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*P*  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
July  7,  1923 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day 
A  Knack 
Ob,  I  am  a  woman  whose  bouse  is  a 
sight ! 
From  garret  to  cellar  there’s  nothing 
that’s  right, 
For  day  after  day  I  am  striving  and 
straining 
To  reach  perfect  neatness,  but  never  at¬ 
taining. 
While  I’m  washing  the  windows  the  car¬ 
pets  get  dusty ; 
While  I’m  cleaning  the  pantry  the  parlor 
grows  musty ; 
My  meals  are  behind  time  and  always 
have  been, 
And  I  just  get  my  bed  made  in  time  to 
get  in. 
My  neighbors  make  comment,  “Alas !  and 
alack ! 
Poor  thing,  she  works  hard  and  don’t 
want  to  be  slack  ; 
But  somehow  or  other,  she  hasn't  a 
knack !” 
Oh.  a  very  tine  thing  ’tis  to  have  a  great 
knack ! 
Now  I  have  a  neighbor  whose  house  is 
just  right,  . 
Whenever  you  enter  from  morning  till 
night  i  • 
She  gives  a  touch  here  and  she  gives  a 
touch  there, 
And  all  is  in  order  from  cellar  to  stair. 
Should  I  ask  for  the  reason,  her  friends 
all  can  tell ; 
“Oh,  she  has  a  great  knack  of  doing 
things  well !” 
It’s  not  that  she  works  any  more  than 
her  neighbors, 
But  she  knows  how  to  get  good  results 
from  her  labors ; 
Oh,  yes,  it  is  plain  she  is  blessed  with  a 
knack ! 
That  coveted  gift  which  so  sadly  I  lack. 
So  she  sits  at  her  ease  while  I’m  breaking 
my  back — 
Oh.  a  very  line  thing  ’tis  to  have  a  great 
knack ! 
Oh,  is  there  no  merchant  who  traffics  in 
knacks ! 
By  wholesale  or  retail,  in  barrels  or 
sacks? 
Or  is  there  no  ship  that  sails  over  the 
sea 
Will  bring  in  its  cargo  a  great  knack  for 
me?  . 
There’s  many  a  peddler  out  tramping  the 
road — 
Is  there  one  with  a  half  dozen  knacks  m 
his  load? 
O’er  mountain  and  valley  I'll  follow  his 
tr&ck» 
I’ll  seize'  him  by  force  and  I’ll  rifle  his 
pack, 
For  I  am  determined  I’ll  have  what  1 
lack — 
Oh,  a  very  fine  thing  ’tis  to  have  a  great 
knack  !  — New'  York  Sun. 
(Reprinted  by  request.) 
lx  the  report  of  Women’s  Institutes 
in  the  Province  of  Ontario,  Canada,  it  is 
said  that  a  rural  institute  near  the  Soo 
hit  on  rather  an  original  idea  this  year 
in  bringing  their  men  to  a  meeting  and 
having  a  lawyer  there  to  address  them 
on  the  question  of  making  their  wills.  It 
may  have  occurred  to  some  of  the  men  as 
a  rather  somber  idea,  but  the  president 
says :  “We  had  seen  too  many  widows 
left  with  a  family  of  little  children  to 
bring  up  and  no  means  of  providing  for 
them  while  they  w'ere  little  and  needed 
it,  because  there  had  been  no  will  and 
the  farm  could  not  be  sold  until  the 
youngest  child  was  of  age.’’  It  seems  to 
us  that  the  same  idea  is  adaptable  to 
local  Granges. 
Tiie  following  remarks  about  the  rural 
schools  are  quite  as  applicable  to  Ibis 
side  of  the  line  as  to  the  audience  at  a 
Canadian  women’s  institute,  to  whom 
they  were  addressed  : 
’If  you  were  driving  along  a  country 
road  and  saw'  a  cheerless  looking  build¬ 
ing.  sitting  dejectedly  in  a  yard  which 
looked  like  a  small  hayfield  with  a  border 
of  thistles  or  burs  and  a  few  straggling 
flowers  in  front,  would  you  have  to  ask 
anyone  what  it  wras?  I  know  they  are 
not  all  like  that.  I  have  seen  many  a 
rural  school  which  was  a  credit  to  the 
community  in  which  it  stood,  a  well-kept 
building  with  a  mown  lawn,  with  shade 
trees,  shrubs  and  flowers  ;.  but  these  make 
your  heart  sorrier  over  the  other  type, 
which  is,  I  fear,  still  in  the  majority. 
Should  not  the  schools  which  house  the 
children  for  whom  wre  try  to  make  at¬ 
tractive  homes,  come  up  to  the  standard 
of  those  homes?  Paint  has  the  same  re¬ 
juvenating  effect  there  as  at  home ;  trees 
and  shrubs  add  the  same  beauty,  and 
flowers  are  as  easily  grown ;  there  are 
more  hands  to  tend  them  and  no  chickens 
to  scratch  them  out. 
And  what  about  the  inside  of  our 
schools?  Have  you  been  in  yours  lately? 
