i89i 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
839 
A trim corn cob may be dressed with a cap 
and may have a cloth face marked with 
eyes and nose. Choose one which has a 
few husks adhering to each side so that 
they may be transformed into arms by tying 
them down to the cob, turning the husk 
back and tying it for doubled-up fists 
and putting sleeves over them. Of course 
the dress must be high at the neck and 
the skirt must be long enough to hide the 
absence of feet. 
L Tin foil makes the daintiest of goblets 
when wound around one’s finger skillfully, 
and eggshells need only a binding of paper, 
glued into place, to make very attractive 
dishes ; a paper handle and spout added to 
some of them make pitchers out of bowls. 
Charming picture books may be made 
for young eyes by pasting attractive prints 
into a book made from pieces of colored 
cambric. If time allows, pierce two holes 
through two pieces of pasteboard a little 
larger than the cambric leaves. Cover the 
pasteboard on both sides with the cambric 
and pass a bright cord through the holes in 
one cover, then through the cloth book, and 
then through the other cover. Tie so the 
book will open readily. If the edges of 
the cambric book are pinked it will be all 
the prettier. 
Teach each child to begin at an early 
date to prepare simple gifts for the others 
and for his playmates : 
Some wintergreen berries in a little bas¬ 
ket made from braided willow twigs and 
lined with pretty moss ; a pot containing 
a growing fern; a footstool in which the 
boy shows his carpentry or the girl her 
skill in upholstery ; a tarletan bag filled 
with picked-out nut meats or home-made 
candles. Soft corn husks may be braided 
and sewed Into a dainty box for grandma’s 
thread and thimble ; and two little pieces 
of chamois skin, buttonholed all around 
and fastened together on one side are just 
the thing for grandpa’s glasses. The gift 
is small, but the love and thoughtfulness 
which it represents make it invaluable. 
Next week I will describe some simple 
gifts which will require more tims and 
skill in their preparation, s. A. LITTLE. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
NO TIME t 
W HY do we women complain habitual¬ 
ly of want of time ? We very sel¬ 
dom hear the complaint from men, and the 
fact that men act differently from women 
doubtless accounts for their having the 
time to do all they wish. 
Let us contrast the actions of the two 
for a moment. A woman generally knows 
in the morning what her occupations will 
be for the day, and in theory she allots cer¬ 
tain hours to certain duties; but some 
neighbor or acquaintance calls who need¬ 
lessly Interrupts her, and instead of asking 
to be excused, as a man naturally would, 
she sees her visitor who consumes an hour 
or more of valuable time, and something is 
put off until the next day for want of time. 
These interruptions are always occurring ; 
they are of great variety, but generally of 
a social kind, and thus render routine im¬ 
possible. A man would never permit such 
encroachments on his time, and he thereby 
saves it lor his own use. One of our most 
serious defects is our obedience to impulse 
and to the convenience of the moment; we 
lack concentration, and are too easily turn¬ 
ed aside from the thing at hand to some¬ 
thing else. Duties thus become confused 
and when the day is done we find various 
things neglected, and so it goes on from 
day to day, from week to week, we are con¬ 
stantly resolving and as constantly failing 
—the struggle untimateiy affecting the 
spirits and weakening tne determination. 
It is too true that women have more to 
do than men ; true also that their work is 
never done, in a sense. Bat is it always 
true that we have no time t And if it be 
so, may not the fault De ours ? Do not let 
us hear this incessant talx of having no 
time ; we must make time by gathering up 
the minutes; by keeping bravely and active¬ 
ly at work, even at times braving the 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Bubal. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, sue cried tor Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clang to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla. 
odium of being thought disagreeable by 
abruptly dismissing our friends when their 
interruptions are ill-timed. We cannot 
combine at the same time the social and the 
practical. 
What is more likely to estrange a family 
than the perpetual grumble and reiteration 
that the wife and mother has no time ? 
It is the excuse for everything neglected, 
and those who always feel and say that 
they have no time are invariably destined 
never to have any. We may be lacking in 
executive power, therefore we should be 
very careful never to attempt too much. 
Better attempt and complete the half, 
than leave the whole raveled and undone. 
There is an old adage “ Where there is a 
will there is a way," and I believe if we 
will rightly we shall always find a way to 
accomplish what we wish. But this fretting 
and fuming of no time weakens the will 
and impairs the capacity; as nothing Is 
more disheartening than the daily memory 
of tasks and duties purposed but never 
achieved. Are we not told that Hades is 
paved with good intentions ? PERDITA. 
“LEPROSY” IN THE “SPARE ROOM.” 
DR. J. H. KELLOGG. 
