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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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often make the difference between hurried 
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unsatisfactory spring sewing and quiet, 
pleasant hours making and mending for 
the family. 
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Many families do their summer dress¬ 
making in February and March, and when 
the rush of spring work comes, there need 
be no worry about something suitable to 
wear when the mercury leaves 32 degrees 
as its center between the cold at night and 
the warmth of day, and stays above 40 de¬ 
grees day and night, bringing out the 
spring" costumes of those who have pre¬ 
pared them, as surely as the spring flowers. 
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Occasionally there comes, before we 
would naturally expect it, a beautiful 
spring-like day in March or in April ac¬ 
cording as we are nearer or farther from 
the tropics, that the housekeepers feel is 
perfect for beginning the spring cleaning, 
but too often it finds the housewife unpre¬ 
pared to do the work to the best advan¬ 
tage ; there are no tacks except such ascan 
be saved in taking up the old ones, and 
every house-cleaner knows how many al¬ 
ways break; there is neither sapolio, 
ammonia nor pearline for the obstinate 
stains on the wood-work, and so if the 
work is done without these or some good 
substitute, it is not so easily done. 
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IF white curtains, bed-spreads, shams, 
stand covers and cotton mats are washed 
the week before house-cleaning begins, the 
rooms can be completely restored to their 
usual furnishings without bringing all the 
work into one day, and yet afford the 
comfort of a thoroughly renovated room 
when cleaning day is over. 
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Before the men and horses are busy 
from morning until night on the farm, 
have the screens for windows and doors 
renewed or repaired. The ruin that flies 
bring into a house is worth serious fore¬ 
thought to prevent. In rooms but little 
used or used only as bed-rooms, very few 
flies enter, but the few will ruin any fancy 
articles about the room, and destroy ail 
the comfort of the morning hour for a 
sleeper or would-be sleeper occupying the 
room. Straight, full curtains of scrim, of a 
finely woven pattern, are very good sub¬ 
stitutes for screens in such a room, and at 
the same time, they are very pretty curtains. 
Pretty scrim ranges in price from eight 
cents to 25 centsa yard or more, and washes 
when soiled. 
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Spring-rollers for curtains are sold for 
less than 20 cents apiece without a curtain, 
and are not over 75 cents with a good hol- 
land curtain attached, ready for hanging, 
but either muslin or chintz will roll on a 
spring roller, so that curtains of either 
material that may be hung on old-fash¬ 
ioned, clumsy rollers can be transferred to 
the spring rollers and when once the latter 
have been adopted it will seem a most un¬ 
thrifty thing to have managed with the 
old ones so long. 
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If the canned fruit doe;; not promise to 
hold out until asparagus and strawberries 
are ready, it can be made to last by using 
dried fruits frequently. If there are apples 
beginning to decay they can be canned in 
the fruit jars that have already been 
emptied. Many object to dried fruits, but 
often the objection results from poorly 
cooked fruit being served. To thoroughly 
wash dried fruit it is often necessary to 
pour hot water over it and let it stand un¬ 
til softened a little, then rub the fruit be¬ 
tween the hands and rinse before stewing. 
If cooked until done, it will then have a 
clear amber juice and be very different 
from the muddy-lookiug mass that often 
comes to the table as dried fruit. 
ALICE E. B. 
My dear girl, don’t accept presents from 
young men. 
Don’t give your photograph to every 
young man who asks for it. 
Never write a line that you would hesi¬ 
tate to show to your mother. 
Have it understood among your young 
men callers that they are not expected to 
stay later than 10 o’clock. 
LOBSTER SALAD. 
Cut up and season the cold lobster with 
pepper, salt. , and a little vinegar, and put 
in a cold place. Make addressing of .a des¬ 
sert-spoonful of made mustard, one of sugar, 
one of salt, a little Cayenne, the yelks of 
two raw eggs, the juice of half a lemon, 
three spoonfuls of vinegar, and half a pint 
of salad oil. 
Beat the eggs with an egg beater, add the 
salt, sugar, mustard and pepper, then the 
oil, a little at a time, until the dressing is 
very stiff, then a little vinegar and so on 
until the oil and vinegar are used up. 
Now add the lemon juice and after a 
thorough stirring with the beater set on ice 
or in a very cold place. Throw the inner 
leaves of two heads of lettuce into cold 
water for half an hour before serving. 
Then shake free from water and arrange 
two or three leaves together in the form of 
a shell and place these shells upon a flat 
dish or each shell on a separate dish. Mix 
half of the mayonnaise dressing with the 
lobster (the dressing is sufficient for enough 
lobster for serving four or five persons) 
and put a table-spoonful of the mixture 
into each cluster of leaves. Finish with a 
tea-spoonful of the dressing on top of each 
spoonful of salad. 
