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September 10, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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From Day to Day. 
COIN’ BAREFOOT. 
It’s more fun goin’ barefoot than anythin’ I 
know, 
Tuere ain’t a single uother thing that helps 
yer feelin’ so. 
Some days I stay in muvver’s room a-gettin’ 
in her way; 
An' when I've bothered her so much, she sez, 
‘Oh run an’ play . 
I say, “Kin I go barefoot?" En she says, “If 
you choose—” 
Nen I alwuz wanter holler when I’m pullin’ 
off my shoes ! 
It's fun a-goin’ barefoot when yer playin’ any 
game— 
'Cause robbers would be noisy an’ Indians 
awful tame 
Unless they had their shoes off when they 
crep’ up in the night, 
An' folks can't know they’re cornin’ till they 
get right close in sight ! 
An’ I’m surely goin’ barefoot every day when 
I get old, 
An’ haven't got a nurse to say I’ll catch my 
death o’ cold ! 
An’ if yer goin barefoot, yer want t’ go out- 
doors. 
Y’ can't stretch out an’ dig yer heels in stupid 
hardwood floors 
Like you kin dig 'em in th’ dirt! An’ where 
th’ long grass grows, 
Tli' blades feel kinder tickley and cool be¬ 
tween yer toes. 
So when I'm pullin’ off my shoes I’m mighty 
’fraid I'll cough— 
’Cause then I know ma'd stop me 'fore I got 
my stockin's off ! 
If y’ often go ’rounu barefoot there’s lots o’ 
things to know— 
Of how t' curl yer feet on stones, so they 
won't hurt y’ so— 
An when th’ grass is stickley an’ pricks y' at 
a touch, 
Jes’ plunk yer feet down solid, an’ it don’t 
hurt half so much. 
I lose my hat mos’ every day. I wish I did 
my shoes— 
Er else I wisht I was so poor I hadn’t none to 
lose! —Harper’s Magazine. 
* 
This year we have been trying mixed 
whole spices for our pickles, lhe mix¬ 
ture costs 20 cents a pound, and includes 
black pepper, allspice, cloves, chili peppers, 
bay leaves, mace and, we think, cinnamon. 
We pick out the bay leaves, as we do not 
care for them in pickles, though we find 
the flavor very desirable in many meat 
dishes. Some of our friends use mixed 
ground spice in cake-making, but for this 
purpose, we prefer spices separate, so that 
they may be blended in' accordance with 
personal taste. 
Here is an English recipe for ginger ale, 
which makes an acceptable Summer 
drink: Three ounces of pulverized ginger 
root, five pounds of white sugar, three gal¬ 
lons of water, juice of five lemons and the 
peel of three, two tablespoonfuls of yeast, 
or half a yeast cake dissolved in water. 
Boil ginger, sugar and water together for 
one hour and let the mixture get cold be¬ 
fore adding lemon juice, grated rind and 
yeast. Pour into a crock, cover with 
cheesecloth, and allow it to work for two 
days. Strain through a thick cloth and 
bottle. Will be ready for use in five days. 
* 
Among the new Fall hats, white felt 
holds a leading place. The shapes are on 
the sailor order, but while the Summer 
shape showed a crown wider from side to 
side, the Fall hats have irresmlar crowns, 
whose largest line is from front to back. 
Hackle feathers and coque plumes are 
the favorite trimming, usually introduc¬ 
ing a touch of color. Turban shapes in 
the made hats are to be a favorite style, 
the leading form noted being the torpedo 
turban of the Summer, which is if any¬ 
thing narrower and more pointed than 
when it first appeared. There is also a 
round, close-fitting turban quite suggestive 
of the “pork-pie” hat of the crinoline pe¬ 
riod. The tricorne shape is too becoming 
to be given up entirely, and this is shown 
in some very pretty models of woven braid 
and velvet. 
The habit of using unmeaning expres¬ 
sions is a very common one; such tricks 
of speech are often unconsciously ac 
quired, yet extremely irritating to the 
listener. The following example from the 
Houston Chronicle is an illustration: 
First Giggling Girl: “Te-he. The Rus¬ 
sians were defeated yesterday.” 
