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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AUG. 34 
Domfstic (Economy. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
MY NEIGHBOR’S LACE LAMBREQUINS. 
“For the land’s sakes!’’ exclaimed Mrs. Brown, 
dropping in upon me for a morning’s call, “ what 
an extravagant oreature that young Mrs. Har¬ 
man is! why just as I was coming through the 
back yard, I happened to glance up, and I do 
declare, if there to all her kitchen windows 
didn't hang the most beautiful lace lambrequins 
I ever set my eyes on. 
“ Lace lambrequins at her kitchen windows! 
you must be mistaken.” 
“ No, I am not, and if you don't believe it, 
jest go and look for yourself.” 
I did so; and there, sure enough, were hung 
what appeared to be elegant lace lambrequins. 
“ She'll ruin that husband of hers,” continued 
Mrs. Brown. “1 must say it makeB me angry 
to see such doings. Mr. Brown is worth twice 
as much as her husband, and I never thought of 
having anything but green paper ourtains at 
any of my windows.” 
“ Well,” I remarked, “ I think myself, it is a 
very extravagant move. Young persons when 
starting in life, should be economical, if ever, 
and look out for a rainy day.” 
“ Have you called ?” asked Mrs. Brown. 
“ No, but I should like to." 
“ Then supposin' you slip on your bunnit, and 
we’ll jest step over. Those lambrequins have 
made me kind o’ curious." 
I assented, and in less than five minutes we 
stood at the door of a pretty oottage. 
“ Good morning, ladies,” said Mrs. Harman, 
appearing at the door in a neat oalico morning 
dress, “walk in,” and she ushered us into a cool, 
shady room, whoBe windows were draped with 
curtains of white dotted muslin. 
She was very social, and we fell at once into a 
pleasant chat. At last Mrs. Brown introduced 
the topic of domestic economy. 
“Yes, indeed,” said Mi's. Harman, “I know 
something of ecououiy. Harry and I are just 
starting in life, and I feel we ought to save in 
every way that we can, without infringing upon 
our real comfort. He wanted me to keep a girl, 
bnt I toid him, no, that I had much rather do 
my own work, and I find it very pleasant too. 
Through the hot weather I arise bright and 
early, and get ail the baking and sweeping out of 
the way before breakfast; then I have plenty of 
leisure to sew. Yesterday, 1 finished those cur¬ 
tains, (pointing to the window,) I didn't thiuk 
they would do so well. I made them out of a 
oouple of old white dresses that I had thrown 
aside—” 
“ You ought to have put your lace lambrequins 
in here,” said Mrs. Brown. 
Mrs. Harman looked puzzled. 
“ What do you mean ?” she asked. 
“ Why them beautiful lace things you’ve got 
hanging up to your kitchen windows; I couldn’t 
think of such extravagance in my house." 
Mrs. Harman broke into a hearty laugh— 
“ Won’t you step out and look at them ?’’ she 
asked. 
“Well I never ! if I ain't beat!" uttered the 
amazed Mrs. Brown, as we surveyed them, For 
lo and behold, they were nothing but newspapers 
out and notched in imitation of lace pattern. 
Mrs. H., kindly showed us how to fold the 
papers and out them, so we both walked home 
and hung lace lambrequins at our kitchen win¬ 
dows—try it. M. E. Stone. 
CRINKLED MUSLIN. 
The secret whereby sheer muslin is made to 
assume the now desirable appearance of crape, 
is this. The dress, tie or bow, is washed in cold 
water, without the use of soap or starch. To 
the rinsing water is added a little dear coffee— 
only enough to give the muslin a faint creamy 
cast. Then wring out by twisting the goods into 
a rope, as tightly as possible, and winding it 
around the clothes line—like a vine—seeming it 
at each end. In this way let it dry thorongbly. 
Then oarefully unwind and shake out, and if 
successful, the muslin will have that creamy, 
crinkled look alone known in orapes. Mary B. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Sliced Cucumber Pickles. 
Medium-Bized green cucumbers, pared, and 
sliced, as for the table. To four quarts of slices 
add one large spoonful of salt, mixing it through 
them. Let them stand over night, and in the 
morning, rinse, and drain through a colander. 
Boil vinegar with whole, white mustard seed, half 
a teaoupful of seed to two quarts of vinegar and 
set it away to cool. Pack the sliced cuoumbers 
in quart cans, and cover with the prepared vine¬ 
gar. Place a bit of alum on top of the pickles in 
each can, and seal. Keep in a dark, cool place. 
