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Jh* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 12, 1924 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Chicadee 
Like laughter, rings the ehicadee’s 
Gay, flippant, fearless-hearted strain- 
My brave guest in the barren trees 
Before my window-pane. 
Ah, more than Summer melodies 
To me, that bright refrain! 
Content, amid the season’s dearth, 
Blithe, in the bitter gale, 
With jubilance of gallant mirth 
And zest that does not fail, 
lie flits above the wintry earth 
How dainty, and how frail! 
My bounty meets his roving eye; 
He hails it, “Chicadee!” 
With piquant thanks so fine that I 
Am debtor, more than lie, 
And watch him, wistful, with a sigh 
For his felicity ! 
—Grace Agnes Timmerman. 
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We are asked to reprint the recipe for 
“A Fine Fruit Cake,” which was given 
in these columns four years ago. The 
recipe, originally sent us from Virginia, 
is as follows: Cream together one-half 
cup of drippings or vegetable fat, one- 
lialf cup of butter, one cup of sugar; 
then gradually add four well-beaten eggs. 
Now add one cup of thick molasses, 1 lb. 
currants, 1 lb. raisins, ^ lb. citron peel 
cut fine, one cup chopped nut meats, one- 
lialf cup grapejuice, four cups flour, sift¬ 
ed with four teaspoons baking powder: 
add one-fourth teaspoon salt, two tea¬ 
spoons powdered ginger, one teaspoon of 
cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice; 
one-half cup chopped cocoanut if desired. 
Mix well; turn into a papered and 
greased tin, and bake in a slow heat for 
three hours. 
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Our correspondent, “Mother Bee,” 
wrote recently of a bear cub captured by 
a neighbor, and we expressed surprise 
that bears were still to be met with in 
the vicinity of a Vermont farm. In a re¬ 
cent letter “Mother Bee” says: 
You wrote you did not suppose there 
were bears near us. The cub taken this 
Fall was in the orchard of a farm we 
rent. I wonder if you realize we are lo¬ 
cated at the foot of Mt. Stratton, 3,8 <9 
ft., and an immense pile of forest-cov¬ 
ered ground; there are 30 miles of un¬ 
broken forest extending north and south, 
including Stratton Mountain, and there 
are three mountain passes about 2,000 ft. 
high. Two bears have been shot within 
a half mile of our house late years, and 
we often hear them in the Summer going 
“ho-hoo,” just south of us, very different 
from the “whoo-ho-hoo” of the hoot owl. 
And the lynx cat squalls at us almost 
every Winter as he passes on moonlight 
nights. Nothing ever disturbs our do¬ 
mestic fowls or animals, but, of course, 
■we shut in the hens at night. 
Every year comes a story of someone 
seeing a panther, but we don’t believe, or 
haven’t believed it. But this hunting sea¬ 
son three different hunting parties all re¬ 
port seeing a panther on Stratton Moun¬ 
tain or southward. We are in a deer s 
paradise, too. 
Texas Notes 
Our Winter in this part of Texas is 
long delayed. The coldest weather has 
been only one or two degrees below freez¬ 
ing. But we have had more rain than 
the oldest pioneer can ever remember 
having before at this season of the.year. 
Usually our Fall' and early Winter is the 
finest time in all the year, and I miss the 
lovely days. We cannot get away from 
the place with the car, and so stay at 
home. The cotton is all gathered, and 
brought a good price. In that way the 
farmers have profited by the abnormal 
season, as the drought and rain later on 
cut the crop short and made the price go 
up The feed'crop has not been very 
good, and some fields have not even been 
cut, but later on in the Winter the. stock 
will be turned in to eat it, and it wifi 
keep them in good condition. 
Turkeys have not sold for as much as 
last year. The highest price here was 23 
cents. Later on they went as low as 1U 
and 13 cents. The market was flooded 
with them, and several times the buyers 
refused to take them at any price, and 
the farmers were compelled to take them 
home. . , , . . 
I have been so interested in the de¬ 
scriptions of the rugs made from burlap 
sacks. I want to try them all. I will 
offer one suggestion; try coloring the 
sacks, then cut them in bias strips about 
3 to 4 in. wide, double in the center and 
sew them on the foundation. 
I want to tell the homemakers of a 
comfort I have just made, that will sell 
for a high price in the cities. I took wool 
just as it was taken from the sheep, 
washed it first in warm soapy warer. then 
through several more, using a good soap, 
last rinsing it in clear warm bluing wa¬ 
ter. After squeezing it as dry as I comd 
I laid it out on the grass on a sheet, tak¬ 
ing it in at night. Fortunately it wa9 
clear and sunny for several days. After 
it dried I carded it with wool cards, 
making wonderfully light, fluffy bats. I 
then laid them very closely on a cheese¬ 
cloth lining, using about 3 lbs. I tacked 
it about 3 in. apart, finishing it up all 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
1996. Doll’s outfit, consisting of bloom¬ 
er dress, rompers, coat, hat and bonnet. 
Sizes 14, 18 and 22 inches high. Size 18 
inches requires % yard 36-in. material 
for rompers and hat. % yard for dress 
and bonnet, and % yard for coat. 15 
cents. 
2002. Slip-on blouse 
with long sleeves 
gathered to bands, 
or short sleeves 
with cuffs; for la¬ 
dies and misses. 
Sizes 34, 36, 38, 40 
and 42-in. bust. Any 
size requires 2% 
yards 36 to 40-in. 
material. 15 cents. 
1986 
1986. Misses’ one- 
piece slip-on dress, 
with 
convertible 
collar, back yoke, 
and tight fitting or 
sleeves, 
20 12 
2012. L a d i e s’ 
blouse, with 
straight collar, and 
long sleeves gath¬ 
ered into bands; 
forated for shorter perforated for short¬ 
er length. Sizes 36, 
length. Sizes 16, 18 38, 40 and 42-in. 
bell 
per- 
and 20 years. 
18 
requires 
yards of 54-in. ma 
bust. Size 38 re¬ 
size quires 2% yards of 
36-in., or 1% yards 
214 54-in. material. Em¬ 
broidery transfer 
No. 11025. Blouse 
15 cents. Transfer 
15 cents. 
terial. 20 cents. 
Illustrated Catalog of Fashions and Em¬ 
broidery Transfers, 15 cents. 
round the edges. I then covered it with a 
wash satin in lavender, button-holing all 
round the edge with heavy embroidery 
silk in pink, and put a pink satin rose at 
irregular intervals over the. top, tying 
through the center with the silk. It took 
a good deal of time to make it, but as 
they sell for about $25 it would pay very 
well. . ,, TT 
In response to the question, ‘How 
would you spend $20 at Christmas,” will 
say, entirely for reading matter. What 
could give more pleasure as well as be¬ 
ing a real help, than good magazines 
every week or month for a whole year? 
My rural friends would each receive The 
R.‘ N.-Y„ and there are needlework mag¬ 
azines that would help one to make many 
beautiful articles; magazines that keep 
us informed as to the progress of world 
events, and those devoted to homemaking. 
We are at times cut off from our neigh¬ 
bors and I am never lonely; with my 
needlework and reading matter the time 
passes pleasantly. Our children are all 
away from home. The youngest boy en¬ 
tered college in September. He has start¬ 
ed into make his way through with some 
help, and as it is a State school with 
government military training, lie has 
plenty of chances to work in all his spare 
time. The youngest girl has to board in 
town to attend high school. 
I wish all The R. N.-Y. family a hap¬ 
py and prosperous year in 1924. 
“Ring out the old, ring in the new, 
Ring, liappv bells, across the snow.” 
MRS. M. U, M. 
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