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Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
DEPARTURE OF SWALLOWS. 
Tlie rain'drops plash, and the dead leaves 
fall, 
On spire and cornice and mold; 
The swallows gather and twitter and 
call, 
“We must follow the Summer; come one, 
come all, 
For the Winter is now so cold.” 
Just listen awhile to the wordy war 
As to whither the way shall tend. 
Says one: “I know the skies are fair, 
And myriads of insects float in air, 
Where the ruins of Athens stand. 
“And every year when the brown leaves 
fall 
In a niche of the Parthenon, 
I build my nest on the corniced wall, 
In the trough of a devastating ball, 
From the Turk’s besieging gun.” 
Says another: “My cozy home I fit 
On a Smyrna grand cafe, 
Where over the threshold Hadjii sit 
And smoke their pipes, and their coffee 
sip, 
Dreaming the hours away.” 
Another says: “I prefer the nave 
Of a temple of Baalbec; 
There my little ones lie when the palm- 
trees wave, 
And perching near on the architrave 
I fill each open beak.” 
“Ah!” says the last, “I build my nest 
Far up on the Nile’s green shore, 
Where Memnon raises his stony crest, 
And turns to the sun as he leaves his 
rest, 
But greets him with song no more. 
“In his ample neck is a niche so wide, 
And withal so deep and free, 
A thousand swallows their nests can hide, 
And a thousand little ones rear beside— 
Then come to the Nile with me.” 
They go, they go, to the river and plain, 
To ruined city and town. 
They leave me alone with the cold again, 
Beside the tomb where my joys are lain 
With hope, like the swallows, flown. 
—Theophile Gautier (1811-1872). 
* 
A parcel post tape measure is a little 
convenience offered by some stores for 
five cents. It is 72 inches long, thus 
giving measurements for the largest pack¬ 
ages allowed, and has printed on one 
side length in inches, and on the other 
rates of postage according to weight 
and zone. 
* 
A very rich compote of grapes is made 
by removing seed and skins from about 
two pounds of grapes and mixing with 
it two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and 
three tablespoonfuls of honey. The mix¬ 
ture is put in an earthen baking dish and 
set in a moderate oven, after sprinkling 
over it a cupful of sugar and half a cup¬ 
ful of grated cocoanut. Bake until 
smooth and creamy, adding a little grape 
juice if it becomes too thick. When 
cooked pour over squares of sponge cake, 
and serve with custard sauce if liked. 
* 
Fall colds, that result from refrigerat¬ 
ing the family by doing without warmth 
until it seems really worth while to start 
Winter heating, are a very poor invest¬ 
ment. It is usually the sort of cold that 
“hangs on,” and even if permanent 
trouble does not result, the coughing and 
sneezing family does not have a very 
pleasant introduction to the rigors of 
Winter. Indeed, a contributing cause 
of these colds is the foul air resulting 
from shutting out ventilation in the hope 
of keeping in heat. The worst sufferers, 
naturally, are the very young and the 
very old, or delicate women whose duties 
keep them indoors, but the whole fam¬ 
ily gets an abundance of discomfort from 
conditions that could be remedied with 
little trouble or expense. The idea that 
fires must not be started until they are 
kept going for the whole season is rather 
an unwise one. It is cheaper to use up 
wood and coal than to consume the vital¬ 
ity needed in the business of life. 
* 
During the past few years several of 
our friends have suffered from the pain¬ 
ful and unfamiliar disease called shin¬ 
gles. It is not an uncommon ailment, 
and yet few know anything about it. 
According to popular superstition it is 
characterized by an eruption that forms 
a girdle around the body, the name being 
a corruption of a Gi’eek word meaning 
surcingle, and if the ends of this girdle 
meet the effect will be fatal. Of course 
this is nonsense, but the disease does 
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most commonly form a band, perhaps 
half way around the chest; however, it 
appears in the head, and the most recent 
case coming under our observation start¬ 
ed at the shoulder and ran down one 
arm, right to the tip of the middle finger. 
