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THE R.XJ RAL NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
COURAGE. 
Because I hold it sinful to despond, 
And will not let the bitterness of life 
Blind me with burning tears, but look 
beyond 
Its tumult and its strife; 
Because I lift my head above the mist 
Where the sun shines and the broad 
breezes blow, 
By every ray and every raindrop kissed 
That God’s love doth bestow; 
Think you I find no bitterness at all, 
No burden to be borne, like Christian’s 
pack ? 
Think you there are no ready tears to fall 
Because I keep them back? 
Why should I hug life’s ills with cold 
i-eserve, 
To curse myself and all who love me? 
Nay! 
A thousand times more good than I de¬ 
serve, 
God gives me every day. 
And in each one of those rebellious tears 
Kept bravely back, He makes a rain¬ 
bow shine; 
Grateful I take his slightest gift, no fears 
Nor any doubts are mine. 
Dark skies must cleai*, and when the 
clouds are past, 
Our golden day redeems a weary year; 
Uatient I listen, sure that sweet at last 
Will sound his voice of cheer. 
Then vex me not with chiding. Let me 
be. 
I must be glad and grateful to the end, 
I grudge you not your cold and dark¬ 
ness—me 
The powers of light befriend. 
Celia Thaxter. 
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H UCKLEBERRY tarts are delicious. 
Line pattypans w r ith good pie crust. 
Beat two eggs with 2*4 tablespoonfuls 
of sugar, stir in enough ripe huckleber¬ 
ries to make the mixtui’e stiff,’ and add a 
little nutmeg or other spice. Fill the 
patties with this mixture, and bake. 
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T HERE is a little girl in Springfield, 
Massachusetts, says the Youth’s 
Companion, who, like many of her sex, 
resents the imputation that the feminine 
mind is not so strong as the masculine. 
One day her mother remarked on the ap¬ 
parent lack of intelligence in a hen. “You 
can’t teach a hen anything,” she said. 
“They have done more harm to the gar¬ 
den than a drove of cattle would. You 
can teach a cat, a dog or a pig something, 
but a hen—never!” 
“H’m!” exclaimed the child, indig¬ 
nantly. “I think they know just as much 
as the roosters.” 
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R ECENT newspaper dispatches state 
that owing to the anticipated short¬ 
age of flour in Holland, bakers are al¬ 
ready making bread from a mixture of 
equal parts of wheat, cornmeal, and po¬ 
tato meal, to which is added a small quan¬ 
tity of albumen. It is said that this 
bread is of good color and flavor, though 
rather close in texture. We infer that 
the potato meal referred to is what we 
buy as potato flour, from which we make 
our most delicate cake. This potato flour 
is made in Sweden, and sponge cake made 
from it is, as one appreciative person de¬ 
clares, light enough to fly right off the 
plate. It would be a good thing for 
American farmers if we could have this 
potato flour made here, instead of im¬ 
porting it. 
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W E are getting so much war literature 
these days that when we read for 
recreation we like to get as far away from 
it as possible. However, among l’ecent 
novels there are three that will give a 
vivid idea of the people and the countries 
now involved in Europe; they are “The 
('hildren of Alsace,” by Rend Bazin, 
which gives modern conditions in Alsace 
from the French point of view r ; “The 
Iron Year," by Walter Bloem. a Ger¬ 
man novel of the Franco-Prussian War, 
and “Red Wrath,” by John Oxenham, an 
English story of the same war. “The 
Last Shot,” by Frederick Palmer, and 
“Midstream,” by Will Levington Com¬ 
fort, both books by American war cor¬ 
respondents, give painful pictures of real 
war. In hideous realism, however, they 
are all exceeded by a new English book 
called “War,” by W. Douglas Newton, 
which describes, in narrative form, the 
slaughter of scientific warfare, and the 
sufferings of a conquered people. 
The Rural Patterns. 
In ordering patterns always give num- 
her and size desired. Price of each pat¬ 
tern 10 cents. 
7S67, Girl’s dress. Cut in sizes G to 
12 years. Size 8 requires 2 yards of 
36 or 44 inch material with % yard 27 
inches wide for trimming and % yard 
for belt. 8208, Girl’s long-waisted dress. 
Cut in sizes 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 6 re¬ 
quires 2 yards of 36 or 44 inch material 
for dress, with 1 yard 27 inches for trim¬ 
ming and 1 Vs yards for bloomers. 7545, 
Middy costume for misses and small wom¬ 
en. Cut in sizes 14, 16 and IS years. 
