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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 14 
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Woman and 
The Home. 
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FROM DAY TO DAY. 
In one of the quick lunch establish¬ 
ments in New York, right in the heart 
of the business section, a sign calls at¬ 
tention to the fact that soup-house tick¬ 
ets, each calling for a one-cent meal, 
might be purchased there, in bundles of 
five, 10, or 25. It is not expected that 
the regular patrons of the restaurant 
will economize by buying one-cent meals 
themselves, but they can distribute these 
tickets to those who apply for aid. One 
of these tickets provides a meal of whole¬ 
some food, and is often a wiser gift than 
money itself. 
* 
Dandelion greens form an old-fash¬ 
ioned dish for this season, which is de¬ 
cidedly wholesome. The leaves are either 
plainly boiled, like spinach, or served as 
a salad. The dandelion is very much 
improved for either of these uses by 
blanching. A bit of board or stone laid 
over the plant will soon blanch it, ren¬ 
dering the leaves much more tender. 
Dandelion salad is very suggestive, in 
taste and appearance, of endive or chie- 
ory. There are several common wild 
plants that are freely used as “ greens” 
in the Spring. Among them are the 
common Marsh marigold, called cowslip 
in some parts of the United States, which, 
though quite acrid when raw, loses this 
quality after cooking. Purslane, a very 
troublesome weed, and Rokeweed are 
both used in the same way. 
* 
In giving instructions to a corps of 
Red Cross nurses, preparing to go to 
Cuba, the lecturer, Dr. Egan, advised 
them to take plenty of hairpins, because 
.they were of use in so many emergen¬ 
cies. Of course, wc all know that a 
woman armed with a hairpin and a 
broomstick is capable of doing things 
that a man with a whole tool-chest would 
hesitate to attempt; but it is not often 
that this ability is so fully recognized. 
In the same lecture, a novel suggestion 
was the use of bread as a splint in set¬ 
ting broken bones, when no other ma¬ 
terial is at hand. In the ease of a broken 
jaw, the lecturer observed, nothing could 
be better than a loaf of bread, soaked 
and then pressed into shape around the 
injury. When dry, a perfect splint is 
thus provided. 
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The Hartford Courant observes that 
the achievements of a Connecticut widow 
on a farm put to shame the complaining 
farmers who assert that farming in New 
England is profitless, and who, failing to 
sell the farms which they have worn out, 
abandon them and enter into the fiercer 
Competition for a livelihood in thecities. 
This woman was left a widow 12 years 
ago, at the age of 50. She received from 
her husband a farm of 165 acres, having 
upon it one cow, a heifer, two horses, 
and a mortgage for Si,750. She now has 
a herd of cows and three horses, and has 
paid $1,600 on the mortgage. In other 
words, upon a 165-acre farm, the woman 
seems to have made a living and saved 
about SI50 a year, besides current in¬ 
terest on the mortgage. Those who look 
upon women as the unbusinesslike sex, 
are often surprised by the ability dis¬ 
played when an emergency calls out 
such energies. 
Report is made of a swindler going 
through some farming districts, posing 
as a sewing-machine repairer. He in¬ 
sists upon seeing the machine, even 
though assured that it is all right; then 
declares that it is in very bad condition, 
and offers to put it in perfect order for 
from 75 cents to #1. After the work 
is done, lie demands a price from twice 
as much to ten times as much as ex¬ 
pected. lie declares that the machine 
needed more work than at first appeared, 
and, if his demands arc not complied 
with, threatens to take the machine 
away, beginning to unscrew the top. As 
the fellow usually deals with women, he 
generally gets what he demands, his vic¬ 
tims being ready to submit to the extor¬ 
tion, to get rid of him. It will be wise 
to make a resolution that no stranger of 
this class be admitted to the house upon 
any pretext. There are plenty of hon¬ 
est men in the sewing-machine business, 
but there are, also, plenty of r gues, 
who use their trade as a means of ex¬ 
torting money from women. In the 
cities, there is a class of sewing-machine 
agents who insist upon leaving a machine 
upon trial, overruling any objections 
made; then, when they call again, they 
insist that a promise was made to pur¬ 
chase the machine, and threaten legal 
proceedings if this is not done. The in¬ 
solence they display is monumental, and 
many women are cowed by it. It is a 
pity that such intimidation cannot be 
dealt with adequately by law. 
