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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
A PERFECT DAY. 
Count that alone a perfect day 
When, with the folding leaves at night, 
An inward voice may softly say: 
“You’ve done your best since morning 
light.” 
Your best, which always must be poor, 
With human heart, ’neath human sway; 
But when you've done it swift and sure, 
Count that alone a perfect day. 
The sunlight trembles on the sea. 
The soft breeze dies away in sleep, 
The birds of passage wild and free, 
Fly fearless home across the deep; 
They turn not east, they turn not w T est, 
But with true instinct keep their way ; 
When you, too, know your path is best, 
Count that alone a perfect day. 
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When you have soothed a wounded heart. 
And turned aside from grim despair 
Some hopeless wretch ; and kept apart 
A soul and sin, with help and prayer; 
When you, at night, on bended knees, 
With conscience clear can truly say : 
“O, God ! what am I more than these?” 
Count that alone a perfect day. 
When the last sunset tints yon sky, 
And golden gleams are on the hills, 
V\ liile on your couch of pain you lie, 
Strange music all the silence fills, 
A new life current, strong and clear. 
Is yours; around glad hymns of praise, 
And then you know the voices near 
Are angola of your perfect days. 
—Agnes Marie Manning 
in Catholic Standard and Times. 
* 
Glass spoons, which cost 10 cents and 
upward, are useful for medicine, as they 
can be very easily washed, and are not 
tarnished by drugs like a metal spoon. 
* 
Colored blouses for tailored suits are 
made of chiffon or marquisette to match 
the suit, frequently mounted over filet 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
as the pin was swallowed with the bread 
and thus removed from her throat. 
While swallowing pins is not to be 
recommended, it is much safer than re¬ 
taining them in the throat. We have 
used bread in this way to remove a fish¬ 
bone caught in the throat, and on one 
occasion when very severe choking re¬ 
sulted a lump of butter proved a reme¬ 
dial agent. This simple bit of first aid 
to the injured should be remembered; 
it may be of value in a serious emer¬ 
gency. 
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We feel sorry for the farm family that 
enters on the dull, short days of Au¬ 
tumn and VVinter with no idea of home 
life beyond just sitting around. With 
short days, long evenings, and, perhaps, 
not too much space of warmth and 
light, the quality of the home life de¬ 
pends upon the ingredients each mem¬ 
ber puts into it. It is the time above 
all others, to see how much good there 
is in each of us, and the only touch¬ 
stone to bring out the good in others 
is the good each one determines to 
bring out in himself. One’s develop¬ 
ment of character is not helped by 
clashing temperaments and mental 
sloth, so we think two prime requisites 
for a well-spent farm Winter are cheer¬ 
fulness and forbearance, combined with 
some line of special reading and study. 
No one is too old or too young for 
either. 
Deep rich purple—coronation purple— 
is a leading favorite in Fall millinery; 
it is very often combined with white. 
Bright green with white is another ad¬ 
mired combination. Many new hats of 
colored felt have the brim faced with 
lace or net, or some heavy lace of Cluny a stron S contrast, and we also see milli 
effect. Braid combined with colored 
chenille or crewel embroideries is fav- 
orecl for trimming; small metal buttons 
are also freely used. 
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If the jelly refuses to “jell” one rarely 
mends matters by adding more sugar 
and giving prolonged boiling. There 
may be cases, of course, where an error 
has been made in the proportions, or 
where the juice has not been boiled 
down enough, but excessive boiling is 
likely to remove the fruity flavor. We 
would seal the semi-liquid jelly without 
further effort, and use it like a fruit 
syrup. It will make pudding sauce or 
flavoring for ice cream; can be beaten 
with white of egg to make “jelly 
sponge,” or stiffened with gelatin to 
make molded jellies; it can also be used 
as the basis for various drinks, hot and 
cold. 
* 
Some of the “great-coats” seen in the 
city stores are most attractive. One 
style seen was double-faced gray camel's 
hair, thick and soft. The reverse side 
was lavender, which formed broad cuffs, 
revers, and a broad flat hood, which 
could be unbuttoned to form a large 
sailor collar; the coat was fastened with 
large buttons of lavender quartz. This 
coat cost $35. A very handsome coat for 
$19 was black reversible cheviot, with 
collar and cuffs of black and white 
stripes. The whole coat could be turned, 
transforming it into a black and white 
striped coat with black facings. There 
are a good many “great-coats” of hand¬ 
some Scotch homespuns, showing little 
tufts of red on green on a heather mixed 
background; these are extremely ser¬ 
viceable, but quite expensive. 
* 
A Williamsburg girl held two pins 
in her mouth while hurriedly dressing. 
