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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
October 22, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day, 
THE ENI) O' THE DAY. 
Here's the end o' the day. 
An’ this weary ould planet 
Turns again to the gray, 
Dewy dusk that began it. 
An’ meself that’s no more 
Nor a midge or a flea 
Or a sand o’ the shore, 
Who'd be thinkin’ o' me 
At the end o' the day? 
Here's the end o' the day, 
An’ it's little I’m wiuuin' 
Wid my toilin’ away 
Since the same was beginnin’; 
But for all I’m so small. 
Trudgin' on by my lone, 
If no evil befall 
I’ve a world o’ my own 
At the end o' the day. 
Here’s the end o' the day, 
An’ the stars, growin' bolder 
Now the sun is away, 
Peep above the hills’ shoulder; 
An’ ’tls they that can sec 
That the dusty boreen 
Is a king’s road for me 
To my castle an' queen 
At the end o’ the day. 
T. A. Daly, in Catholic Standard and Times. 
* 
A suds of tepid soft water and good 
white soap should be used to wash off 
furniture in the Fall cleaning. Use a 
soft cloth, rub the dirt off, and then go 
over file wood with a second soft cloth 
which has first been wrung out of clean, 
hot water, and then had a little furniture 
polish poured over it. A surprising 
amount of dirt, unmoved by ordinary 
dusting, is taken off in this way. 
* 
The New York State Board of Health 
has now put infantile paralysis on the 
list of diseases to be placed under quar¬ 
antine. It is not yet known how the 
disease is transmitted, but it is fully de¬ 
cided that it is communicable, and it 
must now be reported and quarantined 
for 21 days. A systematic study of the 
disease is being made, and the Health 
Department hopes that citizens will co¬ 
operate in its efforts to combat it. 
* 
According to the fur dealers, muffs 
are to be even larger this year than last. 
Instead of the huge bolster muff of last 
year it is to be almost square and flat. 
One fashionable muff of chinchilla was 
18 inches deep and 21 inches wide, re¬ 
quiring 32 skins. We are told that fur 
will be very largely used for trimming 
in the Winter fashions. Seal and mus¬ 
quash coats, either very long or very 
short, are to be fashionable; the mus¬ 
quash, as it is called abroad, is known 
here as French seal, and owes its origin 
to our native muskrat. Fur toques, or 
combinations of fur and feathers, are 
prominent in foreign fashion papers. The 
great fault of a fur hat of any kind is 
excessive weight, and here marabou 
feathers have the advantage as a trim¬ 
ming, giving the fluffiness of fur com¬ 
bined with lightness. 
It will be noticed that in spite of the 
scantiness of prevailing styles, pleated 
skirts are still in fashion for tailored 
suits. There is one marked difference, 
however; whereas the pleated skirts two 
Winters ago had a band of material for 
trimming near the bottom, this Winter 
such a band goes straight around just 
above the knees. The pleats are stitched 
down flat as far as this band, instead of 
merely being stitched just below the 
hips. This enables one to make over an 
older skirt by stitching the pleats down 
as far as the knees and raising the trim¬ 
ming band to that height. It is suggested 
that in a very full skirt some of the 
extra fullness be taken out, but we do 
not recommend this as practical with a 
pleated skirt, which is usually made with 
a number of narrow gores; it seems im¬ 
possible to take any out without altering 
the fit at the top, as the gores are much 
narrowed to lessen.bulk over the hips. 
It is quite easy, however, to narrow a 
gored skirt by cutting over the gores. 
At the recent Domestic Science and 
Pure Food Exhibition in this city Claude 
G. Lcland, supervisor of libraries of the 
board of education, protested against 
vitiating the child’s imagination and 
sense of humor by the so-called comic 
supplement of the Sunday newspapers. 
Mr. Leland said: 
There is such a wealth of good, clean, 
wholesome fun in the world of picture 
books that to feed them on this trash in 
their impressionable years is almost crim¬ 
inal. All the work that schools and mu¬ 
seums and educators may do toward rais¬ 
ing the standard of public taste and public 
manners is continually being offset by the 
cheap and sensational press. The wise par¬ 
ent will avoid this type of child’s books as 
carefully as she does the source "from 
which it comes, keeping a watchful eye 
upon less thoughtful friends, especially 
bachelor uncles, who come bringing gifts. 
Think of the opportunities a newspaper has 
to develop and raise the public taste, in¬ 
stead of sinking continually below the level. 
