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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
February G, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE WEAVER OF SNOW. f 
In I’olar noons when the moonshine glim¬ 
mers. 
And tiie frost-fans whirl. 
And whiter than moonlight the ice-flowers 
grow, 
And the lunar rainbow quivers and shim¬ 
mers, 
And the Silent Laughers dance to and fro, 
A stooping girl 
As pale as pearl 
Gathers the frost-flowers where they blow; 
And the fleet-foot fairies smile, for they 
know 
The Weaver of Snow. 
And she climbs at last to a berg sot. free, 
That drifteth slow; 
And she sails to the edge of the world we 
see: 
And waits till the wings of the north wind 
lean 
Like an eagle’s wings o’er a locban of 
green. 
And the pale stars glow 
On berg and floe 
Then down on our world with a wild 
laugh of glee 
She empties her lap full of shimmer and 
sheen, 
And that is the way in a dream I have 
seen 
The Weaver of Snow. 
—Fiona Macdeod. 
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The filling- for maple syrup pie is 
made as follows: One cup of maple 
syrup, one cup of chopped raisins, one 
lemon, juice and grated rind, and two 
even tablespoonfuls of flour. Bake 
with two crusts in a quick oven. 
* 
Yorkshire pudding with sausage is 
an appetizing dish for a cold day. 
Make a batter with two cupfuls of 
sifted flour, a teaspoonful of salt, 
three well-beaten eggs and two cupfuls 
of milk. Put slices of sausage meat or 
The Rural Patterns. 
The pretty little Empire frock shown 
is made with a body portion and the 
skirt, which is straight, finished with a 
hem and tucks. There are short 
sleeves that are gathered into bands, 
and the bertha is arranged over the 
neck edge. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size (10 
6209 Girl’s Empire Dress, 6 to 12 yean. 
small sausages in a large dripping pan, years) is 5)4 yards 24, 4-)4 yards 32 or 
pour the batter over them, and bake 3 yards 44 inches wide, with 3 yards of 
in a hot oven for half an hour. 
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Tutti-frutti filling for layer cakes 
is made as follows: Half a cupful of 
seeded raisins, two tablespoonfuls of 
currants, and two tablespoon fills of 
orange marmalade, the well-beaten 
whites of two eggs, which may be re¬ 
served when making the cake, enough 
powdered sugar to form an icing, a 
teaspoonful of vanilla extract, a tea¬ 
spoonful of lemon juice, and a grating 
of nutmeg. Any familiar cake recioe 
may he used for the layers, end this 
filling will be found very good. 
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The champion pie-eater of New Jer¬ 
sey, in a contest at Bloomfield, recently 
distinguished himself by eating 29 Dies 
at a sitting, the varieties being eight 
of apple, five mince, four custard, three 
peach, three lemon, three pumpkin, two 
orune and one cranberry. Eight apple 
oics at a sitting certainly qualifies the 
pie-eater as a member of the Apple 
Consumers’ League. We infer that 
these were commercial pies; we doubt 
whether any champion would be found 
capable of surrounding 29 homemade 
pies during one session. His closest 
competitor absorbed 23 pies, while an¬ 
other met his Waterloo with the seven¬ 
teenth pie. 
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An Australian lady, Mrs. Gunn, writ¬ 
ing of her experience in the Never- 
Never land, tells how one day a bush- 
man walked into their camo and asked 
for a bit of meat. He was offered 
roast scrub turkey and boiled cabbage, 
which is considered a great luxury in 
the bush. “Gosh !” he exclaimed, “ain’t 
tasted cabbage for five years.” He 
took a tiny piece of turkey, and was 
told not to be shy of it. “Tain't ex¬ 
edging. The pattern 6209 is cut in 
sizes for girls of 6, 8, 10 and 12 years 
of age; price, 10 cents. 
The boy’s suit shown is a very satis¬ 
factory model either for woolen or 
wash goods. The suit is made with the 
blouse and the trousers. The blouse is 
made with fronts and back, and is held 
to position by means of a belt, but this 
belt ran be either oi eather or the 
C208 Boy’s Suit, 4 and 6 years. 
material. 
The sleeves are tucked at 
actly that I’m shy* of it,” he said, “but the wrists to give a cuff effect, and the 
I’m scared to fill up any space that shield is attached under the blouse, 
might hold cabbage.” He afterwards The knickerbockers are of the regula- 
told “the missus” that he had not seen tion sort, drawn up by means of elastic 
either a cabbage or a woman for five at the knees. The quantity of mate- 
years. The district called the Never- rial required for the medium size (6 
Never is the Northern Territory of years) is 4)4 yards 24, 3)4 yards 32 or 
Southern Australia. Mrs. Gunn lived 2)4 yards 44 inches wide. The pattern 
150 miles from the railway, and 100 6208 is cut in sizes for boys of 4, 6 and 
miles from the nearest white woman. 8 years of age; price, 10 cents. 
Two Vegetable Soups. 
Cabbage Soup.—If you have never 
made it, do so, for to those who like 
cabbage it is a delicious dish. Chop 
your cabbage fine in the chopping bowl, 
put in stewpan, into hot salted water, 
let simmer until tender. Add milk, 
cream and butter, and salt, if needed, 
and you have a soup fit for a queen. 
Potato Soup.—Pare a few nice pota¬ 
toes. Let stand in water a little time 
before boiling. Cut out every eye or 
blemish carefully, so they will preserve 
as white an appearance as possible. 
Boil till tender, remove and mash 
nicely. Then add milk, cream, butter 
and salt; keep hot till served. Some 
night when you want something warm 
to preface bread and butter and acces¬ 
sories—try it. e. E. A. 
Hot Lunches in a Fireless Cooker. 
“There is some ditcl ing to be done 
in the back field,” announced the man 
of the house, “ and we will take our 
dinners for a few days. We will hitch 
up and draw a can of water, and then 
we will be in after the lunch.” Mon¬ 
day morning. Everything eaten up! 
No time to cook a thing. A rapid sur¬ 
vey of the ice-box rewarded me by 
showing me some forgotten meat and 
gravy, and with this came the happy 
thought—“Why not try the hay cook¬ 
er?” My cooker is a home-made one— 
a butter tub lined with paper and filled 
with fine hay. A white enamelware 
pail with a tight cover is my cooking 
utensil. I placed the meat and gravy 
in my pail, added a slice of onion, a 
few pieces of potato and rice. I al¬ 
lowed it to boil up well, and then lacked 
it away in the cooker. The lunch jac¬ 
ket was packed with bread and butter 
and fruit and a few dishes, all was 1 
loaded into the wagon, and I awaited 
the home-ceming at night, anxious to 
know the result of my experiment. 
“Yes, it was hot, the rice and pota¬ 
toes were done, and it was all good!” 
The next day the pail held ears of 
sweet corn in boiling water, and on 
the ears of corn was a tin plate hold¬ 
ing slices of beef. This was equally 
successful. Hasty pudding was an¬ 
other trial. Not satisfied with the 
dinner all in one dish, I baked some 
corn pudding in a tin box the diam¬ 
eter of the pail. This I put hot from 
the oven in the hole of the cooker, then 
placed the pail on top of it. 
“Was the corn hot?” I asked. 
“That box was so hot I could hardly 
get it out of there,” replied the man 
of the ditch, now fully converted to 
fireless cookers. The ditch is not yet 
finished; there are to be more dinners 
and more experiments. Perhaps some 
other woman who puts up dinners for 
the men will like to experiment, c. h. 
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