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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 31 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
THE VETERANS. 
Every year they’re marching slower, 
Every year they’re stooping lower, 
Every year the lilting music stirs the 
hearts of older men; 
Every year the flags above them 
Seem" to bend and bless and love them 
As if grieving for the future when they 11 
never march again. 
Every year that day draws nearer— 
Every year the truth is clearer 
That the men who saved the nation from 
the severing Southern sword 
Soon must pass away forever 
From the scene of their endeavor. 
Soon must answer to the roll call of the 
angel of the Lord. 
Every year with dwindling number, 
Loyal still to those that slumber, 
Forth they march to where already many 
have found peace at last, 
And they place the fairest blossoms 
O’er the silent, mould’ring bosoms 
Of the valiant friends and comrades of the 
battles of the past. 
Every year grow dimmer, duller, 
Tattered flag and faded color; 
Every year the hands that bear them find 
a harder task to do. 
And the eyes that only brightened 
When the blaze of battle lightened, 
Like the tattered flags they follow are 
grown dim and faded too. 
Every year we see them massing, 
Every year we watch them passing, 
Scarcely pausing in our hurry after pleas¬ 
ure, after gain ; 
But the battle flags above them 
Seem to bend and bless and love them, 
And through all the lilting music sounds 
an undertone of pain! 
—Denis A. McCarthy, in The New York 
Sun. 
* 
One of our friends, while traveling, 
discovered that his coat pocket was on 
fire. He succeeded in extinguishing it, 
burning his hand in the process, and then 
began to investigate the cause of the 
trouble. He found that he had some 
tablets of chloride of potash loose in his 
pockets, and also a little match box with 
a rough scratching surface. The potash 
tablets had been rubbed against the rough 
surface with sufficient friction to cause 
them to ignite. These tablets are very 
commonly used for the relief of sore 
throat, and few people realize that there 
is anything inflammable in them, but to 
avoid risk they should always be kept 
in a glass container. One great and 
memorable explosive fire in New York has 
always been credited to this innocent 
looking household remedy, which is, we 
are told, used in making fireworks. It is 
even possible that it has been a factor in 
some mysterious household fires. 
* 
A housekeeper we know makes a 
wonderful German walnut cake without 
any flour. It calls for one pound of Eng¬ 
lish walnuts, six eggs, one cup of sugar, 
one teaspoonful flavoi’ing, iy 2 teaspoonful 
baking powder. Grind the nuts with the 
nut knife in a meat chopper. Separate 
the eggs; beat the whites stiff, and add 
the sugar to them. Beat yolks until 
creamy, add to whites and sugar, then 
add flavoring. Mix the baking powder 
thoroughly through the walnuts, then 
fold into the other ingredients—do 
not beat in. Bake in two layers, 
and put together with a layer of 
whipped cream, sweetened and flavored. 
This is a very rich cake, and makes a de¬ 
licious dessert. 
* 
A good many girls think that nothing 
could be more luxurious than elaborate 
muslin underwear, lacy, frilly and ornate, 
yet one great New York shop has opened 
a special department of “lingerie sans 
garniture,” French and American. The 
garments are made of fine nainsook or 
batiste trimmed only with pleats or tucks 
and a hem through which ribbon is run. 
The cut of the garments is fashioned 
after the newest models, and some of the 
petticoats have hand-embroidered scal¬ 
lops on the flounces, but no other trim¬ 
ming. They are especially designed for 
Summer travelers, whose garments often 
suffer from unskilful laundresses. These 
garments are expensive, as they depend 
on shcerness of material and high-class 
work for their attractiveness. Certainly 
$7.50 for a perfectly plain nightgown, in 
spite of hand work and cobweb material, 
and the design of a famous French maker, 
is dear enough for most of us. The idea 
conveyed by these garments is very in¬ 
structive, however. Summer laundry 
work is a heavy burden, and anything 
that will lighten it is worth considering. 
Frills and lace edges, that must be pulled 
out and carefully ironed, may well retire 
for the hem of fine material. The use¬ 
ful undergarments of cotton crape come 
more and more into favor, and are sold 
ready made in inexpensive standard 
styles. The children’s dresses of rip- 
plette or crinkled seersucker, with bloom¬ 
ers in place of petticoats for the little 
girls, will be found very helpful. There is 
no way, however, in which any woman 
may skimp on clean collars and yet pre¬ 
serve a fresh and neat appearance. 
* 
Here is Uncle Sam’s recipe for baked 
breast of mutton, given in the new Gov¬ 
ernment bulletin on this meat: Sew up 
a breast of mutton in a very thin cloth, 
put it into a stewpan, pour over it enough 
cold salted water to nearly cover it and 
let it simmer, allowing 10 minutes to 
each pound. Then take it out of the 
saucepan and out of the cloth, put it in 
a baking dish, rub it over with mutton 
drippings, butter or savory fat, sprinkle 
some flour over it, and bake for one-half 
hour in a hot oven, basting frequently 
with its own broth. Five minutes before 
taking it out of the oven strew fine dry 
little bits of butter here and there and 
let it brown. Serve with a brown sauce 
made from the broth in which the meat 
was cooked.__ 
Some Memorial Day Reflections. 
Cousin Emma sent me a book for my 
birthday and writes, “I know how well you 
like a bone to gnaw, so send something 
that you will read more than once—if you 
chance to like it as well as I do.” 
“Morituri,” said Pet, reading its title 
as I freed it from its wrappings. “What 
does that mean?” 
“Something about death, I should say.” 
