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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FASHION POINTERS. 
HILE the fashion magazines do not, 
as yet, show any decided changes 
in fashions for the cool season, as far as 
make-up is concerned, we may glean a few 
notes here and there as to general ten¬ 
dencies, especially in colors and materials. 
Perhaps the one thing particularly notice¬ 
able Is the return to favor of rough-surfaced 
goods of all kinds. Many of these are very 
coarse, almost suggestive of horse blankets, 
yet they make up with surprisingly good 
effect. 
Plaids and spots are in high favor, the 
latter being larger than In the past. There 
are rough brochd spotted stuffs, and also 
smooth stuffs with fleecy, raised spots, 
often of a contrasting color, and the liking 
for lozenges and squares, applied as a 
trimming, is more pronounced than before 
the advent of the rage for “spots.” The 
novelty about these is that they are used 
in exactly the opposite way from what was 
formerly “ the thing,” the patches of cloth 
now being applied to the velvet, either 
button holed on, or applied by outlining 
them with braid, or, oftener, with cords of 
silver or gilt. 
What are known as “ cloth ” dresses, in¬ 
crease in popularity, and the tendency is 
toward lighter coloring for these dresses 
even for street wear in winter, dark braid¬ 
ing or fur being relied on to better adapt 
them to the season. It is whispered that 
cloth dresses will even be used in the 
palest shades, for bridesmaids’ gowns and 
for evening wear. Blue, in its various 
shades, promises to be the favorite color 
for autumn. 
A premonition of change is shown in a 
tendency to ornament the foot of dress 
skirts; camel’s-hairs, silks and cheviots 
may be seen made up with a thick ruching 
of the material around the bottom of the 
skirt. These ruchings are cut on the bias, 
about three inches wide, and the edges are 
frayed. 
There is a general feeling that fashion 
makers are determined to introduce the 
hoop-skirt in the near future, and there are 
also signs of a strong determination not to 
yield to the demands of fashion in this 
direction. Olive Harper says that it is like 
trying to sweep back the Atlantic Ocean, 
and that many imported dresses have al¬ 
ready a set of hoops to be worn with each 
gown. 
Lovely woman has found out that she 
cannot wear the collarless dress and look 
pretty. Confess herself wrong she will 
not, so she this season swathes her throat 
in full lace ruffs or feather boas. Aside 
from these, the high, wired Medici collar is 
the collar of the season. 
Some of the new sleeves are braided at 
the top and also at the wrist, and some 
gowns have a braided collar and beit to 
match such sleeves. Few velvet sleeves 
will be used in new gowns of the season; 
but velvet is introduced in the back of the 
skirts or on either side of the back breadth, 
as a novelty in its manner of use. 
Capes are everywhere, but the only new 
ones are those that fit the form in front and 
usually end in pointed tabs. New jackets 
are nearly all double-breasted, and cas- 
aques, half long, will be worn to some ex¬ 
tent. 
A great deal of the decoration of fall and 
winter gowns may be done at home. The 
rage for handwork is greater than ever; 
even the passementeries are made to imi¬ 
tate hand-work. It is said that some of the 
handsomest of them may be crocheted by 
any one who Is an adept at this work. The 
favorite buttons, too, are to be covered 
with open-work crochet, which should 
easily be done at home by any deft-fingered 
girl. 
Velvet rosettes came late in summer and 
will stay through the winter. They are 
especially useful for filling out the gown 
below the baca of the waist, where there is 
often such a “deficit” if the bustle has 
been discarded. They are made by doub¬ 
ling a piece of bias velvet, perhaps two and 
one-half or three Inches wide, shirring it on 
the raw, doubled edge, and sewing it into a 
|Hi,$ccUatt(ou.$' guU'Cvti^ing. 
If you name The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment. 
When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. J 
coil, beginning with what will be the 
center of the rosette when finished. Ro¬ 
settes of ribbon are also used, both on 
dresses and on hats. myra V. norys. 
BITS OF LORE. 
Some of the younger cooks who read 
The R. N.-Y. may appreciate these bits of 
cookery lore: 
The less time that elapses between the 
gathering and the cooking of fruit intended 
for winter use, the better chances are of re¬ 
taining its soundness and flavor. Fruit 
intended for jellies will make more jelly, 
of better quality, and will “ jell ” with less 
cooking if picked before it is dead-ripe. In 
this year of scarcity of small fruits one 
household has found elderberries a very 
palatable dish if cooked in one-fourth their 
weight of sugar, with a little water and a 
few slices of lemon added. Stale crackers 
may be made “ maist as gude as new ” 
by putting them in a very moderate oven 
for 10 or 15 minutes JUDY JONES. 
INCONVENIENCES FOR WOMEN. 
