THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 20, 
74 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
COURAGE. 
She has no need of sword or spear. 
She shelters in no guarded place, 
She watches danger drawing near, 
And fronts it with a smiling face. 
Not hers the dull, unseeing eye, 
Blind fury, and the lust of blood, 
Across her soul no tempests fly, 
No passions surge, in angry flood. 
But clear as that great dome above 
Which frames the sun and hides the star, 
And quiet as the words of Love 
The motions of her spirit arc. 
And ever following in her train 
Come two glad figures fair as she, 
One with his foot on vanquished pain, 
And one the foe of tyranny 
Where’er the sons of men are found. 
And hearts aspire and deeds are done, 
There Courage walks on holy ground 
With Joy attained and Freedom won. 
—London Spectator. 
cup young carrots, one-fourth Cup cab¬ 
bage (or small cabbage leaves), one- 
fourth cup turnips, one-fourth cup cel¬ 
ery (or celery tops or small plants), 
one small onion. Put these ingredients 
into a hot frying pan with one heaping 
tablespoonful of butter and let it fry 
slowly for five minutes until delicately 
browned. Add one quart of boiling 
water, one teaspoonful of salt; remove 
to a granite stewpan and cook 20 min¬ 
utes. Then add one-half cup of sliced 
potatoes, one teaspoonful chopped pars¬ 
ley, one-half cup of tomatoes or tomato 
juice. Boil one-half hour longer, strain 
through a coarse sieve, and season with 
pepper and more salt if desired. If too 
thick add more water. This can be 
varied by the omission of some vege¬ 
tables, such as tomatoes or carrots, and 
the substitution of others, such as voung 
peas, beets or scraped corn. If peas or 
corn are used a cup of cream or milk 
is a pleasant addition. 
done, 30 minutes. Mash potatoes, add 
one tablespoonful of salt and one-half 
cupful of sugar and the liquid in which 
potatoes were boiled (strained). When 
lukewarm add one yeast cake and put in 
a warm place over night. In the morn¬ 
ing it will be very light and should be 
put in a covered butter crock down 
cellar. Use one-half cup for four to six 
loaves of bread, using same as dry yeast. 
ADA E. R. HELM. 
Stitched Scotch cheviot hats of Scot- The P a ' r swindlers who appear at 
tish clan tartans come to this country a farmhouse where an alleged clergy- 
from famous English hatters; they are man ^ ias unexpectedly arrived, go 
intended for country and golf wear, through a fake marriage ceremony, and 
They are finished with a silk cord and if induce the farmer to sign, as witness, 
desired, a little tuft of game bird feath- a marriage certificate which afterwards 
ers. Men’s caps are made of similar turns up as a promissory note, appear 
plaids. The hats cost $5, the caps $3, to be working the city during the cold 
and some of the tartans are wonderfully weather. The police of Greater New 
gorgeous, but such headgear is very York have had a number of complaints 
practical, coming as it does from a coun¬ 
try where bad weather is no excuse for 
staying indoors. 
from clergymen who have received 
worthless checks as marriage fees from 
a pair of agreeable young people. They 
* are always in a great hurry, and give 
Wellesley College will, we are told, usually a $20 check, for which the 
add a course in horticulture and land- clergyman returns $10 change in real 
scape gardening to its department of money. The check, of course, proves 
botany. Ibis is not to train young worthless. While we sympathize with 
women as professional gardeners, but to the clergyman over his loss, which in 
stimulate their interest in outdoor life most cases he can ill afford, it may be of 
and the care of plants. It cannot fail benefit in reminding him of the dangers 
to make the students happier and more of a hasty and ill-considered marriage, 
useful in their home surroundings. Of Ministers who do not perform marriages 
all innocent and helpful hobbies, we be- unless the contracting parties are proper- 
lieve there is nothing else in the world ly vouched for by friends or relatives, 
quite so enduring as the love of a gar- or their respectability indorsed by the 
den, nor can any other pastime put us so reverential observance of church ordi- 
nearly in tune with the Infinite. 
* 
Wadded Japanese silk vests are cold- 
weather comforts; they are white or 
black, and cost from $1.65 to $3.50. The 
cheaper ones are sleeveless, the higher- 
priced with long sleeves. They are very 
soft and light, very warm, and much 
nicer than the chamois vest, which over¬ 
heats by its texture in a way the wadded 
silk does not. Many of the big com¬ 
fortable looking coats so fashionable now 
are not really as warm as they look, for 
the wind blows up the big sleeves and 
through the loosely-woven fabric, and a 
vest or sweater is necessary under them 
in very cold weather. 
