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THE RURAb NKW-VORKER 
December 17, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT. 
Not by glad Christmas bells alone; 
Not by the crowded, warm hearthstone; 
Not by the quip, the clasp, the feast— 
Scarce by the lone star in the East— 
Nor yet by gift nor deed of grace, 
Nor mistletoe, nor wreathed place, 
Nor merry speedings and fro, 
Nor any circumstance or show— 
Know we the Christmas Dav. 
These are but symbols, hallowed, dear— 
The cheery crowning of the year. 
But by the light in children’s eyes; 
By their blithe shouts and happy sighs; 
By secret plottings, fond and deep. 
When little heads lie still, in sleep; 
By glowing sympathy that starts, . 
Melting the Winter in our hearts; 
By quickened joy and holy pride, 
When to the Child all doors swing wide— 
Know we the Christmas Day. 
—Mary Mapes Dodge. 
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We heard recently of the novel way 
in which one woman makes lace yokes 
for her blouses from odd scraps. She 
makes a brown paper pattern of yoke 
and stock, and with a light flour paste 
attaches odd bits of lace to the pattern, 
any way that they will fit in harmon¬ 
iously. The pieces of lace are then em¬ 
broidered together with mercerized cot- 
religious festival. For that is what 
Christmas is—a great holy day, not 
merely a holiday, and if we feel that a 
Sunday Christmas interferes with our 
celebration it is quite evident that we 
have an erroneous idea of it. Tt must 
ever be the festival of the children, but 
they will surely reflect the attitude of 
their elders. If they appear to regard 
Christmas as a secular holiday chiefly 
marked by over-indulgence and extrava¬ 
gant giving—not “unto the least of these 
my brethren,” but to those whose os¬ 
tentation will prompt rich gifts in re¬ 
turn—the blame lies with the influences 
nearest them. The one day in the year 
which stands especially for peace on 
earth, good will toward men, means 
very little to us if we cannot put its 
religious side first. This year we have 
the holy day first, and the secular holi¬ 
day after it, which should convey to 
many unthinking ones the proper atti¬ 
tude toward the greatest feast of all 
Christendom. 
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The American Museum of Safety 
was opened in the Engineering Socie¬ 
ties building in West Thirty-ninth street, 
New York, November 21, where it is to 
form a permanent exhibit. This is the 
fourteenth museum of the kind in the 
Noodles.—Two eggs well beaten, two 
tablespoonfuls water and as much flour 
as can be kneaded into it. Make a firm 
dough, roll thin as possible and dry for 
10 minutes. Roll up tightly and cut 
from the end into very thin strips. 
These are especially nice with chicken 
or beef. 
Quaker Noodles.—Two pints flour, 
three tablespoon fills lard, level table¬ 
spoonful salt. Mix as for biscuit with 
water. Roll very thin on well floured 
moulding board and cut strips any de¬ 
sired length. These are especially nice 
with vegetable stews, such as beans and 
potatoes, where little or no meat is used. 
MRS. M. D. 
Velvet Cakes.—Add one tablespoon of 
melted butter, to one well-beaten egg, 
one-half pint of milk, one-half teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt, one-half pint of flour, with 
which is sifted one teaspoon of cream 
of tartar, one-half teaspoon of soda dis¬ 
solved in one teaspoon of hot water. 
Beat and bake at once on soapstone (or 
other) griddle. 
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ton, and pulled loose from the pattern. 
The odd pieces of lace are often slightly 
different in shade, but dipping in tea or 
coffee will give pretty cream or biscuit 
shades, while a bit of gamboge gives 
the fashionable yellow tone. A well¬ 
fitting pattern of light-weight but tough 
paper is always an advantage in making 
a yoke formed of rows of edging or in¬ 
sertion ; if basted on the paper it can be 
formed into shape before stitching with 
the machine, and the paper pattern torn 
away afterwards. 
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Bulletin 184 of the Ontario (Can¬ 
ada) Department of Agriculture, “Uses 
of Vegetables, Fruits and Tlnney,” in¬ 
cludes a number of recipes in these 
varied materials, all of which will be 
very useful to the farm housekeeper. 
A recipe given for honey caramels is 
new to us. It calls for one cup ex¬ 
tracted honey of best flavor, one cup 
granulated sugar, three tablespoon fills 
sweet cream or milk. Boil to “soft 
crack," nr until it hardens when dropped 
into cold water, hut not too brittle— 
just so it will form into a soft ball 
when taken in the fingers. Pour into a 
greased dish, stirring in a teaspoonful 
extract of vanilla just before taking off. 
