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this low price disastrous to farmers, but 
such is not the case, for during the year's 
when eottou was so high corn was neg¬ 
lected, until there were hundreds of head 
of live stock that have lacked feed badly, 
and now people will turn tlieir attention 
more to hogs and cattle, so that there will 
be meat, milk aud butter in many homes 
that have scarcely known the taste of 
these essential food products for some 
time. 
Hundreds of people aim out. of work all 
over our Western country, and some suf¬ 
fering no doubt will result daring the 
present Winter, although conditions are 
much better than is reported from other 
more crowded sections. With hundreds 
of new farms being cleared up, fencing 
done and quite a bit of work going on in 
the towns, most any person who is willing 
to work can find a way of earning a live¬ 
lihood Farm wages range from $1 to $2 
per day. With living expenses low. free 
fuel and water, many men are saving 
some money at these prices. 
Our children are now in school, and 
tin 1 bulk of housework, care of chickens 
and cow falls to myself. The many 
studies of high school students of today 
keep the average child so busy that there 
is very little time to help with the chores. 
Three of ours must he in the classroom 
at eight in (he morning, and this means 
that we must, rise early. All lessons must 
be prepared at home, which means that 
they must spend all the time possible 
getting lessons ready. Tt takes time, 
patience and money to give children an 
average twentieth century education, yet 
they must have it if we expect thnn to 
met the eompetitkn which they must bat¬ 
tle with in life*. MRS. ut.LIF- YOBK. 
For the School Lunch 
On bread-making day save out enough 
dough for a good sized loaf. Return to 
mixer or pan, dissolve a ]pyel teaspoon 
of soda in a very little warm water. 
Beat up an egg very light. Add soda, 
egg and a teaspoon of butter or shorten¬ 
ing. Mix all through the dough ; mix un¬ 
til no spots or streaks are to ho seen. 
Roll out one-half inch thick, out in 
rounds with a doughnut cutter, or cut in 
inch strips and form a figure eight. Let 
rise very light, fry in deep fat. or cooking 
oil. They will cook fast. They will soak 
vorv little fat, be very light, and the 
crust will be nearly white. They are 
nice with syrup, honey or fruit. The 
children called them "bare-fo"ted cakes.” 
Im cold weather when making bread, 
mix a little more than your usual baking. 
When light, bake what, you need, work 
the other down in a dish large enough to 
keep from running over, cover tight from 
mice and dust. The last tiling at night 
or first thing in the morning, mftko s-mie 
rolls (or long biscuits). If at night 
cover and leave in the cellar. If in the 
morning put in a warm place to lisp; 
bake as you would any biscuit. When 
they are done and while hot. partly split 
with your fingers, but do not pull en¬ 
tirely apart. Slip inside a lump of but¬ 
ter or butter and sugar, spiced or sea¬ 
soned to taste, or any sandwich filling 
you prefer. 
Honey .Tumbles—Granulated sugar, one 
cup; Now Orleans molasses, one cup; 
salt, one teaspoon; soda, 1 teasiioon : two 
eggs. Put. all together in mixing howl, 
beat or stir until all are thoroughly 
mixed. Add flour enough to roll nut. 
cover and leave until morning. Roll out 
in the morning and cut. in round's with a 
hole in the center; bake. Very nourish¬ 
ing and economical, as butter costs nearly 
as much as all the other materials. 
Ginger Snaps or Hubbard House 
Cookies.—New Orleans molasses two ear**, 
sugar one cup. vinegar one tablespoon, 
salt one teaspoon, soda two teaspoons, 
drippings one heaped cup. ginger one tea¬ 
spoon. flour to mix. Roll out quite thin. 
Bake in n brisk oven. They are very 
nice and thereby bangs a tale. 
When T was filling the pails Jesse said : 
“Whv don’t you give me some cookiesV” 
“Whv. I give you all just the same. 
You are my boy the same as the others.” 
"But I have bad no cookies in my 
dinner in a long time.” Something must 
be wrong, so I put two cookies under the 
paper in the bottom and on top two move. 
When the hoy came home at. night, he 
reported the top cookies were gone. _ I 
baked cookies again. When the cookies 
were ready for baking I put two nice ones 
on a separate tin and sprinkled a bit of 
red pepper on them. At night the chil¬ 
dren reported that one boy had the cook¬ 
ies in his pocket at recess and was pinch¬ 
ing a piece at a time. Soon be spit and 
spit, the tears running down bis cheeks. 
He drank water and put out bis tongue 
to cool it. lie had been taking things 
out of all the school dinners quite a while 
aud no one knew who to lay it to. The 
boy had plenty of good wholesome food at 
borne, but a drunken father. MRS. B. 
Winter in Vermont 
We all read some poem, sketch or 
phrase that clings to us and repeats itself 
to us over and over, but I think nothing 
lately has recurred to me as often as a 
couplet I read some months ago; 
“Two men looked out through prison bars. 
One saw the mud—the other, the stars.” 
True, isn't it? But I think the star¬ 
gazer would be the better company. 
