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CONSUMPTION 
CONSUMPTION 
a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a table¬ 
spoonful of water. 
LEMON PIE. 
For two pies, three lemons, one-and-one- 
half cup of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of water, 
three eggs, two large tablespoonfuls of flour 
or corn-starch. 
CREAM PIE. 
One-fourth of a cun of butter, one of sugar, 
one-half of sweet milk, two of flour, one-half 
teaspoonful of cream-of-tartar, one-half tea¬ 
spoonful of soda, one egg. aunt rachel. 
'Jttti.sceltitneousi 
catingly, but she was instantly silenced by 
the remark: 
“We cannot live like hermits, if we are 
strangers, newcomers to this sleepy little 
place, and its people are hard to approach. 
We'll have a little dinner and ask a tew nice 
people that we want to know better." 
Mrs. Van assented. She invariably did to 
all that Mr. Van planned, and she soon began 
to turn “topsy-turvy" the already clean rooms, 
once saying aloud: 
“I can’t think why Mrs. Wilk’s simple little 
entertainments are so popular ; she and her 
husband are too poor to do anything right, 
yet the very best people never send regrets to 
her or look and act bored, as they do when 
they come here." 
Af if in response to her query, the shrill 
voice of the cook, who was gossipping with 
Maggie, the deft-handed house girl,in the hall, 
sounded in her ear; 
“If Mishthress Pelt’ud take things a mite 
aisier, she’d be a jewel of a leddy. She’s a 
born leddy now, but she isn't known for her 
full value by them that turns up their noses at 
her, on the sly. You see she goes over an’ 
over the house, to have it swept an' dusted 
when it don't nude it, an’ vexes her soul pre¬ 
parin’ rich an' heavy dishes that dyspeptie- 
feeliu' folks only look at; then when the 
company comes, she's jest that tired out 
that all she cau do is to move about dead¬ 
like mougst women at’s bright an’ all rested 
up, an' looks happy naterally, the misthress 
looks peaked an’ folks don’t call her at all in¬ 
terestin', Now she ort ter read books that'll 
bring a light to her eyes, an' take the air, go 
an" see purty picthurs, an’ not forgit to find 
out how pore erathurs live. I've been in the 
homes of the rich before. There’s a differ¬ 
ence iu leddies, au’ it goes to me heart to look 
upon our leddy hikin’ uo interest in uuthin’. 
Hurry oop wid your worruk Maggy Anu, it’s 
pokin’ you are gurrl." And Norah, after the 
sharp admonition betook herself to her own 
“worruk," little dreaming the “mist.hress” had 
overheard every word. For a little time Mrs. 
Vau was angry, gradually different thoughts 
came, and resolves to begin to learn new 
ways, though past middle age. Norah’s 
words had led her hi see herself as others saw 
her, and say within herself. 
“ The fault has all been within my own self. 
I have oxhalted my home, and thought only 
of self aud my little world, until I have near¬ 
ly dwarfed into uothiuguess all that is worthy 
of a true, noble womanhood. No longer shall 
I strive to bo popular, but helpful. The fault 
has been in myself." eli.a gckrnsay. 
than the back to allow of its being curved. 
Sew the cardboard together for the pocket 
and cover the pieces with plush, silk, or any 
material you choose. The edges can be fin¬ 
ished with heading, gold braid or a cord. 
Fasten the two pieces together and finish at 
top and bottom with butterfly bows. The 
bow at the top hides the hook on which it 
hangs. 
Know All Men 
To wit: Teachers, preachers, public 
speakers, actors, singers, lawyers, “ and 
the rest of mankind,” that Ayer’s 
Cherry Pectoral is considered the best 
preparation ever discovered to heal and 
strengthen the vocal organs, weakened 
or injured by over-strain. 
Principal Samuel Bement, of the Bart¬ 
lett School, .Lowell, Mass., writes: “I 
have used Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, for 
several years, in cases of severe colds 
and throat affections, and have always 
found it a speedy and effectual remedy 
for these ailments.” 
“I should be unable to perform my 
clerical duties, without the use of Ayer’s 
Cherry Pectoral,’’ writes Rev. A. C. 
Kirk, of Hillsville, Pa. 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, 
Prepared by Ur. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Bold by all Druggists. Price $1 ; six bottles, $5. 
KITCHEN TALKS, 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
FRIED CAKES. 
Delicious little fried cakes are made as fol¬ 
lows; Add one ounce of sugar to two well- 
beaten eggs; two ounces of melted butter, 
two tablespoonfuls of yeast, a teacupful of 
warm milk, and a little salt. Whip all these 
ingredients thoroughly together, and then stir 
in by degrees about a pound of flour, arid iug, 
if requisite, more milk to make a thiu dough. 
Beat it until it falls from the spoon, and then 
set to rise. When it has risen make some 
drippings hot in the frving-pau, cut from the 
dough little pieces the size of a walnut and fry 
them a pale brown without molding or knead¬ 
ing. Lay on a napkin or piece of kitchen 
paper, to absorb any fat. 
PUDDING SAUCE. 
