802 
July 20, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
UNMANIFEST DESTINY. 
The guns that spoke at Lexington 
Knew not that God was planning then 
The trumpet-word of Jefferson 
To bugle forth the rights of men. 
To them that wept and cursed Bull Run, 
What was it but Despair and Shame? 
Who saw behind the cloud the sun? 
Who knew that God was in the flame? 
Had not defeat upon defeat, 
Disaster on disaster come, 
The slave’s emancipated feet 
Had never marched behind the drum. 
There Is a Hand that bends our deeds 
To mightier issues than we planned, 
Each son that triumphs, each that bleeds, 
My Country, serves its dark commands. 
1 do not know beneath what sky 
Nor on what seas shall be thy fate; 
1 only know it shall be high, 
1 only know it shall be great. 
—Richard Ilovey. 
♦ 
The R. N.-Y. has printed pictures of 
several large families, but none quite 
equal in unit size to a Kansas family 
described by the Hutchinson News. 
This family, natives of McPherson 
County, consists of nine children, whose 
united height amounts to 53 feet, while 
they weight almost a ton. The average 
weight of the nine is 203 pounds each, 
and their average height five feet 10 
inches. The four sons are all over six 
feet in height, and weigh an average of 
243 pounds. All the children are much 
larger and heavier than their parents. 
Their recent family reunion must have 
been an impressive affair. 
* 
Some confusion as to unfamiliar 
words existed in the mind of a small 
boy, as told by the Indianapolis News. 
Glenn’s grandfather has a chicken farm 
and Glenn was out one day directly 
after a weasel had got into the shed 
and killed 28 Spring chickens. Later 
his mother talking to one of the neigh¬ 
bors, said: 
"There seems to be a great deal of 
measles this year. It seems that they’re 
in every house.” This was little Glenn’s 
chance to show his knowledge. 
"You better watch out,” he volun¬ 
teered. "Measles is aw-ful bad. They 
got in my grandpa's chicken house and 
et 28 of his little chickens.” 
* 
Seeing a city woman busy with blocks 
of patchwork, made after one of the 
familiar old-fashioned patterns, we ex¬ 
pressed some surprise. She observed 
that, in common with some of her 
friends, she usually had a quilt on hand 
for pick-up work, because it was so 
easy to do, and there was always plenty 
of material on hand from cotton gowns. 
The completed quilts were given to the 
city orphan asylum, where there was 
always need for bedding. This seemed 
not only a sensible way of helping 
others, but an economy in using both 
odd bits of material and odd moments 
of time. The present generation has 
grown up with some contempt for patch- 
work, as both old-fashioned and coun¬ 
trified. Nowadays it is coming in fash¬ 
ion again, and people who model their 
houses after the Colonial fashion, and 
hunt through the country for old ma¬ 
hogany furniture, seek for patchwork 
quilts to go with it. In addition to the 
old joined patchwork, the wrench pat¬ 
tern, rising sun, etc., very striking re¬ 
sults are obtained where the design in 
colors is cut out elaborately and then 
hemmed onto a white block. Quilts of 
this kind mean an infinite amount of 
work; the same idea, applied to a sofa 
pillow, is one of the newer modes and 
is very attractive. Life seems too 
crowded to take time for a quilt made 
in this manner, though we must con¬ 
fess to a strong liking for the stiff bou¬ 
quets of such patchwork. In the mean¬ 
time, if anyone feels like turning her 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
attention to patchwork, she need not 
feel the least bit ashamed of it, even 
among the devoted workers of em¬ 
broidery and Irish crochet. 
* 
The striped flannel sweaters which 
appeared for outing wear early in the 
season have become very common now, 
and yet they look attractive over white 
skirts, with a little stitched hat with 
rolled brim, made of the same striped 
flannel. For a young girl this is just 
the right thing for a country outing. 
