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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
From Day to Day. 
NOVEMBER DAYS. 
November woods are bare and still. 
November days are clear arid bright; 
Each noon burns up trie morning chill, 
The morning chill is gone by night. 
Each day my steps grow slow, grow light, 
As through the woods I reverent creep, 
Watching all things lie down to sleep. 
I never knew before what beds, 
Fragrant to smell and soft to touch, 
The forest sifts, and shapes and spreads, 
1 never knew before how much 
Of human sound there is in such 
Low tones as through the forest sweep 
When all wild things lie down to sleep. 
Each day I find new coverlids 
Tucked in, and more tired eyes shut tight, 
Sometimes the viewless Mother bids 
Her ferns kneel down full in my sight. 
I hear their chorus of good night, 
And half I smile and half I weep, 
Listening while they lie down to sleep. 
November days are bare and still, 
November days are bright and good ; 
Life’s noon burns up life’s morning chill, 
Life’s night rests feet that long have 
stood. 
Some warm, soft bed in field or wood 
The mother will not fail to keep 
Where we can lay us down to sleep. 
—Helen Hunt Jackson. 
* 
Marshmallow crackers are dainty 
for special occasions. Butter lightly 
some small round unsweetened crackers, 
such as butter thins, put a marshmallow 
in the center of each with a tiny piece 
of butter on the top of the marshmallow. 
Place in a hot oven just long enough 
for the marshmallow to soften and 
spread, and brown a little on the top. 
They are delicious. 
Satin ottoman, a silk with broad 
heavy corded effect, is among the new 
fabrics; it is similar to the ottoman 
silk of 20 years ago. It is used for 
millinery and dresses, and costs from 
$1.15 a yard up. Satin crepon is among 
the soft clinging dress fabrics; it is very 
fine and lustrous, and costs $1.45 a yard. 
While rough cloths are used for tail¬ 
ored suits, most of the materials for 
dress wear have a satiny surface. 
* 
Here is a tested gingerbread recipe 
from the Woman’s Home Companion, 
which we are assured is delicious, though 
inexpensive. Melt one-third of a cup¬ 
ful of butter in two-thirds of a cupful 
of boiling water, and add one cupful 
of molasses, and one egg well beaten. 
Mix and sift two and three-fourths cup¬ 
fuls of pastry flour (once sifted), one 
and one-half teaspoonfuls of soda, one- 
half teaspoonful of salt and two tea¬ 
spoonfuls of ginger. Add to first mix¬ 
ture, beat thoroughly, turn into a but¬ 
tered and floured shallow pan, and bake 
in a moderate oven thirty minutes. 
Vary the flavor sometimes by using one 
teaspoonful each of ginger and cinna¬ 
mon and one-fourth of a teaspoonful 
of cloves; then bake in buttered and 
floured individual tins. 
* 
stopped, got out, tenderly picked up the 
unfortunate fowl, and rang the doorbell 
of the farmhouse from the vicinity of 
which it had emerged. A woman 
opened the door. “I am very sorry to 
inform you,” remarked the automobilist, 
“that I have unintentionally killed this 
hen of yours.” He held the fowl up 
to her view. “Now, I am quite willing 
to pay whatever the value-” But 
she checked him with this joyous ex¬ 
clamation : “Oh, I’m so much obliged 
to you. I’ve been trying to catch that 
hen for three days to cook it for dinner, 
and I never could so much as lay a 
hand on the pesky thing. Thank you, 
sir, thank you.” 
* 
Green hats of 'soft felt have proved 
popular this Fall for young men, this 
being an imported style brought over 
with the approval of King Edward. 
Now the girls are adopting them, and 
they are very suitable for outing wear, 
taking the place of the Summer panama. 
Sometimes a blackcock’s tail feathers 
or ptarmigan’s wing is used for trim¬ 
ming, sometimes it is left plain. Such 
a hat looks well with a tailored suit. 
Most of the Fall hats seen so far are 
enormous in size, but there are very 
pretty toques of a close oval shape that 
will please older women. An attractive 
model noted was made of guinea-hen 
feathers and gray satin. Guinea fowl 
plumage is seen in a good many hand¬ 
some feather trimmings. M'any of the 
very large hats are covered with satin, 
and they look dressy without a great 
deal of trimming, but are not as becom¬ 
ing as velvet to many wearers. 
customary to save one’s own seed; 
many women save their own seed for 
many years in succession. The usual 
custom is not to secure seed from the 
earliest flowers, but to wait until the 
latter part of the season, when appar¬ 
ently the finest seed is matured. A lit¬ 
tle study of the law of natural selection 
will show us that if this is done per¬ 
sistently, we are breeding a class of late- 
blooming nasturtiums, and this is an 
undesirable quality. We are also likely 
to lessen the vitality, for our climate is 
not nearly so favorable for maturing 
nasturtium seed as California, where 
the bulk of our trade seed is grown. 
