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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 29, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE HOMESTEADER. 
My slakes are driven deep into the sod, 
M.v plow Inis turned a furrow through the 
loam, 
My lent gleams where (lie cactus flowers 
nod : 
That’s all—but, stranger, it is Home. 
Perhaps my eyes shall some day see great 
trees 
Nod o’er the spot where unchecked winds 
now whine; 
Perhaps, iti years to come, the vagrant 
breeze 
Will whisper round a mansion, mine— 
all mine. 
Perhaps, beneath a not unkindly fate, 
My throw against the desert’s spell shall 
will. 
So he who lingers at my outer gate 
Shall know prosperity is housed within. 
But whether all my dreams shall lie in 
vain, 
And whether gods of chance nod aye or 
nay, 
Come sun or shadow, drought or welcome 
rain, 
My stakes and tent and plow spell Home 
to-day. 
— Ilenver Republican. 
* 
Ruff linen trimmed with light blue 
made a pretty suit of Colonial color¬ 
ing. The 10-gored circular skirt was 
trimmed with a two-inch band of the 
linen, and the cutaway coat had collar 
and cuffs of the blue faced with buff. 
Shades of huff arc much worn, being 
softer titan pure yellow, and more deli¬ 
cate than the twine colors. 
* 
Scarfs of crepe de chine are freely 
worn as a light wrap for Summer 
evenings, and are much used to form a 
finish for a handsome costume, without 
the need of extra warmth. They are 
printed in beautiful designs and color¬ 
ings, and cost $1 to $1.25 or $1.50 a 
yard. The width of the material is 23 
inches, and the scarf is usually two or 
2/ yards long, the ends being hem¬ 
stitched. 
* 
The household philosopher thus de¬ 
scribed by the Youth’s Companion had 
a happy way of surmounting difficulties: 
“These stockings are so full of holes 
that they are worthless, Aunt Mahaly,” 
said a lady to an old colored woman 
with a large family, who was a pen¬ 
sioner of her family. 
“Xo'm, dey ain’t,” replied Aunt 
Mahalv, calmly appropriating them. 
" 'JRastus en’ Verbena got such black 
laigs dat de holes won’t show, nohow, 
en’ dent chilluns what got yaller meat 
kin wear two pairs at de same time; 
en' you knows. Mis’ Jo, dat de holes 
in all dem stockin's ain’t gwine hit de 
same places.’’ 
* 
Coffee junket is a delicious dessert, 
very easily made. Take a pint of fresh 
milk. Reserve one gill, which bring to 
boiling point, and pour over a table¬ 
spoonful of coarsely ground coffee; 
allow this to infuse for ten or fifteen 
minutes; strain, sweeten and add to the 
remainder of the milk. Warm gently 
to blood heat, taking care that it does 
not get really hot or the junket will not 
set. Remove from the fire, add half a 
junket tablet, stir, and pour at once into 
custard glasses. Fill them only two- 
thirds full. Leave in a cool place until 
set. Whip some cream, sweeten and 
flavor with a little vanilla essence or 
any preferred flavor. Place a spoonful 
or two on the top of each glass before 
serving. 
* 
The long tight transparent sleeves 
seen in handsome new gowns are very 
striking. They are usually tucked or 
shirred, and generally have a short cap 
at the shoulder of the same material 
as the rest of the bodice. They arc not 
cut off at the wrist, but are lengthened 
out over the hand, many of them hav¬ 
ing a loop of silk cord on the inside 
that is caught over the thumb to hold 
the sleeve down in position. As a rule 
these sleeves have two seams, and 
though snug, they must not be too tight, 
thus preventing freedom of movement. 
When the material is shirred it is 
usually gathered to form a tiny ruffle 
down the outside seam, or a narrow lace 
ruffle is applied down the seam. Some 
of the wash dresses of linen or voile 
have these transparent sleeves of sheer 
nainsook or cotton net. 
* 
To make soap jelly for shampooing 
the hair, melt half a cake of white 
soap in a quart of boiling water. Let 
it stand over a slow fire until the soap 
is thoroughly dissolved, and then pour 
into a wide-mouthed bottle. It cools 
into a firm jelly. Some add borax or 
washing soda to this, but we do not 
recommend it, as such things are very 
drying in their effect on the hair. For 
t lie shampoo dissolve a tablespoonful of 
the jelly in a little warm water, .and 
run it well into every part of the scalp. 
Rub with the tips of the fingers to give 
thorough massage, and rinse carefully, 
to get all the soap out. A great many 
modern hair specialists urge the use of 
the dry shampoo, asserting that it 
cleanses the hair thoroughly, without 
drying out the natural oils, but we have 
never used it. Prepared powders are 
put up for this purpose, but sifted corn- 
meal can be used. The hair is parted, 
and a small quantity of the meal sifted 
on to the scalp. It is well rubbed in 
and on the hair, all over the head, col¬ 
lecting dust or soil, then brushed out, 
being careful to brush clear to the tips 
of the hair, so that all the powder is 
removed. The exponents of this system 
assert that it is very beneficial to the 
hair, and cleanses it thoroughly; our 
chief objection is that oily hair never 
becomes fluffy with the dry shampoo, 
and blonde or red hair seems to grow 
darker with it. However, a person who 
is averse to the ordinary shampoo for 
any reason may he glad to try the plan. 