“How doleful! Couldn’t she have 
found something cheerful? But you’re 
so queer, you and she. You don’t care 
for a nice galloping love story, but want 
some old dig-at-the-roots you can talk and 
talk about, and then refer to the men 
and women in it as if they were folks you 
knew better than the family across the 
street.” 
“We do know them better. That’s the 
reason they interest us so.” 
“Here comes Mrs. Kinney. She’ll see 
you have a new book and ask to borrow 
it, but she won’t keep that thing long. She 
likes E.’P. Roe and thinks the William¬ 
sons’ automobile stories are just lovely.” 
“Well, they are all good writers, and 
a lively little story, easily read, is often 
just the thing for tired feet. Many sorts 
of readers, why not many sorts of 
writers?” 
“You know, Mamma, that you could 
ride 10 hours a day and not pick up two 
such queer readers as you and Cousin 
Emma.” 
“Two every day would make quite a 
company in even one State, and among 
the farmer people is a good place to 
search for them. The country gives time 
to think, for your thoughts can be as 
busy as your hands. Rural people do 
not run out for idle shopping, or moving 
pictures, or bridge whist when they need 
diversion. Their dissipations are far 
apart, and only of the sort they can’t do 
without. If they can get a fresh turn 
to their thoughts by reading they can get 
into better company and know more ex¬ 
alted friendships than any city could give 
them.” 
Last evening I sat waiting for the men 
to come in from the stable where a horse 
was ailing and after my mending was fin¬ 
ished read the first of the three plays in 
my new book. Teja was a king of the 
Goths, his inheritance a half-destroyed 
kingdom. For seven weeks he and his 
people had been surrounded by Byzan- 
tian armies, and now the ships that were 
to have come to relieve the Goths are by 
treachery landed at the Byzantian 
camps. His last hope destroyed, Teja 
decides for the only course of valor open 
to himself and his warriors. They must 
march forth and die fighting. 
Now here we have a paragraph out of 
old history, a mere statement easily set 
forth in ten lines. The stories of those 
fierce old days are full of similar inci¬ 
dents, but they.seem no more to us than 
the pictures upon old wall papers. But 
this man, Sndermann, picks up the an¬ 
cient fact and in less than GO open-lined 
pages has put a heart of live, quivering 
human interest into the forgotten frame 
until it glows with meaning and inspira¬ 
tion for us all. 
The Goths have chosen for Teja a wife, 
and to her he has been married that “in 
his own body should the king taste why 
the Goth loveth- death,” the Bishop tells 
him. Teja believes women creatures of 
trembling and petty fears. But when 
his faithful sword-bearer, representing 
the utmost of devotion of man to man, 
lies down at his tent door and sleeps, 
Balthilda, the young wife, steps across 
his body and takes food and wine to the 
king. The awakening of Teja’s heart is 
not to be told but in the inspired words 
of genius. Before her coining Teja had 
said to his warriors, “I will not that even 
one man be softened by the tears and 
cries of women.” So every man is bidden 
to remain dumb as to the going forth on 
the morrow while taking leave of wife or 
child. But when Teja has taken leave 
of his own wife, behold, he has told her 
everything; she has even seen him weep, 
the man who never before shed tears. For 
Teja confesses that he has deep envy of 
the king, his predecessor, who died be¬ 
loved, for “They called him the ‘shining’ 
Totilas and their affection still cleaveth 
to him to-day. Their eyes still flash when 
they even think of him.” But when his 
queen tells him that if he and this Totilas 
stood side by side “I should have seen 
only thee, Sire—dear, dear Sire!” then 
Teja knows himself possessed of the king¬ 
dom all men desire, the goodly heritage 
come down to him from Adam and Eve, 
the shining kingdom that will last long 
as hearts are left to remember. 
Teja goes to take his place at the head 
of his little band of valiant men and is 
told, “Sire, we have disobeyed thy com¬ 
mand. Which of our men betrayed it 
and which of us told it, that cannot be 
determined. Enough, they all know it.” 
“And they have cried ‘Oh!’ and ‘woe’?” 
“Sire, they have silently kissed the bless¬ 
ing of death upon our brows.” “They 
also! Truly we are a nation of kings.” 
They were kings because each the con¬ 
sort of a queen. In a few simple words 
Sudermann lifts the women of the Goths 
to a plane of heroism and daring that 
makes them the equals of their warriors 
and sturdiest men of valor. They are fit 
mothers for rearing heroes. With encour¬ 
agement such as theirs men of all time 
die gladly, so they die honorably. Leav¬ 
ing such women to speak with shining 
eyes of their deeds they are in possession 
of the blessedness that lies within that 
doleful fact that these bodies must fall 
to earth and decay. A Goth could love 
death because he had for a wife a queen 
in whose eyes he was so glorified. 
Are there not in many homely farm 
houses women as brave and men who are 
heroes because so transfigured in their 
eyes? That cruel old war which men de¬ 
light to honor as our glorious War of 
the Rebellion proved our men and women 
not behind any heroes of old in valor. 
Every wreath of flowers and every tiny 
flag above the crumbled dust repeats an 
unwrit story as great as Sudermann has 
fitted into this old happening of the past. 
And times of national peace have their 
heroes and heroines no less than times of 
war. Not one of these Gothic dames was 
ahead in bravery of the forgotten, neglect¬ 
ed farmer’s wife who against discourage¬ 
ment and monotony keeps from crying 
oh and woe and heartens husband or son 
or brother for the battles of life, the plain, 
unromantic effort to keep a clean, re¬ 
spected name for the every-day world and 
for the last summing up. H. itiiamar. 
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