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December 11, 1915, 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
The House of Christmas. 
There fared a mother driven forth 
Out of an inn to roam ; 
In the place where she \\. bo neless 
All men are at home. 
The crazy stable close at hand. 
With shaking timber and shifting sand, 
Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand 
Than the square stones of Home. 
For men are homesick in their homes, 
And strangers under the sun, 
And they lay their heads in a foreign land 
Whenever the day is done. 
Here we have battle and blazing eyes, 
And chance and honor and high surprise, 
But our homes are under miraculous skies 
Where the yule tale was begun. 
A Child in a foul stable, 
Where the beasts feed and roam ; 
Only where lie was homeless 
Are you and I at home ; 
We have hands that fashion and heads 
that know, 
But our hears we lost—how long ago! 
In a place no chart nor ship can show 
Under the sky’s dome. 
This world is wild as an old wives’ tale, 
And strange the plain things are, 
The earth is enough and the air is enough 
For our wonder and our war; 
But our rest is as far as the fire-drake 
swings 
And our peace is put in impossible things 
Where clashed and thundered unthinkable 
wings 
Round an incredible star. 
To an open house in the evening 
Home shall men come, 
To an older place than Eden 
And a taller town than Rome. 
To the end of the way of the wandering 
star, 
To the things that cannot be and that are. 
To the place where God was homeless 
And all men are at home. 
—Gilbert K. Chesterton’s “Poems.” 
* 
Just at this season dozens—indeed 
hundreds of girls, are remarking fret¬ 
fully : “What’s the use of trying to think 
of Christmas presents for Father and the 
boys? I can’t make anything they’d care 
for, and they know I haven’t any money 
to spend !” And yet there never was a 
man or boy who was entirely without 
some taste or liking that could be catered 
to, if the giver only had insight and im¬ 
agination. Sometimes we think young 
people are too ready to assume that 
Father has no interest in life beyond just 
plugging along in search of the family 
bread and butter. And are we not all 
just a little prone to choose our gifts, not 
so much from the standpoint of the re¬ 
cipient’s taste as from our own? 
* 
Here is the New York Tribune’s recipe 
for rabbit pie, in which the rabbit will be 
much more appreciated than in the young 
orchard : Cut a pair of rabbits into eight 
pieces; wash and soak in salted water for 
10 minutes. Then stew gently in boiling 
water to cover until they are very tender. 
Add to the water in which they have 
cooked a bay leaf, two stalks of chopped 
celery, one sliced onion, and half an hour 
before the meat is cooked, pepper and salt 
to taste. Take up the rabbit, place where 
it will keep hot, strain the liquor in which 
it has cooked and thicken it with a little 
flour mixed to a paste with cold water. 
Chop very finely a quarter of a pound of 
fat and salt pork, and cut into slices four 
hard-boiled eggs. Lay some of the pork 
in the bottom of a deep baking dish, and 
on this arrange a layer of the rabbit meat 
and another of the eggs. Sprinkle each 
with pepper, salt and celery salt, and dot 
the eggs with bits of butter. Continue 
with alternate layers until the dish is 
nearly full. Pour in the strained gravy 
and cover with a good pie crust. Make 
several incisions for the steam to escape 
and bake in a rather quick oven until 
crisp and brown. If it browns too quick¬ 
ly cover with a buttered paper. 
* 
IIow many housekeepers during the 
next three months, will find that they al¬ 
ways have a cold after washday? It 
seems an inevitable discomfort. Its lead¬ 
ing cause, as a rule, is going from the 
steam of the tubs to hang the clothes out, 
but another cause is the steam in the 
house, with accompanying drafts, or a 
cold back kitchen where the work is done. 
Some of these inconveniences cannot be 
obviated, because of the arrangement of 
the house; all one can do is to make the 
best of them. Others can be improved, 
and we hope that a good many of our 
T.'JhiJtC KUKAL NEW-YOKKER 
readers are giving thought to them. We 
have referred before to pulley lines and 
rotary driers, such as are used in the 
city; with them a woman may stand on 
her back porch to hang out the clothes, 
avoiding the usual chilly walk over cold 
earth, and, sometimes, snow-shoveling 
into the bargain. In a house where 
there is a steam or hot-air heater, it does 
not seem difficult to plan for a drying 
closet in the cellar, to be used for clothes 
in stormy weather, and for the wet out¬ 
door garments that are often trouble¬ 
some on the farm. The woman who 
works at the tubs should never stand on 
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The Rural Patterns 
In ordering patterns, always give 
number of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
8822 Two Piece Skirt 
with Tunic, 24 to 33 
8839 Child’s Dress, 
(t mos. or 1 year 2 and 
4 years. 