A housekeeper is always glad to learn of a 
new pudding sauce. Beat one cr.p of butter 
to a cream, add two cups of powdered sugar, 
then the whites of two t-ggs uubeaten, and one 
at a time. Whip until light and smooth; set 
within a vessel of boiling water, and add 
slowly a quarter of a cup of boiling water. 
Stir until smooth and frothy, which will 1 e in 
about two minutes. Very nice for rich pud¬ 
dings. 
for the last ten years, since they were mere 
children, each being in turn the “amateur 
cook," housemaid or nurse, and changing em¬ 
ployment every week. With my assistance 
this has been a very happy arrangement, but 
it lifts its disadvantages too. for the girls' sense 
of domestic dutsyhas often kept them from their 
social duties and deprived them of outside re¬ 
creation. True, I tried to make up for it by 
giviug them uow aud then a winter away 
from borne in turn, and taking them to other 
cities for improvement aud diversion. But as 
they grew older I felt, that they sacrificed a 
great deal to my housework and,like “Hannah 
Jane,” the once lair aud supple fingers “grew 
stumpy at the ends and showed marks of toil 
even though ib was indeed love service,’’and 
although they make no murmur but cheerfully 
work at whatsoever their hands find to do, I 
know that other things are more congenial. 
Iff ask my artist daughter to use her brush 
to do some painting for me after a round of 
housework, I know she is justified in saying 
that her hanils are stiff, aud it is the same 
with the musical girl, who tries to be obliging 
and play for us, even at. the expeuse of her re¬ 
putation. The domestic machinery goes stea¬ 
dily, and our guests and friends say, “How 
well off you are! Your work seems to Jo it¬ 
self. - ' But they do not see, as I do, at what a 
cost this is attained. 
Lately I have taken iuto my family a little 
waif from Euglaud, picked up by charitable 
ladies and sent out to begin to earn her living. 
She is but a child yet, and I have not given 
up hopes of better things; but cunning and 
deceit seem to have grown into her nature, 
aud T wonder to myself if it will ever be pos¬ 
sible to teach her faithfulness. My younger 
children, who Itave grown up under the care 
of elder sisters, have been happily placed, and 
their pure, young souls are none the better for 
this outside influence that haslearnedso much 
of evil in such a short life. After telling my 
little ones about her sister having been in jail, 
she informed us that the “smell of dish-water 
made her sick," and at her tender age she has 
imbibed ideas about work that will be difficult 
to eradicate; and it is such characters as this 
that cause to be condemned those who really 
strive to do service iu an honest manner, and 
to be worthy of respect, if ladies who have 
good servants would realize it anil treat them 
politely and humanely, the class would grow 
better, aud those who are not disposed to do 
so would have to turn to other means of living. 
The reason why girls turn to factory life is of¬ 
ten because of the isolation and loneliness of a 
Iwisemeut kitchen, and the feeling of being a 
social outcast, that would break the spirit of 
any girl with a decent amount of self-respect. 
As for my “ waif," I shall watch and wait, 
and hope for awhile yet: but I greatly fear 
that she is like one of those whose “fathers 
have eaten sour grapes and the children's 
teeth are set ou edge.” 
PURE MILK. 
, WARREN 
^MILK BOTTLES 
\ Patented March 33d, 1880. 
\ Adapted for the Delivery 
W of Milk in all titles 
and Towns. 
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The following are new to me, although 
they may be known to some of the Rural 
readers under other names. Beat half a 
cup of butter until it is a smooth cream; 
add two cups of white sugar and beat again, 
then the yelks of three eggs well-beaten and 
a scant cup of milk (there is a good deal of 
beating in this cake and you will develop 
your muscle) Now sift four cups of flour 
with one teaspoonfnl of cream-of-tar-tar, and 
half one of soda; pass this through the sieve 
several times, and then stir it into the but¬ 
ter, sugar aud eggs, adding the whipped 
whites the last thing. Flavor with bitter 
almond, or anything else you may prefer. 
Bake iu shallow (ins, and spread freshly-grated 
eocoanut over each layer as it comes from the 
oven; finish the top layer with the eocoanut. 
Quite appropriately named ‘•Snow-flake 
Cake." 
WHIPPED CAKE. 
Beat one cup of sugar with two tablespoon¬ 
fuls of softened butter till white and stiff; add 
the beaten yelks of two eggs. Sift a tea¬ 
spoonful of cream-of-tartar and half as much 
soda through three cups of flour, and add it 
w ith one cup of milk aud the whites of the 
eggs to the butter aud sugar. Bake in layers. 
Spread jelly of any kind between, aud when 
the cake is cold put very stiff whipped cream 
over the top. Eat fresh. 
WHITE CAKE. 
Beat a scant three quarters of a cup of but¬ 
ter to a light cream; sift half a teaspoonful 
of soda with twu cupfuls of flour two or three 
times, so that the flour ami soda will be per¬ 
fectly mixed; then add the flour to the 
creamed butler, stirring it iu gradually with 
the tips of the lingers till it is a smooth paste. 
Whip the whites of six eggs t.o a stiff froth, 
adding one and one quarter cup of flue sugar. 
