1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1 1 
Some Household Necessities. 
It is a wonder to many of us who use 
hot-water bottles how we ever kept 
house without them, but there are many 
country homes where these useful ar¬ 
ticles are laughed at by women who will 
heat plates by the hour or fill the beds 
of sick people with the unhandy flat¬ 
irons that are so uncomfortable to sore 
flesh. A good bottle only costs a mod¬ 
erate amount, and though its life is 
rather short it will pay for itself many 
a time even in a healthy family. In ob¬ 
stinate cases of headache, toothache, 
and, in short, every kind of ache it is 
invaluable. It fits itself to the suffering 
body, and when it cools can be filled 
and returned to the patient in less than 
five minutes. Imagine laying an aching 
head on a hot iron to rid it of pain! 
Many housekeepers use the old-fash¬ 
ioned handled ones, and it is impossible 
to keep them in place in bed, unless it 
be at the soles of the feet. 
Where a child or grown person lie3 
awake at night with obstinate coughing 
a hot-water bottle placed at the feet will 
insure sound sleep without the use of 
medicine, and there is not the danger of 
catching cold as when hot poultices are 
used, which leave the skin wet and ten¬ 
der. The daily use of hot-water bottles 
in all the best hospitals shows what, the 
doctors and surgeons think of them, and 
many a life has been saved by the 
prompt use of hot applications where 
medicine is too slow to be of any help. 
It is not an uncommon sight to see a 
patient with three or four bottles about 
him, and surely this is a better plan to 
supply heat than the old method of 
pouring down alcoholic drinks. On a 
long journey in cold weather a hot-water 
bag slipped into a stout woolen case is 
not to be despised. It can lie in one’s 
la]i and be used to warm the hands when 
stiff from driving. In severe cases of 
colic it can be placed on the abdomen 
even of infants, without being too 
heavy, and is of the greatest possible 
benefit to them as there is no chance of 
spilling or breaking no matter how rest¬ 
less the patient is. 
Another absolute necessity is a clean 
box or bag filled with old pieces of cot¬ 
ton and linen neatly washed and ironed. 
Too many people run to the family rag¬ 
bag when a finger is cut, and bandage 
the injured member with the first bit 
of goods that comes to hand. It is really 
dangerous to put colored calico strips or 
soiled white rags on wounds, and chil¬ 
dren should early be taught to use only 
clean ones in tying up cuts. As soon as 
a handkerchief, napkin or any piece of 
white linen is too old for use in any 
other way wash it and when it is ironed 
and thoroughly dried put it in your re¬ 
ceptacle, which should be where every 
member of the family can find it. 
Still another thing that should be in 
every home is a table with folding legs 
that can be put out of sight in three 
minutes if necessary, and as quickly fit¬ 
ted up for use. It should not be too fine 
for use in the kitchen and yet be good 
enough to take into the sitting room for 
such games as flinch and authors. If it 
has a varnished top it may still be used 
in the kitchen by throwing an oilcloth 
over it, or keeping a large pine board as 
a temporary top. It seems to me the 
sewing machine is the only convenience 
that surpasses the portable table in use¬ 
fulness. With it the children are not 
forced to clear away dozens of articles 
from the family table to enjoy a game 
of dominoes, and it is equally useful to 
the grown-ups for the same purpose. 
The mother of the family uses it as a 
Sewing table, and the daughter to trace 
off patterns from her friends’ fancy- 
work. It can be placed by the kitchen 
stove to hold the filled and empty cans 
in the preserving season, thus saving 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
"while teething. It is the Best .—Adv 
many a step to and from the regular 
table. When there is company it can be 
placed at the side of the dining room to 
hold extra dishes and can be made to 
serve occasionally as a plant stand in 
decorating church or Grange hall for 
some holiday. In fact, its uses are mani¬ 
fold, and once you use one you will 
never be without. By using a high chair 
and having a short ironing board to lay 
on top of the table you can iron many 
pieces as well as by standing, and in 
cold weather you can sit near enough to 
the stove to change irons without get¬ 
ting up. It has been called the “lazy 
woman’s friend,” but I prefer to think 
of it as helping to smooth the hard way 
of toil for the busy woman rather than 
the indolent one. The hot-water bottles 
cost about $1, and the tables $1 or $2 
each, so no woman need be without 
them for fear of bankruptcy. 
HILDA RICHMOND. 
Reading for Culture. 
