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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
January 14, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
COURAGE. 
Because I hold it sinful to despond, 
And will not let the bitterness of life 
Blind me with burning tears, but look be¬ 
yond 
Its tumult and its strife ; 
Because I lift my head above the mist, 
Where the sun shines and the broad 
breezes blow, 
By every ray and every raindrop kissed 
That God’s love doth bestow; 
Think you I find no bitterness at all, 
No burden to be borne, like Christian’s 
pack ? 
Think you there are no ready tears to fall, 
Because I keep them back? 
Why should I hug life's ills with cold re¬ 
serve, 
To curse myself and all who love me? 
Nay ! 
A thousand times more good than I de¬ 
serve 
God gives me every day. 
And in each one of those rebellious tears 
Kept bravely back lie makes a rainbow 
shine; 
Grateful I take His slightest gift; no fears 
Nor any doubts are mine. 
Dark skies must clear, and when the clouds 
are past 
One golden dfiy redeems a weary year; 
Patient I listen, sure that sweet at last 
Will sound His voice of cheer. 
—Celia Tbaxter. 
• 
Pi.aster stains on floors are quite dif¬ 
ficult to remove with ordinary scrub¬ 
bing, and are often left by careless work¬ 
men. They usually disappear with little, 
labor if well rubbed with vinegar before 
the floor is scrubbed. 
* 
Spanish steak is a delicious way of 
using the flank. Trim a flank steak, fry. 
it brown in plenty of butter, lift out and 
put in a baking pan. Sprinkle with salt 
and pepper, and fry a sliced onion 
brown in the butter remaining in the 
pan. Spread the onion over the top of 
the steak, then turn a can of tomatoes 
into the frying pan with the drippings, 
heat up, and then pour the tomatoes 
over the steak. Cover and bake an hour 
in a slow oven, basting frequently. There 
should be enough juice with the toma¬ 
toes to make sufficient gravy. 
* 
A person who has had experience in 
taking extremely nauseating medicine 
has hit upon a scheme for rendering it 
innocuous. When the time comes for 
his dose he has a teaspoonful of ice 
cracked to powder, holds this on his 
tongue until it dissolves, and then 
swallows the medicine. The ice numbs 
the nerves, and the medicine slips down 
without leaving any taste. Modern 
doctors do not give as many abomin¬ 
ably flavored compounds as the good old 
saddle-bag practitioners, but there are 
still remedies of such loathly flavor that 
some disguise is needed to make them 
endurable. Of course it would always 
be well, in serious illness, to learn 
whether the ice treatment is permissible. 
* 
The new boarder stepped into the 
room and closed the door, says the New 
York Sun. The landlady stood in the 
hall until she heard him exclaim “Hang 
it all!” Then she chuckled softly and 
went down stairs. 
“Saved, and by vaseline,” she said. 
“My detective instinct told me that that 
man is the kind that scratches matches 
on the woodwork. Many a door jamb 
and mantelpiece in the vicinity of the 
gas jets has been scratched past redemp¬ 
tion by match fiends who had no re¬ 
spect for the furniture. But I have got 
the best of them. I simply smear with 
vaseline tlie woodwork that is conveni¬ 
ent for scratching matches, then the 
matches won’t light. The man doesn’t 
know why, but he never tries it again.” 
♦ 
OLD-fashioned people sometimes re¬ 
call, for the amusement of their juniors, 
the florists’ formal bouquets, as made in 
their youth. They were composed of 
unhappy flowers jammed closely to¬ 
gether, the stems wound round and 
round with thread, until the whole for¬ 
mation was as firm as an old-country 
birch besom. A frill of lace paper, silk 
fringe, or lace completed the bouquet, 
the stems being enclosed in an orna¬ 
mental holder. Sheaf and shower bou¬ 
quets and all the graceful arrangements 
of long-stemmed flowers have displaced 
these formal arrangements for so many 
years that the pendulum of fashion is 
swinging back again, and this Winter 
we see formal bouquets once more. 
Many of them are made of two sorts 
of flowers, the center a flat surface of 
one variety, surrounded by a contrast¬ 
ing border; for instance, a center of 
little pink rosebuds edged with a ring 
of forget-me-nots or violets, the whole 
edged with lace. They have a quaint, 
before-the-war appearance, and perhaps 
their dainty prettiness will make people 
realize that size alone does not make 
a flower’s attractiveness. The florists 
themselves are getting tired of hugh 
cabbagy roses and mop-like Chrysan¬ 
themums with five-foot stems. 
