1886 
THE AURAL NEW-YORKER 
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We shall all have to board, I fancy. I was 
born and reared in England and my mother 
never taught her daughters how to work, and 
she knew nothing herself practically of house¬ 
work. After my father’s failure in business, 
and his death, she opened a school for young 
ladies, was stricken with paralysis and is now 
very much of an invalid. Hhe thiuks it is 
wonderful how I turn off housework as I do. 
At first my hands—which I was%o proud of— 
were in a terrible condition; for you see I 
can’t bother to look out for my bands when I 
have work to do. And mother says that my 
husband—he is an American, you know—is 
the most extraordinary man she ever knew 
about helping; no Englishman would think he 
could do for his wife what mine does—wash 
and dress the children; and as for sweeping, 
he won’t let me touch a broom. Once a week 
he is up at five o’clock and sweeps the whole 
house. He is a chemist and engineer, and the 
firm that employs him is not, doing full work 
now, so that he has plenty of unoccupied time. 
A man can do so much if he only thinks so, 
and sets about it.” And in such wise she rat¬ 
tled on, and I thought much of her cleverness 
after she went away. She had been college- 
bred in England; reared in luxury, and now, 
after a married life of eight years, had four 
children, was largely doing her own work and 
al ways looking in her person the real lady 
that she evidently was. Her children always 
seemed to be very carefully looked after and 
she was one of that large class of intelligent, 
tenderly-reared women who are forever equal 
to emergencies. 
Anent Chinese servauts, some of the women 
on this coast have had unusual experiences. 
Housekeeping friends of mine in a town on 
Puget Sound where the “Knights of Labor”— 
who are Knights of Sedition as well—endeav¬ 
ored to drive out the Chinese by violence, 
wrote me as follows; “I still have my China¬ 
man and shall keep him as long as I can. On 
Sunday while at breakfast, a Chinese rushed 
iu saying that a policeman and a lot of men 
came into his wash-house, broke the dishes, 
knocked down the stove, gathered up blankets 
and everything they could hustle together 
and piled them into an express wagon, shout¬ 
ing that the Chinese must go, while going 
from place to place and gutt.iug all the Chinese 
cabins. The papers stated that the Chinese 
wanted to go—with pistols pointed at their 
heads. For two days and nights we hardly 
slept or ate. In the afternoon of that same 
day, my servant went out to see if the mob 
had left anything in his house, and upon his 
return several of the rioters saw him and ran 
after him. He leaped the fence and got into 
the house, as white as a sheet. When he ex¬ 
plained matters 1 sent him up-stairs, and then 
fastened up the house. My husband who, you 
know, is Mayor of the town, was out in the 
street and I was aloue. Presently these seven 
men came to the kitchen door aud banged 
away. 1 went to a window and asked what 
they wanted. ‘We want your cook! your 
Chinaman.’ I said no, you can’t have him. 
My husband is Mayor of Seattle, and bound to 
uphold the law, and 1 as his wife mast do the 
same. ‘Mayor or no Mayor,’ they shouted, 
‘we want your Chinaman and will have him. 
If we don't get him to-day, we will to-mor¬ 
row.’ I replied, ‘t his is my house, and I will 
‘defend it.’ ‘If you don’t give up your China 
mau, we will blow up your house,' repeating 
the threat many times. Well, you cau im¬ 
agine I was frightened. 1 had no weapons— 
and no one to whom I could call for aid. I 
dared not leave the window, for fear they 
would break it in, aud so 1 stood there trying 
to think how to act, when unexj>eetedly some 
men came to my rescue. Of course wo had 
the riug-leader of the mob arrested and he is 
in prison, but wo can’t feel safe for a moment. 
I don’t dare to leave the house for fear my 
cook will be assassinated.” And this lady’s 
hood is white with years—her servant a long¬ 
time trusted one, who relieved her of house¬ 
hold cure which she was quite unable to carry 
herself. 
