JULY 7 
431 
THE RURAL MEW-Y0RK1R. 
gjmptemnit.9 and Pacluatvy 
gravy after the meat is put on the platter and 
pour around it. 
A cake for invalids; One cup of riee flour 
three eggs, oue cup of sugar Beat the egg 
to a froth, add the sugar and beat till light. 
Pour slowly into the rice flour, stirring quick¬ 
ly. Put into a buttered pan when well beaten, 
and bake in a quick oven. 
3fti0ctUan«on* 
“ Oh, yes! we met with a hearty welcome 
from our friends and found them in excellent 
health, and enjoying the society of their near 
neighbors. Mrs. N. is a fair conversationalist, 
and Mr. N. is a droll humorist, so there was 
no lack of intellectual conversation. Then Mr. 
N. is a good provider so 1'arns his means allow, 
and his wife is a good cook. The dinner was u 
success as far as cooking and variety were con¬ 
cerned; but there seemed to be a great lack 
of dishes. Hud none bnt the family been pres¬ 
ent, there must, have been a decided dearth; 
and with half a dozen invited guests, it was 
almost post comprehension how so many could 
be made comfortable. Mi's. N’s only way was 
to seat part of her guests at a time; thus pre¬ 
paring three tables where one should have 
been all that was necessary,” 
“You know wo are pioneers;” said Mrs. N. 
by way of apology; “ and must get along as 
best we may, for the present; by-and-by we 
hope to do better: in the meantime wo do not 
wish to become hermits!” Of course, we ac¬ 
cepted the apology. But. when after all had 
been served to a plentiful repast, we went 
out to view the improvements updn the new 
farm that a few years ago was a portion of 
a great wilderness of forest trees, wo began to 
wonder if our hostess wits really doing the 
best she could towards helping to make her 
family aud friends comfortable; for almost 
every stump near the house and burn was 
decorated with a dish of some sort—here a 
plate, there a cup or saucer, a bread tin, milk- 
pan, spoons, kuives and forks, were all scat¬ 
tered promiscuously, as though the animals 
aud fowls had been having a carnival. Borne 
of these dishes had been left by the children 
who had lunched out-of-doors; others hail 
been carried out. with food for chicks, and 
carefully set upon stumps, but never brought 
back to the house. After taking notes of the 
careless waste of crockery, we were just in 
the mood for noting other evidences of care¬ 
lessness in-doors. The once pretty eauo-seated 
chairs were terribly dilapidated. Scarcely 
one was safe to sit upon; aud yet if each hail 
been neatly repaired wherever repaire wore 
needed all might have been iu a state of good 
preservation. 
THE ROSS ENSILAGE 
A QUE EN OF THE STAGE. 
“Her Second Love,” and the Important 
Secret Slie Reveals for the 
lienelit of Women. 
(New York World.) 
Several years ago the American public were 
aroused by the entree upon the stage of a little 
lady who had been previously but little an¬ 
nounced. She was one of an innumerable 
number of aspirants for public favor and had 
no Instrumentality, aside from her own tal¬ 
ents to cause recognition. In spite of this 
fact, however, she quickly achieved a warm 
place in the heart, of the public which she has 
continued to hold ever since. When it was 
announced, therefore, that Miss-Maud Granger 
would star the coming season in the play “ Her 
Second Love,” written by Mr. Johu A. 
Stevens, it was only natural that unusual in¬ 
terest should be manifested not only in theatri¬ 
cal circles, but in other branches of the com¬ 
munity. This was specially the case, as it was 
known that Miss Granger had, for the past 
year, been in exceedingly delicate health, and 
the determination to star in a strong emotional 
play was the more surprising. One of the 
statf of this paper was accordingly deputized 
to see the popular lady aud verify the rumor 
or announce its incorrectness. 
Miss - Granger's countenance is familiar to 
nearly every one in the United States. It is a 
face once seen never to be forgotten. Fea¬ 
tures remarkable in their outline and contour 
are surmounted by a pair of large and deep 
eyes indicative of the greatest soul power. It 
is easy to see where Mi.ss Granger obtains the 
ability to portray characters of the most emo¬ 
tional nature. She possesses within herself 
the elements of feeling without which no emo¬ 
tion can be conveyed to uti audience. The 
man of news found the lady at her home in 
this city and w as accorded a quiet w elcome. 
