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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
A VIOLET. 
God does not send us strange flowers 
every year. 
When the Spring winds blow o’er the pleas¬ 
ant places, 
The same dear things lift up the same fair 
faces. 
The violet is here. 
It all comes back; the odor, grace and 
hue; 
Each sweet relation of Its life repeated ; 
No blank is left, no looking-for is cheated; 
It is the thing we knew. 
So after the death-winter it must be, 
God will not put strange signs in the 
heavenly places; 
The old love shall look out from the old 
faces. 
Veilchen! I shall have thee! 
—A. D. T. Whitney. 
* 
Here is a recommended recipe for hot 
cross buns, which we always serve on 
Good Friday: Put three cupfuls of 
sifted flour into a bowl and rub into 
it two tablespoonfuls of butter, one-half 
cupful of granulated sugar and a quar¬ 
ter of a teaspoonful of salt, then add a 
cupful of lukewarm milk in which has 
been dissolved a cake of compressed 
yeast. Set aside to rise and when twice 
its original bulk place on a well-floured 
board, roll out and shape into round 
biscuits with the hands. Place in pans 
so that they do not touch and let rise 
again in a warm place. .When light 
and just before placing in the oven, 
with a sharp knife cut a cross on the 
top of each bun. Brush the top with 
melted butter and sprinkle with sugar 
and cinnamon mixed together. Bake in 
a hot oven from fifteen to twenty min¬ 
utes. This should make about two 
dozen. We add a few currants, raisins 
or citron. 
* 
A large firm in Brooklyn recently 
held an exhibition of boys’ hobbies. 
There were all manner of mechanical 
contrivances; aeroplanes, motors, and 
tools; one boy sent in a model of a 
business office in miniature, with desks, 
safe, files, etc. There were also many 
pictures, medallions and other art ob¬ 
jects; one boy exhibited a large medal¬ 
lion of Lincoln, modeled from a Lin¬ 
coln cent. The most surprising thing 
about this exhibition, which naturally 
included things that were crude also, 
was the diversity of taste displayed, 
and the genuine excellence of many of 
the exhibits. It is quite possible that 
the exhibition may prove a determining 
factor in more than one boy’s career, 
for the appreciation shown, and the op¬ 
portunity to see what others are doing 
in similar lines, will have a powerful in¬ 
fluence. There are a good many house¬ 
holds in which the boy’s hobbies : -e not 
given very respectful attention, and his 
best efforts are regarded as so much 
“clutter,” so the encouragement of this 
exhibition ought to encourage the sup¬ 
pressed talents of boys elsewhere, as 
well as those taking part in it. 
* 
Seventy years ago Commander 
Wilkes of the U. S. Navy sailed far into 
the Antarctic and told of masses of 
land seen there. The stay-at-home sci¬ 
entists solemnly asserted that there was 
no land there, and the naval officer was 
court-martialed for his fabrications. We 
infer that his career was not affected by 
these charges, as he became prominent 
as Admiral Wilkes during the Civil 
War. Since then, however, Shackleton, 
Mawson and the unfortunate Sc t have 
visited the land Wilkes saw in the dis¬ 
tance, and we have thus an eloquent 
text on the worthlessness of a scientific 
working hypothesis from a distance, as 
compared with the crude facts acquired 
by a man on the spot. Similar lines of 
reasoning seem to be applied to many 
things beside the Antarctic, and not the 
least of these is the prevailing attitude 
THE RURAL, NKW-YORKEH 
March 15, 
towards the farmer’s home life. One 
would really suppose that all townspeople 
possessed intelligence and culture as a 
result of their many privileges, to read 
some of the strictures upon farm life. 
We who know something of city poverty 
see a very different side from this. We 
soon learn that great schools, lavishly 
equipped, free lectures, museums and 
exhibitions, may fail to reach a con¬ 
siderable proportion of the people they 
are designed for. Furthermore, these 
opportunities alone will not make good 
citizens. There never was a time when 
high moral ideals meant more than they 
do now, or when personal integrity could 
do more for the nation. We need more 
thought for our rural schools, but above 
all we need the moral standards of life 
and conduct that find their first in¬ 
ception in home life. The recent rejec¬ 
tion by Congress of the. literacy test in 
the immigration bill touches upon this 
very point, since it recognizes the fact 
that inability to read is a defect that our 
schools may overcome, whereas moral 
turpitude or baseness will make even 
an educated man an undesirable citizen. 
Method of Keeping Ham. 
Please give formula for a preparation to 
put on smoked hams, shoulders and bacon 
that will keep them for a length of time. 
I think I once read in your paper to make 
muslin bags for each ham or piece of 
meat and then coat them with a liquid. I 
think the formula for the liquid is what I 
want. Possibly it called for a coating on 
the hams before putting in the muslin 
sacks. j. h. w. 
The preparation used is paraffin, such 
as is used to cover the top of jelly or 
preserves. It is not applied directly to 
the meat, which is smoked and other¬ 
wise treated as usual, then inclosed in a 
muslin bag. The paraffin is melted, and 
while hot painted over the muslin bag 
so that it is thoroughly coated- Give 
special care to the seams, or anywhere 
where the paraffin might crack off; then 
hang the meat in a cool dark room, 
screened against insects. This is a 
cleanly and convenient way of treating 
the meat, and is endorsed by all who 
have tried it. Persons who put up 
smoked Summer sausage in muslin bags 
tell us that they melt the paraffin^in a 
flat pan, and roll the sausages around 
in it, as more convenient than painting 
it on. 
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