It would seem that any paper in the coun¬ 
try, no matter how careless it may be of 
the truth, or how conscienceless it may be 
in matters of business or politics, might at 
least be interested in doing something 
worth while for the children. If the ser¬ 
vices of the very best illustrators can¬ 
not always be obtained, a sense of humor 
might be developed, and imagination might 
be stimulated, in a more healthful manner 
by reproductions of art subjects of inter¬ 
est to growing people. It is not necessary 
to depend entirely upon the grotesque and 
sensational to attract children. History and 
travel might be drawn on, even for the first 
years, if it is only made interesting enough. 
We wish more parents would consid¬ 
er. this. Look at the hideously vulgar 
pictures of debasing scenes, tramps and 
drunkards, quarreling husbands and 
wives, and little hoodlums applauded for 
irreverence, untruthfulness and disre¬ 
spect for all adults, which are the special 
features of the “comic” supplement. 
Then look at the charming child pictures 
of Kate Greenaway, the humor of Sir 
John Tenniel’s Alice and her friends, the 
sympathetic feeling of Boutet de Monvel, 
the power and vigor of Howard Pyle, 
and ask yourself where you would wish 
your child’s sympathies to be. Settle¬ 
ment workers in the squalor of the great 
cities recognize the power of fine pictures 
in uplifting the children of poverty. Why 
not uplift the children of comfortable 
homes, too? 
More About Peanut Butter. 
An inquirer asks how to make peanut 
butter that will keep. I would like to tell 
how I make it. I am sure anyone that 
will make it this way will find it far 
ahead of any they can buy. I have kept 
it a long time and found the last every 
bit as good as the first. Seven pounds 
of fresh salted peanuts. Rub off as much 
of the brown skin as you can easily, 
and grind fine in a food grinder, then 
mix thoroughly in one-quarter pound of 
good sweet butter melted, not too hot. 
More butter can be used if wanted 
moister. Pack in glass cups and cover. 
MRS. t. c. F. 
I have made peanut butter for my own 
use the past 10 years or more and never 
yet had any get rancid; have kept it two 
years. This is mv recipe: Take fresh 
roasted peanuts and put through a meat 
grinder three or four times, and it will 
be found oily enough to spread without 
adding oil or cream; salt to taste, and 
pack in jelly glasses with covers. Re¬ 
move stones from dates, fill cavity with 
some of the nut butter before it is salted, 
roll in confectioner’s sugar and pack in 
tin boxes, these will keep a year. Roll 
in fresh sugar when wanted for use. 
Hickory nuts, filberts and Brazil nuts, 
ground together, make a fine filling for 
sandwiches. Put through a grinder sev¬ 
eral times; will not need other oil. 
J. e. p. 
Having used peanut butter only for 15 
years I feel possibly I can help. It is 
made from shelled Spanish peanuts cost¬ 
ing in small quantities nine to 10 cents 
per pound. Parch in oven or roaster, 
being careful not to over-parch; better 
have them a little light than too dark; 
then when warm rub on coarse sieve or 
between the hands till the thin brown 
skin comes off. Pour from one vessel to 
another where there is a breeze till you 
get the skins out, leaving just the 
parched meats, then grind in a small 
mill. The product will be a rich pasty 
mass, and if ground fine enough the oil 
will rise on top. In this condition it will 
keep 18 months. To use take of this 
pasty butter about an equal quantity of 
water and stir till it is a smooth mass 
and will spread easily on bread, or add 
warm water and make a rich cream, or 
still more water and make a milk, add¬ 
ing salt to taste. After the water is 
added it will not keep over 24 hours, so 
only add water to what will likely be 
used to-day. A method we prefer is to 
warm the nuts so they will blanch easily 
but not cook them, then grind, making a 
raw peanut meal; then add water and 
rub to a smooth paste and boil, adding 
water to make about like butter in con¬ 
sistency and salt to taste, or add more 
water and make a milk dressing for 
vegetables. It is fine. The meal will 
keep for months, but after the water is 
added like the parched butter it will sour 
soon in warm weather. To make an imi¬ 
tation beef gravy take an onion, grate 
and add a little oil or anything so as to 
fry the onion, then add the roasted pea¬ 
nut butter stirred smooth with water and 
a little flour, and boil till the flour is 
cooked; it is fine. The mills made ex¬ 
pressly to grind nuts cost $3 to $5, and 
last indefinitely. irving keck. 
This world is not a very fine place 
for a good many of the people in it. But 
I’ve made up my mind it shan’t be the 
worse for me, if I can help it. * * * 
I will try to make nfe less bitter for a 
few within my reach.—Felix Holt. 
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