eieut for a steak of this thickness. It must 
not be prodded with knife or fork during the 
cooking, which would let out the juice. A 
tablespoonf'ul of butter well creamed with a 
teaspoonful of lemon-juice and one of 
chopped parsley, a little salt and pepper, and 
spread over the steak. 
The bouquet ended with crumpets, eaten 
with delicious strained honey. These were 
easily made and, withal, so economical that I 
must trespass still further on your valuable 
space, dearRrtlAL, and give the recipe. Set 
a sponge over-night with three cups of slight¬ 
ly warmed milk, half a cup of yeast and flour 
to make a good but uot stiff batter. Let this 
stand in a cool place until twenty minutes 
before they are wanted for the oven; then stir 
in two tablespoon fills of melted butter, a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt, and a -all-spoonful of soda 
dissolved in hot water. Beat well and if the 
batter is too much thinned by this addition 
add a very little (lour. Fill buttered gem 
pans, and let them stand fifteen minutes before 
going into the oveu. palmetto. 
ALLUSIONS. 
The directions for making yeast and bread 
given iu recent numbers of the Rural New- 
Yorker omit one important item I think— 
/.c,: drying the flour in a wa rm oven thorough¬ 
ly, and m cold weather using it while warm. 
Mrs. Wager-Fisher is quite right as to the 
ugliness of the average striped rag-carpet, but 
in the very original way she advances for im¬ 
provement, she will have stripes—very decided 
and unequal ones, too—unless she sews her 
rags iu “hit-and-miss” fashion, as white rags, 
for instance, if dipped hi red dye would be a 
nice rose color, while dark ones would lie gar¬ 
net or maroon, and so on. With care m sew¬ 
ing. which could be done either before or after 
dying, the effect might, indeed, he “joyous.” 
Of course, we know Alice Brown's ideas as 
to out-of-door exercise for women of all occu¬ 
pations to be good, but iu my locality if the 
farmers” wives and daughters went for a daily 
walk, the husbands aud fathers would hold up 
their hands iu horror, and think they really 
ought to increase the size of the dairy or hire 
some more meu for the “women folks” to 
wait on, so they'd “get exercise enough with¬ 
out gnddm’ round the country.” I notice, 
however, that most of these men have “busi- 
nes-” to towu two or three times a week, that 
seems to require much time for accomplish¬ 
ment, beside many “errauds” in the neighbor¬ 
hood. It’s the women, not the men, who go 
from the farm-houses to the mad houses from 
“over-work aud lack of recreation, ” as the 
statistics say. 
“Patty Gartou’s” fresh, bright sayings re¬ 
mind one of “Mintwood’s" earlier efforts. 
If any cook among the Rural readers 
knows how to make corn bread that dyspep¬ 
tics can eat, I wish she’d send her recipe to 
Domestic Economy Department. 
I’m glad to see the Rural condemns the 
Washington Heed Humbug. Weed seeds are 
plentiful enough without importations. 
AUNT BETTY, 
RANDOM PAGES FROM A HOUSE¬ 
KEEPER’S DIARY. 
PAtiE I. 
I defy nuy living mortal woman on the 
fact? of this planet to tell me how she makes 
first-class bread so that 1 can make it too. It 
must be written in the decrees of fate that 1 
never shall, and I’m very sorry, for if there is 
one department of housekeeping more than 
another in which I desire to excel, it is broad 
making. Grace Greenwood is quoted as say¬ 
ing that there is something sacred about 
bread-making. 
Sacred! I should think there was! Some¬ 
thing inviolably, unattainably sacred—to me, 
and if I could but propitiate the goddess of 
bread, there would be at her shrine no hum¬ 
bler worshipper than I. 
Someone says, “There ire three kinds of 
bread—sour bread, bread, and good bread.” 
But there is bread that is sweet, white, light 
and good, that is still so far short of my ideal, 
that I think superlative bread should be ad¬ 
ded and that is the kind 1 aspire to make. 
Perhaps I shall never iittuiu uuto it, but if 
uot, then [ must die iu the attempt. 
Probably the domestic department of every 
paper iu the universe has told times without 
number how bread should be properly made. 
To be sure, the numerous rules differ with 
astouishiug contradictoriness, and each meth- 
PtectUaneouia gUvfrtisiofl. 
