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WE RURAL. flEUMTORKEll. 
824 
ANOTHER HOME SERVICE. 
Mrs. Carman writes of Sunday evening 
devotional services held at home on account of 
the distance to church. In our family we 
have our Sabbath School at home, on Sunday 
afternoon, as we are some distance from our 
church, and when the services are over, the 
children are too tired to wait for Sunday 
School and then ride home. So we have 
joined the “Home Department,” as it is called, 
which requires its members to study the regu¬ 
lar lesson, (that is used in the Sabbath School 
at the church) a half hour every Sabbath, 
unless prevented by some reasonable cause 
from doing so. 
Our family meets together to study, the 
head of the family acting as teacher. Cards 
are furnished us quarterly by the Pastor or 
Superintendent of the school, on which to 
mark our deportment, and these are hapded 
in, and copied on the book with the names, 
and deportment of the regular attendants of 
the School. b. h. g. 
LAMP CHIMNEYS. 
A little experience in buying lamp chim¬ 
neys may throw some light on the subject for 
“Subscriber.” Years ago a grocer called my 
attention to the “ Can’t-break-’em ” chimneys 
as he styled them, and to prove their right to 
the name he tossed them on to the counter 
very roughly without breaking them. The 
price seemed high— 35 cents each—but other 
chimnejs were a trouble and expense, always 
flying into atoms when most needed, so I 
bought one. It was all one could ask for in 
the way of durability and was in constant 
service for more than a year, when ono day, 
with no one near it, it flew into a thousand 
pieces: and that is the way such chimneys all 
do at last. On this particular chimney was a 
paper stamp bearing the name “Le Bastie.” 
When next I went to buy one the name had 
slipped from my mind, but I asked for the 
“ Can't-break ’-em ” kind. “I’ve got the 
“Alabaster,” said the grocer “that’s what 
you want; isn’t it?” I said “It had a name 
like that,” and went home with my purchase 
only to have it fly into bits as soon as it was 
heated. Again I bought one, and again with 
the same results. Happening to be in that 
store when the man we traded with was out, 
I said to the other partner, “ I want a lamp 
chimney, but I have had three of the high- 
priced ones broken this week, and I am about 
tired of buying them.” “ What kind did you 
get ? ” asked he, with what I fancied was a 
troubled look. “The kind that is said not to 
break,” said I. He brought two chimneys to me. 
“This one will not break: it has the mark Le 
Bastie on it.” I found that the Albaster 
chimney was a fraud—probably so named 
to deceive people as I had been deceived. 
Now I buy the Le Bastie chimuey at 25 cts 
each, and seldom have one break. Such chim¬ 
neys will fall quite a distance and be none the 
worse for it. I consider them much the 
cheapest in the long run. 
S. E. H. 
MY THANKSGIVING DINNER. 
Let me whisper to you, sympathizing 
reader, that it is to be my first Thanksgiving 
dinner, for we have agreed to blot out from 
our memories that other one, a year ago, when 
I had not sufficiently wakened up to the reali¬ 
ties of life to have learned that the crop 
should be taken out of a turkey. The humili¬ 
ations of that lesson I shall not confess to you; 
suffice it to say that I took them well to heart, 
and the mdnu I give below shall grace my 
table on Thanksgiving of this year of our 
Lord 1888, if life and health are spared. I 
haven’t a cook to make or mar any of the 
dishes, which shall all be prepared by my own 
hands, and served by the help of my little 
thirteen-year-old maiden. I shall give you 
the cost of my dinner for six guests, for Jack 
declares I cannot get it up for the $5. bill 
which I promised him not to exceed in its pur¬ 
chase. 
Consomm6 d la Royale. 
Salmon, lobster sauce. Rarisienne potatoes. 
Roast Turkey, Oyster stuffing. 
Cranberry sauce, Creamed white potatoes. 
Rice balls, Rolls. 
Celery—Wafers—Cheese. 
Lettuce Salad, French Dressing. 
Mince Pie. Pumpkin Pie. 
Oranges filled with Jelly. 
Nuts. Raisins. 
Coffee. 
Rather au imposing spread, but you shall 
see how I shall market. As I have the 
benefit of a New York market, I can only 
give you city prices. Meat for stock, 10 
cents; small lobster for sauce, 15 cents; two 
pounds of salmon, 40 cents; 10-pouncl turkey 
At petits a pound, $!.5Q, T&}| wW TPt' 
mean a choice Philadelphia bird, but a Phil¬ 
adelphia bird, nevertheless. There are al 
ways “culls,” which are birds with crooked 
breast-bones, or those which otherwise do not 
come up to the standard; and so do not sell 
for fancy prices. Twenty-five oysters of the 
kind which sell in Washington Market for 75 
cents a hundred, will be sufficient for dressing 
with bread-crumbs, and will cost 19 cents— 
cranberries 15; celery 10; lettuce, 20; wafers 
and cheese 25; vegetables with butter and 
seasonings, 25; pies, 50; oranges, six filled 
with jelly, 40; nuts, raisins, and coffee, 25 
cents. $4.44. The rest will, 1 think, cover in¬ 
cidental expenses. 
