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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 7 
[ Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
CALLING. 
The breeze is on the prairie now a-billowing 
and blowing. 
The blossoms are all spangled, too, and 
dew-wet in the morn ; 
Contented cattle stand knee-deep where 
bloom-tipped waves are flowing, 
And oh. I'm longing, longing, for the 
scenes where I was born! 
In Texas now crepe myrtles hang where 
shaded paths are wending. 
In Texas now the mockingbird sends forth 
his sweetest note, 
And all the music in the wrnrld seems drift¬ 
ing, too, and blending 
In one glad song of rapture from his swell¬ 
ing feathered throat. 
In Texas sleepy bayous wind where cypress 
boughs arch over, 
In Texas now the live oaks spread their 
coolest, sweetest shade. 
In Texas now the busy bees wing over miles 
of clover, 
And laughter wakes the shallows where the 
little children wade. 
Oh, Texas blooms are sweetest far, and Texas 
skies are bluest, 
Where Texas maids sing carols sweet be¬ 
neath the live oak tree; 
And Texas ways are my own ways, and 
Texas hearts are truest, 
And Texas calls and calls again the home¬ 
sick heart o’ me! 
—Houston Post. 
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Honey muffins are new to us: Sift 
two cups of flour with two level tea¬ 
spoons of baking powder and one-fourth 
teaspoon of salt. Rub in two level table¬ 
spoons of butter, add two well beaten 
eggs, two-thirds of a cup of honey and 
five tablespoons of milk. Butter round 
muffin tins, fill one-half full and bake. 
These muffins may be covered with fruit 
pudding sauce and served for cottage 
puddings. 
* 
The telephone brings our friends so 
near that it is sometimes hard to realize 
that we are not in their actual presence. 
The New York Sun tells about a charm¬ 
ing old lady who has never become really 
reconciled to the instrument. The other 
day she was called up by Mrs. B-, a 
friend of many years, and the two had 
a long chat. 
“There,” said the first old lady just 
after she left the telephone. “There, I 
meant to give to Mrs. B- that hand¬ 
kerchief she left here yesterday.” 
* 
Some pretty little hanging pincushions 
seen recently were six inches square, and 
quite flat; they were covered with cream- 
colored scrim, having a quaint little floral 
design worked in cross-stitch in pink and 
green. The edge was finished in green 
buttonholing, and there was a little loop 
at one corner to hang them up by. A 
very plain pincushion of good material 
may be given quite an elaborate appear¬ 
ance by putting in colored pins in fancy 
patterns. Some square pincushions noted 
were made of three-inch ribbon, four 
strips joined into a square bag; they 
were tightly stuffed, and the flat bottom 
stiffened with cardboard. They were 
about six inches high, standing up like 
a well-filled sack, the ends of the ribbon 
at the top being drawn through a buckle 
and pulled out into a rosette. Each of 
the four sides had a diamond pattern of 
colored pins, pushed in up to their heads, 
so that they looked like fancy beads. 
Such a pincushion makes a very pretty 
and useful gift. 
* 
One of our friends, brought up in a 
roomy old farmhouse, had occasion to 
move into a New York flat. The little 
bedrooms, with no outside windows, were 
a decided shock (this was in an “apart: 
ment” renting for $35 a month), but the 
crowning horror, to her housewifely 
mind, was the kitchen, where she could 
stand in one spot and reach stove, dress¬ 
er and set tubs without moving. She 
asked the agent showing the premises 
where she could put a kitchen table, to 
r £ ceive the pitying response that she did 
not need a table, as she could use the 
top of the set tubs. This kitchen was 
supplied with a “folding” gas range, 
which hooked up to the ceiling when not 
in use, and the amount of space provided 
suggested the necessity for a folding 
housekeeper, too, who could be hung on a 
peg whenever two people tried to occupy 
the kitchen at once. No wonder we are 
told that city girls are not taught to keep 
house properly! How can a mother in¬ 
struct her daughter if the “kitchenette” 
is only big enough to hold one person at 
a time? 
♦ 
Among pretty dress accessories are col¬ 
lar and cuff coat sets of ecru linen em¬ 
broidered in brown. If a light saddle 
brown is selected they look very well 
with a suit of almost any color, though 
especially attractive with brown. Any 
girl who likes fancy work will do well 
to turn her mind to these little acces¬ 
sories of dress, which are usually propor¬ 
tionately expensive to buy. The various 
forms of the over-blouse or jumper have 
brought into use sleeved guimpes or 
under-blouses, often very elaborate and 
expensive, which call for fine hand work. 
While regular lingerie blouses are worn 
for this purpose, some styles of jumper 
demand a different model, consisting of 
sleeves and yoke, and all sorts of fine 
hand work is used, often forming a com¬ 
bination of lace and embroidery. In fine 
home work we have seen some charming 
effects in Wallachian embroidery, which 
seems to have taken the place of shadow 
work. It is a form of buttonhole stitch 
that is very effective, both in fine and 
coarse materials. 
