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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 17, 1915. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
The Goodly Company. 
Look in thy heart—behold, how many 
men 
Lie prisoned in it, hoping for thy call! 
Thou art their lord, the master of 
them all. 
And wilt thou let them languish there in 
vain ? 
Look in thy heart—a hero fettered waits 
Untried, unknown, a stranger to thine 
ease; 
And yet, if thy awakened will but 
please, 
With joyful valor he will front the fates! 
Look in thy heart—a steadfast saint of 
God 
Stands there unsummoned, while the 
hosts of sin 
Mock at his plight. Thy word alone 
can win 
Ilim forth to heights of holiness untrod. 
Look in thy heart—a soldier and a sage, 
A poet true, a lover pure and high, 
A friend of unstained faith, in bondage 
sigh, , . 
Their jailer thou, thine inert soul then- 
cage. 
Look in thy heart—and summon forth 
but one, 
One of these hidden selves, and set it 
free. 
Lo! it shall reach what it was born 
to be 
And flood thy halls of life with glory 
won ! 
—Priscilla Leonard in Youth’s Compan¬ 
ion. 
* 
The following recipe for gluten bread 
is given us as a satisfactory one, though 
we have not tested it personally: Pour 
a pint of boiling water into a pint of 
milk; add a teaspoonful of butter and 
a teaspoonful of salt. Let stand until 
lukewarm, then add a well beaten egg, 
a quarter of a yeast cake dissolved and 
enough gluten to make a soft batter. 
Cover and stand in a warm place to 
rise; then add enough gluten to make 
a soft dough and knead it well. Form 
it into four loaves and let rise again. 
Bake for one hour. Gluten bread re¬ 
quires less yeast and less time to rise 
than ordinary bread. 
* 
Women with gray or white hair must 
be sure that it is very thoroughly rinsed 
after washing, for if any soap is left in 
it the silvery tone is dulled and yellowed. 
If the last rinsing water is well blued, 
as for white fabrics, white hair is much 
improved. A crown of silvery hair has a 
beauty that softens the lines of the face, 
and brings out the complexion after it has 
lost the first youthful bloom, and any 
women possessing it should care for it 
as well as her circumstances permit. 
We always feel sorry for misguided 
women who regard it merely as an index 
to old age, and seek to disguise it by 
those expedients that fail to deceive any¬ 
one. 
* 
Rose-petal time is not yet past, al¬ 
though the full flush of June is over. 
Dried rose petals give pleasure to so 
many that we do not like to waste any 
of them; they are gathered daily, spread 
out in a cool shady room and when well 
dried lightly salted and put away in 
boxes for future use. We are often ad¬ 
vised to salt them as soon as gathered, 
while they are drying, but in our local¬ 
ity, where the atmosphere is influenced 
in some degree by adjacent salt water, 
the petals mold in lumps, instead of 
drying, if salt is applied while they are 
fresh. When made into sachets or put 
in rose jars spices are added to them, also 
lavender flowers if desired. The dry 
rose petals are also used to fill small 
cushions or head rests. The flower 
heads of Sweet clover retain their fra¬ 
grance when dried, and are very pleasant 
to fill cushions, alone or mixed with rose 
leaves. Another “filling” is dried foliage 
from the “sweet fern,” which, of course, 
is not a fern at all, but a close relative 
to the bayberry and sweet gale. Its 
spicy, aromatic, fern-like leaves make a 
pillow almost as fragrant as balsam fir, 
which would give much pleasure to those 
separated from country pleasures. 
* 
It is not until a housekeeper becomes 
emancipated from nailed-down carpets 
that she realizes what a nuisance they 
are, catching and holding dust, making 
a hiding place for insects, and adding to 
the trouble of disinfection in case of 
contagious disease. In the same way, a 
vacuum cleaner used for a few minutes 
daily, shows how much dust is disturbed 
and sent floating through the air during 
ordinary sweeping. Every woman who 
does her own housework can think of 
some one thing in the planning or build¬ 
ing of the house that adds greatly to the 
exertion of her daily work; it may be 
up-and-down steps where there should be 
one level, or it may be awkward¬ 
ly shaped rooms where the regular 
work cannot be done to advantage. 
Rut there is little excuse for such ar¬ 
rangements in building a new house, be¬ 
cause good plans are accessible and 
cheap. Many women caring for a young 
family tell us that their greatest loss of 
thoergy comes from frequent trips up 
and down stairs. This could, of course, 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering patterns, always give 
number of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
8700 — Sports 
Blouse, 34 to 44 bust. 
8683 — Suspender 
Dress for Misses and 
Small Women, 16 
and 18 years. 
8705 — Tennis 
Blouse, 34 to 44 bust. 
8701 — C h i 1 d’s 
Dress, 4 to 8 years. 
