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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
APRIL. 
April, April, 
Laugh thy girlish laughter; 
Then the moment after 
Weep thy girlish tears! 
April, that mine ears 
Like a lover greetest, 
If I tell thee, sweetest, 
All my hopes and fears. 
April, April, 
Laugh thy golden laughter, 
But, the moment after 
Weep thy golden tears. 
—William Watson. 
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The newspapers state that the Rev. 
Antoinette Blackwell, D. D., the first 
woman to be ordained a minister in this 
country, and now in her 88th year, has 
sailed for Panama and a month’s trip 
in the West Indies. At 78 Mrs. Black- 
well went unaccompanied by relatives 
or friends to Palestine and brought back 
a bottle of water from the Jordan to 
baptize her grandsons. She is the only 
survivor of the speakers at the First 
National Woman’s Rights Convention, 
at which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was 
the presiding officer. 
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According to a cable message received 
at San Francisco March 21, equal suf¬ 
frage was granted to the women of 
China by the Parliament at Nanking, 
March 20. The law will become effec¬ 
tive immediately. Women voters will 
be subjected to the same restrictions 
as men, and must be able to read and 
write, and also be property owners and 
at least twenty years old. Yik Yug 
Ying, who has been called the Mrs. 
Pankhurst of China, was elected a mem¬ 
ber of the Parliament from Canton 
province. She is a college graduate. 
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In vegetarian recipes, one often finds 
reference to “vegetable stock’ as a 
foundation for soups, sauces and gravies. 
This stock is the water in which vege¬ 
tables, macaroni or spaghetti have been 
boiled. Our cooks usually throw this 
away, but foreign housekeepers who 
are not vegetarians often use the 
water in which peas, beans, cauliflower 
and similar vegetables have been boiled 
as a soup foundation, increasing its 
nutrient value by adding milk and but¬ 
ter, or giving additional flavoring by 
adding sliced vegetables fried in but¬ 
ter. Grated cheese passed at the table, 
adds nutriment as well as flavor to these 
Lenten or maigre soups. 
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The newspapers report that the 
mothers of a town in central Illinois 
have formed a Mothers’ Protective 
Association with a view to protecting 
their daughters through investigation of 
the standing and character of suitors. 
With an interurban association the 
mothers of one city can get information 
from another regarding any young 
man who calls upon their daughters. 
They will ask concerning a young man 
whether he drinks; whether he smokes 
cigarettes; whether he is known to be 
profane or vulgar; whether he reads 
good books, goes to church or Sunday 
school; whether he spends his evenings 
at home or in saloons; whether he is 
considerate of mother and sisters, and 
what are his business prospects. Amer¬ 
ican parents are often criticized by 
foreigners for their carelessness in per¬ 
mitting their daughters to make ac¬ 
quaintances or receive callers who are 
practically unknown to the rest of the 
family. Without doubt there is often 
much room for this criticism, and if this 
newspaper note is substantially correct, 
these Illinois women are merely dis¬ 
charging their maternal duties in a way 
the older countries of Europe have long 
regarded as wise and prudent. We are 
so likely to hold to the complacent view 
THE RTJR^tb NEW-YORKER 
April 13, 
that our daughters are capable of tak¬ 
ing care of themselves under all cir¬ 
cumstances, and in all company, that we 
only realize the need of supervision or 
restraint when some shocking disaster 
or tragedy forces us to look upon the 
other side of the question. 
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One form of swindling which has ap¬ 
peared in the papers several times of 
late, usually with a woman as victim, 
is the purchase of an edition de luxe, 
so called, of some well-known author. 
The swindler either has these books, or 
has an option on their purchase, but he 
is financially embarrassed. He can sell 
these books to a wealthy collector for 
an enormous profit, if some one will 
aid him in financing the deal. In a case 
now in the courts in New York City 
the swindler got $8,000 in cash and notes 
from a woman on representations that 
he owed this sum on an edition de luxe 
of Charles Dickens, which he could sell 
to a wealthy person at a profit of $13,- 
000. It was shown that the books, which 
were regarded as security, were of small 
value, and the wealthy purchaser was a 
myth, but the deluded investor had 
parted with her cash, and had to resort 
to expensive lawsuits in the effort to 
get it back again. In another case an 
elderly woman was induced to spend 
thousands of dollars for so-called edi¬ 
tions de luxe of standard authors, these 
books in reality having very little trade 
value, and no value at all in the eyes 
of cultured book collectors. We have 
never been able to understand the ease 
with which these swindles are perpe¬ 
trated, but it is safe to say that no per¬ 
son unacquainted with book values as a 
commercial enterprise should ever enter 
into such investments. 
