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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May IS, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
IMMORTAL. 
How living are the dead! 
Enshrined, hut not apart. 
How safe within the heart 
We hold them still—our dead, 
Whatever else be fled ! 
Our constancy is deep 
Toward those who lie asleep. 
Forgetful of the strain and .mortal strife 
That are so large a part of this our earthly 
life. 
They are our very own; 
From them—from them alone, 
Nothing can us estrange— 
Nor blight autumnal, no; nor wintry 
change! 
The midnight moments keep 
A place for them; and though we wake to 
weep, 
They are beside us; still, in joy, in pain— 
In every crucial hour, they come again, 
Angelic from above— 
Bearing the gifts of blessings and of love— 
Until the shadowy path they lonely trod 
Becomes for us a bridge that upward leads 
to God. 
—Florence Earle Coates, in Harper’s Maga¬ 
zine. 
• 
We are told that as a result of the 
modern fresh-air cult nightcaps are com¬ 
ing into use again, and some department 
stores supply them. This sounds en¬ 
tirely sensible. The drafts from many 
open windows, playing about a sensitive 
head (especially if thinly thatched) may 
easily give cold while in bed, and the 
nightcap is a sensible way out of it, 
though in the bygone period, when 
everyone wore nightcaps, fresh air had 
not been discovered, and night air was 
usually regarded as poison. 
* 
Here is a recommended recipe for 
marbled jumbles: Cream a cupful of 
butter with two cupfuls of sugar; add 
four well beaten eggs and stir the mix¬ 
ture into three scant cupfuls of flour, 
with which two heaping teaspoonfuls of 
baking powder and a scant half tea¬ 
spoonful of salt have been sifted. Melt 
half a cupful or a cupful of grated 
chocolate, as preferred, and stir it into 
half the batter. To the other half add 
the juice and grated rind of an orange. 
Stir the two doughs together so that 
the chocolate runs through the orange 
flavored dough in streaks. Roll the 
jumble mixture into a thin layer and 
cut into fancy shapes. 
* 
Those little ribbon roses that have 
been used so much as millinery and 
neckwear trimmings are still in high 
favor, and are used freely on lingerie 
gowns, at waist, neck and on the sleeves. 
They are also used to decorate parasols, 
to finish the ends of lace scarfs, and in 
place of rosettes on baby caps. It is a 
“puttering” job to make them, but not 
difficult for one with nimble fingers, ex¬ 
cept the very tiny ones. Sometimes 
they are made in sprays, with stems 
wound with green ribbon, one large rose 
and several smaller ones, or they may 
be used in little bunches, or even singly. 
While shades of pink find greatest use, 
they are made in all colors for special 
needs. When made in the darker colors 
to match a suit, the center of the flower 
is often made of gold or silver ribbon. 
* 
Spanish rice is a wholesome and 
savory dish. Take a cupful of rice that 
has been boiled and drained, a large 
onion chopped fine, two sweet green 
peppers divested of seeds and chopped, 
a quarter of a pound of salt pork 
minced fine and the liquor from a can 
of tomatoes. Put pork into a pan, and 
when it begins to cook the onions are 
added and cooked until they begin to 
turn yellow. Then the peppers are put 
in and cooked for two or three minutes. 
The contents of the pan are then mixed 
with the rice, enough of the tomato 
liquor added to moisten the rice and the 
mixture turned into a baking dish, cov¬ 
ered with crumbs and baked until the 
top is brown—nearly 25 minutes. 
An Englishwoman living in China 
thus describes a visit to a Chinese 
farmhouse in “The Lady’’: 
We spent the afternoon with a respect¬ 
able farmer’s family. The farmer's wife 
welcomed us warmly and rega'led us on tea 
and boiled eggs—a dish of twenty or thirty 
boiled eggs, to be eaten without bread or 
salt or any accessory whatever except the 
tea. The farmhouse was built of mud, 
with walls two feet thick, and the windows 
were almost non-existent. The place 
looked poverty stricken, but the fanner's 
wife spoke of recent prosperity. Crops had 
done welt and she and her husband had 
been able to purchase that which they had 
been wanting for some years past. She 
took us to see the newly bought treasures. 
We peered in through the door and the 
good woman's face beamed with pride and 
pleasure. There they were straight in front 
of us, made of polished wood, black as 
ebony, two magnificent—coffins. 
* 
In a recent address on popular educa¬ 
tion, Miss Agnes Repplier, the distin¬ 
guished essayist, referred to the modern 
system which tries to make everything 
easy and interesting to the child, and 
thus lessens the desire to work and per¬ 
severe. Miss Repplier remarks: 
The average child receives the Impres¬ 
sion that work is a kind of play, and he 
is justified in stopping short when any 
mental process becomes burdensome. Stan¬ 
ley Hall thinks that animal stories should 
be acted out by the children and teacher. 
Is it any wonder, with such a method of 
study, that the child should early form the 
idea that it is the business of the teacher 
to keep him interested? A Harvard pro¬ 
fessor says that he can tell his freshmen 
who began in the kindergarten, because 
they lack patience and perseverance. Bar¬ 
rett Wendell tells of a lad who was trying 
to work his way through college. When 
given cataloguing to do and asked to do it 
alphabetically, he said: “I do not know 
the alphabet.” It is a far cry from the 
present situation in the kindergartens to 
the mother of John Wesley, who compelled 
each of eighteen children to learn the al¬ 
phabet on his or her fifth birthday. That 
is the other extreme. All that education 
can do is to make a good learner. All that 
idleness can do is to make a good player. 
