1887 
THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER. 
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When not in use they can be set aside, occu¬ 
pying but little space, aud they are much bet¬ 
ter than an extra table. Any person who cau 
use tools can make them. If the iron supports 
shown in Fig. 2 are used, four will be required 
and a blacksmith can easily make them. 
POINTS. 
Ribbon streamers are again seen on hats. 
Seal-skin garments are as fashionable as 
ever. 
Changeable velvets enter largely into hat 
trimmings. 
Dkess basques are cut longer over the hips 
than they have been for the past year. 
The new muffs this winter seem to be large 
enough to be of some service; in fact, tkey 
will hold both hands. 
Stone-martin, a fashionable fur 35 years 
ago, is again in favor. 
Straw hats have been worn right into 
winter w eather,and,what is more to the point, 
they have been fashionuble. And now we are 
shown felt bonnets and lints made to imitate 
straw braid. Truly Dame Fushion is a capri¬ 
cious guide. 
A Turkish cap of cloth, to match one’s 
gown, is a stylish aud economical head cover¬ 
ing. The cloth is arranged over a brimless 
frame in irregular folds, raising it up from 
the frame in front and making the left a little 
higher than the right side. Plait a small 
piece of stiffening in with the cloth to make it 
stand up. The goods turned over the edge of 
the frame make a neat edge. The only trim¬ 
ming needed is a bat pin, or two or three 
quills fastened diagonully on the left side. 
THOUGHTS ON WOMAN’S WORK. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
Mas. Margaret E. Sangster, in “Daugh¬ 
ters of America,” writes a pleasant address to 
“Our college girls” that should encourage 
any girl in her ambition aud aspirations to¬ 
ward a life of study and culture, aud help to 
wiu success for the student in the higher 
walks of life. And the next article, written 
by Foster Coates, is called “Work that girls 
may do”—in which he quotes Miss Grace 
Dodge, who is an eminent authority, assaying 
—“ The chance is excellent for any good, 
honest, industrious girl earning her living 
iu New York. She need not be afraid to come 
here from the smaller cities, or from the coun¬ 
try.” Then it goes on to mention telegraphy, 
nursing, type-writing, uud many other thin 6 s 
at which girls can get moderate wages, aver¬ 
aging from $12 to 880 per week. There is a 
school for stenography, and capable girls who 
can spell well are paid at the rate of $12 per 
week, to begin with, and are secretaries to 
lawyers, hankers, brokers, clergymen and 
teachers. So the Held is widening even apart 
from journalism and the professions Mint, will 
require years of study to bring to perfection, 
aud girls may feel that with a little trouble 
they cau be independent, and earn their liv¬ 
ing out iu the world, if capable. 
It is a source of much thought to farmers’ 
daughters liow they are to live when the time 
comes when they will be thrown upon their 
own resources. For, do as we may, it is not 
possible to “ take no thought for the morrow,” 
and in a fair measure it is only right for 
young people to take thought for their future 
and prepare themselves to battle with the 
\wrld, and earn for themselves an inde¬ 
pendent living. Domestic service will have 
to be re-modeled before American girls will 
be attracted toward it—and I sometimes 
think that there will come a time when this 
department will be elevated and improved 
so that the social ostracism attending it will 
be done away with. But it is a serious mat¬ 
ter where there are large families of daugh¬ 
ters and “ What shall wc do with our girl’s?” 
is a question that touches many a mother’s 
heart, “While lam here” she says, “ it is 
all right.” But down in that daughter’s 
heart may be raukling the thought that she 
is giving her best years to home service that 
is not fitting, but rather unfitting her 
for the battle of life in unknown paths. 
If this subject is discussed, it is too 
often passed over with the stale joke, 
“Oh! she will marry”—but that does not by 
any means settle the question, and I despise 
any girl who folds her hands in her father’s 
house and is contented to wait for the coming 
man. Suppose he never comes? Or when he 
does, suppose she finds that she does not love 
him? Alas! with no alternative too many 
girls are tempted to marry for a home, for an 
establishment, for fenr of a single life, when 
it needs plenty of love, sincere and honest, to 
carry one over the many difficulties that be¬ 
set a married life. So let our girls prepare 
themselves to earn an independent living and 
think, while they ure still sheltered and cared 
for, what they are best suited for. “The race 
is not always to the swift, nor the battle to 
the strong,” and they can lie preparing them¬ 
selves by home studies for whatever fate 
Providence has in store for them. In almost 
auy village telegraphy can be learned—often 
stenography. The study of the sciences and 
languages by the various classes of “Study at 
Home” can be carried on by correspondence, 
aud become interesting and improving. To 
some few it is given to become eminently suc¬ 
cessful in their life work: but it takes a Mary 
Mapes Dodge to make $10,000 a year by her 
pen, though many women makea decent living 
at journalism, uud so it is iu all departments. 
