578 
July (*?, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
[ Woman and Home J 
From Day to Day. 
FRIENDS IN PARADISE. 
They are all gone into the world of light! 
And I alone sit lingering here; 
Their very memory is fair and bright, 
And my sad thoughts doth clear :— 
It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, 
Like stars upon some gloomy grove, 
Or those faint beams in which this hill is 
drest, 
After the sun’s remove. 
I see them walking in an air of glory. 
Whose light doth trample on my days: 
My days, which are at best but dull and 
hoary, 
Mere glimmering and decays. 
O holy Hope! and high Humility, 
High as the Heavens above! 
These are your walks, and you have skew'd 
them me 
To kindle my cold love. 
Dear, beauteous Death ! the jewel of the just 
Shining nowhere, but in the dark ; 
What mysteries do lie beyond thy -dust, 
Could man outlook that mark ! 
He that hath found some fledged bird’s nest 
may know 
At first sight, if the bird be flown; 
But what fair well or grove he sings in now, 
That is to him unknown. 
And yet, as Angels in some brighter dreams, 
Call to the soul, when man doth sleep; 
So some strange thoughts transcend our 
wonted themes, 
And into glory peep. 
—Henry Vaughan (1621-1695). 
* 
Tf storing away white goods, cotton or 
linen, wrap them in blue paper to prevent 
the material from turning yellow. If 
making dust bags to slip over dresses that 
are hung away use blue material to slip 
over white dresses; glazed cambric will 
do. This is surprisingly effective in pre¬ 
venting the fabric from becoming yellow. 
* 
Blueberry bread pudding is simple and 
delicious, as well as sightly to look upon. 
Stew one quart of ripe blueberries with 
half a cupful of sugar until very soft. 
Butter lightly thin slices of nice white 
bread and fill a bowl or mold with alter¬ 
nate layers of blueberries and bread. Set 
away in the icebox and serve very cold 
with plenty of rich cream. 
* 
According to Farmers’ Bulletin No. 188, 
"Weeds Used in Medicine,” we import 
from Europe annually about 250,000 
pounds of couch grass for use in medi¬ 
cine. The part tised is the dried rhizome 
or rootstock (not rootlets), lhe plant Is 
known in the drug trade as dog grass or 
triticum, and the price is 3 to 7 cents a 
pound. This grass is such a nuisance in 
some farm lands that its importation from 
Europe seems entirely unnecessary. 
* 
Graham cookies are good and very 
Jmple. Two cups of granulated sugar, 
one cup of shortening (half butter and 
half lard or other shortening) and grated 
nutmeg to taste; mix well together, then 
add three-quarters teaspoon of soda dis¬ 
solved in one-half cup sour milk or but¬ 
termilk. Stir in half graham flour and 
half white flour until stiff enough to han¬ 
dle, then finish on the board with white 
flour. Mold as soft as possible and roll 
either thin or thick as desired. Sprinkle 
with a little sugar and run the rolling 
pin lightly over it, then cut out and bake 
in a quick oven. 
* 
For ready-made lemonade syrup, which 
is convenient in an emergency, boil a 
cup of sugar in a pint of water for 12 
minutes. Add one-third of a cup of lem¬ 
on juice and let the mixture cool. Bottle 
and put in the icebox and when required 
dilute with ice water of the amount pre¬ 
ferred. In making lemonade it is better 
to dissolve the sugar in the water, as it 
dissolves very slowly in the acid juice, re¬ 
quiring a good deal of stirring. A scant 
half cup of sugar dissolved in a quart of 
water, to which the juice of two or three 
lemons is added, is a safe rule. A good 
many fruit syrup combinations may be 
made with the lemonade, and even plain 
lemonade appears much more festive if 
a few raspberries or other available fresh 
fruit are added. 
