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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
FROM “IN MEMORIAM.” 
Oh, yet we trust that somehow good 
Will be the final goal of ill, 
To pangs of nature, sins of will, 
Defects of doubt and taints of blood; 
That nothing walks with aimless feet, 
That not one life shall be destroyed, 
Or cast as rubbish to the void, 
When God hath made the pile complete; 
That not a worm is cloven in vain ; 
That not a moth with vain desire 
Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, 
Or but subserves another’s gain. 
Behold ! we know not anything ; 
I can but trust that good shall fall 
At last—far off—at last, to all— 
And every Winter change to Spring. 
So runs my dream; but what am 1? 
An infant crying in the night— 
An infant crying for the light— 
And with no language but a cry. 
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 
* 
THE RURAL 
and daughters have had to follow the 
industries taken from them, and are 
consequently blamed for flocking to the 
city. We can never see a return to old 
conditions, but we do believe that the 
great trust-controlled factories, great as 
their showing in commercial statistics, 
have worked enormous evil in their 
destruction of small rural manufactur¬ 
ing industries. A Swiss friend tells us 
that many of the finest silks and em¬ 
broideries made in Switzerland are 
made at home on hand looms, only now 
whole districts are wired for electric 
power produced from the waterfalls, 
and these looms are provided with elec¬ 
tric motors. With productive work- 
close at hand for all who desired it, 
should we find it necessary to urge farm 
boys and girls to stay on the farm? 
NEW-YORKER 
of the process being as above. When 
rennet as well as starter is used, the 
starter is added to the milk, and about 
eight hours later rennet extract is added 
at the rate of one ounce to 1,000 pounds 
of milk. The rennet should be well 
diluted with cold water to prevent too 
rapid coagulation of the milk. The re¬ 
mainder of the process is as described 
above. The use of rennet enables the 
maker to secure coagulation of the milk 
with a smaller percentage of acid de¬ 
velopment, and a pleasant mild-flavored 
cheese is the result. Some manufactur¬ 
ers mix buttermilk with the skim-milk 
for cottage cheese, using rennet. Too 
great variations in temperature may in¬ 
jure the texture of cottage cheese, which 
should be smooth, not gritty, and moist. 
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model likely to be popular for Summer 
wear. It is cut on the lines of a Nor¬ 
folk jacket, with the flat box pleats, but 
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the place of the middy blouse. 
* 
“Blushing apples” are a pretty des¬ 
sert, and can be recommended at this 
season, when many cellar-stored apples 
are a little flat in flavor. Peel and core 
the apples, and set in an earthen stew- 
pan. Make a nice syrup of sugar and 
hot water, adding enough red currant 
jelly to color it bright red. Pour this 
over the apples, and cook them until 
soft all through, but not mashed. When 
cooked allow the apples to cool, then put 
in a glass dish carefully, and pour the 
syrup over them. When quite cold the 
centers of the apples may be filled with 
stiff sweetened whipped cream, piled up 
in a little rosette on top. 
* 
All the present day writers on coun¬ 
try life seem to believe that everyone 
who lives in a rural district gets his 
living directly from the soil; in other 
words, is a farmer, and all the teaching 
and preaching and scolding is directed 
at him alone. Why not direct some of 
this uplift work towards the country 
merchant, or artisan, or even the coun¬ 
try politician? The fact is that the 
farmer of progressive type, in touch 
with Grange and experiment station, is 
really the leaven that uplifts all other 
rural classes, only he hardly realizes his 
own power or ability. There is one point, 
however, that professional uplifters 
hardly hint at, and yet it seems to us 
of considerable importance. In the 
“good old times” when we are told the 
farmer’s boys and girls had not learned 
to flock to the cities, there were rural 
industries to provide a living for many 
of them without severing all farm ties. 
Weaving, shoemaking, straw braiding, 
toolmaking and various other manufac¬ 
tures were not herded into great fac¬ 
tories, but were divided into many small 
businesses, each making life pleasanter 
for some rural community, and helping 
young people to learn an independent 
trade, while yet in close touch with the 
farm. Just as many lines of women’s 
work, which used to keep her at home, 
were gradually absorbed by men, so pro¬ 
ductive industries got away from the 
country, and were absorbed by the city. 
Women, to gain a living, have had to 
follow the industries taken out of the 
home, and are now blamed for their 
entry into the competitive industrial 
field; just the same the farmer’s sons 
The daily papers report a case where 
a planter was treating peanut seed with 
strychnine for the purpose of repelling 
moles or field mice, when a sudden gust 
of wind blew the poison preparation into 
his face, causing enough strychnine to 
enter mouth, nose and eyes to be fatal. 
