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Unusual Uses for Bran. 
In the medical journals and health 
publications there is a good deal of space 
and attention given lately to bran and 
its uses as a food for human beings as 
well as cattle. Here are my reasons for 
using bran and some recipes—probably 
other people have other ways of using, 
and tried and true recipes that would 
prove helpful. The farmer knows its 
value for his cattle, but probably never 
realized that his growing boys and girls, 
as well as the mother, need phosphates, 
lime and other salts for the formation of 
teeth, bones, hair and nails. If our food 
does not contain a sufficient supply of 
these elements then growth is slow in a 
child, or the teeth are poor and soft and 
quickly decay. In an older person the 
effects are not so readily traceable, but 
they certainly exist. Man belongs to 
the order of grain-eating animals, or 
grinders, so the scientists tell us. He is 
meant to live on nuts, fruit and grains, 
grinding and crushing them between his 
strong broad back teeth. If this grinding 
is done for us, and the flour obtained 
from the grains sifted and separated, we 
lose some—more or less—of the elements 
of nourishment that Nature intended for 
use, together when the wheat was grown 
in those compact little kernels with sueh 
line food in them. The ideal way would 
he to go back to living as the huge mon¬ 
keys of the African forests do, on raw 
food, grinding our grains in our own 
mouth and thus getting our supply of 
food—bone-building particularly—at first 
hand. Some of the food faddists do this 
—live on raw foods, sun baked, making 
their oats, rye and wheat into Ettle cakes 
in a press and drying them in the sun¬ 
shine. I know one man who takes rolled 
oats just as they come in the package, 
sprinkles olive oil and a bit of salt over 
them, and eats this natural breakfast food 
with half a dozen figs for a meal. Some¬ 
times he adds rolled wheat or varies his 
“courses” with berries or other fresh 
fruit in season. He has splendid teeth, 
no extra flesh and is joyously healthy. 
The outer husk of the wheat is rich in 
hone-building, nerve-feeding properties 
which are entirely lost to ns, under pres¬ 
ent-day methods of milling. Of course a 
great deal of this husk would not be di¬ 
gested. After the intestines extract all 
the food value, there still remains an un¬ 
digested residue, which does not ferment 
and this offers bulk for the intestines to 
work on and so counteracts the consti¬ 
pating effect of our too concentrated 
modem diet. A friend of mine has re¬ 
cently cured herself of this trouble by 
the use of brau. She uses the bran muf¬ 
fins given below and besides these she 
takes a few spoonfuls of bran mixed up 
in a glass of water; more or less as she 
needs it during the day. A little experi¬ 
menting will show how much each per¬ 
son needs to fit their own ease. It is not 
unpalatable. I give herewith also a re¬ 
cipe for bran bread that we have on the 
table all the time, and which the chil¬ 
dren prefer to white bread for a steady 
diet. 
Bran Muffins.—Place two cups wheat 
bran and one cup wheat flour in a mix¬ 
ing bowl, add a pinch of salt, one cup 
molasses, three-quarter cup milk, one 
tablespoonful melted butter, one tea¬ 
spoonful baking soda dissolved in scant 
half cup hot water. Beat thoroughly to¬ 
gether and bake in gem pans three-quar¬ 
ters of an hour. Eat three per day. 
Bran and Oatmeal Bread.—In the 
bread pan at night put half a eup of brau 
and half a cup of oatmeal (uncooked 
rolled oats). I use a pint measuring 
cup. Over these pour three cups boiling 
water. Add one teaspoon salt, half cup 
honey or sugar, stir and leave to cool. 
Dissolve half dried yeast cake in three- 
quarter cup warm water. I presume com¬ 
pressed yeast could be used, but have 
never tried it. When the bran-oatmeal 
mixture has cooled to blood heat, mix in 
the dissolved yeast cake, and stir iu one 
cup rye flour (this can be omitted) and 
as much white flour as possible. When 
it gets too stiff to stir, put in one hand 
uud knead in more flour till it is as stiff 
us you would want to turn out on the 
board. Cover and set in warm place over 
mght. In the morning turn out on well- 
floured board, knead 15 minutes, divide 
into three loaves, knead into shape, let 
>ise in pans till nearly double in bulk, 
i rick lightly with fork, set iu oven at 
medium heat, and bake 1% hours. This 
long baking is necessary or it will be too 
THB RURAL N E W-YORKER 
moist inside. Do not use first day, as 
the crust is very hard, but will soften in 
24 hours. mrs. e. l. k. 
