AUG 18 
THE RURAL MIW-YORKIR. 
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see in the old school atlas of the islands in 
the mid ocean, and the fertile spots in the 
desert. 
After a few hours Hetty came tripping into 
the dining room, which was often the after¬ 
noon sitting-room, looking as fresh and spark¬ 
ling as though house cleaning had never been 
in her thoughts. But as she crosses the dining 
room one slippered foot is partially caught 
under the edge of the rug, which turns half 
way over, reminding one of a huge turn over 
pie. She 8toop3 to replace it, and while doing 
so hears a gentle rap at the door, she opens it 
and welcomes s«;ne lady friends who are out 
making calls. A half dozen times duriug the 
half hour's chat, were those rugs replaced by 
one and another of the little party. Each in 
turn dubbed rugs a nuisance, that must be 
put up with, because they were going to be 
the fashion. Later in the afternoon a young 
gentleman called, be stepped upon rug No. 1, 
with becoming gravity; after saluting Hetty 
in a remarkably friendly manner, he stalked 
across the room with the grace and majesty 
of one of the proud lords of creation to greet 
his future mother-in-law with due reverence. 
When almost within reach of her outstretched 
hand he finds his feet caught seemingly in a 
net; he endeavors to keep from falling but in 
vain, he loses his balance and comes to the 
floor, striking his face against a corner of the 
louDge, badly bruising his nose. It was some¬ 
time before Eoenezer was himself again, for 
the accident had brought not t nly a headache 
but a disappointment, for he had come to take 
Hetty to a “social” that had been gotten up 
on the spur of the moment, now they must re¬ 
main at home. It would seem that there had 
been trouble enough with rugs for one after¬ 
noon, but the disasters had not all been num¬ 
bered yet. For when the evening shadows 
were beginning to fall, Jedadiah came up the 
walk with two brimming pails of milk; 
straight across the kitchen floor to the pantry 
he bends his steps as he whistles the tune of 
“The girl I left behiud me,” when, suddenly, 
his foot is caught in the great square table 
rug, and pails, milk, and man come to the 
floor, with a jingle, splash and thud, quickly 
followed by some very significant words. 
Aunt Sylvia mourned the loss of so much 
cream; Hetty scolded about that great milk 
stain on her otherwise white floor and Jedai- 
diah declared he had nearly broken his arm 
against a chair that stood somewhere in the 
room. When Hetty retired that night, she 
said her work that day had been more tire¬ 
some than during the whole term of house- 
cleaning, and she didn’t believe her health 
would improve very much. The week follow¬ 
ing cousin Jenetteoame on a visit, bringing 
her two children aged five and three years. 
The afternoon had passed pleasantly, and sup¬ 
per was nearly ready, when the ladies stepped 
into the flower yard to chat over the bright 
Spring beauties that were everywhere to be 
seen, leaving the little ones busy with their 
play. Presently there came a scream and a 
crash simultaneously; hastening in doors they 
found the table overturned, and little three- 
year-old Jeuuie’s face covered with blood from 
a fearful wound in the side of her head. In 
their childish glee feet and rugs had become 
entangled, and a fall, scattered viands, and 
broken dishes were the results. 
Two hours later Aunt Sylvia’s dining-room 
and kitchen had regained somewhat of their 
former order and little Jennie with bandaged 
head was quietly sleeping. 
A consultation by Auntie and her daughter 
might have been heard, although in subdued 
tones, and the conclusion banished loose rugs 
. from the living rooms, with the exception of 
those of the outer doors, and the following 
day the nicely cleaned carpets were brought 
down by Hetty from the attic, and nailed 
snugly to the floor; for which service she re¬ 
ceived the thanks of every member of the 
family, and of him who hoped to be a mem 
ber in the near future. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
RIBBON CAKE. 
Two-and-a-half cups of sugar, one of butter, 
one of sweet milk, a tea spoonful of cream-of- 
tarter, half a tea spoonful of soda, four cups 
flour, four eggs. Reserve u third of this mix* 
ture and bake the remainder in two loaves of 
the same size. Add to third reserved, one cup 
of raisins, a fourth of a pound of citron, one 
cup of currants, two tablespoonfuls of 
molasses, a tea-spoonful each of all kinds of 
spice. Bake in a tin the same size as other 
loaves. Put the three loaves together with a 
little icing or currant jelly, placing the fruit 
loaf iu center, frost top and sides. 
CORN FRITTERS. 
