1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4i9 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Those Votes. —Don’t forget to send in 
the votes on the young people’s competi¬ 
tion articles. Your votes award the 
prizes, remember. 
Kitchen Kindlings. —Soak a corn cob in 
lamp oil, put it in the stove with some 
light fuel on top and then plenty of coal; 
put a match to the cob and you will have 
a good fire in a short time. crocus. 
More Appropriate. —A new idea at din¬ 
ners is a photograph of the hostess hold¬ 
ing a scroll on which the bill of fare is 
written. A photograph of the cook 
might be more appropriate, but we fear 
might take away the appetite some¬ 
times. w. 
Salt for Spasms —A pinch of salt put 
on the tongue in spasms will instantly 
stop all contortions and crampings. It 
will not bring the patient out of the- 
trouble, but he will lie perfectly quiet 
and it is then much easier to apply reme¬ 
dies. Among the best of these is to put 
the patient in v o warm water, rubbing 
him well. Apply restoratives to the 
nose ; camphor is good. c. R. d. 
Puffs of Fish and Potato. —Mix two cup¬ 
fuls of cooked fish with one-half cupful 
cf bread crumbs and one dozen shrimps, 
chopped fine. Add butter, pepper, salt, 
and moisten with milk or fish stock. 
Roll into oblong balls and cover with a 
layer of potatoes, mashed with milk and 
egg. Brown in the oven, and garnish 
with salad. 
The Best Professions. —Harper’s Bazar 
notes that, of the 300 girls who have 
been educated by George W. Childs, he 
says that the teachers and nurses and the 
graduates of law and medicine have all 
been successful. The elocutionists have 
made the most money, and the musicians 
earn salai ies ranging from $500 to $5,000. 
None of his proteges has entered the news¬ 
paper profession, although he has ass sted 
many daughters of journalists. 
Fancy Table. —An old-fashioned towel 
rack with legs can be made into a work 
table. Saw oil the curving top. Put a 
thin board on for the table top. Two- 
thirds the way down fit another board. 
Shir a piece of muslin or silkolene so as 
to leave it seven inches wide after shir- 
riDg, and tack around the lower shelf to 
extend above the shelf. Tack to the 
legs at the upper edge. Screw some 
bangle-board screws to the under side of 
the top shelf and hang on them shears, 
ribbon glove-mender and other articles 
used in sewing. A. b. p. 
One Opinion. —I want to utter one little 
protest in regard to World’s Fair mat¬ 
ter. I suppose it will have to be ; but, 
dear me ! when you take up half a dozen 
papers and find each filled up with 
World’s Fair, what a relief it would be to 
take up one paper with not a single men¬ 
tion of it. Already it begins to be the 
same thing over and over, Manufactures 
and Liberal Arts, Fisheries and Women’s 
Building, Electric Fountains, Lagoons, 
etc., etc. It is wonderful and splendid, 
and some of my people are going, but I 
expect to be as tired reading of it as I 
was of Stanley, and I hope you will not 
fill our little page with it entirely, a. e. p. 
Will This Settle Anything ?— Harper’s 
Bazar says that the protest against re¬ 
viving hoop-skirts made by the most 
fashionable modistes upon their return 
from Paris has allayed, in a great meas¬ 
ure, the agitation on the subject. The 
use of all stiffening, of hair-cloth or 
crinoline, is also being abandoned, a deep 
facing of foundation muslin alone being 
considered necessary for summer skirts, 
and that is usually placed in the petticoat 
beneath. This is the conclusion arrived 
at here, and many Paris dressmakers say 
they have never used st ff interlinings 
even in winter dresses of heavy stuffs. 
There is, moreover, an effort to introduce 
simpler trimmings for skirts, as those 
elaborately banded and flounced have 
become exceedingly common. Exclusive 
couturieres, such as Madame Rouff of 
Paris, make many skirts only four or 
five yards wide of the speckled twilled 
foulards, trimming them around the 
foot with a single narrow ruffle put on 
in waves, and hanging them over a silk 
foundation skirt. Another simple and 
effective trimming is three circular 
ruffles, each only four inches deep, put 
around the "hips instead of at the foot of 
the skirt. The popular and also the 
fashionable width of skirts that just 
escape the ground is four yards, four and 
a half, or five yards. 
Woman’s Opportunity.— “ People who 
have never before believed in the advance¬ 
ment of women are going to take stock 
in it this year,” says Mrs. Cahoon, and 
isn’t she right ? Of course she is ; and 
the reason ? The great reason is that 
the matter is to be talked about and 
written about so much. People who have 
opposed what they knew nothing about 
will gain knowledge and insensibly lose 
their opposition. Besides, they can have 
a crowd to go along with, which is what 
the average mortal wants. 
Commencement Gowns.— These will be 
much in the minds of the maids who are 
soon to be graduated. Yet they differ 
very little from the ordinary house or 
evening gown, of thin, summery mate¬ 
rial. Organdies, batistes, crepons, and 
the summer silks in such infinite variety 
are all considered suitable. The dotted 
mulls in white or pale tints are inexpen¬ 
sive and delicately pretty. Everything 
is made with a round waist; the earlier 
patterns were mostly trimmed with three 
frills, either clustered at the foot or 
placed at intervals on the skirt. Later 
models give less popularity to these. 
Simplicity rather than elaborateness is 
recommended, either being attained by a 
comparative amount of frilling and puff¬ 
ing. Puffed sleeves, of course. 
Ruskin on Woman’s Influence.— “Moth¬ 
ers and maidens, believe me, the whole 
course and character of your lovers’ lives 
are in your hands; what you would have 
them be they shall be, if you not only de¬ 
sire to have them so, but deserve to have 
them so; for they are but mirrors, in 
which you will see yourselves imaged. 