Let is be one-half to three-quarters-inch 
deep in the dish; and as it cools cut in 
squares and wrap each square in paraffin 
paper, such as grocers wrap butter in. 
To make chocolate caramels, add to the 
foregoing one tablespoonful melted 
chocolate, just before taking off the 
stove, stirring it in well. For chocolate 
caramels it is not so important that the 
honey be of best quality. 
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Old-fashioned people who have been 
accustomed to the traditional European 
observation of Christmas have rather a 
hard time nowadays. They are de¬ 
nounced for the use of Christmas trees 
and greenery by the conservation-of- 
our-forests enthusiasts; they are told 
that plum pudding and mince pie are in¬ 
digestible and are survivals of barbar¬ 
ous feasts by health culturists, and that 
children should not he given false ideas 
by hearing the myths and legends that 
have grown about the festival by the 
Gradgrinds of modern culture. When, 
in addition to all this, the New York 
school authorities were urged to elim¬ 
inate all reference to the Founder of 
Christianity connected with the festival, 
to avoid injuring the susceptibilities of 
non-Christians, it will he seen that we 
face a denatured Christmas indeed. Per¬ 
haps we deserve all this, since we have 
allowed so much of senseless show and 
extravagance to crowd out worthier 
things, and to take the place of a great 
world, but the first in the United States; 
there are a dozen in Europe and one 
in Canada. It displays all sorts of in¬ 
ventions for the safeguarding of human 
life, especially in industrial fields. Ger¬ 
many has done much in this line, and 
other European nations also. Tt is quite 
evident that if humane feeling alone 
would not prompt greater care of work¬ 
ers, the various employers’ liability laws 
have a tendency to induce it. by making 
recklessness expensive. The director of 
the museum, in the course of a lecture 
on accident prevention, said: 
A recent President agitated a need for 
increased birth rate, and fulminated against 
race suicide. The arrival of triplets or 
twins was the immediate occasion for a 
message of congratulations from the na¬ 
tion's Chief executive. I assert that it is 
of more importance to conserve the life and 
health of our manhood and womanhood, 
especially those just entering on their in¬ 
dustrial vocations. The protest against race 
suicide is all right, hut T assert that it is 
much better to conserve what we have and 
create a rugged, healthy citizenship. Pro¬ 
tect the fa flier of the family in his work 
and the birth rate will take care of itself. 
A Chapter on Dumplings. 
Now that the intense heat of the 
Summer is over and we begin to relish 
the more substantial warm dishes, what 
could he more desirable than the delec¬ 
table dumpling? Here are a few “just 
like mother made them.” In point of 
economy alone they must appeal to the 
thrifty housewife, for much less meat 
may he used and the less expensive cuts 
will give results that are altogether 
satisfactory: 
Drop Dumplings.—To each well- 
beaten egg allow one cupful sour milk, 
one teaspoonful salt, half a teaspoon soda 
and as much flour as batter will take. 
Drop from teaspoon into boiling broth 
and boil steadily for 25 minutes. 
Farina Dumplings.—Put one-half cup¬ 
ful each of water and milk in sauce¬ 
pan and bring to boil. When boiling 
stir in gradually one-fourth cup of 
farina. Cook until thick, stirring con¬ 
stantly, then add a scant teaspoonful of 
butter, a teaspoonful of salt, a half tea¬ 
spoonful pepper and remove to the back 
of the range to cool slightly; then stir 
in the well-beaten yolks of two eggs. 
When cold, drop from a teaspoon into 
boiling broth. Boil five minutes. 
Potato Dumplings.—To three cups 
cold mashed potato, seasoned, add one 
cup bread crumbs (which have been 
browned in the oven in butter, then 
crumbled), two well-beaten eggs and 
three gratings of nutmeg. The mixture 
should be very stiff. Mold into small 
balls and drop into salted boiling water, 
and boil for 20 minutes. 
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because when ordinary foods 
do not digest, it provides the 
needed nourishment in 
highly concentrated form. 
Scott’s Emulsion 
is so easily digested that its 
strength is rapidly absorbed 
by the youngest babe or 
most delicate adult. 
SCOTT'S EMULSION 
is the food that strengthens 
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