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chapter in their lives, and they get to feel a 
kindly friendship for the genial writers. It 
gives refreshment to both mind and body, and 
if I have a hobby it is that. 
We need to use judgment, however, and not 
think everything is so just because we read it 
in print. For instance, the other day I read 
an elaborate recipe for making peach fritters. 
It seemed as foolish to me as trying to paint 
the rose. When a thing is perfect enough, 
prepared simply, why waste time in trying to 
improve what needs nothing more. Give roe 
plenty of peaches and I will be content. 
Dorinda. 
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. 
The old saying that there is nothing new 
under the sun, is disputed by some who have 
lately taken to investigating the horrors of 
washing day by the useof kerosene. The pro¬ 
cess is this: The clothes are soaked over night 
in strong soapsuds, wrung out in the morniug. 
The boiler is pnt over half full of water, and 
soap enough added to make a good suds; two 
tablespoonfuls of kerosene are stirred in the 
water; let it get hot and rub soap on the 
streaks and put in the clothes, stirring them 
well as they are put in. Let them boil as 
usual. Remove, rub lightly and rinse. The 
dirt seems to unite with the soap so that the 
clothes wash very easily, and washing is done 
much quicker. Aunt Rachel. 
ABOUT WOMEN. 
Mollie Garfield and Fanny Hayes are at 
the same school in Cleveland, Ohio. 
The smallest pony in the world is owned by 
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts; it is 13 inches 
high. 
The physicians of Louisa M. Alcott, author¬ 
ess of “ Little Women,” have forbidden her 
writing any more at present. 
(Jueen Olga of Greece wears her light, 
curling hair drawn back from the forehead 
with a round comb, such as we see in the 
pictures of “ Alice in Wonderland." 
Waonkr, the great composer, and his 
children passed through Munich the other 
day in the KiDg’s saloon car, and dined in the 
King’s pavilion; while on the same day 
Eugenie passed through Munich on her way 
to Vienna in an oidinary car, and dined in a 
secend-class eating-room of the station. 
Eugenie’s hair is bleached and her face is 
blanched. She walks heavily, because she is 
afflicted with rheumatism, and dresses in un¬ 
alterable crape. Her constant attendant is 
Mudame Le Breton, who was a lady of great 
renown at Madrid in the days of her youth, 
and who now hobbles on a stick and wears 
blue goggles. 
The Marchioness of Lome is a member of 
the Royal Society of Painters in Water 
Colors, and exhibited a portrait last year at 
the Grosvenor Gallery. Her sister V efcoria 
belongs, as well as the Princess Beatrice, to 
the Institute of Painters in Water Colors, and 
has also exhibited her works. Princess Alice 
of Hesse did some good work in sculpture. 
Even Royalty condescends to use the talents 
God has given them. 
Domestic (L'conomij 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
CHIPS. 
Pillow shams are no longer used. 
Never frighten a child to make him obedient. 
Bananas must not be kept for any length of 
time in a warm room. Keep them where it 
is the coldest. 
Remedy for the stings of bees and wasps : 
Early application of hot water—that is, as hot 
as can be borne by the sufferer. 
Curtains, for sleeping rooms, of Victoria 
lawn and edged with rick rack, are very 
pretty; loop back with bands of silk or satin. 
Wanted. —Recipe for coloring a permanent 
red on cotton, suitable for a rag carpet, and 
a color that light and wear ivill not fade. • ' 
M. c. L. 
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CONCERNING UNUSED THINGS. 
MARY WAUKR FISHER. 
In an Attic; Dead People's Clothes; What to 
do with them; Rubbish; How to Put Away 
the Papers; Lime-washing Walls in Color. 
I have spent two mornings, lately, with 
my maid, in trying to bring order out of 
chaos in a five-roomed attic filled with the 
accumulations of 36 or 40 years of family life 
—an old homestead conglomeration of rub¬ 
bish of nearly every mentionahle sort, from 
my husband's baby chair to his grandmother’s 
bellows for blowing the fire—boxes and trunks 
of clothing, the wearers of which are no more, 
.moth-eaten, like rolls of carpet and pieces of 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
bedding—stacks of newspapers, books and 
periodicals, and furniture broken and gone to 
rust—a veritable asylum of debilitated, worn- 
out and cast-off inanimate things. I never 
make my annual tour through these apart¬ 
ments, without mentally moralizing on the 
uselessness—aye, the foolishness—of storing 
away a great many things that are generally 
sent to the attic, particularly clothing that 
has belonged to persons now dead. 
