1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
663 
strain through a colander, add a piece 
of butter, and serve hot. Sometimes I 
vary this soup by adding tomatoes. 
Served in either way, the soup brings 
no reminder of baked beans. 
Many people throw away the oyster 
stew that is, of necessity, sometimes 
left, for w'armed-over oysters taste 
warmed over. But an oyster omelet is 
excellent. To make this, I add a table¬ 
spoonful of rolled cracker crumbs to 
each cupful of soup, and let them soak 
while I beat to a froth as many eggs as 
there were cupfuls of soup. I chop the 
oysters and add them, with the eggs, to 
the soup and crackers. Salt sparingly. 
The skillets, well buttered, should he hot 
over the fire. Turn the omelet in to the 
depth of half an inch or so. When set, 
put on the upper grate of the hot oven 
to brown on top. Serve on a hot platter. 
When eating the omelet, no one asks 
me whether it is made from the remains 
of the oyster stew. 
Chicken is usually accompanied by 
mashed potato. When a little of both 
is left from dinner, I make a breakfast 
dish by picking the meat from the hones, 
and putting it, with the gravy, into a 
granite-ware basin. Then I spread the 
mashed potato over, and it is ready for 
the oven. Bake for 20 minutes. Other 
cold meats can be served in the same 
way. 
When a little stewed sweet corn is 
left, it may have a beaten egg added 
with a saltspoonful of salt, and enough 
Hour to make a thin batter. This should 
be fried after the manner of griddle 
cakes. 
Wiien stewed turnip is left from a 
meal, if there is enough to save for an¬ 
other meal, it may be simply steamed 
over, or it may be heated in butter, in 
the fryingpan, being stirred occasionally. 
CARRIE B. SANBORN. 
HOW A MAN CANS TOMATOES. 
Selecting perfectly ripe and perfectly 
sound tomatoes, I scalded them suffi¬ 
ciently so that the skins could be easily 
removed. Previously I had procured one 
dozen three-quart jugs with a nozzle re¬ 
quiring a 2%-inch cork. I selected sound 
corks. 1 put my tomatoes in a porcelain 
kettle and brought them to the boiling 
point for five minutes. While hot, I 
filled a jug, being careful to have the 
jug sitting in hot water, so that it would 
not break. As soon as the jug was full 
1 drove the cork in solid, and so con¬ 
tinued to fill the dozen jugs. When cool, 
I make a wax of resin and tallow suffi¬ 
ciently soft so that it could be easily 
melted. This I ran around every cork, 
making the stopper air-tight. I then re¬ 
moved the jugs to a dark store-room and 
turned them on the nozzle end. When 
one year old, I had as fine fruit as was 
ever seen to come from a can, perfect in 
flavor. Tomatoes put up in that way I 
have opened three yea-s after, in fine 
condition. In 1884, I put up 170 such 
jugs, and they were used as wanted in 
my hotel as late as the season of 1887, 
and pronounced very fine. n. A. w. 
PUTTING AWAY SUMMER CLOTHING. 
There is a common belief that it is not 
necessary to pack away clothing in the 
Fall as in Spring, as one does not have 
to secure it so closely from moths. Yet 
there is a best way to do it, if one would 
unpack satisfactorily in the Spring. The 
first thing needful is to brush and clean 
hats, wraps and light woolens free from 
dust. Millinery should be packed care¬ 
fully in boxes, and covered with tissue 
paper. When folding wraps or jackets, 
turn wrong side out and put one sleeve 
carefully inside the other, and the gar¬ 
ment will fold together nicely. An old- 
fashioned chest is just the thing to hold 
dress skirts and waists. It is a good 
plan to place any that need remodeling 
or repairing where they can he found 
without disturbing the others, as we 
should find time during the Winter to 
put them in good condition. 
It is a good plan to wash and iron 
white skirts, shirt waists and cotton 
dresses as fast as we finish wearing 
them, and pack them away. The old 
idea of washing them without starching, 
or leaving them hanging or lying around 
all Winter in a half-soiled condition, for 
fear the starch would rot them, or they 
would turn yellow, is absurd. There is no 
better time than the present for whiten¬ 
ing clothes, and the sun will not fade the 
delicate colors. It is also much pleas¬ 
anter ironing them cool days than on 
some warm Spring morning when one 
has not strength to do the work the sea¬ 
son brings, w’ithout doing left-overs, 
and one is sure to do them better now. 
If carefully folded and packed, it is sel¬ 
dom necessary to press them at all in the 
Spring ; and there is a great satisfac¬ 
tion in feeling, when the first sweltering 
days come, that one has something all 
ready to wear, without rinsing, starch¬ 
ing and ironing a whole Summer’s ward¬ 
robe before one can have anything suit¬ 
able or comfortable to wear. 
