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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 25, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE THINGS THAT REMAIN. 
What am I glad will stay when I have 
passed 
From this dear valley of the world, and 
stand 
On yon snow glimmering peaks, and linger¬ 
ing cast 
From that dim land 
A backward look, and happy stretch my 
hand. 
Regretful, now the wish comes true at last? 
Sweet strains of music I am glad will be 
Still wandering down the wind, for men 
will hear 
And think themselves from all their care 
set free, 
And heaven near 
When Summer stax - s burn very still and 
clear, 
And waves of sound are swelling like the 
sea. 
And I am glad that neither golden sky, 
Nor violet lights that linger on the hill, 
Nor ocean’s wistful blue shall satisfy, 
But they shall fill 
With wild unrest and endless longing still, 
The soul whose hope beyond them all must 
lie. 
And 1 rejoice that love shall never seem 
So perfect as it ever was to be, 
But endlessly that inner haunting dream 
Each heart shall see 
Hinted in every dawn's fresh purity, 
Hopelessly shadowed in each sunset's gleam. 
And it is well that when these feet have 
pressed 
The outward path from earth, 'twill not 
seem sad 
To them that stay; but they who love me 
best 
Will bo most glad 
That such a long unquiet now has had, 
At last, a gift of perfect peace and rest. 
—Edward Rowland Sill. 
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When basting in sleeves, use the sort 
of silk or thread that will be used in the 
final stitching, so that it is not neces¬ 
sary to take the bastings out when fin¬ 
ishing. Such basting must be done 
firmly, and it is very hard to pull it out, 
especially if it is caught in by the stitch¬ 
ing. A white basting thread in dark 
goods, or vice versa, must be pulled out, 
no matter how troublesome it is, while 
the harmonizing thread does not show 
with the stitching. 
* 
Some manufacturer’s samples of fine 
nainsook embroidered flouncing seemed 
rather a problem for satisfactory use. 
The strips were full depth, 45 inches, 
the lower edge hemstitched, with deep 
embroidery above it, the remainder 
handsomely sprigged, but each sample 
was only about four inches wide. Five 
strips were joined together with Valen¬ 
ciennes insertion down the seams, the 
right length for a chafing-dish apron— 
about 24 inches. A little pointed yoke 
and lace-edged strings were made from 
the unused upper part of the embroidery. 
* 
Plaited frills appear on a great many 
lingerie blouses this season; sometimes 
they form a jabot down the front, and 
sometimes there is merely a turn-down 
frill at the collarless neck, and turn¬ 
back frills to finish the sleeves. This 
turn-down collar frill is essentially a 
mark of this season’s model, and a fine 
waist of two seasons back can be made 
up to date by adding it. The sleeves 
should be three-quarter or elbow length, 
with turn-back frills the same as the 
collar. A very plain waist of fine ma¬ 
terial—batiste, sheer nainsook, or swiss 
—looks very smart with such frills. 
* 
In ordering patterns from us, always 
be sure to give number of pattern, and 
also size required. A surprising num¬ 
ber of orders received neglect to give 
size or number, thus entailing extra 
correspondence and delay. In one re¬ 
cent case, a request for the number 
omitted brought back a letter complain¬ 
ing of the delay, but again omitting the 
required number! Attention to these 
trifling details prevents annoyance and 
delay, thus insuring prompt receipt of 
the pattern, and saving extra work, 
which means much to busy people. 
Whei-e some special pattern is desired, 
which has not been illustrated, we are 
always glad to make suggestions and 
give desirable numbers; for example, we 
have not space to give all the underwear 
patterns we would like, but if readers 
'who desire such will let us know we can 
fill such orders without trouble; also 
patterns for infants’ outfits. 
* 
Prof. Robert Koch, the great bacter¬ 
iologist, died at Baden-Baden May 27. 
His work is of interest to the whole 
human race, but farmers as a class are 
especially affected by his isolation of the 
tubercle bacillus in 1882 and his dis¬ 
covery of tuberculin in 1890. His work 
in these lines has altered our whole atti¬ 
tude towards tuberculosis. He traced 
the African sleeping sickness to the 
tsetse fly, and did great work in the in¬ 
vestigation of cholera and malaria. 
Robert Koch was born in 1843, the third 
of 13 children, his father being a min¬ 
ing engineer. He studied medicine at 
the University of Gottingen, served, 
like other young men of his age, in the 
Franco-Prussian War, and practiced 
medicine quietly until the fruits of his 
studies began to attract the attention of 
the German government, being called to 
Berlin in 1882. His theory of disease, 
at first questioned and criticized, has 
revolutionized many lines of medical 
treatment, lightened the burden of 
human suffering, and lengthened an un¬ 
known army of human lives. We have 
never read anything concerning his 
mother, but we have little doubt. that 
Frau Mathilda Koch, with her 13 chil¬ 
dren, of whom the elder nine were boys, 
met and conquered a good many prob¬ 
lems common to all mothers of large 
families, and we like to think that some 
of her good qualities went to make up 
the genius of her famous son. 
Potato Pie. 
Perhaps the following is the “recipe 
for potato pie” desired by A. S.: One 
good-sized potato grated, one egg, one 
pint milk. Heat and pour milk over po¬ 
tato ; nutmeg and sugar to taste. Bake 
with single crust. N. R. 
Two good pints of potatoes after they 
are boiled and mashed. Put through a 
sieve while warm. Add small cup of 
butter, milk enough to make a batter. 
Cinnamon, lemon, spices and sugar to 
taste. Four eggs beaten separately, 
stirring in the whites after the yolks. 
This is enough for four pies. c. A. D. 
