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THR RUKALi NEW-YORKER 
December 2, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
. HOME. 
Home’s not merely four square walls, 
Though with pictures hung and gilded ; 
Home is where affection calls 
Filled with shrines the heart has builded ! 
Home! Go watch the faithful dove 
Sailing ’ncath the heaven above us; 
Home is where there’s one to love! 
Home is where there’s one to love us! 
Home’s not merely roof and room— 
It needs something to endear it, 
Home is where the heart can bloom, 
Where there’s some kind lip to cheer it! 
What is home with none to meet. 
None to welcome, none to greet us! 
Home is sweet, and only sweet, 
Where there’s one who loves to meet us! 
—Charles Swain. 
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The delicate chicken sandwiches 
served in one New York tea room are 
made of chopped boiled chicken flavored 
with mayonnaise, with the addition of 
boiled chestnuts rubbed to a paste. 
Chopped boiled chestnuts will also be 
found a desirable addition to a salad 
of apple and celery, with mayonnaise 
dressing. 
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Swiss challie is a new cotton ma¬ 
terial with the texture and general ap¬ 
pearance of wool challie. It is shown 
in many styles and colors, and is said 
to wash well without shrinking. It is 
30 inches wide and costs 18 cents a 
yard. Another non-shrinking material 
that has the appearance of a light¬ 
weight all-wool flannel is called “ideal- 
ean’’; it is adapted for children’s wear, 
shirts or pajamas. It is 29 inches wide 
and is 18 cents a yard. 
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells 
about a small East Cleveland boy who 
promised a friendly neighbor a bushel 
of walnuts in the Fall. He knew 
where the trees were and he was sure 
he could make good. But on the day 
he named for delivering the goods he 
did not arrive. A week passed, and he 
was still tardy. At the end of thirteen 
days he appeared at his neighbor’s back 
door with about a quart of nuts. “I’m 
awfully sorry,” he said breathlessly, 
“but—well, th’ tree ain’t layin’ very well 
this year 1” 
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SEALiNG-wax hatpins are no novelty, 
a good many women experimenting with 
them, but it is possible to get some very 
attractive effects with a little ingenuity. 
The usual way is to cover the head of 
a plain hatpin with several irregular 
layers of wax, which are alternately 
melted and hardened in cold water so 
as to produce an irregular mass of in¬ 
termingled color. Something very hand¬ 
some may be made, however, by using 
one color of wax, forming it into an 
irregular head, and then pressing into 
this ornaments of metal, glass or stone. 
Most people have heads of broken silver 
stickpins or hatpins, little brooches or 
other trifles, which are pretty, yet hardly 
worth mending. A hatpin head of dark 
blue or green sealing wax with a little 
silver ornament of this sort pressed into 
the top is very handsome. The idea 
may be developed in a great variety of 
ways, according to colors desired and 
materials on hand. Gold, silver and 
bronze wax gives good results, and 
there is great scope for individual taste. 
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Shepherd’s pie is an old-fashioned 
recipe for using cold roast beef. Well 
seasoned and served piping hot, it is a 
good dish for a cold day. Have ready 
a quart of thin slices of beef and sea¬ 
son the meat with salt and pepper. Put 
it into a deep earthen dish and pour 
over it a gravy prepared by browning 
two scant tablespoonfuls of flour in 
two tablespoonfuls of butter, adding a 
pint of water and seasoning with salt 
and pepper. Mash eight hot boiled 
potatoes. Add to them a cupful of 
boiling milk, a tablespoonful of butter 
and salt and pepper to suit the taste. 
Spread this potato paste over the meat 
and its sauce, beginning at the sides of 
the dish and working toward the center. 
Let the pie bake about half an hour. 
It is a good plan to spread a little 
melted butter over the top. Other meats 
may also be used in a shepherd’s pie; 
mutton is very nice. Tomatoes may be 
added to the gravy for a change, if 
liked. 