Dr. Mary Jacobi, of New York, says that 
women physicians are making rapid strides 
forward aud are in great demand. Her in¬ 
come is $40,000 yearly, and she testifies that 
the prejudice against women physicians is fast 
dyiug out. But it takes years of devoted 
study, aud a love for the science to rise to that 
position, yet such things prove that what 
woman has done woman cau do. Aud after 
all, “Better be a queenly woman, than un¬ 
womanly a queen,” and most pure, home- 
loving girls may trust their own iustincts. 
“To thine own seif be true,” 1 said the other 
day in an argument with one who was trying 
a useless sell-sacrifice and a smothering of 
better instiucts, anti the rule indicated by the 
words, is a good guide wheu passing over” with 
reluctant feet, where womanhood and child¬ 
hood meet.” I would not have our girls settle 
dowu contented with mediocrity, without any 
ambition, but let them first find out what they 7 
can do best and quietly fit themselves for it. 
'• ’Tts uot angels we are wanting on this busy restless 
earth, 
It Is noble earnest women who prize well their right 
of birth; 
Women who are looking upward, knowing well what 
life is worth. 
Even though their life Is hidden, Just content to work 
away. 
Till the last great task Is ended, or the toil of every 
day.” 
THINGS WORTH KNOWING. 
Cold beets are nice worked into a salad 
with potatoes and a bit of onion. 
Potato salad is good too. Chop up cold 
boiled potatoes, add a very little onion, raw 
and chopped very line, chopped celery aud 
parsley, aud an egg or two hard-boiled and 
cut into slices. Use pepper, salt aud vinegar 
as a dressing. 
A friend writes that a half dozen quinces 
added to her kettle of apple-butter improved 
the flavor 50 per cent. 
If sweet pork is wanted, the barrel it is 
packed in must be sweet. 
The Boston Marrow squash is recommended 
for pits. 
EXPERIENCE NOTES. 
Pork pickle; saltpeter used in bu tter making; 
beef pickle; ammonia; neuralgia. 
One day during the past summer, on going 
to the cellar for a piece of salt pork, I discov¬ 
ered that the lower hoop of the barrel had 
burst, letting all the brine out. How long af¬ 
fairs had been iu this condition I was unable 
to tell, as the coutents of the barrel find little 
favor iu the family during hot weather, ex¬ 
cept when wanted as an accompaniment to 
beans, as on the present occasion. Tno time 
bad, however, been of sufficient length to ma¬ 
terially injure the meat, both iu regard to 
smell and taste, but as the family supply—be¬ 
ing a half barrel more or less—was involved, 
of course, an attempt was made to save it, if 
possible, from any further deterioration. So 
a new barrel was procured aud into this the 
pork was packed with layers of salt between, 
and a new brine was made, several ounces of 
saltpeter being added. The antiseptic proper¬ 
ties of this substance had been before tested in 
housekeeping experience, but never before 
with so much satisfaction, for the pork in a 
few weeks,was as sweet as if nothing had hap¬ 
pened. 
It has been my custom for years to add a 
small quantity of saltpeter to the salt used in 
the making of butter. I am certain that it 
adds materially to its keeping properties. A 
lady whom I have furnished with butter for 
many years, has frequently told me that she 
liked to have her butter from our dairy, as 
the last pound was always as good as the first. 
The milk is sent to a creamery during the 
summer, so it is the custom to pack in spring 
the butter for family use during the hot sea¬ 
son. The past season, although the butter used 
in the family was packed while the cows were 
still eating hay, yet all through the unusually 
hot weather, as loug as it lasted, which was 
till the middle of August, it was as sweet as 
when first made. Many years ago I was 
called from home a week during the dairy sea¬ 
son, leaving the work in charge of help fresh¬ 
ly imported from the Old Country. All the 
bui ter made during ray absence had a disa¬ 
greeable taste, which I was unable to account 
for till I discovered that, the milk pans had 
been simply washed and used again without 
scalding; probably tbe water used for their- 
cleansing had not always been as clean as it 
should have been, and the consequence was 
the absence of that sweet, rpsy taste, which is 
only the reward of the utmost cleauiness. So 
the butter was taken from the tubs in which 
it had been placed, and a couple of ounces of 
finely pulverized saltpeter, mixed with two 
or three times its bulk of white sugar, were 
worked through it, and in the fall wheu the 
dairy was sold, it- tested as good as the rest. 
