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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 15, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
EVOLUTION. 
I ate me a Welsh rabbit, 
Oadzooks! I thought it so; 
But after I had gone to sleep, 
IIow quickly did it grow 
Into the strangest creatures— 
Into the mares of night. 
Into the gibberish monkeys, 
Into the shapes that fright, 
Into the ring-tailed roosters, 
Into the jabberwocks, 
Into the jangling jaguars, 
Into the six-liorned ox, 
Into the horse with dippers, 
Into the hog with wings, 
Into the cat with feathers, 
Into the cow that sings— 
Into all manner of creatures 
Of (lie earth and the air and the sea. 
And all of them promenading 
Or sitting around on me. 
1 ate me a Welsh rabbit 
In (lie night last past; 
I ate me a Welsh rabbit 
Whereby to stay my fast; 
Simply a Welsh rabbit— 
How could there possibly be 
In a little thing like that 
A whole menagerie? 
William J. Hampton, in the Century. 
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Sash and hair bow sets, put up in 
boxes, are among new offerings in the 
shops. A box containing six hair bow 
lengths costs $1.90 to $3.75, while one 
sash length and two hair bow lengths 
in a box cost $2.55 to $7.25. They are 
called “Dorothy Dainty” ribbon sets. 
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Among new neckwear are stocks of 
white pique with four-in-hand tie of 
striped French percale, the striping be¬ 
ing blue, pink, lavender or green. The 
stock is the plain round shape fastening 
in the back, the tie ends crossed over 
in front. This is a very pretty style to 
wear with white waists. The percale tic 
would also be pretty if made narrower, 
and tied in front in a perky little bow. 
♦ 
The high stock collars that curve up 
to the ears at the sides, curving a little 
lower at the back, and low enough to be 
comfortable in the front, are very much 
in vogue again, as they were nearly 10 
years ago. They need careful boning 
to hold them up, as they are not stiff¬ 
ened as formerly. There should be a 
bone on each side of the center, about 
three inches apart, sloping towards the 
back so as to form a V, and other bones 
Straight up and down at the sides and 
back. Many of the embroidered linen 
stocks are made in this shape, and some 
very pretty ones are white embroidered 
in color, or pale pink, blue or ecru em¬ 
broidered in white. 
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The New York Sun prints the fol¬ 
lowing paragraph from a Vermont local 
paper, with the heading “There’s a 
Solomon in This Grange”: 
The Grange installation of officers and 
the annual banquet will take place next 
Saturday evening. All the ladies whose 
names appear in the alphabet before the 
letter .1 are asked to bring cake, the re¬ 
mainder pie. After the Installation of 
officers at the Grange Saturday evening 
an oyster supper and the new annual pass¬ 
word will be served up to every member 
who is clear on the books. 
We think the Sun’s heading is en¬ 
tirely right. No doubt every sister in 
that Grange can be depended on to do 
the right things when the question of 
cake or pie comes up, and the last sen¬ 
tence is a particularly neat way of sug¬ 
gesting immediate payment of dues. 
But what a happy community it must be, 
where you can strike any letter of the 
alphabet at random and be sure of se¬ 
curing culinary ability. 
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The domestic science department of 
Teachers’ College, New York, recently 
gave out bills of fare which, if provided 
for a family of six persons,, would cost 
for each one a fraction less than 11 
cents a day The breakfast consists of 
stewed prunes, rye mush, beef hash, 
bread, sugar and half a pint of milk. 
For luncheon there are scrapple, baked 
beans, brown bread and half a pint of 
milk. The dinner bill of fare includes 
baked beef heart with brown sauce, 
creamed carrots, baked potatoes, sliced 
onions, bread, and for dessert suet pud¬ 
ding Another trio of menus which 
can be furnished to six persons at a 
cost to each of 21 and a fraction cents 
a day, are: Breakfast: Baked apples, 
cracked wheat, bacon, baked beans, 
brown bread, butter, coffee, milk and 
sugar. Luncheon: Dried Lima bean 
soup, bread and butter, stewed pears, 
gingerbread, tea. Dinner: Lentil soup, 
round steak, stewed onions, stewed dried 
peas, baked potatoes, bread and butter, 
prime suet dumplings, coffee. These 
are wholesome and satisfying meals, and 
if properly cooked are appetizing as 
well. But a great deal depends on the 
cook. High-grade meat, # in choice cuts, 
can be roasted or broiled in the simplest 
manner, but cheaper cuts usually need a 
longer process, and a good deal of dis¬ 
crimination. They also need great care 
in seasoning. Many good housekeepers 
use a limited range of flavorings, and 
dislike making new experiments. Sev¬ 
eral valued correspondents, in making 
kindly comment on the Rural Cook 
Book, refer to the fact that it does not 
call for uncommon condiments, especial 
reference being made to the bay leaf. 
