1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
327 
bread in a piece of cheesecloth and wring 
out all the moisture, add a tablespoonful 
of parsley, chopped, two tablespoonfuls 
of onion, chopped (or a teaspoonful of 
onion juice), one-fourth teaspoonful each 
of salt and pepper, one-fourth cupful of 
melted butter and, if desired quite dry, 
the beaten yolks of two eggs. Fill the 
body of the fish with the stuffing, and 
sew up the opening. Pass the tail through 
the sockets from which the eyes have 
been removed, and pass a skewer 
through, close to the head, to hold it in 
place, thus curving it into a ring. 
Arrange on a fish sheet in a baking 
pan, together with bits of onion, carrot 
and parsley. The fish sheet, which is 
pierced with holes, is slightly raised from 
the pan, like the drainer in abutter dish. 
Lay thin slices of salt pork on the top of 
the fish, and put into a hot oven. In 
about 15 minutes, baste with a cupful of 
hot white broth, and reduce the tem¬ 
perature. Bake 40 minutes, basting the 
fish thoroughly every 10 minutes with 
the liquor from the pan. Then remove 
the pork, and pour a white sauce made 
of two tablespoonfuls each of butter and 
flour and a cupful of white stock over 
the fish, and sprinkle over this fine, soft 
bread crumbs that have been stirred into 
melted butter. Bake 15 minutes longer, 
or until the crumbs are brown. 
Slide the fish from the sheet on to a 
warm platter, remove the skewer, squeeze 
the juice of a lemon over the fish, and 
garnish with parsley and slices of lemon. 
Strain the sauce, remove the fat, and 
serve in a sauce boat. Tomato sauce 
may be used instead of the white sauce. 
Baste thoroughly, or the fish will be dry. 
STARCHING COLORED CLOTHES. 
We all know how nearly impossible it 
is to have black clothing laundered with¬ 
out the starch showing white and 
smeared all over it. While wearing- 
black, living in a very dusty town in the 
South, and leading an active life indoors 
and out, I felt it impossible to wear 
woolen dresses. They were too hot, and 
I never felt clean; so I bought black 
duck skirts, and black linen lawn shirt 
waists. My skirts hung nicely, and my 
waists fitted to perfection, but alas ! for 
their washing qualities. They came 
from their first trip to the laundry 
smeared with starch, covered with lint, 
a ghastly sight! As a constancy, one 
can hardly wear anything but wash 
dresses in the South in Summer; so I 
decided to experiment. 
I bought 1% yard of black calico, and 
a package of black Diamond dye ; armed 
with these, I made a visit to the colored 
Mammy who does my washing. The black 
calico was carefully pinned on the iron¬ 
ing board, and a bit of the dye stirred 
in the starch until it was black. My ex¬ 
periment was an immense success. When 
brought home by the laundress, my 
things were perfect ; black and spotless. 
The whole Summer through, my skirts 
and waists did me noble service. Every 
week, one of each went to the wash, and 
I always felt clean, fresh and well 
dressed. A black ribbon stock some¬ 
times took the place of the stiff collar 
and tie. It is an economy to buy the 
linen ; black lawn at half the price will 
not hold the starch, and will be flimsy 
in one wearing. 
In the Fall, I made my little girl two 
dainty figured percale school dresses, one 
Turkey red, the other dark blue. The 
first time they were laundered, there 
was the same difficulty—smeared starch 
—and it was promptly remedied. For 
the blue, a little starch was colored with 
indigo ; for the red, with a little red dye; 
so my discovery is capable of many pos¬ 
sibilities. 
And just another hint. Old black lace, 
that has lost all of its freshness and 
crispness, maybe dipped in warm coffee, 
squeezed out, pulled and clapped until 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
almost dry, then pressed with an iron 
not too hot, and it will be like new. In 
fact, coffee is a wonderful rejuvenator 
for any old black goods. Wipe it off on 
the right side with warm coffee, and 
press it on the wrong, and it is freshened 
wonderfully. Last Winter, I took an 
old black, all-wool Henrietta, that had 
seen every stage of service, from parlor 
to kitchen ; I am not one of those nice, 
story-book women, who can cook a meal 
in a white gown with a rose in her hair, 
and come through the ordeal, looking as 
though she had stepped from a scented 
bath. I get hot, and flurried, and greasy 
—or the Henrietta did—so I ripped it 
up, put it in a tub with some warm soap¬ 
suds, and gave it a heroic treatment. 
