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7b* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 10, 1924 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
To My Little Son 
Iu your face I sometimes see 
Shadowings of the man to be, 
And eager, dream of what my son 
Will be in twenty years and one. 
But when you are to manhood grown, 
And all your manhood ways are known, 
Then shall I, wistful, try to trace 
The child you once were in your face? 
—Julia Johnson Davis, in The Lyric. 
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Here is a tested recipe for cocoanut 
macaroons: One and one-fourth cups 
cocoanut (shredded), one-third cup con¬ 
densed milk, one-half teaspoon vanilla, 
one egg white. Mix cocoanut, condensed 
milk and vanilla thoroughly. Beat egg 
white until stiff; combine mixtures. 
Shape into cakes. Bake in moderate 
oven 15 minutes. 
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The following formula for floor wax is 
given in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1219, 
“Floors and Floor Coverings,” issued by 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture: 
< tne and one-fourth pints turpenine, 4 oz. 
beeswax, 1 lb. paraffin, one-fourth pint 
raw linseed oil. Melt the beeswax and 
paraffin, add the linseed oil and turpen¬ 
tine, and stir the mixture vigorously. Un- 
. finished wood will be darkened somewhat 
by this wax as a result of the absorption 
of the linseed oil. Turpentine is highly 
inflammable, therefore care must be 
taken in making this wax to heat the in¬ 
gredients only by setting them in vessels 
of hot water, and to have no flames in 
the room Success in waxing floors lies 
in applying the wax in thin coats and 
rubbing it a good deal. 
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To make the crumbs for covering a cof¬ 
fee cake, melt two tablespoons butter and 
one tablespoon lard in the frying pan; 
have it just melted, but not hot enough 
to brown. Sift into one cup of flour two 
tablespoons powdered and two table¬ 
spoons granulated sugar, one-fourth tea¬ 
spoon cinnamon, pinch of salt. Stir in 
pan with the hot fat until it forms into 
crumbs, then sprinkle on cake and bake. 
A Summer Kitchen, Out of Doors 
I love the Summer, but I have always 
had to work so much harder then that I 
could not do half the things I wanted. 
We make butter from 10 cows, and I help 
milk both night and morning; take al¬ 
most all the care of the garden and flow¬ 
ers, mow our lawn, and do a great deal of 
canning. I am very fond of the outdoor 
work, and I have wondered and wondered 
how I could get rid of the eternal round 
of housework in the Summer. We have 
a wonderful big porch, 8 ft. wide, around 
three sides of the house, but because of 
its size we have not been able to furnish 
it as completely as we would like. One 
side faces the north and east, and is al¬ 
ways cool and breezy, and our own bed¬ 
room opens right onto the porch, so this 
is what we plan to do: Screen in the 
north half and simply live out there, ex¬ 
cept, of course, in cold or stormy weath¬ 
er. The end next the house opening into 
our bedroom will be my kitchen. We 
piped water out there this Spring, and 
my oil stove will stand in a sheltered 
spot against the house. Right next is a 
cupboard to hold the necessary dishes 
and supplies. I have painted a number 
of pound tobacco cans to hold all the dry 
groceries, flour, sugar, etc. Only the ne¬ 
cessities are going to be moved out, and I 
shall try to duplicate everything I need 
in my pantry, so there will be no running 
back and forth. A long, narrow table 
(for dishwashing), a linoleum runner 
and a gay screen to hide this end of the 
porch when not in use, a garbage pail, 
and a small rack for towels, will complete 
my kitchen, 8 ft. square. Compared to 
my inside kitchen, 15x20 ft., with its 
light woodwork, six doors, three windows 
and wood floor to keep clean, it will seem 
like camping to have so little, to do there. 
The other end of the porch will be a com¬ 
bination dining and living room, with a 
couch, easy chairs, flowers and maga¬ 
zines, also exceedingly easy to keep clean. 
We have all the things to furnish the 
porch without robbing our house, so it 
will be an easy matter to come inside to 
live for a few days if we want to. 
Our cellar has a concrete floor, and 
when we clean it this Spring it is going 
to be whitewashed and arranged so that 
we can churn and do the washing down 
there. How I shall revel in having extra 
time to work in my flowers and tend my 
vegetable garden! Our little two-year- 
old will enjoy playing on the other end 
of the porch, with mother so near, and 
when she is around the yard I can keep 
an eye on her much better than if I were 
in the house. We are just off the main 
road, so we will not be bothered much 
with dust, and we can still see without 
being seen too closely. I plan to buy my 
bread and have simple meals; vegetables, 
fresh fruit and milk, cereals cooked in 
the fireless. 
It seems as if Summer would never 
come. We had quite a snowstorm again 
today (April 21); big flakes; it looked 
as if January had returned for a fare¬ 
well visit. The birds are here, however, 
and the peepers down along the brook in¬ 
crease in number and volume every night, 
so w r e won’t give up hope, for we know 
that “While the earth remaineth, seed¬ 
time and harvest, and cold and heat, and 
Summer and Winter, and day and night, 
shall not cease.” marian b. spencer. 
Pennsylvania Notes 
Pennsylvania is not considered an ag^ 
ricultural State in the central part where 
we live; nevertheless there are many of 
us who live on farms and make a living 
that way, selling butter, milk, eggs, meat, 
honey, vegetables or any surplus products 
we have, and although we are not grow¬ 
ing wealthy we have many of the worth- 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
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blouse with bosom fastening; may be 
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slightly gath- three-quarter or el- 
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a camisole top. Sizes 42, 44. 46, 48 
Sizes 16, 18 and 20 and 50 in. bust. Size 
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requires 4% yds. of of 40-in. material. 
36-in. material. 20 20 cents. - . 
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waist line. Sizes 2, ladies and misses. 
4, 6 and 8 years. Sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 
Size 4 years •- re- 42 and 44 in. bust, 
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36-in., with % yd. yds. of 36-in., with 
contrasting materi- % yd. -of 32-in. rna- 
al. 20 cents. terial. 20 cents. 
The Home Dressmaker, Fashion Book and 
needlework Instructor, 35 cents. 
while things of life, and plenty of work. 
What a blessing work is; it does not give 
us much time to covet what we do not 
have. 
There is talk of consolidation of the 
schools here, but it does not meet with 
much approval among our neighbors. 
I use March and April for the family 
sewing and dressmaking. Meat canning 
is done; it is too early for housecleaning. 
I buy a new pattern or two, gather 
around me some material, and then pro¬ 
ceed to enjoy myself for a few spare days 
each week until warm days tell me it is 
time to make garden or clean house. Then 
there is often time while sewing to teach 
the small ones to read, and count. How 
much we enjoy the companionship of 
these wee ones in their early wisdom. 
M. G. 
Eggless Chocolate Cake 
This is excellent: Two cups dark 
brown sugar, one cup buttermilk or sweet 
milk, scant half cup butter or one-tliird 
cup substitute, one-half cup cocoa, sifted 
with two level cups pastry flour. Salt 
and vanilla. Mix well. Then add one- 
half cup hot water or coffee in which has 
been dissolved one level teaspoon soda. 
Bake in a loaf or in layers. G. a. t. 
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