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again, and when I carried her from the room 
you cried so pitifully that your mother cried 
too as she said: ’Poor, motherless baby.’” 
“Oh! I kuow I shall love her,” exclaimed 
Rose, earnestly. 
“I took her to her aunt in Pittsburgh with 
this message from her father: ‘She is your’s 
Kate. I do not want her 10 stay here with 
seven brothers only for companions. Make 
her a lady.’” 
“1 wished that ‘true woman’ had been writ¬ 
ten in the place of the last word; but, then, 
for ought I knew her foster mother was sensi¬ 
ble and practical and I trusted that she would 
prepare baby Margaret for a better future 
than if she were left here to ‘come up,’ as we 
said then. Her brothers are all married now. 
and I expect the neighbors have forgotten 
this last bnd of the household, which you say 
has bloomed into such a beauteous rose. It is 
strange that she has never been home since 
her father’s marriage; but it is quite likely 
that she has been in school all this time and 
is a very accomplished lady,” concluded 
graudma. 
“Yes, indeed! she is a lady; the most beau¬ 
tiful one that I ever saw. Her face was so 
fair, her form so graceful, and I was so much 
infatuated that 1 forgot to tell you how she 
was dressed. She wore a rich brocaded blue 
satin and real diamonds. She was reading to 
Mrs. Moore wheu 1 entered, but she placed 
her book on the table aud arose to meet me. 
After our introduction she talked so pleasant¬ 
ly that I soon was unconscious of the fact 
that I wore ouly a grey hueu aud white 
apron, and she satin and jewels,” said Rose. 
“That was right,” answered grandma, ap¬ 
provingly. “I want you to be her friend, and 
true friendship cannot exist if either party 
are continually noting minor differences.” 
"She said that she was going to spend the 
Wintei here," continued Rose, “and that she 
hoped we should soon become acquainted.” 
“And while she is here, Rose, remember 
that she is Parmer Moore's daughter and try 
to do all you can to make her stay pleasant. 
You must introduce her to those with whom 
you associate, who will understand and ap¬ 
preciate her best. Some will ‘suub’ her, as t he 
Tompkins girls say, merely because she is 
rich. It is best to choose our friends accord¬ 
ing to character not dress. I think each one 
of you will bestow much upon the other. No 
doubt she can tell you about that educational 
life that you once so longed to enter—aud may 
the glimpses all be such as will make you 
happy aud not discontented,” 
Then grandma looked away across the fleld 
to the chapel and the green church yard and 
lived over again that September day nearly 
four years ago when Rose’s mother died so 
suddenly and the brave girl unpacked her 
truuks and decided to give up school life for 
the sake of home. Mr. Beverly said that she 
had better return to college and he would em¬ 
ploy good domestics, but she always answered: 
“No, father, I cemuot leave Baby May to 
stranger’s hands. Let me stay with you.” 
She received her reward in the inuoceut 
love of the little prattler who soon learned to 
call “Wosie, Wosie,” instead of “Mamma.” 
Two years ago grandma had come to make 
her home with them and her presence atoned 
somewhat for the absence of the dear mother 
whom they yet. mourned so deeply. Rose 
thought also of the suddeu turn her plans of 
life had taken; of the dark household grief, 
and of the years which had passed by bearing 
opportunities that would never return. But, 
side by side with these, came the memory of 
her happy reward for self sacritlce. flow 
much bur dear, patient grandma had helped 
her to bear the harden of home cares. Yet 
just at t his moment she painfully acknowl¬ 
edged her lack of educational attainments. 
The easy sentences, the rich vocabulary of 
Margaret Moore had caused her own conver¬ 
sation to appear awkward, she thought, eveu 
rude. She began to reason ul>out the little 
pqlut of difference until it formed a great bar¬ 
rier bet wee tit hem. What could she bestow 
that would entitle her to the friendship of a 
Yassargirl I Better to be reserved and haughty 
than to make advances only to be retracted. 