Size 16 requires 5% yards of 36 or 44 
inch material, with % yard 27 inches for 
collar and cuffs. 7478, Child’s princesse 
slip or petticoat. Cut in sizes 2. 4 and 6 
years. Size 4 requires 1*4 yards of 36 
or 44 inch material with 2 yards of em¬ 
broidery ; 2i/4 yards of insertion and 1% 
yards of edging. 7S91. Child’s dress. Cut 
in sizes 2, 4 and 6 yards. Size 4 requires 
2% yards of 36 inch material. 
8298, Ladies’ surplus blouse. Cut in 
sizes 34 to 42 bust measure. Size .38 
requires 1% yards of 36 or 44 inch plain 
material. 8358, Basque with sash exten¬ 
sions. Cut in sizes 34 to 44 bust measure. 
Size 40 requires 3% yards of 36 inch ma¬ 
terial with % yard 27 for collar and 
cuffs. 8145, Semi-princesse gown. Cut 
in sizes 34 to 42 bust measure. Size 38 
requires 4% yards of 27 or 36 inch ma¬ 
terial. 8363, Two-piece skirt with tunic 
for misses and small women. Cut in sizes 
16 and 18 years. Size 16 requires 214 
yards of 27, 36 or 44 inch material for 
skirt with 2% yards 36 inch for tunic. 
7877, Ladies’ two-piece skirt. Cut in 
sizes 22 to 32 waist measure. Size 26 
requires 2% yards of 36 inch material. 
No. 818. Design for embroidering an 
oval doyley twenty-three inches in length 
September lli* 
by sixteen inches in width. The scal¬ 
loped edge is to be padded and button¬ 
holed. The roses are to be worked in long 
and short stitch with the stamens of the 
flowers outlined and the centers of the 
Drying Mushrooms. 
IAN you advise me how to dry field 
i mushrooms? mrs. M. c. c. 
flowers in French knots. The leaves may 
be worked either solidly or in long and 
short stitch with the veins outlined and 
the buds and calyces are to be worked 
in solid embroidery. Stamped on pure 
white linen 1Sx24 inches, with mercerized 
floss to work, 35 cents. 
Grapes Without Sugar. 
W ILL some of your correspondents tell 
me whether grapes can be canned 
without sugar? I have canned 
huckleberries and currants and had them 
keep perfectly, but have never tried 
grapes. I have quantities of them this 
year, but sugar is very high and my 
poeketbook is vei’y thin. j. m. r. 
Connecticut. 
Most of us feel that our pocketbooks 
are thin when it comes to buying sugar 
this year, but a private letter from a lit¬ 
tle town in Holland received the end of 
August stated that the writer had to pay 
25 cents a pound for salt, 50 cents a 
pound for sugar, and $1.50 a pound for 
butter. We have never canned grapes 
without sugar, and believe very careful 
sterilization would be necessary to avoid 
fermentation. No doubt some one who 
has experimented can give us her exper¬ 
ience. The following method of canning 
grapes is quite economical of sugar, and 
gives good results, the flavor being very 
fresh: Stem the grapes carefully,, without 
breaking the skin, and pack solid in jars. 
Make a syrup of one-half cup sugar and 
one cup water for each jar; if this does 
not flush it full, add more water. Lay 
tops on jars, without screwing down; set 
in large kettle, standing on rack or fold¬ 
ed cloths, pour in hot water, until it is 
within three inches of the top of boiler, 
then bring to a boil, and let boil for one 
hour. Draw back and remove the jars, 
screw down tops, and when cool store in 
a dark cool place. 
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Mrs. Rorer gives the following instruc¬ 
tions for drying mushrooms: Wipe and 
peel the mushrooms. Cover pie plates 
with white paper, lay the mushrooms on 
them, and put in a cool oven until dry. 
When quite dry and shriveled store in 
paper bags. We think it is wise to put 
the mushrooms on the warming shelf over 
the range, covered to keep off flies, until 
quite sure they are fully dry, as they are 
very succulent. They should be very 
fresh, and picked over carefully before 
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Apple Sauce Cake. —One cup of 
sugar, two cups of sifted flour, one-half 
cup of shortening, one teaspoon of cin¬ 
namon, one teaspoon of soda (strictly 
level), one-half teaspoon each of cloves 
and nutmeg, one cup of chopped and 
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