1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
43 
Have you had a kindness shown? 
Pass it on. 
’Twas not given for you alone— 
Pass it on. 
Let it travel down the years, 
Let it wipe another’s tears, 
'fill in Heaven the deed appears. 
Pass it on. 
President-General, Mrs. Cynthia West- 
over Alden. 
Headquarters, No. 96 Fifth Avenue, New 
York. 
Society Motto—“Good Cheer.’’ 
Colors—Yellow and White. 
Flower—Coreopsis. 
Society Song—“Scatter Sunshine.’’ 
Though the midnight found us weary, 
The morning brings us cheer; 
Thank God for every sunrise 
In the circuit of the year. 
—Margaret E. Sangster. 
The largest branch of the Sunshine 
Society comprises over 2,300 members. 
It is composed of young folks, and the 
members are scattered all over northern 
Michigan, the president being Mrs. M. 
E. C. Bates, of Traverse City. The rules 
of this branch are as follows; 
“I will try never to worry or fret 
about anything. 
“I will try to be as happy as I can 
and to make everybody happy as far as 
I can. 
“I will try to be loving, helpful and 
kind to everybody and to every living 
thing. 
“If I ever fail in trying to do these 
things, I will ‘try, try again.’ ” 
These rules are printed on a member¬ 
ship card and are signed by each mem¬ 
ber upon joining the club. They are very 
good rules for anyone, whether a Sun¬ 
shine member or not. 
« * « 
“I BELIEVE,’’ said an energetic little 
Sunshine woman, quoted in the New 
York Mail and Express, “that I have a 
great deal of cork in my nature.” And 
she nodded a merry good-by to a puzzled 
group who turned a lifelong friend of 
her, asking what she meant. 
“That is certainly one way of express¬ 
ing it, and a good one too,” she said. 
“It is cork. And I hope you have it in 
your natures, too. Perhaps you call it 
by another name, ‘cheerfulness’ or 
‘sunny temper,’ qualities which the dear 
God bestowed on us. not alone to make 
our own lives happier, but to brighten 
up the paths of others. 
“Ever since this dear Sunshine woman 
was a young girl things have gone 
against her. She has had to fight the 
fight herself, whereas all you young peo¬ 
ple have a father, mother or brothers to 
help you in the battle. 
“But Margaret has fought alone, and 
bravely, and made the most of her 
happy disposition, thereby smoothing an 
otherwise rough path. Disappoint¬ 
ments? My dear girls! Perhaps the 
greatest disappointment of your lives 
was to have the rain fall when you 
wanted the sun to shine. But Margaret 
has encountered more serious obstacles. 
But she never gave up to despair. She 
simply began again, or, as she expressed 
it, “Bobbed up again.” That’s what she 
meant by the cork in her nature. You 
all know that if you throw even the 
tiniest bit of cork upon the surface of 
the water it will bob up at once. No 
matter how high the waves, it will al¬ 
ways keep on the top. So it has been 
with Margaret. 
“I am sure that there is some of this 
sunny buoyancy and cheerfulness in the 
nature of every one of us. It may be 
latent, but that is all the more reason 
we should draw it out and make it a 
help to all with whom we come in con¬ 
tact. Don’t you think each of you has 
it in some degree, and if you have, why 
not make the most of it?” 
The Farmer^s Fare. 
A handful of questions that fell to my 
share to answer from the question box 
of a recent farmers’ institute in New 
York State may be of interest to the 
readers of The R. N.-Y. 
Is there anything that can be used in 
the place of eggs when they are 30 cents 
a dozen? 
Nothing will take the place of eggs in 
angel cake, sponge cake and custards, 
therefore in midwinter let us make the 
suet puddings, the apple tapioca, and 
the creamy rice pudding, and have raised 
cakes, buns, cookies and good molasses 
gingerbread. Then in the Spring, when 
eggs are cheap again, we shall enjoy 
the custard pie and sponge cake all the 
more for having gone without them for 
awhile. I have very little sympathy with 
the sham sponge cakes and custards 
where baking powder in the one case 
and cornstarch in the other are used as 
vain substitutes for eggs; short cakes 
and plain cornstarch puddings are far 
better. When we compare eggs with 
meat, however, we shall see that even 
when Winter prices prevail they are not 
more expensive than the choicer pieces 
of meat. Eight good-sized eggs weigh a 
pound, and at 30 cents a dozen would 
cost 20 cents. There is little waste and 
little fuel or time is required to prepare 
them. Compared with a pound of beef¬ 
steak or lamb chops the eggs are not so 
costly as we sometimes think. 
What shall we farmers’ wives do for 
dinner when we have no meat but salt 
pork and codfish? 
One great lack in the country, where 
of all places there should be abundance, 
is in variety of vegetables and a knowl¬ 
edge of their possibilities. The nutri¬ 
tive value of our common vegetables 
like cabbage, carrots and parsnips, can 
be increased by a judicious addition of 
milk, eggs and butter. The cabbage can 
be served with a salad dressing, the car¬ 
rots with a white sauce and the pars¬ 
nips after boiling can be sliced, dipped 
in butter, and fried in the salt pork fat. 
