THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
to the question which headed this communi¬ 
cation let me ask you another. Are there in 
the coming election sufficient moral issues at 
stake to rouse the women to action? 
One of the great parties, in its platform, 
carefully avoids any allusion to the liquor 
traffic, and the slight mention in the other is 
o vague and meaningless, that it will not 
cause any alarm among the friends of the 
nefarious business. 
The Prohibition party would, without 
doubt, have the sympathy and votes of a 
large proportion of feminine voters. Few 
women would care to go to the polls unless by 
so doing they can accomplish good The 
mere success of party is of little moment to 
them. If either of the parties had recognized 
this new-found ally of strength—the vote of 
the women—instead of wholly ignoring it, and 
inserted a plank assuring the home of pro¬ 
tection from the monster traffic, bow over¬ 
whelming would have been its triumph at the 
polls! As it now stands, it is not probable 
that many women will offer their votes, for 
so few are aware of their right to do so, and 
little has been done towards organization. 
But if the time ever arrives when there is 
prospect of a successful issue between temper¬ 
ance and intemperance, then it is to be hoped 
that not only all good women, but all good 
men. will esteem it a sacred duty to rally and 
record their votes on the right side. 
Certainly it is to be hoped that the women 
of New York will never so far lower their 
dignity as to descend into the muddy pool of 
politics, and work and vote solely for the 
triumph of party , but that their aid at the 
polls will help the good men of the nation to 
redeem the country from the rule of riugs 
and monopolies, and the curse of intemper¬ 
ance; and bring back the days when the pop¬ 
ular vote shall be the expression of the will 
of the people. mks. w. c. g. 
inches long, the lower edge turned to a point, 
and fiuished with large beads or small tassels. 
The overskirtsjare laid in deep pleats in the 
back, and hang plain without looping. 
The more costly and elegant goods, are of 
course in abundance, and the combination of 
plain satins, velvets, or silks, with striped 
fancy velvets of the richest colors, is the 
feature of this Fall and Winter. C. 
the skins in a dish by themselves; add a cup 
of water to each three pounds of fruit, put it 
with the pulps and boil till the seeds are loose, 
rub through a sieve, add the skins to the juice 
and one-half pound of sugar for each pound of 
fruit, boil 20 minutes, then can. 
WILD RIPE GRAPE JELLY. 
Wash the grapes as you pull them from the 
stem, put them over without water, cook 
thoroughly, then strain through a towel or 
jelly bag, measure the juice. If you wi 9 h the 
jelly to be eaten with meats or for jelly cake, 
one cup of sugar to two of juice is an abund¬ 
ance. and three cups of sugar to four of juice 
make it sweet enough for eating with bread 
and butter. It is also excellent spiced. 
The same writer speaks of washing currants; 
I not only wash them in five or six waters be¬ 
fore drying them, but I dip them out of the 
last water and put them in the middle of a 
clean towel, fold over the ends and rub them 
well; it loosens the stems; I then pick them 
carefully off the towel on to a tin plate, and 
jlry them in the oven. aunt em. 
POTATOES, STEAMED, NOT BOILED. 
Professor P. Wagner says that steamed po¬ 
tatoes are far more nutritious than boiled 
ones, from the fact that in boiling the nutri¬ 
tious salts are drawn oat by the water. 
IRON STAINS FROM MARBLE. 
The white marble top of one of my wash- 
stands was badly disfigured with tincture of 
iron. I bad tried to remove it with borax, 
sapolio, salt and lemou, but with little success, 
the ugly marks seemed to be eaten into the 
marble and would not move. A friend told 
me to buy one ounce of butter of antimony, 
one of oxalic acid, and dissolve in a pint of 
water; then add flour to make a paste and 
spread over the stains. I left this mixture on 
for three days, then scraped and washed it off; 
not a trace of the rust remained. As this 
mixture is poisonous, it must not be left where 
children can touch it. housekeeper. 
Domestic CcoHom^ 
CONDUCTED BY EMII-Y MAPLE 
TO BE REMEMBERED, 
Never burn a cheap quality of kerosene. 
Never allow yourself to kindle a fire with 
kerosene. 
Never fill a lighted lamp. 
Use metal, not glass hand lamps. 
Keep matches in a tiD or metallic box. 
Don’t stand lamps upon shelves or mantels, 
the brackets of which are secured only with 
plaster. 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
CUBING PORK. 
What is a first rate recipe for pickle for 
young pork? How can the hams and should¬ 
ers of two pigs be most economically prepared 
and smoked? Please give the details of the 
process. r ferris. 
ANSWERED BY COL. F. D. CURTIS. 
