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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
SPEAK THE GOOD WORD. 
It isn’t the thinking how grateful we are 
For the kindness of friends come to bless 
Our sorrow or loss ’neath the weight of the 
cross— 
It is telling our gratefulness. 
It isn’t the love that they have in their 
hearts, 
And neglect or forget to reveal, 
That brightens the lives of husbands and 
wives— 
It is telling the love that they feel. 
It isn’t the thinking of good to mankind 
That comes as a cooling drink 
To the famishing ones of earth’s daughters 
and sons— 
It is telling the good that we think. 
It isn't the music asleep in the strings 
Of the lute that entrances the ear 
And brings to the breast the spirit of 
rest—• 
It is only the music we hear. 
It isn’t the lilies we hide from the world, 
Nor the roses we keep as our own, 
That are strewn at our feet by the angels 
we meet 
On our way to the great White Throne. 
It isn’t the silence of hope unexpressed 
That heartens and strengthens the weak 
To triumph through strife for the great 
things of life— 
It's the words of good cheer that we 
speak. 
—W. J. Lampton in New York Times. 
* 
If we printed all the recipes we have 
received for utilizing lard cracklings 
we might fill a special edition of the 
paper. Some of them are already fa¬ 
miliar, others are quite new, but the 
utilization of these scraps of fresh, 
crisp fat seems entirely overlooked by 
the cook books. Some tell us that they 
like them made into sandwiches; many 
use them to fry potatoes. They are 
slightly warmed before using, and either 
crushed or chopped in a meat chopper. 
They are good shortening for ginger 
cookies and dark cakes and in crust 
for apple dumplings. While still warm 
the scraps are packed down in earthen 
jars, each layer sprinkled with salt, and 
set away in a cool, dark place, where 
they keep for some time. 
* 
Among the cheaper cuts of beef the 
brisket seems little known to many 
American housekeepers—yet it is nu¬ 
tritious, well flavored, and capable of 
being cooked in a variety of palatable 
ways. Its usual use is for corning, and 
it is excellent for this, having a fair pro¬ 
portion of nice fat, and being tender 
in grain. We like it for beef a la mode, 
for boiling without corning, and for 
cooking in a casserole with vegetables. 
Boiled with plenty of seasoning, and 
then put into a jar with a weight on 
top to press it solid, it is nice to slice 
cold. Many people have an idea that 
boiled fresh beef is rather insipid in 
flavor, but it will be enjoyed with horse¬ 
radish sauce, and if we treat both the 
beef and the soup in which it is boiled 
properly we have the nourishing pot-au- 
feu, the characteristic national dish of 
France. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 1, 
largely Hebrews from Eastern Europe, 
and Italians. It is stated that women 
operatives in muslin garments receive 
about $5 a week, from which is deduct¬ 
ed weekly 30 cents for electric power, 
and 35 cents for thread. They live in 
crowded tenements, and are chronically 
underfed. Of course some are better 
paid, but they are all “speeded up” to 
a high tension, and there is complaint 
here, as there has been in several other 
great labor difficulties, of the roughness 
and brutality of the foremen. Appar¬ 
ently the “American standard of living” 
has not yet touched the garment trade, 
and Hood’s “Song of a Shirt” still re¬ 
mains a vital document. 
* 
It is a humiliating experience to find 
that we have been mispronouncing some 
common word in ordinary conversation, 
when it would be just as easy to learn 
to speak aright. We do not refer to 
errors in grammar, but to the careless¬ 
ness which causes some to call an um¬ 
brella an umberil, or a bachelor a bach- 
eldor, or to “rense” instead of rinse. 
To speak one’s own language accurately 
and well is a part of one’s education 
quite as important as acquiring a for¬ 
eign tongue. Unfortunately many young 
people complete their school course 
without ever realizing that language les¬ 
sons (they do not study grammar now¬ 
adays) are of practical application to 
the mother tongue. A pleasing voice 
and agreeable accent, combined with 
grammatical construction and correct 
pronunciation, forms the best possible 
introduction to strangers. We do not 
think country people need advice on this 
subject any more than city dwellers, 
for the slipshod speech of many New 
Yorkers is just as uncultivated as the 
most exaggerated dialect of a stage Josh 
Whitcomb. But there is really no ex¬ 
cuse for any person who can learn to 
mon or nutmeg. Line pie pan with paste. 
Place the pared and sliced apple in pan. 
Sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon over 
apples. Dot over with butter. Wet 
edges of under crust, cover with upper 
crust, which has been cut with gashes to 
allow the steam to escape. Press edges 
together and trim pie crust. Peat up 
an egg and spread over top. This is done 
because the top browns better and gives 
it a better appearance, but it does not 
improve the taste any. ruth holtz. 
Second Prize; Score 83. 
riain paste.—I % cups flour; 1 teaspoon 
baking powder; % teaspoon salt; 3 table¬ 
spoons lard: 3 tablespoons butter; cold 
water. Filling: 3 medium-sized apples; 
% cup sugar; % teaspoon salt; 1 table¬ 
spoonful butter; nutmeg. 
Method : 
1. Wash, pare, core and slice the apples. 
2. Sift flour, baking powder and salt 
together. 
3. Cut in shortening with two knives. 
4. Moisten to dough with ice water. Use 
just enough water to stick the dough to¬ 
gether. 
5. Toss on floured board, cut dough in 
half and roll one piece one-eighth of an 
inch thick for lower crust. 
G. Place on tin and press into place, 
being careful not to stretch the dough. 
