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run RURAL NliW-YORKER. 
October 31 
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[ Woman and Home 
From Day to Day. 
(to RIGHT ON -WORKING. 
Ah. yes, the task is hard, ’tis true. 
But what’s the use of sighing? 
They’re soonest with their duties througii 
Who bravely keep on trying. 
There’s no advantage to be found 
In sorrowing or shirking; 
They with success are soonest crowned 
W^ho just go right on working. 
Strive patiently and with a will 
That shall not be defeated; 
Keep singing at your ta.sk until 
You see it stand completed. 
Nor let the clouds of doubt draw near. 
Your .sky’s glad sunshine marking; 
Be brave, and fill your heart with cheer, 
.\nd just go right on working. 
—Nixon Waterman, in Success. 
* 
A iJKOOMSTicK, with a deep notch cut 
into one end, will do away with the step- 
ladder as an aid in hanging pictures, un¬ 
less they are exceptionally heavy. The 
wire is slipped into the notch, and the 
picture raised and readily transferred 
from the broomstick to its hook or nail. 
* 
Wk have heard of a small six-year- 
old who rather resented any attempt to 
criticise her mode of work. The cliild 
was sewing, when her older sister asked: 
“Why don’t you use a pattern?” The 
small girl replied with a dignity greater 
than her knowledge: “I don’t need a 
pattern. I sew by ear,” 
* 
A VKUY nice way of warming cold 
roast mutton or lamb is as follows; Put 
one teaspoonful of chopped onion into 
a stewpan with one ounce of butter. 
Place it over a slow fire, keep the onions 
stirred until rather brown, then add 
some fiour, mix it in well and fry for 
five minutes; then pour in one-half pint 
of gravy well seasoned, and let it boil 
until thickened and brown; add one tea¬ 
spoonful of sugar and one of vinegar, 
cne of Worcestershire sauce, a few 
chopped gherkins and a few button 
mushrooms if at hand; put in the mut¬ 
ton, which has been previously sliced 
in thin slices and perfectly free from 
fat; let it remain a few minutes and 
simmer, not boil. 
Arout 60 years ago, according to Dar¬ 
win, the civil and ecclesiastical authori¬ 
ties of San Fernando in Chili arrested 
a man on the charge of witchcraft, he- 
(iause he kept some caterpillars which 
turned into butterflies. We may well 
smile at the. ignorant prejudice thus 
shown, and yet how little we of the 
average know of nature’s daily wonders 
after all! Where do the mosquitoes 
spend the Winter, and why do oak trees 
appear in many clearings when the 
pines are cut down, and why are isolated 
granite bowlders found in places where 
all the underlying rock is sandstone, and 
are angleworms friends or foes to the 
farmer? Many a fairly educated per¬ 
son could not give an intelligent answer 
to these questions. We want more na¬ 
ture study, not merely in the school, but 
also in the home. It will be of profound 
value, not only because it trains the 
faculties, but also because it fills coun¬ 
try life with intelligent interests. 
* 
The interest in manual training, now 
given in many schools, extends far from 
the cities where opportunities are freely 
offered for such instruction. Such work 
may be of especial value to young peo¬ 
ple in isolated rural communities dur¬ 
ing the Winter, where life grows mo¬ 
notonous, and social opportunities are 
few. Carving, basket making and bead 
work are three favorite lines in such 
tiaining, suited for young or old, and 
if a girl prefers jackknife to needle there 
is no reason why she should not take 
up chip carving instead of head work, 
or try both, and basket making into the 
bargain. Very useful little manuals on 
these subjects are published by the Art 
Craft Supply Co., of Chicago, costing 2 ^ 
cents each; they include Basket Making, 
Chip Carving and Bead Work. Tools 
and designs are illustrated, making it 
possible to acquire instruction without 
a teacher. Some of the Indians are still 
our leaders in bead and basket work, 
and in the latter art, the best we can do 
merely copies them. Some very beau¬ 
tiful basketry is made at Deerfieid, 
Mass., under the guidance of those 
teachers who have revived a number of 
the old handicrafts there. Basket and 
bead work is now a fashionable fad, but 
we may applaud even a fad when it 
tends to dignify manua-i work. 
* 
Anyone who has had the misfortune 
to live in a gossip-iidden community 
will sympathize with the harassed 
spinster in Kate Douglass Wiggin’s new 
book, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ' 
Asked whether she intends to end her 
life away from the town where she was 
brought up, she says: 
l do mo.st certainly, if 1 can get any 
other place to stay. 1 was bein’ worn to 
a shadder liere, tryin’ to keep my little 
secrets to myself, an’ never succeedin’. 
First they had it 1 wanted to marry the 
minister, and when he took a wPiO hi 
Standish 1 was known to be disappointed. 
