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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 1G, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
DE SERVINGS. 
This is the height of our deserts: 
A little pity for life's hurts; 
A little rain, a little sun, 
A little sleep when work is done. 
A little righteous punishment, 
Less for our deeds than their intent; 
A little pardon now and then, 
Because we are hut struggling men. 
A lit tie light to show the way, 
A little guidance when we stray; 
A little love before we pass 
To rest beneath the kirkyard grass. 
A little faith in days of change. 
When life is stark and bare and strange; 
A solace when our eyes are wet 
With tears of longing and regret. 
True it is that we cannot claim 
Unmeasured recompense or blame, 
Because our way of life is small: 
A little is the sum of all. 
—Ball Mall Gazette. 
* 
A new idea in serving black coffee 
is the use of rock candy in place of 
cut sugar to sweeten it. The crystals 
look very pretty piled up in a glass 
dish, and the pure sugar is excellent for 
sweetening . 
* 
When serving lettuce or cucumber 
salad it is an excellent idea to pass a 
little dish containing finely chopped 
green pepper, or thinly sliced young 
Spring onions, with the salad; then each 
plate may be seasoned as desired. 
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Here is an old Colonial recipe for 
creamed chicken, which is delicious: 
Cut up a small cooked chicken into even 
hits; if you have more than you will 
need reject part of the dark meat, and 
use more white; make a cup of rich 
white sauce and season well; put the 
chicken into this and heat it; then add 
the beaten yolk of two eggs and stir 
till smooth, and last put in two hard 
boiled eggs chopped to the same size 
as the chicken. Serve very hot. 
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As one example of the class of men 
who advertise in the “matrimonial” 
papers we may refer to a murderer 
now on trial in an adjacent city. He 
married a young woman secretly, abused 
and deserted her, and then became en¬ 
gaged to a second young woman, who 
only learned of his first marriage after 
their wedding day was arranged. A 
quarrel resulted, and he shot the girl. 
The police found that he had been in 
communication with many other foolish 
girls, who had answered a “matrimon¬ 
ial'’ advertisement he had printed. A 
quantity of letters from them were 
found in his trunk after his arrest. 
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They were speaking of changes in 
Willowby since Mr. Ransom had left 
the village, 20 years before, to seek his 
fortune out West, says the Youth’s 
Companion. “Zeb Hobart is enjoying 
these last years,” said the constant resi¬ 
dent to the returned wanderer. “He 
had a pretty exciting life while Ruby 
lived. Never knew what would happen 
to him next; but lie’s all calmed down 
now.” 
“Somebody wrote there was talk of 
his marrying the other sister, Polly,” 
said the westerner; but tbe response 
was a violent shake of his old neigh¬ 
bor’s bead. 
“No foundation to that gossip,” he 
asserted, with decision. “Zeb spoke 
with me about Polly himself. He said 
to me, ‘I won’t speak a word against 
her that’s gone,’ lie said, ‘nor her that’s 
left; but there’s a man from down be¬ 
low has made me an offer to go with 
his show as wild-beast tamer, from hear¬ 
ing the luck I had with them bear’s 
cubs I took. And if Polly looms up too 
close, I shall take up with his offer, and 
get a chance to live out my days in 
some kind o’ peace and security.’ Those 
were his words, and you can make what 
you want out of 'em.” 
A recent incident brought to our at¬ 
tention shows that public philanthropy 
does not always go hand in hand with 
personal kindliness. A little dressmaker, 
very short of work, went as seamstress 
to a big New York house, to assist the 
regular dressmaker. She ordinarily 
gets $2 to $2.50 a day, but work has 
been so scarce all Winter that she was 
glad to get $1.50. Her employer was 
a woman widely known for philan¬ 
thropic work, a liberal contributor to in¬ 
stitutions for the betterment of work¬ 
ing woman. After the engagement was 
over, the seamstress’ remarked to a 
friend that of course she knew she was 
not to have her full wages, but she did 
feel that it was not fair to refuse to 
give her luncheon, as is customary. It 
appeared that the employer, who keeps 
15 house servants and four chauffeurs, 
told both women that they must bring 
their lunch with them, as she could not 
bother the servants to bring trays up to 
the sewing room. So the two women, 
who must both get up early, get their 
own breakfast and pack a cold lunch, 
had to wait until they got back to their 
homes in the evening for their warm 
meal. Perhaps this is but a trivial in¬ 
cident, hardly worth recording—yet it 
is worthy of thought. Of what value is 
the sounding brass and tinkling cymbal 
of outside philanthropy, if the stranger 
within our gates receives scant courtesy 
or actual unkindness? A nourishing 
and appetizing meal meant very little 
to the wealthy employer with her troop 
of servants, but it meant much to the 
hard-working women whose daily bread 
depended upon the health and strength 
to earn it. Better is the cup of cold 
water, given in love, than hospital beds 
and public charities from those who do 
their alms to be seen by men. 
Fancy Breads. 
