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THIS RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
November 11, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
ON THE PLAINS. 
Dispirited I trod a pathway bare, 
One slow monotony of level way. 
No mountain height rose luminous in air, 
No rill came down in iridescent spray ; 
Dusty and hot shone the unshadowed 
day. 
Yet none of this annoyed a dweller there, 
A patient plowman, furrow scarce begun. 
“I like the place,” said he, ‘‘and find it 
fair; 
Our crops reward us for the tilling done 
Where we can see the shining of the sun.” 
Likewise, oh soul, heed not thy toiling 
place! 
Dream of thy harvest! By each con¬ 
trite one 
The Lord himself abides. Oh, wondrous 
grace! 
His presence glorifies thy labor done, 
One everlasting shining of the sun. 
—Caroline D. Swan in the Living Church. 
* 
A new model of waffle iron has three 
compartments, each of which can bei 
taken out of the iron frame and washed 
separately. It costs $2.70. 
* 
We are told that a woman who had 
some few scattering fruits made a mar¬ 
malade by mixing together peaches, 
pears, quinces and apples, with a sea¬ 
soning of cloves, ginger and lemon peel. 
The skins and cores were boiled sepa¬ 
rately to make the syrup, which formed 
a jelly-like consistency. She calls this 
hodge-podge jam. 
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Little children too young for a coun¬ 
try school will get both pleasure and 
instruction from the kindergarten sets 
sold by large toy and department stores. 
They vary in price from around 75 cents 
to $3, and include a variety of blocks, 
stenciling and paper work materials. 
Wooden boxes of colored beads, costing 
10 to 25 cents, are also beloved of the 
children, who take great pleasure in 
stringing beads, and learn something of 
color combinations by doing it. 
* 
We hear sometimes of the scoffers 
who put buttons in the evangelist’s con¬ 
tribution basket, but according to the 
Nyasaland (Africa) Diocesan Chronicle, 
quoted by the New York Evening Post, 
the collections in the Anglican Cathedral 
at Likoma, Lake Nyasa, must bear the 
palm for embarrassing variety. During 
March the collections included 167 coins, 
173 work tickets, two pieces of soap, six 
bracelets, seven necklaces, 58 corncobs, 
130 pumpkins, three baskets of cassava- 
root, two papais (whatever they may 
be), three melons, one gourd, 21 eggs, 
two chickens and one duck. The num¬ 
ber of coins is really most creditable to 
the faithful laity, who a few years ago 
wore no clothes, and consequently pos¬ 
sessed no pockets to carry the root of 
all evil. 
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We have just been putting up our 
stenciled curtains for the Winter, and 
again congratulate ourselves on their 
attractiveness. They are made of plain 
cream-white scrim, with two-inch hem, 
and a deep band of stenciling across the 
bottom. This stenciling was done with 
oil paint, and we find that it washes 
perfectly, when laundered like any fine 
colored materials with white soap and 
lukewarm water. The water colors are 
very nice for stenciling where the ma¬ 
terial is not to be washed, but they are 
not likely to be fast in laundering. The 
cheesecloth or scrim costs 10 or 12 cents 
a yard, and the stenciling can be done 
in any color liked, making a most ar¬ 
tistic effect at very moderate cost. For 
a girl’s room we stenciled a border of 
pink roses all along the edges of the 
curtains; a room papered in yellow has 
curtains with a design of pine cones in 
brown and dull green. It will often be 
found that a little black, brushed on 
carefully to deepen the shadows, or 
mixed with the main color, will make a 
design more effective, but the worker 
will gain facility in execution, and find 
that much originality*can be worked into 
set designs. 
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Several years ago we printed a note 
regarding a neighborhood exchange 
which proved a great convenience to 
the people in an isolated country place. 
The exchange was in a central place, 
and was managed by a crippled woman 
who was otherwise unprovided for. She 
started the exchange in the Summer 
boarder season, because the boarders 
often wanted fruit, or souvenirs, or 
homemade cake, or plain sewing, or 
fine laundry work. All these things 
were planned for by the woman who 
kept the exchange, who received a fee 
of 10 per cent, on each transaction. The 
people who did the work did not have 
to hunt up customers, or travel here and 
there to deliver things—everything was 
delivered at the exchange. We were 
told the work proved such a convenience 
that it was continued the year around; 
one farmer’s wife who had been a mil¬ 
liner was glad to find such work through 
the exchange, while it gave a handy way 
of hearing about women who would go 
out to work or do nursing, and also to 
plan sales of produce, buyers finding it 
a central point. It would seem that 
there is a useful idea here for many 
rather isolated communities. 
