THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
adapted furniture, just so long manufacturers 
will feed the demand. But manufacturers 
are quick to respond to the requirements of 
the public. I chanced to visit a furniture 
manufactory on this coast, and one of the 
proprietors evidently desired some expression 
of commendation for his styles, which were 
simply atrocious, although, of course, I could 
not say so. Bowever, I did venture to ask 
him why he left the corners of foot-boards of 
bed-stead s and novel's of wash-stands and 
bureaus and other things square, as such 
angles often result in great mischief. He 
confessed that it had not occurred to him to 
modify the sharpness of the corners, but .he 
thought well of the idea. His very elaborate 
pieces of furniture he was particularly proud 
of, in proportion as they would require the 
greater time to keep the nooks free from dust. 
The furniture that most of us require needs to 
be plain, with rounded corners, well and 
gracefully shaped and easily kept clean. Most 
California housekeepers as yet, have the old- 
fashioued disdain for things of American man¬ 
ufacture. Take pottery, for instance. One 
may go iuto almost any shop and ask for Ameri¬ 
can china, and the clerk will tell you in a 
pompous way, that they only keep English 
wares, when he knows very well, or should 
know, that with the exception of China, there 
are as lino chma and porcelain made in the 
United States as in Eugiand or the world, aud 
the only line in which Chiua excels al 1 coun¬ 
tries is in tlie application of color. The finest 
kaolin for porcelain in the world, is found in 
Indiana, and in Missouri there are extensive 
beds of pure white silicon, naturally prepared 
for use. I have seen as beautiful chiua anil 
porcelain made in Trenton, N. J.. and at 
Green Point, Long Island, as any made in 
England. The pottery works in Cincinnati 
turn out some lovely things, and the richest 
woruau in Ohio, Mrs. Nicholls, with an income 
of #200,OOU, works daily in her pottery thei-e, 
which also gives employment to many artistic 
women. 
One day a nice-looking youngish woman 
called at our cottage as an ageut for a sewing 
machine. She said it was the first work she 
bad been able to procure in California, where 
she found the avenues of employment for 
women inueh fewer than iu the East. She 
had worked at dressmaking in St. Louis, but 
her health would not permit her to continue 
to sew aud she came to this coast. I asked 
her why she didn’t try housework—women re¬ 
ceived such generous wages, from £25 to £35 
a month with boat’d and lodging. “Oh you are 
such a prisoner at housework! and then too, 
the women of this coast don't know how to 
treat a domestic—they are not like Eastern 
women.” I did not believe the final remark 
to be true—but I thought 1 bad rather do 
housework for £15 a month, than to go about 
from house to house trying to sell sewing ma¬ 
chines or anything else for double that salary. 
their father in whatever work he undertakes 
that is not beyond their strength. Of course 
her father worker! in an office, a nd she did not 
understand any better, but was a victim to 
the pernicious teaehiug that despises manual 
labor. Slowly she is learning that bread and 
butter are made by someone’s toil; that a 
housekeeper’s duty is to attend to her house¬ 
hold, anil that little feet and hands must, un¬ 
solicited, be ready and willing to assist older 
people. 
“1 like to stand at the door and watch you 
all at work,” she said ime day. but the children 
of our home are unused to such “airs” and 
laughed in derision, asking her to lie sure and 
look pretty, and be a respectable statue if 
nothing else. 
This new inmate has often caused me to 
think how uselessly little girls are brought up. 
The love of dress is a leading feature of their 
lives, aud they care for little else; but I al¬ 
ways have hopes for a child, however arti¬ 
ficially reared, who loves nature and lives 
close to the heart of all growing things. An 
observing child, one who is alive to the won¬ 
derful works of the Great Creator, will learn 
not to despise the lowest of His creatures, and 
will gain wisdom from the simplest flower. 
Another child who lately visited us, seeinga 
girl peeling potatoes, asked “if every eye 
made new potatoes,” and when we expressed 
surprise that she knew anything about it us 
she was city-born aud brought up, she said 
that they were taught all these things at the 
Kindergarten. What a good thing such 
schools are to busy inquiring miuds, and to 
stimulate dull ones. Froebel was a benefactor 
to children when he invented that royal road 
to learning, and made a pastime of the study 
of small but practical things, and happy is that 
child who learns Botany young, by studying 
the trees and flowers, out-of-doors, with a wise 
teacher, learning by pleasant- paths all the 
wonderful aud varied works of Nature, and so 
up to Nature’s God. 
together, repeat from * seven times, or until 
you have a row of eight holes, knit one. 4th 
row, knit four, purl 14. 5th row, knit 14. 
