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T1IE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 24, 
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[ Woman and Home ] 
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From Day to Day. 
MOTHER MAGIC. 
In days of childhood, now long-lapsed and 
dim, 
Often I sat within a holy place 
Where mystic word and solemn-rolling hymn 
Touched the tranced souls of men to thoughts 
of Grace. 
Too small to comprehend, yet happy there 
I lingered, since beside me, close and dear. 
Sat the sweet mother with her rippled hair, 
Her smile of angels and her color clear. 
And she would hold my hand, and so express 
In some deep way, the wonder of the hour; 
Our spirits talked, by silent tenderness, 
As easily as flower nods to flower. 
And to this day, when so I creep alone 
Into some sacred corner, list the choir, 
Hear some great organ's most melodious 
moan 
And watch the windows flush daylight with 
Are, 
Over me once again those memories steal; 
I sit as in a dream, and understand 
God's meaning; for, across the years, I feel 
The meek, sure magic of that spirit-hand. 
—Richard Burton in Atlantic Monthly. 
* 
London sherbet is delicious. Boil a 
pound of sugar in a pint of water till it 
spins a light thread, and then pour it over 
one-third cup of raisins, chopped fine 
and seeded. When cool add V/ cupful of 
fruit syrup and a quarter of a nutmeg, 
grated. Freeze to a mush and then add 
mother had returned—“Mamma, six of 
the chickens are dead.” 
“Dead!” cried his mother. “Six! How 
did they die?” 
The boy saw his chance. 
“I think—1 think they died happy,” 
he said. 
* 
A correspondent of the Chicago Tri¬ 
bune tells the following story about a 
hedgehog, an animal we rarely meet so¬ 
cially. We hope the anecdote is not the 
work of a nature faker: 
Some years ago we received a little hedge¬ 
hog from a friend which soon became a 
great pet. It was not long before our tabby 
cat and Tip, the hedgehog, became great 
friends, eating from the same plate. Pussy, 
being so much quicker than Tip, would al¬ 
ways take much more than her share of 
the food. 
Tip was patient for a long time, but final¬ 
ly as pussy became bolder and bolder he 
evidently determined to put a stop to her 
greediness. The next time we put their din¬ 
ner on the floor Tip quickly ran to the dish 
and curled himself down in the middle of it. 
Soon pussy came and tried to get at the 
food, hut the prickles or spines of the 
hedgehog proved too much for her. for a 
long time she tried to get near the food, 
but in vain. Then finally seeing it was use¬ 
less to try any longer pussy slowly turned 
and walked away 
Summer Salads. 
griueu. w a -.— “What can I prepare for dinner that 
a cupful of orange juice and the stiffly will taste good?” is the perplexed query 
beaten whites of three eggs. The syrup 
from canned fruit is excellent for this 
sherbet. 
* 
A combination of corset cover and 
short petticoat makes a dainty little un¬ 
dergarment known as a Marguerite. The 
petticoat is gored to fit smoothly, without 
any gathers, its placket opening being a 
little at one side of the front. The cor¬ 
set cover is made after any desired model, 
and the petticoat joined to its belt, which 
may be of insertion or beading if de¬ 
sired. It fits better than a chemise, unless 
a princess model is selected for the latter 
garment. 
Here is a Californian recipe for Mexi 
can tamale: For one chicken, have ready 
three dozen ears of green corn, two dozen 
sweet Spanish red peppers, a quart of 
olives, two pounds of raisins and two cup- 
' fuls of lard. Scrape the corn from the 
cobs and take the meat from the chicken 
and chop it fine, mix the two and add the 
these midsummer days. “Fruit is scarce, 
hot, sweet dishes are cloying to the lan¬ 
guishing appetite: I am at my wits’ end 
to find something appetiz.ing. ’ In an¬ 
swer to this plaint, the suggestion might 
be made: Why not serve a salad ? '1 he 
garden is now at its best, and choice may 
be made of a dozen vegetables, any one of 
which, simply dressed with oil and vine¬ 
gar and bedded in a bowl of crisp lettuce, 
is pleasing to the eye and palate. Cold 
meats and fish, hard-boiled eggs, and nuts 
are all good salad material. Oil is not 
an indispensable ingredient to the country 
housekeeper who has plenty of thick 
cream and fresh, sweet butter at her dis¬ 
posal. A boiled dressing will keep for 
a week if tightly covered and stored in 
a cool place. A few salad herbs which 
can be grown with very little trouble 
will add variety and zest to the compound. 
Doubtless a dish composed mainly of a 
bowlful of cold Lima beans, a tomato 
or two, a few boiled potatoes, some 
chopped parsley and a minced onion 
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other ingredients, also chopped fine. Fill W ould be looked upon with disdain by the 
the mixture into corn husks and tie them 
up securely. Then steam or boil until 
the chicken is thoroughly done. 