WOMAN’S WORK AND WAGES. 
An article under the above title, by 
Eleanor Whiting, in Lippincott’s, takes 
a position quite unusual among modern 
women. Whatever we may think of the 
point of view, there is a great deal of 
justice in the assertion that matrimony 
is the best profession in which a woman 
can engage. Miss Whiting remarks that 
married women may be considered as 
having settled the question of self-sup¬ 
port. It is upon those who do not marry 
that the problem presses. 
We often hear it said that the world 
is hard on women, and many people talk 
as though some exceptions might and 
should be made from the laws of modern 
industrialism in favor of women wage- 
earners. The world is hard, but no 
harder, no more unjust, to women than 
to men ; and no legislation was ever en¬ 
acted to protect or favor by artificial 
means one class of labor against an¬ 
other that harm did not result. I f woman 
enters the business Held, she must accept 
the conditions existing, and those con¬ 
ditions are the laws of supply and de¬ 
mand, and the competition resulting 
from their operation. No man or woman 
can enter the labor market and not com¬ 
pete, unless he or she possess quite ex¬ 
ceptional qualifications, and to compete 
is to strive with others for the same 
thing. Competition is a warfare, where 
your success is ray defeat, where whoever 
takes up arms must fight, and where the 
one who exercises the greatest skill and 
the greatest endurance wins. Competition 
involves and compels the survival of the 
fittest, as rigorously as do the laws of 
life and death. 
That the woman who enters the field 
of business competes at a great disad¬ 
vantage, owing to her physical disabili¬ 
ties, her lack of business habits and 
technical training, is true ; but if women 
are to work on the same terms with 
men (and ask yourself what other terms 
are possible), they must accept the same 
conditions that mon accept. 
If a one-legged man should insist on 
being a letter-carrier, we might admire 
his courage and perseverence, but we 
should urge him to choose an occupation 
for which he is better suited. He 
might say with truth that the world is 
hard on one-legged men ; doubtless it is ; 
but what is hardness to the one-legged 
man is simply justice to the two-legged 
man. To make special regulations in 
behalf of cripples would be to create 
false conditions that could, in the 
end, result only in harm. So to make 
special regulations in behalf of woman. 
The chief reason for believing that the 
average woman is better off not to enter 
Everyone knows the ex¬ 
pense and annoyance of lamp- 
chimneys breaking. 
Macbeth’s don’t break: and 
they make more light. 
Write Macbeth Pittsburgh Pa 
the labor market as a direct wage-earner 
is that, as things stand now, and have 
stood for thousands of years, she has an 
income as an indirect wage-earner as¬ 
sured to her by marriage : in other words, 
matrimony is a profession for which, by 
Nature, tradition, and education, she is 
better fitted than for any other. The 
centuries have molded her to that end, 
just as, by the cultivation of such intel¬ 
lectual habits as accuracy and applica¬ 
tion, they have molded the average man 
to the purposes of direct wage-earning. 
Matrimony is for woman a lucrative 
profession—the most lucrative, in fact, 
for there is no other way in which she can 
earn so much money. Under the present 
regime, only exceptional women under 
exceptional women earn $3,000 a year ; 
but Miss Whiting ventures to say that 
there are in her city at least 100 women 
who annually have the spending, the 
control, or the enjoyment of that sum— 
not because they are the superiors in 
native ability or mental equipment, or 
moral endowments of what are termed 
self-supporting women, but because they 
have been tolerably fortunate in follow¬ 
ing woman's natural trade of matrimony. 
We often hear it said, “ The farmer is 
his own boss”. It's true, and pity ’tis 
'tis true oftentimes, for what a hard task¬ 
master he can be ! There is no life in 
which it is possible to grow so narrow 
and selfish, but it is a life as broad and 
beautiful as the world itself, if you only 
choose to make it so. 
“ Ai.l things come to those who wait.” 
but be sure that you “ wait, and murmur 
not!” Wait with patience, and hope 
and trust, and be sure, if in time that 
for which you wait is not granted, some¬ 
thing even better will come in its place ! 
