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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 2 
[ Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. 
A tender child of Summers three, 
Seeking her little bed at night, 
Paused on the dark stair timidly, 
“Oh! Mother! take my hand,” said she, 
“And then the dark will all be light.' 
We older children grope our way 
From dark behind to dark before; 
And only when our hands we lay, 
Dear Lord, in Thine, the light is day 
And there is darkness never more. 
Reach downward to the sunless days. 
Wherein our guides are blind as we. 
And faith is small and hope delays; 
Take Thou the hands of prayer we raise. 
And let us feel the light of Thee! 
—John G. Whittier. 
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A SECOND installment of ‘‘A Trek to 
the South” will appear shortly, circum¬ 
stances rendering the delay in publica¬ 
tion inevitable. 
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The postillion tails which were intro¬ 
duced sparingly last Winter continue to 
appear more freely now; they are both 
flat and side-pleated. Many of the Au¬ 
tumn tailor gowns have these tails, 
which are described under the general 
name of basquines. When made of side 
pleats the basquine is very flat, and may 
be either attached to the skirt or waist. 
This is a great improvement with, a 
habit-back skirt. 
When the French housekeeper wishes 
to improve a tough beefsteak, she al¬ 
lows it to stand over night in a mixture 
of vinegar and salad oil in equal parts. 
The meat is spread out flat in a 
crockery dish, and the mixture poured 
over it. Salt or pepper is not used with 
it. A marinade, or savory bath of vine¬ 
gar and condiments, is often used to 
flavor meat before cooking, much to its 
improvement, as in the case of beef a 
la mode, which gains greatly in flavor 
thereby. 
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What is called muslin toast is some¬ 
times served with cheese and salad, or 
with fruit. Rather stale homemade 
bread, which cuts into Arm slices, is re¬ 
quired. The bread is cut, literally, “as 
thin as a wafer,” and spread out to dry 
an hour or two before needed. Then, 
just in time to serve, the bread is spread 
out on a hot tin pan, and put on the top 
shelf of a quick oven, just long enough 
to curl up a little and take on a pale 
shade of brown. This toast is excellent 
for people of delicate digestion, but is 
appetizing for anyone. It is frequently 
the custom now to serve cream cheese 
and fruit jelly together as a latter course 
at dinner, and muslin toast is a very 
desirable accompaniment. 
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A WESTERN correspondent asks how to 
make Worcestershire sauce. This is a 
proprietary relish, its mode of making 
and ingredients kept secret for a cen¬ 
tury or more. Green walnuts appear to 
form a part of the original sauce, whose 
red labels, bearing the three pears dis¬ 
played upon the shield of the ancient 
city of Worcester, are familiar every¬ 
where, and cassareep (the boiled sap of 
the cassava) is doubtless another ingre¬ 
dient, but we do not believe that it has 
ever been imitated with entire success. 
The following recipe is recommended as 
a homemade Worcestershire sauce: Five 
pints best cider vinegar, one-half pound 
small sliced vinegar pickles, one-fourth 
pound crushed mustard seed, one-fourth 
ounce of celery seed, also crushed, one 
bunch minced garlic. Cook the forego¬ 
ing ingredients in a granite kettle until 
reduced to four pints. Into a second 
granite kettle put one ounce crushed 
ginger, one-fourth ounce cloves, one- 
fourth ounce cayenne pepper, one pint 
India chutney, four pints of water, and 
cook until it boils down \,o four pints. 
Put both into one kettle and cook one- 
half hour. Let it cool. Cut the rind of 
three lemons in small strips and brown 
in the oven, then put into the cold sauce. 
Cover and let stand 10 days. Then draw 
off arid strain into bottles. 
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The idea of skinning a pearl sounds 
exceedingly extravagant—yet it is not 
an impossibility. A friend of ours pos¬ 
sesses an old-fashioned ring set with a 
fine large pearl. In course of time the 
jewel lost its luster, becoming blackened 
and dead. Our friend stored .’t away 
for several months, when, happening to 
look at it, she discovered that the sur¬ 
face of the pearl was cracked, and ap¬ 
parently peeling off. Being a woman, 
she began to scrape off the cracked sur¬ 
face with her manicure tools, and was 
astonished to discover a perfect and lus- 
tix)us surface beneath. After thus shed¬ 
ding its coat, the pearl looked as though 
fresh from the jeweler’s hands. Speak¬ 
ing of this to an expert, he told us that 
the shedding of the coat itself was not 
remarkable because the pearl consists 
of a series of concentric layers deposited 
upon some irritant particle introduced 
into the oyster shell; the remarkable 
feature of the incident was the fact that 
the secondary layer was perfect and 
without blemish. It is, however, an un¬ 
common incident; the only moulting 
pearl we are acquainted with. 