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This season skunk is one of the most 
fashionable of all furs. It has long 
held high rank abroad, and under its 
own name, while we have known it as 
black marten or Alaska sable or some 
other fancy name. It is a fur that 
wears exceptionally well, and is unde¬ 
niably handsome. We saw some very 
handsome sets recently, prices ranging 
from $45 to $55 each for muff or 
scarf; these were lined with brown 
satin. Other sets went up as high as 
$200. The solemn little skunk, which 
is not accorded a very high place in so¬ 
ciety, certainly has a right to feel proud 
of himself. 
Suggestions for Trimmings. 
Lingerie blouses of thinness which 
precludes all possibility of warmth 
have accustomed our eyes to a light 
and airy style of dressing which allows, 
even at country festivities, the use of 
dainty, light-weight frocks for evening 
wear. Nor is there any extravagance 
in allowing the girls one or two such 
gowns, for they will then be in readiness 
for early Summer wear when there is 
less time for home dressmaking than 
during the shut-in days of Winter. Ma¬ 
terials need not be expensive, for it is 
the dainty needlework and festive garni¬ 
tures which girls love that becomes them 
best in their gala-day dresses. 
A girl’s frock of this type recently 
seen was of blue and white in narrow 
stripes, and decorated with insets of 
lace insertion having an inch-wide strip 
of plain blue silk between the strips of 
insertion. The blue silk, which was of 
soft crepe texture, also appeared as a 
wrinkled belt, in narrow folds, and in 
rose-like decorations elsewhere. Prob¬ 
ably the best way to construct the lace 
and silk insets would be to baste all 
upon paper and tear this away after the 
stitching was done. Turn the silk, 
which should be cut bias, under once 
along the edges; lap the insertion onto 
this and stitch on sewing machine. Use 
a rather heavy lace an inch and a half 
or two inches wide. In the model a 
band of such trimming went around the 
narrow skirt at the top of a deep kilt. 
It did not, however, cross the front 
breadth, but ended under the rose-like 
garnitures shown in Fig. 473. 
To make these take a bias piece of 
silk 15 inches long and seven inches 
wide. Fold it to bring the two cut 
edges together and gather along these 
edges and across both ends. Select a 
flat button or wooden mould three- 
fourths of an inch in diameter, and 
cover it with the silk, using two thick¬ 
nesses. Now sew the gathered piece to 
the back of this button, letting its edge 
extend under just enough to hide the 
stitches. Draw the ruffle in with a 
stitch over its edge to form five petals. 
Make some half-inch folds of the bias 
silk by turning in the edges and sTip- 
stitching the fold upon itself. Use these 
folds, tied in a single knot at the center, 
to connect the rosettes if two are needed 
in a place, as where the broad band of 
trimming stops at the front breadth. 
Others may be used upon the waist, for 
an inset of the trimming should be ar¬ 
ranged there. But remembering that 
lightness and variety are the watch¬ 
words for present day styles, do not use 
any one soft of trimming too freely. 
The narrow silk fold edging the lace 
is the only garniture allowed about neck 
and edge of sleeves. augusta rose. 
A Few Meat Dishes. 
To use left-overs of fowls, fresh 
meats, etc., run through food chopper, 
season with salt, pepper and a bit of 
sage if preferred; moisten with cream 
or a well-beaten egg, bake in small in¬ 
dividual pies. I cut out biscuit dough 
size of a saucer, cover half with mix¬ 
ture, fold over the other side, pinch 
edges together, prick top with a fork 
and bake. When other meats are not 
available I steam fresh sausage (or 
baked) half an hour, mix with spices, 
some green chopped apples or stewed 
dried apples, add a bit of sugar and 
bake pies filled with this. 
When frying chicken, pork, sausage, 
etc., they cook more thoroughly and are 
crisper if set in the oven instead of on 
top of the stove. 
To cook opossum, scald, scrape and 
draw, wash thoroughly, rub with salt, 
and let freeze over night. Cut off best 
portions, boil in salted water until partly 
tender, remove from water, dust each 
piece with pepper and sage, lay in a 
deep baking pan, surround with sweet 
potatoes, bake until potatoes are done. 
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