1889 
3S5 
THE BUBAL NEW»YOBKIB. 
Change the word “curse” and in its place 
substitute “lie,” and,as I said, I think it quite 
apropos, for the liar and blasphemer go hand 
in hand. I would as soon trust one as the 
other. dora harvey vrooman. 
DISH-WASHING. 
T O make the washing of dishes a simple 
and pleasurable process, make the dish¬ 
es ready for washing by using a flexible knife 
and plenty of soft paper. Empty tea and 
coffee pots, rinse thoroughly with cold water, 
wash in hot suds, rinse with boiling water, 
wipe the outsides and turn upside down on a 
folded cloth on the back part of the stove. 
Wash silverware next, rinse in hot water and 
wipe immediately. As each piece of earthen¬ 
ware, tin and iron-ware is washed, immerse 
it in hot water, turning earthenware on a 
cloth to drain before polishing, and putting 
tin and iron-ware on the stove or in the oven 
to dry. Wash glassware in lukewarm suds, 
rinse in either very warm or cold water and 
turn on a dry cloth before polishing with soft, 
dry towels. A dish-mop saves the hands and 
is wonderfully effective in washing pitchers, 
fruit cans, etc. To make a good mop, crochet 
a chain (twine or carpet-warp) about 12 inches 
in length, go back over it with any kind of a 
stitch and then fill the lower edge with a 
thick fringe, two inches long when finished. 
For the handle, saw off 12 inches of the top of 
a broomstick, and to the lower edge of this 
fasten the mop by tacking one end, and 
closely and firmly winding upwards, and se¬ 
cure with a second tack. 
Having completed one dish-mop, make two 
more, one for lamp-chimneys and one for a 
friend. medora corbett. 
Domestic Economy has been doing its own 
dish-washing for the past few weeks,and hav¬ 
ing bought a mop or swab (cost eight cents) 
can testify as to its practical advantages and 
superiority over the ordinary article. In the 
R. N.-Y. of June 13, 1885, page 408, Mary 
Wager-Fisher describes one she made while 
staying at Seattle, Oregon. As it differs a 
little from the one Mrs. Corbett tells us of, we 
will republish Mrs. Fisher’s directions. She 
says: “I have the frugal habit of saving 
strings, such as grocers tie about packages, 
and as our supplies came to hand and were 
disposed of, there was quite an accumulation 
of cotton wrapping strings or cords. The 
whittler ot the family prepared a handle for 
the swab—a round stick the size of a broom 
handle, a foot long, with a hole in one end 
through which a string is passed to hang it 
up; around the other end a groove is cut. I 
wound the strings around my four fingers 
held flat, slipped a stout cord through the hole 
left when the fingers are withdrawn, and tied 
the loop firmly around in the groove; then 
cut the bottom of the loop of strings, which 
results in a heavy fringe falling all around the 
bottom of the handle. New strings can at 
any time be added to replenish the swab, 
which needs to be large and full. I have been 
thus specific about the swab, as there may be 
some unfortunate dish-washer left in the 
world who still clings to a dish¬ 
cloth, and if so, she may be here¬ 
by induced to make for herself a swab, 
and wonder evermore that she lived so long 
without one, for it saves the hands from being 
burnt with hot water, the dishes are cleaned 
more thorougly and quickly, and the swab 
never degenerates into a dish-rag. Wring 
dry when through with it,shake out and hang 
up to dry.” 
Surely, thought we, this noon while using 
the mop, there is no teacher like experience, 
for until our recent trial, we confess to hav¬ 
ing pinned our faith to the ordinary article 
for cleaning dishes and to looking upon the 
mop as a delusion and a consumer of much 
time. Our conversion is complete and, with 
Mrs. Fiaber, we advise all dish-washers to make 
or buy a dish-mop. Another capital help is 
a stiff whisk, such as is used for cleauing 
sinks, for washing pans, kettles, etc. After 
using cooking utensils, place them on the 
back of the range with water in them, add¬ 
ing a small lump ot washing soda. When the 
water is hot and the adhering substance loos¬ 
ened, scrub vigorously with the whisk, inside 
and out, rinse in hot water and dry on the 
back of the range or in the oven. 
VV ith these helps, plenty of hot water and 
clean towels, dish-washing is robbed of half its 
terror, and were it not for its repetition thrice 
daily, we could almost bring ourselves to like 
it. 
SMOKING; ITS EFFECTS. 
rr>WO articles by J. H. G. given recently 
I in the Rural, on smoking, were so 
good that I cannot help expressing my ap¬ 
preciation of them. He insists that rules 
should be made against smoking in the 
presence of non-smokers, whether in public 
or private, and says that “ the health of 
many delicate women suffers through having 
fathers or husbands or brothers, smoke in 
their presence.” He might go farther, since 
the health of many women and children suffers 
from daily companionship with smokers, 
whether the smoking is done in their presence 
or not. An inveterate smoker’s clothes, his 
breath, and in fact every fiber of his being are 
so permeated with the poison as to make him 
a good conductor of it at any time. 
And if one studies heredity, he will find the 
offspring of habitual smokers much more 
likely to develop nervous disorders of various 
sorts than those of non-smokers; and, more, he 
will find that habitual smokers’ descendants 
more readily form an appetite for stimulants, 
too, though this last is not wholly chargeable to 
tobacco, since the brandy, etc., so largely used 
in the manufacture of cigars help somewhat. 
