THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
327 
cept the food. If the room must be used be¬ 
tween meals, a clean table cloth may be spread 
over the whole. Thus you savo the labor of 
putting away the dishes so soon to be taken 
out again, aud it is a great relief in the hurry 
of getting dinner to be mare that, the table is 
all ready. And let it he orderly in all its ap¬ 
pointments, and prepared, by the addition of 
extra plates, for any unexpected guest. Sil¬ 
ver knives and forks are labor-saving, because 
steel knives and forks must be brightened 
much oftener to look well. Table mats save a 
table-cloth many a black mark. Napkins and 
rings should be every-day affairs. In fact, 
have no company ways or manners, but 
respect yourself aui family sufficiently to use 
your best and be at your best ovary day. then 
you won’t worry for weeks because your city 
friends are coming, and you can’t feel quite 
at your ease—more like a stranger at your 
own table. Your children will have better 
manners, aud think more of home and feel a 
wholesome pride in “mother' 1 and her ways. 
Then the cool, cheerful room in a warm 
summer day -darkened between meals, every 
tly excluded by window nettings if possible is 
most inviting and a rest in itself. Oh! do 
have a dining room in Summer by all means. 
Open your parlors and make them your living 
and sewing rooms if necessary. If you have 
but two rooms available, have a dining-room 
and a kitchen, aud live out-of-doors the rest of 
the day. Take your mending to some neigh¬ 
boring tree aud help the little ones in their 
play by your presence and encouragement. 
Take a comfortable chair along, aud a shawl 
iu (rase of a change in temperature. There 
will be loss mischief among the children, 
and better understanding of child nature, if 
mother is there, besides, what an opportunity 
to study the plant aud insect world! 
Before I close, I have another bit of advice 
for “(,’hartty.” Some one urges her to “cover 
those walls with pictures.” Now I think it 
much better to “go slow and sure.” A few 
choice bits, or at least os good as can be bad, 
of this kind will give more continuous satis¬ 
faction. Few, unless they have made a study 
of Pictures aud Art, are good judges, and 
what they like one year they will despise as 
their taste becomes more cultivated. 1 think 
for persons of moderate means good photo¬ 
graphs and engravings are most satisfactory. 
I don’t mean photograph’s of one’s family, 
friends—spare me the acquaintance of a host 
of unknown people looking at me from every 
side of the room- -but photographs of animals 
and celebrated paintings. Nearly every one 
can thus judge bettor of these. For instance, 
1 have seen good photographs of Rogers’s 
statues, or Laudseer’s noble deer. Even 
good wood-cuts, neatly framed, are much 
more satisfactory than the ordiuary chromo. 
LIZZIE B. 
cleaner, and went to work to clean every part 
thoroughly and settle ourselves in our uew 
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DO ME ST r C RECIPES, 
TO CAN GREEN CORN. 
Cut from the cob, and cook until done. Add 
one small teaspoonful of tartaric acid for 
every quart of corn, aud fill into self-sealers 
while boiling hot. See that every air-bubble 
is removed; fasten the covers on tight, and 
wheu the jars have cooled, give the covers an¬ 
other turn if they need it, and set away in a 
dark place; or else cover the jars with a news¬ 
paper to exclude the light. When wanted for 
use, wash well in cold water. Put to cool iu 
warm water, add a teaspoon of soda, and cook 
15 or 20 minutes; then drain off the water, 
aud rinse in several waters, as the soda gives 
the coru a yellow color. Cook a few minutes 
longer in a small quantity of fresh water, and 
season with salt, butter, cream or milk. We 
have found the above method of cauuiug corn 
very satisfactory. 
TO KKY BEEFSTEAK. 
Set the frying-pan over the fire, and when 
thoroughly heated, lay the steak in quickly, 
after having well pounded it, if not tender. 
Place a cover over it and allow it to cook one 
mimire; raise the cover and turn the steak 
quickly. Replace the cover for a minute 
longer. Take up, popper and salt, and, 
if liked, lay a bit of butter ou each piece. 
Serve while hot. 
CUSTARD PIE. 
Take double the usual number of eggs; use 
only the yelks for the custard, reserving the 
whites until the pies are done. Beat the whites 
to a stiff froth, add a tablespoonful of pulver¬ 
ized sugar for each pie, llavor with lemon, and 
spread smoothly over the top of each pie. 
Return to the oven for a few moments until 
of a light brown; then set, away in a cool 
place. 
FANCY DESSERT FOR CHILDREN’S BIRTHDAY 
DINNERS. 