Mix well together one quart of grated sweet 
corn, two cups of milk, one cup of flour, one 
teaspoonfal of butter and two eggs well beaten. 
Season with pepper and salt, and fry like 
griddle cakes. 
COTTAGE PUDDING. 
One cup each of sugar and milk, one egg > 
three tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one 
pint of flour, two teaspoon fuls of baking 
powder. Serve with sauce. 
MARBLE CAKE. 
lUat ©gtste. 
(Light.) One cup sugar, half a cup each of 
butter and milk, whites of three eggs, two 
cups flour, one-and a-half teaspoonful of bak¬ 
ing powder. 
(Dark.) Half a cup each of brown sugar and 
molasses, one-fourth cup each of butter and 
milk, two cups of flour, the yelks of three 
eggs, one-and-a-half teaspoonful of baking 
powder, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, 
cloves and allspice. Miss Minnie Voorhis. 
Spring Valley. 
JELLY FROM WILD FRUITS. 
Wild plum jelly. —Cover the plums for 
an instant with boiling water and turn off im¬ 
mediately, this draws out the bitter taste in 
skins. Steam the plums in an earthen dish 
over boiling water until the skins crack. 
Drain on a sieve (without pressing) until all 
the juice runs off. Strain this juice, put into 
a porcelain kettle and boil 20 minutes, skim¬ 
ming carefully. Allow a pound of granulated 
sugar to a pint of the juice. 
Put the sugar on a flat dish in the oven and 
heat so hot that you cannot bear the hand on 
it, but one must have care that it does not 
brown. Add the hot sugar to the juice and 
boil five minutes longer. 
Housekeepers living where wild plums are 
plentiful will find that excellent, as also fine- 
looking jelly can be made by following the 
above recipe. 
WILD GRAPE JELLY. 
Gather the fruit before perfectly ripe, that 
is, before a frost. Put into an earthen dish, 
(add not a particle of water) cover and place 
in a kettle of boiling water until the grapes 
are thoroughly cooked. Press through a sieve 
then through a jelly bag. Heat the sugar, 
allowing same quantity as for plum jelly. 
Boil the juice 20 minutes, skim, add the hot 
sugar aud boil five minutes longer. 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
INK STAINS. 
M. TV. H. wants to know' how to remove 
ink stains from linen and muslin? 
Ans. —They may be readily removed from 
white goods by means of a little diluted oxalic 
acid. Dissolve a very small quantity in a 
little bot water, wet the spots, rubbing with 
the fingers and at once rinse in clear t> ater 
repeatedly, as the acid will injure the fabric, 
Should the spots prove obstinate, wet again 
with the solution, afterwards rinsing. If a 
redd'sh brown mark remains it can be remov¬ 
ed by dipping it into a little chloride of lime 
water washing it then in clear water. Oxalic 
acid is highly poisonous and should be used 
with great care. Label it poison and keep it 
out cf the way of growu people as well as 
children. Ink may sometimes be removed 
from delicate colored fabrics by wetting the 
spots in milk and then covering them with 
common salt. This, however, must be done 
before the garments have been washed. Still 
another way is to dip the goods in melted (not 
hot, for that might change the color) tallow. 
Scrape off the tallow when cold and repeat 
until the stain disappears. 
GREASE STAINS FROM A WALL PAPER. 
Mrs. O. W. B. wants to know what will 
take out the ugly marks on her parlor wall 
paper, made by persons leaning against it 
having oil on their hair? 
Ans. —Get some pipe clay, mix it with 
water to the consistency of cream and lay it 
on the spots. Leave it on twenty-four hours, 
then remove with a knife or brush. If the 
grease is not all out repeat. 
WASHING CHINTZ. 
Mrs.E.J.G. wants to know how to wash her 
chintz curtain so as to preserve their gloss and 
color. 
Ans. —Boil two pounds of rice in three gal¬ 
lons of water until soft; then pour into a tub, 
let stand until quite cool, put iu the chiutz. 
(If you have a quantity of goods you will 
need more water) and rub the rice on the 
goods instead of soap. Wash iu this way un¬ 
til you think the dirt is out. Have two pounds 
more of rice boiled in the same quantity of 
water, strain the rice from the water and mix 
it (the rice) with clear warm water and rub 
the ehiptz through this. Wring out, snap 
off the rice aud pass through the clear rice 
water which should be blued. 
