832 
i'HK KUKAL NEW-YORKER 
June 19, 1915. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
A Prayer for Light. 
Lord God of peace and war, 
Thy presence we implore! 
Descend from heights afar 
And lead us as of yore! 
The nations stagger, blind 
And perishing in night; 
O let us once more find 
The long delaying light! 
Deal gently with our sin, 
Deal gently with our grief, 
Thou Who has shut us in 
This plane of unbelief; 
Thou Who hast spread a veil 
Before our mortal eyes, 
So that earth’s noblest fail 
Thy way to recognize! 
Thy pity we invoke 
Upon our darkness here; 
O lift the battle smoke 
And let Thy light appear! 
—M. E. Buhler in New York Sun. 
* 
For sour cream biscuits, sift together 
one quart of flour, one level teaspoonful 
of salt, and two teaspoonfuls of baking 
soda. Mix quickly into those ingredients 
one cupful each of buttermilk and sour 
cream. Handle quickly, shape into bis¬ 
cuits, and bake at once. 
* 
Cold raw weather in May. has been 
very discouraging to little chicks. One 
family of fluffy babies hatched from eggs 
of famous ancestry caused some anxiety 
one chilly morning, as they were in an 
outside coop under the care of an absent- 
minded hen, so a rubber hot-water bot¬ 
tle was filled, wrapped in paper, and 
placed in the coop. A few minutes 
taught those 36-hours’ old Reds where to 
warm their feet, and it was amusing to 
see them standing on the warm bottle 
preening their tiny feathers. After that 
we heated bricks, wrapping them in pa¬ 
per; both hen and chicks enjoyed these 
radiators, and it was funny to see a 
little chick leaning against the warm 
brick, like a boy leaning against a fence. 
No doubt other hen women have tried 
these expedients, though they were novel 
to us. 
* 
In a recent bulletin of the Office of 
Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction a 
Chinese lady refers to the Chinese pre¬ 
judice against the peach flower. In China 
the plum blossom is the emblem of fem¬ 
inine virtue while the peach blossom is 
the direct opposite. For this reason pink, 
the ordinary name being peach flower 
color, is used sparingly, and would 
not be worn by a woman of refinement, 
while a peach tree would not be 
planted near the courtyard of rooms 
occupied by women. On the other 
hand she continues: “Peach wands 
are supposed to be especially useful to 
beat off all evil spirits, only they must 
be plucked during a solar eclipse and a 
hole bored through one end for hanging 
up by, during a lunar eclipse, which per¬ 
haps accounts for their fewness, as dur¬ 
ing those times in the old days the peo¬ 
ple were generally busily occupied in 
beating gongs and firing off crackers to 
drive away the heavenly dogs which were 
supposed to be devouring those luminar¬ 
ies, and no one had time to think of 
making peach wands! The lucky posses¬ 
sor of an efficacious peach wand is sup¬ 
posed to be able to sleep at night with 
it under his pillow in full confidence that 
no evil spirits can harm him!” 
* 
Two recipes published by us in the 
past are in demand again each year, as 
soon as preserving time comes. The first 
of these is “or-ra-cur,” sent us many 
years ago by “Aunt Rachel,” a valued 
Wisconsin correspondent, who has now 
passed away. This calls for five pounds 
of red currants, stemmed and washed, 
five pounds of sugar, juice and grated 
rinds of three oranges, one pound of 
raisins, stoned and chopped. Boil all 
together for 20 minutes, and put away in 
jelly glasses. The other recipe is a com¬ 
bination of strawberries and pineapple, 
which to our taste is the most delicious 
of all preserves. Wash and hull the 
strawberries; peel and shred the pine¬ 
apple, removing the “eyes.” Mix to¬ 
gether one quart of shredded pineapple, 
two quarts strawberries and three quarts 
sugar; the pineapple and sugar should 
stand together two hours before adding 
the berries. Then heat in the preserving 
kettle, and when it comes to a boil, boil 
steadily for 20 minutes. Red raspberries 
may be used with pineapple in the same 
way. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Quaker collar and cuff sets consist of 
a deep round collar and pointed turn¬ 
back cuffs of sheer organdie. They cost 
from 44 to 75 cents. 
