1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
743 
Have you had a kindness shown? 
Pass it on. 
'Twas not given for you alone— 
Pass it on. 
Pet it travel down the years, 
Let it wipe another's tears, 
Till in Heaven the deed appears, 
Pass it on. 
President-General, Mrs. Cynthia West- 
over Alden. 
Headquarters, No. % Fifth Avenue, New 
York. 
Society Motto—“Good Cheer.” 
Colors—Yellow and White. 
Flower—Coreopsis. 
Society Song—“Scatter Sunshine.” 
INVITED GUESTS. 
A Crowd of Troubles passed him by, 
As he with courage waited: 
He said, “Where do you Troubles fly 
When you are thus belated? 
“We go,” they said, “to those who mope, 
Who look on Life dejected— 
Who weakly say good-by to Hope— 
We go—where we’re expected.” 
—Credit Lost. 
Two friends in Canada, Miss H. J. and 
Miss k. J., of Chateauguay Basin, ask 
leave to enter the I. S. S. They ask 
whether this pays their initiation fee: 
We send half a bushel of flowers to the 
city every week during the Summer, and 
sometimes it is very hard work to And 
time to pick them. To several poor boys 
who have been a long time in the hospi¬ 
tals we send now and then a box of fruit 
and flowers, and send apple and grape 
jelly to the sick. Then in Spring, when 
lilacs and wild flowers are plentiful, we 
take large armfuls to the poorer localities 
in the city, and distribute them, and send 
seeds and plants to Northwest settlers. 
Our kindly Canadians are welcomed 
warmly. We x'ecently had a little talk 
with Mrs. Alden, the President-General 
of the I. S. S., to whose thought for oth¬ 
ers the Society owes its inception. Mrs. 
Alden tells us that a Sunshine Settle¬ 
ment has been started at 60 Baxter 
street, New York. This is in the dingiest 
tenement quarter. It is intended to 
form a place of resort for girls, where 
they may spend their evenings profit¬ 
ably and pleasantly, and receive instruc¬ 
tion in general education and feminine 
handicraft. Mrs. Alden remarked with 
feeling that there are so many homes 
and places of refuge for the girl who 
has gone wrong; she wishes to aid and 
strengthen her while she is still going 
right, and keep her right. Speaking of 
the Sunshine Society and its relation to 
women in isolated localities, Mrs. Alden 
remarked that in no other way could they 
be so effectually brought together, and 
kept in touch with the work of other 
women’s cluts. Ten members in any 
locality form a branch which is reported 
to the State president; eacfi State or¬ 
ganization becomes a part of the Na¬ 
tional Federation of Women’s Clubs. So 
the quiet country woman, who may 
never leave her rural home, but who by 
kindly thought for others, becomes a 
Sunshiner, becomes at the same time a 
part and parcel of the great Federation 
whose sayings and doings are import¬ 
ant enough to form part of our public 
news. 
One little Sunshine idea is the prep¬ 
aration of “comfort powders” for in¬ 
valids. These consist of some cheering 
or comforting words—a bit of verse, a 
text, or some golden saying—neatly cut 
out, and folded flat in fine white paper, 
just as a druggist puts up a dose of pow¬ 
der. These “comfort powders” are put 
up in a neat box, and sent to an invalid, 
one being administered with each dose 
of medicine. It is said by the skeptics 
who would “throw physic to the dogs,” 
that these Sunshine powders are more 
eflicacious in some cases than the doc¬ 
tor’s prescription, and we certainly have 
Scriptural warrant for the assertion that 
“a merry heart doeth good like medi¬ 
cine.” 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s SootLmg Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.—Ad©. 
Preserving the Garden Lemon 
I would like to know whether any reader 
or readers have had experience with what 
are known as garden lemons. I procured 
seeds last Spring and planted them the 
same as cucumbers. The seed came up well 
and the vines grew abundantly, and are 
well fruited, 'the fruit looks in shape, size 
and cplor like an ordinary lemon but has 
a smooth skin. The fruit smells like a 
muskmelon. At what stage of ripeness 
should the fruit be harvested, and how 
should it be cooked or preserved? 
Connecticut. m. e. l. 
This is one of the many cucumber-like 
fruits of that family. We have never 
cooked it, but would not allow it to be¬ 
come too ripe. Cook like Summer 
squash or vegetable marrow. To pre¬ 
serve, treat exactly like citron or water¬ 
melon rind, that is, peel, cut up, and 
soak in salt water five hours. Drain, 
cover with fresh cold water, and soak 
for two hours, changing the water sev¬ 
eral times. Cover with boiling water, 
bring to the boiling point, and drain 
again. Make a syrup from 2% pounds of 
sugar and 1 1 / 2 quart of boiling water, 
boil and skim. When perfectly clear, 
put in the citron and simmer gently un¬ 
til you can pierce it with a straw. When 
tender, lift the pieces carefully with a 
skimmer, place them on a large plate, 
and stand in the sun an hour or two, so 
that it hardens somewhat. Feel the yel¬ 
low rind from one large lemon, add it 
to tne syrup, then add the juice of two 
lemons, and a small piece of green gin¬ 
ger root cut in thin slices. Boil gently 
for 10 minutes, and stand aside until 
wanted. When the fruit has hardened, 
put it cold into the jars, bring the 
syrup to a boil, and strain it over the 
fruit. 
