1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
595 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Paper Stockings. —A Berlin shoe trade 
journal says that stockings are made of 
a specially prepared impregnated paper 
stock, which, it is claimed, has an extra¬ 
ordinary effect on perspiring feet. The 
moisture is absorbed in the paper as 
rapidly as it is formed, and the feet re¬ 
main dry and warm, while the constant 
temperature maintained in the shoes is. 
said to be a great preventive of colds. 
Convulsions. —In convulsions give tepid 
injections immediately until the bowels 
move freely ; put the feet into water as 
hot as can be borne, and keep the head 
raised and wet with cold water. This 
treatment ha9 brought our children out 
of the most severe convulsions in a few 
minutes, while if immersed in hot water, 
they were made worse and their strength 
greatly reduced. Send as soon as possi¬ 
ble for a physician or some competent 
person to ascertain and (if possible) re¬ 
move the cause. kent. 
To Clean Soiled Mattings. —If you have 
been so unfortunate as to drop grease 
upon the matting, do not try ammonia 
or benzine, or grease extractors; you 
will only make the spot worse, says .Ten- 
ness-Miiier. Sometimes brown paper 
and a hot iron will be effect ve, but the 
best eradicator is French chalk and ben¬ 
zine. Cover the spot thick with the 
chalk and moisten by sprinkling, not 
nouring, the benzine upon it. When the 
benzine has evaporated, brush off the 
chalk, and lo! the spot has vanished 
also ! 
The “ Premium ” Sandwieh. —This is 
made as follows, according to Frances 
Spaulding, who gives Good Housekeep¬ 
ing the hint: Break a fresh egg in a 
bowl and beat thoroughly, add 1 M cup¬ 
ful of sweet milk, a saltspoonful of salt 
and a tablespoonful of melted butter. 
Beat well and add lightly 1% cupful of 
sifted flour mixed with teaspoonful 
of baking powder. Bake in roll-shaped 
gem pans. When cool, cut lengthwise 
with a sharp knife, which will not crum¬ 
ble the crust. Spread thinly with butter 
and cover with finely-chopped roast mut¬ 
ton, slightly salted. The mutton must 
not be overdone, but a trifle rare. As 
they are cut, lay the two parte of each 
muffin next each other so that they may 
fit. when put together. Possibly one’s 
ecjoyment of this style of sandwich 
would depend both on one’s liking for 
mutton and for quick bread as a sand¬ 
wich foundation. This last is becoming 
quite popular, but does not suital, appe¬ 
tites. 
How the Little Turks Behave.— There 
are 10 little Turks in the Turkish village 
of the World’s Fair. Yet if you could 
pay a visit to the house where they are 
living you would refuse to believe that 
there is a child in the neighborhood, 
says the Ladies’ Home Companion. All 
is perfectly quiet, and you never hear a 
sound to tell you that mere are any fun- 
loving boys and girls in this little Tur- 
key-m-America. Now this is not be¬ 
cause Turkish children are stupid or do 
not know how to enjoy themselves. It 
is simply because their way of having a 
good time is different from ours, as well 
as their ways of playing. When the 
little Turks play they all sit in a semi¬ 
circle, with crossed legs, and then they 
pass a nut from one to another, like the 
Indian game of “ hunt the nut,” or they 
softly roll pebbles back and forth, or 
braid straw into baskets. They are 
ever so cunning, these little Turks, and 
they obey their father and mother better 
than American children do, so visitors 
to the fair declare. 
Prejudice Against Learned Women.— In 
Harper’s Bazar T. W. Higginson tells of 
Mrs. Somerville, the great mathemati¬ 
cian, that when she was engaged to her 
second husband, who washer own cousin, 
she had a letter from one of her future 
sisters-in-law, saying that she hoped the 
betrothed would now give up her “fool¬ 
ish manner of life and studies, and make 
a respectable and useful wife.” Several 
of the family, it appears, accompanied 
the happy pair on their wedding jour¬ 
ney ; but the bridegroom was taken ill 
of a fever and detained a month at an inn. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla 
“During his illness,” says Mrs. Somer¬ 
ville, “ he took a longing for currant 
jelly, and here my cookery was needed ; 
I made some that was excellent, and I 
never can forget the astonishment ex¬ 
pressed at my being able to be souseful.” 
