THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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A Homemade Window Mop. 
Von have doubtless seen the patented 
window mop for sale in stores at 75 
cents, which though good will not last 
a great length of time, and the econom¬ 
ical housewife hesitates at buying an 
article which cannot be warranted to 
last forever. A certain ingenious house¬ 
wife looked and hesitated, then went 
home and made herself not only one 
window mop, but two of different sizes, 
which although not patented work like 
a charm, and satisfy all requirements. 
For the first she took an old broom 
handle, and to the top end nailed a short 
strip of wood. Then she cut some large 
pieces of cotton stockinet (not linty) 
and cut a round hole in the center large 
enough to insert on the broom handle 
and strung them on the handle above 
A HOMEMADE WINDOW MOP. Fig. 263. 
the cross piece at end, folding flat over 
this, two or three thicknesses as de¬ 
sk ed. Then with cotton yarn she 
stitched back and forth on the outer 
side of stick, and a nice soft window 
mop was made. Fig. 263 shows the 
frame at left; completed mop at right. 
No need of taking the windows out any 
more; she could stand outside and reach 
all in the lower story from the ground. 
Next she took a croquet mallet handle 
and made a small mop with which she 
could wash the upper part of the sec¬ 
ond story windows, which all house¬ 
keepers know are so seldom moved that 
they invariably stick, and are so diffi¬ 
cult to clean from the inside. One can 
make any number and have dry mops 
and wet mops to order, and cover with 
anything desired. Old calico or gingham 
makes excellent mops, as that seldom 
sheds lint. ai.lce e. pinney. 
The Useful Cistern. 
When the water supply is of such im¬ 
portance in family hygiene, as well as a 
matter of convenience to the household, 
one wonders when passing through the 
country why there are so few cisterns. 
Even where the buildings are in good 
repair, nice carriages and horses kept, 
and musical instruments are found, too 
often the water is carried by hand from 
a distant spring or well, when at a 
slight expense a plentiful supply of pure 
water might be furnished in the kitchen. 
Where there is a living spring at an ele¬ 
vation so that it can be brought to the 
house by a pipe, well-directed energy 
and perseverance will solve the water 
supply problem. If a cistern and rain 
water must be depended upon, choose 
the site with reference to the necessary 
drain for the overflow pipe and the best 
place to catch the water from the roof, 
keeping in mind meanwhile the distance 
from the kitchen stove, as every foot 
the water has to be carried increases 
the work. Sometimes the most avail- 
aide place is under the porch or shed, 
for the pipe .connecting with the pump 
can be bent at quite an angle. The ex- 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
While Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
cavation can be made by unskilled labor 
with proper instructions. Most farms 
can furnish the stones for laying tne 
walls. The expense is then reduced to 
the work of the mason and the cost of 
the water lime, cement and pump. The 
filter is of great importance, and the 
cover should be absolutely mouse and 
bug-tight—yet having an opening large 
enough easily to admit a person to 
clean the filter and cistern. The ex¬ 
pense is slightly increased if the cistern 
is dug and laid deep enough to avoid all 
danger of freezing over in the severest 
Winter, but it is repaid by not having 
to bank it in the Fall. Then if the pump 
is carefully emptied each time after 
using no anxiety need be felt regarding 
its safety from frost. The sink di'ain 
pipe can be connected with the drain al¬ 
ready spoken of as necessary for the 
overflow pipe in the cistern if care is 
taken so no possible chance can force 
the water backward into the cistern. A 
strainer and trap in the sink should be 
insisted upon, as they prevent the pipe 
clogging and the escape of foul air. 
EVANGEL. 
Buying a Range. 
When a man contemplates buying a 
bicycle, he accumulates catalogues, 
studies up the merits of the standard 
makes, and consults bicycle-riding 
friends about the character and wearing 
qualities of their machines. When at 
length he is reasonably sure which is 
the best machine, he is ready to pur¬ 
chase. Now why should not a woman 
who is starting in housekeeping, exer¬ 
cise as much care and judgment in buy¬ 
ing her kitchen range? It has to be 
used more days in the year than a 
bicycle, and on its proper construction 
depend economy of fuel and the ease 
with which she can do her work. Yet 
in many homes one sees kitchen stoves 
with fanciful names, made by unknown 
firms, and which are wasteful of fuel 
and generally unsatisfactory. If one 
finds that a number of experienced 
housekeepers use a certain standard 
make of ranges and find them good, and 
if their method of managing them co¬ 
incides with one’s own ideas, then it is 
a good deal safer to buy that make than 
to rely on what the hardware man, who 
is anxious to introduce some new kind, 
tells you. The standard makes may not 
be as ornate as the new ones, but if the 
castings are plainer it will be easier to 
keep clean, and in 10 years’ time it will 
look better than the more fanciful ones. 
