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February 27, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE USE OF FLOWERS. 
God might have bade the earth bring forth 
Enough for great and small, 
The oak tree and the cedar tree, 
Without a 'flower at all. 
We might have had enough, enough 
For every want of ours, 
For luxury, medicine, and toil, 
And yet have bad no flowers. 
Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, 
All dyed with rainbow light, 
All fashioned with supremest grace, 
tlpspriuging day and night— 
Springing in valleys green and low, 
And on the mountains high. 
And in the silent wilderness 
Where no man -passes by ! 
Our outward life requires them not— 
Then wherefore had they birth? 
To minister delight to man, 
To beautify tiie earth ; 
To comfort .man—to whisper hope 
Whene’er his faith is dim, 
For Who so careth for the flowers 
Will care much more for him. 
—Mary Howitt (1798-1888). 
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Many of the trimmings—sash ends 
or ties—used this season are finished 
with tassels or ornaments; often with 
balls covered with the same material as 
the dress or trimmings. One of our 
friends, failing to find proper molds for 
making these covered balls, used mar¬ 
bles with very satisfactory results. They 
hold sash or tie in place, whereas balls 
stuffed with cotton batting, sometimes 
used, do not. 
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White stockings are again the fash¬ 
ionable wear for small children and 
those of white wool or cashmere soil 
very quickly and are not easily washed 
in cold weather. One of our little 
friends informed us proudly that when 
she went visiting she wore “two pairs 
’tockings.” Her mother explained that 
when the little one was likely to play 
with other children, sitting on the floor, 
and otherwise disporting herself to the 
detriment of the clean woolen stock¬ 
ings, a second pair of thin lisle thread 
were drawn over them. The mercerized 
thread does not catch dust like the 
rough surface of the woolen, and the 
stockings thus retained their spotless¬ 
ness for the whole afternoon, whereas 
the unprotected wool was dingy in a 
few minutes. 
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One of the old-fashioned remedies 
that does not go out of date is a bag 
of hot salt for local pain caused by cold 
or exposure. Neuralgia, rheumatic 
twinges and lumbago are often wonder¬ 
fully relieved by it; there seems some¬ 
thing soothing about the dry heat that 
is not found in the modern hot water 
bottle, and best of all, it is always on 
hand without extra expense. We came 
across another old-fashioned remedy re¬ 
cently, that proved very efficacious in 
an emergency. A young friend had the 
misfortune to be among the victims of 
- a trolley collision in which she received 
a number of bruised cuts on the face. 
First aid was rendered by an adjacent 
farmhouse, where the housekeeper 
made a paste of salt and butter with 
which she freely anointed the injuries 
The cuts, whih were much contused, 
healed without leaving scars, and the 
good Samaritan of the case declares that 
nothing equals salt and butter for such 
conditions. This is not offered as a sub¬ 
stitute for modern aseptic surgery, but 
there may be cases where this treatment 
is the best thing available in an emerg¬ 
ency. 
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The recent cataclysm at Messina re¬ 
calls the fate of the volcanic islands of 
Krakatau, in the East Indian Archi¬ 
pelago, described by scientists as the 
most violent volcanic outburst in histor¬ 
ic times. Many of us remember cer¬ 
tain atmospheric peculiarities of 1883, 
when the dust from this eruption prac¬ 
tically encircled the entire world. The 
shape of the islands was completely 
changed, half a mountain 2,500 feet 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
high disappeared, and the waves caused 
by the eruption destroyed thousands 
of lives in the adjacent islands of Java 
and Sumatra. The Krakatau group 
itself was buried in ashes to a depth 
of from 100 to 200 feet. All vegeta¬ 
tion and animal life was destroyed. At 
the present time Krakatau, with 30 
years’ start from bare ashes, is a mass 
of vegetation; there is an abundance of 
figs and cocoanuts, and some trees 65 
feet high. The hand of man has had 
nothing to do with this; part of it has 
come from sea plants and drifting seeds, 
and part has been conveyed by birds 
and the wind. It is most impressive to 
see this wonderful example of nature’s 
provision for reforesting, contrasted 
with the improvidence we too often dis¬ 
play in dealing with natural resources. 
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We have often seen it stated that the 
late Queen Victoria of England pro¬ 
cured every year some Alberparle Pip¬ 
pins from Virginia, having a special ap¬ 
preciation for this variety. We think 
a woman should receive credit for in¬ 
troducing this product of the Old Do¬ 
minion to the Queen. W have been 
reading recently some delightful let¬ 
ters written by Mrs. Stevenson, whose 
husband was the American Minister to 
Great Britain from 1836 to 1841. She 
gives a charming picture of the girlish 
Queen, whom we of this generation 
only knew as an old, old lady, in a 
widow’s cap, and tells how she dis¬ 
tributed some of the Albemarle Pip¬ 
pins, sent her from home; how the 
Queen was delighted with them, and 
how Lord Palmerston ate two very 
large ones at a sitting (which entitles 
that stately personage to posthumous 
enrollment in the Apple Consumers’ 
League), and how divers other mem¬ 
bers of the British aristocracy received 
the American apples with gladness and 
ate them with enthusiasm. Mrs. Steven¬ 
son was a charming and cultured 
woman of the finest Virginian type, 
whose letters disclose a most delight¬ 
ful personality; we must now add an¬ 
other distinction to her fragrant memo¬ 
ry, in that she acted as herald to Vir¬ 
ginia horticulture abroad. 
