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THE FHJR.AI* NEW-YORKER 
May 2, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
It Isn’t the Thing You Do. 
It isn’t the thing you do, dear, 
It’s the thing you leave undone 
That gives you a bit of a heartache 
At the setting of the sun. 
The tender word forgotten; 
The letter you did not write; 
The flower you did not send, dear, 
Are your haunting ghosts tonight. 
The stones you might have lifted 
Out of a brother’s way; 
The bit of a heartsome counsel 
You were hurried too much to say; 
The loving touch of the. hand, dear, 
The gentle, winning tone, 
Which you had no time nor thought for 
With troubles of your own. 
Those little acts of kindness 
.So easily out of mind, 
Those chances to be angels 
Which we poor mortals find, 
They come in night and silence, 
Each sad reproachful wraith, 
When hope is faint and flagging 
And a chill has fallen on faith. 
For life is all too short, dear, 
And sorrow is all too great, 
To suffer our slow compassion 
That tarries until too late; 
And it isn’t the thing you do, dear, 
It’s the thing you leave undone 
Which gives you a bit of heartache 
At the setting of the sun. 
—Margaret E. Sangster. 
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Sterilized bran, put up in packages 
like other cereals, is now sold by grocers, 
all ready for making bran bread or bis¬ 
cuits. 
A cake cooler is inexpensive, but very 
useful; it consists of heavy tinned wire 
netting mounted on a raised frame, which 
permits the air to circulate under as 
well as around the cake. It is excellent 
for cooling bread also. 
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The tender young sheep sorrel, which 
later is such an eyesore as it reddens the 
fields, makes a wholesome and delicious 
soup. Wash two quarts of the leaves 
very carefully, and cook till tender in a 
small quantity of water. Rub through a 
sieve, add seasoning, and three cupfuls 
of soup stock. Then make a paste of one 
tablespoonful of butter, rubbed smooth 
with one tablespoonful of flour, and use 
this to thicken one teacupful of hot milk. 
Add this to the soup, stirring well to 
keep smooth; let it boil up, and serve 
with croutons or heated crackers. 
Summer is likely to come with a rush 
this year, judging by the late cold Spring. 
It sets work back in the house, as well 
as out of doors, for housecleaning that 
involves the moving of stoves cannot be 
done this chilly weather. In many 
places Summer work will be pressing be¬ 
fore Spring work is over, both indoors 
and out. It will be a good season to 
think about “standardizing” the work to 
make one effort take the place of two. 
Just think, as you go about the house, 
where your greatest loss occurs, in time 
or energy; if it seems to present a prob¬ 
lem you are unable to solve alone, per¬ 
haps the combined wisdom of others will 
provide a solution. 
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Beef pie with potato crust is an old- 
fashioned English recipe for using cold 
roast beef. Boil five large potatoes in 
salted water; when done, slice a layer 
of them in a baking dish; then place a 
layer of meat, and salt and pepper, also 
celery salt; then potatoes and meat, and 
so on until your dish is full. It will take 
a teaspoonful of salt, a half of pepper 
and a saltspoonful of celery salt. Mash 
the remainder of your potatoes, which 
should make about a cupful; add one 
tablespoonful of butter. When cool, add 
one well-beaten egg, one cup of milk, one- 
half teaspoonful salt, and beat all to¬ 
gether until very light; then work in 
enough flour, to which you have added 
one-half teaspoonful baking powder, to 
enable you to roll out in a sheet. When 
you have poured over your meat and 
potatoes a gravy which you have made 
from the scraps of fat and bones, place 
this paste over all, cut a cross slit in 
the middle and bake. A slice or two of 
onion improves this pie to those who like 
the flavor. It is very savory and nutri¬ 
tious. 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurements de¬ 
sired. Price of each pattern 10 cents. 
8226 Child’s Dress, 
2 to 8 years. 
8066 Two-Piece Skirt; 
22 to 32 waist. 
7731 Corset Cover, 7609 Dtflity Caps, 
34 to 42 bust. One Size. 
Embroidery Designs. 
The prices quoted are for stamped 
goods and material for working but 
transfer patterns of any design will be 
furnished separately for 10 cents each. 
No. 743. A design for embroidering a 
child’s sailor collar and cuffs. The scal¬ 
loped edges are to be buttonholed, the 
leaves, petals and dots can be worked 
solidly or as eyelets. Stamped on linen 
lawn with mercerized floss to work, 25 
cents. 
No. 626. Design for embroidering a 
folding case for pins or veils. Stamped 
on best white pure linen, with mercer¬ 
ized floss to work, 15 cents. 
No. 643. Design for embroidering a 
pin-cushion cover having scalloped edges. 
Stamped on best round thread white lin¬ 
en. with mercerized floss, 50 cents. 
No. 584. Design for embroidering a 
hat with scalloped edges. Stamped on 
pure white linen, with mercerized floss 
to work, 45 cents. 
Seen in City Shops. 
