1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
451 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Chicken or *owl boiled whole cooks just 
as easily, and when cooked the joints 
may be separated more easily than when 
i*aw. g. B. H. 
To Save Stooping 1 . —Make a platform of 
boards, covered with table oilcloth, for 
the stove to rest on. It will save bend¬ 
ing and make it much easier to keep the 
floor tidy. s. 
Dust In a Bedroom may be much less¬ 
ened by carefully folding the dust in the 
bottom sheet and shaking that and any 
protection for the mattress out-of doors. 
Some shake out of the bedroom window, 
but the dust flies in or settles on the 
window outside. It is harder to shake 
in that way. m. 
Eggless Ginger Bread.— One cupful of 
molasses and butter the size of an egg ; 
put soda into a cup with half a tea¬ 
spoonful of soda ; fill it with boiling 
water; 2% cupfuls of flour, one-half tea¬ 
spoonful of cloves. For a change add a 
little more flour and a cupful of floured 
English currants. Dark molasses will be 
found best. g. b h. 
Delicious Orange Short-cake.— Take one 
orange, one egg, one heaped tablespoon¬ 
ful of flour ; use the grated yellow rind 
and pulp of the orange ; do not use the 
white part. Stir all together, add one 
cupful of hot water, and a small piece of 
butter. Cook on the stove, or, better, in 
a kettle of hot water, and stir till thick. 
Have your short-cake ready, buttered, 
and straightway spread the halves with 
the mixture. K. G. k. 
A Recent Item.— At the Cathedral the 
crowd was impenetrable, attracted by 
the presence of tbe Most Gracious In¬ 
fanta Eulalia and her suite. She was 
gracefully attired in a fetching gown of 
rose-cendre (ashes of roses) bengaline, 
with soft chiffon front, and trimmed 
with colored crystal embroidery, with a 
small hat and gloves to match. One of 
her lady attendants wore a dull shade 
of heliotrope gloria, with trimmings of 
velvet and capes of Venetian guipure. 
Simple Desserts. —Lay a couple of soda 
crackers on each of as many saucers as 
you wish dishes for dinner; pour on 
boiling water enough to soak, but leave 
none on. Make a dressing of butter and 
sugar creamed together, spread this on 
and put a teaspoonful of red jelly on top. 
Another pudding we make for dinner in 
place of pie, and which we prefer now 
and then as a variety : We save all the 
dry pieces of fruit or other cake and 
steam them when wanted. Eat with a 
sour sauce, made of sugar, butter, flour, 
lemon juice and boiling water, c. r. d. 
IS it Sarcasm ?—Lulu : “Do tell me, 
Eloise, how Columbus can be connected 
with the World’s Fair ?” 
Eloise: “ It’s named after him. And 
now his uncle has come over to attend it.” 
Lulu : “ You are speaking of that beau¬ 
tiful Duke of Veragua ? Isn’t it too cute 
the way he holds his mouth open ?” 
Eloise : “ Isn’t it! I knew he must be 
a nobleman as soon as 1 noticed that.” 
Lulu: “Columbus didn’t land in Chi¬ 
cago, did he, Eloise ?” 
Eloite: “ Why, of course. Or why 
should they hold the Fair there ? You 
didn’t suppose it happened right here in 
New York, did you ?” 
Lulu : “ I was sure history said Boston. 
Don’t you remember how he threw the 
tea overboard in Boston harbor ?” 
Eloise: “Lulu, sometimes I should 
almost think you had no education, if I 
didn’t remember what loads of flowers 
you received when you graduated. I 
don’t see how you can forget it happened 
in the West. Didn’t our geography say 
that he found dark-colored savages and, 
‘ thinking he had arrived in India, he 
called them Indians ?’ ” 
Lulu: “Oh, yes; I forgot everything 
about those savages.” 
Eloise: “There was a beautiful In¬ 
dian girl, too, named Pocahontas, that 
wouldn’t let him be killed, I just love 
American history. It’s so romantic. I 
could quote it all day.” 
\\ lien Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
" hen she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
W lien she had Children, she gave them Castorla 
White Stockings Again. —And now comes 
the announcemtnt f om over the sea that 
the color for the feminine hosiery is to 
be white—all because two of the royal 
brides-to-be have included them in their 
trousseaus, the Princess Alexis of Hesse 
and the Princess May. We are told that 
the latter has one exceedingly pretty pair 
of fine white silk, with a wide piece of 
exquisite lace, the insertion running up 
the leg, while another very charming 
pair has the entire front of open work in 
a kind of double-drawn thread, a pattern 
which has been christened “ the royal 
rib,” and is something quite new. The 
color is probably about as near as the 
most of us can come to these delicate 
creations. 
Social Dissenters. —Social dissenters are 
by no means from the unknown or un¬ 
important classes. They are usually peo¬ 
ple of distinction who live well, dress 
fashionably, pay their bills, are blame¬ 
less in character, courteous, hospitable, 
and with no ta'nt of cynicism in their 
nature. Yet they “save themselves” 
from their fellows, and without regrets 
refuse to add one more to the life that 
has no attraction for them. Society 
never yet set itself up to be good or 
great; it has no higher motive than to 
promote social pleasure and order, and 
the qualifications it require^ are not 
piety or intellect, but the ability to dress 
well, to lead a dance, to say a great deal 
about nothing, to keep every tittle of 
traditional law of formalities, and in all 
disputed questions or doubtful positions 
to imitate that truly great man the Le- 
vite, rather than the officious, demon¬ 
strative Samaritan. w. 
