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THE RURAL'NEW-YORKER 
August 26 
Woman and Home j 
From Day to Day 
I’ve worshiped there for many a year—they 
never saw me fail, 
But now they’ve come an’ told me that the 
old church is for sale! 
The auctioneer is ready, an’ they’re goin’ 
to let her go— 
The old church where we praised the Lord 
from whom all blessin’s llow! 
I jest can’t help the heartbeat—the mist 
that’s roun’ my eyes— 
For there I read my titles clear to man¬ 
sions in the skies; 
An’ there, in years that had their tears, 
I found salvation free— 
And knew that sweet amazin’ grace that 
saved a wretch like me. 
I knowed the “amen corner”—I knowed the 
“anxious seat”— 
An’ when the organ shook the walls, or 
died in music sweet, 
Like a little child a-dreamin’, I closed my 
old eyes there, 
An’ my soul went up to heaven on the 
wings of love an’ prayer. 
There was sweetest consolation in the 
holy, heavenly calm 
That led us into Gilead, where we found 
the healin’ balm. 
’Twas there we glimpsed the beauty of a 
better, brighter sky 
That bent o’er Canaan’s happy land, where 
our possessions lie. 
But the old church now is throwed aside— 
they’re buildin’ of a new. 
But the same salvation’s in it—thank the 
Lord! for me an’ you. 
But no matter how they build it, my heart 
will always go 
To the old church where we praised the 
Lord from whom all blessin’s flow! 
—Atlanta Constitution. 
* 
A town in Oklahoma has a new post¬ 
mistress with the suggestive name of 
Ima Daisy Cook. It is remarked that 
the people of that town have reason to 
be proud of her if she lives up to her 
name. 
* 
At Rothesay, Scotland, a number of 
persons were recently thrown into the 
water by a boating accident. One eight- 
year-old boy had been told by his swim¬ 
ming teacher that in such an emer¬ 
gency, he should lie upon his back, and 
float. The child did so, and two little 
girls and one smaller boy, sustained 
themselves by resting against him. All 
four floated until they were picked up 
by sailors, who had to row a mile to 
the scene of the disaster. Such courage 
and presence of mind are oiten lacking 
in adults. 
* 
“What are ‘swing fellows?’ ” a friend 
asks. “I know it, or they, are some¬ 
thing to eat, but do tell me whether the 
mystery is fish, flesh, or fowl.” 
Swing fellows is the name given by 
Mrs. Rorer to a species of plain cake. 
The dough is made like that for sweet 
rusks; when light, instead of being 
made into balls, a piece of dough the 
size of a coffeecup is rolled out to about 
the size of a tin pie-dish, one inch thick. 
Place this on a well-greased tin, make 
holes about one inch apart all over the 
top, put a small piece of butter, a tea¬ 
spoonful of sugar, and a little cinnamon 
in each hole. Set away until light, and 
bake in a moderately quick oven for 20 
minutes. 
* 
Crockery savings banks for children 
seem to be reviving in favor; little clay 
vessels, Having a slot through which the 
mop-=y is dropped, but no other opening. 
ot course, the bank must be broken to 
release the contents. When we were 
children we possessed such banks, in 
the form of shiny little jugs of dark 
brown earthenware, which retained ex¬ 
tra value in our childish eyes because 
they came across the sea as the gifts of 
distant friends. The most exciting mo¬ 
ments of our young lives were when 
those little jugs became so gorged with 
their filling of copper and nickel that 
they would no longer rattle, and gave 
forth only a dull “chug” when shaken. 
They were ruthlessly smashed to add to 
our Christmas festivities with their 
wealth, but they left a void which no 
metal bank could ever fill. Some of 
these little crockery banks, made in the 
shape of fruit or other objects, and 
gorgeously painted, are sold by some of 
the five-cent stores. Occasionally they 
are used in raising a fund for some 
church or charity, the smashing of the 
jugs being a public ceremony. 
* 
As soon as the harvest apples are 
ready, we find apple cake an easily- 
made dessert, that suits the family 
palate at either dinner or tea. The Ger¬ 
man mode calls for a dough raised with 
yeast, but it may be made quickly with 
the light biscuit paste used for making 
short-cake. Roll out the dough as if for 
biscuits, then place the entire sheet in 
a baking pan. Dot small pieces of but¬ 
ter all over the top, sprinkle liberally 
with sugar and a dusting of powdered 
cinnamon; add a layer of apples, peeled 
and sliced, sprinkle the apples with 
sugar and cinnamon, and add some 
small pieces of butter; then bake in 
a steady oven until both apples and 
crust are well done. Cut the sheet 
of cake into squares, and serve while 
fresh. 
