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Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Mizpah 
And Laban said, this heap is a witness 
between me and thee this day. Therefore 
was the name of it called Galeed and 
Mizpah ; for he said, the Ix)rd watch be¬ 
tween me and thee w'hen we are absent 
from one another.—Gen. xxxi, 48-49. 
'When we are parted—pray ! but do not 
weej); 
!My spirit in the air is wandering: 
I.ove is an hour of life; with death comes 
sleep. 
The night’s a dream, the day a waken¬ 
ing. 
The Lord watch over ns where’er we 
stray, 
One from another, be it night or day. 
Be this our covenant apart, alone. 
Carve thou this sign upon love’s altar 
stone, 
Mizpah! 
are they meeting this problem in your 
neighborhood? Can anyone give a rural 
woman’s plans for acquiring, by work or 
economy, her share in the National finan¬ 
ces, in the form of those helpful little 
stamps? 
Mealtime on a Transport 
Farm women who are called on to plan 
meals for a thrashing or silage cutting 
crew sometimes wonder how the house¬ 
keeping is done on a transport, carrying 
thousands of men overseas. The Com¬ 
mittee on Public Information has the fol¬ 
lowing to say about it: 
Two hundred and ten thousand meals 
were served on a United States transpoi’t 
on a recent voyage. One hundred and 
eighty varieties of food were used in mak¬ 
ing up the menus, and this ship carricMi 
750,000 pounds—3,750 tons—of food. 
In spaces no larger than a private din¬ 
ing room at Sherry’s they come, by thou¬ 
sands upon thousands, and yet in such 
The Rural Patterns 
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and size desired, sending price with order 
0538. Two - piece 9532. One - piece 
Skirt for Misses and Dress for Misses and 
Small Women, 10 Small Women, 16 
and* 18 years. Trice and 18 years. I’rlce 
10 cents. 15 cents. 
Whilst we are waiting—hope, but do not 
grieve; 
There is some sunshine on the darkest 
day; 
Around love’s monument fresh garlands 
weave; 
llespair thou not, my heart—but only 
pray! 
The Lord watch over us, ’twixt me and 
thee. 
When we are absent, if we parted be. 
Be this our covenant, by faith alone. 
Carve thou our sign upon love’s altar 
stone. 
Mizpah I 
—Clement Scott. 
* 
, Wk recently met with our first woman 
bootblack, an attravtice and courteous 
young colored girl in the women’s wait¬ 
ing room of a great railway station in 
New York. She does her work well, and 
is appreciated by feminine travelers. Girl 
elevator operators are now seen in many 
New York buildings, and women cooks 
are seen turning griddle cakes in the 
windows of dairy lunch rooms. The new 
“work or fight” order is removing many 
young men from light occupations in the 
cities. Certainly there seems no reason 
why an able-bodied young man, at the 
preseut time, should be employed to fry 
griddle cakes. 
Tiik following is a “conservation” blue¬ 
berry jaidding given by the New’ York 
Tribune : Sift together one cupful each 
of rice flour and cornmeal, half a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt, three teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder and two tablespoonfuls of 
sugar. Beat one egg wdth a scant cupful 
of milk and gradually beat the liquid into 
the dry ingredients. Then add two table¬ 
spoonfuls of melted shortening, one and a 
half cupfuls of blueberries (dusted wdth 
rice flour) and one tablespoonful of “corn 
sirup.” Bake in a greased pan, using a 
moderately hot oven, for about 30 min¬ 
utes. 
* 
'riiK “Official Bulletiu” announces that 
women in Uinta County, Utah, are going 
to make sugar at home. The great in¬ 
terest taken in sugar-beet production for 
sirups by the women of that county has 
led to the planting of from 75 to 300 
pounds of sugar-beet seed. This is tin; 
direct I’esult of the w'ork of the county 
home-demonstration agent, who has dem¬ 
onstrated the use and making of the sirup 
to each of the 15 organizations in the 
county wdth whom she works. The w’om- 
en have also made between 2.000 and 
2..500 pounds of potato starch, averag¬ 
ing 25 pounds to four bushels of potatoes. 
This means the saving of 400 bushels of 
potatoes that otherwise would have been 
wasted. 
How can country women get a little 
extra money for the purchase of War 
Savings Stamps? We are usually told 
that it is easy to save for this purpose; 
we must merelybuy less candy, avoid tax¬ 
icabs. walk rather than take the street 
car, keep aw’ay from the movies and the 
expensive restaurants, and abstain from 
buying .$18 hats. But the farmers’ wives 
and daughters do not need these admoni¬ 
tions ; extravagance in these lines is be¬ 
yond their horizon. Their extra savings 
must come either from rigid self-denial or 
from some plan for making extra money. 
