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the rural new-vorker 
Woman Qnrl thp HnmA use as a preservative of food is to be 
— ■ Iliaii aiAU illC condemned. The prolonged use of even 
very small amounts is dangerous, espe¬ 
cially to aged persons. We know that 
perfectly sound fruit and vegetables, 
cooked to sterilization and kept in abso¬ 
lutely airtight receptacles, may be de¬ 
pended upon to keep without preserva¬ 
tives. This means wholesome food, and 
we consider it a grave error to think of 
copying the processes of the less scrup¬ 
ulous manufacturers whose methods 
compelled remedial legislation. 
* 
From Day to Day. 
TWO SONS. 
I have two sons, wife— 
Two and yet the same; 
One his wild way runs, wife, 
Bringing us to shame. 
The one is bearded, sunburnt, grim, and 
fights across the sea, 
Tiie other is a little child who sits' upon 
your knee. 
One is fierce and cold, wife, 
As the wayward deep; 
Him no arms could hold, wife. 
Him no breast could keep, 
lie lias tried our hearts for many a year, 
not broken them; for he 
Is still the sinless little one that sits upon 
your knee. 
One may fall in fight, wife— 
Is he not our son ? 
Pray with all your might, wife, 
For the wayward one; 
Pray for the dark, rough soldier, who fights 
across the sea, 
Because you love the little shade who 
smiles upon your knee. 
One across the foam, wife, 
As I speak may fall; 
But this one at home, wife, 
Cannot die at all. 
They both are only one; and how thankful 
should we be, 
We cannot lose the darling son who sits 
upon your knee! 
—Robert Buchanan. 
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All sorts of cklicate fabrics, includ¬ 
ing faded artificial flowers, can be dyed 
beautifully by using artists’ oil paints 
and gasoline. The color is mixed to 
the desired shade, then gasoline added 
sufficient to act as a medium for the 
paint. After dipping, the dyed articles 
should be hung out of doors until all 
the gasoline has evaporated, and the 
odor passed away. The gasoline seems 
to deposit the color in the fabric with¬ 
out altering its texture in the slightest 
degree. Of course such dyeing must 
be done by daylight in a well-ventilated 
room, with no lighted lamp or stove 
near, as the inflammability of the gaso¬ 
line must never be forgotten. 
* 
Damson cheese is an old-fashioned 
English preserve. The Delineator gives 
the following recipe for it: To every 
pound of damsons, freed from stones, 
allow one pound of sugar. Put on the 
fire and simmer for one hour, stirring 
frequently. With a wooden spoon, press 
through a coarse sieve and return to the 
preserving-pan with equal parts of 
sugar, and allow to simmer slowly for 
two hours. Skim thoroughly and boil 
briskly for 30 minutes or until it ad¬ 
heres in a solid mass to the spoon. 
Some of the stones should be crushed 
and the kernels cooked with the fruit. 
This preserve should be put while hot 
in shallow molds, or the ordinary jelly 
tumblers will do. 
The postmaster at Cincinnati, O., re¬ 
cently issued an order to the clerks of 
the general delivery windows of the 
post office at that city to hold all mail 
addressed under fictitious names to 
young girls and boys. This order fol¬ 
lows the meeting of the National as¬ 
sociation of first class postmasters, 
where the subject was discussed. The 
reason for the order is an effort to 
break up clandestine correspondence on 
the part of young people. The Cincin¬ 
nati postmaster says that many young 
girls make it almost a daily practice to 
get mail at the general delivery window 
without the knowledge of their parents, 
and it is knowledge of the moral dan¬ 
gers involved that has caused postal 
authorities to give attention to the mat¬ 
ter. Many a girl whose disappearance 
into the under world and its hidden hor¬ 
rors leaves heartbreak and lifelong 
sorrow behind her gained her first 
taint of corruption from some clandes¬ 
tine correspondence entered into “just 
for fun.” Even where absolute moral 
shipwreck is not the result, the char¬ 
acter is tainted, and the innate sense of 
propriety and delicacy, that is a pro¬ 
tection in itself, is blurred. Cases of 
blackmail, too, are not an infrequent re¬ 
sult of such adventures. It is quite 
natural that parents should feel they 
can trust their children, but that does 
not mean the relaxation of safeguards. 
