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<\FME RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
May 25 r 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
A RHYME OF THE ROAD. 
I bless that man whose kindness set 
These avenues of shade, 
And may his place in heaven be yet 
By many a green arcade ! 
The trees of heaven are dark and wide; 
Sweet shade have they and full; 
Our God Himself at eventide 
Walks there in shadow cool. 
Now may He pause mid heavenly folk ; 
Beckon that man and say : 
“Friend, they are good, the beech and oak 
You planted on a day.” 
And by his palm tree and his well 
May angel faces lean ; 
And may he hear heaven’s sacring bell 
From out a leafy screen. 
Now for the acorn smooth and round, 
And the beech mast so small, 
His bed be made on the holy ground, 
Where dews of heaven will fall! 
Oh, may the River of Life flow soft 
Over its jewelled stones, 
And may the birds in boughs aloft 
Sing well their lauds and nones. 
Yea, be he keeper of those trees, 
And may he rest below, 
Who gives to weary folk such ease, 
This man of long ago. 
And may he shelter golden birds, 
And white lambs on the grass, 
Who tempers still for flocks and herds 
This sky of molten brass. 
—Katherine Tynan in London Spectator. 
* 
Lyonnaise eggs call for half a dozen 
eggs, two tablespoonfuls of butter, one 
of flour, one of chopped onion, three 
gills of milk, half a teaspoonful of salt, 
one-eighth of a teaspoonful of pepper 
and half a cupful of grated bread¬ 
crumbs. Cook the butter and onion 
slowly for 10 minutes, then add the 
flour and cook until the mixture be¬ 
comes smooth and frothy, stirring all 
the while. Gradually add the milk and 
cook for three minutes, stirring during 
the first minute. Then add the salt and 
pepper. Pour the sauce into a deep dish 
that has been heated for the purpose. 
Carefully break the eggs into this dish 
and cover them with the breadcrumbs. 
Dot here and there with a bit of butter 
and let them stand for four or five 
minutes in a hot oven. Serve in the 
same dish after garnishing with a few 
sprays of parsley. This dish is very 
attractive if the eggs are cooked in little 
individual bakers. Martinique eggs are 
prepared the same way, but without the 
onion, and instead of the bread crumbs 
some grated cheese is sprinkled over 
the tops of the eggs before baking. 
* 
Now the Housewives’ League of New 
York City talks of boycotting beef; a 
sudden rise of six cents a pound on 
April 29 caused many of them to cut 
beef out of their dietary. Says the 
president of the League: 
After our success with the butter boy¬ 
cott v/e were quite confident that we will 
be .able to force down the price of beef. 
Otherwise. I am told by those who have 
studied the situation, there isn’t likely to 
be any change from the present top-notch 
prices for at least three months. They tell 
us that there isn’t any beef, and therefore 
there isn’t any use In trying to bring down 
the price, but they told us the seme thing 
before the butter boycott, and the other 
day inspectors destroyed 30,000 pounds of 
butter that had been kept in cold storage 
so long that it wasn’t fit to use. 
It will be easier to boycott beef than 
butter, and this is a very favorable time 
to do it, when fresh meat and vegetables 
are coining in. We will appeal to the fish 
men not to raise the price of fish, too. We 
are also going to call for an absolute boy¬ 
cott on veal. It isn’t digestible, and if no 
one buys it the calves may be allowed to 
live until they become beef. 
It will be interesting to learn just how 
great an increase in price the cattle- 
raisers received when the consumers, 
were called on for that extra six cents 
a pound. It is often suggested that in¬ 
creasing price of all meats must result 
from the taking up of the ranges, which 
lessens the available grazing. Of course 
the European countries are drawing 
vast supplies from Australia and Argen¬ 
tina. In the meantime constantly in¬ 
creasing prices are making new problems 
for housekeepers, and the farmer’s wife 
who must skimp because the producer is 
not adequately paid is balanced at the 
other end of the line by the city work¬ 
ing woman who must cut out super¬ 
fluities, and study carefully to bring 
needed nourishment within the scope of 
her income. 
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Westphalian ham is offered b’ r a 
New York importer at a retai’ price of 
60 cents a pound. This is largely served 
raw, shaved very thin, as an appetizei 
and delicacy. An English journal says 
that the Westphalian ham is given ,;s 
piquant taste by the use of juniper ber¬ 
ries in smoking. The juniper shrub is 
so plentiful in northwestern Geimany, 
especially in Westphalia, that to its 
presence is due the growth during the 
past several centuries of two principal 
industries of this German province, the 
distillation of gin and the preparation 
of hams. After weeks of preparation 
the hams are ready to be smoked. The 
smoke-houses consist sometimes of two, 
and sometimes of three stories, the fire 
being kindled in the lowest and the 
meat hung in the second and third, to 
which the smoke ascends through holes 
in the flooring. Westphalian hams are 
invariably smoked over a bright fire 
made of beechwood only, except that 
juniper twigs and berries are constantly 
thrown on the fire. Beechwood sawdust 
is strewn over the fire in case it becomes 
too strong. 
