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THE RURAB NEW-YORKER 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
LIFE. 
Life is too brief 
Iietwecn the budding and the falling leaf, 
Between the seed time and the golden sheaf, 
For hate and spite. 
We have no time for malice and for greed ; 
Therefore, with love make beautiful the 
deed; 
Fast speeds the night. 
Life is too swift 
Between the blossom and the white snow’s 
drift, 
Between the silence and the lark's uplift, 
For hitter words. 
In kindness and in gentleness our speech 
Must carry messages of hope, and reach 
The sweetest chords. 
Life is too great 
Between the infant's and the man’s estate, 
Between the clashing of earth's strife and 
fate 
For petty things. 
Lo ! we shall yet who creep with cumbered 
feet. 
Walk glorious over heaven’s golden street, 
Or soar on wings! 
—Margaret E. Sangster. 
* 
Newspaper despatches report that a 
farm of 700 acres in Sussex, England, 
is to be controlled exclusively by wom¬ 
en. Sympathizers with the project have 
subscribed $50,000 for it. The farm is 
to handle cattle, sheep, swine and 
poultry, and many institutions run by 
women promise to buy supplies from it. 
* 
The following lettuce soup is deli¬ 
cious, and is made without meat: 
Separate four heads of lettuce, wash 
thoroughly and place in boiling salted 
water. Boil, uncovered, for ten 
minutes; drain and throw into a dish 
of cold water. Allow it to remain a 
few minutes, then drain, chop fine and 
rub through a sieve. Have ready one 
quart of hot milk; rub one tablespoon¬ 
ful of butter and two of flour to a 
paste; add to the hot milk and stir 
until it thickens. Mix a few spoonfuls 
of this with the lettuce pulp, stir until 
well blended, and add to the soup. 
Season to taste with salt and pepper, 
let simmer about five minutes, uncover 
and serve with croutons. 
* 
Buttons are very liberally used in 
dress trimmings this season and among 
the newest are those of cut crystal or 
cut Bohemian glass, either clear or 
colored; they are both ball and saucer 
shaped. Crystal buttons are seen on 
white serge suits, as well as on silk. 
Ivory ball buttons, both plain and 
carved are very smart. Pearl buttons 
appear to be increasing in price; we 
are told that there is a scarcity of shell. 
The substitutes for the real mother-of- 
pearl even if a good imitation at first, 
seem to lose luster very quickly. On a 
linen frock, crochet buttons fastened 
with a loop of rat-tail braid instead of 
button-holes looks very well, and lit¬ 
tle crochet buttons are the nicest for 
any fine white frock. 
* 
A new institution in New York is 
Stepping Stone House, designed by the 
National Association for the Preven¬ 
tion of Mendicancy and Charitable Im¬ 
posture to do constructive work. The 
association, under the direction of its 
general secretary, James Forbes, has 
been doing active work for more than 
three years, but Stepping Stone House 
has been open since January 1 only. 
Already enough men have found this 
home a real stepping stone to better 
things to make its founders feel that 
their plan has proved its value. This 
is not a refuge for tramps, nor a free 
lodging house for reformed beggars and 
ex-tramps. It is a temporary home for 
the exceptional man who by virtue of 
his own ability does not belong to the 
vagarant type, but who is losing his 
grip owing to circumstances and sliding 
into mendicancy for want of friendly 
aid at the right moment. The capacity 
of the house is only 25, so the guests 
have to be selected. Many of them 
are men of education who are out of 
work through no fault of their own. 
Enforced idleness is most demoralizing, 
and the wrong environment may soon 
destroy the ambition of a promising 
man. Stepping Stone House gives 
men a chance, and who knows how 
much it may add to the moral value of 
the whole country, as well as to its 
economic saving? 
* 
White cotton corduroy or cotton 
velveteen makes a very good-looking 
Summer jacket suit or separate skirt, 
and we are assured that the material 
washes beautifully. It is also very nice 
for children’s white coats. Ratine 
(which suggests Turkish towels) is 
used for some of the rather expensive 
white jacket suits; one of these noted 
was piped with black satin and had 
large crystal buttons. Norfolk dresses 
of French linen are very smart, either 
white or colored. The skirts are made 
with panel front and back, the Norfolk 
jacket coming to the hips. There is 
a sailor collar and deep cuffs, usually 
of some contrasting color, and a leather 
belt to match. Pearl buttons are used, 
sometimes on skirt as well as jacket. 
# 
In Cincinnati the Household Workers’ 
League, recently formed, provides a 
club house with recreation and recep¬ 
tion rooms, and other comforts, for 
women engaged in domestic work. The 
idea of the league is to uplift and 
dignify domestic service, and give it 
more of the opportunities found in 
other work. It is said that this is the 
first club in the country intended for 
purely domestic workers. The Girls’ 
Friendly Society, originally founded in 
England, to look after working girls 
going abroad, includes many domestic 
workers among its members, and has 
already a vast field of usefulness in this 
country. Its management is vested in 
the Church of England in British coun¬ 
tries and the Episcopal Church here, 
but its membership is non-sectarian, 
and many a homesick girl, far from 
friends and kindred, finds her one real 
touch of homelike sympathy at the 
Girls’ Friendly meetings. 
