THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 24, 
166 
From Day to Day. 
PATE. 
One ship drives east and another west, 
With the self-same winds that blow; 
’Tis tiie set of the sails 
And not the pales 
Which tell us the way to po. 
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, 
As we voyage along through life; 
'Tis the set of a soul 
That decides its goal 
And not the calm or the strife. 
—Technical World Magazine. 
* 
Nest tables are noted among fine fur¬ 
niture. They consist of a set of four 
small tables in graduated sizes, so that 
one may be tucked away under the other 
when short of room. When in use they 
may be scattered about in different rooms 
if desired, and are convenient for many 
purposes. 
* 
Ik a remnant of cake batter is left it 
can be used in chess cakes, which are 
very good. Line patty pans with good 
pastry, and half fill each with chopped 
canned peaches, or rich stewed fruit. 
Spread over each a large tablespoonful 
of cake batter, and bake till brown in a 
moderate oven. 
* 
No matter how thoroughly a dish mop 
is washed, sunned and scalded, it soon 
becomes dingy in color, suggesting un¬ 
cleanness. This is avoided by an occa¬ 
sional bleaching with chloride of lime, 
followed by copious rinsing. A little am¬ 
monia should be added to the rinsing 
water, as this neutralizes the effect of 
the bleaching agent, and thus lessens the 
risk of rotting the fiber. 
* 
Apple pufifs are especially recommended 
to members of the Apple Consumers’ 
League. Chop four sour apples very fine, 
stir into them one beaten egg, one-fourth 
cupful molasses, a cupful and a half of 
cornmeal, the same amount of sifted flour 
and half a teaspoonful of salt; dissolve 
half a teaspoonful of soda in warm water 
and add it, using enough water to make 
a thin batter. Bake in buttered cups in 
a quick oven. 
* 
We like to heat our baked apples for 
breakfast in cold weather. There is not 
usually time to bake them fresh in the 
usual. The resulting jelly was clear red, 
with full raspberry flavor. Our friend 
had never been able to make raspberries 
“jell” properly before, so she was much 
pleased with the experiment. It is quite 
possible that green grapes would stiffen 
strawberry jelly, which is usually diffi¬ 
cult to harden. Some experimenters say 
they mix either red currants or early 
apples with strawberries to make jelly. 
The Mirror’s Revelation. 
Mrs. Kent’s next door neighbor was 
moving, and she came over one morning 
with an anxious face. “Could you keep 
my pier-glass for me a few days?” she 
said. “The movers are so careless, and 
you know it is the apple of my eye and 
I’d feel dreadfully if it should get broken. 
If you could keep it a few days, till we 
get settled a little, we’d drive out some 
evening in the express wagon and get it.” 
“I can keep it just as well as not,” said 
Mrs. Kent, and so the tall mirror was 
brought over, and as there was the most 
room in the kitchen it was set there. 
As she went about her work, Mrs. Kent 
caught fleeting glimpses of herself re¬ 
flected in the glass. She did not seem to 
be pleased, and after dinner, for the first 
time in weeks, she changed her dress and 
made herself tidy for the afternoon. The 
next morning she worked unusually hard, 
but toward noon she sank into a chair to 
rest a few minutes. The chair happened 
to be in front of the mirror, and Mrs. 
Kent gave a little start of surprise as she 
saw herself. 
“For mercy’s sake!” she cried aloud. 
“Do I look like that?” She studied her¬ 
self from head to foot, then something 
began to boil over on the stove and she 
ran to attend to it. As she passed back 
and forth about her work she cast dis¬ 
gusted glances at the mirror. Then just 
before dinner she slipped on a wrapper, 
but this did not seem to please her par¬ 
ticularly, for it was faded and unbecoming. 
That afternoon she worked on an old 
skirt. It was whole and a good gray, but 
was frayed and soiled about the bottom. 
She cut it off, making a skirt that cleared 
the ground all around. “There!” she 
said, “that looks good, and there’s ever 
so much wear in it.” That evening she 
went to the stores and did some shopping. 
