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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 14, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
TUB FIRST SPRING DAY. 
I wonder if the sap is stirring yet. 
If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate; 
If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun, 
And Crocus fires are kindling one by one. 
Sing, robin, sing! 
I still am sore in doubt regarding Spring. 
I wonder if the Spring lide of this year 
Will bring another Spring both lost and 
dear; 
If heart and spirit will find hut their 
Spring, 
Or if the world alone will bud and sing; 
Sing, hope to me ! 
Sweet notes, my hope; soft notes for mem¬ 
ory. 
The sap will surely quicken soon or late; 
The tardiest bird will twitter to a mate. 
So Spring must dawn again with warmth 
and bloom. 
Or in this world or in the world to come 
Sing, voice of Spring! 
Till I, too, blossom and rejoice and sing. 
—Christina Kossetti. 
* 
An excellent shampoo mixture is made 
by dissolving tar soap in boiling water, 
a quart of water to a cake of soap. It 
should be about as thick as mucilage 
when cold. Separate the hair, pour a 
few drops of the shampoo on the scalp, 
and rub it into a lather. Rinse thor¬ 
oughly, first with warm and then cold 
water, and be sure the hair is properly 
dried before doing it up. A careful rub¬ 
bing and massaging of the scalp should 
always follow a shampoo. 
* 
Clam shortcake is worth trying. Sift 
three cups of Hour, two teaspoons of 
baking powder, one teaspoon of sugar 
and one-half teaspoon of salt. Work in 
two tablespoons butter with the tips of 
the fingers. Add enough milk to make a 
soft dough. Bake in a quick oven. Split, 
butter while hot and serve with clam 
filling. The filling is made as follows: 
Clean and chop fine three pints of raw 
clams. Boil the clam water and strain. 
Cook the chopped clams in clam water 
10 minutes. Make a cream sauce by 
creaming two tablespoons each of flour 
and butter. Cook with one-half pint of 
milk and one-half pint of clam water. 
Season and add to clams. Place in be¬ 
tween and on top of shortcake and 
serve hot. 
* 
Here is a recipe for steamed brown 
bread, not of the Boston variety, which 
affords another use for stale bread. Fill 
a cup with bits of stale bread—as much 
as you can press into it. Pour upon the 
bread all the warm water it will soak 
up, adding gradually as it is absorbed 
until it will hold no more. Pour then 
into your mixing bowl and add a level 
teaspoonful of salt. Dissolve half a tea¬ 
spoonful of baking soda in a cup of 
sour milk, stirring to a brisk foam, and 
stir into the soaked bread. Dissolve an¬ 
other half-teaspoonful of soda in half a 
cupful of molasses and stir to a foam. 
Lastly, beat into the mixture in the bowl 
a cupful of flour, and double the quan¬ 
tity of cornmeal. The one cupful of 
flour and two of the meal should have 
been previously well stirred together. 
Have ready greased a mold with a 
closely fitting top—also greased. Pour 
the bread into this, set in a steamer and 
cook steadily four hours. Dry in oven 
for a very short time after steaming. 
* 
A good many young girls in the coltish 
period feel the awkwardness of their long 
arms and legs to an uncomfortable de¬ 
gree, and the family jokes on the subject 
increase their diffidence, and often turn 
their youthful shyness to active misery. 
The Atchison Globe remarks thaf the tall 
young girl would be more missed than 
any other member of the family, be¬ 
cause she is the one to dust pictures, lift 
things off high shelves, and otherwise 
supply the place of a step-ladder. But 
sometimes we think people forget that 
the tall young girl is but a halflin, as the 
Scotch would describe her half-grown 
brother, and too much is expected of her. 
It must be remembered that in spite 
of her size and effervescent spirits she 
has not attained full strength, and is 
still building up her bodily frame, and 
laying in reserve stores for a useful ma¬ 
turity. Many a worn and ailing woman 
laid the foundation of her ’woes in mis¬ 
use of youthful strength, and the busy, 
willing daughter should not be overtaxed 
through a mistaken wish to make the 
most of her young helpfulness. We be¬ 
lieve in training the young to properly 
directed industry, but too much depends 
upon the mothers of our race to risk 
the blight of premature physical exhaus¬ 
tion. 
* 
It is well to remember that we get 
our choice in Summer wash fabrics at 
this time of the season, so far as city 
stores are concerned; the prettiest pat¬ 
terns are likely to be gone before it is 
time to wear them. If we can lay aside 
money enough to do the bulk of our 
Summer buying during the first three 
months of the year we shall not be 
likely to regret it later, and we shall 
have an opportunity to get a good deal 
of sewing out of the way before it is 
warm enough to begin the Spring clean¬ 
ing. Apart from the usual cambrics, 
ginghams, chambrays, lawns, etc., there 
are many fine cotton fabrics that will 
make charming gowns for church and 
extra occasions. One of these is called 
chiffon lisse; it is very silky, like a fine 
voile or wool batiste in weave, and is seen 
in a variety of pretty stripes—blue and 
white, gray and white, violet, brown, 
etc. It costs 25 cents a yard. The cot¬ 
ton voiles are plain colors, striped, 
checked and corded, from 25 to 45 cents 
a yard as a rule, though we have seen 
them as low as 15 or 18 cents at a sale; 
they are heavier than the chiffon lisse. 
Mercerized cotton eolienne, or the same 
in a mixture of cotton and silk, gives 
a satin striped or dotted effect in self 
colors; mercerized taffetas, in a variety 
of checks, cost 25 cents a yard, and make 
up very nicely. We would always urge 
a woman living in the country to have 
one of these pretty cotton fabrics, nicely 
made, to save a silk or wool church and 
visiting dress during the dusty days of 
Summer. One may get more dust into 
the more expensive fabric during a short 
drive than an hour’s work will remove; 
indeed, there are many dark materials 
that never look the same after one “dust 
bath.” Another very serviceable Sum¬ 
mer material is the rough Shantung pon¬ 
gee, which costs all the way from about 
60 cents to $2 a yard. Rough finished 
silks seem to be the leading favorites 
now, and a good many of the smoother 
weaves are materially reduced in price. 
The most trivial tasks can be accom¬ 
plished in a noble, gentle, regal spirit 
which overrides and puts aside all petty, 
paltry feelings and which elevates all 
little things.—Dean Stanley. 
I N winter no amount 
of warm clothing will 
make you safe if your vi¬ 
tality is low. Warmth inside 
is what you must have. 
Scott’s Emulsian 
of Cod Liver Oil supplies 
carbon to the blood and 
tissues and makes you 
warm and comfortable all 
over. It is a safeguard 
against colds and all the 
ills that follow them. 
Small, easily taken doses 
will do it. 
All Druggists; 50c. and $1.00. 
For Rheumatism 
Nothing gives such quick and permanent relief as 
Sloan’s Liniment 
It quickens the circulation, relieves congestion and in¬ 
flammation, and giveselasticitytothemusclesand joints. 
Use it for Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Pleurisy and 
any Stiffness. p rice> 2 5c., 50c., and $1.00. 
Send for free book on care of Horses, Cattle, Hogs and Poultry. 
Address DR. EARL S. SLOAN, BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. 
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A MAN’S DISPOSITION 
is, without doubt, seriously affected by the 
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The farmers in our territory are plowing,their 
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Our lands are just as fertile as yours, produeo 
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