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May 20, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
£ Woman and Home 
From Day to Day, 
PAW. 
When biscuits are light and coffee just right, 
And the bull purp behaves like a saint, 
Paw never is heard a-remarkin' a word, 
But my! how he kicks.when they ain't! 
When the sun’s shinin' clear and the birds 
holler cheer. 
And the grass wears a new coat of paint, 
Paw will not admit they are purty and tit, 
But my ! how he kicks if they ain’t! 
And that’s why I say if he tried a new way, 
1 wouldn’t make any complaint, 
If Paw would just yell when a thing is done 
well, 
And not say a thing when they ain’t. 
—New York Times. 
* 
Jelly dumplings will vary the desserts, 
which grow monotonous when we are 
waiting for berries to come in. Make a 
batter of three cupfuls of flour, \ l / 2 cup¬ 
ful of milk, a tablespoonful of melted but¬ 
ter and one egg. Roll out an inch thick, 
spread with a thin coating of butter and 
a thick covering of some sweet jelly; roll 
up, pinch the edges tightly together, and 
steam from half to three-quarters of an 
hour. Serve with any preferred sauce. 
* 
Late in the season, when even the best 
of apples are flat jn taste, two or three 
thin slices of lemon, rind and all, added to 
an apple pie will improve the flavor won¬ 
derfully: When fresh green apples are in 
again try a German pudding. Pare, core 
and slice eight or 10 sour apples and put 
in a deep pudding dish, sweetening with 
one cupful of sugar, and sprinkling with 
a little lemon juice. Pour over them a 
rich egg batter, bake in a moderate oven 
One hour, and serve cold. 
* 
At this season, when housecleaning is 
in progress, we are usually asked for some 
means of combating that most loathsome 
of household pests, the bedbug. We have 
suggested a number of forms of ammu¬ 
nition, but a correspondent recommends 
a remedy new to us as absolutely sure. 
Break or cut up moth balls, put them in 
a bottle and dissolve in gasoline. Use 
a long-nosed oil can, and inject into all 
cracks. Of course a light must not be 
brought near this, but it penetrates all 
cracks, does not corrode metal, and can 
be depended upon. 
* 
The close little polo turban, pork-pie 
hat, as it used to be called in the day of 
crinolines, has already secured an amaz¬ 
ing popularity. It is described by an ob¬ 
servant man as being made from the 
crown of a last year’s hat, with the brim 
cut off even, further embellished by a 
paintbrush stuck straight up at the side, 
but this is a very unsophisticated view. 
The 1850 hat, as it is often termed, is 
merely a plain round turban, with a flat 
crown; most frequently it is made of 
plain straw, trimmed with a flat medallion 
of braid and an upstanding huzzar’s 
aigrette, which does really* suggest a 
paintbrush. Sometimes the crown is of 
lace or jetted net, and the side band of 
velvet. It is really very becoming to a 
wearer blessed with pretty hair, but it 
must be avoided by the woman with 
straight or “contrary” locks. It is such 
a radical change from most of the hats 
we have been wearing that it seems more 
conspicuous than its modest size would 
suggest. 
* 
This season there are many fashions 
just suited to young girls at what we call 
the awkward age. The full skirts, puffed 
elbow sleeves and Dutch round neck are 
all very becoming to unformed figures. 
The use of frills and flounces on the skirt 
is a great advantage where a last year’s 
frock must be lengthened, or a join may 
be concealed by the use of nuns’ tucks. 
Bretelle or suspender frocks, which are- 
now fashionable for grown-ups, are even 
more desirable for young girls. The bre- 
telles are sometimes made of ribbon, 
sometimes of the dress material, in which 
case they are more elaborate in shape than 
the mere straps, often forming a little 
botero. These dresses are a favorite 
model, in shot or glace silk, also in linen. 
Among walking skirts, kilted pleats seem 
to be losing favor somewhat, more irreg¬ 
ular pleatings of circular cut seeming to 
be preferred. In light-weight materials a 
pretty skirt is made in very narrow box 
pleats; this has 38 gores, and needs very 
careful fitting. It must be remembered, 
however, that no matter how a skirt is 
made it will not “set” right unless the 
underskirt beneath is properly fitted. 
A Damp Duster. 
A damp cloth is very good to dust 
with. It removes the dust instead of dis¬ 
tributing it in other places or causing it 
to fly about so as to be breathed by the 
person who is dusting. The cloth should 
be wrung as dry as possible, and rinsed 
often to avoid scratching with the dust it 
has gathered. Some very highly polished 
and varnished surfaces will not stand this 
treatment, but in ordinary living rooms, 
where there .is the most dust and where 
the furniture has been used a great deal, 
the damp dustcloth will be found very 
useful. 
Dust is very trying to those of asthmatic 
or catarrhal tendencies, and everything 
should be done to avoid it. Sweeping with 
a damp broom is a help. It should be 
wetted often and with water enough to 
wash off the dust, and shaken, or struck 
against a doorstep out of doors so as to 
shake off all the surplus water, so that 
streaks will not be made on the carpet. 
