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August 20, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THIS LITTLE WOMAN. 
One of tlie Little Women, she came up to 
Heaven’s gate; 
And seeing the throng was pressing, she 
signed that she fain would wait. 
“For I was not great nor noble,” she said, 
‘‘I was poor and plain; 
And should I go boldly forward, I know it 
would be in vain.” 
She sat near the shining portal, and looked 
at the surging crowd 
Of them that were Kings and ITinces, of 
them that were rich and proud; 
And sudden she trembled greatly, for one 
with a brow like flame 
t’amc to her, and hailed her gladly, and 
spoke to her her name : 
“Come, enter the jeweled gateway,” he said, 
“for the prize is thine; 
The work that in life you rendered was 
work that was fair and fine; 
So come, while tin* rest stand waiting, and 
enter in here and now— 
A crown of the life eternal is waiting to 
press thy brow.” 
Then trembled the Little Woman, and cried : 
“It may not be I ! 
Here wait they that wrought with great¬ 
ness, so how may I pass them by? 
I carved me no wondrous statues, I painted 
no wondrous things, 
I spoke no tremendous sayings that rang 
in the ears of Kings ; 
“I toiled in my little cottage, I spun and 
I baked and swept; 
I sewed and I patched and mended—oh, 
lowly the house I kept! 
i sang to my little children, I led them in 
worthy ways, 
And so 1 might not grow famous, I knew 
nought but care-bound days. 
“So was it by night and morning, so was 
it by week and year; 
1 worked with my weary fingers through 
days that were bright or drear; 
And I have grown old and wrinkled, and I 
have grown gray and bent; 
I ask not for chants of glory, now that I 
have found content.” 
“Arise!" cried the waiting angel, “Como 
first of the ones that wait, 
For you are the voices singing, for you do 
we ope the gate; 
So great as has been thy labor, so great 
shall be thy reward!” 
Then he gave the Little Woman the glory 
of the Lord. 
—Elia W. Peattie, 
* 
Where men are doing hard work in 
very warm weather oatmeal water will 
he found an excellent drink, for it 
quenches the thirst effectively, and is 
less likely to derange the stomach than 
quantities of clear water taken when 
one is heated. Add one cupful of oat¬ 
meal to half a gallon of cooled boiled 
water. Put it in a sunny place and allow 
it to stand for an hour and a half. 
Then strain and cool; a little lemon 
may be added if liked. 
* 
A kimono sweater that makes an ex¬ 
tra wrap over thin dresses is made on 
the outline of a straight kimono jacket, 
with long back and front, "knitted 
straight across the shoulders, extending 
out into wide panels that form the one- 
piece sleeves, elbow length. The under¬ 
arm seams and back of the sleeves are 
sewn up with the wool, or in some cases 
laced with ribbon. Sometimes a colored 
border is knitted on down the fronts, 
and a turn-down collar and turn-back 
cuffs added. A simple afghan stitch is 
used. Such a wrap is very comfortable, 
and does not crumple a thin dress as 
much as a close-fitting sweater. 
* 
We have a great liking for raspberry 
vinegar as a foundation for cooling 
drinks in Summer and hot drinks in 
Winter. Pure cider vinegar should be 
used in making it. Put two quarts of 
red raspberries in a stone jar, and pour 
over them one quart of vinegar. Cover 
and stand aside for two days, then drain 
off the liquid without mashing the ber¬ 
ries, pour it over a quart of fresh fruit, 
and stand as before. Do this once more, 
the last time straining through a muslin 
bag. Add one pound of sugar to each 
pint of this liquid, boil slowly five min¬ 
utes, skim, bottle and seal. Strawberry 
and blackberry vinegars are made in the 
same way. 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
During a recent visit to this country 
Mrs. II. II. D. Pierce, wife of the United 
States Minister to Norway, told some¬ 
thing about housekeeping in that inter¬ 
esting country. She told a correspondent 
of the Springfield Republican that a 
great deal of attention is given to the 
preparation of food by the Norse house¬ 
keepers. The servants in Norway eat 
their breakfast at about six o’clock, con¬ 
sisting of goat cheese, bread and coffee; 
at 11 o’clock they have another break¬ 
fast, which includes fish and meat and 
more coffee; then at one o’clock is a 
meal called luncheon but really a dinner; 
at 3.30 o’clock they have coffee, thin 
bread with cheese and a small cake filled 
with raisins, and then their late dinner 
after the family is served. Mrs. Pierce 
says: 
I never saw a people who so fully com¬ 
prehended the use of cream In cooking 
savory dishes. It is used in Norway as we 
use butter, lard or cottolene in this coun¬ 
try, and with results which mere words can¬ 
not convey. The game of Norway is one 
of the things which makes life there worth 
while. The most prevalent, and very rea¬ 
sonable as we count what we pay for game 
in this country, are two varieties of small 
birds, the rypvr, which is something like a 
partridge, and the hjerper, which might be 
said to resemble grouse. The genuine Nor¬ 
wegian cook pours a pint or more of rich 
cream over these birds and roasts them in 
a medium hot oven, using the cream to 
baste. The birds cooked in this way defy 
description. The game process is followed 
in roasting turkeys, and if Americans who 
want a disli which will appeal to the palate 
for delicacy and real satisfaction will super¬ 
sede butter or olive oil for cream in the 
basting they will taste good turkey for the 
first time. 
