you that you have felt for the nonce as if you 
were the guest of royalty? Miss Bouton tells, 
in the Hawkeye, how she found an ideal 
hostess away up on a mountain side in a two- 
roomed log cabin, and I found mine (and a 
host as well) in a little New Jersey farm¬ 
house. 
One day last month, when the sleighing was 
at its best and the weather just cold enough 
to fulfill my idea of a perfectly blissful day 
for sleighing, Harry proposed a drive from 
Hobokus to Newark, taking the old stage¬ 
coach road under the Nautch Mountain, and 
so along the beautiful Passaic. I am always 
ready for so promising a “lark” as a sleigh- 
ride of 40 miles, and we were soon seated be¬ 
hind lithe, fleet-footed Elsie, in the daintiest 
and most slender of cutters. I had spent 
many years where snow was unknown, where 
grapes were still hanging on the vines in Dec¬ 
ember, and where roses bloomed in the open 
air in January, and this revival of the life of 
my girlhood filled me with a delight that per¬ 
haps the readers of the Rural, who have 
shoveled paths to barn and outhouse through 
the snows of many winters, will neither share 
nor appreciate, so I spare them rhapsodies or 
reflections. 
On our return, just as the twilight was 
transforming every shadow on the roadside 
into an object of terror to pretty, nervous El¬ 
sie, a small, fiercely barking,black dog sprang 
out from the gateway of a tiny farmhouse 
that nestled to leeward of the Nautch Moun¬ 
tain. Madame Elsie gave one sudden bound, 
overturning the sleigh and breaking the shaft, 
and then with her accustomed obedience, at 
Hal’s “Whoa, there, now, Elsie!” stood quiet, 
but quivering in every limb. 
This unusual bustle brought to the door of 
the farmhouse a bearded and bronzed man of 
40 and his pretty, sweet-faced wife, some 10 
years younger. With hearty cordiality we 
were urged to partake of the supper that even 
then was smoking on the table, which our 
sharpened appetites could not refuse. Elsie 
was led to the stable with dejected mien, 
seemingly as conscious as a child of her fault. 
Any words of mine must fail to portray the 
simple, gracious courtesies of my host and 
hostess, so I w’ill tell you of their supper in¬ 
stead, for while Harry and mine host repaired 
the broken shaft after supper, I became quite 
intimate with my new-found and obliging 
friend. 
The magnificent turkey, a poem in brown, 
proved my friend to be as ideal a cook as 
hostess, and the dressing was so new to me 
that I thought it might be so to some one else. 
Take equal parts of boiled and mashed sweet 
potatoes and bread crumbs, and add to these 
one-sixth as much sweet butter; season with 
sweet majoram, summer savory, salt, pepper 
and grated nutmeg, and to the dressing for a 
large turkey add one ounce of grated ham and 
four ounces of Jersey sausages, the yellow 
rind of one lemon and one pint of fresh oys¬ 
ters. With this fill the body of the turkey, 
filling the crop with onion stuffing. This is au 
especially pleasing idea. If one objects to the 
flavor of onions, he need not be helped to onion 
stuffing, while those who are particularly fond 
of them can have a liberal supply. Mince 
parboiled onions and season them with but¬ 
ter, pepper and salt, and fill thb crop as full as 
may be. When the turkey is done to a turn, 
make a sauce of the rich, brown gravy in the 
pan, adding the stewed and chopped giblets. 
We had sweet potatoes, boiled, peeled, and 
b owned in butter in the oven; mashed white 
potatoes, beaten with hot cream and butter 
until they were as light as a souffle, and pars¬ 
nip fritters that quite overcame my repug¬ 
nance to that somewhat nauseatingly sweet 
vegetable. 
