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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. JUNE 4 
Domestic (f totiomi). 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
PITHS. 
Let the ohildren have pets. 
Good flour should be of a creamy white. 
Ornament your dining table with flowers. 
Keep brown flour on hand for thickening 
gravy. 
Coffee which has not been roasted improves 
with age. 
Stews if properly made are healthful and 
digestible. 
Cooks make a mistake in thi nkin g all soup 
should be thin. 
Lemon juice is a strengthener of the nervous 
system. 
Reheating coffee just before grinding brings 
out the flavor. 
Make two large pookets in your kitchen apron 
and in one of them always keep a holder. 
*' In dressing salad mind this law: 
With two hard yelks use one that’s raw." 
Suet chopped fine and mixed with flour and 
then tied down tightly in a jar will keep good 
from ten days to two weeks. 
One drop of the attar of roses on a piece of 
white paper to a pound of tea imparts a very 
fine flavor—keep the canister closely covered. 
The economy of the French is proverbial, and 
the following is only a fair sample: All pieces 
of dry and damaged bread are utilized. Some 
of it is dried in ovens and used in soup at low- 
class restaurants, some pounded into a white 
paste and used by meat-men to ornament cutlets, 
while the poorest crusts are reduced to charcoal 
and converted into a tooth paste. 
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COOKING. 
Mv plans for oooking do not consist so much 
in weighing, measuring or implicitly following 
directions, as in endeavoring to use judgment 
and tact, it it may be so called. For instance, 
before commencing to cook a meal, I set my 
wits to work to devise a plan for the meal. I 
consider first, how much time and expense I 
wish to expend, and what my seasonable re¬ 
sources are; and if some things which are 
generally required are not attainable, I must 
substitute others, or I must strive to arrive 
at the desired result—a wholesome meal well 
served—by some other route. My cooking, 
both from principle and necessity, is generally 
very plain. I am an advocate of a simple, plain 
and very neat system of oooking, having regard 
for both purse and digestive organs. A little 
experience and scrupulous care, combined with 
good taste in serving, will, providing t'ie ma¬ 
terials are fresh and well-kept, enable one to 
prepare a meal fit for a king, or what is much 
more desirable, fit for one’s own family, with 
but little time and waste. I think as much care 
and skill are required to properly prepare bread, 
coffee, potatoes and common articles of food, aB 
in the manufacturing of rich pastry, cakes and 
sauces; and yonug housekeepers, and old ones 
too, for that matter, should take more genuine 
pride in preparing each meal carefully and 
economically than in being able to get up rich, 
costly, and often unhealthy food for special 
occasions on company. 
Negligent habits in throwing away, or what is 
not much better, placing on the table remnants 
of food, cold in the dishes in which they were 
formerly served, is almost sure to disgust or 
cause it to be again left. Whereas, if it were re¬ 
warmed in a skillful manner, or used to prepare 
something of an entirely different form, it would 
serve to make very palatable dishes. 
I get some very useful hints from recipes, but 
I seldom use them without some change to 
accord with my own circumstances. 
Iowa. Mrs. Mart B. B. 
ORNAMENTATION CARRIED TOO FAR. 
Will you allow me to ask if someone will 
not through the Rural give young ladies some 
instructions how to make themselves useful ? 
This ornamentation I think is being carried a 
little too far. Our daughters could surely be 
much more sensibly employed if they spent a 
little more time in the kitchen assisting their 
over-burdened mothers and less in pasting pagan 
pictures on jars etc., and then calling it orna¬ 
menting. It seems strauge to me that an en¬ 
lightened and civilized people should desire to 
have such reminders of Paganism iu their 
homes. I do not wish it understood that I object 
to ornamenting our homes providing there is 
good taste shown and not so much tune given 
to it as to exclude the useful. I, however, wish 
the two could be more equalized, hence the 
appeal. Mbs. P. W. A. 
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AN EXCELLENT HOME PASTE. 
