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THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
IF4-From a Woman’s Point of View. 
If you can let your foot-free friends sur¬ 
prise you 
When all your household wheels are 
out of gear. 
If you can get a meal when all about you 
Are piled the things there wasn’t time 
to clear, 
If you can serve them simple things 
sei’enely, 
Without a word about the plight 
you’re in. 
The while you say unto your soul, “Be 
seemly,” 
And, in the bosom fight that follows, 
win,— 
If you can love your child with all that's 
in you, 
Yet firmly say the word that must be 
said, 
Face tearful eyes and never let them 
daunt you, 
And in the din that follows keep your 
head; 
If you know life, yet trust your children 
in it 
Because you see that God, who made 
the gale, 
To vanquish sin gave unto man the 
Spirit, 
Just as to fight head winds He gave 
the sail,— 
If you can win respect from those who 
serve you, 
And run your home, and not let it run 
you; 
If you can face details nor let them 
dwarf you, 
And keep your outlook broad, your 
vision true; 
If you can let your sands of time run 
daily 
Into a headlong stream of endless 
tasks, 
And do the things you hate and do them 
gladly, 
Because to serve is all the joy Love 
asks,— 
If you can do, without the dust of doing, 
And toiling, keep your soul and body 
fine, 
If you can right the words and deeds 
you’re ruing, 
And lean on Love yet not become a 
vine; 
If you can be a worthy wife and mother 
And wisely meet all this shall bring to 
you,— 
Fear not to share the burdens of your 
brother: 
What Time shall ask, that, Woman, 
you can do! 
—Jane Howling Foote in Sunday Maga¬ 
zine. 
* 
Here is a delicious recipe for Dela¬ 
ware peach cobbler: Fill a baking dish 
with whole peeled peaches. Add two 
cups of water. Cover the dish closely 
and steam the peaches until tender; then 
drain off the juice and let cool. Beat 
four eggs and a cup of sugar together 
until light. Add one tablespoonful of 
melted butter and one-half teaspoonful of 
salt, the juice from the peaches and one 
pint of sweet milk. Sift and measure 
one scant cup of flour, add one teaspoon¬ 
ful of baking powder and sift again. Stir 
the flour and other ingredients together 
and then pour the dough over the peach¬ 
es. Bake in a quick oven until a nice 
brown—about twenty-five minutes. Serve 
with cream. 
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Hair washes and hair “restorers” al¬ 
ways attract feminine interest, and ad¬ 
vertising descriptions sound so convinc¬ 
ing that many a woman who can ill 
afford it purchases useless preparations. 
It is interesting to read what the Con¬ 
necticut Experiment Station has to say 
in its l’eport on “Food Products and 
Drugs.” One well-advertised “hair-color 
restorer” selling at one dollar a bottle 
is a glycerine-water solution of lead ace¬ 
tate, with considerable free sulphur, and 
the bulletin s%s that even the external 
use of any preparation containing such 
a dangerous poison as lead acetate Is 
to be deprecated. A widely advertised 
powder for shampooing consisted of 
granulated soap, sodium borate and so¬ 
dium bicai’bonate, but this preparation 
is said to be vei’y variable, as in one 
analysis it was reported as merely gran¬ 
ulated soap, while in another case it was 
soap and potassium carbonate. Certain¬ 
ly it was not fair value at about 11 
cents an ounce, and in one case within 
our knowledge this preparation caused 
serious damage to the hair. Some of 
these hair tonics, however, contained 
cantharidin, and other hair stimulants in 
general use and such remedies are evi¬ 
dently prepax*ed in good faith. On the 
other hand, one preparation for the re¬ 
moval of dandruff was a dilute solution 
of potassium arsenate containing a small 
quantity of wood alcohol and borax, so 
the unwary purchaser would receive two 
known poisons in one bottle. After 
reading any of these analyses, sensible 
purchaser’s will feel like avoiding them 
all. If the hair and scalp are in a ser- 
iously debilitated condition, it is a case 
for the family physician. The lesser 
troubles may be aided by careful brush¬ 
ing, simple preparations of known ingre¬ 
dients. and attention to the general 
health. 
* 
Measuring rods for measuiing the 
baby are found among the nursery fit¬ 
tings; they are five feet long, about 2% 
inches wide, and prettily painted, with 
figures of proper height and weight at 
various ages on the reverse side. A less 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering patterns, always give 
numb:r of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
8706—Child’s Dress, 
0 months or 1 year. 
2 and 4 years. 
8681—Child’s Rom¬ 
pers, 1, 2 and 4 
years. 
