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THE RURAL NHW-YORKER 
Womans Work. 
CHAT BY THE WAY. 
F OR summer working gowns we always 
like gingham or seersucker, because 
it is substantial, but there is one very de¬ 
cided drawback—it will shrink in the wash¬ 
ing Unless very roomy at the outset, by 
the time it has been washed a few times it 
must be let down and altered. This sum¬ 
mer, cotton goods seem likely to be very 
cheap and desirable, and the percales and 
cambrics seem so durable, as well as pretty, 
that they make very desirable morning 
frocks, without the objectionable shrink¬ 
ing of the seersuckers. Percales in indigo 
dyes come in very pretty patterns, and the 
old-fashioned calicoes are really nice-look¬ 
ing, and very cheap. Summer is always 
hailed with joy by women of small means 
who like pretty gowns. One may revel in 
pretty colors and styles, without extrava¬ 
gance. 
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Vkry many of the handsome lamp 
shades now seen are composed entirely of 
flowers, paper or muslin, put on a wire 
foundation. One pretty style is made to 
imitate a large sun-flower : the upper part 
is composed of dark brown tissue paper, 
quilled so as to look like the heart of the 
flower, while the lower part is composed of 
yellow paper petals. This is very pretty. 
Other pretty paper shades have the upper 
part composed of large pink roses, put 
closely together, while the lower part is a 
mass of crinkly pink leaves. 
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This is a season of pretty collars : though 
stiff linen will surely come in during the 
summer, to go with the very mannish gar¬ 
ments affected by young women ; at pres¬ 
ent dainty laces lead. All sorts of turned- 
down collars and frills are worn, the favor¬ 
ites being of Vandyke lace. The turned- 
back lace cuffs have a very pretty effect 
on sleeves tight at the wrist and full above. 
Fichus of all sorts are revived, some verv 
pretty ones being of silk mull, edged with 
pleated frills. However, these fichus must 
be chosen carefully; for a good many 
styles, while dainty, have a tendency to add 
to the apparent age of the wearer. Unless 
arranged rather coquettishly, they are de- 
cidedlv matronly. The turned-down collars, 
too, are not always becoming; girls with 
long and slender necks will do well to leave 
them alone. Elaborate arrangements for 
the neck must always be chosen with cau¬ 
tion ; frequently a thing which will look 
very attractive in the shop-window is so 
unbecoming as to be dowdy when worn. 
For every-day frocks, the prettiest and 
most economical frilling'is made of Valen¬ 
ciennes lace ; buy it by the yard, about 
three-quarters of an inch wide, and gather 
it into neck and wrists. When soiled it is 
easily washed and ironed ; it is cheap, does 
not thicken in washing, and wears a long 
time. What the shop-keepers call Platte 
Valenciennes comes in handsomer patterns 
than the ordinary more open-meshed kind 
(sometimes called Italian lace): but It 
does not wash so prettily as the latter. 
Tnis frilling does not look cheap, but it is 
very economical. 
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Among our house-cleaning'! experiences 
this spring is the operation of paper hang¬ 
ing. Women who have done a good deal of 
this work tell us that it is not at all diffi¬ 
cult ; but we do not think it the easiest 
thing in the world, and it is rather hard on 
one’s back and arms. There is a good deal 
in getting the knack of doing it. One of 
the chief requisites is to get the first strip 
of paper perfectly straight; then one can 
follow that with the rest. Crookedness 
with the first width puts the rest out of 
plumb. The widths 'must, of course, be 
started at the top, and smoothed down¬ 
wards; a long sweeping motion will be 
found better than a series of little dabs in 
smoothing it. We were very much dis¬ 
gusted with our first efforts, because, in 
spite of all care, the paper looked terribly 
wrinkled, hut we soon learned that these 
wrinkles were caused by the stretching of 
the paper when wet; when dry it flat¬ 
tened out so as to be perfectly smooth. 
The paste used was made with rye flour, 
which sticks much better than wheat. The 
only ingredient besides flour and water was 
a little alum, which is supposed to toughen 
the paper. 
A beginner at this work should select 
some small, close-patterned paper, so that 
there will be little trouble in matching the 
widths. Where there is a large flower, or 
any spreading design, it will be noticed 
that at the edge of the paper the figure 
usually terminates half way, and of course 
the next strip must finish the half. It is 
often very difficult to match just right; 
usually one has to cut off a considerable 
piece of paper before the pattern meets, 
and this is really troublesome to one inex¬ 
perienced. However, with amateur paper¬ 
hanging, as with everything else, “where 
there’s a will there’s a way,” and after see¬ 
ing the effect of pretty, new paper on 
shabby walls one never regrets the trouble 
and fatigue 
APPETIZING BREAKFAST DISHES. 
