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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 10, 
l Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
REGRET 
When I remember something which I had. 
But which is gone, and I must do without. 
I sometimes wonder how I can be glad. 
Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout; 
It makes me sad to think on it—but yet 
My days will not be better days, should I 
forget. 
When I remember something promised me. 
But which I never had, nor can have now. 
Because the promiser we no more see 
In countries that accord a mortal vow; 
When I remember this, I mourn—but yet 
M3' happier days are not the days when I 
forget. —Jean Ingelow. 
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An old-fashioned homemade furniture 
polish consists of one-third spirits of tur¬ 
pentine and two-thirds sweet oil. Apply 
with old flannel, and rub dry with another 
cloth. This removes all surface marks 
from polished furniture, and with repeat¬ 
ed rubbings will give a high polish to un¬ 
varnished hard wood. 
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Beefsteak chowder is a good dish for 
a cold day. Cut a pound and one-half of 
round steak in strips or cubes. Cut three 
or four ounces of fat pork in small pieces 
and cook in a hot frying pan with an 
onion sliced very thin. When both are 
browned add a quart of boiling water, 
simmer five minutes, pour the whole over 
the steak, bring to the boiling point, boil 
for five minutes and then cook slowly un¬ 
til the meat is tender. Have ready five 
large potatoes peeled, sliced, scalded in 
boiling water, drained and rinsed in cold 
water. Add the potatoes, one teaspoonful 
of salt and saltspoonful of pepper. Cook 
until the potatoes are tender, then add one 
and one-half cupful of rich milk and a 
little more salt if necessary. Heat to the 
boiling point and pour over pilot biscuit 
or thick crackers which have been dipped 
for a second in hot water. 
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Some beautiful effects seen in fine wall 
paper recently suggested ideas in color 
combination that could be carried out 
where less expensive material was used. 
The newest colorings in wall paper are 
very quiet, gray, mode, ecru, tan, beige, 
pale brown, lead and stone color, often in 
two-toned stripes that give the effect of a 
woven fabric. The border is a crown 
finish; that it, apparently a part of the 
paper instead of a distinct band. In some 
cases a narrow floral stripe or band is 
carried down the seams where the paper 
is joined. A very pretty paper consisting 
of a two-toned stripe of light stone color 
had a cut-out border of light blue, 
in pattern a festooned ribbon tied in 
bows at intervals, and a similar cut¬ 
out ribbon was carried over the seams. 
This would be very attractive for 
a bedroom. Gray with trimmings of 
pale old rose was another very attractive 
combination. Striped moire with crown 
or cut-out frieze is very handsome; a 
beautiful effect was noted where soft green 
moire was finished with a crown border 
of violets in small bunches, a narrow vine 
of violets separating the paper into 
panels. Borders that divide the wall into 
oval panels are often used with handsome 
papers, especially in halls. We also see self- 
toned or moire papers mounted by a deep 
frieze showing a conventional landscape, 
like the pattern on some Colonial china. 
There are modern English reproductions 
of the landscape wall papers used in Colo¬ 
nial times, which are still to be seen in 
some old New England homes. They are 
much admired for halls, but should only be 
used in spacious houses of the Colonial 
type. In papering a small bedroom a light 
self-color, moire or satin stripe, always 
increases the apparent size, and is much 
more desirable than a figured paper. A 
small room with a north exposure papered 
in buff or ecru, with an old rose, chestnut 
or light blue border, the woodwork paint¬ 
ed white, will give an impression of sun¬ 
shine in the darkest weather. 
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Uncurled ostrich feathers are seen on 
expensive new hats; they are very full 
and fluffy, but hang down straight like a 
fringe, merely curling slightly at the ends 
of the filaments. The effect is rather 
strange when a very long feather is used 
on a rather small hat. One pattern hat 
noted was of white felt, with round crown 
and curved brim, with a very long un¬ 
curled white ostrich feather drooping be¬ 
low the upturned brim, and held in place 
by a jeweled gilt buckle. One small 
white turban was made entirely of ostrich 
feathers and lace, with several uncurled 
plumes drooping down on to the hair. 
Rather an odd combination seen was a 
large wide-brimmed hat of white felt, 
the crown covered with draped brown 
chiffon edged with a band of mink fur, 
trimmed with sprays of velvet crab apples 
and foliage in natural colors. Artificial 
fruit and foliage combined with velvet 
flowers are seen on many Fall and Win¬ 
ter hats. The most popular color in mil¬ 
linery in the early Fall was a new shade 
of rich deep wine color, which has been 
seen in all styles and combinations. A 
favorite model was a large wide-brimmed 
hat of fine felt, raised on a bandeau, 
with twists and loops of velvet resting on 
the hair. Around the crown is a mass of 
grapes with their foliage, and velvet 
roses, the whole shading from light claret 
to the deepest wine color, almost black. 
