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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 30 
[ Woman and Home j 
From Day to Day. 
CROSSING THE BAR. 
Sunset and evening star, 
And one clear call for me! 
And there may be no moaning of the bar 
When I put out to sea. 
But such a tide as moving seems asleep, 
Too full for sound and foam, 
When that wnich drew from out the 
boundless deep 
Turns again at home. 
Twilight and evening bell. 
And after that the dark! 
And may there be no sadness of farewell 
When I embark; 
For though from out our bourne of Time 
and Place 
The flood may bear me far, 
I hope to see my Pilot face to face 
When I have crossed the bar. 
—Alfred Tennyson. 
* 
A veky smooth quality of denim is 
made in a limited variety of colors for 
use as dress goods, costing 15 cents a 
yard. It may be obtained in a very 
pretty shade of gray, and is useful for a 
separate skirt to wear with shirt waists. 
Such a skirt may be stitched with white 
and, if desired, trimmed with straps of 
white pique. A sailor waist, with white 
pique collar and cuffs, would make with 
it a very cool outing frock. 
* 
There is a revived taste for tatting 
among fancy work. This delicate old- 
fashioned lace, much admired by our 
mothers and grandmothers, gives fine 
effects which cannot be obtained in 
crochet. It is used for bordering hand¬ 
kerchiefs very effectively, especially 
where drawn work and open hemming 
is used in the body of the handkerchief. 
Pretty infants’ caps are made of medal¬ 
lions of tatting joined together and lined 
with silk. A very handsome effect is 
produced by filling in a pattern of lace 
braid with tatting. 
* 
The American Journal of Education 
has the following fable, which suggests 
conditions which may be duplicated in 
more than one district: 
Once upon a time there was a woman 
who cleaned her kitchen floor but once a 
month. The neighbors heard of it ar.d 
called her ‘‘a lazy slouch” and other com¬ 
plimentary names. Now behold that 
woman's husband was a school director, 
and he hireu a boy once a year to wash off 
the school-nouse floor with cold water, 
paying therefor nearly one dollar of the 
district's money. And lo, these same 
neighbors denounced him as an extrava¬ 
gant officer, and they stripped him of his 
offices. This fable has a moral, but we 
have forgotten it. 
* 
We read recently of an ardent vege¬ 
tarian who, after delivering an impas¬ 
sioned address against the slaughter of 
animals for food, wals asked why she 
wore a stuffed bird upon her bonnet. It 
did not seem consistent. But 'bird pro¬ 
tection does not seem altogether consis¬ 
tent, either, since a recent abstract of 
the Hallock bill passed for bird protec¬ 
tion in New York State says that one 
may wear the plumage of a gull, but not 
that of a wild duck, pheasant, quail or 
pigeon. The gull, the beautiful scaven¬ 
ger of the coast, is not killed for food; 
the game birds named are. Why dis¬ 
criminate against the gull? 
* 
It is reported that an Iowa young man 
recently proposed marriage to a young 
woman, but, on hearing that her hair 
was false, he declined to fulfill the en¬ 
gagement. She brought suit for breach 
of promise, but was nonsuited on the 
ground that she had won the young 
man’s affections under false pretences. 
This recalls the old Colonial statute 
which provided appropriate penalties for 
any woman who should ensnare his ma¬ 
jesty’s male subjects by the use of 
paints, dyes, false hair, padding, or any 
similar deceits of toilet. Such a law, 
like the complaint of the Iowa young 
man, may be taken as a frank confes¬ 
sion that masculine fancy is more likely 
to be attracted by the qualities we con¬ 
sider skin-deep than by any more en¬ 
during virtues. 
* 
Kansas needed 20,000 harvest hands 
this season, and owing to the shortage 
of labor, college students have agreed to 
help the farmers, according to report. 
Young women as well as men will aid, 
students from Fairmont College, at 
Wichita, and the Southwestern Kansas 
College, at Winfield, being prominent in 
the movement. Many of the young men 
are accustomed to farm work, but it will 
be a novelty to many of the women. The 
work will last about three weeks. Kan¬ 
sas papers, however, inform us that 
many of the reports of the scarcity of 
labor are greatly exaggerated, and it is 
hoped that there will be no sudden in¬ 
flux of laborers from distant points, 
whose presence would be undesirable. 