Rose had read many books and through them 
had en joyed a comparatively fair view of the 
world, although she had seldom traveled far 
froin her own home. Her circle of friends 
idolized her, die needed no new friend, even 
though this one, as grandma had hinted, could 
reveal to Imr the customs of society in which 
she had never participated. Wheu she placed 
her head on the pillow that night the perplex- . 
ed question still rang iu her ears, “How 
should she treat her new acquaintance 
There seemed to tie no way in which she could 
meet this lady on a plane of equality. 
Domestic (!*conom^ 
CON DUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
HOUSEKEEPING ON PUGEt'SOUND. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
VI. 
How sensitiveness becomes blunted by 
familiarity’, was often made evident to me iu 
my Seattle experiences. A young lady’ who 
came hither as a bride, from a home of lux¬ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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derful, and her simple gown of a style far 
beyond all arts of fashion. 
So, in reading the Life of George Eliot, how 
one is carried out of the realm of “what ye 
shall eat and what ye shall wear,” although 
in one place, while keeping house for her 
father she mentions making mince pies, and 
Dr. Holmes in his biography of Emerson, 
says that the philosopher was a great pie 
eater and never suffered from indigestion! 
But for all that, I class pies among the con¬ 
demnations ! and of course we never bad any 
while we were “housekeeping.” My prede¬ 
cessor evidently was not a pie maker, for al¬ 
though she had a "rolling pin,” there was no 
molding board, and when I made “baking 
powder” biscuits, which 1 sometimes did. 1 
sifted the flour through a colander. When 
the weather became warm, the “ left over” 
milk would sometimes sour, and I thought 
that l might practice some economy by in¬ 
vesting in baking soda, so one day 1 inquired 
at a grocery for Babbitt’s baking soda, and 
was informed that all the soda used on this 
coast, as well as the bulk of that used iu the 
United. States, came from California, where 
there are lakes and “oceans” or soda. It cost 
10 cents a pound and was put up in no smaller 
packages. I bought a pound and made use of 
it once with grave suspicion as to the result, 
although faithfully following the printed 
directions. My biscuits broke apart, yellow 
as saffron and emitting a vapor with the 
smell of a soda geyser! The biscuits fed the 
fire, and 1 used the soda no more for culinary 
purposes, although my one effort should not 
condemn California soda. Ail our sour 
milk after that, as it bad been before, was 
made into “cottage cheese,” and I frankly 
confess that our little tidbits made of “odds 
and ends” and “leftovers,” were greatly en¬ 
joyed as much on account of their "economy” 
as otherwise, for there is a genuine and rare 
pleasure in living in an entirely enjoyable 
way at a comparatively small expense. 
Although my mother died when I was very 
young, she impressed one thing so thoroughly 
upon my mind that it ever abideth with me. 
“Never throw an>thiag iu the fire that any¬ 
thing eau eat." she would say; but as we bad 
nothing to eat refuse, there was nothing bet¬ 
ter to do than to burn it, and still I never 
turned apple skins, potato parings or the like 
into the tire without a twinge of conscience 
from that early trainiug. While the snow 
was on the ground in Winter—a period of 
three weeks; an almost unprecedented length 
—my Scotch neighbor had a piece of carpet 
laid on the snow, on which she put bread 
crumbs for the birds, and which inspired the 
laddie to do likewise. But I had too much 
respect for every eating thing to put those 
terrific biscuits in their wav. 
NOTES AT THE KITCHEN TABLE. 
MAY MAPLE. 
Keep the cream and butter milk jars closely 
covered; also meats, raw or roasted; for the 
Hies soon make sad havoc of foods containing 
fatty matter, that are left open for their in¬ 
spection. 
Mrs. A. says canned berries retain their 
flavor, and keep better when a buttered cloth 
is laid over the top of the jar before serewiug 
down the cover. 
