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Apple Butter. 
An inquirer who sends no name or ad¬ 
dress asks for this recipe. Apple butter 
should be made with new cider, freshly 
made and unfermented. Fill a preserving 
kettle with cider, and boil until reduced 
one-half. Then boil another kettle the 
same way, continuing until you have suf¬ 
ficient. Boil the cider the day before mak¬ 
ing the apple butter. lo four gallons of 
boiled cider allow one-half bushel of good 
juicy apples, pared, cored and quartered. 
Fill a very large kettle with the boiled 
cider, adding as many apples as can be 
kept moist. Stir frequently, and when 
the apples are soft, beat with a wooden 
stick until they are reduced to a pulp. 
Cook and stir continuously until the but¬ 
ter is a very dark brown, with the con¬ 
sistency of marmalade. Add more boiled 
cider if too thick, and more apples if too 
thin- Twenty minutes before it is fin¬ 
ished add ground cinnamon and nutmeg 
to taste. No sugar is used. When cold, 
put in stone jars and cover closely. 
Suggestions in Grapes. 
Our first use of grapes begins with the 
making of green grape jelly. Select the 
grapes when full grown, just before they 
begin to turn purple. After separating 
from the stem, wash, adding a little water 
if the grapes are not very juicy. Mash 
and stew until the skins are cooked. 
Strain first through the colander, then 
through the jelly bag. Measure the juice, 
measure the same amount of sugar, put¬ 
ting it in the oven while the juice is being 
boiled. The boiling will take half an 
hour. Now add the hot sugar, which 
you must be careful not to scorch, boil 
about five minutes longer, and then the 
jelly should be ready to pour in glasses. 
Jelly made from the green grapes is solid, 
of a delicious flavor and of a pretty 
green tint. When on the farm we used 
to make, late in the Fall, an apple and 
wild grape jelly, using sufficient grape 
juice to color and flavor the jelly. 
Spiced Grape Jelly.—This is delicious 
served with cold meats. Take equal 
amounts of grape juice and sugar. Add 
one-half teaspoonful of ground cloves and 
one tablespoonful of cinnamon to each 
quart of juice. Add the sugar as directed 
in recipe above. 
Canned Grapes.—After picking ripe 
grapes from the stem, wash them. Re¬ 
move the skins, keeping them and the 
pulps separate. Cook the pulps until the 
seeds begin to separate. Run through a 
colander or coarse sieve to remove the 
seeds. Add the skins to the pulp, cooking 
till tender. Allow one-half pound of 
sugar to each pound of fruit. 
Grape Marmalade.—This is made the 
same as canned grapes, excepting a pound 
of sugar is used to each pound of fruit. 
The grapes should be cooked till quite 
thick. A friend who does up a great 
many quarts of grape juice says prepare 
the juice as for jelly, boil for a few mo¬ 
ments, then sweeten to taste, bottling 
while boiling hot. 
People with but little ground at their 
disposal can at least have grapes. Some 
of ours are grown on the wire netting 
separating our garden from our neighbor. 
Every other vine belongs to each family. 
Then the grapes growing on our side be¬ 
long to us. and those on his side are our 
neighbor’s, irrespective of whose vine 
they grow on. Grapevines are very cheap. 
I ordered two Wordens with some fruit 
trees this Spring, paying 15 cents each for 
two-year-old vines. I also ordered from 
another firm two-year-old vines, two Con¬ 
cords and one Diamond, at eight cents 
apiece. In the latter case I had to pay 
express charges of 35 cents, as I had also 
ordered currants, blackberries and 
peaches. Mailing size vines of the same 
varieties were offered for 10 cents post¬ 
paid. HELEN C. ANDREWS. 
“A commonplace life” we say, and we sigh; 
Rut why should we sigh as we say 1 
The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky 
Makes up the commonplace day. 
The moon and the stars are commonplace 
things. 
The flower that blooms and the bird that 
sings; 
Rut sad were the world and dark our lot. 
If the flowers failed and the sun shone not; 
And God. who sees each separate soul, 
Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful 
whole. —Susan Coolidge. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A waist made after the lingerie model 
shown in No. 5100 will be desirable for 
soft silk or wool, for Winter. Both waist 
and yoke are made with front and back 
portions. The waist is tucked in groups 
and joined to the yoke, and the closing 
is made invisibly at the back. 1 he elbow 
sleeves are tucked at their lower edges 
and finished with stylish roll-over cuffs. 
The long ones are made with deep cuffs 
and puffed upper portions. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size is 
\'/ yards 21, 3 / 2 yards 27 or 2)4 yards 14 
inches wide, with 54 yard of all-over ma¬ 
terial and 3 yards of insertion. The pat- 
6100 Lingerie Blouse with Yoke, 
32 to 40 bust. 
tern 5100 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 
38 and 40 inch bust measure; price 10 
cents. 
The tucked and shirred skirt is very 
suitable for young girls. 'The skirt is 
made with the upper portion and flounce, 
both of which are straight. The flounce 
is gathered at its upper edge and seamed 
to the skirt beneath the lowest tuck, while 
the skirt itself it shirred to form a shal¬ 
low yoke which is arranged over a plain 
foundation. The fullness at the back is 
laid in inverted plaits. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size 
( 14 years) is 5*4 yards 27, 5 yards 32 or 
3J4 yards 44 inches wide. The pattern 
5099 is cut in sizes for misses of 12, 14 
and 16 years of age; price 10 cents. 
Soapstone Covers. —When we first be¬ 
gan to use soapstone foot-warmers for 
warming beds or when driving, we 
thought it was necessary to make cloth 
covers to fit the stones- These covers got 
soiled and scorched and worn out, and we 
drifted into the way of using newspapers 
to wrap the stones in, thinking that when 
we had time we would make some more 
covers. But we discovered that news¬ 
papers were a very good substitute, hav¬ 
ing some advantages over the cloth cov¬ 
ers. They were easier to use; it takes 
but an instant to lay the stone on the 
middle of the paper, fold the sides over, 
and then the ends. Paper holds the heat 
better than cloth, and as soon as it be¬ 
comes torn it can be thrown away and a 
new one used. Then, at the end of the 
season, the stones can be hung up on their 
nails, and there are no covers to catch 
dust. s. B. R. 
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