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gradually,  stirring  constantly  until  blend¬ 
ed.  Do  not  stir  after  it  boils..  Test  m 
cold  water.  When  brittle  is  should  be  re¬ 
moved  from  the  fire.  Pour  on  a  buttered 
platter.  When  partly  set,  mark  off  in 
squares.  Allow  to  harden. 
HELEN  N.  UPSON. 
Tennessee  Notes 
Only  a  few  days  until  Thanksgiving, 
and  though  we  have  received  many  hard 
bumps  the  past  year,  one  can  find  many, 
many  things  to  be  grateful  for.  The  tur¬ 
key  buyers  are  offering  22c  per  lb.  for 
turkeys,  but  turkeys  are  scarce  iii  our 
part  of  the  world,  and  I  think  if  we  will 
just  sit  steady  in  the  boat  and  hokl  on  to 
our  turkeys  we  will  receive  a  better 
price.  We  are  having  a  very  dry  Fall, 
cool,  frosty  nights  and  clear  days,  and 
the  farmers  wishing  for  damp,  foggy 
weather  to  bring  tobacco  in  case.  The 
papers  are  prophesying  an  average  of  25c 
per  lb.  Last  year’s  average  was  30c, 
and  that  means  some  days  tne  sale  price 
for  best  grades  may  reach  75c  and  the 
next  day  the  same  grade  may  not  bring 
20c.  Farming  is  a  haphazard  business. 
Ofttimes  it’s  to  sow  in  hope  and  reap  in 
disappointment.  Recently  a  city  friend 
wrote  me  that  perhaps  one  reason  farm 
women  were  so  often  complaining  was 
they  had  nothing  to  distract  their  minds 
from  their  aches  and  pains.  Well,  that 
might  be  true  some  places,  but  here  wash¬ 
ing,  ironing,  milking,  churning,  feeding 
chickens,  cooking  three  meals  a  day  and 
raising,  canning  and  preparing  nearly  all 
we  cook,  making  quilts,  doing  most  of  our 
own  sewing,  tending  the  sick  at  home  and 
abroad,  outside  of  caring  for  the  children, 
helping  with  their  lessons,  and  seeing 
after  visitors,  scarcely  a  day  we  have  no 
extras,  taken  all  together,  sometimes  it’s 
pretty  distracting,  I  think,  especially 
when  I’m  trying  to  find  time  to  complete 
a  rug. 
We  do  get  in  a  rut,  though,  and  travel 
the  same  road  day  after  day.  We  do  lack 
the  medical  attention  that  those  more  for¬ 
tunately  situated  might  have,  especially 
in  the  matter  of  teeth.  Girls  not  yet  out 
of  their  ’teens  are  snaggle-toothed,  be¬ 
cause  the  nearest  dentist  is  so  far  re¬ 
moved  as  to  be  inaccessible,  or  else  there 
is  never  ready  cash  to  pay  for  dental 
work,  where  the  proverbial  “stitch  in 
time”  would  have  “saved  nine.” 
And  now  I  am  going  to  visit  my  sis¬ 
ter-in-law,  only  three  miles  away,  but  al¬ 
most  two  years  since  I’ve  been  there. 
One  so  nervous  as  myself  better  stay  at 
home,  especially  on  such  roads.  Down 
the  hollow  is  scarcely  room,  some  places, 
for  a  wagon,  and  before  we  started  a 
lumber  truck  went  down  the  road,  pop¬ 
ping  like  a  cannot.  Bob,  the  buggy  horse, 
does  not  mind  a  car,  but  he  shies  at  these 
noisy  trucks,  and  I  don’t  blame  him,  so  I 
was  very  fearful  of  meeting  the  truck. 
Anyway,  we  started,  and  in  the  very 
worst  part  of  the  road  met  three  wagons 
loaded  with  lumber.  I  wanted  to  climb 
out,  but  Mr.  I\,  man-like,  commanded  me 
to  sit  still ;  the  first  wagon  scooted  down 
and  hubbed  the  buggy.  The  horse  snort¬ 
ed  and  jumped ;  I  shook  and  wanted  to 
ret  out,  but  no ;  so  they  lifted  me  and  the 
buggy  over  and  all  passed  by.  On  a  bit 
further,  and  there  was  the  truck  trying 
to  turn  a  short  curve  into  the  sawmill 
road,  and  then,  just  beyond,  a  big  plank 
was  broken  in  the  bridge,  but  Bob  step¬ 
ped  over  it,  and  it  was  mended  when  we 
returned.  And  no  bogies,  only  a  white 
mule  tied  to  a  tree  in  the  woods,  and  I 
did  not  blame  Bob  for  jumping  just  as 
far  as  he  could  ;  yet  in  spite  of  all  these 
drawbacks,  we  had  a  very  nice  visit.  I 
wish  I  could  describe  the  scenery.  Hills, 
they  call  them  the  knobs;  I  call  them 
young  mountains.  They  run  in  chains 
for  miles,  just  like  mountains,  and  some 
of  the  valleys  are  too  narrow  to  drive  a 
wagon  between  them.  They  use  sleds  to 
draw  in  the  corn  or  wood.  And  the  hills 
are  so  steep  and  high  I  wonder  how  the 
trees  cling  to  their  sides.  The  rocks  are 
of  a  black  formation,  and  shaly ;  some 
think  they  denote  coal,  but  I  am  no  geol¬ 
ogist.  I  do  know  that  the  ferns,  wild 
flowers,  huckleberries,  oaks,  chestnuts, 
maples,  dogwood,  blackjacks,  black  haws, 
grapevines,  etc.,  cover  their  surface,  and 
squirrels,  rabbits,  foxes,  skunks,  chip¬ 
munks  or  ground  squirrels,  a  few  pheas¬ 
ants,  partridges  and  birds  of  many  va¬ 
rieties  make  their  home  there,  while  down 
every  valley  trickles  a  small  stream  of 
pure  cold  water.  mrs.  d.  b.  p. 