The editor of the cook felt that unusual 
or out-of-the-way flavorings, or “putter¬ 
ing” dishes that give small results for a 
great deal of trouble, were entirely out 
of place in such a book; indeed, they 
occupy too much space in most women’s 
magazines. But we like to use a bay 
leaf or two in beef a la mode, in many 
chicken and fish dishes, and in rice pud¬ 
ding, and live cents’ worth of the dried 
leaves, purchased from the druggist, last 
for an indefinite time. We have also al¬ 
ways been in the habit of using red, 
white and black pepper, because we 
think there is some flavor, besides mere 
biting heat, in the different peppers, and 
the white pepper, in addition to its 
milder flavor, looks better in any white 
soup, sauce or vegetable. The mild 
Hungarian red pepper known as pap¬ 
rika is especially desirable in chicken 
dishes. Flavorings do not supply 
nourishment, but they enable us to 
utilize it, and there is decided economic 
value in their use. Tt is a branch of 
the great science of good cooking that 
we should devote more attention to. 
Warm Feet and Cold Noses. 
Since Lyman has grown so tall he 
experiences a decided annoyance from a 
habit he has of drawing the bed cov¬ 
ering high about his neck while asleep. 
Every morning he awoke to find his feet 
protruding below the blankets, and very 
uncomfortably cold. 1 have found a 
means of remedying this and now make 
up his bed with an extra single blanket 
across the foot. The sheets and one of 
the bed blankets are arranged as usual. 
Then the extra piece is spread over the 
foot of the bed and fully half its length 
carried up under the mattress. Another 
blanket and the remainder of the top 
covering then goes on and all is tucked 
in about the foot of the bed in the ordi¬ 
nary way. The extra foot piece being 
between two woolen blankets clings 
closely in place, and it would take very 
energetic pulling to loosen the bed cov¬ 
erings there. Where two people occupy 
the same bed the foot blanket can be 
laid on across the middle and its ends 
folded back under the mattress at each 
side. There will be width enough to 
go up under the mattress at the foot also 
and all can be made snug against the 
chill night in which modern hygiene 
says we must all invite through an open 
window while we sleep. 
The matter of open air living and 
even open air sleeping is being carried 
in these days to heroic lengths, but with 
astonishing success. The healthy find 
in it exhilaration and comfort and to 
the consumptive it brings hope and of- I 
tentimes permanent cure. In a family j 
of our acquaintance two daughters had 
died of tuberculosis, and when last Fall 
another sister who had always been no¬ 
tably well and strong, developed the dan¬ 
gerous cough she promptly gave up her 
position as teacher and went to an anti¬ 
tuberculosis sanitarium. Perfect rest 
and open-air living night and day soon 
developed a vigorous appetite and when 
she made her first visit home, after a 
two months’ stay, she was rosy as a 
peach and could boast of having gained 
15 pounds in weight. Better still, with 
her whole physique in first class condi¬ 
tion, the doctors reported that at last 
the diseased spot in her lungs had be¬ 
gun slowly to heal. A cure is not 
promised before next April, and even 
then the lung must be watched lest re¬ 
turn to her work bring back the malady. 
The girl’s courage and cheer is good to 
see, and so is the light in her mother’s 
eye as she tells of her daughter’s ap¬ 
petite and gain in weight. A few days 
ago we called and found the mother at 
work upon a sleeping bag. She had 
nine yards of outing flannel and nine 
pounds of cotton. The flannel was fold¬ 
ed to a length of four and a half yards 
with the cotton spread evenly between. 
She was knotting this long comfortable, 
with bright silkateen, and showed 
us how, later, she should fold 
it again and sew up the sides. The 
fold was not to he midway of the 
length for there was to be a space hol¬ 
lowed out to fit beneath the sleeper’s 
chin, and a lap of extra length was to 
go over the shoulders and fold down 
on to the back. Socks of eiderdown and 
a hood were part of the night clothing. 
But even though wadded and padded 
to the last degree one marvels that a 
comfortable night’s sleep can be enjoyed 
on an open veranda through all the rig¬ 
ors of our New England Winters, and 
often as 1 heap a last shovel full of 
coal on the fires and make a mental 
assurance of the comfort of every crea¬ 
ture in house and barns, my thoughts 
go out to those out-of-door sleepers on 
that breezy hill-top and I pray that 
courage and good cheer may fail them 
not. Perhaps they, in turn, pity me in my 
“stuffy” bedroom, for when this girl 
of our acquaintance was home for a 
visit, though she placed the head of her 
bed in a bay window and slept with five 
windows wide open, still she pronounced 
the house “stuffy” and not half so nice 
as her bed on the veranda at the anti¬ 
tuberculosis. In my mind is not the 
slightest doubt but lung trouble, if taken 
in season may be cured at these hilltop 
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