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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
January 14, 1922 
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WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
The Golden Side 
There is many a rest in the road of life 
If we only would stop to make it ; 
And many a tone from the better land 
If the querulous heart would take it. 
To the sunny soul, that is full of hope, 
And whose beautiful trust ne’er faileth, 
The grass is green and the flowers are 
bright, 
Though the wintry storm prcvailetli. 
Better to hope though the clouds hang low, 
And to keep the eyes still lifted, 
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep 
through. 
When the ominous clouds are lifted! 
There was never a night without a day, 
Or an evening without a morning; 
And the darkest hour, as the proverb 
goes, 
Is the hour before the dawning. 
There is many a gem in the path of life 
Which we pass in our idle pleasure, 
That is richer far than the jeweled crown, 
Or rite miser’s hoarded treasure; 
It may be the love of a little child, 
Or a mother’s prayers to Heaven, 
Or only a beggar’s grateful thanks 
For a cup of water given. 
Better to weave iu the web of life 
A bright and golden filling. 
And to do God's will with a ready heart, 
And hands that are swift and willing, 
Than to snap the delicate, minute threads 
Of our curious lives asunder. 
And then blame Heaven for the tangled 
ends, 
And sit and grieve and wonder. 
-MRS. M. A. KIDDER. 
A determination to save steps is a 
good resolution for the housekeeper’s new 
year. The habit of •picking up as you 
go along” is a wonderful help in time and 
strength. Trips to cellar or pantry are 
cut in half if one carries something to be 
put away when going to get things out. 
Another useful habit is to standardize 
the monotonous everyday work tlml we 
do more or less mechanically. One ener¬ 
getic family finds both amusement and 
profit in working out an efficiency system 
for dishwashing, not only doing the work 
as rapidly as possible, but also cutting 
out unnecessary motion. It is sur¬ 
prising how often we duplicate effort, 
carrying one large dish alone to the 
closet when plates could he carried with 
it. or taking two lots of spoons to their 
receptacle when one trip would suffice. 
There may be waste motion even in han¬ 
dling towels or dish mop. Dishwashing 
becomes purely mechanical, so we can 
talk or think of pleasanter things, with¬ 
out impairing our efficiency in doing the 
work. An experienced housekeeper us¬ 
ually works out her own efficiency sys¬ 
tem. but there are few among us who 
cannot find some little point in which we 
can improve our methods. 
A pleasant manifestation of the 
Christmas spirit in Philadelphia was the 
presentation of woolen blankets to a num¬ 
ber of hard-working horses whose owners 
were too poor to buy proper Winter cov¬ 
ering for them. All the cases were in¬ 
vestigated by the S. I*. C. A., and the 
presentation made by agents of that 
society. There are many small dealers 
in wood, coal and ice, and poor peddlers, 
who must depend on their horses for 
means to earn a living. These dumb 
servants are often protected in Winter 
with a tattered comfortable or old quilt, 
for want of a better cover. Their strug¬ 
gling masters find it hard enough to 
clothe themselves and family, and the 
dumb partner thus fares but poorly. We 
should like to think that some of the 
wool made up by farmers’ associations 
finds its way to such wearers as these. 
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The day after Christmas all the mil¬ 
linery departments in New York blos¬ 
somed out with displays of small silk 
hats decorated with fruit and flowers. 
They are very bright and pretty, though 
they seem a little out of place in Janu¬ 
ary snowstorms. These hats are small 
toques, tricornes and turbans, similar to 
the prevailing models in velvet and vel¬ 
ours. The trimming takes the form of 
wreaths, sprays and garlands, sometimes 
surrounding the crowns, but more often 
across the front. Most of the hats are 
black, but the trimming is very eay. 
Such hats are very desirable for the first 
sunny days, before one wishes to take to 
straw. 
The One-egg Cake 
If Mrs, C. F.. who wrote the article 
on page l-blb, “A Perfect One-egg Cake,” 
would scud the measure of flour, perhaps 
we might all do better with it'. I made 
one yesterday, and it was very tough, 
which T rather expected of a cake made 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
92iW5A. Fancy bags, one size. 
1059. Emlimidery design in tulip motif, 
loan. Embroidery design, i in, wide. 
