1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
483 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
No Ice for Fish. —An experienced fisher¬ 
man told my husband not to put fresh 
fish in water nor on ice if it were desired 
to keep it good. u. 
Onion Cement. —An inquirer desires to 
know whether this will join broken 
china and glassware. Will the friend 
who told of it say for what purposes it 
is especially good ? 
Fried Chicken. —Cut the chicken up, 
and steam until barely tender ; if too ten¬ 
der, the pieces will not keep their shape 
well in frying. Then fry in hot butter. 
A piece of salt pork fried with it is an 
improvement. f. h. 
The Sticky Cooking Utensils.— Instead 
of filling the various d ; shes in which oat¬ 
meal, puddings, etc., have been cooked, 
I merely wet them thoroughly and turn 
upside down; in a short time they are 
soaked; they can be cleaned easily, and I 
am saved the trouble of carrying water 
for them. m. a. f. 
Coffee or Cream. —Those who are mak¬ 
ing such earnest efforts to find a really 
good substitute for coffee should turn 
their attention to cream. Not that this 
is a substitute, but that plenty of cream 
is the real flavoring quality in all break¬ 
fast drinks. Real coffee, without it, is 
as distasteful to most people as any sub¬ 
stitute therefor. m. n. 
A Gauntlet Thrown Down.—I often see 
the assertion, “ Salt will curdle milk.” 
I deny the charge and call for proof. I 
have kept house 28 years and, generally, 
made milk gravy one or more times each 
day, always stirring the salt in the thick¬ 
ening before cooking, and never have 
had curdled gravy unless the milk had 
been nearly sour. MRS. e. m. s. 
Lemon Pies. —One cupful of seeded or 
seedless raisins chopped fine, put to soak 
overnight in the juice of three good-sized 
lemons. In the morning add l>s cupful 
of white sugar, the yolks of three eggs, 
the grated rind of one lemon and two tea¬ 
spoonfuls of corn starch thickened with 
a little hot water. Bake with one crust 
and meringue, or upper and under 
crusts of pastry as desired. Like mince 
pies and wedding cakes, these pies im¬ 
prove by keeping. A. m. 
Rhubarb Juice In Vinegar.— As bearing 
upon the request for authoritative infor¬ 
mation in regard to the use of rhubarb 
for vinegar, I may say this: In this sec¬ 
tion a great deal of vinegar is made from 
maple sap. Three pails of sap are boiled 
down to one of vinegar, then left to fer¬ 
ment. It is a common practice to add 
the water which is poured off the rhu¬ 
barb when making pies ; it improves the 
vinegar quite perceptibly. This of course 
is for home use. Margaret. 
Some Uses of Gasoline.— Nearly every 
one understands, that the inflammable 
gasoline must never be used or exposed 
to the air in a room where there is a fire 
or a lighted lamp. With proper precau¬ 
tion it can be successfully used in taking 
out grease spots on clothing; velvet that is 
soiled and matted may be restored to its 
original freshness by dipping it several 
times in gasoline; a stiff felt hat that has 
grown rusty or become spotted with rain 
may be renovated by a good bath in it. 
The finest of silk lace may ?.e washed in 
it by winding it around a bottle. j. l. k. 
Servile Condition of a Guest.— On this 
subject, Alice Chittenden frees her mind 
in the Recorder as follows: “It is not 
an easy task,” says some one, “ to live in 
other people’s houses, to alter your meal 
hours, to eat strange dishes and to sleep 
in strange beds.” There is, however, 
just this in your favor—if it doesn’t suit 
you, you may leave. A hostess cannot 
always rid herself of an undesirable 
guest. If you do stay and wish to make 
yourself agreeable, you must come grace¬ 
fully under the yoke of at least a part of 
this slavery. If there are children, no 
matter how uninteresting they may be 
to you, you must force yourself to take 
them at something of their value in their 
parents’ eyes, otherwise you have no 
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 
right to be a member of the household. 
Even the dog and the cat, although you 
may fairly loathe the whole brute crea¬ 
tion, must come in for a share of your 
attention. This is not hypocrisy; it is 
simply a recognition of other people’s 
rights. When all is said and done, one 
may truly feel that it is a servile condi¬ 
tion to be a visitor, even under favor¬ 
able circumstances. In 99 cases out of 
100 it is easier to stay at home, and in at 
least 98 out of the 100 I, for one, elect 
to stay there. 
Hemorrhages. —How many of us know, 
asks an exchange, that the difference 
between a hemorrhage of the stomach 
or one of the lungs is that the blood 
from the former is always dark and thick, 
and in the latter light and frothy; or 
knows that the remedy for the former is 
a mustard plaster applied to the stomach 
and one directly opposite on the spine, 
while in the latter case the patient must 
simply be kept on the back with head 
and shoulders elevated and the mouth 
filled with cracked ice, sprinkled with 
salt ? 
Ail Object Lesson. —The same journal 
notes a pleasant episode at the Philadel¬ 
phia Woman’s Medical College in the 
line of Vassar and Bryn Mawr improve¬ 
ments on hazing. This occurred one 
night recently. A committee from the 
two upper classes (after next year there 
will be three) met the first year’s guests 
at the door and esc.rted them to the 
President’s room, where they were pre¬ 
sented to the presidents and vice-presi¬ 
dents of the senior and junior classes. 
