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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 24, 
W<T>man thp WfhfT&f* traffic indefinitely, put a hand under ing. They cut a hole in the ice and let 
_ a tllC 11 VlllC eac h elbow, picked the woman up bod- the line down through, and often fine, 
ily, carried her across, and deposited big fish are caught. I have often watched 
her gently upon the opposite sidewalk, a group of black dots starting out from 
His action was not appreciated, how- the opposite shore, change to people 
ever, and the woman at once began to skating or walking across to visit 
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From Day to Day. 
THE GREAT MOMENT 
Now the ox waited in the stall, 
Now the stars waited in the skies, 
For that strange thing which should befall scolcl and upbraid him in unmeasured friends or relatives. 
Before the moon should rise. 
The winds about forgot to blow, 
The spark to gather in the dew; 
The cloud above forgot to flow 
Along the midnight’s blue. 
The singer's song in sweetness hung 
Trembling to stillness; and, as well, 
Breathless that instant lovers clung; 
The mother’s rapture fell. 
The shepherd ceased to tell his flock, 
The father ceased to breathe his prayer. 
The whole world felt the subtle shock, 
The portent in the air. 
An awful hush from shore to shore. 
In lands remote, on seas forlorn, 
And no heart beat that time before 
The Prince of Peace was born. 
—Harriet Prescott Spofford 
* 
Here is the way the French chef at stead of below, 
a large hotel prepares dressing for roast 
turkey. Chop four medium sized onions 
and fry in the fat from the turkey. Then 
soak half a pound of bread crumbs in 
water, add a little sausage meat or 
trimmings from ham or bacon chopped 
terms. The policeman listened for a One year the ice was very hard and 
moment, then, suddenly picking the wo- black and of unusual thickness and 
man up as before, he marched swiftly strength. One day in February we, 
across the street, and put her down Farmer F., the half-past-two-year-old, 
again on the other side, then went back and myself, went for a walk on the ice 
to his post. What happened further we down the river for a half a mile to see 
do not know, but the hobbled lady must a big fish that was frozen in. We were 
have felt like the old woman in Mother dressed in furs, even “Boy” looked like 
Goose, whose pig wouldn’t get over a little Eskimo in his funny furry suit 
the stile. These present hobble skirts I had rigged for him from an old fur 
of the tailor type are not always banded cape and boa, so that he could play out 
in, but more often cut very narrow, ap- doors every clay even in the severest 
parently sloping in from the hips down, weather. Part of the way father drew 
the general outline suggesting a very little son on a sled, but the fierce north 
close riding habit. There is a tendency, wind was too bitterly cold for that, 
in the new foreign fashions, to gather Soon he was crying, and no wonder, for 
in the skirt just above the knee, in- the air was of Arctic coldness, seeming 
(.HtJUJWOfT, 
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TONE 
to come straight from the North Pole, 
so we took his hands and hurried him 
along, managing in that way to keep 
comfortably warm. The broad icy thor¬ 
oughfare seemed alive that day. There 
were teams in sight in every direction, 
and an iceboat and groups of skaters, 
Cleaning a Feather Bed. 
If Mrs. C. D. will try this way of 
cleaning her feather bed she will find 
it satisfactory. But she must wait until 
Spring to do it. Spread a clean sheet 
very fine, add teaspoonful of sage and 011 a s ^ ed roof that can be got at easily, and doW n the shore we saw a party of 
salt and pepper to taste, add one boiled and P u ^ the tick on that before a heavy men getting out ice for storage. I felt 
sweet potato; mix all together and stuff rain. Then when the sun shines the a little timid—one could see through 
your turkey with this dressing. tick must be shaken up and turned oc- c i ear j ce down, down, 'down, but 
* ' casionally until thoroughly dry. It will after we bad reac hed the little bay and 
We are all familiar with the sensible then be clean and sweet. mrs. j. n. j saw j ]OW j on g j t too k t0 cbop a bo ] e 
round collar bags of soft leather, made Having seen a request that some one through the ice with an ax, 1 knew it 
for men s use, and sold by most men s tell how to renovate feather beds, I would be impossible for me to break 
furnishing stores. They are now being will send my way. Prepare a large through, no matter what I did, for the 
made in a variety of fabrics for wo- tub of good warm soapsuds, open the ice was more than two feet thick. We 
men s use, forming a pretty and useful feather tick and empty the feathers couldn’t wait to see the fish taken out, 
gift. They have a round bottom, stift- into the tub. The tick can be wetted for Boy began to cry again as soon as 
ened with cardboard, and straight sides and the last feathers removed. With he stopped exercising. So we hurried 
drawn in with a cord, the bottom being the hands push the feathers under the back home, going straight to the shore 
seven or eight inches in diameter. Very soapy water and stir around. The dirt this time, having a wild scramble there 
pietty ones are made of crash with w jn sink and the feathers come on top. to get up the icy, rocky path and then 
stenciled decorations. Such a bag is When the- feathers are clean wring hurrying across the fields, a long way 
convenient for the bureau drawer, while them through a clothes wringer. When home, but much warmer. The differ- 
protecting the collars from dust. 
