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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
v June 16, 
[ Woman and Home \ 
> A A i4 A A A -A. 
From Day to Day. 
RESURRECTION ROBES. 
We are weaving every day, as we pass 
along our way, 
Intent upon our busy work or just as busy 
play. 
Beneath the casual gaze of men, the angels' 
steady eyes. 
The Robes of Resurrection in which we 
shall arise. 
When the trumpet’s thrilling call upon our 
ears shall fall. 
And our dust shall throb and quiver, and 
Its vanished life recall. 
When each hurrying atom seeks its own. 
though distance disallow. 
We shall wear the Resurrection Robes that 
we are weaving now. 
Then the threads we sadly spun, and in 
darkness one by one 
Wove in the fabric, wishing that the long, 
hard task was done, 
Shall gleam and glimmer as a mist of lovely 
rose and blue, 
And the blacker threads of sorrow shall be 
made lovely, too. 
The glimmering glints of gold from a 
patience manifold 
Shall make a pattern sweet and strange, 
and beauteous to behold.; 
And the white of purity shall shine, the 
tear-spots fade away, 
As we don our Resurrection Robes upon that 
last great day. 
O King of joy and pain, let us not weave 
in vain ! 
Touch Thou the fabric of our lives and 
make them fair amain. 
That, when our task is finished, within the 
heavenly place. 
Clad in our Robes of Righteousness, we may 
behold Thy face! 
—Susan Coolidge. 
* 
When making flannel cakes, try the ad¬ 
dition of some bread crumbs that have 
been freshly crisped in butter, just be¬ 
fore beginning to fry the batter. 1 he 
combination is very agreeable. 
* 
Strawberry junket is now in season; 
it makes a very delicate dessert. Put one 
quart of new milk on tire hack part of the 
range, and when it becomes lukewarm 
pour it into a glass dish; sweeten, and 
flavor delicately with vanilla, stirring 
slightly; add one rennet tablet or three- 
quarters of a tablespoonful of liquid ren- 
rent. Then set it away to cool. Be care¬ 
ful not to jar it. Just before serving fill 
sherbet glasses with alternate spoonfuls 
of junket and sliced and sweetened straw¬ 
berries. Heap whipped cream on top 
and put a large berry dusted with granu¬ 
lated sugar in the center. 
* 
Prussia has officially barred out Amer¬ 
ican dime novels, and German youth wdl 
no longer be able to spend its pfennigs 
on those hair-raising narratives which 
hold up boy pirates and other despera¬ 
does as models worthy of emulation. 
The Berlin police say that such books are 
responsible for an outbreak of juvenile 
crime, and hereafter they may not be 
sold. It is an unfortunate fact that many 
parents do not keep in touch with their 
children’s reading, and their tastes thus 
move along the line of least resistance. 
Most boys are eager for stories of ad¬ 
venture. and if this need is not legiti¬ 
mately supplied they will get hold of the 
dime-novel class, perhaps to the perma¬ 
nent debasement of intellect and morals. 
* 
The New York State Forest and Game 
Commissioner has issued a circular noti¬ 
fying all concerned that he will enforce 
the law against the possession or selling 
for dress or ornament of all parts of the 
feathers or bodies of wild birds. This 
law covers the skins and feathers or parts 
thereof, especially of insectivorous birds, 
herons (aigrettes), gulls, terns, song 
birds, etc., “whenever and wherever 
taken.” The penalty for the violation of 
the law regarding the selling or posses¬ 
sion of parts of the bodies of birds or 
feathers of the same is $(50 for each of¬ 
fence and an additional $25 for each bird 
or part sold, offered for sale or possessed. 
The necessity for this law is a painful 
commentary upon woman’s vanity, which, 
alas, does not seem far progressed from 
the barbaric stage. 
* 
Oi.n Jacob Wyckoff, a farmer whose 
place was just outside of town, had made 
a present of his largest yellow pumpkin 
to the editor of the village paper, says 
the Youth’s Companion, and the editor 
wrote an item acknowledging the gift. 
But unfortunately the office boy who put 
it in type got it mixed with an item an¬ 
nouncing the birth of a baby in the fam¬ 
ily of another subscriber. This is the 
way it appeared in print: 
“Our old friend, Harry Townsend, is 
celebrating the arrival of a fine baby at 
his house. The newcomer is the very 
image of its father. It is one of the large 
cornfield variety, with huge bumps all 
over it, and weighs fifty-six pounds. 
There isn’t a flaw in it anywhere, except 
a dent made by our fool office boy; and 
that doesn’t matter, as we are going to 
cut it up at once.” 
* 
Darned net has reappeared among 
fancy work, under the Scandinavian title 
of Gitterty 1 work. It is easy, and makes 
a very decorative trimming for many 
purposes. Another thing which may be 
described as fancy work is the making of 
lingerie hats, which interests a good many 
young women. The cover is embroidered 
in either eyelet or shadow work, often 
with lace insets. The wire frame on 
which it is mounted should be covered 
with white cape net. The under side of 
the brim is covered with lace, a favorite 
style consisting of innumerable little 
frills of narrow Valenciennes. One hat 
made in this way required 30 yards of 
Valenciennes, the total cost for materials 
being about $3, which was less than one- 
third of its price as made by a milliner. 
