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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 26, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
TUBAL CAIN. 
Old Tubal Cain was a man of might, 
In the days when earth was young; 
By the fierce red light of his furnace bright, 
The strokes of his hammer rung; 
And he lifted high his brawny hand 
On the iron glowing clear, 
Till the sparks rushed out in scarlet show¬ 
ers, 
As he fashioned the sword and the spear. 
And ho sang: “Hurrah for my handiwork! 
Hurrah for the spear and the sword! 
Hurah for the hand that shall wield them 
well, 
For he shall be king and lord.” 
To Tubal Cain came many a one, 
As he wrought by his roaring fire. 
And each one prayed for a strong steel 
blade 
As the crown of his desire; 
And he made them weapons sharp and 
strong, 
Till they shouted loud for glee, 
And gave him gifts of pearl and gold, 
And spoils of the forest tree. 
And they sang: “Hurrah for Tubal Cain, 
Who hath given us strength anew! 
Hurrah for the smith, hurrah for the fire, 
And hurrah for the metal true 1” 
But a sudden change came o’er his heart, 
Ere the setting of the sun. 
And Tubal Cain was filled with pain 
For the evil he had done; 
lie saw that men with rage and hate, 
Made war upon their kind, 
That the land was red with the blood they 
shed, 
In their lust for carnage blind. 
And he said : “Alas ! that ever I made, 
Or that skill of mine should plan, 
The spear and the sword for men whose 
joy 
Is to slay their fellow-man !” 
And for many a day old Tubal Cain 
Sat brooding o’er his woe; 
And his hand forbore to smite the ore, 
And his furnace smouldered low, 
But he rose at last with a cheerful face, 
And a bright, courageous eye, 
And bared his strong right arm for work, 
While the quick flames mounted high. 
And he sang: “Hurrah for my handiwork!” 
And the red sparks lit the air; 
“Not alone for the blade was the bright 
steel made”— 
And he fashioned the first plowshare. 
And men, taught wisdom from the past, 
In friendship joined their hands, 
Hung the sword in the hall, the spear on 
the wall, 
And plowed the willing lands; 
And sang: “Hurrah for Tubal Cain! 
Our staunch good friend is he; 
And for the plowshare and the plow 
To him our praise shall be. 
But while oppression lifts its head, 
Or a tyrant would be lord, 
Though we may thank him for the plow, 
We’ll not forget the sword!” 
—Charles Mackay (1814-1879). 
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Empire girdles, for wear with high- 
waisted gowns, are made of folded silk 
about two inches wide in front and 
four or five inches wide at the back. 
They slope up at the back, where a 
stout support holds them in place. They 
are finished with a small upward-point¬ 
ing bow and long fringed sash ends. 
Fringes are to be much used in all sorts 
of trimmings. 
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There is a story in the September 
Century Magazine which is worth think¬ 
ing over. It is called “A Confusion of 
Idols,” and tells how a city family, cul¬ 
tured, artistic and refined, settled in a 
small farming community, with the idea 
of living a simple life of high ideals. One 
of their first proceedings is to remove 
the electric fixtures from their house, 
substituting lamps and candles, while 
they arrange the rooms in accordance 
with the style of a century ago. The 
city woman, Mrs. Westerlyng, pities 
Mrs. Cutts, the farmer’s wife next door, 
because she is eager to buy the discard¬ 
ed electric light fixtures, and willingly 
sells to Mrs. Westerlyng her old white 
deal furniture. Mrs. Westerlyng floors 
and furnishes her kitchen with white 
deal, and has an old-fashioned brick 
oven built in, with old brass candle¬ 
sticks above the fireplace. Mrs. Cutts 
puts a blue and white linoleum on the 
kitchen floor, gets white painted chairs 
with a bit of blue striping, and installs 
a good oil stove. Freed from the per¬ 
petual scrubbing needed by white deal 
floor and furniture, from the coal and 
ashes of the big stove, and the filling of 
lamps, Mrs. Cutts, for the first time 
in her married life, has leisure to sit 
down to her mending in the morning. 
Mrs. Westerlyng, eager and restless, 
tries to secure mental poise by sur¬ 
rounding herself with the outward be¬ 
longing of a past generation; Mrs. 
Cutts secures the mental poise and se¬ 
renity first, and then makes her daily 
work subservient to it. Mrs. Wester¬ 
lyng and her husband make needless 
work for themselves, their children and 
their servants, in a misdirected effort 
toward simplicity of living; Mrs. Cutts 
avails herself of all means within her 
power to lessen the friction of everyday 
life. We think that Mrs. Cutts, with 
her good judgment and clearness of 
thought, is a fine example of the mod¬ 
ern farm woman—a type most writers 
of fiction seem to know little about. 
There is a good lesson for many of us 
in “A Confusion of Idols.” 
Washing Cream Cashmere. 
Will any of the sister readers of this 
paper tell me how to wash or otherwise 
clean a cream cashmere dress? 
A PENNSYLVANIA READER. 
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We have washed gream-fcolored cash- 
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Okra ; Martynia ; Sliced Pickle. 
Will you tell me how to use okra in soups? 
Are the pods used when green or after they 
are ripe? Also how to use martynia. 
Here is a receipt which others may like 
as well as we do, sliced cucumber pickles: 
Two dozen large green cucumbers, pare or 
slice without paring as preferred. Salt the 
slices (not too much), and let them stand 
three or four hours. Slice thin half a 
dozen small onions (I prefer more), and 
mix with the cucumbers after they have 
been drained from the salt. Make a dress¬ 
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(fresh butter in a smaller quantity answers 
as well), half a cup of white mustard seed, 
same of black mustard seed, one tablespoon 
celery seed and one quart vinegar. Drain 
again from the salt and pour the dressing 
over. Let them stand one day and put 
enough more vinegar over the pickles to 
cover them. Make all cold. I will add, be 
sure to mix the oil and vinegar thoroughly; 
an egg heater is best for this. G. k. 
Okras should be tender and young, 
so that they slice easily, when used for 
cooking. They become fibrous and 
woody when mature. They are usually 
in nice condition when about two or 2 l /> 
inches long. They are excellent in 
soups and stews, or baked in combina¬ 
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for Winter use by slicing the tender 
pods across, and then drying in the sun, 
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Martynia pods are made into pickles 
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and then put in jars, well covered. They 
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