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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 6 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
SOLITUDE. 
Happy the man whose wish and care 
A few paternal acres bound, 
Content to breathe his native air 
their friends. It never occurs to him 
that a taste for the most trivial gossip 
concerning people he does not know is 
far more ridiculous than the curiosity 
he condemns in others. The little local 
The Rural Patterns. 
Yoke dresses are always becoming to 
young girls and are shown in many 
variations. This one is exceptionally 
pretty and includes a skirt yoke, as well 
as one in the waist. The original is 
made of sapphire blue henrietta with 
the yokes, sleeve caps and cuffs made of 
narrow bands of silk, interlaced and 
held by fancy stitches and laid over 
white, but all the simpler materials are 
In his own ground. 
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with 
bread, 
Whose flocks supply him with attire, 
Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, 
In Winter fire. 
Blest who can unconcern’dly find 
Hours, days and year slide soft away; 
In health of body, peace of mind, 
Quiet by day. 
Sound sleep by night, study and ease. 
Together mixed, sweet recreation, 
And innocence which most does please 
With meditation. 
Thus let me live unseen, unknown; 
Thus unlamented, let me die; 
Steal from the world, and not a stone 
Tell where I lie. 
—Alexander Pope (1688-1744). 
* 
The severe Winter has produced an 
extensive crop of chilblains. Our suffer¬ 
er finds turpentine, well rubbed on, the 
most satisfactory remedy tried yet. 
When the rubbing is done at night, an 
old pair of stockings should be put on 
afterwards, to avoid soiling the bed¬ 
clothes. 
* 
We heard last Summer of a Chicago 
boy, sent out to a farm by a fresh-air 
fund, who was amazed at the modern 
improvements discovered there. His at¬ 
tention was attracted by a swiftly whirl¬ 
ing windmill, beneath which a number 
of pigs were wallowing in the mud. 
“Hi! Hi! Fellers, come Here!” he 
shrilled at his companions. “Looky 
here! They’ve got electric fans to cool 
the pigs off with.” 
* 
The big halo hats of the present sea¬ 
son *how the inadequate staying power 
of ordinary hatpins. The result has 
been a demand for hatpins of extraordi¬ 
nary length—regular spears. With one 
of these put through the hat at the back, 
running all through the coil of hair, and 
pinned through the crown at the front, 
in addition to two of the ordinary pins, 
one’s headgear stays fairly firm. Where 
the hair is worn low, an elastic is the 
only resource, and this is quite often 
seen, but it is not a very firm anchor for 
a hat turned up in front. 
* 
Tomato toast is a favorite breakfast 
or supper dish, which can often be made 
from stewed or scalloped tomatoes left 
over from dinner; the extra juice from 
canned tomatoes, which often makes 
them seem too watery, is useful for the 
toast. The tomato is simmered with the 
proper flavoring, strained through a 
sieve, and then thickened with flour and 
butter before being poured over the 
toast. If one wishes to make more of a 
dish, crisp fried bacon may be served 
with it, or a spoonful of minced ham or 
other cooked meat may be put on the 
top of each piece of toast before the to¬ 
mato is poured over it. 
* 
When a city man picks up a little 
paper tells about the people everyone 
in the district knows, and satisfies a 
legitimate interest. The man who is 
painting his barn is of more conse¬ 
quence to his neighbors than Mr. Gotrox 
and his gold plate. The fact is that 
news is of relative importance only as 
it affects its hearer. A person who reads 
a trivial item merely because it deals 
with persons of wealth has far less ex¬ 
cuse for his curiosity than one who 
reads such matter because it relates to 
friends or acquaintance. We think it a 
misfortune to make one’s life so narrow 
that local gossip is the only thing of 
lively interest. Since cheap books bring 
the wisest and wittiest of mankind into 
the most isolated home, there is no rea¬ 
son to confine thought at least to “tho 
trivial round, the daily task,” however 
full the hands may be. This need not 
prevent us, however, from listening to 
kindly things about our neighbors, and 
turning a very deaf ear to their faults. 
