914 
May 8, 1920 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Tell Me, Ye Winged Winds 
Tell me, ye winged winds. 
That round my pathway roar, 
Do ye not know some spot 
Where mortals weep no more? 
Some lone and pleasant dell, 
Some valley in the west. 
Where, free from toil and pain, 
The weary soul may rest? 
The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low, 
And sighed for pity as it answered—“No.” 
Tell me, thou mighty deep. 
Whos.e billows round me play, 
Know’st thou some favored spot, 
Some island far away. 
Where weary man may find 
The bliss for which he sighs— 
Where sorrow never lives. 
And friendship never dies? 
The loud waves, rolling in perpetual flow, 
Stopped for a while, and sighed to answer, 
“No.” 
And thou, serenest moon. 
That, with such lovely face, 
Dost look upon the earth. 
Asleep in night’s embrace; 
Tell me, in all thy round 
Hast thou not seen some spot 
Where miserable man 
May find a happier lot? 
Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in 
Woe, 
And a voice, gwect but sad, responded— 
“No.” 
Tell me, my secret soul. 
O tell me, Hope and Faith, 
Is there no resting place 
From sorrow, sin and death? 
Is there no happy spot 
Where mortals may be blest, 
Where grief may find a balm, 
And weariness a rest? 
Faith, Hope and Love, best boons to mor¬ 
tals given. 
Waved their bright wings, and whispered 
“Yes, in heaven.” 
—CHARLES MAC'KAY. 
A letter received not long ago by this 
department enclosed a cake recipe recent¬ 
ly printed with the comment: “How 
many people spoiled thrqp perfectly good 
eggs? Try ’em before printing.” It hap¬ 
pens that the recipe in question has been 
in family use for many years, and is very 
familiar. We infer that the anonymous 
critic failed with it. and thus considers 
it worthless. So many factors enter into 
cake making that failure is possible, even 
with a tried and familiar recipe. A house¬ 
keeper who fails on some occasion with a 
recipe that she has often tried before 
seeks the blame in an uncertain oven, a 
variation in flour, a jar or shake during 
the sensitive period of baking, or some 
other common accident. If she fails with 
a new recipe she may easily assume that 
the i-ecipe is at fault, when such judgment 
is quite undeserved. The bulletin on cake 
making issued in the Cornell Reading 
Course states that more cakes are spoiled 
by defects in baking than by defects in 
either the recipe or the method of mixing 
the batter. Great haste and a very hot 
oven contribute ofteuer to failures in the 
making of cake than do any other causes. 
If the oven if too hot, the cake does not 
rise normally; if it is too cool, the cake 
may become over light, with subsequent 
danger of falling. Flour varies in the 
amount of water it will absorb, and this 
is more likely to affect cake than any 
other form of baking. Sometimes, too, 
the last flour in a barrel may be quite 
different either because it has dried in a 
warm dry place, or because it has gath¬ 
ered moisture in a damp place of storage. 
In our own experience, we are more likely 
to have trouble with a new batch of flour, 
which improves as it ages in our dry pan¬ 
try. 
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At the present time we have no assur¬ 
ance of cheaper sugar, or of an adequate 
supply for the preserving season. It will 
again be necessary to can, rather than 
preserve, using a light syrup. It is quite 
practical to can or bottle fruit juices, 
with proper sterilization and sealing, and 
then make up into jellies when sugar can 
be obtained. The most discouraging fea¬ 
ture of the sugar shortage is its effect on 
fruit growers, for it must surely unsettle 
the market for acid fruits. 
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A DELICATE child or invalid who is or¬ 
dered to take raw eggs will find the fol¬ 
lowing a great improvement over the 
plain beaten egg: Separate the egg. beat¬ 
ing the yolk till creamy, the white until 
stiff. Then mix the two together care¬ 
fully. and add. the strained juice of an 
‘Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
orange, and heap the egg in a sherbet 
cup. Dust the top with powdered sugar 
and serve with thin crackers. 
