1408 
December 21, 191S 
^ RURAL NEW-YORKER 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
From “In Memoriam” 
Again at Christmas did we weave 
The holly round the Christmas hearth ; 
The silent snow possessed the earth. 
And calmly fell our Christmas-eve: 
'^riie yule-clog sparkled keen with frost, 
No wing of wind the region swept, 
But over all things brooding slept 
The quiet sense of something lost. 
As in the Winters left behind 
Again our ancient games had peace, 
The mimic picture’s breathing grace. 
And dance and song and hoodman-blind. 
Who showed a token of distress? 
No single tear, no mark of pain : 
Oh sorrow, then can sorrow wane? 
Oh grief, can grief he changed to less? 
Oh last regret, regret can die! 
No—mixt with all this mystic frame. 
Her deep relations are the same, 
But with long use her team are di\y. 
—Alfred Lord Tennyson. 
Food-.savixg is still with us. in spite 
of peace. It is not really necessary for 
Government ofliciaks to urge economy on 
any hou.sekeepers of moderate means, for 
they must economize to live. Town 
housewives Avho are asked $1.20 a dozen 
for strictly fre.sh eggs, 70 to 74 cents a 
pound for butter and 10 cents a quart for 
milk, merely endeavor to limit the quan¬ 
tity of the.se articles purchased. It is a 
time when there are many invalids or 
convalescents who must be given nour¬ 
ishing food, and there are, without doubt, 
many ca.ses where prolonged illness, or 
even death, has resulted for want of such 
things, among people who would not be 
classed as very poor. As for the lux¬ 
uries, there are many like one of our 
friends, a woman in what we would term 
comfortable circum.stances, who said she 
hadn’t cooked a turkey for years, and 
never expected to be able to cook one 
again, because it would be an extrava¬ 
gance to buy one, and she wasn’t poor 
enough for a charitable society to give 
her one. We have all learned many les¬ 
sons of economy that would have seemed 
impossible a few years ago, and there is 
no likelihood that these lessons will be 
forgotten, even if our circumstances be¬ 
come easier. 
Wk have received an unusual number 
of requests for methods of preparing pork 
products at butchering time—'sausage, 
scrapple, etc. Evidently waste is to be 
eliminated. The following is a tested 
recipe for souse: Soak pigs’ feet over 
night. Clean by scraping and washing 
thoroughly. Cook in salted water until 
the meat can be removed from the bones 
easily. Return the meat, from which 
bones and gristle have been removed, to 
the liquid, and cook about half an hour. 
If there is more than enough liquid to 
cover the meat, it should be boiled down 
before the meat is returned to it. Sea¬ 
son with salt, pepper and cider vinegar 
just before removing from the fire. Turn 
into a shallow dish, cool thoroughly to set ■ 
the jelly, then slice and serve cold. When 
pickled, pigs’ feet are prepared and boiled 
as above, and salted to taste before re¬ 
moving from the fire. They are then 
packed in a stone or wooden container, 
and covered with hot spiced vinegar, us¬ 
ing whole cloves, allspice and pepper. 
Serve cold. 
A PLAIN but nourishing supper dish is 
hominy baked with cheese. Boil the hom¬ 
iny as usual, and while hot stir grated 
cheese into it, one-half pound cheese to 
one quart of cooked hominy. Make the 
hominy into a mound in a baking di.sh. 
dot with butter, and bake until nicely 
browned; serve A'ery hot. 
Every year some of our readers tell 
what they’serve for school luncheons—a 
subject always interesting where a house¬ 
keeper has several children going to 
school. .. The Virginia m'Other who insu¬ 
lated the children’s dinner pails like a 
fireless cooker, and thus provided them 
with hot soup and other warm food, fur-, 
nished a valuable idea. This correspond¬ 
ent is a believer in the meatless diet, and 
various milk and vegetable soups made 
their appearance in the children’s lunch¬ 
eons, as well as creamed and scalloped 
vegetables. The fireless cooker idea is 
also used by some women when the men 
go out to work in the woods in Winter; 
instead of a cold lunch, baked beans or 
other hearty food are packed, sizzling 
hot. in a box well lined and padded, 
which can be loaded on the wagon. This 
is appreciated by hungry men, and is cer¬ 
tainly luxury when compared with biting 
into a frozen sandwich. 
will, we think, interest many others sim¬ 
ilarly situated: 
“My home, large, convenient and beau¬ 
tiful, is on a farm. I am 47 years old, 
the possessor of two college degrees, good 
health, and a social conscience. Our three 
children are more than half grown up, 
but every wise mother knows that they 
must be fed at this time, mentally and 
spiritually, with as much care as she de¬ 
voted to their physical feeding when they 
were younger. 