7. Spread one rounding tablespoon of 
flour and one of sugar over the bottom of 
the pie and then lill heaping full of sliced 
apple. 
8. Sprinkle sugar and nutmeg over the 
apple and dot over with bits of butter. 
0. Roll out the upper crust and cut with 
gashes to allow steam to escape. 
10. Wet edges of under crust, cover with 
upper crust, press edges together and trim 
crusts even with edge of pan. 
11. Bake in hot oven until crust is set 
and slightly brown and then reduce the 
temperature to finish cooking the apples. 
LOU EVA GASTON. 
Vermont Olives. —Not for a moment 
would we suppose that olives grow in 
Vermont, but here is a fine substitute 
which many like better than pickled 
olives: Take a bushel of green and 
half ripe tomatoes, wash clean, then 
pack in big jar or tub, using five pounds 
fine salt and one-half pound whole 
mixed spices. Weight down and cover 
with clear cold water. In two weeks 
they are fit to use, and will keep a year 
if kept under the pickle. They are 
used without further fixing, and you will 
find them a fine flavor of olives, but 
rather better and immensely cheaper, 
costing less than five cents a quart. 
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Apple Pie Contests. 
At the Indiana apple show held at 
Indianapolis last November prizes for 
apple products were arranged as fol¬ 
lows : 
Section 1. Apple 
Pie. 
1st 
2d 
a. Professional 
$10.00 
$5.00 
b. Housewife 
10.00 
5.00 
c. Amateur . . 
10.00 
5.00 
Section 2. Dutch 
apple pie.. 
10.00 
5.00 
Section 3. Apple 
Kuelien) . 
cake (Apfel 
10.00 
5.00 
Section 4. Apple 
Butter .. .. 
10.00 
5.00 
Section 5. Apple 
.Tellv . 
10.00 
5.00 
Section G. Cider 
Vinegar ... 
10.00 
5.00 
The winners in these sections were: 
Professional Apple Pie—Cla.vpool Hotel 
Chef, Indianapolis, Ind., score 95. 
Housewife—Mrs. A. Bernard. Indianap¬ 
olis, score 85. 
Amateur—Miss Ruth Holtz. Indianapolis, 
score 85; Miss Lou Eva Gaston, Indian¬ 
apolis, score 83. 
Dutch Apple Pie—Mrs. Ben Harden, In¬ 
dianapolis, first, score 90. 
Apple Cake—Mrs. L. D. Robison, Green¬ 
wood, Ind., score 95. 
Apple Butter—Mrs. J. M. Smock. South- 
port, Ind., score 95. 
Apple Jelly—Mrs. Turley J. Burton, Or¬ 
leans, Ind., score 98. 
Cider Vinegar—Mrs. Smith Lewis, Mar¬ 
tinsville, Ind.. score 92. 
The score card used in judging these 
exhibits was as follows: 
Anty Drudge Decries Home 
Soap Making 
Mrs. Oldtimer—“Anty Drudge, I remember you used to 
have a good recipe for making hard soap with lye. 
I don’t like my soap recipe; will you tell me yours 7 * 
Anty Drudge—“Mercy on us, woman, I haven’t used a 
soap recipe for a long time, and I forget what it 
was. I use Fels-Naptha Soap. You can’t make a 
soap as good as Fels-Naptha Soap, and you can’t 
find anything to do the work as well as that does." 
* 
The strike of the garment workers 
in New York at time of writing brings 
out once more the number of toilers 
who are always just on the verge of 
bare starvation. We know nothing of 
the facts in the case other than as given 
in the newspapers, but the trouble in¬ 
volves readjustment of wages and fur¬ 
ther recognition of a labor union. It 
is said that about 150,000 workers are 
involved. These include suit and cloak 
workers, and also people who make 
muslin underwear and kimonos in city 
workshops. Years ago we used to know 
farmers’ wives and daughters who did 
this work in their own homes, but mod¬ 
ern conditions forbid this, and the work 
is crowded into great factories or ten¬ 
ement house workshops, with electric 
power machines. The operatives are 
almost without exception foreign, very 
Flavor .. 25 
Crust . 25 
Thoroughness of baking. 25 
Appearance . 25 
100 
The winners of the first and second 
prizes in the amateur class were little 
girls in Indianapolis ward schools. 
Neither one of them was over fifteen 
years of age. The winner of the second 
prize came from one of the colored 
schools. 
The recipes used by the winners in 
the amateurs’ class are thus given by 
the little girls themselves, who are cer¬ 
tainly acquiring more education than 
mere “book learning”: 
First Prize; Score-85. 
Quick Paste.— 1 % cup flour. % teaspoon 
salt, ono-tliird cup lard, cold water. Mix 
salt with flour, cut in shortening with 
knife. Moisten to dough with cold water. 
Toss on floured hoard and roll out, hand¬ 
ling as light as possible. Do not knead. 
This makes one pie with cover or two 
under crusts. 
Apple Pie.—Three cups pared and sliced 
apples; % cup sugar; % teaspoon salt; 
one tablespoon butter; % teaspoon einna 
Don’t let your husband talk about his 
farm, his horses or his cows. You are his 
partner, and very likely the farm would not be 
his if it wasn’t for the work you do. Have you 
ever stopped to think of ways in which you 
can save your strength and yet do as much 
work as you do now? If not, it’s time you did. 
Do you use Fels-Naptha Soap? With 
Fels-Naptha Soap you do better work in 
cool or lukewarm water than in the old way 
with wash boiler and a hot fire, and the 
clothes are much cleaner and whiter, with¬ 
out having to be rubbed to pieces. 
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