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the rural 
Woman and the Home , thc “ Zo °,. , are the j guanas •. ,r ,°» kal 
-—- lizards which some of our friends tell 
us taste much like chicken when 
fricasseed, and a large fruit-eating bat 
which appears to spend its whole exist¬ 
ence hanging upside down in silent 
meditation. 
From Day to Day. 
A MEMORY SYSTEM. 
Forget each kindness that you do 
As soon as you have done it; 
Forget the praise that fails to you 
The moment you have won it; 
Forget the slander that you hear 
Before you can repeat it; 
Forget each slight, each spite, each sneer, 
Wherever you may meet it. 
Remember every kindness done 
To you. whate’er its measure; 
Remember praise by others won 
And pass it on with pleasure; 
Remember every promise made 
And keep it to the letter; 
Remember those who lend you aid 
And be a grateful debtor. 
Remember all the happiness 
That comes your way in living; 
Forget each worry and distress, 
Be hopeful and forgiving: 
Remember good, remember truth, 
Remember heaven's above you, 
And you will lind, through age and youth, 
True joys, and hearts to love you. 
—Priscilla Leonard. 
* 
CoTTON-seed oil “butter,” which could 
be sold for 18 cents a pound, is said to 
be a coming food that may help to 
lower the cost of living. So far, how¬ 
ever, butter substitutes do not seem to 
have been very helpful in this direction. 
* 
Gooseberry sauce is considered the 
ideal accompaniment for baked fresh 
mackerel or weakfish; it is also liked 
with cold meat. Boil the gooseberries 
in just enough water to keep from burn¬ 
ing, press through a sieve when tender, 
add two cupfuls of sugar to each cup¬ 
ful of pulp, and boil down until quite 
thick. It may be spiced if desired. A 
few glasses of this sauce will be found 
desirable for Winter use. 
* 
Here is a baked huckleberry pudding 
that is highly recommended: Cream 
two cups of light brown sugar with 
three-quarters of a cup of butter. Then 
beat into the mixture four eggs, one 
at a time. Add one cup of sour milk, 
one teaspoonful of soda, and one quart 
of stewed huckleberries, drained well. 
Add enough flour to make a batter as 
thick as cake batter. Bake three- 
quarters of an hour in a steady oven. 
Serve with hard sauce. 
He 
That recent question about waking 
up a sleepy Grange is an interesting one. 
Not Granges alone, but all sorts of 
local organizations suffer from similar 
somnolence, where there is no special 
principle to fight for, or no wrong to 
redress. Too much peaceful self-satis¬ 
faction is not good for organizations or 
individuals. It is very easy to get into 
the way of thinking that one’s own 
environment is not interesting. Why 
isn t it ? Some one once suggested to 
William Black, the novelist, that since 
every conceivable story had been writ¬ 
ten there was no longer any fresh ma¬ 
terial for a novelist to use. Black res¬ 
ponded that so long as the world held 
two maids and a man, or two men and 
a maid, and all the infinite amphitheatre 
of earth and sky and sea, there was all 
the needed material for a great novel. 
In the same way, every rural neighbor¬ 
hood contains the opportunity for call¬ 
ing out the best in character and citi¬ 
zenship. If a local organization does 
not unite in sweeping off its own door¬ 
step, how can it expect to possess any 
power in greater reforms? Further¬ 
more, we want to realize that our own 
immediate surroundings are interesting. 
There is something there to differentiate 
our community from others, whether it 
is a bit of history, a bit of scenery, or 
some small association with art or 
literature. Whatever it is we shall help 
our local interest by making the most 
of it. It is not material things alone— 
cooperative buying and marketing, the 
united effort to redress wrongs—that 
will hold an organization together, but 
also the intangible things of the spirit. 
NEW-YORKER 
Preserved Pineapple and Strawberry. 
A Connecticut reader asks the rule 
for preserving strawberries and pine¬ 
apple together. This is entirely new 
to us, and we are unable to give the 
recipe. We should like to hear from 
some one who can give this information. 
How to Remove Wall Paper. 
One of your readers asks about this. 
It is a dirty job at best. But try this 
way: spray the walls, using a fruit, 
whitewash or chicken house spray, or, 
in default of either of these, a whisk- 
broom and a bucket, with warm or cold 
water. Warm is best. Use plenty of 
water, and wet the whole room at the 
start. Let it soak in for 20 minutes, 
and then apply a garden hoe, using 
putty knife for corners. The advantage 
of the sprayer is that you can work 
faster, and you get more water on the 
paper and less on the floor, h. h. s. 
“The Big Sisters” is a woman’s 
organization recently incorporated in 
New York, its chief object being to aid 
children, especially girls, who are in 
danger of becoming delinquents, and 
for the prevention of conditions caus¬ 
ing delinquency or improper guardian¬ 
ship. The work of the “Big Sisters,” 
who include many women of wealth and 
social prominence, is modeled after that 
of “The Big Brothers,” which was 
organized by Ernest K. Coulter, form¬ 
erly clerk of the Children’s Court, to 
work for the benefit of boys arraigned 
in the court. During the past year “The 
Big Brothers” have aided and looked 
after the welfare of 2,195 boys. 
