and knitted on large wooden needles, produce 
a fabric that may be utilized in various ways. 
In addition to curtains, I have seen it used 
very effectively as scarfs for mantels; finished 
with ball fringes, for table covers; similarly 
finished, for covers for sofa cushions and for 
the back Of wicker chairs, to insure warmth in 
winter. It can bo used in narrow strips for the 
decoration of curtains and in many ways to 
conceal dilapidated upholstering. Of course, 
the utilization of rags in any way, is an 
economy only with women who have more time 
than money, but of Such there are many. 
If one has the time and patience to fringe 
the edges of silk rags, using many silks of 
brilliaut and varied dyes, an exquisitely beau¬ 
tiful border for a table cover, can be made of 
them, by knittiug the rags in n strip about 
three inches wide, if for a medium-sized cover 
which should be of fine cloth, velvet or plush, 
and of course tho same arrangement holds 
good for curtaius, lambrequins, etc. 
A strip of tapestry carpet from which all 
the wool has been worn, forms au excellent 
basis for ml cloth—put the paint on the wrong 
or underside. 
AVith better houses, and thick, closely aud 
finely constructed floors, the need and desire 
for carpets will be greatly lessened. When 
warmth is not the chief consideration, rugs 
are far preferable, both for beauty aud clean¬ 
liness. 
four pieces, dip in egg and bread crumbs,hav¬ 
ing mixed with the latter a little Cayenne aud 
finely chopped thyme and parsley. Pry them 
a delicate brown, and serve with green peas 
or nicely masked potatoes in the center of the 
dish. The stock in which they were stewed 
should be strained, thickeued with flour aud 
butter aud poured around them. 
Cheese turnovers should bo eaten with cau¬ 
tion unless you are blessed with an unusually 
good digestive apparatus. Make some good 
puff paste and roll it out about an eighth of 
an inch thick. Cut in pieces two by four 
inches; lay on thiu bits of cheese and bake in a 
hot oven. palmetto. 
to invest here, considered his fortune made; 
even church societies invested and expected 
to be relieved for years to come, of the need 
of raising money by means of church fairs, 
subscriptions, or other laborious old-time 
ways. 
But the crash came and hundreds were beg¬ 
gared by it, and the fancifully uamed streets 
and avenues remained unimproved and neg¬ 
lected. In the midst of this part of the city 
stood the works, out beyond the street-car 
lines, the rows of lamp-posts and the noise and 
traffic of the city. As we hurried toward the 
great buildings that loomed up black and 
silent in the darkness, we passed the stumps of 
the vanished forest, looking like shivering 
ghosts, for every stump had been hacked and 
diminished to give fire-wood to the poverty- 
driven residents for miles around. When wo 
reached the works full of ponderous machin¬ 
ery, and passed through a long silent work¬ 
shop ray good goblins kept very close to my 
side and looked with wide solemn eyes into the 
darkness all around us. 
Fiuding the bi-sected door we passed through 
the lower half of it into the store-room. An 
old. rusty, red-hot stove, near a tall desk could 
not by any possibility heat the room for it 
was long and wide and its hight far up to the 
ratters, now dark and remote, hidden by black 
shadows. The whole room was tilled with the 
“stores,” the walls were hung with tools and 
pieces of brass and steel, trays aud eases filled 
all the space upon the ground floor, a gallery 
running around the room was full of cases and 
above that, long ladders let down from the very 
rafters aud at their tops were shelves of 
stores. 
Putting the lantern on the desk and lighting 
two small lamps borrowed from the night- 
watchman. uncle handed me two old blue 
“overall” waists, and I put them on the boys, 
telling them in tones full of mock-mystery 
that they were magic coats and would give 
them wonderful powers. They looked so com¬ 
ical in the great waists that for a little while 
we could only laugh at them and the air of im¬ 
portance with which they tried to keep the 
long sleeves rolled up. Then we began the 
work of the evening keeping a sharp oversight 
of my good goblins lest their powers should be 
misapplied, counting with them, and putting 
down numbers and weights as they were called 
out, occasionally stopping to look around at 
the strange scene, the great shadowy room, 
the dim lights, the grotesquely dressed little 
fellows counting so seriously, and the man 
scaling the ladders, lifting heavy weights and 
working with an intensity peculiar to the 
Thrifty family we used to say laughingly, for 
Grandfather Thrifty used to work in the same 
pushing way, 
As we gathered about the stove to get 
thoroughly warm before starting home, uncle 
answered, as well as he could, all our ques¬ 
tions about the things we had been handling. 
