652 
May 26, 1917. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Little Brown Hands 
They drive home the cows from the pas¬ 
ture, 
TJp through the long, shady lane. 
Where the quail whistles loud in the 
wheat fields 
That are yellow with ripening grain. 
They find in the thick waving grasses 
Where the scarlet-lipped strawberry 
grows; 
They gather the earliest snowdrops 
And the first crimson buds of the rose. 
They toss the new hay in the meadow; 
They gather the elder-bloom white; 
They find where the dusky grapes purple 
In the soft-tinted October light. 
Thej’ know where the apples hang ripest, 
And are sweeter than Italy’s wines; 
They know where the fruit hangs the 
thickest 
On the long, thorny blackberry vines. 
They gather the delicate seaweeds 
And build tiny e>astles of sand ; 
They pick up the beautiful seashells— 
Fairy barks that have drifted to land; 
I'liey wave from the tall, rocking tree 
tops 
Where the oriole’s hammock nest 
swings; 
And at night time are folded in slumber 
Ity a song that the fond mother sings. 
Those who toil bravely are strongest, 
The humble and poor become great; 
And so from these brown-handed childi*en 
Shall grow mighty rulers of state. 
The pen of the author and statesman— 
The noble and wise of the land— 
The sword and the chisel and palette 
Shall be held in the little brown hand. 
—Mary H. Krout. 
* 
A KECENT legal question discussed in 
The R. N.-Y. related to the nationality of 
a foreign-born woman, inarried to an 
alien, who desired to become a citi7yen of 
the United States, while her husband de¬ 
clined to do so. Under the law she as¬ 
sumed the nationality of her husband, and 
was unable to be separately naturalized 
here. In the same way, a native-born 
American woman who marries an alien 
assumes her husband’s nationality. This 
was recently illustrated here, when a 
woman born in New .Tersey was not al¬ 
lowed to land at New York, but was sent 
to Ellis Island, because she was the wife 
of a (Jernian subject resident in the Cuban 
Republic. The law is thus expres.sed in 
an act of Congress passed 10 years ago: 
“Any American woman who marries a 
foreigner shall take the nationality of her 
hu.sband. At the termination of the niari- 
tal relation she may resume her American 
citizenship, if abroad, by registration as 
an American citizen within one year with 
a consul of the United States, or by re¬ 
turning to re.side in the United States, or 
if residing in the United States at the ter¬ 
mination of the marital relation, by con¬ 
tinuing to reside therein.’’ 
* 
The following is a very simple recipe 
for entire wheat bread made without 
yeast. One and one-half pints whole 
wheat flour, one teaspoonful soda, two 
teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, one tea¬ 
spoonful salt, three-fourths pint cold 
water. Sift the dry ingredients together, 
the teaspoonful of soda rounding, the salt 
and cream of tartar level, then add the 
water, and stir thoroughly. Put in a 
well-greased brown bread tin, cover, and 
steam for one hour over constantly boiling 
water; then x’emove from steamer and 
bake three-quarters of an hour in a mod¬ 
erate oven. This bread makes very nice 
zwieback if sliced when cold and then 
browned in the oven. 
* 
A RECENT inquii'er asked for some ad¬ 
vice in cake-making, as she never seemed 
to have good luck with her cake—cer¬ 
tainly a very discouraging matter. She 
did not explain wherein her ti’ouble lay. 
In such a case we should study the oven 
first of all. Some 0 ;vens heat unevenly or 
do not hold the steady heat called for in 
baking, and this is very likely to cause the 
cake to fall. Loaf cake will often fall if 
the oven door is opened to look at it too 
soon, or if the door is slammed or the 
stove jarred by putting on coal, or mov¬ 
ing heavy kettles over the top. Trouble 
often results from carelessness in measur¬ 
ing ingredients; too much butter or sugar 
may easily cause a heavy cake. It is 
always wise to .sift the flour twice or three 
times; for a A’ery delicate cake some cooks 
always sift the flour and baking powder 
together seven times. Another important 
point is to fold in the flour at the last— 
not to beat it in. Air has been beaten 
IShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
into the egg.s, etc., and it must not be 
beaten out witli the flour; the lightness 
is retained by folding the flour in. Most 
housekeepers are ready to tell us of their 
.successes in cooking; we think it would 
be helpful if some of them would tell us 
of their failures, too. We often hear ex¬ 
perienced hou.sekeejiers .say that they are 
“uniucky” with certain recipes, and as no 
failure in cooking is due to chance, a free 
dLscu.ssion of their failure Avould very 
likely' bring out the information needed 
for succes.s. Last year one of our readers 
complained that she was never able to 
make a I’eally satisfactory layer cake. 
