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November 4, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Woman and Home J 
From Day to Day. 
JUNE IN RHODESIA. 
Winter! And the torn banana branches 
Rustle, rustle, in the dusty wind. 
While the veld-fire ever upward launches 
Tongues of flame that leave a blackened 
earth behind. 
Smoke-wreaths shimmer in the furthest dis¬ 
tance, 
Lucent turquois veiling sapphire hills. 
And the brown grass with a long insistence 
Murmurs like a cavern that the ocean fills. 
All the myriad unrecorded flowers. 
Trampled on the black man’s silent way, 
Lie forgotten in their earthen bowers: 
Unremembered as the dead and lost are 
they. 
Summer floods have left the high roads 
whitening, 
Sandy, dry, they stretch a hundred arms. 
Leading Eastward, where the sea-foam light¬ 
ening 
Rises, splashing coastward into thunderous 
psalms; 
Westward, where beyond the wooded kopjes 
League on league of land rolls into space; 
Northward, to the land of tombs and pop¬ 
pies, 
And the Sphinx’s undecipherable face. 
Southward, to the sunny dorp and garden. 
And the riches of the Golden Belt; 
Southward, to the land of hope and pardon. 
And the soldier sleeping dreamless on the 
veld. 
Here an old Boer wagon creaks and lumbers. 
Oxdrawn. driven by some bearded Piet, 
Watching changes with a mind that slumbers. 
Beaten, worsted, but unconscious of defeat. 
Night comes sudden without twilight warn¬ 
ing, 
Chilly, quenching the fierce sun’s last ray. 
Rut behind her quick-flung veil of mourning 
Keeps a moon-lamp for the lions at their 
play. 
From the valleys shine a hundred fires. 
Hearths of wanderers from a hundred 
lands 
Looking backward to their dead desires. 
Stretching forward with their sinewy, sun¬ 
burnt hands. 
Midnight! but the Silence never falleth 
On the frogs’ croak and the insects’ cry; 
Hill to hill the grey hyena calleth. 
While the silent, slumbrous nights of men 
go by. 
•—D. A. Bowen (Credit Lost). 
♦ 
A good idea, recently carried out at a 
church fair, was a booth called “Mother’s 
Pantry,” where homemade cooking, jel¬ 
lies, pickles and preserves, were sold. The 
young women in charge wore white caps 
and gingham aprons. 
* 
Homemade cream candy calls for three 
cups of granulated sugar, one saltspoonful 
cream of tartar, two tablespoonfuls of 
vinegar, butter size of hickorynut, two- 
thirds cup of cold water. Do not stir 
after the sugar begins to boil. Cook un¬ 
til it hardens when dropped into cold 
water, then pull. Flavor with anything 
desired. 
* 
Threading a sewing machine needle 
on a dark day is often a waste of both 
time and patience, especially when dark 
thread is used. It can be done in a mo¬ 
ment, however, if a white cloth or paper 
is spread under the needle, and a little 
taper, such as one uses for sealing wax, 
held behind the needle’s eye. Sometimes 
the white cloth alone is sufficient, but the 
little taper or a lamp will often save val¬ 
uable time. 
* 
When cleaning a spot in some fabric 
with benzine, one often finds an annoy¬ 
ing ring left, almost as unsightly as the 
original mark. This can be avoided by 
covering the spot with fullers’ earth 
while it is still wet with the benzine. Do 
not rub it on; merely cover the spot and 
let it dry. When dry shake off the 
fullers’ earth and brush the fabric lightly. 
Many soiled spots can be removed en¬ 
tirely by the fullers’ earth. Some obsti¬ 
nate stains, like wagon grease, can be 
removed by kerosene, followed by fullers’ 
earth. The treatment may have to be ap¬ 
plied several times, but usually it is en¬ 
tirely successful, leaving no mark, which 
would not be the case without the fullers’ 
earth. 
* 
Apple johnny cake is one of the good 
things of the season for breakfast or tea. 
8167 Child’s Long Coat, 2 to 8 yrs. 
Mix two cupfuls of cornmeal, a salts- 
spoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of cream 
of tartar, a scant half-cupful of sugar, 
half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a 
little warm water and milk to make a thin 
batter. Stir in three sour apples that have 
been peeled and cut into thin slices. Bake 
in a shallow tin in a moderate oven for 
35 minutes. 
* 
A useful gift that the small girl may 
prepare for a brother or other masculine 
relative is an emergency case, made from 
a three-pound tin candy box, such as 
marshmallows come in. The outside is 
covered with pretty paper; the inside 
merely lined with paraffin paper carefully 
fitted to sides and bottom. The contents 
consist of court-plaster, a roll of absor¬ 
bent cotton, surgeon’s adhesive plaster, 
gauze bandages of different widths, a 
small pot of vaseline, a bottle of lister- 
ine, and a pair of small blunt-pointed 
scissors. There are many emergencies, 
besides those that arise through hasty 
shaving, in which this ‘“first-aid” case 
will be found useful. 
