1910. 
THE KURAt NEM'-YOKKER 
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Water Crackers. 
Will you give me the formula for what 
are commonly called oyster crackers or 
■water crackers? J. h. d. 
Rub a tablespoonful of ’butter into a 
half pound of flour, and add enough 
■cold water to make a dough that can 
he rolled out. Roll very thin, cut out, 
roll again, and bake in a floured tin to 
a pale brown. This recipe is given in 
“Marion H.arland’s Cook Book.” We 
should like to hear from anyone who 
has other tested recipes for crackers. 
As a rule housekeepers do not feel 
much confidence in being able to make 
them just as crisp and brittle as the 
factory article. 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurement de¬ 
sired. 
Skirts that are plain at the front and 
plain at the back but with plaited 
flounce portions at the sides are fa¬ 
vorites of the season. This model is 
well suited to misses and to the small 
5852 Six Gored Skirt for Misses and 
Small Women, 14, 16 and 18 years. 
women who find youthful styles becom¬ 
ing. The skirt is made in six gores, 
the front and back gores being arranged 
to give the effect of box plaits. There 
are plaited ffounce portions at the sides 
which are joined to the gores, and 
•straight bands cover their upper edges. 
The quantity of material required for 
the 16 year size is 5^4 yards 24 or 27 
inches wide., 4 yards 36 or 2^4 yards 44 
inches wide. The pattern No. 6852 is 
cut in sizes for misses of 14, 16 and 18 
years of age; price 10 cents. 
The group of pictures shows 6495, 
blouse or shirt waist. This will be ap¬ 
propriate for materials such as wool, 
cotton, linen and silk, sizes 32 to 42 
bust. 6815, girls’ dress. Heavy linen, 
gingham, poplin or chambray may be 
used to advantage in this model, sizes 
six, eight and 10 years. 6496, misses’ 
long coat. A stylish model, made up 
in serge, broadcloth, cheviot or diagonal 
cloth, 14 and 16 years, 6803, child’s caps, 
Dainty designs for flannel, heavy silk 
or soft velvet, sizes six months to four 
years. 6809, circular skirt. Adaptable 
to any of the heavy materials now being 
used for the development of skirts, sizes 
22 to 32. Price of each pattern is 10 
cents. 
A Little Reading. 
A siege of grip is not a thing to be 
desired, but the one I have just passed 
through held compensations. It gave me 
time for some of the reading I had 
been longing to do. 
“And now after you have gotten the 
flaxseed and the lemons and the quinine 
and the other things from the drug¬ 
gist’s,” ran my charge to Lyman, “please 
go to the library and get me “Makers 
of English Fiction,” by W. J. Dawson. 
It will be sure to be in, and two or 
three people have said I would enjoy it.” 
Whatever my appetite proved that week 
for (the lamb chops and eggnogs they 
plied me with, my mind certainly feasted 
upon Dr. Dawson’s wise and inspiring 
pages. I had known of him as an Eng¬ 
lish preacher who, after lecturing and 
evangelistic tours of this country, had 
finally come with his family to dwell 
among us, proposing to devote the re¬ 
mainder of his life to literature. It 
could mean only wide reading and a 
broad experience of life acting upon a 
master mind to be able to turn out such 
a book as is this review of the great 
novels of a great nation. But always 
before and along with the novels runs 
a. sympathetic estimate of each novelist, 
bis. environment and his temperament. 
It is. a book to send one back to the re¬ 
reading of old favorites with renewed 
ardor. Through the insight into the 
lives of the great and gifted workers 
in fiction and through reference to char¬ 
acters in their books, Dr. Dawson finds 
a way to set before the reader much 
wise and suggestive thought about the 
intimate problems of human existence. 
As example of his kindly understand¬ 
ing, and to remind us what to avoid 
in ourselves and how lenient we should 
be in our judgment of others, I want 
to quote his reference to the melancholy 
which is quite “a common feature of 
rural life,” and the “influence of solitude 
on a sensitive mind.” 
