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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
THE FROSTED PANE. 
One night came Winter noiselessly and 
leaned 
Against my window pane. 
In the deep stillness of his heart con¬ 
vened 
The ghosts of all his slain. 
Leaves, and ephemera, and stars of earth, 
And fugitives of grass— 
White spirits loosed from bonds of mor¬ 
tal birth, 
He drew them on the glass. 
—Charles G. D. Roberts. 
* 
O NE of the minor industries of the 
New York Subway is fishing for 
pennies with chewing gum. The colored 
porters at the thronged express stations 
attach a piece of chewing gum to a long 
stick, and reach down to the tracks 
where hurried or careless passengers 
often drop small change. To get down 
on the track would be suicidal, with its 
frequent trains, and dangerous third rail, 
but the sticky chewing gum picks up a 
coin like a prehensile finger, and silver, 
as well as copper is gathered by this 
up-to-date divining rod. 
* 
Date and oatmeal cookies, which re¬ 
quire neither eggs nor milk, are said to 
be delicious. The following recipe is 
given by the New York Tribune: Take 
two cups of oatmeal, one cup of lard, 
two cups brown sugar. Add one-half cup 
hot water and oatmeal into which has 
been sifted one teaspoonful of soda. Add 
flour to make a very soft dough, roll very 
thin, cut out with small sized cutter and 
hake in a moderate oven. Put two of 
these cookies together with following date 
filling: One pint stoned dates, two table¬ 
spoonfuls granulated sugar and a little 
hot water. Do not cook, but work into 
a smooth paste with a spoon. 
* 
T HE bulletin on “Making Cake—Part 
I,” issued in the Cornell Reading 
Course, goes into underlying principles 
for the purpose of giving accurate form¬ 
ulas. Methods of mixing and baking, 
substitution of one material for another, 
and exact formulas for cakes of different 
classes, will be found helpful and inter¬ 
esting. We are told that when adding 
spice to cake, it should first be scalded 
with boiling water, about two teaspoon¬ 
fuls to each spoonful of spice. The boil¬ 
ing water thickens the spice, insures bet¬ 
ter mixing, takes away any raw taste, 
and gives a rich color. Dry spice sifted 
in has a tendency to induce a dry, bread¬ 
like texture. As substitutes for sweet 
milk in cake-making, the bulletin states 
that potato water or whey may be used. 
Water in which potatoes have been 
boiled is used for the full amount of 
liquid called for by the recipe. Fresh 
sweet whey may be used, or sour whey 
with a very small quantity of soda (one- 
eiglitli teaspoonful to a cup of sour 
whey). In either case the full amount 
of baking powder must be used. As sub¬ 
stitute fat, chicken fat, carefully tried 
out in a double boiler, should be used in 
the same proportion as butter. Cotton¬ 
seed cooking oil is also recommended; 
where a recipe calls for one-half cup of 
butter use one-half cup of oil, less one 
tablespoonful. The bulletin states that 
the cake will smell slightly of the oil 
when warm, but when cold -the flavor is 
agreeable, and the texture and keeping 
quality of the cake are excellent. Where 
lard is used in cake in place of a half 
cupful of butter the quantity should be 
one tablespoonful less than the quantity, 
and when one of the commercial lard 
substitutes is used, the amount should be 
li/ 2 tablespoonful less than the half cup. 
These softer fats contain less moisture 
than butter, and also are free from curd, 
salt and buttermilk, so that they have 
greater shortening power. It is quite 
likely that inferior quality in cake often 
results from neglect of these minor points, 
rather than from use of the substitute 
material. 
TH EC RURAb NEW-YORKER 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns, always give 
number of patterns and size desired. 
8520 Ladies’ Waistcoat, 
34 to 42 bust. 
8513 Child’s Sleeping 
Garment, 
2 to 8 years. 
8492 Guimpe, Chemi¬ 
sette and Cuffs, 
34 to 42 bust. 
8517 Girl’s Dress, 
10, 12 and 14 yeare. 
8494 Circular Skirt for 
Misses and Small 
Women, 
16 and 18 years. 
B5C2 Four-Piece Skirt, 
24 to 34 waist. 
8505 Coat in Military 
Style, 
34 to 42 bust. 
