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THE RURAL WIW-YORKIR. 
CONDUCTED BY MRS. AGNES E. M. CARMAN. 
PITHS. 
Are you the person you would have others 
believe you to be? 
(live a little more time and care to the pre¬ 
paration of your children’s school luncheons. 
A daintily prepared lunch will cause a child 
unconsciously to eat more seemly than if the 
food had been put into the basket hap-hazard 
style, without any regard for the little nice¬ 
ties of life that are just as much a part of 
your child’s education as his A, B, C’s. 
If your wife is dull, low-spirited and ambi¬ 
tionless, try the following tonic. It has been 
known to act like a charm in many cases. 
Give her a share, and a generous one too, of 
your joint profits without her asking for it, 
and then don’t demand au account of every 
cent spent. 
Girls, has mother had any vacation this 
summer? 
A recent caller told us that she had made 
excellent pie-crust shortened with chicken 
grease and beef drippings. The chicken fat, 
however, must be carefully rendered and per¬ 
fectly sweet, Our informer thought the drip¬ 
pings necessary to counterbalance the oiliness 
of the chicken grease. Her proportions were 
one part drippings to two of the grease. 
A SERVANT GIRL HEARD FROM. WHY 
SHE LIKES HER SITUATION. 
I ijave the pleasure of reading the Rural 
every week and there are many inter¬ 
esting things which I appreciate very much. 
I saw in the issue of June 25th a paragraph 
about Mistress and Maid, and there has of late 
been a great deal said on the servant girl 
question. I always notice that it is a Biddy 
that does the wrong in the American lady’s 
household, as if women belonging to no other 
nation were doiug housework except Irish. 
If the ladies would try greenhorn Germans or 
Swedes they would find as much iguorauce 
and the same trouble as with the Irish. And 
like all greenhorns when they come to this 
country first, they work for small wages until 
they learn a little Euglish and get acquainted 
with the ways of American households. Then, 
like Biddy, they take their departure after all 
your trouble in teaching them. And they all 
want their days out as well as Biddy, and 
they go, whether their work is done or not, 
and want as big wages and more privileges 
thau old servants. I lived with a German 
family that always employed new arrivals 
anil for seven or eight weeks it would be a 
task to teach them. Then at the end of that 
time Rachel would have learned a little how 
to do andalsosome English, Now, housework 
is not learned in a day. Like everything else, 
it takes time to do it well. 
I should think every servant would take an 
interest in her place and also in the lady she is 
working for, as I try to do. The German 
lady that taught me natty useful things, 1 
never shall forget. I was recommended to 
her when I was very young, and she had, no 
doubt, some trouble with me at first until 1 
got acquainted with her ways and then things 
went on O. K. I lived with her until she died. 
It was very hard for tue at first, as she could 
not speak English although she had been 50 
years in this country. She had her ways for 
doing everything, it had to be done just “so” 
aud I never had to be told more than once, 
os it was done to please her and her only: 
towards the last no one could arrange things 
right for her but me. I do not like intelli¬ 
gence offices. It is only scum that goes 
there. A good servant need not go there for 
a place. Neither do I like to answer adver¬ 
tisements, for this reason: The lady asks the 
applicant as many questions as would fill a 
column in a newspaper, what she cau or can¬ 
not do so that the girl gets tired and 
gives “Yes” for au answer to every 
iuquiry made. She is also sure to 
be particular as to the religion of the 
applieant. Does religion matter i Not to me 
it doesn’t very much. I am like St. Paul, 
“when in Rome 1 do as the Homans do.” If 
the lady engages her the parting words are: 
“If L like you, and you do my work icrll, you 
can have a good homo 1 will assure you.” 
Now L think it is as important for the girl to 
like the lady as for the lady to like the girl. 
Then the girl must not ask any questions 
about the family she is goiug to live with. 
Oh no—that would not do: the lady would 
think that impertinent. 