This finishes the second row of flutes. 
AUNT ADDIE. 
Doctors Prescribe 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, for three 
reasons:—it is perfectly safe for old or 
young, — can be relied upou iu cases of 
emergency,—and possesses great cura¬ 
tive powers. 
I consider Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral a 
medical success and a chemical tri¬ 
umph. I have found this medicine a 
powerful specific for Colds, Coughs, arid 
Pulmonary Complaints. I use it in my 
own family and recommend it in my 
practice. — Parker Cleveland, M. D., 
Prof, of Chemistry and Materia Mediea, 
Bowduin College, Brunswick, Me. 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is an invalu¬ 
able remedy fur Colds, Coughs, and all 
Pulmonary diseases. I use it myself 
and prescribe it in my practice. — A. S. 
Pettenger, M. D., Glen Gardner, N. J. 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, 
Prepared by Dr. J.C.AyerACo.,Lowell, Mass. 
Bold by all DruggistB. Price $1; six bottles, $5. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
following quantities; Six eggs, one and one- 
half cup of flour, one and one-half cup $>f 
sugar, and a little salt. One teaspoonful of 
baking powder may be added to the flour, and 
one tablespoon of vinegar stirred into the 
whole mixture, but they are not absolutely 
needful. The eggs should be beaten yelks aud 
whites together until very light; if done with a 
Dover egg beater they can lie beaten very quick¬ 
ly ; add the sugar aud beat again with the 
beater, then with a spoon stir the flour in 
lightly aud slowly without beating. The 
whole will tlieu seem light as though full of 
yeast. Bake thoroughly iu a steady heat. In¬ 
stead of lining the cake pan with tissue paj»er. 
grease it thoroughly, and sift, flour into it. 
shaking off all that does not adhere to the 
grease: if well covered in this way with a pow¬ 
dering of flour, the cake will not cause any 
trouble by sticking to the pan. Jelly aud 
muffin tins treated in the same way will turn 
out perfect cakes. 
The recipe just given makes a good layer 
cake with either jelly or boiled custard be¬ 
tween the layers, aud it is sometimes baked in 
a loaf and eaten while warm with cream or a 
sauce over it, and then it serves as pudding for 
a dinner dessert. a b. 
S HERIDAN-SCONDITION POV >ER isabsolute- 
ly pure and highly concentrated. It is strictly 
a medicine to be given with food. Nothing on earth 
will make hens lay like It. It cures chicken chol¬ 
era and aU diseases of hens. Illust rated book by 
mail free. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail for 
85 cts. In stamps. . 2 J*'- 3 b. tin cans. $1; by mail, 
$1.20. Six cans by express, prepaid, for $5. 
1. S. Johnson Ss Co., p. O. Box 2118, Boston. Mass. 
H IP pc’ IMPROVED ROOT BEER. 
' & Packages.25cts. Makes5 gallons of 
a delicious, .sparkling aud wholesome beverage. Sold 
by all druggists, or sent by mall on receipt of A5 cents. 
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FARMERia, 
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H 4T?\Hand-made. Best Oak Leather, $*.50, 
f-v. . . - • SHI, $13.35. $15. Double Sets, $20, $25 
sou hhlppe-1 subject to approval, ill page Catalogue 
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SWEET PICKLED PEACHES. 
Pare seven pounds of peaches and lay them 
in a preserving kettle with three-and-a-half 
pounds of sugar in alternate layers, letting 
them stand for an hour; drain off the sirup 
aud put over the fire with a quart of vinegar 
aud two ounces each of whole cloves and stick 
cinnamon tied in a small muslin bag. Boil 
and skim this carefully and put in the peaches; 
cook until you can perforate them easily with 
a straw. Lift out with a skimmer and pack 
in jars; reduce the sirup by boiling to nearly 
half; pour over the peaches aud seal up. 