Yet, after all, this vague prejudice is 
only like that which literary men, for in¬ 
stance, have to encounter among busi¬ 
ness men, or city men among pioneers 
and cowboys. It is always difficult to 
realize that a single step in education or 
training may often cover many things ; 
thus Professor Louis Agassiz, from the 
time he first took a rifle in hand among 
the Adirondacks, proved a better shot 
than any of tfie guides, simply through 
his training at the microscope. 
A Hint for Teachers. —“One Woman” 
says that once there was—this was long 
ago—a schoolteacher who had a method 
which would prove to be as good for 
grown ups as for juveniles. When some 
little child came to her with a grievance, 
it was nipped in the bud in this fashion : 
“ Please—teacher—he did ”— 
“ Never mind what he did—tell me 
what you did.” 
“ Yes—please—teacher—but he said”— 
“ Never mind what he said—tell what 
you said.” 
Now, any one can see that “ what you 
said ” is a very different affair from “what 
he said.” It isn’t a grain of fun to tell 
“ what you said” when the whole inter¬ 
est is centered in “ what he said.” It 
makes a difference, you know, whether 
you are the plaintiff or the defendant. 
No one likes to be the defendant. 
Tomato Chutney. —This is an English 
recipe, taken from Farm and Home : 
Four pounds of tomatoes, scalded and 
peeled, one pound of very sharp apples, 
peeled and cored, six ounces of stoned 
raisins, six ounces of sultanas, six ounces 
of currants, four ounces of red chillies, 
four ounces of brown sugar, half a pound 
of sugar candy, six ounces of salt, four 
ounces of bruised ginger, t7vo ounces of 
garlic, three ounces of shalots, a large 
stick of horse-radish grated, and a small 
bunch of mint. Chop all these ingre¬ 
dients coarsely, pound the sugar candy, 
and mix all together with one pint of 
lemon juice or the best vinegar. Put it 
in a saucepan to simmer by the side of 
the fire until clear. The chutney should 
be syrupy, but not too liquid, and all 
the ingredients should be tender, but 
not cooked to a pulp. If too dry, add 
more lemon juice; if too liquid, boil it 
for a few minutes to reduce it. When 
cold stir all well together, and put in 
wide-mouthed bottles. Cover the corks 
with bladder and keep in a cool place. 
Who ever gave us such a clear picture of 
Venetian life as this, in one of Phillips 
Brooks’s letters to his little niece ? The 
Century gives it: 
Venice, August 18,1882. 
Dear Gertie : When the little children in Venice 
want to take a bath, they just go dow to the front 
steps of the house and Jump olf and swim about In 
the street. Vesterday 1 saw a nurse standing on the 
front steps, holding one end of a string, and the 
other end was tied to a little fellow who was swim¬ 
ming up the street. When he went too far, the nurse 
pulled In the string, and got her baby home again. 
Then I met another youngster, swimming In the 
street, whose mother had tied him to a post by the 
side of the door, so that when he tried to swim away 
to see another boy who was tied to another door¬ 
post up the street, he couldn’t, and they had to sing 
out to one another over the water. Is cot this a 
queer city? You are always In danger of running 
over some of the people and drowning them, for you 
go about In a boat instead of a carriage, and use an 
oar Instead of a horse. But It Is ever so pretty, and 
the peop:e, especially the children, are very bright, 
and gay, and handsome. When you are sitting In 
your room at night, you hear some music under your 
window, and look out. and there is a boat with a man 
with a fiddle, and a woman with a voice, and they 
are serenading you. To be sure, they want some 
money when they are done, for everybody begs here, 
but they do it very prettily and are full of fun. 
