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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Ayer's Cherry Pectoral 
The danger of catching a sudden cold, which may develop Bronchitis, Pneu¬ 
monia, Diphtheria, or some other dangerous disease of the throat and lungs, has de¬ 
monstrated, again and again, the importance of providing for just such emergencies 
oy always keeping on hand a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. 
Will Cure Bronchitis 
of all years the purses are exceedingly slim 
in the case of not a few farmers’ daughters, 
and the tokens of remembrance must be in¬ 
expensive, much as they may desire to pre¬ 
sent “gold, frankincense and myrrh,” as did 
the wise ones of olden times. The little 
keepsakes fashioned by your own fair hands, 
are often valued as highly by the recipients 
as more costly ones would be, that had come 
without thought or care. In bestowing pres¬ 
ents it is well to take into consideration the 
tastes and circumstances of those whom we 
wish to receive onr tokens of regard. 
A pretty work-box for mother’s table may 
be made of a large sized cigar box. Line the 
inside with any pretty material you may 
have at band—velvet, silk, or even gay- 
colored prints, or bits of ribbon may be 
utilize! by patting them together “crazy- 
quilt” fashion. For the outside, spread on a 
good coat of putty, and then cover with sheila 
and pebbles, or tiny cones from the hemlock 
trees and various seeds formed into any shape 
you like; after a few day9 they will be firm 
in the putty, and a coat of varnish may be 
applied. 
An ornament for a table or mantel can be 
made of small blocks put together pyramid 
fashion, covered first with putty and then a 
heavy sprinkling of pounded glass. The 
effect of the coarse and fine bits is very pretty 
by lamplight. 
Those old bottles thacyon have moved and 
removed from the pantry or closet shelf every 
house-cleaning time may be utilized by tying 
a string that has been saturated in kerosene 
around the bottle just below the neck: set the 
string on fire and step away while it burns, 
for sometimes the top files off in pieces. A 
smooth edge is not always left, but this is 
remedied by making, around the bottle, a band 
(wide or narrow as one likes) of perforated 
cardboard,silvered or gilded,tracing a delicate 
vine at top and bottom of the band with 
zephyr, and finishing with pretty transfer 
pictures. When nicely done, you have a set 
of vases that will be useful and ornamental 
and much admired. 
One who has considerable inventive genius 
can make some comical imitations of farm¬ 
yard fowls for the little folkB with fine wire 
and pumpkin seeds. If one has a little money 
and a good deal of leisure, she cau crochet a 
set of handsome lambrequins. Those I saw 
were made of shaded brown Germantown 
wool; tbe pattern was single rings sewed 
together In deep points, which were finished 
at the tips with tassels, and the heading was 
a continuation of the rings (n several rows. 
They were very handsome. The same hands 
had crocheted a handsome blanket for a child’s 
carriage, with the little one’s name in the 
center in gilt letters. 
Did you save any of those “crook-necked 
squashes’’last Summer for seed/ If so, you 
have a foundation for a “horn of plenty.” 
Cut off a small piece of the neck, dig out the 
inside till you have a clean shell Now with 
a little “diamoud” paint, black and gilt (it 
can be obtained for 10 cents a package), paint 
the outside blac k for the main color, and gild 
tbe warty protuberances; fasteu a pretty 
ribbon to the top, and fill with hickory-nut 
and walnut meats (if you have them), choice 
candies ami whatever else yon choose. 
Linen Bprons.svith delicate sprays of flowers, 
or if one chooses, little comic figures with 
quotations from famous authors, outlined 
with colored embroidery cotton, are pretty 
and always acceptable gifts. Then there are 
the various animal representations—rabbits, 
dogs, cats, mice, elephauts, and horses, all 
made of canton flannel, and stuffed with bran 
or sawdust. 
Of course, we must not forgot little five- 
year-old Dott, who has a large family of dolls 
to work for. First must come the washtub 
audooard; the first can be made of the lower 
half of au old sap-bucket, and with a little 
paint it cau be made to look as fine as “ a real 
boughten onethe rub board may be whit¬ 
tled out of a pine board, with a jack knife; 
and she cau help ma’ma wash and be “ too hap¬ 
py for anyflng.” She will also be greatly de¬ 
lighted with a parlor set. Procure a large 
cork, such as would fit a large-mouthed fruit 
jug. If this is an inch thick, it cau be cut into 
two wheels, one of which will make the top of a 
roundtable, and may be covered with a bit of 
velvet; the legs can be made of four large pins 
wound with yarn, to correspond. The re¬ 
maining wheel will make two half-circles, 
which will make a pair of tiny sofas, cover 
these with wadding and velvet, then stick a 
row of common sized pins around the circular 
side, graduating them so that those at the cen¬ 
ter of the back will be higher than those at 
the arm shies. Wind these with yarn, iu and 
out, to form a handsome back, aud for legs 
rise larger-sized pin*, and wind theso with 
yam. Now make a set of chairs of the small¬ 
er corks. A little floor fastened on spools and 
covered with velvet, merino, or delaine, will 
be au addition, aud make a fitting place for 
the tiny furniture. And do'not forget those 
little neglected ones to be found in almost 
every neighborhood, who seldom know what 
comfort is. Their wants are numerous, and 
from your comparatively well filled store 
something may be made for them that will 
make their hearts glow with kind feeling to¬ 
wards those who remembered them when the 
whole world about them was having a jubilee. 
