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HOW TO MAKE A COAT. i 
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Having recently out and made an over- , 
ooat, 1 thought how many women would 
like tolearu how to make this garment, as , 
the tailoress does not go around sewing In 
families as she formerly did. Plow many 
boys, lu stormy weather, might learn to 
make their own olothos on a sewing ma¬ 
chine, if they had printed directions in 
their weekly paper for doing this. We can- ( 
not prizo those papers too highly that teach 
ub how to do needful work, that all may 
know how to obtain an honest living, and 
bo useful instead of idle. 
Having cut the ooat, commence and sew 
up all the seams exoept tboae that join the 
fronts to the back, and press them. Fit 
the openings in the canvas to those iu the 
outside; then close the openings with an 
overstltoh over a strip of linen an Inch in 
width; then prepare a double strip of lin¬ 
en. one inoh in width, and fasten it to the 
canvas uudur the thread marks for the 
buttons, with a semi-cross stitch; then 
oarefully overstitch the canvas to the lapel 
on the body of the coat; then dampen 
and press and baste the whole canvas to 
the outside, so as not to oramp it. 
Then mark and cut the pooket-hole, and 
the pockets, with another ooat be¬ 
fore you as a guide; then sew the seam in 
the back of the lining, baste the wadding 
on the wrong side and some thin cloth 
over the wadding to come next to the out¬ 
side of the ooat; quilt this lining according 
to your fanoy, and baste the outside to tt, 
in bust ing, lay down the lining and plaoo 
the outside over it so as not to get the lin¬ 
ing too close fitting for the outside. Caste 
the wadding to the front lining with thin 
cloth between them and the outside, and 
quilt. Then sow up the seams in the 
outside that join the fronts to the baok and 
press thorn; thou sew these seams in the 
lining together, having the front of the lin¬ 
ing oome under the faoings smoothly; baste 
and sew down the facing, then join the 
shoulder seams; proas and face the inside 
seams one upon another. 
Faoe the sleeves at the hand and sew 
them in; have the outside or only seam 
half way between the seams of the back, 
and the fullness begin two Inohos in front 
of the shoulder seam, and continue to 
within three inches of the middle of the 
Bleeve; then press this seam on the round 
end of the press board; then press the can¬ 
vas if neoessary, and baste with small 
atitobes to the seam of the ooat and hem 
the sleeve lining to it; then hem the linings 
on the hand facings; then baste the stillen- 
lng to the lower side of the collar; stitch 
the lower part In straight lines; then over- 
stitoh on the oanvas aide the part that 
turns over; then press and break the ool- 
lar to its proper shape; then over-baste 
the oover to the break; baste all around, 
turn in and hem the oollar to it; sew the 
under-slde of the oollar to the outside of 
the ooat; press, fasten the lining to it and 
hem down the oover. Stitch around the 
ooat and cut the button holes, and work 
them over a oord of linen thread, four 
double. Press and sew on the buttons and 
a loop at the back in the inside, and hang 
it up. o. 
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BEANS AND VINEGAR. 
I noticed an article in the Rural New- 
Yorker Dec. 7, that upsets my ideas in re¬ 
gard to the conversion of cider into acetic 
aoid. The writer states that a pint of beans 
put into a barrel of cider will change it Into 
vinegar in eushort time. Having somewhat 
extensive orchards, I have during the past 
thirty years, especially in seasons of 
abundant crops and limited markets for 
fruit, experimented with my cider in vari¬ 
ous ways. I have paid extravagant prices 
for foolish and Impracticable reolpes and 
plans of buildings, generators, etc., from 
none of which I reoeived a farthing’s bene¬ 
fit, but experienced a vast outlay of pa- 
tienoe and money, 1 have also frequently 
tried receipts as published, from some of 
which 1 thought 1 had obtained some pretty 
good Ideas; but I find that after all “I 
oider Into vinegar, by a simple, quick and 
easy method, I hope Mr. North will ex¬ 
plain the extent of his experience. But, 
until I have more light upon the aubjeot, I ■ 
shall pursue my present method that never 
disappoints me, and which has been given 
to the public many times through the 
Rural and other mediums. I can very well 
understand how six or eight ounces of mus¬ 
tard will keep a barrel of elder sweet; but 
I cannot understand how one pint of beaus 
will turn it into vinegar. 