For cleaning stone jars, gla-s cans and 
bottles, there is nothing better than lye. If 
there is auy doubt about a jar being sweet, I 
fill it half or two thirds full of ashes, till up 
with hot water, and let it stand for several 
days. Wash clean, and it is as sweet as new. 
Don’t expect to keep butter sweet any length 
of time in a cracked jar, or in one that con¬ 
tains a flaw. 
One cannot make butter who is constantly 
dipping into the milk that is set for cream. 
It is better to save out a certain quantity for 
daily use, and let that suffice. 
A half teacup of sugar put into the beans, 
w ben boiling, improves the flavor to most 
tastes, besides adding to the nourishing qual¬ 
ities of the dish. 
Bee stings are less poisonous in the fore part 
of the day than after the sun has crossed 
the meridian e. m.) Soap moistened with 
water, I find to be an excellent antidote if 
applied immediately. 
Weeds grow among vegetables and flowers, 
while the horticulturist dreams of future 
greatness. 
Poor bread makes cross men folk, and is ex¬ 
ceedingly disheartening to the baker. 
If life were all sunshine, there would be no 
true growth of beautiful flowers, no fruitage 
of progress. Clouds and raiu are necessary 
to mother earth aud her offspring; grief and 
tears are blessings, though often unwelcome 
to the human family. 
MEAT PUDDING. 
Mrs. N.’smeat pudding, which she had for 
dinner, I thought excellent, and I asked for 
her way of making it, which is as follows: 
One pound of fat pork chopped very fine, 
one-half pint of sweet milk, four eggs, a small 
loaf of bread broken in pieces, one good-sized 
onion, pepper and salt to taste; mix all to¬ 
gether, put in a bag, and steam one-and-one- 
half hour. This recipe also makes nice stuff¬ 
ing for roasted fowls, spare rib, etc. 
telussa’s dutch cake. 
When making yeast bread I often take out 
about half of a five-quart pail full of the 
spouge for this cake, which we all like. To 
the dough I add one-and-one-half cup of meat 
drippings, one-and-one-half cupof white sugar, 
some raisiDS or currants, aud finur enough to 
knead into loaves; let them rise, roll out, 
and rise again, then spread over butter and 
a good sprinkling of sugar; bake in a moder¬ 
ately hot oven 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
GREEN TOMATO PICKLES. 
Slice the tomatoes and put them in layers 
in jars, sprinkling them with salt between the 
layers, and let them stand over-night. Drain 
them in the morning and scald in viuegar till 
tender - , then put them in layers in the jars, 
and sprinkle, between the layers, cinnamon, 
cloves, allspice and sugar, and cover with 
clear,cold vinegar. 
Those of which I ate last April had been 
kept all Winter, and were as crisp and nice as 
when first put down. 
CANNING GREEN CORN. 
Mrs. H. succeeds in canning green corn and 
having it eatable. She cuts the corn from the 
cob- care must be taken not to slice shavings 
from the coh—and packs it hard in glass fruit 
cans, often using a stick like a small potato 
masher. When the cans are well filled she 
screws on the covers and puts them sideways 
into the boiler of warm water, into which she 
has laid a few sticks for them to rest upon. 
Then she boils them steadily for three hours. 
When they are taken out, the covers are given 
auother turn, if possible, and they are then set 
away to cool. M. m. 
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CATHARTIC 
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ury and refinement in Pennsylvania, suffered 
greatly at first from homesickness, and could 
see nothing attractive in the town. After a 
time she confessed that some of the places 
which she at first did not think worth looking 
at, she now’ thought “perfectly lovely,” and 
she eventually went to housekeeping in a 
house of four rooms, and thought it “so nice.” 
Her husband, who had plenty of leisure, and 
belonged, as did she, to a wealthy family, 
papered the rooms, and did the work beauti¬ 
fully, although it was his first “experience.” 
At first she employed a Chinese servant, but 
later dismissed him, as she thought she might 
as well do the work as to watch him at it! 
