1887 
THE RURAL WEW-YORKER, 
hands of a careful worker will do all that fan 
cy paints for them, but with hurried handling 
good results are very meager. 
Little thermometers attached simply to the 
metal plate on which the degrees are marked 
con la- bought for eight cents. 10 cents, or IS 
according to t he sizes, and these make very 
pretty gifts attached to plaequesor palettes, 
or set in carved frames, made by a scroll saw, 
prettily framed in any way. One of tbe nov¬ 
elties for these frames shown in New York 
this season, is an ear of com. Two rows of 
kernels are shelled just far enough to admit 
the thermometer. A bow of ribbon at tbe 
bigend of the ear completes it, or a little satin 
bag gathered very full is fastened at oue end 
of the ear and a how at the other. 
This would be a pretty way 10 pieservo some 
ear of corn prized for any unusual merit, of 
size_, color or shape. 
Turkish towels come in colors and combina¬ 
tions of colors. They cost about 40 cents, and 
when really pretty ones can bo found, make 
desirable stand covers or chair tidies. They 
are sometimes doubled crosswise and sewed 
together at the sides for small laundry bags. 
Just below tbo fringe a tuck is made around 
the top and a still piece of whalebone, or a 
piece of pine, about three inches shorter than 
the width of the bag, is slipped into the tuck 
on one side, and a rubber through the rest of 
the tuck, fastened to the ends of the still' piece, 
keeps the bag closed: ribbon or eord to bang 
it by complete it. 
If the Christmas gifts are bright and at¬ 
tractive they will make the winter seem 
brighter, and if they bring variety and a lit¬ 
tle novelty into tbe house they will be tbe 
more acceptable. Let those for this year dif¬ 
fer as much as possible from the gifts ofother 
years. Every family has its own tendency 
toward a repetition of certain things for gifts, 
often simply because they do not look around 
for something new before Christmas time is 
upon them. 
THE HELP QUESTION AGAIN. 
If an experience of 35 years aud upwards, 
with hired help, gives one a license to speak 
on the subject, perhaps 1 am entitled to a 
bearing. When the country was compara¬ 
tively new, and much more thiuly settled than 
now, it was a very common t hing for farm¬ 
ers’ daughters to till the place of hired help in 
another family, and many of them did so seu- 
sou after season. That was almost what 
might be eal'ed ideal service. Knowing fjom 
experience all about the labor pertaining to a 
farm house, they were interested in then- 
work and relieved the mistress of the house of 
very many of her cares. Often such connec¬ 
tions euded in warm friendship between the 
mistress and help, which survived after the 
latter were married and had families of their 
own. 
But with the lapse of years, everything has 
changed,and foreign help must uow be largely 
depended upon aud the quality varies. Iu 
every class of society tln re is a proportion 
who are upright aud concientious by uature 
or education, and others who are not. 
There is. many times, a causeless feeling of 
jealousy existing among hired help towards 
those w ho employ them which leads to much 
that is disagree able. One of my pleasantest 
experiences was with a German girl who had 
come alone from the Old Country. When 
she cauio to my house she could not under¬ 
stand or speak a word of English. At first, as 
I could not tell her, I had to show her how to 
do work by doing it myself as a sample. She 
noticed every movement of mine aud copied 
my ways so exactly that I often smiled to 
see my own peculiarities reproduced in her 
work. As fast as she learned the round of 
domestic life she took the charge of everything 
and in a month the care of the washing, iron¬ 
ing aud bread making had passed iuto her 
bauds. 
She was honest and conscientious in the 
discharge of her duties, and showed plainly 
that she had enjoyed and profited by the 
training of a good mother. She took the 
little year-old boy under her care, and his 
first efforts at framing words were made m 
the speech of the Fatherland, much to her 
delight, and when I sometimes had to correct 
him she would feel very much hurt about it. 
She staid with me until she went to a home 
of her own. Not often can housekeepers ex¬ 
pect to be as agreeably served. 