Now, a servant girl has to take a great many 
insults from those she is liviug with, especially 
from the children. If they wish anything 
they will say “You give me that or this; you 
have got to do it;” “Shut your mouth, you 
saucy thing, or 1 will give you a slap in the 
face,” or,“Go ask the hired girl where it is” as 
if she had no name, and was not human. In 
some places the servant is not more than a cat, 
or a dog. I know of a lady who, if her cook 
should do something she should not have 
done, would slap her in the face. Then she 
would come back into the kitchen in half an 
hour, with some triflling present for her, as if 
that could heal the cook’s feelings. Another 
paper had a paragraph where Bridget got 
enough old clothes to make up her wages. I 
never had one of those places, as I work for 
wages ami not for old clothes. I never ac¬ 
cept the old finery that my ladies are tired of 
and are goiug to throw away, but give it to 
their servants to save themselves any further 
trouble, and Bridget or Susan is often glad to 
accept such nonsensical trash to go out in, 
and put on French airs aud tell about their 
rich relations, when in reality tney are as 
poor “as Job’s turkey,” that had uo feathers 
on it. 
At present I am living with a lady who is 
well known in the columns of the Rural 
New-Yorker. I was recommended to her 
some five years ago, but when she engaged 
me she asked no questions, and she was told 
no lies. We took each other for our looks and 
that proved a success. She is good aud kind 
and that is more than presents. She has a 
“Good morning!” for her servant, what I 
never heard another lady say. She has not 
been very well of late aud when I open her 
door in the morning,to give her breakfast, she 
says “Good morning,” so cheerfully that I 
ofteu think those few lines the truest ever 
written. “Kind words are as honey-comb 
sweet to the soul!” How nice it would be if 
every lady would say “ Good morning 1 ” aud 
if the servant would say it too. It should be a 
rule in every household that from the oldest to 
the youngest should say “ Good morn¬ 
ing!” aud the day, aud the day’s work would 
be a great deal lighter when commenced with 
a pleasant “ Good morning ! ” If anything is 
wrong I go to her and she explains it, aud 
gives me her advice. She does not scold and 
make you feel disagreable, so that I kuow she 
is a lady. 
My dear reader, as you find servant girls, 
so you find ladies. There is certainly a very 
hard class doiug housework. They really have 
no conscience; but there are surely some good 
ones amongst them. When a good servant is 
found, she is like a good lady—a treasure, 
and should be prized. There are servants who 
for the least thing said or done, pack up aud 
leave. That is one of the meanest things I 
know of. I try to do everything I possibly 
can for my lady. She takes an interest in 
me aud I appreciate it all. Now-a-days the 
servauts go out of their places. They dress 
and go above their business altogether, and 
wish to be called ladies, like the store girls. 
If you call the latter anything bat sales-ladies 
they get very indignant and hardly answer 
you. The same is the case with the servauts. 
Ofteu one sees in the columns of a paper a 
white or colored lady wishes washing, or 
ironing, or to go out by the day. It is a laugh¬ 
ing-stock for everybody. There are many 
noble things iu the Bible, but the noblest 
words are where Christ says to his mother, 
“Woman behold they son,” and to John He 
says “Son behold thy mother,” He does not 
say it out of disrespect, but out of love for 
her. Woman, not lady. I think it more hon¬ 
orable to be called youug woman, thau to be 
called young lady. I thiuk “ hired girl ” the 
meanest name of alL Servant is a good word, 
aud I am very respectfully yours 
AN IRISH SERVANT. 
WATER CLOSET. 
In this seetiou, and iu all hilly localities, 
where the dwolliugs are supplied with run¬ 
ning water from spriugs, and this spring 
water is brought into the kitchen sink, and 
though it is discharged by a waste pipe, one 
can have a perfect, simple, aud inexpensive 
water-closet aud bath-room, especially con¬ 
venient, I may say essential is it for the 
feeble aud aged that there should be no goiug 
out of doors iu cold, or storm, or darkness 
and by laying out a few dollars aud a little 
labor, a proper place can be made under the 
house roof. Mine is constructed as follows: 
1st. A box. with suitable seat with cover is 
provided; 3d. A pan (about cue foot across 
the top) tunnel-shaped, made of galvanized 
iron and connected with the sink by an inch 
lead pipe, entering the pan about six inches 
from the top and nearly horizontal, so that a 
full stream of water will go into and around 
the pau aud (lush the pipes. This it will do if 
the contents of the pad (which we keep stand¬ 
ing in the sink to receive the water from the 
spring and through which it flows over and 
down the waste pipe) are poured out fre¬ 
quently—.suddenly, l might better say—so that 
the force of the flow may keep the pipe clear. 
