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THE RU R AL" ; NE W-YORK ER. 
February 17 , 
From Day to Day. 
MEMORY. 
Time soothes the wound that works our 
keenest pain, 
But does not heal. 
When memory brings our sufferings back 
again, 
We still can feel. 
We live our lives, we struggle, and forget 
The bitter past. 
Our memory seems to slumber now, but yet, 
It wakes at last. 
A chance word, idly spoken, strikes the ear. 
We feel a thrill! 
And to our eyes, unbidden, comes a tear. 
We suffer still! 
—F. W. Chapin, In Metropolitan Magazine. 
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Baked bishop is a good way to warm 
cold meat, and a pleasant change from 
hash; why “bishop” we do not know: 
Chop five boiled potatoes fine, season with 
one saltspoonful of salt, one-half salt- 
spoonful of pepper, one tablespoonful each 
of butter and finely chopped onion. Chop 
enough cold cooked, well seasoned meat 
to make a pint. Put a layer of potatoes in 
the baking dish, then put in all the meat 
and cover this with another layer of po¬ 
tatoes. Pour over all one cup of. good 
stock or gravy, cover closely and bake 
for one and a half hours. Remove the 
cover and brown for five minutes before 
serving. 
too, that the French marriage, arranged 
by the parents with the idea of suita¬ 
bility rather than romance, turns out very 
happily in most cases—certainly quite as 
often as the marriage of sentiment with 
us—and that the French child is adored 
by his family, and even more badly spoiled 
than the "American child is said to be. 
There is much pleasure, as well as profit, 
to be secured from reading of this char¬ 
acter; the woman of restricted opportuni¬ 
ties, whose horizon is bounded by a small 
community, widens her interests by such 
vicarious travel, and reaches the broader 
universal brotherhood when she begins to 
feel that the people of distant lands are 
not foreigners, but, like herself, “just 
folks.” 
than her husband, and if it weren't for 
Mary Potter, Cousin Will wouldn’t be 
reminded every year just how much older 
Martha is. She might let a year or two 
slip by sort of unnoticed. 
“Then there was Sophy Green, Martha 
and Will’s daughter. She was a little 
backward about her studies, and they 
would have liked to—er—not to tell un¬ 
truths, of course, but not to mention just 
how old she was to everyone. But as 
Martha said to me, almost with tears, 
■“Sophy will probably have to leave school 
before she knows enough on account of 
Mary Potter’s book!’ 
“So I think we should always consider 
well before we give one of those books to 
anyone. I call them really dangerous 
gifts in the case of a person like Mary 
Potter.” 
The New Grange Hall. 
We are getting on bravely with our 
Finnan haddie is our leading favorite 
among smoked fish, and it is especially 
good in cream, as follows: Cover a pound 
of the fish with cold water and let come 
to a simmer, drain, then cut into moder¬ 
ate-sized pieces. In the meantime prepare 
a cream sauce made by melting a table¬ 
spoonful of butter to which is added a 
tablespoonful of flour, a scant saltspoon¬ 
ful of salt, a dash of cayenne, two tea¬ 
spoonfuls of lemon juice and one-half 
cupful each of milk and cream. Add the 
pieces of fish, let the whole come to a boil 
and serve. This creamed fish is also very 
nice if put in a baking dish, covered with 
bread crumbs, and browned in the oven. 
The circular skirt is evidently to be the 
prevailing mode for the Summer, and we 
feel constrained to remind amateur dress¬ 
makers that it has a great fault of sag¬ 
ging out of shape, unless the material is 
firm, and it is not desirable for wash 
goods, on this account. Tt also needs very 
great care in the cutting, or it will hang 
unevenly. With modern patterns, many 
apparently complicated modes are quite 
within the powers of an amateur seam¬ 
stress, but we think it a mistake to select 
unduly elaborate styles, which only dis¬ 
gust the maker with their difficulty, and 
refuse to look just right after all. Sim¬ 
ple models, carefully made and finished, 
always look well if colors and their com¬ 
binations are well chosen. The best way 
to insure this is to plan all purchases in 
advance, and thus secure color harmony 
at least. 
