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ly  if  there  is  a  tiny  flag  floating  from  the 
peak.  Or  the  potatoes  ran  he  shaped 
like  cannon  crackers,  and  have  a  hit  of 
red  popper  inserted  in  the  upper  ends 
for  a  fuse. 
Sandwiches  are  always  in  demand  on 
this  particular  day.  but  to  make  them 
specially  patriotic  in  appearance  is  the 
rub.  There  are  only  two  ways  that.  I 
know  of.  cutting  them  star  shape,  and 
rolling  them  to  resemble  firecrackers. 
The  first  ones  are  easy  enough,  for  all  you 
have  to  do  is  to  use  a  star  cooky  cutter 
for  shaping  your  sandwiches,  hut  to  roll 
them  nicely,  without  breaking  the  bread, 
is  a  bit  difficult.  To  begin  with  the  bread 
must  be  fresh,  the  slices  cut  a  little 
thicker  than  for  ordinary  sandwiches, 
and  the  crust  removed.  Then  spread 
evenly  with  the  filling;  whatever  is  used 
for  these  must  be  finely  chopped  and  not 
too  soft,  then  roll  each  separately,  and 
fasten  with  a  wooden  toothpick,  or  tie 
with  narrow  red.  white,  and  blue  ribbon, 
and  add  to  one  end  of  each  a  fuse  of  red 
pepper. 
T.ng  cabin  cream  is  a  novel  way  of 
serving  ice  cream  on  patriotic  days. 
Make  a  pint  of  plain  ice  cream  first,  or 
more  according  to  the  number  of  people 
you  are  to  serve,  and  put  into  the  freez¬ 
er,  omitting  the  flavoring.  Beat  this  un¬ 
til  partly  frozen,  then  stir  in  a  cupful 
of  stoned  red  cherries,  and  one-fourth 
cupful  of  candied  citron,  cut  in  thin 
strips,  a  teaspoonful  of  almond  extract, 
and  one  cupful  of  whipped  cream,  and 
repack  in  ice  and  salt,  and  let.  it  stand 
until  you  are  ready  to  serve  it.  Lay  four 
lady  lingers  or  narrow  strips  of  sponge 
cake,  log  cabin  fashion  on  individual 
plates,  and  fill  the  centres  with  the 
cream,  add  a  cherry  to  the  top,  and  serve 
at  once. 
Fortified  cream  gets  its  name  from  the 
way  it  is  served,  too.  Line  a  square 
mold  thickly  with  chocolate  ice  cream, 
and  fill  the  centre  with  plain  vanilla 
cream,  and  cover  closely,  then  bury  it 
in  ice  and  salt  for  an  hour  or  so.  Just 
before  serving  it  turn  out  on  a  chilled 
serving  dish,  and  add  a  flag  to  one  cor¬ 
ner,  and  serve  with  it  small  fried  cakes, 
eut  very  round,  like  cannon  balls,  and 
fried  brown. 
Mount  Vernon  punch  makes  a  deli¬ 
cious  drink  for  any  feast.  Chop  fine  one- 
half  pound  of  Canton  ginger,  and  add 
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to  it  one  quart  of  cold  water,  ami  one 
cupful  of  sugar,  and  heat  gradually  to 
the  boiling  point,  and  cook  10  or  15  min¬ 
utes,  then  add  one-half  cupful  each  of 
lemon  and  orange,  juice,  and  one  pint  tea 
infusion,  and  strain.  Put  a  lffiiek  of  ice  in 
the  punch  bowl,  and  pour  the  mixture 
over  it.  and  add  one-ha  If  cupful  of  stoned 
red  cherries  as  a  garnish. 
A  big  plain  cake,  election  cake  if  one 
is  not  too  busy  to  make  it.  would  be  very 
appropriate.  Nicely  iced  with  “White 
Mountain”  icing,  marked  for  cutting  be¬ 
fore  the  icing  sets,  and  the  stem  of  a 
dainty  little  Hag  inserted  in  each  section, 
a  taller  one  in  the  centre,  it  makes  a 
charming  centrepiece,  one  that  will  de¬ 
light  the  juvenile  members  of  the  house¬ 
hold.  At  the  end  of  the  meal  this  can  be 
cut  and  served  with  the  dessert. 
