1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
599 
A Vegetable Symposium. 
A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR “GARDEN 8A8S.” 
This is the season when vege¬ 
tables and fruits of all sorts are espec¬ 
ially plentiful, and it is a pity not to 
make the best of them. Here are some 
suggestions, for which we are indebted 
to the American Kitchen Magazine and 
several other authorities. 
Summer Squashes are delicious if 
picked off the vines when not larger 
than eggs, boiled whole in slightly salt¬ 
ed water, and served in cream sauce. 
The vines continue to yield abundantly 
when treated in this way. 
Watermelons make rather an un¬ 
tidy course when served in ordinary 
slices, because every slice leaves so 
much refuse rind. A better way is to 
cut the melon in halves, and with a 
tablespoon inserted perpendicularly and 
turned around in the pulp, scoop out 
oval pieces, serving two or more on 
each plate. Dried and candied water¬ 
melon rind is often used in the South, 
in place of citron, in cake. The rind is 
cut into two or three-inch lengths, and 
cooked in a thick, heavy syrup. When 
used, a few slices are taken out at a 
time, and dried in the oven. 
Potato Omelet will make a change. 
Boil peeled potatoes until well done, 
drain very dry, and mash until fine and 
light. To one quart of mashed pota¬ 
toes, add a teaspoonful salt, quarter 
teaspoonful pepper, two level teaspoon¬ 
fuls butter. Beat well, and add half a 
cupful of hot milk, a little at a time. 
Put into an omelet pan (many of us don’t 
possess that, and must use an everyday 
skillet), a tablespoonful of butter. When 
hot, turn in the potatoes, and level the 
top. Cover the pan, and set on the 
stove where the omelet will cook slow¬ 
ly and brown in 12 minutes. Fold and 
turn on hot platter. Serve at once. 
Sugar-Beet Pudding. —Boil beets un¬ 
til just tender, peel, and cut into small 
dice. To one pint of the beets, add one 
pint milk, two or three eggs, salt and 
pepper to taste, and a little nutmeg; 
pour the ingredients into an earthen 
dish, and bake until the custard is set. 
Serve as a vegetable. This recipe was 
given as a southern dish oy the late 
Juliet Corson. 
Fried Summer Squash. —Cut the 
squash in thin slices, and sprinkle with 
salt. Allow it to stand a few minutes, 
then dip the slices in well-beaten egg, 
seasoned with salt and pepper, fry until 
brown in butter, and serve at- once. 
Corn Chowder. —This is one of Miss 
Bedford’s recipes, and is excellent. 
Chop fine one-quarter pound of salt pork, 
put in kettle, and when well tried out, 
add two white onions sliced thin. 
Brown lightly, then add one pint of raw 
diced potatoes, one can of corn, or its 
equivalent in green corn cut off the cob, 
and sufficient uo.ling water to cover. 
When the potatoes are tender, stir in 
two tablespoonfuls of flour, blended with 
one of butter, one teaspoonful of salt, 
one saltspoonful of white pepper and 
one quart of boiling milk. Simmer five 
minutes longer, add one cupful of hard 
crackers, broken into bits, and serve. 
Kohl-Rabi, or turnip-rooted cabbage, 
is not very often seen on American 
tables. It is practically, a cabbage 
which has developed a turnip-like root 
rather than a solid head of leaves, and 
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its flavor is like a combination between 
cauliflower and young turnip. It may 
be plainly boiled, and served with white 
sauce, or treated as follows: Strip the 
leaves from the tuoer, and boil them in 
salted water. Peel and slice the tubers, 
and boil separately; when cooked, drain 
both roots and leaves, chop, and mix to¬ 
gether. Brown a tablespoonful of but¬ 
ter and a little Hour in a saucepan, add 
the kohl-rabi and cook for a minute, 
then add a cupful of meat broth and 
boil thoroughly; serve very hot. 
Muskmelon in Syrup. —This recipe of 
Miss Corson’s suggests a change in 
dessert when the family grows a little 
tired of the uncooKed fruit and de¬ 
mands some sort of “sauce.” Make a 
rich syrup from one pound of white 
sugar to half a pint of water. Peel and 
slice the melon, and boil it gently in the 
syrup 5 to 10 minutes, flavoring with 
vanilla or lemon. Then place it in the 
dish in which it is to be served cool the 
syrup and pour it over the fruit. Serve 
cold. 
