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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 21 
Woman and Home 
From Day to Day. 
THANKSGIVING SONG. 
Let’s sing a song o’ thankfulness for all 
our blessings past, 
Though the morning found the twilight and 
the blossoms met the blast; 
Let’s say that on the way 
We were happy for a day, 
And though we mourned the Winter, we 
knew the flowers of May! 
Let’s sing a song of thankfulness for 
hearts that truly beat; 
Even if we missed the mountain top, the 
valley’s shades are sweet; 
Let’s dream that God does best! 
Though the thorns be at the breast. 
We shall dream His dreams of silence, reap 
the roses of His rest! 
—P. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. 
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Citron melon cooked with cranberries 
makes a very agreeable sauce, attractive 
in appearance. Cook a quart of citron, 
peeled and cut into squares, in just 
water enough to cover, until tender; 
then add 1^4 cupful of cranberries and 
two heaping cupfuls of sugar; cook 20 
minutes longer, and set aside to cool. 
It will keep well for some time with¬ 
out canning, 
A farmer’s wife offers this useful sug¬ 
gestion in the Woman’s Home Com¬ 
panion: 
Th.at most-dreaded duty of mending 
grain sacks, which always falls to the lot 
of the farmer’s wife, may be reduced to 
a minimum by covering one side of the 
patch with flour paste. The paste is made 
by mixing the flour with cold water. Place 
the patch with the paste side downward 
upon the hole, having first turned the sack 
wrong side out. Iron down for a few sec¬ 
onds with a very hot flat-iron. Throw the 
sacks over a line or clothes-bars until 
thoroughly dried. From my own experi¬ 
ence I know that patches put on in this 
way will last for years. 
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In frying eggs to serve with ham or 
bacon, the best results are obtained if 
the fat is all poured but of the pan, 
which is then wiped perfectly clean, and 
just enough clear fat returned to the pan 
to cook the eggs. Let them cook slowly, 
and do not frizzle hard. This pljan pre¬ 
vents the appearance of unsightly 
charred specks on the eggs. Perhaps 
the family taste demands that the eggs 
be turned over and fried on both sides, 
which" the Bowery restaurants are said 
to describe as “white wings sunny side 
down,’’ but even in this case the frying 
should not be carried to the stage where 
the yolks are a cheesy mass, and the 
whites suggestive of rubber shoes. 
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Some unusual scent sachets seen in a 
New York druggist’s were described as 
a Vienna novelty. They were made of 
wheat straws about 15 inches long, with 
the head of grain attached. The bundle 
of straw was tied together with baby 
ribbon four or five inches from each end, 
and the center filled with an oval pad of 
scented cotton batting. Baby ribbon was 
woven in and out of the straws, so that 
the sachet was formed of ribbon and 
straw basket work. The shape was a 
long oval. We imagine that the heads 
were tied together first, Ifie pad put in 
place and the lower end tied before the 
ribbon was woven in. Tbe effect was 
very pretty. 
We wish that, at the beginning of cold 
weather, farm women everywhere would 
make a faithful promise to get more 
than a taste of fresh outside air every 
day through Winter, except when the 
weather is too inclement for comfort or 
safety. We cannot expect to hibernate 
like the bears, and we are all entitled to 
a certain amount of fresh oxygen needed 
to keep the fires of our bodies burning 
brightly. Children and young girls find 
enough joy in physical exercise to go 
out in cold weather for the pleasure of 
it, but too many of the mothers and 
older sisters on the farm only go out in 
Winter when they have to. “House 
nerves’’ are the natural result; a count¬ 
less train of ills, both of body and mind, 
which take all the joy and zest from 
living. A brisk walk or an outdoor 
romp with the children, in the frosty 
air of a clear Winter day, is a sovereign 
cure for the blues. We cannot diffuse 
sunshine in the household without 
absorbing some of it out of doors. 
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We heard recently of a little boy 
whose grandfather was a minister, who 
could never be induced to enter the 
church. The little fellow, frequently 
sent upon errands from the parsonage, 
just across the way from the church, 
would stand outside the door of the 
study, part of the church building, and 
call to his grandfather. Arguments, 
persuasion, even punishment, all proved 
unavailing to induce him to go in. 
