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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
October JS, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
IN THE MORNING OF LIFE. 
In the morning of life, when its cares are 
unknown, 
And its pleasures in all their new luster 
begin. 
When we live in a bright-beaming world 
of our own, 
And the light that surrounds us is all 
from within ; 
Oh, ’tis not, believe me, in that happy time 
We can love, as in hours of less trans¬ 
port we may— 
Of our smiles, of our hopes, ’tis the gay, 
sunny prime, 
But affection is truest when these fade 
away. 
When we see the first glory of youth pass 
us by, 
Like a leaf on the stream that will never 
, return; 
When our cup, which had sparkled with 
pleasure so high, 
First tastes of the other, the dark flowing 
urn, 
Then, then is the time when affection holds 
sway 
With a depth of tenderness joy never 
knew, 
Love, nursed among pleasures, is faithless 
as they, 
But the love born of Sorrow, like Sor¬ 
row, is true. 
In climes full of sunshine, tho’ splendid the 
flowers. 
Their sighs have no freshness, their odor 
no worth ; 
’Tis the cloud and the mist of our own isle 
of showers 
That call the rich spirit of fragrances 
forth. 
So it is not ’mid splendor, prosperity, mirth, 
That the depth of Love’s generous spirit 
appears; 
To the sunshine of smiles it may first owe 
its birth, 
But the soul of its sweetness is drawn 
out by tears. 
—Tom Moore. 
* 
We notice many of the very fine 
handmade dresses for little children 
have the hem finished with dainty 
feather-stitching, instead of insertion 
or open hemming. The reason for this 
is the greater durability; a little child 
just learning to walk is likely to fall, 
and thus tear an open hem or inser¬ 
tion ; the feather-stitched hem also 
wears better in laundering. 
* 
A pretty gift for a small child is a 
straight bib of fine huckaback, long 
enough to protect the dress when at 
meals. The edge is hemstitched, and 
across the bottom is a row of toys— 
horses, roosters, etc., worked in red 
and blue cross-stitch. The neck is 
bound with linen tape, which forms the 
fastening. Such a bib is offered in a 
fashionable shop for $3, but it is nice 
fancy work for one who does cross- 
stitch. 
* 
The Wisconsin State College is 
equipping a six-room cottage for the 
benefit of students in the course of 
home economics. Here they are to be 
shown an example of how the average 
American home should be managed to 
promote the welfare of the family. 
Decoration and furnishing, heat, light, 
ventilation and water supply, are all to 
be studied with the idea of providing 
highest efficiency with least labor. This 
is valuable work, and we need more of 
it. It is worth remembering, too, that 
it was not until women began to find 
many fields of congenial and remuner¬ 
ative labor outside the home that a seri¬ 
ous appreciation of household work 
was shown by the efforts to make it a 
matter of scientific study. 
* 
Here is a pear marmalade new to us, 
which is made without ginger or lemon 
flavoring. Do not peel or core the 
pears; wipe clean, then cut in slices, 
rejecting any part that looks bruised. 
Measure, and for each quart of sliced 
fruit allow half a pint of sugar. Put 
the sugar and fruit in the preserving 
kettle, with just enough water to pre¬ 
vent burning. When the fruit is cooked 
tender remove from the fire and let it 
become perfectly cold; then press 
through a fruit press or coarse sieve, 
which removes cores and skins. Then 
let the marmalade boil down slowly on 
the back of the stove, where there is 
no danger of burning. When it is 
thick and smooth, like jelly, pour into 
little crocks or jars; when cold pour 
melted paraffin over it, and cover like 
jelly. While well-flavored fruit should 
be used, it is a good method for 
gnarled or bruised pears, leaving the 
fine, smooth specimens for canning. 
* 
Jewel embroidery, seen among new 
fancy work, is not done with beads or 
imitation jewels, but with colored em¬ 
broidery silks. The patterns used are 
similar to eyelet, French or Madeira 
embroidery, but the eyelets and dots are 
worked as jewels. They are first 
padded rather heavily with working 
silk, then worked very smoothly with 
colored silk, and finished by closely out¬ 
lining, in tiny stitches, with a darker 
shade of the same color. This close 
outlining in the darker shade seems to 
give luster to the “jewel,” and the ef¬ 
fect is charming in two shades of ame¬ 
thyst, sapphire, emerald, amber or any 
other desired color. The remainder of 
the pattern is done in ordinary em¬ 
broidery stitches, though leaves may be 
done in jewel effect if desired. This 
embroidery may be used with beautiful 
effect on a marquisette waist to match 
a suit. 
