1004. 
laughed and came back and sat down 
again. 
“ ‘I’ve hired the Bigelow place for a year 
and have moved into it.’ 
“I was thunderstruck. ‘The Bigelow 
place!’ I says. I’d got to where I didn’t 
care how many questions I asked now. 
‘What on earth you going to do with it? 
Why, it’s as big as all out doors!’ 
“ ‘Exactly,’ she says. ‘My house was 
too small. It was all right for a nubbin, 
but big apples need full sized barrels.’ 
“And then Rachel told me what she’d 
done and all her plans. It seems that after 
my sermon, she got to thinking hard, and 
it come to her that she could make a home 
for folks in the old Bigelow place. It’s 
a big two-story house with a big two- 
story ell. It’s got big chimneys, and 
walks made of flat stones, and great big 
trees all around it. So before she went 
home that day she went and hired the 
house for a year. A niece of hers was 
going to be married soon, so she let her 
own house to her. Then she sent on out 
West to her brother’s widow and asked 
her to come and live with her. She needed 
a home, and besides it would keep folks 
from talking to have her there with 
Rachel. 
“I never see anybody just glory in hard 
work as Rachel did. She hadn’t been con¬ 
tented before, but now she was as happy 
as the day was long, and she sang about 
ber work and grew young and good look¬ 
ing. 
“Her sister-in-law come, and they fixed 
up the house, and the family begun to 
grow. First there was a man that had lost 
his wife. He hadn’t a relative to go to, 
and he had three small children. Rachel 
charged board, of course, and the young 
man was an honest, hard-working fellow, 
so he was able to keep his family to¬ 
gether. It was the luckiest thing in the 
world for him that Rachel decided not to 
be a nubbin. 
“Folks heard what Rachel was doing, 
and she had plenty of applicants. The old 
house is full now, and it’s the happiest, 
jolliest family you ever see. There’s old 
Mr. Gorham. He’s never really had a 
home, but bas had to live around at hotels 
and boarding houses. But Rachel has 
made the old Bigelow place a real home, 
and Grandpa Gorham, as the children all 
call him, is as contented and pleased as 
can be. 
“Then there’s two old ladies that would 
be on the town, if it wa’n’t for Rachel. 
They help what they can about the work 
and they are real happy. The rest of the 
family is young folks that work in the 
factory and want a pleasant, quiet home. 
“They have lots of young company 
there, and what with young folks, old 
folks and children, it’s the liveliest, pleas¬ 
antest house to go to that there is in town. 
I expect there’ll be some marrying off 
there, before long, but as Rachel says, 
there’s always plenty of folks that need 
homes, so she don’t worry none about hav¬ 
ing an empty house on her hands. 
“Now I s’pose there are folks that would 
think Rachel was putting up with second 
best, and that it was an awful pity she 
didn’t ever marry, but I don’t think so. 
She’s happy and independent, and she’s 
making a good many more people happy 
than if she's had a family of her own. 
“And I really believe when folks are 
prevented from doing the things it seems 
as if they was meant to do, it’s so they’ll 
hunt round and find something better to 
do.” SUSAN BROWN ROBBINS. 
Four Good Pickles, 
Virginia Chow Chow.—This is an ola 
recipe. One peck each of green and ripe 
tomatoes, one large, firm head of cabbage, 
six each of green and ripe peppers, six 
large white onions and two bunches of 
celery. Chop the vegetables fine, sprinkle 
over them a cupful of coarse salt and let 
them soak 24 hours. Drain all the liquid 
off, cover with best cider vinegar, stir in 
one pound of dark brown sugar, one-halt 
cupful of grated horse-radish, two table¬ 
spoonfuls 'T white mustard seed, one 
tablespoonful of ground ginger, one tea¬ 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
691 
spoonful of ground cloves and the same 
amount of allspice. Let the pickle come 
slowly to the boiling point, then remove 
to the back of the range and let it stand 
for one hour. Seal up in Mason jars, 
and it will be ready for use in a week, but 
will improve with age. 
Mixed Pickle.—Three hundred small 
cucumbers, two heads of cauliflower, one 
of cabbage, six green peppers with seeds 
taken out, three quarts small onions and 
4816 Misses’ Waist wltli Pointed Yoke, 
12 to 16 yrs. 
two quarts small beans. Cut the cabbage 
and the cauliflower in small pieces, and 
put all in a brine strong enough to bear 
up an egg. Let them remain 24 hours, 
then rinse and drain thoroughly. Place 
on the stove two gallons of vinegar, add 
a large root of horse-radish, grated, two 
ounces each of mustard seed and black 
pepper, one teaspoon cayenne, and one 
ounce of turmeric. Let it boil and pour 
over pickles in a jar. When cold mix in 
one cupful of mustard wet with cold vin¬ 
egar. 
