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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 22, 
Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
THE FATHER LAND. 
Where is the true man's fatherland? 
Is it where he by chance is born? 
Doth not the yearning spirit scorn 
In such scant borders to be spanned? 
Oh yes! his fatherland must be 
As the blue heaven wide and free! 
Is It alone where freedom is, 
Where God is God and man is man? 
Doth he not claim a broader span 
For the soul's love of home than this? 
Oh yes! his fatherland must be 
As the blue heaven w ide and free ! 
Where’er a human heart doth wear 
Joy's myrtle-wreath or sorrow's gyves, 
Where'er a human spirit, strives 
After a life more true and fair, 
There is the true man’s birthplace grand, 
His is a world-wide fatherland ! 
Where'er a single slave doth pine. 
Where'er one man may help another,—• 
Thank God for such a birthright, brother,— 
That spot of earth is thine and mine! 
There is the true man's birthplace grand. 
His is a world-wide fatherland ! 
—Lowell. 
♦ 
A variation in pancake syrup is made 
by boiling together one quart of sweet 
cider and two cupfuls of granulated 
sugar. Boil slowly until about the con¬ 
sistency of maple syrup, and use either 
hot or cold. 
* 
Seamless corset waists, woven in one 
piece ready for fitting, are among the nov¬ 
elties. Armholes and neck are finished 
with lace and beading, woven on as in all- 
over tr’mming, and the more elaborate 
styles have medallions or fancy inserts of 
lace down the fronts. All the work need¬ 
ed to complete the waist is a ribbon draw¬ 
string to shape the top. which is curved 
for a round neck, and the waistband and 
fastenings. The material for such a cor¬ 
set waist costs from $1 to $1.50. 
* 
Here is a recipe for apple dumplings 
new to us, but very good: Pare, quarter 
and core tart apples. Put one tablespoon¬ 
ful of baking powder in one quart of 
flour, add one cupful of lard and half a 
teaspoonful of salt and mix with sweet 
milk, make stiffer than for biscuits, roll 
and cut in squares and put around the 
pieces of apple. Into a deep pudding dish 
put one quart of water, one cupful of 
sugar and a small lump of butter. Set it 
on top of the stove and let it come to a 
boil. Then put in the dumplings and 
bake in a brisk oven one hour. 
* 
An inquirer asks whether it is possible 
to do heifistitching on the sewing ma¬ 
chine. An ingenious woman does it as 
follows, with entire success: Draw the 
desired number of threads, fold the hem 
over, and baste with the edge in the cen¬ 
ter of the drawn threads. Loosen the ten¬ 
sion of the machine and stitch as nearly 
on the edge of the hem as possible. Re¬ 
move the basting, and, taking the. goods 
in one hand and the hem in the other, pull 
the edge of hem to the bottom of the 
drawn threads. The effect of the work is 
very close to that of real hemstitching. 
* 
This is Mrs. Rorer's recipe for hot 
cross buns: Beat a quarter cup of butter 
to a cream; add four tablespoonfuls of 
sugar and then add gradually a pint of 
milk that has been scalded and cooled; 
add a yeast cake, dissolved, and sufficient 
flour to make a batter. Beat thoroughly. 
Stand in a warm place for about three 
hours. Then add four eggs well beatei 
and flour enough to make a soft dough. 
Knead carefully. Stand aside until very 
light and form into buns. Cut them ir: 
the center; brush them with sugar and 
white of egg and bake in a quick oven. 
* 
Egg nest is very light and dainty, and 
makes a pleasant change from ordinary 
modes of serving. Beat the white of a 
new-laid egg to a stiff froth, and heap it 
on a piece of toast. Make a little inden¬ 
tation in the top, and slip the yolk into 
that, put in the oven until the egg is set. 
Season with salt and pepper, and put a 
tiny bit of butter on top before serving. 
For poached egg nest butter the inside of 
a cup and pour in the stiffly-beaten white 
of a fresh egg. Make a little nest in the 
center and carefully drop in the yolk. 
Squeeze a drop or two of lemon juice on 
top, and set the cup in a basin of boiling 
water. In cooking, the froth will rise to 
the top of the cup. As soon as the white 
is set, invert a plate over the top of the 
cup and turn out. Sprinkle with a very 
little minced parsley and serve quickly. 
These ways of serving will often tempt an 
invalid or delicate child to eat a fresh 
egg, when it would be otherwise rejected. 
