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7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Tennessee Notes 
Friday night the rain poured and 
poured. We, or our vegetables, were a 
bit thirsty, but so many of us were prep- 
pared to attend the big union singing at 
Fall Branch that it sounded a bit dis¬ 
heartening. Perhaps the singing conven¬ 
tions are not so common everywhere. 
Here the counties are all organized; pres¬ 
ident. secretary, etc., and classes; once a 
month paeh county has a singing conven¬ 
tion. People go for miles, some in cars, 
some in buggies, road wagons, hacks, 
horseback and afoot—just any way to get 
there. The more classes the better, and 
each class sings its own selections, and 
now and then for a change the whole con¬ 
gregation stands and sings. The greatest 
trouble with us is we have no buildings 
large enough to hold the crowd, and I 
think what a pity that some of the small 
villages striving to support two or three 
half-starved churches will not join hands 
and combine their churches into one com¬ 
modious building. Will there be any creeds 
in heaven? I notice when the hungry 
throng are invited to the well-filled table 
they don’t stand back until they ask if 
the invitation is from a Baptist. Metho¬ 
dist. Cumberland or Dunkard; but. any¬ 
way, we had a good time, for the sun 
peeped out the next morning and every¬ 
one began to fix. I thought everyone’s 
things were right in place, but of course 
some articles had to be looked for, yet in 
gcxl time we all arrived safe and sound. 
Three counties were represented, and 
if the roads had not been so muddy the 
church would not have seated the classes. 
make a fine spread for the children’s 
lunch. A friend has told me that pump¬ 
kins boiled and sifted with one-third of 
cooked California peaches added, with 
plenty of sugar, makes a fine butter, hard 
to tell from regular peach butter, so if I 
can obtain the peaches I intend to try the 
mixture, as well as can a quantity of reg¬ 
ular pumpkin butter for custards. That, 
with beans, corn, pickles, chow, slaw, to¬ 
matoes, etc., will make a bit of change the 
long Winter months.. 
Our sweet potatoes look promising. I 
Irish potatoes not so good; bunch beans 
prospering. We plan to butcher an extra, 
hog. With milk and butter and plenty! 
of good corn bread, mush, hominy, etc..I 
for cold evenings, we will not starve. It! 
is just that we have taught ourselves to 
use so many different desserts; everyone 
has them, and the young generation ex¬ 
pects them. I can remember when two 
dozen jars was thought to be a great num¬ 
ber; now it’s two hundred. A gallon or I 
two of jelly and the same of preserves: 
used to be set on a high shelf, and only 
used on state occasions, the sugar kept 
under lock and key, and a lump given as a 
great reward of merit. Children were sel¬ 
dom sick, people were lots healthier then 
than now. To be sure, there were sacks 
of dried fruit and gallons of cider butter, 
but would we eat a bite of anything so 
sour as that was today? We ruin the 
stomach and tastes of our children when 
they are small with sweet stuff, and pay 
the penalty in doctor’s bills, ill health and 
big grocery bills. MBS. D. B. p. 
Canning Baby Beets and Carrots 
The United States Department of Ag¬ 
riculture gives the following instructions: 
Use only small beets of a variety which 
has a deep red color throughout when 
cooked. One of the beet varieties of 
An exquisitely designed set arranged for the ancient but ever-fashionable cross-stitch 
is illustrated in the 132" series, consisting of a centerpiece, scarf and half window curtains. 
The flowers are for shades of violet. The leaves are for medium green with steins of dark 
green. The lines at extreme edge of centerpiece are for medium shade of violet with heavy 
doss. The inside decorative lines are for light brown. The rosettes in between these lines 
are for deep rose. The designs are stamped and tinted on white art fabric. The center- 
piece. No. 132". size 30 inches square, costs with mercerized floss to complete embroidery, 
. Cluny lace to edge, 75 cents extra. 
Two ball games in the evening claimed 
some of the crowd, ice cream and lemon¬ 
ade stands called others; hacks and cars 
held quite a number where two is com¬ 
pany and three is none. Some going in, 
some comiug out all day. gave all a chance 
to hear part of the entertainment, and 
then the people, to greet old friends you 
have not met with for years, is something 
And, oh. the good “oats!” Pie. chicken, 
cake, pickles, beef. slaw, tomatoes, eggs, 
jelly, etc.; a few plums, now and then 
some peaches, but no apples, and every¬ 
one asking everyone else how they come 
on; some talking about no fruit, some 
about bow many children and where they 
are, and each too intent on their 
own conversation to give heed to what 
someone else is saying, no wonder one’s 
head buzzed for a day or two. but we 
come home tired but happy, with some¬ 
thing to talk about. It pays to get out;, 
true, there is uo place like home, but we 
can stay there until it becomes a prison 
wall; we grow narrow-minded, preju¬ 
diced. until we think that our little world 
is the whole universe, our little minds the 
master ones, and that beyond is a blank. 
