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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 25, 
From Day to Day. 
WINTER AT NEWRY CORNER. 
Wher-rew-w-w! the wiDd in the stubble-field, 
Where dry stalks rustle their heads to¬ 
gether ; 
Tools by the roadside, all of 'em sealed 
O'ernight by the clerk of the frosty weather 
The cornstalks clatter their rusty rags. 
Lashing the nipping wind that passes. 
Dry leaves scamper like dusty vags 
And are caught and held by the constable 
grasses. 
But let the big winds whoop and blow ! 
Come on, old Winter, dump your snow ! 
We Newry folks aren't sad. We grin, 
For the automobiles, will be snowed in. 
They've cliackered through all Summer long, 
With dust and stink a-streaming after; 
Honking like geese, or with clanging gong. 
And a runaway horse is food for laughter. 
Oh, the frost will coat on the windows soon ; 
And drifting flakes will drive like fury. 
And the snow won't melt on the eaves at 
noon, 
And we'll have to den like bears at Newry. 
But pile her thick and pile her deep! 
We'll burrow under and eat and sleep. 
We've grub a-plenty in barrel and bin 
And the automobiles will be snowed in. 
It ain't much fun in the country now, ^ 
Living here in the “glorious Summer "; 
When you herd your sheep or lead your cow, 
Along comes a chap in a benzine hummer. 
Our wimmen-folks don't dare to ride— 
It's only continual yell and twitching 
Behind a horse scared out ol his hide, 
Breaking bis tugs and bu'sting the twitch¬ 
ing. 
Then, whoop her up, old TV inter, please! 
Give us snowdrifts to our knees. 
We'll have our turn when you begin, 
For the automobiles will be snowed in. 
—Holman F. Day in Cosmopolitan Magazine. 
* 
For a dainty homemade candy try 
marshmallow panoche. It calls for two 
cupfuls of brown sugar, three-quarters of 
a cup of milk or cream, and two even 
tablespoonfuls of butter. Cook until the 
candy begins to string, when add 20 
marshmallows and a half pound of hazel¬ 
nuts. Stir in a teaspoonful of vanilla lla- 
voring and stir hard. Pour into buttered 
tins to cool. The flavor of the hazelnuts 
and the marshmallows is said to be an 
especially good combination. 
* 
The newest fancy work is tapestry em¬ 
broidery, worked like the old-fashioned 
sampler. Handsome sofa pillows are 
worked upon crash in this style, usually 
in conventional designs. \\ atteau designs 
usually garden scenes with figures, are 
more expensive, and require very careful 
working. These are worked in soft colors 
suggestive of Gobelin tapestry, but the 
conventional designs usually' show vivid 
Oriental coloring. Tapestry cushions are 
always finished with a thick cord at the 
edge, frills being out of keeping with 
the work. 
* 
The fashion papers tell us that lingerie 
blouses are worn extensively with tailored 
skirts and coats.” This may sound 
puzzling if one only associates the woid 
lingerie with linen underwear, its orig¬ 
inal meaning, but as now applied a lin¬ 
gerie blouse means any very fine and deli¬ 
cate shirt waist of muslin and lace. As 
a rule they display a good deal of deli¬ 
cate hand stitchery. They are as ex¬ 
pensive as a waist of crepe de chine or 
silk, costing from $7.50 up. Many are 
decorated with eyelet embroidery or bro- 
derie anglaise. They are a great change 
from the transparent waists of elaborately 
coarse embroidery popular two years ago, 
the work being so beautifully done by 
hand that the same effect cannot be pro¬ 
duced in a cheaper article. 
* 
What class of reading do you select by 
choice? A librarian in a New York li¬ 
brary patronized chiefly by the poor of the 
East Side expresses her interest in the 
instinctive sense of culture shown by poor 
foreigners and their children. She says 
that they read history, travel and science, 
with poetry as their diversion, while na¬ 
tive-born readers of the same class confine 
themselves almost entirely to fiction 
Shakespeare is always in demand among 
these foreigners, and in juvenile books 
fairy tales are in perpetual circulation, but 
the thirst for great poetry possessed by 
these children of poverty seems an in¬ 
stinctive craving never fully satisfied. 1 he 
solid reading may be regarded as a desire 
for knowledge that will aid material wel¬ 
fare, but the poetry fills a different place; 
it is evidently a reaching out for the 
beauty that is denied in their daily lives. 
* 
Spring dress goods show mohair in 
great variety, especially in fancy novelty 
weaves. These are to make shirt waist 
suits, jacket suits, and separate skirts. 
