1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
io9 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
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For Exact Fitting 1 . —Every farmer’s 
daughter who cuts her own dresses from 
patterns should have a tracing wheel. It 
costs but 10 or 15 cents. Trace each lining 
just where the seams should he and 
where the front hem is to be turned, then 
place the tracings together when basting 
and sew exactly on them. a. l. w. 
** Spiced Ham for Breakfast.”— Slice 
thin, and place in a pan in which a few 
slices of pork are frying; cover closely, 
turn once, and put on a platter, turn the 
gravy over it; throw a dash of boiling 
water into the pan and turn over it also 
before serving. Very nice. 
Spiced Beef may also be boiled and sliced 
like pork ham, and is delicious for tea as 
it is not greasy. w. 
For the Hair, —Torsades and fillets of 
ribbon with an aigrette and standing 
ends on one side are still worn in the 
hair ; but the fancy is for jeweled pins 
and gold comb-like ornaments The hair 
is arranged very simply, in natural-look¬ 
ing waves, taken up in a Greek knot or a 
small coil. It is parted in the middle, in 
the old fashion, or else it is drawn back 
from a low forehead, and short tresses 
are curled on the temples.—Harper’s 
Bazar. 
A Formal Breakfast. — A breakfast 
should invariably begin with fruit, fol¬ 
lowed by a course of eggs, writes Ada 
Chester Bond in the December Ladies’ 
Home Journal This latter is one of the 
essentials, and offers a greater variety 
than is perhaps known outside of France. 
A Spanish omelette, if properly made, is 
a thing to be treasured among the 
“pleasures of memory.” Stuffed eggs, 
or hard-boiled eggs cut in slices, with a 
bechamel or white sauce, are appropriate 
and generally liked. A fish course, an 
entree, one meat, a salad and a sweet 
course should follow next in order, con¬ 
cluding with coffee. The entr 6 e and the 
meat may form one course, if a salmi of 
duck with olives, fried chicken or some 
such dish be selected. 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
To Mend Oilcloth. —I learned the other 
day a use for court plaster new to me. 
One of our men was cutting something on 
a board on the table, which was covered 
with a new oilcloth. The knife slipped : 
lo ! a slit about two inches long in the oil¬ 
cloth. How to fix it was a problem until 
I happened to think of mending a tear 
in a silk dress with a bit of court plaster 
without its being noticeable. I spread 
the oilcloth smoothly on the table, wrong 
side up, and brought the edges of the cut 
evenly together, then moistened the court 
plaster and pressed it on with the hand, 
holding it a few minutes. Looking on 
the right side, one could not tell that it 
had ever been cut. I always keep a 
supply of the plaster on hand and think 
its use would often save serious trouble 
and sometimes blood poisoning if applied 
at once to any bruise where the shin is 
broken, especially on the hands, c. R d 
The Windows in Winter.— Jenness-Miller 
submits, as the best plan of care, that 
the windows be thoroughly dusted every 
day, when the rest of the room is done— 
window-sills, ledges, sashes and all ; the 
gas burned in the room gives off carbon, 
alias smuts, so, of course, in winter does 
the fire; and this, together with the 
dust, all lodges in the window. Natur¬ 
ally this is specially the case in winter— 
a time when window cleaning is particu¬ 
larly inconvenient; now, unless in the 
case of fogs, the inside of the window is 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. 
far and away dirtier than the outside, so 
it stands to reason that if the windows 
are thoroughly dusted regularly they 
will not require to be washed or cleaned 
nearly so frequently. When the clean¬ 
ing is inevitable, have ready a muslin 
bag full of whiting, and two wash 
leathers. Dust the glass thick'y with 
the whiting, then rub it off thoroughly 
with a damp —not wet—leather, and 
finally polish well with a clean, dry one. 
This is the method pursued by workmen 
when cleaning the windows of a new 
house, and gives a polish unknown to the 
glass w r ashed in the ordinary way. 
Open Eyes Supply an Omission.— One of 
your “Open Eyes” correspondents made 
a sad mistake that may cause the spoil¬ 
ing of many dresses. She wrote: “ You 
can take a plain breadth of single-width 
material and cut it the width you wish, 
and then cut it from the left corner of 
the bottom to the right corner of the 
top ; sew the two straight edges together 
for a middle seam, * * * and you have a 
full back breadth,” etc. If she had but 
put in the proviso that the material 
should be alike on both sides, the direc¬ 
tions would have been all right. Having 
cut nearly all my own dresses and some 
for others since I was 13 years old, I saw 
at a glance where the trouble would be ; 
but those with less experience might 
ruin a nice dress by following the direc¬ 
tions. r. 
[Our correspondent is right; but none 
of The Rural family is more to blame 
than the Chief Cook, as the item referred 
to was a credited clipping. The C. C. 
is by no means pleased with the plan, as 
it brings straight edges where the bias 
ones should come in all skirts of this 
style, and thus can scarcely fail to make 
the skirt hang differently. It is merely a 
clever makeshift, useful in making over 
old gowns, when the material is a scant 
pattern, and was distinctly offered as 
such.—E d.] 
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They are made of tough 
clear glass, clear as crystal. 
They fit the lamps they are made 
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Draft contributes to proper com¬ 
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850,000 GRAPE VINES 
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