Break a small opening in the end or side of 
a number of eggs, through which pour out the 
egg. Fill the empty shells with hot pudding 
made of corn starch or arrow root. When 
cold, break off the shells and serve on small 
saucers with a sauce of sugar and croum fla¬ 
vored, or surrounded, wit h jelly or jam. The 
pudding may be divided, and a tablespoonful 
of grated chocolate added to one-half of it 
to color it, or It may be otherwise colored, fill¬ 
ing the shells each half full of the uncolored 
pudding, then filling up with the colored. 
SODA FOR TINWARE. 
Tinware that is stained with fruits, or other¬ 
wise tarnished, may bo easily cleaned by dip¬ 
ping a dampened cloth in common cooking 
soda, and rubbing the ware briskly, after 
which, rinse and wipe dry. 
TO REMOVE DANDRUFF. 
Pour a pint of boiling water on a heaping 
teaspoonful of sulphur in the morning; stir 
it well several times through the day. The 
next morning turn off the water from the 
dregs and apply a portion of it t p the roots of 
the hair, thoroughly wetting it. Continue its 
use daily for six weeks or more, as the case 
may require, aud it will remove the dandruff 
and cause the hair to become more soft and 
glossy, A small, soft sponge is the best thing 
with which to apply it. 
FOR THE TEETH. 
Scour the teeth with fine tablo suit after 
each meal, and it will harden the gums, 
sweeten the breath, and lessen the chances of 
toothache. [Won’t it ruin the enamel of the 
teeth?—E ds.] It may make a sensitive tooth 
or tender gum pain at first, but it will get over 
this. A. L. 
V F R’C Sarsaparilla is a tnediclno that, 
¥ Lii O during nearly 40 years. In all 
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to medical science. 
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Iron, and other potent ingredients, 
your blood 1 il.ial.ed by derangements 
of the digestiv e and assimlluforv func¬ 
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does it contain the poison of Mercury 
or Contagious Disease? 
jr leading plnsieians of the I'nited 
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jl v ky the use of this remedy Is it 
■ L-Y possible for a person who has 
corrupted blood to attain sound health 
and prevent transmission of the de¬ 
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lODniirui V effective renovation 
lUnUUunLT of the system must 
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finn lr * corrupted through dis- 
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I Ill r Yinb up the system require 
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A recent article in the Rural on “Dish 
Washing,” leads me to say a few words on the 
subject. In getting a meal, if all the cooking 
utensils, as soon as done with, are at once put 
into Or filled with water, one-half—aye, more 
of the washing is done, for nothing then 
dries on the dish. As for an oyster shell to 
scrape iron ware with, it is doubtless excel¬ 
lent, but in many parts of the country cannot 
be obtained. I always keep ou my sink shelf 
a piece of pumice-stone for the purpose. It 
can be purchased at any druggists', and a piece 
for live cents lasts a long time. 
If my daughter and I can get a meal ready 
a few moments before we wish to serve it, we 
put the eatables in the warming oven, and 
at once wash up all the pots, pans, etc;., which 
we have used. It waken the after dish-wash¬ 
ing very easy. 
Another lady speaks of the use of < hamois- 
skin for polishing window-glass and mirrors. 
I have given up its use for those purposes, 
finding that newspapers give a better polish. 
Don’t use soap in washing the glass of windows 
or mirrors, for it makes them murky. Wash 
with water in which a little washing soda has 
been dissolved, rinse with clear water, and 
when nearly dry polish with newspaper. If a 
blurred Rpot remains, breathe on it and rub 
again. 
We have just been through that trying or¬ 
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to oue and all, to clear out the corners and 
hidden places, also the cellars and back yards. 
The house we have moved into was in most 
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Opr tint act, ou getting possession of the 
house, was to clear out the cellar, then the 
pnotriesaud kitchen cjuk; and after having 
tfie trash jn the yard, remoyed, we felt a Httje 
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DEVILED HAM. 
Chop cold, cooked ham, and with it the 
whites of as many eggs as you wish; for about 
every one-half cupful of the ham, make a 
salad dressing of the yelk of a hard-boiled 
egg, rubbed smooth with a little butter, aud 
a teaspoonful of mustard, half a teaspoonful 
of sugar. Add enough vinegar to make it 
quite thin; then scir in the chopped ham. It 
is nice eaten with bread and butter, or to make 
sandwiches for the children to carry to school 
These sandwiches are also greatly relished at 
pic-nies. 
If “Charity Sweetheart” really wishes to 
make home attractive to her brothers, she has 
the means at hand, now that the blessed wild 
flowers have come. As a rule, country peo¬ 
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bouquet of flowers in it. mamma’s cook. 
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