Jim Pops.—For one dozen jim pops 
allow four eggs, one pint of pastry 
flour, half a teaspoonful of salt and a 
pint of rich milk. Beat the whites of 
the eggs to a stiff froth with a wire 
cake whip and set aside. Beat the yolks 
with a Dover beater, and gradually add 
to them the pint of milk. Sift together 
a liberal pint of flour and tbe half-tea- 
spoonful of salt, and beat the milk 
gradually into it, still using the Dover 
beater. When all is a smooth batter take 
out the beater and gradually fold in the 
whites. Do not stir once with a cir¬ 
cular motion after adding the whites, 
but incorporate them in the mixture by 
folding so as not to break down the 
air cells in the beaten egg. Bake in well- 
greased gem pans three-quarters of an 
hour in a moderately hot oven until 
the puffs are brown and well popped 
over. 
Sweet Potato Biscuits.—Two cupfuls 
of flour, one cupful of boiled and 
mashed sweet potatoes, one tablespoon¬ 
ful of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, 
one tablespoonful of butter, one-quar¬ 
ter teaspoonful of soda, and enough but¬ 
termilk to make a soft dough. Roll and 
cut with a biscuit-cutter, and bake in a 
quick oven. 
Old-Fashioned Buns.—Mix to a stiff 
batter three cups of milk, one of sugar, 
a yeast cake (or cup of yeast, as it used 
to be) and the necessary quantity of 
flour. Mix at noon and allow the bat¬ 
ter to rise until night, then add a cup¬ 
ful of sugar, one of currants, one of 
molasses, a teaspoonful of soda, one of 
nutmeg, one-half teaspoonful of cinna¬ 
mon, the same of ground cloves. Mix 
again to a stiff batter, set to rise over 
night, make into shapes and when baked 
wash the tops with raw egg. 
German Nut Horns.—Heat a pint of 
milk in a double boiler; take from the 
fire, add three tablespoons of sugar, 
one tablespoon of butter and half a 
teaspoonful of salt; when lukewarm add 
a compressed yeast cake dissolved in 
a quarter of a cupful of cold water. Add 
one pint of flour, beat continuously for 
five minutes; then add slowly sufficient 
flour to make a soft dough; knead until 
it loses its stickiness; it must not be 
as stiff as bread. Cover the bowl, stand 
in a warm place for three hours and a 
half. Turn the dough carefully on a 
floured board; do not knead, but roll 
lightly in a sheet half an inch thick. 
Cut in crescents, stand them in a 
greased baking pan sufficiently far apart 
not to touch in baking. Cover for about 
three-quarters of an hour, or until they 
are very light. Run them in a very hot 
oven. Beat the white of an egg, a table¬ 
spoonful of sugar and one of milk un¬ 
til well mixed. Have ready blanched 
and chopped fine 24 almonds. When 
the crescents have been in the oven for 
10 minutes draw them to the door, 
brush the tops with the egg mixture, 
sprinkle thickly with almonds, push 
them back and bake for five minutes 
longer. 
Com Waffles.—To one pint of corn- 
meal mush, add a tablespoonful of but¬ 
ter and when it is cool the well-beaten 
yolks of four eggs. Then beat in a cup 
of sifted flour; a cup of sour cream; 
half a teaspooonful of soda dissolved in 
a little sweet milk and enough more 
milk to make a thin batter after the 
stiff, beaten whites have been added. 
Bake in well-greased waffle irons. 
Renovating a Hair Mattress. 
To the woman who recently requested 
a method for renovating a hair mat¬ 
tress, I most emphatically say don’t. 
This injunction is not based upon per¬ 
sonal experience, but upon observations 
taken when a neighbor housewife very 
successfully renovated one of her hair 
mattresses, after which she said, “I 
would never do it again.” She found 
the process of washing and drying 
quite enough; but pulling the snarled 
hair into proper condition to use again 
was something to try the patience and 
the all-around powers of endurance. If 
a hair mattress must be renovated in 
the home, plenty of time should be al¬ 
lotted to the task, if it is to be well 
done, and with any degree of comfort. 
The mattress should be placed in the 
corner of a well-lighted room upon 
clean newspapers, and the tick opened 
down one side, then reach in and cut 
the tie-strings, turning the tick back 
until free without disturbing the hair. 
If the tick is to be used again, it should 
be put a-soak over night in a strong 
lukewarm suds, then rinsed before boil¬ 
ing in a strong s..ds at least 20 minutes, 
then rinsed thoroughly. If the mattress 
is in one piece, in ironing the tick fold 
crossways, making four equal divisions, 
or guide lines as helps when placing the 
dried hair therein ready for tying. 
To handle the hair comfortably, 
divide the mattress into four equal parts 
crossways, tying pieces of white twine 
at each division. One-fourth of the 
hair in a sheet is as much as should be 
taken at one time to the kitchen for 
the washing. Divide the hair, that is, 
tie within a sheet or pillow-case, as 
much as can be easily pressed down 
into a boiler of hot suds, for not less 
than 10 minutes, then rinse until the 
water looks clear. In rinsing the hair 
can be turned directly into the water 
and lifted up and pressed down, then 
spread out on a clean sheet to drip and 
dry. With no convenient place for 
spreading a sheet out of doors, the hair 
can be piled in washtubs and exposed 
to the sun and air, and turned out fre¬ 
quently until dry enough to spread out 
on sheets in the house. Quilting frames 
covered with a sheet would be a fine 
place for the hair within tbe bouse, and 
for picking out the snarls. Each 
fourth of hair should be treated and 
kept by itself, and when ready placed 
in the tick within the quarter spaces 
in order to keep the hair of uniform 
thickness through the mattress the same 
as before the renovating. 
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