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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 11 , 
From Day to Day. 
GOIN’ BAREFOOTED. 
It’s more fun goin’ barefoot than anythin’ 
I know. 
There ain’t a single nother thing that helps 
yer feeliu’s so. 
Some days I stay in muTver’s room, a-get- 
tin’ in her way; 
An’ when I've bothered her so much, she 
sez: “Oh, run an’ play!" 
I say: “Kin I go barefoot?” En she says: 
“If y* choose”'— 
Nen I alwuz wanter holler when I’m pullin’ 
off my shoes! 
It’s fun a-goin’ barefoot when yer playin’ 
any game— 
’Cause robbers would be noisy an' Indians 
awful tame 
Unlesg they had their shoes off when they 
crop' up in the night, 
An’ folks can't know they’re coinin’ till they 
get right close in sight! 
An’ I’m surely goin' barefoot every day when 
I get old, 
An’ haven’t got a nurse to say I’ll catch my 
death o’ cold. 
An’ if yer goin’ barefoot, yer want t’ go 
outdoors. 
Y’ can't stretch out an' dig yer heels In 
stupid hardwood floors 
Like you kin dig ’em in th' dirt! An’ where 
th’ long grass grows, 
Th’ blades feel kinder tickley and cool be¬ 
tween yer toes. 
So when I'm pullin’ off my shoes I’m mighty 
'fraid I'll cough— 1 
’Cause then I know ma'd stop me ’fore I 
got my stockin’s off! 
If y' often go ’round barefoot there’s lots 
o' things to know— 
Of how t' curl yer feet on stones, so they 
won't hurt y’ so— 
An' when th' grass Is stickley an’ pricks 
y’ at a touch, 
Jes’ plank yer feet down solid, an’ it don't 
hurt half so much. 
I lose my bat mos’ every day. I wish I 
did my shoes— 
Er else I wlsht I was so poor I hadn’t none 
to lose ! 
—Burges Johnson, in Harper's Magazine. 
Those exasperating drop-stitch holes in 
the leg of a stocking can he mended much 
more easily by putting the fabric care¬ 
fully in an embroidery hoop, which gives 
an opportunity for darning with ease. 
* 
It is well to remember, in making a 
skirt of washing goods, that the more 
gores it has the more likely it is to keep 
its shape when laundered. Skirts having 
large circular side pieces usually sag out 
of shape very badly. Nor is this the case 
in washing goods only; some of the soft 
light materials of the chiffon voile class 
will sag two inches or more out of line 
when hanging in a closet, without even 
being worn. This is the great drawback 
of this season’s circular skirts. 
* 
The housewife declined to buy eggs 
when the man who supplied her regularly 
called at the door, says the Youth’s Com¬ 
panion. “The last three or four times,” 
she said, “there have been a number not 
fit to use, sometimes as many as three in 
a dozen.” 
“Well, now. Mis’ Somers, ain’t that 
kind of a ha’sh way to look at it?” the 
vender asked, in mild remonstrance. 
“Don’t yon know that a hen is bound to 
lay a bad egg now an’ agin?” 
* 
Since the recent query for methods of 
canning corn several correspondents have 
written to assure us that they want noth¬ 
ing better than the method given us by 
Mrs. Roper in our issue of August 12 last 
year. Says a Long Island correspondent, 
who suggests that we reprint it: 
I tried it with perfect success, and found 
it such a relief to lie really able to can corn, 
that I wanted everybody to know of it. 
This is the first of the two recipes 
given on page 590. The next suggestion 
needed to gladden housewives all over 
the country is an easy way of canning to¬ 
matoes so that they never ferment, and aft 
absolutely infallible method of making 
tomato catchup that will never shoot out 
of the bottle like a vegetable volcano. 
* 
One of the showy, hardy plants enliv¬ 
ening our home garden in June and July 
is the Rose campion or Mullein pink, 
Agrostemma coronaria, called Lychnis 
coronaria by modern botanists. It has 
handsome silvery foliage and bright 
crimson flowers, which make it very con¬ 
spicuous in the hardy garden. We ob¬ 
tained a few plants several years ago. and 
since then it has been self-sown freely 
every year. The seeds germinate very 
quickly in the open border, as soon as 
they ripen, forming neat little plants by 
Fall, which flower the next season; they 
seem to take hold at once, even with the 
most casual transplanting. The seed is 
sold at five cents a packet by seedsmen 
who make a specialty of hardy plants. 
* 
The following recipe for canning cur¬ 
rants is given by Miss Anna Glasgow in 
the Chicago Record-Herald: Wash the 
currants, being careful not to break them; 
remove stems, and pack currants into 
quart cans, shaking them down well. To 
each can add one cup hot sugar, place the 
jars on a wooden frame in the boiler, 
place the covers loosely on the cans, and 
put enough of cold water in the boiler, 
so when it begins to boil it will not boil 
into the cans. After the water has boiled 
for half an hour, the cans should be lifted 
out, the covers screwed on tight and put 
in a cool, dark place until wanted for the 
table. For those that like mixed fruits, 
a layer of strawberries or raspberries 
and then a layer of currants may be 
packed in the cans. 