We have never before heard of the 
use of cream in this way, and would 
like to know whether any American 
housewives have tried it. It sounds very 
luxurious. 
* 
Looking at the present-day “hobble” 
skirt, the hipless figure, the bowl-like 
turbans and the disfiguring masses of 
other people's hair, one would imagine 
that women have reached the extreme 
of grotesque uselessness in feminine at¬ 
tire. We sometimes hear reformers 
sighing for the simplicity of “the good 
old times.” We were reading recently 
some reminiscences of Mrs. Sherwood, 
the English authoress and educator, born 
in 177."). She tells about a relative, resi¬ 
dent in Paris, who visited her parents 
upon the eve of the French Revolution, 
and whose dress could really be con¬ 
trasted with present-day styles without 
real detriment to the latter. She was a 
large woman, elaborately rouged and 
dressed in the style introduced by the 
unfortunate Marie Antoinette. Her hair 
was crimped or frizzed, and formed 
about the face in the shape of a horse¬ 
shoe. Round her neck lnmg long stiff 
curls, fastened with pins, all the hair 
being well pomatumed, and powdered in 
different colors. On the top of the head 
was a high cushion, surmounted by a hat 
richly adorned with flowers and feath¬ 
ers. The lower part of the dress con¬ 
sisted of a full-flounced petticoat, with 
short sleeves and a very long train. In¬ 
stead of a hoop there was a vast pad at 
the back, and a frame of wire in front 
so as to throw out the neck handker¬ 
chief, till it resembled the craw of a 
pigeon. Mrs. Sherwood herself was 
brought up under the rigid discipline 
then imposed upon children. She bad 
to wear an iron collar around her neck 
to induce a dignified carriage of the 
head, and a backboard strapped over the 
shoulders to make her erect. Mrs. Sher¬ 
wood had to wear one of these nearly 
all day from her sixth to her thirteenth 
year. She did her lessons wearing the 
iron collar, and standing in stocks to 
make her toes turn out. She bad the 
plainest food, chiefly dry bread and cold 
milk, though her father was a clergyman 
in easy circumstances. She never sat on 
a chair in her mother’s presence, only 
on a stool, but she says she was a very 
happy child, and evidently saw no hard¬ 
ship in the discipline to which she was 
subjected. We feel indignant now when 
we think of the old-time rigorous meth¬ 
ods which must have crushed the spirits 
of many a sensitive child, but we doubt 
whether this severity was any more 
hurtful to moral well-being than the 
over-indulgent laxity that tends to re¬ 
move all discipline. 
Huckleberry Recipes. 
Huckleberry Boiled Pudding.—Beat 
three eggs with a half cupful of sugar, 
add a tablespoonful of melted butter, a 
cupful of milk, a cupful of sifted flour, 
a pint of huckleberries and a pinch of 
salt; mix well and pour into greased 
mold. Stand in water and boil for two 
hours, turn out carefully and serve with 
hard sauce. 
Huckleberry Omelet.—Make a puree 
from the berries and a half cupful of 
sugar. Beat the yolks of four eggs with 
a tablespoonful of double cream, add the 
frothed whites of the eggs and then the 
berry mixture. Melt a tablespoonful of 
butter in an omelet pan, pour the omelet 
in and stir gently until set, then roll it 
on a hot dish, sift sugar over and serve 
very hot. 
Huckleberry Roly-poly.—Make a crust 
of one-half cup of flour, one-half cup of 
lard and butter mixed, one teaspoonful 
of salt, one teaspoon of baking powder, 
dampen with ice water, chop with a 
knife until the shortening is well mixed 
with the flour, salt and baking powder. 
Add ice water, being careful to use just 
enough to hold it together, roll in thin 
paste. Sprinkle with cinnamon and 
sugar. Have one quart of huckleberries 
washed and drained. Spread out on 
crust, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, 
roll up and bake in good-sized pan in 
hot oven. To be eaten hot. For sauce 
cream together one-half cup butter, one 
cup sugar, two tablespoonfuls of lemon 
juice, or, if preferred, use vanilla flavor¬ 
ing. Set on ice until cold and hard. 
Serve with roly-poly. 
Spiced Huckleberries.—Pul four quarts 
of well picked over huckleberries or 
blueberries with two pounds of sugar 
and the juice of two lemons in alter¬ 
nate layers in the preserving kettle, add 
one-quarter ounce of whole cinnamon; 
let stand four hours; place over the 
fire, boil five minutes, counting from the 
time they begin to boil. Fill into jars, 
close at once. In place of lemon one 
cupful of white vinegar may be added. 
Blueberry Currant Preserve. — Six 
pounds of blueberries, one pint of cur¬ 
rant juice, four pounds of sugar; boil 
sugar and currant juice to a sirup. 
Wash, drain and pick the blueberries 
very carefully, put them into the boiling 
sirup, boil slowly five minutes, fill into 
well-closed jars and set in a cool place. 
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Soda Crackers 
m the 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 
crackers no matter how many you 
buy or how long you keep them. 
(Never Sold in Hulk) 
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