■ -»* • .— 
A FARMER’S DAUGHTERS DOMESTIC 
REVERIES. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
1 like Marion Harland’s calendar very 
much indeed, and it has been a great comfort 
to me. Bat much of the advice and many of 
the recipes for week-days are often of little 
use to one in my humble sphere of life. Not 
so those for Sundays; then I always find 
something helpful and interesting, and yester¬ 
day she had a bit about a painter who was at 
work and kept stepping back on a scaffolding 
to admire his own work till some one, seeing 
his danger, dashed a brash of wet paint against 
the fairest frescoes. Of course the painter 
spraug forward and bis life was saved. She 
ends this little story in this way: “Sometimes 
the Father pours out what seems to us to be His 
wrath upon our pleasant pictures; but it is be¬ 
cause He loves us too dearly to let us lose our¬ 
selves in a world that does not love Him.” 
What acomfort to believe this! 
Last week the boys brought in the vegetables 
and insisted on parsnip fritters because the 
calendar said so. So I scraped and boiled 
some; mashed and picked out all the fibers; 
added one beaten egg to four parsnips, flour, 
pepper, salt and a little milk. They were 
made into cakes and fried aud the boys pro¬ 
nounced them the “very nicest.” We have 
got into a way of growing more vegetables 
lately, and I believe it is a good thing for us 
all. Father never cared much for them till 
he read of their healthfulness in all the agri¬ 
cultural journals he sees. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
steamed pudding. 
One-half cup of batter, one cup of molass¬ 
es, one teaspoon ful of soda dissolved in a small 
cup of hot water, one egg, one cup of raisins, 
one cup of currants, one-half teaspoonful of 
cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful of cloves. 
Stir thick as ginger bread. Steam two hours. 
Serve with sauce. 
PICKLED APPLES. 
Pare, halve and quarter the fruit: for seven 
pounds of apples, take three pounds of sugar, 
one quart of vinegar, one ounce each of 
cinnamon and cloves. Break the cinnamon 
bark in pieces, and boil with the apples, hav¬ 
ing put two cloves in each piece of apple. 
_MRS. s. B. E. 
ANGEL CAKE. 
Whites of 11 eggs beaten to a froth. Add 
to them one-and a-half cup of pulverized 
sugar, one cup of flour sifted four times and 
measured after being sifted, one teaspoon ful 
of cream-of tartar added to the flour before 
the last sifting. No soda must he used. Stir 
the flour lightly into the sugar and egg. 
Flavor with vanilla. Bake in a moderate 
oven 40 minutes. winona b. 
CHOICE APPLE PUDDING. 
Steam sour apples, aud fill the pudding dish 
about three inches deep, after they are soft, 
first stirring in tberiud of a lemon and sweeten¬ 
ing to taste. Beat an egg and mix in half a 
piot of milk scalded and cooled, and two 
tablespoon fills of cream. Dissolve a little 
gelatine and mix with this, then pour over 
tbe apples and add any flavoring or sugar to 
taste, covering all wi h whipped cream. It is 
delicious cold. 
COCOA NUT PUDDING. 
Grate the meat of a large cocoanut. Roll 
iiuo five Boston crackers, and mix with the 
cocoanut, add milk enough to beat, aud a 
tablespoonful of butter. Beat five eggs, add 
a cup of sugar, mix and bake like a custard. 
EASY PUDDING. 
Take a can of any fruit you prefer and turn 
it into a deep dish. Then make a paste of 
flour and cream, in which is a little baking 
powder first sifted. Pour over the fruit and 
bake quickly. Serve with cream or sweet 
sauce. 
CORN MEAL PUDDING. 
One quart of white corn-meal, a little salt, 
a tablespoonful of ground ginger and two of 
sugar. Moisten with milk, tie in a strong 
cloth, leaving room to swell, and boil two 
hours. Eat with sweet sauce. 
BOILED LOAVES 
are made by takiug small bits of dough, mak¬ 
ing up as for round biscuits, let them rise, 
drop In boiling water—take out before they 
begin to sink. Cut a hole in the middle aud 
put in butter and sugar. Eat at once, a.l.j. 
Sarah A. Sloan, Forest Grove, Oregon, 
writes: “A loug time ago I had severe 
Bronchitis. As several of iuy brothers 
and sisters had died after beiug similarly 
affected, l became alarmed, and com¬ 
menced the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. 
One bottle cured me. The trouble has 
never returned, and I believe that the 
Cherry Pectoral saved my life.” 
J. 31. Wharton, Jamestown, N. C., 
writes; “I have used Ayer’s Cherry 
Pectoral a long time in my family, and 
have yet to see its failure to cure Bron¬ 
chial troubles or Coughs of any kind.” 
Jas. Walden, Byhalm. Miss., writes: “I 
suffered eight years from Bronchitis, and 
was cured by the use of Ayer’s Cherry 
Pectoral.” 
And Asthma. 
Mr*. Jlary A. E. Johnson. Horntown, Pa., writes: “I am now 60 years old. 
I had good health, until afflicted with Asthma, a few years ago. This was accom¬ 
panied by 3 severe Cough. I suffered for over a year, until I took Ayer’s Cherry 
Pectoral, which relieved and cured me. I believe it a God-send.” 
AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL, 
PREPARED BY 
DR. J. C. AYER & CO./ Lowell, Mass., U. S. A. 
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