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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
The Unseen Shore 
Some time sit eve when the tide is low 
I shall slip my mooring aud sail away. 
With no response to the friendly liail 
Of kindred craft in the busy bay. 
In the silent hush of the twilight pale. 
When the night stoops down to embrace 
the day, 
And the voices call in the waters' flow— 
Some time at even when the t id# is low. 
I shall slip my mooring and sail away. 
Through the purpling -shadows that 
darkly trail 
O’er the ebbing tide of the Unknown 
Sea. 
I shall fare me away, with a dip of sail 
And a ripple of waters to tell the tale 
Of a lonely voyager sailing away 
To the Mystic Isles where at anchor lay 
The crafts of those who have sailed before 
O’er the Unknown Sea to the Uuseeu 
Shore. 
A few who have watched me sail away 
Will miss my craft from the busy bay; 
Some friendly barks that were an¬ 
chored near. 
Some loving souls that my heart held 
dea r. 
In silent sorrow will drop a tear— 
But 1 shall have peacefully furled my sail 
In moorings sheltered from storm or gale. 
And greeted the friends who have sailed 
before 
O’er the Unknown Sea to the Unseen 
Shore. 
-LIZZIE CLARK H ARPY. 
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We are asked to repeat the recipe for 
jelly roll given some time ago. This is 
a cake which stays rich and spongy, and 
does not dry out quickly. Three eggs, 
one cup sugar, one-half tablespoon milk, 
one-fourth teaspoon salt, one level tea¬ 
spoon baking powder, oue cup flour, one 
tablespoon melted butter. Line bottom 
of pan with paper, and bake in a quick 
oven. When done tarn out on paraffin 
paper sprinkled with powdered sugar, 
bottom side up; spread quickly with 
jelly, and roll. Roll the paper around 
the outside of cake, twisting the ends 
together, to keep the cake in shape. 
O. 
Lemon syrup makes much richer and 
smoother lemonade than the juice with 
uncooked sugar, aud you can have it on 
hand ready to use. Boil together two 
quarts of water and four cups of sugar 
for 10 minutes, skimming and stirring so 
as to make a smooth syrup. Remove tin* 
syrup from the fire and add cups of 
lemon juice. Cet the mixture cool, then 
seal in glass jars, and keep in a cool 
place. When you wish to make lemonade, 
dilute a little of the syrup with ice 
water. If the lemon juice is boiled in 
the syrup the flue flavor is lost, but the 
boiled sugar syrup gives a much smoother 
and richer flavor to any fruit beverage 
than merely sweetening with uncooked 
sugar. The lemon syrup may be used 
with currant or other fresh fruit juice, 
apd plain lemonade is also very nice with 
a sprig of fresh mint in each glass. 
We have been asked to repeat a for¬ 
mula for cold cream given last year, 
which those who tried it found of especial 
value for cracked or chapped hands. It 
is as follows: 
Melt slowly in an earthen dish one-half 
ounce each white wax and spermaceti 
and one ounce mutton tallow. Pour into 
a bowl, slowly adding two ounces each 
almond oil and glycerine (mixed), heat¬ 
ing slowly with fork until smooth. While 
still warm put into covered dish. If per¬ 
fume is used, it should be added before 
the cream sets. 
The reader who sent this, an ohl fami'y 
recipe, says that the effect is increased by 
soaking the hands in hot water before 
applying; not merely washing in warm 
water, hut soaking for several minutes 
in water as hot as can he borne. Whore 
there is a bad crack, it is advised to touch 
the place with a strong antiseptic, such 
as iodine, before using the emollient. 
Another old family recipe is the follow¬ 
ing: Oue ounce white wax. one ounce 
spermaceti, both shaved fine, one-fourth 
pint of oil of almonds. Melt slowly in 
an earthen vessel on the back of the 
stove: then stand in a vessel of warm 
witter and slir in gradually four ounces 
of rose water, stirring until it forms an 
emulsion, and afterward until it is nearly 
cold. Put in little jars. It may be per¬ 
fumed if desired with oil of lavender. 
This recipe has been used in the writer’s 
Rose on Fence 
family for about 70 years, and equals 
the best of the purchased creams. 
Hardy Plants and Shrubs 
For those of us who have only a small 
amount of money at our disposal it 
means years of patient labor to accom¬ 
plish some of our garden desires. When 
it comes to trees, nature takes her own 
time, anyhow. However, after the start 
is made one can add hardy things from 
time to time, and soon there will be 
something to show for the effort. At our 
own home we find the hardy plants aud 
bulbs the most satisfactory, ns they arc 
not to he put out every Spring and taken 
up and stored in the Fall, all of which 
means much in time and strength. 
Tulips are a joy to the flower lover, 
as they come so early, (Hir beds were 
started from a few bulbs, and have multi¬ 
plied until now we have hundreds of 
blossoms, all one color, a glowing scarlet. 