“We are far from rich, but we are very 
comfortable. But the exigencies of farm 
life in these days of scarce labor require 
that I spend mo.st of my time sweeping 
and dusting, washing clothes and dishes, 
cooking meals, canning fruit and vege¬ 
tables, and mending clothes. If I held 
myself less rigidly to the task of bringing 
mental and spiritual food to our farm 
table we should also be growing poultry 
and garden stuff on a fairly large scale. 
The place would produce them. 
“Our house, our land, and our hearts 
are big enough to take half a dozen or¬ 
phaned children if it were not for the 
press of work needed to keep the family 
together physically, A large part of this 
work could be done successfully by the 
little folks themselves under the direction 
of an educated mother if she had time to 
devote to their instruction. The thing 
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Motherhood Extension 
IMany children in Greater New York 
have been orphaned by the influenza epi¬ 
demic, and both public and private influ¬ 
ences have been attempting to find homes 
for these orphans, where they would be 
adopted, instead of being placed in public 
institutions. The following letter, print¬ 
ed in the New York E'vening Post, was 
inspired by this demand for homes for 
such dependent children. It presents the 
farm woman’s attitude very clearly and 
would be easily possible in our family but 
for the need of my doing the large phys¬ 
ical tasks which could be done more effi¬ 
ciently outside the home were the neigh¬ 
borhood equipped with a co-operative 
laundry, bakery, and cannery and there 
were .some competent woman who could 
be called upon to take my place if I be¬ 
came ill or for any other reason had to 
give up my charges temporarily. 
“I know, and everybody know.s, that 
this is no isolated case. There are thou- 
s.ands of homes in the country, commo¬ 
dious indoors and out, with women, moth¬ 
ers or not, who are quite capable of teach¬ 
ing and loving these orphans if they 
could -be assured of time and money to 
do it properly. Each child could learn 
the household operations, have a garden 
and care for animals, and go to school. 
There should be no children in orphan 
asylums except those who need unusual 
ineiit.al or physical care. 
“V"e women have had our full share of 
admonition since the war began. We 
have been admonished to work and save 
and we have done it wholeheartedly, al¬ 
though a large number of us are still de¬ 
nied a part in the Government. But the 
really effective thing we might do we 
can’t because the men whose boast has 
been that they represent us have followed 
such disastrously inefficient policies in 
government and business. If we had co¬ 
operative enterprises instead of biisine.ss 
run for private profit, the family of or¬ 
dinary means could afford to have done 
outside the home those operations that so 
tax women’s strength that they must 
stifle their natural impulse for mother¬ 
hood in order to keep the family together 
physically. 
“Large sums of money—incrediblv 
large—have been loaned to the Govern¬ 
ment to carry on this war. Incredibly 
large sums have been contributed for war 
work. Money seems to be our long suit 
on this side of the Atlantic. Can’t we 
have another drive? Let us furnish funds 
for starting co-operative enterprises and 
pensioning wmmen who already possess the 
plant in their country homes for a grand 
extension of motherhood. There are 
numbers of unmarried women and child¬ 
less married women and women like my¬ 
self whose families are nearly or quite 
grown up who would gladly join such a 
motherhood crusade.” 
“A Michigan Woman Has the Floor” 
While resting from taking two wheel¬ 
barrows of manure from acro.ss the road 
I’ll drop a line to The R. N.-Y. T read 
in the issue of Nov. 23 E. A. Riehl’s 
article on chestnut trees, and one of my 
loads went onto a seedling American 
chestnut and the other onto .some white 
Chrysanthemums, which ai-e still in 
bloom. Nov. 20, a few miles Larther 
north of where Chicago is. As I was 
coming across, a man driving by said: 
“That’s pi’etty heavy work for you.” 
