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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 1, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
NEW YEAR’S MORNING. 
Only a night from old to new ! 
Only a night, and so much wrought! 
The Old Year’s heart all weary grew. 
But said: “The New Year rest has brought.” 
The Old Year’s heart its hopes laid down, 
As in a grave; but, trusting, said : 
“The blossoms of the New Year’s crown 
Bloom from the ashes of the dead.” 
The Old Year's heart was full of greed; 
With selfishness it longed and ached. 
And cried : “I have not half a need. 
My thirst is bitter and unslaked. 
But to the New Y'ear’s generous hand 
All gifts in plenty shall return ; 
True loving it shall understand; 
But all my failures it shall learn, 
I have been reckless; it shall be 
Quiet and calm and pure of life. 
I was a slave; it shall go free, 
And find sweet peace where I leave strife.” 
Only a night from old to new ! 
Never a night such changes brought. 
The Old Year had its work to do; 
No New Year miracles are wrought. 
Always a night from old to new ! 
Night and the healing balm of sleep! 
Each morn is New Year's morn come true, 
Morn of a festival to keep. 
All nights are sacred nights to make 
Confession and resolve and prayer; 
All days are sacred days to wake 
New gladness in the sunny air. 
Only a night from old to new; 
Only a sleep from night till morn. 
The new is but the old come true; 
Each sunrise sees a new year born, 
—Helen Hunt Jackson. 
* 
Savory eggs prepared as follows will 
be welcomed on a cold day: Cut six 
sausages into half-inch pieces, and fry 
for about six minutes; then stir in a 
cupful of tomato sauce and a teaspoon¬ 
ful of chopped parsley. Put the mix¬ 
ture into six little individual baking 
dishes, slip an egg on to the top of 
each, taking care to avoid breaking the 
yolk; then put into the oven until the 
eggs are set, and serve at once. 
* 
With January we always begin to 
count the days to Spring, for, though 
in New York this month is usually but 
the beginning of real Winter, it is much 
pleasanter to look forward to the first 
Crocuses poking their head above the 
grass than to think of blizzards, gales 
and frost. For three months at least 
there will be much to battle against out 
of doors, but every day brings us nearer 
to blossom time, and there is always 
something to look forward to. Perhaps 
this is the real secret of a happy life— 
the feeling that “there’s a good time 
coming.” 
* 
One of our readers asks us how to 
make a hot potato salad. The following 
recipe, sometimes called German sour 
potatoes, is a good one for this hot 
salad: Fry to a light brown four table¬ 
spoonfuls of minced breakfast bacon. 
Strain out the bacon and fry in the fat 
a teaspoonful of chopped onion. Take 
the pan from the fire and stir into the 
fat an equal amount of vinegar sea¬ 
soned with salt, sugar and a touch of 
cayenne. Beat to an emulsion, return 
to the fire, adding two tablespoonfuls 
of boiling water. The potatoes should 
be ready boiled, cut into dice and kept 
hot over boiling water. Turn them into 
the pan with the dressing and bacon 
dice, toss and stir lightly to coat them 
with the vinegar, etc., and serve. 
* 
In addition to the white sewing, this 
is a good time of the year to make wash 
dresses. There is no excuse for ugly, 
“slimpsy” calico wrappers when the one- 
piece house dress is just as easy to 
put on, and much nicer in appearance. 
Gingham, chambray, madras, cambric 
and percale are all good for such dresses, 
and there are some good calicoes, though 
we do not think the slight difference in 
price makes them worth while, as com¬ 
pared with cambric or percale of firmer 
texture. Any of these simple materials 
are wonderfully improved by trimming 
with bands of another material. Solid 
colored chambray or gingham, trimmed 
with bands of a check of the same color 
with white, is very pretty; so is striped 
cambric trimmed with a solid color. 
