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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
September 30. 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
OPPORTUNITY. 
They do me wrong wlio say I come no more 
When once I knock and fail to find you 
in; 
Por every day I stand outside your door, 
And bid you wake, and rise to fight and 
win. 
Wail not for precious chance's passed away, 
Weep not for golden ages on the wane; 
Each night I burn the records of the day; 
At sunrise every soul is born again. 
* * * * * * * 
Tho’ deep in mire, wring not your hands 
and weep; 
I lend my arm to all who say “I can!” 
No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep 
Rut yet might rise and be again a man. 
Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast? 
Dost reel from righteous retribution’s 
blow ? 
Then turn from blotted archives of the past 
And find the future's pages white as 
snow. 
i 
Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy 
spell; 
Art thou a sinner? Sins may be for¬ 
given ; 
Each morning gives thee wings to flee from 
hell, 
Each night a star to guide thy feet to 
heaven. 
—Walter Malone. 
* 
Pickled carrots are recommended as 
an attractive garnish for cold meat, and 
appetizing, too. Scrape and cut length¬ 
wise nice smooth carrots; when boiled 
drain and pack in glass cans, putting in 
each jar a slice of lemon, a bay leaf, 
and a teaspoonful of celery seed, fill the 
jar with cold vinegar, and seal. Let 
stand about four days before using. 
* 
Newspapers report that a party con¬ 
sisting of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Kirk- 
ham, Jr., and their four children arrived 
September 6 at Middletown, Conn., by 
wagon from Minnesota, completing a 
trip of 1,900 miles from Staples, which 
they left on June 28. The party aver¬ 
aged about 30 miles a day. Seventeen 
Minnesota chickens, which were carried 
in a small coop under the wagon, laid 
their usual average of eggs all the way. 
This recalls the wagon trip recorded in 
The R. N.-Y. under the title of “A Trek 
to the South,” a few years ago. 
* 
A most delicious and festive dessert 
that is very easily prepared has musk- 
melon and plain vanilla ice cream for 
its basis. The melons, very cold, are 
cut in half, and the seeds and strings 
removed. The flesh is then scooped out 
carefully, cut into dice, sprinkled with 
powdered sugar, and returned to the 
half rinds, each half being placed on a 
serving plate. Ice cream is then spread 
in a smooth mound over the diced 
melon, a tablespoonful of raspberry 
syrup poured over each portion, and a 
little grated cocoanut sprinkled over the 
top. It is well to press down the top 
of the ice cream a little, so that all the 
syrup will not run down the sides. This 
is a delicious dessert, and one that does 
not mean as much exertion as some less 
dainty dishes that need more work. 
* 
The first week in September nineteen 
deaths and numerous cases of serious 
illness were reported in and around New 
York, as the result of toadstool poison¬ 
ing, most of the victims being Italians. 
No clue is given by the newspapers as 
to the identity of the poisonous fungi, 
but there is little doubt that in most, if 
not in all these cases, the poisoning was 
caused by the death cup, Amanita phal- 
loides, which is the most dangerous of 
all fleshy fungi. It is a nice-looking 
white or straw-colored fungus, fresh 
and clean in appearance, with no evil 
smell or taste. The cap is satiny, the 
gills white. In the common edible 
mushroom, the veil of white skin which 
sheathes the little button forms when 
ruptured a ring around the stem, which 
is straight all the way down. In the 
death cup the stem swells out to a bul¬ 
bous base, which is set in a cup formed 
by this veil—there is no such cup in the 
real mushroom. The Amanita grows 
most freely in pine woods, sometimes on 
the edges of lawns, but not in meadows. 
The death cup resembles, at first glance, 
the common mushroom, but is more like 
another edible species, the smooth 
lepiota, but the latter has no sheathing 
cup, and grows chiefly in meadows. 
There is no bad taste to warn the vic¬ 
tim of the Amanita, and it is usually 
nine to 14 hours - after eating before 
symptoms of poisoning appear. The fly 
Amanita, another poisonous species, is 
less likely to be eaten by mistake, its 
warty cap and bulbous stem giving 
warning. The inexperienced mushroom 
hunter should confine his researches to 
the open fields, avoiding woods species, 
and if he will stick to the common field 
mushroom, the little fairy ring and the 
puff ball, he will keep out of danger. 
