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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 20 
From Day to Day- 
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY. 
Some of us never seem to learn 
To take our troubles as they come, 
To meet each worry in its turn— 
We look ahead and borrow some. 
Just when the rose is -uddiest 
We grieve because it will not stay— 
Our hands upon the thorns are pressed; 
We make to-morrow of to-day. 
Some people—that is, you and I— 
Hush half the laughter on their lips, 
Send it a-scurry with a sigh; 
Or stale the wine another sips, 
By brooding on some fancied grief 
That may await us on the way. 
To his own gladness each plays thief— 
He makes to-morrow of to-day. 
We trade the gold of one day’s joy 
For dross of doubt and discontent— 
The fine gold we dull with alloy 
Of baser metals, meanly blent. 
And yet to-morrow never shows 
A dawn so dark or noon so gray 
As drawn by one whose borrowed woes 
Have made to-morrow of to-day. 
’Tis best to think each day is made 
With all the goodness it shall hold, . 
With all the sunshine and the shade, 
And some small sorrow to enfold, 
Then wafted from the Master’s hand, 
Where all of the to-morrows stay— 
But still we cannot understand; 
We make to-morrow of to-day. 
—Credit Dost. 
* 
A small chiffonier or chest of drawers 
is a great convenience in the sewing 
room. If such an article, battered and 
disused, is stored away in the attic, it 
should be varnished or enameled and 
brought into service. One drawer may 
hold sewing tools, _ another unfinished 
work, and a third material not yet cut. 
* 
about going near tne tamps: asiveu ms 
mamma. 
“They don’t have lamps,’’ replied the 
little fellow. “They just light the end 
of the towel-rack.” 
* 
Among new effects in fine handker¬ 
chiefs are the tape borders, so called, 
formed by cordings or bands of heavier 
weave than the body of the handker¬ 
chief. Years ago, before open-hemmed 
handkerchiefs were so much in vogue 
(perhaps it was before machine hem¬ 
stitching was invented), these tape 
borders were a favorite style. 
* 
Wk heard recently of a small boy 
whose mother considered pineapple un¬ 
wholesome. so the lad never ate any of 
the fruit until he visited his aunt. When 
it was put before him, he looked at it 
with suspicion, and then cautiously 
tasted it. 
“Do you know what it is?” asked his 
aunt. 
“I think,” answered Johnny, evidently 
satisfied that he liked it, “that it is 
wooden lemonade.” 
* 
“It’s real interesting to read about 
these folks that, lived in mythological 
times,” said Mr. Cobb, as he put a slip 
of paper in his library book and shut it 
carefully. “Seems as if nine o’clock 
came quicker than ever I knew it to be¬ 
fore.” 
Mrs. Cobb was putting a large patch 
on one elbow of her waist, says the 
Youth’s Companion, and she held it 
close to the lamp in what seemed to her 
husband an ostentatious way. He turn¬ 
ed sidewise in his chair to avoid the 
view. 
“There was that feller Atlas,” he said, 
musing. “He was strong beyond any¬ 
thing we have nowadays. Why, he sup¬ 
ported the heavens on his head and 
hands; held ’em up in place till they got 
kind of set, I judge. What muscle such 
a man as that must have had!” and Mr. 
Cobb doubled his right fist and brought 
it up to his shoulder while the fingers 
of his left hand felt his arm with ap¬ 
parent satisfaction. 
“What an appetite he must have had!” 
said Mrs. Cobb, tartly; “and while he 
was supporting the heavens—work the 
Lord could have done without any of 
his help—I’ll risk but what his wife was 
supporting him! And to-morrow I 
guess your cold’ll be well enough so you 
can go over to the squire’s and begin on 
that wood they want chopped and piled.” 
* 
Pineapple gauze from the Philip¬ 
pines, which has made its appearance in 
New York stores during the past two or 
three years, is very silky and transpar¬ 
ent, and is said to be the most durable 
of thin washing fabrics. In plain black, 
plain white and fancy stripes it costs 
$10 for a roll of 18 to 19 yards; white 
and colored grounds with fancy stripes, 
$12.50 the roll. This is the gauzy ma¬ 
terial,- woven from pineapple fiber, worn 
so largely by Filipino women. 
* 
French cabbage is a dainty dish from 
a homely vegetable. Wash well, drain 
and remove the stalk from a white cab¬ 
bage, then cut the cabbage into inch 
cubes. Melt, one rounding tablespoonful 
of butter in a saucepan, fry in it slowly 
for two minutes a small teaspoonful of 
finely chopped onion. Add the cabbage, 
a good dash of pepper, a teaspoonful of 
salt and three rasps of nutmeg. Cover 
and cook over a slow fire for 15 minutes. 
Use a pancake turner to lift the cubes 
and turn them often to prevent burning. 
