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T'LifcC KUKAL, NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE STRUGGLE. 
Say not, the struggle naught availeth, 
The labor and the wounds are vain. 
The enemy faints not, nor faileth, 1 
And as things have been they remain. 
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars: 
It may be, in yon smoke concealed, 
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, 
And but for you possess the field. 
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, 
Seem here no painful inch to gain, 
Far back, through creeks and inlets making. 
Comes silent, flooding in. the main. 
And not by eastern windows only. 
When daylight comes, comes in the light; 
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, 
;But westward look, the land is bright. 
—Arthur Hugh Clough. 
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Regarding the destruction of ants in 
a pantry. Mrs. G. C. White advises the 
use of tartar emetic dissolved in sweet¬ 
ened water, put around the shelves in 
small dishes. It soon removes the in¬ 
sects. As this is a poison, it should be 
used carefully and never left where chil¬ 
dren can get at it. 
* 
The following recipe for delicious 
hatter nuts is given in the Delineator: 
Two well-beaten eggs, add one cupful 
sugar, one teaspoonful salt, one cupful 
of sweet milk, one cupful seedless rais¬ 
ins, the grated rind of one fresh lemon, 
two teaspoonfuls baking-powder, flour 
enough to make stiff batter, that will not 
drop from spoon, about the consistency 
of pound cake. Take a tablespoon half 
full at a time, and drop into hot lard, 
as you do other doughnuts, taking care 
not to have them too large, as they are 
very light when cooked. When done, 
roll them in sugar. 
*. 
A correspondent of the Hartford 
Courant tells how he learned that the 
presence of a snake kept the robins out 
of his strawberry bed. so he rigged up 
a pair of imitation snakes, made from 
old rubber tubing, disposed them among 
the berry plants in life-like attitudes 
and awaited results. The robins sat 
around on the fence watching the 
“snakes”; they chattered, scolded, and, 
we imagine, said mean things about the 
owner of the strawberry bed, but they 
left the berries alone. We doubt, how¬ 
ever. whether imitation snakes would 
frighten our New Jersey robins; they 
seem to be tainted with modern skepti¬ 
cism, and superior to any dread of 
make-believe bugaboos. 
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Evidently the fireless cooker is ex¬ 
tending its scope; a recently published 
cook-book devoted to it tells how to do 
tireless baking, with an insulated oven 
and heated stones, and also how to do 
fireless canning. The increasing interest 
in this sort of cooking is doubtless due 
to the expense of gas where long, slow 
cooking is required. One cannot afford 
to use gas for many hours at a stretch 
in everyday cooking, but if food is 
started on a gas stove and then finished 
in the fireless cooker the best results are 
secured. It is said that the insulated 
oven surrounded by heated stones is 
simply a modern expedient for the old- 
time brick oven, which brought out the 
highest quality of food by its long even 
baking. 
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Sarah Orne Jewett, who died at her 
home in South Berwick, Me., June 24, 
was a writer who made the rugged 
Maine coast her very own. No other 
New England author has just the same 
touch, and surely no one else ever made 
us see the wild coast, the marshes and 
the isolated farms of her State so clear¬ 
ly. “Deephaven,” “A Country Doctor,” 
“A Marsh Island” and “Country By¬ 
ways” are among her most characteris¬ 
tic work. She shows us the beauty of 
plain living, the fullness of lives that 
may seem narrow to outward view, and 
above all the cheery, helpful side of 
country life. Some of our New Eng¬ 
land writers are fond of depicting 
starven souls in a sordid environment, 
but Miss Jewett made us see the best of 
the sunny side. Her people always sug¬ 
gested real life, just as her scenery de¬ 
picted actual places. A lady of foreign 
birth once remarked that when she 
thought of America, her first impression 
was always the pointed firs in Miss Jew¬ 
ett’s descriptions, and this idea was 
borne out by the sympathetic insight into 
strongly American traits shown by this 
writer. We may well read such authors 
as an antidote to the influences that 
seem, at times, to color our national life 
with strange and alien hues. 
Griddle Cakes. 
Alabama Velvets.—Remove all the 
hard brown crust from a stale loaf of 
baker’s bread, crumb it into a porcelain 
dish and pour over it a pint of boiling 
milk. Cover and let stand for ten min¬ 
utes. When the bread begins to swell 
add the yolks of two eggs, well beaten, 
one tablespoonful of melted butter, a 
half-teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth cup¬ 
ful of sifted flour and lastly the whites 
of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Then 
with a wooden spoon beat until the bat¬ 
ter is as smooth and velvety as cream; 
drop in little cakes on a hot soapstone 
griddle, and bake quickly. This recipe 
calls for no baking powder; it depends 
for its success upon the thorough beat¬ 
ing given to the batter. 
