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THE IX LI IX A L NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE TASK OF HAPPINESS. 
If I have faltered more or less 
In my great task of happiness; 
If I have moved among my race 
And shown no glorious morning face; 
If beams from happy human eyes 
Have moved me not; if morning skies, 
Books, and my food, and Summer rain 
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain :— 
Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take 
And stab my spirit broad awake; 
Or Lord, if too obdurate I 
Choose Thou, before that spirit die, 
A piercing pain, a killing sin. 
And to my dead heart run them in. 
—Robert Louis Stevenson. 
* 
If tired of “picked-up” codfish, which 
is a melancholy dish as some house¬ 
keepers prepare it, with a thin and lumpy 
sauce that tastes only of salt and raw 
flour, try the following codfish cream: 
Cut into dice a dozen small potatoes 
and boil until tender; have ready in a 
saucepan half a pound of salt codfish, 
picked fine, a piece of butter and a 
chopped onion; heat, and when the but¬ 
ter begins to brown turn in the potatoes 
and a pint of thin cream; thicken with a 
little flour. Serve on toast. 
* 
White fur can be cleaned with a mix¬ 
ture of cornmeal and gasoline. Make it 
into a thick paste, putting it into a large 
dish, so it may be used conveniently, 
spreading newspapers on the floor to 
catch the crumbs. Rub the paste well 
into the fur, as though washing with a 
lather, and then shake it out thoroughly. 
If the fur is very dirty several applica¬ 
tions of the fresh paste may be required, 
that which is soiled being thoroughly 
shaken out. This is a good way to 
cleanse light fur hats. This paste is also 
good to cleanse the edge of a light-col¬ 
ored cloth skirt; rub on with a clean 
piece of flannel and then brush off. Of 
course it will not take out stains, but it 
removes the dry soiling caused by dust. 
* 
Reports from Australia state that an 
immense tract of land has been secured 
at Wilson’s Inlet, West Australia, to be 
developed as a women’s enterprise. The 
English Women’s Householders League 
has secured the land, and among the 
leaders of the movement are Mrs. 
Crooks, principal of the Women’s Agri¬ 
cultural College in Worcestershire, Mrs. 
Emily Crawford, a well-known journal¬ 
ist, and Dr. Hetty Sawyer. It is an¬ 
nounced that no man will be permitted 
to hold land, stock or office in the enter¬ 
prise. The land is in a rich stock-raising 
district, and the enterprise is said to be 
secure of abundant financial support. 
Whatever we may think of a colony 
that purposes the entire elimination of 
the masculine element, there are already 
too many successful women farmers for 
us to look upon the scheme as absurd. 
Furthermore, whatever we may think 
of the aggressive “new woman,” either 
individual or collective it is not likely 
that the saloon, with its attendant misery 
and vice, will be as prominent in her 
new colony as it is in most new places 
colonized by the masculine half of crea¬ 
tion, nor do we think that jails and po¬ 
licemen will be among the first neces¬ 
sities of civilization there. 
* 
In some way, the conversation turned 
on surgical operations (strange how 
many women revel in such subjects), 
and a friend of ours referred to the skill 
with which a certain painful operation 
was performed, and the complete and 
permanent cure that had resulted, ac¬ 
cording to her knowledge. Long after¬ 
wards a woman who had listened to this 
conversation told our friend of the 
strength and courage it had given her. 
She was then dreading the operation re¬ 
ferred to; it was inevitable, but she had 
become convinced that it would only 
bring to her prolonged and fatal agony 
The cheerful words spoken, without any 
idea of personal application, had given 
her new heart; she had gone bravely to 
her ordeal, to be rewarded by complete 
recovery. But suppose our friend had 
not been a cheerful person—that, instead 
of a few hopeful words, spoken with sin¬ 
cere conviction, she had related some 
doleful tale of suffering and death? 
Well, in that case she would have added 
a fresh pang to those already endured, 
and, perhaps, would have lowered the 
patient’s vitality to the vanishing point, 
by inducing extreme mental depression. 
And the moral of all this is that an idle 
word may make or mar a life—we can 
never judge how far-reaching its effect. 
We cannot shut our eyes to suffering 
6534 Girl’s Princesse Dress, 2 to 8 years. 
and death, or sin and sorrow, but we 
must meet them all courageously, and, 
so far as in us lies, hearten our fellow 
pilgrims, whether their anxieties are 
known or unknown to us. “How far 
yon tiny candle throws its rays—so 
shines a good deed in a naughty world,” 
says Jessica, and just so far-reaching is 
the power of the spoken word. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A pretty little princess dress is shown 
in No. 6534 . It can be made very plainly, 
or decorated as desired, and is suitable 
for either woolen or wash goods. The 
6527 Three-Piece Skirt with Circular 
Flounce, 23 to 30 waist. 
dress is made with the jersey portion 
and the skirt. The skirt is straight and 
plaited and the jersey portion is fitted 
by means of seams that extend to the 
shoulders. The short sleeves can be used 
either over the long ones or separately. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size (six years) is 4*4 yards 
24 or 27 , 3)4 yards 32 or 2)4 yards 44 
January 29, 
inches wide with 3 / yards of insertion, 
2*4 yards of ribbon for sash. The pat¬ 
tern 6534 is cut in sizes for girls of two, 
four, six and eight years of age; price 
10 cents. 
