1902 
327 
The Household Congress. 
Home Paper Hanging. —Experience 
has shown me that flour paste is not 
nearly so satisfactory in its results as 
laundry starch. Prepare by moistening 
a cupful or so of starch with cold water, 
pour boiling water on the mass, stirring 
constantly till of the proper consistency; 
cool before using. Many amateurs make 
the mistake of using too little paste on 
the paper. sweet fern. 
New York. 
Trying Out Rough Lard. —This is an 
excellent and well-tested method. After 
the lard is cut up and ready to put in 
soak in salt water, add a teaspoonful of 
baking soda to the water; change the 
water once or twice, then drain off and 
put the fat in a kettle containing a quart 
of water or more. Two tablespoonfuls of 
salt are then put in the fat. Let it boil 
an hour or so; then pour through a tin 
sieve or colander. Set the water and 
lard away to cool; then skim off the lard 
and cook out what water is left. If any¬ 
one has a better way I should like to see 
it in print. mks. c. g. l. 
New York. 
Hard Soap. —As every little helps to 
reduce the expenses of a household, a 
good recipe for making soap is given, 
as this is no small item in the expenses 
of a farmer’s family. Five pounds clear 
strained grease, melted but not hot; one 
10-cent can of potash; one tablespoon¬ 
ful of borax. Dissolve the potash over 
night in one quart of cold water, then 
turn the melted grease on the water, 
stirring constantly for 10 minutes, or un¬ 
til it looks like honey. Pour into a sheet 
iion pan with a greased paper in the bot¬ 
tom; when sufficiently hardened turn out 
and cut into squares. If a scent is de¬ 
sired put in five drops of oil of berga¬ 
mot or sassafras. s. s. a. 
New Jersey. 
Bottling Green Fruit. —If one cares 
foi pies in Winter made of green goose¬ 
berries or green currants they can be 
perfectly kept by putting them while 
green and firm into black bottles. Have 
berries and bottles perfectly dry, fill the 
bottles full, cork tightly, and tie a piece 
of bedticking tight over the top. Lay 
the bottles on their sides in a dark cor¬ 
ner of the cellar; they will be just as 
fresh when opened as on the day they 
were picked. It is a saving of time, 
sugar, fuel, cans and discomfort to your¬ 
self from standing over the fire, during 
the canning process. Huckleberries can 
be done up the same way, but must be 
picked while very firm, as a few soft 
ones would spoil a bottle. I have had 
excellent success with them, however. 
Rhode Island. s. I. c. 
The Farm Garden. 
The advice from the highest authori¬ 
ties that farmers should raise all the 
feed possible for their stock, thus avoid¬ 
ing the spending of money for high- 
priced feed stuffs, holds equally true in 
regard to providing for the farmer’s 
own family. It may seem easier to buy 
than to bother with a garden, but when 
a farmer sells any of his produce and 
takes the proceeds and buys something 
which he might raise on his land, he is 
selling cheap and buying dear, and the 
chances are that he gets an inferior ar¬ 
ticle. When one sees how city people 
live, having to buy every least thing 
they need, one comes to appreciate a 
good vegetable garden. The farmer has 
to buy sugar, breadstuffs, condiments 
and more or less meat, but aside from 
these, if he has a good garden, he is 
practically independent of grocerymen, 
and can live better than the rich people 
in the city. The perfect vegetable gar¬ 
den has a two-fold character; that is, to 
supply the table in Summer, and to 
stock the cellar with an abundant sup¬ 
ply of Winter vegetables. Hardly any 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
piece of land is suitable for all the va¬ 
rieties one needs to raise. If possible, 
the Summer vegetables should be grown 
near the house, so that the housekeeper 
need not spend too much time in travel¬ 
ing back and forth to gather things. 
The Winter vegetables may be grown 
farther away, as they will all be har¬ 
vested at one time. 
