The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1167 
a storm of such intensity visited our 
State, and probably never again will a 
recurrence of such a death-dealing dis¬ 
tress come to such a small community of 
people anywhere. A fact worth men¬ 
tioning is that not one person who took 
refuge in a storm cellar was injured; 
unfortunately, many families, some with 
good cellars right in their yards, and,others 
in. close reach of the same, failed to enter 
them and were killed or injured'. It is 
always well to give intelligent forethought 
to those things, and in case we come face 
to face with danger, to keep the presence 
of mind that will enable us to take ad¬ 
vantage of the best protection possible. 
Cold weather, excessive rains, hail and 
winds have all made garden work back¬ 
ward this Spring, when the extreme high 
prices of*all sorts of eatables, both fresh 
and canned, stimulated a desire to grow 
things for the table as early as possible. 
At last, however, there is a supply of all 
early vegetables, and beans, peas and po¬ 
tatoes are just coming to the table, and 
are a welcome addition to the daily bill 
of fare, as well as helping to cut down 
the grocery bills. Chickens, a good cow 
and a well-planned vegetable garden are 
necessary to the upkeep of a home, es¬ 
pecially if there be children in the home. 
Science tells us that children can¬ 
not grow and develop normally without 
whole milk forming a part of their daily 
ration, yet even in our small town we see 
children who are being brought up with 
no milk at all. except it be a small amount 
of condensed milk used about the cooking. 
In the larger towns and cities con¬ 
ditions must necessarily be much worse, 
and it is little wonder that the race as a 
whole is growing less robust with every 
decade, biggs, another necessary food, 
still remain so high-priced that not all 
people feel able to buy them for the table 
regularly. We are fortunate in being able 
to keep our flock of Leghorns in the back 
yard, and besides furnishing our table, 
there are many dozen eggs to go on the 
market, which helps to pay the grocery 
bill. LILY REED YORK. 
The Homemade Bed 
I have just made a mattress for a 
youngster bound for a camping outing, 
and an old camper advised, “There’s no 
latter-day springs invented like a deep 
pile nf brush. Personally, I like to throw 
myself direct upon the fragrant heap. But 
for a long trip you’ll like to undress, and 
the mattress will be warmer for rainy 
nights. But be sure to cut the brush for 
springs.” 
For a Summer bed nothing can com¬ 
pare with a tick loosely filled with oat 
straw. It is both cool and soft, but it 
needs making up every day, and the boys 
refused, point blank, to stir it up. Unless 
that is done it sags in the middle. So the 
next best is to tack it through from un¬ 
der side to upper, like any factory-made 
mattress Feed sacks in this case were 
feasible for the tick. It takes six of them 
for a respectable size couch, and more for 
a double bed. To be sure, for a single cot, 
or camp bunk, or for a hammock, they 
can be cut very narrow. The heaviest 
sacks are most serviceable. If for long 
use it pays to line the sacks with old cot¬ 
ton wear fit for nothing alone, like worn- 
out percale or gingham skirts. They can 
be laid smooth on the bags, basted in 
place, overlapping, so they will reinforce 
the sacks’ efficiency in keeping their con¬ 
tents in. Straw soon wears out and in 
fine particles pokes through the loose 
mesh. Hay, on the other hand, is more 
durable and warmer, but it soon mats to¬ 
gether and gets compact and makes a hard 
couch. Excelsior is hard from the firsj. 
and is. too cold for cool weather service, 
hut it is durable, and cooler than all other 
bedding for Summer. 
The tick may be made of two pieces of 
similar size and shape, like two sheets 
stitched together at sides and ends, and 
stuffed, or like approved mattress pat¬ 
terns, with a side piece, 8 or 9 in. wide, 
running all around, to hold the two pieces, 
upper and under, together, like the sides 
of a box that connects bottom and cover. 
Fashioned after this model, the packing 
will ‘set” better when the tick is filled 
and flattened down smooth all over. For 
the campers this is all needed, except to 
tack through with heavy twine, as a com¬ 
forter is tacked, using a needle longer 
than the ordinary darning needle; say a 
sail needle or a smaller, longer, rounder, 
straighter implement. 
