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5TMFC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 20, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
MORTALITY. 
Ye dainty mosses, lichens gray, 
I’ressed. each to each in tender fold, 
And peacefully thus, day by day, 
Returning to their mold; 
Brown leaves, that with aerial grace 
Slip from your branch like birds a-wing, 
Each leaving in the appointed place 
Its bud of future Spring; 
If we, God’s conscious creatures, knew 
But half your faith in our decay, 
We should not tremble as we do 
When summoned clay to clay. 
But with an equal patience sweet 
We should put off this mortal gear, 
In whatsoe’er new form is meet 
Content to leappear. 
Knowing each germ of life lie gives 
Must have in Him its source and rise, 
Being that of His being lives 
May change, but never dies. 
Y'e dead leaves, dropping soft and slow, 
Y r e mosses green and lichens fair, 
Go to your graves, as I will go, 
For God is also there. 
—Dinah Muloek Craik. 
♦ 
Vienna steak calls for a pound of un¬ 
cooked steak chopped fine, as for Ham¬ 
burg steak, seasoned with salt, paprika, 
and minced chives or tender green 
onion tops. Roll out on the floured 
board, form into small flat cakes, and 
fry in butter. When cooked, remove the 
meat cakes and put on platter in the 
oven while making thickened gravy in 
the pan. The gravy may have a little 
thick sour cream added to it if liked; the 
foreign recipe calls for this. 
* 
While the shops show plenty of hand¬ 
some lingerie blouses a great many 
women do not think them as dressy as 
the silk or chiffon waist matching the 
suit. For this reason we still see the 
transparent over-blouses in color match¬ 
ing the suit, which are to be worn over 
waists of lace or embroidery. Newer 
models this Spring combine sheer wash 
materials of white or cream with colored 
silk, satin or etamine. Some of these 
have a shallow yoke of the lingerie ma¬ 
terial continuing down the outside of the 
sleeve like a band; others have deep cape 
or sailor collars of embroidered batiste 
or linen. Sometimes both yoke and 
sleeves are of the lingerie material, em¬ 
broidered in a color matching the rest of 
the waist. 
* 
Challis has come back, and is now a 
favorite material, most of the fashion¬ 
able patterns including a border. Most 
of the styles seen have cream-white 
grounds with flowers or small figures to 
match, including the border. In making 
up these materials some of the fashion¬ 
able one-piece models are selected, a 
piping of silk or satin of harmonizing 
color often being used in combination 
with the border. The material is also 
offered in solid colors with a little spot 
or figure of white or some light color. 
It is a very useful material, light, and 
yet giving a little warmth on damp or 
chilly Summer days. The price varies 
from about 50 cents to $1.50 a yard, the 
fine French bordered challis being the 
highest in price. 
* 
In a recent speech before a woman’s 
club in New York James Walsh, the 
Commissioner of Weights and Meas¬ 
ures, explained how the manufacture of 
glass had become very profitable since 
certain packers had taken over whole 
factories for the production of glass jars 
to hold bacon and were now selling four¬ 
teen ounces of bacon in a two-ounce jar 
at the price of a pound of bacon. “Since 
bacon retails at 31 cents a pound and 
glass is worth about 6 cents in the 
open market you can see the profit 
on the glass,” said Mr. Walsh. He 
gave the women good advice about 
marketing, urging them to buy in 
person, so they could watch the 
weighing and measuring, instead of tele¬ 
phoning and giving a dishonest dealer an 
opportunity for cheating, and he also ad¬ 
vised them to use accurate scales and 
measures at home to check up their pur¬ 
chases, though he asserted that there 
were no family scales on the market that 
would pass muster with his department. 
Among retail cheats he explained the use 
of “chicken sinkers,” metal weights of 
half a pound. He deftly slips on of these 
inside the chicken when he weighs it; it 
is removed before the bird is delivered, 
and the customer is none the wiser. Be¬ 
tween short packages and short weight 
there is no doubt a heavy loss for the 
consumer; every dealer is not dishonest 
by any means, but the evil is sufficiently 
common to make every housekeeper re¬ 
alize the wisdom of careful purchasing. 
* 
A very rich and beautiful conserve is 
made from blood oranges. Free the or¬ 
anges completely from rind and white 
tissue. Slice them across and remove all 
seeds, as they seem to impart a bitter 
quality to the preserve. For a cupful of 
pulp or two medium sized oranges use 
half a cupful of sugar and a quarter of a 
cupful of water. Put the mixture into a 
pan lined with enamel and absolutely 
free from cracks or nicked corners 
where there may be danger of contact 
with the metal foundation beneath. Let 
it boil until the fruit is soft and sur¬ 
rounded by a jellylike syrup. A good 
way to test it is to pour a little of the 
juice into a saucer and set the saucer on 
ice. If it hardens to a soft jelly it is 
done. Put away in small cups or glasses. 
