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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
silk gloves are offered in their usual va¬ 
riety. 
One of the New York department 
stores has opened a parcel post depart¬ 
ment making a special feature of • ship¬ 
ping foodstuffs. In addition to all or¬ 
dinary dry groceries, canned goods, etc., 
for domestic destinations, the store puts 
up gift boxes of edible delicacies, strong¬ 
ly packed, for shipment abroad. The 
buyer may select the articles to make up 
an 11-pound package (that being the 
weight limit) or the store will make a 
selection for a certain price. In either 
case the store wraps and ships the pack¬ 
age to its destination. Sample combin¬ 
ation boxes are displayed, costing from 
58 cents to $1.34. The selection includes 
preserves, cereals, crackers, potted meats, 
canned fruits, canned fish, figs, dates, and 
various ready-prepared foods. Hundreds 
of buyers are selecting these handy pack¬ 
ages for shipment to European soldiers 
in all the warring armies. This great 
parcel post experiment is novel and in¬ 
teresting, and seems likely to meet a pop¬ 
ular want. Of course packages under 
the maximum weight may be made up, or 
several 11-pound units. In any case this 
service enables one to send an acceptable 
gift to a foreign or domestic address, 
without any exertion beyond paying for 
it. 
ing to enlarge upon this suggestion and 
have a real outdoor place for the women 
to do their work, without having to stand 
the terrific heat of the cook stove in hot 
weather. 
iron. There is comfort in the fact that 
most refined men prefer the clear white 
dull finish to their linen, instead of the 
varnished effect. medoba corbett. 
Another Starching Method. 
The space devoted to “Domestic Econ¬ 
omy” in The R. N.-Y. of April 6, 1889, 
was given to starching, ironing, etc., and 
the method contributed by the present 
writer has ever since been used for stiff 
starching, and is a convenience in starch¬ 
making whenever a large amount of 
boiled starch is needed for garments or 
window curtains, thinning with lukewarm 
water as desired. The method makes a 
stiff starch, and can be used either warm 
or cold, and for one starching only; but 
for cuffs, collars and stiff-bosomed shirts 
it is better used warm and newly made. 
Dissolve one-third of the usual amount 
Embroidery Designs 
An Open-air Kitchen. 
The Government report on the “Do- 
! No. 501 is a design for embroidering the I 
| covers for a circular pincushion five inches 1 
= in diameter. The patterns for stamping the I 
| under and upper pieces are included. The I 
| scalloped edges are to be padded and but- | 
mestie Needs of Farm Women contains I tonholed; the dots are to be worked as eye- = 
, , . _,,_, .. , h lets; the leaves worked in solid embroidery, § 
the following excellent suggestion from a I and the stems to be outlined. Stamped on 1 
Kansas man • § white linen lawn, with mercerized floss to 1 
rvansas uid.ii. ! workj 25 cents I 
This is merely to suggest more general 
use of something which many already use. 
It is suggested to those farmers who do 
not have modern houses and improve¬ 
ments, but are “getting along” with the 
old house until new buildings can be 
built. It is a suggestion for this latitude, 
where such an improvement is used for 
nine months out of the year with pleas¬ 
ure to the “women folks,” and the bal¬ 
ance of the year as a great convenience 
and labor saver. The suggestion relates 
to building, adjoining that old, small 
farmhouse, a big screened-in porch, built 
so that at least three of its sides are open 
to the air, and so much of the fourth side 
as possible. The farmer can in many 
eases build it himself. The cost is about 
850 for a building 12 by 16 feet, with a 
good matched-flooring floor. The build¬ 
ing should be joined to the old house just 
enough to cover the door from the old 
kitchen, the rest of the porch should be 
out “in the free.” The studding are 2x4 
inches set 24 inches apart; the 
building is 10 feet high in front 
and eight feet in the back, giv¬ 
ing two feet of slope for the roof. The 
lower three feet all around is covered 
with weatherboarding, then a space three 
feet wide left open, then the top space up 
to the roof weatherboarded again. The 
open space, which goes clear around the 
building, is covered with ordinary screen 
wire, nailed on the studding, which stand 
every two feet. One outside door is left. 
If weatherboarding is too expensive, use 
boxing, and batten the cracks. A stove¬ 
pipe with roof ventilator will do for the 
eookstove. With tight matched floor and 
tight siding, it is rat proof, and such a 
floor can be easily cleaned. In the hot 
season the family will about live in this 
room. The woman does all her cooking, 
washing and ironing there, and she has a 
cool shade under which to work, and the 
benefit of all the breeze the man gets out 
<>f doors. This is the first room entered 
by the men folks when coming into the 
bouse from w T ork. All the loose dirt from 
shoes and boots is not carried into the 
house. The old work things are left here. 
1'he water buckets, wood box, washbasin, 
and a hundred things which clutter up 
the house and make the woman trouble 
are left out here—the house is clean. If 
possible, build the building over the cis¬ 
tern. if it is so located that it can be 
done, and the cistern pump will be handy 
for the woman. In this “outdoor” room 
the woman has all the advantages of the 
man as to fresh air, and has better shade. 
