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bv separating herself from her family in 
search of the health she recklessly squanders 
with her money. Pure air and pure water 
are not taxed, and the family of a well-to-do 
farmer can find more leisure than working 
people in the city if counted all the year 
round. But there must be books and pictures 
and labor-saving implements, with a system 
of housework that tells of duty done, just as 
would the factory or the counting house. 
Children must be trained to light duties suit¬ 
able to their years irrespective of “what the 
neighbors say.” I remember in my early mar¬ 
ried iife, a neighbor seeing my small daughter 
peeling potatoes and cleaning knives, looked 
on with quite an air of disapproval and re¬ 
marked to me: “What do you make that child 
work for? I mean to let my girls have a good 
time now.” 
I answered that it lightened my labor and 
was a matter of learning to do something 
regularly. Time has proved the fallacy of 
my neighbor’s training, whatever faults there 
may be in mine: for when death broke up the 
household the only son married, and the three 
sisters were left to try to earn their living. 
They will never be able to do it well, and it 
took several years of dependence on the char¬ 
ity of relations before an attempt could be 
made toward independence. Yes, farming 
has a bright side, and I lost some of my re¬ 
spect for “Charity Sweetheart” when she 
despised the farmer “and made so much of the 
city youth.” There is no need for all boys to 
be like “Burt”—they can be helpful and po¬ 
lite, thoughtful of others, and unselfish, and 
such boys, when they become men, are surer 
to make a girl’s life happy than the lily-handed 
speculator who wants to gain his money with¬ 
out earning it and thinks the world owes him 
a living. Elevate the farmer’s home, add 
beauty and refinement to it, and there will 
only be a “bright side.” “Nor frock nor tan 
can hide the man.” 
HOUSEHOLD DRUDGERY MADE 
PLEASANT. 
MAY MAPLE. 
Drudgery! What is it? Whatever has 
become irksome to us, either from long con¬ 
finement, or from a lack of natural ability, or 
because we are anxiously desiring to do work 
more congenial to our taste. Even so-called 
fancy work may become drudgery under cer¬ 
tain conditions. But that which this pencil¬ 
ing refers to particularly is the inevitable 
house work that must be gone over daily and 
in these short days almost hourly until the 
veriest Stoic would sometimes weary of it. 
To make cooking pleasant a tolerably well- 
filled pantry aud cellar are necessary, for in 
them are all the materials for a good variety 
of food. But without a good cook, the mater¬ 
ials for a feast may become waste matter un¬ 
fit even for the pigs, and there is nothing 
more discouraging to man or woman than to 
see a table fitted out with unsavory food. 
Cooking lessons begun in childhood continued 
through youth to mature years under the 
supervision of a capable mother or an exper¬ 
ienced person, will do away for the most part 
with poorly-prepared food. A few dishes well 
cooked are far better for the average family 
than such a multitudinous variety as some 
half-worn-out women place upon the table. 
A good appetite will make even plain fare 
savory. 
Dishwashing comes in for a large share of 
the disgust that pertains to housekeeping, and 
to make this pleasant work is certainly de- 
si rable. 
“But how can it be done?” says fair-faced, 
blue-eyed Fanny, who has that particular 
“chore” to do, when she had much rather read, 
paint or do “crazy-work.” In the first place, 
try to think that duties become pleasures 
when satisfactorily performed. If one has 
pretty dishes in sets they will add somewhat to 
the pleasant effect so much to be desired; but 
the cheapest wares have a pretty luster when 
well cleansed. A clean dishcloth is a necessity 
to begin with every time, and takes away 
half the disgust of dishwashing. To take a 
wet, crumby, greasy dishcloth into one’s hands 
is enough to make one’s stomach sick, if not 
heart-sick. Plenty of clean and very warm 
water is desirable. Now if the dishes have 
been well divested of all loose crumbs, and 
packed in pretty clusters on a clean work 
table or sink that stands near a window with 
a pleasant outlook, the dishes will be washed 
with such a zest as to make the plates and 
platters shine, and cups and saucers will settle 
down to quiet life quite in keeping with their 
poetic natures. 