And so it is, but what is a woman to do 
whose three sons heard the call of the 
country louder than the call of a small 
.sandy farm? Help is scarce and what 
there is wants big pay for short jobs, 
.‘ind so the farmeress, assisted by her 
high-school farmerette, goes on with the 
work till “the boys come home.” It is 
to be hoped all of their lives will be 
richer and fuller for this experience. It 
has cost the soldiers’ mothers and .sisters 
something too. 
Another article in this issue “went to 
the spot.” It is G. A. A.’s, page 1.316, 
“That Mortgage.” I have, seen wives 
love their husbands so well (?) but so 
unwisely as to put their propertv into 
husband’s name. Then through sudden 
death or other things, with other heirs 
claiming it, caused her to lo.se it. Women, 
be wise, and guard your property inter¬ 
ests for your old age. I was delighted 
last week to hear of a woman who.se 
church has opposed equal suffrage say: 
“I hoiie now that women vote (here in 
Michigan) -n'e’ll have protection for 
women property owners.” A woman 
should have been taught in .school the 
laws of her _ land, e.speeially property 
laws. It is just as important as two- 
thirds of what she is taught. 
An aged woman told me lately she and 
her husband put their property into a 
sou’s haiuks to care for them. The son 
was hurt in an automobile accident, and 
knowing he must die conveyed it to a 
young son. This grand.sou manned and 
he and his young wife are treating the 
old people most unkindly, and now they 
wish they had legal possession of their 
home, which is theirs just as much as it 
ever was—except for the scratche.s of 
two pens. Old people, hang onto your 
property or put it into the hands of an 
honest banker, who will see you through 
with papers properly drawn up. If there 
■were no “money interests” some people 
would act more humanely; as it is, some 
jieople seem to be money mad. 
MICHIGAN WOMAN. 
Rabbit Sausage 
Where one is butchering and can secure 
the rabbits, take two-thirds rabbit meat 
and one-third pork, grind and season to 
taste with salt and pepper. Pack in 
stone jars and cover -with melted lard, 
or fry and place in jars and cover with 
lard. It can be kept for a long time. 
’I’ll is is very palatable. R. ii. r. 
Cooling Drinks Without Sugar 
These are excellent in feverish colds 
and similar ailments: 
Apple Tea.—Take a large, sound, red 
and ripe apple, preferably a Baldwin; 
wash it and put into a small enamel 
saucepan with three-quarters of a pint of 
water. Let it boil for 20 minutes and 
then strain into a small pitcher. This 
will quench the thirst of a patient with a 
high temperature. 
Barley Water—Wash two tablespoons- 
ful of pearl barley. Pour off’ the fii-st 
w'ater when it boils, and then pour about 
a quart of water over it and let it boil 
for three hours. There will then be about 
a pint. Strain, and, if liked, add the 
juice of half a lemon. It is so nourishing 
that a physician said of it that it would 
keep body and soul together. 
Toast and Water.—Toast a thick slice 
or a crust of bread until it is almost 
black, but not burnt. Put into a pitcher 
and pour 'boiling water over it. Let 
.stand until cold. An excellent drink to 
quench the thirst of a fevered tongue. 
I. A. GLA.SSE. 
^That feels 
good now. Mother^* 
T hose bumps and bruises that the 
youngsters are always getting, and 
the many patnSy strains, aches, rheu¬ 
matic twinges, lumbago, sciatica, sore 
muscles that every member of the family 
sometime or another suffers from, are 
promptly relieved by Sloan’s Liniment. 
No poultice, plaster, or ointment mussiness to contend 
with, no stained skin, no cloeted pores. Simply an always- 
ready, hiebly-effective liniment that has. for J7 years, 
helped relieve the pains and aches of the nation. 
Three sizes—the larjer the bottle the greater the economy. 
E11==7E 
I TXp Every Tree 
Millions of pouncls 
of Maple Su^air 
can be savedL 
For. nearly 50 Years 
First Prize Maple Syrup' L 
and Sugar has been made by 
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sugar—How to save time in 
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This booklet ia free and every farmer 
should have one. Write for yours today. 
S^up Cans, Sugar Pails and Sap Buckets 
will be hard to get next spring. If you 
order early,we can supply you at reason¬ 
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supply you with anything else you want. 
Write for information. 
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