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November 12, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
I Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
THE COUNTRY DOCTOR. 
In his big fur coat and with mittens big 
as hams. 
With his string of hells a-jingling, through 
the countryside he slams. 
There are lots of calls to make, and he's 
always on the tear, 
A-loomiug in his cutter like an amiable hear. 
And it’s lii-i-i, there, 
Johnny, don’t ye care, 
Though ’tis aching something awful and is 
most too much to hear. 
Just—be—gay ! 
As soon as it is day, 
The pain will go a-flyin’, for the doctor’s on 
the way. 
There are real, true saints, there are angels 
all around. 
But there isn't one that’s welcomer than he 
is. I'll be bound. 
When he bustles in the bedroom and be dumps 
his huffier coat, 
And sticks a glass thermometer a-down the 
suff’rin’ throat. 
And it’s chirk, cheer, up ! 
Mother, bring a cup! 
You’re going to like this bully when you take 
a little sup. 
There—there—why, 
There's a twinkle in your eye! 
You’ll be out again to-morrow, bub; gid-dap, 
gid-dap, good-by ! 
—Holman F. Day, in "Pine Tree Ballads.” 
* 
If some stale gingerbread remains in 
the cake box try steaming it, and serving 
it hot with whipped cream for dessert. 
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Banana salad is a delicacy we recently 
tasted for the first time. The bananas are 
peeled, sliced lengthwise down the middle, 
and laid, fiat side up, on lettuce leaves. 
A layer of finely-chopped peanuts is put 
on the banana ,and a spoonful of mayon¬ 
naise dressing put by it. Serve with heat¬ 
ed graham crackers. This is delicious. 
* 
Here is a dish made from left-over 
mutton that will appeal to a hungry man: 
Scrape every morsel of meat from the 
bone, crack the latter, cover with cold 
water and let it simmer at the back of the 
stove for four or five hours. Strain off 
the cupful of liquid and thicken with a 
lump of butter rolled in browned flour; 
season with salt, pepper and tomato cat¬ 
sup; stir into it the cold mutton cut 
small and a handful of bread crumbs, 
strewing some of these on top; bake until 
the surface bubbles, drop four or five eggs 
upon the top, pepper and salt them, set 
back in the oven and leave there until the 
eggs are “set.” 
* 
Many children have a habit of picking 
small twigs from various plants for the 
purpose of chewing or carrying in the 
mouth. It is always an unsightly habit, 
and may easily become a dangerous one. 
We know two cases where a child, thus 
chewing a piece of stiff fine-leaved ever¬ 
green (Retinospora) drew the twig into 
the throat by a sudden cough. Efforts to 
expel it drew the intruding substance still 
deeper, and in both cases a physician had 
to use instruments to remove it, leaving a 
very sore throat. The doctor asks his lit¬ 
tle patients whether they are still trying 
to swallow Christmas trees, but had he 
not been readily accessible in the emer¬ 
gency the experience would have been be¬ 
yond joking. 
* 
Folded beaver hats are among the ad¬ 
vance Winter styles now on view. They 
are formed from big beaver flares, some 
folded close like turbans, some bent into 
picturesque and fantastic shapes. They 
are trimmed with velvet, ribbon or feathers. 
One showy purple hat was folded over 
coils of purple velvet, and trimmed with 
punple wings. The folded beavers cost 
from $5 to $10. Soft felt hats with a 
seam through the crown, trimmed with 
a simple band, red, tan, brown or blue, 
are meant primarily for girls’ wear, but 
they are useful and becoming as a 
woman’s outing hat. They cost $1.75. 
Children’s broad, flat-crowned sailors of 
short-nap silk beaver cost $3; they are 
trimmed with velvet loops and streamers, 
fastened with a smart gilt buckle. Stylish 
hats for the younger girls are of scratch 
felt in a variety of colors; they have a 
broad rolling brim, and are trimmed with 
velvet band and streamers. Prices are 
from $2 to $2.75, and they look much 
more expensive. 
* 
We meet with a variety of definitions as 
to what qualities are required to make a 
true gentleman, but perhaps the most com¬ 
plete epitome is that given by an old 
writer, Clem E. Ellis, Fellow of Queens 
College, Oxford, in 1664: 
The true gentleman Is one that Is God’s ser¬ 
vant, the world's master, and his own man. 
His virtue is his business, his study his rec¬ 
reation, contentedness his rest and happiness 
his reward. God is his Father, the Church is 
his mother, the saints his brethren, all that 
need him his friends, and Heaven his inher¬ 
itance. Religion is his mistress, loyalty and 
justice her ladies of honor, devotion is his 
chaplain, chastity his chamberlain, sobriety 
his butler, temperance his cook, hospitality 
his housekeeper, providence his steward, char¬ 
ity his treasurer, piety his mistress of t lie 
house and discretion tlie porter to let in and 
out the most tit. Thus is his whole family 
made up of virtues and he the true master of 
the family. He is necessitated to take the 
world in his way to Heaven, but he walks 
through it as fast as he can; and all his hap¬ 
piness by the way is to make himself and 
others happy. Take him all in two words, 
he is a man and a Christian. 
