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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 0, 
f Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
coins OUT OF DOORS. 
I For the earth is tlie Cord's, and the full¬ 
ness thereof.-—First Epistle to the Corin¬ 
thians, x: 26. J 
There is a temple— not of stone. 
Nor with contracting walls and roof- - 
Wherein each man may stand alone 
And be from grosser tilings aloof: 
There with iiis soul he may commune. 
Where waters whisper to the shores 
And distant hills send back the croon— 
The temple of God's Out-of-Doors. 
It may be on the desert sands 
When night lias hung her tapestries 
And when across the silent lands 
There comes a wondrous censer breeze 
Scent laden from some far-off isle 
Where bud and fruit hold pungent stores 
That thus are wafted mile on mile 
Into this House of Out-of-Doors. 
It may be in some wooded place 
With sunshine sifting through tlie* leaves 
Until its flashing jewels trace 
A wealth of rare mosaic weaves; 
All green and gold the forest walls, 
All gold and green the forest floors— 
This is the grandest of all halls, 
The temple of God's Out-of-Doors. 
God's Out-of-Doors! r Tlie ceaseless march 
Of sun and stars from night to dawn 
Trace for our eyes the dome's high arch. 
Show us what it is builded on. 
Hymn, anthem and recessional 
The shouting storm in grandeur pours: 
Mute worshipers, we bear llis call 
In this great House of Out-of-Doors. 
—Chicago Tribune. 
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Aluminum vessels for cooking are now 
offered in great variety; they are as light 
as cardboard, and, it is said, will not burn 
if left on the stove empty. An aluminum 
tea kettle holding G'j quarts will cost 
$2.80. 
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Don't forget that the nursing baby 
wants an occasional drink of cool water 
(not ice water). Very often these warm 
days or nights this will stop the baby's 
fretting when it is not regular feed.ng 
time. We believe in teaching the baby 
to drink from a spoon very early in its lit¬ 
tle life; the habit acquired in health may 
save its life in illness. 
A slim woman who finds it difficult to 
he fitted with ready-made garments will 
find it an advantage to try the misses’ 
department of a large store when buying 
jackets, water-proofs or skirts of walking 
length. Misses’ skirts are made up to 41 
inches in length, and the hip measure¬ 
ments being smaller than in women’s 
skirts of the same length, slight figures 
can usually be fitted. 
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Here is a delicious fruit punch, which 
has the additional merit of being an inno¬ 
cent and harmless drink: Boil one pound 
of sugar, one pint of water, and the thin 
yellow rind oi a lemon 10 minutes. Strain, 
and while hot add a pound of stoned 
cherries, a pint of currant juice, and a 
grated pineapple. Ad.d two quarts of 
water, the strained syrup, and the juice of 
six lemons and four oranges. Let stand 
a few hours before serving. Half fill the 
glasses with ice, broken to size of hail¬ 
stones, and fill with the punch. 
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Summer coats of silk or linen are 
among Ihe most elaborate outdoor gar¬ 
ments now offered. They are usually 
loose, with very full sleeves, so that they 
may be slipped over a thin Summer gown 
without crushing it. Some come to the 
bottom of the skirt, others are hip length. 
A white linen coat with a deep collar, 
embroidered all around in palm leaf and 
eyelet pattern, is an example of these gar¬ 
ments. Another short coat is of cloth of 
gold, accordion pleated, with a wide col¬ 
lar embroidered in silk braid. This costs 
$10.50. Long automobile coats, in pongee 
or white mohair, are loose and box-pleat¬ 
ed, trimmed with a narrow piping of red. 
S''cli a coat costs $22. 
Summer visitors to New York often 
look for souvenirs of the trip for them¬ 
selves and their friends. Or course they 
must get plenty of picture postal cards, 
because everyone is collecting them now, 
but souvenirs in silver will be a lasting 
pleasure. Coffee spoons having Statue of 
Liberty handle, and Brooklyn Bridge or 
Public Library in bowl, cost $1 ; with gilt 
bowl $1.25. Coffee spoons with State seal 
on handle in enamel, and Statue of Lib¬ 
erty or Public Library in howl cost $1.50 
each. Teaspoons decorated with the Flat¬ 
iron Building, Trinity Church and Brook¬ 
lyn Bridge cost $1.75; Greater New York 
spoons with both New York and Brook¬ 
lyn designs cost $1.75 to $.5 each. Paper 
cutters with Statue of Liberty on handle 
cost $1.50; miniature loving cups on bases, 
with Grant's Tomb and Statue of Liberty 
on side, cost $1.50. 