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What to do for closet room is often a 
puzzling question where proper provi¬ 
sion has not been made in building. One 
woman whose accommodations were 
limited solved the puzzle thus: She 
purchased a plain kitchen clothes horse 
six feet high, made with flat slats in¬ 
stead of round. Her next purchase was 
six yards of a very bright and pretty art 
fabric, and following this purchase was 
a liberal supply of fancy gilt headed 
tacks. In order to make the covering 
secure, a strip of wood was placed at the 
bottom of the triple folds of the clothes 
horse. The drapery was then stretched 
to cover the wood completely. Small 
upholstery tacks were used for fastening 
and later the fancy ones were placed at 
regular intervals. Each fold of the 
clothes rod was covered separately, the 
leather strips that originally served as 
3933 Woman’s Three-Piece 
Skirt, 22 to 30 Waist. 
hinges were replaced by fancy brass 
hinges, and the clothes horse was con¬ 
verted into an artistic screen. A couple 
of dozen clothes hooks were inserted in 
the inner side of the screen, thus trans¬ 
forming the screen into a closet that 
served as a decorative as well as a use¬ 
ful addition to the sleeping apartment. 
People lift their eyebrows over wo¬ 
men mastering the higher mathematics; 
why, it is infinitely more difficult to 
learn the details of good housekeeping. 
Anybody can learn mathematics, but it 
takes a lot of skill to manage a house 
well.—William Morris. 
The Rural Patterns. 
That Busy Life Again. 
Skirts with circular flounce still re¬ 
main in high favor, the example shown 
having a much graduated effect which 
is very fashionable. The upper portion 
is cut in three pieces and is fitted snug¬ 
ly about the hips, the fullness being laid 
in inverted pleats. The flounce is nar¬ 
row at the front but widens suddenly to 
run well up at the back, making a spe¬ 
cially desirable model for wide fabrics. 
The fan pleat is a novel and fashionable 
feature, besides which, it adds to the 
flare and freedom about the feet, but 
when desired the flounce can be made 
plain. To cut this skirt for a woman of 
medium size, 8^4 yards of material 21 
inches wide, yards 27 inches wide, 
5^4 yards 44 inches wide or 4% yards 50 
3932 Woman’s Shirt Waist, 
32 to 42 Bust. 
inches wide will be required. The pat¬ 
tern No. 3933 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 
z6, 28 and 30-inch waist measure; price 
10 cents from this office. 
The pretty tucked waist shown is 
made over a fitted lining, but the lining 
can be omitted if desired. The back is 
plain, drawn down in gathers at the 
waist line; but the fronts are tucked to 
form a pointed yoke, below which they 
fall in soft folds which can be arranged 
in gathers at the waist line or ’eft free 
to be adjusted to the figure as preferred. 
The edge is finished with a box pleat and 
the neck with a stock. The sleeves are 
in bishop style with narrow pointed 
cuffs. When the waist is unlined, the 
gathers at the waist line are stayed with 
a band of the material, or a casing is 
applied and tapes inserted by means of 
which the fullness is regulated. Other¬ 
wise the process of making is un¬ 
changed. To cut this waist for a wo¬ 
man of medium size 3% yards of ma¬ 
terial 21 inches wide, yards 27 
inches wide, three yards 32 inches wide, 
or 2% yards 44 inches wide will be re¬ 
quired. The pattern No. 3932 is cut in 
sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42-inch 
bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The oldest trouble in the world comes 
fi'om want of understanding.—Kipling. 
In the issue for August 24 I read the 
experience of a busy farmer’s wife. Af¬ 
ter reading it the second time I had 
come to the conclusion that she must 
have been a perfectly healthy woman 
with a very strong constitution, or she 
would have given out under the burden 
of all those years. My experience has 
been that there is a limit to each one’s 
power of endurance, and I think that 
some of the sisters will agree with me 
in saying that if we go beyond the limit 
we must suffer the penalty, which means 
nervous prostration, or something 
worse. I would not encourage idleness, 
and think one far happier for working, 
and while we can detect just a little 
spirit of egotism on the part of the busy 
woman who tells of her work, at the 
same time we cannot but admit that 
she was very smart to accomplish so 
much, and praise is her just due for 
leading such a useful life. 
A CONNECTICUT READEB. 
There are great truths which every 
honest heart may be assured oi. There 
is such a thing as a serene, immovable 
conviction. Faith is a deep want of the 
soul.—Christian Register. 
About half the 
lamp chimneys in 
use have my name 
on them. 
! All the trouble 
comes of the other 
half 
Macbeth. 
If you’ll send your address, I’ll send you 
the Index to Lamps and their Chimneys, to 
tell you what number to get for your lamp. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgli. 
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