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T'HEC RURAb NEW-YORKER 
March 9, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
IMMANUEL. 
Still art Thou with me! White clouds of 
the noor.day 
Reveal Thy presence moving on before; 
The stars of night, Thy fiery pillar guiding, 
Still lead me as Thine Israel of yore. 
I hear Thee in the wind’s breath lightly 
moving 
The blades of grass, the leaf upon the 
tree; 
Behold Thee in the sunset and the dawning, 
The trembling shafts of sunrise show me 
Thee. 
From soaring heights I see Thy vast horizon 
Sink slowly, slowly; circling in repose 
The nearer plains, the far supernal moun¬ 
tains, 
And that great mystery of the sea that 
goes 
In slow tide waves about the world forever, 
Obedient to Thy will unrestingly ! 
I hear Thee in the murmurs of the forest, 
And lie within its shadow feeling Thee! 
Lo, Thou hast guided me and strength hast 
given, 
And courage, yea, and faith by night and 
day ; 
And now the long, long journey nearly 
ended, 
Uphold me that I faint not by the way! 
Still art Thou near 1 The silver trumpets 
blowing 
Amid the wilderness at eventide 
Summon Thine Israel to the night’s encamp¬ 
ment ; 
L’ord, in Thy tarrying presence I abide! 
—M. E. Buhler in New York Sun. 
• 
Here is a very good variation of hash: 
Mix equal parts of finely minced cold 
meat and cold boiled potatoes, season 
them with a little onion juice, a little 
minced parsley, moisten with stewed to¬ 
matoes, pack in buttered cups and steam 
in a pan of water in the oven. Turn 
the forms out of the cups on to rounds 
of buttered toast, turn a little tomato 
sauce over them and serve very hot. 
* 
The New York Housewives’ League, 
of which Mrs. Julian Heath is the head, 
is trying to induce the city authorities 
to allow public docks at East Ninety- 
first street, West 128th street and West 
Fifty-ninth street to be used by farmers 
to collect and market their products, in¬ 
stead of sending them far down town. 
Members of the Housewives’ League are 
also promising to take market baskets 
and go to Washington and Jefferson 
markets to do their own buying. If a 
large number of well-to-do New York 
women get the habit of purchasing direct 
at the markets, it will pave the way 
towards much closer relations between 
producers and consumers. 
* 
The United States Bureau of Educa¬ 
tion has published a monograph on rural 
schools by Dr. Fred Mutchler and W. J. 
Craig of the Western Kentucky State 
Normal School. The authors of this 
pamphlet point out the fact that much 
of the education given in the rural 
schools has a tendency to induce emi¬ 
gration to the city. They say that the 
teachers, in most cases, have idealized 
city life, thus inducing the young men 
and women to leave the farms, whereas 
it is a duty to dignify rural life, and 
save to it and its interests the best blood 
of the country. As to the money value 
of specialized study in the rural school, 
the pamphlet says: 
Canada’s rural schools increased the aver¬ 
age wheat yield there five bushels to the 
acre in a few years' time. Suppose that 
our rural school teachers should set for 
themselves the problem of increasing the 
corn crop five bushels an acre, what would 
be the result? In 1910 the farmers of Ken¬ 
tucky planted and cultivated 3,630,000 
acres of corn which yielded 105,270,000 
bushels. An increase of five bushels an 
acre would have made the yield 18,500,000 
bushels more. These 18,500,000 bushels of 
corn would have brought at the average 
farm price December 1, 1910, approximately 
$10,000,000 This money would have gone 
directly to the rural communities, where it 
is much needed, and would have been of vast 
importance in solving the problems that con¬ 
front our rural people. It could have been 
used to build 2,000 miles of first class pike 
roads, or it would have paid the expenses 
of our public schools for two and a half 
years. It would have gone far toward pay¬ 
ing the farmers’ taxes, or it would have 
built and furnished many a rural home. 
Can * anyone figure the comfort and happi¬ 
ness that five bushels more of corn an 
acre would buy for the rural people of any 
State? 
Even more than technical instruction 
in actual farming we want our schools 
to show us the best side of country life. 
The mere raising of five bushels more of 
corn per acre means paying just so 
much more tribute to transportation 
companies and middlemen. But let us 
learn how to handle or market that five 
bushels to the best advantage, how to 
make the country home healthful, attrac¬ 
tive and comfortable, how to take ad¬ 
vantage of rural pleasures, and how to 
build up well-trained minds and bodies, 
and the rural school will bring so much 
nearer that ultimate millenium wherein 
every worker will receive the reward 
due to all soldiers of the common good. 
* 
Several of our friends who were in¬ 
terested in Mrs. Johnson’s description 
of conditions in Colorado have expressed 
a wish to send reading matter to such 
pioneer farmers in isolated communities. 