To make a pickle for bacon, hams and 
shoulders:—For 100 pounds of meat use six 
pounds of the best salt, four ounces of salt¬ 
peter, and five pounds of brown sugar. Pack 
the meat snugly iu a sweet cask and cover with 
this pickle. The same ingredients may be 
mixed together and rubbed on the flesh side 
of t he meat. The meat must be piled together 
and rubbed every other day with the mixture 
until it is all absorbed. In three weeks smoke the 
drv-salted, and in six weeks that in the pickle. 
Smoke until it is colored a light or dark chest- 
nut,aceording to taste. Use hard wood or corn¬ 
cobs to make the smoke. Dry-salting is the 
most economical and is just as good, if well 
done, as curing in the pickle. Meat cured by 
this recipe is ready for cooking without fresh¬ 
ening. If the hams and bacon are to be kept 
a long time, add one pound more of salt. If 
a sweet taste is desired, use more sugar. Mo¬ 
lasses does just as well. The animal heat 
should be thoroughly out of the meat before 
curing is attempted, and great care should be 
taken that there is no frost in the meat. 
QUICKSILVER FOR BUGS. 
How shall I apply quicksilver as a remedy 
for bugs? a. c. 
A ns. —Take the whites of two eggs, beat to 
a froth, add a half ounce of quicksilver, and 
beat until the tiny silver globules are thor¬ 
oughly mixed through the whites. Apply 
with a small paint brush to every crack and 
joint. This will be suffi -ient for two or three 
beds. Apply in the Spring and Fall. 
SWEET TOMATO PICKLES. 
Having never seen my method of making 
sweet tomato pickles in the Rural, I send it, 
hoping some housekeeper will try it aud be 
well paid for her trouble, for making such 
pickles is a good deal of work:—Slice one peck 
of green tomatoes, as late as they can be 
kept green, and if a few are turning red in¬ 
side, the flavor is all the better. Sprinkle one 
cup of salt over them, and let stand over¬ 
night. Take one quart of vinegar and two 
of water. Boil in this a few of the slices at a 
time, taking out carefully until all are cooked. 
Then take two quarts of vinegar, add one 
pound of brown sugar, oue-balf pound of 
white mustard seed, two teaspoonfuk each of 
ground cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg aud 
one-half teaspoonful of Cayenne pepper. 
Boil iu this a few at a time, removing care¬ 
fully, and pour the vinegar over. The spiees 
may be placed in a sack or put loose iu the 
vinegar. 1 put the mustard in the vinegar. 
HOUSE CLEANING NOTES. 
EXTRA FINE KALSOMINE. 
The following formula I have used for 
my walls for several years, with the most 
gratifying results. Thin 15 pounds of zinc 
white to a proper consistence with cold water, 
and add a pound of white glue. To dissolve 
the glue, first cover with cold water, soak until 
soft, then turn off the cold water and cover 
with hot. I usually add a half ounce of ultra¬ 
marine blue to the mixture before stirring in 
the glue. This makes the kalsomine of a 
clearer white. Lamp-black, brown sienna, 
yellow ochre, or other coloring matter, can be 
added, if a tint is desired. 
TO CLEAN ZINC. 
Take one part of muriatic acid to two parts 
of glycerine. Scour the zinc with this mix¬ 
ture and powdered bath brick. Afterwards 
rub with whiting. 
FURNITURE POLISH. 
Put half a pint of alcohol, one half ounce of 
resin, one-half ounce of gum-shellac, and a 
few drops of analiue brown into a bottle, and 
let stand over night, then add three-fourths 
pint of raw liuseed oil and a half pint of tur¬ 
pentine. Always shake before using. Apply 
with a cotton cloth that will not leave any 
lint. HOUSE CLEANER. 
FASHION TALK. 
It seems to us as though Dame Fashion, this 
season has given to the world some unusually 
sensible garments. To be sure the margin for 
such as do not seem either useful or sensible, 
still remains extensive, yet there is much to 
commend, in the styles for Fall and Winter. 
The goods which are intended for every day 
wear, are mostly of a rough surface, aud are 
called by various names. The trimmings are 
made of boucld and Astrakan cloths, put on 
in stripes, either up an 1 down, or around the 
skirt, as one prefers. The new serges and 
ladies’cloth now imported are partly plain, 
and partly striped with boucld or Astrakan. 
The colors are blue, brown, green, and of 
course black, which is always preferred by 
many. 
A very tasteful dress is made of bottle green 
cloth, combined with cloth of the same color 
LAYER CAKE. 
