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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
“LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.” 
Let’s oftcner talk of noble deeds, 
And rarer of the bad ones, 
And sing about our happy days, 
And not about the sad ones. 
We were not made to fret and sigh, 
Aud when grief sleeps to wake it, 
Bright happiness is standing by— 
This life is what we make it. 
Let's find the sunny side of men, 
Or the believers in it; 
A light there is in every soul 
That takes the pains to win it. 
Oh, there’s a slumbering good in all, 
And we perchance may wake it; 
Our hands contain the magic wand ; 
This life is what we make it. 
Then here’s to those whose loving hearts 
Shed light and joy about them; 
Thanks be to them for countless gems 
We ne’er had known without them. 
Oh ! this should be a happy world 
To all who may partake it; 
The fault’s our own if it is not— 
This life is what we make it. 
—Author Unknown. 
* 
The safest place to keep an ostrich 
feather, says a person who has tried it, 
is in a glass jar, tightly sealed. Moths 
and dust are kept out, and the feather 
may be inspected through the glass with¬ 
out opening the jar. Of course the or¬ 
dinary glass jar is not large enough for 
a very long feather, because we must 
not bend it, but for the shorter feathers 
it will be admirable. A glass jar or 
tightly sealed metal box is a good place 
to keep kid gloves when at a very humid 
seashore locality, or on a long sea voy¬ 
age ; the salty dampness often has a very 
disastrous effect upon kid. 
* 
Thf. “cozikid” blanket is one of the 
modern comforts to make the baby 
happy. It is a flat bag, large enough 
for the baby to stretch out in, but a 
little narrower at the top than the bot¬ 
tom. It buttons flat all down the mid¬ 
dle, and at the top the center is rounded 
out a little so as to fit around the baby’s 
neck, like a cloak. A little pointed hood 
or capote is attached, just as if the bag 
were a cape. The bag is made of 
eiderdown flannel or any similar ma¬ 
terial suitable for a baby’s blanket. But¬ 
toned up in its Eskimo bag, with the 
capote over its head, the baby can take 
its ride or outdoor nap without risk of 
being chilled by wriggling out of its 
covering. 
* 
A very appetizing stew, which can be 
made from the cheapest cuts of veal, is 
stew supreme: Cut three pounds of veal 
and one-half pound lean bacon into 
small pieces and brown in butter; add 
three sliced carrots, six small onions, 
three cloves, blade of mace, salt and pep¬ 
per (very little of the latter), one-half 
cup tomato catsup and one tablespoon 
Worcestershire sauce; pour over enough 
boiling water to cover; let simmer one* 
hour or until meat is tender; arrange 
meat on serving platter, rub sauce and 
vegetables through a sieve and pour 
around meat; or the vegetables may be 
left in pieces and the sauce slightly 
thickened with a tablespoon of butter 
and flour rubbed together. 
* 
There is a little notion store in up¬ 
town New York where a passer-by was 
attracted by the sight of some strands 
of white thread across the window, still 
attached to the spool, but with 25 needles, 
attached to each thread. An inquiry was 
made concerning it. 
“My little daughter threaded them,” 
the storekeeper said. “They are a won¬ 
derful convenience for people with such 
poor eyes that they can’t see to thread 
their own needles. Here is a whole bunch 
of them already threaded, and all the 
sewer has to do is to unwind the thread 
until she has the desired length for the 
first needle, then slip the other needles 
along until it comes to their turn. May¬ 
be in some neighborhoods that con¬ 
trivance wouldn’t be appreciated very 
highly, but here it is a real blessing. 
Within a few blocks of the store are 
three old ladies’ homes. The old ladies 
like to sew, but they have found it im¬ 
possible to keep their needles threaded. 
Now that job is already done for them 
for the original cost of the needles and 
thread.” 
That struck us as a very practical 
idea, and if there is an old person in 
the family who likes to sew she would 
certainly appreciate a needle-threaded 
spool. Indeed, a few ready-threaded 
spools would be a very useful gift for 
the industrious woman whose eyes are 
not what they were. 