Is  it  as  clean  as  your  kitchen?  Can  any 
of  you  tell  me  why  a  kitchen  floor  needs 
to  be  cleansed  so  often,  while  the  floor  at 
school,  where  20  or  20  children  run  in 
and  out  and  live  and  move  and  have  their 
being,  and,  incidentally,  eat  their  lunch, 
needs  to  be  cleaned  only  four  times  a 
year?  According  to  law,  the  school  must 
be  cleaned  four  times  a  year,  but  it  is  not 
against  the  law  to  clean  it  oftener.  Are 
there  basins  and  paper  towels  in  your 
school?  Those  grimy  little  hands  which 
must  be  washed  before  dinner  at  home 
need  washing  before  handling  the  lunch 
at  school. 
Do  the  children  sit  with  cold  feet  half 
the  forenoon,  or  have  you  an  efficient 
heating  and  ventilating  system? 
Are  the  walls  redecorated  as  often  as 
they  are  at  home  and  in  as  pleasing 
shades ’  Are  they  hung  with  framed 
prints  of  good  pictures,  or  are  they  hung 
with  last  year’s  calendars,  etc.?  If  not 
already  there,  there  is  room  in  your 
school  for  tw'o  or  three  dozen  pictures  in 
different  sizes. 
/What  about  a  hot  lunch?  We  wouldn’t 
let  the  children  sit  down  at  home  in 
Winter  time  to  eat  a  cold  lunch  and  drink 
cold  water  with  it,  especially  if  they 
had  tramped  a  mile  or  two  through  the 
snow.  A  hot  lunch,  too,  might  solve  the 
problem  of  having  the  teacher  at  school 
at  noon  to  supervize  the  children’s  play. 
Most  of  the  things  which  happen  at 
26th  Row — Same  as  25th  row. 
27th  Row — Same  as  24th  row. 
28th  Row — Same  as  25th  row. 
29th  Row — Same  as  28th  row'. 
30th  Row- — Make  a  shell  of  6  d.  c.  in 
each  2  ch.  and  repeat  around  the  bonnet. 
Run  ribbon  in  27th  row. 
This  is  a  very  nice  fitting  bonnet  for  a 
little  baby’s  head.  Mrs.  eewin  chase. 
My  Eggless  Recipes 
Generally  speaking,  I  do  not  favor  egg¬ 
less  recipes.  The  egg  being  rich  in  the 
necessary  vitamines,  it  is  not  wise  to  cur¬ 
tail  its  use.  However,  there  are  times 
when  the  last  egg  has  gone  to  market  and 
something  must  be  baked,  or  in  the  Fall 
and  early  Winter  when  eggs  are  scarce 
and  high,  when  eggless  recipes  come  into 
their  own  and  are  appreciated. 
By  following  the  recipes  given  below' 
you  may  have  a  pie,  a  white  cake,  a  fruit 
cake,  a  pan  of  delicious  ginger  bread  or 
cookies,  without  an  egg  in  the  house. 
Butterscotch  Pie. — 'One-fourth  cup  but¬ 
ter,  one-half  cup  brown  sugar,  one  pint 
milk,  two  heaping  tablespoons  cornstarch 
(or  flour)  rubbed  smooth  in  cold  water. 
Melt  butter  and  sugar  in  pan,  add  milk, 
then  flour  paste  if  flour  is  used.  Wait 
Baby's  Crocheted  Bonnet 
school  which  should  not  happen  are 
caused  by  lack  of  supervision  at  noon 
and  lack  of  organized  games. 
Baby’s  Chocheted  Bonnet 
Ch.  10  and  fasten  to  form  a  ring. 
1st  Row' — Ch.  3,  26  d.  c.  in  ring,  fasten 
ch.  3. 
2d  Row — 3  d.  c.  (3  ch.  forming  the  first 
one)  in  first  d.  c.,  skip  2  d.  c.,  3  d.  c. 
in  next,  and  so  on  till  there  are  0  groups 
of  3  d.  c. 
3d  Row — (5  d. 
around. 
c.  in 
2 
ch.,  cb. 
3) 
4th  Row — (7  d. 
around. 
c.  in 
o 
o 
eh.,  ch 
4) 
5th  Row — '(9  d. 
around. 
c.  in 
4 
ch.,  cb. 
5) 
6th  Row — (11  d. 
around. 
c.  in 
5 
ch.,  eh. 
6) 
7th  Row — (13  d. 
around 
e.  in 
oh.  6.  cli. 
7) 
8th  Row— (15  d. 
e.  in 
7 
cb.,  ch. 
8) 
around. 
0th  Row — 17  d.  e.  in  8  cli.,  ch.  3,  1 
d.  c.  in  center  of  15  d.  e.,  ch.  3,  17  d.  c. 
in  next  8  ch.  repeat  around. 
10th  Row'— 13  d.  c.  in  center  d.  c.  of 
17  d.  c.„  ch.  3,  1  d.  c.  in  3  ch.  below,  ch. 
2,  1  d.  c.  in  next  3  ch.  below,  ch.  3.  Re¬ 
peat  around. 
