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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Pickles and Relishes. 
A sweetness fills the Autumn air, 
An odor faintly fine and mellow 
Strays o'er the landscape golden fair 
With soft September shades of yellow. 
An odor this, howe’er, that flows 
Not from art’s source of grace that tickles, 
But from the kitchen where our Rose 
The cook, Is putting up green pickles. 
—Baltimore Sun. 
Shirley Sauce.—Chop very fine twenty- 
four large tomatoes, two large onions, 
two peppers; add one tablespoonful of 
salt, two of sugar, one teaspoonful each 
of ginger, cloves, allspice, cinnamon, one 
nutmeg, one pint of vinegar. Stew one 
hour and bottle while hot. 
Muskmelon Pickles.—Pare the rind off 
ripe, spicy, green melons, remove the 
seeds and cut into thick slices. Weigh 
as for peaches, seven pounds of fruit to 
three and one-quarter pounds of sugar, 
and put the sugar to cook with water 
enough to dissolve it. Boil and skim it 
until clear, then pour it over the melon 
in a crock. Repeat this for three morn¬ 
ings, but on the third morning add a cup¬ 
ful of vinegar to each three pints of syrup 
and boil it up with a cupful of spices in 
a bag. Pour it over the melon in jars 
and seal at once. 
Spiced Grapes.—Take the pulp from 
the fruit, preserving the skins; boil the 
pulp and run through a colander to get 
out the seeds, then add the skins to the 
strained pulp and boil with the sugar, vin¬ 
egar and spices; to every seven pounds of 
grapes use four and one-half pounds of 
sugar, one pint of best vinegar, one and 
one-half ounce of ground cloves and all¬ 
spice, and one-half ounce of cinnamon; 
ljoil until thick; be careful they do not 
Burn. _ 
The Rural Patterns. 
The overblouse or jumper remains very 
popular, a pretty model being shown in 
No. 5649. The waist is made with fronts 
and backs and sleeves. Both the fronts 
and the backs are tucked at the shoul¬ 
ders and the closing is made invisibly 
at the back. The fronts are held to¬ 
gether by straps on which the little bows 
are arranged and the sleeves are in bell, 
or kimono, shape. In this instance the 
waist is cut out in sections and velvet is 
applied under the edge and is finished 
with soutache braid within all edges. 
The quantity of material required for the 
medium size is 2% yards 21, 1% yards 32 
or Ip l yards 44 inches wide with 5 yards 
of velvet to make as illustrated. The 
pattern 5649 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 
36, 38 and 40-inch bust measure; price 10 
cents. 
A simple blouse costume is always in 
demand. As shown, the dress is made 
with a smoothly fitted body lining, which 
is faced to form the shield, the skirt and 
the blouse. The skirt is kilted and joined 
to the body lining, and the two are closed 
together at the back. The blouse is made 
with fronts and back, finished with a 
sailor collar, and is closed at the front, 
while it is drawn up at the waist line by 
means of elastic inserted in the hem. The 
sleeves are comfortably full, tucked at 
their lower edges and finished with 
straight cuffs. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size (10 years) 
is 6 yards 27, 5 yards 36 or 4 yards 44 
inches wide with §4 yard of contrasting 
material for the shield and 12J4 yards of 
braid. The pattern 5597 is cut in sizes 
for girls of 6, 8, 10 and 12 years of age; 
price 10 cents._ 
Household Congress. 
A Shell Basket. —Children and in¬ 
valids take pleasure in making and caring 
for a hanging basket made from a cocoa- 
nut shell, and others than invalids and 
children have been known to express ad¬ 
miration for one of these dainty green 
balls. Select a rather pointed nut with 
shaggy shell, and having drawn off the 
milk saw off the larger end considerably 
above the middle. If the nut can be 
screwed fast in a carpenter’s vise the saw¬ 
ing is easily managed. With a flexible 
steel knife remove the meat from the 
shell. Three holes are now needed for 
the hanging cords, and there must be one 
at the bottom that drainage may be as¬ 
sured. These can be burned with a stout 
nail heated in the kitchen fire. Long- 
handled pinchers will be needed to hold 
the red-hot nail. Suspend the basket 
with long strands of green raffia prettily 
knotted at the top. Loops of wire can 
be twisted into the holes and the raffia 
inserted in these above the dampness of 
5649 Over Blouse or Jumper, 
32 to 40 bust. 
the soil. Put a piece of cloth and some 
bits of charcoal in bottom for drainage 
and fill the shell with good soil, setting in 
it some simple trailng plant. Othonna, 
with its starry yellow blossoms is a good 
choice, and also a saxifrage which sends 
off little plants at the end of a trailing 
runner as does the strawberry plant. 
