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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 9, 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
TALKING IN THEIR SLEEP. 
“You think I'm dead," 
The apple tree said, 
“Because I have never a leaf to show, 
Because I stoop 
And my branches droop, 
And the dull, gray mosses over me grow; 
But I'm alive in trunk and shoot. 
The buds of next May 
I fold away 
But I pity the withered grass at my root.” 
“You think I'm dead,” 
The quick grass said, 
“Because I have parted with stem and blade. 
But under the ground 
I'm safe and sound, 
With the snow's thick blanket over me laid. 
I'm alive and ready to shoot 
Should the Spring of the year 
Come dancing here. 
But I pity the flower without branch or root.” 
“You think I'm dead,” 
A soft voice said. 
“Because not a branch or root I own. 
I never have died, 
But close I hide 
In a plumy seed that the wind has sown. 
Patient I wait through the long Winter hours 
You will see me again, 
I shall laugh at you then 
Out of the eyes of a hundred flowers." 
—Edith M. Thomas. 
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A convenient little postage stamp hold¬ 
er is a book formed of six or eight pages 
of paraffin paper, in size about two by 
four inches. The covers arc made of 
colored cardboard, decorated with the 
word “Stamps” in ornamental lettering, 
and a border of foreign postage stamps, 
pasted on in an ornamental design. 1 he 
covers and leaves are bound together by 
a lacing of silk cord at one end. 
A clothespin pen-wiper gives an op¬ 
portunity for a great deal of ingenuity, 
and we are told that the young woman 
who first invented them has made money 
from her idea. T he clothespin is used 
for the frame, and the little lady’s frilly 
skirts are used to wipe the pens on. A 
great deal of variety can be given these 
trifles by varying the costume. Little 
witches in black and red, with frilled bon¬ 
nets, are very effective. 
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Egg toast is a southern supper dish that 
will be found excellent. Butter a shal¬ 
low pudding dish, put in it a layer of 
toast, cut into narrow strips, then a layer 
of hard-boiled whites of eggs, cut into 
slices, then another layer of toast. Put 
over this the yolks of the hard-boiled 
eggs, riccd by passing through a vege¬ 
table press; then pour over all a rich 
cream sauce highly seasoned, and place 
in the oven until it is well browned. 
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That discussion of the cost of a 
woman’s clothes is suggestive rather than 
conclusive. One woman may look better 
dressed on $6. r > a year than another on 
$100. Any woman with a limited purse 
must select everything in harmony; if 
her best gown last year was plum color 
she must not give way this season to a 
fancy for a red hat. She must not buy 
jackets or suits at the beginning of the 
season and she must take advantage of 
special sales as far as possible. This 
does not mean that she has to wait until 
Spring before she can get a bargain in 
Winter clothes, for in New York, at least, 
the leading stores begin clearing out Win¬ 
ter stock by the middle of December; the 
windows are full of Spring goods the 
first week in January. This is due to 
the demands of southern tourists, but it 
makes shopping easier for stav-at-homc 
women, too. Wash goods must be select¬ 
ed for their laundering qualities, and 
not merely because they look dainty; 
many pretty figured lawns and dimities 
fade badly, and are thus shabby while 
still new. Perishable trimmings of ma- 
line or chiffon and delicate flowers are 
wasteful in millinery, even on a best hat. 
Economical dressing does not necessarily 
mean a dowdy and unbecoming wardrobe; 
if a woman’s taste is defective no amount 
of money makes her look well dressed. 
Some of the figures submitted seem to us 
to show a lack of proportion which would 
result in unsatisfactory buying, but 
then we all have our personal opinions 
on such matters. In our own buying 
we should substitute a muff, which we 
regard as a necessity, for a fur scarf or 
boa, which is to us merely a source of 
sore throat, but many other women would 
disagree with our opinion here; however, 
the fur piece should not be bought oft- 
ener than every third of fourth season, 
where economy is an object. 