Take hot mashed potatoes, mix soft 
with milk, one tablespoonful of butter, 
one tablespoonful of finely chopped 
parsley, and salt. Bake with rich under¬ 
crust and twisted strips over top as for 
tarts. This is very much liked; it is 
served with dinner as a vegetable. 
M. G. 
My wife makes a potatoe pie. She 
peels the potatoes, cuts them fine; makes 
a short pie crust as for any pie, lines 
a pie plate, then puts in the potatoes. 
Season with salt and pepper, add a little 
water, using good judgment in season¬ 
ing. Cover with pie crust as another 
pie, put in oven and bake. H. H. z. 
Seeing a request on page 612 of The 
R. N.-Y. for a recipe for potato pie I 
take pleasure in sending you herewith a 
recipe which I think will find favor 
among the housewives of the “Rural 
family.” Two potatoes size of a hen’s 
egg; one cup of sugar; one egg; grated 
rind and juice of one lemon; and a little 
salt. Prepare the lemon and to this add 
the potatoes grated. Pour boiling water 
over this mixture till it thickens. Set 
aside to cool. When cool add the sugar, 
the egg, beaten, and salt. Bake with 
two crusts. SYLVIA. 
In response to your call for “Potato 
Pie” recipes I take pleasure in sending 
one. which has been long used in our 
family with unvarying success, and “de¬ 
licious” is always the praise accorded. 
Two cups of warm mashed potatoes, 
lH cup of sugar, half a cup of butter, 
one cup of rich milk (cream is better 
if you have i.), four eggs, well beaten; 
flavor with either vanilla or nutmeg as 
suits taste. Baka pies with lower crust 
only. I his quantity will make two large 
pies or three smaller ones. 
MRS. C. F.. BLACKWLL. 
Berry Desserts. 
Red Raspberry Sponge.—Mash one box of 
berries with one cupful of sugar and ran 
through a tine sieve. Dissolve one-half box 
of gelatin in one and a half cups of water 
hot enough to dissolve the gelatin. Strain 
the gelatin into the berry juice and beat 
five minutes. Ive< -i the gelatin on ice while 
beating, or have the dish inside another dish 
containing ice water. Beat two eggs vei’y 
stiff and whip these into the gelatin until it 
begins to thicken ; then pour in a mold and 
set on ice until solid. 
Strawberrv Bavarian Cream.—Scald one 
cupful of milk c r thin cream, pour it slowly 
over one egg yolk slightly beaten with one- 
quarter cupful of sugar, retui-n to double 
boiler, add one-half tablespoonful of granu¬ 
lated gelatin dissolved in one-quarter cupful 
of cold water; stir until mixture coats the 
spoon, strain at once into a bowl. When 
cool and beginning to show signs of stiffen¬ 
ing beat in one-half cupful of sti’awberi'ies 
which have been mashed and sweetened 
with a. tablespoonful of sugai - , then fold in 
the stiffly beaten white of an egg and finally 
one-half cupful of cream, whipped vei - y stiff. 
Fill wet molds and leave on ice three hours. 
Serve with or without whipped cream. 
“Extra” StrawbeiTy Shortcake.—Bake a 
delicate sponge cake in a circle mold. Fill 
the center with large sweetened berries and 
put whipped cream all ai’ound the edge. Or 
the circle opening may be filled witli straw- 
berry ice cream. A p'ain vanilla cream is 
first made, then a quart of berries are 
crushed, sweetened and heated and while 
warm are put through a sieve, and when 
the cream is half frozen they a re stirred in. 
Place fresh berries around cake. 
Strawberry Junket.—Allow one quart of 
new milk to become lukewarm on the back 
of the range, then pour it into a glass dish, 
sweeten to taste and flavor delicately with 
vanila. Add, stirring slightly, one rennet 
tablet or three-fourths of a tablespoon of 
liquid rennet. Then set it away to cool, be¬ 
ing careful not to jar it. Just before serv¬ 
ing fill sherbet glass with alternate spoon¬ 
fuls of the junket and sliced and sweetened 
strawberries. Heap whipped cream on top 
and put one fine large berry dusted with 
granulated sugar in the center. Serve with 
almond or any delicate cake. 
Strawberry Pancakes.—Make a batter 
with the yolks of three eggs, one and one- 
fourth cups fioui - , a saltspoonful salt and 
sufficient water to make of ordinary consist¬ 
ency ; when this batter has been beaten for 
live minutes, add the stiffly beaten whites 
of the eggs. This should make three cakes. 
Brown nicely on each side; spread thickly 
with strawberries that have been standing 
in sugar, sprinkle tiie top with powdered 
sugar and serve hot. 
Strawberry Charlotte.—Whip one cupful 
of cream very stiff. Beat into the white 
one-half cupful of fine sugar. Combine this 
with the whipped cream, then stir in one 
cupful of strawberries cut in quarters. 
Spoon into a mold lined with lady fingers or 
slices of sponge cake and place or. ice for 
one hour. Another l’ecipe is as follows: 
Mash one cupful of strawberries and 
sweeten according to the acidity of the 
berry. Bet stand to draw the juice, an 
hour, then strain. Dissolve ono level table¬ 
spoonful of granulated gelatin in two table¬ 
spoonfuls of cold water. Set the bowl con¬ 
taining it in a pan of hot water and stir 
until smooth, add it to the strained straw¬ 
berry. Now whip one cupful of cream, 
sweetened with two level tablespoonfuls of 
sugar, lightly fold the strawberry gelatin 
in, a few drops at a time. Turn into a wet 
mold and put on ice for two hours. If care¬ 
fully mixed there will bo no settling at the 
bottom. The mold for this need not be 
lined with cake, but a delicate wafer of 
some sort, preferably vanilla, should be 
served with it if it is molded plain. 
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