York Tribune recently declared that the suc¬ 
cessful application of oxygen gas to medicine 
has stimulated the most urgent search for new 
methods of making it unattended with the 
long and expensive process that has so long 
been used. Drs. Starkey & Palen, No. 1529 
Arch Street, Philadelphia. Pa., have met with 
unprecedented success in apparently hopeless 
cases of lung and heart diseases in the admin¬ 
istration of their Compound Oxygen, and this 
encourages them to urge its merits. They 
have finauy imitators some of whom, even 
with imperfect appliances, effect a few cures. 
But the best is not only the cheapest but the 
safest. Drs. Starkey and Palen have a large 
office practice that employs themselves and 
several assistants during the day. They have 
introduced a system of Home Treatment, by 
which they send the Compound Oxygen to all 
parts of the country for a very low price. It 
should not be uuderstood that they prefer to 
treat patients at long range. On the contrary 
their large and magnificently appointed offices, 
1529 Arch Street, are crowded daily. One 
visit, at least, is always desirable, but where 
that cannot be bad the uexfc best thing must 
be done. The sufferer should write a full des¬ 
cription of his or her condition to Drs. Star- 
key and Palen. They will give an honest opin¬ 
ion of the case, and their advice will cost 
nothing.— Adv. 
Domestic d'cononnj 
CONDUCTED BY MRS. AGNES E. M. CARMAN. 
Resolve not to soil the new leaf in turning 
it over. 
CHRISTMAS HINTS. 
It is not much trouble to select presents 
where one has plenty of money to buy them 
with, for the shops never presented a more 
beautiful or varied assortment of toys and 
conveniences than now. But those who can 
spare little or no money for gifts need not de¬ 
spair, for a variety of pretty trifles can be 
made with a little time and iugeuuity. 
Shaving cases are easily made, and are use¬ 
ful gifts to fathers and big brothers. They 
may be elaborately made of plush and em¬ 
broidery, or for a more simple one, take of 
thick, white cardboard two pieces each six by 
eight inches. Ornament the corners with 
ferns and tiny sprays in spatter-work. Diag" 
oually in rustic letters made of fern leaflets, 
put ‘‘Merry Christmas!” or “Take my Heart I” 
or the cover can be painted in water colors. 
The inside is made of hmvesof tissue paper of 
various colors cut to lit the cover, aud all 
fastened together with a ribbon at the top. A 
certaiu little girl of my acquaintance is mak¬ 
ing one of .-.iiver cardboard worked with blue 
silk. This, together with a cake of the tiuest 
shaving soap, will constitute her Christmas 
gift to her father. Au older sister is hand- 
paiuting a china tuug for the same purpose. 
Bags for different uses are always accepta¬ 
ble for scraps, knitting, laundry and clothes¬ 
pins, aud can be made in a variety of ways, 
aud of material generally on hand. 
What would please grandma more than 
a nice soap-stone, with its wadded hag of 
cross-stitch or ernz-ywork, to slip over it. This 
would be so much nicer than to pin the foot- 
wariner up in a cloth every night. A large, 
soft chair cushion, with its gay coverings, is 
not to be despised; neither are crotchet slip¬ 
pers, which may have the soles cut from old 
felt hat brims. 
Pen-wipers in the shape of butterflies, may 
be made really lvautiful with scraps of velvet, 
a little embroidery silk, paints, aud a few 
bristles. Use a piece of black velvet rolled 
up tightly for the body, tying it around twice 
to make it the right shape, and small, black 
heads for the eyes. 
Mittens knitted plain with long seamed 
wrists arc made more fancy by three rows of 
feather-stitching up the backs, done with con¬ 
trasting silks. 
Pallets or placques covered with tinfoil, 
with clusters of tissue paper roses upon them, 
help to make a pretty show on the family 
tree. 
Aprons of lonsdale muslin with outline de¬ 
sign in one corner, are cheap, and one eaunot 
have too mauy aprons, not forgettiug the large, 
dark kitchen aprons, the clothes-pin aprons, 
aud the cantou flannel mittens for wadi-day. 
