THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 24 
136 
l Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
THE JOURNEY. 
You’s potter hab some trouble in dis rough 
ol’ world of ours. 
You's gotter fight de bumbly bee, some¬ 
times, to pick de flowers. 
You's gwinter fin’ a heap o’ roughness in 
de rocky road 
Befo’ you gits wha’ you kin res’ an’ lay 
aside de load. 
But be humble an’ don't grumble, 
’Case you sometimes slip and stumble, 
An’ seems to drap behin’ de res’ ob all de 
hustlin’ throng. 
Don’ stop an' stallt a-whinin’ 
An’ a-whimperin’ an’ a-plnin’, 
But pick yoh feet up, honey, an’ go trav- 
elin’ along. 
You may hab fears o’ troubles dat’ll hit 
you hahd some day, 
But dar’s wusser boun’ to ketch you ef 
you halts along de way. 
You’s gotter keep a-movin.’ Some is fas’ 
an’ some is slow, 
But all dat’s looked foh from you is to do 
de bes’ you know. 
So don’t you wait an’ worry 
Ef you falls down in yoh hurry, 
Jes’ pull yohse'f togedder as you hums er 
little song. 
An’ never min’ de chaffin’ 
An’ de hollerin’ an ’de laughin’, 
But pick yoh feet up, honey, an’ go trav- 
clin’ along. 
—Washington Star. 
* 
A small boy in a Chicago mission 
Sunday school who was recently exam¬ 
ined as to the origin of man, responded 
as follows, according to the Inter-Ocean: 
“Who made man?” asked the teacher, 
beginning as in the good old days when 
orthodoxy used catechisms. 
“God,” was the prompt reply. 
“And how did He make him?” 
“Out of dust, ma’am; nothing but dust.” 
“And who made woman?” 
“God made her, too, ma’am.” 
"How?” 
The small boy hesitated, and then re¬ 
plied cheerfully: “He caused a deep sleep 
to fall upon man, and then took out his 
backbone and made the woman.” 
This may account for the occasional 
instances where the women of a com¬ 
munity appear to monopolize all the 
moral backbone required in its concerns. 
* 
Some of the large city jewelers now 
employ winders, whose duty is to regu¬ 
late and keep In order the clocks of 
their patrons. Some of the expensive 
clocks, especially those with calendar 
attachments, demand great regularity in 
the care given them, and the profes¬ 
sional winder keeps them running ac¬ 
curately, whereas carelessness would 
soon put them wrong. It speaks well 
for clocks and watches that so many 
of them do keep good time, for we are 
often prone to carelessness in this par¬ 
ticular. The woman who only sets her 
watch going on a day when she expects 
to catch a train, or who winds it twice 
one day, and then permits it to run 
down the next, only has herself to 
blame for any eccentricities her time¬ 
piece may display. 
* 
A good many of our women readers 
are much interested in the cooking les¬ 
sons at farmers’ institutes, judging from 
the letters we receive. The following 
comment from a reader in New York 
State touches upon one point often over¬ 
looked: 
They certainly teach us the principles 
that underlie cooking, so that we do not 
cook this way and that simply because our 
mothers did, but because we have learned 
that certain ingredients put together pro¬ 
duce certain results. As to their being a 
help in the preparation of the farm dinner, 
I consider that the principles of economy, 
the ways of saving labor, and the different 
ways of serving practically the same 
dishes to produce variety, are a great help. 
One observer remarks that the 
women were not very ready to get up 
in meeting and ask questions, but we 
think that the men often display a simi¬ 
lar diffidence, particularly where the 
institutes are a comparative novelty. 
It is urged by some that the women 
should have separate meetings, de¬ 
voted to the subjects in which they are 
interested We scarcely see the neces¬ 
sity for this. The talk on the uses of 
dairy products, at the dairymen’s meet¬ 
ing at Cortland, N. Y., proved very in¬ 
teresting to the masculine listeners, the 
only regret expressed being that there 
were not more women present. 
* 
Bolero jackets trim many of the new 
Spring gowns, and this style is so be¬ 
coming and convenient that its popu¬ 
larity is likely to be retained. The 
bolero may either be made with the 
waist, fastening in its seams, or be a 
separate article, to be slipped over dif¬ 
ferent plain waists. A separate bolero 
will often freshen a waist showing signs 
of wear. Square jacket fronts of 
taffeta are seen, having the material 
fringed out around the edge. Made 
fringes are also used as trimming 
around these jackets. The boleros are 
even seen upon thin muslin waists, be¬ 
ing made of insertion or all-over em¬ 
broidery. They make a pretty finish for 
a thin muslin gown, and have the ad¬ 
vantage of being easily laundered when 
made separate, thus removing one of 
the chief objections to a more elaborate 
washing gown. Judging from what we 
see now, we are to expect very great 
elaboration in Summer clothes, the ad¬ 
vance styles reaching the very acme of 
fussiness in frills, tucks and insertions, 
but probably we shall see something 
more sensible later. Some waists are 
shown made entirely of rows of ribbon 
alternating with lace insertion, or of 
insertion combined with narrow stripes 
of tucked taffeta. These combinations 
of material are sold readymade for 
waists; they are, naturally, expensive. 
Combinations of lace and tucked swiss 
or lawn, for making yokes, guimpes, and 
elaborate waists are much cheaper than 
formerly, often much less than inser¬ 
tion and material could be bought for 
to make them up at home. Pretty styles 
cost from 75 cents to $1.50 a yard and 
upwards. It sounds rather unseason¬ 
able to discuss such fabrics while the 
snow is still on the ground, but this is 
the best time to plan our Summer ward¬ 
robe, examining garments left over from 
last year, and putting them in order 
before buying anything new. February 
and March are good months for sewing, 
as a rule, and it is quite possible to do 
most of the children’s dressmaking at 
this time. 
