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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
NAZARETII. 
Build ye no churches to My praise, 
Lift not the lofty fane, 
No clouds of smothering Incense raise 
My honor to maintain. 
Within man’s heart the house of prayer 
Reared by a Father’s hands, 
Ami open to the healthful air, 
A wind-swept altar stands. 
But would ye build a house on earth 
In which I love to dwell, 
Where thoughts that own a heavenly birth 
Like 'music rise and swell. 
• • • • • • 
Seek not My blessing to secure 
With steeple or with dome. 
Build ye the cottage of the poor,— 
God's temple Is the home. 
—E. D. Stone in London Spectator. 
• 
A separate skirt of white Persian 
lawn is excellent for wear with thin 
waists in warm weather, and we have 
seen a good many of them this Sum¬ 
mer, some pleated and some nine or 
eleven-gored, trimmed with bands. 
This is much easier to launder than 
linen or pique, easy to make and inex¬ 
pensive. Of course such a skirt should 
only be worn with waists of lawn, 
dimity or batiste, not with tailored 
waists of heavy material. 
A quaint idea for wear witli a very 
sheer waist is ribbon sleeve links. 
Narrow satin ribbon is used, twisted 
into a tight flower rosette. Three 
strands of ribbon are braided into a 
tight plait, and a section of this about 
one-eighth of an inch long has a rosette 
on each end. The rosettes must be 
stiff enough to slip through the wide 
button-holes of the cuffs. These ribbon 
links have a very pretty effect with lace 
turn-back cuffs on a sheer waist. 
* 
Round “Peter Pan” collars of lace 
and embroidery suddenly came into 
great popularity during the hot Summer 
days. They arc very pretty and cool 
looking, especially with a thin shirt¬ 
waist dress, hut are not in keeping with 
a plain tailored waist of heavy material. 
When made of thin lace, as many of 
them are, they are quite easily crum¬ 
pled. Simply made waists of sheer 
crossbar, buttoned down the front, have 
these turn-down lace collars attached, 
and turn-back cuffs to match; this 
style was shown by one of the firms 
making a specialty of exclusive models. 
* 
One of the new linen skirts is a 
gored circular model buttoning straight 
down the front, with pockets let in 
diagonally on both sides just in front 
of the hips, at the lowest point of the 
hip curve. The deep hem is put in by 
hand, so that it may easily be taken out 
and readjusted, if necessary after laun¬ 
dering. This is a good plan to follow 
with all wash skirts. The regular cir¬ 
cular skirts arc often quite troublesome, 
because they insist upon sagging down 
in places, and for washing materials 
we always think a gored skirt prefer¬ 
able. Where there are many gores the 
flowing effect of the circular skirt is 
produced without much trouble. 
♦ 
Late Summer is the mushroom sea¬ 
son, and we try to cook these delicious 
fungi, fresh from the pasture, in a 
variety of ways. They are excellent 
with veal loaf. Run two pounds of 
veal through the chopper twice with 
half a pound of fresh pork. Soften one 
cup of stale bread in milk and add to 
the meat with half a cup of chopped 
mushrooms, the juice of one lemon and 
a little grated rind, half a saltspoon of 
nutmeg, and salt and pepper. Add two 
beaten eggs and when thoroughly mixed 
shape into a long roll and place in a 
shallow pan. Dredge with flour, pour 
around it a cupful of liquid made by 
stewing a few mushrooms with a small 
amount of water, and seasoning with 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 5, 
butter, pepper and salt. Baste with 
this, and cook for about three-quarters 
of an hour; then thicken with flour 
and butter, and add any remaining 
mushrooms, chopped. Let the gravy 
thicken, and then serve. If mushrooms 
are not desired, the same veal loaf is 
very nice with stewed tomatoes used 
to make the gravy. 
* 
Advance rumors about next season’s 
hats assert that they will follow Gains¬ 
borough and .Rembrandt models, and 
will be larger and more heavily trimmed 
than the “Merry Widow” ever dared to 
be. Fancy feathers are to be very 
popular as trimming, and broad ban¬ 
deaus of wings, quills and short feath¬ 
ers, after the style of Indian war bon¬ 
nets and other barbarian head-dresses, 
are threatened. Ostrich tips arc also 
to be used very largely, standing up 
all around the crown. This will glad¬ 
den the South African ostrich farmers, 
who have suffered from the use of other 
feathers. Paris is using aigrettes in 
great quantities, more than $100 worth 
of aigrettes often appearing on one hat. 
