1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
547 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Now It IS Wreaths.— The wreath rather ' 
than the bunch for trimming the latest 
small hat for women. 
Spelling Reform and Boyesen.— The Chi¬ 
cago Dispatch says that Hjalmar Hjorth 
Boyesen has been given a pjrominent 
pjlace on the pjrogramme of the cjon- 
gress of authors to be held in Cjhicago 
very shortly. 
Mulled Buttermilk is a refreshing drink, 
made thus: to a quart of buttermilk, 
stirred over the fire until boiling, add a 
batter of one tablespoonful of flour and 
half a cupful of buttermilk ; sweeten at 
the table, to suit the taste. I. H. 
Boneless Fish. —Many kinds of fish can 
be made nearly boneless—after they are 
dressed ready for the frying-pan — by 
commencing where the head came off, 
running the finger under the ribs next 
the backbone, and pulling the ribs loose 
from the flesh, then pulling the back¬ 
bone out. MRS. M. 
An Idea. —Did any of the sisters ever 
use a tin pail for boiling vegetables? 
Punch or cut some holes in the bottom, 
put in vegetables and place in a kettle 
of boiling water; when done, simply 
lift out and they are drained. Should 
two kinds of vegetables be cooked at the 
same time, put one kind each in kettle 
and pail. Geraldine. 
Hermits. — Half a cup of butter, 
creamed, one cup of sugar, one table¬ 
spoonful of milk, two eggs ; add half a 
cup of seeded and chopped raisins, mix 
one heaping teaspoonful of baking pow¬ 
der with two cups of flour, and then add 
more flour to roll out ; roll about a quar¬ 
ter of an inch thick. This is a good rule 
for cookies, omitting the raisins. 
MRS. w. B. 
Fashion Papers.— I do not think it a 
wise plan for all home dressmakers to 
take a fashion magazine, as some writers 
advise. It causes such a waste of time. 
When you have any “ best ” dresses to 
make, get one or two numbers of a fash¬ 
ion paper, if you need them. But when 
there is no dressmaking on hand, let us 
not spend hours and days studying the 
fashions. There are so many better 
things to study. A country girl. 
Applied Science. — Does a scientific 
knowledge of cookery pay? Some years 
ago a certain high priestess of cookery 
had a child born whose bones were weak 
and flabby. Investigation proved them 
lacking in lime. She gave no medicine, 
but fed him on foods that would supply 
that essential element to his system. At 
the age of seven he began to walk ; at 
17, in an athletic contest he received a 
prize for the longest jump. D. v. b. 
Farm Help.—A. B. P. wonders if the 
women are more difficult to suit, in re¬ 
spect to hired help, than the men. 
Around here it is very hard to get any 
kind of help, in-doors or out. Last fall, 
when my brother was away on jury, we 
could get help only a part of the time, 
and it was by the kindness of neighbors 
that the milking was done and the 
stables cleaned. People like the social 
life of the city and village, and they will 
go when they get a chance, unless they 
have a thorough love for the farm, and 
they will put up with many things in the 
village that they would think unendur¬ 
able in the country. e. l. b. 
Buttermilk for Silverware.— A corre¬ 
spondent of the Christian Union has the 
following : “ I have discovered an easy 
method of restoring tarnished silver to 
its first appearance. Silverware becomes 
so blackened from the sulphur smoke 
that I was disgusted with mine. How¬ 
ever, I forgot a little cream in a jug ; it 
soured, and on cleaning it I noticed the 
bottom was like new silver. I imme¬ 
diately put all I had in buttermilk for a 
few hours. The carving became as fresh 
as at first. Any kind of sour milk is 
just as good. No more scouring which 
did not produce the new appearance. 
MRS. M. M. 
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 
«savings in Bread ” omits a favorite 
dish of ours. To make those scraps of 
cold meat look inviting, we chop them ; 
add nearly as much of the coarse bread 
crumbs, one or two eggs well beaten, 
just a little cold potato, if we have any ; 
ihen just enough of the cold gravy or 
milk to moisten. Mix well and season. 