Finally the grandfather himself under¬ 
took to labor with his small and devoted 
descendant. Taking the child in his 
arms, he explained that the church was 
a particularly safe place to enter, be¬ 
cause it was God’s house 
“That’s just why I’m afraid of it,’’ 
confessed the little boy timidly. “I’m 
afraid of the Zeal.’’ 
“Afraid of the Zeal, child! What can 
you mean?’’ cried the grandfather. And 
the child, after much coaxing and en¬ 
couragement, explained that he had lived 
in terror of the church ever since he 
had heard some one repeat the text: 
“The zeal of thine house hath eaten me 
up.’’ 
Mrs. Trask’s Revolt. 
Mrs. Trask was in tears. This always 
irritated Nahum, and he got up and left 
the room, shutting the door with em¬ 
phasis. If he had been in the habit of 
expressing his opinions when there was 
no audience he would have said that he 
was a much abused individual with a 
wife who tried to discourage his every 
effort toward prosperity. But Nahum 
never talked unless there were appre¬ 
ciative ears to hear, so he walked slow¬ 
ly toward the barn in sulky silence. 
The Trasks had been in the neigh¬ 
borhood for two years. Not much was 
known of them, except that they had 
lived in a good many different places 
and had been pretty poor in all of them. 
The men shrewdly guessed that Nahum 
lacked the faculty for getting on. Some 
of the women, however, blamed Mrs. 
Trask. They did not all express their 
opinions, but they secretly believed that 
she was one of those women who like 
the excitement of moving and are never 
contented in one place for long at a 
time. It may seem strange that they 
should have thought this way, but when 
it is explained that Nahum had a mag¬ 
netic personality and a charming way 
of talking, it will be understood. Mrs. 
Trask, on the other hand, was quiet and 
reserved, seldom going among the 
neighbors. The women resented this, 
and they also resented the expression 
of patient resignation on her face. The 
Idea of her looking like that, when she 
had such a nice husband! 
When Nahum judged that the storm 
was over, he returned to the house and 
to the fray. 
“Now, Sarah,’’ he saiu in a business¬ 
like tone—he was always business-like 
and clear-headed when he wanted to 
have his own way—“I have made up 
my mind, and nothing you can say will 
change it. You always oppose my plans, 
no matter what they are. I’ve got so [ 
expect it, and it don’t have any effect 
whatever on my opinions. You’ve got 
to make up your mind to this change 
sooner or later, and it will be much 
pleasanter for me if you do it sooner.” 
“But, Nahum,” she pleaded, “we are 
doing better here than we ever did any¬ 
where else in our lives. Why not let 
well enough alone?” 
“H’mph!” Nahum sneered, “what’s 
the use to grub along this way when 
we can do a thousand times better?” 
“I’m afraid we wouldn’t do better—” 
“Afraid!” interrupted Nahum scorn¬ 
fully. “Afraid! No one ever amounted 
to anything who was afraid.” 
“But Oregon, Nahum! It is so far. 
How can we get there? Remember 
there are six of us.” 
“I remember—everything,” said Na¬ 
hum expansively. “And I am glad to 
notice that you begin to see s'^nse. 
When you begin to ask about ways and 
means I always know that you are com¬ 
ing around. Well, then, in the first 
place I’m not going to take you and the 
children this Fall. I’m going out there 
alone, and through the Winter I’m 
going to get ready to send for you In 
the Spring.” 
“But how are you going to get the 
money?” 
“I’m going to put another mortgage 
on the place to get my fare, and in the 
Spring you can sell the farm to get 
yours and the children’s.” 
“Mortgage!” How Sarah hated the 
word! She did not ask Nahum what 
they were to live on, nor how they were 
to pay the interest money. He had 
thought of everything, so ne had prob¬ 
ably thought of that. What was the 
use to speak about it? 
The look of patient resignation deep¬ 
ened, and for the remaining two weeks 
before Nahum went Sarah repaired his 
clothes and got everything in readiness, 
saying no word of objection to anyone. 
As for Nahum, he was pleasant, as he 
always was when he was having his 
own way, and when he at last took his 
departure his wife wept at parting. 
There were times when Sarah felt 
the charm of her husband’s personality, 
and she loved him much better than he 
deserved, and never for a moment con¬ 
sidered him an incubus. The pale, half- 
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