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THE RURAL 3MEC W-YORKER 
January 8, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
COLUMBIA’S EMBLEM. 
Blazon Columbia’s emblem 
Tbe bounteous golden corn! 
Eons ago, of Hie great sun's glow 
And the joy of earth, ’twas horn. 
From Superior’s shore to Chile, 
From the ocean of dawn to the west. 
With its banners of green and silken sheen 
It sprang at the sun’s behest; 
And by dew and shower, from its natal 
hour, 
With honey and wine ’twas fed. 
Till on slope and plain the gods were fain 
To share the feast outspread : 
For the rarest boon to the land they loved 
Was the corn so rich and fair. 
Nor star nor breeze o’er the farthest seas 
Could find its like elsewhere. 
In their holiest temples the Incas 
Offered the heaven-sent maize— 
Grains wrought of gold, in a silver fold, 
For the sun’s enraptured gaze; 
And its harvest came to the wandering 
tribes 
As the god’s own gift and seal, 
And Montezuma’s festal bread 
Was made of its sacred meal. 
Narrow their cherished fields; but ours 
Are broad as the continent’s breast, 
And. lavish as leaves, the rustling sheaves 
Bring plenly and joy and rest; 
For they strew the plains and crowd the 
wains 
■ When the reapers meet at morn. 
Till blithe cheers ring and west winds sing 
A song for the garnered corn. 
The rose may bloom for England, 
The lily for France unfold ; 
Ireland may honor the shamrock, 
Scotland her thistle hold; 
But the shield of the great Republic, 
The glory of the West, 
Shall bear a stalk of the tasseled corn— 
The sun’s supreme bequest ! 
The arbutus and the goldenrod 
. The heart of the North may cheer, 
And the mountain laurel for Maryland 
Its royal clusters rear, 
And jasmine and magnolia. 
The crest of the South adorn; 
But the wide Republic's emblem 
Is the bounteous, golden corn! 
—Edna Dean Proctor. 
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Fish fried in Jewish style is an ex¬ 
cellent cold dish. It is a good recipe for 
halibut, duke, flounders, or any fish that 
furnishes a nice slice of meat. 1 ake 
six ounces of flour, a dash of salt, the 
yolk of an egg, one ounce of olive oil, 
and one gill of tepid water. Mix and 
set aside in a cool place for half an hour. 
Whip to stiffness the white of an egg 
and incorporate it with the mixture. 
Dip the fry in this and then in sifted 
bread crumbs or sifted rasped cracker 
crumbs, and fry to suit. Serve with 
mayonnaise or tartar sauce, or with a 
plain French dressing having chopped 
capers or a little chopped green onions 
in it. 
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Perhaps there is no one quality that 
leads to domestic discord more surely 
than the determination not to yield in 
trifles. Many a good woman causes end¬ 
less friction in just this way; she will 
arrange some trifling detail of her house¬ 
keeping in a certain manner, and then 
refuse to change, no matter how it may 
inconvenience others, nor how it may 
overtax her own strength. 1 he mere 
fact that she has always done her work 
in a certain way is treated as an unal¬ 
terable law of the universe, to which 
family and friends must humbly bow. 
And so the more yielding members of 
the family must give in, after some un¬ 
necessary argument, and then nurse 
their grievance, if that is their disposi¬ 
tion, until some new cause of friction 
arises. How can we make ourselves less 
ready to bear great trials, than by weak¬ 
ening strength and fortitude in petty 
disagreements? 
We have had a good deal of informa¬ 
tion in The R. N.-Y. about installing a 
heating plant in the farmhouse. After 
it is installed, people who have not had 
experience find there is much to learn 
about the economical running of such a 
system. With a steam heater, and, we 
should infer, with hot water also, there 
is enormous loss of heat if the pipes in 
the cellar are not covered with asbestos. 
We imagined that this was invariably 
done, but several cases have come under 
our observation where the asbestos cov¬ 
ering was omitted on the ground of 
economy in first cost. It was very dear 
economy; it heated the cellar very com¬ 
fortably, but the heat never reached 
some upstairs rooms at the farthest 
point from the boiler. We find there is 
much economy in “banking” the fire at 
night; that is, putting a light covering 
0520 Child’s Dress, 1, 2 and 4 years, 
of clean dry ashes over it after the last 
coal is put on. The ashes are all burnt 
through in the morning, with a good 
clear fire underneath, and much more 
coal would be required to make the fire 
last without this covering. 
