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April 17, 1020 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day' 
The True Heart • . 
If I should live to see the wretched day 
That human aid would fail me in distress, 
And men. with utter lack of friendliness 
Would turn from me and look the other 
way,— 
Then could I, even then, look up and say : 
“I have one friend who loves me none the 
less.” 
For, ever in that hour of pain and stress 
My dog, devoted, by my side would stay. 
Let. him who from his own experience 
knows 
This love, repay with kindly thought and 
deed, 
For once within the canine heart he sows 
The seed of trust, there will that little 
seed ■* 
Take root in genial soil, steadfast to grow 
In faithful love, until the hour of need. 
—KATHARINE MILLER GTJNN in Our 
Dumb Animals. 
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An excellent original recipe for choc¬ 
olate icing is as follows: Cream a piece 
of butter the size of a hickorynut with 
one cupful of confectioner’s sugar. Melt 
a square of unsweetened chocolate in a 
bowl over hot water, stir this into the 
sugar and butter. Then add cold milk 
enough to make it right consistency for 
spreading, and flavor with vanilla. The 
milk must be added carefully, very little 
at a time, for it does not take much, and 
it is easy to add an excess. This makes 
a smooth, shiny icing, and is very easily 
prepared. One of our readers asks for 
this recipe, and also for the delicious 
chocolate cream cake alluded to on page 
598. For this use any favored layer 
cake recipe. We use ‘‘best ever” layer 
cake; the recipe has been given in Tiie 
R. N.-Y. several times. Prepare the two 
icings, spread white icing on the layers 
and put together. Then cover the cake 
with white icing, and as soon as hard 
enough spread the chocolate icing over 
this. Chocolate may be used over the 
white icing between the layers also, if 
desired. 
One of our friends tells us that Brus¬ 
sels net is restored to its original crisp¬ 
ness if after washing it is given a final 
rinse in borax water. She finds this 
very satisfactory with little girls’ dresses 
of white Brussels net to be worn over col¬ 
ored slips. They are very easily laun¬ 
dered, and look dressy when simply made. 
Among the many advantages of farm 
life, let us remember that a farm owner 
does not have to worry about being turned 
out upon the pavement by a profiteering 
landlord. Housing conditions in and near 
New York have never been so serious as 
now; it is not poor people alone who 
suffei*, but every class except the very 
rich. In suburban communities we find 
people who have rented the same house 
for 10, 15 or 20 years suddenly turned 
out by a new owner. It must be ad¬ 
mitted that such people could have 
bought a house during the time they have 
been paying rent, and the advantages of 
the building and loan associations have 
been brought out very clearly by present 
conditions. The newspapers told re¬ 
cently of a case where two wealthy men, 
one a banker and one a ‘‘captain of in¬ 
dustry.” each rented a handsome apart¬ 
ment at an annual rental of ,$15,000. 
Both sublet their apartments to other 
tenants, one for .$30,000. the other for 
$25,000. When the real-estate agent in 
charge of the property learned this, he 
was indignant at being shut out of these 
excess profits and demanded that the 
holders of the leases divide the extra 
.$25,000 with him, 50-50. threatening to 
tell the whole story to the newspapers, 
with their names in full. Naturally, the 
profiteers did not relish the thought of 
this advertising, so they handed over the 
loot demanded. We do not know whether 
this story is true, but if seems quite 
probable. At present .Tewisli tenants are 
forming a great union to fight the land¬ 
lords. 
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Dyeing Fur 
There are two methods of dyeing fur. 
One is to immerse the fur in a strong 
solution of dye of the desired color, and 
bring dye to a scalding heat, but do not 
boil. When the fur is as dark as desired, 
remove from the dye aud hang over stick 
or rope to drip and dry, but do not wring. 
As the fur dries it must be worked in 
oi’der to make the skin as pliable as pos- 
qbe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
sibler I do not find this method satis¬ 
factory, as it both dyes and hardens the 
skin, and have abandoned it for the bet¬ 
ter one of stretching the fur and tacking 
it firmly to a board, and after cleaning 
and dampening the fur throughly take 
a stiff hair brush, dip into the hot dye, 
and brush throughly into the hair until 
the hair is wet to the very skin. After 
wetting thoroughly, let dry, and if not 
dark enough repeat. Of course, the dye 
must be as strong as possible. I have 
always used commercial dyes for all kinds 
of dyeing, making ink, painting in water 
colors, coloring wicker work. etc. Faded 
hair switches may also be dyed. 
JESSIE. 
Cleaning with Lizzanne 
The wash water was heating when we 
arrived, but Lizzanne was calmly cleaning 
the stove. “The gudeman is helping me 
with the clothes,” she explained, “so I 
don’t get very tired, and can do some 
very grimy work beforehand. ,Still. I 
don’t get my hands very dingy, for I coat 
them with tallow, especially under the 
nails, before attempting stove blacking or 
scrabbling or digging in the soil. Be¬ 
sides. I wear gloves.” 