Bran Coffee. 
Now that cereal coffees are considered 
hygienic, and are so extensively in use, 
perhaps an old-fashioned recipe our 
grandmothers used may find favor with 
some. It is very easily and quickly 
made, besides making a pleasant nutri¬ 
tious drink when mixed with coffee. 
To make one quart of fresh wheat bran 
is required, one cupful cooking molasses, 
one egg; mix well, spread it out in 
shallow dishes or pans, put in the oven 
and brown thoroughly. It requires con¬ 
stant watching and moving, as it 
scorches easily when liearly done, and 
is spoiled if it does. It looks very much 
like coffee after it is ground, and some 
people use it entirely, although it is 
better when mixed with other coffee, al¬ 
lowing one-naif of each. 
Several years ago I knew an enter¬ 
prising little woman who made and sold 
this coffee at one-half the regular price 
of other coffee. It was put up in neat 
pound packages. She went from house 
to house in a large town soliciting or¬ 
ders until she had introduced it, after 
which she received all the orders she 
could fill at her own home. She worked 
up for herself and two small boys, who 
delivered for her, quite a business and 
income. The expense for the materials 
used is very trifling, and those who wish 
a substitute for coffee will find this 
more economical than the purchased 
preparations of the same class. 
SARAII RODNEY. 
Bichloride of Mercury for 
Wounds. 
The R. N.-Y. notes, on page 58, the 
use of bichloride of mercury for wounds; 
authorized as it is by medical advice, 
this remedy, like Mrs. Toodies’s door¬ 
plate, appears to be a handy thing to 
have in the house. But now please lis¬ 
ten to my tale of woe. About two weeks 
ago I had one of my feet crushed quite 
badly. The physician prescribed this 
same remedy (corrosive sublimate), one- 
third of a tablet dissolved in a quart of 
water, with instructions to “bathe the 
parts freely.” By the time I had used 
it four times, the method of application 
being to saturate a lint bandage in the 
solution and wrap about the foot, the 
skin had become so inflamed as to look 
like raw beef; it had also commenced 
to puff up and peel off. The uninjured 
toes likewise became inflamed from 
contact with the bandage, and the skin 
began to come off, and tthe intense 
burning and itching was simply intol¬ 
erable, rendering sleep or rest impossi¬ 
ble until the physician could relieve it 
with a soothing lotion. Probably it 
does not act this way with many per¬ 
sons, but with those who are affected 
the remedy is far worse than the in¬ 
jury. f. c. c. 
R. N. Y.—Instances of irritation from 
applying a Jsolution of bichloride of 
mercury of the proper strength, 15 
grains to the quart of water, to open 
wounds, are very rare, but as in the 
above instance, they do occur. How¬ 
ever, there is little chance for any real 
harm to be done, as dangerous germs 
are at once destroyed, and the mercurial 
inflammation quickly subsides on weak¬ 
ening the solution or withdrawing it en¬ 
tirely. In the immense majority of 
cases the application of bichloride solu¬ 
tion of the above strength, which equals 
one part of corrosive sublimate to 1,000 
of water, is not only painless, but really 
soothing, as it immediately disinfects 
the wound, and promotes rapid heal¬ 
ing by lessening other causes of irrita¬ 
tion. It may be considered a practical 
and safe uomestic remedy for small 
wounds. Extensive injuries always de¬ 
mand the attentions of a competent 
physician. Always remember, however, 
that bichloride of mercury is a most 
dangerous internal poison. 
_Do to-day’s duty, fight to-day's 
temptation, and do not weaken and dis¬ 
tract yourself by looking forward to 
things which you cannot see, and could 
not understand if you saw them.— 
Charles Kingsley. 
Scrofula and 
Consumption 
People tainted with scrof¬ 
ula very often develop con¬ 
sumption. Anemia, running 
of the ear, scaly eruptions, 
imperfect digestion, and 
enlargement and breaking 
down of the glands of the 
neck, are some of the more 
prominent of scrofula symp¬ 
toms—are forerunners of con¬ 
sumption. These conditions 
can be arrested, consumption 
prevented and health re¬ 
stored by the early use of 
Scott’s Emulsion 
Your doctor will tell you so. 
1 At all druggists; 50 c. and ?t,oo. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. 
B.&B. 
new and beautiful silks 
ready—and we’re doing the business on 
such a liberal basis as to assortments and 
rich effects—so keenly determined as to 
less prices—that if you’re to have some 
smart new silk waists for early Spring, 
you’ll be a gainer to investigate. 
elegance at 65c 85c. $1.00 
—styles that have snap, tone and life 
about them 
It’s a superb collection of newest 1900 
novelty silks. 
We mean it to be superlative—compared 
with any—depend on the silks and prices 
to make that so plain, you can’t escape 
acknowledgment. 
Write for samples, give colorings and 
idea of styles you prefer—about what 
price you want—we’ll supply you abun¬ 
dantly with the evidence you want. 
Handsome New Wash Silks 35c. 45c. 
A wonderful line of new Imported 
Madi’as I20c. 
—styles that speak for themselves. 
New Madras Ginghams 10c. to finest 
mported, at 50c. 
BOGGS & BUHL, 
Department C, 
ALLEGHENY, PA. 
NEW BECKER 
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