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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
January 9, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
WOULDN’T IT. 
Wouldn’t it be nice? 
If children over all the land 
Were quite submissive to command. 
If little boys would never shout, 
And liltle girls would never pout. 
If pas and mas could always say, 
“How very quiet ’tis to-day.” 
If children in condition prime 
Were always as at Christmas time, 
Wouldn't it be nice? 
Wouldn't it be grand ? 
If young to old respectful were. 
If age were held as something dear, 
If parents and authority 
Would in high estimation be, 
Tf youngsters did not selves assert 
In action plain, in language curt, 
But were as mild in act and say, 
As they are this year’s holiday, 
Wouldn’t it be grand? 
Wouldn’t it be great? 
If angry tempers in control 
Were held by might of mind and soul, 
If on each life by passion swept, 
A rigid watch of will was kept, 
If every little sister—brother— 
Ne’er quarrelled, but dearly loved each 
other, 
If all was life and love and cheer, 
As when Christmas time was near, 
Wouldn’t it be great! 
—Baltimore American. 
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A Connecticut correspondent asks for 
a recipe for cream pie made from sweet 
cream and scalded milk. She tried it 
once, and found it most delicious, but 
lias lost the recipe- Can any of our 
readers supply this want? 
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A friend asks for a recipe for coffee 
cake like that made by bakers, with 
the same sort of covering on top. Some 
bakers’ coffee cake has a coat of brown 
crumb on top, made by rubbing to¬ 
gether flour, sugar and butter, while 
others have an icing of sugar and 
water, poured over chopped nuts. We 
should like tested recipe for either of 
work, often 
among these 
these coffee cakes. 
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We referred some time ago to the 
real value of talking machines of the 
modern type in an isolated home. A 
recent appeal to the charitable on be¬ 
half of Rosary Hill Home, an institu¬ 
tion for the care of destitute cancer pa¬ 
tients, states that two of these instru¬ 
ments have been given to the home, and 
that they have a most favorable effect in 
breaking up the patients’ reflections 
upon their hopeless physical condition. 
These poor creatures, worse off some¬ 
times, we believe, than the lepers of 
Molokai, are under the charge of Mother 
M. Alphonsa of the Order of Servants 
of Relief, who is the daughter of 
Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is a far cry 
from “The House of the Seven Gables” 
to Rosary Hill, but the greatest of lit¬ 
erary achievements must seem trivial 
compared with unselfish 
toilsome and repugnant, 
deeply afflicted sufferers. 
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Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel), 
died at “Edgewood,” his home in New 
Haven, Conn., December 15, aged S6. 
Two slender volumes, “Reveries of a 
Bachelor,” and “Dream Life,” caused 
him to be recognized 50 years ago as a 
master of literary style, and they are 
still among regular sellers, especially as 
presentation books. It is very likely 
that many who possess these books are 
hardly aware that the author so long 
survived many noted contemporaries. 
Since 1855 his writings had been largely 
of rural life, containing much practical 
information in a setting of literary re¬ 
finement and sentiment. Some of these 
works are “My FaTm of Edgewood,” 
“Wet Days at Edgewood” and “Rural 
Studies, With Hints for Country 
Places.” He contributed occasional 
sketches to the magazines, edited the 
Atlantic Almanac and for a time was 
editor of “Hearth and Home.” He 
delivered many lectures on art, litera¬ 
ture and agriculture. He was one of 
the judges of industrial art at the Cen¬ 
tennial Exposition of 1S76 and United 
States Commissioner to the Paris Ex¬ 
position of 1878. Yale conferred upon 
him in that year the degree of LL. D/ 
Of course ‘Ik Marvel’ possessed 
means sufficient to provide a life of 
comfort and refinement, but the fact 
that he chose the simplicity of rural 
living as his truest source of inspira- 
6171 Boy’s Blouse, 4 to 12 years. 
tion means much. In the midst of our 
constant rush and hurry it is pleasant 
to think of his serene and hopeful life* 
which was ever ready to give of its in¬ 
spiration to others. 
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Mrs. George L. Sh. ldon, wife of 
Governor Sheldon of Nebraska, made 
an impromptu address to the National 
Corn Association at the Omaha Corn 
Exposition December 12. Gov. Shel¬ 
don was to have delivered the address 
but being unavoidably delayed Mrs. 
