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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 21, 
[ Woman and Home j 
From Day to Day. 
“It singeth low in every heart, 
We hear it each and all— 
A song of those who answer not, 
However we may call; 
They throng the silence of the breast, 
We see them as of yore— 
The kind, the brave, the true, the sweet, 
Who walk with us no more. 
“ ’Tis hard to take the burden up 
When these have laid it down ; 
They brightened all the joy of life, 
They softened every frown ; 
Rut, oh, 'tis good to think of them 
When we are troubled sore! 
Thanks be to God that such have been, 
Although they are no more! 
“More homelike seems the vast unknown. 
Since they have entered there; 
To follow them were not so hard, 
Wherever they may fare; 
They cannot be where God is not, 
On any sea or shore; 
Whate'er betides, Thy love abides. 
Our God, for evermore.” 
—John White Chadwick. 
* 
If one has a habit of losing the spool of 
thread frequently while working (ours al¬ 
ways bounces under the table), run a bit 
of baby ribbon through it, and pin to the 
left side of the bodice. It saves time, and 
the effort of stooping. 
* 
If a visit to the preserve closet shows 
signs of fermentation among canned 
peaches, drain off the juice, and allow a 
cupful of granulated sugar to the juice 
from each quart jar of fruit. Add the 
sugar to the syrup, and boil for half an 
hour, stirring and skimming frequently. 
Then add the peaches, stirring and stewing 
to a smooth marmalade, sealing in jars 
while hot. 
* 
When darning a large hole or group of 
holes in a stocking, the work is much sim¬ 
plified by first basting a piece of coarse net 
over the hole. Darn over and through 
the net, working well over the edges of 
the hole, so as to keep the darn firm. The 
darn made in this way is more quickly 
done, and is very smooth and neat; if ma¬ 
terial is at hand it is a great improvement 
over the ordinary way. 
* 
Housekeepers who wish to use olive oil 
as shortening in pie crust will find the fol¬ 
lowing sufficient for one pie: Five and 
one-half tablespoonfuls of cooking oil, four 
tablespoonfuls cold water, one-half tea¬ 
spoonful salt. Put the oil in a basin, add¬ 
ing salt; stir in flour enough for a soft 
dough, then stir in the water and add more 
flour; mix rather soft, and use plenty of 
flour in rolling out. This will be found 
desirable by those who do not like animal 
fat as shortening. 
* 
Forcemeat of potato and walnut will 
be an excellent stuffing for roast goose, or 
may be baked in a separate dish and served 
like a vegetable. It is a recipe of Mrs. 
Janet Mackenzie Hill's: Two cups of hot 
mashed potato, one teaspoonful of onion 
juice or grated onion, one-half cupful of 
sliced walnut meats, one-fourth teaspoon¬ 
ful of paprika, one teaspoonful of salt, four 
tablespoon fills of thick sweet cream, one 
tablespoonful of butter, yolks of two eggs. 
One teaspoonful of sweet herbs if desired. 
* 
A holder for stock collars consists of a 
covered cardboard, on which the collars 
are pinned, and a linen envelope large 
enough for the board to slip into. Cover 
the board with a thin padding of cotton 
batting, and over this linen or white China 
silk, smoothly overhanded around the 
edges. Make the outer cover envelope 
shape, with a flap fastened by a button. 
It may be finished around the edge with a 
cord, or bound with ribbon. The stocks 
are pinned flat on the board, and the enve¬ 
lope made large enough for the board to 
slip in without crowding. This keeps the 
collars flat and smooth, free from dust, 
and it takes up little room in a bureau 
drawer. 