At first we had a number of colors, some 
single, some double, but the single red ones 
alone have survived, seemingly more 
hardy/ than the others. We have several 
lows ill the north edge of the grape arbor, 
aud it has proved to he an ideal location ; 
they bloom before thjC vines are in leaf, 
and after they die down are protected 
from the Sml; nothing else would grow 
there, and they are in plain view from 
the kitchen. At the time the picture was 
taken there were 832 blossoms. It is un¬ 
necessary to reset the bulbs each year, 
once in three or four being often enough. 
Then they should he taken up as soon as 
the tops die and, stored until Fall, when 
they should be set from 4 to (> in. apart, 
and 4 to ti in. deep. Moles aue their 
worst enemy. 
Between the posts and vines of the 
arbor are (dumps of daffodils and poet’s 
Narcissus. These, too, are early, and 
bulbs and vines do not interfere with each 
other in any way. On the south side of 
the arbor wo have Iris, only two varieties 
at present, but we mean to have others 
as we can get them. (1 raize vines them¬ 
selves are ornamental, and the fruit is 
so good and healthful that, at least a few 
vines should be found on every homestead. 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
'2010. Dress closing in left front, 34 to 44 
Du-st. Tlte medium size will require 3% yds. 
of tlit* material 30 or 44, with 1 Yt yds. of 
tlu* llgtiml material oitlier width to make 
as illustrated. 20 cents. 
Hyacinths push up their fragrant spikes 
along tin* south side of the house. They 
multiply rapidly, and we find them scat¬ 
tered here and there where apparently 
the birds have dropped the seed. 
Roses are in the majority among our 
flower friends. The old workshop and 
coal house looks like u different building 
when the graceful wistaria and "Graml- 
motlier’s” rose hide its unsightliness. The 
pink climbers aud Crimson Ramblers on 
the fence give us a vast amount of pleas¬ 
ure. Dorothy 1‘erkins wanders over tin* 
fence between the chicken yard and truck 
patch, screening the former from the 
pike and giving us masses of bloom for 
cutting. A cream-colored monthly climber 
covers a trellis over the pantry window; 
its waxy foliage is beautiful, and the buds 
exquisite. The 1‘hiladelphm Rambler 
and the “blue rose" have their places. 
We have 15 or Iff roses that are not 
climbers, old-fashioned ones, like the 
Hundred leaf, the Provence and George 
the Fourth, as well as some of the newer 
ones, like Champion of the World and 
Sunset, which, I think, is our favorite 
among these. Slugs and lice can soon 
Strip a bush if unchecked at the first ap¬ 
pearance. We have used white hellebore, 
dusted on the hushes while the dew is 
still on. and found it a good remedy ; last 
year I sprayed with arsenate of lead, and 
found it good. too. 
One little plot of ground is reserved 
for columbine. My sister raised the 
plants from seed, and has a nice collec¬ 
tion. Of course, they did not bloom un¬ 
April 15, 1922 
til the second year, but that is the way of 
many flowers, and they well repay the 
waiting. 
Coreopsis, too. is a biennial aud a 
most satisfactory one. It seems to like 
to have its feet near the water, yel up 
so that it cannot drown out, for it thrives 
along the garden ditch, A vase of the 
long-stemmed beauties with a few sprays 
of asparagus makes a charming picture 
for living room or dining table. Harvest 
Moon is the finest variety. Another yel¬ 
low flower is the Kudbeokia Golden 
Glow, hardy, showy and good for cut¬ 
ting. I have had trouble with little red 
lice getting on the stems, and sometimes 
a worm hollows the stalk, all this in spite 
Climbing Roses 
of the fact that catalogues say it is free 
from insect pests. 
The lmrd.v Hibiscus has a large, some¬ 
what coarse, blossom, blit makes a line 
hedge, or a background for finer, low- 
growing plants. It will stand neglect 
and ill-treatment, grow in any soil and 
still put forth its pink, cream or red 
flowers. 
Last Summer it was so hot anrl dry 
that the June lilies did not do any good 
at all, but the August lilies made up 
for it with the abundance of their bloom. 
Here in Ohio the lilies need protection 
during the Winter, and we cover them 
with a box, propping up one edge a 
little, so they will not smother, and leav¬ 
ing them covered until all danger of 
heavy frost is over. 
Among the Clematis the large white 
one ( Henry!) is by far the finest, but 
we have tried unsuccessfully, year after 
year, to get one to live. The purple Jaek- 
Siion liall in lilnom 
matini aud the red Madame Andre are 
hardier and very pretty. We also have 
the Clematis paniculata, a Japanese va¬ 
riety. 
We are very fond of lilacs, and we 
have a small purple oue that has 
bloomed several times. More than-once 
a fine young tree has been killed by a 
late freeze, so we are hoping that this 
one will escape such a fate. 
The well-named snowball has a place 
near the well. The nurserymen now 
advertise the Japanese variety, which is 
a shrub or low bush, and I am sure it 
would be satisfactory, but we are very 
well contented with our old-fashioned 
tree. Some years it is the only thing in 
.4 lied of Tulips 
Dorothy Perkins 
