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THE RURAL EC W-YOKKKK 
February 3, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
GRADATIM. 
Heaven is not reached at a single'bound; 
Hut wc build the ladder by which we rise, 
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies. 
And we mount to its summit round hy 
round. 
I count this thing to he grandly true ; 
That a noble deed is a step toward^God— 
Lifting the soul from the common clod 
To a purer air and a broader view. 
We rise hy the things that are under feet; 
By what we have mastered of good and 
gain ; 
By tlie pride deposed and the passion 
slain, 
And the vanquished ills that we hourly 
meet. 
We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust, 
When the morning calls us to life and 
light, 
But our hearts grow weary, and ere the 
night. 
Our lives are trailing the sordid dust. 
VVe hope, we resolve, wo aspire, we pray. 
And we think that we mount the air on 
wings 
Beyond the recall of sensual tilings. 
While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. 
Wings for the angels, hut feet for men ! 
We may borrow the wings to ilnd the 
way— 
We may hope, and resolve, and aspire, 
and pray; 
But our feet must rise, or we fall again. 
Only in dreams Is a ladder thrown 
From the weary earth to the sapphire 
walls; 
But the dreams depart and the vision 
falls, 
And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of 
stone. 
Heaven is not reached by a single hound ; 
But vve build tin- ladder by which we rise 
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, 
And we mount to its summit, round by 
round. 
—J. G. Holland. 
* 
As an awful warning of the results of 
equal suffrage, “Mr. Dooley” says: 
If Molly Donahue wint to vote in a liv¬ 
ery stable tli’ first thing she’d do wud be 
to get a broom, sweep up th’ floors, take 
th' harness from th’ walls, an’ hang up a 
picture iv Ningary he moonlight; chase out 
th’ watchers an’ polls, remove th' seegars, 
make th’ judges get a shave, an’ p’raps 
lnvaiydate th’ ilietion. It's no job f’r her, 
an' I told her so. 
* 
Scalloped potatoes and onions will 
make a savory cold weather dish. Cut 
peeled potatoes and onions into thin 
slices, and place in a buttered baking 
dish, seasoning each layer lightly with 
salt and pepper. Pour over enough 
milk to cover, and hake for three hours; 
add more milk if it cooks away too 
much. Fifteen minutes before serving 
cover the top with two-thirds of a cup 
of cracker crumbs, rolled fine, mixed 
with a tablespoonful of butter, and let 
this brown. If boiled potatoes and 
onions are used only half an hour’s 
baking will be required, but the flavor 
is rather different from the long baking 
of previously uncooked vegetables. 
* 
Everyone is interested when a col¬ 
lege glee club happens along; the whole¬ 
some, joyous band of young men with 
their well-trained voices and good 
music is sure to afford an evening of 
inspiriting entertainment. Why not a 
glee club in the rural school ? It can 
he made a success, according to reports 
from Central Howell, Oregon, where wc 
are told they have the first glee club 
successfully organized in a rural school 
in that State. This club was started as 
a "booster club” to beautify the school 
grounds, improve the building and keep 
the schoolhousc and grounds in order 
during vacation. The teacher found the 
boys had good voices, and decided they 
should have some of the advantages 
given to city boys. The result.is the 
Central Howell Booster Glee Club, 
■which docs much to enliven social life 
in the neighborhood. Two other singing 
clubs have been organized, one of boys 
and girls, and another of girls exclu¬ 
sively. These clubs have a garden 
whose produce defrays expenses of 
keeping the school grounds in order. 
This seems to he a place where the rural 
school will be a strong force in the life 
of the community. That practical school 
garden is an excellent form of nature 
study for farm boys and girls, and there 
is nothing like chorus singing for driv¬ 
ing away the blues 
* 
Apparently Mrs. Lew Shank, wife of 
the mayor of Indianapolis, is a real 
helpmate to her husband, for she aided 
him in his sales “direct to the con¬ 
sumer,” and is said to be in warm sym¬ 
pathy with his efforts to reduce the 
middleman’s share. Wc are told that 
she is an excellent housekeeper of do* 
mestic tastes, hut also a good business 
woman. She was superintendent of the 
restaurant in an Indianapolis depart¬ 
ment stoic until other duties compelled 
her to give it up, and also did special 
catering. The newspapers announce that 
Mayor Shank’s Christmas present to his 
wife was a purebred Jersey cow, and 
she says she is now going to make the 
family butter, so that she can have it 
just as she wants it. Mr. Shank has 
always been known as a practical man, 
and it seems quite possible that bis at¬ 
tention has been turned toward the con¬ 
sumer’s dollar, in some degree, by his 
domestic partner. 
* 
We have seen references, from time 
to time, in various newspapers, to Amer¬ 
ican claimants who sought to recover 
the estate of Sir Francis Drake, the 
great admiral of Queen Elizabeth’s time. 
