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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 7, 
| WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
A Soft Day 
A soft day. thank God! 
A wind from the south 
With honeyed mouth: 
A scent of drenching leaves, 
Briar and beech and lime. 
White elder flower and thyme; 
And the soaking grass smells sweet 
Crushed by my two bare feet, 
While the rain drips 
Drips, drips, drips from the eaves. 
A soft day, thank God! 
The hills wear a shroud 
Of silvery cloud; 
The web the spider weaves 
Is a glittering net; 
The woodland path is wet. 
And the soaking earth smells sweet 
Under my two bare feet. 
And the rain drips. 
Drips, drips, drips from the leaves. 
—W. M. Letts in the Westminster Ga¬ 
zette. 
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A woman farmer of our acquaintance 
sold her farm recently. It was a good 
farm, on which she had expended much 
thought and care, so she drew up a little 
circular, describing the land, the plant¬ 
ing and permanent crops, the buildings 
and the residence. She sent circulars to 
the local real estate man, and the first 
customer who saw them bought the farm 
the same day. The reason for this quick 
sale was that all the information the 
purchaser required was presented to him 
in compact form, with perfect clearness. 
Of couse, it was a very desirable farm, 
but there is no doubt that a sale may 
sometimes be lost because all the advan¬ 
tages are not at once presented, as they 
were in the little circular. This was a 
case where the farmer did it herself, in¬ 
stead of trusting the description to the 
agent. 
* 
In buying a coffee percolator, we find 
ourselves much better satisfied with one 
having holes pierced in the sides, as well 
as the bottom, of the receptacle for the 
coffee, which is rather broader and shal¬ 
lower in proportion, than the othey type. 
We find that some types of the coffee pot 
percolators boil the coffee up through the 
top more rapidly than it drains back 
again, and as a result the top overflows 
in a most exasperating manner. Our 
preferred type, in aluminum, an attrac¬ 
tive Colonial shape, costs $2,114 in two- 
quart size. 
* 
One of our friends, writing to us re¬ 
cently, observed that she bad been very 
much interested in the articles about the 
wife’s share. “My share,” she added, “is 
my board.” She wrote cheerfully and 
without complaint. Then we turned to 
our daily paper and read an advertise- 
meut, under “Help Wanted”: 
COMPETENT woman for cooking, wait¬ 
ing and care of first floor; no laundry ; 
comfortable room and bath; references; 
wages $65. 
We all know that home and family 
affection outweigh all money advantages, 
but why should so many husbands still 
think that they “support” their wives, 
when they exchange board for more work 
than a city housekeeper would expect in 
return for $65 a month, with board 
thrown in? 
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The following is a standard recipe for 
rhubarb pie: One cupful sugar, two ta¬ 
blespoonfuls flour, one pint rhubarb, cut 
in small pieces, one-third cupful raisins, 
one tablespoonful butter, one tablespoon¬ 
ful lemon juice, oue teaspoonful grated 
lemon rind. Line a pie pan with plain 
pastry. Prick the pastry with a fork. 
Mix the sugar with the flour, and sprinkle 
one-third of the mixture over the crust. 
Add the rhubarb and the raisins. Cover 
the top with the remaining sugar and 
flour, add the butter in small lumps, and 
the lemon juice and rind. Bake slowly, 
so as to cook the rhubarb thoroughly. 
This has no top crust, but it may be 
covered if desired, either with a plain 
(rust or with strips put across lattice 
fashion. 
Satisfaction with Oil Burners 
A few weeks ago I noticed a reouest 
in The R. N.-Y. for information regard¬ 
ing kerosene burners to be placed in cook 
stoves; I also read two replies that are 
so different from our experience that in 
justice to our burner I think it proper 
that I write a statement, as we have not 
discarded ours, but use it whenever we 
have any baking or roasting, because it 
does the work so much better thau our 
gas range. 
