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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 26 . 
[ Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
EVENING BRINGS US HOME. 
Upon the hills the wind is sharp and cold, 
The sweet young grasses wither on the wold, 
And we, O Lord, have wandered from Thy 
fold, 
But evening brings us home. 
Among the mists we stumbled, and the rocks 
Where the brown lichen whitens, and the fox 
Watches the straggler from the scattered 
flocks; 
But evening brings us home. 
The sharp thorns prick us, and our tender feet 
Are cut and bleeding, and the lambs repeat 
Their pitiful complaint, “O rest is sweet, 
When evening brings us home.” 
We have been wounded by the hunter’s darts, 
Our eyes are very heavy, and our hearts 
Search for Thy coming; when the light 
dexjarts 
At evening bring us home. 
The darkness gathers; through the gloom no 
star 
Rises to guide us, we have wandergd far; 
Without Thy lamp we know not where we 
are. 
At evening bring us home. 
The clouds are round us, and the snowdrifts 
thicken; 
O Thou, dear Shepherd, leave us not to sicken 
In the waste night, our tardy footsteps 
quicken. 
At evening bring us home. 
—Dr. John Skelton. 
* 
Genoese pastry is a rich Italian dainty. 
Warm half a cupful of butter until a lit¬ 
tle soft and beat to a cream with half a 
cupful of sugar. Break in an egg and 
beat until quite smooth; then add, one by 
one, three more eggs, beating hard, and 
then half a cupful of flour; pour it, half 
an inch thick, on a buttered tin and bake 
till done—about ten or fifteen minutes. 
Turn it upside down on a sieve to cool, 
and when cold, spread thickly with apricot 
jam, and then with chocolate icing. Put 
it in the oven a moment, then cool and 
cut into shapes. 
* 
A famous cake maker tells us that 
when she wishes to give a particulaily 
nice flavor to a cake she turns it from 
the tin upon some rose geranium leaves, 
previously washed and dried, and leaves 
it there until it cools. 1 he steam draws 
the flavor from the leaves, which is ab¬ 
sorbed by the cake. This flavor may be 
added to either loaf or layer cake. We 
have always used rose geranium leaves to 
flavor our apple jelly made from hall 
Pippins; this year we have used the same 
flavoring in crab apple jelly, and find it 
a delicious change. 
* 
Some of the ribbon bows now worn 
with high turnover collars are as flat and 
stiff as the bow on the side of a man s 
straw hat, and made after exactly the 
same model. I hey are not drawn into a 
“waist” at the middle, but are perfectly 
flat, the ribbon crossing the bow in the 
middle being brought over perfectly stiff 
and smooth, a firm foundation being used. 
The ribbon is grosgrain or moire, two to 
2]/ 2 inches wide. Straight stocks are fin¬ 
ished with a similar bow, a band of the rib¬ 
bon passing around the neck. Sometimes 
the bow has double or triple loops of 
slightly increasing length, but they are all 
perfectly flat, one on top of another. 
be done very carefully. If it is loose 
enough for the material to slip under the 
machine there is sure to be difficulty in 
the fitting. 
* 
German plum cake is thus given by a 
correspondent of the Chicago Record- 
Herald; For crust, two cups of sifted 
flour, one teaspoon of baking powder, two 
tablespoons of butter, one tablespoon of 
lard, one egg, one-third cup of milk, one- 
third cup of sugar. Mix same as pie 
crust, then roll thin and line a square or 
oblong pan that has straight sides at least 
one inch deep. Stone blue plums and 
place place them skin downward, closely 
packed on the crust, cover well with 
sugar, and pour a custard made of one 
egg to one-half cup of milk over all, bake 
in brisk oven until custard is well set, and 
the crust is a light brown. When ready 
to serve cut in squares and sift powdered 
sugar over top. Bake the same day it is 
served. 
* 
The season of short days and long 
evenings is approaching, and it is time to 
see that all the lamps are in order. Few 
of our minor miseries cause more discom¬ 
fort than the discovery, just at dusk, that 
the living room lamp is unfilled, short of 
wick, or suffering from a broken chim¬ 
ney. Some lamps have the disadvantage 
of requiring a wick or chimney not kept 
in stock by the nearest local dealer; where 
this is the case provision should be made 
for buying in quantity. We find it an ad¬ 
vantage to buy lamp chimneys in required 
sizes by the half dozen, and the same 
may be said of wicks. About once a 
month the wick should be removed and 
the burner scrubbed with boiling hot 
soapsuds or a solution of washing soda. 
