March 9, 
222 
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• THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
From Day to Day 
DUTCH LULLABY. 
Wynken, Blynkcn and Nod one night 
Sailed nil' In a wooden shoe 
Sailed on a river of mlaty light 
Into a aea of dew. 
“Where are you going, and what do you 
wlwh ?" 
The old moon naked the three. 
“We have come to llali for the herring llah 
That 11 vj- In thin beautiful aea; 
Nets of silver and gold have we," 
Said Wyrfken, 
Klynken 
And Nod. 
The old moon laughed and aung a Hong, 
Ah they rocked In the wooden ahoe; 
And the wind that sped them all night long 
Bullied the wavoa of dew; 
The little stars were the herrlng-flah 
That dived In the beautiful Hen. 
“Now cast your nets wherever you wish, 
But never a feared are we!" 
So cried the slant to the llaliermen three, 
Wynken. 
Bl.vnken 
And Nod. 
All night long their neta they threw 
For the IIhIi In the twinkling foam. 
Then down from the sky came the wooden 
shoe, 
Bringing the fishermen home; 
Twna all sir pretty a anil, It seemed 
Ah If It could not he; 
And some folk thought ’Iwas a dream they’d 
dreamed 
Of snlllug that bean I If 111 aea ; 
But I shall name you the fishermen three: 
Wynken, 
Blynken 
And Nod. 
Wynken and Bl.vnken are two little eyea. 
And Nod Ik a little head. 
And the wooden ahoe that sailed the skies 
Is a wee one's I nindle.hed : 
So shut your eyea while mother sings 
Of wonderful HlghlH that he. 
And you shall see the beautiful things 
As you roek on the mlnlv sea 
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen 
three, 
Wynken. 
Blynken 
And Nod. 
Eugene FJrld, 
* 
A South African country paper adver¬ 
tises a sale of poultry as follows: “Prize 
poultry for sale, 7. r > liens and five liens’ 
husbands.” 
* 
The newest color for Paris millinery, 
wc arc told, is vieux abricot. or old apri 
cot, a dull brownish yellow. We noted 
a milliner’s window full of imported 
models in this color, which looked very 
attractive, only the color is death to most 
complexions. When the hat itself and 
the trimming are all of old apricot the 
effect is not al all pi’ettv, hut hats of 
burnt straw, trimmed with chiffon and 
roses of the new shade were really very 
attractive. The ro es are usually rather 
ragged in outline, and quite often rustic- 
looking grasses are mingled with them. 
The grasses are like those we used to see 
in old fashioned dried bouquets, and are 
often used in place of flowers, a little 
bunch being ihrivt through loops of 
other trimming. Utility hats of plain style 
arc often trimmed with a silk scarf, ap¬ 
parently fastened in place with hatpins 
having hall heads as large as English 
walnuts These hall headed pins are used 
very largely in hat trimming, being of 
metal, painted china and jet. Some of 
the draped toque* of maline for Spring 
wear have no other trimming. 
* 
Here is an excellent wav to cook salt 
codfish: Take a thick middle cut of salt 
cod weighing fully two pounds. Wash 
and place flesh side downward in a deep 
dish, cover with cold water and let soak 
for at least six or eight hours; thU fresh¬ 
ening process may he hastened by first 
holding th<’ cod under cold running water 
for Id or I.") minutes and by changing the 
water at frequent interval . When fairly 
fresh rub and wash again to remove any 
remaining salt crystals, then place in the 
dish and pour over it hot water in which 
a large onion has been boiled. Cover and 
let stand until cold, then drain and dry 
thoroughly with a cloth. Brush with soft 
butter, place in a wire broiler and broil 
quickly, turning two or three times. When 
nicely colored lay in a heated vegetable 
dish and with I wo forks break in pieces. 
Have ready a cupful or more of hot 
drawn butter, to which salt, pepper, a tea- 
spoonful of lemon juice and a teaspoon- 
ful of fine chopped parsley have been 
added. Pour this over the fish, cover 
closely and stand in the warming oven or 
over hot water for Io minutes. 
