THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 2 
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[ Woman and Home j 
From Day to Day. 
NABOTH’S VINEYARD. 
My neighbor hath a little held, 
Small store of wine its presses yield, 
And truly but a slender hoard 
Its harvest brings for barn or board. 
Yet though a hundred fields are mine, 
Fertile with olive, corn and vine; 
Though Autumn piles my garners high, 
Still for that little field I sigh, 
For ah! xnethinks no otherwhere 
Is any field so good and fair. 
Small though it be, ’tis better far 
Than all my fruitful vineyards are, 
Amid whose plenty sad I pine— 
‘‘Ah, would that little field were mine!” 
Large knowledge void of peace and rest, 
And wealth with pining care possest— 
These by my fertile lands are meant, 
That little field is called Content. 
—Robertson Trowbridge, in Scribner’s. 
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If the cellar or closet where preserves 
and canned fruit are stored is light 
shade the shelves with curtains of cheap 
black cotton stuff to keep out the light. 
Where only a few jars are to be pro¬ 
tected they can be slipped into paper 
bags. 
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Can any of our housekeepers give us 
a tested recipe for lebkuchen or German 
honey cakes? We recently made the ac¬ 
quaintance of these delicacies, which 
appear among holiday dainties on Ger¬ 
man tables. They are delicious, sweet 
and spicy, and we think housekeepers 
supplied with honey from their own 
hives would like to try making them. 
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Home-canned peaches, with their rich 
syrup, are very nice made into peach 
cobbler. Line a deep baking dish with 
good pastry half an inch thick, fill with 
peaches and syrup, and cover with the 
pie crust. Bake well in a moderate 
oven, and before serving break the top 
crust with a fork, and mix slightly with 
the fruit. Serve with cream. 
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One of the comforts advertised for 
automobile use is a bag laprobe made of 
fur. Its principle is that of the Eskimo 
sleeping bag, and its comfort is obvious; 
the searching breezes that are likely to 
circle about one’s feet when driving on 
a chilly day are all shut out. There 
seems no reason why this comfort 
should be confined to the automobile; it 
would be equally useful behind the fam¬ 
ily horse. 
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Cart. Joshua Si.ocum, who sailed 
around the world in a 40-foot sloop, 
prides himself on his cooking as well as 
his seamanship, and he asserts that 
most people ruin the flavor of salt cod¬ 
fish by soaking it too long. He says it 
should be picked to pieces and then 
thoroughly washed by shaking it up and 
down in several waters, this freshening 
it sufficiently without soaking. Per¬ 
haps Capt. Slocum likes a little more 
salt in his codfish than some of us do, 
but there is no doubt he is correct in 
some degree; the fish is often soaked 
until it loses its identity in a general 
squashiness. 
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An experienced woman says that 
when it becomes necessary to treat an 
invalid with cold applications for head¬ 
ache or nausea, there is a much better 
way than wringing a thick wad of cloth 
out of cold water. An easier and better 
way is to place some chipped ice in a 
soup plate and sprinkle a little salt over 
it. Take a thin layer or two of cheese¬ 
cloth and lay it on the ice. With the 
salt and ice the cloths are soon made 
very cold, and if one cloth is used the 
applications of cold cloths can be made 
continuous. A thick cloth has the 
weight of a poultice, and soon makes 
the head warm, however cool the cloth 
may be when it is first used. With the 
thin cloths the heat generates more 
slowly. Alcohol poured over the ice 
is often efficacious in relieving a severe 
headache. When hot applications are 
ordered, instead of wringing them out 
of hot water, place a kettle of boiling 
water over the fire, and on the kettle 
place a steamer; lay the cloths in the 
steamer, and they soon become very hoi 
and moist, but not dripping, and there 
is no need of handling them as when 
they are wrung from hot water. 
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The writer of these notes decided 
some time ago that modern education 
would be much easier on the parents if 
the children learned all their lessons 
with the teacher, and then recited them 
at home, instead of vice versa. After 
offering moral, if not intellectual, sup¬ 
port to a girl of 12 who must write an 
essay on slavery in the United States, 
make a variety of free-hand anatomical 
drawings, learn as much as possible 
a'bout the trouble in Panama, and pre¬ 
pare for several test examinations 
which involve problems in arithmetic 
based on physics and natural sciences, 
and an understanding of the principles 
of civil government and the effect of 
stimulants on the digestive tract, we 
begin to think that, as the Youth’s Com¬ 
panion says, when there are several 
children in the household, the task of 
aiding all of them with their lessons 
becomes rather a serious problem. One 
overburdened mother, who was obliged 
to decline an invitation to pay a visit, 
went on to give her reasons. 