When these latter are well mixed stir them 
iuto the flour aud butter, adding the juice of 
half a lemon or orange. Bake in a moderate 
oven. 
ox-tail soup. 
My own opinion is that this is one of the 
soups that might easily be dispensed with 
since there are so many better ones, still, some¬ 
one may want a recipe and here it is: Cut 
four ox-tails in inch pieces and soak for an 
hour in cold water, changing the water twice; 
put over the tire with cold water boil five 
minutes, drain and cool; wash well aud re¬ 
turn to the tire with three pints of water two 
carrots, an onion w ith two cloves stuck in it, 
parsley, celery and a little salt. Simmer 
three hours, transfer the tails to another 
saucepan, strain the soup, aud season with 
salt aud pepper, using a little cayenne; thicken 
with flour and butter; remove every particle 
of fat and strain over the ox-taiis. Fiuish 
the seasoning w ith a little lemon juice. 
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TO COOK CHEAP MEAT 
Four or five pounds of the cheapest pieces 
of beef may be made to do duty in this way: 
Cut in suitable pieces for cooking, boil in a 
small quantity of water for an hour or so, to 
insure tts being cooked enough to bake read¬ 
ily', salt and season while boiling. Two hours 
or so before dinnertime put the meat, together 
with the liquor in which it has been boiled, in¬ 
to a baking dish—a deep instead of a shallow 
one is much the best—and bake turning over 
occasionally. 
This will be excellent, aud is less trouble 
than some other ways of roasting meat. What 
is left over fromdiuuer will be nice sliced cold 
for supper, or w armed up for breakfast in wa¬ 
ter which must be thickened ami seasoned 
when it boils. The price of beesteak euough 
for dinner will, if invested iu a cheaper piece 
of meat, furnish material for three meals if 
managed in this way. Good beefsteak is espe¬ 
cially nice, but it is the dearest of all kiuds of 
meat, and if a steak is not tender aud of good 
quality it is not desirable or economical. 
PIE JUICE. 
To keep the juice, the essence of a pie, from 
breaking out of the crust at the sides 
and wasting, cracker crumbs may be used iu- 
stead of flour, and they' will answer the 
purpose much better. Iu a pinch dry' 
bread crumbs made fine may be used, but care 
should be taken uot to overdo the quantity. 
LOAF CAKE. 
Four cups of light dough, three cups of su¬ 
gar, two cups of butter, three tggs, spice aud 
fruit to the taste.one large teaspoonful of soda. 
Let it stand until light before baking. 
MARY O.’S GINGERBREAD. 
Three cups of flour, ouo cup of butter, one 
of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of sour 
cream with a little flour. Take four eggs, beat 
the whites and yelks separately, put in the 
yelks, adding more flour, a small quautity of 
cayenne pepper, due tablespoonful of ginger, 
one of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of ground 
cloves, one of soda, two cups or more of fruit, 
if desired, and, lastly, the whites of the eggs 
ami tile remainder of the flour. 
SPONGE CAKE. 
Oue cup of sugar oue of flour, three eggs, 
one teaspoouful cream-of-tartar, one-fourth of 
GURES WHERE ALL ELSE f AILS. 
Best Cough Syrop. Tastes good. Use 
in time. Sold by druggists. 
Mrs. Halls, 8 State St., 
Leicester, England, says: 
‘‘Mv little boy, a year and 
a half old. was attended by 
two doctors for mouths, 
and given up as incurable. 
They said he had a Wast¬ 
ing Disease, and could not 
live. He was so weak that 
he had to be carried about 
on a cushion. I had a book 
from Mr. Woolley, Chem¬ 
ist, Sparkenhoe St., about 
Piso’s Cure for Consump¬ 
tion, and thought I would 
try a bottle. . The effect it 
had ou my cbild^was won¬ 
derful. He has taken eight 
bottles, aud is perfectly 
cured and healthy.” 
WHERE THE TROUBLE LAY 
“Such a commonplace woman! Such a 
contrast to her handsome husband,’ 1 were the 
frequent, “loft-hand” compliments given from 
neighbor to neighbor concerning the personal 
appearance of Mrs. Van Pelt. The Vau Pelts 
“had money,” also an elegant home, tilled 
with pretty bric-a brae, good furnishings aud 
all the modern conveniences. They frequent¬ 
ly opened wide the doors of their spaeious 
parlors to the cultured few whom they would 
make their friends, if possible; but with all 
the expeuse and pains lavished upon numerous 
entertainments given by the Van lVIts, peo¬ 
ple reluctantly accepted im itations to their 
house, which both host and hostess were not 
slow to see, and vainly w ondered why affairs 
were so. 
“I’d like to have n little company here to 
morrow for dinner, and we’ll spare no pains 
to have it elegant,” said Mr. Van Pelt one 
morning to Mrs, Van, a frail, slender woman, 
who had begun to shrink from trying to en¬ 
tertain people who looked bored while in their 
house. 
“Oh, Mansel!” began the little lady depre¬ 
RIPK TOMATO PICKLES. 
Do not scald, pare with sharp knife. Put 
into a jar aud pour over hot, spiced vinegar. 
Cover over w ith paper dipped iu flour. L. d. 
