who remained there several days became ill, 
but immediately recovered when they re¬ 
turned to their own homes ; the family had 
uninterrupted health, servants and all. 
The family physician took the matter in 
hand, and after patient and close investiga- 
Many times I have read in t ion, ascertained that tbo family put their 
un or some other paper ex- guests in their “spare rooms”—the very 
(he “Rural New-Yorker” best, in the building—and that these rooms 
me a great desire to road it. were the only papered rooms, and that a 
ks ago 1 saw it for the first paper had been used which waa covered with 
ws stand, since that l have green figures, looking like velvet. Some of 
number. The interest and this "green” was chemically examined, 
o in the paper increases with and found to contain dust of arsenic so line 
every new number. that every breath of air would send it flying 
foreigner and never wrote to into the apartment, and being breathed into 
%r my writing may not bo cor- the lungs, and swallowed into the stomach 
iderstood, but in No. 12, Sept, saliva, it was introduced immediately into 
dit Talk” encourages me to the blood causing arsenical poisoning. Hall s 
successful I will continue. In Journal of Health. 
iber among other valuable ar 
“Be Careful About Needles. 
they are to be dried on plates ; and they dry 
so quickly that they do not sour.” 
7 . The following is from Mrs. D. “ Take 
one bowl of hops, put into a spider and All up 
with water; let them boil a half hour or 
more, keeping it full of water ; then strain 
the liquor into a small pan, add a good tea¬ 
spoon salt. 1 handful flour, and stir with In¬ 
dian meal to the consistency of batter ; lot it 
stand until lukewarm, then stir in your 
emptyings and cover up warm to rise. W hen 
light, mix with Indian meal and make in rolls 
and slice off ill cakes and lay them on your 
mix-board to dry. I set mine on a small 
table id the kitchen ; turn every day, and 
when dry, put In a bag and hang up for use. 
I make three or four times a year and have 
never failed of haviug nice ones.” 
BE CAREFUL ABOUT NEEDLES 
A YEAST CHAPTER, 
Will you be so good as to insert in jour 
valuable paper the best formula you know 
of for making a good and cheap yeast—or 
give us several of them —as many young 
give us several oi i.nem — y 
housekeepers about here are in great per¬ 
plexity about, their dough not " rising, and 
the “help” we have being mostly fresh im¬ 
ported from the corn and tobacco fields, docs 
^ . * .1. «t lioflonnrr 
not give us much assurance or uerxenng opi 
unhappy condition.—C. P. M,, Alexandria, 
Va. 
In response to the above we give a few of 
the many yeast recipes that have been fur¬ 
nished the Rural New-Yorker : 
1 . Mrs. W. A. Tower, Lexington, M’tss., 
took the first premium offered by the Mid¬ 
dlesex Agricultural Society for the best un¬ 
bolted wheat flour bread and made the fol¬ 
lowing statement concerning the yeast used : 
“ For yeast, I take 4 mashed potatoes, 1 cup 
white sugar, 1 cup Hour, and pour on this 
mixture 1 quart scalding water in which a 
handful of hops has been boiled ; then add 1 
pint lukewarm water, stir, strain and let it 
rise over night.” 
2 . Mrs. L. O. M. of North Carolina says the 
easiest and quickest way to make yeast is : 
“ Wusli and pare a half-dozen potatoes; boil 
them till perfectly done ; mash them thor¬ 
oughly ; add a handful of flour and pour on 
enough of the water fn which they were 
boiled to make a batter ; set this aside until 
it is lukewarm and then stir in enough yeast 
to make it rise. This is put near the fire in 
winter or in a warm place in summer until 
it rises ; it is then set in a cool place and is 
ready for use. By this method it can be 
TAKE TIME TO REST 
HEALTH OF VASSAR STUDENTS 
Most men and women must keep iu the 
traces, and keep pulling, the year round. 
All the more, therefore, is it their duty to 
take things easier as the hot weather comes 
on. Take longer rest at noon. Put on less 
steam when you are at work. Snatch a 
Sunday now and then from the middle of 
the. week. You can’t? You can. People 
They can 
well. 