“No,” she said, “I can’t possibly leave 
home for a whole half-day. You see, 
I’m obliged to spend all my time help¬ 
ing the children with their lessons, their 
teachers give them all so much outside 
work to do. It takes me from seven to 
10 every night to solve Harold’s prob¬ 
lems in algebra, from four to six every 
afternoon I have to look up historical 
topics at the library for Isabel while 
she is struggling with her Latin, and 
from one until four I am either looking 
for pieces for little Henry to speak in 
the fifth grade or pressing Isabel’s bo¬ 
tanical specimens or translating Nellie’s 
French—the poor child’s not very 
strong, you know, and I don’t like to 
have her sit up too late at night.” 
“Then why not come to me in the 
morning?” asked her friend. “This very 
morning, for instance.” 
“No,” replied the busy mother, with 
evident reluctance, “I’d really like to, 
but I promised to spend this morning 
doing something for Robert. The poor 
child would be so disappointed if I fail¬ 
ed him!” 
“What are you going to do for Rob¬ 
ert?” asked the friend. 
“Well,” returned the devoted mother, 
“I’m going to the swamp back of the 
cemetery to catch a large green frog for 
him to take this afternoon to his bio¬ 
logy class.” 
The Bookshelf. 
Richard Baxter. —Farmers know 
Hon. Edward F. Jones as a soldier, as a 
Lieutenant-Governor of New York State 
and best perhaps as “Jones, he pays the 
freight,” a phrase suggestive of the 
scales he manufactured and advertised. 
Versatile as he is, they will possibly be 
surprised to know him again as a suc¬ 
cessful author. Gov. Jones has suffered 
from impaired eyesight for some time, 
and is now in his seventy-fifth year 
practically blind, but he has infused 
something of his old vigor and strong 
personality in his new undertaking. 
“Richard Baxter” is a story of New 
England farm life, and much of it is no 
doubt drawn from the author’s observa¬ 
tion and experience from his early en¬ 
vironments. It is a sweet story, full of 
touching pathos and homely philosophy. 
The story, like the man, is plain, 
straight and honest. His characters are 
real living creatures, and while we find 
humor in their foibles, we share the au¬ 
thor’s sympathy in their homely vir¬ 
tues. It is a wholesome story, and will 
be read with special interest by those 
who have known Gov. Jones and appre¬ 
ciate his sterling worth. It is published 
by the Grafton Press, New York, at 
$1.50, and is no doubt for sale by all 
booksellers. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Skirts made with full-length front 
gores that are cut in one with hip yokes 
are exceedingly becoming to the greater 
number of figures and are to be noted 
among the best designs of the season. 
As shown this one is made of moleskin 
broadcloth, simply stitched with silk, 
but all cloths and cheviots are appro¬ 
priate as well as the lighter weight ma¬ 
terials. The skirt is cut in nine gores, 
the front one also forming the yoke, 
and is laid in backward turning pleats 
that conceal all seams. The pleats are 
22 to 30 waist. 
stitched flat to flounce depth, then left 
tree to give the fullness requisite. The 
closing is made by meeting the edges oi 
the yoke and those of the center pleats. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size is 12 y 2 yards 27 inches 
wide, 5% yards 44 inches wide or 4% 
yards 52 inches wide when material has 
figure or nap; eight yards 27 , five yards 
44, 4% yards 52 inches wide when ma¬ 
terial has neither figure nor nap. This 
pattern No. 4575 is cut in sizes for a 22, 
24, 26, 28 and 30-inch waist measure; 
price 10 cents from this office. 
The neat house jacket shown is made 
of rose-colored eiderdown flannel with 
the bands of silk, but ,all flannels and 
such lighter-weight fabrics as cashmere, 
albatross and the like are appropriate 
for the warmer jackets, all pretty cot¬ 
tons for those of lighter weight. The 
jacket is made with fronts, backs and 
under-arm gores and is shapely without 
being tight. The neck is finished with 
a flat band and the right front laps over 
the left to close in double-breasted 
style. The sleeves are wide, in bell 
shape, with only slight fullness at the 
shoulders. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size is 
yards 27 inches wide, or 1% yard 60 
inches wide, with one yard of silk for 
bands. The pattern No. 4583 is cut in 
sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 
46-inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
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