1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
233 
Newspapers for Glass.— To use news¬ 
papers for cleaning windows, lamp chim¬ 
neys, etc., dampen a piece of paper in 
warm water and wash the glass with it, 
and then rub thoroughly with a dry 
piece. 
That Sliding Board. —If our friend will 
take a piece of board a little lorger than 
the sliding board is wide, and nail cleated 
ends on it, it will form at once both seat 
and guide, and will not wear the chil¬ 
dren’s clothes. w. 
Saving The Nerves.— When the children 
are noisy and in for a frolic join them 
and sing yourself. You will be surprised 
bow much less it jars your nerves than 
to remain quiet or try to make them so ; 
let them have a romp sometimes. w. 
Home-Made Hard Soap.— We make all 
our soap with concentrated lye. It is 
very little trouble to make hard soap 
according to the recipe which comes on 
the can, and the soap is excellert. It 
gets whiter and nicer the longer it is 
kept. Any kind of clean grease will do. 
A COUNTRY GIRL. 
Even as Common Poets.— It may not be 
generally known, says Harper's Bazar, 
that Queen Victoria once had poetic as¬ 
pirations, and carried them so far as to 
write a book of verses. She sent this to 
a publisher under a nom de plume, and 
had the pleasure, well known to some 
humbler folk, of having it promptly “ re¬ 
turned with thanks.” 
Rustic Pots. —Let lovers of house plants 
who cannot afford to buy pots, invest 
a few cents in a package of summer 
squash seeds—the rough, warty kinds— 
when ripe and hard clean nicely and 
paint and varnish them. I am sure they 
can find no kind of pot so artistic and 
rustic at any store. For vines, I think 
Wild Goose grass” is just the thing 
for hanging baskets. subscriber. 
[ Drainage should be provided for these 
pots; then one would want saucers to 
match. Ed.] 
Another Use for the Tracing Wheel.— If 
you wish a pattern that has been etched, 
or that is on cloth, place the cloth con¬ 
taining it over a plain piece of wrapping 
paper and follow the etching or lines 
with the wheel. Several patterns may 
be made at the same time by using 
several layers of paper. Those made in 
this way may be used, either with stamp¬ 
ing powder or tracing paper. m. .r s 
[ A tracing-wheel costs but s’x cents in 
New York ; other small implements at 
proportionate rates —Ed ] 
An English Complexion Mixture.— The 
following for preserving the complexion 
and soothing the skin after exposure to 
sun and wind, taken from the Household 
Circle, has at least a pleasant and harm¬ 
less sound : Take a wineglassful of best 
orangeflower water. Add the least pinch 
of carbonate of soda and two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of glycerine. Melt a piece of cam¬ 
phor the size of a pea in three teaspoon¬ 
fuls of eau de coloyne and add to the 
orangeflower water. Agitate the whole 
for five minutes. Apply to the face every 
night. If any soap be found necessary, 
use old Castile and rub the face gently with 
a piece of chamois leather after washing. 
Hoops. —How many enjoy the idea of 
wearing those immense balloons? I my¬ 
self think they are detestable; though 
the bustle hoops with cloth front are 
Fresh Air and Exercise. 
Getallthat’s 
possible of 
both, if in ^ 
need of flesh 
strength 
and nerve 
force. There’s need,too, of plenty 
of fat-food. 
Scott's Emulsion 
of Cod Liver Oil builds up flesh 
and strength quicker than any 
other preparation known to sci¬ 
ence. 
Scott's Emulsion is constantly ef¬ 
fecting Cure of Consumption , 
Bronchitis and kindred diseases 
where other methods fail. 
Prepared by Scott & Bowne, N. Y. All druggist*. 
very comfortable. As I look in the 
morning paper at a cut of Mrs. W. K. 
Vanderbilt in the costume of 1835, I 
wonder if we would find it either becom¬ 
ing or comfortable, no matter how rich 
the material. And I wonder, too, what 
our fashion reform ladies will do, and 
the men detest such monstrosities ; at 
least the bill to protect Minnesota from 
boopskirts would so indicate. I think it 
is time for the women of America to set 
their own fashions and trample under¬ 
foot all such ungpinly things as hoop 
skirts. w. 
Turn Him Around.— From Childhood 
comes this : A comical instance of ready 
self-protection in a timid child came 
within the writer’s experience once. 
Some one sent to the petted child of the 
house a small pup of the terrier breed, 
and he was put in the stable. The little 
one, a boy of two or three, was led out 
by his father and an attempt was made 
to get him to take up the small dog. But 
he refused, showing considerable aver¬ 
sion to it. The father then picked up the 
animal reassuringly, and held it out 
toward the child, but as the pup raised 
its tiny head and poked out its tongue, 
the little one started back, exclaiming, 
while his eyes dilated, "Oh, papa, papa ! 
turn him wound, turn him wound ! That 
end bites ! ” 
A Young Girl’s Roses. —She wa c an only 
child brought up amid all the luxuries 
and advantages that money could secure. 