* * 
The present agitation over legal safe¬ 
guards to protect women and children 
from excessive toil makes every thought¬ 
ful person think of those whose exces¬ 
sive work can never he cased by legisla¬ 
tive enactment. As an example of such 
Dr. A. Jacobi, writing in “Charities” 
of “.The Physical Cost of Woman's 
Work,” says: 
Three days ;<k<» (here nppeiireil before me 11 
woman 42 .vouch old. Hlie looked (i,M, lived 
In (he country one hundred miles awiiy. re 
ported no disease not even our Indlgrroiis 
malaria. She Itnd no orgnnle (rouble, but 
had no appetite, no Klrenglh, no blood, no 
nerve power. WliiiI dhl she want of me? She 
had heard I was mi old doctor that Is true; 
iih’n that I had cured many people for nrgn 
mom's sake I plead guilty. Her history was 
this: She had live children, one husband and 
one workman to run* fur: did the eook tig. 
scrubbing, washing an I mending for elghl 
persons: was always sleepy and tired, hut 
i'i ulil nut sleep null eould not out : she went 
to bed at M o'eloek, got up al .*> n’elock. and 
thought she slept three or four hours. Whoih 
er she will tell her hnsl a id that I advised him 
to spend money not o:i a druggist, Iml on 
domes! le help. I do not know, hut I do know 
that there are one hundred thousand women 
of the kind In the Stole of New York whom 
no legal enactment ""II ever p rot eel. A sim¬ 
ilar ease Is that of tic* grocery store woman, 
middle aged, with seven children, one Inis 
hand, one hasc'iicn! gn eery store. She opens 
the store at u o’clock: she doses It al 11 : 
she dues her washing and housekeeping’In a 
few (what are railed) rooms behind th" 
store, attends to six children, has no lime to 
sit down to a meal, and wants a prescrip 
lion to make her feel strong, and well, and 
cheery. 
Dr. Jacobi says that he only knows of 
one prescription: that is a different con 
figuration of human society. Dr. Jacobi 
points out the fact that a succeed'ng gen¬ 
eral ion hears the burdens imposed upon 
overworked mothers, in the form of phy¬ 
sical and mental weaknesses resulting 
from excess of parental toil. 
♦ 
Whi n little beamier Bassett asked big 
Lcandcr, his father, what an optimist 
was, Mr. Bassett regarded him thought¬ 
fully for a moment before he spoke, says 
I he Youth’s Companion. 
“T hope you’re going to he one." In- 
said, slowly. “You favor your Uncle 
William in looks, and you’ve got some 
of his ways. ’Twottld please me mightily 
to have you turn out like him. 
“I don’t know how the big dictionaries 
put it, but I know t! e general idea, sonny, 
and it’s your Uncle William clear through 
and through. 
“When he had anything hard to do, 
lie just made a kind of a window of it 
to sec something pleasant through. 
“When we had wood to saw an’ split, 
he used to call it a kind of a battle. 
He'd say, ‘When we’ve disposed of Ibis 
regiment,’ pointing to a pile o’ wood 
father’d portioned off to us, ‘1 think our 
troops will he able to n^ke off to the 
woods without further interference,’ he’d 
say and then we’d both hack away like 
mad. 
“When it came to hoeing corn in the 
hoi sun. and I’d got clean discouraged, 
he'd pul his hand tip lo his eyes and 
say, 'Sit ike , me we’re getting on pretty 
fast. When we’ve hoed these two rows 
and sixteen more, we’ll he one more Ilian 
half done, and plenty of time to finish,’ 
He'd laugh when he said it, and I’d 
laugh with him. 
“I couldn’t always see it the. same way 
he did, but I learned one thing—you can 
look right at any hard, disagreeable job 
till you can’t see anything else, even 
when you turn away from it; or you can 
look through it, no matter how thick ’tis, 
same as William did. He was what I call 
.n optimist.” 
Peanut Butter. 
