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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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for dress than if the young lady or gentleman 
entered society. Our strongest men and wo¬ 
men come from the country. Their robust 
health fits them fordoing much mental work, 
and rural women as a rule give their children 
good moral training and sensible aspirations. 
If upon this foundation is based a broad, 
thorough education, the edifice erected will 
be one useful, durable and beautiful. The 
men and women who rule the future will be 
those who think; aud may many farmers’ 
sons and daughters be largely represented. 
EMMA C. STOUT. 
Domestic Ccotiomi) 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
MODERNIZING LOW WINDOWS. 
Many an old-fashioned house has the win¬ 
dows wide and low, entirely unlike those in 
the modern style. These can be made so that 
persons in the room cannot detect the differ¬ 
ence between them and tbe long, narrow win¬ 
dow of the times. To modernize them, pro¬ 
cure curtain stuff Of the proper length, cut a 
per is varied occasionally by cake and enough 
sauce on the whole table for one healthy per¬ 
son. At some farms salt pork takes the place 
of the beef; but such things as sweet milk and 
cream are not to be thought of. 
Now, city people come to the country, as a 
rule, to rest and recuperate, and they crave a 
variety of the numerous vegetables that can 
be bad with a little trouble and which are so 
wholesome a3 well as appetizing, and the many 
delicious fruits that are so conducive to good 
health. Now, I am not writing this simply to 
find fault with country board, but because I 
regret that farmers are not living up to their 
opportunities. It is evident that no class can 
live as well as farmers, for all good products 
come from the soil, and the farmer can have 
them perfectly fresh and more completely 
matured than is possible for the city resident. 
Yet it is a sadly evident fact that city people 
have a greater variety and better supply of 
vegetables on their tables, than farmers of the 
same degree of prosperity. I am not advoca¬ 
ting a change simply for those who take board¬ 
ers; but for all farmers who do not supply these 
wholesome, delicious, and health-giving pro¬ 
ducts every day to their families, who are of 
more consequence than boarders for a few 
of the paper and paste it in your note or re¬ 
cipe book; 
GLOSS FOR STARCH. 
One half ounce of paraffine, one-balf ounce 
of ammonia, one-half ounce of white wax, 
four ounces of glycerine, six ounces of water- 
white kerosene, one-half ounce stearine. 
Put the wax iuto kerosene, let it dissolve, 
then add glycerine and ammonia, then the 
remaining ingredients; heat on back of stove 
till all are dissolved, then bottle. Add one 
tablespoonful to a quart of cooked starch, to 
be put in before cooking. When this is cold, 
make a little cold water starch and add to it, 
stirring well together. 
This is used after the shirts are dried from 
the wash, and if any starch is left, it can be 
saved for the next week’s work, if kept in a 
cool place. When the starch is well rubbed 
into the bosoms and wristbands, the shirts 
must be rolled up tightly and left for three 
hours; then rub hard with a damp cloth, >o 
remove all loose particles of starch: cover 
with a damp cloth and iron until nearly dry, 
then polish. A polishing iron is a great con¬ 
venience. The rough ones are preferred by 
man}' laundry maids, and cost 50 cents apiece; 
the smooth ones are 75 cents. 
girls, to be interested in temperance; then 
interest yourself now, while they are young 
and they will become interested and perman¬ 
ently committed to the right side of the ques¬ 
tion. This is by all means the safest course; 
no other is to be relied on with much con 
fidence. Besides, you will be the better for 
lettiog, or rather making, important subjects 
displace in some measure the numberless little 
worries of everyday work. Let meal time 
be something besides a mere eating time 
or chance for gossip, fault-finding or banter¬ 
ing. Have some subject to talk about, and 
manage, iu spite of turning the tea and wait¬ 
ing ou table and attending to the children’s 
wants, to keep the ball of intelligent conver¬ 
sation rolling. 
And let temperance be one of the principal 
topics. There is abundance of material for 
discussion in the trials aud triumphs of the 
work in these days. 
If you cannot join a temperance society or 
attend a W. C. T. prayer meeting, or give 
money, or lecture, or write for a tempeiatce 
paper, or eveu subscribe for one, or as } et 
vote for Prohibition, you can at least set the 
example of total abstiuence; you can keep a 
pledge album for your acquaintances to write 
plain board, five or six inches wide, and as 
long as the window is wide, attach this to the 
wall at the desired higbt above the window. 
To this affix the shade fixtures and from it 
hang the curtain, as shown in Fig. 348. 
A TRAVELER’S IDEAS ON COUNTRY 
LIVING. 
About this time the inhabitants of cities 
are thiuking of escaping the heat and dust of 
the city, aud getting the ad vantage of country 
life—pure air aud water, aud, more particu¬ 
larly, country food. Of a necessity a large 
proportion have to engage board, and are 
weeks. 
Now why should this be so? There is no 
reasonable excuse; simply ambition is wanted 
to make a start, however small. Enough 
time is wasted loafing around public places to 
plant and care for such things. Moreover, 
a proportion of such articles iu one’s diet, is 
absolutely indispensable to the highest 
physical and mental development. If 
a good supply of fruits and vegetables, with 
the many inviting aud nourishing dishes that 
may be prepared from the different grains, 
be substituted through the summer months 
for the heavy,salted meats, it will be fouud that 
the expense is really lighter, and, what is 
Fig. 34S. 
scanning innocent-looking advertisements, 
and imagine themselves reveling in Nature’s 
choicest products -delicious fruits,choice, fresh 
vegetables, milk, cream, etc., as well as home¬ 
made and home-grown bread and meats, but 
alas! how often they are doomed to be sadly 
disappointed. For several yeurs past my 
business has been such us to take me into vari¬ 
ous parts of the country as well us city; but dur¬ 
ing the greater part of the time while travel¬ 
ing, I have stopped at country hoarding places 
for from three days to three months at a time, 
and have had excellent opportunities of ol>- 
serving their methods, am! particularly those 
of some that make a specialty of taking 
boarders from the city for the Summer. 
