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<P> e  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
October  G,  1923 
/HE  following  outstand¬ 
ing  conveniences  and  ad¬ 
vantages  will  be  found  in 
the  new  1924  models: 
1.  Much  greater  cooking  speed. 
2.  Higher  cooking  top -roomier, 
more  comfortable  working 
height. 
3.  Wide,  substantial  base  shelf. 
A  convenient  place  for  heavy 
utensils. 
4*  Square  grates,  roomy,  with 
ample  space  for  pots  and  pans. 
5.  Rigid  extra  end  shelf  over 
oil  reservoir — increases  work' 
ing  space. 
6.  New,  clean-cut  straight- leg 
design— attractive — sub¬ 
stantial. 
7.  Everlasting  Brass  Lower 
Reservoir. 
,  __  best  results  use  — 
SQCQNV  KERQSENC 
Ask  your  dealer  to  demonstrate 
the  new  improved  models ♦ 
Economical  ♦  Clean 
Odorless 
NEW  PERFECTION 
Oil  Cook  Stoves  and  Ovens 
STANDARD  OIL  CO.  OF  NEW  YORK 
26  Broadway 
kidney,  as  too  long  cooking  makes  it  hard 
and  strong.  When  all  is  chopped  tine, 
salt  and  pepper  is  added  with  some  herb, 
either  thyme  or  sage,  or  any  preferred. 
The  broth  in  which  the  meats  are  cooked 
(not  from  liver  nor  kidney)  is  used  to 
mix  to  the  consistency  of  a  thick  batter. 
The  seasoning  can  be  rather  high  in  salt 
and  pepper.  This  can  be  tilled  into  skins, 
boiled  one-half  hour  in  salted  water,  and 
smoked.  I  prefer  to  till  it  in  quart  and 
pint  cans  and  process  one  hour  in  the 
water-seal  canner,  as  prepared  in  this 
way  it  will  keep  very  well,  and  can  be 
used  in  Summer  for  sandwiches  or  fried 
for  a  meal.  M.  u. 
A  Woodland  Garden 
In  October,  wild  flowers  may  be  trans¬ 
planted  to  the  home  garden.  Soil  from 
the  woods  is  desirable,  but  not  essential 
for  many  varieties.  Violets — white,  yel¬ 
The  Rural  Patterns 
In  ordering  always  give  number  of  pattern 
and  size  desired,  sending  price  with  order 
1786.  Misses  dress; 
bloube  with  Peter 
Pan  collar  or  low 
round  neck,  with 
three  -  quarter  or 
long  sleeves,  and 
two-piece  skirt 
gathered  oi)  plait¬ 
ed.  Sizes  14,  16, 
18  and  20  years. 
Size  18  years  re¬ 
quires  5*4  yards  36- 
inch  material  for 
dress  with  plaited 
1907.  One  -  piece 
house  -  dress  or 
apron,  with  or  with¬ 
out  sleeves,  and 
having  neck  in  two 
outlines;  for  ladies 
and  misses.  Sizes 
36,  38,  40,  42  and 
44-in.  bust.  Any 
size  requires  314 
yards  36-in.  mater¬ 
ial.  25  cents. 
dress,  having  el¬ 
bow  length  kimono 
sleeves  with  seams 
on  shoulders,  con¬ 
vertible  collar,  and 
with  or  without 
cuffs  or  set-in  pock¬ 
ets.  Suitable  for 
contrasting  mater¬ 
ials.  Sizes  6.  8,  10, 
12  and  14  years. 
Size  10  years  re¬ 
quires  2  yards  54- 
in.  material.  15 
cents. 
three-quarter  length 
sleeves,  and  'with 
or  without  patch 
pockets;  for  ladies 
and  misses.  Sizes 
36,  38,  40,  42  and 
44-in.  bust.  Size 
38  requires  4  y8 
yards  36-in.,  or  314 
yards  54-in.  mater¬ 
ial.  Embroidered 
with  transfer  No. 
11008.  Press  25 
cents,  transfer  25 
cents. 
