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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 5 
From Day to Day. 
MA'S PHYSICAL CULTURE. 
Sis takes calisthenics, 
Injun clubs an’ such, 
l^eaches f’r her toes ten times 
’N’ each time makes ’em touch; 
Raises up her arms an’ 
Sweeps ’em all around. 
Kicks her heels three times ’ithout 
Ever touchin’ th’ ground. 
Ma takes phys’cal culture 
In th’ washin’ tub— 
Gets th’ clo’es an’ soaks ’em down 
’N’ ’en begins to rub; 
Makes ten thousand motions 
Up an’ down 'at way— 
She gets lots o' exercise 
In a workin’ day! 
Sis goes t’ th’ gym an’ 
Travels on the rings, 
’N’ ’en she takes a big, deep breath, 
’N’ ’en she yells an’ sings— 
Says it’s good f’r weakness 
In th’ lungs; an’ say! 
Tennis is her hardest work— 
tliight t’ see her play! 
Ma, she washes dishes, 
’N’ ’en she sweeps th’ floor, 
•N” ’en she scrubs th’ marble steps 
Clear up t’ th’ door; 
’N’ ’en she chops th’ kindlin’ 
When her work is through— 
Hast t’ do it. ’cause pa, he’s 
Calisthenic, too! 
Both take phys’cal culture. 
But I tell you this; 
They’s lots o’ diff’unce ’tween th’ kind 
My ma takes, an’ Sis! 
—Baltimore News. 
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Military coats offered for women’s 
wear are made in bljie, gray or red, with 
contrasting facings. They are tight- 
fitting, with high military collar and 
deep turnover cuffs inlaid with white or 
other contrasting broadcloth, braid and 
button trimmings. Three-quarter length, 
they cost $30 to $50; hip length $25 to 
$45. The brass buttons and large mili¬ 
tary capes are also seen on many tweed 
coats. 
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Dkkks are sometimes described abroad 
as the poor man’s asparagus, but they 
appear little used in this country, ex¬ 
cept in soup. Boiled and served with 
drawn butter they make an acceptable 
dish, much more delicate in flavor than 
onions. They are also parboiled, soaked 
in spiced vinegar, and then dipped in 
batter and* fried. The boiled leeks are 
sometimes served as a relish with fish, 
or are nice with boiled mutton. 
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One of the novelties recently noted 
when shopping was the Three-minute 
bread maker. It is said to mix and 
knead the bread in three minutes, and 
it really is very expeditious, beside sav¬ 
ing a Ipt of hard work. Instead of chop¬ 
ping the bread together, as most of the 
old bread mixers do, it works the dough 
with a sort of rotary motion, and is 
very simple in construction. The Three- 
minute bread maker costs $2.25, and is 
certainly a great saver of time and 
labor. 
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Tears and worn places in cloth fab¬ 
rics can be darned most satisfactorily on 
the sewing machine, says the Delinea¬ 
tor. Thread the machine with silk or 
cotton, of the same color as the fabric. 
Do not loosen the presser foot; have the 
stitch of moderate length; begin the 
stitching a little beyond the damaged 
place. For places that are worn thin or 
frayed, put in rows of stitching, close 
together. Cross these with other rows 
of stitching; this will give a smooth, fine 
texture. Where the fabric is worn thin, 
baste a piece of the same kind of goods 
on the wrong side and darn over it. If 
there is none of the same material, a 
piece of net or muslin will answer. If 
the colors in the fabric are mixed, have 
the upper thread of the machine of the 
more pronounced and the under thread 
of the minor color. 
Cold cooked fi.sh of any kind is used 
in making fish kedgeree. Remove all 
skin and bones and pick the fish lightly 
apart. Measure, and for each cupful al¬ 
low an equal quantity of rice which has 
been boiled so that the grains are sep¬ 
arate. Place a tablespoonful of butter in 
a frying pan and when melted stir in 
the rice and fish. Cook until well 
blended, then season with salt and black 
and cayenne peppers. Break two eggs 
in a bowl, beat until light and pour over 
the rice and fish. Stir and cook over a 
hot fire for two or three minutes. Serve 
very hot. 
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There is always a possibility that the 
person whom we regard as a proper ob¬ 
ject for sympathy may look upon him¬ 
self in another light, says the Youth’s 
Companion. This interesting and in¬ 
structive surprise often awaits the well- 
meaning bearer of condolence. 
When Mrs. Hastings learned that her 
old friend, Mrs. Warren, had become 
“stun deef’ she went, with a long face, 
to see her. 
“It must be an awful cross, Laviny,” 
she wrote on the slate which Mrs. War¬ 
ren presented to her as soon as she was 
seated. 
“’Tain’t either!” snapped the afflict¬ 
ed one, who, though deaf, was by no 
means dumb. “Folks that have got any¬ 
thing to say can write it on that slate. 
