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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FREES I AS FOR WINTER BLOOMING. 
** ' I A HE flowers that bloom iu the 
JL spring” are sometimes a source of 
considerable annoyance to onr florist 
friends, from the fact that many people 
are for the first time reminded that they 
wanted some bulbs by seeing those in their 
neighbors’ gardens in bloom. On the spur 
of the moment they send their order to some 
favorite florist, who, of course, has nothing 
of the kind on hand at that season, and 
who is made to regret an unavailable cus¬ 
tomer, and to spend his stamps in making 
the fact known and returning the money 
to the person. 
The catalogues, the advertisements and 
the regular columns of the papers labor 
ceaselessly at this season to impress the 
fact that now is the time to purchase bulbs, 
either for the spring garden, or for winter 
bloom in the house. 
The ordinary bulbs—tulips, hyacinths, 
crocuses—are probably too well known to 
need especial mention; but the practice of 
growing them in damp moss, which is rec¬ 
ommended by some leading dealers, is 
comparatively unknown. Strawberry bas¬ 
kets may serve a useful purpose where the 
ordinary pots are thought too expensive 
for holding the moss and bulbs. The moss 
is cleanly and holds water like a sponge 
and also allows the roots a chance to riot 
among its loose layers. The bulbs are 
placed in it, moistened moderately, and 
then set away in a dark, cool place until 
roots are made in abundance. If the roots 
are on hand, there will be no doubt as to the 
bloom, which depends on them almost as 
effect upon cause,although a cool, somewhat 
damp atmosphere is conducive to finer 
bloom than a hot, dry one. 
A novelty of the past few years which 
has proved a real treasure to those who 
have cool, sunny windows is Freesia re- 
fracta alba. 
It may be potted at any time after the 
middle of August, and will bloom in about 
four mouths with ordinary treatment. The 
flowers are in clusters usually of from three 
to seven ; they are creamy white, with some 
yellow, and are fragrant and lasting. They 
resemble single tuberoses more nearly than 
any other flower, but are not of so heavy a 
texture. Florists raise large quantities of 
them, and they are popular wherever 
known. A great advantage which they 
have over most other forcing bulbs lies in 
the fact that they can be bloomed year after 
year if the bulbs are slowly ripened after 
blooming. We speak from experience with 
these flowers, having this season started 
for the fourth time a pot of their bulbs, 
which have increased 25-fold since we first 
obtained them. We have heretofore grown 
them without rooting them in the dark, 
but are trying them this year after the 
accepted way of forcing other bulbs. The 
result, of course, remains to be seen. 
COLD WEATHER WAYS. 
N EXT to the woman with a long purse, 
w'ho can buy flannel and every kind 
of woolen stuff for all sorts of uses, that 
housewife is most fortunate who has goodly 
stores of old flannel, and who knows how 
to use even the pieces of it. Perhaps the 
latter person is more to be envied, for she, 
doubtless, appreciates the value of her 
savings. 
And the uses of old flanuel are well nigh 
innumerable. It keeps away colds and 
chills; wards off or soothes rheumatic and 
neuralgic pains; is a good guard against 
pleurisy, and an efficient helper in the 
heroic task of keeping at bay all those 
dreaded, acute diseases which come through 
cold and exposure. 
In the spring the prudent woman will 
have put away, clean and smooth, and per¬ 
haps carefully sorted, all woolen skirts, 
shirts and blankets, and the remnants of 
them, the patches, even, which have out¬ 
lived the garment they mended, and all 
other bits of soft, woolen cloth. Now, 
when the November winds are blowing, 
and each piercing draught brings a thrill 
of misery or dread; when we feel the cold 
lUi.occllancoujs gulvcvtb'iug. 
Please mention The R. N.-Y r . to our adver 
tisers. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Oastorta, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. 
as, perhaps, we shall not, by and by, when 
we have gotten used to it, is the time to 
get them out and use them. 
A serviceable chest-protector may be 
made of three or four thicknesses of soft, 
white flannel. Cut the required size and 
pare out a good seam’s width, or even two, 
from the inside layers, then run the outer 
edges together and tack lightly. Or it may 
be bound with tape or narrow, thin braid 
or ribbon. One can have two of them, to 
change, for these protectors will wash. 
For the men folks they may be made of 
colored flannel, and may have inside a 
layer of colored wadding. This latter sub¬ 
stance, sprinkled with red pepper, heated 
well and applied at bed-time, is said to be 
excellent for weak lungs, or to relieve a 
cough. 
If one suffers with creeping chills, she 
will appreciate the comfort of a thickness 
of flannel tacked inside the back of the 
waist of her house dress (which ought to be 
loose enough to admit two or three layers) 
or, if of suitable color, inside her cloak. 
Half-worn blankets may be cut into 
smaller squares as shoulder blankets for in¬ 
valids or aged people. And some well folks, 
on cold nights, may not object to a piece to 
lay over the knees in bed, or for a foot- 
wrap. 