Our Boys and Girls. 
What a privilege it would be to peep 
into the many homes where The R. N.-Y. 
is a weekly visitor! I often take up the 
latest issue hoping that some contributor 
may give us a glimpse of the home life, 
especially the lives of the boys and girls. 
Surely there is a great army growing 
up in these rural homes—boys and girls 
of all ages, from babies to young men 
and women, and what of the environ¬ 
ment? The home atmosphere can never 
be judged by the place in which the home 
is located, but the outside appearance of 
a home is often an index to the character 
of its inmates. For instance, one sug¬ 
gests a lack of ambition, poverty and 
discouragement; another, money without 
refinement; still another refinement with 
little money. The latter is to be pre¬ 
ferred, although money is a very useful 
commodity. 
What is your home? Is it a place the 
young people take pride in? Do they 
hurry home from school to mow the lawn 
or weed the garden? Are there vines, 
shrubs and trees that they have planted, 
and look upon with especial pride? Have 
you any musical instruments in your 
home? Have you a tennis court or cro¬ 
quet ground, and do father and mother 
join the children in their games? If in 
high school or college, do the young peo¬ 
ple have so much to tell mother when 
they come home that they nearly talk 
themselves hoarse? Have they always 
had plenty of good books to read? Have 
they been taught, from babyhood, to 
speak English correctly—to scorn a false¬ 
hood or any form a sham or deceit, to 
eschew *any practice that might lead to a 
dangerous habit? I trust the answers 
are all in the affirmative, and that the 
list of advantages and good influence of 
your happy home might be lengthened 
indefinitely. marion Lawrence. 
When Lace Yokes Become Soiled. 
It is undoubtedly the better plan to 
have the white lace collars and yokes of 
gowns which cannot be washed made up 
as guimpes or with the snap fasteners 
which allow easy removal for cleaning. 
But who does not own a blouse or two 
into which the lace is sewed fast? Not 
all may know that such can be given 
a superficial, but really effective cleaning 
with very Ettle trouble. 
Fold a heavy bath towel to several 
thicknesses and lay the yoke and collar 
upon it. Then with a small brush dipped 
in hot water and an abundance of white 
soap scrub the lace, sparing neither faith 
nor soap. Soon you will find the soil re¬ 
moved from the lace to the towel, and 
ere long you will be ready to take fresh 
hot water and a dry towel folded as 
before, and with clean, soft cloths first 
rinse and then dry the lace by patting 
and pressing. With dry cloths most of 
the dampness can be absorbed, and what 
remains will soon dry off, leaving the lace 
sufficiently smooth, provided the yoke has 
been pulled into proper shape. M. e. 
Home Industries 
It does seem as though one needed to be 
an expert in some special line in order to 
make any money. When a woman does aU 
her housework takes care of the children, 
does their sewing and most of her own 
it does not seem as though she would 
have much time to do fancy work or any 
other kind of work for anyone else, yet 
I have a friend who makes quite a pretty 
sum each Fall on her homemade jellies; 
indeed she is getting quite famous. An¬ 
other woman made Dutch or Cottage 
cheese and sold it to the people in town. 
She made it in little cakes; this is just 
the time of year for it, too. I was visit¬ 
ing at a friend’s home in the village; she 
had cheese salad for supper; stuffed 
olives were cut up and put into the Dutch, 
cheese. She said she bought sweet milk 
and let it sour to make her cheese. Now, 
I think the separated milk better, there 
is no cream wasted then. After the 
whey is turned off you ean put what 
cream you wish back into the curd. An¬ 
other friend of mine patches the grain 
bags from the feed store. (All my friends 
are ambitious, you see.) Another woman 
helps her neighbors cut and fit their 
house dresses. She can crochet quite 
well and one Winter she realized quite a 
little sum of money crocheting those long 
woolen shawls. The next Winter it was 
aviation caps; she quickly sees what 
wants to be done and does it first, that’s 
the secret. H. s. 
A Suggestion for Fly Control. 