At the beginning of Winter we were 
aware of a shortage of coal and very high 
prices for it, so procured a burner from 
a Western firm, partly for experiment 
and also to help out in case we could not 
buy coal. I installed it with little trou¬ 
ble, after removing bricks from range, 
and then it was started off with a baking 
of muffins, and the result was so pleasing 
that we have continued to use it. 
As regards economy, if one owned sev¬ 
eral acres of dead chestnuts, like the 
“Hope Farm Man,” or if coal was but 
$6 or $7 a ton. it would not be econom¬ 
ical. but at present prices of fuel there 
is more heat produced with the burner 
for one dollar than with one dollar’: 
worth of coal. In regard to soot, there 
would be but little if managed rightly. 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
—?V 
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9082. Girls’ dress 
with bloomers. 4 to 
10 years. 105(1. Em¬ 
broidery design of 
separate m o t i f s, 
with banding to 
match. The medi¬ 
um size will require 
1% yds. of material 
30 or 44 in. wide for 
the skirt, with 1 Vi 
yds. 30. or 1 14 yds. 
44 for the blouse, to 
make as illustrated. 
The bloomers will 
require 1% yds. 30 
or 44. Each pattern 
20 cents. 
9908. Long-walst- 
ed dress with accor¬ 
dion plaited or gath¬ 
ered skirt, 10 and 18 
years. 9929. Skirt 
for misses and small 
women, 10 and 18 
years. 1057. De¬ 
sign for embroider¬ 
ing a border with 
narrow border for 
the neck, front and 
sleeves. The 10- 
year size dress will 
require 4 yds. of ma¬ 
terial 44 in. wide, 
3Vi yds. 54. The 10- 
year size skirt will 
require 2V4 yds. of 
material 30 in. wide, 
1% yds. 54. Each 
pattern 20 cents. 
9801. Blouse with 
panel effect. 34 to 
42 bust. 201(5. Skirt 
suitable for two ma¬ 
terials, 24 to 32 
waist. 1048. Design 
for embroidering 
the neck and lower 
edge of a blouse in 
rose motif. The me¬ 
dium size blouse will 
require 2% yds. of 
material 30 in. wide, 
2 y 2 yds. 44. The 
medium size skirt- 
will require 3% yds. 
of material 30, 40 
or 44 in. wide, 2% 
yds. 54. Each pat¬ 
tern 20 cents. 
9800. Dress with 
puffed or straight 
tunic. 10 and 18 
years. The 16-year 
size will require 3V4 
yds. of material 40 
in. wide, 2% yds. 
44 for tlie blouse 
and tunic, 2V4 yds. 
30, 40 or 44 extra 
for skirt. 20 cents. 
tuid nothing compared to the ashes ai 
dust from coal. As to the noise, ot 
would soon become accustomed to it ai 
hardly notice it. AVe are reminded 
the old days in Connecticut, when v 
youngsters used to sit around the kitclu 
stove in the old home and listen to tl 
hum of the flames; but that is anotln 
subieet. T t 
New York. 
Nut Bread 
Two cups flour, one-half cup soft browi 
sugar, one-half cup walnut meats cu 
rather fine, three teaspoons baking pow 
der. salt. Sift these together and add out 
cup milk; stir well and add one egj 
beaten well. This is fine. MBS. j. f. s. 
Wool for Mattresses 
Would it he practical for us to use our 
wool in making wool mattresses? What 
are the objections, if any? Could we “do 
it ourselves”? mrs. a. n. b. 
R. N.-Y.—Can any of our readers give 
us light on this subject? 
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The New Perfection Oil Cook Stove 
has 3,000,000 users. It comes in 1, 2, 
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THE HOPE FARM BOOK 
This attractive 234-page book has 
some of the best of the Hope Farm 
Man’s popular sketches—philos¬ 
ophy, humor, and sympathetic 
human touch. Price $1.50. 
For Sale by RURAL NEW-YORKER 
335 West 30 th Street, New York 