Ham Toast. —Chop the meat very fine, 
heat it on a buttered spider with enough 
soup stock or water to make a paste : add 
a little lemon juice the last thing, and 
spread it evenly on slices of buttered toast. 
Cold tongue is delicious prepared in the 
same way. Any preparation of cold meats 
which are chopped can be made still more 
palatable by putting them into a pudding 
dish and covering the top an inch deep 
with the following : Beat the white of an 
egg into nicely mashed and seasoned pota¬ 
toes; spread evenly and moisten the top 
with white of egg, browning it nicely. 
Eggs in nearly all the ways in which they 
are cooked make excellent breakfast dishes, 
and spring is the season when they are 
most relished. Ham, veal and lobster make 
delicious omelet, by simply chopping them 
fine and spreading a layer over the omelet 
before it is turned. Some people are very 
fond of a herb omelet, which is made by 
adding chopped parsley, sweet marjoram 
or thyme to the mixture after it is cooked. 
A few bread crumbs added to a plain 
omelet make a dish relished by many. 
Queen’s Toast. —To one egg add a pinch 
of salt and beat very thoroughly , add to it 
a tea-cupful of sweet milk. Remove the 
crust from some slices of bread : soak them 
in this preparation for five minutes or un¬ 
til they are soft. Touch the entire bottom 
of a smooth spider with butter; heat but 
do not scorch. Put in a layer of bread : 
cover quickly and brown either one or both 
sides as you prefer. Some people like a lit¬ 
tle sugar added to the milk. 
An attractive way to serve cold, mashed 
potatoes is to heat them over the fire with 
a little milk and stir until smooth ; then 
add two well-beaten eggs. Butter an agate 
or earthen pie-plate; arrange the potatoes 
in a mound ; rub over with the white of an 
egg, and bake in a hot oven to a delicate 
brown. 
Mush, made of hominy or meal, if 
intended to be fried when cold, should be 
put, when warm, into a deep, square pan, 
that has been previously wet in cold water. 
The mush can then be cut in even slices. 
Dip each into the beaten yelk of an egg ; 
roll in flour or cracker crumbs and fry in 
hot lard. 
Hominy gems are made by mixing a tea¬ 
cupful of cold hominy with a coffee-cupful 
of milk. When smooth add a pinch of salt, 
two eggs and a tea-cupful and a-half of 
flour. Bake quickly in hot gem pans. 
Rice croquettes are made by heating 
cold rice in as little milk as will soften it; 
add a pinch of salt, a-half tea-spoonful of 
butter and one egg to each tea-cupful of 
rice. Cook one minute after adding the 
egg When cold shape into croquettes and 
fry or rather boil 10 minutes in hot lard. 
Codfish croquettes are a savory dish 
and are made by chopping cold codfish fine 
and mixing it with an equal quantity of 
freshly mashed and seasoned potatoes; add a 
well-beaten egg for each cup of fish. When 
cold, shape, dip in egg and then in bread 
crumbs and fry. Some prefer this mixture 
arranged in a rather shallow dish and 
baked 20 minutes. 
Potatoes left over from another meal 
can be re-cooked in such a variety of ways 
that oue need never cook them new for 
this meal. Lyonuaise potatoes are made 
by cutting enough cold, boiler! potatoes 
into dice to make a pint. Put a table¬ 
spoonful of butter in a pan, add one tea¬ 
spoonful of chopped onion and carefully 
brown; add a tea-spoonful of vinegar, the 
cut potatoes and pepper and salt. Stir 
carefully till the potatoes are a light 
brown. Serve on a warm plattter. Some 
people relish a little finely-chopped parsley 
sprinkled over the top of this. 
Creamed Potatoes.— Chop, but not too 
fine, cold, boiled potatoes. Put two table- 
spoonfuls of butter into a frying-pan; 
when hot, rub into it a table-spoonful of 
flour, and add a tea-cupful of milk ; when 
it boils add a table-spoonful of chopped 
parsley and the potatoes. Boil up well 
and serve. 
Egg Salad.—A delicious salad for a 
spring morning is made by slicing hard- 
boiled eggs on a bed of crisp lettuce and 
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pouring over it a cream dressing made as 
follows: Into three-fourths of a tea-cup- 
fnl of cream put one tea spoonful of salt 
and one of sugar, one-fourth of a tea spoon¬ 
ful of dry mustard and a little black 
pepper. When smooth add, by stirring in 
a little at a time, three-fourths of a tea- 
cupful of cider vinegar. 
