1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
291 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Getting Ready to Go Away.— When we 
are all going away, I take the best clothes 
and wraps from the wardrobe and pile 
them on a Boston rocker, shoes at the 
bottom, pnll it out into the silting room, 
and put each one’s things on a separate 
chair. When we come home, as I take 
off the children’s things, I pile them on 
the chair and draw it back to the ward¬ 
robe. A. B. p. 
A Loss to New York. —One of the most 
successful business women of New York, 
Miss Mary F. Seymour, has just died. 
She was editor of the Business Woman’s 
Journal, and conducted a fine school of 
shorthand. Women may well feel a 
pride in hearing her called a “ repre¬ 
sentative” woman. While representa¬ 
tive of the business woman at her best, 
Miss Seymour was an exceptional woman. 
Use for Egg Shells. —Save the egg shells 
to plant seeds in. Make a light frame 
the width of an egg shell and as long as 
the window sill. Break the egg near one 
end, leaving the shell nearly all in one 
piece. Fill with earth, put in a seed, set 
in the frame, and I am sure you will be 
satisfied with the result. 1 have been 
told to plant out shell and all, as the shell 
would decay, but I have never proved 
this. crocus. 
Bunch or Multiplier Onions.— If any 
of you have not a row or two of these in 
your gardens, don’t fail to put some out 
this spring; their green tops push out of 
the ground about as soon as the snow 
and frost have disappeared, and a small 
patch will supply the table while wait¬ 
ing for other green things to grow. Pull 
up the bulbs and cut up with the tops, or 
eat them with salt, but remember to put 
back a bulb where you have taken out a 
bunch; you can use them very closely as 
they multiply with great rapidity. 
c. R. D. 
An Investment. —The odor of scorched 
wood greeted my nostrils unpleasantly 
as I entered a neighbor’s house one cold 
February afternoon. My hostess apolo¬ 
gized for the smell, explaining that she 
was preparing to go to town and had 
heated a block of wood to keep under her 
feet during the long drive. She always 
did this, she told me ; it was a little 
trouble ; the hot block was not conve¬ 
nient to carry to the sleigh, but it had 
kept her feet from being chilled a good 
many times during the last 35 years, the 
length of time she had lived on a farm. 
Heating blocks of wood for 35 years when 
a soapstone can be bought for 50 cents ! 
[25 cents in New York.—E d.J Is this 
intelligent economy ? e. m. 
A Handkerchief Glass.— That dry-on- 
the-hotel-window scheme for traveled 
handkerchiefs has been reduced to terms 
of our every-day life by some womanly 
genius. She tells us in Jenness-Miller 
that a handkerchief drying glass is so 
easily made that it is within the reach of 
all. A square piece of glass larger than 
handkerchiefs is bound with ribbon, upon 
which some suitable motto is worked, 
and silk cord sewn securely on the two 
upper corners supends the novel affair. 
After washing your ’kerchiefs, rinse well 
and then stretch them, one at a time, 
upon the glass, patting them down 
smoothly ard picking out each scallop 
and corner with care. Hang the glass in 
a draught, and in a short while you will 
find your handkerchief exquisitely dried. 
Easily Taken Up 
Cod Liver Oil as : t 
appears in Scott’s 
Emulsion is easily 
taken up by the 
system. In no 
other form can so 
much fat-food be 
assimilated with¬ 
out injury to the 
organs of digestion. 
Scott's Emulsion 
of Cod Liver Oil with H vpophos- 
phites has come to be an article 
of every day use, a prompt and 
infallible cure for Colds, Coughs, 
Throat troubles, and a positive 
builder of flesh. 
Prepared by Scott & Bowne, N Y. Ah druggists 
The New White House Amaryllis.—A 
telegram from Washington, under date 
of April 4, reads: “ Mr. Fister, head 
gardener at the White House, has pre¬ 
pared a surprise for Mrs. Cleveland, and 
to-morrow there will be carried up for 
her approval an amaryllis which experts 
declare to be one of the most beautiful 
in color ever grown.” The color is de¬ 
scribed as pure cherry, strong and clear 
throughout the six divisions of the 
flowers. This is the result of a cross 
made three years ago, and as the ama¬ 
ryllis is notably slow of propagation, it 
need not be looked for in the market 
soon, though claimed to be altogether 
different, as to color, from anything 
ever heard of in the amaryllis line. Mr. 
Fister has christened it the “Mrs. G. 
Cleveland.” 
Judicious Placing of Mirrors.— Says a 
writer in The Observer: “I once noticed 
a pleasing effect in a dining room of 
rather small dimensions. During the 
repast I enjoyed the delightful impression 
of looking through an open window 
directly opposite, and of gazing upon a 
cool expanse of green meadow and flow¬ 
ering apple trees. Not until afterwards 
did I discover that I had been placidly 
looking into a mirror placed so as to re¬ 
flect the one window in the little room. 
