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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
June 2 
From Day to Day. 
JEALOUS OP THE JUDGE. 
Ma’s ’lected jestice of the peace, an’ Pa 
has got a case 
Of what you’d think was rheumatiz a 
drawin’ up his face; 
Jest sets around an’ cusses at the cruel 
hand of fate 
That led him here to settle in this wimmen- 
suf’rin’ State. 
He talks about the crowin’ hens an’ what 
they call advance, 
A crowdin’ men folks from the right to 
wear the honored pants, 
An’ says the time’s a cornin’ fast when 
men’ll be but slaves— 
Be ruled by tyrant wimmen from their 
cradles to their graves. 
Ma laughs to hear him goin’ on, an’ some¬ 
times says she’d ort 
To sock him with a heavy fine fur sich 
contempt o’ court, 
An’ tells him he had better stop an’ mind 
his p’s and q’s 
Or her official dignity ’ll h’ist him from his 
shoes. 
An’ then she’ll spank his ol’ bald head 
with sort o’ lovin’ hand 
An’ say there ain’t a better man in all this 
Western land, 
An’ that in all domestic things he yit kin 
be the boss, 
An’ Pa he’ll heave a sigh an’ say he’ll try 
to bear the cross. 
I pity Pa a-goin’ ’round with sich a achin’ 
face 
An’ actin’ like he was a strange trespasser 
on the place; 
Jest cuts me like a weepon every time I 
hear him sigh, 
But Ma says he’ll recover from his tan¬ 
trums by an’ by. 
I know jest what’s a ailin’ him; it’s only 
jealousy, 
It rips the stitchin’ of his pride to Agger 
out that she 
Will be “her honor” an’ “the court,” an’ 
sort o’ rule the town, 
While he’ll be what he alius was—jest 
plain ol’ Jimmy Brown. 
—Denver Post. 
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A woman at Baltimore was recently 
killed by a needle wnich she swallowed 
in a piece of pie. One of the newspaper 
comments on this mischance is to the 
effect that such an accident warns us 
that, after sewing the lid on a pie, pre¬ 
paratory to baking it, the needle should 
be carefully removed. 
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Indian Territory purposes sending a 
woman as delegate to the Republican 
National Convention at Philadelphia. 
She is Miss Ida Bennett Miller, a quar¬ 
ter-blood Choctaw, whose father is a 
wealthy Choctaw physician. Miss Miller 
sat as a proxy in the delegate conven¬ 
tion held at Purcell, I. T. She is said 
to have made a study of National poli¬ 
tics. 
A young boy in Jersey City recently 
murdered another boy, the crime being 
calculated and committed in cold blood. 
According to his mother’s statement, the 
young criminal was in the habit of 
smoking as many as 10 packets of cigar¬ 
ettes a day. Apart from the physical 
and moral deterioration thus produced, 
think of the absolute wastefulness, since, 
at the lowest price, this indulgence must 
have cost $3.50 per week, or the entire 
earnings of sucb a boy, if he were will¬ 
ing to work. The murder was commit¬ 
ted for purposes of robbery. It is no¬ 
ticeable that, during recent years, a ma¬ 
jority of the boy criminals whose mis¬ 
doing has shocked the community, have 
been described as inveterate cigarette 
smokers. 
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One of our friends who has just re¬ 
turned from a visit to Paris, declares 
that the one great difference between 
French and American life which im¬ 
pressed her most strongly was the in¬ 
tense economy prevailing abroad. She 
came back with the feeling that Amer¬ 
icans do not understand the bare mean¬ 
ing of economy. In French housekeep¬ 
ing absolutely nothing is thrown away. 
Food is bought in carefully calculated 
portions; there is nothing left over; 
nothing to hand to a tramp, or to give to 
a dog. There is sufficient for everyone, 
out no more. Meat is very dear in 
France, and it is very necessary that it 
be both purchased and cooked carefully. 
The lavish joints and blanket-like sir¬ 
loin steaks cooked by American house¬ 
wives would seem the maddest extrava¬ 
gance to French housekeepers of similar 
position. In this New World, we are too 
strongly inclined to confound economy 
with meanness; everything is on a lav- 
isn scale. The foreigner is not ashamed 
of his economies, and appears to feel no 
hardship in them. 
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At a recent meeting of homeopathic 
physicians in Chicago, it was stated that 
41 per cent of the children in the public 
schools suffer from eye or ear troubles, 
and this was blamed on the bad founda¬ 
tion of their education. “This working 
of perforated cardboard, threading of 
fine needles and stringing of tiny glass 
beads is injurious,” said a woman phy¬ 
sician. In discussing the responsibili¬ 
ties of mothers one of the doctors said: 
Ninety per cent of the ills from which 
children suffer are brought on by lack of 
the mother’s care in clothing and feeding 
them. During the last six months I have 
had three children, each under one year 
old, who had been attacked by scurvy. 
From physicians I have learned that there 
have been many cases of this disease in 
this city recently. Years ago we under¬ 
stood that scurvy was to be found only on 
shipboard and as the result of poor food 
and lack of sanitary arrangements. Yet 
it is here in Chicago. It is not hereditary 
and it is in our best families. There is 
only one reason for it—the children have 
been given food that generated the disease; 
they have not been cared for properly. 
In the discussion that followed it was 
said that artificial foods, which make 
children fat, but do not strengthen them, 
are in great degree responsible for such 
diseases as scurvy. A strong argument 
was made against the use of condensed 
milk as food for children. 
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Some new shirt waists seen recently 
were exceedingly suggestive of sack¬ 
cloth, the material being a coarse crash 
with a semi-transparent mesh. They 
were trimmed with bands of white linen 
embroidery, and were stylish-looking, in 
spite of (or perhaps because of) their 
coarse texture. Grass linen, which 
combines with exquisite sheerness ..nd 
transparency the brownish hue of un¬ 
bleached flax, is a very handsome ma¬ 
terial either for waists or wash dresses. 
