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THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 13, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
MY SHIPS. 
If all the ships I have at sea 
Should come a-sailing home to me— 
Weighed down with gem# and silk and 
gold, 
Ah, well! the harbor could not hold 
So many sails as there would be 
If all my ships came in from sea. 
If half my ships came home from sea, 
And brought their precious freight to me, 
Ah, well! I should have wealth as great 
As any King who sits in state. 
So rich the treasures that would be 
In half my ships now out at sea. 
If just one ship I have at sea 
Should come a-sailing home to me— 
Ah, well! the storm-clouds then might 
frown. 
For if the others all went down. 
Still rich and proud and glad I'd be 
If that one ship came home to me. 
If that one ship went down at sea, 
And all the others came to me 
Weighed down with gems and wealth 
untold, 
With glory, honor, riches, gold. 
The poorest soul on earth I'd be 
If that one ship came not to me. 
<), skies, be calm ! O, winds, blow free, 
Blow all my ships safe home to me ! 
But if thou sendest some a-wrack, 
To nevermore come sailing back, 
Send any, all, that skim the sea. 
But bring my love-ship home to me. 
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 
* 
Many farm households use annatto 
•or arnatto, as it is variously called 
(Webster’s dictionary gives six ways 
of spelling it), as a coloring for butter, 
without any knowledge of its origin. 
This coloring is derived from Bixa 
Orellana, a small tree with heart- 
shaped leaves, originally a native of 
South America, but now quite widely 
distributed through tropical countries! 
The fruit is a dry prickly husk about 
an inch long, consisting of two valves; 
the numerous seeds are covered with an 
orange-colored pulp, which when dry 
hardens, and forms the annatto of com¬ 
merce. The Indians of South America 
of the house (not always very effec¬ 
tively) ; they should be suppressed by- 
removal of their breeding grounds. We 
have often visited well-kept farm¬ 
houses where flies were a perennial 
nuisance all through the warm weather. 
The first step towards suppression of 
the fly nuisance is cleanliness. All sta¬ 
bles and other buildings where animals 
are kept should be cleaned and white¬ 
washed ; all decaying matter covered 
with soil, and all manure promptly 
covered with kainit or land plaster, for 
the fly must have decaying manure to 
breed in. Where the horn-fly and other 
blood-sucking flies that annoy cattle are 
numerous, it is advised that every few 
days a boy take a shovel to the pas¬ 
ture and spread out the little piles of 
manure, which will thus dry up with¬ 
out affording a breeding place for the 
flies. Since there is no question that 
dangerous bacterial diseases are freely- 
carried by flies, and that the fly is 
strongly under suspicion as regards ty¬ 
phoid fever (some authorities regard¬ 
ing it as fully as dangerous as contam¬ 
inated milk or water), any system of 
home sanitation should include fly sup¬ 
pression. It is not an inevitable plague 
that must be endured, but one that may¬ 
be relieved, if not eliminated. 
* 
The less said the better about some 
of the new hats, which are nightmares 
of oddity^. But we notice among many 
of them a suggestion of the poke bon¬ 
net that makes us wonder what is com¬ 
ing next. In some the brim is short¬ 
ened at the back, so that it is almost 
cut away, while the front projects in 
a regular scoop. Some of the large 
drooping hats have a band of rib¬ 
bon or velvet brought down over 
the brim and crossing underneath, so 
as to pass beneath the knot of 
hair, which gives a suggestion of the 
strings of a poke bonnet. Some 
of the prettiest hats we have seen are 
of burnt straw with black trimming, a 
width of the case. After gathering it 
is seamed on and faced on the under 
side two inches deep. 
Some new seed catalogues set me 
dreaming of garden beds. I am half 
minded to try all pink and white sweet 
peas this season, for I recollect that 
when one year we had a hedge of all 
Blanche Ferry and another length of 
the mixed colors, the Blanche Ferrys 
seemed to bear three times the most 
blossoms. Sweet peas in my grand¬ 
mother’s garden were always pink and 
white, and interesting as are the new 
sorts, those old colors seem to me the 
dearest. 
To use a spluttering pork rind to 
grease a griddle and to rub lard on 
to cake pans with my fingers never 
suits my sense of neatness. To pro¬ 
vide a better way I take an old fork, 
no longer used upon the table, and 
tearing a strip of clean cotton cloth 
two inches wide, wrap it smoothly 
about the tines, letting it extend a half 
inch beyond their tips. A small pin, 
not reaching hevond the fork tines, 
will hold this in place, and you have 
a sort of brush with which to grease 
a griddle or baking tins. When soiled 
toss the cloth into the fire and pin on 
a fresh piece. I usually tear off sev¬ 
eral and keep them at hand among the 
kitchen towels. A little clean drip¬ 
pings kept in a small basin and heated 
before using enables one to use only 
the trifle of grease needed to prevent 
cakes and bread from sticking. 
PATTIE LYMAN. 
Handkerchief Baby Caps. 
\\ ill some one tell how to make a 
baby cap from handkerchiefs? 
A READER. 
