sugar or starchy preparations ; no fine flour, 
no fat moat, no hut ter, no cheese, no sweet¬ 
meats. Now we expect you will ask, what 
is left for them to eat ! We answer plenty of 
fresh fruit and green vegetables, especially 
salads, bread of unbolted flour without yeast, 
and no animal food except lean meat, 
smoked beef, tongue,- etc. As carnivorous 
animals are never fat, it proves that starchy 
food is tho main enemy to be avoided. 
Cough Sirup.—1 send you the inclosed reci¬ 
pe for a cough sirup which the readers of the 
Rural Nkw-Yorker will find good. I cut 
it from some paper, have used it in my family 
and know it to be good. Should like you to 
j publish it,—M rs. 8. S. T. 
Two ozs, licorice root, % pound raisins, 2 
tablespoonfuls flaxseed (ground), and liver¬ 
wort, the more the better ; boil in two gal¬ 
lons ruin or river water, until the strength is 
out; then strain and boil down to a quart; 
now add % pound white sugar, when the 
sugar is dissolved take off, and when cool add 
pint good eider vinegar. 
The licorice root should be split up finely, 
and the raisins dividod. 
This makes a sirup very pleasant to take, 
having no disagreeablo taste about it. It 
will cure coughs, colds, soreness of the lungs, 
croup, and is said to cure consumption in its 
first stages. 
To Remove Worts from^he Bawl, C. H. 
Martin, says, “simply allow a second person 
to wet the finger on the end of tongue, rub 
the wart two or three times, taking the finger 
off wit h a jerk, and wilt the wart off at, t he 
same time. There must be. n will about it.” 
He adds that he knows people will laugh at 
t in's remedy, but he does not care, since he 
knows it is effectual. 
To A rrest Bleeding at the .Yo.se, it is assert¬ 
ed that a piece of brown paper, folded two or 
three times and placed bet ween tho upper lip 
and tho gums, will immediately arrest bleed¬ 
ing. Press the lip gently with the finger so 
as to hold the paper firmly. It never falls. 
To Cheek Diarrhea it is asserted that nut¬ 
meg tea is excellent. 
tlonrestic (fcconomu 
BORAX AND NITER IN COLDS 
PRESERVES vs. CANNED FRUIT 
Winn you allow an old-fashioned house¬ 
keeper to correct an idea which passes cur- | 
rent for a fact, because no one takes the 
trouble to dispute it t I allude to the idea 
that almost all housekeepers have, that can¬ 
ned fruit is cheaper, more wholesome and 
better than preserves—an idea which had 
better he considered before taking it for 
granted. Canned fruit, does not require as 
much sugar as preserves, but it requires cans. 
Tin ones euimot be used more than two or 
three years, and the more expensive self¬ 
sealing glass cans are the subjects of in¬ 
numerable breakages. This item of cans 
fully makes up in expense for the extra sugar 
that preserves require. Then when a can of 
fruit is opened if it. is not all used at once the 
remainder spoils, while the preserves left 
after tea can be returned to the jar. As to 
their being more wholesome one hardly 
would make an entire meal of either ; and in 
the small amount used at one time, I do not 
think the extra sugar of the preserves would 
materially injure one’s digestion. In regard 
to their being better, 1 notice that people 
who advocate the putting up of fruits in 
cans, generally prefer, at my table, the gold¬ 
en citron with its simp of liquid amber, or 
the delicious strawberry preserves to any 
canned fruit I could offer them. Not that I 
would exclude canned fruit from my store of 
“goodies” for winter use; but do not let 
them crowd out* entirely a few jars of old- 
fashioned preserves is the advice of 
Aunt Poppy. 