It was evident, at. once that she was in greatly 
improved health, which the expression and 
color of her countenance both indicated 
“Is it true. Miss Granger, that you contem¬ 
plate a starring tour the coming season?” 
“Yes, indeed My season begins in Chicago 
on the Hit h of July. From there I go b > San 
Francisco and then plav the remainder of the 
seasou through the Eastern and Western 
States.' 
“Are you confident, your health will permit 
such a n undertaking !" 
A ringing laugh was the first reply to this 
question, after which she said: 
“Certainly. It is true I have been ill for 
the past two years, but now r 1 am w holly re¬ 
covered. Few people can have any idea of 
the strain a conscientious actress undergoes in 
ossa \ iug au emotional pari. It is necessary 
to put one's whole soul into the work in order 
to rightly portrav the character. This neces¬ 
sitates an utter abandonment of one's person¬ 
ality aud an assumption of the character por¬ 
trayed. If this is an emotional part it is neces¬ 
sary to Jr,'I the same emotions the part i.- sup- 
posed to feel. For more than a year I actually 
cried each night in certain passages at a pari 
I was playing. The audience considered it 
art. Probably it was, but- those were none 
the less real tears and the effect was none the 
less trying upon my health.” 
“ But. do you anticipate avoiding this in the 
future 1 ” 
“ Not iu the least. 1 expect, to have just 
as great a strain as before but with restored 
health and a knowledge of how to retain it 1 
do not fear.” 
“You speak of a knowledge of how to re¬ 
tain health. Will you please explaiu what, 
you tnean by that!” 
“ You must be aware that, w omen by their 
very natures are subject to troubles anil urtli'c- 
t i< >ns unknown to the sterner sex. 1 he name 
of these troubles is legion, but in whatever 
form they may come they are weaknesses 
which interfere with every ambition aud 
hope in life. I believe thousands of noble 
women are to-day suffering agonies of which 
even their l*vd friends and relatives know- 
little or nothing, and when I reflect, upon it I 
confess it makes me sad. Now all this misery 
arises largely from au ignorance of the laws 
of life or a neglect, to carefully observe them. 
I speak from the depth of a bitter experience 
iu saying this, and 1 am thankful 1 know the 
menus of restoration, aud how to remain in 
perfect health.” 
“ Please explain more fully.” 
“Well, 1 have found u remedy which 
seems specially adapted for this very purpose. 
It is pure and palatable and controls the 
health and life us. I believe, nothing else will. 
It is really invaluable and if all the women in 
America were to use it l am quite sure most of 
the suffering aud many deaths might be 
avoided.” 
“ What is this wonderful remedy?” 
“ Warner's Safe Cure.” 
“ And you use it?” 
“ Constantly.” 
“And hence believe you will be able to go 
through the coming season successfully !” 
“ 1 am quite certain of it.” 
“A few questions more. Miss Granger. 
W ill you please give uie a list of the parts you 
have created and the plays you have taken 
part in since your first appearance iu public?” 
“ I first played for some time w ith the ama- 
teui-s in New York aud Brooklyn. I then 
went to t he Union Square theatre for two sea¬ 
sons, after that to the Boston Globe for one 
season and then to Booth's theatre in tills city. 
Next 1 supported John McCullough and ufter- 
wards starred in Juliet, Camille, Itewoiiud, 
etc. Subsequently I created the part of Cicely 
Blaine in the Galley Slave and also starred iu 
Two Nights in Rome, playing the part of Au 
toniu. The post year i have been playing 
iu the Planter's Wife and the coming season. 
as 1 have said, w ill lie devoted to ller Second 
Love." 
As the writer was returning home he fell in¬ 
to a tram of musing and wondered if all the 
women in this land who are suffering could 
only know Miss Granger’s experience and the 
remarkable results achieved by the pure rem¬ 
edy she used, how much suffering might be 
avoided aud new much happiness secured. 
AND FODDER CUTTERS 
Giants and Little Giants, “(specials” 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
MARIAN HABLANU’S RECIPES. 
I have been looking over “The Dinner Year 
Book,” and cauuot. find much of “wine” or 
whiskey in the dinners prepared by the author 
as a fault found with the book iu a late Rural 
by Mrs. Mary Wager-Fisher’s smart servant. 
They seem practical, simple aud real. In a 
letter from “Marian Ilavland” that lies before 
me she says, “1 am going to write a book for 
young housekeepers whose means are small.” 