Good Sense in Marriage. 
The ideal marriage is not the result 
of any arts or artifices on either side, 
it is the result of commanding emotion 
on both sides sanctioned by good sense, 
says Helen Watterson Moody in Modes 
and Fabrics. The man who marries a 
woman or the woman who marries a 
man out of any otner motive than that 
he or she sees no other way to be happy, 
takes a greater risk than I, for one, or 
any sane person should wish to take. 
Observe that I say, “no other way to 
be happy.” For of that one should be 
sure first. The mere fact that two per¬ 
sons love each other is by no means an 
assurance that they will be happy in 
marriage. It is much the fashion to 
consider that love is a kind of divine 
madness whose impulses one is bound 
always to trust and obey. How many 
times have you and I known the most 
unpropitious and disastrous engage¬ 
ments accepteu wufi the hesitant reflec¬ 
tion, “Oh, well! if they love one an¬ 
other.” But some of the most unhappy 
and even tragm marriages I have ever 
known have been u.ose in which the 
young lovers were at the first pro¬ 
foundly in love with each other. This 
leads me to the sincere belief that love 
is only one of the necessary ingredients 
of happiness in marriage, though it is, 
to be sure, the one which we cannot 
reckon without. I would counsel young 
women to take account of many other 
things than love in considering an offer 
of marriage—good character anu a seri¬ 
ous purpose in lire, and an instinct for 
unselfish consideration for others. 
These, too are things that are needed 
to make a happy marriage quite as much 
as love. It has been my observation 
that a great many so-called happy mar¬ 
riages are seriously marred on the in¬ 
side by flaws in me character which 
could be remedied by a little under¬ 
standing of tne importance of it and a 
determined purpose to make marriage 
as happy as it should be. Such faults 
as these are selfishness, distrust, pe¬ 
nuriousness, bad temper and intemper¬ 
ance. No girl’s happiness is safe in 
marriage with a man in whom any one 
of these is a dominant trait, no matter 
how much they may love each other. 
With the Procession. 
... .The toll of an ordinary ship passing 
through the Suez Canal averages about 
$4,000. The distance is 92 miles. 
....Let Sorrow and Trouble introduce 
you to Wisdom, Gentleness and Patience 
rather than through them become ac¬ 
quainted with Discontent and Vexation 
of Spirit. 
....The following list shows the dura¬ 
tion of the longest day in various places 
all over the world: New York has, so to 
say, the shortest longest day, which is 
about 15 hours long; while in Montreal 
it is 16. London and Bremen each bask 
in a 16% hours’ length of day, closely 
followed by Hamburg and Dantzig with 
30 minutes more. The longest day 
in Stockholm lasts 18% hours; but both 
St. Petersburg and Tobolsk, Siberia, go 
one better with a day of exactly 19 hours 
—and their shortest 5 hours. June 21, 
brings to Tornea, Finland, a Summer day 
nearly 22 hours long—and Christmas 
Day 2% hours only. The foregoing 
lengthy days, however, are easily left be¬ 
hind by Wardburg, Norway, which 
boasts of a day lasting without break 
from May 21 to June 22; but even this 
is surpassed by Spitzbergen, where the 
longest day is something like 3% 
months. 
_In two States—viz., New York and 
Ohio—clauses have been introduced for¬ 
bidding the employment by railways and 
other common carriers of passengers, of 
persons known to be addicted to the use 
of intoxicants. In the latter State, the 
common carrier must be notified that 
such person has been known to be in¬ 
toxicated while in said carrier’s “active” 
employment, in order to bind the car¬ 
rier with knowledge.—Popular Science 
Monthly. 
....The cost of Solomon’s Temple has 
been estimated by an eminent Old Testa¬ 
ment student to exceed $50,000,000,000. 
In the first place, the value of the ma¬ 
terials in the rough is estimated at 
$12,500,000,000, and the labor at $3,000,- 
000,000. The vessels of gold were 
valued at $2,326,481,015; the vessels of 
silver at $3,231,715,000; the vestments 
of the priests and u.e robes of the sing¬ 
ers at $10,050,000, and the trumpets of 
gold at $1,000,000. 