twenty-four hours. The paper contains a 
statement of several cases, lie sums up the 
results of his experience in the following con¬ 
clusions ;—That in sudden hoarseness or loss 
of voice in public speakers or singers, from 
“ colds,” relief for an hour or so, as by magic, 
may be often obtained by slowly dissolving 
and partially swallowing a lump of borax the 
size of a garden pea, or about three or four 
grains, held in the mouth for ten minutes 
before speaking or singing. This produces a 
free secretion of saliva, or “ watering” of the 
mouth and throat,. It probably restores the 
voice or tone to the. dried vocal cords, just as 
“ wett ing” brings back the missing notes to 
a flute when it is too dry. Such “ colds” may 
be frequently “ broken up” at the very com¬ 
mencement, and this restorative a ction of the 
borax to the voice may be materially aided 
by promptly taking, the evening previous to 
the public effort, dissolved in a glass of sweet¬ 
ened water, a piece of nitrate of potassa, or 
“saltpeter,” a little larger than a garden 
pea, or about five grains, on going to bed, and 
covering with an extra blanket. The patient 
obliged to trouble you.—Mrs. A. F. Sheldon. 
Tins is the recipe referred to, we think. 
One ounce extract of logwood, one ounce of 
copperas, one-half ounce of verdigris ; tie the 
verdigris in a doth and boil. Dissolve the 
copperas in an iron kettle and souk the goods 
at a scalding heat three-quarters of an hour, 
stirring occasionally. Dissolve the logwood 
and add the water in which the verdigris is 
boiled. Dip the goods three-quarters of an 
hour, stirring frequently. This makes a 
beautiful black. Always use. water sufficient 
to cover the goods and stir easily. Rinse 
thoroughly. 
Wants to Know how to Exterminate 
Ants. —Can any of your lady friends inform 
me how to exterminate large ants. When 
they first came into one of my pantries, I 
sprinkled sugar on a wet sponge and placed 
it on the floor of the pantry and caught very 
raauy ; but many more were summoned to 
the feast, and now ail my pantries are in¬ 
fested by the disgusting insects. Last sum¬ 
mer the sponge cleared out small ants, but it 
does not suffice for large ones.— m. w. 
Troubled Willi Mildew— Re m ed u .—Dear 
Rural, in trouble; “fine tablecloth ;” hot 
weather ; careless girl ; mildew ; ruin ; can’t 
fin d remedy. Anybody know any ?—Nellie. 
Yes : Take a handful of salt and half a cup 
of soft-soap, rub on the cloth, expose to the 
sun and it will como out after one or two 
bleachings. Or wet the stained part, well 
with soft-soap, then rub chalk over it thor¬ 
oughly and wet the tablecloth and expose to 
the sun, repeating the process until the stains 
disappear. 
Yeast Cake.—2 cups of dough; 1 cup of 
sugar ; 1 cup of butter ; 2 eggs ; 1 tablespoon - 
fnl of cinuamon ; 1 cup of raisins. Stir the 
the symptoms of “ cold” and slight blood- 
poisoning from suppressed perspiration, by 
re-opening the millions of pores of the skin 
more or less closed by cold .—Journal of 
Chemistry. 
PAPER HOLDERS AND BRACKETS, 
HYGIENIC NOTES, 
I manage to find some time to devote to 
fancy work, such as lamp mats, toilet setts, 
pictures, picture frames, paper holders, and 
lots of other pretty things; I have also had 
some experience in making wax flowers, 
crayon work, and the like, and would bo very 
glad to learn more about, it, especially the 
two last, mentioned. I think there must be 
many ladies who have had more experience 
than myself in the line of such work, and I 
would be very thankful for information. 
Please give us a long chapter on wax flowers, 
bleaching and sheeting wax, making crayon 
pictures, &c. 
1 will give you my method of making 
paper holders and brackets of old hoops, 
which we consider quite pretty. After you 
have made the frame the size you wish, the 
wax is then prepared os follows one pound 
beeswax, iqelted ; one ounce balsam fir, ami 
one ounce English vermillion ; stir well to¬ 
gether, t hen apply to the brackets by hold¬ 
ing them over the dish which contains the 
ingredients and dip on with a large spoon ; 
old grape curds, stems and twigs, tied on 
before putting on the wax, arc quite an im¬ 
provement. Lady friends of this paper 
plea e contribute more freely. I think Mr. 
