DEC 22 
THE BUBAL WEW-YOBKEB, 
847 
Domestic (£conom^ 
CONDUCTED BY EMIT-Y MAPLE. 
MACHINERY FOR WOMEN. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
1 recently went through the housekeep¬ 
ing department of a large Philadelphia es¬ 
tablishment for the purpose of finding what is 
new or old in the way of household machinery 
and implements that tend to facilitate the 
housework of women. WheD the use of a ma¬ 
chine entails about us much work as it obvi¬ 
ates, it is scarcely worth the having, and so 
far as I am able to judge I should say that a 
"bread kneader” for the average family 
would be a questionable investment. A bread 
cutter which cuts bread quickly aud evenly, 
costs $3, and is well worth it, particularly 
when there is much bread used, and it is es¬ 
sential that the cutting he handsomely done. 
No article of food that appeal's upon the table 
is more enhanced in attractiveness by dainty 
arrangement than bread, while the reverse is 
equally true. Dried beef cutters cost 85 cents. 
Should you get one, look out for your lingers! 
A cabbage cutter costs 85 cents; clothes 
sprinklers from 18 to 35 cents. Those for 18 
cents are round, fiat wire arrangements, 
with a pad on one side, and a long handle. 
You dip the large end in water and sprinkle 
the clothes, and when done baug the sprink¬ 
ler up to dry. The 35-cent {sprinkler is a tin 
pint cup with a perforated cover, through 
which the water is shaken like pepper out of 
a box. The advantages of a clothes sprinkler 
are, that the sprinkling is done more quickly 
and evenly, and the hands are kept dry. 
Clothes so sprinkled can be more quickly 
ironed. Pie makers should have a paste jag- 
ger which costs eight cents. A Hour sifter 
which turns with a crank costs 30 cents. A 
potato masher costs 50 cents. This is quite an 
ingenious little machine, which forces the po¬ 
tato through a sieve, so that it comes out very 
much as after having been mashed through a 
colander, A half gallon can with a funnel at¬ 
tached to it, costs 40 cents, and is convenient 
for pouring liquids into bottles. 
The iron dish cloth is one of the newest and 
most practical inventions, uud it comes from 
Germany—the idea. It is formed of double 
iron rings, and is iu three sizes, for 10, 15, aud 
18 cents. It is as large as your baud, and its 
use is to wash pans and pots that require 
scraping. For this they are admirable—to 
clean them throw iu hot water, and they last 
forever! Mrs. Patt’s cold-handle snd-irou is a 
credit to the inventive power of one woman 
at least. With this you never have to stop to 
make or mend your iron holder. A set of 
those irons costs *1.50. They are so made that 
one handle serves for all the irons, aud as it is 
uot left iu the iron while on the stove, of 
course it does not become hot. 
When one is weak in the back (and who 
isu’t?) what can bo mote welcome tliau the 
paper water bucket ? One holding eight 
quarts cost 45 cents. It is very, very light, 
very durable, aud I am assured that it yields 
no taste to the water left standing in it. A 
friend of mine who wasuu invalid, bad a full 
toilet set of it, which gave her great comfort, 
from its lightness of weight. There have 
been improvements in the carpet sweeper, al 
though the unimproved are very good. I 
have one—the “ Union ”—recommended by 
the Rub At, years ago, which has paid for itself 
many times over. 1 would no sooner keep 
house without a carpet sweeper if I had carpets 
to be swept, than try to farm without a hoc 
harrow. The cost of sweepers ranges from 
$8 to$8. The " Aurora” is “ noiseless,” runs 
on rubbered wheels, uud costs $3. The “ Bis- 
sell,” also known as the “ Wauatnaker,” has 
two brushes, sweeps close to the foot-board 
I paid 83 for the “ Union,” and have used it 
six years or more, and it requires no repairs. 
The doctrine that carpet sweepers wear out 
the carpets is false; it wears them less than 
the ordinary broom by far, does not raise a 
cloud of dust, and, what is more to the point, 
does not wear oat the operator of it. Think 
of sweeping in a cloud of dust, breathing it 
into the lungs, and having the felicity of see¬ 
ing it resting serenely on the top of every¬ 
thing in the room, to be wiped off with great 
labor, and the air in the room filled with dust 
for hours afterward. If you think of the al¬ 
mighty dollar too, consider the brooms that a 
carpet sweeper saves! 
An apple parer costs 90 cents, a potato 
parer 95 cents, and then you have the eyes 
to dig out: but it helps. A tin-can opener, 
adjusted to till sizes and fastening to the wall, 
costs 50 cents. Lamp brackets cost from 85 
cents up, and a bracket for a lamp, particu¬ 
larly in the kitchen, often saves the lamp from 
breakage. In my own kitchen, which is in 
no sense a model one, I have a large lamp 
hung from the middle of the ceiling, and its 
convenience is very great, for it illuminates 
the whole room, and is out of everybody’s way, 
A Dover egg-beater costa 35 cents, and is 
altogether a necessity for its "saving power.” 
Of course, there are wasting machines, of 
which I can say nothing from experience. 
