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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 23 
[ Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
SIGNS OP SPRING 
The snow has left the open field a month 
or more ago, 
I’ve found the yellow cowslip where the 
meadow brook runs slow. 
And all along the intervale the blushing 
snowdrop twines; 
The crows are shy and silent—they're nest¬ 
ing in the pines— 
But Winter'll maybe come again; you’re 
never sure 'twill not 
Till you hear the cuckoo calling in the pas¬ 
ture lot. 
“Cuckoo, cuckoo,” softly calling you, 
Down behind the pasture bars 
All the warm day through. 
“Cuckoo, cuckoo,” shy and sleek of wing. 
He’s the low-voiced harbinger 
That makes us sure of Spring. 
No uso to look for orioles, they haven’t 
come as yet. 
Although I’ve heard a linnet and the quail 
has cried, "More wet.” 
Good Uncle Zenas Tompkins has been out 
a.nd planted peas— 
He “doesn’t think 't’ll hurt ’em” if we have 
another freeze; 
But don’t you put in corn or beans (for if 
you do they’ll rot) 
Till you hear the cuckoo calling in the pas¬ 
ture lot. 
’Way over in the scrub oaks you can hear 
the larlridge drum. 
The girls are playing hopscotch and the 
boys say “tops have come.” 
Miss Abigail is making soap—that’s pretty 
nearly sure 
That pleasant weather’s right at hand and 
likely to endure. 
We’re only lacking one more sign—and 
hark, 'tis on the spot! 
Don’t you hear the cuckoo calling in the 
pasture lot? 
“Cuckoo, cuckoo,” softly calling you, 
Down behind the pasture bars 
All the warm day through. 
“Cuckoo, cuckoo,” shy and sleek of wing. 
He’s the low-voiced harbinger 
That makes us sure of Spring. 
—Harper’s Bazar. 
* 
HoKSERADiSH butter is a very desir¬ 
able relisb with beefsteak. Scrape the 
outer skin from two ounces of horse¬ 
radish, and then grate the remainder. 
Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, 
and then beat the horseradish into it, 
also a tablespoonful of lemon juice. Pass 
through a sieve, and put in a cold place 
until used. When the steak is broiled, 
spread the butter on it before serving. 
♦ 
In readings boys’ stories of travel and 
adventure, older readers are often a lit¬ 
tle amused by the exploits of the daring 
young heroes, who are depicted as per¬ 
forming deeds that would tax the ener¬ 
gies of most adults before they are past 
their schooldays. Yet we find the coun¬ 
terpart of such young adventurers in the 
late Paul du Chaillu, the African ex¬ 
plorer who died last month in St. Peters¬ 
burg, Russia. He was born in New Or¬ 
leans, and made his first expedition to 
Africa in 1855, when but 17 years old, 
traveling 8,000 miles on foot, accom¬ 
panied only by natives. Many of his 
statements concerning the gorilla and 
the African pygmies were ridiculed by 
scientists at first, but later discoveries 
confirm his judgments. He was the au¬ 
thor of numerous books of travel, of 
which perhaps “Wild Life Unaer the 
Equator” and “Explorations and Adven¬ 
tures in Equatorial Africa” are best 
known; they are all vividly interesting, 
and well suited for the home or school 
library. 
« 
Acstkat.ian housewives on the outly¬ 
ing “stations” or ranches are often put 
to serious inconvenience in keeping food 
or cooling water during their long period 
of tropical heat. Evaporation often has 
to take the place of ice, porous jars be¬ 
ing used for cooling water, as in Asia, 
Africa, and South America. In place of 
a refrigerator, they use the same prin¬ 
ciple of evaporation applied to a food 
pantry or safe. A frame is made as for 
a meat safe, and covered with gunny 
sacking or canvas, the door, fastened by 
a hook or latch, of the same material. 
A vessel of water is placed on the top. 
Strips of old woolen material, two inches 
wide, or wider, are dipped into the ves¬ 
sel of water, and allowed to hang down 
the sides of the safe, thus making wicks 
for draining the water on to the sacking. 
Evaporation begins at once, and the food 
stored in the safe profits by the lower¬ 
ing of temperature. The “refrigerator” 
should be in a shady place where there 
is a good current of air, and the vessel 
should be filled with water morning, 
noon and night. The sacking sides must 
bo wet at all times and, with a free cir¬ 
culation of air to force evaporation, it is 
surprising what good results may be ob¬ 
tained. There are many farms without 
any conveniences for obtaining ice where 
a little milk house or pantry built up on 
posts out in the yard under trees after 
this plan would be a great blessing 
through the hot weather. 
