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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 2;1, 
Woman and Home | 
From Day to Day. 
AN APRIL DAY. 
All clay the low-hung clouds have dropped 
Their garnered fulness down ; 
All day that soft, gray mist hath wrapped 
II111, valley, grove and town. 
There has not been a sound to-day 
To break the calm of Nature; 
Nor motion, I might almost say, 
Of life, or living creature; 
Of waving bough, or warbling bird, 
Or cattle faintly lowing; 
I could have half believed I heard 
The leaves and blossoms growing. 
I stood to hear—I love it well— 
The rain’s continuous sound ; 
Small drops, but thick and fast they fell, 
Down straight into the ground. 
For leafy thickness is not: yet 
Earth's naked breast to screen; 
Though every dripping branch is set 
With shoots of tender green. 
Sure, since I looked at early morn. 
Those honeysuckle buds 
Have swelled to double growth ; that thorn 
Hath put forth larger studs. 
That lilac's cleaving cones have burst, 
The milk-white flowers revealing; 
Even now, upon my senses first 
Metliinks their sweets are stealing. 
The very earth, the steamy air, 
Is all with fragrance rife; 
And grace and beauty everywhere 
Are flushing into life. 
Down, down they come—those fruitful stores. 
Those earth-rejoicing drops! 
A momentary deluge pours, 
Thfm thins, decreases, stops. 
And ere the dimples on the stream 
Have circled out of sight, 
Lo! from the west: a parting gleam 
Breaks forth, of amber light. 
But yet behold! abrupt and loud, 
Comes down the glittering rain; 
The farewell of a. passing cloud, 
The fringes of her train. 
—Mrs. Southey. 
. * 
When trying out a small quantity of 
fat cut in pieces and put in the inner ves¬ 
sel of a double boiler; this will prevent 
burning, requiring less care than when 
the fat is melted in the oven. To clarify 
a small quantity of cold fat, add boiling 
water to it, stir well, and set aside to 
cool; when cold the cake of fat on top 
should be removed and scraped free from 
adhering sediment on the under side. 
only a few birds is allowed by the law 
to the used in decorating bats, and thou¬ 
sands of dollars of forbidden feathers 
and bird bodies in St. Louis, Kansas City 
and St. Joseph stores will become con¬ 
traband. Only the feathers of domestic 
birds, such as ostriches, chickens and 
ducks, may be used, while the wild birds 
allowed milliners are con fin •. ‘ to English 
sparrows, hawks, horned owls and crows. 
The penalty is a fine of $25 for each of¬ 
fense. It is a little bit humiliating to re¬ 
flect that any woman above the level of 
a Piute squaw needs the restraining in¬ 
fluence of such a law. Let us cheer up, 
however; a great many women will ab¬ 
stain this season from decorating them¬ 
selves with the corpses of our “ little 
brothers of the air,” as St. Francis calls 
them, because it is no longer fashionable. 
* 
Some time ago The R. N.-Y. had a 
little discussion of carp as a food fish. 
Dr. J. B. Smith, New Jersey State Ento¬ 
mologist, spoke up for the carp, but some 
of his unconvinced readers still hold to 
the views thus expressed in the New 
York Tribune: Three New York trout 
fishers who had gone up into Delaware 
and Sullivan Counties to whip the 
streams were spending the night at a coun¬ 
try tavern. Nearby was a pond which 
had been stocked with carp. Carp are 
not considered to be of great food value. 
In fact, fishermen say that their flesh 
has nothing to recommend it. Several 
of the men of the village were lounging 
in the office of the taveii., as was their 
nightly custom. They were discussing 
the State’s reason for stocking the pond 
with a worthless fish. One of the New 
York fishermen joined in the discussion. 
“There’s one way to cook carp and 
get an excellent dish,” said he. 
There was immediate silence. Some¬ 
thing of unusual interest was about to be 
divulged. 
'‘Take a birch slab,” continued the 
New Yorker, “and fasten the carp on it. 
Dress the fish with salt and pepper, but¬ 
ter and some herbs. Then put it in the 
oven. Let it bake a while. Then baste 
it again with the salt, the pepper, the but¬ 
ter and the herbs. The next time you 
open the oven door a most delicious odor 
will steam up into your face. Your 
mouth will fairly water. The dish is 
not ready yet, however. It must remain 
in the oven for a few moments longer. 
