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THE) RURAIi NEW-'PORKER 
October 12, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
HAPPINESS. 
There is a voice that calls me; a voice that 
cries deep down ; 
That calls within my heart of hearts when 
Summer doffs her crown ; 
When Summer doffs her crown, my dear, 
and by the hills and streams 
The spirit of September walks through 
gold and purple gleams; 
It calls my heart beyond the mart, beyond 
the street and town, 
To take again, come sun, come rain, the 
old time trail of dreams. 
Oh, it is long ago, my dear, a weary time 
since we 
Trod back the way we used to know by 
wildwood rock and tree; 
By mossy rock and tree, dear heart, and 
sat below the hill, 
And watched the wheel, the old mill 
wheel, turn round on Babbit's mill; 
Or in the brook, with line and hook, to 
dronings of the bee. 
Waded or swam above the dam and 
drank of joy our fill. 
The ironweed is purple now; the black- 
eyed Susans nod ; 
And by its banks, weighed down with wet, 
blooms bright the goldenrod ; 
Blooms bright the goldenrod, my dear, 
and in the midst of morn 
The gray hawk soars and screams and 
soars above the dripping corn; 
And by the pool, cerulean cool, the milk¬ 
weed bursts its pod 
As through the air the wild fanfare rings 
of the hunter’s horn. 
The hunter’s horn we heard, my dear, that 
echoed ’mid the rocks, 
And cheered the hounds whose belling bay 
trailed far behind the fox; 
Trailed far behind the fox, dear heart, 
whose den we oft had seen, 
A cave-like place within the woods vined 
deep with wild grape green ; 
Wild owlets roost, wherein we used to 
search, with tangled locks, 
For buried gold, where, we were told, the 
robber’s lair had been. 
O gladness of the long gone years! O boy¬ 
hood days and dreams ! 
Again my soul would trace with you the 
old time woods and streams; 
The old time woods and streams, dear 
heart, and seek again, I guess, 
The buried gold, we sought of old, and 
find it none the less 
Still in the ground, fast held and bound of 
fairyland, it seems. 
As long ago we left it so—the gold of 
Happiness. 
—Madison Cawein, in Now York Sun. 
* 
Hickorynut macaroons are made as 
follows: Mix together one pound of 
powdered sugar, one tablespoonful of 
flour, and two teaspoonfuls of baking 
powder. Add one pound of hickorynut 
meats, chopped small, and beat in the 
whites of five unbeaten eggs. Drop in 
spoonfuls on buttered paper and bake 
to a pale brown. 
* 
A number of women in California 
have just organized a “League for the 
Protection of Motherhood,” which will 
work to secure State pensions for 
widowed mothers with dependent chil¬ 
dren, and also pensions during enforced 
idleness of mothers who are compelled 
to support themselves and their chil¬ 
dren. This may sound, at first, some¬ 
what revolutionary, but similar meas¬ 
ures are already in practice in some 
other countries. 
* 
A novelty fur that is to be very 
fashionable is the chinchilla squirrel. 
This is not a new or unknown animal, 
but is the skin of the ground squirrel, 
dyed a chinchilla gray. The skin is 
cheap, but the prepared fur will be ex¬ 
pensive, as its dyeing involves careful 
selection and hand .labor, the striped 
pattern being preserved and the skin 
worked into a design that brings out 
these stripes. It is expected this chin¬ 
chilla squirrel will take the place of the 
popular Australian opossum so much 
worn last year. Many New York shops 
had their special sales of furs in August 
this year, as they do in London, but the 
prices seemed' high to a person of mod¬ 
est means. The large size of the fur 
pieces naturally increases the price, and 
for a time there was a very lively strike 
among the fur workers. There is some 
excuse for dissatisfaction on the part 
of these workers; it is a seasonal occu¬ 
pation, in which many of them must 
save against slack times, and the work 
is often exceedingly detrimental to 
health. Unless the greatest care is taken 
to provide sanitary workshops with spe¬ 
cial ventilation, respiratory troubles re¬ 
sult, naturally followed by tuberculosis. 
The fluff and floating particles from the 
materials used, together with the acrid 
smell of dyes, must affect the worker 
sooner or later. We feel as though one 
might take more comfort in a set of 
furs with the knowledge that it was 
made in a sanitary workshop by a fairly 
paid operator, than under the conditions 
implied by some of the poorly nourished 
and hollow-chested fur workers we saw 
during the strike. 
