1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Storiettes. 
Passive Christians. 
Said Uncle Eb: “I recollec’ a man by 
the name o’ Ranney over ’n Vermont— 
he was a pious man. Got into an argi- 
ment an’ a feller slapped him in the 
face. Ranney turned t’other side an’ 
then t’other, an’ the feller kep’ a-slap- 
pin’ hot ’n heavy. It was jes’ like strap- 
pin’ a razor fer half a minit. Then Ran¬ 
ney sailed in—gin him the wust lickin’ 
he ever hed.” 
“ ‘I declare,’ says another man, after 
’twas all over, ‘I thought you was a 
Christian.’ 
“ ‘Am up i. a certain p’int,’ says he. 
‘Can’t go too fur—not ’n these parts— 
men are tew powerful. ’Twon’t do, ’less 
ye wan’ t’ die sudden. When he begun 
poundin’ uv me I see I wan’t eggzac’ly 
prepared.’ 
“ ‘Fraid’s a good deal that way with 
most uv us. We’re Christians up to a 
cert’in p’int. Fer one thing, I think if 
a man’ll stan’ still an’ see himself 
knocked into the nex’ world, he’s a lit¬ 
tle tew good fur this.”—From “Eben 
Holden,” by Irving Bacheller. 
What is Sauce tor the Goose. 
The groom entered alone and said con¬ 
fidentially, ‘‘Do you use the word ‘obey’ 
in your marriage service, Mr. —1” 
‘‘No,” said the minister, “I do not, usual¬ 
ly.” “Well,” said the expectant Bene¬ 
dict, “I have come to ask you to marry 
me now, and I want it used.” “Certain¬ 
ly,” replied the other, “it shall be done,” 
and presently the couple stood solemnly 
before him. “James T-said the 
clergyman, "do you take this woman to 
be your wended wife?” “I do.” “Do 
you solemnly promise to love, honor and 
obey her, so long as you both shall 
live?” Horror and rebellion struggled 
with the sanctities of the occasion on 
the bridegroom’s face, but he chokingly 
responded, ‘I do,” and the meek bride 
decorously promised in her turn. After 
the ceremony was over, the bridegroom 
said excitedly aside to the grave min¬ 
ister: “You misunderstood me, sir, you 
misunderstood me! I referred to the 
woman’s promising to obey.” “Ah, did 
you, indeed?” serenely answer his rev¬ 
erence, “but I think what is good for one 
side is good for the other, don i you? 
and, my friend, it is my advice to you 
to say nothing more about it, for as an 
old married man, I can tell you, you’ll 
have to obey anyhow!”—Woman’s Jour¬ 
nal. 
True to Her Principles. 
A pretty and pathetic little story of 
adherence to principle under trying cir¬ 
cumstances is told by the Youth’s Com¬ 
panion, of old woman who lived in 
the heart of the mountain region of New 
Hampshire. The nearest church was 14 
miles from her roughly built home in a 
logging camp, and her nearest neighbor 
was over eight miles distant. Finally 
the beauty of an intervale two miles 
from the camp drew to it a number of 
people, and at last a hotel was built 
When the hotel had been open for some 
weeks, the wife of the proprietor one 
day received a call from her neighbor of 
the logging camp. 
“It’s a sight of comfort to me to have 
you so near,” said the woman, wistfully. 
“I used to have neighbors where we 
lived before we came here. I'm too busy 
to get away from the house on week 
days generally, but Sunday afternoons 
ever since you came I’ve walked down 
to a gap in the woods, and there I can 
look through and see the smoke coming 
out of your cnimney, if it’s a good clear 
day, such as we sometimes have. It’s 
real company for me.” 
“You poor, dear soul!” said the warm¬ 
hearted landlady, with tears in her eyes. 
“Why haven’t you come down here any 
and every Sunday to have a talk with 
me?” 
“You’re real kind,” said her visitor, 
with a flush of pleasure, “but you see 
I was raised among folks that didn’t hold 
to Sunday visiting, and I’ve tried to 
keep to my principles just the same 
’way off here. The first time I saw that 
smoke coming out of your chimney,” she 
admitted, with a trembling smile, “it did 
seem as if I’d got to come, but I thought 
of the way I was raised, and I managed 
to hold firm. And when he offered to 
come down with me of a week-day, I 
felt repaid and rewarded, after only 
waiting seven weeks, ma’am!” 
Rural Recipes. 
Nature is ever kind, 
For melons do not sigh; 
The frost is on the pumpkin, 
The crust is on the pie. 
—Philadelphia Record. 
At this time of year, with the prices 
of eggs advancing each week, it is 
thought by some extravagant to make 
angel cake. I send two recipes which, 
I think, are as economical as any I 
make, says M. D. I., Granby, Mass.: 
Angel Cake.—Whites of four eggs, 
beaten stiff; % cupful granulated sugar, 
pinch of salt in sugar, y 2 cupful ordi¬ 
nary (not pastry) flour; % teaspoonful 
of cream of tartar in flour. Flavor; 
bake in angel-cake tin 30 or 3o minutes 
in moderate oven. 
Sunshine Cake.—Yolks of four eggs 
well beaten, % cupful butter, one cupful 
sugar, all wea beaten together; V/ 2 cup¬ 
ful of pastry flour, one teaspoonful of 
baking powder in flour, % cup milk; 
flavor. Beat all thoroughly together. 