It sometimes happens in the spring of the 
year, when the herbage is rank, that the cows 
eat something which gives an unpleasant taste 
to the butter—I find that by the use of a little 
saltpeter this is entirely counteracted, so that 
in two or three days tbe bad taste is all gone. 
Last winter, while on a visit, I ate some 
corned beef, which was the finest I ever 
tasted, and on inquiry found that the formu¬ 
la, which I send, had been used in preserving 
it: Pack the beef as tightly as possible and 
fasten down with heavy weights. 
beef pickle. 
Twelve quarts of water, five pounds of salt, 
three ounces of saltpeter, two pounds of sugar. 
Heat to boiling, skim, pour on boiling-hot, 
and cover closely. • Pouring on the brine 
boiling-hot closes the pores of the meat, thus 
preventing the escape of the juices. 
Last spring I wrote of the use of kerosene 
in washing. I used it through the summer 
with greut satisfaction, till several weeks 
since I was induced to try Household Ammo¬ 
nia. aud had never before found anything 
which made the clothes so white and aided so 
greatly iu eleansiug. thereby diminishing the 
labor of washing. Its cost is but 10 cents for 
a full pint bottle, and the saving of soap is 
more than the cost of the aniuiouia. Besides, 
it is most excellent for cleaning clothes, wash¬ 
ing windows, etc. Directions for use accom¬ 
pany each bottle. 
1 have just received from a lady friend a 
recipe for the cure of neuralgia and tooth¬ 
ache, which she says never fails, aud hoping it 
may benefit some afflicted one I send it for 
publication. 
MAGNETIC TOOTH CORDIAL AND PAIN-KILLER. 
One ounce of the best alcohol, oue-half 
ounce of laudanum, one-eighth of an ounce of 
chloroform, liquid measure, one-half ounce of 
gum camphor, ono-hult ounce oil of cloves, 
three-fourths of an ounce of sulphuric ether, 
oue ounce of lavender. MRS. w. c. G. 
LEMON CRACKERS. 
Two aud a half cups of sugar, one cup of 
lard, one pint of sweet milk, two eggs, five 
cents’ worth of lemon oil, one ounce bakers’ 
hartshorn dissolved in a little water. Mix 
stiff’ with flour, roll thin, cut with a knife into 
squares, and bake iu a hot oven. 
PIGS’ FEET GELATINE. 
Take the feet of a pig, clean them by soak¬ 
ing iu salt water 24 hours, thou scraping un¬ 
til clean and white. Wash free of salt. Boil 
iu clear water until the meat separates readily 
from the bones, then take out the bones, re¬ 
move the vessel from the fire and let the 
liquor become cold, remove all the fat that 
rises, heat the rest and strain through a mus¬ 
lin cloth, then through a flannel one; flavor 
with the juice anil grated rind of u leuiou or 
auy flavoring preferred. Wheu cold it can be 
cut iuto squares and served in small saucers 
with dark jelly and whipped cream. Four 
feet will make nearly a quart of gelatine aud 
it is a simple aud wholesome dessert. 
MRS. LAURA W. 
'Stti.orfUanmtss ^dvtrtteinn- 
The Great Popularity 
Of Ayer’s Pills is undoubtedly due to 
the fact that people have found them 
the very best remedy that could be 
procured for Biliousness, Constipation, 
Headache, aud various other complaints 
of the 
Stomach and Bowels. 
“ For Sick Headache, caused by a dis¬ 
ordered condition of the stomach, Ayer’s 
Pills are the most, reliable remedy.” — 
S. C. Brad burn, Worthington, Mass. 
“Half a box of Ayer's Pills restored 
my appetite.”— C. O. Clark, Danbury, 
Conn. 
“ Four boxes of Ayer’s Pills cured me 
of Liver Complaint.”—E. L. Fulton, 
Hanover, X. H. 
Ayer’s Pills, 
Prepared hy Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine. 
