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U'L-IK' RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 22, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
TIIANKSKIVING. 
For the days when nothing happens, 
For the cares that leave no trace, 
For the love of little children. 
For each sunny dwelling-place, 
For the altars of our fathers, 
And the closets where we pray, 
Take, O gracious God and Father, 
Praises this Thanksgiving Day. 
For our harvests safe ingathered, 
For our golden store of wheat, 
For the cornlands and the vinelands, 
For the flowers upspringing sweet, 
For our coasts from want protected, 
For each inlet, river, bay, 
By the bounty full and flowing, 
Take our praise this joyful day. 
For our dear ones lifted higher 
Through the darkness to the light, 
Ours to love and ours to cherish 
In dear memory, beyond §ight, 
For our kindred and acquaintance 
In thy heaven who safely stay, 
We uplift our songs of triumph. 
Lord, on this Thanksgiving Day. 
—Margaret E. Sangster. 
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A novelty in sweaters is the Navajo, 
which is knitted in solid color, with bor¬ 
der, collar and cufFs in typical Indian 
patterns, in bright colors. It is a very 
picturesque model, and could be adapted 
attractively for children’s knitted gar¬ 
ments. 
We recently tested some dried Seek el 
pears, which were more like a confection 
than ordinary dried fruit. The pears 
were peeled, sliced thin, and slowly dried 
in a very moderate oven. The juice dried 
to a candy, and the crisp slices were very 
sweet and rich in flovor. Dried pears of 
this quality would be a pleasant addi¬ 
tion to boxes of home-made candy. 
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This is the season when the farm has 
time to rest and be thankful, and if har¬ 
vests are scant and returns discouraging, 
there must be some compensations, even 
though they are not material enough to 
weigh the scales very heavily. In going 
about among the poor in great cities, we 
have been impressed, more than once, by 
the cheerfulness with which they meet 
adversity, and the kindliness shown by 
one neighbor to another. Even at its 
hardest, the farm can supply comforts 
and pleasures unknown to the squalid 
tenement, and surely it should inculcate 
courage in adversity, and brotherly good 
cheer. Perhaps the best text we can offer 
for a Thanksgiving sermon, which each 
reader may apply as his circumstances in¬ 
dicate, is a certain “Grace before Din¬ 
ner,” written by a very human man— 
Robert 'Burns: 
O Thou, who kindly dost provide 
For every creature’s want! 
We bless Thee, God of Nature wide, 
For all Thy goodness lent. 
And, if it please Thee, Heavenly Guide, 
May never worse be sent; 
But, whether granted or denied, 
Lord, bless us w 7 ith content! 
Amen ! 
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During the trial of a suit for rent in 
New York recently, the tenant, a woman, 
testified that she had been literally evicted 
from her apartment by swarms of “silver 
bugs,” which were such an intolerable 
nuisance that she could not stay in the 
place and, therefore, moved out before 
her lease expired. She said the “silver 
bugs” ran over everything, ate their way 
into sealed packages of food, and de¬ 
stroyed paintings and clothing. No doubt 
the creatures were fish moths, or silver 
fish, which are often troublesome in 
libraries; they destroy book-bindings, 
paper, and various fabrics, but we have 
never heard before of such an infestation 
as the one named above. They breed in 
warm dry places, and in the case named 
appeared to spread from the furnace 
room of the apartment house. They can 
be controlled by a free use of pyrethrum 
or insect powder, dusted about their 
haunts, but are very unlikely to be trou¬ 
blesome in places frequently cleaned and 
aired, as they dislike being disturbed, so 
good housekeeping is a sure antidote. 
They are often troublesome in museums 
or herbariums, where they eat away la¬ 
bels, and in such places they are treated 
to a boiled flour paste poisoned with ar¬ 
senic, which is put on strips of paper and 
allowed to dry. We should hesitate to 
use this poison about the house, however, 
because of the risk involved. 
Thanksgiving Dinner Decorations. 
Everyone knows that the beautiful 
Chrysanthemum is the Thanksgiving 
flower, and three or four of the great 
shaggy beauties, arranged with a few oak 
leaves, make a delightful decoration for 
the Thanksgiving dinner table. But does 
everyone know that when these lovely 
flowers are not easy to have they may 
be charmingly substituted by paper ones? 
Those that look so much like the real blos¬ 
soms one sees in the five and 10 cent 
stores are just the thing, or if you have 
the skill they can be made at home. These 
Chrysanthemums are not difficult to make. 
In this special little scheme of decora¬ 
tion pictured, a flaring vase was placed 
in the centre of the table on a mat of 
late Autumn leaves, and filled with small 
branches of the leaves, with a few big 
yellow paper Chrysanthemums on long 
green paper covered stems in the middle. 
