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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 31, 
[ Woman and Home ] 
From Day to Day. 
THE RHODORA. 
In May, when seawinds pierced our solitudes, 
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, 
Spreading its leafless bloooms in a damp 
nook, 
To please the desert and the sluggish brook. 
The purple petals, fallen in the pool. 
Made the black water with their beauty gay; 
Here might the red-bird come his plumes to 
cool. 
And court the flower that cheapens his ar¬ 
ray. 
Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why 
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, 
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for 
seeing, 
Then beauty is its own excuse for being: 
Why thou wert there. O rival of the rose! 
I never thought to ask, I never knew, 
But in my simple ignorance, suppose 
The self-same Tower, that brought me there 
brought you. 
—Ralph Waldo. Emerson. 
* 
Peqple have different ideas as to what 
constitutes a holiday—or a vacation, says 
the Youth’s Companion. Mrs. Pettis had 
her own firmly fixed opinions on the sub¬ 
ject. 
“I don’t count Thanksgiving or Christ¬ 
mas or Washington’s Birthday or any of 
those, holidays,” she said, frankly, to an 
old friend one day. "What I count a 
holiday is when Ezra and Jim and Bob 
and 'Liphlet go off up to the wood-lot 
with their dinner, and I know they won’t 
be back till night. 
"I’m not one to deny that men-folks 
have their good points, but how any wom¬ 
an can call it a holiday' when they’re in 
the house, calling for food by looks when 
they aren’t by words, is beyond me!” 
* 
Here is a recipe for Scripture cake, 
which is excellent. The recipe has often 
been sold at church fairs: One cup 
Judges, v: 25, (last clause); two cups 
Jeremiah vi: 20 ; one-half dozen Job 
xxxix: 14; a little Genesis xix: 26; one 
cup Genesis xxiv: 20 ; two cups Deu¬ 
teronomy xxiii: 24, (dried, chopped) ; two 
cups St. Mark xi: 13, chopped; one cup 
Numbers xvii: 8 , chopped; St. Mark, 
xvi: 1 , to taste; large spoonful of I. Sam¬ 
uel xiv: 25; 3J4 cups (prepared) I. Kings 
iv: 22 (first clause). Follow King Solo¬ 
mon’s advice for making boys good (Pro¬ 
verbs xxiii: 14), and you will have a good 
cake. With the references eliminated it 
calls for one cup butter, two cups sugar, 
six eggs, a little salt, one cup water, two 
cups chopped raisins; two cups figs, 
chopped; one cup chopped almonds; spices 
to taste; large spoonful honey; 3 l /t cups 
prepared flour. Beat well, and bake in a 
loaf like fruit cake. 
* 
The housekeeping methods of people 
who live in New York flats and who buy 
nearly all their food ready cooked, says 
the New York Sun, are amazing to ther; 
friends from smaller towns, who are ac¬ 
customed to dwell on the ground, with 
plenty of storage space. A western wom¬ 
an who was recently visiting some New 
York friends in an apartment was prais¬ 
ing her own skill as a cook, and in proof 
offered to prepare chicken a la Maryland 
for dinner. The offer was accepted and 
the hostess acted as assistant cook. At 
the proper stage of the game the western 
woman asked for the flour. Going to a 
small tin box which stood on a conveni¬ 
ent shelf the woman of the flat produced 
a two-pound sack. 
"I askd for the flour,” said the guest, 
looking blank. 
"This is the flour,” replied her hostess. 
“That!” gasped the other woman, sink¬ 
ing into a chair for support: "I thought 
it was the baking powder!” 
* 
The recent death of Susan Brownell 
Anthony removes a forceful figure in all 
that pertains to social betterment. We of 
the present generation think of her chiefly 
as an agitator for women’s suffrage, but 
we must also remember her work for the 
abolition of slavery in the stormy days 
before the Civil War, and her unceasing 
activity in the temperance cause. Miss An¬ 
thony was born in South Adams, Mass., 
on February 15, 1820. Her father was 
Daniel Anthony, a cotton manufacturer. 
He was a Quaker, with somewhat liberal 
ideas, and he employed tutors to give his 
daughters the best education obtainable. 
Daniel Anthony moved to Washington 
county, this State, and Miss Anthony was 
sent to the Friends’ boarding school in 
Philadelphia. Her teachers soon realized 
that she possessed an unusual mind and 
some of her ideas on education were far 
ahead of her time. Upon her graduation 
she became a school teacher—she wished 
to do something in the world and in those 
days teaching was about the only profes¬ 
sion open to a woman. She found no 
difficulty in getting employment, but the 
pay was much smaller than men got for 
similar work and then came her first ar¬ 
gument in favor of woman’s rights. 
