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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 2 
t . I 
l Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
HEREIN IS HOVE. 
Herein is love, to strip the shoulders bare. 
If need be, that a frailer one may wear 
A mantle to protect it from the storm; 
To bear the frost king’s breath so one be 
warm; 
To crush the tears it would be sweet to 
shed, 
And smile so others may have joy instead. 
Herein is love; to daily sacrifice 
The hope that to the bosom closest lies: 
To mutely bear reproach and suffer wrong 
Nor lift the voice to show where both ' 3- 
- • long; 
Nav, now, nor tell it e ! en to God above— 
Herein is love indeed, herein is love. 
—Credit Host. 
Tf an egg-poacher is lacking, and .< 
is desired to have poached eggs very 
neat and regular in shape, to fit upon 
rounds of toast, cut off the, ragged edges 
of the white with a biscuit cutter before 
serving. 
A pleasant change in making lamb or 
chicken stew is to use freshly-baked 
biscuits in place of dumplings. The bis¬ 
cuits should be rolled a little thinner 
than ordinarily, and baked in a quick 
oven. When nicely browned drop into 
the stew and allow it to boil five min¬ 
utes before serving. 
* 
Panoche cake is worth trying. Make 
any good white cake, and bake in two 
layers. Make a filling as follows: Boil 
together two cupfuls of brown sugar and 
one-half cupful milk until they harden 
in cold water. Then add a teaspoonful 
of vanilla and a tablespoonful of butter. 
Stir while cooking. To half of this mix¬ 
ture add one-half cupful of English wal¬ 
nut meats; as soon as cool enough 
spread between the layers. Spread the 
remainder of the mixture on top of the 
cake, and decorate with half walcvt 
meats. 
• 
Amoxo unique styles in Spring hats 
are some of a long oval shape, w. v the 
length of the oval extending crossv’se 
instead of from front to back. The 
brim has a droop like the old gypsy 
shape, and there is a flat crown. These 
hats are made of fancy mohair braid 
and trimmed around tbe crown with s 
close wreath of small flowers. Similai 
wreaths appear on many new hats 
either of tight rosebuds or other small 
flowers. Transparent mohair braid 
forms the material of many Spring hats, 
appearing in a great variety of colors. 
These transparent hats, trimmed with 
flowers, had a very chilly appearance 
when worn in this latitude in early 
March. 
* 
Bulletin 74 of the Iowa Experiment 
Station is devoted to the consideratior 
of cereal breakfast foods. The compo 
sition of a number of foods is given, 
and the following conclusions are 
reached: 
Montagu Gerard, who spent many years 
In India, says of them: 
One of the greatest pests of the jungle, 
the wild bees, whose enormous combs two 
or three feet deep are seen under over¬ 
hanging rocks, cornices of buildings and 
branches of trees, are most dangerous and 
easily aroused enemies. * * * A brother 
officer of mine lost his horse from stings, 
the animal being picketed under a tree 
and unable to break loose, while he him¬ 
self only escaped by diving into a tank 
infested by muggars (crocodiles), and lay- 
tfig perdu under an overhanging bush. 
* * • A curious feature about these in¬ 
sects is that they single out and stick 
to their original victims, quite regardless 
of other men they may meet during the 
pursuit. Neither hornets nor wasps ever 
combine in the same way, and these are 
consequently not so dreaded, nor, as a 
rule, are they the least dangerous. 
Regarding a visitation of locusts in 
India, tbe same writer gives this de¬ 
scription: 
Hundreds of big. pink, flying grasshop¬ 
pers, three inches long, pervaded every¬ 
thing, while tens of thousands began set¬ 
tling on the big mango trees, till their 
tops seemed freighted down 'with large 
pink snowdrifts. We vainly tried to move 
them by repeated charges of snipe shot, 
but though they fell by hundreds to each 
discharge, we did not produce the smallest 
perceptible impression on their masses. 
The birds had long since retired, over- 
gorged, and the natives collected basket¬ 
fuls to make curry of, but the invaders 
continued to pour in until dark, by which 
time large branches as thick as a man's 
thigh were broken in every direction by 
their weight. 
Notes from the Daily Round. 
My Summer sewing was started with 
the new year, and though it has not 
progressed as I expected there is some 
satisfaction in thinking that little Ro- 
bina has some cotton frocks ready for 
he warm weather (if It, ever comes) and 
ihat her elders have replenished their 
stock of underwear. A number of cot¬ 
ton fabrics were bought at odd times 
when they were cheap, rather than when 
they were needed, causing a real saving. 
