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TFHE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE PLANTING. 
« He who plants a tree 
Plants a hope. 
Rootlets up through fibres blindly grope, 
Leaves unfold into horizons free. 
So man’s life must climb 
From the clods of time 
Unto heavens sublime. 
Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, 
What the glory of thy boughs shall be? 
He who plants a tree 
Plants a joy; 
Plants a comfort that will never cloy. 
Every day a fresh realty, 
Beautiful and strong; 
To whose shelter throng 
Creatures blithe with song. 
If thou couldst but know, thou happy tree. 
Of the bliss that shall inhabit thee. 
He who plants a tree 
He plants peace. 
Under its green curtain jargons cease, 
Leaf and zephyrs murmur soothingly ; 
Shadows soft with sleep 
Down tired eyelids creep, 
Balm of slumber deep. 
Never hast thou dreamed, thou blessed tree. 
Of the benediction thou shalt be. 
He who plants a tree 
He plants youth, 
Vigor won for centuries in sooth. 
Life of time that hints eternity ! 
Boughs their strength uproar. 
New shoots every year 
On old growths appear. 
Thou sbalt teach the ages, sturdy tree, 
Youth of soul is immortality. 
He who plants a tree 
He plants love; 
Tents of coolness spreading out above 
Wayfarers he may not live to see. 
Gifts that grow are best, 
Hands that bless are blest. 
Plant! Life does the rest! 
Heaven and earth help him who plants a tree, 
And his work its own reward shall be. 
—Lucv Larcom. 
* 
Here is a good Kentucky recipe for 
johnny cake: Make a batter of half a 
cupful of sugar, an egg, four tablespoon¬ 
fuls of drippings or butter, a level tea¬ 
spoonful of soda dissolved in a cupful 
of sour milk, a cupful of corn meal and 
a cupful of flour. Put a large table¬ 
spoonful of lard into an iron frying pan 
and when it is very hot turn in the bat¬ 
ter and bake in a hot oven. 
* 
Chicken souffle is delicious made 
from left-over cold roast fowl. A 
good rule calls for two cupfuls of meat 
chopped fine, a cupful of bread crumbs, 
a cupful of white sauce and two eggs, 
the yolks beaten creamy and added to 
the mixture and the whites beaten stiff, 
folded in at the last minute. Bake about 
15 or 20 minutes and send directly from 
the oven to the table. 
* 
The Portland Oregonian says that a 
young mother and her pretty baby were 
passengers on a train. An elderly gen¬ 
tleman addressed its proud mother: 
“A line youngster that, madam. I hope 
you, will bring him up to be an upright, 
conscientious man.” “That will be a 
bit difficult,” said the young mother, 
smilingly. “Pshaw,” rejoined the elderly 
gentleman. “ ‘As a twig is bent, so is 
the tree inclined.’ ” “I know it,” agreed 
the other, “but this twig is bent on being 
a girl.” 
* 
So many fashion items refer to 
paniers that one might imagine the vol¬ 
uminous seventeenth or eighteenth cen¬ 
tury style was really in vogue. We 
find, however, that most of the models 
shown so far merely hint at this full¬ 
ness, by a sort of peplum or overskirt, 
often, but not always, slightly shirred 
at the top. This peplum effect is seen 
in lingerie waists, but the effect of this 
transparent peplum or panier over a 
dark skirt is really very unpleasing, and 
often ludicrous. Where skirt and waist 
are of the same material the effect is 
different, and the suggested panier often 
pretty. There are many draped skirts 
of various types, and considerable use 
of flounces at the lower edge of the 
skirt; also of fiat pleatings, shirrings 
or puffings. A pretty model has a 
straight skirt with a flat shirring at 
the bottom, and a one-piece waist with 
peplum and corsage line all bordered 
with narrow shirrings. 
* 
President Taft has appointed Miss 
Julia C. Lathrop of Chicago chief of 
the new Children’s Bureau in the De¬ 
partment of Commerce and Labor. 
Miss Lathrop is the first woman to be 
made a bureau chief under the Govern¬ 
ment ; her salary is $5,000 a year. Miss 
Lathrop is an associate of Jane Addams 
in the work at Hull House, a member 
of the Illinois Board of Charities, and 
a graduate and trustee of Vassar Col¬ 
lege. She is familiar with legislation 
. concerning the insane, factory inspec¬ 
tion, protection of immigrants, aboli¬ 
tion of child labor, regulation of 
women’s work, the (establishment of 
juvenile courts, management of county 
and State charitable institutions, the 
building and control of tenement houses, 
and other laws bearing upon social bet¬ 
terment. 
