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TH EC RUKAIv NEW-YORKER 
October 23. 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
ST. MARTIN’S SUMMER. 
After the Summer’s fierce and thirsty 
glare, 
After the falling leaves and falling rain. 
When harsh winds beat the field of 
ripened grain 
And Autumn's pennons from the branches 
flare, 
There comes a stilly season, soft and fair, 
When clouds are lifted, winds' are hushed 
again— 
A phantom Summer hovering without 
pain 
In th° veiled radiance of the quiet air; 
When, folding down the line of level seas, 
A silver mist at noonday faintly broods. 
And like becalmed ships the yellow trees 
Stiind islanded in windless solitudes, 
Each leaf unstirred and parching for the 
breeze 
That hides and lingers northward in 
the woods. 
—Edith Jones. 
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Stewed potatoes in Southern style are 
quickly prepared and very good. Take 
one large tablespoon fill of lard and but¬ 
ter and let heat in a stewpan or small 
kettle. When hot stir in one large table¬ 
spoon of flour. Stir until smooth, then 
add one medium-sized onion cut small. 
Cook for one miiuite, or until brown, 
then stir in one quart of potato dice 
.previously prepared. Add sufficient boil¬ 
ing water to cover them, a teaspoonful 
of salt and a dash of pepper. Put a 
lid on the kettle and let cook until the 
potatoes are done through and the water 
has boiled quite away. 
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Some of the specialists who have been 
discussing the physical care of public 
school children in New York assert 
that if the teeth are attended to first, 
many defects of the eyes would disap¬ 
pear. A case which came under our ob- 
'servation a few years ago showed the 
intimate connection between teeth and 
eyes. An adult was suffering from fail¬ 
ing sight which no glasses seemed to 
relieve, and the opinion of the specialists 
consulted was that there was some ob¬ 
scure paralysis of the optic nerve, which 
could only result in total blindness. The 
sufferer, who had been enduring much 
pain from a troublesome wisdom tooth, 
had the tooth extracted, and the eyes 
began to improve immediately. It ap¬ 
peared that some irregularity or abnor¬ 
mality of the dental growth had induced 
pressure on the optic nerve, and this 
caused the defective sight. We all real¬ 
ize that nervous and digestive troubles 
are often relieved by attention to the 
teeth, and neglect in this particular often 
means something far more serious than 
temporary toothache or defects in per¬ 
sonal appearance. 
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In preparing - beets, it will be found 
that they gain richness of flavor if baked 
instead of boiled. They should be put 
in a baking pan half full of water, and 
turned or moved around at intervals, 
but without sticking a fork in, because 
the punctures cause loss of the red 
juice. The water in the pan prevents 
the beets from shriveling. After peel¬ 
ing and quartering or slicing the beets, 
stir through them a dressing made by 
mixing together lemon juice and olive 
oil, one tablespoonful of olive oil to 
one teaspoonful of lemon juice, and serve 
either hot or cold. The beets are much 
richer in color and more sugary when 
baked. There is no doubt that many 
vegetables lose flavor and nutriment by 
boiling in an excess of water. Miss 
Katherine I. Williams, a professor in 
Bristol University, Bristol, England, 
who is a leading authority on the chem¬ 
istry of cooked foods, declares that the 
greatest mistake in cooking the world 
over is the plentiful use of water. She 
favors steaming, and declares that the 
ideal method is in a casserole, or tight¬ 
ly closed vessel. 
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The following editorial is from the 
New York Evening Post, a conservative 
newspaper of the highest class, but one 
that knows very little of real rural 
conditions. The inference from it is 
that the women of our American farms 
are shirking their duties, which is frank¬ 
ly absurd. It would seem that the 
Evening Post, which has always been 
ready to throw its influence against the 
overwork of women in factories or 
tenements, has no compunctions where 
6447 Misses’ Waist, 14 and 16 yeais. 
farm women are concerned. What do 
you think about it? We would like a 
frank discussion of this editorial. Have 
the women given up poultry keeping, 
and if so, why? Of course, the changes 
in handling of milk are due to changed 
economic conditions, just as we now 
buy shoes made by wholesale, instead 
of going to a little village shop to be 
measured individually. Here is what 
the wise man says:. 
An authority on agriculture was quoted 
in our nows columns the other (lay as 
saying that the American farmer is too 
prosperous to take the trouble to milk his 
cows. He might have added that, even 
when tlie cows are milked, the wife and 
daughters of the prosperous farmer are 
no longer minded as of old to care for 
the milk and cream and ply the butter 
ladle. A vacation tramper, going up to 
Embroidery Pattern 384. 
the humblest little farmhouse in the hills 
for a glass of milk to drink, is apt to 
meet the response that it has all gone to 
the creamery. Many a farmer’s family 
makes no attempt to supply even its own 
table with butter, if there is a creamery 
near enough to provide a profitable mar¬ 
ket for milk. Yet the few women who do 
persist in making good butter for sale. 
have no trouble in finding private families 
who will take their entire output at cream¬ 
ery prices, or even higher. The same gen¬ 
eral condition helps to account for the 
continued high prices of eggs and poultry. 
With the farmer making good profit out 
of his staple crops, his wife is disinclined 
to spend an hour or two each day caring 
for chickens and searching the barns, 
stables and fence-corners for eggs. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A dressy blouse, either for net or a 
plain material, is shown in No. 6447. 
The waist consists of the fitted lining, 
which is optional. It is made with front 
and back portions. When the lining 
is used, it is faced to form the chem¬ 
isette, but when it is omitted, the chem¬ 
isette is attached 'beneath the trimming. 
In case of the net, the lining is omitted, 
and the thin silk is cut exactly like the 
outside, but when cashmere or material 
of similar weight is used, fitted founda¬ 
tion is often found desirable. When 
fancy sleeves are used, the plain ones 
are faced to form the cuffs and the over 
portions are arranged over them. The 
quality of material required for the six¬ 
teen year size is 2y& yards 21 or 24, 2% 
yards 32 or 1J4 yards 44 inches wide 
with lj4 yards of silk for bends, 1 yard 
18 inches wide for chemisette and under 
sleeves, *4 yard of lace for trimming 
the chemisette. The pattern 6147 is cut 
in sizes for misses of 14 and 16 years of 
age; price 10 cents. 
The princess gown figured shows the 
new sleeve with a puff at the elbow. The 
gown is made with full length panels at 
front and back and fitted side-front, 
side-back and under-arm portions to 
which the plaited flounce is attached. 
The closing can be made either at the 
left of the front or the left of the back, 
but in either case is invisible. The sleeves 
are made over fitted linings and, if plain 
ones are wanted, the outside can be cut 
the same as the lining, as shown in the 
back view. The pretty fancy ones illus¬ 
trated are exceedingly smart, however, 
and are made with cap-like portions ar¬ 
ranged over full puffs while the lining 
is faced to form the under sleeves. 
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