The patient is feverish and unwell for 
some days before the eruption shows, with 
vague neuralgic pains; then minute yel¬ 
low blebs show, looking just like ordinary 
“fever sores,” which gradually dry up 
into scabs which finally drop off. During 
the eruptive period there is acute pain, 
and this pain persists for a long time 
afterwards, when the eruption itself has 
disappeared, especially in old people. 
This disease is an inflammation of the 
nerves; it rarely attacks the robust, but 
is more likely to follow a grave illness, 
some acute shock to the nervous system, 
or debility resulting from worry and 
overwork. Exposure to cold or a serious 
chill may induce it, and it sometimes ac¬ 
companies pleurisy. Where it does not 
take the girdle form, but appears else¬ 
where, the patient is very likely to mis¬ 
take it for a symptom of stomach dis¬ 
order or feverish cold, though the neural¬ 
gic pain that accompanies it should give 
warning. Treatment should be directed 
to the underlying cause, and a competent 
physician should prescribe for it; he will 
also advise simple ointments and dusting 
powders to ease the eruption. Warmth 
is necessai'y, and also freedom from ex¬ 
cessive exertion or anxiety. The precau¬ 
tions taken to avoid neuralgia or rheu¬ 
matism, viz., warm clothing and dry, 
well-shod feet, will lessen .the neuralgic 
pain that follows shingles. The patient 
will get a good deal of misery out of it, 
even in a mild form, but sometimes it 
seems as though the affliction is needed 
to call attention to continued over-drafts 
upon health and strength. 
The Country Church. 
On page 1004, reference is made to 
someone who is studying solemnly the 
country church. That subject needs all 
the attention that the student can give it. 
Some of its difficulties are very easy to 
find. Since the writer is taking a com¬ 
parison of statistics for his view, let us 
also use comparison. Some devout and 
gifted man, very often one from amongst 
themselves, was formerly the leader 
of the service; was tried, proved, 
then chosen and ordained to be the 
pastor. He knew his flock. He knew 
their trials, their weaknesses, then- 
sorrows and their zeal for right, for hon¬ 
esty. He knew tl^eir religious views, 
and he loved them. He was himself a 
God-fearing, devout and honest man. He 
was real; his people were real and had 
faith in him. These things became too 
slow for some of the well-educated 
clergy, and schools were established es¬ 
pecially for educating young men for the 
ministry. Some of them are earnest 
godly men, others can learn to answer 
all the questions that are necessray to 
gain for them a place in a pulpit, but 
at heart they are not religious men; 
they have learned their business just as 
men try to learn farming in college. 
They lack one important requisite, i. e., 
experience. They have studied their 
oration, their manner, and their gestures; 
all their eloquence and force (if they call 
it that) is put on, and all their audience 
know it. Just that insincerity would 
drive real devout people from the heart¬ 
felt interest of former times, if there 
was nothing more of the comparison, but 
these men are in a professional class. 
They must be well paid. They must 
have all the week to rest and prepare an 
oration for Sunday, so they cannot do 
anything for their own support or to 
help any of.their flock, many church peo¬ 
ple would think it very wrong for their 
minister to do any manual labor, yet the 
great ministers of the past were work¬ 
ingmen. The exercise gave them strength 
of fiber, and good red blood, so they had 
clear minds, and could say what the 
spirit gave them to speak without taking 
a week to have it all arranged on paper 
ready. The cost of the modern church is 
great; and peculiar ways are used to get 
the cost gathered from the people, so that 
it is noticeable that much of the money 
for carrying on the machinery of religion 
is gathered from the young people, who 
do not give it for the cause as “the wid¬ 
ow’s mite,” but to have a good time. 
These are a few of the troubles that con¬ 
front the country churches. When the 
inquirer goes among the country people if 
he is really devout he will find as much 
good company as 50 years ago. 
A COUNTRYMAN. 
N K W-YORK K I'd 
October 4, 
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