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Conserving Underclothing 
When it comes to wearing darned and 
patched underclothing, the finer sensibili¬ 
ties are to be eliminated for economic 
reasons until the price of wool and cotton 
garments have resumed their normal con¬ 
ditions. but. in the meantime, every house¬ 
hold needlewoman should take a pride in 
darning knit clothing each week as the 
first broken stitches appear. If the first 
breaks at the neck are sewed over and 
over with darning cotton it will be some 
time before the entire neck-size will need 
repairing with the buttonhole stitch, or 
by applying finishing tape. There is noth¬ 
ing better than binding tape to place 
broken neck-sizes in shirts and night gar¬ 
ments in a new appearing condition. 
In using binding tape, or any kind of 
cotton finishing tape, it should be soaked 
in boiling water until cold, dried ; a mid¬ 
dle fold pressed in with the thumb and 
forefinger, before trying to baste it over a 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
0093. Girls’ dress. 
10 to 14 years. The 
medium size will re¬ 
quire 4 Vi yds. of 
material 27 in. 
wide, 314 yds. 30. 
2% yds. 44. price 
15 cents. 
9722. Eton dress. 
34 to 42 bust. The 
medium size will re¬ 
quire 7% yds. of 
material 27 in. wide. 
5 1 4 yds. 30, 4% yds. 
44. Price 15 cents. 
9092. Blouse with 
panel tunic, 16 and 
18 years. 9745. 
Shirt for misses and 
small women, 10 
and 18 years. The 
16-year blouse with 
panels will require 
6 % yds. of material 
27 in. wide, 4 yds. 
36, 3% yds. 44. The 
16-year size skirt 
will require 2% yds. 
of material 30 or 44 
in. wide, 1% yds. 
54. Price of each, 
15 cents. 
9934. Slip-on dress 
with pointed vest 
portion. 16 and 18 
years. The 16-year 
size will require 4 1 4 
yds. of material 36 
in. wide. 8% yds. 
44. 3% yds. 54, witli 
% yd. 36 for trim¬ 
ming. 
rents. 
Price 15 
raw edge of knit or muslin material. Iu 
basting tape, lay half of the width on the 
right side of the garment, and baste in the 
immediate edge of the tape; then repeat 
on the inside, and stitch just above the 
two lines of bastings, leaving plenty of the 
upper machine thread for overhandiug the 
turned-in end section. 
The buttons on all knit undergarments 
are always too small, and should be re¬ 
placed by larger ones, even after the but¬ 
tonholes have been made smaller, for they 
have an annoying way of breaking and 
enlarging, and the buttons are thus ren¬ 
dered useless. 
Freezing weather and high winds nre 
destructive to both wool and cotton knit 
garments, and clothes pins should never 
be placed at either the knee or shoulder 
sections. Shirts should hang by the skirt 
(the bottom), and combination pieces 
should be pinned to the line at their 
widest section, below the hips, and thus 
relieve the strain on the knit stitches from 
both the upper and the lower parts, plac¬ 
ing it where a garment never breaks from 
natural wear. The feet of stockings 
should never hang downward like a bag to 
catch the drip; instead, pin either at the 
ankle or the arch, but never at the toe, 
heel or the bottom of a stocking. 
The outside patch for undergarments, 
and the larger the better, is something 
original suggested, and will be found a 
great improvement over the inside patch 
with the tell-tale hemmed down (in a cir¬ 
cle) cut-out section of garment material. 
In patching a knee section, let a patch ex¬ 
tend from t.he half-way fold line to the 
seam, and from the hem as high up as 
necessary ; turn in, baste neatly and stitch 
on machine; then remove the worn sec¬ 
tion back to the turned-in raw edge of the 
patch and overcast together. This is a su¬ 
perior method for patching knit, or woven 
wool garments,, not only for the sake of 
appearance, but for economy in time, as a 
small patch must always ho replaced. Jw.a 
much larger one before a garment be¬ 
comes actually worn out. 
