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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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[ Woman and Home | 
From Day to Day. 
MORNING ON THE FARM. 
When the white dove cooes to his drowsy 
mate 
And the birds in the trees rejoice, 
Old Brahma stands on the barnyard gate 
And shouts in a lusty voice: 
“I feel better this mor-rning.” 
And the Bantam thinks ’tis true, 
For he answers back In a tenor tone: 
“Without—a doubt—you do-o.“ 
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The house dog lies with his head on his 
paws 
And blinks at the morning call; 
The cat with a field mouse in her jaws 
Comes running home on the wall; 
While the Brahma heralds the morn again, 
And the Bantam takes the cue: 
“I feel better this mor-rning,” 
“Without—a doubt—you do-o.” 
The birds with a glorious burst of song- 
Make glad the orchard boughs; 
And the farmer, swinging his palls along, 
Goes out to milk the cows; 
The work of the day begins again, 
And the roosters call anew. 
“I feel better this mor-rning,” 
“Without—a doubt—you do-o.” 
—Youth’s Companion. 
LEFT-over ice cream which has melt¬ 
ed may be utilized in making cookies or 
other small cakes. In modifying the 
recipe to use this, leave out all the milk, 
and for every cupful of the cream omit 
one tablespoonful of butter and one- 
fourth cupful of sugar. If the cake bat¬ 
ter requires more flavoring than that 
given by the cream, add a little of the 
some sort. 
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At this season it is sometimes dis¬ 
covered that some of the canned fruit is 
beginning to ferment or “work.” Pears, 
peaches or plums in this condition may 
be transformed into sweet pickle. Drain 
the juice from the fruit, setting the lat¬ 
ter in a cold place. Boil down the juice 
to half its quantity; then to two quarts 
of this syrup add a half cupful of vine¬ 
gar and enough brown sugar to give the 
usual flavor of a sweet pickle, flavored 
abundantly with spices tied up in a mus¬ 
lin bag. Boil again until thickened, add 
the fruit to this scalding syrup, and boil 
for a few minutes, not long enough to 
mash the fruit. Seal up while hot. 
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We recently saw a household utensil 
of Colonial days which would be a 
puzzle to most modern housekeepers. It 
was a wooden bowl, its capacity three 
pints or more, attached to a handle 
about four feet long. It was a pie filler, 
a name which gives little explanation of 
its real use. In the old days, when bak¬ 
ing was done in a cavernous brick or 
stone oven, the pie plates were lined 
with crust for custard or similar pies 
and put into the oven without their fill¬ 
ing; when this was partly baked, the 
custard was poured in without moving 
the pie plates, the long-handled filler 
enabling the housekeeper to reach the 
pies in the depths of the oven. Prob¬ 
ably no Colonial housewife would con¬ 
sider her kitchen properly appointed 
without a pie filler, though to us it is 
as useless as a candle mold. 
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The first wild greens sought for in the 
Spring are the marsh marigolds, locally 
known as cowslips (Caltha palustris), 
whose shining golden flowers brighten 
wet and swampy ground. The young 
growth is cooked like spinach, and is 
usually served with boiled bacon or 
pork. Later we may have dandelion 
greens, and if some of the dandelion 
plants are bleached under a board, an 
appetizingly bitter and wholesome salad 
is obtained. Purslane is another com¬ 
mon wild plant which may be boiled as 
a vegetable, all the tender parts being 
used, but not the root or stump. The 
French pickle the tender shoots of this 
plant. In some localities the first ten¬ 
der shoots of pokeweed are boiled and 
served like asparagus, but we have never 
tried this. In gathering pokeweed for 
greens, care should be taken that no part 
of the root is included, as this contains 
a poisonous property that may cause 
serious illness. Cases have been known 
where pokeweed roots were used by mis¬ 
take for horseradish, with dangerous re¬ 
sults. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The Gibson dress shown is made of 
white piqu6, trimmed with stitching. 
