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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 17, 
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Simpson - Eddystone 
Silver Greys 
Beautiful. Cheerful. Dignified. 
They make dresses whose appear¬ 
ance far surpasses the looks of other 
materials equal in cost. They wear 
better, and are good all the year round. 
Ask your dealer for 
Simpson-Eddy stone Silver Greys. 
Three generations of Simpsons 
have made Simpson Prints. 
The Eddystone Mfg Co (Sole Makers) Philadelphia 
EDdystonE 
PRINTS 
From Day to Day. 
THE HOME DAYS 
When the gordenrod has withered, and the 
maple leaves arc red, 
When the robin’s nest is empty, and the 
cricket’s prayers are said, 
In the silence and the shadow of the swiftly 
hastening Fall 
Come the dear and happy home days, days 
we love the best of all. 
Then the household gathers early, and the 
hrelight leaps and glows 
Till the old hearth in its brightness wears 
the glory of the rose; 
Then the grandsire thinks of stories, and 
the children cluster sweet. 
And the floor is just a keyboard for the 
baby’s pattering feet. 
If the raindrops dance cotillions on the roof 
and on the eaves, 
If the chill wind sweeps the meadows, shorn 
and hare and bound in sheaves. 
If the snowflakes come like fairies, shod in 
shoes of silence, we 
Only crowd the closer, closer, where the 
cheery kindred he. 
Oh, the dear face of the mother, as she 
tucks the laddies in, 
Oh, the big voice of the father, heard o’er 
all the merry din; 
Home, and hapnv homely loved ones, how 
they weave their spells around 
Heart and life and creed and memory, in the 
farmstead’s holy ground. 
When the goldenrod has faded, when the 
maple leaves are red. 
When the empty nest is clinging tQ the 
branches overhead, 
In the silence and the shadow of the hurry¬ 
ing later Fall 
Come the dear days, come the home days, in 
the year the best of all. 
.—Margaret E. Sangster in Woman’s Home 
Companion. 
There is a revival of taste for glass 
door knobs, which have been out of date 
for some time. They are used for doors, 
and also for drawers of all kinds, bu¬ 
reaus, desks, etc. They are all of clear 
glass, plain or cut and pressed into many 
patterns. Many an old-fashioned piece 
of furniture could be made very handome 
by a good rubbing with sweet oil and tur¬ 
pentine, and a set of glass knobs or han¬ 
dles, to replace old ones. 
* 
Crex, the firm, smooth matting made 
from prairie grass, has been before the 
public for several years. In addition to 
the matting sold by the yard, crex rugs 
are made, and they are excellent for 
rooms that receive hard wear. 1 he grass, 
which is twisted firmly like twine, is 
woven with a green, brown or blue warp, 
and the rug is finished with a fringe or 
border. Such a rug, 9x10 feet, costs 
about $5 or $6, and is much better look¬ 
ing than a cheap cotton or jute ingrain. 
In addition to floor covering, the crex is 
used in combination with wicker and bent¬ 
wood furniture. 
* 
Here is a sausage pie that will soon be 
in season: Cover one pound of sausage 
meat with water and cook slowly two 
hours or until tender with one-half a 
small onion finely chopped. Cream one 
tablespoon of flour with one tablespoon 
of butter and stir into one pint of hot 
milk, cook until smooth and thickened. 
Remove all the fat from the meat and stir 
or pour the gravy over it. Sift two tea¬ 
spoons of baking powder and one-half 
teapoon of salt with one quart of flour, 
rub one tablespoon of butter into this 
and mix to a soft dough with milk. Roll 
out as soft as can be handled. Place the 
meat and gravy in a baking dish, cover 
with the biscuit crust and bake until 
browned, about twenty minutes. Tart 
apple sauce is excellent to serve with this. 
* 
No woman should ever put on a dotted 
or figured veil without the aid of a mir¬ 
ror. We saw one recently whose veil had 
a border of chenille dots forming a dia¬ 
mond pattern, and the wearer had put 
on her veil so that the dots encircled her 
mouth, and gave her the appearance of 
wearing a luxuriant mustache. It is so 
easy to arrange a dot where it interferes 
with the sight, or where it gives a gro¬ 
tesque appearance when speaking and 
smiling, that the simplest plan is to select 
a veil of light plain mesh, and thus save 
both eyesight and appearance. This Fall 
we see a revival of the chiffon veil worn 
over the faqe, and pinned snugly in the 
back, instead of floating about as for¬ 
merly. The veils are about V/z yard long, 
hemstitched all around. After covering 
the face they are pinned smooth just be¬ 
low the hat brim, and again at the nape 
of the neck. The wearer is almost as 
thoroughly eclipsed as a Turkish lady. 
