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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
January 1, 1921 
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WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Life’s Lessons 
I learn’ as the years roll onward 
And I leave the past behind. 
That much I had counted sorrow 
But proves that God is kind; 
That many a flower that I’d longed for 
Had hidden a thorn of pain. 
And many a rugged by-path 
Led to fields of ripened grain. 
The clouds that cover the sunshine, 
They cannot banish the sun, 
And the earth shines out the brighter 
When the weary rain is done. 
We must stand in the deepest shadow 
To see the clearest light; 
And often through wrong’s own darkness 
Comes the living strength of light. 
The sweetest x'est is at even, 
After a wearisome day. 
When the heavy burden of labor 
Has been borne from our hearts away ; 
And those who have never known sorrow 
Cannot know the infinite peace 
That falls on the troubled spirit 
When it sees at last release. 
We must live through the dreary Winter 
If we would value the Spring; 
And the woods must be cold and silent 
Before the robins sing. 
The flowers must be buried in darkness 
Before they can bud and bloom. 
And the sweetest, warmest sunshine 
Comes after the storm and the gloom. 
-AUTHOR UNKNOWN. 
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Here is a true story told at a Cana¬ 
dian women’s institute, which, while it 
relates to the broad and lonely prairies 
of Western Canada, still seems to hold a 
moral for many rural communities: 
Dr. Mary Harland was going through 
the West on a suffrage tour. She had a 
press correspondent with her. and she 
went to one prairie town where a woman, 
sitting in the front seat, seemed to drink 
in every word. She was a tired-looking 
woman, and the press correspondent no¬ 
ticed her. and afterwards asked the 
woman to wait and speak to Dr. Har* 
land. When the doctor came over she 
said: “I drove 00 miles across the 
prairie to come to this meeting. When 
I told Jim I was coming to this meeting 
he pretty nearly dropped dead. ‘Jim.’ 
I says. T have not been away from this 
house one day in -0 years, and if some¬ 
thing does not happen, something is going 
to snap, aud I guess it will be me.’ ” She 
went to work aud drove across the prairies 
herself, and she told the doctor what her 
trouble was. She said : “When I came 
out here to the prairies, it was fine. I 
did not notice any strain about it at all, 
but as year after year went by, with the 
babies coming aud the work increasing, 
and not having any change. I began to 
get tired of the prairies. I would look 
at the sky and the clouds, aud I got so 
that I would shake my fist at them and 
say: ‘You are not going to get me.’ I 
got sick of everything—not of my chil¬ 
dren ; I kept working along with them— 
then, worst of all. I got tired of Jim. I 
did hot like the way he got up. nor the 
way he sat down, the way he drank nor 
the way he ate, nor the way he spoke. 
I did not like anything about him. and 
it was an awful feeling.” The doctor 
knew what was ahead of the woman ; she 
knew if she did not get some chaxige 
something was going to snap, so she said: 
“Write home to your husband and tell 
him you are going with us for a tour for 
two weeks.” The doctor saw that this 
woman was a real orator, and what she 
would say would carry a good deal of 
weight for the side of suffrage. She went 
to the meetings, and she would tell how 
many pails of water a prairie wife had 
to bring in every day, and all the other 
work she had to do, and she ci*eated a 
wonderful sensation; no one wanted to 
listen to the doctor, because she was the 
only person worth listening to. A won¬ 
derful change was coming over her, and 
she was making such a name for herself 
that she was giving the campaign quite 
an impetus. Then one night she did not 
eat any supper, aud she came down* with 
her suit case all packed up. They asked 
her what was the matter, aud she said : 
“I am going home; there was a man in 
the front seat looked just like Jim.” 
“But that does not matter; you will have 
to stay with us the rest of the time; 
everyone is expecting you.” “Well,” she 
said, “he looked just like Jim.” 
So she went back to Jim, aud thex*e is 
little doubt that a family tragedy was 
averted by the wise doctor, who gave her 
a chance to get once more in touch with 
the outside world. 
