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T11E RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March if, 
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[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
My days among the Dead are past; 
Around me I behold. 
Where'er these casual eyes are cast 
The mighty minds of old; 
My never failing friends are they 
With whom I converse day by day. 
With them I take delight in weal 
And seek relief in woe; 
And while I understand and feel 
How much to them I owe. 
My cheeks have often been bedew'd 
With tears of thoughtful gratitude. 
My thoughts are with the Dead, with them 
I live in long-past years. 
Their virtues love, their faults condemn, 
Partake their hopes and fears, 
And from them lessons seek and find 
Instruction with an humble mind. 
My hopes are with the Dead, anon 
My place with them will be 
And I with them shall travel on 
Through all Futurity; 
Yet leaving here a name I trust 
That will not perish in the dust. 
—Robert Southey (1774-184.1). 
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A good way to turn even hems on table 
linen, ready for hand sewing, is to put 
the hemmer attachment on the sewing 
machine and run the linen through, with¬ 
out any thread on the machine. r \ his 
turns a straight hem very cpiickly which 
is merely folded back when over-hand 
hemming is done; the orthodox hemming 
for table linen. 
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A very convenient shirt waist box, de¬ 
scribed in Good Housekeeping, is an extra 
long one divided into two compartments, 
one for waists and the other for white 
petticoats, for which there is never 
enough room in closet or bureau drawers. 
It is covered with matting, and two rows 
of elastic tape, tacked at intervals inside 
the lid, hold stocks and turnovers smooth 
and unrumpled. 
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Here is still another recipe for ginger 
cookies: Sift together three cups flour, 
one cup sugar, a dessertspoonful each of 
soda and ginger and one-half teaspoonful 
salt. Heat in saucepan one cup molasses 
with one-half cup shortening; when hot 
add four dessertspoonfuls hot water. Cool 
slightly and stir into dry mixture. Add 
quickly two well-beaten eggs. Mix well. 
Drop by spoonfuls a little distance apart 
on buttered tin. When pan is full, flatten 
each cooky with bottom of measuring cup, 
well floured. Bake in moderate oven. 
One-half recipe is sufficient. 
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Women who have leisure for fancy 
needlework are now devoting attention to 
embroidering lingerie waists; shadow em¬ 
broidery, in which the solid part of the 
work is done on the under side, is espe¬ 
cially favored. The best material for this 
work is handkerchief linen. A waist pat¬ 
tern in this material costs about $2.50, 
ready stamped for working. A stamped 
pattern in lawn only costs 05 cents, but it 
is a great mistake to put good work upon 
it. The lawn never looks the same after 
washing, whereas the handkerchief linen 
retains its sheer texture to the last thread, 
and gives full value to fine hand work. 
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One of the prettiest wraps to slip over 
a thin Summer dress in the evening is a 
rainbow shawl knitted in Shetland floss. 
The materials required are: Four skeins 
cream Shetland floss, two skeins pink, 
one skein corn, one skein blue, one skein 
nile green, one skein lavender, one pair 
large wooden knitting needles. Cast on 
73 stitches and knit entire shawl plain. 
The colorings are put in as follows: Pink, 
10 rows; blue, 10 rows; corn, 10 rows; 
white, 10 rows; pink. 10 rows; nile, 10 
rows; lavender, 10 rows; white, 80 rows. 
Repeat border, beginning with lavender 
and ending with pink. Bind off loosely. 
Tie in fringe of the colors to match the 
border; make two rows of knots and trim. 
A new process for artistic decoration 
is now offered under the name of “paint- 
ography,” which consists of enamel paint¬ 
ing on terra-cotta. Vases, flower pots, 
trays, frames, etc., are made of biscuit- 
colored terra-cotta with a raised pattern; 
this is painted with enamel and gilding, 
and the effect is exactly like Oriental pot¬ 
tery. It is interesting work, and easily 
done; the makers assert that the enamel 
is permanent, being washed just like 
china. No firing is required. The outfit 
of enamel and brushes costs $1.25 to $2; 
terra cotta articles for decorating cost 25 
cents up. 
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Clam pie is a Down East delicacy. 
From a half pound of rather fat salt pork 
trim off the rind and cut in slices, then 
in dice. Slowly fry this, and when the 
fat is well drawn out and just beginning 
to color add half of a small onion cut 
fine. When golden brown add one quart 
of raw, diced potatoes, one pint of boiling 
water and one quarter of a teaspoonful 
of black pepper. Cover and cook slowly 
until the potatoes are almost tender. Take 
from the fire, add one solid pint of raw 
clams cut in quarters and their strained 
juice. Turn into a deep, well-greased bak¬ 
ing dish. While this mixture is cooking 
mix and sift together one pint and a half 
of flour, a half teaspoonful of salt and 
two scant teaspoonfuls of shortening. Mix 
to a soft dough with sweet milk, and roll 
out not over a half inch thick. Cut in small 
round biscuits. Place these close together 
over the top of the pie, brush with milk 
and bake in a hot oven for 35 minutes. 
