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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
June 22, 
From Day to Day. 
PLANTING. 
Who would lx* planted chooseth not the soil 
Or here or there, 
Or loam or peat, 
Wherein he best may grow 
And bring forth guerdon of the planter’s 
toil— 
The Ely is most fair, 
But says not “I will only blow 
Upon a southern land”; the cedar makes no 
coil 
What rock shall owe 
The springs that wash his feet; 
The Crocus cannot arbitrate the foil 
That for his purple radiance is most meet— 
Lord, even so 
I ask one prayer, 
The which if It be granted, 
It skills not where 
Thou plantest me, only I would he planted. 
_Thos. Edward Brown, Vicar of Kirk 
Braddan (1830-1897). 
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It is several years since we first gave 
the recipe for or-ra-cur, as its originator 
called it, but it has often been asked for 
since* and the time for making this de¬ 
licious preserve will soon be here. It 
calls for five pounds of red currants, five 
pounds of sugar, the juice and grated 
rinds of three oranges, one pound of 
raisins, chopped and stoned. Boil all to¬ 
gether for 20 minutes, and put away in 
jelly glasses. 
Ordinary pillow shams are often rather 
a nuisance to keep in place; we have been 
trying a pillow valance, which is especial 
ly suited to a metal bed. It is simply a 
deep flounce of white lawn strung on a 
tape extending across the head of the bed, 
completely covering the pillows. 1 he 
tape is drawn tight, and the casing is suf¬ 
ficiently loose to permit the valance to be 
drawn aside without effort. It is simply 
pushed to one side when the bed is occu¬ 
pied, and is then easily drawn back into 
place when the bed is made up. 
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What the city dealers describe as 
“Summer furniture” is usually designed 
for country houses, and the woman who 
lives in the country all the year round 
will find much of it quite suited to her 
conditions—only, unfortuntely, it is likely 
to be beyond her purse. Light-colored 
enameled wood and rattan appear in 
many styles, the rattan coming in all sorts 
of delicate colors; in the backs of chairs 
and lounges the rattan is often woven 
into lace-like patterns. Dining-room fur¬ 
niture designed for country houses is 
often a sort of modified mission style in 
quartered oak, with rush or cane seats, 
or a Colonial model of white enameled 
wood, with rush seats. Bedsteads of 
enameled wood are sometimes trimmed 
at the head and foot with panels of cre¬ 
tonne or of woven cane. 1 here seems a 
revival of demand for wooden bedsteads, 
in place of the familiar brass and iron. 
Our choice for bedroom furniture is al¬ 
ways white enamelled wood, which does 
not necessarily mean great expense; an 
old-fashioned painted set can be renewed 
in this way to the great improvement of 
its appearance. 
| Here is what President Roosevelt said 
about the farm home, in his speech at the 
Michigan Agricultural College; 
'Hie best crop is the crop of children , the 
best products of the farm are the men and 
women raised thereon, and the most instruc¬ 
tive and practical treatises on farming, neces- 
, sary though they be, are no more necessary 
\ than the books which teach us our duty to 
n our neighbor, and above all to the neighbor 
- who is of our own household. You young 
‘ men and women of the agricultural and in¬ 
dustrial colleges and schools—and for that 
matter, you who go to any college or school- 
must have some time for light reading; and 
there is some light reading quite as useful 
as heavy reading, provided of course that you 
do not read in a spirit of mere vacuity. . . 
Do not misunderstand me. I have not the 
slightest sympathy with those hysterical and 
foolish creatures who wish women to attain 
to easy lives by shirking their duties. I have 
as hearty a contempt for the woman who 
shirks her duty of bearing and rearing chil¬ 
dren, of doing her full housewife's work, as 
I have for the man who is an idler, who 
shirks his duty of earning a living for him¬ 
self and for his household, or who is selfish 
or brutal toward his wife and children. I 
believe in the happiness that comes from the 
performance of duty, not from the avoidance 
of duty. But I believe also in trying, each 
of us, as strength is given us, to bear one 
another’s burdens; and Ibis especially in our 
own homes. No outside training, no co-opera¬ 
tion, no Government aid or direction can 
take the place of a strong and upright char¬ 
acter; of goodness of heart combined with 
clearness of head, and that strength and 
toughness of fibre necessary to wring suc¬ 
cess from a rough work-a-day world. Noth¬ 
ing outside of home can take the place of 
home. The school is an invaluable adjunct 
to the home, but it is a wretched substitute 
for it. The family relation is the most fun¬ 
damental, the most important of all rela¬ 
tions. No leader in church or state, 
in science or art or industry, how¬ 
ever great his achievement, does work which 
compares in importance with that of the 
father and the mother, “who are the first of 
sovereigns and the most divine of piiosts. 
