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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The Household Congress. 
GEonoiA JonNNY Cake. —Two teacup¬ 
fuls of sifted cornmeal, enough sour 
milk (what we call buttermilk) to make 
a smooth dough; add three eggs and 
two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. 
Just before baking add a light teaspoon¬ 
ful of soda. Bake on a hot griddle. I 
like them best the size of a batter cake. 
They are extra nice.- mks. j. t. c. 
Wasted Heat Utilized. —Do all of 
The R. N.-Y. family know that one can 
have a room on the second floor heated, 
free of extra care and trouble, whenever 
there is a stove in the room below and 
an available chimney in the chamber? 
Of course there must be an opening 
made for the stovepipe from the ceil¬ 
ing up through the floor above, but one 
can now procure a patent pipe protector 
very neat looking and simple of ar¬ 
rangement. It is only necessary to cut 
out two circles, and the protector can be 
screwed in place, adjusting itself to any 
depth of joist. A radiator, equally neat 
in appearance, can be had for the cham¬ 
ber, and thus at an expense not exceed¬ 
ing ?6 or $7 a sleeping room becomes 
habitable all Winter by utilizing the 
waste heat of the chimney flue, and 
there is no carrying up of coal or wood, 
no care of another Are or bother of 
ashes and dust. People about to build 
might do well to consider this manner 
of heating a servant’s room. 
PRUDENCE PRIMROSE. 
and baked beans among the good things. 
Nine times out of ten we start home 
satisfied with ourselves as farmers and 
the world seems a desirable place to live 
in. Then to balance the fun and play, 
one goes to the Unity Club, whose meet¬ 
ings are held Tuesday evenings, five or 
six times during the Winter. Papers 
and lectures are the leading features, 
and twice a year, once during the Win¬ 
ter and again in the late Spi'ing, a most 
delightful musical is given. College pro¬ 
fessors, prominent teachers and well 
educated people in general are chosen 
to conduct an evening. It is in the Win¬ 
ter that the village improvement so¬ 
ciety and the various church societies 
hold suppers and sales, give dramas and 
minstrel shows to raise money. I have 
had a great many people sympathize 
with me for my lack of social opportu¬ 
nity. I must confess they are chiefly 
my school friends in the city. One year 
a friend from Boston spent Christmas 
with me. I told her when she said good¬ 
bye that I hoped she had enjoyed her 
visit, even if we had been rather quiet 
and prosy. I shall never forget her an¬ 
swer: 
“Perhaps you won’t believe me, but 
from my heart I declare I never knew 
how Christmas ought to seem. Why, I 
really dread going back,’’ 
ATIAH E. COr.CORD. 
Winter Evenings on the Farm, 
We have had some pretty sharp 
weather in the last few days, and I have 
been up in the attic and hunted out the 
cornpopper and my molasses-candy ket¬ 
tle, that I may be ready for business. 
To be sure our coal bin looks rather 
desolate, but I guess we shall soon be 
able to fill it, at a moderate price, I 
have popped corn, quite nicely, on the 
top of the cook stove with a wood fire. 
Nevertheless I prefer coals; perhaps, 
chiefly because I love to watch them 
shimmer and glow. Don’t you some¬ 
times regret there is no excuse for keep¬ 
ing the covers off another minute? Of 
course if there happens to be an open 
grate in your home, you won’t appre¬ 
ciate this feeling. 
After Christmas we shall have some 
long cozy evenings and plenty of bright, 
up-to-date reading. Sometimes the soft 
cold flakes whirl over field and pasture,, 
sometimes the wind sobs and roars 
around the stanch old farmhouse. Then 
we run over to the neighbors for a treat, 
and spend a jolly two hours. Perhaps 
we play the host and they come to see 
us, well wrapped in warm shawls and 
caps and hoods. We gather in the 
warm, low-ceiled kitchen, open the 
drafts in the stove and get out the mo¬ 
lasses jug, a big heap of corn to shell 
and the visitors are pressed into service 
that many hands may lighten labor and 
make it play. Soon the yellow grains 
are hopping and whitening in their wire 
cage, in tune with laughter and banter. 
The smell of boiling molasses mingling 
with the fragrance of bursting corn fair¬ 
ly makes one’s mouth water. Finally, 
with your hand but you can’t 
our corn balls and candy done, some cuj-g it that way. Some medi¬ 
cines only smother coughs. 
Scott’s Emulsion cures them. 
Old coughs and deep-rooted 
couohs can’t be cured until 
O 
the inflammation which causes 
them has been replaced by 
healthy tissue. 
That is e.xactly the kind of 
thorough work Scott’s Emul¬ 
sion does. It changes the 
with a jolly entertainment and supper entire nature of the throat and 
in true Grange fashion, with hot coffee Pincrs so that there is nothing 
simple games come next on our pro¬ 
gramme. Bye-and-bye we draw our 
chairs up to the stove and eat of the 
fruits of our labor. 
We must not forget to mention the 
Grange. Every member of the family 
welcomes Grange night. Sometimes we 
have a special Grange for a guest, or 
there may be a discussion, both interest¬ 
ing and profitable on, perhaps, hens, co¬ 
operative buying among farmers, influ¬ 
ence of education in the farm home, or 
a social evening. Some night we are in¬ 
vited to attend a neighboring Grange, 
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while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
to cough about. 
Send for Free Sample. 
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Rural Recipes. 
Senator Hanna’s Hash.—This is the 
recipe given by the Boston Cooking 
School. Take equal portions of tender 
boiled corned beef and mealy boiled po¬ 
tatoes. Cut the potatoes into small 
cubes and the meat as fine as possible. 
Mix thoroughly with these a small 
onion, chopped very tine; a slice ol 
onion is often sufficient. Butter a hot 
frying pan and turn into it chopped ma¬ 
terials, Press into the center of the 
mass a clove of garlic, wrapped in a 
piece of salt pork or mild cured bacon. 
•Set over a moderate fire, cover and let 
cook, adding a small quantity of water, 
if moist hash is preferred; when heated, 
stir, remove the garlic and give the 
whole round shape. Let stand in the 
•oven until browned underneath, then 
carefully slide on a serving dish. While 
the hash is cooking cut one or two Ber¬ 
muda onions into thin slices and fry un¬ 
til crisp in deep fat. Use these as a gar¬ 
nish for the hash (or omit if preferred). 
Serve with lemon quarters. 
Butter Cakes.—Rub two tablespoon¬ 
fuls of butter into one quart of flour, in¬ 
to which you have s^ted one scant tea¬ 
spoonful of salt and two teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder. Mix well, and moisten 
with either milk or water (one-half of 
each). Roll out into a thin sheet (about 
half an inch thick), cut out with a bis¬ 
cuit cutter. Let them stand five minutes, 
then bake slowly in a griddle which is 
Seated and lightly • greased, baking on 
•one side, then turning and baking on 
the other, 
SMOTHER A COUGH. 
You can smother a cough 
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