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THB RURAb NEW-YORKER 
February 4 , 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
MAKE THE BEST OF IT. 
A merry heart, a merry laugh 
A face with lots of sun in it, 
A merry tongue with merry chaff, 
And quip with lots of fun in it! 
If trouble comes, and trouble will, 
When others make a guest of it, 
Keep on a smiling face, and still 
Strive on and make the best of it. 
And if the worst comes to the worst, 
And life has no more zest in it, 
Well, there are fewer clouds to burst, 
So why not make the best of it? 
Then learn to leave behind you care, 
A fool but walks abreast of it, 
Don’t be a victim to despair, 
But always make the best of it! 
—La Touche Hancock in New York Sun. 
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‘‘The Woman’s Journal” says that a 
small boy living with his aunt no¬ 
ticed that the regular black pepper 
shaker was partly filled with red pep¬ 
per. Turning to his aunt, he said, 
with much concern: “You’d better 
not eat any of that red pepper, Aunt 
Harriet; grandma says that red pep¬ 
per kills ants.” 
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lx making a dress of very thin and 
flimsy material dressmakers often use 
a strip of light flannel or broadcloth 
inside the hem or skirt facing, a color 
being selected that will not show 
through. This gives body without add¬ 
ing bulk, and prevents the skirt from 
flying up, as a light material has a 
tendency to do. 
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A piece of stout black elastic, just 
long enough to fit snugly around the 
hips, finished at the ends with a strong 
hook and eye, is a rainy day conven¬ 
ience. Pass it around the hips, but 
not low enough to interfere with walk¬ 
ing, and pull up the skirt evenly all 
around to the height desired. If prop¬ 
erly adjusted the skirt will “stay put,” 
and the waterproof covers all. This is 
very much better than pinning up a 
skirt, as many women do when ob¬ 
liged to go out on a rainy , day. 
* 
Maple nougat is a delicious sauce to 
serve with ice cream. Boil two cup¬ 
fuls of grated maple sugar, half la 
cupful of cream and a walnut of butter 
until thick and waxy when dropped 
into cold water, then add one cupful 
chopped nuts, preferably English wal¬ 
nuts. Pour while hot over portions 
of cream ready for serving. We al¬ 
ways try to make ice cream occasion¬ 
ally when there is snow on the ground, 
because it is so easy to freeze it, and 
this arctic dainty is in season all the 
j'ear round in a steam-heated house. 
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Among the wash fabrics now on 
sale are cotton foulards at IS to 25 
cents a yard, white ground with polka 
dots and a handsome two-inch border 
in a Persian pattern, introducing several 
colors. Scotch zephyr ginghams 45 
inches wide have striped borders and 
cost from 35 cents a yard up; they 
are as fine as silk. So many of the 
new fabrics are bordered that it is 
evident these trimmings are to be large¬ 
ly used. It is often possible to buy a 
striped, check or figured percale, lawn 
or gingham, and then purchase a yard 
or more of another material that will 
go with it to cut into stripes and use for 
trimming like a border. Where a black 
and white material is selected a trim¬ 
ming that includes a little color is often 
very pretty. Many of the readymade 
gingham dresses now on sale include 
bandings of a plain color matching the 
stripe or check. One smart little striped 
gingham gown noted was made with a 
tunic effect, the bottom of the skirt 
having a band about two feet deep 
with the stripes running around, while 
the upper part of the skirt and waist 
had the stripes running up and down. 
Many of these dresses still have the 
sleeves all in one with the bodice, the 
kimono style, though fashion forecasters 
says this model has run so long now 
now that it is on the wane. It is 
so easily made, without tiresome fit¬ 
ting of sleeves, that we dislike to part 
with it; however, we think it will stay 
with us in children’s fashions even 
after adults have discarded it. 
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A Californian housekeeper says she 
does not cook prunes. She washes them 
thoroughly, covers one inch deep with 
tepid water, sprinkles over them what 
sugar is desired, and then soaks them 
from 12 to 24 hours. If the fruit is 
very dry and hard it may be placed 
on the warming shelf of the range 
so as to keep warm while soak¬ 
ing. If a richer syrup is desired the 
juice is drained off when the fruit 
is soft, boiled down and then poured 
over the fruit again. It is claimed that 
this treatment makes the prunes taste 
just like fresh fruit. We always soak 
prunes for several hours before cook¬ 
ing, then simmer slowly with a slice or 
two of lemon, using the water in which 
they were soaked for the cooking. There 
is a great difference between the well- 
soaked fruit, which has much of its 
lost moisture restored before cooking, 
and the tough, insipid, hastily cooked 
prune which is so often offered, bringing 
excellent and wholesome fruit into dis¬ 
favor. _ 
On page 14 Mrs. E. W. asks how to 
clean flues with zinc. This is how I do 
it in a large steam boiler, and have 
done it in a stove the same way: Take 
a piece of zinc and just throw it in the 
fire, that is in the stove, and open the 
damper and draft. The zinc will then 
burn up all of the soot into a very fine 
ash. I do not know whether it is a 
gas or a very intense heat that is pro¬ 
duced that destroys the soot, but it does 1 
the work every time. I am answering 
this query because I have read useful 
things in the past, and so wish to help 
others when 1 can. N. L. H. 