When made into a rounded loaf and 
nicely baked, no one will refuse it. Or 
this same material made into balls three 
or four inches in circumference, rolled in 
the fine bread crumbs, then dropped in 
hot fat until they are brown, can be 
served hot for breakfast or tea. s. e. t. 
Cheap Minute Pudding.— This is an old- 
fashioned dish which is much liked by 
our family yet. It is so quickly and 
easily made that it is very convenient if 
you have a number come in to dinner 
unexpectedly and the pie timber is short. 
To make it put a quart of water or more 
on the stove, add a teaspoonful of salt, 
let it come to a boil, and stir in flour 
until it is as thick as mush. To the flour 
we add baking powder as for biscuit. 
We were taught to make it with milk 
and no baking powder, but have learned 
by experience that this is a better way. 
There is no danger of its having a burned 
taste ; and the baking powder makes it 
lighter. Eat with sweetened cream or 
milk. I think in the m ilticiplicity of 
new dishes we often forget the old ihat 
are equally as good. c. R. D. 
The Teacher Again.— So the poor school 
teacher has another duty ! Heaven help 
him ! he had duties enough before. Ac- 
cause “Elsie” does not know how to 
manage her poultry well. With four 
turkey hens, almost any woman can 
raise from 80 to 100 turkeys ; and those 
at §1 per head about Thanksgiving, will 
get a woman’s nerves and temper all in 
good shape again. Does not health de¬ 
pend to a certain degree upon our food ? 
And it is worth some sacrifice to have 
plenty of eggs, fried chicken and roasted 
turkey; and also honey. Women, let 
us look well to our tables for if we 
make the homes, and homes make the 
nation, let us have a people strong physi¬ 
cally, morally and mentally. Who dare 
say that our eating and drinking have 
not much to do in our make-up ! 
MAGGIE SINGLE. 
Our Daughters as Servants.—I am sorry 
I missed seeing Mary Vaughn’s article 
on which F. makes comment. I have 
always used my influence against girls 
serving as “ hired girls ”—servants ; the 
very name brands them. Perchance for¬ 
tune smiles upon our girl; she may 
rise in position, rank and wealth, still 
she may be pointed out as some day hav¬ 
ing been a “ hired girl.” How often is 
she superior in every respect to her mis¬ 
tress, yet nine-tenths of the mistresses 
humiliate and daily remind her of her 
lowly calling. There is no class of 
society willing to receive her. The 
seamstress, the clerk, the milliner would 
at once rise in rebellion if the “ hired 
girl” were admitted into their society. 
She is an outcast. Then, mothers, rear 
not daughters for servants. There are 
numerous other occupations. While you 
have them with you, make first-class 
cooks and housekeepers of them. Make 
cording to M. H., this already burdened them self-supporting. If they can marry 
individual—the public school teacher— well, let them do so ; and if they never 
should, as a complement to his regular marry they more strongly prove the say- 
school work, for which he is so magnifi- mg that those who marry do well, and 
cently compensated, encourage parents those who don’t do better, m. single 
to take an interest in their cbildren, or 
in their children’s school work, which is Balance Between Appreciation and Crl 
identical. In the name of the teachers I cism. —This should be more nearly equ 
protest against this addition. Instruct, kiit critic is always abroad. It 
not the work performed in the houseffi 
don’t think it necessary to stimulate the that is most noticeable. In fact, wl 
parents’ courage, to induce them to per- is well done every day in the year 
Balance Between Appreciation and Criti¬ 
cism.— This should be more nearly equal, 
but the critic is always abroad. It is 
not the work performed in the household 
that is most noticeable. In fact, what 
is well done every day in the year is 
form their duty. You will not be called .never half appreciated. For instance, 
upon to give an account of their steward- there are the well-prepared meals ; who 
ship Even a school teacher’s moral ever stops to think of the labor they have 
obligations have a limit. e. m. cost to bring them to the table in such 
Bacteria In Water Palls.— Water pails 
should be washed and rinsed each morn¬ 
ing as regularly as the breakfast dishes. 