The Valenciennes lace is often very cheap, 
as bought by the piece. Flowers are often 
used on such hats, but bows or rosettes 
of flowered ribbon make a preferred 
trimming. 
* 
The following recipe for blackberry 
pudding is a favorite with the Boston 
Cooking School: Beat one-third of a 
cup of butter to a cream. Add gradually 
half a cup of sugar and the beaten yolks 
of two eggs. Sift together two cups of 
previously sifted flour, four level tea¬ 
spoonfuls of baking powder and half a 
teaspoonful of salt. Add this to the 
creamed butter, sugar, and eggs. Put in 
half of the flour mixture, mix. and then 
put in half a cupful of cold water. Mix 
in the rest of the flour, etc. Beat thor¬ 
oughly and last of all fold in the well- 
beaten whites of the two eggs. Sprinkle 
a cupful of blackberries with a little flour 
and add them to the batter as it is 
dropped a spoonful at a time, into the 
mould, which should be rubbed with un¬ 
salted butter. Steam an hour and a half, 
or bake twenty-five minutes, and serve 
with a blackberry hard sauce. The sauce 
is made in the usual way, with half a cup 
of butter and a cup of sugar. Add to 
this half a cupful of crushed berries. 
Does Farming Pay for Wives? 
The extent to which the subject of “pin 
money” is discussed by contributors to 
the woman’s department of agricultural 
publications, places the financial results 
of farming for wives in a position of 
doubtfulness. The term “pin money” it¬ 
self is a questionable term, inasmuch as 
it may serve to cover money earned for 
actual necessities, such as a presentable 
wrap, hat, or a pair of shoes, and not 
imply a matter of spending money, with 
perfect freedom in its use. It is not so 
easy a matter to define a wife’s legiti¬ 
mate work on a farm as it is to determine 
a man’s work. Wives differ so much in 
their ability and inclinations, and some 
set a strenuous pace, milking cows, feed¬ 
ing hogs and calves, climbing fruit trees, 
and even riding hay rakes—work which 
they would have no legal right to expect 
of a woman paid for doing housework. 
But all things considered, it does seem 
that when wives go into the poultrv, fruit 
or bee business, in order to make money 
for their personal use, they are going 
outside of their legitimate work, as one 
of the financial partners in the agricul¬ 
tural business. In order to illustrate the 
gist of this statement, suppose that farm¬ 
ers in general, or at least in perceptible 
numbers, combined other work with their 
farming, such as painting and paperhang¬ 
ing. or barbering, during their evenings, 
or taking a day off now and then from 
their farming, that they might earn “pin.” 
or rather, “necktie” money? What con¬ 
clusion would naturally follow? If a 
farmer goes outside of his legitimate 
work in Older to earn his spending money 
can he say that farming pays for men? 
In town, when the wife of a merchant 
or a mechanic makes bread, pies, cakes, 
or clothing in exchange for money, it is 
assumed that she has found that her 
husband’s income is not sufficient for two 
—the man and the woman. This subject 
question does not apply to the daughters 
of the farm home, but to the wives only, 
and neither does it apply to a condition 
of indebtedness on the farm, or in town; 
to those periods during which farm and 
town homes are being paid for. and chil¬ 
dren are being educated, periods when 
wives are “up and doing” to keep square 
with the financial world. But it does 
apply to that well-to-do time, the middle- 
aged time, when it would seem that wives 
might let go with financial safety—if 
farming pays for wives. 
MEDORA CORBETT. 
Boiled Indian Pudding. —One cupful of 
milk, one cupful of corn meal, one egg, 
one tablespoonful of sugar, one table¬ 
spoonful of beef suet minced fine and. 
strings removed, one-half teaspoonful 
each of salt and ground cinnamon, one- 
third saltspoonful of soda in the milk. 
(Sour milk may be used, in which case 
take one-half teaspoonful of soda.) Heat 
the milk with the soda; when boiling stir 
in the meal, salt and suet and set aside 
to cool. When cold beat in the spice, 
sugar and whipped eggs and stir vigor¬ 
ously. Boil in a well-greased brown 
bread mold for three hours. Leave plenty 
of room for the pudding to swell. Serve 
with hard sruce or caramel, maple sugar 
or molasses. The recipe may be doubled 
arid divided in two molds for steaming— 
one to be set aside in a cool place and 
used in a week. A cupful of chopped, 
floured raisins, dates, or cooked dried 
apricots may be added. For molasses 
sauce, use one cupful of molasses, one and 
a half table poonful of butter, two table¬ 
spoonfuls of lemon juice, a dash each of 
nutmeg and cinnamon. Boil molasses, 
spices and butter five minutes, remove 
from fire and add lemon juice. Serve very 
hot. 
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