1915. 
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The Talent in a Napkin. 
UT I never saw a woman who 
could get garments out of so lit¬ 
tle material as you do!” approved a 
friend, and the woman who had kept her 
talent in a napkin, took it out at once 
and began to look it over. 
“I don’t know why, but I do seem 
to cut to advantage,” the woman an¬ 
swered. “I wonder if I could show 
girls or other women how to do this 
sort of work?” 
“You surely could, and I for one 
would be glad to have you open a class. 
Let us bring the things we have to cut, 
or make over, and you show us how, or 
cut or plan for us-” 
“I’ll think about it,” the woman with 
the talent answered, and she did think, 
to her own good advantage as well as 
the advantage of her friends and neigh¬ 
bors. After a little she made an an¬ 
nouncement : 
“I will demonstrate economical meth¬ 
ods of cutting, both new and old goods 
to a class of 10 for two hours each Wed¬ 
nesday afternoon. A charge of one dol¬ 
lar will be made for the two hours’ 
demonstration. Larger classes 10 per 
cent. less. I will guarantee to cut for 
each person at least one garment during 
a period of 10 lessons, the 10 lessons 
must be assured.” 
The first Wednesday afternoon, saw a 
class of five women come for the demon¬ 
stration in economical cutting, and each 
woman received a cut-out garment in 
return for the 20 cents which each paid, 
to make up the dollar which was the fee 
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of old but good material. Other women flour. Always keep edge of bowl above 
too, profited by this experiment, for there batter clean, so it will not sour, and keep 
were some who could sew extra well, in 
certain ways, perhaps one could run 
straight seams, another could make extra 
good buttonholes, while another had the 
talent for making a finished garment 
look “boughten,” in its finish, and so 
from one small thing arose many, and a 
certain cooperative society resulted which 
was of much benefit to all concerned. 
New r spirit came to many a discouraged 
mother, who thought she had had more 
than she could in any way accomplish, 
but she learned how to do some of the 
hard things, and in fact, other women 
found some wrapped-up talents and set 
to work to fling away the enshrouding 
napkins and set the ability to work in 
earning money, or else in saving it, 
which is almost the same thing. 
Because one woman did this thing is 
no real reason why another should, but 
the fact that one woman had a talent in 
a napkin, does prove that there are 
countless numbers of them who also are 
hiding their abilities which ought to 
come into service. We are given our 
talents for a purpose. Then why not 
hunt around in the debris of your sur¬ 
roundings and find out what you can do, 
and do easier, and better than another 
can do? b. s. m. 
batter as cold as possible without freez¬ 
ing. 
Raspberry Vinegar; Fried Pies. 
W ILL you print a recipe for raspberry 
vinegar; also for fried pies? 
A Bit of Farm Life. 
O NE day last Fall I drove to the home 
of a neighbor, two miles across the 
way, on an errand. I did not know that 
his wife was ill, but I suspected it as 
soon as I drove up to the house. It was 
the day before market, and therefore 
churning day. The father and a son 
were taking turns at the churn in the 
shade of a tree, beneath the sick-room 
window. They looked pretty gloomy. 
“Seems like the butter don’t intend to 
come,” the father said in a discouraged 
way. A little girl, uncombed and look¬ 
ing altogether as if she had no mother, 
was carrying water and feed to fill the 
troughs for the chickens. 
Y\ ithin the house, the older girls were 
assisting a neighbor woman with the 
kitchen work. I made my way up to the 
sick-room, and was glad to find the sick 
woman able to see some humor in the 
situation. 
“They’re going to the creamery next 
week,” she told me with a little smile, 
indicating the group beneath her window. 
“I think the butter would come if they 
could just get the churn up here. And 
did you ever see so much commotion in 
a house? The crowd of them are only 
just keeping things moving.” 
I found that the doctor had said that 
she was simply worn out with the strain 
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For raspberry vinegar, put two quarts ber work, and that it would be a good Cp* 4 
for the period of time used. But where c f freshly-picked raspberries into a stone while before she might do so much again. 
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could they have had a garment cut for j ar> and pour over them one quart of “And don’t you know,” she said, “I 
such a small pi ice, and the saving of good cider vinegar. Cover and stand believe I still have some spirit in me. 
mateiial was so^ much, they felt more aside for two days, then drain off the I haven’t had a day off from my work 
liquid without mashing the berries, pour f° r s ’ x years. Then it was a spell some- 
it over a quart of fresh berries, and thing like this. And I think I have 
stand aside as before. Do this once broken every resolution that I made at 
more,, the last time straining through a that time. But let me tell you, I am 
muslin bag. Measure and add one pound going to keep those I am making now. 
than repaid for their money spent. After 
a time, women would go to the instructor 
for advice concerning the amount of 
goods to be bought for certain things. 
“I’ve found,” the demonstrator said, 
what doesn’t get done. I believe that 
many a day it is the work that I don't 
get done that makes me tired. Then I 
am not going to work in the evenings. 