Business reverses came and all these good 
things had to be given up. Then the 
young girl, full of sympathy for her 
parents, tried to devise some way of 
making a little money. Their home was 
on the outskirts of the city, and in their 
garden the father, whose hobby was the 
rose, had planted 100 varieties of his pet 
flower. The daughter, observing the 
quantities of roses in the garden, thought 
they could be sold. She mentioned her 
idea to her father, and he encouraged 
her by offering to pay a boy for selling 
them if she would cut and arrange them 
every day. This she did, and her enter¬ 
prise, although a small one, was success¬ 
ful, the profits being by the end of the 
season more than $100. u, h. c. 
The Blackboard at Home.— By nature, a 
mother is her child’s first and best educa¬ 
tor. A few minutes at a time each day 
spent by her in teaching her child, will 
often do more towards his or her educa¬ 
tion than a much longer time spent by 
a public school teacher. The reasons 
for this are obvious : besides having 
only her own child or children to teach, 
each mother knows, or should know, the 
requirements and has opportunities to 
study the inclinations of her children 
better than another possibly can. Her 
interests are centered in them only, while 
a teacher must impartially train accord¬ 
ing to its capacity each mind committed 
to his or her care. As soon as children 
are old enouch—and six is a good aver¬ 
age age—procure a blackboard. A very 
good one can be bought or made for SI. 
On this teach them to print, write and 
draw. It is worth more than any book, 
and a child will be well prepared for a 
public school training after a year at 
home with the blackboard. e. f. f. 
Rag Carpets as Portieres and Couch 
Covers. —Who that has spent many hours 
preparing rags for a carpet does not 
yield it with a sigh of regret to the 
destructive influence of muddy feet and 
grease spots? Why not adopt the fol¬ 
lowing plan ? B^gin to get the carpet 
rags together before a hew carpet is 
really needed—two years before if possi¬ 
ble. Have it woven in lengths of not more 
than nine or ten feet. Finish each short 
end with a fringe either sewn on, or, bet¬ 
ter still, formed by drawing strips of rag 
through and tying with a crochet hook. 
Join two breadths together and turn over 
one fringed end till the length is reduced 
"o eight feet. Sew firmly across nine 
inches below the fold. Slip a smooth 
pole through and fasten securely over a 
door where it will add comfort and 
beauty to two rooms. Cold may be shut 
out of windows by a breadth hung in a 
similar manner. Another breadth may 
be utilized es a couch cover. After a year 
or two of use in these capacities, sew into 
a large rug. retaining the fringe, and you 
will have a floor covering none the worse 
for-preliminary service. e. h. c. 
Should the Boys Knit ?—Some time ago 
I read of the woman who thought there 
were two or three women, in the future, 
who would rise up and call her blessed, 
because she had taught her boys to sew 
on their own buttons. If this is to be 
the rule two women in the future will 
Mothers, —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
call me thrice blessed, for my boys not 
only sew on their own buttons, but do a 
good share of their own mending. Not 
only do they darn their own socks and 
mittens, but they knit them. I always 
thought it lazy and unreasonable for the 
men and boys to come in after the day’s 
work and sit around and read or do noth¬ 
ing while the women have to knit, sew 
or mend all the evening till bed time to 
keep up with their work ; and I have 
brought my boys up accordingly. 
MRS E. M. s. 
[Many a man, in mature years, has 
risen up to call his mother blessed for 
teaching him to do exceptional work. Let 
the boys be taught every form of work, 
assuredly. But we hold that no woman 
should expect her husband to do purely 
feminine work, unless circumstances be 
exceptional. If she be ill, or ailing, or 
overworked, while he is none of these, 
shame on the man who would not help 
her ! If not, shame on the woman who 
imposes on her husband and sons to the 
extent of insisting on their doing work 
without their province ! Good fellow¬ 
ship between husband and wife will 
settle all these points without friction. 
If there is not this good fellowship there 
will be jangling to the end of time.—E d ] 
If yon name Thi R. N.-Y. to onr advertisers yon 
may be pretty sure of prompt replies and right 
treatment. 
For Colds, 
Coughs, 
Croup, Influenza, and 
Bronchitis, 
use 
Ay EFTS 
CHERRY PECTORAL 
the best 
of all anodyne 
expectorants. 
Prompt to act, 
Sure to Cure 
•••••••••• 
TAKE 
jTutt's Tiny Pills! 
The first dose often astonishes the in- 
• valid, giving elasticity of mind, buoy- 
ancy of body, good digestion, regular 
bowels anti solid flesh. Price, 25cts. 
u A dollar saved is a dollar earned." 
