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THE RURAL NRW-YORRRR 
December 26, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING. 
I am fading from you, but one draweth 
near 
Called the angel-guardian of the coming 
year. 
If my gifts and graces coldly you forget 
Let the New Year’s Angel bless and crown 
them yet. 
For we work together; he and I are one; 
Let him end and perfect all I leave undone. 
I brought Good Desires, though as yet 
but seeds. 
Let the New Year make them blossom into 
Deeds. 
I brought Joy to brighten many happy 
days; 
Let the New Year’s Angel turn it into 
Praise. 
If I gave you Sickness, if I brought you 
Care 
Let him make one Patience, and the other 
Prayer. 
When I brought you Sorrow, through his 
care at length, 
It may rise triumphant into future Strength. 
If I brought you Plenty, all wealth’s 
bounteous charms, 
Shall not the new Angel turn them into 
Alms? 
I gave health and leisure, skill to dream 
and plan ; 
Let him make them nobler—work for God 
and man. 
If I broke your Idols, showed you they 
were dust 
Let him turn the knowledge into heavenly 
Trust. 
If I brought Temptation, let Sin die away, 
Into boundless Pity for all hearts that 
stray. 
If your list of Errors dark and long appears. 
Let this new-born Monarch melt them Into 
Tears. 
May you bold this Angel dearer than the 
last 
So I bless his Future, while he crowns my 
p a gt 
—Adelaide Anne Procter. 
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A correspondent of the Woman’s 
Home Companion says that in cold 
weather she puts a “cozy” over her 
bread-mixer to facilitate rising. It con¬ 
sists of a bag large enough to cover the 
bread-mixer, made of some waim mate¬ 
rial lined with a cotton batting interlin¬ 
ing, a drawstring closing it at the top. 
It seems a good idea where there is no 
place that can be relied upon for 
warmth over night. 
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Here is a suggestion from a recent 
book written by a woman who spent 
much time among the very poorest 
of the London poor. The author had 
one woman patient, a worker among 
London poor, a chronic sufferer, who 
managed to keep house and children in 
far more perfect order than vigorous 
neighbors always scrubbing and scour¬ 
ing. She was once asked how she con¬ 
trived to do this, and she replied: 
“I makes my mind do three parts of 
it. It isn’t so much what I does, but 
what I stops from having did.” 
Isn’t that the very epitome of good 
housekeeping? We wish more over¬ 
worked women would take the same 
view. 
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Veal and oyster pie is good enough 
to tempt those dwellers on the Eastern 
Shore of Maryland, who so eloquently 
tell us of the culinary glories of their 
favored district. Have one and one- 
half pounds of veal cutlet cut in small 
pieces. Roll these in flour and brown 
in a little hot bacon fat. Then cover 
with boiling water, or preferably with 
stock made from meat trimmings and 
flavored with sweet herbs, carrot and 
onion, and simmer about two hours. 
Put the veal in a baking dish. Have 
ready half a cup of cooked ham, chop¬ 
ped fine. Add to it a little of the 
hot veal liquid, pound smooth in a 
mortar, press through a sieve, add to 
the rest of the liquid, with one tea¬ 
spoon of salt (less if stock is salted), 
and a few shakes of pepper. Pour 
this over the veal, adding here and there 
half a pint of oysters and dot with 
a tablespoonful of butter. Cover with 
a pastry or biscuit crust; bake 25 min¬ 
utes. 
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Some of the prettiest belt pins and 
buckles, veil pins and other small trink¬ 
ets seen among Christmas novelties 
were hand-made brass in “Arts and 
Crafts” designs. Many of them were 
stained and burnished to give different 
colorings, and set with colored stones, 
imitations of jade, coral, topaz, ame¬ 
thyst, olivine, etc. They were inex¬ 
pensive, costing from 25 cents to a 
dollar, but most artistic, and beautiful 
in their individuality. Some very 
quaint buckles showed mediaeval dragon 
designs and shield-shaped stones; 
others were conventional foliage. There 
is a great revival in the taste for such 
work, much of which is done by 
women. 
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A number of correspondents have 
asked for cornmeal recipes lately. Here 
is one for steamed corn bread. Sift 
into a large bowl two cups of corn- 
meal and one of flour, with two table¬ 
spoonfuls of white sugar and a tea¬ 
spoonful of baking soda, also a tea- 
spoonful of salt. Mix all together with 
the hand, and hollow the heap in the 
middle. Melt a tablespoonful of but¬ 
ter and stir it into three large cups 
of buttermilk, or of loppered milk. 
Beat this into the flour and meal slow¬ 
ly at first, then hard for three min¬ 
utes, to insure thoroughly mixjng. Pour 
into a greased mold with a closely- 
fitting top, set in a pot of boiling water 
and keep it a steady boil for two hours. 