* 
Some of the new white batiste waists 
are made with a square or Dutch neck 
and elbow sleeves, with the addition of 
half sleeves and chemisette to be worn 
when desired. The elbow sleeves have a 
hem or fold under the lace cuff, button¬ 
holes being worked in this for attaching 
the half sleeves. This is a good idea in 
making a silk or thin woolen waist, in 
which case some different material would 
be used, Brussels net or mousseline de 
soie, with fine hand-run tucks forming a 
cross-bar or plaid, the squares about one 
inch across, makes a very pretty chemis¬ 
ette, either transparent or lined with silk, 
and pointe d’esprit may be treated in the 
same way. We have seen some very 
pretty chemisettes and undersleeves made 
of fine dotted Swiss, without any tucking 
or other adornment except fine lace frills 
at neck and wrists. French Valenciennes 
is suitable for this; German Valenciennes, 
which is enormously used this Summer, 
comes in very pretty patterns, but the 
mesh is coarser than the French. 
A Day from Home. 
John’s wdfe and I were invited over to 
Lena Merwin’s to spend the day last 
week. It seemed real pleasant and invig¬ 
oratin’ to set in somebody else’s rock¬ 
ing chairs, see different wall papers and 
carpets, eat things we hadn’t had no hand 
in cookin’ of, and hearin’ new voices and 
seein’ how other people managed things. 
We came home all spirited up for things 
at home, and hez both worked twice ez 
well since for the change. Things hap¬ 
pened all in heaps with Lena that day, 
jest ez they’ve a way o’ doin’ in every 
family now and then. I see when we 
went in thet she’d got her table all set in 
the dining room, so’s to have more time 
to visit with us. Well, we’d just got out 
our knittin’ work all round when inter the 
yard drives Lena’s sister Katie with her 
husband and all her five children. Lena 
was equal ter takin’ it all handsomely and 
we had a real good time visitin’ all to¬ 
gether. 
Katie’s husband seems a niceish sort 
of a man. I noticed he was real good 
’bout helpin’ wait on the children, and 
they’ve got a real promisin’ row of boys. 
One o’ these days they’ll put shoulders 
to the wheel and life won’t be the tread¬ 
mill ’tis for Katie now. She’d got jackets 
and trousers for ’em enough to go around 
by wearin’ some of the everydays, but 
when it come to overcoats the next to the 
baby was wrapped up in a shawl and had 
on a bonnet ’stead of a cap, and the boy 
next older haji a length of full cloth 
pinned round him. Katie said she’d 
bought the cloth for overcoats, but could¬ 
n’t see no chance to make it up. I tell yer 
it sorter went to my heart. ’Twas well 
enough, to be sure, but I jest longed ter 
go and spend a month sewin’ and helpin’ 
her out. She said sometimes she got most 
discouraged, things wore out so fast, and 
she couldn’t never seem to catch up with 
one season’s work ’fore another season 
was treadin’ on its heels. She said she 
tried ter simplify all she could, lived on 
bare floors, though she hated ’em, and lied 
put away what few pretty things she’d 
got left, ’cause the boys was all over things 
so and everything got broke or spoiled 
somehow. She wan’t complainin’ none 
but jest tellin’ me whilst the rest was 
talkin’. She said her house looked bare 
as a barn, but she laughed when she said 
it. Of course I knew she preferred her 
boys to all the gimcracks in the world, 
but Lena ? s house is real neat and tasty, 
and her children’s most grown up. 
Now I’ve been thinkin’ a lot about Katie. 
Sneeclnnakers and newspapers talk about 
the homes bein’ the wealth of the nation 
and the hope of the future, and all that, 
and it sounds sort of empty and windy 
talk, but once in a while something makes 
such words seem alive and full of truth. 
Sometimes precious ez heart’s blood is put 
into every true home; there’s not one 
worthy of the name but costs tremendous 
when you come to think of it. Why, I 
know women slavin’ early and late, a baby 
in the cradle (they use the baby carriage 
now but it’s the same thing), a troop uv 
hungry, teasing, mudpie-making little 
youngsters always about their skirts, and 
hired men to cook for and the house and 
maybe some dairy work to look after. 
They don’t spend much thought theorizin’ 
’bout the nation’s wealth and future hopes, 
but they’re the makin’ of a good deal of 
it. They’re heroes, every one of ’em. 
They’re tired and worried and cross some¬ 
times, maybe, and their only thought in the 
morning is how to get through the day 
and their last at night a dread of how soon 
morning will come. But they’re doin’ a 
noble work, and they’re entitled to all the 
love and sympathy and honor we can all 
heap on ’em. Now don’t you be thinkin’ 
I’m for^ettin’ all the easy-going bachelor 
freedom the fathers hez give up. But 
they’re making themselves ez well ez their 
homes. Work and responsibility is good 
for ’em, and their little calls to tenderness 
and patience and self-sacrifice is just what 
is needed in the makin’ of a man. 
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THE GOI,I> COIN STOVE CO., 3 Oak St., Tr.oy, N. Y. 
(Successor to Bussey & McLeod, Est. 1H60) 
NEW YORK STATE FAIR 
SYRACUSE, September 10-15, 1906. 
$65,000.00 IN PURSES AND PREMIUMS. 
INDUSTRIAL 
AND 
AGRICULTURAL 
LIVE STOCK. 
New classes added—Improved classifi¬ 
cation In Swine Department. 
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. 
Exhibitors in this department, unable to 
be present at the fair, can have their ex¬ 
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close of tlie fair. 
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EXHIBITION. 
LIBERAL PRIZES 
offered in the Dairy, Farm Produce, Fruit 
and Flower Departments. 
ENTRIES CLOSE. 
Live stock, August 13th, Implements 
and Machines September 10th, all other 
departments September 3rd. 
FRIZE LIST. 
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