Pickles made after this rule, retain much of the 
natural flavor of cucumbers. 
Sliced Tomato Pickles. 
One peck of green tomatoes, sliced ; mix with 
them one half teacupful of salt. Let them stand 
twelve hours, then drain. Place them in a large 
porcelain kettle, or new tin pan. Add one pound 
of brown sugar; one-fourth pound of ground 
mustard ; one tablesDOonful of whole cloves; 
one tablespoonful of allspice; one-fourth pound 
of stick cinnamon; one large green pepper, left 
whole. Cover with best cider vinegar, and set 
on the stove. As soon as the vinegar begins to 
be warm, with a large spoon turn the slices over 
and over, until they are of a yellow color. Be 
careful not to break them. When done, pack in 
jars and cover olosely. Tomatoes for thiB pickle 
should be entirely green. 
Chopped Tomato Pickles. 
One peck of green tomatoeH sliced, and 
sprinkled with one teacupful of Balt. Cover 
with cold water, and let stand over night; rinse 
in fresh water; put three onions and three green 
peppers (medium Hize,) to the tomatoes, and 
chop all fine. Scald in weak vinegar, and drain. 
Add one cupful of grated horse-radish ; one pint 
of white mustard seed, (whole ;) two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of ground cloves ; one of ground cinnamon, 
and one teacupful of brown sugar. Packin jars, 
after mixiug the mass very thoroughly, and 
cover with cold strong vinegar. 
Peach, Flavoring Extract. 
The meats of peach pits, in brandy, make an 
excellent flavoring extract, resembling that of 
bitter almonds. Allow one teacupful of the 
meats, to two of brandy. Take one teaspoonful 
of the liquor to a quart of custard, or cake 
dough. 
Grape Pickles. 
Select small bunches of ripe, firm grapes and 
pack In the jarB, in which they are to he kept. 
To a quart of vinegar, add a half pound of 
sugar ; one-fourth of a pound of stick cinnamon, 
and an ounce of allspice, (whole). Boil, and 
when cold, turn over the grapes. They will 
keep without sealing. Stone jars, holding a 
gallon each, may be used for these pickles. A 
piece of white ootton cloth, should be spread 
over the dusters, and a plate placed on top, to 
keep them under the vinegar. 
Green Corn Griddle Oakes. 
One pint of grated sweet corn ; oue teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt; oue beaten egg ; one large Bpoonful 
of sweet milk ; two large sjjooufuls of flour ; and 
a little black pepper. Add a large spoonful of 
melted butter, and mix well with a spoon, Drop 
on a hot, buttered griddle, and fry until of a 
rich brown color, on both sides. Shape the 
cakes so as to resemble oysters, which they are 
like in taste. Nice with meats for dinner, if 
served vory hot. 
Lima Beans. 
After shelling, let them lie in cold water for 
an hour; drain, and add enough boiling water 
just to cover; cook until tender, or until the beans 
are nearly dry. Season with pepper and salt. 
Add a teacupful of milk, and a bit of butter and 
let the beans boil up once before serving. 
Tomato Sauce. 
Pare and slice one peck of ripe tomatoes, and 
one quart of onions. Sprinkle with one teacup¬ 
ful of salt, and let them stand two hours; then 
drain ; next, add one half ounce of black, 
ground pepper ; one-fourth pound of whole, 
white mustard seed; one large spoonful of 
ground cloves; one teacupful of brown sugar, 
and one quart of vinegar. Boil all together, 
for three hours. To be eaten with meats, like 
catsup. Omit onions, if not liked. 
Iowa, Mbs. M. G R. 
fUtos of f|t Mtfh. 
POLITICAL. 
Monday, August 26,1878. 
On Wednesday a conference of the principal 
Hayes republicans of this State met at Saratoga, 
principally to concert measures for the defeat of 
Conkllng's re-election to the Senate. The partici¬ 
pants are gentlemen of high character, but with 
a slim following, aud many of them would sooner 
see a democrat elected than the present senior 
senator from the Empire State. The present out¬ 
look Is that there will be a flerce struggle over 
the election, and that this very handsome, aristo¬ 
cratic tall will try hard to wag the shaggy repuo- 
llcan dog. Should the dog refuse to be wagged, 
It la not improbable that the tall will attempt to 
disrupt It, and, falling In this, will, at least tem¬ 
porarily, part rrom It and try to find a place at 
the head of the rival animal. On the following 
day, Thursday, the Democratic State Committee 
decided, at the same place, to hold a State Con¬ 
vention at Syracuse on Sept. 2&, The meeting 
was under control of the Tammany or antl-Tllden 
party; and It was made evident that the alleged 
bargain with the Oonkllngltes Is a myth. The 
general feeling was that the democrats would be 
able to secure a majority of the next legislature, 
and so be able to elect a United States Senator, 
even without the aid of disaffected republicans. 
