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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 11, 
l Woman and Home 
From Day to Day. 
A WOMAN'S VIEWS. 
I wonder why men never seem to care, nor 
, even know 
Whether tlie house is ever cleaned? At least, 
they act just so! 
I wonder, now, if they could live the whole 
year round, without 
Scrubbing, or shaking mats, or sweeping dust 
and cobwebs out. 
They pose themselves on heights apart, and 
take a stand sublime 
That housecleaning is quite a bore, also a 
waste of time; 
Or smile, with pitying tolerance, at our sad 
lack of sense 
Viewing our best achievements with most 
bland indifference. 
I'd like to give them once the chance to make 
their methods clear. 
Of how they'd get along, without the pains 
we'd take each year; 
How they could live, and move, and breathe, 
in quiet and content 
Expending neither thought, nor act, on their 
environment. 
Could they gaze forth at-Spring’s fresh grace, 
through windows clouded, dim, 
With curtains hanging torn, forlorn, and 
blinds quite out of trim? 
If walls were soiled, and ceilings smoked, and 
carpets worn to shreds. 
Would they awake in peace, or sleep with 
comfort, in their beds? 
Men are not like to women is a fact they'd 
have us know; 
We quite admit this basic truth ; we learned 
it, long ago. 
Men are not like to women—but, I would 
make bold to say, 
If women were like men, we'd be cate dwell¬ 
ers till tills day ! 
—M'adeline Kridges in Good Housekeeping. 
* 
Still another variation in baked beans 
is to add a cupful of sweet cream during 
the last hour of baking; this gives a deli¬ 
cious richness of flavor. 
* 
The family cat will he much healthier 
and more contented during Winter if she 
has a little green salad to browse on. Sow 
some oats in a pot or box, and start them 
in the kitchen window. It is amusing to 
watch the cat taking her tonic when she 
finds it is there for her. Without this, 
most house cats show their need of green 
food by nipping the leaves of window 
plants, especially palms. 
* 
Roast calf’s liver will make a pleasant 
change in the meat dishes. A whole liver 
is larded through with rather thick pieces' 
of pork (the fat streak in salt pork just 
below the rind). A marinade is made of 
two tablespoonfuls of oil, some parsley, 
chives, bay leaves, thyme and salt. Put the 
liver in this for four hours, turning it sev¬ 
eral times. Then wrap it in a piece of 
buttered paper, and bake in the oven for 
about one hour. Serve with its own 
gravy, to which is added the juice of 
half a lemon. 
* 
The statue of Frances E. Willard, re¬ 
cently unveiled in Statuary Hall, at the 
Capitol, Washington, is a gift of the Leg¬ 
islature of Illinois, under the Congres¬ 
sional law which authorizes each State to 
place two statues there. The sculptor is 
Helen F. Mears of Oshkosh, Wis., who 
won the prize of $500 offered by the Wo¬ 
man’s Club of Milwaukee for the best 
work of art exhibited by a Wisconsin 
woman at the Columbian Exposition. It 
is a new departure to introduce the fig¬ 
ure of a woman into such a place as the 
Capitol, and especially significant that the 
one thus honored should be the leader of 
a great moral reform. 
* 
Many well-meaning people decry some 
of the “fads” of modern education on 
the ground that they have no practical 
value—that is, they are no aid in money¬ 
getting. It is quite true that really use¬ 
ful information may be crowded out by 
these pedagogical frills in some cases; 
yet, in a general way, anything that gives 
a child more interest in life, and renders 
him more observing, will make him hap¬ 
pier, even if it does not teach him to lay 
bricks or load coal. We are reminded 
by H. G. Bell that “education does not 
mean stuffing a boy or girl in the same 
way that you would stuff a young pigeon. 
To educate means to draw out the best 
that is in the race.” We must remember, 
too, that a child may be thoroughly 
grounded in all practical matters, and yet 
be worse than useless because of moral 
defects. Says Edward Howard Griggs: 
"As it is impossible to divide either con¬ 
duct or law into two parts, one moral, the 
other natural or indifferent in meaning, so 
is it with education. We cannot separate 
moral culture from other aspects of educa¬ 
tion, as a distinct part of the whole; but 
rather every phase of education has its 
moral import. Indeed, we may go so far 
as to say that the worth of any aspect 
of education can be estimated only as we 
find its relation to the development of 
good manhood or womanhood. Thus 
moral culture is the integrating center 
and interpretative end in all education.” 
* 
Anyone who has lived in a household 
where uncooked breakfast food and deli¬ 
catessen store provender looms large in 
the bill of fare will sympathize with the 
incident thus related by the Youth’s Com¬ 
panion ; 
“I suppose you were fed off the fat of 
the land,” said Mrs. Saunders, plaintively, 
as she set the plate of griddle cakes before 
Mr. Saunders the morning after his re¬ 
turn from Boston. “With Niece Mar¬ 
garet’s means, they must have everything 
there is going.” 
