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THE KUKAL NEW-YORKER 
May 22, 1915. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
A Soldier’s Grave. 
The (lust that sleeps unthinking and un¬ 
knowing, 
That turf below. 
That reeks no more of pale December's 
snowing. 
Or long-da.ved June amid the meadows 
glowing, 
That knows not Summer’s birth nor \\ in¬ 
ter’s going 
On field or bough, 
Was once a soldier’s heart. It ceased 
its beating 
In duty's round— 
We o’er the heedless sod today are meet¬ 
ing 
To learn the lesson Time has been re¬ 
peating 
And give all patriot souls that sleep our 
greeting 
From this poor mound. 
—Frank II. Sweet. 
* 
We have had various suggestions re¬ 
garding farm sales to automobile tour¬ 
ists. The sight of “plain layers” for 
building strawberry shortcakes, sold in 
a large store for nine cents each, and in 
bakeries for 10 cents, makes us wonder 
whether these, too, could not be provided 
by the farm. Let the farm bulletin board 
announce the “layers” made to order as 
well as strawberries and cream, and we 
think some of the motorists would be 
glad to “assemble” the materials. These 
layers, as sold by city shops, are made 
with plain cake batter, not biscuit dough. 
* 
Beef scalloped with macaroni is very 
nourishing, and is an excellent way to 
use cold roast meat. Alternate layers of 
boiled macaroni and chopped meat are 
put in a baking dish, the first layer being 
of macaroni; each layer is seasoned with 
pepper, salt and little bits of butter. 
When the dish is full pour over it a 
cupful of stewed tomatoes, seasoned with 
chopped onion and, if liked, a pinch of 
cinnamon. Cover the top with bread 
crumbs moistened with melted butter, 
and bake 45 minutes. Serve in the bak¬ 
ing dish. 
* 
Conditions in Europe are affecting 
very seriously the supplies of drug and 
dye plants grown there, on which this 
country depends for its raw materials. 
Many of these plants can be grown here, 
but whether profitably or not can only 
be learned by experiment. Frequently 
labor conditions, rather than climate, are 
a determining factor. Many farm wom¬ 
en and girls are looking for small crops 
in which their patience and industry 
might be utilized. It would seem quite 
possible that some of these needed drugs 
or dyestuffs might provide crops of this 
class. There is no “easy money” in such 
crops, yet they may offer fair returns in 
some cases. The New York Botanic 
Garden, Bronx Park, is now studying 
the matter and no doubt the Division 
of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, would be able to give in¬ 
formation as to needed plants and their 
culture. One of the good things about 
the culture of a new crop is the broader 
knowledge and the fresh interest it 
brings to everyday work. 
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Just how much food does the average 
farm housekeeper prepare for home con¬ 
sumption during a year? The Chicago 
Live Stock World recently gave the fol¬ 
lowing statement of the work on a 320- 
acre farm in North Dakota : 
labor required in caring for the four 
hired men above the normal labor re¬ 
quired in caring for the farmer’s family. 
This $200 is a direct contribution to the 
business of the farm. On many farms 
the labor contribution of the farmer’s 
wife or daughter is the limiting factor be¬ 
tween success or failure. 
* 
A picture from Chengchow, China, 
given in a recent bulletin issued by the 
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Intro¬ 
duction, shows lines strung with bean 
vermicelli, hung up to dry in the wind, 
looking, in the picture, rather like a 
laundry yard hung with fringed towels. 
This vermicelli is made from the mung 
bean, an Asiatic bean widely used for 
food. It is made by soaking the beans 
for a day or so until quite soft, grinding 
them between stones while water is 
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In ordering patterns, always give I 
number of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
| women, l(i and 18 
= years. 
| 8624—Girl’s dress, 
f 4 to 10 years. 
8601—Tucked Dress 
for misses and small 
women. If! and 18 
years. 
8610—Middy Blouse 
for misses and small 
women, 16 and 18 
years. 
The size of the family on this farm 
averaged seven adults during the year. 
Four of these were hired men, the other 
three being the farmer, his wife and a 
grown daughter. The wife and daughter 
did all the housewqrk, all the laundry 
work, and cared for an eight room house. 
They canned 300 quarts of fruit and 100 
quarts of vegetables and did most of the 
work in the vegetable garden. Practically 
all the vegetables consumed were pro¬ 
duced on the farm. Among the import¬ 
ant articles of food they prepared for 
home consumption during the year were 
50 bushels of potatoes, three bushels of 
green beans, four bushels of green peas, 
three bushels of onions, 400 heads of cab¬ 
bage, 10 bushels of turnips, six bushels 
of beets, three bushels of cucumbers, 
six bushels of tomatoes, 36 heads of cauli¬ 
flower, seven bushels of sweet corn, 1,900 
pounds of flour, 144 pounds of coffee, 
1.800 pounds of dressed pork, 200 head 
of poultry, 520 dozen of eggs, and 312 
pounds of butter. 
This farmer’s wife valued her own and 
her daughter’s labor at $520 per year. 
