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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 2! 
[ Woman and H ome J 
From Day to Day. 
THANKSGIVING ABSENTEES. 
"We sat alone Thanksgiving Day, 
Husband and Fan and me; 
The boys sent word they couldn’t come, 
Though we had hoped they’d be. 
But on the college campus ’twas 
The champion football game, 
And Tom was “half back,” so he stayed 
And thought we could not blame. 
The turkey seemed so very big 
Tears came in Fanny’s eyes, 
As three small cuts were taken from 
Her batch of pumpkin pies. 
But when her father said the grace 
It was a real prayer: 
“Lord! teach us to be thankful here. 
The lads, keep in Thy care.” 
ANNIE X>. JACK. 
* 
It often appears that some women de¬ 
termine to make themselves perfectly 
miserable in their effort to be happy. 
* 
We have had several suggestions con¬ 
cerning rag carpets from our readers, 
and we think it an evidence of the inter¬ 
est of these notes that they have made 
the writer wish time permitted her to 
start work on carpet rags herself! The 
utility of the rag carpet was vindicated 
generations ago, and we now see a tardy 
recognition of its picturesque quality. 
Rugs of rag carpet are now bought for 
use on the porch or piazza during Sum¬ 
mer, and they are regarded as artistic 
floor covering for country homes. Cer¬ 
tainly at the present time no woman 
need look coldly upon rag carpet as 
something out of date. 
* 
“Rest and be thankful!” That is the 
best advice we can give a busy house¬ 
keeper for Thanksgiving Day, but as a 
rule, however thankful she may be, she 
has little chance to rest. “A houseful 
of company” is often a very pleasant 
thing, but when it imposes extra work 
upon hands already well filled it is cer¬ 
tainly not a blessing for which to give 
thanks. When preparing for our Na¬ 
tional holiday we may well show our 
thankfulness by lightening, so far as 
possible, the work of those who manage 
our domestic machinery. The most ap¬ 
petising meal gives cold comfort when 
the hostess is too tired even to smile a 
welcome to her guests. 
* 
One of our friends who excels in mak¬ 
ing beautiful Battenberg lace says she 
always makes the inserted rings her¬ 
self, instead of buying them readymade, 
as is usually done. The readymade rings 
are not sufficiently firm and rigid, she 
thinks. In making them she uses white 
darning cotton for the foundation, wind¬ 
ing it around a small glass tube until 
she has the required thickness; then 
with stout thread she whips the strands 
together very firm and hard before with¬ 
drawing from the tube. It is then but¬ 
tonholed with 'embroidery cotton. This 
should not be done with a crochet hook, 
because the edge produced in this way 
is not suitable for the purpose; it must 
be needlework. The same worker starts 
small rings on the handle of a glass pen. 
* 
When hot biscuits are to be made 
after the kitchen is cleared up for the 
day it is a convenience to mold them 
without rolling out and cutting. Here 
is a good recipe: One quart of flour, in¬ 
to which two heaping teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder and one of salt have been 
sifted; rub into it a scant half cupful of 
lard and butter, half and half; stir to a 
dough with enough milk to make it just 
too thin to roll out. Grease muffin rings 
and put on a greased baking pan; drop 
from a spoon dough enough nearly to 
fill each ring; bake in a quick oven. De¬ 
licious tea cake, to be eaten hot with 
butter, is made by adding a tablespoon¬ 
ful of sugar and one well-beaten egg to 
this recipe and baking in one loaf, or in 
a large flat cake to be split open and 
buttered, then cut in sections. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The slot seam is now fashionable for 
skirts, waists and jackets. The skirt 
shown is cut in nine gores. At the edge 
of each gore are laid tuck pleats that 
meet to form the slot seams, and are 
stitched flat to flounce depth, the seam 
proper being hidden at underfold of 
pleat. The pleats fall free at the lower 
Skirt, 22 to 30 waist. 
edge, to provide the fashionable flare. 