* 
Fruit canning gives plenty of hard 
work, no matter how it is done. Con¬ 
cerning this, one of our readers refers 
as follows to a newer system of can¬ 
ning: 
We are testing and finding satisfaction 
in the boiling-syrup or hot-water process; 
we prefer It, at least for peaches and all 
varieties of berries. The berries are looked 
over and peaches peeled, packed closely in 
cans, filled with boiling syrup, and the 
tops screwed on tightly. The cans are 
then immersed in a pail or kettle of boil¬ 
ing water, which is covered and allowed to 
stand until cold with no further cooking. 
Tomatoes and pears require a higher tem¬ 
perature. 
We have never tried this system, our 
plan being to pack the fruit in jars, fill 
up with an unboiled syrup made by 
melting sugar in warm water, and then 
cook by placing the jars on the stove, 
in a large boiler, containing water 
enough to reach two-thirds the height 
of the jars. Our friend’s plan seems to 
be a better one. Certainly there is no 
reason why any one should can fruit by 
cooking it in a kettle, and then labor¬ 
iously ladling it into jars. 
* 
One of the western papers accounted 
for the hard fighting of the Kansas vol¬ 
unteers in the Philippines on the ground 
that they were trying to get even with 
the insurgents for making them miss 
the cherry-pie season at home. No 
doubt plenty of the men who are wad¬ 
ing through pestiferous rice swamps and 
sleeping under leaky palm and bamboo 
shacks, dream daily of some farm home, 
and of just such a dinner as Hope Farm 
would set out. How they must dream of 
sitting out by the well, of a Summer 
evening, eating Harvest apples, after 
the day’s work was over, or coming in 
from the field when the horn blew, and 
getting a whiff from the kitchen that 
foretold chicken pot-pie or peach short¬ 
cake, or, more homelike still, the sweet 
nutty flavor of homemade bread! It is 
not until we leave home, and try a new 
life among strange scenes, that we fully 
realize how precious are the common 
things we so lightly esteemed. It is no¬ 
ticeable, too, that home food bears quite 
a prominent place in our recollections. 
It is no small thing to cook a dish that 
stands out in the memory as a recollec¬ 
tion of good cheer for a lifetime after¬ 
wards, but then, such a dish is usually 
remembered chiefly for the love and 
kindness that were served with it. 
The Rural Portrait Gallery. 
A FRIEND FROM OHIO. 
City dwellers often fail to realize how 
many educated women are presiding 
over farm homes, where, in spite of sur¬ 
roundings which may seem narrow to 
an outsider, they exert a quiet influence 
of great value to their community. The 
strength of mind and body, the probity 
and intelligence which the country boy 
takes to the city, can usually be traced 
to the guidance or teaching of a woman 
whose ability has strengthened the 
country home. 
Masculine readers of The R. N.-Y. are 
familiar with the name of John Gould, 
of Ohio. To the feminine readers the 
personality of Mrs. Gould will be of in¬ 
terest, and her portrait is given at Fig. 
came a school teacher, pursuing that oc¬ 
cupation until her marriage. Devoted 
MRS. JOHN GOULD. Fig. 232. 
to her home, she still finds leisure for 
other accomplishments, and is an ar¬ 
tist of ability, executing fine work in 
both oils and water colors. Her cordial 
hospitality is a delight to her guests, 
and her household accomplishments are 
strong proof that education broadens a 
woman’s ability for domestic arts. 
A recent writer in Harper’s Bazar, dis¬ 
cussing what is termed a woman of the 
world, in its best sense, states that one 
woman who seemed to embody, to the 
highest degree, a character of this class, 
was a school teacher, who had lived all 
her life in a small town. The associa¬ 
tions of her work, together with a dis¬ 
position naturally quick and sympa¬ 
thetic, had given her an insight into 
character which made her a pleasant, 
tactful companion to persons of all 
classes. She was always agreeable, easy 
in manner, and essentially sympathetic, 
with a simplicity which recommended 
her to people of the most varying views. 
