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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
ANOTHER WEEK FROM MRS. CLAY’S 
JOURNAL. 
ANNIE L, JACK. 
Monday.— There were a threat mauy remarks 
passed and much solemn protestation among 
my friendly neighbors when It was understood 
that I did not intend to keep a servant after 
Janet left. Ent months have passed since 
then and a new baby occupies a share of my 
attention ; yet I do not regret the step I have 
taken. For with my sister and little daughters 
th8 wheels of our house hold machinery go 
smoothly, and we are able to get a char-woman 
at regular intervals for the heaviest work. It 
gives one a feeling of independence to be able 
to do this, and it is a good school for yonng 
girls, whose business in life must always be 
that of housekeepers. So Celia and Karen 
take turns In the lighter duties of houtt-work, 
and my sister, who has a knack for cookery, 
takes pleasure in its nice details. Of course, 
there is the dish-washing, and it is indeed the 
greatest lion in the path. Bnt with plenty of 
hot water and towels, a couple of mops and a 
draining board, it Is not difficult to get through 
this wearisome task. I was in a house the other 
day, that caused rue to moralize on the tidiness 
of housekeepers iu general. They were people 
who made pretensions to some style as well-to- 
do farmers. Yet the mistress of the house sat 
and combed her hair in the kitchen close to 
the stove, because the bed-rooms were cold. 
The cooking stove was not ornamented with a 
tea kettle, the old one having been worn out 
more than a year before, and a saucepan was 
used for heuting the water. Yet these same 
people gave away a ten-dollar present at, a 
wedding and did not seem toknow that charity 
begins at home. The chore boy brought in 
water from the well at a little distance and 
filled a barrel in a corner of the kitchen; when 
this was done, he took a tin cup, dipped it 
twice into the barrel and drank, the second 
time returning what he had left to the barrel. 
This water was for household use—drinking 
and cooking purposes, and I mention thi3 
little act to show how email habits of unclean¬ 
liness will be noticed, and to enforce the neces- 
siiy of acquiring tidy methods in all house¬ 
keeping. I suppose these thoughts came to 
my pen more readily because a young man 
came to me lately for advice m a very trying 
predicament. With some stammering he told 
me that he knew two girls, and one was a neat 
housekeeper, always tidy, witn an apron 
or an old skirt over her dress if canght in 
any dirty work. The other was as good to 
work, and not an idle girl, but untidy about 
her clothes, sometimes slipshod, and it he 
called early in the day sure to run away and 
slip on her afternoon dress (a bad sign). He 
knew instinctively when she did this; knew 
the risk, and yet he felt for her a greater re¬ 
gard than for the fiiBt mentioned. I dared not 
advise in the case, but only consoled him with 
the fact that ire was taking the risk with his 
eyes wonderfully open. 
PATENT CHURNS. 
In the Autumn of 1S66 my husband and my¬ 
self, iu company with a wagon-load of our 
neighbors, attended an agricultural fair at 
Bath, 8teubcu Co,. New York. 81nee then I 
have many times thought to write of a churn 
I saw there, but I believe pure laziness has 
each time prevented me. Now, J have always 
contended that the good old dash chum with 
which our foremothers used to coax the butter 
to separate from the cream, was the proper 
instrument; and any innovation by calf, sheep 
or dog power was not to be allowed for a mo¬ 
ment. But there Is nothing so useful in caus¬ 
ing a person to change his opinions as a good 
bit of experience seasoned w ith hard work. 
This I have had, and 1 now cry for se me other 
power besides animals or man, to operate the 
churn. Ann mis brings me back to Bath, and 
the Fair. There were churns and chnms and 
churns on exhibition. Some of them made a 
noise like a thrashing machine, and were as 
hard to operate as a fannlng-mill. Others hid 
no inside works but tumbled over and over 
coruerwiee. Oue was made of tin like an 
overgrown laid can, and turned on a pivot, 
swishing the cream round and round until 
every drop turned to butter I All these re¬ 
quired the assistance of a good stoni pair of 
hands while performing their duty, Thiy 
were all an imp veinent on the old dash 
churn ; bnt none of them exactly hit the mark. 
