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I'FlhC KUKAL NEW-VORKEK 
October 17 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
EMPIRE BUILDERS. 
For all are empire builders here 
Whose hearts are true to heaven and 
home, 
And, year by slow revolving year, 
Fulfill the duties as they come. 
So simple seems the task, and yet 
Many for this are crucified. 
Aye, and their brother men forget 
The simple wounds in palm and side. 
But he that to his home is true, 
Where’er the tides or power may flow, 
Has built a kingdom great and new 
Which time nor fate shall overthrow. 
These are the empire builders; these 
Annex where none shall say them nay 
Beyond the world’s uncharted seas, 
Realms that can never pass away. 
-—Alfred Noyes. 
* 
F OR several weeks the Russo-Austrian 
battle tide has surged about Przemysl 
—certainly, to American tongues, the 
most impossible and unpronounceable 
name the Great War has yet given us. 
However, it is a good deal simpler than 
it looks, and while we may not give it flic 
musical accent of those to the manor 
born, the authorities tell us to call it 
“Pshem-e-sel,” with the accent on the 
first syllable. 
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A SIMPLE but good grape catsup is 
made as follows: Boil until well 
cooked five pounds of Concord or wild 
grapes, stemmed and washed, in just 
enough water to cover. Strain through 
a sieve, add a pint of pure vinegar, a tea¬ 
spoonful each of ground cinnamon, 
cloves, allspice, pepper, and half a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt. Boil till a little thick¬ 
ened, then bottle, cork and seal. One 
has grapes so much longer than many of 
the other fruits that it is quite possible 
to make this after other pickling and 
preserving is done. We have heard sev¬ 
eral complaints this year of grape jelly 
that did not “jell,” though carefully made 
by experienced housekeepers. In some 
cases it may have been induced by fruit 
that was over-ripe, but this was not al¬ 
ways the case, and we must therefore lay 
it to weather conditions. Miss Parloa 
warns us that extra sugar is needed when 
the fruit has been exposed to much wet 
weather, and though September gave us 
24 days of absolute drought, the excess of 
rain in August may have affected the ma¬ 
turing fruit. 
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T 1IE New York Sun recently published 
an enthusiastic editorial in favor of 
New England pie. It credits the Massa¬ 
chusetts Agricultural College with a la¬ 
ment over the decline of pie as a family 
edible, which is causing pie-making to be¬ 
come a lost art. It is admitted that the 
pies concocted by alien cooks, and those 
turned out by factories have lowered pie 
standards, and caused dietists to object 
to pies as a whole. The Sun observes: 
The men of New England will be dis¬ 
loyal to the old stock if they do not rally 
round the few good women left, to whom 
pie-making at the Puritan festival season 
is a part of religion. What an aching 
void there would be after the well-brown- 
ed turkey was consumed to the last crisp 
if the pie made from selected pumpkins, 
blended with the freshest eggs, the richest 
milk and cunning spices did not follow 
with its inseparable companion, that mas¬ 
terpiece of pastry, the mince pie! To the 
last flake of crust those pies can be eaten 
with a divine relish. The New England 
conscience is in them, and inevitably they 
are perfect. Angels will weep if the art 
is forfeited by neglect and indifference. 
After such an eloquent tribute as that, 
the farm housewife, with the best of pie 
materials at hand, together with the prac¬ 
ticed skill to use them, may realize what 
a work of art is enclosed within her crisp 
and flaky pastry. 
* 
T HE official statement that New York 
City has a lower death rate than the 
rural sections of the State is an endorse¬ 
ment of preventive hygiene; it is also a 
warning against carelessness in sanitation. 
The country has the raw materials for 
health—fresh air and abundance of 
wholesome food. One great danger, often 
entirely overlooked, is contaminated 
water. No one has so good a chance to 
control the purity of his water supply as 
a farmer, and this is a subject for study 
by every farm community. The Winter 
usually gives more time for study and 
social intercourse than any other season 
on the farm, and it will be worth while to 
include rural sanitation among the sub¬ 
jects for investigation. There are plenty 
of good bulletins procurable from State 
and national sources. The local health 
officer will do his most efficient work 
when he is a friend to be consulted in 
emergencies, and is not regarded as a 
busybody just “snoopin’ around.” A good 
many of the professional investigators 
and uplifters make elaborate “surveys” 
of conditions in special localities or in¬ 
dustries. Why shouldn’t each farm fam¬ 
ily plan a “survey” of its own disadvan¬ 
tages, and then proceed to rectify them, 
whether it be sister’s headaches from too 
much cake, or the mud tracked in because 
the dooryard path has never been proper¬ 
ly drained? 