The estimate is probably too high, but 
$200 of it may safely be charged to the 
farm as representing the value of the 
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dripped over them till a thin milky paste 
is obtained. This paste is washed and 
sifted in water till all coarse particles 
are removed. A small portion of the 
paste is then sifted through a dipper 
sieve into constantly stirred boiling 
water, and then transferred quickly into 
cold water, after which it is hung on 
lines to dry. This is much employed in 
Soups in China in the same way as we 
do noodles. In addition to their use in 
soup, the Chinese fry the noodles in 
vegetable oil, and combine them with 
celery, bean sprouts, etc., in a variety of 
dishes, some of them extremely good to 
the Western palate. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Braided rugs of rushes are among the 
Summer furnishings; they are oval, very 
firm and durable. They are made in 
Japan. Prices are, size 36x72 inches, 
$3.75; 4 ft. 6x7 ft. 6, $5.75; 6x9 ft., 
$10.75. Rugs of braided rags (new cloth) 
now come from Japan; they are made 
after the real American model by the 
nimble workers of the Orient. In round 
and oval shapes they vary in price from 
$4.50 for a rug a yard in diameter to 
$30 for one 8x10 feet. 
Summer makes those who take a va¬ 
cation think about trunks and traveling 
bags, and most of the large stores have 
special sales at this season. The least 
expensive suit cases are those made of 
Japanese matting, with leather corners 
and straps; they cost from $2.24 to 
$2.97, sizes 24 to 26 inches. Their 
lightness makes them very convenient for 
women and girls. Reed suit cases with 
leather corners, straps, and brass bolts 
and locks, are light and 'strong, costing 
$4.14 to $4.49; some are stained dark 
brown. Rattan suit cases, from $4.24 to 
$5.24, are made of polished cane with 
leather corners and brass fastening. 
Suit cases of black enameled duck, cost¬ 
ing from $5 to $7.50, are good looking 
and very much in style. Traveling 
trunks, canvas covered, begin around $5; 
those covered with black enameled duck 
are much in favor. Wardrobe trunks, 
with drawers and hangers, usually cost 
from about $20 up, going as high as 
$50 or more; these have shoe-bag and 
other conveniences. 
Plain layers for making strawberry 
short cake cost nine cents each in a big 
department store. 
An asparagus rack is a wire basket 
long enough to hold asparagus stalks 
whole; when lifted out of the boiler, af¬ 
ter the asparagus is cooked, the basket 
is opened at the bottom, permitting the 
asparagus to drop through unbroken. 
Plain deep Puritan collars of white or¬ 
gandie are popular; one model seen had 
a narrow ribbon ran through eyelets 
down each side of the front. It was 50 
cents. Another of these Puritan collars 
at the same price had a colored hem 
and a pleated jabot in front. The plain 
deep collar, with hemstitched edge, is 
popular for wearing over a coat. 
Bungalow furniture includes many at¬ 
tractive styles in enameled wood, wicker 
and rattan that are very suitable for 
country homes. Roomy armchairs and 
rockers in brown rattan were seen re¬ 
cently for $7.25; high back porch chairs, 
with cane seat and back were $3; wil¬ 
low armchairs with cretonne cushions, 
complete, $3.60. Attractive single bed¬ 
steads of white enamel were $4.75. 
Among attractive Summer bedspreads 
are some printed in pretty floral patterns 
for $1.29, size 70 by 90 inches. 
A Boy Scout camping and cooking out¬ 
fit consists of a khaki case containing 
frying-pan. coffee pail, plate or bowl, 
spoon and fork; it costs $1.50. A fold¬ 
ing cot of canvas costs from $2.25 up. 
A folding tent cot with a waterproof 
cover costs $11 ; this has a regular tent 
over it, and is intended for camping or 
sleeping on an open porch. 
Among novelties in hats are little box 
turbans in white kid; black hemp hats 
with crowns, facings or brims of white 
satin; black hemp turbans with crowns 
of white felt; black leghorn hats trimmed 
with white kid; white hats trimmed with 
white flowers and foliage. White fol¬ 
iage is quite fashionable; sometimes pret¬ 
ty, and sometimes lather too much like 
the trimming on a wedding cake. 
The mysterious power that decrees 
new fashions suddenly decided, late in 
April, that large stoles of white fox fur 
were just the thing for warm Spring 
days, and by the first week in May they 
were to be seen everywhere, worn by all 
sorts of women. White fox is very con¬ 
spicuous. and needs decided personal at¬ 
tractions to carry it off successfully, so 
the effect is not always happy. These 
stoles cost from about $24 up; what is 
called Iceland fox costs $12.50. 
Colors in Dress. 
The Ohio State University has pub¬ 
lished a bulletin on “Textiles and 
Dress,” by Maud Okey. This is an 
Extension Bulletin, approved for use in 
teaching home economics in rural schools. 
The discussion of fibers, and tests for the 
detection of adulteration will be found 
very instructive. The following remarks 
about color cover some points that must 
be observed in dress, if one would give 
an impression of good taste: 
Red, blue, and yellow are called the 
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