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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 6, 
Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day, 
CHARITY 
Because so bitter was the rain, 
Saint Martin slashed his cloak in twain, 
And gave the beggar hflf of it. 
To shelter him and ease his pain. 
But, being now himself ill clad, 
The Saint’s own case no less was sad, 
So piteously cold the night; 
Though glad at heart he was, right glad. 
Thus, singing on his way he passed. 
While Satan, grim and overcast, 
Vowing the Saint should rue his gift, 
Released the cruel northern blast. 
Away it sprang with shriek and roar, 
And buffeted the Saint full sore; 
Yet ne’er repented he a whit. 
And Satan bade the deluge pour. 
Huge hailstones fell in tierce attack, 
And dealt Saint Martin many a thwack, 
“My poor old head !’’ he smiling, said, 
Yet never wished his mantle back. 
“He must, he shall," cried Satan, “know 
Regret for such an act.” And lo ! 
E’en as he spake the world was dark 
With fog and frost and whirling snow. 
Saint Martin, struggling towards his goal. 
Mused thoughtfully. “Poor soul! poor soul! 
What use to him was half a cloak?— 
1 should have given him the whole.” 
The cold grew terrible to bear, 
The birds fell frozen in the air; 
“Fall thou,” said Satan, “on the ice, 
Fall thou asleep, and perish there." 
He fell, and slept, despite the storm, 
And dreamed he saw the Christ Child’s form 
Wrapped in the half the beggar took. 
And, seeing Him, was warm-—so warm. 
—E. V. Lucas, in Pall Mall Gazette. 
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This is the season for buckwheat short¬ 
cake. Use four cupfuls of sour milk or 
fresh buttermilk; add a level teaspoonful 
of soda (more if the milk is very sour) 
and a heaping teaspoonful of salt; then 
stir in enough buckwheat Hour to make 
a very stiff batter. Pour into a buttered 
tin, and put into the oven at once; bake 
30 minutes. When baked, split, butter and 
spread with maple syrup or honey; serve 
hot. This will make an acceptable change 
from griddle cakes. 
* 
Try potato chowder for supper on a 
cold evening. It requires six good-sized 
potatoes, one-fourth pound of salt pork, 
one onion, o-ne tablespoon butter, one ta¬ 
blespoon flour, one pint milk, one pint 
water, one tablespoon chopped parsley, one 
scant teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon 
pepper. Cut potatoes and pork into dice, 
and put pork with sliced onion into frying 
pan and fry until light brown. Put into a 
kettle in layers, potatoes, onion and pork, 
sprinkle with salt, pepper and parsley. 
Pour over them grease from pan in which 
pork- and onions were fried. Add pint of 
water; let simmer 20 minutes. Scald milk 
and make a thickening of butter and flour; 
add this to pot when potatoes are tender; 
stir carefully. Serve very hot. 
* 
Automobiling has brought into fashion 
a good many warm wraps rather sugges¬ 
tive of those we wear on a rural straw 
ride. Among these is the “motor scarf,” 
which, though more pretentious in mate¬ 
rial, is not a bit more comfortable than 
the red comforter a schoolboy ties over 
his ears when coasting in zero weather. 
It consists of four yards of surah or other 
soft silk, 27 inches wide, with a two-inch 
hem, neatly sewn or hemstitched all 
around. The owner’s initials are embroid¬ 
ered in large letters at either end. lliese 
scarfs are at present the fashionable fancy 
work at Winter resorts. They are put 
on over the cap, drawn down under the 
chin, and then wound around the neck. 
Favorite colors are dark blue, dull red and 
black. 
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The candy departments in the big stores 
now show a variety of favors for chil¬ 
dren’s parties, including the newest ideas 
in Jack Horner pies, from which each 
small guest extracts a gift or favor. The 
old-fashioned pie is now out of date; the j 
very newest idea is a snow man, about 
three feet high, made of cotton batting. 
He has shoe-button eyes and extremely 
vague features, and wears a slouched felt 
hat. A dozen ends of white baby ribbon 
hang out around his shoulders, these in¬ 
dicating the little favors, which are pulled 
out by the children. This snow man 
already “loaded,” costs $5.50, but any 
handy woman could make o-ne over a wire 
frame. Still another up-to-date Jack 
Horner pie was a hanging globe of tightly 
curled red tissue paper fringe, made over 
a wire frame, with hanging ends of red 
baby ribbon attached to the presents. Of 
course the little favors arc so arranged 
that a smart pull at the ribbon brings 
them out. 
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Evening scarfs are very popular now 
as dress accessories; they are from V/ 2 to 
?J/ 2 yards long, and 15 to 18 inches wide, 
in all sorts of pale colors, plain, flowered, 
spangled or embroidered. They are 
worn around the throat, or over the head. 
