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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 6, 
l Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
PERPETUAL YOUTII. 
’Tls yet high day, thy staff resume, 
And light fresh battle for the truth ; 
For what is age but youth’s full bloom, 
A riper, more transcendent youth? 
A weight of gold 
Is never old. 
Ctr°ams broader grow as downward rolled. 
At sixty-two life has begun; 
■ At seventy-three begins once more; 
Fly swifter as thou near’st the sun. 
And brighter shine at eighty-four. 
At ninety-five 
Should thou arrive, 
Still wait on God and work and thrive. 
—Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894). 
• 
Here is a new idea in puddings, that 
will he welcome at this season, when the 
fruit supply is rather short. Stew to¬ 
gether two cupfuls each of raisins and 
prunes until both are tender; sweeten if 
desired. Place in a baking dish and 
cover with a rich biscuit crust. Bake, 
and serve with cream. 
* 
A housekeeper in the cold Northwest 
says that she had a good deal of trouble 
in raising bread during the Winter, until 
she tried an incubator plan. A box was 
selected large enough to hold the bread- 
pan and a small lamp. A lid covered it, 
with a hole to admit air for the lamp. 
The bread, being placed in this incubator 
over night was ready for molding at 
breakfast time. Another plan that sug¬ 
gests itself is the use of a hot soapstone 
in the box, which seems safer than the 
lamp. 
* 
A whisk broom clad in “Aunt Dinah” 
costume was noted in a fancywork dis¬ 
play. The handle was slightly padded 
and covered with black stockinet, eyes, 
nose and mouth lieing outlined in red 
silk, while a pair of little brass rings indi¬ 
cated the location of ears. A little turban 
of plaid gingham finished the head, and 
the broom was then dressed in a blue 
calico dress, white apron, and plaid ging¬ 
ham kerchief, arms being made of black 
stockinet, and a loop of cord at the back 
being put to hang it up by. The skirt is 
easily pulled aside to put the brush into 
active service, and the quaint appearance 
always attracts the eye. 
* 
Some of our culinary terms are a trifle 
misleading, and we can hardly wonder at 
the misunderstanding thus related by the 
Boston Herald: In a schoolroom the 
first primary grade was listening to the 
teacher reading a description of Colum¬ 
bus’s first voyage to America. The his¬ 
tory was written in words of one syllable. 
The teacher reads: “Queen Isabella 
sold her gems to help Columbus.” 
“Now, children,” she said, “who can 
tell me what gems are?” 
Instantly Robert sprang to his feet, 
his hands waving frantically and his eyes 
flashing. 
“Well, Robert,” she said. 
“Biscuits!” yelled Robert. 
* 
The stamped and stained pillow tops 
and table covers, to be finished with em¬ 
broidery,, seem as popular as ever, and 
though the fruit and flower designs are 
continually varied in their attractiveness, 
some of the newer ones show geometrical 
Bulgarian patterns to be finished in cross- 
stitch. These are of white, ecru or cream 
crash, the designs in bold primary colors. 
Mahogany brown and green are very pop¬ 
ular in these stained linens. They are 
usually worked in mercerized cotton floss, 
which can be obtained in very good color¬ 
ings. Narrow thick braid is put on with 
French knots to finish the edges or trace 
some outlines, if desired. Coarse ecru 
linen lace is used to border the table cov¬ 
ers. Prices for materials vary; the mer- 
fcerized floss can be bought for 35 cents 
K dozen skeins, and the stamped linen 
pieces ready for working cost from 25 
cents to a dollar each, according to size 
and design. We have bought a 27-inch 
table cover of crash, handsomely stamped 
in colors, for 25 cents at a special sale, 
which is about half the usual price. 
* 
This recipe for a cleansing paste, 
given by a correspondent of the Pictorial 
Review, is already familiar to many 
housewives, but it will bear repetition: 
Fill a quart tin can nearly full of hot 
rain water, then add a tablespoonful of 
pearline and dissolve it well, rubbing with 
the bowl of the spoon, then put on the 
stove and boil it two minutes. Pour it 
into a small jar or a large-mouthed bottle. 
It forms a thick paste or jelly, but you 
can reduce it when necessary by pouring 
more hot water in it. Use a damp cloth 
for cleaning coat collars and children’s 
clothes. It removes grease spots and all 
kinds of soil and is a great help in a 
large family when economy has to be 
practiced. _ 
For the Apple Consumers’ 
League. 