But if a permanent mattress, for more 
ambitious wear, is called for, it pays to 
pad the top of this mattress. The cheap 
mattresses in stores have what the clerks 
call, a “Summer side.” unpadded, and a 
” inter side.” which has a sheet of some 
sort of wadding on one side, to be used in 
’’ 'uter to give warmth. Some buyers 
procure the coarse, cool, unpadded mat¬ 
tress and in Winter spread a comforter, 
or a number of them, over it. under the 
♦ . J? 0110 °bj ee t s to a weighty mat¬ 
tress. this would seem the wiser way. 
But if we mean to put the pad on for 
keeps, it is best to tack the mattress first, 
that it may keep its shape while further 
work is done, then put on the pad. and 
over that real striped bed ticking, or here 
comes in play nice new canvas meal bags, 
opened and colored blue, and stitched. 
Use the heaviest, of colored string now. 
tor the final tacking through the original 
mattress, pad and outer tick. The but- 
tons may be made of rounds cut from a 
ignt felt hat. Make them big. and take 
the stitches wide apart. Then you have a 
mattress that will last indefinitely if you 
are scrupulous enough to make a elip-on 
< T.?, r nuis B» to keep it clean. 
1 lie pad may be of new cotton batting, 
or old pieces of quilt or comforter, or old 
skirts or coats, the seams carefully lapped 
to avoid bunches or hard lines. If the 
washed pieces are woolen or part woolen, 
so much the warmer, and the wider the 
mattress the warmer, too. This gives a 
mattress whose only cost is the cover. 
But a friend of mine made pads for two 
from one old feather bed. This would 
have been very expensive if purchased, as 
the feathers are high. Then, too, the very 
firmest, heaviest of bedticking must be 
supplied. Denim, drilling or canvas meal 
bagging will not do. The feathers pene¬ 
trate the mesh. Try making your next 
mattress by spending a day’s work on it, 
instead of $15 or upwards in real coin. 
LILLIAN XROTT. 
Sweet Cucumber Pickles or Cucumber 
Rings 
Pare 12 large ripe cucumbers and take 
out the pulp. Cut them crosswise in 
rings about 1 in. thick. Cook in slightly 
salted water until the pieces can be 
pierced easily by a silver fork, taking care 
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not to get them cooked too tender, or they 
will fall apart when in the syrup. The 
rings can be handled better if only a few 
are cooked at a time. After the pickle is 
cooked allow them to drain well in a 
cheesecloth bag or strainer before putting 
into the syrup. Make the syrup in the fol¬ 
lowing way: Boil 2 lbs. of sugar and one 
pint of good vinegar, with an ounce of 
broken cinnamon, skimming it well before 
adding the pickle. Other spices can be 
used if wanted. Let the cucumber rings 
boil up thoroughly in the syrup, skim 
them out and put into a stone jar. Cook 
the syrup 15 or 20 minutes and turn over 
the pickles. It is a good plan to turn off 
the syrup two or three times and reheat 
and turn over the pickles. These pickles 
will keep well if kept in a cool place 
closely covered. If maple sugar or good 
brown sugar is used in the syrup the 
pickles will be a nice golden color. The 
medium-colored corn syrup can be used 
with white sugar, taking equal parts of 
each. It is a good plan to put the cinna¬ 
mon in a muslin bag when putting it in 
the syrup to boil, to prevent its coloring 
the pickles. rosetta m. flint. 
New Stockings from Old Ones 
When I first began housekeeping I was 
resolved to use everything to its last 
shred of usefulness, but for a while I 
failed to find a service for the tops of 
men’s worn-out socks. However, I laid 
them by, thinking to use them some time 
for rug-making, until I read about taking 
the tops of worn long silk gloves to make 
babies’ stockings. Then 1 began using 
the socks for that purpose. 