“Writers on country life,” he remarks, 
“have much to say about its joys, but 
they rarely penetrate the secret of its 
melancholy. It owes something to the 
solemnity of the earth itself, yet more 
to the habit of self-introspection, the 
turning over and over in the mind 
of a few thoughts, the harping on the 
same string. The man who leads a 
broad, busy, adventurous life is rarely 
given to pessimism. Moving freely 
about the world he gets a sense of the 
variety of the forces at work, does not 
trouble to frame a theory of life be¬ 
cause he finds so much to contradict 
all theories, good and bad. But with 
the man of Teflective mind, living in soli¬ 
tude, the process is reversed. Thought 
becomes morbid. Things come to be 
seen out of proportion and the real per¬ 
spective of life is lost.” 
I like to take novels singly and far 
between that I may come to them with 
zest and so experience all the pleasure 
they are capable of yielding. Pet came 1 
in, after returning from the library, and 
triumphantly laid a purple-bound volume 
in my lap, saying: 
“There! I’ve brought you one of the 
newest and most popular books she had. 
The librarian hasn’t read it herself be¬ 
cause they don’t give her a chance. 
Some one brought it in while she was 
looking up something to send you, and 
she looked up and saw Miss Fannie 
Smith just coming in. And she took it 
quick and stamped your card and said, 
‘Fannie Smith has had it twice already. 
Take it home to your mother and tell 
her I should like to know, sometime, 
what she thinks of it.”” 
The unfaded covers testified to plenty 
of handling, and I began reading with 
the added interest of learning to know 
my town’s women better. For every 
popular book has, of course, some mark 
of special merit; humor, liveliness or 
charm of narrative, intensity of emo¬ 
tional feeling—some sort of happy skill 
in its makeup must be present to draw 
more than the ordinary number of read¬ 
ers. Anything approaching the great¬ 
ness of the classics or any special depth 
of thought I did not look for. Highly 
idealized characters seem usually to 
catch popular liking and of these I 
found two or three notable specimens 
in “The Rosary/” by Florence L. Bar¬ 
clay. I found no nuggets of wit or wis¬ 
dom that demanded to be read aloud 
and enjoyed with doubled zest, nothing I 
would in my youth have copied into my 
notebook or grafted into my next letter 
to my dearest friend. But I did find 
pleasure in the picture of English life 
as it amuses itself in house parties and 
week-end visits at those beautiful old 
country homes. And the ideal lover as 
shown in Garth Dolmain seemed to me 
a very good dream of perfect manhood 
to plant in the mind. The Honourable 
Jane, too, is worthy of becoming the 
model of every young girl, be she plain 
of feature or possessed of any amount 
of facial prettiness. From wh^t friends 
have told me I . believe . many English 
women of culture to be just such thor¬ 
oughly satisfactory and wholly enjoy¬ 
able types of womanhood as was Jane 
Champion. Such unselfish effort to be 
companionable and agreeable, such set¬ 
ting of personal interests in the back¬ 
ground, and loyalty to friends and con¬ 
sideration for everyone, all are the bet¬ 
ter for having known such a woman 
even if only between book covers. 
And the high-pressure emotions, the 
soaring grasp upon exalted ideas of 
manhood, womanhood, marriage and the 
whole range of spiritual and moral con¬ 
viction, these too are not amiss in an 
age that over-values the physical and 
material. We find all too little of ro¬ 
mance in novels of the present day, but 
because my town’s women have liked 
and eagerly read this book I know that 
each in her heart loves the ideal, the 
love-dream. I am sending the book back 
to the library to-day and I hope that 
Miss Fannie Smith will again carry it 
home to her lonely old house and will 
bend her gray head over it during long 
still evenings, and live in it the love 
dream life has cheated her of. For in 
books is, after all, the place to look 
for the Garth Dolmains. Though every 
woman who has husband or son has 
some chance to multiply the type even 
though she may fail of the perfect speci¬ 
men. For as she will grow year by year 
more like the woman she longs to be 
so will the men of her family be in 
some measure influenced by her notions 
of what a man should be. She may 
need the Flonourable Jane’s devotion 
and tact to bring noticeable results, but 
the matter is worth her steady hope 
and faith. r. ithamar. 
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