THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
739 
1893 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
With the Roast Fowl. —Try thin slices 
of pork on the breast of a turkey or 
chicken when it is roasting - . d. 
For a Very Bad Burn, melt beeswax and 
into this pour sweet oil until it makes 
a salve which can be easily spread with 
a soft brush. Keep every part covered 
with the salve. s. c. J. 
Stained Linen Restored. —Powdered 
starch will take stains out of linen if 
applied immediately. Tea stains may 
be removed from a tablecloth by im¬ 
mersing it in a strong solution of sugar 
for a few minutes, and then rinsing it in 
soft water. D. 
A Pretty Rug.—A cheap and pretty rug 
is made of pieces of carpet, such as may 
be purchased at slight cost at almost any 
carpet factory. In the center of a piece 
of canvas yard long and three-fourths 
of a yard wide, place a 10-inch square of 
the carpet, sewing it on firmly. In the 
corners of the square put small half 
squares, having the opposite corners 
match. The rest may be filled out with 
half squares of any desirable size. Bind 
the edges with olive-green braid, r. b. 
My Own Variation Puddings.—I use an 
iron spider, not having a double boiler, 
as the pudding will not burn on iron as 
quickly as on tin. Slice and sprinkle 
with sugar four bananas; cover these 
with a blanc mange of corn starch. 
Flavor with vanilla. Use the whites of 
the eggs to frost the top and set in the 
oven to brown. This quantity makes six 
saucerfuls. Peaches make a nice varia¬ 
tion, and these can be used fresh or 
canned. Thsse puddings are better cold," 
and are nice to send with a lunch, e. g. 
Chocolate Loaf Cake. —I have never seen 
this in print. It is good and sure and 
will keep a long time : Melt one-fourth 
cake of Baker’s chocolate ; mix with one- 
half cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of 
boiling milk and the yolk of one egg. 
Boil and add three teaspoonfuls of va¬ 
nilla. When cool, add to the following : 
one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of 
butter or scant one-half cupful of cotto- 
lene, one-half cupful of sweet milk, one 
egg and the yolk of one, one teaspoonful 
of soda (no cream of tartar), two cupfuls 
of Hour. Bake in a moderate oven about 
40 minutes. a. b. p. 
Raised Biscuits. —This recipe is one 
which has been well tested and cannot 
fail to please if directions are followed. 
Make a sponge over night of one pint of 
warm milk, and one compressed yeast 
cake or one cupful of potato yeast. In 
the morning add one-half cupful of but¬ 
ter and one-half cupful of lard, together 
with another pint of milk. Let the 
dough stand till light; then add the 
whites of two eggs, well beaten. Knead 
thoroughly and let it stand to rise again. 
Wh6n light, form into biscuits, to be 
baked when well risen once more. In 
summer it is best to start them in the 
morning; there will be less danger of 
their souring. n. p. 
An Encouragement Recipe.— While ex¬ 
actness as to measure is all right, I long 
to whisper in the ears of young house¬ 
keepers not to be discouraged over the 
elaborate directions for salads given 
some time ago. You can rush out to the 
garden and cut a cabbage 10 minutes be¬ 
fore dinner and toss up a salad that will 
make your family cry for more. First, 
always shave your cabbage, using a slaw 
cutter. The woman who chops a good 
cabbage deserves a fault-finding hus¬ 
band. Put equal parts of sweet cream 
and vinegar, one-half cupful of each if 
you must measure, a tablespoonful of 
sugar, a teaspoonful of mustard, butter 
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 size of an egg, salt and pepper, 
over the fire, and when it comes to a 
boil add one well-beaten egg and pour 
over your cabbage In times of scarcity 
of eggs I have used only the yolk well 
beaten and thinned with a little water 
so that it will thicken without curdling. 
Take this salad to your next church 
supper, and half a dozen women will 
want to know just exactly how you made 
that salad, and you can't tell exactly 
how. e. c. G. 
Smoke Pickle. —Tuis is our way : In¬ 
vert a barrel over a smoke made from 
corn cobs until it is thoroughly smoked. 
In this pack the hams, etc., well covered 
with salt and sprinkled with black pep¬ 
per, and leave thus two days. Make a 
brine, using one pound of sugar for 20 
pounds of meat, and salt until it will 
bear up an egg ; pour this over the meat, 
keeping it entirely under the brine. 
When salted through, the meat is ready 
for use. s. c. J. 
Oats for Canaries. —A correspondent of 
an exchange says that canary birds are 
fond of oats ; and that they enjoy hull¬ 
ing out the grains, and eagerly devour 
every kernel in their cups. They agree 
with them, do not make them too fat, and 
promote a luxuriant growth of shining 
plumage that will glisten in the sun as 
never befoie. She adds : “I have known 
birds whose bodies were entirely bare, 
even in winter, to feather out beautifully 
when given this diet.” The editor of 
“Open Eyes” never owned a cage bird, 
but she thinks this might be tried cau¬ 
tiously. The oat seems a large grain for 
such a small bird, but perhaps when 
hulled it would not prove injurious. And 
if this were the case, some expense in 
the way of purchasing bird seed might 
be saved. 