Place on a hot dish, garnish with crou¬ 
tons made by buttering two slices of 
bread r.nttino- it ir> . .nil -m, and 
igether 
form a favorite fruit dish. Peel and cut 
into convenient pieces a well-flavored 
apple, and add to this combination, 
sprinkling powdered sugar over all; the 
lesult is very good. The apple is now 
appearing among exotic fruits in many 
forms. A beautiful and delicious salad 
iecently noted was formed of apples and 
celery. Handsome red apples were se¬ 
lected, polished, but not peeled, cored, 
and then hollowed into cups. The pieces 
removed were mixed with chopped cel¬ 
ery, put in the apple cups, a spoonful 
of mayonnaise dressing being put over 
the top. The apples were put on indi¬ 
vidual plates, each fruit standing on a 
crinkly lettuce leaf._ 
The Exclusiveness of Maud. 
“Exclusive? You think you are pretty 
exclusive? Well, that’s too bad, for you 
shut yourself out of a good deal of pleas- 
use. I’ll tell you about a girl that was 
exclusive, and got over it. 
“It was three years ago last Winter 
that Ransom Howard was here chopping 
some wood, and my niece Maud come 
for a long visit. Ransom was a second 
cousin of John’s, and as fine a young 
man as you’d wish to see. I’ll tell you 
more about him later on. 
“Well, I ain’t much of a matchmaker, 
but I did think that. Maud and Ransom 
might take to each other, and I was aw¬ 
ful fond of ’em both, though I hadn’t 
seen much of Maud since she’d grown 
up and been to college. 
“Well, she come one forenoon, and 
she was a pretty and bright as could be. 
I didn’t find out her weak spot till din¬ 
ner time. I see Ransom coming and I 
says: ‘Here comes our wood-chopper.’ 
I only had time to explain that he was 
cutting some wood for us and that we 
was boarding him, before he come in, 
and I introduced the two young folks. 
“If you’ll believe me, Maud stiffened 
right up. She hardly spoke all dinner 
time, and she wouldn’t so much as look 
at. Ransom. I couldn't make out what 
ailed her, and ’twa’n’t till after the men 
had gone off to work again that I found 
out. She had an awful high color, and 
her eyes kinder snapped, and finally her 
indignation broke out. ‘The idea, Aunt 
Asenath,’ she says, ‘of introducing me 
to a wood-chopper!’ 
“I was dumbfounded for a minute. I 
wouldn’t have been much more surpris¬ 
ed if I’d had a dash of cold water in my 
face. ‘Why,’ I says, ‘Ransom is as like¬ 
ly a young fellow as you often see. He’s 
honest and’-- 
“ ‘That may be,’ she says, real lofty, 
‘but he is a wood-chopper, and I am 
rather particular about the people I as¬ 
sociate with. I pride myself on being 
quite exclusive. I don’t think you treat¬ 
ed me just right, not letting me know 
you had such a person in the house be¬ 
fore I came.’ 
“ ‘Oh ho!’ I says to myself. ‘So you’ve 
got that exclusive bee in your bonnet!’ 
But all I said to her was: ‘Well, don’t 
feel bad about it; he’s only going to stay 
here a week longer.’ 
“ ‘I’m glad of that,’ she says, ‘and I 
hope you will forgive me for being 
cross.’ 
“I thought about Maud’s exclusive¬ 
ness all that afternoon, and 1 decided 
that I’d give her a good lesson. She was 
such a nice girl and she had so many 
good qualities, that it seemed a pity to 
have it all spoiled, especially when I 
could cure her for good and all. 
“So that evening, after Maud had gone 
to bed, I talked over my plan with Ran¬ 
som. ‘It won’t be very pleasant for 
you,’ I says, ‘but it won’t last but a 
week, and it’ll be awful good for her 
and she’ll be better for it all her life.’ 
Ransom laughed. ‘I’ll do anything 
you say, Aunt Asenalh,’ he says. ‘Your 
methods are always interesting. 
“So all the rest of the time he was 
there, Maud treated him with cold con¬ 
tempt, when she didn’t ignore his very 
existence. And Ransom didn’t say 
much, and he and I didn’t dare to look 
at each other when Maud was with us. 
“Finally he went away, and I was 
really glad of it, for the way Maud acted 
made me sick. I wanted to box he> - ears 
many and many a time. She brightened 
right up after he’d gone, and she says; 
‘It does seem so good to be by ourselves 
again, and have that man gone. 11 goes 
against me, somehow, to have to be with 
that class of people. I suppose it is be¬ 
cause I am so exclusive.’ 
“I didn’t say nothing then. I didn’t 
feel that the time had come. And, be¬ 
sides, 1 had to go off by myself and 
laugh for a spell. I was so tickled to 
think of her calling Ransom ‘that class 
of people.’ 
“Well, a day or two later, she was 
reading and she came to something she 
didn't understand. 
“ ‘If only Ransom was here,’ I says, 
‘he’d explain it to you.’ 
“‘Ransom?’ she says. ‘What would 
he know about it, an ignorant wood- 
chopper?’ and she looked puzzled. 
“ ‘Why, I guess he studies about such 
things at college.’ 
“ ‘College?’ she says, and she looked 
so blank I wanted to laugh. She thought 
going to college was about the finest 
thing anybody could do. 
“‘Why, yes!’ I says. ‘He’s in his sec¬ 
ond year at college. He’s going to be a 
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How does he know ? 
He don’t. 
Do you then ? 
That’s about how lamps 
are fitted with chimneys by 
people who don’t use my 
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