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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 13, 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
AUTUMN. 
Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips 
The days, as through the sunset gates they 
crowd, 
And Summer from her golden collar slips 
And strays through stubble-fields, and 
moans aloud. 
Save when by fits the warmer air deceives. 
And, stealing hopeful to some sheltered 
bower 
She lies on pillows of the yellow leaves. 
And tries the old tunes over for an hour. 
The wind, whose tender whisper in the May 
Set all the young blooms listening through 
the grove, 
Sits rustling in the faded boughs to-day. 
And makes his cold and unsuccessful love. 
The rose has taken off her tire of red— 
The mullein stalk its yellow stars has lost. 
And the proud meadow pink hangs down her 
head 
Against earth’s chilly bosom, witched with 
frost. 
The robin, that was busy all the June, 
Before the sun had kissed the topmost 
bough, 
Catching our hearts up in his golden tune, 
. Has given place to the brown cricket now. 
The very cock crows lonesomely at morn— 
Each flag and fern the shrinking stream 
divides— 
Uneasy cattle low, and lambs forlorn 
Creep to their strawy sheds with nettled 
sides. 
Shut up the door. Who loves me must not 
look 
Upon the withered world, but haste to 
bring 
Mis lighted candle, and his story book. 
And live with me the poetry of Spring. 
—Alice Cary. 
* 
Cold boiled rice, left over from a pre¬ 
vious meal, is excellent for stuffing 
baked tomatoes. Cut a slice off the stem 
end of the tomato, scoop out the seeds, 
and fill the cavity with the rice, seasoned 
with pepper, salt, and chopped green pep¬ 
per; put a little butter on top, and bake 
the tomatoes 30 to 40 minutes. A little 
minced bacon or bacon fat may be used 
in place of the butter, if the flavor is 
liked. 
* 
A reader desires a recipe for graham 
fruit cake. We have none in our home 
cook book, but the following was given 
as a tested recipe in Good Housekeeping 
recently: Sift three cups of sifted 
graham flour, two cups of white flour, one 
teaspoon each of clove, allspice, soda and 
salt and two teaspoons of cinnamon. To 
two cups of sugar add one cup of mo¬ 
lasses and two cups of milk alternately 
with the sifted flour mixture. Beat thor¬ 
oughly and add three cups each of seeded 
raisins and citron, both slightly floured. 
Bake in a moderate oven for one hour. 
* 
Newspaper reports tell of a Kentucky 
widower, recently married for the fourth 
time, who appears to belong in the Car¬ 
negie hero class. His three previous 
marriages had resulted in seven children, 
and his fourth bride was a widow with 
five children of her own. We knew of one 
case where a widower with seven chil¬ 
dren married a widow with six, but the 
first wife’s relatives promptly appropriated 
the seven, and removed them to another 
sphere of influence, feeling that in this 
case at least, 13 would be a most unlucky 
number. Some of the very happiest fam¬ 
ilies we know are among those that in¬ 
volve a step-relationship, and some of the 
most devoted and self-sacrificing mothers 
we have met have filled the place made 
vacant by death. In most cases where 
children are involved, however, it calls 
for infinite tact and good sense, and the 
problem is always an individual one. 
* 
The hemmed bands of fine white lawn 
worn with mourning dress are easily 
soiled and crumpled, and take time to 
launder satisfactorily. An excellent sug¬ 
gestion is made by Harper’s Bazar: Get 
a yard of sheer swiss muslin, double 
width. A sixty-cent quality is quite fine 
enough. Get also a yard of fine black 
crinoline, plain—without cross-bars. Cut 
the crinoline into bands two inches wide. 
Divide into the right lengths for collars 
and cuffs. Cut the muslin into bands 
three inches wide and divide these into 
lengths also, each being an inch longer 
than the crinoline bands. Fold over once 
a half-inch on each edge and at the ends. 
Tack them to the crinoline bands with 
long stitches on the wrong side and the 
tiniest possible on the right. If 120 cot¬ 
ton is used, it will not show at all. Fasten 
the collar and cuffs with small black onyx 
safety-pins. The crinoline lining keeps 
them perfectly smooth and does not show 
on the black dress. The effect is of 
hemmed bands. Dozens may be made in 
an hour from a yard of material. They 
are always ready for use, and cost so 
little that they may be thrown away after 
once or twice wearing. 
* 
One of the much-read books of the 
year is “The Long Day," published anony¬ 
mously, but written by Miss Dorothy 
Richardson, a New York journalist. It 
describes the experiences of an untrained 
but fairly educated country girl, in her 
efforts to find work in New York, where 
she was entirely without friends. Many 
of the incidents described are painful, 
some of them shocking, yet many a girl 
struggling honestly in this whirlpool, 
knows that there are lower depths than 
here described. Miss Richardson believes 
that much of the difficulty in the working 
girl’s lot comes from the fact that she is 
never trained. She says: 
Nt having learned to work, either at 
school or at home, she goes to the factory, 
to the workshop, or to the store, crude, 
incompetent, and. worst of all. with an in¬ 
stinctive antagonism toward her task. She 
cannot work and she does not work. She 
is simply “worked.’- And there is all the 
difference in the world between “working” 
and “being worked.” To work is a privilege 
and a boon to either man or woman, and. 
properly regulated, it ought to he a pleasure. 