Fancy teapot holders, tea cosies, either cro- 
&&vtx tiisiofl. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Cantona 
When she was a Child, she cried tor Castorla. 
When she became Sllss. she clung to Castorla 
When she had Children, ghs gave them Cestoris 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
cheted or embroidered, table mats crocheted 
from carpet warp or seine twine, are all useful. 
Brackets and eorab-cases cut from binders 
board sewed or pasted together, and covered 
with several coats of stainiDg, look as well as 
walnut and are as durable. , 
To please the little boys cut the pattern of a 
horse’s bead and neck from black cloth,sewing 
the two parts together, leaving it open at the 
neck; turn aud stuff with cotton, allowing 
room for it to slip over the head of a cane. 
Tie it on firmly, make a flowing mane with 
black yarn,sew on buttons for eyes, make a 
bridle and reins of red leather, and this saddle- 
horse will please him better than anything 
you can buy. 
One of my presents last year, from my lit¬ 
tle six-year-ohl boy, was a velvet bag of his 
own manufacture, filled with hickorynut 
meats: he had taken the cue from the older 
ones aud done it all on the sly to surprise 
mamma. fanny fletcher. 
[We regret that these hints came in too late 
for Christmas use.—E d. D. E.] 
■ 
Do you ever cook celery? The coarser 
stalks and the hard, solid part from which 
the roots branch are very 7 appetizing when 
boiled until tender, and dressed with milk, 
butter, pepper and salt. 
It is not foolish for a woman to try and re¬ 
tain her youthful ness and good looks as long 
as she can; neither is it vanity for her to 
choose her wearing apparel with a thought 
as to its beeomingue . 
We find good calico or gingham the neatest 
and most serviceable goods for dresses for 
morning wear the year round, if one has 
household duties to perform. 
Irish Point lace is taking the place of Not¬ 
tingham lace for curtains. It is much pret¬ 
tier aud not much dearer. 
Some of the prettiest hair pins that we have 
seen are those of silver, representing Mar¬ 
guerites aud daisies, with gold centers. 
HASH CAKE. 
Make any layer cake and fill as follows: 
One and one-half cup of sugar in a dish, 
moisten with water, add whites of three eggs, 
well beaten, heat and cook as custard, stir 
until cool, then add oue coffee cup of chopped 
hickory-uut meats aud one of chopped raisins. 
Bake two layers, spread half the mixture 
between aud the remainder on the top. 
COOKIES. 
Two cups of butter; three of sugar; two 
teaspoonfuls of baking powder or one of soda 
aud two of cream-of-tartar, one cup of milk, 
flour sufficient to roll out. A few currants 
sprinkled on the top improve them. This 
amount makes a large batch and they are 
very nice. 
SALAD DRESSING. 
One teaspoonful of mustard, a lump of 
butter size of au egg, half a teacupful of vine¬ 
gar. Put these ingredients on to boil in a 
bright tin dish. Beat in a bowl yelks of two 
eggs and pour the boiled mixture over the 
eggs. Stir while pouring it on. Put in 
chopped celery if you like it. 
CANDY. 
Two pounds of what is kuovru as four-X 
confectionary sugar, whites of two eggs aud 
as much water as egg. Stir in sugar and beat 
well. Roll out, flavor and cut in any shape 
you please. Dry in a warm room. You eau 
make this mixture into balls aud coat with 
melted chocolates or you can make delicious 
nut candies by covering the meats of the nuts 
with the paste, 
MINNIE’S CAKE. 
Qne-lmlf cup of butter, oue-aud-a-balf cup 
of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of nuik, two 
cups of flour, three eggs, one aud-a-half tea¬ 
spoonful of baking-powder. Beat butter and 
sugar together, add yolks, beat and add milk, 
stir well, aud add flour; when well mixed stir 
in whites. aunt rachel. 
DECEMBER DISHES. 
WINTER soups. 