Flannel patches of suitable colors may be 
basted over the knees of the children’s 
stockings on the Inside, a gain in both wear 
and warmth. And they serve well as heel 
linings for worsted or cashmere hose. One 
may save darning, in advance, by following 
the same method with the men’s mittens, 
when they first begin to wear them, and by 
putting under-patches of firm woolen on 
the palms. Such inside patches, however, 
require very stout sewing; twice around 
with strong linen thread, is not too much, 
and the patch should be a little snug or it 
will be always troublesome. 
Squares of fine colored flanuel, or of cash- 
mere, such as may sometimes be cut from 
remnants or found in the piece-bag, make 
good every day mufflers, especially for 
children. The sole cost is the care and the 
hemming. 
Half-worn petticoats are often made more 
comfortable and lasting by basting a half- 
length breadth, running from the hem up, 
across the knees. 
A discarded summer jacket may often be 
repaired aud altered to make a neat inside 
wrap for long rides in cold weather. Extra 
trimming may be removed; the sleeves may 
be taken out if desired, and the garment 
so bound around the arm’s eyes as to conceal 
frayed edges. 
Old felt hats will furnish comfortable 
inner-soles. Take your boot for a pattern, 
then trim off half an inch or so all around 
the side. 
The suugcuff-piecesof under vests, taken 
off because the sleeve is too long, would 
make comfortable wristers, and if white, 
might be dyed for the purpose. And the cold 
always creeps over one from the wrist. 
These things seem trivial, and the doing 
of them troublesome, but they will subserve 
in the end, both comfort and economy. 
OLIVE E. DANA. 
Nineteenth Century Pumpkin Pie — 
Three eggs well beaten ; two cups of pump¬ 
kin stewed down well; two cups of rich 
milk; one half teaspoonful of cinnamon, 
also ginger; one fourth teaspoooful of 
cloves, also allspice; one cup of sugar; 
one half cup of molasses (not syrup). This 
makes two thick pies for my sized tius. 
If you wish an elegant dessert, the fol¬ 
lowing is well suited to a farmer’s bill of- 
fare. Its beauty will add much to the ap¬ 
pearance of your table. The gelatine costs 
20 cents a box in Iowa: 
Bavarian Cream.— Take half an ounce 
box of Nelson’s or Cox’s gelatine, pour over 
it half a teacupful of cold water and let it 
soak one hour or more, then add two table 
spoonfuls of boiling water and set on the 
back of the stove to thoroughly dissolve. 
Put a pint of rich milk or cream in a double 
boiler (if you have uoue the milk placed in 
a tin aud set in another tin of boiling water 
will answer every purpose); let it come to 
a boil, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and 
the yolks of four eggs beaten together; 
beat and stir one moment over the fire; 
take off and pour into a dish to cool, add¬ 
ing the gelatine. Take one pint of thick 
sweet cream, which must be very cold; 
add one tablespoouful of vanilla extract 
and two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. 
Beat with the egg-beater till it is stiff like 
the beaten white of an eg . As foon as 
the custard and gelatine begin to cool and 
thicken at the bottom and sides of the dish 
stir in the whipped cream lightly and deli¬ 
cately till the whole is well mixed. Pour 
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into molds or a deep tin dish and set in the 
coldest place you can find. When firm turn 
out on a platter and heap around it whip¬ 
ped cream prepared in the same manner as 
that stirred into the custard and gelatine. 
MRS. J. N. MUNCEY. 
The clamor that has followed Elizabeth 
Stuart Phelps’s article on ‘‘The D6collet6 
in Modern Life,” in the Forum, are al 
most without precedent. Yet, the “ most 
unkindest cut of all,” as it seems to 
us, is the insinuation of one reviewer of the 
article that Mrs. Phelps holds her peculiar 
views because she is a “ provincial.” 
Shades of Boston and Audover 1 Must one 
needs live in New York or inevitably be 
provincial ? 
A writer iu the Christian Union makes 
war upon the corset in a systematic and 
converting way, and says that if you really 
want to cure a woman of tight lacing, the 
way to do it is to persuade her to keep the 
measure of her abdomen on the same paper 
with the measure of her waist, noting how 
undesirably the former enlarges as the 
latter grows slender; to watch her shoulder 
blades and see how they are crowded up 
like rudimentary and very prominent 
wings (far from pretty with evening dresses) 
and to watch the tip of her little nose, to 
see how soon it will hang out the danger 
signal in undue redness, especially if she is 
fleshy. 
A Plain Dessert. —Plain, boiled rice is 
greatly improved by the following hard 
sauce: One cupful each of sugar and 
butter beaten to a cream, add one cupful 
of raspberries and stir well. Place a gen¬ 
erous spoonful on the top of each plate of 
rice as you serve it. mrs. l. h. n. 
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