nrm 
IHisiccUancous 3Vdvf rising 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
comment. Here the Gourmand breaks in and 
says he thinks the pautry will remain longest 
in his memory. Well that is doubtless partly 
the result of the kitchen work and is always 
associated with it. Boys especially like to re¬ 
member the good things they could eat, and 
it is a pleasure to see a crowd of healthy chil¬ 
dren actually enjoying their food. Besides, 
we all know by experience how near the heart 
is to the stomach, and how a day’s work and 
happiness are influenced by a bad breakfast. 
“CANNING FRUIT.” 
TO WASH CLOTHES WITH A SCRUBBING BRUSH. 
Soak the clothes over-night, theu, in the 
morning, soap, put on the washboard and 
scrub with an ordinary scrubbing brush. You 
" ill find that the dirt is removed much easier 
and quicker thau by rubbing with the hands. 
MRS. O. S. HOLMES. 
in summer |time. It'Jis'one 'of the ’most [de¬ 
lightful places I ever was in, with no end of 
natural interest on sea ami laud. Every year 
the Methodist conference and the Chatauqua 
Assembly meet here, I asked the wife of a 
Methodist preacher how it hapjiened that this 
was a stated place of meeting for the confer¬ 
ence. “It is because of the difficulty of find¬ 
ing in a suitable place elsewhere, sufficient ac¬ 
commodation for so large a body of men. 
Californians are very inhospitable, and in¬ 
deed, they do not know in what true hospital¬ 
ity consists. They think that, when a preacher 
enters the house they should put everything in 
the larder on the table—instead of simply add¬ 
ing another plate, and serving whatever they 
themselves happen to be eating.” and her crit¬ 
icism aoplies boyond the limits of California. 
Sin- had been born and reared in Philadelphia, 
and had lived for a quarter of a century in 
Oregon and California, but to her mind there 
was no place like the East. 
I asked in regard to the salaries of Method¬ 
ist preachers here, but her information was 
rather indefinite. The pastor of the First 
Methodist Church in Oakland had $2,000 a 
year. Her own son-in-law, who was a preach¬ 
er, and had a wife and four children and kept 
a hired girl, had received during the past half 
year $187, anti she thought to mauage with 
that, required very close housekeeping. 
There is a great ileal of extravagance in 
California, as elsewhere; poor women ape the 
dress of the rich and there is constant strain 
for show, particularly in dress. The women, 
too, use a great deal of powder and paint on 
their faces, which give them a disreputable 
appearance, when they are, it must lie sup¬ 
posed, of average respectability—the wives of 
clerks, tradesmen, artisaus and shopkeepers. 
The lending amusement in society seems to be 
“progressive euchre,” whatever that may 
mean, although there is a great deal of intel¬ 
lectual pursuit. I commented one day upon 
the unusual uumbers of women with beautiful 
white hair, and a long-time resident said she 
thought that hair turned white very early in 
California. 
The greatest personal pest in California is 
the flea. It is no respecter of persons and one 
never becomes accustomed to it. Fleas infest 
cushions, carpets and all stuffy places. I never 
went to church withoutgettiug at least two on 
me. They are not so auuoyiug as I found 
them in Italy, but they render some women’s 
lives almost w retched here, their dress, being 
more voluminous than that of men, attract 
more fleas. Pyrethrum (insect powder) aud the 
leaves of the laurel and of the eucalyptus were 
claimed as being obnoxious to the fleas, but I 
never found anything effective but to spy 
them out with a pair of sharp eyes, reinforced 
with nimble, murderous fingers. I became 
so expert as a flea-killer that 1 rather enjoyed 
seeing a flea. In the half year we were in 
California we never encountered bedbugs, aud 
an old resident told me that there was not one 
in the Htate. She had lived 12 years in Kan¬ 
sas, where, she said, her house, in spite of all 
she could do, was constantly infested with 
them, and after she had moved to California 
she was so careful to beat, and brush aud eleau 
every article iu her boxes before putting them 
in her new California house that a physician 
asked her the cause of her great cleanliness. 
When she told him that sht* might have trans¬ 
ported a Kansas bedbug he was greatly 
amused and begged her it sin* found one to let 
him have it as a natural curiosity iu Califor¬ 
nia. Ou the last day of March our house¬ 
keeping in California came to an end, aud we 
turned our faces, to the wild delight of the 
laddie, homeward. After the expressman had 
carried our trunks away 1 tarried in the flower 
garden and racked a nosegay of spicy carna¬ 
tions aud Bauksia roses. 
