343 THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
W^rirnan atlfl flip HnitlP an( * ^ a ' r y products, and so far women in'the colonies thought much of 
__ year I have made $i5 from the the right, and fully expected to retain 
same source.” She went on to tell that it under the new republic. She cited 
she had seven in her family. Her lack the case of Margaret Brent, a cousin 
of education seemed to weigh heavily of Lord Baltimore, who refused to pay 
From Day to Day. 
A DAY. 
I have but a day, a day, 
And how shall I spend It? 
As Heaven shall send it— 
In life’s oRl way. 
With a lifting the load 
That was laid on the shoulder; 
With a shifting the load, 
As the day grows older; 
With a lifting the load 
As a brave heart may. 
With a little stopping to play; 
With a fall or two, 
Which one must rue, 
But there’s no way to mend it; 
With ten hopes killed, 
And one fulfilled ; 
With a taste of joy, as Heaven has willed, 
But grief there shall be, to blend it. 
Then, a full cup spilled, 
A high heart stilled. . . , 
A day, a day, 
And the night shall end it. 
—Edith M. Thomas in the March Century. 
• 
We heard recently of a small girl 
whose deepest yearning was for a 
brother. By and by her longing was 
realized in double measure, for twin 
boys were added to the family. When 
she was taken in to view her new 
brothers she looked at the babies ad- 
miringly for a moment, and then re¬ 
marked with intense enthusiasm, “There, 
papa, wasn’t the Lord generous?” 
* 
Treacle pudding is a familiar Eng¬ 
lish recipe, printed by the Catholic Stan¬ 
dard and Times. It is very good and 
also very wholesome. Mix together 
four ounces each of bread crumbs, fine 
oatmeal and chopped suet; add two 
ounces of candied peel cut small, two 
ounces of flour, half a teaspoonful of 
mixed spice, a pinch of salt and two 
eggs beaten up with half a pound of 
treacle (molasses). Mix together thor- 
upon her. 
“You are educated,” 
Booker T. Washington. 
declared Dr. 
“I don’t know 
6255 Child’s Tucked Dress, 
2, 4 and 6 years. 
where you got it, but I know lots of 
people educated in books who don’t 
know half what you do.” This seemed 
to act as a bracer. “When I’m hard 
up, I sell quilts in Florida,” she added. 
“I get $5 apiece for ’em. Yes, and I 
own 60 acres of land now. My husband 
oughly; put it in a well-greased basin, makes debt> but j haven > t traded 
and steam it for at least three hours 
Figs, dates or raisins can be added by 
way of variety. 
* 
Boiled brown bread, a recipe sent by 
a western reader, is a little unusual, 
but is highly recommended. One cup 
each of graham flour and of Indian 
meal, sifted twice, together with a scant 
teaspoonful of salt and two even tea¬ 
spoonfuls of baking soda. One cup of 
loppered milk, half a cup of molasses 
and as much lukewarm water. A dozen 
seeded raisins, cut in half and well 
floured. Mix molasses, milk and water 
together, stir in by the handful the pre¬ 
pared meal and flour; beat steadily three 
minutes before putting in the raisins. 
Turn into a well-greased tin with a 
tight top, and boil steadily for three 
hours. Leave room for rising. Dip the 
mold into cold water to loosen the 
bread from the sides; turn out and eat 
hot. 
* 
We often think that there is no other 
walk in life in which the woman 
counts for so much as on the 
farm; the pity is that custom so 
often denies her both credit and 
reward for her work. If all the women 
—widows, wives, sisters and daughters 
—who are acting as mainspring on the 
farms of our country could be reported, 
we should be amazed at the total. The 
recent farmers’ institute at Tuskegee, 
Ala., showed that the wives of colored 
farmers can be quite as effective as their 
white sisters Among the first ques¬ 
tions to come up for consideration was, 
“How the wife can help to make her 
husband a more successful farmer.” 