Crepe de chine in plain colors, hemstitched 
at the ends, costs 85 to 98 cents; printed 
crepe de chine $1.48, while the same ma¬ 
terial delicately flowered will cost $3 to 
$4.50. This flowered crape is seen in the 
most beautiful combinations, almost fairy¬ 
like in their daintiness; such as a white 
ground sprinkled with tea roses, or a 
rambling design of pale pink Hydrangeas. 
Chiffon scarfs, which are more expensive 
than crepe de chine, are often embroid¬ 
ered or inset with lace; they cost from 
$5 up. Still more expensive are Oriental 
tinsel scarfs, which are black or white 
gauze elaborately worked with stripes and 
spa-ngles of gold or silver tinsel. The 
tinsel work is very firmly done with a 
species of tiny rivet, all hand work, and 
such scarfs cost from $15 to $18 and high¬ 
er, many of them being surprisingly ex¬ 
pensive. They are now very fashionable, 
after being pushed out of favor for many 
decades. _ 
Favorite Cakes. 
Tutti-Frutti Cake. —Prepare a batter 
as for chocolate loaf cake, and bake in 
three layers; then put together with the 
following filling: Cover two tablespoons 
of granulated gelatine with cold water and 
set over hot water to melt. Boil two 
cups of granulated sugar with eight table¬ 
spoons of water until it will thread, pour 
into the melted gelatine, add a teaspoon 
of vanilla extract and beat (in a cool 
room) until thick and white. Toward the 
end of the beating, stir in various kinds of 
crystallized fruits cut in small pieces. 
Chopped nuts may be added if desired. 
Old-fashioned Sponge Cake. —This 
cake is made without baking powder. Like 
all the old delicate sponge cakes, it de¬ 
pends upon the eggs for lightness, and 
therefore needs care in its preparation. 
Take a certain number of eggs. Weight 
them. Have on hand their weight in 
sugar and half their weight in flour. Then 
separate the yolks and whites. Whip each 
very light. Add the sugar to the yolks; 
then fold in the beaten whites carefully. 
Whip the whole until light. Flavor with 
lemon rind and juice. Mix the flour in 
by degrees and do not beat after it is in, 
but turn the cake into a tin and bake in 
a rather quick oven half an hour. 
Muster Gingerbread. —One cup mo¬ 
lasses, one tablespoon sugar, half cup 
lard, or lard and butter half and half, 
half cup water, one teaspoon soda, one 
beaten egg, one teaspoon ginger. Beat 
well with flour enough to mix. then add 
enough to roll, but not enough to knead 
too hard. Roll, bake in sheets, and when 
still hot brush with molasses and water. 
Inexpensive Black Cake. —Beat one 
cup of butter with one cup of brown 
sugar until creamy; add two well beaten 
eggs, one cup of cold coffee, three-fourths 
of a cup of molasses, one cup of seeded 
raisins, one cup of currants, quarter of a 
pound of citron shredded and a teaspoon¬ 
ful each of ground cloves, allspice and cin¬ 
namon sifted with four cups of browned 
flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking pow¬ 
der. Mix the fruit in with the butter and 
sugar instead of flouring it to prevent the 
fruit from sinking when brown flour is 
used in the cake. A little flour may be 
required to make the batter stiff, as 
browning the flour lessens the thickening 
property. 
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i 
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Alum baking powders are unhealthful. Do not use them fo? 
raising food under any circumstances. So detrimental are alum 
baking powders considered, that in most foreign countries their 
sale is prohibited. In many States in this country the law com¬ 
pels alum powders to he branded to show that they contain 
this dangerous acid, while in the District of Columbia, Congress 
lias prohibited the sale of all food that contains alum. 
Alum baking powders are sold to consumers at from io 
cents a pound to 25 ounces for 25 cents, or 25 cents a pound, 
and when not branded may generally be distinguished by their 
price. 
With one motion 
the lift top plate is 
raised and held by an 
automatic catch so 
that the entire fire 
box of the 
St E RUNG-Raw. E 
"A Poor Stove is 
Not Cheap at 
any Price" 
may be fed evenly with coal. Think 
what an immense saving of fuel a uni¬ 
form fire means. What an advantage 
for broiling, too. And we have a pat¬ 
ented broiler, which does not go with 
the stove, but may be purchased of 
dealers, one that opens in front, not 
backwards. One of the lids in the top 
plate is of sectional rings for small 
utensils. 
Do you know you can boil on the 
back lids of the STERLING also ? Try 
to do it on your present range and you 
will probably find directly over the fire 
box is the only place you can boil. 
Another tribute to the marvelously 
complete flue system of the STER¬ 
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no greater than twenty others found 
exclusively in the STERLING. Send for 
booklet, and let us tell 
you of a dealer who 
keeps the range that 
“has no equal.” 
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Rochester, N. Y. 
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You might as well carry a lantern that 
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the smoking, flickering kind. They 
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lanterns burn pure, fresh air. That 
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