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souring during the day ; yet some cooks 
always use it. Occasionally, a little fresh 
yeast is added, hut only when the hatter 
seems to show, by sluggishness in ris¬ 
ing, or by added tendency to sour, that 
a stimulant is needed. 
Let no novice judge (and condemn) the 
cakes from the first morning's sample ; 
they are never first-class then. After two 
or three days of the regular routine, 
one maybe better prepared to pass judg¬ 
ment. The old housekeeper knows, too, 
that the mere consistency of the hatter 
may decide the table quality of the 
cakes. If too thick, they will be dry and 
“chippy”; if too thin, they may be 
sticky, and will fail to rise properly on 
the griddle. 
In New York restaurants, griddle 
cakes, and, at this season, buckwheats 
especially, are quite a feature of the 
bills of fare. 
“ Aren’t the cakes good?” was said, 
one morning, at the home table, to a 
gentleman particularly addicted to or¬ 
dering these restaurant cakes. 
“ Yes,” was the reply, decided 
enough, but lacking the enthusiasm 
which the cook believed the occasion to 
warrant. 
Another tack : “ Are they as good as 
the restaurant cakes ” ? 
“ They’re better than any we get any¬ 
where except at D’s.” 
“Are D’s better than these ” ? 
“ No ; I don’t know that they are. 
They vary ; but they're always tip-top !” 
Which, I take it, was a roundabout 
way of saying that the home supply was 
“ tip-top.” Who cares for enthusiasm in 
such a case? myka y. norys. 
WHOSE IS THE PRIVILEGE? 
O N page 863, I read: “If a woman 
may marry a man to get rid of 
him, why should we not allow her the 
privilege of proposing ?” etc. What do 
I think about it ? Well, just this : Until 
you debase the deference every gentle¬ 
man feels towards the opposite sex, the 
experiment will be a dangerous under¬ 
taking. I am far from believing that 
there is but one individual existing at a 
time with whom a person of either sex 
could lead a happy life. A gentleman 
always considers in a certain sense, that 
a lady is his superior, a prize to be at¬ 
tained, something worth striving for. 
The “ new woman” may aspire to cer¬ 
tain accomplishments and prerogatives ; 
but it seems to me that the methods 
pursued by many can have but one ten¬ 
dency, and that a downward one, a 
lowering of themselves in the estimation 
of mankind. For a woman to propose, 
would be equivalent to removing her 
from the exalted station whence she dis¬ 
penses the most priceless gift, her heart, 
and would, instead, degrade her to the 
condition of a suppliant. 
By the nature of man’s occupation, he 
is thrown in contact with all sorts of 
people, and his experience, not his better 
mental discernment, enables him, in a 
measure, to distinguish between a truly 
good woman and one who suits her de¬ 
portment to her surroundings. Woman 
is not, and may she never be, so situated 
that she can tell from personal obser¬ 
vation the shameful double lives only 
too many men are leading. How does 
she know that the man who visits her so 
often, is aught but a dog on the watch 
for a word, a glance even, that he can 
construe into an encouragement to ad¬ 
vances that her pure heart dreads. 
But let us suppose that the man in 
question is a gentleman sure enough, 
and that the worst that can be said of 
him is that he forgets that meaningless 
acts may be fraught with dire conse¬ 
quences. The number of such men is far 
from small. Such a man may pay a num¬ 
ber of visits as a matter of etiquette, 
his agreeableness causes marked and 
pleasing attention to be shown him, he 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
becomes a regular visitor, admires the 
woman, loves her with a fatherly love, 
and without meaning to be obtrusive, he 
unconsciously assumes the role of a pro¬ 
tector. If the woman were to propose 
to such a man, he would feel himself 
placed in a dire dilemma. He would feel 
that to refuse her would be equivalent to 
a gross insult. The chances are that he 
would accept her contrary to his inclina¬ 
tions, contrary to his better judgment, 
and, ten to one, his admiration for her 
would, from that moment, start on the 
down grade. With the many vicissitudes 
of life staring us in the face, the ways 
of life of ttimes so rough that it is difficult 
for the very best match to pull together, 
can a woman afford to run such a dread¬ 
ful risk ? 
There remains one more class of men 
to be considered, namely, those who lay 
claim to the name gentlemen, while at 
the same time the morals of the world 
would stand a better show if a millstone 
were placed around their necks, and they 
were then dropped into the bottomless 
deep. Politics, wealth, or social connec¬ 
tions may lend some prestige ; but I 
would rather have my daughter rnai’ry 
a gentleman in a log cabin, than such a 
“ dog in the manger ” in a palace. 