If I always had money in hand to buy 
far in advance at the best advantage I 
could make further savings, but the wo¬ 
man of small means finds it hard to do 
this. Last September I could have 
bought beautiful printed lawns and 
dimities for 10 to 15 cents a yard, in 
qualities selling this March at 25 cents, 
but I was not prepared to buy at that 
time. Flowered or other printed ma¬ 
terials should be bought with due con¬ 
sideration for the pattern, however, be¬ 
cause conspicuous styles go out very 
quickly, and then proclaim to the ob¬ 
server that they are season-before-last 
^•oods. But then, a woman of refined 
raste never buys conspicuous materials, 
in any case. 
How do I select the style of making 
in advance? This is not difficult, be¬ 
cause most fashion papers give patterns 
for Summer goods during the first 
months of the year. I have made two 
of Robina’s madras frocks after a 
straight up-and-down tucked pattern 
published in The R. N.-Y. last Fall, No. 
4366. The waist has a yoke in the 
original, but I omitted this, and started 
the tucks at the shoulder, as it seemed 
better in washing materials. The dress 
is all in one piece, fastened in the back, 
and with a patent leather belt, either 
black or colored, it looks very smart. I 
fasten such dresses with hooks and pat¬ 
ent bar eyes, because buttons are con¬ 
stantly tangling in Robina’s braids. 
When buttons are put down the back of 
a dress or guimpe to be worn by a child 
with hanging braids, they should be 
covered by a false hem. I shall never 
forget my own anguish in class one day, 
many years ago, when an ambushed but¬ 
ton clutched my hanging pigtail, and I 
could only gaze at the ceiling and gasp 
at the teacher, until the tangled strands 
were hacked loose with a pencil sharp¬ 
ener. 
This recalls one of Robina’s scholastic 
experiences. She is a meek-looking 
child of 12, and on undressing her one 
night, I noticed some black bruises 
across her shoulders. On inquiry, I 
found they were caused by an older boy, 
who thinks it a joke to seize a little 
girl’s braids, and pull her backward over 
the desk. The teacher (masculine) pays 
no attention to complaints of this kind. 
I felt indignant, and said to Robina that 
this seemed a case where it was unwise 
to turn the other cheek, so to speak; I 
thought, if the teacher declined to re¬ 
prove the offender, his victim should re¬ 
ceive the next attack with a well-di¬ 
rected slap. 
“That’s what I did,” responded Ro¬ 
bina cheerfully. “Sally and I chased 
him till we ran him down, and then 
she held him while I boxed his ears. And 
do you know he tried to hit me, and then 
told Teacher, and I got kept in? But I 
don’t care,” she added, with satisfaction, 
“I told Fritz I didn’t mind being kept 
in for slapping him, and he’s getting 
quite polite. And anyway, I can spell 
him down.” 
Some one may suggest that the district 
school is not a very good place to ac¬ 
quire the graces of courtesy and gentle¬ 
ness. We have to remember that the 
school is what the home makes it. When 
mind and morals are untrained at home 
the faults thus induced show glaringly 
in school life. Unfortunately, too many 
parents make little effort to train their 
children at home; they thrust their nat¬ 
ural duties, which should be pleasures, 
upon the State, and then complain that 
the long-suffering teacher is unable to 
maintain proper discipline. We see the 
result of this in National, as well as in 
social life, in the lack of respect for au¬ 
thority, or for the rights of the weak. 
SYLVIA. 
It is not a Christian duty to listen to 
long sermons. In ninety-nine cases out 
of a hundred sermons are long simply 
because the preacher has not taken the 
nee'essary pains to make them short by 
striking out everything that does not 
bear on his subject.—Dr. Robertson 
Nicol. 
The breakfast foods are put up in an 
attractive form and many of them are 
pleasing to the taste. The statements 
printed on the packages are greatly ex¬ 
aggerated and little reliance can be placed 
in many of them. 
The cost of the prepared foods is 10 to 
16 cents per pound and the unprepared six 
to seven cents per pound. These products 
do not possess any nutritive value in ex¬ 
cess of ordinary food materials. The at¬ 
tractive features are the packages and the 
palatableness of the food. 
The claims made for many of the pre¬ 
digested foods are of little or no value. 
The breakfast foods are not medicines 
and no reliance should be placed in state¬ 
ments which claim that they are a remedy 
for any disease. 
ROYAL 
Baking Powder 
Is Most Economical 
Because it makes better 
Anyone who has inadvertently stirred 
up a hornet’s nest while plowing may 
congratulate himself that these insects, 
lively as they seem, are not quite as ag¬ 
gressive as the wild bees of India. Sir 
an d more healthful food. 
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. 
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chimneys. I 
put my name 
on them. 
Macbeth. 
How to take care of lamps, including fhe 
getting of right-shape chimneys, is in my 
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