I N the shut-up, unused rooms, especially 
if kept darkened, you will always find 
a damp, musty odor. This is often due to 
moisture distilled by a steaming teakettle, 
the cooking of food and from laundry oper¬ 
ations. If the kitchens were at the top of 
the houses or properly ventilated, this dan¬ 
ger might be avoided. The basis of this 
moisture is organic matter which affords a 
favorable condition for the development of 
germs and gases. Sometimes matters be¬ 
come so unsanitary as to be a source of pes¬ 
tilence in the bouse. Some time since, when 
visiting a patient, a lady called my atten¬ 
tion to a peculiar spot in the ceiling and 
said that she wished me to prescribe for 
it. She said that it turned all kinds of 
colors—yellow, green, brown and almost 
black; that she had papered it over three 
or four times but it broke through and 
kept spreading. I looked at it a moment 
and asked her to get her Bible and read the 
prescription given by Moses for a diseased 
house, for “leprosy.” She was horrified at 
the idea of her house being “sick” with a 
disease bearing so dreadful a name. I told 
her it was the ancient name for this mold 
and that it was a serious matter; for two 
or three members of her family were al¬ 
ready sick and none of them felt well. 
The reason this house was sick was that 
a distilling process from kitchen and 
laundry was going on all the while, and 
the vapors were being carried about ths 
house and deposited on the walls. The 
plaster had in this way absorbed so much 
decomposible matter that it furnished the 
germs with abundance of food so that they 
grew and multiplied. You never find 
germs growing upon a window-pane: there 
is no food for them. Considerable has been 
said about the “ mistakes of Moses,” but 
none has ever been found in his sanitary 
code, and the only way to get rid of \,he 
plague is to follow ihe prescription given 
by the old law-giver: “Scrape the walls 
and take other mortar and plaster the 
house,” and then keep it supplied with 
pure air, excluding by some means kitchen 
vapors and odors. I have read that the 
Chinese replaster their houses once in seven 
years and use the old plaster as a fertilizer, 
recognizing its value because of the ac¬ 
cumulation of organic matter. 
REPORTED By HELEN L. MANNING. 
A NOVEL IDEA. 
T HE folio wing is a part of an appeal for 
the S abbath observance at the Colum¬ 
bian Exposition : 
Should the First Day assume Its proper 
rank and function at the Columbian Expo- 
sion, would not the question of closing the 
fair on that day settle itself at once ? 
We are going to dislay our best in the 
lines of mechanics, agriculture, the arts 
and sciences, and in the matter of secular 
education; let ua also proclaim our best 
in the lines of morals and religion. 
Let a mammoth Gospel-tent be erected in 
Jackson Park for the glory of God; and 
let all the public audience rooms in Chi¬ 
cago be secured for the use, on the Lord’s 
Day during the World’s Fair, of the cele¬ 
brated preachers and singers who will 
gather there from our own and other lands i 
Oratorios and concerts of sacred and 
patriotic music would interest the thou¬ 
sands who do not care for preaching; and 
this wide distribution of attractions would 
prevent the congestion of Jackson Park 
and its approaches on that day. 
If the churches of all denominations and 
the religious and choral societies repre¬ 
senting the various nations colonized in 
America will unite and work in this matter 
as zealously and as skillfully as have the 
committees In other departments, the Pearl 
of Days will surely gleam the brightest of 
any jewel in the diadem with which our 
beloved country shall be crowned in 1893. 
REBECCA L. RICHMOND. 
Grand Rsp’ds, Mich. 
Approved by Charles H. Richmond, 
World’s Fair Commissioner for Michigan. 
Some Ways to Try.— Use a small, tight 
bunch of broom corn to take out the lumps 
in flour, when making thickening for 
gravies, soups, etc. One half the butter 
called for in recipes will make cake as good 
as though the full quantity were used. Beat 
the whites and yolks of eggs separately, 
and fewer eggs will answer. All custards, 
puddings, etc., of a soft nature can be 
tested with a knife blade putdowD into the 
center; if done, the knife will be clean 
when removed. Meats and poultry can 
be well roasted, without basting, if a 
pan of the same size as the bottom one is 
placed over the top. Corned beef, ham, etc., 
are more tender if put on in boiling water. 
All scraps left over of any kind of meat, 
poultry, fish, etc., use up well in a potato 
pie. Cake not quite done will make a 
nice pudding by chopping, and making 
a custard; stir all together and bake. 
Use a high office chair and sit when Iron¬ 
ing. Use doughnut fat in ginger-bread, 
molasses, cookies, etc. It is nearly 
as good as butter and better than lard. 
Change your bill of fare often, and don’t 
be afraid to try new ways of cooking and 
working. L. B. A. 