ROSAMOND  LAM  PM  AN. 
Spiced  Cherries 
Will  you  give  a  recipe  for  spiced  cher¬ 
ries?  ,\l  l(S.  w.  K. 
The  followiug  recipe  for  spiced  cher¬ 
vil's  comes  from  Pennsylvania:  Allow 
four  pounds  of  sugar  to  four  pounds 
stoned  cherries.  Put  the  sugar  in  a  pre¬ 
serving  kettle,  add  a  teacupful  of  vin¬ 
egar.  and  bring  to  a  boil.  Theu  drop  in 
RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
a  cheesecloth  bag  containing  a  cupful  of 
cherry  stones,  a  tablespoonfnl  of  ground 
cinnamon,  and  a  teaspoonful  of  whole 
cloves.  Let  simmer  It)  minutes,  then  put 
in  the  cherries  and  their  juice.  Cook 
slowly  until  as  thick  as  desired.  Re¬ 
move  the  spice  bag  before  the  syrup  be¬ 
comes  thick. 
Individual  Drinking  Cup 
A  recent  bulletin  issued  in  the  Cornell 
Reading  Course.  “Suggestions  for  the 
Health  of  Children,"  refers  to  the  dan¬ 
ger  of  the  common  drinking  cup,  and 
illustrates  the  folded  paper  cup  we  re¬ 
produce  herewith.  As  an  illustration  of 
the  unsuspected  danger  that  may  lurk  in 
the  common  drinking  vessel,  the  bulletin 
refers  to  a  case  of  diphtheria  that  seemed 
unaccountable,  as  there,  were  no  other 
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A  Sanitary  Paper  Drinking  Cup 
eases  of  the  disease  nearby.  It.  was  sug¬ 
gested  that  the  child’s  father,  who  had 
been  traveling,  might  have  infected  the 
dipper  hanging  by  the  well. 
The  bulletin  says : 
Disease  germs  may  in  this  way  find 
entrance  into  the  systems  of  persons  us¬ 
ing  the  common  drinking  cup.  Healthy, 
vigorous  persous  may  not  offer  good  con¬ 
ditions  for  the  growth  <if  these  germs, 
and  therefore  may  escape  the  disease;  but 
by  means  of  the  common  drinking  cup 
they  may  pass  the  germs  on  to  persons 
whose  vitality  is  not.  sufficient  to  with¬ 
stand  the  attack,  and  disease  is  the  re¬ 
sult.  In  this  way,  tuberculosis,  tonsil- 
it is,  grippe,  ordinary  colds,  and  many 
other  diseases  are  often  spread.  Each 
member  of  the  family  should  have  his 
own  drinking  cup  hung  in  a  definite  place 
nem  the  water  supply.  Parents  should 
provide  their  children  with  indiviudal 
cups  for  use  at  school,  and  should  em 
phasize  (he  fact  that  they  are  no  less 
important  than  the  individual  toothbrush, 
towel,  or  piece  of  soap. 
The  Rhode  Island  State  Board  of 
Health  recommends  that  children  become 
adept  in  folding  a  (taper  cup,  such  as  is 
shown  in  above  cut.  Where  the  design 
of  this  cup  originated  is  not  known,  but 
it  has  been  used  in  both  East  and  West. 
Every  home,  as  well  as  every  school, 
that  does  not  have  drinking  water  piped 
into  it,  should  have  a  covered  receptacle 
that  can  be  cleaned  often  and  filled  daily 
with  fresh  water.  If  a  bucket  is  used,  it 
should  have  a  close-fitting  cover,  and  a 
long-handled  dipper  from  which  no  one 
is  allowed  to  drink  should  be  provided 
for  filling  the  drinking  cups. 
