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THE KUKAL NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
FROM “THE DESERTED YHLLAGE.” 
Ill fares the land ,to hastening ills a prey, 
Where wealth accumulates and men decay: 
Princes and lords' may flourish or may 
fade; 
A breath can make them, as a breath hath 
made; 
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride, 
When once destroyed can never be sup¬ 
plied. 
Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who 
survey 
The rich man’s joys increase, the poor’s 
decay, 
’Tis yours to judge how vide the limits 
stand 
Between a splendid and a happy land. 
Proud swells the tide with loads of 
freighted ore, 
And shouting folly hails them from the 
shore; 
Hoards e’en beyond the miser’s wish 
abound. 
And rich men flock from all the world 
around. 
Yet count our gains. This wealth is but 
a name 
Which leaves our useful products still the 
same, 
Not so the loss. The man of wealth and 
pride 
Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; 
While thus the land, adorned for pleas¬ 
ure all. 
In barren splendor feebly waits the falL 
O luxury! thou curst by Heaven’s decree, 
How do thy potions with insidious joy 
Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! 
Kingdoms by thee to sickly greatness 
grown, 
Boast of a florid vigor not their own: 
At every draught more large and large 
they grow, 
A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe; 
Till sapped their strength, and every part 
unsound, 
Down, down they sink ,and spread a ruin 
round. 
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). 
* 
Mohair washes nicely if a good white 
soap is used, but never press it with a 
very hot iron; the heat seems to have a 
rotting effect on the fabric, which is like¬ 
ly to split afterwards. 
* 
Minute muffins are quickly made as 
follows: One pint of milk, two eggs 
beaten separately; two ounces melted 
butter, one tablespoonful sugar, two tea¬ 
spoonfuls baking powder, and flour 
enough to make a batter stiff enough 
to drop from a spoon. Bake 20 to 25 
minutes in a moderately quick oven. An¬ 
other very good recipe for muffins is as 
follows: Mix one cup of milk with 
three well-beaten eggs, a good pinch of 
salt, a level tablespoonful of sugar, and 
two cups of flour sifted before meas¬ 
ured, then sifted again with two level 
teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in 
a moderately quick oven. 
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Baked apples with chestnut filling are 
recommended to members of the Apple 
Consumers’ League. Core and peel five 
tart apples, and put them in a deep 
earthen baking dish suitable for serving. 
Chop five large boiled chestnuts, five 
stoned dates, five seeded raisins and five 
English walnuts; mix with them five 
teaspoonfuls of sugar and five of lemon 
juice. Fill the centers of the apples with 
this mixture. Melt five tablespoonfuls 
of sugar and five teaspoonfuls of butter 
in one cupful of hot water; pour it over 
the apples, and bake in a hot oven, bast¬ 
ing frequently with the syrup. Do not 
let the syrup cook away and burn; add 
more hot water, if needed to prevent 
this. Serve hot with thin cream, or 
cold with whipped cream. 
* 
Although he was pretty glad to take 
in Summer boarders, says the Youth’s 
Companion, and thus make capital of 
his small garden produce and his wife’s 
excellent cooking, Jedediah Hubbard al¬ 
ways made a great point of never let¬ 
ting his guests “get in ahead” of him in 
any way. 
“City folks that have been around a 
mite think they know it all fum A to 
Izzard!” he used to say. “They need 
somebody to take ’em down a peg or 
two once in a while.” 
One morning while he was chewing 
a long spear of grass, near the wood- 
yard, he was surprised to see a newly 
arrived boarder, fully dressed, coming 
toward him. This propensity of “city 
6445 Child’s Yoke Dress, 6 mos,, 1, 2 
and 4 years. 
fellers” to rise at “sunup” was quite ir¬ 
regular. 
“Good morning!” exclaimed the new¬ 
comer, in a lusty tone. 
“Morning!” responded the old man, 
as if uncertain just what to expect. 
“Well, I s’pose you have to get up 
early to see that the haycocks crow 
properly, don’t you?” said the city man, 
with an airy, jocular familiarity which 
Jedediah was not slow to resent. 
“Well, no,” he drawled, “not exactly 
that—I was just out untying some of the 
knots in the cordwood.” 
* 
The season for planting bulbs is with 
us once more, and a small expenditure 
now will give much pleasure later. 
6443 Long Coat with Deep Shawl Collar. 
34 to 42 bust. 
Potted bulbs are among the most de¬ 
sirable Winter window plants; planted 
out they are brilliant and effective in 
Spring. The small Roman hyacinths, 
which are not hardy enough here for 
outdoor planting, are especially fine for 
the window; we have the first in flower 
about Thanksgiving, and by keeping the 
pots in a cool cellar, bringing them up 
to the light as desired, we have a con¬ 
stant succession of bloom for a long 
time. Miniature Dutch hyacinths are 
also excellent for the window, coming 
in bloom later than the Romans, and 
their dwarf growth makes them suitable 
for grouping in flat pans, while the large 
Dutch hyacinths are very handsome 
grown singly in pots or glasses. Of the 
Narcissi, we grow the Chinese sacred 
lily either in water or soil, and we also 
pot the Paper White and Von Sion. 
Then there are flat pans of Crocuses 
and a few tulips, but the forced tulips 
have not been quite as good with us as 
the other bulbs, so we prefer to put 
most of them out of doors. Among 
small bulbs Crocuses, squills, grape hya¬ 
cinths, snowdrops and glory-of-the-snow 
are all delightful either on the lawn or 
in a flower bed. The Narcissus tempts 
us to be extravagant, for there are so 
many beautiful varieties, and they be¬ 
come a permanent investment, respond¬ 
ing bountifully to very little care. By 
all means try a few bulbs this Fall, no 
matter how small your investment may 
be. 
Putting Up Tomatoes in Brine. 
Can any reader of The R. N.-Y. tell 
me how to put tomatoes up in salt or 
brine to keep over Winter, so they will 
not get soft? j. s. r. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A very pretty simple frock is shown in 
No. 6445. The frock is made with yoke 
and a full skirt portion. The yoke is 
cut to form extensions at its lower edge 
and the skirt portion is laid in box 
plaits with gathers between. The neck 
can be finished with a little frill or 
standing collar as liked and the puffed 
sleeves are gathered into bands. The 
quantity of material required for the 
2 years size is 4 yards 24, 2 % yards 32, 
1% yards 44 inches wide. The pattern 
6445 is cut in sizes for children of 6 
months, 1, 2 and 4 years of age; price 
10 cents. 
The coat in No. 6443 shows a favorite 
style of the coming season, used both 
in suits and in separate wraps. The 
coat is made with fronts, side-fronts, 
back and under-arm gores. It is fin¬ 
ished at the neck with the deep shawl 
collar. The sleeves are made in two 
pieces each and are trimmed to simu¬ 
late cuffs. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size is 8 yards 
27, 4 % yards 44 or 3% yards 52 inches 
wide for full length, 6^4 yards 27, 3$4 
yards 44, or 3 yards 52 inches wide for 
three-quarter length, with % yard of 
velvet for trimming. The pattern 6443 
is cut in sizes for a 34, 36, 38, 40 and 
42 inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
October 16 
Window-glass 
lamp-chimneys 
are cheap, as 
paper-soled shoes 
are cheap—cheap 
to buy, but dear 
to use. 
Macbeth on a 
lamp - chimney 
means it is made 
^.u.s.r.to* of tough glass, 
clear as crystal and that it won’t 
break from heat. 
Best grocers and lamp stores 
sell Macbeth Chimneys. 
My lamp-chimney book insures your getting: 
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