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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 22, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE EAST OF WINTER ON THE RANGE. 
O, not for us the primrose faint, the south 
wind’s hush-a-low 
Down shining aisles of the beech trees that 
knew us years ago ! 
Here there’s a long, long silence, and the 
dumbly falling snow. 
The prairie rolls away, away, the hills are 
covered deep, 
The water springs in the coulees are sleep¬ 
ing a frozen sleep 
The sun-dogs glimmer for a storm; how 
long shall Winter keep? 
Among the hungry cattle ’tis weary work 
to ride 
And see the weak-kneed mothers go stumb¬ 
ling side by side, 
Nuzzling under the crusted snow for where 
new grass may hide. 
There's not a blade of green yet, the last 
year's growth is rank, 
Sodden and brown beneath the snow on hill 
and bottom and bank, 
Every horse is a brute this month, and 
every man is a crank. 
Only the evening hours are good, when two 
can sit apart 
Within the light of the fire they lit, cursing 
the Winter's smart; 
The hand is warm in another hand, the 
heart is safe with a heart. 
—Mbira O'Neill, in McClure’s Magazine. 
* 
There was an error in that recipe 
for Christmas pudding on page 73, evi¬ 
dently caused by the innate depravity 
of inanimate things. In the fourth lin£ 
it should read 12 ounces of flour, in¬ 
stead of one-half pound lard, as it ap¬ 
pears. 
* 
Stains on a waxed floor, such as are 
sometimes made by wet shoes or a drip- • 
ping umbrella, may be removed with 
oxalic acid. Dissolve a little of the 
acid in water and make a little pool of 
the solution over the spot, leaving it 
over night. The stains will be gone by 
morning, when the spot may be dried 
and, if need be, sandpapered for re¬ 
waxing. 
* 
Among Spring wraps are jaunty little 
coats of black or dark blue serge, to be 
worn with light or wash dresses, like 
the long-popular covert coats. But the 
oddest idea in separate coats is to make 
them of flowered cretonne, with para¬ 
sol to match, to wear with linen or 
lingerie gowns. This style is reported 
from southern Winter resorts, and will 
probably become familiar later at the 
seaside. It recalls the Dolly Varden 
costumes consisting of plain skirt and 
flowered polonaise, worn 30 years ago. 
* 
A good many fashion authorities tell 
us that the jumper or over-blouse must 
go, because it has become so common. 
But the fact is that modified forms of 
the over-blouse, varying all the way 
from simple bretelles to a waist merely 
showing separate guimpe and sleeves, 
appear over and over among patterns 
and costumes; it is too convenient and 
becoming to be given up at present. 
Something of this style will be very de¬ 
sirable in dark ginghams and other 
wash goods for the young girl’s school 
frocks. 
* 
This is the season when a good 
many rural women begin to suffer from 
“house nerves.” They feel “blue,’ de¬ 
pressed and irritable, and the nervous 
disturbance shows itself in a variety of 
ways. The root of the 'trouble is 
monotony and lack of outdoor exer¬ 
cise. On an isolated farm, in a district 
where the roads are bad as a result of 
mud or snow it is very hard for the 
women to get out, and it is hard, too, 
to plan some way of correcting the 
difficulty. We frankly admit that we 
hardly know what to suggest when 
a woman gets past the age where she 
enjoys coasting, skating or participation 
in the children’s Winter fun. Yet she 
ought to get out of doors, if only to 
walk briskly up and down in the sun 
for 15 minutes. For the indoor mo¬ 
notony she should adopt some special 
interest in the way of reading, study 
or handicraft, which will take her 
mind off her familiar routine for a 
short time each day. We would like 
to hear from women who have bright¬ 
ened their Winter isolation in this way. 
* 
Apple and orange jelly may be made 
at this season to help out the supply 
put up last Summer. Wipe and cut 
up 12 Newtown or Grimes apples, but 
do not peel; add a pint of water, and 
then stew until soft. Let them drain 
through a bag, and then add to the 
clear juice the juice from 12 tangerine 
oranges. Measure this and bring to a 
boil; add a cup of heated sugar for each 
cup of juice, and boil 20 minutes, or un¬ 
til a little put on a cold plate will jelly. 
Put away like any other jelly. The 
flavor is very fine. 
* 
Steak-roast is an excellent Swiss 
recipe given by the Catholic Standard. 