Take the zinc only from one or two 
worn-out batteries (new zinc will an¬ 
swer same purpose), break in pieces 
as small as you can. After your fire 
in stove has burned until the coal shows 
a white heat, lay pieces of zinc over 
the fire. Allow it to remain without 
stirring until the zinc has disappeared 
and the spelter found its way to bot¬ 
tom of grate. By this time the fumes 
from the burning metal will have 
reached every point of flue and by a 
chemical- action destroys all soot and 
leaves the flue almost as white as snow. 
Above results from actual experience. 
A. G. F. 
ASK FOR 
Be sure your dress- 
[material is “worth 
|making up.’ 
Simpson-Eddystone 
Fast Hazel Brown Prints 
are the brown cotton dress- 
goods with cloth of supe¬ 
rior quality. 
The experience of 65 
years enables us to make 
this calico in the most beau¬ 
tiful shade of brown abso¬ 
lutely unmoved by soap, 
light, or perspiration. New 
designs in artistic effects. 
Show this advertisement to 
your dealer when you order, and 
don’t accept substitutes. If not 
in your dealer’s stock write us 
his name and address. We’ll 
help him supply you. 
The Eddystone Mfg. Co., Philo. 
FoundedA842^\^n^m£sor^r 
The Improved MONITOR 
MAKES IRONING EASY AND A PLEASURE 
Pronounced “The World’s Best” by over 275,000 
satisfied customers. No hot stove—easy io operate. 
Heat regulated instantly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 
Highest in quality -lowest in price. 
Highly polished and nickel plated. 
ACENTS WANTED. 
Write for catalogue and terms. 
The Monitor Sad Iron Co. 
28 Wayne St., Big Prairie, 0. 
SPEAR Will Trust You 
Wherever You Live—Write 
For His Free Catalog 
Personal 
Word 
The rich and 
prosperous class 
can always com¬ 
mand the lux¬ 
uries of life, but 
the average 
home lover needs 
the Spear System 
of Credit to the 
Nation. I want 
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to say of me:— 
He helped us 
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bute to my life’s 
work. Write for 
my Free Catalog. 
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of 
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O matter where you live, you can buy everything needed 
for the home from us on credit and on easy payments 
to suit your convenience. All you need to do is to mail 
ua your name and address and we will at once send you, 
free, our Mammoth Home Furnishing Catalog, con¬ 
taining illustrations from photographs and full des¬ 
criptions of thousands of articles in Furniture, Rugs, 
Carpets and Home Furnishings sold by us on long time, 
open account, easy credit terms. 
Credit Buying Made Easy 
With the aid of this Big Bargain Catalog, you can select 
anythingyou want— Furniture,Carpets, Rugs, Stoves, Ranges, 
Refrigerators, Sewing Machines, Baby Carriages, Go-Carts, 
Silverware, Dishes, Phonographs, Washing Machines, Clocks, 
etc., — to a greater advantage than if you were to visit 
personally even the largest city stores; because we offer 
? ou not only a vastly largeriand better stock to choose 
rom, but your selections are made at home after consult¬ 
ing yonr family and without suggestions from clerks who 
may seek to influence you. 
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Your credit is good with us. Why not use it? 
Under our liberal, open account, easy payment plan 
you can have every possible advantage in buying for 
mnr homo possessed by the most favored and well- 
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want from our Catalog, pay a little cash down and 
a little each month. 
Our Prices Are The Lowest 
Plymouth Range 
$3.75 Down 
The range that has caused 
•uch a sonsation and ere* 
ated so much talk. 
I 
Only S2.25 Down and 
SI.OO Par Month 
While our credit terms are the most liberal in the 
country, yet our prices are the lowest. 
This is because of our immense purchas¬ 
ing power and onormous volume of sales. 
We buy goods in such vast quantities 
that we secure better prices than would 
be possible to smaller concerns, am! 
by extending our business to tens of 
thousands of customers all over the 
country, we can afford to accept just 
one small added profit from each sale. 
We allow no store or factory on earth 
to undersell us. Get our prices and 
be your own judge of whether or not wo 
save you from 20 to 50 per cent on your 
home furnishings. 