I know the feelings and sentiments that 
usually attach to such relics; but it is an alto¬ 
gether mistaken notion that there is a lack of 
respect for the dead, in making good and prac¬ 
tical use of what they can no longer need. If 
such articles of wearing apparel cannot be 
used by the surviving members of the family, 
there are certainly in the neighborhood poor 
persons who would be more than glad of such 
garments. And now that the Winter is ap¬ 
proaching, a suggestion that the attic, be 
visited in behalf of the needy, may induce 
some still sorrowing soul to part with gar¬ 
ments that possess an air of sacredness. To 
give away such things, is much as though the 
dead could reach out kindly hands from their 
graves, with gifts for the poor. Many a pre¬ 
cious Christmas gift could be made in this 
way by people who think that they have 
nothing to give. 
To treasure up certain things of no intrinsic 
value whatever, seems to be natural to the 
human race,and it is as difficult to account for 
it as to tell the great use of the spleen in the 
economy of the physical organs. We lay one 
thing after another away with reverent 
touch, and in this busy life perhaps never have 
time to look at it again; and by-and-by death 
comes, and a pair of vandal hands dump the 
whole collection iuto the fire, or into the rag¬ 
man's sack. Someday, my successor in the 
attic will find strings of worn out shoes tied 
to the rafters like bunches of seed corn—shoes 
ranging in size from a year-old foot all the 
way np to manhood, I trust—and she will 
wonder what “ ever possessed” a woman to 
save good for-nothing shoes 1 I showed the 
smallest pair to a blue-eyed boy romping in 
the attic, and he held them gently in his hands 
for a moment, looking at them wbh pleased 
surprise and wonder, saying, “Why, I had a 
tiny foot, then, had I not, mamma?” and pre¬ 
sently, changing his mood, he gave them a 
fling across the room with the practical re¬ 
mark, “ no use now, mamma!” 
After all, I think the disposition to save up 
rubbish is largely an educated one. It is not 
so much a not-knowing what to do with a 
thing that it is sent to the attic, as the feeling 
that some day it may be of use. But in order 
to make use of these iaid-up in-theattic treas¬ 
ures, they should be laid distinctly on shelves, 
or suspended on hooks, so as to be ever pres 
ent to mortal view, for virtually what is out 
of sight is out of mind. There is no economy 
in saving poor things that require care, as the 
time and labor bestowed upon handling them 
over year after year, are of far more value 
t ban the articles themselves. It is one kind of 
penny-wise and pound-foolish. Books that are 
worth preserving for future use, should—if 
there is no book case for them—be boxed, with 
a label nailed on the outside containing their 
titles; newspapers should he properly filed 
when put away— else they uever will be—and 
put into convenient and handy shape for ref¬ 
erence. At our house the Rural, for exam¬ 
ple, is sewed together at the end of each year 
—every number, with the index—and if 
the cat, or the dog, the chickens, horses, cat¬ 
tle or sheep are ailing, some one goes up to 
an attic shelf to consult the Rural New- 
Yorker. If anybody fails to value the iudex 
of the Rural, which is,furnished gratis to its 
subscribers, it may enlighten him sodiewhat 
to know that there are papers published in 
the same city that supply the indexes for half 
a dollar extra—and for no less. The work 
involved in preparing an index is enormous, 
and the value of it, to one who knows how to 
use it, is also enormous. 
WHITEWASHED WALLS. 
Not everybody dislikes, so much as I do, 
a dead white wall, and in renovating a 
quantity of whitewashed walls, I had the 
whitewash colored in this way: For a gray 
tint, lamp-black first mixed with strong soap¬ 
suds was stirred into the lime after being 
slaked and salted; to give the gray a warm 
tint, some dry red paint was stirred in with 
the black; for a red wall, only red paint was 
mixed with the lime wash; a very little Ver¬ 
million will give a fine color. The ceilings 
should be washed in white, but if the sides are 
washed iu color, the improvement will be found 
to be considerable. Don’t use blue paiut in 
the whitewash, unless you wish to spoil your 
room. Red or gray is most satisfactory; yel¬ 
low or green is better than blue. Care should 
be takeu in putting on the wash not to smear 
the ceiling. 
