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THE RURAL 
Woman and the Home clients are thoroughly mixed together, 
—--_- pour tlte pone into a well-greased pan 
and bake in a moderate oven. Try it 
with a knife. When the blade comes 
out clean take it from tTie oven. Let it 
From Day to Day. 
THE CHOICE. 
° nce VZZ ZZ£l n&mn C&mes tbC get cold before turning it from "th^pam 
It should look dark, like a rich preserve, 
moment to decide, 
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for 
the good or evil side; 
Some great cause, God’s new Messiah, offer¬ 
ing each the bloom or blight, 
Farts the goats upon the left hand, and 
the sheep upon the right, . ” -- “ Vl 
And the choice goes by forever ’twixt that sa ^ s “ 1e Youth’s Companion. One 
when properly baked. 
* 
Mrs. Cams was a young housekeeper 
and naturally sensitive about her cook- 
darkness and that light. 
Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose 
party thou shalt stand, 
evening she put the bread to rise, but 
with unreasonable perversity it failed to 
do any such thing. Early in the morn- 
Ere the doom from its worn sandals shakes ing she slipped out into the pasture and 
the dust against our land? a , . 
Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis g a bhe P laced the stubborn 
Truth alone is strong, dough in it, and carefully covered it 
And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see with earth and dead leaves Later in 
Troon, I th , T 8 , . ,. , * he da y. when she glanced from the win- 
J roops or beautiful, tall angels, to enshield a i , 
her from all wrong. dow ’ she saw a b °y near the spot, peer- 
—James Russell Lowell. * n £ curiously at the ground. Finally he 
* took a stick and began poking and dig- 
Gkease stains on coat collars or the ging about. Soon some one else came 
backs of garments caused by the rubbing along and stopped to look. In time quite 
of long hair are often very obstinate. A a little crowd gathered. They all seemed 
professional cleaner says they can be re- so interested, and were talking matters 
moved with the following mixture: over so earnestly, that Mrs. Cams, un- 
Ammoma, four spoonfuls; common salt, able to restrain her curiosity any longer, 
one spoonful; shake thoroughly. Dip a went out into the lot to see for herself! 
piece of cotton in this mixture, and rub What was her surprise to find a high, 
the stain well, rinsing afterwards by rounded, puffy mass sprinkled over with 
rubbing gently with warm water. earth and dead leaves. She did not stop 
, . long to wonder, for glte recognized her 
Linger jumbles made as follows are unfortunate loaf, risen at last; but this is 
delicious, especially when warm: One the remark she heard one man making 
and one-half cup brown sugar, V/ 2 cup to another: 
molasses, one cup butter or lard, one- “Oh, that’s nothing. I have heard of 
half cup sour milk, two teaspoonfuls soda places in the West where mushrooms 
dissolved in the milk, one tablespoonful grow much larger than that.” 
ginger, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one- _-_ 
half tablespoonful cloves, two quarts 
sifted flour. The batter should be so 
stiff it can hardly be stirred. Drop by 
spoonfuls on a well-greased tin. 
* 
A foot-bath of agate ware is a con¬ 
venience missing in many households, 
but a comfort to tired feet. People who 
have to stand much of the time often 
suffer from swollen and inflamed feet. 
A foot-bath of warm water containing 
a little bicarbonate of soda, in which the 
tired feet are rested for 10 or 15 minutes, 
will draw out much of the inflamma¬ 
tion, and after putting on fresh stock¬ 
ings and thin slippers the whole body 
seems rested. The agate foot-bath costs 
us 65 cents, and is certainly more desir¬ 
able than the clumsy pail or tub which 
often has to take its place. Handsomer, 
but not more serviceable, are foot-baths 
of white enamel, which cost much more 
than the agate ware. 
Peanut Butter. 
Please give a recipe for peanut butter. 
m. j. s. 
We do not know the commercial pro¬ 
cess for making peanut butter. In do¬ 
mestic practice the roasted nuts are 
shelled, then ground with the finest 
grinder of a meat chopper. The pow¬ 
dered peanut is then moistened with 
thick sweet cream, slightly salted, and 
packed in little jars for immediate use, 
as it quickly becomes rancid. We think 
peanut oil is mixed with the commercial 
product, as this is very oily as a rule, 
and also very strong in its peanut flavor. 
We would like to learn more about this, 
if any of our housewives are using a 
different recipe, or have learned how to 
prepare it so that it keeps for a longer 
time. 
Canning Pumpkin ; Apple Snow. 
Please give recipes for canning pumpkin ; 
also for apple snow. o. h. b. 
Canned pumpkin will supply pie mate¬ 
rial when stored pumpkins are gone. 
Cook the pumpkin and strain it, just as 
you do for pies, being careful not to have 
much water in it. Fill the can full. 
Shake down so as to have them solid. 
Put on the tops, screw down just a little, 
so you can lift by them, place in boiler, 
with something between the cans and 
boiler on the bottom, fill to the neck of 
cans with water and boil one good hour. 