The lower end of the pau enters the end of an 
upright, throe-inch tile which carries it some 
distance from the house, discharging it upou 
the grass land of a meadow below the house, 
where it enriches the soil, and no odor is ever 
noticeable. The tile is protected from frost 
by a deep covering of earth where it is out¬ 
side the building, the part joined to the pan 
being in the cellar. See that the tile that ex¬ 
tends down to the meadow is below frost, then 
there will be no trouble in winter. I use sift¬ 
ed wood-ashes both in the pan and sink daily, 
briskly brushing it down with a large turkey 
wing or whisk broom, and pouring down a 
quantity of hot water. Copperas, or any dis¬ 
infectant cau be used. We use ashes because 
we have them at band and they answer the 
purpose. The wash tubs and bath tub if sta¬ 
tionary,may be connected by a pip>e leading to 
the same tile, aud the water from the roof can 
be conducted away in the same fashion, mak¬ 
ing all cleanly, convenient and inexpensive. 
Tbe cost of the closet alone need not exceed 
$5., We use a bath tub of tin which is mov¬ 
able, and requires uo plumbing It is simply 
emptied through the pan in the closet in 
which it stands. L. h. spear. 
PRACTICAL ECONOMY. 
A scant cup of butter will often make a 
lighter cake than a full cup. 
Three eggs can many times take the place 
of five in cakes and puddings. 
Beef drippings should be used for frying in¬ 
stead of butter. 
Pieces of bread can be dried in the oven, 
pounded fine, and then used in making pud¬ 
dings, or as thickening for soup, etc. 
Stewed fruits require less sweetening if the 
sugar is added after the fruit is cooked and 
cold. 
Bones, with the addition of a little meat 
and vegetables, make a palatable soup. 
HELPFUL ITEMS. 
Cold water should be added to soft-soap 
while hot, and as soon as it will thicken. If 
stirred well then it will not separate. 
Grape jelly should be made from fruit be¬ 
fore it is quite ripe, if wanted firm. 
White specks or floats iu butter are caused 
by the milk standing iu a draft of air eithei 
from a window or hot stove. 
A coal fire near the milk-room is much bet¬ 
ter than wood iu the fall, as it gives au even 
heat day aud night. 
FARMERS’ GINGERBREAD. 
One teacupful of New Orleans molasses and 
two tablespoonfuls of water boiling hot. Stir 
into the water a Teaspoonful of soda and turn 
into the molasses. Add a teaspoouful each of 
ginger aud salt. Take one-half cup of brown 
sugar, one beaten egg, aud when the molasses 
is cool mix. Put one teaspoonful of cream- 
of-tartar into enough flour to make quite stiff, 
mix and bake in a hot oven. 
SOFT GINGERBREAD. 
One cup of sugar, one-half cup of molasses, 
one-half cup of shortening, one cup of hot 
water aud a teaspoouful each of soda, giuger 
and salt; two-aud-a half cups of unsifted flour 
aud one-half teaspoouful of cream-of-tartar. 
F. E. HUTTON. 
PARSLEY VINEGAR. 
Fill a preserving bottle with parsley leaves, 
freshly gathered aud washed, aud cover with 
vinegar. Screw down the top and set aside 
for two or three weeks. Then strain off the 
vinegar, add salt and cayeune pepper to taste, 
bottle aud cork. Use on cold meats, cabbage, 
etc., as you would Worcestershire sauce. 
_ J. E. B. 
GRAHAM RAISED BREAD. 