Boys’ washable hats for Summer wear 
are made of linen, duck and Palm Beach 
cloth ; they cost from 39 cents up. Some 
are all white, others colored, or 
white crown with colored brim. The 
average small boy is quite destructive 
fjiiMiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiitiiirifiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiitiiiimiiiMtiiiitMiitimiiiHiiiiiiimiitiimtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiutiu 
The Rural Patterns 
| In ordering patterns, always give | 
number of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
8661—Shirred Dress 
for Misses and Small 
Women. 16 and 18 
years. 
8671—Jumper Dress, 
34 to 44 bust. 
8657 — Gown with | 
Gathered or Plaited 1 
Skirt, 34 to 42 bust. 1 
Adapted to Rordered I 
Goods or Flouncing. | 
niiiiilllllllllillllliimiblillllMlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllimillllllllllllllllilliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif: 
to a straw hat, but these fabric hats 
look smart, launder well, and always 
look new after a visit to the tub. 
Silk gloves are made for men’s Sum¬ 
mer wear in gray and champagne color, 
75 cents plain, or $1.25 with black 
stitching on the back. 
Silk and cotton China silk is a light¬ 
weight but lustrous fabric suitable for 
waist linings, princess slips and the 
foundation of Summer gowns. It comes 
in a great variety of colors, white and 
black; width 36 inches, 24 or 29 cents 
a yard. 
Laces for middy blouses, with tagged 
ends are 10, 15 and 25 cents, accord¬ 
ing to width. Dark blue, red and white 
are the standard colors, but in some 
widths they are sand, khaki, gray and 
pink also. 
Khaki trousers for boys from 10 to 18 
years are 95 cents. They are well cut, 
with patch pockets and brass buckles at 
the waist, being the military or sport 
style. The material is stout and firm, a 
nice shade of brown as well as the lighter 
colors. 
Madagascar hats for boys are made of 
a firm fabric of unbleached color, prob¬ 
ably palm fibre, rather like smooth sack¬ 
ing, but with a stiff even finish like pan¬ 
ama. They are made w T itb drooping or 
turned-up brim, and are good-looking 
and serviceable; price 85 cents. 
.Tune is the month of wash-goods sales, 
when the big stores sell out cotton ma¬ 
terials ready for Fall stocks. Fercales 
from eight to 15 cents a yard are among 
the most useful materials for the house¬ 
keeper’s regular wear, for girls, and for 
boys’ waists. Solid-colored percale of 
excellent quality comes in light and dark 
blue, pink, lavender and tan, at 12^ 
cents a yard. This solid colored percale 
is often useful for piping and bands of 
trimming, combined with striped or fig¬ 
ured goods, and it makes pretty dresses. 
The plain tan-colored percale is very 
nice for children’s clothes. All the stores 
are now selling silk and cotton ratine 
at great reductions, from 15 to 18 cents 
a yard. Voiles begin at 12*4 cents a 
yard, at 24 cents there are many beauti¬ 
ful styles, fine and sheer, in awning or 
narrow stripes, checks and figures. 
Among the heavier cottons suitable for 
outing dresses, jackets, suits and chil¬ 
dren’s clothes are Devonshire cloth, over¬ 
land cloth, kindergarten cloth, galatea, 
poplin, mercerized pongee, and cotton 
gabardine. 
Japanese grass rugs are plain on one 
side, with oriental figures on the other, a 
number of colors being made. They are 
very firm in texture, suitable for hard 
wear. They begin at 95 cents for rugs 
27x54 inches; 6x9 feet $3.89. Chinese 
matting in a number of colors was $5.89 
for a roll of 40 yards. 
Pretty little sweaters of fine Shetland 
wool, for children up to four years are 
$1.95. They are either in one color or 
with contrasting trimming. Children’s 
stockings of white silk and wool mix¬ 
ture have woven suspenders attached, and 
cost 35 cents a pair, up to four-year size. 
The Joys of Spring Cleaning. 
Does some woman hold up her hands 
and say: “There’s no such a thing!”? 