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Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, in her delight¬ 
ful book of recollections (“My Day; 
Reminiscences of a Long Life”) tells of 
the starvation days in Petersburg when 
Gen. Grant was attacking that city. The 
streets had never been so clean, for 
every particle of animal and vegetable 
food was consumed, “blocks of pigeons 
would follow the children who were 
eating bread or crackers. Finally the 
pigeons vanished, having themselves 
been eaten. Rats and mice disappeared.” 
Gen. Lee’s ordinary dinner consisted of 
a head of cabbage boiled in salt water, 
and a pone of corn bread. On one oc¬ 
casion, Gen. Lee, having invited a num¬ 
ber of guests for dinner, gave orders 
for bacon and cabbage. The dinner was 
0519 Six Gored Skirt, 22 to 30 waist. 
served, and behold, a great sea of cab¬ 
bage and a small island of bacon, or 
“middling,” about four inches long and 
two inches across. The guests, with 
commendable politeness, unanimously 
declined the bacon, and it remained in 
the disli untouched. Next day Gen. Lee, 
remembering the delicate titbit which 
had been so providentially preserved, 
ordered his servant to bring that “mid¬ 
dling.” The man hesitated, scratched his 
head, and finally owned up: 
“Marse Robert—de fac’ is—dat ar 
middlin’ was borrowed middlin’. We- 
all didn’ have no middlin’. I done paid 
it back to the place whar I got it fum. 
Gen. Lee heaved a sigh of his disap¬ 
pointment, and pitched into the cabbage. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Simple little frocks such as this one 
are the best liked for the tiny girls and 
are made from all sorts of pretty mate¬ 
rials. Mercerized white lawn with yoke 
and epaulettes of embroidery, trimming 
of lace insertion and edging makes the 
dress shown but cross-barred and em¬ 
broidered muslins arc very dainty, rose¬ 
bud and other simple figured dimities are 
much liked and a great many mothers 
use cashmere, albatross and materials of 
the sort for the cooler weather. The 
dress can be made with the pretty short 
sleeves illustrated or with long ones 
and with the epaulette-like trimmings 
or plain. The high yoke can be omitted 
too, and the neck left slightly open if 
that style is liked. The dress.is made 
with the square yoke and the front and 
back portions that are gathered and 
joined to it. Whether the sleeves are 
short or long they are made in one piece 
and gathered into bands. The epaulettes 
when used are arranged over the shoul¬ 
ders and attached to position. The dress 
is closed at the back. When made with 
low neck the dress is joined to a shallow 
yoke, as shown in the small view. The 
quantity of material required for the 
medium size (2 years) is 2 yards 24, V/& 
yards 32, or 44 inches wide with yard 
18 for the yoke and epaulettes, 8 yards 
of banding, 3 yards of edging to trim 
as illustrated. The pattern 6520 is cut 
sizes for children of 1, 2 and 4 years of 
age; price 10 cents. 
The skirt that is made with plaited 
panels at the sides is a pretty as well as 
a fashionable one. The skirt is made in 
six gores and the front and side gores 
are cut with extensions that form the 
straps while the side gores are cut off 
and attached to the plaited portions. The 
triple box plait is arranged over the 
edges of the side gores and the closing 
is made invisibly beneath the left edge. 
When walking length is desired the skirt 
is cut off on indicated lines. The quan¬ 
tity of material required for the medium 
size is yards 27, 6 yards 44 or 5 yards 
52 inches wide, width of skirt at lower 
edge is 4% yards. The pattern 0519 is 
cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30 
inch waist measure; price 10 cents. 
When a lamp- 
chimney breaks 
it means a loss, 
not only of the 
chimney, but of 
the use of the 
lamp. 
Sometimes that 
inconven i ence 
amounts to ten 
times the value 
of any lamp- 
chimney. 
When my name, Macbeth, is on 
a lamp-chimney it says, “ This 
chimney will not break from heat.” 
If you would be sure of always 
getting the right chimney, have 
my book. Free. Address 
M ACBETH, Pittsburgh. 
• “Maple” Evaporators 
Onr “MapI© Evaporator” fa the moat, durable and moat 
economical on (he market, only •eleeted material* being 
liaed In lit eonatruction. Heavy rail-iron frame, rein¬ 
forced Mheot at eel jucket, extra heavy specially rolled tin 
or galvanized Iron pans. 
Easily erected, uses very little fuel either 
wood or coal, works smoothly ami evap¬ 
orates quickly, producing very fine sugar 
and syrup. Hundreds in use giving 
splendid service. Moderate in cost. 
We carry a full line of sugar camp sup¬ 
plies. 
McLane- 
Schank 
Hard¬ 
ware Co. 
Llnesvllle 
Fa. 
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You can have this Victor sent to your home right now, and take your time 
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