After thoroughly rinsing and drying, 
and making sure it was clean, I dipped 
it in warm coffee, and when near¬ 
ly dry, again pressed it on a piece of 
black cloth on the wrong side. Made 
up simply, with a pale blue silk full 
front, and some pleatings of black mous¬ 
seline de soie, I had a pretty new house 
gown. BESSIE CARTER AIKEN. 
SEASONABLE GARDEN NOTES. 
When the wild ferns in the woods are 
just beginning to unroll their little 
brown croziers, they may be transplanted 
into the home fern bed. Many people 
have acquired the impression that a 
rockery is the proper place for ferns and, 
very often, this rockery is a purely arti¬ 
ficial erection, without any reason for 
its being. If we have some shaded corner 
of the garden, where the surroundings 
suggest outcropping rock as a natural 
feature, a rockery may be arranged; but 
it should not be the senseless heap of 
stones, lightly dusted with soil, which 
often takes the place of a natural ar¬ 
rangement. Several of the wild As- 
pleniums and Aspidiums, or the Harts- 
tongue (Scolopendrium) will do well in 
such a place, while a moist, shaded 
situation in the garden will afford a con¬ 
genial home for a great many species. 
One should be guided by the natural 
situation of the fern, in selecting its 
place in the garden. In digging them up 
at this season, take a large ball of earth, 
so as to keep the roots intact. Very 
often there is some shaded corner in the 
garden, or close aerainst the house, where 
ordinary flowering plants do not thrive, 
which will form an excellent place for 
ferns. 
Mignonette does not transplant very 
well, so it will be well to sow it where 
it is to remain, in the open border. Sow 
in circles or rows, rather than broadcast. 
The young plants will require thinning 
out, as they gain in size ; this is true of 
most sowings. 
Early Gladioli may be planted now ; 
if some of these bulbs are planted at in¬ 
tervals of about two weeks, up to June 
15, it will provide a succession of bloom. 
Plant the bulbs three or four inches 
deep. Very good results may be ob¬ 
tained with mixed, unnamed bulbs, 
which may be bought for SI.50 to $4 per 
100, according to the choiceness of the 
mixture. The named Gladioli naturally 
include the cream of the varieties ; they 
range in price from 5 to 75 cents each. 
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Among very fine varieties, are Abricote, 
apricot rose, tinged violet ; Leander, 
lilac shaded with carmine, banded with 
white; Meyerbeer, scarlet with deeper 
blotch ; Eugene Scribe, rose, blazed with 
carmine; Shakespeare, white shaded rose; 
The Queen, white tinged blush, flaked 
rose ; Pactole, yellow tinged rose ; Flam¬ 
boyant, fiery scarlet; Chrysolora, golden 
yellow ; Ali, creamy rose upper petals 
striped with red; rosy yellow lower 
petals rayed with deep red. There are 
some surpassingly handsome Gladioli 
among the Lemoine hybrids and the 
Giant type of the American growers. 
The hotbed will now be a good place 
to keep bedding plants, until the time 
comes for setting them out. Little Alter- 
nantheras, which have been kept over 
from last Fall, may now be divided into 
as many pieces as possible, retaining 
some roots to each, and potted, to be 
started in the hotbed, which is the very 
best place for them. The Alternanthera 
is a very cheap little thing, but its hand¬ 
some, rose-colored or bronze and yellow 
leaves form a fine edgingfor flower beds, 
and it is very easily carried over Winter, 
to be increased in Spring as described 
above. During the Winter, the plants 
are merely kept alive, not growing, but 
while receiving only enough water to 
prevent drying out entirely, they must 
always be near the light. For this rea¬ 
son, the florists often store Alternan- 
theras, in Winter, on shelves in the 
greenhouse, quite near the glass. 
Any of the Azaleas that are already 
out of bloom should have the seed ves¬ 
sels plucked off, and be kept growing 
until it is time to put them outside to 
ripen their wood. They may be syringed 
freely when going out of bloom. 