“If I teach as well as a man why should 
I not receive the salary of a man?” she 
asked a district school commissioner. The 
question cost her her job, but she got an¬ 
other one and continued to think about 
woman’s rights. 
Three questions — temperance, woman 
suffrage and the abolition of slavery— 
were much discussed throughout the 
country in 1840 and they interested Miss 
Anthony. She became familiar with the 
sermons of Lyman Beecher, father of 
Henry Ward Beecher, who was at the 
head of the temperance movement; she 
committed to memory many of the speeches 
of Wendell Phillips and other anti-slavery 
orators, and her own experiences in fight¬ 
ing for men’s wages while teaching school 
prompted her to devote part of her ener¬ 
gies to the cause of woman suffage. Her 
ready tongue, quick mind and executive 
ability won for her a leading place among 
the female reformers before the war. She 
was living in Rochester then, where her 
father had established a homestead. Ad¬ 
mission to a temperance convention was 
refused to her on account of her sex, and 
in 1851 she called a meeting of her own 
in Albany in the interest of the cause, 
which because of its success was the 
foundation of her future fame. In 1850 
and 1851 she established several temper¬ 
ance societies in this State; she took ad¬ 
vantage of every convention of teachers 
to expound her views on reform, and she 
soon had a large following. Miss An¬ 
thony first became conspicuous as an anti¬ 
slavery agitator in 1856, when she became 
one of the regular agents of the Anti- 
Slavery Society. She spoke in schools, 
barns, halls and churches, and if no hall 
could be secured she addressed meetings 
from lumber wagons or carts in the open 
air. She spoke in the Columbia River 
region when she had to ride in a stage 
coach to get there. She took part in de¬ 
bates with pro-slavery editors and agita¬ 
tors and addressed legislative bodies and 
committees and conventions. At the same 
time she continued her work in favor of 
woman’s suffrage, which she began ac¬ 
tively in 1854. On this subject she deliv¬ 
ered about 100 lectures a year. The ques¬ 
tion of the ballot for women at that time 
did not command so much of her atten¬ 
tion as legislation which handicapped 
women in their civil rights. It was due 
largely to her labors that the New York 
Legislature in 1860 passed the act giving 
to a married woman the right to her 
earnings and the guardianship of her chil¬ 
dren. Throughout the war her home in 
Rochester was the abiding place for many 
a fugitive slave. In 1860 she presented 
to Congress her first petition in favor of 
leaving the word “male” out of the Four¬ 
teenth amendment, and at the end of the 
war, with Mrs. Stanton and Lucy Stone, 
she went to Kentucky and agitated the 
woman’s suffrage question so successfully 
that in 1867 there were 9,000 votes cast 
in favor of the reform. Miss Anthony 
continued to lecture and address meetings 
in the cause of women until a few months 
ago when illness made it impossible for 
her to leave her home in Rochester. She 
did not devote all of her energies to the 
question of voting, either. Co-education 
was one of the things which interested 
her greatly, and much of her time and 
considerable of her money were spent in 
aiding colleges in which women students 
were taught. She was a conspicious fig¬ 
ure whenever a delegation of women 
went to Washington to impress their ideas 
upon Congress and at all of the conven¬ 
tions of the woman suffragists she was 
the acknowledged leader. Even after she 
passed the age of 80 she continued her 
activity, and her brain seemed to be as 
clear as ever. She was wonderfully alert, 
and at the age of 84 she went abroad, at¬ 
tended a convention and made an extend¬ 
ed tour in the suffrage cause. Though 
she did not live to see the ballot bestowed 
upon women throughout the whole United 
States, Miss Anthony saw the final tri¬ 
umph of many reforms in which she was 
vitally interested. Her own character 
combined the eager enthusiasm of the born 
reformer with the wholesome virtues of 
everyday life. We hear much nowadays, 
of the opportunities open to American 
women; it is well to remember how many 
of them exist as a result of pioneer work 
on the part of Miss Anthony and others 
of like mind, who blazed the trail that 
we might follow. 
A Hop Vine. 
Growing against the back wall of our 
house, and also into the branches of a 
nearby tree, is a hop vine of some year’s 
standing. Situated as it is, it takes up 
but little room. Some of its branches are 
trained so as to shade the upper part of 
the pantry window. When the hops are 
ready to pick, the vines are pulled down 
and the grandmother and children of the 
family gather round them for the annual 
hop-gathering. The vine receives good 
care each Spring, which it repays by 
sending up the thriftiest of vines loaded 
in the early Fall with large hops. How 
do we use them? As gifts to friends; 
for simple remedies; and also for a justly 
famed old-fashioned hop yeast. When 
the yeast jug is full, the neighbors re¬ 
spond quickly to the invitation to come 
for some fresh hop yeast. Hop roots cost 
but little, some firms advertise them at 
15 cents. helen c. Andrews. 
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