Take out and wipe the necks of the cans, 
and if the pumpkin has shrunk away, fill 
Among new Fall blouses we still see 
the Magyar or one-piece cut. The 
blouse must follow the jacket suit it is 
worn with in color. The pleated collars 
are being replaced by flat Richelieu col¬ 
lars of guipure or Irish point, with 
cuffs to match. The blouses veiled with 
chiffon, which have been popular all 
Summer, are still offered freely. There 
are also handsome net or chiffon waists 
embroidered all over with soutache 
braid; these cost from $7.50 up. Most 
of the Fan jacket smts shown have cans up with boiling water, put on rings 
ntucl, shorter coats than were worn last and screw down the tops tight, and the 
yean Among Fall dress fabr.es we see pi , m pki„ w m keep six months in a good, 
handsome silk and wool poplins at $1 a C ool place. 
yard; they are very handsome, coming Apple snow calls for three large tart 
m al the popular shades, light and dark, apples , whites of three eggS; one . ha]f 
and the fabric is excellent for long wear. of granulated sugar. The eggs and apples 
should be very cold. Put the egg whites 
Spanish sweet potato pone is a recipe into a bowl, put in three tablespoonfuls 
that comes to us from Barbados. It is a of sugar, beat a little with an egg beater, 
rich dessert, liked by all who care for put in more sugar, and continue until 
sweet potatoes. Half of the proportions all the sugar is added, then until the 
given make a large dish. Wash, peel and mixture is very stiff. Peel and core the 
grate the best quality of sweet potatoes, apples and grate them into the mixture, 
Measure five cups into a large bowl, grating only a portion at a time, and 
Into this stir three cups of beat West then beating in with the mixture/until 
India molasses, two cups of butter (melt it is all stiff. Flavor with almond ex- 
carefully and do not let it get oily), one tract, pile in a glass dish, and set on ice 
cup each preserved ginger and candied until used. Do not make long before 
orange peel cut fine, one teaspoon salt, using, as the apple becomes discolored, 
one tablespoon pounded ginger and two Whipped cream may be served with it if 
tablespoons allspice, cloves; mace and desired. The proportion given will serve 
^ cinnamon mixed. When all these ingre- six to eight persons. 
NEW-YORKER 
The Exchange as a Money Maker. 
bor the most part the women of many 
country communities have been making 
mone- for library associations, church 
societies and various benevolent enter¬ 
prises by means of the “Saturday Ex¬ 
change.” Various kinds of provisions 
are collected, according to the season, 
and taken to a store or butcher shop cen¬ 
trally located, and there the women act 
as clerks all Saturday morning, or until 
the goods are disposed of. As a money 
maker and the means of having a good 
social time, the exchange has no equal. 
At one of these exchanges the window 
was full of distinctively country products 
such as homemade jellies, pickles, cottage 
cheese, butter, eggs, dressed chickens and 
sausage, while the large baskets held the 
bread, cookies and other good things. 
It was simply amazing to see the way the 
town people crowded about those good 
things, and bought them up at -good 
prices. Some of the patrons anxiously 
inquired as to who brought the things, 
particularly the butter and cream, but for 
the most part they were bargained for 
without a word. One country woman 
remarked that the town women must 
be a shiftless lot to be down buying 
baked things on a Saturday morning, 
but she did not realize that the city 
woman has many demands upon her time 
as well as her country sister, and the 
chance to get homemade bread without 
much trouble was not to be passed 
lightly by. 
■Generally speaking there is too little 
friendly dealing between country and 
city women, but the exchange is helping 
bring about a better condition of affairs. 
Of course the primary object is money¬ 
making, but the breaking down of the 
wall between country and city is a 
good result of the money-making. At an 
exchange eggs usually bring two or three 
cents more per dozen than in the groc¬ 
ery, chickens from 10 to 15 cents more 
and other things in proportion. Bread 
at 10 cents per loaf does not represent 
much profit, but cottage cheese at 10 
cents per quart makes up for the appar¬ 
ent loss on bread, and one must have 
variety. There is more profit in cakes, 
as quarters of ordinary ones bring from 
25 to 40 cents. Doughnuts at 10 cents 
per dozen and cookies at the same price 
are money makers, while vegetables, 
fruits, flowers and such things are al¬ 
most all profit. Farmers can easily spare 
a basket of plums, peaches or apples 
without feeling they are giving a penny, 
yet the fruit brings a good price at the 
exchange. The most made at any coun¬ 
try exchange in our town was $23 and 
the least $15, so it will be seen that for a 
little trouble a lot of new books could 
be added to a library or a new carpet 
purchased for the Sunday school room 
of a country church. It is less work 
than a supper and more convenient than 
an entertainment, two very much over¬ 
worked forms of raising money, so it is 
no wonder the exchange is becoming very 
popular in the rural districts. 
HILDA RICHMOND. 
September 17, 
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