The following,which 1 have never seen pub¬ 
lished, makes, I think, a very excellent cake. 
Four eggs, two cups of sugar, two cups of 
flour, one and-one-half tablespoonful of but¬ 
ter, eight tablespoonfuls of cold water, four 
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. 
MBS. JOHN SCHONOVER. 
ANTIDOTE FOR POISONS. 
A simple and effective remedy for poisons, 
and one that is usually to be found in most 
houses, is a mixture of salt and mustard, a 
large tablespoonful of each dissolved in a cup 
of water. As soon as vomiting has ceased, 
give the patient the whites of two eggs or 
three or four spoonfuls of sweet oil, if you 
have it; if not, melted butter. mother. 
BLACK CURRANTS IN COOKERY. 
An English plum pudding made of black 
currants, is not bad to the taste of a hungry 
man or woman, but to oue of tender sensibili¬ 
ties the disagreeable odor of the black currant 
endured in preparing it, is often sufficient to 
destroy one’s appetite for the dish when placed 
on the table. e. w. 
BURNS AND SCALDS. 
In the healing of burns aud scalds, when 
there is danger of contracting scars, rub the 
new skin several times a day with good sweet 
oil. Persist in this rubbing until the skin is 
soft and flexible, one who has tried it. 
|Ui$reUaneous( gtdverti.siug 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral 
The danger of catching a sudden cold, which may develop I 
monia. Diphtheria, or some other dangerous disease of the throat a 
liionstnited, again ami again, the importance of providing for just 
oy always keeping on hand a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. 
Will Cur© Bronchiti 
Sarah A. Sloan, Forest Grove, Oregon, J. M. Wharton, Jan 
writes: **A Jong time ago I had severe writes: “I have used 
Bronchitis. As several of mv brothers Pectoral a loug time iu 
and sisters had died after being similarly have yet to see its failu 
affected, I became alanued, and com- chiul troubles or Cough 
meneed the uso of Ayer's Cherry sectoral. Jas. Walden, Bybalia, A 
One bottle cured me. The trouble has suffered eight years fron 
never returned, and I believe that the was cured by the use o. 
Cherry Pectoral saved my life.” Pectoral.” 
The Druggists' Circular says: “Acids pre¬ 
scribed for the purpose of correcting the gas¬ 
tric juice should t>e taken before meals, so as 
to produce a copious secretion of the gastric 
glands during the meal. Alkalies iutended to 
counteract the acidity of the stomach should 
be taken at meals; but when it is intended 
that they should be absorbed by the blood, 
they should be given fasting.” 
DOMESTIC RECIPES 
WILD GRAPES, 
I have just been reading the Rural of 
Oct. 10, aud notice that “Harriet Brown” 
wishes to know some ways of using wild 
grapes. We use them in many ways Last 
year we used over -10 pounds of green, and IU 
pounds of ripe ones—all we could get; this 
year we were able to get only about six pounds 
of green ones, and regretted it much. 
GREEN GRAPES CANNED. 
Take a silver knife, aud, haviug cut each 
grape open, lake out the seeds. Allow oue 
pound of sugar to each pound of fruit, and 
put it iu the oven to warm while the fruit 
boils 20 miuutcs, add sugar, boil five miuutes 
longer, can aud seal. 
GREEN GRAPE JAM. 
Wash the grapes,pull them from the stems, 
put them over with a little water added, cook 
them till the seeds seem loose, rub through a 
sieve, allow a cup of sugar to each cup of juice, 
put iu the oven to warm, boil the juice 20 
minutes, add sugar, boil eight minutes louger, 
and put Into jars or bowls. 1 also made catsup 
of them last year, aui spiced some. 
WILD RIPE GRAPHS CANNED. 
Squeeze the pulps from the skius, puttiug 
PREPARED BT 
C.^AIER & CO., Lowell, Mass., U. S. A, 
For sale by all Druggists. 
Ladies’ Cloth Dress. 
in which are woveu stripes of gray Astrakan. 
Another is made of gray wool, aud shaded 
crimson striped velvet. Jackets made of the 
same material as the dresses complete these 
costumes. Buttous for outside garments are 
of an extremely lurge size. The fashiouable 
ribbous of all widths, have a feather edge, 
aud the widest are used for pauols, while the 
narrower widths trim theskirts.a la bayaddre. 
as sliowu iu our cut, and Just as galloon braids 
are used. Also iu pendants forming front or 
side panels, being cut in pieces three or four 
This has been our 65c Knife, but fora 
while we will sell at. She.. post paid by 
mull, or :• for $■!. Blades are flic tested and 
warranted, I’rurunK 
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