THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Rural Recipes. 
Russian Jelly.—Soak half a box of 
gelatine in a gill of cold water for 10 
minutes, and pour it into a pint of boil¬ 
ing water with a cupful of sugar and 
one of orange and lemon juice mixed up 
in the proportion of one-fourth orange 
and three-fourths lemon. Strain and 
set in a cold place to thicken enough to 
be whipped with an egg-beater to a stiff 
froth. Wet a mold with cold water, put 
in a little of the jelly, then a layer of 
candied fruit, sliced fresh fruit or pre¬ 
serves, more jelly and more fruit until 
the mold is full. Serve with whipped 
cream. 
Rhubarb with Figs.—Wash a half- 
pound of bag or pulled figs and cook in 
boiling water to cover until the water 
is nearly absorbed. Skin and cut a 
pound of rhubarb in one-inch pieces. 
Put a layer in a baking dish, sprinkle 
with sugar, add a layer of figs, repeat 
until all is used; put in a quarter of a 
cupful of hot water and bake in a slow 
oven until the rhubarb is soft. Dates 
or raisins may be used with the rhubarb 
in the same manner. Serve with plain 
or whipped cream. 
Coffee Cream Cake.—Mix three tea¬ 
spoonfuls of baking powder with three 
cupfuls of fiour. Cream one-half cupful 
of butter with one cupful of sugar, beat 
the yolks of four eggs, add a second 
cupful of sugar, and when light and 
creamy combine with the butter mix¬ 
ture. Add one cupful of strong coffee 
and then the fiour mixture, and last the 
whites of the eggs beaten stiff. Bake in 
two snallow pans. When done, split 
carefully and put in a filling of coffee 
cream. Sweeten one cupful of thick 
cream and fiavor it to taste with black 
coffee. Chill and whip it stiff with a 
wire spoon; then spread half-inch layer 
on one of the cakes. Put little slivers 
of apple jelly over the cream; cover with 
the other half of the cake and sprinkle 
powdered sugar over the top. Cut in 
long, narrow slices. Lemon filling may 
be substituted for the other layer if pre¬ 
ferred. 
Kornlet Roughrider.—Two cupfuls of 
finely chopped cooked meat, any kind; 
season with a scant teaspoonful of salt, 
one saltspoonful of pepper, one-fourth 
teaspoonful celery salt, one tablespoon¬ 
ful of grated onion, add one beaten egg, 
one tablespoonful of melted butter, two 
t-ablespoonfuls cracker crumbs. Mix this 
thoroughly together. Take IV 2 cupful 
of kornlet, two cupfuls of bread crumbs, 
saltspoonful of salt, dash of pepper and 
one-fourth cupful of milk; mix thor¬ 
oughly. Butter well a small granite 
dish, line the bottom and sides quite 
thick with the kornlet; pack in the 
meat, cover the top closely with korn¬ 
let, spread a teaspoonful of soft butter 
over this and steam 45 minutes; then 
put in the oven to brown aoout 16 min¬ 
utes. Loosen it around the sides of the 
dish, turn it out upon a hot platter and 
pour tomato sauce over it. Serve at 
once. 
Boston Tea Cakes.—Beat two eggs in 
a teacup, fill the cup with sweet milk, 
turn into a bowl with one cupful of 
sugar, 10 even teaspoonfuls of melted 
butter, 1% cupful of fiour and two tea¬ 
spoonfuls of baking powder. This is the 
most reliable, easily made and accom¬ 
modating of cakes. Delicious baked in 
layers and spread with jam or cream. 
May be baked in a loaf or small patty 
pans. Serve warm with tea. 
Gooseberry Catchup.—It is well to 
make a note of this recipe now, before 
gooseberries are in season. Five pounds 
of fruit, three pounds of sugar, quart 
of vinegar, one tablespoonful of cloves, 
three tablespoonfuls of cinnamon, two 
tablespoonfuls of allspice. Wash the 
berries, put them in a porcelain stew- 
pan, mash them well, add the other in¬ 
gredients and boil until thick. Seal 
while hot. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs.Wins- 
low s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
While Teething. It is the Best.—Adt;. 
Living in a Cage. 
Grandma Rosemary went last Sum¬ 
mer to her native village to visit her 
niece, who a year before had married a 
farmer in the neighborhood. 
They went one day to take tea with a 
friend of Mrs. Rosemary’s girlhood. As 
they came near the door grandma said: 
"That old house has not altered in the 
last 20 years! There are the same closed 
green blinds at the parlor windows, and 
the same tin pails sunning on the kit¬ 
chen bench, and the same Dahlias and 
sunflowers in the yard. There is Sere- 
ena in the door, a little leaner and gray¬ 
er, but otherwise just the same.” 
She found no alteration inside the 
house, either. Serena lived alone. She 
gave them the same kind of biscuit and 
veal cakes and honey which grandma 
remembered when she was young. They 
sat in the bare, clean parlor, with the 
blinds closed. The sofa, the table, the 
chairs stood in the same places as when 
Serena was a child. She talked of but 
two or three things—crops and the wea¬ 
ther and the neighbors, topics so old 
that they had a musty flavor. 
When the visitors were on their way 
home, grandma drew a long breath. 
“Twenty years ago,” she said, emphatic¬ 
ally, “Serena Nutt was talking of the 
yield of corn in that field, and of the 
sharpness in business of the Nutts, and 
of the best way to make succotash, pre¬ 
cisely as she did to-day! Her mind goes 
round and round in the same little cir¬ 
cle, like a squirrel in his wheel. She 
doesn’t know that there is a world out¬ 
side of this village!” 