When I cannot get my work done in the 
daytime, I shall use my brains to find out 
wliy. John gets bis done, even finds 
time to go to meetings to speak to and 
that nearly all patterns call for more c f sugar for each pint of the liquid, boil First, I am going to stop worrying over 
goods than are really needed, if the pat- slowly for five minutes, skim, let stand 
tern is placed economically, and so less for 15 minutes, then bottle and seal, put- 
material will need be bought. There is ting in a good cork, and covering this 
no use in buying extra, for it seldom well with paraffin. Blackberry vinegar 
comes in good for other things, and the may be made in the same way. 
money saved on half a yard of goods Fried pies are a New England insti- 
here and there, will soon save enough tution, and we should like to receive a 
money to buy another new garment.’* tested recipe from some New England 
She really cut a great many garments housekeeper. Those we have tested were with other farmers, and is considered up- 
for each person, and when new cloth was made by cutting a four-inch square of to-date. But here in the house I am 
to be used, she encouraged women to pie crust, putting a tablespoonful of pre- still washing on a board, using a hot 
have all certain things cut at once, for serve or rich apple sauce in the center, range all Summer, and doing without 
instance if kitchen aprons were to be and then folding over into a triangle. The every labor-saving device. And why? To 
made, she placed several thicknesses of edges were moistened and crimped firmly save money to pay the doctor, I suppose, 
gingham or percale or print together, together, and the little tart was then “Then I am not going to think because 
placed the pattern over these and cut out dropped in boiling fat and fried like a I live on a farm where fruit and vege- 
from three to six with one laying on of cruller. We do not feel certain that this tables grow that I must spend every 
the pattern. This saved a great deal of is the real fried pie of xVew England, minute that I can spare in filling jars 
time, and the same principle was em- hence would like to hear from others, for with fruit and pickles. I shall put up 
ployed in cutting shirts for men, or all our accessible cook books are entirely just a reasonable amount, but shall not 
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silent on the subject of fried pies. 
Old-fashioned Buckwheat Cakes. 
JX your department either one or two 
blouses for boys, or shirt waists for 
women, and out of this arose a new 
idea. And the unwrapped talent was 
made to yield more increase, for while 
the class continually grew, the dem¬ 
onstrator, soon learned that a large num¬ 
ber would gladly avail themselves of her 
economical cutting, when they did not raised panca f es until I followed sugges- 
kave the time or wish to attend the rog- tions found in that article. I loaned my 
ular lessons to learn for themselves. She copy and it either has not been returned, 
finally established a good cutting bureau, U ave ujislaid it. Could you reprint 
where she e„t aprons for five cents &£ hfivfn’o* LSSSfwlSSTbS: 
apiece, provided there were six to be cut ing able to refer to that valuable article. 
try every new recipe I read, or take any 
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hundreds of jars of a variety of such 
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joins ago this ball, was an article ly a jar that I open but represents enough 1 
after the same pattern or style. She cut 
shirtwaists for five cents apiece unless 
they had extra fancy collars, and cuffs, 
then she charged ten cents each. But she 
always stipulated that she should cut 
more than one front the same pattern, 
at these prices, but she soon learned that 
she could make very good money by 
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The following is the recipe given two 
years ago: 
In the evening cover one slice of yeast 
bread with boiling water, and when well 
soaked stir in a yeast cake dissolved in 
a cup of water, or a cup of liquid yeast, 
. then add enough cold water to make a 
aiging on y -o cents for cutting a quart. Stir in enough buckwheat and 
cotton dress, and she was seldom without white flour to make a thick batter, using 
is extra work to do, which she did three parts buckwheat and two parts 
JoyfuHy for she simply revelled in the white flour. Keep the batter in a warm 
work. She did not pretend to sew at all, p i ace till morning. When ready to bake 
she merely cut, and showed how to cut the cakes pour most of the batter into a hidden tbpm away, as she had crept to 
not only economically as to material but basin, add one teaspoon each of soda and her bod - thinking she might hide a bit of 
IS \v° ’ . salt, and enough boiling water to make failure until she felt better. As I gath- 
Women with old things to make over, thin enough to bake. Be sure the water erod tbem U P, I could not keep back the 
wont into her classes, taking their goods is boiling hot. If very brown cakes are tears ’ for 1 bad done just such ways my- 
buy some fresh fruit. So we’ll have fresh 
fruit sometimes for a change, and I’ll 
have a few play hours.” 
She was not bitter, but was thoroughly 
aroused. I knew it had done her good 
to unburden her mind to me, but I pre¬ 
pared to leave, because I did not want 
her to talk too much. She noticed that 
I smiled in an odd way. 
“You look positively mischievous,” she 
said. 
“Yes,” I answered, “I have your speech 
memorized, and if you do not live up to 
your resolutions, I shall expose you to 
the neighborhood as a coward.” 
When I left her, I went through the 
sewing-room, and, after a little search, 
found as I had expected, the pile of mend¬ 
ing, and some unironed pieces. She had 
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with them, and while it was more work desired, add one tablespoonful of sugar 
to cut over, the demonstration was so Only make up as much as you wish to - 
much better and the ingenuity employed cook and do not put back what is loft in Chocolate Fudge.—Three cups sugar 
ZtL T h ,‘ at made -° v f r ]<*- the remainder, as it will make it sour, one cup cream, one-half cake chocolate 
1 WOlt l f " r . T™ r han the le * For the next mora ing’s baking put one and piece of butter the size of an egg. 
' , n6W mate r? als * In fact there slice of yeast bread, one cold pancake, Boil slowly until grains form on the 
i a searching of closets and and one pint of boiling water in a basin, edge of the kettle. Add a tablespoon of 
<s and attics, that the price of the When cool mash fine, and add to original vanilla and beat vigorously for a few 
lessons were more than saved for many batter. Thicken as before with three minutes. Pour into a buttered pan and 
ne learners - Just from the utilization parts buckwheat and two parts wheat mark off in squares. 
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