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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
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From Day to Day. 
THANKSGIVING DAY. 
Ah, on Thanksgiving Day, when from East 
and from West, 
From North and from South, come the pil¬ 
grim and guest, 
When the gray-haired New Englander sees 
round his board 
The old broken links of affection restored, 
When the care-wearied man seeks his 
mother once more, 
And the worn matron smiles where the girl 
smiled before, 
What moistens the lip and what brightens 
the eye? 
What calls back the past like the rich 
pumpkin pie? 
O, fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days 
recalling, 
When wood-grapes were purpling and 
brown nuts were falling! 
When wild ugly faces we carved in its 
skin, 
Glaring out through the dark with a candle 
within ! 
When we laughed round the corn-heap, with 
hearts all in tune, 
Our chair a broad pumpkin—our lantern 
the moon, 
Telling tales of the fairy who traveled like 
steam, 
In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats 
for her team. 
—J. G. Whittier. 
* 
Harper’s Bazar tells how little Edna 
attended her first party recently, and 
one of the principal dainties of the 
supper was delicate creamed chicken 
served in pretty frilled paper cases. 
When she returned home her mother 
asked her numerous questions about the 
party. 
“What did you have to eat, dear?” 
“Why, mamma, they had hash in can¬ 
dle shades.” 
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Baked apples with icing are “some¬ 
thing different.” Peel and core as 
many large smooth apples as are re¬ 
quired. Mix and put in the center of 
each apple two teaspoonfuls of sugar, 
one of currants, one of butter and a 
pinch of cinnamon. Bake until cooked, 
let them cool, then ice top and sides 
with any kind of cake icing. Put back 
into the oven just long enough to brown 
the icing slightly. If desired a candied 
cherry may be put on the top of each 
apple. Serve them with cream. 
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The Public Library Commission of 
the District of Columbia has barred 
such books as those by Oliver Optic and 
Horatio Alger, Jr., which have long been 
popular as juvenile reading. They are 
condemned not because of any vicicus- 
ness, but because of mediocrity. People 
who wish to read books of this class 
may buy them, but they cannot get them 
out of the public library at Washington. 
There are so many good books for 
young people that it really is not worth 
while to waste time on useless ones, and 
it is a great misfortune when a young 
person’s taste is formed with a prefer¬ 
ence for the interior, whether in read¬ 
ing or associates. 
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The indispensable silk waist to wear 
with a jacket suit takes many forms this 
season, but the most fashionable of all 
is brocaded satin, in black, white, even¬ 
ing and suit shades. Perhaps the great¬ 
est favorite is in white, and these waists 
are really beautiful, whether plain or 
in the more dressy models. They usu¬ 
ally have long sleeves, and many are 
made with Directoire or Robespierre col¬ 
lars. The usual price is from about 
$7.50 up, though some are seen as low 
as $5. Brocade has come to the front 
this Fall, after being out of vogue for 
general wear for a good many years. 
Other materials in style for separate 
waists are charmeuse, crepe de chine 
and chiffon velvet. White is popular in 
all of these. 
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Both dresses and blouses this season 
show a free use of buttons as orna¬ 
ments, often put on in a rather unusual 
way. Tiny pearl buttons with four 
eyelets are sometimes sewn on with 
heavy wash silk of a contrasting color, 
all the stitches going into one eyelet as 
a common center. This gives a crow¬ 
foot in the center. In some all four 
eyelets are joined by stitches into a 
square. Lingerie blouses with a little 
color in the trimming are finished in 
this way, wash embroidery silk being 
used for sewing on the buttons. At¬ 
tractive buttons quite easily made for a 
white satin waist are white satin balls 
covered with black net, with a few jet 
beads in the center. A touch of black 
is much used with white; indeed, black 
and white is the leading combination. 
Little glass nail heads in various colors 
are used like buttons for trimming, often 
with imitation buttonholes worked in 
silk around them. 