* 
Dr. H. W. Wiley is not a believer 
in the starvation diet suggested by some 
food faddists. In a recent interview he 
remarked: 
“Lots of people have this fancy feed¬ 
ing fad. With some it’s nuts, with 
some vegetables, with some fruits, and 
with some it’s just general starvation. 
But most of them forget that what the 
body wants is good food, and plenty of 
it. I was one of those starvationists 
once myself, but from necessity, and 
not from inclination. It was in the days 
when I was at Hanover College, days 
when I didn’t have any cash to spare 
on beefsteaks. I did most of my own 
cooking then, and my diet consisted 
largely of cornmeal and molasses. The 
result was that I left college a physical 
wreck, weighing 120 pounds, ill with 
dyspepsia, and threatened with tubercu¬ 
losis. Everybody expected then I was 
going to die. I guess there are some 
now who wish I had!” 
Some Autumn Days at “Faraway.” 
Saturday, September 16, dawned clear 
and warm, like a bit of Indian Summer, 
after a spell of cold, damp and even 
frosty weather, which had done a great 
deal of damage back from the river 
shore, but none here. All hands were 
at work early to get the week’s work 
finished up in good shape. Farmer F. 
and the 10-year-old took a load of loose 
hay to market with three crates of pul¬ 
lets and two of eggs, hoisted, with no 
little trouble, upon its top. The total 
weight, wagon and all, was 3,940 
pounds, to be drawn 8)4 miles, and it 
counted up $40.01, with the hay at $17, 
pullets at 40 cents per head and eggs at 
25 cents per dozen. 
At about eight o’clock two companies 
of negro soldiers from the Sackett’s 
Harbor Post began to march by on a 
hike for somewhere. They were mostly 
very dark and pretty good-looking men 
with pleasant, happy faces. Some of 
them stopped for a drink at the spring, 
to the great satisfaction of the two 
little boys of the family. 
At two o’clock our two weary travel¬ 
ers returned, bumping along on the 
empty hayrack. A basket of grapes 
had provided their lunch and they were 
ready with keen appetites for their din¬ 
ner of beefsteak and onions, turnips, 
creamed potatoes and jellied apples. 
Chores and odds and ends of work 
filled the shortened afternoon and an 
evening’s (visit with some neighbors 
just returned from the State Fair at 
Syracuse pleasantly ended the busy, 
happy day. 
Sunday, September 17.—Bright and 
clear. The church bells called us to 
service at 11 A. M. and later on, after 
church and dinner, there was time for 
Farmer F. to rest and for me to spend 
at the piano, while the children played 
in the dooryard, even the littlest one, 
making a pretty bit of color with his 
bobbing yellow curls and crimson cloak 
against the sober Autumn background. 
Monday, September 18.—Not “blue 
Monday” at all, although the day 
brought as usual extra duties besides 
the regular routine. Farmer F. drew 
off another load of hay, this time with 
two crates of fat hens on top. As for 
me, there was washing to do, of course, 
and I snatched some spare minutes in 
the afternoon to finish tying off a 
comfort and to put another on the 
quilting frames. At 1:30 P. M. came 
the postman and his wife in their auto¬ 
mobile and stopped for a bit of a chat, 
and brought the daily and a funny letter 
from an old friend. 
And so the days go by—always 
quickly and almost always pleasantly, 
although filled from dawn till dark with 
an endless round of heavy work, which 
the simple joys and pleasures of coun¬ 
try life help to make bearable. f. 
Canning Swiss Chard. 
While I have never canned it, I do 
not see why the method that proves 
successful with cabbage would not 
prove equally so with chard. The rule 
for cabbage is: Cook tender in as little 
water as possible; when done add a 
little vinegar (just enough to sharpen 
the taste) and a little salt. Pack in 
cans while boiling hot; seal, and keep 
in a dark place—or wrap in papers. In 
the editor’s directions — suggestions, 
rather—she says: “Fill into cans and 
add boiling salted water to fill the cans 
full.” If the chard is packed into the 
can at all closely, it is next to im¬ 
possible to get the water to penetrate 
to all the air spaces without a lot of 
fussing. With every sort of fruit or 
vegetable put into hot water I reverse 
the rule of putting in the stuff to be 
canned and filling with boiling water 
afterward. Hot water is. cheap, even 
when salted, so I fill the can nearly full 
and then pack in the fruit or vegetables, 
letting them displace the water, and in 
this way I get every crevice between 
pieces filled With the water and all air 
crowded out. eva ryman-gaillard. 
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Many a grain, both ripe and golden, 
Oft the careless reaper leaves; 
Go and glean among tire briars 
Growing rank against the wall, 
For it may be that their shadow 
Hides the heaviest wheat of all! 
—Ellen Gates. 
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