ThiB Ladies’ Solid French I An¬ 
gola Kid Hutton Hoot delivered 
free anywhere in the U.S.,on receipt of Cash, 
Money Order, or Postal Note, for .$1.50. 
Equals every way the boots sold in all retail 
stores for $2.50. 
We make this boot ourselves, therefore wo 
the Jit, style and wear , and if 
one is not satisfied we will refund 
money or send another pair. 
Toe or Common Sense, 
& EE, sizes 1 to 8, 
izes. Send your 
we will fit you. 
Catalogue 
FREE 
Rcvtcd Qunr Pn (incorp’t’d, Capital, $ii000,000.) 
UEXI ER oHUt UU. Order Dep’t, 43 Boston, Mass. 
Alfred Peats t 
WALL ! 
PAPERj 
Send 5 c for postage on IOO beauti¬ 
ful samples and our guide, “How 
to Paper and Economy in Home 
Decoration,” will be sent FREE. 
Handsome Gold Parlor Paper, 10,12 1-2,15c 
Per roll, all with wide borders and 
ceilings to match. Good Gold Papers 
5 to 9c. Will refer you to more than 
twenty thousand well satisfied 
customers. Paperhangers’ sample 
books, $I.OO. 
Send to the nearest address. 
ALFRED PEATS, 
Wall Paper Merchant, 
136=138 W. fladison St., Chicago. 
30=32 W. 13th St., New York. 
Get Macbeth’s “pearl top” 
and “pearl glass” lamp- 
chimneys ; they are made of 
tough glass, tough against 
heat; they do not break in 
use; they do from accident 
They are clear, transparent, 
not misty. Look at your 
chimney. How much of the 
light is lost in the fog ? 
Be willing to pay a little more. 
Pittsburgh. Gbo. A. Macbeth Co. 
/COMFORT With leather 
with Vacuum Leather 
Oil; 25c, and your money 
back if you want it 
Patent lambskin-with-wool- 
on swob and book—How to 
l ake Care of Leather—both 
free at the store. 
Vacuum Oil Company, Rochester, N. Y. 
tuo GRAPE VINES 
too Varieties. Also Nmull Fruit*, Tree*, Jt-o. Bert 
rooted stock. Gcauino, cheap. S8 sample rines mailed for 10#. 
Deioriptive price list free. LEWIS KOE8CII, Kredoala, H. Y. 
- FOSTITE - 
PREVENTS 
Mildew and Black Rot 
— ON — 
GRAPES, FRUITS, ETC. 
Book sent on application to 
C. II. JOOSTEN, 3 Coentles Slip, New York. 
RDIQF Uiuro ®’ or $1 I will mail, postpaid, 
UniAiL."! IIU.O, treatise on "Grape Culture,’’ 
(price, 26c.) and 9 first-class vines, 8 each Niagara, 
Brighton and Worden, best white red and black 
varieties, and 10 Gladiolus Bulbs, beautiful mixed 
colors. Safe arrival in good condition guaranteed. 
Price List Pree to all. 
J. H. THVON, Willoughby, Ohio. 
The Sower 
Has no second chance. The 
tirst supplies his needs — if he 
takes the wise precaution of 
planting 
Terry’s Seed^ 
Perry’s Seed Annual, for 1893,. 
I contains all the latest and best 
information about Gardens and 
Gardening. It Is a recognized 
authority. Every planter should 
have it. Sent free on request. 
< D. M. FEltRY A OO., Detroit, Mich. 
SEEDS 
RELIABLE 
SAVE 
oar Beautiful 
mailed Free# 
Ctw. Market 
Wholesale Price ^Ast. MONEY 
ALNEER BROS. 
ROCKFORD, IXDCte 
$10 
will be paid 
For a NAME 
Strawberry 
For my new 
For full particulars address 
GEO. Q. DOW, North Epping, N. H. 
THE GREEN MODNTAIN GRAPE. 
The Seventh Year’s 
Trial of this wonderful 
grape more than sus¬ 
tains all that has been 
said of It In the past. 
The most desirtfble 
hardy outdoor early 
grape known. 8end for 
free circular giving full 
Information. Address 
STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS, New Canaan, Conn. 
GRAPE-VINES, S- 
Old and New Varieties. Warranted extra strong. 
None Cheaper. Send for Catalogue. 
EUGENE WILLtlTT, North Collins, n. Y 
Anew variety. The only ironclad pear known oi 
large size and high quality. Original tree 57 years 
old. Never blighted. $2000realized from the fruit of 
this single tree. Handsome Illustrated pamphlet 
with history, testimonials, etc. free. AQEHTS WANTED 
Introduced under copyright and for sale exclusively 
by W. E. .JONES «k SON, Lincoln, III. 