One ounce of the best gum tragacanth; a 
teacupful and a-half of clear soft water and a 
bit of corrosive sublimate, not larger than a 
pea. Free the gum from all impurities and put 
it with the corrosive sublimate into au earthen¬ 
ware vessel having a close cover; add the water 
and let stand where it will be kept warm—not 
hot. Stir with a stick several times during the 
day. When properly dissolved the paste will 
be smooth throughout. This is a very conveni¬ 
ent paste for housekeepers, and it will keep 
good for a year. Aunt Katy. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Indian Oorn-Bread. 
Three cupfnls of corn-meal and one of 
Graham; one-half oupful of molasses in which 
diBBolve a teaspoonful of soda; one pint of sweet 
milk and one teaspoonful of Balt. Stir together 
with a spoon and steam three hours and then 
bake one-half hour. 
Cream Pie. 
The following reoipe for cream pie we have 
never seen in print. It is fully equal to lemon 
pie and can be made when it is difficult to get 
lemons. 
Make and bake two nioe under-crusts. Take 
one pint of milk ; four eggs, reserving the whites 
of three to put on top of the pies ; one cup of 
sugar; one-half cup of flour ; stir the sugar, eggs 
and flour to a paste ; pour in the milk; place over 
the fire and stir constantly until it boils; let cool 
a little and flavor lightly with lemon extract. 
Pour into the crusts; beat the whites very light; 
add one-half cup of sugar and spread over the 
pies. Bake very slowly. 
Pork Fruit Cake. 
Chop one pound of salt pork very fine ; pom- 
one pint of boiling water over it; add one pint 
of molasses ; two cups of sugar; one teaspoon¬ 
ful of soda; one pound of raisins; one pound 
of English currants and one-half pound of citron; 
spice to suit the taste. Mix in flour until quite 
stiff. This makes a nice light cake without eggs 
and one which will keep six months. 
Toothsome Molasses Cake. 
One cup of molasses: one cup of sugar; one 
cup of butter; one-half cup of sweet milk ; two 
eggs; one teaspoonful of soda ; one teaspoonful 
of ginger and two each of cinnamon and allspice; 
two and a half cups of flour, 
Michigan Mrs. Minnie Ellis. 
Raspberry Short-Cake. 
Stir into one quart of Horn two teaspoonfuls 
of cream-of-tartar and a little salt; add two 
tablespoonfuls of thick cream or rub into the 
flour one large tablespoonful of bntter or lard ; 
dissolve one small teaspoonful of soda in a little 
milk; mix with milk ; bake quickly and thorough¬ 
ly ; then cut open and lay in Bweeteued rasp¬ 
berries, in abundance, as prepared for the table; 
close again quickly while hot that the berries 
may cook Bomewhat. To be eaten with or 
without a sauce. Rubal Reader. 
Cherry Pudding. 
One cup of sour milk ; one beaten egg ; two 
tabkspoonfuls of butter; one-half teaspoonful 
of soda ; flour to mix ; roll out thin; spread the 
fruit over the paste and roll up; put into a 
floured bag and boil for one hour. May be 
served with a brandy sauce. Miss Cbonk. 
QUERIES ANSWERED. 
Can you give an effective remedy for the early 
destruction of flies which are now, with us, 
beooming annoying? Also a good method of 
preparing stoves before putting them away for 
the summer to prevent rust, which in our sea- 
air is very damaging ? W. 
Ans.—( 1) In the Domestic Department of the 
Bubal of Marob 30th, the proportions of a very 
good home-made fly poison were given which, if 
prepared and placed in each room, will speedily 
lessen the number. You must, however, be 
provided with screens for both doors and win¬ 
dows, and then see that each member of your 
family keeps those net doors and windows closed. 
Never allow the garbage-pail or pans of sour 
milk, etc to stand within or without your kitchen 
door. Nothing but care and watchfulness will 
keep your house tree from flies. 