Feather Griddle Cakes.—Make a bat¬ 
ter at night of a pint of water, a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt and half a teacupful of 
yeast; in the morning add to it one tea¬ 
cupful thick sour milk, two eggs, a ta¬ 
blespoon melted butter, a half-teaspoon 
of soda and flour enough to make the 
consistency of pancake batter; let stand 
20 minutes, then bake on an evenly 
heated griddle. 
Skillet Johnny Cakes.—Mix one cup 
buttermilk, two cups yellow cornmeal, 
yolk of one egg, one tablespoonful flour, 
teaspoonful sugar, one-half teaspoonful 
salt. Add one-half teaspoon soda in a 
tablespoon ful water, beat hard until 
creamy. Stir in lightly the beaten white 
of egg. Drop small spoonfuls of this 
batter into the hot skillet, greased with 
a tablespoonful lard. Cover and cook on 
top of hot stove. They will soon rise, 
then turn and add bits of butter to skil¬ 
let. Lightly brown the second side and 
serve very hot. 
French Pancakes.—Mix the } r olks of 
three eggs with a cup of milk, half a 
teaspoonful of salt and one teaspoonful 
of sugar. Sift one-half cup of flour into 
one-third of the mixture. When 
smooth add the remainder and beat 
thoroughly. Lastly, mix in half a tea¬ 
spoonful of salad oil. Cover the bot¬ 
tom of a hot frying pan. When brown 
turn on the other side. Spread it with 
jelly after taking it from the fire and 
roll up. Cover with powdered sugar 
and serve hot. These are also very 
good without the jelly. For Shrove 
Tuesday English cooks serve these pan¬ 
cakes flat upon the dish without rolling 
or doubled over once, and sprinkled 
with sugar and grated lemon rind, or 
sugar and cinnamon. 
Oatmeal Scones.—Mix in a deep bowl 
three cupfuls of oatmeal and one of 
white flour, two teaspoonfuls of bak¬ 
ing powder and one of salt. Llave at 
hand three liberal cupfuls of milk heat¬ 
ed to scalding, into which you have put 
a tablespoonful of sugar and three of 
butter. Stir for a moment; make a hole 
in the center of the flour and meal and 
pour in the milk. Stir it down into the 
milk with a wooden spoon, not once 
touching it with the fingers. When you 
have a soft, rough-looking dough, roll it 
out about a quarter inch thick, cut into 
rounds and bake upon a hot soapstone 
griddle, turning to brown it on both 
sides. Serve hot with butter. 
Scotch Oatcakes.—Fine Scotch or 
Canadian oatmeal is best for this, or for 
scones. Put a quart of meal in a bak¬ 
ing dish with a teaspoonful of salt. 
Pour just enough cold water over it to 
mix it into a dough, and roll it out to 
the thickness of a quarter of an inch as 
quickly as possible or it will harden. 
Then cut it into four cakes and bake 
them on an iron griddle slowly for 20 
minutes. Do not turn them, but toast 
them on the other side after they are 
cooked. _ 
Mrs. Spraker Talks. 
“So you are putting up plums,” said 
Mrs. Spraker. “They smell amazingly 
good.” 
“Yes,” I answered despondently, for 
I was tired, “but they are such little 
things that I can’t peel them nor take 
out the stones. So it doesn't look 
nice, but it has a good flavor, only a 
little strong.” 
“Yes,” said Mrs. Spraker, “and by 
and by you will be putting up pears 
that don’t have a strong enough fla¬ 
vor. Did you ever think of putting 
the two together?” 
“No, I never did.” 
“Try it. When you put up your 
pear open a can of the plum and put 
it with enough pear to make four jars 
in all. I think you’ll find it makes an 
improvement in both of them.” 
SUSAN B. ROBBINS. 
Catching Flies. 
In spite of the greatest precaution 
flies will get in the house, and at this 
season of the year are a great annoy¬ 
ance, as they are liable to drop from 
the ceilings and into things where they 
are not welcome. I have adopted a 
plan that is perfectly successful, is sim¬ 
ple and inexpensive. I took a broom 
stick and after taking the top off a 
10-cent condensed milk can (any simi¬ 
lar can will do) made a hole in the 
bottom to admit a wood screw and 
fastened it securely to the end of the 
broomstick. I make soapsuds and fill a 
common glass tumbler two-thirds full, 
place the tumbler in the can, where it 
should fit tightly, and should extend 
one-half above tthe can. By this con¬ 
trivance I can reach the ceilings, and 
in the evening when the flies are col¬ 
lected there, I place the tumbler over 
each, when it will immediately drop 
into the soapsuds. It is best to lower 
the light, having just sufficient to see 
them, as they are less active then. By 
this means I can catch every fly that 
will alight on the ceiling in a very 
short time. By brushing the side walls 
you can induce those there to go to 
the ceiling. j. A. m. 
July 24. 
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