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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 18 
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From Day to Day. 
SHUN DELAYS. 
Shun delays, they breed remorse; 
Take thy time, while time is lent thee; 
Creeping snails have weakest force— 
Fly their faults, lest thou repent thee. 
Good is best when soonest wrought. 
Ling’ring labors come to naught. 
Hoist thy sail while gale doth last. 
Tide and wind stay no man’s pleasure. 
Seek no time, when time is past; 
Sober speed is wisdom's leisure. 
After-wits are dearly bought. 
Let the fore-wit guide thy thought. 
—Credit Lost. 
A i.iTTLK gauge and binder is now 
made for passe-partout work, costing 
from 50 to 75 cents. With its aid the 
binding can be put on a picture without 
any trouble in keeping it straight. 
« 
Tiiic line between truth and falsehood 
often seems very slight in some matters 
of social courtesy, and we can sympa¬ 
thize with one small boy who seemed to 
realize this quite strongly. The boy 
hung back when the visitor spoke to 
him, and his mother was naturally an¬ 
noyed. 
“Won’t you go to Mrs. Jones, Har¬ 
old?” she said. 
“No,” replied the boy shortly. 
“Don’t you like me?” asked Mrs. 
Jones good-naturedly. 
“No, I don’t,” answered the boy. 
“Why, Harold!” exclaimed his moth- 
ed reproachfully. 
“Well, I got licked for not telling the 
truth yesterday, and 1 ain’t taking no 
chances to-day,” protested the boy. 
* 
Last year O. W. Mapes told R. N.-Y. 
readers how he marketed part of his 
raspberry crop in cans. He gives the 
following as method used in canning: 
Fill the cans with fresh berries, and stand 
them in a large kettle of water to cook 
after the ordinary method. The covers 
should be placed on the cans of berries 
before setting them in water for cooking, 
but not the rubber rings. This helps re¬ 
tain the steam in the cans. The berries 
are thus cooked in their own steam, and 
retain all the delicate aroma of the fresh 
fruit. When they are sufficiently cooked, 
they will begin to soften, and settle in the 
cans. They should then be removed from 
the fire and filled with boiling hot syrup, 
sealing immediately. Bubbles of air will 
often lodge against the sides of the can 
when filling with syrup. These should be 
removed by pushing the end of a long 
knife blade down the side of the can, when 
they will rise to the surface. 
• 
Douestic help on the farm seems an 
unanswerable problem, but it is really 
quite as difficult of solution in the great 
cities. In Chicago, where a very large 
proportion of women seek surcease from 
domestic cares by boarding, with their 
families, at hotels, the situation has 
been further complicated recently by the 
strike among restaurant and hotel help. 
In factory towns it is almost impossible 
to get or to keep help. We are obliged 
to own that incompetent employers with 
a false standard of home life, have done 
much to demoralize domestic service. 
Such women expect too much of compe¬ 
tent help, and are unahle to train the in¬ 
experienced. We must learn that house¬ 
work is a profession for which training 
must be given, not a mere temporary 
occupation to be picked up by anyone. 
It is unfortunate that the incompetent 
demand, and very often receive, the 
same wages as those really experienced. 
In the suburbs around New York gen¬ 
eral houseworkers and upstairs maids 
ask from $16 to $20 a month; cook and 
laundress $30 to $35. Even at the latter 
figure the cook often leaves much to be 
desired; we know of one case where the 
cook was found by her employer clean¬ 
ing the kitchen floor, and using the por¬ 
celain-lined preserving kettle for a 
scrub pail! When good wages can al¬ 
ways be secured in city or suburbs, 
where all conveniences are olfered, we 
can hardly wonder that domestic help 
declines to go from the cities to the 
farm, where work is often more arduous. 
Ai.thougiH we are often warned that 
constant tight rolling of an umbrella 
causes it to cut in the folds, we must 
also remember that there is some risk 
in leaving the umbrella unfolded if it is 
thrust into a stand or holder, because 
the next person who puts an umbrella 
into the same stand is very likely to 
poke it inside the one already there, and 
thus pierce it with the sharp ferule. 
Wiiile it is often a convenience to use 
the same umbrella for both rain and 
shine, it is not at all an economy, as the 
sun dries out the oil in the silk, and 
causes it to crack. An inexpensive par¬ 
asol of the plain coaching style will 
save a more expensive umbrella. Dur¬ 
ing June and July there are many para¬ 
sol sales, when plain sunshades of taf¬ 
feta and pongee may be bought quite 
cheaply, the more expensive styles being 
reduced also. White and light or mixed 
colors are always cheaper than black. 
It may be cut from some part of the 
roast when it comes in. Season when 
nearly done and baste occasionally. If 
the weather is warm and you wish to 
keep the roast until next day without 
ice, sear it on all sides and then put on 
platter and keep in the cellar. Porter¬ 
house from the center of the beef where 
there is very little tenderloin makes a 
very good roast. A piece from next to 
the sirloin will have enough tenderloin 
to be cut out for a small roast by itself, 
and is very good; the other side of the 
bone is much better for steak. The out¬ 
side skin of lamb or mutton must be cut 
off, not only to have it clean, but to free 
it from the strong taste which it will 
otherwise have. Drippings from lamb 
or mutton may be used for frying pota¬ 
toes, but I know of no other way in 
which it may be used for cooking. 
