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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 1 
[ Woman and Home j 
From Day to Day. 
A FAR CRY. 
I walk the streets I do not know, 
A stranger, ill at ease; 
And alien faces come and go 
That do not please; 
The very airs that round me blow 
Blow from strange seas. 
I know a hill in mine own land 
Where I would be; 
I know a hearth-fire burning bright 
That burns for me. 
Around that home, this Winter-tide, 
The snow lies deep; 
The midnight moon shines clear and high, 
The vagrant winds are all asleep. 
An exile in this sultry land, 
In dreams 1 seek those snow-fields free, 
The hill, the hearth-fire burning bright, 
And thee. 
—Harriet Boyer, in November Century. 
• 
A traveling peddler in Maine is re¬ 
ported to have driven a sharp trade in 
flour barrels recently. He called on the 
wife of a business man and purchased 
barrels for 10 cents each, and then sold 
them to the head of the household at his 
place of business at 25 cents each. 
Wonder whether the head of the house 
would have paid his wife the same price 
at first hand? 
* 
Florida housekeepers find a substi¬ 
tute for northern cranberries in the 
fleshy flower calyx of the Jamaica sor¬ 
rel or Roselle. This plant, a native of 
the Old-World tropics, is naturalized in 
the West Indies; it is a near relation to 
our common Rose mallow, being bo- 
tanically named Hibiscus Sabdariffa. In 
the South it is sometimes called Jelly 
plant. It can be utilized as a syrup or 
flavoring for a sauce, or for jelly, and 
seems likely to be quite largely grown in 
the South. 
* 
The costliest sausage sold in the 
American market is imported Lyons 
sausage, made in France. It costs 80 
cents to $1 a pound. Lyons sausage is 
made in this country, and is said to be 
better than the imported, but it sells for 
a lower price. It is a large sausage, 
made from beef and pork. The meats 
used are of the very best. The beef is 
chopped to a paste, while the pork is 
cut into irregularly-shaped pieces, which 
show in the sausage when it is cut. It 
is highly seasoned and hard-smoked. It 
is usually served as an appetizer, the 
Russians being especially fond of it. 
* 
A friend asks us for a standard 
recipe for pop-overs. To make them 
without baking powder beat three eggs 
until very light, then add two cupfuls 
of sweet milk and one-half teaspoonful 
of salt. Stir in four cupfuls of flour, 
and see that the batter is very smooth; 
then add one additional cupful of milk 
and a piece of butter the size of an egg, 
melted. Heat the pop-over irons or 
cups, and when they are very hot near¬ 
ly fill with the batter. Bake in a quick 
oven for half an hour. To make pop- 
overs with baking powder requires one 
egg, well beaten, one large spoonful of 
melted butter, two tablespoonfuls of 
sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, 1% 
cupful of flour, salt, and one-fourth tea¬ 
spoonful of baking powder. 
* 
One often sees about the streets of 
New York men or boys selling tissue- 
paper fruit. They are made of loose 
cotton covered with tissue paper; the 
stems of wire, covered with cloth or 
paper, and paper leaves, the whole be¬ 
ing very well done. These fruits are the 
work of Roumanian Jewish women, and 
the favorite models are the orange, shad¬ 
dock, lemon, peach, apricot and pear. 
The imitation is really very good, espe¬ 
cially of oranges. The materials cost 
very little, the completed sprays selling 
for 15 to 25 cents, and the finished prod¬ 
uct appears to sell very well. More than 
500 persons are said to be engaged in 
this industry, the women making the 
fruits, while the men and boys sell 
them, and tney are said to be quite pros¬ 
perous. 
• 
A great many Winter hats are seen 
with crowns of gilt, silver or jet, and 
velvet brims. In small hats or bonnets, 
3641 Long Box Coat. 
4 to 1 9 vears 
the crown is sometimes made of closely- 
wound gold cord. In buying gilt trim¬ 
mings and ornaments, care must be 
taken that where different pieces are to 
be used together they are all the same 
color. Gilt varies a good deal, and a 
deeply-colored gilt trimming may make 
a paler-colored buckle look like silver 
by comparison. Most of the buckles 
this year are very long; some are long 
enough to go half way around the crown 
of a hat. They are rather startling to a 
woman of quiet tastes. One point often 
overlooked in buying a hat is the effect 
of the sides and back. Many a woman 
looks at the front only; is perfectly sat¬ 
isfied with the appearance, and never 
looks at the back or sides at all, where¬ 
as the side view may bring out any de¬ 
fect of features to a startling degree. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Long coats are almost universally be¬ 
coming to little girls in addition to pro¬ 
viding the warmth essential to cold 
weather health and comfort. The box 
model is a favorite one of the season, 
and is never more appropriate and sty¬ 
lish than when worn by children. As a 
rule, the materials are cheviot, melton 
and broadcloth, and the colors brown 
or tan; black, although much liked for 
their elders, is held too gloomy and old 
for children’s wear. The model illus¬ 
trated includes all the latest features 
and is made from tan-colored melton, 
with collar and cuffs of brown velvet, 
and handsome smoked pearl buttons 
down the front. The coat is cut in three 
pieces and is fitted with shoulder and 
under-arm seams, the latter being left 
open for a slight distance at thq bottom, 
and the stitching carried round. The 
little shoulder cape is circular and 
curves up at the back. The fronts are 
faced with cloth, the collar with velvet 
to an inch from the edge, to which point 
cloth is applied, and the two roll back 
and form revers. The sleeves are two- 
seamed and well fitted, and are finished 
with roll-over cuffs curved and flaring 
at the outer edge and faced with velvet 
to match the collar. To cut this coat 
for a girl of eight years of age 2% yards 
of material 50 inches wide will be re¬ 
quired, with *4 yard of velvet for collar 
and cuffs. The pattern No. 3641 is cut 
in sizes for girls of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 
years of age. Price of pattern 10 cents 
from this office. 
