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'THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
913 
Rural Advantages. 
My preference for country life is not 
due to the fact that city life was pre¬ 
sented to me in its ugly phases, for I 
spent my early married life in nice city 
homes and my associates were refined 
and cultured persons. Yet I was re¬ 
joiced when I knew that I was once 
more to live on a farm, and although my 
work has been rough and hard and my 
hours long, I have not once had a regret. 
My occasional visits to the city but 
strengthen the bond with which my coun¬ 
try home holds me, and the city life no 
more satisfies me than does their ice- 
water quench my thirst. It is quite the 
usual thing for my city friends to see 
their husbands only in the early morn¬ 
ing and evenings. Often business sep¬ 
arates them for days and weeks and 
even longer. I know one dear little fam¬ 
ily where the father is almost a stranger 
to his children, by reason of his business 
keeping him away from home. There 
is a monotony about woman’s housework, 
and in the city there is no relief except 
when one leaves home. There are no 
chickens nor gardens nor orchard. As 
to culture I may appear more rustic 
than I did some years hence, but I am 
not so sure that there are more cobwebs 
in my brain than would have been there 
had I remained in the city. I really have 
quite as much time here for reading and 
the like as I ever had. Now I am com¬ 
ing to the most important point. When 
city children visit my home, without a 
nickel to spend, they find constant de¬ 
light, are benefited and dread to leave. 
Whenever I visit the city with my chil¬ 
dren, no matter how much kindness or 
how many nickels, they soon grow tired 
and are rejoiced to return home, and are 
really worse for the trip. When I see 
the conditions, under which my little city 
friends play out of doors, I thank God 
for my fields and trees, fresh air and sun¬ 
light on all sides of the house. I know 
that the city and its dwellers are necess¬ 
ary, and for the most part, happy and 
contented, yes, even to the point of com¬ 
miseration for the farmer’s wife. I am 
glad they are, but if fractional parts of 
my enthusiasm and love of country life 
and work could be distributed, there 
would be no abandoned farms in this 
country. _ L. s. 
My Neighbor and I. 
“Between the butcher and the grocer, 
I am nearly ruined—H-’s meat is so 
tough, too, that a lot of it is wasted; 
the children take it and they cannot eat 
it.” 
“I know,” said I; ‘several years ago 
I told him not to call on us; between 
toughness and dearness, it was little 
else but a provocation.” 
“How do you manage? We seem to 
need meat on the table three times a 
day, and yet I know people who have 
more of an income than we have get 
along with less meat, and I believe they 
are just as well.” 
“The meat at C-is good, but often 
the work is too pressing for a horse to 
be spared. We try, however, to go there 
once in two weeks for supplies. We 
don’t buy the most expensive cuts, and 
yet I never feel ashamed of our table. 
A shoulder of mutton, with a ‘pocket,’ 
for which I vary the stuffing, some¬ 
times sage and onions; sometimes 
lemon and parsley predominating, is 
always greeted hearti'y. Then a piece of 
corned beef is a stand-by when the 
weather is not too hot.” 
“Do you buy it corned?” 
“No; I still use the recipe my grand¬ 
mother used. Rub eight ounces salt, 
eight ounces sugar (or less), one-quar¬ 
ter ounce saltpetre on to ten pounds of 
beef, after taking out any bone there 
may be. Let it lie 14 days, rubbing it 
over every few days with the liquor 
which runs from it. Boil till tender, 
put it while warm into a bucket or any¬ 
thing available, and put a heavy weight 
on top. Next morning turn it out. This 
is so nice for breakfast. If the butcher 
is a good one, and the family does not 
dislike some fat, a piece of plate meat 
is very nice for it.” 
“But in two weeks there are 42 meals 
—I don’t see what you have the week 
you don’t go to C-.” 
“Often we have an elderly chicken, 
stuffed and pot-roasted, or baked in 
milk or jugged, or in jelly with hard- 
boiled eggs. Our family is ‘pickry,’ 
and does not care much for baked 
beans, but lentil rissoles make a good 
substitute, so far as ‘balanced ration’ 
is concerned. Then come ways with 
canned salmon, canned codfish and 
cheese dishes. Dried beef seems 
‘hearty,’ too with a good gravy, made 
of milk slightly thickened with corn¬ 
starch, and two or three beaten eggs 
added. I try always to have a good 
pudding (varied occasionally with pie 
and cake), both for dinner and supper, 
and in our household I am sure this 
takes the place of a good deal of meat. 
The vegetables at these two meals, I 
seldom serve naked—a dressing of 
white sauce for some and a plain salad 
dressing with others, •seem to make 
much more of a meal.” 
“It seems to me you have more cook¬ 
ing than when the family is set dpwn 
to a meal of which meat is the main¬ 
stay.” 
“Probably I have, but I don’t yet see 
how to invest my time more profitably 
than by economizing in the housekeep¬ 
ing, and, as you know, it does not 
prevent my raising 200 or 300 chickens 
and ducks, churning two or three times 
a week and doing nearly all our sew¬ 
ing.” 
“That’s so.” 
“Then I know our expenses for food 
are very light, even now, when food is 
high. Of course, I need not remind you 
we have our own pork.” 
“I cannot have a stock of hams and 
bacon, for our house is so damp.” 
“That does not matter one bit. When 
ours comes out of the barrel, after be-' 
ing in the brine a month or six weeks, 
we hang it in the attic, paint it with 
liquid smoke, and either hang it near 
a screened window or wrap it in paper 
and put it in a barrel of lime. It 
never knows whether the house is damp 
or dry.” 
“Well, I think your way is better 
than depending on the butcher’s wagon.” 
“I know it is better for our pocket- 
book, and when it comes to harvest or 
any extra heavy work, I find our folks 
hold out longer hours and are less 
‘played out’ than most people. Now, I 
am canning all I can lay hands on. 
Without our canned fruit and vegeta¬ 
bles I don’t sec how I could sleep 
nights, such panics I would have, con¬ 
sidering what my next day’s “fixin’s” 
would be. Last year I put up over 200 
cans ,and they have been a pleasure all 
the year. They make an inexpensive 
and acceptable little gift quite often, 
when, from some cause or another, a 
friend is not so well supplied. Lima 
and string beans, corn, tomatoes, 
peaches, pears, blackberries, rhubarb, 
apples, cherries—don’t' omit a generous 
supply of all of them, and, by the way, 
do you always buy sugar by the barrel, 
before the canning season begins? If 
not, think it over before next Spring. 
I hope you have plenty of water-glass 
eggs; we are using ours already, and 
the prospects are that they will be very 
high priced in the Winter—better let 
some one else buy our fresh eggs from 
now till next March.” a. e. f. 
Turnips and Onions.— As many peo¬ 
ple cook these vegetables they are far 
from attractive, either to look at or to 
eat, being strong in flavor and of a 
dark dingy color. They should never 
be cooked in iron dishes, but in agate 
or porcelain, and there should be an 
abundance of water used, and it should 
be changed once or twice during the 
cooking. s. b. r. 
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