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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
SERVICE. 
What drew you from the shelves? 
What great philosophies, 
What subtle poems 
That feed our better selves? 
None; from my oven I drew 
Three loaves of light and wholesome bread ; 
These feed the hungry too. 
What thoughts were yours to-day? 
To right the wrongs, 
To succor the distressed, 
Hast planned a way? 
No: but before ’twas light 
I washed the clothes; I had no time for 
thought. 
See, they are white. 
But tell me of your deeds: 
Surely you’ve followed some great en¬ 
terprise 
Where progress leads? 
Not I, poor fool, 
But four bright faces, cleaned and kissed 
1 sent to school. 
—Helen Cole Crew in The Living Church. 
* 
Huckleberry tea cake is now in sea¬ 
son. Use three cupfuls of flour, two 
cupfuls of berries, butter the size of a 
small egg, one and a third cupfuls of 
sweet milk, a third of a cupful of sugar, 
one rounded teaspoonful of cream of 
tartar and the same of soda. Mix to¬ 
gether like biscuit dough, turn it into 
a buttered pan, such as is used for layer 
cake, and bake in a quick oven. When 
it is done break it apart in large pieces 
and serve while it is still hot, with but¬ 
ter. 
* 
Speaking before the National Edu¬ 
cational Association, Dr. H. W. Wiley 
stated that either through neglect, care¬ 
lessness, or consent of parents and 
teachers, thousands of school children 
are becoming addicted to drug habits. 
There is no nation on earth in which 
the children take something as often as 
they do in this country. Beginning 
almost with birth, there seems to be 
an incessant craving to fill the baby s 
stomach with drugs, instead of foods. 
This tendency, established in early life, 
is not perceptibly diminished during the 
ages of childhood and early maturity. 
Every household has Its cupboard with so- 
called household remedies, consisting mostly 
of synthetic preparations of quack medi¬ 
cines. Each of these is advertised to be 
good for almost every disease which may 
befall the child. No matter what ails him, 
the all-potent bottle or pill-box contains 
the sovereign remedy. Children are allowed 
to drink tea and coffee, and thus take into 
their systems an alkaloid, caffein, which 
has the tendency to take away the sense 
of fatigue, stimulate the heart's action, 
and, in general, to urge the child forward 
to greater physical and mental activity 
than he should be called upon to endure. 
There are a hundred so-called soft drinks 
sold under different names, and to which 
caffein has been added so as to make the 
beverage, when consumed, have about the 
same quantity of caffein that tea and cof¬ 
fee contain. 
* 
As a variation in salad dressing for 
cold slaw, add some tomato catsup to 
the ordinary pepper, salt, oil and vine¬ 
gar-known to cooks as French dres¬ 
sing. A little chili sauce beaten into 
mayonnaise dressing is another varia¬ 
tion that is appetizing. Slightly soured 
cream, beaten stiff and highly seasoned, 
is a dressing many like with cucumbers. 
A sightly salad served in some restau¬ 
rants is a whole tomato resting on a 
lettuce leaf. The tomato, while it looks 
whole, is sliced across with a sharp 
knife in thin slices, just a shred left 
uncut at the side, so it will not slide 
apart. A slice is cut off at the bottom, 
to give a firm base, and a slice removed 
at top, on which a piece of hard boiled 
egg and shreds of pepper are placed. 
Dressing is put between the slices, where 
the tomato is cut. This is a pretty 
salad, and convenient for eating. An¬ 
other whole tomato salad has gashes 
cut vertically down the sides of each 
tomato, at intervals, and a thin slice of 
mild onion inserted in each cut, a dres¬ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 24, 
sing being poured over all. An at¬ 
tractive cucumber salad is prepared by 
peeling the cucumbers and slicing down 
through the middle lengthwise, then ar¬ 
ranging rings of shredded onion and 
green pepper over each piece of cucum¬ 
ber, which is laid on the serving plate 
with the flat side up. The sour cream 
dressing is very nice with this. 
