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December 9, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
CHRISTMAS SNOW. 
The air is full of frozen flowers; 
The snow, the snow is falling, 
And all the voices of the north 
Upon the winds are calling. 
Come, high winds, low winds, sing across 
the snowing, 
Swells and falls and dying lulls and wild 
breath blowing! 
Weird realm of wonder and of awe. 
With ice fields darkly crashing. 
Where cohorts of the cold go forth, 
With great auroras flashing. 
Your high winds, low winds, blow across the 
meadows. 
Blow, with all your bitter will, with all 
your eery shadows. 
Blow, you dark north, over hill and dale, 
With many a mile of drifting. 
From dawn till purple twilight blow, 
Swift, swift your silver sifting, 
Yet sweet world, yet glad world, despite 
the stormy singing, 
The heart of all the earth is warm while 
Christmas bells are ringing! 
—Harriet Prescott Spofford in St. Nich¬ 
olas. 
* 
A variation of cranberry sauce is 
made by spicing it while cooking. To 
one quart of cranberries add one tea- 
spoonful ground cinnamon, teaspoon¬ 
ful ground clove, % teaspoon ful ground 
allspice. This will be found excellent 
with venison or wild fowl, or indeed 
game of any' kind. 
* 
Beef that is rather tough can be ren¬ 
dered appetizing by stewing in tomatoes. 
Cut in pieces, then brown the meat in 
hot beef drippings to which a little sliced 
carrot and onion has been added. Put 
the meat, with the dripping and vege¬ 
tables, into a stewpan, add a can of 
tomatoes, a bay leaf, and seasoning of 
salt and pepper, then simmer slowly for 
several hours. No water should be used. 
A little flour and butter may be used 
for thickening if desired. 
* 
Kate Douglas Wiggin tells about a 
New England farmer’s wife who had 
no very romantic ideas about the opposite 
sex. She was hurrying from churn to 
sink, from sink to shed, and back to 
the kitchen stove, when asked if she 
approved of women’s suffrage, and if 
she wished to vote. “No, I certainly do 
not,” she exclaimed with a vigorous 
movement of the churn dasher; “I say 
if there is any one little thing that the 
men folks can do alone, for goodness 
sake, let ’em do it.” 
* 
Handbags of fur, or velvet or bro¬ 
cade with fur trimming, are expensive 
novelties. A short-haired fur is usually 
selected and is mounted with metal, and 
sometimes trimmed with metal lace or 
embroidery. Cord is used for handles, 
but the long cord, passing over the 
shoulder, is now too common to be in 
favor for the very expensive models. 
The long stocking bag with sliding rings, 
sometimes jeweled, is revived in bro¬ 
cade or velvet. Many of the bags have 
fringe along the bottom. One advan¬ 
tage of the fashion for quaint bags is 
that one can so often make one of an 
odd piece of material, and thus add a 
stylish finish to the costume. 
* 
Delicate buns will be found extra 
good. The rule given makes a good- 
sized batch. Mix two cupfuls of brown 
sugar with three eggs. Then stir in 
three cupfuls of lukewarm milk and 
two-thirds of a cupful of yeast. Add 
just enough flour to make a light sponge 
and let it stand until morning. Then 
add half a cupful of melted butter, a 
teaspoonful of soda and as much flour 
as will make it quite stiff for stirring 
with a spoon. It is well to sift the soda 
with some of the flour before adding to 
the mixture. Let the whole rise until 
very light. Then roll out and cut into 
buns and put them into the pans. Rub 
the tops with melted butter and sugar, 
let them rise in the pans and bake as 
usual. 
This is the season when we read much 
about the time, money and energy 
wasted in preparing for Christmas. We 
are told that people spend more than 
they can afford, that they give merely 
for the sake of the returns they receive 
and that they use up the energy needed 
in other directions, and accumulate envy, 
jealousy and ill-feeling as a result of 
their efforts. This may be true—yet it 
is surely unjust to blame the great fes¬ 
tival for the follies of poor human 
nature. A woman who is greedy, or 
envious, or merely silly, will show these 
qualities in her daily avocations, and not 
merely in her annual gift-making. A 
vast majority of us would find Christ¬ 
mas giving an easy task if it were not 
necessary to stretch one dollar to the 
size of ten; yet too often we find the 
prosperous and well-to-do lamenting the 
holiday. Just as the poor widow of old 
shared her failing oil and meal with the 
prophet, so struggling workers today 
feed the spirit of Christmas joy with 
the gifts born of love and self-denial, 
and enrich their own lives by the giving. 
Let Dives lament the demands made 
upon him if he will—we know he is the 
victim of his own false ideals. We will 
offer no gift that is not dictated by real 
feeling, and count any sacrifice thus en¬ 
tailed but a part of the real character¬ 
building Christmas. 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns alzuays give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
The coat pattern shown is made with 
fronts and back and includes shoulder 
and under-arm seams, but the sleeves are 
cut in one with the body portions. The 
collar is made in sections and is joined 
to the neck and front edges and the deep 
cuffs finish the sleeves. The closing can 
be made with two buttons and button¬ 
holes, with buttons and buttonholes for 
the entire length, or with braid orna¬ 
ments, as liked. For the medium size 
will be required yards of material 
27, 3 yards 44 or 52 inches wide with 
yard 44 or 52 inches wide for revers 
and cuffs. Pattern No. 7207 is cut in 
three sizes, small 34 or 36, medium 38 or 
40, large 42 or 44 inch bust; price 10 
cents. 
The group shows very attractive un¬ 
derwear patterns. 6941, corset cover 
with straight upper edge. 34 to 44 bust. 
7068, corset cover for misses and small 
women. 14, 16 and 18 years. 7170, prin¬ 
cess slip, 34 to 44 bust, with round or 
square low or Dutch, or with high neck, 
with long, three-quarter or short sleeves, 
or without sleeves with circular or gath¬ 
ered flounce. 7159. five-gored petticoat, 
22 to 32 waist, with or without yoke 
with inverted plaits, gathers or habit 
back, with straight or circular flounce. 
6781, girl’s princess slip, 6 to 12 years, 
with round, square V-shaped or high 
neck, with or without sleeves. Price of 
each pattern 10 cents. 
against accident when driv¬ 
ing along dark roads is one 
of our famous Rayo Driving 
Lamps. 
Rayo Driving Lamps will 
not blow or Jar out. 
They are smaller than 
other driving lamps/ but 
have a magnifying power 
that throws a bright light 
many feet ahead, while the 
extra large ruby disc in the 
rear is readily discernible in 
any weather. 
Rayo Driving Lamps are fur¬ 
nished with double side bracket 
attachments, to fit square or round 
posts. They can be used on all 
kinds of vehicles. 
In addition to Driving 
Lamps, the Rayo line in¬ 
cludes lanterns of all styles, 
sizes and finishes—each the 
best of its particular kind. 
All are equipped with select¬ 
ed Rayo globes, with wicks 
inserted in burners ready to 
light. 
Dealers everywhere; or 
write for descriptive circular to any agency 
of the 
Standard Oil Company 
(Incorporated) 
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Our own made, pure all wool blankets. 
Buy them for Christmas presents, for 
your Parents, your Children, or your 
friends. These blankets come in pure 
white, silver-grey, and scarlet; also in 
plaids, black and white, tan and white, 
yellow and white, pink and white, and 
blue and white. 
Size :—114 '* B. & K.”.$7.00 per pair 
1 14 “ fluplaize ”.7.75 per pair 
Plain White. " XX ”.8.00 per pair 
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