* 
The New York Times tells of a prom¬ 
inent politician who has a wife who is 
a model of domestic carefulness. She 
has a talent for making bread, and takes 
great pride in having her loaves turn out 
well. 
One evening she had set the batch of 
dough to rise in the kitchen and was 
reading in the parlor, when her six-year- 
old boy came running to her, crying 
“Mama, mama, there’s a mouse jumped 
into your bread-pan!” 
The good woman sprang from her seat. 
“Did you take him out?” she asked, 
frantically. 
“No’m, but I done just as good. I 
threw the cat in, and she’s digging after 
him to beat the band!” 
The Rural Patterns. 
The comfortable-looking child’s coat 
shown is made with fronts and back and 
is closed in double breasted style. At 
the neck is a flat turn-over collar and 
the fullness at the back is confined by a 
strap. The sleeves can be in leg-o’-mut- 
ton style with roll-over cuffs or full, as 
shown in the back view. For a child of 
six will be required 4*4 yards of material 
27, 2J4 yards 44 or 2% yards 52 inches 
wide with 4)4 yards of banding. The 
pattern 5167 is cut in sizes for children 
of 2, 4, G and 8 years of age; price 10 
cents. 
The tourist coat is a favorite style for 
the coming Fall and Winter. As shown, 
the coat is made with the fronts and 
back and is fitted by means of shoulder 
and under-arm seams. The fronts are 
faced and turned back to form the lapels, 
the finish being stitching with silk. The 
sleeves are in the favorite coat style, but 
full at the shoulders, and are finished 
with pointed cuffs. There are also gen¬ 
erous patch pockets. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size (14 
years) is 4yards 27, 2J4 yards 44 or 
2$4 yards 52 inches wide, with % yard 
of bias velvet for the collar. The pat¬ 
tern 5169 is cut in sizes for misses of 
12, 14 and 16 years of age; price 10 cents. 
Happiness grows at our own fireside, 
and is not to be picked in strangers’ gar¬ 
dens.—Douglas Jerrold. 
He that will believe only what he can 
fully comprehend must have a very long 
head or a very short creed.—C. C. Colton. 
More people are engaged in the raising 
of children than in any other pursuit, and 
yet there is not so much time given to 
preparation for such work as is given to 
the raising of chickens.—Prof. Earl 
Barnes. 
Your 
Christmas 
Expenses 
You can be as generous as 
you like at Christmas, and 
all it will cost you will be a 
little systematic work be- 
* 
tween now and then. 
Write to The Ladies’ 
Home Journal and The 
Saturday Evening Post, 
Philadelphia, and find out 
all about it. 
After Christmas you can 
work some more; $500 a 
month is not too much to 
expect. 
No luck about it. It 
depends upon you, and the 
work is easy. 
The Curtis Publishing Company 
E 86 Arch St., Philadelphia 
• 
On //»/► "T'rafl “ I followed the 
Lm we 1 rau from Texa , 
’with a Fish Brand KSgffSJfg£ 
_ 1 or, r Slicker, used for 
trommel olicker an overcoat when 
when windy, a rain coat when it rained, 
and for a cover at night if we got to bed, 
and I will say that I have gotten more 
comfort out of your slicker than any Other 
one article that 1 ever owned.” 
(The name and address of the writer of this 
unsolicited letter may be had on application.) 
Wet Weather Garments for Riding, Walk¬ 
ing, Working or Sporting. 
HIGHEST AWARD WORLD’S FAIR, 1904. 
The Sign of tha TUSl 
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BOSTON, TLB.A. 
TOWER CANADIAN 
CO., Limited ’ 
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<04 
fgt TELEPHONES 
m AND DINE MATERIAL FOR 
FARMERS 9 LINES 
BUST so Simple you can build your own line, 
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Williams Telephone & Supply Co. 
78 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. 
Cider Machinery—Send for Catalogue to Boomer & 
Boschert Press Co., 118 West Water St.,Syracuse, N.Y. 
EDdystoHE 
PRINTS 
Simpson - Eddystone 
Black Cf Whites 
Standard dress-goods for 63 
years. Every pattern is good, 
and there are hundreds to choose 
from. Every one is printed in 
absolutely fast color. Will not 
wash out or fade out. 
Ask your dealer for 
Simpson-Eddy stone Black &■* Whites. 
Three generations of Simpsons have 
made Simpson Prints. 
The Eddystone Mfg Co (Sole Makers) Philadelphia 
A KALAMAZOO 
DIRECT TO YOU 
At Lowest Factory Prices. 
We will sell you, freight prepaid, direct from our fac¬ 
tory any Kalamazoo Stove or Range on a 
360 Days Approval Test. 
We guarantee, under a $20,000 bank bond, that there is no 
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we guarantee the high quality of our product and ship 
on trial. 
SEND A POSTAL CARD FOR CATALOGUE No. 114. 
Oven 
Thermometer 
WE PAY THE 
FREIGHT 
patent Oven Thermometer which makes baking easy. 
KALAMAZOO STOVE CO., Manufacturers, KALAMAZOO, MICH. 
W r e probably can ref tr you to pleased customers in your own neighborhood. 
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