Perhaps so. Yet many find a pleasure 
in turning everything over 1 , and thus call¬ 
ing to mind where articles, not often 
used, but occasionally much needed, are 
located. Of course every housewife is 
expected to say on the. minute, where 
such things are to be found, and who 
does not enjoy being equal to the emer¬ 
gency when the members of the family 
demand to know where anything is, be it 
last winter’s mittens, or the garden seeds 
for immediate use? 
Then there is the joy of having things 
spanny clean, with the smell of the sweet 
outdoor air on all bedding, clothing and 
curtains. When a room is newly clean, 
we like to go and look at it again, and 
gloat over its freshness. 
Possibly some stirring woman enjoys 
being the first to finish her Spring renova¬ 
tions. “Emulation is the soul of trade.” 
Maybe it is the soul of woman’s work, 
sometimes. But the joy that came to me 
one day was not connected with the 
house itself. I was tired and did not 
feel ambitious that morning, but knew 
that the work ought to be pushed along. 
It was an unfinished room where much 
needed to be picked over and packed 
away, and it was a dusty piece of busi¬ 
ness too, so I opened the wide door, and 
started in to work. The open door not 
only let out dust, but let in “the wine of 
mountain air,” and the music of my 
bird neighbors. 
It was a cloudy, showery day, and 
I have thought that birds sing all the 
better when the sun is hidden. Ever no¬ 
tice it? If you have you can work out 
your own “moral.” The little warbling 
vir^o whose mate builds a nest every 
year near the top of our corner maple, 
was full of contentment as he always 
seems to be. He never wearies of purl¬ 
ing over that cheery song, and we never 
weary of hearing him. Occasionally we 
see him but just now he seems busy 
A Handy Outdoor Paint 
It is wonderfully tough and 
waterproof and will stand 
hardest service on farm ma¬ 
chinery, ready 
roofings, outside 
iron and wood. 
It is sold ready for use 
at a very low price. 
BARRETT MFG. CO. 
New York Chicago 
Philadelphia 
Cleveland 
Cincinnati 
Minneapolis 
Birmingham 
Boston 
Pittsburgh 
Kansas City 
St. Louis 
Seattle 
Presses 
We furnish outfits for any 
size mill, from the small¬ 
est to the largest. Our 
Presses, Graters, Evap¬ 
orators, Pumps, etc., 
are ‘ ‘the standard. ’’ 
BOOMER &B0SCHERT PRESS CO. 
312 W.Waler St.,Syracuse,N.Y. 
Established 1872 . 
CIDER PRESSES 
The Original Mt.Gilead Hydraulic Press 
produces more cider from 
apples than any other and 
a BIG MONEY MAKER. Sizes 
10 to 400 barrels daily. Also 
cider evaporators, apple-but- 
tor cookers, vinegar genera¬ 
tors, filters, etc. Fully guaran. 
teed. Write for catalog. 
BYDKAULIO PRESS MFG. 
137 Lincoln Ave.. Mt. Gilead, Gm U , 
Or Room 119 L 39 Cortlandt 8t„ New York, 
N. Y. 
Hydraulic Cider 
Press Profit 
Thirty years’ experL 
ence enables us to 
give you all th^ 
information you- 
need for cider making 
Write for 
FREE 
^Booklet 
Today 
E.B.VflNATTfl &C0-.624-F Hudson Terminal. N.Y. 
MAKE BIG PAY DRILLING 
WATER WELLS 
Our Free Drillers’ Book with 
catalog of Keystone Drills 
tolls how. Many sizes; trac¬ 
tion and portable. Easy 
terms. These machines 
make good anywhere. 
KEYSTONE WATER DRILL CO 
Beaver Falls Pa. 
WELL d pays g WELL 
Own a machine of your own. Cash or easy 
terms. Many styles and sizes for all purposes. 
Write for Circular 
WILLIAMS BROS., 432 W. State St., Ithaca, N. Y. 
A Great Many 
• • of •• 
Our Readers 
are doing some su In¬ 
scription work for 
us and in return 
we are sending out 
many useful arti¬ 
cles as Rewards. 
A postal card will 
bring full partic¬ 
ulars. No expe¬ 
rience necessary. 
No investment re¬ 
quired. Address 
Department “M” 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 West 30th Street 
New York City 
