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THE KURAL NEW-VOKKER 
April 10, 1915. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
HAPPINESS. 
•Oh, I know it doesn’t take much to make 
A woman glad. 
Dishes to wash and a room to sweep 
And humble or great a house to keep 
And a little lad. 
And I’m sure it doesn’t take much to fill 
A man with joy, 
A bench or a store or a bit of soil 
With help and strength and his daily toil 
And a little boy. 
For in spite of labor and pain and want 
We are grief-beguiled. 
With whatever task may have been our 
own, 
And a bright home-haven where peace is 
known, 
And a little child. 
—L. II. Thornton in Toronto Sun. 
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Sue tvas a little girl and very polite, 
says the New Orleans Picayune. It was 
the first time she had been on a visit 
alone, and she had been carefully in¬ 
structed how to behave. 
“If they ask you to dine with them.” 
papa had said, “you must say, ‘No, thank 
you, I have already dined.’ ” 
It turned out just as papa had antici¬ 
pated. 
“Come along, Marjorie,” said her lit¬ 
tle friend’s father, “you must have a bite 
with us.” 
“No, thank you,” said the little girl 
with dignity; “I have already bitten.” 
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Meat rolls will utilize small quantities 
of cold meat in a savory manner. Chop 
the meat fine, mix in enough butter to 
make it “shape,” and season nicely. 
Mold into little rolls about the size of a 
finger. Make a rich pie crust, roll thin, 
and cut into squares just large enough 
to enclose the rolls of meat. Pinch the 
edges of the pastry covering firmly to¬ 
gether, brush with milk, after laying the 
roll on a pan, and bake brown in a quick 
oven. Serve hot. Sausage rolls made by 
enclosing sausage meat in pastry, are 
very good cold; they are too rich to eat 
when hot, but will be enjoyed cold, for 
a supper or luncheon dish. 
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The New York Public Library has is¬ 
sued a list of favorite stories for library 
reading clubs. These reading clubs, an 
outgrowth of the library story hour, in¬ 
clude boys and girls from 13 to 18 years 
of age. The aim of these clubs is to 
extend and deepen the interest in reading 
by a vivid introduction to stories, his¬ 
tories, biographies and poetry. The stor¬ 
ies selected would be equally interesting 
to young people in the home. The old 
habit of reading aloud to an interested 
circle seems to have died out in the home, 
though the city has replaced it with the 
library reader. Among the recommended 
stories we find, “The Perfect Tribute,” 
by Mary It. 8. Andrews, a famous story 
of Lincoln, which has been used at school 
Memorial Day celebrations; “The Bottle 
Imp,” by Robert Louis Stevenson, a won¬ 
der story of the South Seas; “The Cast¬ 
ing Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. 
Aleshine,” by F. R. Stockton; “Si¬ 
lence,” by Mary E. Wilkins, a tale of 
the Deerfield massacre; “The Call of the 
Wild,” by Jack London, and “Amos 
Judd,” by J. A. Mitchell, which is, we 
are told, a special favorite with the girls. 
Two books by Agnes C. Laut, “Pathfind¬ 
ers of the West,” and “The Story of the 
Trapper,” are used in selections; they 
are intensely interesting, and tell of 
achievements lightly touched on in or¬ 
dinary histories. People who think read¬ 
ing is only instructive when it is what 
young people term “dry” may not sym¬ 
pathize with the modern library’s view, 
but we often find that a story dealing 
with some unfamiliar scene leads quite 
easily to biography, history or travel 
books through the wholesome curiosity 
aroused by it. 
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In an address delivered recently at 
Teachers’ College, Columbia University, 
Dr. Finley, New Yox-k Commissioner of 
Education, said there are 8,430 one-room 
rural schools in New York State, and 
the children are following “roads that 
lead to nowhere.” The remedy, he be¬ 
lieved, was to make these schools com¬ 
munity schools. This object might be at¬ 
tained, at least in part, he thought, by 
the passage of a bill now before the Legis¬ 
lature making the school a part of the 
township organization, instead of having 
special school districts. How many 
school districts, we wonder, have given 
thought to this suggested legislation? 
