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C»c  RURAL.  NEW-YORKER 
February  12,  1916. 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day 
Abraham  Lincoln  Walks  at  Midnight 
It  is  portentous  and  a  thing  of  state 
That  here  at  midnight  in  our  little  town 
A  mourning  figure  walks  and  will  not 
rest. 
Near  the  old  courthouse,  pacing  up  and 
down. 
Or  by  his  homestead,  or  the  shadowed 
yards, 
He  lingers  where  his  children  used  to 
play. 
Or  through  the  market,  on  the  well-worn 
stones 
lie  stalks  until  the  dawn  stars  burn 
and  experiment  stations  may  be  as  help¬ 
ful  here  as  in  purely  utilitarian  efforts. 
Soft  Soap  ;  Harness  Oil 
Will  you  give  a  recipe  for  old-fash¬ 
ioned  soft  soap,  also  a  good  recipe  for 
making  harness  oil?  F.  M.  c. 
We  do  not  recommend  making  lye 
from  wood  ashes,  thinking  commercial 
lye  preferable,  hut  here  is  the  old  recipe: 
Stand  lye  barrel  on  a  platform  with  a 
sloping  board  in  center  for  lye  to  run 
on;  raise  the  barrel  a  little  on  the  plat¬ 
form;  set  down  below  a  large  pail  to 
luiirmuminmTHC 
The  Rural  Patterns 
away.  I 
A  bronzed,  lank  man !  His  suit  of  I 
ordering  patterns,  always  give  f 
number  of  pattern  and  size 
desired.  Price  of  each 
pattern  10  cents. 
ancient  black, 
A  famous  high  top  hat  and  plain  worn 
shawl. 
Make  him  the  quaint,  great  figure  that 
men  love, 
The  prairie-lawyer,  master  of  us  all. 
He  can  not  sleep  upon  his  hillside  now, 
He  is  among  us,  as  in  times  before! 
And  we  who  toss  and  lie  awake  for  long 
Breathe  deep,  and  start  to  see  him  pass 
the  door. 
His  head  is  bowed.  He  thinks  on  men 
and  kings. 
Yea,  when  the  sick  world  cries,  how  can 
he  sleep? 
Too  many  peasants  fight,  they  know  not 
why 
Too  many  homesteads  in  black  terror 
weep. 
The  sins  of  all  the  war  lords  burn  his 
heart. 
lie  sees  the  dreadnoughts  scouring  every 
main. 
He  carries  on  his  shawl-wrapt  shoulders 
now 
The  bitterness,  the  folly  and  the  pain. 
lie  cannot  rest  until  a  spirit  dawn 
Shall  Come : — the  shining  hope  of  Europe 
free : 
The  league  of  sober  folk,  the  Workers’ 
Earth 
Bringing  long  peace  to  Cornland,  Alp  aud 
Sea. 
8893  Child's  Dress. 
2,  4  or  6  years. 
It  breaks  his  heart  that  kings  must  mur¬ 
der  still, 
That  all  his  hours  of  travail  here  for  men 
Seem  yet  in  rain.  And  who  will  bring 
white  peace 
That  he  may  sleep  upon  his  hill  again? 
— Yachel  Lindsay. 
The  New  Jersey  Agricultural  College 
has  issued  an  extension  bulletin  on  “Milk 
and  Eggs,”  by  M.  Anna  Hauser.  Some 
excellent  recipes  are  given,  including  the 
pasteurizing  of  milk,  and  methods  of  pre¬ 
serving  eggs.  A  recipe  given  for  milk 
sherbet  is  extremely  simple.  It  calls  for 
two  cups  milk,  one  cup  sugar,  four  table- 
spoonfuls  lemon  juice.  Dissolve  the 
sugar  in  the  lemon  juice,  add  this  grad¬ 
ually  to  the  milk,  and  freeze. 
B901  Empire  Combina*  ™ 
tion,  Small  34  or  36,  8863  Gown  with  Four- 
Medium  38  or  40,  Piece  Skirt, 
Large  42  or  44  Lust.  34  to  A2  hast. 