SWEET TOMATO PICKLE. 
This is one of the most delightf u l sweet pick¬ 
les, and is very nice with cold meats. Peel 
and slice the tomatoes, or use the small egg 
tomatoes: take half the weight iu sugar, and 
for seven pounds of the fruit add out* ounce 
of cloves anil oue of mace ami cinnamon 
mixed; cook all together with oue quart of 
vinegar for an hour, and seal. Tie the spices 
in a small muslin bag. 
BRANDIED PEACHES. 
Make a sirup with seven pounds of sugar 
and a cup of water; boil aud skim; put in 
seven pounds of peeled peaches and boil for 10 
minutes, or uutil they are tender. Remove 
the fruit carefully with a skimmer, and let the 
sirup boil until it thickens well; add oue-aud- 
oue-half pint of the best white brandy, and 
take at once from the fire. Pour the hot sirup 
at once over the fruit, which should have been 
packed in glass jars two-thirds full, aud seal 
RUBY R. 
SOME BITS OF KNOWLEDGE GAINED 
AT THE FAIR AND IN THE 
KITCHEN. 
Brewster’s Patent Eein Holder. 
Your lines are where you put them—not under 
horse.-' feet. One agent sold 12 do*, fu five davs; 
one dealer sold six dta. In 15 -lavs. Samples 
worth $1.50 rioiK. Write for terms. 
K. E. BREWSTER. Holly. Mich. 
Last Fall, a group of ladies were examin¬ 
ing a collection of fruit that looked almost as 
fresh and fair as though just picked from 
vines, bushes or trees, which ever they chanced 
to grow upon. One lady was very sure the 
fruit had never been cooked, but was well 
preserved in cold water. Another thought it 
might have been cooked in the cans. Still 
another was positive the fruit had been canned 
by the new process of using acids. Presently 
the lady who brought the really flue collection 
came within the circle, aud being an old 
friend, T asked her to impart the secret of her 
success, for I knew that. she put up large quan¬ 
tities of fruit for the market every year. She 
said there was uo secret; the fruit was thor¬ 
oughly heated without allowing it to boil. 
The cans were t.heu filled ami left open fifteen 
or twenty minutes, to give the fruit time to 
settle. After filling up. the covers were put 
on and screwed down tight. Put up in this 
way, fruit will keep for years, ami if kept in 
the dark will retain its original color aud 
form. She made cup-boards of dr}'-goods 
boxes for fruit cans to keep iu the cellar, aud 
these were kept closed. In the absence of the 
dark closets, she wrapped each can in several 
thicknesses of durk cloth or paper. 
Old potatoes are greatly improved - at this 
time of year if they are pared and throwu 
into cold water aud left to soak several hours 
before cooking. 
I like my dish drainer very well though it 
has no patent. It consists of a good -Si zed 
wooden bowl, and an old tin pan with the 
bottom filled with nail holes; it was original¬ 
ly designed for a grater, and how nice 
and bright, the dishes look, after their 
warm water bath aud a good rinse, set up 
edgewise till they dry, in the drainer. And 
what a saving of labor m wipiug dishes and 
the washing and wearing of wipiug cloths. 
Of course the spoons, knives and forks must 
be wiped off immediately, but the china ware 
may stand till the next meal, and this will 
save steps. Also to leave the scouring brick 
and silver polish upon the liack part of the 
work table aud save unnecessary steps should 
be every housekeepers motto. 
The strawberries 1 canned lost Summer 
iu cold water were a failure. may maple. 
REmiVCiTOtf 
Attention is call¬ 
ed to the in¬ 
creased excel¬ 
lence of this in¬ 
come a r a h le 
machine. Buy 
It, with the pri- 
t it rid mr it at any 
lavs, C.O.D. for 
- ruil price paid, if 
--- — * not absolutely 
satisfactory in every respect. 
Handsome Illustrated Pamphlet on application. 
A CONVENIENT KITCHEN TABLE. 
Fig. 302 shows a table that was made out of 
a common bureau with drawers, by putting 
ou a heavy pine top with leaf at back. The 
drawers do not take up any extra room, aud 
,339 BROADWAY NEW YORK 
For oirr SO YKAILS 
ftlwais using (he 
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for Firry YEARS unn- 
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In 1. S. X«*r. Avoid 
imitation*. Obtain it of 
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HAN CHESTER CCNTt, 
WILLIAMS* BROTHERS 
BLANC MANGE. 
