1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Size Of Teaspoons. —In “ This, That and 
the Other,” (Woman and the Home De¬ 
partment, August 5) please say teaspoons 
are generally too large, according to 
medicine glass, instead of too small, j. h. 
Coal Ashes.— One kind, at least, and 
probably both kinds, are nice for scour¬ 
ing knives and tinware. They can doubt¬ 
less be had for the asking at blacksmith 
shops, etc., if coal is not used for fuel in 
the house. j h. 
From “ Ezra and Me and the Boards."— 
“ Once I was going to have the boys all 
presidents and the girls riding in coaches, 
but now I’m just thankful to have them 
good, plain, honest folks. There’s noth¬ 
ing like 70 years to take nonsense out of 
a body ! ” 
Saving Work. —When you steam squash, 
steam enough for two meals. Mash 
only half. When ready to serve the 
rest, heat some butter and sweet cream 
in a spider, add the cold squash with 
salt and pepper and mash smooth as it 
warms. mrs. l. h. n. 
Layer Cakes. —These, by inexperienced 
hands, often come out of the oven dry. 
They may be improved by spreading on 
them thinly a custard made from the 
yolk of the egg left from the frosting ; 
add a te*spoonful of butter and one of 
flour, besides milk and sugar. j. h. 
Cucumber Pickles. —One quart of good 
molasses, two of cider vinegar, and 
whatever spices you wish ; wash the cu¬ 
cumbers and throw them into the pickle 
immediately after picking. They will be 
ready for the table in three weeks after 
they have been put in it. mrs. m. 
Success with Roses.— I had such good 
success with my house roses last winter, 
that I would like Thk R. N.-Y. friends 
to know, though the methods are not 
wholly new. Stir soot in the earth, 
water twice each week with liquid man¬ 
ure ; spray or sprinkle with soap-suds 
occasionally. They will show the good 
effects of buch treatment. it. t. h. 
Soldering. —If one has an iron spoon, 
a bit of resin, and a piece of lead, she 
can be her own tinsmith. Scrape the 
tin. and dust the place with some pow¬ 
dered resin, put the lead in the spoon, 
and set it on some very hot coals, and 
when it melts pour a little over the hole; 
and, behold, you have a dish ready for 
immediate use. m. m. 
Pumpkin Pie Without Eggs. —Steam 
the pumpkins till done, mash and pass 
through a colander ; add condensed milk 
right from the can, without thinning, and 
sugar and spices as for any other sorts of 
pumpkin pies. You will have as fine 
pies as one could wish provided the crust 
is good. I always use condensed milk 
when I have no eggs, as ordinary milk 
thins the pumpkin too much. m. n. m. 
Pickled Pears and Peaches.—S even 
pounds of pears, 2% pounds of sugar, 
one quart of vinegar, one cupful of 
water, one ounce of cloves and one of 
cinnamon. Boil vinegar, water, spice 
and sugar a few minutes, then put in the 
fruit and cook till done. I use the same 
recipe for pickled peaches. Last sum¬ 
mer just before the peaches began to 
ripen, we had a quantity of wind-falls. 
I made sweet pickles of the green fruit. 
We thought them fully as good for 
pickles as ripe ones. N. l. p. 
Heliotrope. —I think there is no plant 
that will repay the amateur so fully for 
the time and attention it requires as the 
heliotrope. I have grown it for six 
years. I use slips from growing branches 
of a healthy plant by placing them in 
rich, moist soil, in a strong light; wnen 
rooted, I place them in good-sized pots, 
as the roots require plenty of room, then 
put them in a bunny soutn window, and 
all winter they bloom beautifully, filling 
the room with rare fragrance. In May 
I carefully lift them into rich soil in tne 
open ground, in a sunny location, where 
they are a mass of purple bioom until 
cut down by the first severe frost, e. f.h. 
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 
Elderberries for Winter Use. — Eight 
pounds of elderberries, three pounds of 
brown sugar, one pint of cider vinegar ; 
boil until very thick three or four hours, 
care being taken not to scorch. To 
make the pies, use for each one cup 
sugar, one cup water, one tablespoonful 
flour, two tablespoonfuls of elderberry, 
prepared as above; bake with two crusts. 