A sudden movement caused her to swal¬ 
low them, and one lodged in her throat. 
The girl appeared to be in danger of 
choking to death, when two policemen 
who were called got a crust of bread 
and forced the girl to swallow it. This 
amateur surgery relieved the girl’s suf¬ 
fering, and most likely saved her life.- 
nery bows and loops faced with a dif¬ 
ferent color. A rather extraordinary 
combination is dark blue and purple, 
which sounds rather appalling, but a 
dark blue felt hat, trimmed with a big 
bow of dark blue edged and faced with 
purple corded silk, was really very hand¬ 
some. Another new trimming noticed 
on some very fashionable hats was ma- 
crame lace. A white felt hat was 
trimmed around the crown with ma- 
crame of twine-colored cord, with a 
black aigrette at the side. The ma- 
crame was also noticed covering the 
crown of a velvet toque. 
Tomato Soup. 
Kindly give a recipe for tomato soup. 
H. u. 
The recipe asked for is one of the 
commercial canned soups, and we do not 
know the formula of the manufacturer. 
The following is an excellent tomato 
soup, a fresh red in color if good ripe 
tomatoes are used: Prepare a quart of 
beef stock the day before so that the 
fat can be skimmed off. Add to this 
a quart of canned or fresh tomatoes, 
the latter peeled and sliced; a few slices 
of onion, and some sprigs of thyme 
and savory. Simmer steadily for two 
hours, then strain through a sieve, add 
a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour, 
a teaspoon ful of sugar and season with 
pepper and salt. If preferred a tea¬ 
spoonful of onion and the same of 
kitchen bouquet or Worcestershire 
sauce may be used after straining in¬ 
stead of the sliced onion and herbs. 
Add half a cupful of boiled rice, sim¬ 
mer five minutes, and serve with heated 
crackers or squares of toast. 
Tomato cream soup, without meat, is 
made as follows: Cook a quart of toma¬ 
toes soft and rub through a sieve. 
Heat to a boil, cooking with it a pinch 
of soda and a teaspoonful of onion 
juice. Cook in another saucepan a 
tablespoonful of butter and a table¬ 
spoonful of flour, until they bubble, 
stirring well, and then pour upon this 
a pint of heated milk. Let this bubble 
until it thickens, season the tomato with 
pepper and salt, and then stir it care¬ 
fully into the thickened milk. Add a 
little Worcestershire sauce and serve 
immediately.__ 
Lemon Butter. —This is an old family 
recipe for the best lemon butter you 
ever tasted. Two cups of sugar, two 
lemons, three eggs, piece of hutter size 
of egg. Use yellow rind of lemon 
grated, and .stir while boiling until it 
is smooth. k. v. c. 
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Homemade Soap. 
Will you give recipe for making common 
yellow soap, or a white soap, and how 
much borax to put in to make a good 
laundry soap? Any soap recipe will be ap¬ 
preciated. i. n. c. 
The following is an excellent white 
hard soap: Five pounds clear grease 
melted but not hot; one 10-cent can of 
potash; one tablespoonful borax. Dis¬ 
solve the potash over night in one quart 
of cold water, then turn the melted 
grease on the water, and stir constantly 
for about ten minutes, or until it looks 
like honey. Pour into a sheet-iron pan 
with greased paper in the bottom; when 
sufficiently hardened mark off into 
squares and turn out. 
Another stronger soap for laundry use 
is made as follows: Six pounds of wash¬ 
ing soda and three of unslaked lime. 
Pour on it carefully four gallons of 
boiling water, let it stand until per¬ 
fectly clear and the soda is dissolved; 
then drain off and add six pounds of 
clean fat to the water. Boil until it 
begins to harden (about two hours), 
stirring frequently. While boiling thin 
it with two gallons of cold water which 
has been poured on the soda and lime 
and allowed to settle after drawing the 
first lot off. It must be clear before 
drawing off. Add it when there is dan¬ 
ger of boiling over. When the soap 
ropes like molasses candy it is done. 
Before removing from fire stir in a 
handful of coarse salt. Wet a tub to 
prevent sticking; pour in the soap; when 
solid cut into bars and dry in an airy 
place. 
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Who Get 
Hungry 
Between Meals 
Don’t deny yourself food till meal 
time. 
When that midmorning hunger ap¬ 
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These biscuit are little nuggets of nutrition. 
Each crisp soda cracker contains energy 
for thirty minutes more work. 
Many business men eat them at ten 
in the morning. So do school 
children at recess. 
They’re more nutritive than 
bread. You can eat them 
dry — or with milk 
Uneeda Biscuit are 
always crisp and 
delightful. 
Never Sold 
in Bulk 
In the moisture-proof 
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