OCT 27 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
S. FRT’FMWN* Jfc SONS, Rudne, "Wis. 
aimpUmctitiei and pachittetjj. 
Domestic Ccottomi) 
CONDUCTED BY BJOT-Y MAPLE. 
PITHS. 
Time for fires. 
Avoid colds in the Fall of the year. 
Get the house cleaning done before the cold 
weather sets in. 
The contented womau never has dyspepsia. 
See that the children are clad warmly 
enough for the cool weather. 
One way for a “farmer’s wife” to lessen her 
labor is to stop boarding the farm h amis. 
The mission of some people seems that of 
worrying. 
An old silk handkerchief makes an excellent 
duster. 
Tea-gowns are nothing more or less than 
very handsome wrappers. 
Is it a thing to boast of, the number of ser¬ 
vants one has had within a given time? 
Give only the yelk of an egg to a child or 
adult having weak digestive powers. 
Hundreds of girls marry every year who do 
not know how to make a loaf of bread. 
Unfortunately it does not follow because a 
woman is au excellent housekeeper that she 
makes an excellent wife and mother. 
A bed bag is the latest in bags. A receptacle 
for the handkerchief, the cologne bottle and 
the last novel. 
The wail of some wives—woman a slave: 
man a tyrant utterly devoid of the finer 
senses. 
A new use for bellows. They may be used 
with success for blowing dust out of corners 
of rooms as also stair casing when sweeping. 
A correspondent thinks that it is oftener 
the wife’s fault if her life is one of drudgery, 
than that of her husband. 
Shams are out of fashion, as are also pillows 
for day use, A round bolster with a covering 
of linen, lace or satin gathered up at either 
end aud duished with a bow of ribbon, or cord 
and tassel, has taken their place. 
CENTENNIAL 
FANNING MILL. 
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A Safeguard. 
The fatal rapidity with which slight 
Colds and Coughs frequently develop 
into the gravest maladies of the throat 
and lungs, is a consideration which should 
imp<M every prudent person to keep at 
hand, as a household remedy, a bottle of 
AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL. 
Nothing else gives such immediate relief 
and works so sure a cure in all infections 
of this class. That eminent physician. 
Prof. F. Sweetzer, of the .Maine Medical 
School, Brunswick, Me., says:— 
“Medical science has produced no o’hc-r ano¬ 
dyne expectorant so good as Ayer’s C'hehry 
Pectoral. It is invaluable for diseases of the 
throat and lungs.” 
The same opiuion is expressed V the 
well-known Dr. L. J. Addison, of C u.cago, 
Ill., who says:— 
“I have never found, in thirty-five years of 
continuous study and practice of medicine, any 
preparation of so great value as Ayer's Cherry 
Pectoral, for treatment of diseases of the 
throat aud lungs. It not only hreahs up colds 
and cures severe coughs, but is more effective 
than anything else iu relieving even the most 
serious bronchial and pulmonary affections.” 
AYER’S 
Cherry Pectoral 
Is not a new claimant for popular confi¬ 
dence, hut a medicine which is to-day 
saving the lives of the third generation 
who have come into being since it was 
first offered to the public. 
There is not a household in which this 
invaluable remedy has once been in¬ 
troduced where its use has ever been 
abandoned, aud there is not. a person 
who has ever given it a proper trial 
for any throat or lung disease suscep¬ 
tible of cure, who has not been made 
well bv it. 
AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL has, 
in numberless instances, cured obstinate 
eases of chronic Bronchitis, Larnygitis, 
and even acute Pneumonia, ami has 
saved many patients in the earlier stages 
of Pulmonary Consumption. It is a 
medicine that only requires to be taken in 
small doses, is pleasant to the taste, and is 
needed in every house where there are 
children, as there is nothing so good as 
AYER’S CHERRY PECTt »HAL far treat¬ 
ment of Croup and Whooping Cough. 
These are all plain facts, which can be 
verified by anybody, and should be re¬ 
membered by everybody. 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral 
PREPARED by 
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all druggists. 
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OUR $15 SHOT-GUN 
WHAT TO DO WITH SUMMER CLOTH¬ 
ING. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
In lieu of anything better, barrels serve ex¬ 
cellently as receptacles ir* which to pack su¬ 
perfluous articles of any and every descrip¬ 
tion of dry goods. The barrel should be 
blessed with a head and be thoroughly clean; 
all the protruding nails should be hammered 
down, aud than it should be well lined with 
papor. Ga.lier together all the Summer 
clothing; have it clean, mended, starched a 
little, aud nicely ironed; fold neatly and lay 
away in the barrel, writing on a strip of paper 
to be pasted on the barrel, or, what is better, 
in your household note-liook. a list of the ami¬ 
des put away. W hen Summer comes again, 
tUe seasonable clothing will be found in 
“spink spank” order for wearing, provided 
you have tied a stout paper over the top of the 
barrel to keep out all mice and vermiu. Put 
the barrel in the most out-of-the-way corner 
upstairs. Men’s aud boys' clothing, if well 
cleaned, pressed with an iron, aud laid away 
carefully, will come out rejuvenated at the 
end of six months. For taking the grease 
out of the collars, and other spots, provide 
yourself with a pitcher of boiling hot water, a 
cake of good soap—Castile is best—a stiff uail 
brush (take an old one) and scrub where 
needed. Ammonia may bo used iu place of 
soap, but on black goods it tends to fade 
them somewhat. 
