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Iht RURXL NEW-YORKER 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Little House of Christmas 
Little House of Christmas, in your white 
lane set. 
Half-way ’twixt the highways of Remem¬ 
ber and Forget, 
Once a year your windows wake with 
welcome taper glow, 
Once a year your gate swings wide to feet 
of long ago. 
Little House of Christmas, at your fra¬ 
grant feast, 
All are bidden to the board, the greatest 
and the least; 
Silk and velvet-mantled Hopes rub elbows 
side by side 
With little, tattered, beggared Dreams 
that crept in wistful-eyed. 
Little House of Christmas, all drifted 
deep with snow, 
Holly-decked, and sweet with fir, and 
hung with mistletoe, 
All the roads of all the world, cheerless 
were, and drear. 
Were your blazing Yule-logs quenched 
that beckon once a year. 
Hands stretch welcome at your sill the 
years have thrust apart, 
Memories clasp tender arms about each 
lonely heart, 
Long-lost faces gather close, voices loved 
of old 
Ring across the holly boughs beneath the 
taper gold. 
Little House of Christmas, in your white 
lane set, 
Half-way ’twixt the highways of Remem¬ 
ber and Forget; 
May each storm-blown wanderer, weary 
and alone, 
Hear some voice call cheer to him across 
your lintel stone. 
MARTHA HASKELL CLARK, 
in Scribner’s. 
* 
We had a recent letter from a farm 
housewife in New York State, who 
wonders whether it would not be pos¬ 
sible to form a sort of league through 
which women readers could be put in 
touch with one another for purposes of 
correspondence. She says, very rightly, 
that in many localities (like her own in 
New York State) the farmer’s wife is 
much shut in during the Winter, and let¬ 
ters are the only open door. She would 
enjoy correspondence with some woman 
in her own circumstances, with the care 
of children and household, -who would 
understand her daily problems. As we 
read her letter, we thought of countless 
farm homes where the housewife is shut 
in by bad weather, poor roads and daily 
toil, where a bright and inspiring letter 
turns the whole gray world to gold. 
* 
M hex a cheerful letter from a stranger 
may mean so much, we can surely realize 
how welcome is a letter from our own 
people. Yet there is many a family 
whose scattered members rarely corre¬ 
spond. who never think of family anniver¬ 
saries, and who rarely meet except at a 
funeral. The holiday season seems a good 
time to give thought to such carelessness. 
It is all very well to send a card of 
greeting at Christmas, but why not ex¬ 
tend the greeting through the year? 
Brothers and sisters have a great habit 
of forgetting to write to those left at the 
old home; a family that kept together in 
youth often falls apart when all are mar¬ 
ried and allied with new interests. Often 
Hje town brothers and sisters, who seem 
to the farm dwellers surrounded by every 
comfort, are so constantly harassed by 
the effort to keep the income close to the 
rent and store bills that they think Sis¬ 
ter Jane on the farm a very fortunate 
woman, and do not realize the loneliness 
of the Winter farmhouse. Why not start 
writing back home? Send a Christmas 
letter to the little town, or tiny village, 
or isolated farmhouse; tell all the family 
news, and show your interest in the dis¬ 
tant household. And don’t stop with the 
holiday season; keep up the same spirit 
all the year round. The family is the 
unit of the nation. There are certain 
visionaries xvho would make all nations 
brothers by destroying boundaries and 
abolishing nationality for international¬ 
ism. If you cannot realize the bonds of 
your own family, how are' you to realize 
those of the unknown? We are approach¬ 
ing a momentous Yuleidc—we may well 
concentrate some of our love for all hu¬ 
manity upon those of our own kindred. 
Suggestions for Christmas Feasting 
You can judge a housewife pretty well 
by the way she keeps up the holiday 
spirit in the home, and she knows that 
the most valuable asset to the season’s 
joys is an attractively laid table and a 
bountiful, well-prepared meal on Christ¬ 
mas Day. ‘’But,” you say, “I am tired 
of planning and cooking the same sort of 
dinner every year. It’s not something 
elaborate that we loug for; somehow 
since the war we have grown out of the 
way of concocting expensive complicated 
dishes, even for the Christmas feast, but 
a simple unusual meal, with just enough 
of the spirit of the season clinging to it 
to give it a Christmas flavor.” 
With the recent anniversary of the 
landing of the Pilgrims comes a revival 
of old-time rules and methods in cookery. 
