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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
November  17,  1923 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day 
Appointed  Days 
I  do  uot  like  appointed  days 
When  I  am  bidden  what  to  feel — 
AYlien  to  be  merry  or  give  praise, 
And  when  my  inmost  heart  reveal. 
My  thankfulness  may  come  in  June 
Instead  of  drear  November  time, 
My  merriment  with  May  attune, 
And  not  with  dull  December  chime. 
And  as  for  New  Years,  mine  are  born 
According  to  a  method  bold ; 
I  start  a  new  one  any  morn 
When  I  am  weary  of  the  old. 
— MeLanburgh  Wilson, 
in  New  York  Sun. 
* 
We  have  been  discussing  Christmas 
gifts — useful,  ornamental,  permanent  and 
transitory.  Very  few  among  us  have  all 
the  money  we  would  like  to  spend  in  this 
way,  but  most  of  us  have  quite  a  definite 
idea  of  what  we  would  buy,  if  we  could 
afford  it.  We  wish  some  of  our  farm 
housekeepers  would  tell  us  what  they 
would  buy  for  Christmas  gifts,  if  they 
had  twenty  dollars,  free  from  other 
claims,  that  could  be  spent  in  that  way. 
We  think  it  would  be  quite  interesting 
to  learn  what  they  would  buy,  and  why. 
* 
The  tireless  cooker  is  a  fine  place  to 
set  the  bread  to  rise  over  night.  With 
others’  call,  as  he  will  have  to  address 
them  thereby. 
When  everyone  has  chosen  an  animal, 
there  cannot  be  two  the  same ;  the  best 
is  to  repeat  them  around  two  or  three 
times.  Then  the  game  starts.  We  sup¬ 
pose  No.  1  is  Mr.  Rooster.  He  takes 
one  of  the  cards  and  turns  it,  colored  side 
up,  with  a  quick  jerk,  so  everybody  can 
immediately  see  what  color  it  is,  and 
places  his  card  in  front  of  him.  We  will 
suppose  he  took  a  white  card.  Now  his 
neighbor  to  his  left,  Miss  Mouse,  takes  a 
card  in  the  same  way.  When  this  is  a 
blue,  red  or  black  color,  nothing  happens, 
and  she,  too,  places  her  card  in  front  of 
her.  But  when  it  happens  to  be  a  wdiite 
card  too,  Miss  Mouse  has  to  call  to  her 
neighbor,  “Cock-a-doodle-do,”  and  Mr. 
Rooster  has  to  shout  “Squeak,  squeak.” 
The  one  who  says  the  other’s  call  first 
gets  his  card.  So  this  is  the  game.  As 
soon  as  there  are  two  cards  on  the  table 
with  the  same  color  the  holders  of  those 
cards  have  to  call  each  other’s  names, 
and  who  calls  the-  first  gets  the  other’s 
cards.  The  most  exciting  moments  are 
those  when  there  are  three  or  four  colors 
on  the  table,  so  he  who  has  to  draw  is 
sure  to  have  to  call  one  of  these  three  or 
four.  When  one  shouts  a  call  unneces¬ 
sary,  for  example,  he  has  blue  and  the 
next  player  draws  white,  and  blue  shouts 
his  name,  all  his  cards  go  back  to  the 
middle  of  the  table.  When  all  the  cards 
have  been  drawn  he  who  holds  the  most 
cards  is  the  winner. 
MRS.  W.  J.  SIIEPP-CORNELISSEN. 
Tennessee  Notes 
I  have  just  returned  from  a  walk,  or 
clamber,  rather,  through  the  woods  near 
by.  Such  a  sight  as  they  are!  As  yet 
we  have  had  no  killing  frost ;  the  trees 
are  full  foliaged,  and  were  until  Oct.  23, 
llOld^Tea  Set  Design  for  Applique  and  Embroidery.  Pattern  includes  four 
cups  and  saucers,  four  teapots,  one  sugar  bowl  and  one  cream  pitcher,  each  j 
about  3 y2  in.  across  the  bowl;  six  cups  and  saucers,  and  five  each  of  teapots,  l 
sugar  bowls  and  cream  pitchers  measuring  about  2y2  in.  across  bowl.  20  cents.  ! 
perfect  insulation  the  bread  will  remain 
at  the  same  temperature  all  night,  no 
matter  what  the  temperature  of  the  kitch¬ 
en  may  be.  This  is  a  great  help  during 
Winter,  when  the  kitchen  may  become 
very  cold. 
Games  for  the  Children’s  Party 
I  should  like  to  pass  on  a  couple  of 
games,  known  to  most  Holland  children, 
but  as  far  as  I  could  find  out,  unknown 
to  American  young  ones. 
The  Train. — The  greater  number  par¬ 
ticipating  in  this  game  the  jollier  it  is. 
Place  in  two  rows,  with  backs  to  backs, 
so  many  chairs  that  there  is  one  less  than 
the  number  of  players.  So,  for  20  chil¬ 
dren.  take  19  chairs,  and  use  two  of  them 
for  the  ends  of  the  rows,  with  seats  out¬ 
side.  The  players  stand  in  a  marching 
row  around  the  chairs,  and  as  soon  as 
the  music  plays  (any  kind  will  do — piano, 
gramophone,  banjo,  violin,  and  a  quick 
march  is  the  most  preferable)  everyone 
begins  to  walk  around  the  chairs  in  a 
quick  pace.  Suddenly  the  music  stops 
and  everybody  sits  down  on  the  seat- at 
his  or  her  side.  There  will  be  a  hustling 
for  seats,  as  there  are  always  two  apt  to 
sit  down  on  one  chair,  a  running  around 
for  the  empty  seats,  until  one  is.  left 
standing.  He  falls  out.  One  chair  is 
taken  away  and  around  it  goes  again 
when  the  music  starts,  and  stops  when 
the  music  stops.  AVhen  the  number  gets 
below  10  the  chairs  are  placed  with  spaces 
between.  He  that  holds  the  last  chair  is 
winner  of  the  game. 