Apple Caramel Pudding—Peel, core 
and slice enough sour apples to measure 
one pint. Cook them slowly in a sauce¬ 
pan in two tablespoonfuls of butter until 
soft,: then add one cupful of sugar, one- 
quarter of a teaspoonful of cinnamon, two 
tablespoonfuls of caramel and simmer foi 
twenty minutes. Mix together one and 
one-half cupfuls of stale bread crumbs, 
one-half cupful of crumbled stale maca¬ 
roons and one-half cupful of seedless 
raisins. Butter a deep dish and fill with 
alternate layers of the apples and bread 
mixture, having crumbs on top. «Bake 
three-quarters of an hour in a rather hot 
oven, and serve cold with whipped cream- 
Fancy Baked Apples.—Peel and core 
medium-sized tart apples. Put them in a 
baking dish and pour half a cup of water 
over them. Set in a hot oven, and when 
the apples arc heated, sprinkle with 
enough sugar to coat each and bake until 
tend.er. Make a syrup of one cup of 
water, half a cup of sugar, the juice of 
half a lemon, and a teaspoon ful of the 
grated rind. Add two tablespoonfuls of 
chopped raisins, two of chopped candied 
cherries, two of chopped candied pine¬ 
apple, and two of chopped almonds, and 
when the sugar is dissolved set at the 
back of the stove and let cook slowly for 
half an hour. When the apples are done 
put in little glass saucers, taking care not 
to break them. Fill with the cooked 
sweets and pour the syrup over them. 
Serve cold with whipped cream. 
Apple Souffle.—Stew the apples as if 
for sauce, adding a little lemon peel and 
juice. Spread the stewed apples high 
around a baking dish. Make a custard of 
the yolks of two eggs, a pint of milk, a 
pinch of cinnamon and a tablespoonful of 
sugar. Let the custard cool and then pour 
it into the dish with the apples. Beat the 
whites of the eggs and spread over the 
top, sprinkling with sugar, and set it in 
the oven to brown. The apples should be 
about an inch thick at the bottom and 
sides of the dish. 
Scalloped Apples.—Pare and quarter 
tart apples. Put in the baking dish a 
layer of cracker crumbs, cover liberally 
with butter and granulated sugar. Then 
lay the apples with edges lapping and 
sprinkle chopped almonds over them- 
Then put more crumbs, butter and sugar, 
then another layer of apples, and sprinkle 
lightly with crumbs, butter, sugar and 
cinnamon. Bake until apples are done. 
Serve with rich cream. 
Suet Apple Dumplings.—One cup of 
chopped suet, two cups of flour, one tea¬ 
spoonful of salt, mix with cold water 
into a dough; put the apples in as for 
pudding; tie in little cloths; drop into 
boiling water; boil one hour. Use any 
sauce, or sugar only. 
Egg Apple Dumplings.—Stir a beaten 
egg with a cupful of thick cream. Sift 
one teaspoonful of baking powder and a 
quarter teaspoonful of salt into three cup- 
fuls of flour. Make into dumplings, in¬ 
closing pared and cored apples, and boil 
half an hour. If the dough is too stiff 
add mor# eream or milk, 
The Woman’s Home Garden. 
I want to enlarge a little on Prudence 
Primrose’s garden article. I am very fond 
of gardening, but I don’t depend on 
“coaxing any man or boy to go up and 
down the rows with a horse and cultiva¬ 
tor.” We own a hand cultivator that I 
can use fairly well. Of course, it takes 
some elbow grease to push the thing, but 
if the soil is as mellow as it should be 
the cultivator will run no harder than the 
lawn mower. Last summer, besides help¬ 
ing to care for the garden. I had a little 
patch of onions “all my own.” and in the 
Fall pocketed $30 as the proceeds of my 
crop. Most of the weeding was done in 
the early morning, and as Prudence Prim¬ 
rose says, was not unpleasant work. We 
have just moved on a farm, have added 
two cows, four calves and a hundred hens 
to the creatures ve already owned, and I 
keep no help. So it looks as if my hour 
for weeding this Summer will come be¬ 
tween to and 11 A. M. Notwithstanding 
this, I have this day been out in the field 
and staked out a good-sized onion patch. 
The work will not be as pleasant this 
Summer as last, but perhaps the results 
will be as good. Several of the Granges 
in this county are using the subjects and 
suggestions furnished by Cornell in the 
Reading Course for farmers and their 
wives for discussions in their meetings. 
No subject seems to arouse more interest 
or excitement than the bulletin on the 
kitchen garden. Did time and space per¬ 
mit I should like to report verbatim the 
discussion of a good live Grange on this 
subject. It is so strange that a man 
.whose garden looks like a howling wilder¬ 
ness, from early morn till dewy eve. 365 
days in the year, will take the door and 
produce the most beautiful garden—in 
the air. Small wonder that an audible 
smile greets the close of his remarks. An¬ 
other brother, whose ■'•'ell-ordered kitchen 
garden is a sight worth seeing, was called 
on for his method. He rose to his feet, 
coughed a little and hesitated a good 
deal, and finally said: “Ask my wife.” 
Another shout greeted him. One sister, 
in reply to the question: “What imple¬ 
ments are used in the cultivation of your 
garden?” put down a Planet, Jr., culti¬ 
vator and a smoothing harrow. It was 
plain to be seen that the man of the house 
cared for that garden. But altogether* we 
got much profit and a world of fun out 
of the subject—"the kitchen garden.” 
CLARA RICKETSON ROPER. 
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