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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 2. 
I Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
FROM “THE WHITE FLAG.” 
What shall the untried warriors do. 
If we, the battered veterans, fail? 
IIow strive, antf suffer, and be true. 
In storms that make our spirits quail. 
Except our valor lead them through? 
Though for ourselves we droop and tire, 
Let us at least for them be strong. 
*TIs but to bear familiar tire: 
Life at the longest is not long. 
And peace at last will crown desire. 
So, Death, I will not hear thee speak ! 
But I will live and still endure 
All storms of pain that time can wreak. 
My flag be white, because 'tis pure. 
And not because my soul is weak! 
—William Winter. 
* 
When making a puffed sleeve with 
long tight cuff, in thin material, it is often 
difficult to arrange an opening to slip 
over the hand that will keep closed neatly 
when buttoned. In place of this, the cuff 
is closed, being sufficiently large to go 
over the hand comfortably; the usual but¬ 
tons are put down the back seam, while 
buttonholed loops are attached to a 
stitched tuck about an inch forward, so 
that the cuff can be buttoned close, with¬ 
out risk of a gaping opening. 
* 
Mrs. Barron was one of the new “Sum¬ 
mer folks” stopping in Ridgeville, and was 
not yet acquainted with the vernacular of 
the place, says the Youth’s Companion. 
Consequently she was somewhat surprised 
upon sending an order for a roast of lamb 
to the nearest butcher, to receive the fol¬ 
lowing note in reply: 
“Dear Mam. I am sorry I have not 
killed myself this week, but I can get you 
a leg off my brother (the butcher at the 
farther end of the town). He’s full up of 
what you want. I seen him last night 
with five legs. Yours respectful, 
“George Gunton.” 
* 
Corn chowder has been described before, 
but it is good enough to give again: Cut 
the kernels from a dozen ears of green 
corn. Peel and mince two onions and fry 
them brown in three tablespoonfuls of but¬ 
ter in a deep saucepan. Now put in the 
corn, four broken pilot biscuits, add a half 
dozen parboiled and sliced potatoes. Sea¬ 
son with pepper, salt and a tablespoonful 
of minced parsley, and cover with a quart 
of boiling water. Let all cook gently for 
three-quarters of an hour, then stir in 
slowly a cupful of boiling milk, thick¬ 
ened with a tablespoonful of flour rubbed 
into one of butter. Turn at once into a 
heated tureen. 
* 
The New York health authorities re¬ 
cently examined 13,941 children, attending 
school in the primary grade, in the poorer 
part of the city. Of these children 6,294 
required medical attention. Among them 
3,314 had defective teeth, and 3,219 defec¬ 
tive vision. The investigation corrobo¬ 
rated the fact that children classed as dull 
in school are often suffering from defec¬ 
tive sight or hearing. For a year past the 
New York health board has employed 50 
nurses, whose duty it is to visit schools 
daily, to inspect the children, and to visit 
and advise the parents. It is now de¬ 
sired to increase the number of these 
nurses, who are doing valuable work. We 
often lose sight of the fact that the best 
work medical science can do is to keep 
thildren well, rather than only to cure 
hem when ill. 
* 
Inquirers who send requests for recipes 
or other information to the Woman and 
Home Department will please send full 
name and address, not necessarily for pub¬ 
lication, but that their questions may be 
answered by mail if it seems desirable. As 
matter for publication must be in hand at 
least two weeks before date of issue, there 
must necessarily be apparent delay in an¬ 
swering questions. For instance, a letter 
received August 15 (without full name or 
address) asks for a recipe, saying: “Will 
look for answer in R. N.-Y. of this week.” 
When received the issue of August 19 was 
half printed, and the Woman and Home 
pages for August 26 were ready to go on 
the press. The recipes called for were evi¬ 
dently for immediate use, yet we were 
quite powerless to give the information at 
once by mail, as would have been done had 
full address been supplied. 
♦ 
The wearing of egret plumes has often 
been denounced because of the brutality 
with which the adult birds are killed 
during the nesting season, thus condemn¬ 
ing their nestlings to death by starvation. 
At this time the plumes are most beauti¬ 
ful, so the birds are being rapidly ex¬ 
terminated. in spite of their legal pro¬ 
tection. Now a valuable human life may 
be added to the long list of bird trag¬ 
edies. Guy M. Bradley, warden of the Na¬ 
tional Association of Audubon Societies, 
was recently killed on an island on the 
Florida Coast in a struggle with a pro¬ 
fessional plume hunter. The circum¬ 
stances surrounding this struggle will not 
be known until the case is brought before 
a jury, but back of it all is the feminine 
vanity that turns from every thought of 
mercy or gentleness in the greed for per¬ 
sonal adornment. It is asserted that New 
York feather dealers now offer $32 an 
ounce for egret plumes, and although the 
law forbids the killing of the birds plenty 
of hunters are willing to defy justice in 
the face of this bribe. The real criminals, 
however, are the women who buy the 
plumes, and apparently nothing will dis¬ 
turb the serene complacency with which 
they wear these spoils of slaughtered in¬ 
nocents. 
* 
Acting upon the theory that the mos¬ 
quito is an everpresent source of fever 
transmission, the New Orleans health 
authorities have tabulated and given out 
the following advice, which is quite as 
valuable in districts where yellow fever 
never penetrates, but where malaria 
is feared, and this means many rural 
localities: 
(’lean out every place where water stands. 
So dispose of old tin cans, bottles, or what 
not that rain cannot possibly be retained. 
