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this is my dearest wish, I cannot bear the Do many farm women know a corn- 
thought of home without him. However, pressed yeast cake may be kept a week or 
'tis the way of life; one day must give 10 days before being used? Many wh<? 
way for the next, each leaf on the tree of prefer to use this form of yeast seem to 
life must drop to make ready for another think it necessary to get it the same day 
crop. It is a thing we parents must get as needed. However. 1 have used half 
accustomed to; the breaking up of the a cake in a batch of bread aud kept the 
homo nest, as each fledgling tries his remainder wrapped 1 tight in the tinfoil in 
wings, finds them trustworthy, and flies— a jelly glass. on the cellar bottom until 
whither? mbs. peg. the following week. Occasionally the out¬ 
side will turn dark, but on scraping that 
off the rest, will make good bread, The 
advantages of this farm of yeast, are so 
many—a quicker, surer process and a 
better-tasting loaf—that T wish every 
breadmaker could use it. 
The time required for transformation 
from sponge to well-baked loaf may vary 
from six hours to Hi, according to the 
amount of yeast ur^d and the warmth 
of the sponge or dough. To quicken the 
process of bread-making; 
1. Use more yeast. 
1’. Warm the flour as well as the liquid. 
3. Keep the sponge in a warm place. 
4. Watch it to prevent its getting too 
light and souring. 
I knead my bread very stiff after its 
first rising, working In all the flour pos¬ 
sible, and then kneading further in order 
to make the loaf fine-grained. After the 
second rising, I mold it into loaves with 
very little kneading. If the loaves are 
allowed to rise too high before baking, 
they will have big holes, so it is best to 
watch them closely, set them in a cooler 
place if they are likely to lie light before 
the oven is ready, and. if necessary, prick 
them with a steel fork just before placing 
in (lie oven. 
The oven should ho very hot when the 
bread goes in. so as to brown the loaves 
in the first 10 or 15 minutes. A lower 
beat for the reminder of tin hour will 
insure a well-baked batch of bread. 
VIKA M. BATES. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Flowers 
Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living 
preachers, 
Eaeh^eup a pulpit, and each leaf a book, 
Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers 
From loneliest nook, 
Posthumous glories ! angel-like collection ! 
Upraised from seed or bulb interred in 
earth. 
Ye arc to me a type of resurrection, 
And second birth. 
Were I. O God, in churchless lands re¬ 
maining. 
Far from all voice of teachers or di¬ 
vines, 
My Soul would find, in flowers of Thy 
ordaining, 
Priests, sermons, shrines! 
-HORACE SMITH. 
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W.E are asked to repeat the recipe for 
lemon butter, which is used as a filling 
for tarts, layer cakes or delicate sand¬ 
wiches. It calls for 1 lb. granulated 
sugar, yolks of six .eggs, and whites of 
four, y± lb. of blitter, juice of three 
large lemons. Beat the eggs, put all the 
ingredients in a double boiler, and cook, 
stirring constantly, until the thickness of 
honey. Put away in jelly glasses. It 
will keep a long time, aud is very con¬ 
venient in making a quick dessert. This 
is an old English recipe. 
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New sports stockings are of silk and 
lisle mixed, giving a two-tone effect. They 
sliow the colorings characteristic of the 
tweed mixtures, to go with Spring suits, 
and also black and white, which gives a 
pretty silvery effect. We have seen these 
stockings of American make for $1.75 and 
$2.25. Some very fine, smooth lisle stock¬ 
ings seen recently were made in Saxony, 
also fabric gloves. 
We save you 20 to 35 per cent 
on all standard water or steam ' 
pipe and fittings. We pay freight - 
to your R. R. station and guar- 
antee satisfaction. 
Save yourself money on plumbing 
supplies, water systems, gasoline 
engines, roofing,pullej’s,belting and 
mnehine tools. We save money by 
cutting out In-between profit and 
bookkeeping. You get that saving. 
Cot our catalog and prices now 
SMYTH-DESPARD CO. 
801 Broad Street Utica, N. Y. 
How to Make Good Bread 
I saw that a lady in South Carolina 
would like to know how to make good 
bread, and I take this opportunity to tell 
how I make mine, There are four of us 
iu our family, and I make five good-sized 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
Natural Yarn Cotton Socks. Not dyed or 
bleached. Just as they come from the 
machines. Heal comfort for ___ 
tender, swollen or blistered ' r j;|i? 
feet. Give twice the wear of S 
dyed stockings. Send 20 cents ;lij j 
for single pair; 95 cents for half • ■ $ 
dozen; or $1.80 per dozen. Sizes .. lit} 
9*4-11%. Prices west of the Mis- i lj 
sissippi River. $1.00 for haif .X !| l|| 
dozen or $1.90 per dozen. State J U i| 
size of shoe. J}- 
Natural Yarn X 
Hosierv Mills > 
Fleetwood Penna U.S.A. 
“A Chimney on Fire” 
^ I have just been reading the Hope 
Farm Notes, in which the writer speaks of 
the fireplace aud his wife’s fear of fire. 