Dozens of layer cake recipes were sent 
us in response, and among them a very 
simple one called “Be.st-ever Layer Cake.’’ 
Evidently it was rightly named, for it has 
proved so popular that it is constantly 
asked for, and has been passed on, from 
one to another, all over the United States. 
Seen in New York Shops 
Army blankets, khaki color, all wool, 
co.st .$1 a pound at a military supply 
house, the three-pound blanket thus l)eing 
sold at $,‘l. These blankets would be very 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering give number of pattern and size 
desired. Price of each pattern 15 cents. 
9300—Waist with 
Chemisette, sizes 30 
to 44 inches bust 
measure. 
9299—Skirt, sizes 
24 to 32 inches waist 
measure. 
9315—Misses Party 
Press, sizes 10 and 
18 years. 
9313—Child’s Press, 
sizes 1, 2 and 4 
years. 
9311—Misses Pleat¬ 
ed Press, cut in sizes 
IG and 18 years. 
desirable for the boy’.s room, or for a 
Summer camp. 
A chopping bowl of wood, shaped like 
a chemi.st’s mortar, has a scythe-like knife 
for chopping, and costs 99 cents. In spite 
of the handy food grinders one can .still 
find uses for a chopping bowl and knife. 
Prairie grass rugs from Minnesota ai’e 
inexpensive and pretty, including many 
attractive figured designs. One pretty 
style noted had two shades of blue, with 
a .slight touch of dull green, stenciled on 
the natural grass color; a living-room rug 
0x9 was ,$4.84. Handsome porch rugs of 
.Tapanese nish are made of 18-ineh 
squares half an inch thick. These squares 
are sewn together to fit any porch, two 
colors being used, blue and natural or 
brown and natural, so that they give an 
inlaid elTect. The squares cost 79 cents 
each, and are made up into any size de¬ 
sired. Among the woven rag rugs are 
those called Miles Standish. which show 
many colors woven in stripes; John 
Alden, with a self-colored center and floral 
border at each end. and I’aul Revere, 
which has a checker-board background for 
the floral border. They are all very gay 
and cle.nn-looking, just the thing for a 
country bedroom. 
Very pretty middy smocks are made of 
cream-colored cotton crash that looks like 
linen, with scarlet, green or navy blue 
tie. They cost .$1.,50. The same material 
in a longer belted smock, with colored 
stitching, is $2.95. There are very pretty 
smocks of batiste, blue or rose color, with 
big jiockets, for $4.,50. 
A new model in women's jibbed cotton 
iiudervests can be altered to make round 
or y neck. The low round neck may be 
unbuttoned at the shoulder, buttoned in a 
different way, and makes a V neck. This 
style, in cotton, is 25 cents. 
Another Chocolate Cake 
In response to the request of Mrs. II. 
M. AV. I am sending our favorite recipe 
for black chocolate cake; it i.s not only 
very nice and fresh, but is good when sev- 
eriil days old. In a small saucepan melt 
one square grated chocolate and one 
tablespoon sugar. Let cool. Cream one 
rounding tablespoon butter with one cup¬ 
ful sugar, add yolks of two eggs and stir 
thoroughly, then add one cnijful sour 
milk, two cupfuls flour and one teaspoon 
.soda dis.solved in one-third cup water, 
flavor with a little vanilla. The best icing 
for this cake is a twice-cooked icing. 
Make a boiled frosting with the whites of 
the two eggs, one cup sugai*, one-half cup 
water. Beat the egg whites in the upijer 
pan of a double boiler, and add the syrup 
as usual, stirring until creamy. Put the 
double boiler on the stove over a brisk 
fli'O, and cook the icing over the hot 
watei’, stirring constantly, until the mix¬ 
ture is light and I’ises in the center. Re¬ 
move from fii’e as soon as a slight gi’ating 
sound is heai-d, or it Avill grain. This is 
a vei’y delicious icing and well repays one 
for the extra work necessai’y to make it. 
MRS. ir. L. s. 
Another Way With Checker Cake 
I would like to tell how I make the 
checkerboard cjike. I bake two layers of 
dai-k and two layers of Avhite cake; then 
cut the center out of each layer around 
Bobby’s First Chalk Talk 
How Mother Saved the Walls 
Bobby’s early art efforts 
showed undoubted talent, but 
?re disastrous to the walls. His 
other didn’t want to discourage his 
idding genius—nor did she want her 
ills ruined. It took time to make 
)bby understand that walls were 
eant for other purposes. Meanwhile 
e saved herself much trouble and 
)rry over Bobby’s misplaced art ef- 
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Our decorative department will be 
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walls, woodwork, floors and furniture. 
We will suggest complete decorative 
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Canadian Govornmonl Agent 
301 E. Genesee 8t., Syracuse, N.Y. 
