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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 5, 1921 
Th' iJest Work Shoe 
Made 
We pay 
Postage 
Millions of pairs of 
Lion Brand Shoes 
sold—-$6,000,000 worth last year 
alone. Profits of tanner, jobber, 
salesmen and storekeeper cut out. 
You pay only one small profit— 
10c to 25c per pair at our big tan¬ 
nery-factory. Your saving, one to 
three dollars per pair. 
Maker To Wearer 
Unless you have actually worn a 
Lion Brand Shoe you cannot ap¬ 
preciate from our description just 
how good this No. 963 shoe is. It is 
the best shoe we make and 124,992 
pairs of this style were sold in one 
year through stores for as much as 
$9 a pair. 
This is a genuine Munson, U. S. 
Army Last Shoe, made of tan 
Lion Brand Leather (our own tan¬ 
nage). Unlined, soft cap toe 
Bluclier, whole vamps (not cut off 
under toe cap), first grade single 
soles, Goodyear welt sewed—no 
nails, perfectly smooth inside. Sizes, 
6 to 11, wide, medium and narrow 
widths (sizes 5, 5)2 and 12 medium 
width only). No. 902, same shoe 
in Brown Leather. Same shoe with 
heavy double sole, $4.95. 
No Better Shoes at Any Price 
We have never seen a better work 
shoe a*- any price. Send money 
order, draft or your own check. 
Shoes shipped within 24 hours of 
receipt of order. If the shoes are not 
the best work shoes you have ever 
seen at any price, your money will 
be returned without question. 
Other styles and grades of 
men's shoes at lower prices. 
We make the world's best- 
wearing shoe for boys at $1. 
to $3. less than store prices. 
You can have free catalog, with pictures, 
exact descriptions and prices of all the 
gr: Vs and styles of Lion Brand Work 
Sh 'or men and Every Da y Sho es for 
bo;. ''makes mighty 
interesting reading-es¬ 
pecially the prices. 
Write for your copy 
now. 
Harsh & Chapline 
Shoe Co. 
Department 20-B 
Milwaukee, Wi«. |_ 
Financial Reference— "Ask the Man Who 
Ask any Banker Wears Them” 
Harsh & Chapline Shoe Co., 
Depl.2)-3 Milwaukee, Wis. 
Herewith S4.85 for which send me, postage 
paid, a pair of No. 963 Lion Brand Work Shoes, 
as described in your ad, size.... If these 
shoes are not in every respect a better quality 
than I can buy anywhere at anything like the 
same price, I can return them and you will im¬ 
mediately return my money. For same shoe, 
Brown Leather, order No. 902; for extra heavy 
sole, send $4.95. 
Name. . 
City^..State. 
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PLAYSUITS 
DIRECT FROM 
FACTORY 
For boys and girls—Stand- 
all Playsuits cover them all 
over—a rough and ready 
garment for the wear and 
tear of a full day's play. 
We guarantee every garment 
against ripping and imper¬ 
fections. Save money by 
buying direct from factory. 
We manufacture overalls 
for grown-ups, too. Send 
for samples of material and 
complete catalog with prices 
and measurement blanks. 
Standish & Alden, Inc- 
Box 677, Dept. 109 
HAVERHILL. MASS. 
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Using the Cheaper Cuts of Meat 
With proper care given to the cooking 
many"of the cheaper cuts of meat may be 
made into really delicious stews, roasts 
and meat pies, and will form just as pal¬ 
atable. wholesome dishes as the costlier 
meats, at about one-half the price, (liv¬ 
ing care to the proper seasoning, cooking 
•the meat slowly until tender, and seeing 
that plenty of fat. or suet, is included 
are the essential points. 
A neck of beef is an inexpensive cut. 
Ask the butcher to put in a generous 
piece of suet. Wash all and put to cook 
in enough water to cover well. Bring 
to a boil, then simmer slowly for three 
hours, or until tender. Add salt when 
putting to cook. When done have ready 
a dressing made of two cups each of 
crumbs from corn bread ai^l cold biscuits, 
or liglit bread. We prefer the dressing 
in which cold biscuits are used. Add sage, 
pepper and sail to taste and mix to a 
soft batter with liquid in which the beef 
was cooked. But dressing in pan, lay 
beef on top and bake. If desired a nice 
vegetable soup may be made by using 
one quart of the broth in which beef was 
cooked, adding a pint of potatoes, a cup 
of tomatoes, a teaspoon of chili powder 
and any other seasoning desired. Serve 
with crackers. 
T find that 25 cents worth of “chili 
meat.” as sold here in Oklahoma, makes 
a more desirable dish than a nO-ceut stew. 
