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THE RURAL NEW-YOKKEK 
December IS, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
TIIE TWELFTH-NIGHT STAR. 
It is the bitter time of year 
When iron is the ground, 
With hasp and sheathi'ng of black ice 
The forest lakes are bound, 
The world lies snugly under snow, 
Asleep without a sound. 
All the night long in trooping squares 
The sentry stars go by, 
The silent and unwearying hosts 
That bear man company, 
And with their pure enkindling fires 
Keep vigils lone and high. 
Through the dead hours before the dawn, 
When the frost snaps the sill, 
From chestnut-wooded ridge to sea 
The earth lies dark and still. 
Till one great silver planet shines 
Above the eastern hill. 
It is the star of Gabriel, 
The herald of the Word 
In days when messengers of God 
With sons of men conferred, 
Who brought the tidings of great joy 
The watching shepherds heardl; 
The mystic light that moved to lead 
The wise of long ago, 
Out of the great East where they dreamed 
Of truths they could not know, 
To seek some good that should assuage 
The world’s most ancient wo. 
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Another year slips to the void, 
And still with omen bright 
Above the sleeping doubting world 
The day-star ib alight,— 
The waking signal flashed of oldl 
In the blue Syrian night. 
Rut who are now as wise as they 
Whose faith could read the sign 
Of the three gifts that still suffice 
To honor the divine, 
And show the trend of common life 
Ineffably benign? 
Whoever wakens on a day 
Happy to know and be, 
To enjoy the air, to love his kind, 
To labor, to be -free,— 
Already his enraptured soul 
Lives in eternity. 
For him with every rising sun 
The year begins anew; 
Trie fertile earth receives her lord, 
And prophecy comes true, 
Wondrously as a fall of snow, 
Dear as a drench of dew. 
Who gives his life for beauty's need, 
King Gaspar could no more; 
Who serves the truth with single mind 
Shall stand with Melchior; 
And love is all that Balthasar 
In crested censer bore. 
—Bliss Carman, in Collier's Weekly. 
* 
In roasting a turkey, it is well to re¬ 
member that the best authorities say it 
should be roasted breast down; this 
causes the juices to flow into the breast 
meat, and prevents that dryness that 
sometimes lessens the flavor of a fine 
bird. First, put the bird into the oven 
with the breast up, as usual, and let the 
breast become nicely browned; then turn 
it over, and finish the roasting in that 
position, basting it freely. 
* 
The Youth’s Companion says that an 
enterprising Scotch liquor dealer offered 
a prize for the best answer to a conun¬ 
drum: “Why is my whisky like the 
bridge of Ayr?” A boy sent in, “Be¬ 
cause it leads to the poorhouseand 
the unprejudiced umpires gave him the 
prize. With even readier wit a Yankee 
saw the connection in a kindred case. 
At a certain railway-station an anxious 
man came to the door of the baggage- 
car, and said, “Is there anything for 
me?” After some searching among the 
boxes and trunks, the baggage-master 
dragged out a demijohn of whisky. 
“Anything more?” asked the man. 
“Yes,” said the baggageman, “here’s 
a gravestone. There’s no name on it, 
but it ought to go with that liquor.” 
¥ 
This is the season when, year after 
year, some wise man writes to the news¬ 
papers and urges a general movement 
for the abolition of Christmas presents. 
He always asserts that such giving is 
merely a matter of exchange; that Mrs. 
Brown gives Mrs. Green a present be¬ 
cause it will be expected, while Mrs. 
Green, in turn, sends a gift to Mrs. 
Black in the hope of. something in re¬ 
turn. Such giving as this, which is mere¬ 
ly a mean and grasping way of paying 
debts or making investments, certainly 
should be reformed, but it is not just to 
blame it on the Christmas season. The 
same ungenerous and grasping spirit 
shows itself all the year around, wher¬ 
ever it exists. On the other hand, though 
poverty may limit the actual gift, it gives 
it a sincerity of value entirely lacking 
where social convenience, rather than 
affection, dictates it. A safe rule, in 
Christmas giving, is to make our gifts 
only to those so near to us in kinship or 
affection that we have a right to make 
gifts to them at any season of the year, 
not Christmas only. When giving be¬ 
comes a duty, rather than a pleasure, it 
is quite evident that we have trans¬ 
gressed these bounds, and are placing 
our gifts where they have no real right 
to go. _ 
Gider Jelly. 
Will you give a recipe for making cider 
jelly? M. E. H. 
Our recipe calls for a box of gelatine, 
one pint of sugar, a quart and half a 
pint of cider, half a pint of cold water. 
Soak the gelatine in the cold water for 
two hours. Let the cider come to a boil, 
and pour it on the gelatine. Add the 
sugar, and when it is dissolved strain the 
jelly through a cloth or napkin and turn 
into molds. Put into a cold place to 
become solid. 
Samp. 
I read an inquiry about samp on page 
9152, and an answer on page 1013. My 
father is a native of Northern New 
York. My grandfather and both his sons 
were millers. They used to make samp 
as follows: It was made only in the Fall 
from new corn. This corn was always 
the home-grown product (Yankee corn 
as it was called.) Not being thoroughly 
dry, the corn would only crush when 
put through the burrs. This coarse un¬ 
evenly cracked corn was called samp. 
To get rid of the hulls the samp was put 
into a large dish with plenty of water 
and stirred, allowing the hulls to rise 
and be poured off; then the washed 
samp was put into cold water, brought 
to a boil and cooked over a moderate 
fire at least three or four hours. 
W. BROOKE GRAVES. 
Corned Beef. 
Will you reprint the recipe for pickling 
beef, as published last year? I’ laid that 
number away so carefully that I cannot find 
it myself. s. 
To every hundred pounds of beef take 
nine pounds of salt, four pounds of 
sugar or two quarts of good molasses, 
two ounces of soda, one ounce of salt¬ 
peter, and just enough water to cover 
the meat—about four or five gallons. 
Strew some salt over the bottom of a 
barrel; mix about half the amount of 
salt given with half the given amount 
of sugar or molasses, and rub each piece 
of meat thoroughly with it before plac¬ 
ing in the barrel. Dissolve the saltpeter 
and soda together in hot water, add the 
remainder of the salt and sugar, and 
four or five gallons of cold water. 
Pour this over the meat. Place a board 
on top of the meat, with a weight heavy 
enough to keep it under the brine. It 
is salt enough to cook after five or six 
days’ corning, but it can be kept in the 
brine for an indefinite length of time. 
White Soup.—Take the carcasses of 
two small chickens or of one large one. 
Break the bones and add to them one 
small white onion stuck with two 
cloves, ball removed, one large bunch 
of celery cut in small pieces; boil in one 
quart of water until reduced to one 
pint. Strain carefully. Have ready two 
boiled potatoes, press through a sieve 
and rub in, while hot, two tablespoons- 
fuls of butter. Pour over them one 
quart of hot milk. Then add the broth 
from the bones and return to the fire. 
Let it boil up once. Pour into a tureen 
and add one tablespoonful of finely 
chopped parsley. 
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