8685 — Boy’s Suit, 
With or Without 
Belt, 2, 4 and 6 
years. 
be obviated by building the house bunga¬ 
low fashion, all on one level, which would 
be quite as convenient as a city flat. On 
a farm where land values are so much 
less than in city or suburbs, one could 
spread the building in a way out of the 
question on a narrow lot. We see but 
few farmhouses in the East built in 
bungalow fashion. We have wondered 
what disadvantages suggest themselves, 
or whether farm housekeepers do not 
fancy homes of this type. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
A wire dish-drainer to fit in a dishpan 
is 24 cents; with a central rack to 
hold knives and forks upright 38 cents. 
A new model in Fall hats which ar¬ 
rived in June was the Bersagliere, a 
rather small round-crowned shape with 
narrow curving brim, having a drooping 
plume of cock’s feathers sweeping down 
over the brim. It is, as its name im¬ 
plies modeled after the picturesque head- 
gear worn by the Bersaglieri or Italian 
riflemen. Broad-brimmed hats of fine 
French felt in pale delicate colors and 
white are among mid-summer models. A 
group of these hats in pale flesh pink 
included many with facing of panne vel¬ 
vet. One hat of flesh pink felt was 
trimmed with a wreath of butterfly-like 
flowers of pink chiffon. Such hats are 
extremely perishab?e, as far as color 
goes, though the felt itself is soft and 
firm. 
Lace-trimmed scrim curtains, 2% 
yards long, are specially priced at $1.24 
to $1.98 a pair. They are very light 
and Summery, and launder well. 
A very sensible frock for girls up to 
14 years is made with bloomers. The 
material is blue or brown percale; a 
long-waisted belted blouse reaches half¬ 
way to the knee, partly covering the very 
full pleated bloomers, which look like 
a skirt. 
Wash suit' for boys from seven to 16 
are made of cotton covert cloth, crash or 
khaki. Combination undergarments for 
small boys are made all in one piece, 
buttoned on the shoulder; there is a 1 
stout band at the waist with buttons to 
which the trousers are attached. In 
barred muslin these little combinations 
are 50 cents; they will take the place of 
all other undergarments in very warm 
weather. 
Net fichus edged with a narrow frill 
are 50 cents and up. They are very pop- J 
ular now, both those shaped to fit, and 
also those formed of a straight width of 
net or organdie with a frill at each 
side. This is sold by the yard, one edge 
being folded over, and the fichu then 
drawn around the neck in Quaker folds. 
Plates, drinking cups and trays for 
children are made of enameled papier 
maelnS; they are very light and unbreak¬ 
able. One style is a plain white plate 
having the alphabet printed around the 
edge in black, and a clock dial in the 
center; thus the child may learn num¬ 
bers and letters unconsciously. Others 
are colored, painted with funny little 
figures from fairy tales or nursery ^ 
rhymes. Plates and cups are 25 cents 
each. One style of plate at 50 cents is 
set upon a tin reservoir to hold hot 
water, so that the food may be kept 
warm. There are some quaint little trays 
at 25 cents decorated with smiling little 
kewpies. 
Papyrus plates for picnic meals cost 
16 cents a package; there are 40 plates 
in the package of the smallest size (about 
the size of bread-and-butter plates) ; 30 
in the next, and 25 in the largest size. 
July is a good month to buy a para¬ 
sol, for there are great reductions. Very 
nice styles in silk are from $1.50 to $3; 
plain white linen $1 to $1.50. Among 
attractive styles are many of checked 
taffeta with floral Dresden border. 
Black knit tights or bloomers are much 
worn under bathing suits instead of bloom¬ 
ers of the same material as the suit. They 
cost 50 cents in cotton or lisle; in cotton 
with feet, 85 cents; in merino $1. Bath- i 
ing slippers are 50 cents up, shoes $1 | 
up; many of the bathing shoes are very 
elaborate, with black vamps and colored 
uppers. Bathing caps start as low as 
25 cents, and a very nice plain mob cap 
of colored rubber may be had for 50 , 
cents. Bright colors lead in favor, and 
some are elaborately trimmed with rub¬ 
ber ribbons and rubber flowers; there are 
even rubber corsage bouquets to wear 
with the bathing suit. Clusters of rub- j 
ber daisies are $1.25; bands of rubber 
daisies $1. Rubberized satin gypsy ker¬ 
chiefs worn turban fashion are always 
popular. Bathing girdles, made of elas¬ 
tic with garter supporters, are $1 up. 
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Cake Recipes from the Housewives’ 
League. 
The headquarters of the National 
Housewives’ League in New York is a 
very interesting place, with its demon¬ 
strations of efficiency in buying supplies 
and using them afterwards. In May a 
calce-making contest called out much in¬ 
terest and the following prize-winning 
recipes are from the Housewives’ League 
Magazine: 
The prize loaf baked by Miss Edith 
Peppard, a student at Teachers’ College, 
Columbia University, was a white cake, 
very delicate iu grain, well baked and in¬ 
expensive. The recipe called for two 
and two-thirds tablespoonfuls of butter, 
half a cupful of sugar, three tablespoon- 
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