One was used in our house for several years 
with satisfaction, but as a man had to be de¬ 
tailed to operate it, it gradually fell into dis¬ 
use. I am still on the trial of the steam 
washer, to which I have heretofore alluded, 
and when I am well posted in regard to it I 
shall communicate my knowledge thereon. 
The self-supporting ironing-board, whose 
legs can be folded up when done with, is the 
ironing-board to buy. It costs *1 50. One 
end of it is entirely free, so that skirts can be 
slipped on and off the board without hinder- 
anee. No chairs or tables are needed for its 
support Clothes-wringers cost from 83.50 to 
§?. They ought to be much cheaper, but 
every woman has a wringer, of course. Then 
there is the jelly press, which also strains 
seeds out of tomatoes, which costs *2.75. A 
meat-chopper, which ean also be used for 
mashing potatoes, cost from $2,75 up. The 
acme frying-pan, with the handle covered 
with t in so as not to hie hot, costs 35 cents. 
The soapstone griddle for batter-cakes is a 
great favorite with some people. It never has 
to be greased to fill the house with smoke and 
smell. You rub it now and then with salt, 
aud put on the stove over-night to heat grad¬ 
ually, as sudden heat breaks it. It costs ac¬ 
cording to size—fill to80 cents up to $1. When 
once hot it retaius th > heat a long time. 
A lap-board for cutting out garmeuts on, 
every woman of "sense"’ has as a matter of 
convenience. It can be home made—should 
be light and smooth, the size of a molding- 
board, aud hollowed outat one side to fit one’s 
lap. Cleats should be fastened at each end to 
keep the board from warping. 
A great saving iu bed-making is effected 
by having two pairs of hands at work—a per¬ 
son on each side of the bed. A child of six or 
eight years old cau be trained as an assistant, 
when the work can be very expeditiously 
done. 
- « * » 
PEN TALKS FROM EVERY-DAY HOUSE. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
I asked " Aunt Mabby” how she made up 
her Charlotte Russe, it was so very good, aud 
she answered me: " I don’t call it by any of 
those new-fangled names; it’s just a way 
Motheffhad of usiug up old, dry sponge cake, 
without putting any eggs in it. But the re¬ 
cipe is as follows, and very nice for the pur¬ 
pose: Pour one cup of cold water over half a 
cup of isinglass (gelatine is best). When dis¬ 
solved, add a cup of boiling milk, aud let it 
cool. Add to a quart of sweet cream sifted 
sugar and vanilla to taste. When the 
gelatine is beginning to harden, whip the 
cream to a froth, add the gelatine, whipping 
all the time. Put your spouge cake for an 
inside lining to a glass dish, pour iu the mix¬ 
ture, aud place iu a cool cellar. 
Yesterday by way of a change 1 made some 
lemon toast, ls>atiug the yelks of three eggs 
with half a pint of cream, and dipping slices 
of bread into the mixture, then frying in but¬ 
ter to a light brown. 1 then took the whites 
of the eggs, boat them up, und added the 
juice of a lemon and a little boiling water. 
This was poured over the toast, and gave it a 
pleasaut flavor. 
A house-keeper asks me to give her a method 
for dressing celery. I like miue best simply 
with salt, but there ore many ways of pre¬ 
paring it. Among others, in order to use up 
odd pieces, a good way is to out it into small 
bits, and make a dressing by beating up the 
yelk of an egg; add two tablespooufuls of 
cream, one of w hite sugar, three of vinegar, 
PUmUmwohi* 
a tablespoonful of olive oil, one of made mus¬ 
tard, aud a pinch of salt. All to be well 
stirred aud poured over the celery. 
I made some melon jam that is very good 
by mixing with the slices a few quinces cut 
up. It was all steamed, and then sugar was 
sprinkled on it over-night. In the morning 
more sugar was added to make nearly pound 
for pound, and then it was boiled an hour. 
The children are very fond of it. 
At Every-Day House just now, the days are 
hardly long enough for the work we have in 
hand. There are the children’s lessons, the 
Fall sewing, the preparations for the holidays, 
besides the regular routine of work; and yet 
I think with all there is nothing so wearing in 
the whole year's duties, as the effort the head 
of a household has to make, iu Winter prepar¬ 
ations of clothing and in thinking of the holi¬ 
days, to make one dollar do the work of two. 
For the lilies will not clothe us, whatever our 
faith, and so we work over the problem year 
after year, and it is still unsolved. 
TO WASH WOOLEN SHAWLS. 
Put half au ox gall into two gallons of tepid 
water. After washing thoroughly, rinse in 
another tub with the other half of the ox gall 
and the same quantity of water. Shake out 
gently and dry in the shade. 
A SIMPLE PUDDING. 
Boil some tapioca in milk till quite soft, 
make a custard and mix it well with the tapi¬ 
oca. Put into a glass dish and cover with any 
nice sauce or crushed rarities. 
MEAT PIE. 
Chop fine any kind of cold meat, put into a 
deep dish, and season with pepper, salt and a 
little catsup; cover with finely mashed pota¬ 
toes, aud scatter little bits of butter over the 
top. Bake till brown, and serve hot. 
CORN cake. 