Aud so with old bedding or carpets that 
you wish neither to throw away nor destroy— 
pack them in a barrel. For such goods it is 
well to line the barrels with biown paper, 
pasting it on the staves, ami when the goods 
are iu, aud barrel head on, paste stout 
paper over the top, rnnkiug the barrel moth¬ 
proof. Have the goods well beaten, sunned, 
and thoroughly dry; put m a lump or two 
of camphor, and roll the barrels away to 
au out-of-the-wuy place to sleep for the next 
ten years. I know of no more desperate busi¬ 
ness than to handle over year after year a 
garret full of unused things. 
Cashmere or merino frocks will not bear be¬ 
ing packed without being badly rumpled; but 
they can bo carefully and loosely folded, put 
in large paper boxes, and hung up to the 
garret coiling—if there isuot auubuuduuoe of 
room for them to hang in closets. Gowns and 
cloaks t hat are always hung, take on a drag¬ 
ged and stretehed-out uppoaranee after a time 
an l pirtienlarly is this sj svinre Chi hooks in 
the closets are over-loaded, the garments 
pressing and dragging oa each other. People 
who are always well dressed. Kuow as well 
how to care for their clothing when it is not 
in use, as when it is. 
Morsford'i Acid Phoapliate. 
FOR ALCOHOLISM. 
Dr. C. S. Ellis, Wabash, Iud,, says; “I 
prescribed it for a man who had used intoxi¬ 
cants to excess for fifteen years, but during 
the last two years has entirely abstained. He 
thinks the Acid Phosphate is of much benefit 
to him.”— Adv. 
Every young woman should have in her 
room, a long box, in which she can lay her | 
petticoats or skirts straight out. This box she 
can make as ornamental as she pleases; with 
a covering of chintz or cretonne, a cushion for 
the top, and large pillows to rest against the 
wall, giving it the appearance of a seat. The 
inside of the box may be furnished with rows 
of cleats at each end, ou which trays may be 
placed at desired intervals, to keep the gar¬ 
ments from being crushed. Any clever girl 
who is something of a carpenter can construct 
the trays herself by looking at the tape trays 
in packing tranks. If she never saw a pack¬ 
ing trunk, she can ask to see one m a trunk 
store the next, time she goes to town. To have 
plenty of room in which to beep one’s cloth¬ 
ing nice is a great comfort. It requires a 
little courage to fit up a box, but when once 
it is done, it is a solid comfort for the rest of 
one’s life. 
AN EASY CHAIR. 
ADELINE E. STORY. 
What a world of comfort there is in a chair 
that is just what an easy chair should be to 
one who feels that he has earned the right to 
a “bit” of rest. Such a chair must be yield¬ 
ing to a degree, yet firm enough to give as¬ 
surance of support. It must be neither too 
low nor too high. The back must have just 
the light shape to make forgetfulness of 
back-aches, of a back even that is capable of 
aches, a surety. It must not hold you bolt 
upright, like a statue, or throw you back till 
you feel as if you were going to be shaved. 
If it has arms, they must be so low as not to 
put your shoulders out of position, yet high 
enough to form a resting place for your arms. 
Your easy chair should lie iu Winter, soft 
ami warm; in Summer, elastic yet cool. 
When we have lighted upon a chair just 
suited to mind and back, we long for the 
power that could give us a duplicate in every 
room in the house—there by this window, 
where we may watch the sun go down, while 
perfect rest and the peace that flows from it 
are ours. There iu a warm corner, where it 
is bliss to yield one's-self to forgetfulness of 
the day’s work and worry. 
We kuow that a chair of this kind, one that 
may hold oblivion of a thousand annoyances 
in its embrace, is not unattainable, and yet 
how seldom do we find one that is really a 
giver of ease. Fortunately for the spines of 
the present generation the torturing, perpen¬ 
dicular backs of the chairs of thirty years 
ago are no longer foimd, but our chair-mak¬ 
ers are still a long way from giving us perfec¬ 
tion, especially in the commoner sorts. The 
fact that a chair is of wood is no reason why 
in point of shape it should bear no agreement 
with the form it is iutended to fit, 
CLAM CHOWDER, (LARGE QUANTITY.) 
We are indebted to Mrs. Annie L. Jack, of 
Canada, for the following unpublished recipe 
from the pen of Mrs. Mariou Harland: 
One peck of clams, two quarts of tomatoes, 
sliced and peeled, 12 medium-sized potatoes, 
cut very small, eight omens, eight pilot bis¬ 
cuits, one-half pound of salt pork, 12 whole 
cloves, 12 whole allspice, Cayenne pepper and 
salt to taste. Mince the pork and put in a 
soup-kettle over the lire Fry all the fat out; 
with a skimmer remove the dried bits of pork; 
put the chopped onions iuto rhe fat and cook to 
a light brown; add the clam liquor, potatoes 
and tomatoes (sliced thin) the spices tied up in 
a thin muslin lmg and the Cayenne. Cook nt 
least three hours, covered and slowly. Then 
add the clams, chopped flue, and the pilot bis¬ 
cuits, which should have been soakiug one hour 
in cold water, and be broken to pieces before 
they go into the pot. Stew —still covered—half 
au hour longer and serve very hot. This de¬ 
serves the highest place on the list of chowders. 
CANNING GRAPES. 
In reply to “A Kansas Lady” (and I also 
want “Aunt Mabhy” to try this) I append my 
way of preserving grapes for Winter use. I 
remove the skins, squeezing the juice out of 
them, and add sugar to taste, cooking them 
in the cans "We much prefer them without 
the tough skins, and as our grapes are all 
dark-colored, we like the delicate hue of the 
pulps alone. M. E. s. 
APPLE PIES WITHOUT UNDER CRUSTS. 
A friend tells us that she never makes an 
undercrust for her apple pies. She lines the 
inside rim of the disn, adds the fruit, covers 
with crust aud bakes as usual. She says the 
pieces when serving, lift out just as nicely as a 
if there was a soggy undercrust to them. 
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