1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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house full; we are on the second floor. 
Water still coming up and threatening 
ruin. This is my last message.—Mrs. H. 
M. Ogle, Manager.” 
Astride the loosed waters rose the valley’s doom. 
And there close at her post a woman sat 
To wire such words as might forearm the valley 
’Gainst its dread doom. 
"Fly for your life!” she beard the warning’mid 
The rumble of the coming flood, and answered: 
"No, not yet!” 
" Fly for your life! ” ‘Not jet! N^tyet! Until 
I’ve wired each statlrn on its guard, my life 
Is tied with duty.” 
“ Fly for your life! ” “ Not yet; one message more. 
It is my last, and then-” And thentheroar 
Of rushing waters — 
She lies with those she sought to save Her name— 
Her name is History’s now, and through the ages 
With a reverential tongue ’twill speak- 
“ Here was a heroine ! ” 
* 
* .* 
The Washington Post says “Every¬ 
thing that a woman may do while main¬ 
taining her self-respect is ‘‘woman’s work.” 
If a woman be physically strong, and without 
other ties or obligations, let her be brake- 
man on a railroad train, or pilot an ocean 
steamer, if she will. She may follow any 
profession or trade. That one woman is 
making money as a carpenter, and another 
as a blacksmith, settles the questions of 
suitability in these occupations. In all her 
work, however, let her preserve the woman’s 
characteristics. Let her set an example to 
men in their rough-and-tumble greediness 
by gentler and more honest business meth¬ 
ods. Leave braggadocio, cheating and 
swindling to men. Let smoothness, court¬ 
esy and sincerity characterize the business 
methods of woman.” And we agree with 
its sentiments. Women can never become 
men, any more than men can become 
women ; nor do they desire to. They are, 
however, equal. The woman who is able 
to do the same work as a man, no matter 
what, and do it as well, should receive equal 
wages as well as equal respect. A woman 
who earns her own living need lose nothing 
of her womanly dignity—may be just as 
gentle, refined, and lovable as her more 
fortunate sisters who can stay at home 
without a care, as regards their support. 
“Woman’s Work” is doing bravely and 
faithfully whatever falls to her lot to do. 
D. H. V. o. 
S CHOOL time. Let your children be 
regular in their attendance. Take an 
interest in their studies; visit their school; 
invite their teacher to visit you. 
A BUTTER FOUNDATION. 
ELLA GUERNSEY. 
• * T OOKS well, doesn’t it?” said our 
I -v land-lady, as we drove “ home,” 
over the country road leading from the 
village post-office to the Noah’s Ark we 
were so delightfully summering in, 
“Cherryvale,” an old brown homestead, pre¬ 
sided over by practical, motherly, energetic 
Mrs. Page. 
“ Yes,” continued Mrs. Page, “the Dar- 
row house is the sightliest one in these 
parts, bein ’ new, an’ Kizzy Harrow, the 
main-spring of the family, is rale tasty 
’bout planniu’ an’ ornamentin’ things sur¬ 
roundin' her. Kizzy’s gettiu’ along in 
years, but she’s managed to get things com¬ 
fortable, an* the Meadow Sweet Dairy in 
smooth runuiu’ order, besides buildin’ this 
house last summer, the foundation bein’— 
butter. 
“1 s’pose you never heerd before of houses 
bein’ built on a butter foundation ? ” 
“ Not a very firm foundation, that,” 1 re¬ 
plied, taking another view of the pretty 
new cottage, and the comfortable vine- 
shaded piazzas, shaded by apple and elm 
trees, and situated on a green hillside. 
“It’s just this ‘firm:’ every cent that 
house cost has been paid for with the 
butter money earned by Kizzy Harrow. 
Dan Harrow, a few years ago, with his 
wife Tabithy, was jest on the eve of givin’ 
up tryin’ to make a livin’ farmin’, though 
they owned these 100 acres of good land. 
They didn’t prosper in any undertaking 
ontil Kizzy, the summer she was IS, began 
to get noted as a maker of beautiful, solid, 
sweet butter from an extra good little cow. 
One day as the ‘ chicken peddler,’ stopped 
for dinner when drivin’ his produce to 
market, an’ praised the butter wonderfully, 
sayin’: ‘Seek butter as that in the city, 
would bring extra price, an’ a lady paid me 
for butter that was not the equal of this, 50 
cents the year ’round. She was terribly 
afeard o’ gittin’ oleomargarine, an’ willin’ 
to pay extra for real, country butter.’ 
Kizzy was tickled, as she’d had so little 
to encourage her, both parents bein’ of the 
hold-back an’ discouragin’ order, an’ then 
she fell to wonderin’ if she couldn’t sell 
butter for a good price. Butter don’t 
bring much in these parts. When the 
‘chicken peddler’ came ag’in Kizzy was 
all eagerness to get his opinion of the pro¬ 
ject of buying another good cow, and mak¬ 
ing butter for the city market. And then 
she wanted to find out whether he’d help 
her or not. Tim Cramer thought a bit, then 
walked to the spring-house, and looked 
around the place a little, before he passed 
his opinion, bein’ one of these look-before- 
you-leap fellers. 
‘I’d advise you to do it,’ he said, ‘if 
you’re willin’ to keep your butter up to the 
mark. I’m a bit petikeler about engagin’ 
to supply a family with a prime artikel on- 
less I feel purty sure that I can carry it to 
’em at the expected time, in good shape. 