She paused a moment, and then said; 
“It is no credit to me that 1 am not like 
her. My husband was an editor, and my 
sons were in business and went about 
the world a good deal, so windows open¬ 
ed into my life on every side. When we 
sat down to breakfast tne men talked of 
the great events of the day, as reflected 
in the newspapei-s, or of an expedition 
to the North Pole, or of some new book 
or some discovery in science. I am like 
David, I thank God that He has ‘set my 
feet in a large room.’ ” 
“He has not set me in a large room,” 
said her niece, gravely, but in a very 
small one. My husband works hard on 
the farm and I in the house. There is 
danger that I shall be shut in with as 
few ideas as Serena has. It is the great 
danger in farm and village life. But 
what can one do?” 
“Open windows and doors in your lit¬ 
tle room,” said Mrs. Rosemary, prompt¬ 
ly. “Take one or two of the best maga¬ 
zines, and read them. Keep up with the 
action of the great outside woidd in ev¬ 
ery way possible to you. Write to your 
old acquaintances. Don’t spend your 
money in new-fashioned gowns or par¬ 
lor furniture, but in books, magazines, 
and above all in little journeys with 
your husband. It is only by measuring 
yourself with strangers that you can get 
your true measure.”—Youth’s Com¬ 
panion. 
of plasters, made by tearing off a piece 
of muslin, say 4x8 inches, smearing it 
with a tablespoonful of sloppy mustard, 
then folding over, making a four-inch 
square—this is an irritating non-quiet¬ 
ing kind. But tear off a generous piece 
of old thin muslin about 6x12 inches, on 
one-half of it put two even tablespoon¬ 
fuls of dry mustard and one tablespoon¬ 
ful of white flour, mix lightly and spreau 
evenly over the cloth, then sprinkle with 
hot vinegar or water until the surface 
is quite damp, fold over the other half 
of the muslin, turn up the edges slight¬ 
ly and apply wherever needed—I assure 
you it will warm you up admirably! In 
cases of nervous sick headache a plaster 
of this kind on the stomach will prove 
very soothing, and induce sleep. After 
an hour the plaster may be removed 
from the stomach and placed on the back 
between the shoulder blades and kept 
there until the strength has gone out of 
it. Thin-skinned patients insist upon 
having soft muslin cloths well smeared 
with lard—it is more cooling than vase¬ 
line—placed over the mustard’s path¬ 
way, others do not care to be bothered 
with anything of the kind—and they 
also survive! 
A mustard plaster on the chest will 
loosen up a cough wonderfully. Also a 
mustard foot-bath, hot as can be en¬ 
dured taken before going to bed, accom¬ 
panied by a good hot drink of lemonade, 
will give relief, A hot-water bag, 
wrapped in flannei or a well-heated flat 
iron treated in the same way, should al¬ 
ways be placed in a grip sufferer’s bed 
as a foot-warmer. “Keep the head cool 
and the feet warm” is the good nurse’s 
saving charm. In cases that show symp¬ 
toms of pneumonia, having sharp pains 
in the region of the lungs, hot onion 
poultices put on one after the other un¬ 
til the patient is relieved are more effi¬ 
cacious than mustard plasters. The 
onions should be sliced and fried in 
lard until soft, then put into a little 
woolen bag—a leg of an old merino 
stocking sewn up at one end is handy. 
Place this over the seat of pain just as 
hot as the patient can bear it, and have 
another bag ready to change with as 
soon as the first grows lukewarm. Keep 
this treatment up until the patient is re¬ 
lieved. This simple remedy is often 
prescribed by physicians, and we have 
tried it so often on home folks that we 
know, beyond the shadow oj. a doubt, 
that it is good. When the pain has 
ceased apply greased cloths and cover 
with a good thick layer of cotton bat¬ 
ting. This should be worn several days 
as a protection against further cold, the 
greased cloth being changed daily. In 
country places it takes so much time to 
get a doctor that it would seem to be 
the duty of a good house-mother to 
know what to do in cases of emergency. 
Tet so many women yield to a feeling 
of helplessness and fright and will not 
venture to do a thing for a sick person 
until the doctor arrives, and expressly 
orders this or that done. In the mean¬ 
time the moments seem like long hours 
to the sufferer. docia dykens. 
The greatest difficulties are found 
where least expected; the greatest suc¬ 
cesses come from where they are least 
sought.—Ivan Panin. 
The world wants men who are saved 
from secret faults. The world can put 
on an outside goodness and go very far 
in uprightness and morality, and it ex¬ 
pects that a Christian shall go beyond 
it and be free from secret faults. A lit¬ 
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—Mark Guy Pearse. 
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conquerors of the world. Nothing has 
ever happened to man so bad as he had 
anticipated it to be. If we would be 
quiet under our troubles they would 
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like a woman who could “teach Sunday 
school, bake bread and make mustard 
plasters,” and we can imagine the little 
self-approving smile to which the busy 
reporter treated himself after thus deft¬ 
ly touching off the three saving graces. 
Did the shadow of some dear soul who 
had ministered unto him in his time of 
need, flit across his mental horizon as 
he paused for the hundredth part of a 
second for words that would exactly de¬ 
scribe the impression made upon him by 
this startling woman? Had he just re¬ 
covered from the grip and had he found 
out, by experience, that the warm pro¬ 
position of the home physician was after 
all the most consoling thing in the 
world? A mustard plaster consoling? 
Yes, I mean just that. I will, however, 
admit that there are irritating mustard 
plasters, just as there are consoling wo¬ 
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