These taken in turn with the salt pork 
and potatoes, and a good pudding, will 
make a substantial meal. Again, have 
some fried apples with the salt pork and 
a dish of macaroni and cheese. The 
macaroni is cheap and appetizing when 
carefully cooked. It is first put into boil¬ 
ing salted water and cooked tender—a 
half hour or less—then it is drained, 
and rinsed with cold water, and cut in 
convenient pieces. A buttered pudding 
dish is then filled with alternate layers 
of the macaroni and chopped or grated 
cheese, perhaps a cupful of the cheese 
to a quart of the cooked macaroni. Sea¬ 
son with salt and pepper, fill the dish 
with milk, and cover with bread or 
cracker crumbs mixed with a little melt¬ 
ed butter, and bake in a moderate oven 
for nearly an hour, or till the macaroni 
absorbs most of the milk. The cheese 
will supply the proteid matter lacking 
in the fat pork. Boiled rice or macaroni 
in tomato sauce is another inexpensive 
food which is easily prepared. 
The salt fish can be varied by com¬ 
bining it with milk and eggs in several 
different ways. 
How are milk soups made? 
The various soups known as cream of 
this, that and the other thing are usual¬ 
ly about half milk and half meat or 
vegetable stock, slightly thickened with 
fiour which has been blended with fat. 
For example, the tough, flabby portions 
and white leaves of a bunch of celery 
might be cut in small pieces, mixed with 
a sliced onion, covered with cold water 
and cooked until much of it can be 
rubbed through a strainei-. To this 
juice and pulp is added an equal portion 
or even more of hot milk. For thick¬ 
ening a quart of soup slightly, one ounce 
of butter and one rounding tablespoon¬ 
ful of flour should be cooked together in 
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low’8 Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— 
a small saucepan until frothing, then 
add a little of the soup and beat until 
smooth, and then mix with the whole. 
Season with salt and pepper. For a 
thicker soup use twice as much flour and 
butter, though the butter may be de¬ 
creased slightly. However, if we use 
skim-milk for the soup, as we may, the 
increase of butter is desirable. Such 
soups can be made from almost any 
vegetable, varying the thickening ac¬ 
cording to the thickness of the pulp of 
the vegetables. Bean and pea soup re¬ 
quire less flour, but a little will keep 
them from becoming watery on top,. A 
corn chowder can be made much like a 
fish chowder from fresh or canned corn 
with pork fat, onion and potato. Such 
soups are excellent for supper on a cold 
night, and give an opportunity to turn 
skim-milk to good account. 
ANNA BARROWS. 
T HE plague of lamps is 
the breaking of chim¬ 
neys ; but that can be avoided. 
Get Macbeth’s “pearl top” 
or “ pearl glass.” 
The funnel-shaped tops are 
beaded or “ pearled ” — a 
trade-mark. Cylinder tops 
are etched in the gflass — 
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“MACBETH PEARL GLASS ”- 
another trade-mark. 
Our " Index ’’ describes all lamps and their 
proper chimneys. With it you can always order 
the right size and shape of chimney for any lamp. 
We mail it F'KEE to any one who writes for it. 
Address Macbeth. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
A Market for Chinch Bugs. 
The Youth’s Companion tells how a 
man who kept a little store in a western 
town was one morning approached by a 
farmer who owed him a small account, 
with a plea for an extension of time, as 
the chinch-bugs were eating up all the 
crops. 
“Chinch-bugs! Nonsense!” said the 
the storekeeper, roughly, “i don’t be 
lieve there’s a chinch-bug within a mile 
of you.” 
“The chinch-bugs are there by mil¬ 
lions.” 
“Millions! I’ll tell you what I’ll do. 
I’ll give you a dollar and a half a gallon 
for every gallon of the bugs you’ll bring 
me.” 
“Done!” said the farmer. 
A day or two after he drove back to 
the village with a ten-gallon can tightly 
covered. This he unloaded from his 
wagon, and rolled carefully into the gen¬ 
eral store. 
“What have you got there?” asked the 
merchant, suspiciously. 
“Something for you.” 
“What is it?” 
“Chinch-bugs,” said the farmer. He 
lifted the lid and disclosed a mass of 
the hideous insects, wriggling and 
squirming. 
“There’s ten gallons of them,” he con¬ 
tinued. “I take it you owe me fifteen 
dollars. That will just about square my 
little bill, and I’ll thank you to give me 
a receipt.” 
“Cover it up for goodness’ sake, before 
any of ’em get away!” roared the un¬ 
happy dealer. 
But he wrote the receipt so justly for¬ 
feited. 
The story came out in the papers, and 
for months thereafter the storekeeper 
received letters asking for the latest 
quotations on the price of chinch-bugs, 
and inquiring how many he was pre¬ 
pared to take. 
However, he had nothing to regret, 
for, as he said, the experience was worth 
a thousand dollars to him in advertis¬ 
ing. 
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