Domestic economy 
CONDUCTED BY EMIJ-Y MAPLE. 
FRO?! A '‘FARMER’S WIFE.” 
I tiiank Mary Wager-Fisher for her hints 
and suggestions iu regard to making work 
easier. It helps one if only to know that 
there are women who can do it. But in order 
to speak for any one. it is necessary to live 
his or her life, and it is not easy for farmers 
wives who are not in easy circumstances to 
take advantage even of what they know to be 
the best. If an overworked woman is a “dis¬ 
grace,” then there are many such oven iu my 
neighborhood. Wo havo married young; there 
is debt on the farm; the hired men (harvest 
hands) will not make their own beds, and they 
will grumble if the meal is too plaiu. They 
would threaten to leave if required to milk. 
Help is scarce, and the kind, well-beloved hus¬ 
band toiling long hours, aud often weary— 
ves, too weary to sleep when night comes— 
cannot be burdened with added care. So we 
toil on, and I, for one, am grateful to the Ru¬ 
ral for words of help and comfort. Its lead¬ 
ing writers on home topics give us their expe¬ 
rience in a practical and reliable manner, 
though 1 often doubt if Mary Wager-Fisher’s 
husbaud is u farmer, or if her life has known 
the trials that besot the struggling farmer's 
wife. Yet. I am hopeful; already the children 
liegiu to help me in trifling ways, saving me 
many steps, aud looking up into my tired face 
as I go for auytking outside the house, they 
leave their play to go for it, and by and by it 
will be easier for me. It is true “love lightens 
labor I” but in the present harvest time, with 
work to do that is nobody’s blame, the burden 
is heavy enough. A Farmer’s Wife. 
MY WAY. 
I have just read the letter of “Farmer’s 
Wife” iu which she begs for recipes for prep&r- 
iug food easily. She wished a break fast which 
will require little time iu cooking, and din¬ 
ners which will not utterly prostrate her iu 
their preparation. Poor girl t She can be 
scarcely more than that, else she would have 
left her share of the milking which she men¬ 
tions, to be done by the hired men who “saun¬ 
ter around doing the chores, \\ailing for the 
morning meal." A woman who does her own 
work without aid from servants ought never 
be required to milk. It is outside of her 
“sphere.” Neither should she churn. Milk¬ 
ing is not hard work but it takes time, which 
she needs in the morning for breakfast prep¬ 
arations and at night for rest. It can be done 
as well by men as by women, aud there are 
not a dozen days during the year when the 
men do not have more time for it than the 
one woman who prepares their food. 
The problem of getting breakfast easily is 
one which I have solved in thiswise:—I set 
my table at night. I am careful to have 
enough boiled potatoes left from diuuer the 
day before to warm over. Insist upon hav¬ 
ing ice put up every Winter, gentle “Farmer’s 
Wife.” Many dishes may be prepared at odd 
moments and kept on ice for some hours, 
while fiesh meat, fish, etc., imperatively de¬ 
maud it. Everyone knows that oat-meal, 
cracked wheat or corn-meal mush with plenty 
of rich milk, if one eauuot afford cream, are 
excellent supplements to what might other¬ 
wise seem a dry breakfast. 
Farmers need to be oducutcd to enjoy fruit 
iu its natural state, but when they have once 
learned the lesson they will wonder why they 
did uot see cherries, plums, peaches, etc., on 
their tables In?fore, untouched by kuife or 
fork. I have no hygienic objection to the 
great American dish, pie, but I don’t like to 
make it, aud so 1 dodge around all sorts of euT 
iuary corkers to avoid the necessity I ofteu 
make two aud sometimes three kinds of cake 
from blie recipe by dividing the dougfl and 
AUG IB 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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A mill that will orient fifty tn sixty Lusbclsof Apples 
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making part into layers to be filled when 
ueeded, and the remainder into loaves with or 
without fruit as the case may be. Every 
heart knows its own bitterness, and just in 
proportion mu it find its own means of relief, 
but these are a few of my plans for saving 
labor. Ignaria. 
AND MINE TOO. 
In answer to Farmer’s Wife in Rural of 
June 30, I w ill give a little of my experience. 
