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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 16, 
V\f/\|Y|r|n Qflfj flip Up«MA absolute fearlessness required to 
TV Ulllull iltlvl lllC Ilv/lllu scramble over the edges of precipices 
From Day to Day. 
THREE OLD SAWS. 
If tlie world seems cold to you, 
Kindle fires to warm it! 
Let their comfort hide from view 
Winters that deform it. 
Hearts as frozen as your own 
To that radiance gather; 
You will soon forgot to moan, 
“Ah! the cheerless weather!” 
If the world’s a wilderness, 
Go build houses in it! 
Will it help your loneliness 
On the winds to din it? 
Raise a hut, however slight; 
Weeds and brambles smother; 
And to roof and meal Invite 
Some forlorner brother. 
If the world’s a vale of tears. 
Smile till rainbows span it t 
Breathe the love that life endears, 
Clear from clouds to fan it. 
. Of your gladness lend a gleam 
Unto souls that shiver; 
Show them how dark sorrow’s stream 
Blends with hope's bright river! 
—Lucy Larcom in the Independent, 1S68. 
* 
Honey cream candy is delicious. Into 
a granite saucepan put one-half pound 
of sugar, one cupful of strained honey, 
one-half cupful of thick, sweet cream, 
and a dessertspoonful of cold water. 
Stir well together and set aside for an 
hour. Then place over a moderately 
hot fire, and cook until quite stiff. Pour 
into buttered plates, and wh n it is cool 
enough to handle, pull and break into 
pieces. 
* 
As a variation in cornmeal dishes try 
Italian polenta, this recipe being found 
in Good Housekeeping. Add one table¬ 
spoon of butter and one teaspoon of 
salt to three pints of boiling water, 
sprinkle in one pint (two cups) of 
cornmeal and cook for an hour, stir¬ 
ring frequently. Fill a dish with this, 
alternating with one cup each of gravy 
and tomato sauce. Cover with grated 
cheese and brown in the oven. 
* 
An automobilist tells Harper’s Bazar 
that wheel grease that refuses to come 
out of a fabric when given the usual 
treatment of lard or kerosene can be re¬ 
moved by the application of shaving 
soap. Moisten the article with a thick 
lather made with hot water, and then 
rub the soap itself vigorously on the 
stain. Let it stand an hour or two, and 
then wash off with clear, tepid water. 
White serge and pongee have responded 
satisfactorily to this treatment. 
* 
For the first time on record a woman 
is to receive a Lloyd’s medal for saving 
life at sea. The heroine is Miss Kate 
Gilmour, stewardess of the Sardinia, a 
British steamer destroyed by fire in the 
harbor at Valetta, Malta, last Novem¬ 
ber, with great loss of life. Miss Gil¬ 
mour refused to leave the ship until 
all the women and children had been 
rescued, and her coolness and courage 
contributed to the saving of many lives. 
The captain of the Sardinia died at his 
post. 
* 
Miss Annie S. Peck, the famous 
mountain climber, has just returned 
from Peru, where she reached the sum¬ 
mit of Mount Huascaran, estimated to 
be 24,000 feet above sea level; this is 
believed to be the highest altitude ever 
reached by any climber. She was accom¬ 
panied by two Swiss mountaineers, who 
acted as her guides. The previous rec¬ 
ord in mountain climbing was 23,800 
feet, reached by W. W. Graham in the 
Himalayas. Miss Peck received a gold 
medal from the Peruvian government, 
and the personal congratulations of the 
President of Peru, in recognition of her 
remarkable feat. This intrepid climber 
is not a person of great physical 
strength, weighing only about 120 
pounds, but in addition to nerve and 
endurance she possesses sound heart 
and lungs, the two prime necessities in 
mountain climbing. In addition to the 
and across icy crevasses, mountain- 
climbers seem to possess a peculiar 
sixth sense, denied to most of us, which 
makes such feats as Miss Peck per¬ 
forms the greatest possible joy in life. 
This feeling is pictured very vividly in 
“Running Water,” a remarkable novel 
by A. E. W. Mason, which describes 
some scenes of Alpine climbing with 
extraordinary power. 
* 
Mr. King’s calf, as described by the 
Youth’s Companion, was not a molly^ 
coddle, however dubious his pedigree. 
The calf, which Gideon King had taken 
the Summer resident to see, surveyed 
his owner and the stranger with a wary 
eye. “Er—what breed is your calf?” 
asked the visitor. 
