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MARCH 6 
THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
several others, and we all consider it worth¬ 
less, as one man cannot saw half as fast with 
it as he can with the common cross-cut saw, 
with the handle on one end; so Mr. Stran 
would not take the agency, The Company 
wrote to him, sending circulars, which he 
would not acknowledge. They then sent to 
him again, offering him fl/e dollars to write 
for them a puff for publication; but Mr. Stran 
would not tell a falsehood for five dollars. 
His machine can be bought to-day for one- 
fourtb the price of a new o".e. 
Charlevoix, Mich. wm. glover. 
±© v lUometr. 
CONDUCTED BV JUSL RAY CLARK. 
FOR GOD AND HOME AND NATIVE 
LAND. 
ZEA MAY. 
I do not know whose suggestion was the 
beautiful motto of the Woman’s Christian 
Temperance Union, “For God and Home and 
Native Land,” but it is wonderfully sugges¬ 
tive. It seems to embrace almost every mo¬ 
tive which can induce labor in behalf of tem¬ 
perance. 
“For God”—God’s image is stained with 
sin, and his glory obscured to mau. Restore 
it to its pristine beauty that it may reflect 
the brightness of the Eternal Oue. Revelling 
in the saloou, insensible in the gutter, lies a 
man—a mau still, with God’s impress on him, 
however swathed in the bands of evil—a child 
of the good Father, however much a prodi¬ 
gal. Reach forth a band to him: perhaps he 
may yet stand upright before God, a sinner 
saved bygrac p ; “The mercy of the Lord eu- 
dureth forever.” 
‘•For God”—It is God’s work.the upbuilding 
of humanity: it is God’s work, the labor to 
close the dens of vice where reasonable be¬ 
ings are turned into mail-men, where kind hus¬ 
bands and fathers are made brutal; where the 
bright sons of good mothers are ruined, body 
and soul. It is God’s work to train the child 
in the principles of temperance. 
“For God”—Work faithfully brother. For 
God, work earnestly, work untiringly, my sis¬ 
ters. till God’s name shall no more be dese¬ 
crated in our streets by the lips of men made 
recklessbi alcohol; till God's image shall shme 
out again from the faces of the human beings 
now reeling along in the degredatiou of 
drunkenness—till a uatiou is cleansed from 
its sin against high Heaven. 
“ For God and home.”—No home so sweet, 
but that alcohol will spoil its sweetness! No 
home so pu re, but that alcohol may stain it. No 
home so bright, but that alcohol may spread 
over it, a pall. No home so happy, but that 
intemperance may pour out for it the very 
dregs of sorrow. Into the home of the drunk¬ 
ard comes the child blighted before its birth, 
>-r>r the wnrmhatb eaten the preen life out, 
Oul of the. blossom that lulpht have been. 
In the drunkard's home grow up child¬ 
ren with entailed appetites that hurry 
them dowu to death. And woman sits in 
the drunkard’s homo with streaming eyes 
gazing upon the wreck of her hopes, and wait¬ 
ing for the rest of the tomb. The cold and 
cruel grave will be to her a welcome hidiug- 
place. 
Do brave work for temperance in the home 
you love, my sister, and for the home you 
cherish, my brother. .Strike at the very roots of 
this overshadowing Upas, whose poison is 
burning even in the veins of children, and 
corrupting much of the life blood of the Amer¬ 
ican nation at. the very fountain. 
“ For native land.”—How thrills the heart 
for love of country! But tremble lest no coun¬ 
try be long left to love, or left, be not worth 
the loving, if the enemy that is entrenched 
within its vitals be not soon dislodged. Up 
for native Land 1 strike vultently. 
“ God give us ineu, a time like this demauds 
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready 
hands.” 
Men who will vote for God, vote for home, 
and vote for country. God give us women, 
pure, brave, true, holy women, who will pray 
as women have prayed, work as women have 
worked, aud more also, faintiug not, failiug 
never, till the American home shall be safe 
from the demon of intemperance, and God 
shall be honored by a clean nation. 
THE CRIB-SIDE HYMN. 
It was a great pleasure to Miss Cary to 
Know that her sweet hymn, 
“One sweetly solemn thought 
Comes to me o’er and o’er, 
I am nearer my home to-day 
Thau I’ve ever been before.” 
was hummed unconsciously oue night by a 
table and the room, resolving henceforth to 
lead a better life. 
Perhaps it would not give her less joy to 
know"-the comfort the same words gave to a 
dear little child who was called home when 
three years old. For some weeks before his 
final sickness, he had loved to hear his father 
repeat the words of this hymn, and as soon as 
he was tucked away in his little crib would 
call out cheerily— 
“Nearer to home, papa.” 