The movement to place Ben Butler In the Govern¬ 
or’s office lu Mass, has been actually started by 
the circulation of a vast number of petitions ask¬ 
ing him to run as an Independent candidate. Up 
to yesterday these were open for signatures, and 
It Is expected that I 2 ,ooti have been received In 
Boston, and 40,0(10 In the State at large. Mean¬ 
while all the “ ktilteba " of the “ Hub " and a good 
deal of the respectability of the State are In dire 
alarm lost “bug-bear” Butler Bhould be elected 
by the “ rubble " as the highest representative of 
the Inhabitants of the commonwealth. It is said 
that. President Hayes has contributed liberally 
towards campaign expenses in the fall, and not¬ 
withstanding the uplifted hands and eyes of 
clvll-servlce reformers, it has been decided that 
the citizens of the different States employed 
In the Departments at Washington, shall be 
given leave of absence to go homo and vote. 
Some time back postmaster Smith, of Chicago, 
refused to permit his subordinates to be taxed 
for campaign expenses, and thereby got Into hot 
water with the Republican National Committee 
at Wahtogton; and now postmaster Loge, of Cin¬ 
cinnati, has bruakly refused to contribute, and 
there Is a number of sportsmen hunting for his 
official Bcalp. 
In spite of the number of times the newspapers 
have brought Alex. H. Stephens, of Georgia, to 
death’s door, or even thrust him Inside Its thresh¬ 
old, the old man has lived to brilliantly defeat 
the bourbons of his district who wished to ostra¬ 
cise him from the democratic party on account 
of his patriotlo Independence during the late 
electoral troubles. He la now receiving con¬ 
gratulations from all sides on hl3 unopposed re- 
nornlnation to Congress, after an active personal 
canvass of his district, during which he display¬ 
ed much of the eloquence and statesmanship 
that, a generation ago, won him his celebrity. 
The numbers of men, up North here, willing to 
serve their country In Congress, is by no means 
small, hut down South the number Is vastly 
greater. For Instance, outside Btophens’ dis¬ 
tricts In Georgia, there are said to be at least live 
congressional candidates for the least contested 
districts In the State, and the number of aspirants 
range up to more than twenty for many districts. 
The fact la almost every Southern man with a 
common-school education. Is a statesman, or 
flatters himself with that notlou. 
The Tenessee democratic convention arraigns 
the republicans for the conversion of greenbacks 
Into bonds; for demonetizing silver; for estab¬ 
lishing national banks; for lixlng a period for re¬ 
sumption; for levying high duties on tobacco 
and alcoholic drinks and for adcnlnlaterlng the 
government In the Interest of the rich and 
against the poor. It then demands the repeal of 
the Act rnaklDg bonds payable In coin; the re¬ 
peal of the Resumption Act; the substitution of 
greenbacks for national bank notes; the raising 
of all future government loans by the Issue of 
paper money bearing no Interest; the coinage of 
sliver In unlimited quantities and the payment 
In it of all government obligations. This plat¬ 
form Is condensed as a specimen of what the bulk 
of Southern platforms will substantially be this 
fall. By the way. Secretary Governs says ho has 
no ambition to run for the governorship of Ten- 
essee. Mr. Spear, Commissioner of Patents has 
been removed, and Gen. Paine, ex-member Of 
congress from Wisconsin appointed In his stead, 
much to the disgust of clvll-servlce reformers who 
think that a subordinate could easily have been 
found In the office capable of discharging the 
duties of the position much more effectively than 
the new appointee. What adds to their dis¬ 
appointment is that the change has occurred In 
the department of Secretary schurz, the model 
s. c. r. 