(2) Asphaltum varnish thinned with a little 
turpentine and applied with a brush; or mix 
stove polish with kerosene until of the consists 
enoy of cream, and apply thickly with a rag ; 
then wrap in papers. 
iftos at % ®lffli. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
New Yoke, Monday, May 2T, 3:30 P. M. 
foreign notes. 
The prevailing drirt of opinion Is peaceful. 
The Russian Count Schouvaloff has had an Inter¬ 
view with Lord Salisbury, and the Impression 
created Is favorable. St. Petersburg journals 
hint that the Congress Is again a possibility. 
The news from Constantinople Is less tranquil. 
A number of Turkish refugees and conspirators 
headed by All Suavl, have made a fruitless 
attempt to depose the Sultan in favor of the 
Idiotic Murad. All Slum was shot by the guard. 
Besides, the Russians advancing their lines 
nearer Constantinople, have been met by warlike 
preparations on the part or the Turks, and both 
are relnforctng and fortifying vigorously, while a 
commission composed of Russian and Turkish 
Generals has been formed to draw a distinct line 
of demarkatlon, on which It has come to no 
understanding as yet. 
Russian emigrants are passing through Ger 
many. It Is believed they are sailors In disguise 
bound for America. Two unarmored Russian 
war ships have left Cronstadt, presumably for 
America. Russian agents are also busy Inspect 
tug the shipping In Sweden with a view to 
purchasing cruisers. Moscow merchants have 
contributed 400,000 roubles towards forming a 
volunteer fleet. 
The weather continues unseasonably cold. 
The Duchess of Argyll Is dead. 
Prince Gortechakoff has had a fresh attack of 
gout. 
The Chinese Government has offered a new 
loan of 2 , 000,000 taels, with the customs revenue 
as security. 
Japanese officials think they have discovered a 
conspiracy against the existing order of things 
and there are wholesale arrests accordingly. 
The English and Russian Asiatic squadrons 
follow each other about closely from port to 
port, and trade In those seas ts very dull in appre¬ 
hension of a war. 
Recent weather In England unfavorable to 
crops. 
The Pope is seeking a place away from Rome to 
pass the summer. The Jesuits are endeavoring 
to keep him In the Holy city. 
The Manchester Guardian concludes from the 
reports of the proceedings of the operatives at 
all points In the strike district that little dls- 
postlon exists to accept the ten per cent 
reduction even temporarily. The spinners 
declare that they would accept five per cent 
reduction outright and nothing more. This at¬ 
titude will prolong the strike Indefinitely, but at¬ 
tempts to secure a compromise will becontlnued. 
There have been m further disturbances, nor Is 
there likely to be, because of the military pre¬ 
cautions. There Is a scheme to put the reduc¬ 
tion to a ballot. It has been done at flve points 
with the results of only 82 8 for the proposal to 
12,972 against It. The Trades Union Congress 
Committee have tendered their sympathy and 
support to the cotton strikers. 
The Vatican Is trying to come to an agreement 
with Germany, with faint hopes of success. 
The German Parliament Is debating the anti- 
sodallst bill. The Government declared the bill 
urgently necessary for the welfare of the State, 
but the opposition Is sufficiently strong to prevent 
Its passage. In either event the Government 
will pursue the socialist organizations with 
vigor In consequence of the recent attempt on 
the Emperor’s life. 
The suspension of diplomatic relations between 
Germany and China Is Imminent. That means 
fight. 
A great fire at Constantinople, within the pre- 
olnts of the Porte, destroyed a greater portion 
of the buildings including the ministries of Jus¬ 
tice and Council of State. 
/Tbe town of Key noser, Mexico, has been cap¬ 
tured by the Lerdo revolutionists, and a prestaino 
of $8,000 levied. The party has moved south¬ 
ward. 