The next morning she packed her dishes 
in the sink and left thd other housework 
undone, and soon the sewing machine was 
going at a lively rate. Being very quick 
with her needle, it was not many hours 
before she had a shirt waist finished. It 
was a striped gingham, very clean look¬ 
ing. She combed her hair, put on the 
waist, a white, washable stock, the gray 
skirt, a black belt, and a pair of shoes 
that she had blacked. Then she went and 
stood before the mirror, giving it a de¬ 
fiant look. “There!” she said, “what can 
you say against my appearance now ?— 
Yes, I’m going to stand up straight, too. 
I can do it now, but it is no wonder I 
couldn’t with those unspeakable things on 
that I have been wearing. Now I can 
take some pleasure doing my work.” 
She drew up her sleeves—there were 
elastics run in at the orists—and attacked 
her work with vigor. She laughed a little 
as she caught herself casting admiring 
glances toward the pier-glass. When her 
husband came home he looked at her 
questioningly. “That waist is mightily be¬ 
coming,” he said. “Where did you get 
it?” 
“I made it this morning,” she answered, 
“and I’ve got the material for two more. 
„ I’m going to turn over a new leaf and see 
if I can’t look tidy about my work.” 
“Good idea,” he said. “I never fancied 
those sloppy things women wear morn¬ 
ings, but I suppose they are comfortable.” 
When she was alone again she went to 
her room, returning to the kitchen with 
an armful of miscellaneous wearing ap¬ 
parel. 
“I’m going to be recklessly extrava¬ 
gant,” she said aloud, nodding at the mir¬ 
ror. “If we bring up in the poorhouse 
it will be all your fault. I’ve thought it 
over, and I’ve decided that the only way 
to always dress decently is never to have 
any clothes but what are decent. Now 
there may be women who look look well 
in wrappers, but I’m not one of them. 
They make me look as if I’d been drawn 
through a knot-hole. So I’m going to de¬ 
stroy all of mine. I haven’t but three, 
anyway. This one is worn out, almost, 
and this one is faded, so here they go into 
the stove. This one is almost new, and 
I’ll make some aprons of it. Here’s a 
pair of shoes I’ve been wearing. They are 
past cobbling, and they can join the wrap¬ 
pers. And as for kimonos,”—she shud¬ 
dered,—“I never, as long as I live, will 
wear one of the things again. They are 
sloppy and slack looking, and make my 
neck appear scrawny and old. 
“ I here!” she said, as the stove cover 
rattled again, “I feel better now. I won¬ 
der how much more it will cost to be de¬ 
cent? I’ve already spent for three waists, 
at 38 cents, $1.14. Those waists and the 
gray skirt ought to outwear three of the 
49-cent, ready-made wrappers, so that will 
be—why, actually, a saving of 33 cents! 
Well, I never! I guess we won’t have to 
go to the poorhouse, after all.” 
NONA RUSS. 
morning, and they are very cold when 
they have been cooked the previous day. 
Set in the oven when the housekeeper 
first comes down, they are heated through 
when breakfast is ready, and taste as 
though just freshly baked. We have been 
enjoying Wealthy very much this Winter, 
and will follow this variety with Baldwin 
and Greening. 
* 
The vacuum system of cleaning, used 
in many city office buildings, would be a 
wonderful blessing if we could apply it 
to domestic use. 'Passing a building 
where it is in .operation we sec a closed 
van, from which a long hose extends 
above the sidewalk into the office win¬ 
dow. We can hear a subdued hum from 
the interior of the wagon, but no dust is 
Baking 1 Powder 
Absolutely 
Pure 
visible. The hose sucks the dust out of 
the room, presumably with compressed 
air, into the van, a wonderful improve¬ 
ment over the domestic dust cloth, which 
too often merely disturbs the dust in one 
place to deposit it in another. The same 
system is employed by some railroads to 
clean passenger cars, the dust being 
sucked into a closed shed. 
* 
It is too early to talk of Summer jelly¬ 
making, but we often get useful sugges¬ 
tions at this season, when testing fruit 
put up last Summer. One of our friends 
tells us with pride that she made de¬ 
licious stiff raspberry jelly last year by 
mixing the red raspberries with an equal 
quantity of green grapes. The two fruits 
were cooked together, then strained as 
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It does not contain an atom of phos- 
phatic acid (which is the product of bones 
digested in sulphuric acid) or of alum 
(which is one-third sulphuric acid) sub¬ 
stances adopted for other baking powders 
because of their cheapness. 
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