1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
81 
Magazine Reference Books. 
Here is the way one woman preserves 
the valuable matter in her magazines. 
When the magazines have been read by 
all the family, and are superseded on the 
library table by the next month’s issue, 
she takes the wire out that holds them 
together and separates them into various 
subjects. She has large envelopes of 
manilla paper suitably marked and puts 
the various articles into them until she 
has leisure to look them over, arrange 
them and have them bound. For in¬ 
stance, one envelope is marked “Art,” 
another “Stage,” another “Fiction” and 
so on, to cover all the subjects she cares 
to keep. When she has a sufficient num¬ 
ber of such articles upon any one sub¬ 
ject—say about 1,000 pages—she num¬ 
bers the pages anew with her pen. makes 
an alphabetical index of subjects, supple¬ 
menting it with an alphabetical index of 
authors, puts the index in front of her 
completed volume, sends it to a local 
bookbinder, and has it bound. 
Of course the book does not look just 
as neat as a regular bounl volume of 
the magazine would look, but these vol¬ 
umes really make books of reference. 
She calls the whole series “Driftwood,” 
and has such subtitles as “Arts and Art¬ 
ists," “Plays and Players,” “Woman,” 
“Fiction,” “Music,” “Childhood,” “Au¬ 
thors and Their Works,” “The Anti¬ 
quity,” “Travel,” “Napoleon,” etc.; this 
“Napoleon” contains not only “Sloan’s 
I ife of Napoleon,” but articles about 
the King of Rome. Napoleon III., Eu¬ 
genie, the ill-fated Prince Imperial, and 
other members of the Bonaparte family. 
She contends that the magazines con¬ 
tain the best current thought and litera¬ 
ture, and as such should be preserved; 
but that some system, some discrimina¬ 
tion must be employed to make such lit¬ 
erature available for instant use. She 
does not claim that her system is per¬ 
fect, but it is the most convenient that 
has occurred to her. She has interested 
several of her friends who have special 
hobbies in her scheme, which is delight¬ 
ful to her because she can pass articles 
on to them which do not particularly in¬ 
terest her, but which it would break her 
heart to drop into the waste basket be¬ 
cause of their real value. 
“But this must take an enormous 
amount of time, work and—yes—pa¬ 
tience.” 
Granted; but she claims that it is one 
of her greatest pleasures and relaxa¬ 
tions; that it is a liberal education to 
her that could come in no other way, and 
satisfies in some degree that desire we- 
all have to create something; that she 
has neither talent nor genius to write a 
book., but she can do this, which is in 
some small way the product of her own 
brain and taste, although in a very lim¬ 
ited degree. Her children are immense¬ 
ly proud of her work, and when show¬ 
ing off some of the gems of the library 
never fail to ask: “Have you seen moth¬ 
er’s magazine books?” These same 
books have been loaned to various 
schools and colleges, have passed from 
hand to hand and been praised for their 
availability as works of reference. 
It has been well said that no man 
ever sank under the burden of the day. 
It is when to-morrow’s burden is added 
to the burden of to-day that the weight 
is more than a man can bear.—George 
Macdonald. 
In every community there are people 
who commit acts of well-nigh incon¬ 
ceivable horror and baseness. If we fix 
our eyes only upon these individuals and 
upon their acts, and if we forget the far 
more numerous citizens of upright and 
honest life and blind ourselves to their 
countless deeds of wisdom and justice 
and philanthropy, it is easy enough to 
condemn the community.—President 
Roosevelt. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
Notes from the Day’s Work. 
Now that eggs are so scarce a very ac¬ 
ceptable doughnut can be made as fol¬ 
lows: When the bread dough is, ready 
for the second kneading take three cup¬ 
fuls of dough, add one coffee cupful of 
brown sugar, a piece of lard the size of 
a hen’s egg. Knead thoroughly, cut in 
small strips, set to rise. When light fry 
in hot lard. If preferred the cakes can 
be spiced, but after trying both ways we 
prefer them unspiced. This makes 24 
cakes. 
Even if eggs are scarce, it is often 
necessary to make a cake. We have yet 
to find as good a recipe, where but one 
egg is used as the following coffee cake: 
One cupful brown sugar, one cupful 
molasses, one egg, one cupful cold, 
strong coffee, four or five cupfuls of 
flour, one cupful butter or butter and 
lard mixed, one cupful of raisins, one 
tcaspoonful salt, one heaping teaspoon¬ 
ful saleratus, two teaspoonfuls cinna¬ 
mon. This makes two good-sized loaves. 
It improves with age and rivals many a 
pretentious fruit cake. 
This year we are buying leaf lard and 
trying it at home, the rendered lard cost¬ 
ing less than 12 cents a pound, the leaf 
costing 10 cents. The lard is cut into 
small pieces and put 10 pounds at a time 
in an iron kettle. It needs watching, 
but with care and a good fire the work 
is soon done, and we have a gallon 
crock full of the purest lard. A neigh¬ 
bor prefers putting the lard in a large 
dripping pan in the oven to try out. The 
advantage, she claims, is that the lard 
will not burn, needs less watching, and 
also there is less odor in the house. 
The children, and the older ones as 
well, are very fond of ‘ice cream” as 
they call it. This is simply a blanc 
mange set out of doors to freeze. Some¬ 
times eggs are used in making it, but 
oftener it is made of milk, cornstarch, 
salt and vanilla. 
Last year we corned beef according to 
a tried recipe. The result was very sat¬ 
isfactory. This year we have corned a 
larger amount, as follows: Four pounds 
coarse salt, two pounds brown sugar, 
two ounces saltpeter to 50 pounds of 
beef. Mix salt, sugar and saltpeter, 
heat, then rub beef thoroughly on all 
sides of every piece. Put in a tub, pack¬ 
ed closely. Put on a heavy weight. The 
beef makes its own brine, no water 
being used. Those who have corned beef 
in this way say it will not spoil. Ours 
certainly kept for months. 
NELLIE C. ANDREWS. 
Blessed is he who has found his 
work; let him ask no other blessedness. 
—Carlyle. 
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and exhausted; the nervous 
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Two things to do. give 
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and new force to the nerves. 
Scott’s Emulsion will do it; 
contains just what the worn- 
out system needs. 
Rich blood, healthy flesh, 
resistive force, more and bet¬ 
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Scott’s Emulsion supplies to 
the convalescent. 
We’ll send you a sample free upon request. 
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For 73 years the Standard Cough Remedy. 