Rut if you wait in a different spirit, when 
the good cesired does come, it will turn 
to bitterness, as you will he unfitted to 
enjoy it! sweet fkbn. 
The work of factory inspection is one 
of the newest fields of woman's work, 
and as yet a comparatively limited one, 
but there can be no doubt that as time 
goes on it will be more and more occupied 
by women. Indeed, they are so peculiarly 
fitted for certain departments of the 
work that, at the time the legislation 
providing for their employment in New 
York State was passed, every fair-minded 
man admitted its necessity. 
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Some Important News 
of Dress Goods and Silks 
Economic conditions now work to the advantage of the eco¬ 
nomical. Here are prices on Summer dress stuffs which we could 
uot have matched a year or more ago, when wool was ever so 
much cheaper than now. 
The reduction in price from regular figures is really a reduc¬ 
tion, and not merely a compensation for lack of amount or 
variety. The lines are complete in almost all cases. 
At 30c. Figured Vigoreaux, five different mix¬ 
tures, 39 in. wide. An honest 50c. quality. 
At 80c.—Two-toned Jacquard Suitings, in live 
combinations, 42 in. wide. A 50c. quality. 
At 31c. All-wool fancy Check Cheviot, 40 in. 
wide. A 50c. grade. 
At 50c. Fancy Worsted Checks: in 15 coloringa, 
44 in. wide. A 75c. grade. 
At50r. Diagonal mixed Cheviots, in 7 patterns, 
40 in. wide. The usual 85c. quality. 
At 50c. A regular dollar grade of two-toned 
all-wool Grenadines, in five different com¬ 
binations; 45 in. wide. 
At 50c. Wool Bayadere satin-striped Coverts, 
44 In. wide, a 05c. quality. 
At 75c. All-wool Coverts, in live colors, 50 in. 
wide. A full 81.25 kind. 
Spring and Summer Dress Silks 
Not old goods galvanized by reductions, but new goods that 
have the charm of original cheapness. 
75c. grade for 50c. 
720 yards ombre striped Taffetas; choice of 
colors. 
85c. grade for 55c. 
5,280yards rich check Taffetas; '(-in. blocks; 
choice of II colors. 
90e. grade for 60c. 
840 yards brocaded glace Twills, for entire 
dresses. 
$1 grade for 65c. 
1,320 yards glace Taffeta Pekin ; triple 
stripes in color on color; 11 colors. 
$1.25 grade for 70e. 
980 yards rich evening silks ; bayadere 
stripes in waves of embroidery; 5 colors. 
$1 grade for 75c. 
480 yards rich white Taffetas; ombre and 
canale stripes; 4 colors. 
$1 grade for 75c. 
000 yards hair-line plaid Taffetas; pretty 
colors on white, with raised dots or figures; 
8 colors. 
$1 grade for 75c. 
120 yards stripe Taffetas; black shaded 
lines on white; gray ombre lines ou white. 
$1.25 grade for 75c. 
720 yards barre Pekin Plisse; all silk ; all 
colors on white; for blouses. 
$1.25 grade for 80c. 
300 yards guipure lance Taffetas ; a new 
stripe for evening dresses; 0 colors. 
$1.25 grade for 80c. 
1,200 yards chameleon Pekin Taffetas, with 
canale of satin dividing; 6 colors. 
$1.10 grade for 85c. 
3,780 yards ombre check Taffetas; 18 new 
colorings. 
$1.15 grade for 85c. 
(100 yarils ombre check Taffetas; raised dots 
of satin sprinkled over; 7 colors. 
$1.35 grade for 85c. 
510 yards barre Pekin Plisse, in evening 
tints; also iu black. 
$1.50 grade for 00c. 
270 yards pompadour Pekin Plisse; some 
stripes are black with color; others white. 
$1.50 grade for 90c. 
150 yards pompadour Pekin Pebble Plisse, 
with barre cord of white across; for evening 
wear. 
$1.25 grade for 80c. 
1,170 yards rich satin Stripe Plisse; satin 
stripes of color bordered with hair-lines of 
black on white, on blue, on yellow, on pink, 
on turquoise, on lavender, on cerise, on navy 
blue; all black If you wish. 
JOHN WANAMAKER 
Broadway 
Section 159 
New York 
(Please address exactly as above) 
