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rilE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 12 
[ Woman and Home ] 
Prom Day to Day. 
SONG. 
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of con¬ 
tent; 
The quiet mind is richer than a crown; 
Sweet are the nights in careless slumber 
spent; 
The poor estate scorns fortune’s angry 
frown; 
Such sweet content, such minds, such 
sleep, such bliss. 
Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. 
The homely house that harbors quiet rest; 
The cottage that affords no pride nor 
care; 
The wean that ’grees with country music 
best; 
The sweet consort of mirth and music’s 
fare; 
Obscured life sets down a type of bliss— 
A mind content both crown and kingdom 
is. 
—Robert Greene (1560-1.192). 
* 
We recently tasted whipped-cream 
cake for the first time, and it is recalled 
with a good deal of enthusiasm. It was 
a rich two-layer cake, having whipped 
cream, sweetened and flavored, spread 
between the layers, and on top. Of 
course this should always be freshly 
made when served. Crystallized ginger 
cut up and dotted over the top, is a 
pleasing addition; this confection com¬ 
bines deliciously with whipped or frozen 
cream. 
* 
Olive oil should always be treated 
carefully to insure its continuing of good 
quality. Never allow the oil to remain 
exposed to a glaring light; a dark closet 
or cool cellar is the best place, and the 
bottle should be carefully corked. It is 
also well, when the cork is first drawn, 
to wipe the mouth of the bottle care¬ 
fully, and then use a fresh cork, dis¬ 
carding the old one pierced by the cork¬ 
screw. When carelessly treated even 
the best oil deteriorates rapidly, and dis¬ 
satisfaction results. 
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At this season the prune comes for¬ 
ward to help out the deficiency of fresh 
fruits. Properly cooked it is very differ¬ 
ent from the leathery and wrinkled fruit, 
surrounded by muddy-looking syrup, so 
often seen. Food demonstrators sgy that 
prunes should be soaked for 20 hours 
before cooking, and then simmered very 
gently for three or four hours; never 
boiled hard, because this toughens the 
skin. Cooked in this way no sugar is 
added, because good prunes contain 18 
per cent of sugar, according to Califor¬ 
nian authorities, and this is brought out 
by scientific cooking. As a variation 
from plain stewing spiced prunes are 
very nice. Wash and soak over night 
a pint of prunes in water enough to 
cover well. Stew until the skins are 
soft, then pour off the water and add a 
cupful of good cider vinegar, two cups 
of sugar, cloves and cinnamon to suit 
the taste. 
Among coral ornaments seen in a shop 
devoted to fine Italian goods was a neck¬ 
lace of rose white coral, one of the rare 
and beautiful forms of this material. It 
is creamy white flushed and marbled 
with flesh and pale rose. The necklace 
was formed of a single row of round 
beads, graduated in size from that of a 
hickorynut to a pea, small crystal beads 
occurring between the coral. The neck¬ 
lace was valued at $200. The pink and 
red coral still retains its vogue, and is 
very fashionable. We also notice many 
handsome ornaments of cut jet, neck¬ 
laces, hair ornaments and brooches. The 
sparkling Whitby jet, beautifully cut, 
has always remained in fashion abroad, 
especially in England. Its brilliancy 
makes it very different from the dull 
jet or bog-oak worn in mourning. Bog 
oak ornaments are almost unknown 
here; the wood, which is very hard and 
black as ebony, is dug up in peat bogs 
and carved into various trinkets, many 
of which are purchased by tourists as 
souvenirs of Ireland. 
* 
In reading those essays upon “One 
Day’s Work on the Farm” a woman 
who has lived much among city and 
suburban people is very strongly im¬ 
pressed by the abundance, variety and 
good quality of the food referred to. 