* 
At the recent Child Welfare Exhibit 
in this city there was a series of pos¬ 
ters by Harristm Cady depicting the 
history of bad milk. In the first picture 
a careless dairy farmer was milking in a 
slovenly barn. Two or three processions 
of microbes, all carrying banners with 
“tuberculosis,” “scarlet fever,” etc., are 
marching from refuse heaps to the milk 
can. In the second picture those of the 
germs that couldn’t get into the pail 
are following the farmer’s wagon to the 
station at a double quick. Those who do 
not fall by the wayside in this wild 
chase jump into the milk, while in the 
third picture they are waiting on a 
grimy-looking station platform. At the 
“milk, coal and ice” store on the East 
Side another crop of equally vigorous 
germs have a parade to the now thor¬ 
oughly discouraged milk. The last pic¬ 
ture shows a hearse—a child’s white 
hearse—waiting at the door of the tene¬ 
ment, with the triumphant germs wav¬ 
ing their banners and dancing on its 
top. This exhibition dealt with every¬ 
thing affecting the child, physical care, 
clothing, feeding and education. As an 
example of one feature in high school 
education, there was a little girl of 12, 
neatly and serviceably dressed, whose 
clothing (including underclothes) was 
made by pupils at the Washington Irving 
High School at a cost of 52 cents. This 
is the school where the girls, again this 
year, wore graduating dresses made by 
themselves at a cost of one dollar each. 
The girls are not only taught how to 
make their clothes, but also how to buy, 
as there is a course in economic shop¬ 
ping in connection with the dressmaking 
course. 
Care of Soapstone Griddles. 
Can you tell me how to use properly a 
soapstone griddle, and how to care for it 
after baking? My cakes brown nicely, but 
they stick so tight to the griddle that they 
look like anything but cakes by the time I 
get them off to turn. After turning they 
seldom stick. Will you tell me just what 
to do, as though I had never tried to use 
a soapstone griddle, all the don’t’s and 
do’s that belong to its use before and after 
baking ? c. c. w. 
The griddle should be heated carefully, 
never greased, and cleansed after using 
by rubbing it well with dry salt. The 
inquirer does not say whether she has 
used grease or not, but this ruins the 
soapstone. The following instructions 
were given us by a reader when this 
question came up about two years ago: 
“In order to obtain perfect results 
from a soapstone griddle follow these 
instructions. Heat the griddle hot; in 
fact, almost sizzlingly hot. Use no 
grease of any kind upon it. By doing 
this the cakes will not stick; they will 
bake nice and brown, and there will be 
no smoke or greasy smell while cooking. 
The inquirer can easily make her griddle 
equal to a new one by rubbing the bak¬ 
ing surface with a piece of No. 3 sand¬ 
paper until it resumes its original smooth 
gray surface. Then wash it with clear 
water, dry it and when ready to use it 
again rub it over with a little fine salt.” 
A number of correspondents informed 
us that they had always used dry salt, 
rubbed on with a cloth, to clean their 
griddles, never using grease, and the 
more the surface was cleaned in this 
way the better and smoother the griddle 
became. 
Popovers Too Moist. 
Can some one tell me why eggless 
popovers are moist in the middle? The 
outsides are very popular in the house¬ 
hold, and any recipe which does not 
call for eggs is certainly acceptable 
with eggs at 50 cents a dozen, but I 
cannot get the middles dry, although I 
have tried to follow the recipe exactly, 
and have had very hot oven and mod¬ 
erate oven, gem pans always very hot 
A. E. F. 
Cream Corn Bread and Doughnuts. 
Hot corn bread is very nice for break¬ 
fast and very easily prepared, provided 
one can manage to have a hot oven so 
early in the day. It is just as good for 
supper, of course, and hungry school 
children always appreciate it. It is best 
cooked in a spider where meat has been 
fried, or else well greased with bacon 
or ham fat. The cream used may be 
either sweet or sour and the amount of 
soda varied accordingly: One cup 
cream (not too thick nor too sour), 
one-half cup buttermilk, one teaspoon 
soda (scant measure), one teaspoon salt, 
one tablespoon sugar; two cups granu¬ 
lated meal, one-fourth cup flour. Beat 
all together well. Turn into the hot 
greased spider and bake in a quick oven. 
At the old-fashioned corn-husking we 
had one Fall we served very simple re¬ 
freshments. There were sandwiches, of 
course, pumpkin pies and doughnuts and 
coffee. Cousin Alice volunteered to 
make the doughnuts. “I learned how to 
make them last Summer,” she said, 
“when we had a real French chef for a 
cook. The recipe is very simple and 
not rich at all. I think that is one rea¬ 
son why they are so nice.” That was 
several years ago and I have used this 
perfectly reliable recipe for doughnuts 
ever since: Cream one rounding table¬ 
spoon ftil butter with one cup sugar, and 
then beat in the yolks of three eggs. 
Beat the whites of the three eggs 
separately and add to the mixture, to¬ 
gether with one cup sweet milk and one 
tablespoon vanilla. Sift one tablespoon 
baking powder in one quart flour. Add 
the flour and roll out soft, adding more 
flour to keep from sticking to the board. 
Fry in deep hot lard. They are very 
nice rolled in powdered confectioner’s 
sugar when done. f. 
February 11, 
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