“Our questions must seem foolish to you.” I 
said, “we know so little of these things.” He 
laughed and said: “I wish you could have 
heard old Tom Uadway asking me questions 
about nbuutry things to-day. He's one of our 
smartest mechanics here, but he doesn’t know 
the first thing beside. AVhen I called a piece 
of firewood a beech stick, he wouldn’t believe 
that I could tell one kind of wood from an¬ 
other. And finding I had been brought up on 
a farm, he launched a string of questions at 
me as long as your arm and as funny as a 
circus. He had no more idea how butter was 
made than a grasshopper has. and I concluded 
from his questions that he thought it was ex¬ 
tracted from beans by some mechanical con¬ 
trivance. Many of the men here have spent 
their whole lives in shops like this, and seem to 
know nothing else. It would bo hard to find 
a man, who has ever lived in the country, 
with as little general iutellieence as many of 
these men show. They do one thiug over and 
over half their lives, and there is nothing edu¬ 
cative about their work as there is about the 
varied work of a farm. I tell you what it is, 
Annie, there’s no place like a farm for com¬ 
bining work and a chance to gam a general 
idea of hundreds of subjects of value aud 
interest.” 
The next day when uncle came to dinner he 
arranged that we should bring his supper to 
him and save him the long Cold walk, for a 
hurried supper with us. So each evening for 
tile rest of the week I filled a little tin bucket 
with as good a lunch as I could contrive out 
of a small variety of food. I saved"the dried 
apple cake for the purpose and by taking a 
bottle of milk to be warmed on the stove, or a 
can of soup, I had something to make a hot 
dish for the meal. On New Year’s Day we 
spent the day in the great shop and cooked a 
very creditable dinner on the rusty old stove. 
Before going home uncle showed us the boiler- 
room, where on workdays the most deafening 
sounds are made, by men inside and outside 
great boilers, ponndiDg rivets with resounding 
blows. AYesawthe engine-room, too, where 
the polished machinery and the great wheel, 
half of which was out of sight in the base¬ 
ment below, stood idly waiting for the renew¬ 
al of work. 
“Next Saturday there are to be made some 
very large castiugs and several ladies will be 
here. Cau you arrange to come with the 
boys ? ” We were all three very pure we could 
“arrangeto come,” and very much pleased to 
do so. We left the works the evening of New 
Year’s Day with the happy assurance from 
Uncle John that the invoicing was finished 
and the lists would be in the “ giant’s ” hands 
on time, thanks to the “ witch ” and her “good 
goblins,” he said. 
ONE AYINTEPv, 
ANNE THRIFTY.—NO.* 7 
The last week of the old year promised to 
be a very busy one for uncle. His position 
in the AYorks was that of storekeeper; that is, 
he had charge of all the tools aud parts of 
machinery used in the shop, and through the 
upper half of a big door, divided across its 
center, he handed out to the men whatever 
they required for their work. At the begin¬ 
ning of the year an account of all “stock on 
hand” must be given to the superintendent. 
Many things in the store-room had to be 
weighed and numberless nuts, screws, bolts, 
hinges aud pieces of machinery were to be 
collated, aud a full list of weights and num¬ 
bers made. 
When uncle came home after the first day 
of this work I knew things were not going to 
suit him, for though he said nothiugat first of 
the real cause of his “grumpiuess,” ho said 
more than usual of the everyday discomfort 
of his work. Ashe rubbed his face vigorously 
over a basin of soap and water he vented his 
mood, between tho movements of rubbing his 
face, by saving: “Talk about farm work being 
dirty work, even thrashing isn't as bad as 
this. I don't feel cleau from Monday morn¬ 
ing until Saturday night, aud I'm lucky if I 
get all the grime off my face on Sunday,” and 
he gave his face a fiual vigorous rub as 
though he meant, to take the skm off, before 
wiping it on the roller towel hanging by the 
washstand iu the kitchen. I must mention 
this towel in passing; it, and several others iu 
tho house were made from Stark Mills 
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A pretty supper dish that looks like a rock 
of white coral and has the merit of tasting as 
nice as it looks, cuu bo made from tho remains 
of cold fowl, veal, rabbit or game. Boil in 
salted water some macaroni of the large pipe 
variety, uutil it is tender but not broken. 
Cut in lialf-iueh pieces and line a buttered 
pudding dish with it. Mince your cold meat, 
and season with pepper, salt, mace, grated 
lemon peel, and mix with two or three well- 
beaten eggs; fill up the basin, put a layer of 
macaroni on top, and cover with a plate. 
Stand it iu a saueepau of boiling water, tak¬ 
ing care that tho water wheu it bubbles does 
not enter the basin, and boll for half au hour. 
Turn out aud serve very hot. 