We have wondered how patriotic c-ountry 
women and girls are meeting this prob¬ 
lem. We know that they wdll w'ant to 
lend some savings to the government and 
to help equip Pershing’s Crusaders. How 
perfect order that in less than 80 min¬ 
utes the last man has been served. The 
khaki line seems endless. It must seem 
longer than that to those in the real’. 
But the coffee in the big pots remains 
hot, the stew’ continues to steam, and in 
less than seven seconds each man has an 
equipment replete with food. It only 
takes two details to accomplish this mir¬ 
acle—perfect system and vast quantities 
of things that one can eat. That’s about 
all it takes. Flour, potatoes and beef are 
the Big Three that rule the realm below, 
yet there are 159.000 pounds of fresh veg¬ 
etables waiting to be absorbed, jiroviding 
the sea doesn’t get too rough. 
After receiving their focxl the men ar¬ 
range their own menus. For example, one 
takes gravy on his rice and jam on his 
bread. The next takes gravy on his 
bread and jam on his rice, using the com¬ 
bination to produce a crimson-tinted mix- 
. ture of startling effect. American inge¬ 
nuity is hard to stop. 
Outside of providing 210,000 meals at 
sea the mess officer of the shij) has very 
little to do. Very little. He is only called 
upon to provide, by the regulations. 180 
different varieties of food. That's all. 
Fver try to order ISO different things to 
eaf^ Yet this is the authentic list. 
The food needed to feed several thou¬ 
sand men at sea ranges beyond the glut¬ 
ton’s dream. Y"ou get the answer in the 
ship down below the waterline where 
7,290 loaves of bread have been baked in 
one day, and eaten, and where you stum¬ 
ble over every variety from f)0,00(; pounds 
of beef to 132,000 eggs, or a compartment 
of brick ice cream in a 10-degree-above¬ 
zero vault. 
And if this doesn’t suit you, you can 
bump along into 49,324 pounds of pota¬ 
toes, 7,100 pounds of ham and bacon, 
7,800 pounds of butter, 9.200 pounds of 
sugar and 01,500 pounds of flour. 
If you can’t get a meal out of this 
you can still fall back on 4.000 pounds of 
sausage, .3,400 pounds of sauerkraut, 
20,000 pounds of apples. 19.800 pounds of 
oranges and 4,200 pounds of onions. 
And this leaves out 1,000 poiinds of 
jam and 9,400 pounds of Lima and navy 
beans. 
The sea brings on an appetite—at 
times. So does wearing khaki. The com¬ 
bination develops a cyclone. Yet this 
ship not only yields many thousands of 
meals a day, but will depo.sit 100,000 
pounds of food at its next port. No won¬ 
der Mr. Hoover wanted all food con¬ 
served. He must have thought of these 
men in khaki w'aiting their turn, one 
thousand upon another thousand through 
a space 60 by 40 feet, each man armed 
with a mess equipment in either fist, 
ready to go over the top and break the 
bread line. Breaking the bread line is 
the popular phrase. On this trip alone 
they will consume 75.000 loaves and use 
up 2,000 loaves more for sandwiches when 
they leave the ship. 
There is no vast .space for all thi.s— 
but perfect organization, four clean kitch¬ 
ens, and a mess force of 1.38 men turn 
the trick without a tangle. From pota¬ 
toes to pies, from ice cream to sauer¬ 
kraut, fi’om grapefruit to onions, from 
jam to sardines, the allotment is drawn 
from its shadowed hiding place below 
where the removal of several pounds hard¬ 
ly leaves a dent. And handling 180 vari¬ 
eties of food in quantities that range fi’om 
800 pounds to 79 tons speaks almost for 
itself. 
Canned Meats; Pimentos 
Canned Chicken.—Cook until meat falls 
from bones in just enough water to cook 
so it will be thick Avhen cold. Back in 
pint cans, fill with juice, bne-half tea- 
spoonful salt, put on tops, cook three 
hours. This is better than to put in sea¬ 
soning, for you can make chicken pie, pot- 
pie, etc., that you would not want i)ep- 
pers and onions in. I canned a 35-pound 
turkey this Spring, and it is fine. 
Canned Meat.—No. 1.—Cut raw meat 
from bones, pack in pint cans with a 
piece of fat on top. one-half teaspoon salt, 
not any water. Cook four hours. 
No. 2.—Cook till meat falls fi’om bones, 
pack in pint cans, add one-half teaspoon 
salt, fill full -with hot liquid, boil three 
hours. 
'The recipe for canned pimentos on 
July 13, 1918 
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