* 
Among new Summer dress materials 
are Cossack crashes with borders of filet 
work, embroidery and fringe. The 
square-meshed filet work is very strik¬ 
ing and unusual as a border for trim¬ 
ming, while the embroidery looks like 
old-fashioned darned work. These 
fabrics come in white, natural linen and 
a variety of colors; they are 52 inches 
wide, and cost $2.50 to $3.50 a yard. 
Cotton ratine is another unusual fabric, 
which at first sight suggests Turkish 
toweling, though its close little loops 
are really very different. Some of the 
French crepes have ratine borders flow¬ 
ered or figured; it looks as though bor¬ 
dered materials were to have a great 
vogue. Marquisettes and voiles have 
gorgeous oriental borders, which are 
called durbar colors; some of them 
show filet effects also. 
* 
A new vegetable soup is thus de¬ 
scribed by a correspondent of the Gar¬ 
den Magazine. It is especially good 
when the Summer vegetables are com¬ 
ing in, but is excellent in Winter also. It 
is made by grinding, coarsely, one-fourth 
nances not only avoid this swindling tra¬ 
vesty on matrimony, but also avoid re¬ 
sponsibility for the misery following 
many a foolish and ill-assorted mar¬ 
riage. 
Old-fashioned Yeast. 
On page 1220 M. S. C. asks for a re¬ 
cipe for old-fashioned yeast. Here is 
one my mother used 40 years ago: One- 
half pint yellow corn roasted to a light 
brown; one pint hops, loose measure; 
five potatoes, medium size; three table¬ 
spoonfuls salt; two-thirds cup of sugar. 
Put the corn, hops and potatoes in a 
kettle with two quarts of water, boil 
thoroughly and strain through a colan¬ 
der, then add the salt and sugar. This 
will make two quarts and will keep 
through the Summer. mrs. h. b. j. 
Take six good-sized potatoes and 
grate; pour boiling water on them, 
making as thick as starch. Scald a hand¬ 
ful of hops, pour on the hop water, and 
let boil 15 minutes; add one-half cup 
salt, one-fourth cup sugar, one table¬ 
spoonful of ginger. Set to cool; when 
cool enough add one cup of yeast and set 
to raise. j. c. m. 
Pour boiling water over hops, let 
stand on stove for one-half hour, or 
more. Strain; replace pan on stove, and 
thicken with fine cornmeal to which is 
added one tablespoonful salt, one table¬ 
spoonful ginger. Stir while on stove. 
When removed and cool enough, mix in 
some good yeast, well dissolved, with 
more meal. Let stand over night to rise; 
cut in cakes next morning. Dry quickly 
as possible. s. N. 
Pare six medium-sized potatoes, wash 
and put in kettle just enough water to 
cover; add two large handfuls of hops 
and boil all together until potatoes are 
Expedients in Millinery. 
I saw an article in The R. N.-Y. 
about making old dresses into new ones. 
I wish to tell you what success I have 
had this Fall making new hats out of 
old ones. Most everv one has catalogs 
from department stores, or newspapers 
with pictures of hats in them. I de¬ 
cided on a small hat; I did not have 
trimming for a large one. I found what 
I wished in a daily paper, a turban. I 
took a frame I had and cut it down, I 
made the crown high and covered it 
with green braid. The brim I covered 
with green velvet, trimmed with white 
silk folds, with large loop on left side 
fastened with a gold pin; it was be¬ 
coming. I made a hat for my sister out 
of an old muff. I took an old frame; 
made it larger, covered it with muslin, 
then sewed the fur on; trimmed with a 
band of blue ribbon, with bow in back; 
cost, 25 cents. For another girl I took 
a red felt hat, cut off the crown, turned 
the brim over, put wire in to make the 
crown three inches higher, covered the 
wire with muslin and trimmed it with 
folds of red velvet, from an old waist, 
a black wing and velvet rosette. Old 
silk or velvet waists make nice hats. 
Now if some one could tell how to 
make new shoes out of old ones I should 
be glad. h. s. 
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Egg Lemonade. —This lemonade was a 
conundrum to the uninitiated. It was 
of a deeper amber color than ordinary 
lemonade and of a richer flavor, but in 
what it differed no one could guess. The 
secret was that it contained a raw egg 
beaten until light as a feather. First 
the egg was beaten, then one-half cup 
sugar added, and the mixture beaten 
again. The juice and a bit of the rind 
of the lemon and two tumblers of 
water, ice cold, were then added and all 
stirred together thoroughly and served 
immediately. The light, foamy bever¬ 
age was always called for at our camp 
when the campers returned tired and 
hungry from field work or fishing, and 
we found it a delightfully refreshing 
“pick-me-up.” 
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