....Caviar, which is made from stur¬ 
geon eggs salted in brine, is the most 
costly product of the fisheries of this 
country; and wh..e largely relished by 
epicures, a taste for it must usually be 
acquired. Until recently its manufac¬ 
ture was monopolized by the Russians, 
most of it being prepared on the Volga 
River and Caspian Sea, and at the pres¬ 
ent time about 8,000,000 pounds of it 
are exported annually from the domin¬ 
ions of the Czar. 
... .Upon all those who are ambitious to 
make the world happier and better rests 
the obligation of drilling the tongue into 
lustrous kindness, purity and refine¬ 
ment. Not by spasmodic efforts, not 
with occasional hints and words of good 
cheer, are men to use the tongue in the 
interests of happiness. The daily drill 
of the tongue as an instrument of happi¬ 
ness and influence is to enter into the 
fundamental conception of living.—Rev. 
N. D. Hillis. 
....It is remarked that the faculty for 
the acquisition of different languages 
gives more cause for vanity than any 
other. He who knows two languages is 
able to express his thoughts to two per¬ 
sons; this is very valuable, but it is not 
necessarily a double means of thought. 
And yet we see that the expert linguist 
is generally found more proud of his 
gifts and more vain than the deep 
thinker and knower. So, with the Cor¬ 
inthians, this gift produced more vanity 
than the more useful ones of prophecy 
and teaching.—Rev. F. Robertson. 
....It has been discovered that the 
much discussed smoke nuisance is by no 
means a modern annoyance. About 600 
years ago, when the population of Lon¬ 
don did not exceed 50,000, its citizens 
petitioned King Edward I. to prohibit 
the use of “sea coal,” and he responded 
by making its consumption a capital 
offense. This degree was subsequently 
revoked; but in the reign of Queen 
Elizabeth there were loud complaints, 
against the nuisance. In 1661 John 
Evelyn, in his “Fumifugium,” lamented 
that “owing to the increase of coal 
smoke the gardens ncr longer are fruit¬ 
ful.” 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
_The Montreal Street Railway Com¬ 
pany has at its own cost insured all its 
employees against accident or total dis¬ 
ablement to the extent of $1,000. A sub¬ 
stantial increase of wages has been 
granted to all motormen and conductors 
who have been in the service of the com¬ 
pany for two years, while free uniforms 
will be supplied to those of five years’ 
standing. These concessions, which 
have been granted by the company of 
its own volition, will mean the payment 
of about $35,000 extra per annum to the 
men.—Philadelphia Record. 
... .No person of refinement and culture 
can doubt that irreverence is one of the 
perils of our nay. In former times 
men entered the cathedral rich with 
colored glass, witli marble and pictures 
and rare tapestries, to whitewash the 
frescoes, smash statues, and use the 
paintings and tapestries for doormats. 
But it has been reserved for our genera¬ 
tion to enter the temple of reverence to 
destroy all ideals,- to rob the noble 
names of their grandeur and the noblest 
places of their majesty. - To-day vulgar¬ 
ity permits sanctity to attach to few ob¬ 
jects or ideas.—Jtcev. N. D. Hillis. 
jypCBETH’ S “pearl top” 
and “pearl glass” lamp- 
chimneys are carefully made 
of clear tough glass; they fit, 
and pfet the utmost light from 
the lamp, and they last until 
some accident breaks them. 
“ Pearl top ” and “ pearl 
glass ” are trade-marks. Look 
out for them and you needn’t 
be an expert. 
Our “Index” describes all lamps and their 
proper chimneys. With it you can always order 
the right size and shape of chimney for any lamp. 
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yard—neat imported suitings among 
them. 
Odd lots 25 to 35c. Dress goods and 
wool suitings XO ana 15c. yard. 
New season’s Dress goods beginning 
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of room made for them double quick. 
So we’re hurrying out all the broken 
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will make them go, and give any num¬ 
ber of people who are planning for girls’ 
Fall school wear, and for skirts and 
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Odd lots, of course—but the goods are 
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get samples and see will say is a de¬ 
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little money. 
Handling odd lots of fine silks just as 
vigorously. Rich Fancy Taffetas 50c. 
yard that will be proof thereof. 
Lot of choice wash goods 5c. yard— 
good styles, useful the year ’round. 
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