Three hundred years ago our ancestors 
thought no Christmas feast comnlete 
without the savory goose and the delect¬ 
able steamed plum pudding, as well as 
many other toothsome homemade dainties. 
In the menus here we have introduced a 
few old-time dishes that may help solve 
the difficulties of sameness. Neither, of 
course, are intended to be rigidly fol¬ 
lowed ; additions or omissions may be 
made according to one’s taste, pocket hook 
or locality. 
Menu No. .1 
Oyster Soup Crackers 
Cucumber and Peach pickles 
Salted Popcorn Celery 
Fried or Jugged Hare 
Baked Hubbard Squash 
Mashed Irish Potatoes Creamed Onions 
Cabbage and Red Pepper Salad with 
Cream Dressing 
Vanilla Ice Cream Fruit Cake 
Nuts Raisius Fruit 
Sweet Cider Coffee 
Menu No. 2 
Grapefruit 
Olives Celery Salted Butternuts 
Roast Guinea Fowls Currant Jelly 
Potato Croquettes Buttered Peas 
Colonial Mince Pie 
American Cheese Saltines 
Coffee 
Menu No. 3 
Cream of Tomato Soup wilh Bread Sticks 
Ripe Olives Celery 
Roast Goose or Fresh Shoulder of Pork 
Prune Stuffing Apple Sauce 
Mashed Irish Potatoes Baked Sweet 
Potatoes Creamed Cauliflower 
Old English Plum Pudding 
Cream Cheese Saltines 
. Coffee or Grape Juice Punch 
First give a thought to the table deco¬ 
rations, Holly is always nice; the glossy 
green of the leaves and the brilliant red 
of the berries are true Christmas colors, 
but if this can’t be obtained there are 
plenty of nearby woodsy spots where win- 
tergreen can be found. A table basket 
filled with mountain laurel and smooth, 
shining red apples makes a most attrac- 
tive centerpiece. If small individual gifts 
are to be given at the table the basket 
might be filled with these instead of the 
apples. M rap each in plain red tissue 
paper and tie with narrow red ribbon, 
leaving an end on each long enough to 
reach out to a plate. If the gifts are to 
be placed at the plates, fas ten a sprig of 
laurel to each. A big iced fruit cake 
sprinkled all over with tinv red candies 
and circled with little red candles will 
give another pretty touch of color as well 
as a delight to the youngsters. If the 
dinner is to be at night, bill red shaded 
candles will add wonderfully to the whole 
effect. 
When properly prepared, fried rabbit 
or hare is equally as delicious as fried 
chicken. Joint the hare and soak it in 
salted water for half an hour, then wipe 
dry and dip each piece in well-seasoned 
flour and fry in hot fat until tender and 
browned on both sides. Slip these on 
squares of hot buttered toast and garnish 
each piece with parsley or cress. To the 
fat in the pan add two sliced onions and 
fry until browned, then stir in a large 
tablespoonful of flour and enough hot 
water to make a smooth, creamy sauce; 
season with salt, pepper, a little grated 
lemon peel and minced parsley, add two 
tablespoon fills of currant jelly, reheat 
and serve with the hare. 
For those who would prefer the bare 
“jugged” put a large tablespoonful of 
butter into the casserole and allow it to 
melt. Wash and wipe the hare; cut into 
small joints, and fry brown in the hot 
butter. Add two quarts of beef or veal 
stock. one onion, a few whole cloves and a 
bunch of herbs. Simmer gently until the 
meat is tender, then take up on a hot 
platter and keep hot while you mix two 
tablespoonfuls of cornstarcli in a little 
cold water, add the juice of one-half a 
lemon and two tablespoon fills of currant 
jelly, stir into tin* sauce, season, and cook 
until it thickens a little, thou add the 
hare, reheat in the oven for a few min¬ 
utes, and serve. 
To roast the guinea fowls, singe, clean 
and truss, lay narrow thin strips of fat 
salt pork over the breasts, and roast in 
the oven until tender and browned. Re¬ 
move the pork and place the birds on a 
hot platter. Make a sauce with the fat 
in the pan and to this add a little minced 
red pepper and parsley, the juice of an 
orange and the shredded half of the rind. 
