1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Green Tomatoes and Pie Plant.— Green 
tomatoes and pie plant make excellent 
pies. Use equal quantities of each, and 
make like pie plant; flavor with lemon. 
Cucumber Catsup. —Procure cucumbers 
of the size for slicing 1 for the table, pare, 
chop as fine as possible, season with salt 
and pepper, add vinegar to make the 
consistency desired, can cold. 
“ A Veal Loaf.” —Five pounds of veal 
chopped, five slices of pork chopped, four 
eggs beaten, five crackers rolled fine. 2% 
tablespoonfuls of butter, two of salt and 
four teaspoonfuls of pepper. Use flour 
enough to make a loaf, and bake three 
hours. w. 
Use Of Tin Cans. —Save baking powder 
cans for dried corn. Tin cans that toma¬ 
toes and corn come in are good to pack 
sausage in. Press down for a while after 
you think there are no chinks left. Pour 
hot lard on top. When wanted to fry, 
set in hot water a minute. It will slip 
out with a “ tunk ” on the bottom. 
Marmalade. — I lessen the danger of 
burning marmalade while making it, by 
first cooking the fruit tender in a little 
water. Then I drain through a colander, 
add the sugar to the juice, and boil down 
to a thick syrup ; then mash and add the 
pulp; stir thoroughly and boil half an 
hour. E. H. 
Cream of Green Corn. —A very nice way 
to cook green corn is to cut the kernels 
lengthwise and then scrape the pulp out 
with a knife. Then put about as much 
boiling water as there is corn in a kettle 
(I prefer an iron kettle that can be set 
over the fire), cook half an hour or until 
the corn boils up thick. Season and thin 
with cream and milk. m. r. mcc. 
Temperance Reform.— I would have 
every inebriate shut up in a safe prison 
for one month after the first drunk ; for 
the second offense shut him up two 
months. By the time he has had two 
Fpells of enforced sobriety, he will begin 
to think when he has had enough, and 
find he is able to leave the rest and keep 
sober. I would have him work while in 
confinement, and use the proceeds to sup¬ 
port his family. Thus asserts a Free 
Press Household woman. 
Handling a Trunk. — Of course, no 
woman ever thinks of trying to carry a 
trunk upstairs, with the assistance of the 
hired girl, if there’s a man in the house (?). 
But in case you should try your hand 
at it, turn the trunk upside down, and 
you will avoid making a count of every 
step on your shins. An expressman who, 
to use his own expression, “ histed from 
morning till night,” gave me the tip ! So 
says Polly Pry. 
Seersucker In Another Light.— I use the 
medium weight, light or coffee-colored 
seersucker for kitchen windows or other 
common curtains. The hem and edges 
are cross-stitched with red working cot¬ 
ton. They need washing and drying 
merely, and they are ready to be hung 
up again as pure and fine as ever. I do 
not like shades for kitchen windows, for 
they soon grow to have a dingy look and 
I do not like plain white curtains for 
any room ; they are too suggestive of the 
thought of the little boy who inquired of 
his mother if she did not wish that she 
had as many sheets as Mrs. Downs; 
plenty for all her beds and some to hang 
up to every window. mrs. peters. 
Miss Pretty-hands.— It is the tale of a Re¬ 
corder writer that a young lady who has 
a beautifully kept hand, as well as an ex¬ 
tremely pretty one, says that she believes 
she owes her taper fingers and almond- 
shaped nails entirely to her mother, who 
accustomed her from childhood to dry 
her hands in a certain fashion. After 
the hand was carefully wiped, she 
pinched the end of each finger with the 
towel and then rubbed back the skin 
which grows around the nail “to find 
the moon,” as the children call it. Then 
came a final pinch to the fingers, and 
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 
the process was finished. This method 
of drying the hands soon becomes a 
habit, and, if persevered in, is sure to 
elongate the fingers and make them 
taper. It is better than manicuring for 
preventing the ugly growth of the skin 
around the base of the nail. 
Poison Of Ivy. —This finds a mild, ef¬ 
fectual cure in a strong tea made of the 
common sweet fern. Bathe the affected 
parts often until the poison wholly dis¬ 
appears. G. H. 
“Renewing” Dried Meat.—I had a piece 
of dried meat that had become so very 
hard that it would not be cut. I put it in 
a can of warm water, let it stand a day 
and it became moist and good. f. c. j. 
Thickened Pork Gravy.— In making 
gravy after frying pork, leave some of 
the fat in the spider, stir in flour suffi¬ 
cient—then add the milk and you have 
no lumps in the gravy; stir while it 
boils. F. H. 
A Trap for Ants.—Put a cupful of water 
in a fruit jar. Make it pretty sweet with 
sugar, and leave it on the pantry shelf. 
If there is an ant in the pantry, you will 
find it drowned in the can. 
A COUNTRY GIRL. 
In Serving Chocolate. —The Parisian way 
is to use four-cornered green cups. This 
is one color harmony, but more pleasing 
are the pale-brown cups that match in 
color. These are narrow, tall, and flar¬ 
ing at the top. 
Fruit Syrup. —Peach syrup is excellent 
to go with pancakes. It can be made of 
parings, if you are short of fruit. It is 
prepared in the same way as jelly, except 
that it is not made so sweet nor boiled so 
long. It must be sealed air-tight. Syrup 
made of grapes is not bad, anti light-col¬ 
ored grapes especially would be nice. I 
suppose any kind of fruit could be used, 
for the purpose. A country girl. 