* 
“Easy work to be done at home” is 
one of the perennial frauds advertised, 
but the sewing and embroidery for 
which one must sent cash in advance 
(which is the reason for the advertise¬ 
ment), while they mean loss and dis¬ 
couragement, are not as painful as the 
actual work done at home in the cities. 
The National Child Labor Committee 
exhibited, at the Woman’s Industrial 
Exhibition in New York, a number of 
dolls; the arms and legs of these dolls 
were stuffed by children too young to 
enter a factory, who worked long hours 
at home. The dolls’ dresses were made 
by a woman ill with tuberculosis, who 
sat all day at her sewing machine, mak¬ 
ing these tiny dresses for 40 cents a ' 
dozen. Another form of home -work 
was setting the bristles in the rubber 
pads for “sanitary” hair-brushes, which 
was done in a filthy tenement. Nut¬ 
cracking in untidy kitchens was still an¬ 
other form of work to be done at 
home; also artificial flowers, various 
forms of embroidery and crochet work, 
and garment finishing. When we see 
what a wretched pittance is earned by 
long hours of such home work, we can 
realize how impossible it is for country 
people to earn anything at “easy work 
at home,” unless they are specialists in 
some particular line. The general ten¬ 
dency of this home work in the city is 
bad, and certainly demoralizes the fam¬ 
ily life. Housework and children must 
be neglected, because everyone in the 
family has to keep at work, and the 
sanitary conditions are usually defec¬ 
tive. It is far better when the mothers 
go out to a factory, and take the chil¬ 
dren to a day nursery. Near The R. 
N.-Y. office is such a nursery main¬ 
tained by the Institute of Our Lady of 
Christian Doctrine, where they average 
over 100 babies a day, the mothers being 
largely Italian clothing-shop workers. 
The sisters say proudly that most of the 
babies (there is a kindergarten, too,) 
soon begin to get fat, and the mothers 
are so pleased with the results shown 
that they are quite willing to receive 
instructions in better care and feeding 
of the children. A squalid tenement 
room with all the family at work, even 
to a three-year-old child pulling out 
basting threads, does not breed just the 
right kind of citizens, and it may well 
endear to us even the loneliness and 
monotony we complain of in some coun¬ 
try places. 
Deerskin Shedding Hair. 
1 have a deerskin rug Which was con¬ 
sidered a very nice skin. But to my sor¬ 
row it is shedding hairs; it looks like the 
work of moths. Can you tell me what to 
do for it? The fur is very fine and I dis- 
>ike very much to lose the rug. c. h. F. 
Who can offer advice to this inquirer? 
We know of no way in which to prevent 
the rug from losing hair; it is a fre¬ 
quent trouble with goatskin rugs, even 
without any moth attack. 
One Occupation for a Shut-in. 
The International Sunshine Society 
uses hundreds and thousands of simply 
made bags of various sizes to hold 
candy at Christmas, and many other 
useful things. Some small bags are 
used to hold sunshiny letters sent to 
“shut-ins” and lonely people. These are 
often made of scraps of pretty silks. 
Since the bags are of the simplest con¬ 
struction, just sewed up, side and bot¬ 
tom, and turned in at the top for a 
draw-string to pass through, it seems 
to me that a person could soon make 
them almost mechanically, and find 
much pleasure in working for others. 
A JERSEY SUBSCRIBER. 
Old-Fashioned Cake. —One cupful 
maple sugar, one cupful sour cream, not 
too thick; two eggs, two cups of flour, 
one teaspoon of soda, two-thirds spoon 
of salt, one of fresh ground allspice. 
Put in long shallow tin. Now put in 
nice large raisins so there will be one in 
every bite; poke them down in the 
dough. Bake, and when cold frost with 
thick maple frosting. 
CAROLINE ELIZABETH. 
Oatmeal Cookies. —L. W. J. wishes 
a recipe for oatmeal or rolled oats 
cookies with molasses. I have such a 
recipe a friend gave me, and have many 
compliments on the cookies. They look 
like nut or fruit cookies; either Porto 
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used. One cup brown sugar, one cup 
lard or butter, two eggs, two table¬ 
spoons sweet milk in which one tea¬ 
spoon of soda is dissolved, one tea¬ 
spoonful of cinnamon, three tablespoons 
molasses, cups oatmeal or rolled 
oats, two cups flour. mrs. n. v. c. 
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Prairie Dogs, 
Woodchucks, Gophers, 
and Grain Insects. 
"The wheels of the gods 
grind slow but exceed¬ 
ingly small.” So the weevil, but you can stop their 
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To Keep 
Clean 
and Sanitary 
Sprinkle Old Dutch 
Cleanser on a rag or 
brush, rub pail thor¬ 
oughly, rinse well and 
the pail is spick and 
span— “sweet” and 
hygienically clean. 
Contains no caustic, 
alkali or acid to harm 
the hands. 
Old Dutch 
Many uses and 
full directions on large 
Sifter-Can 10c 