This meat has no bone, and comes in 
good-sized piece's. We always ask the 
butcher to put in plenty of suet, for nice 
suet for seasoning insures richness, while 
all lean meat requires a lot of butter or 
other fat to make it palatable. Stew 
until tender, when the meat may be re¬ 
moved. and the stock used for making 
soup, or we sometimes make a rich gravy 
by stirring a heaping tablespoon of flour 
into half a cun of milk or water, and add¬ 
ing to the broth, stirring well. The meat 
may be baked or served plain. Sometimes 
we make a light biscuit dough, roll thin, 
cut in strips and pull into inch lengths, 
drop into the boiling stock and have de¬ 
licious dumplings or stew. 
A 25-cent soup bone has great possi¬ 
bilities in our home. The butcher splits 
the hone so that all juices are extracted ; 
it is then put to boil in plenty of water 
and cooked until (lie meat leaves the bone. 
The meat is removed, also part of the 
stock for making gravy, vegetables, cab¬ 
bage. potatoes and tomatoes are added for 
soup. Sometimes the beef is used for 
making hash, or it may be baked, used 
for meat croquettes, or served as stew. 
What the butchers call “hamburger 
meat” comes quite reasonable in price, 
and makes a good substitute for sausage. 
Season with salt, pepper and a little sage, 
if desired; make in cakes and fry for 
breakfast. Use enough fat so there will 
he sufficient for making plenty of gravy. 
Stir a heaping tablespoon of flour into 
the hot fat. stir constantly until brown, 
but not scorched, add a scant cup of 
sweet milk and water. Stir until smooth, 
and boil up. Serve with beef cakes. 
Beef Roll.—Take 5 lbs. of flank of beef, 
wash and dry. pound well, and spread 
on mixing board. Make a dressing of 
one quart of bread crumbs, moistened 
with milk or water, season with pepper, 
salt, a minced onion, a teaspoon of pow- 
dered sti£e. and half a cup of butter. 
Mix all together and spread over the 
meat. Roll up and tie with twine strings. 
Put in a roasting pan, pour over a pint 
of hot water, and bake three hours, or 
until meat is tender, turning frequently 
so that it may cook evenly on all sides. 
Beef Stew.—Get 3 lbs. of a cheap cut 
of beef, also a generous piece of suet, 
wash and boil in enough water to cover 
until tender. One hour before serving 
add six good-sized potatoes, one onion, 
if liked, a pint of cabbage cut up coarse, 
a can of corn and two or three turnips 
Cover and cook slowly until vegetables 
are tender. 
Beef with Sweet Potatoes.—Any sort 
of piece of beef with plenty of fat may 
be used for this favorite dish. Simmer 
beef in just enough water to cover until 
nearly done. Pare a dozen even-sized 
sweet potatoes, not too large, lay in and 
cook until tender; place beef in pan with 
potatoes around and hake a nice brown 
in the oven. 
While beef is the meat mentioned in 
all of these dishes, other meats, such as 
pork, veal or mutten. may be used instead, 
and the cheaper cuts of these will give 
good satisfaction, provided care is given 
to the seasoning and proper cooking. 
Remember that some fat is always neces¬ 
sary. unless butter or other fats are to 
be used instead. 
Pork is especially good for using in 
making stews. Spare ribs or backbone 
from pork may be boiled until tender, 
and made into delicious meat pie by mak¬ 
ing a light biscuit dough, rolling thin ; 
line a deep pudding pan and put in meat, 
season with pepper and salt to taste. 
Put on top crust, add liquor from the 
kettle, enough to moisten well, and bake 
a nice brown. There is always enough 
fat on the meat so that no more is needed. 
Sometimes there is so much fat that a 
good part of it should be skimmed off be¬ 
fore using the broth, either in meat pie 
or stews. 
Very little pork should be eaten during 
the hot months, especially where there 
are children, since there is always danger 
of derangement of the digestive organs 
where fresh pork is served often. All 
meats should be eaten sparingly during 
the Summer months. Either cured bacon 
or beef is to he preferred to ^ork for this 
season. All meats should be thoroughly 
cooked before eaten. i.ii.UE heed York. 
Our Baby Box 
We have a very active creeping baby 
at our house, almost perpetual motion, 
and I don’t know how we should ever 
live with him if it wasn’t for his box— 
a good, strong wooden box about his 
height and three times his length. We 
put him in this box a lot. with his play¬ 
things. and know where he is and what 
lie is up to. It keeps him off the floor 
and out of drafts, and he can stand up 
in it and move around all that he wants. 
For a wonder, he takes to the box—-re¬ 
gards it as “his.” Property rights show 
early—even in a baby. The box is light 
enough so that we can move it around 
easily, but lie much prefers to have it 
near the window, where he can look out 
and see the passing. It is a life saver 
to see him so safe and contented when I 
am busy cooking or washing, and not 
have him under foot or crawling out of 
his high chair. I take him and the box 
in close to the machine when I am stitch¬ 
ing. and he just enjoys watching the 
wheels go around—from a safe distance. 
Sometimes he gets rough and pounds the 
sides good and plenty with his blocks or 
wooden spoon, but it doesn't do any harm 
and relieves his mind. 