Some of the blazers are too garish in 
color, but we do not find so much fault 
with this when worn, as they should be, 
at country pleasures, as when some mis¬ 
guided girl wears.one in the city. An¬ 
other favorite separate coat is a Nor¬ 
folk jacket of soft wool in solid color, 
sometimes bright red, blue or green, but 
also in dull grays, browns and heather 
mixtures. More fashionable and less 
common than the blazers are plaid 
mackinaws, such as the woodsmen 
wear farther north; they are adopted 
by both men and women, and are very 
comfortable. It would, perhaps, be a 
slight shock to some weatherbeaten old 
woodsman to learn that he was setting 
the fashion for Summer vacations. As 
for motor coats, which are now as in¬ 
teresting to women on the farm as to 
those in towns, the chief requisite is 
that they should be cut on good tailor 
lines, and made plainly, but with care¬ 
ful finish. Shapeless linen dusters look 
ugly, and are not a bit more comfort¬ 
able than a properly fitting coat. Of 
course it must be loose enough to 
wear a sweater under it, if neces- 
ary. For hard wear nothing is bet¬ 
ter than denim, which is inexpensive, a 
good quality costing 25 cents a yard, 
and five to six yards will make a long 
coat. It comes in a great variety of 
attractive shades, and may be faced 
with a contrasting color in linen, and 
finished with stained bone buttons. It 
is heavy to make up, but keeps its shape 
like a firm cloth, is too close for dust 
to sift through, and promises to “last 
forever.” A very different class of 
wrap to these outing garments is the 
little silk coatee intended to be worn 
over thin lingerie gowns when a little 
extra warmth is required. Some coat¬ 
ees are rather like little boleros, others 
have peplums or tails, while some are 
short straight coats with a high waist¬ 
line. They are.made of plain, flowered 
or changeable silk or satin, and are 
often bordered with puffings, pleatings 
or frills. They give a little needed pro¬ 
tection over arms and shoulders when 
Summer days turn cool, but their chief 
use is, of course, purely decorative. 
Such little coats were in fashion a cen¬ 
tury ago, and with the high waist and 
narrow skirt of 1812 we have adopted 
these accessories of dress. 
Packing Butter for Winter Use. 
Every Winter for years we worried 
around with butter making and had the 
usual troubles the country woman who 
has not a regularly equipped dairy must 
endure. The cream was stale before it 
could be churned sometimes if the 
weather was very cold, the cream had 
lingering odors of articles that must be 
placed in the cellar with it, the dry 
feed seemed to produce an inferior 
grade of butter, and churning in zero 
weather was a task to be dreaded. At 
last a better plan suggested itself and 
we have had no trouble since. 
In the Fall, when the grass is tender 
and green, just before cold weather 
comes, I make up enough butter to last 
until grass comes again. This butter is 
thoroughly worked without washing, 
and is salted rather lightly, as we do not 
care for highly salted butter. It is pre¬ 
pared exactly as for the table and 
packed into stone jars. These jars are 
just what I happen to have on hand, and 
hold from one to three gallons. The 
jars are washed, scalded and cooled so 
they are perfectly fresh and sterilized 
just before using. The butter is packed 
in solidly, leaving no cracks or places 
for air to filter in, and this is done by 
taking a very little at a time and work¬ 
ing down tightly into every part of the 
jar. Some people take it on a warm 
Autumn day and work it while very soft 
and oily, but I prefer the harder task 
of handling it cold and using force to 
fill up the cracks. Over the top of each 
crock or jar is placed a clean butter 
napkin made of a bit of old table linen, 
and if it is thin the cloth is laid on 
three or four double. Dry table salt to 
the depth of one inch is then put on 
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the cloth and the whole is tied shut 
with stout paper—not newspaper. A 
good stout wrapping paper is best. 
Then the butter is placed in cold 
storage until it czn be safely brought 
home and stored out of doors in a clean 
shed or back porch. Usually the middle 
of November will find the weather cool 
enough for this purpose, but if one 
must wait until December the charges 
are very light for storage. The ad¬ 
vantage of using small crocks may be 
seen in an open, mild Winter, as only 
a small quantity is exposed to the air 
at a time. The butter is as sweet and 
firm and delicious as when packed, and 
I have never yet failed in trying which 
people liked best when it was placed 
beside the Winter made product. 
Strangers will choose the Summer but¬ 
ter every time even though the Winter 
butter be colored to the same tint. 
Then in the Winter the cream or milk 
may be sold and the churn given a 
vacation until grass and good weather 
come in Spring. We were using butter 
in February I made and packed in Sep¬ 
tember, and were buying a little coun¬ 
try butter once in a while for cooking 
because more company than usual 
threatens to shorten the packed supply. 
Next year I shall lay by a little more 
for emergencies. It sounds odd to 
some people to say we prefer the five 
or six months’ old butter to the fresh 
article, but it is true, and even if the 
labor of churning were not a great con¬ 
sideration in Winter we would still 
cling to the packed butter. 
HILDA RICHMOND. . 
Destroying Ants. —I noticed in The 
R. N.-Y. A. E. S. would like a remedy 
to get rid of ants. I have tried tartar 
emetic with success. Eor several Sum¬ 
mers we were troubled with the small 
field ants in our pantry and kitchen. 
Last Summer I tried this remedy and 
they left; we did not have any after¬ 
ward. This Summer there were a few 
in the kitchen. I put the poison there 
and the ants left as before. Mix the 
drug with equal parts of sugar, and 
moisten with water to a thin syrup. If 
it evaporates add water and sugar. I 
keep some of the remedy in a broken 
dish in the pantry and kitchen all Sum- 
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