1114 
THE RURAL. NEW -YORKER 
October 11, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
PRAIRIE FIRE. 
The Autumn twilight dies; 
Quick, fitful winds through the hollows 
pass 
That moan and sigh in the long, dry 
grass, 
And ever a kildee cries. 
The hovering darkness gathers; 
But what is the rose tint there, 
That flushes the far horizon 
Like a turbulent city’s glare? 
It gathers and grows and widens, 
It swallows the southward sky 
And the timid wind, like a hunted deer, 
Makes pause to hearken, then leaps in 
fear 
And wails as it hurries by. 
The heavens grow red to the zenith 
In the ominous, fevered light. 
And the glimmering hilltops waver, 
Sharp-drawn on the walls of night. 
And now as a wide-flung army, 
Hurled hot on the foemen’s spears, 
With plumes of smoke on its tossing head, 
With flaring banners and lances red, 
The wavering flood appears. 
It runs like a wolf in hunger, 
It roars like a mountain storm, 
And before it the fleeing creatures 
Far over the prairie swarm. 
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The river, at last, the river! 
A haven where all may hide. 
With toil-spent lungs and with straining 
feet 
They reel from the smoke and the peeling 
heat 
To plunge in its grateful tide, 
While the tongue of the hungry demon 
Licks out on the naked sand, 
And slavers its baffled fury 
And sinks, like a dying hand. 
Over the lonely prairie 
So wan, the white moonrise grows; 
From out of the North a chill wind rides 
That spins the ash on the black hillsides 
And, fading, an ember glows. 
The clustered diamonds of the midnight 
Flash keen in the purple deep, 
The hollows and hills are empty; 
The desolate prairies sleep. 
—From “Frontier Ballads,” by Joseph 
Mills Ilanson. 
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Reaches are very nice peeled, rolled 
in butter and sugar creamed together, 
and then baked in a quick oven. 
The Delineator tells this story of a 
small boy, who seems just about as logi¬ 
cal as some warlike nations that are 
surely old enough to know better: 
“Plaster me up!” called Justin, aged 
seven, to his astonished mother as he 
rushed into the house. “Me an’ Red’s 
been fightin’.” 
With the wisdom of past experience, 
she washed, bandaged, and plastered him 
before inquiring: 
“What was the disagreement about, 
J ustin ?” 
“Well, mama,” replied her son, after 
considering the question for some mo¬ 
ments, “it mostly was me a-thinkin’ I 
could lick Red, an’ him a-thinkin’ he 
could lick me.” 
A recent inquiry coming to this office 
was for means of acquiring certificate of 
birth of a man born in Central New York 
more than half a century ago. He had 
died in a foreign country, and his heirs 
had to furnish such a certificate of birth 
to comply with legal requirements in 
settling up his estate. As they appeared 
uncertain of the township in which he 
was born, and did not know to whom they 
should apply for this data, their difficul¬ 
ties were many. This brings out possi¬ 
bilities that are little considered, yet 
that may cause much anxiety and loss. 
Many foreign countries are quite strict 
in requiring a variety of data to com¬ 
plete marriage records and also some 
contracts involving property or inherit¬ 
ance, and if vital statistics are carelessly 
kept much embarrassment may result. 
One factory inspector, in a manufactur¬ 
ing city where many records had been 
destroyed by fire, told us that it was 
often easier to issue working papers to 
foreign-born children, whose parents 
could show their baptismal certificates, 
than to American children who either 
had not been baptized in infancy, or 
whose parents had not troubled to keep 
a record of it. The baptismal certificate 
was corroborative of the parents’ state¬ 
ments as to age. We think any family 
moving to a distant locality should see 
that they take with them properly at¬ 
tested records of marriage and births; 
they may never be needed, and yet a 
time may come when they are invaluable. 
Only recently a clerical friend was asked 
for the record of a baptism he had per¬ 
formed nearly 50 years ago; it was need¬ 
ed to complete the evidence that entitled 
an English heir to property in that coun¬ 
try. The old-fashioned family Bible, 
with its records, seems to be pushed 
aside nowadays, and many an easy-going 
family without any special religious con¬ 
victions, with no baptismal certificates 
and a hazy idea of the value of vital sta¬ 
tistics, might find itself entirely at a loss 
in furnishing family data necessary to 
complete evidence of inheritance rights. 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns alioags give 
number of pattern and measurements de¬ 
sired. 
The first group shows S017 semi-fitting 
cutaway coat, 34 to 44 bust, with fancy 
vest. 8008 cutaway coat, 34 to 42 bust, 
with or without vest. 8023 loose coat 
for misses and small women, 14, 10 and 
18 years. 8025 two-piece skirt for misses 
and small women, 10 and 18 years. 7901 
four-piece skirt, 22 to 30 waist. 
The second group includes 7993 in¬ 
fant’s shawl and hood combined, one size. 
8018 infant’s one-piece kimono, one size. 
7992 girl’s surplice dress, four to eight 
years. 8002 boy’s suit, two to six years, 
with long or knee trousers, long or short 
sleeves. 8024 child’s wrapper, six months, 
one, two and four years. 065 embroidery 
design. Price of each pattern 10 cents. 
“Is the young man all right who is 
going to marry your daughter?” “I have 
every reason to believe so. lie has been 
audited by the audit company, assayed 
by the local chemist, tested by the State 
bacteriologist, certified by the genealog¬ 
ist, and appraised by the medical and 
surgical staff of the county hospital.”— 
Life. 
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