The captain could never resist that little 
pleader, so he sat by his side and sang it all 
through. It was not a mere jingle to him. 
He would ask w T ith interest, “What is the 
great white throne, papa / What, is the jasper 
sea?” and he loved to bear his father talk of 
the beautiful heaven Jesus has fitted up for 
those who love him. 
At last came a dark hour with all that house¬ 
hold. Roy was very sick, but bis brave little 
heart held out with more than baby courage, 
always thoughtful for others, and sensible to 
the last. 
“ How is baby now?” they would ask. 
If even a little easier, he would answer: 
“Better,” or “Pretty better.” But at last 
the little voice seemed finally hushed, though 
an effort was still made to speak. The mother, 
stilling her auguished heart, bent low to catch 
the faintest sound. 
“ Baby going to home,” were the words that 
fell on her ear. 
“ Where, darliug?” she asked. 
“ Baby going to God.” 
The words of his favorite hymn were evi¬ 
dently floating through his mind, and Jesus 
stooped lovingly to take his little lamb up 
into his bosom. His dying look was almost 
like transfiguration, so beautiful and bright it 
seemed. 
It is a better thing to till the memory, even 
“of the least of these” with sweet aud holy 
words that shall lift the soul heavenward, 
rather than mere jingles, which at best are 
but like a tinkling bell. They remember far 
more than we ever imagine, and impressions 
are made on their young hearts which become 
at last as imperishable as graven marble. 
j. E MC. c. 
Mrs Tom Thumb’s weekly salary is five 
hundred aud fifty dollars. 
Edwin Booth’s daughter, Edwina, is a 
great favorite in Boston society. 
It is said that to Mrs. A. T. Stewart is due 
the mauufacture of silk in America. She in¬ 
spired her husband to take advantage of the 
protective system. 
Domestic dxcmomi} 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
A FARMER’S DAUGHTER’S DOMESTIC 
REVERIES. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
March 1st. —I weut to a party at Jane 
B'akeley’s last night, thinking a little dissipa¬ 
tion would be good for me. Perhaps it was; 
but it only made me feel what a lack we 
country people really have in social life. I 
am not talking nonsense; 1 am not a bit un¬ 
practical; hut 1 thought, as I sat all the eve¬ 
ning, and into the morning hours, in a vain ef¬ 
fort to enjoy myself, how unsatisfactory was 
this form of amusement as a steady diet—only 
dancing and card-playing. Yes; one thing 
more: Jane had bought a game of poets, aud 
tried to get a few of the guests interested in it; 
but, when one had a.dced for “William Curling 
Byron, ’aud another for “J. G. Whittaker,” 
and a third player asked if “William Cooper 
(Cowper) was any one related to the Coojiers 
at the corners,” l resigued my place aud 
share of the game, and danced a Scotch jig 
with a neighbor’s boy, who said he supposed 
I was gettiug too “cyentific” to dance with 
p<x>r folks. 1 am sure that is the way he pro¬ 
nounced it. Now I don't pretend to be any 
better than the rest, but ^ L do think there 
mi^ht be higher aims among us. It is this lack 
that scuds so man) young people away from 
their pleasant farm homes, in search of better 
advantages, and social culture that is laughed 
at in their homes. 
March 6th. —The days are gettiug warm 
aud sunny, and this morning I gave my kitch¬ 
en an extra good acrubbing right after break¬ 
fast. Just before diuuer I was told the men 
were thrashing, and had seut for two extra 
hands. They all came in at noon sharp, full 
of dust from the graiu. They spit on the floor 
and slopped water aud dirt everyw here, more 
especially the hired hands. Father in careful, 
I will say that. But i felt discouraged when 
they weut out, leaving me an extra lot ol 
dirty dishes, four or five big i»ots, and my 
morning’s work as if it had not been done. 
All dinner time 1 w ondered if auy other girls 
are boots. Now I don’t mind the big, uncouth 
monsters that are forever standing beside the 
stove to lie greased or dried, or kept warm 
ready for morning. I don’t mind tbe tracks 
across the floor they make in muady weather, 
I don’t mind tumbling over them when I go 
out into the kitchen after dark, when the men 
have put on their slippers, but I detest —yes! 
that’s the word—sitting at the dinner-table 
with five or six men or boys, whose boots are 
fragrant with the odor that arises from the 
barnyard, and reeking with liquid manure, 
and yet that number of boots are under many 
a dinner table as well as mine, aud spoil many 
a savory’ dinner for susceptible noses. 
