1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Three Simple Edgings. 
Some of our friends ask for simple 
narrow crochet edgings. The 'three fig¬ 
ured are all pretty, especially the clover 
leaf. Use No. 24 cotton and a very fine 
steel hook. For the first pattern, make 
a chain the length required. 1st row: 1 
treble into a stitch, 2 chain, pass over 2 
stitches, and repeat. 2nd row: 1 double 
into a chain, * 6 chain, 1 double into the 
3rd, repeat from * once more, 2 chain, 
pass over 5 stitches and repeat. 3rd 
row: 1 double between 2 pi cots, 6 chain, 
1 double into the 3rd, * 5 chain, 1 double 
into the 2nd, repeat from * once more, 
2 chain, repeat from the beginning of the 
row. 
For 'the second pattern make a chain 
the length required. 1st row: 1 treble 
into a stitch, 2 chain, pass over 2 
stitches and repeat. 2nd row: 1 half 
treble into a stitch, 4 chain, pass over 5 
stitches, 2 trebles into the next 1 chain, 
2 trebles into next stitch, 4 chain, pass 
over 5 stitches and repeat from the be¬ 
ginning of the row. 3rd row: 1 half 
treble ’into half treble of last row, 3 
chain, 1 treble into each of 2 trebles, 1 
chain, 2 trebles into next chain, 1 chain, 
1 treble into each of two next stitches, 
3 chain, repeat from the beginning of 
the row. 4th row: 1 half treble into half 
treble of last row, 2 chain, 1 treble into 
last of 3 chain, 1 treble into next stitch, 
1 chain, 2 trebles into next chain, 1 
treble into each of two next trebles, 1 
chain, 2 trebles into next chain, 2 chain, 
1 treble into 2nd of next two trebles, 
THREE SIMPLE EDGINGS. FlO. 170. 
and 1 into next chain, 2 chain, repeat 
from the beginning of the row. 
For the third pattern make a chain of 
the length required. 1st row: 1 double 
into 13 stitches, 10 chain, 1 treble into 
the 4th, 5 chain, 1 treble into the 1st, 
5 Chain, 1 treble into the 1st, draw 
through the chain the first treble was 
worked into, then under each loop of 
chain work 2 singles, 3 doubles, G half 
trebles, 3 doubles, and 2 singles, then 
work down the first three of 10 chain 
with 4 doubles, draw through the last 
double worked into foundation chain 
and repeat from the beginning of the 
row. On the other side of foundation 
chain, work: 1st row: 1 half treble into 
a stitch, 2 chain, pass over 2 stitches and 
repeat. 2nd row: 1 double into each 
stitch. 
Rural Recipes. 
Whole-wheat cinnamon rolls are re¬ 
commended as very nice, and a whole¬ 
some change from the use of white flour. 
Mix together one cupful of boiling 
water, one cupful of scalded milk, one- 
ha'lf cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful 
of butter and one teaspoonful of salt; 
when lukewarm add one cake of com¬ 
pressed yeast dissolved in two table¬ 
spoonfuls of lukewarm water, one cupful 
of white flour and enough entire-wheat 
flour to knead. Knead until elastic, then 
cover and let rise until double in bulk. 
Turn on to the board, roll out half an 
inch thick, spread with creamed butter, 
sprinkle with sugar, then with cinna¬ 
mon, and roll up the dough. Cut off 
pieces an inch thick, place close, together 
in the pan, sprinkle sugar over the top, 
let get very light, then bake 25 minutes 
in rather a hot oven. 
Rhubarb bread pudding is made as fol¬ 
lows: Peel the rhubarb and cut it into 
small pieces. Cover the bottom of a 
pudding dish with pieces of buttered 
bread. Over this put a layer of rhu¬ 
barb. Pour over it a half-teaspoonful of 
lemon juice, and cover liberally with 
sugar. Add another layer of bread and 
butter, rhubarb, lemon and sugar. Re¬ 
peat until the dish is full, covering the 
last layer of rhubarb with wel'l-buttered 
breadcrumbs. Cover the dish, and 
steam for one hour. Then remove the 
lid and bake it slowly until it is nicely 
browned. 
A Summer beverage which will be 
relished with the family supper on hot 
days is tea punch, which sounds very 
convivial, but is suited to the most tem¬ 
perate. Make a strong infusion of six 
teaspoonfuls of Ceylon tea to a quart of 
waiter, strain, and add two cupfuls of 
sugar boiled with one cupful of water, 
the juice and rind of four lemons and 
two oranges. Strain into bottles, seal 
and set in icebox. When ready to serve, 
pour a lit'tie in each glass and fill up 
with ice water or ice-cold mineral water. 