Mouse-squeak. — This  play  is  played  in 
Holland  with  the  common  playing  cards, 
but  some  people  object  to  cards,  and  I 
found  that  children  play  it  easier  with 
colored  cards.  AA’e  use  homemade  colored 
cards.  Take  old  shoe  boxes  or  similar 
pasteboard,  cut  cards  2%x2  in.,  and  color 
one  side  with  crayon  or  watercolor.  10 
black,  10  white,  10  red.  10  light  blue. 
Take  care  that  nothing  of  the  color  is 
visible  on  the  other  side.  The  cards  are 
placed  in  a  flat  pile,  color  side  down,  in 
the  middle  of  the  table.  Now  every  one 
of  the  players  around  the  table  chooses  an 
animal  which  he  or  she  will  represent  by 
the  sound  it  makes,  so  a  cat  is  miaou,  a 
mouse,  squeak  :  a  lion,  howling :  a  horse, 
neighing ;  a  rooster,  cock-a-doodle-do,  etc. 
Every  player  has  to  try  to  remember  the 
green  as  Summer.  The  morning  of  that 
day  was  cloudy,  cold  and  gloomy  ;  along 
about  S  o’clock  mist,  sleet  and  snow  be¬ 
gan  to  come  down  ;  by  9  o’clock  feathery 
flakes  were  piling  down  rapidly,  and  by 
4  o’clock  in  the  afternoon  limbs,  especial¬ 
ly  those  of  the  chestnut  trees,  wrere  com¬ 
ing  to  the  ground  constantly.  Such  a 
destniction !  Two  nice  young  trees  in 
our  yard  have  their  limbs  split  off.  and 
a  chunk  of  their  body  as  well.  AA'hile  I’m 
a  bit  old  myself,  those  still  oldeiy  say  it 
beats  anything  they  ever  saw.  AA’e  have 
had  an  extremely  dry  Fall ;  no  rains  for 
weeks.  It  is  no  fun  to  haul  water,  but 
yet  if  we  had  our  “rathers”  we  would 
have  been  willing  to  hauled  on  and  saved 
the  trees.  Now  there  is  water  in  the  cis¬ 
tern  and  an  extra  big  wash  on  the  line. 
The  foster-mother  who  has  been  ill  so 
long  with  that  dread  disease,  cancer, 
passed  away  the  19th  of  September.  Al¬ 
though  one  would  not  recall  her  to  her 
suffering,  we  sadly  miss  her  in  the  old 
home,  where  no  one  is  left  to  “keep  the 
home  fire  burning.”  Charlie,  the  eldest 
lad.  who  has  been  in  Iowa  for  some  time, 
drove  home  for  a  short  visit,  but  it  seems 
the  lure  of  the  road  has  him.  and  he  is 
now  located  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  which 
place,  he  says,  is  filled  up.  among  the 
working  class,  with  foreigners. 
Paul,  the  18-year-old,  has  gone  to  try 
his  luck  in  Iowa.  I  tell  them  the  Phillips 
are  never  really  christened  until  they 
make  a  trip  AA’est.  One  holds  them  back 
just  as- long  as  they  can,  but  the  break  is 
sure  to  come.  I’ve  only  one  more  to  go. 
Our  school  is  going  on  fine.  Our  teach¬ 
er  decided  we  needed  shades  and  a  li¬ 
brary,  so  we  baked  pies,  chocolate,  ban¬ 
ana,  cocoanut,  orange,  etc.,  made  a 
guess  cake,  a  box  of  candy,  and  the  pro¬ 
ceeds  were  852.40.  which  did  well  for  a 
small  crowd.  The  pies  are  auctioned  off 
one  at  a  time.  Sometimes  one  will  sell 
for  over  $2  ;  depends  on  how  badly  a  cer¬ 
tain  boy  wants  to  eat  with  a  certain  girl, 
or  how  deep  their  pocketbook  is,  and 
sometimes  they  think  a  pie  belongs  to  a 
certain  party,  and  then  when  they  buy 
the  pie  some  other  name  stares  up  at 
them  on  the  slip  of  paper  stuck  under  the 
pie.  but  it’s  all  fun.  and  enjoyed  by  the 
young  folks.  Tickets  were  sold  for  the 
box  of  candy,  and  guesses  at  5  cents  for 
the  cake,  which  happened  to  have  a  dime 
in  it,  and  as  there  were  four  who  rightly 
Sterling 
BAKES 
A 
BARRED 
OF 
FLOUR, 
AVITH 
ONE 
HOD 
OF 
COAL 
Has  No 
Equal ” 
£  '  U 
Range 
Has  No 
Equal” 
'T'HE  STERLING  has  baked  a  barrel 
A  of  flour  with  a  single  hod  of  coal  in 
hundreds  of  public  demonstrations.  It 
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Every  STERLING  is  sold  with  a  double 
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the  dealer  and  the  factory  and  upon  con¬ 
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Have  your  local  dealer  demonstrate  this  range 
or  write  for  printed  matter  and  dealer's  name 
Sill  Stove  Works,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
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at  his  Best 
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Love  and  its  relation  to  Success. 
Agreeableness 
A  little  lesson  in  charm- 
Sensitiveness 
Its  pain  and  cure. 
T  T  1  *i-  One  good  habit  is  worth 
ITaDlL  a  dozen  rules. 
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