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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
“WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE’S 
A WAY.” 
It was a noble Roman, 
In Rome’s imperial day, 
Who heard a coward croaker 
Before the battle say: 
“They’re safe In such a fortress. 
There is no way to shake it.”— 
“On ! on !” exclaimed the hero, 
“I’ll find a way or make it!” 
Is Fame your aspiration? 
Her path is steep and high ; 
In vain he seeks the temple. 
Content to gaze and sigh; 
The shining throne is waiting, 
But he alone can take it 
Who says, with Roman firmness. 
I’ll find a way or make it! 
Is Learning your ambition? 
There is no royal road; 
Alike the peer and peasant 
Must climb to her abode ; 
Who feels the thirst for knowledge, 
In Helicon may slake it, 
If he has still the Roman will 
To find a way or make it! 
Are riches worth the getting? 
They must be bravely sought; 
With wishing and with fretting 
The boon can not be bought; 
To all the prize is open, 
But only he can take it 
Who says, with Roman courage, 
I’ll find a way or make it! 
In Love’s impassioned warfare, 
The tale has ever been 
That victory crowns the valiant; 
The brave are they who win ; 
Though strong is Beauty’s castle, 
A lover still may take it, 
Who says, with Roman daring, 
I’ll find a way or make it! 
—John G. Saxe. 
* 
In addition to the outing hats of 
white duck, linen or pique, the are some 
“Summer beavers” made of a fabric like 
Turkish toweling. The material is 
stretched firmly over a light frame, just 
as a satin-covered hat is made. These 
hats are made in stylish shapes, and are 
very light, but not as practical as the 
duck or pique, which launders easily, 
and has a smart look when trimmed 
with a colored scarf. 
* 
Prickly heat and similar slight skin 
affections often add misery to hot 
weather, and cause a surprising amount 
of actual suffering if they are neglected. 
Sometimes a troublesome eczema occurs 
in people of rheumatic tendencies, 
which may become extremely sore, and 
quite persistent. We find borax very 
helpful in any of these troubles, bath¬ 
ing the afflicted part in borax water 
(two teaspoonfuls of powdered borax 
dissolved in a quart of water) and, after 
drying, dusting liberally with borated 
talcum powder. The same treatment is 
excellent for chafing of the skin, which 
is often a serious matter with stout 
people in hot weather. Careful diet, 
with the avoidance of heating food, is 
a necessity at this season where there is 
liability to skin disorders, though the 
heat rash that causes so much annoy¬ 
ance is very different from the more 
serious troubles that call for medical 
attention. 
* 
What are you doing to lighten house¬ 
work during the dog days?- Laundry 
work increases at this season, and there 
is the extra care of canning and pre¬ 
serving, while, in many farm homes 
there is extra help to be provided with 
board. It is evident that we can only 
lighten work by doing away with the 
superfluous in household gear, such as 
rugs and curtains or needless decora¬ 
tion of the dust-catching type; by using 
a fireless cooker wherever we can, in¬ 
stead of the glowing cook stove, and by 
planning for cool apparel that takes the 
minimum of ironing. In addition to 
cool and pretty waists of cotton crape, 
which only need to have collar and cuffs 
flattened with the iron, we find ripplette, 
which is the modern form of crinkled 
seersucker, in all colors, and this makes 
THE RURAL 
up very prettily. Then there are com¬ 
binations and separate garments, lace 
trimmed, in the knit underwear, which, 
if not as pretty as the" frills and cambric 
women and girls delight in, are more 
easily washed and mean little or no 
ironing. One-piece chemise night¬ 
gowns of cotton crape were noted 
among smart underwear, offered for 
travelers’ wear, as they would not re¬ 
quire ironing, and are very cool. This 
crape costs 15 cents a yard, and the 
pattern calls for about six yards of 
goods, for the medium size. 
* 
“Some folks,” commented Mr. Peas- 
lee, judicially, “seem to be gifted in the 
way of expressing themselves wrong.” 
Mr. Blake concurred, and even went sc 
far as to mention' his own wife as a 
good example, says the Youth’s Com¬ 
panion. But Mr. Peaslee did not allow 
himself to be diverted. 