The R N.-Y. tells us of one housekeeper, 
who reads several different papers treating 
of home interests, cookery, etc., and goes 
on doing her work in the very same old 
way. Truly, routine is a foe to progress 
and improvement. Yet I cannot believe 
that any woman has read The Rural, 
year after year, without gaining many ideas 
and profitable suggestions in every branch 
of housekeeping. Some time ago an excel¬ 
lent recipe for plain fruit cake was given ; 
I used it, and went on to still further re¬ 
duce the cost of making the cake by pre¬ 
paring my own fruit, all of course, except¬ 
ing the raisins. Sweet apples may be can¬ 
died by quartering and boiling in a heavy 
syrup till soft; drain and dry on a plate in 
the oven, sprinkling sugar over them; 
citron may be prepared In the same man¬ 
ner. One-half pint of water to one pound 
of sugar gives a good heavy syrup. Orange 
and lemon peel I cook in clear water first 
till soft enough to scrape off all the thick 
white part of the peel, using only the out¬ 
side, boiling till transparent, and cooking 
the syrup well done. This I pour over It, 
after packing In j irs of glass or earthen. 
Using the candied fruits with only one cup 
of raisins, one can make a nice fruit cake, 
rich enough fer any occasion and at trifling 
cost. C J. s. s. 
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, l£v«. 
W. BAKER & CO.’S 
Breakfast Cocoa 
from which tho excess of oil 
has been removed, 
Is absolutely pure and 
it is soluble. 
No Ch emicals 
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 Domical, costing less than one 
[ c entacup. Itisdelicious,nour¬ 
ishing, strengthening, easily 
digested, and admirably adapted for invalids 
as well as for persons in health. 
Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. 
What to do with a trouble- 
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 
economy: 
IS \V K » I,Til. Cnnvassers 
wanted to sell the “New Mod¬ 
el Hall Typewriter.” Why 
will people buy a *100 machine 
•when *80 will purchase a better 
one. Send for illusirated cata¬ 
logue and terms to county 
agents. Address, N. Type¬ 
writer Co., Boston. Muss. 
50,000 Farmers 
have read The Na¬ 
tional Stockman 
and Farmer the past year. They pro¬ 
nounce it fresh, cleaD, full of business 
and reliable—just such a paper as they 
need and are safe in placing in their 
homes. They 
RffPmnTnffml It to you In these particu 
ROl/UllllIiCllU. 11 lars and a dez mothers 
you will see on examining a sample 
copy. This will cost you only one cent 
for a postal card. 24 pages every week. 
Why Not See It? T1 j: 
subscription till January 1, 1893, costs 
only $1.50. In clubs of five, $1. A frte 
copy with a club of 10. $4,000 cash 
ready for those who will raise clubs. 
In club with The Rural New-Yorker for 
$2 25 ; address either office. 
The National Stockman and Farmer, 
PITTSBURGH, PA. 
All kinds cheaper 
than elsewhere. Be¬ 
fore you buy, send 
stamp for illustrated 
Catalogue to The 
BowellA Clement Co. 
— — 1(JB Main Street, 
PISTOLS 75c watches. BioYCLEB.Ac. Cincinnati.Ohio. 
douklk 
Bretch-Loader 
$7.99. 
RIFLES $2.00 
In writing to advertisers please always 
mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
30 NEW 
8TYI.KS OF CARDS FOR 1892 AND 
2c. 
« ■ TTO FRANKLIN H. HOUGH, Washington 
I I- ra I \ D. C. No attorney’s fee until patent is 
I H I tall I w obtained. Write for Inventor't (Juidc, 
Colds and Coughs 
GENERAL ADVERTISING RATES 
croup, 
sore throat, 
bronchitis, asthma, 
and hoarseness 
cured by 
Ayers Cherry Pectoral 
the safest 
and most effective 
emergency medicine. 
It should be in every 
family. * 
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co 
Lowell, IViass. 
® 
THE SMAL LEST PILL IN TH E WORLD! 
TUTT’S 
•tiny liver pills 1 
• have all the virtues of the larger ones; 
equally effective; purely vegetable. ' 
Exact size shown in this border. 
— OK — 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
Standing at the head of the Agricultural Press, goes 
to every inhabited section of North America, and its 
readers are tho leading men in their communities. 
They nre Buyers. 
ADVERTISING RATES. 
Ordinary Advertisements, per agate line (14 
lines to the inch).30cents. 
One thousand lines or more within one year 
from date of first insertion, per agate line, 25 “ 
Yearly orders, occupying 10 or more lines, 
per agate line...25 “ 
Reading Notices, ending with “Aiiti.,” per 
line, leaded.75 “ 
No Advertisement received for less than #1.00 
for each insertion. Cash must accompany 
all orders for transient advertisements. 
\W ABSOLUTELY ONE PRICE ONLY. 
Terms of Subscription. 
The subscription price of the Rural New-Yorker Is 
Single copy, per year.$2.00 
Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and 
Germany, per year, post-paid..$3.04 (12s. 6d.) 
France. 3.04 (16)4 fr.) 
French Colonies. 4.08 (23^6 fr.) 
Entered at the Post-OfHce at New York City, N. Y., aa 
second-class mail matter. 
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 
Times Building, New York. 