AN ODD WALL-POCKET. 
A manufacturer of fancy goods aud em¬ 
broideries has just filled an order for a wall- 
pocket. which is the most original of all l have 
yet seen. A captain in the East India trade 
brought home with him six huge tortoise 
shells. The backs received a beautiful iiolish 
and the under spies of the shells were bronzed. 
Theu they were lined with satin, aud the lin¬ 
ing was brought out at the top and faced with 
silk, to form a pretty border ut the mouth of 
the pocket. 
The litt le bag atfixed to the bottom is only 
for ornament. The shell may be trimmed iu 
any color desired; a shade of blue or old gold 
iflimUaiwou- 3Uvft1teiufl. 
When Baby was slek, wo gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
Wheu she bad Children, she gave them Castorla 
gives a pleasing effect. It is very difficult to 
obtain the shells of the tortoise, but an excel¬ 
lent substitute can be found in the smaller 
shells of the common land or fresh water tur¬ 
tle. After cleaning and drying them care¬ 
fully they may be polished or not, as desired. 
At a recent wedding in this city the bride 
An Odd Wall Pocket. 
was presented with one of these unique pock¬ 
ets, containing a huge bouquet of rosebuds 
just bursting into bloom. c. h. warren. 
New York. 
KITCHEN TALKS. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
The alternate waves of heat and cold that 
we experience this season are very trying to 
health and strength. The nights become sud 
denly cool after sunset, and mildew and blight 
are found everywhere. Grapes that have 
never before suffered, are covered with the 
white mold aud many varieties of apples are 
spotted so as to be hardly worth the gather¬ 
ing. Chief amoug them is the Fameuse, our 
great staple fall fruit. The orchardist puzzles 
his brain to discover if there is any way in 
which we could counteract this dire influence, 
any condition of soil or treatment that will 
prevent it. Theories have been advanced, but 
nothing praetied has resulted. What seems 
strange is that the Dutchess of Oldenburg is 
free of spot growing side by side with other 
varieties. It seems to make no difference 
whether the trees are in the open, or two 
thickly iuterloekiMi. So we say cheerfully— 
our shiii will not come in this year, und 
‘‘learn to labor and to wait.” 
Meanwhile in the kitchen are many discuss¬ 
ions ou Domestic Economy, and the business 
of the daily cooking; but the putting up the 
winter supply of fruit goes bravely on. There 
are so many steps to be taken and the kitchen 
architect so seldom takes into consideration 
the weariness such needless walking brings, 
that 1 would warn $11 house builders to see to 
it that the kitchen possesses all the requisite 
conveniences for labor-saving, whatever the 
parlor may have. See to it that there is free 
ventilation to carry off all the mixed odors of 
the cooking, and that there is sufficient light 
to disinfect with that best of all God's blessed 
sunlight Let the floor be, if possible, of hard 
wood that needs a yearly oiling, and regular 
wiping over, but no scrubbing. Well do I 
remember all the stiff and sore fingers that 
came from that cruel abomination home-made 
lye, used to clean the floor to a pine-board 
whiteness. It is a woman’s martydoiu to 
have to depend on such resources for keeping 
her floors clean. The walls of a kitchen 
should be painted aud varnished, then they 
would simply need to b- wiped down at inter¬ 
vals. The coiling should be light colored to 
give a cheerful appearance to the room. Aud 
then, no matter who works therein, there will 
not lie any unpleasant connect.on wuh dirt 
and grease as is too often the case. I like to 
hear the children of a household after 
they have left home talk about their 
mother’s kitchen as the pleasantest room 
iu the house. It speaks for itself without any 
To can fruit nicely is really very little trou¬ 
ble if one only knows exactly how to do it. 
Weighing both fruit and sugar is, I think, 
easier thau measuring out qua-1 by quart, and 
greater accuracy is obtained. Half a pound 
of sugar to a pound of fruit is a good general 
rule to go by, but raspberries contain so very 
little acid that for them I do not think quite so 
much sugar is necessary, so I only put five 
pounds of sugar to twelve quarts of berries, 
and iu putting up smaller quantities just 
“spare” the sugar somewhat, using a little 
judgment in preference to t wisting small frac¬ 
tions (which are an abomination any way) up¬ 
side down in one’s head. 