“I presume to say there's no lack o’ 
wherewithal,” said her husband, as he be¬ 
gan to pour maple syrup with a lavish 
hand, “but for breakfast they had the 
worst lot o' truck ever I saw. ’Twasn’t 
cooked, nor a thing done to it . I expect 
that hired girl o’ theirs that I used to 
hear falling down-stairs about seven 
o'clock didn’t want the trouble o’ start¬ 
ing her fire in a hurry. But I tell ye 
when you’ve had a different kind o’ straw 
filling served to ye for seven days run¬ 
ning, griddle cakes come just at the right 
time. Don’t.take away that serrup jug 
yet awhile; it hasn’t soaked in yet all it’s 
a-going to. And set the doughnuts and 
the pie and the biscuits where I can keep 
an eye on ’em, but you can remove that 
glass o’ water as far as you see fit. I’ve 
been starvin’ healthy about as long as I 
can stan’ it.”_ 
The Milk of Human Kindness. 
It is no use talking about friends until 
you are laid aside for awhile; then you 
can easily count them, and sometimes the 
number seems woefully small. Now, I 
am not criticising dear “Charity,” but 
really I think T should recommend her to 
quit “thinking.” My own life plans were 
rudely scattered and a new line of work 
wholly strange given me. When you take 
a young girl of 18 from a city high school, 
a graduate planning to complete her stud¬ 
ies and fit herself for teacher, and give 
her two or three or even five months at 
home on the farm to rest, it is delightful, 
particularly as farm life was wholly an 
untried thing. But supposing, with only 
a few days’ preparation, you then take 
away her mother, and leave only father 
and daughter and the farm ? There was 
only one thing to do; “do the duty next 
you.” Eor six years I have been trying to 
do what my hands found to do, and keep 
my thoughts where they belong. Tt’s the 
only way to endure and be strong. I 
have thought with Charity of the time 
when I might say: “I am nothing to 
anyone,” and I am determined to be 
“something to myself” then. Lately 
trouble lias been our guest. After a year 
of failing health our dearly loved grandpa 
fell asleep and grandma, always delicate. 
kept her bed. Anxiety and close nursing 
had drained my strength, and for once I 
“slumped.” Then it was that people 
whom I never called friends, but whom 
I liked and felt a little acquainted with, 
rallied around us. It did more good than 
much medicine to see one dear woman 
come in with her clean wrapper and apron, 
rubber boots and old hat and shawl. I 
was touching up a stove to be set up and 
feeling pretty “streaked.” 
“There,” she said, “I brought over a 
plain cake, just to tide you over.” I 
started to thank her. “O, mercy, don’t!” 
she said, cheerily. “Just pass it along! 
Now, I came to stay awhile. Water’s hot, 
ain’t it? Well, I’ll do the dishes first.” 
Well, I sat down, and really I wanted to 
cry, I felt so relieved. We could get no 
help unless we sent to the city for a 
trained nurse, and the way the aunts re¬ 
sponded was something to warm the very 
“cockles of your heart.” They put me 
to bed to rest and get strong. They 
planned the food question, and cheered 
and comforted us wonderfully, and father 
struggled along doing the chores in two 
places a mile apart. Now I am getting 
well, and soon I can take my place among 
the workers. 
Speaking of disappointments, Charity, 
I had planned to keep a few hens this 
Winter, to watch and care for them and 
increase year by year until I had a profit¬ 
able business to help me be “something 
to myself” when the lime shall come. My 
father has been obliged to do all that for 
me, and I have been away from home 
all Winter, but do you know, I believe 
with the the Hope Farm man, that the 
man (or woman) worth while is never 
discouraged. If you can’t do one thing, 
do another. You can always do something 
and must do something while you live this 
earth life. It is God’s law. Live in the 
present, remembering the joys of the past 
and the love of the past tenderly, 
reverently, and keep your courage 
burning steady with a white light. 
Why look into the future? It is nothing— 
until it is with you, and then it is the 
present—God’s present to you. My neigh¬ 
bor taught me the secret of her universal 
popularity; everyone loves her, and it is 
because she “passes it on.” You will 
find a place in the Book that says: “and 
if any man shall do unto thee any act of 
good-will or kindly feeling, pass it on as 
thy gratitude, and seek not to recom¬ 
pense that man.” This lesson of the 
“milk of human kindness” has added a 
new dignity and pleasure to life just when 
I am ready to gather up the threads again, 
for daily weaving. Dear Charity, cheer 
up and be your own sweetheart in this 
way. It is real fun—I know. 
ADAH E. COLCORD. 
If you would fall into any extreme, let 
it be on the side of gentleness. The hu¬ 
man mind is so constructed that it resists 
rigor and yields to softness.—St. Francis 
de Sales. 
Make sure that however good you may 
be, you have faults; that however dull 
you may be, you can find out what they 
are; and that, however slight they may 
be, you would better make some effort to 
be quit of them.—Ruskin. 
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