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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
October 17, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
PLANTING BULBS. 
Turning the sods and the clay 
I think on the poor, sad people 
Hiding their dead away 
In the churchyard, under the steeple. 
All poor women and men, 
Brokenhearted and weeping, 
Their dead they call on in vain, 
Quietly smiling and sleeping. 
Friends, now listen and hear, 
Give over crying and grieving, 
There shall come a day and a year 
When the dead shall be as the living. 
There shall come u call, a footfall, 
And the golden trumpets blowing 
Shall stir the dead with their call, 
Bid them be rising and going. 
Then in the daffodil weather 
Lover shall run to lover; 
Friends all trooping together; 
Death and Winter be over. 
Laying my bulbs in the dark, 
Visions have I of hereafter. 
Lip to lip, breast to breast, hark! 
No more weeping but laughter! 
—Credit Lost. 
* 
Girls who are clever in doing burnt 
leather work use this method of mark¬ 
ing their suit cases. It is exceedingly 
effective, easily done, and gives an op¬ 
portunity for decorative lettering. 
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The new hair barrettes are much 
larger than heretofore, being from an 
inch to V/z inch wide, carved into a 
trellis effect. They are made to match 
the high back combs, and cost all the 
way from 45 cents up to many dollars. 
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An old English way of telling Hallow¬ 
e’en fortunes may be found amusing to 
a party of young folks. A shallow box 
or pan has placed in it a set of letters 
of the alphabet, such as is used in play¬ 
ing the game of Letters. A number of 
blanks are put in the box also. The 
would-be seeker for knowledge of the 
future is blindfolded and puts his or her 
hand into the box, withdrawing only one 
slip at a time. The drawing should be 
repeated until three slips have been 
taken out. The letters arc supposed to 
show the initials of one’s future partner 
in life. If only blanks are drawn, then 
the seeker is doomed to single blessed¬ 
ness. One letter and two blanks are 
held to signify an engagement, but not a 
marriage. 
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Apple and orange jelly is one of Miss 
Juliet Corson’s recipes, and is very good. 
Use an equal number of apples and 
oranges. Wash the apples, slice and 
core them; put them over the fire in the 
preserving kettle with enough cold water 
to cover them and simmer them until 
they are reduced to a pulp. Pour the 
apple pulp into a jelly bag to strain out 
the juice. Measure the juice, and to 
each pint of apple juice add one of 
boiled orange juice and a pound of 
sugar, and boil them together, remov¬ 
ing the scum that rises until a little, 
cooled upon a saucer, forms a jelly. 
Then take the kettle off the stove, let 
the jelly partly cool and pour it into 
glasses. When cold seal it up like any 
other preserve. 
wool, the sleeves will be the sure index 
of previous seasons, and a nice silk 
waist may be well worth making over to 
the extent of sleeves and stock. Where 
there are puffed elbow sleeves, these 
may be taken out and tucked to form a 
narrow short sleeve cap. with the addi¬ 
tion of long shirred or tucked sleeves 
of net or mousseline de soie, a stock 
or guimpe being made to match. If any 
extra garniture is desired, satin buttons 
of any size from a pea to a silver dol¬ 
lar are to be much used. A net waist 
may be altered by taking out the sleeves, 
and cutting them into one of the narrow 
models, alternating crosswise clusters of 
tucks with satin straps. A good many 
of the new net waists have these sleeves. 
Satin straps make an effective trimming, 
and are used on many tailored gowns. 
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An old-fashioned recipe is a marma¬ 
lade made from sweet apples and frost 
grapes. It is not always easy to get the 
frost grapes, but any kind of grape may 
be used, though the Clinton gives the 
nearest approach to the frost grape. The 
old rule, as given by a correspondent of 
the Ladies’ World, is as follows: Take 
four pounds of stemmed and pulped 
grapes and heat until the seeds can be 
freed from the pulp. Have prepared 
four pounds of sweet apples, peeled, 
sliced and steamed until tender. Put the 
grape pulp and apples into an enameled 
kettle. Stand it on an asbestos mat on 
the back of the range and simmer for 
two hours, then measure and add sugar 
in the proportion of three-quarters of a 
pound to one pint of pulp. Return to 
the stove and cook until, when cold, it 
will be stiff enough to cut like jelly. 
Chestnut Dressing for Poultry. 
Will some one give me a nice tested ic- 
cipe for chestnut stuffing for fowls? The 
nuts are very plentiful and of splendid 
quality here this year. e. c. g. 
Connecticut. 