Debate on that was confined almost ex¬ 
clusively to the women. One woman 
on 
his account for 18 years. My husband 
didn’t want me to come to-day because 
I am uneducated.” 
Doesn’t this humble heroine make one 
think of Nell Beverly? Let us hope 
that her children will find the educa- 
her taxes unless allowed to sit in the 
Colonial Assembly, and that of Mrs. 
John Adams, who wrote to Tier hus¬ 
band while the Continental Congress 
was sitting at Philadelphia that unless 
the Constitution should set forth spe¬ 
cifically the right of women to vote the 
time would come when women would 
foment a rebellion against the Govern¬ 
ment. _ 
The Rural Patterns. 
Such a simple little dress as this is 
needed by every child. It can be made 
from lawn or batiste, from plain white 
or from prettily figured materials, from 
embroidered muslin if something very 
dainty is wanted, and it can be made 
from gingham and other inexpensive 
wash fabrics for play and hard usage. 
The dress itself is tucked to form the 
yoke and consequently making is a very 
simple matter and the sleeves can be 
in full or elbow length, while the dress 
can be trimmed with banding or left 
plain as liked. The dress is cut with 
front and back portions and is finished 
at the neck with with a straight stand¬ 
ing collar. Whether the sleeves are 
cut to the wrists or the elbows they are 
gathered into bands. The quantity of 
material required for the medium size 
(4 years) is 3% yards 24, 2% yards 32 
or 2 % yards 44 inches wide with 3 
yards of insertion, iy 8 yards of edging 
to trim as illustrated. The pattern 6255 
is cut in size for girls of 2, 4 and 6 
years of age; price, 10 cents. 
The military coat is always a smart 
one and is especially liked by young 
girls. This one can be made with the 
high neck and collar illustrated or can 
be cut to form a V-shaped neck as 
liked. In this latter case it is designed 
to be closed with buttons and loops 
but when made in the more severe man¬ 
ner ’the edges are brought together 
and held invisibly by hooks and eyes. 
The coat is cut with fronts and side- 
fronts, back and side backs and it in¬ 
cludes two-piece regulation sleeves. The 
straight standing collar is joined in the 
neck edge when made in military style. 
When it is cut out to form a V the 
front edges are lapped one over the 
other. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the 16-year size is 4% yards 
27, 2>y yards 44 or lj£ yards 52 inches 
wide, with 7 yards of braid. The pat¬ 
tern 5254 is cut in sizes for girls of 
14 and 16 years of age; price, 10 cents. 
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6254 Misses’ Military Coat 
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tional opportunities she has been denied, 
and inherit their mother’s force of char¬ 
acter, too. 
* 
Lest anyone may assert that the pres¬ 
ent “suffragette” agitation in America 
from the State of Alabama related how, results from the restlessness produced 
despite her lack of “book” knowledge, by modern education. Mrs. Kate Trim- 
she had succeeded in maintaining her hie Woolsey explained in a recent speech 
family. “I raise chickens, eggs, and that not only did women enjoy the 
garden vegetables, and make soap,” she right of suffrage during the Colonial 
declared, “and help my husband with period on practically the same basis as 
the farm. Last year I sold $36 worth men, but that the most prominent 
I have been beloved by the four wo¬ 
men whose love was of the most com¬ 
fort to me: my mother, my sister, mv 
wife and my daughter. I have had the 
better part, and it will not be taken 
from me, for I often fancy that the 
judgments which will be passed upon us 
in the valley of Jehosaphat will be 
neither more nor less than those of 
women, countersigned by the Almighty. 
—Ernest Renan. 
THE ESQUIMO 
eats blubber. The lumbermen eat 
pork. The Norwegian fishermen 
live on cod liver oil. These 
people are constantly exposed 
to cold and physical strain. 
Experience has taught them that 
fatty foods give warmth and 
nourishment. 
For those who have cold and thin 
bodies, or are threatened with 
consumption or any wasting 
disease, there is no fat in so 
digestible and palatable a form as 
Scott’s Emulsion 
Physicians prescribe it. 
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