This conserve has a very delicate flavor, 
quite distinct from orange marmalade, in 
which the peel is used. 
★ 
As a neighborly hint, the incident re¬ 
ported by the Youth’s Companion seems 
to have been effective, as thus related: 
“No,” said Eben Slocum, “we aren’t 
much given to surprise parties or com¬ 
bination gifts here in Cedarville, but 
once in a while we do band together, 
when we see real need. For instance, 
we gave Lem Fowle a load o’ good shin¬ 
gles last Spring—seven or eight of us 
neighbors did.” 
“How did that happen?” asked the 
Summer resident. 
“It happened after more or less talk 
about the way Lem’s roof looked,” said 
Mr. Slocum, “and considerable feeling 
about the way that boy o’ his cut up in 
school an’ in church. 
“We sent the load with a kind of an 
explanatory note to Lem, and he took the 
shingles and made good use of ’em— 
both ways.” 
“Both ways?” echoed the listener. 
“Why, yes,” and Mr. Slocum looked 
rather tried at such an exhibition of dull¬ 
ness. “We wrote him that we cal’lated 
by the way his roof leaked an’ his boy 
acted that he was out o’ shingles, and 
couldn’t afford to buy any. I should 
think ’twas plain enough. ’Twas to Lem, 
anyway.” 
Homemade Floor Coverings. 
A. E. F. asks about inexpensive floor 
coverings, and as to whether carpet-rags 
can be worked up at home and save the 
cost of weaving. In reply, our editor 
says: “Braided and hooked rugs are the 
only carpet-rag coverings we know that 
are made without weaving.” 
Terms mean different things to differ¬ 
ent people, and I am not sure whether in 
the above the term “hooked” means cro¬ 
cheted or something else. There are 
several ways of using the carpet rags, 
and I have tried all of them I think, and 
if my advice is worth anything I can give 
my opinion in mighty few words, and 
it is: Don’t use any of them. In the 
first place, one must consider the fact 
that where a pound and a quarter of 
rags will make a square yard of woven 
floor covering, it takes a good many 
more to braid, hook or knit a piece of 
equal size. This means more time and 
rags in the preparation, and when the 
time and strength given to the actual 
making is added to it, the result secured 
is a heavy, dirt-holding rug that can 
never be shaken or whipped to a satis¬ 
factory degree of cleanliness and is, 
practically, ruined by washing. In most 
places weavers charge 25 cents per 
■square yard for weaving, and furnish 
the warp, and the rugs are lighter, 
smoother, stronger, much more easily 
cleaned and vastly more durable than 
any homemade product can be. 
After crocheting an entire carpet for a 
small, queer-shaped hall, making rugs, 
both large and small, by every known 
method of work, I speak from experi¬ 
ence, both in making and using, when I 
say that for all-around satisfaction the 
knit rugs are decidedly the best of the 
homemade varieties. For this work I 
use large wooden needles, which may be 
made at home if one has a couple of 
pieces of hard wood and a little patience. 
The work is simply knitting back and 
forth, using the simple garter stitch, un¬ 
til the strip is long enough—as long as 
the rug is wanted—and, when several 
strips are made, sewing them together. 
If a bordered end is wanted, plan to knit 
in the desired stripes at each end of the 
strips and then match them when sewing 
the strips together. Crocheted rugs are 
much easier to make if strips are cro¬ 
cheted and sewn together, and come next 
to the knit ones in point of durability 
but, whatever the style of making, 
strong rags must be used or they quickly 
break when handling the rugs, as there 
is no warp to relieve the strain. As 
our editor said, such rugs are in fashion 
again, and there is a certain kind of 
pleasure in making them, but all the 
satisfaction is gone when it comes to 
trying to keep such floor-coverings 
clean and wholesome, for the owner 
may shake and whip until tired out and 
the dirt still hangs in the rags. For 
small rugs where one stands by the 
table, by the stove or at other places 
where the floor quickly shows soil and 
wear, the rugs are not half bad, and 
are restful because thick, but for larger 
rugs to take the place of carpets my ex¬ 
perience prompts me to give a verdict 
against them. eva ryman-gaillard. 
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