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January 26, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
l Woman and Home 
From Day to Day. 
WINTER TREES. 
Across the sky, across the snow, 
The sober rooks are winging slow, 
Grav roses in the rush-fringed pool. 
And Winter trees are beautiful. 
The west is now a garden-close, 
l’ink roses and a golden rose. 
With amber and with tender green, 
To let the throbbing stars between. 
Against that world of roses stand— 
These are the woods of Fairyland— 
Poplar and oak and elm to make 
A gold brake and a rosy brake. 
Instead of silky leaves of Spring, 
'Ihe stars now make their garnishing 
For May roses and April white; 
The snow has lit them all the night. 
The red sun hangs his lantern red 
Between the black boughs overhead, 
The eveming clothes them with his mist, 
Half sapphire and half amethyst. 
The dawn roses are scattered here 
As ’twere a rose espalier, 
Whose happy "boughs have borne for fruit 
Red roses all from head to foot. 
Even the lamp that men have set 
To light the way for traveling feet 
Caught in the dark tree glitters bright 
As chrysoprase and chrysolite. 
Down the long road’s perspective go 
The dark trees in a double row. 
Spangled with lamplight gold and cool, 
And Winter trees are beautiful. 
—Katharine Tynan in London Spectator. 
* 
A mayonnaise mixer, recently noted, 
was a china bowl fitted with angular 
metal paddles, that revolved like an egg 
beater. A metal funnel at one side per¬ 
mitted the gradual addition of the oil. 
The paddles were clamped on at the top 
of the bowl, and could be removed for 
washing. The mixer costs $1.25. 
* 
An ingenious housewife recently owned 
up to the use of baked beans in making 
dressing for turkey. She fell short of 
bread crumbs, and having some left-over 
beans at hand decided to use them. I he 
beans were mixed with the bread crumbs, 
seasoning and butter added as usual, and 
the result was excellent, no one noticing 
the presence of the beans. 
* 
As wc dislike the odor of boiling cab¬ 
bage, we usually cook this vegetable early, 
then heat it with a milk dressing, as 
needed, thus getting rid of the odor some 
time before the vegetable is served. Cab¬ 
bage is also very nice scalloped witli 
cheese. Drain and chop boiled cabbage, 
and prepare white sauce. Butter a bakmg 
dish, sprinkle with bread crumbs, put in 
a layer of cabbage, season it, and then a 
layer of white sauce, dusted with grated 
cheese; continue until the dish is full, 
jnaking the last layer sauce; finish this 
with a generous layer of cheese, sprinkle 
this with buttered crumbs, and then bake. 
* 
The recent death of Lady Burdett- 
Coutts removes one of the greatest phi¬ 
lanthropists of our age, as well as a re¬ 
markable figure in English social life. 
Born in 3814, Angela Georgina Burdett- 
Coutts was daughter of Sir Francis Bur- 
dett, and granddaughter of Thomas 
Coutts, head of a great banking house. 
Miss Burdett inherited the Coutts for¬ 
tune in 1837, when she added her grand¬ 
father’s name to her own. This fortune, 
estimated at $10,000,000, made her at that 
time one of the richest women in the 
world, and she proceeded to use it in pro¬ 
moting charities on a large scale, chiefly 
in projects she worked out herself. She 
built many new churches and schools in 
poor districts throughout England. She 
erected and. endowed the Church of St. 
Stephen’s, Westminster, with its three 
schools and parsonage, and afterward an¬ 
other church at Carlisle. She also en¬ 
dowed the three colonial bishoprics of 
Adelaide, Cape Town and British Colum¬ 
bia, besides founding an establishment in 
Australia for the improvement of the na¬ 
tives. A close friend of Charles Dickens, 
she became greatly interested in the Lon¬ 
don poor. Her contributions to the cause 
of helping the fallen members of her 
own sex to resume a better life were 
noteworthy. A sewing school in the 
slums of London, besides a large home 
there, resulted in decisive aid being given 
6515 Fancy Blouse Waist, 
62 to 40 bust. 
to thousands of young girls, victims of 
the streets of London. She also had 
hundreds of destitute boys fitted out for 
the British navy. She was the means 
of hundreds of English weavers, Scotch 
farmers and Irish fishing folk, who were 
dying of starvation, brought on by the 
severe Winters of the ’60s or by the de¬ 
cline of British trade, emigrating to the 
colonies where an ample livelihood would 
be afforded them. She bought up the 
London slum known as Scotia Gardens 
and built the model tenements now 
known as Columbia Square, which house 
200 families at low rents. She also en¬ 
dowed a model farm in the Bornean 
State of Sarawak to teach the Dyaks 
farming. As a recognition of her gen¬ 
erosity in relieving the sufferings of Tur¬ 
kish peasants caused by the Russo- 
Turkish war of 1877 she was later deco¬ 
rated with the Imperial Turkish order of 
the Mcdjidi and the Shafakat. In 1871 
Queen Victoria made her a baroness. 
