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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 18 , 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day 
HAPPINESS. 
I followed far o'er heath and desert land 
The fairy gleaming of a distant light: 
A shining lure, that beckoned as a hand. 
And with fair promise pierced the hostile 
ulght. 
O’er rugged stones, and marsh, and slimy 
clay, • 
And clinging tanglings of the thorny brier. 
But still the dancing light shone far away. 
And at my feet lay stagnant waste and 
mire. 
Weary, I paused, and turning in the track, 
Olaneed where the long, bleak, barren hills 
declined. 
And lo! athwart the trailing, ragged wrack. 
The wizard beacon glimmered far behind. 
—London Daily News. 
* 
If plums are plentiful, try making some 
into catchup as follows: Boil four quarts 
of plums until soft, put through a colan¬ 
der. Add one pint of vinegar, three 
pounds of sugar and ground spices to 
taste, about one teaspoonful of each sort. 
Boil quickly for L r > minutes, not longer; 
then seal. 
* 
Green apple meringue is a frozen des¬ 
sert very easily made when early apples 
are in season, and it is especially good 
made from Fall Pippins. Press a pint 
of thick stewed green apples through a 
sieve, add a half cup of sugar and flavor 
with nutmeg. Stir in the well-beaten 
whites of two eggs. Beat until light and 
foamy. Add half a pint of milk or cream, 
and freeze. 
* 
Summer sausage made from cold boiled 
beef is an economical and savory dish, ft 
calls for one full cup of chopped boiled 
beef, one cup bread crumbs, one table¬ 
spoonful flour, one saltspoonful salt, three 
dashes pepper, two dashes celery salt, half 
teaspoonful powdered marjoranl. Moisten 
with one-half cup boiling water, mix well, 
mold into cakes and fry in butter or clari¬ 
fied drippings. 
* 
Blackberry cheese is an old-fashioned 
but excellent recipe. Three pounds ap¬ 
ples, peeled and cored; three pounds 
blackberries. To each pound pulp allow 
three-quarters pound sugar. Peel, core and 
slice the apples, put them in a jar with 
the blackberries, which must be picked 
over, and let them remain in the oven for 
three-quarters of an hour, or till the fruit 
is quite soft: pulp through a sieve, and to 
every pound of pulp allow three-quarters 
of a pound of sugar; boil the pulp for 
another hour; put into jars very hot, and 
when cold cover in the usual way. It 
should be firm enough to slice when 
turned out. 
. * 
A favorite new design in embroidery 
on centerpieces, doileys and other fine 
linen is a peacock feather pattern. We 
saw this pattern several years ago worked 
in iridescent silk, the faint soaj>bubble 
shades, and the result was charming, but 
in the new design the coloring of the nat¬ 
ural feather is copied. An expert profes¬ 
sional worker lays a feather near her as 
she works, and the result of her labor 
looks as though she had fixed a real 
feather upon the linen. For a large cen¬ 
terpiece with 10 feathers she gets $25, but 
it represents 10 days’ work. All pro¬ 
fessional workers do not complete a de¬ 
sign. however; they often do piecework, 
one doing flowers, another leaves, another 
buttonholing, etc. Each one is an expert 
at her specialty, but the work must be¬ 
come very monotonous, even under the 
most favorable conditions. 
* 
iWe have noted several cases recently 
reported in the newspapers where a per¬ 
son was fatally poisoned by carbolic acid, 
taken by mistake. In each case the vic¬ 
tim got up in the dark to take a dose of 
medicine and drank directly from the bot¬ 
tle, a most unclean and unsanitary prac¬ 
tice. In one case which came under our 
observation the mistake was discovered 
in time to avoid actually swallowing the 
acid, but the mouth and throat were pain¬ 
fully burned, and the whole system re¬ 
ceived a severe shock. The habit of tak¬ 
ing medicines in such a casual manner, 
without measuring, may not always lead 
to serious results, but it ma} r help to ac¬ 
count for a good many cases where the 
patient complains that “Dr. So-and-so 
never did me the least particle of good.” 
On the other hand poisons have no place 
in close proximity to other medicines. 
Our own plan is to have one receptacle 
for remedies used internally, and another 
for poisons and articles of external ap¬ 
plication, so that there is no chance for 
error. When we require carbolic acid, 
which is occasionally used as an antisep¬ 
tic wash, it is diluted with water as soon 
as it comes into the house, thus prevent¬ 
ing danger from misuse. One part of 
the acid to one hundred parts of water is 
the usual proportion. The use of the pure 
acid should only be entrusted to the physi¬ 
cian, since any sore or injury that calls 
for it is certainly too serious for amateur 
treatment. 
* 
Mrs. Holcomb, who is one of the 
members of the Howells Club, not in¬ 
frequently contributes to the pleasure of 
the meetings by comments or information 
which is not in any sense literary, says 
the Youth’s Companion. "Yes.’’ said Mrs. 
Holcomb one day, when the conversation 
had strayed from the latest novel to more 
domestic topics, “that green girl of Mrs. 