And now I can't help this bit of defense of 
the smoker: of course, he must be ignorant of 
the effects of narcotics on himself and his pos¬ 
terity, and brutally selfish as well, when he 
smokes in the presence of non-smokers; but 
who let him grow up ignorant, and encour¬ 
aged him in selfishness? How much time did 
his mother spend when he was yet under 
school age, and his teacher, when larger 
grown, in teaching him the damage done the 
Human body by using narcotics? True, we 
have non-scientific temperance instruction 
given in some of our schools, but that was be¬ 
gun too late to reach the men of to-day. 
And how many young women of our smoker’s 
acquaintance gave him to understand that 
smokers and smoking were obnoxious to them? 
Didn’t the majority say, with the sweetest of 
smiles, when asked if smoking was objection¬ 
able to them, “ Oh, no, not at all?” 
The average man is—as one at my elbow 
admits—“ a bad lot, I s’pose,” but I really 
wonder, sometimes, that he is not worse, 
when I see to what lengths he is allowed to go 
in all directions, principally, it seems,because 
he is such a scarce article—because he’s the 
only son, the only brother, “ the only young 
man in the town.” All the more reason why 
he should, and could be a prime article. 
“ The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the 
world,” whether the hand be that of a mother 
a grandmother, a sister, or a maiden aunt. 
“Give me,” said a famous teacher, “the 
first dozen years of life, and I’ll answer for 
the rest. 
“ A word to the wise is sufficient.” 
“ POST SCRIPTUM.” 
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ARTICHOKE SOUP. 
O those of the readers of the Rural who 
have artichokes, and have never tested 
them for soup, I recommend them as among 
the most appetizing vegetables of early 
spring. At any time after frost is out of the 
ground, and before the tops are much grown 
they can be used. Pare the tubers, slice 
them thin, and boil in a sufficient quantity of 
water till tender. Season with salt, pepper 
and butter, adding milk the same as for 
oysters, and the difference between the ani¬ 
mal and vegetable products can hardly be 
distinguished One household at least, in 
which this delicious soup is eaten, declares its 
preference for the latter. 
hard soap. 
Among the various formulas for hard soap, 
which have appeared from time to time on the 
pages of the Rural I do not recollect the men¬ 
tion of the use of Lewis’s 98-per-cent. lye. For 
years I used the lime and sal-soda process, till 
one of my neighbors gave me information 
concerning the lye, and I have never since 
used anything else. The process is so simple 
and sure, and involves so little labor, and the 
result is always so satisfactory, that no one 
who has ever used it, will, I think, resort to 
any of the old methods. This lye is manu¬ 
factured by the Pennsylvania Salt Company, 
and each box contains three quarters of a 
pound, costing 10 to 15 cents, and is warranted 
to make 10 pounds of pure soap in 20 minutes 
without boiling; and it will do it every time if 
the plain directions which accompany each 
box, are followed. The soap is also in my 
opinion, very much superior in quality to 
that made by the sal-soda aud lime process. 
To the last soap that was made, I added sev¬ 
eral spoonfuls of powered borax, which I find 
makes a great improvement in its sudsing 
qualities, and the soap is voted equal if not 
superior for all household uses, to any which 
can be found in market, while the cost aud 
trouble of making are comparatively nothing. 
REMEDY FOR CABBAGE WORMS. 
A friend from the central part of the State 
told me, last summer, that the farmers ;and 
gardeners in her neighborhood were in the 
habit of setting pans ot sour milk in the cab¬ 
bage patch, during the summer, and had no 
trouble with cabbage worms. The moths are 
attracted by the milk and are drowned in 
great numbers. I shall certainly try it the 
coming summer. 
Mr. T. B. Terry is deserving of the thanks 
of every woman in the land for his generous 
article in a late Rural, with regard to wom¬ 
en’s rights as partners with their husbands, 
which is arousing so much comment and com¬ 
mendation. To him are due the thanks not 
only of those women, who, when money is 
needed for necessary expenses, have to under¬ 
go the humiliation of begging for a small por¬ 
tion of what by right belongs to them, but 
also of those who share the common purse 
equally with their husbands, for his noble 
championship of their oppressed sisters. 
True marriage is an equal partnership in 
which both parties share not only the . 
labors and the burdens, but also the I 
joys and the rewards. There are as many 
men as women, especially in country life who 
are likely to spend the hard earnings of the 
firm, extravagantly and unwisely. The wife 
and mother works as hard and usually more 
hours at her duties, and equitably if not le¬ 
gally a fair proportion of the profits are hers, 
and thac too without having to beg. The 
Mosaic account of Creation is that ‘ ‘God cre¬ 
ated man in his own image; male and female 
created He them, and gave them dominion.” 
Every family needs two heads as much as a 
person needs two ears, two eyes, two hands, 
two feet, each working in harmony with the 
other, and where either head is in subjection . 
to the other, or from any physical, mental or \ 
moral inability unable to carry its just share \ 
of the burdens and cares ot life, or where i 
either is forbidden to enjoy equal rewards, J 
there is inharmonious action and lack of com¬ 
pleteness. MRS. w. c. G. 
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