The golf cape remains one of the most 
useful of outdoor garments, and is a 
great comfort in providing extra warmth 
when driving. This season the tendency 
is toward less flare than has been the 
case heretofore, and cape collars are 
newer than hoods, but the double-faced 
cloth, designed for the purpose, that is 
light of weight and deliciously soft and 
warm at the same time, is always used. 
As illustrated the color is a rich tan, 
with the under side a plaid showing 
shades of tan and brown, with lines of 
white and red, but Oxford gray, light 
gray, brown, dark green and blue are 
much liked with varying colors for the 
plaid. The model shown is cut with a 
seam down the center back of both the 
cape proper and the two smaller ones 
that form deep collars. The neck is fin¬ 
ished with a high, flaring collar that 
can be turned up against the head or 
rolled over as preferred. The cape col¬ 
lars give additional warmth at the same 
time that they are eminently smart, 
but one or both can be omitted if 
a plainer style is preferred. The 
front edges of the cape are under¬ 
faced. The lower edge and that of the 
upper cape, collar and flaring collar are 
turned under, while the lower cape col¬ 
lar is turned up to the depth of the 
stitching that makes the finish. At the 
throat is a pointed strap of the cloth, 
which buttons from one edge of the col¬ 
lar to ihe other over the hook and eye 
which keep it closed, but buttons and 
buttonholes can be arranged as shown 
in the sketch when desired. To make 
this cape for a woman of medium size 
2 y 2 yards of material 54 inches wide 
will be required. The pattern No. 3627 
3527 Ladies’ Golf Gape. 
32 to 42 in. bust. 
is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 
42-inch bust measure. Price of pattern 
10 cents from this office. 
Pioneer Experiences. 
Neighborly kindness was the rule in 
those early days. It required a three 
days’ journey then to go to market with 
a load of grain and return, and hired 
men were almost an impossible luxury 
and expense to the struggling settler, 
who would have been at a loss how to 
leave his premises to make these neces¬ 
sary trips if it had not been for the cus¬ 
tom of changing works. One neighbor 
would say to another: “Will you do my 
chores while I am gone to market?” A 
ready response was always given. 
Usually all that would be required 
would be to milk and feed a couple of 
cows, care for a colt or two, and some 
calves and yearlings. It would be very 
different now, when those same farms 
carry stock of all kinds enough to re¬ 
quire the entire time of one or two men 
to take proper care of everything during 
the Winter months, when the marketing 
of the grain was mostly done. Spacious 
barns have taken the places of the 
cheaply-made straw sheds, which kept 
the cattle from the blizzards of Winter 
and the chilling east winds of Spring 
and Autumn. Grain raising was then 
the principle business of the farmer. 
Small grain brought him a little money, 
if only a small amount. Wheat then 
brought 50 cents a bushel, but as time 
went by the price went slowly but stead¬ 
ily up to 62 1 / £ cents, then to 75, and 
when it reached $1 the sun of prosperity 
seemed about to shine. 
It is related of one zealous grain rais¬ 
er, that after returning from one of the 
lake ports, and having sold his load of 
wheat for $1.30, he called out the price 
in his sleep; when chaffed about it, he 
explained that he dreamed that he met 
a neighbor who asked him the first 
usual question, after a trip to market 
had been made, “What did you get for 
your wheat,” and he told him. One 
thing that helped to make all the dis¬ 
comforts of pioneer life endurable was 
a man’s equality with his neighbors. A 
man who owned a section of land was 
usually not situated any more comfort¬ 
ably than the one with 40 acres. Lack 
of building material and its cost, as well 
as the more imperative work needing to 
be done first, kept desirable improve¬ 
ments in the background, but the feel¬ 
ing of being as well fixed as his neigh¬ 
bors helped to contentment. 
AUNT RACHEL. 
Let us have faith that right makes 
might, and in that faith let us dare to 
do our duty as we understand it.—Lin¬ 
coln. 
I am more and more convinced that 
our happiness or unhappiness depends 
for more on the way we meet the events 
of life than on the nature of those 
events themselves.—Humboldt. 
According t the sincerity of our de¬ 
sire that our friends may be true and 
our companions wise, and In proportion 
to the earnestness and discretion with 
which we choose both, will be the gen¬ 
eral chances of our happiness and use¬ 
fulness.—Ruskin. 
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