We think that one great safeguard is a 
proper supervision over the reading 
matter entering the household. There 
is a class of cheap papers whose pub¬ 
lishers grow rich on the revenue from 
dubious or frankly objectionable adver¬ 
tising, and these worthless sheets point 
the way to “matrimonial papers” and 
other guides to clandestine correspond¬ 
ence. If good reading matter is pro¬ 
vided, a boy or girl of healthy mind 
has no use for this trash. It is a pity 
that so many good people do not realize 
that the editorial policy of a paper can¬ 
not make a strong moral force without 
the co-operation of its advertising col¬ 
umns. 
taste anything, anyway, and the mere 
thoughts o’ his cold pork and boiled po¬ 
tatoes went against her. But she 
wanted I should go, for policy, same 
as all us relations went—and I did. 
"Well, when I got there, and told 
square, he said, ‘Sally not coming?’ and 
clipped it right out into the kitchen, 
leaving the doors open all the way. 
“ ‘Here,’ he said to old Jane Willis, 
that cooked and done for him, ‘have 
those potatoes boiled soft yet? That’s 
good. You lift out Mis’ Sedgwick’s 
potato, an’ it’ll be just right to fry for 
my breakfast to-morrow,’ he said, ‘for 
Mis’ Sedgwick is kep’ at home with a 
cold. Lift it out careful! That’s right!’ 
“An’ when he come back to me he was 
all creased up with smiles, he was so 
pleased with himself.” 
September 25. 
Banana Pies. 
t\ ill some one give a recipe for banana 
pies? I do not always have apples' to use, 
and here bananas are the cheapest and 
easiest to get of any fruits. 
AN OHIO FARMER’S WIFE. 
We have had plain banana pie made 
with double crust, like an apple pie, the 
fruit being cut across in thin slices, and 
sprinkled liberally with lemon juice and 
sugar before covering with the top crust. 
It was then baked until the fruit was 
cooked. T his is the simplest form of 
banana pie. Banana cream pie is made 
as follows: Beat three eggs separately 
until light and fluffy, add one cup of 
sugar and the pulp of two large bananas, 
mashed and put through a colander. Di¬ 
lute with one pint of rich milk, and 
cook in one crust, finishing with a 
meringue. 
Banana puffs are made as follows: 
Peel without breaking as many bananas 
as there are people to ser-ve. Sprinkle 
with lemon juice and sugar and let 
stand. Make a rich pie crust, and roll 
out very thin. Cut out pieces a little 
longer than a banana, and wide enough 
to fold around the fruit. Sprinkle with 
sugar, and then enclose each banana in 
a piece of crust, pinching the edges to 
hold it together. Roll in coarse sugar 
and bake slowly until the fruit is done; 
serve with lemon sauce. 
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We have had a number of questions 
lately concerning food preservatives for 
use in domestic canning, and we must 
admit that it has caused us considerable 
surprise that anyone with facilities for 
putting up wholesome food at home 
should be willing to risk the health of 
the household by descending to the 
methods of the less scrupulous manufac¬ 
turers. Dr. Wiley recently stigmatized 
careless housekeepers as wholesale 
poisoners in the recklessness with which 
they permit the growth of ptomaines in 
uncleanly refrigerators; we think he 
would be still more emphatic in his 
denunciation of the woman who wishes 
to use salicylic acid or benzoate of soda 
in her canning. Regarding the latter, 
Dr. Wiley has lost his fight, officially, 
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appointed to pass upon his conclusions 
by President Roosevelt, but he is upheld 
by many scientists of weight, who still 
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some. Furthermore, in the smaller op¬ 
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The non-committal New England de¬ 
scription of a stingy man as “pretty 
middlin’ near” seems to apply to Squire 
Gregson, thus described in the “Youth’s 
Companion”: They were discussing the 
salient traits of old Squire Gregson’s 
character, the funeral being a thing of 
the past. “Some way or ’nother, be¬ 
tween his going an’ the burying, nobody 
felt free to speak,” Abel Nutting had 
said, as an introduction to his remarks. 
“It seems more’n likely he’d come to 
again, an’ call us to account, same as 
usual.” 
“He was free to give to philanthropy 
an’ the church,” said Barton Sedgwick, 
when his turn came, “but in the fam’ly 
circle I called him kind o’ close. I 
won’t go so fur’s to say lie was actu’lly 
nigh, but he cert’nly was kind o’ close.” 
“As how?” inquired three voices, in 
unison. They all had plenty of in¬ 
stances of the old squire’s “closeness,” 
but it was Barton’s privilege to speak 
first—he being a cousin once removed. 
“Well, I was there to a Sunday din¬ 
ner with him last December,” said Bar¬ 
ton, slowly. “He invited Sally and me, 
same as always, once a year. 
“Well, Sally had one o’ those stuffy 
colds that make you feel worse’ll if you 
had pneumony, and she vowed she 
wouldn’t go. She said she couldn’t 
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