticking hold it In 
place. You can make one very well your¬ 
self ; an upholsterer’s needle costs but a 
few cents at a hardware store. The cre¬ 
tonne cover is large enough to come down 
over both mattress and board and be tacked 
to the under side of the cover. Get your 
carpenter to put stout hinges on the lid, and 
be sure to have casters on the bottom of 
your box.” 
August 6.—I have been making a pair of 
shoes for little Neph. Ma scour bought his 
first pair when he went into short dresses— 
soft, dainty things they were, not made 
with stiff soles, for baby cannot even creep 
yet. From these it would have been easy 
to shape a pattern, but I preferred to copy 
a pair of moccasins brought from the West 
by le pdre years ago. After fitting a pattern 
made of old cotton to baby’s foot, I cut the 
various parts from heavy chamois skin, fin¬ 
ishing about the ankle with scallops first 
cut with the scissors and then worked with 
blue embroidery silk in buttonhole stitch. 
Instead of bead work on the toe piece I em¬ 
broidered a small spray of flowers, and lest 
the soft foot-wear stretch out of shape, 
added a lining of blue satin, cutting it 
enough larger than the chamois to allow 
for turning in where it was necessary, and 
finishing the two edges together. Blue 
ribbon was used for ties at the ankle. 
“ They are as pretty as can be,” writes 
ma sceur, and I thought so myself. 
The Convenience of Solid .Trains. 
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.— Ada. 
When writing to advertisers, please 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
For Boils, Pimples 
carbuncles, 
scrofulous sores, 
eczema, and all other 
blood diseases, 
take 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 
St will 
relieve and cure 
dyspepsia, nervous 
debility, and that 
tired feeling. * 
H as Cured Others 
will cure you. 
From the “Pacific Journal.” 
“A great invention lias been made by I>r. 
Tutt of New York. He lias produced 
Tutt’s Hair Dye 
which imitates nature to perfection; it acts 
instantaneously and is perfectly harmless. * 
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W. BAKER & CO.’S 
Breakfast Cocoa 
from which tho excess of oil 
has been removed, 
Is absolutely pure and 
it is soluble, 
JSTo Ch em icals 
are used in its preparation. It 
has more than three times the 
strength of Cocoa mixed with 
Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more eco- 
I nomical, costing less than one 
' centa cup. It is delicious, nour¬ 
ishing, strengthening, easily 
digested, and admirably adapted for invalids 
as well as for persona in health. 
Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
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Harvest Excursions 
At LOW RATES 
via Missouri Pacific Ry. 
and Iron Mountain Route. 
To Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and all 
points West and Southwest. Aug. 25, Sept. 15and 
29. Good for .'JO days, with stop-over privilege’s. 
H. C. TOWNSEND, C. P, A„ St. Louis, Mo. 
USE BOILING WATER OR MILK. 
EPPS’S 
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COCOA 
SOLD IN LABELLED *4 LB. TINS. 
Suppose the “Pittsburgh” 
gives more light than 
any other lamp and 
is ahundred times 
cleaner; in fact, 
almost takes 
care of itself 
— what lamp 
will you read by this winter? 
Let us send you a primer. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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