Boil and mash four medium-sized parsnips, 
taking out the fibers and hard bits; add one 
beaten egg, one tablespoonful of cream and 
one of melted butter; pepper, salt, and flour 
to make a batter that will drop from the end 
of a spoon. Fry brown in sweet dripping. 
holiday. I was rather astonished at the festive 
air of the occasion, which was accounted for 
when I learned that it was the anniversary of 
their wedding day. I hope my good fortune 
or Elsie’s terrors will always strand me before 
such hospitable gates. a. e. g. 
-- 
COLLAR AND CUFF BAG. 
A very necessary little appurtenance to 
one’s bureau is a bag in which to put soiled 
collars, cuffs aud handkerchiefs. A pretty 
one can be made from the cheap Turkish tow¬ 
els, which come < in bright colors at 25 cents 
each. Turn over the fringed ends, and about 
six inches of border, and sew in form of a bag. 
Ornament the ends to suit your taste. A strip 
of contrasting ribbon, appliqued with feather 
stitch in bright floss makes a pretty finish. 
Run in a double draw-string of ribbon of con¬ 
trasting colors. 
A housekeeper with several bureaus to gar¬ 
nish with pin-cushions is always pleased to 
learn of novelties in this line. I saw a pretty 
aud simple one the other day. It was circular 
and about the size of a tea-plate, one side be¬ 
ing of pink, the other of blue silesia. It was 
stuffed, and drawn down in (he center like 
buttoned furniture. A piece of oriental lace 
equal in width to half the diameter of the 
cushion, was gathered up to this center, and 
the sewing covered with many loops of pink 
aud baby blue ribbon. 
A pretty sachet bag for a bureau was made 
of alternate strips of pale yellow and old gold 
ribbon,in the form of a square. Fold it three- 
cornered, and leave the ends fringed for half 
an inch. Fill with cotton and sachet pow¬ 
der, and suspend with bows and loops of baby 
ribbon. elsie. 
- ■■♦♦♦ ■■ . 
R. II. (no address ).—Does it pay to buy 
sugar by the barrel? We buy a medium grade 
of granulated sugar. Our neighbor's and 
some storekeepers say that the waste by evap¬ 
oration is greater than can be made good by 
the difference in the price. We use more than 
a barrel a year. In buying by the barrel we 
certainly save trouble. 
Ans. —Such sugar is quoted here at seven 
cents per pound by the barrel. By estimat¬ 
ing the cost at retail and the probable number 
of pounds used in a year, a fair estimate can 
be arrived at. We know several families that 
buy in this way. The following note is typi¬ 
cal of their ideas as to the profit of the sys¬ 
tem. This is from a family of four: “We 
buy sugar by the barrel. It costs enough less to 
more than pay interest, aud it saves much 
trouble. Grocerymen often use poor paper. 
Packages often break open. Sugar—granu 
lated, the kind we always buy—will flow al¬ 
most like water.” 
Pimlliuteoujei 
Contain, in small compass, the essential 
virtues of the best vegetable cathartics. 
They area sure cure for Costiveness. Indi¬ 
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to take; prompt, but mild, in operation. 
Mr. James Quinn, of Middle st.. Hartford, 
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Although my hostess had never been in 
Naples, and her shelves were innocent of 
cook-books, the macaroni cooked Neapolitan 
style was perfect. Wash a pair of sweet¬ 
breads and lay them in salted water for au 
hour; stew in salted water with au onion until 
tender, or about 20 minutes. Lift them out, 
and break into this broth a half-pound of 
macaroni, which cook gently until tender. 
Chop the sweet breads and onion, and stir 
them with two ounces of butter, into the 
macaroni, seasoning with salt, pepper and 
minced parsley. Serve in a deep dish, and 
pass grated cheese with it. 
The mince-pie which crowned this feast 
mine host laughingly called “local option” 
pie, as it was innocent of brandy. You do 
not need to be told how to make a mince-pie 
at this late season, and I doubt the ability of 
many cooks to build such a perfect pie as 
this, or possibly my drive had something to 
do with it, for we lmd only taken the lightest 
of lunches since starting. As it was not a 
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