The early-flowering Clematis may be 
trimmed back a little, while late-bloom¬ 
ing sorts, such as Paniculata, may be 
cut right down to the ground, giving 
them a chance to spring up strongly 
from the bottom. 
Carnations under glass would be the 
better for a top-dressing of manure a 
year old ; they are likely to assume an 
exhausted appearance now. Plants 
which have been stored in frames during 
the Winter, instead of being forced, are 
fine for planting out. The little Carna¬ 
tion plants rooted in the Winter are now 
planted out for field culture until Fall ; 
of course, they are not allowed to flower 
under these circumstances. 
Certain Special Matters 
In a store of this size and in such a business as this, it is the 
unusual which becomes the every-day occurrence. Things which 
would be extraordinary in the experience of smaller dealers are 
commonplace matters to the Wanamaker Store. 
Here are certain matters of goods and prices which are really 
very unusual in every-day news stories, and, indeed, somewhat 
out of the common run of things, even for us. 
12^c. Printed Cotton Grenadines, for 5c. a yard 
They cost the maker nearly double our present price. They 
are in the same handsome printings which you find in the very 
choicest of the Organdie Lawns. The patterns are principally 
floral—light, graceful, dainty summery designs of flowers and 
leaves on black grounds. There are also many patterns of dots, 
stripes and figures in white on grounds of navy blue, black, and 
heliotrope. Five Cents a Yard, only. 
16c. Quality Striped Piques, at 10c. a yard 
It is whispered in mercantile circles that Piques are bound to 
become scarce before the summer is over, for the demand for them 
is great and growing. That makes this chance all the more im¬ 
portant. They are very pretty goods, self-striped in cadet and 
Yale blue, cardinal and black. 
Some Important Silk Prices 
We have twenty-two thousand yards of the choicer kinds of 
summer silks here, which we offer to you at less than the regular 
importer’s wholesale prices. You can buy by the yard at less than 
we can usually buy by the thousand yards in foreign markets 
All are French and Swiss goods, rich in check and small plaid 
patterns, new and pretty and desirable. A few hints of price and 
pattern follow, but samples will tell more. 
At 50c. a yd.—1,000 yards of rich, col¬ 
ored Bengalines ; the raised cord is 
filled with a little cotton ; 18 colors. 
At 55c. a yd.—800 yards of checked 
Taffeta; triple colored checks on 
white grounds ; 12 patterns. 
At 60c. a yd.—1,800 yards of rich plaid 
Taffetas ; double colors on white 
and colored grounds ; 14 new styles. 
At 65c. a yd.—1,000 yards of evening 
silks. Jacquard satins; in white, 
ciel, pink, turquoise, nile, yellow, 
lilac, and cerise. 
At 70c. a yd.—400 yards all silk satin 
Liberty; printed with white dots 
on lavender, cadet blue, navy blue, 
marine blue, cardinal, brown, and 
heliotrope grounds. 
At 75c. a yard.—4,000 yards plaid 
Taffeta silks; 8 styles black and 
white, 8 styles blue and white, 40 
styles Scotch plaids, 3 styles shep¬ 
herd’s checks, 6 styles Rob Roy. 
At 80c. a yd.—5,000 yards rich figured 
Taffetas from France. All black ; 
the figures are small, the styles are 
elegant; 20 patterns. 
At 90c. a yd.—2,800 yards heavy plaid 
Taffeta silks and ombre check fancy 
silks ; 5 styles black and white, 8 
styles blue and white, 12 styles in 
triple colors, 12 styles in ombre 
blocks. A particularly rich and 
heavy silk. 
At 95o. a yd.—1,400 yards rich black 
and white Pekin Taffetas ; 8 styles 
of stripes. 
At $1 a yd. —800 yards rich brocaded 
plaid Taffetas. Colors are pink and 
black with white, blue and black 
with white, Chartreuse and black 
with white, cerise and black with 
white, corn and black with white, 
blue and black with nile, and 
so on. 
JOHN WANAMAKER 
Broadway 
Section 159 
(Please address exactly as above) 
New York 
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