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after the fashion of Fig. 304. Our friend says 
that the ‘‘Envelope” requires careful wash¬ 
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“ ALL THE MODERN CONVENIENCES.” 
“ I wish we had all the modern convenien- 
cies, like the Rodneys,” said my sister Sue, as 
she came in from paying an afternoon visit to 
our new neighbors. 
“Modern conveniencies,” said mother, “why 
they have no gas, no hot water boiler, no bath 
room, and no water upstairs!” 
“ They have no gas,” replied Sue, “ but you 
should see how wed-fixed they are in the 
matter of lights. In the din ng-room, hall, 
and library, there are lamps with Rochester 
burners that can bo raised and lowered at 
will, and near-by each lamp bangs a match 
safe, and a receptacle for burned matches. 
The latter are just the simplest things, too. 
I’m going to make one for each room in the 
house. I’ve always scolded the boys for 
throwing burnt matches on the floor, without 
ever stopping to think that there was nothing 
handy to receive them. They were simply 
small mustard cans, covered with pretty cre¬ 
tonne, with one bud or flower on each side 
outliued in silk, and suspended by a narrow 
ribbon.” 
“You know how much trouble we have 
with our linen and preserve closets,” went on 
Sue, “because we can never see what we are 
getting, it is so dark in those hall closets. 
Well ! the Rodneys have an imitation bronze 
bracket screwed up in such a position that 
when a lamp is set in, it can be turned so as 
to throw a bright light in the closet, conse¬ 
quently they don’t have to take down a dozen 
different varieties when they are searching for 
peach marmalade. These brackets are up in 
the sleeping-rooms, and everywhere through 
the house where it may be necessary to set 
down a kerosene lamp. Mrs. Rodney says 
they bought a dozen at twelve an i a half cents 
apiece. Now our lamps may be traced all 
through the house by the rings they leave on 
the furniture, and the drapery of tables and 
bureaus.” 
“ Then in the matter of closets themselves : 
they manage to make a closet hold just as 
much again as any one else, and they never 
seem to have four dresses on one nail either. 
In fact, there isn’t such a thing as a nail to be 
seen to hang garments on, but I never saw 
such an abundance, and variety of hooks. 
They are screwed in everywhere; low down so 
that little Fred and Alice can bang up their 
own clothes; in the lintels of the closet doors, 
and in the cross-piece at the top (I am 
chagrined that I cannot just now think of the 
technical term for this part of the door). 
Then on the outside of the closet doors in the 
sleepiug rooms are more hooks. They are 
not unseemly, being of imitation bronze, and 
consequently when they undress at night 
garments can be neatly hung, instead of 
scattered over chairs and the foot-board of 
the bed.” 
“There were bags, too, for every conceiv¬ 
able purpose. I don’t believe the little Rod¬ 
neys could be anything but neat if they tried. 
There was a bag for dusters in each room, so 
if one is upstairs she can do a little dusting 
without running down to the kitchen for a 
duster. Where they were obliged to be con¬ 
spicuous objects, they were made of pretty 
cretonne or China silk, but where they could 
be placed on the inside of a closet door, gray 
lineu was used. There was one large laundry 
bag for sheets, pillow cases and large pitces, 
and each room had its collar and cuff bag for 
the small pieces.” 
“The floors of the closets were not littered 
with shoes. Each door had its shoe bag with 
from four to eight compartments; and Mollie,” 
said Sue, quite out of breath, “you know the 
old cretoune curtains that mother banished to 
the garret last spring? Well, there is enough 
there to make shoe bags for every room in the 
house, and I’m going right to work to fit our 
house up with all the “modern conveniencies.” 
ALICE CHITTENDEN. 
Provide your kitchen with a clock—the 
small marine clocks answer every purpose. 
“ ALL IN A GARDEN FAIR.” 
My garden embraces what is left of an or¬ 
dinary city lot after space has been deducted 
for a house more than ordinarily small, and 
the tiniest of grass plots, but I should not have 
time in several columns of the Rural to tell 
you of all we have managed to raise upon it. 
At present I shall, only speak of the six 
tomato vines which 1 have trained up the back 
fence so as to take the least amount of room 
possible. We shall have plenty for our small 
family, and tUeoneyine of yellow tig tomatoes 
I expect to furnish me with two or three jars 
of tomato fig preserves. 
For breakfast I sometimes take several 
solid tomatoes of good size, and a little under¬ 
ripe, cut them in halvas, and broil on a wire 
broiler, skin side down. Five minutes will 
suffice. I have a nice bit of buttered toast for 
each half, which I carefully transfer to that 
delicacy placed on a hot dish. Season lightly 
with salt, pepper and a bit of butter, and 
pour a cream sauce around. With chocolate, 
and muffins, Tom says it really makes a break¬ 
fast. 