V. o. 
R. N.-Y.—We prefer to sear the out¬ 
side of a roast by putting it into a very 
hot oven, cooling the oven a little after¬ 
wards to give a steady heat for the 
roasting. Our correspondent’s advice to 
put no water in the pan is needed by 
many experienced cooks, who insist up¬ 
on soddening the meat in this way, much 
to the detriment of the roast. 
A Contented Cat. 
Anyone who has read the “Just So 
Stories” will remember the primeval cat 
that refused to make friends with man, 
but walked alone in the Wild Wet 
Woods, waving his wild tail. The un¬ 
A Dozen Cotin try Eggs. 
She was an energetic lady whose ad¬ 
age is “Save the pennies and the dollars 
will take care of themselves.” Not long 
ago she decided that hard-boiled eggs 
would be a pleasant diversion from meat 
for a light supper, and promptly bought 
a dozen “best eggs” from the corner 
grocery. She gave the proper direction 
to the maid and went out on tne stoop, 
happy in the consciousness that the sup¬ 
per was planned for one day at least. 
But her attention was soon attracted by 
a huckster’s wagon in which was a huge 
box of eggs. 
“How much?” she asked, and was as¬ 
tonished at the reply, “18 cents—and 
country eggs, at that.” 
Being quick to act where money mat¬ 
ters were concerned, she bought a dozen 
eggs at 18 cents, and delivering them to 
the maid instructed that the others be 
put carefully back in the same paper 
bag in which they had come and taken 
over to the grocery. “And tell him, 
please, to give you back 20 cents,” she 
added sweetly. 
However, it was scarcely more than 
an hour later that the grocery man came 
around himself and rang the front door 
bell viciously. 
“Well, ma’am,” he said, “here are your 
eggs.” 
“But I sent them back,” she said. 
“But I can’t take them eggs back,” he 
said doggedly. “When that girl o’ yourn 
brung them eggs back I sez to myself, 
‘all right. I’ll take them eggs back out 
.4 COxNTENTED CAT. Fig. 1<»4. 
which, being staple articles, are rarely 
reduced. Very pretty plain coaching 
parasols in various colors may be bought 
for $1.50 to $2. 
Something About Meat. 
When the butcher brings in the roast 
nicely curled up for the oven take it 
apart to see if it be in the least tainted. 
If it is, as is sometimes the case, cut the 
tainted bit oft. It will not at all spoil 
the rest. Then take a thin shaving of 
fat from the outside skin (very often it 
is far from clean), do not wash the 
meat; if desirable scrape it with a knife. 
If it is a rib roast much of it will be 
coarse and tough. A good way is to cut 
this part off and simmer it slowly with 
a piece of leaner beef for one meal, or 
put it in the soup kettle with a soup 
bone having some meat on it, and sim¬ 
mer until very tender; then after taking 
it up it may be chopped, nicely seasoned 
and pressed to be used cold, or it may 
be put with about the same quantity of 
mashed potatoes and made into flat 
cakes and fried in beef drippings. To 
fry them nicely the pan must be hot 
vffien the cakes are put in. They must 
all be properly seasoned. 
To get the roast ready put some of the 
fat in the frying pan and let it get very 
hot, then brown the roast on all sides. 
The meat must be seared instantly or it 
will lose its juice. If you wish it rare 
do not have the oven very hot. It will 
need a little more time to cook it 
through. Put no water in the pan. 
Cover the roast with fat if you have it. 
Hpeak well of all; 
Twill be a medicine unto thine own frail 
heart; 
Think well of all; 
Nor let thy friendship at the foibles start 
That appertain to our humanity— 
True love hath in itself the principle 
Of patience unto death. 
—Sigourney. 
GR»0 
GRAIN COFFEE 
In comparing Grain-O and coflFee 
remember that while the taste is 
the same Grain-O gives health and 
strength while coffee shatters the 
nervous system and breeds disease 
of the digestive organs. Thinking 
people prefer Grain-0 and its ben¬ 
efits. 
TRY IT TO-DAY. 
At grocers everywhere; 15c. and 26c. per package, 
tamed cat finally won his dish of milk 
and his seat by the cave man’s fire 
through the fascinating way in which he 
amused the baby, and, to this day, many 
a household cat holds hi's place upon just 
such tenure. Still, we do not think a 
very young child should be given a kit¬ 
ten or any other young animal for a 
playmate. The baby accustomed to toy 
animals that emit a squeak when pinch¬ 
ed, tries the same plan with the kitten; 
grimalkin resents the rough play with 
her claws, and is punished for it unjust¬ 
ly. Much brutality displayed towards 
animals in later years is inculcated in 
babyhood in this way. It is never too 
early to instruct in justice and mercy, 
either towards our fellow men or our 
animal friends. The cat shown in Pig. 
194 is an English long-haired animal, 
and it certainly appears to be happy and 
well cared for. 
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