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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 27 
From Day to Day. 
MR. JABEZ HALL ON RELIGIOUS 
UNREST. 
‘‘They’re huntin’ fer a new belief to take 
the old one’s place; 
The doctors and professors ain’t quite 
satisfied no more, 
And it seems to sort of got to be a kind 
of mild disgrace 
Fer folks to keep believin’ as their pa¬ 
rents did before. 
They say it shows you’re Ignorant to think 
that God’s up there 
A-guldin’ this old world along and 
watchin’ day and night; 
They say the Bible’s only a historical 
affair; 
And they’re fixin’ up new doctrines fer 
to keep things goln’ right— 
But with all their talk and tinkerin’ they 
haln’t arranged it so 
That folks can quite afford to not be 
decent here below. 
“1 don’t pretend to know it all, and mebby 
there’s a way 
That’s better than the one our mothers 
wanted us to take; 
They may find a fairer doctrine or arrange 
a creed some day 
That’ll not have enny fiaws in and’ll 
neither bend nor break; 
But with all their college learnln’ and their 
searchin’ high and low. 
And their great philosophizin’ there is 
one thing they forget— 
They can take the creeds and smash ’em 
and bring out their proofs to show 
That the old religion’s foolish, but there 
ain’t none of ’em yet 
Found a way that they can fix It so we 
needn’t try nor care 
To be righteous or be decent and still 
keep a-gettin’ there. 
“The ones that keep a-kickin’ at the old 
religions most 
Ain’t worried over whether Moses really 
talked with God, 
And I guess they’d find it easy to accept 
the Holy Ghost, 
If in doin’ so there wasn’t a straight 
pathway to be trod— 
What we want’s a new religion that’ll let 
us all be free 
To give our inclinations a loose rein and 
let ’em go; 
But none of these here creeds they’re get- 
tin’ up, it seems to me. 
Is helpin’ out a speck, and what’s the 
use, I’d like to know? 
If the ones that turn and get the new re¬ 
ligions they arrange 
Must still keep bein’ good, why, what’s 
the use of enny change?’’ 
—Chicago Record-Herald. 
* 
One of our friends writes that green 
tomatoes and onions, sliced and fried 
together, just as onions would be done 
alone, make an excellent combination. 
Ill 
Pkof. Minnie A. Stoner, dean of the 
woman’s department and professor of 
domestic science in the Kansas Agricul¬ 
tural College, has been appointed pro¬ 
fessor of domestic science in the Ohio 
State University. 
Fabmeks’ Bulletin No. 128, issued by 
the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture, is devoted to eggs and their 
uses as food. It will be found very in¬ 
teresting either to the housekeeper or 
poultry fancier, and may be obtained on 
application to the Superintendent of 
Documents, Union Building, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 
* 
Have any of The R. N.-Y. housekeep¬ 
ers tried canning fruit by what is called 
the California cold-water process? A 
correspondent writes of it as follows in 
a daily paper: 
For years my mother and I have canned 
pieplant, butter beans, corn, etc., by a 
simple process. I wash pieplant and cut 
into pieces about three Inches long (not 
peeled), pack closely in Mason jars, and 
fill the jars to overflowing with cold water, 
making sure there are no air bubbles left 
in the jar. Screw the tops on the same, as 
in canning fruit, and put in a cool, dark 
place. When opened, I have been told by 
visitors that you would think I had just 
picked the vegetables. I have never used 
this recipe on small fruit, but have canned 
pears, apples and quinces this way, as well 
as vegetables. 
A KHiEND asks us how to make a spe¬ 
cies of root beer with essence of spruce 
and oil of wintergreen. Probably the 
following recipe is the one meant: Nine 
quarts warm water, one yeast cake dis¬ 
solved in warm water, two pounds sugar, 
five drops essence of spruce, 10 drops oil 
of wintergreen, 15 drops oil of sassa¬ 
fras. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, 
bottle, cork tight, keep eight hours in a 
warm place, then put where it will keep 
cool. It will be ready to drink in three 
days. 