I he small room in the old house is not 
heated up by the cooking, washing, and 
ironing, but is kept cool and dark. There 
is plenty of room for a table to eat from, 
and the dinner is a regular outdoor pic¬ 
nic. If desired, long boards can be made 
into a “drop” door, hinged at the top, 
and on stormy days in Winter dropped 
down over the open, screened-in part; a 
door can be hung in place of the Summer 
screen door, and the room is even then 
tan-ly comfortable. Or sash can be bad 
cheaply to set in between the studding, 
t hese can be set in, in the Winter sea- 
Min, giving broad daylight all around, and 
nrl t VF* as is necess hry to do work in. 
e 'Vinter day’s supply of wood can be 
Kept here, and the dirt from outdoors 
(loesn t get into the house proper. The 
above suggestion, when followed out, will 
prove a “godsend” to the women folks, 
ana even the men will declare they could 
not live without it. And it is cheap. 
' hen you build that new house, this will 
, m handy for one of the many out- 
uildings you will need, because when 
. °u do build the new house you are go- 
! No. 792. Design for embroidering a doyley 1 
| six inches in diameter; six transfers are I 
| given. The dots within the scroll are in- | 
h tended for punched work. The conventional = 
s figures and leaves can be worked either sol- = 
| idly or in outline. The stems are to be I 
| outlined and the edge of the doyley is to be | 
| padded and button-holed. Stamped on best 1 
s white Scotch linen with mercerized floss to I 
§ work, 15 cents, set of six, 80 cents. 
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of starch in just sufficient cold water, 
add boiling water until the starch turns 
transparent and smooth, let boil up 
strong and remove from fire to cool some¬ 
what. Dissolve the remaining starch, 
and one-half teaspoonful of borax to 
one tablespoonful of starch in a little 
cold water, add to the boiled starch and 
run through a wire strainer into a gran¬ 
ite or earthen dish. This starch should 
be thick but smooth and opaque in color. 
Having ironed the plain parts of a 
shirt, slip the bosom-board in, wrong 
side up (the less perfect side), and hav¬ 
ing divided the cuffs (detachable ones) 
and collars between the number of shirts 
to starch, dip them into the starch, lay 
on the shirt bosom and using the palm 
of the right hand rub starch in and 
wrinkles out. See that each piece is wet 
through and through before laying or 
hanging over something, protected from 
flies and dust, also stove heat, for from 
one-quarter to half an hour. 
To iron: Lay a thin white cloth over 
bosoms, and cuffs and collars within a 
folded cloth; iron with a moderately hot 
iron, but not too long before removing 
the cloth—until the cloth looks dry for 
instance. Pass the iron over the under¬ 
side side of bosoms, then finish the right 
side, and the same with cuffs and collars; 
giving the desired curve by running the 
nose of the iron backward along the out¬ 
er edge while holding the finished begin¬ 
ning up and over to form a curve. 
There is always danger in ironing 
starched linen too long—danger from 
scorching and blistering. It is better 
to quit ironing when the pieces look dry 
and finished, and hang shirts near the 
fire, and place cuffs and collars in a 
pan and in a warm oven for a safe length 
of time. The amount of polish depends 
upon the irons used, and painstaking 
skill in using the heel of an ordinarv 
Peanut Butter. 
Can you give me a good recipe for pea¬ 
nut butter? m. p. 
The peanuts are roasted, shelled, and 
the brown skin removed. They are then 
ground to a powder in a meat grinder, 
using the finest knife. They must not 
be simply chopped, but ground fine. One 
housekeeper tells us that she puts the 
nuts through the grinder three or four 
times; this makes them a smooth mass, 
pasty enough to spread; she adds salt, 
and puts away in jelly glasses with lids. 
Others tell us that after grinding the 
nuts they add a little butter, cream or 
olive oil, to make it pasty enough to 
spread, but a Florida correspondent says 
if the nuts are ground to powder it js 
smooth and pasty, the contained oil ris¬ 
ing to the top when packed away. 
Savory Potatoes.—About six or eight 
potatoes, two small onions, one table¬ 
spoonful of finely chopped parsley, one 
heaping teaspoonful of butter, half a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt, quarter teaspoonful of 
white pepper, half a cupful of milk, half 
a cupful of water, three heaping table¬ 
spoonfuls of grated cheese. Put the but¬ 
ter into the bottom of a saucapan. Pare 
the potatoes very thinly; chop the onions 
and parsley. Mix the salt and pepper 
together on a saucer and have it beside 
you. Now cut the potatoes into slices 
(not shavings remember) and put a lay¬ 
er in the saucepan. Sprinkle in a little 
seasoning, then onion and parsley and 
begin again with the potatoes. When all 
are used pour in the half cupful of water. 
Put the lid on close and let it cook very 
gently for twenty minutes. If cooked 
fast the potatoes break up and the dish 
in spoiled. The potatoes should rather 
be steamed than anything else. Now pour 
in the milk and allow it to cook for an¬ 
other quarter of an hour. Then lift the 
potatoes carefully on to a flat dish, strew 
over them the grated cheese and brown 
in front of the fire or in the oven. 
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