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Sfe RURAL NEW.YORKER 
April 5, 1921 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
To An Irish Blackbird 
Wet your feet, wet your feet, 
This is what he seems to say. 
Calling from the dewy thicket 
At the breaking of the day. 
Wet your feet, wet your feet, 
Silver toned he sounds the call 
From his bramble in the thicket 
When the dew is on the fall. 
Many times in lands far distant, 
In my dreams I hear him play 
On his flute within the thicket, 
Ere the showers have passed away. 
Years have passed since last I heard him, 
■Since I said a sad adieu, 
To the early Irish morning 
With the rainbow tinted dew. 
And I still can hear him calling 
And the call comes clear and sweet, 
And I still can see the mornings 
With the dew about my feet. 
Wet your feet, wet your feet, 
Silver toned he sounds the call 
From his bramble in the thicket 
When the dew is on the fall. 
—James MacAlpin, in 
N. Y. Evening Post Literary Review. 
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It is a simple matter to crease the 
hems in table linen, preparatory to hem¬ 
ming by hand. Merely run it through 
the hemmer on the sewing machine, with¬ 
out any thread in the needle, and you 
have a perfectly creased hem, convenient 
for sewing. 
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The American Rose Society held a ref¬ 
erendum to determine the most popular 
varieties of climbing roses in the United 
States. The following 12 varieties re¬ 
ceived preference over all others, and are 
listed in order of their prefence: Dr. W. 
Van Fleet, blush; Silver Moon, white; 
American Pillar, cherry pink; Dorothy 
Perkins, pink; Paul’s Scarlet, red; 
Climbing American Beauty, red; Tausen- 
sclioen, pink; Excelsa, red; Gardenia, 
yellow; Christine Wright, red; Hia¬ 
watha, cherry pink ; Aviator Bleriot. yel¬ 
low. This collection is listed as reliably 
hardy. It is interesting to note that the 
three varieties at the top of the poll were 
all originated by the late Dr. Walter 
Van Fleet, whose “Notes from the Rural 
Grounds” were long a feature of our 
pages. 
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Hebe is a recipe for delicious walnut 
wafers: Mix one teacup of brown sugar 
and three tablespoons of flour, with a 
pinch of salt, into two well-beaten eggs; 
then add one cup shelled walnuts blanched 
and peeled and broken fairly small. Drop 
the mixture upon buttered paper and let 
it brown well in a fairly hot oven. 
Tennessee Notes 
March is soap month on the farm; the 
poultry usually keep the meat scraps used 
up, and anyway tallow makes nicer soap. 
I want a clear, still day, and a large iron 
kettle into which I measure eight gallons 
of water. Into this I empty three 13-oz. 
cans of lye, 1 lb. of 'borax, 1 lb. of Eng¬ 
lish rosin, 'build a fire under kettle and 
stir contents until well dissolved; then 
add 10 lbs. of tallow or 12 lbs. of scrap 
grease and boil and stir. I keep a bucket 
of cold water handy, because when soap 
begins to thicken it is inclined to boil 
over, and a cup of cold water now and 
then will not injure the quality of soap. 
I cook the soap from two and one-half to 
three hours, then cover up kettle until 
next day, when the soap is ready to cut 
out. Freezing will not seriously injure 
the quality of this soap, but it will be 
nicer if not allowed to freeze. 
Our hens are not paying expenses this 
■Spring. With eggs at 16c per dozen the 
only method is to eat the eggs. Looking 
out from the window at the snow-clad 
hills and lowering clouds from which the 
scurrying flakes are falling is no doubt a 
beautiful sight, but to see the poultry 
huddled up here and there, and look at 
the wellnigh empty feed bins, see the 
acres of unturned soil, the woodpile al¬ 
most depleted, and never a day to work 
—well, it doesn’t look so jolly. True, we 
were lucky enough to plant onions and 
Irish potatoes last Fall; have some to¬ 
bacco and cabbage seed sown, but one 
wants beets, peas, lettuce and radishes 
coming on. 
The chickens, some White Leghorns, 
ate the last of our Winter beans and 
salad peas we left for seed, and the neigh¬ 
bors are likewise out. I never see them 
listed in the seed catalogues. 
No doubt watercress is nice and ten¬ 
der ; some day I am going to take my 
basket and hike down the hollow where 
a big clear stream of water comes bub¬ 
bling out from under a high arch of rock. 
The creek is usually a green bed of 
cress, which we like wilted with a dress¬ 
ing of meat drippings in which a bit of 
flour is browned, and then a cup of strong 
apple vinegar added and let boil; a pinch 
of salt, then pour over the cress and toss 
lightly about until dressing is well mixed. 
Later we will go green hunting; the first 
greens will be old field cress. It stays 
green Winter and Summer. Next, wild 
and tame mustard, narrow dock, dande¬ 
lions, poke, lamb’s-quarters, etc. These 
will be thoroughly looked over and cov¬ 
ered with salt water, then boiled until 
tender, removed and drained, then fried 
in meat drippings, or parboiled and 
dropped in where a ham bone has been 
boiled, served hot with vinegar. Person¬ 
ally I am not extra fond of greens, but I 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
piece dress; a side- Sizes 26, 28, 30, 32 
closing blouse ■with and 34-in. waist, 
drop-slioulders and Any size requires 
with or without col- 2% yards 54-in. ma¬ 
lar and cuffs; blouse terial. 20 cents, 
joined to a slightly 
gathered skirt. 
Sizes 16, 18 and 20 
sleeves with seams with Peter Pan or 
on shoulders, con- round collar, long 
vertible collar and or short sleeves, 
elbow or three-quar- and with or with- 
ter length sleeves; out rounded or 
for ladies and miss- straight panels on 
es. Sizes 34, 36, 38, skirt. Sizes 8, 10, 
40 and 42-in. bust. 12 and 14 years. 
Any size requires Size 10 years re- 
-Va yards 36 to 40- quires 3 yards 36 to 
in. material. 20 40-in. material. 20 
cents. cents. 
"The Home Dressmaker,” F'ashion Book 
and Needlework Instructor, price 35 cents. 
do think they are healthy, especially in 
the Spring of the year, when one’s appe¬ 
tite is jaded and one is tired of the same¬ 
ness of the daily fare. 
At the present we have 102 books in 
our library. I am surely very grateful to 
the many good friends who have so gen¬ 
erously supplied our needs. Our Alle- 
ganey Union Mission Circle has 43 mem¬ 
bers; our Sunday school an average at¬ 
tendance of 50, and with our seven 
months’ school, prayer meeting, and 
monthly meeting, I surely think we have 
cause to be grateful, and that we are re¬ 
ceiving good interest on our investment 
in the little Alleganey schoolhouse, which, 
by the way, is not red, but painted snow 
white. Our next need is a bell, and I am 
just sure we will procure one this Sum¬ 
mer, because we have never failed yet. 
MRS. D. B. P. 
The Best One-egg Cake 
In order to justify the name, this must 
be made with bread flour. It then re¬ 
sembles sponge cake and is a favorite 
wherever introduced, even when eggs are 
plentiful. It is also especially whole¬ 
some : 
One egg (beaten), eight tablespoons 
milk, one small cup granulated sugar, 1 y 2 
tablespoons melted butter, 1% cups bread 
flour. It can be made with pastry flour, 
using nearly two cups, but is more or¬ 
dinary in quality. Beat well, bake quick- 
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