The waist is made over a fitted lining 
that, with the left front, closes at the 
center. The waist itself is laid in deep 
pleats that extend over the shoulders 
from the belt at the back to the waist 
line at the front, and closes invisibly at 
the left shoulder and beneath the left 
pleat. The circular front of the skirt 
meets the back, that is laid in two box 
pleats, but laps in front, where it closes 
at the side to make a continuous line 
with the waist. The sleeves are in 
bishop style with straight ciLcS, and at 
the neck is a standing collar. To cut 
this dress for a girl eight years of age 
4% yards 27 inches wide, 4*4 yards 32 
Kerosene in the Laundry. — I know 
many housekeepers who use kerosene to 
lighten labor in washing and have used 
it myself with good results. It should 
be boiled up with the soap; this is essen¬ 
tial to its doing good work. Use a dish 
kept for the purpose, shave up the soap, 
add a little water and the kerosene, let 
boil, then pour into a boiler of soft (or 
4100 Child's Coat, 1, 2, 
and 6 vrs. 
4, 
cleansed if originally hard) cold water, 
put in the white clothes, or those the 
least soiled if there are many. Let them 
boil five or ten minutes, take into a tub, 
put through that suds, a second suds 
and a rinse water. It will not be neces¬ 
sary to rub them much. Some say they 
do not rub them at all, but farmers 
usually get too much of Mother Earth on 
their clothing for that. It seems as 
though farmers’ wives have so much 
hard work to do that I wish they might 
all feel able to send their washing out 
of the house to some one who made a 
business of that work; so many injure 
their health with lifting, rubbing, 
wringing and then perhaps going out in 
the cold to hang up the washing. I find 
it very poor economy to undertake such 
work myself. It unfits me for my other 
work, and by saving my strength I can 
use it other ways, thereby earning much 
more than the laundry bills. 
Iowa. MARY S. STELSON. 
4096 Girl’s Gibson Dress, 
4 tu 12 yrs. 
inches wide or 3% yards 44 inches wide 
will be required. The pattern No. 4096 
is cut in sizes for girls of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 
12 years of age; price 10 cents. 
The child’s coat shown is of taffeta 
with broad collar overlaid with one of 
batiste having edge of guipure lace, and 
is lined with white. Both fronts and 
back are loosely fitted in box style, and 
the former are lapped and closed in dou¬ 
ble breasted style. The sleeves are made 
after the bishop model, but with the new 
turn-over cuffs. At the neck a big round 
collar gives a cape effect, with a simple 
turn-over one that fastens around the 
throat but that may be omitted if not 
desired. To cut this coat for a child of 
four years of age, 3 % yards of material 
21 inches wide, 1% yards 44 inches wide, 
or iy 2 yard 52 inches wide will be re¬ 
quired. The pattern No. 4100 is cut in 
sizes for children of 1, 2, 4 and 6 years 
of age; price 10 cents from this office. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
Washing With Borax. —For those 
who do their own washing here is a 
method which recommends itself, and is 
certainly worth a trial; First take the 
sheets and the cleaner of the white 
clothes and put them in warm suds to 
soak for a half hour or longer, until 
other work is done, and you are ready 
to wring them right into the boiler, in 
which put about a quart of hot water, a 
tablespoonful of borax and a bar of soap. 
Fill the boiler with cold or cool water, 
and let them boil about 10 minutes, then 
rinse in another tub. After wringing 
them from one water, put them directly 
on the line. Soak more soiled clothes 
the same as the first, dipping them up 
two or three times from the suds before 
wringing out to put in the boiler. Dip 
out some of the boiling water and put in 
some cold, with a little more borax and 
soap, before putting in the second lot of 
clothes. After soaking all the white 
clothes pour out the first tub of suds and 
fill with nice rinsing water, with bluing 
and suds all except the first boiler full 
in second tub, and then rinse with the 
bluing water. Then wash the colored 
clothes in sudsing water and rinse them. 
Rub only the colored clothes. The borax 
whitens cloth but does not rot it as sodas 
and other alkalies do, and not nearly so 
much soap is required as when cqal oil 
i3 used. housekeeper. 
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Milk Rooms and Dairies 
A little Banner Lye , a 
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