The following is the French mode of 
preparing chestnut dressing; it is very 
simple and good: Boil two pounds of 
large chestnuts; remove the skins, mash 
them like potatoes, and season with one- 
half cupful of butter, pepper and salt 
to taste. This is a delicious dressing 
for turkey. Chestnuts prepared just as 
for this dressing are served hot as a 
vegetable in Europe. 
A delicious dessert is chestnut cream. 
Shell the nuts, scald them to remove 
the brown inner skin, and then boil un¬ 
til tender. Press through a sieve, add 
sugar to sweeten, a few drops of va¬ 
nilla, and just enough thick cream to 
moisten to a soft paste. Press through 
a sieve into a serving dish, allowing the 
long threads to coil in a heap the center 
of the dish. Stand in a cool place until 
ready to serve, then heap sweetened 
whipped cream around the chestnut 
paste. _ 
Perhaps there are “forehanded” 
women who put their last Winter’s 
clothes in perfect order before putting 
them away, but a good many of us do 
not get time for it in the rush of Spring 
work, and it will be well to remember 
any deficiencies now. A suit or skirt 
and coat that can be worn on cold 
stormy. days is one of the first neces¬ 
sities, because there are often wet days 
in Fall when such clothes are suddenly 
needed, before Winter garments come 
into regular wear. This is especially 
the case with the school girls. If the 
last Winter’s skirt needs binding, spong¬ 
ing or pressing, this should be done 
promptly, while the jacket lining should 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letter. 
Old Elder Grimsby came driving 
along with his wife last week. They 
were going to camp meeting, and he 
said, “Marthy was so busy caring for 
her body that she hadn’t time to care 
for her soul.” I told him it was car¬ 
ing for other people’s bodies that took 
up her time, but he is one of the kind 
of men who belittle women’s work, and' 
make believe their wives haven’t much 
to do but play. T will give Brother 
credit that he isn’t like that with Minty, 
and the way a woman looks at these 
things herself makes a big difference in 
the everyday life. There is a happy 
medium between being a slave and a 
drone if those who run the domestic 
machinery could only find it. 
We have been very much interested 
in the Hope Farm man’s story of his 
busy struggle through the years, and 
can read between the lines what a com¬ 
mon-sense helpmate “Mother” has been 
to him. Then to give a good home in 
have attention, or any other repairs at- the country to so many waifs and strays 
tended to. In separate waists of silk or is true philanthropy. 
The Summer is flying fast, and al¬ 
ready some leaves are loosened from the 
trees, and have fallen all too soon, 
while the Summer fruit has gone. I 
am busy in the garden every morning 
trying to make some late cucumbers 
grow on the ground where the early 
lettuce was planted and hope to be able 
to make them into pickles for sale. Last 
year I flavored them with nasturtium 
seeds, and put in a little left-over celery 
seed, but one has to be careful, for if 
too much is used it gives a taste like 
varnish instead of celery. Red peppers 
are a nice addition to the bottles of 
pickled cucumbers. 
When Theo was trying to look out 
of the window the other day she put 
her foot through the lace curtain in the 
front room. As “Minty” was expecting 
company, I could not take it down and 
darn it, so I cut a bit of net a near 
match to the curtain material and dipped 
it in starch, then when an iron was 
heated, brought the edges together and 
ironed over the torn place until it was 
dry, when it was hard to tell the differ¬ 
ence. “Minty” thought me real smart 
to do that, but I had read it somewhere, 
and it was a chance to give it a trial. 
Word came from the hotel to ask if I 
could make some of my chocolate cara¬ 
mels for them every Saturday morning, 
and they are now taking 10 pounds 
every week. I make them on Friday 
evening, and as they are very nice and 
not too expensive, will give recipe for a 
small quantity: Put two tablespoon fills 
of butter in saucepan and when just 
melted add two cups of molasses, one 
cup of brown sugar, and half a cup of 
milk. Stir until it boils, then add three 
squares of chocolate. When melted let 
it boil until it forms a soft ball when 
tried in cold water. Add a teaspoonful 
of vanilla before taking from the fire, 
pour into the buttered tins and when 
cool mark off into squares. I shall have 
to try some new methods, for the vege¬ 
tables will not amount to much this 
year, though I have kept the hoe going 
steadily and kept clear of weeds. But 
we have had hot scorching winds that 
seemed to take the life out of the plants, 
only melons and squashes and plants of 
that order seemed able to cope with it. 
How hopeful we are in Spring; there is 
no limit to our air, or rather garden, 
castles, for we expect everything to 
grow luxuriantly. But as the season 
goes by and one thing after another 
does not meet our expectation we learn 
life’s lesson. But after all we have 
much to be thankful for and to enjoy. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
Life Is mostly froth and bubble, 
Two things stand like stone— 
Kindness in another's trouble, 
Courage In your own. 
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