Be sure that the peanuts are freshly 
roasted, shell and skin them, grind in a 
meat chopper, or pound to a paste in a 
mortar, adding a small quantity of olive 
oil to make the consistency desired. Salt 
slightly, and pack in glass jars. Keep in 
a cool place. Of course, the making of 
ihe commercial butter is a trade secret, 
hut the above is very nice for home use. 
MRS, w. h. dyke. 
Covering: for Chocolate Drops. 
Will some one please tel! how to pre¬ 
pare the melted chocolate for covering 
chocolate drops, bonbons, etc. Most candy 
recipes say to “dip in melted chocolate.” 
Do they mean the unsweetened choco¬ 
late sold for making cake, etc.? That 
seems to me too strong and hitter and 
when 1 attempt to sweeten it then it 
scents to change it. a country cousin. 
Sealing: Wax on Fruit Jars. 
1. Wc arc nine’ll annoyed by the Healing 
wux on our canned fruit (tracking or becom¬ 
ing loose In cold weather. <*an you give us 
a remedyV Would jon consider i! harmful 
lo eat fruit from tin cans where the wax 
has become loose. If fruit looks ami tastes 
all light? 2. Who wrote the poem entitled 
"The Man Without the Hoe”? ui’.adkr. 
1. We know no way of preventing seal¬ 
ing wax from cracking in cold weather, 
rxeepi hv keeping the jars in a warm 
place, which would not he good for the 
fruit. We would not eat fruit from tin 
cans where the wax was loose enough to 
admit the air, because there would al¬ 
ways he the danger of mineral poisoning 
caused by the action of fruit acids upon 
the tin. There may he only a slender 
chance of this, yet the chance is there. 
Indeed, we would never put up fruit in 
tin cans under any circumstances, since 
the main reason for doing this work at 
home is the superior quality and greater 
wholesomeness of canned or preserved 
fruits when put in glass jars. 
”. We are unable to identify the poem 
referred to. _ 
Philadelphia Relish. One cup of finely 
shredded cabbage, one green pepper finely 
chopped, one-half teaspoon of celery seed, 
one eighth teaspoon of mustard seed, one- 
fourth teaspoon of salt, one tablespoon of 
brown sugar and one eighth cup of vine¬ 
gar. Mix these ingredients in the order 
given and serve without cooking.—Prom 
“Martha’s Management." 
Housekeepers must 
be watchful, for great 
efforts are made to 
sell the alum baking 
powders which every 
physician will inform 
you are poisonous to 
the human system. 
The Government 
Report shows Royal 
Baking Powder to he 
an absolutely pure 
and healthful cream 
of tartar baking pow¬ 
der, and consumers 
who are prudent will 
make sure that no 
other enters into their 
food. 
MUSCULAR 
AILMENTS 
The Old Monk-Cure will 
straighten out a contracted 
muscle in a jiffy. 
ST. 
JACOBS 
OIL 
Don't play possum with pain, 
but 'tends strictly to business. 
Why Don’t YOU Trade in New York 
and Save 
Money on 
Everything 
Over 75,000 
Inbor-fiftvltiu, 
monoy-savinu nit i- 
i'Ioh for farm, home 
mid shop, fully do 
Hfil’ibud, jlluM wiled 
mill priced in Big 
New (tattling No '.12. 
YVr U ill hell In Mill 
at wholes,do prices 
t he I'nllntvitlg Roods 
in snuill quantities 
ns well us largo: 
THIS 700 PAG1S CATALOG IJK Fit IK. 
Watches, Jewelry, 
t locks, Silverware, 
li(lives. Razors, 
Fancy timid*, Lamp*, 
(took*, Purse*, lings, 
Line Groceries, Seeds, 
Paints, Oil*, Varnishes, 
Itaby Carriages, Sleds, 
Sewing Machhies, Whips, 
Carriages, Wagons, 
Stoves. Ranges, 
Electrical Supplies, 
Itoots mid Shoes, 
O|>ponh<? nine'll nrllcln hi Him (\t hi log id*, tli** low prim nt 
Wllb’fl W« Moll il, (In* Jl'WMHt pl’lfl' fltl still’ll It ttlfl 1*0 l)H||f')ll 
In Any mI'to, Mg "i llitlo, lii liil* or miy • oinitry on tint Olol o. 
