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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
WATER AND TIDE. 
On the far reef the breakers 
Recoil in shattered foam, 
Yet still the sea behind them 
Urges its forces home; 
Its chant of triumph surges 
Through all the thunderous din— 
The wave may break in failure, 
Rut the tide is sure to win ! 
The reef is strong and cruel; 
Upon its jagged wall 
One wave—a score—a hundred, 
Broken and beaten fall; 
Yet in defeat they conquer, 
The sea comes flooding in— 
Wave upon wave is routed, 
But the tide is sure to win ! 
that the formula of the compound 
should be printed on the exterior of 
every container. To prove that mince¬ 
meat may consist of almost anything 
the professor gives one established 
recipe which was in great favor in days 
gone by. It contained among other in¬ 
gredients orange flower water, marma¬ 
lade, peach jam, tripe, rose water, Per¬ 
sian dates and champagne. It is cer¬ 
tainly quite right that the mincemeat of 
commerce should contain nothing but 
wholesome ingredients put together un¬ 
der sanitary conditions, but certainly 
school. There is a book to be sure, but 
with 52 descriptions all sounding much 
alike and only one bird you want at the 
moment to know the name of, well, 
after all it is better to swallow one’s 
queerness and ask. So one morning it 
is just a small gray bird at the back 
door, and he keeps saying the same 
thing over and over, and once he flew 
under the wood shed, but he went right 
up under the roof and then flew out 
again. 
“Oh, yes; that’s our phoebe. What 
color did you say he was?” Tins was 
Government authority cannot guarantee so like the Bird Woman, and the reason 
the formula used, since almost every one they hated asking her. She always 
differs on this point. Our own family wanted them to go back and look again. 
O mighty sea ! thy message 
In clanging spray is cast; 
Within God's plan of progress 
It matters not at last 
How wide the shores of evil, 
How strong the reefs of sin— 
The wave may be defeated,. 
But the tide is sure to win ! 
—Priscilla Leonard. 
Flossie went for the book and some 
one else asked, “How could you tell it 
was a phoebe and not a sparrow or a 
catbird ?” 
“But phoebes build their nests up un¬ 
der shed roofs or beneath the planks of 
bridges if possible, and no other bird 
except a barn swallow would think of 
flying up to the rafters and then flying 
down to get out. Most birds are deter- 
recipe, an old-fashioned English one, 
contains finely chopped beef suet, but 
no meat, and we like it much better than 
any recipe where boiled meat is used, 
but a person always accustomed to the 
use of meat might not like it so well. 
We like everything very well chopped, 
too, but many good cooks put raisins 
in their mincemeat whole, merely seed- 
* ing them first. Then many good cooks 
Many recipes for preparing soups and either heat their mincemeat thoroughly mined to fly up if they want to get 
stews tell the cook to add a “soup bou- or stew it before putting away, and out.” 
quet,” which is a mysterious term to a this again is contrary to our own prac- 
good many housewives. As a character- tice, so it is evident that domestic cooks 
istic soup bouquet use about four vary quite as much as commercial manu- 
branches of parsley, well rinsed, one facturers in their definition of real 
sprig of celery, a sprig of thyme, a mincemeat, 
bay leaf and two cloves folded in among * 
the parsley. Fold all together in a neat This season we are beginning to see 
little bundle, tie firmly with thread or a g 0od m any automobile coats of bright 
fine twine so it will not come apart, and colors, pink, green, blue and heliotrope, 
jour .->oup bouquet is ready for the instead of the dull dust colors that have 
stewpan. 
* 
Chocolate jelly is a delicious dessert. 
It requires a pint of milk, half a pint 
of cream, half a cupful of melted cho¬ 
colate, half a pint of sugar and three 
liberal tablespoonfuls of gelatine. Boil 
the milk and cream together for a mo¬ 
ment or two, and mix the sugar and 
chocolate together. Thin the latter mix¬ 
ture with a little of the boiled milk and 
been so much worn. We feel rather 
grateful for this change in fashion, for 
these pretty colors take away outdoor 
monotony. Of course changeable silk, 
often trimmed with ruching and cord¬ 
ing, makes the handsomest coats for 
Summer riding; pongee remains very 
popular, and linen is always in style. 
But linen crumples and creases so easily 
that such a coat needs constant press¬ 
ing, and some high-class shops are 
cream, then stir them into it. Beat well using gingham in solid colors, which is won’t sit there long. 
By this time Flossie had the place 
“Sayornis phoebe. Length seven inches, 
upper parts olive-brown; crown, wings 
and tail darker. Under parts white, 
slightly washed with yellowish; a touch 
of white on outer tail-feathers. March 
to October. Raises two or three 
broods.” 
“Come; what’s the use of reading all 
that,” Earl interrupted. “I shall know 
him after this. Let's see if there are 
any apples left down cellar,” and away 
ran the two, for who wants to study 
out of school! 
But that night after school, when they 
and the Bird Woman were putting up 
a wren box whose doorway they had 
made the size of a quarter of a dollar 
to keep out the English sparrows, Earl 
shook his fist at a little gray bird on the 
clothesline post and said: 
Wait till I get my air rifle and you 
to prevent lumps, boil for five minutes, 
add the gelatine (melted) and remove 
instantly from the fire. Strain and set 
where it will become cold, then turn out 
of its mould and serve with cream. 