The fullness at the back is laid in in¬ 
verted pleats that are pressed flat and 
can be stitched several inches from the 
top as illustrated or to correspond with 
the other pleats if so desired. The quan¬ 
tity of material required for the me¬ 
dium size is 7^4 yards 27 inches wide, 
4% yards 44 inches wide or 4y 2 yards 
52 inches wide when material has figure 
or nap; 6% yards 27 inches wide, 3% 
yards 44 inches wide, or 3% yards 52 
inches wide when material has neither 
figure nor nap. The pattern No. 4257 is 
cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30- 
inc.h waist measure; price 10 cents. 
Russian dresses, like the one figured, 
are always becoming to little girls. The 
dress is cut with full length fronts and 
a back that is separate from the skirt, 
both being gathered and joined at the 
waist line. The sleeves are in bishop 
style with straight narrow cuffs and the 
neck is finished with a standing collar 
that closes at the shoulder. The right 
front laps well over the left, in double- 
breasted style, where it is held by but¬ 
tons and buttonholes, and at the waist is 
worn a belt that is closed invisibly at the 
left side. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size is 4% yards 
21 inches wide, 4% yards 27 inches wide, 
2Y 2 yards 44 inches wide or 2 y 8 yards 
52 inches wide. The pattern No. 4274 
is cut in sizes for girls 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 
years of age; price 10 cents. 
With the Procession. 
Kindness is the music of good will to 
men, and on this harp the smallest fin¬ 
gers may play Heaven’s sweetest tunes 
on earth.—Elihu Burritt. 
The sand of our life runneth as fast, 
though the hourglass be set in the sun¬ 
shine of prosperity, as in the gloomy 
shade of affliction.—Thomas Fuller. 
A good deed is never lost. He who 
sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he 
who plants a kindness gathers love. 
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he 
also reap.—The Young Lutheran. 
Oun very progress, which is our pe¬ 
culiar glory, consists in at once losing 
and learning the past; in gaining fresh 
stations from which to take a wiser 
retrospect and become more deeply 
aware of the treasures we have used.— 
James Martineau. 
Farmhouse Cooking. 
SOME LIVE OPINIONS FROM THOSE WHO KNOW 
On page 743 we reprinted an article by 
Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, in which the criti¬ 
cism of farm cooking was so sweeping that 
we felt some answer was demanded from 
others who are really in a position to state 
actual facts. Such articles pass current 
among women unfamiliar with country 
life, and thus create a totally false idea. 
It is a matter that deserves full discussion, 
and the opinions given below are timely 
and valuable. 
A Protest from the Buckeye State. 
Surely Rose Terry Cooke, whose story 
is reprinted on page 743, was never in 
Ohio. I have been in half a dozen States 
of the Union but can speak from ex¬ 
perience of the country cooking of only 
one—the Buckeye. It may be possible 
that the article is a true picture of rural 
life somewhere, but we don’t do things 
that way out here. Leaving out all ac¬ 
counts of my mother’s good bread and 
delicious butter, her muffins and raised 
cakes, and all the loved things “that my 
infancy knew,” I have only to call to 
mind the farmhouses, great and small, 
where good cooking is the rule and not 
the exception. There are many houses j 
in this county whose reputation for fine 
meals I do not envy, because of the in¬ 
creased work that falls to the women of 
the household. I have in mind one home 
where visitors on the slightest pretext 
stay for dinner or supper, simply be¬ 
cause they are sure of a meal composed 
of all the best things raised on an up- 
to-date farm. 
She says for health’s sake she would 
have an ice house. Ice is a luxury not 
enjoyed always by city people, where one 
would think it much more necessary, but 
there are many farmers who put up ice 
every Winter. I have seen many healthy 
and respectable people who lived happily 
and seemed content without ice houses, 
and personally think pure, cold well 
water much better for the heated labor- 
4274 Girl’s Russian Dress, 
4 to 12 yrs. 
ers than any other. I know from ex¬ 
perience that if ice water is to be had it 
will be poured down in spite of all ad¬ 
vice to the contrary, and is not in the 
least conducive to health. 
Several days ago a country woman of 
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