We shall welcome it lam sure, whether we 
are young or old housekeepers. And some 
day perhaps, she will scud the Rural a few 
unpublished recipes, or household ideas that 
will be valued as from a trained and thought¬ 
ful woman who has done much to help her 
sisters iu their trials. A Housekeeper. 
r II. 1 1 f" . I r . Ill r I 1.111 . r- ;i n ■ uoi ri-,n • -i-irb <1 ir: 
your vicinity please write us fn r prices, m nil fur otir 
Illustrated circular > K. W .K OSS A’ t'O.. 
Mention Hotel New Yorker. Pulton. N. V. 
BOTTLING FRUIT. 
A friend of mine successfully liottles fruit 
iu this way:—Have ready some dry glass 
bottles, wide-mouthed aud clean. Burn a 
match in each to exhaust the air; place the 
fruit quickly in each; cork with soft bungs or 
corks, and put into a cool oven: let them re¬ 
main till the fruit has shrunkeu one-fourth. 
Take out the bottles; beat the corks well in and 
cover them with melted resin. If the fruit 
has been picked dry, and is quite sound, it will 
keep for months iu a cool, dry place, aud re¬ 
tain all the flavor. Mrs. L. E. M. 
Empire Grain Drill, 
WITH 
Force Feed Fertilizer 
Attachment. 
Always Reliable! Buy it!! 
6,000 sold In four years. Send for circular srivlng 
full Information to 
EMPIRE DRILL CO., 
Box “H.” Short* villo, Ontario Co.,N. Y. 
Rectangular and Square Box 
Churns, cheapest because the 
best. No inside fixtures, and 
[always rcl’iUile. 7 sixes I if 
1 eneh kind made. We make 
Curtis’s Improved Knctory 
churn mid Mason’s Power 
Butter-worker. Cn'/veslunied 
jinx/ given of their superior 
tpiaflnetln material am! con¬ 
struction not >Uerlmftt of by 
Other milkers. Send for Doi- 
i rj/m/irt, Tree. Cornish & Cur¬ 
tis, Ft. Atkinfon, Wl«. 
CURRIED EGGS. 
Six eggs, two tablespoonfuls of curry pow¬ 
der, a pint of good gravy. Mix the cuny 
powder to a paste, put in the gravy, a little at 
a time: let it simmer; thicken with a little 
Hour aud butter; boil the eggs hard; cut them 
into slices; lay on a dish; pour over the curry 
mixture with a pinch of salt aud serve hot. 
PRESERVES. 
Now comes the time when the housekeeper’s 
every spare moment, and some she cannot well 
spare, go to making up into jams, jellies, and 
canned condiments the different fruits of the 
Summer. Anxiously we toil for four the sou- 
son will pass before we have them secured. 
What care it requires to weigh and trepare t he 
berries! How deep into the pocket oue dives 
for the extra sugar money too! But we know 
that it is worth while, when W inter comes and 
we have secured the toothsome adjuncts to the 
tea table. 
In making strawberry jam it is a good plan 
to ]ait oue pint of red currant juice to every 
pound of the fruit. Boil the juice and fruit 
twenty minutes before adding the sugar, 
which should he about three-quarters of a 
pound to the pound of fruit. Put in small 
jars; the currant juice is au improvement us to 
flavor. Gooseberry jam is improved in just 
the same way. Yellow tomatoes make a good 
preserve, l’eel and leave over-night iu a deep 
dish covered with sugar, pound for pound. 
Drain off the sirup and boil it, skimming well. 
Boil the tomatoes in it, adding the juice of 
three lemons. In twenty minutes take it off 
the fire; skitu out the tomatoes; boil the sirup 
down till it thickens; puck the fruit in jars, 
and pour the sirup over them; then seal tight. 
Use the purest sugar and a porcelain kettle 
for all preserves; take time and have method 
in preparation. Then, if the fruit has been 
picked dry, and the file is not too strong, there 
is no danger for your preserves in either eat 
ing or keeping qualities. Housewife. 
RECIPES FOR ELECTION CAKE. 
Three cups of milk, oue cup of yeast, one 
cup of sugar, Hour enough to make u stiff bat¬ 
ter, and let it rise over-night. In the morn¬ 
ing add three Clips of sugar, two cups of but 
ter, four eggs, one teaspoon of soda, cinnamon 
for spice. If too thin add more flour. 
Mrs. Henry L. Eaton. 
