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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 16 
From Day to Day. 
FOREFATHERS' GRAVES. 
Beneath the roots of tangled weeds. 
Afar in country graveyards, lie 
The men whose unrecorded deeds 
Have stamped this nation’s destiny. 
We praise the present stock and man; 
BuJ; have we ever thought to praise 
The strong, still, humble lives that ran 
The deep-cut channels of those days? 
Beneath these tottering slabs of slate. 
Whose tribute moss and mold efface. 
Sleeps the calm dust that made us great, 
The true substratum of our race. 
—James Buckham in Munsey’s. 
* 
Cheese strata is an excellent recipe 
given by Miss Shepperd in “Household 
Science.” Butter a baking dish, and put 
in it thin slices of bread, just enough to 
cover the bottom. Cover the bread with 
white sauce, then a layer of grated 
cheese one-fourth inch thick; then an¬ 
other layer of bread, followed by sauce 
and cheese until the dish is full, the top 
layer being cheese. Cover with seasoned 
bread crumbs, and bake in a slow oven 
15 or 20 minutes. Serve in the dish in 
which it was baked. This is a nice sup¬ 
per dish to take the place of meat. 
* 
We have been told more than once 
that paraffin is a great aid in washing. 
A correspondent of the Chicago Record- 
Herald says this of its use: 
T have a friend who always uses it, and 
buys it by the pound. She takes a piece 
containing about one cubic inch for three 
small or two medium-sized washings. This, 
with half a bar of laundry soap, she puts 
into a boiler containing the required 
amount of boiling water. Then she wrings 
the clothes out of the water in which they 
soaked over night and puts them into the 
boiler, allowing them to boil 20 to 30 min¬ 
utes. They come from the boiler clean and 
white, as a rule, although sometimes the 
most soiled need a little rubbing. 
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Among the pretty things seen in the 
shops are coat hangers padded and 
scented, covered with shirred silk with a 
ribbon bow at the hook for hanging, 
which is covered with twisted ribbon. 
Little scent bags hang on baby ribbon 
at each end, to slip into the sleeves. 
Wire hangers only cost three to five 
cents each in the city, but if one wishes 
for a homemade substitute use one-third 
of a smooth stout barrel hoop. Cover, 
with or without padding as desired, and 
put a loop of ribbon firmly in the cen¬ 
ter to hang it up by. Such hangers are 
a great convenience for waists as well 
as coats. 
* 
Pretty table centers or tray cloths 
seen recently were of unbleached crash, 
buttonholed all around with red cotton, 
and further embellished by a row of 
open hemming inside the border. They 
were circular in shape and machine- 
made, costing from 24 cents to $1.50, the 
latter being a yard in diameter. A simi¬ 
lar style could be made very easily, by 
anyone handy with the needle, and 
would be quite inexpensive. The Hun¬ 
garian embroidery on crash or unbleach¬ 
ed linen done in strong primary colors, 
is worked in wool crewel; the effect is 
very good, and such a cloth looks hand¬ 
some on the dining table between meals. 
* 
We recently saw an article on the “do¬ 
mestic” page of a newspaper which de¬ 
scribed the process of making handsome 
(?) leather rugs from the tops of old 
shoes. The article was one furnished by 
a big newspaper syndicate, and did not 
appear to be offered in joke, but it re¬ 
minded us of the English humorist 
Jerome, who tells of his visit to a flat 
where all the furniture was made from 
egg boxes, according to the instructions 
given in domestic magazines. The shoe- 
top rugs were to be made by lacing these 
pieces of leather together with shoe 
laces, the whole being finished around 
the edge by a shoe-lace fringe. It is 
hard to understand why such ridiculous 
advice should be foisted upon the long- 
suffering public; we hope at least that no 
woman would be deluded by it. It would 
certainly be an advantage if we had 
some way of utilizing worn shoes in a 
sensible manner. A patch cut from the 
top of a woman’s shoe is useful to put in¬ 
side an iron holder, forming a noticeable 
protection against the heat. 
* 
We are told in the Youth’s Companion 
of a little girl who tried to meet the 
wants of the household in a somewhat 
unusual manner. Her father, convales¬ 
cent from an illness, had been ordered 
plenty of berries, the doctor considering 
that the seeds were good for him. One 
day, not long afterward, the little girl 
heard her mother lamenting because 
there were no berries in the market for 
the invalid. The child left the room 
quietly, and presently returned with a 
saucer of something that looked inviting. 
“Here, papa,” she said, “just try this. 
I fixed it for you.” 
“What is it?” asked the invalid, with 
a spoonful half-way to his lips. 
“Jelly with little glass beads in it. If 
and that which might be given in large 
volumes is presented here in a compact 
and convenient form. Published by the 
Health Culture Company, New York; 
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Household Science. —This useful 
manual is by Juniata L. Shepperd, M. A., 
instructor in cookery and laundering at 
the Minnesota Agricultural College. It 
is wider in its scope than many excellent 
cook books, being largely compiled from 
lectures given in the class room, accom¬ 
panied by formulas used in class instruc¬ 
tion. It seems to us particularly adapt¬ 
ed to the needs of rural housekeepers, 
being intensely practical, yet containing 
enough solid scientific instruction to give 
the cook a wholesome respect for her 
art. There is an extensive list of good 
recipes, covering all lines of cookery, 
and the chapters on care of food and 
general household management are very 
good. The book contains 593 pages, well 
printed and bound. Published by the 
author, St. Anthony Park, Minn., price 
$1.75. _ 
Seed Patty Cakes.—Cream together 
one cupful of sugar and one-third cup¬ 
ful of butter. Add alternately one cup¬ 
ful of sour milk and two cupfuls of sift¬ 
ed flour. Add the beaten yolks of three 
eggs, one teaspoonful each of caraway 
seed and vanilla extract. Fold in the 
stiffly beaten whites of three eggs, and, 
lastly, stir in well one-half teaspoonful 
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A Western Dug-out. 
No doubt there are women now living 
in comfortable, well-arranged homes 
who can remember a beginning made in 
just such a shelter as the dug-out shown 
in Fig. 18. We have never yet seen one 
of these rude habitations, but we are told 
that they vary much in size and con¬ 
venience, and that some of them are de¬ 
cidedly comfortable. A bank is hollow¬ 
ed out to form rear and sides, the roof 
often having sods laid over boards. The 
dug-out, like the sod house, is the pro¬ 
duct of a timberless country, where 
building materials are high in price. 
Fig. 18 does not look very prosperous; 
let us hope that there are better days in 
store for the serious-faced woman who 
sits with her sewing beside it, and that 
the wide prairies around her will bring 
to her the comforts and abundance they 
have brought to so many others. 
of soda, dissolved in a tablespoonful of 
warm water. If the batter runs from 
spoon add one-quarter cupful of flour; 
it should drop nicely from spoon. Fill 
pattypans scant half full and bake in 
oven suitable for bread. These cakes 
are very tender, and it is a nice way to 
use the sour milk. 
Broiled Beefsteak Cakes.—Put 1% 
pound of nice tender round steak 
through the meat chopper; add one 
heaping tablespoonful of chopped suet, 
one teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoon- 
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lemon juice, a saltspoonful of salt and 
five or six drops of onion juice (though 
this may be omitted). Stir until thor¬ 
oughly blended, then pour out upon a 
cold plate. Lay the beefsteak cakes up¬ 
on this and set in a cold place for sev¬ 
eral hours, turning the cakes over once. 
Broil over hot coals and remove to a 
warm platter. 
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