Away < if in one corner, toward the sheep 
pens, I saw a crowd of men and on inquiring 
of my "other hal." the occasion of such a gath¬ 
ering was told. “It is another of those 
patent churns; I was hoping you wouldn’t see 
it.” Straightway I remarked; "I mast see 
that one, too,” and he meekly acquiesced, and 
we went to s - it. 
Now I am not a machinist nor am I a elock- 
tlnh<;r, and if I fail in giving an accurate de¬ 
scription of this “help to womankind,” you 
can attribute it to the aforesaid fact. 
As near as I can tell it was a system of pul¬ 
leys with one immense weight, which was to 
be wound up like a clock, and being set going 
would churn until run down. If the butter did 
not come then it was wound up again. A 3 
this was really a labor-saying invention, of 
course the men didn't invite their wives and 
sisters and somebody else's sisters to look at 
it. It was the old story of the young man 
going to chureh on horseback, while his sister 
had the choice of walking or staying at home. 
I talked about that churn ail the way home, 
but not a word did “nay wayward pardner” 
vouchsafe in reply until we were almost home, 
when I heard this comforting remark : ** I 
ain't going to get no patent churn. You'd be 
wanting a washing machine uext, and then 
’twould be a wringer, and the goodness only 
knows what next. No, mam; I’m going to git 
one of them K-reapers, though; didn’t it 
do splendid work! No use in breaking my 
back with a cradle, when I’ve got money 
enough to buy a reaper. There’s butter 
enough in the cellar to almost pay for one. 1 
ain't pastured eight cows all Summer for noth¬ 
ing.” Of coarse I subsided, as was fit and be¬ 
coming for a *' weaker vesselbut that churn 
has been in my head at little odd spells ever 
since. 
Improvements that do not lessen the work 
which a woman has to do, or make it easier for 
her, are comparatively useless, except to the 
manufacturer. What is wanted is a churn that 
will do the required labor, without any labor 
of woman or man or dog or calf or sheep ; and 
not one that requires both hands of the over¬ 
worked woman to furnish the power. There 
are hundreds of patent churns and the one 
above referred to comes the nearest to my idea 
of what a labor-saving machine should be; 
and for a large dairy where the churning 
needs to be done twice a day, part of the time, it 
would be far ahead of any churn that must be 
operated by hand. I use the old-fashioned 
dasher in a common churn which is much 
more easily cleansed than square ones— 
an important item when water is scarce or in¬ 
convenient to procure. 
Last night I was talking about this churn 
and trying to describe it, when Willie 6&id, 
“Ma, I saw one like that at Camp Point, 
Illinois, two years ago. It had six cog-wheels 
and the rope that held the weight was fastened 
to the big wheel and the dasher was fixed to 
the small wheel.” The one I saw had no cogs, 
but had a groove in each wheel and a compli¬ 
cated arrangement of cords. 
“ Bessie Victor.” 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Dried-Apple Fruit Cake, Extra. 
Two caps of dried apples, soaked over-night; 
in the morning chop and stew iu two cups of 
molasses one hour. When cold, add one-half 
enp of butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful of 
soda ; cloves, mace, cinnamon, etc., to taste ; 
one cup of raisins and Hour sufficient to make 
as stiff as poiind cake. 
Sponge Cuke Without Egg*. 
One cap of sour cream, one of sugar, nut¬ 
meg, a pinch of salt, one teaspoonful of salera- 
tus mixed in the flour. Stir a little stiffer than 
with eggs. 
Hartshorn Cake, 
One teacupfnl of sugar, one of sour cream, 
one tablespoonful of baking hartshorn, one 
teaspoonful of salt. Mix not very stiff. 
Fruit Stain*. 
Scalding hot milk will tuue out berry stains. 
Cream Jelly Cake. 
In place of jelly, one pint milk, one egg, two 
tablespooDfnls of corn-starch. Sweeten and 
flavor to taste. Dissolve the starch in part of 
the milk; add the beaten egg, stir into the 
boilirg milk and cook. Be careful not to 
scorch while cooking. Let cool. 
For the Cake. 
