7i4 
the rural NEW-YORKER. 
October 10 
From Day to Day. 
ALL THE T^AHIES OF THE' WORLD. 
When the sun has left the hilltop. 
And the dai.s.v fringe is furled, 
T\’hen the birds from wood and meadow 
Tn iheir hidden nests are curled, 
'I'hen I think of all the babies 
That are sleeping in the world. 
'I'here are babies in the highland 
And babies in the low. 
There are pale ones wrapped in furry skins 
On the margin of the snov . 
And brown ones naked in the isles 
Where all the spices grov,. 
And some arc in the palace 
On a white and dowmy bed. 
And .some are in the garret 
With a clout beneath their head. 
And some are on the cold, hard earth. 
Whose mothers have no bread. 
O, little men and women. 
Dear flowers yet unblown! 
O. little kings and beggars 
Of the pageant yet unknown! 
Sleep soft and dream pale dreams now. 
To-morrow is your own; 
'Though one shall walk in darkness. 
And others in the light. 
Though some shall smile and others weep 
In the silence of the night. 
When life has touched with many hues 
Your souls now clear .and while. 
Ond save you, little children. 
And make your eyes to see 
Ilis lingers pointing in the dark 
Whatever you may be, 
'Till one and all, through life and death. 
Pass to eternity. 
•—I.aurence Alma-Tadema. 
• 
PiiF.TTY new tea strainers are made of 
white china with a nickel rim. The 
strainer fits exactly into a little nickel 
cup that comes with it. As soon as the 
tea is poured the strainer is put in the 
metal cup, thus saving drip stains upon 
the cloth. 
* 
WiiKN the bedroom floor is covered 
with matting much wear is saved by 
slipping little pads under the casters of 
the heavier furniture, which not only 
marks the matting, but often breaks the 
fiber and starts an ugly tear. These pads 
may be made of leather or cardboard, 
covered with stout material of incon¬ 
spicuous color. A soft broom should be 
used in sweeping matting; hard sweep¬ 
ing wears it seriously. 
* 
Wf. recently met with a delicious 
variation of hot biscuits. Ordinary bis¬ 
cuit dough was made, rolled out as for 
cutting, and then lightly spread with 
butter and .sugar, creamed together. The 
dough was then rolled up like a jelly 
roll, and cut into slices like cinnamon 
Imns, each biscuit being sprinkled on 
top with a little more butter and sugar. 
Quickly baked, and served hot. these 
“rolled biscuits” were delicious. 
* 
A KE.VDKTi at Sodus, N. Y., whose full 
address has been overlooked, asks for 
recipes for preserving elderberries. We 
have never put up this fruit, and the 
only recipes we have direct that they 
be canned like blackberries, or spiced 
like grapes. We should like further in¬ 
formation; perhaps some of our readers 
can supply it. We have been told that 
New England housekeepers can elder¬ 
berries with very little sugar for use in 
Winter pies. We think the fruit is quite 
insipid, however, unless carefully spiced. 
* 
We have heard of two country girls 
who have created a remunerative busi¬ 
ness as egg buyers, getting the eggs from 
farmers throughout their district. They 
use a one-horse wagon, and have a cer¬ 
tain route they go over each day. The 
farmers have their eggs ready, and they 
are packed in cases, taken home, and 
every egg is washed and wiped dry and 
candled. They are then assorted Into 
four varieties, the white-shelled ones, 
the deep brown and light brown, and a 
cull grade which catches the runts of the 
other three grades, also the doubtful 
ones in candling. The culls are sold at 
market price. They have a fancy market 
for the perfect eggs, which are packed 
in clean, new cases. These girls have 
made a success of their business, and 
ihere may be others so situated that 
they can follow a similar plan. 
* 
The heavy wash waists which are *o 
be worn well into the Winter have caus¬ 
ed a demand for wash stocks of thick 
material to go with them, instead of the 
silk or ribbon neck dressings. These are 
almost always white; colored stocks 
seem to have lost favor. It is a good 
thing too, for colored neckwear is often 
unbecoming, and every woman does not 
possess the knack of selecting it wisely. 
Basket-weave cheviot and other mercer¬ 
ized materials are the favorites. The 
basket weave is heavier than in the 
Spring materials. 
Ecus a la bonne femme form a pleas¬ 
ant variation from ordinary poaching 
and baking. Cut an onion into fine dice, 
fry it lightly in a tablespoonful of but¬ 
ter, then dash in a teaspoonful of vine¬ 
gar. Butter a shallow dish, sprinkle the 
fried onion over it, and break in five 
eggs, being very careful that the yolks 
remain whole. Bake in a hot oven until 
the whites become a delicate film. Dust 
with salt and white pepper. .Just before 
sending to the table sprinkle all over 
the dish coarse bread crumbs fried deli¬ 
cately brown in butter, and garnish with 
watercress or parsley. 
