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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 6, 
From Day to Day. 
A PARABLE. 
“Said Christ the Lord. ‘I will go and sop 
How the mon, m.v brethren, believe in me.' 
He passed not again through the gate of 
birth, 
But made Himself known to the children 
of earth. 
Then said the chief priests, and rulers, and 
kings, 
‘Behold, now the Giver of all good things: 
Go to, let us welcome with pomp and state 
Him who alone is. mighty and great.’ 
With carpets of gold the ground they 
spread 
Wherever the Son of Man should tread. 
And in palace-chambers lofty and rare 
They lodged Him, and served Him with 
kingly fare. 
Great organs surged through arches dim 
Their jubilant floods in praise of Him; 
And in church, and palace, and judgipent- 
hall. 
He saw His image high over all. 
But still, wherever His steps they led. 
The Lord in sorrow bent down His lihad. 
And from under the heavy foundation- 
stones. 
The Son of Mary heard hitter groans. 
Plain “tailor-made” waists of cotton 
and linen will, we are told, dispute the 
popularity of the ubiquitous lingerie waist 
next season. They are often seen this 
Fall, many of them having stiff cuffs 
fastened by links. Their simple style 
makes them very suitable for wear with 
a mannish jacket suit. Lingerie waists 
over a colored slip are to give way to 
simple silk or woolen, when cold weather 
comes. Stripes and plaids are already 
much worn, as usual in hall, making pret¬ 
ty waists. The fancy for stripes is shown 
by the fashionable belts of Roman ribbon, 
the stripes being either lengthwise or 
across the ribbon. They are seen in all 
the vivid coloring popular 20 years ago, 
so anyone who has Roman ribbon laid 
away will do well to bring it out, furbish 
up a gilt buckle, and thus provide a smart 
new belt. Among the thin woolens for 
Fall and Winter waists nothing is pret¬ 
tier than albatross. White albatross, 
trimmed with a little fancy stitching or 
inset with medallions of Cluny lace, 
makes a very pretty waist at moderate 
arranged with an entertaining programme 
of music and a short farce. This brought 
about $.10 to swell the treasury. We in¬ 
tend to keep up the same arrangement 
through the coming Winter. It has been 
suggested that some of the lectures usu¬ 
ally given, by request, for the beneiit of 
the Grange, be made public for a dime ad¬ 
mission. I think this will be done. \ou 
see a Grange can’t live and be narrow. 
It must necessarily reach out after new 
blood, new ideas. It includes the whole 
family, and it must provide interest for 
all. One of the most interesting evenings 
we spent debating whether the man makes 
circumstances, or is made by them. We 
discussed “Market Facilities in this Vicin¬ 
ity” the same evening that we had the 
Jack Horner pie and the spelling match. 
Variety is the spice of life and a Grange 
makes for variety and sociability, and 
hard busiwess sense. There is this much 
about it: if you are going to be a Granger, 
you have got to put purely selfish aim- 
behind your back, and be willing to give 
freely of your best ideas, your business 
knowledge of good farming, and be will¬ 
ing to let the other man teach you some¬ 
thing, otherwise the Grange won’t help 
you, and frankly—you won’t be much of 
an ornament to the farmer’s “union.” 
ADAH E. COLCORD. 
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And in church, and palace, and judgment- 
hall, 
lie marked great fissures that rent the 
wall. 
And opened wider and yet more wide 
As the living foundation heaved and 
sighed. 
‘Have ye founded your thrones and altars, 
then, 
On the bodies and souls of living men? 
And think ye that building shall endure. 
Which shelters the noble and crushes tlie 
poor ? 
‘With gates of silver and bars of gold 
Ye have fenced my sheep from their Father’s 
fold; 
I have heard the dropping of- their tears 
In Heaven these eighteen hundred years.’ 
‘O Lord and Master, not ours the guilt. 
We build but as our fathers built: 
Behold Thine images, how they stand. 
Sovereign and sole, through all our land. 
‘Our task is hard—with sword and flame 
To hold Thine earth forever the same. 
And with sharp crooks of steel to keep 
Still, as Thou leftest them. Thy sheep. 
