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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 14, 
l Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
A WINTER EVENING AT HOME. 
Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast, 
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. 
And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn 
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups 
That cheer but not Inebriate, wait on each, 
So let us welcome peaceful evening in. 
’Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, 
To peep at such a world ; to see the stir 
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd : 
To hear the roar she sends through all her 
gates 
At a safe distance, where the dying sound 
Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear. 
—William Cowper (1731-1800). 
• 
The domestic problem in Africa seems 
rather complicated, judging from the fol¬ 
lowing advertisement, which appeared in 
The Cape Mercury: “Wanted, for German 
West Africa, a man to look after one 
horse, two cows and three pigs. One who 
can impart the rudiments of French, sing¬ 
ing and the piano to children preferred.” 
* 
A household label book is a conven¬ 
ience that any systematic housekeeper will 
appreciate. Tt contains 3(50 printed labels, 
ready gummed, for all sorts of articles in 
the medicine case, pantry or tool closet, 
and costs 25 cents. Another very useful 
thing is a “handy box,” containing baggage 
tags, gummed labels, string, rubber bands, 
key tags, assorted fasteners, glue, etc. 
These boxes cost from 75 cents to $3 each, 
according to size and finish. 
* 
A friend asks how to make old-fash¬ 
ioned dried apple cake. Here is a tested 
recipe for a cake that keeps well, improv¬ 
ing in flavor with age. Soak two cupfuls 
of dried apples and when tender add one 
cupful of raisins, one cupful molasses, one 
cupful sugar, a little cinnamon and cloves. 
Boil these to a syrup. When cool add one 
cupful of sour milk, one cupful butter, two 
eggs and two liberal cupfuls of flour sifted 
two or three times. A teaspoon fill of soda 
should be dissolved in the sour milk. Bake 
for two hours. 
* 
Everyone who has been caught at the 
last with a lot of unfinished Christmas 
gifts (and that means most of us) will 
begin making preparations for Christmas 
of 1905 this month. It is quite possible 
that the enthusiasm may not last long, but 
perhaps the final strain will be relieved a 
little. Collar and cuff sets- of fine muslin 
and lace can be made at any time, and 
with delicate hand work they are always 
acceptable. A yard of fine linen lawn and 
a piece of narrow lace (real Valenciennes) 
will make a number of sets that will only 
cost a few cents each, though they would 
cost 50 or 75 cents a set if bought ready¬ 
made. It must be remembered that it is 
the dainty hand work that gives value to 
such articles; if this is slighted the effect 
is lost. 
S 
Any enthusiastic gardener with a next- 
door neighbor who keeps chickens will en¬ 
dorse Mrs. Sanderson’s view, as thus re¬ 
corded in the Youth’s Companion: Mr. 
Sanderson and his wife were picking their 
way across the small plot of ground which 
separates their home from that of the 
Mitchells, at whose house they had just 
had dinner. 
“Most agreeable people,” commented Mr 
Sanderson, genially, “and an excellent din 
ner.” 
“Y-es,” said Mrs. Sanderson, not very 
enthusiastically. 
“Those broilers were perfect,” continued 
Mr. Sanderson. "I wonder why we can’t 
have such chickens ? Oh, I believe he said 
they were of his own raising, didn’t he?” 
“Yes,” Mrs. Sanderson replied with 
awakening spirit, “that was what he said, 
and it vexed me so I could hardly keep 
still.” 
“‘Vexed’ you?” questioned Mr. Sander¬ 
son. 
“Yes, and it would vex you if you had 
any spunk,”’ returned Mrs. Sanderson. 
“We raised those chickens, James Sander¬ 
son !” 
“What do you mean?” asked Mr. San¬ 
derson , in bewilderment. “We’ve never 
had a chicken on our place.” 
“Yes, we have—the Mitchells’ chickens 
have been there all Summer!” retorted 
Mrs. Sanderson. “If it hadn’t been for 
my garden those broilers wouldn’t have 
been half so fine. And when everybody 
was praising them, all I could think of was 
the garden seeds and vegetables those 
birds have devoured since they were 
hatched in the Spring! And there Mr. 
Mitchell sat, and took all those compli¬ 
ments as calmly as if they really belonged 
to him! 
“I think it was very poor taste,” Mrs. 
Sanderson concluded, with dignity, “with 
us right there at the table. It would have 
been merely decent to have bought chick¬ 
ens when wc dined there.” 