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Nothing is a greater aid to business 
and general eoiTe«spondence than neat 
stationery, carrying full address. There 
is no need for elaborate lettering or dec¬ 
oration, though business' letterheads may 
well advertise a farmer's specialties, but 
the name of the farm and postoffice, with 
telephone number if desired, will prevent 
many errors and delays, and aid material¬ 
ly in correspondence. The cost of such 
printing i> trifling — the convenience 
great. Every firm doing a mail-order 
business knows how many letters come 
with imperfect address. A very common 
error is to give the name of the village 
neighborhood, which does not appear in 
the Postal Guide, when the proper ad¬ 
dress is is a rural delivery from a larger 
place. The postoffice merely returns 
such letters for better address, and there 
is no way in which the coiTespondent 
may be l-eached. The coi-rect printed ad¬ 
dress settles all doubts, and insures ac¬ 
curacy. 
4 ; 
New Year’s Cake, Fruit Cake and Sour 
Milk Cake 
The following is my rule for New 
Year’s cakes, as made by one of the origi¬ 
nal Dutch families of New York State: 
One pound butter. *4 lb. lard, creamed 
Embroidery Designs 
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104(1. Design for border six and one- 
hnlf inches wide. Two and three-quarter 
yards are given. * 20 cents. 
1054- 
1054. Design for border one inch wide. 
Three and three-quarter yards are given, 
with three separate motifs for any trim¬ 
ming purpose. 20 cents. 
together, then add one egg, 2 lbs. pul¬ 
verized sugar, one pint of water and 4 
lbs. of flour, last, 5c worth of caraway 
seed. Mix thoroughly (I use my bread 
mixer) and let stand over night. In the 
morning roll thin ; they should not stick 
to the board without using flour. Cut in 
fancy shapes (some people use molds), 
sprinkle with red sugar and bake in mod¬ 
erate oven. If well hidden in tin cans 
they will keep for a year. Better if made 
at least a week before New Year's. 
For Christmas fruit cake the following 
rule is fine, and makes two good-sized 
loaves: One cup brown sugar, one cup 
New Orleans molasses, one cup butter, 
one cup sti’ong coffee, one egg, four 
cups flour, with one heaping teaspoon of 
soda sifted with it. one tablespoon ground 
cinnamon, one teaspoon cloves, 1 lb. rais¬ 
ins, 1 lb. currants. *4 lb. citron, a little 
candied lemon and orange peel. Bake for 
one hour in moderate oven. 
Delicious Sour Milk Cake. — Three- 
fourths cup of sugar, fill the cup with 
molasses, one-half cup shortening, one 
egg. one cup sour milk, with one teaspoon¬ 
ful of soda dissolved in it, 1% cups flour, 
one-half cup raisins, one-half teaspoon 
cinnamon aud one-half teaspoon of cloves. 
Bake in moderate oven. M. s. m. 
Decorating a Combined Kitchen and 
Dining Room 
We have a room in our house which 
is twice as long as it is wide. One end 
we use as a kitchen, the other as a dining 
room. I have whitewashed the walls 
about five times. ai.d now I would like 
to paint them. How should I do it? I 
was thinking of painting it buff or light 
tan. as it is on the east side, and has 
many windows. Would gray woodwork 
go well with buff or tan? 
MRS. F. C. P. 
Walls will certainly be more atti*active 
painted buff than whitewashed, the soft 
color being more restful to the eye. After 
five coats of whitewash there may be 
some roughness or scaling, and it may be 
necessary to rub the walls with pumice 
stone, which you can get from a dealer 
in painters' supplies. In selecting the 
paint you will find that buff or tau varies 
somewhat with different manufacturers: 
what is called cream in many standard 
paints is just about the right shade. 
We would not advise gray for the 
woodwork, a* that would not harmonize 
with buff. A better effect would be given 
by a soft brown shade, such as golden 
brown or light oak. This would be pretty, 
and would not soil any more readily than 
the gray. In this room white would 
probably be undesirable; otherwise white 
woodwork with buff walls would be very 
light and cheerful. However, buff walls 
aud golden brown woodwork would be 
cheerful and in good taste, and your room, 
with its eastern exposure, would be at¬ 
tractive all the year round. 
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