High collars, coming down in a low 
point in front, are a prominent feature 
in this season’s styles; practically all of 
the blouses show them, whether silks, 
chiffons or wash goods. These collars do 
not include the Medici ruff of last year, 
which is now old-fashioned. Some of 
these collars are about the style of those 
worn by men when Madison was Presi¬ 
dent, and have a cravat ribbon of black 
satin to hold them up; others resemble 
those shown in portraits of Lord Byron. 
These collars are not wired, but stiffened 
with starch. While standing erect, these 
collars roll outward, and thus do not 
come against the hair, while the sharp 
points stand out at either side of the 
face. 
Colored separate waists have been out 
of style for a season or two, but they 
are now very much worn, both in plain 
colors and flowered materials. For an 
inexpensive, yet very pretty blouse, flow¬ 
ered voile is admirable, an excellent pat¬ 
tern being No. 8132, shown on page 231. 
Select a becoming color, and one that 
harmonizes with the jacket suit. A flar¬ 
ing stand-up collar may be worn with 
this blouse. 
Some wonderful new underwear from 
Paris is made of fine handkerchief linen, 
trimmed with striped linen, narrow 
stripes of blue or rose on white. 
Among fashionable Spring shoes is a 
pump with two straps over the instep. 
Very sensible, as well as stylish, are 
women’s patent leather pumps made just 
like a man’s dancing pump, with low 
flat heels and no trimming except the 
usual grosgrain bow. 
Panicr tunics are a pretty model for 
the popular flowered materials, such as 
voile or crepe. A pattern for such an 
overdress was given on page 570, pat¬ 
tern No. 8206. This model is pretty 
for making over a dress, as the skirt 
could be of one material in solid color 
with a flowered over-dress. Another very 
pretty model for thin fabrics is the pat¬ 
tern No. 8200, shown on page 535. Many 
smart little silk or flowered crape gowns i 
seen in the shops are made after this 
model. It would be a pretty style for a 
graduation dress, made in fine voile. This 
is to be a fluffy season, with lots of frills, | 
and the Summer dresses show this ten- j 
dency quite strongly. 
All the shops are full of bead neck- | 
laces; nothing is too odd or too showy 
to be worn. Of course they are called 
tango beads, but they only differ from the 
beads of former years in being more 
striking in their colors and combinations. 
If you have two necklaces with beads of 
different sizes, and colors that will har¬ 
monize, or make a striking contrast, com¬ 
bine the two, stringing the different beajs j 
alternately, and you will have a tango 
necklace. Many of them are finished 
with odd pendants formed of flat slides 
or plaques of the same material as the 
beads, tipped with a silk tassel. 
Here is a recipe for old-fashioned ap¬ 
ple sauce that is very rich and savory : 
Fill a small stone crock with peeled, 
cored and quartered apples. Pour over 
them a pint of sugar dissolved in a large 
cupful of sweet cider and add a stick or 
two of cinnamon. Cover the crock close¬ 
ly and set in a very moderate oven for 
five or six hours, or over night. If good 
tart juicy apples are used the sauce is 
delicious. 
We have been asked several times to 
give a recipe for old-fashioned salt-rising 
bread. The following is a century-old re¬ 
cipe, sent to us with a strong endorse¬ 
ment: At noon, the day before baking, 
take one-half cupful of cornmeal and 
pour over it enough sweet milk, boiling 
hot, to make it the thickness of batter 
cakes. Keep warm. The next morning 
pour into a pitcher one pint of boiling 
water, add one teaspoon ful of soda and 
one of salt. When cold enough so that 
it will not scald the flour, add enough to 
make a stiff batter, then add the cup of 
meal set the day before full of bubbles. 
Place the pitcher in a kettle of warm water, 
cover and keep warm. When the batter 
rises to the top of the pitcher pour it into 
a bread pan and add one and one-half 
pints of warm water and flour enough to 
knead it into loaves. Knead but little 
harder than for biscuit dough and bake 
as soon as dough rises to the top of pans 
This will make five large loaves. 
Mrs. Youngwise —“I’m afraid John’s 
mother’s offended. She came over 
to help with my washing, and it 
was nearly done. She said I 
hadn’t done it right because I 
didn’t boil my clothes like she 
and her mother always had, and 
I said she didn’t spin and weave 
any more like people used to, and 
then she left in a huff.” 
Anty Drudge —“She’ll get over it 
when 1 talk to her and tell her 
about Fels-Naptha Soap. I’ll tell 
her to blame me because I ad¬ 
vised you to use it.” 
Every year 
there is some new 
way to lighten 
women’s work— 
but never a better 
nor more sensible 
one than the Fels- 
Naptha way. 
Fels-Naptha 
Soap in cool or 
lukewarm water 
will do anything 
that soap and 
water can do, in 
half the time it 
used to take with 
less than half the 
bother. 
It will get your 
washing on the line so 
much earlier, and the 
clothes will be sweeter, 
cleaner and whiter 
than ever before. You 
don’t have to boil 
them, either. 
Better buy it by the box or carton. 
For all kinds of work every day in 
the year follow the directions on the 
Red and Green Wrapper. 
Fcls & Co., Philadelphia. 
FELS-NAPTHA 