In the one aspect of florid health, the stu¬ 
dents of Vassar have always attracted the 
attention of visitors “The world may be 
challenged,” says Mrs. Dali, “to produce in 
any one neighborhood, four hundred young 
women of so great physical promise.” I am 
not alone in affirming that, a girl’s health is 
far safer at Vassar college than in most of 
our secondary schools. In fact, very few 
have at, home what they get at Vassal*—regu¬ 
lar exercise and sleep, plain, abundant food, 
pure air and pure water, externally, inter¬ 
nally and eternally, 
It can be demonstrated that there Is a pre¬ 
servative influence in a high education. 
1 Hard study is a tonic. Regulated mental 
labor conduces to health. It will not hurt 
anybody to flunk ; the desideratum i 3 more 
thought. It is not brain work that gives 
headaches, but the want, of it, joined to lux¬ 
ury and irregularity. Something besides 
study endangers the health of school girls 
heavy flounces, high-heeled shoes, false hair, 
long evenings and sour bread. Where study 
kills one, fashion slays a thousand. In the 
words of President Bascora, society is more 
to be dreaded than education. If half the 
brain work now expended in dressing the 
body, were given to Latin and mathematics, 
the women and the world would bo better. 
was stringing them on a thread with a 
needle when two boys happened to fight 
near me. I did not want to interfere, nor 
did I like to be disturbed, therefore I tried 
to get clear from them when my string of 
cherry stones fell on the floor and l on it, 
the ueedle entering my right leg a little be¬ 
low the knee with both ends of the thread 
out. I pulled it but it would not come out. 
The doctor of too school was immediately 
called, the result, was a surgical operation, | 
the mark of which still exists, about half an 
inch in diameter and a quarter of an inch 
deep, and in operating the thread was cut. 
Another doctor was called, hut they did nob 
do anything, and the former pub a plaster 
on the wound to heal it. I remarked to him 
that loadstone in the plaster might draw the 
needle out., he laughed at my idea and said 
lb was Of no use. The same day lie put an 
other plaster on. On the next day when he 
You can 
find time to be sick and to die. 
just as easily find time to rest and keep 
Everything does not depend on finishing that 
dress or fencing that field ; on “ putting up ” 
so much fruit or catching so many customers. 
Better that the. children should wear old 
clothes than that, their mother should be 
laid aside by a fever. Better that the corn 
crop be a little lighter than that there should 
be no one to harvest it. Let us have shorter 
sermons and fewer of them on Sunday; 
longer recesses for tho children at school on 
week-days. Put up the store-shutters earlier 
at night ; prepare plainer meals iu the 
____ kitchen. Take a noonday nap yourself, and 
“ gjx largo potatoes, pared and grated give your employes a chance to go a Ashing 
] large spoonful salt; 1 half teacup of an afternoon now and then. 1 hat only is 
sugar; small handful hops boiled in duty which the Lord lays upon us, and he is 
Is water, poured on the ether ingre- not so hard a master as wo sometimes sup- 
hollincr hot and stirred thorouuhlv : pose.—Advance. 
HOW TO SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE 
furniture with linseed oil, 
1st. Rub your 
and preserve carefully the old, greasy rags 
used for this purpose, in a paper box in an 
out-of-the-way place. 2d. If the fire in the 
stove does not burn well, pour benzine or 
kerosene, on it from a well-filled gallon can. 
3d. When you light your cigar or the gas, 
throw the burning match—no matter where, 
and don’t look after it, even if it gets into 
the waste paper basket, itli. Put a burning 
candle on the shelf of a closet and forget all 
about it. 5th. Always read in bed until 
you fall asleep, with a burning candle near 
you. 6 th. Especially for builders : Put the 
ends of the wooden beams into the Hue 
walls ; and if you build hot-air furnaces, be 
careful to use as much wood as possible in 
their construction. 7tb. Always buy the 
Vio»np.«r. kerosene vou can get .—Industrial 
HYGIENIC NOTES, 
Cure for the Opium Habit .—In a recent 
report, on tho condition of tho English hos¬ 
pital at Fokin, China, the attending physician 
gives a formula for “ anti-opium pill -.” This 
remedy is composed of extract of henbane, 
extract of gentian, camphor, quinine, cay¬ 
enne pepper, ginger and cinnamon, with 
castile soap and sirup to form the mass, and 
licorice powder to form the coating. The 
efficacy of these pills in overcoming the 
opium habit, and in preventing tho suffering 
on giving up the use of that poison, is stated 
to have been proved in numerous cases. 
