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THE RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
November 6, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
TUB PLAINS OP LARAMIE. 
The Laramie plains they stretch afar, to 
the eye of setting sun, 
And wondrous are the table lands, all 
clothed alike in dun. 
And silence brooded here long years ere 
man’s life was begun. 
The Laramie plains they melt away like 
some vast, open s«‘a, 
The winds that sweep across their wastes 
ne’er meet a staying tree, 
And not a mile but has its hints of olden 
mystery. 
The wandering herder and his sheep one 
sights upon a crest. 
The tinkling of a bell is heard, like mes¬ 
sage from the blest, 
And then the plains are bare again, and 
night comes, and sweet rest. 
The sunrise is a cloth of gold—noon is a 
fantasy. 
And lucky is the wanderer whose roving 
eye shall see 
The glories of a sunset on the plains of 
Laramie ! 
—Arthur Chapman in the Denver Re¬ 
publican. 
* 
Where a house is heated with hot 
air it is wise to place a screen of wire 
netting over the pipes, directly under 
the register. This will prevent any 
■small article from slipping into the 
pipe, an annoyance that sometimes hap¬ 
pens when the register is open. When 
the screen becomes dusty it should be 
taken out and cleansed. 
* 
To clean brown suede shoes or slip¬ 
pers, rub them well with an old tooth¬ 
brush dipped in gasoline or benzine; 
this removes soil and also restores the 
velvety look of newness. Black suede 
shoes can be revived with fine charcoal 
dust brushed in with an old toothbrush, 
so that it removes the gray look, but 
does not leave any loose dust. 
* 
To wash cretonne draperies, do not 
rub soap directly on the fabric, but 
make a good suds and wash in this 
without very hard rubbing. If very 
soiled a little kerosene in the suds is 
often an advantage. Cretonne should 
always be ironed on the wrong side. 
However, the greatest fault with cre¬ 
tonne is that it usually fades badly even 
before it is soiled, if in a very light or 
sunny place. In our experience chintz 
and art ticking are more desirable on 
this ground for draperies, as the colors 
seem more permanent. Art ticking 
ranges in price about the same as cre¬ 
tonne, beginning at about 18 cents a 
yard, but chintzes are usually higher. 
* 
The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press 
says that an enthusiastic Burlington 
motorist was driving his car through 
one of the most rural sections of the 
State. He came to the top of a very 
steep hill. On each side of the road was 
a ditch and at the bottom of the hill 
a load of hay was just beginning the 
ascent. The motorist, who is not one 
of the chicken and man-killing variety, 
backed his car into the ditch and waited 
for the sturdy son of the soil, who was 
driving the load of hay, to guide his 
team past. On the rear of the load, al¬ 
most buried in the hay, reposed at full 
length a typical old patriarch of the 
hills. His face rested easily in the 
hands and his whiskers streamed out a 
foot or two in the breeze. As the team 
passed the automobile he called out, 
with a note of surprise in his voice, 
“Gosh! ’Tain’t often we meet a gentle¬ 
man in one o’ them -things.” 
* 
The first university school of house¬ 
hold arts was recently opened at Teach¬ 
ers’ College, New York, in a new build¬ 
ing, erected and equipped at a cost of 
half a million dollars, which was given 
by an anonymous donor. The new 
Household Arts building has an area 
of 60x160 feet, is six stories high, con¬ 
tains 160 rooms, and more than an acre 
of floor space. The training in the prep¬ 
aration of food will be very thorough, 
and there is a new department in tex¬ 
tiles and needlework. There has been 
an excellent course in domestic science 
previous to this at Teachers’ College, 
but -the instruction is now amplified to 
cover a very wide field in a most com¬ 
plete manner. The increasing interest 
in domestic economy as a science is 
very gratifying, for it is the science of 
civilization and uplift, and it is quite 
time the world recognized it as such, 
instead of believing, as so many mis¬ 
guided people do, that any incompetent 
and absolutely untrained woman knows 
enough to keep house. 