* 
Members of the National Housewives’ 
Cooperative League at Cincinnati de¬ 
cided September 11 that they would 
limit their meat supply to four ounces 
a day for each member of the family 
until prices are reduced. There are 
about 400 women in the League, and 
they will unite to buy as much as possi¬ 
ble from farmers at wholesale rates. 
“Trade combinations are still keeping 
up the prices of food, in spite of abund¬ 
ant crops,” said Mrs. Joseph Ellms, 
president. “The only method of re¬ 
taliation the housewife has is to com¬ 
bine with others and buy in large quan- 
hunt in which the great reptiles were 
killed with these blowguns was rather 
an exciting performance to an inex¬ 
perienced stranger, and we judge it 
would be. One of the things Mr. Miller 
studied specially was a rare bird, the 
Cock of the Rock, whose home is at 
the headwaters of the Magdalena River. 
This bird, about the size of a crow, is 
a vivid orange color with a high disk¬ 
shaped crest. The nest of the Cock of 
the Rock is made of long, fine roots 
mud plastered on the sides of high 
cliffs on the edge of rivers. The bird 
architects so construct their homes that 
many long roots are allowed to trail 
from the nests into the swiftly rushing 
water. Just why the Cock of the Rock 
is so insistent on having fringe work 
dangling from his home Mr. Miller said 
he couldn’t even guess, but he noticed 
that all the nests were constructed that 
way. The Museum of Natural Histor}’ 
will now have a complete collection of 
these birds, young and old, and their 
nests. 
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Fried chicken with cream gravy is a 
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chicken, dip each piece in beaten egg, 
then in salted cracker dust; let stand 
an hour before cooking. Fry half a 
pound of bacon, sliced thin; cook crisp, 
but do not burn. Strain off the fat and 
return to pan; make it hot and fry 
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If we are to follow out the scientific 
dietary system as given by Mrs. Abel, 
we find that four ounces of meat daily 
is too low for a workingman. Mrs. 
Abel gives one-third of the daily pro- 
teid in the form of animal food, Which 
allows eight ounces of meat, or five 
ounces of cheese, or eight eggs. Of 
course cheese and eggs could be made 
use of to repair the deficiency of meat. 
This is meant for men at hard manual 
labor. Vegetable proteids and fat will, 
however, aid in enriching the diet. It 
is quite true that a great many people 
eat too much meat, especially those of 
sedentary habits, but if other proteids 
are to be substituted for it the dietary 
must be quite carefully studied, so that 
there will not be an abrupt deficiency 
in nutrient'values. 
* 
An Indianapolis naturalist, Leo E. 
Miller, has been exploring the jungles 
of Colombia, South America, in search 
of specimens for the Museum of Natu¬ 
ral History in New York. Lie traveled 
1,500 miles on foot, through jungles 
where he had to clear his way with a 
machete, and twice this distance by 
water, on rafts and small boats. Mr. 
Miller brought back some interesting 
information about the Uitoto Indians, 
who live in conical huts of bamboo with 
a grass thatched roof, standing on bam¬ 
boo poles about twenty feet from the 
ground. They reach their homes by 
bamboo ladders, which they pull up at 
night. They average about five feet in 
height and are of a brownish color. 
They have a faint suggestion of a slant 
in their eyes. The Uitoto tribe do not 
Worry over styles and fashions except 
that it is the proper thing for the women 
to paint their bodies a pretty red. The 
men folks have a fondness for blue and 
black for body decorations. Some wear 
feathers and the chiefs are very proud 
of their necklaces of jaguar tusks. They 
make their living hunting with blow- 
guns ten feet long, with which they 
are able with comparatively slight puffs 
to shoot poisoned arrows with wonder¬ 
ful accuracy as far as an ordinary shot¬ 
gun can carry. They eat ants, white 
grubs and turtle eggs, and make ham¬ 
mocks out of the skin of boa constric¬ 
tors. An orchid collector of our ac¬ 
quaintance, who spent some time plant 
hunting in Colombia, told us that a boa 
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spoonful of chopped parsley and pour 
over the chicken. 
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