Combination Soup, Cut into lengthwise 
shreds two tablespoonfuls each of carrot, tur¬ 
nip, the white part of leeks, celery, a white 
onion and some white cabbage leaves; mix 
them together and put in a saucepan contain¬ 
ing a tablespoonful of melted butter. Stir un¬ 
til the moisture is evaporated; cover with 
three quarts of beef-stock, and simmer slowly 
for two hours. Now add a teaspoonful of su¬ 
gar, a gllljof,canned green peas, and some let¬ 
tuce leaves shredded flue; boil two minutes 
aud serve for the first day. 
The second day make a pea soup with split 
dried peas. Put a pint of washed peas over 
the fire with a small hock of ham, or a half- 
pound of pork and a slice of ham, as much 
water as required aud the usual soup vegeta¬ 
bles, aud.cook slowly three hours; remove the 
ham and most of the vegetables. Rub the 
rest through a fine sieve; return to the sauce¬ 
pan, add a tablespoonful of butter, and as 
much flour wet tq> with a little cold water; 
simmer five minutes and pour into the tureen. 
This for the seeoud day’s soup. 
The third day mix what is left of each in as 
nearly equal quantities and you have a new 
and delicious soup, which you may call com¬ 
bination soup for want of a better name, and 
which by any other name will taste as good. 
Cream of rice is an excellent Friday soup. 
Wash a half pound of rice, and boil it in a 
double boiler with a quart and a pint of milk, 
a tablespoonful of butter, and a seasoning of 
salt and grated uutmeg. As soon as the rice 
is tender, pass through a fine sieve by rubbing 
vigorously' with a wooden spoon; return to the 
saucepan, and dilute with hot milk or cream 
until of the consistency of thin cream. Fin¬ 
ish with an ounce of butter, and add small dia¬ 
monds of fried bread to each plate. 
English Calf's Foot Soup. This is so good a 
soup for re-heating that we give a recipe for 
making a large quantity. Put four calf's feet 
well washed into a stock-pot. with a small 
knuckle of veal, and a pound of shin of beef, 
cover with four quarts of water, and let it 
come to a boil slowly. Throw in a tablespoon¬ 
ful of salt and skim carefully until no more 
scum arises. Add parsley, celery' and two 
leeks tied in a buneb, and one large carrot and 
two onions peeled and sliced: simmer for two 
hours and take out the feet? place them in 
cold water, take out all the bonts, aud lay the 
meat between two plates with a weight on top 
to press them flat. Simmer the broth for two 
hours longer, keeping the same quantity as at 
first: strain and free from fat. Make a roux 
with two ounces of butter and three of flour, 
stir until it browns and dilute with the broth. 
Season with one tablespoonful of Worcester¬ 
shire sauce and salt to taste. Simmer for five 
minutes, skim off the fat again, pass through 
the sieve, and pour over the calves’ feet which 
have been cut in half inch dice. cook. 
A Catholic servant girl was bidden by her 
mistress to say that she was not at home in 
case any oue called on her. The girl answered: 
“Yes, ma'am; but when I confess it to the 
priest shall I confess it as your sin or mine?” 
SOME OLD-FASHIONED DISHES. 
I suppose that on the. whole the cook books 
of the present day are a vast improvement on 
those of our grandmothers' time yet tnose 
yellow-paged heirlooms with the faded writ¬ 
ing in cramped characters, turned out iu their 
day most toothsome dishes, and among the 
neglected of our day we may rate “Wonders” 
which half a century ago invariably graced 
country tea tables. 
WONDERS. 
Four eggs, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, a 
piece of butter the sire of an egg. one tea¬ 
spoonful of soda. Flour to roll very thin, and 
fry in hot lard. Pile high on plates. 
PUMPKIN PANCAKES. 
Two cups of milk, two of stewed pumpkin, 
two eggs, one-half teaspoon ful of soda. Add 
flour enough to form a batter. 
CREAM CAKES. 
Mix oue half pint of thick cream with the 
same of milk. Add four eggs and flour enough 
to drop on buttered tins. Bake quickly. 