9838. Slip-Oil blouse for misses and small 
women, lb and 18 years-, 
lord. Embroidery design. 1 in, wide. 
The faney hags will require Vi yard of mute- 
rial any width. The Ill-year size blouse will 
require l'h yards r>f material 8G in. wide, 1% 
yards 40 or 44. 
with water and so little shortening. Let 
Us hear from her again. MRS. II. H. 
I think Mrs. II. II. found her cake 
lough because sin 1 did not have enough 
flour in it. Of one brand of flour T used 
it to >k three cups, of another brand over 
four cups, lienee my reason for not giving 
exact amount. Make it quite stiff. After 
T had sent the recipe I made a cake for 
supper (exactly like recipe sent), and I 
had to "heap” the shortening on the 
spoon, because the sugar was so coarse 
it would not blend or cream with the 
shortening. With fine granulated sugar 
the rounding tablespoon of shortening is 
enough in my ease. Will Mrs. II. please 
try it again? Practice makes perfect. 
MRS. i.;, V. 
More About Patchwork 
I have a quilt of the pattern pictured 
on page 1335, November 12, which I was 
told was made in i860, It was at that 
time called the Beggar’s Block, as the 
dark-colored pieces in each block were 
“begged" from or given by friends. No 
two were alike, and each intimate friend 
or perhaps schoolmate was represented 
in the quilt by pieces of their favorite 
print. 1 have Another quilt of exactly 
the same pattern which I bought at an 
auction. This was made about 1870. It 
was then termed the Album quilt, prob¬ 
ably because tbc names of tile donors of 
the colored squares were written in pen¬ 
cil across the white center and outlined 
with black silk twist with what was 
known as the double back stitch, nearly 
the same as the outline stitch which was 
so much in vogue years la I or. The out¬ 
line stitch was worked from left to right, 
while the back stitch was sewed in from 
right' to left. T often wonder as I look 
at this quilt if any of the givers are yet 
alive. All the names are strange to me. 
The quilt was made in the western part 
of New York State. One name has a 
fascination for me. as it starts off with 
a fine free hand, and finding the space 
growing smaller dwindles down to rather 
cramped letters, finally euding with two 
letters underneath the line, the name be¬ 
ing Philomona Rates. 
I have a large and I am told quite 
valuable collection of quilts. Part of 
them were banded down to me from a 
famous family of Connecticut quilt- 
makers. others I have bought or ex¬ 
changed for other articles. I made quite 
an extensive study of the subject at one 
time in connection with the development 
of the textile industry in the Fnited 
States. The heyday of quilt-making 
was from about 1840 until the Civil War. 
In the earlier days woolen fabrics were 
commonly used, and the bliie-and-white 
and red-and-whitc coverlids of the early 
days are almost priceless. 
I Have never seen a quilt made since 
1801 that could attempt to compete with 
the older ntr-s in either sewing or quilt¬ 
ing. T suppose the uncertainties of war 
times changed everything, the same as 
tin* recent war 1ms done. The quilt shown 
in the picture is peculiar in tlmt the 
white outer parts of ihe blocks are sewn 
directly together with no contrasting 
color between, I have never seen one 
finished in that way. My older quilt is 
set together with strips of turkey red. 
about 3 inches wide between, while the 
other one has bands of orange. Nearly 
all of the real old-style quilts were made 
with the squares corner wise in the com¬ 
pleted des'yi. This necessitated half 
blocks at the corners and along the sides. 
It is a source of wonder to me that 
people do not make more quilts. There 
is a ready sale for them among the Sum¬ 
mer people, who are never far to seek in 
our pleasant country. 
MRS. STANLEY CARPENTER. 
Notes from Oklahoma 
Farm crops have not been encouraging 
with us the past year. Pot ton is the money 
crop of this section of the State. The 
boll weevil made its appearance tlie latter 
part of the Summer and literally stripped 
the cotton plants of their loaves, squares 
and young bolls. This cut the yield down 
to about one-fourth of the average yield. 
However, the good price has helped to 
make up for the low yield. The excessive 
rainfall during .Tune and July practically 
destroyed the large crop of both wheat 
and oats, so that very little of it was 
salable, and much of it hardly fit for feed. 
The corn crop is better than it has been 
for years, and corn is now selling for 35 
to 50 cents per bushel. Some might think 
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