They are particularly satisfactory for sep¬ 
arate unlined skirts. It must be remem¬ 
bered, however, that mohair is not an 
easy fabric to handle, and a poor dress¬ 
maker will often ruin it. It ravels badly 
at the seams, and they must always be 
bound or otherwise secured. If the home 
dressmaker tries her skill on mohair, she 
must be very careful in her basting, press¬ 
ing and finishing, so as to give a tailor 
finish. Blue, green and brown are favorite 
colors in mohair; black and gray are al¬ 
ways in style, and checks will continue 
popular. Among materials for shirt-waist 
suits, rough-woven pongee, both natural 
and dyed, will be much used, being light 
cool and durable. Among desirable fab¬ 
rics for a handsome Spring costume the 
material known as chiffon crepe de Paris 
may be mentioned; it is a mixture of silk 
and wool, very light, soft and lustrous 
price $1 a yard. For serviceable wear 
mixed tweed is offered in a great variety 
of colorings. _ 
Recreation Work. 
Some one lias said that we busy house¬ 
wives should take time every day, 20 or 
30 minutes at least, to do some one thing 
that we just love to do—something that 
has not a must attached to it. I finished 
several pretty things for Christmas in just 
that way, and enjoyed every stitch I put 
into them, for they were not “must be’s.” 
I have a comfort to make, a rug to finish, 
and carpet rags to sew; the children's 
clothes for next Summer to make, but 
besides all this work that I must do, I 
mean to do some that I love to do. I do 
not mean that I dislike my daily duties, 
but because they must be done my nerves 
are often at a tension that is relaxed when 
I take up something that is quite outside 
of the daily routine. Quite a number 
that I know are trying this relaxation 
plan. There is Edith Jennings. She was 
a talented musician before her marriage 
hut now her family is large and the organ 
remains closed. She told me she was go¬ 
ing to practice a little every day, and I 
declare, she begins to look real pretty 
again, and her Jim talks of selling some of 
his south forty and buying a piano for 
her. Mrs. Uridge is making a cross-stitch 
cushion cover, something she never at¬ 
tempted before, because she thought she 
hadn’t time. She says she just delights 
to see the pretty pattern grow under her 
fingers, and she means to try a piece of 
Battenburg when she gets the cushion 
done. I asked Mrs. Allen, our minister’s 
wife, if she thought it indicated inherent 
selfishness for one to want anything en¬ 
tirely for oneself even a portion of time. 
She laughed; she has been trying this 
relaxation plan herself: “Why, bless your 
heart, no. If we absorb some of the sun¬ 
shine of life, it is bound to shine out on 
others, and what makes us happier will, 
through our pleasanter and more kindly 
ways, likewise bless others.” 
_COUSIN BELL. 
Persimmon Recipes. 
On page 57 I saw a request from 
E. A. P., of Houston Station, Del., re¬ 
questing recipes for using persimmons. I 
send two we used a great deal in Vir¬ 
ginia, where the “’possufn and ’simmons” 
grow in profusion. 
Persimmon Pudding.—One quart of per¬ 
simmons mashed fine with the hands, and 
every seed removed. Add one quart of 
sweet milk, one egg, one tablespoonful of 
butter, one-half teaspoonful each of cin¬ 
namon, nutmeg and ginger, and half as 
much of allspice and cloves, half cupful of 
sugar. Pour into a buttered baking dish, 
and bake till well set, as if for custard. 
Eat hot or cold; delicious either way. 
Persimmon Bread.—Use one quart per¬ 
simmon prepared as in the other recipe; 
one quart sifted cornmeal, salt, and a 
small pinch of soda; enough warm water 
to make a soft dough. Make into pones 
and bake in a quick oven. 
Persimmon Figs.—Another one was to 
gather them, and press each one between 
thumb and finger, and put in layers in 
an open-mouthed jar, with a thin layer of 
sugar between the layers of fruit and 
sugar on the top. After a few weeks, say 
three or four, lay on .a platter or plate 
in single layers and dry in a very cool 
oven or in the sun. When thoroughly dry 
they will keep as long as the children, or 
grown folks, will let them alone. 
MRS. W. F. FUCHS. 
Relief for Chilblains 
Noticing your appeal for chilblain rem¬ 
edies on page SS I write to say that our 
family discovered some years since that 
tincture of aconite will emphatically cure 
them. Since applying it we have never had 
a return of the affliction. I have knocked 
about all day in slushy snow without rub¬ 
bers, and sat all the evening before an 
open fire, without the slightest incon¬ 
venience, when before using the aconite I 
would have been crazy. We got the 
“mother tincture” and put a teaspoonful 
in a pint of water, and on retiring gave 
the feet a thorough bathing in it for three 
nights, repeating if there was a return, 
which ended it. j. v. henry nott. 
There is a cure for chilblains, and this 
is it: Heat three quarts of pork brine in 
an iron kettle, pour into a tub or pail ; 
as soon as cool enough to hold a finger 
in the brine dip the bare feet in and out 
quickly. Repeat as fast as possible until 
one can hold the feet in for 20 minutes. 
Let them dry off; repeat the next night, 
and you will never be troubled any more. 
It is best to wear cotton stockings next to 
the flesh. • _mrs. l. s. l. 
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