Ido not believe that the trouble between 
hired help and their employers is caused very 
often by the mistress being selfish and exact¬ 
ing towards them They often take prompt 
advantage of the privileges which she is will¬ 
ing to allow them, and seem to regal'd her as 
an enemy to be annoyed iu every convenient 
way. Their ignorance of the cares which be¬ 
long to housekeeping is perhaps oue cause of 
their seeming iudifference to the proper per¬ 
formance of their duties. In this age of pro- 
^I'ess tiud elm aging conditions ju sui-jtdy it 
must be that the relations between household 
laborers and their employers will settle down 
to something more satisfactory than at pres¬ 
ent exists. When help realize that their 
duty is to do work faithfully, aud women are 
satisfied with reasonably good service, both 
sides are approaching solid ground. 
The amouut of salary paid to help is ofteu 
a source of dissatisfaction, Imfc on business 
principles, what a person can afford to pay 
must, always be taken into account. The 
greatest misapprehension iu regard to other 
people's affairs seems to prevail, and judg¬ 
ments as to a persou being penurious and over¬ 
reaching are unhesitatingly pronounced by 
those who are too ignorant on the subject to 
form a correct opinion, betsey tkotwood 
POTATOES, NEITHER BAKED NOE. 
BOILED. 
I should have said neither plain baked nor 
boiled, except that this would uot have made 
a good head line, for of course the first pro 
cess, iu almost, all ways of serving potatoes, 
must be either to bake or boil them. 
I purpose to show my friend, Eunice Web¬ 
ster, some other methods of making old po¬ 
tatoes palatable, although where labor is in¬ 
volved I can readily understand that the three 
dear little ailing ones and the extra hired man 
make plain cooking a necessity. 
Juliet Corson says that it does not matter 
whether the « ater is hot or cold wbeu potatoes 
are put into it, so that they can be drained as 
soon as they can be easily pierced with a fork, 
and then covered with a folded towel, and put 
where they will keep hot without burning for 
ten or fifteen minutes, and that they can also 
lie kept hot in this way for houi-s and be in 
good condition. 1 Lave never kept them in 
this way more than an hour and do not 
thiuk I should care to have them presented to 
me as a delicacy at the end of tbe third or 
fourth hour. There are, however, some vari¬ 
eties of potatoes that must be put into cold 
water to produce the best results, and if ibis 
precaution is not takeu, tbe outside boils and 
crumbles away lie fore the rnside is done. This 
the cook must determine for herself by experi¬ 
ence. In baking potatoes there is only oue 
rule to be observed, which is to remove them 
from the oven to the table as soon as they are 
tender enough to yield to pressure when held 
between the thumb and fingers, always takiug 
the precaution to place a folded towel between 
the points of contact. 
It is to potatoes rrtdiauffce (hat the house¬ 
keeper must turn her attention when she is iu 
search of variety, aud here there is almost no 
limit to the “spice of life” that may be pro¬ 
duced. A piut of cold, mashed potatoes will 
make a potato puff for breakfast or for lunch, 
that, with a slice of broiled ham or a fried 
rasher of bacon, will rejoice tbe soul of a 
hungry man. 
Slightly warm the potatoes and beat in a 
tablespoonful of melted butter, adding by de¬ 
grees a small cupful of warm milk; salt it to 
taste and add one or two tif (hey are not too 
deariwell-beateu eggs. Beat until smooth 
aiul put in a buttered baking dish and bake in 
a good oven to a light brown. It will puff up 
above the sides of the dish iu which it should 
bo served. 
ANlieu roasting a piece of meat—beef, mut¬ 
ton or veal—if potatoes that, have been boiled 
until about three quarters done be laid around 
tbe meat and allowed to brown iu the gravy 
and drippings, they make a very pleusaut 
change. You must time the cooking so that 
potatoes and meat are done at the same time. 
If your larder affords only salt pork, and you 
would still enjoy these browned potatoes, 
slice aud fry some thin slices of the pork and 
place them ou a hot dish while you brown the 
pototoes iu the fat that remains iu the frviug- 
pau. 
A cupful of cold minced mutton or beef 
with twice as many cold, mashed potatoes, 
will form a tasteful breakfast. Work aud 
mash the potatoes Islightly warmed) with 
milk, adding a little butt r aud suit, ami a 
beaten egg added while the potatoes are still 
hot. The paste must not be too soft to retain 
it i shape. Line a buttered pudding dish with 
it. aud with the handle of a knife flute it. 