While upon the subject of older, let me 
remark that an artiede published in the 
same number of the Rural, on “Racking 
Wine,” is worth to any person who makes 
a barrel of older for his own use (unless he 
knew it before and be probably didn’t) c . 
more than ayear'a subscription, for it is as 
applicable lu the main in racking older as 
wine. I. D. G. Nelson, 
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TO MAKE SOFT SOAP WITH POTASH, 
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To cleanse the grease, put it in weak lye; , 
keep it as hot as possible and not boil it. i 
When ail pieces are eaten up, fill the kettle i 
up with cold water; let il stand until cold, < 
when the greaBo will rise to the top. Take 
off and prepare to make the soap. Twenty ’ 
pounds of grease to thirteen pounds of ‘ 
potash are required to make a barrel of 1 
soap. Get the best part of the cake and , 
dissolve tt; strain the lye into the bar- I 
rol. (There will bo settlings in the best ’ 
of potash ; but keep it out of the barrel by 
strainiug the lye.) Melt the grease and 
strain into the barrel also, and thus avoid 
the filth so commonly found whore one gets 
near the bottom of the barrel, The last is 
thus made as cleau as the first. With a 
stick in the barrel stir the lye and grease 
three or four times a day, thoroughly. It 
will thicken gradually, and make most 
beautiful soap. If made in cold weather 
the barrel should stand iu a warm place. 
A Subscriber. 
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ODDS AND ENDS. 
Potato Salad.—1 notloed some time ago 
a request for a rcolpe for potato salad, I 
have seen none as good as the following: 
Boll eight large Irish potatoes; when cold 
slice them in a fiat dish with one or two raw 
onions, and a sprinkling of celery and salt. 
Over each layer of potato and onion pour 
the following dressing: Beat two eggs with . 
a table-spoonful of sweet oil, add a small 
teaspoonful each of sugar, pepper, mus¬ 
tard and salt; when well mixed pour on 
two cups full of boiling vinegar; put back 
on the fire and stir till it is as thick as cus¬ 
tard. Let It cool before putting It on the 
potatoes. Sprinkle a little Cayenne pep¬ 
per on the top, make this in the dish in 
which It is to oome to table, and, if possible, 
twenty-four hours before it is to be used.— 
Constant Reader. 
Apple Butter,—I use five gallons of mo- 
1 asses, oighs gallons of apples, three gallons 
of pumpkins; boil the apples and pump¬ 
kins soft; put them with tho molasses In a 
bright oopper kettle; make a brisk fire and 
stir continually; boil down to ton gallons; 
sploe to taste. Do not let it remain in the 
kettle when done, or it will taste of the 
kettle.— A Farmer’s Wife. 
Canned Cream.—Heat sweet oream in 
a porcelain kettle and add sugar the same 
as for fruit; can while hot. Do not let it 
boll. It will make custard or pumpkin pics 
by adding water, and is very nice for coflee. 
How can 1 keep sour oream for Winter 
use? Auntievie. 
Bristol Brick Dust and flannel are 
used to rub rusty steelyards and bring out 
the figures; also for scouring knives and 
brass. It is excellent, so a housekeeper 
says. 
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Domestic Inquiries.— Lidie Howell 
asks how to make Autumn leaves into bo- 
quets, wreaths, etc. . . . Mrs. R. S. C. 
i asks how to prepare a ceiling for painting 
■ that has been finished with a second coat 
• and white-wash once.Mrs. F. 
O. Bowen asks how to make a first-rate ar- 
f tide of apple-butter. ... A subscriber 
r asks for a recipe for Coloring maroon. . . . 
L J. E. Finley asks for a reoipe for dying 
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 
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don’t know beaus I” All my experience is wool with the extract of madder. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 
averse to the use of any suoh foreign sub¬ 
stance as beans, and thought T had arrived 
at some practical conclusions that approxi¬ 
mated quite satisfactory results. But as 
we have all much to learn if we would per¬ 
fect anything, and as there is scarcely any 
one thing in the matter of domestic eco¬ 
nomy more to be desired and more difficult 
to satisfactorily accomplish than to convert 
B. D. asks for a recipe for pickling beef. . . 
A, Morse asks for recipes for coloring 
green, red, yellow, orange and tan on cot¬ 
ton; also madder-red, cochineal, green 
and dark brown on woolen; also black that 
will not crook. . . . P. 8. asks some of the 
Rural's correspondents to give the pro¬ 
cess of preparing pickles for market, the 
ououmbers naviug been laid down iu salt 
briuo during the picking season. 
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