1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
855 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
JUST ROOM FOR TWO. 
Just rocm for two—not too much room— 
I tuck her in all snug and warm; 
I’m conscious of her hair’s perfume 
And of the nearness of her arm. 
I shake the lines out. free and say. 
The sleigh bells chime, and we’re away. 
Across the crisp and glittering snow, 
Leaving behind the city street, 
Its garish glare and noise, we go 
Into the darkness, still and sweet; 
And, here and there, a household gleam 
Kilts by u«, In a flying dream! 
How speed the horses, gaylv driven!— 
The sweet oe'ls scatter silvery mirth, 
And every star Is white In heaven; 
And every fle:d Is white on earth. 
TIow dark the brightness seemst—how bright 
The darkness of the winter night! 
We race the open road like wtnd,— 
But. in tbe dim and shadow lanes, 
Our wild pace slackens, and I And 
One hand enough to hold the reins: 
And, somehow, when I try to speak, 
My words are kisses on her cheek. 
Ah. life Is fair, In many waj s, 
And full of dear enchanting hours! 
And love Is sweet In summer days, 
. 'Mid blossoming paths and sylvan bowers! 
But let me choose, all bliss above, 
A sleigh ride with the girl I love. 
—Press Siftings. 
Like the Rest Of Us. — A New York daily 
records that English women are asuncer- 
taiu as are the fair New Yorkers concern¬ 
ing the unduly wide skirts Some of 
them venture on a wide circumference, 
then repent and send it back to the long- 
suffering modiste to “take in.” 
cabbage Salad.— With one head of cab¬ 
bage chopped fine chop and mix two 
hard-boiled eggs, season with salt and 
pepper, two-thirds of a cupful of sugar, 
and a pint of vinegar (not too strong). 
It will keep fresh a week in a cool place 
and is a good appetizer. c. R. i>. 
To Cook Dry Peas. —Soak over night. 
In the morning put them in fresh, cold 
water and bring them slowly to a boil. 
Boil till tender, adding water if neces¬ 
sary ; but they should be nearly dry 
when done. Cat an onion fine and fry 
in two tablespoonfuls of batter till quite 
brown. Add one tablespoonful of flour 
and rub smooth, letting it a’so brown. 
Drain the peas and pour them into the 
spider. Stir well and serve. 
MRS. L. H. NILES. 
A Convenient Paper Weight.— One of 
our English cousins has invented a flex¬ 
ible paper weight that will not slip, even 
on an uneven pile of papers, and that 
will hold a book op^n or perform any 
little duty that may be expected of a 
really accommodating and useful paper 
weight. To make it, a ribbon 13 inches 
long and perhaps two or three inches 
wide, is first folded to half its ength and 
overhanded at tlm edges. It is then 
folded so that these seams are exactly in 
the center, and stitched on the machine 
so as to divide it into two lengthwise 
compartments, leaving 1% inch free at 
either end. Where the stitching ends, it 
is tied tightly with silk at the end, filled 
with fine shot and similarly closed at 
the other end. The ends may then be 
fringed, and narrow ribbon tied in bows 
over the silk thread ties. 
The Beater as a Mixer.— At a recent 
cookery lecture, a new use was suggested 
for a Keystone beater. The teacher ad¬ 
vised those who had this article of furni¬ 
ture somewhere up in the top of their 
pantries to take it down and use it for 
mixing cake and stirring Graham bread 
instead of kneading the bread by hand. 
The beater, while excellent for mixing 
and beating sauces and butter and sugar, 
was thought by the lecturer not good for 
whipping cream and frothing eggs. 
Wooden spoons are best and cheapest for 
stirring and mixing nearly all cookery. 
A metal spoon—and there are perfectly 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children she gave them Castoria 
plain and inexpensive silver-plated ones 
—being kept for basting and tasting. 
The average cook does not observe the 
cooking lecturer’s dainty way of testing 
the food to see if it is properly seasoned; 
but if not otherwise instructed, carries 
the spoon directly from the pot of soup 
or sauce to her mouth. Two spoons, one 
to go into the sauce and one to the mouth, 
would seem a more cleanly arrangement. 
A Dainty Whisk Holder.— That useful, 
but long-despised butcher’s cuff—espe¬ 
cially despised when manipulated into a 
whisk-broom holder—is again to the fore. 
And, strange to say, it is made the foun¬ 
dation of one of the prettiest of recep¬ 
tacles for the useful whisk. The beauty 
is due to four yards of hempen rope, and 
a yard or more of medium width ribbon. 
A border of hemp loops is arranged 
around the top, and three large loops are 
placed in the center of the poiat, with 
nine-inch ends depending therefrom 
These ends are fliffily fringed. One half 
yard of the rope forms a suspjnding 
loop, and at the top of this is a hempen 
bow with fringed ends. Upon the hemp 
bows at front and at the top of the sus¬ 
pension loop are placed bows of the rib¬ 
bon. The cuff has disappeared and the 
soft creamy rope with its fringe and 
ribbon cannot be excelled for beautiful 
effect with that same, or a much greater 
amount of woik. 