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A little boy hustled into a grocery one 
day with a memorandum in his hand, 
rays the Washington Post. 
“‘Hello, Mr. Smith,’ he said. ‘I want 
13 pounds of coffee at 32 cents.’ 
'“Very good,’ said the grocer, and lie 
noted down the sale, and put his clerk to 
packing the coffee. 'Anything else, Char¬ 
lie?’ 
“ ‘Yes. Twenty-seven pounds of sugar 
at nine cents.’ 
“‘The loaf, eh? And what else?’ 
“‘Seven and a- half pounds of bacon at 
20 cents.’ 
“ ‘ That is the Arrow brand. Go on.’ 
“‘Five pounds of tea at 00 cents; eleven 
and a half quarts of molasses at eight 
cents a pint; two eight-pound hams at 
21 ‘4 cents, and five dozen jars of pickled 
walnuts at 24 cents a jar.’ 
“The clerk bustled about and the grocer 
made out the bill. 
“ ‘It’s a big order,’ he said. ‘Did your 
mother tell you to pay for it, or is it to be 
charged ?’ 
“ ‘My mother,’ said the boy, as he pock¬ 
eted the neat and accurate bill, ‘has noth¬ 
ing to do with this business. It is my 
arithmetic lesson, and I had to get it done 
somehow.’ ” 
How We Became Farmers. 
A farmer eight years old might be con¬ 
sidered young, but we are old; still have 
managed to store a large amount of wis¬ 
dom in the last eight years. This is how 
it came about: Fifteen years ago or more 
my husband’s health failed, and about the 
same time his eyesight also. He had al¬ 
ways worked in a shop, where his eyes 
were taxed to the utmost. We made sev¬ 
eral changes for his benefit; at last found 
a small farm for sale cheap ($800) and 
tried the experiment of outdoor work. 
We had usually had a good garden, kept 
a few hens at different times; once a cow 
for a few years, and at another time a ; 
horse. This was the extent of our knowl¬ 
edge of farming, but with so many and 
excellent farm papers, and such good 
books and bulletins from the Department 
of Agriculture and experiment stations, 
no one need be ignorant. We have used 
all these helps advantageously. My hus¬ 
band has made a great success of butter- 
making, with fruit and vegetables to help 
out, while my son and I are becoming 
finite expert in chicken raising. We 
brought with us to the farm a large quan¬ 
tity of household furnishings, mostly 
plain. 
My husband had a lathe with a good 
amount of small tools, to which he added 
a portable forge and anvil; later a steam 
engine. The nearest place even small re¬ 
pairing can be done is three miles, and 
anything of much size must go 10 miles; 
if in the midst of haying some part of the 
mowing machine breaks it is convenient 
that he can repair either for himself or 
for a neighbor. He does a great variety 
of repairing at all times. This saves ex¬ 
pense and adds to the small income. We 
have lived in four cities besides large 
towns, and I am lonely here, of course, 
but I always did love all outdoors and the 
trees alone on our place are an ever-chang¬ 
ing, never-ending delight to me. But our 
greatest achievement is in the robust 
health of a young son, who is now almost 
a man, and who has developed health and 
strength which money is entirely unable 
to buy. We can boast no wealth, or even 
prospects of much money, but health and 
happiness are good pay. We are nearing 
the sixtieth milestone of life, and feel as 
if to have a good home is all we can hope 
for, and indeed all we can expect. For 
farmers who have learned the trade when 
they were past 50 years of age we feel 
very thankful that we have made as much 
of a success of it as we have. o. e. b. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
I was down in Maine visiting lately 
where a copy of the dear old R. N.-Y. was 
among the magazines on the table of my 
hostess. It brought tears to my eyes as 
I remembered the bygone years when 1 
wrote letters tor it, and enjoyed its weekly 
advent. But since bather died and Brother 
married we have not taken it, nor any 
oilier of the agricultural papers, for Ara- 
minta (Minty for short) prefers a fashion 
paper, and Brother hardly reads anything 
hut the market reports in the local news¬ 
paper, and is really a type of the farmer 
from Wayback. My life is simply a round 
of duties that are expected of me, and that 
tend to make Minty's life easier, but are 
not very satisfying, no matter what one 
thinks of the limitation or the enlarge¬ 
ment of woman’s sphere. Now I am only 
“Aunt Charity,” and my time is taken up 
with the needs of my three nephews, who 
are by turns tolerant or persecuting, as 
they require help or feel their independ¬ 
ence. The eldest, Grant, is 12 years old. 