Reports from the districts of Venezuela recent¬ 
ly devastated by the great earthquake, Indicate 
a very widespread destruction of property and 
distressing loss of life. The town of Cua was 
completely destroyed by the heavy shocks of 
April 14, and all the surrounding plantations and 
settlements shared the same fate. 
Before and during the progress of the convul¬ 
sion the heat over the districts visited became 
Intense. Even the rivers were rendered unbear¬ 
able for the flsb, which leaped out of the water. 
The severity of the shocks was greater than has 
been before experienced by the present gener¬ 
ation. 
From Halifax, N. S., news comes of the explo¬ 
sion in the Old Sydney Mines, resulting in the 
death ef six men. 
The first persons to enter the mine after the 
explosion were three brothers named Sullivan, 
who succeeded In rescuing thirteen of the cutters 
who were overcome by the gas. They were un¬ 
conscious for some time, but all ore slowly re¬ 
covering. Sixteen pairs of cutters were at work 
here. 
The Belgian government Is about to ask an ex¬ 
planation from the United States concerning our 
criticism of Mr. Delfosse. 
POLITICAL NEWS. 
The Senate has been discussing, In Committee 
of the Whole, the bill providing a permanent 
form of government for the District of Columbia. 
There has been an election affray in Norfolk, 
Va. 
The Senate la executive session rejected the 
nomination of John B. Frothlngham to be Assis¬ 
tant Appraiser at the port of New York. Mr. 
Conkling made a speech against the confirmation. 
The Senate Committee on Commerce has called 
upon tbe Secretary of War for Information In re¬ 
lation to a number of the proposed river and har¬ 
bor Improvements provided for by the House Ap¬ 
propriation bill, and will not finally act upon the 
bill until the Information is received. 
The National Democratic Committee In caucus 
has adopted the following: "Resolved, That the 
action of the House of Representatives In appoint¬ 
ing a committee fully empowered to investigate 
and report upon the frauds alleged to have been 
committed In the late Presidential election, to 
the end that the truth may be made knowu tc 
the people and the repetition of such rrauds be 
prevented In the future, meets the approval oi 
this committee." 
The Investigating Committee Is not under way 
yet, but both Democrats and Republicans are 
busily preparing for the work of Inquiry. It Is 
understood that General Noyes has already 
asked for leave of absence, in order to come here 
and confront any one who may come forward to 
accuse him before the committee. Secretary 
Sherman has been la consultation with leading 
Republicans, aDd these say that, they feel abso¬ 
lutely certain that no wrong or even impropriety 
can be brought home to the Secretary. Mr. 
William E. Chandler is understood to be engaged 
with the Republicans In looking Into the Florida 
ease. The Democrats keep their own counsel, 
but It is believed that they are looking over llsta 
of witnesses which have been furnished them by 
Morton for the Florida case and by others for 
that of Louisiana, and preparing t,nelr plan of 
o pcratlons. 
Representatives Herbert, House and Hunton, 
of the committee charged with the consideration 
of the method of electing President and Vlce- 
PresideDt, dissent from the plan proposed by the 
majority. This plan proposes, In brief, to allow 
each State a number of electoral votes equal to 
the number of Its Senators and Represenatlves In 
Congress, but to prorate these votes among ean- 
dldates according to the popular vote. Each 
candidate for President and Vice-President, is to 
have allotted to him his aliquot proportion of the 
electoral vote or every State in wlilcn he is voted 
for. These when counted and ascertained, must 
bo forwarded to Washington, and the candidates 
having a plurality or the electoral votes shall be 
declared eluded as President and Vice-President. 
The vermon t republicans have nominated Col. 
Redflcld Proctor for Governor, unanimously : 
Their platform Bays: That the motives and gen¬ 
eral course of tho administration of President 
nayos have our hearty approbation, and, though 
a difference as to policy may exlBt, we rejoice 
In the belief that both the Executive and repub¬ 
licans In Congress are disposed to suffer no 
divisions. 
GENERAL NEWS. 