The Home Girl’s Opportunities 
For two or three years blueberries had 
been not less than 18 cents a quart, and 
extremely scarce. To some of us who 
count berry picking among the opportuni¬ 
ties, it was quite a calamity. This last 
Summer the luscious high-bush berries 
were abundant in certain pastures about 
here, and brought a fair price, although 
only a few miles north, in New Hamp¬ 
shire, the yield was so great that only 
three or four cents a quart was paid aboard 
the cars. Among other things I picked 
strawberries, and earned the most of any 
picker, with a record of 137 boxes in nine 
hours. At the end of three weeks I had 
over twelve dollars. Then a neighbor who 
had sown cauliflower seed and was going 
to thin out the piece offered some plants 
to my father. We were eating ice cream 
at the time on their piazza, and when my 
father said he didn’t want them, T thought 
of a quarter of an acre growing up to 
weeds, and remembered that the same 
thing had taken place for two years. The 
ground had been prepared and sown to a 
crop, but when it failed to grow, nothing 
more was done, and weeds flourished lux¬ 
uriantly. A sudden inspiration came to 
me. If I failed it would be-but I 
vowed I wouldn’t fail. I’d do or die! And 
so I said: 
“Well, Frank, I’ll take the plants if he 
doesn’t want them. We had the piece 
sowed to cauliflower anyway, only it didn’t 
come.” 
Of course my father predicted failure. 
“To begin with, you can’t fit the land. I’m 
not going to plow it. I haven’t time.” 
Finally I succeeded in getting the culti¬ 
vator run over a few times and then I set 
to work pulling weeds. It was simply 
awful! I tugged away doggedly, for two 
days working from 6 A. M. till nine or 
ten at night, pulling and raking. Then I 
had nice mellow soil for a few inches in 
which to set my plants. Two more days 
saw 1,200 plants set out, looking wilted 
and dejected. “I’ll give her about six 
weeks,” I overheard my father say. “By 
that time it’ll be grown up to weeds again. 
She can’t keep it clean,” and he chuckled 
in anticipation. I retorted: “There are no 
weeds now.” “No, but-” “Well, when 
there are some it will be time enough to 
talk. I give you leave to count all you 
find.” The two men laughed and no more 
was said. But from that moment I made 
up my mind that I would show them what 
I could do. The next day I went blueberry- 
ing, and kept it up for two months steady, 
working early and late and reaping a har¬ 
vest of over forty dollars. Twice a week 
I cultivated and hoed my cauliflower. I 
bought a bag of phosphate for $1.75 and 
put near the plants and hoed it in, also a 
little wood ashes, perhaps half a barrel. 
The piece fairly jumped. It went ahead 
of my neighbor’s set out at the same time, 
and nothing more was said about weeds. 
In fact, after the first hoeing just five 
weeds grew. Last Fall I harvested $21 
worth of marketable heads besid ' some we 
used and gave to my friends, and when the 
hard freeze came there was a goodly 
amount of green fodder for the cows. 
It wasn’t all fun. Sometimes things 
would happen to make me feel uncomfort¬ 
able enough, although I never felt ashamed 
in the least of the work itself. “Make all 
labor honorable!” But when one has a 
short skirt pinned up to one’s knees, an 
old straw hat half hiding a red, sweaty 
face, and stringy hair, dirty hands, and I’m 
afraid a face that might show “streaks,” 
supposing a carefully dressed young col¬ 
lege friend wanders down the road and 
stops to call. He was pleasant and quite 
unconcious apparently, but—well, imagine 
how I felt! Still those weeds had to come 
out—and they did. 
Then I had some chickens. I believe 
with the man who said: “Yes, there must 
be money in hens, there’s been so much 
sunk in the business.” So I started in with 
very little capital. I had $20. Half of it 
bought a hundred splendid little downy 
chicks just a few weeks old. The other $10 
fed them while I was seizing the opportun¬ 
ities that came my way to earn more capi¬ 
tal. If you haven’t much invested you 
can’t lose much, you know. When Fall 
came, and the first cold weather I began 
to take orders among my friends for their 
Sunday dinners. In this way I sold 37 
roosters for $30.20, and had 40 pullets and 
four roosters to put into the henhouse 
with a net gain, over expenses, of $4.92. 
