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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 3. 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
UNTO EACH MAN HIS HANDIWORK. 
Unto each man his handiwork, unto each 
his crown, 
The just fate gives; 
Whoso takes the world’s life on him and so Uncle Silas lay abed and Aunt Ruth 
hearty and on the sunny side of GO, took 
to his bed and refused to budge. The 
village doctor said the only treatment 
he needed was psychic, and washed his 
hands of the case with a grunt of dis¬ 
gust. But there was no one to admin¬ 
ister the psychic treatment in that town, 
Ids own lays down 
He, dying, so lives; 
Whoso bears the whole heaviness of the 
wronged world’s weight, 
And puts it by. 
It is well with him suffering though be 
face man’s fate; 
How should he die? 
Seeing death has no part in him any more, 
no power 
Upon his head, 
He has bought his eternity with a little 
hour, 
And he is not dead. 
—Algernon Charles Swinburne. 
* 
The two features in the coming sea¬ 
son’s gowns that will especially mark 
their novelty are waists fastening down 
the front, and smoothly fitting sleeves. 
Of course the sleeves are at present 
shirred or tucked across, hut their snug 
fit is in marked contrast to the sleeves 
we have been wearing. The waist but¬ 
toning down the front is the natural 
result of the shorl-waisted hack. 
* 
If doubtful of the tenderness of 
corned beef, or any other boiled meat, 
put a tablespoonful of vinegar in the 
water when the meat is first put on to 
cook. The meat will he made tender, 
and it will not have any flavor of vine¬ 
gar. When meat is known to he tough, 
it can he made tender by putting in a their women folks have no judgment in 
marinade for 24 hours; that is, placing financial matters: 
in a dish with a few tablespoonfuls of was a woman ever known to blow out 
vinegar and olive oil, and turning at the gas, or to be buncoed by a man who 
intervals. This is an excellent plan in wanted to borrow money to pay a freight 
bill? Does she ever get her pockets picked, 
or lose money on a little “game”? If she 
waited on him. Aunt Ruth, however, 
was not a mollusc; she was an Abbott. 
After a few months she grew weary 
of running the farm and carrying up 
Silas’s meals at the same time, lost all 
her pity for him, confessed, though it 
hurt her to, that the doctor was right 
and she wrong, and ordered Silas to get 
up. But Silas was a mollusc. He put 
forth an extraordinary amount of will 
power and refused to budge. Aunt Ruth 
soon came to the end of her patience. 
She was not a woman to do things half 
way. “Si,” she said, “you get up or I’ll 
set the bed afire.” Si asked for a drink 
of water. Presently Aunt Ruth reap¬ 
peared, not with water hut kerosene. 
She looked determined. So did Uncle 
Silas. She dipped a lower corner of 
the sheet into the oil and lighted it. 
Uncle Silas rolled to the other side of 
the bed. Aunt Ruth looked into the 
water pail by the washstand, was satis¬ 
fied and left the room. The next day 
Uncle Silas was seen by the neighbors 
brushing peas. He lived to be 93, and 
walked to the postoffice two days be¬ 
fore his death. 
* 
Here is a tribute to feminine intelli¬ 
gence from the Atchison Globe, which 
ought to be committed to memory by 
some of the men who seem to think that 
preparing beef a la mode. 
* 
Green corn custard with baked to¬ 
mato is a novel combination. A cup¬ 
ful of corn freshly cut from young ears 
is beaten together with four eggs, a 
little red pepper, a tcaspoonful of salt, 
a few drops of onion juice and a cup 
of milk. This custard is poured into 
buttered cups and baked brown. Large 
firm tomatoes are seasoned and baked, 
then the corn moulds are turned out 
of the cups, and one placed on the top 
of each tomato, a cream sauce being 
turned over all. Sometimes the toma¬ 
toes arc broiled instead of baked. 
* 
New stocks of Liberty satin are 
somewhat like the crush collars for¬ 
merly in favor. The tucked or folded 
has a roll of money with her, does she 
ever flash it when she wants to buy a 
cake of chewing gum? Isn’t it a fact that 
she is wiser with money when traveling 
than the men, and more to be trusted? 