* 
A good many authorities have made 
out lists of “good reading,” which they 
regarded as absolutely necessary for 
mental culture. We should like to add 
to every good* list of this kind, two 
atlases—an atlas of ancient and classical 
geography, and a modern one, brought 
up-to-date. The first is for purposes of 
comparison, and also to give us a fuller 
appreciation of those long-ago adven¬ 
turers who set out light-heartedly on 
foot, on mule-back, or in little open 
boats to seek the unknown at the time 
when the world ended just beyond the 
Pillars of Hercules. The modern atlas 
will keep us in touch with the world 
to-day, when the cable tells us there 
is political unrest beyond the Pamirs, 
or volcanic action in Flores Straits, or 
a shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, 
or a tidal wave in the Laccadives. How 
many of us can turn to the maps, and 
put our fingers unerringly on those 
spots? Or how many of us knew at 
once why those Antarctic expeditions 
sailed from New Zealand, instead of 
from our side of the world? There is 
much good reading in an atlas, and 
if life finds us our duty on some lonely 
farm at the back of beyond we may 
still girdle the globe in imagination, and 
keep out of narrow ruts by a reading 
knowledge of the outside world that 
will add zest to everyday duty, and 
must inevitably broaden the mind as 
well. 
* 
A familiar old song with a haunt¬ 
ing melody is “When the Swallows 
Homeward Fly.” Unhappily a good 
many of the swallows in our vicinity 
homeward fly into one of our chim¬ 
neys; it appears to be a regular tene¬ 
ment house for Air. and Mrs. Chcetura 
pelagica, which we know as the chim¬ 
ney swallow, but which is not really a 
swallow at all; but is the American or 
Chimney swift. It is a very interesting 
bird, but a great nuisance; its babies 
fall out of bed from the lattice-work 
nests of twigs that the birds glue to 
the inside of the chimney, and. the elders 
talk gossip and bird politics in strident 
tones, or dart out of the chimney with 
a rush of wings that sounds like distant 
thunder. All Summer long we have to 
refrain from an open fire on damp and 
chilly days, because of those intruding 
bird neighbors, so we must put a net¬ 
ting over the chimney after they migrate 
in October to keep them out. The swift 
well deserves its name, for no other 
birds surpass, and few equal its tireless 
flight; it is said to cover a thousand 
miles in 24 hours! It usually comes to 
us in April, and goes South in October. 
It rests but little in its migratory flight, 
never roosting like other birds, but 
clinging with claws and stiff wing and 
tail feathers, as it does in the chimney. 
Audubon, the naturalist, tells of seeing 
a flock of swifts numbering 9,000 
clinging to one hollow tree in Ken¬ 
tucky. It is largely nocturnal in habits, 
and has, when searching for night-fly¬ 
ing insects, a peculiar stiff flight rather 
suggestive of a bat; like a bat, it is 
said to be infested sometimes with in¬ 
sect parasites, which make careful 
housekeepers look upon the swift quite 
unsympathetically. After being obliged 
to put netting over one chimney because 
a persistent swarm of bees insisted 
on dwelling in it, while another is given 
over to the swallows, we feel as though 
nature was determined to commune 
with us without any special invitation 
on our part. 
Bread Advice Wanted’ Poison Ivy. 
Can any of your readers tell me how 
to make sweet, spongy bread without 
fresh yeast? We have only potato 
yeast, which is kept from week to week, 
and the bread is sour and crumbles. 
Hops are grown to .be used in yeast 
making. 
Here is a cheap, effective and sure 
method of curing poison ivy, highly 
recommended by one of the large Bos¬ 
ton hospitals, the Massachusetts Gen¬ 
eral, I think. I have used it success¬ 
fully many times. Scrub the blisters 
with Castile or any pure soap and 
water and a stiff brush at least once a 
day—the ofter.er the better. In about a 
week you will conquer it if taken at 
once and scrubbed often. New blisters 
keep on coming, but if taken at once 
they become fewer. A bad case may 
take weeks to conquer, but if persist¬ 
ent a person can certainly control it 
that way. Leave no blister unscrubbed, 
however numerous or bad. F. K. 
