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THE RURAI> N IS W-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
A SPRING SONG. 
Blossom on the plum, 
Wild wind and merry; 
Leaves upon the cherry, 
And one swallow come. 
Red windy dawn, 
Swift wind and sunny; 
Wild bees seeking honey, 
Crocus on the lawn; 
Blossom on the plum. 
Grass begins to grow, 
Dandelions come; 
Snowdrops haste to go 
After last month’s snow; 
Rough winds beat and blow, 
Blossom on the plum. 
—Nora Hopper. 
* 
The New York Sun says that a small, 
clubby fist was thrust above the edge of 
a Bronx schoolmarm’s desk the other 
morning and a wee voice cried, “Oh, 
Miss Smiff, Miss Snuff, you can’t guess 
what I got here?” 
“I surely cannot,” replied the teacher, 
looking at the tightly closed fingers, 
“what is it?” 
‘‘It—it’s a ghost,” came the calm but 
startling assertion. “I found it on a 
tree!” 
“Aw, it ain’t,” chimed in a boy who 
had come up with the little girl, “taint 
a ghost, Miss Smith, it’s a skelinton!” 
“It ain’t a skelinton, either,” said the 
little girl, with vast indignation, “it’s a 
ghost. Skelintons is insides and ghostes 
is outside an’ this is a’ outsides an’ its 
a ghost.” 
She opened her hand slowly and dis¬ 
closed the deserted “armor” of a locust, 
one of the crop of two years ago. 
* 
Among popular trimmings are little 
silk drops which are used to finish band¬ 
ings, as fringes, as pendent centers for 
medallions or motifs, and for many 
other uses, wherever such trimming is 
desirable; they come' in all colors, and 
average about 35 cents a dozen, or $3.50 
a gross. Drop fringes average about 
G5 to 75 cents a yard. They are very 
pretty on silk and chiffon blouses; edg¬ 
ing yoke, guimpe or collar, and trim¬ 
ming sleeves. The showy jeweled trim¬ 
mings can be bought in all styles, and 
also as loose stones, like spangles, strings 
of rhinestones for this- purpose costing 
25 cents for two dozen. A very attrac¬ 
tive jeweled trimming was a single row 
of rhinestones alternating with a col¬ 
ored stone, all set in silver braid; it 
cost $1 a yard. A little of such trim¬ 
ming, judiciously used, gives a smart 
look to a simple gown. 
* 
Many people seem unacquainted with 
Japanese chintz, a picturesque cotton 
material printed in old Japanese brocade 
designs, with metallic mixture. These 
chintzes are 50 cents a yard, 30 inches 
wide. They are handsome for covering 
sofa pillows, for table scarfs or run¬ 
ners, or for any use to which one would 
apply cretonne. The colors are soft, not 
bright, and will please the artistic eye, 
being “something different.” There is 
one great establishment in New York 
devoted entirely to Oriental wares 
where one may find all sorts of quaint 
drapery fabrics—Java prints, with gor¬ 
geous birds and flowers, Japanese 
chintz and crape, printed linens and 
silks, and the most wonderful brocades 
and embroideries. Carved ivory and 
jade, hand-wrought jewelry of India, 
China and Japan, bronze and china, 
perfumes, pictures and sweetmeats, 
carved teak furniture—all are to be 
found here. Then there are dress ma¬ 
terials from the Orient; rugs ranging 
from those simple cotton styles that are 
so popular for bungalows and Summer 
cottages to the most costly products of 
Asiatic looms, and Canton bamboo fur¬ 
niture that is not only picturesque and 
comfortable, but also serviceable and 
lasting. Those hour-glass Canton arm 
April 20, 
chairs one so often sees in magazine 
illustrations begin at $6.50. Visitors to 
New York find much that is instructive 
in visiting a shop of this kind, which is 
really a museum in itself. We often 
find, however, that out-of-town people 
making an occasional visit to New York 
see more of the really interesting 
things of the city than those in their 
immediate vicinity, who are very likely 
to keep to a beaten track, and ignore 
much that would broaden the mind and 
increase the general fund of knowledge. 
* 
A very attractive cake is made with a 
combination of nuts and raisins; it is 
baked in a shallow pan, and covered 
with a white icing decorated with the 
same fruit. It calls for half a cupful 
of butter and one cupful of sugar 
creamed together, half a cupful of milk, 
a cupful of chopped raisins, one of 
chopped nuts, two eggs and two cupfuls 
of pastry flour sifted several times with 
a teaspoon ful of cream of tartar and 
half a teaspoonful of soda. Add the 
egg yolks and milk to the creamed but¬ 
ter and sugar. Stir the mixture into the 
flour and other dry ingredients. Then 
add the nuts and raisins and finally the 
whites of the eggs. Bake in a deep, 
broad sheet iron or biscuit tin. Whep 
cold cut the cake in squares, cover with 
a frosting and decorate. If baking 
powder is preferred instead of soda and 
cream of tartar, use one teaspoon ful and 
a half. 
* 
The New York Association for the 
Taking Scorch Out of Lard. 
If the person asking about scorched 
lard will try slicing a few raw potatoes 
very thin in the lard and cook slowly 
until clear, and then strain in open ves- 
sel and stand a silver spoon up in it 
until cold it may help it very much and 
the dog will enjoy the potatoes. N. 
If the one who wishes to know how to 
take the scorch out of lard will mix just 
a little cooking soda with the lard be¬ 
fore wetting her pie crust, perhaps the 
result will be satisfactory. 
MRS. E. C. C. 
Brown Bread Recipes. 
My two recipes are most excellent 
and are always sure to be good. 
Aunt Hettie’s Brown Bread—One- 
third cup New Orleans molasses; one 
egg, two cups sour milk, one teaspoon 
soda, one-half teaspoon salt, one cup 
each of white flour, Graham flour and 
cornmeal. Bake slowly 45 minutes. 
