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THE RURAL NEW -YORKER 
January 7, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THIS LIFE GAUGE. 
They err who measure life by years, 
With false or thoughtless tongue; 
Borne hearts grow old before their time; 
Others are always young. 
*Tis not the number of the lines 
On Life’s fast filling page; 
»Tis not the pulse’s added throbs 
Which constitute their age. 
Some souls are serfs among the free, 
While others nobly thrive 
They stand just when' their fathers stood; 
Dead, even while they live! 
Others, all spirit, heart, and sense— 
Theirs the mysterious power 
To live, in throbs of joy or woe, 
A twelvemonth in an hour! 
Seize then the minutes as they pass— 
The woof of Life is Thought! 
Warm up the colors—let them glow 
By fire or fancy fraught. 
Live to some purposed-make thy life 
A gift of use to thee! 
A joy, a good, a golden hope. 
A heavenly argosy! 
—Author Unknown. 
♦ 
“Til’ whistle never blows for mother,” 
says Abe Martin, the Indiana philoso¬ 
pher, (hits expressing a great truth in 
everyday words. 
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Hous ('.keepers will be interested in 
the fraud order recently issued against 
the World Manufacturing Company, of 
Cincinnati, O., and three subsidiary 
companies. This includes the R. Arm¬ 
strong Company, which manufactures a 
vacuum carpet cleaner. It is asserted 
that the cleaner, which costs $8.50, is 
not as represented. Federal inspectors 
say that the company has sold 37,000 of 
these devices this year. 
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“Bubble and squeak” is an old-fash¬ 
ioned English name for warmed-over 
beef and cabbage. Cold boiled beef is 
sliced thin, including the fat, and is 
then fried quickly in hot butter until 
heated through. Fry the cabbage in 
butter also, seasoning well with black 
pepper, then make a mound of the cab¬ 
bage on a hot platter, lay the slices of 
beef on it and serve very hot. Some¬ 
times a little chopped onion is fried in 
the butter before the meat is put in. 
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Farming in Nairobi, British East Af¬ 
rica, is not without thrills, according to 
a resident of that district recently in 
New York. He has a great ranch, where 
he expects to carry on ostrich farming 
on a large scale. He said to an inter¬ 
viewer : 
“Since I left my farm my man has 
trapped a leopard that measured nine 
feet three inches in length, and another 
which is believed to be the biggest ever 
taken. They were after our pigs and 
got caught in a cage. A recent letter 
from .niy manager tells me that a lion 
and a lioness have taken up their abode 
in one corner of a 200 acre cornfield, 
and that the opposite corner has been 
appropriated by an old bull buffalo.” 
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The experience gained in the public 
schools of Orange, N. J., where they 
have established a special class room 
for anaemic children, will be very use¬ 
ful to mothers who have this problem 
before them. The children are not 
taught out of doors, but in a large room 
in which there are numerous windows, 
all kept wide open throughout the ses¬ 
sion. In every other feature the work 
is the same as that of an outdoor class. 
The board established a class for chil¬ 
dren threatened with tuberculosis some 
time ago, and with that problem dis¬ 
posed of it became necessary to provide 
for the children who are not well 
enough nourished to insure their full 
development. They get to school at 
nine o’clock in the morning and the ses¬ 
sion lasts until 10.30, with interruptions 
for breathing exercises and a little play. 
Then they get hot porridge or milk and 
eggs and after that they are at work 
again until noon. The midday meal is 
served in the schoolroom at the ex¬ 
pense of the Board of Education. The 
children then work until three o’clock, 
when they are sent home comforted with 
cocoa, porridge or milk, with plenty of 
bread and butter on the side. A great 
many growing children and young girls 
become anaemic, and we believe this 
condition is not always recognized by 
the parents. Abundant fresh air. out¬ 
door exercise, plenty of sleep and 
nourishing food are among the first 
requisites, and nothing could be much 
worse for an anaemic child than a 
crowded and poorly ventilated sleeping 
room. 
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Representative Murdock, of Kansas, 
wants Congress to pass a pure-fabric 
law. He says that he cannot see why, 
if the law protects people from the im¬ 
position of aniline-dyed glucose mas¬ 
querading as currant jelly, they should 
not be protected by law from cotton 
masquerading as wool. In short, his r 
legislative attempt will be to secure the 
passage of a bill which shall compel 
the proper labelling of all fabrics, SO 
that the purchaser may know whether 
he is buying all wool, part wool, or 
no wool. He would have proper penal¬ 
ties provided, and, in his view, a proper 
penalty means imprisonment for false 
statements made on the goods’ labels. 
We think every housekeeper in the 
United States will be ready to back 
Mr. Murdock, for most of us have had 
painful experience in buying “all-wool” 
fabrics, at all-wool prices, which quickly 
showed their cotton and shoddy char¬ 
acter. The prices of woolen and even 
part woolen fabrics are so high that we 
are surely entitled to know what we are 
paying for. 
Cleaning Flues with Zinc. 
Can you tell me the method of cleaning 
kitchen flues with old zinc or worn-out 
electric batteries? I nave seen mention 
of it in the papers. Is the zinc or bat¬ 
teries placed in the chimney? If so, how 
are they burned? They do not give the 
method of doing it. MRS. E. w. 
This question is beyond us; can any¬ 
one give us information regarding it? 
We infer that the zinc is treated with 
some acid which causes rapid formation 
of gas. 
Painting Pantry Shelves. 
I have read so much advice about 
using white oilcloth for pantry shelves 
that I wish to enter a protest. Why 
not paint the shelves? Almost any color 
but white will do. Enamel paint is pre¬ 
ferable. Under milk pans or dishes 
containing food there might be a piece 
of pasteboard or a folded paper. Then 
all that is necessary to do is occasion¬ 
ally to wipe the dust off the shelves. I 
think a light color is better for shelves 
than a dark one. Oilcloth cracks, stains 
and sometimes the paint rubs up and 
looks black and dirty; paint costs less. 
G. w. c. 
wise on the line with many pins, which 
prevented them getting out of shape. 
The rugs were thoroughly clean and 
fadeless, while my back was spared the 
consequences attendant on lifting and 
wringing heavy things from a tub. 
MAUDE E. S. HYMERS. 
Baked Apple Pudding. —Peel, core 
and slice 12 large apples; line a deep 
pudding dish with pie paste, pack in 
apples, add V/z cup of sugar, one grated 
nutmeg, one tablespoonful of butter, and 
one half cup of water. Wet edges of 
paste, lay on a top cover, pinch or crimp 
edges together, make a small opening 
in center, bake in a moderate oven un¬ 
til apples are tender. Serve with rich 
sweet cream. d. b. p. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 12. 
Send Your Name To-day to 
R. H. Jlncy’s Attractions are their Low Prices 
Washing Heavy Rugs. 
With the conviction that some heavy 
vhite cottage rugs required washing, 
trose the question of how it should be 
lone. I dared not send them to my 
vasherwoman lest their delicate colored 
borders be faded and thus ruin my 
rolor scheme; and to wash them at 
lome required a washing machine, 
.vhich I did not possess. After much 
leliberation I had the large kitchen 
able brought outside in the shade, hav- 
ng chosen a warm, sunshiny day. On 
his I spread the rug, having a tubful 
if hot, strong suds beside me on a 
lench; and with a stiff bristle brush I 
rave those rugs a thorough scrubbing 
m both sides. This was followed by 
:horough rinsing with a second tubful 
if hot, clear water; then came a rins- 
ng in cold water, finishing with a fourth 
ubful of blued water. When clean and 
dear they were hung, without wringing, 
n the sunshine; being fastened length- 
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