Interested persons induced a number of 
gullible men and women to form an 
association for this purpose, selling 
stock at $25 a share to defray mythical 
expenses in pushing the claim. The es¬ 
tate was said to he intact, with a value 
of $350,000,000. Some of the more pru¬ 
dent alleged “heirs,” however, decided 
to make some investigation with the aid. 
of the London Times, and the following 
summary of this investigation is given 
hy the Indianapolis News; 
The estate presumably passed to the heirs 
under the will 315 years ago, and its pres¬ 
ent value is not known and cannot !>e esti¬ 
mated, but probably is not large. 
There is no litigation pending for settle¬ 
ment and distribution of the estate. 
There are no heirs known to be In the 
United States. 
A story about claimants in America to 
the Drake estate reached England a few 
years ago, but It was considered one of 
the absurd fictions about fortunes await¬ 
ing heirs which appear with more or less 
regularity. 
There are no Drake millions. The ab¬ 
stracts of the two wills of Sir Francis 
Drake, taken from the probate registry In 
London, show that Drake wrote one will on 
August 23. 1505. before starting on the 
expedition to the West Indies on board the 
ship Defiance, on which lie died January 
10. 1500. 
The second will, written a few days be¬ 
fore ills death, confirmed the provisions of 
the first. 
These wills were proved in the preroga¬ 
tive court of Canterbury, on May 17. 1590, 
by Francis Clark, notary public for Thomas 
Drake, brother of the deceased, who was 
made sole executor by the last will. The 
mills of Plymouth, the principal possession, 
was left to bis wife and to his brother. 
The mansion and contents were left to the 
wife. These comprised the property. 
The total value of the estate was not in 
excess of £50,000, as shown hy the wills. 
We have referred, on several occa¬ 
sions, to the swindlers who grow fat 
upon money contributed by people who 
are led to believe in some imaginary in¬ 
heritance. The United States affords a 
fertile field to such swindlers, because 
so many of our people trace their descent 
to families of the old world. Apart from 
the fact that in most countries un¬ 
claimed estates lapse, after some length 
of time, to the crown or state, one 
should remember the costs and uncer¬ 
tainties of all legal processes. The 
Dickens’ centennial year is a good time 
to read that master of humor and 
pathos, and the would-be claimant of an 
over-seas fortune might settle himself 
comfortably with “Bleak House,” and 
read once more about the monumental 
chancery case of “Jarndyce vs. Jarn- 
dyce.’* 
Connecticut Election Cake. 
Will you give one or more recipes for 
Connecticut election cake? When the writer 
was a«boy in Connecticut 40 years ago 
election cake, or dough cake as it was some¬ 
times called, was very commonly made. In 
this section of country no one knows any¬ 
thing about it, and my wife says recipe 
books do not give it. Probably some of 
The R. N.-Y. family in Connecticut can tell 
us about It. w. l. 
Here is an old recipe for election 
cake. We are not sure, however, that 
it is the Connecticut variety. We be¬ 
lieve it often contained fruit, which is 
omitted from our recipe: 
Rub into half a pound of sifted flour 
five ounces of butter, add a saltspoonful 
of salt, one cupful of sugar; mix. Scald 
two cupfuls of milk, and when lukewarm 
add one yeast cake dissolved, and two 
eggs well beaten. Make a hole in the 
center of the Hour, pour in the milk mix¬ 
ture, stir in a little of the flour; cover 
and stand aside for three hours. Then 
beat in all the flour, add the juice of 
three oranges, a tablespoonful of cin¬ 
namon and half a nutmeg grated; turn 
into a greased round pan and, when very 
light, bake in a moderate oven for one 
hour. 
Sugaring Pop Corn. 
Wc found a recent article on pop corn 
interesting, but think we have improved 
quite a hit on the methods there given. 
Beginners at least find it difficult to stir 
the corn so that the syrup will be evenly 
distributed. But try our way. Most 
R. N.-Y. readers have milk pans. Take 
two of equal diameter, preferably with 
good flanges; fill one somewhat round¬ 
ing with the popped corn (from which 
the “old maids” have been screened), 
keeping it quite warm all the time. Pour 
the cooked syrup over the corn, quickly 
invert the other pan over it and with 
two holders the whole thing can he taken 
in the hands and a minute’s vigorous 
shaking will coat every last kernel of 
the corn. When through shaking leave 
the corn in the pan that was used as a 
cover, and put it in a cool place to 
harden, after which the whole mass may 
be taken out and stood on toothpicks for 
a centerpiece if desired. Wc do not 
often use butter but get a wide variety 
by flavoring the syrup, just before pour¬ 
ing, with any desired extract. We think 
almond particularly nice. Sometimes vve 
use chocolate or cocoanut instead of ex¬ 
tract. Maple sugar or syrup, instead 
of the cane sugar, is also very 
nice and requires no flavoring. Corn 
for balls may also he mixed in the same 
way. h. c. d. 
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