The native remedies, it is said, contain opium 
in some 
Note— Medical Mysteries .—'The well-told 
stury of our correspondent enforces the in¬ 
junction of the title, “Bo Careful About 
Needles.” We are inclined, however, to 
draw another lesson from It. There was 
either no loadstone or magnet in the plaster, 
or if the doctor was foolish enough to put it 
in, it was of no use. 
It was very natural for 
the lad whose studies had instructed him in 
regard to the qualities of magnets to suggest 
loadstone in the plaster, as he knew the in¬ 
tention was to cause tho “drawing” of the 
wound. The doctors simply deceived him 
when they attributed the drawing out of 
the needle and thread to this means. 
There seems to be a feeling among physi¬ 
cians that they should surround their art 
with as much of mystery as possible. 
Knowledge of medical matters is becoming 
so much diffused of late years that this prac¬ 
tice i 3 dangerous. The readers of the Rural 
New-Yorker may safely regard it as a fact 
and shape their actions accordingly that any 
doctor is an ignorant charlatan who attempts 
to mystify them about diseases or medicines 
form, and most frequently tho ashes 
of opium already smoked, and consequently 
are inefficacious—it being as difficult to dis¬ 
continue the use of tho medicine as of the 
drug itself. 
Quack Advertisements.— There are prob¬ 
ably few families in the United States but 
receive every year more or less advertise¬ 
ments and circulars of patent medicines. As 
they are always written with a view to tho 
SELECTED RECIPES, 
Stewed Tomatoes .—Scald them m order to 
remove the skins. Cut them up and put 
them iuto a sauce pan, with a little salt, a bit 
of butter and some fine crumbs of bread or 
pounded cracker. Let them stew gently an 
hour ; if you like them sweet, add sugiir ten 
minutes before serving. 
Cauliflower Omelette.— Take the white 
part of a boiled cauliflower after it is cold 
and chop it very small, and mix with it a 
sufficient quantity of well beaten egg, to 
i make a very thick batter, and thou fry it in 
fresh bnt.ter. in a small pan, and send it to 
In pans to dry. I never make them into 
cakes, as they are liable to sour. 
6 . Mrs. S. S. M. sends us her mode, and says 
the resulting cakes she prefers to any she 
ever boughtTake at night two yeast 
cakes (which is more than I use for a batch 
of bread, as 1 only take one or one and a half 
for three or four tins of bread) put them in 
as much warm water as they will soak up ; 
set them where they will keep warm ; then 
put a quart of boiling water in a kettle over 
the fire ; throw in a handful of salt and stir 
in Indian meal enough to make a rather thin 
mush. Just let it cook while you are stirring 
in the meal, as it only wants to scald ; set it 
where it will cool. When you think it is cool 
enough, stir It thoroughly, that none of it 
will be hot enough to scald the yeast; then 
put in the cakes which have been soaked as 
above, say an hour, mixing them thoroughly 
with a spoon or your hand, which is better ; 
cover them and let them remain in the ket¬ 
tle by the side of the stove, all night; in the 
morning, mix iu meal enough to make them j 
stiff enough to roll up in a long roll and cut I 
off into cakes a half inch thick ; dry on a 
wire sieve ; you can hang it up behind the 
stove. Keep the air from them and keep 
them warm till you see they begin to rise ; 
after that they will need no more care until 
perfectly dry, unless it be in cold weather ; 
then, of course, they must not be left where 
they will get chilled. They do not want to 
be mixed quite as stiff to dry on a sieve as if 
or treatment, or whom they find deceiving 
them or any patient, except under some 
very peculiar circumstances when the pa¬ 
tient’s well-being depends upon his ignorance 
of the truth. The easiest way a doctor can 
hide his own ignorance is to make a great 
mystery about the matter. 
a too sharp turn, or an orifice naruiy large 
enough to admit a pin, lodgments of par¬ 
ticles are made; these being kept wet, de¬ 
compose the lead pipe, set the poison 1 roe, 
the family take a little of it day by day, and 
in weeks, or months, or years, one or more 
of the members begin to sicken without 
appreciable cause; 3 ome go abroad and get 
well, others pine away ; some who are full of 
vigor, or are away from home a great deal, 
remain apparently uninjured. In these cases 
the effects are seen of taking a very little 
poison into the system every day. A hospit¬ 
able English family was greatly chagrined 
from its having been observed in the neigh 
l borhood that every visitor to the mansion 
until the whole becomes a glutinous 
strain off the jelly and let it stand to 
This is nutritious and light. 