When you remove it. cut the strings and 
release the fish. Then—throw the carp 
away and eat the slab.” 
* 
T he recent death of Miss Sarah 
Chauncey W olsey, better known by her 
pen name of Susan Coolidge, removes a 
wholesome and sympathetic writer wdio 
has done much to mold youthful minds. 
Miss Woolsey, who was daughter of the 
late John M. Woolsey, of New Haven. 
Conn., died at Newport April 9, aged 
09. Much of her poetry was widely re¬ 
printed. and her juvenile books are stan¬ 
dards in their line. 
* 
Stair and floor linens, for covering 
carpets, are valuable additions to Sum¬ 
mer house furnishings. We prefer bare 
floors or mattings ourselves, but if car¬ 
pets are used the linen covering seems 
indispensable in Summer. Stair linens 
range from 14 to 32 inches wide in eight 
widths, price running from 16 to 40 cents 
a yard. Floor linens start at 53 inches 
wide, 60 cent a yard, and run through 
eight widths to 180 inches, $2.50 a yard. 
For a serviceable hard-wearing stair cov¬ 
ering we still give our preference to a 
good quality of denim in any color de¬ 
sired. 
A 
Ruching of all styles is a prominent 
feature of the bargain counter this Spring. 
The ruches are still worn enormously, 
but manufacturers are turning their -, t- 
tention to other things, as they think the 
vogue will soon he over. Little ruffles 
of real lace are the feature of newest 
neckwear, being noticeable on the fine 
lingerie waists. The handsomest of these 
have a collar carefully fitted and attached 
to the waist itself. These collars are 
much higher than they were last season, 
usually finished by a ruffle of real Valen¬ 
ciennes lace. The fine waists are either 
without any collar at all or with a high 
stock. 
* 
Law and not fashio will dictate the 
headgear of the women of Missouri after 
Representative Walmsley’s fish and game 
bill goes into effect June 16, says the Chi¬ 
cago Record-Herald. The plumage of 
The Unsanitary Cellar. 
When reading about the water supply 
on page 94 it brings to mind a prominent 
and prosperous farmer who carries his 
milk morning and night (and has for 
many years) several rods, to a milk-room 
in the dwelling-house cellar under the 
living rooms, a menace to himself and 
family. All the overflow' water falls on 
the floor (consequently the floor is never 
dry), then what can runs into the end of 
the sink tile at the end of the trough. 
A well is in the cellar to cool the milk, 
boards are laid down to travel on to get 
about, with ditches for the water to set¬ 
tle in and run under the floor in part of 
the cellar into the sink drain. A swill 
tub and set kettle to cook vegetables for 
the pigs permit all the odor to go into 
the living rooms; few windows in front 
of cellar. The son must continue in the 
same way, which I consider brutal treat¬ 
ment to oneself and others who are com¬ 
pelled to do it. and then wonders what 
makes his back lame, so round-shoul¬ 
dered, and hands and wrist all out of 
shape and lame; and yet he has the best 
agricultural papers to read and attends 
all the institute meetings. Too bad some 
can’t be convinced that some of the mod¬ 
ern ways are best for himself and others. 
With the coming of Spring he should has¬ 
ten to have a sanitary cellar and escape 
so much sickness in his family, building a 
convenient milk-room joining the barn 
and remembering the convenience of the 
house for his wife, not forgetting the 
bath-room. M. B. 
A f ft **4 j) cured to STAY CURED. No 
medicines needed afterwards. 
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Cheap chimney, 
dear lamp. 
Macbeth. 
My Index tells what chimney fits your 
lamp. If you use that chimney, you get 
perhaps twice as much light, and save a 
dollar or two a year of chimney-money, 
It tells, besides, how to care for lamps; 
even that is imperfectly known. 
I send i> Tee; am glad to. 
Macbeth, Pittsburgh. 
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who must be caught by some 
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hired man, or one who could 
stand on his head while milk¬ 
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farm. We want someone on every R. P. D. route to replaee “freak” 
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Rural 
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- AT FROM - 
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