Cheapest Evaporator 
made. Double lap capac¬ 
ity. Children can operate 
it. Simple in construction. 
Don’t rail to send for de¬ 
scriptive circular and price 
before buying. 
Manufactured by 
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS 
Winifred asks. What is allspice ? 
Ans. —It is the unripe fruit of a tree that is 
a native of the West Indies, and of South 
America. It is singular that the smell of this 
spice resembles that of a mixt ure of others 
when it is really the fruit of the pimento tree. 
“Laundry” wishes to know how to make 
transparent soap? 
Ans. —Cut into shavings half a cake of 
Windsor soup, put into a bottle half full of 
spirits of w ine, and place in a larger dish full 
of hot water till melted. Then pour into any 
mold you please. 
Mrs. G. W. S. wants a cement for broken 
glass. 
Ans. —It is very difficult to obtain a trans¬ 
parent {/Inc that will bear the necessary 
washing. The best we know is made by dis¬ 
solving an ounce of isinglass in two wine 
glasses ofspirits of w ine. Care must be taken 
that it does not boil over, as it is highly in- 
fiaumiublo. 
Emma Hunt thinks it would lie a conven¬ 
ience to serve afternoon tea to guests, iu. 
stead of having them wait until the men 
folks came home to sit down with the family 
but doesn’t know how to go about it. 
Ans —Have a little table in the nnrlor: let 
some oue pass round thin bread and butter, 
and a cake-basket full of various cakes. Pour 
the tea yourself, if the hostess, and hand it to 
the guests. Afternoon tea is served usually 
with the understanding that the guest takes a 
late dinner. 
Willie J. tusks what is the effect of a vege¬ 
table diet? 
Ans, —It renders the blood lighter, is less 
stimulating than animal food, is cooling aud 
laxative. 
“Housewife” w ishes to iusure her carpet from 
moths w ithout taking it up? 
Ans. Rather difficult, but after sweeping 
wot a towel iu clean water, lay it on the car¬ 
pet, aud run a hot iron over it, especially 
along the walls. 
Here You Have It! 
A mill that will grind fifty to sixty bushels at Apples 
per hour, combined with a press that will Mn>s Sev¬ 
enty-five gallon al u ir 'sslug. Do uot fall to send 
for our New Uh.s-rnted Catalogue of Ciller Machinery 
manufactured by the 
HIGGANDM MT’ft CWORATW. 
lliggiiitiini. Cl.. 1 . >. A. 
Manufacturers of Agricultural Implements of 
every description. 
NOTES FROM VERMONT. 
I will tell you how to use tin cans for 
flower pots, or rather how to cover them after 
the plants are growing. I use silvered per¬ 
forated cardboard cut large enough to slip 
over the can when closed up, aud 1 ornament 
it in panels w ith worsted, with a border at the 
top aud bottom. Little girls like to do t his 
pretty work and the coverings are really orna¬ 
mental when slipped over a can or pot after 
it has been watered aud drained. 
1 huve been making fruit pies and learned 
that the juice was not so liable to run over in 
the oven if the sugar is put at the bottom be¬ 
fore the fruit. 
It is a great disappointment to us in this 
section that grain's do uot ripen; but a lady 1 
know uses them for sauce wlieu only par¬ 
tially ripe. Mns. A. C. W. 
PAYNE’S FARM ENGINES 
Our t 0-llnrse Spnrk VrirMhui Threshing 
Kiiuine hiiM'Ut 10,urn fis t I’Hu Lumber In 1(1 hours, 
will burn wood fi feet long, coal, straw and corn 
si..Iks. Send for Price List aud Catalogue "A." 
li. \V. PAYNE .V SONS, 
bsx so. Corning, n. y. 
VICTOR 
Dentils 
$ lOOO REWARD 
Kor *uy tuachina bulimy w much 
a»«J In uur da* to Ulc 
¥^>£ullei 
li Iras 
^ hulled 
Recipes for Convalescents. 
To cook mutton chops! Put into a covered 
jin' with ft Mi'He Water, pepper aud salt. Cook 
bldwl.y hi IfiefirCti Gono hours 'ThiHp'ii 
Ncnnrb Muchlnofo., Newark 
O. Formerly th« Haurr^towt 
Aft. Imp, Mfg.Ce., 
llbrsford’s Acid lMio*phuth 
Drank with Soda Water 
is delicious. All druggists have it. It is re 
freshing and moling Try it often 1 - 
Bushels 