Seen  in  New  York  Shops 
Japanese  braided  oval  rush  rugs  are 
made  just  like  the  old-time  rag  rugs, 
braided  and  coiled  into  oval  shape.  They 
are  in  the  natural  color  of  the  dried 
rush,  some  having  colored  borders,  and 
are  very  strong.  They  cost  from  $1.05 
for  a  small  mat  up  to  $0  for  a  rug  <i.\0 
feet.  American  fibre  rugs  in  attractive 
colors  and  patterns  stand  very  bard 
wear,  and  cost  from  $1.75  for  size  5x9 
feet,  to  $0  for  n  rug  9x12  feet.  These 
are  all  Summer  prices,  reduced  from 
those  prevailing  early  in  the  season.  Al¬ 
gerian  porch  rugs,  in  all  sorts  of  bril¬ 
liant  colors,  arc  very  durable  and  weath¬ 
er-proof.  but  more  expensive,  the  size 
0x12  feet  costing  $17.50.  Scotch  wool 
art  rugs,  durable  and  attractive,  are 
seen  for  $12.75.  size  9x12  feet.  There 
are  many  handsome  styles  in  American- 
made  prairie  grass  rugs,  which  are  very 
inexpensive,  some  of  the  prettiest  we 
have  seen  this  season  having  soft  blue 
borders  or  figures  combined  with  the  nat¬ 
ural  color  of  the  grass. 
Wide  sailor  hats  of  fine  felt,  old  rose, 
white  or  green,  with  ribbon  hand  and 
bow,  are  $5.05.  Very  .useful  felt  crush 
hats  for  knockabout  wear  were  seen  for 
05  cents  in  white,  old  blue.  navy,  green 
or  sand.  Some  elaborate  felt  outing  hats 
at  $5  are  white,  with  an  extra  flange  of 
colored  felt  around  the  brim,  a  felt  band 
around  the  crown  and  appliqued  flow¬ 
ers  on  the  front. 
Khaki  flannel  shirts,  exact  copies  of 
the  regulation  army  shirt,  with  two 
pockets,  are  $2.50.  They  are  very  ser¬ 
viceable  for  camping  or  hard  wear. 
Khaki  silk  neckerchiefs  are  $1.50. 
Last  Summer  it  was  not  easy  to  buy 
plain  and  comfortable  low  shoes  of  the 
Oxford  tie  model,  except  in  some  quite 
expensive  grades,  because  the  average 
purchaser  waa  using  fancy  pumps  in¬ 
stead.  This  year  ties  are  returning  to 
vogue,  many  women  finding  that  various 
troubles  of  feet  and  ankles  resulted  from 
constant  walking  in  low  pumps.  Well- 
cut  five-eyelet  ties  of  soft  kid  are  of¬ 
fered  by  a  high-class  firm  as  low  as  $5 
a  pair.  Colonial  pumps  with  high 
tongue  and  buckle,  in  gun-metal  kid.  are 
$4 ;  these  are  higher  on  the  foot  t  han 
ordinary  pumps,  and  give  more  support. 
While  many  of  the  new  shoes  for  wom¬ 
en  run  from  $5  to  $9  a  pair,  it  is  still 
possible  to  purchase  conservative  styles 
of  respectable  quality  at  moderate  prices. 
Colorado  Notes 
The  people  about  our  little  country 
church  have  a  get-together  habit.  For 
some  months  they  have  had  “surprises” 
on  one  another.  They  find  out  the  wedding 
anniversary  of  some  one,  take  their  sup¬ 
per.  and  a  little  gift  for  the  party  sur¬ 
prised.  go  and  have  a  jolly  time.  As 
there  is  usually  some  musical  instrument 
they  sing  and  wind  up  with  "(Joud-bye 
I ’ util  We  Meet  Again.”  or  in  one  case, 
"Home,  Sweet  Home.”  was  sung.  In  one 
instance  they  went  in  the  daytime.  It 
was  Monday  and  the  woman  was  wash¬ 
ing;  she  was  greatly  surprised,  and  not 
a  little  troubled  that  her  house  was  not 
in  its  usual  good  order.  But  the  women 
hustled  the  boiler  off  the  stove,  set  the 
table  with  all  the  good  things  to  eat 
they  had  brought,  made  coffee,  told  the 
woman  to  "Keep  still,  we  are  doing  this” 
and  “Kueh  a  good  time  we  had.”  re¬ 
marked  the  one  who  told  me. 