8688—Girl's Dress, 
8 to 14 years. 
8690—D r«ssing 
Jacket, 34 to 44 
bust. 
8693—Gown with 8698 — Three-piece 
Plaited Skirt, 34 to Skirt, 24 or 26, 28 
42 bust. or 30 waist. 
luxurious haby may be measured con¬ 
veniently with a wooden yard-stick; any¬ 
one who has tried to use a tape measure 
knows how troublesome it is. The meas¬ 
uring is most conveniently done just be¬ 
fore the baby is put to bed, when all its 
outer clothes are I’emoved. If the child 
is laid on the bed, with the yardstick by 
its side, it will stretch out, and it is 
quite easy to hold the little legs straight 
for a moment. Weighing and measuring 
a baby is not merely an appeal to ma¬ 
ternal vanity; it is a means of learning 
whether the child is properly nourished 
and making regular pi’Ogress in gi’owth. 
Weighing is usually done in the morn¬ 
ing, after the child has been bathed. 
While the white-enameled baby scales 
are very atti’active and convenient, one 
may weigh the baby with ordinary scales 
or balance by using a padded basket. In 
the case of a bottle-fed baby it is especial¬ 
ly necessary to know that x’egular gain 
in weight is being made; sometimes an 
inexperienced mother hardly realizes that 
the baby is not thriving until the results 
of mal-nutrition become a matter for the 
doctor's care. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Blazer striped skirts of Cossack linen 
have a cream gi’ound. with wide stripes 
of green, Copenhagen blue or black. The 
linen is firm and heavy and these skirts 
are very fashionable; price $5.75 up. 
Arch supports to be worn in the shoe 
are offered for G5 cents a pair. Many 
people who are not actually flat-footed 
feel the comfort of these supporters. 
The home di’essmaker often uses any 
cord she happens to have to make a pip¬ 
ing, and it is usually too stiff or liax-sh in 
texture to curve into desired form. Ca¬ 
ble cord, white or black, sold at notion 
counters, is made for this purpose. It 
is soft-finished and loosely twisted, and 
comes in several sizes, from one to three 
cents a yard. 
Lingerie from the Philippines is made 
from American nainsook, sent to the dis¬ 
tant islands to be made up. It is beau¬ 
tifully embroidered, and much of it hand¬ 
made. No doubt our Filipino sisters, 
who excel in fine needlework, are very 
glad to get this “work at home,” but we 
wish American farm women and girls 
could be taught to do it, with fair re¬ 
turns for their labor. 
A stamped and tinted luncheon set for 
cross-stitch has a stole-shaped center- 
piece and octagon napkins; price ready 
for working $2. 
One of the large department stoi’es re¬ 
cently opened a “shop of extra sizes,” 
where large women may buy, readymade 
blouses, underwear and colored petticoats. 
In many of the stores a stout woman 
feels as though she must be mountainous, 
after an uninterested saleswoman has 
told her they do not keep extra sizes, 
yet there are a great many women with 
a bust measure 44 and upwards to 56. 
Twin shadow-pi’oof petticoats are of 
nainsook. There is a very deep yoke at 
the top, and below this an under section 
with scant gathers, and an upper sec¬ 
tion with scalloped or embroidei-ed edge. 
Thus there is only one thickness, 
smoothly fitting, at the top, while the 
skirt is double and opaque below. These 
skirts, readymade in nice nainsook, are 
$1.50. The idea is a good one in mak¬ 
ing underwear at home. 
The Social Side of the Country Church. 
The Ladies’ Aid meeting had been post¬ 
poned for a week, and during that time 
word had been sent the society that it 
would be impossible for thff members to 
meet at the place appointed. This word 
unavoidably delayed was received late 
Saturday morning and the meeting had 
been announced postponed to the Wed¬ 
nesday following. One of the members 
volunteered to open her bouse for (he 
meeting which in our society means a 
sort of social reception with supper 
served to whole families—not at all a 
meeting for ladies only, as its name 
would seem to indicate. 
Now came a busy time for the member 
who had to get x’eady for the crowd of 
people expected, in only two days, the 
Monday and Tuesday before the day of 
meeting which was appointed for after- 
noon and evening on Wednesday. It was 
a busy time on the farm and hired help 
impossible to get. This woman solved 
the problem by going after her mother, 
who lived about nine miles away, on Sun¬ 
day, and she came and spent the follow¬ 
ing week with her. Then on Monday a 
friendly neighbor woman came and helped 
valiantly with the thousand and one 
things to be done to put in the best oi’der 
possible the farmhouse. The weekly 
washing and ironing also had to be man¬ 
aged as usual, and some baking done, al¬ 
though the hostess is not expected to 
furnish the supper, this being brought 
by the members. They came Wednesday, 
all carrying baskets and parcels of good 
things to eat. There wei-e scalloped po¬ 
tatoes, raised biscuits, salmon, jelly, pick¬ 
les and delicious fresh homemade cakes 
and pie, jelly, etc., which with the cof¬ 
fee, creamy milk and butter furnished by 
the hostess, made a good meal. The 
’phone was used to announce the change 
in the meeting place and notice was also 
given at the church Sunday morning and 
July 24, 1915. 
nt the out appointment also in the after¬ 
noon. 