If  ft  little  sausage  is  left  over  from 
breakfast  it  may  be  broken  up  fine  and 
mixed  with  the  bread  crumbs  put  on  top 
of  baked  macaroni  or  scalloped  potatoes, 
or  with  baked  beans.  A  few  scraps  of 
sausage  may  he  added  to  many  meat 
dishes  with  distinct  improvement  to 
flavor.  Baked  potatoes  with  sausage 
(“potatoes  a  la  Borey”)  are  prepared 
by  peeling  the  potatoes,  tunneling  a  hole 
through  center  with  apple  corcr  and  fill¬ 
ing  the  place  with  sausage  meat.  The 
potatoes  are  then  brushed  over  with  but¬ 
ter  and  baked. 
1  889S  One-Piece  Gown,  8836  Girl's  Combina-  I 
34  to  tfi  bust.  tion,  8  to  14  years.  I 
1  Hereafter  ail  patterns  numbered  8772  and  I 
s  higher  will  be  cut  with  a  SEAM  ALLOW-  f 
|  ANCE,  basting  line  being  shown  by  a  line  of  | 
|  small  perforations.  Those  who  do  not  want  1 
|  a  seam  allowance  may  trim  it  off  along  t.lie  i 
|  basting  lino,  Directions  as  to  basting  line  | 
§  are  given  on  envelope  containing  the  pattern.  I 
Tite  handsome  silk  mufflers  worn  by 
men  are  made  from  one  yard  and  a  quar¬ 
ter  of  lS-incli  silk,  folded  flat  down  the 
center,  and  the  turned-in  edges  blind- 
stitched  together.  Soft  silk  in  awning 
stripes  is  favored,  and  most  men  prefer 
the  magpie  stripes  of  black  and  white. 
The  edges  are  turned  in  at  the  ends,  and 
have  set  between  them  a  double  row  of  catch  the  ly 
plain  black  or  white  silk  fringe,  just,  an  barrel  with 
inch  deep.  This  is  a  newer  and  hand-  peck  of  slak 
somer  finish  than  hemming  and  makes  the  pure  uuleai 
muffler  just  right.  down  each  Is 
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dissolves  it;  leave  in  the  kettle  a  day  or 
two  before  boiling.  In  using  commercial 
lye,  five  pounds  of  grease  are  used  with 
one  pailful  of  lye,  which  is  afterwards 
thinned  with  two  pailfuls  of  water,  but 
we  have  never  had  a  recipe  for  soap  made 
with  ash  leach  where  exact  proportions 
were  given  ;  the  makers  always  say,  “Use 
judgment.”  When  the  soap  is  well  hoiled, 
so  that  no  grease  rises  on  the  top.  and  it 
becomes  a  jelly  when  cold,  put  in  a  bar¬ 
rel.  stirring  in  enough  weak  lye  by  de¬ 
grees  to  make  it  the  thickness  desired. 
The  rule  is  to  take  out  some  strong  soap 
in  a  saucer,  and  stir  in  enough  weak  lye 
to  be  just  right,  using  the  same  propor¬ 
tions  for  the  large  quantity.  If  the  sup¬ 
ply  of  weak  lye  is  not  sufficient,  rain 
water  may  be  added.  This  new  soap  is 
very  strong,  and  hard  on  the  bauds.  It 
must  be  put  in  a  strong  barrel,  or  it  will 
eat  its  way  out.  However,  we  would  ad¬ 
vise  using  the  wood  ashes  around  fruit 
trees,  and  making  soap  with  commercial 
potash. 
Many  oil  harness  with  pure  neat’s- 
foot  oil  to  which  a  little  lampblack  is 
added  to  give  color.  Some  think  this 
softens  the  leather  a  little  too  much, 
causing  it  to  stretch.  One  of  our  readers 
says  the  best  of  all  harness  dressings  is 
prepared  by  adding  one-half  pound  melt¬ 
ed  beef  tallow  to  one  pint  of  ncat's-foot 
oil  applied  with  a  brush.  He  does  not  add 
any  lampblack  but  after  cleaning  the 
harness  he  brushes  it  with  liquid  black¬ 
ing  made  by  adding  to  two  quarts  soft 
water,  hot,  two  ounces  extract  iff  log¬ 
wood  and  111  grains  hichlorate  of  potash. 
The  blackening  is  allowed  to  dry.  and 
then  the  oil  is  applied.  The  blackening, 
being  under  the  oil  does  not  rub  off,  and 
this  treatment  gives  excellent  satisfac¬ 
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