Another friend wrote: “We have had terri¬ 
bly exciting times since you left. I think you 
may congratulate yourself ou not being here, 
for your husband would certainly have been 
on the law and order side, and you would have 
felt all the uneasiness that we did. My sous 
stood in the hollow square that protected the 
Chinese from the mob. I have told my Chi¬ 
nese cook that it is best for him to go, though, 
dear knows, we are sorry to part, with him. I 
think they wall all have to leave this part of 
the country, and the apology for servants that 
DttimUancou!* 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla. 
When she was a Child, she cried tor Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla. 
When she bad Children, she gave them CwtWfik 
will be left us, will, I suppose, strike too. 
along with the miners. The eviction of the 
Chinese will not satisfy these miserable 
wretches of rioters, of course. The Home 
Guards had to shoot, or be overborne. It cer¬ 
tainly would seem that if there was any place 
in the world that was the paradise of the 
working classes, this ought to be the one— 
high wages, land almost for nothing, fuel for 
the gathering, a fine climate aud productive 
soil. If those pestilential Irish and German 
Socialists would let the f>oople alone, I do not 
think there would be any trouble. ” 
Still another friend wrote: “Poor Wong 
went to San Francisco. He was nearly 
frightened to death! I still send my washing 
to our Chinese laundryman. but each time I 
never know whether I shall see it again; I am 
now without help— the boys help me all they 
cau out of school, but in a family like ours, 
you know there is no end to the work. How 
we are to get on without the help of the faith¬ 
ful Chinese, the mercy only knows, for the 
work they did, white men will not do, aud 
women, as house servants amount to so little 
on this coast.” 
WOMAN’S UNNECESSARY WORK. 
A sensible writer in an exchange says: “I 
am convinced that at least one-quarter of the 
work performed by women is unnecessary, 
aud that the world would get along quite as 
well without it." I am inclined to go further 
still, and put it at oue-half. “I never find 
time to read," said a lady', at whose house I 
was calling, and at the s.ine time she sadly 
threaded a needle with chenille, and remarking 
t hat some people had so much leisure, she con¬ 
tinued her work of embroidering impossible 
yellow peaches on a red plush mantle scarf. 
It had not even the merit of economy, for the 
materials were os expensive as they were 
hideous. Any work that serves to make home 
a charming and lovable place is a sacred duty 
to a wife and mother; but that which con¬ 
tributes to no comfort or enjoyment, frightful 
faucy work that has not even any artistic 
merit, is, indeed, a waste of time and energy 
—“busy idleuess.” 
Husbands undoubtedly like to feel that their 
wives are good housekeepers, but husbands are 
very li uuian, and once let a woman sink the wife 
in the housekeeper, and her husband will very 
likely fall into the same error. The “over¬ 
clean” woman is a nuisance to her family and 
friends. 1 once overheard a conversation 
between two gentlemen in a car, whose wives 
belonged to the above class, and, though esti¬ 
mable women, were about ns close to godliness 
as cleanliness could take them. It was during 
the season of that unnuul horror— 1 ‘house- 
cleaning,” aud they were condoling with each 
other upon its miseries. They both voted it 
an entirely unnecessary evil, and one of them 
said that during its progress at his house every- 
thigh was so set that he always felt as if there 
was au incipient flood, while his friend said he 
could endure the water, it was the smell of 
yellow soap that he objected to. 
A woman should never allow herseLf to be¬ 
come a mere household drudge, and when she 
finds that she has no time to read an occasion¬ 
al good book, to write a letter to a friend, to 
read a story to the chiidreu, or to walk dr talk 
with her husband, she may conclude that 
there is something wrong somewhere in her 
domestic economy, and the more quickly she 
recognizes and remedies the evil, the better it 
will be for herself and family. If she is 
obliged to do her own family sewing, every 
tuck or ruffle that she puts ou her children's 
clothes is a crime. The hour or hours spent in 
making an elaborate dress that baby will look 
“lovely” in, is a waste of energy that n mother 
who docs her owu work eannot afford. Baby 
will look quite os lovely iu her eyes in a plain 
slip, and if he has only his elaborate dress to 
recommend him to the eyes of others, he 
might rather pass unnoticed. Give the matter 
serious thought, oh tired housekeeper; aud see 
if you do not daily take many unnecessary 
steps, aud do much that you might, without 
injury to auy oue, leave undone. Rest your 
body and improve your mind keeping your 
face and heart as fresh as possible, as you 
value the love of your husband and children. 