My expenses included 360 feet of wire 
fencing, and I had the pullets free. The 
henhouse, shown in Fig. 23, is not elabo¬ 
rate, only warm, sunny and clean. I tore 
down the front of a ramshackle old build¬ 
ing 30x14, and put in new sills, plates, cor¬ 
ner posts and studding, with four new win¬ 
dows and a door. The roof, sides and 
ends covered with tarred paper, and a wire 
partition dividing the house into two pens 
was about all that was new. I put locks 
on the doors and windows, a platform 
under the roosts to catch droppings, and a 
row of six nest-boxes in each pen. A 
friend who has been engaged in the busi¬ 
ness successfully for 10 or 12 years helped 
me a great deal. He made me two drink¬ 
ing fountains from a nail keg. There are 
six pickets like the top of a fence and six 
places for the hens to drink. They can’t 
foul the water, and the whole is most 
There is no aid to the 
house-wife so great, 
as the Royal Baking 
Powder. 
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW-YORK. 
A GIRL’S HENHOUSE. Fig. 23. 
Lamp-chim¬ 
neys that break 
are not 
Macbeth’s. 
If you use a wrong chimney, you lose a 
good deal of both light and comfort, and 
waste a dollar or two a year a lamp on 
chimneys. 
Do you want the Index ? Write me. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
Ask 
Vour 
dealer 
for it. 
Polish. 
IVot Itnrn OPT. 
I,A MONT, C.OKMS8 
Trtd.-M.rk, 
Is Gunrnnleod to go twice is far ' 
as paste or liquid polishes. X-lt.i y is the 
OR 1C I N A L Powdered Stove 
It gives a quick, brilliant lustre and Hops 
r. Sample, sent if you address Dept. P 
S8 St CO., Agin,, "8 Hudson Bt.. New York. 
Steer, Bull or Horse 
hide, Calf skin, Dog 
skin, or any other kind 
of hide or skin, and let 
us tan it with the hair 
on, soft, light, odorless 
and moth-proof, for robe, 
rug, coat or gloves. 
But first get our Catalogue, 
giving prices, and our shipping 
tags and instructions, so as to 
avoid mistakes. We also buy 
raw furs and ginseng. 
A COW, 
SEND USI 
THE CROSBY FRISIAN FUR COMPANY, 
116 Mill Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
WHEN YOU DRIVE 
I3o your hands get eold ? 
Let us keep them warm, A 
pair of our elegant RUSSIAN 
It K A K F U K DRIVING 
GLOVES will do it. Fire¬ 
proof. Ironclad palm, soft and 
pliable. Hand lined with first 
quality wool fleece, and cuff 
with best corduroy. Will wear 
for years. For warmth, 
wear and durability 
Ibis GLOVE has no 
equal. Also made in 
mittens & one-fingered. 
Send us the wholesale 
price, 8*2, and we will 
send you a pair post¬ 
paid. If you are not 
pleased, return them, 
and we will refund the 
money and postage. 
RUSSIAN FUR CO. 
Gloversvllle, N. Y. 
NON - INTERFERING TELEPHONE 
For 25c extra we supply our Standard 
Rural Telephones with a simple at¬ 
tachment that will do away with one- 
half the annoyance caused by frequent 
ringing of bells on rural lines. Just the 
thing for all party lines. Write tor free 
book F102 describing best telephones 
in the world. Address nearest office. 
STROMBERG-CARLSON TEL. MFQ. CO. 
ROCHESTER, N Y. CHICAGO, ILL. 
TELEPHONE APPARATUS 
OWN YOUIl OWN TELEPHONE LINE. 
Our telephones are powerful, loud- 
talklng and absolutely guaranteed. 
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. 
Telephones that work on any lino. 
Large Catalog No. 9 Free. 
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Meriden, Conn,, U. S. A. 
s 
TENOGRAPHY 
Book- keep¬ 
ing, etc .thor¬ 
oughly taught 
Situations for all graduates.Complete Course 
for Home Study, ®5. Catalogue free. 
C. C. GAINES, Box 637, Poughkeepsie. N. Y n 
or 119 West 126th Street. New York. N. Y. 
BABY RAMBLER ROSE 
An Everblooming Dwarf Crimson Rambler, 
Other novelties as well as a general list of nursery 
stock. Illustrated descriptive catalogue FKEK. 
JOS. H. BLACK, SON & CO., Hightstoxvn, N.J # 
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