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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 18 , 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
INTO OBLIVION. 
Thousands are round us, toiling as we. 
Living and loving, whose lot Is to he 
Passed and forgotten like waves on the sea. 
Once in a lifetime is uttered a word 
That doth not vanish as soon as 'tis heard; 
Once in an age is humanity stirred. 
Once in a century springs forth a deed 
From the dark bonds of forgetfulness freed, 
Destined to shine, and to help, and to lead. 
Yet not e’en thus escape we our lot: 
The deed lasts in memory, the doer is not: 
The word Iivetli on hut the voice is forgot. 
Who knows the forms of the mighty of old? 
Can bust or can portrait the spirit unfold. 
Or the light of the eye by description be told? 
Be we content then to pass into shade. 
Visage and voice in oblivion laid, 
And live in the light that our actions have 
made. 
r—Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861). 
* 
Among novelties for a luxurious ward¬ 
robe are silk petticoats with lingerie 
flounces. The petticoats are of taffeta, 
pink, blue, white or lavender, and the 
flounces of sheer organdy combined with 
insertion and edging of fine lace. The 
flounce is attached by a ribbon run 
through . beading attached to the skirt, 
and another that tops the flounce. It is 
thus easily slipped off for laundering. 
* 
Dr. Barnardo, the “Waif’s Friend,” 
used to tell the following story: At the 
door of one of the boys’ homes was a 
mat with the words, “Wipe your feet,” 
inscribed upon it as a gentle hint. One 
day as Dr. Barnardo was entering the 
house he saw a new boy removing his 
shoes and stockings—both quite strange 
clothing to him—and wiping his feet on 
the mat. He had taken the instructions 
in a literal sense! 
* 
We have been afflicted with a large 
hanging lamp that gave a very uneven 
light, flickering and running up into 
smoke on the slightest provocation, while 
the ascending heat caused constant sway¬ 
ing of the upper part of the lamp. Re¬ 
cently a little mica smoke-guard, attached 
at the top of the chimney, has been tried, 
and to our surprise we find that all our 
difficulties are at an end; the lamp burns 
evenly, it no longer sways, and ordinary 
care prevents smoking. The hardware 
man says that no hanging lamp should 
be without the mica guard. We are glad 
to pass the suggestion on to others. 
* 
In response to a request, the following 
recipe for marshmallows is given: Dis¬ 
solve three ounces of white gum arabic 
in three-quarters of a cupful of hot water, 
and strain through cheesecloth; then add 
eight ounces of powdered sugar, set over 
a fire, and stir the mixture until it is 
nearly stiff. Do not let it boil. Then 
take it off the fire and beat it for several 
minutes, adding a half teaspoonful of 
vanilla. If sticky to the touch, beat it a 
few minutes more. Sift a little corn- 
vStarch into a pan, and pour in the mix-, 
ture; when it is cold cut into squares, 
and store in tin boxes, with cornstarch' 
sifted between the pieces. 
* 
When blustery winds roughen and 
crack the skin, cold cream is a comfort¬ 
ing application. The following recipe for 
making it has been in family use for half 
a century: White wax and spermaceti, 
of each one-half ounce; oil of almbnds 
four ounces; rose water two ounces. 
Shave up the wax and spermaceti, and 
put it with the oil in an earthen vessel, 
setting it on the back of the stove till 
ioned people used to make this cold cream 
when elders were in bloom, using elder- 
flower water in place of rose water, and 
this is very soothing to the skin. A lit¬ 
tle pot of homemade cold cream, or 
“elder-flower balm,” wrapped in flowered 
crape paper and tied with narrow ribbon, 
makes a very dainty and inexpensive gift. 
* 
A good idea in making the Thanksgiv¬ 
ing chicken pie, is to cover it with bis¬ 
cuits instead of making a continuous 
crust. Roll out the crust, cut out rounds 
with a small biscuit cutter, and lay them 
close together all over the pie, edges 
touching. This is an old-fashioned way 
of covering a meat pie, where biscuit 
crust is used. If a rich puff paste is pre¬ 
ferred, we use a double crust. Roll out 
a crust, and cover the pie; then roll out 
a second thin crust, cut out rounds all 
over it with a small biscuit cutter, and 
then spread it over the first crust, which 
has been moistened with milk, so that the 
two layers adhere. This makes a very 
nice crust. _ 
Soups Without Meat. 
