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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE LAST GUEST. 
The elms are leafless 'gainst the sky, the 
oaks are almost bare. 
The breathless squirrel-harvesters are stor¬ 
ing Winter fare, 
The tawny needles of the larch drift down 
from golden spires. 
But the beech-hedge rings the woodland 
round with sunset’s ling’ring fires. 
Each night the frost a silver veil along 
the landscape flings, 
To change at morn the wispy mists like 
fairies’ filmy wings; 
Each night the elfin spinners weave their 
webs o’ silken sheen, 
Their gossamers that wind o’ dawn sets 
sailing o’er the green. 
The swallows left us long ago, but from 
the Northlands white 
The fieldfares and the redwings come like 
pilgrims through the night; 
The lapwings leave the lonely fells to roam 
the plow'd lands nigh, 
And wildly sweet the storm-cock sings of 
Springtime by and by. 
White hoods the far-off hills put on, the 
winds more coldly blow; 
The shepherd downward brings his flocks 
against first fall of snow, 
The robin preens his russet wing the 
shelt’ring homestead near, 
And Autumn wistful-eyed but waits the 
last guest of the year. 
—London News. 
* 
The Delineator says that a two-and- 
a-half-year-old baby was intently gazing 
at her first caterpillar. “Muvver, muv- 
ver’,’ she cried, “come quick and see 
your muff’s little girl taking a walk.” 
* 
Pear conserve is excellent. It calls 
for eight pounds of fruit, peeled, cored, 
and sliced, eight pounds of sugar, juice 
of six lemons, rind of three lemons cut 
line and boiled half an hour in a small 
quantity of water, two ounces white 
ginger root cut in small pieces, one 
quart of water. Boil for three hours, 
very slowly, adding lemon juice and 
rind during the last hour of boiling. 
Put in glasses; it will keep for years. 
* 
The complaint is often made that our 
high schools do not train pupils for 
practical work. Evidently this criti¬ 
cism could not be made of the pupils 
of the Rockford, Ill., high school, since 
we are told that during vacation 300 
boys and girls earned $10,500. The 
captain of the football team led them 
all as an individual earner, having been 
paid $128 as member of a cement gang. 
Most of the girls earned their money 
by household work. 
* 
A newspaper note says that this year 
$60,000,000 has been spent for cam¬ 
paign buttons, banners and other para¬ 
phernalia. The optimist will say that 
this provided work for thousands of 
men, women and children, and is thus 
a benefit in putting money in circula¬ 
tion. There may be something in this 
view, but many accurate thinkers are 
ready to assert that work on valueless 
things merely diverts money from those 
that are useful. Certainly a boy who 
spends a nickel on a campaign button is 
not adding visibly either to culture or 
efficiency—he is merely learning to let 
nickels slip through his fingers easily. 
The woman on the farm who is striv¬ 
ing to gpread the family income thin 
enough to cover the family needs will 
wonder why, if a man or a policy is 
a vital need to the nation, it is neces¬ 
sary to spend so much money to put 
the man or the policy where they will 
do the most good. We are asked to 
standardize all forms of industry, in¬ 
cluding the household, by scientific 
management. Wouldn’t is be a good 
scheme to begin by standardizing our 
political campaigns, and thus try to 
secure a higher efficiency at a less cost? 
* 
The Kansas Agricultural College is 
prepared to get up programs for the 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 19, 
work of women’s clubs in household 
economics. This is through the exten¬ 
sion work of the College, and 24 use¬ 
ful programs are already prepared. 
This is the list: “Industrial Training 
for the Young, Bread, Textiles and 
Clothing, The Kitchen as a Work Shop, 
Relation of Women to Civic Affairs, 
The Aesthetic Influence of Our Coun¬ 
try Upon Our Homes, Modern High 
School, Reading Matter in the Home, 
Vegetables, Children and Their Well- 
Being, Women, the Spenders; Modern 
Graded School System, Fruit, Modern 
Household Conveniences, Meat and 
Other Protein Foods, Household Ac¬ 
counts, The Modern Home, Beauty in 
the Home, Home Nursing, Some Phases 
of Womanhood, Science in the House¬ 
hold, Food and Food Values, Com¬ 
munity Improvement, Canning and Pre¬ 
serving.” This is admirable work, and 
we hope it will be taken up by many 
women. Household duties lose much of 
their monotony when we view them 
with eyes trained to see the “why 
underlying the “how.” 
