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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE SORROWING MOTHER. 
East night I dreamed he came to me; 
I held him close. and wept and said, 
“My little child, where have you been? 
I was afraid that you were dead.” 
Then I awoke; it almost seemed 
As though my arms could feel him yet. 
I had been sobbing in my sleep; 
My tears had made the pillows wet. 
I can not think of him at all, 
As the bright angel he must be, 
But only as my little child 
Who may be needing me. 
Do not make him grow too wise, 
Angels—ye who know ; 
I am dull and slow to learn, 
Toiling here below. 
Do not All his heart too full 
With your heavenly joy, 
Lest the mother’s place be lost 
With her little boy. 
Last night the air was mild; 
The moon rose clear, though late, 
And somehow then it did not seem 
So very hard to wait. 
There seemed so much to learn, 
So much for me to do. 
Before my lessons here were done 
And I was ready, too. 
Those may dare to doubt who have 
Their loved ones here below ; 
For me, I do not now believe, 
I do not hope—I know. 
—Katherine Pyle, in Harper’s Bazar. 
• 
Florida short cake, as served at a 
New York restaurant, had a filling of 
shredded pineapple and orange, well 
sweetened, between ordinary short-cake 
layers, the top covered with a soft icing. 
It would not be wise to use cream with 
this short cake, as its combination with 
the acid fruit would be likely to upset 
digestion. 
* 
Attractive Summer hats for small 
boys are made of white cotton ratine 
(which is Turkish toweling), with a 
little tuft of feathers at side or front. 
The hats are the round shape with slouch 
brim that we find in the stitched cloth 
models. The hats are pretty and be¬ 
coming, and when soiled the feather may 
be removed and the hat put into the 
washtub. They are quite suitable for 
little girls’ wear with Russian or sailor 
suits of wash materials. 
* 
For cold slaw sandwiches, chop a 
tender cabbage very fine, rejecting all 
hard stalk, sprinkle lightly with salt, 
barely moisten with very sharp French 
dressing, and spread between thin slices 
of buttered bread. This makes a nice 
change, is cheaper than lettuce sand¬ 
wiches, and improves by standing a few 
hours instead of wilting. Pepper sand¬ 
wiches are made by chopping mild green 
peppers very fine, mixing thoroughly 
with cream cheese, and then moistening 
with French dressing until the cheese is 
a little thicker than cream. The filling, 
which is a pretty light green, is spread 
on buttered bread in the usual way. 
* 
According to the newspapers, William 
F. Richardson, treasurer of a Massachu¬ 
setts town, would like to chuck up his 
job of burying woodchucks at once. 
A town meeting made him the official 
grave digger for-the town’s woodchucks, 
and so many have been brought to him 
by boys and farmers that it is taking 
all his time to keep plying the spade. 
When it was moved that a bounty of 
25 cents be paid for every woodchuck, 
the proposition was approved by the 
town meeting in a hurry and with laugh¬ 
ter. Early next morning a boy ap¬ 
peared at Richardson’s house with a 
barrow full—$2.25 worth. He buried 
them in his garden. That was the first 
of many burials. Now the garden is so 
rich that Mr. Richardson is afraid his 
cornstalks will grow so high he will 
have to get a ladder to reach the ears. 
We have understood that it is not al¬ 
ways easy to catch the elusive wood¬ 
chuck, so it would appear that the wood¬ 
chuck hunters of Massachusetts have 
developed peculiar skill. Perhaps, like 
May 4, 
the boy in the ancient anecdote, who 
just had to catch a woodchuck because 
the preacher was coming to dinner un¬ 
expectedly, those Massachusetts hunters 
cannot afford to let the woodchucks get 
away. 
* 
A recent correspondent asked infor¬ 
mation regarding cod tongues and 
sounds. We gave some recipes, but 
while aware that the tongues are from 
large codfish, we knew nothing of the 
sounds. A correspondent at Gloucester, 
Mass., tells us that when the codfish is 
split open on the under side and a part 
of the backbone taken out, a thin flat 
part of the fish, known as the sound, is 
found on the under side of the bone. 
This is cut out, salted and pickled on 
board the vessel, like the tongues. The 
tongues are used to keep record of each 
man’s catch daily, to determine his share 
of the proceeds of the trip. This fish¬ 
ing is done on the Georges Banks with 
hook and line, the line 600 feet long, 
with a spreader to which are attached 
two large hooks. The tide is so strong 
on the banks that a lead sinker weigh¬ 
ing nine pounds is necessary to keep the 
line down. 
