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THE. RURAL, NEW -YORKER 
February 5. 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE NEW BEGINNING. 
Every day is a new beginning. 
Every morn is the world made new ; 
Ye who are weary of sorrow and sinning, 
Here is a beautiful hope for you— 
A hope for me and a hope for you. 
All the past things are past and over. 
The tasks ai'c done and tears are shed; 
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover, 
Yesterday's wounds which smarted and 
bled 
Are healed with the healing which night 
has shed. 
Yesterday now is part of forever, 
Bound up in a sheaf, which God holds 
tight, 
With glad days, and sad days, and bad 
days which never 
Shall visit us more with their bloom and 
blight, 
Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful 
night. 
Let them go, since we cannot relieve them, 
Cannot undo and cannot atone; 
God, in His mercy, receive, forgive them; 
Only the new days arc our own, 
To-day is ours, and to-day alone. 
Here are the skies all burnished brightly, 
Here is the spent earth, all reborn, 
Here are tile tired limbs, springing lightly 
To face the sun and to share with the 
morn 
In the chrism of dew and the cool of 
dawn. 
Every day is a fresh beginning; 
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, 
And spite of old sorrow and older sinning, 
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain, 
Take heart with the day and begin again. 
—Susan Coolidge. 
* 
Steamed rabbi-t is easily cooked and 
very good. Dress and cut up as for 
fricassee, rub each piece with onion, 
season with pepper and salt, and put 
in steam pail or in a deep granite dish 
in the steamer. Lay on the top a 
few slices of onion and a dozen cran¬ 
berries, cover, and cook until tender. 
When tender put in the oven to 
brown while preparing the .gravy. Add 
a little more boiling water to the 
liquor in the steaming dish, a little 
more seasoning if desired, thicken with 
browned flour; cook five minutes, add 
a tablespoonful of lemon juice, put the 
meat on a hot platter, pour the gravy 
over it and serve immediately. 
* 
Marabou feathers have been used 
enormously this Winter, ^md while we 
have never admired those hats com¬ 
pletely covered with them, described by 
one disgruntled man as looking like a 
nail keg which had been dipped in 
molasses and then rolled in caterpillar 
fur, we think this trimming particu¬ 
larly becoming. As a hat trimming it 
gives the effect of fur without its heavi¬ 
ness, while in muffs and neckpieces the 
marabou is warm and yet light. Of 
course, the feathers do not wear like 
fur, but for dress wear such a set is 
very handsome, either black or the na¬ 
tural mole brown, while costing less 
than good furs. Evening wraps and 
scarfs are very freely trimmed with 
marabou. The marabou is a large Af¬ 
rican stork, but we have a strong sus¬ 
picion that the American turkey or 
some other domestic fowl furnishes a 
good many of the manufactured 
feathers. The trimming is sold by the 
yard, and also made up into plumes and 
bands for millinery. 
-J 1 
An English authoress, Irene Osgood, 
started a movement last year for re¬ 
membering the birds at Christmas, so a 
number of young people interested in 
birds, following out the idea, fixed to 
the branches of certain trees meat 
bones and cocoanuts cut in two, with 
the addition of small seeds and shallow 
dishes of water on the ground beneath. 
The suggestion was carried out by the 
members of a young people’s society 
numbering between 3,000 and 4,000 
members, and the birds showed their 
appreciation of the treat by collecting 
in enormous numbers. We wish our 
friends would bear this in mind, es¬ 
pecially during deep snows. Pieces of 
suet hung from branches out of the 
reach of marauding cats will be very 
much appreciated, and also crumbs and 
small seeds. We are all so much in¬ 
debted to the chickadees especially for 
their cheerfulness during glocmv Win- 
6538 Child’s Cap, Collar and Muff, 
4, 6 and 8 years. 
ter weather that we may well try to 
offer some friendship in return to “our 
little brothers of the air.” 
* 
The “Farmers’ Week” at Cornell 
February 7-12, includes the department 
of home economics; there is a house¬ 
keepers’ conference through the entire 
session, with a very interesting pro¬ 
gramme. This includes lectures on the 
care and feeding of children; general 
principles of nutrition; house furnish¬ 
ing and household management; sanita¬ 
tion ; demonstrations with exhibition of 
modern cooking appliances; conference 
upon rural schools, and a library con¬ 
ference with reference to selection of 
books for the home. We wish every 
farm housekeeper (and especially she 
who feels tired of the perpetual 
monotonous round of home duties) 
could attend this meeting, and take back 
from it the enthusiasm that gilds every¬ 
day life and makes it beautiful. It 
would do the girls good to go there 
too, but it is the wife and mother who 
has given up old dreams and hopes 
and settled down into unselfish toil for 
others who has the best right to at¬ 
tend that Cornell meeting. Why not 
take the work off her burdened 
shoulders for one week and make 
“mother’ 'take this helpful vacation? 
The Rural Patterns. 
Winter comfort demands just such 
a comfortable, close-fitting cap and 
pretty little fur set as these. The cap can 
be made either plain or with revers as 
liked, and it will be found adapted to 
a great many different materials. In 
the illustration the cap with revers is 
shown made of broadcloth, while the 
plain cap is made of plush. Caps to 
match the coats are well liked and are 
always pretty, and velvet and corduroy 
caps are worn with coats of all sorts. 
Also the same model will be pretty for 
silk or thinner materials. The little 
collar and muff can be made from fur 
plush, 'as in this instance, or from 
genuine fur or from velvet or from any 
fancy material. The cap is made with 
the crown and brim and when the 
rever is used it is joined to the front 
edge. The collar is cut in one piece 
and the muff is a simple round one, de¬ 
signed to be made soft and warm with 
wadding and to be lined with silk. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size (6 years) is l / 2 yard 
27, ‘Y® yard 44 or % yard 50 inches 
wide; the muff and collar % yard 50 
inches wide. The pattern 6538 is cut in 
sizes for girls of 4, 6 and 8 years of 
age; price 10 cents. 
The misses’ dress shown will be found 
a smart model for Summer materials, 
and it is also suitable for evening wear. 
The dress is made with waist and skirt 
portions. The waist is made over a fit¬ 
ted lining and consists of the full por¬ 
tions that are finished by trimming 
bands and the little frill, or tucker, 
above them. The short sleeves are in 
one piece but the long sleeves are cut 
with upper and under portions and fit 
the arms snugly. When the high neck 
is needed the lining is faced to form the 
yoke. The skirt is made with front, 
back and side portions. The front and 
back portions are tucked and cut in sec¬ 
tions but the side portions are plain and 
the trimming is arranged to give a tunic 
effect. The closing is made invisibly at 
the back. The quantity of material is 9j/f 
for the sixteen-year size, 9)4 yards 
yards 24 , 7*4 yards 32 or 5 V 2 yards 44 
inches wide with 12 yards of banding, 
i l / 2 yards of ribbon and Y yard of chif¬ 
fon for frill; \ l / 2 yards of all-over lace 
for yoke and long sleeves. The pattern 
6549 is cut in sizes for girls of 14 and 
16 years of age; price 10 cents. 
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Soda Crackers 
m tke Country 
Next time you go to the store 
buy enough Uneeda Biscuit to last 
till next market day. “But,” you 
say, “will they keep that long?” 
Yes— 
Uneeda 
Biscuit 
are the soda crackers that come to 
you protected in sealed packages, 
so that you always have fresh soda 
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buy or how long you keep them. 
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