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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 4, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
. UNGUARDED GATES. 
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, 
Named of the four winds—north, south, 
east, and west; 
Portals that lead to an enchanted land 
Of cities, forests, fields of living gold, 
Vast prairies, lordly summits touched with 
snow, 
Majestic rivers sweeping proudly past 
The Arab's date-palm and the Norseman’s 
pine— 
A realm wherein are fruits of every zone, 
Airs of all climes, for lo! throughout the 
year 
The red rose blossoms somewhere—a rich 
land, 
A later Eden planted in the wilds, 
With not an inch of earth within its bound 
But if a slave's foot press it sets him free. 
Here, it is written. Toil shall have its 
wage, 
And Honor honor, and the humblest man 
Stand level with the highest in the law. 
Of such a land have men in dungeons 
dreamed, 
And with the vision brightening in their 
eyes 
Gone smiling to the fagot and the sword. 
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, 
And through them passes a wild motley 
throng—• 
Men from the Volga and the Tartar 
steppes, 
Featureless figures of the Iloang-IIo, 
Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav, 
Flying the Old World’s poverty and scorn; 
These bringing with them unknown gods 
and rites, 
Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their 
claws. 
In street and alley what strange tongues 
are loud, 
Accents of menace alien to our air, 
Voices that once the tower of Babel knew! 
O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well 
To leave the gates unguarded? On thy 
breast 
Fold sorrow’s children, soothe the hurts 
of fate, 
Lift the downtrodden, but with hand of 
steel 
Stay those who to thy sacred portals come 
To waste the gifts of freedom. Have a care 
Lest from thy brow the clustered stars be 
torn 
And trampled in the dust. For so of old 
The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled 
Rome, 
And where the temples of the Ca;sars stood 
The lean wolf unmolested made her lair. 
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 
* 
Nut loaf is one of the vegetarian sub¬ 
stitutes for meat; it makes a nourishing 
dish that will give a pleasant change. 
Soak two cups of fine bread crumbs in 
cold water for 10 minutes. Add one 
and one-half cup of crushed nut meats, 
one teaspoon of mixed sweet herbs, one- 
fourth teaspoon of salt and one egg. 
Shape into a loaf and bake one hour, 
basting frequently with hot water in 
which a little butter has been melted. 
Serve with brown sauce or tomato, if 
preferred. 
* 
Those high curved stocks now so 
fashionable need careful fitting and bon¬ 
ing to keep in shape, as they must not 
be so stiff as to look uncomfortable. 
When made of lace there should be a 
transparent net foundation, which is en¬ 
tirely finished before the lace is applied. 
The hem along the top should have a 
soft cord inserted, to keep the hem from 
pulling out of shape, and the bones are 
then put in, six being required, so that 
the high curve under the ears is kept in 
place, as well as the front and back. 
Then put on the lace covering, and be 
sure that every stitch is firm, so that 
there are no loose threads and yawning 
spaces to confess the inexperienced 
workwoman. 
* 
We all meet occasionally with men 
who awaken the same sentiments as Mrs. 
Gregg thus expresses in the Youth’s 
Companion: 
“After you’ve been two weeks in the 
house with one o’ these terrible handy 
men that ask their wives to be sure and 
wipe between the tines of the forks, and 
that know just how much raising bread 
ought to have, and how to hang out a 
wash so each piece will get the best sun, 
it’s a real joy to get back to the ordin¬ 
ary kind of man. Yes, ’tis so!” Mrs. 
Gregg finished, with much emphasis. 
want a man who should have sense 
about the things he’s meant to have 
sense about, but when it comes to keep¬ 
ing house, I like him real helpless, the 
way the Lord planned to have him 1” 
* 
A number of the new hats just dis¬ 
played show a high crown built on the 
same lines as a stone crock, finishec 
with a narrow rolling brim. Such a hat 
was of oyster-gray chip, trimmed with 
a close wreath of lily-of-the-valley. Rib¬ 
bon velvet about three inches wide, anc 
bright magenta in color, was twistec 
through the wreath, ending in a large 
upstanding bow on the left side of the 
front. A few cherries appeared in the 
wreath at one side; they did not har¬ 
monize with the velvet, but were ap¬ 
parently needed to carry out the millin¬ 
er’s ideal. The drooping mushroom 
effects of last year are not entirely done 
away, but there is such a marked differ¬ 
ence in the crown in most cases that it 
will be very difficult for a thrifty woman 
to make over her last year’s straw so 
as to delude the public with the im¬ 
pression that it is of this year’s crop. 
* 
A New Jersey judge recently warnec 
parents that if they do not exercise 
proper control over their children he 
will see that they are indicted for their 
negligence. Disorderly and incorrigible 
children are among the most difficult 
problems of city life, nor are they con¬ 
fined to poor and uneducated families. 
There are too many such cases among 
families in comfortable circumstances, 
where the father is too much absorbed 
in business to pay any attention to the 
children, while the mother spoils them 
with foolish indulgence. When we hear 
a woman lamenting that she “can’t do a 
thing” with her children while they are 
still young, we realize that society at 
large has a still greater problem to con¬ 
sider as those children grow older. It is 
the lack of parental discipline that 
caused the Board of Education in this 
city to consider seriously the restoration 
of corporal punishment in the public 
schools. Of course we are all agreed 
that the use of such punishment would 
be a backward step, but when, as too 
often happens, a pupil has no respect for 
any authority, combined with instincts 
and habits that make him a danger and 
a nuisance, what can be done? The 
country teacher, whose pupils include 
but few nationalities, and those of a 
class undergoing prompt Americaniza¬ 
tion, can form little idea of the problem 
before the New York instructor. The 
American mother has the greatest pos¬ 
sible responsibility, for to her we must 
look for the preservation of the best 
ideals of the Republic. 
Another Suet Pudding. —O. P. F„ of 
Nebraska, would like a suet pudding like 
our mothers used to make. Here is one 
that our grandmothers used to make, 
and we call it good: Two cups of In¬ 
dian meal; one cup of flour; a little salt 
and a little soda; 1 J /2 cup suet, chopped 
not too fine; milk to thin, and boil in a 
pudding mould or tin pail five or seven 
hours. The longer it boils the richer it 
is. We use syrup for a sauce. 
MRS. M. L. G. 
Grandmother’s Roast Chicken.—Cut 
the neck off close to the body, pull the 
skin over the end and fasten to the 
back. Fill with stuffing made of a pint 
of dried slightly browned bread crumbs 
into which a teaspoonful of butter has 
been stirred while hot, a half teacup 
each of mashed potato and boiled rice, 
a half cupful chopped celery cooked ten¬ 
der in milk, a teaspoonful salt, a quarter 
teaspoonful pepper and milk enough to 
barely hold the ingredients together. 
When this has been put into the chicken 
fasten the wings tight to the side and 
wrap the fowl up in a thin white cotton 
cloth which has been oiled with melted 
butter. Strips of cloth will be easier to 
manage. Put this into a covered pan or 
roaster with a cup of hot water, slightly 
salted, and one teaspoonful butter. Cook 
for one hour and twenty minutes. Re¬ 
move the cloth and brown, basting oc¬ 
casionally. 
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