1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The Household Cougress. 
DviJB’s IrrPointfATiON Wanted. —^Will 
some contributor to this department give 
a recipe for coloring wool green? I wish 
to color a quantity of faded light ingrain 
carpet to be woven into rugs. mrs. a. 
Pennsylvania. 
Keeping White of Ego. —Perhaps not 
every cook realizes that when only the 
yolks of eggs are needed for use one day 
the whites may be kept in a cool place 
for a day or two. Separate the egg, or 
eggs, putting the white in a soup plate. 
It will whip up for a meringue the next 
day or even on the day following, quite 
as light as if used at once, at least this 
is true of fresh-laid eggs, and no other 
ever whips very well. Owing to its dif¬ 
ferent nature the yolk spoils much more 
quickly, yet that too can be kept over 
a day after the white is drained off. Pour 
a little water gently over the unbroken 
yolk to prevent drying and the forming 
of a crust. pbudence primrose. 
Wiuter Work at Home. 
In reply to questions about remunera¬ 
tive work for women in the Winter 
months, I would draw attention to the 
high prices paid for hand-sewing by 
many women. I know several who order 
by mail hand-made baby clothes and 
pay $3 and ?5 a dress for them. All sorts 
of dainty lawn and nainsook garments, 
flannels, etc., are paid for in proportion. 
Complete layettes can be furnished, also* 
garments for older children, and for 
ladles, too, many of whom will not wear 
machine-sewed underclothes. Unless 
one has priced such garments it is im¬ 
possible to form an idea of the amount 
asked for them. Quite simple corset 
covers cost from $3 to |8. When real 
lace edgings are used for trimming of 
course the price is much higher. Shirt 
waists for women and school suits for 
boys and girls in linen and duck can be 
made by machine and pay well. At 
present, embroidered waists are the 
special demand of fashion, and bring 
very high prices. Often the embroidery 
is very quickly done, some simple pat¬ 
tern of scattered sprays or geometrical 
design, and in the cities these waists 
brings from ?9 to $15. 
[A friend recently embroidered a 
white linen shirt waist whose duplicate, 
not made up, is priced at $17.50.—Eds.] 
A woman to engage in any work 
should be business-like. Her prices 
should be unalterable. She should know 
what she can do well and make up her 
mind once for all as to its value. By 
judicious advertising she can get custo¬ 
mers. She should carry out orders, 
when accepted, to the letter, as to date 
of finish, style of work and price, and 
she should be as strict in her require¬ 
ments of herself as of others. The less 
variety as to the class of her work, the 
better for herself, when she has an es¬ 
tablished trade. Her patterns should 
be carefully selected. She should be 
(juidcd by suggestions from the best 
sources, but make her own decisions. 
Until she knows her customers, all or¬ 
ders should be paid for in advance, after 
specimens of her work have been shown. 
If possible, a new customer should send 
references if only a deposit on an order 
is made. For boys’ or girls’ duck and 
linen school suits a mother will often 
like to buy materials, and a stylish suit 
from city makers as a pattern, ordering 
from this a set of six or more duplicates. 
Such orders are very advantageous. 
One good work-woman I know will 
make a shirt waist by machine for $1.50, 
having agreed to that price, but a week 
later if I order another waist she will 
ask me $2 for the same thing, because 
I have made no bargain beforehand, 
'rhls ruins her trade. Decide upon a 
right price, and stick to it. Orders for 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wlns- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best— Adv. 
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high-class hand work come mostly from 
women in the cities; therefore adver¬ 
tisements to reach their eyes should be 
placed in city papers or fashion maga¬ 
zines. J. B. E. 
New York. 
Rural Recipes. 
Ragout of Mutton.—Use two pounds 
of mutton from the shoulder or breast 
Cut in small pieces, about two inches 
square. Cut up some of the mutton fat 
which has not touched the skin and fry 
slowly in a pan until there is about a 
gill of liquid fat; take out the solid 
pieces and put in the mutton and stir 
until it becomes brown. Take the meat 
from the fat, being careful to press out 
all the fat. To the fat add one pint of 
turnip cubes and two tablespoonfuls of 
onion cut fine; cook slowly for 10 min¬ 
utes, then take them out and put in the 
stew pan with the meat. Pour the fat 
from the frying pan and put in two 
tablespoonfuls of butter and the same 
amount of fiour: stir until brown, when 
add one quart of boiling water. When 
this thickens add it to the meat and 
vegetables with a rounding teaspoonful 
of salt and one-third of a teaspoonful 
of pepper. Simmer for three hours, cov¬ 
ered. 
Baked Beans With Tomatoes.—Soak 
one pint of pea beans in cold water over 
night. In the morning wash and rinse 
carefully and parboil until soft enough 
to pierce with a pin and no longer. 
Change the water several times, adding 
to the last a teaspoonful of soda, let boil, 
drain and rinse. Put half the beans into 
an earthen bean pot. Pour scalding 
water over one-fourth a pound of salt 
pork, scrape thoroughly, then score the 
rind for cutting in half-inch slices. Put 
this into the bean pot and cover with 
the remainder of the beans. Have ready 
three pints of tomato puree (stewed to¬ 
mato passed through a sieve fine enough 
to retain the seeds). Sprinkle the beans 
with a generous teaspoonful of salt, 
same of mustard and two tablespoonfuls 
of sugar, then add the tomato to cover. 
Bake about eight hours in a moderate 
oven. Keep the beans covered with the 
tomato, also the cover on the pot until 
the last hour. During the last hour re¬ 
move the cover and draw the pork to 
the surface to brown. 
My name is on 
my lamp chimney. 
Nobody else’s 
name is on his 
chimneys. 
Macbeth. 
If you’ll send your address, I’ll send you 
tlie Index to Lamps and their Chimneys, to 
tell you what number to get for your lamp. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
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