I know just how she feels. I have burned 
wood for 25 years, and I never yet saw 
a clean chimney get afire. I have had 
several such myself, but each time it 
was due to letting the chimney go too 
long without cleaning. Once a month 
is none too often ro clean it. We have 
found the best, way is as follows: Take 
a cedar tree as large as will go into the 
chimney. Tie a stout rope on the butt, 
drop it down the chimney bottom up anil 
pull it up and down several times. It 
is not easy, but well worth the trouble 
iu the freedom from fear it gives the 
With SICILIAN FLOSS, new 
silk nnd worsted Peace Dale 
yarn, you can knit a sweater 
for$1.19! Send for/reesamples 
of our summer yHrnB. Finest 
quality.'Penee DaleMills, Dept. 
755 SoMadison Av., New York. 
Make a sweater 
for only 
Carrying a basket of wet clothes out 
to the clothesline is hard and straining 
work. If the basket is lifted into a 
child's express wagon, it may be pulled 
out to drying ground with much less ex¬ 
ertion. Better still, if the home mechanic 
can build a low platform running on top 
of small heavy wheels, like one of the 
hand trucks used in business places to 
move merchandise; the basket can be 
placed on it with little effort, and such 
“low-down” trucks do not tip readily, and 
are easily moved about. 
RirroU OF SLIGHTLY DAMAGED CROCKF.RV 
Dull ulo Hotel l'hi n i\ ware, Cooklngwft r<*» AlitroinmiiTraris eto* 
shipped direct from factory to consumer. Write us 
for particulars. E. SWflSEY 8 CO., Portland, Maine 
RETURN 
2.077 A 
x 777 / 
2097A. Sleeveless dress, 34 to 44 bust. 
9771. Ladies’ blouse, 34 to 42 bust. 
The medium size dress will require 314 
yds. of material 32 in. wide. 3Is yds. 3(> 
or 40. The medium size blouse will re¬ 
quire 3 yds. of material 27 in. wide, 2 , /4 
yds. 30, 1% yds. 44. Each. 20 cents. 
My opinion of the Hope Farm man 
went tip one notch when I read of his 
bowl of popped corn in a recent issue. 
Our small boy can surely stow away more 
of this Winter goody than any of liis 
elders, and the delicious odor is wafted 
from the kitchen to me as 1 write. A 
hotbed is taking form, and growing under loaves and 10 biscuits every week. This 
the able bands of the big boy and the eye j s the way 1 do it: At noon, when I boil 
of the good man. The small greenhouse potatoes, I save the potato water, and 
will be ready for early tomatoes and about two o’clock, or a little later, I put 
flower seeds. Thus my posy bed is full one dry yeast cake and four teaspoons of 
of blooms early and late. Cosmos can be granulated sugar into a quart can and 
made to bloom one month earlier this fill the can about two-thirds full of the 
way. and where Jack Frost makes his potato water. But cover on can, with 
first call as early as first of September, no rubber ring (do not seal tight), and 
as is often his wont with us, this is a set it in a warm place to work until about 
great factor. time to go to bed. Then I put a good 
The hills up over the New Hampshire handful of salt, and a good tablespoon 
line look cold and blue, trying to give us of lard in my bread pan. empty the con- 
a hint not to get too Springy as early as tents of the can in the pan, and add one 
March or April. _ quart of warm water. I mix flour into 
Snow had been with us since Thanks- this by hand until it will stay in a ball 
giving, not more than two feet at any in center of pan. and not stick to my 
time, still it Is a long while, and it re- bands while mixing. This way I make 
maiued late. There is one comfort from five loaves aud 10 biscuits. In cold 
it—It covers shrubs and roots so warmly weather warm the flour by having it in 
they come through the Winter much bet- a room where there is a fire. In Winter 
ter than when the ground is uncovered I warm a soapstone and set the bread on 
A bank of wiud clouds in the west are that to rise over night, and wrap up so 
showing their golden linings, reflected the air cannot strike the pan. 
from the setting sun, and the potatoes mbs, Thomas preece. 
roasting in the oven are sending out 
whiffs which will soon coll the brood One quart warm water, in which dis- 
around the table. Our supper must needs solve one compressed yeast cake, two 
be an early one, as both boys leave borne level teaspoons salt, two level tablespoons 
at 7 a. in. for high school in the next sugar, two tablespoons salad oil, three 
town, and car service being so bad, do rounding quarts sifted flour. Mix at ID 
not return till 4 p. m„ making a long p. m. Let rise out of a draught until 
day on an early breakfast and cold lunch, morning. When three times its bulk. 
I like the early supper hour, ns it gives make into three loaves, let rise until 
us such a long evening around the reading twice its bulk. Bake 45 minutes, having 
table. Only one fly is in my ointment: hot oven the first 15 minutes, moderate 
my big boy goes to the State college next oven the remaining 30 minutes. Mix iu u 
Fall, ’way across the State, and although bread mixer. s. augusta yungling. 
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Geneva, N. Y. 
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