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\THED RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 18, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
TIIB WANDER THIRST. 
Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the 
West the sea, 
And East and West the wander-thirst that 
will not let me be; 
It works in me like madness, dear, to bid 
me say good-bye, 
For the seas call, and the stars call, and, 
oh ! the call of the sky! 
I know not where the white road runs, 
nor what the blue hills are, 
But a man can have the sun for friend, 
and for his guide a star; 
And there’s no end of voyaging when once 
the voice Is heard, 
For the rivers call and the roads call, and 
oh ! the call of a bird! 
Yonder the long horizon lies and there by 
night and day 
The old ships draw to home again, the 
young ships sail away; 
And come I may but go I must, and if men 
ask you why, 
You may put the blame on the stars and 
the sun and the white road and the 
sky. 
—Gerald Gould. 
* 
IToc's liver, which is not so good in 
flavor as that of the calf, can be made 
into excellent meat cakes. First boil the 
liver, to remove the strong flavor, then 
chop fine with a slice of fat pork, 
flavor with pepper, salt and sage, and 
adding a little flour, mould into flat 
cakes. Grease a frying-pan, and fry 
to a nice brown. 
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A shirt-waist belt of elastic is excel¬ 
lent for keeping the waist in place with¬ 
out pins. It is made of very strong 
elastic, about 1% inch wide, with two 
strong hooks that fasten into eyelets at 
the other end. It is tight enough to 
hold the waist down firmly, without 
being uncomfortable, and is hidden un¬ 
der the skirt band. Such a belt costs 15 
cents. 
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When going out on some special occa¬ 
sion, where white or light-colored kid 
gloves are worn, many sensible women 
have a pair of white fabric gloves to slip 
over them and thus protect them from 
soil while in a street car, train or carriage. 
It is an excellent plan, for a dark dress, 
furs, or a car seat may mar the light 
kid very quickly, and the over-gloves are 
easily tucked out of sight when the 
destination is reached. Elbow-length 
knitted white wool gloves are often used 
for this purpose with a short-sleeved 
wrap in severe weather. 
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Black walnut is coming in style again 
for furniture; not the dismal looking 
pieces, ugly in design and execution, that 
marked the worst period of American 
taste soon after the Civil War, but re¬ 
productions of Spanish and Italian an¬ 
tiques in this wood. It is said that black 
walnut cannot be imitated as easily as 
mahogany, so makers of this furniture 
are showing much interest in walnut tim¬ 
ber. We used to know an old farm in 
the Middle West that had originally 
walnut fence rails and buildings largely 
composed of walnut slabs. Probably that 
timber would now be worth more than 
the original farm. Such incidents should 
make any farmer think hard on the sub¬ 
ject of tree planting. In the mean¬ 
time, do not be too eager to discard 
old black walnut furniture. 
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Although Mr. Lawton was wont to 
indulge in a sort of language which left 
his hearers in some doubt as to his exact 
meaning, yet when he was “put to it” 
he never failed to make himself under¬ 
stood, says the Youth’s Companion. 
“No, I shouldn’t want to live in a 
house like Philander’s,” he announced to 
Mrs. Lawton on the evening of his re¬ 
turn from a visit to a nephew. “His 
cellar, now—it’s most desperately over¬ 
flowed whenever the weather is anyways 
damp.” 
“Just what do you mean by desperately 
overflowed ?” asked Mrs. Lawton. 
“I mean,” said her husband, mildly, 
“that all they had to do was to open 
the door that led from the kitchen down 
cellar, and the apples come floating right 
in on to the kitchen floor. Is that plain 
to ye?” 
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There is quite a change in the walking 
skirts this Spring. The exaggerated 
shortness has disappeared, the best 
models clearing the ground about an 
inch all around, instead of threatening 
to rise above the shoe tops, as they did 
last season. The usual model is gored 
or circular, with flat tunic trimming; 
often with a panel down the front, or 
an arrangement of buttons and loops 
imitating a panel. Often flat folds put 
on to give a chevron effect, form the 
panel. This panel shows the effect of 
the panel-front princess dress now so 
fashionable. All the skirts for dress oc¬ 
casions are very long and clinging, and 
while some concession is made in short¬ 
ening the walking skirts, they are close 
at the hips, and with little flare at the 
bottom. The habit back is usual, though 
the inverted plait is allowed. While 
the plaited skirts are still being made, 
they are gradually retiring, and the gored 
or circular skirt is emphatically this 
season’s model. Another attractive style 
is gored over .the hips, extending to 
about knee length, where it unites with 
a deep circular band that continues in a 
panel up the front. 
Spring on the, Farm. 