* 
While New York was still awaiting 
with dread and apprehension some au¬ 
thoritative news as to the survivors from 
the Titanic, one of our friends ex¬ 
pressed a superficial view that has per¬ 
haps been voiced by others. Kindly 
and sympathetic in nature, she had never 
been brought very close to the heart of 
toil, and to her it' seemed additionally 
shocking that men of rank and wealth 
were left behind, while poor immigrant 
women, whose whole life was one of 
poverty and hardship, were given the 
opportunity of safety. We pointed out 
the law of the sea, giving first chance 
to women and children, which is in 
itself nature’s own law now moulded 
into man’s sense of honor, since the 
survival of the women with the children 
they protect and nourish means the sur¬ 
vival of the race. But what a narrow 
view it is to imagine that a man who 
has attained wealth or honor must nec¬ 
essarily be of greater value than a poor 
woman who has never had a chance 
to get beyond daily grinding toil! Under 
such a system of discrimination we 
would abandon, in face of danger, a 
poor woman who had no better prospect 
than to become the mother of a not too 
respectable tinker, or another whose 
home was a mere cabin, and whose boy 
studied by the light of pine knots in¬ 
stead of candles—yet a whole shipload 
of the rich and great could not fill the 
places of John Bunyan and Abraham 
Lincoln. We must not judge the value 
of any human life only from the narrow 
s.andard of our own limitations; even 
from the poor wreckage of a great dis¬ 
aster, stripped of friends and hope, may 
yet arise the power or moral force to 
guide a nation in its bitter need. 
Occupations for Shut-Ins. 
In answer to the inquiry for occupa¬ 
tions for “shut-ins” I may be able to 
make a few suggestions for those with 
poor sight, as I am just emerging from 
a four years’ period of semi-darkness. 
I found knitting much easier and less 
nerve straining than crocheting, and 
used wools of various kinds to make 
shawls, hoods, sweaters, etc., and the 
heavy mercerized cords to make neck¬ 
ties, bags and purses. I did not try any 
fancy stitches, the old garter-purl and 
plain stitches working out many com¬ 
binations. It was a pleasure still to 
have a little stock of gifts on hand for 
the dear ones when holidays came 
around. 
Another most delightful occupation 
has been basketry. Knitting was fa¬ 
miliar to me, but basketry has been 
taken up during the last two years, and 
although it was a struggle to master the 
details through books, under my con¬ 
ditions, when the method of construc¬ 
tion was understood, one’s originality 
could then be called into play, and the 
creative given expression, for no two 
baskets need be alike. If the person is 
able to be about, and has strong hands 
the baskets made with reeds can be 
very quickly finished, and molding them 
into shape is fascinating. For others, 
who have to stay quiet, the light reeds 
twined with raffia make lovely baskets, 
although much slower work than the 
first method. Books of directions for 
both knitting and basketry can be pur¬ 
chased with directions so simple that 
anyone can understand them. 
Also let me pay my tribute to my 
“ever-ready companion,” the reading 
glass. The stain on the handle of mine 
is worn off from use, but many, many 
times have I called blessings on the 
head of the inventor when its use has 
bought me so much comfort. Mine is 
three inches in diameter in a metal 
frame and has a handle four inches 
long, making the instrument seven 
inches long and quite easy to handle. 
The glass can be held from the printed 
matter at just the right distance to suit 
the sight, and if the eyes are good one 
day and bad another eyeglasses are not 
so adjustable, therefore the comfort of 
the glass. 
Weaving rugs with a hand loom has 
often been suggested to me, but that I 
have not tried. mabel kennon. 
Lemon Pie Without a Lemon.— 
Cover one coffee cupful of rhubarb with 
cold water, cook until done, strain 
off the juice and keep hot. Wet two 
tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with cold 
water, add one cupful of sugar, one of 
the hot juice, yolks of two eggs, butter 
size of a walnut, a few raisins cut in 
small pieces. Cook in double boiler un¬ 
til done, partly cool, add one-half tea¬ 
spoonful lemon extract, turn in baked 
crust. Have ready the whites of eggs 
beaten stiff with two tablespoonfuls of 
sugar; spread this over top of pie. Put 
in oven to set and brown slightly. In 
making this pie for the first time, per¬ 
haps it would be well to taste the juice 
and if too sour to add hot water, and 
to taste after it is ready for the crust 
to see if it is sweet enough. 
CAROLINE ELIZABETH. 
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