You will Mpnml bourn of In(«*iort over It* pngt'H : viiii will 
loAi vol »it tliM womlorful vniloly nil uomplfh* In on** Mg bonk, 
MmIoo* buying ploiueaut nml profllitMr, wIioiMVnr yoli llv*\ 
Till* nifto-dat* Bnjrr'i Child* »«>ri« tm f inn to pi-itn. but In 
Aft III p«o*tfmhl fro* of rlmigo, to nil whn oak f«*i It In good 
fnltli. MutpJrftd* •• f iftquufttA '*om« to «<• evur> «lay, iukI wo 
want to jdarft It In ovary hotno III the United Mai on. 
WRITE FOR IT TO-DAY. 
Wh will ftond you our Fituuluiu Mit, roiihib lug 100 \nlnabbi 
nml iiHttful artlcltdi glvftit away Iron. Alnottroi o. > I.Ini, Allowing 
bow you fmi am vn otiu third yom living expoum**. 
WE SELL RELIABLE GOODS ONLY. 
Hay of iia nml Aiuuiro Itont OimnIa at Low out Pi b ox. Prompt 
•'blpmoitfe*. I.ow Pi fight Mild LxproM* ItatiiA mid a Ntfl Mil 
JLAI,every Mmo Wo guarautoo h «1 Infmf Ion nr refund money, 
W« ill AO k nil ran ton ittft) dlllvory of all goodA onlemd of iih. 
WHITE, VAN GLAHN &, CO., 
iiic,mu in sqt mtn. i Niiihit.ii .it i hi ii. mh mint cm 
Tin- Oldest Mull Order House In America. 
Hardware, all kinds. 
Tool Cabinet*, Sweater*, 
Shot Gun*, kllles, Traps, 
Revolvers, Cartridge*, 
Shells, I'hhlng Tackle, 
Talking Machlres, 
Farming Toi ls, Skates, 
Incut,nitirs and brooders, 
Ice Tools, Sleighs, 
Cream Separators,Freezcra 
Washing Machines, 
House Tiiruishiiig Goods, 
Mechanics Tools. 
Your money ought to earn you 
5 % a Year 
Havings Invested with the Industrial Havings 
and Luan C.ompuiiy have never earned less 
I ban this rate while being free from nil spec¬ 
ula! Ive risks or anxiety, with unquestioned 
security and always subject to investor’s 
control available when needed. 
Kuril Inna of live per rout per year reokonod for 
(ivory day nionoy loft with us. 
Kstahlisliod fourteen yours. 
<’endnot,id mi,lor New York 
Banking liopiirUnenl super 
vision. Assets $1,750,000. 
Full particulars upon request, 
Industrial Savings uud l.oan Co. 
.S Times lildg., lirnndway & 42nd St. 
New York City. 
New Wheat Lands 
[nth* Canadian West 
C nnn additional in I ten of 
OjUUU railway tld. your 
hovo opened up a luixoly In¬ 
creased territory to the pro- 
vro.Mlvo farmers of Western 
Uanailu, and tho government 
of the Dominion continues to 
r)vo ono hundred end sixty 
aero* freo to every settlor. 
The Country Has 
No Superior 
final, wood and water In atiundanoni 
eburchoN and seliools convenient; 
market.,) easy of nceOMl tax,is low; 
climate tho host In tho Northern tem¬ 
perate 7.0,10. (Train-growing, mixed 
farming and dairying am tno greut 
•poolnitlo*. 
For lit,,future uml Information uddre.a tha 
Superintendent, of Immigration, 
Ottawa, Cnimd/i 
or TIION. DIJNUAN, 
Canadian Government Agent, 
Nyruouso Datik Ulilg.. 
Syracuse, Mow York 