Many a smoky or ill-smelling lamp is 
merely in need of this cleansing. Some 
housewives boil the burner in the cleans¬ 
ing fluid. It should be remembered, too, 
that burners wear out, and occasionally 
need replacing There should always be 
a special table or shelf for cleaning lamps 
apart from where food is prepared. 1 he 
common practice of keeping a small lamp 
burning all night, turned low, especially 
where there are children, is open to many 
objections. It exhausts oxygen, and or¬ 
dinarily smells to a degree not realized 
by those in the room. It is quite possible 
to accustom the most nervous child to 
sleeping in the dark, by beginning in 
babyhood. If, however, a light in the hall 
or corridor seems a necessity, by all 
means get a regular night-light, of which 
there are many models for sick-room usg. 
The numerous mysterious fires that can 
only be traced to an exploding lamp show 
that there is an element of danger in an 
oil lamp turned low, and left unattended 
for a number of hours at a time. 
Apple Butter Without Cider. 
We have quite some windfall apples, which 
we would like to utilize. Not caring to make 
cider, is there no way of making apple butter 
from the whole fruit? All recipes I see call 
for sweet cider. Can any of your readers 
help us out? E. w. 
We should like to hear from The 
R. N.-Y. housewives on this subject. Can 
any of our readers answer this question 
for us? 
Good Pay 
Promotion 
There is no other occupation where pro¬ 
gress and promotion is more certain to the 
young man who proves his efficiency than 
in the United States Navy. 
There are vacancies waiting in every 
branch of the service, easily within the 
reach of the young man with ambition, even 
though inexperienced. The 
United States IMavy 
does more than offer young men a permanent, profitable and 
dignified occupation. It gives inexperienced men a chance to 
secure good pay while training for a higher rating and higher pay. 
Applicants must be American citizens, between 17 and 35 years 
of age, sound physically, and of good character. Pay $16.00 to 
$70*00 per month, including board, medical attendance and 
clothing allowance on first enlistment. Privilege of retirement 
on three-fourths pay and allowances after 30 years’ service. 
I Applicants accepted will be assigned to United States Naval 
Vessel or to Naval Training School for instruction in seaman- 
ship or the various trades. 
Term of enlistment, four years, with speoial inducement to 
re-enlistment. Navy Recruiting Stations in various cities will 
receive personal applications, or full information of how and 
where to enlist can be had by writing 
Bureau of Navigation , 
Navy Department, Box Washington f D. C. 
as high as you can—there s no 
danger—as low as you please 
—there’s no smell. ' That ’3 
because the smokeless device 
prevents smoke or smell — 
that means a steady flow of 
glowing heat for every ounce 
of fuel burned in a 
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(Equipped with Smokeless Device) 
You can carry it about and care for it just as easily as a lamp. 
Brass oil font holds 4 quarts burning 9 hours. Handsomely fin¬ 
ished in japan and nickel. Every heater warranted. 
The T Strvn ac ^ s cheeriness 
iioyvLamp t<? the long 
winter evenings. Steady, 
brilliant light to read, sew or knit by. Made of 
brass, nickel plated, latest improved central draft 
burner. Every lamp warranted. If your dealer can¬ 
not supply Perfection Oil Heater or Rayo Lamp 
write our nearest agency for descriptive circular. 
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK 
(Incorporated) 
'W/fJfJWi 
When removing basting threads never, 
never catch the end of a thread, and 
pucker up the seam in a bunch, in the ef¬ 
fort to remove the thread whole. Thread 
has gone up in price, like most other 
things, but that is no reason why one 
should spoil a seam with ugly puckers to 
save an infinitesimal amount in thread. 
Besides, we’ use cheap basting thread. The 
threads should be clipped at intervals of 
three or four inches and pulled out with¬ 
out creasing the material. It should be 
remembered that basting Is an important 
part of one’s dressmaking, and it should 
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