Oiled Cucumber Pickle.—Pare and slice 
the cucumbers as for serving. For 50 
medium-sized ones (these are best, because 
the seeds are not large) make a dressing 
of one cupful of olive oil, half a cupful of 
white mustard seed, half a cupful of black 
mustard seed, one tablespoonful of celery 
seed and one quart of vinegar. No cook-» 
ing is required. Sprinkle the sliced cu¬ 
cumbers with salt, and let them stand over 
night. In the morning drain them thor¬ 
oughly and cover with the dressing in a 
stone jar. A pint of onions sliced thin 
may be added. If so, the onions should 
be arranged in alternate layers with the 
4816 Six Gored Tucked Skirt, 
22 to 30 waist. 
sliced cucumbers and salt. Place a 
weight over the top, let the mixture stand 
over night, and drain as before. 
Pickled Mangoes.—Young musk, or nut¬ 
meg melons are needed for the purpose. 
Through a slit in the side of the melon 
extract all the seeds with the fingers with¬ 
out breaking the fruit. In case the 
patience gives out, a plug can be cut out, 
saved and replaced, but it is better to 
make only the slit. Keep the melons in 
strong brine for three days, then drain 
them and let them remain in pure water 
for 24 hours. Heat slowly in vinegar, in 
which alum has been dissolved, until the 
melons are green. For a gallon of vinegar 
a piece of alum half the size of a hickory 
nut will be wanted. The following is the 
recipe for the stuffing, given in an old 
cook book: One handful of horse-radish 
scraped; two handfuls of English mustard 
seed, two teaspoonfuls of chopped garlic, 
one teaspoonful of ground nutmeg and 
mace, one dozen whole peppercorns, one 
teaspoonful of ground ginger, half a table¬ 
spoonful of ground mustard, one teaspoon¬ 
ful of sugar, one teaspoonful of celery 
seed and one tablespoonful of olive oil. 
Fill the greened mangoes through the slit 
with the mixture. Sew up the slit, or tie 
the melon securely so that it will not open. 
Pack the mangoes in a big stone jar and 
pour scalding vinegar over them. After 
two days, drain off the vinegar, scald and 
return it to the jar, and repeat twice at in¬ 
tervals of two days. The mangoes will 
be ready for use in four or five months. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The pointed yoke with deep bertha 
shown in No. 4815, will prove very becom¬ 
ing to girlish figures. The waist is made 
with a fitted foundation upon which its 
full front and backs are arranged and with 
a pointed yoke that extends over the up¬ 
per portion of both lining and sleeves, the 
closing of both waist and yoke being made 
at the center back. When a transparent 
effect is desired the lining can be cut away 
beneath the yoke; or the lining can be 
omitted altogether and the waist and 
sleeves attached to its lower edge. The 
quantity of material required for the med¬ 
ium size is 3 l / 2 yards 21 inches wide, 2]/ 2 
yards 27 inches wide or V/ 2 yards 44 inches 
wide with G]/ 2 yards of banding, 3% yards 
of lace and V 2 yard of silk for belt. The 
pattern 4,815 is cut in sizes for misses of 
12, 14 and 1G years of age; price 10 cents. 
The skirt in walking length that is 
tucked or pleated continues a marked fav¬ 
orite. This one is laid in tucks at both 
front and back. The model is made from 
light weight Scotch cheviot stitched with 
silk, but all materials for suits and for 
skirts are equally appropriate. The skirt 
is cut in six gores and is laid in groups ot 
deep tucks at front and back which ef¬ 
fectually conceal the seams and in a box 
pleat at the centre back. Inverted pleats 
are laid in at the foot of the side seams. 
The quantity of material required for the 
medium size is 7 yards 27 inches wide, 5j^ 
yards 44 inches wide or 5 yards 52 inches 
wide when material has figure or nap; 
5 yards 27, 4 l / 2 yards 44 or 4 yards 52 
inches wide when material has neither 
figure nor nap. The pattern 481G is cut 
in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30 inch 
waist measure; price 10 cents. 
My name on a 
lamp-chimney says, 
“ Pay double for 
me; I give double 
light and don’t 
break.” 
Macbeth. 
How to take care of lamps, Including the 
getting of right-shape chimneys, is in my 
Index; sent free. 
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