* 
Irish potato cake, or fage, is excel¬ 
lent for supper, made as follows: Take 
a quart of potatoes that have been 
boiled in their jackets; peel and drain 
them; then beat them with a fork until 
they have become quite smooth, adding 
butter and cream from time to time 
until a heaping tablespoonful of butter 
and a cupful of cream have been added. 
When this mixture has become both 
white and light, put it upon a well- 
floured mixing board; dredge it well 
with flour, and roll it just as you would 
pie crust. Continue to do this until 
your judgment tells you that a ■suffi¬ 
cient quantity of flour has been worked 
in; then roll it out until it is about half 
an inch thick; flour it well, and bake it 
on a hot, greased griddle until done. 
When ready to serve do not cut the 
fage; instead, break it apart and spread 
the center with butter. There is an old- 
fashioned English potato cake made by 
adding flour and chopped suet to smooth 
mashed potatoes; a few currants, a lit¬ 
tle sugar and a flavoring of nutmeg is 
added, and the paste is then made into 
round buns, which are baked quickly, 
and eaten hot, split open and buttered. 
According to our youthful recollection 
this was very good, but we do not have 
the recipe. _ 
Packing Tomatoes in Brine. 
I saw -the request of J. S. R., page 
912, for a recipe for putting up toma¬ 
toes in brine, and decided to tell how I 
did one year. I took medium-sized, 
smooth, ripe tomatoes and after wash¬ 
ing cut them through -the middle. I 
then rubbed the cut surfaces with a 
mixture of equal parts of pepper, salt 
and grated horse-radish. I placed the 
two halves of each tomato carefully to¬ 
gether and packed them closely in a jar, 
and putting a plate over them to bold 
them down placed them in the cellar. 
The juice of the tomatoes made brine 
enough to cover them. I forgot about 
the jar, and it was not opened till Feb¬ 
ruary. When the brine was rinsed off and 
the tomatoes sliced they tasted verv 
much like fresh ones. They would 
probably have been still better had they 
been opened sooner. 
MRS. S. R. JOHNSON. 
At Rest. 
October is with us once again. Never 
were her robes more gorgeous. Never 
were her breezes more gentle. Never 
did her voice call more insistently to 
come out and enjoy. Let us leave sew¬ 
ing room and kitchen, let us leave can¬ 
ning and picking, let us forget the weight 
of years and drop the weight of respon¬ 
sibilities; let us take basket on arm and 
climb the hill to the grove of beeches, 
mr pies, and butternuts. How many 
pleasures await us on that hill. Nuts 
in such profusion that the busy squirrels 
will have more than they will need 
after we have put away enough to in¬ 
sure many a feast during long Winter 
evenings. In almost every tree and 
shrub we find a deserted nest from 
which we can glean a little knowledge 
to add to our supply of bird lore. At 
our feet are a great variety of woodsy 
plants, from which we choose those 
that will take most kindly to the house, 
and re-fill our fern dish for the dining 
table, from past experience knowing 
those that will grow and grow, making 
the table attractive, when all our out¬ 
door world is sleeping under a thick 
carpet of snow, and the north wind is 
whistling at door and window. Here 
on a mossy rock we will rest a few 
minutes drinking in the beauty of our 
surroundings, listening to the voices of 
the wild life about us. Then, with a half- 
forgotten song in our hearts back home 
we go—rested, inspired, content. How 
much lighter seem life’s burdens—how 
much brighter glow life’s pleasures, 
after two hours spent in the heart of 
nature. nettie c. royce. 
The world is growing better, man is 
moving onward, society is rising higher 
and higher. There are some who be¬ 
lieve that if you educate everybody 
there will be nobody left to do the 
work. But if God had intended that 
but a few were to do the thinking for 
the world, He would have given brains 
to but few, and others would have had 
only backs to bear the burden.—W. J. 
Brvan. 
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is the trade¬ 
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