Bulletin 20 of the Division of Botany, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, “Prin¬ 
cipal Poisonous Plants of the United 
States,” by V. K. Chesnut, pictures the 
death cup and the fly Amanita, as well 
as a number of other dangerous plants; 
a study of this bulletin will be found 
very profitable. 
* 
La Follette’s- Weekly says that a 
teacher of English, in order to disprove 
the charge that high school pupils know 
little about the really vital things that 
are going on around them, gave a test 
in which she asked for definitions of 
such terms as tariff, reciprocity, the 
labor problem. In the paper of a fifteen- 
year-old girl she found this: “The labor 
problem is how to keep the working- 
people happy without paying them 
enough to live on.” It seems to us 
that this is the specific problem now- 
confronting all those wise men who are 
so anxious to uplift the rural population. 
The farmer who is getting adequate re¬ 
turns for the industry and intelligence 
invested in his work can cope with his 
own problems; the commissions and 
conferences for rural betterment seem 
most anxious to make the farmers con¬ 
tented without considering the question 
of a living wage. 
Tomato Chutney. 
Will you reprint the recipe for “tomato 
chutney” which came out under the heading 
“Savory Relishes” several years ago? It 
called for tomatoes, apples, raisins, spices, 
etc. A friend borrowed my copy and never 
returned it, and I cannot remember the 
correct proportions. c. E. ii. 
Tomato Chutney.—Two pounds ripe 
tomatoes, two pounds sugar, one-half 
pound green ginger, one pound raisins 
stoned, one-fourth pound of salt, one 
ounce garlic, one-half ounce powdered 
chillies, one quart vinegar. Place the to¬ 
matoes in a shallow pan and put in an 
oven till they crack, when the skins 
can be readily removed. Peel and core 
and boil them with one-half of the 
vinegar 10 minutes. Pound or grind 
the ginger, garlic and raisins with 
enough vinegar to make them into a 
paste. Boil the sugar with the remain¬ 
der of the vinegar into a thick syrup. 
Mix all the ingredients together with 
the salt and chillies, and boil till the 
fruit and syrup run the one way when 
put on a plate held sideways. Bottle 
and seal. 
Chutney Sauce.—Eight ounces of tart 
apples, peeled and cored, eight ounces 
of peeled tomatoes, eight ounces brown 
sugar, eight ounces salt, four ounces 
powdered ginger, four ounces red pep¬ 
pers, two ounces shallots (or onion), 
two ounces garlic. Pound all together 
in a mortar (or pass through a chopper 
set to cut fine) and put all the ma¬ 
terials together in a jar with 2)4 pints 
good vinegar. Place the jar in a warm 
place, covered for one month, stirring 
with a wooden spoon twice every day. 
At the end of the time pass the chutney 
through a sieve, and bottle, when it is 
ready for use. The intense heat of the 
peppers grows milder with keeping, and 
the chutney improves and becomes richer 
in flavor. This is an old English recipe, 
originally received from India. 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns alzuays give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
A popular skirt model is shown in No. 
7147. The skirt is made in six gores. 
There are extensions on the side gores 
7147 Six Gored Skirt, 22 to 32 waist, 
that form the inverted plaits. The edges 
of front and back gores are turned well 
under, then arranged over the side gores 
and stitched; the edges are joined bc- 
ne..ih the plaits. For the medium size 
will be required 8 J 4 yards of material 
27, 4 yards 36 or 44 inches wide when 
material has figure or nap; 6)4 yards 27 
or 3)4 yards 44 inches wide when ma- i 
terial has neither figure nor nap, the I 
width of the skirt at the lower edge is 
3% yards, 2)4 yards when plaits are 
laid. The pattern, No. 7147, is cut in 1 
sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inch j 
waist measure; price 10 cents. 
The smaller pictures include 7142, 
tucked blouse or shirt waist, 34 to 44 
lust. 7127, short coat, for misses and 
small women, 14, 16 and 18 years, with 
three-quarter or long sleeves, with sailor 
collar that can be made square or with 
one or two points at the back. 7097, 
fancy waist, 34 to 42 bust, with low or 
high neck, fancy short or three-quarter 
plain sleeves. 7083, circular skirt, with 
adjustable train and panel, 22 to 32 
waist, with high or natural waist line, 
dart-fitted or gathered, in round or 
walking length. 7118, girl’s dress, 8 , 10 
and 12 years, with high or round neck. 
7134, two-piece skirt with underlying 
side panels, for misses and small women, 
14, 16 and 18 years; price of each 10 
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