In our own case the garden near the 
house is a heavy loam, and never can 
be plowed till quite late. Here we have 
our tomatoes, beans, corn, beets, pars¬ 
nips, cucumbers, onions, squashes, tur¬ 
nips and celery. Peas have to go on 
some earlier land; lettuce we had last 
year on the sunny side of a stone wall, 
in the strawberry bed; radishes would 
have done well there also. Potatoes and 
cabbages were grown in a field at some 
distance from the house. We always 
make a plan of our garden, on ruled 
paper, using as many lines as there will 
bo rows. Then the seed box is examined 
to find out how many seeds we have on 
hand, and then the list of those wanted 
is made out and sent to a reliable seeds¬ 
man. There is always a risk in buying 
seeds of a grocer, but if one patronizes 
a reliable firm he may be tolerably sure 
that everything he gets will be satis¬ 
factory. The seeds needed to supply 
even a small family with all kinds of 
vegetables will amount to quite a little 
sum, and it may seem an extravagance 
to spend so much, but if one stops to 
think he will very soon see that there 
could be no better investment of money. 
A few pecks of green peas at 60 cents a 
peck would probably cover the cost of 
seed for a whole year’s vegetables. The 
plan should be made and the seed order¬ 
ed some little time before planting so 
that there will be no delay. 
We get more than one variety of some 
of the vegetables. We want early, me¬ 
dium and late corn, and for beans we get 
some bush variety, and of pole kinds an 
early and a late string and some good 
shell bean. Of the latter we like to have 
a quantity for Winter use. Besides 
these annuals, rhubarb, dandelions and 
asparagus should be provided for; they 
come at a trying time to the house¬ 
keeper, when the Winter vegetables are 
gone and the Summer ones have not 
come. A plentiful supply of all kinds 
of vegetables will be a great help to a 
housekeeper in supplying her table with 
a pleasing variety in both Summer and 
Winter. susan brown robbins. 
Suggestions from Michigan. 
A little girl on a farm was given for 
Christmas a 15-cent can of black paint. 
This applied to a small space on the 
wall of the living room has made a 
blackboard, which has given hours of 
innocent amusement to several children, 
who otherwise might have said: “What 
shall we play now?” 
A washing machine with a cover 
causes the water to retain the heat and 
saves having to reheat the dirty suds, 
which sets into the fabric badly. The 
woman who cannot wash right along 
without interruption should provide 
herself with one. 
A woman who has the stockings to 
darn for 12 people gives this as her way. 
Instead of doing it every week she 
washes them and puts mates together, 
putting the whole ones away and keep¬ 
ing the worn ones in a basket. Once in 
about four weeks she has a “stocking 
day,” and darns those having the 
smaller holes. When the boys’ ribbed 
stockings are badly worn at the knee 
she replaces with a patch as near alike 
in color as possible, and just above tne 
heel she cuts the leg off and turns it 
around, so that the patch comes under 
the knee. This woman buys the “foot” 
GRAIN-0! GRAIN-0! 
Remember that name when you want a delicious, 
■appetizing. nourishing food drink to take the place 
of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all who 
have used it. Gralu-0 is made of pure grain, It aids 
digestion and strengthens the 'nerves. It Is not a 
stimulant but a health builder and the children as 
well as the adults cun drink it with great benefit. 
Costs about M as much as coffee. 15c. and 26c. per 
package. Ask your grocer for Grain-0 
which replaces a worn foot so easily, 
and for men’s socks she thinks it better 
to replace with new after a certain 
amount of darning, as there are many 
uses to which both cotton and woolen 
socks can be put. Whenever a hole is 
seen in a stocking it is a kindness to 
the one who mends it to change it at 
once. 
Housecleaning is now upon us. Much 
can be done in the two months prior to 
the attack which will help matters to 
go off more smoothly and rapidly then. 
Most painters and paperhangers are 
rushed at that time, and if you can have 
part of the work done earlier you’ll find 
it cheaper and much more satisfactory. 
New draperies, sash curtains and such 
things can be provided beforehand. A 
great deal of the Spring sewing can be 
done in late Winter so that sewing, 
housecleaning, gardening and perhaps a 
spell of sickness in the family shall not 
all come at once. J. J. g. 
The best lamp 
in the world is not 
best, without the 
chimney 
for it. 
I make 
Macbeth. 
DIETZ 
MONARCH 
LANTERNS 
A simple, safe, practical standard 
Blze lantern for all general uses. 
Burns kerosene 17 hours. If not sold 
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or more prepaid at $1 each. Our 
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dUrCIlD 20 named kinds, SI. 
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UAHLIAO H. F. BURT, Taunton, Mass 
My name on every one. 
If you’ll send your address, I’ll send you 
the Index to Lamps and their Chimneys, to 
tell you what number to get for your lamp. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
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