It does us good to rub shoulders with out¬ 
siders in more ways than one. 
A number of our neighbors own cars, 
and a vacant seat is unknown when one 
starts. Shall we ever own one? We 
have gone up some rather steep hills, but 
I have turned my mind upside down, in¬ 
side out. and around and around, and for 
the life of me I cannot see one anyway 
near. At the present I have a patent 
churn in view; I have beaten a dasher for 
•_>X years and’I want you to know I am 
tired of it. 
I was lucky enough to obtain 22 gal¬ 
lons of berries. 1 canned 28 quarts, made 
six quarts of jelly and nine gallons of 
jam. It removed a bit of the burden. I 
have the promise of two bushels of ap¬ 
ples. I shall just slice them without peel¬ 
ing. cook tender, cool and rub through the 
sieve, add one-third sugar and boil sev¬ 
eral hours. It will form a cust on top. 
keep well in stone crocks or. jars, and 
beets for cauning is the Detroit. Sort 
the beets, cut off all but an inch or two 
of roots and leaves, put uniform sizes to¬ 
gether and steam for 20 minutes or boil 
until three-fourths cooked to loosen the 
skins. Do not allow cold water to touch 
the beets after they have been boiled, as 
sometimes it causes them to lose color. 
Beets which average one inch in diameter 
may be boiled and packed whole in jars 
which have been sterilized 15 minutes. 
Those more than two inches in diameter 
should be cut in slices. Cover the beets in 
the can with clear hot water. The flavor 
of the finished product is better if no sea¬ 
soning is added during the canning. 
Remove bubbles with a flexible paddle 
and put rubber, which has been soaked 
in a solution made from one tablespoon 
soda and one quart of water, in place. Ad¬ 
just the top, which has been boiled 15 
minutes, and screw until half tight, if it 
is a screw top jar. With the glass top 
jars, one bail is adjusted and the other 
left free until the processing is finished. 
If steam pressure cauner is used, process 
jars one hour at 5 lbs. pressure. With a 
commercial hot water canuer or home¬ 
made one in which a wash boiler or lard 
can is used to process the jars, place the 
jars on a fa]se bottom of wood, with wa¬ 
ter sufficient to cover tops, and process 
90 minutes. 
For canning, select small, tender car¬ 
rots not more than 1 l /j inches in diam¬ 
eter. Wash, scrape carefully and steam 
or boil until three-fourths cooked. Slice, 
dice or cut the carrots into lengths of the 
can. For quart jars add one level tea¬ 
spoon of salt and cover with boiling wa¬ 
ter. Follow the same procedure as for 
beets and process one hour. 
Happiness comes not from the power 
of possession, hut from the power of ap¬ 
preciation. Above most other things It 
is wise to cultivate the powers of appre¬ 
ciation. The greater the number of stops 
on an organ the greater its possibilities 
as an instrument of music.—II. W. Syl¬ 
vester. . , . 
W ESTCLOX is a short way of saying 
Western clocks. It means a line of good 
alarm clocks made by the Western Clock 
Company. Every clock in the Westclox 
family is manufactured by the patented proc¬ 
ess that made Big Ben famous. Whether 
you select Big Ben, Sleep-Meter, America, or 
Baby Ben you know you’re getting a good clock 
because each one is a Westclox. 
To make it easy for you to recognize our 
clocks, we print the family-name, Westclox , on 
the dial right above the name of the clock. 
We also attach an orange colored, six-sided 
Westclox tag. These are marks of good time¬ 
keeping, Look for them on the alarm you buy. 
Western Clock Co.—makers of Wbstclox 
Offices at La Salle—Factories at Peru, Ill., U.S.A. 
An Appeal to 
Young Women 
Enlist in the great humanitarian 
work of earijig for the sick and 
teaching the conservation of 
health. There is a constant de¬ 
mand for trained nurses and ex¬ 
cellent opportunities in good sal¬ 
aried positions in every field of 
nursing await intelligent, healthy 
young women who are eligible. Ap¬ 
plicants must be between 19 and 
35 with one year at high school or 
its equivalent and be imbued with 
a real desire to render humani¬ 
tarian service. Send for complete 
particulars to Principal, Training 
School for Nurses. Bridgeport Hos¬ 
pital, Bridgeport. Conn. 
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