Turn out on a plate and set in the 
oven for five minutes to dry off. A 
soft crust will form upon it, rendering 
cutting easier than if it had been sent 
directly to table. 
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A recent correspondent asked the 
Hope Farm man' whether a son could 
be compelled by law to support his 
father. This recalls an incident related 
in the “Autobiography of Albert Pell,” 
an English member of Parliament who 
devoted much of his long life to the 
reform of the English poor law, and 
to the general uplifting, morally, so¬ 
cially and politically, of the English 
agricultural laborer. Mr. Pell was 
known to favor legislation obliging 
children to perform duties toward their 
parents, which but for the encourage¬ 
ment given them by the poor law of 
that time they , would never have 
thought of neglecting. On one occa¬ 
sion Pell was asked on the hustings 
by a heckler whether he was the man 
who in his place in Parliament had 
made the law obliging poor men to 
maintain their parents^ 
“No,” rapped out Mr. Pell in reply, 
“that is an older law. It was written by 
God Almighty on two tables of stone 
and brought down by Moses from 
Mount Sinai, and as far as I can make 
out, Thomas, it’s the stone and not the 
law that has got into your heart.” The 
abashed heckler got his answer and for 
many a long day was known as Stony 
Hearted Thomas. 
Apple Recipes. 
Delicate Apple Cake.—Stir together 
one quart of stewed and sweetened ripe 
apples, one cup sweet cream, two beaten 
eggs. Pour into a long shallow cake 
tin, lined with rich paste. Bake, and 
serve with or without whipped cream. 
Apples in Jelly.—For six large apples, 
peeled, cored and quartered, make a 
syrup with a cup each of sugar and 1 
water, to which is added the juice and 
a little of the yellow rind of a lemon; 
bring to the boiling point, skim and re¬ 
move the rind. Now have a flat dish or 
pan broad bottomed enough to allow 
the quarters to lie singly in the syrup. 
' When the pieces are tender remove 
carefully from the syrup into a flat 
glass dish, first tempered with hp f 
water, then add a tablespoon ful of 
granulated gelatine dissolved in a little 
cold water to the syrup, stir and pour 
over the fruit, stand in a cool place, 
and when cold each piece of fruit may 
be dished out, surrounded by a jelly of 
just the right solidity. 
Crystallized Apples.—Put one cup of 
sugar and two of water into a stewpan 
on the fire. Boil for five minutes. Now 
put into the pan as many pared and 
cored apples as you can without crowd¬ 
ing. Cook very gently until the fruit 
becomes tender, then take from syrup 
and place in a shallow baking pan. Con¬ 
tinue in this way until ten or a dozen 
apples have been stewed. Now sprinkle 
granulated sugar thickly over the apples, 
then put them in a moderately hot oven. 
Be careful they do not get scorched. 
When the sugar becomes slightly 
browned remove apples from oven and 
arrange on a flat dish. Boil the syrup 
in which they were cooked until there 
is hardly a cup left. Pour this round, 
but not over the apples. When it is cold 
put the fruit in a flat dish, taking up a 
circle of jelly with each one. 
Apple Puffs.—Beat four eggs very 
light and add three teaspoonfuls of pul¬ 
verized sugar, a salt spoon of soda and 
two of cream of tartar, one cupful of 
milk, one and one-half cupful of flour 
and one-half cupful of finely chopped 
apple. Beat the mixture for several 
minutes and bake in gem pans previously 
buttered and heated. 
Apple and Hickorynut Pudding.— 
Cream half a cupful of granulated 
sugar with a quarter of a cupful of but¬ 
ter, then add the well-beaten yolks of 
three eggs, the juice and grated rind of 
one lemon and six grated apples.. Line 
an earthenware pudding dish with puff 
paste, pour in the mixture and bake in 
a quick oven. Blanch and' chop fine, a 
cupful of hickorynut meats and sprinkle 
over the top of the pie, then cover with 
a meringue made of the whites of the 
eggs beaten stiff with a tablespoonful 
of powdered sugar and a little nutmeg. 
•Brown lightly in the oven. 
Buttermilk Waffles.—One quart of 
buttermilk or sour milk, three eggs, one- 
half teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoon¬ 
ful of butter (measured before being 
melted), and one teaspoonful of soda. 
Add enough flour to make the batter a 
little thicker than for. pancakes. Have 
the waffle irons smoking hot and bake 
a nice golden brown. 
Waffles Without Eggs.—Mix one 
quart of water with one quart of but¬ 
termilk, a teaspoon ful of salt and flour 
stirred in until the batter is of the 
consistency of thick buttermilk; soda 
to counteract the acidity of the milk. 
Have the irons well greased and smok¬ 
ing hot. If you have enough soda in 
the mixture bubbles will form on the 
surface. 
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the rigors of a long winter ? 
There great opportunities in 
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out of doors the entire year. 
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