* 
One of our friends asks us how to use 
arrowroot, of which she has seen men¬ 
tion in English periodicals. Arrowroot, 
one of the most delicate of food starches, 
is obtained from the rootstocks of a 
West Indian plant, Maranta; it is made 
into light puddings and gruels for in¬ 
valids and children. A most delicious 
cream toast is made by using arrowroot 
for thickening. First put into a double 
boiler a scant pint of rich milk and a 
teacupful of cream; let it come to the 
boiling point, then add a large table- 
spoonful of fresh butter and a table- 
spoomful of arrowroot wetted in a little 
milk or cream; season to taste with salt, 
and let it boil up. Toast light slices of 
bread, browning evenly. Put two slices 
at a time into the sauce, and as soon as 
they soften all through, which will only 
take a short time, put in a covered dish 
kept hot. Pour a little sauce over each 
layer, and serve the toast while very 
hot. 
* 
While cut paper patterns of the pres¬ 
ent day are much more readily fitted 
than those sold a few years ago, it must 
be remembered that they are meant for 
figures of regular proportions, which we 
do not all conform to. If the figure to 
be fitted is in any way irregular, this 
must be taken into account, and the pat¬ 
tern altered before further fitting. The 
length irom collar to waist line both 
•back and front is one of the first things 
to be ascertained. If the pattern is too 
long-wai!sted the alteration should be 
made in each piece, for though it may 
not be more than a mere line, it is neces¬ 
sary to secure a good fit. It should be 
noted, too, whether the figure is short- 
waisted in the front and long-waisted in 
the back. In fitting sleeves, when too 
long, care must be taken that the elbow 
is left in the right place. Sometimes a 
sleeve needs altering between elbow and 
wrist, sometimes between elbow and 
shoulder, or even at both places, but al¬ 
terations in length must not be made 
without measurements to indicate their 
proper position. With such care, it is 
not difficult to fit properly; without it, 
the result is unsatisfactory, and the pat¬ 
tern is blamed for it. 
* 
“The sale of drink is the sale of dis¬ 
ease; the sale of drink is the sale of in¬ 
sanity; the sale of dflink is the sale of 
crime; the sale of drink is the sale of 
death.”—'Sir Benjamin Ward Richard¬ 
son, M. D. 
The Man with the Hoe. 
THE WOMAN WITH THE BROOM HAS HER SAY 
Mrs. Doolittle was up to her elbows in 
her household duties, and working away 
just as cheerfully as if she expected to 
be paid for it, when her other and lazier 
half (if Mr. Doolittle can be considered 
as constituting an equal fraction of the 
Doolittle matrimonial firm) drifted in 
from a brief interview with the weeds in 
the garden, dropped heavily into a chair, 
sighed wearily, and remarked: 
“Tell you what, Hanner, the chap that 
wrote them verses about ‘The Man With 
the Hoe’ knew what he was talkin’ 
about. I hain’t never been any too fond 
of wieldin’ a hoe, but I didn’t know ex¬ 
actly what the reason was until I got 
hold of that air piece of poetry by Mr. 
Markham, and the picture of it.” 
“Too bad you got hold of it if that is 
the case,” commented Mrs. Doolittle, 
dryly. 
“That’s right, Hanner, that’s right,” 
snorted Doolittle. “I s’pose you’d like 
to have a feller bowed by the weight of 
centuries and leanin’ on his hoe, with 
the emptiness of ages in his face, stolid 
and stunned, a brother to the ox, and 
all that sort of thing, and not even sus¬ 
pect how matters stood, but keep right 
on imaginin’ that he was enjoyin’ life 
and havin’ a good time! The poet asks, 
‘How will the future reckon with this 
man?’ and that’s jest what I want to 
know. What pay am I goin’ to get for 
bearin’ the burden of the world on my 
back and bein’ a slave of the wheel of 
labor, a thing that grieves not and that 
never hopes, as Mr. Markham says?” 
“Well, I guess you’ll get about as 
much pay as I get for doin’ the mendin’ 
and cookin’ and the rest of the house¬ 
work,” retorted Mrs. Doolittle. 