It opened a line of suggestions of which 
I was glad to avail myself. In fact, the 
pleasing optical illusions which the mirror 
can be made to furnish are not half appre¬ 
ciated by the home decorator. As we all 
know, it doubles the size of a room, and 
enhances the brilliancy of the lamp. If 
properly placed, it will catch a gleam of 
color, and throw a bit of scenery in un¬ 
expected corners.” 
Soapstone Griddle. —I would like to ask 
“ Old Housekeeper ” what advantage a 
soapstone griddle has over an iron one if 
she soaks it in grease; for it will smoke 
so long as there is a vestige of grease on 
it. I fear “ J. T. S.” will ruin her grid¬ 
dle if she follows the advice of O. H. 
In that case I would try burning it off. 
I have used one 2% years and could not 
be induced to return to the iron griddle 
with its attendant grease and smoke. 
Cakes baked on a soapstone griddle are 
harmless even to dyspeptics. If J. T. 
S. will sandpaper her griddle until per¬ 
fectly smooth, then heat to a proper tem¬ 
perature, which requires time and a good 
fire, she will have no trouble. Try a 
small cake first. If it browns it will 
turn all right. A griddle requires sand¬ 
papering about once a week, and no other 
cleaning is necessary except to wipe with 
a damp cloth each day. l. e. a. 
Encouraging to Writers.— Those who 
write will be glad to learn of the recent 
action of the Golden Rule, the organ of the 
Y. P. S. C E., and will hope tint the good 
example may be followed. Striving to 
do honor to its name, and to do as it (in 
the persons of its makers) would be done 
by, this paper has devised a plan whereby 
writers of rejected MSS. may know the 
reasons for that rejection. Instead of 
having one set form of rejection stating 
that return of MSS. does not necessarily 
imply lack of merit, a number of forms 
have been prepared. One states, for in¬ 
stance, that they have already on hand 
sufficient material of the sort in question; 
another that the article is too tong for 
their use ; another that the paper touches 
on matters outside their field, etc. The 
form which fits the case in hand is used, 
and many a writer will be saved from 
discouragement, perhaps from despair, 
by being assured of the real reason for 
the return of his work. 
Lime for Cacti. —When inhaling the 
fragrance, or watching the opening of 
its flowers, I always wonder why so few 
people have the Night-blooming cereus. 
It is as easily grown as a geranium after 
the first year from the cutting and does 
not require much sunshine, therefore 
would not need to occupy the window. 
The main things that are necessary for 
it, and in fact for all species of cactus, are 
plenty of fresh lime and rich soil, with 
good drainage. Scrape the old earth 
away from the roots, put in some rich 
earth, just enough to cover them, then 
lumps of fresh lime and more earth on 
top. Don’t faint when the lime begins 
to slake and steam, and the earth seems 
to be boiliDg, nor think that you have 
cooked your poor plant. In a few days 
you will see how fresh and green the 
leaves will be and how fast the new ones 
will grow. Keep them free from dust 
by spraying or washing two or three 
times a month, and when the buds begin 
to come on the edges of the leaves, give 
water more abundantly. After seeing 
one flower you will feel more than paid 
for your trouble. mbs. j. a. m. 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
To Put Away Bacon Hams.—I can recom¬ 
mend the following as the very best way 
I’ve ever seen tried for putting away 
hams for summer use on the farm. After 
they have been properly salted and 
smoked, put each in a common muslin 
sack—I make mine of flour sacks or 
cheap brown muslin, and as nearly the 
shape of the ham as I can roughly block 
it out, but they are never perlect fits. 
Then stitch a firm loop made of a scrap 
of cotton folded and stitched at one end ; 
have your sacks large enough at the 
open side so that after the ham is in, you 
can fold the open edges over well and 
sew tightly. Now have ready a tub or 
big bucket of slaked lime that is creamy 
in thickness and warm enough to pene¬ 
trate cotton easily ; put a wire hook in 
the loop on the sack and dip the latter 
up and down (with the ham in it of 
course) several times in the lime water 
until you are sure the pores of cloth are 
filled with the lime. Hang them up in 
the air till perfectly dry, then lay or 
hang away anywhere that is convenient. 
We use an unoccupied upstairs room. I 
have kept hams in this way and have 
had many people—several fine judges— 
declare they had never eaten such delic¬ 
ious meat. Of course good meat depends 
first on salting and smoking, but there 
is no better way to keep it afterwards 
than this. If you choose to take the 
trouble to rip instead of cutting these 
sacks off, you can use them several years 
and thus avoid the trouble of making 
fresh each year. w. 
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If You Have 
Scrofula, 
Sores, Boils, or 
any other skin disease, 
take 
“Honesty is the best pol¬ 
icy.’’ Nobody contradicts it. 
Your dealer can get lamp- 
chimneys that almost never 
break from heat, or those that 
break continually. Which does 
he get? Which do you get? 
Macbeth’s “pearl top” and “pearl glass’* are 
tough against heat; not one in a hundred breaks 
in use. The glass Is clear as well as tough. 
They are accurate, uniform. 
Be willing to pay more for chimneys that last 
till they rot, unless some accident happens to them. 
Pittsburgh. Gbo. A. Macbeth Co. 
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