And Henry Warren, that’s had to put a 
curb on his tongue for upward o’ 30 
years on account of the high temper he 
took from his mother’s folks, is now 
able to say anything he likes and no 
feelings hurt. I count my deafness a 
real blessing. How’s your rheuma¬ 
tism?” 
Here is a dishwashing suggestion 
fi’om a correspondent of the Woman’s 
Home Companion: 
There i.s no work in the whole round of 
household duties so wearing to me as that 
of washing and wiping dishes. The wash¬ 
ing must be done, but the wiping need not 
—except the silver and tinware. I had an 
old ice-box, in the bottom of which was a 
zinc lining, that extended up the sides 
about six inches, with a short lead pipe 
soldered in—the waste-pipe of the ice-box. 
I took this box, and placed it on cleats 
between two closets in the kitchen, near 
the sink. Under the pipe I placed an old 
pitcher to catch the drainage After I have 
washed my dishes in good hot suds, I put 
them in a pan, and pour scalding water 
over them. In the case of glasses I am 
careful not to have it too hot, for fear of 
cracking them. In hot weather, if the wash¬ 
ing-suds have been good and hot, the 
rinsing-water may be cold. 1 am careful 
to rinse thoroughly on both sides, for 
which reason the pan is pi’eferable to the 
wire drainer. In the bottom of the ice¬ 
box are two wire drainers, and above them 
two narrow, movable shelves on cleats. 
After being rinsed, the dishes are placed 
in the drainers, the graniteware on the 
shelves, and the cover of the box closed, 
They are thus safe from dust, and stay 
there until dry. when they are put on the 
table or in closets. There is no lint to be 
polished off the glasses, little washing of 
wipers and little wear of them, and I 
have the extra time to put into work that 
is necessary. A box that will serve as a 
drainer may be made of a good-sized 
grocer’s box with a crack in the bottom 
at one end, or a small tub wdth holes bored 
in one end of the bottom. Either of these 
may be set at one end of the sink, the 
holes coming over the sink for drainage, 
and a strip of wood under the other end, 
on the shelf of the sink, to make the water 
run into the sink. 
Chocolate Cottage Pltdding. —It was 
an experiment and it was a success. I 
made an ordinary one-egg cake with two 
heaping teaspoonfuls of cocoa sifted in 
with the flour, and baked it in a loaf. 
Chocolate pudding we had always eaten 
with an egg sauce, but this time we 
tried a lemon sauce and found it much 
more interesting and not so cloying. 
M. B. R. 
Nancy’s Real Thanksgiving. 
“Thanksgiving? Yes, we had a pleas¬ 
ant Thanksgiving—very pleasant. We 
w^ent to Nancy’s—John’s sister, you 
know. We’ve been there every year for 
some time. She lives at the old home¬ 
stead, where they were all born, and 
what’s left of the family likes to go there 
once a year. I don’t generally enjoy it 
a bit, ’cause Nancy is one of them folks 
that ’most kill themselves getting ready 
for Thanksgiving and try to cook every¬ 
thing that ever was heard of. She gets 
all beat out and is as blue as a whet¬ 
stone. But this year it was differenr. 
I’ll tell you about it. 
“It was two weeks before Thanksgiv¬ 
ing and I’d got to thinking about Nancy. 
I w’ondered if I could do anything to 
cheer her up and make the work any 
easier for her. I’d been staying right 
close to home for some time and mind¬ 
ing my own business, and that don’t 
agree with me over and above. ‘No, As- 
enath,’ I says to myself, ‘it’ll do you 
good to go and mix in with somebody 
else’s affairs that don’t concern you. 
You’ll be sick if you keep on the way 
you’ve been doing.’ So that night I ask¬ 
ed John if he s’posed he could get along 
without me for a week or so. 
“I wa’n’t never one of these women 
that does her best to make a helpless 
baby of her husband. I made up my 
mind when I was first married that I 
was going to have some liberty as well 
as John. So, rainy days, I learned him 
to cook, and he got so he was able to 
take care of himself as nice as could be 
and let me go off on little visits. He 
was always real glad to see me back 
again, and we thought a sight more of 
each other than as if we’d been around 
under each other’s noses every minute. 
Some folks thought I was terrible to go 
off and leave John alone that way, but 
good land, what did I care for that? 
“So when I asked John if he could get 
along, he looked over his glasses at me 
and says: ‘I ain’t in my second child¬ 
hood yet awhile as I know of, and I 
shouldn’t wonder if I could get alon.g 
and not set myself afire or starve to 
death.’ 
“ ‘I thought I’d like to go and help 
Nancy about Thanksgiving,’ I says. 
‘And maybe I can cheer her up a little.’ 
“ ‘If you can do that,” .says John, ‘I’d 
be willing to bach it for a month. I don’t 
see what makes her so blue, late years. 
She used to be the jolliest girl that ever 
was.’ 
“ ‘1 know it,’ I says. ‘That’s why I 
think p’r’aps I can do something for her. 
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