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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
February 12 , 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
BETWEEN THE LIGHTS. 
A little pause in life, while daylight lingers 
Between the sunset and the pale moonrise, 
When daily labor slips from weary fingers 
And soft gray shadows veil the aching 
eyes. 
Old perfumes wander hack from fields of 
clover 
Seen in the light of suns that long have 
set 
Beloved ones, whose earthly toil is over, 
Draw near as if they lived among us yet. 
, Old voices call me through the dusk re¬ 
turning ; 
I hear the echoes of departed feet, 
And then I ask with vain and troubled 
yearning, 
What is the charm that makes all things 
so sweet? 
Must the old joys be evermore withliolden? 
Even their memory keeps me pure and 
true; 
And yet, from out Jerusalem the Golden, 
God speaketh, saying: “I make all things 
new.” 
“Father,” I cry, “the old must still be 
nearer; 
Stifle my love or give me back the past! 
Give me the fair old earth, whose paths 
are dearer 
Than all Thy shining streets and man¬ 
sions vast.” 
I’eace, peace! The Lord of earth and 
heaven knowetli 
The human soul in all its heat and strife; 
Out of Ilis throne no stream of lethe 
floweth. 
But the clear river of eternal life. 
lie giveth life; aye, life in all its sweetness; 
Old loves, old sunny "scenes will He 
restore. 
Only the curse of sin and incompleteness 
Shall taint thine earth, and vex thine 
heart no more. 
Serve Him in daily work and earnest 
living, 
And faith shall lift thee to His sunlit 
heights; 
Then shall a psalm of gladness and thanks¬ 
giving 
Fill the calm hour that comes between 
the lights. 
—Sarah Doudney. 
* 
Prunes cooked in the oven are es¬ 
pecially good. Wash, soak, then put in 
an earthen crock, cover with the usual 
amount of water, add sugar and a bit 
of lemon peel, cover closely, and cook 
slowly until tender. They gain richness 
of flavor, and make us realize how 
much we lose by careless stewing. 
* 
The Women’s Auxiliary of the Ameri¬ 
can Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals has opened a free clinic for 
veterinary treatment at 325 Lafayette 
street, New York. This is the first place 
of the kind attempted here. It has been 
suggested for some time, but as the 
managers of the society did not take the 
matter up the women of the Auxiliary 
went at it themselves. The Royal Veter¬ 
inary College of London has had a free 
animal clinic since 1882, having treated 
275,000 dogs alone since 18S6. Berlin 
also has had such a clinic since 1886, and 
has treated 200,000 dogs and 40,000 cats. 
At Alfort, France, the free animal clinic 
has taken care of 60,000 dogs since 1891. 
Similar clinics have long since been es¬ 
tablished in Copenhagen, Dresden, Ly¬ 
ons, Florence, and other cities of Europe. 
* 
February, the month of thaws, freezes, 
sleet and rain, often makes the dooryard 
a very unattractive place. If there is no 
attempt at shrubbery, its only gardening 
being the Summer flowers cared for by 
the women folks, it looks very desolate 
when its area consists of half-melted 
snow or mud. If there are a few ever¬ 
greens, and perhaps a red-barked dog¬ 
wood, it is wonderfully improved at this 
season. But how about the paths? Are 
there depressions to form pools, and 
muddy tracks after every thaw? This 
is cue of the minor miseries of life, and 
one especially felt by the women, wheth¬ 
er tb.e\ must walk through the mud 
themselves, or clean up after others. 
Dry, well-drained paths about the house 
are a great comfort, and pay fully for 
the trouble of making them. We think 
farmers pav more attention to such im¬ 
provements now than a few years ago, 
and surely anything that adds to home 
comfort is worth considering, so far as 
our means allow. 
* 
The dwellers in a seaport town of 
Massachusetts are justly proud of their 
gardens, says the Youth’s Companion. 
It remained for a visitor from a tiny 
village “way round the Cape” to say 
the first slightly disparaging word of 
these gardens. “Isn’t this beautiful?” 
his hostess asked, as she paused under 
a rose arbor and looked back over the 
stately ranks of larkspur, monk’s-hood, 
hollyhocks, and many other favorites. 
“It’s a handsome gardin—of its kind,” 
said the visitor, dispassionate^, “but it 
ain’t quite up to the mark, when you 
consider our gardins.” 
“Indeed!” and the lady looked at him, 
too amazed to be angry. “What sort of 
gardens have you, please?” 
“Well,” said her Cape visitor, calmly, 
“what we call a good gardin is one 
where you can start out with two big 
baskets and a hoe, step through the 
fiower-gardin part, past the vegetables, 
down to the water; dig your clams 
fust, pick your sweet corn, lay your 
posies on top o’ that, and hand the whole 
lot over at the kitchen door. There’s 
your shore dinner and trimmin’s all 
from one gardin.” 