The Rural Patterns. 
In ordering patterns always give num¬ 
ber and size desired. Price of each pat¬ 
tern 10 cents. 
8132, Russian Blouse coat. Cut in 
sizes 34 to 40 bust measure. Size 30 
requires 2% yards of 44 inch material 
with iy± yards 27 inches wide for collar, 
cuffs and girdle. 8203, Kimono coat. 
Cut in sizes 34 to 42 bust measure. Size 
3S requires 2% yards of 3G inch material 
with one-half yard 27 inches wide fot 
collar and cuffs. 8200, Loose coat. Cut 
in sizes 34 to 42 bust measure. Size 38 
requires 4 Vi yards of 30 inch material. 
7200, Norfolk coat for misses and small 
women. Cut in sizes 14, 10 and 18 years. 
Size 10 requires 3V4 yards of 30 inch 
material. 8272, Loose coat for misses 
and small women. Cut in sizes 10 and ! 
18 years. Size 10 requires 3% yards of \ 
30 inch material with one-half yard 27 
inches for collar and cuffs. 
8328, Boy’s overcoat. Cut in sizes 2, 
4, 0 and 8 years. Size 0 requires 2 
yards of 36 inch material. 8068, Girl’s 
coat. Cut in sizes S to 14 years. Size 
12 requires 3% yards of 36 inch mate¬ 
rial. 7217. Boy’s overcoat. Cut in sizes 
8 to 14 years. Size 10 requires 2 yards 
of 44 inch material. 7420, Child’s coat. 
Cut in sizes 2, 4 and 6 years. Size 4 
requires 2Vi yards of 36 inch material 
with one-half yard 27 inches wide for 
collar and cuffs. 7103, Child's coat. 
Cut in sizes 6 months, 1, 2 and 4 years. 
Size 2 requires 2 yards of 36 inch ma¬ 
terial. 
Preserving Citron. 
W OULD you tell me how to preserve 
and can citron? ii. r. 
The following recipes were given in 
the Rural Cook Book: 
Pare and core the citron, cut into strips 
and notch the edges, or cut into fancy 
shapes. Allow a pound of sugar to a 
pound of fruit, and to six pounds of the 
fruit allow four lemons and a quarter ot 
a pound of ginger root. Tie the ginger 
»oot in a cloth and boil it in a quart and 
and a half of water until the flavor is 
extracted; then remove it and add to the 
water the sugar and juice of the lemons. 
Stir until the sugar is dissolved and the 
syrup is clear, remove any scum that 
may form, then add the citron and cook 
until it is clear, but i ot enough to fall 
apart; can and seal while hot. 
Citron Preserves No. 2.—Cut the citron 
in strips half an inch wide, pare off the 
rind as thin as possible and cut up the 
fruit in small squares. Put in a vessel 
and cover the fruit with water in which 
has been dissolved an ounce of alum to 
the gallon of water. Soak 24 hours, or 
until the citron is clarified. Take out 
of alum water and soak in clear water 
until the alum is all out, which will 
probably be in 12 hours. Weigh and al¬ 
low to each pound of fruit a pound of 
sugar. Put the fruit in a preserving ket¬ 
tle with only a little sugar, adding sugar 
several times until the weighed amount 
has been used. Season with any flavor¬ 
ing preferred. Cook rapidly until done, 
put in glass cans and seal. 
Citron Preserves No. 3.—Pare a large 
citron, cut into thin slices, and then into 
strips or squares, removing all seeds. 
Weigh equal quantities of fruit and 
sugar, mix together, and stand over 
night in a large bowl; the sugar draws 
out juice, forming a syrup. In the 
morning put in a preserving kettle, and 
boil slowly for two to three hours, skim¬ 
ming carefully, until the syrup is like 
honey. About 15 minutes before taking 
from the stove add, for each quart of 
preserves, one lemon cut in very thin 
slices, and one small piece of green 
ginger root. Some housekeepers add a 
few whole cloves, but we do not care for 
this. Another method puts the sliced 
fruit to soak in brine for a few hours, 
then in clear water to freshen it, this 
process hardening the fruit, but we have 
never used this process. 
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