One usually takes pleasure in a simple 
wash dress that is just a little bit dif¬ 
ferent from others. We have been in 
some places where all the women dressed 
alike when at home; if blue or brown 
calico wrappers were the popular house 
dress, every woman we saw at her house¬ 
work wore a blue or brown wrapper, 
only varied by the width of the stripe 
or the size of the dot, according to the 
wearer’s ideas. We could not help think¬ 
ing that this monotony of dress must 
increase the monotony of the daily work, 
and restrict the imagination of the work¬ 
ers. Calico has quite as much right to 
be pretty as silk, and surely no one 
deserves attractive things to look at 
more than the farm housekeeper. There 
is a moral and mental effect in pretti¬ 
ness, whether of dress or surroundings, 
that serious-minded women sometimes 
overlook. 
* 
The first three months of the year 
are chosen by many systematic house¬ 
keepers for replacing muslin underwear, 
and similar sewing. “White sales” be¬ 
gin in the city stores for those who 
buy such garments readymade, which 
very busy people must do, but we see 
real economy in making such under¬ 
wear where there is time to do so. For 
the same first cost we make a much 
better garment, but if the making is 
a tax upon feeble strength, or upon 
scant leisure that should be used in 
other ways, we must do without this 
particular economy. We think it is 
wise, however, for any isolated woman 
to buy an occasional ready-made gar¬ 
ment, because as a rule she can get 
some idea from it in neatness of finish 
or economy of labor. We also believe 
in buying new patterns from time to 
time; they cost but little, and make the 
work more interesting. We use long- 
cloth for all our muslin underwear; 
its soft finish makes it pleasant to work 
in, and it can be purchased in a great 
variety of weights, heavy or fine. We 
can remember women who used the 
heavy muslins for their underwear, hard 
to sew in, and so heavy to wash that 
the garments soon become yellow, but 
this custom has now died out, so far 
as our knowledge goes. We buy our 
longcloth by the 12-yard piece, usually 
when there is a sale, so that we take 
advantage of a reduction. For tjie 
tucked flounces of skirts cambric is de¬ 
sirable, and we prefer the soft-finished 
sorts. We recently met with a firm, rath¬ 
er heavy material called mercerized cam¬ 
bric, . which was being used for hos¬ 
pital bedgowns ; it cost 12 cents a yard, 
and might be found desirable for night¬ 
shirts, or wherever a heavy muslin was 
desired. A great deal of German Val¬ 
enciennes . lace is used in trimming 
ready-made underwear, but it is soon 
torn in washing, and we only use Val¬ 
enciennes on\ fine garments for special 
wear, for torn lace makes a sound 
garment look ragged. Torchon, which 
in its machine-made forms is very in¬ 
expensive, wears much better, and there 
are often opportunities to buy simple 
embroidered edgings quite cheaply. Bet¬ 
ter a plain band edged with finishing 
braid than torn lace or coarse em¬ 
broidery. 
Easy Brown Bread.—For two loaves 
of bread use one quart of tepid water 
in which dissolve one compressed yeast 
cake. Add a scant teaspoonful of salt 
and one cupful of either molasses or 
sugar. Both graham and white flour 
should be used in the proportions of 
three-fourths graham and one-fourth 
white flour and only so much should be 
added as will make a stiffish mixture 
that, may, however, be dropped from a 
spoon. Stir the flour well in" and let 
the bread rise until it has doubled its 
bulk. Then stir it down once more and 
pour into well greased bread pans. Let 
it rise until again it has doubled its 
bulk, then bake for three-quarters of an 
hour in a moderate oven. 
WM 
\El)DYSTONU 
FOUNDED 1842 
Inexpensive Dresses 
Supreme satisfaction 
with cotton dress- 
goods is worth all it 
costs ; and it costs but 
little in 
Simpson-Eddystone 
Solid Black Prints 
The standard calicoes 
for over65 years. Stan¬ 
dard to-day. Beauti¬ 
ful, fadeless, and en¬ 
during. 
If your dealer hasn’t Simpson- 
Eddystone Prints write us his 
name. We’ll help him supply 
you. 
The Eddystone Mfg. Co., Philadelphia 
Established by Wm. Simpson, Sr. 
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