612 
May 28, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
DAY BY DAY. 
Every day has its dawn, 
Its soft and silent eve, 
Its noontide hours of bliss or bale— 
Why should we grieve? 
Why do we heap huge mounds of years 
Before us and behind, 
And scorn the little days that pass 
Like angels in the wind? 
Each turning round a small sweet face 
As beautiful as near; 
Because it is so small a face 
We will not see it clear. 
We will not clasp it as it Hies, 
And kiss its lips and brow ; 
We will not bathe our wearied souls 
In its delicious Now. 
And so it turns from us, and goes 
Away in sad disdain ; 
Though we would give our lives for it, 
It never comes again. 
Yes, every day has its dawn. 
Its noontide and its eve ; 
Live while we live, giving God thanks— 
lie will not let us grieve. 
—Dinah Mulock Craik. 
* 
Cups, jugs and dishes with 'handles 
should occasionally have a scrubbing 
around the handle with a well-soaped 
brush; otherwise there is a gradual 
clouding that finally becomes an un¬ 
sightly smudge of gathered dirt. Soda 
should never be used on china with 
gilding, as it gradually removes the 
decoration; indeed, it is not wise to 
use strong cleansing agents on any deco¬ 
rated china. 
* 
Relative to that iron kettle that per¬ 
sists in rusting and giving, an unpleasant 
taste to the food, page 526, an old-fash¬ 
ioned housekeeper says that she was 
taught to boil a thin porridge of bran 
and water in a new iron kettle; it should 
be kept simmering gently for several 
hours. Then the kettle was washed out, 
wiped, and rubbed all over the inside 
with a tough piece of bread crust dipped 
in a little dripping or other fresh fat. 
It was rubbed over and over with the 
crust until dry and smooth, and there 
•was never any trouble with rusting or 
unpleasant flavor. 
Plain long coats of linen, pongee or 
tussor are again offered for Summer 
wraps, and something of this style will 
be found very useful by any country 
woman who drives a good deal. 1 he 
old-fashioned lank and flapping linen 
duster used to be regarded as rather a 
joke, but the modern linen coat, brought 
into vogue by automobilists, is so useful 
for slipping over a Summer gown, either 
for protection or fo- additional warmth, 
that it has been varied into a fashionable 
and often expensive garment. Such a 
coat can be made quite inexpensively at 
home. Crash would probably be among 
the cheapest materials, or mercerized 
poplin, which comes in a variety of 
colors at 15 to 18 cents a yard ; a coat 
made of such material would be useful 
for dusty roads, ‘but not dressy enough 
for other wear. Pongee in one of the 
rough weaves is not expensive, stands 
hard wear, and could be made up hand¬ 
somely. Linen, especially a handsome 
ramie, often costs as much as the silk. 
Such a coat may be either loose or semi¬ 
fitting; a snug fit is not desirable, as it 
crushes the gown, and is not so com¬ 
fortable in a carriage. A plain cut is 
desirable, as any exaggerated style is 
soon out of fashion, and never looks 
really smart. If decoration is desired, 
it may take the form of handsome but¬ 
tons and a touch of color in the collar 
and cuffs. Brocaded or figured materials 
are often used for this purpose, and 
also the Persian patterns in several col¬ 
ors. An inexpensive linen or pongee- 
coat may be given a stylish touch by the 
use of a bit of brocade that has been 
lying by from former years. When these 
coats are lined, some figured material 
is used this season, often foulard, but 
some of the very fashionable dress¬ 
makers use printed linen for this pur- 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
pose, and for trimmings. This printed 
linen is a very serviceable fabric used 
for curtains and draperies; it is light 
and smooth, yet firm, and comes in a 
variety of colors and patterns, like bro¬ 
cade. It costs from $1 to $1.50 a yard. 