ANY a woman manages to get along, 
year after year, with few conven¬ 
iences to lighten her work, and this is of- 
tenest true in the country home, as houses 
in cities and villages are usually built with 
more conveniences. We often see the farm¬ 
er’s premises without any wood-shed and 
the wood pile several rods from the kitchen 
door, while the well is, perhaps, farther 
away, sometimes down a hill. Besides this, 
many times there is no cistern, the house¬ 
wife being obliged to depend on what rain¬ 
water she can catch in tubs or barrels. 
Sometimes there is a cistern, but no way of 
drawing the water except with a leaky 
bucket and a rope. The garden is too often 
50 or 100 yards from the house and sur¬ 
rounded with a rail or plank fence, over 
which the housekeeper must climb to get 
her vegetables. This is not right, and it is 
no wonder that so many farmers’ wives are 
tired out and break down with work which 
might be spared them, or that farmers’ 
daughters grow up with a fixed determina¬ 
tion never to marry a farmer. 
Improved implements are bought to save 
the farmers’ time, money and labor, but 
they do not think of the extra steps which 
might be saved their wives aud daughters 
by a little labor and much less expense 
than they incur to lighten the burdens and 
make conveniences for their horses and 
cattle. 
A woman will manage to get along some 
way, and will congratulate herself on her 
economy in doing without such con¬ 
veniences as cost money, never thinking of 
the waste of strength and nervous force, to 
say nothing of the loss of time. While 
men are not by any means to blame for all 
the hardships that fall to the lot of woman, 
it should be remembered that “ evil is 
wrought by want of thought as well as by 
want of heart.” Men are busy with out¬ 
door work, with its plans and cares, and it 
the wife does not complain or ask for 
needed conveniences she cannot expect to 
get them. In matters of this kind, as in all 
others, exaction grows on compliance, and 
most assuredly if a woman is content to 
accept this state of things as inevitable, 
seldom will a man take the trouble to in¬ 
terest himself as to whether she is wearing 
herself out in the performance of unneces¬ 
sary labor or not; but, instead, the average 
man will, after a time, grow to think that 
to accept uncomplainingly whatever his 
carelessness or thoughtlessness imposes on 
her is her duty, and complainings are 
attributed to a desire to get rid of work, or 
the indulgence of a fault-finding disposi¬ 
tion. MRS. j. T. p. 
[We would like to emphasize one point 
made by our correspondent, viz.: “Ex¬ 
action grows on compliance.” The most 
pitiful thing about the life of the average 
farmers’ wives is “ the work that might 
have been spared them.” All of us who 
have ever occupied that position know this 
to be the case. Not in querulous com¬ 
plaints, not in scolding, but in earnest in¬ 
sistence that respects itself, that will be 
heard and heeded, lies the remedy for this 
unnecessary, but only too real evil which 
takes the spirit and often the life of the 
house-mother. “ Woman’s rights” in this 
matter cannot be gainsaid. Eds.] 
MISAPPROPRIATION. 
HE question of the proper credit given 
or not given for articles, is one with 
which every first-class paper has to deal, at 
one time or auother. We have referred to 
it on our own account at various times; 
and while we do not complain when other 
papers appropriate articles for which 
we have paid, provided they give due 
credit, we can never contemplate with com¬ 
placency such appropriation without credit. 
Our readers may imagine our feelings, on 
taking up an exchange last week, and find- 
ingin it an article by our valued contribu¬ 
tor, S. A. Little, copied word for word as it 
appeared in our columns, and credited, not 
to the lady, nor to us, but to a third jour¬ 
nal, which had, no doubt, published the 
matter, without giving The R. N.-Y. the 
credit. * 
MORE ABOUT GREEN TOMATOES. 
E have no fruit here in Monroe 
County, and seeing in The Rural 
of September 20, something about green 
tomatoes as a substitute for apples, I 
thought I would try a green tomato pie. 
I cut the tomatoes into thin slices, sprinkled 
a very little salt on them and made the pie 
exactly as I would plum or cherry pie. Our 
family thought it as good as any plum or 
apple pie. MRS. T. H. o. 
In The Rural of September 20, answers 
are requested to the question, whether 
green tomatoes can be use 1 as a substitute 
for apples. A delicious sauce can be made 
from green tomatoes after the following 
recipe: To five bowlfuls of pared and sliced 
green tomatoes, add three bowlfuls of 
white sugar and two bowlfuls sliced lem¬ 
ons. Boil three hours. MRS. E. c. G. 