Keeping Autumn Leaves. 
Could you Inform one of your readers 
how to preserve Fall foliage so It will keep 
during the Winter when used in the room 
for decorative purposes? In its ordinary 
state it will crumble up in a short time 
and lose its beauty. I thought perhaps 
some liquid could be covered over the 
leaves to keep them in shape. H. s. 
First press the leaves carefully be¬ 
tween soft newspapers under a weight, 
until fully dry, then paint over with a 
shellac varnish. We have had very fair 
success in this way, though in a warm, 
dry room it is always hard to keep the 
leaves perfect for any great length of 
time. An old-fashioned method of pre¬ 
paring Autumn leaves is to wax them; 
press for a few days, then scrape a little 
w r hite wax on the leaf, and rub it over 
with a warm (not hot) flatiron. This 
is quite efficacious, and easily done. 
Keeping Cider Sweet. 
Will you tell me how to keep cider sweet 
during the Winter? t. e. h. 
The one sure way to keep cider sweet 
is to bottle and sterilize like grape 
juice. It must not be boiled, as that 
spoils the flavor. Mr. J. S. Woodward 
told us how he does this two years ago. 
The cider is strained through flannel, 
then heated to 160 degrees and held at 
this temperature for 15 minutes, after 
which it is put into clean jugs or bot¬ 
tles, which are immediately corked with 
new corks, pressed in firmly and tied 
down, the top immediately covered with 
paraffin. When cold another covering 
of paraffin is put over the cork, and the 
containers are then stored in a cool 
dark place. We have been told that 
cider will not ferment if a handful of 
mustard seed is put in the barrel, but 
we have no experience with this. 
Plans for Dumb Waiter Wanted. 
I would be very much pleased if you 
would give directions for making a dumb 
waiter in farmer’s kitchen. I only de¬ 
sire a small one, probably 20 inches deep 
and three feet six inches wide and five 
feet high, and want it to be even with 
kitchen floor when down. If you can give 
this information in The R. N.-Y. it will be 
a great help to me. t. o. 
An Oregon correspondent told us sev¬ 
eral years ago that anyone who knew 
how to use tools could make a dumb 
waiter, the only requirements being a 
shaft built smooth and true, with a 
closet door above and below, a dumb 
waiter hung true, and a block and 
tackle with trip to hold the rope as de¬ 
sired. We hardly understand the di¬ 
mensions given; if we understand it 
aright, three feet six inches wide does 
not sound very small. Will some one 
who has built a dumb waiter give plans, 
and any other advice that may be help¬ 
ful to this inquirer? 
How I Used a Windfall. 
Your recent article “A Penny Saved” 
reminded me of my last Winter’s experi¬ 
ence in economy in the matter of dresses 
for my two growing girls. My friends 
know that I am pleased to make use of 
outgrown clothing, so I had a veritable 
windfall. A figured challis, with dilapi¬ 
dated yoke, was freshened with a new 
one of pretty pink goods I had in the 
house—also a gift. This, with shorten¬ 
ing the skirt, made my younger girlie’s 
“Sunday best” all Winter. Next came 
a Russian dress of fine quality dark blue 
serge trimmed with a braid particularly 
suitable, but badly soiled and faded. I 
removed the braid, thinking it worthless, 
but the wrong side was so pretty I 
stitched it on again. I also removed 
the short sleeves and shortened the 
gown, which was worn with guimpes to 
school all Winter, and is good for an¬ 
other season by letting down the hem. 
Third on my list is a brown serge 
trimmed with velvet of the same shade. 
This dress just fitted my older girl but 
as she attended the same school where 
it had been worn I wished to change 
its appearance somewhat. I removed the 
velvet and trimmed it with a harmon¬ 
izing plaid and it looked like a different 
gown. Then came a bright red serge, 
badly spotted, and a green-grey skirt of 
mixed goods. These I dipped in dye- 
dark wine—and it came out a beautiful 
rich shade. This, trimmed with silk of 
the same shade which I happened to 
have in the house, made a very nice 
school dress. 
When I counted up the money cost of 
two dresses for each girl and found it to 
be about 85 cents, I felt free to buy the 
goods and trimmings for the older girl’s 
best dress which came to exactly $5; I 
made the dress myself. I often make 
the girls’ guimpes from partly wornout 
shirtwaists, but it does not pay to do 
this if they are badly worn. Those 
clothes, as they were given to me, did 
not look attractive, everything being 
very much soiled, but a vigorous use 
of soap and water, dye and flatiron 
worked the transformation. b. d. 
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