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June 1, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
[ Woman and Home \ 
From Day to Day. 
JEANNETTE AND JEANNOT. 
You are going far away, far away from poor 
Jeannette; 
There is no one left to love me now, and you, 
too, may forget, 
But my heart will be with you wherever you 
may go; 
Can you look me in the face and say the 
same, Jeannot? 
When you wear the jacket red and the beau¬ 
tiful cockade, 
Oh, I fear you will forget all the promises 
you have made. 
With your gun upon your shoulder and your 
bayonet by your side, 
You’ll be taking some proud lady and be 
making her your bride. 
Or, when glory leads the way, you’ll be madly 
rushing on, 
Never thinking if they kill you that my happi¬ 
ness is gone. 
If you win the day, perhaps a General you 
will be: 
Tho’ I’m proud to think of that, what will 
become of me? 
Oh ! if I were Queen of France, or, still bet¬ 
ter, Pope of Rome, 
- I would have no fighting men abroad and no 
J weeping maids at home: 
All the world should be at peace; or if kings 
must show their might. 
Why, let them who make the quarrels be the 
only ones to fight. 
—'Charles Jeffries (1807-1805.) 
“Lily cloth” cotton suiting is a fine 
smooth white material with mercerized 
finish, looking like a good linen of me¬ 
dium weight. It is desirable for children’s 
dresses and Summer suits, being finer 
and closer than Indian head. It is 3G 
inches wide, and costs 18 cents a yard. 
We saw a very pretty tailor-made shirt¬ 
waist dress of this, trimmed with straps 
and buttons covered with the same goods. 
* 
Pickerel, like other fresh-water fish, 
varies in quality a good deal, according 
to its origin, but it is good if carefully 
baked, and served with cream sauce. 
Clean the fish carefully and lay on a 
rack in a dripping pan; dredge with a 
teaspoon ful of salt, several dashes of pep¬ 
per, and a little flour. Bake carefully, 
basting every 10 minutes until well done, 
with hot water to which a tablespoonful 
of butter has been added. Make the sauce 
with half a cup of cream and half a cup 
of the basting liquid in which the fish was 
cooked; thicken with a teaspoonful of 
butter and a tablespoonful of flour; let 
the sauce boil up once, then add a table¬ 
spoonful of chopped parsley. Pour part 
of the sauce around the fish on a platter, 
and serve the remainder in a gravy boat. 
* 
Young Summer cabbage is so tender 
and delicate that it is a favorite with 
those who do not care for the mature 
Winter vegetable. It is excellent creamed 
on toast. Cut a siliall young cabbage in 
quarters and stand it in salted water for 
an hour. Put it into a saucepan with an 
abundance of water and cook for ten 
minutes. Take it out and throw into cold 
water for a few moments, then return it 
to the saucepan with plenty of boiling 
water, a tablespoon of salt and two table- 
‘ spoons of butter. Let it cook rapidly for 
20 minutes, add a “pea” of baking soda 
and cook 10 minutes more. Drain it in 
a sieve; arrange some buttered toast on 
a hot dish, put the cabbage upon it and 
pour over a sauce made by heating two 
cups of milk with the zest of a lemon 
and a bay leaf and thickening with -a 
tablespoon of flour blended with one of 
butter; after cooking remove the bay leaf, 
season with salt and pepper, stir in the 
juice of a lemon and pour over the cab¬ 
bage. 
* 
The over-blouse or jumper waist now 
so popular is-a pretty style for a plaid 
gingham. The skirt may be one of the 
pleated styles, or merely gored and trim¬ 
med with stitched straps. The jumper 
may be trimmed with straps and pearl 
buttons; of course, a white guimpe with 
sleeves is worn. This will make a nice 
afternoon dress, and it will save a good 
deal of washing if a fairly dark plaid 
is selected. The white guimpe gives it a 
becoming Summery appearance. Where 
a white guimpe is worn in this way be 
sure that dress shields are always used; 
otherwise there is risk of staining the 
guimpe with the coloring from the ging¬ 
ham, when overheated. Indeed, any 
waist, thick or thin, is the better for 
shields. What are known as shirt-waist 
shields are a small size edged all around 
with lace. They are not at all conspicuous 
in the thinnest waist, and cost 14 to 16 
cents • a pair. It is especially necessary, 
however, that shields should be worn with 
colored cotton waists, because many dyes, 
even among those that launder well are 
discolored permanently by perspiration, 
and it is possible to ruin the appearance 
of the waist in a single wearing. Of 
course the shields should be washed when 
necesary. 
