THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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thftt women should confine themselves to 
“women’s work.” I think some men who are 
very poor bricklayers might have made ex¬ 
cellent cooks, and some women who are very 
pooi housekeepers might have made very suc¬ 
cessful merchants. As things are now, we 
drop like so many pegs in so many holes; 
sometimes we harmonize with the environment 
and sometimes not. But every occupation is 
largely humdrum that is of much use. At 
least, men say theirs are monotonous and full 
of drudgery.” 
“In the millennium,” laughed my friend 
“I suppose every creature will find his work in 
harmony with his disposition, and everything 
will lie lovely! A way willhave been found by 
that time to dispense with all disagreeable 
work, and the race will swim in a sea of happy 
delusion 1” 
Aneut inventions by women, I noticed in 
the Report of the Women’s Department at 
the New Orleans Exposition that a Rhode Is¬ 
land woman had a patent for an Improved Ven¬ 
tilating chimney; a New Yorker fora patent 
Invalid Bed; Pennsylvania women had patents 
for an Adjustable Window Cleaner, machine 
for Hooping Barrels, Improved Drawers for 
Children, Extension Stair-rod, Hot Air Vapor 
Apparatus, and model of Improved Railroad 
Car Seat; from Illinois women, came Port¬ 
able Wire Screens, Combination Cottage and 
Arbor Folding Bed, Safety Rubbers, Portable 
Nursery Chair; from Iowa, Fly-screen Door 
Attachment, Step ladder, Thermometer to fa¬ 
cilitate cooking and linking, Ironing Table, 
Silver-platatl Carriage Tip and Wagon Tongue, 
patents and inventions from California wom¬ 
en included Applied Button-hole, Hook and 
Eye, Reading Stand, Window Attachment 
and Dust Pan. The dust pan into which you 
can sweep the dirt without bending down to 
hold it, is very good. Among other inven¬ 
tions by women I noted Kitchen Maize Cutter, 
Flexible Halter,‘Soup Holder, Cistern Spout 
Trap. Self-Heating Flat Iron and Long Hand¬ 
led Dust Pan. Of those women inventors, who 
received awards, five belonged in Pennsylva¬ 
nia. three New York, two Now Hampshire, 
sevou Massachusetts, seven Illinois, one Iowa, 
three California, one Michigan, one Kentucky, 
one Connecticut and three Indiana. The 
variety and hope of the inventions are certain¬ 
ly creditable. 
A JULY DINNER. 
Tapioca Cream Soup. 
Soles Stewed Jewish Fashion. 
Veal Cut lots a La Miliutii.se. Potato Snow. 
Bee Croquettes. Cucumber Toast. 
Swiss Pudding. 
Make one quart of white stock. This can 
be done with a ten-eeut knuckle of veal, or 
from the water in which a chicken has been 
boiled, but no roasted or dark meats must be 
used, and only white pepper in the seasoning. 
Soak three even tablespoon fu Is of tapioca 
over night in cold water; add it to the stock, 
together with one small onion, two stalks of 
celery cut in hits, and a tiny piece of mace; 
stew these very gently for one hour; have in 
another vessel a pint of boiling milk or cream; 
strain the tapioca and stock and add it to this; 
season with salt, pepper and a tablespoonful 
of butter cut in bits. 
Soles stewed Jewish fashion are a very nice 
fish course for warm weather. Cut up two 
large onions in slices, lay them flat in a stew- 
pan with an ounce of butter and just enough 
water to cover them, first seasoning with salt 
and pepper; simmer until tender. Cut in 
comely pieces a pair of flounders weighing 
about one-and-a-httlf pound each; lay them 
on the top of the onions and let them cook 
gently unt il the llcsh lets loose from the bones; 
take out the fish and onions ami lay them on a 
dish; strain oil the liquor,and when cold stir 
into it the juice of two lemons beaten up with 
the yelks of three eggs; return it to the sauce¬ 
pan; let the whole get hot again but not boil; 
sprinkle the fish and onions with finely minced 
parsley and pour the sauce over the whole. 
Veal cutlets are a delicious change from the 
ordinary methods, when prepared as follows; 
Trim some cutlets into a neat and uniform 
shape, and dip them in melted butter, then 
into bread-crumbs, to which grated Parrncsau 
cheese has been added in the proportion of 
two tahlespoonfuLs of the cheese to six of the 
crumbs; the mixture should be salted and 
peppered. Dip again in beaten egg and again 
in the mixture of cheese and crumbs, and fry 
brown. Roil a small quantity of maccaroui, 
about a quarter of a pound to eight or ten 
pieces of the cutlets; when done, drain it and 
pour over two lablespoonftils of melted butter, 
two of grated Parmesan cheese, and half a cup 
of tomato sauce, to which has been added the 
well-beaten yelk of an egg. Place this mne- 
caroni in a pile in the center of a dish, and the 
cutlets in a circle around it. In the prepara- 
tiou of the maeeuroni no mention was made 
of seasoning, but it must bo boiled in salted 
water and salt and pepper be added with the 
butter, cheese and tomato sauce. 
It is a strange thing that the simplest dishes 
are generally the most poorly done by the 
majority (and a big one at that) of cooks. 