“Now there’s Mis’ Parkins,” he went 
on, as if he alone had spoken. “I don’t 
s’pose there’s a neater woman in this 
village, if there’s one as neat, as Mis’ 
Parkins. An’ yet I heard her say some¬ 
thing this mornin’ that ’ud give a 
stranger, or a pusson that didn’t know 
her, an entirely different idea. 
“I went in there for a moment this 
mornin’ to see that niece of ’Lish Par¬ 
kins—the one that went to York State 
fourteen years ago,” continued Mr. 
Peaslee, warming to his recital, “an’ she 
an’ Mis’ Parkins was a-talking over old 
times. 
“I don't know what the event was 
that Mis’ Parkins was tryin’ to call to 
the girl’s mind. It don’t make no odds 
what it was. What I want to tell you 
was how she fixed the date of whatever 
it was. 
“It seems that the girl couldn't just 
remember all about it, an’ Mis’ Parkins 
was about on the edge of showing a lit¬ 
tle out o’ patience with her, and at last 
she—Mis’ Parkins, I mean—bust out 
at her. She says: * 
“ ‘Why, Ellen, of course you remem¬ 
ber! Don’t you remember that awful 
hot day sixteen years ago—the day I 
washed ’Lisha’s shirt?’ 
“Now,” demanded Mr. Peaslee, “what 
would a stranger have thought of that?” 
* 
The Non-Smokers Protective League, 
national in scope, is seeking incorpora¬ 
tion in New York. The list of incor¬ 
porators is headed by Chancellor James 
R. Day, of Syracuse; President David 
Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford; Har¬ 
vey W. Wiley, of Washington, D. C.; 
Prof. Burt G. Wilder, of Cornell; the 
Rev. Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of All 
Souls’ Church, Chicago; Prof. Thomas 
B. Stowell, of the University of South¬ 
ern California; Prof. Winfield S. Hall, 
of Northwestern University, and Charles 
G. Pease, the dentist, whose right to 
rank with the other incorporators has 
been gained in frequent encounters 
with smokers in the subw’ay. The stated 
purpose of the organization is to en¬ 
courage and insist on the enforcement 
of all public laws, ordinances, rules and 
regulations against smoking in public 
and semi-public places, and to cooperate 
with the Board of Health, police and 
other peace officers in the enforcement 
of these laws. The organization also 
wants the cooperation of all persons in 
control of buildings, halls, restaurants, 
hotels, theatres, street cars, railway sta¬ 
tions and cars, sleeping cars, dining cars 
and all other places provided for the 
use of the general public. The league 
wants “to prohibit tobacco smoking 
therein, or so limit and restrict it that 
only those who may indulge in that 
habit may be required to inhale the to¬ 
bacco fumes.” It intends to “create a 
wholesome public opinion and protect 
the rights of the public to the fullest ex¬ 
tent as guaranteed under the law’s of 
the land.” The organization will con- 
new-yorker 
duct lecture bureaus, publish books and 
magazines and establish auxiliaries in 
all parts of the country. The indiffer¬ 
ence shown by smokers towards the 
comfort or rights of others is undoubt¬ 
edly the cause of this movement. Few 
of us would be so selfish as to desire 
the curtailment of any man’s right to 
whatever consolation he finds in to¬ 
bacco, so long as he does not make 
himself a public nuisance to non-smok¬ 
ers. There is an increasing tendency, 
however, for the smoker to indulge 
wherever he goes in public or semi¬ 
public places, even in conveyances or 
waiting rooms where smoking is pro¬ 
hibited, and when we consider the va¬ 
ried materials used in this fumigation, 
some of it suggesting by its unfrag¬ 
rance a combination of marline and rub¬ 
ber boots, it is not surprising that even 
the meekly enduring non-smoker has 
revolted at last. 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns alivays give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
The first group shows attractive 
models for underwear. 7068, corset 
cover for misses and small women, 14, 
16 and 18 years. 7073, infant’s plain 
slip with body and sleeves in one. One 
size, with long or short sleeves. 7080, 
square yoke night gown for misses and 
small women, 14, 16 ..and 18 years, with 
high or low neck, long or short sleeves. 