* 
Most visitors to the seaside, especially 
in Florida, are familiar with the so- 
called “sea beans,” large round slightly 
flattened seeds sometimes as much as 
two inches in diameter, chestnut brown 
in color, and highly polished. They are 
used to make a variety of trinkets and 
souvenirs. They are not really a sea 
product, but are the seeds of a huge 
tropical climbing plant, Entada scandens, 
also called gogo vine. Originally a na¬ 
tive of Malabar and the East Indies 
generally, it has spread to other tropical 
countries, growing near water courses 
or the coast, so that its seeds, borne in 
huge pods that are said to grow as long 
as four feet, are carried away by the 
water. Ocean travel has disseminated 
a great many interesting plants in this 
way. Both bark and seeds of the gogo 
vine contain saponin or vegetable soap, 
which is said to be used in tropical 
countries as a hair wash. Another bead 
seed, sometimes associated with the sea 
bean, and often seen in necklaces sold 
as souvenirs in Florida and the West 
Indies, is small, round and bright scar¬ 
let with a black dot. These seeds are 
commonly called crab’s eyes; they are 
the product of Abrus precatorius 
(Abrus abrus of some botanists), a 
climbing bean-like tropical plant. This is 
an Asiatic plant also, though now widely 
disseminated; it is the jequirity bean of 
India, where it is used for Buddhist ros¬ 
aries, and also as a standard of weight. 
Many other plants are used for bead 
production, in various parts of the world, 
among them the China tree familiar in 
the South, whose hard corrugated seeds, 
freed from the surrounding pulp, are 
pierced and used for this purpose. 
Organizing a Ladies’ Aid Society. 
We have just organized an aid society, 
and we are all new beginners. Would 
some sister lend us a little assistance in 
regard to rules and regulations, and would 
it be proper to charge the family for their 
dinners where the aid meeting is held? 
What subjects would be appropriate to 
discuss at our business meetings, when we 
have no work to do? Any help along this 
line will be gladly received. We are anx¬ 
ious to learn. k. e. p. 
This inquirer gives very few details, 
so it is somewhat difficult to give spe¬ 
cific advice. We infer, of course, that it 
is a church society, no doubt in a coun¬ 
try neighborhood. The question regard¬ 
ing charging for dinner doubtless refers 
to a social gathering for raising funds. 
We would like experience from readers 
connected with such societies, as to their 
rules regarding this, and also the gen¬ 
eral working rules they have found help¬ 
ful. As for subjects for discussion at 
a meeting where there is no other work, 
a most interesting plan is to learn of 
some special locality where your church 
is doing mission work—India, China, 
Alaska, the Indian reservations or 
Southern mountains of our own coun¬ 
try—have one person read aloud while 
the others do some “pick-up” work, and 
then discuss what you have learned. 
Your church board of missions will give 
suggestions about this, and if, like a 
good many people, you have an idea 
that missions are rather uninteresting, 
you will soon learn how much everyday 
heroism they still require. Books of 
travel form a valuable supplement to 
such reading. Your ladies’ aid society- 
may be made not only a moral and 
social help to the community, but a 
means of intellectual culture too. We 
should like experience as to methods of 
conducting such societies, and the rules 
of organization that have proved help¬ 
ful. 
Castor Oil for Chilblains. 
Aside from its great value internally, 
castor oil is a specific in removing 
warts, and one of the safest remedies 
for chilblains. It will allay the itching, 
reduce the inflammation and effect a 
cure if applied morning and night, in 
the meantime wearing foot coverings 
that are large enough (wide) for the 
feet. Being a heavy tenacious oil, cas¬ 
tor oil is not readily removed, and thus 
has a better chance to exclude air from 
frost bitten parts than many, if not all 
of the other remedies in use, and it is 
healing and safe, and that is more than 
can be said of turpentine when used 
too freely on or near the joints of the 
anatomy 
Castor oil will remove warts, even 
obstinate ones, if it is well applied and 
as often as possible. The removal de¬ 
pends upon the frequent applications, 
and keeping the wart in question, sat¬ 
urated with the oil. Results may soon 
be noted, the surface of a wart will be¬ 
gin to harden and shrivel, and in time 
it will fall off, leaving a small, smooth, 
clean depression which will soon disap¬ 
pear. The present writer has faith in 
the use of castor oil for dangerous ex¬ 
ternal growths—faith without any 
proof—if used upon the first appear¬ 
ance of any and every hard external 
growth upon the body. 
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