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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 18, 
l Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
GRIGGSBY’S STATION. 
Tap's pot his patent right, and rich as all 
creation ; 
But where the peace and comfort that we 
all had before? 
Let's go a-visitin' back lo Gri"gaby's Station— 
, Back where we ust to be so happy and so 
pore! 
The likes of us a-livin' here? It's jest a 
mortal pity. 
To see us in this great big house, with car¬ 
pets on the stairs, 
And the pump right in the kitchen? And 
the city ! city ! city— 
And nothing but the city all around us, 
everywheres! 
Climb clean aDove the roof and look from 
the steenle, 
And never see a robin, nor a beech or elm 
tree! 
And right here in earshot of at least a thou¬ 
sand people— 
And none that neighbors with us or we 
want to go and see! 
Let's go a-visitin’, back to Grlggsby's Sta¬ 
tion— 
Back where the latchstring's bangin’ from 
the door; 
And every neighbor ’round the place is dear 
as a relation— 
Back where we ust to be so happy and so 
pore! 
I want to see the Wigginses, the whole kit 
and bilin’ 
A-drivin’ up from Sballer Ford to stay the 
Sunday through; 
And I want to see ’em hitchin’ at their son- 
in-law's and pilin’ 
Out there at Lizy Ellen’s like they ust to 
do! 
I want to see the piece quilts, the ones the 
girls is makin’; 
And I want to pester Laury 'bout their 
freckled hired hand. 
And joke her ’bout the widower she come 
purt’ nigh a-takin’, 
Till her pap got his pension ’lowed iu 
time to save his land. 
Let’s go a-visitin’ back to Grlggsby’s Sta¬ 
tion— 
Back where they’s nothin' aggrevatin’ any 
more; 
Shet away safe in the woods around the 
old location— 
Back where we ust to be so happy and so 
pore ! 
I want to see Marindy and help her with 
her sewin’, 
And hear her talk so lovin’ of her man 
that's dead and gone. 
And stand up with Emanuel to show me 
how he's growin’, 
And smile as I have saw her ’fore she put 
her mournin’ on. 
And I want to see the Samples, on the old 
lower eighty, 
Where John, our oldest boy, he was tuk 
and buried—for 
His own sake and Katy’s—and I want to 
cry with Ivaty 
As she reads all his letters over, writ from 
the war. 
What’s all this grand life and high situation. 
And nary pink nor hollyhawk a-bloomin’ at 
the door? 
Let's go a-visitin’ back to Griggsby’s Sta¬ 
tion— 
Back where we ust to be so happy and so 
pore! 
—James Whitcomb Riley. 
* 
We once saw a dressmaker preparing 
to cut buttonholes in material that frayed 
easily. First she marked the buttonhole, 
then stitched close around it on the sew¬ 
ing machine, before cutting it. This pre¬ 
vented the fraying and gave something 
firm to work on. 
* 
Bottle heaters, consisting of a rubber 
hot-water case having pockets in which 
to place the baby’s bottle at night are 
conveniences now on sale. A friend has 
contrived a convenient substitute, using 
an ordinary hot-water bottle. Two deep, 
fiat pockets are stitched on the canton 
flannel cover, and the bottles slipped into 
these. This does away with the bother 
of lighting an alcohol or gas stove when 
the baby is fed during the night. 
* 
If any reader of The R. N.-Y. suffers 
from chilblains next Winter, it certainly 
will not be our fault. Our little notes 
on this affliction, printed a few weeks 
ago, has called out a flood of remedies; 
some come from “ way down East,” some 
from the cold North, and some even 
from sunny California, from past suffer¬ 
ers who are now exempt. We are very 
glad to offer thanks to all who have 
given information on this subject. 
* 
Here is the old-fashioned English re¬ 
cipe for cream curds, which makes a 
delicious dessert: Beat four eggs and 
stir them into a quart of milk slightly 
warmed. New milk was originally called 
for. Add a little salt and turn the mix¬ 
ture into a covered earthen pot. A bean 
pot or casserole will answer. Set the 
pot in a pan of warm water over the 
fire. As soon as the milk cracks turn 
it carefully out on a sieve covered with 
a linen cloth. When the draining is com¬ 
plete put the curds in a glass dish in 
large spoonfuls. 