The Faculty was well represented and 
fully 200 students were present. The 
costumes varied from street down to 
full evening dress. A string orchestra 
and a generously-spread board added 
much to tl e enjoyment of the evening. 
This is the way that women students 
“haze” the newcomers among them. 
Hazing in Women's Colleges.— At Bryn 
Mawr and at Vassar it is well known 
that the newcomers, the freshman classes, 
are each year received and entertained 
with exquisite courtesy. Special plays 
are written for their enjoyment; they 
are made generously free of the experi¬ 
ence the sophomores can give them. In 
short, the refining and humanizing in¬ 
fluence of one year in college life speaks 
for itself in the courteous treatment of 
newcomers. Under the old university 
system, upon which President Low, of 
Columbia, has threatened to call in the 
police, and which still prevails at Har¬ 
vard, both as to the freshmen and men 
initiated into the secret societies, the re¬ 
sults of one year in college show the de¬ 
velopment of the brute. This is the 
opinion of Jenness-Miller. 
Anti-Treat League.— The doings of New 
York’s 400 form a continual fund of in¬ 
terest and of amusement to the rest of 
the world. More than the usual amount 
of both has been excited by the latest 
fad of Ollie Teall, known as king of the 
400. King Ollie is now looked upon in 
the light of an annex to the W. C. T. U., in¬ 
asmuch as he is bending his great brain 
and abounding self-confidence to the for¬ 
mation of an Anti-Treat League among 
the men with more wealth than wit. It 
has not to do with a temperance pledge; 
oh! no; that belongs to old and fussy 
women. The new plan intends simply 
a pledge neither to treat nor to be 
treated, and is to last for one year only ; 
beginning with the term when the 
League shall have secured 5,000 mem¬ 
bers. White ribboners seem generally 
to approve of the idea, on the principle 
that half a loaf is better than none. 
Barley Coffee.— If O. S. P. will try bar¬ 
ley as a substitute for coffee, I think it 
will be satisfactory. We found if we 
would have health we must give up cof¬ 
fee, so we tried black barley. Every one 
who has drank it as prepared here pro¬ 
nounces it delicious. I put it into the 
corn popper and shake it well that the 
foul seeds may be disposed of ; then pick 
it over to be sure there is nothing there 
but barley. A few alien seeds alone 
will destroy the flavor. Pour boiling 
water over it to freshen and take c ut the 
dust, pouring this off immediately ; then 
brown on top of the stove in the drip- 
piLg pan, stirring constantly. Take 
two-thirds of a cupful of barley and one 
teaspoonful of genuine coffee for four 
cupfuls of the beverage. Grind rather 
fine ; use a large coffee pot, as the bar¬ 
ley swells ; pour on boiling water enough 
for breakfast, letting it boil up once, 
then set it on the back of the stove 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s SoothiDg Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
where it will keep hot, but not boil, for 
20 minutes or half an hour. Seasoned 
with cream and sugar it is a very accept¬ 
able substitute. Margaret. 
Yet Birds Are Not Now Fashionable.— 
One report of the American Ornitholog¬ 
ical Society says : “ From carefully 
gathered statistics it is proved that on 
the most moderate calculation 5,000,000 
song birds are annually required to fill 
the demand for the ornamentation of the 
hats of American women. The slaughter 
is not confined to song birds ; everything 
that wears feathers is a target for the 
bird butcher. In a single season 40,000 
terns were killed at Cape Cod for expor¬ 
tation and the swamps and marshes of 
Florida have been depopulated of their 
egrets and herons. In one month 1,000,- 
000 bobolinks have been killed near 
Philadelphia, and from a single Long 
Island village 70,000 song birds were sup¬ 
plied in a short time to New York dealers 
for military purposes.” In some places 
when wings only are sought, the hunt 
ers, grown brutal by the practice of their 
horrid trade, shoot the birds down and 
tear off the wings of numbers while they 
are yet alive. 
Facts vs. Man's Fancy.— Men, as a gen¬ 
eral thing, believe that the women who 
dress most becomingly spend the most 
time before the glass, and the most 
money at the dry-goods stores. If every¬ 
thing is neat and well-fitting, and of a 
pleasing color, the sensible individuals 
of the sterner sex sigh over the fact as an 
evidence of vanity. Now the truth is, 
that the art of dressing is intuitive. A 
woman gifted by Nature with good taste 
in this line, finds it no trouble whatever 
to dress becomingly. It takes no longer 
to buy a garment the lines of which are 
graceful, and the color pretty and suit¬ 
able, than it does to purchase some 
hideous monstrosity of a disgusting 
brick dust brown, and a collar is as eas¬ 
ily put on so as to look neat as hideous ! 
A bit of ribbon, a yard of lace, a buckle, 
or a pin costing only a trifle, may give 
an effect which a great deal of ill-di¬ 
rected expense and trouble may fail to 
produce. A tasteful woman can do with 
a glance, a twist of the fingers, three or 
four pins and a hair brush, more than an 
untasteful one can with velvet and satin, 
diamonds and the biggest of the coming 
chignons at the hair dresser’s. The most 
laborious toilets are made, and the larg¬ 
est sums spent by women who understand 
of dress nothing but the cost of the 
material. mamie. 
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