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'THE: RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
April 5, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE JOY OF WORK. 
Let me -work and be glad, 
Oh, Lord, and I ask no more; 
With will to turn where the sunbeams burn 
At the sill of my workshop door. 
Aforetime I prayed my prayer 
For the glory and gain of earth, 
But now grown wise and with opened eyes 
I have seen what the prayer was worth. 
Give me my work to do, 
And peace of the task well done; 
Youth of the Spring and its blossoming, 
And the light of the moon and sun. 
Pleasure of little things 
That never pall or end, 
And fast in my hold no lesser gold 
Than the honest hand of a friend. 
Let me forget in time 
Folly of dreams that I had; 
Give me my share of a world most fair— 
Let me work and be glad. 
—Theodosia Garrison, in the Independent. 
* 
A new style of handle for silk hand¬ 
bags is black taffeta shirred over a 
heavy cord, which has a very good ef¬ 
fect with a handsome bag. These 
handles are not as absurdly long as 
last year. Cut brocaded velvet and 
heavy silk plush are used for handsome 
bags. Many of them are very expen¬ 
sive. 
* 
A PORCELAiN-lined saucepan is quickly 
stained by burned food, but this can 
usually be removed by filling the kettle 
with boiling water, and adding a tea¬ 
spoonful of sal soda or caustic lye to 
each quart of water. Let this boil 
gently for 15 minutes, and usually the 
blackened shreds and stain can be re¬ 
moved. Scraping should be avoided in 
such utensils. Obstinate discolorations 
are usually removed by chloride of 
lime. 
* 
One of the conveniences of a me¬ 
diaeval kitchen still existing at St. 
Mary’s Hall, Coventry, England, is a 
“knave’s post,” to which refractory scul¬ 
lions were tied as a means of discipline. 
At Hurstmonceaux, another great Eng¬ 
lish estate, a kitchen was 28 feet high, 
with three huge fireplaces and a bake¬ 
house with a 14-foot oven. In April, 1206, 
Hugh de Nevill was ordered to erect two 
new kitchens for the king, each of which 
was to be provided with a furnace large 
enough to roast two or three oxen. A 
modern cook, accustomed to the gas 
range of the city flat, would feel as 
though lost in a stony desert if cast 
away in one of these cavernous me¬ 
diaeval kitchens. 
* 
The New York Department of 
Health issued an order March 17, stat¬ 
ing hereafter food dealers who use soap 
bark or “saponine” will be prosecuted. 
This does not mean that these dealers 
have been using such materials after the 
manner of many good housekeepers, who 
find soap bark the best substance for 
cleansing woolen goods. It is not ex¬ 
ternal use that is forbidden, but it is 
declared that soap bark is used to 
adulterate soda water and pie filling. 
It contains a poisonous principle, and 
certainly has no place in our bill of 
fare. Soap bark is procured from the 
quillaia tree, a native of Chili, belong¬ 
ing to the rose family, and also from 
another South American tree belong¬ 
ing to the bean family. 
* 
Smart little basket pincushions have 
for their foundation a little round or 
oval basket, which is lined and stuffed 
with hair or lamb’s wool, covered with 
plain silk over the top. Cotton batting 
should never be used for stuffing as 
the pins do not pierce it well, and it 
also draws moisture. Over the silk a 
piece of gold net is drawn, and the rim 
of the basket is finished either with a 
gold cord fastened with a bunch of 
silk roses matching the silk covering of 
the cushion, or else a little wreath of 
these roses is put all around the basket. 
Gilded baskets are much used in all 
sorts of fancy work. A flat round 
shallow basket, which can be woven by 
a comparatively inexperienced basket- 
maker may be gilded and used to hold 
flowers on the dining-table, with some 
shallow earthen or metal dish inside 
that will hold water. Baskets are also 
very useful when stained dark brown 
and 'varnished with shellac, so that 
they look like the lacquered Japanese 
baskets now so fashionable. Many 
young people are taught to do basket 
weaving nowadays, and it is well to 
study the many ways in which plain 
baskets may be made useful and at¬ 
tractive. We like to have them the 
right size to hold a flower-pot; then 
when we have pot bulbs or other 
flowering plants we simply put an 
earthen saucer in the bottom, and stand 
the flower pot on it, and we thus have 
a neat and artistic pot cover that can 
be used indefinitely. Rounded baskets 
that curve in closer at the top, so that 
they swell out below, while fitting 
closely above, are very pretty. We 
also use them for flower holders, put¬ 
ting a simple crockery bowl inside to 
hold water. Blossoming branches of 
shrubs and spreading wild flowers are 
especially attractive in such receptacles. 
A Wise Woman’s Talk. 
Mrs. Sage says, “Of course you know 
the proper way of going up stairs. You 
plant a foot firmly and make the muscles 
between the sole of your foot and your 
hips do all the lifting. Your muscles 
at waist, shoulders and neck have noth¬ 
ing to do with your going upstairs, they 
are as much in repose as if you stood 
looking out at a window or waiting 
for a street car. Leg muscles are very 
strong when they have regular exercise 
and it is their business to do all the 
running up and down stairs and to save 
the strength of the upper body for the 
sort of work legs cannot do. 
“Not that I always go upstairs that 
way myself. I,did not learn about it 
young enough in life to always do it 
by instinct. Often I find myself bend¬ 
ing forward and hurrying with shoul¬ 
ders and head till I arrive at the top out 
of breath and panting. That is the sort 
of stair climbing that wears a woman 
out. — 
“Now is there not another sort of 
useless expenditure of force which eats 
into our strength even more and with 
less use ? We bend every ounce of 
energy to lift and carry forward some¬ 
thing on which we have set our hearts. 
We struggle and push forward and we 
find life hard. Perhaps at the end we 
meet onjy disappointment and defeat. 
Our plans seemed good but unforeseen 
mischance upset all our best calculations. 
Really if we had not struggled so hard 
things would have come out better. It 
was not that we ought ever to have 
been careless and indifferent, but we 
w r asted twice the needed amount of 
force. 
“Much of the burden of anxiety and 
unrest comes from opposition to the 
will of one housemate by another. Our 
own ways, purposes and ideals seem to 
be so much better than those we see 
someone else ruled by. So we assume 
the burder of their mistakes and groan 
and push and worry. But do we ever 
help matters any for all our pains? 
There are ways in which we can help 
but maybe we are exerting force in the 
wrong spot. Let us relax and think the 
matter over. A little less fussing and 
considerable more trust, more praying 
in the closet and less preaching in the 
open, these may relieve the strain that 
is wearing patience to shreds, and leave 
greater freedom to exert an influence 
just where it is needed.” A. t. s. 
Salmon a la Cream. —Make white 
sauce by melting two tablespoons 
butter, in frying pan, and browning 
with two tablespoons flour. Add one 
quart milk. Let come to a boil. To 
this mixture add two well-beaten eggs 
and one can of salmon. Place a layer 
of this mixture in baking dish, then a 
layer of cracker crumbs, and proceed 
in this manner until all is used. Bake 
45 minutes in oven. 
MRS. GERTRUDE JACK. 
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FISH BRAND REFLEX 
SLICKER 
This design shows you why. 
See those edges turned back, or Re- 
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RUBBER Ouct CO 
*(•(«« 
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