* 
Can.nrt) apricots make a delicious 
shortcake. Drain the juice away from 
the fruit, and cut it in small pieces. Set 
in a warm place and proceed to mix the 
cake. This calls for one cupful of flour, 
four teaspoonfuls of halting powder, two 
teaspoonfuls of sugar, and half a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt sifted together. Into 
this work four tablespoonfuls of butter, 
add three-fourths of a cupful of milk, 
and stir into a light dough. Roll in a 
floured bowl, and when one-fourth of an 
inch thick cut into generous squares. 
Brush the squares with melted butter, 
lay one on top of the other, and bake in 
a hot oven. When done separate the 
pieces, spread the fruit between the lay¬ 
ers and on top, and pile whipped cream 
over all. A sweet sauce which may be 
served with the shortcake is made by 
adding to a cupful of the fruit juice one 
tablespoonful of cornstarch wet in a 
little water and hoiled for a few min¬ 
utes. A tahlespoonful of hutter is melt¬ 
ed into the sauce and a tablespoonful of 
lemon juice is added just before serving. 
* 
It is very easy for one to acquire some 
disagreeable little personal habit, harm¬ 
less in itself, but irritating to others. 
Not everyone can put a stop to it with 
the determination thus alluded to in the 
Youth’s Companion: 
“I reckon folks can cure any habit if 
they’ve got enough determination,” said 
Mrs. Swan, with a glance of scorn at her 
cousin, Mrs. Mathews. “I guess if Almira 
Jennings can stop her sniff tlfat she had 
for hve years, you could stop that dry 
cough of yours, that doesn’t mean an 
earthiy thing, and never did.” 
“Has Almira stopped her sniff?” asked 
Mrs. Mathews, with some show of interest. 
“She has,” said Mrs. Swan, firmly. "Slie 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— idv. 
passed last Wednesday afternoon with me 
—the circle met here—and she never sniffed 
once in the four hours. 1 call that a test.' 
“How’d she cure it?” asked Mrs. Math¬ 
ews. 
“With onions,” said Mrs. Swan. “1 felt 
It my duty to tell her the habit she’d got 
into, along of that grippy cold she had all 
one Winter, and I told her how it had 
grown on her. ‘There’s others that would 
have liked to speak of it,’ I told her, ‘but 
nobody dared except me. You set a watch 
on yourself and see how many times you 
catch yourself doing it,’ I said. And ac¬ 
cordingly she did so. 
“And when she found how settled the 
habit was, she started right in to cure it. 
She can’t abide the smeii of onions, raw 
nor cooked. So she shut herself up for a 
week, and she cooked onions and kept ’em 
setting round in dishes. And she got so by 
the end of that week she could keep from 
sniffing for an hour at a time; then she lei 
up, gradual, on her system, as tlie habit 
gave way. But she told me she should al- 
w'ays keep a bottle of onion extract in the 
house, and if the habit ever set in again 
she should deal with it promptly. But i 
don’t believe there’il be any need.” 
The Rural Patterns. 
The waist and skirt figured may bs 
used together for a complete costume, or 
separately. Shirred effects are very 
fashionable now, being seen in many 
soft materials. 'The waist is made over 
a fitted lining that closes with it at cen¬ 
ter back, and is shirred on the upper 
and lower edges. The sleeves are full 
and soft and are shirred at the upper 
portions, on continuous lines with the 
waist, and gathered into pointed cuffs 
at the wrists. The yoke is seamless and 
is arranged over the waist, after the 
shoulder seams are closed, all its edges 
being sewed to position under the edge 
of the material. At the neck is a point¬ 
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21 inches wide, 314 yards 27 inches wide 
or 2% yards 44 inches wide with Ys yard 
of all-over lace to trim as illustrated. 
The pattern No. 4400 is cut in sizes for 
a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust mea¬ 
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The skirt is made with a yoke, two 
slightly circular portions and a gradu¬ 
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fitted at the front but is slightly gather¬ 
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a heading and again below anu are at¬ 
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4398 Shirred Flounce Skirt, 
22 to 30 waist. 
the lower edge of the flounce are three 
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The quantity of material required fo, 
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