She was admitted to the freedom of the 
city of London in 1872 and later to that 
of Edinburgh. In 1881 Lady Burdett- 
Couitts married Mr. Ashmcad-Bartlett, 
a man of American birth more than 30 
years her junior, who was associated 
5532 Short Yoke Petticoat, 
22 to 34 waist. 
with her in her charitable work; he as¬ 
sumed her name. From the time of her 
inheritance of the Coutts fortune this 
noble-minded woman made her name 
synonymous with benevolence, devoting 
personal time and talent, as well as money, 
to the amelioration of poverty and dis¬ 
tress. Her whole fortune, vast as it 
seems, was less than the amount one of 
our great capitalists has thus far show¬ 
ered upon a favorite university; yet great 
college buildings and the much-heralded 
wonders of science and pseudo-science 
shrink beside the human lives uplifted, 
the human misery relieved, by this good 
sister of humanity. j 
More About Cotton-Seed Oil. 
In answer to Reader, page 10, I would 
like to tell a few facts in regard to my 
experience with cotton-seed oil, which 1 
have used exclusively for cooking for The 
last five years. I use the I- X. L. brand, 
which costs something less than 60 cents 
a gallon. It makes the best shortening I 
ever used. I will g'.ve a few recipes 
which 1 hope will be a little help. 
Pie Crust.—For one pie take one cup 
flour, add pinch of salt, mix and add two 
tablespoonfuls oil; rub well together and 
add three tablespoonfuls cold water. Han¬ 
dle dough as little as possible and roll 
thin. 
Eggless Cake.—Cream one-half cup oil 
and one cupful sugar, one cupful sour 
milk, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoon¬ 
ful each of cassia and cloves, one-half 
cupful chopped raisins (if desired) one- 
half teasnoonful salt, two cupfuls warmed 
flour. Be sure not to forget' the salt, as 
the oil contains none. This must always 
be remembered; in using the oil add twice 
as much salt as common. 
Spice Cookies.—One cupful molasses, 
one cupful sugar, two-thirds cupful oil, 
two-thirds cupful sour milk or coffee, two 
small teaspoonfuls ginger, one of cinna¬ 
mon, one of salt, two of soda; flour to 
roll. 
Saratoga Chips.—Peel potatoes and 
slice very thin; soak for one-half hour 
in cold water, then drop quickly into hoi 
oil. Keep stirring with a fork to brown 
evenly. When done take out into a col¬ 
ander in which a piece of paper has been 
placed. Sprinkle well with salt. You 
will find them delicious. 
■When frying doughnuts in the oik 
have ready a dish of boiling water, and 
as you take a doughnut from the fat 
plunge it quickly into the boiling water 
which will remove all surplus fat, and 
make the doughnuts much tenderer. The 
oil makes a nice gravy when meat is 
scarce. Take two tablespoonfuls of oil 
and when “sissing” hot add flour to 
make consistency of thick porridge. Stir 
to prevent scorching. When browned 
nicely add about a pint of cold milk or 
water (not gradually but all at once) 
and stir until it boils. It will need quite 
a bit of salt. Tastes very much like beef 
gravy. When frying fish or oysters I 
use one-half oil and one-half butter, 
which will brown them nicely. 
Vermont. "country cousins.” 
The Rural Patterns. 
The pretty waist shown is an excellent 
model cither as a separate waist or as 
part of a suit. The waist is made with 
the fitted lining and consists of the front 
and the backs. The lining is faced to 
form the chemisette and the front of the 
waist is tucked while both front and 
backs arc gathered at the waistline. The 
trimming band finishes the upper edge of 
the waist and a stock completes the neck. 
The sleeves are three-quarter length with 
cuffs and can be finished with lace or left 
plain as liked. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size is 4 yards 
21, 3)4 yards 27 or 2 yards 44 inches 
wide, with yard of all-over lace, 5 
yards of banding and )4 yard of lace. 
The pattern 5515 is cut in sizes for a 32, 
34, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust measure; price 
10 cents. 
An under petticoat with yoke always 
fits smoothly and comfortably. As shown, 
the skirt is cut in one straight piece and 
is gathered at its upper edge and joined 
to the circular yoke, wdiich should be 
made double, and is closed at the back 
with buttons and buttonholes. The quan¬ 
tity of material required for the medium 
size is 2/ yards of embroidered flannel 
with /i yard of cambric 36 inches wide 
for the yoke; or, yards 27^ 2 l / 2 yards 
36 if plain material is used. 'I he pattern 
5532 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28, 
30, 32 and 34-inch waist measure; price 
10 cents. 
The lamp is yet to be made 
for which I haven’t made a 
chimney that fits. 
Macbeth on lamp-chimneys 
means fit and freedom from 
all chimney troubles. 
A Macbetii chimney doesn’t 
break from heat. 
My Index gives a fuller explanation of 
these things, and may be had for the asking. 
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syrups may relieve 
a cold but they don’t 
cure it. Scott's 
Emulsion not only 
immediately relieves 
your cough or cold but 
cures it by giving you 
the strength to throw 
it off. Take Scott's 
Emulsion for 
coughs and 
colds. 
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