1908. 
'THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
881 
Good Living in Oregon. 
I am proud of the stand you have 
taken against fraud; May you live 
many years and prosper in them all. 
But I want to write of the good meals 
that Hope Farm man has so often 
spoken of, and tell you what we can do 
in Oregon, without irrigating. We are 
old people, have made our little pile and 
have only house and garden in a wee 
city. Come to my table; there are but 
two, with always an extra plate for a 
guest. No soup in late Summer, but al¬ 
ways fresh and cooked fruit. It may be 
the Evergreen strawberry, blackberries, 
apples, pears, plums, prunes, peaches, by 
and by, the second crop of raspberries. 
Of course potatoes and meat, veal to¬ 
day, string beans, onions—we had peas 
yesterday—and the second crop of rad¬ 
ishes, turnips and lettuce is growing. 
Cabbage salad, for cabbages are in the 
ground nearly all the year, and the red 
of beets decorates it finely. By the way, 
a friend just come from California tells 
me we can buy oranges and bananas 
cheaper here than in California, but I 
will give you melons and prune cake 
for dessert. 
Your Cook Book is my right hand 
book, but does not give this recipe, so 
I will put it in black and white; Three 
tablespoonfuls butter and one cup sugar 
mixed, stir in one cup stewed prunes, 
cut about the size of raisins; add half 
cup prune juice and two eggs; last 2)4 
cups flour with full teaspoon soda. This 
makes a good and wholesome cake. 
A thrasher is going by; the wheat 
crop is rather small this year, but it 
never fails. The wave of temperance 
and the poor price have caused many to 
dig up hop fields. Onions pay well and 
take but little land. M. f. p. 
Clean Bedrooms. 
A young probationer in a hospital 
often sighed as she looked at the bare 
walls about her, and longed for her own 
dainty room at home, but long before 
she was permitted to don the snowy cap 
and dress of a full-fledged trained nurse 
she learned to look with dismay on the 
crowded bedrooms of her family and 
friends. The pictures of beautiful cham¬ 
bers in magazines are indeed inviting, 
but a severely plain sleeping apartment 
is better. I saw the room of a young 
girl not long ago that should have been 
a dream of delight with its white drap¬ 
eries and many ornaments, but a closer 
view revealed the fact that the drapery 
was heavy with dust and soot. The 
mother explained that the weather was 
too cold to wash the hangings and that 
it was impossible properly to air the 
room on account of the coal dust from 
the roof blowing in. There were pic¬ 
tures and ornaments and fancy articles 
in abundance, but the poor girl who has 
a scantily furnished room has a better 
chance to breath pure air. 
Heavy lace curtains or lace curtains 
of any description have no place in bed¬ 
rooms. Of course the thrifty house¬ 
keeper wants to graduate the parlor 
hangings by successive degrees through 
sitting room, dining room and down¬ 
stairs or guest bedroom to their final 
asylum in the family sleeping apart¬ 
ments, but it is mistaken economy. I 
have heard mothers insist that the win¬ 
dows be not raised, for fear the damp¬ 
ness in the night air would take the 
starch out of the clean curtains, for¬ 
getting that clean air was absolutely 
essential for the health of the children! 
Because the carpet has been lately 
cleaned and the curtains washed it does 
not follow that the place is pure and 
sweet to sleep in. Sash curtains of 
cheap material are best, as they can be 
easily washed to insure freedom from 
dust. Better throw away the old lace 
curtains than cumber the bedrooms 
with them. 
The same may be said of the discard¬ 
ed parlor and sitting room carpets 
which usually ascend the stairs when 
too old to do duty actively below. 
Usually it is impossible to rid them en¬ 
tirely of dust and germs, so they would 
better never be tacked to the floors. If 
you can do without carpets and use 
rugs on the painted floors by all means 
do so. Many women in the city as well 
as the country are making rag rugs in 
the old-fashioned designs for bath and 
bedrooms, and they may be washed or 
scrubbed without injury. The first time 
you mop your carpetless floor and look 
at the water you will wonder how you 
ever got along with dusty carpets. I 
know one housekeeper who put heavy 
Brussels on her bedroom floors, and an¬ 
nounced that the carpets were there to 
stay, because they could be cleaned on 
the floor just as well as to be lifted. 
The carpets are truly there to stay, but 
her delicate daughter is not. The sun 
was not allowed to shine in for fear of 
fading the costly carpets, and the lace 
curtains could not stand the fresh 
breezes, so the impure air was breathed 
again and again till it was too late to 
reform the ways of the household. 