When the range is decided upon, if an 
intelligent, rational woman is to have 
the management of it, she should get 
the dealer to show and explain the con¬ 
struction to her. Never mind if it does 
make him trouble; that is, or should be, 
a part of his business. Make him take 
the stove all to pieces if necessary. It 
is not enough to know that shutting this 
slide will send the heat around the 
oven, and this side of the oven will be 
the hottest. To use the range intelli¬ 
gently one should thoroughly under¬ 
stand its every part, and know why the 
dampers have the effect they do, and 
why one part of the oven is hotter than 
another. Don’t be put off by being told 
'that you don’t care anything about 
knowing these things or that you would 
not understand, but insist on knowing 
just how the flames go around the oven, 
and just what the slides and dampers 
do. A properly constructed range 
should have facilities for being shut up 
tightly enough so that a coal fire will 
keep, with hardly any change, from 
night till morning, and then by shaking 
down and opening up be ready for use in 
10 or 15 minutes. This latter will, of 
course, depend somewhat upon the draft 
of the chimney. With a stove of this 
kind it is far cheaper to run a coal fire 
all the time than to let it go out at 
night and rekindle in the morning. 
Then, too, it can be shut up when not 
needed, and the fire held in check, and 
fuel saved, till it is wanted. To keep 
the stove in the best running order the | 
ashes should be cleared out often; not 
only the ash-pan emptied frequently, 
but, less often the ashes cleared out 
over and under the oven. 
SUSAN BROWN ROBBINS. 
The Household Congress. 
Old-Style Molasses Cake. —One and 
a half cupful of syrup, one cupful sour 
milk, one cupful butter, one-half cup¬ 
ful vinegar, one-third cupful ginger; a 
teaspoonful soda and a small piece of 
alum dissolved in a little hot water. 
This makes two tins full. Alice cake: 
Five cupfuls of flour, one of sugar, one 
of butter, one-half cupful of molasses, 
four eggs, one teaspoonful of cloves or 
other spices, one of soda. Cup cake: 
One cupful of butter, two of sugar, three 
of flour, four eggs well beaten, one large 
teaspoonful of baking powder, drop in 
small cups. aunt bachel. 
Boston Brown Bread. —Two cupfuls 
Indian meal; one cupful whole wheat 
flour; one cupful sour milk; one-third 
cupful molasses; one teaspoonful soda; 
one-half teaspoonful salt. Mix and 
steam three hours, then brown in hot 
oven with the lid removed 'from the 
can. There are tin molds made smaller 
at the bottom than the top, so the loaf 
slips out nicely—the lid fitting on the 
outside of the tin to prevent the water 
getting in the bread, but any small tin 
pail with tight lid will answer the pur¬ 
pose. It is better to place an iron lid o: 
ring in the bottom of the kettle to pre¬ 
vent the mold from coming too close to 
I he fire. Slice around the loaf, not pre- 
pendieularly. It is nice warmed over 
for breakfast, eaten with good butter. 
aunt anna. 
With the Procession. 
We can stand the smart of yesterday, 
To-day’s worse ills we can drive away, 
What was and is bring no dismay, 
For past and present sorrow; 
But the burdens that make us groan and 
sweat, 
The troubles that make us fume and fret, 
Are the things that haven’t happened yet, 
The pins that we’ll find to-morrow. 
—Burdette. 
Manners easily and rapidly mature 
into morals.—Horace Mann. 
Girls and boys should meet and min¬ 
gle together without having the personal 
element made prominent. It is well for 
the sexes to attend schools in which the 
classes are open to both, at least during 
the period between eight and 15 years. 