* 
We watched a clever dressmaker make 
a kilt-pleated skirt of brilliantine, and 
were surprised to find that she cut no 
gores. Four straight breadths of 54-inch 
material were used, the skirt being for 
a stout person ; one slimmer could use 
four breadths of 40-inch goods. The 
hem was finished; then, starting at the 
front with one box pleat, the kilting, 
two inches wide, was laid on each side, 
towards the back, great care being taken 
to keep the edges straight. After bast¬ 
ing, the skirt was put upon the wearer, 
and fitted to her figure by folding each 
pleat deeper at the upper edge. The 
pleats were stitched to a deep yoke depth 
(shallower at the back) on the straight 
front edge and the curving inner line. 
The result was a well-fitting skirt that 
could not possibly sag out of shape, as 
a gored skirt usually does, nor could it 
pull apart at the placket. The same dress¬ 
maker in making a silk waist, first fitted 
the lining perfectly', and then finished it 
throughout, boning and facing it care¬ 
fully. She then selected a pillow of the 
right size, patted it into shape, and used 
it for a “form” to stuff the waist lining, 
pulling two corners of the pillow out at 
the armholes, so that the lining was 
smoothly fitted out. She then draped the 
outside of the waist upon this, fitting it 
carefully over the lining and pinning it 
into place before beginning to baste. The 
shoulder seams were first stitched, before 
the final basting of the under-arm seams, 
the edges of the seams coming between 
silk and lining. 
* 
Prepared paste in dry form is now of¬ 
fered for paper hanging; it is merely 
stirred into cold water, and does away 
with the trouble of boiling flour paste, 
which so often forms obstinate lumps. 
If ordinary paste is made a wall paper 
manufacturer advises the following di¬ 
rections : Take three pints of flour, rub 
A MATTER OF HEALTH 
Absolutely Pure 
HAS HO SUBSTITUTE 
smooth in two quarts of cold water, add 
eight quarts of boiling water and let 
this boil slowly. Stir constantly for 10 
minutes. When cold, stir in two table¬ 
spoonfuls of powdered alum. Use about 
as thick as will run off the brush. Starch 
paste, which is considered very satisfac¬ 
tory, is made in the following manner: 
Dissolve one pound of best gloss starch in 
a quart of cold water. Use a large pail 
or dish pan. Boil a kettle of water and 
add same to starch gradually, stirring 
constantly until starch is cooked. When 
paste cools and is too thick it can be re¬ 
duced with cold water. New walls that 
have never been papered must be washed 
over with sizing, which is made by soak¬ 
ing a pound of glue for 12 hours in cold 
water and adding 12 quarts of hot water 
and a tablespoonful of powdered alum. 
Before sizing, all kalsomine or whitewash 
should be washed off. If the walls have 
been rough plastered, or have not been 
putty-coated, rub off the projecting grains 
of sand with a block of wood, and if the 
walls are bad, apply thin paste and let it 
dry before papering. Walls that have 
been painted should be gone over with 
a solution consisting of one part am¬ 
monia and six parts water, before siz¬ 
ing. Board ceilings or walls should be 
covered with cheese cloth tacked at the 
edges and then sized, which shrinks it 
tight to the wall. The row of tacks at 
the corners and around the casing should 
be about two inches from the same, and 
the ends of the cloth pasted down. In 
cleaning and sizing walls, be careful to 
do it thoroughly around the baseboard 
and casings, and you will have no trouble 
with your paper curling at the edges. 
We feel that the doer is better than the 
critic, and that the man who strives stands 
far above the man who stands aloof, 
whether he thus stands aloof because of 
pessimism or because of sheer weakness. 
—Theodore Roosevelt. 
It takes a good 
dealer to sell right 
lamp-chimnevs 
when wrong ones 
pay so much better. 
Macbeth. 
The Index tells you, in ten minutes, all you 
need to know for comfort with lamps and 
the saving of chimney-money; sent free; 
do you want it ? 
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The lakes and streams in the 
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