Tllie Horsford Almanac A Cook Book 
sent free on application to Rumford Chemical 
Works, Providence, R. I. 
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QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT 
“Mother, that man looks tired rnd dusty, 
and I'm sure these little children would like a 
cold drink.” 
“Nonsene! Wbat if they would? You’ll have 
enough to do if you commence watting upon 
every emigrant that halts under our trees for 
five minutes.” 
Some way last Sunday’s sweet lesson, that 
had haunted Annie Snow ever since, came to 
her mind in strange mockery of her mother’s 
rebuff “A cup of cold w*ater only in my 
name,” She wanted to give it to the dirty, 
tired-looking children, peering from the white- 
covered emigrant wagon, but she could not 
now; the sweet bud of generous impulse was 
crushed; the tiny sprout from the good seed 
of the Sunday lesson, trodden heedlessly un¬ 
der foot; the Spirit was quenched. 
“Mother,” said she, trembling, a few days 
later, “I’ve broken two goblets. I didn’t 
mean to, but”— 
“Oh, you careless child! And then you come 
and tell of it. just as if you were glad! I’m 
more out of patience than ever!” 
Annie turned away with slow-filling eyes. 
She only meant to be truthful in the truest 
sense. Did it occur to her mother that she 
would have given her a more severe repri¬ 
mand if she had not told her at once of the 
accident? 
Once more the sweet Spirit was quenched, 
the trembling feet had tried the path of truth 
but TUde hands made it too thorny, and they 
turned back bleeding and bruised. Ah! what 
were a thousand goblets iu comparison! 
Yet Annie loved her mother dearly, for she 
was not always hasty or unjust, only “nerv¬ 
ous” at sometimes, and exceedingly irritable 
at all. And when one day, years after, An¬ 
nie’s boy-lover at school gave her the fairest 
moss-rose buds his little garden afforded, with 
a whispered word that made her cheek flush 
with pleasure, she went straight to tell her 
mother the story. 
“Dear mamma,” the tremulous voice and 
speaking eye almost completed the poem- 
“Dear mamma, may I tell you something?” 
“Don't bother me, Annie, I’ve no time to 
stop now. I must get this tucking done be¬ 
fore daTk. Go and set the table for tea.” 
Quenched once more. Yet the mother 
would hardly believe it her own work if An¬ 
nie engaged herself by-aud-by without wait¬ 
ing to tell her mother,” 
O, friends, do we not too often forget that 
to be truly Christ-like we must reverence the 
Spirit which is moving the hearts of “these 
little ones.” that of them, not of us, was it 
said, “Of such i9 the kingdom of Heaven?” 
Let us bo careful that we “quench not the 
Spirit,” which moves them to do anything 
geuerous, loving, truthful or confiding, though 
it is not in the most convenient season or 
pleasing manner, lest these good impulses 
that would render our latest years our happi¬ 
est, the holy truth which would be at once a 
girdle of strength aud a coronet of beauty 
that sweet confidence which countless wealth 
cannot buy, be with the Spirit which prompts 
them, forever quenched.— Standard. 
DUTY THROUGH LOVE. 
We urge the duties of Christianity upon the 
conscience of men; but duties are constraints 
till they are changed into charms by love. 
The very word duty is a harsh one until the 
heart grasps it, and then the lowliest service 
and the boldest endeavor are cheerfully ac¬ 
cepted aud welcomed. To win men to the 
performance of Christian duties it is necessary 
to win them to the love of Him who requires 
them, and to the love of those for whose bene¬ 
fit they are required .—Dean Stanley. 
It is wonderful how men change to a 
changed heart! Being enabled ourselves we 
see noble things, and loving find out love. 
Little touches of courage, of goodness, of love, 
in men, which formerly looking for perfection 
we passed by, now attract us like flowers be¬ 
side a dusty highway. We take them as keys 
to the character, and door after door flies 
open to us. 
An every day religion—one that loves the 
duty of our common walk; one that makes an 
honest man: one that accomplishes an intel¬ 
lectual and moral growth in the subject: one 
that woi ks in all weather, and improves all 
opportunities, will best aud most healthily 
promote the growth of a church and the 
power of the Gospel. 
The church is like a garden filled with 
flowers of every species and clime; it is like 
an autumn in which the highest and deepest 
tones blend in wonderful harmony; and like a 
body whose members have each its peculiar 
form and function, yet are ruled by the same 
head and subservient to the same end. This 
should shame bigotry and inspire catholic ity. 
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