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T I I IS IV UIV A L, 
NEW-VORKER 
August 7, 1915. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
r THE SOLDIER’S DREAM. 
Our bugle sang truce, for the night cloud 
had lowered, 
And the sentinel stars set their watch 
in the sky: 
And thousands had sunk on the ground 
overpowered, 
The wearv to sleep and the wounded to 
die. 
When reposing that night on my pallet of 
straw 
By the wolf-scaring faggot that guard¬ 
ed the slain, 
At the dead of the night a sweet vision I 
sa w 
And thrice ere the morning I dreamt 
it again. 
Methought from the battle-field’s dreadful 
array. 
Far, far I had roamed on a desolate 
track; 
’Twas Autumn,—and sunshine arose on 
the way 
To the home of my fathers, that wel¬ 
comed me back. 
I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so 
oft 
In life’s morning march, when my 
bosom was young; 
1 heard my own mountain-goats bleating 
aloft, 
And knew the sweet strain that the 
corn-reapers sung. 
Then pledged we the wine cup, and fond¬ 
ly I swore 
From my home and my weeping friends 
never to part; 
My little ones kissed me a thousand 
times o’er. 
And my wife sobbed aloud in her full¬ 
ness of heart. 
“Stay, stay with us! rest!—thou art 
weary and worn !” 
And fain was their war-broken soldier 
to stay ;— 
But sorrow returned with the dawning 
of morn. 
And the voice in my dreaming ear melt¬ 
ed away. 
—Thomas Campbell (1777-1^44.1 
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In screening windows, are nettings put 
over cellar windows as carefully as over 
the others? We find it makes the great¬ 
est possible difference in keeping out both 
flies and mosquitoes, for they find their 
way from the cellar to all other parts of 
the house. Cellar screens are especially 
necessary for keeping out the house mos¬ 
quitoes that ordinarily hibernate in the 
cellar and keep up a perpetual supply of 
the pest. One often sees a cloud of these 
pests in an unprotected cellar. 
When melting paraffin to cover the 
tops of jelly glasses we put it in a small 
tin tea-kettle kept for the purpose. It 
is easy to pour the melted wax from the 
spout over the jelly, and when this is 
done the lid is put on and the kettle stood 
in a closet until another melting is re¬ 
quired. Anyone who has tried to re¬ 
move adhering wax from a saucepan 
used for other cooking knows what a 
nuisance it is. The little tea-kettle is 
kept for this one purpose; with a close 
lid and a little plug in the spout no dust 
enters, and it is always ready for use. 
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For savory vegetable chowder cut two 
thick slices of salt pork into dice and 
fry until brown. Chop three large 
onions, and brown in the pork fat. Put 
in a large kettle, and add three quarts of 
boiling water. Then add half a cup of 
pearl barley, three large potatoes peeled 
and cut into cubes, one teaspoonful pow¬ 
dered thyme, a small carrot and turnip 
cut small, half a can of tomatoes. Sim¬ 
mer slowly for two hours; if too thick 
thin with more boiling water. Shortly 
before serving add a tablespoonful of 
butter and a pint of boiling milk; last 
< f all add two pilot crackers, broken into 
bits. If desired the salt pork may be 
omitted, and the onion fried brown in 
1 utter or dripping. 
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One of the efficiency methods in big 
factories is to “speed up" the workers; 
with modern machinery the operative is 
often obliged to keep up to a regular rate 
of speed until he becomes, practically, 
a part of the machinery. There are, of 
course, many objections to reducing hu¬ 
man endeavor to a mechanical speed, and 
yet a little of this system may be in¬ 
troduced into the routine housework with 
advantage. Dishwashing, bedmaking and 
similar work becomes mechanical to the 
practised hand, and we may standardize 
it to the highest point of efficiency by 
doing it rapidly and without waste ener¬ 
gy. Where two or three young people 
are “doing the dishes” together, they will 
often take pleasure in timing themselves 
to see how rapidly they can finish. They 
will usually get over the work quickly 
if some little pleasure is to follow, and 
there is no reason why equal efficiency 
should not be displayed every day. We 
all know housekeepers who “putter”; 
who wipe each plate slowly, and take a 
separate journey to the closet with 
each pile of plates, instead of carrying 
the lot on a tray. Up-State people 
remark that such a person “gets all 
the work she can out of herself.” Mod¬ 
ern business tells us to avoid useless 
dissipation of energy, and there is sure¬ 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering patterns, always give 
number of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
8702 — Gown with 
8697—Girl’s Dress, Three-piece Skirt, 34 
li to 12 years. to 42 bust. 
ly need enough for every busy housewife 
to cut out such waste. Let us think over 
the creaking joints in our housekeeping, 
and see where we can make one step go 
where two went before. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Women’s boot silk stockings with cot¬ 
ton (not lisle) tops and feet are 50 
cents a pair, and may be had in black, 
white, bronze, tan. gray and champagne. 
They look very nice with pumps or slip¬ 
pers. and wear better than lisle. Some 
stores do not carry bronze or gray stock¬ 
ings except in silk from $1 a pair up. 
