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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 1, 
[ Woman and Home 
From Day to Day. 
FROM 01)10 ON INTIMATIONS OF IMMOR¬ 
TALITY 
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: 
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, 
Hath had elsewhere its setting. 
And cometh from afar: 
Not in entire forgetfulness. 
And not in utter nakedness, 
Rut trailing clouds of glory, do we come 
From God, who is our home: 
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! 
Shades of the prison-house begin to close 
Upon the growing Boy, 
Rut he beholds the light, and whence It 
flows, 
He sees it In his joj 7 ; 
The Youth, who daily farther from the east 
Must travel, still is Nature’s Priest, 
And by the vision splendid 
Is on his way attended; 
At length the Man perceives it die away, 
And fade into the light of coming day. 
—William Wordsworth (1770-1 850). 
* 
Farmers’ Bulletin No. 256, issued by 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, is 
“Preparation of Vegetables for the Ta¬ 
ble,” by Maria Parloa. It gives both the 
theoretical and practical sides of vege¬ 
table cookery, and will be found valua¬ 
ble by any housewife. It includes a num¬ 
ber of excellent recipes. In alluding to 
the excellence of cow peas as a table 
vegetable, Miss Parloa refers to the in¬ 
teresting fact that the Tuskegee Normal 
Industrial Institute Experiment Station 
has recently published a collection of 
recipes for their use, so evidently the 
southern farmer may both enrich his soil 
and amplify his bill of fare with the use¬ 
ful cow pea. 
* 
Hungarian hamburger steak calls for 
a nice piece of meat, well chopped. Beat 
an egg into a bowl, stir in bread crumbs 
(about a cupful), a small onion, grated, 
salt and paprika (a mild-llavored cayenne 
pepper). The meat is stirred into this, 
and after thorough mixing is formed into 
a ball. An onion is fried brown in but¬ 
ter, put into an earthen saucepan with a 
tight-fitting cover, and the meat ball is 
added, with two tomatoes cut into quar¬ 
ters around it. After simmering for half 
an hour the meat is turned gently, so as 
not to break the ball, then allowed to 
cook quietly for nearly an hour, and 
served with the vegetables as a garnish. 
♦ 
Squash puff is a desirable change in a 
familiar vegetable: Press dry cooked 
squash through a sieve; to a half-pint 
add two tablespoons of melted butter, 
quarter of a cup of milk, seasoning of 
salt and pepper, and two beaten egg yolks. 
Mix thoroughly, fold in two beaten egg 
whites, and turn into a buttered mold, set 
in a pan of hot water and bake in the 
oven until the center is firm. Serve 
turned from the mold and accompanied 
by a rich cream sauce made from one 
tablespoon each of Hour and butter with 
a cup of scalded cream or rich milk and 
seasoning of salt, pepper, celery salt and 
mace. This can be baked in individual 
molds if desired. 
* 
A doli. pincushion is a handy trifle to 
suspend by the side of one’s looking- 
glass. A small china doll with flaxen 
hair is dressed in a pink satin waist and 
skirt of pink satin ribbon four inches 
wide. The skirt consists of two long 
slips of the ribbon, one fastened at the 
back and one in front, so that it looks 
like an infant’s long robe; the sides are 
left open. Inside the skirt are several 
pin pads of pink flannel, like the leaves 
“A woman T know is counted poor 
among her friends,” says Lillie Hamil¬ 
ton French, in Harper’s Bazar. “She has 
little or no money, no health, much love, 
one sunshiny window, and a plant or two. 
Each one with whom she began life has 
grown rich, occupying great and impor¬ 
tant places, outstripping her like a gay 
procession that sweeps by one who has 
fallen discomfited by the wayside. Some¬ 
times the woman has compared her lot 
and rehelled, as she herself has told me. 
She, too, has cried out for the meaning 
of it all, the secret of her own failure 
and their success. ‘Why, why, why?’ she 
has moaned in despair. ‘What ought I 
to do, how ought I to have done?’ The 
other day she came to see me. I saw a 
new light in her eyes, and saw that she 
had found strength. ‘What is it?' I 
asked. ‘Only this,’ she answered. ‘I’ve 
studied into it all and thought. Their 
world is not my world, nor my world 
theirs, and I can do nothing to change 
it. One thing, though, I can do. Small 
as it is, I can make iny little world se¬ 
rene.’ ” 
* 
Here are 24 rules for an ideal home, 
given before a mother’s club in New York 
by Miss Kayser, secretary of the Church 
Association for the Advancement of the 
Interests of Labor—who adds, however, 
that a-n ideal home is not attainable under 
existing conditions: 
1. A contented mind. 
2. Neither poverty nor riches—just enough. 
3. Lack of pretentiousness, show anti 
sham. 
4. Simplicity of life. 
5. Honesty of purpose in all things, even 
the smallest. 
G. Father and mother co-rulers In the 
household. 
