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■Uhe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
December 22, lt)i7 
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THE RURAL NE-W-YORKER, 
833 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
Farm Women’s Facts and Opinions 
Equal Suffrage. —Just at awakenine 
time on the morning after election, it 
seemed as if all the -whistles in the distant 
city were being tooted and blown in a 
pa?an of victory. Had Germany surren¬ 
dered or had equal suffrage won? Alas! 
It was only the whistling of the wind on 
the telephone wires. But later in the day 
the news came that woman suffrage had 
actually won out by a good majority. The 
cook in the pantry exclaimed, “My, we 
must begin to read I” and the mender at 
the sewing machine thought of the time 
that she heard Susan B. Anthony talk on 
woman suffrage lO long ago, a frail little 
old lady, but a lady every inch; of the 
brave men and women all down the year* 
who bad championed equal rights in the 
face of opposition and ridicule, and here 
apparently in the cycle of a day, our own 
Empire State bad boldly led the East in 
the movement -which will in time include 
the whole country. But we realize that 
it was no matter of chance, this victory 
for woman suffrage. All over the State, 
men and women have been thinking and 
working, and the result is a beautiful ex¬ 
ample of the effect of patient and dignified 
effort toward a desired end. In our own 
election district two years ago, some en¬ 
thusiastic persons decided to have an 
equal suffrage rally. They did not get 
speakers from some city, but stood befora 
the audience and gave their own convic¬ 
tions simply, earnestly, just as they them¬ 
selves felt about the question. School 
children, ardent little suffragists, distrib¬ 
uted literature throughout the community. 
And our election district this year was 
one of the very few in the county to give 
a good majority for woman suffrage. It 
has doubtless been a common experience 
all over the State that special effort has 
i)!-ought its reward. Some people regard 
woman suffrage as a calamity. A dentist 
in the city gave his opinion that it -was 
the greatest mistake that the country 
had made in a hundred years. /‘But then,” 
said he. “there’s one consolation; it can’t 
po.ssibly turn out to he as bad as I think 
it'.s going to.” Speaking further, he said. 
“If you country men and country -women 
could control the vote it wouldn’t he so 
had. hut where one of you goes to the 
jiolls there will he a dozen from the city, 
and there you are!” It is most discour¬ 
aging to try to argue with a dentist. Yon 
cannot debate successfully -when your ar¬ 
ticulation is impeded by a mirror, several 
fingers and thumbs and a drilling machine. 
And the need for continuous drilling ap¬ 
pears to be greatest just after he gives 
what he considers a knockdown argument. 
Doubtle.-5s his views of the value of the 
city vote are too pessimistic, but there 
may be something in what he says, that 
the country vote is especially valuable; 
and if it is true it behooves every country 
•woman to see that each vote in her house¬ 
hold is cast, and cast thoughtfully and 
intelligently. 
Walking Off a Cold. —Did you ever 
try taking a long -walk to break up a 
cold? Sometime when your bones ache 
and your throat is raw and sore, your 
nerves quiver aud your bead aches and 
bed looks to he the most attractive spot 
in the world, try wrapping yourself warm¬ 
ly and take to the road. Strike an easy 
pace and -walk until you are tired. Do 
not call on your friends—they will appre¬ 
ciate you more when you are less of a 
germ-spreader. Visit a hilltop, follow 
some rabbit tracks, whistle a inarching 
tune and play you are a soldier—there 
are plenty of interesting things to do, even 
on a bleak Winter day. Go to bed early 
and have plenty of fresh air in the sleep¬ 
ing room. Do not attempt to do any very 
hal'd or heavy work for a day or so, aud 
the chances are that the symptoms will 
have disappeared by the third day. This 
has been proven to he a real cure aud is 
better than medicine, for it uses nature’s 
own remedies. 
A Washday Suggestion. —Whon bang¬ 
ing out the washing on a cold Winter day, 
sort out the handkerchiefs by themselves. 
Take them by the corners in bunches of 
i five or six and attach a clothespin (of the 
; spring variety! to each bunch. Then 
i when you go out into the cold you can 
hang out throe or four dozen handker¬ 
chiefs iu a collide of^ minutes and the 
fingers -will not have time to get chilled. 
Washcloths may be hung iu the same 
manner, but iu smaller huucbes. 
Caring for the Wringer. _— The 
wringer may be kept clean and in good 
condition by the use of naphtha or scour¬ 
ing soap. When the-washing is done, loosen 
the wringer screws, reverse the gears if 
run hv power, or turn backward, to avoid 
the danger of getting the fingers caught, 
then press the cake of soap firmly against 
the rolls, moving it hack and forth as they 
turn so as to soap them all over. Scrub 
with a small brush, using more soap if 
necessary, and rinse with Clean water, 
lieave the screws loose until the wringer 
is needed again. 
Bathing a Chicken. —In preparing a 
chicken for the kettle or roastiiig-pan, 
after the singeing is done wash it with 
warm water and soap, using a small scrub 
brush and giving it a final rinse with 
clean water. As hens have oily skins and 
ai-e accustomed to take their baths in road 
dust, it is very necessary that soap should 
he used to make them clean enough for 
food. MRS. A. 6. DOREN. 