Then for five or six years they suspicioned 
I was tryin’ for a place to teach school, 
and when I gave up hope, an’ took to 
dressmakln’. they pitied me and sympa¬ 
thized with me for that. "Vi’-hen father 
died, I was bound I’d never let anybody 
know how I was left, for that spites ’em 
worse than anything el.se; but there’s way.s 
o’ findin’ out, an’ they found out, hard as 
I fought ’em! Then there w-as my brother 
James, that went to Arizona when ho was 
IG. I gave good news of him for 30 years 
runnin’, but Aunt Achsy Tarbox had a fer¬ 
ritin’ cousin that went out to Tombstone 
for her health, an’ she wrote to a post¬ 
master, or to some kind of a town au¬ 
thority, an’ found Jim and w'rote back 
Aunt Achsy all about him and how unfor¬ 
tunate he’d been. They knew when I had 
my teeth out and a new' .set made; they 
knew when I put on .a false front piece 
they knew when the fruit peddler asked 
me to be his third wife—T never told ’em, 
an’ yo,u can bo sure he never did. but they 
don’t need to be told in this village; they 
have nothing to do but to gue.ss, an’ they’ll 
guess right every time. I was all tuckered 
(Hit tryin’ to mislead ’em and deceive ’em 
and sidetrack ’em. 
In many eases we find that a tendency 
to gossip is due to an alert intelligence 
with nothing of mental w'orth to occupy 
it. The best antidote for it is the broad¬ 
ening of intellect that comes with gen¬ 
eral culture, and good reading is the 
first step to that end. 
What joys are lost, what hopes are given 
As thro’ this death-struck world we roam 
We dream awhile that Home is Heaven; 
We find at length that Heaven is Home. 
—Bishop of Durham. 
Tested Elderberry Recipes. 
Canned ELDEnBERMEs.—We are very 
fond of elderberry pie; put them up 
one-half pound sugar to one pound fruit; 
they need no further sweetening when 
put in the pie. We think them far su¬ 
perior to huckleberries. .s. .t. o. 
Fr.DERREnniEs for Pies. —Here is a 
recipe for preserving elderberries that 
will make pies as good as huckleberry 
pie: To nine pounds of elderberries 
nicely picked from stems add three 
pounds of sugar and one pint cider 
vinegar. Boil until thoroughly cooked, 
and bottle. mrs. l. c. minnert. 
PiCKEED EeDERRERRTER FOR PlES.— 
Seven pounds elderberries, stemmed, 
four pounds sugar, one pint vinegar, two 
tablespoonfuls cinnamon, one tablespoon 
cloves. Boil until the juice is rather 
thick. They will keep in an open jar. 
1 have preserved elderberries in this way 
for 24 years, and have yet to learn of 
the first person who does not like them 
after giving them a trial. 
MR.R. M. .T. TIIROOP. 
Preserved Elderberries. —S even 
])ounds of elderberries, three pounds of 
granulated sugar, three lemons sliced 
thin; put the elderberries alone in a 
stone jar in warm salt and water over 
night. Next morning drain them in a 
colander, make syrup of the sugar and 
lemons and one pint of water, then put 
elderberries in the syrup and cook. 
When they begin to boil hard time them 
20 minutes, then pour in a jar or can 
ready for use. mrs. caia’in rui.i.ivan. 
Sweet Pickled Elderberries. —Use 
ripe fruit; remove all small stems. 
Cook seven pounds of berries (slowly, 
about two hours), in three pounds 
sugar and one pint pure cider vinegar. 
Cool and put in covered crock and you 
will have the best readymade pie-tim¬ 
ber in the market, superior to most 
kinds of canned sauce for pies. To those 
who like lemon flavor, a few' slices of 
lemon may be cooked with the berries, 
hut pure elderberry is good enough for 
a good judge of pies. mrs. il w. ii. 
Preservi.mo Elderberries. —Here is 
a recipe which 1 have used and find ex¬ 
cellent. We are especially fond of them 
in pies; Shell berries. To an eight- 
quart panful use a heaping tablespoon 
of salt, pour on hot water and let stand 
half an hour; drain well. To seven 
pounds of berries thus prepared, use 
three pounds of sugar and one pint of 
vinegar; boil w'ell. If one w'ish to keep 
in jars w’ithout sealing they should be 
boiled down thoroughly. For pies add 
a little sugar and flour enough slightly 
to thicken the juice. 
MRS. M. F. A'OSSI.ER. 
The (dealer who 
sells lamp-ehim- 
neys to last, is 
either a shrewid 
or an honest man. 
Macbeth. 
How to take care of lamps, including the 
getting of right-shape chimneys, is in my 
Index; sent free. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
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run 
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An illustrated history 
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put by sickness or something 
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mortgage. The prtze money 
for the summer’s work, to¬ 
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will pay the last installment 
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about a year and a half." 
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