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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
695 
When the top of the stove and the hearth 
cannot be blackened, they should be washed 
by taking clean, soapy water, and a cloth 
used for that purpose only; if washed in 
dish-water, the stove will soon assume a 
greasy appearance. 
After having finished a joint of meat; 
put all trimmings in a pan, set it in 
the oven, extract the grease, and pour it 
into tin cans. When eight pounds have 
accumulated, take of water, 17 quarts: 
Lswis’s lye, two cans ; resin one pound; 
borax one-half pound; pat all together in 
an iron kettle, and boil two hours; let the 
liquid cool; cut it into bars, and it will be 
about 35 pounds of nice, clean soap. 
When knitting children’s stockings, it is 
a good plan to use white linen thread with 
the yarn for the heel; also to narrow on 
either side of the ankle, so that when they 
are refooted, the back can be turned in 
front, thereby making them last longer. 
Every one who has little boys, knows how 
the buttons will pull off of the waists; a 
remedy for this is found in garter elastic. 
Take three pieces each two inches long ; 
stitch them on with the facing, across the 
back, in lieu of the button hole band; hem 
the upper edge, and work a button-hole in 
each piece. If the hem for knee pants is cut 
six inches deep on the front pieces, it will 
facilitate patching. MRS. S. D. 
Illinois. 
# * * 
Have plenty of utensils to use. Do not 
be content with merely a dish pan, an iron 
kettle and a potato masher ; but have an 
egg beater, a fruit strainer, a meat chopper, 
a pan-cake lifter. In fact, have all possible 
utensils for saving time and labor; and 
then take proper care of them. 
This recipe is excellent for utilizing stale 
cake : One cup of sugar ; one-half cup of 
molasses; one egg; one-third cup of but¬ 
ter; one half teaspoonful of soda; two- 
thirds cup of sour milk in which crumbed 
cake is soaked : add spices, flour and one 
cnp of raisins. 
Do not consider it economy to live too 
plainly in private and then overload the 
table for company. Have some dainties for 
yourselves. Overloading the table for com¬ 
pany is a too frequent error with country 
paople. 
If there are two or three to do the work, 
let each have her own work. Even if the 
daughters are attending school, let them 
have some duties to lighten the mother’s 
labors. Mutual helpfulness should be the 
one great law. 
Don’t have half a dozen half-worn dresses 
in the closet doing no good. The unjuBt 
often make the statement that man earns 
the money, woman spends it. There are, 
doubtless, soma spendthrift women, but 
they are probably not more frequent than 
spendthrift men. Nothing can be said in 
favor of any waste. It is all wrong and 
wicked. Economy is a virtue to be prac 
ticed by rich as well as by poor and every¬ 
where to be commended. MRS. c. H. F. 
A CHOICE OF WINTER BLOOMING 
BULBS, ETC. 
N turning the leaves of a home periodi¬ 
cal a day or two ago, this sentence 
caught my eye: “ In one catalogue 23 differ¬ 
ent sorts of flowers were spoken of as 
‘ indispensable,’ ‘ most valuable winter 
bloomer known,’ * no collection complete 
without it,’ etc.” One which I had just 
looked through gave a list of over 35 bulbs, 
all “ of easiest culture and sure to produce 
the most satisfactory results.” 
Now bulbs are easily cared for, and they 
do give good results in many cases, but they 
nearly always need to be left in the dark 
about twice as long as the florists direct, 
and one who tries in the ordinary warm 
room to hurry them into bloom, is quite 
apt to be disappointed through the blast¬ 
ing of the buds. This is especially the case 
with crocuses, garden narcissus, freesias 
and tulips. 
The most stately of all the winter¬ 
blooming bulbs is the Easter Lily (Har- 
risii), and it is being raised in such quan¬ 
tities that it is growing cheaper in price. 
If three neighbors could combine their or¬ 
ders this season, each can obtain four bulbs 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural. 
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 
for 50 cents—that is, the price is $1.50 per 
dozen. Two firms, at least, give these rates. 
These lilies need a long period for gro wth of 
roots, but when well rooted, the tops seem 
fairly to climb, they grow so fast. They 
are too large for any but bay-windows, if 
they must elbow for room with other 
plants : and neither they nor the blooms of 
other bulbs can be made to last as long as 
the catalogues would lead one to believe, 
unless removed to a cold room (above freez¬ 
ing, of course) as soon as the blossoms are 
nearly open. 
With good bulbs assured, perhaps noth¬ 
ing can be quite so generally satisfactory 
as the Chinese Narcissus. Surely any one 
can put the bulbs in water, care for them 
three to six weeks, and reap a sure harvest 
of bloom, unless the bulbs are defective. 
Some one who has sncceeded with the Or- 
nithogalum says that about one bulb in four 
will fall. My own efforts with it' for two 
seasons have been very unsatisfactory, prob¬ 
ably because my unlucky star made me the 
recipient of the “ one ” instead of one of 
the successful three. 