We are obliged to state that in all such 
cases it is necessary to prepay transpor¬ 
tation; if the recipients of such reading 
were able to pay transportation they 
would also be able to subscribe for more 
periodicals. This is the real bar to the 
distribution of much reading matter; it 
is quite weighty, and often a person who 
would willingly pass it along is not in 
a position to pay transportation, any 
more than the recipient. Still, most of 
us could find some- one within walking 
or driving distance who would like a 
little more reading matter quite as much 
as a distant homesteader or Philippine 
soldier. Not alone less fortunate 
friends and neighbors, but local hospit¬ 
als, poor farms and homes for the aged 
or crippled may be glad of such material. 
In any hospital where contagious dis¬ 
eases are treated, convalescents may be 
very grateful for reading that may be 
burned without compunction afterwards. 
It is well to see what we can share with 
those near us first, but that is no ex¬ 
cuse for indifference toward distant lone¬ 
liness and hardship, which circumstances 
may sometimes bring within the scope 
of our influence. 
Pea Coal for Kitchen Use. 
A few weeks ago we printed an inquiry 
about tbe use of pea coal in the range. 
We have been astounded at the number 
of answers received, and while it is impos¬ 
sible to acknowledge them all individually, 
or to print even a tithe of them, we are 
grateful for the information bestowed, and 
the interest shown in the question. 
Several years ago I used pea coal and 
nut, half and half in my kitchen range 
(with a revolving grate) and preferred 
it to the nut which I had previously 
used. For the past three years I have 
used the pea coal alone and like it best 
of all. It lights quickly and easily, and 
when you are baking, if your fire gets 
low you can add a little more without 
cooling your oven. The fire is “made 
up” as you would make any coal fire, is 
as easily kept over night and starts more 
quickly in the morning. I consider its 
use an economy, and the fire much more 
satisfactory and easily regulated. 
c. j. H. 
I suppose you know we Maine people 
need good fuel during the Winter sea¬ 
son, about as much as the people in any 
section of our country, because 25 to 40 
degrees below zero is not uncommon 
here. We have used pea coal for 15 
years without trouble in the kitchen 
range with revolving grate. We have 
also used it in parlor stoves with sliding 
grates, and we have used it in the 
furnace, in conection with coke, with 
revolving grate (steam heat) and had 
the best heat at the least expense of any¬ 
thing we have tried, and we have tried 
all grades of coal, except soft coal. 
Some Winters we have not failed to 
keep a fire all night, for every night 
from November 1 to April 1, in the 
range with pea coal alone. I advised 
a cousin who is an extra housekeeper 
and of excellent judgment to use it. 
She tried it and couldn’t keep it burning, 
or get any heat from it, so I shouldn't 
know what to say to the New Jersey 
inquirer. Make fire same as for nut 
coal, and fire will probably need some 
care until she gets used to it. I have 
no doubt it can be used with nut at con¬ 
siderable saving and eminent satisfac¬ 
tion. According to New Jersey house¬ 
keeper two tons of nut costs her $14, 
while one ton of nut and one ton of pea 
would cost $11.75. I can get as much 
satisfaction in every way with two tons 
of pea, or one ton of each mixed, as 
she can with two tons of nut. Perhaps 
she can and perhaps she cannot. I 
should say, however, it might be worth 
a trial. Pea coal costs me $6.50, nut 
coal $8. F. E. H. 
I have made use of pea coal to quite 
an extent in New Jersey, both in stove 
and in furnace and with good results, 
especially in use in the furnace, where 
I used it in connection with egg coal. 
After building a fire with the egg coal 
it was my custom to fill in the top of 
the fire box with the pea coal and then 
check the furnace. The pea coal made 
a good banking while the whole fire 
threw out a generous heat. At night I 
would shake down, put on the large size 
and after that had burned up fairly 
well, would then put on a liberal top¬ 
dressing of the pea coal, again using 
the check draft for the night. In the 
morning I would shake a trifle, then 
throw open all drafts and in a short 
time have a very hot fire, the pea coal 
burning up very quickly. Using it that 
way, instead of trying to mix it in the 
bin, you can get in just as much as you 
wish and it fills in all the chinks so as to 
give you a solid body of fire in the fire 
pot. When using a poker on pea coal 
you use it from the top, not from the 
bottom as with the larger sizes. It is 
very quick burning and has to be 
watched very closely when used in 
ranges, but gives a very quick and hot 
fire. I only wish it were procurable up 
here in Vermont, but there is no demand 
and it costs about as much as stove 
size. o. r. b. 
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Mishawaka Woolen Mfg. Co. 
Mishawaka, Indiana 
“The House That Pays Millions for Quality** 
