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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 13 
l Woman and Home \ 
SoxrE pretty passe-partout pictures re¬ 
cently seen had mats of handsome wall 
paper, and binding of a harmonizing 
tint. Crape paper is also used for these 
mats, as well as for framing. 
* 
What is called a “bathroom board” is 
a white tiled slab with bathroom con¬ 
veniences of polished nickel fastened 
upon it. These include towel rack, soap 
dish, tumbler holder, and toothbrush 
rack. The board complete costs from 
$1.25 up. 
* 
Breakfast sausages may be put in 
boiling water and simmered five min¬ 
utes; then drained over night. In the 
morning brown in the frying pan; they 
will be thoroughly cooked without dry¬ 
ing out, as is often the case when all the 
cooking is done in the frying pan. 
* 
We are told that a cupful of clean, 
light, new-fallen snow, stirred into cake 
or other batter, the very last thing be¬ 
fore turning it into the baking pan, 
lightens it almost as well as eggs, a lit¬ 
tle more flour—about two tablespoonfuls 
—being required to stiffen the batter. 
Have any of our friends tried this? 
is placed over all. This keeps the steam 
in, and when the mother who has been 
out at work all day returns, her dinner 
is cooked. There is no doubt that stewed 
neat, various soups and cereals, some 
vegetables and dried fruits would cook 
well in this manner, only we fear a pro¬ 
longed course of Aladdin cookery, whole- 
I some as it is, would produce an unhy¬ 
gienic yearning for familiar fleshpots, 
like the little girl who, after being fed 
i>n health foods and cereals, explained to 
er mother that she didn’t want nutri- 
[A'ous food; she wanted something that 
was good to eat. 
* 
Among new cuffs and top collars are 
1 very dainty hand-embroidered sets of 
I sheer white batiste or lawn, embroidered 
] by the Japanese. Patterns and style of 
i work are like the exquisite embroidery 
that comes from France and Ireland, but 
no doubt the little brown women of Ja¬ 
pan do the work more cheaply. The sets 
cost from $1.25 to $3; collars alone 35 to 
75 cents. A great deal of cross-stitch 
embroidery is seen, both hand and ma¬ 
chine made. Colored cross-stitch band¬ 
ings are to be the great feature of wash 
dresses and waists the coming season. 
Another revival is that of the old-fash¬ 
ioned eyelet embroidery or broderie An- 
glaise. All-over embroidery, as well as 
insertions and edgings, come in this 
style now. 
Salad Plants. 
Some one has said that salad eating is 
good sense. Those who delight in the 
crisp green leaves of a daintily served 
salad will echo this opinion. More room 
should be given the various plants of 
this description than is usually allowed 
them in the home garden. In too many 
farm gardens a row or so of early, loose¬ 
leaved lettuce is the sum total of this 
class of plants. This variety of lettuce 
does very well for the earliest, but there 
should be a good-sized bed of the cab¬ 
bage or head lettuce. Each year we start 
a box of this kind the last of March. Ex¬ 
perience has taught us that a cool place 
is needed for the boxes, so now they are 
placed by a window in the wash room, 
where it is too cold for the other seed 
boxes. The plants are thrifty and hardy, 
standing transplanting well. They 
should be set 12 inches apart and culti¬ 
vated thoroughly; the constant stirring 
of the soil causes them to grow rapidly. 
In a short time we have lettuce heads 
that are veritable cabbages in size. Wo 
transplant them the second week in May 
at which time our garden is plowed. The 
lettuce sown in the garden never gives 
us as fine heads as does this transplant¬ 
ed lettuce. The crisp head lettuces fur¬ 
nish well-blanched inner leaves, white, 
crisp, tender. The butter heads have 
thick creamy leaves of a rich flavor. 
Where the watercress is found it is a 
welcome addition to the foods, which 
grow ready to eat. The seeds are offered 
by the leading growers. Those who have 
a brook on the farm should start a bed 
of cress. This plant is another of Na¬ 
ture’s “cure alls.” It grows best in shal¬ 
low brooks with gravelly bottoms. Mud 
injures both its growth and flavor. 
The nasturtium is not only a thing of 
beauty but a useful salad plant, its taste 
being similar to cress, which is a true 
nasturtium; the ornamental so-called 
nasturtium being a Tropmolum. The 
leaves and tender stems are the best, 
though the flowers are sometimes used. 