* 
The Marie Antoinette ruffles which 
old school housekeeper. She would im¬ 
mediately build up the fire and bake hot 
biscuits for tea, just to demonstrate their 
superiority, when served with preserves, 
over such hodge-podge. We of the 
have been a feature of shirt waists this younger generation do not always try to 
Summer are, as a rule, attached to the 
waist, but one can get the same effect from 
a separate jabot, which is attached to the 
waist as desired. It consists of a shaped 
band, embroidered down the center and 
bordered on each side with a narrow 
pleating edged with lace or ribbon. This 
band is attached to the stock under a 
straight bow of ribbon, or of embroidered 
material to match the band. Sometimes 
these ruffled bands are all white, and 
sometimes the embroidery and border are 
colored. 
* 
A lady who bad recently moved to the 
suburbs was very fond of her first brood 
of chickens, says Harper’s Weekly. Go¬ 
ing out one afternoon, she left the house¬ 
hold in charge of her eight-year-old boy. 
Before her return a thunder storm came 
up. The youngster forgot the chicks dur- 
convince the dear aunts and mothers of 
their error for fear of giving mortal of¬ 
fense. We know the salad is preferable, 
not only as a saver of time and labor, but 
in point of wholesomeness. Some skill in 
mixing is required to retain the flavor and 
delicacy of the materials, but the art of 
salad-making is not harder to acquire 
than that of cake baking, though more 
rarely practiced. From the numberless 
combinations suitable for Summer use, a 
few are selected to show what may be 
done with simple materials, many of them 
odds and ends of the larder that would 
be thrown away in wasteful households. 
One of the best Summer salads is plain 
potato. The Germans use a firm, non- 
mealy potato for this dish. A fair sub¬ 
stitute may be found in the small, im¬ 
mature tubers that are often considered 
too insignificant for cooking. Wash and 
of chopped parsley and set in a cool place. 
Diced beets may be mixed with the pota¬ 
toes for variety. String beans may be 
prepared for salad in the same way, omit¬ 
ting the parsley and using shredded bits 
of sweet pepper in their place. 
Carrot salad is very good. Boil young 
carrots in water until tender, then drain 
and cut in small pieces. Make a dressing 
of one small cupful of vinegar, four 
tablespoonfuls melted butter or salad oil, 
the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs mashed, 
and a little pepper and salt. Mix a table- 
spoonful of chopped parsley with the car¬ 
rots. Line a dish with crisp lettuce leaves, 
put in the carrots and pour the dressing 
over them. 
Salmon salad is easily made. Take one 
can of salmon, drain and flake the fish. 
Put it into a salad dish and serve with a 
cream dressing. To prepare this, take the 
yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, one table¬ 
spoonful of melted butter, the yolk of one 
raw egg, two tablespoonfuls vinegar, 
one cupful thick cream and salt and cay¬ 
enne pepper to taste. Rub the raw yolk 
to a paste with the cooked ones. Mix in 
the butter, salt and pepper, and slowly add 
the cream, beating all the time. At the 
last stir in the vinegar. This dressing 
is also good for chicken or cabbage salad. 
Celery will soon be in season and may 
then be combined with hickorynuts in a 
delicious salad. To make hickorynut salad, 
take one cupful of hickorynuts, coarsely 
chopped or broken, and two cupfuls of 
celery cut in dice. Mix with a dressing 
made of two beaten eggs, one cupful of 
milk, one teaspoonful mustard and one 
teaspoonful of flour cooked together. 
After the mixture is taken from the fire 
beat in two tablespoonfuls of vinegar. 
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Missions and Sacred Progress, by Anna 
R. B. Lindsay. This is the seventh vol¬ 
ume in the series issued by the Central 
Committee on the United Study of Mis¬ 
sions, and it aims at a summing up of the 
progress of mission work throughout the 
world. The book is based upon the his¬ 
tories of great missionary organizations, 
official report of missionary boards, etc., 
thus giving us, in compact form, a mass 
of information on this subject. It is di¬ 
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missions, and missions contributing to 
other forms of social progress. 1 here is 
a tendency, on the part of some sincere 
and well-meaning people, to belittle for¬ 
eign mission work, on the ground that 
heathen peoples are quite as happy and 
virtuous without mission work as with it. 
They praise the virtues of Confucianism, 
and close their eyes to infabticide and cal¬ 
lous cruelty; commend Hindu religions 
and overlook the miseries of caste, child 
marriage and the widow’s doom, or point 
out the idyllic beauties of the South Seas, 
while ignoring cannibalism and other hor¬ 
rors. It is quite true that we have not 
yet succeeded in Christianizing our own 
land, but that does not lessen our respon¬ 
sibility toward them that sit in darkness. 
It will be well for those who are doubtful 
of the value of mission work to read this 
book, and it will also be admirable for 
reading aloud in the home, or at sewing 
circles or similar gatherings. _ It is de¬ 
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