The above, and hyacinths are all rather 
extravagant; it takes quite a good bit of 
money to buy them, at first, and they are 
useless for potting purposes after the first 
winter. Freesias are both cheap and last¬ 
ing. They also increase very rapidly. I 
think one may depend on their trebling 
each year; sometimes, if not crowded, they 
will do much better than that. A few have 
had trouble with them; this is probably 
because of not watering with sufficient care 
and freedom while blooming, and because 
of being in too great haste to dry the bulbs 
off. No other bulb takes this latter process 
so leisurely. Often bulb i which bloom in 
January are not fully ripe until April, and, 
when this is the case, the bulbs for the fol¬ 
lowing year are certain to be fine. 
Scilla Slberica is a well-known cheap lit. 
tie bulb, of a very pretty blue shade ; but 
it does not always push its spikes up per¬ 
fectly. Chionodoxa Lucilite professes to be 
an improvement on the Scilla, but one who 
has tried it says that it has the same faults. 
Lily of the-Valley and snowdrops are 
quite likely to sulk under the manipula¬ 
tion of the home grower, unless the plant- 
room is very cool. 
Roman hyacinths, which throw up sev¬ 
eral stalks in succession, and the clustered 
or Polyanthae varieties of narcissus do well 
in careful hands. 
The yellow Oxalis is excellent and lovely 
if it can have full sunshine. It likes light 
soil and plenty of water; one lady grows it 
in her calla pots. 
The new plant, Solanum jasminoides 
may not prove so disappointing to some if 
they remember that it is a very near rela¬ 
tive of the potato, and that its blossoms are 
therefore likely to bear a family resem¬ 
blance to those of the familiar tuber. One 
can scarcely distinguish between the single 
blossoms, but the clusters of the new plant 
are larger and looser, and the vine is pretty 
and graceful. Whether it will bloom with 
house culture in the winter season, remains 
to be seen. myra v. norys. 
PICALILLI: OTHER CONDIMENTS. 
Pic ALILLI. —Cnop four quarts of green 
tomatoes, one head of cabbage, two green 
peppers, and sprinkle with one-half teacup¬ 
ful of salt. Drain overnight in a colander. 
In the morning cover it with good cider 
vinegar and boil until soft; then drain 
and add one teaspoonful of mustard, half 
as much cloves, one pound of sugar, and 
one-fourth cupful of horse radish, with two 
small onions if liked. Cover again witu 
vinegar, and boil 15 minutes. Put the 
pickle in a stone Jar, and cover with a white 
cloth and a plate, weighted to keep all 
under the vinegar. 
Chili Sauce. —Chop together four quarts 
of ripe tomatoes, eight onions and eight 
red peppers; add one pint or more of vine¬ 
gar, half a teacupful of brown sugar, four 
tablespoonfuls of salt, two teaspoonfuls of 
cloves, and four each of cinnamon, ginger, 
allspice and nutmeg. Boil slowly for one 
hour and seal in wide mouthed bottles. 
This is vouched for as equal to Worcester¬ 
shire sauce. 
Ruby Pickles —The small sizes of the 
King Humbert or pear tomatoes make de¬ 
licious and attractive pickles without cook¬ 
ing over the fire. Pack them a3 closely as 
possible in glass jars; then cover with a 
hot, rich spiced vinegar syrup, as for peach 
pickles, and seal. The hot syrup cracks 
the skins to some extent. If put up late in 
the eejson, and the jars carefully protected 
from the action of the light, no doubt the 
syrup could be cooled before adding, thus 
making the pickle still more attractive in 
appearance. 
Tomato Catsup. —This may be made 
from either green or ripe tomatoes, but the 
seeds of the former do not separate from 
the pulp so easily, and there is sometimes a 
slightly bitter flavor. Boil one-half bushel 
of tomatoes until soft, and rub through a 
sieve to remove seeds and skins. Add to 
the pulp one quart of vinegar, one teacup¬ 
ful of salt, one half ounce each of cloves, 
cinnamon and Cayenne pepper, three heads 
of garlic and one-half pound of sugar. Boil 
several hours; if it becomes too thick, thin 
with vinegar before bottling. Beware of 
narrow mouthed bottles, unless the catsup 
is made very thin, as it is not easily re¬ 
moved from such. 
Mustard with Tomatoes— Boll and 
strain, as above, two quarts of ripe toma¬ 
toes with three red peppers. Add three 
ounces of salt, one half ounce each of 
ground ginger and allspice, half as much 
ground cloves, and one teacupful of vine¬ 
gar, with two onions in a piece of netting 
if liked. Boil until of the right consist¬ 
ency to bottle, remove the onions, add two 
ounces of mustard, and bottle for use. 
