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[ Woman and Home j 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
From Day to Day. 
THE INTERCESSION. 
I cannot tell why there should come to me 
A thought of some one miles and years 
away, 
In swift insistence on the memory, 
Unless there he a need that I should pray. 
He goes his way, I mine; we seldom meet 
To talk of plans or changes, day by day, 
Of pain or pleasure, triumph or defeat, 
Or special reasons why ’iis time to pray. 
We are loo busy even to spare thought, 
For days together, of some friends away; 
rerhaps God does it for us, and we ought 
To read His signal as a call to pray. 
Perhaps, just then, my friend has fiercer 
fight, 
A more appalling weakness, a decay 
Of courage, darkness, some lost sense of 
right, 
And so, in case he needs my prayer, I pray. 
Dear, do the same for me! If I intrude 
Unasked upon you, on some crowded day, 
Give me a moment’s prayer, as interlude; 
Be very sure I need it. therefore pray. 
—Marianne Farningham. 
* 
Bket relish will he found an agreeable 
sauce to serve with cold meat. Boil two 
medium-sized beets until tender, drain 
and let stand in cold water three minutes, 
then skin, slice thin and cover with 
strong vinegar for one hour. Drain off 
the vinegar and mash the beets thor¬ 
oughly, adding three tablespoons of grat¬ 
ed horse-radish, a pinch of salt and a 
dash of black pepper. 
* 
Red cabbage in German style is a favor¬ 
ite vegetable in Teutonic households. 
Slice red cabbage thin, cover with cold 
water, and let soak twenty minutes; then 
drain. Put one quart in a stew pan 
with two tablespocnfuls of butter, one- 
half teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoon¬ 
ful of finely chopped onion and a few 
gratings each of nutmeg and cayenne. 
Cover, and cook until the cabbage is ten¬ 
der: then add two tablespoonfuls of vine- 
par and one-half tablespoonful of sugar, 
and cook five minutes. 
* 
Here is something from the Wall 
Street Journal that seems worth reprint¬ 
ing : 
What America needs more than railway 
extension, and western irrigation, and a low 
-tariff, and a bigger wheat crop, and a mer¬ 
chant marine and a new navy is a revival of 
piety, the kind mother and father used to 
] lilvc —piety that counted it good business to 
stop for daily family prayers before break¬ 
fast, right in the middle of the harvest; that 
quit work a half hour earlier Thursday night 
so as to get the chores done and go to 
prayer meeting: that borrowed money to pay 
the preacher’s salary and prayed fervently in 
secret for the salvation of the rich man who 
looked with scorn on such unbusinesslike be¬ 
havior. That’s what we need now to clean 
this country of the filth of graft, and of 
greed, petty and big; of worship of fine 
houses and big lands and high office and 
grand social functions. What Is this thing 
which we are worshipping but a vain repe¬ 
tition of what decayed nations fell down and 
worshipped just before their light went out? 
Read the history of Rome in decay and you'll 
find luxury there that could lay a big dollar 
over cur little doughnut that looks so large 
to us. Great wealth never made a nation 
substantial nor honorable. There is nothing 
on earth that looks good that is so dangerous 
for a man or a nation to handle as quick, 
easy, big money. If you do resist its deadly 
influence the chances are that it will get your 
son. It takes greater and finer heroism to 
dare to he poor in America than to charge 
an earthwork in Manchuria. 
* 
After viewing some of the colored 
veils that appear with Spring hats it 
seems well to remind their wearers that 
there are only two becoming colors for 
a face veil, black or brown. Of course 
this does not apply to the draped auto¬ 
mobile veils of gauze or chiffon, which 
rival the combinations of the rainbow, but 
to thin net veils worn over the face. A 
white net veil with black dots is becom¬ 
ing to a woman with very rosy cheeks, 
but most disastrous to the eyesight. One 
of the new veils that is especially be¬ 
coming in either black or brown has large 
dots and a velvet border. Of course it 
must be put on carefully to avoid bring¬ 
ing dots or border in an awkward posi¬ 
tion. Purple, blue, green and red net 
veils, worn to match a hat, are usually 
very unbecoming, almost grotesque. 