Fried strawberry cream is a dessert 
which will utilize small or unevenly 
ripened berries sorted out when prepar¬ 
ing fruit for the table. Heat one pint 
of milk in a double boiler. Beat two 
eggs and half a cupful of sugar togeth¬ 
er; then add one tablespoonful of flour, 
two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch and a 
saltspoonful of salt, all mixed to a paste 
in a little cold milk, and a large cup of 
strawberries cut in small pieces. 'Let 
cook for fifteen minutes, turn into a 
shallow greased pan to cool. When cold 
cut in strips, egg and crumb them, fry 
in hot fat, drain, dust with powdered 
sugar and serve with lemon quarters. 
Strawberry pie, as ordinarily served, 
is cooked like any other berry pie. Here 
is a decided improvement upon it, which 
will make a variation from shortcake. 
Line a pie tin with rich crust shortened 
with butter, no baking powder being 
used. Let it cool, then fill with fresh 
strawberries, hulled and washed, and 
mixed with sugar. Cover with whipped 
cream and serve. 
Here is a recipe for French biscuits, 
which will be found very nice. One cup¬ 
ful of butter, one cupful of sugar, the 
stiffly-beaten white of one egg, one- 
fourth cupful of thick sour milk, half a 
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a very 
little hot water, flour enough to make a 
dough that may be rolled out. Sprinkle 
with sugar, cut into large circles, and 
bake for iu minutes. 
Mexican codfish is really, we believe, 
a Spanish dish. Pick fine a cupful of 
salted cod and soak in different waters 
until fresh enough to use. Fry a chop¬ 
ped onion in a tablespoonful of butter to 
a rich brown, and add the drained fish, 
with water enough to cover it, a green 
pepper chopped fine and a cupful of 
stewed tomato; cover and stew slowly 
for one hour. 
Kitchen Economy. 
In the Hope Farm Notes of May 19, H. 
W. C. gave kitchen notes which inter¬ 
ested me. But I think I can break the 
record in all but the pastry line. My 
family consists of five adults and five 
children, and through the month of 
April I cooked eggs about twice a day; 
I think I may safely say that I cooked 
no less than 600 during that month; but 
mine is only guesswork, and his is-cor¬ 
rect. I never will have the patience to 
put down in actual figures the dreadful 
amount of kitchen work I go through in 
a day, for I have no Aunt Jennie to help 
me turn the wheels of the kitchen ma¬ 
chinery. When I came to that startling 
fact right there in black and White, not 
a pie for a whole month, I felt like hug¬ 
ging the man who had the moral cour¬ 
age to proclaim that fact to the pie-eat¬ 
ing Americans. Do you think the 
Madame would allow me to give you a 
sort of general hug for trying to eman¬ 
cipate all womankind from pie thrall- 
dom? Now I do dislike making pies, for 
it takes so much of my limited time, 
and I go without more than my neigh¬ 
bors, and console myself by thinking I 
am sensible, when I put up a nice lunch 
of bread and butter, a glass of delicious 
sauce and nice cookies, for my two fair¬ 
faced little daughters and two sturdy lit¬ 
tle sons. But when they come home 
and tell that all the other little folk 
had this kind of pie and that kind, my 
conscience hurts me; not that I ever ape 
Others, but the thought comes that I 
have not done as well as I might by 
them. For let me tell you in a whisper 
that I love a nice fresh piece of pie my¬ 
self, and I am afraid all my family in¬ 
herit my fault. In the absence of pie 
my husband will ask if we are out of 
pie timber. But seriously speaking, in 
this age of rich-spiced victuals, and the 
breakneck pace at which we live, if our 
taste, could be educated to a plain nour¬ 
ishing diet which would take less time 
in preparation, it would help solve the 
servant question. I do the work for 10 
people alone, and I have to plan and 
economize my time, so as to leave a little 
space in the day for reading and writing, 
and keeping in touch with the outside 
world. When I read an article like Hope 
Farm kitchen notes, I think the writer 
is conferring a boon on all womankind 
when he tries to lessen the amount of 
pie and cake served on the table at each 
meal, and as the home is as important 
as the farm, I hope to see more new 
ideas in our ideal paper, The R. N.-Y. 
MRS. FLOYD OATES. 
A Bit of the Milleniittii. 
In a recent sermon Bishop Pouter asks, 
has it ever occurred to anybody to con¬ 
sider what, sooner or later, would be 
the effect upon the mass of their fellow- 
beings if a company or fellowship of 
men and women of recognized social 
leadership should bind themselves to¬ 
gether to illustrate in their habits of 
life, simplicity of attire, modesty of 
equipage, inexpensiveness in the ap¬ 
pointments and chasteness in the as¬ 
pect, proportions, furniture, and decora¬ 
tions of their dwellings; should further 
bind themselves to discourage the habit 
of excessive accumulation; to employ 
for art. science, philanthropy and re¬ 
ligion all beyond a certain proportion of 
their income; should devote a certain 
fixed time in every day to other human 
interests than their own; should devise, 
and themselves cooperate in, plans for 
softening the rigors of life to the less 
fortunate, and for bringing into the full 
monotony of the modern conditions of 
manual labor, so far as might be, 
brightness and cheer; seeking in one 
word, to redeem our modern life of the 
tawdry, sordid, self-indulgent aspect 
which is too often at what we call “the 
top,” its dominant and prevailing note? 