I use a large-sized tin pan to cook the fruit in: 
it will hold about twelve pounds of fruit with 
five or six pounds of sugar. Instead of using 
a damp cloth to set the cans ou while filling, 
as so many advise, I set a shallow pan of water 
on the stove b} r the side of the pan in which 
the fruit is cooking, and set two empty cans in 
it, with the rubbers already on them and the 
lids within reach. 
When putting the fruit on the stove always 
add a little water, to prevent it from sticking 
to the bottom. Wheu the berries have come 
to a boil, skim off the froth and let them cook 
only five minutes (cook cherries, pears and 
peaches twenty minutes); then take a quart 
cup to dip them up with, and pour into the 
cans through a wide-mouthed funnel. When 
one can is nearly full set the funnel into the 
otjier, and fill the first one right up to the 
brim with a spoonful or two of fruit. Screw 
on the lid immediately , and with a good-sized, 
damp cloth lift the can off on to a table; give 
the lid au extra twist, rub off the sides of the can 
and set it on its head until cold, as this presses 
the nibl>ers tighter than when the cans are set 
right side up. Be sure to have the fruit boil¬ 
ing when putting it into the cans. When the 
latter are cold, rub them off again: give the 
lids another turn and set away in the cellar. 
I put mine on a hanging shelf, with curtains 
of coffee-sacking around it, to keep the fruit 
dark. 
In packing fruit to send a distance it is bet¬ 
ter to use a barrel than a box, for a barrel is 
generally rolled around while a box is set 
down k-slap! No matter if it is marked 
“glass, with care.” Au apple barrel holds 17 
quart eaus wrapped in newspaper and swath¬ 
ed in a good handful of hat'—each can sepa¬ 
rately, of course. Put a good thick layer of 
hay in bottom of barrel, then lay in four cans 
aud pack hay closely between them, then an¬ 
other layer of hay aud four more cans, then 
more hay aud now you can put in five cans 
as the middle of the barrel is larger, then 
more hay, aud four more cans which make 
the 17. Cram in as much hay as possible and 
head up the ban-el. This last is easier said 
than done, unless you are au old hand at the 
business. In the first place, lessen the hoops 
around the top of the barrel, aud next be sure 
and find out which way the head fits in best, 
for although the barrel is round you will tiud 
it is round with a difference, and that there is 
just one way and our place to get the head iu 
tight. Carrie d. high. 
THE “COMMON SENSE" MILK PAIL 
• Ca. This Is the 
.> on iv perfect 
Part made. 
.jKf There are no 
- iHm seam* In il><> 
'W^llii J uSKm from to catch 
■h. « the dirt. Irlins 
IIHSB » perfectly tit 
\jlVu| /M M iik strainer. 
Hllll iff which can be 
ml instantly n* 
1L 1, ,W moved,that 
■NIL; ijjmg every purt of 
flf the pall may 
he luxe kin and 
NMjgB f- cleaned. 
1 Extra strain- 
patented. era cun tie ob¬ 
tained at any time. 
The Pall Is made from heavy XX tin. mid is In all 
I respects the beat In the world. 
Send for special circular Aleuts wanted. 
MILKING TUBES. 
FOR MILKING COWS WITH SORE TV. ATS. 
This Is the best Tube In the market. Sent, post 
paid to any address, on receipt of price otic 
Tulle. 35cents; Five Tubes. at.lXi. Send for spe 
Otal clrculurs to 
BARTLETT & DOW, 
Please mention this paper. 
LOWELL, MASS. 
Debility 
Languor, and Loss of Appetite, are cured 
by the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It re¬ 
moves that terrible sense of Constant 
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, and 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. 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all Druggists. Price $1; six bottles, $5. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
S HERIDAN a CONDITION POV 'SR is absolute¬ 
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a medicine to be given with food Nothingo c ear th 
wiU make hens lay like It. It cures chicken chol¬ 
era and all diseases of hens. Illustrated book by 
mail free. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail for 
26 cts. In stamps. 2M*lb- tin cans, $1; by matt, 
$1.20. Six cans by express, prepaid, for $6. 
I. S. Jotaneon ti Co.. P. O. Box 21 IS, Boston. Mass. 
ELES 4 KT SHAPE, 
HEALTH and 
COMFORT 
Perfectly Combined in 
MADAME FOY’S 
Skirt Supporting 
It Is one of the most Jf yM 1 }) •' 
popular and gatlafac- ^v > ■-’/Hm 
lory in the market 
For sale by all leadf*& I 
tag dealers. 
