1078 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
RESIGNATION. 
There is no flock, however watched and 
tended, 
But one dead lamb is there! 
There is no fireside howsoe’er defended, 
But has one vacant chair. 
The air is full of farewells to the dying, 
And mournings for the dead; 
The heart of Rachel, for her children crying. 
Will not be comforted. 
Let us be patient. These severe afflictions 
Not from the ground arise, 
But oftentimes celestial benedictions 
Assume this dark disguise. 
We see but dimly through the mists and 
vapors, 
Amid these earthly damps; 
What seems to us but sad, funereal tapers, 
May be heaven’s distant lamps. 
THE RURAL 
pipe dolls are used to form holders for 
shaving paper, or dressed in special 
colors they make quaint little souvenir 
favors. 
* 
Fire losses in the United States are 
from five to 20 times greater than in 
European countries, and the American 
correspondent of a London paper gives 
“bad manners” as a potent cause of fire 
losses.' He says that the average 
American is too indifferent about the 
rights of others and too careless about 
the observance of conventions to care 
where he drops the end of his cigarette, 
or to see whether the match he has used 
to light it is still burning when he flicks 
it away. That this severe criticism is 
in a measure true, is shown by two 
cases fresh in mind—the frightful fac¬ 
tory fire in New York, which took more 
There is no death! What seems so is transi- a hundred lives, and the burning 
of the boat-house on a wealthy man’s 
estate, which caused four deaths. In 
the factory working men smoked where 
smoking was forbidden; in the boat¬ 
house a young man of cultured ease 
threw a cigarette, it is believed, upon 
a floor waxed or otherwise rendered 
especially inflammable. The selfishly 
indifferent smoker is one of the people, 
Dr. Wiley’s Non-smokers’ Protective 
League intends to reform, but we ought 
to go to the very root of the matter, 
and start reform right in the Ameri¬ 
can home. Thoughtless indifference 
Day after day we think what she is doing and selfish disregard for the rights of 
others are responsible for many wrongs 
NEW-YORKER 
Crochet Instruction Wanted. 
Will some of your contributors please 
tell me how to crochet an “auto cap” 
for a 10-year-old girl? Kind of ma¬ 
terial, amount, etc. g. m. 
November 4, 
tion ; 
This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 
Whose portal we call Death. 
She is not dead—the child of our affection— 
But gone unto that school 
Where she no longer needs our poor pro¬ 
tection, 
And Christ himself doth rule. 
In that great cloister’s stillness and se¬ 
clusion, 
By guardian angels led 
Safe from temptation, safe from sin’s pol¬ 
lution, 
She Jives whom we call dead. 
besides the danger to life and property 
incurred through preventable fires. 
* 
A case now before the courts at 
Buffalo, N. Y., is brought by a woman 
who took treatment from a “beauty 
In those bright realms of air; 
Year after year her tender steps pursuing, 
Behold her grown more fair. 
—Longfellow. 
* 
Here is a cooked piccalilli easy to 
make, and extra good. It calls for 25 
large sweet peppers, half green and half 
red; 18 medium sized white onions; one specialist” in New York, to’remedy cer 
quart of vinegar; \]/ 2 cup, good meas- tain facial defects. The treatment was, 
me, of gianulated or light brown s he alleges, so carelessly and ignorantly 
sugai, one tablcspoonful salt. Remove done that she lost her eyesight as a 
all seeds and stems from peppers, peel result of it, and she is seeking to se- 
the onions, and chop all fine; the easiest cure heavy damages. We do not know 
way is to run through a meat chopper. w hat the merits of this case are, but 
Mix vinegar, sugar and salt with the while there are undoubtedly some spe- 
\egctables, and boil in preserving kettle cialists who possess real knowledge con- 
for about half an hour, or until all is cerning the remedying of personal de- 
tender, then seal in small jars. fects, it is a business that is overrun by 
* unscrupulous quacks. Could we know 
A new mousetrap is made of glass, how much money is wasted, and how 
looking like a pint preserve jar slightly much bodily suffering endured, as a 
flattened at one side, so that it may be result of advertisers of this class in the 
laid down. There is a spring inside for cheap mail-order papers, we should be 
the bait and a metal cap that snaps 
shut. It costs 25 cents, a rat-trap of 
the same type being 40 cents. It is 
recommended as clean, sanitary, and 
capable of sterilization, though we 
think a scientific home where even the 
mousetrap was sterilized ought not to 
contain anything so dangerous as an 
unsterilized mouse. One of our friends, 
who lived in the Hawaiian Islands dur¬ 
ing a bubonic plague period, told us that 
astounded by the total. We may smile 
contemptuously at the folly and vanity 
displayed by the patrons of these 
quacks, yet there may be a real tragedy 
hidden behind their misguided search 
for beauty. The folly lies in the means, 
rather than the end sought, for how¬ 
ever much we may try to believe that 
“favor is deceitful and beauty vain,” we 
know that a girl’s whole life may be 
changed by her lack of outward at- 
no one who had not passed through tractiveness. The two greatest requi- 
sucli an experience could realize the sites for good looks in either man or 
horror and disgust she felt at the sight woman, however, are good health, and 
of a rat or mouse. These rodents were good temper, and they are not provided 
regarded as chief carriers of the plague, by the beauty specialists alone. Good 
and hence were looked upon, not merely temper will not make over an unshapely 
as annoying vermin, but as harbingers nose into a classic model, nor remove a 
of death and disease. 
