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August 20, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THOU on I? 
Some day, dear, oue of us—we twain— 
Will watch alone in tears, 
And call the other one in vain 
In voice of hopeless fears, 
As in death's silence one of us shall lie; 
Which shall it be, dear, thou or I? 
Were one of us by death bereft 
So of love’s thought and speech, 
What other word of hope is left 
To utter each to each ? 
So one shall watch, and one in death shall 
lie! 
Which will it be, dear, thou or I? 
Beside life’s pathway as we go, 
One will grow faint and fail. 
And sock another way to know 
Where death shall not prevail; 
And one will wait alone as days go by, 
For yet a longer space, 
God’s pitying grace; 
Which shall it be, dear, thou or 1? 
1 may- be first to understand 
The life so far from thine; 
Mine may be woe to fold thy hand— 
Grown still and cold—in iniuo ; 
As sign of death across thy breast to lie. 
God chastens other so. 
Thank Him, we do not know 
Which it will be, dear, thou or I. 
—Harriet Maxwell Converse. 
* 
Among advertised canned goods we 
find lentils, with the recommendation 
that they have been favorites for 5500 
years. Their use certainly goes back to 
the dawn of history, though not in their 
modern canned form. 
* 
If you have plenty of cucumbers, try 
them creamed. Select cucumbers suit¬ 
able for salad, peel, slice, and boil till 
tender in salted water; then drain, put 
in a hot dish, and cover with cream 
sauce, scattering chopped parsley over 
the top. 
* 
“Onion salt" is a condiment made on 
the same principle as celery salt, and 
is a real convenience in cooking. One 
does not always have an onion at hand, 
and there are times, too, when it is 
more convenient to shake in a little of 
the prepared condiment than to peel an 
onion, especially if only a slice or two of 
the bulb will be used. 
Blowing soap bubbles not only pro¬ 
vides a fascinating amusement for chil¬ 
dren, but it possesses real utility as 
well. It is recommended for both chil¬ 
dren and adults with weak lungs, as be¬ 
ing valuable in promoting deep breath¬ 
ing. It is not always easy to induce a 
narrow-chested child to take the deep¬ 
breathing exercises so beneficial and 
necessary, but a bowl of soapsuds and a 
new clay pipe will prove alluring enough 
to drive fresh air into every cell of the 
narrow little chest. We are told that 
blowing bubbles is advised in the case 
of some tuberculous patients as a means 
of inducing chest expansion. 
* 
Japanese toweling has been referred 
to before as an attractive linen fabric 
printed with Japanese designs in colors. 
It is used for curtain borders, table run¬ 
ners. bureau scarfs, and a number of 
other purposes in household decoration. 
It also makes pretty handbags to carry 
with Summer dresses. The prettiest 
style to make such a bag is mounted on 
bangle bracelets of imitation ivory or 
white jade for handles. These brace¬ 
let handles finish the bag very prettily, 
and are safe for carrying, as when 
slipped on the wrist or firmly grasped 
the bag cannot be opened. A pair of 
the thick silver bangle bracelets popu¬ 
lar a few years ago will make handsome 
mountings for a bag of figured or bro¬ 
caded silk. 
* 
We were recently asked to give a 
recipe for making ice cream cones, 
which we were unable to do, as these 
confections are made by a special 
patented process. A recent news item 
states that the original patentee of the 
ice cream cone, a Brooklyn, N. Y.. firm, 
has brought suit in Pittsburg against a 
THE RURhL NEW-YORKER 
firm infringing its patent, and intends to 
prosecute such infringements through¬ 
out the country. It is quite evident 
that this ingenious patent is an enor¬ 
mously valuable one, for Americans are 
inveterate ice cream eaters, and the in¬ 
formal convenience of the little wafer 
cone made it a favorite from its first 
appearance. We are not at all sure, 
however, that the ice cream cone would 
receive the endorsement of Dr. Wiley, 
under the conditions we sometimes ob¬ 
serve connected with its street sale. 
* 
We know very little about Papua, ex¬ 
cept that it is the southeastern portion 
of the island of New Guinea, in the 
Malay Archipelago, so we were inter¬ 
ested recently in some accounts of a 
journey into the interior on the part of 
some British officials. The Goaribari 
natives, who acted as carriers to the ex¬ 
pedition, are described as inveterate 
thieves, whose favorite ornaments are 
the lids of cocoa tins worn in the ears. 
Their canoes are hollowed-out tree 
trunks, stopped with mud at each end, 
and when the mud melts a boy sits 
wedged tight into the end to save the 
ship. White cockatoos, hornbills, and 
crested Goura pigeons were plentiful 
along the Kikori River, also tree snakes 
seven feet long. The snakes were re¬ 
garded as sacred in some localities. 
