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August 1 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day 
A lI^^T M’-ISH. 
A. A 4b 
When I am dead, my dearest, 
Sing no sad songs for me; 
Plant thou no roses at my head, 
Nor shady cypress tree; 
Be the green grass above me 
With showers and dewdrops wet; 
And if thou wilt, remember. 
And if thou wilt, forget. 
I shall not see the shadows, 
1 shall not feel the rain; 
I shall not hear the nightingale 
Sing on, as if in pain; 
And dreaming through the twilight 
That doth not rise nor set. 
Haply I may remember. 
And haply may forget. 
—Christina Rossetti. 
* 
Straic carvers are among the newer 
cutlery; they are much smaller than the 
ordinary carving sets, the knife narrow 
and pointed, and the fork with two 
long tines rather close together. Such 
a set with sterling silver handles costs 
about $3. 
4c 
Nrw milk boilers are made of the 
brcwn German pottery, lined with 
white, which is u'sed for many cooking 
vessels. In shape they are like a coffee¬ 
pot; the lid sets down in a deep flange, 
and is perforated by several small holes 
surrounding a central chimney. This, 
it is claimed, prevents the milk from 
boiling over. These boilers cost from 
75 cents to $2, according to size. 
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A READER in New York make.s the 
following request: 
Will you ask your readers to furnish a 
good recipe for sweet cucumber pickles? 
1 mean the small green cucumbers—not 
ripe ones. 
We have no doubt some good house¬ 
keeper can give a satisfactory recipe of 
this character. At this season sugges¬ 
tions for the Winter stock of pickles or 
preserves will be found very welcome. 
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The city stores now offer 18-inch em¬ 
broidery for corset covers. It is fine 
nainsook, having an edge four to six 
inches deep of needlework and lace in¬ 
sertion. It is made into the garment 
without under-arm seams, like the 
handkerchief model, being cut out a lit¬ 
tle for armholes, the sleeve being 
formed by a strap of insertion and lace, 
and the lower edge fitted to the waist 
by a band. 
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A FRIEND in Nebraska asks us to re¬ 
peat the recipe for cider jelly pie, print¬ 
ed last year. She says that she tested it, 
and found it excellent. This recipe calls 
for a half pint of boiled cider, a cupful 
of brown sugar, a cupful of boiling 
water and two tablespoonfuls of corn¬ 
starch. Stir the cornstarch into tne 
cider, add the other ingredients, and 
cook for 10 minutes. Fill into a pastry- 
lined pie tin and cover with an upper 
crust. 
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Green peppers are always an appe¬ 
tising addition to the Summer table, 
adding zest to commonplace dishes. We 
try to grow the so-called sweet peppers, 
which are supposed to be mild in flavor, 
but one is never quite sure of this, even 
when the pungent seeds are avoided. 
Fried green peppers are very nice to 
serve with hash or steak. We consider 
tomato soup very greatly improved by 
a few slices of green pepper. If the 
pepper proves to be a hot one, a little 
may be put in the salad bowl with let¬ 
tuce, tomatoes or cucumbers, but put 
aside when serving, the salad receiv¬ 
ing sufficient flavor from its vicinity. 
Sometimes the mildest of peppers as to 
outward seeming proves rather decep¬ 
tive. like those little capsicums used in 
South America, which, if cut and rubbed 
on one spot of the plate, and then 
thrown away, impart a fiery flavor to 
everything served upon the platter they 
have touched. 
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A SEWING machine that weighs but 30 
ounces sounds like a toy, but it is a 
very practical appliance, doing good 
work in all materials. It is, of course, 
a hand sewing machine, the wheel being 
turned by a crank, and is screwed by a 
clamp to the edge of a bench or table. 
It is a chain-stitch machine, and is 
fully as efficient as larger ones of the 
same class. Its special value is for 
women who are hoarding, or for girls 
away at school or college, as it may be 
stored in a trunk or suit case. It also 
possesses undeniable value for a woman 
who is physically unfit lo run a foot- 
power machine. The style called the 
“Little Comfort” costs $3.50, and is 
handsomely finished in nickel. 