For myself, I believe that, wild and vis¬ 
ionary as such a suggestion doubtless 
sounds to many, there are men and wo¬ 
men, in far greater numbers than most 
of us dream of. who would hail it as, 
for themselves at any rate, a way out 
of a situation which, with our modern 
extravagance on the one hand and our 
modern conditions of poverty, degrada¬ 
tion and despair largely untouched, un¬ 
recognized and unredeemed, on the 
other, is to many earnest natures as in¬ 
tolerable os it iis appalling. 
’Neath cloistered boughs each floral bell 
that swingeth, 
And tolls its perfume on the passing air 
Makes Sabbath in the fields and ever 
ringeth 
A call to prayer. —Horace Smith. 
It won’t do any good to pray for the 
South Sea Islander so long as you won’t 
speak to the man who lives in the next 
house.—Ram’s Horn. 
Loveliness needs not the aid of 
foreign ornament but is when unadorned 
adorned the most.—Thomson. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Aav. 
We ought not to judge of men’s 
merits by their qualifications, but by the 
use they make of them.—Charron. 
A God speaks softly in our breast; 
softly, yet distinctly, shows us what to 
hold by and what to shun.—Goethe. 
There is no beautifier of complexion 
or form or behavior like the wish to 
scatter joy, and not pain, around us.— 
Virgil. 
“There is nothing,” says Plato, “so 
delightful as the hearing or speaking of 
truth.” For this reason there is no con¬ 
versation co agreeable as that of the 
man of integrity, who hears without any 
intention to betray, and speaks without 
any intention to deceive.—Addison. 
In the forest lawns I see 
Little ring-plots fenced around. 
So that shrub and sapling tree 
Thrive in safe and happy ground; 
And I wonder, cannot I 
Keep some little plots apart, 
Open to the wind and sky, 
For the growth of mind and heart? 
—Good Words. 
B.*B. 
“ sell 99 is the word 
and prices made to do it. 
Most vigorous and extensive emptying 
of Summer merchandise and surplus lots 
—fine to finest goods—ever brought to 
people’s attention. 
Rich Dollar Silks 50c., and odd lines of 
Silks at 65c., 75c., that were twice the 
money. 
Large lot of Dress Goods, Suitings 
and Skirtings that were 75c. and $1— 
choice things— 5<)c. yard. 
—every woman who sees samples will 
know at once this shelf-emptying is 
being done emphatically. 
t iity-cent Dress goods — for girls’ 
school suits in the fall—for skirts now. 
Fine 15 to 50c. Madras Ginghams at 
five prices—5, 7%, 10. 15, 25c. 
Good, pretty and useful Wash goods 
reduced—5, 63 4, 7}£, 10, 12Kc. 
Prices like these on all surplus goods 
in 64 departments. 
And goods that people have use for— 
choice goods — at lowest prices ever 
known. 
BOGGS & BUHL, 
Department C, 
ALLEGHENY, PA, 
THE 
JOSEPHINE 
CURES 
CHILLS FEVER, 
Malaria and that Tired Feeling. NEVER 
FAILS. Price, $1.50. Half-size bottles, 80 cents, 
prepaid to any address in the United States 
by express. Address 
THE JOSEPHINE COMPANY, 
Salisbury Mills, Orange Co., N. Y. 
COE’S 
ECZEMA CUKE, <S1 at druggists. 25o, 
size of us. Coe Chem. Co., Cleveland, O. 
“AIM ANU MAIN fUK UNt DAY 5 WUHK. 
ROB^naoaBBBoesaoan 
.Boys and -Girls can get a Nickel-Piated 
Watch, also a Chain and Charm for selling 
1 I# doz. Packages of Bluine at 10 cents each. 
Send tout fall address by return mall and 
we will forward the Bluine, post-paid, and 
__ a large Premium List. No money required. 
BILUINE CO. Box 5UU Concord Junction. Mass. 
“ Wood treated with Creosote is not subject to dry- 
rot or other decay.”—Century Dictionary. 
Cabot’s Creosote Shingle Stains 
are 50 per cent cheaper than paint, and 1U0 per cent 
better for all rough woodwork. Made in all colors, 
and durability guaranteed. Samples on wood and 
illustrated catalogue sent on request. 
SAMUEL CABOT. 81 Kilby St., Boston, Mass. 
Brass Band 
Instruments, Drums, Uniforms, 
«C Supplies. Write for catalog, 416 
illustrations, 1'KKK; it gives in¬ 
formation for musicians and new 
bands. |_YON & HEALY, 
89 Adams St.. CHICAGO. 
The World’s Standard. 
All jewelers sell Elgin Watches In cases to suit 
every taste. An Elgin watch always has the word 
“Elgin” engraved on the works—fully guaranteed 
Our new booklet about watches is ready to send 
everyone who desires it—free 
Elgin National Watch Co., Elgin, III. 