Rural Recipes. 
Potato was deep in the dark underground. 
Tomato above in the light, 
The little tomato was ruddy and round. 
The little potato was white. 
And redder and redder she rounded above, 
And paler and paler he grew; 
And neither suspected a mutual love. 
Till they met in a Brunswick stew. 
—Kev. John a. Tabb. 
A breakfast dish we all like is made 
as follows: Cut as many large ripe to¬ 
matoes as are required into slices near¬ 
ly an inch thick, leaving the peels on. 
Melt enough butter in a shallow enam¬ 
eled pan to cover the bottom; put the 
slices of tomatoes in. After the butter 
is melted put a little lump of butter on 
top of each slice of tomato; season well 
with salt and pepper; stand the pan in 
the oven of a gas stove. Cut as many 
slices of bread as are needed to lay the 
tomatoes on. While the tomatoes are 
cooking in me oven toast the bread, but¬ 
ter it, lay it on a hot platter. Take the 
pan from the oven after the toast is 
made, set it under the gas flame, and as 
soon as the tomatoes are sligntiy brown 
over the top remove them and carefully 
place them in layers on the coast. Four 
over them all the juice in the pan and 
serve at once. 
Here is an excellent peach catsup: 
Pare and quarter one peck of firm, ripe 
peaches; add one pint of water to the 
peelings and one dozen sliced kernels; 
simmer 30 minutes, then strain; add 
peaches to the liquor and simmer an¬ 
other 30 minutes; add one cupful of vine¬ 
gar, one-half cupful each of lemon juice 
and sugar, two teaspoonfuls of ground 
cinnamon, and one-half teaspoonful each 
of ground cloves, mace and pepper, and 
boil very slowly until as thick as de¬ 
sired. Seal hot in pint jars. 
Another good catsup is made from cu- 
cumoers. Choose large, nearly ripe cu¬ 
cumbers; pare, reject seeds, chop very 
fine and measure. Allow one teaspoon¬ 
ful of sale for every pint of pulp, sprin¬ 
kle with same and drain through a col¬ 
ander for six hours. For every quart of 
cucumber allow two cups of cider vine¬ 
gar, four teaspoonfuls of grated horse¬ 
radish, one tablespoonful each of white 
mustard seed and minced red pepper 
(seeds rejected); bring vinegar and fla¬ 
voring to a boil, skim thoroughly and 
set aside until perfectly cold. Then add 
the pulp to the vinegar, stir well, put 
into pint jars, lay a nasturtium or 
horseradish leaf over the top and seal. 
Keep in a dark, cool place. 
Cucumbers canned as follows will 
keep until the following June, and are 
excellent to serve with meat or salad: 
Peel and slice thin medium-sized cu¬ 
cumbers, sprinkle with salt and a little 
alum; let stand two hours; drain and 
put in jars, adding vinegar enough to 
cover, pepper and a few whole mustard 
seeds, the quantity of pepper to be gov¬ 
erned by the taste, and the whole pepper 
to be used in preference to the ground. 
On top of the jar, when ready for seal¬ 
ing, add a dessertspoonful of olive oil. 
Grapes are at the housekeeper’s dis¬ 
posal long after the berries are gone. 
Grape roll is a nice pastry dessert, and 
is usually liked. Allow half the weight 
of the grapes in sugar and only water 
enough to keep from burning; seed the 
grapes; allow one pint of cooked grapes 
for the roil. To make the dough cream 
one-half teacupful of butter with one 
pint of sifted flour; add one teacupful 
of milk, two eggs well beaten, a salt- 
spoonful of salt and a teaspoonful of 
baking powder; roll out on the board 
in two long ovals, roll up and pinch the 
ends, lay in a buttered dish, set tne dish 
to bake and twice pour over them a 
sauce of a tablespoonful of butter and a 
tablespoonful of sugar mixed together, 
to which is added one-half teacupful of 
boiling water (for one basting). Serve 
the rolls with the same kind of sauce 
made richer and flavored with nutmeg. 
Sunshiny Women. 
Earl Gray gave some good and whole¬ 
some counsel to the young girls of New- 
castle-on-Tyne, England, when the foun¬ 
dation stone of a new high school was 
laid. The new girl, like the new woman, 
he said, wished to have a principal hand 
In making the top of the world spin 
round. In order to do that she must be 
properly equipped, and she needed to 
equip herself with a good character, 
high spirits and mental alertness. 
The world might say that education 
could not make an ugly face into a 
pretty one. But the connection between 
pleasing and attractive looks and a well- 
instructed, happy and contented mind 
was far more intimate than many per¬ 
sons suppose. Therefore, a cheerful 
character and an alert mind gave the 
pleasant countenance which made the 
society which gathered round it happy 
and contented. He advised girls to cul¬ 
tivate cheerfulness and mental alert¬ 
ness, and to remember that the woman 
who got success in this world was the 
one who had the knack of making peo¬ 
ple round her happy and contented—the 
woman who had the habit of contented 
cheerfulness, and who did not think 
anything worth troubling about, so far 
as it concerned herself, unless it left an 
ugly weight upon her mind and con¬ 
science when she came to die. 
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