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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
TOE LAST HOUR. 
If I were told that I must die to-morrow, 
That the next sun 
Which sinks should bear me past all fear 
and sorrow 
For any one, 
All the fight fought, all the short journey 
through, 
What should I do? 
I do not think that I should shrink or 
falter, 
But just go on, 
Doing my work, f!or change nor seek to alter 
Aught that is gone; 
But rise and move and love and smile and 
pray 
For one more day. 
And, lying down at night for a last sleeping, 
Say in that Ear 
Which harkens ever: “Lord, within Thv 
keeping 
How should I fear? 
And when to-morrow brings Thee nearer 
still, 
Do Thou Thy will.” 
1 might not sleep for awe; but peaceful, 
tender, 
My soul would lie 
All the night long; and when the morning 
splendor 
Flushed o’er the sky, 
I think that 1 could smile—could calmly 
say, 
“It is His day.” 
But if a wondrous hand from the blue 
yonder 
Held out a scroll, 
On which my life was writ, and I with 
wonder 
Beheld unroll 
To a long century’s end its mystic clew, 
What should I do? 
What could I do, O blessed Guide and 
Master, 
Other than this: 
Still to go on as now, not slower, faster, 
Nor fear to miss 
The road, although so very long it be, 
Which led by Thee? 
Step after step, feeling Thee close beside 
me, 
Although unseen, 
Through thorns, through flowers, whether 
the tempest hide Thee 
Or heaven serene, 
Assured Thy faithfulness can not betray, 
Thy love decay. 
I may not know, my God; no hand re- 
vealetli 
Thy counsels wise; 
Along the path a deepening shadow stealeth, 
No voice replies 
To all my questioning thought, the time tq 
tell, 
And it Is well. 
Let me keep on, abiding and unfearing 
Thy will always, 
Through a long century’s ripening fruition 
Or a short day’s; 
Thou caust not come too soon ; and I can 
wait 
If Thou come late. 
—Susan Coolidge. 
♦ 
A good rule for pie crust is two cup¬ 
fuls of pastry flour, one cup of shorten¬ 
ing, and one-half cup of very cold 
water. Chop the shortening into the 
flour with a knife. Any pie crust is im¬ 
proved by keeping in the icebox for a 
day before using; this renders it much 
shorter. For a meat pie we add a tea¬ 
spoonful of baking powder to this crust. 
Crisp short pie crust rolled thin and cut 
into fancy shapes with a cookie cutter, 
then baked, may have a spoonful of 
whipped cream put on each piece with 
a preserved cherry or strawberry in the 
middle; this makes a very attractive 
dessert and is not much trouble. 
* 
Tapioca custard is a very delicate 
dessert. Wash two tablespoonfuls of 
tapioca and simmer it gently in a pint 
of milk until it is quite soft, stirring it 
frequently to keep it from getting into 
lumps. Add a piece of butter the size 
of a walnut, and two tablespoonfuls of 
sugar, and when these are thoroughly 
mixed draw the saucepan to one side of 
the stove that the preparation may cool 
a little. Beat four fresh eggs in a bowl, 
mix gradually with them part of the 
tapioca, then pour them into the remain¬ 
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der in the saucepan and stir all over 
the fire until the custard is on the point 
of boiling. Turn it out, flavor with 
vanilla, almond or any other flavoring, 
and when it is cold, put it in a glass 
dish. Just before serving crush one 
ounce of macaroons to powder and 
sprinkle them over the surface, or, if 
preferred sift a little powdered cinna¬ 
mon over the top. It will take about 
two hours to simmer the tapioca. 
* 
The postal authorities at Washington 
have issued instructions to the postmas¬ 
ters of all large cities that steps must 
be taken to prevent young women from 
obtaining mail at the general delivery 
window of the post offices in their home 
cities. Hereafter persons applying for 
general delivery mail will be asked for 
their home address, and if it is the same 
city they will be asked their reasons for 
not receiving their mail at home. The 
reason for this is the frequent com¬ 
plaint that the general delivery window 
serves as a medium for clandestine 
correspondence, and is otherwise de¬ 
based by vicious uses. Many girls, 
otherwise innocent and clean-minded, 
take their first step on the downward 
road through this medium. It is sad 
that a government mandate should be 
needed to restrain a levity and lack of 
propriety that can only arise from de¬ 
fects of character and training whose 
real origin lies within the home itself. 
* 
Recipes for canning and preserving 
given by modern scientific cooks include 
the use of a syrup gauge, to see that the 
syrup reaches a certain degree of den¬ 
sity. The following proportions will 
give degrees of density without the use 
of the gaug£. In each case the syrup 
should boil for one minute: 
One pint of sugar and one gill of 
water equals syrup of 40 degrees dens¬ 
ity. 