* 
A.\ editorial writer in the Century 
Magazine speaks thus of our prevailing 
discontent with work: 
'That there is much discontent with work 
among the so-called middle classes in 
America is due in large part to the pamper¬ 
ing of children, to the supplying of their 
natural and artificial wants, and to the 
sentiment.al idea that “their day of toil 
will come soon enough." In general, work 
is not a curse, hut a blessing—a positive 
means of grace. One can hardly begin too 
early to impress upon children lessons of 
self-help by tasks appropriate to their age 
and forces, and to beget in them scorn of 
idleness and of dependence on others. To 
do this is to make them happy through the 
self-respect that comes with the realiza¬ 
tion of power, and thus to approximate 
'Tennyson’s goal of man: “Self-reverence, 
self-knowledge, self-control." 
The Prize Photographic Com¬ 
petition. 
Pictures have been coming in more 
rapidly of late than during the earlier 
part of the competition, but there is still 
room for more. Some subjects are still 
entirely v;ithout representation; for ex¬ 
ample, no pictures of Spring bulbs have 
yet been received, and there is a small 
showing of hardy herbaceous plants, 
which are really especially suitable for 
the farm garden, because of their per¬ 
manence. We hope to see many new ac¬ 
cessions to the list between now and 
November 1. 
First Prize, - $7.00 
Second Prize, - $6.00 
Third Prize, - $3.00 
The competition is open until Novem¬ 
ber 1, 1903, thus affording opportunity to 
secure a picture at any season most fa¬ 
vorable. Any further information de¬ 
sired will be furnished upon request. 
Address all pictures to Prize Photograph 
Competition, Woman and Home Depart¬ 
ment of The Rukal New-Yohkeu. 
Not the ultimate truth which is God’s 
alone, but the highest attainable truth 
is the aim of science, and tn translate 
science into virtue is the goal of civili¬ 
zation.—David Starr .Iordan. 
Mrs. Bassett’s Squash Pie. 
Wal—howdy do. Mis’ Robbins; how’r? 
all your folks to-day? This is pretty 
tryin’ weather for us old folks, but I 
naanage to get along middlin’ well—for 
me. I’ve been sort o’ scairt, though, 
about your ma—she’s lookin’ real peak¬ 
ed this Summer—just the sort to wilt 
right down under a hot spell like this. 
You don’t mean to tell me that she’s 
goin’ with you over to the Ta’nton Cattle 
Show next w'eek! I call that dretful 
resky—her in such feeble health, too. 
Wal—yes—a cattle show is a dretful 
interesting place, certain sure. We all 
on us went over to it last year, but I 
ain’t been before since—why, I don’t 
know whep—it must have been the year 
that Lyddy fell down the suller-stairs. 
You see, she was plannin’ to plant some 
Dahlia roots, an’- 
Huh— Oh! who went over? Why, all 
our folks, and Sister Sally and her folks, 
an’ Hiram John an’ his folks, and Sarah 
Bell Ann—she ain’t got no folks, but it’s 
all her own fault, because John Henry 
Allen, he- 
Oh, yes, it was a family party, sure 
enough—Si Bartlett, he fixed up seats 
for us in his old milk-wagon, and took 
us over. Land. I felt as if I was goln’ 
to school again in that old school-wagon 
pa used to run. I sort of expected 
Hime and Benny to get to picking at 
each other, the way they used to. or to 
go to throwin’ spit-balls at Sara Ann an’ 
me, or to put their feet in the dinner kit¬ 
tle and spoil the squash pie. An’ that 
would ha’ been a loss sure enough, as it 
turned out, though, land knows, I never 
thought of such a thing when I put it in. 
What! hain’t you never heard tell about 
my squash pie ’t I took for our dinner 
over to Cattle Show? Mercy me! Why, 
I thought everybody in two counties 
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without depositor advance payment 
of any kind, freight paid both way 
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greatest family laborsavor everin-l 
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wear and tear. Will do the family 
washing without boiling clothes, 
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Revolves on bicycle ball-bearings 
and is therefore easiest running washer ever m:i(le 
Will do two hours’ wash in ten minutes. Washes 
blankets as well as laces, absolutely clean, and with¬ 
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K.txsAs City, Mo. 
“I have given your washer a fair 
trial. It is the best washer I ever saw. 
It has washed our heavy blankets 
with ease. I washed them last Spring 
and rubbed more than an hour, and 
yet they had to go through again, but 
the -‘1900” Washer cleaned them 
thoroughly clean. We do our wash¬ 
ing very quick and have no tired and 
worn-out feeling as of old.” MRS. 
