1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
143 
Household Expenditures. 
L. S. wants a discussion on what to 
spend in the household. As one man's 
meat is another man’s poison, so what 
one can spend another cannot and ad¬ 
here to an honest line of living. Some 
poor girls want to dress like millionaires’ 
daughters, and some poor families want 
to live, (eat, I mean) more extravagant¬ 
ly than the rich. It is a battle each man 
must fight for himself, only you cannot 
eat your pie and have it too. I do not 
want to live on as little as we can, but I 
do want to live within the standard we 
set in starting. We aim to save so much 
each year, and we do it, and have great 
enjoyment manipulating the rest to the 
best advantage. The husband has a sta¬ 
ted salary, and each month, when the 
check comes, he has it cashed and puts a 
certain amount in bank in the wife’s 
name—for then he knows it is safe. In 
this way she has saved everything he has 
to make him rich in this world’s goods 4 
and wholly of it has been invested in 
her name, thus showing that the wife is 
a real partner. Each works to help the 
other and each has equal reward. Each 
one has a particular talent, which they 
are developing, and thereby adding to 
•the family exchequer. So that we do 
not have to limit ourselves to necessities 
but have many of the luxuries. 
In this case each one keeps a book and 
knows just what they earn and just how 
they spend it. The proceeds from the 
farming part of the operation may fluc¬ 
tuate, and I do not know how a farmer 
knows where he is if he does not keep 
anything in black and white, unless he 
tan say, at the end of each year, ‘‘I am 
so many dollars or hundreds ahead this 
year.” If one keeps a book and goes on 
a cash basis he certainly will not spend 
more than he earns. I abhor extrava¬ 
gance ; . still if I have some pet luxury 
which my neighbor cannot buy, whose 
business is it, how I spend my money, 
if I owe no one? It would be impossible 
to say how much anyone else should 
spend; it is oft times as much as one can 
do to decide for themselves along this 
line. CORA JUNE SHEPPARD. 
CURING BIRD WINGS. 
It was asked in these columns how to 
cure bird wings, and though my ideas 
must in any case come too late for bird 
plumage then in hand the inquirer may 
have at some other time use for what 
suggestions I can offer. We had at one 
time a taxidermist in our family so I 
came to know something about handling 
bird skins. 
Eirstly, use all possible caution about 
keeping blood off any feathers you wish 
to save. Though a sprinkling of lime 
or some dry absorbent may help to clean 
bloody feathers it will scarcely restore 
their natural luster, it is bothersome and 
really not worth the effort. A soft cloth 
and warm water will wipe away fresh 
blood fairly well, but better still is the 
care which keeps the feathers clean from 
the first. A little pledget of cotton wad¬ 
ding pushed into shot or bullet wounds 
will stop the blood and enable the sports¬ 
man to bring game birds home with 
plumage nearly unspoiled. Secondly, I 
would ‘strongly advise anyone likely to 
have to do with preserving wings or 
bird plumage to buy and keep on hand, 
in a carefully labelled box, a mixture of 
alum and arsenic. Buy an ounce of each, 
powdered, stir them together in a tin 
box and put away in some dry place, 
but not in the pantry or any spot where 
food supplies would ever be found. 
Then when wings or skins come to hand 
dress and arrange them in desired shapes 
before they become dry. In cool weather 
a dead bird may be kept several days, 
especially if rolled in a slightly dampened 
cloth. 
If only wings are to be treated cut 
them from the body, and laying 
them on the table, face down, slit the 
skin with a sharp-pointed little knife 
parallel with the bones. This will lay 
bare the muscle or meaty part, and by 
turning back the skin and working with 
the pointed knife the meat may be pulled 
out, as it is usually in strong segments 
tapering to a muscular thread at the 
joint at the outer end. Of course wings 
differ greatly; those long and strong for 
sustained flight having less meat than 
wings of the more plump ground feeders. 
The outer section which carries the quill 
feathers often has little flesh, and to slit 
the skin and rub in some of the arsenic 
and alum mixture is all that is required. 
Where a good deal of flesh has been 
taken out one may put cotton in its place 
after first dusting the bone and inside of 
the skin well with the powder. A few 
stitches will draw the skin together and 
the wing scarce show that it has been 
opened. But for most uses to remove 
the muscle and rub the powder over the 
back of the skin is all that is necessary. 
The artistic work of arranging the 
feathers is all that now remains to be 
done, for as feathers fall in a dried skin 
'so they must lie. Therefore, decide how 
the wings will look prettiest for what¬ 
ever use they are designed. If’ for mil¬ 
linery uses fashion has a good deal to say 
about pose and spread, but in any case 
they must not look flat, must not be too 
much spread, and usually the second 
part of the wing is of even greater use 
than the long quill feathers, so be sure 
to save the part of the wing carrying the 
two bones. It is also a good plan to push 
a piece of annealed wire in under the 
skin at the joint and twist it fast to the 
bones, thus giving a loop for sewing the 
wing in place upon the hat. Pinning the 
wings upon an old hat may be a help 
about deciding how they will look best, 
and they can then be left to dry in a box 
or closet where mice or cats will not 
molest them. Pieces of stiff paper can 
be pasted or pinned across to hold the 
feathers in place, but avoid a pressed or 
stiff look, and try to have each feather 
lie when put away for drying exactly as 
you wish it to remain. 
Dried bird skins are brittle and crack 
and break with any bending. The breast 
of a duck or even of a barnyard hen of 
unusual color will often give a handsome 
piece of hat trimming. Keep free from 
blood, skin neatly, rub the back well with 
the arsenic and alum mixture, and pin 
on to some such support as excelsior 
wrapped in a.cloth, where it will dry 
in the shape liked. I have known the 
breast of a wild duck to keep without 
special care for many years, though cured 
in this ‘simple fashion. 
Perhaps the inquirer had in mind a 
collection of bird wings made of such 
game birds as came in her way. I was 
once shown such a memento of several 
years? homesteading upon a Western 
ranch. These wings had been merely 
pressed flat so as best to show their col¬ 
ors and markings. But in that case it 
would be well to remove the meat and 
cure with the preservative mentioned. 
Pressing between folded newspapers with 
warm, not hot, flat irons as weight, is all 
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Because Mac¬ 
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