A Sinful Ancestry. —My great-grand¬ 
mother scrubbed the rafters in the garret 
and in the cellar, says Sister Gracious in 
the Michigan Farmer Household, and 
was as often on her knees washing the 
kitchen floor as she was in her chamber 
saying her prayers. My grandmother 
had a carpet on her parlor floor. Twice 
a year it was taken up and shaken. But 
this was not all. Her daughter with a 
long pin poked every atom of dust from 
the cracks between the floor boards, and 
the mother behind her swept it up in the 
pan, and then the whole floor was gone 
over three times with water before the 
carpet was laid. Every piece of fire wood 
was dusted before it was carried into the 
cellar, and when the neighbors arose at 
dawn on Monday morning all her large 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adm. 
wash hung on the line. Proud of the 
wonderful working sma 1 tness of my fore¬ 
mothers ? Far from it. I look upon them 
as defrauders. They probably have 
learned wisdom in the high seats they 
now occupy. If not, and they are per¬ 
mitted to view their descendants’ house¬ 
keeping, they shed tears of anguish over 
the slack shiftlessness, and saving of 
backs, legs and hands that is our constant 
study. 
Green Grape Preserves.— If the frost is 
about to catch green grapes, remember 
that they make beautiful preserves. Open 
with a knife crosswise, take the seeds 
out, use like amount of sugar, only 
enough water to moisten : boil in an 
earthen vessel to the consistency desired. 
KENT. 
Bathing Hints.— 
Degs. F. I Degs. F. 
Cold bath.38 to Hi | Tepid bath . 8. r > to 112 
Cool both. 115 to 70 W arm bath.08 to 08 
Temperate bath. 75 to 85 | Ilot oath. 98 to 112 
As to the essentials of bathing and the 
time to bathe, a writer in .lenness-Miller 
says : 
1. Undress quickly. 
2. Immerse the whole body, not forget¬ 
ting the head. 
3. Rub the limbs and body gently while 
in the bath ; in swimming do not loiter 
in the water. 
4. Never stay in the water too long— 
20 or 30 minutes is quite long enough 
when in an ordinary swimming bath or 
the sea. 
5. Dry the body gently with moderate 
friction, beginning with the head, then 
the arms and body, and finally the legs 
and feet. 
<i. Friction is valuable for three rea¬ 
sons: It moves the circulation, it ex 
ercises the muscles, and it rubs off the 
dirt and loose skin. 
7. Do not dress until the body is per¬ 
fectly dry, and do so leisurely, as it gives 
the skin time to breathe. 
8. Never bathe after (immediately 
after) a meal ; morning and evening are 
the best times. 
To sum up : 
Dress deliberately ; walk away slowly; 
reflect on the blessing you have enjoyed. 
Even from the body's purity, tho inlnd 
Receives u secret sympathetic aid. 
lx writing to advertisers please always mention 
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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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Also a chapter on evaporation of fruits on a 
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THE RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Sts., New York. 
The plague of lamps is the 
breaking of chimneys ; but 
that can be avoided. Get 
Macbeth’s “pearl top” or 
“pearl glass.” 
The funnel-shaped tops are 
beaded or “pearled ”—a trade 
mark. 
Cylinder tops are etched in the 
glass “MACBETH & CO. PEARL 
glass.”— another trade-mark. 
Pittsburgh. Geo. A. Macbeth Co. 
\ VACUUM Leather Oil 
V keeps leather new and 
restores it to newness when 
hard and brittle, unless it is 
cracked — it won’t mend 
cracks—25c, and your money 
back if you want it. 
Patent lambskin-with-wool-on swob and book— 
Flow to Take Care of Leather—both free at the 
store. 
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REFORMATION or 
ANNIHILATION? 
Many farmers are prejudiced against all ” middle¬ 
men," and of late the cry has been, " abolish them ’’ 
We have a better plan, reform them. We find 
farmers make splendid middlemen; the better the 
farmer tho better middleman ho makes. Knows law 
to temper his “wind” to the “shorn lamb,” as It were. 
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Adrian, Mich. 
Tho Pago Wire Fence Company of Ontario, Ltd. 
Walkervllle, Ont. 
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SELLS IRON AND STEEL 
ROOFING 
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