The danger that may lurk in the ap¬ 
parently innocent birthday book is thus 
described by the Youth’s Companion: 
“It’s queer what mistakes they make in 
the magazines sometimes when they tell 
what would be an excellent Christmas 
present for a young man or an old man 
or a woman,” said Mrs. Dorr, plaintively. 
“Now it said in one I .read yesterday that 
nothing could be better for almost any¬ 
one than a book with places for the birth¬ 
days and various anniversaries of your 
friends.” 
‘“Well, why wouldn’t it be a good tiling 
for most people?” said one of Mrs. Dorr’s 
nearest neighbors, who had come to spend 
the afternoon and learn a new pattern 
for a sweater. 
“My dear, I guess you’ve never known 
anybody that had one of those books,” 
said Mrs. Dorr, still plaintive. “My 
cousin, Miss Potter, has one, and she’s 
been a great trial to her family and 
friends ever since she had it—for nearly 
five years. 
“She began by asking people the dates 
of their birth, marriage and so on, and 
there are those who don't care to tell 
just how old they are. And now Cousin 
Sam Lane is all out with her because she 
reminded his wife of their wedding anni¬ 
versary when it had slipped his mind, and 
Uncle Elias has cut her off from his will 
because she sent little slips to all the 
family three days before his birthday, 
saving, ‘Remember uncle will be eighty- 
seven on Thursday,’ and he thought ’twas 
only eighty-six! 
“And Cousin Martha is ten years older 
“white elephant,” and we wonder how we 
ever existed before we had it, so quickly 
do people fit into new and better condi¬ 
tions. There were quite a number of 
“extras” before the new hall was finally 
completed, bringing the total cost, with 
necessary furniture, up to $2,500. We 
had reckoned on a little less, but we’re 
not frightened a bit. We dedicated the 
building December 4. 1905. It is one of 
the best Grange halls in our county, and 
contains one assembly hall finished in 
cypress, ceiled to the windows and having 
open-cased beams, a large stage for 
dramas and entertainments, and a hard 
wood polished floor for dancing. We 
owned a piano before, and a good one. 
A good friend gave us a handsome oak 
clock, and patrons pictures. There is 
one large ante-room with a register and 
four windows. There are two registers 
from furnace in the main hall, which 
seats 500 people comfortably; more if 
necessary. Downstairs is a large entry 
lined with hooks for wraps, a good-sized 
kitchen with two big cupboards, a sink, 
four windows and a butler’s pantry into 
the banquet room, which is the same size 
as the main hall and finished the same 
all but the hard wood floor. We con¬ 
tented ourselves with a cheaper wood. 
We have made a good start toward 
clearing ourselves of the debt. The fair 
went off gaily, the total receipts being 
$217.50 with very little expense, bringing 
the net gain $163.63. Our dedication 
supper brought us $50 clear, and we 
have had $197.30 contributed by friends 
and patrons. One member gave us a 
stove for the kitchen. The Farmers’ 
Institute of Essex County met here and 
The French nation furnishes so much 
of the refinement of luxury and adorn¬ 
ment that we are very likely to overlook 
other sides of the same character, and 
thus lose sight of the thrift, industry, and 
genuine love of home that are equally 
characteristic of of the French people. We 
have just been reading a delightful new 
book, “French Home Life,” by Miss 
Betham-Edwards, which gives the inti¬ 
mate domestic side of our friends across 
the sea, in very pleasant fashion. Miss 
Betham-Edwards is an Englishwoman 
many years resident in France, where she 
is an officer in the Department of Public 
Instruction. This brings her in close 
touch with people of all classes, in widely 
differing localities. What she tells us of 
domestic economy in France makes us 
realize more than ever how very extrava¬ 
gant the average American housekeeper 
must appear—no wonder the French think 
we are all millionaires! We are .assured, 
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