> * 
Modern railway travel, we are often 
told by those who lament "the good old 
days,” is quite destructive of romance; it 
is too easy and convenient. We should 
advise such pessimistic souls to try a trip 
on the Uganda Railway in Central Af¬ 
rica; which, we think, would supply as 
much excitement as a frontier stage 
coach. The Colonizer says that in Au¬ 
gust, 1905, for instance, the traffic man¬ 
ager at Mombasa received from the Balm 
station master at Simba the following 
telegram marked urgent: "Lion is on the 
platform. Please instruct guard and 
driver to proceed carefully and without 
signal in yard. Guard to advise passen¬ 
gers not to get out here and be careful 
when coming into booking office.” The 
touching piece of advice included seems 
somewhat superfluous. However, one bold 
sportsman did get out, and ascending a 
convenient tree managed to "get” a lioness 
and a lion within a few minutes. He 
further wounded another lion, the one 
waiting on the platform. However, the 
latter after being wounded disappeared 
and could not be found, so the sportsman 
went along the siding to look for him. 
He found him—suddenly—but owing to 
his swiftness in getting in a blow from 
the shoulder on the lion’s jaw after an 
exciting rough and tumble he found him¬ 
self on top when the lion bolted into the 
bush. A little later in the day the traffic 
manager received a further wire from 
the station master, who appeared to be 
somewhat recovering confidence, as it was 
not marked urgent: "One African in¬ 
jured again by a lion. Please send cart¬ 
ridges by next train certain.” The same 
afternoon this was followed by a second 
touching telegram: “Pointsman is sur¬ 
rounded by two lions while returning 
from distant signal, and then pointsman 
went on top of telegraph post, near water 
tanks. Train to stop there and take him 
on train and then proceed.” Judging 
from these incidents, railroading in 
Uganda is no place for mollycoddles. 
A Young Step-Saver. 
Mr. Ithamar brought something from 
the city one evening last week that I was 
not at all sure we wanted. When he 
came into the kitchen, followed by a 
small bo’* of 12, I was a good deal non¬ 
plussed, for we are not in the habit of 
picking up strangers by the wayside. 
Later, when I heard the lad’s story, I felt 
no doubt but he needed friends and a 
home, but of his earning his board and 
“saving more steps than he made” I was 
not so sure. Yet I saw when it was set 
before me that I had fallen in the way 
of letting Pet have most of her time be¬ 
fore and after school for her piano prac¬ 
tice. The child has great love of music 
and has done so remarkably well since 
she began taking lessons that after the 
dishes were out of the way and her room 
in order I have let her have the rest of 
her time for practice. Neither Pauline nor 
Bess showed so much musical ability and 
this may be Pet’s way toward earning her 
living later on. 
Since Bess went away to school I have 
taken up her work of looking after the 
poultry and doing those many chores 
about the house that one hates to hinder 
the men with. Some day I must try to 
tel! The R. N.-Y. friends a little about 
what has happened to Pauline and is 
now absorbing her time and thought, but 
now I must finish this introduction to our 
new step-saver. 
“I warn you that it will be only an 
experiment, but we might try him for a 
month.” That was as far as I went in 
capitulating and if he had been almost 
any other sort of child I doubt if even the 
experiment would have seemed feasible. 
But he was so shy and so quiet that it 
went to one’s heart to think of his home¬ 
less estate. 
The new boy’s shyness and reserve did 
not begin to thaw out until the second 
evening, when Pet carried him a dissected 
6702 Tucked Blouse or Shirt Waist, 
32 to 42 bust. 
map to put together. This interested him 
to the point of forgetting himself and the 
newness of his surroundings. After a 
while Pet followed me into the pantry to 
whisper: "Oh, mother, do go and tell 
him he mustn’t. He’s swearing under his 
breath all the time.” And sure enough, he 
was. A cheerful little "gosh darn!’ ac¬ 
companied every successful as well as 
every unsuccessful move with the puzzle. 
But I have always found it worked well 
to move deliberately when undertaking 
fresh ventures and experiments. Habits, 
both good and bad, grip us like iron 
chains and the planting of good habits 
where wrong ones have flourished is well 
worth careful effort. As the boy seems 
both bashful and sensitive our first need 
is to gain his confidence and liking. I 
have also a good deal of faith in the un¬ 
conscious influence which every home ex¬ 
erts. This faith was rewarded next day 
when we discovered that the “gosh darn” 
had been laid aside and "Oh, Lordy!” 
taken up in its place. In a day or two I 
22 to 32 waist. 
hope to see the “Oh, Lordy” retired from 
use and the habit broken up, because no 
one else in the family uses these foolish, 
low-down expressions. Now, perhaps 
some mother reading this may set me 
down as fussy or even “stuck up” for ob¬ 
jecting to a child’s using expressions of 
this sort by which he means no harm. 
