1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
659 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
A Prepared Blotter. —An exchange says 
that a b.otter can be made that will re¬ 
move ink spots from paper. Take a 
thick blotting paper ard steep it several 
times in a solution of oxalic acid. While 
the in a is moist apply the blotter, and 
the ink will be entirely removed. 
Mending with Big Patches saves much 
time, as the cloth about the hole is al¬ 
ways more or less tender. This is par¬ 
ticularly so on the knees and seats of all 
kinds of wear for the lower extremities 
of old and young, large and small, male 
and female. New goods that shrink, if 
placed on the old for a patch, are apt to 
tear the old ; this is also the case with 
too coarse a thread. m. 
Exact Baking. —Bread, if baked five 
minutes longer than necessary, is dry 
and insipid. As soon as it does not stick 
to a knitting needle pressed through the 
loaf, it is done. Remove at once and 
rub the top crust with butter or lard, 
then cover with a thick cloth. You will 
find it delicious and long keeping. After 
three days, if a little dry, place it on the 
toaster three minutes before it is needed ; 
you will be surprised to see how moist 
it is. o. e. 
Home Secrets. —“Guard Well the Secrets 
of the liome,” was the heading to a para¬ 
graph which I read the other day. Would 
it not be better to urge upon people the 
necessity of living lives so pure that there 
will be no .-ecrets in the home to guard, 
except those necessitated by modesty. 
Men, and women, too, for that matter, 
are prone to evil, and if all that keeps 
many from wrong doing is the fear or 
shame of being found out, it is better 
than no restraint at all. At all events 
we have secrecy enough ; we need purity. 
MRS. PETER. 
The Removal of Ashes soon wears the 
blacking off the stove. If the pan hap¬ 
pens to get too full, a newspaper will 
save you much dust and labor. Open the 
door of the base-burner as wide as pos¬ 
sible and slip the paper as far as you can 
un^er the ash pan, being careful to see 
that it is far enough under to reach the 
opening for the door on both sides. Now 
pull the pan gently forward on the paper, 
but without moving the latter, and all 
the straggling ends are caught. Paper 
and pan are carried out and emptied to¬ 
gether. M. 
An Excellent Gingerbread.— Every one 
has her pet recipe for this very common 
article ; this is mine : one cupful of mo¬ 
lasses, one tablespoonful of butter or 
lard; spice as you please ; one teaspoon¬ 
ful of soda and one cupful of boiling 
water ; a little salt if lard is used. Put 
molasses and shortening into a bowl with 
the spices. (A teaspoonful of extract 
lemon with a very little ginger makes a 
pleasing variety.) Add to these flour 
sufficient to make it as stiff as you can 
stir it. Then I put the soda into a cup 
and fill the cup with boiling water. Add 
this slowly, little by little, to the dough. 
The batter will be quite thin. Bake in 
a well greased tin. n. p. 
Waxy Cookies. —Since I found and be¬ 
gan using the following recipe for ginger 
cookies, the “men folks” have been 
slightly inclined to rebel at cookies that 
lack vtaxinets: “ Bring to a scald one 
cupful of molasses, and stir in one table¬ 
spoonful of soda ; pour it^while foaming, 
over one cupful of sugar, one egg and 
one heaping teaspoonful of ginger beaten 
together ; then add one tabiespoonful of 
vinegar, flour enough to roll, stirred in 
as lightly as possible.” This recipe makes 
four or five dozen cookies, according to 
When Baby was sick, we nave 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 
size and thickness. We prefer them 
mixed soft. Mixed stiff, they become 
snappy rather than waxy. Once or twice 
when, by accident, the molasses got more 
than scalded, the cookies were pro¬ 
nounced improved, rather than other¬ 
wise. it. 
The Passenger Wheel.— Slightly funny 
sounds this comment on the Ferris wheel, 
made by an exchange in May last: “One 
wonders whether there will ever be 
found a sufficient number of iron nerved 
people to make a full load. Though 
engineers pronounce it absolutely safe, 
spectators generaby feel tnat they would 
like to see some one else take the first 
ride. Standing below and looking up, 
the men working at the top look like 
green flies hanging to the flower stem 
of a neglected rose plant.” 
Suet Pudding Without Molasses.— An¬ 
swering an inquiry, a friendly subscriber 
sends the following recipe for suet pud¬ 
ding, which she says was found in 
“mother’s old cook-book.” How many 
of us have found numbers of our best 
recipes there ? Ed J 
To a pound of flour add two-thirds of 
a pound of suet, a pinch of salt, a cup¬ 
ful of currants and raisins if liked, and 
a teaspoon f ul of soda; mix stiff with 
buttermilk, tie in a cloth and boil four 
hours. Eat with cream and sugar. M. c. 