Not  long  since  a  silver  medal  contest 
of  the  W.  C.  T.  C.  was  held  in  the 
church  one  evening.  It  was  advertised 
in  tbe  county  papers,  and  the  little 
church  was  full,  people  routing  from  miles 
around  in  automobiles,  buggies,  wagons 
au«l  horseback.  The  Sabbath  is  not  kept 
as  a  day  apart  from  the  weekdays  usu¬ 
ally.  With  many  it.  is  a  day  for  doing 
odd  jobs,  or  finishing  work  that  was  not 
done  Saturday.  Much  more  wheat  was 
cut  last  year  on  Sunday  than  usual.  The 
reason  given  was  hail  and  scarcity  of 
help.  It  was  a  very  unusual  thing  to 
See  people  at  work  in  the  fields  or  else¬ 
where  when  I  was  a  girl  and  young 
woman  in  the  East.  Sunday  was  kept 
more  as  a  day  of  rest  in  Nebraska  than 
in  Colorado  as  far  as  I  know.  But  the 
old  time  Sunday  seems  to  have  become 
obsolete  nearly  everywhere.  It  has 
passed  with  the  old  time  country  school. 
A  woman  said  ;  “My  children  attend  the 
town  public*  school,  are  in  the  seventh  and 
eighth  grades.  Last  year  Ihey  fell  down 
on  reading,  spelling  am]  writing.  It  was 
all  water  colors  last  year.  I  asked  my 
girl  in  eighth  grade  how  many  quarts 
in  a  half  bushel,  and  she  did  not  know. 
I  told  her  to  find  out.”  That  is  a  sam¬ 
ple  of  much  of  the  school  work. 
We  were  asked  to  dinner  at  a  neigh¬ 
bor’s  not  long  since.  They  cairn*  for  us 
and  brought  us  home  in  their  ear.  Their 
easy,  comfortable  new  house,  with  Brus¬ 
sels  rug.  ami  nice  new  piano  in  sitting- 
room.  their  dinner  of  meat,  five  kinds  of 
vegetables,  canned  and  preserved  fruits, 
fine  bread  and  butter,  cake  and  pie,  was 
a  great  contrast  to  the  time  we  ate  with 
them  in  their  (logout  three  years  ago. 
But  they  are  a  few  of  the  people  who 
are  making  good  in  this  great  plains 
country.  “Oh.  if  we  could  have  the  fruit 
here  we  had  in  Missouri  it  would  la*  a 
blessing,  but  we  have  other  things  we 
can’t  get  there,”  remarked  the  wife. 
Crapes  are  sold  for  ”7  cents  a  basket 
(called  eight  pounds).  They  cost  <’>5 
cents,  the  grocer  said.  In  Eastern  Ne¬ 
braska  they  are  rotting,  and  sell  for  10 
cents  a  basket  or  one  cent  a  pound.  De¬ 
licious  peaches  rot  on  the  trees  and  ground 
in  the  East,  while  we  have  to  pay  from 
$1.50  to  $2  a  bushel  for  sour,  flavorless 
peaches,  which  are  fair  to  look  at  but  are 
a  delusion  and  a  snare  when  you  taste 
one.  My  husband  gave  50  cents  for  IS 
pears  last  week,  green,  tasteless  things. 
New  Yorkers  would  not  think  them  fit 
to  eat.  But  they  came  from  the  not*  d 
fruit  belt  of  Colorado.  I  pity  those  who 
think  them  good,  for  they  never  lived  in 
the  Western  New  York  fruit  belt. 
The  great  plains  country  has  been 
blessed  with  plenty  of  moisture  to  pro¬ 
duce  a  great  harvest  this  year,  and  a 
t  boom  is  on.  Many  are  selling  their  high- 
priced  farms  in  Iowa.  Nebraska  and 
Missouri  and  investing  here.  Thousands 
of  acres  of  land  are  being  broken  and  it 
is  wheat,  wheat,  everywhere.  It  is  the 
song  of  the  people;  wheat,  more  wheat. 
But  the  dry  years  will  come  again  as  in 
the  (»ast.  when  man  and  beast  will  cry 
out  for  food.  The  people  are  not  pre¬ 
paring  for  it;  they  rush  into  debt,  ex¬ 
pecting  an  eh  rich  years  will  always  come, 
but  time  will  tell.  ‘’1  want  to  lay  by  f. .i* 
a  rainy  day,”  said  one.  “Yon  better  say 
a  dry  day,”  was  the  reply,  and  it  is  so. 