One pint of buttermilk, one pint of corn 
meal, two beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of 
soda. Beat well together, and bake in shallow 
pans. 
The fatal rapidity with which slight 
Colds aud Coughs frequently develop 
into the gravest maladies of the throat 
and lungs, is a consideration which should 
impel every pruileut person to keen at 
hand, as a household remedy, a bottle oi 
AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL. 
Nothing else gives such immediate relief 
and works so sure a cure in all affections 
of this class. That eminent physician. 
Prof. F. Sweetzer, ot the Maine Medical 
School, Brunswick, Me., says:— 
“Medical science has produced no other ano¬ 
dyne expectorant so good us Ater's CaKRisr 
Pectoral. It 3 b invaluable for diseases of the 
throat, aud lungs.” 
The same opinion is expressed by the 
well-known Dr. L. J. Addison, of Chicago. 
Ill., who pays:— 
“C have never found, in thirty-five years of 
continuous study and practice of medicine, any 
preparation of so great value as AVer's Cherry 
Pectoral, for treatment of diseases of the 
throat and lungs. It not only breaks up colds 
and cures severe coughs, but is more effective 
than anything else in relieving even the most 
serious bronchial and pulmonary affections.” 
AYER’S 
Cherry Pectoral 
Is not a new claimant for popular confi¬ 
dence, but 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, and there is not a person 
who has ever given it it proper trial 
for any throat or lung disease suscep¬ 
tible of cure, who has not been mauc 
well bv it. 
AYER’S CHEERY PECTORAL has, 
in numberless instances, cured obstinate 
cases of chronic Bronchitis, Lorn y git is, 
and even acute Pneumonia, and 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 arc 
children, as there is nothing so good as 
AYER’S < HERltY PECTORAL for treat¬ 
ment of Croup and Whooping Cough, 
These are all plain facts, which ean be 
verified bv anybody, and should be re¬ 
membered by everybody. 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral 
PREPARED BY 
Dr. J, C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by &U druggists. 
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS 
" How do you manage to get your bread 
baked so early ?” said one acquaintance to an¬ 
other lately in my hearing. “ I have to keep 
mine around until the middle of the afternoon 
and am glad to get it off my hands then.” "I 
used to do so,” was the answer, " but I have 
found out that to make dough ready for the 
oven by nine o'clock in the forenoon, we must 
use considerable more yeast—twice the usual 
quantity if yeast cakes are used. I supposed 
then, that too much yeast would make the 
bread taste of the hops and be bitter; but it 
will not if your yeast is properly made: and 
as you say, it is a great convenience to get the 
balung done earlv. Keeping the dough of the 
right temperature is another important item, 
especially in cold weather. In Summer that 
takes care of itself. In Winter 1 wet up the 
sponge early in the evening tfiat it may get 
started to rise before the fires go out for the 
night. For four large loaves I use a large 
coffee cup of lively yeast.. I have a dish pau 
that I use for bread and nothing else, and 
cover with a ten quart pau after stirring up 
the spouge. At bed-time I eover the whole 
with a large folded table-cloth, or something 
of the kind, to keep it warm. It is light 
enough to mix in the morning, and 1 do that 
while the breakfast is cooking. I set it in the 
wannest corner of the stove, and it is pretty 
punctual about rising by nine o’clock, and 
theu I make it up iu loaves and let it stand to 
rise again. Kneading it well when it is first 
mixed up makes a great deal of difference in 
the quality of the dough, aud good light 
dough t>ukes much more satisfactorily than 
cold, heavy material,” and she held out a loaf 
jnst from the oven, which had the color, tex¬ 
ture, and odor of first-class hop bread, w hich 
was a convincing argument as to the quality 
of her cooking. 
Our mutual friend smilingly replied to her: 
•* My husband says that making good hot 
bread runs in families, and I guess it must ruu 
in yours.” 
ANN’S JELLY CAKE. 
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GOLD MEDAu, PARIS, 1878. 
BAKER’S 
Warranted absolutely pure 
Cocoa, from which the excess ot 
Oil has been removed IthasfArrs 
times the strength of Cocoa mixed 
with tSlareb, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more economi¬ 
cal. It U delicious, nourishing, 
strengthening, easily digested, an 1 
admirably adapted *or invalids as 
well ns for persons it. health. 
Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
One cup of sugar, three eggs, one table¬ 
spoon of butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, a 
heaping tea-spoonful of baking powder, or 
two of cream-of-tartar, and one of soda. Bake 
iu jelly tins. To put between: Take the rind 
and juice of one lemon; grate the rind; one 
egg, two-thirds of cup of sugar, one table¬ 
spoon of flour; a cup of boiling water. Cook 
until thick, and spread between layers. 
AUNT RACHEL. 
Horsford’N Acid Phosphate, 
In Sea sickness. 
Prof. Adolph Orr, New York, says: "I 
used it for sea sickness, duriug an ocean pas¬ 
sage. In most of the cases, the violent symp¬ 
toms which characterize that disease yielded, 
aud gave way to a healthful action ot' the 
functions impaired.—.1 U i\ 
W, BAM & C0„ Dorchester, Mass, 
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