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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE DAWN OP PEACE. 
Put off, put off your mail, O kings 
And beat your brands to dust! 
Your hands must learn a surer grasp, 
Your hearts a better trust. 
Ob, bend aback the lance's point, 
And break the helmet’s bar; 
A noise is in the morning wind 
But not the note of war. 
T'pon the grassy mountain paths 
The glittering hosts increase— 
They come! They come! Iiow fair their feet! 
They come who publish peace. 
And victory, fair victory, 
Our enemies are ours! 
For all the clouds are clasped in light, 
And all the earth with flowers. 
Aye, still depressed and dim with dew; 
But wait a little while 
And with the radiant deathless rose . 
Tile wilderness shall smile. 
And every tender, living thing 
Shall feed by streams of rest. 
Nor lamb shall from the tlock be lost, 
Nor nursling from the nest. 
—John Buskin. 
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The Hope Farm man recently re¬ 
ferred to a vegetarian banquet out at 
Battle Creek, Mich. Here is a vege¬ 
tarian roast which is one of the Battle 
Creek recipes: Mix together one-half 
cup of lentil pulp, one-half cup of peas 
pulp, one-half cup of English walnuts. 
Season to taste with sage and salt. Line 
an oiled baking dish one-half inch deep 
with the mixture. Pack in loosely the 
following dressing: Four slices of zwie¬ 
back steamed until softened, one-half 
cup of hot cream, sage and salt to taste, 
and one well-beaten egg. Mix together 
lightly with a fork. Cover closely with 
peas, lentil and nut mixture. Spread over 
the top a thick cream, bake in a moder¬ 
ate oven until firm enough to cut in 
slices. Serve with cranberry sauce, jelly 
or brown cream gravy. 
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That reference to naming a girl baby 
on page 7, recalls the gradual changes 
in fashion as applied to feminine names. 
The crop of Williams and Johns and 
Henrys remains tolerably unchanged 
year after year, but their sisters are 
Amandas, and Henriettas, Hazels, 
Pearls and Gwendolens according to 
prevailing fashion. Just now plain old- 
fashioned names are revived, and we 
meet many small Janes, Elizabeths and 
Hannahs, who are never allowed to be¬ 
come Jennie, Bessie or Nan. The fact 
is, the craze for poetic or romantic 
names, followed by a deluge of silly 
diminutives, has caused a reaction in 
public taste. We never tire of what we 
consider the most beautiful of all femi¬ 
nine names, whether it be called Mary, 
Marie, Marian or Maria, but it soon 
loses its dignity if we twist it into Ma¬ 
mie, or vulgarize it into Mayme. It is 
very difficult to avoid giving a small 
child some pet name, yet it is well to 
remember that the real name (and es¬ 
pecially the name conferred in baptism) 
is given for use, and deserves right 
treatment, hence it should not be entirely 
dethroned in favor of a diminutive. Nor 
do we believe in allowing a girl to twist 
some honest baptismal name into fanci¬ 
ful syllables or spelling, merely to suit 
her own taste. We like the idea of per¬ 
petuating family names, unless they 
seem grotesquely inappropriate, and we 
must also confess a liking for distinct¬ 
ively Christian names, as opposed to 
those adapted from surnames. We have 
been told that the French Government 
tries to exercise some authority over 
the names of its citizens, and if the 
proud father, in registering a birth, 
gives a name in violent contrast with 
usual custom, he is quite likely to be 
requested officially to change it to some¬ 
thing less startling. No doubt a good 
many youthful Jeans and Jeannes grow 
up to thank the paternal government that 
thus prevented them from some queer 
appellation. However, we are not likely 
to hear from the authorities in this free 
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country, even if we name a helpless in¬ 
fant Kercn-happuch or Jehonadab, so by 
all means let us look for names that are 
musical in sound, inspiring in meaning 
or association and, above all, not too fine 
for daily use. 
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“Oh, yes, I got consid’able out o’ my 
trip,” said Miss Pettingill with tem¬ 
pered enthusiasm, as reported by the 
Youth’s Companion. The Pettingill farm 
is delightful in Summer. Miss Hannah 
had finally accepted one of those urgent 
invitations—usually arriving as Spring 
appeared—to spend a few days in town 
with some of those cousins—of greater 
or less “distance”—who frequently 
dropped in and spent a few weeks with 
her in Summer-time. 
“Certainly the stores are big, but I ■ 
can do pretty well in the village, and 
I never did fancy trapesing around in 
trolley cars. There's the sights, to be 
sure, but I never was much of a hand 
to go sightseeing. But I guess I got 
plenty while I was up to New York to 
keep me moralizing the rest o’ my days! 
“F’r instance, there’s the diff’rence be¬ 
tween city folks ’n’ country folks—or, 
say, the differ’nce between city folks in 
the city an’ city folks when they’re in 
the country. 