The seed catalogues are beginning to 
lie around on the sitting-room table, and 
my husband has begun to talk garden to 
me. We have our list of beans, peas, 
sweet corn and all the vegetables, in 
the making. There is a half-acre of as¬ 
paragus on the farm. It suffered from 
neglect last Fall, and is now covered 
with dried weeds and tops. My plan is 
to burn it clean and also the old straw¬ 
berry bed; then cultivate the asparagus 
both ways and harrow smooth. On the 
strawberry bed we mean to plant pop¬ 
corn. This year my husband intends to 
•sow father’s onion bed, using chemical 
fertilizer alone. Father used to say 
there was no profit in his cows, and he 
only kept them for the sake of the onion 
bed. But as we have only one horse 
and one cow, we have decided to ex- 
periment a little. There is a new bossy- 
calf at the barn, which we hope to raise 
into a fine cow, some day. The hens are 
singing and scratching busily these days 
and laying eggs as fast as we can count 
them. The price holds good. While we 
have only about 30 this year, it is a be¬ 
ginning and we hope to increase our 
flock each year. I have been feeding 
them skim-milk and vegetable parings 
in two quarts of wheat bran and two 
quarts cornmcal mornings. They roam 
freely on sunny days, and are feed two 
quarts whole corn at night. We aver¬ 
age 18 eggs a day. I have a hundred 
chickens engaged, for I believe it is bet¬ 
ter to buy them just hatched unless one 
has good facilities for hatching. I am 
rather tired of an old barrel and hay in 
it with a lath coop in front, and yet it 
costs money to build just what I want— 
a spacious, well-ventilated brooder 
house. Every year I sigh and dream 
and count over the pennies I’ve saved, 
and the next year it’s just the same. 
Last May I bought 50 chickens. The 
woman who sold them to me was reluc¬ 
tant to part with the hens. I had no 
sitters and no brooder. I offered to 
buy—no. I offered to “swap”—no. And 
at last after offering to hire the biddies, 
she “lent” them to me. Well, I didn’t 
know what to do with those chickens! 
Then one day the man who is now my 
husband brought me a big load of boxes 
to experiment with. He intended to 
come and help me “carpenter,” but farm 
work at home kept him. I put my 
chicken investment in an empty bay in 
the barn—three coops in a row, and set 
four wide boards up for a fence. I fed 
them chick food right in the hay seed 
on the floor, and took an old glass 
tumbler, filled it with water, inverted a 
shallow dish over the top, then holding 
them tight tipped the tumbler quickly 
and set it on a board, just letting a 
little water fill the dish. The chicks 
couldn’t get wet that way, but they kept 
me busy^ lifting the tumbler. How they 
grew! One night the horse got loose 
and went nosing around. He killed one 
chicken by knocking down my “yard,” 
so I took the boards away. The little 
spry “peepers” ran over the whole floor 
and around the doorway, picking, 
scratching and “yip-yip”-ing, until be¬ 
tween feeding and watering them and 
my Tiousework and that job of “carpen¬ 
tering” I was pretty well nerved up to 
do or die. 1 had a scheme in my mind 
for a roosting shed. There was nothing 
the matter with my scheme. So I set 
to work. It was an open shed, such as 
you see for farm wagons near the barn, 
with ends, roof and back only, and a 
dirt floor. I intended to put up two 
roosts: the front one higher by a foot 
and the back one six inches farther 
back as well as lower. This for con¬ 
venience in selecting a couple of good 
birds to kill, at a time. A light frame 
covered with wire was my idea of a 
door in front. It sounded very well, 
and seemed simple enough, I’m sure. I 
had plenty of nails and the hammer. I 
set about knocking packing boxes aparf. 
It didn’t seem so easy after all. I went 
up to the barn and got a bigger ham¬ 
mer ; then I got the hatchet. I knocked 
those boxes to pieces, and surveyed the 
pieces. Then I took a rest and hunted 
up the wire for the door. I decided to 
make the door first—because? Oh, well, 
perhaps because it was nearly milking 
time then, and I had those “pesky” 
chickens to feed and supper to get. Dear 
me, weren’t my hands sore, and the yard 
was a sight to scare off weasels! I 
picked up the hammers and the hatchet 
and the nails. I fed the chickens and 
got supper. Then I went out and looked 
long at the debris of boxes. I wanted to 
leave it for kindling, but after I had 
looked a minute I piled the pieces all 
into some whole boxes, and my plan 
still looked promising if I might only 
learn the “how.” One should never be 
defeated by defeat, and I’m not. I 
have those boxes still, and I have my 
plan still. But this year I have the 
“how.” My husband supplies that, and 
I stand and hold the saw and hammer 
and talk all I please—he doesn’t seem 
to mind. Once in awhile I think I 
offered some really very wise and help¬ 
ful suggestions. You see, I have had 
this scheme so long I know what I want, 
if I am a woman. I’ll tell you how the 
chickens like my scheme some day. I 
mean to set three temporary wire par¬ 
titions in the shed, and let biddy and 
her babies each have an “apartment” 
until the chicks are too big for “babies” 
any longer. Then down come partitions 
and up go roosts, and we teach those 
chicks something new to outwit skunks, 
weasels and rats—in short, teach them 
to roost as soon as possible. I have an 
old piece of straw matting that will be 
some protection, and afford ventilation 
as the nights get cold toward Thanks¬ 
giving, and in Winter the shed will be 
good for the hens to scratch and run in 
on pleasant days. 
ADAH COLCORD BARNES. 
Youth is the best time for the building 
of character and the forming of prin¬ 
ciple, and the future depends on the de¬ 
cisions and actions of the present.—Rev. 
G. Denton. 
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