Sherman is 10 and Cleveland is just seven. 
They are healthy country boys who go to 
school and do chores, and are fond of ani¬ 
mals'-, as most boys are, but they are being 
brought up with the idea that all women 
are for is to wait on the men, and cater 
to their needs. It’s the wrong kind of 
training, but young America of to-day 
seems brought up that way. So when 
Brother got the place after Father bade 
the world and his little girl good-bye there 
was nothing left for Charity but to take 
a back seat and try to feel that she earned 
her food and clothing by long, long days 
of Work and anxiety. 
When the boys were teething and when 
they had measles it was Auntie they called 
for to bring them drinks, and shake up 
the pillows; Auntie who had to keep them 
from getting cold during recovery, and tell 
them stories while she darned their stock¬ 
ings. They were much easier managed 
when in bed, and very lovable at times, hut 
I found often that it was what Father 
used to call “cupboard love,” though I 
tried to shut my eyes to the selfishness of 
it, and fancy that they really loved me be¬ 
cause I was Aunt Charity, and had been 
good to them all their lives. So we flat¬ 
ter ourselves with our friends in all stages 
of growth, and no wonder that 1 clung to 
my illusions, for I had nothing else left. 
Sometimes in the dark days before the 
children came 1 could not banish from my 
mind the words: "Lover and friend hast 
thou put far from me;” they were lonely 
years. , 
But the boys are old enough now to as¬ 
sert themselves, and begin to think Auntie 
rather a back number, as Grant expresses 
it, and even Cleveland begins to see un- 
failings, as he suddenly said yesterday: 
"O Auntie, what a lot of gray hairs you 
have got!” I knew it myself, but the 
child’s tone was one of reproach, and 1 
answered: “I can’t help it, dear.” It 
makes one feel old when these sharp 
>oung eyes pick out our weaknesses and 
faults. When Sherman shrugs his 
shoulders with a giggle and says Auntie’s 
mad, 1 feel as if 1 had been displaying 
childish ill temper to have it so noticed 
and commented upon by the children. 
And so 1 try to “keep sweet” for the sake’ 
of example, for how can I expect them 
to be pleasant in the face of my crossness? 
1 begged of Brother a bit of land for each 
of the boys, and planted a little apple tree 
in each. It is an endless interest during 
the Summer months, and 1 will tell the 
working and results in a future letter. 
CHARITY SWEETHEART. 
Tlie Bookshelf. 
1 he Conqueror, by Gertrude Atherton, 
is among the books now issued in cheap 
form in Macmillan’s Paper Novel Series. 
“The Conqueror” is Alexander Hamilton, 
and nowhere can one find a more vivid 
picture of his early West Indian years, 
his entry into American politics, and his 
brilliant troubled maturity, than in this 
book. We visited his resting place in 
Trinity Churchyard the other day, where 
he lies close neighbor to Captain Law¬ 
rence, of the Chesapeake, and where his 
modest tomb is quite overshadowed by 
the tall effigy of James Watts, who, after 
serving King George as last Royal Re¬ 
corder of the city of New York, became 
a faithful worker for the Revolutionary 
cause. It is worth while to read “The 
Conqueror,” not only because it is a bril¬ 
liant novel, hut also because it is a vivid 
picture of the Revolution. Published by 
the Macmillan Company, New York; 
paper, 25 cents; cloth, $1.50. 
Limiting the Flies. — 1 find it an excel¬ 
lent plan to kill every fly that has lived 
through the Winter just as soon as they 
crawl out in the Spring. In this way 1 
think we thin the Summer crowd by kill¬ 
ing the parents and grandparents. 
o. E. B. 
Are You Chained 
ToThe Wash Tub 
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Whether a housekeeper does 
her own washing or not the 
worry and work connected with 
“ Blue Monday” literally chain 
her to the Wash-Tub. We can 
sever the chain. Let us send 
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