The stove was warm, and her polish- 
the paste variety. “This is very easy to 
apply,” she told us. “But it wears right 
off and has to be done over often. For 
lengthened staying quality, I use any 
brand that comes in a hard chunk, make 
the paste myself, and have a man spend 
a lot of time rubbing it. Such polish will 
endure.” 
She had been fumigating a room to 
kill disease germs left by illness. She 
closed every crevice, placed permanganate 
of potassium in a deep dish—one part— 
and turned two parts formaldehyde over 
it, then instantly made her escape to 
avoid inhaling the gas. “I could have 
set sulphur afire in there, instead,” she 
said, “but it leaves such an odor for 
months, and bleaches things so. This 
will destroy insect life, like vermin left 
by lodgers, such as fleas, bedbugs, etc., 
just as well as sulphur. 
Lizzanne laughed reminiscently. “When 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
Redingote 
dress with tunic 
with separate skirt. 
SO to 40 bust. The 
medium size will re¬ 
quire 4 "k yds., ol' 
material 30 or 44 
in. wide, 3”! yds. 
r>4. with 2'/t> yds. 
30, 44 or r>4 for the 
skirt. Widtli of 
skirt, l"i yds. Price 
15 cents. 
I moved into the Holland house I found 
fleas before me. I dusted Persian insect 
powder thickly around, and the vacuum 
cleaner drew them into its depths, and 1 
scalded the crop.” 
By this time Lizzanne was pouring hot 
water over oxalic acid crystals. Into 
the liquid she scattered powdered pumice 
stone to cleanse some cane and wicker 
chairs and basket work. “But the acid 
must be well rinsed off,” she cautioned, 
while she fetched three polishing cloths 
with which she at once cleaned the ex¬ 
pensive parlor furniture. It was sur¬ 
prising how fast she worked, considering 
how small a spot she cleaned and pol¬ 
ished at a time. First she washed and 
rinsed a tiny area, using white soapsuds, 
then clear water, following it immediately 
with a mixture (after thoroughly drying) 
of turpentine and crude oil. “Use only 
the finest grain rags for the work,” she 
advised, “or scotches will result.” 
For the hardwood kitchen floor she 
mixed 1 one part vinegar, two of turpen¬ 
tine, three of linseed oil. and used two 
rags, of woolen, one to apply, the other 
to polish. 
Before putting her house dresses in 
the tub she removed lace from the necks. 
“I bought yards and yards of this cheap, 
cotton lace,” she confided, “just to pro¬ 
tect the necks of my every-day dresses, 
and they keep cleaner much longer. It 
isn’t much work to wash all the lace, by 
shaking in a bottle of suds, and basting 
it in all the necks at one time. Oh. I 
wanted to tell you that renovating in 
alcohol will make ribbons fairly new. 
Press between cloths. Now. we’ll go out¬ 
doors to clean with gasoline,” and when 
in the open she set her dish of gasoline 
in a dish of warm water and brought it 
up to animal heat before beginning, and 
the spots came from her wool skirt much 
easier for the warming. 
After the actual washing—superintend- 
Before Y>uBuy 
a Pure Bred Calf 
prYoa Look up its 
Pedigree. 
And for the same reason it will pay you to look into the 
record back of the furnace you buy. 
For over 70 years the Sill Stove Works have been building stoves and 
heaters and they have won the reputation among the trade of not only 
putting the best materials into Sterling products but also of building 
them so scientifically that they get every bit of heat out of the fuel used 
and deliver the heat where it is wanted. ..... , . „ 
The idea in designing the N. P. was to satisfy the demand for a really 
high grade heating plant. So the 
THE ONE-REGISTER FURNACE 
is built around the highest type Sterling fire pot, dome and flue, system designed and 
made throughout by the experts who take pride in the Sterling Name. It is built to accom¬ 
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Our free hook explains the N. P. A vital Sterling feature 
that makes it deliver more heat with less fuel, is the 
cold air return pipe at either side of the furnace, which 
keeps the air cool way to the bottom of the furnace. J 
And makes it flow more rapidly through the heating 
chamber and into the room. 
Send today for the free book describing this suc¬ 
cessful furnace and the name of the nearest 
dealer. Send also for the book on the Sterling 
Range, the range that bakes a barrel of flour 
with a single hod of coal. 
SILL STOVE WORKS 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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the way 
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Thousands of enthusiastic Acousticon 
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FOR 10 DAYS’FREE TRIAL 
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All we ask is that you give it a fair 
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know it is good business policy to have 
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Write for your FREE TRIAL today. 
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1350 Candler Building, New York 
"Th« Old Stove Mitlif” 
Also get my prices on oil and gas 
ranges, kitchen cabinets, refrigera¬ 
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washing machines, 
phonographs, paint 
and roofing, etc. We 
pay freight. Cash or 
credit. Write today. 
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Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard book by Henry & Mor¬ 
rison lias been advanced to $2.75. at 
which price we can .supply it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street 
New York 
