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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 11, 1922 
From Day to Day 
Prayer for the Dead 
O Comrade, you who camp tonight be¬ 
yond the Outer Ranges, 
Do you remember times that were and 
old days that are gone 
When we rode the trails together 
through the crystal Autumn 
weather 
To the clink of spur and curb chain 
and the creak of saddle leather 
From the far, faint line of foothills 
through the desert’s counter- 
changes 
In the splendor of the starlit nights, 
the glory of the dawn- 
It is my prayer for you who rest beyond 
the suusets blazing 
That you have found a pleasant land 
of silence after strife. 
Where the south wind sways the 
grasses in the cool, sweet watered 
places 
And the scent of sagebrush breathes 
across the viewless outer spaces; 
Where the drifting clouds pass down the 
sky like phantom riders hazing 
God’s herded stars to bed-ground by the 
living Stream of Rife, 
—C. T. DAVtS, in the Arkansas Gazette, 
We are again asked to reprint formula 
for a crack filler for floors, given some 
time ago. This cheap filler, which can 
be varnished if desired, is made by mixing 
a thick paste In proportions of about one- 
half pound flour, three pints of water, and 
three teaspoonfuls alum. Mix thoroughly 
and boil until smooth. Then mix with 
the paste enough tors-tip newspaper to 
make a putty-like mixture. Fill the 
cracks tightly and the putty will soon 
harden. 
* 
The following little item about a rural 
school-teacher is from the Cloverport cor¬ 
respondence of the Memphis (Tonn.) Com¬ 
mercial Appeal. We should think Mrs. 
Curt Pate was the ideal teacher for 
a country school: 
Mrs Curt Pate ruffled the leaves of her 
ledger at her farm home near here and 
found she had made $ 1.210.50 during the 
year 1921. Sales of her dairy and poultry 
product netted her $700.1111. The largest 
source of revenue was from turkeys, 
which netted her $292.80; chickens 
brought $197.50. eggs $82.70. butter 
$15.50, and cream $172. She also found 
time to teach school for six months, for 
which she was paid $450. 
* 
We are asked to supply a recipe for 
chocolate cookies. Can any of our read¬ 
ers supply this? 
* 
We are receiving more requests than 
ever before for suggestions in home deco¬ 
ration and for color schemes in furnish¬ 
ing. It is quite evident that farm women, 
like their city sisters, consider beauty as 
well as convenience in their home sur¬ 
roundings. It is not strange that this is 
so, for our ideas of American household 
art are largely derived from the simplicity 
of Colonial rural homes, With their in¬ 
creased activities, modern farm women 
must buy many things that their grand¬ 
mothers made at home, but they are buy¬ 
ing wisely, and planning for comfort and 
convenience as well as beauty. The old 
days of nniled-down carpets and stuffy 
draperies have gone with whaleboned 
basques and skirts stiffened with canvas 
and horsehair. The pretty and artistic 
styles of furniture and decoration now in 
vogue for country homes and bungalows 
are equally adaptable to the farmhouse. 
Farmers' wives and daughters deserve the 
best there is in home surroundings, and 
it is a pleasant sign to note their increas¬ 
ing and intelligent interest in such sub¬ 
jects. 
Fudge Cake 
.Someone would like a tested recipe for 
good fudge cake. This was given me 
about. 20 years ago by a friend who lived 
next door to me at Milwaukee, Wis. (my 
home at that time). I have baked dozens 
of these calces for socials at our church, 
and they were called perfect b.v our min¬ 
ister. The nuts can be omitted, but it 
makes the cake richer and better: 
Wellesley Fudge Cake—1 ({. cups of 
granulated sugar, two-thirds cup butter, 
three eggs, one cup milk (sour), with 
soda or sweet with baking powder, 2% 
cups sifted flour, one heaping teaspoon 
baking powder, one-quarter cup chocolate, 
one-half cup of any kind of nut meats, 
broken up coarsely. Cream the butter 
and sugar together, add the eup of milk, 
and then stir in lightly the flour, in which 
the baking powder has been sifted; then 
stir the chocolate, which has been dis¬ 
solved by placing in a pan of hot water; 
add the nuts, and, lastly, the eggs, which 
have been beaten separately. 
Fudge Cake Frosting—l'/o tablespoons 
melted butter, one-half cup unsweetened 
cocoa, one and one-third cups confection¬ 
er’s sugar, one pinch of salt, one-half 
cup sweet milk, one teaspoon van”!... 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
2125a. Ladies’ short or long kimono 
blouse. 34 or 3t». 3S or 40, 42 or 44 bust. 
0503. Twopiecr skirt, 24 to 34 waist. 
1041. Embroidery design. 1 in. wide. 
loT3. Design for border, 4 In. wide. 
