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TIIE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER. 
November 3, 
From Day to Day. 
WHEN THE GRASS SHAKE COVER ME. 
When the grass shall cover me. 
llea<l to foot where I am lying— 
When not any wind that blows. 
Summer blooms nor Winter snows, 
Shall awake me to your sighing; 
Close above me as you pass, 
You will say, “How kind she was," 
You will say. “How true she was," 
When the grass grows over me. 
When the grass shall cover me, 
Holden close to earth's warm bosom, 
While I laugh, or weep, or sing 
Nevermore, for anything. 
You will find in blade and blossom, 
Sweet small voices, odorous. 
Tender pleaders in my cause, 
That shall speak me as I was— 
When the grass grows over me. 
When the grass shall cover me; 
Ah. beloved, in my sorrow 
Very patient, I can wait, 
Knowing that, or soon or late. 
There will dawn a clearer morrow; 
When your heart will moan : “Alas ! 
Now 1 know how true she was; 
Now I know how dear she was," 
When the grass grows over me. 
—Ina Coolbrith iu Overland Monthly, 1*08. 
* 
The screen door may be turned in \\ in¬ 
ter into a storm door, says Charles Bar¬ 
nard in the Woman’s Home Companion. 
Take down the door, lay it flat on two 
tables, outside up; then cover the whole 
door with a double thickness of heavy 
burlap tacked on with small copper tacks. 
T he burlap should he wider and longer 
than the door to form an edging to cover 
the crack between the door and the door 
frame. Hang it in place and it will make 
a very good substitute for a wooden storm 
door. Such an extemporized door was 
used all last Winter on the north side 
of a country house exposed to cold winds 
with excellent results in keeping the 
house warm in cold weather. In the 
Spring the burlap was taken off. and the 
door returned to its Summer duty. We 
have also heard of the storm door being 
covered with table oilcloth for the same 
purpose. 
* 
Theke arc times when rigid obedience 
to orders becomes a fault, and such a 
case is thus recorded by the San Fran¬ 
cisco Argonaut: Mrs. Flint was a very 
stern woman, who demanded instant and 
unquestioning obedience from her chil¬ 
dren. One afternoon a storm came up 
and she sent her son John to close the 
trap leading to the flat roof of the house. 
‘‘But, mother-” said John. 
“John, I told you to shut the trap.” 
“Yes, hut mother,-” 
“John, shut that trap!” 
“All right, mother, if you say so, 
but-” 
“John!” 
John slowly climbed the stairs and shut 
the trap. The afternoon went by and the 
storm howled and raged. 1 wo hours 
later the family gathered for tea, and 
when the meal was half over Aunt Mary, 
who was staying with Mrs. Flint, had 
not appeared. Mrs. Flint started an in¬ 
vestigation. She did not have to ask 
many questions; John answered the first 
one. 
“Please, mother, she is up on the roof.” 
* 
A church entertainment recently given 
in a Chicago suburb consisted of a min¬ 
iature representation of the Longworth- 
Roosevelt wedding, the whole ceremony 
being mimicked, according to newspaper 
report, by children from three to seven 
years old, who were dressed to imitate 
all the participants in the ceremony, in¬ 
cluding the Episcopal Bishop of Wash¬ 
ington. We need not comment on the 
bad taste and vulgarity thus displayed, 
but may well ask what the influence 
would be upon the children taking 'part 
in such a burlesque. Even those who do 
not regard marriage as a sacramental 
rite or religious obligation must acknowl¬ 
edge that it is too serious a matter for 
jest, and a professedly religious body that 
makes it the foundation of a raree-show 
is in no position to resent scoffing or ma¬ 
licious comment. Such an entertainment 
may add a few tarnished dollars to the so¬ 
ciety’s funds, and furnish an evening’s 
amusement to the vacant of mind, whose 
laughter “is as the crackling of thorns 
under the pot,” but it has also rubbed a 
little of the bloom from childhood, and 
made mock of a relationship which should 
only be entered upon reverently, discreet¬ 
ly, soberly and advisedly—and, we may 
add, in the fear of God. 
* 
We have been much interested in Bul¬ 
letin No. 69 of the North Dakota Experi¬ 
ment Station, which is devoted to analyses 
of foods, beverages, drugs and medicines. 
The law in that State does not permit the 
use of methyl (wood) alcohol in any prep¬ 
aration for the use of man, internally or 
externally, and a number of hair tonics 
were examined by the State chemist to as- 
certain whether this was contained. These 
analyses are somewhat startling in what 
they tell us of several highly recommend¬ 
ed compounds which, so far from pro¬ 
moting hair growth, would assuredly in¬ 
jure it. They consist chiefly of alcohol 
and borax, which, as every woman knows, 
dry out the hair by removing its natural 
oil, thus causing it to “fluff” which gives 
a deceptive appearance of thickness, while 
in reality making the hair so brittle that 
it breaks readily. One tonic masquerad¬ 
ing under a vegetable name contained no 
alcohol, but was an aqueous solution of 
borax, carbonate of soda and common 
salt. Probably there are hair tonics that 
really do give vigor to the hair, blit this 
bulletin leaves us in painful doubt, and 
we would rather take chances with Grand¬ 
mother’s sage tea, assisted by careful 
brushing, scalp .massage, and the occa¬ 
sional use of red vaseline or some other 
petroleum product. 