But surest of all to succeed is one of the 
Sedums. If never allowed to dry out, 
any of these plants fill completely cover 
the basket till it appears but a ball of 
luxuriant foliage. . pattie lyman. 
Southern Dried Corn. —I have tried 
various ways of canning sweet corn 
which never proved satisfactory, but this 
is tried and true, a southern way of dry- 
6597 Girl’s Blouse Costume, 
6 to 12 years. 
ing sweet corn. Sew firmly into a quilt¬ 
ing-frame a strong sheet. Gather the 
corn when ready for use, husk and re¬ 
move silk. Put on in boiler, cover with 
water and when it starts boiling let cook 
well for 10 or 15 minutes. Take off, 
allow it to. cool some, then score and cut 
off, but not too close, to have it shucky, 
and scrape off what remains on ear. 
Have your frame out in a sunny place, 
spread corn evenly upon it, cover with a 
mosquito netting and it will dry quickly 
in this way, as it dries from below just 
as fast as above. We have dried over 
half a bushel in less than two days in 
this way. The variety was Golden Ban¬ 
tam and it dried beautifully. Then at 
some convenient time when the oven is 
piping hot we put it in the oven to heat 
well through in order to kill any chance 
“microbe.” In drying a lot as we did 
last year we used the same water to 
boil all in and added cold water for the 
evaporation. When it comes time to 
cook the dried corn wash well in water. 
Put to soak in milk over night and cook 
in the milk it soaked in; season with 
sugar, salt, pepper and butter, and you 
will find it very good and know that it 
is clean. e. f. g. 
Syrian Stew.—Neck !of mutton will 
do nicely for this. Separate the fat from 
the lean meat. Mince the fat and melt 
it in frying pan. Cut the lean meat into 
chunks about a cubic inch, more or less, 
in size, and fry in the hot fat. Have at 
hand an earthen cooking vessel; remove 
the meat from frying pan when done and 
drop into earthen vessel. Have ready 
the vegetables, also cut into chunks (not 
slices), and brown in the fat, removing 
them as they brown and putting them 
with the meat. Next, slice two large or 
four small Spanish onions (slicing not 
into rings, but first into halves, length¬ 
wise, then slicing each half lengthwise), 
and fry until well done (sprinkling 
them with salt hastens the process). Add 
these to the meat and vegetables, then 
add a cupful of canned or fresh tomato 
and a small quantity of water, seasoned 
with salt and that brown pepper which 
is more spicy than hot; let it come to a 
boil and simmer gently. It should be be¬ 
gun two hours before mealtime. Any 
vegetable will do. Celery stew is ex¬ 
cellent and cabbage also is good; but 
for either of these omit the tomatoes and 
add some lemon juice shortly before re¬ 
moving from fire. Such vegetables as 
celery, cabbage and beans should not be 
browned in the fat, but stirred about for 
awhile in the cooking vessel with the 
meat and gravy. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes said many 
wise and witty things, but nothing better 
than this: “I never saw a garment too 
fine for a man or maid; there never was 
a chair too good for a cobbler or a cooper 
or a king to sit in; never a house too 
fine to shelter the human head. Elegance 
fits man. But do we not value these tools 
a little more than they are worth and 
sometimes mortgage a house for the ma¬ 
hogany we bring into it? I had rather 
eat my dinner off the head of a barrel, 
or dress after the fashion of John the 
Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a 
block all my life, than consume all myself 
before I got to a home, and take so 
much pains with the outside that the in¬ 
side was as hollow as an empty nut. 
Beauty is a great thing, but beauty of 
garment, house and furniture are tawdry 
ornaments compared with domestic love. 
All the elegance in the world will not 
make a home, and I would give more 
for a spoonful of real hearty love than 
for whole shiploads of furniture and all 
the gorgeousness the world can gather.” 
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