Sheldon consented to take his place. 
She is a farmer’s daughter, and was 
entirely at home in speaking on the 
problems of farm life. Among other 
things Mrs. Sheldon said: “That Coun¬ 
try Life Commission is working in the 
wrong direction. It is not social life a 
farmer’s wife needs; it’s help. Labor 
is so scarce on a farm that a woman 
servant cannot be secured for love or 
money. If anyone wants to do some¬ 
thing for the farmer women, let him 
start some institution that will do 
washing in the country.” The last sen¬ 
tence recalls a subject often touched 
upon in The R. N.-Y. Is there any 
farm community now operating a co¬ 
operative laundry on the same principle 
as a cooperative creamerv or cheese 
factory? 
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Among new sofa pillows are many 
very attractive ones made of crash in 
various colors. Some are very simple 
to make, while extremely effective. For 
one pretty style, draw a number of 
circles about the size of a half dollar 
over half of the pillow, divided diag¬ 
onally. Fill these with heavy wool floss 
in long loose stitches, using a color 
that will contrast with the crash; then 
outline the circles with another color. 
A good example was gray crash, the 
disks filled with red and then outlined 
with dull green, the pillow being fin¬ 
ished with red and green cord. An¬ 
other style is a pillow of crash or 
craftsman’s cloth decorated with irreg¬ 
ularly shaped appliques of broadcloth 
in a contrasting color, caught down 
with fancy stitching. Sometimes the 
applique is in each corner, and some¬ 
times three smaller appliques extend 
diagonally across the lower half of the 
pillow. Sometimes the applique takes 
the form of circles or disks. There 
are also some pillows of fine denim 
decorated with applique of French cre¬ 
tonne, which are very effective and 
quite inexpensive. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A well-shaped blouse is shown in No. 
6171. The blouse is made with fronts 
and back, drawn up by means of elas¬ 
tic or tapes at the lower edge, and 
with the box plait at the center front. 
The sleeves are finished with straight 
cuffs and the collar is in turned-over 
style. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size (8 years] is 2% 
yards 24, 2*24 yards 27 or V/% yards 
36 inches wide. The pattern 6171 is 
cut in sizes for boys of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 
12 years of age; price 10 cents. 
No. 6175 shows a pretty model for a 
misses’ skirt. The skirt is cut in seven 
gores and the panel is joined beneath 
the edges of the front and left side 
gores. The trimming of buttons and 
simulated buttonholes is both fashion¬ 
able and handsome but the buttons 
without the buttonholes can be used if 
liked or they can be omitted altogether. 
The fullness at the back is laid in in¬ 
verted plaits. The quantity of mate¬ 
rial required for the 16-year size is 
5^2 yards 24 or 27, 3)4 yards 44 or 52 
inches wide with one yard of satin 20 
inches wide or 5 yards or braid for the 
trimming. The pattern 6175 is cut in 
sizes for girls of 14 and 16 years of 
age; price 10 cents. 
Cinnamon Buns. 
As my receipe for cinnamon buns is 
simpler to make than the one given by 
Linda Hull Larned I send it. It is not, 
so far as I know, the Philadelphia 
variety called for. I think I will call it 
the “Farmer’s Favorite.” If Mr. Nor¬ 
ton could set his teeth into a good fat 
one I am sure he would get (what we 
didn’t of him) a pleasant impression. 
My men folks like them better than 
fried cakes, and who ever heard of a 
man who didn’t like them? The school 
ma’am thought herself in luck when she 
got one in her lunch basket. One cup 
bread dough, one-half cup sugar, one- 
half cup sweet milk, one egg, butter 
size of an English walnut. Heat milk, 
sugar and butter; after it has cooled 
add egg, and enough flour to make a 
stiff dough. Let rise. When light roll 
thin, one-fourth inch, spread with butter, 
sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and as 
many currants as your conscience will 
allow. Roll; I make the roll the longest 
way of the molding board; cut into 
pieces an inch long, stand on end in 
granite pie pan. The recipe should fill 
two pans. Let rise and bake 20 minutes 
in oven not too hot. When baked some 
pour syrup over them, but I prefer them 
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