Since this is n chapter of quotations, 1 will 
end it with the remark male by a sarcastic 
gentleman “Women seem to me to be divided 
into two classes, the over industrious, and the 
over indolent, and of the two evils, I would 
choose the latter as being the least, - ’ 
“ONE WHO UAH TRIED IT.” 
A PRETTY LAMP SHADE. 
A beautiful lamp shade that almost rivals 
a porcelain one, Is made out of fine thin Bris¬ 
tol board. Cut the sheets the shape of the 
wire frame, aud make a scalloped edge both 
top and bottom by placing a spool ou the edge 
uud drawing around it. Take a number of 
pressed aud beautifully colored Autumn 
leaves, either natural or t^e opiVos^tl, draw 
and paint a vine all around the shade, and 
join the leaves to it in natural order, sticking 
them on with gum tragacanth, or mucilage. 
When you have completed the wreath, let it 
lie under pressure for 24 hours, and give it a 
coat of colorless varnish. When thoroughly 
dry, join the shade together with gum, press 
it dry with a hot iron, and fasteu it to the wire 
frame. It will give a soft mellow light, and 
if neatly_done will repay the trouble. 
western girl. 
Beatrix in the Household says that if you 
would train your sons and daughters in the 
way they should go, you must travel the same 
road yourself. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
CORN BREAD WITHOUT EGGS. 
Two cups of com meal, one cup of flour, 
two and one-half cups of fresh buttermilk, 
two and one-half teaspoonfuls of soda (just 
even full), one tablespoonful of salt. Beat 
thoroughly, add three tablespoonfuls of melted 
butter and bake, 
LEMON HONEY. 
One grated lemon, rind and all, one and 
one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, 
one cup of water, two tablespoonfuls of corn¬ 
starch. Cook till thick, stirring while cook¬ 
ing. Nice as a sauce or to put between layer 
cake. 
CHEAP FLY SCREENS. 
As I could not afford wire screens to my 
doors and windows, I cast about for a cheap 
substitute. A carpenter made me some door 
frames for 25 cents apiece. The window 
frames I made myself of lath. Measure across 
the wiudow and saw two sticks for each win¬ 
dow. Measure from the sill to as high as the 
window can be raised aud cut off sticks one 
inch shorter, so that the screen can be put in 
place easily. Where the ends join, sink one 
piece into the other that yon may have an 
even surface. Fasten together with eight 
ounce tacks, which will just go through and 
clinch. I covered my frames with mosquito 
netting at five cents a yard. My screens cost 
but a trifle and answer every purpose that 
more costly ones would. Of course they will 
not last as long as wire nets, but with care I 
expect to use them three seasons. 
BED-BUG POISON. 
Quick-silver mixed with the white of an egg 
will cause the bed-bugs to entirely disappear, 
if put iu all the crevices and mattresses. A 
nickle’s worth of quick-silver mid the whites 
of two eggs ivill be sufficient for two or three 
beds. IDA WILLIAMS. 
CHOCOLATE CAKE. 
One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, 
one-fourth cup of milk, whites of four eggs, 
one teaspoonful of baking powder, two cups of 
flour. 
FROSTING FOR THE SAME. 
Whites of three eggs, one-half cup of choc¬ 
olate, one cup of sugar, and flavor when cold. 
COFFEE CAKE, 
Two cups of brown sugar, one of butter, 
one of molasses, one of strong coffee, four 
eggs, one teaspoouful of saleratus, two of cin¬ 
namon, one grated nutmeg, oue pound of 
raisins, oue of currants, four cups of flour. 
CREAM CUSTARD CAKES. 
One cup of sugar, oue of flour, two teaspoon¬ 
fuls of baking powder, three tablespoonfuls of 
cold water. 
FOR THE CREAM. 
One egg well beaten, one tablespoon of 
sugar, one of com starch, oue cup of sweet 
milk. Flavor with lemon, aunt rachel. 
TO CAN CORN. 
Select only tender ears, cut and scrape 
from the cob aud pack as tightly as possible 
into glass cans. I use the handle of my potato 
masher. Fill the cans within one-half inch of 
the top, put on the covers and screw down, 
but not tightly. Put into a boiler of cold 
water, first placing something on the bottom. 
