1026 
TH ED RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
September 13, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
ANGELS UNAWARES. 
She minds the childher all the day, 
A baby tucked inside her shawl; 
Faulting the young ones when they stray 
Along the street beyond her call. 
Her mother has not time to spare 
For sittin’ under chick or child, 
So Katey has the lot to care, 
The lads to keep from running wild. 
The sense comes soon to thim that’s 
poor— 
Herself could scarcely walk when she 
Made room for younger ones galore, 
And rocked the baby on her knee. 
Barefooted, with her share of dirt, 
But steadfast for her years is Kate; 
The likes of her don’t come to hurt, 
Though sure she’s only rasing eight. 
You’ll meet her streeling through the rain, 
The baby sleeping on her breast, 
Or by some big shop-window pane 
Lookin’ how quality is dressed. 
Happy as little kings they stand, 
Staring at cakes or sweets or toys; 
She has a sister by the hand, 
Her skirts are clutched by two small 
boys. 
Their faces pressed against the glass, 
They do be lettin’ on to choose 
The best of everything they pass— 
Toy soldiers, dolls, or scarlet shoes. 
Then through the chapel door they streel, 
When Katey bids to say a prayer; 
Hand clasped in hand the young ones 
kneel 
To beg God have them in his care. 
******* 
You think her life is hard, maybe? 
You’d have her playing bat and ball? 
But sure the best of games, says she, 
Is playing mother to them all. 
—W. M. Letts in the London Spectator. 
* 
Grated cocoanut, scattered over the 
top of ordinary gingerbread just before 
baking, is “something different,” and 
very good. 
The New York Tribune gives the fol¬ 
lowing recipe for sour milk filling for 
layer cake: Whip half a pint of sour 
cream very stiff, add the stiffly beaten 
white of one egg and beat again. Chop 
very finely a cupful of English walnuts 
or butternuts (the latter are especially 
good). Stir these into the cream with a 
teaspoonful of vanilla extract and suffi¬ 
cient powdered sugar to render the fill¬ 
ing rather sweet. Rightly made this fill¬ 
ing will be found delicious, and, if pre¬ 
ferred, chopped raisins and citron may 
be substituted for the nuts. 
* 
The United States Bureau of Educa¬ 
tion has sent out a bulletin by President 
Cook, of the Mississippi Normal College, 
on the water supply of the farm home. It 
is no wonder that a woman becomes 
overtired when, as Prof. Cook says, she 
lifts a ton of water a day. This is, of 
course, where water is not piped into 
the house. “The water for the kitchen 
has to be lifted from the well, carried 
to the kitchen, poured into a kettle, 
poured out of the kettle into the dish- 
pan, and from the dishpan out of doors. 
This makes six times the water is han¬ 
dled ; and a bucket of water containing 
two gallons, with the containing vessel, 
will weigh 20 pounds. When this is 
handled six times the total lifting is 120 
pounds. The cooking of three meals a 
day on a meagre allowance of water will 
necessitate ten buckets, which will make 
for cooking almost 1,200 pounds of lift¬ 
ing per day. When to this is added the 
water necessary for bathing, scrubbing 
and the weekly wash it will easily bring 
the lift per day up to a ton.” All this 
drudgery, the bulletin says, could be ob¬ 
viated by an outlay of $250. 
* 
Reports of the great profits to be se¬ 
cured from ginseng growing have in¬ 
duced many persons to invest in seeds 
and plants, often with resultant loss and 
disappointment. Women and girls who 
have become wary of “easy work at 
home” frauds are quite likely to con¬ 
sider investment in ginseng, because ir¬ 
responsible literature persuades them 
that large returns are a certainty. The 
U. S. Department of Agriculture has re¬ 
cently issued Farmers’ Bulletin 551, “The 
Cultivation of American Ginseng,” by 
Dr. W. Van Fleet, which conveys accu- 
rate knowledge of culture, preparation 
for market and market conditions. It 
reads very differently from the glowing 
literature that has been used to promote 
sales, but the information given will be 
helpful to those who honestly wish to 
grow the plant, white conveying a warn¬ 
ing to those who have an exaggerated 
idea of the profits returned by such work. 