Take a thick round steak and pound 
into it as much flour as it will take, 
using the edges of a heavy plate for 
that purpose. When the flour has been 
pounded into both sides, put the meat 
into a skillet with some dripping and 
brown it both sides. Then cover it 
with water, adding onions enough to 
flavor and a whole ripe tomato, or an 
equal quantity of canned tomatoes 
when the fresh vegetables are not in 
season. Cover tightly and cook for 
two hours, adding more water as neces¬ 
sary during this time. Just before the 
meat is done, salt and pepper it to 
taste. 
* 
In January and February we see the 
first Spring hats displayed, especially 
for the southern trade, and while the 
styles change a good deal before Sum¬ 
mer comes we can form some idea from 
these advance models. Most of those 
shown already by the better houses are 
much smaller than the exaggerated 
Winter shapes, being only medium or 
small in size. A modified sailor shape, 
the brim narrow in front and back and 
wider at the sides, is a very becoming 
model that is sure to be popular. A 
hat of this shape of rough black straw 
had a close wreath of deep red velvet 
geraniums around the crown, and a 
bunch of the same flowers rising high 
at the left side. The brim was faced 
underneath with red velvet. White 
chip sailors, always a dainty girlish 
model, are shown trimmed with white 
wings or coque feathers. Great quan¬ 
tities of tulle and light laces are seen in 
hat trimming; in some cases large bows 
of tulle edged with narrow lace. The 
artificial flowers were never prettier, es¬ 
pecially in the wreaths, which often 
contain several different kinds. Dan¬ 
delion heads and Scotch thistles, in all 
sorts of delicate shades, are especially 
pretty. _ 
Christmas Cake. —A good Christ¬ 
mas fruit cake is made from the follow¬ 
ing recipe: Cream together l l / 2 cup but¬ 
ter and two cups dark brown sugar; 
add to one cup of molasses one tea¬ 
spoon soda, previously dissolved in 
warm water; add to this one cup of 
milk and four eggs, two teaspoonfuls 
cloves, one teaspoonful each of cinna¬ 
mon and ginger, one nutmeg, one pound 
seeded raisins, one-quarter pound citron 
and one cup of currants, which have 
been washed, dried and floured. Make 
a stiff cake batter and bake in a slow 
oven. Cake made after this recipe 
keeps a long time, indeed it grows bet¬ 
ter with age. It may be iced and deco¬ 
rated as suits the taste. mrs. b. r. 
“Whatsoever things are true, what¬ 
soever things are honest, whatsoever 
things are just, whatsoever things are 
pure, whatsoever things are lovely, 
whatsoever things are of good report; 
if there be any virtue, and if there be 
any praise, think on these things.”—St. 
Paul. 
Many people do not realize that good paint, the kind 
which wears and stays bright, is simply metallic lead 
reduced to a form in which it can be applied with a 
brush. Lead in this form is called “White Lead." 
Likewise, many people who do know that the best paint is "White 
Lead and Linseed Oil,” mixed fresh for each job by a good painter, are 
totally ignorant of the fact that much of the paint which they think is 
"Pure White Lead and Linseed Oil” is so grossly adulterated that if 
tested it would yield no metallic lead whatever. Such paint will not 
wear like genuine White Lead, and is very expensive in the end. 
We desire to place in your hands, at our expense, the means of telling 
pure White Lead from counterfeit. Any man, woman or child can make 
the test—we want you to make it now, before spring painting begins. 
You need not take anyone’s word for paint. Test it yourself. No one 
else is half so deeply interested as you, if you have to pay the painting bill. 
How to Make the Test 
Subject the sample of supposed White 
Lead to the flame of a candle, gas jet 
or spirit lamp. Intensify the flame by 
use of the blowpipe. If globules of 
metallic lead appear, the White Lead 
is pure. If you can bring out no 
metallic lead, it shows that the White 
Lead has been adulterated.. 
Write us for Test Equipment 8. and we will send free a blowpipe and 
detailed instructions for making this test. 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 
in whichever of the following cities is nearest you: 
New York, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, 
St. Louis, Philadelphia (John T. Lewis & Bros. Co.); 
Pittsburgh (National Lead 
Oil Coirmanv 
FULL WEIGHT KEGS 
The Dutch Boy Painter on 
a keg guarantees not only 
purity, but full weight of 
White Lead. Our packages 
are not weighed with the 
contents; each keg contains 
the amount of White Lead 
designated on the outside. 