Second Giggling Girl: “Well, for pity’s 
sake!” 
F. G. G.: “Papa says that the integrity 
of China is in grave and imminent danger.” 
S. G. G.: “Well, for pity’s sake.” 
F. G. G.: “I’m going to have my new 
waist made of maize peau de cygne, with 
a bertha of cream Venetian over white 
mousseline.” 
S. G. G.: “Well, for pity’s sake!” 
This scene got, as the saying is, on Mr. 
Blankington’s nerves. 
“Mary,” he shouted, as soon as he 
opened the front door of his home, “I 
heard a young female on the car this af¬ 
ternoon use the expression ‘for pity’s sake’ 
just 13,864 times by actual count. This 
is no exaggeration, and if you doubt the 
accuracy of my figures, I’l go before a 
notary and make affidavit. Just 13,864 
times actual, painstaking count!” 
Mrs. Blankington carefully set down the 
lamp she had been carrying. 
“Well,” she ejaculated, “for pity’s 
sake!” 
* « 
Just why any woman should be willing 
to choose a husband with less considera¬ 
tion than she would give to the selection 
of a bonnet is always a mystery, but one 
can rarely pick up a newspaper without 
some painful illustration of this fact. A 
recent prosecution for bigamy in this city 
was a particularly flagrant example of 
feminine folly, to call it by no harsher 
name. The young women, aged 19, who 
was the victim of the bigamist, said: “1 
met that man in Central Park. I was sit¬ 
ting on a bench, and he came and sat by 
me and began to talk. He had a uniform 
on and seemed nice. We visited a while, 
and then he asked me to marry him. 1 
was engaged to another man, and didn’t 
think I ought to, but he teased and threat¬ 
ened me until I said I would. We were 
married that night.” Of course it would 
be quite impossible to save a young wo¬ 
man so totally lacking any sense of pro¬ 
priety from falling into such a trap, yet 
her case may serve as a warning to othei 
girls tempted to like folly. The soldier 
who found her such a willing victim, al¬ 
ready a husband and father, deserted her 
within two days. One may urge that no 
young woman with self-respect could meet 
with such a misadventure, and that one 
so willing to disregard conventional mod¬ 
esty must be prepared for the attendant 
risks. This is true. Yet a marriage may 
be surrounded by all social safeguards, 
and still possess every element of disaster. 
Whatever our point of view as regards 
marriage, whether we consider it a civil 
contract or a solemn religious rite, the 
fact remains that it should only' be en¬ 
tered upon “soberly, advisedly, reverently 
and discreetly.” The more we impress 
this view upon the young girls who may 
come within our influence, the less likely 
are we to see the life-long blight that may 
result from hasty or unworthy marriage. 
Sweet Potato Pie with Meringue.— 
Two cupfuls of mashed potatoes, to tills 
add a seasoning of salt, a piece of but¬ 
ter the size of an egg, iy 2 cupful of 
sugar, the juice and grated rind of one 
lemon, one tablespoonful of cornstarch, 
one-fourth of a teaspoonful of bi-car¬ 
bonate of soda, the yolk of four eggs 
beaten thoroughly, and one pint of rich 
milk. This mixture will make two small 
pies. Bake with under crusts for 40 
minutes. Whip the whites of the eggs 
to a stiff froth, adding gradually ono 
scant half-cup of powdered sugar. Too 
much sugar being used the meringue is 
not so light. When the pies are dons 
spread over the beaten whites and re¬ 
turn to the oven to brown. 
Book and Magazine Clubs. 
Do you belong to a book or magazine 
club? If not. Autumn is a good season 
in which to start one. These organizations 
arc particularly useful in small towns and 
the country where public libraries do not 
exist. The benefits derived therefrom 
are great, for the club not only supplies a 
large amount of good reading at small 
cost, but promotes sociability as well, 
borne one has said that if you wish to put 
a number of people on a friendly foot¬ 
ing, you must have them eat in company. 
This is even truer of reading together. 
One has naturally a higher opinion of the 
man who shares one’s appreciation ol 
Whitcomb Riley’s verses than of him with 
whom one merely divides the roast duck 
and oyster patties. The plan of a maga¬ 
zine club which has been in existence for 
nine years in central New York is pre¬ 
sented in the hope that the idea may 
spread and others be started throughout 
the country. 