TO Young Mothers.— Is there anything 
nicer than well-behaved children, but 
how can they behave unless taught obe¬ 
dience? Some young mothers seem to 
think slapping or whipping the only 
means of training a child, and if one 
talks to them about governing, they will 
say, “ If anything should happen to my 
little one, I should be so sorry I slapped 
it.” If a child once learns that “No,” 
means no, and that the mother does not 
change like the wind, it is an easy mat¬ 
ter to control it. Children learn so young; 
before they can talk they learn by fret¬ 
ting and teasing they have accomplished 
their object. Mothers, the Lord gives 
you responsibilities when he gives chil¬ 
dren. Teach them as “ Dearest ” did 
“Little Lord Fauntleroy.” Only be good, 
only be brave, only be kind and true al¬ 
ways—and the big world may be better 
because your little child was born. x. 
If You Shake Hands.—A year or so ago 
a trusted and responsible agent of the 
Harpers visited England and the Conti¬ 
nent in the interests of the great firm. 
He was entertained in England by him 
of Pear’s soap, and in his turn enter¬ 
tained the guests in suburban drawing¬ 
rooms at home with object-lessons ir 
high foreign hand-shaking. Latterlj 
this ludicrous style has obtained mud 
in the seaside metropolis “ run on tht 
cheap London plan.” But now we are 
to have a change. A prominent papex 
in the aforesaid city now frees its mind 
by saying that scarcely had the rank and 
file adopted the whim of the high-lifted 
elbow in shaking hands, when suddenly 
it becomes good form to give a hand 
swing rather, in this form of saluta¬ 
tion, special to English-speaking races. 
The hand is dropped low, as though you 
were trailing it through the water in a 
row boat. It sweeps into the greeting 
hand of the friend, which is also not 
lifted, but carried in the same way, and 
the two joined hands are loosely swung 
from side to side. The pump-handle 
shake, of very old style, up and down, 
is entirely avoided, tbe palms are not 
clasped or pressed ; the fingers interlace, 
that is all. 
Durable Carpets. —Where honest worth 
and wearing qualities are considered, 
the ingrain carpet is the very best car¬ 
pet at a low price, says Good Housekeep¬ 
ing. The shopper is warned, however, 
not to buy any inferior grade of this car¬ 
pet, or indeed of any kind of carpet. The 
most abominable shams of the market 
are found in the carpet department. 
There is but one guarantee for the in¬ 
experienced shopper, that is to deal with 
a store that buys the best quality of 
goods from makers whose names are a 
guarantee in themselves of their goods. 
Many of the best makers stamp their 
names on the backs of their body Brus¬ 
sels, Wilton and Axminster carpets. 
Mothers.— Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
There are many manufacturers of ingrain 
carpets whose names are security for 
these goods, and there have been great 
improvements in the patterns of these 
carpets in the last dozen years, so that 
no one need reject them on account of 
their inferior style. T1 e old-fashioned 
rag carpet is a very durable and may be 
a very tasteful floor-covering. It is cer¬ 
tainly in every way to be preferred by a 
person of taste to a tapestry, velvet or 
even the much-vaunted Moquette, all of 
waich must be classed as showy shams. 
A Fruit Canning 1 Humbug.— A good 
many editors of household papers, and of 
household departments in other papers, 
most of whom should know better, are 
victimizing both themselves and their 
readers by publishing the following in¬ 
nocent appearing letter: 
Mb. Editor: I have just used the laet of the fruit 
that I put up last summer. I did not heat or seal It, 
just put It up cold. Get fresh fruit, wash It clean, 
put It In common two or three gallon earthen jars 
and press the fruit down what you can without In¬ 
juring It. Take two ounces of Powdered Comp. Ext. 
of Salyx, you can get It at any drug store, dissolve It 
In four gallons of boiling water and when cool pour 
on enougn to cover the fruit. The Salyx prevents 
fermentation, and the water keeps the air from the 
fruit. I put up 20 gallons of strawberries, 22 gallons 
of raspberries, 40 gallons of peaches and 17 gallons 
of grapes, and did not lose a gallon. Every jar kept 
perfectly fresh, the fruit looked and tasted just as it 
did when picked. I keep boarders and they all 
thought my fruit the nicest they ever ate, being 
much liner than canned fruit. I think it strange that 
everybody does not put up fruit In this way, as It Is 
certainly elegant and so cheap and healthy. 
Now this is si t ply a free advertising 
scheme. It contains a falsehood on the 
face of it, for the chemical mentioned 
cannot be procured at any drug store. 
The result is that any housewife who is 
taken with the “ elegant, cheap and 
healthy way ” of preserving fruit, writes 
to the philanthropic lady for advice, and 
the latter very kindly (?) offers to sup¬ 
ply her for a certain price. What she 
supplies may be some harmless drug, or 
it may be some of the poisonous chemi¬ 
cals sometimes included in the patent 
preservative preparations offered to the 
public under high-sounding titles, and in 
either case sold for an exorbitant price. 
At any rate the editor publishes the “ad” 
without pay, and the readers, if they 
have confidence in their editor, are vic¬ 
timized. We don’t suppose that any of 
the readers of this department will be 
humbugged in this way, but warn your 
neighbors who are not readers. 
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In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
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may 
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H OW much do you think 
the American People 
pay for harness'- and shoe- 
leather? Half the money is 
wasted for want of Vacuum 
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Patent lambskin-with-wool-oti swob and book— 
How to Take Care of Leather—both free at the 
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In all your outings— 
to the World’s Fair— 
Seaside — Mountains — 
everywhere, take 
Beechams 
(Tasteless) 
Pills 
with 
you. 
Illness frequently results 
from changes of food, water, 
climate, habits, etc., and the 
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Canning and Preserving 
Fruits and Vegetables, and Pre¬ 
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The experience of practical workers. Hun¬ 
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