Bake about 45 minutes. 
Venetian Cake.—This makes a hand¬ 
some loaf, and is very good. Beat to¬ 
gether the yolks of six eggs and half a 
pint of sugar for 20 minutes. Fold in the 
stiffly beaten whites and mix in lightly 
414 rounded tablespoonfuls of flour. Pour 
into a buttered mold dusted with equal 
parts of flour and sugar. Bake half an 
hour, with an increasing heat, putting 
it into a moderate oven at first. When 
done invert it on the pastry rack, and 
when cold frost with a vanilla chocolate 
icing. 
Spiced Molasses Wafers.—This is one 
of the daintiest gingerbreads. One cup¬ 
ful of brown sugar, one-half of a cupful 
of molasses, one tablespoonful of but¬ 
ter, one-half of a teaspoonful ot pow¬ 
dered cinnamon, one-quarter of a tea¬ 
spoonful of cloves, one-quarter of a tea¬ 
spoonful of allspice, two tablespoonfuls 
of flour. Put the molasses, sugar and 
butter in a saucepan and boil gently over 
the fire until, when tried in cold water, 
a little of the mixture can be rolled in¬ 
to a very soft ball between the fingers; 
cover and set aside until cold. Add the 
spice, then the flour, and a pinch of salt. 
Butter liberally a number of shallow 
tins. Make a tester by dropping a tea¬ 
spoonful of the mixture on a greased 
pan and baking it in a hot oven. This 
is necessary, as with some brands of 
flour a trifle more may be indicated. The 
mixture will spread very much and 
when taken from the oven the cake will 
be as thin as a wafer and should be 
taken at once from the pan. 
Ginger Wafers.—These will be a de¬ 
sirable addition to the school lunch. 
One-half cupful sugar; take a cup, put 
in three tablespoonfuls of hot water, 
five of melted shortening, one even tea¬ 
spoonful soda. Fill the cup with mo¬ 
lasses, pinch of salt, one tablespoonful 
ginger, one dessertspoonful of vanilla. 
Roll thin, cut in squares and bake in a 
quick oven. These will keep for a long 
time in a dry place. 
Chocolate Fruit Cookies.—Cream thor¬ 
oughly together one-half of a cupful of 
butter and one cupful of sugar; mix to¬ 
gether two tablespoonfuls of grated 
chocolate, one tablespoonful of sugar 
and two tablespoonfuls of water and 
cook for a moment over the tire until 
smooth, then add to the butter and 
sugar. Add two well-beaten eggs, one 
cupful of seeded and chopped raisins, 
one pint of flour in which is mixed one 
MOTHERS. —Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Sootl ’ng Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best — Ain. 
teaspoonful of baking powder; then add 
more flour until just stiff enough to roll 
out quite thin. Bake in a moderate 
oven. 
Momaters.—We do not know the ori¬ 
gin of this name, or of the fried short¬ 
cake called by it. Make a dough with 
baking powder, the same as for biscuit, 
only a little stiffer. Put enough lard 
into a frying pan to cover the bottom. 
Roll the dough into very thin round 
sheets a trifle smaller than the bottom 
of the frying pan. Put a cake into the 
pan, turn when brown, cooking both 
sides. When done remove the cake, 
spread with butter and a layer of nice¬ 
ly-cooked and sweetened apple sauce. 
Lay another cake on top, spread witn 
butter and powdered sugar. Serve hot. 
A Famous Woman. 
The general idea of the Empress of 
China is of a cruel and fanatical wom¬ 
an, who will go to any lengths to gratify 
her hatred of foreigners and their cus¬ 
toms. That, in reality, she can be very 
gracious is shown by her reception of 
the women belonging to the foreign le¬ 
gations, two years ago. This was a de¬ 
cided innovation on her part, being the 
first time such a reception was given. 
One of the guests thus described the 
visit: 
“Her Majesty was dressed in a pale 
yellow silk gown, beautifully embroider¬ 
ed with flowers and dragons of the same 
color. She wore the headdress com¬ 
monly worn by Chinese women, the hair 
being fastened in a knot at the back, 
just below the crown, the front of the 
head and a part of the forehead being 
concealed by a silk band heavily em¬ 
broidered with pearls of large size. I 
was struck xvith Her Majesty’s youthful 
appearance, bhe was 64, but she looked 
10 years younger. Her face was plump 
and free from wrinkles. She had a high 
forehead, elongated perhaps by the cus¬ 
tom of the Chinese ladies of pulling out 
the ^airs at the edge of the forehead 
with tweezers. She had a strong face, 
and in youth must have been very pret¬ 
ty. During the audience she frequently 
smiled, and I could see no signs of that 
cruelty with which she has been 
charged. 
“Her Majesty made us welcome to the 
palace and to China. She said she was 
glad, indeed, to receive us as foreign¬ 
ers, and that we should be friendly with 
one another, for were we not all of one 
family? The banquet was fine, being 
made up of many courses, and consisted 
of both Chinese and foreign dishes. Af¬ 
ter the banquet the Empress Dowager 
again met informally with the ladies, 
drinking tea with each of them in turn, 
and in some cases throwing ner arm 
about one and embracing her. 
“At this time she gave each lady a 
present of a beautiful gold ring set with 
a beautiful pearl as big as a marrowfat 
pea, three silk dresses from the royal 
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