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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 12, 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
INCENSE. 
Oh ! the bosom of the morning is an altar to 
the Lord ! 
See the incense of its prayer spiring up the 
early air! 
Ail the moorland hearths are smoking up to 
Heaven with one accord, 
And the smell of new-lit peat 
Rises sweet. 
Hush! the stillness of the darkness to the 
silence of the light 
Has been changing, and the peace scarcely 
suffereth decrease. 
As the sun above the little darling hills burns 
into sight, 
And the world wakes to obey 
Simple day. 
Under every roof a woman tends tlie hearth- 
place on her knees— 
Each a priestess of the white dawn of duties 
after night— 
Kindling home’s fire ere she passetli on to la¬ 
bor’s ministries, 
And sets out the hallow-ed 
Daily bread. 
Every chimney is a censer in the chancel of 
the sun, 
Sending up the cloudy spice of Its humble 
sacrifice, 
Till the hour grows consecrated with the 
myrrh of work begun, 
While a lark drops down the calm 
Morning psalm. 
—May Doney, in London Spectator. 
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Some of the newest flower holders have 
gone back to old shapes, and one of the 
prettiest is an old-fashioned basket, with a 
tall handle over the top, made of clear 
crystal. Such baskets cost from $2.25 to 
$3.50, according to size. This is a good 
season to buy odd bits of fancy china, 
either for personal use or to give away; 
bargain tables, displaying articles at 15 
to 25 cents, give a wide range of choice 
in plates, cups and saucers, mayonnaise 
dishes, little pitchers, etc. 
* 
The tropical heat of July brought out a 
good many cases of prickly h£at. The 
irritating misery of this ailment is greatly 
soothed, according to a West Indian suf¬ 
ferer, by an application of burnt flour. 
Stir the flour over the fire in a dry 
saucepan until it becomes light brown, 
then apply to the body through a bit of 
muslin. It is said to be more effective 
than talcum powder and similar remedies, 
and has the advantage of being usually 
at hand. 
* 
Bedroom sets of flowered cretonne in¬ 
clude a stand cover, edged with lace; 
folding scrap basket and pillow, soiled 
linen bag, folding work basket, and Wat¬ 
teau work bag, the latter being the shape 
with hoops for handles. All these arti¬ 
cles may be bought separately, scrap bas- 
et, pillow and stand cover costing 98 
cents each, soiled linen hag 89 cents, work 
basket 69 and work bag 49 cents. It is 
often possible to buy remnants of cre¬ 
tonne cheap, which may be made into 
these articles, costing much less. 
* 
Puffed rice is a new cereal now offered 
for five cents a quart. Grains of rice are 
exposed to a high degree of heat while 
enclosed in a tight metal cylinder, which 
practically cooks the grain in its own 
steam, until they puff like popcorn, with¬ 
out, howevei, bursting the grain. The 
grain is perfectly cooked, and as tender 
as new bread. It is eaten with milk, like 
any other ready-cooked cereal, and is also 
recommended buttered and salted, then 
crisped in the oven, like salted almonds, 
or used like peanuts, in some brittle 
candy. 
* 
Suspender belts made of Swiss em¬ 
broidery, edged with Valenciennes lace 
consist of a straight belt, shoulder straps 
and front bands; price $1.25. This gives 
quite an elaborate appearance to a plain 
wash dress. Other suspender belts are 
made in tailor style of linen or pique. 
A pretty set noted was of ecru canvas 
trimmed with bands of white linen and 
little pearl buttons. Narrow bands of 
embroidery are used for belts and stocks, 
the stocks being finished at the top with 
lace or a ruche. Sometimes these neck¬ 
bands are finished at the bottom with a 
knife-pleated frill. 
* 
The following recipe for red water¬ 
melon preserve is highly recommended by 
a correspondent of Good Housekeeping: 
Dice the red portion of the melon, re¬ 
moving all seeds and every bit of the 
white part; weigh and use half as much 
sugar as you have melon, adding to every 
six pounds of melon the juice and grated 
yellow rinds of two lemons. Put all to¬ 
gether in a large granite kettle and boil 
slowly, stirring often until it is quite 
thick; at first you will think it is all go¬ 
ing to water, but very soon you will no¬ 
tice it thicken nicely; when it has be¬ 
come as thick as you like it, seal hot in 
glass pint jars. It is described as a 
beautiful red in color. 
* 
In working the popular eyelet embroid¬ 
ery, the large holes are cut out with the 
scissors. The outline is run around with 
needle and thread, and two intersecting 
lines are cut through the center. The 
corners formed by the cuts are rolled 
back with the needle before the over-and- 
over work is begun. It is not difficult to 
draw patterns for this eyelet work, as it 
consists of repetition of simple figures. 
Very handsome white linen parasols are 
made of this work, in addition to collars 
and cuffs, hats, dresses and coats. The 
lingerie hats are more elaborate than they 
were last year, being usually trimmed 
with flowers. Shirt-waist hats of plain 
linen are made in a number of pretty 
models, either white or colored; they are 
usually stiffened, as well as wired, having 
the same firmness as Panama. They vary 
in price from about $1 to $4.50, the cheap¬ 
est being of white duck. The shapes are 
usually rather flat, with brims, that shade 
the face. _ 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
Some ladies drove over from Camden 
to see me a while ago; they wanted to 
know if I would make them some black 
currant jam. They were not many years 
out from England, and had a taste for this 
fruit that we do not appreciate enough, 
for it is valuable for colds and bronchial 
trouble, and all good housewives in the 
mother country put up a quantity for this 
purpose. One lady said her husband 
didn’t think the jam they bought in the 
city stores tasted like that his mother used 
to make, and even allowing for a youthful 
appetite, she thought she would like to 
have some homemade, and had been re¬ 
ferred to me. They sent over the pots 
and sugar, and I was to pick the currants 
from the garden, and charge them market 
prices, and be paid 10 cents a pot for my 
trouble. Brother made me very grateful 
by saying: “You can have all the black 
currants that Minty doesn’t need. Charity, 
for they really belong to you by rights. 