If you must and will clutter up your 
bedrooms with useless things see that 
they are kept clean. There are girls 
who never move washstands unless 
watched and dust is the most unhealthy 
thing in the world in a bedroom. The 
lighter the furniture the easier it Is to 
move, but if you have bare floors the 
mop reaches every spot without the 
trouble of changing the heavy beds and 
dressers. Perhaps the very worst thing 
that can happen to the defenceless 
sleeper is to have the careful housewife 
use moth balls and tobacco to preserve 
the carpet. If you have never slept in 
the best room of some house where the 
edge of the carpet had been anointed 
with gasoline and then perfumed with 
moth balls you may thank your lucky 
stars. It is an experience you will 
hardly want to have repeated in your 
life. A simply furnished room is easily 
kept clean too. The fish nets girls used 
to drape about the walls to hang pic¬ 
tures in were a snare and a delusion, 
for one had to walk carefully to avoid 
bringing the whole mess down in a 
dusty heap. Luckily it is becoming the 
fad to have only the necessary furniture 
in bedrooms, and have that of the light¬ 
est and most hygienic. With jlo carpets 
to fade and no curtains to fret over 
the sleeping apartment will really be¬ 
come a chamber of repose to the tired 
housekeeper. After you have formed 
the habit of regarding the bedrooms as 
real rooms, and not merely the recepta¬ 
cle for things too old to be used down 
stairs, you never will go back to the old 
cluttered chambers. For the sake of 
your health have clean bedrooms. 
HILDA RICHMOND. 
The Useful Potato. 
Potatoes With Cheese.—After six or 
seven potatoes have boiled until they 
are mealy, mash them as smooth as pos¬ 
sible, adding a couple of tablespoonfuls 
of butter, salt and .pepper, and enough 
hot milk to make them quite soft. Grate 
a half-cupful of cheese and beat it into 
the mashed potatoes, and grate a thin 
layer of cheese over the top, set in the 
oven until the cheese toasts, and serve. 
Or cut thin boiled potatoes in rather 
large pieces, as if for frying, and 
arrange in a bake-dish. Grate cheese 
over each layer of potatoes, pour a thin 
cream dressing over all the layers, grate 
a layer of cheese on top, and brown. 
Hashed Brown Potatoes.—Select po¬ 
tatoes that are waxy and not the mealy, 
dry kind. Boil in their skins and when 
done peel and set aside until cold. Then 
chop fine (four good sized potatoes will 
make enough); season with salt and 
pepper while chopping them. Put a good 
sized tablespoonful of butter in a frying 
pan and when melted put in the pota¬ 
toes. Press them down in the pan, pack¬ 
ing solidly with smooth surface. Set 
them where they will brown slowly and 
evenly on the bottom. In fifteen minutes 
they should be a rich brown. Do not 
stir them at all. As soon as they are 
done, begin at the side of the pan and 
with a spatula or flexible knife loosen 
from the pan and roll the potatoes like 
an omelet, being careful not to let them 
break. Turn out on a hot platter, a 
beautiful brown roll, and garnish with a 
little parsley. 
Potato Souffle.—Boil four good-sized 
potatoes, pass them through a sieve or 
mash well, add one-half teacup cream, 
one tablespoon butter, one-half teaspoon 
salt, a dash of pepper and beat to a 
cream. Add, one at a time, the yolks of 
four eggs, beating thoroughly, then 
lastly fold in the stiffly beaten whites. 
Pour into a buttered baking dish large 
enough to permit the souffle to rise with¬ 
out running over. Bake 20 minutes in 
a brisk oven. Serve at once from bak¬ 
ing dish. 
Baked Potato Croquettes.—Two cups 
mashed potatoes, two tablespoonfuls 
melted butter, two well-beaten eggs, 
one-half cup milk, one-half teaspoon 
salt. Mix well together and mold in 
oblongs; dent the tops crosswise with a 
knife blade. Bake on a greased baking 
sheet about one-half hour till nicely 
browned. Have cream sauce ready; 
pour into a platter and when the cro¬ 
quettes are baked remove them to the 
platter, placing them on the cream 
sauce; serve at once. 
A Dimple Maker 
Find a child with dimples and 
chubby arms and legs and you 
find a healthy child. Find one 
with drawn face and poor, thin 
body and you see one that needs 
Scott’s Emulsion 
Your doctor will tell you so. 
Nothing helps these thin, pale 
children like Scott's Emulsion. 
It contains the very element of 
fat they need. It supplies them 
with a perfect and quickly 
digested nourishment. It brings 
dimples and rounded limbs. 
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