1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
647 
shake it around, and have never had any 
trouble. I am careful to work out of 
the wind, as cool air striking a can 
might easily crack it. I set it away 
when filled, out of any draught. 
When I first read about washing fowls 
with soap, it made me smile. Although 
it might be a good thiDg, sometimes, I 
should as soon think of washing pota¬ 
toes in soapsuds. I wash fowls in two 
or three waters ; but never let them 
stand in water overnight. I think that, 
during the autumn, care should betaken 
not to cook chickens long before they 
are eaten, as they taint so quickly, and 
must then be unwholesome. 
Who has not eaten pies whose flavor 
was ruined because they had been baked 
on plates soaked with grease, that had 
become rancid from long use, or from 
standing too long on a tin that had be¬ 
come corroded ? Some housekeepers 
boil their earthen pie plates in lye every 
year to keep them sweet. It helps a pie, 
to be removed from its baking dish as 
soon as it has become cold after baking. 
A neat housewife wears a clean apron 
while ironing or making beds. If an 
apron is not spotlessly clean, it is easy 
to soil bedclothes, or garments when 
ironing. 
If bread is baking too rapidly, sprinkle 
some brown paper with water, and put 
over the top, and it will not take fire as 
it would, perhaps, without. 
AUNT RACHEL. 
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and that is arranged to stand out well 
at the top over close-fitted linings. The 
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stitching at cuff depth, buttons decorat¬ 
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while moderately wide. The basque 
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Skirt pattern, No. 6850, is cut in sizes 
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MOTHERS .—He sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best — Adv, 
PEN POTPOURRI. 
Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone 
To reverence what is ancient and can plead 
A course of long observance for its use, 
That even servitude, the worst of ills, 
Because deliver’d down from sire to son, 
Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing. 
— Cowper. 
... .Rev. M. W. Stryker : “ Many men 
and women bear their burdens three 
times—before, in the present, and after. 
Once is a great deal.” 
....Jane G. Austin : “Sympathy and 
advice are two commodities which, like 
musk, are only tolerable when so dis¬ 
guised as to lose their identity.” 
... .Home Queen : “ The world would 
be a great deal happier and better, and 
humanity would be a long way further 
towards the millenium, if children could 
be taught to curb their curiosity, and 
mind their own business ; but this they 
never can or will do as long as their fam¬ 
ilies catechise and quiz them as to every¬ 
thing that happens when they go out.” 
....T. W. Higginson in Harper’s Ba¬ 
zar : “ Taking the world as a whole, 
women do, and always have done, at 
least their half of its work. Travel where 
you please, you find women doing it. 
The only difference is that this work has 
been, till recently, the unpaid work or the 
work less well paid. The only change 
m these times is that the better work, 
and that better paid, is coming into 
woman’s hands.” 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
Cai.liopsis for a Winter Bloomer.— 
It is time to be planning for our winter 
flowers, and I wish to tell of a plant that 
was a comfort and delight to me through 
long weeks of the past weary winter. It 
was nothing more pretentious than a 
common, yellow calliopsis, but it was a 
veritable sunbeam in the window. I se¬ 
lected a small, thrifty seedling from the 
calliopsis bed, and transplanted it care¬ 
fully into a discarded paint can—every¬ 
thing that will hold soil is used at our 
house for plants—kept it in a shady place, 
and watered it with care. It was put in 
a south window with other plants, and 
about the middle of January, it began to 
unfold its gay gypsy blooms. And what 
a treasure it was ! It would gild the 
gloomiest day with gold, and the mere 
sight of it was enough to drive away the 
blues. I shall be careful to have my cal¬ 
liopsis in winter hereafter. 
LINDA WILTON MCNEIL. 
Tiie Servant Question. —As the ques¬ 
tion of help for the farmer’s wife is a 
very important one, I am glad to read 
the suggestions given in The R. N. Y. 
I read with interest Miss Jane Addams’s 
article, page 390 ; but it is evident she 
had not in mind isolated farm houses, 
when she said, “ Most of the cooking 
and serving and cleaning of a household 
could be done by women living outside.” 
It is true that, when such help can be 
had, it is very pleasant and resting. 
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That Pleasing 
Paralyzing Pie! 
How good it looks! How 
good it is !. And how it 
hurts. Why not look into the 
question of Pill after Pie? 
Hat your pie and take Ayer’s 
Pills after, and pie will please 
and not paralyze. 
AYER’S 
Cathartic Pills 
CURE DYSPEPSIA. 
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But another thought to which she 
gives expression, is well worth consider¬ 
ing : the attitude of employer and em¬ 
ployee. Why should not the kind, 
motherly heart of the mistress of the 
farm house have a care for a little maid 
who helps her, and treat her with the 
same deference that she would if she 
were there for only a day ? I am 
aware of the objections. She would 
grow to think of herself too highly. 
She would get impudent, etc. I think 
better of young womanhood ; she ap¬ 
preciates kindness, and if, when tired 
(for girls do get tired, sometimes), 
she should answer petulantly, she will 
be sorry enough ; and if she have the 
courage, will say so. 
I would really like to read in The 
R. N.-Y. of the experiences of women 
who have been successful in keeping the 
relations harmonious between them¬ 
selves and their maids of all work 
There are, in our country, to-day, many 
women who are good housekeepers, 
good homekeepers, good wives and moth¬ 
ers, who took their first lessons in the 
glorious art, while serving as maid of 
all work, in humble farm houses. 
MRS. M. m. w. 
Finding Her Level.— I heard, the 
other day, that one of the neighbor’s 
daughters, a sweet, beautiful girl, had 
eloped with a young man, who, to eyes 
not blind, was low, vulgar and ignorant. 
I rushed to John (who chanced to be 
pruning trees near the door), with the 
news, concluding my information with 
“ Oh, John ! the last time I came from 
town I met that girl, and I thought that 
she looked almost angelic.” Quoth 
John, “Well, she won’t look like an 
angel much longer ; she’ll soon look like 
the Bascoms ” There, girls, “there's 
the rub;” she cannot even be herself 
for long (no matter how she idealized 
him, the man himself remains the same); 
and slowly, but surely, she must sink to 
somewhere near his level or. at least to 
be much less than she was capable of 
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