The small round bonbon boxes, made from 
cardboard and covered smoothly with 
yellow crepe paper, have a yellow Chrys¬ 
anthemum on each cover. The shades of 
the candles are also made of yellow paper 
and ornamented with the crinkly paper 
petals, while the place cards at each plate 
are simply plain white cards with a 
peaches and cream, biscuits and butter, 
brownstone-front cake, mock angel food, 
white and gold cake, beside the birthday 
cake, coffee, tea and water, with plenty 
of cream. Some who sat at that table 
had thousands of acres of land, hundreds 
of head of cattle and horses; they could 
well afford such luxuries. The men 
talked farming and the experiment sta¬ 
tion work. Several are considered among 
the best farmers on the plains, but near¬ 
ly all had little faith in the station’s 
work. Why? Because they can and 
do raise better crops with less cost. The 
women talked of gardens, schools and 
sending their sons and daughters away 
from home for an education. They fav¬ 
ored teaching ninth and tenth grades in 
the district schools, which is being done 
in several districts, I have learned. No 
teacher of Colorado’s common schools 
can receive less than $50 a month by a 
law just passed the last year. I was 
quite amused by one lady saying there 
was never any travel by her house; they 
always stopped, and explaining that their 
ranch of several thousand acres made 
neighbors very far apart. “But I don’t 
mind; I am always so busy, and so much 
to look after,” she said. A pretty white¬ 
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Chrysanthemum, cut out from the pages 
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Glimpses of Social Life in Colorado. 
Not long ago we were asked to a birth¬ 
day surprise party on the sixtieth birth¬ 
day of a neighbor. They are people who 
have a good home (for this country) and 
enough to make life easy. Over 30 were^ 
there, nearly all being wealthy ranchers 
or farmers. As I looked at their dress 
and manners I could not see but that 
they compared very well with farm peo¬ 
ple East. When people say East here 
they mean all States east of Colorado. 
In Nebraska beyond Iowa was “East.” 
I was much interested in one family 
whom I had never met before, father, 
mother, four sons and one daughter. The 
two oldest sons were soon to enter their 
second year at the Agricultural College 
at Fort Collins, fine-looking and fine- 
appearing boys, well and neatly dressed; 
quiet in their manners and intelligent in 
their conversation. My husband heard 
some of the men remark that they could 
not keep their boys home on the farm; 
wanted to go to business college or go to 
town, and wondered how the father of 
the four boys managed to keep all his 
boys at home as farmers. At our county 
fair I noted that these boys took many 
premiums on fine stock, colts and cattle, 
fruit and vegetables, grains and grasses, 
all in “Blank Brothers” name, the fath¬ 
er’s name not mentioned. Here was one 
cause probably that kept the boys home. 
It was not all father’s. Two big wind¬ 
mills pump water from deep wells, not 
only for purebred stock but to irrigate 
fruit, flowers and garden. The oldest 
son had a fine camera at the party, and 
took pictures of the guests, and also the 
table with beautiful birthday cake. 
That table did uot look like hard times, 
loaded with good things, each one taking 
something. Fried chicken galore, mashed 
potatoes, peas, sweet corn, cucumbers, 
sliced and pickled ripe tomatoes, rasp¬ 
berry jam, jelly, five kinds of salads, three 
being fruit; mince, apple and cherry pies. 
haired woman of probably 55, and so 
richly and becomingly dressed all in 
white, with gold bracelet, brooch and 
handsome comb, she did not look work- 
weary, or that she lived away from every- j 
body. They had driven in from their 
ranch 12 miles distant. There was 
music; a flue organ was in the home. A 
German couple had been asked to furn¬ 
ish music with a fine large accordion. 
A box of nice cigars was presented to 
the man whose birthday we celebrated. 
I noticed there was no mention of poli¬ 
tics. It was the home, farm, stock, crops, 
the probable price of land in the future, 
what was best adapted for the country, 
etc., quite a farmers’ institute, but no j 
director, each spoke for himself, Missouri, 
Iowa, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Indiana, 
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado being 
represented, Iowa having the largest 
number. I have asked several women if 
they voted—nearly all said no. One of 
our neighbors said if they could have a 
herd law she would vote for it. Some go 
to the school elections, another lady said, 
“Yes, I vote; as long as you can why 
not?” Several did not consider it a 
woman’s place to go to the polls and 
vote. Another took no interest in poli¬ 
tics; she “let John do the voting.” I 
found sometimes that “John” perhaps 
was not as well fitted to vote as his wife. 
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papers are taken, I find. When one will 
have good substantial literature you will 
find ten of these cheap papers, although 
in some cases they seem glad to get a bet¬ 
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am often surprised when some woman 
tells me she loves to do fancy work, and 
knows the latest designs and stitch, and 
her surroundings would indicate no time 
for such work; also where would she put 
her pretty things after being made? , 
“Oh, they are packed away, taken out to ; 
show people occasionally.” Perhaps at 
the same time there are three or four 
children in rags. But it helps the poor 
woman to live and keeps her heart young. 
Such is life the world over. 
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