Scraps of Various Sorts. 
Part 1. 
When Bess came out of the drugstore 
carrying a decidedly bulky package 
Lyman’s face took on that look of 
brotherly disapproval common to the 
long-suffering youth in his teens who 
feels sure his sisters are going to do 
the wrong thing unless lie ridicules 
them into' circumspect behavior. 
“Bargains on to-day in cold cream or 
in patent nervo-hypo extracts?” he 
asked, too busy looking after the colt to 
offer assistance. Bess clambered in, 
stowed away her packages beneath the 
seat and when we were well out upon 
the country road took her turn at sis¬ 
terly admonition. 
“If you wasn’t an old precious, Ly¬ 
man Ithamar, I should tell you how 
ill-mannered you looked there on the 
principal street in the village, not offer¬ 
ing me so much as a hand to help me 
into tlie surrey, though the colt can he 
made to stand perfectly well when you 
insist that she shall. It was just the 
time when all the girls were out. I 
saw Hazel Wade coming out of the 
post office, and a half dozen more girls 
were in sight, but you let them think 
my brother hadn’t any more politeness 
than old Houdie Shafer, when he 
tramps along with his hands in his 
pockets, smoking his pipe and letting his 
wife carry all she can tug. I was just 
as ashamed of you as you were of my 
big packages. There wasn’t anything 
disgraceful about 1 lie size of it, and if 
there had been not a girl would have 
given the bundle a thought if she had 
been given a chance to busy her mind 
over thinking what a graceful and well- 
mannered old precious my brother was.” 
There seems nothing for us middle- 
aged people to do sometimes hut to 
smile and wonder how young men and 
women ever get proper training who 
haven’t an outspoken brother or sister 
to turn a searchlight upon their ways 
no* and then. The offending package 
contained a half dozen empty cigar 
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boxes. We found them all asoak in the 
hath tub next day. In the evening Bess 
spread a newspaper in her lap and with 
a flexible steel knife set herself to scrape 
off the paper bindings, etc. Of course 
the covers came loose at once, but it 
was surprising how glue could hold so 
fact, though the long soaking had made 
it much easier to strip off the paper. 
“Where did those things come from?” 
demanded Lyman, coming in and reach¬ 
ing hack of his sister after the hook he 
wanted, though it would have been far 
more convenient to have thrust his long 
arm in front of her. 
“Awfully nice when he is nice! 
Johnny Wade had saved them for me at 
the drug store.” Bess said this in an 
even tone, hut Lyman understood and 
sat down to his reading without the 
comments I expected upon scroll saw 
work being out of fashion and his scorn 
of jimcracks in general. But Pet’s 
curiosity cased itself in a shower of 
questions as soon as she had wheeled 
about from her practicing, 
“Pigeon holes for your desk! Why it 
lias a whole row of them now.” 
“Save her the trouble of clearing 
those out,” explained Lyman without 
taking his eyes from his hook. A little 
kick and an “aeow!” and everybody 
smiling over this reminder of Bessie’s 
habits of accumulating things and con¬ 
versation ran cheerfully on. 
“I want them, and I am going to 
have them. They might as well be there 
between the hooks and behind the cur¬ 
tain on the lower shelves. They’ll not 
he seen and 1 can systematize my belong¬ 
ings so much better and save hunting 
for things. The only way to have an 
article the moment you want it is to 
have just one place to put tilings of its 
class. I am going to put little patterns 
of collars and bands and of the fancy 
work I mean to do next in one of my 
spaces. One I think of devoting to the 
receipts mother is always cutting out of 
the papers. We don’t want them in the 
cook book till proved and found worthy. 
There is sure to he some item to add 
out of your own experience. You can't 
try them always at once; you haven’t 
any eggs in the house, or asparagus is 
out of season, or eggs are dear, or 
you've eaten till your canned apple sauce. 
Put them away in a table drawer and 
you never think of them again, but 
have them here handy when you sit 
down to warm your feet or to plan 
next day’s work and you can look over 
the bunch and decide if after all any are 
worth trying.” 
“No time better than the present. Try 
some more of that fruity apple-sauce 
cake now, will you. Bess?” and Lyman 
read on. 
“Another pigeonhole is for clippings 
fit for school recitations,” continued 
Bess. “The children can never find suit¬ 
able poems. If you paste them in a 
scrapbook they are not convenient to 
lend. I may paste those on to cards 
which seem, at a second reading, to be 
Worth it.” K. ITHAMAR. 
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By Getting 
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KALAMAZOO STOVE CO., Mlrs. Kalamazoo, Mich. 