We have a young dog this year. The 
children still call him the puppy, al¬ 
though he is full grown, but he still has 
many puppy ways; and one of his prac¬ 
tices is to bring home every bone or piece 
of meat he can find; the quantity be finds 
in this neighborhood that takes pride in 
being cleanly and progressive is aston¬ 
ishing. He found more in early Spring 
than at present, bnt the supply is not yet 
exhausted. At first this was very annoy¬ 
ing, but as all his prizes were promptly 
seized with a pair of tongs and cremated 
we begin to think he has been a benefac¬ 
tor to the neighborhood. By the number 
of dead pigs, lambs, hens, etc., that he 
has caused to be cremated it is plain to 
be seen that he has robbed myriads of 
flies of a breeding place. When a small 
animal dies it is too apt to be thrown 
into the manure pile, to be drawn away 
to some back field, where if the odor does 
not reach the house, no more is thought 
of it, or if buried it is often too lightly 
covered. The horse manure pile is gen¬ 
erally recognized as the worst of fly 
breeders and we feel that if by some 
means this nuisance could be eliminated 
it would be striking a heavy blow at the 
root of the fly plant; but we should also 
remember to cut out these little roots. 
MARION LAWRENCE. 
Orangeade.—Impregnate a few lumps 
of loaf sugar with the oil of orange 
by rubbing into them as much as 
you can readily from the rind of four 
oranges. Roll as many oranges as you 
design to use, squeeze the juice, allow¬ 
ing eight to one quart of water. Throw 
the skins into half a pint of water as you 
squeeze them, let them stand a short 
time, press them a little, and add this 
water to the other juice. The very high¬ 
est flavored oranges should be selected, 
and if not found sour enough to impart 
an agreeable acid, lemon juice may be 
added, with the caution that it must not 
be used freely enough to impair the dis¬ 
tinct flavor of the orange. The oil should 
only be slightly rubbed from the oranges. 
Allow about one-half pound of sugar to 
the quart of orangeade. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and yon'11 get a quick reply aud a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
FOUND A WAY 
To B« Clear of Coffee Troubles. 
“Husband and myself had the coffee 
habit, rind finally his stomach and kid¬ 
neys got in snch a bad condition that he 
was compelled to give up a good position 
that he had held for years. He was [ 
too sick to work. His skin was yellow, 
and there didn't seem to be an organ in f 
his body that was not affected. 
“I told him I felt sure his sickness | 
was due to coffee and after some discos- • 
sion he decided to give it up. 
“It was a struggle, because of the 
powerful habit. One day we heard about 
Postuin and concluded to try it and then 
it was easy to leave off coffee. 
“His fearfnl headaches grew less fre¬ 
quent, bis complexion began to clear, kid¬ 
neys grew better until at last he was 
a new man altogether, as a result of 
leaving off coffee and taking up Postuin. 
Then I began to drink it too. 
“Although I was never as bad off as 
my husband, I was always very nervous 
and never at any time very strong, only 
weighing 95 lbs. before I begau to use 
Postmn. Now I weigh 115 lbs. aud 
can do as much work as anyone my size, 
I think.” 
Name given by -Postum. Co., Battle 
Creek, Mich. Write for booklet, “The 
Road to Wettville.” 
Postuin comes in two forms. 
Regular Postum (must be boded.) 
Instant Postum doesn’t require boil¬ 
ing. but is prepared instantly by stirring 
a level teaspoonful in an ordinary cup 
of hot water, which makes it right for 
most persons. 
A big cup requires more aud some 
people who Eke strong things put in a 
heaping spoonful and temper it with a 
large supply of cream. 
Experiment until you know the amount 
that pleases your palate and have it 
served that way in tie' future. 
“There’s a Reason” for Postum. 
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Mrs. Tenacre —“Deary me! John 
wants to buy another piece of 
ground and farm it! That 
means more hands at harvest 
time—more dishes to wash— 
Oh, I hate the farm!” 
Anty Drudge —“I know you are 
too tired out to realize what 
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It helps in all 
kind of ways, and 
makes all sorts of 
work easy. 
Forwashingclothes, 
cleaning greasy pots 
and pans, washing 
dirty floors—use Fels- 
Naptha Soap, cool or 
lukewarm water, half 
the strength and time 
you are used to using 
and see how fine the 
results will be. 
Fels-Naptha Soap 
dissolves grease, 
makes stains and dirt 
disappear. 
Directions on the Red and Green 
"Wrapper tell you how to make your 
work easy. 
Fels Co., Philadelphia. 
PS"* 
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1 mA Ml 
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flics. Neat, clean, or¬ 
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BffasoQ, Made of 
metal* can't spill oc tip 
over; will not soil ox 
Injure anything. 
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Sold by dealers, or 
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