ALICE E. PINNEY. 
On the Wing. 
AFLOAT WITH THE BABIES. 
WHAT ST. JOHN’S GUILD DOES FOR SUFFER¬ 
ING CHILDREN. 
[editorial correspondence.] 
The Seaside Hospital. —The hospital 
is a long building fronting directly on 
the beach, where there is an array of 
glistening sand that presents an irresist¬ 
ible attraction for the juvenile visitors. 
There are long dormitories facing the 
water, everything being arranged with 
the idea of providing abundant air and 
ventilation. On the floor above are other 
wards, while dining-room and domestic 
offices extend out towards the rear. It 
is a building of many verandas anu gal¬ 
leries, flanked at one side by a grove of 
juniper trees. This is a locality where 
vegetation is scant, and these trees add 
much to the comfort and attractiveness 
of the place. The laundry and engine- 
house are detached from the main build¬ 
ing. 
The Inmates.— At the time of my visit, 
the hospital contained about 350 inmates. 
It must not be imagined that these were 
all sick children. The mothers were 
there, too, and, since in most cases, it is 
impossible for one of these mothers to 
go to the hospital with her sick child, 
leaving other children behind, she is al¬ 
lowed to take the other little ones along, 
too. So there are plenty of well children 
there, building forts in the sand, wading 
in the salt water, and playing tag around 
the buildings. Each mother is expected 
to care for her own children and to make 
her own bed, hut no other labor is ex¬ 
acted. Of course, very sick children are 
in sick wards, in care of the trained 
nurses. 
The New Arrivals. —As soon as a 
new inmate arrives at the hospital, the 
first ceremony is a hath. I went in to 
the bath-room, which suggests a modern 
adjunct to the residence of the three 
bears who interviewed Goldilocks, for 
there are big tubs and shower-baths for 
the women, smaller tubs for the chil¬ 
dren, and convenient arrangements for 
the babies. It was a pleasant sight to 
see wet pink skin showing through the 
tenement-house grime, until the small 
citizens, to whom a bath was rather a 
novelty, finally emerged from the ordeal, 
as rosy andkissable as their more favored 
brothers on Madison Avenue. I asked 
the matron whether they would con¬ 
sider it necessary to wash a child who 
had already been tubbed upon the boat, 
and found that the rules would exact 
preliminary ablutions even in that case. 
General conditions compel the observ¬ 
ance of such rules. 
Wards and Dormitories. —The dormi¬ 
tories are furnished with rows of white 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Ad/v. 
iron beds, each bed having the posts at 
the foot extended in a curve over the 
bed, to which a little crib is suspended, 
thus extending across the mother’s bed, 
above it. The baby, stowed away in 
this metal nest, with a netting neatly 
folded over it, sleeps snugly, while 
within the mother’s reach, should it re¬ 
quire attention during the night. Up 
above, in a ward for the sick children, 
are neat little cots and cradles, some 
ailing mites being in the gallery outside, 
which, inclosed in netting, is delightfully 
airy. It is saddening to look at some of 
these little sufferers, wrinkled and ema¬ 
ciated, like tiny, ailing old men. They 
are the innocent victims of the conditions 
under which they live, dying of foul air, 
foul houses and deficient food. St. John’s 
Guild prolongs the lives of many such 
infants, though the pity of it is their 
entrance into a world that seems to hold 
so little hope for them. 
The Bottle Babies. —When I visited 
the hospital, there were about 75 bottle 
babies there ; sometimes there are nearly 
100. It means plenty of work in the diet 
kitchen, for these babies are not all fed 
alike. The doctor prescribes their diet, 
which is prepared by a trained nurse. 
Cow’s milk, barley-water and albumen 
are the materials used. The milk is 
Pasteurized, but not modified by separa¬ 
tion. Some of the babies are limited to 
barley-water and albumen, a large quan¬ 
tity of eggs being required each day for 
this purpose. The prepared food is 
placed in small bottles, each sufficient 
for one meal, the bottles being corked 
with sterilized cotton and put away in 
trays, in the refrigerator. The careless 
mothers who prepare baby’s bottle by 
merely thinning a little condensed milk 
and then tasting the insipid fluid to see 
whether it appears to be the same as 
usual, would open their eyes to see the 
care exercised here. The bottle baby 
rarely has the same chance, in the 
struggle for existence, as one naturally 
nourished; infant mortality is always 
highest among this class, and where 
necessity compels artificial feeding, it is 
impossible to exercise too much care. 