Whatever color the veil, it is important 
that it be put on neatly, with no loose 
ends. It should be drawn over the hat 
brim with trim, close lines, never crum¬ 
pled, and folded in neatly. Many veils 
lose crispness and are crumpled into 
strings by the common practice of push¬ 
ing it up to the eyebrows, instead of tak¬ 
ing it off, when the wearer wishes to be 
free from it. 1 his is not only a careless 
and untidy habit, but a very unbecoming 
one, giving a hard, tired look to any 
face. Does this remark sound too frivo¬ 
lous for a sensible farm paper? Why 
shouldn’t a country woman take thought 
of her personal appearance quite as 
much as her urban sister ? It is true 
that permanent friendship is founded on 
qualities of mind and character, but a 
pleasing personality gives us our first 
recommendation to strangers. 
. * 
According to a report recently issued 
by the Connecticut Experiment Station, 
probably no class of product has been so 
commonly and grossly adulterated as 
ground spices. Examination of numer¬ 
ous samples at that Station during the 
few years following 1896, when the pure 
food law went into effect, showed that 
from one-quarter to one-third of the 
spice sold in Connecticut was adulterated. 
Since the annual retail cost of the spices 
sold in the .State during these years, ac¬ 
cording to a conservative estimate, was 
about $ 200 , 000 , fully $30,000 of this 
amount must have been expended for 
fraudulent mixtures. One of the com¬ 
monest adulterants is ground cocoanut 
shells, of which, so it is stated, several 
hundred tons have been annually prepared 
for mixing with spices in a single Ameri¬ 
can city. 1 he shells, without further 
treatment, resemble closely ground all¬ 
spice and are a common admixture of 
this spice. A clove adulterant is pre¬ 
pared by roasting the cocoanut shell pow¬ 
der sufficiently to give it the desired color, 
while for use in pepper it is reduced to 
a black powder by charring. In the latter 
case a gray color is often secured by 
the addition of a light colored material, 
such as flour or olive stones, and the 
pungency re-enforced by a small amount 
of cayenne. Wheat flour, middlings, and 
bran, ground biscuit, white corn (maize) 
meal and cornstarch, rice flour and bran, 
buckwheat flour and middlings, • bean 
meal, pea meal, cassava (tapioca) starch, 
ground olive stones, sawdust, and sul¬ 
phate of lime (plaster or gypsum) are 
common light-colored adulterants. 1 hese 
are of a suitable color for white and 
black pepper, but for cayenne pepper are 
often colored with red coal-tar dyes and 
for mustard are commonly used in con¬ 
junction with turmeric or some other yel¬ 
low dye stuff. Other make-weights are 
buckwheat hulls (for black pepper), 
ground screenings, linseed meal, rice bran, 
and mustard hulls. Coffee hulls are also 
used, and we learn that these hulls are 
also used to adulterate wheat bran. The 
bulletin containing this information also 
contains a discussion of food for dia¬ 
betic patients, which will be found very 
useful by anyone making up a dietary for 
such patients. It includes analyses of 
prepared foods now on the market, some 
of which are entirely unsuited for the 
sufferers who expect to gain benefit from 
their use. 
Corn Relish. 
A reader asks for a recipe to prepare 
corn relish. J he following was contrib¬ 
uted by a correspondent of the Chicago 
Record: Ten cups of corn (cut from 
cob), ten cups of cabbage chopped fine, 
five red peppers (large) chopped fine, 
one-half gallon vinegar, three tablespoon¬ 
fuls of salt, three cups of sugar, four 
tablespoonfuls of white mustard seed, 
two tablespoonfuls of celery seed. Mix 
thoroughly and cook one-half hour. 
Cotton-seed and Poultry Oil.—I n re¬ 
gard to cotton-seed oil for cooking, it is 
all right; we have used it for 17 years. 
I understand that a person who cannot 
eat pastry shortened with lard has no 
trouble with it when cotton-seed oil is 
used. We find the best shortening for 
cake to be hen’s oil. When we kill a fat 
hen or chicken some of the oil is saved 
to be fried out. v. e. h. 
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