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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 9 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
SONG FOR ALL SOULS. 
God bless all poor souls to-day, 
Those who weep or those who pray; 
Those who sing or those that sigh 
Underneath the roof-tree sky; 
North, or east, or far, or near, 
Kinsmen linked by a tear. 
Thou, thou, art my brother, say 
God bless all poor souls to-day. 
God bless all poor souls to-day, 
Love and love doth reign alway; 
Bold or brave, or weak or worn, 
Jewel-decked or tatter-torn ; 
Beggar, prince, or clown or king. 
Weeping bird with bruised wing. 
All within Love’s sov’ran sway— 
God bless all poor souls to-day. 
—Robert Loveman. 
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Barbara, aged four, had always been 
allowed to make small cakes out of the 
scraps of dough left from the morning’s 
baking, says the Catholic Times, so one 
morning, after being sent to gather the 
eggs, she came running in with a very 
tiny one and exclaimed: 
“Oh, mamma! see this little egg; it 
must be that’s all the dough the hen 
had left.” 
* 
We were asked recently for some 
special soap to clean carpets. The fol¬ 
lowing is very good: Cut a bar of 
white soap into fine shavings, put it into 
a gallon of water, and let it boil until 
dissolved. Then add one ounce of 
ether, stir well, and use with a scrub¬ 
bing brush. Wipe off with clear warm 
water, and a cloth, removing all the 
suds. The colors are renewed by this 
cleansing so that the carpet looks like 
new. 
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Fried onions to serve with steak are 
nice if first put in the frying pan with 
water enough to cover them, covered 
closely, and simmered till they look 
transparent. The water will be nearly 
evaporated; then add a tablespoonful 
of butter, and fry, without a lid, until 
they are pale brown; season with salt 
and pepper. Many cooks who do not 
simmer the onions first fry them too 
long in the effort to have them suffi¬ 
ciently cooked, and some of them thus 
become charred or overdone. 
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Here is a tested recipe for pepper 
hash, which will be found an excellent 
relish. One peck of green tomatoes, 
three small he ds of hard white cab¬ 
bage, eighteen large green peppers, two 
large red peppers, two bunches celery; 
chop all fine and put in salted layers 
over night. To one gallon vinegar add 
one teaspoonful cinnamon, ground; 
one teaspoonful black pepper, ground; 
one teaspoonful cloves, ground; one 
teaspoonful cayenne pepper, ground; 
one pound sugar. Put in kettle, heat 
through, mix in other ingredients and 
boil ten minutes. Will fill three-gallon 
crock. 
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W iien large fancy buttons are used 
for trimming, the button-hole is not 
usually a real one, but is simulated by 
braid, piping or embroidery. On wash 
dresses the simulated buttonhole is em¬ 
broidered in buttonhole stitch, heavily 
padded, and the fancy buttons are re¬ 
moved for laundering, having a shank 
that slips through an eyelet, clinched 
by a metal ring or other fastener at the 
back. Homemade ornamental buttons 
may have a shank made of a loop of 
linen thread worked firm with button¬ 
hole stitch. White buttons made of 
braid or crochet, get very much soiled, 
and do not wash clean on the dress; 
they can be taken off, and shaken up in 
a jar of soapsuds with a little borax, 
which cleanses them nicely; then rinsed 
with bluing, and dried in the sun. 
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The Sacramento Bee recently dis¬ 
cussed some of the reforms instituted 
by women’s clubs, giving the women 
credit for reforming obnoxious situa¬ 
tions in a way men rarely think of do¬ 
ing. Among other instances the “Bee” 
related the case of the Dallas mosqui¬ 
toes: “Down in Dallas, Texas, where 
the stegomyia mosquitoes used to be 
plentiful, those same mosquitoes made 
the fatal mistake of biting the members 
6487 Semi-Princesse Gown, 
82 to 40 bust. 
of the Dallas Culture Club. The mem¬ 
bers, thus having had their attention 
called to the stegomyia mosquitoes, did 
not content themselves with scratching 
and cussing, as men had done ever since 
Dallas found itself on the map, but got 
to work with kerosene oil and sprinkled 
every pool in town, and now there 
aren’t any mosquitoes in Dallas, Texas. 
The men there had been getting stung 
right along and would be getting stung 
yet, if it hadn’t been for the initiative 
and git-up-an-git spirit of the Culture 
TLje Rural Patterns. 
The pretty little plaited dress shown 
may be made of some stout fabric for 
school wear, or of fine woolen for 
dressier occasions. The dress is made 
with front and back portions and is 
box plaited at the center front and 
center back and the skirt portion is laid 
in inverted plaits at the under-arms. 
The neck is finished with the fancy col¬ 
lar, there are epaulettes over the shoul¬ 
ders and the closing is made invisibly 
at the back. The sleeves are in two 
pieces each with rolled-over cuffs. The 
collar is finished separately and ad¬ 
justed over the neck. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size 
is 5% yards 24 or 27, 3§4 yards 32 or 
25/ 8 yards 44 inches wide, with 1 yard 
27 inches wide for bands. The pattern 
643G is cut in sizes for girls of 4, 6, 8 
and 10 years of age; price 10 cents. 
The semi-princess gown retains all its 
favor and is always graceful.. This one 
is made of cashmere in one of the new 
metal gray shades and is trimmed with 
banding that shows touches of black 
and silver while the chemisette and un¬ 
der sleeves are of cream colored lace 
over white chiffon. There is a belt of 
messaline in matching color and the 
buttons, too, are covered with this ma¬ 
terial. The gown is closed invisibly at 
the back. The front panel is cut with 
the waist and skirt portions in one and 
the dress consists of this panel, the side 
and back portions of the blouse and side 
and back portions of skirt. The blouse 
is arranged over a fitted lining and the 
side portions of the skirt are made 
with plaited flounces joined to their 
lower edges. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size is 1*0 
yards 24 or 27, 8 ]/$ yards 32 or 5 y 2 
yards 44 inches wide with 3^4 yards of 
banding, 1 yard 18 for the chemisette 
and under sleeves, yard 27 for draped 
belt. The pattern 6437 is cut in sizes 
for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inch bust 
measure; price 10 cents. 
Keeping Ham. —Last Spring a recipe 
was asked for putting away ham for 
Summer use. Here is ours; Cut up as 
for frying, cut out bone and rind, pack 
in a jar firm and tight. I take an old 
potato masher to pack it. After jar is 
about an inch or so from top melt lard 
or drippings, put on hot; then when 
needed take out and put /back the fat 
hot. I have never lost any and have 
had it the next Fall as nice as when 
put up. MRS. c. R. 
Third Bread.—One cupful sifted 
flour, one cupful of Indian meal, one 
teaspoonful each of salt and soda. Sift 
all together, then add one .cupful of 
Quaker oats and stir in two cupfuls of 
sweet milk, one-half cupful each of mo¬ 
lasses and cold water. Mix well, steam 
hard for three hours and then gently 
until ready to serve. Use well-greased 
covered tin for steaming. 
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6436 Girl’s Box Plaited Dress, 
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