“Now in the country they don’t ap¬ 
pear to be shy at ham ’n’ eggs for 
breakfast, preceded by a smart help o’ 
hominy or oatmeal with plenty o’ cream; 
an’ most of ’em can piece in a few pan¬ 
cakes ’n’ empty the maple-surrup on to 
’em with the best of us. Of course two 
three cups o’ coffee go with the rest, an’ 
some slices o’ homemade bread; an’ 
I’ve seen them that could top off with 
doughnuts or a piece of apple pie. 
“But when city folks are under their 
own vine ’n’ fig-tree,—to speak figgera- 
tively—they put on a nice, generous- 
looking table-cloth, with a fine showing 
of silver. Then they plant a coffee-pot 
on the table an’ set on a plate o’ lialf- 
growed bakery rolls. Fin’ly they fetch 
in a dish of breakfast food; an’ then 
somebody says,—quite* like she thought 
she was saying somethin’ interesting— 
‘Breakfast is ready !’ ” 
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Doubtless many of our readers have 
noticed occasional references to the 
Montyon prizes for virtue, awarded 
every year by the French Academy, 
without understanding just what these 
prizes are. They were instituted by the 
Baron Auget de Montyon before the 
French Revolution to reward acts of 
virtue in common life on the part of 
poor and inconspicuous people, and the 
awards last November were the ninety- 
sixth, as they were interrupted from the 
fall of the Bastille until the restoration 
of the monarchy, during which period 
M. de Montyon was absent from France. 
He was a shrewd and farseeing man, 
investing his fortune in sound securities, 
and when he died in 1820 he left his 
money in trust to the Academie Fran- 
caise for the purpose of perpetuating 
these prizes, which are presented each 
year with an oration by some distin¬ 
guished literary man. One of the per¬ 
sons who received a prize last Novem¬ 
ber was a “secularized” sister—that is, 
a nun expelled from a convent sup¬ 
pressed by the new laws. She had suc¬ 
ceeded in keeping together 35 orphan 
children who lost the only home they 
knew in the suppression of the convent 
asylum, and for this receives 3,000 
francs from the Montyon fund. Two 
other recipients of prizes are workmen 
and their wives, one couple with a 
family of 10 living children, the other 
17, all honest, industrious and respectful 
to their parents. In each case the father 
never earned more than 40 cents a day. 
The orator of the day, Maurice Barres, 
says: “This will tell you that the moth¬ 
ers are saints and heroines—never shall 
we honor enough the obscure sacrifices 
of which such lives are made up.” Each 
of these families receives 300 francs, 
which is something, where the whole 
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year brings in less than $150. Still an¬ 
other case seems most remarkable of all, 
in its simple heroism. In a hovel at the 
foot of the Pyrenees lives a paralytic 
dwarf woman. She long earned a little 
money by spinning for charitable neigh¬ 
bors richer than herself. It was then 
she took a foundling girl to bring up, 
and so eke out her own poverty. The 
girl grew up beside the paralytic dwarf. 
When she was old enough to go out to 
service, she gratefully gave one dollar a 
month out of her scant earnings to the 
only mother she had ever known. She 
had already given 600 francs in this way, 
when the dwarf woman had a new 
stroke which put her definitely to bed. 
Then the foundling resolutely with¬ 
drew from the savings bank all her little 
“economies” to the amount of 300 francs 
and returned to devote herself entirely 
as sick nurse in the lonely hovel at the 
edge of the mountain forest. How the 
two women lived on this sum and the 
infinitesimal earnings of the valid one 
of the two no one knows. But the 
Academy sends Amelie Esbiau, who is 
no longer a girl, 1,000 francs to help 
her continue her lifework of gratitude. 
Says M. Barres: “ ‘This year there has 
been no deficit in the moral budget of 
France.’ If we are to succumb it will 
be from the foolishness of our men of 
wit; but we are saved by the simple and 
the dumb. They continue to devote 
themselves in spite of sophists who 
counsel reserve of self.” 
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January 18, 
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Homemade Candies. 
Fudge is one of the simplest candies 
made. One cup of milk, two cups sugar, 
butter size of a walnut, flavor to taste. 
Boil 15 minutes, or till a little dropped 
in cold water hardens, take off stove 
and stir till cool. Pour on a greased 
plate and cut in squares. Hickory nuts, 
hazelnuts or walnuts stirred in before 
turning on to the plate make a pleasin. 
variety. 
Ice Cream Candy.—One cup sugar, 
one-third cup water, one-fourth tea¬ 
spoonful of cream of tartar, butter the 
size of an egg. Boil all together 15 
minutes, add extract when taken from 
the fire. Beat and pour on buttered 
plate. 
Cocoanut Chocolate Fudge.—Butter 
size of walnut, two cups milk, two cups 
of sugar, cake of sweet chocolate. Stir, 
boiling moderately 20 minutes. When a 
drop forms a loose ball in cold water 
add one teaspoon ful of vanilla. Remove 
from fire, stir in a package of pre¬ 
pared cocoanut. Beat till it grows thick. 
Pour on buttered platter, cut when 
slightly hard. 
Cocoanut Candy.—Two teacupfuls of 
white sugar, one-half teacupful of 
sweet cream, butter the size of a wal¬ 
nut. Let boil 15 minutes; then stir 
in as much cocoanut as you think best; 
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