The early commuter who bolts some 
ready-to-eat cereal and a cup of coffee, 
and then rushes to catch his train, may 
well envy the farmer who has baked po¬ 
tatoes, baked apples, homemade sau¬ 
sage, oatmeal gems, fruit cookies and 
coffee for one meal. Not that the man 
engaged in some sedentary occupation 
really needs the hearty meal of his farm 
contemporary; his dietary should be dif¬ 
ferent, but he is not as a rule nearly as 
well fed as the farmer. Cost of living 
has greatly advanced of late years and, 
to too many women it is easier to 
“skimp” on food than on any other 
household department. The average wo¬ 
man does not make up her bill of fare 
on the balanced-ration plan, and her at¬ 
tempts at restriction of expense are not 
always well considered. Another great 
fault where stores are convenient is the 
buying of too much ready-prepared 
food, especially in the line of cakes or 
crackers. These have increased enor¬ 
mously in variety, and are often very 
tempting, but they are largely eaten be¬ 
tween meals, and the purchasers do not 
realize how much they add to the house¬ 
hold bills. There is a great difference, 
too, between buying ready-cooked food 
to lessen the burden of an overworked 
woman, and buying it that the house¬ 
keeper may have more time for trivial 
amusements. 
* 
One of the most enticing shops we 
know is that of a great dealer in orien¬ 
tal goods in New York. His doorway, 
guarded by yawning bronze monsters 
from Japan, leads to all sorts of won¬ 
ders in bronze and china, carved jade 
and ivory, silks and embroideries, as 
well as prosaic mattings and rugs. The 
store is a museum, as well as a trading 
place, and one must be very unobserving 
to leave it without having acquired 
knowledge in some form. It includes 
a department devoted to tea, coffee and 
oriental delicacies, which, to juvenile 
visitors, is quite suggestive of the Ara¬ 
bian Nights. Preserved stem ginger is 
offered in oriental stone pots costing 75 
cents each; crystallized ginger, whose 
sweet pungency is delicious, costs 25 
cents for a half-pound tin. Imported 
Turkish delight is a rich fig paste flavor¬ 
ed with almond, pistachio, filbert, ber¬ 
gamot, rose, orange or lemon, for 35 to 
50 cents a box, packed in wooden drums. 
Preserved kumquats are delicious little 
oranges in oriental stone crocks at 35 
and 70 cents. There is a variety of 
stuffed fruits, large prunes pitted and 
stuffed with the same fruit, 30 cents for 
a half-pound box; dates stuffed with pe¬ 
can, walnut, almond, ginger, pineapple 
or orange, 35 cents a pound; stuffed 
raisins, which are excellenr, with nut 
fillings, 40 and 60 cents; stuffed figs, 50 
cents. There are dry lichi nuts such as 
the Chinese laundrymen display at times 
of festivity; they have a rough but ten¬ 
der shell enclosing a raisin-like pulp 
surrounding a large round stone. They 
cost 30 cents a pound. Japanese rice 
candy, costing 35 cents a pound, is sold 
in assorted flavors; it is packed in pretty 
boxes, and is very good; a combination 
of sugar and rice flour. There are pickles 
and curries from India, most of them 
tasting like a highly colored conflagra¬ 
tion, and a_ variety of tropical sauces. 
All these dainties appeal strongly to the 
eye, as well as to the palate, and the 
shopper who drops in for a cup of tea in 
the quaint little Chinese tea room that 
forms a feature of the establishment is 
quite likely to invest in these alluring 
groceries at the same time. 
Pin Money. 
I have never known the woman who 
had all the pin money she wanted, be 
she farmer’s wife, or a dweller in the 
city; whether she had $10 at her com¬ 
mand, or 10 cents. This last Summer I 
decided that I was going to earn a lot 
of extra pin money, and accordingly, 
womanlike, I figured out on paper just 
how much I wanted to get, and how I 
was going to get it. This is the way 
things presented themselves to me in 
theory. I woul^i need $25 or $30 in the 
Fall, which I was determined to supply 
myself. The blueberry bushes were 
loaded with blossoms, which meant an 
abundance of fruit. I would pick $10 or 
$15 worth of blueberries for one thing, 
and another $10 ought to reward my 
gleanings of the stj|iwberries. I would 
plant sw'eet corn, and sell direct to cus¬ 
tomers in a nearby city, and last but by 
no means least of my resources, I would 
raise chickens. I would set half a 
dozen hens and get (of course) 50 chicks. 
