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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Sept.erabpr 20 
[ Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
FATE. 
Two shall be born the whole wide world 
apart. 
And speak in different tongues, and have 
no thought 
Each of the other’s being, and no heed; 
And these o’er unknown seas to unknown 
lands 
Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death. 
And all unconsciously shape every act 
And bend each wandering step to this one 
end— 
That, one day, out of darkness, they shall 
meet 
And read life’s meaning in each other’s 
eyes. 
And two shall walk some narrow way of 
life. 
So nearly side by side, that should one turn 
Ever so little space to left or right 
They needs must stand acknowledged face 
to face. 
And yet, with wistful eyes that never meet. 
With groping hands that never clasp, and 
lips 
Calling in vain to ears that never hear. 
They seek each other all their weary days 
And die unsatisfied—and this is Fate! 
—Su.san Marr Spalding. 
m 
TnE New York Times tells about a 
teacher who had endeavored to make 
clear to her class o£ small children the 
story of the Boston Tea Party. Several 
days later she questioned them in regard 
to it. 
“Why would not the Americans drink 
any tea?” she asked. 
A small boy promptly replied: “Be¬ 
cause the English put tacks in it.” 
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Veky savory meat cakes are made by 
mixing one pound of chopped beef, the 
meat of half pound of pork sausage, one 
tablespoonful of minced onion, half a 
tablespoonful of minced parsley, half a 
teaspoonful of salt and one-eighth tea¬ 
spoonful of pepper; mix all well togeth¬ 
er and shape in small flat cakes; dust 
lightly with flour and fry in hot lard to 
a light brown. Serve with a brown 
sauce. 
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The first felt hats of Autumn look lit¬ 
tle different from those of last year. 
They are broad and flat, trimmed with 
quills or wings, and often draped with 
cloth. They usually show a square 
crown, though a low one, instead of be¬ 
ing absolute flats. It is most likely, 
however, that by the time early buyers 
have purchased these hats we shall find 
fickle fashion demanding a higher 
crown; it is even asserted that the 
steeple and thimble crowns of seven or 
eight years ago will be in vogue. Mil¬ 
liners are trying to introduce a sort of 
modified poke bonnet, but this is so often 
unbecoming that women do not look 
kindly upon it. Felts are all to be rough 
in finish, and fur appears quite freely in 
the trimming, often mingled with vel¬ 
vet flowers. White, pearl and faint bis¬ 
cuit tints in scratch felt are seen in 
many Fall outing hats. 
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The bulb garden should be planned 
without further delay, if not already ar¬ 
ranged for. A small expenditure will 
furnish much pleasure, both in the house 
during the Winter, and in the garden in 
Spring. Tulips, hyacinths. Crocuses, 
daffodils, squills and snowdrops are a 
joy to any flower lover, and they demand 
little time or care. It is not by any 
means essential that costly varieties be 
chosen. Fine named hyacinths cost from 
10 to 30 cents each, but good mixed bulbs 
may be bought for 65 cents a dozen. 
Tulips are cheaper; 20 to 40 cents a 
dozen mixed, five to 15 cents each for 
named sorts. Crocuses cost 10 to 20 
cents a dozen. Siberian squills. Grape 
hyacinths, glory-of-the-snow and snow¬ 
drops are all cheap, and these may be 
planted permanently in the hardy bor¬ 
der, not being taken up and dried off 
after flowering, like the tulips and hya¬ 
cinths. Send to any reliable seedsman 
for his Autumn bulb list, and see how 
much beauty and charm these familiar 
garden friends will give. 
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A NUMBER of girls employed in a Penn¬ 
sylvania factory recently went on strike 
because their superintendent was in the 
habit of using profane language when 
giving orders. This seems a case where 
a strike was called for. We think any 
woman is justified in trying some such 
measure when profane or vulgar lan¬ 
guage is used about the farm. Very 
often the habit so grows upon the user 
that he has no idea of his offense against 
decency. The contaminating influence 
exerted by such a person upon a family 
of children can scarcely be realized. 
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Handkerchief aprons are very pretty 
affairs, though not really made from 
handkerchiefs. To make one, cut a piece 
of fine lawn about 18 inches square and 
trim it with lace insertion about 1% 
inch from the edge of the material, 
laying the insertion in four separate 
strips, the ends overlapping at each cor¬ 
ner, cutting out the material under the 
lace. Then border with a lawn ruffle 
about IV 2 inch deep. Proceed next to 
trim in precisely similar fashion another 
piece of lawn about eight inches square, 
making the ruffle only about an inch 
deep. Hem a strip of lawn wide enough 
to tie in a pretty bow at the back; and 
to the center of this attach your two 
squares, each corner wise. This small 
square serves for the bib and the large 
one for the apron proper. A very fine 
sheer apron lawn is made IV 2 yard wide, 
costing 35 cents a yard; it cuts to good 
advantage, and does not thicken in 
washing. 