Three eggs, two cups of Bugar, one cup of 
butter, two cups of flour, one cup of corn¬ 
starch, one cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful 
of soda, two of cream-of-iartur. Bake iu three 
parts. 
French Cake. 
One-half enp of butter stirred toaeream, oue 
enp of sweet milk, two of sugar, three of flour, 
with three teaspoonfuls of cuam-o - urtar. 
stirred through, three eggs, one teaspu.ni'ul of 
lemon extract; udd a teaspoonlul of soda last 
of ail. 
Southed Milk for Coffee, 
If you eannot obtain cream you will fud 
scalded milk the best substitute. 
Cabbage, 
Take half a solid head of cabbage; with a 
sharp kuife shave fine; mix salt enourh 
through tOfleaSon, and put into a vegetable dish. 
Take two eggs, beat well, put in adishwUh 
two-thirds of a pint of good vinegar, set on 
the fire, stir till Bolling, and pour over the 
cabbage. Put the cover ou the dish. When 
cold, slice two or throe hard-boilid eggs over 
the top, sprinkle with pepper and you have a 
dish no ouster supper is complete without. 
Drown Bettle. 
Pat In your pndding-dlsh a layer of bvead 
crumbs, then a layer of spiced apples, and so 
on until your dish is fall. On each layer of 
apples sprinkle some sugar, a few bits of butter 
and a littfe nutmeg; add a little water. Bake 
three-fourths of an hour. To be eaten with 
sweet cream or hot sauce. 
Float or French Cuatard. 
Beat the yelks of five eggB with 10 table¬ 
spoonfuls of sugar, stir in a quart of new milk; 
place over the fire and stir until it creams 
(don’t cook too long) Pour in a dish yon can 
cover. Spread carefully over the top the whites 
of >heeggs, which must have been beaten to a 
stiff frotb ; cover and leave till cool. Grate 
nutmeg over the top before serving. This is 
nice for tea. 
For Diarrhoea. 
First give a preparation of magnesia and 
rhubarb in the proportions of six tablespoon¬ 
fuls of magnesia to one of rhubarb. Dose, one 
teaspoonful taken la a little milk and sugar. 
After this has taken effect give a teaspoonfnl 
of the following “ hot drops” every two hours 
until relieved: one-half pint of alcohol, one 
ounce of cayenne popper, one ounce of lauda¬ 
num, one ounce of camphor gum, one ounce 
of extract of rhubarb, three drops of oil of 
peppermint. For chrouic diarrhoea, give a 
half teaapoonful three times a day. The rhu¬ 
barb and magnesia should, however, be taken 
first. 
Soap. 
As Spring is here I send my recipe for mak¬ 
ing soar*. Run off the lye before starting the 
fire, boil It until it will strip a feather while 
you can count ten, Add grease as long as it 
will eat it up It will be strong, but will not 
eat one’s hands like soft soap. Onetablespoon- 
fol stirred in warm water will make over half 
a bowlful of soft eoap. I m^ke it in prefer¬ 
ence to soft soap. It is better and takes less 
storage. M. J. Stewart. 
* Omelette. 
Six eggs, whites and yelks beaten separately, 
a t.ablespoonful of sweet cream, a teaspoonfol 
of salt, out-third teaapoonful of pepper, a 
small spoonful of butter aud the same quanti¬ 
ty for the frying-pan. 8Ur the butter to a 
foam, sdil the cream, pepper and salt, then 
the yelks beaten well, and, last, the whites, 
which should be beaten until they stand alone. 
Have the butter in the pan hot and turn in 
the mixture. Turn and lift the pan as the 
omelette cooks. Be careful not to burn. Raise 
the omelette at the edges with a broad knife 
to keep from burning. Set the pan on the 
grate in the oven to brown and serve rouud, or 
turn one-half Mpon the other as soon as the 
top ceases to be liquid. Send at once to table. 
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No Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil as 
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A trial entails but the comparatively trifling outlay 
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Coloring Rag*. 
It will oblige me if some of the lady readers 
of the Rural, will send me through Domestic 
column, recipes for coloring carpet rags. I 
would like those for red, yellow, orange, bine, 
green and any other they may think necessary 
for a idee stripe. Mrs. J. 8. 
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