You set them in when they were little cut¬ 
tings, and manage to keep them clean all 
Summer.” 
So I went to work with a will, and 
aimed to make the conserve as good as 
“Mother’s.” Three-quarters of a pound 
of granulated sugar to a pound of the 
fruit, and the sugar is heated in the oven 
before being placed in the enameled ket¬ 
tle. It will cook sufficiently in 20 minutes, 
and if the fruit is fresh and not over¬ 
ripe will form a jelly around each berry, 
and retain the peculiar flavor that is char¬ 
acteristic of the black currant, and of no 
other. 
The only trouble I had while making it 
up was from the arrival of unexpected 
guests, and it does seem to me that we 
country people are very long-suffering in 
this respect. It is not a lack of hospital¬ 
ity, but the feeling that your time is never 
your own, when your uncle’s daughter’s 
family feel at liberty to drop in half an 
hour before dinner or Tom’s sister and 
her three children arrive at nine o’clock 
in the morning to stay all day. Yet if a 
country housewife should set a day to re¬ 
ceive her guests it would not be consid¬ 
ered kind or hospitable if she was not at 
home the other days, and would be set 
down to pride, instead of convenience 
There are people in this neighborhood 
who never have a Sunday to themselves; 
in season and out of season visitors come 
from the surrounding villages, and so 
many of them think the same thought of 
having a pleasure trip and dropping in to 
dinner that it is not an unusual occurrence 
for the family of six to become a crowded 
table of 16 or 18. 
“I tell you what it is, Charhy,” one 
housewife said to me one day in confi¬ 
dence, “I sometimes pray that it will rain 
on Saturday night late, and come down 
hard on Sunday morning, for that is the 
only chance for a quiet day with David 
and the children.” 
“Why not write your friends and set a 
weekday for their visiting?” 
“O, I couldn’t,” she answered, “folks 
would think I was stuck up, or having a 
party if many come.” 
“Then,” I said, “you will have to abide 
by present conditions, and no help for it, 
being at the mercy of all your friends, 
relatives and acquaintances.” 
So when I went to make my jam I 
found that all my preaching was no help 
in my own case, for Amanda Grier came 
from Rontunk and brought her two boys, 
aud Mintv’s cousin Jemima landed in just 
before dinner. But a happy thought came 
to me, and I gave them aprons and set 
them to stem the currants for me, which 
was quite a help after all, though they 
kept saying every now and then: “Isn’t 
Charity a terror to set her visitors to 
work?” But I told them that a change 
of work and environment was really a 
rest, and at any rate we managed to make 
a very successful jam, that was said to 
have the real English flavor, which was 
quite a satisfaction to a native-born 
American. charity sweetheart. 
Cucumber Pickles. 
I would like a recipe for plain extra sour 
cucumber pickles, to be prepared for imme¬ 
diate use as freshly gathered from the vines, 
and to keep in good condition through the 
Winter. I have not had good luck preparing 
them this way, as they soften and become 
unfit for use in a short time. I do not know 
the reason for this, and would lie thankful 
for a good recipe to keep them solid and crisp. 
J. J. J. 
The following recipes are reprinted 
from last year: 
Sour Cucumber Pickles.—Dissolve one 
pint of salt in one gallon of vinegar; 
wash the cucumbers and pour over them 
some boiling water, let stand five or ten 
minutes, then pack closely in cans, pour 
over the salted vinegar and seal. The 
friend who sends this recipe says the 
pickles are very crisp and nice, and will 
keep as long as you will let them. 
Gherkins.—Wipe one quart of small un¬ 
ripe cucumbers. Put in a stone crock and 
add one-quarter cupful of salt dissolved in 
one pint of boiling water. Let stand three 
days. Drain cucumbers from brine, bring 
the brine to the boiling point, pour over 
the cucumbers, and again let stand three 
days. Repeat; drain, wipe cucumbers, 
and pour over one quart of boiling water 
in which one scant teaspoonful of alum 
has been dissolved. Let stand six hours, 
then drain from alum water. Cook cu¬ 
cumbers 10 minutes, a few at a time, in 
one-fourth of the following mixture, heat¬ 
ed to the boiling point and boiled 10 min¬ 
utes : One quart of vinegar, one red pep¬ 
per, one-half stick of cinnamon, one-half 
teaspoonful allspice, one-half tablespoon¬ 
ful of cloves. Strain the remaining liquor 
over the pickles, which have been put in 
a stone jar. Bring liquor to boiling point 
before turning it over the pickles. 
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Rural Mail Box. 
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Box on the Mar¬ 
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master General 
Big profits for 
agents. We want 
an agent In every 
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Buttons free on 
application. A 
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H. E. Hessler Co., Factory 8, Syracuse, N.Y. 
A Little Gold Mine for Women 
The U.S.Cook-Stove Fruit-Drier 
Dries all kinds of Fruits,Berries,Cher¬ 
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Banner Lye 
10 lbs hard soap op 20 gallons soft soap 
Costs 10 cents Takes 10 minutes No boiling 
makes pure soap 
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