Lemon Shake. —Slice one lemon very 
fine, add four tablespoonfuls of sugar, 
let stand for a time, put in a two-quart 
glass can, with a scant quart of cold 
water and two unbeaten eggs ; close the 
can tightly and shake vigorously till 
foamy, when it is ready for use. My 
thirsty “ men folks” say it can’t be beat, 
and in sickness it provides nourishment 
and quenches thirst at the same time. 
“ SWEET FERN.” 
Ideas on Decorations.— I was glad to 
see Mrs. Mary Wager-Fisher’s letters 
again in a late Rural. Her native home 
is not many miles from us, and I was es¬ 
pecially pleased with her remarks on 
the inappropriateness of some of the ad¬ 
vice which we get in the papers. She 
tells about the innumerable throws, 
scarfs, tidies, etc. I wish she could have 
seen a house which I lately visited, 
where advertising cards, Elood’s calen¬ 
dars, etc., nearly covered the walls. But 
shades of our grandmothers ! Think of 
putting that beautiful flowered coverlet 
on the floor ! Why did not her friend 
use it for the curtain to her door ? We 
think such draperies just the things for 
curtains, for they are too heavy for a 
bed. E. l. b. 
Novelties in Frills and Basques.— Those 
who are tired of round waists are adopt¬ 
ing a French fancy of attaching two 
frills of the dress material to a belt, 
keeping these separate, and adding them 
at pleasure after the dress is put on. 
When made of India silk, surah or crepon 
the frills are accordeon-pleated or knife- 
pleated, as the wearer chooses, one un¬ 
derneath being 10 inches deep when fin¬ 
ished, the upper frill a trifle more than 
half as deep. They are simply hemmed, 
or bound with satin ribbon, or else the 
edges show a selvage. The belt may be 
of satin folds fastening with a chou, or 
else with two meeting frills an inch 
wide, or it may be the belt ribbon which 
is now so well made, and woven in bas¬ 
ket patterns and checks. The circular 
basque sewed to a round waist is the 
success of the season for handsome 
gowns of fancy woolens, for silks, satins, 
taffeta, etc. It is becoming to slender 
figures, as are most of the fashions of 
the day, and is also in great favor for 
large women who find the round waist 
too short and ineffective. It is some¬ 
times cut three-fourths of a circle, some¬ 
times only half, but seldom is an entire 
circle. It is sewed on without gathers, 
may be single or lined with silk or satin, 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
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and stands slightly outward in natural 
folds. Similar ruffles are used to trim 
the shoulders of many dresses. Plain 
satin is used for these frills on brocaded 
satin dresses of the light supple quality 
that is now worn at all seasons of the 
year, and also on grenadine and cr6pon 
gowns.—Harper’s Bazar. 
That Cool Kitchen. —I am very glad to 
inform V. H. S. how I keep a cool 
kitchen. There are two very important 
things connected with it: first the fuel, 
and, second, the planning. I use cobs 
or wood (coke will do), which makes a 
quick fire, and soon cools off. Cut the 
wood short, so if there be only a tea-ket¬ 
tle to boil a fire at one end of the stove 
is sufficient. I always cook breakfast 
for hir?d help in hot weather. I make 
bread the night before and have it made 
out into loaves by four o’clock or before 
in toe morning and baked before eight 
o’clock. I plan to have cake, pies, des¬ 
serts or meats cooked at that time. Of 
course on our wash or ironing days fire 
has to be kept longer, but in very hot 
weather I am sometimes all the week 
doing the ironing—doing some each 
morning, or when I have not so much 
baling to do. I find it pays, both in 
saving strength and fuel. Churning 
days I have plenty of water over the 
heat at breakfast time ; then let the fire 
out and before 10 o’clock the room is 
cool. Then I close the shades and blinds 
until evening. f. c. i. 
The Use of the Dictionary. —I wish some 
energetic book agent would get the 
latest edition of Webster’s Unabridged 
Dictionary and one of the new stands 
for holding it, and persuade a member 
of every family in the United States to 
buy one. I bought one in New York, and 
with the stand it cost a little over SI 1. 
It serves as an infallible reference book 1 
Aside from correct spelling and defini¬ 
tions, I can make sure of almost any gram¬ 
matical point; if, when I am practicing, 
I don’t understand some musical term, my 
dictionary tells; if I am reading and 
some French expression is used or some 
mythological term, my dictionary ex¬ 
plains it. I wanted to know about an 
obscure Pennsylvania town—I found 
that it was in Clarendon County, in 
Western Pennsylvania, and that the pop¬ 
ulation was 1,000. Eleven dollars is not 
a small sum, but Webster’s Unabridged 
is a dictionary, a grammar, a Brewer’s 
Hand-book, a gazetteer, a pronouncing 
biographical dictionary—a small library 
in itself, and with a stand it makes a 
pretty piece of furniture for the sitting- 
room. MABEL, v. p. 
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The best farm country In the world for either large 
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with a greater prollt. can l>e grown on a less amount 
of lands In this country than can be raised In any 
other portion of this State. All sales made exclu¬ 
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Special inducements and facilities otrered by the 
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The Gov. of N. Carolina 
To Gov. of S. Carolina 
“ It’s a lonH ways between posts.” That's what 
he would say If he should see a strlnn of our renular 
tive-foot farm fence now serving on one side or a 
pasture for deer. End post BB rods apart and only 
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