Some Specially Desirable War Breads 
To some people brown breads have 
never appealed. They have been regarded 
as a cheap form of bread, and too often 
they have been considered as not so handy 
for ordinary use a.s the white loaf, as they 
have to he eaten while warm and could 
not, therefore, be made ahead. To meet 
the exigencies of the present day new 
methods of using other eere.als than all 
wheat in the making of bread has over¬ 
come all these objections. The new war 
breads are not only tender in texture and 
delicious in flavor, but by a judicious use 
of yeast they may he made ahead and 
eaten cold fully as w^ell as the usual white 
flour yeast loaf. 
Wheat is now greatly needed for our i 
own soldiers, and for shipment to the 
Allies. Potatoes are bulky, and are there¬ 
fore undesirable for sending abroad. But 
they are excellent food, and make a fine 
substitute for part of the wheat flour in 
a loaf nearly as white and attractive and 
with ns good keeping qualities as the bet¬ 
ter known white loaf of the past. Rice 
also makes a fine white bread when used 
as a substitute for part of the wheat in 
the family loaf. Both of these in the new 
■w’ar breads will appeal to those who are 
sure they do not like brown breads. Corn- 
meal and oatmeal each make fine yeast 
breads used with a certain amount of 
-w'heat flour. We cannot at present prices 
of these cereals say they make a cheaper 
bread, but their general use will liberate 
thousands of barrels of -wheat flour for | 
the use of the soldiers, and we .should all > 
he patriotic enough to do anything we can 
toward helping in this great cause. We 
will at the same time be bettering our 
own physical condition by subsitiiting 
the.se fo(^s. 
Potato Bread.—Four cups boiled mash¬ 
ed potatoes, eight cups flour, one-half cup 
sweet milk or water, four tablespoons 
sugar, four tablespoons fat, 1% teaspoons 
salt, one-half cake compressed yeast dis¬ 
solved in one-fourth cup -warm water. 
The above amounts make three loaves at 
a cost of 26 cents, exclusive of labor. The 
kneadinga are two, as for wheat bread, 
excepting that the first dough is_ much 
Btiffer, the second one softer. It is first 
kneaded into a hard loaf. After rising 
to double the hulk it is put into the pans, 
where it again gets light, baking at least 
45 minutes. 
Rice Yeast Bread.—One-half cup milk, 
seven cups boiled rice, eight cups flour, 
four tablespoons sugar, the same of fat, 
1^? teaspoons salt, one-half cake com- j 
pressed yeast dissolved in one-fourth cup ' 
warm "water. Scald the milk, pour over I 
fat, sugar and salt. Cool and add the ' 
yeast, rice and flour, and give the usual | 
two manipulations. The first dough is 
stiff, the second so soft R will need a 
spoon to stir it in placing it iu the pans. 
Bake 45 minutes, when a very moist, 
white loaf is obtained.^ keeping moist 
longer than the usual white loaf. 
Oatmeal Yeast Bread.—One cup milk 
or water, one teaspoon salt, one table¬ 
spoon fat. two tablespoons sugar, one cup 
rolled oats, 214 (“ups wheat flour, one-lmlf 
cake compressed yeast, one-fourth cup 
warm water. Scald the liquid and pour 
over the rolled oats, sugar, salt and fat. 
Let cool until lukewarm.^ aud add the 
yeast and flour. Knead into hard loaf, 
let rise, knead again aud place in pam 
When light bake in a moderate oven 45 
minutes to one hoiir. This makes a very 
fine flavored, nut-like brown loaf. 
Cornmeal Y’east Bread .—IVi cups milk 
or water and two-thirds cup corn made 
into a mush by slowly sifting the meal, 
white or yellow, into the boiling liquid. 
Add the sugar, salt and fat cool. Add 
veast aud 11-3 cups flour and knead 
into hard loaf. Let rise aud knead in 
one more cup of flour, put into pans, let 
rise again and hake slowly at least one 
hour. This dough is stiffer and stickier 
than the usual one. but if the above 
method of mixing is followed a very satis¬ 
factory corn loaf is the result. 
The* amount of yeast given for all these i 
recipes is for a short process, 3^2 to four 
hours. By using half the quantity equally 
good results are obtained in five hours. 
If homemade soft yeast is preferred it 
should be sweet, active yeast, and an 
amount used (not more than the liquid 
constituents given) that will raise the 
bread in a reasonable time, using slightly 
less liquid. These breads may be raised 
over night in the big hard loaf stage, as 
in the usual yeast bread. All four of 
these cereal substitutes may be found in 
any grocery store, which is not always 
the case with rye and barley, as yet. 
MABEL G. FEINT. 
The Home Dressmaker 
(Continued from page 1451) 
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than two straight pieces draped together 
at shoulders and waist. There is a real 
economy in this fashion, as it is possible 
to use the same foundation for a plain 
or dressy costume. Sleeveless Russian 
blouses are often used over such a foun¬ 
dation, being finished with an elaborate 
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