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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 24 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
RUE. 
They leaned above the cradle, though none 
their presence knew; 
Roses had one, one lavender, and one held 
bitter rue. 
And she who held the roses looked steadily 
at those 
Who held the lavender and rue, as if they 
were her foes. 
It was the pale rue-bearer who answered 
to that gaze; 
"Ah, sister, sweet are roses, and sunny, 
rose-lined ways. 
But in the scent and sunshine the weak 
heart falls asleep, 
And never learns the lesson, to weep with 
those who weep. 
The little lad shall have them, thy roses, 
for his own, 
But we are here to teach him that they 
are not good, alone.” 
And then the three, in silence, bent o’er 
the little bed, 
And she who held the roses laid them 
softly at the head; 
And she who held the lavender, the pledge 
of service sweet. 
Strewed it in mazy patterns about the 
little feet. 
But she, the pale rue-bearer, knelt as at 
some command, 
And clasped her gift securely in the tiny 
sleeping hand. 
—Catholic Standard and Times. 
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A whiter in the American Kitchen 
Magazine says that probably the ma¬ 
jority of all breakdowns, of whatever 
kind, come from an attempt to live by 
another person’s standard. Miss Mu- 
lcck said, "Half the sting of poverty is 
gone when one keeps house for one’s 
own comfort, and not for the comment 
of one neighbors.” Half the ill-health 
of women would be gone if they would 
follow the simple suggestions for avoid¬ 
ing a nervous breakdown, without re¬ 
gard to comments. The time will come 
when habitual worry in the mind or ills 
in the flesh will be scorned as a sign of 
shiftlessness quite as much as an untidy 
house or a soiled gown. The life is more 
than meat and the body than raiment. 
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Many country dwellers living in a lo¬ 
cality where there are Summer visitors, 
particularly those who come out into the 
country for a single day, suffer annoying 
losses in the form of fruit and flowers. 
It is surprising how many people who 
would be shocked at such a word as 
stealing see no wrong in helping them¬ 
selves to a few bunches of grapes, a hat¬ 
ful of cherries, or a handful of roses. 
One woman gardener says she has grown 
hardened to the loss of big branches 
from her flowering shrubs, but she did 
resent the action of certain flower lov¬ 
ers who surreptitiously dug up her pet 
geraniums and eloped with them. How¬ 
ever, even she had less reason for men¬ 
tal anguish than a Chicago man we 
knew, who, going out one morning to 
view the newly-sodded lawn in his tiny 
front yard, discovered that some one 
whose taste for landscape gardening was 
not balanced by lofty morality had pirat- 
ically skinned off all the grass and taken 
it away! According to the Youth’s Com¬ 
panion some of the California fruit 
growers suffer from a similar lack of 
consideration for their property on the 
part of toui’ists: 
One old gentleman owning a small vine¬ 
yard near Sierra Madre declared that he 
hardly got a taste of his own grapes. 
"I did, though, come to think of it, get 
some last month,” he declared, while tell¬ 
ing his trials to a sympathetic visitor. “A 
big load of young folks came over from the 
hotel and 1 wasn’t at home, but they picked 
what fruit they could eat and then took 
the rest to carry home to their friends. I 
happened to come up just as they were 
starting back, and, being generous-hearted 
folks, they asked me if 1 wouldn’t have 
some grapes. I took a few bunches and 
thanked them, and said I didn’t often feel 
to afford to eat grapes. They said to help 
myself, so I took some more. Finally one 
of the young fellows asked where I lived. 
I told him that that was my ranch, and 
that 1 was trying to get a living raising 
grapes, but someway I didn’t seem to make 
much of a crop, and guessed I should have 
to try something else. 
"Well, these folks felt ashamed, and 
they were free to say so. They paid me 
handsome for what grapes they had eaten 
and taken. And the young fellow who 
talked with me sent me out a big sign, 
saying ‘Grapes For Sale.’ It’s been a good 
thing for me, and I guess it taught him 
a little something.” 
The Rural Patterns. 
The Eton jacket shown is in taffeta 
finished with stitching of silk and with 
collar of batiste lace, edged, over the 
one of silk, but moire velours, cheviot, 
linen and cloth are equally appropriate, 
as are all suitings. The fronts are fitted 
with single darts and are cut to form 
points slightly below the waist line. 
