1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
463 
A WOMAN’S IDEAL WASHING MACHINE. 
Y ideal washer is made of thor¬ 
oughly galvanized iron, and very 
strong. It is cylinder shaped, and the 
sides indented or grooved. in circles, 
causing some friction as the clothes pass 
swiftly up and down its sides. Yet the 
clothes are not rubbed, but pounded 
clean by being tossed forcibly from one 
end of the washer to th^ other, by tip¬ 
ping the washer first one end up, and 
then the other. There are hooks on the 
frame, to hold the washer in a horizontal 
position while putting in the clothes and 
the water. When the door is shut, there 
is no leaking. The water is drawn out 
through a faucet, which is guarded by 
bars which keep the clothes out of the 
way, that all the water may be drawn 
out while the, clothes remain in the 
washer. 
The clothes are put to soak Monday 
night. If one has soft water, they may 
be soaked in clear water, cold or warm, 
not hot. If “ broke” or cleansed water 
must be used make a suds for the white 
clothes and soak the colored ones but a 
short time. I do not like very hot water 
for the first suds, but I use two wash 
boilers, one to keep the first suds warm 
while putting the clothes through a 
second, boiling hot suds. 
After wringing the clothes from the 
water in which they were soaked, rub 
the soap into the soiled parts, first mix¬ 
ing two tablespoonfuls either of turpen¬ 
tine or kerosene to each pound of soap. 
Turpentine is best for the clothes, and 
whitens them, but should not be used 
where one stands over the steam in 
rubbing by hand, for it opens the pores 
and leaves one very liable to take cold. 
The kerosene is safe, but I would put it 
only in the first suds, using the second 
suds to wash it all out, and even then I 
want soft water for the first rinsing. It 
is then that I look the clothes over to 
see if they are clean—as they have been 
put through the warm suds and then the 
boiling suds without being removed from 
the washer, thereby saving all lifting of 
the wet clothes from the boiler or from 
fine tub to another. 
Some might object to rubbing the 
soap into the clothes, as it might be 
harsh on the hands; but if they have 
prepared glycerine and lemon juice equal 
parts, and rub the hands while moist, 
they will not sustain any injury from 
the soap. I have never had experience 
with the various washing fluids; but I 
know that any of them containing lye 
will fade the colored clothes. 
MBS. B M. WARD. 
FANCY WORK AND FARM WORK. 
CANNOT refrain from replying to 
that articleina recent R N.-Y. under 
the head of Caring for Young Animals, 
as it speaks of fancy work of which I am 
a great admirer and maker, although I 
do not keep very much for my own use. 
Being reared and having lived on a farm 
nearly all my life, I would like to give 
some of my experience in regard to both. 
As for young animals, I have at present 
pet lambs, calves, pigs, 50 ducks, 100 
chickens, and 100 hens; besides this Iidrive 
up the stock, do the milking during hay¬ 
ing and harvesting, and pump water for 
all. Yesterday I kept an account of the 
watering ; it numbered 50 pails, and all 
had to be carried to them. The lambs, 
ducks and chickens were fed three times; 
the rest twice. 
I do my own sewing and housework ; 
do not keep any help in the house, and 
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 readers of this department will 
do well to watch the August announce¬ 
ment on page 13 next week. 
have outdoor help only occasionally by 
the day. There are only three in the 
family. I find ample time to read and 
do fancy work. I do not have the hand¬ 
ling of the butter and egg money, as I 
do not care to. I make enough on fancy 
articles for pin money. I’m never idle ; 
when not doing chores or housework, 
which includes cooking and getting the 
meals, I make lace or flowers, and have 
earned a great many dollars that way. 
Sunday is my longest day to read when 
not at church. I took first premiums at 
our county fair on display of small and 
large canned fruit, pickles, jellies, and 
samples of canned vegetables, and rag 
carpet; also first premium on fancy work 
such as child’s lace dress, head-rest, tidies, 
pin cushion, lambrequin, night-dress 
yoke, handkerchief and small samples of 
handmade lace ; nearly S20 dollars of 
premiums, and all done at odd times, or, 
in other words, while resting. I can and 
have done nearly all kinds of farm work, 
and I like to pick up my fancy articles 
and work on them between times. Be¬ 
sides all this, there are several social so¬ 
cieties that I help. Perhaps you’ll ask if 
I work in the garden. Yes, I do nearly 
all the making and weeding. 
MARGARET ELTINO. 
A SEWING SCREEN. 