* 
Cold roast bacon will often fill an 
emergency in the Summer bill of fare. 
Select a square piece weighing three or 
3876 Infant's Kimona, 
one size. 
four i>ounds, soak it over night. The 
next morning put it on to boil, allow¬ 
ing it to simmer very gently three-quar¬ 
ters of an hour to the pound; then let it 
go cool in the water in which it was 
cooked. When cold drain, remove the 
skin, rub the fat well with sugar, pour 
over it some cider vinegar, and roast in 
the oven until brown. When cold cut 
into thin slices; it should be tender and 
delicate in flavor. 
* 
Mercerized gingham petticoats have 
a pretty luster, and wash very nicely. 
They are pink or blue, and cost 75 cents 
each. Shirt-waist suits of this mercer¬ 
ized material are pretty and inexpensive. 
The shirt-waist suit and the shirt waist 
buttoning down the back are the two 
most striking developments of the pres¬ 
ent Summer. Women are wondering 
why they never before thought of mak¬ 
ing skirts to match their shirt waists. 
The waist buttoning down the back is 
the natural development of the present 
unbroken styles of trimming. It is not 
always becoming, and it is not at all 
easy to get into such a garment unas¬ 
sisted. To see a woman frantically en¬ 
deavoring to fasten small pearl buttons 
ia the immediate vicinity of her shoul¬ 
der blades, one might imagine her try¬ 
ing to emulate the acrobatic feats of a 
circus contortionist. Probably it is very 
gcod exercise for a person of sedentary 
occupation. 
* 
In one of the private schools in a town 
there is a small boy who is always cheer¬ 
fully miles behind everybody else, says 
The Household. He is not a dull boy, 
but learning does not appeal to him as 
being a thing especially to be desired. 
Recently the teacher told the class in 
composition that on the next day she 
would expect each of them to be able to 
write a short anecdote. She explained 
with great care the meaning of the word 
anecdote, and next day, when she called 
the class up to write, all but the laggard 
went at once to work. “Why don’t you 
write an anecdote, Rob?’’ asked the 
teacher. “I forget what an anecdote is,’’ 
said Rob, undisturbed. “I explained it 
yesterday, Rob; and you ought to re¬ 
member,’’ said the teacher, a bit out of 
patience. “An anecdote is a tale. Now 
write.’’ Rob bent over his slate, and 
with much twisting of brow and writh¬ 
ing of lip, ground out his task. When 
the slates were collected, his was at the 
very top of the heap. The teacher picked 
it up, and this is what she read: “Yes¬ 
terday we had soup made from the an¬ 
ecdote of an ox.’’ 
* 
There is a small girl in a Pennsyl¬ 
vania public school who finds a good 
deal of difficulty in comprehending the 
mysteries of arithmetic. One day when 
the teacher was examining the class all 
answered their questions quickly and 
correctly until the foot of the class was 
reached. “Sallie, what is eight minus 
six?’’ Sallie could not answer, which 
was nothing unusual. Whereupon the 
teacher, thinking it might aid her by 
stating it less abstractly, said: “Now, 
Sallie, if your mamma went to the barn 
and found eight eggs and used six of 
them to bake a cake, what would she 
have left?” With a smile of contempt, 
Sallie answered, “Why, shells!” 
The Rural Patterns. 
One of the prettiest new ideas in in¬ 
fants’ wardrobes is the little kimona 
shown. The little garment is made with 
the regulation kimona yoke and full 
skirt portions that are gathered at the 
upper edge. The sleeves are large and 
full and the neck is finished with a roll¬ 
over facing that is extended to form 
bands for the fronts. When desired, the 
kimona can be cut off at the line indi¬ 
cated in the pattern and made short as 
shown in the smaller sketches. To cut 
this kimona, four yards of material 21 
inches wide, or 2% yards 32 inches wide, 
with 2^ yards of contrasting color for 
yoke and bands,, will be required for full 
length; 1% yard 21 inches wide, or % 
yard 32 inches wide, with 1% yard for 
yoke and bands when cut short. The 
3864 Blouse and 
Knickers,4, 6, 8 yrs. 
pattern No. 3876 is cut in one size only. 
