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December 3, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
[ Woman and Home j 
From Day to Day. 
MATILDA IN TIIE BARN. 
The barn’s the bestest place on earth in the 
Summer when it rains; 
The drops make kind of corkscrews on the 
dusty window panes! 
Our feet sound loud as anything in walking 
on the floor, 
And Clem and me we telephone through knot¬ 
holes in the door! 
We peep in at the horses, and they always 
turn around, 
And chew, and chew, and chew, with such 
a funny, crunchy sound, 
And their eyes are kind as kind can be. I 
like them that way best. 
Just without the little shutters that they 
wear when they are dressed. 
Their clothes are hanging near them and 
they're proud of them, perhaps, 
Though they’re nothing but suspenders, 
buckles, chains and little straps. 
There’s one whose name is Lady, but the rest 
of them are hints, 
And they all make snorting noises, just like 
Clement when he swims ! 
The hay is warm and pricky and the dust 
gets in your nose, 
And on the beams above you sit the pigeons, 
all in rows. 
They are brown, and white, and purple, but 
you can’t get near to pat, 
Though I think they ought, to let you, ’cause 
they purr just like a cat! 
But for sliding, and for hiding, and for snug¬ 
gling in a nest 
The hay’s the bestest thing on earth—and 
I stumped all the rest ! 
They stumped me to go down the shoot; 1 
wasn’t stumped by them ; 
I beat them all at sliding—essepting, only 
Clem ! 
But though the barn’s the bestest place in 
Summer for a game, 
You find that in the Winter it isn’t just the 
same. 
It isn’t that it’s lonely, and it isn’t that it’s 
cool, 
But Clement's down at Newport, at Mr. Some¬ 
one's school ! 
Then I watch the lilac bushes, for I’ll tell 
you what I’ve found— 
When all the buds grow purple and the 
leaves get big and round, 
They shut up Mr. Someone's school as quick 
as quick can be, 
And Summer comes—and Clement!—to the 
hayloft and to me! 
—Youth's Companion. 
* 
Collar and cuff sets of leatherette 
bound with linen braid show the influence 
of the leather dress trimmings. These 
sets are finished with small straps of the 
braid and little gold buttons; they form a 
stylish finish for a plain frock. The colors 
are various shades of red, blue, brown, 
tan, green and the various “burnt” tones; 
they cost 50 cents; collars alone, 25 
cents. 
* 
All wool batiste is a soft and pretty 
material in favor for wrappers, dressing 
sacques and children’s dresses; it is some¬ 
what similar to challis. This batiste is 
38 inches wide and costs from 37^ to 50 
cents a yard. French flannels in Persian 
designs still hold their popularity for sim¬ 
ilar service; they are in small, very bright 
patterns on soft grounds and cost 75 
cents a yard. 
* 
Silk and wool yarn combined make 
handsome new sweaters; some in Norfolk 
jacket style have cape shoulders, while 
running down each box pleat is a twisted 
cord of white mingled with the color of 
the jacket. In red, the new maltese gray 
and white, these sweaters cost $9 each. 
Another style has a V neck, with a sepa¬ 
rate vest, to be worn when the weather 
makes it desirable. In silk and wool this 
style costs $0. 
The newest imported fans are of hand- 
painted bone, the whole fan being made 
of the bone. The sticks overlap just at the 
edges, the painting covering the whole 
surface of the fan, and the ribbon run 
through to hold the sticks together forms 
part of the design. The fans are small, 
and the paintings, in Empire fashion, are 
very delicate and artistic. One $5 fan 
was carved in garlands of flowers and 
leaves, which were painted in natural 
colors, tha open spaces in the carving be¬ 
ing backed with painted gauze. Other 
fans of this style ranged in price from 
$3.50 to $10. 
* 
A Philadelphia woman went to a 
hairdresser last Summer for the purpose 
of having her auburn hair bleached to an 
ash blonde shade. Now she is suing the 
unlucky hairdresser for $10,000, because 
her hair is streaked with all the colors of 
the rainbow, and falling out so badly that 
she has to wear a wig. Her unhappy 
case conveys a variety of morals, like that 
of a New York woman who bought henna 
leaves to alter the tint of her chevelure, 
and then found herself, like the tradi¬ 
tional mermaid, with flowing locks of 
bright sea green. She sued the druggist 
who sold her the henna, but the jury was 
extremely unsympathetic, and we doubt 
whether the Philadelphia victim will fare 
much better. There is little sympathy for 
artificial beautifying when it fails. 
* 
Beefsteak chowder is a good dish for 
a cold day. Cut a generous pound of 
round steak into strips an inch and a 
half long and half an inch thick and wide. 