* 
A recent discussion of buckwheat 
cakes brought out the fact that many 
modern housekeepers fail to make real 
old-fashioned griddle cakes, partly be¬ 
cause they use the self-raising flour, 
and partly because they lack the knack 
of baking them just right. The prepared 
flour does not give the real old-fash¬ 
ioned griddle cake, but then a modern 
city or suburban man, who eats his 
breakfast with one eye on his watch, 
gauging his mouthfuls by the time he 
has to catch his train, can hardly get 
the full flavor of any griddle cake. The 
following is a tested recipe: One dried 
yeast cake or half a compressed yeast 
cake dissolved in half a pint of luke¬ 
warm water and stand in a warm place 
until ready to use. Sift into an earthen 
bowl one quart of plain buckwheat flour 
and half a pint of wheat flour that has 
one tablespoon ful of Southern white 
cornmeal included in the measure and 
two heaping teaspoonfuls of salt. Then 
gradually stir into these flours three 
half pint cupfuls of lukewarm water 
and beat with a wooden spoon for at 
least five minutes, after which add the 
dissolved yeast and beat the whole sev¬ 
eral minutes longer. In the morning, 
dissolve one even teaspoonful of cook¬ 
ing soda in two tablespoonfuls of boil¬ 
ing water, and beat briskly through the 
batter. Test the thickness of the batter 
by baking a “try cake” on a griddle that 
has been greased with a piece of salt 
pork rind, and thin with warm water if 
necessary. To insure success let the 
batter at night be poured into a stone 
“buckwheat batter pot” and place in a 
moderately warm closet. The buckwheat 
flour packs closely, and the bread flour 
lightens it. 
Ventilation of Farmhouses. 
Fresh, air is one of the greatest bless¬ 
ings of country life, but with the im¬ 
proved methods of modern carpentry, 
and by the use of storm doors and 
double windows, we have, in the Win¬ 
ter season, effectually barred it out. The 
height of our ambition seems to be to 
make our houses positively airtight. 
Years ago, sufficient ventilation w-as se¬ 
cured by the use of open fireplaces and 
there were friendly chinks and crevices 
in abundance besides. In most farm¬ 
houses, nowadays no fresh air can enter 
a room, except as the outer doors are 
opened, or a window raised. It is amus¬ 
ing to see. how different people’s ideas 
on the subject of fresh air clash. 'Grand¬ 
mother’s circulation is sluggish, and like 
most old people, she really enjoys a 
temperature of 85 or 90 degrees. Per¬ 
haps she has just succeeded in getting 
the sitting room piping hot, when in 
come the young folks, fairly glowing 
with exercise in the open air. 
“Oh, grandma, the temperature in this 
room is insufferable,” declares the 
strong and vigorous school girl, while 
her brother hastens to throw up a win¬ 
dow in the hall off the sitting room. 
Father comes in at this psychological 
moment and asks tartly if they suppose 
he can furnish fuel to warm up all out¬ 
doors; while mother smooths things 
out as usual, by settling grandmother 
in a warm corner, and putting down the 
window in the lower hall and opening 
one near the head of the open stairway 
a bit instead. 
All the family are partly right and 
partly wrong. Grandmother knows from 
experience that warmth enough for 
comfort is essential to perfect health, 
but fails to see the need of ventilation. 
The young folks like fresh air in plen¬ 
ty, and are very sensible in demanding 
it, but thoughtless and careless when 
they leave outer door open, or open 
windows that will cause direct drafts. 
Father knows that it is as unnecessary 
as it is extravagant, trying to “warm 
up all outdoors,” but is slow to realize 
that fresh air heats more quickly than 
the vitiated atmosphere of a closed 
house. A reasonable amount of fresh 
air does not make very much difference 
in the amount of fuel consumed. Moth¬ 
er realizes that to obtain perfect ven- 
filation in an ordinary farmhouse is 
well nigh impossible. Direct drafts 
are dangerous as well as uncomfortable, 
and must be avoided. She usually 
solves the problem by keeping a window 
open near the head of the stairs. This 
plan works well, except in very stormy 
weather, when drafts and dampness are 
apt to be felt. 
Many people think that by keeping 
their rooms comparatively cool, say at 
70 degrees, they have solved the prob¬ 
lem, but, although cool air is not so 
enervating as that at a higher temper¬ 
ature, cool air is not necessarily pure 
air. Old people are apt to think little 
about ventilation. They usually have 
the idea that when they have caught a 
cold, or the grippe, they must sit down 
by a hot stove and stay there until they 
“wear the cold out,” as they say. The 
idea is all wrong. Any trouble of this 
nature yields to treatment much sooner, 
if the sick room be well ventilated. 
Fresh air is a necessity, and not a 
luxury. The sleeping rooms are com¬ 
paratively easy to manage, for they can 
be aired when unoccupied, and warmed 
again before using; but a sitting room 
must not only be well ventilated, but 
must be kept comfortably warm at the 
same time. f. 
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