* 
Every now and then some one writes 
us for information about a scheme 
whereby the collector of a thousand or 
a million cancelled postage stamps may 
win some great prize, all such state¬ 
ments being, so far as we have learned, 
entirely false and misleading. Evidently 
some one has been fooling Texas boys 
lately on such a scheme. Postmaster 
General Hitchcock has been receiving 
bundles, each containing 1,000 cancelled 
stamps, accompanied by a request for 
a bicycle, to be sent in return for the 
stamps. Of course the Department 
makes no such offer. We feel sorry 
for those boys; we can imagine how 
much hope and energy each one put 
into the hunt for cancelled stamps, and 
how much faith in the milk of human 
kindness will be destroyed by the dis¬ 
covery that it was merely a “joke.” We 
cannot help thinking that anyone work¬ 
ing a cruel hoax on a lot of small boys 
merely as a joke must have about the 
same sense of humor as a laughing 
hyena. 
Farm Hygiene Again. 
At the recent Fifteenth International 
Congress on Hygiene and Demography 
at Washington, Dr. J. N. Hurty, Indiana 
State Health Commissioner, Condemned 
store is full of them—but city people 
have nowhere to store the bottles. In 
addition to patent medicines, the city 
dweller gets all sorts of habit-forming 
drugs in some of the so-called “soft 
drinks,” to which Dr. Wiley referred 
in a recent public address. Anyone 
working among the poor of the cities 
can assert that poor cooking is found 
there in plenty, while, on the other 
hand, anyone brought up in the coun¬ 
try can point to a general average of 
excellence in food preparation that 
made the few exceptions notable. 
Most of the evils reformers point out 
in farm life can be referred to two 
causes—lack of money and lack of op¬ 
portunity. Defects of character dif¬ 
fer little in country or town. One of 
the most painful stories of farm life 
we have ever read is “Ethan Frome,” 
by Edith Wharton, which a newspaper 
correspondent recently referred to as a 
warning against life on a lonely farm. 
It might better be taken as a warning 
against poverty and uncongenial mar¬ 
riage, for a selfish slatternly woman 
who spends her whole time in coddling 
her useless self would be worse in a, 
city flat than on a farm, because her 
husband could not even get away to 
the barn or fields. 
In the cities we see splendid school 
buildings, recreation centers, free lec¬ 
tures, and instruction for mind, body 
and soul; yet “Lazarus lies at the rich 
man’s gate;” we get alarmist statistics 
of an army of underfed children, and 
moral conditions that would shame an 
African jungle. In the country every 
improvement in schools, or roads, or 
Grange halls, or churches striving to 
keep their flickering flame alight, is like 
the offering of the widow’s mite—“she 
of her penury hath done this.” When 
the farmer is fairly paid, and given an 
equal chance with others, his standard 
of living is raised in the same ratio 
as his resources. In the meantime we 
will think of the good country cooks 
we know, and wait for the Indiana 
housewives to express their opinion of 
Dr. Hurty’s criticism. It is only fair 
to add that we never got any of that 
brand of cooking “back in Indianny.” 
Teach me to feel another’s woe, 
To hide the fault I see; 
That mercy I to other show, 
That mercy show to me. 
—Alexander Pope. 
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He said: 
The frying pan is overworked. Hard 
cooked foods and grease are too abundant 
for good health. Too much smoked, 
pickled and salted meats are eaten, and 
vinegar and pickles are abused. 
I believe it is the bad air, the polluted 
drinking water, the neglect of the bath, 
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and over-eating which cause the farmer 
to buy so largely of patent medicines. He 
knows he is hit; he feels hurt, and not 
knowing his ills are self-inflicted and not 
knowing how to remedy them by obeying 
the laws of his well being, he flies to 
alcohol and other drugs in the form of 
patent medicines. If you go into his 
cellar the empty patent medicine bottles 
are heaped in the corners; if you go 
into his bedroom, they are there. In the 
kitchen they are on the shelves and in 
the cupboards; the ash heap is topped 
with them, the barn harbors them, and 
if you go into the woodshed and smoke¬ 
house, lo ! they are there. 
We have seen these same charges 
made and disproved so often that we 
refuse .o get very much excited over 
what Dr. Hurty says. There are poor 
country cooks, and poor town cooks, 
yet we doubt whether poorly cooked 
country food is quite as harmful as 
low-grade ready-prepared food in town. 
As a rule these critics compare the poor 
farm family of the country with the 
well-to-do clerical employee or well- 
paid superior mechanic in town, and 
this is not a fair comparison. There 
is plenty of dirt, squalor and un¬ 
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