Cut a two-inch cube of fat salt pork 
into tiny bits, and cook in a hot frying 
pan with an onion sliced very thin. When 
the fat is tried out of the pork and the 
onion is browned add a quart of boiling 
water. Let simmer five minutes, then pour 
the whole over the pieces of steak. Bring 
the contents of the saucepan quickly to the 
boiling point; let boil five minutes, then 
simmer until the meat is tender. Have 
ready four or five potatoes, pared, cut in 
slices, scalded in boiling water, drained, 
and rinsed in cold water. Add the pota¬ 
toes with a teaspoonful of salt and one- 
eighth of a teaspoonful of white pepper 
to the meat. Add also, if needed, boiling 
water to cover the potatoes. Cook until 
the potatoes are tender, then add a cup 
and a half of rich milk. Split half a 
dozen crackers and dispose them in a soup 
tureen. Pour over them the chowder and 
serve at once. 
* 
The value of specialist training was 
thus illustrated by the Youth’s Com¬ 
panion : Mrs. Bell sat rocking comfort¬ 
ably on her piazza, while the children, 
four of them, worked below in the gar¬ 
den beds. Mrs. Primrose, who had come 
to make a call, fanned herself with her 
hat, and noted the industrious little fig¬ 
ures. 
“What on earth are those children do¬ 
ing?” she asked. 
"Weeding,” said Mrs. Bell. 
“But can you trust them?” 
"Perfectly.” 
”1 couldn’t trust my Nell and Grace, 
and they’re older than yours.” 
“You mean they wouldn’t know the 
weeds from the seedlings?” 
“Precisely.” 
Mrs. Bell leaned forward impressively. 
She had on her intelligent look—the one 
she assumed when she addressed a club 
on civic rights. “My dear,” said she, 
“this is the age of specialties. Each man, 
each woman, is, or should be, devoted to 
one department. Children may not be 
capable of learning to distinguish all 
weeds, but any child could learn one. I 
have taught Kate pigweed; Annie pusley; 
Gladys, chickweed, and Tom, sorrel. Each 
goes through a bed and selects his or her 
specialty. I sit here on the piazza and 
rock.” 
* 
Here is the recipe for making good 
bread, given by the great milling com¬ 
panies and used by food demonstrators: 
To one quart of lukewarm liquid— 
half water and half milk, or water alone— 
add two half-ounce compressed yeast 
cakes, or the usual quantity of liquid 
yeast, and stir until dissolved. Add one 
teaspoonful of salt and three tablespoon¬ 
fuls of sugar, and when well dissolved 
stir in with wooden spoon three quarts of 
well-sifted flour, or until dough is suffi¬ 
ciently stiff to be turned from the mixing 
bow! to the molding board in a mass. 
If shortening is desired add two table¬ 
spoonfuls lard. Knead this dough, add¬ 
ing if necessary from time to time, flour 
until it becomes smooth and elastic and 
ceases to stick to fingers or board. Do 
not make dough too stiff. Spring wheat 
flour needs a little more working than 
Winter wheat, and should be a little 
softer to make it rise properly. Put dough 
into well-greased earthen bowl, brush 
lightly with melted butter or drippings, 
cover with towel and set in warm place, 
about 75 degrees, for two hours, or until 
light, then knead well and return to bowl, 
cover as before and set for another hour’s 
rising, or until light. When light, form 
gently into loaves or rolls, place in 
greased bread-pans, brush with butter or 
drippings, cover again and let stand for 
one and one-half hour, then bake. 
Virtues of Ben Davis. 
Do our housekeepers know that the Ben 
Davis apples are the most delicious of any 
for baking? They grow so fair and per¬ 
fect with us that there is almost never 
a wormy one. We keep them in a baking 
dish with a little water in the bottom of 
the dish. They do not burst out of shape, 
nor lose their lovely color, nor require 
any sugar. Eaten with sweet cream they 
are a wholesome dessert. Just try them. 
We value our Ben Davis highly. They 
always yield a full crop. They keep in 
good condition longer than any other ap¬ 
ple we have. They are such a treat all 
Winter for the horses and stock. They 
look so beautiful in the fruit dish, when 
all the other apples are gone. i. F. w. 
The Bookshelf. 
Mary's Garden and How It Grew, by 
Frances Duncan. This is a most delight¬ 
ful juvenile book, which will appeal to 
amateur gardeners of all ages. It re¬ 
lates the friendship of little Mary and her 
neigh||pr Herr Trommel, retired florist 
and enthusiastic gardener, and describes 
the way they worked together, side by 
side, in garden and greenhouse. The 
book is really a practical treatise on gar¬ 
dening, going closely into details of sow¬ 
ing seed, transplanting, making cuttings, 
etc., yet it is so pleasantly written that 
the youthful reader never finds it 
“preachy.” Square 12mo; charmingly 
bound and illustrated; published by the 
Century Co., New York; price, $1.25. 
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strength. 
Care for your family’s health requires 
constant watchfulness to exclude 
from your kitchen the unwhole¬ 
some alum baking powders 
which are declared by phy- 
sicians to be productive 
of nervous and diges¬ 
tive diseases. 
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