Some visitors from the country town called 
this afternoon, i had put on a plain wincey 
dress, as 1 had bread to set at night, and did 
not expect company. I made this sort of 
apology, and then I found them all looking at 
my dress to my great con fusion, and one gentle- 
mau said: “ l never can tell one thing from 
another about a lady’s dress.” It made me 
feel quite culpable, and l wished 1 had not 
called t heir attention to it. A thing is much 
better quietly ignored. It reminded me of 
reading once of Dr. Newton having said: “So 
dress aud so couduct yourself that persons 
who have been in your company stall not 
recollect w’hat you had on.” After the com¬ 
pany left I set my bread, putting in a little 
scalded milk, for our flour is from home- 
grown wheat aud rather dark but the scalded 
milk gives it a whiteness and shortness, and 
our guests had praised it as the best they ever 
ate. Father says they were flattering, but it 
encouraged me, aud I think a w ord of praise 
is often a great help. 
HOUSEKEEPERS’ METHODS. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
A lady who recently was a guest at my 
house, said that she always boils all her lamp 
chimneys and china-ware and ordinary glass¬ 
ware before using any of them. The glass is 
greatly toughened by the process, and the 
boiliug of the china prevents it from subse¬ 
quent cracking. Lamp chimueys and shades, 
wliich are stained, may lie thoroughly cleaned 
by boiling them in soda water—using ordinary 
washing soda—wiiich is a necessity in a kit¬ 
chen. The glass or china should be put iu 
enough cold water to cover the articles, with 
a cloth or board in. the bottom, and brought 
gently to the boiling poiut, w’hen it may boil 
from one hour to six according to conven¬ 
ience. 
BREAD-MAKING. 
In regard to bread-making she said that 
bread in Winter was often of a coarse, open 
texture, which was produced by the dough 
being kept too warm, that in Winter, in the 
effort to keep the dough sufficiently warm, it 
is often over-heated. Salt she never adds 
until the bread is kneeded for the last time, as 
it retards the “ rising ” of the dough. 
AN ECONOMY IN CAKE. 
1 was amused while visiting a Southern lady, 
during the Winter, at her ingenuity in mak¬ 
ing a flue, large fruit cake do double duty. A 
fortnight prior to u day upon which she was 
to entertain 40 or 60 people she made u very 
large fruit cake, and cut from it several times, 
so that about one-sixth of the cake was eaten 
before the “great” day arrived, when the 
table was loade with delicacies, including a 
magnificent fruit cake, beautifully frosted and 
duly adorned. It had occurred to her that the 
cake she had left would abundantly suffice for 
one kind of cake, and in order to make it pre¬ 
sentable, she cut from a loaf of bread a piece 
fitting the triangle that had been taken from 
the cake, aud ran in a skewer to hold it in 
place. The entire top and sides were then 
iced, and no one suspected the fraud. A slight 
line marking the junction of the bread with 
the cake showed through the frosting and 
guided the cutting. 
HOW’ TO WASH TABLE LINEN. 
When table linen has been stained with 
fruit, the staiu.3 will entirely disappear if the 
linen is put in scalding water before it has 
been washed or wet in cold water. Always 
put all table linen iu hot water. Avery nice 
addition to tbe table is a table cover, over 
which the table-cloth is laid. Wide felt, is 
manufactured expressly for the purpose, but 
it is rather loo expensive. An excellent sub¬ 
stitute i heavy canton-flauuel. which can be 
sewed together through the middle aud 
dressed flat ulong the seam. Lay the flauuel 
furry side up. The advantages of having a 
thick, white cloth under the table-cloth are 
these: The table-cloth will lie more smoothly, 
will present it better appearance aud will 
w'eur longer, while the pleasureablenCBs of the 
table is much enhanced by it. If the top of 
the table is uneven, or of cheap aud unfin¬ 
ished material, thase defects ure hidden by the 
thick under cover, which also absorbs “spill- 
iugs" more effectually than the single cloth. 
man in a gambling saloon, aud a young man 
sitting by heard the once familiar strain, aud 
it smote to his heart, lie arose aud left the 
experienced the same little annoyances that 
made me uncomfortable. Far instance, there 
In buying sheeting and cotton goods for 
thoroughly practical purposes, it is more 
economical to buy the unbleached fabric. It 
costs less to begin with and wears longer than 
tbe bleached. After it is made up in sheets, 
put to soak iu a tub of cold water, aud soak 
thoroughly before scalding aud drying. 