Judging from the letters we can realize 
that all The R. N.-Y. readers can find 
figurative mud enough, but we are glad 
to read the spirit of optimism that usually 
prevails. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The night before Thanksgiving we were 
talking of our financial standing this 
year and last, and Jack, although the 
best man in the world, will look for the 
mud puddles. lie said he eoiildu'l see 
that he was any better oil' this year, if he 
had even kept level. It has been a hard 
year; the pastures were dried, flies 
abundant and butter prices low. and to 
help ns more wo found an extra good new 
milk cow had hung herself. There was 
no one to blame, just an accident, and 
our fine hog just died, so I didn’t blame 
him much, but waited for the boys to 
speak and see if they were dissatisfied. 
Said Son: "We have a much better 
pair of horses,” for our SO-year-old Dolly 
Morgan, of whom I wrote, was laid away 
Easter Sunday, and Peggy Morgan, aged 
six, takes Dolly’s place, and a nicer horse 
it would be hard to find. 
Said Ted: "You have a niee new re¬ 
peating rifle this Fall, and I have a talk¬ 
ing machine.” and the little folks said: 
"We have three new little Guernseys that 
have come this year.” and after a little 
we all were counting our blessing, and 
concluded it was a pretty good old world 
after all. 
There was one cloud to mar the little 
folks’ pleasure, and that was that our 
new hoy, who wasn’t with us last Thanks¬ 
giving, could only eat graham crackers 
for his Thanksgiving this year, but he 
laughed and cooed while the rest of us 
ate dinner. 
The quilt patterns are all interesting. 
Mother pieced one like the pattern with 
a cross in the center of each block. It 
is the old-fashioned ‘'Album Quilt”; a 
name should be written in each cross. 
Mother pieced hers nearly 50 years ago, 
and at about the same time pieced the 
Log Cabin, Hard Times and little Basket 
patterns. 
I seem destined to see all sides of the 
rural school. This year there are but 
five pupils in our district, and the direc¬ 
tors have husband carry them to the vil¬ 
lage, ML. miles away. It was going to be 
a long, cold trip for seven-year-old Bus¬ 
ter, so only Laddie goes. At first tin 1 
novelty of carrying dinners made it fun 
for him, then he began doing errands at 
noon for people, and then spend the 
money he earned for candy, and the con¬ 
tents of his lunch pail would scarcely be 
touched. Laddie’s mother can be hard¬ 
hearted, so she forbade flic candy, except 
occasionally, and I find his appetite is 
better. _ He can buy fruit or tiny boxes 
of raisins, etc., but candy is crossed off. 
Another thing, lie carries a pint of milk 
every day. and that is a help to him. I 
know. I hope tie teachers will begin to 
leach [he value of milk for pupils. 
I wish the hot lunch problem could be 
worked out a bit better. Have any of 
The R. N.-Y. readers bad experience 
with a school that canned vegetables for 
use in the hot lunch in Winter? This 
seems to me to be a good solution cf the 
problem, but perhaps I am wrong. 
Winter began early in Vermont, and 
November 2S we had about a foot of snow 
and bail. Tt was hard for Peggy to make 
the school trip, but Ted took Dick and 
plowed out the road before she came home 
at night. We have never favored con¬ 
solidated schools, but so far it works out 
well, and the experience of other towns 
is that when schools are con sol ido ted the 
roads, are kept in better condition, and 
that is a help to a rural community. 
One thing T shall rums most of all is 
our neighborhood Christmas trpn. and I 
think nil of us will. The pupils fur¬ 
nished the entertainment and the women 
remembered each with little gifts, not 
enough to be burdensome, but a little re¬ 
membrance that helped brighten Winter. 
We are all busy before Christmas, an 1 
perhaps all we can manage will be a card 
for .many of our older friends, but after 
Christmas let us be sure to sit down and 
write Aunt Susan and T’ncle George, the 
lady where you used to board (do'yon 
remember how she brought vou a hot 
brick for your feet on cold nighrs, or a 
bowl of catnip tea when she thought you 
seemed extra tired?). Be sure to write 
and tell her you will never forget it; per¬ 
haps next year it may be too late. The 
older ones cannot get out much in the 
sunwy months, and a long, cheery ac¬ 
count of the year’s doings will give them 
something to think and talk about besides 
their aches and pains. Tell them how 
you put rolled oats on the window ledge 
and the little chickadees come and eat. 
and perhaps they will do the same. Chick¬ 
adees are such brave little birds. Then, 
ns you write, you will remember thp 
happy times and find yourself repeating: 
"Looking backward through the year. 
Along the way my feet have pressed 
I find sweet places everywhere, 
Sweet places where my soul found rest." 
MOTHER BEE. 
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T noticed a request for molasses candy 
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Take a piece of butter the size of a large 
walnut and grease the saucepan you in¬ 
tend to use. leaving the greater part of 
the butter in the bottom of the saucepan. 
fThis is to prevent scorching). Then add 
half a cup of molasses, a cup of granu¬ 
lated sugar and two tablespoons of vine¬ 
gar to the batter. Place these ingredients 
over a medium fire and cook until when 
a little is dropped into a glass of cold 
water and it hits against the side of it. 
it will ring. Remove from the fire and 
pour on a buttered platter to cool. When 
cold, pull until white. This will be very 
hard, white and porous. S. 0. F. 
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