The fungus that accumulates on the bot¬ 
tom of a water pail that is not daily 
washed (though invisible to the unaided 
eye) is, I believe, the cause of many ma¬ 
larial ailments. This may seem absurd 
to many people, for they will reason: 
“Is not good well water clean? And 
being refilled many times each day, the 
pails cannot be very dirty.” But let 
your water pail go unwashed several 
days or a week in warm weather, then 
pour boiling water into the empty pail; 
the odor that will greet your nostrils 
may not be “rank enough to smell to 
heaven,” but it will greatly resemble 
that from a stagnant frog pond. Try the 
experiment, if you will. J. s. 
Little MISS Ml. —It is rather a pretty 
picture of one of those obnoxious Chinese 
that Harper’s Bazar gives with a single 
touch, thus : “ Even without the rupture 
of diplomatic relations with China, Wash¬ 
ington will soon lose one of its pictur¬ 
esque figures, as the present Chinese 
minister’s term soon expires, and he will 
take his little daughter back to China 
with him. Little Miss Mi was born in 
Washington two years ago, can “chin- 
chin” a little in Englisn, and is demo¬ 
cratic in her mingling with and greeting 
other children and citizens in Dupont 
Circle, where she takes her airings. She 
is a charming littJe doll, as droll and 
quaint a figure as one can see weeks, 
in her red frocks, junk shoes, and tiny 
embroidered cap, and is docility and 
serenity itself. She is a model ot man¬ 
ners to the wild little Americans in the 
park, blinking her little black eyes at 
the flower beds, pointir g at the blossoms, 
clapping her hands with joy, but never 
exercising her diplomatic privilege of' 
defying the policeman and arrest by 
helping herself to the posies.” 
Health in Fried Chicken and Roasted 
Turkey. —I know of no better way for 
women to help themselves than with 
chickens, turkeys and bees. I claim but¬ 
ter is too hard to make for the price gen¬ 
erally paid. We have to stay right with 
our fowls—the little ones, I mean—but 
only for a few weeks, when they becom i 
self-supporting. No need for May Maple 
to discourage this business, simply be- 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Ad/v. 
Your dealer in lamp-chim- 
neys-what does he get for you? 
You can’t be an expert in 
chimneys; but this you can 
do. Insist on Macbeth’s 
“pearl top” or “pearl glass” 
whichever shape you require. 
They are right in all those 
ways; and they do not break 
from heat, not one in a hun¬ 
dred. 
Be willing to pay a nickel more for them. 
Pittsburgh. Geo. A. Macbeth Co. 
N EW Leather has great 
charm — keep it new 
' with Vacuum Leather Oil; 
25c, and your money back if 
you want it. 
Patent lambskin - with - wool - on 
swob and book—How to Take Care 
of Leather—both free at the store. 
Vacuum Oil Company, Rochester, N. Y. 
perfect order and with such savory odors? 
But let one dish of the regulated order— 
say bread—be missing, and see how the 
eyes open wide with wonder, and the 
frown gathers quickly upon the brow, 
usually so placid. The furniture of the 
rooms may be in the most fastidious 
order and not one person in 50 ever takes 
a thought that it needs hands and brains 
to keep things in such fine shape. But 
hide the broom and duster for a month, 
or leave the doors and windows without 
their weekly scrubbing for the same 
length of time, and see what they look 
like ; and hear the remarks such neglect 
will cause. Forget to “look aloft” when 
you sweep and see the long rope-like 
webs hanging before your eyes, and very 
soon you will hear a buzzing about your 
housekeeping that will paint your cheeks 
with shame. It is the unperiormed du¬ 
ties that are looked after most critically. 
Failing in one thing is failing in all to 
the eyes of the looker-on. may maple. 
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