4t 
Here is a Virginia recipe for succo¬ 
tash, which differs somewhat from the 
New England style. It calls for half a 
dozen slices of fat salt pork, which 
should be fried to a crisp brown in the 
kettle in which the succotash is to be 
made. Chop a large onion and cook in 
the pork two minutes. Have ready six 
or eight large tomatoes, scalded, skinned 
and sliced, and cook five minutes with 
the pork and onion, tlien add one pint 
of water, one pint of chopped okra, one- 
half pint of butter beans and one pint 
of tender corn cut from the cob. Sea¬ 
son with (salt and pepper, and when 
thoroughly cooked into a thick soup re¬ 
move the slices of pork and serve with 
cooked rice, or corn muffins. 
Canning Green Corn. 
An old friend in Massachusetts gives 
the following recipe for canning corn. 
Gather the corn while tender and juicy; 
husk, cut off one-half the depth of the 
kernel, and scrape out the rest. Fill 
the cans, prepared as for fruit, packing 
the corn down very solid in the can with 
a potato masher. If the corn is as juicy 
as it should be, there will be no need 
of adding water, but if there are cavities 
where the corn is not pressed together 
put in cold water enough to fill them. 
Put the cover on, not screwing tight, 
and place the cans in a boiler of cold 
water, having placed in the bottom a 
few cornstalks, with husks on top of 
them, to stand the cans on. The water, 
which should not come to the top of the 
can, should be brought to a boil, and 
then boil slowly without ceasing for 
three hours. When done, the cans 
should be lifted, one at a time, from the 
boiling water and immediately sealed. 
The rubber ring must always be put 
on the can before it is set to boil, and 
the lid must be screwed down after 
cooking without being removed from 
the can. The rubber and top of jar 
.must be free from iiarticles of corn 
before boiling. The water must be kept 
boiling until the last can of corn is re¬ 
moved from it. As soon as screwed up, 
stand the can upon its top, and leave it 
thus until cold. If the can leaks when 
turned over, screw tighter, but if this 
does not stop the leak, do not try to 
keep that can. When quite cold, turn 
the can over, wash off, and put away in 
a cool, dark place. Rules to remember 
are: Do not wet the corn, nor use it 
when wet from rain or dew; pack solid; 
use new rubbers only; see that rubber 
and top are free from particles of corn; 
boil for three hours; never remove cover 
after boiling; screw down tightly, turn 
bottom up, and leave until cool; never 
lift can by the top after it is sealed; put 
away in a cool, dark place; never put 
any seasoning in corn when canning. 
The results of this process have been 
excellent. 
A Nebraska Sod Church. 
The sod farmhouse shown on page 
506 is duplicated by a sod church. Fig. 
207. The little structure stands alone on 
the limitless prairie, as witness to a 
religious faith that toil and hardship 
cannot subdue. Many a city pastor, who 
can count his hundreds of well-dressed 
listeners every Sunday, has less reason 
to feel proud of his congregation than 
the man who stands against the little 
sod church with his faithful followers 
about him. Many who speak admiringly 
of missionary work in foreign fields lose 
sight of the self-denying heroism de¬ 
manded of religious workers in some 
sections of our own country. The little 
sod church is not more modest in ap¬ 
pearance than a number of other edi¬ 
fices of similar character, scattered over 
this continent We heard once of a 
Canadian missionary up in the frozen 
North, about Hudson Bay, who com¬ 
plained to his bishop that he no longer 
had a church, because the dogs had 
eaten dt! It appeared that his head- 
qi7arters being in a timberless region, 
he had built a tiny church of skins, 
stretched over whalebone, and during a 
long and severe Winter, when both men 
and animals suffered from scant food, 
the starving dogs had eaten the church, 
in default of other provender. 
The coffee habit is quickly over¬ 
come by those who let Grain-O 
take its place. If properly made 
it tastes like the best of coffee. N o 
grain coffee compares with it in 
flavor or healthfulness. 
TRY IT TO-DAY. 
At grocer! everywhere; 16c. and 26c. per package. 
A NEBRASKA SOD CHURCH. Fig. 207. 
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