When buying muslin for sheets, know the 
length you waut the sheets cut, and ask the 
salesman to cut them off for you. It will cost 
you nothing extra and save you the trouble. 
1 have uever been able to see the economy iu 
boyiug mitslij by the yard and over-sewing 
two strips together for a sheet, over regular, 
full width sheetiug. The former rip and 
wear out iu the middle; the latter wear out 
iu the middle aud do not rip. When worn, 
tear through the middle aud sew the outside 
edges together ou the sewing-machine if you 
have one; or if there s a girl to have practice 
in sewing give it to her to overhand; the raw 
edges are quickly turned under and run. 
When the middle is badly worn, tear out a 
strip, the sheet will then be wide enough for 
a single bed, or two sheets enu be made into 
oue large one. 1 find the heavy, twisted gal¬ 
vanized wire excellent fora clothes line. It 
lasts indefinitely, aud of course when once 
stretched and fastened to the posts, it is up 
for all time. There is a deal of work in¬ 
volved in putting up and tnkiug down a rope 
for the week’s washing. Have plenty of posts 
well planted, aud enough of wire for your 
largest washing. Very aesthetic people plant 
climbing vines about their clothesline posts. 
I have not found that wire wears the clothes 
more than rope 
lu a very elegantly furnished house I was 
in some weeks ago, but where money was less 
plentiful than aforetime, it was easy to ob¬ 
serve some economies for appearance’s sake. 
One of these was tbe placing of bows or 
rosettes of ribbons on the corners of richly 
upholstered chairs, to conceal the worn places. 
The effect was by no means ill, and l thought 
it quite au “ idea ” 
A sentence which 1 often have occasion to 
repeat to myself as good is this: "The way 
to do a thing, is to do it By the help of this 
I accomplish many distasteful tasks that would 
otherwise be “put off until to-morrow.” I 
suggest its adoption by the “ world iu gen¬ 
eral.” 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
BAKING POWDER. 
5» 
In the column of “Questions Answered” in 
the Rural of February 9, I note the direc¬ 
tions for making baking powders: permit me 
to state that iny wife has used all the baking 
powders advertised (I believe! ; also the super- 
tartrateof potash (eream-of-tartar) aud bicar¬ 
bonate Inot “carbonate,” or sal-soda, washing- 
soda,) of soda, and she has found that a 10- 
ounee package of corn-starch, eight, ounces of 
bicarbonate of soda mot carbonate) and five 
ounces of tartaric acid intimately mixed, and 
well incorporated, and passed through a sifter, 
form not only the most efficient, but the cheap¬ 
est baking powder she has ever used. She 
uses from one-quarter to one-third less than 
she used to of the Horsford or Royal. You 
say, usually erenm-of-tartar is used to supply 
the acid, this salt being a bitartrato of potash 
and soda, a healthful, cooling, slightly laxa¬ 
tive salt, known as Rochelle Salts, aud if my 
memory (I’m in my 7“d year.) is not at fault, 
Rochelle Salts is a tartrate of potash and soda; 
upon tasting each you will find that the super- 
tartrute is acid while the tartrate of potash 
aud soda has a eooliug taste, more of a neutral 
salt. If 1 am wrong please correct me. 
[You are right.—E ds.] 
Liberty, Va. wm. p. l. 
MORE ABOUT BAKING POWDER. 
Here is a recipe for a kind of baking powder 
which, accordiug to my experience, is supe¬ 
rior to those sorts extensively puffed up by 
printers’ ink: One-quarter pound best tar¬ 
taric acid (ground or pulverized); one-quar¬ 
ter pound of best bicarbonate of soda; one- 
balf ounce of best carbonate of ammonia 
(pulverized); one pound of best flour (wheat). 
Mix the whole together thoroughly by pass¬ 
ing it through a flue seive five or six times; 
then put it into cans or empty fruit jars with 
good covers, and set them away. The baking 
powder is to be used when wanted—about oue 
heaping tablespoonful to oue quart yf flour, 
and use it as you would other baking powder. 
If you get in a little too much it will uot 
make the biscuit, cuke or dumplings bitter as 
other baking powders will. Some may objec 
to this baking powder on account of the am 
mould. Those who do should never use 
bakers’ bread. The hculthful composition of 
this bukiug powder is such that persons w ho 
ure troubled w’ith sour stomachs, rejecting 
or tastiug their food a long (iine after eating, 
will obtain relief by taking half a cup of 
water, sweetening it with a little sugar, ami 
stirring iuto it half a teaspoon fill of this powder 