“L 1 
Penoche.—Three cups of brown sugar 
and one cup of milk. Boil until it forms 
a soft ball when tested in cold water 
Add a teaspoon of butter, flavor with a 
teaspoon of vanilla and stir in a cup of 
broken nut meats—either hickory or Eng¬ 
lish walnuts. Pour into buttered pan and 
mark in squares with a buttered knife. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
ITTLE DUTCIIY” rompers differ 
from the ordinary cut in being 
much fuller in the leg, so that they have 
the rotund outline of the peasant cos¬ 
tumes seen at Marken. In white and 
colored linene, and crepe, these rompers 
cost from 50 cents to $1. 
New Spring hats include many made 
of faille or other soft silk, some combined 
with straw, others of the silk alone. 
They are usually close-fitting or medium 
in size. One little oval turban seen was 
of sand-colored faille, trimmed all around 
with hunches of little yellow roses com¬ 
bined with small black cherries. There 
are a good many all-white hats, intend¬ 
ed for southern wear. 
Children’s play aprons, made of colored 
linen or denim, are large enough to cov¬ 
er the dress and are provided with deep 
pockets. They are decorated with cross- 
stitched embroidery, cut-out appliqu<§ fig¬ 
ures, or cretonne borders. Such an apron 
is very serviceable, and is also quaint 
and picturesque. 
Among new French underwear is a 
nightgown called “La Belgique,” which 
has large raglan armholes, full-length 
sleeves fitting into cuffs, a little yoke 
with revers, and box pleats front and 
back. What is called the hospital night¬ 
gown is a plain model buttoning all the 
way down the front. While there are 
many very elaborate models of night¬ 
gowns, some with boleros and peplums, 
and most elaborate trimmings, the ready¬ 
made garments now include a much bet¬ 
ter variety in plain styles, including 
many pretty ones with high neck and 
long sleeves, which for a time were al¬ 
most obsolete. 
Some new white petticoats are made 
with a double panel in front, for wear 
under thin dresses. 
A pretty Spring hat for a young girl 
was a flat round shape with brim of 
moderate width, the round crown of 
white chip, the brim of white horsehair, 
its transparence veiled by a white ma- 
line pleating. The pleating was laid flat 
on the brim, its band hidden under a 
row of chip braid, the pleating pointing 
towards the crown. Round the crown 
w’as a band of two-inch old blue ribbon 
velvet. Fastened upon it, at equal dis¬ 
tances front, back and sides, were four 
little bunches of beautiful satin apple 
blossoms with a little half-ripe apple 
nestling in the heart of each bunch. 
Bias shirrings, the hems on both sides 
finished with a cording, are a frequent 
trimming for taffeta dresses. The top of 
the skirt is often shirred upon four cords. 
A corded hem is also used to give the 
fashionable stick-out effect to a full skirt 
of thin material. 
The heavy “leatherette” fabric gloves 
made originally in white and cream now 
come in gray, brown and sand color, both 
buttoned and fastened with a strap, the 
latter style being the more expensive, 
and the more stylish. They are very 
satisfactory if always washed in cold 
water, and hung up, when drying. They 
give a close imitation of doeskin and 
other dull-finished leather, and as some 
cheerful prophets are forecasting a fam¬ 
ine in kid there is much reason to con¬ 
sider fabric gloves. 
One of the popular new veils is black 
net, filet, octagon or figured, finished 
along the edge with a band of three- 
eighths inch white satin ribbon. All these 
bordered veils are brought around the 
crown of the hat at the top, and then left 
loose at the bottom, billowing out like 
the new flare skirt The wearer may 
throw her veil back from her hat with 
comfort, or take her hat off without re¬ 
moving the veil. 
A pretty style for making wash dress¬ 
es was noted among advance Spring mo¬ 
dels. The material was black and white 
check voile. The skirt had a plain round 
yoke, below which it was laid in wide 
box pleats. The waist was double-breast¬ 
ed, with box pleats below a plain yoke, 
the wide belt giving a long-waisted ef¬ 
fect ; down the front of the waist, and 
on the belt, were groups of oval buttons 
of smoked pearl. The plain sleeves were 
long, and the only trimming was the flar¬ 
ing collar and deep turn-back cuffs of 
white linen. 
January 23, 
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