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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
Let Something Good be Said. 
When over the fair fame of friend or foe 
The shadow of disgrace shall fall, in¬ 
stead 
Of words of blame, or proof of thus and 
so, 
Let something good he said. 
Forget not that no fellow-being yet 
May fall so low but love may lift his 
head; 
Even the cheek of shame with tears is 
wet, 
If something good be said. 
No generous heart may vainly turn aside 
In words of sympathy; no soul so dead 
But may awaken strong and glorified, 
If something good be said. 
And so I charge ye, by the thorny crown, 
And by the cross on which the Saviour 
bled, 
And by your own souls’ hope for fair re¬ 
nown, 
Let something good be said! 
—James Whitcomb Riley in “The Lock¬ 
erbie Book.” 
* 
Here is a sweet potato pie, that comes 
well recommended: Boil two good-sized 
sweet potatoes. When done rub through 
a colander, stir in one pint of milk, the 
yolks of three eggs beaten, one small 
cupful of sugar and a pinch of salt. 
Flavor with lemon ; put in pieplate lined 
with crust, like a pumpkin pie, and bake 
in moderate oven till nicely browned. 
Make a meringue of the whites of eggs, 
brown in oven, and serve the pie hot. 
Sweet potato pie is also made like a 
pumpkin pie, without the meringue. 
* 
Have you made any plans for the Win¬ 
ter evenings? Just “sitting around,” or 
doing prolonged chores, with nothing to 
distinguish Saturday from Monday, is 
one of the trials that make eager young 
people long for the outside world. In 
the city, a great proportion of the people 
forever at the “movies” are there be¬ 
cause the crowded apartment gives no op¬ 
portunity for receiving or entertaining 
friends in a normal way. It is a sad 
thing when the open spaces of the coun¬ 
try are still too crowded to permit whole¬ 
some pleasures and recreation, such as 
all young people crave. 
* 
A food inspector in this city recently 
found a woman fish dealer in the act of 
painting the gills of a stale fish with red 
dye, so that it presented a fresh ap¬ 
pearance. This was an especially mean 
fraud, because of the danger of serious 
poisoning from eating such fish. Al¬ 
though fish is carried long distances in 
safety, when properly refrigerated, it 
deteriorates very rapidly, and careless¬ 
ness either in the market or the kitchen 
may have very serious results. Fish that 
is in good condition should show bright 
pink gills, the eyes should not be sunk¬ 
en, the flesh firm, and the scales and skin 
bright. Fish that is limp and slippery 
should be avoided. Some fish deterior¬ 
ates more rapidly than other kinds, and 
among sea fishes fresh mackerel, herrings 
and bluefish seem to lose flavor and be¬ 
come of doubtful quality much sooner 
than cod, haddock or bass. There are 
people, however, to whom bluefish is pois¬ 
onous even when perfectly fresh, but this 
is a personal peculiarity, just as others 
are unable to eat lobsters, oysters or 
strawberries without symptoms rather 
suggestive of ptomaine poisoning. 
* 
Bulletin 158 of the South Dakota 
Experiment Station is on “Proso and 
Kaoliang as Table Foods,” which sounds 
very mysterious until one learns that 
“proso” is a Slav name for grain millet, 
and kaoliang Chinese for grain sorghum. 
Millet being grown here chiefly as a hay 
crop, we have given little consideration 
to its grain. Proso millet is a leading 
grain in Eastern Russia, Tibet, Turkes¬ 
tan, Siberia, Manchuria and Mongolia. 
It makes a crop where durum wheat is 
a failure, and ranks with wheat in nutri¬ 
tive value. It is excellent for poultry 
and stock, and this bulletin tells the 
housewife how to use proso in soup, 
mush, scrapple, bread, cake and rolls. 
Proso mush is the “kasha” of the Rus¬ 
sian peasants, and indeed more than once 
this millet has been the Russian peas¬ 
ant’s only staff against starvation. Thus 
proso is the grain of the arid North, 
while kaoliang or grain sorghum is a 
tropical plant that has gradually ex¬ 
tended its way north. Grain sorghums 
which could not be used for sugar-making 
have been neglected here, but kaoliang 
has proved to be extremely drought-re¬ 
sistant, and it has shown its value in 
Dakota both as forage and grain. As it 
makes a crop in seasons too dry for In¬ 
dian corn it may become almost as val¬ 
uable to us as in the countries where 
millions of people now make it their 
chief food. A number of recipes are giv¬ 
en for using kaoliang flour. Proso and 
kaoliang sound exotic and unfamiliar at 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering patterns, always give 
number of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
8788 — Five-piece 
Skirt, 24 to 34 waist. 
8801—Boy’s Sailor 
Suit, 6 to 12 years. 
8799—Fancy Waist, 
34 to 42 bust, and 
8785, Straight Skirt, 
Small, 20 or 28, Me¬ 
dium 30 or 32. Large 
34 or 30 waist. 