Baked Apples.— Many excellent dishes 
can be made of apples in their season, one 
of the best being the above. Take any 
tart apples, cut out the stem and flower 
end, so as to remove the skin from these 
cup-shaped cavities. Place in a baking 
pan : fill the cavities and sprinkle freely 
between the apples with sugar ; put a drop 
of butter on top of each apple and a few 
pieces between them, and bake until per¬ 
fectly soft. 
The Best Cow in June give-* milk of a 
rich orange tint. From this milk butter is 
made as nearly perfect in color as the buyer 
could wish. With Thatcher’s Orange But¬ 
ter Color this tint can be maintained the 
entire season. — A dr. 
There is some soul of goodness in things 
evil. (Shakspere.) 
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fear¬ 
ful. (Measure for Measure.) 
There are three things in this world 
which deserve no quarter—Hypocrisy, 
Pharisaism and Tyranny, says Rev. F. 
Robertson. 
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HAND-MADE HARNESS 
A. spec al bargain for one 
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for Information. 
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Harness Deoarment No. 15. 
Philadelphia. Pa. 
ROAD CARTS 
We make the HEbI I You will 
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manufacturers. Enclose ‘2 cent stamp for 
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Mention Rural New-Yorker. 
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| For 16 Years 
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Says Dr. Holmes : “ Men are tattooed 
with their special beliefs like so many 
South Sea Islanders; but a- real human 
heart, with Divine love in it, beats with 
the same glow under all the patterns of all 
earth’s thousand tribes.” 
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DESKS, 
Chairs, 
Office Furniture. 
SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 
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Salesrooms, 
opp. Lowell Depot, 
93 Causeway St., Boston 
Advertisers treat all correspondents 
well if they mention the Rural New- 
Yorker. 
Boils and Pimples 
Are nature's efforts to eliminate poison from 
the blood. This result may be accomplished 
much more effectually, as well as agreeably, 
through the proper excretory channels, by 
the use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. 
“ For several years I was troubled with 
boils and carbuncles. In casting about for a 
remedy, it occurred to me that Ayer’s Sarsa¬ 
parilla had been used in my father’s family, 
with excellent success, aud I thought that 
what was good for the father would also be 
good for the son. Three or four bottles of 
this medicine entirely cured me, and I have 
not since — in more than two years —had a 
boil, pimple, or any other eruptive trouble. 
I can conscientiously speak in the highest 
terms of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and many 
years’ experience in the drug business en¬ 
ables me to speak intelligently.”—C. M. 
Hatfield, Farmland, Ind. 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 
PREPARED BY 
DR. J. C. AYER & CO., Howell, Mass. 
Price $1; six bottles, $ 5 . Worth $5 a bottle. 
EPPS’S 
GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. 
COCOA 
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. 
W. BAKERT& CO.’S 
Breakfast Cocoa 
Is absolutely pure and 
is Is soluble. 
No Chemicals 
arc used in its preparation- It has mure 
than three times the strength of Cocoa 
mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, 
and is therefore far more economical, 
costing less than one cent a cup. It is 
delicious, nourishing, strengthening. Ea¬ 
sily Digested, and admirably adapted 
for invalids as well as persons in health. 
Sold by Grocers everywhere. 
W BlYPP Xt f.fi Tlnreliaetpr Mass. 
This is the strongest, cheapest and best 
Butter Color ever made or sold in any mar¬ 
ket. A 25-cent bottle will give the finest 
June tint to 500 lbs. of winter butter. 
Send for circulars and prices if your dealer 
doesn’t keep it. 
* THATCHER MFC. CO . Potsdam. N. Y. 
P BUCKEYE SUNBEAM CULTIVATOR 
* ** ^ ^mufactured b y P.P. MAST & CO. 
ESTABLISHED 
1854 . 
SPRINGFIELD, O. 
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WHEELS and 
SPRINGS at 
Ends of Beams. 
This Cultivator has the rear ends of the beams pivoted to a Cross-head to which the 
Shovel Ntandtird, are attached and a secondary beam or rod pivoted to the coupling in 
front and to the Cross-head in the rear, by which the Shovels are carried parallel with the axle, 
whatever may be the position of them in being moved sidewise. The spring at the front end of the 
beams supports them when in use. and enables the operator to move them easily from side to side and 
assists in raising when lie wishes to tiook them up while turning at the end of the row. We attach 
these Beams also to our (titling; and Tongruelr** Cultivator*. This Cultivator has no equal in 
the market and can not fail to be appreciated bv anv farmer who sees it. We also manufacture the 
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