1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
979 
Household Shortcuts. 
Use a wire egg beater in making cot¬ 
tage cheese. 
Grate your scouring soap and put in 
a saucer in the kitchen table drawer. It 
is much handier. 
The corners of square cake pans are 
hard to wash. Use a very small whisk 
broom. 
A vegetable brush is a good help in 
dressing chickens, and to remove the 
silks from green corn. Try it. 
Not having apples enough for a pie 
one day I “pieced out” with a bit of 
cranberry sauce ( not enough for the 
table) and a very good dessert was the 
result. 
Sea foam candy is made like this: 
Two cups of soft sugar with water to 
moisten well. Boil till it hardens in 
water. Have the white of one egg 
beaten stiff, pour the boiling syrup on 
it and beat till the proper consistency 
to drop in rough little dabs on waxed 
paper. It is very good. mrs. j. s. 
Flour Sacks and Sugar Bags. 
I read an amusing account the other 
day of the various uses our grand¬ 
mothers made of cloth flour sacks. I 
can readily see that the sacks would 
have made good dish wipers, dress lin¬ 
ings and Summer underclothing, but as 
for sewing six together for a sheet or 
table cloth, or using the sacks for pillow 
cases, I am afraid the result attained 
would not be satisfactory, though I 
must admit that even such seamy and 
sleazy articles would be much better 
than none, and very strict economy was 
necessary in former days. Perhaps the 
quality of the muslin used is not so 
good as formerly. The flour sacks of 
the present generation are very thin and 
poor in quality, certainly not worth the 
labor of hemstitching for sash curtains 
as one industrious bride has done. Still, 
if I couldn’t have any sash curtains 
without, and had the time to make them, 
perhaps I might make curtains of them 
too. 
We seldom buy flour in cloth sacks 
here, but all our sugar comes in well- 
woven and durable muslin bags. The 
five-pound sacks are square, and when 
bleached and hemmed make very good 
wash cloths. Sometimes they are used 
for everyday handkerchiefs for school 
children. I have seen a pretty quilt lin¬ 
ing made of 20 of the sugar bags put 
together with six-inch width strips of 
turkey red. A 10-cent package of dye 
will color enough for a lining if a dark 
colored lining is wanted. The size used 
for 25 pounds of sugar or the hundred 
weight is best for this purpose, being 
larger. A pretty white washable quilt 
cover is easily made by working a sim¬ 
ple design in cross stitch or outline in 
each square, and then feather stitching 
the blocks together, using turkey red 
cotton embroidery thread for the work. 
This makes an excellent covering for a 
bed and is easily laundered. This style 
of bed covering is often made from un¬ 
bleached muslin, the 10 to 12-cent 
quality, and is very effective. The 
blocks are easily stamped with transfer 
patterns, and the work is pretty and in¬ 
expensive. The sugar bags holding 10 
or 25 pounds of sugar are not square, 
but may be used for any purpose that 
unbleached cotton is good for. f. 
Original Use of Washing Fluids. 
When Prof. Liebig, of Germany, gave 
to housewives his washing fluid, com¬ 
posed of sal soda, stone lime and water, 
his object was to lessen the laborious¬ 
ness of laundry work by giving water, 
soap and the fluid the first chance at the 
dirt, instead of the old method of rub¬ 
bing before boiling. His suggested 
process was to soak the white cotton 
and linen portion of the washing over 
night in a strong lukewarm suds, or as 
early in the morning as possible, and 
when soap, fluid and water, had reached 
the boiling point, clothes were boiled 
not longer than 20 minutes, then thor¬ 
oughly rinsed, wearing apparel only 
looked at and rubbed where needed. 
This fluid was equal to all kinds of dirt, 
but after long usage both cotton and 
linen would turn yellow—a serious fault 
which does not follow the use of the 
ammonia-tartar fluid recently recom¬ 
mended in The R. N.-Y., which differs 
6170 Fancy Waist, 32 to 40 bust. 
from the original compounds as known 
20 years ago, by the addition of borax. 
1 his old recipe called for one pound 
can of Babbitt's potash, one ounce each 
of the muriate of ammonia and the salts 
of tartar to one gallon of water, using 
one-half teacup to a boiler of clothes. 