HE pretty bamboo basket stands 
are a great improvement over the 
ordinary work basket, but they are 
rather expensive and are, therefore, not 
often found among the busy housekeep¬ 
er’s belongings. They are designed for 
the boudoir of the lady of leisure, whose 
sewing is confined to a little embroidery 
now and then, and the price suits her 
pocket-book. But one may make an 
arrangement that combines cheapness 
and usefulness, and is also pretty. It is 
called a sewing screen. Make a frame 
for a three-fold screen, each part to be 
18x30 inches. The frame may be finished 
to suit the taste or ability of the maker— 
painted, stained or varnished. Fasten 
the three frames together with hinges, 
and cover one side with cretonne, put on 
plain, or silkoline of some pretty pat¬ 
tern gathered rather full. This is the 
ornamental side. The inside, which is 
to be turned toward one when sewing, 
is the useful side. This should have 
numerous pockets stitched to plain pieces 
of cretonne the size of each frame. A 
pin cushion and needle cushion also 
form a part of the make-up. An in¬ 
genious woman can easily plan out the 
different sized pockets required for the 
various demands in mending, darning, 
etc. There should be a pocket for papers 
of needles, for spools, scissors, thimble, 
tape-measure, and in fact, a place for 
every article necessary for sewing. 
A very good way to dispose of the 
spools of different-colored cotton or silk, 
used mainly in sewing by hand, is to 
have several tapes tacked to the cover, 
string one or two spools on each and tie. 
One may then reach and draw a thread 
from the spool required without the 
necessity of searching in a pocket or 
stirring up the contents of a basket. 
Each part of the screen may be made of 
a different height if preferred. When 
not in use, it may stand in the sitting 
room with only the ornamental side in 
evidence. It will be found more con¬ 
venient in adjusting, if it be hinged to¬ 
gether so as to make three sides of a 
square rather than the zigzag or Z- 
shape. G. H. 
... .Uebeb Land und Meek: ‘ When the 
anarchist discovers that others get on 
faster than himself, he tries to even up 
matters by breaking their legs, a pro¬ 
ceeding which is just about as sensible 
as if we smashed the doors and windows 
of all well-warmed houses to alleviate 
the cold in the streets.” 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best. — Adv. 
PRINTED PATCH A^ORK. , 
I have learned how to pray, and toll, and save: 
To pray for courage, to receive what comes, 
Knowing what comes to be divinely sent: 
To toll for universal good, since thus 
And only thus, can gojd come unto me; 
To save, by giving whatsoe'er I have 
To those who have not—this alone Is gain. 
— Ella Wheeler UGcox. 
....F. A Reynolds in The House¬ 
keeper: “No girl should marry unless 
she loves one man well enough to prefer 
life with him under any circumstinces to 
the best success alone.” 
....Richter: “Every man deems that 
he has precisely the trials and tempta¬ 
tions which are the hardest of all for him 
to bear; but they are so because they 
are the very ones he needs.” 
-New York Press: “To be the hus¬ 
band of a genius is the next best thing 
to being a genius one’s self, and if an 
ambitious young fellow cannot acquire 
fame by application, he may gain it by 
matrimony.” 
... .New York Herald : “ The heroes 
and heroines of ordinary life are too 
numerous for counting. Men and women 
are daily facing emergencies which re¬ 
quire a loftier courage than was ever 
displayed on the field of battle.” 
-N. Y. Evening Post: “The doctrine 
that no man should be content, that all 
should try to rise, has been converted 
into a proposition that all can rise, and 
that if anybody does not rise, it is be¬ 
cause somebody is keeping him down.’’ 
-Philip S, Moxo.m: “An apparently tri¬ 
fling waste of time has lost a great battle 
and changed the destiny of a continent. 
An hour or two saved by Napoleon might 
have made Waterloo as proud a remem¬ 
brance for Prance as it is now for Eng¬ 
land.” 
-New Orleans I’icayune: “Men as 
a general thing are good natured and 
pleasant enough to women whom they 
meet in a business way; but however 
kind they may be, the woman can never 
feel that she is at her best outside of her 
home.” 
-Stinson Jarvis in The: Arena: “The 
devotee of intellect may be shocked at 
the thought of people being ‘ blinded by 
brains.’ Yet it is a truth that they are 
so—one of the most extraordinary truths 
in existence and the most difficult one 
for brains to admit.” 
....Lyman Abbott: “In spite of the 
greater intelligence of our own times, in 
spite of the lessons of exparience, and 
the increased facilities for saving fur 
nished by our banks, bonds, evidences of 
debt, and other modern conveniences, it 
is still difficult to persuade the majority 
of men to provide in the time of their 
prosperity for an anticipated time of ad¬ 
versity.” 
In writing to advertlHera, please always mention 
THK B0HAL NKW-YOBKBa. 
Ayer’s 
PILLS 
Received 
Highest Awards 
AT THE 
World’s Fair 
AS 
THE BEST 
Family 
PHYSIC 
WANTED. 
