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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 4 
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[ Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
WET WEATHER TATAC. 
It ain’t no use to grumble and complain; 
It’s jest as cheap and easy to rejoice; 
When God sorts out the weather and sends 
rain, 
W’y, rain’s my choice. 
Men glner’ly, to all intents— 
Although they’re ap’ to grumble some— 
Puts most their trust in Providence, 
And takes things as they come— 
That Is, the commonality 
Of men that’s lived as long as me, 
Has watched the world enough to 
learn 
They’re not the boss of the concern. 
With some, of course, it's different— 
I've seed young men that knowed it all, 
And didn’t like the way things went 
On this terrestrial ball! 
But, all the same, the rain some way 
Rained jest as hard on picnic day; 
En when they railly wanted it. 
It maybe wouldn’t rain a bit! 
In this existence, dry and wet 
Will overtake the best of men— 
Some little sklft o’ clouds ’ll shet 
The sun off now and then; 
But maybe, while you’re wonderin’ 
who 
You’ve fool-like sent your umbrell’ to. 
And want It—out’ll pop the sun. 
And you’ll be glad you ain’t got none! 
It aggervates the farmers, too— 
They’s too much wet, er too much sun, 
Er work, er waiting round to do 
Before the plowln’s done; 
And maybe, like as not, the wheat. 
Jest as It’s lookin’ hard to beat. 
Will ketch the storm—and Jest about 
The time the corn’s a-jintin’ out! 
These here cy-clones a-foolln’ round— 
And back’ard crops—and wind and rain. 
And yit the corn that’s wallered down 
May elbow up again! 
They ain’t no sense, as I kin see. 
In mortals, sich as you and me, 
A-faultIn’ Nature’s wise intents. 
And lockin’ horns with Pro^idence! 
It ain’t no use to grumble and complain; 
It’s jest as cheap and easy to rejoice; 
When God sorts out the weather and sends 
rain, 
W’y, rain’s my choice. 
—James Whitcomb Riley. 
* 
Wk recently read an enthusiastic de¬ 
scription of Rocky Mountain pie, a new 
delicacy to us. It consisted of a thick, 
rich bottom crust, filled with apples that 
were peeled, cored and quartered, hav¬ 
ing rich cream poured around them. It 
looked like snow between mountains, 
and was said to be delicious. 
* 
Stewed rhubarb, when cooked in the 
ordinary way on the top of the stove, 
"catches” and burns on the bottom of 
the stewpan very easily. We prefer it 
cooked in the oven, or steamed in a dou¬ 
ble boiler. For the latter, wipe, peel, 
and cut in inch pieces; put it into a 
double boiler, and add sugar in the pro¬ 
portion of one cupful to a pint of rhu¬ 
barb. Do not stir w’hile cooking. When 
baked, put in a covered earthen dish 
w’ith a very small quantity of water and 
the sugar; bake for about two hours. 
form has been reiterated so often that 
it seems entirely superfluous, yet dam¬ 
age, Injury and even death occur with a 
certain frequency from the foolhardy 
neglect of absolutely necessary precau¬ 
tions. The case described above is a 
text that needs no sermon to impress its 
lesson more fully. 
* 
Stewpans and baking dishes of heavy 
glazed earthenware are more cumbrous 
than the convenient agate, but where 
long slow cooking is desired they are 
very necessary. The humble earthen 
stewpan with close cover forms a sub¬ 
stitute for the French casserole, and 
meat cooked properly in it reaches a 
fullness of flavor and nutritive value 
never approached by the same piece 
when cooked rapidly in a thin metal 
saucepan. An elderly hen, slowly cook¬ 
ed in the earthen vessel with appropriate 
seasoning, is a vast improvement over 
any other mode of cooking, and cereals 
long boiled in a similar vessel reach a 
wholesome palatability that is missing 
in many of our three-minute breakfast 
foods. 
* 
A HOT sandbag is a desirable substi¬ 
tute for a hot-water bag or a soapstone, 
whether to relieve pain or to warm cold 
feet. Clean, fine sand is thoroughly 
dried, then used to fill a flannel bag, 
which is then covered with firm cotton 
or linen. The bag is heated on the top 
of the stove, or in the oven. This sand 
bag can be tucked close to a chilly per¬ 
son. like a water bag, and is much more 
^49 Plain Shirt Waist. 32 to 44 bust, 
convenient than a hot brick. Local neu¬ 
ralgic pain is often relieved by the ap¬ 
plication of dry heat, and where sand or 
hot water is not at hand, a bag of hot 
salt holds the heat and gives comfort. 
If a bag is not at hand in a sudden emer¬ 
gency, a clean stocking forms a hurry 
substitute; the salt may be heated in a 
dish in the oven, then tied in the bag. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A plain shirt w'aist brought up to date 
by its general cut is always in style. 
The waist consists of the smoothly fitted 
lining that closes at the center front, 
separately from the outside, the fronts 
and the back. The shoulders are plain 
and smooth but the fullness at the waist 
is arranged in gathers that are drawn 
down at the back but blouse slightly at 
the front. At the front edge is the fash¬ 
ionable broad box pleat through which 
the closing is made. The sleeves are in 
bishop style with invisible openings and 
straight cuffs that close at the outside. 
The quantity of material required for 
4358 Circular Skirt, 22 to 30 waist 
medium size is four yards 21 inches 
wide, 314 yards 27 Inches wide, three 
yards 32 inches wide or two yards 44 
inches wide. The pattern No. 4349 is cut 
in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44- 
inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The skirt illustrated will not only be 
useful in woolen goods, but also in 
linen, piqu6 or madras for Summer 
wear. The skirt extends to the upper 
edge of the flounce and is fitted about 
the hips by means of short darts and 
closed invisibly at the back in habit 
style. The lower edge is finished with a 
tuck beneath which the flounce is at¬ 
tached. The flounce is in two portions 
that are joined beneath the central tuck 
and also has a tuck at the lower edge. 
The upper edge of the skirt can be fin¬ 
ished with the belt or cut on dip outline 
and underfaced or bound. The quantity 
of material required for medium size is 
nine yards 27 inches wide, six yards 44 
inches wide or 4% yards 52 inches wide. 
The pattern No. 4358 is cut in sizes for 
a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30-inch waist mea¬ 
sure; price 10 cents from this office. 
The name of 
Macbeth is on 
good lamp chim¬ 
neys from Con¬ 
stantinople to 
Valparaiso. 
If you’ll send your address, I’ll send you 
tlie Index to Lamps and their Chimneys, to 
tell you wliat number to get for your lamp. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
♦ 
Desieing to exterminate a piratical 
band of moths engaged in the benevo¬ 
lent assimilation of a costly carpet, a 
Connecticut man, accompanied by his 
wife and a bottle of benzine, crawled 
under a $900 piano and began allopathic 
treatment of the marauders. It was 
dark under the piano, so the intelligent 
man struck a match to see where to 
spread the benzine. He is not sure just 
what happened, but for a few minutes 
there was a vivid moving picture that 
combined the pyrotechnic features of 
Casabianca with a torchlight procession, 
and when the excitement subsided the 
woman was badly burned, the man 
minus his hair, and the house and fur¬ 
niture damaged to the extent of $2,000 
or more. The caution to keep benzine, 
gasoline, naphtha and similar inflam¬ 
mable explosives away from fire in any 
True 
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