The back is plain and smooth and join¬ 
ed to the fronts by means of shoulder 
4110 Misses’s Eton Jacket, 
12 to 16 yrs. 
and under-arm seams. The sleeves are 
in coat style with roll-over cuffs, but 
can be left plain and stitched if pre¬ 
ferred. At the neck is a big round collar 
that adds greatly to the effect, but which 
is optional and can be omitted, the neck 
being finished plain, as shown in the 
small sketch, when a simpler garment is 
desired. To cut the Eton for a girl 14 
years of age 3% yards of material 21 
inches wide, 3 x /4 yards 27 inches wide, 
1% yard 44 inches wide, or 1 y 2 yard 50 
inches wide will be required when col¬ 
lar is used; 3% yards 21 inches wide, 3 
yards 27 inches wide, 1% yard 44 inches 
wide, or 1^4 yard 50 inches wide when 
collar is omitted. The pattern No. 4110 
is cut in sizes for misses of 12. 14 and 
16 years of age; price 10 cents. 
No skirt is more satisfactory than the 
one cut in five gores. The pretty model 
shown is adapted to all dress fabrics, as 
it can be made with or without the 
gathered flounce, but as illustrated is of 
white dimity dotted with pale blue and 
is trimmed with white lace. The skirt 
is cut in five gores. When desired the 
graduated circular flounce can be ar¬ 
ranged over the foundation, or the gores 
can be cut off at the necessary depth and 
the flounce seamed to the lower edge. To 
cut the skirt for a girl 14 years of age 6 
yards of material 21 inches wide, 6% 
yards 32 inches wide, four yards 44 
inches wide will be required when 
flounce is used; 4% yards 21 inches 
wide, 4!4 yards 32 inches wide, or 2% 
yards 44 inches wide when skirt is left 
plain. Tne pattern No. 4103 is cut in 
sizes for misses of 12, 14 and 16 years of 
age; price 10 cents from this oiflce. 
"It is temper which makes the bliss 
of home, or destroys comfort. It is not 
in the collision of intellect that domestic 
peace loves to nestle. The home is in 
the forbearing nature—in the yielding 
spirt—in the calm pleasures of a mild 
disposition, anxious to give and receive 
happiness.” 
Rural Recipes. 
"STRUNG BEANS.” 
"We'll have string beans for dinner," said 
the mistress to the maid. 
And to their preparation she no more at¬ 
tention paid; 
But imagine her amazement when the din¬ 
ner bell was rung. 
To find that on a cord like beads, the 
viands had been strung! 
—What to Eat. 
Spinach on Toast.—Boil the spinach 
in salted water until tender, then drain 
and chop very fine. Heat again in a lit¬ 
tle sweet cream seasoned with butter, 
salt and pepper and pour upon buttered 
toast. 
French Potatoes.—Cut cold boiled po¬ 
tatoes into thin slices and put into a 
saucepan with just enough milk or 
cream to moisten well, add butter to 
taste, also pepper and salt, and chopped 
parsley, heat through and when ready 
to serve stir in the juice of half a lemon. 
Maple Cookies.—To one heaping cup¬ 
ful of maple sugar add two-thirds of a 
cupful of softened butter, two beaten 
eggs, half a cupful of sour cream, with 
a level teaspoonful of soda dissolved in 
it, half a teaspoonful of nectar, a quar¬ 
ter of a teaspoonful of salt and enough 
flour to make a moderately stiff dough. 
Roll out and bake in quick oven. 
Prune Pie.—One cupful of stewed and 
stoned prunes, chopped fine; three 
tablespoonfuls of the syrup in which 
they were stewed, two eggs, yolks and 
white beaten separately, the whites to 
a stiff froth; sugar, salt and flavoring to 
taste. The prunes should be soaked an 
hour or two in warm water before stew¬ 
ing, then cooked slowly several hours, 
putting them on with cold water enough 
nearly to cover them and enough sugar 
to make a rich syrup. Bake without 
upper crust. 
Maple Sugar Fruit Cake.—Cream one 
cupful of butter and add to it two cup¬ 
fuls of maple sugar, one of maple syrup, 
three beaten eggs, one small cupful of 
milk with a rounding teaspoonful of 
soda dissolved in it, five cunfuls of flour 
sifted with two teaspoonfuls of cream 
4103 Misses’ Five-Gcred Sklit, 
12 to 16 yrs. 
tartar and a little salt. Mix all together 
and add one pound of raisins, one of 
currants, half a pound of citron and a 
quarter of a pound of orange peel, all 
well floured. No spices are used, as the 
maple sugar flavors the cake. 
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