VV hile I am glad to be able to say that there 
are some farm homes that are a realization of 
what a country home should be, and what so 
many city people long for; yet 1 am also ob¬ 
liged to regret that there are a larger propor¬ 
tion that are sadly different. 
To illustrate, take the bill of-faro in some 
places I have been; it consists principally of 
white bread, beef aud potatoes. Should it 
happou to be steak, instead of nicely broiling 
it, it is fried (stowed would be a better de¬ 
scription) in grease until the nutritious article 
is turned iuto an indigestible compouud. 
Heavy bread, with equally iuviting potatoes, 
aud muddy coffee help to finish out breakfast. 
At diuner the everlasting pie is added. Sup¬ 
inore important, there will be an increase in 
health aud pleasure not to be computed in 
dollars and cents. In some instances the 
neglect is due simply to incorrect ideas of 
well-doing; but in all cases we who are more 
favored can do a good work by calling their 
attention to the subject occasionally, and in 
some cases by the present of a few plants or 
fruits or seeds, which, while we may uot miss 
them, may help ce i eat friendships, and in¬ 
duce efforts towards something better, so that 
in time not only boarders but farmers’families 
may realize the full pleasures, beauties, and 
privileges of country life. 
EVERETT E. BROWN. 
CHATS WITH OUR GIRLS WHO EX¬ 
PECT TO BE HOUSEKEEPERS. 
MAY MArLE. 
When L. was at home for a visit, last 
Spring—she lives in a thriving Western town 
— she told me that doing up fine shirts was no 
longer a dread, for she had learned the 
“laundry art,” and could make a linen shirt 
front look as well as the best, and she kindly 
gave me the recipe and directions for use. 
Now, girls, very many of you will have occa¬ 
sion to do up tine shirts for fathers, brothers 
aud husbauds 52 times a year, and if you take 
pride iu your work, you will be glad to have 
this recipe at hand, so be sure and cut it out 
u. saiu me wore wouia not loos so weli the 
first time trying, but after that there was not 
the least trouble. Cloth and starch seem to 
“acclimate” after the first dip. 
As L. is learning to be a first class cook, I 
will send her recipe for making Washington 
Pie; One cup of sugar and two eggs, one- 
fourth of a cup of milk, one half cup of but¬ 
ter, one and-one-balf cup of flour, one-and- 
one-half teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake 
quickly in two round tins, split each and put 
cream between and on top. It is better to 
wait till cold before splitting and spreading. 
Cream for same. One pint of sweet cream, 
whipped with an egg beater until stiff, add 
sugar and flavoring to taste. 
In the absence of cream, canned cocoa, or 
any kind of jelly, makes a nice filling. 
TEMPERANCE. 
Lady readers, what are we doing for the 
temperance cause ? Do you say “the temper¬ 
ance cause has nothing to do with Domestic 
Economy?” Are you sure? What is there 
that contributes more to economy in domestic 
life than temperance; or what will more 
quickly ruin the happiness and prosperity of 
the home than intemperance? The work is 
pre-eminently a woman’s work, and no woman 
can discharge her duty in this time of noble 
crusade without engaging in some way iu the 
grand effort. But, say you, “I have no 
money, no ability, no opportunity, no time. 
My head aud heart and hands are too full of 
work aud care and trouble even to think about 
the matter.” But the time will come when 
you may want your boys, and mayhap your 
their names iu; you cau talk with every one 
you meet upon the subject; you will be aston¬ 
ished to hear the absurd excuses, arguments 
and propositions you will meet. Ail hail tbe 
glorious temperance cause! It must prevail 
since it is just. Snail we not help to make it 
win? ZEXA CLAYBOURNE. 
A SUMMER DRINK. 
The following I consider a very good drink 
at all seasons, I believe it is better and more 
healthful than can generally be found at the 
soda fountain, besides being as pleasant. It 
seems to be good for dyspeptics, and has cured 
myself and wife of heartburn. We generally 
drink it after meals, also during the day when 
desired. Takea tumbler nearlv full of water: 
pour off about one-third into another glass; 
then add a heaping teaspoonful of sugar to 
each glass; takeasmuch common babiug soda 
(bi carbonate of s?da) as will rest on the point 
of a knife, or a little more, put into the smaller 
glass; then take the same amount of tartaric 
acid (ten cents' worth from the druggist will 
last several weeks i, and put iuto the other 
glass, stir till dissolved; then pour together 
and you will have a glass of excellent soda 
water. A small quantity of the beaten white 
of an egg will hold the foam. Flavoring can 
be added at pleasure. Will the Rural read¬ 
ers who are troubled with dyspepsia or heart¬ 
burn please try this and report! it may re¬ 
quire a little experience to get the right pro¬ 
portions. j. j. 
Please address all communications for the 
Domestic Economy Department to Mrs. 
Emily Maple, River Edge, Bergen Co., New 
Jersey. 
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