£832 Blouse with Vest 
34 to 42 bust. 8835 Girl's Dress, 
8830 Four Piece Skirt 8 to 14 years. 
24 to 34 waist. 
8833 Coat with Plaits, 
for Misses and Small 
Women, 16 and 18 
years. 
8779 Tucked Blouse, 8798 Skirt with Plaited 
34 to 40 bust. Sides, Misses and Sm 11 
875S Box Plaited Skirt, Women, 16 and 18 
24 to 36 waist. yecrs. 
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. 1 
the bare floor, but on a thick rug, which 
will not only keep her feet warm, but 
lessen fatigue. She would lessen fatigue 
still more if her shoes had rubber heels. 
However, unless there is an abundant 
water supply, both hot and cold, accessi¬ 
ble by turning a faucet, wash-day remains 
a serious problem at any season, and the 
discomforts of cold weather are an addi¬ 
tional burden. 
Three Holiday Recipes. 
Below I give three very fine culinary 
recipes for Christmas which I can highly 
recommend : 
Stuffed Duck With Tomato Sauce— 
Dress a young duck and prepare it for 
roasting. Make a dressing as follows: 
Mince a small onion and fry it in two 
tablespoonfuls of butter until golden 
brown, add a pound of chopped mush¬ 
rooms and fry about 10 minutes; season 
with salt and pepper, and add to the 
bread crumbs, moisten with a little warm 
water and stuff the fowl; cover it with 
bits of butter and bake it, basting often. 
When the duck is done remove it from the 
pan, stir two tablespoonfuls of flour into 
the drippings, add a pint of canned toma¬ 
toes that have been strained; let boil up 
and serve with the duck. 
Stuffed Squash—Use one or more neck 
squashes. Cut out a piece at the stem 
end and remove the seeds and central 
soft pulp. For the filling to every cupful 
of bread crumbs allow one tablespoonful 
of chopped onion, two tablespoonfuls of 
chopped sweet peppers, a scant half tea¬ 
spoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne pep¬ 
per, one heaping tablespoon fill of chopped 
boiled ham and two tablespoonfuls of 
melted butter. If not moist enough add 
a little warm water. Tightly fill the 
squash with this, pin on the top and 
steam until tender. Cut in slices and 
serve with savory sauce. 
Cranberry Tarts—Roll puff paste a 
little less than one-fourth of an inch in 
thickness. Cut in rounds and fill with the 
following cranberry mixture: Mix one 
and a quarter cups of chopped cranber¬ 
ries, one-half cup of chopped raisins, one 
cup of sugar, one-half cup of water and 
one tablespoonful of butter. MRS. w. R. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Lingerie snap fasteners in celluloid, 
white, pink or pale blue in various sizes, 
are five cents each or 55 cents a dozen. 
They have a celluloid foundation like a 
belt buckle, tapering to the snap fastener 
and are convenient for the ribbons or 
belts of fancy lingerie. 
A pocket shoe polisher is a small leath¬ 
er roll fastened with a snap fastener 
which, when unrolled, shows a lamb’s- 
wool polisher inside. It is a convenience 
for the traveling bag, and small enough to 
be stowed away in a man’s pocket, to re¬ 
move the dust of travel, price 10 cents. 
Among kitchen conveniences in one 
large store are knives marked “onion.” so 
that they can be kept for cutting or peel¬ 
ing that savory vegetable without flavor¬ 
ing other things. An egg-cutter is made 
to cut a hard-boiled egg into 10 even 
slices for salads, sandwiches, etc. Cruller 
pans are made with a rest on which the 
crullers are placed, and then immersed in 
the boiling fat. A butter curler is a lit¬ 
tle instrument that makes butter balls by 
gouging out a little strip that curls like a 
shaving. A combination novelty is a fish 
scaler and pin-feather picker. 
Elephant’s ear is the name of a thick 
silky fabric used for making cloaks. It is 
something like a very supple fur. black 
When you 
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