To rent within one hour of New York City, a small 
bouse with grounds attached, suited for growing 
vegetables and irult. Address 
CITY MAN, care of TUE RUKAL Nbw-Yohkku. 
Hungry Leather. 
The natural food of leather i.s oil. 
Hard and stiff leather i.s soft in a 
minute with 
Vacuum 
Leather Oil. 
25c. worth is r. fair trial—and your money back 
if you want it—a swol) with each can. 
For pamphlet, free, “ llow to Take Cark 
OF Leather,’' send to 
VACUUM OIL CO., Rochester, N. Y. 
Beecham’.s pills are for 
biliousness, bilious headache, 
dyspepsia, heartburn, torpid 
liver, dizziness, sick head¬ 
ache, bad taste in the mouth, 
coated tongue, loss of appe¬ 
tite, sallow skin, when caused 
by constipation; and consti¬ 
pation is the most frequent 
cause of all of them. 
Hook free; pills 25c. At 
drugstores,or write B.F. Allen 
Co.,365 Canal St., New York. 
Every Lady’s Dress 
Should be bound with 
Pantasote Skirt Binding. 
ThlH Is light, durable and waterproof, though it 
contains no rubber. Sold by Heura, Simpson, Craw¬ 
ford & Simpson New York; .Iordan Marsh and R. 11. 
White, H tsion. Mass ; John Wanamuker, I'lnladel- 
phla. Pa.; D. McCarthy A Sons, Svracuse, N. V.; 
Chas. Simons Sons Company. Baltimore, Md.; 
Mandel Bros,, Chicago, 111., and Boggs & Buel, Alle¬ 
gheny, Ptt. Or at Wholesale only by 
THE PANTASOTE LEATHER COMPANY 
WAiiKitooMS: 39 Leonard Street, New York. 
Eaotouy: Passaic, N. .1. 
CANNOT SEE HOW YOU DO 
IT AND PAY FREIGHT. 
, Buys our 2 drawer walnut or oak Im- 
■proved High Arm SlDgersewint;machine 
_ ; finely Onlehed, nickel plated,adapted to light 
I and heavy work; guaranteed for 10 lenrs; with 
Aiitomatift Bobbin tVinder, Belf-Threadin^ Cylla- 
Ider Shuttle, Helf.Sef ting; Needle and a complete 
of Steel AttaehmentM; shipped any where on 
30 Day's Trial, No money required in advance. 
75,000 now in use* World’s Fair Medal awarded machine and attach¬ 
ments, Buy from factory and save dealer’s and a^^ent’s profits. 
PDCIT This Out and send to-day for machine or large free 
I ntk catalogue, testimonials and Glimpses of the World’sFair. 
OXFORD MFG. 00. 342 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO,ILL. 
Thesfrongostand piircatT.ye 
mailo. Uiillko other Lye, It latlng 
a fliio powder and backed In a can 
with removable lid, the contents 
are always ready for use. Will 
make the beat perfumed Hard Soap 
ill 20 minutes witlioiit boiling. 
It la tbe beat for ch’ansiiig w.aste 
pipes, disinfecting sinks, closet^ 
vrashiiig bottles, i>alnt.s, trees, etc. 
PENRA. SALT M’PG CO. 
Geu. Agts., Phlla., Fa. 
THEMARYJANEDISHWASHER 
Saves two-4blrds the time, labor and 
trouble. No wetting the hands. No dis¬ 
agreeable work. Pleases everybody. Only 
I#i 3 , Every family should have Mary 
Jane. Circulars free. Agents wanted. 
J. K. Furlnton & Co., Des Moines, la. 
ADVEBTISINQ BATES 
— 01 — 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
standing at the head of the Agrloultaral Preai, 
goes to every Inhabited section of North America 
and Its readers are the leading men In their com¬ 
munities. t3f~They are buyers. 
ADVERTISING BATES. 
Ordinary Advertisements, per agate line (14 
lines to the inch).30 cents. 
One thousand llpes or more within one year 
from date of ilrst insertion, per agate line.36 cents 
Yearly orders, occupying 10 or more lines, 
per agate line.36 cents 
Reading Notices, ending with "Adv.," per 
line leaded.. 76 cents 
No Advertisement received for less than $1 each 
sertlon. Gash mast accompany all orders 
for transient advertisements, 
larABSOLUTELY ONE PRICE ONLY 
We go to press one week ahead of the date of Issue 
Terms of Subscription. 
In the United States, Canada and Mexico.$1.00 
To fortol.«m countries In the Universal Postal Union 
12.04, equal to Ss. 6d., or 8^ marks, or 10J4 francs. 
Entered at the Post Offlee at New York City, N. Y 
as second-class mall matter. 
THK KURAI. NKW-VOKKICK, 
Cor. Chambers and Pearl Streets, New York 