Why, it would be easy as the laziest 
mortal could ask only some way it 
wasn’t. In the first place, frost wither¬ 
ed and blackened the dainty wax bells 
on the blueberrjj bushes, and then the 
strawberries w'ere a flat out-and-out 
failure. My heart sank, but I had the 
chickens yet. I set three hens and got 
14 chicks. Set three more. Two died 
and had to be replaced. I got five chick¬ 
ens that hatching. My father set two 
incubators of 250-egg capacity. I was 
away at the time they were due to 
hatch, but I think the result was about 
40 chicks, of which 10 or a dozen found 
life too strenuous and died. When I re¬ 
turned from my visit, the two lots were 
in the brooder together. I was a little 
indignant and prepared to stand up for 
my I’ighta at first. Father, however, had 
been disgusted with his hatch, and 
turned them over to me, “to do what I 
could with.” I gave them the best of 
attention and succeeded in raising 30. 
Then one night I lost four in some mys¬ 
terious way. I suspect a hen-thief. Re¬ 
cently I sold 11 roosters to a hen man 
for 50 cents apiece, and I have accepted 
an offer of 70 cents apiece for the pul¬ 
lets. They are Barred Plymouth Rocks, 
pure blood, and hatched early in April. 
The grasshoppers, which also are an im¬ 
portant item on our chicks’ bill of fare, 
failed this year, and as a consequence 
my feed bill has been heavier. Still, I 
shall double my money on these chick¬ 
ens, from hatching time. I have also 
made a little on the sweet corn. The 
corn in the garden escaped frost and 
blight. There were only 25 hills of a 
new kind. White Stowell’s Evergreen. I 
sold 19 dozen ears beside the short ears 
and nubs which we used in the house. 
I sold on an average of 12i/4 cents. My 
seed and fertilizers cost me about 60 
cents. ADAH E. COLCOKD. 
The enemy is more easily repulsed if 
we never suffer him to get within us, 
but, upon the very first approach, draw 
up our forces and fight him without the 
gate. Thomas a’Kempis. 
If you have any 
trouble with lamps— 
any trouble whatever 
—send for my Index. 
1 know of no lamp- 
disease that it does not 
cure immediately. 
Costs nothing. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
Absolute Range Perfection 
Sold for Cash 
or on Monthly- 
Payments. 
$10 to $20 
Saved. 
Freight 
paid east 
e( the 
Missis 
eippi 
River am 
north of 
the Teu* 
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Line; 
equalized 
beyoud. 
Your Money Re- 
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Months’ trial if 
Clapp’s Ideal Steel Range 
Is not fiO per cent better tliau others. My superior location ou 
I^ko Krie, where iron^steG), coal, riefglite and skilled lalwir are 
cheaper and best, enables me to furnish a TOI* NOTCH Steel 
Range at a dean saving of $10 to $ 20 . Send for fiee catalogues 
ofallslyles andd^ee) with or W’ithout reservoir, for city town 
or country use. 
CHESTER 0 CLAPP. 602 Summit St.. Toledo. Ohio. 
(Practical Stove and Kange Man.) 
SAVE y> your fuel 
or get all the 
hea t y ou pay 
for.When you 
use a Rochester 
Radiator you do, 
Rochester Radiator Co.i 
Fully Guaran¬ 
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for boob» 
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hGaitag 
bouses. 
"'Glen Rock” 
All Wool 
Clothing^ 
Direct from Mill. 
Men’s, Roys’ and Children’s Clothing at a sa-ving 
of 60 per cent. We have the largest mill in the 
country selling clothing direct from the mill to the 
wearer and making the woolens from the raw wool 
under tlie same roof. Our goods are handsomely 
made of all wool and trimmed. The clotli is 
made from fine selected wools. Every garment 
bears our label and is guaranteed for one year. If 
not wearing satisfactorily, may be returned and 
another will be sent free of all expense. 
Our made-to-measure men’s suits for $7.50or§io.00 
would cost 818.00 to $25 at your tailor’s. Handsome 
line of F all and TV in ter Overcoats at an equal saving. 
Hand-shrunk Collars, 
Hand-made Button Holes, 
Padded Shoulders, 
We sell either tailor-made or ready-made clotliing. 
Men’s all wool and worsted trouser’s S 2 ., 82.50 and 
83; handsomely made and trimmed. We have the 
cheapest, strongest and best all wool boys’ clothing. 
Also cloth by the yard or piece, and ladies’ suitings 
and skirtings. Write to-day for samples, etc. 
GLEN ROCK WOOLEN MILLS, 
Somerville, N. J. 
to-day regulates the 
world’s time. 
An Illustrated history of the 
watch sent free upon re- c 
questto ^ 
Elgin National Watch Co., 
Elgin, III. 