If you are frivolous, tney will be so also ; 
if you have no understanding of the 
scope of their duty, they also will forget 
it; they will listen—they can listen—to 
no other interpretation of it than that 
uttered from your lips. Bid them be 
brave, they will be brave for you; bid 
them be cowards, and how noble soever 
they be, they will quail for you. 1 id 
them be wise, and tney will be wise for 
you ; mock at their cousel, they will be 
fools for you; such and so absolute is 
your rule over them.” 
One Housewife's Ways.— When looking 
over berries for pies, etc., I piace a quart 
or so in a square-cornered tin, and look 
them over by pouring from the tin into 
the hand and they will be hard and dry 
to the last even if a bushel were picked 
over for canning, thus avoiding that dis¬ 
agreeable mush at the last when a larger 
quantity is taken. When the feet of hose 
are past darning and the legs too short 
to be cut down, remove the feet at the 
ankle or above, sew the two legs to¬ 
gether, shape one end for the toe and sew 
it across, slip it on to the foot which, 
“would be a poor foot if it could not 
shape its own stocking. ” Of course it 
uses uo two pairs of legs. The leg and 
foot may be of different colors if care be 
taken to join below the top of the boot. 
MRS. o. j. I\ 
Lemons Ready for Use.— Some of us find 
it best to buy lemons at the nearest large 
city, when the nearest dealer asks three 
prices for them. This recipe is for each 
dozen, and when so prepared they will 
keep a month in a cool, dry place in 
hottest weather : Grate off the rinds and 
put in a jelly glass, and squeeze every 
drop of juice into a bowl; then put on 
the fire in a granite saucepan three even 
cupfuls of sugar, with water enough to 
moisten, let boil until it will hair, add 
as much of this to the grated rinds as 
their bulk, stir thoroughly and cover; 
then pour the juice into the remaining 
sugar, stir well, pour into a self sealing 
glass jar, screw on the top and both are 
ready for any use from lemonade, hot or 
cold, to lemon pie or butter. If the jnice 
is used before the rinds this flavors pud¬ 
dings, sauces, etc., very nicely. B. B. g. 
Curfew Rings Every Night.— An instance 
of history repeating itself is causing un¬ 
usual comment, most of it favorable. It 
is explained in the following dispatch to 
New York papers, from Toronto, under 
date of May 17 : “ The old custom of ring¬ 
ing the curfew in the evening has been 
revived in all the villages and towns 
throughout Canada. An act passed at 
the last session of the Dominion Parlia¬ 
ment provides that at 9 o’clock the cur¬ 
few shall be rung, and if any persons 
under 17 years of age are found on the 
streets they shall be locked up. Unless a 
satisfactory explanation can be given the 
parents must suffer either by confinement 
in jail, fine, or by sending the children 
Mothers.—Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adm. 
to some public institution where they 
will be taken care of until the authori¬ 
ties see fit to let them out. The act is 
meeting with favor throughout Canada.” 
We cannot but wonder whether Canadian 
youngsters can ever again declaim with 
gusto “ Curfew must not ring to-night ? ” 
Will not the subject be too sore ? And 
how would this curfew plan work on 
this American soil ? That something is 
needed does not require to be said. Is it 
curfew ? 
Things Stationary. —Moving would be 
robbed of its terrors if houses were prop¬ 
erly constructed. A great part of the 
furniture of a house which is usually 
looked upon as movable is not so of 
necessity, insists a woman who has been 
using her brains. Some women’s brains, 
you know, are like some men s manners. 
Onlooking friends are not sure they have 
any, because they never use them. (This 
last them refers to the brains and the 
manner.) But one woman has been 
using her brains, and she insists upon 
having wardrobes, settees, hat and coat 
racks, hall seats, buffets, dining-room 
louDges—in fact, all heavy pieces cf fur¬ 
niture built into her house. It doesn't 
add much to the cost of the house, while 
the relief it affords the housewife at mov¬ 
ing and cleaning times can scarcely be 
measured, asserts this unusual woman. 
Is she right ? 
The Spanish Infanta. —The pretty In¬ 
fanta ! The charming Infanta ! The 
gracious Infanta ! The enthusiastic In¬ 
fanta ! The Infanta arrived ; the Infanta 
went to Washington ; the Infanta smiled; 
the Infanta bowed ; the Infanta blushed ; 
the Infanta was charmed ; the Infanta 
says Mrs. Cleveland is queenly ; the In¬ 
fanta thinks Washington beautiful—per¬ 
fect ; the Infanta had photographs taken 
in Washington. 
The Infanta came back to New York ; 
the Infanta arose early; the Infanta 
went to church and bowed low ; the In¬ 
fanta likes the Hudson ; the Infanta was 
interviewed ; the Infanta said she felt 
well; the Infanta had her picture taken 
in New York ; the Infanta looked out of 
the photographer’s window when the 
parade passed ; the Infanta ; the Infanta 
laid a wreath on Gen. Grant’s tomb ; the 
Infanta was delighted with West Point; 
the Infanta thinks New York perfect; 
the Infanta thin^-s American ladies for¬ 
ward—no, delightfully free and friendly. 
The Infanta, the royal guest of the na¬ 
tion, was invited to entertainments by 
individuals of the smart set. Panjandrum 
gave a performance specially for the In- 
fata ; the committee requests that guests 
purchasing seats appear in evening dress. 
Cuba wants the Infanta—oh ! free and 
self-respecting America ! 
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It imparts a glossy color and fresh life to the 
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Patent lambskin-with-wool- 
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Vacuum Oil Company, Rochester, N. Y. 
Fine stocky plants, of the best kinds, grown on 
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