“For twenty years,” say “The Irish 
Draper,” “Queen Alexandra has waged 
unceasing warfare against the use of 
osprey feathers (aigrettes) ; but the de¬ 
crees of fashion have proved stronger 
than those of royalty, and there was no 
diminution in the sale of either osprey 
plumes or bird of paradise skins in 
1907.” The total of osprey packages at 
the London feather sales in 1907 was 
2,337, against 1868 for the year before. 
Scraps of Various Sorts. 
ii. 
When Lyman remarked that there 
was no time better than the present, Pet 
suddenly left the room. 
“Now, Lyman Ithamar! No time like 
the present!” Pet had come back bring¬ 
ing an empty coffee can and the can 
opener, a nail and a hammer. With 
these she confronted her brother and 
explained: “You said, when I read 
that about making a feed hopper for my 
chickens, that you would fix one for me, 
and now the season is almost over and 
we shall forget which of the farm 
papers it was in and how it was made.” 
Lyman took the tools, hut groaned 
as he shut his book. “Never preach 
and maybe you’ll not be asked to prac¬ 
tice. It said ‘file’ an opening one inch 
from the bottom of the can.” 
“But you said a can opener would cut 
the slit, and if the edge was rough I 
could put the can over a hitching post 
or something and hammer down the 
burr. That is what you said.” 
As they talked Lyman was cutting a 
slit nearly three inches long parallel 
with the base of the can. He then 
pressed in the tin above this opening, 
bending it as far back as possible. This 
left a space from which chicks might 
peck out tht cracked corn or whatever 
the can was filled with, and we saw 
at once that a useless article had been 
transformed into something sure to be 
valuable for feeding small chickens, who 
are sure to run over and scatter the 
fine dry feed which ought to he kept 
by them all the time. I should say 
that the can would need a stone on its 
top to hold it from overturning, and 
that by having several such feed cans 
filled each morning one might lie saved 
a good deal of bother running out to 
carry fresh food supplies. 
Bessie’s work of making desk com¬ 
partments out of cigar boxes was not to 
be finished in a single evening, but they 
seemed worth making, since she is a 
person always accumulating things and 
having many schemes on hand. I have 
noticed that such people arc never dull 
or discontented. Rainy days or times 
when ihere is no company or chance to 
go away are to them but welcome op¬ 
portunities. They can maybe do some 
of the many things planned and waiting. 
“You won’t need the covers, or yes, 
it does need one on the end of the 
row.” Pet was placing the boxes on 
edge side by side to give them a re¬ 
semblance to desk pigeon-holes. 
“How will you nail the boxes to one 
another?” 
“Cut the heads off tiny wire nails and 
they will drive both ways if you make 
holes with a fine bradawl first. I think 
I shall make them in sets of three. Out 
of the covers I can make an extra top, 
letting the grain of the wood run across 
the three boxes. This will make all firm 
and neat, but a few of the headless 
nails will be needed to' hold the thin 
wood from warping or sagging.” 
“It shows nail holes where you have 
pulled off the ends of the boxes to make 
the open ends of the pigeon-holes.” 
“Yes, I see it does, and I mean to 
saw off the end of each box a little. 
It is lucky I have a fine saw. If I had 
not I must wink at the nail holes, I sup¬ 
pose. But if I were a little more of a 
mechanic I might cut the divisions in 
a graceful shape and make them almost 
as nice as those in the desk.” 
“If I were you,” suggested Pet, “I 
should use one compartment to hold 
cord, such as you need for tying up 
packages for the mail. I have a boxful 
of Christmas pasters and red ribbons, 
and I can keep that there too. And 
do let me use another space for my 
picture post-cards till I can get another 
album.” 
“Why do you not systematize your 
post-cards?” I asked. “Buy several 
small albums and arrange them by sub¬ 
jects, putting the foreign views by 
themselves, those from beyond the 
Rockies in another book, and home 
views in a third. Little folks like the 
Easter and Christmas and Valentine 
cards best, and the funny subjects arc 
all some people will take an interest in.” 
“Perhaps Pet and I will put ours to¬ 
gether in that way,” agreed Bessie, and 
gave me a suggestion in return by say¬ 
ing: “Why not ask the chief cook to 
repeat that receipt for apple sauce fruit 
cake? Some readers would have missed 
reading it, and others will be new to 
the paper, and I doubt if many would 
have had canned apple sauce at the time 
it was printed, and so have been able 
to try it then. Red Astrachans will be 
gone before it can get into print, but 
any other spicy apples will do, and if 
all the Rural boys are as fond of it as 
Lyman is, people will want to can plenty 
of apple sauce. And just mention that 
you need not pare the apples. After 
they arc wiped and quartered and cored 
they are perfectly clean and the colander 
takes out the skins.” r. ithamar. 
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I nm told that a delicious jelly can ho 
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proper time to gather berries, etc., you 
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