I have had a perforated board made for the 
bottom of mine. Heat gradually to boiling 
nn.I boil three hours without stopping. Keep 
the water within au iuch-and-a-half of the tip. 
Fill up with hot water from a kettle kept for 
the purpose. When done, dip out a pare of the 
water so that you cau take out the cans aud 
screw down the covers as tightly as possible. 
As the cans cool try to screw down the tops. 
Corn treated in this way will keep and be al¬ 
most as good when opened as if freshly cut 
from the cob. mhs. economy. 
PUFF PUDDING. 
Four eggs; yelks and whites beaten separ¬ 
ately. To the yelks add three cups of sweet 
milk, a teaspoonful of molted butter and three 
cups of sifted flour. Stir in the whites the 
last thing. Bake in butter cups, Eat with 
hot sauce. M, 
Pi.scdtaneou.si 
Catarrh 
Is frequently an Indication of a Scrofulous 
taint in the system. Ayer's Sarsaparilla 
purifies the blood, and thus restores health 
to the affected membranes. It also stops 
the nauseous catarrhal discharges, and 
prevents the infection from reaching the 
lungs ami stomach. Catarrh should be 
treated as a blood disease. 
I suffered for years from chronic 
Catarrh. My appetite was very poor, and 
I felt miserably. None of the remedies I 
took afforded me any relief until 1 com¬ 
menced using Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, of 
which I have now taken five bottles. 
The catarrh has disappeared, and I am 
growing strong and stout; my appetite 
has returned, and inv health is fully re¬ 
stored.—Susan L. W. Cook, 909 Albany st., 
Boston Highlands, Mass. 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr.J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Bold by all 'Druggists. Price $1; six bottles, $5. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
S heridan s condition Pov '^aRisabsoiute- 
ly pure and highly concentrated It Is strictly 
a medicine to he given with food. Nothlngon earth 
will make hens lay like It. It cures chicken chol¬ 
era and all diseases of hens. Illustrated book by 
mall free. Sold everywhere, or sent by mall for 
26 cts. In stamps. tin cans, $ l: by matl. 
81.20. Six cans by express, prepaid, for $6. 
I. S. Johnson & Co.. P. O. Bor 2X18. Boston. Mass. 
H inpci IMPROVED ROOT BEER. 
1 it t. O Packages. 25 cts. Makes 5 gallons of 
a delicious, sparkling and wholesome beverage. Sold 
by all druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of 25 cents. 
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Brewster’s Patent Rein Holder. 
Your Uues are where you put them—not under 
horses' feet. One agent sold 12 doz. In five days; 
one dealer sold six doz. in 15 days. Samples 
worth ILK) kjiek. Wrl te for terms. 
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time within thirty 
days, C.O.D. for 
full price paid. If 
not absolutely 
satisfactory in every respect. 
Handsome Illustrated Pamphlet on application. 
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Geese and Chickens. 
Received First Premium 
where exhibited. 
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“ One Word in regard to the Profit 
resulting from a proper preparation of the 
soil. And as one example will go further than 
a great mauy precepts, the ease of a farmer of 
Shawnee County, Kansas, may be mentioned. 
He took especial pains to make the soil com¬ 
pact for his wheat sown in October. At the 
harvest iu July, he thrashed out 56 bushels and 
30 pounds per acre of wheat, weighing 61 
pounds per bushel. And no doubt the major¬ 
ity of farms in the LTuited States are fertile 
enough to produce as much as this, if the 
crops were not damaged through the poor me¬ 
chanical preparations of the ground, against 
which manure or natural fertility cannot pre¬ 
vail. The average yield of wheat is 15 bushels 
to the acre. No doubt with perfectly prepared 
soil this yield would be double. What then is 
the actual value to the farmer of au implement 
that is perfectly adapted to this requisite pre¬ 
paration of the soil, such as the ‘ACME’ Pul¬ 
verizing Harrow, Clod Crusher and Leveier 
has proved itself to be beyond all question of 
doubt?” advertisement on page 524. ' 