8812—Girl’s Middy 
Dress, 8 to 14 years. 
8791—Girl’s Dress, 
6, 8 and 10 years. 
8805—Single-breast¬ 
ed Coat for Misses 
and Small Women, 
16 and 18 years, 
and 8798, Skirt with 
Plaits for Misses 
and Small Women, 
10 and 18 years. 
Hereafter all patterns numbered 8772 and 
higher will be cut with a SEAM ALLOW¬ 
ANCE, basting line being shown by a line of 
small perforations. Those who do not want a 
seam allowance may trim it off along the 
basting line. Directions as to basting line 
are given on envelope containing the pattern. 
present, but they may have a very im¬ 
portant future here in the household as 
well as on the farm. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Tailored waists of striped wash silk 
are $3.50, including many styles of hair¬ 
line and wider stripes on a white ground 
with a satin stripe. They have a con¬ 
vertible collar that may be worn either 
high or low. and turn-back cuffs fastened 
by links. Waists of soiree silk in apri¬ 
cot, blue, rose, orchard and other colors 
had the front cut in two large over-lap¬ 
ping points fastened with fancy pearl 
buttons; they were $5.50. 
Ready-made mourning garments and 
accessories show excellent styles and be¬ 
coming models. Among the materials 
used for skirts and suits are dull-finished 
broadcloth, whipcord, poplin, serge and 
kitten’s-ear cloth. Suits suitable for 
mourning wear may be picked out in the 
regular department; those specially list¬ 
ed as mourning suits, with special lin¬ 
ings, dull-finished ornamental buttons, 
and trimming of mourning fur are higher- 
priced. A very nice mourning separate 
skirt was black poplin, front panel bound 
with silk braid, finished with a belt and 
dull buttons; price $5.94. A skirt of 
dull-finished broadcloth with panier trim¬ 
ming was $7.49. A plain one-piece 
dress of black serge may be bought ready¬ 
made as low as $5.75. Handsome dresses 
of China silk, with two circular flounces 
and surplice bodice cost, readymade, 
$19.74. Mourning blouses of peau de 
cygne are $2.89. Mourning hats begin at 
$4.96. 
Umbrellas of black union taffeta, with 
ebonized handles, for mourning wear, are 
$1.98; all silk $2.97 and up. 
Collar and cuff sets of white organ¬ 
die, with hemstitched black, borders, wide 
or narrow, begin at 47 cents; round 
collars of black mourning crape $1.49; 
standing collar and flat cuffs of black 
net, edged with crape, and trimmed with 
little buttons $1.69. A very handsome 
high-standing collar of black mourning 
crape, with a scalloped turnover of 
white organdie, was $1.89. 
Furniture for the bathroom is in 
white enamel; small round stools, low- 
backed chairs and medicine cabinets. If 
the home carpenter makes such furniture 
the white enamel finish will hide a mul¬ 
titude of sins. Even an old kitchen chair 
with solid wood seat will look very well 
when enameled. Among the bathroom 
fittings the neat bottles of opaque glass, 
lettered in black and gold, for witch ha¬ 
zel, glycerine and rose water, peroxide, 
etc., add very much to the neatness of 
things. 
Mincemeat from Oklahoma. 
When the Winter butchering is done 
is a good time to make the annual supply 
of mincemeat, and since the homemade 
article is much superior to the bought 
mincemeats every housewife should plan 
to make a good supply. When our mince¬ 
meat is properly heated and ready to 
pack away we put it, while still hot, into 
common fruit jars and seal, and find it 
will keep perfectly. When a can is 
opened we remove what is needed and 
cover the remainder with syrup and seal; 
treated thus it will keep nice until 
wanted. 
Below I give three excellent recipes 
which any housewife should be able to 
follow. Either recipe will give an ex¬ 
cellent article of the finished product, 
and while I give the recipes in full with 
all the different spices, fruits, etc., I 
would not have the housewife think that 
she cannot make a fine mincemeat with¬ 
out all the ingredients, for all are not 
necessary to success. The flavoring is 
merely a matter of individual taste, and 
may be varied to suit the favor of the 
family. In my own family we do not 
wish a strong flavor in our mince pies, 
hence I use but very little of some of the 
different flavorings, and none of others. 
While beef is the meat named in all of 
the recipes I make mincemeats which are 
pronounced “excellent” and I use the 
lean portions from the pigs’ heads as a 
substitute for beef, which is hard to ob¬ 
tain in the country. When I have no 
October 23, 1915. 
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Keep Your Home 
Really Glean 
Not just free from visible dirt, but free 
from disease and hidden dangers. 
20 Mule Team Borax will prove your 
best helper. 
Sinks and drain pipes are breeding 
places for germs of all kinds. These 
avenues for the spread of disease may be 
made hygienically clean by flooding them 
daily with a strong solution of Borax 
and boiling water. This will remove the 
germs and odors and lessen the danger of 
contagion from this source. 
20 MULE TEAM 
BORAX 
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