1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5i 1 
Most people here put up fruit without 
sugar, some claiming that it is better. I 
sometimes think they are right, as sugar 
helps form an acid that I believe injures 
the stomach. I read not long since that 
all canned fruits should be opened an 
hour or two before use, as by coming 
in contact with the air they would lose 
the acid taste so unpleasant to some. 
Watermelon and muskmelon rinds are 
excellent for pickles or preserves. Sweet 
apples, or apples not very tart are fine to 
can with pears and quinces ; indeed 
quinces are preferable if a few apples 
are added to them. When one has to 
buy fruit it is a great saving to add 
apples. Sweet apple pickles are equal 
any day to pear and peach pickles, and 
are far cheaper. I have never seen 
pickles sold at the stores that can com¬ 
pare with those prepared at home. Then 
there is a natural pride in looking over 
one’s fruit and knowing that it is one’s 
own handiwork. I know a woman who 
earns a good living for her family by 
canning fruit which she sells to private 
families at a good price. 
In canning quinces, pears and apples, 
the parings are used for jelly. 1 also 
make blackberry jam after having used 
the juice for jelly. I generally make a 
few bottles of blackberry cordial to use 
in case of summer complaint, as it is a 
good remedy. I add cloves, cinnamon 
and allspice to the juice and boil down, 
adding enough sugar to make a syrup. 
I preserve green tomatoes, adding lemons 
and a piece or two of white ginger root 
for flavor. 
We buy our sugar, vinegar, spices, in 
fact all groceries, at wholesale prices 
and in large quantities ; this is a great 
help in canning fruit cheaply. We buy, 
however, tomatoes in cans by the dozen 
or box, canned corn the same way, and 
seldom buy peas or other canned vege¬ 
tables, and never pickles, as they are 
colored as a rule and injurious to the 
health. The little ground cherry or husk 
tomato is one of the finest fruits I ever 
saw canned, and should be more largely 
used. MABEL H. MONSEY. 
PATTERNS FOR R. N.-Y. READERS. 
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6152. Ladies’ Eton Jacket. 
This style of jacket is one of the most 
valuable accessories to a summer toilet, 
and 18 worn on cool days or evenings 
throughout the summer. The model of 
olive green velvet was handsomely lined 
throughout with changeable silk in 
shades of green and tan. The whole 
back and cutaway fronts are closely ad¬ 
justed by shoulder and under-arm seams. 
The modified Medici collar rounds away 
from the fronts and flares becomingly 
around the neck. An entire absence of 
revers distinguishes this latest of the 
Eton styles. The rounded double sleeve 
caps droop becomingly from the fashion¬ 
ably lengthened shoulders, the hand¬ 
some silk lining being displayed with 
When Baby was sick, we gave lier 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, 
Those premiums for August—see page 
513—are going for very small clubs. You 
can’t help getting one if you will make 
a quarter of an effort! 
every motion. Jackets of this kind are 
worn with everything, street costumes, 
house gowns, evening, dinner and recep¬ 
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of material and color. Pattern 6152 is 
cut in five sizes, viz.: 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 
inches bust measure. 
WHAT THEY CAN DO. 
I FANCY that some girls said, after 
reading my article relative to the 
working fad : “ But we don’t wish to be 
lazy, we like to work ; and home life is 
so dull and monotonous, especially in the 
country after one has been used to all 
the interest and excitement of boarding 
school, college, etc.” To which I reply 
that there is all the more need of re¬ 
maining at home. Duty and work are 
there rather than in the city as book¬ 
keeper or cashier, or in the village as a 
teacher, thus filling some desirable posi¬ 
tion, and debarring some deserving girl 
who has to earn her daily bread. Did 
you ever think that the reason why 
country life and country homes seem 
dull might be because there are so few 
young people who are willing to give 
their time and strength, and devote their 
talents to make them otherwise ? Of 
course, fathers and mothers grow dull 
when there are no young people in the 
home, and life grows more and more 
prosaic. 
One of the greatest dangers which 
menaces the American people, is their 
tendency toward all work and no play. 
6152. 
Ladies’ Eton Jacket. 
which invariably “makes Jack a dull 
boy.” So if there is no need of a girl 
working to earn a livelihood, she may do 
quite as much good by amusing and en¬ 
tertaining people, and thus bring a little 
brightness and happiness into many 
lives. In the city, men make a business 
of amusing people, and it is quite profit¬ 
able ; but in the country oftentimes the 
men are too busy, or think they are, to 
spend time to plan amusements, though 
they are quite as ready as the women to 
attend them. Every one knows that en¬ 
tertaining and amusing people are not 
always easy, and there is a chance for 
girls to work quite hard, if work is what 
they are after. 
But some say, “ What of the expense?” 
There need be very little expense unless 
one choose, though many country girls 
do not need to hesitate a moment on that 
score. One may give a croquet or tennis 
party in the summer with only a glass of 
lemonade or dish of strawberries or fruit 
from the home orchard, or more elabo¬ 
rate refreshments may be served if pre¬ 
ferred. The good time does not depend 
on the refreshments alone; the hostess 
and guests are expected to contribute 
something. Then one may get up pic¬ 
nics for pleasure, or berry parties for 
profit, and invite every one, young and 
old, married and single, and prove one’s 
self a blessing to the neighborhood and 
the whole town generally. If the ball 
is once set rolling it will keep on in¬ 
definitely, if given a push occasionally. 
Perhaps some one says, “ Alas! My 
mothers. —Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adn). 
education would be wasted, it would 
rust out while I was making myself a 
slave to the people.” It need not rust 
among the people, more than it would in 
a dingy o£5ce or tiresome schoolroom. 
It could be used constantly. If one’s 
forte is music, plan an occasional musi- 
cale. Don’t do all of the performing and 
singing yourself, for you will doubtless 
find that God has bestowed this gift on 
others as well as yourself, and many are 
born with a talent for listening which 
you can gratify. You will have an op¬ 
portunity to exercise your love for teach¬ 
ing in the management of such amuse¬ 
ments. You might organize a reading 
club, or plan botanical and geological 
excursions, and thus continue your 
education and assist others who have 
been less fortunate than yourself in 
school privileges. The mothers and aunts 
need not be left out of such excursions, 
unless they choose. Many of them would 
be delighted to roam over the fields and 
through the woods with you, and the 
interest in such subjects would grow un¬ 
til you would soon have a good follow¬ 
ing, and country life would cease to be 
dull to you or your friends. One will 
find that there is plenty of work waiting 
outside of offices and school walls which 
no one can do so well as country girls who 
have plenty of time at their disposal and 
a disposition to work. Alice e. pinney. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Oor. Chambers and Pearl Sts.. New York. 
A Carving Set. 
Here is an article every family needs 
three times a day, and every man knows 
how difficult it is to carve a fowl or even 
a roast without a good carving knife. 
This is a nine-inch imparted Sheffield 
steel knife. We are using one just like 
it on our own table, and can recomirend 
it as first-class in every respect. Price, 
with a renewal $3.25, or with one new 
name $3. Sent for a club of 8 ; with 
steel for a club of 10. 
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