The same style of hat in white or pearl 
gray is trimmed with green grapes. Such 
a hat, ready trimmed, is offered for $10. 
The neat little Scotch toques are one of 
the prettiest models of the season; they 
are usually trimmed with wings or coque 
feathers, and will attract any woman who 
wants a small close hat. 
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Professor Dobson was greatly excit¬ 
ed, says the Youth’s Companion. He had 
made a wonderful discovery right in his 
own back yard. It was a curious fungoid 
growth, not quite like anything that he 
had ever before seen. It was yellowish 
in color, with unevenly distributed dark 
brown spots in it; and even as he gazed 
at it, where it seemingly issued from the 
ground near the; sunny side of the high 
board fence, it grew in rounded, swelling 
puffs before his very eyes. 
Rushing to the telephone, he implored 
a fellow scientific man, Doctor Brown, to 
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come at once to see the wonder. 
“It looks to me,” said Doctor Brown, 
inspecting it wisely, “like an unusually fine 
specimen of Scleroderma anrantiacum. I 
wouldn’t have missed seeing it for any¬ 
thing.” 
“To me,” returned Professor Dobson, 
learnedly, “it seems more like an abnor¬ 
mal development of Hydnum repandum or 
tubermelanosporum. , ’ 
“Either is of course possible,” admit¬ 
ted Brown. “The unusually humid weather 
of the present season has been especially 
conducive to-” 
“Land sakes,” said Mrs. Dobson, 
emerging simultaneously from her kitchen 
apron and her kitchen door. “What treas¬ 
ure have you two discovered now? Is 
is a new sort of cutworm or a fresh va¬ 
riety of potato bug?” 
“A rare fungus,” explained Doctor 
Brown, with dignity. “It grows even as 
you watch it.” 
“Fungus!” gasped Mrs. Dobson, bend¬ 
ing to inspect it. “Why, that’s nothing 
but cooky batter! The brown spots are 
raisins. I dropped a whole cupful of soda 
into that batter by mistake, and in throw¬ 
ing the stuff over the fence I spilled some 
on the sand. No wonder you can see it 
grow—it’s the soda rising in the hot sun.” 
Mrs Spraker Talks. 
“I’m so tired of my own cooking that 
I’ve come over to eat breakfast with you,” 
I said. 
“That’s right,” said Mrs. Spraker. “Get 
you a plate and knife and fork out of the 
cupboard, and bring me another egg from 
the basket behind the door in the pantry.” 
“Well,” I declared, as I stood beside 
the blue flame oil stove on which she was 
working, “I never saw anyone fry eggs 
that way before.” She had a large flat 
spider or griddle which she greased very 
lightly with butter. Then she broke the 
egg upon it, salted it, and when the egg 
was done on one side, turned it as one 
would a griddle cake. 
“You have probably seen ’em boiled in 
grease, which I call a pretty poor 
way to cook eggs,” said Mrs. Spraker. 
“It wastes the eggs, because some of the 
white is pretty sure to be like leather, and 
it makes them greasy and indigestible, 
too.” 
There was a covered spider on the 
other flame of the stove, and when break¬ 
fast was ready she turned out the con¬ 
tents on to a platter. It was cold boiled 
potatoes chopped fine and salted, then put 
into a spider in which a good sized piece 
of butter had been melted, then a little 
water poured over, the spider covered and 
put on the stove. The result was deli¬ 
cious ; the potato hot, light and mealy and 
with a nice golden brown crust. 
“Not much like the ordinary fried-over 
potato, is it?” she commented as I passed 
my plate for more. 
“I should say not,” I answered, think¬ 
ing of the greasy slices, more or less 
s °ggy. that are often seen. 
“And how,” I asked, “do you toast 
bread so beautifully on a blue flame 
stove? If I use a toaster the bread turns 
black, and if I use an asbestos mat it 
makes it taste badly.” 
“Use both,” said Mrs. Spraker, “the 
toaster on top of the mat. It takes a lit¬ 
tle longer for the bread to toast, but it is 
much better.” 
“I’m glad I came,” I said. “I have 
learned three things that will be very use¬ 
ful to me. And now I will wipe your 
dishes for you.” 
Mrs. Spraker laughed. “I’m glad you 
came, too, if you will do that, for washing 
dishes is one thing that I don’t like to do.” 
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