Mr. King removed a wisp of straw 
from his mouth and said: 
“That critter’s father gored a justice 
o’ the peace, knocked a lightningrod 
agent end over end, and lifted a tramp 
over a picket fence; and as for his 
mother, she chased the whole Banbury 
Brass Band out o’ town last Fourth 
o’ July. If that ain’t breed enough to 
pay six dollars for, you can leave him 
be. I’m not pressing him on anybody.” 
“Minceless” Mince Pie. 
I saw in The R. N.-Y. a word about 
“minceless” mince pie. Here is a recipe 
that has been tried and found very 
nice: One pint of green tomatoes, four 
large apples, chop both together very 
fine; two cups sugar; one cup raisins; 
one cup molasses; one-half cup vinegar; 
one teaspoon of cloves and cinnamon; 
pinch of salt. Boil all together half an 
hour. Just before taking from the fire, 
stir in three tablespoonfuls of flour wet 
in a little water. This quantity makes 
four pies; can be prepared in Fall and 
canned in glass jars while h6t. 
MRS. G. H. THORNTON. 
color any all wool or silk stuffs or 
cotton, but the mixed goods are not 
quite so easy.” 
“I didn’t know the brown dress had 
ever been colored. It looks like new,” 
said Huldah. 
“Yes, I colored that,” returned her 
neighbor. “Brown is one of the easiest 
colors, I think. Our grandmothers 
didn’t have any of these ready-mixed 
dyes to^use, yet they achieved satisfac¬ 
tory results with the crudest materials 
by using plenty of time and taking 
pains. I well remember the odorifer¬ 
ous indigo blue dye tub in the garret 
and the plain dark blue yarn and 
“clouded” skeins. If I remember right¬ 
ly it was a process requiring some days 
and I don’t know but .weeks to color 
dark blue with indigo. Brown was 
colored with butternut bark. Grand¬ 
father always wore ‘butternut’ over¬ 
alls.” 
“I have seen shades of slate color 
produced by home-made dyes. That 
was sumach, wasn’t it ?” 
“Yes, the sumach bobs were used to 
color slate color, and I have heard 
it said that at different times of year 
the bobs colored different shades. 
Sometimes tea leaves after steeping 
were saved in an iron kettle and this 
would color a very dark slate color. 
Copperas, I think, was used to set the 
color. It was a deal of trouble and a 
process of time.” 
“I don’t think I could do anything 
with the old-fashioned dyes,” said 
Huldah’s neighbor, “but I can manage 
the package dyes pretty well. The 
main points to observe are to have the 
goods covered well with the liquid dye, 
to keep it at the boiling point the re¬ 
quired length of time, to keep the 
goods stirring and finally to rinse and 
dry them quickly.” MRS. E. R. F. 
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Old and New Fashioned Dyeing. 
“Well, Huldah, I see you ha\.e dyed 
again,” was the flippant greeting of 
Huldah’s neighbor. 
“Yes,” laughed Huldah, “I like to 
dye this color.” 
“Why this color?” asked her neigh¬ 
bor. 
“Because it is pretty in every shade 
and tint, from the lightest pink to 
the deepest crimson, and cotton and 
wool goods take a fine old rose color. 
I colored a pretty shaded stripe for 
a rug one time. All being of the 
same tone of color the different shades 
did not ‘kill each other’ as two differ¬ 
ent tones of red will do." 
On the line hung some pink ribbons, 
an old rose knitted sweater, a cherry 
colored toque and a crimson tarn o’ 
shanter, all colored in the same dye. 
“I have had pretty good luck,” con¬ 
tinued Huldah. “The things are all 
right except the sweater. I thought 
that was almost all wool, and it must 
be almost all cotton, for it didn’t take 
the dye very well. I shall get a pack¬ 
age of dark red for cotton and wool 
mixed goods and color that over. I 
don’t want that pink, I want it dark 
colored.” 
“Where is the baby?” asked her 
neighbor. 
“I sent him over to his aunt’s before 
I began to color. He is sue' a mis¬ 
chief. One day when I was making 
frosting for a cake, I just turned 
away from the table a minute to get 
the egg beater, and he drank the un¬ 
beaten white of the egg as quick as a 
wink. He didn’t like it as well as he 
thought he was going to. I was afraid 
he might drink some dye stuff or some¬ 
thing might happen to him. The dye 
looks almost like grape juice and it 
has to be mixed up in a saucer first.” 
“Brown is easy to color too, for all 
silk or wool goods. I colored a gray 
cashmere dress and it took an even, 
pretty shade. It isn’t very difficult to 
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The way to be fat is the way to 
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