L. W. B. 
QUANTITY OF SALTPETER USED. 
Will Mrs. W. C. G. please give the quan¬ 
tity 7 of saltpeter that she would add to a pound 
of salt for salting lt> pounds of butter. 
MRS. N. c. 
Itti.srfllancou.si gUmti.sing. 
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 aud effectual remedy 
for these ailments.” 
“I should be unable to perform my 
clerical duties, without the use of Ayer's 
Cherry Pectoral," writes Rev. V. C. 
Kirk, of Hillsville, Pa. 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, 
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Maas. 
8old by all Druggists. Price $1; six bottles, $5, 
“DOCTORING OLD TIME.” 
A Striking Picture—A Revival of Old Time 
Simplicities. 
In one of Harper's issues is given a very fine 
illustration of Roberts, celebrated painting, 
known as * ‘Doctoring Old Time.” It represents 
a typical old-timer, with his bellows, blowing 
the dust from an ancient clock, with its cords 
aud weights carefully secured. One of these 
clocks in this generation is appreciated only 
as a rare relic. 
The suggestive name, “Doctoring Old 
Time,” brings bo our mind another version of 
the title used for another purpose. “Old rime 
Doctoriug.” 
We learn, through a reliable source, that 
one of the enterprising proprietary medicine 
firms of the country, has been for years in¬ 
vestigating the formulas and medical prepa¬ 
rations used in the beginning of this century, 
and even before, with a view of ascertaining 
why people in our great-grandfathers’ time 
enjoyed a health and physical vigor so seldom 
found in the present generation. They now 
think they have secured the secret or secrets. 
They find that the prevailing opinion that 
then existed, that “Nature has a remedy 
for every existing disorder.” was true, and 
acting under this belief, our grandparents 
used the cotnmou herbs and plants. Con¬ 
tinual trespass upon the forest domain, has 
made these herbs less abundant, and has 
driven them further from civilization, until 
they hare been discarded, as remedial agents 
because of the difficulty of obtaining them. 
H. H. Warner, proprietor of Warner's safe 
cure, and founder of the Warner observatory, 
Rochester, N. Y , has been pressing investiga¬ 
tions in this direction, into the annals of old 
family histories, until he has secured some 
very valuable formulas, from which his firm 
is now preparing medicines, to be sold by 
all druggists. 
They will, we Darn, be known under the 
general title of “Warner’s Long Cabin Rem¬ 
edies.’’ Among these medicines will be a 
“Sarsaparilla," for the blood and liver, “Log 
Cabin Hops and Buchu Remedy,” for the 
stomach, etc., “Log Cabin Cough and Con¬ 
sumption Remedy,” a remedy called “Seal- 
pine,” for the hair, “Log Cabin Extract,” for 
internal and external use, and an old valuable 
discovery for Catarrh, called “Log Cabin Rose 
Cream.” Among the list is also a “Log Cabin 
Plaster,” and a “Log Cabin Liver Pill.” 
From the number of remedies, it will be 
seen that they do not propose to cure all dis¬ 
eases with one preparation. It is heliev ed by 
n 1 any that with these remedies a new era is to 
dawn upon suffering humanity, and that the 
close of the nineteenth century will see these 
roots aud herbs, as compounded under the 
title of Warner's Log Cabin Remedies, as pop¬ 
ular as they were at its beginning. Although 
they come in the form of proprietary medi¬ 
cines, yet they will be none the less welcome, 
for suffering humanity has become tired of 
modem doctoring aud the public has great 
confidence in any remedies put up by the firm 
of which H. H. Warner is the head. The peo¬ 
ple have become suspicious of the effects of 
doctoring with poisonous drugs. Few realize 
the injurious effects following the prescriptions 
of many modern physicians. These effects of 
poisonous drugs, already prominent, will be¬ 
come more pronounced in coming generations. 
Therefore we can cordially wish the old-fash¬ 
ioned new remedies the best of success. 
FURE MILK. 
WARREN 
BOTTLES 
March 33d, 1880. 
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