After experiences in many localities, we 
have come to the conclusion that this 
simple good breeding which is really 
the politeness of the heart, is far more 
likely to be found in the country than 
in the city; it is often found among 
persons of little actual book education, 
and, where opportunity has added wider 
culture to it, it results in the best home- 
building qualities in the world. 
Pumpkin Pie. 
A. C., Nassau County, N. Y., wishes 
advice about making pumpkin pie. She 
does not tell us wherein she finds diffi¬ 
culty, so we will give a good recipe for 
it, trusting that it may be what is re¬ 
quired. Peel and cut the pumpkin into 
pieces about one inch square, put them 
into a stewpan with just enough water 
to keep from burning, stew slowly until 
tender, then press through a colander. 
To every half-pint of pumpkin, add a 
piece of butter the size of a walnut and 
a quarter-teaspoonful of salt; mix, and 
allow it to stand until cold. When cold, 
put one pint of pumpkin into a large 
bowl, add to it one pint of milk, one 
half-teaspoonful of ground mace, the 
same of ground cinnamon, and one tea¬ 
spoonful of ground ginger; mix all to- 
Beat four 
to the mix- 
Line four deep pie-plates with 
good plain paste, fill with the mixture, 
and bake for about 30 minutes. Some of 
our friends use molasses for sweetening, 
but we do not like this, and prefer the 
above. 
Another recipe calls for one quart of 
rich milk, three big tablespoonfuls of 
sugar, a little salt, one tablespoonful of 
ginger, a tablespoonful of cinnamon, 
one grated nutmeg, and enough pump¬ 
kin, stewed and pressed through a 
colander, to make a thin mixture. This 
will make three large pies. This last is 
rather highly spiced. Pumpkin stewed, 
but not strained, may be sealed in cans, 
like other fruit, and thus put away for 
Winter use. Squashes or sweet potatoes 
may be used in pies like the pumpkin. 
Migratory Housekeeping. 
There is nothing so varied in all the 
United States, perhaps, as the different 
ways of keeping house, unless it be the 
divorce laws, and perhaps they bear 
some relation, says a writer in the 
American Kitchen Magazine. 
Many are the interesting stories told 
by army officers’ wives of emergency 
housekeeping. Few can be more brave 
and cheery than Mrs. Custer who, when 
a novice to western exposure and hard¬ 
ship, was left alone in a wretched leaky 
little cabin for a day. The increasing 
wind and rain all but destroyed the old 
roof, making cooking and everything 
else impossible. When General Custer 
came at night, he looked anxiously 
about as if perhaps his little wife had 
gone back to home and civilization. But 
no, a cheery laugh greeted him, and he 
found her curled up under the table on 
blankets—the only dry spot in the room. 
The wife of an army officer in Texas 
told me how, after much difficulty, she 
obtained “light bread” of an old Mexican 
woman, and rejoiced over it until once 
complimenting her for not failing to 
come during a cold snap, the woman re¬ 
plied she did have trouble to keep it 
warm, but she rolled it up in her shawl 
and took it into bed with her. There¬ 
after my friend dispensed with “light 
bread.” (This is the southern term for 
raised white-flour bread.) 
While those who travel regret, on 
their return, the obsequious servants of 
Oriental countries, yet when one reads 
of their various tricks behind the scenes, 
and knows it would be impossible to 
work one’s self there without loss of 
dignity and respect, one concludes it is 
well to be self-uelpful here, and that 
the new Swede or Irish girl who serves 
hash in the fruit dish, and toasts bread 
in the corn-popper, can much better be 
borne with and taught than the native 
servants in India. 
SIDE! 
The Dietz “Victor” Lantern 
Is built for use, and for the abasetha fa 'method'of construe- 
device for raising the globe to g^ j^e burner, which is hinged to 
holds the globe and burner ,, e rt 0 f Us kind , as is also the globe furnished 
prevent its wa ndering u the£ onl ong of an endless varuty of 
with the Vidor Lantern- tneri f urn ish the DIE 
* Lanterns that w^ if he will— if he gives you the very best made, he must. 
I V R DIETZ COMPANY, 
<- Laiaht Street, New York. 
established « e ou(door 
For the asking we mail free an^™'™nterns. 
232. The daughter of a physician, Mrs. 
Gould received a college education, and gether, and sweeten to taste, 
after finishing her education, she be- eggs until light, then add 
Lure. 