Meeting at recitations and on the play¬ 
ground on terms of equality, the stupidi¬ 
ties of a too early budding sentiment 
are avoided. Older people are to blame 
when they stimulate the vanity of a lit¬ 
tle girl or awaken awkwardness in a boy 
by absurd allusions to sweethearts and 
beaux. Fortunately, this is less common 
than in a former day, probably Decause 
athletic sports and education in child¬ 
hood have made the relations of growing- 
young people as simple and natural in 
the community as in the family.—Credit 
I.ost. 
A Generation Ago 
coffee could only be 
bought in bulk. The 
20th century way is the 
LION COFFEE 
way—sealed pack¬ 
ages, always clean, 
fresh and retaining 
its rich flavor. 
When you write advertisers mention TUB 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
’’asquaredeal.” Seeour guarantee 8th page. 
GRAIN-0! GRAIN-0! 
Remember that name when you want a delicious, 
appetizing, nourishing food drink to take the place 
of coffee. Bold by all grocers and liked by all who 
have used it. Graln-0 is made of pure grain, it aids 
digestioii and strengthens the nerves. It is not a 
stimulant hut a health builder and the children as 
well as the adults can drink it with great benefit. 
Costs about li as much as coffee. 15c. and 2oc. per 
package. Ask your grocer for Graln-O 
ORCHESTRA 
Instruments, Violins, Banjos, 
CUITARS, MANDOLINS. 
etc. Lyon & Healy and "Washburn ’' 
instruments are in use everywhere. Ask 
your local music dealer for them, and if 
he doesn’t keep them write to us for 
"Dept. G" Catalog, illustrated, mailed 
free. It tells how to judge quality and 
gives full particulars. If you are wise 
you will secure an instrument with a 
mathemathlcallv correct finger board and a full rich 
tone, one that will give satisfaction for a lifetime. 
LYON A HEALY,ID East AdamsISt., Chicago, III. 
lio World's Largest Music House. "Sells Everything Knoan in Music. 
TRY THEM 30 DAYS, 
at the end of that time ship them back to us 
and nothing to pay if you don’t find in our 
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the best bargain yon can get anywhere. There 
is no more advantageous way for you to buy 
anything. You take no chances. And we- well, 
we know what these vehicles are, what is in 
them, and whether you are likely to buy. .We 
make them ourselves from the raw materials. 
Split Hickory is split hickory, and not sawed. 
That means the best wood in them possible to 
get. Everything else is of the 
same order of excellence. 
Write for our free catalog. It 
gives the free trial plan of selling 
and describes everything. 
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Great seller—big money maker. 
Enormous demand. Over 60,000 al- 
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, purities the fonlest water by dis- 
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■“ Furnishes absolutely pure, aeru- 
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The Best 
Farmer’s Garments 
made anywhere are Keystone 
Union-Made Overalls and Pants. 
Two garments like this, with 
coats to match, costing less than 
82 a suit, will clothe a farmer 
neatly one year. Ask for lots 66, 
67 or 58, in stripes—or if you 
prefer blue, lot 18. With each 
suit a 6 months’ Diary and 
Time Book free. If your 
dealer will not furnish Key- 
stonegoods.sendhis name, 
and we’ll supply you. 
Cleveland & Whitehill Co. 
Newburgh, N. Y. 
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sure to obtain all the news of the day, and infor¬ 
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at the same time. The Thrice-a-Week World is a 
clean, reliable newspaper, and the low figure at 
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New-Yorker, should make the combination un¬ 
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9 7 STYLES AMO SIZES HEATING STOVES. 
AH Kinds Hot- Blast and Oak Stoves, Wood Heaters and Base Burners. 
*8 Oak Stove if 8.85.—*20 Base Burner If l O. #4 Air Tight if 1.1)5. 
03 DIFFERENT COOK STOVES & RANGES. 
We Have All Styles and Sizes. You Can Have Exactly What You Want, 
if 15 Cook Stove <>8.75. *20 Cook Stove if 12.-*23 Cast Range if 14. 
SB STYLES AND SIZES STEEL RANGES. 
Made of Heavy Steel Plates Riveted as Tightly as Steam Boilers. 
?95 FOR THIS STOVE 
WITHOUT RESERVOIR 
265 
lbs 
OVEN 18X18X13 INCHES 
Will outlast 2ordinary Steel Ranges. Prices from *16. 50 upward. Every Stove and Range Guaranteed and Shipped on Trial. 
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