Neither can do anything, if they are not 
made distinguishable from each other. Sir 
Walter Scott made himself in hours of 
truancy, but Scott knew when he was 
idling. In his day there was no attempt 
to popularize education. All education 
was disciplinary. Even mothers were so 
busy having children and caring for their 
material welfare that they had no time 
or thought to attend ‘‘mothers’ confer¬ 
ences.” They thus missed a great deal of 
fun. Popular education has many fields 
besides the lecture hall. Abbreviations 
are now the order of the day, and lectures 
take the place of dry reading and study¬ 
ing. Who can blame us for taking short 
cuts in tliis busy world? In point of fact, 
there seems to be genuine dread of tackling 
any author, or of allowing children to 
tackle him, until he has been run through 
a sieve. It is the time for a vigorous pro¬ 
test against allowing children nothing but 
predigested literature, and thus stunting 
their mental processes. What is to become 
of awakening intelligence, if it is to be 
systematically laid to sleep again? Many 
are the sins committed in the name of edu¬ 
cation. 
Pe Tsai Cabbage. 
The Bureau of Plant Industry of the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture pub¬ 
lishes several times a year a bulletin un¬ 
der the title “Seeds and Plants Im¬ 
ported.” Strange fruits and vegetables 
as well as unfamiliar varieties of many 
of our common plants follow one an¬ 
other in the pages of these bulletins; 
names of plants and places with curious 
spelling and pronunciation only to be 
guessed at by the ordinary reader meet 
the eye; and led by these into far cor¬ 
ners of the earth with some consul or 
explorer or scientific specialist one’s im¬ 
agination finds unusual stimulus. These 
newly imported seeds and plants are 
sent for trial to those parts of the 
United States which seem best suited 
to their successful growth. Many of 
them are tried on the United States Ex¬ 
periment Farm near Washington by va¬ 
rious specialists of the Agricultural De¬ 
partment, and so it comes to pass some¬ 
times that the return at night from 
work of one of these specialists brings 
to his wife the additional interest of 
some strange new variety of fruit to be 
Compared carefully in flavor with the 
native and known, or of some vegetable 
for the cooking of which she may find 
no recipe in her “Complete Cook Book.” 
It was one such return at night, par¬ 
ticularly, that I have in mind. An old 
botanical collecting-case had been doing 
duty that Spring between Arlington, 
where the experiment farm is situated, 
and the suburban cottage where some 
of the experiments reached their con¬ 
summation. This receptacle now dis¬ 
closed itself full of big, fat light-green 
stems of leaves, calculated to make one’s 
mouth water, so early was it in the sea¬ 
son. “This is the Pe Tsai I was telling 
you about,” was the reply to an eager 
question, and the added remark, “No 
one seems to know just how to cook it,” 
gave the finishing touch. The next day’s 
experiment in cooking proved as satis¬ 
factory as had ihe experiment in grow¬ 
ing, and it was later given an honored 
place in the experimenter’s own garden 
plot. 
Permit me to introduce Brassica 
pekinensis, Chinese or Pe Tsai cabbage, 
more formally. It forms oblong, loose 
heads like Cos lettuce, but with much 
larger leaves. Bulletin 'No. 205 of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry says: “Planted 
in Spring, Summer and Autumn by 
sowing thickly on freshly cultivated soil 
and then raking in. Ready for use in 20 
to 30 days. Eaten boiled.” Stems and 
leaves may be used together as “greens,” 
but it was found to be most delicious 
when the stems alone were used, boiled 
and creamed, like asparagus. Its ex¬ 
treme earliness, combined with its ex¬ 
cellent flavor, make it a valuable vege¬ 
table for the farmer’s garden. The bul¬ 
letin before quoted mentions another Pe 
Tsai cabbage which is sown in August, 
transplanted in the Fall, and ripens and 
is used during the Winter, but the 
writer has had no experience with this 
variety. H. B. T. 
Another Cure for a Household Trial 
—Driven to desperation one night in 
your city by an innumerable host of those 
umvelcomed invaders, bedbugs, I was 
forced, then and there, to think out a 
suitable remedy—something that could 
be used at once conveniently, safely and 
effectively. Too much danger in the gas 
light from naphtha fumes, or turpentine; 
besides their unpleasant odor when 
fresh; so I struck upon camphor. I dis¬ 
solved as much as I could in an atomizer 
filled with alcohol, and, sure enough, I 
had in my desperation stumbled upon an 
effective remedy, easy of application, 
pleasant in odor and deadly. The whole 
thing is so neat, 1 mean as to material, 
price, application, safety, cleanliness, 
efficiency and convenience that I think 
you will be doing a kindness to call the 
attention of the public to this method of 
attack or defence. I captured several 
of the invaders and they seemed to wilt 
under a spraying of this mixture as if 
from a touch of a naphtha flame. 
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lamp do its best. 
Common chimneys hinder the 
light — the draft is a matter of 
chance. The lamp can t do its best. 
My name, Macbeth, is on every "Pearl Glass” 
lamp chimney. Send for my Index. 
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