* * * * But the average working girl 
puts neither heart nor mind into her labor; 
she is merely a machine. * * * The 
harsh truth is that, hard as the working 
girl is “worked,” and miserable as her re¬ 
muneration is, she is usually paid quite as 
much as she is worth. 
Any country girl who thinks it would 
be an easy matter to find employment in 
a great city would do well to read this 
book. If she is well trained, not merely 
in habits of work, but in some specific 
occupation, with a clear idea of what is 
before her, and money enough to tide her 
over a slack time, she may try her luck 
with some hope of success. But the way 
is hard, and the rewards few; no girl 
without friends here should ever come to 
New York seeking employment until she 
is quite sure that she has no prospect 
in her home environment. Any unfriend¬ 
ed girl coming to New York ought to 
communicate at once with the Young 
Women’s Christian Association, No. 7 
East 15th Street, which will direct her 
to respectable boarding houses, and reg¬ 
ister her for a position. This Associa¬ 
tion is entirely non-sectarian. The vari¬ 
ous branches of the Sisters of Mercy in 
this city conduct boarding houses at nom¬ 
inal rates for young women, both those 
looking for employment and those who 
have secured positions. They are not 
managed on quite the same plan as the 
Young Women’s Christian Association, 
but young women of their communion 
who are strangers in the city would do 
well to seek the advice or hospitality of 
the sisters. There are dangers in city 
life for the unprotected girl that are un¬ 
known and unguessed at in a community 
of homes. _ 
The Receipts of Cookerv are swell’d to 
a Volume, but a good Stomach excels 
them all; to which nothing contributes 
more than Industry and Temperance .— 
Penn, 1771. 
Home-made Gas-Light for 
Country Houses 
T AKES about one hour’s work per \ \ \ | / / 
month. \ \ \ \ j \ \ / / / 
After that you merely turn a tap \ ^ 
whenever you want light, touch a 
match to the burner, and, presto— 
light. 
Yes, brilliant, beautiful, white 
light, too. A light that spreads all 
around the room like daylight. 
A light that gives sparkle to 
every polished article it falls on— 
gleam and glisten to white table 
linen—and a genial, cheery glow to 
everything it illuminates. 
Just like putting varnish over 
a faded picture—this glorifying 
Acetylene Light. 
Now that isn’t mere word-paint¬ 
ing, I want you to know, but cold 
fact, which I’ll prove up to your satis¬ 
faction or no pay. 
* 
* 
Wouldn’t you like to get rid of 
the everlasting smell of Kerosene or 
Gasoline in your home? 
Wouldn’t you like to know that 
never again would you have filthy 
Kerosene Lamps to clean and fill, 
wicks to trim, chimneys to wipe and 
the permanent dread of fire? 
Wouldn’t you like to know that 
in every room you had a pretty brass 
fixture firmly attached to ceiling, or 
wall, where it couldn't be tipped over 
by the children—where it was never 
in the way, and was always ready to 
touch a match to when you wanted 
light— little or much ? 
Wouldn’t you glory in the absence 
of soot, smell or danger? 
Wouldn’t you like your visitors 
to find in your home that smart 
“city style” which Gas-lighting 
gives, with that beautiful, soft radi¬ 
ance shining down from the ceilings, 
where it does not get in your eyes 
like the glaring light of sooty, 
smelly Kerosene Table Lamps? 
* * 
Well, Madam Householder, you 
can have all these at less cost than 
Kerosene costs you now, when once 
installed. 
In about two days’ time an 
eight to ten room house can be com¬ 
pletely fitted, from cellar to garret, 
with beautiful brass chandeliers and 
globes, complete piping, and a re¬ 
liable generator that is absolutely 
safer 
than 
any 
Kerosene 
Lamp or Gas¬ 
oline Light. 
All this, 
including the 
labor, for about 
$150 complete. 
Not a pipe 
will show on your 
ceilings or walls, ex¬ 
cept in the basement, 
and not a thread of 
your carpets will be 
cut or soiled in the in¬ 
stallation. 
This Acetylene Gas 
Plant will be good for 
more than twenty years’ 
use, which means less 
than S 8 a year for all 
the luxury, time - sav¬ 
ing, comfort, eye-sight¬ 
saving, smart effect and 
after-saving on Kerosene. 
From the day your own 
Acetylene Gas Plant is installed it 
will cost you one-third less for the 
most beautiful, softest and whitest 
Light than it ever did for the same 
candle-power with smoky,ill-smelling, 
dangerous Kerosene or Gasoline. 
* * 
Now just drop me a line to-day, 
stating how many rooms you’ve got, 
and I'll tell you just about how much 
it would cost to light them properly 
with this beautiful white light. 
And, I’ll send you “Sunlight- 
on-Tap,” a book full of mighty inter¬ 
esting things about House, Store and 
Hotel Lighting. 
Write me to-day, giving number 
of rooms. 
“ Acetylene E. Jones,” 2 Adams 
Street, Chicago, Ill. 
cure for the lawn and 
pleasure ground. 
FOR FALL 
PLANTING 
HENRY 
Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocus, Narcissus, Lilies, &c. 
Ouk New Bulb Catalogue is sent free. It tells 
all about the best bulbs, also seasonable seeds and 
plants, including our celebrated grass mix- 
A. DREER, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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U A Poor Stove is not Cheap at any Price.’ 
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SILL STOVE WORKS 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. f U. 8. A. 
