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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
January 21, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
WOULD YOU HAVE THE WORLD BE 
KIND? 
Would you have the world be kind? 
Then he kind yourself! 
Hide not gifts of heart or mind 
On the future’s shelf— 
Give what you can spare, and more, 
From to-day’s most precious store. 
Would you meet with truth? Then truth 
You must proffer first 
Life hath need of grace and ruth. 
But, through best and worst, 
Truth’s gold passes, clear and straight 
Aud is always worth its weight! 
Would you honor gain? Be swift 
To give honor hue; 
The deserving to uplift, 
Crown the crowned anew 
With the laurels they have won 
In whatever work, well done. 
Would you be beloved? Then love! 
And be sure of this 
Whatso’er life's gifts may prove, 
All that was, or is 
Grand, or dear, or fair, is less 
Than Love’s matchless loveliness! 
Mary Ainge De Vere (“Madeline Bridges.' ) 
* 
Some European educators are now ad¬ 
vocating brain drill with the fingers as 
a means of gaining efficiency. They ad¬ 
vise sewing, fretwork, netting, and in 
fact everything that calls for manual skill 
as a means of acquiring an active, re¬ 
sourceful and versatile brain. It is held 
that as, in every manual act, the hand is 
directed by the brain, every act reacts 
on the brain, strengthening and stimulat¬ 
ing it. We have always believed in these 
manual dexterities as a means of sooth¬ 
ing nervous fatigue; it is noticeable that 
a woman who has been hard at work 
cooking and sewing often finds relief in 
some sort of fancywork, and obtains a 
mental stimulus from it. 
* 
Here is a suggestion from the New 
York Sun. Medicine so strong that a 
dose must be limited to seven drops had 
been prescribed for the man with un¬ 
steady hands. His family also had shaky 
hands, and as there was no medicine 
dropper in *the house it looked as if 
somebody would have to make a mid¬ 
night trip to the drug store. But a visit¬ 
ing relative that they had put up for the 
night suggested an alternative. ■ 
“Take that half of that raw egg shell— 
raw, mind you; cooked egg shell is too 
brittle and crumbles too easily- -that 
I saw lying on a saucer in ilie cupboard, 
drill a hole in it the size of a pin head 
and let the medicine trickle through 
that. It will be sure to fall out in drops 
of the required size and you couidn t 
make a mistake if you wanted to. ’ 
* 
An odd fact relative to a little Afri¬ 
can melon is thus related by Major Stan¬ 
ton, the late Governor-General of Khar¬ 
toum : 
The jerboa or kangaroo-rat is found in 
considerable numbers in places miles and 
miles away from any water, or even dew, 
and I was at a loss to understand how 
these little animals could exLst through the 
10 months of drought. It appears, how¬ 
ever, that after the scanty rains a small 
wild melon, of bitter taste, but full of juice, 
flourishes in the desert. The jerboa, as 
soon as the melon is ripe, bites off the 
stem and proceeds to dig away the sand 
under the melon, so that it gradually sinks 
below the level of the ground. The con¬ 
stant wind soon covers it with six inches 
to eight inches of sand, which protects it 
from the scorching sun and from drying 
up. When all other moisture has evap¬ 
orated, the jerboa goes to his larder and 
drinks the juice of the melon till the rains 
come on again. One jerboa will bury as 
many as 40 of these little melons, to last 
him through the dry season. 
* 
Kansas City, Mo., recently passed an 
ordinance compelling women to sheathe 
their hatpins; a protruding pin renders 
them liable to a fine of from $1 to $500. 
How the sheathing is to be effected is 
not stated. We have never been able to 
understand the mental attitude which 
permits a woman to make herself a 
public nuisance in this w<:/ There is 
so much danger in such a fringe of dag¬ 
ger points that one wonders how aiiy 
woman can be guilty of it; everyone who 
travels in crowded street cars and ele¬ 
vators can realize this. Furthermore, 
the projecting pins are hideous, absolute¬ 
ly spoiling the appearance of a pretty 
hat, and merely adding a look of Afri¬ 
can savagery to an ugly one. As the 
clipping of a long pin is a very simple 
matter, there really seems no excuse for 
this particular form of feminine pervers¬ 
ity. Of course a hatpin purchased for 
one of the spreading canopies of 1909 
projects beyond the extinguisher head- 
gear of 1910-11; therefore it should be 
pruned. Still, the sensible women whose 
hatpins do not project must be in the 
majority, in spite of newspaper critics; 
otherwise our cities would be full of 
suffering and punctured citizens who 
have fallen victims to these feminine 
javelins. 
