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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
THE SLEEP. 
“He giveth His beloved sleep.”—Psalm 
cxxvii, 2. 
Of all the thoughts of God that are 
Borne inward unto souls afar 
Along the Psalmist’s music deep, 
Now tell me if that any is, 
For gift or grace, surpassing this: 
“He giveth IIis beloved sleep?” 
What would we give to our beloved? 
The hero’s heart, to be unmoved. 
The poet’s star-tuned harp to sweep. 
The patriot’s voice to teach and rouse, 
The monarch’s crown to light the brows? 
He giveth His beloved sleep. 
What do we give to our beloved? 
A little faith, all undisproved, 
A . little dust to overweep, 
And bitter memories to make 
The whole earth blasted for our sake; 
lie giveth His beloved sleep. 
His dews drop mutely on the hill; 
His cloud above it saileth still, 
Though on its slope men sow and reap; 
More softly than the dew is shed, 
Or cloud is floated overhead 
He giveth His beloved sleep. 
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 
* 
A recent census of the Balkan States 
show’s that the war there has reduced 
the male population of Bulgarian Mace¬ 
donia from 175,000 to 42,500, while in 
Mustapha Pasha only 4,000 men remain, 
out of 33,000 before the war; in Thrace 
the men have dwindled from 494,000 to 
225,000. This means that women and 
children must take up the customary la¬ 
bors of the men, and struggle against foes 
no less cruel than enemies in battle, for 
poverty, starvation and disease call for 
as much heroism as sword and gun. 
This has been the woman’s part since 
war came into the .world, and when we 
eulogize the field of glory, and hang 
medals and gold lace upon its heroes, we 
may well think long upon the toil-worn 
women, the prematurely aged children, 
who present the other side of the war 
god’s shield. 
* 
A RECENT query was regarding silos for 
women farmers—whether it would not be 
difficult, if not impossible, for them to 
get the silage out. Dr. Katherine B. 
Davis, Commissioner of Correction of 
this city, in discussing her work at the 
Bedford Reformatory recently, made a 
statement about her charges there that 
has some hearing on this question. She 
said: 
“We turn out good farm laborers, too, 
for our girls built a splendid silo at Bed¬ 
ford, built concrete walks and root cel¬ 
lars. They take care of the pigs and 
make the garden. People said, ‘Aren’t 
you afraid the girls will fall from the 
ladders, building that silo?’ Well, I nev¬ 
er could see why a girl should fall off a 
ladder any more than a man. There’s 
no sex in climbing ladders.” 
* 
Here is a recipe for rabbit loaf from 
a Western reader, which will be found 
very savory: Stew the rabbit with two 
good slices of fat pork, one. bay leaf, a 
piece of onion cut fine, until it can be 
taken from the bones. Reduce the liquor 
to two cups and add one-quarter box of 
soaked gelatine. Lay a few slices of 
hard boiled egg'on the bottom of a plain 
mold. Season liquor with salt, half tea¬ 
spoon pepper, one of sage, one-third cup 
vinegar and mix well with rabbit cut into 
small pieces with knife or run through 
grinder; set in cold place to harden. 
* 
A warning that may be added to other 
“safety” suggestions Is conveyed by a 
recent case in this city. A baby playing 
with a celluloid rattle touched a hot 
kitchen stove with the toy, which caught 
lire immediately, and the poor baby was 
fatally burned before the flames could be 
extinguished. The extreme inflamma¬ 
bility of celluloid is not always consid¬ 
ered, yet there is a long list of serious 
or fatal accidents resulting from combs 
or other small articles of celluloid touch¬ 
ing stove, or candle, or gas jet. Children 
should be warned of this danger, and it 
should always be kept in mind in the 
household, where so many celluloid ar¬ 
ticles are in constant use. 
* 
Many people look upon collecting post¬ 
age stamps as a harmless but extremely 
juvenile hobby. That it may be a very 
costly one is shown by the recent sale, 
in London, of a collection of British 
stamps made by the late Earl of Craw¬ 
ford ; it sold for $80,000. Lord Craw¬ 
ford was president of the British Phila¬ 
telic Society, and his collection of stamps 
was said to be second only to that of 
King George, who has been collecting 
since boyhood. The Crawford collection 
of American stamps which has not yet 
been sold, is of very great value, some 
single specimens being held at $1,500 
each. 
The Country Church as a Social 
Center. 
“Meeting,” is an appropriate word for 
the country church service. Last Sunday 
was a typical day at the little church 
near a “corner” with a half a dozen 
houses, mostly Summer homes, now de¬ 
serted, clustered about it. Before the 
appointed time, 2:30 p. m., the people 
began to gather, and kept coming until 
three o’clock, and still no minister in 
sight. This was a service held at the 
“out appointment”; that is, this little 
cover closely. Put in the oven and bake 
30 or 40 minutes, or until the meat is 
well done, according to the kind of fire. 