I do not find getting breakfast press heavily 
because 1 have everything prepared over¬ 
night, eveu to the setting of the table. But I 
never milk, and think that a woman who has 
babies to dress, or is the head of the house 
even, never ought to. In hot weather mack¬ 
erel is an excellent dish for breakfast, soaked 
over-night in considerable water; then after 
the potatoes are put over, drain the fish in a 
colander, lay in a dripper and set in a hot oven 
a few minutes. When taken up, a few spoon¬ 
fuls of cream put over the fish form a nice 
addition. 
After all that is said against its use, pork is, 
and will continue to be, the farmer’s meat, 
and I am always glad when we have a hired 
man if he likes it. Freshened and rolled in 
flour and nicely filed, with an accompanying 
dish of fried eggs, it furnishes an easy break¬ 
fast dish, aud one that men with healthy ap¬ 
petites can work on. With good bread and 
butter, which are always to be looked for at a 
fanner’s table, a cup of clear coffee aud a 
plate of fried cakes or ginger-snaps, who 
would wish for a better or more easily pre¬ 
pared meal.' 
Young beets pickled area very nice addition 
to the table at any time in their season. Cod¬ 
fish, if the family like it, is a good dish and 
may he prepared in several ways for a change. 
I sometimes set it on the stove in a pan, pom- 
boiling water over it (a piece of the i ight size 
I mean) and let it stand hot but do not let it 
boil. Take off the skin and pour over some 
melted butter, or pick up the fish, freshen a 
little, put in the spider with a howl of rich 
milk, anil thicken when it boils with a little 
flour aud butter rubbed together; pepper of 
course. Or, after the fish is freshened, put it 
in the spider, cover with cold water, put in a 
large handful of dry bread broken fine, and 
. when the “mixture” boils drop in an egg and 
stir all up quickly; season with pepper and 
butter. 
During the fruit season ripe fruit with bread 
and butter, cold lioiled l>eef or ham, with the 
inevitable potato, makes an easily prepared 
breakfast,. For supper, the potatoes left over 
from dinner, warmed up, are always accept¬ 
able to hungry boys and working men. Eggs 
dropped iu hot water until done, skimmed 
out, buttered, salted aud peppered are a help 
towards filliug a table, and those who sit at it, 
with good food. Aunt Rachel. 
CARE OF THE EYES. 
A correspondent writes: “My eyes are 
weak, aud I fiud eveu the tine, clear pages of 
the Rural constantly blur Indore me. Is 
there any remedy!” 
Ass.—We suppose our correspondent does 
uot wear glasses, but strains the eyes in the 
attempt to see after they have lost the power. 
Much trouble is saved by application at once 
to Ml oculist to learn the number of glasses 
required before purchasing. Many people in s 
jure the sight permanently by weariug glasse- 
unsuitable for their vision. If there is dis¬ 
ease, such as opthalmia, or any thickening 
of the eye membrane, it is best not 
to tamper with it, but to get the best 
of skill, for what are we if our sight is 
gone? For simple inflammation warm milk- 
and-water is the best remedy, but it must 
be constantly applied in order to soothe and 
cure. The eye iu itself sees nothing; it Is the 
light that is reflected from objects on which 
we look that, entering our eyes, produces im¬ 
ages of their forms upon the delicate, nervous 
expansion called the retina, whence the im¬ 
pression is carried to the brain. 1 have often 
wondered how Shakspere knew this, for Bru¬ 
tus says:— 
“No, Cassius: for the eye sees not itself, 
But by reflection of some other thing.” 
Reading at night with the light close up to the 
eyes, or iu the full glare cither of suu or gas- 
tryiug to read in the cars, or any other mode 
of straining the nerve of the eye, weakens its 
power. It is said that if one cultivated the 
lmbit of occasionally closing the 'yes, instead 
of keeping up the steady stare, it would prove 
very restful, and, at the same time, keep dowu 
those tell-tale wrinkles that mark the flight 
of time. 
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SWEET CIDER! SWEET CIDER! 
IN FALLOW. 
Has proved an immediate favorite with the 
farmers. IT USES EIGHT NARROW 
STEEL SPRING TEETH in place of shovels 
allowing of earlier use and closer cultivating. 
Depth is governed by levers in easy reach or 
beams can be raised to pass obstructions. 
The 3 or 5 tooth centre makes it a perfect 
and to fill the cozy room with odors which de- 
liglit the tired ones who come from the toils 
and cares of the outside world. Let the kitchen 
then, be made large and light and pleasant; 
for out Of it., believe me, must come the ele¬ 
ments which, to a largo degree, are essential 
to the happiness of the family. s. S. 