* 
Farmers’ Bulletin 393, “Habit-form¬ 
ing Agents,” is a very valuable dis¬ 
cussion of proprietary remedies, “soft” 
drinks and other things which may un¬ 
consciously induce some dreadful drug 
habit, especially the use of morphin 
and cocain. Soothing syrups are put 
first on the list, and their dangers are 
pointed out. Apart from the fact that 
the child’s health and constitution suf¬ 
fer from these “syrups,” as a rule they 
contain habit-forming drugs, especially 
morphin, and the child thus becomes a 
“drug fiend” from infancy. One' of 
these syrups was even found to con¬ 
tain cocain. Then many of the “soft 
drinks,” largely used by persons with 
scruples against alcohol, contain cocain 
and caffein. Think of a careful parent 
prohibiting tea and coffee as deleterious 
for children, and then unwittingly per¬ 
mitting the child to take a “temperance” 
drink containing cocain! Several manu¬ 
facturers of drinks of this class have 
been successfully prosecuted. Another 
fruitful source of drug addiction is the 
use of remedies for diseases of the 
throat and lungs, such as asthma, 
catarrh, colds, coughs, consumption and 
hay fever. This bulletin states that‘the 
exact cause of asthma is not known to 
the medical profession at present, and 
that there is no known treatment that 
will eradicate the disease. Neverthe¬ 
less, a number of “positive cures” are 
sold, and a goodly number have as their 
basic agents cocain, morphin, opium or 
chloral hydrate. Catarrh remedies con¬ 
tain the same habit-forming drugs, the 
usual one being cocain. The catarrh 
cures are especially dangerous. Cures 
for the tobacco habit arc largely cocain; 
imagine the horror of trying to cure a 
smoker, and turning him into a “cocain 
fiend”! Headache cures, epilepsy reme¬ 
dies, and drug-addiction treatments all 
come under the ban. It is an unhappy 
fact that many unscrupulous physicians 
aid in supplying habit-forming drugs. 
This bulletin deserves very careful read¬ 
ing and discussion. It may be obtained 
free of charge, on application to the 
Department of Agriculture at Washing¬ 
ton. 
Potato Pie. 
I would like to know how to make “po¬ 
tato pie.” If you can get a recipe for this 
please publish in The It. N.-Y. a. s. 
The only potato pie we make is a 
combination of meat and potatoes, which 
makes a savory and nourishing dish. 
Potatoes are peeled and boiled, then cut 
in slices. A layer of potatoes is put 
in the bottom of an earthen baking dish, 
seasoned with salt and pepper, and over 
this is put a layer of cold cooked meat 
in slices, seasoned with pepper, salt and 
chopped onion. The dish is filled with 
these alternate layers, and then moist¬ 
ened liberally'- with any gravy we may 
have on hand; covered with good short 
pie crust, and slowly baked. Southern 
housekeepers make a pie with sweet po¬ 
tatoes as a dessert, but we have never 
tried this. We should like to hear from 
housekeepers who can give advice re¬ 
garding potato pies. 
More About that Rusty Kettle. 
Perhaps I can help Mrs. C. W. D. 
with her rusty iron pot. Grease it well 
with some fresh grease and heat it hot— 
in fact, burn it off. I hope she may be 
successful, as I have been, with that 
treatment. mrs. a. e. n. 
I am sure if Mrs. C. W. D. tries the 
following directions she will find the 
kettle will neither rust nor taste. Wash 
and dry, then grease thoroughly with 
any kind of grease, put on stove and 
let get hot and keep so for an hour or 
longer, not red iiot, of course, but nearly 
so. Wash in soapsuds, and usually it 
will be found all right; may need to 
be done twice. I have found this sure 
with new and also old ironware. 
MRS. F. L. 
In answer to the request of Mrs. C. 
W. D., who asks how to clean an iron 
kettle, I think if she would cook potato 
parings in the kettle two or three times, 
washing it after each cooking, and dry¬ 
ing well, and then rub thoroughly with 
fresh lard, the rusting would cease. 
_ reader. 
Pies and Pie Crust. 
Maryland Walnut Pie.—Beat the yolks 
of two eggs and half a cup of sugar to 
a cream; add a tablespoon of lemon 
juice, the juice and half the grated rind 
of an orange, and half a cup of chopped 
English walnut meats. Line a deep pie 
plate with pastry, and when half baked 
add the filling, and finish baking. Cover, 
with a meringue made of the whites of 
two eggs, two tablespoons of sugar, and 
the same quantity of walnuts, chopped. 