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Scrapple is now in season, and here 
is a Philadelphia recipe for it. The ma¬ 
terials are four pounds of pork from the 
fore quarter, white cornmeal, salt, pep¬ 
per, sage and water. Place the meat in 
wet they will stick together and go ence in temperature was wonderful, 
through like cloth, but it is a good Baby boy was all in a glow, as warm 
thing to have some one turn the wring- as toast, by the time we had reached 
er while you put the feathers in. They the farmhouse. 
must be rinsed till the soap is all out, Soon father came with the big fish, 
stirring and wringing them in the same We thought it a small muscallongc. It 
, ...... way as in the first water. When cleaned was three and a half feet long. It 
a saucepan an cover wit l joi mg pj ace j] iem j n an empty room which looked as if it had been chilled and 
water. Cook slowly until the meat will -— * -- --- > 
slip from the bones. Chop the meat 
fine and season to taste with salt and . . . , TT . . , „ - , - - - -- - 
ister is best. Have the windows open filled with roe and the flesh looked firm 
with screens of cheesecloth over them and good. What did we do with it? 
and every day beat the feathers up with 
meat. Then flavor with powdered sage “ h ° raewl, J I> s0 , "‘ ej ; wiU , fly a » ar ' and gone. It kept perfectly of course, for 
ac ,ioctrrsri o be 1,1 a few da y s the y can be re- it was frozen solid, until used. All 
placed in the tick, which has been 
washed separately, but they must be 
pepper. Skim the fat from the liquor 
and add sufficient cornmeal to make a 
mush. Salt to taste and add the chopped 
as desired. Pour into a square bread 
pan and allow it to stand over night. 
Cut into slices and fry brown. Very 
little or no fat will be needed to fry it. 
has been mopped clean. An upper room caught in the fast-forming ice and 
, , . • , . frozen. No hook was found in it, nor 
warmed by a stovepipe or hot air reg- any injury noticeable anyw here. It was 
ister is best. Have the windows open 
of cheesecloth over them _ _ ... _ ... 
Our hens had a big slice of the fish and 
some of the roe every day until it was 
Winter we had been “fussing over” 
those hens, trying to make them lay 
, , e with but indifferent success, and not 
diy before they are put hack. Some, until they had the fish to eat did they 
people wash the beds by putting the lay steadily and well. Fresh fish are 
A hatbox which is not quite tall wbcde thing, tick and all, in the water, fine food for hens and will always in- 
enough to accommodate an upstanding and then putting them outdoors and ifSotkeabie in^th^cfeVun- 
feather is a nuisance we often encoun- turning them frequently, but I think ]ess the fish be sta]e and unfit for food< 
ter when trying to find a place of stor- my way better ’ as 1 am sure the dirt It is the dead fish that hens pick up 
age for a new hat. We can get around is 3,1 removed > which isn’t possible when along the shore in the hot Summer time 
the difficulty by building up the sides the feathers are in the thick tick. wlllch glve a bad taste to the eggs ' F - 
of the box with cardboard taken from MRS ' s ' R ' J° HNTS0N 
another box, sewing it firmly, as ordi¬ 
nary flour paste will not stick with suf- Winter Sports Along the St.Lawrence 
ficient firmness. Then, if you have 1 he ,ce bndge over the nver 13 often 
some remnant wallpaper paste this a broad thoroughfare of smooth “glare” 
neatly over the box, turning it over the * cc ’ a perfect paradise foi skaters, and 
edge at the top, and underneath at the ,l,lor(bn ^ a b '& be * d I° r that more dan- 
bottom. Cover the lid too, turning in gc,ous sport, ice boating. The school 
the edges neatly, and you will have a chhdien along the River Road skate 
very firm box that will recall the gay *° and f rom school, and spend their 
old-fashioned ones carried by our an- n °oning there also, while the older 
cestors on their stage-coach journeys. boys wb ' z by in their curious sled-like 
Such a box looks neat on a closet shelf, iceboats, sailing befoie the wind often 
and is a fitting receptacle for the best at a tremendous speed. 1 he channel 
ba j here is two and a half miles wide 
* across to Long Island, which is 20 
We hear all sorts of tales about hob- miles long and looks as if it were the 
ble skirts, but here is a true one, opposite main shore. When there is 
vouched for by an eye-witness. A snow on the ice, the two regular roads 
woman attempted to cross the street across, in sight from this place, are 
at one of the busiest crossings in New plainly marked with branches of ever- 
York, on upper Fifth avenue, where green stuck in the ice at regular in- 
there is an incessan, whirl of traffic, tervals, and ordinarily teams crossing 
Her skirt was so tight that she could keep to these roads or else hug the 
barely move, and the big policeman, shore. Sometimes one can see a little 
seeing that she was likely to hold up group of men out on the ice field fish- 
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