The illustration of the lath shade used 
in ginseng culture will interest many 
who think a casual garden patch all that 
is needed. There is a fascination about 
medicinal plants and their collection that 
is really worth more than the money re- 
turns they bring, and people often for¬ 
get that knowledge and industry are 
needed in this work as in any other. We 
have referred before to other bulletins 
on medicinal plants issued by the De¬ 
partment, and we feel sure many read- 
ers will find just what they wanted to 
know about ginseng in this bulletin. 
Ptomaine Poison. 
At this season of the year there is ap¬ 
parently more danger from getting pois¬ 
oned through impure food supplies than 
at any other time. Country people usu¬ 
ally consider themselves safe from all 
such dangers, because they grow their 
own fruits and vegetables and meats, but 
there is danger in country as well as city 
if there is the least bit of carelessness in 
looking after the cooking. Take chicken, 
for example. Chicken and some other 
foods ai’e the hotbeds of ptomaine poison, 
yet it is impossible to convince many 
country housewives that thei-e can pos¬ 
sibly be any danger in this innocent food. 
It has happened time and again that 
hundreds of cases of ptomaine poisoning 
have been traced to chicken salad, chicken 
soup or chicken pie prepared for home 
consumption or for some lai’ge gathering 
like a picnic or a social. The trouble 
usually comes in by cooking the chicken 
the day before it is needed and allowing 
it to cool covered in the vessel in which 
it was cooked, or any vessel for that mat¬ 
ter. The steam must escape if you are 
to be absolutely certain the chicken is 
safe to eat next day. Cases of poisoning 
have resulted from chicken pies without 
sufficient air holes to allow the steam 
to escape. A safe rule is to eat chicken 
the same day it is cooked at home, and to 
know absolutely when it was cooked if 
you indulge in it away from home. The 
risk is too great to stand on cei'emony. 
If you don’t want to draw attention to 
yourself quietly refuse and eat something 
else. Roast or fried chicken seems free 
from the poison to all present knowledge, 
but stewed chicken is the lurking place 
of the evil. 
Then take ice cream for a second ex¬ 
ample. The thrifty housekeeper doesn’t 
like to throw away the melted cream next 
day after the social or the home party, 
so she freezes it over or makes custard 
of it. Beware! In the apparently inno¬ 
cent sweet fluid the death germs lurk, 
and many a grave can testify that such 
thrift is criminal. Throw away the re¬ 
mains of the ice cream as soon as melt¬ 
ed and keep from poisoning yourself and 
your family. Tomatoes allowed to stand 
in chipped granite or iron vessels, fish 
warmed over after standing too long, any 
meat that seems soft to the touch, peas 
cooked and allowed to stand in defective 
granite pans and then reheated, canned 
meats left standing in the tins in which 
they were bought after they have been 
opened—the list is too long to- give hei‘e, 
but it includes almost every stale product 
of the cooking line. 
Occasionally an indignant housekeeper 
declares that she knows by sight and 
smell what is pure and what is impulse, 
to say nothing of tasting what goes be¬ 
fore her family, but ptomaine poison 
eludes every test of this kind. It makes 
its presence known a few hours after it 
is eaten, and only the most prompt ac¬ 
tion saves the life if much of the deadly 
stuff has been eaten. For this reason 
country people are in greater danger than 
town folks, for getting a doctor at once 
is of the utmost importance. Don’t de¬ 
lay and don’t count it a simple case of 
indigestion if sudden illness results after 
a dinner or social. Act at once. If you 
must eat in town l’estaurants stick to 
plain foods and avoid all salads and 
doubtful looking dishes. A little extra 
precaution at the season when the poison 
develops so rapidly will pay richly. Pre- 
vention is better than cure,' so don’t be 
afraid to throw away stale foods and 
know that it is economy to do so. 