* 
Fudge cake is delicious made as fol¬ 
lows : One cup of sugar, two-thirds cup 
of butter, three eggs, one cup of milk, 
two and a half cups of flour, one tea¬ 
spoonful of baking powder, one-quarter 
cup of chocolate and one-half cup of 
English walnuts broken up coarsely. 
Cream the butter and sugar together, add 
the milk and stir in lightly the flour, in 
which the baking powder has been sifted. 
Then stir in the chocolate, which has 
been dissolved by placing in a cup and 
setting in hot water. Add the nuts and 
lastly the eggs, which should be beaten, 
whites and yolks separately. The nuts 
should be well floured to prevent falling. 
Fudge frosting for same: One and one- 
half teaspoonfuls of butter, one and one- 
fourth cups of confectioner’s sugar, one- 
half cup of cocoa, a few grains of salt, 
one-fourth cup of milk and one teaspoon¬ 
ful of vanilla. Melt butter, add cocoa, 
sugar, salt and milk. Heat to a boiling 
point and boil about eight minutes. Re¬ 
move from fire and beat until creamv. 
Add vanilla and pour over cake to the 
depth of one-quarter inch. 
Connecticut Notes. 
A nice simple dessert may be made of 
stale bread well buttered and put in the 
pudding dish in layers with plenty of 
sliced apples. A little water and sugar 
and spice to taste. Bake half an hour, 
covering at first. This is good warm or 
cold with sauce or without. 
A brush shaped like a large tooothbrush 
is very convenient to clean celery and 
radishes, also potatoes for baking, if they 
have deep eyes especially. It is also good 
to brush the fine wire gauze in the milk 
strainer and for all the gravy strainers. 
These vegetable brushes are quite inex¬ 
pensive. 
Plenty of soap or washing soda in the 
dishwater makes rough glass look like 
new. 0. E. b. 
Simpson-Eddystone 
Black & Whites 
You can make two beautiful and 
stylish dresses with Simpson-Eddy¬ 
stone Prints at the price you often 
pay for one of other materials. En¬ 
during quality. Some designs have 
a new silk finish. All are fast color. 
EDdystoKE 
Ask your dealer for Simpson- 
Eddystone Black-and- Whites. » 
Thiee generations of Simpsons 
have made Simpson Prints. 
PRINTS The Eddystone Mfg. Co. (Sole Makers) Philadelphia. 
A SPECIAL STATE FAIR OFFER. 
Our Special State Fair Offer should appeal to every woman 
who wishes to lighten the burden of wash day. 
In order to create special interest in our “ EASY” washer 
during State Fair Week, September 9-14, we are going to give to 
every purchaser of one of our “ EASY ” washers, together with 
one of our D. & Z. Easy Ball Beating Wringers, a Gt Id Watch 
worth having. 
It is only necessary in order to take advantage of this offer to 
cut out nd send, or bring, this copy to our booth in the Main 
Building on the State Fair Grounds, or to our Office 214 Dillaye 
Building, Syracuse, together with a remittance covering the value 
of the washer and wringer at our regular retail price, which is 
$12.50—we pay the freight. 
You have your choice of three different styles of watches as 
follows : 
No. 6, Size, Hunting Ca e, Suitable for Men. 
No. 0 Size, Hunting Case, for Ladies. 
No. 648 Open Face, Gilt Dial, for Ladies. 
All being i lect o Gold Plated. 
In order that you may see what you are going to get, samples 
will be shown you either at our booth on the Fair Grounds or at 
our city office—so call at either place to suit your convenience. 
As °n inducement for you to also use one of ou Gas Heaters, 
price $3 each, or Gasoline Heaters, price $5 each, in con ection 
with our “ EASY” washer for heating the water in the machine 
it elf, instead of using the boiler and range, we will give to each 
purchaser of one of these heaters, 15 cakes of 20 Mule Team 
Borax Soap. 
To take advantage of either of these offers it is necessary that 
orders with remittances shall be in Our hands not later than 
September 16, 1907. 
Don’t fail to ask for our free booklet on Moder ; Washing 
Formulas. 
DODGE 6 ZUILL, - - Syracuse, New York. , 
A NEVER FAILING WATER SUPPLY 
One of these little PUMPING ENGINES will pump more water in an hour 
than a windmill will all day—costs only 3c. to fill your tank. These pumps last a 
lifetime—nothing to get out of order—a boy can run it. We will ship you one 
of these slightly used pumps for $95—no charge for boding, etc. Also a com¬ 
plete line of second-hand Gasoline and Steam Engines for farm work at half price. 
Write us what you need—we will gladly give you any information you wish. 
R. W. HERFURTH COMPANY, 39-41 Cortlandt Street, New York. 
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Hglav terlal, beautifully finished, with many new improve¬ 
ments and features. Our large Stove and Kangs 
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k jggrWrite for catalog and Social free Trial 
Hoosier Stove Co., tog State St 
Marion, j:J 
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f you want a stove or range of any kind for any purpose, let us send 
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steel of the highest grade, by the most skilled workmen, In one of the most modern and best, 
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All Kalamazoo cook stoves and ranges are equipped with patent oven 
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