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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day* 
A NEIGHBOR'S CREED 
Nor knowest thou what argument 
Thy life to thy neighbor’s creed has lent. 
—Emerson. 
Because I see you bright and brave, 
I say to my despondent heart, 
“Up, loiterer! Put off this guise 
Of gloom and play the sturdier part.” 
Three things are given man to do: 
To dare, to labor and to grow. * * * 
Three things are given man to be: 
Cheerful, undoubting and humane, 
Surviving through the direst fray, 
Preserving the untarnished strain. 
Three things are given man to know: 
Beauty and truth and honor. These 
Are the nine virtues of the soul. 
Her mystic powers and ecstasies. 
And when I see you bravely tread 
That difficult and doubtful way, 
"Up, waverer; wilt thou forsake 
Thy comrade?” to my soul I say. 
Then bitterness and sullen fear 
Mistrust and anger, are no more. 
That quick, gay step is in the hall, 
That rallying voice is at the door. 
—Bliss Carman. 
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On page 350 a canner, discussing to¬ 
matoes, says that in commercial canning 
unripe tomatoes cause fermentation, re¬ 
sulting in damaged goods. This is a 
point that should be remembered in do¬ 
mestic canning. Commercial require¬ 
ments call for tomatoes that are fully 
ripe, but not soft. It is quite possible 
that in some cases where domestic can¬ 
ning of tomatoes is not a success the 
fermentation is due to imperfectly 
ripened fruit, and care should be taken 
to avoid this error. 
* 
If you have been growing Dutch hya¬ 
cinths and tulips in pots in the house, 
plant these spent bulbs in odd corners 
just as soon as the frost is out of the 
ground. Possibly you will not see any¬ 
thing of them except a few leaves next 
year, but the Spring folldwing some, if 
not all will flower, and the hyacinths 
are likely to be fairly permanent. We 
like to put them in warm nooks and 
corners around shrubs; it is always a 
pleasant surprise to see these gay blos¬ 
soms. showing unexpectedly when there 
is little else in the garden. The slim 
little Roman hyacinths are not hardy 
in our latitude, so it is useless to plant 
them, or the Chinese sacred lily, but or¬ 
dinary forced daffodils usually bloom 
after being out a year or two. This 
past Winter our pot daffodils have been 
very disappointing, and we realize that 
we got hold of “blind” bulbs, but that 
happens sometimes under the best green¬ 
house conditions. 
* 
One of the large Chicago daily papers 
has started a “Home Workers’ Market 
Place,” where women who work at home 
may put samples on exhibition, and also 
has a special advertising department for 
such workers. The advertisements in¬ 
clude home cooking, confections, needle¬ 
work, both plain sewing and embroidery, 
also crocheting and tatting and various 
handicrafts. Other women offer pro¬ 
fessional services as teachers, milliners, 
typewriters; still others will launder fine 
laces, or take care of children. . Many 
city women appear in the advertise¬ 
ments, but also a great many in small 
towns, and this “Market Place” seems 
likely to prove a very favorable place 
for disposing of woman’s handiwork. 
Of course anyone preparing for such 
trade must have a specialty, and must 
do her chosen work well, for careless, 
slovenly sewing or skimped cooking will 
not sell in the open market. One of the 
best things about this effort to put home 
work on a businesslike footing is the 
fact that it must lessen the dishonest 
gains of the “easy-work-at-home” fraud. 
Any woman who learns to do some one 
thing well enough to sell in the open 
market is not likely to be entrapped by 
the promise to find her easy work—if 
she will only part with a few of her 
scanty dollars first. 
* 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture 
at Washington has just issued Farmers’ 
Bulletin 521, “Canning Tomatoes at 
Home and in Club Work.” This bulle¬ 
tin is something every farm house¬ 
keeper needs; it gives recipes for canned 
tomatoes, catchup, chow-chow and other 
pickles, and very specific directions 
which should aid the operator in avoid¬ 
ing troubles sometimes experienced in 
home canning. The second part of the 
bulletin discusses canning at home or 
on the farm for market purposes, and 
also describes the formation of girls’ 
canning clubs, which have been operated 
very successfully in various parts of the 
South. Some of the results obtained 
by these girl canners are fairly astonish¬ 
ing. For example, Katie Gunter, of 
South Carolina, realized as net profit 
for a season on one-tenth acre of to¬ 
matoes $78.37; Lou Summers, of Mis¬ 
sissippi, on same amount of ground, se¬ 
cured a net profit of $74.80, while Salena 
Smith, of Mississippi, made a. net profit 
of $67.73. Any farmer who has regular 
customers to whom he delivers farm 
products has the possibility of securing 
trade in canned goods, and this little 
bulletin will certainly help him to get 
more of the consumer’s dollar. The 
suggestions about school demonstration 
work will be very helpful to rural 
schools. __________ 
Household Notes. 
Here are a few things that I have found 
useful, which may be helpful to others: 
A glass stopper in a bottle could not 
be removed, and was broken off close 
to the bottle. A friend who “knew 
how” lighted a small kindling stick, 
turning the neck of the bottle slowly in 
the flame. When the kindling was half 
burned the broken stopper popped out 
of its own accord. 
