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THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
Woman an d the Home 
From Day to Day. 
NOBILITY. 
True worth is in. being, not seeming— 
In doing each day that goes by 
Some little good—not in the dreaming 
Of great things to do by and by. 
For whatever men say in their blindness, 
And spite of the fancies of youth, 
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, 
And nothing so royal as truth. 
We get back our mete as we measure— 
We cannot do wrong and feel right, 
Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, 
For justice avenges each slight. 
The air for the wing of the sparrow, 
The bush for the robin and wren, 
But always the path that is narrow 
And straight, for the children of men. 
’Tis not in the pages of story 
The heart of its ills to beguile, 
Though he who makes courtship to glory 
Gives all that he hath for her smile. 
For when from her heights he has won her, 
Alas! it is only to prove 
That nothing's so sacred as honor 
And nothing so loyal as love'. 
We cannot make bargains for blisses, 
Nor catch them like fishes in nets; 
And sometimes the thing our life misses. 
Helps more than the thing which it gets. 
For good lieth not in pursuing, 
Nor gaining of great nor of small. 
But just in the doing, and doing 
As we would be done by, is all. 
Through envy, through malice, through hat¬ 
ing, 
Against the world, early and late, 
No jot of our courage abating— 
Our part is to work and to wait. 
And slight is the sting of his trouble 
Whose winnings are less than his worth; 
For he who is honest is noble, 
Whatever his fortune or birth. 
—Alice Cary. 
* 
A lump of ambergris weighing about 
100 pounds, and valued at $60,000, was 
recently received by a wholesale drug 
firm in Boston. It was obtained from 
a sickly sperm whale harpooned off the 
coast of Africa by the crews of two 
whaling vessels last December. Am¬ 
bergris is a waxy substance secreted in 
the alimentary tract of the sperm whale, 
its formation being due to some morbid 
condition. It is powerfully scented, and 
is used sparingly in many perfumes. In 
medieval times it was used as a flavor¬ 
ing as well as a perfume, and we read 
of peacock or swan with ambergris 
dressing as a royal dish, though it 
sounds rather a fearsome dish to us. 
* 
Zwieback is often ordered for dys¬ 
peptics, in place of ordinary bread, but 
it will be enjoyed by others, either 
eaten like crackers, or soaked in milk. 
Dissolve half a cake of compressed 
yeast in half a cupful of lukewarm 
water, and add it to one cupful of 
scalded and cooled milk and one cupful 
of water; add three cupfuls of flour, 
beat thoroughly and set in a warm 
place to rise. When light, add three- 
fourths of a cupful of softened butter, 
three well-beaten eggs, half a cupful of 
sugar,, and flour sufficient to knead 
firmly. When smooth and elastic, cover 
and set in warm place to rise until 
doubled in bulk, then shape into long, 
narrow, flat loaves and bake in a slow 
oven 50 minutes. When very cold, cut 
into slices half an inch thick and brown 
in a slow oven to a pale yellow. Dur¬ 
ing damp weather it is well to put the 
zwieback in the oven occasionally, to 
preserve its crispness. 
* 
A story in the “Youth’s Companion” 
tells of an emergency in which a New 
England housewife showed her “faculty” 
by providing nourishing food to a log¬ 
ging camp when most of their supplies 
were lost in the river through broken 
ice. Bacon, beans and other staples 
were gone, so she told them they should 
have “white monkey on toast.” This is 
how she made the “white monkey.” Six 
quarts of milk were put on to heat (re¬ 
member this was a big party) and thick¬ 
ened slightly with about a pint of corn- 
meal. As it thickened a lump of butter, 
“about half the size of a brick,” was 
stirred in, a pound of crumbled chees, 
and then a dozen eggs were stirred in, 
and the whole seasoned with salt and 
cayenne pepper. After simmering a few 
minutes it was served hot, poured over 
buttered toast. This is a wholesale 
recipe, but it sounds as good as the 
author of the story say it was, and it 
would certainly be extremely nourishing. 
We think it would be worth while to 
experiment with “white monkey on 
toast.” 
* 
The death was recently noted of 
Miss Susan Fowler, of New Jersey, 
celebrated as the original wearer of the 
“bloomer” costume. She died at the age 
of 87, having worn bloomers for over 
60 years. While she did not live to see 
her costume generally adopted, she may 
have derived some consolation from the 
coming of the harem skirt. We can 
hardly wonder that the old-time crino¬ 
line drove some women to thoughts of 
bloomers. In her volume of recollec¬ 
tions, Lady Dorothy Neville, a brilliant 
Englishwoman, tells how, on one occa¬ 
sion, she leaned over an open fireplace 
to reach a picture on the mantel. In an 
instant her muslin flounces, stretched 
over a vast crinoline, were in flames. 