Vegetable soups, served piping hot, will 
be welcome additions to the Winter bill 
of fare, especially to those observing fast 
days. 
Baked Bean Soup will utilize a rem¬ 
nant of cold baked beans. Put into a 
saucepan three cupfuls of baked beans, 
three pints of water, two slices of onion, 
two stalks of celery cut into inch pieces, 
one and one-half cupfuls of canned toma¬ 
toes. Simmer for a half hour, then press 
through a puree sieve. Add two table¬ 
spoonfuls of flour blended with two table¬ 
spoonfuls of butter, one level teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt and one-quarter of a teaspoon¬ 
ful of pepper. 
Corn and Tomato.—Heat two table¬ 
spoonfuls of butter in a saucepan, put into 
it two fine-cut onions, one bay leaf and 
six whole black peppers; cook five min¬ 
utes without browning; add one table¬ 
spoonful of flour, stir and cook two min¬ 
utes; then one quart of tomatoes, cut up 
or canned; one tablespoonful of sugar, 
one teaspoonful of white pepper; stir often 
and cook ten minutes. Next comes one 
pint of boiling water; cook five minutes, 
rub the tomatoes through a sieve into a 
clean saucepan and add a pint of corn, 
cut from the cob or canned; put it into 
the soup and boil 15 minutes; mix the 
yolks of two eggs with a half cupful of 
cream or milk, stir into the soup, and 
serve at once. 
Pink Velvet Soup.—Half a canful of to¬ 
matoes, one pint of water, one tablespoon¬ 
ful of butter, one large onion, chopped 
small; one potato shaved thin, a saltspoon- 
ful of celery seed, a teaspoonful of salt, 
a tablespoonful of sugar and a pinch of 
sweet marjoram. Boil all together for 
half an hour, or until the potatoes melt. 
Strain, thicken with granulated tapioca or 
cornstarch, boil five minutes, add a pinch 
of baking soda, and then pour in a pint 
of hot milk. Serve at once. 
Almond and Celery Soup.—Cut in small 
pieces a bunch of celery, using the leaves 
and carefully scraped root; add six pepper¬ 
corns, two bay leaves, a tablespoonful of 
onion juice, a thin slice of lemon, a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt, and a stick of cinnamon; 
cover with a quart of water and cook an 
hour, strain and reheat, stirring in a cup 
of rich milk (cream is better), a teaspoon¬ 
ful each of flour and butter blended to¬ 
gether, and one-quarter of a cup of 
blanched almonds that have been pounded 
to a paste, allowing soup to boil for a 
moment or two after the nuts are added. 
Serve very hot with cheese crackers. 
Cream of Salsify.—Take two bunches 
of salsify, wash, scrape and cut in small 
pieces and boil until tender. While hot 
mash and press through a colander. Have 
ready a cream made of two tablespoons 
of flour and two of butter melted together, 
seasoned with one-half saltspoonful white 
pepper and stirred into three cups milk 
and one cup water, which have previously 
been brought to a boil. Stir constantly 
until the consistency of a puree; add the 
prepared salsify, let boil up once, add 
three-quarters of a teaspoonful salt, and 
serve immediately. 
Holders. 
One year I had some holders given 
me. They were different from any 
I had ever seen, and upon using them I 
found them far better than those I was 
accustomed to using. They were large, 
a little over seven inches long and six 
wide, with corners rounded off. They 
were quite thin, being made of but one 
thickness of soft but thick flannel—old 
under-flannels or soft trousers cloth— 
and covered on each side with print, the 
edges bound, and being furnished with a 
loop to hang them up by. This loop, and 
the same is true of loops on towels, 
should have the ends, where they are 
sewed on, spread apart from half an inch 
to an inch, then the holder or towel may 
be hung up with one hand, and one will 
not have to stop and pick the loop open 
with the other hand. These holders, be¬ 
ing large and not too thick, were very 
convenient, and saved many burns. I dis¬ 
covered that two of them made a perfect 
ironing holder. It was not so thick as to 
tire the hand grasping the iron, and the 
heat did not go through it as quickly as 
it did through some thicker ones I have 
used. It is a good plan to use two hold¬ 
ers,—or two sets, if two are used at a 
time,—so that one set may be cooling off 
while the other is in use. s. b. robbins. 
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Kansas—and it seems an enchanted spot 
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the freighter, whose mule team first 
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