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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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“ I gave up trying at last,” she said, 
“ for one person told me I must' scant ’ 
my butter, and another one said, ‘ use less 
sugar,’ and when somebody else told me 
to be careful not to use too many eggs, I 
thought I might as well stop, for there did 
not seem to be anything left that I could 
use safely, excepting flour, and, somehow, 
I didn’t think cake would be good made 
of flour alone.” 
It is possible, however, to make good cake 
at a high altitude, and the cook who is 
born, not made, will soon learn to serve 
well-cooked food, even though she be 9,000 
feet above the sea. Cook-books have been 
written adapted to high altitudes, some of 
which, published in the interest of a church, 
or a club or organization of women, and 
comprising the combined experience and 
wisdom of 50 good housekeepers, are of 
great value and almost Indispensable to 
newcomers. 
This is not to be understood as in any 
way underrating recipes. On the contrary, 
good cook-books, magazines which deal 
with household matters, and manuscript 
collections of tried recipes, are invaluable 
aids to the housewife. But nothing will 
take the place of private judgment com¬ 
bined with experience. 
In using any new recipe it is always well 
to follow it implicitly, but when use has 
familiarized its formula, then it may be 
modified to meet the requirements of the 
family and the possibility of environment; 
and the ability to do this understanding^ 
is of greater value than even the recipe. 
HELPS FOE GIRLS—DISH WASHING. 
UT I don’t like to wash dishes !” I 
hear some bright-eyed lassie saying. 
Perhaps you do not, dear, yet you as well 
as we all will have to do many disagree¬ 
able things as we journey along through 
life, and it always makes the task seem less 
irksome if we try to do it in the best, most 
thorough way possible. And so with dish¬ 
washing ; if one begins right, taking things 
in the proper order, and slighting nothing, 
it is not half so disagreeable a task as 
might be. 
As the table is cleared, put into the dish- 
pan those articles that are free from grease, 
such as glassware, tea cups and saucers, 
spoons, etc. Wash them out of clean suds, 
as hot as can be pleasantly borne Rinse 
In a large pan, having a drainer in the bot¬ 
tom to prevent the dishes from lying in the 
water. Use plenty of hot water for this 
purpose, and wipe with a perfectly clean, 
soft towel. 
Half-worn hand towels of common crash 
make the best dish towels, although for 
glassware a piece of soft, old cotton is very 
satisfactory as a polisher. 
Next, wash the knives, forks and other 
silver articles, giving a rub with the 
chamois skin and whiting to any stains 
which may appear. If these are kept in a 
convenient receptacle about the sink it will 
take but a moment to remove such stains 
which otherwise may be forgotten until the 
needed articles are placed upon the table 
again, and nothing is more unsightly than 
blackened spoons upon a snowy-white table 
cloth. 
After these come the other dishes, plates, 
vegetable dishes, etc., which should have 
been made as free as possible from particles 
of food. Rinse each dish and use plenty of 
clean towels to wipe them with. Then comes 
the tin and ironware for which should be 
used the ring dish cloth; or a thin, 
pliable knife to scrape them with does very 
well. It is a great help if the kettles and 
frying pan are filled with water when the 
food is removed from them, and set on the 
back of the range. They may be washed 
much easier than if left to dry. 
After these are attended to, don’t forget 
to wipe the tea kettle and hot water tank ; 
and then after rinsing the dish pan, wiping 
out the sink, and attending to the most im¬ 
portant item of washing and rinsing the 
dish cloth, and putting all In their accus¬ 
tomed places, give the top of the range a 
few touches of the blacking brush, and pol- 
HtUwUatwoujei 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, bne cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. 
ish It, slipping your hand into a paper sack 
(lacking this, one may be Improvised out of 
any piece of paper). Thus, when grasping 
the polishing cloth, which should be 
woolen, no black will be left on the Angers, 
but will remain where It belongs, on the 
stove. 
After carefully washing and wiping your 
hands, apply a little vaseline; and, as you 
leave the kitchen it will be with a feeling 
of gratification, which never comes from 
slighted work, whatever if may be. 
Michigan. ELLA ROCKWOOD. 
BILL OF FARE FOR A PRETTY TEA. 
Variegated Cake.— One-half cup of 
butter, one cup sugar, one-half cup corn 
starch, one-half cup sweet milk, \% cup 
flour, 13 ^ teaspoon baking powder, and the 
whites of three eggs. Beat butter and 
sugar together, add the starch mixed with 
the milk, then add the flour in which the 
baking powder has been mixed, and, lastly, 
the whites of the eggs. Bake one layer of 
ttis which will be white; color one pink by 
adding cochineal until of the right shade. 
For a yellow and a brown layer use half a 
cup of butter, creamed, and beaten with 
one cup sugar, one whole egg, and the yolks 
of three, cup of flour sifted with one 
large teaspoon of baking powder. Half of 
this in one layer, the other half to be col¬ 
ored brown by adding melted chocolate ; 
this cuts very prettily. 
Almond Cake.— Cream one pound of 
sugar, and half a ponnd of butter together. 
Mix in a pound of flour sifted with two 
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, beat and 
aid the yolks of 10 eggs and half a cup of 
milk, with a pound of blanched almonds, 
cut fine. Mix well, and stir in the stiffly 
beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in a greased 
pan in a moderate oven, an hour and a 
half. 
Banana Cream.—I f the fresh fruit can¬ 
not be procured, use essence of banana, 
which is so seldom used that no one will 
suspect it Is not the real fruit Ice. Make 
like any cream and freeze. 