HILDA RICHMOND. 
In My Neighbors’ Gardens—Old Man 
and Syringa. 
Those who know old gardens will re¬ 
member a quiet-colored, unpretentious 
plant that our grandmothers used to grow 
for its feathery and very pale green 
foliage. A sort of Artemisia, I think it 
is, but old people will tell you it is Old 
Man. a not unsuitable name, for it comes 
as near to being gray-headed as a plant 
not furry can. [Artemisia Abrotanum, 
also called southern wood or lad’s love. 
It found a place in old-fashioned domes¬ 
tic medicine, and was also used some¬ 
times in England in home-brewed beei\ 
Eds.] And it has often a sparse, sit-in- 
the-corner look, too, and hangs onto life 
as many a more robust-looking plant will 
not do. Of late I have seen this Arte¬ 
misia effectively used in rock work and 
as an edging of permanent beds, and 
brought to a degree of thrift that made 
one look twice to see what new thing it 
was, so feathery and pretty. Evidently 
the grower had made a well-enriched 
trench and set the roots close together; 
then the growth was kept clipped to 
about eight inches in height, encouraging 
it to thicken and grow more bushy. As it 
stands droughts well and its wiry stems 
send out offsets all about the parent 
plant, one can readily see that such treat- 
ment would soon give a thick and endur¬ 
ing border, or an excellent filling-in 
growth for a rockery. Its old-fashioned 
use was, of course, to furnish greenery 
in the heavy, mixed bouquets then 
thought the proper thing, and it is still 
so handy to support and beautify a vase¬ 
ful of poppies, pansies, sweet peas or 
other blossoms that do not furnish their 
own leaves, that one would miss the little 
old stand-by which is content to be al¬ 
lowed to grow under a grapevine, or 
against a fence, or in any neglected cor¬ 
ner. But if you have a rockery, or a 
place along an underpinning, or sidewalk, 
or around some shaded bed where plants 
grow none too well try a clipped edging 
of Old Man. 
At my home we have long been familiar 
with two of the syringas or mock oranges, 
one a trifle larger flowered than the other 
and not so twiggy and branching, but 
both exceedingly fragrant. Very pleas¬ 
ant neighbors on the lawn, we count 
them, but for bringing indoors too op¬ 
pressively lavish of scent. Last season I 
found, in my friends’ parlors, bouquets 
of syringa blossoms, whiter because larger 
flowered than ours at home and with¬ 
out fragrance. Now an unscented blos¬ 
som ought not to be preferred, but to 
use in vases these really were the more 
desirable, especially as the flowers were 
of superior size and texture, and I shall 
not be content until this third variety is 
growing somewhere within reach of my 
bouquet supplies. It makes a bush even 
taller than the fragrant varieties and is 
no new sort, but one of the vigorous old 
garden stand-bys that never die out 
though the hand that planted it be long 
since forgot. [The old-fashioned early- 
flowering very fragrant syringa is bo- 
tanically Philadelphus coronarius, while 
the less fragrant variety with larger 
flowers is P. grandiflorus. A later- 
flowering sort with profuse bloom, slight¬ 
ly fragrant, is P. Gordonianus. Eds.] 
prudence primrose. 
“ ‘Passing out of the shadow 
Into a purer light; 
Stepping behind the curtain, 
Getting a clearer sight; 
Laying aside the burden. 
This weary mortal coil; 
Done with the world’s vexations, 
Done with its tears and toil. 
Tired of all earth’s playthings, 
Heartsick and ready to sleep; 
Ready to bid our friends farewell. 
Wondering why they weep; 
Passing out of the shadow 
Into eternal day— 
Why do we call it dying, 
This sweet passing away?’” 
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