Then Christ sought out an artisan, 
A low-browed, stunted, haggard man. 
And a motherless girl, whose fingers thin 
Pushed from her faintly want and sin. 
These lie set in the midst of them. 
And as they drew back their 'garment-hem. 
For fear of defilement, ‘Lo, here,’ said He. 
‘The images ye have made of Me !’ ” 
—James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). 
• 
Shadow work, which has been such a 
popular form of embroidery on thin ma¬ 
terials, may be very much enriched in 
effect by stuffing the pattern. To do this, 
the embroidery thread is run back and 
forth between the stitching and the ma¬ 
terial until it is well stuffed, after the 
shadow stitches are finished. The design 
becomes raised like a rich applique. 
♦ 
A reader asks for a spicy mixture to 
perfume garments that are laid away. We 
want nothing better, ourselves, than lav¬ 
ender flowers, put in little muslin bags 
that are distributed among the garments, 
but if something spicy is wanted the fol¬ 
lowing combination is recommended: One 
ounce each of powdered cloves, caraway 
seeds, nutmeg, mace and cinnamon, and 
six ounces powdered orris root. Fill lit¬ 
tle cheesecloth bags with the mixture and 
scatter through drawers and trunks. 
* 
The National Association of Audubon 
Societies calls aigrettes “The White 
Badge of Cruelty,” and both Mrs. Roose¬ 
velt and Queen Alexandra of England 
have put themselves on record publicly 
in expressing their abhorrence of the 
fashion of wearing these feathers. But 
their fragile beauty, and the knowledge 
that they represent visible wealth, give 
them an irresistable fascination to many 
women, which quite overbalances any 
sense of humanity towards “our little 
brothers of the air.” 
cost. 
The Grange's Work. 
“In union there is strength,” and the 
farmer has discovered the secret for him¬ 
self. The Grange stands for union, the 
concentrated “best” of each individual, 
that the whole may he better. Grangers 
make good citizens, and vice versa, every 
time. Start a Grange in a town and you 
quicken “public-spiritedness.” I have 
heard some rather severe criticism of the 
Grange because so much time was given 
to purely social enjoyment. It has been 
laid at the door of the “younger mem¬ 
bers.” That is short-sighted and unkind. 
One of the objects of the order is to pro¬ 
mote “good fellowship,” and why should¬ 
n’t young people enjoy themselves at the 
Grange and stir the old fogies out of the 
solemn ruts they so conscientiously pur¬ 
sue? The manufacturers of farm necessi¬ 
ties are quick to recognize the power of 
the Grange. During my term of office as 
secretary of Grange 146, I received many 
“reduced rates”—practically wholesale 
prices, if several members ordered to¬ 
gether “as Grangers.” 
For two years the two Granges in this 
town have exhibited at the N- Fair 
for prizes, and it has come to the pass 
that the “Grange exhibit,” so-called, has 
been two-thirds of the show. Now that 
we have our hall, and are cutting off some 
good slices of debt against us, the idea 
occurred to a brother that we might sel 
up a fair of our own and pocket the 
profits as well as just prize money. We 
invited the other Grange to come in on 
equal terms, hut they were not inclined 
to venture. There was quite a disturb¬ 
ance created at first. The usual number 
of “conservative members” were panic- 
stricken. “Why, it couldn’t he made to 
pay half the expenses! We’d be swamped 
and better not try it.” But we are going 
to have a fair of our own, in our own 
hall, this month. The chairman of the 
feast committee says that it takes a few 
women to make a successful fair, and she 
doesn’t intend to let anyone go away hun¬ 
gry. That’s one of the problems at the 
fair grounds—decent food. There won’t 
he any rent to pay either, and no premi¬ 
ums. Everyone is invited to exhibit and 
the articles loaned will be properly labeled 
and receive good care. Instead of cheap 
fakers and questionable attractions, the 
committee has arranged for a little dance 
the last evening in the assembly hall. 
There was a committee appointed last 
Spring to arrange for an entertainment 
each month; to he public—the proceeds 
to_be used in the hall fund. This has 
been a grand success. April we had a 
good drama, and cleared $25. May was 
a graphophone dance—cleared about $15. 
In June there was a strawberry festival 
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