Good nasturtium seed is not expensive, 
and t we prefer to buy it every year, and 
thus keep up the quality. 
October 31, 
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Bead ropes with tasseled ends are 
among the new neck-dressings; they are 
brought loosely around the neck and 
looped through, or fastened by a clasp. 
A rope of blue and gold, about the thick¬ 
ness of one’s little finger, finished with 
two-inch tassels, was $1.75. Velvet rib¬ 
bon, worn in the same way, is finished 
with a metal bar with a row of pend¬ 
ents; these begin at 50 cents. A very 
pretty one was of white velvet with a 
silver bar and rhinestone pendents. All 
these little “fixings” help to give a look 
of style to the dress, but they also add 
materially to the cost unless the wearer 
has the knack of making them. In 
addition to the bead ropes, ropes of 
gold bar or silver cord are much used 
for neck dressing, and they are very 
pretty on a lace or net waist. 
* 
The New York Times tells about an 
automobilist who had the misfortune to 
run down and kill a hen. He was a 
conscientious automobilist. Instead of 
The Dansk Amerikanercn gives a lit¬ 
tle poultry story which furnishes a pleas¬ 
ant glimpse of the family life of Bern- 
storff Castle, the home of the Danish 
King’s youngest brother, Prince Valde- 
mar, and his wife, the Orleans Prin¬ 
cess Marie. The two youngest children 
of the Prince, the 15-year-old Viggo and 
the 12-year-old Margaret, have been 
presented with a chicken coop by their 
parents on condition that they clean it, 
feed the hens, etc. In return the chil¬ 
dren have fresh eggs for breakfast every 
day. 1 he young Princess was not slow 
to discover that her hens laid more 
eggs than were needed at the table. 
Naturally she conceived the idea of 
selling them. One of the servants in¬ 
formed her how much eggs sold for in 
the market and the young business 
woman now began to ask the ladies 
whom she found waiting in her moth¬ 
er’s antechamber if they wouldn’t like 
to buy some nice fresh eggs. Of course, 
the ladies though it great fun to buy 
eggs of a real Princess, and some of 
them paid her in advance. 
This went very well for some time, 
until suddenly one day a noble lady, 
who happened to be a particular friend 
of the Princess Marie, on taking leave 
of the latter said, “By the way, I mustn’t 
forget to get the three eggs I paid 
Princess Margaret fifteen oere (about 
four cents) for.” 
1 he Princess Marie, who until then 
had been ignorant of her daughter’s 
business transactions, burst out laugh¬ 
ing when learning the truth. But still 
she would not allow her daughter to 
continue exactly as she had started. So 
she informed her that henceforth she 
will have to ask her mother as which 
of the ladies she may be allowed to 
offer her eggs. Then the Princess will 
decide. And no money must be paid 
before the goods are delivered! 
* 
Many of our friends who brighten 
their dooryards with nasturtiums every 
Summer complain that these plants have 
not done as well as usual this season. 
While this lack of success is probably 
largely due to peculiar weather condi¬ 
tions, there is one point in nasturtium 
growing often overlooked. It is quite 
Cornmeal Bannock. 
Can anyone give a recipe for old-fashioned 
cornmeal bannock? As I recollect it, it 
was made of cornmeal, salt and water, and 
baked about half an inch thick, j. c. b. 
The following is an old recipe for In¬ 
dian bannock: One cup cornmeal, one 
teaspoonful sugar, one teaspoonful salt; 
stir in one pint boiling milk. When cold 
add two eggs, beaten separately. Bake 
in a shallow earthen dish in a very hot 
oven, and serve in the dish like a pud¬ 
ding. 
Old-fashioned johnny cake (which 
was originally journey cake, we are 
told) may be what the inquirer wants; 
it is made as follows; Sift l]/ 2 cup 
of coarse granulated yellow meal with 
a rounding teaspoonful of salt. Stir 
in boiling water from the tea kettle un¬ 
til it is a soft, sticky mass, not sloppy, ' 
but not dry and crumbly. It takes up 
a surprising amount of water. Butter 
or grease a hot griddle, and turn the 
dough on it, smoothing it out until it is 
about a quarter of an inch thick. Let 
the cake cook until brown, then turn 
and cook on the other side. Slip on to 
a plate, and cut into wedge-shaped por¬ 
tions, like a pie; serve hot, split and 
buttered. This johnny cake may be put 
on the griddle in spoonfuls, flattened 
into small round cakes, which when 
cooked are split and buttered; they are 
very nice. If anyone can offer further 
suggestions for bannock we should like 
to have other tested recipes. 
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