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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
tons. Military shoos with low fiat heels, 
either ties or laced boots, of tan or Rus¬ 
sia calf, are worn with such suits, and 
plain outins or sailor hats. There are 
military hats of khaki-colored felt, with 
band or cord, but they are not always 
becoming. 
Among instructive toys in the kinder¬ 
garten department of a great store is a 
little rug loom with a play-house rug be¬ 
ing woven on it. Bead-weaving looms, 
and clay in gay colors for modelling, 
with a book of instructions, will be en¬ 
joyed by the children, while training the 
small hands to constructive work. 
Men's military wrist watches, with il¬ 
luminated radium dial, and securely 
fastened in a strap, were seen for .'ii8..50. 
Some plain hard-wear styles in stra)) 
cost less. 
Suggestions on Preserving 
I have just been reading your re<iuest 
for ))reserviug experience. I have for 
many .vears preserved strawberries in 
the sun. and have never had any tough 
ones. We all think they are delieiou.s. I 
take one pound of sugar to one pound 
of the berries and just let them come to 
a boil, then spread on plates and put in 
hot sun with a screen over them. When 
tlie right consistency. I put in jelly 
glasses or pint cans and never have any 
trouble from mold', etc. 
As to jelly with parafHu covering, be 
sure that the inside of glass above the 
fruit is pcrfeciln dnj before putting on 
the paraffin. I think the covering not 
being airtight is the cause of the mold 
beneath. 1 am enclosing with this my re¬ 
cipe for currant jelly with water. I 
have made it this way for years with 
good results. As you probably know, 
you must not wait too late to make your 
jelly. 
Currant .Telly.—Three pounds currants, 
one pint water, conk until currants are 
soft. Drain in a colander and then in 
a woolen bag. Boil l.T minutes, add two 
pounds sugar,'take from the fire. 
E. G. B. 
^I. V. R.. on page t>S(T, wishes to know 
how to prevent jelly juice from oozing 
up from under the paraffin. A few sim¬ 
ple rules carefully fnllnwed will solve 
her difficulty. < >f course jelly must be 
linn of texture, not syrupy. Pour jelly 
in sterilizeil glasses within half inch of 
top. When cool, wipe inside edge of 
glass very dry. Now pour in a thin 
coating of smoking hot jiaraffin and put 
on cover at once. Paraffin will exclude 
air and mold, but unless it is poured on 
jelly yer.v hot it will not <lestroy mold 
spores, that might have settled on jelly 
while cooling, and unless destroyed these 
spores will dcvelo]i later. I put up for 
sale hundreds of gl.-isses every Summer, 
i.nd the last jar to leave the shelf is as 
attractive as the first. 
.Strawberries canned in cranberry 
juice will look and taste almost like 
fresh fruit. Also six quarts of strawber¬ 
ries boiled with the pressed-out juice— 
no water added—of one quart cr.auberries 
with the usual amount of sugar, will 
make a fine-flavored, well-colored firm 
jam. MBS. B. V. 
Ever since I can remember we have 
always had a goodly supply of straw¬ 
berries put up in the way of preserves. 
Different methods have been tried with 
different results, but my experience coin¬ 
cides with that of !M. V. R. inasmuch 
as the sun-pi-eserved strawberries have 
been rather tough. After trying many 
ways I have finally decided the following 
to be the best method. Clean and hull 
the berries, weighing pound for pound, 
sprinkling the berries with the sugar in 
alternate layers, then putting in a cool 
place; allow to remain several hours— 
overnight is best. Drain off the juice, 
place over fire and boil until a thiclc 
syrup, then add berries and boil 20 min¬ 
utes. Remove from fire and allow to 
become rather cool before putting in 
glasses. By allowing it become par¬ 
tially cool I find the berries are not so 
apt to sink to the bottom. This has 
given me satisfactory results. 
If the glassf'S in which jellies or pre¬ 
serves are placed are wiped perfectly 
dry around the sides where the paraffin 
will touch, the paraffin poured in hot 
after the jelly has been allowed to cool 
and then the glass tilted gently all 
around so that the paraffin extends up 
around the sides above its general level 
I believe there will be no trouble of 
the juice oozing out and a mold thereby , 
fnrming. k. c. w. 
Tomato Paste 
(*n page 024 mention was made of a 
“tomato paste.“ TVill you inform me how 
it is prepared? l. f. b. 
The Italian tomato paste is made as 
follows: I’ut tomatoes, ripe and sound, 
in an earthen or agate kettle, and cook 
slowly until the skin cracks and peels off. 
Then put in a hair sieve over a large 
bowl; the first ver.v thin liquid that 
runs from them slunild be thrown away. 
l’re.ss juice and i>ulp through the sieve, 
and i>ut in preserving kettle; to each 
pound of fruit add one teaspoonful of 
Embroidery Designs 
.V Fancy Bag to hold dust cloths or 
other trides needed at hand is No. TgiS. 
The embroidery calls for outline and 
crof*i-stitch. The d'esign Is stamped and 
tinted on white oyster linen (bag when 
linished about ll.xi4 inches). The price 
with mercerized floss is ‘2ii cents. 
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mixed spices, and stilt. Do not salt too 
much, or it will be too salty when 
boiled down. Cook slowly until it is 
(|uite thick, then put in wide-mouthed 
bottles. .Stand the bottles in a kettle 
eoutaining water enough to come half 
way up their sides, and boil as you would 
canned fruit; then remove from kettle, 
let go cold, and then seal tight, using 
liaraflin over the corks. Less spice may 
be list'd if liked 8ome cooks use a 
little onion or garlic and bay leaf as 
flavoring. This paste, being concen¬ 
trated, is ver.v convenient to use in cot.k- 
ing, and as it ma.v be kept in any wide- 
mouthed bottles one has, such as pickles 
and olive.s are purchased in, it saves 
pre.serve jars, which are now increasing 
in price. 
The telephone wire in use in 
the Bell System is long enough 
to run from the earth to the 
moon an d back again forty 
times. 
The Bell System has about 
twice as much telephone wire 
as all Europe. 
More than 500,000 new tele¬ 
phones are being added to 
the Bell System yearly—almost 
as many as the total number of 
telephones in England. 
In twelve months the Bell 
System adds enough telephones 
to duplicate the entire telephone 
systems of France, Italy and 
Switzerland combined. 
In proportion to population 
the extension of the Bell System 
in the United States is equal in 
two years to the total telephone 
progress of Europe since the 
telephone was invented—a 
period of about forty years. 
The Bell System fills the tele¬ 
phone needs of the American 
people with a thoroughness and 
a spirit of public service which 
are without parallel the world 
over. 
Hosiery 
that puts 
a stop to 
Darning 
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dependable 
hosiery, where 
service in wear 
and economy 
in price are 
combined. 
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The famous Durham dyes prevent 
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Ask your dealer to show 
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