A Woman Farmer’s Skirt. 
My working skirt is made with seven 
gores, the back finished with an invert¬ 
ed double box pleat. A flat pocket is 
put on each of the first side gores, the 
upper edge eight inches from top of 
skirt; these pockets, which are five 
inches deep, are sewn in with the seam 
at each side of gore, and are fastened at 
the top with snaps. The placket is at 
left side of front gore, and this fas¬ 
tens with snaps. The special conven¬ 
ience of the skirt is the use of straps to 
shorten it when desired. There are four 
straps on the outside, one at each side 
gore seam, and one on the inside of the 
center back seam, as I find it does not 
look well on the outside. Each strap 
is 1)4 inch wide and 14 inches long, 
pointed at the end. The straps are 
sewn to the skirt about eight inches 
from top and then left, so as to make 
a button-hole about four inches from 
end to shorten the dress. Another but¬ 
ton-hole at end is put over the button 
when it is not shortened. Snap fasten¬ 
ers can be used instead of buttons and 
button-holes, being less trouble. 
The skirt is suspended over shoulders 
by two straps, with a strap connecting 
them over the chest, to prevent them 
from slipping off the shoulders. All 
straps on waist are also finished with a 
point, and buttoned on to the skirt. A 
belt like goods is sewn to the skirt and 
buttons on to the same button as left 
shoulder strap. The cross straps make 
‘the finish look like a square yoke. 
I only unbutton the straps that button 
on to the front of the belt when I take 
it off, and when I put it on just take the 
two ends in my right hand and bring 
them both over my right shoulder, then 
take the left hand strap in my left hand 
and pull it right over my head between 
the front and back square neck straps. 
It is a very comfortable dress as it is 
impossible to get out of fix, the straps 
keeping the weight wholly from the 
shoulders instead of the hips. I think it 
is the most comfortable skirt that I 
have. All straps that go over the shoul¬ 
ders and the cross pieces have button¬ 
holes. The straps on the back of the 
skirt are just the same length as the 
ones on the front. s. a. k. 
Winter Vegetables. 
Hillside Potatoes.—Heat a quart of 
milk into which two big sliced onions 
have been dropped. Boil the milk for 
several minutes in a double boiler. Then 
take out the onions and stir in a table¬ 
spoonful of butter that has been creamed 
with a tablespoonful of flour. Cook 
until the milk thickens. Add a pint of 
cold boiled potatoes cut into slices and 
a tablespoonful of minced parsley. Sea¬ 
son with salt and pepper and as soon as 
the mixture is heated through turn it 
into a buttered baking dish, cover with 
buttered crumbs and brown in the oven. 
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wash a pint of beans and soak over 
night in cold water. Cover with fresh 
water in the morning and cook half an 
hour; then add a level teaspoonful of 
salt and then boil gently for another 
half or three-quarters of an hour with¬ 
out breaking. Meanwhile cook a pint of 
tomatoes with a medium-sized sliced 
onion for fifteen minutes, then when 
beans are done strain and add to the 
tomato sauce, which may be strained if 
you desire, and thickened with a little 
flour and butter rubbed together. 
Browned Turnips.—Peel the turnips, 
cut in slices crosswise, put into boiling 
water and cook until tender; when 
nearly tender add salt to season; then 
drain in a'colander; put a little butter in 
a frying pan; sprinkle the turnips with 
a little flour; add it to the hot butter; 
sprinkle over one tablespoonful of 
granulated sugar; stir and turn until the 
slices are browned; sprinkle with salt, 
pepper, and serve. 
Scalloped Cabbage.—Boil the cabbage 
in two waters, drain and chop fine. 
Make a white sauce of one tablespoon¬ 
ful of flour stirred into two of bubbling 
hot butter thinned with a cupful of hot 
milk and seasoned with cayenne and 
salt, with a pinch of nutmeg. Rub a 
bake dish with garlic and butter it, 
spread a layer of cabbage on the bottom, 
squeeze over it a little lemon juice and 
less of onion juice, cover with the white 
sauce and this with grated cheese. Fill 
the dish in this order and put over all 
fine bread crumbs dotted with butter and 
sprinkled lightly with cayenne. Bake 
covered half an hour and brown. Serve 
in the bake dish. 
Plot Cream Slaw.—Shave or chop fine 
one quart of cabbage. Sprinkle over it 
one teaspoon of salt and one-fourth tea¬ 
spoon of pepper. Bring to a boil one 
cup of mild vinegar. Mix one-half cup 
of sugar with two teaspoons of flour, 
one well beaten egg and one-half cup of 
sweet milk. Add to the boiling vinegar, 
and as it comes to a boil again beat 
with the egg beater until it is like rich 
cream. Let stand three minutes, then 
pour over the cabbage. 
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