A whole pig coats but little more in 
the early winter than the hams and 
shoulders would alone later in the sea¬ 
son ; then one is sure of homemade lard, 
can season one’s own sausage and make 
delicious bacon from the sides. A quarter 
of beef will supply one with steaks, 
roasts, mince meat and corned beef, 
which, if bought a few pounds at a time, 
would cost twice as much. But how 
shall we manage in warm weather ? 
Many have no me, and cannot afford to 
throw any meat away; it is their great¬ 
est expense. Here is one way of dispos¬ 
ing of a roast after se ving it cold for 
tea. Put all the meat remaining through 
an Enterprise meat chopper, aud serve 
m.nced veal on toast, meat croquettes, 
hash, etc. Then simmer the bones two 
or three hours and one has nice stock for 
soup the foTowing day. If more meat 
be left from a roast than is likely to keep 
well until used up, cook it thoroughly, 
if rare; put through the chopper, sea¬ 
son well to suit the taste, aud press in a 
mold ; it will keep a day or two longer 
in this way and is delicious for lunch or 
tea. MRS. r t. c. 
Women as Voters. —Apropos of the 
futile attempt of many New York women 
to cast their ballots at the last election, 
the Commercial Advertiser says that it 
is significant that of G22. Wellesley College 
students 502 want to vote. They are by 
no means intellectual iconoclasts, nor 
short-haired cranks, but average Ameri¬ 
can young women, well balanced, quite 
human, with a fund of humor and fre¬ 
quent aspirations to be of use in the 
world. Any one whom a kind fate has 
thrown in with college girls will concede 
this. 11 is needless to deny the growing 
ambition to vote among the more am¬ 
bitious women of the United States. 
Political equality clubs are common to 
even the smaller communities. The right 
to vote is coveted as a triumph by a large 
coatingeut, and even more eagerly by 
women of a philanthropic cast, for it is 
pretty well agreed among Miss Willard’s 
followers that no radical shift in the con¬ 
ditions that underlie intemperance can 
be achieved until women suffrage is 
established. Prejudice is breaking down. 
Hostility has yielded to at least ri. icule, 
or a passive resistance rooted in mere 
conservatism. Most men are willing to 
let women vote if they want to, but the 
latter must do the work in securing legis¬ 
lative enactments. In Wyoming woman 
Mothers.— Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
suffrage is unrestricted, and in this State 
they enjoy limited powers, as they do in 
30 other Commonwealths. 
Home, Sweet Home. —At the Congress 
of Religions at the Columbian Exposi¬ 
tion, Frances E. Willard in her address, 
uttered the following gem : 
“ It is said that when darkness settles 
on the Adriatic Sea and fishermen are 
far from land, their wives and daughters, 
just before putting out the lights of their 
humble cottages, go down by the shore 
and in their clear, sweet voices sing the 
first lines of the Ave Maria. Then they 
listen eagerly, and across the sea are 
borne to them the deep tones of those 
they love, singing the strains that fol¬ 
low, ‘Ora pro nobis,’ and thus each knows 
that with the other all is well. I often 
tbink that from the home life of the na¬ 
tion, from its mothers and sisters, daugh¬ 
ters and sweethearts, there sound 
through the darkness of this transition age 
the tender notes of a dearer song, whose 
burden is being taken up and echoed 
back to us from far out amid the billows 
of temptation, and its sacred words are 
* Home, Sweet Home ! ” God grant that 
deeper i. nd stronger may grow that 
heavenly chorus from men’s and women’s 
lips and lives. For with a 1 its faults, and 
they are many, I believe the present mar¬ 
riage system to be the greatest triumph 
of Christianity, and that it has created 
and conserves more happy homes than 
the wor^d has ever before known. 
“ Any law that renders less binding 
the mutual life-long loyalty of one man 
and woman to each other, which is the 
central idea of every home, is an unmiti¬ 
gated curse to that home and to human¬ 
ity Around this union, which alone 
renders possible a pure society and a per 
manent State, the law should build its 
utmost safeguards, and upon this union 
the gospel should pronounce its most 
sacred benedictions. But, while I hold 
these truths to be self-evident, I be ieve 
that a constant evolution is going for¬ 
ward in the home, as in every other 
place, and that we may have but dimly 
dreamed the good in store for those whom 
Go 1 for b oliest love hath made. In the na¬ 
ture of the case the most that even Christ¬ 
ianity itself could do at first, though it 
is the strongest force ever let loose upon 
the planet, was to separate one man and 
one woman from the common herd into 
each home, telling the woman to work 
there in grateful quietness, while the 
man stood at the door to defend its sacred 
shrine with fist and spear, to insist upon 
its rights of property, and later on to 
represent it in bhe State.” 
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