* 
Refrigerating machines operated by an 
electric motor are among modern house¬ 
hold conveniences; they make ice, and 
also refrigerate storage compartments. 
This would be no special object where 
the consumer could store his own ice, but 
a wonderful help to the city or suburban 
housekeeper. A machine equal in refrig¬ 
eration to 250 pounds of ice a day re¬ 
quires one-half horse power to operate it. 
It looks like a handsome cabinet-finished 
refrigerator, being 32 inches wide, S4 
inches long, and 44 inches high, with a 
net weight of 1,300 pounds. It costs, 
without power, $400, while a ma¬ 
chine with twice its power costs $500. 
Perhaps the time is coming when even 
the small buyer, who must pay 70 cents 
a hundred to the independent gentleman 
who tracks across her clean floor in mud¬ 
dy boats, to slam an under-sized cake ot 
ice in her refrigerator, may bid farewell 
to the nuisance, and freeze clean ice for 
home consumption. 
* 
There were some things which the wo¬ 
man who had lived for 20 years in a beau¬ 
tiful but lonely spot within sight of the 
White Mountains had borne just as long 
as she could, and she did not care who 
knew it, says the Youth’s Companion. 
“What a rest it must be to you at the 
end of the day’s work to look at those 
great calm hills, standing there in the 
waning light,” said an enthusiastic trav¬ 
eler, who had stopped for a glass oi 
water. 
The inhabitant of Ridge Hill Farm 
looked at her visitor with a hint of scorn 
in her face, although her tone was good- 
natured enough. 
“I’ve looked at them hills just as many 
times as I’m ever going to when I’m 
tired,” she said, slowly. “I save ’em now 
for Sundays, when I’m some rested up. 
“When I’m mad and tired and ache all 
over, I go out back and look at my toma¬ 
to vines and potatoes, they’ve both got 
things to contend with here, same as i 
have. That’s what soothes me more’n 
any hills.” _ 
The Bookshelf. 
The Youth’s .Companion for 1907. 
No other magazine tempts us to quote 
from it so often as this; its department 
of miscellany contains so much that is 
witty, curious or instructive. But its 
most marked feature is the varied nature 
of its contents; there is something for 
each member of the family. The fiction 
is always clean and wholesome, and we 
have been especially impressed by the 
series of stories relating to American his¬ 
tory, which will be continued until next 
June. Some excellent articles relating to 
farm life and industry are announced, and 
there will be six new serials. The list 
of writers for 1907 includes an army of 
prominent people, both American and for¬ 
eign. The usual beautiful calendar will 
be sent to 1907 subscribers. 
Best Rural Mail Box Made 
The "Hessler” is 
made of steel, 18 
in. long, 6 3 4 in. 
diameter, coated 
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Write for descriptive circular. 
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Avoid mistakes by getting our catalog, 
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We use only FRESH BEEF, and then nothing hut 
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When you see a Coat that 
looks like this 82T" 
You will think of the 
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HILLSDALE, MICH. 
Whose Coats 
DO NOT WEAR OFF 
Like this illustration. 
From now on you will 
notice what large num¬ 
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IENTERPRIS E 
WORKS WELL 
Nothing can get by the 
four bladed, revolving 
knife and pass through 
the perforated plate of 
an Enterprise Chopper 
without being actually 
cut —the cutting action is 
as positive as a pair of 
shears. 
Useful as a sausage cutter 
at butchering time—as a food 
cutter all the rest of the year. 
WEARS WELL 
The wearing parts of the Enterprise 
Chopper—the knife and perforated 
plate—are made of finely tempered 
steel andare wonderfully durable. 
If they ever do wear out, they 
can be replaced at trifling cost. 
The chopper itself will wear 
forever. Be sure the name 
“Enterprise” is on the machine 
you buy. Sold by dealers. 
Wnte for the “Enterprising 
Housekeeper,” a book of 200 
choice recipes and kitchen 
helps. Sent FKEE. 
The Enterprise Mfg. Co. of Pa. 
204 DAUPHIN ST.. PHILAD'A, PA. 
Meat and 
Food 
CHOPPER I 
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