Among the Children. —One table in 
the dining-room is devoted to “ light- 
diet ” children, who are limited to toast, 
broth, milk, etc., but most of the inmates 
develop magnificent appetites in the 
salt air. One table is devoted to colored 
mothers and children ; the hospital 
authorities do not recognize any color 
line, but the separate table adds to the 
harmony among the inmates. Very 
bright and lively were the ehocolate- 
complexioned babies, while outside a 
group of small fort-builders worked in 
the sand under the superintendence of a 
kinky-haired, bronze-colored playmate, 
without appearing to recognize any dis¬ 
tinctions of color. The children seemed 
to belong to all nationalities, German, 
Irish, and Italian appearing to predomi¬ 
nate. Many of the women, when they 
first come to the hospital, do not even 
An Elgin Watch 
owes its perfection in time telling to 
the pains-taking care exercised in the pro¬ 
duction of every part, and to its accurato 
adjustment beforo it loaves the factory. 
Full Ruby Jeweled Elgins 
have genuine ruby bearings, which with 
their specially hardened pivotal points 
render them as near wear-proof as 
mechanism can be made—they will last a 
generation. 
High grade, but not high price. 
Sent Free, our handsome illustrated book¬ 
let about watches. 
An Klein Watch always has 
the word “Elgin” engraved on 
the works—fully guaranteed. 
Elgin National Watch Co., Elgin, III. 
iiL $9.50 3UYS A ORADB VICTOR S5SSSK 
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know how to make their own beds. It 
would seem that the matron and other 
officers must have even more difficulty in 
influencing these untrained mothers 
than in caring for the children. 
Hospital Discipline. —While on the 
boat, I noticed that the hospital idea 
was always kept before the guests. They 
were not allowed to regard the trip 
merely as an excursion, but were re¬ 
minded, by the care taken, that health 
is the primary object sought. This dis¬ 
cipline, gentle and considerate as it is, 
gives a hold over both mothers and 
children that could hardly be obtained 
in any other way. 1 noted with what 
reliance the dictum of the doctor was 
received, nor was there any disposition 
to question the authority of nurses and 
matron. An infinite supply of tact is 
needed, in dealing with these guests of 
St. John’s Guild, but they appear to he 
on the happiest terms with those in 
charge. It is unnecessary for me to 
dwell on the good works of this society. 
From the beginning of Summer until 
cool Autumn weather, this work goes 
on, six days a week. In Chicago, a 
familiar sight in stores, offices and res¬ 
taurants is a glass globe for contribu¬ 
tions, bearing a little placard with the 
picture of a forlorn and sickly child, 
and an inscription, “ Won’t you help the 
poor babies ? ” That appeal is for the 
Lincoln Park Sanitarium, where children 
are eared for, on the shore of Lake 
Michigan, under similar conditions to 
those of the Seaside Hospital. Surely 
charity can take no higher form than 
the healing and comforting of these 
little ones. e. t. r. 
B.&B. 
Send for samples 
—goods and prices will do the plain, 
forceful talking that will show you more 
about where you’ll save money buying 
your Dry Goods than a page full of talk 
would. 
It’s goods and prices this store makes 
count. 
Get samples 38 to 42-inch all-wool 
Black Jacquards 35c. yd—see what 
difference, if any, between these and 
what you’re asked half a dollar for most 
places. 
48-inch all-wool Cheviotte mixtures, 
medium and dark effects, 40c. —not 
“cheap” goods, but good goods for a 
less price. 
Line of all-wool Dress goods 32 inches 
wide—other stores ask 25c.—our price 
20c. yd—neat mixtures and small and 
medium checks—fully 24 different effects. 
Fine Dress goods, 50c., 75c., $1 to $5. 
Rich Silks, 65c., 75c. to $3. 
□ Samples cost you nothing. 
BOCCS & BUHL, 
Department C, 
ALLEGHENY, PA. 
MACKINTOSHES. 
Men’s all wool Tricot, $5.00 
Ladies’ cashmere two-cape, $4.00 
These waterproof garments would cost you $ 10.00 
each in any retail store. Send money order for 
sample, stating bust measure and length. Agents 
wanted everywhere. Address, 
M. F. REESE SUPPLY CO., Setauket, N. Y. 
Some Bargain Combinations, 
This is a popular combination. The four books are 
by P. II. Jacobs, and illustrated. The poultry papers 
are well edited, and recognized authorities. 
Price alone 
Poultry Keeper.$0.50 
Inter-State Poultryman.50 
Designs for Poultry Houses.26 
Incubators and Brooders.25 
Diseases of Poultry.25 
How to Judge Fowls.25 
The Rural New-Yorker. 1.00 
Total.,.$3.00 
Combination price, $1.50. 
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