The President also bad this to say of 
the farmer’s wife: 
And, most important of all, I want to 
say a special word on behalf of the one who 
is too often the very hardest worked laborer 
on the farm—the farmer’s wife. Reform, like 
charity, while it should not end at home, 
should certainly begin there, and the man, 
whether he lives on a farm or in a town, 
who is anxious to see better social and econ¬ 
omic conditions prevail through the country 
at large, should be exceedingly careful that 
they prevail first as regards his own woman¬ 
kind. I emphatically believe that for the 
great majority of women the really indis¬ 
pensable industry in which they should en¬ 
gage is the industry of the home. There are 
exceptions, of course, but exactly as the first 
duty of the normal man is the duty of being 
a home-maker, so the first duty of the 
normal woman is to he the homekeeper, and 
exactly as no other learning is as important 
for tlie average man as the learning which 
will teach him how to make bis liveli¬ 
hood, so no other learning is as important 
for the average woman as the learning which 
will make her a good housewife and mother. 
But this does not mean that she should be an 
overworked drudge. 
I have hearty sympathy with the move¬ 
ment to better the condition of the average 
tiller of the soil, of the average wageworker, 
and I have an even heartier sympathy and 
applause for the movement which is to better 
the condition of their respective wives. There 
is plenty that is hard and rough and dis¬ 
agreeable in the necessary work of actual life, 
and under the best circumstances, and no 
matter how tender and considerate the hus¬ 
band, the wife will have at least her full 
share of work and worry and anxiety ; hut if 
the man is worth his salt he will try to take 
as much as possible of the burden off the 
shoulders of his helpmate. 
did the work. 1 hey didn’t intend to be 
mean, but it was because they didn’t put 
themselves in my place, and realize what 
I had given up. T he habit of possession 
is strong in men.” 
“That’s so,” I said, “for when we were 
children Father sometimes gave us things 
that same way. One time he brought in 
a weakly lamb and gave it to me, and I 
fed it warm milk with a spoon, but when 
it grew lusty and plump he sold it to the 
butcher and kept the money, telling me he 
would give me another some day. Poor 
Father needed all the money we could 
raise, but many a boy and girl has turned 
from farm life just for that very tiling. 
Money is made clerking or typewriting, 
and they will not stay where they cannot 
have a little independence. So they put 
up with third-rate boarding houses at high 
prices and forget the. fresh, pure air and 
food of the homes they have left. No 
one can be blamed for wanting to feel 
that what he has he owns, for it is not a 
thought of age or youth, but to have a 
little independence. You should have 
gone out and fed those Rocks, Cousin El¬ 
len; it would give you an interest in life 
to gather the eggs and send them to mar¬ 
ket, and if you like I’ll give you a, hen 
and seven chickens to start afresln 
Before she left her face was brighter, 
and the motherly hen and half-grown 
cmcks did not seem disturbed by the 
transfer. 
It is just these things that made me urge 
Brother to deal fair with the boys and 
recognize their rights, for they will soon 
be thinking of their own future, and 1 do 
not want them to have too many regrets. 
Sherman and Grant are very proud of 
their apple trees that were loaded with 
blossoms this year and set a good deal of 
fruit, but Cleveland’s tree is unfruitful 
and I fancied did not look healthy. But 
I did not say anything until he asked one 
day: “Can I do anything. Auntie, to 
make my tree have some apples?” and I 
told him to treat it as we did little boys— 
feed it well and keep it clean. This 
caused him to examine it closely, and we 
found it was covered with scale, so on 
washing day l gave him a pailful of suds 
in which had been dissolved some wash¬ 
ing soda, lie mixed a tablespoonful of 
kerosene in a little milk, and stirred all 
together, then with a soft brush scrubbed 
the bark of limbs and branches. Already 
the leaves respond to the treatment, and 
another season may bear evidence of im¬ 
provement. So many things have to be 
attended to, if we hope for good results. 
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Cousin Ellen Jane Rumford came over 
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I had been ill. She is a widow and lives 
with her son over at Lincolnville, but we 
have not seen her for years. I noticed 
at once the sad look in her face, and 
knew that life was not happy, and it set 
me thinking how many women I knew 
who wore that depressed look as soon as 
they had to live dependent upon their 
children. Cousin Jonas left her a share 
of the property, but her son, who is an 
only child, has kept encroaching, and 
since he brought in a wife Ellen has had 
to give up everything. It is a pity for 
both of them. I asked her what she was 
interested in nowadays, and she shook her 
head, saying she had lost all ambition. 
Now, when Jonas lived his wife was head 
and front in everything on the farm; she 
helped make it what it is, and it is hard 
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anything, Charity,” she said solemnly. 
“Eve tried it. I raised Plymouth Rocks 
one year and quite enjoyed tending them, 
but as soon as they got profitable and 
eggs were dear I was told that if I 
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