A dark-haired girl with bright brunette 
coloring who doesn’t like to wear a 
white frock because, as she asserts, she 
looks “perfectly black” in it, would do 
well to choose grass linen, made up over 
pnmrose yellow or peach pink. The 
lining should be a nice smooth quality of 
lawn. The skirt should be made entire¬ 
ly separate from the lining, which, 
though sewn into the same waistband, is 
practically a separate skirt, finished at 
the bottom with a ruffle. The waist will 
fit better if the lining is stitched with 
the material into the seams. Fine 
Torchon lace—not the coarse trimming 
so often seen on underwear, but what is 
called “real” Torchon—is a pretty trim¬ 
ming for grass lawn, or it may be trim¬ 
med with narrow lace beading, through 
which very narrow black ribbon velvet 
is run. This black velvet, about the 
Same width as baby ribbon, or a little 
wider, is very much used this season as 
a trimming for wash frocks. 
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One of the New York daily papers 
has been discussing, lately, the deca¬ 
dence of shortcake. Several correspond¬ 
ents have declared that it is impossible 
to get honest old-fashioned strawberry 
shortcake at any New York restaurant. 
The variety usually served has for its 
foundation sheets of sponge cake, where¬ 
as the real shortcake is a rich biscuit 
dough. In defence of the restaurant 
article it must be remembered that the 
biscuit shortcake is eaten as soon as it 
is baked; it loses its fresh, crisp rich¬ 
ness by keeping. The restaurant short¬ 
cake cannot be served as soon as it 
comes out oi the oven; it must be of a 
class that does not deteriorate by keep¬ 
ing, and for such use the sponge cake is 
the better of the two. Here is a recipe 
given by one correspondent for the old- 
fashioned article: 
One pint flour, one-half teaspoonful salt, 
one large tablespoonful butter, one heap¬ 
ing teaspoonful baking powder, half pint 
sweet milk. Mix into a soft dough (with 
a spoon) and bake in well-heated oven for 
about 15 minutes. Put the dough in a but¬ 
tered round pan with straight sides about 
eight inches in diameter. 
Before mixing the cake have two quarts 
berries, hulled and, if necessary, washed, 
and well drained of water. When the cake 
is done break it in two parts or layers 
with a silver fork, butter the inner part 
of the bottom of the cake and cover it well 
with strawberries, crushed a little and well 
sugared. Then put on the other half, 
brown part up. Butter this well and 
cover thickly with the rest of the straw¬ 
berries and sugar them well. A little m6- 
ringue put on the top layer first will hold 
the berries in place and make the cake 
look better. Eat the cake while warm 
with plenty of sweet cream. If cream is 
not to be obtained try this sauce, which Is 
as old-fashioned as this kind of cake: Mix 
butter and sugar together just as for hard 
sauce for puddings. Melt this and add to 
it strawberries that have been crushed 
and broken into a pulp or rubbed through 
a colander. Put in a sauce boat and serve 
warm. Last, but not least, let me urge 
the necessity of using the best butter for 
cake and sauce, and do not try to make 
it too early in the season, as the berries 
have no flavor, and so the cake will be a 
disappointment instead of an absolute 
pleasure. 
Ail Extemporized Ice-Cream 
Freezer. 
Hundreds of farmers’ families have ice 
during the Summer—many having it on 
hand for dairy purposes—hut not many 
among them own the makers of that 
luxury, ice cream. Ice-cream freezers 
are not very expensive, still they are 
luxuries, and so often have to give way 
to the necessities. A very good and 
easily-produced substitute for a regular 
freezer is shown in Fig. 117. Get a 
candy pail at the grocer’s, or confec¬ 
tioner’s—one having a tight wooden 
cover—and select a tin pail, with a 
cover, that is as large at the bottom as 
at the top, and that is small enough to 
allow of broken ice and rock salt being 
packed about it, as shown. As the 
cream hardens about the edges, scrape it 
off and beat it in smoothly with the 
softer center until the whole is as stiff 
as desired. d. 
Removing a Tight Ring. 
A correspondent of the Melbourne 
(Australia) Leader thus describes some¬ 
thing useful to remember in similar 
emergencies: I watched a mother re¬ 
move a ring from a child’s finger the 
other day with an amount of interest, 
because the process was new to me. The 
child had put over his chubby finger a 
ring much too small for it, and the flesh 
on either side began to swell. Crying 
with fright and some pain, I imagine, it 
ran to mother, who with the calmest 
manner in the world began to make 
preparations for removing the ring even 
wMle trying to comfort her offspring. 
She threaded a flat-eyed needle with 
linen, which was strong but not coarse, 
soaped it, and passed the head of that 
needle under the ring. She pulled it a 
few inches towards the hand, and wrap¬ 
ped the other end of the thread tightly 
and regularly around the finger toward 
the nail. She then took hold of the 
needle, and began slowly to unwind the 
coil, carrying the ring along with the 
thread until it slipped easily from the 
end of the finger. It was a painless 
operation; in fact, it interested the child 
so much that it forgot to fret. I asked 
the mother where she learned the trick, 
and she told me that she once had an 
experience with a tight ring, which a 
jeweller removed for her in just that 
manner. She always remembered it, and 
found it useful in many cases before she 
had a family of her own. Knowledge 
like this is of value, as I often reflect 
when I see it put to practical use. 
Marriage is the strictest tie of per¬ 
petual friendship, and there can be no 
friendship without confidence, and no 
confidence without integrity, and he 
must expect to be wretched who pays to 
beauty, riches or politeness that regard 
which only virtue and piety can claim.— 
Johnson. 
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