7066, girl’s closed drawers, 6 to 12 years. 
6873, combination corset cover and 
closed drawers, 34 to 44 bust; closed 
at front or back; price of each pattern 
10 cents. 
In the second group are 6909, one- 
piece blouse for misses and small 
women, 14, 16 and 18 years. 7086, one- 
piece waist, 34 to 42 bust, with high or 
“V ’ shaped neck, with or with sailor 
collar and under sleeves with straight 
July 29, 
back edges, with or without gussets un¬ 
der the arms. 7088, work apron, 34 to 
44 bust, with square or high neck, with 
or without sleeves. 6828, six-gored 
skirt, 24 to 32 waist, with plaited side 
portions. 7083, circular skirt with ad¬ 
justable train, 22 to 32 waist, with sep¬ 
arate train and panel, with or without 
seam at center front, train to be cut on 
square, round or pointed outline; price 
of each 10 cents. 
A Tennessee Country Club. 
We live in a remote village, 12 miles 
from the nearest point where ice may 
be obtained. There are weekly ice cream 
festivals for pay, but as many of us 
possess large families and few pennies, 
one dish around is something near the 
limit. So we formed a club, and every 
two weeks we all “chip in” together, 
buy a few hundred pounds of ice, bake 
cake, jumbles, furnish sugar, flavoring, 
salt and milk, each one about 10 cents 
per head, and then just make our ice 
cream in some nearby grove, eat and 
enjoy ourselves. There are eight or 
10 families and about 40 youngsters, so 
the bill is light compared to the 
amount consumed. Occasionally we 
buy less ice and purchase lemons and 
bananas. When the youngsters are not 
eating they are swinging, skipping ropes, 
playing ball and in fact doing just as 
they please, while they please to do right. 
Some of the members are musical, one 
owns a graphophone; all consider them¬ 
selves in honor bound to do their part 
of the entertaining. We have no rules, 
by-laws or anything of the kind. As 
there are generally a few too poor to 
help, or sick, the surplus is carried to 
them, and it is worth no little trouble to 
note their appreciation of the little act 
of kindness. M rs. d. b. p. 
The Carpet Beetle. 
Kindly give me any information you 
know of regarding the habits of carpet 
bugs, also the best method of destroying 
same after they have got into the house. 
B. P. 
The insect referred to is, we as¬ 
sume, the Buffalo carpet beetle, whose 
hairy larva is so destructive. It is a 
stout oval beetle about one-eighth of an 
inch long, black mottled with yellowish 
white and red. Its larva is a stout 
shaggy grub. Another variety is the 
black carpet beetle, rather larger but 
more slender. The larva is slender, red¬ 
dish brown, with a long brushy tail of 
reddish hairs. Both these beetles are 
common in the garden in May and June, 
and are also found on the windows in 
Spring. The beetles lay their eggs in 
convenient places, and the grubs develop 
rapidly. 
Among control methods an early use 
of the window screens, as soon as win¬ 
dows are left open in Spring, will keep 
out beetles, and one should also be care¬ 
ful that they are not brought into the 
house with flowers. Badly infested car¬ 
pets should be taken out of doors and 
sprayed with benzine, keeping them out¬ 
side until the inflammable substance has 
all evaporated. Where the infestation 
is in small patches, lay a damp cloth 
on the carpet and pass a very hot iron 
over it; the steam penetrates the fabric 
and destroys the pest. Laying tarred 
paper under the carpet is advised as a 
preventive. Cracks in old floors should 
be filled with putty or plaster of paris. 
Wherever these insects are very trouble¬ 
some we would advise using matting and 
rugs rather than carpets. 
Crab Apple Preserves.— Boil one pint 
of cider and one quart of sugar until 
it begins to thicken. Drop in the crabs 
until the juice will not show, simmer 
slowly until the crabs are tender, then 
place in wide-mouthed jars. Boil syrup 
until a drop will jelly, pour over fruit 
and set aside. mrs. d. b. p. 