The club consists of 10 families, four 
living in a small village, the rest scattered 
over the adjoining country. The books 
may be kept 10 days for reading, and are 
exchanged at the business place of one oi 
the members in the village, where are 
boxes with each family’s name affixed. 
This means a drive of four or five miles 
to and from the repository for some ot 
the members. (Picture it, you people who 
have only to stroll to the corner book¬ 
stand!) Before the new magazine is sent 
out it is covered with strong paper and a 
list pasted on the cover, giving date oi 
receipt, and the expiration of time for 
each family. The listing and covering de 
volves upon the president. The order ot 
reading is decided by lot each year, *No. 1 
having first choice. This is done at the 
annual meeting held in December. The 
officers, president, secretary, and treas¬ 
urer, are then chosen, the list of maga¬ 
zines for the ensuing year decided upon, 
and other business disposed of. The fol¬ 
lowing list of periodicals is that of the 
present year: narper’s Monthly, Success, 
Century, .McClure’s, Cosmopolitan, Mun- 
sey’s, World’s Work. 
In January is held an advertised sale oi 
the old magazines, the proceeds of which 
are divided among the members, thereby 
reducing the cost. The sales vary from 
year to year, sometimes as much as $5 be¬ 
ing realized, but oftener much less. The 
cost per family has never exceeded $1.35 
per year. The original membership has 
remained nearly the same for the whole 
period of club life, the few changes being 
caused by removal, when the vacancies 
were filled by new families. Each year 
applications for membership are received, 
but 10 seems the ideal number, and so no 
enlargement is made. 
Book clubs may be managed on the 
same general plan, except that more time 
must be given for reading. If a judicious 
choice of books is made, most of the mem¬ 
bers would probably prefer to retain them 
at the end of the year, and thus the cost 
would be somewhat increased. This is 
hardly worth considering when offset by 
the opportunity of adding one of Park- 
man’s histories or a volume of choice 
fiction to one’s book shelves. What rec 
ollections the book club brings up of home 
gatherings about the fireplace, in which 
so;ne one reads aloud, while the others 
work, or lounge in restful attitudes; ot 
the monthly meetings of the club for ex¬ 
changes, which are the occasions of much 
social enjoyment. Cards and other 
amusements have their own devotees, but 
books are for everybody. The hours spent 
with them linger in the memory long after 
those given to other pastimes have faded 
into a blank. m, e. colegrove. 
Seven hours to work allow, 
To soothing slumber seven, 
Ten to the world vouchsafe, 
And all to Heaven. 
—Greek. Anonymorr. 
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Banner Lye 
A standard remedy 
for blighted fruit trees 
You can easily make your fruit trees more profit¬ 
able than ever before. We tell below how to protect 
peach trees plum trees 
apple trees pear trees 
from blight and keep them healthy. This method 
has been thoroughly tested and results are 
absolutely certain. 
2 cans Banner Lye 
4 lbs Flowers of bulphur 
10 lbs Lime 
is sufficient for 50 trees. 
Mix the Banner Lye and 
suiphurdry, then make a thin 
paste by adding w-ater. Slack 
the lime and add enough 
water to make a tbiok white¬ 
wash. Add the Banner Lye 
and sulphur, and stir well. 
Apply to trunk and larger 
branches with a whitewash 
brush, Dilute the remainder 
until It is thin enough to 
spray: then thoroughly spray 
the tops of the trees. 
The time to do it is after 
the first heavy frost in the 
fall and again in the early 
spring. 
You owe it to yourself and neighbors to keep 
you trees free from blight. 
Your groceror druggist sells Banner Lye' or 10 cents. 
Send to us for fiee book, •* Uses of Banner Lye. 
rile Penn Chemical Works Philadelphia U SA 
MRS. WINSLOW’S 
SOOTHING SYRUP 
1 has been used by Millions of Mothers for their ' 
children while Teething for over Fifty Years. < 
i It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays ( 
i all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best i 
. remedy for diarrhoea. 
twenty-five dents a bottle. 
jA H air Your gray hair shows you 
should use it. Keep young. Mass. 
