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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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the decoration of the beds. The old-fash¬ 
ioned white Marseilles spread is rarely ever 
seen now—that is, in “Fashion’s Kiddy 
Circle”—while those of silk damask, cre¬ 
tonne, embroidered linen and other fabrics 
take its place. Pretty and inexpensive 
spreads may be made of wide Swiss muslin, 
with polka dots, lined with some soft, 
pretty silesia, and trimmed all around with 
a fall of soft lace. A bow or two to corres¬ 
pond with the lining will also add a finish¬ 
ing touch. Madras cloth also makes nice 
spreads. 
Some of the beds gotten up in these 
styles look beautiful, but to my country- 
loving mind there is nothing so pretty as a 
pure-white spread, and neat hem-stitched 
pillow slips. 
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1F you haven’t much spare closet room 
make a shoe box for each bed-room. Shoes 
lying about make a room, otherwise neat, 
look very untidy. A soap box makes a nice 
receptacle for this very purpose. Make a 
box-plaited flounce all around the box. 
Cushion the top with cotton-batting, or 
hair if you can get it, and upholster with 
cretonne. You may add castors to the bot¬ 
tom so that it may be easily moved. This 
also makes a nice seat to use while putting 
on one’s shoes and stockings. Line the in¬ 
side of the box either with silesia, muslin 
or paper. 
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I mapk a call the other day, where I saw 
the following fad: it may not be new to some 
of you, but it was to me. The lady had two 
pillows covered with some beautiful Per- 
sian-looking material in her parlor. They 
were thrown carelessly on the floor, one on 
top of the other—to be used in lounging 
about. They looked very pretty and I think 
for a bed-room or a sitting-room they would 
be very handy indeed. 
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Window draperies and door-hangings 
are made nowadays mostly of light fabrics 
such as Madras, Chinese cretonne, etc. 
Some of them are very pretty, indeed. We, 
however, prefer heavy materials for the 
doors, though lighter ones do very nicely 
for the windows. The heavy ones at the 
windows are apt to make the rooms seem 
gloomy. 
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Don’t forget to fix some boxes or pots of 
plants for your windows during the winter. 
Something fresh and green within, while 
all outside is dull and bleak, brightens up 
the home wonderfully. A pretty fernery 
(made as described in the Rural some time 
ago) would be just the thing for the sitting 
room. Ferns require very little attention. 
They are used to the shade, so do not droop 
for the sun as some plants do. All that is 
necessary is to keep them moist; they re¬ 
quire considerable watering. 
DORA HARVEY VROOMAN. 
T HEODORE WORKS in The Century 
says that an utter absence of sham, 
a perfect freedom from all affectation, con¬ 
stitutes one of the most admirable, quali¬ 
ties of the Japanese. They show no false or 
veneered front'to the world, and their lives 
and actions are free and natural. The 
beauty of their homes lies more in the in¬ 
terior finish than in a showy outside, and 
the most beautiful rooms are generally 
those facing a garden in the rear. Even in 
their dress they are cpnsistent, for the lin¬ 
ing of their gowns is often of a more ex¬ 
pensive and finer material than the outer 
stuff. A Japanese friend once confided to 
him that although there was much that he 
admired in the appointment of American 
homes, all this furnishing and decoration 
confused him. He did not know if he was 
right, he ventured to say, but it. seemed to 
him that there was too much of everything; 
in fact, they seemed to him more like curio 
shops than living rooms. In this respect 
the difference between the Japanese and 
ourselves lies in the fact that whatever one 
may find in their houses, beautiful as it 
may be, is for use as well as for ornament. 
Its beauty, in a great degree, lies in its 
utility, whereas with us half of the objects 
that decorate our crowded rooms serve no 
useful purpose. 
AGREEMENT. 
M Y father has taken the RURAL for 
several years and we are all greatly 
interested in its pages. When it came this 
evening I could not resist the temptation 
of writing to say that I entirely agree with 
“ A Man ” in his views of Charity Sweet¬ 
heart. In fact I have never believed tha t 
Charity was a real girl, but a myth. I have 
always believed that somebody else wrote 
under that name the letters purporting to 
come from a farmer’s daughter for the pur¬ 
pose of showing up the ways of some farm¬ 
ers and their sons, for I cannot understand 
how any girl could write for publication 
about her home affairs, her father and 
brother, as she has. However, myth or 
reality, her letters are queer mixtures. In 
my opinion, a good, honest farmer’s son is 
way ahead of the town-polished young 
man. A TRUE COUNTRY GIRL. 
A LADY writer in Mail and Express 
counsels most wisely when she advises 
young girls to be careful about their con¬ 
duct towards the young men that they meet. 
She says: “I will take it for granted that you 
are pretty, and perhaps a little gay and 
thoughtless as well. If I have pictured you 
correctly, remember that to be thoughtless 
counteracts being pretty. You know the 
proverb—‘ As a jewel of gold in a swine’s 
snout, so is a fair woman without discre¬ 
tion.’ And no modern proverb vender or 
mender said a truer thing. Do be discreet; 
do not think that young men are the only 
delightful people in the world, or act as if 
you thought so. Keep them at a proper 
distance; no man likes or respects a 
girl who runs after him, defers to his opin¬ 
ion, lets him say rude things to her, and 
take little liberties of speeech or action. 
Again, don’t go out driving or walking or 
sailing alone with any young man. Per¬ 
haps you will tell me that girls all do it. 
Not well-bred girls, my dear; if you have no 
real chaperone, take another girl with you. 
Half the scandals and tragedies of women 
begin in their carelessness about this very 
thing. And overall, do be most particular 
about young men with whom you associate. 