This method of procedure is quite differ¬ 
ent from that pursued by some people, 
who go into a room with a dry broom and 
sweep so vigorously that they cannot see 
across the room for the dust, and then 
after letting the dust settle for a time, go 
in with a feather duster or a dry cloth 
and stir it up again. s. B. r. 
Flower Notes. 
When I learn of something new in the 
floral line I feel that I am doing other 
flower lovers a kindness in “passing it 
on.” So with this thought in mind, I am 
going to write of my Wistaria. For some 
time I have desired one of these attractive 
vines, but as the price asked for a single 
vine would buy several packages of flower 
seeds, 1 have hitherto listed the Wistaria 
with other longed-for luxuries. While 
admiring the beauty of a vine last Sum¬ 
mer, with its wealth of lavender-blue 
clusters, my friend suggested that I raise 
one from seed, as she had known of its 
being done. Tips was a new idea to me, 
and I gladly accepted her offer of seed in 
the Fall. True to her promise, she sent 
me three seeds. Early in February these 
were sown, and one germinated. It is now 
(March 11) a sturdy, thrifty plant, just 
putting out its third leaf. It stands nearly 
two inches high. There is a peculiar 
pleasure to be derived from plants raised 
in this way, that a lover of flowers knows 
how to appreciate most truly. 
Last Spring I ordered seeds of Grevillea 
robusta or silk oak. I found the seeds 
quick to germinate. I started them in my 
seed box last March; while the plants 
have not grown as rapidly as I expected 
from the description, I have otherwise no 
fault to find. My best specimen is now a 
sturdy plant, eight inches in height. The 
last week or so it has been responding 
nobly to the brightening weather. It 
gives every promise of being in a few 
months a large, graceful plant. The 
leaves are finely cut, fern-like in appear¬ 
ance. It is as decorative as a palm and 
of quicker growth and easier manage¬ 
ment, two important factors. 
I am sure after having enjoyed the 
beauty and fragrance of a wallflower 
since before Christmas to the present 
time, a period of 12 weeks, that others 
will be glad to try this plant another Win¬ 
ter. The plant I have is a profuse bloom¬ 
er, its yellow blossoms with their exqui¬ 
site fragrance have brightened many a 
stormy day. The wallflower is easily 
raised from seed. It is one of the few 
plants that do well both as a garden and 
pot plant. But it seems to me to be espe¬ 
cially valuable for window culture, as our 
list of yellow flowers for Winter is lim¬ 
ited. It is easily raised from seed, costing 
from three to 10 cents a package. 
Last year I started a perennial bed. As 
a beginning I had an old bed of the double 
fragrant violets. A friend gave me some 
roots of that old favorite, Sweet Will¬ 
iam. I bought a package of the Snowball 
daisy. These I started in the house. The 
plants are hardy and required but little 
care. I had a few blossoms last year, but 
this year I am looking forward to large 
numbers of white daisies with stems from 
five to six inches long. 1 have just or¬ 
dered a package of the old-fashioned clove 
pink, from which I hope to secure a num¬ 
ber of plants for this bed. Since begin¬ 
ning this article, a catalogue just received, 
offers Wistaria seed at 10 cents a package. 
So those desirous of raising n Wistaria 
from seed need not wait till the vine of 
some friend can supply them. 
HELEN C. ANDREWS. 
R. N.-Y.—Unfortunately seedling Wis¬ 
tarias are very leisurely in coming into 
bloom. Under the most favorable condi¬ 
tions flowers can hardly be expected on 
this little plant until the third or fourth 
year, and it may be as long ^s a fruit tree 
is in coming into bearing. Cuttings from 
a free-flowering vine bloom early, and 
the seedling might be root-grafted like an 
apple tree to decided advantage. Cuttings 
may also be rooted in sand like those of 
any hard-wooded plant. Wistarias vary a 
good deal in both color and freedom of 
bloom, so that cuttings from a good indi¬ 
vidual plant give a certainty of result not 
possessed by a seedling. 
The Bookshelf. 
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This volume of essays conveys the au¬ 
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It is essentially the personal views of a 
young man, presented with the youthful 
egotism of one who has not yet learned 
to see more than one side, but it will in¬ 
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derstanding of latter-day socialism, and 
will be found absorbing by those who al¬ 
ready share Mr. London’s views. It hard¬ 
ly can be compared with Ghent’s “Our 
Benevolent Feudalism” in actual present¬ 
ment of social conditions. Everything Mr. 
London does not like is described as bour¬ 
geois, which is a little hard on the army 
of middle-class workers who, in any.social 
ferment, are ground between the upper 
and the nether millstone. Published by 
the Macmillan Company, New York; price 
$1.50 net, postage 10 cents additional. 
Cleaning Cloths.' —For a house-clean¬ 
ing cloth I have found nothing so satis¬ 
factory as an old piece of shaker flannel 
from some wornout undergarment. It is 
soft, absorbent and durable. It makes the 
cleaning of woodwork a much easier task 
than if one uses a hard, stiff cloth. A 
little kerosene in the water is much better 
to clean paint than is soap. A painter 
told me that most people spoiled the looks 
of their paint by using too much soap and 
washing powder. He said it took all the 
“life out of it.” Kerosene will start the 
dirt much more quickly than soap where 
the surface is dark with smoke, s. b. r. 
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