A good washing fluid is a good servant 
but a bad mistress. It is a dangerous 
fluid, requiring care in the making and 
keeping—keeping it beyond the reach of 
children. It should not be kept too long 
in one jug or glass bottles. In time it 
will honeycomb earthenware and render 
glass too brittle to handle with safety. 
All things considered, why make a 
washing fluid when a washing powder is 
more easily cared for? The amount of 
powder for a washing can be estimated 
by the following process: Two gallons 
or eight quarts of washing fluid are 
equal to 32 half-pints (cupfuls), or 
washings. Reduce the constituent pow¬ 
ders to ounces: Sixteen of potash 
(lye), 16 of borax, one of ammonia, and 
one of salts of tartar, making 34 ounces 
0154 Thirteen Gored Skirt. 
22 to 32 waist. 
—a trifle of two ounces more than one 
ounce of powder to each cup of water, 
or washing. This washing powder 
could be well shaken together in a 
strong paper bag or covered box and 
kept in a cool dry place, giving it a 
good shaking each week. The best way 
to use a washing powder known to con¬ 
tain potash is to tie the required amount 
in a piece of clean white cloth and boil 
with the soap. Or a better way yet is 
to place both powder and soap in a clean 
salt bag. Both washing powders and 
fluids should be plainly labeled. 
MEDORA CORBETT. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The fancy waist with attached girdle 
increases in popularity, being a modi¬ 
fication of the Empire styles. In No. 
6170, the waist is made with a lining 
which is smoothly fitted and on which 
is arranged the draped chemisette and 
the portions of the blouse, while the long 
sleeves are joined to its armholes, the 
shorter ones being joined to the blouse 
only. The lower edges of the blouse 
and lining are joined to a fitted girdle 
over which the draped one is arranged. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size is 1>4 yards 21 or 24, 
1/4 yards 32, yard 44 with )4 yard 18 
inches wide for the chemisette and long 
sleeves, 54 yard of silk for the girdle, 
soutache according to design used. The 
pattern 6170 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 
36, 38 and 40 inch bust measure; price 
10 cents. 
A becoming skirt is shown in No. 
6154. The skirt is made in thirteen 
gores and can be closed at the back 
and trimmed with buttons, or made with 
the opening at the left of the front gore 
and closed either with buttons and 
actual button holes or invisibly with but¬ 
tons used as trimming. Or, again, if 
a very plain skirt is in demand the but¬ 
tons can be omitted altogether and the 
skirt closed either at the back or the left 
of the front as preferred. The quantity 
of material required for the medium 
size is 8)4 yards 24, 8)4 yards 27, 4)4 
yards 44 or 4 yards 52 inches wide if 
material has figure or nap; 7 yards 24, 
6)4 yards 27, 4)4 yards 44 or 3)4 yards 
52 inches wide, if material has neither 
figure or nap. The pattern 6154 is cut 
in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 
inch waist measure; price 10 cents. 
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A small dose three times a 
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Then instead of buying two or three pairs of rubber boots every year, 
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By doing this you will put an end to your rubber boot troubles. Your 
feet will be cool in summer, warm in winter and dry all the time. You 
can walk, dig or spade in perfect comfort. Then when the ROCK OAK 
leather sole finally wears out, simply have them resoled or " tapped " by 
any cobbler and they are as good as new. 
• X ou fj ont * lave to buy a ncw Pair when the sole wears out as you do 
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This Is why Rubberhides 
wear longer 
Under the foot first 
is a leather sole. Com¬ 
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this leather does not 
induce excessive 
sweat, which makes 
the ordinary rubber 
boot such a hardship 
on tender feet. More 
comfort, less sweat. 
You pay for it and 
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then a heavy rein¬ 
forced rubber out- 
sole or welt sole. 
This welt sole is 
vulcanized to the 
upper. They have 
never been and 
cannot be torn 
apart. Neither can 
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the place where 
the upper joins 
the sole. Abso¬ 
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The outsole is of 
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leather (where the wear 
comen) sewed to the welt 
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NO OTHER SOLE LIKE THIS 