MERRY WIDOW WALTZ 
7c. in stamps for piano score of season’s 
greatest musical success, or one of the other 
S selections. Alacy’S 450 page Spring 
Catalog ready March 10, sent post paid. 
Illustrates wearing apparel and everything 
for the home. 
R.H.Macy& CO.,M.O.Dept.l3,N\Y. 
HANDIEST FDR 
Perfect Broiling. 
Stove is 
not 
Cheap 
at Any 
Price ” 
Our Lift Top Plate not only saves time and 
fuel, because it permits an even fire feeding, 
but you can here see how admirable it becomes 
for broiling. It does not swing out into space, 
but is lifted by one hand and held by an auto¬ 
matic catch, while the other hand holds the 
broiler. This is only one of twenty exclusive 
features incorporated in the 
which makes it impossible for any other range 
to equal it. Any broiler can be used, but our 
New Patented Broiler, which is sold by our 
dealer separately, holds your steak level, and 
opens in front, not backwards. We repeat, 
the unsurpassed cooking qualities of the 
STERLING come from numerous patented 
features which cannot be used in any other 
range, and it is also to your interest to know 
that solid cast iron radiates more heat than 
steel or sheet iron ever can. We have the 
detailed scientific investigation of Cornell 
University on this vital subject to hand you, 
as well as our booklet telling why it is only 
possible for the STERLING to “ bake a barrel 
of flour with a hod of coal.” Accept our 
dealer’s invitation to inspect the range itself, 
and you’ll become positively 
convinced of its vast super¬ 
iority. 
Write Dept. A for free booklet. 
Sill Stove Works, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
IDEAL WASHER 
Try this machine THIRTY DAYS, If It does 
not run lighter, wash cleaner and quicker 
, than any other washer return at our 
expense. HasCedar Tubtliatwlll 
last a Ufe-time. Sample machine sold 
at Special Price to Introduce quick¬ 
ly. Write for circular and prices. 
Bluffton Cream Separator Co. 
BOX IM, BLUFFTON. OHIO- 
Paper 3 Rooms 
At the Cost of One. 
Yon save half the cost of the 
wall-paper by buying direct from 
us at manufacturer's prices. You 
do the paper hanging yourself— 
we tell you exactly how. That’s 
another big saving. Your choice 
of the latest and most attractive 
designs. 
Free book of Instructions and 
samples. Write for It today. 
PENN WALL-PAPER MILLS, 
Dept. F, Philadelphia 
A LABOR SAVING device 
for WOMEN is a 
RELIANCE MOP 
WRINGER 
Do not wring a filthy mop 
with your hands: nor stoop 
over a pail of dirty water and 
Inhale the offensive fumes. 
Everyone expresses their de¬ 
light with the ‘‘Reliance.** 
Every wringer guaianteed to 
give satisfaction. 
LEE CHAIR CO., Box C, Oneida, N.Y. 
The Steel Shoe 
Wear Resisting—Foot Protecting: 
Guaranteed for a Year 
FREE 
Our 
Booklet 
“The 
Bole of 
Steel, >> 
tells how to sate 
$5 to 610 a year 
on workinghhuee. 
B ottom made or pn 
steel, studded with 6teel 
rivets; uppers of BOf t, pliable, 
water-proof leather—on the 
12.50 shoe actually better 
than those of the regular 
*3.50 leather shoes; our 
*3.50uppers equalordlnary 
*5.00 leather Bhoes. Inside 
is a comfortable hair cush¬ 
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ordinary shoes. They will 
save you money; keep 
your feet dry and com¬ 
fortable, prevent colds and rheumatism. Do not require 
the usual “breaking In;” easy and soothing to the feet 
from the first minute you put them on. The Steel Shoe ia 
certain to please and satisfy; you will wonder how you 
ever did without It. Sizes 6 to 12. Send us your size and 
*2.50 for6-lnch high shoes (or *3.50 for 9-lnch) and you will 
promptly receive the best and most comfortable pair Of 
working shoes the market has ever produced. 
STEEL 0 SHOE CO., Dept. P, RACINE, WIS. 
Virginia Farms and Homes 
Productive soil, mild, healthy climate. Splendid market*, 
"'rite for catalog. K. B CHAFFIN & CO., Inc.. Kichmotid. Vu. 