Rendering  Lard;  Angel  Food 
One  of  our  friends  recently  gave  her 
way  of  rendering  lard,  and  as  for  many 
years  now  I  have  used  what  I  consider  a 
better  way,  I  am  going  to  tell  you  what 
it  is,  that  others  may  try  it  and  judge 
for  themselves  of  its  good  or  bad  quali¬ 
ties. 
For  trying  out  leaf  lard  I  first  cut  it 
up  in  small  enough  pieces  to  go  into  food 
chopped  or  sausage  grinder  easily.  I 
then  run  the  lard  through  the  grinder, 
which  makes  it  very  fine,  just  like  sau¬ 
sage  meat.  I  then  put  my  iron  kettle,  or 
kettles,  if  I  have  a  large  quantity,  on  the 
stove,  filling  them  nearly  to  the  fop  with 
my  ground  lard,  without  any  water,  and 
start  them  cooking,  watching  and  stir¬ 
ring  some  at  first  that  they  shall  not  stick 
to  the  kettle.  To  tell  when  it  is  done  is 
to  look  at  the  scrap ;  when  the  scrap  is 
brown  your  lard  will  keep ;  I  then  strain 
through  wire  milk  strainer  into  one-gal¬ 
lon  butter  crocks,  but  don’t  strain  in  jars 
while  too  hot,  as  lard  is  hotter  than  boil¬ 
ing  water,  and  might  crack  the  jars.  Now, 
done  this  way,  it  is  not  an  all-day  job 
rendering  the  lard,  but  you  will  get  it  all 
out  of  the  way  before  dinner,  and  then 
can  have  time  in  the  afternoon  for  mak¬ 
ing  “liverwurst,”  head  cheese  or  some 
other  of  the  many  duties  on  a  farm  when 
butchering  time  comes  round. 
I  was  born  on  a  farm,  married  a  farm¬ 
er,  and  in  days  gone  by  was  always  able 
to  do  my  part,  either  at  cooking  for 
thrashers  or  milking  half  of  the  cows 
when  necessity  demanded  ;  but  now  I  am 
a  “shut-in,”  caused,  the  doctors  say.  by 
infantile  paralysis  when  I  was  a  child. 
It  has  come  upon  me  little  by  little  till  I 
am  now  confined  to  my  chair  almost  en¬ 
tirely.  Now,  Brother  Oollingwood,  I 
want  to  say  to  you  that  I  believe  it  is  a 
worse  affliction  than  deafness,  but  maybe 
hot. 
I  am  60  years  old  and  still  living  on 
the  farm  my  father  bought  from  the  gov¬ 
ernment  in  1839.  At  that  time  Indian 
wigwams  were  thicker  around  Milwaukee 
than  houses  built  by  the  white  man. 
Now  I  will  add  my  recipe  for  angel 
food :  Take  the  whites  of  nine  eggs,  add 
a  pinch  of  salt,  then  beat  with  egg-beater 
Embroidery  Designs 
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Designs  for  Towels.  Scarves,  Etc. — Pat¬ 
tern  contains  four  different  designs  in  the 
following  quantity  and  sizes:  Two  of  A, 
2 !4  by  12  in.;  two  of  B,  4%  by  10  In., 
three  of  C,  514  by  8  in.,  and  three  of  D, 
1%  by  in.  There  are  many  uses  for 
designs  of  this  sort,  and  they  are  especial¬ 
ly  adaptable  for  towels,  scarves,  curtains 
and  other  household  articles.  Design  A 
may  be  worked  in  darning  stitch  and 
French  knots,  and  the  leaves  in  outline 
stitch,  or  solid  stitch.  Design  B  may  be 
worked  in  solid  or  outline  stitch,  or  a 
combination  of  both.  Design  C  may  be 
worked  in  French  knots,  outline  and  darn¬ 
ing  stitch,  and  Design  D  may  be  worked 
in  French  knots,  outline  and  solid  stitch. 
until  it  begins  to  get  stiff ;  add  one-half 
teaspoon  of  cream  of  tartar  and  beat  stiff. 
Beat  in  one  and  one-half  cups  of  sugar, 
adding  it  a  little  at  a  time  and  beating  it 
between.  Sift  one  cup  of  flour  four  times 
and  then  fold  that  in.  Flavor  with  one 
teaspoon  of  vanilla.  Use  a  new  tin  and 
do  not  grease  it.  Bake  with  slow  fire  35 
or  45  minutes.  When  done  turn  bottom 
up  and  let  cool  before  removing  from  the 
tin,  letting  air  circulate  under.  Use  your 
tin  only  to  bake  angel  food. 
MRS.  r.  1>.  M. 
Christmas  Cookies 
The  following  recipe  for  Christmas 
cookies  is  very  good.  We  have  baked 
these  cookies  every  year  for  the  past  15 
or  16  years.  Four  pounds  brown  sugar, 
one  dozen  eggs,  one  nutmeg,  two  tea¬ 
spoons  cloves,  two  teaspoons  allspice,  four 
teaspoons  cinnamon,  1%  teaspoons  bak¬ 
ing  soda,  1  lb.  walnut  meats,  flour  enough 
to  make  a  stiff  dough.  Add  beaten  eggs 
to  sugar,  mix  and  sift  dry  ingredients, 
add  to  mixture,  then  walnuts.  Knead  in 
flour,  as  dough  must  be  very  stiff.  Roll 
about  %  in.  thick  and  bake  in  moderate 
oven.  These  can  be  baked  about  a  month 
before  Christmas,  as  they  keep  a  long 
time.  The  older  they  are  the  better  they 
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