Of course I can help you get your butter 
sold, an’ I’m willin’ to do it, if you’ll have 
ready for me good, firm, sweet butter, neat- 
lookin’, an’, mind you, I won’t carry to a 
customer white, spongy, sour stuff that’ll 
disgrace you an’ me both. No matter if 
the weather is hot, an’ the cream foams, 
and’ the butter’s hard to gather, or it’s too 
cold for it to come, ’thout gittin’ scalded 
to death, or whether you feel tired, an’ 
don’t want to take as much pains as usual 
with it, you’ll keep all inferior stuff at 
home. You have a good pasture, and the 
best spring of cold, runnin’ water in all 
this country, an’ you’re strong: If you’re 
willin’ to work, through all sorts of weath¬ 
er, get that cow. I’ll find a market for 
you.’ 
Cows were cheaper than usual, and Kizzy 
bought two, though I, for one, thought the 
girl had undertaken too much, knowin’ 
she couldn’t look for help from her father 
in payin’ for ’em. I was afeared she wasn’t 
countin’ the cost of the feed. She’d have 
to buy bran, shorts, meal and other stuff, 
as good milkers must be well fed, an’ I 
knew the Darrow crops hadn’t harvested 
very well since I’d known ’em. Harvests 
are not apt to be abundant if the sowin’ 
an’ tendin’ hain’t looked after at the proper 
time. I felt it my duty to go over to the 
Darrow’s, an’ tell the young, inexperienced 
girl jest how it was, an’ I went, gittin’ 
there jest as the chicken peddler was on 
his way home one afternoon, from the city. 
Kizzy was settin’ at the big oak dining- 
table, her curly hair tucked up in a stout 
crochet hair-net, with a very clean, long- 
sleeved, high-necked gingham apron over 
her dress, countin’ over some silver coin. 
Tim laughed, when he saw me, then 
asked—‘ What do you think of our busi¬ 
ness woman ?’ 
He said there was no t rouble in engag¬ 
in’ Kizzy’s butter, at 50 cents per pound 
summer an’ winter, cash in hand. A lady 
who had a fashionable boarding-house was 
glad to get it. Kizzy held up for me to see 
a couple of little molds; then Tim said one 
of the boarders was terribly taken with 
that butter, an’ bein’ an old man, had a 
great deal to say about the clover meadows, 
an’ runnin’ spring at home, so he’d gone an' 
selected two little molds for individual but¬ 
ter plates, one marked with a strawberry 
leaf: the other with three clover leaves. 
He thought it would pay Kizzy to take 
extra pains in moldin’ her butter, as nice- 
lookiu’ articles never failed to sell, bein’ 
sure to be chosen when an awkward-lookin’ 
pat, though tastin’ as well, would be over¬ 
looked. He also said that fine dairies in 
good workin’ order, havin’ every conve- 
ience to make the very best butter from 
good milk, sent to market excellent butter, 
an’ a fair article could be sold the greater 
part of the year for 30 cents per pound; but 
women at home, if they went about it in 
the right way, could yet hold their own, 
but the day was certainly gone by when 
farmers’ daughters or wives, could slap up 
an uneven ball of poorly salted butter, 
with blue milk oozin’ from it, an’ sell it to 
folks that had learned to judge butter. 
Kizzy’s black eyes jest flashed an’ I saw, 
as 1 heerd her plan with Tim how to buy 
an’ feed, an’ sell, that they’d gone a leetle 
mite beyond me, as I'd learned something 
myself. 
have every help to keep it of the right tem¬ 
perature. As Tim had said there were weeks 
when it was hard work to get the butter in 
the proper shape, but she never once failed 
to have the number of pounds really engag¬ 
ed ready for him, when he came by. 
Everybody laughed a little when old 
Darrow, who’d all his life slouched around, 
began to straighten up, an’ talked so brisk 
about ‘ our ’ dairy, but the Darrow fortune 
began to improve. 
As the years wore on, more cows were 
bought, Kizzy came to be an extra good 
judge of a good butter cow. A good farm 
hand was hired, and the land was cultivated 
in a style new to the farmers around here. 
Every inch of it was bearin’ somethin’ to 
feed those cows, as Kizzy said she didn’t 
want to buy*so much feed for’em. 
Kizzy adopted from the Orphan’s Home 
a little boy who seems to think he is in 
clover, an’ looks up to her as if she were 
his own dear elder sister, an’ lie’s grown to 
be a real help to her. I’m knowin’ to the 
buildin’ of the Darrow house, an’ am free 
to say I think it was laid upon a good 
foundation, if t’was—butter. 
‘ Whoa. Dobbin! this horse alius wants 
to go on to the barn, knowin’ as well as I 
do that there’s oats an’ corn waitin’ for 
him. Here we are at home, an’ there’s 
more company. 
PRESERVED GINGER. 
As You pare the roots of the green ginger 
throw into cold water. Boil until tender, 
changing the water three or four times. 
Make a sirup of water and sugar, a cup of 
water and a pound of sugar to each pound 
of ginger. Skim carefully. Wipe the gin¬ 
ger dry and when the sirup is cold drop it 
in. Let stand over-night. Re-heat the 
sirup, skim and when cool pour over the 
ginger. In two days repeat this with the 
difference of pouring the sirup when hot 
over the ginger. Cover tightly. May be 
used in 10 days. 
PICKLED PEACHES. 
Seven pounds of fruit, four pounds of 
white sugar, a pint of strong vinegar, cin¬ 
namon and cloves. Peel the fruit and cook 
carefully until tender—they must not go in 
pieces. Skim out the fruit into bottles, 
boil and skim the sirup and pour over the 
fruit. The spice should be tied up in a 
cloth. Bottle tightly. MRS. J. A. C. 
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Tabithy Darrow waked up a bit, an’ be¬ 
gan to lend a helpin’ hand to Kizzy, while 
her doting father jest fell in with all the 
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up the pasture, causin’ an extra amount of 
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