The Photographic Competition. 
The period of competition for garden 
pictures extends to November 1. The 
present month has given excellent op¬ 
portunities to secure such pictures. It is 
not by any means too late to compete. 
Let us see what you have. So far orna¬ 
mental shrubs have received less atten¬ 
tion, in the pictures received, than other 
plants. We should like to see more of 
these. Whatever attractive feature your 
garden offers, let us see it. Pictures 
suitable for use will be paid for, even if 
they do not receive a prize. Address all 
pictures to Prize Photograph Competi¬ 
tion, Woman and Home Department of 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
Work Savers and Home 
Economies. 
The farmer’s wife of to-day is situ¬ 
ated in many respects very differently 
from the mother or grandmother. 
She does not piece as many quilts, or 
make as many rag carpets, or do every 
bit of the sewing as the mother did. 
She believes when a good, pretty carpet 
can be had for the same cost as a rag 
one that it is much better economy to 
dispose of the rags some other way. 
1 have known many instances where 
goods were bought to tear up for a 
carpet, and garments taken that v/ould 
have lasted months for wear. The cry 
was: “Oh, a rag carpet costs nothing 
but a little labor.” How about the 
warp, the weaving the coloring, the 
tired arms, backs and shoulders? Who. 
that has swept both rag and ingrain 
carpets does not know the vast differ- 
‘ence in the ease of the latter, and in 
taking them up from the floors? The 
rag is a dust heap, and twice the weight. 
I have in mind a fine old farmhouse 
in the East where years ago the 
mother slaved to make rag carpets 
for dining room, halls, six or seven 
large sleeping rooms, all made by her 
toil. She had daughters, but they were 
kept in school, and when at home they 
entertained company, did fine sewing 
and possibly kept the rooms in order. 
Now the mother is gone, her tired hands 
are folded; “so tired, I want to rest” 
being her last words on earth. The 
floors are covered with Brussels and 
fine ingrain carpets now. A bolt of 
unbleached “factory” used to be made 
up every year; shirts for everyday for 
the men folks, undergarments for the 
women and children, beside sheets and 
pillow cases. Now the farmer wear.? 
gingham and percale shirts, which are 
easy to wash, and in selecting fabrics 
one can save much hard work on wash¬ 
day. I find bleached muslin sheets last 
as long with me, if not longer, than 
unbleached. I get full width, so there 
is no seam in the middle, and now one 
can buy them all ready-made as cheap 
as to get cloth and make them. Go 
into any of the large stores in our cities 
and one can buy soft, fluffy comforts 
covered with silkalene or sateen for $2, 
and those filled with down for a little 
more; beautiful wool blankets at mar¬ 
velously low prices, and dainty spreads 
all the way from 60 cents up. The hard 
heavy old-fashioned quilts and com¬ 
forts—it’s a blessing to mankind that 
they are passing away. A pair of soft 
fleecy blankets, a fluffy tied comfort and 
pretty white spread are all that is re¬ 
quired in pretty cold weather, and one 
does not feel exhausted in the morning 
from the weight of bedclothing through 
the night. 
At a farmhouse in New York when 
the old ways are still kept up, there 
were no less than four quilts, two com¬ 
forts and a homemade woolen blanket 
on a bed. The blanket alone would 
weigh as much as the three pieces I 
mentioned as enough to be used. I did 
not wonder the hired woman dreaded 
to make the beds, and it is almost im¬ 
possible to keep such bedding as clean 
and sweet as it should be. In that same 
home were countless old-time treasures, 
among them a blue and white coverlid 
made over 65 years ago, and never used. 
It was a beautiful thing, woven in birds 
and flowers, with a border of lovely 
design and fringe about six inches long. 
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over couch or use as draping for a door¬ 
way. An old lady told me recently 
that she had pieced four quilts, all alike, 
for each of her four girls, having over 
4,000 blocks in each, but her head and 
eyes troubled her terribly, and I won¬ 
dered if it paid her now. It is all very 
well for little girls to piece blocks (nine 
patch, or 12-patch we used to call them) 
to learn to sew. What do I do with the 
pieces? There are none by the time 
a garment is worn out, as they are used 
for repairing it. Why is it worse for 
a woman to sit idle a few moments 
than a man? Why must she always 
have something in her hands to do, or 
be termed lazy? I do not believe in 
idleness, but there is reason in all 
things. MRS. F. C. JOHNSON. 
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