SAVORY Pyramids.— These delicious little 
dainties may be made with any odd pieces 
of beef, mutton, lamb, veal or pork—no 
matter how small, so long as they are psr- 
fectly sweet, and free from fat, bones and 
gristle. Break three eggs into a basin, and 
beat them until light and frothy; then stir 
into them, by degrees, six tablespoonfuls 
of fine bread crumbs, three ounces of butter 
slightly melted, a tableepoonfui of finely 
minced parsley, a teaspoonful of mixed 
powdered herbs, some salt, a teaspoonful 
of grated lemon rind, a pinch of Cayenne, 
three-quarters of a pound of meat finely 
chopped, and just enough good gravy to 
moisten the whole. Mix these ingredients 
thoroughly, and shape into neat little pyr¬ 
amids, egg these entirely over, sprinkle 
with bread crumbs, and bake in a greased 
tin half an hour in a well heated oven. 
Serve on a hot dish. Florence h. 
Quebec._ 
THE WORLD OF WOMEN. 
Minnie F. Warfield has commenced 
the publication of the World’s Fair Visitor 
at Washington, D. C. 
In 18 months Mies Kate Smith rose from 
a $60 clerkship ucder the government, to 
one with a $1,600 salary. 
A stenographer in a newspaper office 
recently lost her place because she was not 
well enough acquainted with current 
events to write intelligently from dictation. 
Seven girls passed the examination for 
entering Brown University, and were ad¬ 
mitted to the freshman class under the co¬ 
educational rule lately adopted. 
Miss Florence E. Soule, a recent gradu¬ 
ate of Wellesley College, has received the 
appointment of a teacher of Greek in the 
high school, and supervisor of music in the 
common schools at Mankato, Minn. 
Miss Enid Yandell, of Louisville, Ky., 
the sculptor to whom was awarded the 
contract of decorating the Woman’s Build¬ 
ing at the Exposition, has completed the 
clay models of two principal figures which 
are said to be very satisfactory. 
Miss Marion Foster, the “ little invalid 
artist ” of New York, is gathering subjects 
from every State in the Union for a histori¬ 
cal painting for the World’s Fair. Her 
purpose Is to put on canvas the most dis¬ 
tinguished statesmen. Senators and mem¬ 
bers of Congress who will be in office in 
1892 3. 
A French lady has left to the Academy 
of Science a considerable sum of money for 
the foundation of a prize to be paid over to 
any person, without distinction of nation¬ 
ality, who can satisfactorily prove that he 
or she has been able to make a sign to a 
planet and that the sign has been answered. 
“The planet Mars is expressly excluded,” 
says the testatrix, ‘‘as that is too well 
known already.” 
The Eighteenth Annual Convention of 
the National W. C. T. U. will be held in 
Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass., November 
13 to 18 Inclusive. A mammoth petition 
is being prepared which it is hoped will 
contain, by the date of the convention, 
1,000,000 names of Americans. Another 
million is to be secured in other countries, 
when a special envoy will travel around 
the world with this “protest of the wife¬ 
hood and motherhood of the world ” against 
the saloon, presenting it to the legislators 
of all nations. After this it is to be placed 
in a museum and become a perpetual pro 
test. It is pasted on cloth in one continu¬ 
ous length. Will it be measured In miles ? 
MONEY 
made rapidly 
___ ___ selling the 
“ New Model Hall Type¬ 
writer.” Agents allowed 
better commissions than any 
before offered oy a stand- 
company. Sell a useful 
please everybody and 
money yourself. It will 
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What to do with a trouble- 
A\ some lamp? 
^ Have you an 
enemy? Make 
him a Christmas 
gift of it. Then get 
the “Pittsburgh.” 
Drop us a postal card; we’ll 
send you a primer. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. Pittsburgh Brass Co 
Nellie Cashman, a young woman of 20, 
is a mining expert in Arizona. Nine years 
ago she went from Kansas to Tucson, and 
there, working with her brothers in the 
mines, she became wonderfully expert in 
judging ore. Her judgment is so gootj that 
the oldest and most experienced mining ex¬ 
perts are governed by it. 
While delivering a lecture recently at 
Shannon, Ill., Mother Wallace was sudden¬ 
ly taken ill remaining unconscious for 30 
hours. She has, however, since revived, 
and Is pronounced out of danger. All lec¬ 
ture appointments have been canceled, as 
it is not known whether she will be strong 
enough to agtin take up her work. 
Foresight has proved the most efficient 
aid I have ever found in housewifery. By 
this I mean thoughtful preparation for 
possible emergencies; doing little things 
just ahead of time, to make It easier when 
the rush comes; and, above all, a careful, 
orderly habit of arranging and disposing 
of everything I have to do with. 
Every bit of soft old flannel, so useful in 
sickness, Is treasured ; old cotton or linen 
that will bleach Is made snowy white; 
while colored or stained pieces are assigned 
their place where house cleaning articles 
may be found. Occasionally worn mater¬ 
ial still good enough for patches will be 
found to fill some unseen want quite well. 
The question of economy in connection 
with carpet rags is not clear in my mind, 
If time, labor, material and money are 
taken into consideration in the manufac¬ 
ture of carpets; neither do I condemn the 
practice of making carpets at home, having 
seen it adopted in some families where It 
worked like a charm. For myself, how¬ 
ever, I keep a clean covered" barrel In an 
out-of-the-way place, and into it cast use¬ 
less articles, and find it very convenient 
when the men call for something of that 
sort, as they frequently do E J. k. 
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No Chemicals 
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has more than three times the 
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Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more eco- 
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I centacup. It is delicious, nour¬ 
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digested, and admirably adapted for invalids 
as well ns for persons in health. 
Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
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