“Mebbe so,” grunted Doolittle; “but 
housekeepin’ iis a woman’s work. That 
is what she is made for, but a man isn’t 
supposed to stand with a hoe in his hand 
hackin’ away at the weeds until he be¬ 
comes a dumb Terror, with his brow 
slanted back, a monstrous thing, dis¬ 
torted and soul-quenched, jest for the 
sake of raisin’ a little garden sass! Not 
much! A man has got to have some 
time to straighten up the achin’ stoop 
in his back, do some thinkin’ about Plato 
and the swing of Pleiades, and such 
things as that. I’m goin’ down to the 
post-office to talk over this ‘Man With 
the Hoe’ business with Bill Peters. I’ll 
be back at dinner-time. If you want any 
kindlin’-wood the ax is in the wood¬ 
shed.” 
Doolittle got up and started for the 
door, but Mrs. Doolittle intervened. 
Tightly grasping the broom with which 
she had been sweeping, she stepped in 
front of him. 
“Hiram Doolittle!” she exclaimed, 
with flashing eyes, “you may be ‘The 
Man With the Hoe,’ but here stands uie 
woman with the broom! No one has 
written a poem about me that I’m aware 
of, but I think I do just about as much 
work as you do and get just about as 
little pay for it! I don’t imagine you’ll 
get nigh as round-shouldered standin’ 
up like a man and handlin’ a hoe as you 
will settin’ on a nail-keg three or four 
hours a day grumblin’ about how hard 
you have to work. But you can do just 
as you think best about it, and if you 
quit work I’ll do the same, and you can 
go with holes in your socks, for all I 
care, and eat raw potatoes or whatever 
you can get for your dinner. That’s all, 
Mr. Doolittle, and I hope the little ex¬ 
ercise you have got with the hoe lately 
hasn’t slanted your brow so but what 
you will be able to understand it!” 
He seemed to. And three minutes 
later he was in the garden slashing away 
at the weeds as if he had never heard of 
Mr. Markham or “The Man With the 
Hoe.”—Woman’s Home Companion. 
Two Summer Drinks. 
Ginger beer is a favorite beverage of 
the haying field, says the New York 
Tribune. This should be made at night, 
and allowed to stand over night to rise, 
and it should then be bottled. Take 
three-quarters of a pound of root ginger 
to make the beer. Dried ginger will do 
if green ginger cannot be had. Clean it 
and bruise it, and pour two gallons of 
water over it. Let it boil slowly for one 
hour. After this add ten gallons of cold 
water, ten pounds of sugar, the juice of 
a dozen lemons and the grated peel of 
eight. Add also half a pound of honey 
and three pints of strong yeast. It is 
easy to make this beer wtth a pint of the 
perpetual yeast if one-third the rule is 
prepared. This will make four gallons 
of the beer, all that a small family 
would be liaely to put up and bottle at 
a time. After the ingredients are thor¬ 
oughly mixed let the beer rise over 
night, as directed previously, and bottle 
it in the morning in stone bottles if 
you have them, tying down the cork, or 
use bottles with patent stoppers, which 
save a great deal of trouble. This beer 
is excellent in three or four days, and 
will keep a long time, even two months, 
in a cold cellar, where it should be set 
as soon as it is bottled. 
We have been asked to repeat the rule 
for old Connecticut root beer. Take one 
portion of wintergreen leaves and stems, 
or of sweet yellow birch bark, or half of 
each, as you please; then take half the 
same quantity of tender young spruce 
twigs and one-quarter of prince’s pine. 
Sometimes a little sweet Cicily root or a 
few fennel leaves were thrown in, but 
neither are necessary. Sometimes about 
as much benzoin shrub twigs as there 
was prince s pine was added, more be¬ 
cause of its fragrance than for any su¬ 
periority it gave the root beer. Cover 
the twigs and other ingredients selected 
with an abundance of water, and let 
them simmer slowly for an hour, or even 
longer. A pound of sugar and half a 
pint of yeast was added to every gallon 
of the herb decoction strained off. The 
beer should stand over night to rise, and 
as soon as it is risen should be bottled 
and set away for several days in a cool 
cellar. 
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