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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 27 
f Woman and Home j 
From Day to Day. 
LAVENDER LEAVES. 
The waving corn was green and gold, 
The damask roses blown, 
The bees and busy spinning wheel 
Kept up a drowsy drone, 
When Mistress Standish, folding down 
Her linen, white as snow, 
Between it laid the lavender, 
One Summer long ago. 
The slender spikes of grayish green, 
Still moist with morning dew, 
Recalled a garden sweet with box 
Beyond the ocean’s blue; 
An English garden, quaint and old, 
She nevermore might know; 
And so she dropped a homesick tear 
That Summer long ago. 
The yellow sheets grew worn and thin. 
And fell in many a shred; 
Some went to bind the soldiers’ wounds, 
And some to shroud the dead. 
And Mistress Standish rests her soul 
Where graves their shadows throw. 
And violets blossom, planted there 
In Summers long ago. 
But still between the royal rose 
And lady lily tall 
Springs up the modest lavender 
Beside the cottage wall. 
The spider spreads her gossamer 
Across it to and fro—. 
The ghost of linen laid to bleach 
One Summer long ago. 
—New England Magazine. 
* 
A few finely-chopped butternuts 
stirred into a dish of apple sauce give 
a very pleasant variation in flavor. 
* 
Later in the season, when the choice 
of vegetables becomes restricted, try 
parsnips cooked as follows: Cut into 
strips about three inches long, soak in 
cold water for half an hour, then dry in 
a towel, and fry in deep fat like French 
fried potatoes. 
* 
Cornmeal, moistened with vinegar, is 
a good substitute for lemon juice in re¬ 
moving potato or fruit stains from the 
hands. Ink and similar discolorations 
can usually be rubbed off with pumice 
stone. Old-fashioned ink could usually 
be removed from hands or clothing with 
more certainty tnan the modern chem¬ 
ical product. 
* 
The Living Church makes this quota¬ 
tion from a Connecticut woman’s diary, 
dated 1790: “We had roast pork for 
dinner, and Dr. S-, who carved, held 
up a rib on his fork, and said: ‘Here, 
ladies, is what Mother Eve was made 
of.’ 
“ ‘Yes,’ said Sister Patty, ‘and it’s 
from very much the same kind of crit¬ 
ter.’ ” 
* 
Many a restless boy, who is perpetu¬ 
ally in mischief, and rapidly acquiring 
the reputation of being incorrigible 
could better be reclaimed by the work 
cure than by any form of punishment. 
The energy which, when aimless, leads 
to wanton mischief, might be a valuable 
foi’ce in the world’s work if early di¬ 
rected into proper channels. We have 
no sympathy with parents who prescribe 
various “chores” as punishment, and 
then wonder why the boy grows up 
hating work. His work should be look¬ 
ed upon as the natural prelude to any 
form of enjoyment or leisure. The 
things we like to do are not work, no 
matter how exacting or laborious. If 
an energetic boy has certain duties de¬ 
pending upon him, which are no pun¬ 
ishment, but his just share of the family 
economy, he is not only lessening his 
present possibilities for mischief, but is 
also forming character for maturity. 
We pity the town boy who has no 
chores. No wonder that city parents 
welcome the vacation schools, where 
manual training and physical exercises 
work off the boy’s restless energy and 
keep him out of the most demoralizing 
school in the world—the open street. 
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A Boston druggist tells how a small 
girl entered his store one day and told 
him that she wanted five cents’ worth 
of glory divine. 
“Are you sure it is glory divine you 
want?” he asked the little one. 
“Yes, sir,” was the prompt response. 
“For what does mamma want it?” was 
the next question. 
“To throw it around the room and in 
the back yard,” said the little tot, inno¬ 
cently. 
“Isn’t it chloride of lime she wants?” 
asked the drug man. 
The little girl nodded her assent, and 
soon she was on her way home to 
Mother. Druggists receive a good many 
extraordinary requests from persons un¬ 
familiar with the name of the substance 
they require, particularly when children 
are sent upon these errands; it is not 
surprising that they develop an intui¬ 
tion similar to that of the post office 
clerks who decipher “blind” addresses. 
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A reader requests a recipe for boiled 
salad dressing containing cream. The 
following suits the taste of many who 
do not like a mayonnaise containing oil. 
Mix a dessert spoonful of dry mustard, 
half a teaspoonful of salt, quarter of a 
teaspoonful of white pepper, half a tea¬ 
spoonful celery salt with a large table¬ 
spoonful of butter. Stir in thoroughly 
the beaten yolks of two eggs and beat 
all to a cream, then beat in a cupful of 
cream, sour or sweet (if milk is used 
add another egg). Stir and cook in a 
double boiler until it begins to thicken. 
Remove at once from the fire and when 
cold beat in two or three tablespoonfuls 
of vinegar. If put in a preserve jar and 
kept in a cool place it will keep for a 
week or more. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Blouse suits are always becoming to 
little girls and make the best of all 
frocks for school and knockabout wear. 
4211 Girl’s Blouse Suit, 
4 to 12 years. 
This model is suited to serge, flannel 
and similar wool fabrics and to both 
linen and cotton of the sturdier sorts, 
but as shown is of blue serge with 
bands of black braid and gold buttons. 