When a man’s or boy’s shirt breaks at 
the neck, when the collar-band parts com¬ 
pany with the yoke, at the back or front 
of a shirt, especially the so-called “boiled 
shirt.” the stiffly starched linen bosom, 
great care must be exercised in repairing, 
that the fiLof the band will not in any re¬ 
spect be changed, he enlarged or made 
smaller, for that might mean a near-trag¬ 
edy when some man of the household was 
dressing in haste for a business appqiirt- 
ment or a railway trip. To avoid disas¬ 
trous possibilities, lay a square of soft 
material underneath the break, extending 
beyond the collar-band, and well down 
the yoke; fit the warp and woof threads 
together, then baste at the raw edges, 
drawing them closely together, making no 
attempt to turn a raw edge in; then 
stitch on machine near both edges of 
breaks and put a line of stitches on the 
collar-band, clipping to make a good fit. 
and a line of stitching on the raw edge 
and the yoke. When a linen bosom, or 
any other make, gives away at the waist 
line, simply lay a strong piece under¬ 
neath and treat the same as a collar-band 
or cuffs that part company with sleeves. 
Ruttonholes should never be neglected, 
until there is danger of a lost button. The 
patent buttons that all men are using, 
and frequently dropping on the floor to be 
sought for ruined by stepping on. do not 
cost very much, but enough. _ and every 
man who takes any responsibility in being 
well dressed and good-naturedly dressed 
during the trying process, should keep a 
reserved supply of patent collar buttons 
in a quickly findable place about a well 
regulated house. In the meantime, no 
housewife should feel that her time has 
been lost if a garment can be utilized a 
few weeks longer and thus save a better 
one that much longer. 
MEDORA CORBETT. 
Pleasure in Scrapbooks 
One stormy day when I was about 10 
years old a dear old man said: “You 
do not know what to do with yourself. 
Why not make a scrapbook?” I did not 
understand about it. He explained by 
giving me an old ledger and a quantity 
of “Cape Ann Advertisers scissors, and I 
a bottle of paste, and set me at work. I 
read, cut and pasted poetry and short 
stories until nearly dark. I took great 
enjoyment in finishing that book. Later 
in niy life my children found it interest¬ 
ing employment for stormy days. One 
child made a collection of “Churches,” 
another was fond of “Horses.” the other 
preferred “Poems and Anecdotes.” They 
made them with care ; it saved them many 
a weary hour. My children are now in 
houses of their own. For more than 20 
years I had hardly thought scrapbook, only 
to read a poem now and then to brighten 
up my way. Changes came into my life, 
and I resorted to my scrapbook work. 
First I thought I would have a book just 
for pies, another one for desserts. That 
led to fish. meat, bread, sandwiches, 
left-over dishes, and several others. Later 
a book on sewing hints, patchwork, hints 
for housework. Did I have any time for 
housework? This was my evening and 
Sunday recreation. 
As the years have gone by T found 
subject after subject that is of interest to 
my family. These are some of them: 
“The Handy Man About the House,” 
“Farm Mechanics.” “Poultry,” “Care of 
the Dog and Cat.” “Veterinary of the 
Horse and Cow,” “Gardening.” “Culture 
of Flowers.” Often on some subject I 
have saved the items for five, even 10 
years before using them, then assort them 
over carefully, discarding many and sav¬ 
ing the best ideas on whatever subject it 
happened to be. 
You will find hints and ways of doing 
work that you could not obtain in any 
other way. even in a book on the same 
subject. Some farm papers are compiling 
books on farm mechanics on this same 
plan. They have had the whole country 
to cull the best ideas from. Knitting and 
crocheting are not in book form. Each 
has a box devoted to that subject. Direc¬ 
tions for working are on a separate piece 
of paper, so that when directions are 
wanted for one tiling one is. not bothered 
with a whole book. I tried the book 
first, soon found it inconvenient and re- 
sorted to the box method. 
I have all sizes and kinds of scrap¬ 
books; have made many mistakes in mak¬ 
ing them. Bound books I used at first, 
cutting out and pulling out every other 
section. This method was not durable. 
Instead of pulling out (lie section cut out 
the pages, leaving half an inch of the 
page next to the binding. Even then, if 
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