Watch your roof gutters. 
Empty your rain barrel of water every 
week, or screen it closely with fine-meshed 
wire on top. 
Change the water every day in a drinking 
pan for the dog, cat or bird. 
Watch the watering trough near your 
stable. 
Fill a hole in a tree with soil packed tight, 
or with cement. 
In other words, get rid of, or coat with ker¬ 
osene, all stagnant, standing water, and you 
will get rid of mosquitoes. 
If you have a playing fountain; put little 
fish, like minnows or goldfish, in the water, 
and they will eat the mosquito larva*. 
If you have a sluggish brook or a stagnant 
pond near your house, spray kerosene or coal 
oil on the-surface; this makes it impossible 
for the “wigglers” to breathe when they come 
to the surface, and they die. The coal oil 
application is only necessary at the edges, 
and is good only so long as the oil film is 
unbroken. 
In Brooklyn, N. Y., where an epidemic 
of typhoid has occurred (due, as usual, to 
contaminated water) the health officials 
warn against exposing any food in un¬ 
screened pantries, where flies may infect 
it with the dreaded bacilli. 
Right or wrong are in the nature of 
things. They are not words and phrases. 
They are in the nature of things, and if 
you transgress the laws laid down, im¬ 
posed by the nature of things, depend 
upon it you will pay the penalty.—John 
Morley. 
The Rural Patterns. 
The bishop dress shown in No. 5095 is 
very attractive for infants’ wear. The 
dress is made with front and back por¬ 
tions and the sleeves, which are joined one 
to the other, then shirred to form a little 
Clothing 
Made I 
to Order I 
at the 
Mill I 
Save Half | 
Buy your clothing di¬ 
rect from the mill. Cut 
out the dealer’s profits. 
Get two suits for the 
price of one. All wool 
suits and overcoats 
made to order, hand¬ 
somely trimmed and 
guaranteed to give satis¬ 
faction. Many patterns 
to choose from 
Men’s w A ooi Suits 
Made to Order 
$7=52 to $ 12-52 
Ladies’ 
Fall 
Dress 
Patterns 
in all 
Shades 
GLEN ROCK 
203 Main St. 
Women’s dress goods 
direct from the mill to 
the wearer at wholesale 
prices. All the newest 
styles and colors. Che¬ 
viots, Broadcloths, Bril- 
liantines, Kerseys, 
Silkdowns. Every yard 
guaranteed. Express 
charges paid. Write for 
samples and catalogue. 
WOOLEN MILLS, 
, Somerville, N. J. 
yoke, which is held in place by a plain one 
arranged on the under side. The sleeves 
also are gathered to form cuffs and are 
held in place by means of narrow bands. 
The quantity of material required is 2(4 
yards 36 inches wide. The pattern 5095 
is cut in one size only; price 10 cents. 
The pretty Russian suit shown in No. 
Save Half Your Fuel 
BV USING VMS 
ROCHESTER. 
RADIATOR. 
Fits any Stave or Furnace . 
Write for booklet on heatiug Lome*. 
. Roch ester Rad lator Co. 
i ay Furnace bt., ltocbeeter,N. Y 4 
Price from 
$2.00 to 
$ 12 . 00 . 
For hard or 
soft coal, 
wood or gas. 
5086 consists of the blouse and the trou¬ 
sers. The trousers are made in true knick- 
erbocker style, drawn up at the knees by 
means of elastic inserted in the hems. The 
blouse is made with fronts and back and 
6086 Boy’s Russian Blouse Butt, 
2, 4 and 6 years. 
Monarch 
Hydraulic 
PRESS 
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Gasoline engines , stationary, portable and traction. 
A. B. Farquhar Co's. Boilers, Engines, Saw 
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■s 
Monarch Machinery Co., 
, Room 161. 39 Cortlandt gt., X. Y. City. 
WE MAKE THE RIGHT KIND. 
Send for catalogue. 
Boomer & Boschert Press Co., 
118 Weit Water St., Syracuse, N. Y. 
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Our telephones are powerful, loud- 
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Telephones that work on any line. 
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YOUNG MEN WANTED —To learn the 
Veterinary Profession. Catalogue sent 
free. Address VETERINARY COLLEGE, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. L. L. Conkey. I'ria. 
is closed at the left side beneath the tuck. 
The sleeves are tucked at the wrists and 
plaited at the shoulders. For a boy of 
medium size is required 4(4 yards of 
material 27, 3(4 yards 32 or 2(4 yards 44 
inches wide. The pattern 5086 is cut in 
sizes for boys of 2, 4 and 6 years; price 
10 cents. 
ANY HANDY MAN 
can lay Arrow 
Brand Asphalt 
Ready Roofing. 
Very durable 
and sightly, and in the end the cheapest. 
Samples free. 
ASPHALT READY ROOFING CO. 
NO l*lno Street, New York City 
Beware of cheap imitations made from Tar. 
A KALAMAZOO 
DIRECT TO YOU! 
At Lowest Factory Prices. 
We will sell you, freight prepaid, direct from our fac¬ 
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360 Days Approval Test. 
We guarantee, under a $20,000 bank bond, that there is no 
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u 
Oven 
Thermometer I 
WE PAY THE 
FREIGHT 
Prepa 
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patent Oven Thermometer which makes baking easy. 
KALAMAZOO STOVE CO., Manufacturers, KALAMAZOO, MICH. 
IVe probably can rtf er you to pleased customers in your o-wn neighborhood. 