If a woman is determined to marry re¬ 
gardless of the inherent qualities of the 
man, without lowering herself to make 
a proposal, she can inform him that she 
does not purpose to live and die an old 
maid, and that it is high time for her to 
give somebody a chance to marry her 
without delay. If this does not bring him 
to terms, let her put her threat into execu¬ 
tion by bestowing some of her smiles on 
other men, and giving them an oppor¬ 
tunity to realize that the dog has no 
monopoly over her, and that their atten¬ 
tions are at least fully as much appre¬ 
ciated as the other fellow’s. If she has 
any semblance of tact, she can easily 
manage to have some other man ask the 
privilege of accompanying her to the 
church, the lecture, etc., and can then 
inform him that a “ prior engagement 
precludes,” etc. If he has any notion of 
marrying her at all, he will not be slow 
in nipping such prior engagements in 
the bud by proposing to her. If he does 
not, and she is worth having her life 
linked to that of a gentleman, the 
chances are that some one else will soon 
“ beseech” her for the privilege of pro¬ 
tecting her throughout life. In all 
probability, the latter event would bring 
her the most happiness. My advice then, 
is : Never shock the sensibilities of a 
true gentleman by proposing to him. 
Beware how you lower yourself beneath 
a dog by asking him to inari’y you. You 
will need no further instructions in re¬ 
gard to the treatment of a ‘ * dog in the 
manger,” if you will only coolly reflect 
for a moment, and then use common 
sense. _ j. c. s. 
FOR MIND AND HEAR1. 
Pray on, sad heart ! 
That which thou pleadest for may not be given, 
But in the .lofty altitude where souls 
Who supplicate God’s grace are lifted, there 
Thou shalt find help to bear thy future lot 
Which is not elsewhere found. 
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 
. ...Chauncey M. Depew : “There is 
nothing that I admire more in the battles 
of life than a sincere crank.” 
....South: “If there be any truer 
measure of a man than by what he does, 
it must be by what he gives.” 
-Rev. William Denman : “ I am 
soothed without the ‘weed,’ intoxicated 
without the ‘cups,’ and speeded without 
the ‘whip’ when I mount my wheel.” 
-The Housekeeper : “The system¬ 
atic woman politely informs her friends 
that she has no time in the morning to 
see them, but is happy to see them in 
the afternoon when she can entertain 
them freely. She regulates her work as 
systematically as a bank president the 
work of his office. It requires firmhess 
of will to go on with work and refuse to 
sit down to gossip with idle callers as 
the correct man of business does.” 
VENTILATING A SLEEPING ROOM. 
M AKE a board with two end pieces 
as shown at Fig. 18. Raise the 
sash and insert the end pieces as shown 
in the diagram. This will admit a cur¬ 
rent of fresh air, but will turn it up to¬ 
ward the ceiling, and obviate a draught 
upon the bed. There will also be a 
similarly protected opening at the middle 
of the window between the sashes. 
Few fully realize the importance of 
fresh air in the sleeping apartments. 
Of course a delicate person should not 
have a blast of chilly air coming into his 
sleeping room, though a delicate person 
particularly needs pure air. But a well 
person should accustom himself to a 
proper amount of ventilation in his 
sleeping quarters, and where a more 
elaborate method for the ingress and 
egress of pure and impure air is not at 
hand, the simple device shown in the cut 
will be found advantageous. A. h. d. 
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For Embroidery. —For stamping de¬ 
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Household, is a simple and good one. 
Lay a piece of tissue paper upon the 
pattern, and trace the design upon it. 
Then spread a sheet of black impression 
paper over the material to be embroid¬ 
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copy so that the design will be in ex¬ 
actly the proper position, and go over 
all the lines with a hard lead pencil or 
steel stiletto. The pattern will thus be 
transferred to the fabric. 
An Object Lesson. —A small boy was 
once asked by his mother to go down 
cellar for some potatoes. This he did 
willingly. On his return, he came into 
the sittingroom and said to a friend, 
staying at his home, “Isn’t it funny, 
Miss A ; my mamma always wants me 
to say ‘ thank you’ to her, but she never 
says ‘ thank you', to me, when I do any¬ 
thing for her ?” n. c. a. 
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