After leaving the river, where the boats 
had been capsized by rapids, the expedi¬ 
tion had to cut its way through thick 
scrub, traveling single file. Apart from 
leeches, wild pigs, insects, and casso¬ 
waries there was very little life in this 
great scrub. On the eighth day the ex¬ 
pedition came out of the fiat country, 
and climbed a mountain of coral rock 
over 5,000 feet high, upon which they 
spent a very miserable night without 
water, and wet through from the rain. 
Even on this mountain they had to cut 
their way through heavy scrub. On 
their descent they saw natives, who were 
waiting for them with bows and arrows. 
Attempts to make friends were received 
with shouts of derision. Even turkey 
twill, cocoa-tin lids, and tomahawks 
would not tempt these inland natives. 
In the huts a number of skulls lay about 
the floor. Pigs were kept beneath the 
house. Mangy dogs slept in the houses 
with the family. Altogether Papuan 
home life did not seem very tempting. 
During a part of the trip the expedi¬ 
tion was on short rations, subsisting 
chiefly on sago pith prepared in the na¬ 
tive manner, and great anxiety was felt 
in Australia as to the fate of the ex¬ 
plorers, as there were but two white 
men, with a small detachment of native 
Papuan police and carriers. 
Business Management at Home. 
A bulletin issued by the home 
economics course of the University of 
Wisconsin says that $10,000,000,000 is 
spent annually in the United States for 
food, clothing and shelter, and adds 
that 90 per cent of this sum is spent by 
women who have no adequate knowl¬ 
edge of money value. In any other 
phase of life, it is pointed out, the per¬ 
sons intrusted with such expenditures 
would be required to pass through a 
rigid system of training. Women are 
subject to the skill of the advertiser, 
without any knowledge that will enable 
them to determine whether a certain 
advertised article is worth what is 
claimed for it or whether it will be of 
any value in the home. The average 
homemaker disposes of money as her 
mother did before her, or as her neigh¬ 
bor spends her money. The State is 
taxed, the bulletin continues, to pro¬ 
vide instruction in the principles gov¬ 
erning the production of raw material 
and the manufacture of these raw ma¬ 
terials into the finished product. Wo¬ 
men should be trained to use this 
material so that there will be the least 
waste and best results obtained. While 
this sounds like a severe arraignment of 
the average housekeeper, it is still a fact 
that a great proportion of our house¬ 
wives do not have a free hand in direct¬ 
ing the family expenditures; money is 
doled out to them grudgingly, or as of 
necessity, and not as a recognized right 
of their share in the family partnership. 
It is not surprising if they do not show 
to the statistician an administrative abil¬ 
ity that is denied to them by those 
nearest them. All writers on domestic 
economy agree in giving French women, 
as a whole, the highest place as busi¬ 
ness managers in their family affairs, 
but it must be remembered that both 
law and custom in France define the 
wife's status so clearly that she is both 
domestic head and business partner to 
her husband. We think that family 
finance should be studied together by 
the man who earns the money and the 
woman he selects to administer his 
household; that the relative proportion 
of expenditure as regards food, dress 
and other expenses should be de¬ 
cided upon, and strictly^ adhered to— 
with a margin for the unexpected. It is 
a disadvantage that the income on many 
farms is so variable it seems inconven¬ 
ient to give the wife a regular house¬ 
keeping allowance, and she is thus often 
unable to plan her expenditures before¬ 
hand, and thus buy to the best advan¬ 
tage. 
Driving Away Ants. 
L. F., of New Jersey, in July 1 issue 
wants remedy to clear house of black 
ants. I have used this with success: 
Equal parts of borax and pulverized 
sugar, put where they run, and about 
food dishes, and they disappear. 
H. A. D. 
Lentil Soup. 
A simple recipe and one which makes 
a delicious and at the same time a 
“hearty” soup is the following, from 
Marion Harland’s Cook Book: “Pick 
over and wash one cupful of lentils, soak 
three hours, and put them on to cook in 
one quart of boiling water. Let them 
cook very slowly until soft, and the 
water reduced one-half. Rub the pulp 
through a strainer, add one pint of milk 
and when boiling thicken with one table¬ 
spoonful of flour cooked in a tablespoon¬ 
ful of butter. Season with paprika, salt 
and a little sugar, and serve with crou¬ 
tons.” We prefer, however, to omit the 
sugar. Rubbing through the strainer 
may be made less tedious by running the 
pulp first through the meat grinder. 
H. B. T. 
State Fair 
Syracuse, New York 
September 11-16, 1911 
Agricultural and 
Industrial Exhibition 
Demonstrations and Illustrated 
Lectures in Many Departments 
President Wm. H. Taft and 
Gov. John A. Dix to Speak 
Grand Circuit Races 
Automobile Races 
Aeroplane Flights 
Concerts by Pryor’s Band 
Send for Prize List 
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