Cooper’s is a fearful trial to her. 
“Mrs. Cooper went to the kitchen one 
Sunday morning, when she was expecting 
some very particular guests to dinner, 
and she found to her horror that the girl 
had cut her perfectly splendid big turkey 
all up into pieces, because she supposed 
from the size of it that it must be a 
particularly old and tough chicken. She 
was going to stew it!” 
“Horrors!” exclaimed Mrs. Bassett, 
shocked at this indignity thrust upon high- 
priced turkey. “What in the world did 
Mrs. Cooper do?” 
“Why,” returned Mrs. Holcomb, sober¬ 
ly, “you know how clever she is with 
her needle? Well, she sewed that bird 
together again, and when he was roasted 
you wouldn’t have known that anything 
had happened.” 
“But didn't the seams draw apart?” 
“No,” explained Mrs. Holcomb. “She 
feather-stitched every one of them with 
brown silk.” ___________ 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
When the late elder trees were in 
bloom my cousin from Wisconsin was 
paying us a visit, and she brought in a 
great armful of the starry blossoms one 
dav saying: 
“You might recommend this to old 
Mrs. Nesbitt for her inflamed eves, Char¬ 
ity,” and I answered just to tease her, 
“O, I thought you wanted it as a decoc¬ 
tion to take away your freckles.” She 
took my joke seriously, and said: “Well, 
it is a safe and harmless remedy for 
blotches and all eruptions of the skin, and 
makes a valuable ointment to apply be¬ 
fore going to bed.” 
We made an eye wash of some of the 
flowers, and I took it to the neighbor, 
who really found it cooling and helpful, 
and then Cousin gathered some more and 
simmered and steeped the flowers, 
strained and evaporated it and mixed 
with white vaseline while cooling. I 
thought some of the hotel boarders might 
be glad to try it, so sent a sample to the 
belle of the little company there. Very 
soon a number of girls came to ask about 
it, and they supplied the vaseline and 
empty pots to fill. This meant that I had 
not any expense and was paid for my 
labor, and for the flowers, so 1 felt all 
the time that was a saving even if the 
experiment failed. We do not estimate 
enough the virtues of these ancient reme¬ 
dies, for there was, a time when it was 
considered worth while having a cold, in 
order to get a brewing of elderberry 
wine, hot and spicy, as a diaphoretic, be¬ 
fore going to bed. Nowadays the birds 
seem to know a good thing when they see 
it, and eat all the berries at sight. 
The Summer speeds on apace, and Aug¬ 
ust always seems to have a backward 
glance of regret, and its gaiety to be a 
little forced, as the bright colors of the 
later flowers are with us in their mid¬ 
summer beautv. My onions did not come 
to much for profit, for we had a dreadful 
drought in July that burned the little 
seedlings, and destroyed many hopes. 
Cleveland’s beans were partly harvested 
and sold, and he found that by clean 
picking new ones formed. Grant’s toma¬ 
toes did not mind so much the dry wea¬ 
ther, neither did Sherman's corn, but I 
am afraid if I make any money out of the 
garden it will be by pickling the onions. 
However, “as one door shuts another 
opens,” and who would have thought of 
profit in the. elder bushes, that spread so 
much over the ground we have to keep 
them pruned down? It did not take the 
tan from my sunburned hands, but the 
Summer girls had every confidence in it. 
and one said it was a “real Charity,” 
which amused her companions, but I am 
used to all sorts of puns on my name. 
During the hot weather we found the 
washing and ironing particularly trying, 
the dear little baby adding a good deal to 
the burden this Summer. Minty is very 
sensible, and has her dresses quite short, 
and she enjoys being barefoot and grows 
like a beautiful flower. We call her 
“Theo,” and she knows her name already, 
and looks more happy than ever when 1 
take her out to see the Dahlias and nas¬ 
turtiums, for like most little children she 
has an eye for bright colors. Last week 
one of her prettv white frocks' got a 
large spot of ironmold on it, and Minty 
was ver- regretful over it. So I took 
some coarse salt, squeezed a lemon over 
it and covered the snot, as the little frock 
lay in the sum, moistening it now and 
then with rain water. A night and a day 
it was left there, and the blemish had all 
disappeared when I lifted it from the 
grass. Country people haven’t always ox¬ 
alic acid at hand, but they like their white 
clothes spotless, and with the clear water 
and fresh, pure air are able to have them 
so, and it is a labor of love to work for 
our little Theo. charity sweetheart. 
A Suggestion for Canning. —I see so 
much in the paper on canning fruit, and it 
is so much work heating new jars. If 
the women canning fruit will wet a cloth, 
either warm or cold (one is as good as 
the other) and wrr the jar, covering tin- 
bottom and all before filling, they will 
never break a Jar, at least I never have, 
new or old. As soon as full put on lid 
and remove the cloth. I use a flour sack ; 
it is only a small job to put on the cloth 
and take it off, but handling hot jars is 
all uncalled for. mrs. s. d. m’m. 
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