* 
Some pretty neck dressings for long¬ 
necked women consist of a band of fine 
insertion or beading one or l'A inch wide, 
having a narrow frill or ruche standing 
up on the upper side, and a deeper frill 
falling towards the shoulders on the low¬ 
er side. Cuffs are made to match, the 
deeper frill on the upper side. A simple 
and easily laundered stock is a plain col¬ 
lar piece of mercerized cheviot or pique, 
bound with linen, and decorated with a 
band of inch-wide nainsook beading along 
the lower side. A colored silk tie is 
slipped through the beading, and tied in 
a four-in-hand knot at the front. This 
stock is very suitable for young girls. A 
great display of muslin and lace chemi¬ 
settes is now made; they are likely to be 
very largely worn with the popular sur¬ 
plice waists this coming Summer. The 
prices vary from 25 cents up to many dol¬ 
lars, but the cheap ones arc so coarse in 
material and workmanship that they en¬ 
tirely miss the dainty effect desired. Fine 
all-over tucking and insertion will make 
very pretty chemisettes at moderate cost, 
the collar being finished with a narrow 
lace frill at the top, and cuffs may be 
made to match. 
* 
Some very conscientious, but not tactful 
wives would do well to study the attitude 
of the wise woman who refers to her 
methods thus in the Youth’s Companion: 
Mrs. Benton had been away for a much- 
needed vacation, and “Aunt Jane,” her 
husband’s sister, had kept house for her. 
When she came home the house looked 
bright and shining, but Jane seemed a 
good deal depressed. The two women sat 
down together the next morning, after 
Mr. Benton had gone to his office, and 
took account of stock. 
“I don’t believe you've had a very good 
time, after all.” said Mrs. Benton, looking 
at her sister-in-law keenly, after they had 
discussed the state of the larder. 
"Oh. yes,” was the answer. “Only I 
feel sort of depressed, I’ve made so many 
mistakes.” 
How did you know they were mis¬ 
takes?” inquired Mrs. Benton. “Did 
Henry tell you?” 
"Well, yes, I suppose so. He did say 
his wife was the only good manager he 
knew. That was after I’d bought some 
canned soups, and had to send them back 
because they were the wrong kind.” 
“What made you tell him they were the 
wrong kind? Why didn’t you serve them 
piping hot and say nothing?” 
“Why, I don’t know! Anyway, I found 
out that you’d never think of such a thing 
as buying a canned soup.” 
“What else did you do wrong?” in¬ 
quired Mrs. Benton, dryly. 
“I used the table butter for cooking. 
Henry said that was frightfully extrava¬ 
gant, and in all your life you’d never been 
guilty of such a thing. Those are only 
two mistakes, but there were lots of 
others. No, Cynthia, I’m not a good man¬ 
ager.” 
“Well, I am,” said Mrs. Benton, firmly, 
“and hereafter you take pattern by me. I 
haven’t had a stock kettle for years. I al¬ 
ways buy canned soups, and I talk over 
the neighborhood news, while T 'enry eats 
them blissfully. I have never had an 
ounce of cooking butter in my house. I 
agree with the person who said there is 
but one appropriate place for cooking but¬ 
ter, and that is on the axles of wheels. But 
I never discuss those subjects with Henry. 
My dear, why should I ? He is quite 
right. I’m a good manager; but what’s 
the use of managing, if I can’t manage 
Henry?” _ 
“Where’s Aunty?” 
A reader asks us to print the follow¬ 
ing clipping from the Youth's Companion, 
saying that it seems meant for Charity 
Sweetheart: 
From the Increasing division of labor,—not 
only in factories, but in social life,—there 
arises grave danger that many things well 
worth doing will l>e neglected. A district 
nurse, a trained charity visitor, a kinder¬ 
garten teacher, a clergyman, a sanitary in¬ 
spector, a Sunday-school teacher, and all 
the other specialists of our highly special¬ 
ized time cannot do all that is necessary 
for a slum. So, although there may be, in 
abundance, teachers and private tutors and 
housekeepers and doctors and gymnasts and 
expensive lecturers and experts of all sorts 
and kinds, yet town, village or city may 
still be much in need of some of the most 
precious elements of life. 
The Professor of Odds and Ends will still 
have a place in the scheme of things. The 
most brilliantly successful of these nameless 
workers is "the old maid.” She is the pivot 
on which society turns. She becomes “aunty” 
to everybody. At her best, she is ready 
to take over anybody's job, and the chances 
are that she does it better than its owner. 
A sick child prefers her to the trained 
nurse. Her cake is more toothsome than 
that made by the professional cook. Her 
talk is the brightest at the dinner-table; her 
judgment is the clearest iu any household 
perplexity; her sympathy is the quickest in 
trouble. 
What we should do without this unselfish, 
cheerful, lonely spinster it is difficult to 
guess. The average bachelor is a social toy, 
but not a worker, lie seems made to amuse; 
or to be amused. But the average old 
maid is a blessing of tlje sort that money 
cannot buy, and that gratitude cannot pay. 
Whenever the Rule children of her special 
flock are in trouble or pain, they call loudly, 
“Where's aunty?" and in hours of stress and 
struggle the whole world seems to join the 
cry, “Where’s aunty?” 
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