Price 10 cents from this office. 
Blouse and knickerbockers form one 
of the most satisfactory suits for small 
boys. The blouse is cut on the simplest 
possible lines. Both fronts and back 
are plain and smooth across the shoul¬ 
ders and are arranged on a draw string 
at the loose edge. The sleeves are com¬ 
fortably loose while sufficiently well 
fitted for correct style, and the neck is 
finished by means of a square sailor col¬ 
lar that is held by a ribbon tie. The 
knickerbockei’S are shapely and snug 
about the hips and at the waist, and are 
drawn up by means of elastic below the 
knees. To cut this suit for a boy six 
years of age, 3% yards of material 27 
inches wide, 3% yards 32 inches wide, or 
two yards 44 inches wide, will be re¬ 
quired; to cut the blouse, 2y4, yards 27 
inches wide, or two yards 32 inches 
wide; to cut the knickerbockers, IVs 
yard 32 inches wide, or % yard 44 or 50 
inches wide. The pattern No. 3864 is 
cut in sizes for boys 4, 6 and 8 years of 
age; price 10 cents from this office. 
Concerning Those Household 
Expenses. 
I shall have to send a supplement to 
our report on page 442, for Jay’s criti¬ 
cism has roused our New England “dan¬ 
der,” as perhaps you know it might. Of 
course 1 didn’t send everything in my 
account, for I didn’t understand that 
cverythiny was wanted. What I did re¬ 
port was merely the expenses of liviny, 
exclusive of luxury. Butter was in¬ 
cluded in the grocery bill, but for Jay’s 
further information I will say that we 
used 73 pounds of butter in the year 
1900. Jay need not “alas,” until he 
knows that we don’t enjoy life. We do 
live in a nice neighborhood. Our near¬ 
est neighbors are a railroad treasurer, 
the teachers in world-famous Phillips 
Academy, professors in Andover Semin¬ 
ary, and equally famous Abbott. We do 
take three monthly magazines, and eight 
weeklies and semi-monthlies. Our own 
library is over 600 volumes; Andover 
has a most excellent public library, ana 
we have access to the seminary libra¬ 
ries. Our son was graduated from Har¬ 
vard College; one daughter went to Ab¬ 
bott. Both daughters and myself were 
graduated from Chautauqua. We own 
a pew in church, and occupy it. Do you 
suppose we should go there looking like 
“way-back?” My husband is an old- 
fashioned man, and will not wear any 
tailor-made clothing, but I really think 
you would know which way his 
“breeches are looking!” Our taxes last 
jear were $96. We have traveled some, 
though we haven’t been to Europe. Our 
own country has a good many things 
worth seeing. We are not behind hand 
in charity either, though I do not think 
that is to be counted in liviny expenses. 
We don’t care to let our left hand always 
know what our right hand is doing. 
Could we do all this and not be careful 
and economical? None of us has a right 
to criticise where we don’t and can’t 
know everything. Our reasons are not 
and cannot be another person’s reasons. 
MRS. A. C. 
A Pocket 
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The factory adjustments of the 
El^in Watch—by refrigeration 
and oven heat—make it like 
a pocket time ball. Its accu¬ 
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ELGIN 
Watch 
will last a lifetime, with ordl 
nary care—keep perfect 
time under all con 
ditlons. Ask your 
Jeweler. 
Every Elgin 
watch has the 
word ’'Elgin” 
engraved on 
the works. 
Booklet free. 
Elgin National 
Watch Company, 
Elgin, IIL 
NO MORE SPOILED FRUIT-r;L"„rri 
by using my Standard Patent Self Aleiting Self- 
Sealing Wax Strings. Very convenient and econom¬ 
ical. Inquire of your dealer or send me his name 
and 45 cents In stamps for 100 strings by mall. 
Mention this paper. C. C. FOUTS, Middletown, Ohio. 
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