Avoid ‘ fast ’ men as you would lepers. 
Men who are dissipated are inherently low; 
no matter how rich, how handsome, how 
highly placed in what is called society, such 
men are no associates for a pure young girl. 
You do not know anything about their real 
lives and characters, and they know you do 
not; they take advantage of your natural 
and lovely innocence, and admire it, though 
they know themselves they are not fit to 
touch the hem of your dress even. I must 
say something about your clothes. Don’t 
be too fine; simplicity and exquisite fresh 
neatness are more attractive in a girl’s cos¬ 
tume than any extravagance of fashion or 
costliness of material; but even the plainest 
dress may be made flaunting by its immod¬ 
est style. Again, be just as careful with 
what young women you are friendly as 
I would have you to be about young men. 
A girl is always judged by her friends; keep 
civilly aloof from the ‘ fast,’ the slangy, the 
giggling girls you will too surely meet. 
Choose your company more carefully than 
your dress, for your friends are the true in¬ 
dex of your moral and mental status. 
Nothing can ever retrieve the mistakes 
you make now in these respects; you 
are now ‘ making history ’—the his¬ 
tory of your life. God never made among 
all the exquisite things of creation a more 
lovely, enchanting, exquisite, admirable 
creature than afresh, pure, charming young 
girl, full of unselfish thought for others, 
gentle, gracious and spotless. Not the 
milk-white and stately June lilies are so 
radiant in their stainless candor as such a 
girl; no tropic blossom vies with her health- 
colored face beaming with the light of the 
sweet soul within her; she is the flower and 
crown of humanity.” 
MINNIE’S WEDDING FRUIT CAKE. 
One pound, good weight, of sugar, 10 
eggs, one pound, good weight, of flour, one 
pound of butter, three pounds of raisins, 
three pounds of currants, one pound of cit¬ 
ron; mace, cinnamon, cloves and allspice 
two and a-half tea-spoonfuls each, one-half 
cup of molasses. Bake slowly. 
APPLE COTTAGE PUDDING. 
Butter a pudding dish and cover the 
bottom an inch in depth with sliced, tart 
apples. Select those that cook quickly. 
Stir together one cup of sugar, one-half cup 
of butter, one egg, one cup of sweet milk 
three cups of prepared flour, or plain flour 
with two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder 
sifted through it. Pour this over the ap¬ 
ples and bake. Eat with the following 
sauce: Three cups of boiling water, one 
cup of sugar, three table-spoonfuls (level) 
of corn starch dissolved in a little cold 
water, butter the size of an egg and the 
juice and riml of a lemon. 
PUFF PUDDING. 
One quart of milk, four eggs, a little salt 
and 14 large^Ftable-spoonfuls of] prepared 
flour. You can substitute flour with two 
heaping tea-spoonfuls of baking powder for 
the prepared article. Beat the eggs thor¬ 
oughly, add the milk then the flour. Bake 
in a quick oven. The mixture should not 
be over an inch and a-half in depth in the 
pan when put into the oven. It will be 
very light when taken from the oven but 
will fall at once. This is as it should be. 
Eat with the above sauce or sweetened and 
flavored cream. 
APPLE CRUMB PUDDING. 
Put a layer of bread-crumbs in the bot¬ 
tom of a buttered pudding dish, then a lay¬ 
er of sliced tart apples sprinkled with su¬ 
gar, then crumbs and apple until the dish 
is almost full. The crumbs should be last. 
Cover and cook an hour. Eat with the 
sauce used in “Apple Cottage Pudding,” 
or sweetened cream. 
MISS LIZZIE VOORHIS. 
CREAM PUFFS. 
Have one-half pint of water boiling. Put 
in two-thirds of a cup of butter and while 
it is boiling put in one and a-half cup of 
flour. Let cool a little, add five eggs well 
beaten. Beat all together well. Drop a 
table-spoonful at a time on a hot tin and 
bake quickly. The filling, a rich corn¬ 
starch with eggs. Flavor.- 
SPONGE CAKE WITHOUT BAKING POWDER. 
Take the weight of 10 eggs unbroken, the 
same weight in sugar, the weight of five 
eggs in flour. Beat the yelks of the eggs 
very light, then add the sugar and beat 
five minutes, add the whites of the eggs 
beaten stiff and stir in the flour gradually, 
thoroughly. Flavor with essence of lemon. 
This makes three good-sized loaves. Bake 
half an hour in a moderate oven. The oven 
door must not be opened till the cake is 
nearly done or it will be likely to fall. 
CORN MUFFINS. 
One quart of Indian meal, three beaten 
eggs, one table-spoonful of lard, one tea- 
spoonful of soda, one tea-spoonful of salt. 
Mix with butter-milk. 
CORN STARCH CAKE. 
THE beaten whites of six eggs, two cups 
of sugar, three-fourths of a cup of butter, 
one cup of milk, one cup of corn starch, 
two cups of flour, two tea-spoonfuls of bak¬ 
ing powder. Flavor with vanilla. 
ANGEL’S FOOD. 
Soak well a half box of gelatine in one- 
half pint of milk. Heat three pints of 
milk, add a cup of sugar, beaten yelks of 
three eggs then add the soaked gelatine 
and the whites beaten stiff. Flavor and 
turn into a mold. 
A GOOD COUGH MIXTURE. 
One ounce each of hops, horehound and 
wild cherry bark. Put in three pints of 
water and steep to one quart, then add one- 
half pound of brown sugar, one-half pint 
of Jamaica Rum, one gill of tar. Let stand 
until cold. Strain and bottle. 
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