Of course. 1 don't keep him in this all 
the time—he wouldn’t stay—but it is a 
real lielp for the busy time in the morn¬ 
ing. when we need to do a little stitching 
or to leave him a few minutes when I 
have dressed him jq> nice to go out. I 
also have a baby pen for him. which is 
fine outdoors or on the piazza, but it 
takes up a lot of room in the house, 
especially in the kitchen. He moved the 
pen about so at first that we were afraid 
that lie would get hurt, so we used to 
fasten it down, but we soon made a board 
floor for it. a little larger than, the pen. 
and now it stays put. The floor hinges 
in the middle and folds, so that it is 
easier to handle and takes up less room. 
This box and pen are great helps both 
to us and the baby, and the cost was 
very little. We got the box at the shoe 
store; shoe boxes are generally good and 
strong, and we made the pen out of odd 
bits of lumber. The “boughten” pens 
look a little better, perhaps, and they are 
reasonable and well worth the price. 
, MARET, E. HOWARD. 
Irish Moss 
It was my good fortune to take a 
motorboat trip last Summer, and we 
lauded on an island where there were 
quantities of Irish moss, some nearly 
bleached, where the waves had beaten it 
from the rocks, and also the fresh moss 
growing on the rocks. It was all new 
to me. and I thought possibly that there 
might be others as ignorant about the 
moss as I was. 
We gathered the moss that was bleached 
by the sun and rain on the beach. We 
took it home and put it in a pail of fresh 
water and let it stay in it all night. The 
next morning each piece of moss was 
washed separately. Some of it had a 
shelly formation adhering to the moss; 
it was easily removed with the thumb 
and forefinger. Then we placed it in the 
sun to dry. When it was thoroughly dry 
it was placed in a container to keep free 
from dust. The moss that was growing 
fresh was more work to prepare; that 
was attended to in the same way. only 
the performance was repeated each day 
until the moss was the right color. It 
took about 10 days. 
Irish Moss Custard or Blanc Mange.— 
Put one quart of milk in a double boiler 
with a pinch of salt and two tablespoons 
of the Irish moss. Let stay on the stove 
until the moss is melted, it will take an 
hour or more, then strain into a mold, 
and serve with whipped cream or plain 
cream and sugar. JENNIE UND. 
Covering Furniture; Filling Feather 
Puffs 
Can any of your readers give me ad¬ 
vice or directions for recovering an old- 
fashioned hair cloth sofa? I possess one 
which belonged to my grandmother. It 
has a handsome solid mahogany frame 
and good springs, upholstered in well- 
worn and hopelessly- ugly black hair¬ 
cloth. T should think that the uphol¬ 
stered parts, seat, back and arms, would 
need to be removed from the frame before 
they could be recovered, but hardly know 
how to go about it. Any suggestions 
would be appreciated. 
Secondly, has any correspondent had 
experience in making down puffs? It has 
occurred to me that they might be satis¬ 
factorily made, or rather filled, from an 
old goose feather bed. of which I have 
several. What would he the best method 
of procedure? R. G. D. 
The Nest in the Lilac Bush 
Last Summer I saw something which 
interested me very much. There was a 
large lilac bush by my kitchen window, 
and a pair of robins built their nest up 
in the top of the bush. One day I went 
out and found the nest on the ground, 
but the birds came and built another. 
A few days later I heard a terrible com¬ 
motion among (he birds, and went to see 
what was the matter. As I came near 
the bush a very large rat jumped out of 
the nest, ran down the trunk of the bush 
and underneath the house. That evening 
before dark I caught the rat iu a trap, 
and it was as large as a half-grown kitten. 
A few days later I also caught its mate. 
The birds did not come back again after 
that. That was the first time I ever saw 
a rat robbing a bird’s nest in the day¬ 
time. MRS. R. P. C. 
Musterole— 
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Congestions 
Remember the time when 
you had that dreadful con¬ 
gestion of the lungs—and 
Grandma slapped a stinging, 
messy mustard plaster on 
your chest? How you writhed 
and tossed and begged Grandma 
to‘‘take it off”? 
That was many years ago. Now, 
Grandma gets the jar of Musterole, 
for now she knows Musterole is 
better than a mustard plaster. 
She knows it brings quicker 
relief—and does not blister. 
For coughs, colds and conges¬ 
tions, this clean, white ointment 
made with oil of mustard and a 
few home simples is uncommonly 
effective. 
You just rub it on your throat 
or chest. It penetrates way down 
under the skin and generates its 
own peculiar heat which soon 
loosens up the cough and disperses 
congestion. 
Strangely enough, it does not 
feel warm after the first momen¬ 
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Try it for croup, bronchitis, 
coughs, colds (it often prevents 
pneumonia), headache, neuralgia, 
stiff neck, rheumatism or lum¬ 
bago. 
Many doctors and nurses use 
Musterole themselves and recom¬ 
mend it to their patients. 
Keep a jar handy on the medi¬ 
cine shelf. 
35c and 65c jars; hospital Size J3.00. 
The Musterole Co., Cleveland, Ohio 
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