If I have only a tiny bit of cold meat for 
dinner, a side dish of baked tomatoes will 
help out greatly. Cut the tomatoes in halves, 
and place them in a buttered baking pan, 
skin side down; dust with sugar, salt and 
pepper; dot with butter and bake from half 
to three-quarters of an hour. Lift out into a 
hot dish, leaving one of the softest pieces 
in the pan ; mash this with the butter, re¬ 
moving the skin; add a tablespoonful of 
flour, and when smooth a gill of milk or 
cream. This quantity is for about three 
large tomatoes. Be careful not to let the 
sauce curdle. 
Under-ripe, solid tomatoes, cut in thick 
slices, seasoned, dipped in beaten egg and 
then in bread crumbs, and then fried quick¬ 
ly make an execellent garnish to a veal 
cutlet. Bread and fry the latter in a separate 
pan at the same time, put all on a hot dish, 
and make the gravy by stirring a bit of 
butter into the contents of both pans trans¬ 
ferred into one, adding a spoonful of flour, 
and diluting with water. Season to taste, 
and send to table in a boat. palmetto. 
■ • » » 
TIMELY. 
Cut, not pull the cucumbers from the 
vines. 
In canning peaches and pears, cook in the 
cans. 
Grapes make an excellent jelly if taken 
just as they begin to color. 
Pumice stone will remove fruit and vege¬ 
table stains from the hands. 
It is time to pot plants for winter bloom¬ 
ing. Keep in the shade until well established, 
Tomatoes keep admirably in gallon stone 
jugs. Cook thoroughly and pour boiling hot 
into the jugs, which should have had hot 
water standing in them. Drive in perfect 
corks and seal with a mixture of beeswax and 
rosin. 
The mother of a child who recently had 
whooping-cough, told the writer that the 
physician left a two-per cent, solution of alum 
which she gave the child five or six times a 
day in dessert spoonful doses. She thought 
this simple remedy as good as anything she 
had tried for the coughing paroxysms. 
An interesting statement is made by a 
medical officer in China, to the effect that the 
reason why so few Chinese living in typhoid 
fever regions contract the disease, is because 
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APPLE SAUCE. 
We think |the following at our house an 
excellent way of cooking apples when one 
grows tired of the usual smooth sauce. Choose 
tart, tender fruit, peel, quarter, and core. 
Take a pudding dish, just cover the bottom 
with water, fill in with apples, add a few bits 
of butter and strew quite thickly with sugar. 
Bake in not too hot an oven until the apples 
are tender and the sugared surface is delicately 
browned. When perfectly cold carefully 
turn into a glass or china dish. 
MRS. ECONOMY. 
GRAPE JELLY. 
Elsie, our pet horse, broke from her pad- 
dock the other day and ate all the leaves from 
a young grape-vine, loaded with grapes. 
They were a very fine, large variety, and I 
soon saw that having lost the protection of 
the leaves they would not ripen. It occurred 
to me that they might make good jelly, so I 
experimented with a few at first. As I was 
successful I will give the Rural sisters my 
rule: Pick the grapes from the stems and put 
them over the fire in a covered granite kettle 
with a cup of water. Heat slowly until the 
grapes are soft, watching carefully to prevent 
burning, and then strain through a cloth or 
wine press. I have a small press, not much 
larger than a hash machine, which screws on 
the kitchen table and crushes any kind of 
fruit without staining or straining your 
hands, as in the old cloth-squeezing process. 
1 returned the juice to,the tire, aud let it boil 
15 minutes from the time rapid boiling fairly | 
commenced, while for each pint of juice a ! 
pound of sugar was placed on pie dishes in the j 
oven to heat. At the end of the 15 minutes ! 
the sugar was added to the pulp, and as soon 
as thoroughly dissolved the jelly glasses were 
filled. a. c. 
CHARLOTTE RUSSE. 
We have been asked for a not-too-elaborafe 
recipe for the above. The following is one we 
have used with success : Soak two thirds of a 
box of gelatine in a cup of new milk for an 
hour. Put three cups of sweet cream—it need 
not be very thick— on to boil in a double 
boiler, or one pail set into another, containing 
boiling water. 
Beat the yelks of six eggs thoroughly, then 
add a cup of sugar. Dissolve the soaked 
gelatine in the hot cream, and pour slowly 
over the egg aud sugar, beating all the time. 
Continue beating slowly until cold. Have a 
second person beat the whites to a stiff froth. 
Add to the mixture and whip together. Fla¬ 
vor and turn into molds which you have lined 
with slices of nice (not dry and stale) sponge 
cake. 
As soon as you are through using a kettle, 
sauce or frying-pan, turn in some hot 
water, and add a small piece of washing 
soda. 
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