Fashion  catalog,  15  cents. 
low,  blue,  and  the  delicate  pale  blue  long- 
spurred  violet  with  purple  veinings 
(Viola  rostrata)  which  looks  as  if  it 
might  be  an  ancestress  of  the  pansy, 
Ilepaticas,  Anemones,  bloodroot,  Jac-k-in- 
the-pulpit  (Indian  turnip),  Trillium, 
adders-tongue  and  the  lovely  fringed  Poly¬ 
gala  (a  crimson  flower  sometimes  called 
flowering  wintergreen)  will  all  thrive  in 
ordinary,  rich  soil  in  partial  shade.  Even 
trailing  arbutus,  which  it  was  long  sup¬ 
posed  could  not  be  grown  in  cultivation, 
will  live  and  bloom  well  if  transplanted 
into  wood  soil  in  a  heavily  shaded  loca¬ 
tion,  as  under  evergreens,  or  at  the  north 
end  of  a  building.  'Sunlight  causes  the 
foliage  to  turn  brown,  and  eventually 
kills  the  plant.  This  fact,  and  the  care¬ 
less  pulling  up  of  roots  in  gathering  blos¬ 
soms.  are  the  chief  reasons  why,  with 
the  thinning  of  timber,  arbutus  is  fast 
vanishing  from  our  woods.  Wild  azaleas 
(honeysuckle,  or  “May  apple  blossoms”) 
will  grow  almost  (anywhere ;  so  will 
sweetbriar.  which  is  the  “dewy  eglan¬ 
tine”  of  Keats  and  other  poets.  No 
flower  is  more  exquisite  than  this,  and 
the  beautiful  foliage,  as  well  as  the 
bloom,  is  fragrant.  Why  do  not  more 
people  have  a  clump  of  sweetbriar? 
Probably  because  it  costs  nothing.  It 
does  not  spread  dangerously. 
I  once  saw  in  a  friend’s  home,  a  win¬ 
dow-box  constructed  with  a  glass  cover, 
to  keep  the  enclosed  air  moist.  It  some¬ 
what  resembled  a  show-case.  Within  it 
were  bits  of  moss,  delicate  ferns,  a  Trill¬ 
ium  or  two.  budded,  and  Ilepaticas  in 
bloom,  in  February.  Other  flowers  de¬ 
sirable  for  such  a  box  are,  besides  violets, 
the  graceful  bellwort  (pale  yellow,  lemon 
scented,  the  ste^s  appearing  to  pierce 
through  the  leaves),  the  Polygala,  or 
flowering  wintergreen  ;  the  fairy  mitre- 
wort,  whose  spike  of  tiny,  lace-edged 
white  bells  is  a  marvelous  thing  seen 
under  a  reading  glass ;  the  feathery,  two- 
leaved  Solomon’s  seal,  not  the  large  va¬ 
riety,  though  that  is  interesting  for  the 
garden.  Other  flowers,  including  the 
“Spring  beauty”  (Claytonia)  are  avail¬ 
able  in  some  localities.  A  few  varieties, 
with  moss  and  ferns,  will  suffice.  What 
could  make  a  lovelier  Christinas  gift  to 
a  “shut-in”  who  loves  nature,  than  such 
a  box  of  woodland  treasures,  certain  to 
bloom  in  midwinter?  g.  a.  timmf.rman. 
Letters  of  an  Indiana  Farmer 
The  little  tractor  is  tamed  at  last,  but 
the  new  starter  has  not  been  attached 
yet,  and  it  is  too  hard  for  me  without 
it,  so  the  wheel-hoe  goes  on  the  job  in 
the  garden.  I  take  a  package  of  seeds 
and  tell  Lula  where  I  shall  be.  The 
far  border  of  the  big  garden  is  a  quarter 
of  a  mile  from  the  house,  and  it  is  an 
understood  thing  that  I  am  not  to  be 
called  thence  to  answer  the  telephone 
unless  it  is  ab-so-lute-ly  necessary,  which 
it  rarely  is. 
Here  goes  the  wheel  hoe,  with  the 
scuffle  blade  down,  giving  every  encour¬ 
agement  to  the  thrifty  but  belated  egg¬ 
plants  and  pimentoes.  Some  of  them 
can  be  protected  with  some  old  denim 
portieres,  if  we  have  a  frost  warning  in 
time.  The  cauliflower  and  Chinese  cab¬ 
bage  rejoice  in  the  cool,  moist  weather. 
The  latter  needs  thinning,  and  I  find  the 
thinnings  abundant  for  a  mess  of  greens 
— to  Earl’s  dinner-time  delight.  In  years 
of  tending  a  garden  measuring  30  by  10, 
we  learned  not  to  stop  sowing  seed,  even 
though  frost  be  just  around  the  corner, 
but  to  gamble  a  bit  with  the  weather. 