Cheese Toast. — Place a pint of 
milk over boiling water, into it put but¬ 
ter size of an English walnut, half cup 
grated cheese and the same of cream. 
Toast six slices of wheat bread a rich 
brown and when the sauce is the con¬ 
sistency of thick cream and very hot, 
pour over the toast and serve at once. 
SARAH ISHAM COIT. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
It. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
‘‘a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
Simpson-Eddystone 
Zephyrette 
Ginghams 
The most stylish 
dresses are possible at 
moderate cost, with 
these fine Zephyrette 
Dress Ginghams made 
by our scientific new 
process. Their beauti¬ 
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and their fine, durable 
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their economy. 
New Proce** A«k you*deal- 
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EDdystoNl 
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Philadelphia 
er for Simpson. 
K d d y • t o n e 
Z ephyrotte 
Gingham*. 
Writo us his 
name if he 
hasn't them in 
stock. We'll 
help him sup. 
ply you. Don’t 
accept a substi¬ 
tute. 
FARMS, 
Why not locate in Manatee 
County,(Wesl Coast)? Ten 
acres net as much as a hun¬ 
dred in Northern States. 
Delightful climate, abundan 
rainfall, convenient markets. 
VEGETABLES NET 
$1000 ACRE. 
Outdoor work the year 
round, several crops a season. 
Lands reasonable. Write 
for full information. 
J. W. WHITE, 
General Inol. Agent, 
SEABOARD AIR LINE, 
Dept. 18. 
t PORTSMOUTH, VA 
PMILADELPHI 
BALTIMORE.) 
WASHINGTON 
RICHMOND 
vlil 
GULF 
or 
MEXICO 
used to paint their bodies with it, and 
it is used by silk - dyers and varnish 
makers, as well as for coloring dairy 
'products. 
* 
Bread dumplings are excellent to 
•serve with stew or meat potpie, and 
form an acceptable way of using stale 
bread. The bread may be a week old, 
:so long as it is not moldy. Soak bread 
■equal in quantity to one loaf in water, 
then squeeze dry. Add two eggs, two 
tablespoonfuls of shortening, two level 
tablespoonfuls of flour, a pinch of salt, 
and a little nutmeg. Mix all well to¬ 
gether in a large bowl. Mold them in 
an oblong shape with a tablespoon and 
•drop in salted boiling water. They are 
ready to serve after five minutes. A 
good plan is to boil one first as a trial, 
to see whether the proportions of salt 
•and nutmeg are correct, and whether 
they are of the proper consistency. Do 
not cover them while boiling, as they 
-would then get too soft; if boiled in 
;an uncovered vessel they keep firm and 
well-shaped. Any that are left over 
may be sliced and fried like potatoes 
afterwards. 
* 
The Merchants’ Association of New 
York City, which has been investigat¬ 
ing harbor pollution, declares that the 
•common house fly is more to be dread¬ 
ed than the tiger or the cobra, and 
really makes out quite a good case for 
this assertion. The fly is well recog¬ 
nized as a carrier of disease, especially 
of typhoid fever, being as great an ally 
of death and pestilence as the common 
rat in a district infected with bubonic 
-plague. We all know that flies are 
a nuisance and an exasperation, es¬ 
pecially to neat housewives; perhaps 
we shall be more earnest in our efforts 
to suppress them when we realize that 
they are an actual danger too. It is 
not enough merely to screen them out 
favorite combination this season. It 
goes well with any dress and is becom¬ 
ing to most people. We were looking 
recently at a special offering of hats at 
$18 each in one of the large New York 
stores. The most remarkable thing 
about the offering was that any woman 
would pay $18 for this headgear. Some 
of them were of fine Milan braid, which 
would probably cost at retail about 
$3.50 to $4.50 untrimmed, but many 
were of cheaper straw, and there were 
no feathers, the trimming being ribbon 
and flowers. Of course the work was 
done by excellent trained milliners, and 
the effect was stylish, but the general 
result did not differ from headgear 
offered for from $4.98 to $7.50 in cheap¬ 
er shops. Somehow, we think an $18 
hat that did not at once announce by 
its appearance that it cost $18 would 
afford fleeting pleasure to its wearer, 
and but little consolation to the hus¬ 
band or father who paid for it. 
Everyday Items. 
Burned my wrist with steam in the 
haste of getting dinner on the table. 
Put on butter as usual, but the pain 
became so bad that I could eat no din¬ 
ner. The school teacher said, “Try 
molasses.’’ So I got some in a sgucer 
and with a spoon laid it over the burn. 
It cooled the fire at once and after a 
little I could do up the wrist in a 
molasses bandage and go about my 
work. 
Ironed, among other things, two pairs 
of new pillow cases, just made. They 
are for the teacher’s room, to be used 
without shams, and I like them very 
much. The cases were cut short, 
scarcely more than the length of the 
pillows, and are finished with a flounce 
eight inches deep. One pair has three 
tiny tucks above an inch hem, the other 
pair has the flounce edged with lace. 
The flounce is cut once and a half the 
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