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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 28 
From Day to Day. 
SAREPTY BROWN, 
Tne purtiest woman in this town 
Is little old Sarepty Brown. 
I know she’s wrinkled, gray an’ bent— 
An’ some folks sez she gossips, too; 
She knows who’s come an’ knows who’s 
went 
An’ what they did or didn’t do— 
But. say, when maw was sick that Spring 
With typhoid fever, S’repty Brown, 
She come an’ shouldered eyer’thlng. 
When maw got up. w’y she was down! 
An’ when Mort Perkins’ little girl 
Got sick that time an’ like to died— 
Yes, sir, Mis’ Peters’d clipped a curl 
To ’member her, an’ cried an’ cried— 
Sarepty Brown, she nursed all night 
An’ day, an’ night an’ day again. 
An’ never rested, when she might 
’A’ sort o’ idled now an’ then. 
An’ that’s the way. where folks is sick 
Or sorrowful, or in distress, 
Sarepty Brown, through thin an’ thick 
Can find some way their lives to bless. 
An’ people sez ’at when she bends 
An’ holds her hand against their brow 
It seems like when a angel sends 
A healin’ balm to cure, somehow. 
I ain’t no preacher; got no creed; 
Ner artickles o’ faith; but, say, 
God knew what all us folks ’d need 
An’ sent Sarepty Brown this way. 
I can’t see any wrinkled face 
Or faded hair; when I see her 
I see th’ golden glow o' grace 
Right straight fum glory, I do, sir! 
Th’ purtiest woman in this town 
Is little old Sarepty Brown. 
- W. D. Nesblt, in Chicago Tribune. 
* 
Whose ideals are you trying to live up 
to—your own, or those your neighbors 
have set for you? 
* 
An oW I^uisiana recipe for hoecake 
calls for a cupful of cornmeal, sifted 
with a pinch of salt, and mixed with a 
little boiling water. Let it get cold, then 
make into small round cakes, pinch 
them on top, and bake; eat while hot. 
Brown seems likely to be a favorite 
color the coming Winter, after being re¬ 
tired to the background for a long time. 
The Scotch tweeds used to make so many 
handsome suits and coats show beauti¬ 
ful combinations of brown shot with 
green or red threads. In solid colors 
there are all shades from seal to tan, 
including some especially pretty tones 
of Havana, coffee and burnt bread. A 
woman with bright color can wear al¬ 
most any shade of brown, but if sallow 
she wiU do well to confine herself to 
the deeper rich shades, avoiding tan or 
A Cat Elevator. —The Boston Jour¬ 
nal remarks that it has become such an 
every-day convenience to be hoisted in 
an elevator car at railroad speed to the 
tenth floor of a high office building that 
one regards it as a matter of course. It 
has remained for an East Weymouth 
couple, however, to apply the principle 
of the elevator to the feline economy of 
the household with gratifying results. 
Mr. and Mrs. G. live In upper apart¬ 
ments; therefore Mr. G. had to go down 
and up stairs every time their half- 
grown kitten was put out of doors or 
let in. This became monotonous. So 
one day Mr. G. placed the cat in a bas¬ 
ket, tied a rope to the handle, and low¬ 
ered the cat, Paul-like, to the ground. 
The cat evidently grasped the (situation 
at once, for since that time time she 
has rarely been let in or out of the door, 
but has made her perpendicular pilgrim¬ 
ages with all the gravity of an old busi¬ 
ness man. The most remarkable cir¬ 
cumstance is that (she now gets into the 
basket as it rests on the ground beneath 
the window and mews lustily until taken 
in. 
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demonstrations in domestic science so 
freely given in large cities, and it is 
right that such opportunities should be 
brought within their reach. No matter 
how compe^nt a housekeeper may be, 
there is always something for her to 
learn, especially when the instruction 
leads to a greater respect for the dignity 
of her work. 
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For baking we prefer spaghetti to 
macaroni, as well as for serving boiled 
with tomato sauce. We also like it made 
into a baked sweet pudding, first boii^ng 
it until tender, then putting in an 
earthen dish, and pouring over it egg 
and milk sweetened and flavored, like a 
bread pudding, baking until nicely set. 