* - 
If the children’s teeth were not looked 
over by the dentist during the school va¬ 
cation it will be wise to attend to the 
matter now, before bad Winter weather 
sets in. This is not unnecessary expense; 
it is money well invested, for it affects 
both constitution and future prospects in 
life. Many an ulcerated tooth, that 
causes not only real anguish, but also ill- 
prepared lessons or time lost from school, 
could be prevented by proper care. Says 
a settlement worker, endeavoring to im¬ 
prove conditions among poor Slavs: 
One point we should like to bring up here 
is the awful and unnecessary suffering the 
children undergo from neglect of the teeth. 
Bad as this is, it is of little importance 
compared with the poor health for which 
it paves the way. Little ones of seven and 
eight without the vestige of a sound tooth 
are not rare with us. We have tiny tots of 
four and live crying bitterly by the hour 
with toothache. 
As a result of this, free dental clinics 
are discussed, and already established iu 
some degree. We referred, some time 
ago, to the necessity for care of the child’s 
teeth after eruptive diseases, such as 
measles or scarlet fever. Very often a 
chalky condition results, which soon 
breaks down the enamel, and causes de¬ 
cay. In one case under our observation, 
where this chalkiness promised serious re¬ 
sults, the trouble was entirely obviated by 
the conscientious use of milk of magnesia 
as a wash every night, at bedtime, and 
this simple remedy can be highly recom¬ 
mended. Of course rigid cleanliness must 
he insisted upon, with dental floss for the 
interstices between the teeth, instead of 
the offensive (and often injurious) tooth¬ 
pick. ' ___ 
Nature has given to men one tongue, 
but two ears, that we may hear from 
others twice as much as we speak.— 
Epictetus, 
Larder or Bacon Beetles. 
Can you tell me a good way of caring 
for hams and shoulders, after they arc 
smoked, through the Summer to keep those 
little hairy worms from them? 
A SUBSCK1BKB. 
The larder or bacon beetle, whose 
bristly larva is described by the inquirer, 
is a round-backed insect about one-fourth 
of an inch long. It is black or dark gray, 
except the forward half of its wing cov¬ 
ers, which forms a broad band of yellow¬ 
ish brown. These beetles arc often trou¬ 
blesome in smokehouses and hide ware¬ 
houses, and a closely related insect is a 
plague in tanneries. Cleanliness, plenty of 
air, tight receptacles and close-meshed 
wire netting on doors and windows of 
pantries, or covers of boxes, arc the best 
preventives, supplemented by destruction 
of the beetles and larva; wherever noticed. 
It is also advised to leave a tempting bit 
in an exposed position, where it will act 
as a trap, and insects thus attracted may 
be destroyed. Many people rub the meat 
with pepper, after smoking, to prevent in¬ 
sect attack, but we would prefer enclosing 
each ham or shoulder in a stout paper 
bag, made perfectly tight, then hanging 
in a cool airy room, with screened win¬ 
dows. Under these circumstances there 
should be very little trouble from insect 
infestation. _ 
Notes oh Cranberries. 
Cranberries are among the most health¬ 
ful fruits we have, but, like other fruits, 
much of their health fulness as well as de¬ 
liciousness depends on the condition of 
the raw fruit as well as the method of 
its preparation. Those that have stood 
for a long time, exposed to the light and 
air, are never at their best, so it is wise 
to watch the market and buy all that is 
wanted for the season as soon as the stock 
arrives. Select solid berries of a deep 
red color, for the light-colored ones lack 
flavor as well as color; select large ones, 
because there is a greater proportion of 
solid meat as compared to the seeds than 
in smaller ones, and when the. berries are 
in hand store them in a cool, dark place. 
When the weather is cold enough let the 
berries freeze and stay frozen, thawing a 
few at a time as needed, for chemists 
claim that the action of frost turns the 
starch of the berry into grape sugar and 
makes it more digestible. The berries 
should be looked over carefully and 
washed in cold water before cooking in 
any way, and should always be cooked in 
earthenware, porcelain-lined, or agate 
dishes—never, under any circumstances in 
tin, as the acid of the fruit dissolves and 
absorbs the metal. 
As the commonest way of serving the 
cranberry is as cranberry sauce or cran¬ 
berry jelly, I will give them first atten- 
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