* 
A quaint old book, printed in Eng¬ 
land in 1744, is called “Adam’s Luxury 
and Eve’s Cookery.” It consists of two 
parts, the first relating to gardening, the 
second to the cooking of garden prod¬ 
ucts. The London “Gardeners’ Chron¬ 
icle’’ quotes some of the recipes given in 
this book, which show great differences 
in the methods of preparing potatoes 
especially. There are directions for 
stewing potatoes with salt, pepper and 
ale, also for baking them “with herrings, 
mixed with layers of pepper, vinegar, 
salt, sweet herbs and water.” Here is 
the recipe given for “Potato Pye.” “Boil 
Potatos (not too much), cut them in 
slices as thick as your Thumb, season 
them with Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Ginger 
and Sugar; your Paste being ready, put 
them in upon the Bottom; add to them 
the Marrow of two or three Bones sea¬ 
soned with Orange-Juice, Orange-flower 
water, beaten spices and Rose-water, a 
handful of stoved Raisins of the Sun, 
Dates, Mango, Citron, with Eringo 
Roots slic’d; put Butter over it and 
bake them. Let their Layer be a little 
Vinegar, Sack and Sugar, beaten up with 
the Yolk of an Egg, and a little drawn 
Butter; when your Pye is enough, pour 
it in, shake it together, scrape over 
Sugar, garnish it and serve it up.” The 
“Eringo Roots” referred to are the 
fleshy roots of sea holly (Eryngium), a 
member of the carrot family; the roots 
are candied by European confectioners, 
and are also boiled or roasted, being said 
to taste like chestnuts. 
* 
The recent inquiry in “Publisher’s 
Desk” regarding a medical firm profess¬ 
ing to cure epilepsy, saddens one with 
thoughts of the many sufferers who turn 
to such charlatans as a last hope for 
relief. The epileptic is especially at the 
mercy of such quacks, because it seems 
hard to believe that a person who may 
appear healthy and normal during the | 
intervals between attacks is not readily ! 
curable. Unhappily, it is often a case 
where the sins of the fathers are thus 
visited upon the children, but whatever 
the cause, one foundation truth must be 
insisted upon—no distant mail order 
quack possesses any knowledge that is 
not open to the reputable physician near 
at hand. Some years ago we visited 
the Craig Colony for Epileptics, one of 
our great State institutions. Here were 
hundreds of afflicted persons, some bright 
and intelligent in appearance, some 
almost imbecile, but all alike in that 
they might fall into fire or into water 
like the man in the Gospel, when their 
evil spirit came upon them. We learned 
from the doctor in charge that fresh 
air, abundant exercise and careful diet 
were chiefly relied upon to ameliorate 
their condition, medicine being little 
used; indeed, it was held that many 
drugs used by quacks to “cure fits” were 
most injurious. In the dietary, pork in 
any form was absolutely forbidden. 
Beef and mutton were used rather spar¬ 
ingly, a liberal vegetable diet being pro¬ 
vided, and tea, coffee and alcohol were 
cut out. Skim milk was freely used as 
a beverage, but not whole milk; we be¬ 
lieve excess of fat was avoided. Right 
living and right thinking were the two 
great factors in improvement. What 
we saw there impressed us with the fact 
that wholesome farm life, with proper 
dietary, is the surest hope of the epi¬ 
leptic. 
To Take Raw Eggs. 
Raw eggs are often prescribed by 
physicians, and those fresh laid are not 
too bad to take. Some people heroically 
swallow them whole, after the fashion 
of small boys sucking eggs surreptitious¬ 
ly at the barn. I can say from experience 
they are not very palatable served in 
this manner. With vinegar and a dash 
of salt and pepper they go down easier, 
and sometimes one can drink them in 
milk, beaten or just broken in whole. 
Sugar and flavoring may be added if 
desired. I have taken them in this way 
and nearly raw, just jellied in boiling 
water, but found that four or five a 
day made me bilious, as I was not tak¬ 
ing much exercise, so to relieve this I 
began eating oranges too with very 
good results, and soon hit upon a sort 
of orangeade that was very good indeed, 
made as follows: 
Beat one egg very light with just a 
tiny pinch of salt and enough sugar 
to sweeten to taste. Peel and cut one 
orange (a half of one will do if very 
juicy) into tiny pieces and add to the 
beaten egg and sugar, then fill cup up 
with cold water. This can also be made, 
using the juice of a lemon instead of 
the orange, and is a pleasant, nourish¬ 
ing drink, very useful in sickness, but 
nice at any time. Fruit cake or cookies 
are very good served with the lemonade 
for luncheon. I do not think the un¬ 
initiated could guess what was in the 
lemonade. It is a foamy, creamy look¬ 
ing beverage. One of my friends asked 
if there was cream in it when I asked 
her to guess. 
The egg and orange diet agreed with 
me so well that I gained in health and 
strength steadily. Since then I have 
heard of a patient who thought he had 
been cured of consumption by eating 
quantities of raw eggs and oranges. 
That seems to me a good deal to claim 
for any food, and probably there were 
other very favorable conditions. But if 
one has been ordered to take raw eggs 
this is a very good way to take them. 
F. 
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