Price by mall $1.30. WP 
FOY, HARMON & 
CHADWICK, New Haven, Conn 
CARMAN ^his NEW Extra Earlv Black 
u Mil 111 Mil ( -'l* how offered for Sale, and ts 
DA CPRtPPV likely to work a REVOLUTION In 
itHarutnni In marker growing. Very Pro- 
brcTTvsi. Fruit of largest *ixr. Jet Black, and 
the earliest -</ rill to ■ i;ien Sells at highest price. 
Best quality for family use. Also BA KHART 
Rasp., a valuable novelty—fruits from June to Nov. 
Pot STRAWRKRR1ES and all best varieties Small 
I* rul ts for Fall planting. Cheap for choice stock. Cir¬ 
culars free. Hale Bros., South Glastonburv, Cotin. 
HAND 
PICKED 
SEED. 
DIEHL-MEDITERRANEAN. 
The hardiest, best yielding and milling Wheat 
grown. Seed hand picked and strkdly pure. For sam¬ 
ple heads and prices, address, with stamp. 
H. .11. .1AQLKS,Wright'* Corners, N, Y. 
Seed WHEAT 
And Haw to Grow It or Thirty Years 
in the 'Wheat Field. 
Giving the origin, history, and deNcrinllon of the 
ililTerent vari^t.HK of wheat, tin? b^st »nc) most pop- 
Iilur modes of eii III vat ion, with sample* of five 
ot the most hardy and productive kitnis imw grown 
in I Ins roiilil >. A 11 sen l on ' eecint of |Or. in pnsiage 
so. io ns I,r money.) S I Hl fT. \v 11,*»<)>'. 
Address V CCHANICSVIU E. BUCKS CO.. PA. 
1838 POMONA NURSERIES 1886 
Established 1338. 
POT GROWN STRAWBERRIES. 
Parry, Lida, Mar Kiog. Henderson, Jewell, 
Belmont, Bubaeh. aud Ontario readv for Imme¬ 
diate shipment. Ollier varletlps [H>tted to onler. Send 
for catalogue, with testimonials, etc. Also of Law- 
son & Kiefter, Marlboro A Golden Qneeu, 
Erie iV Wilson Jr.. Niagara Sc Empire 
State, etc., etc 
WM. PARRY, Parry, N. J. 
SEED WHEAT. 
Pure DIF.HL-MEPITERRANKAN. from the Origin¬ 
ator. Best Wheat known. $ i.3S per bushel; bags 30 
cents. Address Walter O’Dell, SOMERSET, MICH. 
Beautiful Maryland Homestead Farm.—330 
Acres. sS.OOO. For full particulars, address 
H P. Chamber*. FEDERALSBURG, MD. 
Virginia Farms. Mila Climate. 0reap Homes 
ten ' fo-VIrcular. .4. O. 111.IS**. Centralia, Va. 
IV DO YOU WANT A DOG 
DOC BUYERS’ GUIDE. 
Colored plates. 1OO engraving* 
of different breeds, price* they are 
worth, and where to buy them 
Mailed for 15 Cents. 
ASSOCIATED FANCIERS, 
837 S. Eighth St Philadelphia, Pa. 
pnrm I New Book of Fancy Works with 1(10 II- 
1-1 K U Ll I lustrations. 150 Now Studies, lOSpeeial 
C 11 I. P. uffere. \»(H) Picture Bulletin, JS col. 
x i story Paper, all for lc postage. 
NATIONAL RAUR, I W EST BROADWAY. N.Y. 
Brewster's Patent Rein Holder, 
Your lines are where you nut them—not under 
horses' feet. One agent sold 13 do*, tu five days; 
one deiler sold six doz. in 15 days. Samples 
worth $1.50 FURS. Write for terms. 
E. E. BKKWSTEK. Holly, Mich. 
U NION COLLEGE OF L A li/ 
The Fall Term will begin Sept. 33d. For clr- fV 
culnr address H. BOOTH, Chicago, Ili 
NOTREDAME OF MARYLAND, 
Collegia to Institute for Young I.ndiosand Prepara- 
U>r\ School for I Title Girls, EMBLA P. O.. Three 
Miles frv>m Baltimore. Md. Conducted by the sis 
ter." of Notre Dame. Send for Catalogue. 
I A Scrap natures aud Agent’s Sample Case for a 2- 
-LU cent stamp. HILL CARD CO., Cadiz, Ohio. 
NION COLLEGE OF LA 
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