There is not one in a hundred who will proper¬ 
ly prepare a dish of mashed potatoes, a fact 
that I can only explain on the ground of lazi¬ 
ness, for it really takes muscle to do it proper¬ 
ly. After boating and mashing as fine as 
possible with a potato masher, have ready a 
small quantity of hot mi Ik, into which a gen¬ 
erous lump of butter has been melted, and the 
seasoning added. Then with a four-pronged 
fork, beat the potatoes as you would whip 
eggs, adding the milk nnd butter, until the 
whole mass is light anil foamy. You can make 
it as soft as you like by adding the milk, if a 
great deal is used, it becomes potato sou fill 5 . 
For the dish named above, it just requires to 
be light and feathery so that it can be heaped 
up ou a dish in irregular masses. It is some¬ 
times pressed through a sieve, which looks 
yery pretty, but it is a great deal of trouble, 
anil is very apt to cool too much in the process. 
Beef croquettes make an economical little 
side dish at dinner. Take one cup of lean 
beef chopped as fine as possible, with half as 
much cold boiled ham and a little of the fat 
of the roast beef; season with a teaspoonful of 
finely chopped onion, salt, pepper, a trifle of 
sage and grated lemon peel. Put half a cup 
of stock in a stew-pan, and when it boils stir 
iu a teaspoouful of flour wet with cold water, 
then the minced meat and a well-beaten egg. 
Foitu into croquettes, dip in egg and bread¬ 
crumbs and fry in boiling fat. 
Peel crisp cucumbers, cut in slices length¬ 
wise, lay for a half hour in salted cold water; 
drain and dip each slice in Hour, and fry 
quickly to a light brown color in hot beef 
drippings or butter. Place each slice of 
cucumber hoc from the pan between thin 
slices of hot buttered toast, seasoning them 
first with pepper, salt and a little mustard if 
liked, and serve at once. 
Swiss Pudding.—Put a pint of milk over the 
fire iu a double boiler, with the grated rind 
of a lemon; as soon as it boils, pour it slowly 
over a teacup of flour,'through which four 
tablespoonfuls of butter have been rubbed: 
return to the boiler to cook five minutes, 
stirring for three minutes. Then stir in the 
beaten yelks of five eggs aud three tablespoon- 
fuls of sugar, remove immediately from the 
fire and set away to eool. When cold, add the 
wdiites of five eggs wbipi»ed to a froth, put it 
into a three-quart, mould well buttered, steam 
for 40 minutes, turn out upon a hot dish aud 
serve at once with a sauce made by beating to 
a cream half a cup each of butter and pow¬ 
dered sugar, then add a little at a time four 
tablespoonfuls of wine and a gill of cream. 
PALMETTO. 
HINTS ON HOMELY TOPICS. 
sweeping and di:STING. 
“Set Ihltie house la order.” 
To the wise and experienced housekeeper 
these are trivial subjects, hut since this is the 
season when “u young man’s fancy lightly 
turns to thoughts of love,” if is quite probable 
that there will lie some housekeepers who will 
be willing to listen to “words of wisdom” 
from the Rural. It is a peculiar fact that if 
u lady who may never have been called upon 
to handle a broom, should find it necessary to 
sweep a room, she will do it better than nine- 
tenths of the professed servants who have been 
to the manner born. This is because she will 
use some intelligence in the manner of per¬ 
forming her task. I am forcibly reminded of 
this fact every time the hotel chambermaid 
enters my room for cleaning purposes, an 
especial misnomer in this case. The dust 
routed from the floor whirls madly from the 
room, aiul then this “velvet bloom of time" 
settles quietly down again upon carpet and 
vase and easy chair, and truly the last state 
of my room is worse than the first. 
But to proceed with my prosy details, since 
it is always quite as important to tell how a 
thing should be done as to tell how it should 
not be done: the first step is to dust all move- 
able pieces of furniture, with a large square 
of soft, old calico, or something that is not 
lint v. iv moving them to another room. Rugs 
should bo sent out-of-doors for a thorough 
beating, curtains and portieres shaken and 
pinned up, bric-a-brac dusted and placed upon 
a table or some article of furniture that is too 
large to be removed; all such pieces, after a 
good dusting, to be pinned up iu old cloths 
kept for the purpose. Worn sheets or the 
skirts of old calico dresses, sewed together so 
as to cover each piece completely, can always 
be kept ready. I once knew a housekeeper 
who always had her beds changed ou Friday 
so that, she could use the soiled sheets for 
covering the furniture on sweeping days. I do 
not, however, recommend this practice. 