Wheu Baby was sick, we gave her Castorta 
Wlien she was a Child, she cried for Casioria, 
Whi'ii she became Miss, she clung lo t'tistoria, 
When she had children, »Uo titvo them Cantoris. 
od is deemed by its writer to be the correct 
one. Very likely it is, BUT—\t doesn’t help 
me to make that perfect bread yet! Iu sack¬ 
cloth and ashes 1 admit it, aud yet my exper¬ 
iments have been many. I’ve mixed bread 
with water, with milk, with both together. 
I’ve used the best flour, and tried home-made 
yeast, compressed yeast and yeast, cakes. I've 
put in sugar and shortening and left theny out. 
I’ve mixed thick and mixed thin: I’ve kneaded 
much and kneaded little; I've beaten, pound¬ 
ed, punched and cut. I’ve had hot ovens, 
slow ovens and medium ovens; but my ideal 
loaf is as elusive as ever, 
I’ve come to believe that no special direc¬ 
tions for makiug bread will ever help me 
much. People either don’t tell everything 
they do, or else there’s some magic that they 
cannot impart. It,s principles I'm after now 
—general principles that govern all bread- 
making, and when these are mastered —all of 
them —possibly there may be some hope for 
me. For instance, somebody says “Flour 
should aLvays bo warmed before inixiug, 
even in summer;” another says, “Bread should 
uot be permitted to rise so long that it 
will fall when touched. It should rebound 
under the hand when molded.*' “Too many 
risings destroy the sweetness of bread.” 
“Bread should lie protected from all draughts 
of air until out of the oveu.” “Too slow an 
oven causes a thick, hard crust. Have it so 
hot that you can bear to hold your hand iu it 
just long enough to Coant 25 deliberately.” 
These general directions souud definite and 
sensible enough—and then T like to know the 
reasons for doing things in certain ways, so 
that if ri suits are wrong I may know the rea¬ 
sons aud in future avoid them. It is not very 
cousoliug to find one’s bread ornamented here 
aud there with large caverns, but it is consol¬ 
ing to know that, too stiff dough and insuffi¬ 
cient, kueudiug caused the trouble. 
Bread-making ought to lie a science as well 
as an art, and it is a pity that some scientist 
—woman or man—doesn’t give us all the laws 
and principles that pertain to the making of 
perfect broad, aud that, too, with such uc- 
curacy that oven the newest novice in bread- 
making might work intelligently and with 
eertainty of result. rexa ross. 
POCKET FOR NEWSPAPERS. 
A neat contrivance for holding the news¬ 
papers that make a room look so untidy if left 
lyiug around was shown in the window of a 
large furnishing store. The article in ques¬ 
tion was made of leopard skin ainl lined with 
shaggy plush, but it would be just as useful, 
and very pretty also, if made of bright cre¬ 
tonne. lined with turkey red with a stiff inter- 
liuiug. It was made the width of the library 
table to the legs of which it was tacked, anil 
was about twelve inches deep on one end and 
eighteen on the other. The sides and lower 
edges were sewed together, and the pocket 
fastened to the end of table so as to be within 
reach of the writers right hand. A full bow 
of soft satin nbbou concealed the tacking at 
either end. g. 
PAPER ROSES. 
It would certainly seem that of all accom¬ 
plishments, aud useless faucy work, that of 
makiug paper flowers was the most useless. I 
have, however, seen such exquisite decorations 
made from them, that I have come to believe 
that a thing which makes home so attractive 
can scarcely be called useless. The piuk roses 
are the most charming and natural possible, 
aud it was not uutil 1 had remarked several 
times upon the quantity and beauty of roses 
in tLie house of a frieuil, that she luughingly 
offered me a bouquet of them to “take home,” 
when 1 discovered for the ffrst time that they 
were paper. The cost of making is only a few 
cents for a large number, but of course oue 
must have instruction. A lampshade with a 
wired gauze foundation was completely cov¬ 
ered with t hese pink paper roses sewed on, aud 
wheu the lamp was lighted I thought it, the 
most beautiful thing 1 had ever seen. Bou¬ 
quets of t hese placed on high brackets are very 
deceptive and brighten a room chamiiugly. 
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