Good reading has become such a hobby 
of mine that whenever I mention the 
subject to any of the neighbors it is met 
with an indulgent smile followed by the 
remark: “I have so much to do I have 
no time to read,” with which I am sup¬ 
posed to be quenched. Yet these very 
same people find time to spend going to 
card parties and dances, which last gen¬ 
erally mean at least half of the next day 
is to be spent in bed to make up for lost 
sleep. When quizzed about it they say: 
‘‘One must have recreation.” Of course 
one must, but I do not understand how 
turning night into day can be called 
recreation. While I do not intend to 
write a long-winded screed about danc¬ 
ing I must say I’ve no use for it at all. 
The same amount of time spent on it or 
on games can, it seems to me, be more 
profitably spent on choice reading. I do 
not wish to hound people into drudgery; 
I merely wish to dwell upon the fact 
that one’s mind, not one’s purse, is one’s 
capital, and should be guarded zealously. 
One of my neighbors said her daughters 
had become such readers she could not 
get them to lay down the books when 
she told them to, so she just gathered 
up an armful and burned them, assur¬ 
ing me with an emphatic nod that they 
made a magnificent fire “while they 
lasted.” When I inquired about them. 
I discovered they were novels of the 
trashiest kind. That being the case she 
was right to burn them. Judging by my 
own experience I should say her com¬ 
plaint about her daughters was well 
founded. I was once lent a book, a 
novel, which was so entertaining that I 
could not drop it. My work went un¬ 
done till it was finished. Later on I was 
lent a book called “The Fairyland of 
Science.” Now mark the contrast; in¬ 
stead of keeping me from my work it 
helped me with it. I preferred to read 
a passage and think over it while I was 
working. It was so rich I had to take 
time to get the full benefit. My work 
was done on time, instead of being neg¬ 
lected, as is often the case with the 
novel, yet what lasting good has the 
novel done me? Absolutely none, but 
can the same be said of the other? 
One writer says “high ideals save,” 
and there never was a truer saying when 
one is surrounded by backbiting neigh¬ 
bors who have the arts of gossip, foul 
language and other attendant vices down 
to a science. Yes, there are neighbor¬ 
hoods like that to-day, and good people 
are compelled to live and bring up chil¬ 
dren in their midst. Then it is that the 
reading which keeps pure and high ideas 
before them will help at least to bring 
them through unscathed. One of my old 
schoolmates said: “I do not want to live 
to be old; December is so dreary,” but 
why not during the bright May time, 
when we can spare so much, make pro¬ 
vision for the time when it may be that 
the last of the friends of our youth have 
“crossed the river?” An old uncle 
(since dead) said that he did not see 
how he ever could have stood the dreary 
loneliness of old age, in spite of being so 
well liked by all, had it not been that 
he had been a great reader of good books 
all his life, and had while he read: 
Culled a flower from every page 
Here a line and there a sentence 
’Gainst the lonely time of age. 
It is all very well to talk of having 
one’s fling, but such sentiments always 
make me think of wild oats. In fact, the 
whole aim of one’s life should be to pre¬ 
pare for at least a useful and it may be 
a brilliant future, but in any case to 
keep always before our eyes this senti¬ 
If you use Grain-0 in place of 
coffee you will enjoy it just as 
much for it tastes the same; yet, it 
is like a food to the system, dis¬ 
tributing the full substance of the 
pure grain with every drop. 
TRY IT TO-DAY. 
ment: 
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be 
clever 
Do noble things, not dream them all day 
long; 
And so make life, death and the vast for¬ 
ever 
One grand sweet song. 
ROSE DUNCAN. 
’Tis not the food, but the content 
That makes the table’s merriment. 
Where trouble serves the board, we eat 
The platters there as soon as meat. 
A little pipkin with a bit 
Of mutton or of veal in it. 
Set on my table, trouble free, 
More than a feast contenteth me. 
—Herrick. 
Braised Chicken.—A fowl too old to 
roast may be made tender and good by 
braising and yet present the appearance 
of a roasted chicken. Prepare it as for 
toasting, trussing it into good shape; 
cut into dice a carrot, turnip, onion and 
stalk of celery. Put them in a pot with 
a few pieces of sliced pork, and on them 
place the fowl, with a few pieces of salt 
pork laid over the breast. Add a bou¬ 
quet of parsley or a bay leaf, two cloves, 
six peppercorns, a teaspoonful of salt 
and a pint of hot water. Cover the pot 
closely and let it simmer for three 
hours; if any steam escapes a little 
more water may have to be added; when 
done rub a little butter over the breast, 
dredge with flour and place in the oven 
a few minutes to brown. Strain the 
liquor from the braising pot, season to 
taste, and if necessary thicken with 
browned flour and butter. Serve with 
the chicken as sauce. 
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