1914. 
THE R.URA.L NEW-VOREEE 
076 
Hot Beverages. 
G. L. asks for recipes for hot bever¬ 
ages. I hope the following will prove 
helpful, some of which are nourishing, 
while others merely quench thirst. 
An invalid who could not take a cup 
of hot water as the doctor prescribed 
found it very palatable when a dash of 
nutmeg was added. Another family al¬ 
ways drinks hot water flavored with gin¬ 
ger for supper. Ginger being an irritant 
this would not be healthful to use all the 
time. One mother frequently flavors hot 
water with cinnamon or cloves instead of 
tea. A little sassafras tea is palatable 
and healthful. Peppermint and winter- 
green both make very agreeable drinks for 
most people. Plant mint in the garden 
and you will have flavor for delicious 
beverages. 
Fruitade can be served piping hot as 
well as ice cold. Make a syrup of sugar 
and water and squeeze juice from any 
kind of fruit, or several kinds; add the 
juice of a lemon, as this makes the flavor 
more pronounced. Put an amount of 
juice according to strength in cup and 
fill with hot water. 
Oatmeal water is one of the most 
wholesome Summer drinks. To prepare, 
take a tablespoonful of oatmeal and a 
quart of water, boil one hour and strain. 
This is usually served cold, but may be 
served piping hot. Variation can be 
made by adding juiee of lemon and two 
tablespoonfuls of sugar to the quart. 
Vinegar may be substituted for lemon 
juice. 
Rhubarb tea is often relished even by 
children in the Spring. Cook rhubarb in 
quantity of water, strain and sweeten 
with sugar. Serve hot. Barley tea is 
a nourishing hot beverage. Wash two 
tablespoonfuls of pearl barley, scald with 
boiling water and boil 10 minutes, strain, 
and add two quarts of boiling water and 
reduce oue-half. Sweeten and flavor with 
lemon juice. The bouillon cubes on the 
market make a delicious appetizing hot 
drink. 
Caramel tea.—Take two cups of gran¬ 
ulated sugar and one cup cream, boil 
until thick, and dilute with boiling water 
to consistency of thick syrup and put in 
can. Place a tablespoonful of mixture 
in cup and fill with boiling water. 
Toast tea.—Toast stale bread and cov¬ 
er with boiling water, let stand a few 
minutes and strain. When making any 
beverage remember that a pinch of salt 
will develop or heighten—make more pro¬ 
nounced—any flavor. M. c. u. 
Hand-made Rugs. 
My knitted rug, just finished, is very 
satisfactory as far as looks are concerned, 
and I hope it will do as good service as 
my crocheted rug, which has already been 
in use a year, can be easily washed, and 
is heavy and firm enough to keep in place 
easily on the floor. Both have the same 
soft shaded coloring, the only bright 
stripe being of shaded old rose to deep 
crimson, exeept that the knitted one has a 
central stripe besides of old blue shaded 
into gray. The crimson shaded stripe is 
very easy to manage, as all the shades 
are done in the same dye in the following 
way. Crimson for wool is the dye used 
and pure white wool takes a deep crim¬ 
son color for the darkest stripe. Un¬ 
derwear part cotton, mostly wool, takes 
a lighter color. Natural gray wool un¬ 
derwear takes a soft grayish color of the 
same tone, which shades in between a 
rose pink which cotton rags take when 
dipped in this same dye. The crimson 
stripe in this rug was baby’s coat, a 
white wool one originally, but colored 
for his use as he began to play about out 
of doors, and the old blue stripe is all 
that is left of my wedding dress, which 
was called cadet blue then; a grayish 
shade, which has softened more like gray 
with the 17 years since. There are other 
stripes in the rugs which have pleasant 
associations—one pretty one of brown 
was made of baby John’s outworn romp¬ 
ers, and an odd gray stripe was origin¬ 
ally work aprons of shepherd check cali¬ 
co. There are some of Daughter’s school 
dresses represented too, and at least one 
of Father’s coats. 
