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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 25, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
TRIFLES. 
The griefs that fall to every share, 
The heavier sorrows that life brings, 
The heart can nerve itself to bear— 
Great sorrows are half holy things. 
But for the ills each hour must make, 
The cares with every day renewed— 
It seems scarce worth the while to take 
Such little things with fortitude. 
And he, before whose weakened might 
The strongest enemies must fall, 
Is overcome by foes so slight, 
He scorns to hold them foes at all. 
—Author Unknown. 
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Embroidery on chiffon and other 
transparent materials is much used now 
and is not as difficult as it appears to a 
novice. The pattern is transferred to 
manila paper, and the material basted 
flat and smooth over this. The em¬ 
broidery is then worked through both 
material and foundation, the paper being 
torn off afterwards. The same process 
is used for braiding on net. 
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Celery sandwiches at an afternoon tea 
were made by rolling a thin slice of 
buttered sandwich bread around a' stick 
of celery about three inches long, the 
celery being seasoned with mayonnaise. 
The little rolls are held in place when 
first made by wrapping in paraffin paper; 
tiffin when served half a dozen or more 
are tied in a little bundle with baby 
ribbon, thus preventing unrolling, but 
the sandwich bread usually keeps in 
place if rolled while quite new. 
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Still another Alfalfa story is that an 
Alfalfa diet is as fattening to humans 
as to cattle, a' South Dakota man finding 
that Alfalfa ex.,', act brewed from se¬ 
lected leaves, added to his ordinary diet, 
caused a gain of IOJ /2 pounds in two 
weeks. He thinks this should solve the 
high cost of living unless the price of 
hay should be inflated through increased 
demand. Unfortunately for this theory, 
gain in weight is not regarded kindly 
by women at least, as all our prevailing- 
fashions are planned for slim and youth¬ 
ful figures; a great many women of 
leisure spend much of their time in try¬ 
ing to keep their weight down, and a 
diet which would increase flesh at the 
rate of 10J4 pounds in two weeks would 
be viewed with horror. There are plenty 
of uses for Alfalfa which seem more 
practical than fattening humans. 
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The New York police recently ar¬ 
rested a particularly mean swindler. His 
method is to watch the papers for death 
notices, and then express C. O. D. a 
package addressed to some person re¬ 
cently deceased. Relatives or friends as¬ 
sume that the package is something or¬ 
dered by the departed and pay the 
charges, to find that they have paid sev¬ 
eral dollars for a cheap piece of imita¬ 
tion jewelry, or something equally worth¬ 
less. The man arrested, who said he was 
from York, Pa., made the mistake of 
sending such a package to the address of 
a Brooklyn woman, who had died at 
the age of 90, after being bedridden for 
several years. Her family realized that 
this C. O. D. package was a fraud, and 
set the police on the track. It would be 
hard to find a more callous and brutal 
swindler than the one who thus finds his 
opportunity in grief and bereavement. 
In any case it is wise to look coldly on 
a C. O. D. package of unknown origin. 
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After a year’s investigation of the 
industrial conditions in and about New 
York City, Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont 
has reached the conclusion that there is 
an oversupply of women factory workers 
and that the best relief is to persuade 
girls to take up farming as an occupa¬ 
tion. With this end in view she has set 
aside about 200 acres of her land at 
Brookholt, : Hempstead, L. I., for a 
school of agriculture for women. An 
experienced woman farmer has been en¬ 
gaged to instruct the pupils in practical 
farming, and there will not be a man 
about the place except a boy or two to 
do the chores for the first few weeks. 
Young women 16 years of age and over 
desiring seriously to avail themselves of 
the opportunity to become experienced 
gardeners and farmers may apply in 
writing to the Political Equality Asso¬ 
ciation, 505 Fifth avenue, for admission 
to the school. This brings to mind the 
work of the women’s horticultural col¬ 
lege in England, which was originated 
by the Countess of Warwick, though this 
was intended especially for women of 
education with small means, who would 
have sufficient capital to start some form 
of intensive culture as a means of liveli¬ 
hood. Women receive training as gar¬ 
deners at the Kew Royal Botanic 
Garden, and advertisements of “lady 
gardeners” are not uncommon in English 
horticultural papers. 
A Group of Young Gardeners. 
The boys and girls shown in Fig. 136 
appear, at first sight, like any other 
happy young people engaged in making 
things grow. As you look closer, how¬ 
ever, you notice the crutches and see 
that these young gardeners are handi¬ 
capped in some manner as compared 
with the average child. They are all 
patients at the New York Hospital 
the wards have their slight ailments, the 
ordinary ailments incident to childhood, 
the occupants of the shacks almost without 
exception, escape. The improvement in the 
city child, especially, who comes to us pale, 
anaemic, and languishing, under the burden 
of its tuberculous spine or hip or knee, is 
wonderful. Our proposed new hospital is 
planned to give the patients, all of them, 
outdoor treatment and life, whether they 
are confined to bed with tuberculosis of the 
joints or whether they come to us for the 
operative and mechanical treatment of such 
non-inflammatory conditions, as club foot, 
bow legs, knock knees, etc. 
Lacking the proper quarters and means 
to carry out any formal effort at manual 
training, we have made the present school 
system as thorough as the medical care and 
treatment of the patients permit. Classified 
instruction for the whole group is impossi¬ 
ble. Some patients enter the hospital 
scarcely able to read ; others are imperfect 
in many fundamental particulars. After 
these patients have been with us for a 
period of six months or so, they are, if 
physically able, classified and brought under 
systematic training. There is much mis¬ 
sionary effort in this class of work. Our 
shack patients cannot attend school. They 
can only be taught very moderately and 
under prescribed conditions as to hours and 
effort. But those who are convalescent 
and who have been able to attend school 
regularly have made rapid progress. 
More About Popovers. 
I would advise A. E. F., who on page 
.170 asked for a remedy for moist pop¬ 
overs, to let them stand in the oven with 
the oven door half open for 20 minutes; 
then bake quickly by closing the door 
YOUNG GARDENERS WITH A HANDICAP. Fig. 136, 
for the Care of Crippled and Deformed 
Children, in Rockland County, N. Y. 
This institution is for patients in this 
State only who are unable to pay for 
proper medical treatment. It has been 
in existence 10 years, beginning with 25 
beds; last year it treated 80 patients and 
many other applicants were unable to 
secure treatment, because the hospital 
could not care for them. We think 
there is no other State institution more 
and giving them all the heat they can 
get. I am sure this will remedy the 
trouble. Why hot gem pans? f. a. f. 
The young man who went West did 
well, but the young man who had the 
Western spirit and stayed at home did 
equally well. To evoke ,a spark of fire 
out of a flint with a bit of steel is the ' 
same thing as evoking beautiful thoughts | 
from homely facts. How hard it is for ' 
us to see the heroic in an act of our 
neighbor!—John Burroughs. 
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this. Not only does suffering childhood 
itself make the strongest appeal to our 
sympathies, but this care given to the 
child will make a self-respecting citizen 
of one who might otherwise grow into a 
crippled dependent of the State in later 
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Many of the children received here 
have tubercular disease; others some de¬ 
formity such as club feet, bow legs, 
knock knees, etc. Surgical treatment is 
given for the deformities, and fresh air 
is the great feature in the care of the 
tuberculosis patients, and indeed all of 
them. Says the annual report for 1910: 
The outdoor shacks are a permanent fea¬ 
ture of the hospital. All those who see 
these little ones in their happy outdoor 
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