* 
While some of the writers and lectur¬ 
ers upon the advancement of women point 
out the advantages of having all the cook¬ 
ing done outside the home by professional 
workers, Miss Waldron, of the League for 
Home Economics, says: “Cheap delica¬ 
tessen shops and bakeries and prepared 
flours ought to be swept off the face of the 
earth. They, as well as the cheap candies 
for children, are the bane of the tene¬ 
ments. I can’t begin to tell you how many 
cases of stomachic troubles and insufficient 
nutrition, to say nothing of intemperance, 
can be traced directly to those sources. In 
homes without number the people just live 
on those things. Twenty minutes before 
dinner some one is sent out to the delica¬ 
tessen to get some boiled ham or tongue, 
some pickles and a loaf of baker’s bread, 
and when the wage earner comes home 
from his day’s work, tired and hungry, 
that is all there is for him to eat. And it 
isn’t always that the women are lazy either. 
It is ignorance. They don’t know any 
better. Girls have no training at home. 
When they get to be thirteen or fourteen 
they leave school and go into shops or fac¬ 
tories. Then they marry young, knowing 
absolutely nothing of housework. Not 
long ago I went to see a German woman 
who was ill and in great destitution. I 
found her on the first floor of a rear house 
—that is, a house behind a house—dark, 
dismal, cold. She had a husband and five 
children, but nothing in the house to eat, 
and the oldest boy so discouraged that he 
declared he was going to the docks and 
jump off. ‘How does it happen, Mrs. Wag¬ 
ner?’ I said. ‘Hasn’t your husband work?’ 
‘Oh, yes.’ ‘Does he drink?’ ‘No.’ ‘What 
does he earn?’ ‘Eleven dollars a week.’ 
‘What is his business?’ ‘He’s a stoker.’ 
‘Well, what do you feed your family on?’ 
‘Six loaves of bread a day and a can of 
condensed milk. We spread the bread with 
that.’ ‘Don’t you ever co§k anything?’ 
‘No, I don’t know' how.’ ‘And is that all 
your husband gets for his suppper when he 
comes home at night?’ ‘Yes, and he ought 
to be thankful for that, instead of getting 
mad.’ Well, I gave that woman a real 
good talking to. Then I taught her to 
make pea soup and a pot of mush, and she 
actually got down on her knees and kissed 
me. Now, we are going to start a cooking 
class in her rooms as soon as she is well 
enough, and a happier woman at the pros¬ 
pect you never saw.” It is hard for many 
of us to realize the misery that acccompa- 
nies such ignorance. Many of the women 
who are in greatest need of instruction 
are too poor even to pay five cents for a 
lesson, yet their ignorance wastes much 
of their tiny revenue. The League for 
Home Economics is doing work that not 
only makes life happier for those whose 
comforts are few, but it is strengthening 
the health and morals of a coming genera- 
ation. 
Household Congress. 
Burned Bread. — I forgot my bread one 
day, and when I took it out of the oven 
it had a jet black crust on one side. When 
it was cold, so I could take hold of it, 1 
took off the black part with a coarse 
grater. It came off nicely, and did not 
waste the bread as paring would have 
done. S. b. R. 
Bird’s-nest Pudding. —I have seen a 
good many apple recipes in The R. N.-Y. 
but have noticed none exactly like the 
one we like best, and so I send it, hoping 
that it will add one more drop of joy to 
the Apple Consumers’ League: Pare 
and quarter sufficient tart apples to fill a 
three-pint basin two-thirds full; sprinkle 
a little salt over them and about a gill 
of water. Now take cupful flour, 
IJ 2 teaspoonful baking powder, and a 
pinch of salt; cut into this a piece of 
butter the size of a butter-nut, add suffi¬ 
cient rich milk to make a soft dough 
and place on top of the apples with the 
spoon, making sure there are no air holes. 
Bake in a moderate oven until the ap¬ 
ples are soft. Serve with cream and 
sugar or syrup. l. mYherson. 
Buckwheat 
Cakes 
made with Royal 
Bating Powder 
Are delicious and wholesome—a perfect 
cold weather breakfast food. 
Made in the morning; no yeast, no. “ set¬ 
ting” over night; never sour, never cause in¬ 
digestion. 
To make a perfect buckwheat cake, and 
a thousand other dainty dishes, see the 
“ Royal Baker and Pastry Cook.” Mailed 
free to any address. 
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. 
HE MEANS SCOTT’S 
Your doctor says you must 
take cod liver oil. Probably he 
means Scott’s Emulsion be¬ 
cause you cannot take the 
clear oil; no one can take the 
clear oil who needs cod liver 
oil. The doctor understands 
I that and doubtless means 
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oil which everybody can take 
because it is emulsified and 
prepared so that it can be 
very easily digested by the 
most sensitive stomach. Most 
everybody likes it. 
We’ll send you a sample free. 
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•hide, Calf skin, Dog 
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But first get our Catalogue, 
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tags and instructions, so as to 
avoid mistakes. We also buy 
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Gloversville, N. V. 
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