A Maid of Honor— At Elizabeth, N. 
J., last month, was chrontcled the death of 
Mrs. Elizabeth Beatty, said to be the sole 
surviving maid of honor of the court of 
King George IV. of Eugland. Mrs. Beatty, 
after leaving the King’s court, was wedded 
to a British officer, who died about 40 years 
ago. She afterward settled in New Jersey, 
marrying George Beatty, a well-to-do 
farmer. Mr. Beatty died soon after, be¬ 
queathing all his property, 42 acres of land, 
to his wife. Mrs. Beatty was 82 years old, 
and at her death held property worth about 
$ 10 , 000 . _ 
A bright woman, with no blue blood to 
speak of, has solved the ancestral picture 
fashion in a very amusing way. She her¬ 
self is a very beautiful woman, and she 
earned her living by her needle and brush. 
A man whose riches are great, and whose 
blood is most cerulean fell in love with 
her, and made her his wife. His family 
had a slight inclination to scoff, not because 
she had earned her own living— thank God, 
that is a credit to a woman nowadays—but 
because she hadn’t come of gentle folk. 
She never seemed to know this—had the 
tact to ignore it in a most beautiful man¬ 
ner. At her first afternoon tea the mem¬ 
bers of her family and her intimate friends 
were invited into her own special room to 
see the pictures of, as she funnily put it, 
“the women who have preceded me,” and 
there she had, either in colors or photo¬ 
graphs, the picture of almost every woman 
who has triumphed through her beauty. 
She had Cleopatra, Catherine of Russia, 
Lady Hamilton, the three beautiful Gun¬ 
nings, Mrs. Filzgerald, Nell Gwynne, Ade¬ 
laide Nellsou, Lady Lonsdale, Lady Dud¬ 
ley, Mrs. Langtry, and the latest, the 
variety actress, Belle Bilton—Lidy Dunlo. 
Everybody was delighted, everybody con¬ 
fessed to her wit, and I don’t think even 
from the old frumps in the family she will 
ever hear another word about who her an¬ 
cestors were.—Philadelphia Weekly Times 
Iftiswllatwouni 
When writing to advertisers, pleas* 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
CONSTIPATION 
and other 
bowel complaints 
cured and prevented 
by the prompt 
use of 
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills 
They 
regulate the liver, 
cleanse the stomach, 
and greatly assist 
digestion. * 
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. 
Lowell, Mass. 
Tuft’s Pills 
enable the dyspeptic to eat whatever he 
wishes. They cause the food to assimilate 
and nourish the body, give appetite, and 
DEVELOP FLESH.' 
Office, 39 & 41 Park Place, New York. 
VICTORY AT LAST! 
Self-threading Sewing Needles 
The Blind can use them. Invaluable for 
failing sight. Finest needle made. Mill- 
ward’s Gold Eves do not cut the thre d. 
Sample paper, 10c.; 8 for 25e.; 12 for 70c. 
New England Novelty iVlfg. Co. 
24 Portland Street, Boston, Mass. 
A pure California production, an Infallible exter- 
mtnator of Roaches. Bed bugs, Water bugs. Hlles, 
Fleas, Mosquitoes, Ants, Moths, and in fact all iu-eet, 
pests of the household, held, orchard, garden and 
conservatory. 
BUBACH Is guaranteed to be as harmless to animal 
and plant life as It Is destructive to that of the 
Insects. 
For Sale by all 
SEEDSMEN AND DRUGGISTS. 
Suppose the “Pittsburgh” 
gives more light than 
any other lamp and 
is a hundred times 
cleaner; in fact, 
almost takes 
care of itself 
— what lamp 
will you read by this winter? 
Let us send you a primer. 
riUoburgli, Pa. Pittsburgh Brass Co 
New York Trade Schools 
First Ave., 67th and 68th Sts., New York. 
Day Classes commence Jnniinry 4. 1892. 
Three months’courses of Instruction In Plumbing 
Carpentry and Stone Cutting, *85 each; in Bricklaying 
and In House, Sign and Fresco Painting, $40 each 
Attendance last season 58 1 *, the young men coming 
from 2i different States and from Canada. 
Circular, Illustrated with photo-engravings, mailed 
free on application. 
An Excellent Opportunity 
lor investment In the Orange Belt at RIVER- 
BIDE, CAE. Young groves for sale at bargains. 
Net profits, $500 per acre. Low taxes. Climate un¬ 
surpassed. For further particulars and terms address 
C. E. McBRIDE, Mansfield, Ohio, or 
J. H. FOUNTAIN, Riverside. Cal. 
PAINTroofs 
DIXON S SILICA GRAPHITE PAINT 
Water will run from it pure and clean. It covers double 
the surface of any other paint, and will last four or/lvi 
times longer. Equally useful for any iron work. Sendfot 
circulars. Jos. Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N\ J, 
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