11th  Row — 11  d.  c.  in  center  d.  c.  of 
13  d.  c.  below  (ch  2,  1  d.  c.,  ch  2)  3 
times,  making  4  spaces,  11  d.  c.  in  13  d.  c. 
Repeat  around. 
15th  Row' — 0  d.  c.  in  center  d.  c.  of  11 
d.  c.  below'  (ch.  2,  1  d.  c.,  ch.  2),  4  times, 
making  5  spaces.  0  d.  c.  Repeat. 
16th  Row — 7  d.  c.  (2  ch,  1  d.  c..  2  ch.), 
making  6  spaces.  Repeat  around. 
17th  Row — 5  d.  c.  (2  ch.,  1  d.  c.,  2 
ch.),  making  7  spaces. 
18th  Row' — 3  d.  c.  (2  ch..  1  d.  c..  2 
ch. ).  making  8  spaces. 
10th  Row — 41  d.  c.,  2  ch.,  1  d.  c),  re¬ 
peat  all  around. 
20th  Row — 1  d.  c,  in  d.  c.,  2  d.  c.  in  2 
ch..  1  d.  c.  in  d.  e..  repeat  around. 
21st  Row — (1  d.  e..  ch.  2.  1  d.  e.)  in  d. 
c,  skip  3,  ch.  2  (1  d.  c.,  ch.  2.  1  d.  c.) 
in  next  d.  c.  Repeat  around. 
22d  Row — (1  d.  c.,  ch.  23  d.  c.)  in  2 
ch.  Repeat  till  there  are  33  groups  of 
(1  d.  c  .  ch.  2.  3  d.  c),  turn. 
23d  Row — Same  as  22d  row. 
24th  Row — (1  d.  c.,  ch.  2,  1  d.  c.)  Re¬ 
peat  across,  turn. 
25th  Row — Same  as  22d  row. 
until  boiling  to  add  cornstarch  paste,  and 
boil  until  thick.  Pour  into  baked  crust. 
White  Cake.— Cream  together  a  piece 
of  butter  the  size  of  an  egg  and  one  cup 
of  sugar ;  add  one  heaping  tablespoon 
cornstaj  ch  and  stir  well,  then  one  cup  of 
sweet  milk,  tw'o  heaping  cups  of  flour, 
into  which  three  teaspoons  of  baking 
powder  and  a  pinch  of  salt  have  been 
well  sifted.  Beat  until  light  and  add  one 
teaspoon  of  lemon  extract.  Bake  in  loaf 
or  layers.  Upon  the  mixing  or  beating 
depends  the  success  of  this  cake. 
bruit  Cake. — Two  cups  brow'n  sugar, 
two-thirds  cun  lard  or  meat  fat,  two  cups 
w'ater,  tw'o  cups  Sultana  raisins,  two 
cups  seeded  raisins,  one  teaspoon  salt, 
tw'o  teaspoons  pow'dered  cinnamon,  one 
teaspoon  powdered  cloves,  one-half  tea¬ 
spoon  pow’dered  mace,  one-half  teaspoon 
grated  nutmeg,  two  teaspoons  baking 
soda  ;  four  cups  flour,  one  teaspoon  bak¬ 
ing  pow'der,  iy2  cups  chopped  nutmeats, 
three  tablespoons  warm  water.  Put  lard 
or.  fat  into  saucepan,  add  sugar,  water, 
raisins,  salt  and  spices,  and  boil  three 
minutes.  Cool,  and  when  cold  add  flour, 
baking  pow'der,  soda  dissolved  in  warm 
water,  and  nutmeats.  Mix  and  turn  into 
w'ell-greased  and  floured  cake  tin  and 
bake  in  slow  oven  one  and  a  half  hours. 
I  prefer  a  turk’s  head  pan  for  this. 
Gingerbread. — One  cup  raisins,  one 
cup  brow'n  sugar,  one-half  cup  shortening, 
three  cups  flour,  one  teaspoon  ginger,  one 
teaspoon  cinnamon,  one  cup  molasses,  one 
cup  boiling  water,  one  teaspoon  soda. 
Mix  sugar,  molasses  and  shortening,  add 
water  with  soda  dissolved  in,  then  ginger, 
cinnamon  and  flour,  sifted  together.  Bake 
about  40  minutes. 
Cream  Cookies. — One  pint  cream,  one 
pint  sugar,  two  teaspoons  baking  pow'¬ 
der.  flour  to  make  a  soft  dough. 
Ginger  Cookies. — One  cup  molasses, 
two  tablespoons  w'arm  milk  or  w'ater.  one 
tablespoon  ginger,  one-half  cup  of  short¬ 
ening,  one  teaspoon  soda,  flour  to  mix 
soft  as  can  be  handled.  Mix  in  order 
given,  dissolving  soda  in  milk  or  water. 
Shape  into  balls  the  size  of  a  hickorynut. 
T  ay  on  a  sheet  or  in  dripping  pan  and 
flatten  with  a  spoon  or  the  bottom  of  the 
measuring  cup  to  one-half  inch  thick. 
M.  o.  T. 
_  “Why  are  you  studying  all  these  for¬ 
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