* 
We read, in some volumes of travel, of 
the toothbrushes made by savage tribes, 
consisting of sticks chewed and pounded 
to a stiff fringe at one end. Some of our 
own ancestors used similar substitutes, 
and it would seem, from what we read, 
that real toothbrushes were regarded as 
useless luxuries, when first introduced. 
The Youth’s Companion says that the 
diary of a London merchant trading to 
the colonies has this entry: “Bought a 
tooth brush for my wife, which, used to- 
gethej with salte water, very strong, and 
a wasshc of herbs, she is told will keep 
her Teethe from falling out or getting 
hollowe. The Salt and Herbes may well 
prove strengthening to her Gummes well, 
are tender, but the brush it seems but a 
silly Toy, hardly like to ware the worth 
of its price and scarce cleanley save when 
new. But she must have it, being a new 
thing late from Frence.” It is not sur¬ 
prising that toothache and its attendant 
ills were very prevalent at that period. 
At the present time it is generally asserted 
that Americans have at once the most 
perishable and the best cared-for teeth 
of any civilized people. There really seems 
to be something in our climate or mode 
of living that induces early decay of the 
teeth, for as a rule bur people certainly 
give them good care. Foreign dritics 
sometimes make fun of what they call 
“the Californian smile,” meaning the lib¬ 
eral display of gold filling so often shown, 
but it is certainly a great improvement 
over the blackened and ragged array of 
a past gener ation. _ 
Ohio Flower Notes. 
The woman who does not “make gar¬ 
den” or sow flower seeds knows naught 
of the joy that comes along about the 
first of February, with the Spring cata¬ 
logues, to- the woman who studies over 
their alluring pages and allows her imag¬ 
ination to run riot over her own front 
yard. May 3 seemed very late to be get¬ 
ting in sweet peas, but this season, I 
think, old Mother Earth’s bosom is not 
too warm for this flower that is said to 
love the cold ground. Here is a sweet pea, 
“Queen Alexandra,” a vivid scarlet and a 
robust grower, should be thinned out to 
allow eighteen inches between each plant. 
I shall not be able to do that, for I 
dropped the 10 precious seeds along the 
row with other varieties, and I shall not 
be able to tell Queen Alexandria from 
Black Michael until they blossom. I have 
planted a double 16-foot row of some of 
the loveliest orchid-flowered varieties 
offered. The lovely ruffled pink Gladys 
Unwin will vie with the pure white Dor¬ 
othy Eckford, while the proud Marchioness 
of Cholmondeley will climb the garden 
wire with Romola Piazzani. Three feet 
from the sweet peas I put in a row of 
late nasturtiums, the new “Variegated 
Queen,” and “Ivy-leaved” varieties. They 
will be trained up on wire netting the 
same as is used for the sweet peas. The 
Tom Thumb and dwarf sorts I plant in 
boxes and around the house. Nasturtiums 
are a joyful set. They seem to be exempt 
from all the ills that other flowers are 
heir to. 
Next to them I planted a row of 
Kocliia scoparia, round bushy plants that 
in the Fall become glowing globes of 
crimson, and next we planted the Dahlia 
bulbs, raised last year from seed. I be¬ 
lieve it would be more satisfactory to 
buy Dahlia roots, as some of every seed¬ 
ling had small single blossoms that were 
no reward for the time I had spent rais¬ 
ing them; the roots of these were, of 
course, thrown away. In the tulip bed I 
sow the new crimson Eschscholtzia and 
also Fairy poppies, to be followed later by 
Asters. 
For the flower beds around the house I 
have pansies grown in boxes, double 
daises, rose-colored Verbenas, an extra 
large and fragrant strain that I think will 
be lovely, and half a dozen seedlings of 
the Giant Lemoine heliotrope. I had just 
two plants of this sort last year and the 
trusses of flowers were of immense size 
and very fragrant. I love to put sprays 
of heliotrope with Tea roses. Two well- 
grown, large, single Petunias now in blos¬ 
som in the house will, when set out in a 
bed, make a fine show. I had half a dozen 
plants of the “Defiance” strain last year, 
and they were so gorgeous in coloring 
and marking that few would believe they 
were Petunias. T hey were almost as lovely 
as Gloxinias. For the back porch and 
the wood-house window I have Japanese 
morning glories. The roses looked 
fine when uncovered in March, as did 
also the carnations around the edge of 
the rose bed, but the cold April weather 
was very hard on them. The geraniums 
are out on the porch now getting rained 
on and “hardened” before they are set 
out in their bed. I really have faith that 
Summer will roll around about the 
Fourth of July. docia dykens. 
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