Beryl’s Brown Bread.—One cup sweet 
milk; one cup sour milk; one-half cup 
sugar; one-half cup molasses; two 
tablespoonfuls melted butter; one tea¬ 
spoonful soda, one teaspoonful salt; 
three cups Graham flour. These two 
bread recipes are baked exactly like 
cake. j. b. p. , 
Canning Swiss Chard. 
Last Fall I saw several inquiries in 
The R. N.-Y. about canning Swiss chard. 
I have canned many kinds of vegetables 
very successfully by using the Govern¬ 
ment Bulletin No. 359. Last Summer 
Wren you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Where the Well Dressed Women, Who 
Wish to Save Money, Come From 
At your disposal madam, in this book, is 
the pick of the new spring clothing. These 
suits, dresses and waists are the same 
pleasing designs and fabrics shown in all the 
first class fashion magazines and displayed 
in the most exclusive stores. But here is the 
difference—our prices are 20 to 50 per cent 
below what others charge. This is because 
we sell direct to you without your having to 
pay unnecessary profits to agents and dealers. 
iTniierRftrments, huts, shoes, gloves, parasols, 
dry goods—a full lino of new, attractive, ser¬ 
viceable dress accessories — are also shown in 
this book at worth while money saving prices. 
Your spring and summer outfit, if you buy it 
from this book, will be prettier, more complete, 
than ever. Besides, think of the money you’ll 
save. 
Put your name and address on these two lines. 
Cut this coupon and send it by the next mail if possi¬ 
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MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. 
Chicago Ave. Bridge 19th and Campbell Sts. 
CHICAGO KANSAS CITY 
NAME_ 
P. 0. 
STATE. 
Blind, which has, in “Lighthouse No. 
1,” in East Fifty-ninth street, New 
York, the first settlement house for blind 
people in the world, is now extending 
its work throughout the State. Light¬ 
house No. 2 has been established in 
Buffalo, and another branch formed in 
Albany. The association has had re¬ 
turns on nearly 10,000 cases of blindness 
in the Sta,te. This association en¬ 
deavors to give instruction to persons 
affected in this way, so that they may 
earn a living; it is found that illness 
and even insanity results from the lack 
of occupation. Many blind people have 
been kept in poorhouses, lunatic asy¬ 
lums and even prisons, because of their 
inability to become wage-earners. The 
blind in country districts have been es¬ 
pecially cut off from instruction, and 
efforts are now being made to reach 
them from the city “Lighthouses,” 
which plans what may be called a cor¬ 
respondence school for the blind. We 
learn through this association of blind 
women who do all their housework as 
dexterously as those blessed with sight, 
even sewing and embroidering with 
skill, and of blind men who arc inde¬ 
pendent of others through their ability 
in various handicrafts, and it makes us 
wish that all the sightless people who. 
are buffeted about by unkind fortune, 
and humiliated by the lack of training 
that makes them useless, could partici¬ 
pate in the benefits that have come from 
the unselfish work of a few. So long 
as we permit human lives and intel¬ 
lects to molder away in uselessness, be¬ 
cause we will not train them to over¬ 
come physical handicaps, we have not 
advanced very far in real citizenship or 
civilization. 
More About Moths. 
I would like to say to “Distracted” 
that I came into an old house infested 
with moths. I used plenty of paint in 
all closets, on walls and in cracks of 
floors; this destroys the eggs and leaves 
the closets so clean and fresh that moths 
don’t like to lay their eggs unless they 
can enter boxes or something of that 
sort. I painted all floors under carpets, 
in fact all soft wood floors. I roll furs 
in new unbleached sheeting. I never 
have any trouble now. It is too dan¬ 
gerous to spray with gasoline if there 
are fires and lights in buildings. 
E. G. R. 
I decided to try three jars of Swiss 
chard. We were delighted with it. It 
seemed more like fresh cooked vege¬ 
tables than any of the other kinds, and 
I hope to put up much more of it this 
year. To can it clean and boil slightly 
to wilt the chard, then fill the jars, put 
on the rubbers and covers but do not 
fasten tightly, place the jars in a vessel 
of water and boil one hour; take out 
fasten the covers securely. The next 
day loosen the spring or unscrew the 
Mason covers a little and boil one hour 
again and repeat on the third day. 
MRS. A. R. 
Canning Huckleberries. 
Coukl you t<'ll me bow to do up huckle¬ 
berries or blueberries, as some people call 
them, into a jelly, or jam, or auy other way, 
so as to keep for Winter. There are lots 
of them here growing in the woods. 
A READER. 
Blueberries or huckleberries are ex¬ 
cellent canned; the following is a stan¬ 
dard recipe: Pick over 12 quarts of 
blueberries, put in the preserving kettlq 
with one pint of water and one quart of 
sugar; heat slowly. Boil 15 minutes 
from the time the contents of the kettle 
begin to bubble; put m heated and ster¬ 
ilized jars, and seal immediately. These 
are very good for Winter pies and pud¬ 
dings. Blueberry jam or preserve is 
rather too seedy for our taste, and we 
think most people prefer the fruit 
canned. If we made it into a preserve 
we should use three-quarters of a 
pound of sugar to a pound of fruit. A 
rich jelly is made from the fruit, how¬ 
ever, just as one would make currant 
jelly; use no water, only the pure juice 
and add sugar to the juice pint for pint. 
Boil a little longer than currant jelly. 
Do not use over-ripe berries; they 
should be fully ripe, but firm; if too 
ripe or soft the jelly does not harden 
well. A nearby supply of this delicious 
fruit seems a luxury to city housekeep¬ 
ers who pay 18 cents a quart for them. 
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Every drop goes down and off. so 
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