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Most publications addressed to women 
nowadays have much to say on the sub¬ 
ject of beauty culture. 1 hey discuss mas¬ 
sage and steam baths, skin foods, hair 
tonics and calisthenic exercises—all doubt¬ 
less very good in their proper place. But 
to our mind some of the best advice ever 
given is the following, from a writer 
in the Outing Magazine: 
If I wore asked what was the greatest 
foe to beauty in both man and woman, I 
would say, not errors in diet, not lack of 
exercise, not overwork, not corsets, not any 
one of these, but bad mental habits. If we 
observe closely the faces of the people we 
meet at random on the street, at the theatre 
or in the great shops, we will observe that 
nearly all of them are characterized by the 
lined mouth, the drawn brows and other fa¬ 
cial disfigurements which accompany had 
mental states. What do I mean by bad 
mental states? I mean anger, fear, worry, 
anxiety, irritability, regret, envy, jealousy, 
lack of trust in one's self and in the Great 
Q 0O d_aii these are bad mental states; and 
all these destroy beauty, not only by inter¬ 
fering with the action of the vital organs, 
but by directly disfiguring the expression of 
the face. Unless the beauty-seeking young 
woman is prepared to cultivate deliberately 
good nature, kindness, calmness, cheerfulness 
even to hilarity—unless she is prepared to 
conquer deliberately all tendencies to the bad 
mental states above mentioned, there will he 
little or no results from efforts to develop 
in herself that most divine gift of beauty. 
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The recent catastrophe in Jamaica re¬ 
calls the former misfortunes of earth¬ 
quake, tidal waves, hurricanes, pestilence 
and fire that brought disaster upon the 
island. In 1692 Narcissus Luttrell, a resi¬ 
dent of London, wrote in his diary this 
account of the earthquake which occurred 
on June 7 of that year: 
We have this further account from Ja¬ 
maica of the terrible earthquake there, which 
in less than three minutes laid levell the 
greatest part of the houses in Port Royall, 
and destroyed most of the inhabitants. The 
letter sayes, I cannot sufficiently represent 
the terrible circumstances that attended it: 
the earth swelled with a dismal humming 
noise, the houses fell, the earth opened in 
many places, the graves gave up some of 
their dead, the tomb stones ratled together: 
at last tlie earth sunk below the water, and 
the sea overwhelmed great numbers of people, 
whose shrieks and groanes made a lamentable 
eccho; the earth opened both behind and be¬ 
fore me within two feet of my feet, and that 
place on which I stood, trembled exceedingly; 
the water immediately boyled up upon the 
opening of the earth, but it pleased God to 
preserve me by the help of a brick wall and 
shed, which sunk me in so low in the earth 
that I could not reach the top of it: from 
thence I got. to the top of a high house, and 
walked upon the timbers and rafters of 
broken houses until a ship's boate took me in 
The mountains are miserably shattered, the 
rocks are broken, the houses all the island 
are laid flat, excepting some few, as I can 
hear of. 
Certainly the accounts of recent disas¬ 
ter do not give any more vivid picture 
than Mr. Luttrell, who is as lucid in lan¬ 
guage as lie is independent in orthog¬ 
raphy. _ 
Two Chocolate Recipes. 
Here are two useful recipes. The 
fudge I have never known to fail of be¬ 
ing good. If one wishes, vanilla may be 
added, but it is good without, and one 
may use brOwn sugar if it is wanted 
richer. The cake is nice and rich tasting, 
although it takes but one egg, which is a 
consideration at some seasons of the 
year, and I have found that with rich 
milk and the fat in the chocolate there 
is no need of any butter. The filling for 
the cake, or the frosting as the case may 
he, is made of powdered sugar mixed 
with a little milk, and a little butter and 
flavoring added. 
Fudge.—Two cups sugar, two squares 
chocolate, / 2 cup milk. Boil till a little 
dropped in cold water can be gathered 
into a soft waxy ball between the fin¬ 
gers. Remove from the fire and add 
butter the size of an egg. Beat till thick 
and creamy or til] the bottom of the 
dish can be seen when the spoon is drawn 
across it. 
Brown Stone Front Cake.—Two squares 
chocolate, one egg beaten, / 2 cup milk 
cooked together till thick. Cool and add 
one cup sugar, y 2 cup milk in which is 
dissolved one rounding teaspoonful soda, 
pinch of salt, l'/t cup flour. s. b. r. 
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force. It keeps 
a girl alert, active, 
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5 nnn Additional miles of B 
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The Kewanee System.iWater Supply 
IS ABSOLUTELY FROST-PROOF. 
The Kewanee System is frost-proof because the water is stored in a Kewanee Pneumatic Tank. It 
can not become frozen up like the tank in the illustration, because it is buried in the ground or located 
in the cellar. 
Baron De Champlouisof Danville, Quebec, has the Kewanee System installed on his stock farm and 
here is what he says about it: 
"One of mu neighbors put up a large elevated tank, warranted to be frost-proof, at the same 
time I was placing the Kewanee Pneumatic Tank in my cellar. His whole outfit is frozen up in a 
solid block, while l am getting an ample supply of ivatcr at a usable temperature. 
"Besides being economical. I think the Kewanee System as far ahead of the elevated tankas 
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Ail elevated tank frozen up. Im. 
fioaaible for thin to happen with the 
Kewmiro System. 