* 
The oldest living residents of New 
York City at the present time are the 
huge land turtles from the Galapagos 
Islands, off the coast of Ecuador, in 
the Bronx Zoological gardens. Science 
puts their age at about 300 years; they 
were elderly veterans before the birth 
of this Republic, and yet they will ac¬ 
cept an humble peanut from a visitor 
without any affectation of superi¬ 
ority, or partake cheerfully of modern 
bananas. These turtles are considered 
excellent for food, and in the old 
dark days of piracy the outlaws of 
the Pacific used to visit the Gala¬ 
pagos to lay in a supply of turtles as 
fresh meat; it is believed that in this 
way they have been colonized in many 
tropical countries where they were not 
indigenous. On the coast of Coro¬ 
mandel, India, they attain a weight of 
200 pounds. Among other oddities at 
Tomato Catsup. 
Will you kindly ask the good housewife 
readers of your paper to give their favorite 
recipes for tomato catsup? I cannot get 
one that results in as good a taste as the 
commercial catsups, that will keep a rea¬ 
sonable time after the bottle is opened. 
a. M. c. 
The following are good recipes: 
Tomato Catsup.—Pare one-half bushel 
tomatoes and cook until very soft, sift 
them, taking all the seeds out. Then 
cook until as thick as you desire the 
catsup and then add one quart vinegar, 
one-half pint salt, and the following 
spices: One tablespoonful each of 
cloves, ginger and cinnamon, two table¬ 
spoonfuls each of mustard, black pepper 
and allspice, and one-half teaspoonful 
cayenne pepper. Let it cook 10 minutes, 
then bottle and cork tight, no further 
sealing is needed as it will keep for 
years simply corked. 
Tomato Catsup No. 2.—Wash and cut 
in pieces a half peck of ripe tomatoes. 
Cook in a porcelain-lined or granite iron 
preserving kettle till soft enough to put 
through a sieve, which will remove 
the skins and seeds. To the pulp add 
two tablespoonfuls of salt, two table¬ 
spoonfuls pepper, one-half tablespoon 
allspice, one-half tablespoon cloves and 
one-half pint vinegar. Let the tomato 
cook for several hours before adding 
the spices and vinegar. Mix the salt 
and spices dry in a bowl, and blend well 
before putting into the tomato. Cook 
till quite thick and put in bottles. Store 
in a cool cellar. 
We always advise putting catsup in 
small bottles; then it is used up in a 
reasonable time, and if kept in a cold 
place we have little trouble with its 
fermenting. Of course one cannot use 
preservatives t*o keep it, but if suffi¬ 
ciently boiled, put in sterilized bottles 
and kept cool there should be little 
trouble. 
A Miner’s Safe. 
Seeing the request of Mrs. A. H. S., 
page 709, for description of “Miner’s 
Safe ’ I write to describe one we used 
when at a mine some 20 miles from 
Prescott, Arizona. This was already 
in the camp when we arrived and was 
fashioned as follows: A light wood 
frame about four feet square and four 
feet high, running to a peak at the 
center of the top about six feet from the 
base. This frame stood on four legs 
about one and one-half or two feet 
above the ground. It was finished com¬ 
pletely with wire fly-screen, had a shelf 
and a door. The whole thing was then 
covered with burlap. It stood in a shed 
at the rear of the shack and the ground 
underneath sloped gently toward the 
canyon below. At the top of the peak 
was a hose front which water dripped 
constantly onto the safe, and was ab¬ 
sorbed by the burlap. The evapora¬ 
tion kept meat and other articles cool in 
the warmest weather and the extra 
water drained away. The water was 
piped from the mine above. These safes 
are used a great deal in the West by 
large contractors who have large num¬ 
bers of men at work, far away from 
cities and shipping points and who have 
to board their help. 
There is also used a great deal in 
Southern California, a safe known as 
a “cool closet” or cupboard. It is the 
same as any other small cupboard, built 
in the house, but has no floor nor top. 
These are made of wire fly-screen. It 
has movable shelves of screen. The air 
circulates in through the cellar and out 
through the top through ventilators set 
in the floor or walls for the purpose. 
Each apartment in the large apartment 
houses of Los Angeles has its own 
cooling closet. Of course the screen 
shelves are stayed with slats and are 
movable. The door to this closet is 
solid. e. w. B. 
July 6, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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Built a little fence of trust 
Around to-day : 
Fill the space with loving work 
And therein stay. 
Book not between the shel’tring bars 
Upon to-morrow. 
But take whatever comes to thee 
Of joy and sorrow. 
._ -—Anonymous. 
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The Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid So¬ 
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experience. They are able-bodied and willing to 
work. If you can make use of such help, please 
communicate with us, stating what wages you will 
pay, whether the work is permanent, and whether 
you prefer a single or a married man, with or with¬ 
out experience. Ours is a philanthropic organiza¬ 
tion whose object is to assist and encourage Jewish 
immigrants to become farmers. We charge no 
commission to employer or employee. Address 
FARM LABOR BUREAU, 176 Second Avenue, New York City. 
Flies! Flies! Flies! 
Get rid of them and help make your home and 
premises sanitary by the liberal use of Tanglefoot 
Fly Paper. There is fully one-third more 
compound per sheet on Tanglefoot than on any other fly paper; 
hence it lasts longest, catches the most flies and is the beat and 
cheapest fly paper. If you ask for “fly paper” or “sticky fly paper” 
you may get a cheap imitation that will soon dry up or glaze over. 
Ask for Tanglefoot. 
Sold l\) Grocers and Druggists. 
TREE TANGLEFOOT, put up in 1, 3, 10 and 20 lb. cans. 
Will protect your trees from all climbing insects. 