At the end of a week She complained of her 
bauds suffering from dish water, when I in¬ 
vited her to look at my swab, one like which 
her “paper-hanger” could make, which 
subset) ueutly she greatly prized. After 
they had fairly become initiated in house¬ 
keeping, their little cottage, which had been 
so neatly re-papered and paiuted, fell 
down one night. Luckily, they were mo¬ 
mentarily out of it on some errand. Like 
so mauy Western houses, it was set upon 
“pegs,"some of which gave way, or the ground 
under them, and the house fell to one side- 
smashing many breakable things. Of course, 
it was both amusing and vexing. The owner 
of the cottage provided for them, and agreed 
to have a new house built for them on the 
same spot at the end of a month. We had an 
occasionally slight shock of earthquake, bnt 
none of any importance. Another party of 
dwellers here from the East were four young 
men, who rented a house of four rooms, usiug 
one for a sitting room and the others for 
sleeping. They paid a rental of *13 per 
month, and fitted up the rooms according to 
their fancy. For the sitting-room they painted 
the chairs and table and the wood-work red, 
and put up red hangings. Another room was 
painted blue and fitted up in blue; and an¬ 
other yellow; and the third sleeping room, 
was, I think, put iu dark green. They bided 
their time as to furnishing, and bought cheap¬ 
ly at auction sales, aud then made use of their 
paint and other renovating appliances. The 
result was that for a little money, they 
secured a charming home—taking their meals 
outside, of course, although everyone had 
learned to cook. It was a thousand limes 
better thau lodgings in a hotel or “boarding 
house.” Two women whom I met bad been 
broken-down teachers iu New England, who 
came here, bought a lot a little way out of 
town, and built for themselves a small, taste¬ 
ful, one-story cottage, and lived as nicely as 
one could wish. I alw’ays wonder, when I 
see an unmarried woman quartered in some 
relative's family—usually a miserable exist¬ 
ence—why she cannot find another woman of 
kindred tastes, and let the two make a home 
for themselves, for there are so many places 
where people, by good management, can live 
most comfortably and cheaply. 
One advantage in a Western town lies in 
the fact that social position is not affected by 
simple and unpretentious living. While one 
may be a leader in Western society and still 
live in rooms over a shop or store, a similar 
residence would in the East quite extinguish 
auy possibility of social eminence. So, too, 
in the West, a girl may stand behind a dry 
goods’ counter in the day time, aud be quite a 
belle in the evening at a fashionable party. 
During our mouths of “light housekeeping,’ 
we became so attached to it, that I often de¬ 
clared that if ever we should be required to 
build a new house fur our own residence. I 
should tax my brain to contrive a house small 
enough! I often thiuk how Bayard Taylor 
was kept under severe mental strain for years 
in onler to keep up his expensive “Cedar- 
croft” estate, and finally after a long struggle 
abandoned it—when a simple and inexpensive 
home would have yielded him so much more- 
Something must always be sacrificed, but if 
one is to be “foot-free,” aud money is to be 
had for travel and books, there must be sim¬ 
ple living at home iu the vast majority’ of 
cases, aud simple living includes simple dress, 
ing. 
“Simple dressing” reminds me of an uncom¬ 
monly gifted young lady liviug in the Pnget 
Bound country, the wife of a physician. They 
had one child a year old; lived in a cosy lit¬ 
tle house; kept no servant; had a multitude 
of social demands, and the young wife who 
seemed to my eyes beyond criticism, was some¬ 
times made the subject of talk by persons who 
wondered why she didn’t dress so and thus, 
and wear corsets and be “stylish.” When 1 
have sat and listened to her music—she play¬ 
ed divinely, had studied under Listz. was of 
German birth, aud musical in every fibre of 
her body, had known Wagner and kindred 
composers personally—aud watched her gift¬ 
ed. eloquent face, her lithe, graceful figure, 
and contemplated all she accomplished every 
day of her life — music lessons, housework, 
child nursing, social duties, playiug often for 
charitable purposes—I thought she was wou - - 
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