Place here and there a few halves of 
the nuts. 
Boston Date Pie.—Make some light 
pastry. Soak and stew a pound of dates; 
drain, stone, chop small, and add to 
them the grated rind of a lemon. Work 
one ounce of flour into a smooth paste 
with about a gill of water, and one egg, 
and mix with the dates. Line a plate 
with the pastry, scatter flour over it, and 
put in the date mixture. Cover with 
another crust, and bake until pastry is 
done. 
Apricot Tart.—Stew dried apricots un¬ 
til tender and run through a press. To 
each quart of pulp add one cupful of 
sugar (more if desired very sweet), the 
same amount of shredded almonds, a 
tablcspoonful of butter and dusting of 
mace. Line a deep dish with puff paste, 
fill with the apricot pulp, sprinkle 
with sugar and shredded almonds and 
set into a “puff paste” oven until the 
crust is baked. 
Rhubarb Pie With Raisins.—Mix to¬ 
gether one and one-fourth cups seeded 
raisins that have been stewed in a very 
small quantity of water long enough to 
soften them, one-half cup of rhubarb, 
one-half cup of sugar and a pinch of 
salt; turn in pie tin that has been lined 
with flaky crust, place top crust on, 
crimp the edge of the crust and bake 
in hot oven twenty-five minutes. 
Cream Pie.—Scald one and one-half 
cups of milk; mix together one-half cup 
of sugar, one-fourth cup of flour and the 
yolks of two eggs; mix with the milk 
and cook in double boiler until thick; 
add one teaspoon of vanilla, let cool and 
spread in crust that has been baked; 
cover with whipped cream and serve. 
Flaky Pie Crust.—Add one teaspoon 
of salt to three cups of sifted flour; chop 
in one-half cup of lard and one-half cup 
of butter until the mixture looks like 
corn meal, then add three-fourths cup of 
water, gradually, making medium soft 
dough; toss on well floured board and 
pat lightly for three times, folding it 
over in three folds each time, getting 
as much air folded in as possible. Cut 
in pieces the size needed for each pie 
tin, roll and place in the tins for baking. 
Enough lamp- 
chimneys break 
from “accident” 
to satisfy me, 
without having 
them crack and 
smash every time 
the light is turned 
up. 
Macbeth lamp- 
chimneys never 
break from heat. 
It takes an “ac¬ 
cident” to end their usefulness. 
They add to the beauty, com¬ 
fort and usefulness of the lamp— 
and they fit. 
There is a Macbeth lamp chimney made for 
every known burner, and my name is on it. 
My book will tell which one to get for your 
lamp. It is free. Address 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh, 
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WESTERN CANADA 
Prof, 
Shaw, Well-Known Agriculturist, Says: 
'T would sooner raise cattle in Western Canada 
than in the corn belt of the United States. 
Feed is cheaper and climate better 
for the purpose. Your market will 
improve faster than your farmers 
will produce the supplies. Wheat 
can be grown up to the 60th parallel 
1800 miles north of the International 
boundary]. Your vacant land will 
be taken at a rate beyond present 
conception. We have enough people 
in the United States alone who want 
homes to take up this land. ’ ’ Nearly 
70^000 Americans 
will enter and make their homes 
In Western Canada this year. 
1909 produced another large crop 
of wheat, oats and barley, in addi¬ 
tion to which the cattle exports 
was an Immense Item. 
Cattlo raising, dairying, mixed farming and 
grain growing in the provinces of Mani¬ 
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. 
Adaptable soil, healthful climate, 
splendid schools and churches, and 
good railways. For settlers’ rates, de¬ 
scriptive literature “Last Best West,” how to 
reach the country and other particulars, write 
to Sup’t of Immigration, Ottawa, Can., or to 
the Canadian Government Agent, 
J. O. Duncan, Oanadlar government 
Agent. Room 30, Syracuse Junk Build¬ 
ing, Syracuse, N. Y. 
(Use address nearest you.) (6) 