* 
Some quaint little dolls, that are al¬ 
ways liked by children, are made from 
clay pipes dressed in paper napkins. A 
face is painted on the back of each 
pipe bowl, and a skirt made by laying 
two napkins one over the other, so that 
ti c corners of the upper one come be¬ 
tween the corners of the lower one. 
Tie pipestem is pushed through the 
middle, and the skirt is then brought 
close up to the bowl and tied with a 
sash. Another napkin is then folded 
shawl fashion and put over the bowl 
like a hood, tied at the neck with rib¬ 
bon. Sometimes little paper sunbon- 
nets are used instead of the shawl, 
but they are fussy to make. If the 
pipestem is put into a large, empty 
spool the doll will stand up. These 
crop of freckles, but it is likely to make 
someone think their possessor the dear¬ 
est and most congenial of companions, 
while good health has a tendency to 
make life pleasant for all within its 
sphere of influence. 
A Cheap Substitute forCocoanut Pie. 
When squashes are in season and so 
easily raised we ought to give our fami¬ 
lies their fill of “cocoanut pie.” Make 
crusts as usual, only lower ones are 
used, and prepare filling as follows: 
For each pie one cup grated squash, 
one egg, one cup milk, sugar to taste, 
about a cupful. Without further addi¬ 
tion it is delicious and if only called 
cocoanut pie, its real identity is never 
dreamed. A little cocoanut can be 
sprinkled on the top, but is not really 
necessary. grace c. rutter. 
Two Suggestions for the Baby. 
When a mother bakes her own bread 
she can use the last, the part that sticks 
to the board and is thick with flour, 
for the teething baby. Scrape it into a 
lump and knead it a few minutes until 
it becomes elastic; then roll it thin and 
cut in strips half the size of a string 
bean pod. Grease a pan, and flour it, 
and set the little bread strips to raise; 
bake a good brown; these will be 
mostly crust, of a cracker-like flavor, 
but not so brittle. They are better for 
the baby to suck on than the crumbly 
crusts of the bread (or crackers), and 
much better than rubber toys; and they 
furnish some nourishment and a good 
utensil for him to have against the 
painful gums, when teething. 
When the baby commences to sit 
alone it is better to arrange a large 
box; if he takes a notion to climb and 
falls there can be little danger of seri¬ 
ous injury. There should be a soft pad 
in the bottom of the box, and the sides 
can be padded also, if you desire. I al¬ 
ways use a loose pad in the bottom 
that can be aired and washed as neces¬ 
sary. A shoe box is a nice size, about 
27 inches wide and the same height, 
and a yard long. It is stout, and should 
have broom handles arranged on the 
two long sides for the bevy’s first steps. 
These can be fastened Wth a loop of 
wire at the ends, or pipe hangers such 
as plumbers use. Place them across 
the long sides of the top just inside, to 
protect the baby from the sharp edge. 
1 he rail is safe for the baby to grasp, 
and the box protects him from the 
draughts along the floor, and is easy to 
move. edythe stoddard seymour. 
Chicken Saute with Potatoes and 
Onions.—Separate a fowl into pieces and 
simmer until tender. Have ready in the 
fryingpan three or four tablespoonfuls 
of hot bacon fat. Roll the pieces in 
seasoned flour and saute them in tho 
hot fat until delicately browned on both 
sides. Flave ready a pint of potato balls, 
cut with French cutter, fried tender in 
hot fat (this will take about 10 minutes, 
and the fat should not be too hot, or the 
potatoes will become too brown) ; 
sprinklje them with salt. Also have 
about a dozen small onions boiled ten¬ 
der, drained, brushed with beaten egg 
yolk and browned in the oven. Place 
chicken in the center of the platter, po¬ 
tatoes at the two ends and onions at the 
sides of platter. Thicken and season 
some of the stock in which the fowl was 
cooked, and serve as gravy in separate 
sauce boat. 
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