N. m n. 
Potatoes In Bread. —The water in which 
potatoes are boiled should not be used 
in making bread. The process of boiling 
the potato extracts a poisonous propet ty 
which renders the water unwholesome. 
For the same reason boiled potatoes are 
much better for the health than those 
that are fried or baked. Potatoes for 
bread, after they have been boiled, should 
be well drained, then thoroughly mashed, 
and thinned with fresh water or milk. 
j. s. 
Chilling' Diet. —Is not our Nebraska 
friend making a mistake when she al¬ 
lows her family to make an entire meal 
often from ice cream ? Pray how much 
blood, bone and muscle can they develop 
on such chilling diet ? I should fear 
they would all become icebergs; and in 
winter, too! It would seem about as 
sensible to give each a spoon and let him 
or her go down to the marsh and eat 
fog. Would it not be much better to 
teach them to eat the milk with the addi¬ 
tion of a slice of good bread, and cook 
the eggs to be eaten afterwards ? There 
is much tact needed sometimes to edu¬ 
cate even the appetite to rePsh suitable 
food ; and that is none too substantial 
for our trying climate. It is a fact that 
mothers often thoughtlessly pamper the 
appetites of their children by preparing 
foods and drinks to please the taste. This 
may lead to troublesome results here¬ 
after. AUVIN BRANCH. 
Friendships. —“ Country boys never lift 
their hats to a married woman,” said a 
city woman, criticising country manners; 
“and they never make any effort to 
entertain any lady unless they wish to 
make an impression, and it is one whom 
they consider worthy.” Of course she 
exaggerated ; but country young people, 
both girls and boys, do not care enough 
for the friendship of their elders; and 
yet what a refining influence such friend¬ 
ships usually exert. It is wrong, en¬ 
tirely wrong, for a mother to leave the 
room that “ the young people may have 
a good time.” The nicest homes I’ve 
visited were where the mothers were 
really the hostesses, often directing the 
games and leading the conversation into 
right channels. In two families which 
l recall school-teachers were often 
boarded. This led to pleasant friend¬ 
ships, and many new and better ac¬ 
quaintances were made; and the hap¬ 
piest results followed in the characters 
of the children in these families. Chil¬ 
dren should be taught to talk to the 
parents’ visitors, and to visit others be¬ 
sides young people of their own age. ray. 
Some Artistic Work. —We have it on the 
authority of the Quarterly Illustrator 
that the four leading illustrated maga¬ 
zines of the country, The Centurj, Har¬ 
per’s, Scribner’s, and The Cosmopolitan, 
alone during the months of September, 
October and November used some 450 
drawings, not including initial letters, 
tail-pieces and maps, a group of which 
in themselves forms no inconsiderable 
item, and would probably swell the total 
number of drawings by nearly 100. These 
drawings required the skill and labor of 
over 60 different artists for their produc- 
duction. When one remembers that in 
addition to the four magazines named 
there are such monthlies as The New 
England, Munsey’s, Godey’s, Outing 
Demorest’s, Frank Leslie’s, Arthur’s 
Home, The Ladies’ Home Journal, Wide 
Awake, St. Nicholas, etc., each one in 
its degree demanding drawings, and then 
contemplates the weekly press—Harper’s 
Weekly and Bazar, Harper’s Young Peo¬ 
ple, Life, Tne Youth s Companion, Puck, 
Judge, Truth, Once a Week, Tne New 
York Ledger, Tne Illustrated American, 
etc., some idea may be gathered of the 
vast amount of work the artists and illus¬ 
trators of New York turn out for the 
prebs. Surely if Tom Hood could but re¬ 
write his verses on the Kangaroo family’s 
discussion on the training of its youngest 
member, the decision would not have 
been “Let’s make the imp a shorthand 
writer,” but, rather, “Let’s have him 
taught to draw, and make an illustrator 
of him.” 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— AOjv. 
Decidedly No ** Brand." —I cannot agree 
with what M. Single says in her article, 
“ Our Daughters as Servants.” My ex¬ 
perience has been entirely different. 