Editor will have no objections. Let us hear 
from you often, Mary Kate. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
Meat Eaters and Vegetarians, a writer 
says, “show ,in their persons the effects of 
the diet. The first has the most brain force 
and nervous energy. A mixed food of animal 
and vegetable rations developes the highest 
intellectual powers. A strictly vegetable 
living ordinarilly gives a fair complexion, 
and amiability and extreme pugnacity when 
the vegetarian's views in regard to that one 
engrossing thought of his life are discussed. 
They arc annual-mooting reformers, without, 
ever setting a river on fire. Arabs are a 
sober, frugal race, rather slender, not tall, 
conscientious and contentious on religious 
subjects. They largely subsist on rice, pulse, 
milk and keiraac, something similar to 
whipped cream, through a vast region of an 
arid country where they are indigenous. 
They are not destitute of mutton, goats, 
camels and game ; but they manifest no dis¬ 
position to feed upon meats, ms is necessary 
in temperate zones or in high, northern lati¬ 
tudes. An intellectual man, one of their 
kindred, who rises to distinction by the gran¬ 
deur of his mental status, is extremely rare. 
The beer and ale drinkers expand and grow' 
fat, but they are not much given to profound 
researches in science. 
Excessive Use of Water .—In the manufac¬ 
tories of all kinds, water (very often iced) is 
placed within, easy reach of every person, 
male or female, and the effect of this constant 
invitation is seen in the drinking of what 
physicians must regard as unreasonable 
amounts. The foojj is thereby diluted, and 
the stomach is oftentimes chilled below tho 
temperature of the blood, and by repeated 
drafts may be kept in this condition. The 
process of digestion is in this way seriously 
interfered with. A certain amount (70to 1.00 
Ounces) of water is required daily for the 
nutrition of an average adult; but of this 
total requirement, 20 to 30 ounces are con¬ 
tained in the so called solid food, leaving 
about sixty ounces to be supplied in some 
form of liquid, as tea, coffee, and water, Tf 
this amount is greatly exceeded, it forces 
additional and needless work on the organs 
of excretion. 
Queer Specific, for Rheumatism .—We see 
by foreign journals that one of the new no¬ 
tions in Belgium is the use of the Plectrcm- 
t.hus fructicosus for rheumatism. All that is 
required, it is sa id, i s to grow the plant in the 
room occupied by the sufferer. The plant is 
known in England under the name of “ nettle, 
geranium” (probably because, it is neither a 
nettle nor a geranium), but we are unable to 
state whether rheumat ism is unknown in the 
cottages where it is cultivated as a window 
plant. 
Making Fat Persons Lean .—Drink only 
water, or for a change, water with a little 
vinegar ; no beer, or any malt liquors ; no 
' wine, soup, broth, milk, and especially no 
CO-OPERATIVE STORES. 
In Rural New-Yorker of Aug. 1G, I no¬ 
tice in speaking of co-operative stores failing 
of satisfactory success, you say you do not 
know of a single instance of success from 
the old unions once so common in the East¬ 
ern States, and say you would be glad to 
hear of any case in which it was successful. 
I think T can point to one. The business was 
started in the town of Junius, Seneca Co., 
N. Y., in 1833, on the principle above men¬ 
tioned. The association was commenced 
with a capital of $3,000, all paid in previous 
to commencing operations. It was carried 
on for six years and then closed up. In the 
six years it paid 10 per cent, dividend on its 
capital, and closed by paying back its capital 
and 30 per cent, additional. 
Commenced again immediately With same 
amount, of capital, and continued for three 
years, when the store and lot were sold to 
other parties, and t he business closed entire¬ 
ly as far ns co-operation was concerned. It 
continued to pay the 10 per cent, on capital 
stock for last three years, and finally closed 
by paying capital and 30 per cent, to all 
stockholders. Now this was satisfactory to 
the investors and would have been continued 
bad not the property changed hands and de¬ 
prived r.liein of their place of business. 