One pint of sugar and half a pint of 
water equals syrup of 32 degrees dens¬ 
ity. 
One pint of sugar and three gills of 
water equals syrup of 28 degrees dens¬ 
ity. 
One pint of sugar and one pint of 
water equals syrup of 24 degrees dens¬ 
ity. 
One pint of sugar and one pint and a 
half of water equals syrup of 17 degrees 
density. 
One pint of sugar and two pints of 
water equals syrup of 14 degrees dens¬ 
ity- 
* 
An account comes from London of a 
woman fruit grower whose orchards are 
in British East Africa, about 30 miles 
from the Uganda railway. She has 
about 100 acres and it is all under cul¬ 
tivation. The farm has been laid out 
for more than 25 years, but it is only 
recently under her management that it 
has been made a paying proposition. It 
is at present the only actual fruit bear¬ 
ing farm in the colony, although others 
are under cultivation. It contains 7,000 
apple trees, besides oranges, lemons, 
pineapples, tangerines, peaches, plums, 
figs, apricots, green gages, guavas, 
quinces, pomegranates and vines. She 
has on it 50 ostriches, 30 head of cattle, 
a small flock of sheep and a poultry 
farm. The main crop so far, however, 
comes from the apple trees. It pays 
best at present to push this crop be¬ 
cause it can be easily packed and 
shipped to Uganda, German East Af¬ 
rica, Zanzibar, Aden and other parts. 
‘‘The apple crop is truly remarkable,” 
said Mrs. Langridge. “We start pick¬ 
ing apples in December and continue 
without break until August. In August 
I strip the trees of their leaves and 
whitewash the bark all the way up in 
order to give the trees a forced rest. 
The trees are blossoming, fruiting and 
ripening all at the same time. You can 
see the bud, blossom, small and large 
fruit on the tree at one and the same 
period. The singular evenness of cli¬ 
mate accounts for this remarkable fer¬ 
tility. The sun rises at 6 A. M. and sets 
at 6 P. M., with unswerving regularity, 
and every night a cool mist comes down 
on the hills so that every morning 
everything is thoroughly moistened. 
There are two rainy seasons—in No¬ 
vember and March—but the elements 
are very obliging and the rain descends 
only at night time.” 
Mrs. Langridge says that there is not 
much difficulty as regards labor. The 
natives work very well and are very 
quiet and teachable. Only male help, 
however, is possible, as the female na¬ 
tives work only in their own allotments. 
Dressing the Neck. 
Dressing the neck for kitchen work is 
something of a question to the middle- 
aged woman, especially so if she is thin 
in flesh, and Dutch neck or even turn¬ 
over collar bands are not becoming. 
While all the women look well in a me¬ 
dium high collar-band with a ruching, 
yet ruchings are far from constituting 
quickly placed and inexpensive neck 
dressing. The curved or straight linen 
collar is always neat, but there is the 
additional bulk about the neck, and in 
hot weather many housewives go about 
in a collarless condition rather than 
wear a thick “put-on” collar. Collars 
of lace or thin material will not stand 
everyday wear even if they cost but 
little and are homemade. 
One woman who has been troubled 
over the matter of morning neck-dress¬ 
ing, makes all of her waists with a 
collar somewhat less than two inches in 
height, about one and three-fourths 
inches, and then applies at the upper 
edge a piece of white finishing braid, 
using the running stitch (by hand) on 
both the edges. A wash-dress waist col¬ 
lar thus finished, worn with a bow of 
ribbon, or a good strong breastpin, is a 
neat and quick method of dressing the 
neck, and the cost too small for consid¬ 
eration, as the braid comes in bunches 
of from four to six yards for 10 cents 
and less. Finishing braid comes wound 
on a small piece of box-board with a 
paper binder. Remove the binder and 
drop the bunch into hot water; when 
cooled hang on a peg of some nature 
until dry, when it will be well shrunken 
and in good condition for general use, 
especially for dressing the neck. 
v MEDORA CORBETT. 
Two Good Preserves. 
Strawberries and Sour Cherries.— 
One pint of sour cherries, pitted, two 
pints of strawberries, three pints of 
sugar, one orange. The thin yellow rind 
of orange is chipped very fine, and the 
juice of orange used also. Mix sugar 
through fruit, let stand one hour, then 
add the orange and cook 20 minutes. 
Put in jelly glasses and seal. 
Strawberries and Pineapple. —One 
quart of pineapple, two quarts straw¬ 
berries, three quarts of sugar. Cook 20 
minutes; add no water as the fruit juice 
is plenty of liquid. Prepare the pine¬ 
apple in very small pieces and mix 
sugar through; let stand two hours, then 
cook. m. v. b. 
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glass—no twisting—nothing to taint the 
fruit. This season try 
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