Certainly “make them first-class coohs 
and housekeepers.” They are then suit¬ 
able wives for either city or country 
men; but a farmer’s daughter who knows 
how to work—for many of them do not— 
is not “branded” as “servant” if she 
helps another farmer’s wife through the 
busy season, even if she receives wages 
for doing so. I have never heard such 
young women spoken of as “servants” 
among country people. They were treated 
as members of the family and as compan¬ 
ions for the daughters. They have mar¬ 
ried well and their former employers 
have visited them on equal terms. They 
do not say of one of them : “ She used to 
work for me once,” but “She used to live 
with me and we think a great deal of 
her.” Besides, what a blessing in case 
of sickness or of going away on a visit to 
call in a neighboring farmer’s daughter 
who is not ashamed to work for a living 
—“ to take hold ;” just because she 
knows how to do something ; or to feel 
that she is perfectly reliable if left iu 
charge while we are away for that needed 
rest! She may marry or remain a bless¬ 
ing unmarried. May the farmers’ daugh¬ 
ters never feel above their calling, 
whether they are best adapted for moth¬ 
ers’ help or that of other people, i. m. b. 
To Her Who Walts. —Do not all things 
come to such a one? Mary C. Hungerford 
says in Harper’s Bazar that one of the 
whims of the hour is a fancy for elab¬ 
orate patch-work bed-spreads. It is not 
silk quilts which are valued, but the 
strange, inartistic calico abominations 
of olden times. Old chests are ransacked 
and curiosity shops haunted by revival¬ 
ists in the hope of stumbling upon a 
pine-tree, oak-leaf, rising-sun, or log- 
cabin quilt. If any woman is ambitious 
of copying the article she must procure 
a small-sized cotton sheet and apply the 
pattern she approves with fine stitches. 
The work is not to be confounded with 
the patch-work which is made by over¬ 
handing small bits of calico together. In 
the now popular style the designs are 
cut from red, orange, or blue cotton gen¬ 
erally, but one color be ng used upon a 
quilt. At the shop of a second- hand dealer 
in New York is shown a most elaborate 
and very old specimen of this grotesque 
kind of work. It represents a tree as 
long and wide as the quilt. The foliage, 
which is extremely scanty, being con¬ 
fined to the extreme end of the larger 
limbs, is of a nondescript character. 
The quality and variety of the fruit 
border on the miraculous, cherries, ber¬ 
ries, apples, oranges, and pears seeming 
to have ripened simultaneously in great 
profusion cn the same angular boughs, 
each fruit being represented in its own 
color. It should be said that these old 
relics are only used for hangings in the 
present age. 
PijewUattMUtf 
In writing to advertiser* please always mention 
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You would like the lamp- 
chimneys that do not amuse 
themselves by popping at 
inconvenient times, wouldn’t 
you ? 
A chimney ought not to 
break any more than a tum¬ 
bler. A tumbler breaks 
when it tumbles. 
Macbeth’s “pearl top” and “pearl glass”— 
they don’t break from heat, not one in a hun¬ 
dred ; a chimney lasts for years sometimes. 
Pittsburgh. Geo. A. Macbeth Co. 
OOFTNESS In leather is 
O strength, and Vacuum 
Leather Oil puts it in in a jiffy; 
25c, and your money back if 
you want it. 
Patent lambskin - with- woof-on 
swob and book—How to Take Care 
of Leather—both free at the store. 
Vacuum Oil Company, Rochester. N. .Y. 
•0«0300< 
Simple ailments 
neglected may grow 
deadly. A handy 
remedy is * 
Beecham’s 
o ("H“0 Pills, 
'in all cases where 
Liver and Stomach 
trouble is suspected. 
25 cents a box. 
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COCOA 
BOILING WATER OR MILK. 
WE SEND FREE 
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The organ has 11 stops, 5 octaves, and is 
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The Rocker Washer 
has proved the most satisfactory 
of any Washer ever placed upon 
the market. It is warranted to 
wash an ordinary family washing 
of lOO PIECES IN ONE 
HOT 1C. as clean as can be 
washed on the washboard. Write 
for prices and full description. 
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FT. WAYNE, INI). 
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