Interesting Bedsteads.— The Woman’s 
Illustrated World refers to the fact that 
some of our wealthy Americans appear 
to be puzzled in what new form to lavish 
their money. A brass bedstead inlaid 
with real pearls was recently made for 
a lady in New York. On a brass rail 
which runs across the top the owner’s 
name is wrought in pearls. Still m re 
of a curiosity is the “ Silent Alarm Bed¬ 
stead, to turn any one out of bed at a 
given hour,” the production of an inven¬ 
tive genius in London some years ago. 
This amusing contrivance assumes a de¬ 
gree of density in the sleeper which no 
alarm can affect, or else a singular 
amount of luxurious weakness of pur¬ 
pose. The bed, therefore, acts the part 
of Resolution for the sleeper ; and having 
been set overnight for a given hour in 
the morning, the said incorrigible sleeper 
finds the bed revolve so as to tilt him out. 
A bath being placed by the bedside, he 
may at once be relieved of all need for 
summoning a resolution either to get up 
or take a plunge. 
paint brush the black lines, which prove 
the genuineness of the broiling, and 
when you exclaim. ‘ This steak has no 
flavor,’ they show you the marks of the 
gridiron. There is nothing more to be 
said.” 
Busy Housewives. —To many of us who 
are housekeepers and mothers I fear the 
thought often comes, “ I have no time to 
improve myseif ; it is just work, work 
from morning until night.” In our youth, 
we were all castle builders. All had a 
fairy ship at sea, freighted wdth the 
bright hopes and possibilities that youth¬ 
ful fancy could picture. But to none of 
us, perhaps, has come the realization of 
our fond day dreams. Our castles may 
have crumbled into dust, and our ships, 
like the fairy phantom ship of old, may 
still hang in the horizon never advanc¬ 
ing towards us. Our realizations have, 
perhaps, been very different from our 
anticipations ; yet for all this we have no 
right to sit idly down and say, “ Life has 
been a failure.” God has placed us in 
this world. He has given us our work to 
perform, and He will require us to render 
an account unto Him for the way we have 
spent our time and talents. Then let us 
make ourselves as refined and cultivated 
as possible. Let us read the best books 
and train our children thoroughly in the 
principles of manhood and womanhood. 
E. F. F. 
Some Modern Mistakes.— H. L. Hast¬ 
ings, of Boston touches up sharply some 
mistakes of the doughty Colonel Inger- 
soll : “I have heard of a man traveling 
around the country, exploding the Bible, 
and showing up the ‘mistakes’ of Moses. 
* • • After hearing the infidel on the 
‘mistakes’ of Moses, it would be interest¬ 
ing to hear a military leader and legis¬ 
lator like ‘ Moses, the man of God,’ who, 
after' he was 80 years old, commanded, 
for 40 years, an army of 000,000 men, 
emancipating, organizing, and giving 
laws to a nation which has maintained 
its existence for more than 30 stormy 
centuries, give his candid opinion con¬ 
cerning ‘the mistakes’ of a ‘Colonel’ of 
cavalry, whose military career is said to 
have included a single engagement, in 
which ‘ he was chased into a hog yard 
and surrendered to a boy of 16 ;’ after 
which, as soon as he was exchanged, he 
heroically ^ esigned his commission in the 
face of the enemy, subsequently turning 
his attention to managing swindling 
whisky rings, discussing theology, de¬ 
fending scoundrels, blaspheming God, 
and criticising dead men who cannot 
answer him.” 
One cent will mail this paper to 
your friend in any part of the United 
States, Canada or Mexico, after you 
have read it and written your name 
on the corner. 
Your dealer in lamp-chim- 
neys-what does he get lor 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. 
Y OU DonY know what 
leather can be without 
Vacuum Leather Oil; 25c, 
and your money back if you 
want it. 
Patent lambskin - with - wool - on 
swob and book—Mow to Take Care 
of Leather—both free at the store. 
Vacuum Oil Company, Rochester, N. Y. 
World-wide, 
i means world-tried. 
1 The high reputation 
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if a Guinea. 
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©reflect; the wisdom of 
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COCOA 
French Cookery Tricks.— Jenness-Miller 
describes them : “In one of the princi¬ 
pal restaurants of Baris, they have j ust 
invented culinary painting, and an ar¬ 
tist is a regular member of the establish¬ 
ment. This example is being rapidly 
followed by restaurants of every class. 
Yes, your beefsteak is painted, your 
omelet, leg of mutton, salad—all are 
colored by a special process. There is 
progress for you ! It is not easy to have 
a range calculated to broil at one time 
cutlets, kidneys and steaks, as well as 
sardines and other fish, which you have 
ordered cooked on the gridiron. What 
is to be done ? The artist takes a brown 
color and rubs it over the broiler ; then 
he lays the meat upon it and puts a 
pressure upon it, or strikes it with a 
brush, as is done to obtain a proof im¬ 
pression in a printing office. The grid¬ 
iron represents the type, and the meat 
the sheet of paper. Then the articles 
are put in the oven. When the meat is 
cooked, the artist touches up with a 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adm. 
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