The toes and heels and the bottom of 
the feet of men’s socks always become 
worn out. while the remainder is quite 
sound and strong, and by cutting them 
over according to the accompanying dia¬ 
gram, you can make whole stockings for 
little tots which are very satisfactory for 
every-day wear. Simply turn the sock 
wrong side out. press down smooth and 
flat, lay a child’s stocking of the required 
size on to it and stitch around it; then 
out it out, lay the seam open and over- 
east the edges to the stocking and turn 
right side out again. In this way you 
can make several pairs of good, service¬ 
able stockings in a very short time. If 
♦ he socks will not make stocking legs of 
the length you desire, just: fold the top 
twice down and you have some little 
socks. But if you make socks, be sure 
the tops fit snug so they won’t fall down 
onto the shoetops. 
MRS. OLOVA HUSTLE. 
NOTES FRdM GINGER JAR 
Corn Flake Cookies 
Two cups corn flakes, two egg whites 
beaten .stiff, three-quarter cup sugar, 5c 
box of coeoanut. Flour with almond. 
Drop from spoon in buttered tin and bake. 
Very much like macaroons. 
MRS. R. B. W. 
Genuine 
Aspirin 
Name “Bayer” means genuine 
Imperial Drop Cakes 
One pound of flour. y 2 lb. of butter, 
%-lb. sugar, four eggs. y 2 - lb. currants, 
well washed and dredged, half a teaspoon 
of soda dissolved in hot water, half a 
lemon, grated rind and juice, one tea¬ 
spoonful of cinnamon. Drop from a spoon 
upon well-buttered paper, lining a baking 
pan. Bake quickly. This cake is made 
more delicious by adding citron and nuts. 
L. s. 
Say “Bayer”—Insist! 
Sliced Sweet Cucumber Pickle 
Thirty large cucumbers, sliced, one 
quart small onions. Put in weak brine 
over night, drain 1 qt. vinegar, 7 lbs. 
brown sugar, two teaspoons mustard 
seed, one of celery seed, two teaspoons 
turmeric powder; boil 20 minutes, bottle 
while hot. Onions can be omitted. The 
cucumbers are the large, firm kind, where 
the seeds are still small. Do not have 
the vinegar too strong. They are fine. 
MRS. R. S. O. 
Delicious Chocolate Cake 
One cup brown sugar, one-half cup 
sweet milk, three-quarters cake chocolate 
or two tablespoons cocoa. Boil to¬ 
gether until smooth, then cool. One cup 
brown sugar, one-half cup butter, two 
eggs, three-quarters cup milk, two even 
cups flour, one teaspoon soda mixed with 
one cup of flour, vanilla to taste. Beat 
well, then add the above custard. Bake 
in loaf or layers, put together with boiled 
frosting. MRS. R. S. c. 
Niagara Falls. N. Y. 
Say “Bayer” when buying Aspirin. 
Then you are sure of getting true “Bayer 
Tablets of Aspirin”—genuine Aspirin 
proved safe by millions and prescribed by 
physicians for over twenty years. Ac¬ 
cept only an unbroken “Bayer package” 
which contains proper directions to relieve 
Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, 
Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. Handv tin 
boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Drug¬ 
gists also sell larger “Bayer packages.” 
Aspirin is trade mark of Bayer Manufac¬ 
ture Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicaeid. 
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Packing Butter in Brine 
In the Fall people like to pack their 
butter for Winter use, so it will not taste 
tainted. Here is a good method : After 
churning, salt your butter and work out 
all the water and print butter. Then 
get the best table §alt, which comes in 
little muslin bags. Bring water to a 
boil, as much as you desire, (lien put 
salt in. Take off the stove and test brine 
with a hen’s egg. If the egg goes to the 
bottom of the brine, add more salt, until 
the egg floats on top ; then your brine is 
strong enough. Let it get cold before 
packing butter, and use earthenware 
crocks to pack in. and also see that the 
brine is well over top of butter. You can 
keep butter nice and sweet till late Spring, 
your candy cook too hard. MRS. J. j. h. 
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