If steel cutlery is used of course it will need 
scouring once a day at least A good Bath 
brick in a convenient box is a necessity; the 
cost is eight cents and with care it will last 
three or four years. A well washed potato 
with one end chipped off is far better than a 
rag for scouring and the dullest steel knife or 
fork will soon acquire a polish as pretty as 
THE BUBAL NIW-YOBKER. 
silver. When I see a housekeeper using ashes 
or sand, and a rag to scour with I do not won¬ 
der that she hates to brighten the knives, or 
that they acquire a dull, leaden hue, and often 
go without scouring unless company is ex¬ 
pected. 
Let the woodwork and every uncarpeted 
floor have a good coat of paint whenever 
they need it. Paint is cheaper than doctors’ 
bills, and saves an immense amount of scrub¬ 
bing and looks better when done. It is the ne¬ 
cessity for everlasting cleaning that wears out 
one’s strength and patience and drains life of 
half the pleasure of living. 
If possible have the floors all carpeted; it 
does not pay to use the mop-rag every day 
•when one can get pretty hemp carpet for 18 to 
20 cents a yard. This carpeting is light and 
easily cleaned, and makes a room look cheery 
and comfortable. A good broom well-handled 
will soon remove the accumulated dirt, and 
a damp cloth will remove the dust from fur¬ 
niture and bric-a-brac more satisfactorily than 
a feather-duster. Don’t allow the work to 
drag or hang around even though the children 
are doing it. There is real pleasure in having 
it done well and quickly. Then there is a bit 
of time for reading or sewing, or perchance an 
opportunity for a short walk in the open air, 
and a call on a friend. 
There is no real comfort in a house that is 
always at sixes and sevens, and so we must 
make a pleasure of keeping it neat and 
orderly. 
NOTES FOR THE COOK. 
Stuffed and baked cod makes a delightful 
Friday dish. Choose a middle cut, and make 
a stuffing of bread soaked in milk, or oyster 
liquor, and squeezed out. Add a small minc¬ 
ed onion fried in a tablespoonful of butter, a 
dozen oysters, a little parsley, and pepper and 
salt. Sew it up firmly and bake, turning it 
frequently, and basting with butter and 
water. A neat slice of pork may be skewered 
over each end, and will serve to keep the stuf¬ 
fing in as well as to flavor it. Serve with 
oyster sauce, or with a gravy made from that 
in the pan. 
A loin of mutton makes nice mock veni¬ 
son. It must be soaked for a couple of days 
in a glass of port wine, turning and basting 
it occasionally from time to time with the 
wine. Baste with the wine while baking. 
A “mock roast” of oysters is an excellent 
substitute where one cannot have a fire suita¬ 
ble for a real roast. Drain the oysters from 
the liquor, and place them in a hot frying-pan 
over a moderate fire. As fast as the liquor 
collects, draw it off, and continue this process 
until they are done brown, when serve hot 
with a little fresh butter on each. 
Another nice oyster dish which is more 
common in England than here is made by 
wrapping good-sized oysters each in a thin 
slice of fat bacon, and fastening with a small 
wooden skewer. Heat a frying-pan well, and 
cook until the bacon is crisp. Our English 
cousins who indulge in such appetizing names 
for their gastronomical dainties as ”dog-in- 
the-blanket,'’ and “toad-in-the hole,” call the 
above “angels on horseback,” aud sometimes 
“little pigs in blankets.” 