An attractive skirt giving the fashion¬ 
able tunic effect is shown in No. 6527 . 
The skirt is made in three pieces and is 
gathered at the upper edge and joined 
to a belt. The lower edge is finished 
with a tuck. The flounce is circular and 
it is seamed to the lower edge of the 
skirt under the tuck, so that the joining 
is entirely invisible. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size 
is 7 % yards 27 ; six yards 44 or four 
yards 52 inches wide, the width of the 
skirt at the lower edge is 4)4 yards. 
The pattern 6527 is cut in sizes for a 22, 
24 , 26 , 28 and 30 inch waist measure; 
price 10 cents. 
Chile Con Carne. 
Would you kindly print a recipe for mak¬ 
ing chili eon carne? j. c. m. 
Chili con carne is a Mexican dish 
flavored with red peppers. Seed and 
soak six red peppers in boiling water 
until tender; then scrape the pulp into 
water. Cut two pounds of steak in small 
pieces and fry in dripping or butter. 
Add two tablespoonfuls of flour and 
brown it. Cover with the chili pulp and 
water, and add a little garlic and thyme. 
Season to taste and simmer until the 
meat is tender and the gravy of the right 
consistency. _ 
Dill Pickles; Curing Bacon. 
Can you give me a recipe for making dill 
pickles? Also one for curing breakfast ba¬ 
con as is done by the packers. I can grow 
the bogs for good bacon, and want a recipe 
for pickles. w. w. 
Dill Pickles.—Make a brine strong 
enough to bear an egg, then add half as 
much more water as you have brine. 
Wash cucumbers in cold water, and into 
a stone jar put first a layer of cucum¬ 
bers, then a layer of grape leaves and a 
layer of dill, using leaves and stems. 
Continue in this way until the jar is full. 
Pour the brine over all and cover, first 
with a cloth, then with a plate, and put 
a weight on top of the plate. The cloth 
must be washed frequently as in making 
sauerkraut. 
We have published a number of recipes 
for curing hams and bacon, but it is 
possible that commercial packers use 
formulas of their own. As a rule no 
sugar or saltpeter is used in curing ba¬ 
con, this being the chief difference from 
ham. The bacon is rubbed with plain 
salt, which it absorbs for six days, being 
turned and rubbed every second day. The 
pieces are then put in plain brine for 
four to six weeks, and turned every 
week. When removed from this brine 
they are rubbed off, and dusted with the 
following mixture: Six ounces gypsum, 
17 ounces rye flour, 10 ounces fine salt, 
)4 ounce cream of tartar. The bacon is 
hung in a cool, dark dry place until 
thoroughly dried out after which it is 
lightly smoked and stored away. You 
will find instruction on this subject in 
Farmers’ Bulletin 183 , “Meat on the 
Farm,” issued by the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, Washington, and in 
“Canning and Preserving,” by Prof. 
Gerald McCarthy, issued by the North 
Carolina Department of Agriculture, 
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WESTERN CANADA 
j/ha t Governor Deneen.ollllinois, Says About It; 
Governor Deneen, of Illinois, owns a section 
land in Saskatchewan, Canada. He 
has said in an interview: 
“As an American I am delighted 
to see the remarkable progress of 
Western Canada. Our people are 
.locking across the boundary in 
thousands, and I have not yet met 
one who admitted he had made a 
mistake. They are all doing well. 
There is scarcely a community in 
the Middle or Western States that 
has not a representative in Mani- 
toba, Saskatchewan or Alberta.” 
" 125 MillionBushelsof Wheat in1909 
~ Western Canada field crops for 1909 will 
easily bring $170,000,000.00 in cash. 
Free Homesteads of 160 acres. 
2? < kX ,re ’ emptlou of 160 acres at 
$3.00 an acre. Railway and Land Com¬ 
panies have land for sale at reasonable prices. 
Many farmers have paid for their 
land ou t of the proceeds of one crop. 
Splendid climate, good schools, 
excellent railway accommodation, 
low freight rates, wood, water and 
lumber easily obtainable. 
For pamphlet "Last Best West,” particulars 
as to suitable location and low settlers’ rate, 
apply to Sup’t of Immigration, Ottawa, Can., 
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