Two quarts of stock will be needed, but if 
you are not too proud to buy “bones,” getting 
a small veal bone, a scrag of mutton, and 
such odds and ends of beef bones as usually go 
to the “bone-man,” you will have enough to 
make a strong stock which must be of a fine 
yellow color, and cleared with an egg-shell. 
Make a custard of the yelks of two eggs, 
beaten until light; half a gill of stock, and a 
seasoning of salt, white pepper and nutmeg. 
Pour this into a small greased tin, which 
stand in a pan of hot water, and place in a 
moderate 07en to harden. When firm (it 
must not brown), cut into neat squares, and 
place in the tureen, pouring the consommii 
over at once. This must be finished after 
the turkey is dished. 
Buy a small lobster containing coral, and 
rub this smooth with two tablespoonfuls of 
butter. Cut the meat from the tail and 
claws into dice, and simmer for 15 minutes, 
with a pint of stock; thicken with butter and 
flour, and season with Cayenne and lemon- 
juice, and add the red butter made by rub¬ 
bing the coral as above. This I can make in 
the morning. 
Rice balls are made by rubbing cold boiled 
rice through a colander, adding pepper, salt 
and minced parsley. Then take a tablespoon¬ 
ful at a time, roll it in flour and form into a 
ball, lay apart from each other in a baking- 
pan, brush with milk and melted butter, and 
brown in a quick oven. 
The Parisienne potatoes must be scooped 
with a vegetable cutter and left in icewater 
for an hour before cooking. Then fry a deli¬ 
cate brown in a skillet of boiling fat, and pile 
up at either end of the boiled salmon. Most 
of the dishes on my bill-of-fare are, I think, 
familiar to the readers of the Rural, but 
oranges filled with jelly may be new to them. 
From the stem end of the fruit, cut a round 
piece about as large as an old-fashioned cent, 
and then with your finger loosen the pulp 
from the skin and draw it out through the 
opening without breaking the skin. Throw 
the skins into cold water and press out from 
the pulp enough juice to make a pint and a 
half of orange jelly with gelatine. Fill the 
orange skins with this when half cold, and 
stand away to harden. When cold cut into 
halves with a sharp knife, and arrange on a 
pretty dish with trailing green vines from the 
woods, if you can get them, minnie grey. 
P;i$fceUan£att;$ 
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strengthens the nerves, and vitalizes the 
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“ I am selling your goods freely, and more 
of Aver’s Sarsaparilla than of all other blood- 
medicines put together.”—R. A. McWilliams, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Ayer^s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Price $1; 'six bottleB, $5. Worth $5 a bottle. 
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The Original. Beware ol Tinitatloi^. 
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with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more economi- 
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c u% It is delicious, nourishing, 
strengthening, easily digested, and 
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| well as for persons in health. 
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THE WEEKLY 
Courier-Journal 
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LAMP 
finest lamp In the 
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of 85 candle 
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needs trimming, never 
smokes nor breaks 
chimneys, never 
“smells of the oil;” 
no gumming up, no 
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no annoyance of any 
kind, and cannot ex¬ 
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Washington, N. J., U. S. A. 
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SUGGESTIONS. 
I do wish every farmer’s wife, or daughter, 
would keep a pot or two of geraniums in the 
kitchen window during the winter—the bit of 
green, with an occasional blossom, is so cheer¬ 
ing on bleak and stormy days. Don’t try to 
keep many plants, to shut out needed light 
from human plants, and to be carried away 
from the windows on cold nights. Two, with 
plenty of light and room to develop in, will 
give more pleasure than 20 crowded ones. Be 
sure to make the soil rich for geraniums, as 
they are gross feeders. 
I found last winter that night-blooming 
jasmine will root and blossom as freely in 
water as in soil. 
Ventilate your rooms, oh, farmer folks, I 
pray you, during the cold weather. If your 
house has not ventilators, few farmers’ houses 
do have them—and a window cannot be con¬ 
stantly kept open in your living-room, open 
a window for a couple of inches at both top 
and bottom, for a few minutes at a time, at 
least half a dozen times a day. ’Twill do 
much to avert headaches, as well as greater 
ills that “ human flesh is heir to.” 
AUNT BETTY. 
R. N.-Y. ! 
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CLAM PIE. 
Wash clean 20 good-sized clams, put them 
in a pan and pour three pints of boiling water 
over them, cover them tightly until the shells 
open, take out the clams and chop them quite 
fine. Make a crust as for chicken-pie, line a 
three-quart basin with it, and put in the 
chopped clams, season with butter and pop¬ 
per. Pour over this the water in which the 
shells were opened and dust two rolled crack¬ 
ers over the top. Coyep the whole with crust 
and bake in a qqjcjf qygp J’ry it. 
JfARY MANN 
MORE THAN 10 000 DOUBTING THOMASES 
Whi) read this paper every month, have seen our advertisement 
here for years, yet have not tried our 
knives. This is humiliating to us. Take 
the knife shown here now. if blades were 
hoop iron, 50c. would be cheap for it But 
blades are of 
highest quality 
razor steel. Eve 
ry blade is flle- 
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known ro be 
g o o il before 
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is cheap for a sil¬ 
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