An oyster loaf is a somewhat elaborate dish, 
but quite delicious enough to pay for the 
trouble. Take a stale loaf of bread (baker’s 
or very light home-made) and remove all the 
crumb, being careful that the loaf retains its 
proper shape. Break the crumbs up very fine 
and dry slowly in a hot oven. Then fry three 
teacupfuls of them in as many tablespoonfuls 
of hot butter, until they are crisp aud light- 
brown in color. Put a quart of rich milk over 
the fire, and when it boils stir in two spoonfuls 
of flour that has been wet up with a half cup 
of cold milk. Cook well and season with pep¬ 
per and salt. Put a layer of this inside the 
loaf, then a layer of oysters, seasoned with salt 
and pepper, and another of crumbs. Alter¬ 
nate until the loaf is full, letting the last layer 
be a thick one of crumbs. Bake slowly half 
an hour. 
Salmon Salad.— -This may be made from a 
can of salmon. Drain off the liquor and pick 
the fish in flakes, removing all the bones. 
Chop the blanched parts of celery, cold pota¬ 
toes, cold boiled beets and cold cooked cauli¬ 
flower (if you have any) in dice, letting the 
celery predominate in quantity, about half as 
much potato, and a quarter as much of the 
beets and cauliflower, with a very little minced 
onion. These should equal the fish in bulk, 
and be tossed together with a fork before the 
dressing is poured over. Use a mayonnaise, 
cream or French dressing, the manner of 
making all of which has been detailed in the 
Rural. cook. 
LIGHT ON THE CRACKER QUESTION. 
One teacupful of butter or lard, two of 
water, three and one-half teaspoonfuls of salt, 
one-half teaspoonful of saleratus; work in as 
much flour as possible: pound 20 minutes or 
half an hour, mold into small crackers; roll 
out thinjjand bake in a quick oven. 
MRS. A. B. 
Half a tea-cup of shortening, three tea-cups 
of cold water, one tablespoonful of salt, one 
teaspoonful of soda,two teaspooufuls of cream- 
of-tartar and nearly five quarts of flour. Rub 
the shortening, soda, cream-of-tartar and salt 
well into the flour, then wet up with the wa¬ 
ter—the dough will be very stiff, needs no 
pounding nor extra kneeding. Cut out, prick, 
and bake in a quick over.. MRS. economy. 
One cup of lard, three cups of water, two 
teaspoonfuls cream-of tartar, one teaspoonful 
saleratus, one teaspoonful salt. Mix the lard 
thoroughly with flour; then add water; add 
flour to make hard, aud knead the dough un¬ 
til it becomes smooth. Bake in a quick oven. 
G. 
Three cups water, one and one-half cup of 
butter,two teaspoonfuls cream-of-tartar,one of 
soda, tablespoon of salt. Mix the flour and 
butter together, put the soda and eream-of-tar- 
tarin the water, then mix all together. Make 
the dough as hard as you can without pound¬ 
ing. Roll thin: bake in a quick oven. 
COOK. 
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NEWSPAPER COOKERY. 
If some of our large dailies would omit their 
“household hints,” they would confer a bless, 
ing on their readers. The other day I read a 
recipe for oyster fritters, in which a quarter 
of a pound of lard and butter and three pints 
of flour were used for a batter for one dozen 
minced oysters, the liquid for reducing this 
remarkable combination to a batter being 
sour or buttermilk and the liquor of the oys¬ 
ters. 
We do not deny the superiority of the mas¬ 
culine intellect if it will only confine itself to 
its own province. Perhaps it is a growing 
feeling that since woman has chosen the forum, 
the pulpit aud the desk, they had better begin 
to prepare themselves to wield the basting la¬ 
dle and the rolling-pin. There is a cooking- 
school in Philadelphia to which men are ad¬ 
mitted. A word to the wise is sufficient. 
A. G. 
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DOUGHNUTS. 
The following directions my grandmother 
used for making “nuts” for our school lunch¬ 
eons 30 years ago: Take seven coffee cups of 
bread dough when light, mix into it one small 
cup of melted butter, one of sugar and a tea¬ 
spoonful of saleratus. When it has again be¬ 
come light, roll out, cut into what shape you 
please and cook in hot lard. To succeed well, 
the dough should be mixed with milk. 
MRS. H. BAKER. 
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