If we are to have goose, select a young 
or green one; the old birds are always too 
strong and greasy. Remove all super¬ 
fluous fat and wash thoroughly inside aud 
out and wipe dry. Season with salt and 
pepper, then stuff and truss as you would 
a turkey. For the stuffing (German 
style) wash and soak two cupfuls of best 
primes in cold water over night. Drain, 
cover with boiling water and simmer until 
tender. Drain off the juice and to this 
add enough hot water to make three cup¬ 
fuls, season with salt, and add one cupful 
of rice, put in a double boiler and cook 
until the rice is tender, theu add the 
prunes, stoned and cut iuto small pieces, 
and 12 Spanish chestnuts, blanched and 
chopped, and stuff the bird with this. 
Put on a rack in a roasting pan. breast 
down, dredge with well-seasoned flour and 
put in a very hot oveu. When browned 
slightly pour two cupfuls of hot water in 
the pan and baste every 20 minutes, 
dredging each time after basting with 
more of the seasoned flour. This same 
stuffing may be used with fresh shoulder 
or ham. 
For those who prefer the old English 
style of stuffing a goose, peel and boil six 
or eight medium-sized potatoes. Mash 
and season with salt, pepper and minced 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering Biway* give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
2090. Bodice with or without collar, 34 
to 42 bust. 2093A. Two-piece skirt witli 
or without panels, 20 to 34 waist. The 
medium size bodice will require - X A yd-, 
ot material 30 or 40 in. wide, 2*4 yds. 44. 
The medium size skirt will require 2-'\ 
yds. of material 30. 40 or 44 iu. wide, with 
lfi yds. any width extra for the panels. 
Each 20 cents. 
omou, cooked in a tablespoonful of but¬ 
ter ; add a little sage, mix all together 
lightly aud fill the goose. 
The mincemeat for the pies is made 
from an old-time recipe. Mix thoroughly 
3 lbs. of currants, 3 lbs. of seedless rai¬ 
sins. 3 lbs. of chopped apples, f» lbs. of 
chopped suet, one fresh ox tongue, boiled 
and chopped, or 3 lbs. of finely chopped 
cooked lean beef, *4 lb. of finely chopped 
candied orange peel and the same amount 
of candied lemon peel, one-eighth of a 
pound of candied citron, juice of two 
oranges and two lemons, with the grated 
rind of the lemons. Three cupfuls of 
boiled cider and sugar or molasses if 
more sweetening is desired. When mak¬ 
ing the pies more cider may be added it' 
needed. 
For a real old English plum pudding, 
beat four eggs very light, add one cupful 
of sugar which has been mixed with one- 
half teaspoonful of salt and cinnamon, 
one-half teaspoonful each of cloves, nut¬ 
meg and mace and two cupfuls of milk. 
Soak two cupfuls of stale bread crumbs 
in this for a few minutes, then add 1 lb. 
of seedless raisins, 1 lb. of currants, Y 
lb. of chopped citron, two cupfuls of 
chopped sour apples, Yj lb. of chopped 
suet, all well-floured, and one-lialf cup of 
flour. Dip a square of unbleached mus¬ 
lin in boiling water and dredge the inside 
with flour, put the pudding mixture in the 
center aud gather up the edges and tie 
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years and proved safe by millions. Take 
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Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache. Lum¬ 
bago and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of 
twelve Bayer Tablets of Aspirin cost few 
cents. Druggists also sell larger pack¬ 
ages. Aspirin is the trade mark of 
Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacid- 
ester of Salicylicacid. 
Big JHoliday Bargains ^ 
Useful winter neces¬ 
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talk fdi- themselves. 
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Slip-over style. 
Only $3.25 
Coat, 5-bntton style, 
Only $3.75 
Red Ball Brand, ex¬ 
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quality. strong toes 
and heels. Csuull.v 
sold for $1.25 the pair. 
Now to you direct 3 
pairs for $2.75. 
Heavy wool socks, 
good quality work 
socks, extra strong 
toes and heels. Long wear and 
comfort. Regular 75c a pair. 
We will send you 3 pairs for 
$ 2 . 00 . 
Extra Big Value U. S. Navy 
Two-fingered Mitt. —Henulne 
Mule Skin, with heavy canvas 
back ami strongly sewed ad 
just able strap. Heavy wnol- 
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solid comfort. Just the mitt 
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any weather. It cost the navy 
three times this price. (Jet 
your pair for only 95c. 
Send your order aud sizes today and get 
your order filled by return mail. Pay the 
postman for the articles ordered and postage. 
We guarantee you satisfaction or your 
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