shock of finding her not a teetotaler was 
great. 
We are on the eve of an election for the 
“Scott Act” here, which, if we carry it, will 
be almost prohibition. The fight will be 
fierce, for the liquor sellers tbink they should 
have the privilege to make drunkards of our 
husbands and sons without a protest. What 
to them is our unhappiness, poverty and rags, 
as long as they cau make money, dress the 
best, drive the fastest horses, have the finest 
turnouts, and live luxuriously! But we wo¬ 
men do protest, and will protest as long as we 
live. We are trying to make it a crime to 
sell the stuff in any form, except medicinally 
(for stuff it is, not even being pure). 
I have not suffered in my own immediate 
family as yet, but I have boys growing up, 
and how do I know' that they may not be 
tempted in these pleasant, accursed bar¬ 
rooms, or in the house of a friend, through 
her cakes aud puddings? Friends near and 
dear to us, though, have suffered severely and 
long from this curse; but that is now past, 
thank God! although the sting remains. It is 
only when this dreadful thing, drunkenness, 
is felt personally, or through some dear rela¬ 
tion, that the fearfulness of it strikes home. 
Hoping this appeal may influence some of the 
wives, daughters aud sisters of the Rural 
readers to “touch not, taste not, handle not” 
auy kind of liquor, is the prayer of 
CANADIAN. 
WHAT TO DO WITH THE CARDS. 
I noticed in the Rural of .Jan 17th, that 
Mrs. Economy is at a loss to know what to do 
with Christmas, New Year’s aud other pretty 
cards. Allow me to suggest to her a way of 
utilizing them, if she does not object to a 
little trouble. I received as a Christmas gift 
from my daughter a table inlaid with cards, 
which is thought by all who have seeu it, to be 
very pretty aud novel. The top is of plain 
board, :!:2x‘2:2 inches. The three legs are ebon- 
ized and crossed. The cards were selected 
with care, then cut, arranged and glued to 
the top of the table after the style of crazy 
patch-work, and then given two or three 
coats of varnish. 
The edge is finished with a lambrequin, if 
you so please to call it, made of garnet felt 
embroidered and very tastily arranged. Mrs. 
Economy would fiod this arrangement of her 
cards far from unsightly, for the table is 
certainly pretty enough to grace auy hand¬ 
somely furnished parlor, mrs. d. snhdeker. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
DOUGHNUTS W ITHOUT EGGS; LAYER CAKE. 
I noticed recently in the Rural the inquiry 
of the Amateur Cook concerning doughnuts 
without eggs. Let me give her my way of 
making them: One cup of sour cream, one 
cup of sweet milk, one and-oue half cup of 
sugar, one teaspoonful of soda, one cup of 
light, feathery' snow instead of one egg. We 
much prefer the snow to eggs, and some of 
our neighbors use it for other kinds of cake. 
The snow is to be stirred in just before the 
flour. 
I would also like to give Mrs. Economy my 
recipe for layer cake, which never sticks to 
the tins. I think it a bother to be obliged to 
put paper in the bottom of a tin, though f al¬ 
ways do it for fruit cake. One cup uearly 
full of granulated sugar, one-half cup of but¬ 
ter, the two stirred to a cream, one half cup 
of sweet milk, three eggs, the whites of two 
left out for frosting, two teaspoonfuls of 
cream of-iartar, one of soda, two cups of 
flour. This is always good, and comes off the 
tius easily. mrs. w. W. h. 
Ilorsford’s Acid Plionpliate 
Ash Kruin Food. 
Dr. S. F. Newcomer, Greenfield, O.. says: 
“In cases of general debility, and torpor of 
mind aud body,it doesexeeedingly welV’-Adp. 
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The Greatest Improvement. 
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P^-*-—BE5TTONIC. » 
This medicine, combining Iron with pure 
vegetable tonics, quickly and completely 
Lures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Weakness. 
Wki 
f ares Dyspepsia, indigestion. Weakness, 
Impure Blood, Malaria,f’hillsaud Fevers, 
and Neuralgia. 
It is an unfailing remedy for Diseases of the 
Kidneys anil Liver. 
It Is Invaluable, for Diseases peculiar to 
Women, mid ull who lead sedentary lives. 
It does not injure the teeth, cause headaohe.or 
produce constipation —other Iron medicines tin. 
It enrich [ties the blood, stimulates 
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455- The genuine has above trade mark and 
crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. 
Hidenul?by BROWS CKKIUCAt, C0.» BAI.TIHOKR. »t». 
Take it 
during the spring and summer months. 
The peculiar taint of scrofula lurks in the 
constitutions of multitudes of men, but 
can be expelled by the use of Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla. M. J. Conway, 837 Hicks 
st., Brooklyn, N. Y., w rites: “ Two j ears 
ago I was examined, at the Long Island 
Hospital, in this city, and my case was 
declared to be Salt Rheum. Large scales 
covered my legs, and were constantly 
dropping off; my eyes, also, were badly 
affected. My only relief w r as in warm salt 
water baths. 1 was unable to remain in a 
warm room, and could only sleep under 
very light bed-clothes, as the heat increased 
the burning and itching. The use of 
This Month 
is the time to take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. 
A. F. Willard, Rogers’ building, Boston, 
Mass., says: “I know of no remedy of 
equal efficacy with Ayer’s Sarsaparilla in 
cases of debility, and as a spring medi¬ 
cine.” Kich’d II. Lawrence. M. I>., Balti¬ 
more. Md., writes: “It affords me pleasure 
to testify to the success which Ayer’s 
Sarsaparilla has had in the treatment of 
cutaneous and other diseases, arising from 
a vitiated condition of the blood. Were it 
necessary. I might give you the names of 
fifty individuals who have been cured of 
long-standing complaints, by the use of 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It is a specific for 
the most obstinate cases. Ayer’s Sar- 
Ayer’s Sar saparilla 
saparilla gave me great relief. The itch- is, without exception, the best blood puri- 
ing abated, and I continued to improve tier and prophylactic with which I am 
until the cure was complete.” ' acquainted.” 
