1903 
459 
A Saving Day. 
There are many methods of house¬ 
keeping written for busy housekeepers, 
but they are generally methods tor ac¬ 
complishing more work. “A penny saved 
is worth as much as a penny earned,” is 
as true of work as of money. Many wo¬ 
men would not have so much to do if 
they did not make themselves work. It 
is often the fact of the amount of work 
staring them in the face that drives 
them into a state of hurry and worry 
that exhausts their strength, and adds 
to their labor. As Aunt Nabby used to 
say: “Let your head save your heels.” 
By using your brain for planning instead 
of worrying, you can often do two things 
at once, saving thus time, steps and 
iabor. Don’t begin the day in a hurry. 
While cooking your breakfast slowly, 
you can take time to open windows or 
doors, and let in the fresh air and sun¬ 
shine. Even if you should pause a mo¬ 
ment to listen to a bird solo or to ad¬ 
mire the diamond-dewed landscape, you 
will never regret it. Many times the 
bread which was set to rise over night 
may be molded over, a pie rolled out, or 
a pudding made for the dinner’s dessert 
so that when you sit down to breakfast 
you need not feel that you must eat 
quickly, or jump into the harness before 
it is properly served. If one pair of 
hands must do everything you can often 
wash the dishes and sweep and dust your 
downstairs rooms while tending the 
oven or boiling, or do anything which 
keeps you near the kitchen and fire. It 
is often restful to sit down and prepare 
vegetables for dinner at this time, or 
after clothes have been put in soak on 
washing days. There is so much time 
and strength wasted ^ running up and 
downstairs; it is always a good plan to 
stop and think before you start. It is 
well to carry something both ways, and 
will save you many a trip. If you must 
carry something to the cellar bring up 
the vegetables or a can of fruit you may 
want for tea, and seldom will you go up¬ 
stairs without finding something that 
needs to go up, or come down without 
making a similar discovery. 
There are two ways to bake or cook, 
and the saving way is best. Don’t be in 
such haste that you cannot stop to find 
things, or return them to their proper 
place. If you do not stir up your pantry 
you will not have to settle it. If you 
use the same cup and spoon for sugar, 
shortening, milk and molasses, and last¬ 
ly for hot water, you will only have one 
to wash, while a dish used for mixing 
pie crust will do for cookies, doughnuts 
and lastly for gingerbread or johnny 
cake. There is a wide field for a dish¬ 
washer which will prove a time and 
work saver. Who has not seen the woman 
who cooks without any clutter or fuss, 
and the other woman who rattles about, 
turning every place into confusion, with 
a sink and table full of dirty, sticky 
dishes to wash as a conclusion? I need 
not ask which woman is the best house¬ 
keeper, or most desirable companion. 
As Mrs. Josiah Allen says, a house¬ 
keeper should “keep calm,” though it is 
often difficult to do so against heavy 
odds, but it always pays. Of course ac¬ 
cidents will happen; but they are more 
often made to happen. Who has not 
met the hasty housekeeper, who fills her 
platters or dishes to overflowing, and 
then with a rush attempts to move them, 
slopping stove, floor, clothes and per¬ 
haps the tablecloth, making herself any 
amount of work as well as causing pres¬ 
ent discomfort? 
When one goes upstairs it is as well to 
make all the beds as part, and do the 
necessary sweeping or putting away of 
clothes. It is never wise to dust too 
quickly, but the time of waiting can 
usually be profitably filled. These are 
only a few ways of spending a saving 
day, the ways of saving and combining 
MOTHERg.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
work are endless. To make haste slow¬ 
ly, and stop to think, are two excellent 
guides, and will do much to lighten the 
burden which often weighs so heavily 
on not only the body, but the soul, of 
the busy housekeeper. Try them one 
day and see. amce e. piivney. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Coats with many stitched straps were 
a marked feature of the Spring styles, 
tan or wood-colored covert cloth being 
the usual material used, though the pat¬ 
tern is desirable for other tailor ma¬ 
terials. The coat is made with fronts. 