The blouse consists of back and fronts 
only and is closed at the front by means 
of buttons and buttonholes worked 
through a box pleat. The fronts are 
tucked at the shoulders to yoke depth, 
and the lower edge of the blouse is fin¬ 
ished with a hem in which elastic is in¬ 
serted. At the neck is a broad round 
collar that, however, can be omitted 
and the neck finished with a simple 
standing collar when preferred. The 
sleeves are in bishop style gathered into 
cuffs at the wrists. The skirt is in three 
pieces, a front gore and circular sides, 
which meet and are gathered at the 
back, and is joined to the body lining 
that closes with it at the center back. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size (eight years) is 4 y 2 
yards 27 inches wide, 3% yards 44 
inches wide or 2% yards 52 inches wide. 
The pattern No. 4211 is cut in sizes for 
girls 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years of age;price 
10 cents from this office. 
“Slot seams” make the latest develop¬ 
ment of tucks and pleats, and are among 
the features noted in the models of the 
best designs, and may be looked for in 
the suits and the skirts of the coming 
season. The skirt is cut in seven gores 
and the “slot seams” are so arranged as 
to conceal all joinings. At their upper 
portions they are stitched flat with silk, 
4201 Misses’ “Slot Seam” Skirt. 
12 to 16 years. 
but fall free at flounce depth. The full¬ 
ness at the back is laid in inverted 
pleats that are pressed flat. To cut this 
skirt in the medium size (14 years) 7% 
yards of material 27 inches wide, six 
yards 44 inches wide, or five yards 52 
inches wide will be required. The pat¬ 
tern No. 4201 is cut in sizes for misses 
of 12, 14 and 16 years of age; price 1C 
cents from this office. 
God the first garden made, and the 
first city Cain. The three first men in 
the world were a gardener, a plowman 
and a grazier; and if any man object 
that the second of these was a murth- 
erer, I desire that he would consider 
that as soon as he was so he quitted our 
profession and turned builder.—Abra¬ 
ham Cowley, year 1618. 
There is no question that accuracy, 
the faculty of seeing a thing as it is, 
of knowing, for instance, that it is two 
and one-quarter, and not two and three- 
eighths, and saying so, is one of the 
first and most precious ends of a good 
education. Next to that I would put 
the ability to know how and where most 
promptly to look for what you don’t 
know, and what you want to know. 
Thirdly, I would put being able to tell 
what you know, and to tell it 
accurately, precisely, without exaggera¬ 
tion, without prejudice, the fact just 
as it is, whether it be a report of a base¬ 
ball game, or of a sermon, or of a lecture 
on electricity, whatever it may be, to get 
the thing exactly as it is. The man who 
can do that is a very well educated man. 
—Charles A. Dana. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See our guarantee 8th page. 
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The American Wringer Co.’s 
HORSE-SHOE BRAND 
UNIVERSAL 
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WARRANTED 3 YEARS. 
Over Six Million Universal Wringers have 
been sold, giving Universal Satisfaction. The 
tolls are of good elastic rubber which wring 
the thin and thick parts equally dry. They 
have the Patent Guide Board which spreads 
theclothesaudare warranted for three years. 
1\ Xmas Present 
Appreciated by all young 
housekeepers, is the Gkm Toy 
Wringer. It.isa perfect wrin¬ 
ger with rubber rolls and 
malleable iron frame. Sent 
postpaid on receipt of GO cents. 
Address Dept. Ilf 
THE AMERICAN WR1NOER CO 
99 Chambers Street, New York 
Making Soap with 
Banner Lye 
The best soap in the world can be 
made in ten minutes from Banner Lye 
and the grease or fat that you can sup¬ 
ply from your kitchen. 
No trouble; no boiling; no large ves¬ 
sels needed. It is not ordinary old- 
style lye; it is Banner Lye. 
Easy and Thorough 
Cleaning and Washing 
of clothes, dishes, milk-rooms, milk- 
cans, -pails, -bottles, butter-jars*, dairies, 
everything. 
Banner Lye does 11 and does 
it quickly and th" way it 
should be done I makes 
cleanluiess a new word.There 
is moro* - dlrt' than you can 
nee in a dairy; and that dirt 
often wastes your material 
by injuring its keeping qua¬ 
lities. 
Banner Lye Is also the 
quickest and most borough 
disinfectant Costs only a 
a few cents: but lspreferable 
to the more costly articles 
sold for that purpose It is 
odorless and colorless 
Not old-style lye, butBaji- 
ner Lye. 
Write for booklet, “Uses of 
Banner Lye,’’ and give us your grocer's or druggist's 
name should he not have it. 
The Penn Chemical Works Philadelphia USA 
TRY THEM 30 DAYS, 
at the end of that time ship them back to us 
and nothing to pay if you don’t find in our 
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Split Hickory is split hickory, and not sawed. 
That means the best wood in them possible to 
get. Everything else is of the 
same order of excellence. 
Write for our free catalog. It 
gives the free trial plan of selling 
and describes everything. 
OHIO CARRIAGE MFC. CO., 
Station SO, Cincinnati, O. 
Watch 
Accidents 
will happen 1 That’s why your watch 
works should be protected by a strong case. 
Gold alone is soft and bends easily. It’s 
used for show only. The JAS. BOSS 
STIFFENED GOLD WATCH CASE 
resists jar and jolt. Keeps out the dust. 
Reduces the expense of repair. Adds 
many years to the life of your watch. 
Every JAS. BOSS CASE is guaranteed 
for 25 years by a Keystone Trade-mark 
stamped inside. You must 
look for this trade-mark. 
Consult the jeweler. 
Write us for booklet. 
THE KEYSTONE 
WATCH CASE COMPANY, 
Philadelphia. 