Notes at Random— It is the fashion to 
have the set of after dinner coffee cups odd, 
no two being alike. If you are so fortu¬ 
nate as to possess “gift cups” from friends, 
so much the better; otherwise you buy 
them yourself. In the latter case one might 
buy them at different times and places, as 
tourists’ spoons are collected. They would 
then form topics when the “ after dinner ” 
hour comes. And what delightful rem¬ 
iniscences would be brought up of the 
pis 03 where we found this Limoges or that 
Worcester; the quaint little saleswoman, 
or the Blue Beard’s chamber of a china 
closet we discovered in our searching for 
dainty quaintnesses. And why would not 
this “ oddness ” be a nice thing carried out 
in drinking glasses ? Who has not suf¬ 
fered— yea just that—on seeing the best 
glasses rudely handled by thoughtless 
people ? And what a relief it would be if a 
glass were broken to think and say : “ Only 
one glass to buy, as my set is composed of 
odd pieces.” And how much easier to set 
your guest at ease with this same assur¬ 
ance. No matching to be done. 
the don. 
We Want to Know.—A lady friend 
writes : “ Your recipes for kitchen and 
household are very valuable, and are al¬ 
ways accepted with many thanks in our 
family,” and inquires whether sweet or 
“ hard ” cider is to be used in “ cider cake.” 
Much against our will, of course, we are 
constrained to confess that we are not in¬ 
fallible, and also that we do not know about 
cider cake. Will some of our friends rescue 
us and our correspondent together from 
this unknowing state ? 
Lemon Snaps. —Two pounds of sugar, 
two pounds five ounces of flour, 10 ounces 
of butter, half an ounce of ammonia; grate 
in the rind of two lemons and chop some of 
the pulp fine to put in. Rub these well to¬ 
gether, then add 10 eggs. Grease the pan 
lightly and dust it with flour, and bake in 
a slow oven. Make the dough in a long roll 
and cut off the right size for the snaps. 
Drop Cakes. —Two pounds of sugar, one 
pound of butter, 12 eggs, one pint of sweet 
milk, a scant ounce of ammonia, four 
pounds of flour, flavor with vanilla; grease 
pans and dust with flour. MRS. B. c. D. 
[We do not know about the ammonia.— 
Eds.] _ 
Paste that will keep and stick.—A 
writer in a standard journal for literary 
workers vouches for the following recipe for 
paste, which Is known as the “Amateur Pho¬ 
tographer’s :” One and three-fourths ounce 
best Bermuda arrowroot; 80 grains sheet 
gelatine; 15 fluid ounces water; ODe fluid 
ounce alcohol; six drops carbolic acid or 
oil of sassafras. Shred the gelatine and 
soak it in the water; when dissolved, put 
the arrowroot in a small saucepan, add an 
ounce of the water, stir to a thick cream, 
then add the rest of the water. Boil four 
or five minutes, stirring well, and when 
cool, but not cold, add the alcohol in a 
gentle stream, stirring rapidly, after which 
add the acid or oil, as preferred. This 
makes one pint of A1 paste, which will keep 
as long as desired. 
A simpler paste which will not sour is 
made as follows: Dissolve a piece of alum 
the size of a hickory-nut in a quart of boil¬ 
ing water. Mix a tea-cupful of flour with 
enough water to make a soft, smooth batter, 
and to this add the alum water. When 
well mixed, boil until it looks smooth and 
clear. Then take it from the fire and stir 
in a tea-spoonful each of oil of cloves and 
of sassafras. Possibly a less quantity of 
these oils will do as well. 
Cucumber Catsup.—To one dozen good- 
sized cucumbers, grated, add one onion 
finely chopped, and a small piece of red 
pepper. Squeeze the pulp in a bag until 
the water is extracted. Add to the re¬ 
mainder a little salt, and enough strong 
cider vinegar to make it about as thick as 
it was before squeezing. Bottle or seal in 
cans and it will keep fresh for a long time. 
Marion Harland is authority for the 
statement that if a table-spoonful of kero¬ 
sene be put into four quarts of tepid water, 
and this be used in washing windows and 
mirrors, instead of pure water, there will 
remain upon the cleaned surface, a polish 
no amount of mere friction can give. 
We also find it stated that lamp chimneys 
should never be washed in soap-suds or 
clear water. If a cloth wet with alcohol 
was used for this purpose, or, what is much 
cheaper and always at hand, kerosene oil, 
there will be a perceptible falling off in the 
manufacture and sale of lamp chimneys. 
It is really surprising how seldom chimneys 
will break and what a fine polish will be 
given them by cleaning in kerosene or 
alcohol. 
An exchange says that molasses will re¬ 
move the grass stains so often found on 
the summer clothing of children. Rub the 
molasses, as if it were soap, on the stained 
place, and then wash the garment in the 
ordinary fashion. 
Advertisers treat all correspondents 
well if they mention The Rural New- 
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Quartly, Minlaton, So. Australia. 
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