'We  are  so  likely  to  have  one  sharp, 
moderately  early  frost,  then  weeks  of 
pleasant  weather.  If  things  can  be  tided 
over,  they  stand  quite  a  chance.  So  here 
goes  a  row  of  spinach  seed. 
Now  the  wheel  hoe  is  left  behind,  and 
a  hand  hoe  is  used  to  clear  away  all 
grass  and  weeds  for  a  goodly  space 
around  young  peach  trees.  I  fear  I  have 
ruined  a  promising  .T.  II.  Hale,  by  dis¬ 
gusting  carelessness.  It  was  wilting;  in¬ 
vestigation  showed  it  to  be  girdled  by 
the  wire  of  its  label.  Of  course,  I  a  3n’t 
expect  it  to  increase  so  much  in  diameter 
in  one  season.  It  may  make  a  partial 
recovery,  but  is  bound  to  be  injured.  Per¬ 
haps  it  is  a  cheap  lesson — for  surely, 
never  again! 
By  this  time,  I  am  dreaming  of  fresh 
apple  pie,  and  start  for  the  house  with 
the  greens,  taking  some  corn  along.  The 
pie  is  soon  made,  and  presently,  tasted. 
M  hy  pie  crust  should  behave  with  per¬ 
fect  propriety  when  made  for  me  alone, 
and  act  as  if  possessed  when  made  for 
a  church  or  community  sale,  though 
measured  scrupulously  by  the  same 
recipe,  is  not  explained  (nor  sanctioned) 
by  my  scientific  training ! 
Fuel  will  soon  be  a  “burning”  ques¬ 
tion,  but  even  it  is  secondary  to  labor.  I 
have  fuel,  in  the  shape  of  red  cedar  trees 
that  must  come  down,  anyway,  for  the 
sake  of  orchards,  mine  and  my  neighbor’s 
—but  I  cannot  cut  them,  and  am  not 
sure  of  a  wood  chopper  yet.  Coal  is 
high,  as  everybody  knows.  An  oil  burner 
in  the  kitchen  range  might  solve  one  of 
my  problems,  if  they  are  any  good — but 
are  they?  I  have  ordered  a  basket  grate 
to  slip  into  the  fireplace,  to  burn  coal  in 
the  bitterest  weather. 
Recent  inspection  of  catalog  prices 
discloses  that  blankets  are  high,  too — 
from  two  to  three  dollars  higher  than 
last  year.  Not  having  wool  to  sell,  I 
can’t  say  how  much  of  the  extra  price 
reaches  the  producer.  An  old  cousin 
from  Ohio,  here  for  Quarterly  Meeting, 
inquired,  “Has  thee  ever  considered  pa¬ 
per-mill  blankets?”  I  never  saw  any, 
but  had  heard  of  them.  He  had  not 
bought  any  lately,  but  promised  to  in¬ 
vestigate  for  me.  They  sound  interest¬ 
ing.  For  the  benefit  of  somebody  as 
ignorant,  as  I  was,  it  seems  that  paper 
pulp,  in  the  mills,  is  carried  on  a  wide 
belting  of  pure  wool.  When  this  tears, 
the  whole  belt  is  discarded,  and  sold 
quite  cheaply.  It  is  very  closely  woven, 
hence  almost  windproof — good  for  auto 
robes  ;  and  as  it  is  not  combed  up  fluffy, 
like  the  fine  bed  blankets,  it  wears  much 
better.  My  grandmother's  blankets  were 
“teazled”  very  little,  if  any.  If  I  had 
sheep,  I  should  surely  have  the  wool 
made  up  for  home  use.  believing  that  one 
hope  of  our  business  is  in  the  return  to 
something  approaching  pioneer  days, 
with  each  farm,  or  perhaps  each  com¬ 
munity,  almost  independent  and  self-sup¬ 
porting. 
Our  greatest  problem  is  that  of  labor. 
Four  boys  have"  left  the  farms,  in  this 
immediate  neighborhood,  in  a  year,  but 
one  is  back.  Next  year  Earl  will  work 
for  me,  and  another  man  for  his  present 
employer,  but  that  merely  passes  the 
problem  on  to  somebody  else,  for  there 
is  no  reserve  supply.  e  m.  c. 