* 
Grape jewelry—that is, ornaments im¬ 
itating the foliage, fruit and tendrils of 
the vine, has been very popular the last 
year or two, ranging all the way from 
the inexpensive but charming Paris nov¬ 
elties to the costly products of fashion¬ 
able goldsmiths. Little bunches of grapes 
backed by foliage, hanging as pendants 
from slender chains, brooches or quaint 
little eardrops to match, slender brace¬ 
lets with similar decoration—all are 
very alluring to the feminine. Jewelry 
of the same pattern was worn by ladies 
of the powerful Roman Empire two 
thousand years ago, and it is interesting 
to learn that a recent discovery in buried 
Pompeii brings to light a specially beau¬ 
tiful example of it. Workmen who were 
digging for the foundation of a new 
building outside the area of the buried 
city found the body of a woman which 
had been petrified. Both the hands were 
full of jewels. Evidently the woman 
fled from the eruption that over¬ 
whelmed Pompeii, carrying her valu¬ 
ables, and was buried in the downpour 
of scoriae. The jewels are excellently 
preserved, having been protected from 
the ashes and lava by the body. They 
consist of bracelets, necklaces, rings, 
amulets studded with gems and a pair 
of earrings, which are probably unique. 
They may be altogether the most valu¬ 
able specimen's of ancient jewelry ever 
discovered. Each earring contains 
twenty-one perfect pearls set in gold in 
imitation of a bunch of grapees. 
Home Treatment for Small Ills. 
Simple remedies faithfully used will 
ofttimes bring great relief and comfort 
in cases Qf the smaller bodily ills. They 
will in most cases prove as effective as 
will the patented ointments and lotions 
for which one must pay five times as 
much. An elderly woman has found, 
after years of annoyance from eczema, 
and after trying all sorts of proprietary 
“sure cures,” that nothing gives such 
relief as a mixture of glycerine and 
wintergreen. She buys them separate— 
as druggists will sometimes charge 
prescription rates where even two in¬ 
gredients are combined—mixing them in 
about equal proportions and diluting 
somewhat with alcohol that it may not 
be too viscid to be well rubbed in. The 
tincture of wintergreen can be used, but 
the oil, though more expensive, is pref¬ 
erable. Thorough applications to the 
skin as soon as the eruptions show will 
give relief, and persistent use will drive 
them away. As to those severe attacks 
where much moisture exudes from the 
skin, it may be necessary to call a phys¬ 
ician, and use more strenuous remedies, 
but for the chronic irritation from which 
many old people suffer a rubbing with 
the glycerine and wintergreen will often 
mean the comfort of a quiet night’s 
sleep. 
The dictionary defines “callous” as 
“unfeeling,” but anyone who has had 
one of those obdurate, indurated, ob¬ 
structions which we call a callous place 
upon the foot knows how far from un¬ 
feeling it can seem. Daily footbaths are 
a help because the only way to secure 
ease is by keeping the place softened as 
much as possible. When abundant hot 
water and fussing are out of the ques¬ 
tion it is worth while to wear upon the 
spot, every night, a pad of absorbent 
cotton kept moist with some soothing- 
remedy. A sort of skeleton sock can be 
made of soft cloth, a half sandal affair 
with soft strings of cloth to cross and 
tie about the ankle, a little band of the 
cloth to slip between the toes being 
added if necessary. Baste the pad of 
cotton to cover the afflicted spot and it 
will take but a moment to arrange the 
device for local treatment. It is said 
that corns may be cured by keeping 
them moist with glycerine. First dust 
thickly with bicarbonate of soda and 
then cover with a wad of absorbent cot¬ 
ton soaked in the glycerine. This is 
good treatment for callosities also, and 
if it is possible to wear, during the day¬ 
time, a corn plaster or a homemade de¬ 
vice of cotton having a hole in its center 
to prevent pressure from the shoe, pa¬ 
tient perseverance in the treatment will 
surely bring relief and finally complete 
cure. 
For a rheumatic knee this treatment is 
highly recommended. Wring a towel 
out of cold water at bedtime and wrap 
about the lame joint. Over this pin a 
dry cloth and then wrap all in a soft 
woolen shawl or something equally 
warm and pliable. Secure with plenty 
of safety pins. Be sure to have the 
woolen wrappings warm enough to bring 
a sense of heat and comfort and the 
knee will be well next day. 
PATTIE LYMAN. 
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You 
Who Get 
Hungry 
Between Meals 
Don’t deny yourself food till meal 
time. 
When that mid morning hunger ap¬ 
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These biscuits are little nuggets of nutrition. 
Each crisp soda cracker contains energy 
for thirty minutes more work. 
Many business men eat them at ten 
in the morning. So do school 
children at recess. 
They’re more nutritive than 
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Uneeda Biscuit are 
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in Bulk 
In the moisture-proof 
package 
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