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Somehow, we have never liked that 
form of thankfulness which bids one be 
glad because there are plenty worse off 
than you. It is comforting to think that 
one has not really reached the lowest 
depths of wretchedness, but there is an 
additional reason for sadness in think¬ 
ing that others are already there. If 
we are not quite as prosperous, not quite 
as free from care, as we had hoped to 
be, there is surely no spirit of thank¬ 
fulness shown in rejoicing, like the 
Pharisee of old, that at least we are not 
as other men are. The best way to 
show a thankful heart, not merely on 
our great national holiday, but on all 
the other days of the year, is to put a 
little happiness into the life around us, 
and not only bring out into clear view 
our own superior deserts and merits, but 
extend their rewards also x to those 
whose life is less rosy than our own. 
Steam-cooked Apple Butter. 
I see an inquiry on page 1124 about 
making apple butter. I can give the 
way we have adopted for the last 20 
years, which can only be done with a 
steam boiler of some kind, so you can 
have a small steam pressure, say 20 
pounds and up, or less will do, but it 
will not boil as fast. A copper pipe, the 
size about one-half inch, is inserted into 
a common barrel, say a good whisky 
barrel, set on its end with the top end 
open. This copper pipe extends to the 
bottom and is coiled around three or 
four times on the bottom of the barrel, 
coming out again with a common globe 
valve to regulate the condensation of the 
steam, as there must be all the pressure 
of the boiler exerted in this coil to 
produce sufficient heat to do the boiling 
and yet to let the condensation escape, 
but no more. 
After you have procured the above 
put about 40 to 50 gallons of good sweet 
cider into this barrel, put in the copper 
coil, connect it with steam boiler by 
a common union which can be secured 
at any plumber’s, put on 20 to 40 pounds 
of steam, and you can boil it down to 
one-half in about two hours or less. In 
boiling put in about a tablespoonful of 
lard or butter; this keeps it from boil¬ 
ing over. This can be done one day and 
the process of making the butter 
can be done at any time after¬ 
wards. When you have the cider 
properly boiled make ready about seven 
to eight bushels of cut apples and put 
these into the barrel and boil, and just 
keep putting in until you have them 
all in. As the mess boils away you can 
put others in until the whole eight 
bushels are in; keep the whole mess 
boiling as hard as steam can do it; no 
danger of burning. When it is boiled 
down to about one-half barrel, then put 
in 40 to 50 pounds of granulated sugar, 
no spices of any kind; when this is ac¬ 
complished you have something that is 
fit to set before a king. 
We had a boiling of this kind this 
year; had 108 quarts; sold all we had 
to spare at 30 cents per quart. We have 
made apple butter for the last 15 to 20 
years, and have never used any spices 
of any kind; we think it much better 
without. We have had this keep good 
for two years without being sealed up. 
j. c. s. 
Homemade Soap With Naphtha. 
Can you or any of your readers tell me 
bow to use naphtha in making hard soap 
at home, using simply fat, potash and 
water? I would like to add naphtha to 
it. MRS. f. e. w. 
Can anyone give us this information? 
We should be afraid to try any experi¬ 
ments with naphtha; it is inflammable 
and dangerous stuff, and does not sound 
like a very safe ingredient in domestic 
soap-making. We doubt whether an in¬ 
surance company would iook on it kindly. 
Christmas Doughnuts. —This is a 
recipe that I have used a long time with 
success. Perhaps the readers of The 
R. N.-Y. would appreciate it: One cup 
of white sugar, two eggs, three table¬ 
spoonfuls butter, one cup of new milk, 
one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, 
three-fourths teaspoonful soda, one-half 
teaspoonful salt, one pinch grated nut¬ 
meg, flour sufficient to roll. Cream the 
butter and sugar, add the eggs and beat 
well, stir in the milk and mix with the 
flour in which the soda and cream of 
tartar have been mixed. Cut in rings 
and fry in hot lard. MRS. w. s. H. 
He who thinks that be is in an un¬ 
happy situation should compare his state 
with that of whose who appear to him 
to be in a worse condition than his own. 
If he has brought his troubles upon 
himself, let him do all he can to rectify 
his evil deeds. It is a wonderful aid to 
the sick at heart to aid others more 
miserable than themselves.—Dr. J. M. 
Buckley. 
November 23, 
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