For a niee cold dish, make a savory stock 
by boiling poultry giblets, bcues, a slice of 
corned—not smoked—ham, sweet herbs aud 
two or three popper-corns. To a pint of this 
add a quarter of a package of gelatine; strain 
and set by to see that it is stiff enough to turn 
out. Have your meat, fowl, or game cut 
into neat dice and line a pie-dish with them, 
putting chopped parsley aud bits of lemon 
peel betweeu them; put ou a layer of sliced, 
hard-boiled eggs, aud thin hits of cooked ham 
or bacon. Fill up the dish in this manner, 
aud pour tho jelly previously warmed to a 
liquid state, iuto all tho interstices. Set in 
the oven until it gets warmed through, and 
put away to get firm aud cold. Turn out and 
garnish with cresses and beet root. 
Like all made dishes, tho success of these 
will depend upon the seasoning. No precise 
measure can lie given for such things as mace 
and grated lemon peel of which only a suspi¬ 
cion is roquired. All such spices aud condi¬ 
ments should be added very gradually aud the 
taste of the cook should lie the criterion. 
Brain cutlets are delicate and very much 
liked by many epicures. Soak the brains iu 
salted cold water, skin them and cleanse them 
thoroughly iu plenty of cold water. Throw 
intoboiliug water aud boil ten minutes, throw¬ 
ing them again iuto cold water to harden. 
Cut into oval-shape 1 cutlets, dip iu egg aud 
bread crumbs and fry iu plenty of boiling fat. 
serve with a tomato or mushroom sauce, or a 
plain white sauce made from milk or cream 
or white stock flavored with mace, Cayeuue, 
lemon-peel and salt. 
Curried lobster can bo made from the canned 
article, and is very appetizing on a cold day. 
Chop one upple aud one onion very fine, and 
fry in butter or good beef dripping until you 
cau mash them with a spoon. Sprinkle with 
a teaspoon Cut of curry powder, mashing tine 
with a wooden spoon. Have ready u half pint 
of white sauce made by bringing to a boil as 
much milk or cream to which a teaspoonful 
of corn starch dissolved iu a little cold milk 
has been added. Stir all smoothly together 
until of the consistency of cream, and add the 
lobster cut iu pieces. Let it get very hot, aud 
serve iu a border of plaiu boiled or curried 
rice. 
Cutlets of small birds are another delicacy. 
Stew the birds whole iu stock, cut them into 
gram 
sacks, aud answered the purpose of towels 
very well. Aunt Helen had learned iu her 
varied experiences as a housekeeper to make 
some use of everything she owned. 
Coming to the supper table undo told us of 
the invoicing, “It’s no use,” he said, "I’ve 
got to go over there aud work nights. As 
fast as I get a box of nuts or screws counted 
some man at the door calls out an order, and 
I’m fortunate if I don't forgot all I’ve counted 
before I can jot it down. It’s clumsy work, 
too, handling cold iron and steel, aud then 
trying to hold a pen.” 
“Must you go there to-night?” I asked. 
“I must if I wish to get the work done,” he 
answered grimly, then a hied anxiously, “Will 
you and the boys bo afraid to stay alone?” 
We assured him in chorus that we were not 
afraid. “But can't we help you?” I said. “I 
could do the writing for you, at least.” 
“It isn't a fit place for you to go, Annie; it 
will be cold and dismal, and I've just been en¬ 
larging upon the griminess of the plaee,” he 
said, with a short laugh. But I could see ho 
brightened a little at the suggestion, aud the 
boys bogged clamorously to go, so it was finally 
decided that we would go with him aud make 
ourselves as useful as we could. 
“We’ll keep you company, anyhow, papa,” 
said Satumio. “And not let you got scared,” 
added Bertie, at which, of course, wo all 
laughed. Supper over, I piled up the dishes 
to wait until morning for their washing. 
“Now, Suiuuue.” I said, “you aud Bertie 
are my good goblins, aud I'm a benevolent 
witch. AVe are going with this poor, tired 
man to bewitch bis work, but instead of mak- 
iug it all wrong and very much harder for 
him, as witches and goblins used to do, we will 
make it so easy he will get it all done lie fore 
the Great Giant (the suporiutoudent) comes to 
see if it is finished.” This little romance 
pleased the t wins very much, and they were 
bubbling over with fun and good unture, as, 
well-wrapped against the cold, wo took the 
lantern and started for the Works. 
The city in which we lived had just passed 
through a time of wild speculation iu real 
estate. Its growth had been very rapid aud 
its possibilities of growth had been enormously 
exaggerated. Miles of country had been laid 
out in streets nud avenues and the most fanci¬ 
ful names given to them. Forest trees had 
been hastily cut dowu to make way for the 
rows of business houses and residouees that 
were expected to take immediate possession. 
Enough “city lots” wore sold in this newly 
cleared country to accommodate all New 
York City, and sold at the most fabulous 
prices. For a time it seemed as though overy- 
oue >vho could scrape together enough money 
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Oastorla 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
Wheu she hud Children, she gave thetu Castor lit. 