* 
One of our friends who has been us¬ 
ing aluminum cooking vessels complains 
of one serious trouble; she cannot brown 
The Bird Woman looked surprised for 
just one instant, then she smiled, but the 
children could not see her face. 
Flossie’s mind was also full of dislike 
for the noisy English sparrows who 
drive bluebirds and wrens from all the 
, , ... , , . ■ bird houses put up about the farmhouse, 
pretty model could be made of plain and she added> jugt hate them> and l 
fawn-colored gingham or chambray, wish the men who imported them had to 
light-weight, though closely woven and 
does not crumple like the linen. Such 
coats have ornamental buttons, often 
fastening with cord frogs, and a collar 
and cuffs of contrasting material. A 
with large collar or collar and revers 
and cuffs of fawn and white galatea, or 
anything nicely in an aluminum frying any other color scheme desired could be 
pan. She says she has to put the pan on carried out. The small, close-fitting hats 
to heat an hour or more before using it, so much worn this season are very com¬ 
as these vessels heat very slowlj’, and fortable for motor wear, the veil of 
apparently the pan parts with its heat chiffon cloth or similar material being 
with equal slowness, for she is quite arranged any way the wearer chooses, 
unable to brown anything in it. We do While there is a wide latitude for taste 
not know whether this is true of all 
aluminum vessels, or whether it is pecu¬ 
liar to the make our friend is using, 
but it seems quite a serious objection to 
this frying pan. Aluminum is so light, 
clean and attractive that it would appear 
ideal for domestic use; it neither rusts 
nor tarnishes, under any ordinary con¬ 
ditions, and thus aluminum egg spoons, 
stewpans, tea strainers, etc., will save a 
good deal of work. 
* 
Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of the De¬ 
in automobile headgear, the styles worn 
now are not as noticeably different from 
regular walking hats as formerly, and in 
the cities the hats worn in the motor are 
as elaborate as would be worn in a 
carriage. 
A Bird Lesson. 
Flossie and Earl call themselves “city 
greenies,” though it is doubtful if they 
would like others to give them the name, 
and one of the ignorances they most re¬ 
gret is that they cannot tell one bird 
partment of Agriculture, recently held from another. To he sure the children 
a conference with various manufactur- at the district school, though all “coun- 
ers to determine what mincemeat really try kids,” are not usually able to do 
is. One of the mincemeat manufactur- much better, but they are offensively 
ers engaged a distinguished professor 
to write a monograph on the subject, in 
which he starts with the first historical 
mention of mince pie in the fifteenth 
century or thereabout and works up¬ 
ward through recipes, nursery rhymes 
and modern formulas in an effort to 
demonstrate to the Food and Drugs 
Board that mincemeat does not neces¬ 
sarily contain meat and that it may con¬ 
sist of almost anything that one chooses 
to put in it. He in conjunction with 
the other experts argued that the name 
“mincemeat” should be retained and 
scornful if one does not know a crow 
or a robin. One boy, who never says 
he does not know all about everything, 
is sure that all birds not crows or robins 
are pewees, but at home there is the 
catch everyone and send it back.” 
The Bird Woman made no reply, but 
soon she asked, “What is it singing?” 
Both children listened, but at that mo¬ 
ment the phoebe on the post flew off to 
snatch a gnat or two from a cluster 
dancing together near the cellarway 
doors which stood open. 
“That bird caught a fly then,” said 
Earl. “I did not know sparrows did 
that.” 
“They don’t. It must be one of the 
fly-catcher family,” said the Bird 
Woman. The phoebe repeated the per¬ 
formance, and Flossie said, “See how 
funny he is, flipping his tail every time 
he alights. He acts as if it were to 
balance himself on the twine. It isn’t, 
is it?” 
“I don’t know,” replied the Bird 
Woman, “but I do know that this is the 
only sort of bird I have even seen give 
just that gesture with his tail. So if 
you learn the gesture you will always 
know the bird.” 
“But suppose he is on the ground or 
flying?” 
“You will scarcely ever see him on 
the ground, for he catches his food on 
the wing, and he is pretty sure to be 
sitting on a post or dead branch where 
he can see the insects in the air. Of 
course he flies about, but he seldom goes 
far, and if you watch him alight you 
will see that gesture, that flip of the 
tail telling you his name.” 
“Don’t I have to learn his colors?” 
“Well, what are they? Tell the upper 
parts first.” 
“Just plain gray, and the top of the 
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Bird Woman, and she always knows 
She likes to have people ask her, too, head and wings and tail darkest”—sud 
but she usually tells too much, and Flossie paused, and at the same 
Flossie and Earl are queer, and would 
so much rather tell what the}’ already 
know than be told anything. 
But if you do not find out at home 
of the Bird Woman you cannot have 
the glory of telling the children at 
moment the bird again fell to singing 
his one note over and over. 
“Phoebe, phoebe,” or “pe-wee, pe-wee,” 
not drawled, but sprightly and brisk. 
“Why, it’s the phoebe we saw this 
morning!” cried both children in a 
breath, and the Bird Woman said: 
“Yes,” and went on humming, a. m. t. 
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