It is October 31, os I write, and notbiug yet, 
but the late sweet corn, showing the slightest 
touch of frost. Chestnuts most plentiful. Win¬ 
ter apples, from the orchard— one bushel t 
DOINGS IN EVERY-DAY HOUSE. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
W e are preparing for cold weather while 
yet the trees are gay with their gorgeous col¬ 
oring of red and yellow, and everything is 
bright with the sunshine of these late Autumn, 
days. I do not like to wait till the weather 
is really chilly before putting up stoves and 
storm-windows, so now we feel snug and 
secure. It was funny what faith we had in 
Vennor, too, in spite of ourselves, and how 
surprised we have been to find this pleasant 
Autumn in exact opposition to his predictions. 
I brought in a hunch of parsley to-day, tied it 
up, and put thin paper securely round it to 
keep out the dust, then hung it in the garret 
to dry. It is very handy, in many ways, 
when one has not time to dry and put away, 
in bottles, all that is needed. No frost to in¬ 
jure the foliage of apple trees yet, and they 
linger vigorous and green, while the children 
delight in out-of-door occupations and amuse¬ 
ments all day long. The amateur cook has 
been making grape jelly from some bunches 
not thoroughly ripened. It was made by ad¬ 
ding a pound of sugar to a pint of juice, the 
latter boiled and skimmed while the sugar Is 
heating in the oven. It turned out very nice 
after a boiling of ten minutes from the time 
the sugar was put in hot so that it bubbled up 
as it fell. But the hands of the poor cook were 
dyed a very deep purplish brown, which we 
removed by rubbing them with a ripe toraa- 
ato. It was surprising how quickly the stains 
disappeared. 
I saw the other day a laundress doing up 
fine shirts, and asked what was in that rag 
with which she rubbed her irons. I was told 
that it was a lump of beeswax; and while the 
irons were hot she rubbed them with this 
waxed rag, and scoured them afterward with 
a piece of strong brown paper, lightly 
sprinkled with salt. Her irons did shine, and 
did not seem to stick, which, however, she at¬ 
tributed to the starch, to which she always 
added a littlegum-arabic,dissolved,and a pinch 
of salt, or. if short of gum-arabic, a stirring 
of sp?rm candle was used. One of our great 
troubles in Autumn is that the boys’ boots 
will get hard when exposed to water, and one 
day, lately, an experiment was tried Df rub¬ 
bing them with kerosene. It was a success, 
in that it made them as pliable as when new. 
It is only by experiments that people can 
learn, though they are sometimes expensive 
re-creations. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
PUMPKIN PIES WITHOUT EGGS. 
“Grandmother 0—asked I, when visit¬ 
ing that hospitable lady, “how do you make 
your excellent pumpkin pies? I don’t think I 
have ever eaten better; how many eggs do 
you put in them?” 
“I don’t put any in now,” was the reply, 
“ for we think them better without than with 
eggs, and I’ll tell you how it came about. We 
were expecting company one Saturday, and I 
wanted my pies particularly nice. To those I 
made for company, I added several eggs, 
while those intended for the 1 help’ I made 
without eggs. The result was that the pies 
without eggs were much the best. I can’t tell 
you how much pumpkin or how much milk I 
use for a pie—you must learn that by expe¬ 
rience—make very sweet, and flavor with 
ginger, nutmeg, or lemon, as you please. If 
the pumpkin is not fine-grained and I think 
it will not thicken well, I add half a spoonful 
of flour to each pie. Make a good crust, and 
bake not too fast. Also, use as rich milk as 
you have. That is all.” Mary B. 
RICE CROQUETTES FOR DE8SERT. 
Wash one-fourth pound of rice; add milk, 
a pinch of salt, a piece of lemon peel, and 
sugar to sweeten. Boil until the rice is tender 
and has absorbed all the milk. Take from the 
fire, mix in three beaten eggs, and spread out 
to get cold. Form into oblong shapes, dip 
into a beaten egg, dust with pounded cracker, 
and fry a light brown. g. h. 
A SIMPLE CHICKEN SALAD. 
Bon, a chicken until tender; when cold, 
separate from bone and skin and chop 
fine; add a cup of finely-chopped cabbage aud 
two bunches of celery, chopped with the 
whites of four hard-boiled eggs. For dressing, 
mash the yelks fine, add a spoonful of melted 
butter, spoonful or less of sugar, small tea¬ 
spoonful of made mustard; salt and pepper, 
aud last, half a pint of vinegar. Pour over 
the salad and mix thoroughly ; set in a cold 
place. This is very nice. Mrs. C. 
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Dr. A. JENKINS, Great Falls, N. H., says: 
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or wakefulness.”— Adv. 
PROFESSOR 
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Makes lighter biscuit, cakes, etc., and 
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