4412 Strapped Coat, 32 to 40 bust. 
back and under-arm gores and includes 
seams in both fronts and back which ex¬ 
tend to the shoulders. The neck is fin¬ 
ished with collar and lapels, and in each 
front is inserted a convenient pocket. 
The sleeves are in the tailor coat shape, 
with novel rollover cuffs. The quantity 
of material required for the medium size 
is 2% yards 44 inches wide or 2^/^ yards 
52 inches wide. The coat pattern No. 
4412 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 
and 40-inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The extended front gore forming a 
yoke is very desirable for a walking 
skirt, as shown. The skirt is cut in 
seven gores, the front one being extend¬ 
ed to form the yoke. The side gores 
are pleated and joined to the front and 
to the edge of the yoke, the pleats being 
stitched to fiounce depth only and so 
providing ample flare about the feet. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size is eight yards 27 inches 
wide, 4% yards 44 inches wide, or 3% 
yards 52 inches wide. The skirt pattern 
No. 4411 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 
28 and 30-inch waist measure; price 10 
cents from this office. 
Rural Recipes. 
ful of raisins; let rise. Now roll out so 
as to be about an inch and a half in 
thickness. Put in tins; let rise again. 
When well risen spread on some melted 
butter, granulated sugar and some cin¬ 
namon. Bake in a moderate oven until 
a light brown. 
Oude Sauce.—Four quarts of green to¬ 
matoes, 18 small peppers, 18 small white 
onions; chop all together, add three cup¬ 
fuls of salt and let stand over night. In 
the morning drain off the water and add 
four cupfuls of sugar, four of horserad¬ 
ish, four tablespoonfuls of ground 
cloves, four of cinnamon and cover with 
vinegar; stew gently all day, then bottle 
and seal. 
Baked Summer Cabbage.—Cut into 
quarters and boil tender in salt and 
water two medium-sized heads of cgi^- 
bage, drain and chop. Arrange an inch 
layer in the bottom of a baking dish. 
Sprinkle with black pepper, then crumb 
in a layer of stale bread. Drop small 
bits of butter over the bread crumbs. 
Repeat the process until the dish is 
nearly full, bread coming on top. Then 
pour over the whole one pint of rich 
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milk or thin cream, and bake until 
nicely browned. Cabbage prepared in 
this way is very delicate and a great 
favorite. 
Veal Stew.—Cover the bones from a 
stewing piece of veal with cold water 
after cutting the meat into inch-thick 
slices. Let the bones simmer with one 
tablespoonful of Summer savory. Salt, 
pepper and flour the slices of mejit. 
Brown an onion in hot drippings; sear 
the meat in this. Add one tablespoonful 
of butter and one tablespoonful of flour. 
Brown them and then add the simmer¬ 
ing water from the bones with enough 
hot water to cover the meat. Add one 
teaspoonful of salt. Simmer one hour. 
Then add half a cupful of cream mixed 
with an egg yolk and one tablespoonful 
of minced parsley. 
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SEWING MACHINES 
Green Tomato Chili Sauce.—Slice tbe 
green tomatoes and salt down as you do 
egg plant, put a weight on them and let 
stand until morning, then rinse in cotd 
water to take out the salt and wash out 
the seeds and bitter juice of the green 
tomato. For 12 tomatoes take four sweet 
green peppers, half dozen chill peppers, 
one large onion, one cupful vinegar, one 
tablespoonful sugar, two teaspoonfuls of 
salt, one of pepper, two of ground all¬ 
spice, half teaspoonful of mace, one of 
cinnamon, one of cloves. Chop the to¬ 
matoes fine, boil 20 minutes, strain and 
press through a sieve. Chop the peppers 
and onions very fine, first taking out the 
seeds of the peppers. Boil all together 
for 10 minutes; add spices, then bottle 
and seal. 
Coffee Kuchen.—Set some sponge over 
night, the same as for making bread. In 
the morning take one cupful of sugar 
and a cooking spoonful of butter. Mix; 
add two well-beaten eggs. Work as for 
making cake. Add an even teaspoonful 
of salt. Now add the sponge and enough 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 409 Pearl Street. New York. 
JAYNE’S EXPECTORANT 
CURES THE WORSTCOUGHS. 