We  have  not  had  the  excessive  moisture 
that  Town  and  Nebraska  had  this  year, 
and  in  many  ways  Colorado  is  ahead  .  f 
them  ties  year,  but  take  it  year  after 
year.  1  fear  there  will  he  many  disap¬ 
pointed.  save  where  health  is  concerned. 
The  blue  shies  and  dry  air  of  Colorad  > 
help  many  to  live.  “I  can  put  up  with 
a  good  many  inconveniences  for  health's 
sake,”  said  a  woman  who  formerly  lived 
in  Iowa.  She  recently  had  return*  d 
flora  a  visit  to  her  old  home.  “I  would 
not  live  in  Iowa  now,  although  the  (tear, 
apple,  ldtim  and  peach  trees  were  load*  1 
and  propped  up.  I  could  not.  breathe 
there  some  way.”  People  are  more  con¬ 
tented  here  now  since  the  good  crops  and 
prir*  s  the  lest  two  seas:  ns.  New  gram 
elevators  are  springing  up  all  about. 
A  neighbor  gave  his  wife  $10,  four  old¬ 
est  children  $5  each,  and  three  or  four 
younger  ones  from  one  to  two  dollars  to 
spend  at  the  county  fair  and  “I  paid 
their  way  in  too,  but  they  have  earn<*d 
it.'  said  the  man.  Another  neighbor 
who  cleaned  our  school  bouse  went  n 
Nebraska  for  a  visit  and  said:  “This 
money  I  am  going  to  spend  for  something 
T  don't  have  to  have  or  need,  just  for  i 
good  time.”  “If  it  was  me  I  would  spend 
it  for  ice  cream ;  all  I  could  eat.”  said 
another  lady  who  was  here  calling  with 
her.  To  look  at  the  little  woman  one 
would  think  ice  cream  would  he  the  last 
thing  thought  of.  To  me  came  tin* 
thought  of  some  of  the  books  T  wanted 
tn  read,  and  the  five  dollars  would  buy. 
blit  1  could  not  clean  the  school  house, 
and  my  neighbor,  who  is  strong  and 
younger,  could.  I  surely  hope  she  had  a 
good  time  with  her  hard-earned  money. 
MRS.  FREDERICK  f  .  JOHNSON. 
Surprise  Cookies 
Filling:  One  box  raisins  run  through 
chopper,  %  tumbler  sugar,  three  tea¬ 
spoons  flour,  one  tumbler  water,  pinch 
of  salt.  Cook  till  it  thickens,  stirring 
constantly.  usually  three  to  five  minutes; 
set  aside  to  Cool.  Cookies:  !yt  cup  sour 
eream  (heavy)  fill  clip  with  sour  milk; 
two  eggs.  114  cups  granulated  sugar.  14 
nutmeg,  grated,  salt,  one  teaspoon  soda. 
Beat  eggs  and  sugar  very  hard,  add  the 
soda  to  eream,  then  add  this  to  eggs  and 
sugar,  also  the  salt  and  nutmeg.  Add 
flour  to  make  a  soft  dough.  Roll  very 
thin,  then  put  teaspoon  of  filling  on 
cookie,  cover  with  second  cookie,  and 
bake  rather  slowly.  This  filling  may  nls.i 
he  used  with  sweet  milk  or  buttermilk 
cookies,  and  is  excellent:  they  will  keep 
weeks  if  allowed  to  do  so.  I.  ir. 
Removing  bloodstains 
I  have  just  cleaned  up  a  little  pil¬ 
low  list'd  on  a  bad  fracture  case,  and  it 
occurred  to  me  that  perhaps  many  of 
your  readers  would  like  to  know  how  to 
remove  the  unsightly  blond  stains.  Mix 
either  gloss  or  cornstarch  with  enld 
water,  cover  the  stains  thickly  with  this 
paste,  allow  it  to  dry  thoroughly  in  the 
sun  if  possible.  When  dry  brush.  I'mi- 
ally  one  application  is  sufficient,  hut  may 
be  repeated  as  many  times  as  desired. 
I.  it. 
Cucumber  Btjtter. — Take  solid  ripe 
cucumbers,  remove  the  seeds,  use  the 
meat,  half  as  many  apples  as  cucumbers, 
sugar  enough  to  sweeten.  Cook  well  »;'.l 
done.  MRS.  J.  A.  G. 