This may or may not be true, but 
strychnine is such a virulent poison that 
we always regret any recommendation 
of its use. Great care is needed, too, in 
handling the various arsenates which 
are now so common in farm and gar¬ 
den operations. We think, in addition 
to warning labels, antidotes and treat¬ 
ment for accidental poisoning should 
always be at hand, whenever these dan¬ 
gerous materials are being used about 
the farm and garden. This is the season 
of the year, too, when we may hear of 
serious or fatal cases of poisoning 
traced to some mysterious wild “greens” 
prepared for a family meal. As a rule 
we believe the culprit in such cases is 
the false hellebore, Veratrum viride, 
which is pushing up stout shoots of 
rich green in the vicinity of marsh 
marigold or “cowslip” when these plants 
are at the tender cooking age. There 
is really no excuse for mixing the dan¬ 
gerous Veratrum with these innocent 
plants, for its large, plaited, stemless 
leaves are extremely distinct, hut we 
suppose its succulent growth looks 
tempting, and there is no realization of 
the danger. This would be a good time 
to begin learning something about the 
wild flowers, so that one may distinguish 
friends from foes. 
Cottage Cheese. 
Will you give recipe for making cottage 
cheese? How much rennet for 100 pounds 
of milk; must the milk be sour before add¬ 
ing rennet, and at what temperature must 
it be heated? jies. d. h. f. 
Cottage cheese is usually made with¬ 
out rennet, the casein being separated 
from the whey by spontaneous coagu¬ 
lation. Skim-milk is used, whole milk 
losing much fat in the process. Keep 
the milk at a temperature of 70 to 75 
degrees until well curdled, usually about 
48 hours. The curdled mass is then 
broken by hand, or cut into large pieces 
with a cheese knife. The temperature is 
then raised slowly to 90 degrees, where 
it is kept until the whey appears clear, 
which will be in 30 to 40 minutes. If 
too rapidly heated the texture of the 
cheese is injured. When the whey is 
well separated from the curd, the whey 
is removed and the curd placed in mus¬ 
lin hags or on racks, where it is allowed 
to drain. It is then salted, one pound 
of salt to 100 pounds of curd, shaped 
into pound or half-pound halls, and 
wrapped in oiled paper. The finest qual¬ 
ity of cheese, before making into balls, 
should be mixed with thick ripened 
cream, one ounce of cream to one pound 
of curd. 
Cottage cheese is also made with a 
commercial starter, from two to three 
per cent of commercial starter being 
mixed through the mass, when the skim- 
milk is placed in the vat, the remainder 
More Making Over. 
Recently I had an overcoat and a 
jacket given me to make over for the 
children. I found that they were almost 
as good as new, but had been badly 
used and were very much soiled. The 
jacket was of the style known as box 
coat, with no seam down the back; it 
had very full sleeves. I ripped, washed 
and pressed it, bought a plain coat pat¬ 
tern for a 9-year-old child, and made 
my little girl a very pretty warm coat. 
The overcoat was too good to cut up, 
so I got some black dye, got my largest 
tubs and washed well by punching it 
up and down in hot, strong suds. I had 
a time rinsing, it was so heavy, but I did 
the work out of doors and a little slop 
did not hurt. I then put a large metal 
tub on the stove, filled two-thirds with 
water, put in the dye and then the 
coat. I let all come to a boil and boil 
several minutes, punching and stirring 
around well every now and then. We 
then took the tub out on the back 
porch and let the water get cold before 
taking out the coat, which we rinsed un¬ 
til the last water was clear. It took 
two to hang the coat on the line, but 
when dry it was a beautiful black. I 
pressed it before it was quite dry, and 
it took me all day just to press. It 
took three days to complete the job, but 
when finished the coat looked like new, 
and one of my family who needed a 
new overcoat was very proud of it. I 
felt fully paid for my work. 
So many mothers put white under¬ 
skirts on their little girls in Winter. 
At their best they look cold and when 
spiled they look very bad. I don’t be¬ 
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noj hunt up one or 'two worn dress 
skirts, just the thing to make n|ce little 
skirts for children to wear to school. 
Feather-stitched with silk, they look 
pretty and warm, and save so much 
work. Plain clothes and plenty of 
them keep the children warm and clean 
with little labor. Catherine busch. 
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