A very hot fire will cook it sooner. 
Smothered Pork.—Take nice pieces of 
fresh lean pork and season well. Fry brown 
on both sides and finish in the oven. May 
be rolled in crumbs if liked. Make a 
brown gravy when the meat is removed. 
Smothered Chicken.—Clean and joint 
a young chicken. Season with salt and 
pepper and roll in flour. Have ready 
three tablespoons of butter very hot and 
brown the chicken all over quickly. Be 
careful not to burn it. Cover and place 
in the oven for one hour. Make a cream 
gravy after the chicken is taken up. 
Smothered Beefsteak.—Cut the steak 
in thick pieces for serving and pound well 
if tough. Season and roll in flour. 
Brown quickly in a hot skillet in mixed 
butter and fryings and then cover closely 
and finish in the over. 
Smothered Beefsteak With Onions.— 
Peel one onion for each piece of steak 
and cut rather fine in slices. Put in a 
band of church-goers have no resident 
pastor, although so-called union services 
are held each Sabbath in the pretty little 
church. One week the Methodist minis¬ 
ter from a charge four miles away comes 
and preaches, alternating Sundays with 
an Episcopal clergyman living at C., six 
miles away. To the credit of these two 
good faithful men it may be said that not 
many services during the year are missed, 
although often, especially in the Winter 
season, roads are well nigh impassable, 
and the cold winds off the river here like 
blasts from the North Pole. On this par¬ 
ticular Sunday the roads were deep with 
mud and snowy slush, and the young min¬ 
ister’s old horse slower than usual. As 
the people waited, the gathering in the 
little church took on the appearance of 
a social. Neighbors and friends laughed 
and visited, and children and older boys 
and girls were merry and gay as could 
be. Occasionally some one would go out 
and look for the minister. Finally t 
3:30 his coming was announced. 
One little three-year-old who had be¬ 
come tired waiting was sent home with 
an older brother, and the rest of the con¬ 
gregation settled back in their pews or- 
granite pan one hour before dinner with 
a tablespoon of butter and salt and pep¬ 
per. Half an hour before dinner prepare 
the beefsteak by the above recipe and 
when ready to put in oven spread the 
onions over the top. Cover closely and 
and finish in the oven. 
Smothered Beefsteak With Tomatoes.— 
Proceed as by the first recipe and when 
ready for the oven pour over the steak 
two cups of boiling hot seasoned toma¬ 
toes. Cover and finish in the oven. 
Smothered Duck.—Clean and joint a 
young duck. Season the pieces and roll 
them in flour. Fry brown in butter and 
drippings. Add one half pint of boiling 
water and cover closely. Cook in the 
oven until done. 
Smothered Rabbit.—Soak the rabbit 
over night in salt water and in the morn¬ 
ing wash and season. Roll the pieces in 
flour and fry brown very quickly in hot 
drippings. Cover and finish in oven 
watching that it does not get too hot. 
HILDA RICHMOND. 
;THIS WASHER 
MUST PAY FOR 
ITSELF 
derly and sedate. The young minister 
came in frankly pleased to see so many 
out on such a “bad roads” day, thanked 
us for waiting so patiently and apolo¬ 
gized for being so late, saying he had 
been two hours on the way. Old fam¬ 
iliar hymns were sung, and with the ac¬ 
companiment of the organ made sweet 
music, so heartily and unaffected by the 
old tunes were rung out. The brief ser¬ 
mon was a simple and plain discussion of 
a Bible truth applied to every day life. 
After the benediction the people still 
lingered and seemed loath to go, talking 
with the minister and with each other, 
until the light of the short December day 
was almost gone. • F. J. F. F. 
The Guest Book. 
I hope each suburban or rural woman 
has a guest book. It does not have to be 
an expensive affair, but just buy a neat 
and pretty blank book. Mine has a red 
leather cover, and I have written these 
lines in the front. They are indeed a 
quieting bedroom motto. 
“Sleep sweetly in this quiet room, 
Oh thou, whoe’er thou art, 
And let no mournful yesterdays 
Disturb they peaceful heart. 
Nor let tomorrow scare thy rest 
With thoughts of coming ill; 
Thy Maker is they changeless friend, 
11 is love surrounds thee still; 
Forget thyself and all the world, 
Put out each feverish light, 
The stars are watching overhead, 
Sleep sweetly then. Good night. 
My book contains the names of all the 
over-night guests for 10 years, and it is 
a great pleasure to turn the pages and 
read the names. It bi’ings a flood of 
pleasant memories as the visits of far 
away friends are renewed in the mind. 