* 
Just as the little poem at the head 
of this page this week went to the 
printers we learned of its author’s 
death. Mrs. Sangster died at her home 
at South Orange, N. J., June 4. She 
was born in New Rochelle, N. Y., 
February 22, 1838. She was married 
in 1858, but had long been a widow, 
and is survived by a son and daughter. 
She began to write at 17, and in 1871 
became associate editor of “Hearth and 
Home.” She followed this with the 
editorship of the Postoffice Box of 
“Harper’s Young People,” and in that 
capacity became widely known among 
little readers. She was also associated 
at different times with “The Christian 
at Work,” “Harper’s Bazar,” “The 
Christian Intelligencer,” “The Christian 
Herald,” “The Ladies’ Home Journal” 
and the “Woman’s Home Companion.” 
It was through her poetry, however, she 
became best known to the public, some 
of her best known verses being “Our 
Own,” “Are the Children Home?” and 
“The Academy Bell.” A volume of 
verse issued in 1883 under the title 
“Poems of the Household,” attained 
wide popularity. Another popular pub¬ 
lication of hers was a collection of com¬ 
panion verses to Frank French’s child 
pictures, put out as a holiday edition 
in 1887. Other of Mrs. Sangster’s 
works are “Home Fairies and Heari 
Flowers,” “On the Road Home,” 
“Easter Bells,” “Winsome Woman¬ 
hood,” “Little Knights and Ladies,” 
“Janet Ward,” “Lyrics of Love” and 
“When Angels Come to Men.” The 
charm of Mrs. Sangster’s personality, 
the outward indication of the beauty of 
mind and heart, was well reflected in 
her verses, and few writers have ap¬ 
pealed more strongly to women and 
girls, or brought out with deeper feel¬ 
ing, the underlying principles that make 
for the highest qualities in everyday 
life. 
Root Beer Recipe Wanted. 
Can you give a ^ recipe for making a 
genuine ‘‘old fashioned" root beer? I am 
sure among your numerous readers a good 
recipe would be forthcoming if asked for. 
a. s. R. 
Can anyone supply the recipe here 
asked for ? 
Remedies for Ivy Poison. 
There are two good remedies for ivy 
poisoning which I have not seen men¬ 
tioned in The R. N.-Y. One is sodium 
hyposulphite, much used in photo¬ 
graphy. A solution of this will give no 
pain, even when the water blisters are 
broken, and will kill the poison in 24 
hours. 
I have found that rubbing the parts 
exposed with strong household am¬ 
monia will usually keep me from being 
poisoned, so that I no longer fear to 
mow or rake in the ivy when it must be 
done, that is, when I can get no one 
else to work in it. When the poison 
has begun to break out and itch, am¬ 
monia water will stop it, though it is 
painful to the inflamed flesh, c. H. c. 
Conquering Moths. 
Some time ago I saw an inquiry about 
moths. If anyone wants a real moth 
exterminator, kill all the big white 
moths small ones too, and rub spirits 
of turpentine all up and down sides of 
closet doors. Put some under shelves 
and at foot of door; in packing away 
woolens in Summer, pour some on a 
cloth well wet it and wrap it in a piece 
of paper to avoid any oil on goods, 
and put it in each pocket of overcoats 
or packets; wrap it up in blankets, rub 
some on edges of trunks or boxes where 
goods are packed. Rub it under seats 
and on backs of upholstered chairs, rub 
it around edges of fine carpets once a 
month in Spring. It evaporates and 
in Spring if any scent is left in gar¬ 
ments it will all leave if hung in the 
air. I have used it for more than 50 
years and do not have moth-eaten gar¬ 
ments. STACY. 
R. N.-Y.—Of course the inflammable 
character of the turpentine must be re¬ 
membered when using it. 
Sweet Flag Root. 
Can you tell me how to prepare sweet 
flag root for sale? When is the best 
time of year to gather the root? Can it 
be possibly gathered in June? 
READER. 
The root is either made into a sweet¬ 
meat, or merely washed clean, scraped, 
cut into lengths of about four inches, 
and in the case of thick roots, sliced 
into thin strips. These are tied in lit¬ 
tle faggots or bundles; we used to see 
an old man in Chicago who sold fresh 
flag root in this way all through the 
Summer, but we are told it is at its 
best early in the season, during April, 
Alay and June. The sweetmeat is pre¬ 
pared as follows: 
Scrape the sweet-flag roots like car¬ 
rots or parsnips to remove the skin; 
cut in the thinnest slices possible and 
boil in water for an hour or more. Re¬ 
move them from this water and boil 
them in another. Throw off this water 
also, and repeat the process a third 
time. Now prepare a syrup from a cup¬ 
ful of water and a pound of sugar. 
Put in the cooked slices of sweet-flag 
and boil them down until the syrup 
candies around them. Stir them, and 
when the sugar becomes white and the 
syrup seems to be absorbed take up the 
candied slices with a skimmer, so as 
to drain them, and cool them a little. 
Put them in a large pan and stir them 
repeatedly while drying. In a day or 
two the confection will be ready. 
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