Having made these preparations, if the carpet 
is a very dusty one, tear some old, soft news¬ 
papers in shreds, soak them in water, 
[ squeeze them out lightly, and scatter over the 
floor, then with the broom sweep in long even 
strokes, letting each stroke end on the floor 
instead of in the air as is the usual fashion 
of housemaids. If it is a room that is only 
swept occasionally, it will pay to give it a sec¬ 
ond sweeping,omitting the wet paper,then take 
a large pail of clean warm water iu which a 
handful of salt and a tablespoouful of pear¬ 
line have been put, and an old flannel cloth, 
wring the latter out aud wipe the whole car¬ 
pet, a small piece at a time, rinsing out the 
cloth frequently and changing the water if it 
becomes too dirty. The carpet.oven if an an¬ 
cient one,will astonish you after this “Turkish 
hath,” by its bright cheerful look. Allow a 
short time for the dust to settle and thou finish 
the task so well begun, by dusting window 
frames, cornices and all the woodwork; if the 
latter is soiled wipe it with a soft cloth dipped 
iu the same preparation that you used for the 
carpets. The work of dusting the furniture 
that had been covered will be very light, but 
it will pay to rub it well with an oily rag, us¬ 
ing kerosene oil, but only a very little of it. 
The efficacy of this application depends not so 
much upon the oil as upon the amount of 
elbow grease that is employed, if you will ex¬ 
cuse this homely expression. 
There is so much more satisfaction in doing 
anything that has to lie done in a thorough 
and workman like manner, that since “clean¬ 
liness is next to godliness,” one may be ex¬ 
cused if while performing a la!sir of this kind 
she should think of George Herbert’s beauti¬ 
ful lines: 
"Who sweeps a room as to thy laws 
Makes that and the action flue.” 
_ BESSIE. 
KEROSENE IN WASHING. 
In Rural for May 29, a correspondent asks 
for information in regard to using kerosene 
oil for washing. 
The rule as given to me is; one five-cent bar 
of soap shaved up fine, to four pails of water, 
and two-and-one-half tablespoonfuls of kero¬ 
sene oil. Adtl the soap and water, when the 
soap is full}' dissolved and the water boiling, 
add the oil aud then the clothes, watching the 
clock to be sure they boil just 10 minutes, no 
more, no less, I was not satisfied with the re¬ 
sult and experimented. My boiler was made 
for my stove aud holds over a barrel of water, 
for 16 pails of water I use one or two cakes of 
soap, according to size and condition of wash. 
While the water is cold. I place the sheets on 
the bottom of boiler, then add t he soap shaved 
finel} , scattering it as evenly as |«>ssible, then 
the rest of the clothes, rubbing soap on the 
neck and wrist-bands of shirts, lastly adding 
the kerosene oil, four spoonfuls to the 16 pails 
of water, and let them stand until they have 
boiled 10 minutes, then take out of the suds, 
rinse, and hang out. subscriber. 
I was greatly surprised in reading the short 
article with the above heading, iu the Rural 
of May 29th, to leam that our Eastern sisters 
have not discovered the excellent qualities of 
kerosene for cleansing purposes. I have used 
it for washing a long time, and would not 
wash without it now; my clothes are whiter 
than when I employed a wash-woman, and it 
does not hurt me iu the least to do my wash¬ 
ing, which I cannot do the old way, and 
by the tune they are ironed the unpleasant 
smell has all evaporated. The night before, 
put clothes to soak in warm water with enough 
soap dissolved in it to make a good suds. In 
the morning wring out, if very dirty, rub 
lightly iu the hands; put in the boiler with 
cold water, two-thirds of a bar of soap, and 
two large tablespoonfuls of kerosene, let boil at 
least 20 minutes after they come to the boil; 
when taken out, let cool enough to put through . 
the wringer again, then rub through 
clean water, blue and starch (with a little of 
the oil in the starch) aud your clothes will sat¬ 
isfy the most fastidious. 
MRS. S. A. BROZENON. 
breakfast buffs. 
Take in the proportion of one cup of flour, 
one cup of milk and one egg; beat the egg 
very light and have the freshest milk obtain¬ 
able, and la* sure to sift the Hour. Put in well 
greased and well-warmed pans—gem pans or 
the small, narrow pans that savoy biscuit are 
baked in are the best, but cups or muffin-rings 
will answer—and have your oven very hot. 
COTTAGE CHEESE BUDDING. 
Take two cups of cottage cheese and mash 
it with a spoon; add to it three eggs, one at a 
time, beating w ell each one into the cheese, as 
much sugar to sweeten it to your taste, to¬ 
gether w ith one tablespoouful of flour, a pmeh 
of salt, a grate of nutmeg and sufficient milk 
to make the mixture a little thicker than cus¬ 
tard. Have a pie-plate lined with rather rich 
paste and strewed with sugar, in which put 
your pudding, sprinkling the top before bak¬ 
ing liberally with finely jHiwdered cinnamon. 
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Pi$te Uniteous A verttsinfl- 
Debility 
Languor, and Loss of Appetite, are cured 
by the use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It re¬ 
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Weariness, from which so many suffer, 
gives tone and vigor to the stomach, and 
restores health and strength more surely 
and speedily than any other medicine. 
Three years ago I suffered from Debility 
and Loss of Appetite, the result of Liver 
Disease. After having tried various rem¬ 
edies, and consulted several physicians, 
without benefit, I was induced to take 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. The first bottle pro¬ 
duced a marked change, nnd the second 
and third accomplished so much that I 
felt like a new man. I have, since that 
time, taken about one bottle every year, 
and had no recurrence of the trouble.— 
William E. "Way, East Lempster, N. H. 
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