A MAN tried to sell me a horse once. He said it 
was a fine horse and had nothing the matter 
with it. I wanted a fine horse. But, I 
didn't know anything 
about horses much. And 
I didn’t know the man 
very well either. 
So I told him I want¬ 
ed to try the horse for 
a month. He said "All 
right, hut pay me first, 
and I’ll give you back 
your money if the horse 
Isn’t all right.” 
Well, I didn’t like 
that. I was afraid the 
horse wasn’t “all 
right” and that I might 
have to whistle for my 
money if I once parted 
with It. So I didn’t buy 
the horse although I 
wanted it badly. Now 
this set me thinking. 
You see, I make 
Washing Machines—the 
“1900 Gravity” Washer. 
And I said to myself, 
lots of people may think 
about my Washing Ma¬ 
chine as I thought about the horse, and about the 
man who owned it. 
Hut I’d never know, because they wouldn't 
write and tell me. You see, I sell my Washing 
Machines by mail. I have sold over half a million 
that way. 
So, thought I. it is only fair enough to let peo¬ 
ple try my Washing Machines for a month before 
they pay for them, just as I wanted to try the 
horse. 
Now, I know i,hat our "1900 Gravity" Washer 
will do. I know it will wash the clothes, without 
wearing or tearing them, in less than half the 
time they can be washed by hand or by uny other 
machine. 
I know it will wash a tub full of very dirty 
clothes in Sis minutes. I know no other machine 
ever invented can do that, without wearing out 
the clothes. 
Our "1900 Gravity" Washer does the work bo 
easy that a child can run it almost as well as a 
strong woman and it don’t wear the clothes, fray 
the edges nor break buttons the way all other 
machines do. 
It just drives soapy wnter clear through the 
fibres of the clothes like a force pump might. 
So. said I to myself, I will do with my “1900 
Gravity” Washer what I wanted the man to do 
with the horse. Only I won’t wait for people to 
ask me. I’ll offer first, and I’ll make good the 
offer every time. 
Let me send you a “1900 Gravity” Wnsher on a 
month’s free trial. I'll pay the freight out of my 
own pocket, and if you don't want the machine 
after you’ve used it a month. I’ll take it back 
and pay the freight, too. Surely that is fair 
enough, isn’t it? 
I hope this hint will be strong enough to 
place a guest book in every guest cham¬ 
ber. CORA JUNE SHEPPARD. 
Smothered Meats. 
Smothered Yeal.—Cut the veal in 
pieces convenient for serving and season 
with salt and pepper. Roll in bread or 
cracker crumbs and put at once into a 
hot frying pan in which are two table¬ 
spoons of butter and drippings mixed. 
Brown quickly on both sides and then 
Doesn’t it prove that the “1900 Gravity" Wash¬ 
er must be all that I say it is? 
And you can pay me out of what it saves for 
you. It will save its whole cost in a few months, 
in wear nnd tear on the clothes alone. And then 
it will save 50 cents to 75 cents a week over that 
in washwoman’s wages. If you keep the machine 
after the month’s trial, I’ll let you pay for it out 
of what it saves you. If it saves you 00 cents a ! 
week, send me 50 cents a week till paid for. I’ll 
take that cheerfully, and I’ll wait for my mouey 
until the machine itself earns the balance. 
Drop me a line to-day, and let me send you a I 
book about the “1900 Gravity” Washer that wash¬ 
es clothes in 6 minutes. 
Address me this way—H. L. Barker, 200 Court 
Street, Binghamton, N. Y. If you live in Canuda, 
address 1900 Washer Co., 357 Youge St., Toronto, 
Ont. 
January 31, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Wash Mellotone Walls and 
They Are Bright As New 
“You can’t imagine how much 
prettier and more cheerful our 
rooms have been since we took 
off the wall paper and put on 
7 cm\ 
High Standard 
“It is far more artistic and beauti¬ 
ful than wall paper or calcimine. 
The rich, delicate Mellotone colors 
— soft as the rainbow tints — are 
a lasting beauty.” 
Mellotone saves money 
because it is so wonderfully dura¬ 
ble. It is not easily scratched or 
marred. The colors do not fade. 
It makes bouse cleaning easy. In¬ 
stead of the muss and work of 
papering or calcimining, you wash 
off Mellotone walls and they look 
bright as new. 
There is only one Mellotone 
It is sold only by “High Standard” 
dealers, who also handle “High 
Standard” paints, varnishes, en¬ 
amels, etc. If you don’t know our 
dealer nearest you, write and let 
us tell vou his name. 
Valuable books Free 
Write for “Harmony in Colors,” 
showing the beautiful Mellotone 
colors. Also our books, “Mello- 
tone” and “Homes Attractive.” 
They are free—write for them 
today. 
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510 E. Third St., Dayton, O. 
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