The knit one was done in strips with 
a color scheme as follows: Old blue 
shaded to gray for the central part of the 
rug, and an old rose and crimson shaded 
stripe at either side with shaded brown 
and black at the ends. A crosswise nar¬ 
row strip was knitted to hold the rug in 
shape, but this was knitted of the same 
color as the stripe opposite and does not 
show. The coloring is in Roman stripe 
effect. There are 10 stripes in my rug, 
each color making one strip. These strips 
were sewn together with carpet warp, 
and the finished rug is nearly two yards 
long by a little more than one yard wide. 
The black strips on the ends of the rug 
were each knit longer than the other 
strips and the cross-knit strip set in to 
make the right shape. 
A friend of min; once knitted a rug 
large enough nearly to cover the dining 
room floor. It was not a good idea, as 
besides being an immense amount of 
work, it made too thick and heavy a rug, 
being difficult to keep clean, on account 
of its weight and size. This sort of 
rug is only good for medium size, as in 
fact are also the crocheted ones and the 
heavy woven ones. I once made the 
same mistake by having heavy rags, cut 
twice as wide as ordinary rag carpet 
rags, woven into a rug large enough for 
an entire floor covering. It was woven 
in yard-wide strips and sewed together. 
It proved too heavy to manage, and fin¬ 
ished its days as a curtain in the poul¬ 
try house, not really as good there as 
something else would have been, and 
representing a big waste of time and 
work and some money. If a large woven 
rug is desired the rags should be cut as 
for ordinary rag carpet, narrow as will 
hold when sewn together. 
I have seen two very good ones woven 
in this way, the center in each case being 
of hit-or-miss rags and with stripe on 
each end. One had an artistic border in 
soft pastel shades—no bright color at all. 
However, the coloring is largely a mat¬ 
ter of individual taste, as we realized 
when this rug, just from the weaver’s 
was proudly exhibited to two old ladies, 
near neighbors of ours. One looked at 
it dubiously and frankly said she thought 
it “the humbliest thing she ever did see.” 
The other said the colors were well 
enough, but asked us over to see her car¬ 
pet. I did go over soon, and the little old 
Frenchwoman took me proudly into her 
“best room” and threw up the shades. 
I don’t know when I have seen anything 
so dazzling as that floor covering with 
its brilliant hues of brightest purple, or¬ 
ange, green and yellow. I am sure all 
the rest of the rainbow was there, but 
these shades were so bright. She assured 
me that she colored everything in the 
carpet. I could honestly say that I 
thought the colors very bright and pret¬ 
ty, but I could not help thinking that the 
combinations and brilliance and lack of 
shading left much to be desired. Care¬ 
fully she drew down the curtains again, 
and closed the room, which was never 
used except on solemn occasions such as 
weddings or funerals. 
The crocheted rug was made a square 
or rectangular shape by adding two ex¬ 
tra stitches at the corner after first cro¬ 
cheting a square-cornered piece starting 
with 50 stitches. These rugs are usual¬ 
ly round or oval, as are also the braided 
rugs. 
For knitting the rug, long coarse nee¬ 
dles such as sweaters are knitted on, 
are used. My needles are of celluloid and 
a bit over a foot in length, very smooth 
aud easy to work with, much better than 
the ordinary wooden needles. The rags 
are cut as fine as will bold together easi- 
ly, just as for weaving rag carpet, and 
are sewed and wound into balls. The 
stitch is plain garter stitch. For the 
crochet rug a large size crochet hook is 
used and the single crochet makes the 
firmest rug. Double crochet is some¬ 
times used. 
llouseeleaning is a good time to pick 
up and wash all the outworn material 
which works well into rugs. Often the 
coloring can be done while other dyeing 
is under way, so saving time and work, 
then in the long Winter evenings it is a 
pleasure to sew aud knit or crochet the 
rags, and when done these rugs are very 
serviceable and suitable for farm houses. 
v. 
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