Brussels Rugs, 
ex i2-$i i.es 
and up 
Price $4.95 
Terms 75c Casb 
With Order - -- 
Balance 50c Payable Monthly Write For Free Catalog Today 
SPEAR & COMPANY, Department 19MM Pittsburg, Pa. 
Take A Month To Decide 
Anything you select from 
our Bargain Catalog will 
be shipped on approval. 
Keep the goods 30 days, 
then decide to buy or re¬ 
turn at our expense. If you 
aro not fully satisfied, tho 
goods may be shipped back 
to us at our expense and your 
first payment and freight 
charges refunded you. 
Big Rocker Bargain 
A large, comfortable, solid oak \ 
Rocker with high, wide back, fully 
tufted and buttoned with heavy 
ruffled edge. Seat is large and \ 
roomy, upholstered with hign-grado 
black Sylvan leather over full steel 
spring construction, and has a beautifully ruf¬ 
fled edge to match back. Construction is solid 
golden oak throughout, with high gloss golden 
finish. Arms are wtde, front posts of handsome 
design. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. 
HOUSEWORK HALVED 
By Syracuse “EASY” Utilities 
SOLD ON TRIAL 
Syracuse “ EASY ” Vacuum Washer cleans completely a tubful of clothes, coarse 
or delicate, in 10 minutes of easy effort. Heat water right in rust proof steel tub. No 
swinging of clothes or water. Works like a cistern pump. Sold on 30 days' trial. 
Syracuse “EASY” Vacuum Cleaner, hand or electric, most satisfactory 
on market. Gets all the dirt without raising dust. Easy to operate. Very 
durable and efficient. Send for free booklet and Trial Order Form. 
DODGE & ZUILL, 224D Dillaye Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y. 
RANGER’’ BICYCLES 
Have imported roller chains, sprockets and 
pedals; New Departure Coaster-Brakes and 
Hubs; Puncture Proof Tires; highest grade 
equipment and many advanced features pos¬ 
sessed by no other wheels. Guaranteed jyrs. 
FACTORY PRICES arc e . C css 0 «L°n U 
others ask for cheap wheels. Other reliable 
models from $12 up. A few good second¬ 
hand machines $3 to $8. 
10 DAYSTREE TRIALS 
provnl , freight prepaid, anywhere in U. S., 
without a cent in advance. DO NOT BUY a 
bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any 
price until you get our big new catalog and 
special prices and a marvelous new offer, 
A postal brings everything. Write it now . 
TIDCC Coaster Brake Rear Wheels, lamps, 
I 111 tw parts, and sundries half usual prices . 
Rider Agents everywhere are coining money selling our bi¬ 
cycles, tireS and sundries. Write today, 
MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept. W 80 » CHICAGO 
////. Aladdin MANTLE Lamp 
\JM BURNS KEROSENE (Coal Oil) 
Produces powerful, white, more brilliant 
light than city gas, gasolene or electricity- 
simple, noiseless, odorless, clean, safe, dur¬ 
able— complete success — recognized 
world’s standard. Fully Guaranteed. 
T. H. BALL, California, SOLD 850 
On money back guarantee—not one returned. 
C. E. Kramer made $700 In 60 days. Complete line 
of lamps and chandeliers for homes, offices and public places. 
Ask nearest office for agency proposition or how to get lamp free 
MANTLE LAMP CO. OF AMERICA, Dept 
Chicago, Portland, Ore., Waterbury, Conn., Winnipeg, Montreal, Canada. 
FROM KEROSENE 
>COAL OIL) 
A FLOOD OF LIGHT 
For Best EXTENSION LADDER at »r ce * 
JOHN J. I'OTTKK.li Mill St.. Binghamton, N. Y. 
Be One of the 8,000,000 
Today there are 8,000,000 people who will have no 
other Rubber Boots or Arctics than the famous “Ball- 
Band” goods. They know that in no other rubber 
footwear is there the same combination of durability 
and comfort. 
BALL ft BAND 
We have built up this enormous business simply by giving a little 
better boot than anybody else thought was possible for the money. 
True, we have sacrificed profits to do this. But we have built up a 
host of satisfied customers that competition cannot touch—and it’s 
growing all the time. 
From top to toe, inside and out, “Ball-Band” rubber footwear 
the best materials and the best workmanship that 
money can buy. 
45,000 dealers sell them. Some sell other kinds, 
too, so insist on seeing the red “Ball-Band” trade¬ 
mark. 
If your dealer can’t supply you, write us, men¬ 
tioning his name, and we will see that you are fitted. 
MISHAWAKA WOOLEN MFG. CO., Mishawaka, Ind. 
“The House That Pays Millions for Quality ” 
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