Macaroni chunks, used for baking or 
putting in soup, cost 12 cents a pound; 
they are short broad strips of macaroni, 
partially curled. Crinkled macaroni, 
which is 20 cents a pound, consists of 
narrow strips crinkled or twisted. Ger¬ 
man macaroni, which costs 12 cents a 
pound, is much deeper in color than 
Italian. Noodles, which cost 10 to 16 
cents a pound, are made in strips, stars 
and alphabets. They are very nice in 
soup. 
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The newest of all fur garments this 
season are made of something siljky, 
shining long-haired, uneven in length, 
and jet black. It is new to the younger 
generation, but the elders will remember 
it as Brazilian monkey, popular for 
muffs and shoulder capes 20 years ago. 
At that time sleeves were made very 
high on the shoulders, scant and tight 
below, so the monkey capes followed the 
same outline, being very skimpy at the 
elbows and as altitudinous as the back 
of a camel over the shoulders. They 
look very grotesque to us now; perhaps 
the smart monkey coats just appearing, 
long and loose, with flowing sleeves and 
big stole collars banded with ermine, 
will look as odd in 20 years’ time. The 
most fashionable expensive fur, how¬ 
ever, is moleskin; it must be very pain¬ 
ful to women who bought costly Siberian 
squirrel furs last Winter to find that it 
is entirely in the shade Uiis season. 
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Flannel and flannelette nightgowns 
used to be worn only by exceptionally 
chilly persons, and their utilitarian 
ugliness made them out of favor with Banner Lye is not old-style lye, and 
n,ost young women. It is evident, how- ^ afmlleTrruch 
ever, that the demand for them has in- Banner Lye not only keeps your 
creased, for they appear in more variety ^ milk-pans and dairy 
than ever Urn Fall among readymade “makes 
garments, and are prettily trimmed in ^ ^ ’ 
numerous styles. The prettiest have PufC Soap 
Banner Lye 
Patented 
Safety Package 
cafe au lait. The judicious use of a lit- numerous styles. The prettiest have 
tie pale blue, rose, bright red or gold in cuffs and neck-trimming of mercerized 
the trimming often makes brown becom- sateen with hemstitched tucks and frills, -yyithout boiling or large kettles, and in 
blue or pink to match the colored stripe minutes 
of the flannelette. The necks are high lo-cent can makes ten pounds of hard 
but cut square with sateen bands and twentv gallons of soft soap—the 
frills All-wnnl flannel nightgowns, soap, or iwenry gctnuuo uj. °^ 
ing to women who would not look well 
in it if the color was unrelieved. 
Says Maarten Moartens, in pessimis¬ 
tic mood: “It is an irritating, nay 
more, a deeply saddening problem for 
a wise dyspeptic to ponder, the super¬ 
abundance in this little world of ours of 
things cookable, and the extreme rarity 
of cooks.” A disrespectful Spanish pro¬ 
verb puts the matter more bluntly, for 
it says: “Heaven sends victuals, but the 
devil sends the cooks.” There are plenty 
of good cooks, however, among women 
who do not go out to earn a living by 
this art; the trouble is that we are prone 
to forget that it is an art and a science; 
we think that every woman should cook 
by the light of nature. A recent writer 
in the Home Science Magazine suggests 
that cooking lectures and demonstra¬ 
tions might be a valuable feature at 
agricultural fairs, and we endorse the 
suggestion very heartily. Such lectures 
were shown to possess great interest at 
farmers’ institutes, and the fairs would 
be an extension of their usefulness. It 
is difficult, if not impossible, for many 
rural women to attend the lectures andi 
frnis All-wool flannel nignigowns, soap you ever saw or made, 
which are quite expensive, are similiarly _ ^ t.v« for lo 
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gowns are trimmed with finishing braid free our book” Use* o/ Banner Lj/e.” 
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in time telling mean,/' 
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Cheap eggs 
are as good as 
cheap lamp- 
chimneys. 
Macbeth. 
If you use a wrong chimney, you lose a 
good deal of both light and comfort, and 
waste a dollar or two a year a lamp on 
chimneys. 
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