Instead of a woman having a man along 
to “protect” her, the daily papers prove 
that every man who goes away from home 
should have a woman to act as a guardian. 
Impatiens Sultani as a Screen. 
Having one window near the road, 
and finding sash curtains not entirely 
satisfactory, I made a box to fit the 
window sill, filled it with leaf mould 
and planted slips of Impatiens Sultani. 
This plant has wax-like foliage of a 
delicate green, and rose-colored flowers. 
It grows very rapidly and is always in 
blossom. Later I added a few slips of 
the sweet-scented and foliage geranium, 
satin is drawn over a boned foundation, The result was entirely satisfactory. In 
with a fine plaiting of muslin or net at a ^ cw weeks I had a beautiful screen 
top and bottom. The ruche at the top growing plants. 
falls over, while that at the bottom lies 
out flat on the shoulders. Sometimes 
there is a narrow ruching at the top 
only, while the bottom is finished with 
a narrow bias band of satin finished in 
E. r. F. 
R. N.-Y.—This Zanzibar balsam is 
ome of the most satisfactory house 
(plants in the Winter, and it grows so 
easily from cuttings that one can start 
shapely plants each season. There is 
front with a stiff bow, or a narrow vel- a newer variety from Mount Kiliman- 
vet ribbon is brought around the collar, j aro> East Africa, Impatiens Holstii, 
and knotted in front. Velvet ribbons which has foliage of a deep myrtle 
are much worn in this way with the green and flowers of the most dazzling 
attached stock on a lingerie waist, the scar let; its habit of growth is similar 
ends of velvet being finished with tassels. to t]le Zanzibar balsam, and we have 
* been much pleased with it, both in the 
A new English play now running in garden and indoors. 
New York is called "The Mollusc.” - 
Oil and Gasoline Stoves. 
I have seen some discussion in The 
R. N.-Y. about blue flame stoves. I 
have had some experience with both oil 
The title is very mystifying until one 
learns that a mollusc is, as one of the 
characters in the play puts it, a person 
who stays in bed because she is too 
parativcly harmless. Oil burners—the 
wicklcss kind—will not burn up with a 
yellow flame and smoke the utensils un¬ 
less they are given too much fuel. This 
is most likely to happen from opening 
the valve too wide when they are first 
lighted because the flame comes up so 
slowly. A method which I have used 
this Summer in lighting is a great im¬ 
provement over the ordinary way. I 
use an oiler, a lubricating can with a 
flexible bottom and tapering spout, 
filled with kerosene, to saturate the as¬ 
bestos ring. Then open the valve only 
so far as is found by experience to give 
a good blue flame. Thus you get ex¬ 
cellent heat and no smoke. One has to 
find by test how many squirts from the 
oiler is needed to give the asbestos 
enough oil to keep it burning until the 
fluid works down from the valve: If 
too much is given the yellow smoky 
flame will result; if not enough it will 
go out before the valve supply has 
caught. But by giving it the right 
amount and never opening the valve be¬ 
yond the ascertained proper point you 
get a very dependable and satisfactory 
heat. If the flame is low with the 
valve at its usual point it usually means 
that the oil is low in the reservoir. If, 
in the oiler, you use one-half kerosene 
and one-half denatured alcohol the 
burner will light quicker and more 
easily. If you have a cabinet stove it 
is possible to protect the burners from 
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berry crate to shut in the front and 
then set the teakettle in the hole with¬ 
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with holes cut to fit, and thus shut out 
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is covered with a box lined with asbes¬ 
tos the baking qualities of it are greatly 
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If considerable asbestos is put in the 
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will cook perfectly at a moderate tem¬ 
perature. The idea of the makers of 
ovens that there should be a circulation 
of air in a double wall around the oven 
seems to be wrong. Shut it in tight 
with a covering of asbestos and wood 
or any non-conductor and the baking 
qualities are greatly improved h. h. 
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not always feminine. The New York 
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years ago in a little town up in New 
England, Uncle Silas, who was hale, 
may then get afire and blaze all around 
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