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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 6, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
TIIB FIRST PLOWING. 
Calls the crow from the pine-tree top 
When the April air is still. 
He calls to the farmer hitching his team 
In the farmyard under the hill. 
“Come up,” he cries, “come out and come 
up. 
For the high field’s ripe to till ! 
Don’t wait for word from the dandelion, 
Or leave from the daffodil.” 
Cheeps the flycatcher, “Here old earth 
Warms up in the April sun; 
And the first ephemera, wings yet wet, 
From the mold creep one by one. 
Under the fence where the flies frequent 
Is the earliest gossamer spun. 
Come up from the damp of the valley 
lands, 
For here the Winter’s done.” 
Whistles the liighhole out of the grove 
ITis summoning loud and clear: 
“Chilly it may be down your way. 
Hut the high south field has cheer. 
On the sunward side of the chestnut 
stump 
The wood-grubs wake and appear. 
Come out to your plowing—come up to 
your plowing— 
The time for plowing is here.” 
Then dips the colter and drives the share, 
And the furrows faintly steam. 
The crow drifts furtively down from the 
pine 
To follow the clanking team. 
The flycatcher tumbles; the liighhole darts 
In the young noon’s yellow gleam. 
And wholesome sweet the smell of the. sod 
Upturned from its Winter’s dream. 
—Charles G. D. Roberts, in the Youth’s 
Companion. 
* 
A Connecticut reader asks how to 
take water spots out of an Alice blue 
pongee skirt which suffered defacement 
on a rainy day. This is beyond us, and 
we fear the inquirer will find such spots 
impossible to remove. Can anyone sug¬ 
gest any way of removing such stains? 
* 
Indian delight is an unusual but 
delicious cornmeal cake. Beat two eggs, 
add one pint of milk and half a teacup¬ 
ful of molasses. Sift together one cup¬ 
ful of cornmeal, one cupful of corn¬ 
starch and three teaspoonfuls of baking 
powder. Add the milk and eggs to the 
meal mixture, adding also one cupful 
of freshly boiled and cooled rice. Mix 
a thin batter, pour into a shallow but¬ 
tered pan and bake in a hot oven. Cut 
in squares and serve at the table while 
hot. 
* 
A pretty new work-bag has a square 
pasteboard bottom covered on both 
sides with ribbon. On two opposite 
sides of this square there are sewed 
little silk bags shirred top and bottom 
and finished at the top with a draw¬ 
string. On the other two sides there are 
sewed straight sides of silk-covered 
cardboard with shirred pockets on the 
inside. The sides of the bags and of 
the straight cardboard-covered sides 
are sewed together, and the result is a 
box center part with bag ends. 
* 
Many people use a hot flatiron to heat 
a cold bed in Winter, and a recent fatal¬ 
ity reported by the newspapers calls at¬ 
tention to a danger that may accompany 
this practice. A careless attendant put 
an overheated iron in an invalid’s bed; 
the bed was set on fire by it, and the in¬ 
valid suffered such injuries that she died 
from the effects. We do not think there 
is as much risk from a hot brick or 
soapstone as from an iron, as they do 
not part with their heat so rapidly as 
the metal, but still they should be used 
with care to avoid scorching. 
* 
Some one asks for recipe for German 
prune rolls. Perhaps Bohemian kalace 
is meant, made as follows; Dissolve a 
compressed yeast cake in half a cupful 
of warm water; add milk, two beaten 
eggs, two tablespoonfuls of melted but¬ 
ter and a teaspoonful of salt. Mix with 
four cupfuls of flour, working the dough 
to a smooth, elastic ball. Set to rise 
over night. In the morning turn on to a 
floured kneading board, roll out to about 
half an inch thick, cut in rounds, place 
on a buttered baking-sheet two inches 
apart and brush with melted butter. In 
the center of each biscuit place a tea¬ 
spoonful of prune jam, let rise until light 
and bake in the oven to a light brown 
* 
An attractive new wash cotton goods 
is racquet cloth, a firm material looking 
like linen suiting. It is very suitable for 
tailored suits, with or without a coat. 
It comes in a variety of colors, and 
costs 18 cents a yard. Kindergarten 
cloth is a new material for children’s 
suits, lighter and finer than galatea, but 
heavier than madras, very firm and 
smooth. It is shown in a variety of 
stripes, and various combinations of 
color, at 25 cents a yard. Domestic cot¬ 
ton crepes in very pretty colors are 15 
cents a yard, while the imported cotton 
crepe is from 65 cents a yard up. This 
material is very popular for separate 
waists and house dresses, as well as for 
dressing sacques and kimonos. 
* 
Our first outdoor blossom, this year, 
was gathered February 15, when the first 
snowdrop perked up its little head and 
looked out upon a damp and discon¬ 
solate world. As the weather men were 
predicting a blizzard, the snowdrop 
seemed likely to suffer from misplaced 
confidence, but these hardy little flowers 
freeze and thaw a good many times dur¬ 
ing their period of bloom, without being 
any the worse for it. Next the Crocus 
will be holding its gold and purple cups 
up to the chilly March sun, and we shall 
begin to feel that Spring is really here. 
These Spring bulbs are so cheap that 
there is little excuse for being without 
them, even in the smallest garden, and 
all they ask is to be tucked under ground 
in October or November, and left to care 
for themselves afterwards. Glory-of-the- 
snow (Chionodoxa) and Siberian squill, 
both bright blue, are also with us very 
early in Spring, and give an infinity of 
pleasure; it is not uncommon to see 
them, and the snowdrop, blooming 
bravely in a sunny corner while snow 
still remains nearby. If you have never 
experienced the pleasure of these early 
bulbs, make a note of them for next 
Fall’s planting. 
Raisin Dumpling. 
Apples are “gone but not forgotten,” 
and rather than spend time in idle re¬ 
grets, why not find a substitute? If 
you want apple dumpling for dinner 
just roll out some biscuit dough quite 
thin, sprinkle with raisins and a dash 
of cinnamon over the raisins; roll up 
and boil two and one-half or three 
hours in a pail set in a kettle of 
boiling water. Keep the water boiling 
and keep it as deep as th^ pudding is 
in the pail as it swells. Otherwise the 
top will be underdone. Serve with the 
following sauce: 
Thoroughly mix, while dry, one cup¬ 
ful of sugar and one heaping tablespoon¬ 
ful of cornstarch; add a pinch of salt 
and lump of butter. Pour on rapidly 
boiling water, stirring briskly as you 
pour. Boil up thoroughly; flavor with 
lemon, and serve hot. 
EVA O. B. GILBERT. 
Stuffed Onions.—Peel large Bermuda 
or Spanish onions and parboil them for 
ten minutes. Drain and let them get 
perfectly cold. With a sharp knife dig 
out the center from each and fill with 
a forcemeat of minced meat, veal, ham 
or chicken, well seasoned and mixed 
with one-third as much fine crumbs. 
Season with salt and cayenne and a little 
butter. Set the stuffed onions close to¬ 
gether in a dish, fill the interstices with 
crumbs and scatter more over the top. 
Pour about them enough weak stock to 
keep them from burning—about an inch 
in the bottom of the dish will do—and 
cook, covered, half an hour. Uncover 
and brown lightly. 
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