* 
Gardener ants that grow mushrooms 
sound almost too cultured to be true, but 
they are thus described by Prof. J. R. 
Ainsworth Davis in Science: 
In tropical America the traveler in their 
native region often sees thousands of ants 
marching in column of route, each holding 
in its powerful jaws a piece of green leaf 
about the size of a sixpence. * These they take 
to their nests. The material is used as an 
elaborate sort of mushroom culture, requir¬ 
ing much more skill and intelligence than 
that in which human beings engage. The 
mushroom grower sets spawn in the beds lie 
prepares, hut tlie ant does not need to do 
this. The desired spawn soon makes its ap¬ 
pearance in tlie chewed leaf. But in its nat¬ 
ural state it is inedible, and must undergo 
careful treatment before it yields the mush¬ 
room which the ant desires. The necessary 
work is done by a special caste of gardener 
ants. These weed out obnoxious germs, etc., 
and, pruning off the tips of the threads, pre¬ 
vent them from growing into the air and pro¬ 
ducing useless toadstools. As a result of this 
the threads swell into innumerable little 
rounded white thickenings, each of which is 
about one-fiftieth of an inch across. It is 
these which are the mushrooms. These curi¬ 
ous bodies constitute tlie sole food of tlie 
ant—or, at any rate, the chief food. 
The Work of a Stormy Day. 
An article under the above caption on 
page 707 is of such interest that I am 
moved to speak, and more than this, my 
hand is extended to the writer of that 
day’s work, and to all women and men 
who are bravely controlling circumstances 
by doing whatever their hands and brains 
find to do. It takes not only hands to do 
the work of a day, but brains to plan it 
so well that moments be not wasted, use¬ 
less steps be not taken. “There came a 
time,” she writes, “when the vicissitudes 
of life bore so hardly upon us that we 
were broken in strength and spirit”; when 
they were tired and sad, and sat down 
in their snug little home for seven years, 
waiting for the clouds to roll by, now and 
then making an effort to fit into the pro¬ 
cession. “But the crow’s tracks deepened, 
the grey hairs increased and we were no 
longer ‘strenuous’ enough to keep up; then 
the vital question was, what shall we do?” 
These lines thus far are typical of 
thousands; months and years filled with 
uncertainties, doubts and worries, while 
the customary marks of age stamp them¬ 
selves from brain to toe, and youth passes 
them by. 
Many there are who never rise up and 
out of conditions, but allow themselves to 
be absorbed body and soul, by doubts, 
fears and worries until the casket in the 
cemetery becomes their home, and this is 
just what they have been working and 
waiting for, while joyous life passed them 
by. But happy and blest are those who 
do rouse up, and get into their rightful 
earthly and spiritual inheritance, although 
it may cost them the severing of every 
tie that binds them to their former lives. 
Seven years was a long time to wait, but 
those years are full of lessons which 
should never hold one regret, or even a 
wish for “what might have been, if we 
had only been wiser.” The work of the 
day being done, she writes: “Soon after 
nine o’clock we thank God for a bed and 
retire with a feeling that if we were 
younger and stronger we might earn our 
living.” Why, bless your dear hearts, who 
is earning his living if you are not? 
Youth passed you by, and crow’s tracks 
and grey hairs came, with their customary 
attendants, weakness and inability to cope 
with the world of activity that custom says 
belongs to younger days. But you have 
started anew the wheels of life, and with 
your work youth will come again, with 
all the wisdom you have gleaned from the 
past. “Crow’s tracks” will soften into 
smiling lines, unseemly wrinkles fade 
away, and grey hair becomes a fitting 
crown for a resurrected face, and form of 
renewed health and strength. 
You doubt this picture? But I have 
seen it, felt it, and know what I am talk¬ 
ing about is not a myth, but may become 
a living reality to thousands who are now 
groping their way through the world, only 
waiting to die. Why were you not satis¬ 
fied to live in the old decaying mansion 
you purchased? You began to cleanse, 
repair and beautify from the inside; then 
the outside seemed too constricted, and 
you broadened out, let in more sunshine, 
because you wanted more room in which 
to “live, move and have your being,” 
while in your rejuvenated home. But you 
are not yet done, and the surroundings 
will be made to bloom and fruit with 
beauty and abundance. You are practical 
and know just how to accomplish the best 
results with all the material things about 
you—just how to make them obedient to 
your will, which must be in harmony with 
Divine creation’s plan. And this brings 
me to a point, and a vital question, which 
I trust will be worthy of consideration. 
Are you taking the same view, applying 
the same practical logic, to your own per¬ 
sonal temple that you inhabit? A new 
leaf must be turned, and we shall find 
thereon that Nature’s ways of cleansing, 
building, repairing and extending life are 
of the plain, practical kind that work 
from within outward, with supreme in¬ 
telligence, if only we understand how. 
Those who till the soil and produce that 
the rest of the world may not starve, who 
are in closest touch with nature, have the 
advantage on their side, and may yet 
teach the world how best to extend 
human life in a healthy maturity. 
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