I keep a good-sized round bottle on 
my pantry shelf and wind the cord taken 
from packages on this. It is handier 
than a ball. 
A stout barrel hoop sewed in the top 
of a new bran sack and hung up by a 
rope or band of muslin makes a service¬ 
able clothes bag. 
My kettle covers are disposed of by 
slipping them back of a heavy cord 
nailed to the wall. 
A pudding the children like and one 
that is good for them is made thus: 
Two cups graham flour, one cup sweet 
milk, one cup syrup or molasses, one 
egg, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon 
salt, one cup raisins (warmed to prevent 
falling to the bottom) ; steam three 
hours. We eat this with sugar and 
cream; some may prefer a sauce. 
Cinnamon rolls are better for the 
children and they prefer them to cake: 
One pint scalded milk, one tablespoon 
lard melted in the milk, one-half cup 
sugar added when milk is tepid, one 
yeast cake softened in one-half cup 
warm water, salt, flour to beat very stiff. 
When light knead out and let rise again, 
then when light roll one-half inch thick 
and spread with melted butter, sprinkle 
with sugar and cinnamon, and a half 
cup of well washed currants. Roll these 
in lightly with the rolling pin, roll up 
like a jelly roll and slice off in one- 
inch slices. Let them lap in the tin; 
when light, bake one-half hour, or till 
quite brown, and glaze with powdered 
sugar wetted with milk. MRS. w. 
Moldy Hams ; Black Aphis. 
1. I generally have 12 or 16 hams 
every year. I smoke them with corncobs 
and hickory; never had much trouble until 
the last three years. I put them in large 
paper bags and hung them in a concrete 
milk house, and they get so moldy that I 
have to cut them away and waste much 
of them. Is it the concrete building? 
Would you advise hanging them up stairs 
March 22, v 
in the barn? 2. Can you tell me what 
causes my nasturtiums to get black lice on 
them? It stops them from blooming. 
G. P. 
1. Your trouble is due to the milk- 
house, which is undoubtedly too damp 
for the hams. If you have a dry, dark 
place in the barn, which should be 
screened to keep out larder beetles and 
other insects, that would probably be 
better. We would advise you to put the 
hams in tightly closed muslin bags, and 
then paint the bags thoroughly with 
melted paraffin, such as is used to cover 
the tops of jelly glasses. This is a very 
satisfactory way of treating any smoked 
meat. 
2. Black aphis is often troublesome on 
nasturtiums, but we usually find that 
they grow away from the insects if they 
have a fair chance otherwise. Spray 
with tobacco extract, diluted in accord¬ 
ance with instructions, strong tobacco 
tea, an infusion of Persian insect pow¬ 
der or kerosene emulsion. 
Controlling the Fly Pest. 
How can an open sink drain be kept 
free from flies, and how can I destroy their 
breeding places and keep them so all Sum¬ 
mer without hurting chickens? I have 
no control over the chickens, nor can I 
prevent the drain, but I would like to do 
all in my power to keep the flies down, if 
such a thing is possible. Mrs. c. e. l. 
Experiments detailed in Museum Bul¬ 
letin 141, by the New York State Ento¬ 
mologist, show that the house fly does 
not breed freely in darkness. Sloppy 
filth in light places makes an ideal breed¬ 
ing ground. That sink drain ought to 
be covered over to discourage the 
typhoid-bearing fly, as, if it is dark, 
their breeding would be lessened, if not 
prevented. A daily treatment, the whole 
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length of the drain, with a small amount 
of chloride of lime would probably pre¬ 
vent their breeding. A material used 
to destroy fly larva: in horse manure 
is made as follows: Dissolve one-half 
pound of caustic potash in a half pint 
of water. Stir the cold solution, adding 
to it one quart of linseed oil; stir at 
hourly intervals for four or five hours, 
and let stand over night. Next add 
quart of commercial cresol to the soap 
formed and dilute the slowly formed so¬ 
lution with 20 parts of water. Three or 
four days may be needed to make a 
complete solution. Poultry should not 
be allowed to feed on the maggots killed 
by this. The New York State Ento¬ 
mologist says that it is impossible for 
the house or typhoid fly to produce a 
generation inside of 10 days; conse¬ 
quently the removal of fly-breeding ma¬ 
terial at approximately five-day inter¬ 
vals is a recognized method of elimi¬ 
nating the pest. In the inquirer’s case 
the presence of the fowls complicates 
matters, as they would no doubt try to 
eat the larvae killed by the chemical 
fluid—and this would not agree with 
them. There is another expedient, if 
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the sink drain has an earth channel 
rather than stones; it could be fre¬ 
quently hoed np, so as to dry and aerate 
its bed, and this would certainly lessen 
fly breeding. But we would prefer to 
darken it, and use the chloride of lime 
or the chemical solution. We should 
like to hear from others who can tell 
us how they have conquered the sink 
drain, which is often allowed to become 
a nuisance or a mortification in a place 
without modern conveniences. 
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