We should also turn a still deafer ear to 
the city man, who smiles derisively at 
the item about Uncle Henry’s new 
buggy, which is live and accurate news, 
and then fills his mind with lurid head¬ 
lines of inaccurate alleged information, 
which will be contradicted by the next 
“extra.” 
The Evolution of a Loaf of Brown 
Bread. 
Once on a time we bought a baker’s 
loaf which was full of fig seeds—strange 
find in a loaf of brown bread, we 
thought, but it might have been acci¬ 
dental, so we said nothing. The next 
loaf bought of the careless baker show¬ 
ed unmistakable fragments of ginger 
cookies embedded in its substance, and 
we resolved on an experiment. It prov¬ 
ed successful, and now the baker leaves 
no more loaves of conglomerate at our 
door—we prefer our own mixing. 
The evening before we want to make 
brown bread we go through the cooky 
jar, the iee box and the cake boxes and 
the findings—two or three cookies past 
their first freshness, broken slices of 
cake, or several hard doughnuts maybe, 
the left-overs are seldom twice alike— 
are broken into a mixing bowl and cov¬ 
ered with sour milk. In the morning 
the mixture is rubbed through a coarse 
sieve to remove any telltale fragments, 
about half a cupful of molasses added 
(we like brown bread very sweet), and 
the whole thickened with Indian meal 
into which a teaspoonful of soda and a 
generous pinch of salt have been sifted. 
Pour into a greased pail, cover, and 
steam from an hour and a half to two 
hours and a half, according to size of 
loaf, then brown in oven. Every one 
who tries it pronounces it extra good, 
and asks for the recipe. We enjoy it 
doubly because the bread itself is good, 
and because it is another way of utiliz¬ 
ing the left-overs which are the bane of 
the economical housekeeper’s existence. 
FULLER WILLIAMS. 
suitable and the yoke can be of lace, 
silk or any contrasting material or made 
of bands of velvet or silk ribbon in place 
of the folded silk. The waist is made 
over a body lining on which the full 
front and backs and the deep pointed 
yoke are arranged. The sleeves are full 
with caps that combine with the yoke 
to give the needed broad effect. The 
skirt is straight, gathered and joined to 
the yoke, which in turn is joined to the 
waist. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size (12 years) is 
5 % yards 21 inches wide, 514 yards 27 
inches wide or 3 V 2 yards 44 inches wide, 
with 20 yards of banding to make as il¬ 
lustrated. The pattern No. 4618 is cut 
in sizes for girls of 8 , 10, 12 and 14 
years of age; price 10 cents. 
The infant’s robe shown gives an op¬ 
portunity for fine materials and dainty 
work. The robe is eminently simple 
and consists of a square yoke, to which 
the full skirt portion is attached. Over 
the shoulders are wide frills, and the 
neck is finished with a narrow frill of 
lace. The sleeves are full, gathered in¬ 
to narrow wristbands, edged to match 
the- neck. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size is 2 % yards 
36 inches wide, with 4V$ yards of wide 
embroidery, one yard of narrow and 6 V 2 
yards of insertion to trim as illustrated. 
The pattern No. 4587 is cut in one size 
only: price 10 cents from this office. 
ROYAL 
local paper, he is very apt to read its 
personal items with smiling contempt. 
He learns that Capt. Harris is painting 
his barn, or that Uncle Henry Whit¬ 
taker has invested in a new buggy, and 
Baking Powder 
thinks what trifles interest the country 
people. Then he turns to his favorite 
city paper, and reads with profound sat¬ 
isfaction that Mrs. Van Astorbilt has a 
new sky-blue automobile, or that young 
Mr. Gotrox is furnishing his college dor¬ 
mitory with gold plate and Gobelin ta¬ 
pestry. He has never seen Mrs. Van 
Astorbilt or Mr. Gotrox, and they on 
their side are quite unconscious of his 
existence, yet he reads every item he 
can about their dress, their habits and 
Is Most Economical 
Because it makes better 
and more healthful food. 
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. 
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what can you 
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"V ou need to know how to manage your 
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