She could not pull her skirt off, and 
other women in the room, dressed in the 
same style, could not help her without 
their own balloon-like skirts catching 
fire. Fortunately Lady Dorothy had 
sufficient presence of mind to throw her¬ 
self down on the hearthrug, which she 
pulled around her, and thus smothered 
the flames at the cost of a few burns. 
When we think of the inconvenience, 
absurdity and even danger of the crino¬ 
line, we are more reconciled to the 
scant outline of the modern skirt. As 
for the harem variety, French dress¬ 
makers who favored it, already admit 
that it has departed to the limbo of dead 
fashions; it was worn by the wrong 
people and turned into hopeless ridicule, 
and no fashion will stand that long. 
There is more than a whisper of fuller 
skirts, and we think the Autumn will 
bring great changes in fashion. 
* 
Sometimes a girl who has always 
been accustomed to a neat simplicity 
of dress looks at the ultra-fashionable 
costumes worn by many business women 
in the great cities, and feels a certain 
envy of their superior style. She sees 
a costume fitted for a garden party or 
an afternoon reception worn in shop or 
office, and fancies that her plain frock 
or coat and skirt looks dowdy in com¬ 
parison. Perhaps it does, in the eye of 
the gorgeous person in inappropriate 
clothes, but certainly not in the opinion 
of a sensible employer. One of our 
friends who places a great many girls 
in employment—clerks, stenographers, 
saleswomen and office assistants—tells 
of a recent order from a man in search 
of help which ended with the warning, 
over the telephone—“and don’t send me 
a girl with a powdered nose and a 
bushel of false hair.” Another employer, 
after outlining his requirements, added: 
“I want a neat, sensible girl—not one 
who wears cobweb stockings and peek- 
a-boo waists!” We do not suppose 
either of these men had any objection 
to pretty and fashionable clothes appro¬ 
priately worn, but they obviously con¬ 
sidered that exaggeration in dress was 
likely to be accompanied by other un¬ 
desirable qualities. Every woman ought 
to dress as becomingly as her circum¬ 
stances will permit, but becomingness 
depends upon time and place, and a 
gown that would be charming in a fash¬ 
ionable tea-room may be out of place 
in a shop or office. A girl whose en¬ 
tire appearance suggests neatness and 
good sense need not fear, other things 
being equal, that she has less opportun¬ 
ity in business than one who represents 
every vagary in recent fashion. 
Canning Strawberries; Preserving 
Exhibition Fruits. 
Can some one tell me how to can straw¬ 
berries so they will keep? Also, when pre¬ 
serving raw fruits in alcohol, what per cent 
alcohol must be used to make berries retain 
their color? e. l. m. 
The following are three excellent 
recipes for canned strawberries: After 
the berries are picked over, put them in 
a jar, with a layer of sugar and then 
of berries until all are used. Set them 
in the cellar over night, and the sugar 
will penetrate them, and no water must 
be added; there will be sufficient juice. 
Have a sugar syrup on the stove hot, 
put the strawberries in and let them 
boil up gently; then fill cans with the 
fruit and juice all cooked together. 
Screw on the cover, stand the can up¬ 
side down a few minutes, then turn 
again, changing it in this way until it 
is cool, and the berries will not rise to 
the top. This way preserves the shape, 
color, and flavor of the fruit. 
Canned Strawberries, No. 2.—An ex¬ 
cellent way to can strawberries, rasp¬ 
berries or any fruit that requires little 
or no cooking is the following: Pre¬ 
pare fruit carefully, discarding all 
blemished or imperfect berries. Pre¬ 
pare a syrup of one quart of water 
boiled, one cupful of sugar. More or 
less sugar may be added according to 
the taste of family and the acidity of 
the fruit to be canned. Have jars 
thoroughly sterilized as above, fill with 
the prepared fruit, pour over the syrup 
until it is filled to the brim. Screw on 
cap after adjusting rubber. Place jars 
in a stone crock with thin strips of 
board or a cloth under them and pour 
around them enough boiling water to fill 
crock up to the rubbers on jars. Cover 
with blankets, carpets, etc., to exclude 
air, and leave over night or until the 
water is cold. Canned in this way soft 
fruits keep both shape and color, and 
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