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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 23, 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
THE BLESSED. 
Low is the lintel of our dear Lord’s door, 
And who would enter in 
Must the new life begin 
With little children, and the crouching poor: 
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With mourners and with meek and lowly 
souls 
With those who long for good 
As prisoners pine for food. 
()r kneel in dreams where living water rolls. 
Beneath those gates—too low for human 
prjde— 
The blessed come and go, 
Each bearing seed to sow 
In God’s great gardens, or His meadows 
wide. 
With gentle Mercy, Peace and Purity, 
They find their glad employ 
Sowing the seed of joy. 
Nor! know its name, or what the fruit shall 
be. 
Sometimes the memory of a long-past day, 
When they had suffered shame 
And death for Christ's dear name, 
Sweeps o’er them like a cloud above their 
way; 
But on a golden morn there falls a Voice: 
“Come, O ye Blessed, come! 
It is the harvest home. 
And all the fields are white with Joy. 
Rejoice!” 
—Mary A. Lathbury in Woman's Journal. 
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Elastic belts are in high favor, and 
they are very much improved from the 
ugly styles we used to see. Many of 
them are beaded, embossed, or trimmed 
with metal nail-heads, and they come in 
all colors, plaids and stripes. Brown, 
green, gray and smoky tints are very pop¬ 
ular in belts; also royal and sapphire 
blue. 
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“In ironing table linen, if dampened 
very thoroughly with warm water, hot 
irons used and time spent on each article, 
ironed until dry no creases will be seen, 
and it will have the gloss of new linen,’’ 
says Mrs. F. C. Johnson. “Better let 
towels, sheets and such articles go with¬ 
out ironing, if time and strength must be 
saved, but have the table linen carefully 
laundered.” 
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Young broiling guinea fowl is one of 
the Winter delicacies. The existing laws 
make city dealers very careful in handling 
game, and they have to find some substi¬ 
tute for grouse and partridge for the 
high-priced hotel and restaurant trade. 
Squabs, squab chickens or poussins. as the 
French call them, and squab guineas sup¬ 
ply this want. The guineas are split and 
broiled like a chicken. 
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blouses are baby Irish, fine Torchon or 
Cluny, rather than Valenciennes, though 
the German Valenciennes is still largely 
used. Fancy buttons and silk cord are 
also freely used in trimming. 
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Apparently we are returning to the 
old-fashioned work-box in place of the 
modern basket with its dainty, but often 
perishable fittings. Very pretty leather 
work-boxes are now seen, partitioned 
and fitted with a tray. Their great ad¬ 
vantage over the open basket is exclusion 
of dust, in addition to neatness of appear¬ 
ance. Some pretty work-boxes for little 
girls are covered with smooth colored 
linen, with quaint little pictures on top. 
They are made in Germany, and cost 
from 25 cents up to a dollar or more, ac¬ 
cording to quality and fittings. The old- 
fashioned wooden work-boxes were often 
very handsome examples of cabinet work, 
and anyone who possesses a good example 
may well display it after any needed re¬ 
novation. One example in mind is rose¬ 
wood inlaid will mother of pearl, and 
many were of satinwood with various 
fancy inlays, velvet lining being custom¬ 
ary. 
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“There is one sin which it seems to 
me is everywhere and by everybody over¬ 
looked in valuation of character,” wrote ’ 
the late Helen Hunt Jackson. “It is the 
sin of fretting. It is common as air, as 
speech—so common that unless it rises 
above its monotone we do not even ob¬ 
serve it. Watch any ordinary coming to¬ 
gether of people and see how many min¬ 
utes it will be before somebody frets— 
that is, makes more or less complaining 
statement of something or other, which 
probably every one in the room or in the 
car, or on the street corner it may be, 
knew before and probably nobody can 
help. There are plenty of things to fret 
about. It is simply astonishing how much 
annoyance may be found in the course of 
every day’s living, even of the simplest, 
if one keeps a sharp eye on that side of 
things. Even Holy Writ says we are 
prone to ‘trouble as sparks fly upward.’ 
But even to the sparks flying upward, in 
the blackest of smoke, there is a blue sky 
above, and the less time they waste on the 
road the sooner they will reach it. Fret¬ 
ting is all time wasted on the road.” 
Labor was truly said by the ancients to 
be the price which the gods set upon 
everything worth having.—Lord Avebury. 
Stuffed sweet potatoes are a delicacy 
prepared as follows: Select large, fine 
potatoes of uniform size. Bake them soft, 
taking care that they do not burn. With 
a sharp knife cut a slit lengthwise in 
each and scrape out the inside, breaking 
the skin as little as possible. Put the 
pulp into a bowl; work into it a table¬ 
spoonful of butter, enough hot milk to 
make a soft paste; salt and pepper to 
taste, and a teaspoonful of lemon juice. 
Beat light, and fill the emptied skins with 
the mixture. Bring the cut edges neatly 
together, and set the potatoes back in the 
oven to reheat. Serve in a deep dish 
lined with a heated napkin. 
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While we see plenty of the beautiful 
lingerie waists worn, there is a decided 
revival of favor for soft silks, and a 
waist of messaline, crepe de chine or oth¬ 
er clinging material is very desirable to 
wear with a jacket suit. Pale pastel 
tints, cream, biscuit or oyster white are 
favorites in solid colors, but stripes and 
checks continue in favor. The waists 
still show elbow or three-quarter sleeves 
very largely but long sleeves are more 
in favor than last year. Where they are 
used, the cuff is usually quite shallow. 
Favorite laces as trimming for such 
To be always thinking about your man¬ 
ners is not the way to make them good, 
because the very perfection of manners is 
not to think about them.—Archbishop 
Whateley. 
Absolutely Pure 
A Cream of Tartar Powder^ 
free from alum or phos s 
phatic acid 
Makes Home Baking Easy 
THERE'S PLEASURE, 
IN THE PATHLESS WOODS WITH A 
TEVENS 
No other firearms give so much assurance 
at the start of a day’s sport, please so con¬ 
tinuously because of accuracy, or are the 
cause of so much satisfaction "when it’s all 
over but the story-telling.” 
“Stevens Ideal Range No. 45,” - • - $22 
“Stevens Walnut Hill No. 49,” - - - 42 
“Stevens Ideal Schuetzen Special No. 54,” 68 
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