Put in one cake of dry yeast or one-half 
cake of compressed, aud fill up the teacup 
with warm water. When dissolved add two 
cups of warm milk, one-half cup of sugar aud 
oue-half teaspoouful of salt, aud thicken with 
Graham flour as stiff as cau be stirred with a 
spoou. Butter a pan, pour iu the sponge aud 
let it rise until the surface cracks aud looks 
light. Bake it a half hour or more, covering 
the pau. Bake it harder thau white bread. 
_ C. J. s. 
SPICED GRAPES. 
Five pounds of grapes,three of white sugar, 
two teaspoonfuls of grouud cinnamon, one of 
cloves and a cup of viuegar. Pulp the grapes 
and boil the skins in a very little water until 
tender. Cook the pulp and press through a 
sieve. Put the strained pulp, skins, spice, 
sugar aud viuegar over the fire; boil slowly 
10 or 15 minutes and bottle. If not looked to 
constantly while boiling it will burn. 
1UPE TOMATO PICKLE. 
Remove the skins of sound, ripe tomatoes 
without scalding, cut into thick slices aud 
pack iu a preserving jar. Scald spices tied iu 
a bag in viuegar, mid salt aud pour hot over 
the tomatoes. Screw down the tops as tight¬ 
ly as possible, aud keep in a cool place. This 
pickle takes the place of raw tomatoes in win¬ 
ter, and is very nice. mrs. economy. 
C. J. S. wants a recipe for the rye bread 
that city bakers make. Will some one kindly 
give the desired information? 
ini $crttanco w $ ^drerttei:?a 
Never Despair 
Until you have tried wliat Ayer’s Pills 
can do for you. It is the Liver that 
renders your views of life so gloomy. 
Depend upon it, a box or two of Ayer’s 
purely vegetable, sugar-coated, Cathar¬ 
tic Pills would materially change your 
feelings, and still make 
Life Worth Living. 
Lucius Alexander, Marblehead, Mass., 
says : “ I was severely afflicted with 
Dyspepsia and Enlargement of the 
Liver, most of the time being unable to 
retain any solid food on my stomach. 
Three boxes of Ayer’s Pills cured me.” 
“ Ayer’s Pills are a sure cure for 
Liver Complaint. Nothing seemed to 
help me until I finally began to take 
Ayer’s Pills.’*— E. S. Fulton, Hanover, 
N. H. 
Ayer’s I 3 ills. 
Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer& Co.,Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine. 
CURRANT CUTTINGS. 
For Sale, at *3 00 per 1,000*. large lore at still lower 
f >riees. Varieties mostly Victoria, the most product- 
v and vigorous of all Currants. Apply quick, if you 
waut cutting . Now is the time to p>nnt currant cut 
timrs Cuuliw* of Meeche's Quince for safe at 23c. per 
12. Grape Cun lugs at low prices. See pages 6 7, and 
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Let us price your list uf wants. We will make an 
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J. ELEETSON, 
Auburn Grape Nurseries. Auburn, N Y. 
DUTCH BULBS.&c. 
MV ANNUAL PRICED CATALOGUE OF 
HYACINTHS, TULIPS, 
SfACCISSUS, LILIES, 
And all BULBS. SEEDS, etc., for Fall planting in the 
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to all applicants. 
ALFRED BRIDUKMAN. 
37 East t9th Htreet. New York City. 
SAMPLE PACKAGE.— Tbrt*** choice ROSES 
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600 ACRES; 13 CREENHOUSES. 
TREES and PLANTS 
We offer for the Fall trade a large and fine stock 
of every description of FR U1T and Ornamental 
TREES. Shrub*.. Itoses Vinos, SMALL 
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The RANDOLPH PETERS Nl’RSERY C'O., 
Wilmington. Delaware. 
H IS THE BEST 
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WHEAT 
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PARKER’S 
HAIR BALSAM 
the popular favorite for dressing’ 
the hair, Restoring color when 
gray, and preventing Dandruff. 
It cleausee the scalp, stops the 
hair falling, and is sure to please. 
fOc. and * 1.00 at Druggists. 
HINDERCORNS. 
The safest, surest and best cure for Corns, Bunions, Ac, 
Stopsall pain. Ensures comfort to the feet. Noverfails 
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