A blane mange with sea moss fariua for the 
distinctive ingredient is very nice. Take a 
quart of milk and add to it oue level teaspoon¬ 
ful of the furiua. Stir it all the time until it 
comes to a boil; when put to it three table- 
spoonfuls of sugar and a teaspoonful of vauilla 
aud a salt-spoon of salt. Strain into a mould 
and set in a cool place. 
RICE cakes. 
Boil some rice until it is soft, then, when 
just cool enough to haudle, roll it in your 
hands and form it into small cakes, which dip 
in beaten egg and afterwards iu Indian meal. 
Fry them in very hot fat, aud, if to be onten 
as a vegetable, you may place them around 
your meat. Or they may lie served as a 
dessert with a rather rich sauce of butter, 
sugar, flour aud a wine glass of Madeira wine 
and a little nutmeg. aunt addie. 
CHEMISTS AMD APOTWCARUS, 
will be found convenient for many things. A 
skirt board can be attached at one end which 
when not iu use cau lie let down or si ill under 
the top. The board is held in place by a 
brace. k. w. wiiitney. 
a ■ i w ONONDAGA F. F. SALT. 
a* ■■ ■ SOLE MAN 1‘PACTIJRKRS, 
u H L I American Dairy Salt Oo. 
■ A " I 1 ” (Limited.I 
Chemically purified and Warrant Err* pure as any In 
the market. DmnI by a greur majority of the Dairy 
men of the country. Unexcelled fur butter. Cheese, 
the Table, and all Culinary uurpoewa. Took Medal at 
Centennial ‘"for puriij aim nigh degree of excellence." 
Dairy goods salted with It look tlr.r premiums at New 
Orlean'a World's Fair. N Y. Internalloeal Fair; Mil¬ 
waukee Exposition, aud always wins when there Is 
fair competition. It is American, aud cheaper and 
better than any foreign salt. Try it. Address 
J. W BARKER. Secretary, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
KITCHEN TALKS. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
We have a little girl staying with us who 
has never had an opportunity to learn any of 
the details of housework. Her mother died 
iu her childhood, aud her crude ideas caught 
from school companions wore that work was 
beneath her, ami that she hud no ueed to learn 
how to do the thousand autl one things that 
the best housekeepers find necessary. "My 
Pa doesn’t work, he writes,” she said to our 
little ones, who are always proud of helping 
A NEW 
gHijscellimrottji fUmti.sinti 
FLUTED LACE WITH HOLES. 
“From Ilia Own Kxperlem-e in Preparing 
Ground for Winter Grain, by the use of the 
‘ACME’ Pulverizing Harrow, the writer is 
quite free to say that had this implement been 
used instead of the common harrow, the loss 
of wheat by the hurt! winter would have been 
trivial, aud that many a single aero which 
has uot returned the seed sown upon it, might 
easily have made enough grain to have paid 
the whole cost of the implement,” See adver¬ 
tisement on page 4!*;\ 
Cast ou 18 stitches. 1st row, knit across 
plain. 2nd row, purl 14, leave four stitches 
ou the left baud needle, turn the work as if 
to begiu at the end of the needle. 3d row, 
knit plain till the way across. 4th row, purl 
14, turn the work as in the second row. 5th 
row, kuit plain. This ends the first flute. 
For the second flute: 1st row, knit plain all 
the way across. 2nd row, kuit four, purl 
14. JM row, .kuit oue,,* tlllWl GY?!’, Kuit two 
Positively Prevents Butter from ever becom 
ing Rancid. 
Endorsed by George R. Douglas, Esq., Ex President 
Mercantile Exchange; Putnam Conklin. Esq, Man 
tiger Thurbor, Whylaud Co.'s Rutter Department, 
New York City; <ol. ft in. Crosier. Xorthport, L. t. \ 
Y.. and others, Send fur Circular. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorln, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Cast or la, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorln, 
When she bad Children, slie gave then) CSifiOrliV 
Gffice and Factory, foot of 
Efop"nth St,, Sew York City, ;Y. } 
