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November 19, 1921 
‘The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
November 
November woods are bare and still; 
November days are clear and bright; 
Each moon burns up the morning’s chill; 
The morning’s snow is gone by night; 
Each day my steps grow slow, grow light, 
As through the woods I reverent creep, 
Watching all things lie “down to sleep.” 
I never knew before what beds, 
Fragrant to smell, and soft to touch. 
The forest sifts and shapes and spreads: 
I never knew before lien 1 much 
Of human sound there is in such 
bow tones as through the forests sweep 
When all wild things lie “down to sleep.” 
Each day I find new coverlids 
Tucked in, and more sweet eyes shut 
tight ; 
Sometimes the viewless mother bids 
Her ferns kneel down, full in my sight; 
I hear their chorus of “good night” ; 
And half I smile, and half I weep 
Listening while they lie “down to sleep.” 
November woods are bare and still; 
November days are bright and good ; 
Life’s noon burns up life’s morning chill: 
Life’s night rests feet which long have 
stood ; 
Some warm, soft bed, in field or wood. 
The mother will not fail to keep, 
Where we can lay us “down to sleep.” 
-HELEN IUTNT 'ACKSON. 
* 
Wiiat was the best and most practical 
Christmas gift you ever received? Was 
it bought, homemade, useful cr orna¬ 
mental? One reader once told us that 
the most satisfactory Christmas present 
she ever had was a pair of buckled arctics, 
which, enabled her 'to get to the henhouse 
and around the dooryard during a cold, 
snowy season without cold or wet feet. 
We thought that her husband ought to 
have provided the arctics in any case, 
and charged them to farm upkeep, with¬ 
out their masquerading as a Christmas 
gift. On the other hand, the gift was 
prompted by personal solicitude and af¬ 
fection. which are the basis of a true 
Christmas gift. Which would give you 
the most pleasure, the gift you really 
needed, or some unexpected pleasure that 
was not a necessity? 
* 
A bakery near cur office shows a 
labor-saving appliance that would be 
viewed with envy by the mother of a 
large and hungry family. It. is a dough¬ 
nut making machine, which cuts the 
doughnut, drops it in a little compart¬ 
ment in a vat of boiling fat, turns it. and 
when done flips it out on a little runway 
or spout from which the finished article 
is removed. The machine not only saves 
labor,.but produces an absolutely clean 
and sanitary article, and the closed vat 
prevents the usual heavy odor of boiling 
fat. It is a pity the machine is not 
planned for family use. 
* 
One of our readers asks how to make 
molasses candy that is porous or spongy, 
like some of the commercial forms. We 
think this is a special commercial pro¬ 
cess. but perhaps some of our candy¬ 
making readers can tell us about it. Good 
tested recipes for homemade candy are 
always in request in the Winter. 
* 
The following recipe for peuotchie or 
Mexican kisses is very good. We think 
the original recipe called for pecans, but 
walnuts or hickorynuts are excellent, and 
usually less expensive: Cook three cup¬ 
fuls of light brown sugar with one cupful 
of milk until it reaches the soft ball 
stage; that is, the candy will form a soft 
but firm ball when dropped in cold water. 
Add a teaspoonful of butter, take from 
the fire, flavor with a teaspoonful of 
vanilla, and then stir in a cupful of 
broken nut meats. Turn out on a shal¬ 
low pan, well buttered, and mark into 
squares with a buttered knife. 
baking powder, last whites of eggs beaten 
stiff. 
Satin or Light Cake.—Two eggs, one 
cup sugar, one-half cup hot water, one 
cup flour, 1^4 teaspoons baking powder, 
pinch of salt, lemon flavor to taste. Beat 
yolks of eggs with half the sugar, then 
add water; the. remaining sugar, the 
flavoring and the flour sifted with the 
ASPIRIN 
ihe Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
9893. Double Breasted Coat with Bell 
Sleeves, 34 to 44 bust. The medium size 
will require 4% yards of material 3(5 inches 
wide, 314 yards 44. 2% yards 54. 20 cents 
9833. Boy’s Blouse Suit, 4 to 14 years. 
The 8-year size will require 1% yards of 
material 30 inches wide. 1% yards 44, % 
yard 54 for the trousers; 2 yards 30. 1% 
yards 44, 1% yards 54 for the blouse. 20 
cents. 
Velvet and Satin Cake 
Velvet or Dark Cake.—One cup grated 
chocolate or cocoa, one-half cup of hot 
water over it to melt it; 1 1/3 cups brown 
sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup 
sweet milk, three eggs, yolk and white 
beaten separately, five teaspoons baking 
powder, one 'teaspoon soda dissolved in a 
little hot. water. Cream sugar and but¬ 
ter, then add chocolate, yolks of eggs, 
milk and soda, two cups of flour with 
baking powder and salt. Last fold in 
whites of eggs beaten stiff. Bake 25 
minutes in moderate oven. 
MRS. W. M. S. 
Controlling Red Ants 
Mere is a sure cure for the little pesky 
red ants. I have tried it and have not 
been troubled with one since. Sprinkle 
cinnamon around where they come, and it 
will drive them all away. * mbs. a. b. 
Name “Bayer” on Genuine 
^ aiming! Unless you see the name 
Bayer” on package or on tablets you 
are not getting genuine Aspirin pre¬ 
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years and proved safe by millions. Take 
Aspirin only as told in the Bayer pack¬ 
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Rheumatism. Earache. Toothache, Lum¬ 
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twelve Bayer Tablets of Aspirin cost few 
cents. Druggists also sell larger pack¬ 
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Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacid- 
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See Rural New-Yorker dated Novemb ers, Page 1309 
100 STORES IN THIRTY CITIES 
—I will give $100 for a set of 
dishes—pale blue pagoda pat¬ 
tern on white background. 
Made about 90 years ago in England. 
Am no collector, but want to find this pat¬ 
tern to duplicate a set my father used to 
have. 
Will pay $25 for information leading to the 
purchase of such a set. P. O. Box 377. 
Providence, R. I. 
WHITE FLAME 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Business Farmer’s Paper 
' . NEW YORK CITY 
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KV- i --rV-V• 
Which Side of the Barn 
should a boy work on? 
Uncle Daniel and his wife had decided views upon 
this question, but the Hope Farm man does not agree 
with their ideas. He tells about his boyhood days on a 
Cape Cod farm in an interesting story called 
The Sunny Side of the Barn 
ihis is just one of the 25 good stories which you 
will find in the book “Hope Farm Notes.” The book is 
well printed in good plain type, easy to read, and every 
member of the family will enjoy these stories during the 
long Winter evenings. The price is only $1.50, postpaid. 
Send a check or money order today and you will agree 
that these are “The Best Farm Stories Ever Printed.” 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 West 30th St., New York 
Gentlemen—Enclosed find remittance of $1.50, for which send me 
postpaid a copy of “Hope Farm Notes.” 
Name. 
Town. 
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