The Potter fraud committee still continues Its 
Investigation In this city; but during the past 
week Its control has been entirely In the hands Of 
Ben. Butler, who has spent nearly all the time In 
an attempt to flx directly upon the President the 
responsibility of the bargain, In accordance with 
which the republican governments In Louisiana 
and South Carolina were overthrown. The pub¬ 
lic of all parties arc getting wearied of the Inter¬ 
minable wrangles and contradictions of this 
body, and the wish seems pretty general that the 
committee should “give us a rest." Leet, the 
lively witness of last week, who became crazy at 
the close of his examination, has been sent to 
Btoomlngdale Insane Asylum, suffering rrom 
acute dementa. Doctors say he may recover In 
six months or so. Hewitt’s Committee on Labor 
has been listening during the week to various 
theories on the present business depression. 
Only a few representsves of labor appeared be¬ 
fore them, but their place was supplied by pro¬ 
fessors of colleges, manufacturers aud merchants 
—the general opinion being tbat over-production 
Is the cause of the stagnation. Out In Lee and 
Phillips counties, Arkansas, the democrats are 
reported to have adopted the “ shot-gun ” plan of 
carrying an election. The congressional district, 
of which these counties form a part, gave Hayes 
2,000 majority, and now the republicans declare 
they arc afraid to run a ticket. Governor Miller 
has ordered the armed bands to disperse, but the 
republicans say that, even if the order 1s obeyed, 
It has come too late. 
MISOELLANEODS. 
Good news for dairymen! Cheese has been 
adopted as an army ration. The benefit from 
thin measure will not arise so much from the 
quantity of cheese consumed by our handful of 
troops, as from Its tendency to popularize Its use 
among the people at large. For, although Ameri¬ 
cans eat more butter than any other nation pro¬ 
portionately, there Is little doubt but that they 
use less cheese. Out In Dakota, on the Dalrymple 
farm, 18,000 acres of wheat were cut in Just a 
dozen day8. it Is all No. 1 wheat, aggregating at 
least 300,000, and 15 steam threshers, each thresh¬ 
ing l,ooo bushels a day, will turn out the whole of 
It in 24 days. It la Chicago that furnishes the 
most noteworthy of dishonest rascals this week, 
in the person of C. W. Angell, secretary of the 
Pullman Palace Car Company, who has absconded 
to Europe with upwards of fl20,00fl of the money 
intrusted to his keeplog. ’Twaa a clear case of 
robbery uot of defalcation, this time. Missouri Is 
sadly burthened with a tricky State treasurer 
named GateB. This worthy has been bolstering a 
couple of rotten banks, controlled by Ms bonds¬ 
men, by depositing In them the money of the 
State. The banks, however, failed, and the State 
has thereby lost a round million, without getting 
rid of lis treasurer, however, who still continues 
to deposit the public taxes in the bank of St. 
Joseph, whoso president Is also on Ills bond. 
Some time back It was mentioned here that an 
actlwlth regard to the Hot Springs, Arkansas, 
Government Reservation, passed just at the close 
of last session of Congress, had not been enrolled 
by the clerks, and thus remained Inoperative. It 
Is now stated that the error was duo to the dis¬ 
honesty of two congressmen and as many clerks, 
who were bribed to cause the omission, by parties 
interested in the springs who would gain by this 
rascality. Up In Western Vermont migrating 
quails are provtDg themselves as lormldable ene¬ 
mies to potato beetles as Guinea fowls are re¬ 
ported to be elsewhere. For some time back 
there has been a heavy emigration of the Indus¬ 
trious Inhabitants of Iceland, who, at home, have 
been sorely troubled by volcanic fires and hyper¬ 
borean cold and ice during tbelr long nights 
and equally long days. Lately 406 of the wander¬ 
ers arrived In Quebec, via Glasgow, Scotland. 
Of these, 100 will remain In Ontario, Canada, 
another loo will settle In Lyon Co., Minn, wnile 
the remaining 200 will join the colony already 
established by former bands of their countrymen 
away out in Manatoba. 
A prominent Chicago paper having lately 
charged that oleomargarine or “ tallow-butter," 
was being mixed with the creamery butter man¬ 
ufactured lu the neighborhood of Elgin, 111., a 
number of the largest manufacturers of creamery 
butter thereabouts, together with the members 
of the Board of Trade tor the sale of dairy butter, 
emphatically denounce the statement as false, 
so far ns they are concerned, and strongly repudi¬ 
ate the use of the concoction. Granting full faith 
to the guarded denial of those gcutlemeu, there 
Is no particle of doubt but that a vast, quantity of 
oleomargarine Is used In this country In the man¬ 
ufacture, or rat her adulteration,of dairy products, 
and the restriction placed upon this denial, 
coupled with other repRO^s. renders It not Im¬ 
probable that other butter-ankers lu that region 
participate In the.fraud. Tills is an abuse the 
prompt exposure of whlon is of Importance to the 
entire dairy Interest. 