Charity Sweetheart’s Letters. 
Looking over the meadows the other 
morning I saw Daisy Wilson coming 
across lots. “O Charity,” she said, as she 
came into the kitchen, “I want to borrow 
your new wringer to help with some quilts 
that Ma is bound to get out this fine day.” 
It seems a little early for houseclean¬ 
ing, I thought, for one isn’t able to have 
the windows open when the days are 
chilly, and I always enjoy the Spring sun¬ 
shine when cleaning the bedrooms, and 
feel like singing Whittier’s poem to an 
improvised tune: 
The west winds blow, and singing low, 
I hear the glad stream run, 
And all the windows of my soul 
I open to the sun. 
1 wonder if it is because the windows 
of my soul are closed that I did not want 
to lend the wringer? Am I really stingy 
at heart, though trying to be generous? 
In this case it was the influence of a feel¬ 
ing of injustice, in the fact that the Wil¬ 
sons dress better than either Minty or I 
can afford, and spend money in useless 
ways, while their house is bare of many 
of the needed comforts and furnishings to 
make work easier. If they couldn’t afford 
to buy a wringer it would be different, but 
they borrowed it once before and sent it 
back after washing dark cloth, and the 
color crocked off on the white clothes, 
and gave us a good deal of trouble. It 
is a true saying, “Who goes a-borrowing— 
goes a-sorrowing,” and I thought of this 
when listening to Daisy’s talk, for she did 
not seem in a hurry. However, we could 
not refuse to lend the wringer, and she 
might possibly reach home before the 
quilts were out on the line. 
Daisy Wilson is a nice girl, but 
thoughtless and fond of dress, and though 
she helps with the housework she is quite 
willing to have her mother sit up till past 
midnight to finish a dress or blouse for 
her to wear at a party. It is lovely to 
have such a self-sacrificing mother, no 
doubt, but how can a daughter with a con¬ 
science allow it? Mrs. Wilson will de¬ 
prive herself of any necessary comfort 
for the sake of having Daisy dressed bet¬ 
ter than the rest of the young folks about, 
and for that reason there is petty jealousy 
and rivalry among the girls. Farmers’ 
daughters, more than any others, need all 
the labor-saving machinery possible, for 
they have to be self-centered with their 
work, and are not able to go out and buy 
things at a moment’s notice like their city 
cousins, or to call in outside help in an 
emergency. 
I canned a lot of tomatoes last Fall 
and sold them to customers, so when the 
money was paid me I invested part of it in 
a raisin stoner, and an improved meat 
chopper for Minty and me, and now I 
am wondering if that bread-making ma¬ 
chine advertised will be as useful as the 
others if I save my money to get one. It 
seems a little risky, but kneading bread 
is such hard work that it will be a bless¬ 
ing if the machine is a success. But I 
hope “Daisy” will not expect to borrow 
it. [The editors use that bread-mixer, and 
assure Charity she takes no risk in buy¬ 
ing it. As one of our neighbors says, “it 
makes bread as good as cake.” Eds.] 
The Winter has been so mild that the 
house plants have grown amazingly, and 
I have been taking off cuttings of geran¬ 
iums, Fuchsias and the Impatiens Sultani, 
and rooting them in boxes of sand. After 
awhile I shall transplant them into-thumb 
pots, or tomato cans, so as to be ready 
for bedding out. There are several new 
houses being built, and the people who are 
to live in them each plan to have a gar¬ 
den, and asked me if they could get plants 
nearer than town. So my pansies are up 
out of the ground with the first tiny 
leaves on, and everything seems prosper¬ 
ing in that line. “Put a pansy on her 
eyes and watch till she awakens”—but I 
think 1 can see too well to view every¬ 
thing coleur de rose. Our own garden 
too must be improved, and one may as 
well understand first as last that nothing 
succeeds without work and personal su¬ 
pervision. I have tried hiring a boy and 
setting him to hoe a few rows of corn or 
beans, and he dawdles along without any 
hurry or interest, literally letting the 
grass grow under his feet. But if I put 
on my sunbonnet and take a hoe and 
work beside him, he has some spur to in¬ 
dustry, and seeing that I am in earnest 
soon begins to hustle for the sake of his 
own self-respect. This is the way with 
all workers; they are much more respect¬ 
ful if they know that you can do it your¬ 
self, and the boys here are just the same. 
I can get Grant to help without telling 
him of a need, but Sherman wants gen¬ 
erally to know if he is to be paid for his 
work, and Cleveland tires easily, though 
often starting well. He works too much 
in spurts. However, we are getting ready 
for the coming of Spring, and I am plan¬ 
ning how I can earn some pocket money 
for things I want, that cannot be had for 
the wishing. charity sweetheart. 
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