The medium size ldouse will reiiulre 2U 
yards of material 40 nr 44 in. wide. The 
medium size skirt will require 2Vi yards 
of material 3d, 44 or 54 in. wide. Each 
pattern, 20 cents. 
2110. Child's dress with bloomers, 2. 4 
and 6 years. The medium size will re¬ 
quire 1% yards of material fit! In wide 
with l'i yards 3d or 44 for the bloomers. 
2d cents. 
Melt butter, add cocoa, sugar, salt and 
milk. Heat to boiling point, and boil 
it bo ut five minutes in double boiler. Re¬ 
move from fire and beat until creamy, add 
vanilla, and pour over cake. This will 
make a three-layer cake or a nice square 
loaf cake. If sour milk is used, one tea¬ 
spoon of soda, sweet milk, one teaspoon 
baking powder. M.B, H. 
The Lonesome (?) Days 
l notice reference is made to the mid- 
Winter days as a lonesome or blue time, 
but these delightful months are never 
quite long enough to do all I wish to do. 
Looking backward, though, ] can see my¬ 
self going to the barn for a visit to Qua, 
the pet hen. who always responded to my 
troubles with a sympathetic "Qua, qut-u,' 
or else seeking the silent comradeship of 
Guernsey Bess. We are three miles from 
town and' about a mile from neighbors, 
and with small babies often 1 do not see 
a woman for a month or go to ride during 
the Winter, The boys can get tludr fresh 
air here in the yard in a protected’ corner 
better than to ride in a wind. I hadn't 
the slightest idea of making a “mope" of 
myself, so it was up to me to amuse my¬ 
self. 1 wasn’t a baby for some one to 
amuse. 
Personally, I pity a person who hasn't 
a fad, preferably more than one. The 
work is easier in many ways in Winter, 
for if there are heavier articles, there 
is less starched ironing, and it surely is 
easier to get berries and vegetables from 
the cellar than the garden. 
In my recipe book I have pasted an 
envelope, and I clip recipes and tuck in 
for trial in the Winter;’ then if they are 
good they are pasted in the book. Then, 
too, there are scrapbooks of all kinds to 
lie made. Shall I tell you some of ours? 
The crochet patterns in these books are 
of the best, and this scrapbook of knitting 
patterns is equally as good; then there 
are books of quilt patterns, sofa pillows, 
etc., garden notes, people, places, and 
events, veterinary, animal stories, and 
poems for recitations for the school chil¬ 
dren. 
Then, too, these are the best days in 
the whole year for rummaging, Neither 
my pocket-book nor my New Pm gland con¬ 
science will allow anything to go to waste, 
but there is no room for useless articles, 
so I look over garments ami make over 
garments, as soon after Christmas as 
possible; then I know what has to be 
bought new. 
It is also a good time to turn the 
kitchen into a carpenter's shop and fix 
up the furniture; a round or leg of a 
chair may need gluing, or a split round 
need winding with tire tape. It is also 
a good time to paint furniture and floors 
of unused rooms. 
Rest, of all, it is a grand time for the 
family to get acquainted with each other. 
The long Winter evenings were made to 
visit in, or play games, oat apples and 
popcorn. If husband and I were alone 
in Winter, it surely would be lonely. I 
think 1 would go out and adopt a house¬ 
ful. But if there are no children to be 
company for the farmer’s wife, I surely 
would have a good dog and cat, windows 
full of plants, and, for myself, a parrot. 
Ours died a few years ago, but we miss 
Iloilo yet. He was a smart, bird. We 
had missed grain from our grain box be¬ 
fore we got him. Now Iloilo's hearing 
was very acute, and n few nights after 
be came 1 was awakened by "Quick! 
there is somebody at the door." I got 
up. but all was quiet. No grain was 
stolen that night, nor any other night 
while Rollo lived. 
Another night, “Mamma, mamma !" I 
Wall 
Sample 
Contains 
Samples of 
Over 100 Patterns 
Shows 
Samples ol 
Borders with Sidewalls 
Send today for this bit? free book continuing actual 
samples of the new wall papers for 11122; shows samples 
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from—overliift patterns in all—popular styles and eolora. 
Many correct designs for every room. 
Lowest Prices Since Before the War 
HNI V Q a Per Double Roll 
UnLI OC (96c for Room 10x12x8 ft.) 
W© have fttanhod pflccfl on all irraflea of wall fj»p©r. Same 
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10x12x8 ft., rddcwidl. border and crillnir Included. 
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in three colors. 
Wide crushed belt 
slips through loops 
at side, and ties in 
large bow al back, 
where drejs Closes 
with invisible placket. 
Colors: 2-Tone Blue 
or 2-Tone Pink check. 
Sizes: 7, 8, 10. 12 and 14 
years. Send noMoney. Order 
by No. 15R. giving Size and 
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or $2.25 lor two. Money 
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