Reduced freight rates between New York and 
St. Louis, per loo lbs.: 87, 70, 58 and 40, for the 
four classes. 
Coal mining in the Schuylkill is about to be sus¬ 
pended for two weeks. 
Mfich cows are dying near Independence, Mo., 
apparently as a result of eating clover. New 
disease—consternation among cattle dealers. 
Another new American steamship launched. 
The City of Para. 
The female branch of the Executive Is trout- 
fishing. Mrs. Hayes was In luck to the extent of 
20 pounds of trout Scene : Saranac Lake, N. Y. 
Depot Hotel at Lemars, Iowa, burned; cause, 
kerosene. 
The tonado m Wisconsin damaged the town of 
Perry, Waukesha, Mineral Point and adjacent 
territory. Thirty killed, about one hundred In¬ 
jured, and damages to the extent or $20,000. Des¬ 
olation extreme. 
The Bonanza Kings Flood and O’Brien are Bued 
for ever $ 35 , 000,000 by j. H. Burke. 
The North and South Presbyterians are in ses¬ 
sion at Pittsburgh. 
Factories in Fall River, Mass., are suspending 
work temporarily. * 
The Russians have bought a new patent tor¬ 
pedo In New York. 
Confederate graves were decorated in Balti¬ 
more, on the 23d Inst. 
Young Men’s Catholic Union Convention con¬ 
vened In Buffalo, N. Y. Also the Buffalo Sport- 
men’s Convention. 
The rowing regatta on Seneca Lake promises 
well. 
The Columbia Crew have sailed for England to 
row the University Crew, 
The amount collected for tolls on N. Y. Canals 
from May 15th to 22d, was $1,341.37. 
Russian agents are In San Francisco ready to 
Issue letters of Marque to a privateer. 
Indian raids are reported In the vicinity of Dia¬ 
mond City, M. T. 
The revenue agents” are on the whiskey war 
path. A prominent distiller has been arrested 
in Cincinnati. 
A pleasure yacht went over a dam in Galt, Ont. 
Several were spilled out and drowned. 
Disastrous floods reported in Colorado. Rail, 
roads damaged, and loss of lire and property, 
A destructive fire at Hartford, conn. Two 
firemen killed, six injured. One of the finest 
buildings destroyed. 
The Canadian Mounted Police are watching 
Sitting Bull. He is becoming restless. The troops 
on ihe Plains are being recruited. 
The Cincinnati Music Festival, lasting a week, 
was a great success In all respects. 
President Hayes and party attended the cere¬ 
monies at the Hampton Agricultural Institute, 
Fortress Monroe, Va. 
Tha suit of the C. Sc A. Railroad vs. Tllden et al, 
Is in on the U. S. Circuit Court for Illinois. 
Peter Cooper, philanthropist and greenback 
candidate has been sued for a large amount In 
Brooklyn, N. Y., on account of libel. The Jury 
disagreed, four Insisting on six cents damages, 
eight for acquittal. 
Another scandal In Plymouth Church. A Sun¬ 
day School teacher charged with drugging and 
violating a lady. 
The Social Science Convention held Its annual 
meeting In Cincinnati Tho papers read were 
Important. 
Grace Church, New York, has three organs 
that are played by one man. Electricity con¬ 
nects the keys and stops. 
The South Boston Iron Co. are coquetting with 
the Russian Government for the casting of mon¬ 
ster cannon, and the British Consuls are narrowly 
watching and reporting all transaction completed 
by the Russian agents. 
PUBLIC OPINION. 
Comments of tho Independent and Partisan Press. 
Si’eaking of the Fishery Award, the N. Y. 
Times (Rep.) concludes that: 
The payment should be made subject to a pro¬ 
test that will clearly set torth the American feel¬ 
ing In regard both to the unreasonableness of the 
award and its adralasablUty as a precedent. Tak¬ 
ing the tacts as proved, this Is the state of the 