7. Father and mother equal guardians of 
the children before the law. 
8. Oue code of morals for man and wo¬ 
man. 
0. Political and Industrial, as well as 
social equality for man and woman. 
10. Model dwelling houses for poorer as 
well as richer. 
11. Plenty of closets. 
12. Wardrobes in which the hooks are not 
beyond the reach of mortal woman and a 
stepladder. 
13. A good executive head of the kitchen 
as well as in the parlor. 
14. Much charity. 
15. Good domestic service. If you cannot 
get it individually you can get it co-opera¬ 
tively. 
10. Some good sentiment and no sentimen¬ 
tality. 
17. A good deal of .common sense. 
18. Quick decisions. 
10. Punctuality, particularly at meal times. 
20. Standards put in practice, not in 
preaching. 
21. A knowledge of housekeepng as a 
♦ tilde. 
22. System. 
23. Consistency. 
24. The saving grace of humor. 
Four Peach Recipes. 
Peach Jam.—This comes from a New 
England friend: Pare, stone and cut into 
thin slices half a peck of freestone peaches. 
Weigh. To each pound of fruit add three- 
quarters of a pound of granulated sugar. 
Put in Javers in a preserve kettle and let 
them cook gently until clear, which will 
probably take an hour. Have ready 
cracked one-third the peach stones, re¬ 
move and blanch the kernels, then slice 
them thin and sprinkle them among the 
layers of peaches so all can cook together. 
Put into small glass jars or tumblers when 
cold. Shut up air-tight. 
Spiced Peaches.—Weigh eight pounds 
of freestone peaches after they have been 
peeled, halved and the stones taken out. 
Put peaches in a porcelain lined kettle 
with one pint of vinegar and five pounds 
of sugar (granulated). Mix one ounce 
each of cinnamon sticks, whole mace and 
green ginger and one-half ounce of whole 
cloves. Divide into eight parts, tie each 
in a piece of cheesecloth and drop in the 
kettle with the peaches. Simmer until 
the fruit is tender, then lift it with a skim¬ 
mer and put it in sterilized jars. Boil the 
syrup a minute, skim, lift oyt the bags, 
then pour over the fruit in the jars. It is 
an improvement to break 18 peach stones, 
blanch the kernels in boiling water and 
add them to the syrup just before pouring 
it into the jars. 
Peach Jelly.—Take sound, high-flavored, 
barely ripe peaches. Wash them thor¬ 
oughly. Use the parings and a few pieces 
of fruit. Boil in enough water to cover 
in an enameled kettle until the skins are 
tender and broken. Strain through a jelly 
bag. Allow the juice of one lemon and 
one scant pound of sugar to each pint of 
juice. Boil the juice twenty minutes after 
straining, and meantime beat the sugar in 
the oven. Put the sugar into the juice 
slowly, let boil five minutes and pour into 
tumblers. 
Sweet Pickled Peaches.—The following 
will answer equally for damsons, plums, 
cherries, apricots, peaches, and has the ad¬ 
vantage of giving little trouble: Prepare 
the fruit as for preserving, stoning it; to 
seven pounds of fruit take three and a half 
pounds of sugar, one pint of vinegar and 
one ounce each of stick cinnamon, sprig 
mace and cloves. Put the fruit into a jar, 
boil the vinegar and spices together and 
pour it over the fruit, letting it stand two 
days. Then pour the vinegar off, put it 
on to boil, and when hot pour in the fruit 
and boil all together until clear and trans¬ 
parent. This does as well as repeated 
scalding. _ 
Spiced Cucumber Pickles. 
The following recipe for cucumber 
pickles has been used in this vicinity more 
than a dozen years with great satisfaction. 
I do not know where it originally came 
from, but I know that it has been passed 
from one neighbor to another, and those 
who have tried it do not care to go back 
to the old way of “salting down” cucum¬ 
bers. Prepare vinegar for pickles as fol¬ 
lows: One gallon vinegar, four ounces 
salt, two ounces cloves, two ounces cinna¬ 
mon, one ounce allspice, one ounce ginger 
root, one ounce yellow mustard seed, one 
ounce celery seed, small piece of alum. 
Scald all together. This will keep for 
years. Wash the cucumbers and drain 
until dry, then put them into the vinegar 
at any time after it is cold. If the vine¬ 
gar is very sharp add a little water to it 
before scalding the ingredients together, 
or the pickles will shrivel. M. B. w. 
Connecticut._ 
As years come and go industries of 
our country will prosper and decline, 
fortunes will be made and lost, even 
government may change its form, but so 
long as the world stands agriculture will 
he the foundation of national wealth and 
prosperity.—Aaron Jones. 
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is very convenient for safety pins. It is 
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dolls are pretty made up in the same way, 
the straight kimona being slashed at the 
sides to give access to the pins. 
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Ogives rosy cheeks and active health to pale, sickly children*^ 
And it is good for their elders, too. 
Ask your druggist for it 
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