Occupations for Shut-ins. 
A Baker on Homemade Yeast. 
I have been reading with much inter¬ 
est the various recipes given in this de¬ 
partment for making homemade yeast. I 
am, or was, a bread baker with 12 or 
more years experience; have made and 
used nearly every kind of yeast that ever 
was made. In my six years service as 
chief baker in the Quartermaster’s De¬ 
partment I have been called on to bake 
bread at times and in places where yeast 
was not to be obtained, where I was 
obliged to make my own yeast and my 
own “starter,” too; have made fairly 
good bread at short notice when the 
only thing in the ferment or yeast line 
at hand was beer. I have made yeast 
from brewers’ stock, hops, malt, pota¬ 
toes, corn, rye and even sweet apples. 
My advice to the ladies of the R. N.-Y. 
family is, don't bother with homemade 
yeast. Don’t conclude that because one 
woman makes better bread than some 
other woman it is all in the yeast. My 
grandmother could make the old-fash¬ 
ioned homemade yeast, and make it 
good, but Fleischmans can make better. 
If you live where you can get com¬ 
pressed yeast and have it fresh, this is 
the quickest and best yeast to use. Po¬ 
tatoes used in bread keep it moist and 
give it a good flavor. If you like you 
can use potatoes with compressed yeast. 
If you like the flavor of hops, steep two 
or three and add some of the juice to 
your sponge. If you cannot get fresh 
compressed yeast, any of the dry yeast 
(cakes) on the market will give good 
results if used with a ferment or double 
sponge. All of so-called instructions on 
bread making I have ever read miss the 
point entirely. It is not difficult to de¬ 
velop the yeast germ, but unless it is 
used at the right time it becomes use¬ 
less. A. J. HILL. 
More About Election Cake. —In the 
rule for election cake use in place of 
rum the juice from canned peaches or 
other light-colored fruits. In olden 
times they had no airtight cans and, 
other things we have, but they could j 
cook, and many of the old rules can 
be used now by using other liquids, like 
milk, coffee, and orange juice in place 
of wine, brandy and rum. c. e. b. 
When you write advertisers mention Thb 
R. N.-Y. .and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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Could you or any of your readers 
give suggestions for the occupation of 
persons whose eyes will not allow much 
reading or sewing? Hints for the total¬ 
ly blind would not be unwelcome, but 
I have in mind two other classes. The 
first is made up of those who are 
obliged to lie in bed because of some 
special weakness, but are not ill enough 
to prevent some use of the head and 
hands. Of course such people ought 
not to read a great deal even if the 
eyes are good. I am equally anxious to 
get ideas for the employment or amuse¬ 
ment of women who are able to walk 
about and do work not requiring close 
eyesight, but who can do little or no 
reading or sewing. I think we who have 
good eyes have little realization of how 
it would seem to be obliged to be idle 
when too tired for work or active out¬ 
door exercise. It seems to me that a 
discussion of this subject in your paper 
might prove helpful to many. 
HELEN L. CHURCH. 
R. N.-Y.—This is a subject to which 
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tions for persons with defective sight 
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(many blind people do both), and mak¬ 
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carving, the making of dolls’ furniture, 
paper dolls and puzzles are also suitable. 
There is an English guild engaged in 
finding such work for crippled children, 
one of its specialties being the making 
of wonderful doll houses. Raffia work 
and basketry is fascinating and is well 
suited to one shut in by weakness. For 
amusement, without thought of useful 
work, the popular jigsaw puzzles are 
absorbing; those Chinese puzzles in the 
form of wooden balls or cubes which 
are taken apart and put together again, 
were found intensely interesting by a 
young friend temporarily almost entire¬ 
ly blind. Where there is no dislike to 
cards, a person who cannot use her eyes 
much will find real comfort in the end¬ 
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