But is it not true that when a child goes 
out into the world he is judged and val¬ 
ued by strangers on just such small evi¬ 
dences as his manner of speaking and 
carrying himself? They say: “He evi¬ 
dently comes of good family,” or “of poor 
stock” and his status not only in the so¬ 
cial but in the business world is deter¬ 
mined for him. Therefore the merest 
waif is helped up a step in the world 
when you help him to improve even his 
manner of speech. 
As to the helpfulness of our new boy he 
proves a wonderful little step-saver. To 
and fro he runs while breakfast is prepar 
ing and for a half hour after, till by the 
time he must start for school a half mile 
of my morning’s work seems accom¬ 
plished. I find that if one has a child’s 
attention and tells in few words just 
where things will be found, what is to be 
done and how things are to be left, the 
errand is likely to be done right. But 
one should tell only what belongs to that 
task and not mix up other duties with it. 
Let the child do one thing at a time, 
notice any errors and speak of the better 
way the next morning when he goes to 
repeat the task. He will soon learn your 
ways. 
A very decided advantage in training a 
young helper lies in one’s freedom to 
direct, even to the least detail, without 
giving offense. It is not unlike planting 
a garden in fresh soil where there are no 
weed seeds. One may even correct in a 
child those ill-bred and annoying ways 
at table and about the house which make 
many an older hired helper what my 
neighbor humorously styles “a necessary 
evil.” _ R. ITHAMAR. 
The Rural Patterns. 
An attractive tailored waist is shown in 
No. 5702. The waist is made with fronts 
and back. The fronts are laid in groups 
of narrow tucks with wide ones between; 
the back is arranged in groups of narrow 
tucks only. There is a regulation shirt¬ 
waist plait at the front edge. The long 
sleeves are finished with openings and 
straight cuffs, while the elbow sleeves are 
gathered into narrow bands. The qual¬ 
ity of material required for the medium 
size is 3,(4 yards 27, 2% yards 36 or 2)4 
yards 44 inches wide. The pattern 5702 
is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 
42 inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
An 11-gored skirt is very desirable for 
making up narrow-width materials, while 
giving a graceful outline. No. 5688 is 
made in 11 gores and there is a tuck 
plait at the back edge of each gore, while 
the fullness at the back is laid in inverted 
plaits. When walking length is desired 
it is cut off on indicated lines. The quan¬ 
tity of material required for the medium 
size is 10(4 yards 27, 6J4 yards 44 or 5 
yards 52 inches wide if material has figure 
or nap. yards 44, 4(4 yards 52 inches 
wide if it has not. The pattern 5688 is 
cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 
inch waist measure; price 10 cents. 
Sugar Cookies Without Eggs—Two 
cups sugar, one cup sour milk (the richer 
the better), one cup shortening (butter or 
lard or half of each), one teaspoon soda, 
flour enough to roll easily. m. e. h. 
No one is required to do more than so 
much. The service of life is not a mili¬ 
tary conscription. When we do more 
than is required of us, we are volunteers. 
The soldier who has been seized upon and 
forced into the profession of arms cannot 
be blamed if he grumbles, but the one who 
voluntarily quits the career of a civilian 
to be a fighting man need expect no sym¬ 
pathy in his whining jeremiads about the 
hardships of army life. There is no law 
obliging any man or any woman to do 
the work of two, three or four. The 
overworked woman is sinfully burdened 
generally because those who ought to help 
her are sinful duty shirkers. Of necessity 
many busy mothers must be overworked 
during the few years of the children’s 
childhood, after which they have a right 
to expect, nay, to demand, assistance. If 
they continue adding slavery to slavery 
in order to keep their sons and daughters 
well-dressed and well-fed idlers, whose 
fault is it when weary frame and puzzled 
brain rebel and the unselfish heart breaks 
into selfish lament?—Catholic Standard. 