Place (bis for a moment iu a hot oven, to 
slight ly harden or set it, aud till tbe space with 
a mince of the meat made hot iu a little drawn 
butter sauce aud very carefully seasoned. 
The mince must not be ttnu aud watery, but 
merely moist. 
Agaiu to a pint or two cupfuls of mashed po¬ 
tatoes add a cupful ot flour, oue beaten egg; 
three tablespoon fuls of cold cooked ham or 
veal minced very fine, and seasou highly with 
salt and pepper, adding just enough milk to 
make a batter as for flitters. It must be stiff 
enough to drop from the cud of a spoon. 
Drop in small spoonfuls Into smoking hot fat 
and fry like fritters. Put on a hot dish with 
a garnish of thin rashers of bac m aud parsley 
Cold hulled potatoes cut into small dice aud 
cooked fis f()||ows make a nice aeeoj)|j)Quii|iept 
to beefsteak, but they must be eaten very hot. 
Have ready some very hot butter and good 
dripping in a frying-pan, and fry in it a table¬ 
spoonful of minced onion, until it. begins to 
get a light yellow. Put in the potatoes and 
stir for about five minutes, taking c are not to 
break them. Just before serving add finely 
minced parsley and transfer to a very liot 
dish. 
.Scalloped potatoes. Allow oue hard- 
boiled egg to each cup of mashed potatoes. 
Put a layer of the latter iu the bottom of a 
buttered pudding dish: cover with thin slices 
of egg well seasoned with salt and pepper, and 
repeat this until you have the desired quan¬ 
tity. Sprinkle bread crumbs over tbe surface 
and dot with bits of butter. Bake for twenty 
minutes covered, and then brown quickly. 
Remains of any kiud of meat may be substi¬ 
tuted for the eggs. Also cold-boiled or baked 
fish, or salt, codfish that has been shredded and 
heated in a cream sauce. 
At a recent lunch at the house of a friend 
some small potato turnovers were served, 
looking for all the world like the apple turn¬ 
overs I used to carry in my lunch basket to 
tbe little v\ hite school house under tbe wil¬ 
lows. They were simply mashed potatoes to 
which flour had been added in the proportion 
of one cup of flour to two of potatoes. This 
was laid upon a floured pastry board, rolled 
out half an inch thick, and cut out with a 
glass or pastry cutter. Upou each round was 
laid a spoonful of a most delicious mince of 
cold chicken, iRecipes for making these 
minces have been given in the Rural.) Wet 
the edges with beaten egg. fold over and 
pmch shut; brush over with egg and brown 
in the oven. palmetto. 
PEACH FIGS. 
Remove the skins, halve, take out stones 
and to eight pounds of the fruit allow three 
pounds of brown sugar. Put over a slow 
fire—do not add water—and cook until the 
sugar penetrates and they have a clear ap- 
pearauee. Take out. spread on plates and 
dry iu the sun. Save the syrup and sprinkle 
on a little while drying. Pack in boxes in 
layers with a little powdered sugar between. 
M. B. 
dttie.ccUancofl.si ^dverttaing. 
Very Wonderful 
Are the effects produced by the use of 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Sores, Scabs, 
Glandular Swellings, Boils, Carbuncles, 
and all kinds of Humors disappear, as if 
by magic, by the use of this 
Standard Blood-Purifier. 
F. C. James, of Albany, Greene Co., 
Tenn., writes : “ Ayer's Sarsaparilla 
saved the life of my only child. When 
three years old, her head was covered 
with Scrofulous Sores. She became 
almost helpless. Skillful physicians did 
all they could to relieve her, hut failed. 
At last I purchased a bottle of Ayer's 
Sarsaparilla, gave it to her according 
to directions, and she immediately be¬ 
gan to improve. Encouraged by the 
result. I continued to give her this medi¬ 
cine until the cure was complete." 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr. .T. 0. Ayer & Co., Lowell. Maes. 
Sold by all Druggists. Price $ 1 ; six bottles, $5. 
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FOR 
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FARM. y5 Acres, near Stations on West shore R. K. 
aud Northern K. R. of N. J„ is mile# from Jersey City. 
Good house, haras, tools, Implements ttn-1 machinery: 
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If A IMIS nn-l 'III.I.S Stll , 1 k 
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