J. L. BANNER, 4302 Troost Ave. 
Itcosts nothingtotry. Sent absolutely free, freight 
paid both ways, for a trial of 30 days. No money re¬ 
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Write at once for book and particulars to 
THE 1900 WA.SHEK CO.. 
143S State Street, Bingfhamton, N. Y. 
Reference: First National Bank, Binghamton, N. T. 
Absolute Range Perfection 
Sold for Cash or ea 
Monthly Payments. 
$10 to $20 
Saved. 
Freight 
paid rs ft 
of the 
Miiiii- 
Sft 
and 
north of 
the Ten- 
neatee 
Line; 
equal¬ 
ized be¬ 
yond. 
Ttar MitT re- 
hided after ih 
■aiiB’ trial U 
Clapp's Ideal Steel R.ange 
a not W per cent better than othera. My auperior JoMtloo 
ID Lake Erie, wh^ iron, ateel, coaL frelghU and akUljd 
abor are cheyicr and beat, enablea me tq furaiah a TOP 
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CHESTEID. CLAPP COtSBrnmit St. Toledo, Ohio. 
Marks’ Artificial Limbs 
had heard about that. Folks seem to be 
such awful hands for talk nowadays. 
Wal, as I was tellin’ you. Si’s horses. 
With Rubber Hands and Feet. 
THE MOST 
they went along pretty smart, though 
they ain’t so handsome as they might 
be—not by a long shot—won’t never be 
hung for their looks—thougli, for that 
matter, neither will Si; them Bartletts’ 
faces always did look like the edge of 
the Stater Maine—way it’s down on the 
map. I s’pose, though, that ain’t neith¬ 
er here nor there, seeing that the p’lnt 
is that we got to Cattle Show good and 
early, afore they’d gin out any of their 
prizes or Reward o’ Merit cards. 
Wal, the men folks all went off ’long 
o’ Si to see about puttin’ the horses up 
somewhere, and so we women folks 
started right off t’ see the women’s work. 
I always do like to see what lookin’ 
things some women will have the face to 
bring to a fair, and put on show for all 
the other women to see. This lime, 
though, there was some real good look¬ 
ing things, though some others on ’em 
did make you as sick as if you was goin’ 
round Pint Judy Pint in a schooner. 
Wal, the first thing my eye lit on to was 
ABOUT THAT COAT 
You wear a coat. Why.? 
To keep the cold out.? No; 
to keep the warmth in. 
What of the body that has 
no warmth—the thin, poor 
body that lacks the healthy 
flesh and fat it needs? 
For such we say that Scott’s 
Emulsion provides the right 
kind of a coat. Why? Be¬ 
cause Scott’s Emulsion builds 
firm, solid flesh and sup¬ 
plies just enough fat to fill 
nature’s requirements — no 
more. That means bodily 
warmth. 
We’ll send you a sample free upon request. 
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COMFORTABLE, OURABLE and'NATURAL. 
Although a man may lose both of his legs, he Is not 
necessarily helpless By having artiacial legs with rub¬ 
ber feet applied, he will be restored to his usefulness. 
The engraving is from an instantaneous photo¬ 
graph of a man ascending a ladder; he has two 
artifloial legs substituting 
his natural ones, which were. 
crushed by a railroad accident 
and amputated. With his rub- | 
her foot, this man can ascend or 
descend a ladder,hulanco hi mself 
on the rungs and have bis hands 
at liberty. He can work at the ; 
bench and earn a good day’s 
wages. He can walk and mingle 
with persons without betraying 
his loss; in fact, he is restored 
to hi 8 former self for all practical 
purposes. 
With the old methods of com¬ 
plicated ankle joints, these re¬ 
sults could not be so thoroughly 
attained. 
Over 27,000 In use scattered in 
all parts of the world. Many of 
them have been supplied with¬ 
out presenting themselves to the 
maker, simply sending measure¬ 
ments on a formula which any 
one can easily All out. 
Indorsed and purchased by the 
U. S. Government and many 
foreign governments. 
A Treatise of 500 pages, and 
formula for measuring Sent 
Free. 
A. A. MARKS, 
701 Broadway, New York. 
(Established 50 Years.) 
A RURAL MAIL BOX 
Should be 
simple, neat, 
strong, and 
durable. 
A box may be 
approved by 
the P. M. Gen¬ 
eral and still 
not be satisfac¬ 
tory to the pur¬ 
chaser. 
Our “Uncle _ 
Sam’s Favor- 
Ite” has official I 
approval and! ^ 
also the ap-hj^ftS 
proval of thou-'aj-i’^ 
sands who are riUj 
using It and 
know It’s all right. 
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