TOMATO SALAD. 
Put ripe tomatoes on ice or in very cold 
water, and just before wanted, pare off the 
skin with a sharp knife, cut into slices half 
an inch thick, arrange on a flat dish, put a 
tea-spoonful of the above mayonnaise dress¬ 
ing in the center of each slice. Garnish 
with a border of parsley. 
POTATO SALAD. 
A quart of cold boiled potatoes cut into 
small pieces, a very little onion minced fine, 
a tea-spoonful of minced parsley, four hard- 
boiled eggs finely chopped, pepper, salt and 
a little vinegar. Mix together, with a small 
part of the dressing made as in lobster 
salad. Arrange lettuce around the edge of 
a small platter, put the salad in the center, 
with the remaining dressing on top. Ex¬ 
cellent. MRS. ECONOMY. 
Melted butter is a very good substitute 
for olive oil in salad dressing. Many pre 
fer the butter to oil. 
Tiie Atchison Globe says that with a 
woman it is a struggle to provide some¬ 
thing for the inner mau, and with a man it 
is an effort, to provide something for the 
outer woman. 
Pi.$ccUancou.$ 
Each Season 
Has its own peculiar malady; but with the 
blood maintained in a state of uniform vigor 
and purity, by the use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
the system readily adapts itself to changed 
conditions. Composed of the best alteratives 
and tonics, and being highly concentrated, 
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economical of all blood medicines. 
“ For some years, at the return of spring, 
I had serious trouble with my kidneys. I 
was unable to sleep nights, and suffered 
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—Mrs. Genevra Belanger, 24 Bridge st, 
Springfield, Mass. 
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our NEW CATALOG! E ol 
HIGH CLASS SEEDS 
For 1890. 
Containing all tbe Novelties of the Season, both in Vegetable and Flower 
Seeds. 
J.M. Thorburn&C o..15 JohnS: NewYork. 
POTATOES. 
Two Crops a Year. 
Earliest and Most Piolific in the World. 
Memphis SECOND CROP Triumph, 
Three Pounds FREE by Mail, $1. 
Write for Prices on Large quantities. Crop Limited. 
$50.00 given away for largest yield from three pounds: 
$25.00 for first; $15.00 for second ; and $10.00 for third. 
ULLATHORNE & CO., 
Seedsmen, MEMPHIS, TENN. 
Refer to The American Garden for responsibility. 
13®=” The Choice Novelties of 1890. 
HERE IS A LISTTHAT WILL GIVE SATISFACTION —Red Cross Tomato-Resembles 
Livingston in form, solidity, color, etc., but is decidedly earlier. Iguotum Tomato —Round, solid and 
productive; both Rural New Yorker and Prof. Taft have a special good word for Ignotum. Gragg 
Watermelon— A distinct variety, flesh salmon-color, quality and flavor peculiarly rich and sweet. 
Marblehead Early Marrowfat— A remaikably strong grower, a tremendous cropper, and bears 
several pickings. -Early Prize Pea- Cross between Tom Thumb and Advancer;, dwarf, earl y, a nd a 
splendid cropper. The Favorite— A better Pea than either Abundance or Everbearing. Ford-Hook 
Squash- Dry, fine grained, sweet, hardy, prolific. White Prolific Marrow— A new English dwarf, 
wrinkled Pea, a wonderful cropper. Giant Pascal Celery— Stalks extra large v solid, and a better 
keeper than other self-blar.ciitng varieties. Cylinder Wax Bean— The rust and Dhght-_proof Wax Bean 
so long sought for. Coral Bern Pepper —With its hundreds of brilliant red pods, it is as brilliant as 
a gem. Blonde Block-Head Lettuce —A rich, golden-headed Cabbage, crisp and fine. 
15 ct*. per package; TV 11 for $ 1 . 00 . An extra package to all naming this paper. Seed Catalogue 
free. JAMES j. H. GREGORY, Marblehead. Mass. 
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Are the B FST for all soils and climes, 
producing everywhere Enrly Fege. 
tables. Beautiful 
Flowers, and large 
Farm Crops. 
35 packages Earliest 
Vegetable .Seed- 
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33 packages Choice 
Flower Seed.81. 
1 pkge. LaCrosse 
SeedlingTomato 
(new) 20c. 
100.000 ROSES 
and PLANTS. 
Send for Free Catalogue 
contains everything for 
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SEEDS. Catalogue! 
jwhich we mail free to all imr- 
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jspring Bulbs. Plants. &c.. &c. 
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SEEDSMAN’, 
ALLEGHENY, PA. 
S3F* Mention this paper. 
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