This is a country place, surrounded by 
t brifty villages, it being not more than ten 
miles from Seneca Falls, Waterloo, Geneva, 
Phelps, Lyons and Clyde, and is considered 
SELECTED RECIPES 
■Take 
Salmon Cutlets with Caper Sauce, 
a slice of salmon two inches thick, carefully 
remove the bones and skin, cut it into slices 
half an inch thick, and flatten each on the 
chopping-board with a cutlet bat dipped in 
water. From these slices cut as many cut¬ 
lets of a uniform shape as you can. Place 
them quite flat on a well buttered baking tin, 
sprinkle pepper and salt, over them, and, ten 
minutes before they are wauled, put them 
into the oven with a sheet of buttered white 
paper over them. Put nil the trimmings of 
the salmon into a saucepan with carrot#, 
onions, thyme, parsley, a buy leaf, a few 
cloves, some whole pepper, salt to taste, and 
a little more than a pint of good stock. Leave 
this to boil gently till reduced one-half, then 
strain the liquor into a basin, and remove 
any fat there may be Melt a piece, of butter 
the size of a walnut, a-dd to it half a tea 
spoonful of flour, and stir it on the tire till it 
is well colored. Add the liquor to this, and 
continue stirring until the sauce boils, then 
add a heaped teaspoonful of capers ; pour 
the same over the cutlets, and serve. 
flow to Bleach Cotton Cloth .—It may 
sometimes become necessary or convenient 
to bleach a piece of cotton cloth, although 
as a general thing it is better to obtain white 
cloths already bleached. Home-bleaching, 
moreover, is apt to injure the fabric more 
than the process in nse at the factories, es¬ 
pecially when manipulated, as it ulway* is 
there, ny skilled hands. However, clothmay 
be bleached as follows : 
To five pounds of cloth take twelve ounces 
of’chloride of lime. Dissolve the Time in a 
small quantity of boiling water ; when cold, 
strain it into a sufficient quantity of water 
to cover the cloth. This must first be boiled 
fifteen minutes in strong soapsuds, and rinsed 
well in clear water. Then put it in the lime- 
water from ten to twenty minute?, airing it 
well by lifting up and down. Rinse thor 
THE CARPET QUESTION 
Seeing the “hip-o-skip” carpet making 
progressing so well, I made up my mind to 
say a little on the subject. The lady who 
wrote in Rural New-Yorker July lit, said 
she felt a good deal of interest in it, so do I. 
We are making one at. present but cannot 
say that it will be done as quick as that lady 
did hers, my daughter cuts t he rags, and 1 
sew them. Perhaps I am older than that 
lady too, I have passed my 70th birthday, 
and being from the old country, never saw a 
rag carpet made there. We think a great 
deal of the Rural, and all its numerous 
friends, who write such nice and interesting 
pieces in it; and the dear childrens’ letters. 
We have taken the good Rural for over 
twenty years. 
We have 45 yards of nice* rag carpet now, 
that wo made last summer. This is our 
fourth piece of carpeting ; it comes in very 
good for summer or winter. It is a saving to 
work up the rags, and <Tears the house of old 
duds, and saves the farmer's daughter from 
sweating over mopping in summer, and 
freezing in winter ; likewise, gives them 
more time to play on the piano or organ, and 
feed their poultry, &e. A subscriber from 
the North. m. 
A BOYS’ DEPARTMENT AT FAIRS 
“ I would have a boys’ department at agri¬ 
cultural exhibitions and lei. them have the 
principal part of its arrangements. For 
judges in that department, I would assign 
men of character, as well as of good judg¬ 
ment. But this is a rough outline ; you can 
fill it up better than I can do It. I think such 
a, course would have a good effect. It would 
operate as an incentive to action to many a 
boy. These boys will be men before many 
years. By attending Fairs and taking an 
active part in them while in youth, they will 
become far better acquainted with each oth¬ 
er from remote sections, and will gain a 
knowledge of the worth and capacity! of 
men in after years' ’ —Mirror and Fanner, 
DOMESTIC BREVITIES, 
Making Cloth Water-Proof .—I write to 
obtain some information about making cloth 
water-proof. What I wish to know is if 
there is any cheap method by which cloth 