An abstract of a chapter from the Report of the 
Bureau of Statistics or MaBsachusetts has Just 
been Issued in anticipation of the publication of 
the whole book next January. It gives a detailed 
estimate of the unemployed skilled and unskilled 
laborers of that state on the first of June. The 
estimate has been compiled from reports on tho 
subject forwarded by the officials of each district, 
and wherever the reports were conflicting, tbat 
giving the greatest number was Invariably 
adopted. It is the first official attempt In any 
State lu the Union to get at the actual number of 
unemployed laborers. It was roughly estimated 
that there were tn the Bay State 200,000 pair of 
adult bauds compulsorily Idle. This Report gives 
the number of unemployed males and females 
over is In the whole State, at 2S.60S. About tho 
first of Jtiue, It Is true, laborers were busy In ag¬ 
ricultural districts, but work In the factories was 
at that time especially slack and some of them 
had temporarily “ shut down.” On the above ba¬ 
sis, the number of unemployed In the United 
States reaches 070,000—a vast number truly—but 
happily small. In comparison with the estimate of 
3 , 000,000 about whom politicians, demagogues and 
growlers have lately been complaining. In view 
of the ract that, In tne entire country, there are 
only 10 , 000,000 people engaged In productive in¬ 
dustries, the exaggerated absurdity of the 3,000,000 
estimate Is readily apparent. 
Last Wednesday a meeting of prominent law¬ 
yers from nearly every state In the Union, met 
at Saratoga, N. V. to organize a National Bar As¬ 
sociation, to response to a call signed by 80 c. 
Evarts, Ex-Sec. Bristow, Slant.ley Mathews and 
three other prominent lawyers. A resolution 
was adopted to Invite to membership those only 
to whom circulars to attend the convention had 
been Issued, ltls to be hoped the new organiza¬ 
tion will act. as a censorship on the members of 
the legal profession aud take measures to rid It 
of the boat of pettifoggers aud shysters that now 
disgrace It. Such a measure would be a boon to 
the public, by rescuing It rrom the exactions and 
disreputable machtoatlous Of these gentry, and 
greatly benefit, honorable lawyers by freeing 
them from competition with-well, should one 
say two-thirds of the profession ? 
During tho week there has been a great deal of 
newspaper wrangllug going on between Dr. Car¬ 
ver, the wonderful rltlu shot, aud Capt. Bogardus, 
the Bhot-gun champion. The former has Just 
married, aud the latter lias Just got back from 
his European triumphs ; and between them there 
Is a good deal of jealousy as to their respective 
merits. Several challenges have been Issued by 
both, but while each professes to bo anxious to 
meet the other, they cannot decide on a stake¬ 
holder, the captain nominating, as usual In such 
cases, the editor of a sporting paper, and the 
Doctor, as an advertising dodge, naming a manu¬ 
facturer of fire-arms. Each has been calling the 
other "pet names” and accusing him of “funk¬ 
ing,” but to an outsider Bogardus certainly seems 
to be bent, more than the other, upon “business.’’ 
During the week Kearney has been “swinging 
round the circle" out West, having addressed 
meetings to Chicago, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. 
Uls harangues were mere repetitions of his past 
tirades of abuse, profanity and hlack-guardlsm, 
Intermingled with a chunk of sound sense here 
and there, and an occasional buret of genuine 
eloquence. The fact Is, the fellow said all he had 
to say the first time, and unless he used a great 
many superfluous words, all he had to soy worth 
listening to, could have been said In ten minutes. 
Yellow lever still continues its ravages to the 
lower Mississippi valley with even increased vir¬ 
ulence, Yesterday there were in New Orleans 
l«3 new caseH and 33 deaths; to Vicksburg 
there were *3 new oases and 22 deaths; to Mem¬ 
phis 01 new cases ana 27 deaths, while In Gren¬ 
ada the dead and dying are huddled together to 
the some room, with not enough well people 
about to bury the former or nurse the latter. 
Many nurses aud doctors after struggling heroic¬ 
ally, have been elthor stricken down themselves 
or terrified into night. All who could leave the 