How many mothers are there, who feel 
that local educational conditions are not 
giving their children the chance they are 
entitled to? 
Value of the Fireless Cooker. 
The fireless cooker does not play so im¬ 
portant a part in my kitchen as it does 
in that of most town dwellers, because 
we generally depend upon a fire in the 
range. This. I find, is the case with 
many other country dwellers, and for that 
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The Rural Patterns 
| When ordering patterns, always give | 
1 number and size desired. Price | 
of each pattern 10 cents. 
I 8567 Empire Dress for 8506 Girl’s Costume 1 
s 8586 Girl’s Dress, 8503 Dress with Four* | 
10 to 14 years. Piece Skirt. 
34 to 42 bust. I 
I 8570 Girl’s Slurred 
Dress, 
20 to 14 years. 
8519 Redingote Dress ; 
for Misses and Small 1 
Women, 
16 and 18 years. 
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reason they hesitate about purchasing 
a fireless. “It is different.” they often 
say, “than if we were using gas. We 
have to keep up a fire in the range the 
greater part of the time, anyway, so that 
we see no advantage in the use of one 
for us.” 
In my own case, we use wood for fuel 
most of the time. It is largely waste 
wood from an old wood-lot and costs 
practically nothing beyond the work of 
hauling and chopping. We depend upon 
the kitchen stove for heat in that room, 
so during about nine months of the year 
the fireless cooker saves me practically 
nothing for fuel. 
For me, the great saving is in time 
and nerv.e-fprce. Seldom a day passes 
that the fireless' cooker does not give me 
an hour or more of freedom from the 
kitchen and from worry about whatever 
chances to be cooking. Instead of hav¬ 
ing to remain near the kitchen to “keep 
an eye on” the beans or meat or pudding 
that inquires to be cooked slowly, I place 
it in the fireless and practically dismiss 
it from mind. So much may be accom¬ 
plished in distant parts of the house or 
in garden or poultry yard during this ad¬ 
ditional time. This, and the pleasure of 
finding something hot and ready to serve 
when returning tired fi-om a business or 
pleasure jaunt, makes the fireless cooker 
well worth its price though it may chance 
to save very little fuel. 
ALICE MARGARET ASHTON. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
One of the new dolls is called the 
“Uneeda Biscuit kid.” It is a pretty lit¬ 
tle character doll dressed in yellow slick¬ 
er and sou’wester hat, caiT.ving a packet 
of biscuits. The doll is indestructible 
and costs $1. 
A dealer in maternity apparel offers in¬ 
fants’ outfits (layettes) from $G.95 up. 
Corsets specially made for the comfort 
and health of the expectant mother be¬ 
gin at $3.85. Among maternity gar¬ 
ments waists are offered from 95 cents 
up; skirts $4.45 up; coats $7.75 up; 
suits $19.75 up, and dresses $5.95. 
Bath mats of fleecy cotton that looks 
like eiderdown flannel are patterned in | 
checkerboard squares of brown and ' 
white, green and white and pink and j 
white, and are priced at 44 cents. 
Partly made skirts of white washing 
corduroy are $3.94; of gray covert cloth j 
$3.19. They are three-piece skirts with a ! 
hem overlapping down the front, and a 
patch pocket at one side. The side 
seams are basted and the top finished, 
the hem basted and the seam in front 
left open. There are many styles in 
these semi-made skirts, including pleated 
models. 
The Easter lily ruff is an attractive j 
neck dressing. It is a very full ruff fit- j 
ting close about the neck, with five points ' 
of white silk, like lily petals, l’ising above 
it on the inner side. It is priced at 
$3.50, and is especially pretty in smoke 
gray. 
Fibre rush furniture has the frame 
covered with fibre twisted to resemble ' 
real rushes; it is stained bi’own or ^ 
green. 
Plain little dresses in sand-colored 
chambray, the waist smocked in a con¬ 
trasting color, are noted among models 
for girls of six to 14. 
Gii'ls’ suspender skirts of blue sex’ge 1 
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