Sweet Pickles. 
Could you give me a good recipe for 
spiced sweet pickles, that is, using vinegar 
and sugar? mbs. e. w. 
Sweet Cucumber Pickles.—Let the cu¬ 
cumbers stand in salt water three days. 
Heat the brine once or twice and pour 
over them. Drain; put in a jar and 
pour over them hot vinegar with cloves 
and cinnamon in a bag; two-thirds 
cupful sugar to quart of vinegar; put 
in plenty of horseradish and this will 
keep sealed or open. Put in a little 
alum to make them brittle. 
Boiled Sweet Cucumber Pickle.—Put 
cucumbers in cold weak brine (lj4 cup 
salt to one gallon water) one day and 
night. Take out, dry on cloth. To one 
gallon vinegar add two cups sugar, 
nearly one ounce mixed spice. Heat 
these all boiling hot. Put in pickles 
and let boil up once. Put in cans im¬ 
mediately and pour the hot vinegar 
over them. They are nice and sweet, 
and will keep a long time, till eaten. 
These will not shrivel if you follow 
directions. One gallon vinegar will 
cover two gallons cucumbers. 
Steamed Sweet Cucumber Pickle.— 
Peel, steam as soft as liked and let 
stand over night in a weak brine. Next 
morning drain, put on vinegar enough 
to cover, and let stand over night. Again 
in the morning drain off the liquid 
part. Now take one pint of fresh vine¬ 
gar, three pounds of sugar and one 
ounce of cassia buds (no other spices). 
When this comes to' the boiling point 
put in the cucumbers, let scald up and 
then pack away in stone jars. 
“ Pickle* and Spice and Everything 
Nice.” 
Now is the time the preserving ket¬ 
tles begin to simmer and the appetizing 
fragrance of pickles and preserves, 
mingles with the air and whets our 
appetites. The following recipes are 
tried and true, and any housewife will 
feel fully repaid for giving them a trial: 
Sour Cucumber Pickles.—One gallon 
vinegar, one cup sugar, one cup salt, 
one cup ground mustard. Thoroughly 
mix the ingredients and put in an open 
jar. Pick, wash and wipe the cucum¬ 
bers and put them in the mixture. 
They will be ready to use in a few 
days, or they will keep indefinitely. 
Pickles can be taken out and others put 
in at any time. In the Spring they can 
be packed in jars, covered with the 
vinegar and sealed to keep them from 
the flies and gnats. Do not heat the 
vinegar. This recipe will make five gal¬ 
lons of pickles. 
Sweet Cucumber Pickles.—For one- 
half bushel small cucumbers make two 
gallons brine, using one cup salt to 
each gallon water. Turn this boiling 
hot over the cucumbers and let stand 
24 hours. Drain, then pour over them, 
boiling hot, one gallon each of vinegar 
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After the work of “canning” do you find 
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necked, tin-topped, screw-capped jars? 
That was the old wayof “canning.” The 
new way, the easier, safer, better way is 
called “jarring,” preserving in the all-glass 
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Prospects 
of 
Bumper 
Grain 
Crops 
WESTERN CANADA 
Latest reports from the fields of Manitoba, 
Saskatchewan and Alberta are to the effect 
that Wheat, Oats, Barley and Flax give 
promise of an abundant yield. Rains have 
been sufficient and all grains have advanced 
rapidly. There are now 16 million acres 
under crop. Railroads are built and building 
in all settled portions, The opportune time 
for getting some- of this generous producing 
land is now. Excursions on all lines of 
Canadian Railways to inspect the lands. 
Apply for Settler’s Certificate to the under¬ 
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30 Syracuse Savings Bank Building 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