WOE 
FOR AI.I,. 830 a week and expen¬ 
ses paid. Valuable outfit and particulars 
free. P. O. VICKERY. Augusta, Maine. 
MOMt STFtlY- Book-keeping, Business 
il Iwl C. Forms, Penmanship. Aritbmetle.Sbort- 
hand, etc., thoroughly taught hyM&IL. circulars free. 
BKY.tNT&sTBATTID’S, Buffalo, X. Y. 
AGENTS HERE 
and farmers with no experience make §>“.50 an 
ho nr during suture time. J.Y. Kenyon. Glens Falls, 
N. Y., made 8IS one day. S7G.50 one week. 
Socanyou. Proofs and ealalogne free. 
J. E. Shkeakd A Cincinnati. O- 
ken. 
POULTRY ARCHITECTURE contains 75 
Illustrations of Poultry Houses. Yards, 
Runs, Chicken Coops. Fences, etc. Tells 
‘tow to build them. Price 3llc. Stamps ta¬ 
ll. B. Mitchell, 69 Dearborn St., Chicago Ill. 
PURE MILK. 
WARREN 
MILK BOTTLES 
Patented March 23d. 1880. 
Adapted for the Delivery 
of Silk In all Cities 
and Towns. 
A lONG-REIDtO WANT 
AT LAST SUPPLIED. 
A. V. WHITEMAN, 
73 Murray St., SEW JtOEK. 
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'VewsntBji active and intelligent man 
or woman torepresent us in each town. 
To those who are willing to work we 
promise largo pn tits Cooker and 
Outfit free. Jpj'/yul ' ■ rs '->r Tr/ rn*. 
IVILHOT ( AS I LE .t CO.. K-irhrM.r. ,V. Y. 
H OWTOCAPOMZE. By Fanny Field. Price 10c. 
Stamps taken. R. B. Mitchell, 69 Dearborn St.,Chicago- 
ran 
GEST.EMEU 
styles toe. As stylish .O ff A. 
and durable as those v/ 
costing$Jor Ji,.ltoys/ Ag 
all wear tlie \V. / X> 
L. BOUGUvV 
c, 
W. L. DOUGLAS 
$3 SHOE. 
The only S3 SEAMLESS 
Shoe in the world, with- " 
out tacks or nails. 
Finest Calf, perfect 
and warranted. Congress,. V * 
Button and I -u*,- all cc/ 
ptwjjfl tod pric. 
saxnpad on bottom ol ahoe.J 
W. L. DOUGLAS *2.50 SHOE is unex¬ 
celled for heavy wear. If net sold by your dealer 
write W. L.‘DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. 
Sherwood's Steel Harness 
Vor .411 t-nru Wi-fk It 
-V Has :<o Equal. 
-—LN agekts wanted.,^/'?. 
bukrwooi* uutxrssco, 
bOUtlSK, .V 1. 
tEmsi, and giants. 
n ■« A VARIETIES OF 
370 FRUITTREES, 
J I J VINES PLANTS. ETC. 
Apple, Pear, Peach,Cherry, Plum, 
Quince. Strawberry, Raspberry, 
Blackberry, Currant*. Grapes, 
Gooseberries, Ac. Sand for Catalogue 
j. S. COLLINS, Moo res town, N. J. 
Winter Onions. MTS 
10 corns for small pamphlet telling now to grow and 
manage them. Introducers of Haver land Strawberry 
and Thompson's Early Prolific Red Kaspberry, 
CLEVELAND NlltsEUY. E. Itockport. O. 
JAPANESE AN1> CHINESE 
Fruit Trees, Plants. Bulbs and Seeds. 5 
choice Lily Bulbs. Si, 3 rare chrysanthe¬ 
mums, #2; 12 Mammoth Chemuits, 50 cts. 
Free by mull. 1L 11. BERGER 4 Co.. 817 
Washington St.. San Fr a t, e iseo,calif oruia. 
Catalogue free. 
300.000 Peach Trees of all the best varieties, being 
grown from strictly pure natural Tennessee Seed, ana 
budded from healthy bearing uves, entirely free from 
yellows. Those desiring to plant trees would do well 
tocxarnltie our stock aud prices. All orders by mall 
will receive prompt and careful attention. Catalogues 
mailed free on application. 
Will exchange large lots of trees for Live Stock.or 
Real Estate. Address 
F.. K. COCHR AN A CO., 
Mithlletuwu, New Castle County, D elaware. 