A salad composed entirely of nasturtium 
would not be as satisfactory as one 
where the leaves were used in connec¬ 
tion with lettuce. A nasturtium sand¬ 
wich is relished by those who like pep¬ 
pery foods. 
Endive makes a fine Fall and early 
Winter salad, when the other salads are 
gone. The plant I find to be easy to 
raise. 1 have blanched the leaves by ty¬ 
ing the plants loosely together. The en¬ 
dive has an agreeable bitterness which 
blends admirably with salad dressing. 
Those who cannot have the watercress 
may fill its place with pepper grass, a 
member of the mustard family that 
grows easily in any good soil. 
HELEN C. ANDREWS. 
Buckwheat 
When weaving Indian bead work the 
beads have a habit of sliding down off 
the needle almost as fast as they are 
picked up, and thus delaying the work. 
This can be prevented by dipping the 
needle occasionally in a small bottle of 
water; the moistened needle makes the 
beads stick together and stay on, with¬ 
out affecting the well-waxed thread. 
This is a little idea copied, like the bead 
work itself, from the Indians; it en¬ 
ables the worker to get along much 
faster. 
* 
Several years ago we described the 
Aladdin cooker, which simplified house¬ 
keeping for women obliged to be away 
all day. The underlying principle was 
the conservation of heat, articles to be 
cooked being brought to a boil and then, 
while boiling, removed from the fire and 
so thoroughly insulated that they would 
remain at a high temperature for many 
hours, thus cooking the food without be¬ 
ing near the fire. What to Eat describes 
a similar cooker which a settlement 
worker has evolved and which is a suc¬ 
cess. This is nothing but a washboiler, 
some air-tight fruit jars, an asbestos- 
lined box and a board covered with as¬ 
bestos. Meat and vegetables to be cook¬ 
ed are cut into small pieces, placed in 
the fruit jars and covered with boiling 
water, three-fourths full, salt being dis¬ 
solved in the water. These jars are then 
placed in the boiler, covered with water 
to the tops of the jars and put on the 
stove till the water boils violently. They 
are then removed, placed on the as¬ 
bestos-covered board, the asbestos box 
Cakes 
With 
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Are delicious and wholesome — a perfect cold 
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Made in the morning ; no yeast, no “ setting ” 
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To make a perfect buckwheat cake, and a 
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and Pastry Cook.” Mailed free to any address. 
Carefully avoid baking powders made from alum. 
* They look like pure powders, and may raise 
the cakes, but alum is a poison and no one can 
eat food mixed with it without injury to health. 
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SCOTT’S EMULSION 
makes pale, thin children fat 
and chubby. Overcomes 
wasting tendencies and brings 
back rosy cheeks and bright 
eyes. 
It’s surprising how quickly 
children respond to Scott’s 
Emulsion. It contains just 
the element of nourishment 
their little bodies need. They 
thrive on it. 
Even a few drops in the 
baby’s bottle have a notice¬ 
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better than Scott’s Emulsion 
for growing children. 
We'll send you a sample free upon request. 
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Extra Fine Imported 
56-Piece China 
TEA SET 
FREE 
■with an order for 25 lbs. of 
New Crop 60c , 70c. or 80c. 
Tea v or25 lbs. Great Ameri¬ 
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or an assorted order Teas 
and Baking Powder, or 60 
lbs. Bomosa Coffee, 33c. a lb. 
or 502-oz. bottles of pure ex¬ 
tracts. Van 11 la. Lemon, etc , 
25c a bottle or 25 1-lb. cansof 
Spice, any kind, absolutely 
pure,50c a can. 
For prompt attention, 
address Mr. J. J.D., care of 
Great American Tea Co. 
Box 289, 
31-33 Vesey St., New York 
IM 
You Don’t Guess 
about what you are doing, but you see 
as with the light of day if you use the 
Dietz Blast Lanterns 
noted everywhere for their even shedding of 
pure white, strong, steady light. Burn on the 
cold blast principle. Most convenient, give 
most satisfactory light, safest lanterns made. 
Don’t confound them with common lanterns 
w hich smoke, flicker and blow out. Let us send 
you lantern book to make a selection, then 
you can buy It from any dealer or have him 
get it for you. 
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