To Smooth Flat-irons.— If from any 
cause your iron is rough and refuses to 
“ go,” take a slice of common salt side 
bacon such as is found on every farm, rub 
your hot iron quickly over it, and imme¬ 
diately after over several thicknesses of 
paper, being careful to clean the edges 
thoroughly, and you will be surprised to 
find how slick your iron is. If it should 
be very rough, or a little rusty, it may 
take a second or third rubbing ; but if 
persisted in it will surely clean the most 
stubborn iron. In ease you have to rub 
it over the bacon several times, do not 
iron fine white clothes right afterwards, 
but use a coarse or colored garment so 
that a slight smut will do no damage, 
but I often rub my iron once quickly in 
this way while ironing shirt bosoms 
without making the least streak. x. 
Roscberry Soup —It is Baid that in 
Sweden fruit has not attained to sueh 
perfects n as in America, and so the 
seeds of different flowers are carefully 
gathered up for the culinary depart¬ 
ment. In fact, nothing is wasted. The 
red berries of wild roses, containing the 
seeds, are picked after they have been 
frost-bitten, and are used for soup. The 
seeds are carefully removed, the berries 
dried and sold by the gallon in the gro¬ 
cery stores. For soup for six persons 
take a pint of roseberries, clean them 
well and boil in water, crush and strain 
through a sieve. The strained soup is 
again pat on the fire, with a piece of 
cinnamon, lemon peel and half a cupful 
of good raisins. This is boiled a quarter 
of an hour. The soup is thickened with 
corn starch, sweetened and seasoned. 
The cinnamon and lemcn peel are re¬ 
moved, and when the soup is put in the 
bowl two handfuls of sweet almonds, 
cut in long pieces, are thrown over it. 
Fad and Fancy In Framing.— Pictorial 
scenes framed in lichen-covered shingles 
from an old barn (on an abandoned farm 
if possible, for the dreary sentiment of 
the thing) ; marine sketches in weather¬ 
beaten boards and fish-net caught with 
polished shells or toy anchors, and appar¬ 
ent y entangled crabs; sunny marshland 
framed in cat-tails of warm-brown tint; 
“Soldiers Three” environed with harm¬ 
less empty cartridges, row on row with 
the brass ends outward ; a tramp, for¬ 
lorn and degraded, below the help of the 
Keeley cure, framed in cast-off clay 
tobacco pipes sunk in putty or stapled to 
the foundation; these are some of the 
freaks of sentiment. Sentiment is some- 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Ado. 
times substantially funny ; sometimes it 
is as bad as sea-sickness, especially when 
it attacks the society woman who hap¬ 
pens to be short of sense. Let us bathe 
in sentiment; but let us be wary, lest 
sentiment carry us beyond our depth. 
Yeast Without Yeast. ‘-Boil three ounces 
of hops in two quarts of water 10 
minutes, aod two coffeecupfuls of sugar, 
and two of flour wet in enough water to 
take out the lumps ; add three table¬ 
spoonfuls of salt and three of ginger ; 
strain into a jar and li t it stand in a warm 
place for three days. Stir very often, 
then add two pounds of boiled potatoes; 
and in one more day you will have yeast, 
ft will be good and will keep a long 
time. w. 
Absolutely Necessary to Beauty.— “What 
is the matter, May ? ’ said one woman to 
another, who was sitting gloomily in a 
reading-room with a magazine and a bit 
of paper before her. 
“ I’ve just discovered,” replied May, 
looking up from the article on hygiene 
that she was reading, “ that I can never 
be a clean person, much less a healthy or 
a beautiful one.” 
“What! What do you mean ?” gasped 
May’s friend. 
“ My dear,” said May, “ I have the 
authority of this excellent article for the 
following statement regarding personal 
cleanliness and health : No woman with 
abundant hair can hope to keep it fresh 
and glossy without a half hour’s brush¬ 
ing morning and evening. That is an 
hour a day. I am also informed that the 
care of my nails should consume half an 
hour a day and of my teeth another half 
hour. 
“ Then I must sleep 10 hours and exer¬ 
cise in the open air one hour each day. 
I must spend three-quarters of an hour 
at breakfast and luncheon and an hour 
and a half at dinner. And not less than 
three hours in recreaction is commanded. 
If you are a mathematician you will see 
that 19 hours of the 24 are thus consumed. 
Then facial massages and Turkish baths 
are recommended, and these, with my 
sewing, would take up the few remain¬ 
ing hours. 
“ And fate compels me to work nine 
hours a day for a living, and to devote 
one hour to getting to and from my 
work. So that the days will nave to be 
at least 29 hours long before I can be 
even clean and healthy. Heaven only 
knows how much longer they would need 
to be if one aimed to be beautiful and 
intelligent!” 
This poor woman lives in Chicago. 
The Chicago Evening Journal knows her 
and tells her pitiful story. 
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and “pearl glass” lamp- 
chimneys ; they are made of 
tough glass, tough against 
heat; they do not break in 
use; they do from accident 
They are clear, transparent, 
not misty. Look at your 
chimney. How much of the 
light is lost in the fog ? 
Be willing to pay a little more. 
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and your money back if you 
want it. 
Patent lambskin-with-wool- 
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Fake Care of Leather—both 
free at the store. 
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laurels.” 
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