The busy season kept at home many 
who would have liked to come. One 
neighbor was planning to start the next 
day on a journey of some hundred miles 
and must keep her own and her three 
little ones’ best clothes all clean and 
fresh to take with them. Another neigh¬ 
bor, alone and unaided, was getting her 
large farmhouse in perfect order for ex¬ 
pected company. Two others were enter¬ 
taining painters, not artists, but the or¬ 
dinary useful workmen who put the fi’esh 
coats of paint on farm buildings. Three 
others were entertaining hay pressers and 
one of these, a school girl friend, now a 
busy farmer's wife, told me she couldn’t 
leave them to get their own meals of 
course, nor could she bring them along. 
However a good many did come in autos, 
carriages, and motor boats. The decora¬ 
tions wei’e very simple, consisting of a 
big flag out of doors, another draped over 
the piano, and an immense bouquet of 
snow balls on the dining table. 
Two old ladies, past seventy who had 
been friends always, fellow teachers in 
their younger days, and schoolmates as 
children, sat, side by side, on the sofa 
and talked of old times. Their topics of 
conversation were principally of events 
and people of 50 yeax-s ago. There were 
little childi-en playing about outdoors, 
boys riding bicycles about the yard, rac¬ 
ing down the road, and giving the little 
fellows rides on their handle-bars. In 
the dining-room busy members in white 
aprons wei’e flying about setting a long 
table with the best silver and linen, mak¬ 
ing the tea and coffee cutting cakes and 
pies, etc. As soon as ready, the table 
was filled with the older people and pre¬ 
sided over by the young minister and his 
wife. Four times was the table set, 
dishes washed between times. The sup¬ 
per was 10 cents and the receipts for the 
evening were over six dollars, about the 
usual amount made at these gatherings 
which occur on the first Wednesday of 
every month throughout the year. 
The men walked about the farm and 
talked of politics, the crops and such 
things I suppose. They were not much 
in evidence except at the supper table. 
Some of the young folks walked down to 
the shore, which is here but a short dis¬ 
tance back from the road, three of the 
Thousand Islands being in sight. The 
friendly relations of these country people 
are fostered by these meetings and the 
country church is certainly in this lo¬ 
cality, a beneficent factor in the social 
life. f. 
Salted Corn. 
Can you give me a formula for pre¬ 
serving green corn for Winter use as 
roasting ears, either in brine or cut fx’om 
the cob and sealed in glass jars? 
A. II. O. 
Directions for canning corn were giv¬ 
en on page 903. The following meth¬ 
od of salting corn is highly recommend¬ 
ed. Have corn “just right” for eating. 
Clean and scald your boiler thoroughly 
and fill with the cox-n properly husked 
and silked, discarding all ears either over 
or under ripe. Cook as for the table. 
Removing from the boiler, score each row 
of kernels with a sharp knife and shave 
off not too close to the cob. After cut¬ 
ting from cob, measure and to each eight 
pints of corn add one pint of salt and 
mix thoroughly with the hands until a 
brine is foi-med. Have ready a well- 
scalded and clean crock and pack corn in 
this as it is mixed. When jar is filled 
within one inch of top, cover with a 
clean white cloth large enough to hang 
over edge of crock. On this cloth put 
about an inch of salt, and on the salt 
a plate that fits the top of jar. Now 
it is ready to put in the cellar or any 
cool place for Fall and Winter use, but 
in its prepai’ation for the table lies the 
secret of its success. There is only one 
way of making it palatable, but with 
dix-ections strictly adhered to it is pre- 
ferred by many to canned corn. About 
one and one-half hour before the meal 
at which one wishes to serve it it must 
be brought from the cellar—enough for 
one meal—and cold water enough to cov¬ 
er poured on and at once poured off. 
Then sufficient boiling water is poured 
on to cover and it is allowed to stand on 
the back of the range for 15 minutes. 
This water is drained off and sufficient 
fresh boiling water poured on to cover 
and the same time allowed. This process 