Blazer striped cretonne 38 inches wide 
is J 5 cents a yard; it is green, blue, tan, 
brown or black with white. These cre¬ 
tonnes are used for furniture covers, 
cushions, beach skirts, hats, smocks and 
children’s clothes. Cluster striped cre¬ 
tonne which has white stripes surrounding 
bars of black on brown, orange, blue or 
red grounds is 86 inches wide, 25 cents 
a yard. Floral cretonnes are 18 cents a 
yard up. 
White “near-linen,” 36 inches wide, is 
19 cents a yard; it is used for making 
nurses’ uniforms and children’s dresses. 
A new model in a draped princess dress 
is rather suggestive of a riding habit 
draped at one side. Made of satin, which 
we are told will supersede taffeta in the 
Fall, it has no trimming except a fine 
organdie collar, and looks much like a 
Gainsborough dress of the eighteenth 
century. 
Aluminum basting spoons are very 
light and strong; price 25 cents. 
A little traveling or motor hat with 
stitched brim folds into a small suede 
leather case; price 95 cents. 
Many of the new silk petticoats have 
the hem at the bottom neatly turned up 
on the right side, like a binding. The 
advantage of this is that the heel does 
not catch in it when walking, thus scuff¬ 
ing it out. 
A paper lunch set consists of one ta¬ 
blecloth 2 1 /) yards long, one dozen doilies, 
one dozen napkins, and one dozen ice 
cream plates, all prettily decorated, price 
for the whole. 48 cents. “White dam¬ 
ask" paper tablecloths are white crape 
paper printed in a white damask design, 
2x2*4 yards; they are very pretty, and 
cost 14 cents each. Little fluted finger- 
bowls of white pressed waterproof paper 
are five cents a dozen, and would be ex¬ 
cellent for serving salad or even soup or 
chowder at a picnic. Little paper cups 
for baking are five cents a dozen and 24 
cents a hundred, and we are told they are 
excellent for baking cup cakes. All these 
things add to the comfort of picnic meals. 
A convenient skirt gauge for measur¬ 
ing a hem costs 25 cents; its nickel base 
to stand on the floor has a support hold¬ 
ing measure and chalk or pencil at the 
height desired. 
A Colorado Comment. 
“Notes from Colorado,” page 902. are 
certainly interesting, and if all country 
women could have things as Mrs. John¬ 
son describes, life would be pleasant, but 
when one has lived in cities with plenty 
of water, gas stoves, gas lights, and so 
forth, and then through changed circum¬ 
stances must live in the country where 
both springs and cisterns go dry. coal, 
wood, and oil stoves are slow and dirty, 
no sidewalks, only the muddy or dusty 
road, no near neighbors, a stronger in a 
strange land, all things about one need 
repairing, ill health and enforced economy 
one’s daily ration, then it takes courage 
and will-power to keep up. MRS. J. g. s. 
Meringue ; Dried Corn. 
In a recent copy of The R. N.-Y. I 
see A. E. L. asks for recipe for mer¬ 
ingue. I am not a shining light as a cook 
generally speaking, but I'can make good 
meringue. This is my way. I have the 
eggs at least three days old and as cold 
as possible. Beat thoroughly to a stiff 
froth (often a pinch of salt will aid stiff¬ 
ening). Then add gradually sugar and 
flavoring—I use three heaping table- 
spoonfuls sugar to two whites (for one 
pie). Place in moderate oven immediate¬ 
ly. leaving door open if necessary. The 
point is it must cook very slowly, must 
have just enough heat to dry it out grad¬ 
ually. By this method it often takes 
nearly an hour in the cool oven, but tin 1 
crisp meringue repays one. I cannot can 
corn successfully—will some one tell me 
how to dry the corn and how to prepare 
it for the table? F. H. 
Dried Corn.—The following is a well- 
tested Southern recipe: Sew firmly into 
a quilting-frame a strong sheet. Gather 
the corn when ready for use. husk and re¬ 
move silk. Put on in boiler, cover with 
water and when it starts boiling let cook 
well for 10 or 15 minutes. Take off. al¬ 
low it to cool some, then score and cut 
off. but not too close, to have it shucky. 
and scrape off what remains on ear. 
Have your frame out in a sunny place, 
spread corn evenly upon it. cover with a 
mosquito netting and it will dry quickly 
in this way, as it dries from below just 
as fast as above. Then at some conven¬ 
ient time when the corn is piping hot put 
it in the oven to heat well through in 
order to kill ' any chance “microbe.” 
When it comes time to cook the dried 
corn wash well in water. Put to soak 
in milk over night and cook in the milk 
it soaked in ; season with sugar, salt, pep¬ 
per and butter, and you will find it very 
good and know that it is clean. 
Pickles that 
tickle the palate — 
How to make them 
F IRST of all write us for the 
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freshen up with some new re¬ 
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tomato pickles, flavory French pick¬ 
les, tart mustard pickles, Chili 
Sauce, catsups, etc. Appetizers 
every one of them. 
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